Keeping the Con (?)

I am beginning to wonder if Trump wanted to be President to see what kind of deals he could make at that level.

He just wanted to know, out of his own self confidence, you see.

He beat the NY real estate market.

He SET the world resort market.

He trashed his brand in education, steak, yadda, and just KEPT WALKING

He redefined the use of debt in the finance market, escaping from Atlantic City, and MAY have out moved the Russian oligarchs.

The kids were coming into their own, clamoring for chances and then finding their own success. Dad, get ready to move aside.

What’s left for fun, for risk, for success?

THE NEXT LEVEL

NOW, looking at the President who moved the pieces around for the deal of Nov 2016, what’s a Bannon? He’s a piece of real estate in Yonkers. The sell by was the immigration block and extreme vetting. Obama judges WALKED ALL OVER HIM (and Trump). Sure, it was the kind of federal judge Reid and Obama had tossed the nuke option for, but lesson learned. Gorsuch is in and has anyone heard about the appeal? Just askin’, you see. I know, it takes time, but DoJ is SILENT.

And now, the trade deficit and China. Trump has already thrown the cards on the table over currency manipulation. Yesterday as we drove back to Maine, I listened to some economic guys (non govt) telling us that China had HALTED currency manipulations before Jan, and AFTER the election. So ‘this was a gimme.’

MAYBE. The MSM, the govt, the punditry, even academia (i.e. -Glenn Hubbard and Fred Mishkin-Inside Job) lie and exaggerate to us and in the mirror (fake it till you make it). So every utterance and deed must be weighed through that filter.

But it’s clear SOME KIND of cooperation was elicited from China on Norkland in exchange for this. Maybe he even has them primed to send those 150k troops over the border after we decapitate the Nork Govt to bring order (will they leave?), or to prevent mass (illegal) immigration into China as the South moves in …Pence just flew out there to Seoul.

Does this mean Shenzen remains to the world what Detroit and Pittsburgh were a century before? That those jobs stay there without large effort from us? If so, has Trump weighed that and decided physical security (no NORKLAND) is worth this? If so, he’s probably lost the next election … because the MINIMAL requirements are BOTH.

UNLESS HE HAS SOMETHING ELSE UP HIS SLEEVE.

And this is just on China/Free Trade. Place this theory on all he sees. We voted this way for someone who will DO STUFF, we’re getting it. (GOOD AND HARD?) There is no ideology, it’s one deal after another, and make it happen in the real world where words are salad dressing, not the meal.

NATO. pay up. Merkel, shut up you stupid  cow. Abe, get wise and we’ll have your back. Putin, maybe you made a big error. Xi, let’s have dinner and we’ll suck down some cake while that PRICK Assad eats shit. Britain, WAY TO GO, special deals enroute, not to worry.

If it’s all just a deal, what are his promises worth on Medicare and Social Security?

On immigration.

On the border.

On health care.

He’s just going to make a reachable solution on one deal after another.

Sorry, but that promise tuned out to be impossible. We had to drop pre-existing conditions, or Obamacare goes belly up, and no one has ANY coverage.

All you people 49 years old and younger, you have to work till you’re 75 to get SS and medicare. Sorry, but we can’t have 20 million 80 year olds making NYC look like Pyonyang with bodies all over. I hated to do it, you see. But what could I do?

This is NOT a condemnation, not a conclusion, this is observation + theorizing.

In any case were were STILL guaranteed losers with Hillary (Obama+4).

In the end, unless Trump hits 4-6%+ in GDP growth and it’s AT THE STREET LEVEL in terms of disposable income, Trump has found his level. If we don’t get there soon enough, we’re all hyenas eyeing each other as the herds die around the shrinking water hole. Students wanting FAFSA rewards battling their grandparents for federal resources. Middle income folks in NH voting for deals to raid businesses from New Mexico to set up some jobs before it’s too late. Service industries evaporating as it becomes ever cheaper to replace than repair, and AI (designed elsewhere) weighing in across the board from LEGAL SERVICES even in the most complex scenarios, to IT, and the design of ever cheaper manufacturing devoid of human contributions.