It is widely believed, Steve Bannon, a man who keeps a board in his office, filled with a checklist of pledges made by Trump to the American people, is on his way out of the White House.
Ardent Trump supporters view Bannon as the last hope for this rapidly shilling presidency, a symbol of the populism and nationalism that attracted so many to the President.
Joe Scarborough, rumored to be the recipient of anti Bannon text messages from Jared Kushner, is thrilled with Trump’s new approach to governing (war) and is saying he heard Bannon ‘snapped’ on Trump’s family (Kushner).
What stuns WH insiders is the fact Bannon knew this going in and yet started trashing the family weeks ago. Several told me "he snapped." https://t.co/8sb5bro74h
Lastly, one of the most reprehensible human beings on the planet, Bill Kristol, arch neocon, hates Bannon. But, in a brief moment of lucidity offered a truth on Twitter that the President should heed.
I hope Trump dumps Bannon. But to be honest it would be a mistake: Trump's new friends still won't respect him & his enemies won't fear him.
Yesterday President Trump said he’d be open to the idea of keeping Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen.
During the campaign, he wanted her out — saying that the Fed had been politicized.
He also supported the export-import bank, again something he was against.
“It turns out that, first of all, lots of small companies are really helped, the vendor companies,” Trump told the Journal. “Instinctively, you would say, ‘Isn’t that a ridiculous thing,’ but actually, it’s a very good thing. And it actually makes money, it could make a lot of money.”
Then, he made this ridiculous statement regarding NATO.
“I said it was obsolete. It is no longer obsolete.”
Whatever happened to member nations paying their fair share?
If you remember, after the election the dollar rose and bonds collapsed. Why? Because there was an expectation that inflation would return, pricing in Trump’s pro business policies.
In less than three month’s in office, we now see the new boss is the same as the old one — which is causing bond yields to plunge, worldwide. The idea is, deflation is back because crony capitalism is alive and well, this time with a side bar of war.
No one hates this more than me. I quit money management, partly because I felt markets were rigged and was vulnerable to extreme downside. My opinion changed after seeing a true reflation trade take place after the elections. But, in recent weeks, I’ve become dispirited again — selling out of my stocks and back into bonds, only to head back into stocks in a clownish attempt to war profiteer. My true macro call was and will be for lower yields.
The reversal of so many campaign pledges, so early on, can only mean one thing: Donald J. Trump has been compromised.
During last night’s Tucker Carlson show, he attempted to find out why the democratic party, the same people who prided themselves on being anti-war during the Bush administration, were so god damned eager to wage war with just about anyone they could find willing to participate.
Inside of their party is one sole source of reason, Tulsi Gabbard, Iraqi war veteran, and Congresswoman from Hawaii who sits on the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees. In response to Trump’s actions in Syria, Gabbard issued the following statement.
“It angers and saddens me that President Trump has taken the advice of war hawks and escalated our illegal regime change war to overthrow the Syrian government. This escalation is short-sighted and will lead to more dead civilians, more refugees, the strengthening of al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and a direct confrontation between the United States and Russia—which could lead to nuclear war.
“This Administration has acted recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning. If President Assad is indeed guilty of this horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians, I will be the first to call for his prosecution and execution by the International Criminal Court. However, because of our attack on Syria, this investigation may now not even be possible. And without such evidence, a successful prosecution will be much harder.”
Carlson tackled the subject in an eloquent 1-minute monolog.
One of his guests last night was a Democratic strategist, Al Mattour, war hawk — a man interested in overseeing the deaths of thousands.
In a nutshell, Al believes we should wage war with anyone who attempts to ‘disrupt our elections.’ Tucker asked Mattour, plainly, ‘how does having a confrontation with Russia makes our country more safer and prosperous?’
Mattour replied ‘it makes us safer in our democratic processes to make sure their integrity is preserved.’
When Tucker juxtaposed China’s actions towards the United States against Russia, asking ‘why aren’t you pushing for confrontation with China? They’re doing everything Russia is doing, and more,’ Mattour agreed that we should be confronting them in a similar bellicose fashion.
Lastly, Stephen Cohen, Professor of Russian studies at Princeton and NYU, an actual expert on China, weighed in, saying ‘Russia thinks we’re crazy, completely crazy.’
He even took some time to express his ‘disgust’ with Al Mattour, saying ‘your previous guest, I don’t mean to be rude to him. First of all, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. And, secondly, he excludes the reality that Russia has a politics. And the politics in Russia today as we talk is […] the concern that America is preparing war against Russia. If not on Syria, then on the other two cold war fronts […] where NATO is building up in an unprecedented way. This is not good because they have nuclear weapons and because accidents happen.’
He then theorized what the conversation between Putin and Tillerson was like, pointing to the two having a history of trust together from the time Tillerson led Exxon Mobile.
‘Rex, says Putin, what in the world is going on in Washington?’
Professor Cohen, ominously, summed it up, ‘I’m not young. I’ve been doing this 40 years, sometimes as a Professor, sometimes inside. I have never been as worried as I am today about the possibility of war with Russia.’
I think I made a mistake selling my bonds and my soul to become a neocon. Every trader harbors doubt, even regret, after taking on big positions. Sometimes doubt can be a paralyzing side effect of a market in disarray. Without question, this market is in shambles — the sort of tape only the devil himself could concoct.
Let me explain.
The pseudo-optimism that was promoted after the elections were predicated on outrageous tax cuts, deregulation, infrastructure, healthcare/tax reform, and fair trade deals. Instead, all we’ve received, thus far, are moderate reductions in regulations and World War 3.
Any questions?
You fucking faggots can dream all you want about owning the next $STRP — but the fact remains, the ark sails firmly, immune to nuclear blasts and the winds of clownish uncertainty.
Observe.
My favorite ways to gain treasury exposure are via $TLT and $ZROZ.
The other bull market is in gold, which is filled with annoying shitheads who’ve been clamoring for global collapse since the 1970s. Their ideas are only more outdated than their vinyl record collection.
Lastly, the utilities are roaring higher — because everyone needs that damned electricity and central cooling.
THIS is your market, you incompetent fools. I am here attempting to become the next Howard Hughes, profiting off the deaths of America’s enemies, both real and made up, and yet the easiest money to be made are in sectors that require zero cognitive thought.
Everything else is complete shit — led lower by depressions in oil and gas, apparel, auto dealerships and drugs.
I know, last year the same thing happened and the market ended up strongly. But let’s not pretend the election didn’t have a major effect on stocks. It was the biggest short squeeze of all time — once after BREXIT and then again after Trump won. Set aside those two events, stocks were marking time — boring — bogged down by an economy hardly growing.
When I saw the Fox Business interview with Maria Bartiromo and Donald Trump, I was perplexed by what I had just bored witness to. It’s not every day that you get to sit on the precipice of world war, and rarely do you get to see an interview as bizarre as this one. First, go watch the exchange and then come back for proper analysis.
BARTIROMO: When you were with the president of China, you’re launching these military strikes.
TRUMP: Yes.
So, he decided to attack Syria with Russia in it during dinner time with President Xi. Was this happenstance or by design? I’m thinking design.
BARTIROMO: Was that planned?
How did that come about that it’s happening right then, because right there, you’re saying a reminder, here’s who the superpower in the world is, right?
TRUMP: You have no idea how many people want to hear the answer to this. I have had — I have watched speculation for three days now on what that was like (INAUDIBLE).
What the fuck is going on with Maria Bartiromo here? Is this merely the case of a woman being attracted to an alpha male, in this case bombing the shit out of evil doers? Notice how Trump didn’t answer whether he planned to bomb over dinner or not? That’s because he planned it.
Trump’s answer was boastful — elated to share the gossip with a fellow conservatard.
“Now for dessert, the President would like to inform you of war.”
BARTIROMO: When did you tell him?
TRUMP: But I’ll tell you (INAUDIBLE)…
Wow, what the fuck is going on here? Maria practically jumped out of her seat upon learning that he’d share the gosp.
BARTIROMO: Before dessert or what?
TRUMP: But I will tell you, only because you’ve treated me so good for so long, I have to (INAUDIBLE) right?
Trump decides to reward her for good behavior. Here it comes.
I was sitting at the table. We had finished dinner. We’re now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen and President Xi was enjoying it.
And I was given the message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded, what do you do?
And we made a determination to do it, so the missiles were on the way. And I said, Mr. President, let me explain something to you. This was during dessert.
We’ve just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit, by the way, unbelievable, from, you know, hundreds of miles away, all of which hit, amazing.
BARTIROMO: Unmanned?
Brilliant.
What the fuck did I just read? Is there anything more gluttonous than bombing a country over dinner whilst eating chocolate cake? The decadence of that moment must’ve been surreal. As you could see by the facial expressions of Bartiromo, she was definitely envisioning herself in the ornate room with President Trump and Xi — devouring the rich, velvety, creamy, chocolate cake — brimming with hedonism — relishing the idea of killing people solely for the purpose of expressing power.
TRUMP: It’s so incredible. It’s brilliant. It’s genius. Our technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing.
Now we’re going to start getting it, because, you know, the military has been cut back and depleted so badly by the past administration and by the war in Iraq, which was another disaster.
So what happens is I said we’ve just launched 59 missiles heading to Iraq and I wanted you to know this. And he was eating his cake. And he was silent.
BARTIROMO: (INAUDIBLE) to Syria?
Ooh, the intrigue. Plus one for Maria for reminding Trump on who he bombed. And a bigly shout out to President Trump for finding out the mathematical advantage that we have over our adversaries.
“We are better than thou by a factor of thrice. Good day to you Sir.”
TRUMP: Yes. Heading toward Syria. In other words, we’ve just launched 59 missiles heading toward Syria. And I want you to know that, because I didn’t want him to go home. We were almost finished. It was a full day in Palm Beach. We’re almost finished and I — what does he do, finish his dessert and go home and then they say, you know, the guy you just had dinner with just attacked a country?
BARTIROMO: How did he react?
Again, giddy, the two of them were enjoying a moment as if they were sharing a secret in the privacy of their upper library –domiciled in the eastern wing of their palatial estates. Trump dropped the bomb on Xi, while eating chocolate cake, fattened up by all of the excesses the Mar a Lago staff had prepared for the men.
TRUMP: So he paused for 10 seconds and then he asked the interpreter to please say it again. I didn’t think that was a good sign.
(nervous) What will he say? Will he get up, say ‘fuck you’ and declare war, or finish his cake and agree to wanton hostilities with other super nuclear powers?
And he said to me, anybody that uses gases — you could almost say or anything else — but anybody that was so brutal and uses gases to do that young children and babies, it’s OK.
BARTIROMO: He agreed.
TRUMP:He was OK with it. He was OK.
Whew, thank God President Xi is against using ‘gasses’ on babies, otherwise that course might’ve ended a bit awkward.
In short, the President exerted his muscles, knocked out a Syrian military airbase for a few hours, risked WW3 with Russia, and got to enjoy the very best chocolate cake with the President of China. Everyone won.
Congrats.
Not everyone agreed that Trump’s dinnertime war announcement was the best moment in American diplomacy.
Savage ponders as to why Trump launched Syrian attacks while dining with President Xi pic.twitter.com/efS47xYoQo
Apparently, everything you hoped for from Trump was a lie. This much is clear to me now. Democrats should find solace in the fact that Trump is actually Hillary in a man’s body, albeit a much more vulgar and childish one.
Here is our President reversing another campaign pledge to get tough on China — calling them out for currency schemes.
Also, he doesn’t like a strong dollar and wants low rates.
TRUMP SAYS IN WSJ INTERVIEW STRONG DOLLAR ‘WILL HURT ULTIMATELY’ THE U.S., MAKES IT VERY HARD TO COMPETE
PRESIDENT TRUMP: U.S. DOLLAR ‘IS GETTING TOO STRONG’
TRUMP SAYS HE PREFERS LOW INTEREST RATE POLICY
TRUMP SAYS WON’T LABEL CHINA CURRENCY MANIPULATOR: WSJ
This had provided succor for gold and bond fags during the session, also laying waste to the dollar by 0.5%.
I’m on the road today, so blogging power level has been reduced. Nevertheless, I’m still able to run circles around the all of the other fuckheads who think they’re competing with me.
Tillerson met with Lavrov and Putin today and nothing significant was reported, thus far. America continues to say Assad is worse than Hitler and that he needs to go.
Lavrov thinks we’re fucking crazy, saying the west is obsessed with regime change and he reminded us of our neocon driven wars that have done nothing but fuck up the Middle East over the past 15 years. Lavrov also noted that Russia would like a proper investigation to take place that can prove Assad used chemical weapons. They’re not convinced that Assad did it implored the world to get to the bottom of all the intrigue, once and for all.
He touched on Russian hacking claims by the Obama crazies, saying he’s yet to see any evidence, whatsoever, tying Moscow to interfering with US elections.
Here are some snippets, published by reporterfags, along with some choice clips, for your educational amusement.
Will her husband, Alan Greenspan, avenge her honor? Here’s Russia’s foreign minister scolding NBCs Andrea Mitchell for cat calling questions out to him in a most indecorous way, asking her where she was brought up — reminding her that she’s an animal without manners.
I’ve been in business meetings this afternoon and have reviewed all of your comments, as well as listening to talking heads on the radio regarding world events. I’ve concluded that most of you do not deserve to live. Let’s give the gorillas a chance to run things.
I believe a chocolate caked world war, strewn with nuclear fallout that will exterminate the virus called humanity is the end all elixir for a species out of control. You rarely say anything interesting, or insightful. Most of it is partisan hackery — Hillbots talking with their faces filled with Mcmuffins about how they told you so and how the bitch would’ve been better. I think it’s clear to anyone with a brain here that foreign policy is taking the path of least resistance, as evidenced by the avarice amongst our leaders who’ve been banging on the war drums.
Don’t you see that?
Markets are pricing in fear, which is why Trump infrastructure stocks are getting murdered — led by copper down the drain. I suppose nuclear war in N Korea is a negative for growth in China.
Utilities are up — defense stocks are flat. You know the drill.
My neocon portfolio is swimming lower. It’s always darkest before the dawn for neocons. For example, after Trump got elected, neocons around the country were panicked with fear that peace might break out. Alas, Trump’s body was then inhabited by an alien being and now he’s doing the exact opposite of everything he said before the elections — becoming a wet dream for neocons.
Be patient. The war profits will soon be casting down upon us, as we nation build the world and export our brand of free market capitalism to all people who crave joyous democracy.
