... "A couple final comments. Remarkably, the long-sneered-at QAnon folks must be dancing a jig. They expected a storm, and a storm is what they’re getting. They expected something wild, unique, and unprecedented — and now Trump’s strategy has confounded the experts, bypassed the gatekeepers, and sent both enemies and frenemies scurrying for cover wherever he points the lightning.

Q followers also expected some sort of global financial reset. Well? What Trump’s doing right now is delivering a real global financial reset. He’s shifting worldwide capital flows back to the US. He’s ending one-sided trade subsidies that fueled frenemies for dabbling in our elections. He’s pressuring allies to pay for their own defense and infrastructure, repatriating trillions.

He’s hollowing out the centralized global institutions like the WTO, WEF, and IMF, making them instantly irrelevant. And he’s restructuring all our bilateral relationships to enshrine American power as a billable service rather than a charitable donation.

If that isn’t a global financial reset, then I don’t know what the word “reset” means.

Also as Q faithful insisted, it’s all perfectly legal. That’s what’s frying the circuits of every pundit and bureaucrat watching this unfold in stunned horror. Trump isn’t breaking the system — he’s wielding it better than they ever dreamed possible. The long-suffering Q movement is completely vindicated." ...

Brilliantly written, entertaining article - I am overdosing on Hopium - somebody grab the narcan!!

I liked this part, “💰 The Deal is truly breathtaking in its scope, scale, and ambition. It is difficult to overestimate what is happening here; and that’s just the part we can see. No President has ever brought the entire world to heel —without launching a drone!

And yet Trump, the Dealmaker, has literally done it in days.

Think about it. No U.S. president has ever simultaneously negotiated with the entire planet over everything — not just trade, but security guarantees, foreign aid, market access, immigration enforcement, energy deals, pharmaceutical policy, and so on— and done it openly, using tariffs as the primary pressure mechanism, rather than through military force, strings on IMF loan, CIA black ops, soft power, or covert destabilization.

Those tools are too slow and clumsy for Donald Trump.”

If a policy doesn’t come from Brookings or Rand, it doesn’t exist for them, in the same way that Jurassic Park’s velociraptors can’t see you if you’re not moving.

Wasn't it the T-rex that couldn't see you if you weren't moving? Pretty sure the velociraptors suffered from no such limitations.

Well, that was fun. And Childers explained that Congress voted to give their tariff powers to the President (doink), which makes it legally possible for Trump to take the reins when we really need him to. I hope our negotiating team is enjoying this.

I think Jeff Childers' "Coffee and Covid" daily news recap and analysis is currently the best out there.