International Fiasco

I planned to write about the Mexican President's response to Trump's orders to build the wall and to remove funding from Sanctuary Cities.  Whether either will happen is still a debate - the funding for the wall needs to be arranged, if not allocated by law, and the US Constitution prevents the federal government from using the states to its work.  So maybe neither will happen, hopefully. 
But the point of my writing was to be the Mexican President's response - which is to offer legal assistance through its 50 consulates to immigrants who need it.  And his planned visit next week to the US is no longer likely to happen.

In the meantime, equally bad, or possibly worse, Trump is working on another Executive Order to diminish US financial contributions to UN and to UN peace keeping missions.  If Trump thinks he can improve the world by withdrawing the US from it international leadership, this notion simply proves that Trump knows nothing about the history of the past century. 

Well, Trump is making the job of the Democratic Party a bit easier.  I hope he isn't too destructive during the coming years.  Even a Republican pundit has expressed his belief that trump would be impeached - if the Democrats win a majority in the midterms.

Either way, the coming turmoil - Trump Carnage - will make for a rough ride for at least a couple years. 

The United States of America has lost its way

.A quick word about Voice of America, the radio network that fought Communism by piping eal news behind the old Iron Curtain.  Its funding was included in the comprehensive defense funding bill, so Obama had to sign it, the VOA piece with reservation.  But the bill changed its leadership from a board of bipartisan governors to Presidential appointees AND allowed it to broadcast in the USA.   To run it, Trump has already appointed a couple 20-something eyar olds who worked on his campaign.  Think about it - with the instigation of the Republican Party, Trump ahs created a domestic propaganda arm.  Fortunately, radio isn't the most important contemporary emdia, but still, this is fascism in the making.

Another final word.  The Dow hit 20,000 yesterday.  It may still rise further for a while - the money grubbers are happy about corporate tax reductions and end of regulations, not to mention encouraging fossil fuels and banking deregulation.  I don't want to make profits from these ruinous moves.  And, anyway,  I guarantee that a crash will come, either from a Constitutional or international crisis.  20,000 or otherwise, trouble is coming.