Mexico is USA's Biggest Trading Partner

Just so people realize the absolute stupidity and absurdity of the Insurrectionist's tariffs threat, Mexico is the USA's biggest trading partner, surpassing China and Canada last year. One of the benefits of T-Mec has been employing people and reducing the pressure for undocumented immigration from Mexico. It isn't Mexico's fault that the USA empowers a violent black market of organized criminals or that it supplies them with firearms to carry out their violent attacks in Mexico. It isn't Mexico's fault that tens of millions of U.S. citizens want to use stupidly banned recreational substances, creating a multi-billion dollar a year market. So the threat of raising tariffs is already causing prices to rise in the USA, surprising cult followers, as are the extremely poor choices the Insurrectionist is naming as heads of the military and other important U.S. institutions. But Putin and other U.S. adversaries are tickled pink to see the Insurrectionist weakening the USA.

"This country is so fundamentally strong, it can survive its leaders." -- Louis Rukeyser, host of the investment program Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser for over 30 years

"The country has elevated a cruel and corrupt man to power and now we shall see what good our Constituition is and what sort of senators and judges we have. God bless us. More we do not need." -- Garrison Keillor, author and host of the Prairie Home Companion radio program for over 50 years

If the promises of mass deportation and massive tariffs are realized, we will all be poorer across the globe. Inflation will rise dramatically and not fewer but more migrants will attempt the perilous crossing into the United States as their economies suffer disproportionately. I have always been very optimistic about the future of the United States, the "shining city on the hill" as Ronald Reagan called us. Now, I have never been more fearful. Rob is correct. Putin and Xi are laughing out loud.