DONALD TRUMP JUST
FINISHED HIS TOUR OF ASIA AND THERE WERE A LOT OF CEREMONIES,
A LOT OF TRADITIONAL THINGS HAPPENED.
THERE WERE A COUPLE
OF LEADERS IN ASIA THAT WERE CONCERNED THAT NOT ENOUGH POLICY
WAS HASHED OUT, NOT ENOUGH IN TERMS OF FOREIGN RELATIONS WAS
HASHED OUT, HOWEVER, THERE WAS ONE THING THAT TRUMP REALLY
DWELLED ON DURING HIS TRIP AND THAT WAS WHETHER OR NOT SOME OF
THESE COUNTRIES WOULD BUY US WEAPONS DOTS BLOOMBERG REPORTED
ON THIS AND I THOUGHT IT WAS FASCINATING BECAUSE AS WE ALL
KNOW, TRUMP IS PLANNING ON RUNNING FOR REELECTION AND HE
WANTS CREDIT FOR ACHIEVING THINGS BUT LEGISLATIVELY
SPEAKING HE HASN'T REALLY ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING AT ALL AND
SO HE TRIES TO FIND THESE OTHER WAYS OF DOING THINGS THAT YOU
CAN GET CREDIT FOR AND HE BELIEVES THAT SELLING WEAPONS TO
COUNTRIES LIKE VIETNAM WILL SOMEHOW BOOST HIS APPROVAL
RATINGS AND GET AMERICANS TO VOTE FOR HIM.
ACCORDING TO
SOURCES WHO SPOKE TO BLOOMBERG WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH THESE
CONVERSATIONS THAT TRUMP HAD WITH THE LEADER OF VIETNAM:
SO
HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE THESE SALES, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THE
SOURCES MISSPOKE OR IF TRUMP IS REALLY THAT DUMB TO THINK THAT
AMERICAN CITIZENS CARE ABOUT THESE WEAPONS SALES A. PRIVATE
CONTRACTORS DO AND THEY WANTED SO IF HE IS LOOKING TO GET THEIR
SUPPORT, HE WILL HAVE THAT.
BY THE WAY, VIETNAM IS NOT BUYING
MORE OF OUR WEAPONS OR DEFENSE CAPABILITIES OR ANYTHING LIKE
THAT, BUT IT IS INTERESTING HOW HIS MIND WORKS OR DOES NOT WORK.
YEAH, THIS IS SO INTERESTING THAT HE THINKS THE BIG VALUE HE
CAN OFFER AS A BUSINESSMAN IS TO TRANSITION INTO A GLOBAL SALES
MAN FOR MILITARY AND PRIVATE CONTRACTING FIRMS THAT ARE TIED
TO THE US GOVERNMENT IN SOME SORT OF WAY THROUGH GOLDMAN
SACHS AND BOEING AND THIS WILL BE APPEALING TO VOTERS.
TO SOME
DEGREE, I DO THINK IT IS LUDICROUS BUT TO ANOTHER DEGREE,
I DO THINK HE DOES CALCULATE WELL IN UNDERSTANDING HOW HIS
BASE FORMS SCRIPTS AND THIS IS A SCRIPT ABOUT SECURITIZATION AND
THE US'S ROLE IN LEADING SECURITIZATION AND WHAT IS
ALWAYS A BIG WIN FOR HIM IS SAYING HE IS GOING TO PUT MORE
MONEY INTO THE MILITARY AS IF IT IS PROVEN THAT WE HAVE NO
RESOURCES IN OUR MILITARY EVEN THOUGH WE QUOTE UNQUOTE TRUMP
THE NEXT 10 COUNTRIES BELOW US IN TERMS OF MILITARY FORCE AND
EXPENDITURES SO THIS STILL WINS BIG WITH HIS BASE.
THE QUESTION
SHOULD BE, AND THE INTERVENTION THAT SHOULD BE MADE IS WHY HIS
BASE OR WHY PEOPLE ARE NOT SEEING THAT HE IS JUST
REPRESENTING BIG CORPORATIONS IN PLACE OF THE LITTLE GUY.
I
THINK THIS IS THE KIND OF WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO AS PEOPLE ON
THE MARGINS, ON THE LEFT OR EVEN PEOPLE MODERATE CENTER INSTEAD
OF LOOKING AT HIS GRAMMAR MISTAKES ON TWITTER IS REALLY
SPEAKING TO THAT.
REALLY QUICK, I KNOW YOU WANT TO JUMP IN, BACK IN SEPTEMBER
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION STARTED WORKING ON A PROPOSAL THAT WOULD
ESSENTIALLY MOVE THE ISSUE OF WEAPONS SALES TO FOREIGN
COUNTRIES FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO THE COMMERCE
DEPARTMENT AND THE WHOLE POINT OF THAT IS TO FURTHER DEREGULATE
WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS OF BEING ABLE TO SELL WEAPONS TO FOREIGN
COUNTRIES AND SO AS YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THESE WEAPONS END UP IN
THE HANDS OF OUR ENEMIES WHICH IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE
STATE DEPARTMENT IS INVOLVED BECAUSE THEY'VE A PULSE ON SOME
OF THESE ISSUES, WHO SOME OF THE GREATEST THREATS ARE.
THE
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT DOES NOT DEAL WITH OUR FOREIGN ENEMIES.
THEY DEAL WITH COMMERCE AND SO IT IS ALL ABOUT BOOSTING SALES
FOR THESE WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS.
THE BEST EXPORT THAT WE HAVE
HERE IN THE UNITED STATES IS OUR GUN CULTURE SO WHY NOT GO AHEAD
AND SELL OUR GUNS TO OTHER COUNTRIES?
YOU ARE RIGHT, YOU LOOK IT EVERYTHING IN THE CONTEXT OF
WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHAT IT REALLY DOES IS IT HELPS WEAPONS
MANUFACTURERS.
IT DOESN'T REALLY HELP THE AMERICAN VOTER BUT WHY IS
IT SO HARD, WHAT YOU HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT?
IT IS SO OBVIOUS.
DON'T THEY SAY AND THINK ABOUT HOW IS IT GOING TO BENEFIT
ME IF VIETNAM BUYS MORE OF OUR WEAPONS?
I THINK IT IS THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET DOWN TO
THOSE NUGGETS AND I THINK THERE IS THIS TENDENCY, PARTICULARLY
WITH HIS VOTERS TO KIND OF OVERSIMPLIFY THIS AMERICAN
SYMBOLISM.
AMERICAN MILITARY GUNS.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO SHOOT
DOWN ROCKETS, YOU ARE GOING TO SHOOT THEM DOWN WITH AMERICAN
MACHINERY.
THERE IS SOMETHING IN AMERICA EQUALING THIS KIND OF
FORCE, SO EVEN IF ALL OF THE OTHER THEORETICAL WORK THAT YOU
HAVE TO DO UNDERNEATH AN ARGUMENT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, YOU
KIND OF ARE JUST TYING TOGETHER THESE WORDS, AMERICAN, WEDDING,
GUNS.
THAT SYMBOLIZES AMERICA AS A FORCE.
WHEN HE GOT TO HIS
FIRST LEG OF THE TOUR, ALL HE DID WAS TALK ABOUT AMERICA AS A
FORCE IN THIS IS IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S COUNTRY SO THERE IS A WAY
IN WHICH THESE THEMES KIND OF TRAVEL WITH HIM AND THEY
ARE VERY SALIENT WITH HIS BASE.
IT WAS PART OF HIS AMERICA FIRST MESSAGING WHICH IS
ANYWHERE YOU GO, THEY ARE GOING TO RESPECT US BECAUSE WE ARE
COMING AROUND WITH GUNS TRYING TO FORCE YOU TO BUY OUR WEAPONRY
AND I'M GOING TO FORCE THE ISSUE OF RESPECTING AMERICA IN WAYS
THAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN RESPECTED BEFORE IN THE GLOBAL
STATES WHICH IS AGAIN, IF RIDICULOUS CLAIM TO BE MADE BUT
IT SPEAKS TO HIS VOTERS AND THE IDEA BEING RESPECTED THROUGH
YOUR GUN AS PHALLIC AS IT MAY BE, DOES COMMUNICATE DOES
RESONATE WITH HIS BASE BUT I WOULD SAY, SOME POINTS AND
CONNECTIONS WE COULD MAKE IS NOT ONLY DOESN'T MILITARIZE AND NOT
KEEP YOU SAFE, ADDING MORE WEAPONS ACROSS THE BOARD, IT
INFLUENCES PEOPLE TO BUILD UP STOCKPILES AS A FORM OF
DEFENSE THAT COULD BE EASILY TRIGGERED INTO WAR.
WE'VE SEEN THAT MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT HISTORY BUT THE
OTHER THING IS THAT THOSE WEAPONS ARE USED IN REALLY
DRAMATICALLY BRUTAL WAYS.
WE GAVE SAUDI ARABIA HUNDRED AND $10 BILLION AND THEY ARE
LEADING ONE OF THE MOST GROTESQUE WARS IN YEMEN
THAT IS TURNING INTO ONE OF THE WORST HUMANITARIAN DISASTERS.
WE ARE INVOLVED IN THAT WAR.
WE'RE DOING DRONE STRIKES IN
YEMEN TO HELP SAUDI ARABIA WHICH IS INCREDIBLE BECAUSE SOME OF
TRUMP'S MOST AVID SUPPORTERS WERE FURIOUS ABOUT THE
RELATIONSHIP THINK THE UNITED STATES HAD WITH SAUDI
ARABIA PRIOR TO HIM GETTING ELECTED.
WELL, HE GOT ELECTED AND GUESS WHAT?
HE HAS FURTHER EMBOLDENED SAUDI ARABIA.
HE IS EXTENDING US
MILITARY INTERVENTION IN YEMEN.
HE HAS NOT FOLLOWED THROUGH ON A LOT OF THE BIG ISSUES THAT
HIS BASE SAID THAT THEY CARED ABOUT.
RIGHT.
AND TAKING THE MONEY AND PUTTING AMERICAN
EXPENDITURES AND THE BIG BETS ON SELLING WEAPONS AND BUILDING OF
OUR MILITARY POWER MEANS THAT YOU ARE TAKING FROM SOCIAL
PROGRAMS.
YOU ARE TAKING FROM HEALTHCARE, YOU ARE TAKING FROM
EDUCATION.
THAT IS WHY WE ARE DEREGULATING EDUCATION AND HAVE
NO MONEY FOR AND THAT'S WHY IT SEEMS INCONCEIVABLE TO PAY
TOWARD SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE BUT ACTUALLY IT IS CONCEIVABLE
IF WE ARE ONE OF THE MOST WEALTHY NATIONS ON THIS EARTH
THAT WE WERE JUST IN PORTUGAL WHICH IS ONE OF THE POOREST
COUNTRIES IN EUROPE AND HAS AN INCREDIBLE HEALTHCARE AND
EDUCATION SYSTEM.
SOMETHING THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID IN
1967 IN HIS SPEECH CALLING OUT, CONDEMNING THE US IS WAR IN
VIETNAM WHICH IS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IT TAKES TO KILL ONE
PERSON IN VIETNAM IS SO ASTRONOMICALLY HUGE COMPARED TO
HOW LITTLE IS SPENT ON POOR FOLKS IN THE US.
MEANWHILE, HE AFFECTS NO CHANGE THAT WILL ACTUALLY AFFECT
CHANGE IN THE US ON THIS TOUR.
THERE'S NO BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS, HE DOESN'T
EXTRACT ANY MAJOR CONCESSIONS FROM CHINA.
HE DOES NOTHING TO ARRESTED THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM IN NORTH KOREA.
ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER, NONE OF THAT GETS DONE.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GUNS STUCK.
I KNOW, BUT HE SAID THAT IT WAS THE BEST TRIP THAT IN
THE US PRESIDENT HAS EVER TAKEN.
IT LOOKS REALLY FUN.
HE WASN'T WORKING.
TALKING ABOUT GOLF INSTEAD OF HUMAN RIGHTS
IS BASICALLY WHAT
WAS SAID THAT.
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