In this video, I do another quick Freedom Minute update! This time, Josh digs into the top 4 anti-freedom moves by Trump in the past week. There have been a number of alarming power grabs or at least bad jokes in the last week of American politics as Trump according to his supporters plays "5342D chess and backgammon".
A 25% tariff on steel! Interestingly his billionaire friend Carl Icahn pulled 31 million dollars in steel-linked stocks just before Trump made the announcement. This tariff is essentially a tax on Americans more than anything.
Trump stated that Americans should start looking at a death penalty for drug dealers. What an absurd statement. It doesn't help that his administration, especially under Jeff Sessions is ramping up the war on drugs.
Gun control. During the election, Trump claimed that he was considering a ban on those on the no-fly list owning guns. In recent weeks he's talked about banning the bump-stock, possibly banning "assault rifles" and then, most notably, he said this
“A lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures. Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
- Trump recently congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping on basically declaring himself President for life and then went on to say that perhaps the U.S. should give that a try some day.
Now there's a mixture of joking, jest and being completely serious. It appears that Trump just repeats what the last smarter person tells him. This isn't a game of 4D chess or backgammon, this is deception and statism. The continuity of the global collectivist order. The military industrial complex. The central banking cartel. The apathy of the masses under the spell of statism, believing a president will change things for them as if the President personally has any say. This is the establishment and the grand deception.
Rule yourself and stop falling for the tricks of politics.
