Cry Me A River

I hate to say it but I don't feel sorry for those farmers in the mid-west and other Trump states who are going to be targeted by the smart Chinese retaliation for their stupid faux-fur fuhrer's trade tantrums.  The ones who voted for him.  If there's one thing you can be sure of, China has smarter, more savvy despots than the U. S. was given by Putin and our domestic oligarchs.   

I would normally feel sorry that anyone is suffering for the stupidity of having Trump in office but I can't feel sorry for those who asked for it.   Same goes for those who work in the other sectors that China is targeting to retaliate.   I'll spend my sorrow on the people who are already suffering under Trump, the ones so many of his his supporters wanted to crush under ICE jackboots and the such.  

Of course, that doesn't go for people who live in those states and who farm and produce those products who voted against Trump and the Republican-fascists in congress.   They are the victims of the goddamned Electoral College system.   If there were no Electoral College China wouldn't have been able to so effectively target states for retaliation, though there still are the congressional delegations of those states.   Consider this a tax on hatred in your states, or gullibility.  

America in general should consider this a tax on allowing the media to lie us into a period of some of the most corrupt governance in our period, one which won't end until they can't lie on TV and radio with impunity.   It's a tax we've been paying continually since 1969, when lies brought Nixon to office.