Although the MSM is fawning over Biden’s performance at the G7 conference, but in reality it was a total disaster. If Trump had done any of this, they would have been calling for a cognitive examination while suggesting a resignation, for the good of the country. Now, with Kamala Harris next in line, Joe still looks like the better option.
The G7 is supposedly a meeting of the Group of Seven, the largest “advanced economies.” The members include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the United States. It used to be the G8, but they excluded Russia in retaliation for annexing the Crimean Peninsula. So, while these pretend to be the most powerful nations on earth, that isn’t close to being true. The top economies are the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, India, France, UK, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. This is so absurd that California, by itself, would rank 5th in the world. Of course, no sane person from California would want our international interests represented by Gavin Newsom.
Donald Trump offended the group by saying American First. That is because American is first, by a huge margin. Our economy is reported at $21.4 trillion. The next highest member of the G7 is Japan with $5.08 trillion, Germany with $3.86 trillion, the UK with $2.83 trillion, France with $2.72 trillion, Italy with $2.0 trillion and Canada with $1.74 trillion. All the other G7 economies combined are less than the U.S. economy. Trump refused to pretend. That offended the rest of the G7. They wanted to be treated as equal, if not superior and Trump, that ungrateful jerk, wasn’t buying it. Trump went to the G7 and didn’t pretend this was somehow an equal venture. They hated him for that, but that did not make him wrong.
We are still the largest, but granted, Joe Biden is trying desperately to spend this away. Canada isn’t large enough to fund any of those stimulus packages. Now Biden shows up, frail, obviously senile, promising to cooperate. These are beautiful comforting words to those who couldn’t hope to compete with us if we were serious about things.
Then they posed for the famous picture. It was an international joke. They all looked ridiculous. Here were all these world leaders, fully vaccinated, demanding all their people get vaccinated, social distancing and resorting to fist pumps and elbow slams as a substitute for a good old fashioned handshake. It was all for show, it was beyond obvious, and no one was impressed. Sadly, even in this group of clowns, Joe still came in dead last, and it wasn’t even close. The others loved it, because Joe is one of the few people capable of making them seem somewhat impressive.
I suggest you keep a copy of that picture, because odds are high that next year there will be a lot of new faces. At a time when the entire world is reeling because of the global wide mismanagement of COVID 19, these guys are focused on stopping climate change. Brilliant! Apparently, they are relying too much on the science to realize that there is no science supporting global warming because of rising CO2 levels. That should be obvious, because scientists don’t even say global warming anymore, they say climate change. This is because it was increasingly easy, despite the reporting on CNN and the New York Times, to show that global warming was inconveniently in a hiatus. CO2 is often described as creating the greenhouse effect, but if you add CO2 to a greenhouse, it gets colder, not warmer. So, the Greenhouse effect doesn’t even work in a real greenhouse.
Now I firmly believe we should all be for a cleaner environment and am glad our air is lot cleaner than it was decades ago. But reducing CO2 emissions in the U.S. will only slow down our economy, not global warming (oops climate change). The other G7 members love talking about climate change because they know it will hurt us far more than them. Then these clowns, led by Joe, agreed to charge corporations a minimum of a 15% tax. They smiled like this was pure brilliance. This is, of course, consistent with the democratic theory of government, where if we all stand in a big circle with our hands in each other’s pockets, we all get rich.
The bad news is we are in for a long hot summer with skyrocketing cost, shortages of almost everything, increased government spending on things that can’t possibly work accompanied by higher taxes. The good news is that COVID appears to be on the way out, solely because of the vaccines developed under Donald Trump. The masks are coming off and so are the blinders. People will start to see the world again, the way it really is, and it will not be a pretty picture. The entire world will be united, finally, on one subject. This sucks, and the people in charge are morons making everything worse. Among other things, that silly picture was a slip of state, where the self-righteous, arrogant, show boaters put their collective incompetence on full display for the entire world.
TDM