Well, we certainly have had quite the interesting April so far.  April normally is a rather quiet month.  Winter is ending, Spring is beginning, baseball is back, and thoughts run to Easter, Passover and taxes.  Not so this year.

The juggernaut that is Donald Trump has changed the narrative.  Friend and foe alike are shocked, shocked to learn that Trump is doing exactly what he has been saying he would do for the past 40 years – impose higher tariffs to stop foreign countries from ripping us off on trade by imposing on the U.S. tariffs that keep our products from being sold abroad, making kickbacks to their local companies, dumping their products on our markets, and creating currency and other trade barriers to rig the system of international trade.  Maybe our trade policy made sense after World War II, but not anymore.

Unsurprisingly, the foreign thieves who have been stealing us blind for 70 years are upset that the U.S. finally is objecting to being robbed.  Wall Street is upset because it reaps profits by shamelessly investing in foreign companies that produce goods with slave and near-slave labor.  It’s just good business, you see.

Both the foreign countries and Wall Street are content to let Uncle Sucker continue to expend blood and trillions of dollars in the defense of the very nations that enjoy the security we provide, then turn around and rob us.  A simple “thank you” would have sufficed.

The Democrats are upset, because the very existence of Trump upsets those bastards.  They’re publicly denouncing the Trump tariffs, while being privately ecstatic that Trump has handed them an issue to tout.  Of course, the Democrats can profit from this issue if and only if the U.S. economy is severely damaged by Trump’s tariff plan, but that’s OK with them.

If they cared about American citizens they wouldn’t have sold out the U.S. to China, they wouldn’t have admitted millions of illegals, they wouldn’t be supporting criminals and opposing law enforcement, and they wouldn’t be supporting murdering Islamic terrorists.  But I digress.

And so, on April 2, Trump unleashed his reciprocal tariffs, nearly all of which were still lower than the ones our so-called allies are levying on us.  You would have thought the end of the world was nigh.

Publicly, our trading partners, who have been waging a trade war on us for 50 years, denounced the U.S. for starting a trade war.  Behind the scenes, according to Trump’s trade team, they’re saying, “OK, you got us, we never thought we could get away with it this long.”

Being pigs, the pigs on Wall Street are squealing loudly.  “How dare Trump interfere with our phony, baloney profits?  Harumpf!”  “How dare Trump temporarily derail our crooked gravy train?”  “We could have a recession, a depression, and, and, how can we entice any more unsuspecting sheep to invest their hard-earned money in an over-inflated stock market?”

The Fake News has pumped up the tariff issue, sowing panic with predictions of lost fortunes and devastated 401k accounts.  Democrats know that, in panic there is profit.  As usual, the truth lies elsewhere.

Yes, between April 2, and April 8, the Dow Jones Average fell from 42,225 to 37,645, that’s about 11%.  The Fake News, aided by the Wall Street denizens screamed that $8 trillion, or $10 trillion, or $12 trillion had disappeared, all because of Trump.  But then, on April 9, the market went from 37,000 to over 40,000 overnight, climbing 8%.  None of them said, “Great, we just got back $8.6 trillion of our paper profits.”  According to these pricks, we’re still facing Armageddon.

Don’t buy into the panic.  The market fell 11% in 6 days?  It’s not the first time.  In October 1987, the market fell 22% in one day.  We’re all still here.  And keep in mind, every other time the market fell it was because our government and the financial “experts” had seriously mishandled the economy.  We either had high unemployment, runaway inflation, or both.  The financial wizards who are now crying foul clearly don’t have clean hands.

The 2008 recession, and global financial crisis that saw numerous bank failures, the end of Lehman Brothers, the bailout of AIG insurance, and the collapses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, was caused by stupid politicians from both Parties, who empowered lending institutions to give mortgages to millions of insolvent borrowers.  The stock market fell 53% that time.  The banks and the Wall Street pigs got government bailouts, and over 8 million poor homeowners lost their homes.  And we’re still here.

Meanwhile, a virtual parade of foreign trade representatives is streaming in and out of the White House.  Some 130 nations are looking to cut deals with the U.S. to avoid high tariffs.  Even the Euro trash from the European Union are looking to deal.  China, so far, is holding firm.  Xi tried to cultivate European nations to stand with him against Trump.  They declined.  Good decision.

Eventually, the Chinese will have to agree to a deal.  I don’t know what’s holding them up, because they’ve never lived up to any agreement they’ve ever made.  We can live without most of the Chinese crap they send us.  But if 300 million Chinese get laid off, Xi quickly will become the former Chairman of the CCP.  This will work out.  I’m not sure we’ll see a Golden Age, but business should improve.

That does it for imports and exports.  Now to the deports.  Tens of thousands of illegals have, so far been rounded up for deportation.  But not without a fight.  No, not a fight from the illegals, but from District Court Judges who have somehow gotten the notion that they’re in charge of immigration decisions.

In one case, a Maryland District Judge ordered the government to return Salvadoran MS-13 gang member Abrego Garcia to the U.S., from the Salvadoran prison to which he was deported.  This case went to the Supreme Court, which ordered the government to “facilitate” his return.  Whatever that means.

AG Pam Bondi has been clear on this.  “He’s not coming back and we don’t want him back.”  Salvadoran President Bukele has said, he’s not releasing him or sending him back.  The Administration has told the District judge, in all appropriate legal language, to pound sand, pointing out that the courts have no authority to order a president to contact a foreign nation, or to control foreign policy.  The battle rages on.

Then there are the 530,000 illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, to whom Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden granted parole, under his executive authority.  A District judge in Massachusetts named Indira Talwani (yes, that’s the judge, not the litigant), has stayed the Trump Administration’s termination of the paroles, under the same authority Biden used to grant them.

According to Judge Talwani, one president can let them in, but another president can’t throw them out.  Can’t wait to hear the explanation of that one.  Then again, all 530,000 don’t live in Massachusetts, so, as the Supreme Court recently explained to District judges, she has no jurisdiction over this entire crowd of wretched refuse.

And against this backdrop, Democrats keep backing the wrong side of the issue, siding with illegal aliens over American citizens every time.  Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who had nothing to say when an illegal alien criminal murdered Maryland mother of five Rachel Morin, has announced he’s going to El Salvador to get Abrego Garcia out of prison.  You just can’t make this crap up.

Even after the November election losses, Democrats insist on opposing every attempt to make Americans safer.  As a recent U.S. president is fond of saying, “So sad.”