TRUMP versus TRUMP
Part 4
Marina da Silva
If you thought about divorce, you almost got it right. But it's Trump against himself. At the height of the Ronald Reagan era (1980-1989) and in the financial crisis of the 1980's when asked what he would do if he failed in his projects for millionaire exemptions in the restoration of the Commodore hotel and Trump Tower Donald replied to the presenter that if that happened he would "candidate for president of the Republic". The ambitious political path is thus planted in the minds of the public and fans; and Donald Trump has used and abused this "marketing strategy" (defamation, threat, stalking Roy Cohn") against the mayor of New York and his administration since the late 1970's, humiliating and attacking him in the media and filing a lawsuit against New York City in 1985 to get 40 years of tax breaks for the billion-dollar Trump Tower and lots of publicity for the Trump brand. "And if you can't, what will happen?" Ask the reporter. "Then I will wait for a more progressive administration and most importantly, I will wait for times of crisis. In bad times I get what I want." italics mine
The truth is that Trump's pharaonic madness will begin his downfall and make him the joke in business and politics with this intention to become president of the United States. The numerous bank and stock market loans for his projects paying 14% interest, in addition to real estate purchases paying high and betting high on their appreciation, such as the Taj Mahal casino, will force Trump to go bankrupt, negotiate with creditors (banks), give default on suppliers, contractors, workers. His "MY WAY" lost tune, skidded and was a resounding failure. But as the popular saying goes: if I owe you $1, it's my problem; if I owe you billions of dollars... it's your problem! Does the press honeymoon end with the fall of the Trump empire? No. Trump, the publicity, advertising and marketing wizard will use "the misfortunes" to put himself more and more in focus: He risked, lost and returns to rebuild the "American dream", even though it is a farce, a loser. And her second marriage... Went to the marsh too. Every time he has a "problem" Trump blames his marriage, the demands of marriage, being a father, a husband, a successful businessman... Goodbye Marla!
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We are in the 21st century! Donald Trump is an uncle, single, coveted, parading beautiful women wherever he wants to go and negotiating the bankruptcy of his ventures in his favor and defaulting on many of his creditors. In 2001 he watches the September 11 terrorist attack from his window in Trump Tower and of course, it goes to the media to show up.Since the election of actor and wrestler Jesse Ventura, an ET in politics, to governor of the state of Minnesota in 1998, Trump has seriously considered becoming president. When visiting his "friend" Ventura Trump just wants to know who made his "politically incorrect" campaign. From 1999-2000 Roger Stone, self-styled agent provocateur1, actually dirty political game and very low level, will strive to make Trump president. But reluctant and not able to deal with defeats, Trump at the last moment, as he had done before, declines the invitation: he will wait for the right moment (the same as waiting for big crises and chaos) when he can be sure he can win. Bush, 43rd president [2001-2008], son of George H. W. Bush, 41st US president [1989-1993] won, and the "War on Terror" begins, that is, The United States playing terror in the Middle East:
"The September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into his first term. Bush responded to the attack with what has become known as the Bush Doctrine: he launched a "War on Terror" and an international military campaign that included the War in Afghanistan in 2001 and the Iraq War in 2003. It also promoted policies related to the economy, health, education, Social Security reform, an amendment to the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, and enacted laws that resulted in broad-based tax cuts, as well as enacting the Patriot Act."2
The Patriot Act allowed and allows to treat as an enemy and practice terrorism against minorities within American soil, even against US citizens or US-born citizens, causing an unimaginable increase in xenophobia, homophobia, racism against African Americans, Asians, Muslims , misogyny, regression of civil rights, "chincanophobia" (deep aversion to Mexicans)3, etc, and such too, a dark side, a blemish since the "creation" of the nation.4 In this historical context, Trump understands that he can only be president by one of the great political parties of America: Republican party or Democratic party. An impossible dream being "the joke" since he made that intention manifest in the 1990's. But the 21st century came with the full force of "entrepreneurship" and reality shows or BB's (Ex.: As Kardashians, BBB's Brasil, aired since January 2002) fruits of the media revolution with the internet and social networks connecting instantly anyone who has access to it on the planet. In 2004 Trump is a show, pop star, celebrity and host of The Apprentice program and achieves enormous penetration and enormous popularity in American homes.
It wasn't just September 11 that shocked the United States and the world in the 21st century. Productive restructuring, globalization of markets, deindustrialization in the United States, the "neoliberal experience" have deepened unemployment, the concentration of wealth (emerging rich), financial and real estate speculation, have led to various "breaks" or crises generated in the "casino " Wall Street and an absurd increase in world poverty and misery.5 In the first years of the 21st century, an IFC study pointed to a terrible picture of world hunger:
"a study carried out by the IFC (International Finance Corporation) private institute linked to the World Bank and IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) on how world poverty is a potential capital market, that is, poverty can generate a lot of wealth. How?( ...) The study says that “the four billion people who live in poverty have a purchasing power of 5 trillion dollars”! “meaningful and malnourished!” Four billion people, living below the poverty line, that is, having to survive on 1.5 to 4 dollars a day, can further enrich the world's few rich! It's a paradox! A survey by the IFC, nail and meat to the World Bank/IDB went deep into poverty, tracked, mapped, graphed and arrived at the following data: geographically, the greatest concentration of poor people is in Asia and the Middle East – there are 2.86 billion people humans that can be explored and generate a $3.47 trillion market. Trillions! "6
"Who said that misery is only here? Who said that misery doesn't laugh? Who thinks that misery doesn't cry in Japan? Who's saying that there are no treasures in the favela?"7 Yes, there is misery, poverty, the shrinking of the middle class in "First World" countries such as Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and even in the model countries of the European Welfare State. And of course in Brazil...No. NOT? Brazil was in the "pink wave", a movement of partial retreat from neoliberal practices that took around 50 million inhabitants to the bloc of poverty, misery, extreme misery in the 1990's, mainly with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the neoliberal tchutchuca (call boy) who acted for the dismantling of the State, end or reduction of social and labor protections, of the sub-investment in health, education, housing, basic sanitation, culture; wage tightening of the civil service (a good part of the classic middle class), shrinking of the general income and of the low-income ones (minimum wages) in particular; privatizations considered harmful to Brazil as a nation and regional power in South America (a period known as A privataria tucana8 or the PSDB party). Which was, from a geopolitical and geo-strategic point of view, extremely important. Imagine a country that is friendly to the USA and can be its "arm or club" to guarantee the North American hegemony in the continent that, after all, was already declared possession of the North Americans since the beginning of the 19th century: To America, the Americans!
"Lula is the man"! Affirms Barack Obama. Elected president of Brazil for two consecutive terms (2003-2009), Lula made Dilma Rousseff his successor for two more terms (2010-2018), the last term being usurped with a coup d'état orchestrated in the National Congress, involving powerful agribusiness , weapons, from industry federations (highlighted Fiesp, São Paulo), evangelical church (corrupt evangelical leaders), and extreme right groups (military from the Armed Forces; police, delegates, judges, militia) and the powerful Globo Organization and affiliates and congeners. A phenomenal geopolitical and geostrategic mistake that is costing Brazil dearly and, believe me: the superpower United States of America. In Sergio Moro is there truth?9
1. About Roger Stone see: GET ME ROGER STONE https://www.netflix.com/watch/80114666?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2C6df28dc650edbb4e3a392c47d2c07400901e5175%3Aba3386807bc8120b51e9994f462e4fc97d492872%2C6df28dc650edbb4e3a392c47d2c07400901e5175%3Aba3386807bc8120b51e9994f462e4fc97d492872%2Cunknown%2C
2. Sobre o ATO PATRIOTA ver: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush; SOBRE George H. W. Bush, 41º presidente dos EUA ver https://share.america.gov/pt-br/tributo-a-george-h-w-bush-41o-presidente-dos-eua/ "George Herbert Walker Bush, o 41º presidente dos Estados Unidos, morreu em 30 de novembro aos 94 anos de idade.Ele foi o presidente mais longevo da história dos EUA e um estadista cujo serviço ao seu país se estendeu por toda a sua vida adulta. Antes de se tornar presidente, ele atuou em cargos que variaram desde piloto da Marinha até diretor da Agência Central de Inteligência, além de vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos. Como presidente, de 1989 a 1993, Bush ajudou a marcar o início da propagação da liberdade e do livre mercado. O Ocidente prevaleceu na Guerra Fria, e o Muro de Berlim foi derrubado, resultando em uma Alemanha unificada. Bush também assinou dois tratados visando reduzir drasticamente a ameaça de uma guerra nuclear."
3. Chincanos, chincanofogia: termos pejorativos para se referir aos mexicanos legais e nascidos nos Estados Unidos.
4. Sobre a farsa "terra das oportunidades, liberdade, direitos, democracia" para qualquer um no solo americano e blá assista os documentários: AMEND: Figth for América https://www.netflix.com/watch/80219054?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2C422b2198492ebd8984e2a40d7e01e8df1af20d67%3A6987438d52514a8edb86f48eab293839795de457%2C422b2198492ebd8984e2a40d7e01e8df1af20d67%3A6987438d52514a8edb86f48eab293839795de45 7%2Cunknown%2C; 13ª EMENDA https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091741?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C4%2C422b2198492ebd8984e2a40d7e01e8df1af20d67%3A6987438d52514a8edb86f48eab293839795de457%2C422b2198492ebd8984e2a40d7e01e8df1af20d67%3A6987438d52514a8edb86f48eab293839795de457%2Cunknown%2C
5. SMIL, Vaclav. MADE IN USA: The rise and retreat of American Manufacturing. the MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England. ISBN e-book 978-0-262-31675-0; HARVEY, David. O ENIGMA DO CAPITAL E AS CRISES DO CAPITALISMO. São Paulo, SP: Boitempo, 2011; DAVIS, Mike. PLANETA FAVELA. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2006.
6. SILVA, Marina da. Brazil: QUANTO MAIS POBREZA MELHOR. Os próximos quatro bilhões. Leia aqui no blog
7. MISÉRIA NO JAPÃO canção de Ney Matogrosso. https://youtu.be/vZsBqKD9gGI
8. RIBEIRO Jr., Amaury. A PRIVATARIA TUCANA.Geração editorial, 2013
9. Sobre o juiz parcial que usou a mega Operação Operação Lava jato para ajudar derrubar a presidenta Dilma Rousseff, prender sem provas Lula e inviabilizar sua candidatura e aliar-se a extrema direita militar para eleger um asno para presidente ver: The Intercept: OPERAÇÃO VAZA JATO. https://theintercept.com/2020/06/09/vaza-jato-um-ano/
10. Sobre a primeira e segunda onda da retomada das ideias "mercado livre, propriedade privada, estado mínímo" ver: DOHERTH, Brian. RADICAIS FOR CAPITALISM: a freewilling history of the modern american libertarian moviment.
11. Sobre a atual onda do anarco-capitalismo libertariano ver: DOHERTH, Brian. RADICAIS FOR CAPITALISM: a freewilling history of the modern american libertarian moviment;
12. Sobre a atuação da empresa Cambridge Analytica (Steve Bannon foi vice-presidente) nas eleições presidenciais em vários países desde os anos 1990's e principalmente na saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia- Brexit; eleições dos EUA (2016), Brasil (2018) ver: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80117542?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C3%2C6df28dc650edbb4e3a392c47d2c07400901e5175%3Aba3386807bc8120b51e9994f462e4fc97d492872%2C6df28dc650edbb4e3a392c47d2c07400901e5175%3Aba3386807bc8120b51e9994f462e4fc97d492872%2Cunknown%2C;