{"id":5195,"date":"2018-03-02T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2018-03-02T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:36:43","slug":"gauntlet-thrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/gauntlet-thrown\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauntlet, thrown."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main issue is joined and the globalist spokeslugs are howling.\u00a0 Mostly senators, but a few congresslugs also. You can tell by their concern for every other country but this one.<\/p>\n<p>Steel and aluminum tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump tweeted Thursday that many U.S industries, including steel and aluminum &#8220;have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world. We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want free, fair and SMART TRADE!&#8221; \u00a0 CBS News<\/p>\n<p>I hear no howling from the working class.<\/p>\n<p>This is the centerpoint to why the opposition to Trump is so fierce, it is a threatened shift in trillions of\u00a0 dollars of value in investment portfolios. The US was to be hollowed out to let the rest of the world industrialize. Some of us disagree with that plan.<\/p>\n<p>Now it gets interesting. I hope the Secret Service is loyal and competent. Trump just threw the gauntlet down with the donor class, which means he has some serious political capital coming in the IG report.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5197\" style=\"width: 647px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5197\" class=\" wp-image-5197\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tariffs-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tariffs-.jpg 2410w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tariffs--150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tariffs--300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tariffs--768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tariffs--1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tariffs--191x150.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE &#8211; In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By the way, we have a new trade team working for us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5200\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trade-teamtombstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trade-teamtombstone.jpg 600w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trade-teamtombstone-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trade-teamtombstone-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trade-teamtombstone-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5195\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5195\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main issue is joined and the globalist spokeslugs are howling.\u00a0 Mostly senators, but a few congresslugs also. You can tell by their concern for every other country but this one.<\/p>\n<p>Steel and aluminum tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump tweeted Thursday that many U.S industries, including steel and aluminum &#8220;have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world. We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want free, fair and SMART TRADE!&#8221; \u00a0 CBS News<\/p>\n<p>I hear no howling from the working class.<\/p>\n<p>This is the centerpoint to why the opposition to Trump is so fierce, it is a threatened shift in trillions of\u00a0 dollars of value in investment portfolios. The US was to be &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/gauntlet-thrown\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}