from the outside looking in, a bull in a china shop seems like an unorchestrated chaotic mess that ultimately results in a negative for the owner.
hopefully insurance will step in and replace what monetarily was lost.
now imagine if you could place bets, or buy “stock” into the shops china. your hope being that the price of that piece of china goes up and having been the one to bet on that outcome, get rich.
a bull in a china shop would be very bad in this scenario. so lets make it so you can also bet if something will go down in value, or break completely.
what if you could make sure the bull was on your side? what if you told it, or it told you, what it was going to break and when. it would tell you what china would remain and because of the breaking of the rest, and due to supply and demand, the remaining china would be worth more.
so while from an outside perspective, the bulls clumsy display would look unintentionally, from someone who knows more and has talked to the bull, they would see a beautifully choreographed dance that results in their bank account multiplying astronomically.
the bull in this scenario, is Donald Trump. the china shop? our economy.
whether it be tariffs, war, undocumented immigrants, he has bumbled his way through years of mistakes that from the outside looking in you can only shake your head or fist and hope the next election will fix the sinking ship.
He places tariffs on countries, which has been deemed outside of his authority by the supreme court (of which he has filled with undeserving syncophants), and then when the economy starts its downswing he reverts it. You can plainly see the swings, and if you were someone who had talked to him before he made these announcements, you could be making a lot of money.
Unfortunately, the china shop now extends beyond the stock market. Now, you can use websites to bet on anything, how many times someone says the word “the” in a broadcast or if the United States will attack Venezuela or Iran. Somehow both of those things have happened, and somehow there are obvious large wagers placed an hour before it occurs.
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Now let me change subjects for a second, Venezuela. A country we captured the leader of due to “drug trafficking” while releasing the leader of another country for the same crime. Venezuela, a country whose oil exports has helped the world since the World Wars, being one of the largest contributers to the allies supplies. During this time, Donald Trump was trying to get American Oil companies to take over production, which they were rightly hesitant.
So a month later, he chooses to attack Iran which instantly sets off dominoes of oil prices getting higher.
Venezuela was a precursor, it was establishing an alternative supply for american oil, while continuing the 30+ year war in the middle east (and really the 1700+ year war in the region of continued hostilities of religion.)
Is the bull in the china shop really as uncoordinated as we think, or is it a long game to keep us engaged in wars across the globe because the United States is unwilling to turn away from manufacturing war, to manufacturing happiness.
