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Attribution: The Tariffs Showdown by Margolis & Cox, PoliticalCartoons.com
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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President Trump’s tariffs are going to make everything more expensive, including video games, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said any new manufacturing jobs will go to robots, and America’s president wants a military parade in Washington, D.C. for his birthday.
the daily show’s take
Desi Lydic covers the ongoing economic crisis from Trump’s trade war, which has created tension between Trump’s two favorite goons, Peter Navarro and Elon Musk. Meanwhile, Fox News’s journalistic integrity is front-and-center with their top story: “Look over there!” Plus, Michael Kosta reports on how the tariff pile-on with China could have American manufacturers like his grandfather screwed.
I want JDouché to explain how the US borrows money from Chinese peasants to buy the products those Chinese peasants make. Does the stupid motherfucker think a trade deficit equates to borrowing money from the country that sells more goods and services to us than we sell to them? Please tell me he didn’t study foreign trade policy at Ohio State.
Six trillion is the administration’s new favorite number. That’s what Navarro claims will be the revenue raised by tariffs. That’s also the size of the tax cut package Trump is pushing through Congress. Navarro often suggests the tariff revenue will make up for the reduction in the taxes — though it also means that there would be a huge transfer of the burden of running the government from the wealthy (who will get most of the tax cuts) to the less wealthy (who buy most of the imported products).
The value of stocks traded on U.S. markets also fell $6 trillion in the first two days after Trump’s tariff announcement — but that’s probably just a coincidence.
Since the White House is mum on Navarro’s math, we can only guess. But experts we consulted think the methodology is pretty simple — and simpleminded.
The United States imported $3.3 trillion of goods in 2024, according to the Census Bureau. Navarro appears to have rounded that to $3 trillion and assumed a 20 percent universal tariff from all those products, which garners $600 billion in tariff revenue a year. Presto — over 10 years, that gets you $6 trillion.
But that’s not how the world works, which is why organizations such as the Tax Foundation and the Budget Lab at Yale University have developed estimates that are more than 50 percent smaller.
“Navarro’s math is a bogus way to estimate tax revenue arising from tariffs,” said Erica York, vice president of federal tax policy at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.
She said that’s because he’s ignoring the effects of people changing their buying habits when tariffs increase, countries retaliating and the subsequent impact on other revenue sources.
For instance, retaliatory tariffs raise the after-tax price of U.S. goods in foreign jurisdictions, making them less competitively priced and leading to layoffs in the United States. Those job losses then reverberate through the shrinking U.S. economy, including lower income and payroll tax collections.
So even if Shithead’s leading economist is right, and we’re too stupid to buy less when prices rise, the tariffs that are tanking the world economy, but more importantly the US economy will take 10 years to pay for his tax cut for his billionaire buddies. These are the geniuses running our economy?
I am seriously trying to think of anything in presidential history dumber than this unnecessary tariff war. Maybe James Buchanan protecting slavery?
First Congress is trying to cut Medicare while Trump slapping tariffs on pharmaceuticals. Talk about Louise following Thelma into the Grand Canyon.
Just a reminder for those who may fly again:
The deadline to have a REAL ID or other TSA-approved ID for domestic flights and access to certain federal facilities is May 7, 2025.
Whichever KGB agent way back in the nineteen seventies thought “that moron might be useful in the future” should be wearing a pile of medals and a nice dacha somewhere, for deciding to recruit krasnov. The long game is something the U.S is particularly bad at, while many other countries are expert. Russia, even after a revolution, has kept the “useful idiots” working away.
There is no way anyone would have predicted forty some years ago, even if the game was rigged, that sfb would be a U.S. president and destroy the world economies, in two months. Stunning results from a lot of praise, carrots like a tower in Moscow (never going to happen), then dirty work, who is laundering money using stupids name?
We have seen many gop/repub/magat congress person openly supporting russia. They are the supporting “useful idiots”, helping the destruction.
I am so happy my ancestors are not around anymore to see what is happening. It is sickening and terrible.
Way back when puttie was a KGB agent in East Germany so I do not think he even knew of recruiting krasnov.
Craig,
For corruption and vile actions, Andrew Jackson was pretty bad.
On March 28, 1834, the United States Senate voted to censure U.S. president Andrew Jackson over his actions to remove federal deposits from the Second Bank of the United States and his firing of Secretary of the Treasury William J. Duane in order to do so.
Then Topped it off by backing slavery and sending tribes on the Trail of Tears death march.
If Trump loses tariff war with China does it hurt American consumers?
Jamie, Andy was pretty bad, yes. The genocide was horrible, but shutting down the National Bank is more comparable to this tariff madness.
Defensive much?
Hang Tough!
Pretty damn soon y’all will be so broke-ass you’ll be happy to eat dirt and sticks.
SUCKERS!
A reminder that Dodo is a liar and loyal to no one, ever.
Stefanik allies say she could be in line for a top national-security or intelligence appointment later in Trump’s term. Secretary of state isn’t out of the question if Marco Rubio doesn’t stay all four years. Or Stefanik could run for New York governor next year—likely with a Trump endorsement—against the state’s unpopular Democratic incumbent, Kathy Hochul. “There are tons of opportunities,” Stefanik told me. “I have not ruled anything out, nor should I rule anything out.”
Others aren’t so sure Stefanik will get what she wants. One of her colleagues in New York, Democratic Representative Dan Goldman, told me she should be wary of Trump’s promises to repay her. “Donald Trump has no loyalty to anyone or anything, and he will do whatever he wants regardless of the impact it has on other people,” Goldman said. “Elise Stefanik, at least as of now, got nothing.” Another New York Democrat, Representative Joseph Morelle, told me that on a personal level, he felt sympathy for her. But, he added, “this is the bed she made.”
When America was at its greatest depends on the audience to whom President Donald Trump is speaking. To voters in 2024, it was during his first term in office, when the economy was the best in world history. (It wasn’t.) To his constituents today, though, it was back in the period from 1870 to 1913 — “when we were a tariff country.”
We would perhaps be advised not to take too many history lessons from a man who once admitted that he didn’t know what the stripes on the U.S. flag represented. But in that inconsistency we see a central tension in Trump’s political project. One way to make America great (should you think it isn’t) is to bolster and reinforce its greatness — its economic dominance, its scientific dominance. Another way is to lean into the erosion that the phrase implies and make America great again by remaking America into what it was when it was great previously.
It’s been clear for some time that many or most of Trump’s supporters view his MAGA promise in the second sense. Not that they pine for tariffs, specifically, but instead for some idealized version of the United States, one in which men went to real jobs making real things and women stayed home to take care of the kids in picket-fenced homes flying the American flag. Some of his supporters were alive during the post-World War II period in which this was supposedly (but not really) the norm. Others, the younger ones, feel a nostalgia for what they perceive that they missed. Young men in particular seem to have an acute sense that the world was once at the mercy of people like them — but that, for them, it very much is not.
….There are multiple, fundamental errors at play here.
Experts believe Clearview is likely already involved in deportation. “If Clearview AI tries to scrape all social media from all around the world, and there is a picture of an immigrant to the United States, then ICE could try to find out who that person is,” says Jack Poulson of Tech Inquiry, a watchdog group. “The company emphasizes the use within human trafficking and drug trafficking, but it’s highly unlikely that they would not be actively supporting deportation.” …
In general, the federal government is hungry for facial recognition. The Department of Homeland Security is experimenting with using facial biometrics to monitor migrant children “down to the infant” and algorithmically predict how they will age so they can be identified if they cross the border years later. Under the Biden administration, CBP already used an app with facial recognition to screenasylum seekers trying to enter the country; like most similar technology, the app has shown a bias against darker-skinned people, blocking Black applicants from filing claims.
Between April 2018 and March 2022, Clearview was used by more federal law enforcement agencies than any other privately owned facial recognition system, according to US Government Accountability Officereports and public reporting. It was deployed by agencies including CBP; the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Even the US Postal Inspection Service used Clearview, targeting Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020. Many of the agencies failed to comply with privacy requirements. Some told the GAO they didn’t use Clearview, only to be caught later by BuzzFeed News, which cross-referenced the report with a leaked list of federal agencies whose employees had run searches.
remember: our dumb friends, family, and coworkers asked for this, blame them
Notice that Signalgate has disappeared from the news.
Family MAGAtLand is increasing work contributions; gotta buy low. Ummm, they could lose more.
The US is a global pariah. Nobody trusts this administration, nor a system that lets this happen. It’s not just Adolf. It’s the entire crime syndicate.
If Adolf doesn’t invoke the Insurrection Act on 4-20/Easter/H/tler’s Birthday, there could be counter-parades elsewhere. A protest at the parade would not end well. However, I think the April 19th marches might be the last allowed…unless The Simpsons was prophetic about 4-12.
I’d still like Elon to get super-ticked off at tRIMPsky while also super-high, and just spill the details on how they rigged the election/his magic app that had the count before it was official/anything he may know about the show in Butler.
Trump wants the world to die before he does. He wouldn’t be the first psychotic narcissist in power on that path. Hitler’s last order to his general was to destroy the entire country and everybody left alive. Lucky for Germany they disobeyed.
Trump is already using government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments, Murphy added. The tariffs are the next step in the fascist bullying.
Trump has deliberately created economic suffering in order to force every business to pledge loyalty to him in exchange for sanctions relief.
“The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears,” Murphy continued. “It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever,” Murphy said.
Congress could actually get up off its backside and impeach orange Adolph. Third times the charm and there might be a government left to save. https://wapo.st/4iehZxP
lol Craig and BiD, yep he’s convinced the baby trumpers that he’s doing them a favor by fucking them.
Neat trick
someone just bought me a concert tickets for this summer and I won’t say for what act so Elon can’t doxx me but I sure hope Trump doesn’t destroy the country completely before the concert
lol I won’t link that garbage m*********** Phil boas’s wheel spinning in USA today trying to explain how Trump “has a plan”
He doesn’t have a planexcept to destroy this country and persecute minorities and make himself rich and stay out of jail
this is why I got so pissed off yesterday because I knew these propagandists were gonna come up with every bullshit line in the book to rationalize Trump’s arson and try to convince their victims that they are being done a favor
WE CAN’T HELP THEM DO THAT
OK, have a fascism free day if you can, Slava Ukraine
Once again, Trump the arsonist pulls up in the fire truck. Trump caves: “I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately”
Jon Stewart’s guest for The Weekly Show podcast is Pete Buttigieg.
Today’s meme…
Oh, the doofuses are even trying call it the “Kamala Krash.” (They are short one K in their branding of that message, but it’s enough of a dog whistle to remind them they are yt.)
Chris Murphy gets it. Orange Adolf gets off on power and pain. If he can cause pain, he can feel something. He feels no joy, no empathy, no nada.
Crazy tariffs are the same as destroying FEMA. He wants bad things to happen to others, to improve his position, and make him feel powerful when they need something.
SFB is a sick, sick man, and thankfully, he is old. I am rooting for 4-12-25, however it happens.
Congress has to stop the nonsense. Adolf may have paused the big tariffs, but the 10% is still there. What’s that? Other countries didn’t come running? China didn’t bend the knee?
Guess what! We do not get our reputation back. Our alliance is now to Russia. F tRUMPsky & RussoRepublicans in Congress and the unqualified cabinet.
Trump says he’s not considering a pause on tariffs but is open to negotiations
Yet even as he signaled an openness to hear out world leaders’ concerns with the steep tariffs, Trump said that doesn’t mean the tariffs won’t be permanent.
“They can both be true,” Trump said. “There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there’s things we need beyond tariffs.”
*This was 2 days ago…and I’ll bet Elon, Congress, etc., were told when the next pause would be. It’s not a full pause; 10% still applies.
ps – He’s a mobster.
meme #2…
Donald Trump’s involvement in cryptocurrency has raised concerns about potential scams, particularly with the launch of his meme coin, which has been linked to phishing campaigns that compromise users’ computers. -ai
Department of Justice shuts down National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
The memo said that in accordance with Executive Order 14178, the Justice Department will no longer “target virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and offline wallets for the acts of their end users or unwitting violations of regulations,” and that the “National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team shall be disbanded effective immediately.”
*It’s a coup. It’s a heist. It’s a scam.
Bingo bongo stupid of the jungle. Who had April 9 as the cave in day for krasnov tariff travails? I thought the stupid guy was going to hold out at least until Friday. I am sure some of it was leaked yesterday which is why a floor was made and held overnight. Then some buy programs were run.
The team at Cofense has just warned that those speculating on Trump-related crypto can come unstuck in just 120 seconds. “An email campaign spoofing Binance claims to deliver an opportunity to claim recently created TRUMP coins.” Users wishing to speculate are instructed to install a “Binance Desktop” app to secure their coins. But instead they install a remote access trojan onto their PCs. Even though the coins are traded for activities rather than cash, you will still lose money.
As the FBI warns, “since cryptocurrencies eliminate the need for financial intermediaries to validate and facilitate transactions, criminals can exploit these characteristics to support illicit activity such as thefts, fraud, and money laundering.” If you happen to have bought any of these fake coins, you can report the crime here.
Senator Murphy & Representative AOC should take the lead. Bernie said he’s “tired.” Me, too.
Why isn’t the media covering this? Or anything important? The marches got out to international media more than domestic.
Wyoming’s two Republican senators voted Friday evening against a budget amendment brought by Colorado’s Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper that would “prevent[…] the use of proceeds from public land sales to reduce the Federal deficit.”
Democrats and conservationists have decried the GOP’s openness to sell federal land to fund the budget, saying such a divestiture of beloved public assets would be used to offset tax cuts for the wealthy.
“Republicans are saying that they need to sell off your public lands to solve the housing crisis,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat who co-sponsored the failed budget amendment. “But we already have laws that allow for targeted land transfers for things like housing,” he said in an Instagram post.
Instead, Heinrich said, selling public land under budget reconciliation “means their goal isn’t housing — it’s selling your public land to pay for a tax cut for people like Elon Musk.”
*Guess what I’ll be calling my members of Congress about today.
Adolf is bragging about making the market go up. It’s still down, just not as far down, but he’s effing bragging about it. APRIL 12th, please!
He is such a grisly piece of work.
As Poobah said, Trump caved. Goddam moron. Thank god he’s also a pussy.
Market still ended up below where it was before Pumpkin Head stated this foolishness. And the recession worry isn’t gone — chaos is not a business plan, except maybe for losing casinos.
waiting for Dodo to die is not a business plan.
To add to the uncertainty, the president said he might consider exempting some U.S. companies from the tariffs over the 90-day pause period. He said his thinking on this would be made “instinctively.”
I wonder how many of Trump’s buddies made a fortune getting tipped off about this roller coaster. Insider trading at a whole new level!
Chicken Putz took the creepy liar’s way out
There is so much going on in the background of this administration that cannot be real. But, considering how much we do know about krasnov, it has to be.
NBC did a terrible job of reporting on the stock market. It’s up. One stock has seen this much of a gain since blah-blah-blah. It was down. Way down. The market, as a whole, is still down. I’d love to know who Adolf told before he paused some of the tariffs.
China doesn’t give a f&ck, our allies no longer trust us, federal workers are still being fired, Elon is still in the loose, data has still been compromised, we still don’t have universal healthcare, Republicans are still trying to kill SS/Medicare/Medicaid and sell off public lands to pay for tax benefits for billionaires, and they still want to raise the debt ceiling. <—- Sh/tler’s sh/tshow!
As Tulsi Gabbard completed her transformation from a Hawaii Democratic politician to a MAGA surrogate last year, she put down stakes in a far redder state. Gabbard and her husband bought a home outside of Austin and declared under oath last June that they were “resident(s) of the State of Texas.”
But a few months later, Gabbard voted in the 2024 general election back in Hawaii.
Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity of state voting laws.
*Not really complexity of voting laws. She claimed to be a TX resident; she broke the law. Why did Hawaii allow it, though?
House passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions
Dubbed the No Rogue Rulings Act, the legislation from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would limit judges to providing relief only to parties directly involved in the suit.
It would bar district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, even when the matter has an impact across the country – undercutting numerous lawsuits challenging Trump’s directives.
Many have cited Trump’s order attempting to block birthright citizenship for those not born to citizen parents. Judges appointed by presidents of both parties struck down the order, finding it violated the constitution’s guarantee of citizenship for all born in the U.S.
Democrats argue it makes no sense that the parents of each child would need to sue individually.
Insiders insidering? Ain’t that what landed Martha in the pokey?
Senator Adam Schiff on Wednesday called on Congress to investigate whether President Donald Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly paused a sweeping set of tariffs, a move that sent stock prices skyrocketing.
Why today may have been a good day to sell stock not buy.
One of my hobbies is looking at paint samples. These were paired together. Do we need to look into the DEI policy at Sherwin-Williams? I found this odd, but maybe it’s just the time we’re in.
President Donald Trump is targeting two former first-term appointees over their criticism of his actions, stripping their security clearances and opening federal probes of their tenures.
The directives that Trump signed on Wednesday order the Justice Department to scrutinize Chris Krebs, who ran Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and former senior Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor.
A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department. Under that norm of separation, criminal investigations are supposed to be insulated from political pressure, but Trump has repeatedly scorned the notion of DOJ independence. Making Wednesday’s action even more remarkable, and perhaps unprecedented, is that Trump used the formal power of executive orders to effectively brand two individuals as subjects of criminal investigations.
President Trump’s tariffs are going to make everything more expensive, including video games, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said any new manufacturing jobs will go to robots, and America’s president wants a military parade in Washington, D.C. for his birthday.
the daily show’s take
Desi Lydic covers the ongoing economic crisis from Trump’s trade war, which has created tension between Trump’s two favorite goons, Peter Navarro and Elon Musk. Meanwhile, Fox News’s journalistic integrity is front-and-center with their top story: “Look over there!” Plus, Michael Kosta reports on how the tariff pile-on with China could have American manufacturers like his grandfather screwed.
I want JDouché to explain how the US borrows money from Chinese peasants to buy the products those Chinese peasants make. Does the stupid motherfucker think a trade deficit equates to borrowing money from the country that sells more goods and services to us than we sell to them? Please tell me he didn’t study foreign trade policy at Ohio State.
US, global recession forecasts grow with Trump’s massive ‘reciprocal’ tariffs now in place | CNN Business
From Kessler debunking Navarro. $6 trillion is the DoDO administration’s new favorite number.
The Facts
So even if Shithead’s leading economist is right, and we’re too stupid to buy less when prices rise, the tariffs that are tanking the world economy, but more importantly the US economy will take 10 years to pay for his tax cut for his billionaire buddies. These are the geniuses running our economy?
I am seriously trying to think of anything in presidential history dumber than this unnecessary tariff war. Maybe James Buchanan protecting slavery?
perhaps the tables are beginning to turn
https://image.caglecartoons.com/294606/600/now-it-affects-us.png
Attribution: Now it affects us by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
First Congress is trying to cut Medicare while Trump slapping tariffs on pharmaceuticals. Talk about Louise following Thelma into the Grand Canyon.
Just a reminder for those who may fly again:
The deadline to have a REAL ID or other TSA-approved ID for domestic flights and access to certain federal facilities is May 7, 2025.
Whichever KGB agent way back in the nineteen seventies thought “that moron might be useful in the future” should be wearing a pile of medals and a nice dacha somewhere, for deciding to recruit krasnov. The long game is something the U.S is particularly bad at, while many other countries are expert. Russia, even after a revolution, has kept the “useful idiots” working away.
There is no way anyone would have predicted forty some years ago, even if the game was rigged, that sfb would be a U.S. president and destroy the world economies, in two months. Stunning results from a lot of praise, carrots like a tower in Moscow (never going to happen), then dirty work, who is laundering money using stupids name?
We have seen many gop/repub/magat congress person openly supporting russia. They are the supporting “useful idiots”, helping the destruction.
I am so happy my ancestors are not around anymore to see what is happening. It is sickening and terrible.
Way back when puttie was a KGB agent in East Germany so I do not think he even knew of recruiting krasnov.
Craig,
For corruption and vile actions, Andrew Jackson was pretty bad.
On March 28, 1834, the United States Senate voted to censure U.S. president Andrew Jackson over his actions to remove federal deposits from the Second Bank of the United States and his firing of Secretary of the Treasury William J. Duane in order to do so.
Then Topped it off by backing slavery and sending tribes on the Trail of Tears death march.
If Trump loses tariff war with China does it hurt American consumers?
Jamie, Andy was pretty bad, yes. The genocide was horrible, but shutting down the National Bank is more comparable to this tariff madness.
Defensive much?
Hang Tough!
Pretty damn soon y’all will be so broke-ass you’ll be happy to eat dirt and sticks.
SUCKERS!
A reminder that Dodo is a liar and loyal to no one, ever.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/elise-stefanik-trump-cabinet/682335/?
wolf in wolf’s clothing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/09/trump-tariffs-manufacturing-jobs/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/?
…we’re living a dystopian nightmare.
remember: our dumb friends, family, and coworkers asked for this, blame them
Notice that Signalgate has disappeared from the news.
Family MAGAtLand is increasing work contributions; gotta buy low. Ummm, they could lose more.
The US is a global pariah. Nobody trusts this administration, nor a system that lets this happen. It’s not just Adolf. It’s the entire crime syndicate.
If Adolf doesn’t invoke the Insurrection Act on 4-20/Easter/H/tler’s Birthday, there could be counter-parades elsewhere. A protest at the parade would not end well. However, I think the April 19th marches might be the last allowed…unless The Simpsons was prophetic about 4-12.
I’d still like Elon to get super-ticked off at tRIMPsky while also super-high, and just spill the details on how they rigged the election/his magic app that had the count before it was official/anything he may know about the show in Butler.
Trump wants the world to die before he does. He wouldn’t be the first psychotic narcissist in power on that path. Hitler’s last order to his general was to destroy the entire country and everybody left alive. Lucky for Germany they disobeyed.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/trump-tariffs-plan-collapse-our-democracy
Trump is already using government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments, Murphy added. The tariffs are the next step in the fascist bullying.
Trump has deliberately created economic suffering in order to force every business to pledge loyalty to him in exchange for sanctions relief.
“The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears,” Murphy continued. “It’s the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever,” Murphy said.
Congress could actually get up off its backside and impeach orange Adolph. Third times the charm and there might be a government left to save.
https://wapo.st/4iehZxP
lol Craig and BiD, yep he’s convinced the baby trumpers that he’s doing them a favor by fucking them.
Neat trick
someone just bought me a concert tickets for this summer and I won’t say for what act so Elon can’t doxx me but I sure hope Trump doesn’t destroy the country completely before the concert
lol I won’t link that garbage m*********** Phil boas’s wheel spinning in USA today trying to explain how Trump “has a plan”
He doesn’t have a planexcept to destroy this country and persecute minorities and make himself rich and stay out of jail
this is why I got so pissed off yesterday because I knew these propagandists were gonna come up with every bullshit line in the book to rationalize Trump’s arson and try to convince their victims that they are being done a favor
WE CAN’T HELP THEM DO THAT
OK, have a fascism free day if you can, Slava Ukraine
Once again, Trump the arsonist pulls up in the fire truck. Trump caves: “I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately”
Jon Stewart’s guest for The Weekly Show podcast is Pete Buttigieg.
Today’s meme…
Oh, the doofuses are even trying call it the “Kamala Krash.” (They are short one K in their branding of that message, but it’s enough of a dog whistle to remind them they are yt.)
Chris Murphy gets it. Orange Adolf gets off on power and pain. If he can cause pain, he can feel something. He feels no joy, no empathy, no nada.
Crazy tariffs are the same as destroying FEMA. He wants bad things to happen to others, to improve his position, and make him feel powerful when they need something.
SFB is a sick, sick man, and thankfully, he is old. I am rooting for 4-12-25, however it happens.
Congress has to stop the nonsense. Adolf may have paused the big tariffs, but the 10% is still there. What’s that? Other countries didn’t come running? China didn’t bend the knee?
Guess what! We do not get our reputation back. Our alliance is now to Russia. F tRUMPsky & RussoRepublicans in Congress and the unqualified cabinet.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/07/trump-not-looking-to-pause-tariffs/82972118007/
Trump says he’s not considering a pause on tariffs but is open to negotiations
Yet even as he signaled an openness to hear out world leaders’ concerns with the steep tariffs, Trump said that doesn’t mean the tariffs won’t be permanent.
“They can both be true,” Trump said. “There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there’s things we need beyond tariffs.”
*This was 2 days ago…and I’ll bet Elon, Congress, etc., were told when the next pause would be. It’s not a full pause; 10% still applies.
ps – He’s a mobster.
meme #2…
Donald Trump’s involvement in cryptocurrency has raised concerns about potential scams, particularly with the launch of his meme coin, which has been linked to phishing campaigns that compromise users’ computers. -ai
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/09/Justice-Department-ends-cryptocurrency-fraud-unit/1101744198994/
Department of Justice shuts down National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
The memo said that in accordance with Executive Order 14178, the Justice Department will no longer “target virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and offline wallets for the acts of their end users or unwitting violations of regulations,” and that the “National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team shall be disbanded effective immediately.”
*It’s a coup. It’s a heist. It’s a scam.
Bingo bongo stupid of the jungle. Who had April 9 as the cave in day for krasnov tariff travails? I thought the stupid guy was going to hold out at least until Friday. I am sure some of it was leaked yesterday which is why a floor was made and held overnight. Then some buy programs were run.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/03/10/trump-crypto-warning-do-not-buy-these-coins/
The team at Cofense has just warned that those speculating on Trump-related crypto can come unstuck in just 120 seconds. “An email campaign spoofing Binance claims to deliver an opportunity to claim recently created TRUMP coins.” Users wishing to speculate are instructed to install a “Binance Desktop” app to secure their coins. But instead they install a remote access trojan onto their PCs. Even though the coins are traded for activities rather than cash, you will still lose money.
As the FBI warns, “since cryptocurrencies eliminate the need for financial intermediaries to validate and facilitate transactions, criminals can exploit these characteristics to support illicit activity such as thefts, fraud, and money laundering.” If you happen to have bought any of these fake coins, you can report the crime here.
Senator Murphy & Representative AOC should take the lead. Bernie said he’s “tired.” Me, too.
Why isn’t the media covering this? Or anything important? The marches got out to international media more than domestic.
https://wyofile.com/barrasso-lummis-vote-to-allow-selling-federal-land-to-fund-trump-budget/
Wyoming’s two Republican senators voted Friday evening against a budget amendment brought by Colorado’s Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper that would “prevent[…] the use of proceeds from public land sales to reduce the Federal deficit.”
Democrats and conservationists have decried the GOP’s openness to sell federal land to fund the budget, saying such a divestiture of beloved public assets would be used to offset tax cuts for the wealthy.
“Republicans are saying that they need to sell off your public lands to solve the housing crisis,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat who co-sponsored the failed budget amendment. “But we already have laws that allow for targeted land transfers for things like housing,” he said in an Instagram post.
Instead, Heinrich said, selling public land under budget reconciliation “means their goal isn’t housing — it’s selling your public land to pay for a tax cut for people like Elon Musk.”
*Guess what I’ll be calling my members of Congress about today.
Adolf is bragging about making the market go up. It’s still down, just not as far down, but he’s effing bragging about it. APRIL 12th, please!
He is such a grisly piece of work.
As Poobah said, Trump caved. Goddam moron. Thank god he’s also a pussy.
Market still ended up below where it was before Pumpkin Head stated this foolishness. And the recession worry isn’t gone — chaos is not a business plan, except maybe for losing casinos.
waiting for Dodo to die is not a business plan.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/business/trump-tariffs-stock-market?smid=url-share#cdd2d00b-7b31-5d72-a4c1-03819f601ed2
I wonder how many of Trump’s buddies made a fortune getting tipped off about this roller coaster. Insider trading at a whole new level!
Chicken Putz took the creepy liar’s way out
There is so much going on in the background of this administration that cannot be real. But, considering how much we do know about krasnov, it has to be.
NBC did a terrible job of reporting on the stock market. It’s up. One stock has seen this much of a gain since blah-blah-blah. It was down. Way down. The market, as a whole, is still down. I’d love to know who Adolf told before he paused some of the tariffs.
China doesn’t give a f&ck, our allies no longer trust us, federal workers are still being fired, Elon is still in the loose, data has still been compromised, we still don’t have universal healthcare, Republicans are still trying to kill SS/Medicare/Medicaid and sell off public lands to pay for tax benefits for billionaires, and they still want to raise the debt ceiling. <—- Sh/tler’s sh/tshow!
As Tulsi Gabbard completed her transformation from a Hawaii Democratic politician to a MAGA surrogate last year, she put down stakes in a far redder state. Gabbard and her husband bought a home outside of Austin and declared under oath last June that they were “resident(s) of the State of Texas.”
But a few months later, Gabbard voted in the 2024 general election back in Hawaii.
Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity of state voting laws.
*Not really complexity of voting laws. She claimed to be a TX resident; she broke the law. Why did Hawaii allow it, though?
https://futurism.com/adobe-bullied-bluesky
Blue Sky isn’t always friendly, but at least they laugh you off
Too bad we don’t have SEC watchdogs anymore.
am i supposed to factor in trump’s unpredictable nightly whims into my investment strategy?
cool. 😑
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5241423-house-passes-bill-district-court-injunctions/
House passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions
Dubbed the No Rogue Rulings Act, the legislation from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would limit judges to providing relief only to parties directly involved in the suit.
It would bar district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, even when the matter has an impact across the country – undercutting numerous lawsuits challenging Trump’s directives.
Many have cited Trump’s order attempting to block birthright citizenship for those not born to citizen parents. Judges appointed by presidents of both parties struck down the order, finding it violated the constitution’s guarantee of citizenship for all born in the U.S.
Democrats argue it makes no sense that the parents of each child would need to sue individually.
Insiders insidering? Ain’t that what landed Martha in the pokey?
https://time.com/7276234/trump-tariff-insider-trading-schiff/
Why today may have been a good day to sell stock not buy.
One of my hobbies is looking at paint samples. These were paired together. Do we need to look into the DEI policy at Sherwin-Williams? I found this odd, but maybe it’s just the time we’re in.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/donald-trump-retribution-miles-taylor-00007512
Sinkable Dodo Clown
Right, Ivy.
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