Attribution: MAGA Mad About Trump Tariffs by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
[Cagle Cartoons: Rick McKee is the staff cartoonist at The Augusta Chronicle. In 2006, McKee was named Time Magazines Person of the Year. Along with everybody else.]
Taking a Dive
According to Wiktionary, an idiomatic expression suggesting five meanings of our current situation:
- To decline rapidly
- To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally (boxing)
- To lose or fail intentionally
- To pretend to fall so as to deceive an opponent or referee (boxing or football)
- To fall suddenly and significantly (prices, hopes, fortunes, etc.)
Attribution: The stockmarket took a deep plunge by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
IMHO, meanings 2-4 are the likely and demented intentions of the man in the WH.
Sunday Serendipity
String Quartet No. 12 in F major (nicknamed the American Quartet) composed by Antonín Dvořák
It was composed in the summer of 1893, while Dvořák was on vacation in Iowa. Read the back story in Wikipedia
Enjoy, Jack
Let Them Eat Golf Balls
“I don’t care about you.” – Donald J. Trump 6/9/24
“I couldn’t care less” – 3/20/25 Trump Says He ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ if Auto Tariffs Raise Car Prices in the U.S. – The New York Times
Tuxedo Tax Tariff
Attribution: Trump imposes tariffs on island of penguins by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Updated in today’s Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Tariffs Are Truly Global. Just Ask the Penguins of McDonald Islands.