Trail Mix

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.

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

“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

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.

We really didn’t need further proof of Trump’s weird alliance with Putin, but here it is: Yesterday he imposed new tariffs on Ukraine — but not Russia.

The White House tried to explain it away by claiming that we have no “meaningful” trade with Russia since the sanctions were imposed. But the U.S. still trades more with Russia (worth $3.5 billion) than with countries like Mauritius or Brunei that did make Trump’s tariffs list.

Rolling Stone: “Trump announced the imposition of a significant tariff on the uninhabited Australian territory Heard and McDonald Islands — a remote outpost populated only by penguins and other Antarctic wildlife”.