A broad spectrum of over 150 national and local organizations are partnering in this Saturday's "Hands Off! National Day of Action," which promises to be the largest anti- Trump mobilization since the "Women's March" in January 2017. You can find an event in your area by going here. You can register if you want, or just show up. But, show up, please.
Don the Business Genius --
JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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“.. It would be the weakest growth since 2022 as the economy emerged from the pandemic.” @cnbc.com 🇺🇸 www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/f...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Don the Dove --
Remember how the GOP claimed that Trump was the "anti-war president?" Republicans lie for sport. Trump Iran...
— Shelly R Kirchoff (@kirchoff.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Believe the autocrat when he tells you who he is --
I have said since Trump starting laying the groundwork for the Big Lie in the first part of 2020 that he would not leave office willingly. I have been correct so far. And I'm telling you again he will not leave office willingly. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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What's that Musk-y smell? Wisconsin bribery gets the Wilhoit's Law treatment --
Don't let this be the future of "democracy." Elon Musk has already bought Brad Schimel. He wants to buy voters as well. Get out the vote for Susan Crawford.
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Republicans in Wisconsin have been silent on the Musk giveaway — but the RNC has warned a group they cannot give ice cream to college students.
— Andy Kaczynski (@kfile.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Republicans
— S Peter Davis (@speterdavis.com) March 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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... while Musk's co- (white) Afrikaners get recruited to settle here --
At a time when we are making it near impossible for any other type of refugee
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Bon appetit! --
John Roberts paved the way for Trump's return to the White House, making him a "king above the law." The Court's majority also seems poised to endorse many of Trump's authoritarian assaults on our democracy. But the Court could pay a high price for serving as Trump's enabler, as I discuss in PN.
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Reminder: Trump was on the path to getting the due process Le Pen just did (which also took years, even w/o Presidential immunity) until John Roberts intervened. John Roberts was singularly responsible for delay, John Roberts was key vote that created 2 more years of delay.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:32 AM
What a Democratic leader sounds like --
I’m with the Gov.
— Lee-in-Iowa 💙 (@lee-in-iowa.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Obeying the Trump voices in your head has consequences --
Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of Trump when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, his defense lawyer told El Paso Matters He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him elpasomatters.org/2025/03/30/p...
— Joe Sudbay (@joesudbay.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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The Brits do it so well --
Bus stop outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London….Know your parasites!
— WuTangIsForTheChildren (@wutangforchildren.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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To better understand the Malignant Fascist's destructive obsession with Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal being annexed by the U.S., the New Republic's Seva Gunitsky looks at the right-wing model espoused by James Burnham generations ago. Doubtless without studying Burnham's writing or even being aware of him, the MF nonetheless has internalized his theory of international relations:
"We’ve been here before. In the spring of 1941, as Hitler’s armies swept across Europe, American conservative James Burnham published a book outlining his vision for a new global order: a post-democratic world centered around a few powerful blocs he called “super-states.” These great powers would exercise complete dominion over their designated regions while locked in perpetual rivalry with each other. The United States, Burnham thought, should “draw a ring” around the Western hemisphere, securing the Panama Canal and reducing Canada to “a satellite.” This new order would be governed not by international law but by personal dealings among the great powers, who would control the sovereignty of weaker states and suspend it as they wished.
George Orwell used Burnham’s bleak vision as the geopolitical setting for 1984, in which three giant autocratic empires live in a state of permanent conflict. And now, the real-world global order is starting to take on a disturbingly similar shape.
Once we make sense of his preferences for the post-liberal order, Trump’s treatment of Canada—but also of Russia, Greenland, and others—begins to make a lot more sense. Trump’s approach to the international system is a strange blend of neo-feudal hierarchy with transactional politics guided by five principles: dominance of great powers, conditionality of alliances, weaponization of trade, irrelevance of institutions, and personalization of diplomacy." (our emphasis)
The MF's "principles," such as they are for a selfish ignoramus, are also being applied domestically, where his political alliances shift depending on loyalty tests, where his undermining of institutions and the rule of law and his narcissistic, retribution-filled agenda are what characterize his regime. Gunitsky's entire article is well worth the read.
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The same scurrilous cast of characters chatting about "Signalgate," their latest screw up. The clueless Malignant Fascist is joined by his co-President Musk, who will get Big Balls working on the problem. Bellhop Vance is always in the background, trying to get the attention of the boss....many people are saying.
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Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right party, was handed a four-year prison sentence and banned from holding public office for five years by a French court Monday, in what could be the biggest setback for her political cause in a generation.
Until this week, Le Pen had looked like the likeliest winner in France's next presidential election set for 2027, but was found guilty Monday by a court of embezzling European Union funds.
When handing down its sentence, the court said the crimes committed by Le Pen, 56, warranted an immediate ban from public office, Reuters reported.
While Le Pen may yet successfully appeal the sentence — it will not be applied until she has exhausted all avenues of appeal — the four-year sentence, two years of it suspended, and the ban on seeking public office until the end of the decade will come as a massive blow to the French far-right and may spell the end of her political career.
The Paris prosecutor had previously requested that if found guilty, Le Pen be barred from running for office and given a five-year prison sentence, along with a fine of 300,000 euros ($316,860). In its decision, the court handed Le Pen a fine of 100,000 euros.
The nine-week trial, which began in November after almost a decade of investigations, saw Le Pen and 24 other figures from her National Rally (RN) party accused of misusing over 3 million euros ($3.3 million) of European Parliament funds to pay party staff between 2004 and 2016 in violation of EU regulations. All of those accused have denied the charges.
Delivering his ruling Monday, judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been “at the heart” of the scheme. “It was established that all these people were actually working for the party, that their (EU) lawmaker had not given them any tasks,” he added, according to Reuters.
He said that the investigations also showed that “these were not administrative errors... but embezzlement within the framework of a system put in place to reduce the party’s costs.”... (our emphasis)
The French, unlike Americans, do what they have to do with their felonious fascists. Bon travail!
Emergency aid has streamed into Southeast Asia in the two days since a massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand. Relief efforts are focused on Myanmar, where the estimated death toll rose to 1,644 by Sunday afternoon.
The number of dead from Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake is expected to increase, while the number of injured was at 3,408 and the missing figure rose was 139 on Sunday. The earthquake's epicenter was near Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city with 1.5 million people. In neighboring Thailand, the death toll rose to 17. [snip]
On Sunday, a convoy of 17 Chinese cargo trucks carrying critical shelter and medical supplies was expected to reach Mandalay. China said it has sent more than 135 rescue personnel and experts along with supplies like medical kits, generators, earthquake detectors and drones while pledging around $13.8 million in emergency aid.
Hong Kong on Saturday dispatched 51 search-and-rescue personnel including firefighters and ambulance personnel as well as two search-and-rescue dogs. The group brought 9 tons (18,000 pounds) of equipment including life detectors and an automatic satellite tracking antenna system, according to a statement on the Hong Kong government's website. The Hong Kong government also will set aside HK$30 million ($3.9 million) from its Disaster Relief Fund to help Myanmar victims.
Russia's Emergencies Ministry said it had flown in 120 rescuers and supplies to Yangon, Myanmar's second-largest city, and Russia's Health Ministry said Moscow had sent a medical team that includes specialists in infectious diseases, resuscitation, traumatology and psychology, as well as search and rescue teams with canine units and devices that can search in rubble with depths as much as 4.5 meters (14.7 feet)... (our emphasis)
There follows a long list of about contributions many other nations are making to relief efforts. When co-Presidents Trump and Musk decimated USAID, we lost the ability to provide direct governmental aid (humanitarian aid that's considered "soft power") to other countries in need. Here's one assessment:
Sarah Charles, a former senior USAID official who oversaw disaster-response teams and overall humanitarian work under the Biden administration, said the system was now “in shambles,” without the people or resources to move quickly to pull out survivors from collapsed buildings and otherwise save lives.
Notably, China and Russia are gleefully stepping in to provide aid to Myanmar, exercising their "soft power" in the vacuum caused by Putin's puppet and his South Afrikaner troll- mate.
Working-class car buyers will be the hardest hit by U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on imported vehicles because almost all low-cost new cars sold in the United States are built elsewhere.
Lower-income buyers will suffer another blow from expected hikes in used car prices as demand surges and supply shrinks.New cars priced under $30,000 are already rare as the average new-vehicle price approaches $50,000. The only way automakers can eke out profits on economy cars, analysts say, is to build them in nations with lower manufacturing costs.A Reuters review of data from two auto research firms found just 16 models with an average sticker price less than $30,000 and only one, Toyota's Corolla, that is assembled in the United States. All others are made in Mexico, South Korea, or Japan.
Slapping a 25% tariff on these low-end cars may force price increases that make them unaffordable to their target market or cause some automakers to abandon them entirely, industry analysts said.“New vehicles across the board are going to be more expensive," said Sam Fiorani, vice president of research firm AutoForecast Solutions. "That's going to push more buyers into the used market, which will also raise the price of used vehicles.” [snip]Trump’s political base of rural supporters could be among those bearing the brunt of the import taxes. About half of voters reporting household incomes of less than $50,000 annually backed Trump's 2024 election, along with 56% of voters without college degrees, according to an Edison Research exit poll.Trump told NBC news on Saturday that he "couldn't care less" if automakers hike prices, "because if the prices on foreign cars go up, they're going to buy American cars."Many of those foreign cars are made by American automakers, including three under-$30,000 vehicles from GM: The Buick Envista and Chevrolet Trax and Trailblazer. All three are made in South Korea. GM also makes hundreds of thousands of its hot-selling full-sized trucks in Mexico... (our emphasis)
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While some galaxies have extraordinarily bright centres where they host a feasting supermassive black hole, the bright source near the centre of NGC 5530 is not an active black hole but instead a star within our own galaxy, only 10 thousand light-years from Earth. This chance alignment gives the appearance that the star is at the dense heart of NGC 5530.
If you had pointed a backyard telescope at NGC 5530 on the evening of 13 September 2007, you would have seen another bright point of light adorning the galaxy. That night, Australian amateur astronomer Robert Evans discovered a supernova, named SN 2007IT, by comparing NGC 5530’s appearance through the telescope to a reference photo of the galaxy. While it’s remarkable to discover even one supernova using this painstaking method, Evans has in fact discovered more than 40 supernovae this way! This particular discovery was truly serendipitous: it’s likely that the light from the supernova had completed its 40-million-year journey to Earth just days before the explosion was discovered.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy, seen tilted at a slight angle, on a dark background of space. It glows softly from its centre, throughout its disc out to the edge. The disc is a broad swirl of webs of dark reddish dust and sparkling blue patches where stars have formed. Atop the centre of the galaxy there is a star that appears very large and bright with four spikes emanating from it, because it is relatively close to Earth.]
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker
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(Andy Marlette, Creators.com)
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(John Deering, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
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(Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Canada)
(Morten Morland, Sunday Times, London)
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Yesterday, we hope you know, was "Tesla Takedown Day" around the world. Here are some pictures of those protesting South Afrikaner Tesla mega- billionaire fascist and co- President Elon "Why Do People Hate Me?" Musk:
Miami, FL (Rebecca Blackwell/ AP)
West Los Angeles, CA (Emma Bowman / NPR)
Washington, DC (Yann Tessier / Reuters)
Columbus, OH (WSYX)
New York City (Anadolou/ Getty Images)
Berlin, Germany (no attribution)
London (no attribution)
Vancouver, Canada (no attribution)
John Avlon, writing in The Bulwark, highlights a defining feature of Trumpism: to lie, lie, and lie some more when faced with facts:
"One of the tired old truisms of post-Watergate Washington is “'t’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.' In fact, usually it’s both—but this coverup reflects the cult-like insistence on unreality as a sign of tribal loyalty that flows down from President Donald Trump. Tone always comes from the top.
Lies are the instinctive official defense from this administration. As Andrew Egger noted this week, 'It’s all there in the three rules Trump learned from his mentor, Roy Cohn: always attack, always deny everything, always declare victory.' At this point, those tactics have just become 'a habit of mind'—they’re second nature for Team Trump.
So, when caught red-handed sharing classified information on a public messaging app, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did what Trump would have done: lie loudly." (our emphasis)
For over nearly a decade of watching the Malignant Fascist in the political arena, his followers and imitators have learned that there's no real consequences for lying. The Washington Post catalogued over 30,000 lies and misrepresentations spewed from the pie hole of the MF in his first term, and the firehose hasn't stopped and has been emulated by his appointees and minions. Avlon continues:
"This is what happens when lies become litmus tests for party loyalty—beginning with backing Trump’s 2020 election denialism. And the louder the lie, the more it is seen as a signal that someone is truly a team player, dedicated to defending President Trump, as opposed to a stalwart defender of the truth or of the Constitution they swore an oath to uphold.
This reflexive dissembling and dishonesty, the hallmark of cowardice and careerism among Trump’s supporters, undermines our ability to reason together over a common set of facts and makes a mockery of our democracy." (our emphasis)
Sadly for this nation, it's in their DNA now and can't be reasoned, negotiated or cajoled away The lies have been burned into them for decades of concerted efforts by the right-wing media ecosystem, now validated by their cult leader / golden calf. With the MF's all-out assault on reality and anything that doesn't conform to his warped prism of thought, we're in for a lot more.
(photo: When his lips are moving, he's lying. Jabin Botsford / Washington Post / Getty)
The White House Correspondents' Association's (WHCA) recent history has been one of rolling over in the face of the Malignant Fascist's efforts to control news coming out of the (very) White House, recently ceding their right to control who takes part in press pools to the White House Press Office. Their most recent act of pusillanimity came yesterday when they announced that openly gay comedian Amber Ruffin was no longer invited as the host of its annual dinner, clearly responding to pressure from the "free speech for me but not thee" Trumpists:
...She was announced as this year’s dinner entertainer in February. At the time, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that she planned to channel anti-Trump sentiments during her dinner performance. She also said, of Trump’s likely absence, “I don’t know that anyone’s looking forward to being in the same room as him.”
White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich on Friday publicly called out Ruffin for her anti-Trump comments, writing on X, “What kind of responsible, sensible journalist would attend something like this? More importantly, what kind of company would sponsor such a hate-filled and violence-inspiring event?” [Ed.: for a moment, we thought he was referring to a Trump rally.]
The coup-de-grace was shamefully delivered by the association's president, Eugene Daniels, who is also gay and works as the Washington correspondent for ... MSNBC (!). This was his brief outburst of Kafkaesque flim flam:
“At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists,” the association’s president, Eugene Daniels, wrote in a memo Saturday.
He said the association’s board voted unanimously to make the change, and did not immediately announce any new speakers.
What a stand-up bunch of spineless, access-driven ciphers. "At this consequential moment for journalism" one must ask, which side of the "division" are you on: freedom of the press and American democracy or Trump's creeping fascism? Don't bother, we know the WHCA's answer.
What a shameful thing to be so craven.
BONUS:
The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
— Steve Hofstetter (@stevehofstetter.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This will only be the third time in over 40 years that the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner will not be hosted by a comedian. But for those who are expecting jokes, don't worry - the White House Correspondents’ Association is filled with them.
— Steve Hofstetter (@stevehofstetter.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
(Cartoon: Kevin Necessary, @knecessary)
The folks at Saturday Night Live were all over the "Signalgate" scandal last night. The snark started in the cold open, then continued in the Weekend Update segment (with knocks on Tesla, Border Barbie's visit to El Salvador, Vance's visit to Greenland, and more).
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(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)
(Randy Bish, @bishtoon)
(Steve Breen, Creators.com)
(John Branch, Houston Chronicle)
(Matt Davies, Newsday)
(Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News)
(Lee Judge, King Features)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(Chris Britt, Creators.com)
(Peter Brookes, The Times, London)
(Ben Jennings, The Guardian, London)
(Adam Douglas Thompson, @adamdouglasthompson)
DUI hire Hegseth's continuing struggles with National "Security"... --
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
— Katherine Long (@klong.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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... but not with nepotism --
You see they're bringing MERIT back to government. www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Happy anniversary, Putin asset and Signalgate's Gabbard --
Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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We don't want to be like that nation either --
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Putin's puppet intends to destroy NATO and rape Ukraine --
It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
“The new draft deal, one senior official said, looks like ‘Ukraine was in the war with U.S., lost, [was] captured and now has to pay lifetime reparations.’” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
— Jim Goldgeier (@jimgoldgeier.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Obedient pundits silent on Trump's mental decline --
For a pundit class that was once obsessed with presidential acuity, it’s remarkable how silent they are as Donald Trump — the oldest president in U.S. history — has frequent mental lapses.
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Another university caves to Trump extortion on "DEI" --
NEW: The University of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide, the president said in an email
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Fight back, feel better! --
I’m re-posting my how-to guide about resisting Trump because it’s important people know there are ways you can stop this monster. Democracy is not a spectator sport. If you agree, please share this as widely as possible. newrepublic.com/article/1931...
— Timothy Noah (@timothynoah.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com
— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
— Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) March 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Operation Invade China" is a go! --
Pete Hegseth accidentally left me a drunken voicemail
— Brent Terhune (@brentterhune.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A new round of tariffs is expected on Tuesday, but it appears that the only one knowing what they will be and against whom they will be levied is the Malignant Fascist himself, with his close staff reportedly in the dark. From Politico:
"Top White House and administration officials have been promising businesses, consumers and fellow Republicans more 'certainty' on trade in the coming days, eager to calm skittish markets and avoid the stock market plunge that accompanied the White House’s initial tariff roll-outs.
But they have one problem: Donald J. Trump.
Just days out from Trump’s April 2 announcement of global tariffs, which he has hailed as 'Liberation Day,' even those closest to the president — from Vice President JD Vance to his chief of staff Susie Wiles and his own Cabinet officials — have privately indicated that they’re unsure exactly what the boss will do, according to three people who have spoken with them." (our emphasis)
The only "certainty" is that the profoundly ignorant MF will continue to sow chaos in the process. The article continues:
“'No one knows what the fuck is going on,' said one White House ally close to Trump’s inner circle, granted anonymity to speak freely. 'What are they going to tariff? Who are they gonna tariff and at what rates? Like, the very basic questions haven’t been answered yet.'
Indeed, while the White House is projecting confidence publicly, multiple administration officials, as well as top allies on the outside, are privately concerned that next week’s roll-out could be as rocky as when he imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on March 4, worsening a rout on stocks that began in mid-February. Though the S&P 500 has since regained some ground, all of its previous gains since Election Day have been erased." (our emphasis)
While a crash and recession would affect both the innocent and the guilty MAGAts, it may be the medicine that will purge the House of its MAGA majority, and perhaps pick off a couple of MAGA Senators. There's already growing anger in normally "red" communities that have been shaken by the current tariffs (not to mention Federal employee firings and program terminations). These will certainly be broader and impact other sectors of the economy than currently.
We'll see Tuesday what additional economic damage the reckless sociopath imposes on this nation, our allies, and his own cult.
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The Food and Drug Administration just lost the person overseeing vaccines, gene therapies, and blood supplies to the anti-science, medieval force now running the Malignant Fascist's Department of Health and Human Services (that would be you, Robert F. "Brainworm" Kennedy, Jr.).
Here's the conclusion of Dr. Peter Marks' resignation letter, dated March 28, 2025:
"... Over the past 13 years I have done my best to ensure that we efficiently and effectively applied the best available science to benefit public health. As you are aware, I was willing to work to address the Secretary’s concerns regarding vaccine safety and transparency by hearing from the public and implementing a variety of different public meetings and engagements with the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.
"My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation comes to an end so that the citizens of our country can fully benefit from the breadth of advances in medical science. Though I will regret not being able to be part of future work at the FDA, I am truly grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such a remarkable group of individuals as the staff at FDA and will do my best to continue to advance public health in the future."
On the other hand, you can be confident that RFK Jr.'s government stockpile of cod liver oil, Vitamin A, and leeches will see us though the next pandemic! Enjoy your (relatively) good health while it lasts, America!
