Skeets Of The Day

 

Trump's "indescribably crazy" tariffs --

 

This chart, from Twitter user @nonagonono, is amazing. It shows Trump's "reciprocal trade barriers" are no such thing as they ARE NOT RELATED TO ACTUAL TARIFF BARRIERS. Rather, his magic number is half of the bilateral trade deficit (as a share of imports), or 10%. This is indescribably crazy.

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— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM

 

A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM

 

Bad history makes for bad policy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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— Max Boot (@maxboot.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM

 

Prediction markets had already priced in their best guess of the Trump tariffs. Today's announcement was so much worse than expected that it caused the chance of a 2025 recession to rise from 42% to 52%.

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— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM

 

Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring a permit to visit—but that they managed to figure out the optimal retaliatory tariff to impose on penguins.

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— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM

 

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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— Heard Island Government (@heardislandgov.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM

 

US stocks plunged in after-hours trading Wednesday as investors digested President Donald Trump’s decision to impose sweeping tariffs that could escalate a growing trade war and upend the global economy.

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— CNN (@cnn.com) April 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM

 

Then (Biden) and now --

 

22 weeks apart.

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM

Trump and Musk are "taking your jobs and picking your pockets" --

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM

 

They’re taking your jobs and picking your pockets.

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— Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM

 

What's that Musk-y smell?  Wisconsin schadenfreude --

 

hard to believe an elon musk product fell apart and exploded at the finish line

— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM

 

DUI hire Hegseth's DEI mania targets commemoration of female Jewish Naval Academy grads --

The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic display ahead of a visit to the school by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday.

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— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM

 

We'll bring the popcorn (if we can afford it) --

 

I can’t wait for the morons to suffer the consequences of their own stupidity. 🐆

— God (@godpod.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM