The Frankish Reich

We run a trade surplus with Australia. So why any tariff at all?

So what else explains it?

Go to bed.

Go to bed.

So I'll hand it to the old creep Rupert Murdoch. He owns both Fox News and the Wall St. Journal, and they're going in completely different directions here. The Journal has been superb in calling out Trump's insanity on a daily basis while Fox News continues to cheerlead and ignore the obvious lead news story.

You mean I'm NOT getting my job back at the old Pinto factory? A machine powered by AI is gonna make a Bronco Sport instead?

Wow, dude got really fat again. I guess he was on Ozempic in the run-up to the election, but now he's looking like Massive Heart Attack in Waiting.

⬆️ QAnon adherent. Loomerite.

Awesome. And here I thought Sowell was dead.

So tell me: did a QAnon adherent just visit the White House and advise Trump on national security personnel? You mean I just found QAnon again? Oh, and grow up, loser. ⬆️ Death of a Salesman.

Good question. It's so full of sycophants that they may be able to stick around longer than you think. Still, Trump always needs a fall guy, so let the firings begin. I think Bessent will be gone. He had a decent academic/investment banking career and all that's left of that is being a pariah in those two communities. He may think the only way to salvage anything is to quit and come out against tariffs.

It is. Incredibly juvenile and completely witless. He's having a tantrum because he likes to mock me for finding signs of QAnon everywhere in TrumpWorld, and now he's got nothing since a noted QAnon nut was just invited to the White House, and Trump did what she told him to do.

He's already made a fool out of himself defending the indefensible. He better stick it out because I can't see him getting another prominent post anywhere. And he's too bland for Fox News or his own podcast.

Good Lord, that damn fool is a loser. Meanwhile, Donald J. Trump is taking national security advice from a freak who believes 9/11 was an inside job and that various school shootings were staged.

Back to the point: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/how-right-wing-influencer-laura-loomer-targeted-top-security-officials-0b002715?mod=hp_lead_pos4 And yes, she's all-in on QAnon, and yes, she did tell Trump to fire national security staffers, and yes, he did fire them But Biden was like, really old and doddering.

Actually "they" - the occasional sane person around Trump - are admitting nothing of the sort. They're trying to calm markets by suggesting that it's all a negotiating tactic. Trump is out there saying the tariffs are here to stay. Contradictory messaging in support of a horrible policy.

Truly a fascinating story. Former DHS secretary ignores some rando in an airport. Tell me more!

I think he's lost it. I used to watch Fox a little bit every week just to get a sense of how both sides get entirely different spins. I can't even take it anymore in those small doses.

The Trumpists - and even Trump himself - have gone full tard on us. Lower tariffs and removal of non-tariff barriers with Vietnam? That’s the Trans-Pacific Partnership Obama negotiated! The same TPP Trump ran against in 2016. Now he wants a TPP on steroids? Paul Krugman said it best a couple days ago: stop looking for an explanation here. There is none to be found other than he’s an ADHD old man surrounded by ass kissers.

You really have no ability to detect satire.

TRUMP SELLS OUT OUR GREAT AMERICAN COBBLERS FOR NIKE What happened to our great future as the World's Leading Shoemakers?

That was then: Trump predicts a 1929 type market crash if Kamala wins https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-press-conference-stock-market-crash-harris-b2597318.html This is now: a market crash (that keeps crashing) after a Trump win https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-and-nasdaq-set-for-further-losses-after-1-679-point-blue-chip-tumble/card/u-s-stock-market-has-lost-9-6-trillion-in-value-since-inauguration-day-6NL1f3p5I5eUhbOGt2Wy Bottom line: U.S. stock market has wiped out $9.6 trillion since Inauguration Day But hey, keep on winning!

I watch it as ultra-light entertainment. Question: have you watched The Pitt? If so, what do you think?

Good. Now explain to me how that fits with Trump's "bring production back to America" thing. You can't have it both ways. Because: 1. He's a habitual liar. 2. He says one thing this morning, another this afternoon. 3. His undereducated electorate have no economics literacy.