Happy Fool’s Day! I was going to start with a big, big, really big “Breaking News” announcement for April Fool’s Day, but after seeing people being snatched off the streets by masked Gestapo agents and people mistakenly sent to the prison in Salvador, I thought it best to forgo joking around about a certain thin-skinned subject. Besides, no joke can top the s**t show going on right now. Instead, I will start with a quote from Maya Angelou, “Every storm runs out of rain.” Yoo Hoo!! Tomorrow is “liberation” day, so maybe the ‘rains’ will stop. That was a joke. Our problem right now is that Mr. Thump, the stable genius, is in over his head with the tariff war and we will be paying for it for years to come. Prices are not going to come down; our allies are already making plans to leave us in the dust; and, countries are forging new relationships with the United States not being included. The days of economic and military partnerships are over for us. In a little over two months this president has destroyed what other administrations have built upon for decades. We have gone from the top to close to the bottom in respect globally. The Signal chat by our national security experts certainly didn’t help matters either, as VP Vance texted his true feelings about Europe, “I just hate bailing out Europe again,” which prompted a response from Hegseth, “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.” The next thing I see happening in this retaliatory tariff war will be Japan, Canada, China, and the European nations getting together and deciding to screw the U.S. by selling the U.S. Treasury Bonds they hold and start buying Eurobonds. Oh, you want to start a trade war with your tariff nonsense? Cool. We think we’ll just start pulling money out of your economy and we’ll see what happens, tough guy. And there you have it. A weaker dollar will result in further stock market hits, higher interest rates resulting in higher mortgage rates, an economy going to s**t causing layoffs, and so on. But, we have very smart people, very smart, top of the class people, almost as smart as Elon’s crew, so don’t worry. It’s all under control and before you know it we’ll be swimmin’ in greenbacks.
The Trail Blazer game comes on soon, so just a quick recap of today’s chaos: 1)The DOJ admits that a man ICE took into custody and deported to the prison in El Salvador was an oopsie and done mistakenly. They claim there is nothing they can do about it now. 2) We’ll know soon if MuskRat was able to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship as the polls start closing in the next hour. 3) RFK Jr. stepped up his purge of Health and Human Services employees today as a number of leaders, scientists, and workers in the CDC learned they were fired. People within the CDC and other knowledgable folks worry that the ability to respond to future health emergencies has been eroded. 4) Newsmax, the far-right, conservative news channel became a publicly traded company yesterday and has soared 2,200% in the first two days of trading. It had an initial public offering yesterday of $10 per share and closed today at $232. Yikes! 5) And finally, DJT just wants Tiger Woods and his ex-daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump to be happy. Isn’t that sweet?
Don’t be fooled and have a great evening! Ziggyman
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