MAGA influencers who once condemned inflation under President Joe Biden - then going ape shit- now have the nerve to tell Americans they could make do with less. All to support their demented orange master's irrational tariffs - which will ultimately crater their lives more than any others.
These cockeyed GOP cult voters, once irate over the cost of groceries, said they are willing to give Trump a long runway "to figure things out". Of course, like mindless, low IQ dummies they believe every word he utters - even after he played them in the '24 election. Believing he'd bring prices of groceries down "the first day" even when he telegraphed all the way through his campaign he was bent only on retribution.
Which shows how divorced from reality these nitwits are, as they were Nov. 5th when they voted this senile felon braggart back into power- expecting lower prices for their groceries and housing. Why be surprised? The bane of the lower IQ lot is that this condition prevents them from analytical thinking, from reasoning and putting causes together with effects. Which also requires a college-level ability to read.
We know: two-thirds of white men without a college degree supported Trump this past election, according to exit polling data from The Washington Post. So did 60% of white women who didn't go to college.
That too many Americans are losing their ability to reason was already well known.. And at the bottom of their inability to read is the ingestion off too much political propaganda and disinformation. Such as issued from Musk and Trump - bombarding the swing states with such ads leading up to Nov. 5th.
More recent op-ed examples of Right bullshit include this humdinger:
Trump’s Tariffs Are as Bad as Bidenomics - WSJ
Which actually claims the very basis for Joe Biden's 'Goldilocks' economy - "the envy of the world" according to The Economist - is just as bad as Trump's tariff shitshow. (Which most economists agree is the biggest financial unforced error since the 1930 Smoot Hawley tariffs - driving prices of everything to historic levels.)
Then last week The Wall Street Journal (editorial) treated somnolent readers to this howler:
Trump Takes Up Lawfare Against His First-Term Aides
- His orders against Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor are what Democrats did to him.
Which is total twaddle given Democrats did nothing of the sort. Indeed, via multiple impeachments and prosecutions they sought to hold a lawless Russkie asset and traitor (inciting an insurrection) accountable. Consider:
- Trump publicly urged Russian interference in our elections
in 2016. (Getting Hillary’s emails). Russia complied.
- At Helsinki, Trump publicly sided with Putin against our own
intelligence agencies. See:
Trump's Helsinki Bow To Putin Leaves World Wondering: Why? : NPR
- Trump conducted private meetings and phone calls with Putin.
No transcript, nobody else present.
- Trump continued to phone and correspond with Putin,
privately, after he's kicked out of office.
- Back in office thanks to brain-fucked voters fretting over
the price of eggs, Trump falsely accused Ukraine of being the aggressor in
Russia's war this after he PARDONS all the January 6th traitors.
- Trump then destroyed relations with every single one of our allies, starting with Canada - asserting he wanted it annexed as the "51st state."
- Trump then began to dismantle the entire US government using a mock Musk "agency" called DOGE.
- Trump then proceeded to hire fools and butt-kissers to run all our Intel Agencies and Health and Human Services.
- In the wake of the last Trump allowed the dismantling of our public health system,
ensuring that our populous will be diseased
- Trump upended the rule of law, attacking judges and lawyers,
and pardoning every criminal that licks his boots
- Trump then set out to destroy our economy using the monumental unforced error of $6 trillion in tariffs setting off a global trade war
- Trump fired the head of cyber intelligence leaving us open
to attacks
- Trump upbraided and humiliated Ukraine President Volydymor Zelenskyy, showing all sentient citizens how tight a leash Putin has on him.
Putin couldn't have been happier if Trump himself were a Russian agent, a "Manchurian candidate" if you will.
It's Russia, Russia, Russia, dear readers, and it was NEVER a hoax or simply "collusion" as the WSJ and its trolls and minions -like Holman Jenkins Jr. and Kimberely Strassel - have maintained
This in turn suggests a lowering of IQ amongst a significant demographic (the Maggats) of whom 30% only read at fifth grade level. Which means IQs are dropping. As the retired general Jim Mattis and Bing West once wrote, “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.”
Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute emphasizes that the achievement gap between the top and bottom scorers is bigger in America than in any other nation with similar data. Andreas Schleicher, the head of education and skills at the O.E.C.D., told The Financial Times,
“Thirty percent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child.”
He continued,
“It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”
But every third person one meets on the street (by proportion from total U.S. population) is also a MAGA or Trump supporter. This is why most polling experts - like Frank Luntz- do not expect Trump's disapproval numbers to ever fall below 30 percent.
To quote David Brooks from a recent NYT piece:
"What happens when people lose the ability to reason or render good judgments? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump’s tariff policy. I’ve covered a lot of policies over the decades, some of which I supported and some of which I opposed. But I have never seen a policy as stupid as this one. It is based on false assumptions. It rests on no coherent argument in its favor. It relies on no empirical evidence. It has almost no experts on its side — from left, right or center. It is jumble-headedness exemplified. Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking. .. Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of incuriosity, decades of not cracking a book, decades of being impervious to evidence."
Let's take this into the realm of extrapolation and how it applies to his MAGA base and why their inability to read beyond a 5th grade level makes them hostages to B.S., social media memes and lousy voting choices.
A week ago Trump announced he would pause or lower his country-specific tariffs for scores of nations that want to "kiss his ass" - even as a bond market selloff forced the fucker to get real. Yet his followers believe it was "a stunt to get countries to come to the table and ultimately will bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.".
This shows me the Trumpers have no comprehension of the bond market, how it functions and how it trumps a loudmouth, stupid senile orange know it all. It also shows me these losers have no comprehension of how difficult it would be to bring any scale of manufacturing back to this country. As a recent WSJ article ('What Tariffs Mean For The Job Market', April 12-13, p. A7) noted:
"A fairly simple, midsize factory would cost a minimum of $25 million and take around two years to build"
A much larger factory, say that would even employ 1,000 workers, could take a decade and nearly $100b to build. This according to markets specialist Stephanie Ruhle. Thus as the WSJ piece adds, given new tariffs would also be added to the expense - given so many materials would have to come from abroad:
"There's no certainty that new factories would pay back their investment over time."
Can any of the Trump cult yahoos grasp that? Doubtful. That's because their brains are more entranced by Dotard's braggadocio and bombast than any rational substance - because he lacks any. His entire talent embodies using his 'Barnum and Bailey' carny barker voice to dog whistle his morons into belief. Case in point Dotard’s degenerate description of imagined tariff success at the recent National Republican Congressional Committee dinner, barking:
“This time I’m doing what I want to do with respect to the
tariffs. … These countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They are! They
are dying to make a deal, begging. … ‘I’ll do anything, sir!’”
Think that will get them to make a deal when the lot of those tariffied nations could sink our economy one time by joining in a mass bond selloff? Do Dotard's cult dopes even know what a bond selloff is? Do they know what a bond is, what its function is? No, because they don't read financial pages, far less any regular newspapers. But they might pay attention to a FOX News business guy.
Charlie Gasparino - FOX News Business reporter- last week delivered the breaking the news of Japanese bond selloffs, e.g.
Charlie Gasparino: "It is the White House who capitulated" | Media Matters for America
Excerpt:
"You know, Bessent knows this better than anybody, when you have yields on the 10-year rising to 5%, stuff starts shutting down when you have the lending market screwed up. By the way, who's dumping the bonds? Somebody asked him if it was China, right? It wasn't, it was Japan. While he was negotiating with Japan, Japan, according to my sources, were running major money management firms that are involved in the bond market, without giving up names. Japan was dumping bonds because they believed this was not a great place to do business. That forced their hands."
This means that no matter how much Trump postures no amount of tariffs will get him a final victory or the renaissance in American manufacturing his pathetic cultists fancy. As a WaPo piece last week aptly put it:
"there exists a voting bloc that never tires, never flags. Operating across continents and centuries, traders of government bonds have peered narrowly at the performance of world leaders and registered judgment in cool percentages. They are the villains of countless conspiracy theories, these minions of international finance, precisely because they cannot be steered by populist frenzies or demagogic appeals."
To put the final stamp on this inanity I refer readers to former megachurch pastor John Pavlovitz who has written a new piece on his Substack page that takes a distinctly Old Testament attitude toward supporters of President Donald Trump.
"They shunned their responsibility as Americans, they rejected the teachings of their faith tradition, and they abandoned any kind of moral footing by enabling the ascension of a felon-rapist-scumbag mobster who lacks a single noble impulse. Through whatever combination of racism, misogyny, prejudice, intellectual ignorance, and plain old hatred, they willfully coronated him."
Bingo. Pavlovitz argues that Trump supporters have had all sorts of chances to correct course over the years despite seeing the president's cruelty and his authoritarian aspirations close. As Joe Biden once put it: "Garbage", aka lowlifes.
As a bonus here's a cross-section of thirteen of these morons:
Opinion | Tariffs, Elon Musk and Trump’s Term So Far: 13 Trump Voters Discuss - The New York Times
See Also:
Opinion | The bond market just sent a big warning for Trump - The Washington Post
Excerpt:
“Investors started dumping U.S. government bonds. They sold and sold and sold. This is not normal. Typically, U.S. government bonds are a safe haven. Whenever stocks tank or there’s turmoil around the world, investors rush to buy plain vanilla bonds from the U.S. Treasury. It’s the equivalent of chicken soup for unhealthy markets. But suddenly, those bonds turned bitter. Ultimately, Trump caved to the bond markets. He didn’t want to follow the fate of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who resigned in humiliation in 2022 after a similar bond market fiasco in reaction to her policies.
This unsleeping, unfeeling, unsentimental voting bloc forced Trump to change course on his tariff tornado. Other forces sagged into exhaustion in the face of Trump’s obsession, but the votes of the bond markets kept piling up, second by second, hour by hour, day by day. Forget about memes, sick burns and capital letters on Truth Social. The market eschews parades and petitions and marathon speeches. It is an endless murmur of individual transactions, each one a vote, and a landslide swept Trump away.
Trump and his team tried to happy-talk their way past the stock market collapse, but the tireless voters weighed in. His attempt to brush off his defeat in the bond markets by saying that traders had gotten “yippy” fell flat. This is the world’s infrastructure of finance we’re talking about, and it’s built on the value of government promises. Yips have nothing to do with it.
And the pillar of this infrastructure is the credibility of the United States.”
And:
How a trade war becomes a shooting war
And:
Donald Trump bends to the power of the markets
And:
by Robert Reich | April 14, 2025 - 5:24am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
As tens of millions of Americans hussle to pay their taxes, Trump has put the entire global economy into chaos. 401(k)s are tanking, savings are shrinking, treasury bonds are losing value, supply chains are convulsing.
Even America’s oligarchs are petrified. They contributed millions to Trump’s inauguration. Many invested heavily in his campaign. They lavished praise on the new president and have supported his every move — in order to benefit from his promised big tax cut.
But the chaos he’s unleashed on the world economy is causing many of them to go public with their worries.
“Obviously,” Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase’s chief executive, said in a conference call with reporters, “the China stuff is significant. We don’t know the full effect.”
And:
Trump critics were wrong about the 'vibe shift.' These polls prove it.
Excerpt:
Many observers treated Trump’s victory in November as a profound change in American politics. At the most extreme, the president and his allies tried to claim that his victory — the third-narrowest since World War II — represented a sweeping “mandate.” Even some of his critics argued his second term brought with it a “vibe shift.”
But the “vibe shift” was always a mirage. And even before Trump’s 100th day in office, the mirage is already disappearing.
And:
by Jianlu Bi | April 9, 2025 - 4:57am | permalink
— from Foreign Policy In Focus
Following the U.S. implementation of new reciprocal tariffs on Chinese goods, China’s swift and decisive imposition of a 34 percent tariff on American imports, coupled with tightened export controls on rare earths and the blacklisting of U.S. companies, underscores Beijing’s resolve to defend its economic interests against what it perceives as unilateral bullying. The timing and scale of China’s response, just days after the United States unveiled its own reciprocal tariffs, sends a clear message: Beijing is prepared to play hardball.
The notion that China would meekly acquiesce to Washington’s demands, even with the dangling carrot of a TikTok deal, has been soundly rejected. Instead, China’s actions signal a new era of economic confrontation, where reciprocal measures and targeted sanctions are the weapons of choice. The 34 percent tariff, effective April 10, represents a substantial blow to American exporters, particularly those in the agricultural and industrial sectors, and the suspension of sorghum and poultry product exports demonstrates China’s willingness to leverage its market power.
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