I know I’m a little late with this, but Jon Stewart gave us the following commentary on Monday over the beyond ridiculous tariffs courtesy of Combover Caligula...and yeah, who’s the “PANICAN” now, you guttural orange turd...spot-on commentary by Stewart as per usual with humor but also pointing out that our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing...and yeah, we’ll sure be able to compete with southeast Asia for tech jobs while we’re busy putting screws into iPhones...
...and Leeja Miller lets us know that the tariff backlash has indeed begun...yep, I would say so (I know it’s hard to keep up with all of the insanity from Bronzer Beelzebub, which is completely by design, but this is still a pretty thoughtful and well-researched analysis)...also, Ground News is definitely an important site/app...many good points including the fact that whatever trade deficits we actually have (notwithstanding the phony baloney numbers in that dumb chart) are likely more than offset by the fact that the US is the largest exporter of services among industrialized nations, as Miller points out...I’m definitely not an econ major from college also, so I can’t get into the “whys” and “wherefores” of how the tariff numbers are ridiculous; I’ll just take the word of reputable people in this area who say that...Miller gets to Peter Navarro at about 16:56, who is one of the most guilty parties in this madness...she also makes a totally cogent argument leading up to the inescapable conclusion at about 22:26 that this insanity only benefits the rich...and that subreddit person says “I get the sense I’m not being told the truth,” huh? At what point were you FINALLY going to figure out that WE HAVE A RULING CABAL OF LIARS AND GRIFTERS IN CHARGE??!!...also, as others have pointed out, the ruinous Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly exacerbated The Great Depression...glad we’re not at a Costco Slop Bucket Level of Apocalyptic Panic; hopefully we won’t economically deteriorate to that point (and one of Miller’s great points is that this actually is a good time to buy stocks while share prices are lower)...
...and Lawrence O’Donnell speaks with Dem U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the tariff madness (and yeah, I would say that the “Lucy, you got some explaining to do” moment is here for sure also)...and as far as the news about the IRS is concerned, it doesn’t take a genius to see that tax information will be another way to try and round up more suspected illegal immigrants for Bronzer Beelzebub’s deportation flights to El Salvador, Louisiana, or some other place where there’s a black hole to stick these people with the intention of never hearing from them again (and oh yeah, I can also see the IRS now going out of its way to audit Democrats, as Whitehouse suggests...Whitehouse is spot-on also IMO with his example of the shoe lace manufacturer in his state)...
...and Brittany Page brings us the sorry tale of food assistance getting hammered (SNAP) to pay for tax cuts for the rich from the “party of Lincoln,” as well as cuts to Medicaid...and oh great, “Bobby Brainworms” is going to make sure that we’ve can’t capitalize on the potential cancer breakthrough; heckuva job!...and I can’t think of a minute when I’ve seen Jim McGovern and he hasn’t stood tall (terrific analysis by Page of how there ALREADY ARE work requirements for SNAP, and anybody familiar with the cost of child care, which excludes congressional Republicans I realize, knows that you basically have to choose between often crappy employment for not much dough or foregoing work to take care of your kids...an even worse update is the news that the U.S. House approved that disgusting budget that does indeed cut Medicaid and SNAP; every Dem voted No and every Repug, including Bri-Fi, voted Yes...here and here)...
...and RIP Robert McChesney, who wrote a whole bunch of books about control of our media by monopolies... Amy Goodman and John Nichols pay tribute...as Nichols says, McChesney, maybe more than anyone else, brought to our attention the fact that the media itself can be an issue when it comes to serving either democracy or corporate power...I definitely would say that McChesney figured out the monopolistic game played by the telcos and others with an internet presence to maximize profit and manufacture consent in favor of the economic elites more than anyone else (and I honestly couldn’t tell you where we are with Net Neutrality...I’m sure certain online presences are getting “throttled” – maybe including your humble narrator – while others sail through if the price is right, but I can’t prove it of course)...
...and RIP also drummer Clem Burke of Blondie.
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