David Pakman informs us that Our Ochre Abomination is blinking a bit on his wretched tariffs because the CEOs who bankroll him are getting concerned about empty shelves in their stores because of a slowdown at out ports from goods that China isn't sending, which could have been foreseen by anyone with a functioning mental capacity...and yes, this is “panic management” and “crisis management” indeed...great point by Pakman that, if we’re roiled by some kind of external crisis such as a bird flu pandemic, then we’ll definitely be weaker and less able to deal with it than we were in the past...
...and Bells Of The Ranch lets us know that the numbers for the consumer confidence survey just came out for April, and they’re really bad...there are three indices...the consumer confidence index fell by 7.9 points; numbers for that and other indices are comparable to COVID and the ’08 recession, including the expectations index, which is now at 54.4, the lowest level since 2011 as Belle says (and I’m definitely not expecting the GDP numbers to be good, but we’ll see, and of course the market will crater again if the numbers are bad...and just remember that all of this is self-inflicted because of Cantaloupe Capone and his ridiculous mismanagement)...
...and Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ brings us the story of Scots and Irish making their disdain for The Gropenfuhrer known...I honestly didn’t know the Irish had an affinity for the Palestinians, but that definitely makes sense (in the context of being victimized by an occupying power)...and it looks like Yambo’s golf course on the “emerald isle” was vandalized with body bags and a Palestinian flag, and a similar act took place on #47’s course in Scotland...works for me (and I don’t have a problem with Ireland’s elected leader meeting with Our Ochre Abomination – I get it that it’s part of “state craft”)...
...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us about Illinois Dem Governor J. B. Pritzker going to New Hampshire to rally the troops...and Emma is right to call out THE ENTIRE FREAKING REPUBLICAN PARTY!; MAGA is just the latest iteration, bad as it is I’ll admit...Pritzker also called out our oligarchy and “do-nothing Democrats” for good measure...I’m pretty sure Pritzker kicked in about $56 mil to defeat Elmo/Brad Schimel and elect Susan Crawford in Wisconsin to the state supreme court; I would call that not just talking the talk, but walking the walk too (though that vote on the Illinois labor bill sounds disappointing)...yes, it is early for all of this and people will undoubtedly shift lanes, you might say, but this is some positive early stuff from Pritzker...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 4/27/15...I know that Cenk Uygur and TYT have pretty much gone “off the rails,” but in this clip from awhile ago, Cenk tells us about Pope Francis preparing a message for a Vatican conference that addressed the threat of climate change, and of course, Catholics who worship “Republican Jesus” got all in a snit over it...just because the insanity of you-know-who has pushed stories about this incredibly important issue out of the media spotlight, that doesn’t mean that the threat to our planet is any less urgent (and sorry to repeat myself, but this clip emphasizes again that the person who inherits the top spot in the Catholic hierarchy will have pretty big shoes to fill with Francis’s departure from this life)...
...and if I'm going to include this tune for April, I'd better hurry up, so here it is.
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