“The WH was simply demanding lists of concessions, according to one foreign diplomat deeply involved in the conversations. The diplomat said Trump officials wanted regulations and other barriers to be wiped away to boost US goods and services being sold abroad.”…
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 5, 2025
Trump:Sucks to be you, small businesses pic.twitter.com/wqiuVxZiOd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 5, 2025
China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close. They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly. We have been the dumb and helpless 'whipping post,' but not any longer.New York Times Pitchbot:
We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and rising fast! THIS IS AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, AND WE WILL WIN.
Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white.Also, too , as well:
by Stephen Miller
Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who surrender their eggs to the US market.I’m disappointed no one is asking the White House about the tariffs on penguins. Really undermines credibility on the “$5 trillion,” (which has no credibility anyway), or just anything the White House has said since Wednesday (but I repeat myself).
by Howard Lutnick
Meanwhile:
Thanks for playing! Hope you get some lovely parting gifts!Talked to a business friend deeply involved in CEO world, knows Trump and Scott Bessent. Calls Trump “a drunk driver taking the economy off the cliff into a needless recession,’ says Bessent told him he agrees. Predicts “he’ll be the shortest tenured Sec of Treasury in history.”
And too bad we don’t have a Congress that can take the T-Bird away. 🎶
Deja vu all over again. Wasn't there a book called Penguin Island? Pretty sure there was because I read it right around the time Watergate was heating up. I was a sophomore in the Honors Program at University of Houston. I had tried out for the swim team and decided after about a week that a four thousand yard warm-up followed by an hour or two of 50s on the minute were a little more than I could handle as a Poli Sci major writing blue books once a week about the Federalist Papers. Then the coach announced it was time to start doing two a days, but I had at least gotten well enough acquainted with the daughter of the coach. I quit the team, but a year later she had decided to campaign for office in the student government. She recruited me to swim on an intramural team called the David Weiner Defense Fund. He was a Jewish sociology professor and avowed socialist enmeshed in a legal battle over tenure he'd been denied. So I got to know him though I'd never taken his class. He was a dead ringer for Ken Kesey and quite popular with at least some of his students. I told him my tale of woe about the draft lottery and my experience as a delegate for George McGovern at the Galveston County Convention. His prescription for me was to read Anatole France. Penguin Island, he said.Then read Norman Cohn, Pursuit of the Millenium. The Defense Fund swept every event at the Intramural Swim Meet. I won the fifty yard breaststroke by three seconds and got my name in the school paper.
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