@faab64 @palestine @israel

It remains astonishing that Israel and its IDF—after all the slaughter and destruction, now morphing into forced desiccation and starvation—still pretend to be frightened rabbits ('pussies' some would call them) before the bogeyman of 'Hamas.'

How is possible the smartest people on earth, with billions upon US billions in money and weaponry pouring in, haven't yet put down a ragtag rebellion from a bunch of dirt poor fenced-in prisoners?

#fascism = #incompetence

@Nonilex

This seems tone deaf. Better to talk about the jobs lost, businesses bankrupted, hopes and dreams crushed.

"Sen Kirsten Gillibrand said: “Because of this #chaos, this #incompetence & this carelessness, he has wiped out trillions of dollars from the #US #economy.”

#Senate #Democrats just held a press conference on #Trump's #tariff announcement & his admin's policy.

Sen Kirsten Gillibrand said: “Because of this #chaos, this #incompetence & this carelessness, he has wiped out trillions of dollars from the #US #economy.”

Standing alongside her, Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer said: “You can't undo the damage. The #TrumpSlump is upon us now, & whatever he will try to do in the future does not undo the damage.”

@mloxton And not only in the Trump regime, but these kinds of people - DOGE for example - are out there in the private sector in droves, telling themselves that they are efficient and competent, and super, and mostly the dismal reality of their skillset remains hidden. Now we can see their work product publicly, and what a load of codswallop, what a myth, that the private sector is smart, efficient, well run. #PrivateSector #PublicSector #Incompetence #USPol

"It was a bloodbath on Wall Street today, as Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs are liberating people from their retirement savings and investments. The Dow was down 2,231 (5.50%), NASDAQ was down 962 (5.82%), and Tesla was down a whopping 27.85 (10.42%)."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #Dow #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #PutinsPoodle
/23

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-105-4425

"Since the re-installment of Russian Asset Trump, the US stock market has seen nearly ten trillion in value disappear, with five trillion erased over the past two days. According to multiple reports, this is the largest two-day loss in American history."

~ Heidi Siegmund Cuda

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #Dow #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #PutinsPoodle
/22

https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/bottoms-up

"This marks the worst week for the stock market since 2020, and only the fourth time in history that the Dow lost 2,000 points in a single day."

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #Dow #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/22

"Stock market closes week in bloodbath as Trump’s tariffs cause historic two-day drop and wipe out $6 trillion.

The stock market closed with a bloodbath on Friday as the Dow Jones lost 2,231 points and the S&P 500 dropped 6 percent as investors are spooked about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff plan."

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #Dow #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/21

~ Katie Hawkinson

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stock-market-today-trump-tariffs-china-b2727712.html

"The sweeping package of tariffs unveiled by Donald Trump on Wednesday includes an exemption for the energy sector, which is a clear sign of the president’s fealty to his big oil donors over the American people, advocates say."

~ Dharna Noor

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #BigOil #OilandGas #oligarchy #billionaires
/20

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-exempts-big-oil-donors-from-tariffs

As Edward Helmore reports, New York shopkeepers featuring imported goods are announcing that they will have to hike prices "astronomically" due to Trump's "liberation" tariffs.

Jennifer Pulidore of Myers of Keswick, a shop selling British groceries, says, 'The price of chocolate has gone up astronomically.'"

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/19

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-tariffs-small-business-nyc-prices

"The Chinese Ministry of Finance, calling @POTUS new tariffs on Chinese imports a 'typical act of unilateral bullying,' responds overnight with a 34% tariff on all goods imported from America. And so the President's trade war escalates."

~ Garrett Haake quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/18

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/4/2314347/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Trump-deliberately-tanks-the-economy-as-Republicans-sit-back-do-nothing

"The US dollar experienced its largest single-day decline on record, dropping by 2.1% against major currencies."

~ CNBC

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/17

https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/us-markets-live-today-dow-jones-djia-nasdaq-futures-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-liveblog-19583858.htm

"I’ve said before that Trump does not think of policy the way most of us do, operating instead like a low-level mob boss running a protection racket. Unfortunately, a bunch of rubes decided to give him another bite at the apple, and now the entire global economy has to pay up."

~ Marlon Weems

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence
/6

https://thejourneyman.substack.com/p/here-comes-the-pain

"Experts said Trump’s sweeping border taxes of between 10% and 50% on the US’s traditional allies and enemies alike had dramatically added to the risk of a steep global downturn and a recession in the world’s biggest economy."

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/16

"As world leaders reacted to the US president’s 'liberation day' tariff policies demolishing the international trading order, about $2.5tn (£1.9tn) was wiped off Wall Street and share prices in other financial centres across the globe."

~ Richard Partington

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/15

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/03/global-markets-turmoil-trump-tariffs-wall-street-downturn

"The pure insanity of Trump’s tariffs is best (ahem) personified by his inclusion of Heard and McDonald Islands, which are inhabited largely by penguins."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/14

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/04/magats-confess-they-cannot-compete-with-penguins-on-level-playing-glacier/