Clay Bennett sums it up beautifully like this …
We reached the 90 day mark this past week, and this was just one aspect of his “progress” so far …
- With all this winning, MAGA must be ever so proud of his accomplishment
- And remember, his starting point was a time when the economy was booming, stocks were soaring, and we actually funded cancer research – that was just three months ago.
- He bankrupts everything he touches, and has a proven and well-established track record of business failures.
A bit later in the past week the inevitable happens, Trump blinks again. Dave Whamond expressed that moment like this …
Basically it has panned out like this …
So why did he turn the dial down last Tuesday, what happened?
What is perhaps not yet widely recognised by MAGA, but is now obvious to many is that incoming will be the huge impact of his crazy and utter pointless tariffs. In another couple of weeks you will start to notice empty shelves, and he blinked because he was warned that this is about to happen …
- Axios Article April 23 – Trump softens tariff tone amid empty shelves warning, market slump
It’s too late of course.
Right now inventory that arrived earlier is still being trucked. What is incoming is that the number of ships expected to arrive in California about two weeks from now falls off a cliff.
His crass stupidity and incompetence is rapidly speeding towards the brick wall of reality.
He effectively shut trade down on April 10th, but stuff was still in transit. It takes roughly 30 days for ships from China to arrive. The impact of April 10th is yet to ripple through the system. Stuff will soon stop arriving. Container bookings have already collapsed, ports are seeing reduced activity, trucking is decelerating.
Let’s go through some stats – Container bookings …
There is an ongoing rapid deceleration of trade at LA ports …
Trucking activity is now starting to respond to that …
Even at a national level, trucking is now falling …
What is incoming is a huge trade shock.
If you are keeping score then here is a handy little list to help you keep track his “progress” on all his promises …
Tourism Update
What happens when you start picking up random tourists from various nations, detain then for weeks, then send them back home in chains like this …
A tourist held in the US for 19 days was removed in chains like Hannibal Lecter, according to her parents.
Becky Burke, 28, arrived home in Wales on Tuesday from her ordeal which began half way through a backpacking trip across North America.
Rinse and repeat stories such as the above multiple times for multiple nations in their national press and you are in effect sending a very clear “F**K off” message to all tourists.
Such actions really do have consequences.
The Tourism industry is being decimated … literally …
It’s not just europeans, Canadians are also avoiding travel to the US in very large numbers. It will all translate into layoffs, and many who depend upon tourist $$$ will be either struggling or going out of business.
They are going after both Judges and Journalists
This was a truly alarming escalation during the past week – thehill.com/regulation/c…
- This tactic is straight out of Hitler’s handbook. He arrested judges who didn’t bend the knee.
- AXIOS: “Deranged” Milwaukee judge’s arrest a warning to others, Bondi says
The policy designed to protect confidential press sources has been wiped …
- You can immediately see how this plays out – Blame the journalist who reported the story, not the drunk guy who keeps texting war plans to random civilians.
100 Days interview insights
There are a few WTF! gems …
Yes, he truly is both deeply stupid and incompetent.
MAGA is finding out
“I voted for you to deport everyone else’s wife except mine. I was told that I was special.” —Dumb AF MAGA voters …
This next one thinks he’s exempt from tariffs because he’s one of his sheeple …
- Guitarist didn’t know that there may be some strings attached. Instead of a guitar he should buy the world’s smallest violin
- 90% of MAGA have no fucking clue what they voted for.
- And… he can’t read. HTS 9903.01.25 is the “NOT-CHINA” tariff. Side Note: Apparently the UK got a 10% tariff, despite the UK and US having a more or less even trade balance.
Deportations Update
- Gift Link to article via library digital service – here
Vatican Updates
I always look forward to attending funerals … happy times …
- I truly wish the Vatican would have told him not to come, but no they won’t.
- Best comment: “Trump is upset the funeral ceremony is not about him … so is everyone else“
… and this is how it played out …
Easter Egg Roll Update
The following from a week ago feels like parody or satire, but it is unfortunately quite real, he actually did this last Monday …
- Check out the child-size MAGA hat on the top left – even the kids have been vetted for MAGA loyalty.
Multiple layers of Lunacy and utter incompetence
Some such as Jim below really do get that each incident that gains traction is not about the event itself, but is about the breach of very fundamental basic principles …
RFK Jnr Update
The face of one of our first 21st century eugenics registries is a Republican meth user …
- Today’s GOP: They want to track people with autism and people who have periods, but they don’t want to make sure your milk doesn’t have poo in it before selling it to you.
- Remember last week that he was falsely saying how autistic people can’t hold jobs or pay taxes. This feels like a round up! not a study. It is also a very clear violation of HIPAA.
Meanwhile the number of measles cases continues to climb.
Child Cruelty – WTAF! …
- It is not new, this also happened in the last Trump administration – www.hrw.org/news/2016/03…
This also happened this past week – via POLITICO: “A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with ‘no meaningful process’ even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04…
Very Blatant in-you-face Corruption
The silence of most of the press is deafening me on this …
Ukraine Update
You know things are bad when even Brit Hume on Fox News gets how bad it is …
- Trump is just a glove puppet for Putin, the tyrant and very blatant aggressor in all this. Trump calls Zelenskyy “difficult” because he’s not surrendering. Putin invades, lies, and breaks deals, but somehow that’s “easier”?
DOGE Update
Elon is doing a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ from DOGE …
- It’s too late of course, the damage has been done. Tesla is a sinking ship. His reputation will never recover.
- While the Q1 results were really bad, I suspect that the Q2 results will be even worse.
Adam Zyglis also has an excellent insight …
Harvard Updates
- Picking a fight with Harvard is akin to starting a trade war with the country that wrote “The Art of War“
- Link to article – here.
Adam Zyglis very nicely nails it like this …
Christian Nationalists
The nuttier right-wing religious fanatics within the cult are as always doing their thing.
- Nothing screams “Cult” louder than a guy striving to work out the political status of fictional characters
Lucas Miles told the audience at Turning Point Faith’s pastors conference that “unity across denominational lines remains necessary if we are to confront the woke pagan uprising.“
- “Woke pagan uprising” is a fantastic band name.
- Personally, I’m just waiting for the inevitable breaking news that this guy has solicited minors.
- What is always worth pointing out as a rebuttal is that Homophobia is a sin, like lying, stealing and murder. One cannot be a homophobe and a Christian; they are two incompatible states of being.
This week’s offering of lunacy from Joel Webbon, the guy with the big social media footprint, but also the smallest church in Texas, is that he is offering free counseling “for those who are gay”
- Side Note: His church is literally a storage cupboard at the back of a Dale’s in Texas. You will not need all your fingers and toes to count his vast congregation.
- Bible verse: “I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are written in this book.” – Rev 22:18-19
- Fun Fact: When Readers Digest did the condensed version of the bible, the above is one of the verses they decided to drop.
The False Profit$
Shane Vaughn claims that Trump was one of the “final witnesses” to see Pope Francis before he passed, by virtue of the meeting Francis had with his “proxy,” Vice President J.D. Vance.
- Just to help you wrap your head around the weirdness of Shane’s claim – His assertion is the prophet Trump, by proxy via Vance, was the final witness to the ending of a spiritual evil incarnate (Pope Francis) … and yet despite being very strongly Anti-Catholic, Shane also manages to gloss over the observation that JD Vance is Catholic.
- Oh, and according to Shane in the same clip, the other “prophetic” evil passing was the resignation of Klaus Schwab as chairman of the World Economic Forum. Why oh why would an 87 year old guy give up his day job … “It must be prophetic” rants this religious fraudster and grifter Shane Vaughan.
- Side Note: For completeness, Mr Schwab retired, not because he was elderly, but because of alleged misconduct. Retiring kills off the pending investigation.
Weirdest of the Weird
- Fact Check: A jury convicted him Sept. 27, 2022, on five counts.
Stew Peters gets very mad if you can him a Nazi, yet he posts sh1t like the following on social media …
- Not really the point here, but Hitler was not “democratically elected”
Political Cartoons from the past week
As always, there are many excellent cartoons. Here are a few samples. Each comes with a link to the cartoonist putting the cartoon out via BlueSky. If you are on Bluesky then you can use the link to follow them.
This … seriously now, we need lots more of this …
We could have had 4 years of this instead of 4 years of the Pope slayer …
- His speeches always hit the nail right on the head.
Finally
New Action Figure …
