The reason American farmers were choking on a big, hot, steaming Trump Turd in 2018,2019 and are choking on an even bigger, hotter, steamier one today has nothing to do with the cheap, Chinese goods imported into America because MAGA Walmart shoppers want, love and need those products and demand that they be cheap. It is because the Chinese were then and are now perfectly happy NOT buying agriculture from American farmers during these disastrous Trump Turd Tariff Tax Increases on the American Consumer Failed Trade Wars.
American Farmers suffered then and are now going bankrupt thanks to "smart businessman and salesman" Donald J. Trump driving away critically important customers for their goods.
How many soy beans do you think Americans can eat every day in order to replace the American farmers' global customers your boy is driving away like customers fleeing from Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Airlines, Trump's Atlantic City Casino, etc, etc, etc?
I've been all over the world I've never met anyone that proclaims their love and / or gratitude for the cheap toxic products Asia produces with slave labor that floods every countries markets.
I don't know anyone that Thanks God for their Worthless CCP / Asia TV / electronics or anything they spew out so cheaply via slave factories.
Do you remember all the Foxconn suicides of slaves jumping off the roofs of their slave plantations, what was their response? They installed nets, so they could catch them.
And send them right back to the line ASAP I'm sure not w / o docking a few pennies from them for any time they wasted trying to kill themselves.
And US farmers will be just fine, we don't need that market, just grow something else and sell to someone else. BTW what will CCPland eat?
Maybe they can feed them the trash the container carriers are dumping overboard to dodge Our Lord and Saviors Tariffs.
1 First 100 Days under Republican Racist Rule has not been pretty!
For those of us in the workplace, people can breathe again. The ESG, DEI, white supremacy, disinformation bullshit is gone. Joe Rogan had a doctor on his show who was critical about vaccines and there was disagreement with what she said which is fine but there was no talk of the deplatforming bullshit.
Translation: Republican Racists can say nigger again without getting fired.
It is fucking crazy that this was allowed to happen. I am supposed to cry because these cheap goods made at slave wages are not coming through?
My lazy ass fellow Americans do not want to work in textile plants, manufacturing or meat packing plants. I am surprised to hear a Republican Racist have a problem with the wages others make. Right now in the Dis-United States of American does not pay a livable wage at the minimum level.
When people talk of the economy being bad, they mean the stock market.
Damn straight mother funk. What do you think that stock prices are loosely based on? I know you are a BUY BOND man but have you ever heard of an earnings call? When earnings go down that means the economy is down. Stop with your bullshit that that Stock Market has nothing to do with the economy. Because without the willingness to pay for future earning there is no stock market. Growth of earnings is what people are looking for. Unless they are value investors in which they are looking for discounts on assets others will buy for an increased value in the future. Then there are dividend investors. They also need earnings. That is what companies use to pay the dividends in the first place.
While you are so impressed with yourself, all I see is some narcissistic loser posting worthless my dick is bigger than yours bullshit.
Your fellow American has a working knowledge of how economics of the Dis-United States of America works. This fucks you up E2008 because you think all of your fellow Americans who look like me a dumb and you have dick envy for some reason. High priced Colombian prostitutes want to know how much money you are going to spend on them, not what you packing down there (size or color).
USA can t say they didn t know for crazy Trump, but they need to buy a brain, to be able to think. When I support Ukrainians, when I wish a country for Palestinians, I wish failure they deserve to USA. Then, maybe they will understand what they became.
I wish for the French leader to check and see if he has a pair to back up his tough talk. Otherwise they will just get run over by Putin and be calling for Uncle to come liberated their asses once again!
You can dump that toxic made in CCPland / Korean / VietCong trash in the ocean (and just cut out the middle men) or sell it at Walmart Amazon we then dump it straight into our overflowing landfills with it after 1 usage.
I have a better idea stop destroying the planet and just stop producing that worthless trash and sending it out way!
The reason American farmers were choking on a big, hot, steaming Trump Turd in 2018,2019 and are choking on an even bigger, hotter, steamier one today has nothing to do with the cheap, Chinese goods imported into America because MAGA Walmart shoppers want, love and need those products and demand that they be cheap. It is because the Chinese were then and are now perfectly happy NOT buying agriculture from American farmers during these disastrous Trump Turd Tariff Tax Increases on the American Consumer Failed Trade Wars.
American Farmers suffered then and are now going bankrupt thanks to "smart businessman and salesman" Donald J. Trump driving away critically important customers for their goods.
How many soy beans do you think Americans can eat every day in order to replace the American farmers' global customers your boy is driving away like customers fleeing from Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Airlines, Trump's Atlantic City Casino, etc, etc, etc?
USA can t say they didn t know for crazy Trump, but they need to buy a brain, to be able to think. When I support Ukrainians, when I wish a country for Palestinians, I wish failure they deserve to USA. Then, maybe they will understand what they became.
USA can t say they didn t know for crazy Trump, but they need to buy a brain, to be able to think. When I support Ukrainians, when I wish a country for Palestinians, I wish failure they deserve to USA. Then, maybe they will understand what they became.
In 2021, the only way I could travel was if I got dangerous and worthless vaccines. The stores often did not have supplies. When I went abroad, thanks to Biden, I had to pay for a $100 test and have someone jab a Q-tip in my nose. Of course, that was if I went on an airplane. If I walked or drove across the border, the $100 Q-tip jab was not necessary and neither was a vaccine card. According to Biden, the vaccine could only travel in airplanes and oh yeah, if you got the vaccine, you would not get Covid.
And despite these absolutely bird brained policies, Biden actually polled well with his approval ratings. Covid was whisked away not with a bang but a whimper. This so called deadly virus was replaced with the next threat to mankind, Vladimir Putin.
So you can say how much better Biden is than Trump but I will take 2025 over 2021 any day. If you looked at the USA and now and preCovid, I bet you could not tell the difference.
For those of us in the workplace, people can breathe again. The ESG, DEI, white supremacy, disinformation bullshit is gone. Joe Rogan had a doctor on his show who was critical about vaccines and there was disagreement with what she said which is fine but there was no talk of the deplatforming bullshit.
When people talk of the economy being bad, they mean the stock market. Ah yes, like the market has never been wrong. Yes, the Targets and Walmarts are freaking out. The ships are slowing down. No shit. There is going to be an adjustment. I think you and the market are completely misguided on tariffs though. What do you think the tariff rates were on most Chinese packages before? Would you believe zero?
De minimis shipments account for most of the cargo entering the USA, Customs and Border Protection said last fall. The agency said it was handling some 4 million de minimis shipments every day a rate that would blow past the previous year's mark of more than 1 billion shipments.
De minimis shipments "often don't have as much documentation, making it easier to get the shipments into the United States, whether we're talking about unsafe consumer products or fentanyl or food items that aren't permitted to be imported," Murray said.
Items imported under the exemption "are free of duty and taxes and are subject to expedited clearance processing," the USA International Trade Commission notes.
Backers of the existing de minimis structure say it eases commerce and gives consumers low prices; critics say it is used to hawk "cheap crap," as one lawmaker put it, and gives foreign companies an unfair advantage over domestic retailers.
And now the real kicker: Even before Trump was sworn in last month, de minimis was being targeted for change. The Biden administration proposed a new rule last fall to close the loophole. And USA Agencies and politicians have said the law is prone to abuse, from unscrupulous retailers falsely labeling expensive items as costing under $800 to criminals shipping illegal drugs under the guise of innocuous goods.
So while we see stories about the docks being empty, and dock workers doing nothing but waiting for ships, customs is overwhelmed logging in packages that previously were zipped through. I can see the labor force transition from receiving packages to inspecting them. That is what happens with change.
In the mean time, Together, Temu and Shein accounted for about 17% of the USA Discount market in 2023 for items such as consumer goods, fast fashion, and toys, according to a report on de minimis policies that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated last week.
It is fucking crazy that this was allowed to happen. I am supposed to cry because these cheap goods made at slave wages are not coming through?
So in the end, Biden considered doing tariffs but Trump actually did them. So what would you Democratic douches have done differently than Trump? Well, we know. You Democratic douches and Biden did nothing. Your only plan was and is to gripe about Trump.
Spoiler Alert: There is no mention of the USA Stock Market in this unavoidably glowing report on that first year of Bidenomics' Historic Recovery from Trump's Pandemic:
The 2021 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts.
Feb. 24, 2022
After shrinking by a massive 9.5 percent in the second quarter of 2020, the economy has now recovered to its pre-pandemic trend. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 8.7 percent in the second half of 2020 and 5.5 percent in 2021. By the end of last year, real GDP was just 0.4 percent from CBOs pre-pandemic projection.
.......... Inflation
While economic growth in 2021 was strong, so too was inflation. Normally, the Federal Reserve targets 2 percent growth in Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation and slightly higher Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation. In 2021, PCE inflation totaled 5.5 percent and CPI inflation totaled 6.7 percent on a fourth quarter-over-fourth quarter basis. That includes a 0.5 percent monthly increase in December alone.
.......... Personal Income Hit a New Record
Disposable Personal Income (DPI) in 2021 totaled $18.5 trillion 14 percent or $2.3 trillion higher than the 2019 level of $16.2 trillion. Total DPI for 2020 and 2021 was more than $4 trillion above the prior two years. The majority of this income growth was the result of COVID-relief measures such as recovery rebates and expanded unemployment benefits.
Recovery rebates, unemployment benefits, and other COVID relief responsible for this income boost mostly faded by the end of 2021. However, they were replaced by rising market income. As a result, total personal income in December remained 8.4 percent above pre-pandemic levels, which means it grew faster than either the prior trend or the elevated rate of inflation over that period.
.......... Employment Continues to Recover
In April 2020, the unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent the highest in modern history. Since then, unemployment has come down rapidly, declining to 3.9 percent by the end of 2021, the lowest since the start of the pandemic. The unemployment rate has only been that low twice in the last 50 years - in the year 2000 and for most of the two-year period before the pandemic.
........... State & Local Governments are Flush With Cash
Over the course of the pandemic, policymakers authorized nearly $900 billion of aid to state and local governments. It is not clear this much aid was needed. State revenue and receipts, inclusive of federal aid, ended 2021 up 21 percent from the end of 2019. Even excluding federal aid, revenue and receipts were up 14 percent.
Now, before we enthusiastically choose the economy of 2025 over that of 2021, how about we wait for the final numbers in this first year of Trump's Colossal Botch of the Envy of the World Economy that Biden handed Trump barely 100 days ago.
In 2021, the only way I could travel was if I got dangerous and worthless vaccines. The stores often did not have supplies. When I went abroad, thanks to Biden, I had to pay for a $100 test and have someone jab a Q-tip in my nose. Of course, that was if I went on an airplane. If I walked or drove across the border, the $100 Q-tip jab was not necessary and neither was a vaccine card. According to Biden, the vaccine could only travel in airplanes and oh yeah, if you got the vaccine, you would not get Covid.
And despite these absolutely bird brained policies, Biden actually polled well with his approval ratings. Covid was whisked away not with a bang but a whimper. This so called deadly virus was replaced with the next threat to mankind, Vladimir Putin.
So you can say how much better Biden is than Trump but I will take 2025 over 2021 any day. If you looked at the USA and now and preCovid, I bet you could not tell the difference.
For those of us in the workplace, people can breathe again. The ESG, DEI, white supremacy, disinformation bullshit is gone. Joe Rogan had a doctor on his show who was critical about vaccines and there was disagreement with what she said which is fine but there was no talk of the deplatforming bullshit.
When people talk of the economy being bad, they mean the stock market. Ah yes, like the market has never been wrong. Yes, the Targets and Walmarts are freaking out. The ships are slowing down. No shit. There is going to be an adjustment. I think you and the market are completely misguided on tariffs though. What do you think the tariff rates were on most Chinese packages before? Would you believe zero?
De minimis shipments account for most of the cargo entering the USA, Customs and Border Protection said last fall. The agency said it was handling some 4 million de minimis shipments every day a rate that would blow past the previous year's mark of more than 1 billion shipments.
De minimis shipments "often don't have as much documentation, making it easier to get the shipments into the United States, whether we're talking about unsafe consumer products or fentanyl or food items that aren't permitted to be imported," Murray said.
Items imported under the exemption "are free of duty and taxes and are subject to expedited clearance processing," the USA International Trade Commission notes.
Backers of the existing de minimis structure say it eases commerce and gives consumers low prices; critics say it is used to hawk "cheap crap," as one lawmaker put it, and gives foreign companies an unfair advantage over domestic retailers.
And now the real kicker: Even before Trump was sworn in last month, de minimis was being targeted for change. The Biden administration proposed a new rule last fall to close the loophole. And USA Agencies and politicians have said the law is prone to abuse, from unscrupulous retailers falsely labeling expensive items as costing under $800 to criminals shipping illegal drugs under the guise of innocuous goods.
So while we see stories about the docks being empty, and dock workers doing nothing but waiting for ships, customs is overwhelmed logging in packages that previously were zipped through. I can see the labor force transition from receiving packages to inspecting them. That is what happens with change.
In the mean time, Together, Temu and Shein accounted for about 17% of the USA Discount market in 2023 for items such as consumer goods, fast fashion, and toys, according to a report on de minimis policies that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated last week.
It is fucking crazy that this was allowed to happen. I am supposed to cry because these cheap goods made at slave wages are not coming through?
So in the end, Biden considered doing tariffs but Trump actually did them. So what would you Democratic douches have done differently than Trump? Well, we know. You Democratic douches and Biden did nothing. Your only plan was and is to gripe about Trump.
Try finding fentanyl in CCPland or see what they would do if they caught you selling it (probably execute you and your whole family on live TV that same night).
If what they are doing isn't an ACT OF WAR what is?
Just nuke them off the map and be done with the savages already!!
America's farmers, if any of them were among the "poorly educated" that con man Donald Trump loves for obvious reasons, are sure getting a snootful of education about Trump and his Classic Repub Horrific Economic Results and Stewardship now:
Agriculture isn't nearing tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say.
April 28, 2025
Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports.
Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year.
April 28, 2025
I would say this is not going to get much better over the next 3 years and 8 months. Not as long as lunatic Trump is in the White House. Without even those scant few somewhat "normal" Cabinet and Staffer guardrails around him this time, he has been exposed irreversibly to the World to be the pathetically clueless clown or is it the outright malignant self-loathing and life-hating arsonist he so obviously always was. Therefore, every minute of every hour of his presence on the scene engenders utter uncertainty and international economic paralysis.
I might argue it won't get demonstrably better if any Repub is in the White House going forward into the foreseeable future. Not unless a Repub candidate runs denouncing every statement, move, result and concept of a concept of a plan ever proposed or enacted by Donald Trump in his entire political career. Which is not likely to happen in any of our lifetimes.
Oh well.
But, hey, the Maistream Media clutched their pearls and demanded the big money Dem donors pull their funding of down ballot Dems because the Record-Breaking Economically Successful President Joe Biden stuttered and garbled a single point due to a verbal tick that naturally intensifies with age at that debate and Kamala Harris apparently had a laugh that annoyed some dumb Repub hillbillies.
So I suppose it's understandable why there were not more "players on the field" in the election to override that tiny handful of angry Muslims whose 0. 75 percentage point swing vote from Harris to Trump in just three swing states that became the sole single-issue and single demographic reason Trump was "given the presidency" again.
Yep. Oh well.
You can dump that toxic made in CCPland / Korean / VietCong trash in the ocean (and just cut out the middle men) or sell it at Walmart Amazon we then dump it straight into our overflowing landfills with it after 1 usage.
I have a better idea stop destroying the planet and just stop producing that worthless trash and sending it out way!
I'm so tired of all the winning though. I know my brokerage account is tired of it. Everything is deep in the red. Can we stop winning now please? Just for once, I'd like to see my NVDA and AAPL positions be green please. Thank you.
Gold continues to be on a tear. This is actually a bad time to be buying gold as a major correction is on the horizon.
What I do is speak about all aspects of a investment. Not just my view. Buy BONDS E2008 says. But he fails to point out that if the entity that issued those BONDS fail you lose EVERYTHING!
Gold if you hold it physically has held it's value adjusted for inflation over 5000 years. If there is a major reset (and there will be if the Dis-United States of America does not get it's act together) if all of your wealth is wiped out because the US Dollar goes to zero or hyper-inflates, I feel comfortable knowing I have something that I can use in the restart of the world economy.
The democratic complainers posting among us need to realize that saying the Republic Racists are not good for us is not going to cut it.
Spending more time on dick politics instead of the basic economic policies that will help regular men and women of the Dis-United States of America put meat in the pot of the kitchens of those who do NOT own stocks (or BONDS) for that matter.
If the democrats are just going to pick a candidate to run for the presidency of the Dis-United States of America they should at least pick a decent one.
One that does not ignore the Crypto Industry or talk wack tax policies like taxing unrealized gains.
Until the democratic complainers among us do something more than complain, until they fix their own party platform, until they choose viable candidates for office of the presidency of the Dis-United States of America they will continue to lose by small margins because they do not realize that the country is divided and they need to fight for every vote.
Crypto
Democrats ignore us in the future a their own risk!
America's farmers, if any of them were among the "poorly educated" that con man Donald Trump loves for obvious reasons, are sure getting a snootful of education about Trump and his Classic Repub Horrific Economic Results and Stewardship now:
Agriculture isn't nearing tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say.
April 28, 2025
Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports.
Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year.
April 28, 2025
I would say this is not going to get much better over the next 3 years and 8 months. Not as long as lunatic Trump is in the White House. Without even those scant few somewhat "normal" Cabinet and Staffer guardrails around him this time, he has been exposed irreversibly to the World to be the pathetically clueless clown or is it the outright malignant self-loathing and life-hating arsonist he so obviously always was. Therefore, every minute of every hour of his presence on the scene engenders utter uncertainty and international economic paralysis.
I might argue it won't get demonstrably better if any Repub is in the White House going forward into the foreseeable future. Not unless a Repub candidate runs denouncing every statement, move, result and concept of a concept of a plan ever proposed or enacted by Donald Trump in his entire political career. Which is not likely to happen in any of our lifetimes.
Oh well.
But, hey, the Maistream Media clutched their pearls and demanded the big money Dem donors pull their funding of down ballot Dems because the Record-Breaking Economically Successful President Joe Biden stuttered and garbled a single point due to a verbal tick that naturally intensifies with age at that debate and Kamala Harris apparently had a laugh that annoyed some dumb Repub hillbillies.
So I suppose it's understandable why there were not more "players on the field" in the election to override that tiny handful of angry Muslims whose 0. 75 percentage point swing vote from Harris to Trump in just three swing states that became the sole single-issue and single demographic reason Trump was "given the presidency" again.
Yep. Oh well.
In 2021, the only way I could travel was if I got dangerous and worthless vaccines. The stores often did not have supplies. When I went abroad, thanks to Biden, I had to pay for a $100 test and have someone jab a Q-tip in my nose. Of course, that was if I went on an airplane. If I walked or drove across the border, the $100 Q-tip jab was not necessary and neither was a vaccine card. According to Biden, the vaccine could only travel in airplanes and oh yeah, if you got the vaccine, you would not get Covid.
And despite these absolutely bird brained policies, Biden actually polled well with his approval ratings. Covid was whisked away not with a bang but a whimper. This so called deadly virus was replaced with the next threat to mankind, Vladimir Putin.
So you can say how much better Biden is than Trump but I will take 2025 over 2021 any day. If you looked at the USA and now and preCovid, I bet you could not tell the difference.
For those of us in the workplace, people can breathe again. The ESG, DEI, white supremacy, disinformation bullshit is gone. Joe Rogan had a doctor on his show who was critical about vaccines and there was disagreement with what she said which is fine but there was no talk of the deplatforming bullshit.
When people talk of the economy being bad, they mean the stock market. Ah yes, like the market has never been wrong. Yes, the Targets and Walmarts are freaking out. The ships are slowing down. No shit. There is going to be an adjustment. I think you and the market are completely misguided on tariffs though. What do you think the tariff rates were on most Chinese packages before? Would you believe zero?
De minimis shipments account for most of the cargo entering the USA, Customs and Border Protection said last fall. The agency said it was handling some 4 million de minimis shipments every day a rate that would blow past the previous year's mark of more than 1 billion shipments.
De minimis shipments "often don't have as much documentation, making it easier to get the shipments into the United States, whether we're talking about unsafe consumer products or fentanyl or food items that aren't permitted to be imported," Murray said.
Items imported under the exemption "are free of duty and taxes and are subject to expedited clearance processing," the USA International Trade Commission notes.
Backers of the existing de minimis structure say it eases commerce and gives consumers low prices; critics say it is used to hawk "cheap crap," as one lawmaker put it, and gives foreign companies an unfair advantage over domestic retailers.
And now the real kicker: Even before Trump was sworn in last month, de minimis was being targeted for change. The Biden administration proposed a new rule last fall to close the loophole. And USA Agencies and politicians have said the law is prone to abuse, from unscrupulous retailers falsely labeling expensive items as costing under $800 to criminals shipping illegal drugs under the guise of innocuous goods.
So while we see stories about the docks being empty, and dock workers doing nothing but waiting for ships, customs is overwhelmed logging in packages that previously were zipped through. I can see the labor force transition from receiving packages to inspecting them. That is what happens with change.
In the mean time, Together, Temu and Shein accounted for about 17% of the USA Discount market in 2023 for items such as consumer goods, fast fashion, and toys, according to a report on de minimis policies that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated last week.
It is fucking crazy that this was allowed to happen. I am supposed to cry because these cheap goods made at slave wages are not coming through?
So in the end, Biden considered doing tariffs but Trump actually did them. So what would you Democratic douches have done differently than Trump? Well, we know. You Democratic douches and Biden did nothing. Your only plan was and is to gripe about Trump.
According to the demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics' preferred polling services consensus, heading into Trump's Festival of Lies Celebration of his "Greatest First 100 Days Ever", the American people are recognizing it as the Worst Ever.
They are even starting to warm up to the idea of Immigrants eating the cats and eating the dogs more than the shit-show of disaster this Trump's Pandemic Part 2 the MAGAs, a few stray "Bothsider / Neithersider" Third Party voters and, specifically, that relative handful of angry Muslims who foolishly and now quite regrettably swung their less than 0. 75 percentage point of the total votes in just three swing states from Harris to Trump and thereby were the sole reason Trump is president again gave us.
It hasn't been great. I am very let down. One thing this has taught me is what I care about most and everything else is such a distant second. I ll vote for who ever as long as they put money in my bank account. Biden was the biggest joke of a clown fuck asshole I have ever seen, but I could care less because real estate and the investment markets boomed under him and I made a killing. Inflation was horrible, but I suspect it was unavoidable to a degree due to covid. My investment account and real estate holdings are taking a hit and it's pissing me the fuck off and it seems like it is directly related to Trump's tariffs. I don't give a fuck about tariffs as long as real estate and stock market is up. I don't buy shit from China anyway nor do I need a fucking manufacturing job. I ll let every fucking mexican ever born into the usa and half this country can change their gender ten times over as long as my bank account goes up and I can get back to my babies south of the border LOL.
Now, where did all those This Is What Winning Looks Like MAGAs go again?
America's farmers, if any of them were among the "poorly educated" that con man Donald Trump loves for obvious reasons, are sure getting a snootful of education about Trump and his Classic Repub Horrific Economic Results and Stewardship now:
Agriculture isn't nearing tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say.
April 28, 2025
The global backlash to President Trumps tariffs is punishing U.S. agriculture, especially a decline in Chinese buying of U.S. farm products.
A leading agriculture exports group says massive losses are already racking up at farms, with cancelled orders, pricing pressure as demand slumps and layoffs, as China stops buying products from pork to hay and straw, and lumber.
No one can replace all the volume that China buys, one farm operator reported.
And there is also this:
Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports.
Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year.
April 28, 2025
Donald Trumps increasingly erratic trade war has triggered a slump in shipments to the USs most important ports, amid the growing risk of a recession in the worlds largest economy.
In the latest sign of the US presidents tariff policies rattling the economy, figures show the number of vessels scheduled to arrive at the Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third on the same period a year earlier.
I would say this is not going to get much better over the next 3 years and 8 months. Not as long as lunatic Trump is in the White House. Without even those scant few somewhat "normal" Cabinet and Staffer guardrails around him this time, he has been exposed irreversibly to the World to be the pathetically clueless clown or is it the outright malignant self-loathing and life-hating arsonist he so obviously always was. Therefore, every minute of every hour of his presence on the scene engenders utter uncertainty and international economic paralysis.
I might argue it won't get demonstrably better if any Repub is in the White House going forward into the foreseeable future. Not unless a Repub candidate runs denouncing every statement, move, result and concept of a concept of a plan ever proposed or enacted by Donald Trump in his entire political career. Which is not likely to happen in any of our lifetimes.
Oh well.
But, hey, the Maistream Media clutched their pearls and demanded the big money Dem donors pull their funding of down ballot Dems because the Record-Breaking Economically Successful President Joe Biden stuttered and garbled a single point due to a verbal tick that naturally intensifies with age at that debate and Kamala Harris apparently had a laugh that annoyed some dumb Repub hillbillies.
So I suppose it's understandable why there were not more "players on the field" in the election to override that tiny handful of angry Muslims whose 0. 75 percentage point swing vote from Harris to Trump in just three swing states that became the sole single-issue and single demographic reason Trump was "given the presidency" again.