Tonight I am just plain taaaared
Friday, April 4th, 2025Sick and tired. What do I think about tariffs? I don’t KNOW much about tariffs. I remember reading stuff back in 4th grade history class about tariffs. Back when we were sailing the great blue seas to trade our goods. I was not the best student of history.
Here’s the thing. I don’t think *Trump* knows anything much about tariffs either. The lively conservative woman on a podcast I listen to (Left Right and Center) says that *she* can’t follow what’s going on with the tariffs, and she seems uber smart. Why the heck would I understand them? And what the f*ck does Trump think he’s doing? I dunno.
When a lot (but not all, I will admit) economists think tariffs are a bad idea, don’tchy’all think it might be good for the head cheetoh to actually, y’know, *consult* some experts about this? He certainly isn’t one. He’s not a stable genius either.
Whether tariffs are good or bad, what really bothers me is the reckless willy-nilly way the orange baboon is implementing them. There is no conscious thought going into any of these policies. Gosh, I wish I could remember what somebody said on the radio (yes NPR) yesterday about Trump’s “formulas” for calculating tariffs. It was something about dividing apples by bagels and I can’t remember the next step and The Google is no help. In other words, just plain gobblety-gook.
And then there is the whole insecure email non-scandal. I mean… Hillary Clinton arguably lost an election (but not the popular vote) because “but her emails”. And these f*cking idjits are BRAZENLY using Gmail, etc. to communicate highly sensitive information. They kowtow to Trump and are (mostly) not women so I guess that’s okay? (More in a minute.)
As y’all are taaaared of hearing about, I work for the online banking industry. My work laptop is totally locked down and it’s really hard to communicate with people outside company email or chat. The government can implement similar procedures but after all the caterwauling about Hillary’s emails (nine years ago?) it apparently hasn’t happened. Or maybe Trumpy doesn’t really care as long as it’s his own minions doing it.
What I am really miffed about is that once again, I feel as though the men I know do not really care to listen what I have to say. Yes, I do get “emotional” sometimes. I did tonight. I am not sorry about that. I think the reason we have an orange president AGAIN is because there are too many people (of both genders) who refuse to elect a female president, let alone a female BLACK president. I think Kamala would have been wonderful. She isn’t perfect but she would not be imposing tariffs on Antarctic islands inhabited totally by penguins.
We’ll talk about chainsaws some other day.