Donny done fucked up so bad, even Fox admits we’re headed for recession

more scenes from a shit-blizzard

Donny Convict is the master of bed-shitting.

where others are content to simply fuck up in ways people have fucked up since time immemorial, Donny is a true visionary.

Donny doesn’t just shit the bed and move on. he luxuriates. he rolls around in the mess, compounding his fuck-ups with more fuck-ups, until he creates a masterpiece.

but sometimes even a visionary can go too far.

here’s how can you tell that Donny has really fucked up bigly: Fox News is beginning to admit the truth about his reckless tariffs.

it was only last week that Fox was breaking new ground in shameless ass-smoochery. Dear Leader’s tariffs are going to be so fucking awesome, they told their gullible viewers, that money is going to literally be falling out of the sky.

Maria Bartiromo even took time out of her busy schedule of who even knows what the fuck she does to lecture Wall Street for being insufficiently trustful of Dear Leader’s brilliance.

yesterday, however, the markets opened so far down that Maria had no choice but to finally douse her viewers with a cold bucketful of reality.

“it is going to have an effect on Main Street. some things will become higher priced. we will see some products actually be raised in price — because companies will pass on the costs of tariffs to consumers. I would expect it. that’s why you have some people saying that we could see a recession.”

oh, Maria — it sucks to have to tell the truth, doesn’t it? it must break Maria’s heart to have to confess to her audience that Dear Leader is fucking the economy with all the vigor of a teacup pup going at it with a plushie.

even Fox couldn’t maintain the fiction of ‘tariffs are a tax on other countries’ forever. what rude awakening for the money will be falling out of the fucking sky crowd.

remember how I said last week that Congressional Republicans could end this fuckery in a heartbeat, simply by reclaiming the power granted them by the Constitution to control the government’s purse-strings?

because like executive orders, tariffs-by-presidential decree aren’t actual laws. Donny is imposing his tariffs by using an insanely-broad interpretation of the emergency powers a president is granted when there is “a threat to national security.”

well, it ain’t gonna happen — because Holy Mike Johnson is the soggiest limp dishrag ever to wield the speaker’s gavel.

“I think you've got to give the president the latitude, the runway to do what it is he was elected to do.”

I doubt that even the hardest-core cultist elected Donny to crash the world’s economy, but whatever.

now here’s the weirdest fucking thing that happened yesterday: the Dow opened in the shitter and wallowed there for a while — and then rebounded due to a complete fever-swamp hallucination.

“INSANE market action right now. Market exploded higher on a headline attributed to Kevin Hassett. And now nobody can figure out where it came from and the markets are diving again. An 8% surge and then a 3.5% plunge in a matter of seconds”

here’s the fake news that got the Street surging:

“HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA”

Hassett said no such thing — but because Wall Street is now your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, desperate to believe whatever it wants to believe, the market went on a choose-your-own-adventure binge — and they’re doing it again this morning.

Boom! Stocks are surging on Wall Street at the start of trading.

The S&P 500 share index has jumped by 3.3% as investors pile into stocks, up 169 points at 5,232 points.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks 30 large US companies, has surged by 1,380 points, or 3.6%, to 39,346 points. The tech-focused Nasdaq index jumped 3.7%.

Shares are rallying after US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said that he believes the US can reach “some good deals” with trading partners.

this is just shameless market manipulation. Scott Bessent puts out a statement based on zero facts — just a belief he has about “some good deals” — and Wall Street takes the bait. but what happens if those “good deals” never materialize?

the markets are basically Wile E. Coyote right now, twenty feet past the edge of the cliff and refusing to look down.

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here’s your daily dose of Sewer Clown fuckbrainery.

Laura Ingraham: “are we going to make iPhones in the US?”

Peter Navarro: “we’re to be able to do it through more automation and there’s going to be plenty of jobs for robots, plenty of jobs for humans.”

robots are fucking pumped to learn there will be jobs galore for them in Peter Navarro’s brave new dystopia.

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here’s your hero of the day: Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz.

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) is expanding his holds on President Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: That brings the total number of Trump nominees Schatz has now ground to a halt to more than 300, intensifying his protest of what he calls the White House's “lawlessness.”

“Until they start complying with the law and until I hear from Marco Rubio in the Foreign Relations Committee, we're just not going to be cooperative,” Schatz said.

good. it’s about fucking time. Democrats should have been roadblocking Donny’s entire fascist agenda from Day One, but better late than never.

this is the kind of thing Republicans have been pulling on Democrats for ages. recall that Tommy Tuberville held up all military promotions for the better part of a year because he was Big Mad over a Pentagon policy that paid travel expenses for soldiers seeking abortions.

it’s heartening to see Democrats giving the GOP a taste of its own medicine — and unlike Terminally-Concussed Tommy’s tantrum, it’s for a good reason.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.