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Why Is Trumpā€™s Approval Rating Still So High?

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/07/why-is-trumps-approval-rating-still-so-high/

Published: April 7, 2025 22:00

I have been reliably informed many times that ā€œitā€™s the economy stupidā€ and that nothing really matters but kitchen table issues to American voters. If thatā€™s so, these polls should give some of us pause. Here we have the WSJ with questions about theā€¦

DOGE For Dummies

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/07/doge-for-dummies/

Published: April 7, 2025 20:30

Surprise. They donā€™t know what theyā€™re doing. Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages and other access problems as they attempt to log in to their online Social Security accounts, even as they are being directed to doĀ more of theirā€¦

Moving Those Goalposts

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/07/moving-those-goalposts/

Published: April 7, 2025 19:00

No, this isnā€™t about trade. Trump doesnā€™t understand trade and apparently neither does Peter Navarro: White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for theā€¦

Why? Just Tell Me Why.

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/07/why-just-tell-me-why/

Published: April 7, 2025 17:30

The NY Times reports that Bobby Jr is closing down research into sexually transmitted diseases. Is it supposed to be some sort of woke, deep state, waste, fraud and abuse? Do they think that there are companies out there just dying to get into the highlyā€¦

Sowing The Seeds Of Their Own Demise

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/07/sowing-the-seeds-of-their-own-demise/

Published: April 7, 2025 16:00

On Friday I wrote about President Trumpā€™s motivation for this daft tariff scheme. It has almost nothing to do with trade which he doesnā€™t understand. Heā€™s running a protection racket, shaking down other countries (as well as universities, law firms,ā€¦

New Hotness 2.0

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/07/new-hotness-2-0/

Published: April 7, 2025 14:30

Weā€™ve been here before A national organizer advised several years ago that Anderson Clayton, 24, and I needed to know each other. The first time we spoke was by phone. I had to hold the phone away from my ear. She spoke fast and she was loud. She broughtā€¦

Bear Monday

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/07/bear-monday/

Published: April 7, 2025 13:00

ā€œUnilateral surrenderā€ CNBC this morning: Dow futures fall 1,000 points, S&P 500 eyes bear market on Trump tariff market collapse NYT: Stocks in Asia and Europe Plunge as Trump Says Tariffs Will Stay Maybe you are among the 40 percent of Americans who ownā€¦

Oopsie!

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/06/oopsie-2/

Published: April 6, 2025 23:00

@franchesca_leigh Wishing you & the ones you love (and those you side eye) the #holiday season you deserve! visit shop.franchesca.net to get my new digital album ā€œwhereā€™s that leopard lady?ā€ #merrychristmas #leopards #election2024 #fyp #fypć‚· ā™¬ Leopards Ateā€¦

The Grown Ups

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/06/the-grown-ups-2/

Published: April 6, 2025 22:00

The Secretary of the Treasury: WELKER: The markets lost more than $6 trillion in value. Was this disruption always part of the plan? BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take greatā€¦

Heā€™s Seen This Movie Before

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/06/hes-seen-this-movie-before/

Published: April 6, 2025 20:30

Itā€™s a horror story ā€œIā€™ve seen this movie before. I know exactly what is going to happen to them. America will get weaker. We are going to get stronger.ā€ Our president inherited wealth, bankrupted several companies, became a reality TV host and sold cheapā€¦

Erasing Reality

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/06/erasing-reality/

Published: April 6, 2025 18:00

It really is Donald Trumpā€™s world and weā€™re just living in it If you were wondering if the anti-DEI crusade is anything more than rank bigotry and segregationism, wonder no more. It is not: For years, a National Park ServiceĀ webpageĀ introduced theā€¦

Good Morning!

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/06/good-morning-25/

Published: April 6, 2025 16:30

The Social Security Administration is in total chaos I liked the straightforward reporting in this piece in the Guardian: Office closures, staffing and service cuts, and policy changes at theĀ Social Security AdministrationĀ (SSA) have caused ā€œcomplete,ā€¦

A Bondi Villainess

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/06/a-bondi-villainess/

Published: April 6, 2025 14:30

No, Mr. Reuveni, I expect you to lie. Maybe I just missed it in my younger days, but lying through your teeth (under oath) during Senate hearings did not seem like as prevalent a phenomenon decades ago, especially for Supreme Court nominees and prospectiveā€¦

The Day After ā€œHands Off!ā€

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/06/the-day-after-hands-off/

Published: April 6, 2025 13:00

ā€œHow many here are paid protesters?ā€ ā€œSomeone tell Marjorie Taylor Greens sheā€™s a government worker,ā€ one of our ā€œHands Off!ā€ speakers quipped on Saturday. There were a lot of retirees among the 8,000 or so at the rally in Asheville, N.C. But a lot ofā€¦

No more lies: A mobilizing mixtape

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/05/no-more-lies-a-mobilizing-mixtape/

Published: April 6, 2025 00:00

Stand, youā€™ve been sitting much too longThereā€™s a permanent crease in your right and wrongStand, thereā€™s a midget standing tallAnd a giant beside him about to fall ā€” from ā€œStandā€ by Sly & the Family Stone It isnā€™t nice to carry bannersOr to sit in on theā€¦

Hands Off!

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/05/hands-off-2/

Published: April 5, 2025 22:00

Itā€™s a massive demonstration and itā€™s not just in the big blue cities: Thatā€™s just a smattering of the posts coming from all over the world. People are desperate to DO SOMETHING. This wonā€™t change things in itself but the timing is perfect. Trump justā€¦

The Economic Anxiety Trope

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/05/the-economic-anxiety-trope/

Published: April 5, 2025 19:00

Political scientist Alan Abramowitz says in his new paper about the white working class in America, ā€œitā€™s not the economy, stupid.ā€ I think we knew this but itā€™s good to see some empirical study into the phenomenon. Pace Karl Marx, ā€œclassā€ is not just anā€¦

Honoring The Troops

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/05/honoring-the-troops/

Published: April 5, 2025 17:30

Trump skipped a ceremony for fallen soldiers to play golf but don't forget the time Biden did something worse: attended the same ceremony and looked at his watch pic.twitter.com/1uI5sUvAUb ā€” The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) April 4, 2025 Yes, Trump went to aā€¦

Peter Navarro, Trumpā€™s No. 1 Adviser

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/05/peter-navarro-trumps-no-1-adviser/

Published: April 5, 2025 16:00

He went to jail for Trump and thatā€™s all that matters They gave Trump a menu of tariffs to choose from and he picked his good buddy Peteā€™s special recipe: Not long after President Donald Trumpā€™s inauguration, the administrationā€™s economic staff went toā€¦

Canadians Tell Trump Where To Stick It

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/05/canadians-tell-trump-where-to-stick-it/

Published: April 5, 2025 14:30

(Donā€™t you have somewhere to be?) Donald Trump had a couple of mentors growing up. His father, Fred, taught him how to evade taxes. Attorney Roy Cohn taught him how to be an apex predator. Rev. Norman Vincent Peale taught young Donald to worship himselfā€¦

Blind Justices

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/05/blind-justices/

Published: April 5, 2025 13:00

Could it be partisan? Yes, they did: RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ā€” A North Carolina appeals court sided Friday with the trailing Republican candidate in anĀ extremely close state Supreme Court election, a ruling that could flip the result of the nationā€™s only 2024ā€¦

QOTD: The Economist Magazine

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/qotd-the-economist-magazine/

Published: April 4, 2025 23:30

IF YOUĀ failedĀ to spot America being ā€œlooted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and farā€ or it being cruelly denied a ā€œturn to prosperā€, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. Itā€™s hardā€¦

Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-4/

Published: April 4, 2025 22:30

Lutnick screws the pooch again For once in his life, Lutnick is right ā€“ if factories come back to the U.S., they will be highly automated and will create relatively few good-paying jobs. Which means lots of people will be disappointed.ā€¦

Another Day Another Atrocity

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/another-day-another-atrocity/

Published: April 4, 2025 21:30

Trump's ICE disappeared a 52-year-old mother from Westminster, Maryland. Agents refused to show her a warrantā€”smashing the driver's side window & yanking her out of the car with no explanation. She has no criminal record & is legally in U.S. due to aā€¦

Buckle Up Seniors

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/buckle-up-seniors/

Published: April 4, 2025 20:30

Theyā€™re coming for Medicare and Medicaid. Talking Points Memo reports: On March 31st, CMS COO Amy Brandt sent out instructions for major cuts that had to take place across CMS. As she explained, HHS had been assigned a total amount of savings from canceledā€¦

You Love To See It

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/you-love-to-see-it-4/

Published: April 4, 2025 19:00

After a little over a year at market, sales of the 6,600-pound vehicle, priced from $82,000, are laughably below what Musk predicted. Its lousy reputation for qualityā€“with eight recalls in the past 13 months, the latest forĀ body panelsĀ that fall offā€“andā€¦

Trumponomics

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/trumponomics/

Published: April 4, 2025 16:00

Everyone knew that President Trump as going to pull the trigger on his big tariff policy on Wednesday but he actually dropped a nuclear bomb. He put a 10% tariff on every nearly country in the world and added even more on a number of them based upon aā€¦

The End Is Here

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/the-end-is-here-2/

Published: April 4, 2025 14:30

Trump didnā€™t end it himself So much of the tariff commentary today examines how Donald Trumpā€™s demented attempt to get the world to kiss his feet will impact the economy and peopleā€™s pocketbooks. It will. But the bigger picture is that Trump will die butā€¦

Hands Off!

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/04/hands-off/

Published: April 4, 2025 13:00

Weā€™re not going to take it Americans in the streets is the only way to apply enough pressure to Donald Trump eunuchs in Congress to take action to rein in He-Who-Would-Be-King. If those whoā€™ve never joined a street protest before needed a good reason toā€¦

Bravo Amber Ruffin

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/bravo-amber-ruffin/

Published: April 3, 2025 23:30

Late Night writer Amber Ruffin shares what sheā€™s learned about the importance of both sides after her White House Correspondentsā€™ Dinner gig was cancelled. Very sharp, very classy, very potent.

If You Need To Explain Why Itā€™s Stupid

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/if-you-need-to-explain-why-its-stupid/

Published: April 3, 2025 22:00

This is the easiest explanation I posted this yesterday as part of a longer post but I think itā€™s important to highlight it here. From Paul Krugman: I donā€™t know how many people realize that the administrationā€™s case for tariffs is completely incoherent,ā€¦

Why Does He Love Them So Much?

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/why-does-he-love-them-so-much/

Published: April 3, 2025 20:30

Brian Beutlerā€™s theory on why Trump loves tariffs so much is as good as anything Iā€™ve heard. It certainly fits with my own observations of what makes Trump tick: Theyā€™re extremely stupid. Theyā€™re so dumb they have people genuinely wondering if Trump hasā€¦

Iā€™m Tired Of All The Winning

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/im-tired-of-all-the-winning/

Published: April 3, 2025 20:00

After spending years attacking Biden for inflation, Fox Business news now makes it sound like Inflation is perfectly fine amidst Trump's tariffs. ā€œListen itā€™s a roller coaster. You only get hurt if you jump off amid the ride. If you have to pull back fromā€¦

Come ONā€¦..

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/come-on/

Published: April 3, 2025 19:00

This canā€™t be happening. Laura Loomer????? Heā€™s having a total meltdown. Will anyone resign? Will any GOP Senator or Rep. even say anything?

American Berserk

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/american-berserk/

Published: April 3, 2025 18:00

YouGov Poll 3/28-4/1: I think the scariest result here is that 52% of the American people want to designate large-scale fentanyl trafficking as a weapon of mass destruction. WTF??? Other than that, most people seem to be reasonably sane. Too bad about theā€¦

A Little Primer On The History Of Tariffs In America

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/a-little-primer-on-the-history-of-tariffs-in-america/

Published: April 3, 2025 17:00

James Fallows has written a great post today about the tariffs. The first part is all about what constitutes good and bad tariffs and when they are useful. You should read it. Then he goes into the history of tariffs in the U.S. I would just amend that toā€¦

Genius

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/genius/

Published: April 3, 2025 15:27

BARTIROMO: Are we now gonna see egg prices move back higher because of the tariffs? BROOKE ROLLINS: All to be determined. The president has said that we'll have a little bit of uncertainty in the coming weeks, perhaps a month or two. I'm not gonna sit hereā€¦

Youā€™re A Punchline, Donald

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/youre-a-punchline-donald/

Published: April 3, 2025 14:30

So are you, Elon ā€œItā€™s like [Donald] Trump is stuck in the 80s ā€” his music, his clothing, his thinking. He has been on this tariff thing forever,ā€ Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told MSNBCā€™s Chris Hayes on Wednesday. Hayes invited Walz to react to Trumpā€™s bonkersā€¦

Is The World Laughing Or Shuddering?

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/03/is-the-world-laughing-or-shuddering/

Published: April 3, 2025 13:00

Why Not Just ā€˜Disappearā€™ Diego Garcia? A sad and twisted man is Donald Trump. And an idiot. President idiot, okay. Heir to his fatherā€™s real estate empire, the man surrounds himself with idiots and yes-men. Degreed, ass-kissing idiots. Connected idiots.ā€¦

HHS bomb going off

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/hhs-bomb-going-off/

Published: April 2, 2025 23:30

Josh Marshall wrote this on Bluesky and I think it explains whatā€™s going on with HHS as well as Iā€™ve seen it anywhere: Itā€™s getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or throughā€¦

Botox Nazi Kitsch.

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/botox-nazi-kitsch/

Published: April 2, 2025 22:00

More fascist fashion.Thatā€™s not Kristi Noem. Itā€™s the new US Attorney nominee Alina Habba, former parking lot lawyer and Trump confidante. Itā€™s as close as they can get to their private bdsm fantasy.

Trump Just Declared A Trade War

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/trump-just-declared-a-trade-war/

Published: April 2, 2025 20:30

The 25% tariff on all foreign made cars goes into effect at midnight. Aaaand: He almost certainly just made those numbers up in his head. Thereā€™s no rationale for any of it. He simply doesnā€™t understand what tariffs are, what trade is and why nations useā€¦

There Is No Plan

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/there-is-no-plan/

Published: April 2, 2025 19:00

Paul Krugman published this earlier before the tariff announcement and he is 100% right: FromĀ Apocalypse Now: Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound. Kurtz: Are my methods unsound? Willard: I donā€™t seeā€¦

When The Secret Police Arrive

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/when-the-secret-police-arrive/

Published: April 2, 2025 17:30

Here is a gift link to Masha Gessenā€™s new piece in the New York Times. But gird yourself. Itā€™s as chilling as anything Iā€™ve read in recent days: ā€œItā€™s the unmarked cars,ā€ a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched theĀ videoā€¦

Mr Booker Goes To Washington

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/mr-booker-goes-to-washington/

Published: April 2, 2025 16:00

And Elon wishes he didnā€™t go to Wisconsin There is so much bad news happening in politics on a daily basis that sometimes you feel as if youā€™ve been physically pummeled by it. The Trump administrationā€™s ā€œshock and aweā€ campaign to overwhelm the countryā€¦

Are You A Secret TdA Member?

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/are-you-a-secret-tda-member/

Published: April 2, 2025 14:30

Check your closet Popular Information reports on a Trump administration document outlining how its immigration enforcers decide who to deport to a Salvadoran hellhole: The document, titled ā€œALIEN ENEMY VALIDATION GUIDE,ā€ creates a point system to determineā€¦

Cruelty Is The Policy

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/cruelty-is-the-policy/

Published: April 2, 2025 13:00

Time to bump back Wisconsin flipped a middle finger at Elon Musk last night. Sen. Cory Booker (D) of New Jersey filibustered in the Senate for a record-breaking 25-plus hours and stole the news cycle from Donald Trump even as Wisconsin voters elected Judgeā€¦

Filibooker!

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/filibooker/

Published: April 2, 2025 00:30

Cory Booker broke the filibuster record set by Dixiecrat racist Strom Thurman when he filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Itā€™s only fitting. And he didnā€™t just read ā€œGreen Eggs and Hamā€, he talked about whatā€™s actually happening, right now, withā€¦

Itā€™s A Bloodbath

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/its-a-bloodbath/

Published: April 1, 2025 23:00

The former head of the FDA: CNN reports: A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived atā€¦

Wadja Expect?

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/wadja-expect/

Published: April 1, 2025 21:30

Jim Cramer before the election: ā€œIf you care about your paycheck, you go with Trump.ā€ https://t.co/H1JeyDM0vJ pic.twitter.com/GqUY6tdRd8 ā€” Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 1, 2025 Mmmmm, Iā€™ll bet that kool-aid tasted really great. But itā€¦

You Have Got To Be Joking

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/you-have-got-to-be-joking/

Published: April 1, 2025 20:30

Reporter: Do you have any findings you can share from the investigation? Leavitt on Signal Gate: The case is closed pic.twitter.com/9cvG7KvL44 ā€” Acyn (@Acyn) April 1, 2025 I donā€™t think so: Members of President Donald Trumpā€™s National Security Council,ā€¦

Heā€™s Holding Steady

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/hes-holding-steady/

Published: April 1, 2025 19:00

But his numbers on the economy are at 43% approve and 56 disapprove. On inflation itā€™s even worse. Only 40% approve and 58% disapprove. Considering those economic numbers youā€™d think heā€™d be much lower, wouldnā€™t you? I mean, Iā€™ve been told in no uncertainā€¦

MAKA

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/maka/

Published: April 1, 2025 18:00

Making America Kafkaesque Again This is the very reason why we have due process of law: The Trump administration acknowledged in a courtĀ filingĀ Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to Elā€¦

Hallucinations

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/hallucinations/

Published: April 1, 2025 16:00

NEW: China, Japan, and South Korea agree to ā€œclosely cooperateā€ in response to U.S. tariffs Anyone with half a brain & a basic understanding of the world could see that Trumpā€™s relentless attacks on our allies will only isolate America & strengthen Chinaā€¦

And The Pissed-off Will Lead

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/and-the-pissed-off-will-lead/

Published: April 1, 2025 14:30

While you were streaming Via The Guardian: Itā€™s now 10:30 a.m. ET and Booker is still going. His voice is getting ragged. His colleagues are spelling him by interrupting to ask v-e-r-y l-e-n-g-t-h-y questions to answer. Thank you. Teamwork. Letā€™s get real.ā€¦

Law Is Meaningless To Criminals

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/01/law-is-meaningless-to-criminals/

Published: April 1, 2025 13:00

And so are you Donald Trump is a criminal. By 34 convictions, by temperament, and by the behaviors of a lifetime. Like Vladimir Putin, his man-crush, Trump believes he can take what he wants. Greenland, for example. Or Canada (though heā€™s quieted aboutā€¦

Bobby Jr. Making His Mark

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/31/bobby-jr-making-his-mark/

Published: March 31, 2025 23:30

This is what happens when you just shut your eyes and cross your fingers that larding the health system with nothing but conspiracy theorists and fringe weirdos in the medical profession doesnā€™t result in a catastrophe. Everyone with any sense is girdingā€¦

From Ukraine To Greenland

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/31/from-ukraine-to-greenland/

Published: March 31, 2025 22:00

Trump and Putin on the same page JV Last has a good piece today about Trumpā€™s move on Greenland: The visual was kind of hard to miss. The vice president of the United States, flanked by American soldiers in combat fatigues, talking about turning Greenlandā€¦

Weā€™re Gonna Go Boom

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/31/were-gonna-go-boom/

Published: March 31, 2025 20:30

Reporter: Are you worried about stagflation? Trump: I havenā€™t heard that term in years. I donā€™t know anything about it.. this country is going to boom. Weā€™re going to have boomtown. Weā€™re going to boom pic.twitter.com/Ajo5RUOoaa ā€” Acyn (@Acyn) March 31,ā€¦

Whiny Little Billionaire Crybaby

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/31/whiny-little-billionaire-crybaby/

Published: March 31, 2025 19:00

It is time to arrest those funding the attacks. Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers wonā€™t stop the violence. pic.twitter.com/R4aHg4Q5Kw ā€” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2025 Note that all thatā€™s happening in that video is a handful of womenā€¦