Not a normal summer
The Whitehouse Clown Show
Me, “Goose, I really hate our evening family conversations. They always start with, ‘Well what crazy thing did he do today.?’”
Goose, “Obviously, you are letting the orange-haired maniac get inside your head far too often.”
Me, “Well isn’t it important to know what is happening to our democracy?“
Goose, “Yes and no. First, you already know that he is doing everything possible to destroy our democracy and will try every trick in the book to stay in power. Knowing what he does today is not going to change the big picture.”
Me, “You are right, anyone who would pave over the rose garden is capable of almost anything.
That much bad taste is certainly a red flag but he has been afflicted with that all his life and his supporters don’t seem to care.”
Goose, “That says more about the supporters than I care to explore. What keeps me going is thought that if the right person wins the Presidency next time, that concrete can be gone in a few days. The new President will also rid our government of all the anti-vaccine nonsense, fix the research budget at NIH, and start the long road to fixing our government so that it serves the citizens not the rich parasites. I can hardly wait to see what will be accomplished in the first month.”
Me, “Aren’t you worried that if we get to the election that it will rigged for the republicans to win?”
Goose, “Well that is a risk, and we have to fight to make certain that does not happen. There is a good chance that he will screw up the economy so badly that even gerrymandered districts might not be enough. At the end of July unemployment was already the highest level since November 2021. Tarriffs are at the highest level since the thirties or the Great Depression. I know your Harvard heritage makes you sceptical of anything coming out of Yale but if they are right this is going to have an impact.”
The overall average effective tariff rate on imports faced by consumers is ‘18.6%, the highest since 1933’, according to the Budget Lab at Yale. Consumers are likely to experience higher prices, potentially facing an average annual income loss of $2,400 in 2025 dollars.
Me, “I also read that beef prices have risen above $6 a pound which is the highest price since they started tracking beef prices back in the eighties. At some point we will start paying more for products with oats because 90% of oats used in US foods comes from Canada.”
Goose, “No one wants a recession but the orange maniac seems hell bent on causing one. He has zero economic knowledge. He still thinks other countries are paying the tarriffs. There is little doubt that prices are headed up.”
Me, “Then there is the whole ICE immigration roundup. I just finished watching the latest South Park which skewers Kristi Noem. ‘According to CBS News, as of June 23—around five weeks ago—ICE is holding a record 59,000 immigrant detainees, nearly half with no criminal record, internal data show”. Tonight’s Stephen Colbert skewered Apple’s Tim Cook with a new product called the iKiss for kissing trump’s rear. The sight of companies trying to bribe trump is sickening. People are bound to notice and get tired of a government for the rich.”
Goose, “I think you have proved my point. Tim Cook making a fool of himself is not real news. You for one should know with your experience working at Apple directly for Cook that he has no morals or balls for that matter. He is certainly not a tech visionary.”
Me, “I glad you captured my feelings on Cook. The truth is that Apple has been focused on making money and not great technoloy for as long as I can remember. They still make some very good but very expensive products. They certainly don’t care about our democracy.”
Goose, “I say we agree to pay less attention to the daily Whitehouse clown show and more time visualizing how we fix all the mistakes made during this administration. It will be hard because the current republican party is completely morally bankrupt. It is not impossible especially if we vote most of them out of office.”
Me, “Agreed old buddy. Maybe I just need some time in one of my wild spots to heal my brain.”
Goose, “If you’re going someplace, you need invest in an automatic cat feeder so I won’t get hungry.”
Me, “Goose, I would never let you go hungry, but we could use a few more paying subscribers to keep this writing going.”