Losing Their Shit over the Stock Market
Over the last ten weeks or so, the US has turned into an absolute horror show. Let's list a few of the horrors, shall we?
- Mass deportations, revocation of legal status, "accidental" deportation of people who are in the US legally, and international students being "disappeared" for exercising their freedom of speech or who knows what, really. That was such a long sentence because it's a horror show within the horror show.
- The unaccountable wrecking crew led by the eugenicist, Nazi saluter, and Swasticar salesman Musk is making massive cuts to government and usurping the power of Congress. Note that Eugenics Boy was not elected and went through no nomination / confirmation process.
- Antagonizing of allies like Europe and Canada, while being cozy with dictators like Putin.
- Threatening to invade, uh, Greenland and Canada. I can't make this shit up, and the writing staff needs to be fired.
- Filling the government with unqualified yes men like Pete Hegseth.
- Trying to rewrite history.
- Declaring a state of emergency where none exists, so that Dear Leader can invoke the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.
- Governing by Executive Order.
But what was the thing that got Obama and Harris to speak up? Not one of the horrors listed above. No, it was the tariffs, and I suspect the only reason they spoke up about that is because it has put the stock market in freefall.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump Administration walked back the tariffs. It has already happened at least once.
Presumably the stock market will start going up again, because so much of the world uses Microsoft and other US tech, and US cultural "products" are so wide-spread. At this point, some form of status quo returns. All of the people speaking out because the stock market is crashing (including Obama and Harris) will go silent again, and the horror show will continue.
I used the modifier "some form of" to describe status quo, because the US has pissed off most of the world. Eventually, it will not end well.