EH: S3 E7 edizione speciale TARIFF TURNAROUND baby

today, after the White House announcement of a 180 degree turnaround on tariffs.....

 yup, those MF'ers............

ELDER HOSTILE EDITORIAL

so the $64 million question today is.....if this takeover fails & goes down, what were the main reasons that brought it to fail?  

here at EH, we have, after careful: study, massage, acupuncture, palpate & double helix examine the huge amount of data available to us, have discovered the top two contenders.

#1: the traditional money will stop them.  wall street money will stop them.  institutional money will stop them, the "old money" will stop them.  [the irony of this possible outcome is not lost on ELDER HOSTILE, nor should it be on you]

#2: they are just fookin' STUPID bad guys.  Dumb bad guys.  Dumb liars.  Stupid strategy bad guys.  no strategy bad guys.  the only reason the outcome is in doubt, is that they are so fuckin stupid with executing the plan.  and, god knows this plan has been in the works for at least the last 40 years.  we think that greed mixed with fantastical self view of invulnerability may have contributed to the state we're in.  they could get away with this stuff if they didn't boast about it, do a sloppy job, and did it in increments of years, or months, rather than weeks.  ever hear of the frog in the pot with the heat rising slowly?  we're lucky they are so stupid.  and, it may save our asses.  maybe, not.

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excerpt from Tim Snyder's [our hero] piece on the decision to leave Yale:

I have been writing and speaking for a long time about self-induced regime change in the United States and about the origins of modern tyranny. I share the belief of friends and colleagues that American higher education, the best such system that has ever existed, is now in peril because of the policies of people who wish for it not to exist; and I share the hope that universities will cooperate with one another, rather than be picked off one at a time, that they will support their students at a time of the suppression of freedom of speech and government terror. The attacks by the federal government on Yale don’t have anything to do with my own decision, but I do want to take the opportunity to point out that their rationale is ludicrous. I wrote two books on the Holocaust while at Yale and have been personally engaged in teaching about antisemitism at Yale and around the country during my entire career. History shows that the people who attack universities are not friends of the Jews. The present American government is seeking not to combat antisemitism but to foment it. Not to notice this is to allow the word “antisemitism” to become the political instrument of the actual antisemites, and to allow universities to be destroyed in the name of the latest big lie.

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le onion:

NEWS

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from John Cleese:

A wonderful piece in The Atlantic by George Packer about Trump and his shoeshine boys ( as Conservative grandee Chris Patten calls them )

The lesson emerging is that in the Land of the four-year olds, the five-year old is King

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from the march last saturday

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A determined Squirrel  [requires 1 minute investment of your precious time]

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the first signs we will feel from the tariff debacle

Shoppers can expect to see prices rise on seafood, coffee, fruit, cheese, nuts, candy bars and other imported foods, according to experts. Items that contain ingredients and packaging like plastic and aluminum from other countries will also be hit. Perishable food prices will rise first, followed by shelf-stable goods. Customers may also see smaller-sized products, known as shrinkflation, and find that certain versions of items have been eliminated as companies try to offset their cost hikes from tariffs.

Customers can expect grocery prices to increase “in the next couple of weeks,” said John Ross, the CEO of IGA, a chain of independent grocery stores. “Shoppers will start seeing it at scale across the store in the next 90 days.”

Food prices will rise 2.8% overall from Trump’s tariffs, including 4% for fresh produce, Yale University’s Budget Lab estimates. The cost burden will hit lower-income shoppers, who spend a greater share of their income on essentials, the hardest.

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Trump Assures Wall Street He’ll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon

the onion

Published:

April 4, 2025

WASHINGTON—In response to market panic about his new wide-ranging tariffs, President Donald Trump reportedly offered Wall Street assurance Friday that he would soon go back to just fucking over poor people. “While my trade policy might cause some temporary hardships for investors, it’s ultimately intended to completely fucking destroy the livelihoods of the financially destitute,” said Trump, urging calm by insisting that big banks, hedge funds, and other major players should take a longer-term view to understand that his tariffs were necessary to increase widespread suffering among the impoverished. “My focus is and has always been on ruining the lives of the lower classes. This is just a short-term reorienting of our economy so we can get back to doing what America does best: taking advantage of the needy. In time, these tariffs will liberate the rich and destroy the well-being of the most vulnerable among us, from minimum-wage workers to the homeless.” The president went on to state that his plan to bring wealth back to the affluent and crush the welfare of those in desperate need was “going very well.”

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