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I'm locked out of my mom's Computershare account for an infuriating reason (another time). Comparing the price of her shares now from 2/5/25, when I tried to log in to sell shares for her (because I *knew*):
As of yesterday's close, they were down $12,494; as of today's close, down $22,900 -- they've lost almost 20% of their value in 2 days. (These shares are Dupont and spinoffs, from my dad's benefits.)
I mention this not for sympathy, but to put out a real-life example.
#stocks #crash #idiocy
DT administration fires staff of program that helps low-income households pay for heating
"The DT administration has laid off the entire staff of a $4.1 billion program that helps millions of low-income households pay for heat during the winter, unnerving state officials who are now wondering whether they will still receive millions of dollars in expected federal payments."
AP News · Trump administration fires staff of program that helps low-income households pay for heat
Recession fears as a direct result of DT's trade wars wipes out more than $2 trillion in value from US stocks, many times over what DOGE has claimed to have 'saved'..
https://apnews.com/article/financial-markets-tariffs-trump-trade-cea98013c677e5b9bd6ce6166f4ce659
AP News · Fear that Trump tariffs will spark recession slashes billions of dollars from US stock values
Shares of Apple were down about 9 percent on Thursday morning, which would mark the biggest drop in about five years if it holds until the close, according to CNBC. Amazon shares dropped about 7 percent. - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/642598/apple-stock-trump-tariffs
The Verge · Apple has its biggest stock drop in five years because of Trump’s tariffs
‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: DT imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica
The Guardian · ‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica
The US backing itself into a corner & throwing away allies with its trade wars and wrapping itself up in a warm blanket of paranoia..
"The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens"
#1984 #Paranoia #Idiocy #Fascism #Nazism #USDictatorship #News
AP News · US bans government staff in China from romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens
So, the idiot administration in the US has released their "reciprocal tariffs" that aren't actually reciprocal.
An economist figured out where they got their bogus percentages from; it would be amusing in its stupidity if it weren't so serious. No one involved understands what a trade surplus or trade deficit is, or what it means.
But they also announced rates on "countries" that aren't countries, just territories of another nation.
They announced rates on islands that have 0 human inhabitants, and 0 economic activity, and therefore cannot possibly have a trade surplus with the US.
They announced a tariff rate on an American military base.
It is a clown show.
The question is: where did they get this bogus data from?
Was their big chart of tariff rates generated by an #LLM?
Apparently DT has imposed 10% tariffs on the Heard and McDonald Islands and the volcanic territory between Madagascar and Antarctica.. where there are NO human populations.. 
The US is backing itself into a very small corner & throwing away allied nation after allied nation.. soon no allies at all.. making prices soar for americans & weakening itself more each day against both domestic and foreign actors, not long now until the fall..
Have cut ALL US products out of my life entirely over the last four weeks, everyone should. You cannot appease the unappeasable.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-us-world-reaction-5b8411d056e013015a0df6227b41dd5b
AP News · The world reacts with caution to US 'reciprocal' tariffs against dozens of nationsThe reciprocal tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump have initially been met with measured reactions from key trading partners, highlighting the lack of appetite for a full-fledged trade war. Trump presented the import taxes, ranging from 10% to 49%, in the simplest terms: the U.S. would do to its trading partners what he said they had been doing to the U.S. for decades. The president says it will draw factories and jobs back to the United States.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise there is more folly than wisdom.
[Il y a plus de fous que de sages, et dans le sage même, il y a plus de folie que de sagesse.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 149 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/759…
DT now threatening 'Military Force' to take Greenland
https://apnews.com/article/greenland-denmark-vance-visit-us-base-834785773189f2f12ec6b09f8c5a9321
AP News · Trump says military force not off the table for Greenland after Danish FM scolds his administration
Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children
"Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor
The Guardian · Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: "Under the previous administration, we looked like fools.
Not anymore."
John Fugelsang: "Yes, now we don’t merely look like fools ...”
#politics #idiocy #HaveAnotherDrinkPete
The Orange Menace has indicated he will ease tariffs on China in return for giving DT & Musk the TikTok platform
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/27/donald-trump-china-tariffs-tiktok-deal
The Guardian · Trump floats easing tariffs on China in return for TikTok deal
Incompetent Signal Briefing leak exposes US's contempt for - and their plans for - the EU
The Guardian · Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe
DT administration sent Australian CSIRO 'questions' asking if it is taking ‘appropriate measures’ against gender ideology
The Guardian · CSIRO sent questions from Trump administration asking if it is taking ‘appropriate measures’ against gender ideology
White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist in 'Signal chat' briefing
"Among those aghast at the breach was the Democratic representative Pat Ryan, an army veteran who sits on the House armed services committee who described it using the second world war-era epithet “Fubar” – meaning “fucked up beyond all recognition”."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/journalist-trump-yemen-war-chat
The Guardian · White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
From the Leopards Eating Faces Party
Peter Dutton, LNP candidate, setting up Australia for potential meltdowns, but as long as his best mate Gina Rinehart gets the cash they don't care..
"Proposed nuclear power plants in Queensland could not access enough water to prevent a meltdown, research finds"
The Guardian · Proposed nuclear power plants in Queensland could not access enough water to prevent a meltdown, research finds