[Pain] HUGE, self-inflicted Recession incoming due to Trump/Musk

Screw the moon and stuff...I like that it's the dude on top of Mount Olympus

tide goes in, tide goes out...whenever that guy wants it

 

It goes on a high shelf with the magnets like from Insane Clown Posse or whatever. But at least magnets are pretty difficult, at a deep level. Tides... LOL... not as difficult.

 

lol ICP magnets was my first thought too.

 

I don't know how either of those things work...I'm still trying to figure out daylight savings time

 

You can always move to Arizona.

 

[BONUS COVERAGE]
Tides: Gravity pulls more strongly on things that are closer and pulls more weakly on things that are farther away. The moon's gravity pulls on the Earth, just as muhc as the Earth's gravity pulls on it. They pull on each other. But, in the finer details, they pull more strongly on the parts of one another that are closest to one another.

Moar:

Spoiler

What that means for the Moon: having the strongest pull always on the part facing earth meant, long ago, the Moon "phase locked" to us. That's why we always see the same face.

What that means for the Earth: we are bigger and harder to affect, but we too are slowly phase locking. Many millions of years from now, only one side of the Earth will face the Moon, and a "day" will be a whole lunar cycle long. (Just think of the sleep we will get!) In the meantime, the Moon also pulls on the squishy parts of Earth -- the oceans. The oceans bulge out toward the Moon when facing it (one high tide), and bulge away from the Earth on the side facing away from the Moon, where the pull is weaker (the other high tide).

That's it in a nutshell. Don't tell Bill O'Reilly, or Zeus.

 

And open a leather shop

 

This does seem to be unsustainable. Left out of the chart is the rest of the top 20%, which means 20% of the population drives abut 63% of consumer spending. Note the big change when the COVID stimulus came out. We need more changes to push us further in that direction.

 

Thanks to Trump and Miller, today 200,000 asylum seekers, refugees, and DACA folks will not be able to make a career out of truck driving. None of the people in these categories can apply for a CDL anymore and those with current licenses will not have them renewed. That's about 1/17 of all truck drivers in the US--semi, light, and delivery. I'm sure that will help with both grocery prices and and fuel deliveries. None of the people in these categories can apply for a CDL and those with current licenses will not have them renewed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/16/trump-immigrants-trucks/

 

President Trump will press the "cheap eggs" button any day now.

 

We`ve seen a strain on transportation for so long this will make it even worse, when I was a kid my dad had multiple trucks and made a dam good living but when they deregulated the industry he got out and the road to being a driver is at its lowest. Between Ins, Fuel, crooked brokers, to many people get a cut before the driver gets his...............people wanted cheap goods and they have driven that industry into the ground, your better off working at Wal Mart than driving a company truck, now if you can afford your own and be independent, you can do some things, I have some friends who are Owner Operator and the husband and wife run as a "team" on loads originating in Htown and then go to Alaska via Edmonton and Calgary, they leave on Tuesday night and get back the following Tuesday and do it all over again, they do pretty dang good, but they are on the road (literally) 24/7 and those wheels don't stop

 

Jerome Powell: Job Growth Slows To 'Essentially Zero'

 

At least 40% of Russia's oil export capacity halted, Reuters calculations show

MOSCOW, March 25 (Reuters) - At least 40% of Russia's oil export capacity is at a halt following Ukrainian drone attacks, a disputed attack on a major pipeline and the seizure of tankers, according to Reuters calculations based ‌on market data.
The shutdown is the most severe oil supply disruption in the modern history of Russia, the world's second largest oil exporter, and has hit Moscow just as oil prices exceeded $100 a barrel due to the Iran war.

France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed

France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets. Lescure warned it could take up to three years to restore damaged facilities, and several months to restart those that were urgently shut down.

 

Cheapest gas in our neighborhood. Thanks Obama.