Dem Washington Senator Maria Cantwell and Republican Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday jointly introduced a bill titled “The Trade Review Act of 2025,” imposing automatic expiry of any tariff levied by the president after 60 days if that tariff is not approved by Congress. Interesting.

“(a) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT — Not later than 48 hours after imposing or increasing a duty with respect to an article imported into the United States, the President shall submit to Congress a notification of the imposition of or increase in the duty that includes – (1) an explanation of the reasoning for imposing or increasing the duty; and (2) an assessment of the potential impact of imposing or increasing the duty on United States businesses and consumers. (b) EXPIRATION OF DUTIES; EXTENSION BY CONGRESS – Any duty on an article imported into the United States shall remain in effect for a period of not more than 60 days, unless there is enacted into law a joint resolution of approval with respect to the duty under subsection (e). (c) DISAPPROVAL BY CONGRESS – If a joint resolution of disapproval with respect to a duty is enacted into law under subsection (e), the duty shall cease to have force or effect,” says the relevant part of the bill’s text.

Huh. Yeah this will probably pass pretty easily, which means Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson’s going to be in some trouble when he refuses to bring it to the floor of the House.

Chrysler, which is now apparently called “Stellantis NV” but fuck that, announced on Thursday that they’ll be temporarily laying off 900 workers at five Jeep and Dodge assembly plants in the US and completely mothballing a plant in Canada and another in Mexico, Reuters reports, writing specifically the layoffs are coming “after President Donald Trump’s tariffs were announced.”

Reuters’ article is a little tough to parse as to whether the US shutdowns are indefinite, as it says that “The US plants affected are powertrain and stamping facilities. Stellantis’ Windsor Assembly, where the Chrysler Pacifica minivan and Dodge Charger Daytona are made, will be down for two weeks while Toluca Assembly, where the Jeep Compass and Jeep Wagoneer S are made, will be down the month of April, the company said.” Not a great sign either way though.

Woah…

On CNN Trump is Orange, on Fox he isn't

This is the scam

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— Tim Pool (@Timcast) April 3, 2025

Claiming she’s being targeted for being a “RINO” who has “stood up to far-right extremism,” Republican Idaho State Representative Stephanie Mickelsen tells KTVB an undocumented Mexican immigrant who works on one of her family’s potato farms was arrested in January just days after Ada County GOP Vice Chair Ryan Spoon tweeted “Attention, Mr Homan, could you please send some illegal immigration raids to businesses owned by State Rep Stephanie Mickelson? She has been bragging about how many illegals her businesses employ,” which she didn’t so much as voice concerns over a bill allowing local cops to enforce immigration law, then voted for it anyway.

“The fallacy in all this is that every employer out there has to follow the law, but the law is very narrow as far as what we can get, what we can ask and what we can do,” Mickelsen said, now opposing a bill to impose E-verify on her and every other farm employer in the state. “And then if we don’t follow those laws, and if we were knowingly hiring undocumented workers or illegals, there’s like, you can get a fine of up to $27,000 per employee.” Maybe just don’t be a Republican anymore.

“Of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe. Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole. Next move, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024! Can’t play games with MARKETS. KAMALA CRASH!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump at 9:45 AM EDT on August 5, 2024, apparently connecting a one-day Dow Jones drop of 1,033 points to his poll numbers.

Then it was “VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH AND GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024, NOT TO MENTION THE PROBABILITY OF WORLD WAR lll IF THESE VERY STUPID PEOPLE REMAIN IN OFFICE. REMEMBER, TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!” at 9:59 AM EDT (Fun fact: The “III” in “WORLD WAR III” was actually three lowercase Ls).

And then “TRUMP CASH vs KAMALA CRASH!” at 10:02 AM EDT on the same day.

As of 9:43 AM EDT on Thursday, 13 minutes after the opening bell, the Dow Jones is down 1,131 points at 2.75 percent, the S&P 183.61 points/3.29 percent, the Nasdaq 805.14 points/4.56 percent.

The headline above is slightly truncated from “To anyone on Wall Street this morning, I would say trust in President Trump,” which was Krazy Karoline’s response to CNN’s Kate Bolduan saying tariffs are “going to mean higher prices for Americans. How much pain on a temporary basis is okay?”

At least four people were killed Wednesday – one in Arkansas and three in Tennessee – in a massive storm system that spawned dozens of tornadoes in the Mississippi Valley area, one that threatens to continue on Thursday as 30 million people from Texas to Ohio and West Virginia remain under an elevated threat, USA Today reports. Hundreds of school districts will remain closed in the region.

“THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday morning.

Yeah, he seriously fucking wrote that. In all caps, preserved for effect in the copypasta here.

The owner of a South Carolina Trump merch store called “Keep on Trumpin” says he has no choice but to do exactly that, but at higher prices, Palmetto Politics reports in a story that was printed on Wednesday before the Orange God Emperor imposed what’s now a 54 percent tariff on Chinese manufactured goods, which is probably like fucking everything in the store.

“As we go further into the summer, it could end up being a 10 to 15 percent increase for us,” said Rick Kligman on Monday, low-balling how bad it was going to be for him and the stupid bullshit that he hawks, like the “Make Your Garden Great Again.” gnome. Kligman adds he “won’t have any real choice in the matter” of whether to raise prices on his cult customers. “We’ll have to, but we’ll try to swallow some of it on our end,” he continued, probably lying, but still signaling his “patriotism.”

“We don’t want to be too dramatic,” Kligman then said. Lol. Another interviewee, Israeli immigrant Viktor Ilus, who in 2012 opened “The Dixie Shop” in Myrtle Beach, which sells Confederate battle flags next to cardboard cutouts of Trump and Jaydee Vance, was unintentionally prescient, saying it’d be fine if his suppliers jacked prices up by 10 percent. “That’s not going to affect nobody,” Ilus said. Palmetto Politics then writes “But if those prices spike – by say, 58 percent, he threw out – Ilus won’t hesitate to cut back on pricier items like T-shirts and hats.” Only off by 4 percent.

An unnamed Israeli economic official tells i24 News’s Amichai Stein that they “are in shock” over convicted felon President Trump’s decision to impose a 17 percent tariff on their exports, given how much the Netanyahu Regime does to kiss his fat ass. “We were sure that the decision to completely cancel tariffs on imports from the US would prevent this move. But it didn’t happen.”

New York City Mayor Eric Adams tells Politico he’s dropping out of the Democratic primary to keep his job and instead running as an independent against likely Dem nominee former Governor Andrew Cuomo and whoever the Republican nominee is, probably trying to get the latter elected.

Also hilarious from Treasury Suckretary Scott Bessent: The jackass doesn’t even know for certain if there’s going to be a 34 percent tariff or a 54 percent tariff on Chinese goods.

“On a static basis, today’s announcement would raise just under $400 billion in revenue, or about 1.3 percent of GDP, which would be the largest tax increase since the Revenue Act of 1968. We estimate that today’s announced measures could boost PCE prices by 1-1.5 percent this year, and we believe the inflationary effects would mostly be realized in the middle quarters of the year. The resulting hit to purchasing power could take real disposable personal income growth in 2Q-3Q into negative territory, and with it the risk that real consumer spending could also contract in those quarters. This impact alone could take the economy perilously close to slipping into recession.”

“And this is before accounting for the additional hits to gross exports and to investment spending. Headlines about retaliatory measures by US trading partners are already coming out, and we expect to learn more in coming days. The somewhat confusing nature of today’s news, coupled with uncertainty over how long these tariffs will remain in place, should make for an even less friendly environment for investment spending (though that is one way to narrow the saving – investment imbalance and hence narrow the current account deficit). We plan to revisit our forecast later this week,” writes some egghead at JP Morgan Chase in an “analysis note” or something.

Four Republicans – Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rnd Paul, and Mitch McConnell – joined with Dems on Wednesday to pass the resolution ending convicted felon President Trump’s “state of emergency” under which he’s imposing these batshit stupid tariffs on every country except Russia and Belarus. Not totally clear if this is a non-binding resolution or if it’s have to go to the House.

Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq futures on Wednesday all dropped worse than Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner’s estrogen levels do right before her daily show, with the Dow down 924, the S&P off 188, and Nasdaq shedding 830 points, per CNBC’s ongoing celebration of Liberation Day.

On the list of countries and territories hit with tariffs are the Heard and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory in the South Indian Ocean with an estimated population of 4 million.

Penguins. Millions of penguins. Zero exports, let alone permanent human inhabitants or any economy or exporting industries. There’s substantial volcanic activity from Mawson Peak on Heard Island. The territory is thousands of miles from mainland Australia, South Africa, Madagascar, and Reunion, and is only occasionally visited by research teams and the Royal Australian Navy.

But should any of that change within the next few weeks and suddenly a semiconductor manufacturing plant sets up shop on McDonald Island – the one without the dangerous active volcano – then they’re not going to be ripping us off anymore right away at 10 percent out the gate.

“Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have been working tirelessly on taking the next step to pass the plan for our ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL, as it is known, as well as getting us closer to the Debt Extension necessary to continue our great work. The Senate Budget plan gives us the tools that we need to get our shared priorities done, including certain PERMANENT Tax Cuts, Spending Cuts, Energy, Historic Investments in Defense, Border, and much more. We are going to cut Spending, and right-size the Budget back to where it should be. The Senate Plan has my Complete and Total Support. Likewise, the House is working along the same lines. Every Republican, House and Senate, must UNIFY. We need to pass it IMMEDIATELY!” posted convicted felon President Trump after celebrating Liberation Day on Wednesday.

The urgency is of course to get it done before the recession he’s just set in motion fully kicks in and it’ll be harder politically to justify cutting taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

Nintendo unveiled their hotly-anticipated new hybrid home/travel gaming console the Switch 2 on Wednesday, setting an MSRP price of $449.99 on its debut June 5th, just hours before convicted felon President Trump announced 34 percent tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods puts the price at $603 and thus probably closer to $900 after you get though all the fucking scalpers. So you’re basically taking a piranha plant up the ass just to play the latest Super Mario games.

THIS IS IT! Convicted felon President Trump, after getting rolled twice by both Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will finally announce his huge tariff plan and set off a recession just like he’s been planning to do! Or not! Who the fuck knows! Trump definitely delayed this by an hour so he could do it after the stock market closed, lol.