Monday Madness: Economy Go Boom

Can you? Because I just can’t even.

The news? Nope. Can’t even.

Thinking? Pfft, as if. I can’t even.

The hilarious thing about Robert Kennedy Jr’s unhinged anti-everything “science, schmience” tirade is we will never have needed mood-altering drugs more than we will after a few months into this shitshow of chaos.

It’s Monday, and thanks to the time change, I already feel like it’s Thursday night.

Week survival odds: Low.

So, today, momentum is building in the furor around Mahmoud Khalil’s illegal abduction.

Tesla stock price has fallen, including after-hours trading, by 22%. (Not sure if Canada opening an investigation on potential fraud has sparked any of that, or maybe it’s just sales falling by, oh, around 70% year over year in many markets.)

All stock markets are collapsing, since apparently slapping tariffs on the incredibly mineral-rich Canada was dumb and ruling a country by whimsy doesn’t strike investors as “stable.” Weird.

Canada’s got a new Prime Minister-designate who’s a beloved economist* and the country has also helped spark a now-growing-worldwide boycott against anything American.

[Shucks, you like us — you really like us! But the world is also boycotting on the behalf of Demark, Greenland, Panama, etc.]

There are so many fucking things going on.

But here’s the thing: This is good.

The DOGE nerds might be “moving fast and breaking things” but it turns out that breaking the American spirit might take a heckin’ lot more work than this.

There are bad things happening today… but also good things. There have been a number of legal victories, including one of the heads of the National Labor Relations Board getting her job back — so many little victories, but still so many injustices too.

The market may need to crash a heck of a lot more, with jobs being lost, to show what ignorant fools these guys are at managing a country and that fascism is, in fact, Bad.

Everyday people will pay the price.

But the good news is, folks are getting angry, and the sooner they get angrier, the sooner conflicts come to a head. It will need to, one way or the other.

This will inevitably become violent. But with whom? The world? Canada? Or will it just be the United States citizens fighting back?

The latter is the best scenario. And if we're lucky, the momentum will be too strong to be denied.

We're nowhere near there but momentum is beginning to build. It’s also becoming better weather for protesting in some regions.

A long hot, probably violent summer is ahead. But Americans know what they’re fighting for, and should they every properly unite, who knows what that outcome is?

In the meantime, braining is hard, folks. Mondays, am I right?

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I gave myself a whole weekend off. Four days! In theory. I planted my resistance garden. Made bread, a world-class pot of lentils I’m about to tuck into.

And I successfully avoided my taxes, despite vowing I would do them.

Adulting really is hard.

Happy evil week of springing forward, and a not-warm-enough welcome our flower overlords.

*Beloved, yes… except by those who think he’s part of everything that’s happening now with his roles running national economies, asset funds, and the like… we will definitely see.