Sometimes it’s hard to take in the good news through all the pain.
Bad news first, but even some of the bad news (for us) is also bad news for this out-of-control administration.
We are in the midst of one of the worst measles outbreaks since the measles vaccine was introduced over 60 years ago. When kids are dying will the anti-vax parents get a clue? The jury is still out on that one.
The economy has slowed, inflation remains too high, people are losing their jobs and trade wars are tanking our stock markets.
But I like the looks of this word cloud!
Simon Rosenberg had a (relatively) optimistic take today.
The last few days I’ve been writing to you that it has felt like some of the wheels have started coming off the Trump-Musk bus from hell.
The ridiculous car-salesmen-in-chief’s pitch for Teslas yesterday in the White House driveway showed how worried the two madmen are about their joint stumbles (WHY ISN’T MUSK WEARING A SUIT!).
- Musk has seen his Tesla stock lose half its value.
- SpaceX had another rocket blow up.
- Twitter/X had a global outage that appears to have been from their own internal mismanagement.
- Anti-Tesla protests are popping up in more places and getting bigger.
- Musk’s rancid attempt to dissemble the US government keeps losing in court, including the Supreme Court.
- Trump’s approval has dropped.
- Consumers have lost confidence in Trump’s economic stewardship.
- Trump’s dangerous abandonment of Ukraine is being challenged very aggressively by our European allies, Democrats and even Senate Republicans.
It’s kind of nice seeing that all in one place.
There was also an upbeat report from Dan Pfeiffer, who is the smart Obama bro and the only one I pay attention to anymore.
When people say America is turning into an oligarchy, this is what they mean. It’s corrupt, but it’s also politically tone-deaf.
The so-called populist presidential candidate who ran as the self-proclaimed champion of the working class is responding to rising prices and a sinking stock market by writing a check to the world’s richest man.
I don’t need a poll to tell me how poorly that little stunt will go over.
And of course I’ll add that that the CR vote did not go Trump’s way, and we’ve had some strong statements today from the Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate.