Trump Recession

 Active Shooter by Nancy Ohanian Yesterday, Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee put out a statement reminding people that "In the early months of the coronavirus crisis, prominent former officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations released a public letter stating that 'saving lives and saving the economy are not in conflict right now; we will hasten the return to robust

Unlike the federal government, states can't print money. And many are constitutionally unable to run deficits. You know what they means in the Trump Recession/Depression? Cutbacks inlays that will hurt the already hard-hit working class. And The GOP is doing all it can to make matters worse.

Trump is the quintessential après moi, le déluge president. The last thing he'd ever think about is how anything will do in a post-Trump world.That helps explain why the Wall Street Journal's Kate Davidson wrote a piece yesterday, U.S.

Maybe he just wanted to get peoples' minds off the worst economic report in American history, but Trump's tweet (above) about postponing the election didn't go over well.

If you're a regular DWT reader, you probably wonder, at least some of the time, how prevelent is mental illness among Trump supporters. Most people think rabid Trumpists are just stupid, but there is a big difference between mental illness and low IQs. Yesterday, USA Today published a report by Kelly Tyko about the Arizona woman, Melissa Rein Lively, who, earlier this month filmed herself tearing down a mask display at a Target in Scottsdale.

The Senate Republicans-- Mitch McConnell and his cronies-- have decided to let the 4 month long moratorium on evictions during the pandemic lapse-- despite the fact that the pandemic is raging worse than ever. Friday saw +78,009 new one-day cases and 1,141 one day COVID deaths. The pandemic is out of control in Florida, southern California, Texas and Georgia and rapidly and dangerously rising in smaller states like Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Wisconsin, Arkansas...

Earlier this week, the National Bureau of Economic Research. declared that the U.S. is officially in a recession-- a GDP decline in back-to-back quarters. The stock market reacted by continuing a climb unhinged from any kind of economic reality.

-by Reese ErlichThe current recession was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. But after 11 years of economic boom, a capitalist bust was inevitable.

Yesterday, on top of historically high unemployment insurance filings, NBC News reporters Kasie Hunt and Alex Moe had some more bad news on the personal financial front-- Trump Regime incompetence on full display: "The first Americans to get relief payments from the government under the coronavirus legislation signed into law last month won’t see the money until at least the week of April 13, a

The GOP death cult is super-duper strong in Alabama, where the moron governor has challenged the coronavirus to come and kill all her citizens. Still, Nazis, fascists and assorted racists from all over the U.S. head up to their idea of an Aryan Nation-- Idaho's panhandle.