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Mary Walterman's avatar

This is what happens when you ask ChatGpt to draw up a list of places to put tariffs against and the amounts of said tariffs. Seriously, that is how it happened. No joke.

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Closer to the Edge's avatar

Wow. No one should ever trust ChatGPT. It is so unreliable at times. It's Artificial Stupidity.

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Mary Walterman's avatar

And look who is using it to kill our economy. It explains everything.

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Dina's avatar

Yes, I saw that too, where someone who was suspicious of trump's numbers asked ChatGPT how to calculate tariffs and it came up with the same cockamamie formula trump has apparently used—take the trade deficit and divide it in half and voilá, you've got your tariff figure. And, if there was no trade deficit, throw a 10 percent tariff on 'em just for appearances. He's such an absolute potato.

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julie elder's avatar

Rump’s narcissism makes him act like a greedy kid in a candy store—he wants All The Things for himself. SMH

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Dina's avatar

He's the Veruca Salt of politics.

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julie elder's avatar

LOL Yes!!

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Debbie Detmer's avatar

Ha!!! Imagine, if Vance is after seal meat and polar bears with these tariffs, what the furniture industry, the ones specifically making couches, will be hit with!!!!🥶💪🤣

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Closer to the Edge's avatar

Europe makes some fine couches.

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Suzette's avatar

What will all of the comedians do, when they no longer have Trump to ridicule? Oh, I know, the furniture fornicator, JD Vance.

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Monica Roland's avatar

More fun with JD! I see you're now calling his Arctic misadventure the Greenland Futon Affair. I thoroughly enjoyed that earlier noir fiction series in three parts. And now you include a reference to rogue intelligence asset / wilderness guide "The bustard"!

That word brings to my vintage mind a limerick contest judged by Isaac Asimov in 1978. The winning entry was this gem. I had remembered the words a bit differently, but the internet has come to my rescue:

"The bustard's an exquisite fowl

With minimal reason to growl.

He escapes what would be

Illegitimacy

By grace of a fortunate vowel."

The limerick, of course, is apropos of nothing, but I thought word lovers on this page would enjoy it. Well, maybe the bustard has penguin friends on Heard and McDonald islands.

If you're not bored yet, here's another limerick about international diplomacy.

Said Carter, the Democrats' nominee,

In this the year Anno Domini,

Send grits and not wheat

For the Russians to eat.

And thus you'll achieve

Global hominy.

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Diane's avatar

As always, thank you for making me laugh! (Greenland Futon Affair - bwa hahahaha!!) And as always, thank you for being so brilliant that you have researched the topic of tariffs so well that now you can educate, wishfulling thinking, the people behind the work happening in this adminstration. Idiots be dammed, full speed ahead, don't look forward (and actually plan) or look for actual facts to use, just bumble along to support your king.

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Rob Wise's avatar

As a contract killer you could stand to the right of your victim hold the nozzle of your gun to your right temple and pull the trigger. stand close enough and this will kill your intended victim. we call it the tariff shot. Good luck America !

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JMull's avatar

Time to recharge and ready ourselves for hands off day. You will be energized by all of the good people.

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John Boland's avatar

JD and the Polar Bear? Hey wait - wasn't Monday April Fool's Day?

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Nanny Ann's avatar

The penguin jokes are threatening to drown out the call to action for Saturday. It's just one of tRump's usual distractions.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

When there’s no products bought from the USA, will the felon arrest the penguins?

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Andrea Cherez's avatar

Simple explanation - Rump & company are too lazy and stupid to have factual reasons. They just included every place in that part of the world. Please, no more articles about this distraction. That’s one of their main tools.

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Frances S.'s avatar

Smells more like incompetent to me.

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