Things To Look For This Week
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I like to subscribe to a number of magazines in solid, paper form. I read them mostly in the evenings with a cat on my lap, usually Jose. Sunday night I was reading the long article in the April 7 New Yorker about John Thune. Since the inauguration, the lag between print articles and social media. While I was reading it, Bluesky was melting down about the meltdowns in the Asian and futures financial markets. Aaron Rupar furnished clips of Donald Trump saying that the tariffs would even out the trade deficits, which he doesn’t like, once again making perfectly clear that the tariff meltdown is due to his ignorance, not four-dimensional chess.
The financial wizards who backed Trump for his promised cutbacks in regulations and taxes never thought he would do the tariffs he had been talking about since the 1980s. John Thune was inscrutable to the reporter writing about him, although seemingly leaning away from Trump’s more extreme tendencies and hoping they didn’t eventuate.
He argued that the new Administration would follow protocol “as their agenda and priorities start being reflected in some of these appropriations bills.”
We haven’t heard much from Thune the past few days. One might hope he is working with his caucus to deal with the tariffs.
On Bluesky, Tom Pepinsky suggested three things to look for during this week. He has limited viewing of his posts to those logged into Bluesky, but I think they’re important enough to do screenshots. This is a more extended discussion.
Good luck to us all.