Friday is traditionally a bad day for the markets, and after the dive on Thursday in the wake of the imposition of Trumps tariff plan, yesterday was no exception, with all the major markets in correction territory. Althouse cites Trump's response, "This is a patient that was very sick.... It went through an operation on Liberation Day, and it's going to be... a very booming country." ""It's going to be amazing, actually.... The operation's over, and now we let it settle in. You see the plants are starting to construction, already. We have many plants — Indiana massive auto plant...."" Don Surber compares Krugman vs. Trump on tariffs. Atop Da Hill, Rubio says markets will recover after Trump tariff announcement. History suggests this is true. Sasha Stone, Trump Makes a Big Bet on America. At Hat Hai VIP, Beege Welborn says Watching the Tariff Freakouts Has Been Interesting. Sundance at CTH hosts Secretary of State Marco Rubio Holds a Press Conference on Tariffs, NATO, Russia/Ukraine and More and thinks The Apoplexy Over the Trump Tariffs is the “Trillions at Stake” Part of Our Decade’s Long Discussion. At Fox, Democrat Rep Jared Golden says his party's moving in 'wrong direction' on trade. Stephen Kruiser at PJM sees The World Is Suddenly Full of International Economics Experts. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Lefty Trump Supporter Blasts the Elites for Inducing a Fake Market Sell-Off Over Trump Tariffs.
At Da Fed, Sean Davis makes the case that Tariffs Are The Only Way To Restore America’s Long-Term Economic Health. Dave Strom at Hat Hair considers the accusation Are Republicans Being Hypocrites on Tariffs? Jake H @jake22_h, "President Trump announces his tariffs have brought pretty much every country to the negotiating table already. “Every country's called us. That's the beauty of what we do. We put ourselves in the driver's seat.” This is the way." Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid, "Breaking: Argentina in final negotiations with the US to become the first zero-tariff country. As always, @JMilei is ahead of every other leader." News 18, Donald Trump Says Vietnam, Hit By Big Reciprocal Tariffs, Seeks To Cut Down US Import Levies To Zero. From ET, 7 Takeaways From Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Rollout and Here’s How Much the US Is Tariffing Each Country, "Aside from a universal 10 percent levy, roughly 60 countries will be hit with additional reciprocal tariffs." From Da Wire, ‘Sit Back, Take It In’: Treasury Secretary Threatens Tariff ‘Escalation’ If Countries ‘Retaliate’, "Let's see how it goes." At Tom's Hardware, China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans some rare earth exports to the U.S. From NYPo, Trump says China ‘played it wrong’ with tariff retaliation, vows ‘my policies will never change.’ Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "For the record, this is exactly what I voted for."1) 1996 Nancy Pelosi encourages all of Congress to back reciprocal tariffs
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 4, 2025
2) 2008 Bernie Sanders wants tariffs, says jobs are going overseas
3) 2018 Barack Obama calls for reciprocal tariffs
4) 1988 Donald Trump says foreign countries must pay tariffs
Only 1 hasn’t sold out pic.twitter.com/6jqXqaYALC
At Fox Business, US economy added jobs at a faster pace in March "Labor Department releases closely watched March jobs report . . . The Labor Department on Friday announced that employers added 228,000 jobs in March, above the estimate of LSEG economists, who anticipated 135,000 jobs gained." Matt Vespa at TownHall notices How the Associated Press Reacted to the March Jobs Report The Associated Press@AP, "BREAKING: U.S. employers added a surprising 228,000 jobs last month, as the American labor market continues to show resilience." Ace, Trump Nears the Record for Reductions in the Federal Workforce as Jobs Growth Comes In, Get This, Above "Expectations." "Cut the fat."
John Sexton sees US Bans Sex Between Government Personnel and Chinese Citizens, "This ban doesn't apply to Americans here at home, like Rep. Swalwell for instance. Instead it applies to government workers and their families who are serving in China." At the Victory Girls, Former Chinese Ambassador Banned Dangerous Liaisons. From the Free Bacon, Trump Cancels Biden Grants to China-Tied Think Tank Behind War on Gas Stoves, "One grant to left-wing Rocky Mountain Institute funded research on 'equity' in electric vehicle carshare programs." From Fox Business, Trump's Ukraine minerals deal off for now, but there are alternatives for US, "Democratic Republic of the Congo interested in deal with Trump administration." Dave Strom says I Am So, So Tired of European Hypocrisy.
Marc Thiessen at WaPoo, The Signal chat’s big takeaway? Trump has built an effective team. Bonchie at RedState thinks Jennifer Griffin's Bias Against Pete Hegseth Is Reaching Parodic Levels Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC, "NEW: Houthis shoot down 3rd MQ9 Reaper drone since March 3rd; 2nd since March 15th airstrike campaign began. Another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone was shot down by the Houthis in Yemen, sources tell Fox News. This is the third MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down by the Houthis in the last month. . . . Each MQ-9 drone costs about $30 million dollars a piece, according to the Congressional Research Service. The Houthis have shot down at least 13 American drones since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2023. . ." "That struck me as odd because I sure can't remember Griffin ever expressing deep concern over the Biden administration regarding the monetary costs of its military losses. In the past few months, though, she's repeatedly reported on the dollar amounts of various Pentagon expenditures under the Trump administration. Why did that suddenly become relevant? Even taking her post at face value, it comes across as crass. If a drone costs $30 million, what's the cost of a pilot's life? Because that's the alternative to having a Reaper flying low and slow with limited countermeasures and no SEAD support. The entire point of a drone is that it is expendable, which allows you to get closer to the enemy than you might otherwise deem worth the operational risk." Beege Welborn considers The Menace of Malicious Compliance in Our Military.
UPI whines Senate confirms Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid. Ben Bartee at PJM thinks you should WATCH MAHA Envoy DECIMATES ‘Reporters and Lobbyists’ at Health Care Summit.
At Vancouver City News, Pregnant Woman injured after 2 pound rock flies through Tesla windshield: Vancouver police. "Sgt. Steve Addison says the injured woman came within a few inches of dying. She suffered a “serious, but non-life-threatening injury, and is recovering.” At WokeSpy, Alleged Tesla Vandals Better Get Ready for Their Jailhouse Close-ups. At CJ, Chris Rufo says Trump Must Act to Halt the Tesla Terror Campaign, "The Left’s splintering violence threatens a veto over democratic power" and Kyle Shideler explains How to Prosecute the Tesla Bombers. "Federal terrorism law may not be the best tool to hold them accountable. The states should step in."
Unbelievably, Joe Biden Spent Millions on an EPA Museum to Propandize to People How Much the EPA Has Done for Them, "Thankfully, it did little propagandizing because who on earth would go to the "EPA Museum." These people demented space aliens. They have no conception of how actual humans think. Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy. I used to laugh at conspiracy theories about "the Reptilians." Now I want to know more."
John Sexton sees Trump Gets a Win at the Supreme Court. "The Supreme Court on Friday let the Trump administration temporarily suspend $65 million in teacher-training grants that the government contends would promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, an early victory for the administration in front of the justices... The decision was 5 to 4, with five of the court’s conservatives — Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Brett M. Kavanaugh — in the majority. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voted with the court’s three liberal justices in dissent." Da Hill whines a Divided Supreme Court sides with Trump to block teacher grants. Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland, "SCOTUS grants stay in case with injunction ordering payment of grants. Reasoning suggests all other cases brought under ADA seeking payment of grants will be stay. I'd wager Roberts might even join if it is a Preliminary Injunction and not a TRO. 1/" At Althouse, "The aim is clear: to stop the executive branch in its tracks and prevent the administration from changing direction on hundreds of billions of dollars of government largesse..." ""... that the executive branch considers contrary to the United States’ interests and fiscal health. Only this court can right the ship — and the time to do so is now." Wrote Sarah M. Harris, the acting solicitor general, in an emergency application, quoted in "Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend Grants to Teachers/In boilerplate letters, the administration told recipients that the grants supported diversity efforts and were wasteful." (NYT)." CA Skeet at PJM says John Roberts Needs to Do His Job Already. Breitbart cites JD Vance: ‘We Were Prepared’ for ‘Radical Courts’ to Interfere with Deportation Efforts. Beege Welborn says Now They Gone and Done It: Guess Why a Federal Judge Blocked Venezuelan Deportations? Racism! "Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee from Northern California, has decided that 'America First is what's racist and so those Venezuelans aren't going anywhere if it's up to him. Which he's decided it is." Da Caller, Guess How Many Democratic Party State AGs Are Now Fighting Trump’s Executive Order To Stop Voter Fraud.
No Pasaran! The Marine Le Pen Ban: Don't Courts Prove Once Again that Politicization Comes from the Left and that the Right Is Justified in Opposing Their Respective Judiciaries? sebastien laye @SebastienLaye, "The US should sanction France for anti-democratic practices since the main political opponent (once again like in 2017) has just been barred from running for the next presidential election." Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "VDH: The Left Couldn’t Throw Trump in Jail — Marine Le Pen Wasn’t So Lucky: “They only applied this law to her because they were terrified she was going to win in the next presidential election." "Does this sound familiar?" “They're copying the left wing chapter and verse of the United States." "They saw what they did to Donald Trump, and they said, that is a good thing to do. We can do better. And they have done better." "Where they were unable to destroy Trump and only made him stronger the more they tried to destroy him. The Europeans succeeded."
Da Caller, Trump Reportedly Fires Several Staffers From National Security Council, rumor suggests a role from Laura Loomer, but Trump denies. Ace, Trump Fires NSA Director, His Deputy, and Six Other NSA Staffers; Speculation Is That Laura Loomer Showed Trump Evidence That They Were Disloyal Biden Holdovers Undermining His Executive Authority "Finally we're getting the "You're Fired's" we were promised in 2016." I don't care if she did, more is better.
From Da Fetched, Obama Warns: “Sacrifice May Be Necessary” to Resist Trump. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Oh, So This Was Kamala Harris's Reaction After Losing to Trump, disbelief. She thought they had it. At Hot Hair Mitch Berg notice The Empire Gets Off The Couch, Waddles To Its Computer, And Strikes Back. "Governor Walz has ordered state workers back to the office. He sternly scolded public employee unions for, in many cases, exploiting work from home rules, and upbraided them for stretching their hooky time to five years... ...oh, I'm just kidding. He ordered them back to the office for 50% of their scheduled hours, according to Minnesota Public Radio." And Dave Strom thinks This Is Too Funny: Satanists Put Up Plaque in MN Capitol Thanking Gov. Walz For Supporting Them.
John Sexton reports a North Carolina Court Decision Could Reverse Outcome of Supreme Court Election "A panel of judges from a North Carolina Appeals Court ruled today that a group of 65,000 challenged votes will be tossed if the voters don't cure their ballots within 15 days. That could upend the race in which incumbent North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Allison Riggs, a Democrat, narrowly defeated challenger Jefferson Griffin, a Republican, by fewer than 1,000 votes." DNYUZ, Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election.
At Althouse, "We will never forget the names of precious American souls like Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and many others who were savagely killed by illegal alien crime." ""Last June, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally assaulted and murdered by two illegal aliens in her home state of Texas. To memorialize her young life and love of nature and animals, I proudly renamed the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas to the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge. May this be Jocelyn’s little piece of Heaven on Earth." From "National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, 2025," a proclamation by President Trump (at whitehouse.gov)." Fox, 3 alleged MS-13 gang members in Florida hit with federal murder charges. Maine News, Honduran National Pleads Guilty to Illegally Reentering the US After Border Patrol Stop in Brownville, Brownsville Maine, not Texas. "Immigration records showed that Matute-Duarte was arrested in 2015 for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas, and was deported." He gets around.
John Sexton thinks the Nashville PD Report on Covenant Shooting Reveals Some Interesting Aspects of the Case "So she was happy to think about murdering children before killing herself, but didn't want people to think she was racist. Someone could write a dissertation on that one." At Twitchy, USA Fencing Gets Absolutely SKEWERED for Sexist Statement on 'Tolerance' After Expelling Female Fencer. Queen Velvet @TMIWITW, "If a male doesn’t want to compete with males, he goes to the girls team. If a female doesn’t want to compete with males, she’s off the team." A Michele Tafoya video at Hat Hair, This Is How You Handle Men in Women's Sports. At Da Fetched, Democrat Lawmakers Compare Parent Groups Opposing Trans Bill to the ‘KKK’. At WJ, Trump Admin Cuts State Off from Federal Funds After Refusal to Follow Executive Order. "The Department of Agriculture has stopped sending certain federal funds to Maine schools because the state allows transgender athletes to play in women’s sports. In a 180-degree change from the Biden administration, the Trump administration has ruled that Title IX requires that only biological females can play in women’s sports."
At NYPo, Pro-life activist left covered in blood after being sucker-punched during NYC street interview on abortion. John Sexton reports Antifa's Disrupts UC Davis Event While Police Stand By and Do Nothing and 'Pro-Palestinian' Activists Take Over McGill University in Montreal.
Insty claims THE TRUTH COMES OUT: Will Hild @WillHild, "The dam is breaking: Time is now openly stating what we've been saying for year — corporate ESG goals were a *knowing and willing* prioritization of a far-left political agenda over serving customers and fiduciary duty."
At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.04.25, EBL, Dems Are Trying To Buy Elections (and rain is known to be wet), MAGA Liberation Day : Make America Wealthy Again, Top Secret!, Twitchy: CNN Complains Bombing Houthis Is Too Expensive. Trump Disagrees & BOOM Go The Houthis, DNC Chair Announces Unelected “People’s Cabinet” Of Experts To Fight Trump, House Democrats would rather STORM OFF than vote to end “gender affirming care” for troons, They tried forcing a female fencer to compete against a (trans) man, but she took this brave stance instead, The Media Wants You To Believe Trump Deported A Loving Father – They’re Lying, and Scott Jennings shuts down CNN libs who claim there is buyer’s remorse for voting Trump, Vox Popoli, China Hits Back, It’s Just the Opening Bid, and Shall We Step Into the Narrative?, American Conservative, This Is What an Actually Effective Filibuster Looks Like, also, U.S. Economy Added 228,000 Jobs in March, Beating Expectationsm American Greatness: Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Administration to Return Alleged MS-13 Gang Member to the U.S., Judge Considers Holding Trump Admin Officials in Contempt of Court Over Illegal Alien Deportations, Police Chief in Minnesota Refers to Tesla Vandal as ‘Victim’ of ‘Rhetoric’, Sen. Rand Paul on Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Taxes Should Not Be Enacted By One Person’, and Democrats File Lawsuit To Block Trump’s Executive Order Requiring U.S. Citizenship to Vote, American Thinker: Trump’s Tariffs Will Not Cause Inflation, Cory Booker and an MS-13 Massacre, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pronouns, Make IRS Sauce The Same For Both Citizen Goose and Politician Gander, and What’s the Real Target of the Assault on Tesla?, Animal Magnetism, Rule Five Queen of Word Salads Friday, BattleSwarm, Democrats Still All In On Transing Your Kids, DOGE Discovers Giant Social Security Fraud, and more! Much more!
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