A Disastrous Jobs Report, Russia Is Helping Iran Attack The US, The War Is Spinning Out Of Control - America Needs A Course Correction, Now
Our addled and desperate leader is putting America and the world into grave danger - Democrats must fight to force a course correction......
Morning all. We are going to discuss three important news stories this morning - the disastrous jobs report, Russia helping Iran kill Americans, dire warnings coming from the Middle East. Let’s start with the warning from Qatar this morning. Trump’s reckless, impulsive new war has become a clear and present danger to the global economy:
Next, a Washington Post bombshell - Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces:
Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.
The assistance, which has not been previously reported, signals that the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America’s chief nuclear-armed competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities.
Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
Let’s remember that our addled leader expressed “surprise” that Iran (and Russia it now appears) would retaliate:
Finally, the disastrous jobs report. We lost 92,000 jobs in February. This data confirms other recent data that Trump’s economic policies have failed, and that things are heading in the wrong direction. GDP grow fell sharply in the fourth quarter. Inflation is rising again. We are now losing jobs. Our fiscal condition - already weakened by the eventual loss of trillions of revenue due to the striking down of the tariffs, higher than desired interest rates, and reckless tax cuts - is going to deteriorate even further as the economy slows.
And what has Trump done to address these worsening conditions his failed policies have brought? He’s done two things to make things worse:
Slapped another round of illegal, temporary tariffs on the world, keeping prices high, and putting downward pressure on jobs and growth (bad)
Launched an illegal, unnecessary and reckless war, one that is going to hike prices to rise further and push America deeper into a new vicious cycle of higher prices, slower growth, and a worsening fiscal picture - AND - as we are learning this morning has become a serious threat to economies of every country in the world.
Let’s review some basic data this morning. We’ve now lost jobs in 5 of the past 9 months:
Only 215,000 jobs have been created in America in Trump’s first fourteen months. This is less than the monthly average under Clinton and Biden:
Gas prices are spiking in the US:
The last two inflation reports showed inflation has been re-ignited and is rising prior to the price shock that is coming from the war:
This war, launched without consulting Congress, has become a clear and present danger to our economy and the economy of the world.
Given what we are learning today Democrats must fight to force an immediate course correction on several fronts:
Make Clear We Support Ukraine and Europe, Not Russia - Russia is helping Iran attack America, Ukraine is coming to defend us. There can be no more corrupt and dangerous Trumpian appeasement of Putin, particularly as the tide may be turning against Russia in Ukraine.
Democrats should revive the bi-partisan Russian sanctions bill in the Senate, and introduce an aid package for Ukraine to re-direct our focus to the war that is far more geopolitically important to America than our new Gulf War.
Work To End This New Gulf War, And Trump’s Global Imperial Ambitions - Put America back on the side of rule of law and democracy, here and everywhere, and end this illegal, and unnecessary, war that is now threatening the global and US economies.
Roll Back The New, Illegal Tariffs - To help ease rising inflation Trump must be forced to roll back his new, illegal and destructive tariffs. The Dem AGs have already filed a new law suit. We should be forcing votes once again in Congress and fight this reckless policy.
Rescind The Trump Tax Cuts, Claw Back The Extra ICE Funding - With the $2.4t in tariff revenue Trump was planning on getting from his tariffs (over 10 years) eventually disappearing, and our fiscal condition in the US worsening, we cannot afford the Trump tax cuts and extra ICE funding. Both policies, at the core of the big ugly bill, should be reversed.
Make The US A Clean Energy Superpower, Fight For True Energy Independence, And Lower Energy Prices For The American People - This war is a reminder that committing America to the transition from fossil fuels to cheaper, safer, cleaner renewable energy is not just an economic and climate necessity it is a geopolitical one too. Paul Krugman has a terrific piece on this today well worth your time.
Keep Fighting To Rein In ICE, End Mass Deportation - cannot let up on this for one moment.
As I discussed in my talk this week we have to come to understand Trump not just an impulsive madman but also as a titanic fuck up. He’s doing repeated material harm to the country and the world. He’s tanked our economy; caused inflation to re-ignite, is putting America into a dangerous fiscal position; taken a wrecking ball to our health care system; made Measles and other diseases great again; trampled our rights and liberties; is illegally invading other countries and destabilizing the world; abandoned our allies and appeased dictators; and is illegally covering up the most consequential scandal in American history….the list goes on and on.
Democrats should be working towards creating a comprehensive agenda now to address the harms of Trump’s second term. It can become the basis of our 2026 campaign pitch, and a blueprint for what we do when we gain back power in 2027. Consider what I’ve offered here today as an early draft, as is our working Hopium Agenda.
Now, my friends…..
Let’s Get To Work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Advocate For The Hopium Agenda/Pass Resolutions Of Condemnation In Your Community/Study The Spangerberger And Padilla Speeches
Two more ways you can go to work in the coming days - call your leaders and advocate for elements of our working, ever evolving Hopium Agenda; and bring resolutions that condemn our Mad King and lets facts be spoken to a candid world to your state or local government.
This week our calls should clearly focus on reining in both the illegal war in the Middle East and ICE here at home.
Keep working hard everyone. The momentum is with us, and we need to keep fighting as hard as we can - Simon
I am utterly perplexed that Republicans have somehow earned the reputation for being “good for the economy.” The actual data never seems to support this.
We import board/card games, and were told this morning that shipping costs from China could double, because "China's largest oil trading partner is Iran, and therefore due to the Iranian fuel supply chain uncertainty, rates will be increasing." This is obviously going to further hurt businesses and the economy.