Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for February 26, 2025

Inflation is great for the economy? Maybe it’s good for the Stock Market..

…and STILL no comments from the magats about how Great if was that Their Messiah pardoned 1589 violent felons and the world’s biggest drug dealer.

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I guess they’re distracted by Their Messiah taking sides WITH Putin against our former European allies.

Because Ukraine attacked Russia, right?

Drop a dime? C’mon, it’s been about 60 years since a dime was enough for a pay phone.

Given the stock market is sliding up and down by wide swings, tariffs will make inflation even worse, and troubling job market numbers, looks like Frump will drive us into recession again—-just like his first term.

I know these are written in advance, but the market isn’t doing well. So, like, pay attention.

You ain’t seen nothin yet. Just wait until the tariffs kick in.

So far, the new administration has made the stock market rather jittery and stagnate. It did a lot better the last 2.5 years under Biden. The advent of AI helped a lot, but the momentum had shifted positive before ChatGPT debuted and AI-mania occurred.

It’s unusual that a new administration would have such a strong effect on the market so quickly, but I think the talk about tariffs and some of the appointments have done the trick.

The key word here is …“yet.”

It’s basically about the fact that maybe the new regime will start to encourage people to turn people in for being seditionist and agitators — thus the “Drop A Dime” idiom is to rat someone out as previous stated by JudyAz in the thread above.

Businesses are benefitting from deregulation. Regulations are put in place to protect Americans from businesses that refuse to regulate themselves.

Just saw something funny this morning – Apparently the iPhone “Voice to Text” Feature has to be “fixed” because of a “bug” that suggests replacing the word “Racist” with “Trump”… ☺

“Stock market’s in good shape.”

Competing with a yoyo for ups and downs is “good”?

Is that as “give me a dime” or call the mob.

Given the mobster tendencies of the Felon in Chief, “drop a dime” is quite appropriate. And while you’re at it, make sure Clyde sends in his list of last week’s five accomplishments, or else NO WIC CARD.

The new administration has declared war on the American people.

News item: an arrest warrant was sent to the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Friday, but it has not been signed yet.

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No confirmation yet that the DOJ cited a higher law:

It’s OKAY If A Republican Does It!

Deregulation is not good for ethical businesses. Regulations set up an even playing field so businesses that want to do the right thing can compete with businesses that’ll do anything for a buck, including hurting people. Texas is the perfect example of how not to do it.