Hey, I congratulated you Great White Northerners for your successful boycott over in the Schadenfreude thread.
Salon’s Amanda Marcotte pointed out that the president has developed an over-reliance on deflecting questions while claiming he is not up to speed on the topic or person he is being asked about, and that often begins with, “I don’t know…”
That is a change from his previous deflections, where he promised everything would sort itself out in “two weeks.”
From that article, “It’s a small thing, but one of the many green shoots suggesting that, while this is not the end of MAGA, it may very well be the end’s beginning.” If so, good.
I thought the go-to tactic at this point was to Blame Biden.
Any guess on the chances that foxnews.com is carrying this news?
If you guessed 0.0%, you won a prize.
Also, it says no layoffs at this point. But what about tomorrow?
How do you shutdown a facility like that for a year without laying off anyone?
It was my understanding they were laying off 1500 employees.
Trump claimed that he was going to bring manufacturing back to the US.
Well, Trump was so successful, that Jim Beam made so much liquor that they can’t sell enough, so they’ve stopped making it for a while. That’s a lot of manufacturing!
See, he’s winning! So much winning!
(I expect that to actually be a right-wing talking point eventually.)
I can’t find anything on layoffs…yet (I’m sure they are coming). But in searching this, I found out that Jack Daniels laid of 12% of it’s workforce earlier this year. Sounds like these tariffs are going swimmingly for Kentucky and Tennessee. They’ll be lined up to vote for Trump a 4th time in 2028.
The article in The Guardian on this says, “Jim Beam said it was assessing how it would use its workforce while it paused production and was in talks with its workers’ union.”
So long as Trump’s approval numbers (42 percent tonight per Nate Silver) continue to dwarf those of Starmer and Macron, I don’t believe it.
There is no Trump Recession yet because Donald is only charging a fraction of the tariff rates he earlier threatened. This is delaying the inevitable recession. Next year, he’ll put a toady in the Federal Reserve who can further delay the next recession – even though the delays will probably make it worse when recession, at an unknowable future date, comes.
Jim Beam is atypical.
Perhaps not so atypical. I believe Ford Motor Company is cutting back on production of its electric vehicles and the end of federal incentives on the sales of electric vehicles by the Trump administration certainly doesn’t help.
Thanks, but I don’t go to the Pit. It’s on my Ignore list.
(I know we can’t identify posters that we’re ignoring, but I don’t think that applies to forums.)
I don’t go to the Pit either, but occasionally there’s a thread I see in the recent posts list that I find interesting and follow it. Sometimes those are in the Pit, but that doesn’t keep me from following it.
And O, the inflation!!!
(Donald’s flunky will certainly drop interest rates, which will fuel ye olde price rises mightily.)
I’m bumping this because we now have revised numbers from 2025. For the entire first year of Trump’s presidency, the country only added 181,000 jobs. In 2024, by comparison, the country added 1.46 million jobs.
And from various reports, pretty much all the new jobs being created recently are not in manufacturing, but rather health care. This is due to aging Baby Boomers, the oldest of which are now 80 years old.
Oh, and the dreaded trade deficit?
Yeah, that didn’t go down.
So on the way to the postulated tanTrump Recession in the title of this thread we start with the tanTrump stagnation. Then we’ll add inflation, so we get the tanTrump stagflation, then we finally top it with the tanTrump Recession. When he finally croaks we transition seamlessly to the MAGA Recession. When I write “we” I mean a rhetorical “we”, of course. It’s really him.
Good plan, go ahead.
The trade deficit, of course, being the “emergency” that granted Trump (according to him) the power to impose tariffs and otherwise muck up the economy.