Wait. Is Leon saying he doesn't mean what he says, or doesn't understand what he is saying? Here's a quote to provide some guidance:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"
--Abraham Lincoln

A polygraph test is more reliable than the MMR vaccine. And cheaper too!
--Heroin Bob

Those damn Catholics--following Christ's teachings again! Look, I KNOW who Jesus would shoot first, and also KNOW that starving children helps make them stronger, and making enemies around the world gives America more people to fight!
--Phony Christians, each wearing their MAGA hats and red ties

GOPers are going to rewarded with two kicks in the stones. The women in the GOP will have their heads shaved in the local town square ...

JV should be encouraged to ski more often ...

The recession will come because of falling consumer confidence, which will dampen spending throughout the US economy, will fall further when more and more government layoffs go through, and those layoffs will ripple into the broader employment base. The results in the US equity markets are just signs of confidence.

Unlike some recessions in the past 50+ years, those losing jobs and reducing spending are people with better, solid jobs with higher pay rates. Those at the low end of the economic scale are already overspending and now have little savings to fall back upon. A broader problem in the job market will make the coming recession harder to correct. The TV anchors and pundits now running the US government have little clue about what to do to fix the problem.

If the economy turns down, and if there is an election in 2026 the MAGA crowd will be thrown out of office far and wide. Sadly the election is no longer a sure thing ...

With all these claims of fraud flying about, I'm sure someone, somewhere will be brought up on charges. Any day now. Yep...any...day...now...

Meanwhile:
-$Melania is at $0.71--like the woman, pretty cheap
-TSLA is at $227.71, off 43.6% YTD

Someone's getting it in backside, and it isn't the First "Lady"...

Here in Okiehomie the solution to be offered will be for all these fired federal workers to become school teachers--with much lower pay and societal status. The solution those laid off workers find will be to leave the state for greener pastures...

There is no way the Arab countries will ever tolerate infidels owning or controlling Gaza. As written already, the Arabs will collectively dip into their sovereign wealth funds and built it back--better. No statues of golden idols and no Jews drinking at the pool...

I was born at a time when the measles vaccine was less effective than the more modern version, so got my booster last week. I'm glad I did...

He calls it the weave, and the rest of us call it the stagger. Or maybe the lurch. Soon enough ICE agents will be snatching any brown skinned person off the street, rifling their pockets, taking their phones, and kicking them off the bus in San Ysidro, with orders to walk south. Citizenship be damned ...

Nothing says constituent service' like go away' ...

I'll wager that this 151k figure will represent the high water mark for 2025 monthly job creation. The administration has poured a barrel of uncertainty into the US economy, and when they are uncertain businesses sit on their hands, so don't hire.

Talking about folks with jobs, Jay Powell should get another five years in his job, given his performance in the past four years, and his calming effect on the capital markets ...

Asymmetric economic warfare will easily defeat the ham-handed dealings of the current administration. How long will it be before US businesses impacted by El Rey Dotardo II raise their voices? I think not long, as soon as those businesses realize the muzzles they are wearing snap right off, just like in the Far Side cartoon ...

But wait, Leon is not in charge of DOGE, and DOGE isn't cutting jobs and closing agencies and departments. That's being done by, by, um...that lady Obama left in charge and is now on vacation. Also, cabinet secretaries have been the ones cutting jobs. And no one else. Really!
--MAGA functionaries, repeating a lie that they hope their mouth-breathing followers will then spout

Meanwhile, Jay Powell got on the TV today, March 7, and turned around the markets with his comments...

Please Sir, may I have another!

Here in Okiehomie our cowardly lion of a senior senator, James Langford, is expressing concerns about job cuts around the military bases. He wants to help! No pol in the Sooner or Later State is saying the "D" word any more, just weeks after clamoring to join the DOGE train to a better world. Everyone sees what is happening and the pain that will be felt here because of the job cuts, but no one dare speak the names of those responsible...

And, of course, American voters will believe that Leon (and by extension, Trump) had nothing to do with the mass firings, cheap tariff threats, chaos in the capital markets or the other mind-bending events of the past seven weeks. I'm sure that everyone will blame it on Biden...

I hear a shot of Heroin makes everything better in life. Try it!
--RFK Jr., medical expert to the street people

Rumor has it applicants for jobs in the Dotard Administration are being asked 'Who won the 2020 election?' as a screening question. In a few months or so private employers will be able to ask the same, so as to screen out brain-dead applicants...

As of mid-day on March 6, TSLA shares are down 37% from Inauguration Day. Five year annualized return is still 48%.

In many companies a CEO who doesn't show up for work, seems to care little about the company, its operations and products, and who is a significant contributor to a huge fall in shareholder value would have been canned by now. I'm certain that more than a few of the equity mutual funds I hold include TSLA exposure, and I hope that exposure is being cut. Leon Skum's loss of value in his TSLA shares, by my math, is more than $66B in the past seven weeks. TFB for him...

El Rey Dotardo II will get his recession in about six months. As far as 'engineering' the matter, it's like engineering a bar fight. In the end, it's a mess, lots of people are hurt, and no one wants to go back to that bar.

The problems with the Dotard's strategy include (1) US consumers and businesses will no longer trust this maniac, so spending will remain very low for an extended period, (2) no spending means no new jobs, which means many of the unemployed will be on the dole longer than normal, and once they run out of state benefits, spending will fall more and hardship and pain will grow, (3) our erstwhile foreign trading partners will avoid the US like they would a pile of dog droppings on the sidewalk, meaning less demand for any US products, from software to winter wheat, and (4) interest rates will certainly fall, as a function of lack of demand for capital. No one building or buying homes, no one buying a Maria Bartiromo model Dodge Ram, no one buying McDonald's value meal.

Just as a train wreck involves an engineer, the US economy will wreck soon enough, thanks to the engineer clowns now at the helm...

I got my MMR booster last evening. Thanks for motivating me, Heroin Bob...

The King's actions in recent weeks will cause a recession later this year. Why? Individuals and firms are suddenly very hesitant to spend and invest, because of the tremendous amount of uncertainty which has been dropped into the minds of participants in the US economy. Those who feel less certain about future prospects usually react by putting off expenditures, hiring and business investment. All those laid off federal workers may find it harder to get jobs, not because of skills but because those would would otherwise hire have much less confidence in the future. Those who would buy a truck, a machine tool, a software package or plane tickets for business travel start to think the same way. And down we go. Thanks, Dotard...