They both need to go, along with Mitch McConnell. With those two still in power, Trump can do anything. We have a ONE BRANCH GOVERNMENT.

the big drop on Wall Street. It's significant since he's killing his own re-election strategy, getting our economy going again, yet is too effin' stupid to realize it. Good I say!

We're #1, we're #1! Hah!

Friday 5/1 closing prices:

Dow: 23,723.69 -622.03 (-2.55%)

S&P 500: 2,830.71 -81.72 (-2.81%),
. . . and down 16.4% from it's Feb 19 all time high.
. . . up 25.0% from the pre-Inauguration Day close of 2264.

Which strangely have been moved from being reported today until next Friday.

2019: 3/8
2020: 1/10, 5/8, (and that's it for the rest of 2020)

Some say that sometimes when Friday falls on the first or second day of the month, it is released the 2nd Friday.

But there are exceptions:

2019: 2/1, 8/2, 11/1
2020: 7/2, 10/2,

Beats me too.

We need to wean ourselves off of cheap shit made by slave labor without environmental restriction.

Sorry, screw them; I'll pay more for made in the USA. The stuff is only cheap from China because of the exploitation of the workers and the pollution we've outsourced. Stop buying garbage that puts your countrymen out of work, encourages the excreable treatment of working people, and is produced with much less environmental oversight.

Anyone who can't live without their "made in China" crap is doing as much harm to other humans and the planet as any Republican.

And you know why, all for greed and to increase their profit margins. They didn't want to pay the salaries that US market warranted, so they went overseas - China, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea, etc, etc.

It would take 20/30 years for US to ramp up to start making stuff here again. But they won't do that because it's all about GREED.

So what if it takes a while, we need to make stuff here as much as we can. The ONLY reason it's cheaper elsewhere is because they can get away with paying the people shit wages and don't have to worry about polluting. If we buy that garbage we are no better than any of the other exploitation capitalists in that chain.

Sure some people are so poor that they literally can't buy anything other than the cheapest crap from Walmart or Amazon, but those of us who aren't are just as morally reprehensible (as the manufactures and vulture capitalists who moved these jobs overseas) when we purchase stuff made in sweatshops in countries with no labor rights or pollution controls instead of something more expensive made by people at least getting minimum wage and covered by OSHA here, in plants that at least OCCASIONALLY have to do something about pollution.

They would make that stuff that way if we weren't equally complicit by buying it.

In the case of medical supplies, I expect we will see a large pull-back in production very soon. It should be like military supply chains, but even more stringent. In times of pandemic, we have seen around the world that it is everyone for themselves.

Buying that crap makes us no better than the bastards who moved those jobs over there, exploit the workers, and pollute the shit out of the environment.

But whatever. I'm not a racist so to me the Chinese people are like everybody else.

race-baiting to cover the fact I don't give a shit about my fellow Americans, the environment, or the exploitation of workers overseas.
But enjoy your cheap crap made at the expense of slave labor and uncontrolled pollution.

You should google "literally". Some words have actual meanings.
https://www.nanoxiausa.com/

Yesterday I was reading an article that said Trump was planning on making China the election issue of 2020, blaming them for the worldwide problem being faced today and how he would claim Biden has appeased China for decades.

After I finished reading that I said to myself "watch, Trump will stir the pot and do something with tariffs to deflect from all of his problems". Only 24 hours later and Trump does just that. Still waiting for Trump to charge Biden with being soft on China for years but we know it is coming.

The threat of being beholden to China is not a partisan issue.

that they are playing a zero-sum game. They regard themselves as the only legitimate economic and military superpower in the world, and anything that transfers wealth or power to them from us is to be pursued. We may not be technically at war, but they have been at economic war with us since at least the 1970's.