Category: Russia Influence on America

Stock Markets Tumble Big Time – Recession is Knocking

March 11, 2025

What happened today was predictive and preventable. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.08% in value which doesn’t seem to be a large number, but anyone following the markets today can tell you that the fall was astronomical. That’s one word to best describe it. The market lost 890.01 points, and now rests as 41,911.71, down from 42,801.72. All of this was cause from the Trump chaos that he wants us to witness.

Usually some time during the day, in a normal trading day one would see the Dow Futures recover and at least break even, then fall, or move up and down in a normal trading day. Today was different. It was far from being a normal trading day. It was one of the worst trading days since 2009. The DOW ended on Friday at 42,801.72 compared to todays close of 41,911.71, thus a loss in market shares of -2.08% or -890.01.

Loosing almost 900 points in the DOW in one day is a disaster, on top of previous disasters from all the declines of last week. And what’s coming is predictable, more of the same. Professional investors that know how to play the markets when the value is high or when it is low benefit even from a bad day such as today. But country as a whole suffers on days like this. Let me explain…

Most of us just watch what’s happening and realize that a drop in the markets is not a good thing, but we think for the most part that it won’t affect us, thinking that the only ones who feel Trump’s pain is the people who actually trade in the stock market and that the markets will recover. But I’m not so sure that this market can now recover.

On a normal day, that would be true for the most part, as investers and people with lots of money to invest in the market make some real money or loose some real money each day. But experienced investers know how to read the markets, as they know how to buy, when to buy, how to sell and when to sell.

But days like today are not normal days, as the market is so volitile that even investers may be having problems trying to determine when to buy or sell a stock. Normal people like you and me notice what’s happening as we check our 501K values and other investments that we have as we are concerned about what’s happening, but we don’t have any daily personal experience that we can control during times like this. Investors do but we do not for the most part.

How many people are ready to buy and sell some of their stocks, risk less or more and follow the markets intently as trading investors do? Hardly none of us. We work for a living and that’s where we put in our time each day, and when we get home for the day, we listen to the news, watch Youtube and catch up what happened during the day and maybe watch the stock tickers throughout the day, but don’t have any real interaction with stocks each day. By then, it’s too late. The markets are closed, and we are left to see the results of trading for the day, hoping that the stocks that the stocks that ride with our personal 501K are doing well. Today was one of those days that you do not need a rocket scientist to know that EVERYONE of US lost bigly today.

You may think that there will be good days and there will be bad days, and that’s true. But what happened today, why it happened today, and the fallout of what happened is nothing less than as if today you watched one of the scariest movies that you’ve ever watched in your life time.

If you happened to be living on October 29, 1929 which the majority of us were not (96 years ago), you can remember the start of the great depression. So almost ALL of us don’t remember that day because most of us weren’t even born back then. But that’s when it started. The height of the great depression is told to be in March of 1933, when the commercial banking system collapsed and President Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday. Sweeping reforms of the financial system accompanied the economic recovery, which was interrupted by what is known as a double-dip recession which hit in 1937. It all started with the stock market crashing in 1929, with bank failures and GOVERNMENT POLICIES. The government policies we are dealing with at the moment are TARIFFS, a direct result of Donald Trump, DELIBERATELY tanking our economy. So yes, as it did then, now Donald Trump’s tariff policys is leading us right back into depression territory.

Somehow we have to right the ship, but right now the ship is sinking and our government is not doing a darn thing to stop it, but doing everything to cause the ship to sink. Our economy is in desperite trouble at the moment. Canada has continuedd 25% tariffs against the United States in retaliation of Trump’s tariffs that he issued against Canada just one week ago. Even Trump said he was lifting Canadian tariffs for at least a month until March 2nd. Canada did not stop tariffs they put on the United States.

Trump is now threatening new tariffs against Canada, on products like Aluminum and Steel. The Canadaians will reciprecate. So where does that take our markets. It makes them nose dive to hell, and that’s where the markets are heading now.

Trump said that we need to “feel the pain” before things get better, and in that regard, that’s exactly were we are heading. If Trump instigates more tariffs against Canada, our closest friend and neighber, they are going to turn out the lights in at least 3 northern states in America. The power is about to get turned off, instead of just the 25% tariff that is now in effect that Americans must now pay for their electricity. There electric bills now have just gone up by 25%.

So Donald, who paying these tariffs? Not you or your partner in crime Elon Musk. Not Canada, but the people of the United States. Now they may experience TOTAL BLACKOUTS, including New York. Our New York Stock exchange is obviously located in New York City. So what’s going to happen with the traders loose their power and the market computers go down. That is the real posibility that we face today, because of the igorance of Donald Trump, thinking that he is the ‘Powerful Almighty’.

The world is so much interconnected these days, that having that stance especially with Canada, a country that we are so interconnected with, is just outright suicide. 97% of Canada’s export of oil came directly across the border into the United States. We were their largest trading partner, but since they cannot depend on us, they are going elsewhere for business right now. They are now working the the EU, China and Japan. Why? Because Donald J. Trump, our fearless leader when was supposed to save our economy, the reason why many people voted for him, has decided to instead, crash our economy.

How far will he go? That is the 50-million dollar question, but as of this morning, he’s not done and plans to continue on a path that will destroy America.

I’ll report on the market futures for tomorrow in my next post, and we will see where our ship is now pointing for tomorrow. This week is already turning out to be one of the worst weeks in American stock trading history as a government shudown is also scheduled for Friday. At the end of trading on Monday, if the markets stay open will already tell us if we are going into a recession.

A recession is a time in econonomicy activity that lasts longer than a few months. In other words, what Trump is doing may take a long time to turn around. Trump says we may need to feel the pain first. Well, that’s what’s coming, and it’s not something thay you can just turn off like a spicket of water.

In a nutshell, a common rule that indicates a recession is here is that there are at least two consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Contributing factors can be a loss in industrial production and retail sales and other indicators. The effects of a recession sometimes are not felt immediately, but are gradual and sometimes only last for a few month or longer, but the economy may not recover to its former peak for years.

Telltale signs are a dropoff in employment, as unemployment will remail high well into the economic recovery, so it’s a time that seems to drag on and on along with markets tumbling, which is EXACTLY what is happening now.

Why is this happening now? The U.S. economy just a short few months ago was one that was the best in the world. So what happened?

Donald Trump happened! Our country decided to elect a convicted felon as their president. That’s what happened. Look at his cabinet. Most of his cabinet would never even qualify for the positions that they hold during normal times.

None of this would have happened if Kamala Harris was president. All of the mass layoffs wouldn’t have happened. Peoples private information, social security information and all personal information now being shared with Donald Trumps minions like Elon Musk and his people who are pouring through our personal data would have NEVER happened. Social Security would not be threatened. Medicade and Medicare wouldn’t be in danger of disappearing. World aid programs throughout the world would still be running, but they are not. The markets would be strong, not constantly falling and the world would not look at us as no longer a leader in the world economy.

There is GROSS INJUSTICE happening in our government now, and our Supreme Court is also responsible for allowing a convicted felon, an insurrectionist who under our laws in the Constitution of the United States that we are supposed to follow should never have qualified to be a president, has relinquished our Democracy to let who I consider an autocrat, someone who cozys up to Putin, and someone who would sell his soul and is doing just that to get his name on EVERYTHING, IS DESTROYING AMERICA.

Passionite about this I am, as I’m just as disgusted that this had to happen to our country, in a time that democracy and America was admired by the entire world. Now, the world is treating America as an outcast. The American dollar value s falling, and all of a sudden America is not as strong as we had hoped. Democracy is fragile, and what is happening now is a test of the American people to push past this, but first we still must figure out how to.

An update to the markets for Tuesday will be published soon.

 

Donald Trump is a WEAK COWARD !

March 6, 2025

You might get the impression by the title of this article that I’m a little upset. Well, you are right.

Trump backed down again,  and of course I’m glad that he did, just one month after he backed down the first time over tariffs. I’m not mad because he backed down. I’m mad because of the chaos he has personally created, the pain that people have already suffered, and now he can stop the pain by HIS choosing, when he didn’t have to inflict it in the first place. He thinks he is more than a king. He thinks he is God. He feels he has the right to play with our lives at his whim. That’s why I am mad. TRUMP IS EVIL.

The second thing I’m mad about is because the U.S. Congress is allowing the president to initiate tariffs, when in fact POTUS does not have that power. It belongs to Congress and ONLY Congress can initiate a tariff. So why are we going through this? It’s because Republicans control all three branches of government so they continue to be silent and let Trump do his damage because they themselves are also COWARDS.

Wall Street was the greatest example today that has caught on to Donald Trump’s tactics and what it would take to get him to back down from tariffs. Trump watched the stock market intently today, and just 20 minutes from closing, he makes the announcement that he is suspending his own tariffs. But by then, it was too late. Does Wall Street know that he means that he won’t initiate them again?  The markets still crashed. Well they don’t have to guess, because in his announcement, he stated that he was suspending the tariffs until April 2nd. No big deal right? Even though it just so happens to be a few days before TAX DAY. That is and will be ANOTHER stupid and cowardly move by president Trump if he implements tariffs right before tax day, or ever for that matter.

Wall Street knows that Trump is a pathological liar. When it comes to economics, Trump doesn’t understand a thing. So why did he back down? For one thing, the actual definition of a tariff forced him to back down. SO HE REALLY KNOWS WHAT A TARIFF IS! It doesn’t hurt the countries exporting to the United States, it hurts the American consumer who will use those products. It hurts people who purchase imported goods. That’s who it hurts. When the stock markets started to tank because of tariffs today, and millions of people and major businesses were being immediately effected, Trump backed down and now every country in the world knows that Trump is a COWARD. He stopped the tariffs just one day after he implemented them. It was important for him to inflict “pain”. Donald Trump labeled himself a coward when he initiated tariffs that he knew would hurt the American people and that he couldn’t posibilly continue with them, long term. He now realized that he can’t keep them in place in short term. Everyone knew that Trump would back down. And on April 2nd, he will back down again, but maybe a miracle will happen and he won’t initiate tariffs at all. He knows that the only citizens that will be most effected, especially by our closest neighbor of Canada will be the U.S. citizens. Will he ever apologize for implementing “PAIN” on the American people? Trump doesn’t even know what a simple apology is. He should be on the side of Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, Ukraine and people within Europe. But he’s not. He’s on the side of Putin. All democratic countries are outraged.

So why in his right mind does Trump continuously hurt his citizens? He takes pleasure out of it. He thinks it’s right that his people have to experience “PAIN” as he stated more than once and even indicated this admission in his ridicules 99 minute speech to a joint session of Congress last night. He rambled on and on in the longest speech to joint members of Congress, EVER. He always has to do everything more, including the ability to inflict punishment on his people.

Did you notice that he didn’t mention Medicaid and Social Security even once? Again, that will be in another post. Why not? But I’ll briefly touch on it here. Because he didn’t want to say publicly in that speech what he planned to do with those programs.  It’s right out of the 2025 Republican playbook. But it’s no secret. He wants to cut the funds from both programs, and let’s not forget about Social Security. Just before the speech last night, he mentioned Social Security and stated that there would be no cuts. Like I said, Trump is a pathological liar. If he had his way, he would take funds from Social Security and believe me when I say that he will try. Mark my words., or prove me wrong.  If Social Security is still around in another 6 months, your benefit will be drastically reduced, and at the same time Medicaid may not exist, with many slashes to Medicare. Costs for everything concerning medicine, services and anything medical will go up. But of course, Donald Trump just doesn’t care. He has the government take care of his medical needs at taxpayers expense of course.

Regarding imports, let’s talk about  an import that Americans take advantage of every day and cannot live without. I will also discuss this in detail in a later post. That would be about COFFEE. Do you realize that not one ounce of coffee is every grown here in the United States? Really! Think about if the American people couldn’t make a cup of coffee in the morning because we could no longer import coffee. What would happen to Starbucks in the United States and Starbucks World Wide?  Do you know that Starbucks employs almost 500,000 people world wide. People working to support coffee products total into the millions of people. No coffee, lost jobs, and lots pissed off people. There would be massive layoffs and business closings if we didn’t have that simple luxury of coffee. That’s what you would have. But Trump’s idea is that America should not be buying a single thing from another country. Not even coffee beans. He wants America to be completely self sufficient. That would be great in a Perfect World, but we all know that this is not the case. Every country in the world except North Korea, including Russia is involved in international trade, but Donald Trump doesn’t want that, because he wants everything his way or no way. He’s doing a super great job trying to isolate the United States of the America from the world. He’s trying to play God, but what he is demonstrating is that he is a Coward, not a leader that anyone can respect. He thinks he needs to be in the news each and every day. If the news is not about him, it’s not important. Even his Republican base is abandoning him because his policies and his actions are affecting them too, not just Democrats. Many voted for him, and now he’s taking their jobs. Why would he care? He will never run for re-election under the present rules in the Constitution unless he gets the ability to change the Constitution in his favor. And he is such an autocrat that he will try to do that at the end of his term, unless he finally gets tired enough as being the oldest president of the United States. After all, the way he is thinking, because the Chinese President XI now to be  China’s permanent president just because he said he wanted to and has decided never to step down, Trump thinks he can do that too. Who cares what the Constitution says, because Donald Trump doesn’t care what’s in the Constitution. Will anyone stop him. Yes, tough times are ahead, but Americans need to push through all this nonsense and in four years, welcome in Democracy while hopes are up that the Democratic countries around the world will accept us back with open arms.

Stock Market Update and Trump Tariffs

March 6, 2025

All the gains made by the stock market yesterday are gone, and market trading for the day is only half over.

Yesterday the DOW gained about 500 points, but immediately after the opening bell this morning, the DOW fell 400 points, because the European markets were falling throughout the night. There was a bit of reprieve around 10 AM and it looked like the losses were being made up around 1:30PM ET, but just short of the even high mark from yesterday, the DOW spiked downward again. It dropped down to 42,398 which is the worst mark of the day. But again, it is rebounding but indicators show that it will continue to drop more than rise. Soon the world will look at the United States as NOT the richist country in the world, as they already no longer admire us. Thank you President Trump!

All of this is unfortunate. People are loosing millions of dollars in stocks alone, as Donald Trump claims that we need to feel a little pain. Maybe a million dollars here and there is nothing for Trump or Musk, but it means someone’s entire life savings to the rest of us.

Years ago, I invested heavily in stock, and I lost my butt. I will never recover from that, as it was the majority of my retirement savings. It hurts me to see that what is actually happening is chaos created by one man and his selfishness, and his ignorance to leave what was actually working before, to just leave it alone. He is making the entire country experience what I had to. I know the feeling of loss. It never went away. The financial crisis of 2008 is nothing compared to what is about to happen if Trump doesn’t get off of his high horse and try to right at least some of the things he has done wrong. Unfortunately, what Trump has done already will be felt by Americans for years to come because noone would expect an immediate rebound if Trump decided to stop all Tariffs and mass firings of many working people of this country. All because he claims the country will have to feel some “pain” before things get better.

Trump has never felt real financial pain. He never lived on the streets. He never had to worry about having enough food to feed his family or try to find money to pay his bills. He is so corrupt that even with the fact that he has money, he didn’t pay all of his bills or his taxes. He was born afluent. His dad gave him millions of dollars and he floundered it, just like he is making us loose our money today.

Before Trump, we did not have our closest neighbor, Canada initiating tariffs on us. We never needed a wall to keep them out of our country. They are our friends, or used to be. Because of Trump’s tariffs, the country of Canada is informing its citizens not to use American made products, and the American made products that the companies already purchased from America to be distributed out to customers are being pulled off of the shelves, which means that Canada won’t pay the tariffs that Trump demands, they will just no longer import those goods. In the mean time, they initiated reciprical tariffs.

Canada has stated time and time again that they are not in favor of any trade war, and would never initiate tariffs on the United States like we are on them. Donald Trump needed to have that mindset. For heaven’s sake. They are our friend and closest ally by far. But he has turned all the citizens of Canada against the United States. Because of what Trump has done, now there is hardship on them. In a recent poll conducted by Canada, citizens say that they now dislike the United States. Our closest neighbor, now that is saying something.

A majority of Canadians who have property in the United States are selling their properties now. They want no part of the United States.

The sentiment in Europe is the same. Countries supporting the EU are making deals amongst themselves without any consideration from the United States, because they now feel that Trump has abandoned them and so they are out on their own. They will make all of their decisions without the United States.

Soon, Trump may decide to leave NATO. If he does that, his actions will hurt NATO greatly and make Putin of Russia very happy. But everything Trump has done since he has become president makes the Russian president happy. Case in point, Trump has stopped all military support to Ukaraine. All weapons and materials that were in flight to Ukaraine were stopped and turned around to return to the United States. Putin loved that. So what does Trump do. He decides to no longer share military intelligence with Ukaraine. So now, the war-torn country of Ukaraine has no idea what Putin plans to do next. Trump is punishing Ukaraine. He has taken sides with Vladamir Putin of Russia. Europe can no longer trust us. The free world can no longer trust us.

The Ukaraine president may cave into Trumps demands to stop the war. It’s been raging for 3 years now.  Trump claims that he is communicating directly with Russia in negotiations to stop the war, but NOT with Ukaraine involved in the talks. Why? Because Trump is a friend of Putin and not of the President of Ukaraine. So Trump expects that when he clicks his fingers, that the Ukaraine president will jump. Who in the hell does Trump think he is? If he thinks he is the leader of the free world, soon he won’t be. Trump is causing permanent harm to the United States.

 

 

What has Trump done for Russia lately? What has Trump done to help Americans?

March 4, 2025

For starters, Trump’s actions directly benefit Russia. For example, he is limiting enforcement of foreign agents. He has disbanded the task force to fight foreign interference in elections. He has closed the Justice Department Kleptocapture Unit which was responsible for providing and initiating sanctions against Russia, and he has shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Last week, Trump ended U.S. support of the Ukraine Energy Grid. Trump is now siding with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine. He is advocating for Russia to rejoin the G7. Recently he held U.S. – Russia talks in Saudi Arabia as Ukraine was not invited, and Trump says he is looking forward to meeting with Putin once again.

Trump appointed Kash Patel as his FBI director. There have been mass firings at the FBI and the CIA and he has suggested breaking up 5 eyes intelligence sharing, that’s when 5 countries share their intelligence to help keep the world safe.

Does any of this seem to be good for America. The answer is an obvious NO.

The United States is no longer acting as a democracy. Donald Trump is not acting as the leader of the free world. Donald Trump is now siding with a dictator, and he is willing to allow his dictator friend Putin to completely destroy Ukraine and make the land part of Russia.  If Russia is successful, I would predict that Putin will now call his country the Soviet Union once again. And I do not believe that Putin is finished with his aggression after he concurs Ukraine with the help of the United States. If that were to actually happen, the United States would deserve the same fate as Russia did years before. The United States should be kicked out of the G6.

NATO is the only thing standing in Vladimir Putin’s way to take over the world. The United States is proven to be weak country, and will now implode within with Trump tariffs that will affect Americans. Trump indicated that he may even pull out of NATO, which would be a direct blow to the security of the United States and to the rest of the free world.

So this is what he has done on the foreign front and what he’s doing to Americans directly. But I expect so much more damage  to be done within the country which all begins with the tariffs that have gone into effect just today against Canada, Mexico and China.

There is one thing that not to many people are taking about. But they soon will if my prediction of the future becomes reality.

Before I state this idea I believe will come fact, please understand that this is only my idea and my vision for the immediate future of America.

I PREDICT A TOTAL FAILURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY WITHIN 3 MONTHS. That’s after Trump completely wrecks the economy in this short period of time. I hope I’m wrong. Immediately after, a recession will follow.

Yes, many people will laugh at this statement saying that I’m crazy for making it. But what if I am right?

There are so many disgusting things that Trump has done in the first 6 weeks of his 2nd term as president, that it’s hard figure out what is worse than the other. The fact is that he has done nothing for the American people, except for them to loose jobs and a sustainable living wage. All because he claims he wants to eliminate waste starting with the government, and he doesn’t care who he hurts in the process.