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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> <br>Here's the video I promised:</p><p>Fmr. Gov Christ Christie *savages* (I don't like the juvenile terms "Destroy" or "demolished", but he did) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonnieDumbass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonnieDumbass</span></a>. 1:45</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a></p><p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeek</span></a>...</p><p>Steph-O: "This is only going to raise prices."</p><p>Priebus: "This [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a>] is just a negotiating strategy. Countries will now come to the table and negotiate trade deals to eliminate the tariffs."</p><p>Steph-O: "But that won't bring jobs back to the United States!"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpExplainers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpExplainers</span></a> just make it up as they go along. They HAVE to come up with a rational explanation for why T**** keeps doing stupid stuff to keep the myth alive. 🤦‍♂️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p>I've never been a fan of Chris Christie, but he has been *demolishing* T**** &amp; Priebus on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeek</span></a> this morning.</p><p>(video to come.)</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a></p><p>"We will bring down prices on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DayOne</span></a>."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LyinDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LyinDon</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p>"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."</p><p>Great line from Sen Booker on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeek</span></a> when asked what one of those "mistakes" he said <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> had made. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empathy</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a></p><p>I heard a lot of Sunday hosts this morning point out how: "T**** promised to bring down prices on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DayOne</span></a>."</p><p>Now he's saying this could be "a two year process".</p><p>He certainly wasn't so forgiving of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> to restore the economy after T****'s mishandling of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> destroyed it. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bessent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bessent</span></a> said the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> taught us a lesson about destruction of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SuplyChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SuplyChain</span></a> (and why we must encourage companies to move *here*.)</p><p>That was the DOMESTIC supply chain.</p><p>Now they are about to destroy our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IMPORT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IMPORT</span></a> supply chain. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Round2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Round2</span></a></p><p>I'm reminded of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dubya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dubya</span></a> invading <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> after ignoring the threat that led to 9/11.</p><p>They learn the wrong lesson from their F-ups, and respond with an EVEN BIGGER F-up that is even MORE disastrous. 🤦‍♂️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TooStupidForPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TooStupidForPolitics</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TreasurySecretary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TreasurySecretary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bessent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bessent</span></a> said on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MtP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MtP</span></a>: </p><p>"The shutdown of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupplyChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupplyChain</span></a> during the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> was a [warning] of what can happen when we don't produce everything we need."</p><p>It was destruction of the DOMESTIC Supply Chain that crashed the economy. IMPORTS SAVED US. Moving manufacturing to the U.S. wouldn't save us from another Supply Chain disruption.</p><p>IN FACT, putting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> on imported SUPPLIES will do THE EXACT SAME THING! Get ready for ANOTHER Supply Chain crash. 🤦‍♂️</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> <br>"We are only in the first few days of this. Give it time. These are 'reciprocal' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a>… and I emphasize he word 'reciprocal'."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoxnewsSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoxnewsSunday</span></a> keeps using that word over &amp; over.</p><p>NO, these are NOT "reciprocal" tariffs. Whether the other country imposes a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> on us IS NOT EVEN PART OF THE EQUATION. They are imposing a tariff on everyone we have a trade DEFICIT with. And if we have no data, there's a blanket minimum 10% tariff. 🤦‍♂️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TooStupidForPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TooStupidForPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p>"No one is losing more money than <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> [as a result of these policies.]"</p><p>- Fox host Shannon Breem (falsely) implying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheElongatedMuskrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheElongatedMuskrat</span></a> is *selflessly* devising policies "he knew" would hurt him financially.</p><p>NO. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> thought these policies would result in an economic *boom*, and now that he's seeing he was wrong, is now breaking with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonnieDumbass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonnieDumbass</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a>. 🤦‍♂️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonTheCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonTheCon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p>Simone Sanders closed out <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheWeekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeekend</span></a> with an important thought:</p><p>"I'd just like to point out that of the 1200+ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> protests, there was ZERO violence." 👍</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a></p><p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheWeekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeekend</span></a>, Fmr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> Congressman Denver Riggleman said:</p><p>During T****'s first term, we had to bailout <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farmers</span></a> $20 Billion dollars. Now that we're decimating the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRS</span></a>, how will they get the money to bail them out THIS time?"</p><p>Also...</p><p>"While 4 dead soldiers return from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lithuania</span></a> [and the Market crashes], T**** decided it was more important for him to be on the golf course. What more do we SANE people need to do to convince his supporters, "HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU?"</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MtP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MtP</span></a> later had on T**** "explainer-in-chief" in the House, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarQuain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarQuain</span></a> Mullen WHO ACTUALLY had the balls to say:</p><p>"Donald T**** doesn't make empty threats."</p><p>Donnie backed off his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> threats numerous times until he was backed into a corner and set a deadline for this Wednesday (April 2nd… which I wouldn't be surprised if he shouted "April Fools" should the Markets crash on Mon.)</p><p>And ask <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> how the bombing went when they didn't "release all the hostages" in February. 🤦‍♂️</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MtP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MtP</span></a> opened with a discussion of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmateurHour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmateurHour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SignalChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalChat</span></a> debacle, showing pictures of "the six principles involved."</p><p>Notice anyone missing? 🤔 </p><p>A major military strike is taking place WITHOUT the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Potus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potus</span></a>? (even his VP was there, but HE wasn't? "I didn't know anything about it".)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DementiaDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DementiaDon</span></a> isn't actually running things and THEY KNOW IT. "Grampy" was probably off playing golf or otherwise distracting everyone from what's REALLY going on. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpIsZaphodBeeblebrox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsZaphodBeeblebrox</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p>Chris Christie made an interesting point on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeek</span></a>:</p><p>"During his first term, T**** was surrounded by experienced professionals who were willing to say 'No' to him." When it was discovered his Nat'l Security Advisor Mike Flynn had lied in his confirmation, he was gone by Feb 18th. And I think T**** now thinks that was a mistake he won't repeat by firing Waltz &amp; Hegseth, and there's no one around him telling him he should."</p><p>This time, he surrounded himself with "Yes Men".</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p>Jeff Goldberg said <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarkWaltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkWaltz</span></a>'s claim they had never met or spoken and his phone number was miraculously "sucked into his phone" simply is not true. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MtP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MtP</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> is in chaos as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheElongatedMuskrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheElongatedMuskrat</span></a> destroys the agency. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a></p><p>(PERSONAL NOTE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> is effectively the Potus... and he knows it... b/c the guy who IS <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Potus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potus</span></a> never says "No" to him and approves of everything he does.)</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonnieDumbass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonnieDumbass</span></a> told NBC that he "Doesn't care" if car prices spike due to his idiotic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a>.</p><p>He *thinks* only "imported" car prices will be affected, but imported PARTS will increase the price of DOMESTIC cars. Also, domestic car prices will RISE to just shy of "imported" car prices b/c there's NO incentive to keep prices low.</p><p>And as NEW car prices go up, demand for USED cars will rise, causing used car prices to go up as well. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TooStupidToBePresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TooStupidToBePresident</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonCapone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonCapone</span></a> was more upset his Nat'l Security Advisor <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MikeWaltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeWaltz</span></a> had a reporter's number on his phone than the fact his team incompetently leaked a live discussion of a live military operation with potentially catastrophic consequences.</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>Once again, it's time for my weekly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundayShowdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundayShowdown</span></a> (live blogging the top 4 commercial broadcast news shows: MSNBC, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoxnewsSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoxnewsSunday</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MeetTheRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeetTheRepublicans</span></a>, and ABC's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeek</span></a>.</p><p>My special task this morning: Be on the lookout for as many examples of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreepingFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreepingFascism</span></a> as I can find. 😐</p>