385,000 jobs = jobs created per month on average under Joe Biden. Trump is averaging 81,000 per month.
What is now clear is that job creation in the US started immediately slowing down after Trump made his “Liberation Day” tariff announcement in early April. We averaged 127,000 jobs created in Trump’s first 3 months. In the months after the tariff announcement it has been 35,000 per month. For comparison Joe Biden averaged about 385,000 jobs created per month, more than 10 times the rate of the past 3 Trumpian shitshow months.
The economic data we’ve gotten this week should cause Trump to drop his reckless global tariff ambitions.
IMPLEMENTATION of the tariffs. The NYT has a great article showing the current tariff rate by country (gift link). Yes we have now learned that Trump intends to put at least a 10% tariff on all goods imported into the US, and much higher rates on select countries and goods. Some examples:
15% tariff - EU, Japan
25% tariff - India, Mexico
30% tariff - China, South Africa.
35% tariff - Canada
41% tariff - Syria (hey, why not? 41% seems good)
50% tariff - Brazil
Great Conversations For Your Weekend Viewing And Listening - We heard from a lot of wonderful people this week. Get to these great conversations when you can:
Got to Keep The Faith, Got To Keep Organizing - Senator Alex Padilla
Fighting Harder For Those Left Behind - Rep. Josh Riley (NY-19)
Fighting Trump’s War on Science - Colette Delawalla and Dr. Jeremy Berg
How The Roberts Court Is Betraying The Country - Professor Leah Litman
Our Recommended Actions - We are prioritizing three actions today. You can get our full list of recommended actions here. Let’s get to it:
1 - Call your Senators and Rep To Demand They Rescind Trump’s Terrible Tariffs - Congress simply must take back its tariff authority that Trump has illegally and unconstitutional seized and dangerously abused. It is time now for to rescind these terrible and destructive madman tariffs.
2 - Bring “Resolutions Of Condemnation” To Your Community - Inspired by the tactics of our Founders learn about how Hopium members are advancing “Resolutions of Condemnation” in their communities across the country and consider bringing this initiative to your state, country or city/town. Remarkably, members of this community are now advancing 50 resolutions projects in 20 states. Can we get to all 50 states by the fall election?
Our newly updated Resolutions page includes a new chat for folks to report in on their progress or seek counsel from those interested in launching a resolutions project in their community. This is one way to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented abandonment of our Constitutional order.
3 - Grow Hopium And This Wonderful Community Of Proud, Plucky, Patriots - We’ve set a goal of trying to grow the Hopium community from the 152,000 we are now to 175,000 by Election Day, 2025. Do what you can to encourage your friends, family and colleagues to become a summer subscriber to Hopium, free or paid. If each current paid subscriber brings in just one new subscriber this summer we will hit our goal.
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