Greetings and welcome to this 31st performance of the Carnival of Fools! I’ll admit, we’re convening under somewhat chaotic circumstances — “Liberation Day” went a bit more bumpily than Trump is willing to concede, after all. As I write this, the markets convulse and gyrate to news leaked on Twitter/X like a patient under defibrillator paddles guided by a doctor suffering a streak of seizures. I hope you enjoy roller coasters, folks, because right now every middle-aged normie with a retirement plan feels like he’s riding one into his own grave.
Then again, perhaps we all need to calm down for a moment and take the president’s advice: “Don’t be weak! Don’t be stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN,” for God’s sake! (Avoid that, if for no other reason than that it would ...
