Ha, Ha! You Knew What He Was When You Picked Him Up

“I saved you,” cried that woman
“And you’ve bitten me even, heavens why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die.”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in!"

-- The Snake

While I'm chewing my nails and wondering what happens to Social Security, there is at least one silver lining. Billionaires are also on the outside looking in, after Yambo ignored their appeals to call off his tariff plans which will wreck Old Joe Biden's productive economy. Truly, my heart bleeds for them! "But you knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in!" Or wrote him million-dollar donation checks, as the case may be. Via The New York Times:

The day after the president announced his most sweeping round of tariffs last week, chief executives from major banks, including Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, had a private meeting with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick organized by a lobbying group in Washington. But Mr. Lutnick was not persuaded to reverse course, three people briefed on the sit-down said.

Over the weekend, megadonors to Mr. Trump’s re-election effort tried a different tack, pleading their case in calls to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the calls said. Those efforts also came up empty.

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