I spent today working on the thing that I describe below, and ended up heading to a friend's house in the afternoon for some body doubling.
She made me tea (a fruitbomb lapsang from white2tea), which was incredibly relaxing and wonderful. This was a tea that I sipped while trying to figure out why the website I set up wasn't working, and so if you asked me for the finer points of it, I will not know. It was tea. It was good. I was hyperfocused on something else.
I do know that I like the white2tea non-smoked lapsangs in general, and this one was nice enough for me to say “mmm” and then keep working.
I had started writing something yesterday about Cory Booker, and was interrupted by Donald Trump announcing massive, sweeping tariffs that will send the global economy into a tailspin.
One of the problems with things like this is that a lot of people simply don't know what tariffs are, or don't know that Trump is lying about the tariffs other countries are imposing. They certainly don't understand what the impact will be, and so I decided to make an extremely basic Trump Tariff Explainer to pass out to friends/family/at protests, etc, because if there's one thing that extremely normie and/or not online people may pay attention to, it might be something like “everything is about to cost a lot more money.”
Even if they don't believe that this will happen, I think it's important to put it in their brains that if it does happen, the people to blame are Donald Trump and his cabinet.
So I have made a website and downloadable PDF sheet for the normal person in your life.
I'm printing several hundred of these and bringing them to distribute at the protest this Saturday--the more people who see this information, the faster we can try to turn the tide.
These tariffs are going to be terrible for everyone, but they'll be especially horrific for the poor, the disabled, and the marginalized both in the US and around the world world. The faster we can turn things around, the more lives we will save, and hopefully more people knowing what is happening will help us turn things around faster.
Until next week!
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