So, finally have a minute to check on Amazon's reporting and the graph for last week already has a visible dip on Friday which is gratifying and when I look at the whole month it is still visible. Digging into the numbers a little, there's a 14% drop in revenue from Thursday and 13% from the Friday before (13% and 5% drop in units respectively). Not bad! Looking at the whole week (which is how I usually do look at it), there's a 6% revenue drop and 9% drop in units. Not nothing, but doesn't stand out significantly looking at YTD by week. Note, this is just across our products, not a representative sample of Amazon's goods but I doubt we would have been especially more or less affected than anything else.

Also down 24% to LY which I was going to dismiss as irrelevant but YTD is only down 11% so who knows?

Thanks for the stats T! Very interesting!!

My flight landed an hour early. V exciring

Nice, -t. Thanks.

Welp, Trump's tariff war has caused the stock market to go kablooey.

Is this what his voters wanted?

It is painful for all, but worse for Tesla. Market today at the moment DJIA down ~1.5% while Tesla is down ~6%. As of yesterday since 1/20/25, DJIA down ~1% while Tesla down ~36%. Tariffs to screw all the little people with skyrocketing prices, and all his billionaire buddies with a stock market crash. Even handed? It's a mess. You would think someone around him would let him know that his policies are a disaster.

I don't think his voters care about the stock market. Well, not 99% of them, anyway.

Steph, I just saw that Will Burkart is doing a stand up comedy show in Cincinnati on Thursday. [link] I went to one of his shows back in December; he's hilarious.

His voters do have 401Ks and IRAs, but his money supporters are getting screwed even worse. Although many of them may have exited the market before his takeover knowing what would happen.

There is a part of me that thinks most voters across the spectrum are like the kids in the TV focus group on the Simpsons. They/we want relatable problems AND robots.(Although progressives rule and fascists drool, of course.) But no, don't think anybody asked for this. Not really. Oh and #FuckElon.(Just getting it in before it could send me to jail.) Or, in the words of a guy that was in the pharmacy when I was getting vaxed once: "Fuck his mama...fuck his daddy, fuck all his dead relatives...(pause) And, he overweight!" Not sure why that was the coup de grace of that excellent maledictum--just being all as it happened-ish.

I should say I think of the voting public that way after *this*--it used to be I thought there was a logic I didn't always follow. Split the difference on the work thing...sort of declined to go the extra mile on it. Put in a lot of work, but nobody really appreciates when I act like Ms. Fix-it anyway. (They might take my Inspiring Cripple card away, but that way I stand a decent chance of being alive at the end of the movie.) It used to really bother me how often disabled people did die at the end, but when I put my writer hat on and try to think like a soft abled guy, it makes some sense. They just don't like thinking of us Facing Conflict And Obstacles as many times as it takes to live as we do.(Maybe they literally don't believe it's possible, which, at times is a viewpoint with which I share some sympathy, much as I hate to admit that.) And, you know, actors love death scenes.