Where Have You Gone, Joe — I mean, Dark Brandon?

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Hi, Joe. You still alive?

Base image public domain; image updated by author

Hey, I get it. After all these years in politics, you deserve some peace and quiet.

You’ve put together many accomplishments as president. Things that will not be noticed until long after you have retired in the Hamptons or wherever you end up on January 21. It would take a thirty-minute read to cover all of the things you did while in office.

Things like a yearly Medicare $2,000 prescription drugs cap that older voters are only noticing now. Massive growth in the number of new high-tech factories that people may never notice, much less give you credit for.

An economic boom that is about to be torched by the incoming administration. Again. By extended tariffs of all things, because his economic advisors aren’t economists. They’re TechNutBros like Marc Andreessen, who built a free browser once and magically collected billions for his efforts, but wants more.

Andreesen here tries to develop a relationship between tariffs and the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For a refutation of this argument, google the name of any real economist + “tariffs.” I’d start with Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, since he’s here on Substack.

We all know the cycle. A Democratic president enters office, fixes the economy that was broken by the Republican predecessor…