Lisa Benson for May 01, 2020

He’s been shooting holes in the balloon for a long time.

Gosh, despite the “fact” that there’s nothing to consider in politics other than the economy, he seems to be losing altitude. /s

That should be Uncles Sam riding in the basket (no banner on it) with Trump, riding a red fighter jet, attacking it firing a bunch of those green spheres (wrapped in excuses about why it’s everyone else’s fault but his) at it.

This is where Lisa Benson’s lack of formal higher (post-secondary) education really shows, when she thinks that the economy is crashing because of a pandemic.

It is crashing because of TRUMP’S FAILURE.

All MAJOR recession and depressions since 1900 have occurred under REPUBLICANS. NONE under Democratic administrations.

Even during the H1N1 pandemic of 1918 (then known as the Spanish Flu), under a Democratic President (Woodrow Wilson) there was no economic downturn.

http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/the-spanish-flu-and-the-stock-market-the-pandemic-of-1919

Even during the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 (same as the Spanish Flu, but now called the Swine Flu), the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Zika, etc., there was no economic collapse or market crash. In fact, under Obama’s recovery policies after the Bush economic collapse, the markets gained tremendously. But we had a Democratic president, Barack Obama. Obama moved quickly to identify, isolate and contain the outbreaks and life went on as usual.

Yup. It’s really a right shame that he and his cronies already ran up the debt so high for so little actual gain. That’s going to make this hurt twice as much, more or less.

Lisa must have a fever. She didn’t blame the Democrats.

Just noticing this Lisa? I can’t wait for the ’toon next month about it being 2020 now.

Lisa finally got one right… because the “Trump Economy” was indeed just a bunch of hot air… only elevated a few … very flimsy and had no foundation. Whether it was this disaster or the next, it was only a matter of time before it would come crashing down.

His ‘trust me’ balloon is going down too.

Don’t worry. His ego will remain inflated.

Interesting that Lisa has drawn a hot air balloon with Trump being the only possible source in the picture of such hot air.

Ms. Benson, you captured the nation’s sentiments exactly.

It’s a heavy price.. but if it gets rid of trump.. perhaps in the long term, if democracy is restored.. worth it.

Orange Numbnuts ran up a three trillion dollar deficit before this ever happened, and now there’s no money to deal with a crisis.

Every economist on the planet will tell you NOT to cut taxes when the economy is doing well, so you have money for harder times. And every Republican does it anyway, because it’s more important to stuff their own pockets than do what’s good for the country.

No matter … Benson is still a Cheerleader for #45!

Too bad Trump did not do what he was supposed to do in the first place.

He ignored and lied and called it a hoax, then said there would be testing, there still is no federal testing, less than 2% of the population has been tested.

Then Trump encourages armed terrorists to attack Dem governors.

Now he is saying China cooked up the virus in a lab against all evidence.

The crazy Republican psychopath needs to be removed from office before he starts a civil war or a world war all by himself!

There should have been a recession in 17 or 18, but the tax cuts and a looser regulatory climate stalled it, so it would probably not have hit until 2021. The virus crisis is causing it now, which means at least next year President Biden won’t get blamed for starting a recession.

Sadly, Trump could have minimized the damage if he had just taken the pandemic threat seriously from the start… followed by effective countermeasures… but that was too much for a stable genius to grasp…

When times were good, Trump emptied the coffers and gave away presents to the rich and corporations, blowing a hole in a good economy.

Just a few months ago we had the “best economy ever”. Was it, really? How can you go from the best to practically bankrupt in just a couple of months? What happened to all those trillions on profits the corporations and billionaires made so that they had to come around for a bailout to save themselves?

Something really doesn’t add up here.

Think of it as a “golf ball” from God. Everyone yelled “FORE” but you wouldn’t listen…

Lisa’s left us a spectacularly telling Freudian slip here: she’s drawn a hot air balloon without a burner. That means the main source of hot air could only be Fat Donald. So she’s admitting that Donald’s vaunted economy was something of a bubble, unlike the genuine, hard-working growth achieved under Obama. So Lisa’s pointing out an important truth today, even if she can’t admit it to herself.

Stock Market closed down for the week.

Don’t you just LOVE amature economists who use their “knowledge” to try to prove a political point. Old saying – if you laid every economist in the country head to toe they would not reach one conclusion!