Tuesday, April 29, 2025
I read an article that said you can tell when we are headed for a recession: skirts get longer, people buy the little liquor bottles, men stop buying underwear, and women stretch out hair and nail appointments.
Then I read that another way to tell we are in a recession is that the strippers get fewer tips, and smaller, or customers don’t show up at all. Brothels experience a slowdown. This economist say shows that there isn’t as much discretionary income. ie People dpn’t have money to spend.
Okay, those are predictors. I had heard that strippers had been saying their tips were smaller and less of them. But yesterday I read one of the big Las Vegas hotel chains is closing several of their hotels due to lack of guests. Maybe not, when I went back to confirm all I could find was six hotels were cutting concierge service. This due to “evolving customer preferences”. Oh, okay. Maybe. Several of the big hotels are closing, but that’s been in the plans for awhile.
The Mirage is closing and will reopen in a year or two as a Hardrock Hotel.
The Tropicana will close and be imploded and replaced by a baseball stadium.
Another report says the Seattle port is a ghost town with the last ship from China coming in now and there aren’t anymore coming. Another ship lands on the east coast on May 10th and that’s it. So much winning.
Meanwhile, how are the tariff talks going? Well, from what I understand several tariff talk groups have come from other countries to talk and they have left with nothing because they could not figure out what the Trump team wanted, other than groveling.
We are seeing a rise in measels. A disease that had been listed as eradicated in 2000. There is also on the rise drug resistant gonoreha and tuberculosis. This and there bird flu which could break out at any moment and make Covid look like nothing.
Pete Hegseth has just announced he terminated the “Women, Peace, and Security” program (WPS). He said the military hated it and it was a woke Biden initiative. It was passed in Trump’s first term. It was championed by Ivanka and Rubio. Good work Pete!
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