Some people just really need to turn off the TV. Maybe change the channel. So much doom and gloom, without even a little bit of common sense.
Forest through the trees (or agenda) comes to mind.
Tom
Yes- there is a lot of doom and gloom. And watching TV all the time isn't good for anyone's health!
But WRT 'common sense' which IMO is often oxymoronic, vanishing trillions of dollars overnight likely isn't the best thing to happen in the stock market of
any country. 'Common sense' can be supplemented by something called
Occam's Razor (which is an excellent tool for winnowing out what is really going on WRT human affairs).
Occam's Razor, in a nutshell, teaches that for a given situation or event, the simplest explanation is likely the correct one. To give you an example, the 2020 election:
One explanation is: despite the Trump administration stating that it was
the most secure election in history,
and that in some 62 lawsuits brought by the administration,
none of them alleged election fraud,
and that all the judges of these lawsuits (who mostly threw them out), some appointed by Trump, were somehow compromised by the Democrats (that in itself being a pretty complex idea, given how disorganized Democrats are),
and that somehow the Arizona election was stolen by the Democrats despite 3 recounts including one by a highly politically conservative organization,
and the only irregularity of voter fraud turned out to be a Republican voter in Nevada who used his dead wife's mail-in ballot, that somehow the election was stolen.
A simpler explanation is that Trump lost and is a sore loser.
You can see that the election being stolen is the far more complex explanation for Trump's loss, and I've left out a lot of stuff that went on during that debacle.
FWIW I am not a Democrat. I am simply pragmatic. I try really hard to look past the spin, hyperbole and drama both parties constantly create (and is too often taken hook line and sinker by the populace).
I'm not sure what is meant by 'common sense' in your post (it implies a position, perhaps a held political opinion), but right now
actual common sense and Occam's Razor is saying we have a really serious economic situation going on, which I explained earlier. Common sense would say
we need to be paying attention rather than hiding our collective heads in the sand and hoping it will somehow work out because someone said it will somehow.
The simple explanation, the common sense here is that
people make mistakes, especially if they are duped (in this case, Navarro). I'm with Musk on this one- tariffs are bad and Navarro is a moron who unfortunately gained the ear of the president which has resulted in financial disaster, since Navarro's advice (tariffs) is based on a made up fantasy.
