That is what cartoon villain Snidely Whiplash used to say when his plots against Dudley Do-Right fizzled. Admittedly, Donald Trump is not a perfect stand-in for Dudley Do-Right. But the phrase “cartoon villain” fits the liberal press to a T.
For the last four months, essentially every “news” outlet has devoted pretty much every news story to trying to undermine the Trump administration. Among other things, they have tried to persuade us that the economic sky is falling because of President Trump’s policies–whatever those policies may be, and whether or not they have even been implemented. This has made consumers a little nervous, but not nervous enough.
Thus, the May consumer confidence numbers came in today, and they are awesome:
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index leaped to 98.0, a 12.3-point increase from April and much better than the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 86.0.
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The present situation index increased to 135.9, up 4.8 points, and the expectations index posted a major surge to 72.8, a 17.4-point gain. Investors also showed more optimism, with 44% now expecting stocks to be higher over the next 12 months, up 6.4 percentage points from April.Views on the labor market also improved, with 19.2% of respondents expecting more jobs to be available in the next six months, compared with 13.9% in April.
That is why the stock markets are up sharply today.
And that’s not all! Rasmussen reports that the “right track” number is the highest ever in its polling, which goes back to 2006. The majority is an even 50%, but we’ll take it:
So, no dark night of fascism then.
Imagine how frustrating it must be for reporters and editors to find that, once again, those damn commoners are believing their lying eyes. Instead of the lying press.
