Oy, I am going to have to revise the the prices on our company's products.
I am thinking of adding a line on the invoice that is clearly labeled "Tariff surcharge".
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Pretty soon our Federal government agencies are going to lose their institutional memory - the knowledge and skills of the employees.
In other words Musk is breaking the Humpty Dumpty egg of skills that make our Federal agencies work.
And when the era of FFOTUS is over not all the king's horses nor all the kings men will be able to put our government back together again.
States will have to take over - some states, like California, will be well suited to protect their residents. But a lot of other states will simply erode into third world status.
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It looks there are increasing reasons to begin looking at every purported letter or communication from the Federal government with suspicion?
Is that letter you got from the IRS valid or the emissions of the some musk-boy's heated brain?
etc..
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
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Gee, it's less than two weeks into FFOTUS (Fat Felon Of The United State) term and eggs are no longer on the shelves in our local supermarkets.
Next week I anticipate fresh vegetables vanishing from the stores.
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As many of you know, I am promoting Bella Ciao as the song of our upcoming American Transformation (I won't use the word "revolution" because that tends to imply violence.)
We also need top level targets for that Transformation, beginning with a revised Constitution.
I am fearful of opening up the Constitution - because the nutz will try to turn it us into a theocracy along the lines of Iran. (You've seen the book/film Persepolis - if not, watch it tonight!!)
However, opening the Constitution is necessary - it needs a major tune up.
My general thoughts are to keep much, but massively shrink Article II (the Executive), eliminate lifetime SCOTUS/Fed judges, create an means for citizens to enforce the Constitution (e.g. emoluments and insurrection clauses), auto-sunset of power delegations, explicitly create a fourth branch - Administrative, give more independence to justice dept, clarify 2nd amendment, revive the two "privileges and/or immunities" clauses, fix the 25th amendment, add the ERA, etc.
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You know, I think that the attempt to change the name of the Golf of Mexico has delayed The Rapture for at least another millennium or two.
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So FFOTUS/TFG want's another "challenge coin".
What wasteful rubbish.
I wrote about this in 2018:
"A Bill to ensure that United States Treasury funds are not expended for certain purposes of personal aggrandizement or self promotion."
https://www.cavebear.com/topics/statute/
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The reason I went to law school and became an attorney was because one evening I was with my friend, who is Greek.
We were pulled over, violently pulled from the car (including my girlfriend), we were thrown up against the car and wall, intrusively searched (including my girlfriend's purse and the car trunk).
The only reason that the cops gave was that my friend "looked Mexican".
ICE is the American Stasi, the American Gestapo. Any officer who participates is not an American, he should be ashamed.
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I read the Laken Riley Act. It should have been titled "Instant Deportation on Whim of Grumpy or Racist Sheriff or Cop Act"
Basically if one, anyone - you for example - are accused, just accused without evidence or trial - can be quickly deported to wherever they want to deport you to.
No evidence, no trial; just chains and a bench on a barely heated military aircraft.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-signs-laken-riley-act-immigration-crackdown-30a34248fa984d8d46b809c3e6d8731a
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Our goal should increase this 70% to 100% or beyond.
"Tesla’s profits slide over 70 percent in the fourth quarter"
https://www.theverge.com/news/602163/tesla-q4-earnings-2024-profit-revenue-musk
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I see that Express Scripts - one of the large Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager companies - is doing online ads saying "we are not a middleman".
Well, they are a middleman, one that dictates to patients, doctors, and insurance companies what drugs, what dosages, what quantities, and what prices.
Well today I got a drug denial - as usual umpteen pages in umpteen languages, sent first class USPS. In other words it cost them several dollars to send.
And it was to tell me that my doctor prescribed an off-formulary anti-bacterial ointment that costs about $2.
Not very efficient, and very middle-man.
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I don't know that people noticed, but during the so-called "balls" after the inauguration TFG/FFOTUS was displaying a model of Air Force One with his utterly ugly new paint scheme?
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I just saw a report that the Tesla model S is being renamed the Model SS. And it comes in one color - brown.
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For this evening's entertainment may I suggest the 1966 film "The Battle of Algiers"? You can fetch a copy from the Internet Archives (https://archive.org/ )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers
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Just a reminder - I am promoting the following song, using Mitski's English lyrics, as the song of the resistance to FFOTUS and his gang.
(I also considered Hay's tune "Wasn't That A Time" [best covered by Peter, Paul, and Mary] or the old union tune "Which Side Are You On", but with new lyrics.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyI4vmds5o
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I read somethings on a Chromebook that is never logged into the big G.
Nor is it logged into The Atlantic (I am a subscriber but I don't bother logging in.)
The inline ads that are posted on The Atlantic are amazingly pathetic and fraudulent.
For instance the ad d'jour is a light that they claim requires no energy. Yeah, right. It's like the previous ads for a zero energy room cooler - it was an enclosed ice bucket with a fan. (Ah, zero energy to make the ice, zero energy to run the fan. Yeah, right.)
And if you click on it (which I do to generate ad revenue for The Atlantic) leads to a page with a very fake YouTube video page, complete with fake likes and dislikes.
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Maybe it is just random chance, maybe it is just my bias; maybe it is real...
I am noticing that since TFG arrived on the presidential scene that petty law breaking of all kinds has increased - first after 2016 and vastly more now. This ranges from drivers of giant pickups running red lights to increased e-mail spam.
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Why do ICE goon jackets say "ICE Police".
Police is a State level function - often under the Constitutional term "police powers".
ICE goons are not "Police", much less are they local police officers.
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It could get interesting if Greenland, Canada, and Mexico were ti withdraw overflight rights to US aircraft.
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The various movie awards, like the Academy Awards, should be suspended for the duration of FFOTUS's term.
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