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I am reminded of how scared I got in sunday school when the teacher would talk about how the anti-Christ would control where and what you could buy so if you didn't obey him you would starve to death.

So, the blackouts yesterday against Amazon, Target, Home Depot, (and I think Wal-Mart) were largely complied with. There are a few things that only Amazon can be a source for. Luckily, Lowes is a good actor and isn't complying with the anti-human behavior of the administration. I did some Best Buy shopping and visted Microcenter and tried to actually spend money locally at a couple local places.

I often confuse Minnesota for Michigan because I'm posting from Bangladesh.

There is an element of mutually assured destruction preventing politicians from acting. Its going to take some event/zeitgeist shift in the public to demand this. The rampant corruption of the current administration is being watered down because of their dark money preventing any oversight. Perhaps that gets to the point where even all the dark money can't hide it from the average prole. But, Orwell was right about the proles, they lack consciousness.

This is less interesting than Lindsay Halligan in cartoon form but... its something to consider. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united TLDR: States have the right to regulate corporate activity in their borders. Get states to ban dark money and regulate spending on political campaigns. You avoid having to amend the Constitution or somehow replacing 3 SCOTUSI

We celebrated my wife's early retirement as a fed today. You can still come @ me Trump but you can't hurt her, now.

Any guesses what insane stuff gets dropped this evening by the WH press office to get it out of the news cycle before the regular media gets to reporting the usual stupid holiday travel story?

He'd be given the key to Novi if he did sign.* (*there are about 3000 people of Japanese origin in Novi and maybe a couple thousand in W sides of Livonia and Farmington because of the local Japanese auto suppliers in the area) Edit: what do you know...some statistics. I missed Canton. http://www.usa.com/rank/michigan-state--japanese-population-percentage--city-rank.htm

He's lost it https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ballroom-2674343765/ 'Veered into micromanagement': Rift between Trump and White House ballroom architect grows

DOJ was down to the last second on Comey because of the SOL. They have 30 days to try again. I have doubts on their ability to procedurally get their act together

"Hey Kash! I'm trying to run a clean executive branch here! This makes everyone in the White House look like grifting stooges whose sole motivation to be in government is raping the taxpayer. " https://www.ms.now/news/trump-kash-patel-replacing-fbi-director-planes-girlfriend

Or chose not to do because its easier to hate the foreigner.

"We can land three armies on the beach at Normandy but..." "We can pulverize all the cities on Earth in 45 minutes but..." "We can identify a vaccine for childhood diseases impacting millions and feed the planet robust meals and participate in collective security agreements to prevent undue aggression between the superpowers for the better part of 70 years but..."

this is top notch

Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports winning

Another crime

one more crime

He was trying to fund VA as much as was practicable because he had a veteran son. How many veterans in the Trump extended universe?

You know what will not fix this? Slashing the VA’s budget.

Clowns

You know what should really make a veteran upset? The muthercuckers who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 are going scot free. The President's clique of oligarchs are raiding the treasury to pad their own wallets. He's trying to destroy all forms of oversight that might stop the rapine assault on the US taxpayer. I guess C3 might be a US account...wow.

They know a blowout is coming in Nov 2026. It won't save them to gerrymander all the districts.