“The beatings will continue until morale improves”
“An army marches on its stomach” Napoleon
Or, as one of my archaeological dig directors said; “A well fed crew is a happy crew”, and her budget included food for us. Not all do.
Because he couldn’t take the record highs today as a win. He had to screw it up.
We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country. They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
the next thing canada should do is take Cory Doctorow’s advice:
no paywall:
https://archive.ph/JVtxT#selection-695.0-707.9
Abandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better future
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JJ had joined 81 percent of Yuma County’s voters in supporting Trump, whom he considered the better of two bad options. He wanted to believe that the president would honor his many pledges to do right by people like him.
“The USA will PROTECT OUR FARMERS!!!” Trump had posted to Truth Social that very day.
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“I’ve employed Americans, and they quit after a few days,” said Tracy Vinz, assured $400,000 for her organic farm in Wisconsin. “They quit after a few hours.”
“I’ve had a couple who didn’t even last a whole day,” said Mitch Lawson, a Georgia produce farmer who lost nearly two dozen American employees before he qualified for $200,000.
They really are. This is their attempt to be funny, but they basically have two modes: cringe and cruelty, never any real humor.
Maybe someone called him “Papa” as in “Papa Doc”, the Haitian authoritarian, hence “Daddy”. Nah. Someone called him “Doo-doo”, then…
Bad Dad?
Shit Dad?
Need to workshop this a little.
Duddy.
Do we ever get back to normal or has the orange guy ruined it forever?
Old man with anger issues walked into the Michigan Capitol Building with a gun.
Legislators should be pissed at the police.
“The weapons detection system functioned correctly and alerted to a possible weapon; however, the trooper staffing the entry point did not see the alert until after Mr. Nugent left the screening area,”
A couple Legislators had things to say…
“We have submitted school aid budget that we could be negotiating on, and just frankly, I’m not interested in being lectured about morality by somebody who sang about raping 13 year olds,” Pohutsky said, referring to the lyrics of Nugent’s song titled Jailbait. “It’s absurd.”
That point was echoed by Sam Inglot, Progress Michigan executive director, who issued a statement noting the controversies in Nugent’s past.
“Ted Nugent has a long, documented history of promoting racism, misogyny, violent political rhetoric and election denial. Nugent’s past also includes deeply disturbing allegations of grooming and abuse that should disqualify him from being legitimized by Michigan Republicans. His presence at today’s Natural Resources hearings is not only offensive, it’s dangerous,” Inglot said.
If we can’t go back to “normal” (which, if we’re being honest about it, wasn’t great for a lot of our fellow humans), we should push for something better, more equitable, more genuinely democratic.
I don’t want what I grew up with, I want a world in which all the people have guaranteed human rights and human dignity is respected by all. I feel naive even saying this, may be some pie in the sky shit, but it’s what I wish for.
Yeah, agreed. If these accerationists insist on tearing it all down in a the most violent way possible, it’s up to us to rebuild something better in its place.
Fuddy Duddy.
