I have permanently retired “surely that could not happen here” from my vocabulary. Yes, it would hurt a hell of a lot of people, but would hurt poor and minority folk worst, which is all it takes to get stuff passed anymore. I don’t know, and am seriously afraid to find out. But I guess I will, as will we all.
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The Solzhenitsyn essay…
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“It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station. It has served its purpose. There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars,” Musk wrote at midday on Thursday.
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Is that just because he can’t figure out how to get the stuck astronauts back?
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Does this mean the weird nerds will finally stop jumping in front of bullets for him?
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(I need any chance for a bit of levity that I can muster right now. And that “fucking Putin!” at the end hits extra hard today.)
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It will also pretty much kill rural hospitals. I’m sure his base will be happy to have to drive 3-plus hours for medical care.
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His EOs aren’t for the elites, but for the rest of us…
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From what I am seeing, the pharma companies are basically working as normal. There’s the whole rest of the world that isn’t going insane and hasn’t change. Trump’s changes are seen as silly but ultimately temporary, at least in the life of a business.
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Still waiting on the EO for this one. I thought he would wait a couple of years, but, no he wants it now so badly.
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I have to bet every one of those people in the room were royally pissed.
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Canada would still partner with European nations in NATO, so I don’t think it’s the end of NATO, but it could mean a restructuring, and maybe it could include nations not in the North Atlantic region, like Australia, for example. Maybe renaming it.
There has been a movement by British commonwealth and former commonwealth nations to form an economic union called “CANZUK”; Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.
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And Trudeau is not well-liked by many people.
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