tonight they begin starving the children. it isn’t complicated.

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i wonder if banks will discount frozen grants.

maybe if Trump froze Democratic legislators salaries, Democratic leadership would finally act like a political party in serious opposition rather than a jobs program win or lose. US legislators of both parties have to learn it's no good keeping your jobs if you let the country fall to ruin.

i'm afraid that's a deal they're trying to trick us into. see! govt doesn't work (when we, um, break it). let's drown it in a bathtub! you keep your thousands. we'll keep our billions. you'll do without everything, we can buy anything. we've got to keep the faith, then tax with abandon.

what Trump doesn't get is the deep export of the United States is security services, the overpricing of our currency that let's us buy so much shit is in significant part downstream from support by security clients, and by destroying that business he's not winning anything and putting lots at risk.

they think it's savvy to tell us the vibes, the culture, the kids, the cool kids, the housewives, the working man, the hippies & new age chicks, anybody, everybody, is going nazi. they concern troll, dig the clicks and shouting matches, don't exactly mean to help make it so as they help make it so.

OMG what if it includes agency loans! trapped homeowners, wannabe home buyers, and the real-estate industry could really go gaga for MAGA!

oh god please no.

i mean, maybe not. but cutting checks is an official act so the pattern of cutting or failing to cut checks represents part of each president's distinct portfolio of official acts, so is itself an official act, for which the president enjoys at least presumptive if not absolute immunity.

some people prefer the negative income tax and others prefer the universal basic income, so they compromised on the negative basic income.

i feel like my kid's fifth grade teacher really dodged a bullet. they covered the geography of the US southeast, including the Gulf of Mexico, like a month ago. it'd be a no-win situation if she had to teach it now.

If Trump passed an executive order claiming "yuge" the official spelling of TWFKAH (the word formerly known as "huge"), would @merriam-webster.com just comply, maybe listing the h-version as an alternate or archaic spelling? But Google, Google, is doubleplusgood. ht @gottalaff.bsky.social

yeah, but i heard you're free software.

yes, of course the shit they do is outrageous. but they love to be raged at. they thirst for our anger. the shit they do is also stupid, pathetic, and hilarious. they don't love to be laughed at. we love to laugh. win-win!

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When returns were normal, people did not rely upon asset appreciation to finance such expensive futures. We've been in a capital-allocation destructive fantasy world since the mid-1990s. It's not just coming off the GFC.

It's all so very clever. So much respect for process, which process is merely rational, right? except it is a fig leaf for letting you suffer and die when that would minimize costs.

I guess @weisenthal.bsky.social can clarify if he wants, but I think the social contract he implies is number-go-up according to expectations set the past few decades, especially since the GFC. Housing number used to go up with inflation. That was fine. Now much faster. Not so fine!