Tuesday
on 04.29.25
Let's go with the Canada election and the crazy Spain blackout. Didn't we have an article here in the past year or so about how fragile our electrical grid is to solar flares?
Also there really doesn't seem to be enough conversation about Trump's literal diminishing mental status:
Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!
I mean, it's no "I AM A VERY STABLE GENIUS" but still. Extremely dumb stuff.

DOGE etc.
on 04.28.25
NPR story and another story from a source that I have no idea how to evaluate, both on how maybe DOGE just first thing gave Russians access to NLRB data and presumably every other agency they've gotten to.
The NPR story is written in Professional Mild, and the other link reads like Professional Gobbledygook, but I can definitely understand the alarmed tone in this IG Post, with lots of screenshots of the transcript of the testimony, to add verisimilitude.
So wait, like, Musk has never seemed to quite be the Russian Asset guy. He's just a run-of-the-mill comic book Nazi bad guy who likes power and ketamines and has managed to get infinity money.
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Also what's the timeline for when the tariffs start to tank the economy?
