Dr. Keynes Was Right: A Test of Will

Rule by Executive Order ≡ Dictatorship

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887

Removing federal judges because of disagreement with their rulings would be unprecedented. And it is risible to see conservatives, who repeatedly went to court to enjoin Biden and Obama administration policies, now saying that the judiciary should not review executive branch actions. If the Trump administration chooses to defy court orders, we will have a constitutional crisis not seen before. Or perhaps, after 238 years, we will see the end of government under the rule of law.
-- Erwin Chemerinsky/2025

We are now buddies with the Axis of Evil.
-- Claire McCaskill/2025 [Good News!! Make America White Again]

The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

Mass layoffs have begun across the city's largest employer, tipping economic forecasts for the Washington, D.C., region toward recession. Real estate agents are bracing for a housing slump.
-- Campbell Robertson/2025 [as mentioned previously, private equity is licking its chops]

I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!>

The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files. ... DOGE personnel wanted access to classified information, which only those with security clearances and a specific need to know are able to access.
-- Jennifer Hansler, et al/2025 [the Stasi are here; you can thank the Gang of Six]

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery.

-- Marriner Eccles/1951

This Week's thought

When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that's a sign that we've crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.
-- Steven Levitsky/2025

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10 March 2025

A Test of Will

So, we've been hearing the bleating from the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts about how the EU is taking the poor ole USofA to the cleaners by them not funding NATO 'enough'. May be. May be not. But it is true that the USofA has been shipping materiel to Europe to a faretheewell, at least since the invasion of Ukraine.

Well... here's the test. Will shitler and muskrat^©dugugotw 'support' Ukraine by limiting the export of materiel to any EU nation? Ya know, France or Germany buys and transship to Kyiv? It's obvious to even the most casual observer that Bone Spur Samurai^© means to carve up the greater West with Vlad The Impaler: he takes Europe, Bone Spur Samurai^© takes the Americas (I guess including the Gulf?).

Won't that be a fun world to live in?

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