OK, let me get this straight. Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) wants to give his (white) billionaire (and, may be, if they're nice to him, millionaire) buddies phat refunds, even phatter than the one he gave them last time.
And to do this, he's going to take money from starving Black kids, and some brown and yellow ones, in all those shithole countries he complained about the last rodeo? Will he still feed starving Norwegian kids? One of, likely the only one that works, ways to keep the Domino Theory (Nam, look it up) from playing out is to lift the boots off the necks of poor starving Black kids. Revolts happen when playing by the rules in a rigged game becomes obvious. Empty bellies make people angry.
It's worth remembering that American Gunboat Diplomacy, protecting American companies south of the border from the governments of the countries they occupy, is what led to (and still does) countervailing dictatorship.
The utter stupidity of the MAGAnauts is breathtaking. I guess they still believe that Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) and The Musk Ox really, really are looking out for them.
06 February 2025
05 February 2025
Side Effects
If, and that's still as specific as one can be, Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) and The Musk Ox get their way in gutting employment in the Damn Gummint (which is small potatoes in expenditures), we can contemplate the side-effects of such effort.
And, being from the econ tribe, what might I see the effects on metro DC where most agency main offices reside? The one that comes immediately to mind is a regional housing crash. I lived in The District for all the time I was a Fed, but most bureaurats live in the burbs. By the time I got there, most new housing was being built on the Virginia side, what with Maryland largely taken. The District and Baltimore, downtown to downtown, are about an hour apart. So, you've got about 40 miles of area to make burbs, which was mostly done by the mid 70s.
If you're a new couple, come to DC for civil service, once you get to GS-13 (mid-level worker bee) it's time to get your mortgage. Now, being in civil service (getting there isn't the cake walk the Right Wingnuts blare), you expect that you'll be employed long enough to pay off said mortgage. For those "out in the field", life is a bit different. Some years ago, the GS payrates were regularized to recognize that regional/local cost of living differed, sometimes by a whole lot. But being away from The District often means that you're not in some One Company Town. Make no mistake: the big houses you see when tooling around the Metro Area don't house civil service worker bees, but rather lobbyists and lawyers and other Private Sector Poobahs.
If Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) and The Musk Ox manage to cull 10,000 from the rolls, and 80% are central office agency worker bees, what happens to those 8,000 worker bees? At least one of my former colleagues managed to segue from public to private employment, but not because he was thrown out of the Damn Gummint. And he was AB.D. in psychometrics, a somewhat rigorous technical skill. Bureaurat middle managers? Not so much. A lot of those mortgages will default, simply because the DC Metro is not equipped to suck up all those public sector worker bees, like Bounty does in the teeVee adverts. The worker bees' lives will be smashed. And, as elsewhere, private equity will scarf up all those bargain basement houses and turn them into high priced rentals for the next cohort of starry eyed new couples coming to The District to do Good Works. May be Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) will get in on the game; make some small change, welcome as it will be, on the hardship. Cruelty is the point.
If the Flaccid Duo get all the way to 100,000, the effect on the DC Metro will be a neutron bomb. Just what they want. There are no Social Goods, only rent extraction (that's an econ term). Andy Jackson, Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor)'s Idol created, in large measure, the spoils staffing protocol. 19th century Federal governance was one party's corruption after the other's. A swell time to be an American. Let's all do it again!!
And, being from the econ tribe, what might I see the effects on metro DC where most agency main offices reside? The one that comes immediately to mind is a regional housing crash. I lived in The District for all the time I was a Fed, but most bureaurats live in the burbs. By the time I got there, most new housing was being built on the Virginia side, what with Maryland largely taken. The District and Baltimore, downtown to downtown, are about an hour apart. So, you've got about 40 miles of area to make burbs, which was mostly done by the mid 70s.
If you're a new couple, come to DC for civil service, once you get to GS-13 (mid-level worker bee) it's time to get your mortgage. Now, being in civil service (getting there isn't the cake walk the Right Wingnuts blare), you expect that you'll be employed long enough to pay off said mortgage. For those "out in the field", life is a bit different. Some years ago, the GS payrates were regularized to recognize that regional/local cost of living differed, sometimes by a whole lot. But being away from The District often means that you're not in some One Company Town. Make no mistake: the big houses you see when tooling around the Metro Area don't house civil service worker bees, but rather lobbyists and lawyers and other Private Sector Poobahs.
If Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) and The Musk Ox manage to cull 10,000 from the rolls, and 80% are central office agency worker bees, what happens to those 8,000 worker bees? At least one of my former colleagues managed to segue from public to private employment, but not because he was thrown out of the Damn Gummint. And he was AB.D. in psychometrics, a somewhat rigorous technical skill. Bureaurat middle managers? Not so much. A lot of those mortgages will default, simply because the DC Metro is not equipped to suck up all those public sector worker bees, like Bounty does in the teeVee adverts. The worker bees' lives will be smashed. And, as elsewhere, private equity will scarf up all those bargain basement houses and turn them into high priced rentals for the next cohort of starry eyed new couples coming to The District to do Good Works. May be Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) will get in on the game; make some small change, welcome as it will be, on the hardship. Cruelty is the point.
If the Flaccid Duo get all the way to 100,000, the effect on the DC Metro will be a neutron bomb. Just what they want. There are no Social Goods, only rent extraction (that's an econ term). Andy Jackson, Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor)'s Idol created, in large measure, the spoils staffing protocol. 19th century Federal governance was one party's corruption after the other's. A swell time to be an American. Let's all do it again!!
04 February 2025
By The Numbers - part the eighty fifth
Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) march through DC, burning everything in sight, is well and truly started. A longstanding boogeyman for the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnuts is the Department of Education. As if the Damn Gummint never had anything to do with fostering education in these here United States.
Some numbers follow.
March 2, 1867 is the first Office of Education.
April 25, 1939 is the creation of the Federal Security Agency, one part of which was The Office of Education which did about what you think it would.
April 11, 1953 is the creation for the successor agency, HEW. Yes the "E" is education.
October 17, 1979 which put Education into its own agency.
But, of course, the sub-GED crowd wants to get the Damn Gummint out of our schools (well... but keep the money flowing to Charter Christian ones), but, of course, into our bedrooms. When they're in power. They voted for a white rich guy (who has had at least 6 bankruptcies, because he's so smart) who is showing his true colors: keep them white trash poor, stupid, and sickly. One wonders if they'll ever figger out they been played for chumps?
Some numbers follow.
March 2, 1867 is the first Office of Education.
April 25, 1939 is the creation of the Federal Security Agency, one part of which was The Office of Education which did about what you think it would.
April 11, 1953 is the creation for the successor agency, HEW. Yes the "E" is education.
October 17, 1979 which put Education into its own agency.
But, of course, the sub-GED crowd wants to get the Damn Gummint out of our schools (well... but keep the money flowing to Charter Christian ones), but, of course, into our bedrooms. When they're in power. They voted for a white rich guy (who has had at least 6 bankruptcies, because he's so smart) who is showing his true colors: keep them white trash poor, stupid, and sickly. One wonders if they'll ever figger out they been played for chumps?
What I Said - part the first
Well... that really, really didn't take long. The Gang of Six decreed that the President is a dictator and can order anybody from a GS-1 on up what to do. In due time, he would order something totally stupid. That day has come.
Come summer, California's Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnut farmers who voted for him won't have any water if summer is even a bit dry. The tale is here and the stupidity does boggle the mind.
Come summer, California's Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnut farmers who voted for him won't have any water if summer is even a bit dry. The tale is here and the stupidity does boggle the mind.
Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, "the water is flowing in California," and adding the water was "heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles."Natulrally, Batshit J. Moron will blame Sleepy Joe's Deep State holdovers for telling him to unleash the agua. Even dumb ass shitkickers know you build up reservoirs when it rains.
There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.
03 February 2025
I Told You So - 3 February 2025
Well... that didn't take long. All those MAGAnaut Congresscritters are starting to beg for succor as I promised they would. Did you believe me? Or did you think the MAGAnauts would buy Batshit J. Moron's baloney? The sub-GED crowd sure did; they voted for him. The "traditional" GOP knows better, while still knowing the truth about The Orange Shitgibbon©anon. I give you Grassley of Iowa
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday asked President Trump for an exemption for farmers on the sweeping tariffs he imposed over the weekend.Please, please Herr Fuhrer, don't hit us with pain, just those awful Blue states. Expect pleas more to come. Recall, as told here, Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) took direct action to lower Canada's oil tariff to 10%; don't want to piss off those midwest MAGAnauts. It gets cold in the Dakotas.
01 February 2025
You Lie, Motherfucker
Another load of shit from those woke "scientists" who don't read a Bible.
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history.What!!! You blasphemer!! Ever body know that God made Man in God's image from nuthin at all. Ain't no physics or chemistry (from those Yankee states) dat's gonna convince me otherwise. OK, so we always show Jesus as fishbelly white, even though them Middle Eastern folk are beige or cafe au lait (I learned that one from the internet).
By The Numbers - part the eighty fourth
Now that Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) has, once again, said that, fur shur, he's going to tariff the shit out of Canada, et al, here's some numbers of interest:
- it takes 5 barrels of precious water to make 1 barrel of synthetic crude.
- the USofA gets 97% of tar sands "oil"
- most of it ends up in Upper Midwest refining
- tar sands "oil" is heavy shit, not that light stuff in North Dakota
- the USofA gets 60% of oil imports from the Great North
So, while it's heavy shit, it is a significant supply. Why fuck with that? Because Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) are morons, more concerned with the fantasy size of their dicks. The Musk Ox has, though not often, admitted that Uncle Sugar has bailed him over the years. But, of course, both he and Batshit J. Moron are self-made men.
- and there's the gas situation, too 2/3 of Northwest gas is Canadian
Some folks are too dumb for words. While the cities of the Northwest tend to Blue, the rest are Red shitkickers. Won't they be happy? Well, Batshit J. Moron will get away with blaming Sleepy Joe for the inflation.
- it takes 5 barrels of precious water to make 1 barrel of synthetic crude.
- the USofA gets 97% of tar sands "oil"
- most of it ends up in Upper Midwest refining
- tar sands "oil" is heavy shit, not that light stuff in North Dakota
- the USofA gets 60% of oil imports from the Great North
So, while it's heavy shit, it is a significant supply. Why fuck with that? Because Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) are morons, more concerned with the fantasy size of their dicks. The Musk Ox has, though not often, admitted that Uncle Sugar has bailed him over the years. But, of course, both he and Batshit J. Moron are self-made men.
- and there's the gas situation, too 2/3 of Northwest gas is Canadian
Some folks are too dumb for words. While the cities of the Northwest tend to Blue, the rest are Red shitkickers. Won't they be happy? Well, Batshit J. Moron will get away with blaming Sleepy Joe for the inflation.
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