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“In a world of chaos, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists” - Eric Hoffer
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Last Notes npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet But don’t always assume that passing through the portal puts you in the same physical and temporal location on the other side. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet This almost sounds like a bad joke: Vance, Kushner and Witkoff walk into a Pakistani bar… (Yeah, alcohol is highly restricted there) A Veep, a creep and a schmuck? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/372/053/942/604/026/original/93f500980721728b.jpeg npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/956/157/554/372/830/original/d0ad27d6e3b918be.jpeg npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Did you expect anything different? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet This round, they’re targeting non-citizens, Who is the target in round 2? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Which is why the situation is urgent. Inaction will not make this get any better. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Perhaps antifa is an idea, not an organization. You can’t stop an idea. You can’t defeat an idea. An idea isn’t illegal. An idea doesn’t have a membership card. It doesn’t have a headquarters. It is a concept distributed everywhere in the minds of its supporters. And an idea spreads easily. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet While I’m sure that Schlossberg has qualifications, his lineage to JFK shouldn’t have any “star power” affecting election outcomes any more than someone showing bloodlines to either Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln or even Donald Trump. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet But when you have an executive branch that doesn’t uphold and defend the Constitution, what’s left? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet And he might be right. I beginning to think that with a spineless Democratic Party and a court system slanted towards MAGA, there aren’t many options, other than regional division, which might occur anyway if things continue to spiral downward. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Not exactly rocket science. Just mimic what people who lived there for thousands of years found what works well. Don’t try and build something that doesn’t belong there and then think you can install a massive HVAC system to offset the poor design. Sure you can use some modern building techniques or materials but don’t depart from the basic design elements that make the structure work well in its environment. When in Rome… npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet It points to retailers jacking up prices at every opportunity to increase profits and perhaps absorb the impact of tariffs on their profits. Consider that tariffs are charged on the wholesale value at import, not the retail price. Basic math-a 30% tariff added to wholesale price shouldn’t result in a 30% or more increase in retail price if everything else stays the same. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet So how does Trump explain the increase in prices of domestic products on the chart? Tariffs are supposed to help domestic products compete with imports, not raise the price of them. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet A statement like “You’re destroying your heritage” sounds like it comes from the mouth of a racist. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet again, a dystopian view of society: “you’re here to work, to produce. When you can no longer work, if you’re sick, disabled or just old, the machine doesn’t need you. So you die: we don’t need to feed or care for you because you no longer serve a purpose.” npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet loyal workers for the machine who will not rock the boat of conservative christo-capitalism npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Understand the seven mountains concept NAR wants to control: Religion: Churches, faith-based organizations. Family: The structure and moral foundation of the family unit. Education: Schools, universities, to influence young minds. Government: Political institutions, laws,public policy. Media: All forms of communication-news, social media, and publishing. Arts and Entertainment: Creative and cultural industries that shape societal values. Business: The marketplace, economy, financial systems. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Freedom of the press is the right of journalists and publishers to disseminate information and opinions through various media without government censorship or interference, a principle protected in the U.S. by the First Amendment. But nothing was said about private censorship or interference by private ownership in order to appease the government. When our public media are owned and controlled by oligarchs, there is no true freedom of the press. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Sticking “Gulf of America” on a map doesn’t allow us to claim it as territorial waters! npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Good question that we may never know the answers to. But why else would the US military suddenly point their resources in that specific direction. They usually don’t intercept drug boats until they’re closer to the US, not the southern Caribbean. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Maybe it’s time for the International Criminal Court to charge Trump with human rights abuses and now murder for the Venezuelan boat sinking. Put out an arrest warrant on him just like Netanyahu. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Unchecked lethality? Those sound like words that inspired the UN, in an effort to ensure that something like World War II never happens again. Any bets on when he tries to kick the UN headquarters out of New York? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet I respectfully differ. Given the diversity of the American people and the “have it your way” attitude, without a leader to pull us out of this mess and counteract the “so-called puppet leader” on the other side, we would have chaos and lack of clear purpose and direction, which is how the Republicans defeat us: divide us into dozens of special interest factions and conquer. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet That last sentence is the key. Who is going to unite us all to do that and how do we do it in an effective way? We need a leader. Without one with a strategy, we’re a rabble that just gives him a reason to send more troops. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet At least H Ross Perot knew which end of the chart was up https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/080/058/900/993/004/original/108d81687259a70f.png npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Funny he didn’t know about the raid but already accused Bolton of being “unpatriotic”. Gee, is there a legal definition for that or do we reach back to Sen McCarthy and J Edgar Hoover for that? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet All the makings of corporate-run dystopia, designed to: - kill labor unions - limit the minimum wage - limit workplace health and safety rules - limit regulations that would protect the environment by restricting corporate dumping and emissions - create a society that can’t afford not to work - control media to distribute propaganda and prevent propagation of free ideas - control education of children so they become loyal workers and don’t rock the boat npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Why do they get everything they want and we the people get nothing? “Let them eat cake.” “Taxation without representation” What will the catchphrase be this time? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/044/029/926/756/962/original/0083117b8c7e325a.jpg npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet So a high school valedictorian and Ivy League graduate can see the obvious through the fog of the BS we’ve been fed in the last 4 decades that healthcare becomes unaffordable. I’ll stop there. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet They speak furbish, and were banned by the NSA (LOL)! npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Should have known that these things were just the beginning of the end for humanity, once they started talking. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/979/471/087/059/367/original/f32210f0c147d90f.png npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Ever notice that the 30-33% number always seems to match the percentage of diehard Trump supporters? Has anyone tried to correlate this? (Netanyahu, Trump, ICE deportations, DOGE, killing public broadcasting, the EPA not protecting the environment etc) npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Weasel Words npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #lepidoptera A lepidoptera Monday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/893/571/699/832/695/original/5459f500aaed5487.jpg npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet So, displace the people that for generations, have had a right to be there? Sounds like eradication of a people and their culture. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet When a billionaire came up with the idea, and called it DOGE. And we all rolled over and changed the channel to watch basketball npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet This is big. It’s about massive tankers of orange juice, airplanes from Embraer and coffee. We’re about to get a realization of what we use that comes from Brazil. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet “safer”? How? After how many x-rays? What power or focus? Dental or medical? Maybe with more sensitive digital x-ray sensors perhaps. But tell the public why, don’t just expect us to believe anything after Jan 21. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Everything has an impact one way or another. A desalination plant has to do something with the salt super salty brine process water that has to be diffused back into the ocean somewhere. Then there’s the energy it consumes (option for solar or wind power). npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet There’s always a desalination plant option $$$. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Probably going into the comprehensive database that Palantir is building for the administration. One that will rival anything that the East German Stasi files or J Edgar Hoover files ever had. And it will likely contain much more than just immigrants DNA. Just imagine the dystopian possibilities. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet It is admirable from an energy standpoint but I’d like to know how much the temperature of the river downstream is raised and what the impact is on algae, fish and BOD especially in dry summers when river flow is lower. It might be negligible…but how much? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet The administration will spin protests as something destructive, incited by outsiders. Excuses to send in troops to “protect” the public and government agents. Just imagine what a farm worker or meat packing plant strike would do. Crops rotting in the fields, meat sitting in slaughterhouses, profit being lost.Prices rising in grocery stores, empty shelves. That’s tough to spin: what people see with their own eyes. You can’t send Marines to pick lettuce or tomatoes. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet 1984 was one of the books Republicans tried to ban in Iowa. And Huxley’s Brave New World is on many lists in Texas. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet So does it become easier when more people realize that everything in life is not black or white but exists in various shades between the extremes, even changing back and forth over time? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet He doesn’t know….the Emperor has no clothes…He’s a puppet that flounders in a TV interview where the questions go above 3rd grade. Who’s really in charge? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet There isn’t a whiteboard large enough to draw all the interconnections beware Trump and most of the corrupt politicians, Israelis, billionaires, fascist dictators and dark forces out there npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet The complexity of how our brains develop cannot be quantified by a simple study that samples thousands of individuals. There are infinite permutations of DNA combined with as many developmental and environmental factors that shape each of our characteristics, abilities, personalities and other “ilities” that we can’t even measure yet. That is what makes every single one of us on the planet uniquely human. Celebrate that and do not try to “cure” the gift that is diversity. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet And that’s the scary part. At what point does he begin to think that everyone else in the world is his enemy (except work-wife-musk)? Anyone who calls themselves a leader shouldn’t be playing golf while the economy is tanking: you’d think he’d be in the situation room tracking Wall Street, China’s response etc. It’s like he doesn’t really give a sh!t. So after tariffs, what’s next? Travel bans on certain visitors entering the US? Ethnicity? Religion? Color? Nationality? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Ever wonder if this is just demented revenge on the business community and the country in general for his multiple business failures and bankruptcies? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Whatever happened to the Geneva Convention? Yes, this is a war. A war that Trump declared on anyone who defends the rights of others. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet So if you refuse to work, what can they do to you? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet But other than the distraction factor, why could Trump want Greenland? Minerals? meh… Gold, diamonds? possibly but not proven… Water?… https://specialreports.news.uci.edu/greenland/island.html npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Trump doesn’t understand the impact of these moves at the system level. California harvests, picked fruit, midwestern farm labor. Eastern restaurant cooks, waiters and dishwashers, hotel service providers. They just don’t get it. America was built on the backs of immigrants of every kind. Other than native Americans, we are all immigrants. Polish Chinese Italian Puerto Rican Azorean Welsh Brazilian German Iranian Hungarian America has held the door open for the world. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #silentsunday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/173/663/758/017/922/original/4b5b47c90080d4a0.jpg npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet How not to make friends. This guy is worse then a King. He’s trying to blackmail Ukraine into a “deal” now. This is mob boss behavior to convince someone they need “protection”. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet ZELENSKYY: Realistic? Russia is stealing our land, executing civilians, and kidnapping our children. What part of that should I be realistic about? TRUMP: It's gonna be very hard to do business like this, Volodymyr. ZELENSKYY: Business? This isn't a real estate deal. You can walk away. We can't. TRUMP: If I was president, this never would have happened! ZELENSKYY: Because you would've just handed Ukraine over. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Such a dealmaker. Zelensky needs to leave now and let the world know what an ass is running what was formerly one of the most respected countries on the planet. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Very amusing to watch President Macron correct Donald Trump’s lies and distortions about how Europe vs the US was providing funding for Ukraine. Just the facial expressions on Trump show that he is not a statesman but an embarrassment to his country. Macron acted swiftly “No, to be frank…”, while grabbing Trump’s arm in the process of stopping the lies. https://youtu.be/IWZU4zrOoLE?feature=shared npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/053/583/025/738/947/original/630a11e4fdff0153.jpg npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet And what does the US have in their pocket to negotiate from a position of strength? Otherwise, we will get run over by Russian “deals” that the inexperienced Trump so-called “diplomats” will fall for, leaving our European allies in the dirt and selling out Ukraine. For what? Where is the gain for anyone other than Putin? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet OMG. Literally the red carpet. Can we suppose that the two will spend unsupervised time together in the Oval Office? Or will Tulsi join them to help? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet This is a sinister way to keep education only in the hands of the privileged wealthy. These fools do not realize that they are handicapping the future of the nation. Other countries that subsidize higher education will soar far above us. None of us are as smart as all of us. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Truth is often stranger than fiction. And more frightening. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Which means those thugs have access to all the personnel records, doesn’t it? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet When you consider the number of people impacted by the fires in California, the value of property that is now in ashes, the cost of rebuilding coupled with Trump’s lack of concern and compassion, it would be an interesting challenge to the US banking system if most of those people just walked away from their mortgage payments. What would that impact be? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Seriously? After what history shows how Britain mangled every country they touched? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet 350 executive orders. Wanna bet that he didn’t write or conceive even one of them? The puppet with the big sharpie just signs them. We know who’s pulling the strings on the puppet. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet I remember how schools used to indoctrinate us in the 1960s, bragging about how you could travel freely in the US without being “stopped to show your papers” like in other places in the world. How our world suddenly has changed upside down. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Same with Greta Thunberg once she started pointing towards capitalism as a significant cause for climate change. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet There’s a plant in LA burning now. Putting water on lithium is similar to the old chemistry class chunk of sodium in water demo: Lithium reacts violently with water, producing hydrogen gas and lithium hydroxide in a violent exothermic reaction. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/17/us/evacuation-fire-power-plant-monterey-county npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Let the record show that the one who will occupy the White House (yes, I will not use the P word) is demonstrating pro-Russian behavior. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Maybe so, but when an event happens, it can be catastrophic a la Chernobyl or Fukushima. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #geography Saw this depiction of South America and thought how different it looks without political borders emphasized but with a relief version. Changes how you look at the Amazon basin https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/727/192/954/669/879/original/b91f30348959c485.png npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet So good reason to keep COVID vaccine current instead of getting a stronger case of it and risking the destruction of memory T-cells. This is so important that it should be a PSA on media, instead of letting the “just get COVID and tough it out” attitude. Has there been any research on what T-cell immunity memory is lost and what that does to risk of other diseases? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet It is cool and it’s science, reality. The media would rather focus on total BS because most of the general public can’t even comprehend the implications of being that close to the sun and what it takes to build a craft that can withstand it. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet The US has a similar mentality under the Republicans. George HW Bush gave us the ‘thousand points of light’ excuse for why the government was pushing the burden on the private sector charities instead of addressing the issue. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet They’d let you leave but what happens on re-entry when they scan your passport? Will they request access your phone for a while? npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Using the terrorist label is a dangerous precedent. Mangioni didn’t commit terrorism, he committed 1st degree murder against a specifically targeted person, not a general population. This is a tactic reminiscent of the Patriot Act, memories of Ed Meese npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Seems like it’s only an act of terror for a select few. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Why would he run again? It seemed like there was not going to be an election since back in late July, Trump promised Christians that they’ll never have to vote again, as if our democratic process will be over. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Wrong, Mitt. Trump’s slim popular vote margin is hardly a mandate in such a divided nation, especially when it was built upon lies by an indicted criminal. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet “I need ammunition, not a ride.” He could have bailed out of his country and left his people behind. He didn’t. He stayed and inspired them in a war that some said would be over in 5 days with Russia only tens of miles away from Kyiv. It’s been over 1000 days and Ukraine knows that surrender is not an option. Leadership. Humility. Hope. We could use some of that on this side of the Atlantic. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/658/380/463/294/071/original/9b49a71b87b664d4.png npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet It also shows that for as much wealth as they possess, they have no shame or guilt while the working class (which is really all of the 99%) struggles. May those red MAGA hats be fashioned into bonnet rouge a la 1793. Wake up all of you! npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Really? No wonder our government doesn’t get any meaningful work done with things like this that waste a lot of time and money, even if they don’t pass. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Sure. Who needs a few butterflies? We do! They’re pollinators! Which is really important since bee populations are diminishing. https://www.science.org/content/article/butterflies-provide-extraordinary-help-pollinating-cotton-fields npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet The only bank that honestly helps people. In a way, they help make change (pun intended). npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Hmm, didn’t the US do that in the past? Don’t you think Israel does that also? https://swampland.time.com/2013/10/24/report-nsa-monitored-phones-of-35-world-leaders/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23123964.amp npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Just another segment of “The Plan”. Need a massive whiteboard to sketch it all out, probably beginning in about 1990-1995. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet The scariest thing is that it is based on a factual event. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Sorry, maybe in warmer climates but I just dont see how it works in cold climates in winter where wind chills are as low as -20 to-30 F. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet And the planet npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet AI will destroy us npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet And remember, folks. If you’re driving in the Northeast: all of that rain is now sitting on top of oils on the road. Careful. Watch your separation distance and brake carefully. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet The late George Carlin. He was so right. And we only laughed but didn’t listen and heed the message. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet When going up against an irrational adversary, you cannot think rationally. However, I do feel that somehow there wasn’t much the Democrats could have done. They couldn’t discredit Trump as a traitor who stole classified secrets because that meant nothing compared to the Trump lies about grocery and energy prices and hordes of immigrants coming over the border to rape and pillage white America. And deportation of a million+ immigrants? Rational thought says impossible. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet Duh. Exactly why Trump’s lawyers kept delaying everything towards the election and beyond. And DOJ didn’t have the cojones to push their cases. npub1u9yey6n0sw24pmd990q3veyqf2ap6kv7f3fufu2f0vawtc6m90xsrupqt8 bouriquet #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/419/650/400/476/780/original/d991ee2859bc6fae.png