Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@Fife4Europe That sort of ad is nearly always refused in the US. We talk big about free speech, but are afraid of it in practice.

@mastodonmigration @w7voa Still, got to be the most brazen grift in history. And Congress will not even acknowledge it happened, let alone do something about it.

@w7voa And then there'll be another announcement from the pulpit altering the tariffs "policy" yet again, and the stock market will jink upwards again, and certain clued-in campaign contributors will make yet another killing.

Lather, rinse, repeat. Naked market manipulation on the grandest possible scale. And Congress will do nothing.

@mt @w7voa

US stock markets fall amid trade war fears:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg1jxdpq0qo

Stock market surges after Trump permits carmakers 1-month tariff exemption:

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/china-warns-ready-type-war-us-after-trump/story?id=119471009

@w7voa Somebody's in the loop and making bank on all these ups and downs. Trump is basically herding millions into someone's pocket every time he speaks.

@fulelo What a fine choice of Leader Of The Free World we have, eh? So measured and responsible.

Just took a cat to the vet today, and I think I finally begin to appreciate what an emotional toll it would take to be one. A veterinarian that is, not a cat.

I mean you can't be a good veterinarian (I hereby posit) without being a compassionate and empathetic animal lover, but there's no way to tell the animal that this bewildering, invasive and sometimes painful experience is necessary and done out of love and concern.

I don't know how you get over feeling that every day of your professional life. I don't know if I could.

(Personally I never mail my ballot, I take it to one of the drop boxes. Which are easily as common as polling places are in other states, so it works out to be the same except no lines or malicious poll workers.)

This is like an episode of Blackadder, American Style. Except here the stupidity of Percy, George and Baldrick are all concentrated into a single protagonist, along with the capricious and unchecked power of Queenie.

@GossiTheDog In the US, home (it says here) of free speech and free enterprise, such adverts are almost always refused.

@Zimme83 @anderspuck @wordshaper @Ruth_Mottram

Pre-sanctions, Russia's per-capita GDP was about that of Romania. Total GDP roughly comparable to Canada.

They had the ability to build up a powerful military, but whether they have the foundational ability to sustain a war against a serious opponent for very long is another question entirely.

I wonder if #Oregon has a plan for how we're going to vote when Trump destroys the post office.

@randahl
Even before sanctions Russia's per-capita GDP was smaller than Romania's. Total GDP smaller than Canada or Brazil. The only thing that enables them to be a military power at all is dictatorship. No free people would allow itself to be so disproportionately militarized and impoverished.

@Fife4Europe Oh he understands. And he's on the aggressor's side.

@bruces "The street finds its own uses for things, and those uses are realism and atmosphere."

@fulelo Sorry, just seemed like a pretty out-of-the-way place to protest.