The Wordsmith's Forge

Comparing the occupant of the Oval Office to a poorly trained chatbot.

Here's a post about  HR 867, “the igo boycott act.”

Of course, it's obviously not just anti-American for violating personal freedom of choice, it's also anti-capitalist for violating freedom of doing business.

It's also completely pointless other than intimidating people.  All you have to do is A) keep your mouth shut about why exactly you are doing something and/or B) have some other reason besides the forbidden one for doing what you want.  It's how the bigots get around most requirements for diversity -- the smart ones always have some other reason for not hiring the person.  You don't like Israel's raging genocide?  Come up with some other reason to avoid buying things from them.  An unassailable one is "We prefer to buy American."

There's no need to have an open boycott, or conspiracy, if everyone is using the same playbook, in this case "genocide is bad and we don't deal with genocidal maniacs."  A discontiguous conspiracy will do the job.  And you don't have to surrender your ethics to anyone else, although you might want to keep them quiet while the country has its head up its ass.

Just in case the American foodstream experiences disruptions, here are some recipes for field corn and soybeans, two huge cash crops. Field corn may be ground into cornmeal or nixtamalized into hominy. Soybeans are most often used to make tofu but there are other options.

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As forecast by people* who pay attention: the port of Seattle is empty. This will propagate to other US ports over the next few weeks due to transit time from China.

"[small business] paused a container shipment due this month after realizing the 145% tariff would add roughly $300,000 to the shipment’s original $200,000 cost"


Sometimes, it sucks to be able to see the future. >_< But I am pleased that, at least this time, other people have seen it too. Nobody in power is listening. They are stupid and will likely not realize there is a problem until A) they personally run out of things and/or B) riots occur over shortages. But it's nice not being alone in seeing the problem this time.

Here's another example of deporting an American citizen, in this case a 2-year-old girl.  It's not actually a new problem, but the frequency is increasing.

Recently spotted term for America's current regime: the Turd Reich.

Nailed it.


See also:

kakocracy
Rule or government by the worst of the people.

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Indivisible reports that these Democratic senators in particular need to hear from their constituents right now to oppose HR22, a bill which would disinfranchise millions of people, mostly women, from voting.

The survivors of the Shoah remember, because they have seen this before.



Never forget. Never again.

And in case you need a reminder of why.

UK Supreme Court says legal definition of ‘woman’ excludes trans women, in landmark ruling

The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied.

Britain’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the definition of a woman in equality legislation refers to “a biological woman and biological sex,” sparking celebrations outside court among gender-critical campaigners but warnings it was a “worrying” development for transgender people.


Aside from the obvious abuse of transfolk, this also raises issues because biological sex is not binary. There's a whole handful of intersex conditions where outward appearance does not match chromosomes, hormones, etc. So exactly which part of "biological" do they mean, and what will they do when the parts point in different directions? Since they've just decided that a gender recognition certificate is irrelevant.

People are disappearing - it's real fascism here in the USA

At the meeting, Trump and Bukele, who is clearly doing Trump’s bidding, announced they would not bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, defying the U.S. Supreme Court.


That's the problem with electing someone who routinely operates above the law.  The law has little or no influence over what he does.  So what if it's illegal and impeachable?  People don't care.  They knew what he was when they picked him up, again.  They knowingly chose for things like this to happen.  So they don't get to pretend that they're surprised and upset about ti now.