Nov 07, 2024 10:04
The weather has been abnormally warm: 83° flashed the electronic sign outside Wallkill Valley Federal Savings & Loan yesterday.
I planted garlic.
Since my attention span was totally shot, I did not attempt to Remunerate but instead read a very strange novel by Paul Theroux called The Bad Angel Brothers and researched Jure Sanguinis routes to Italian (& therefore EU) citizenship: I’m eligible through my great-great-grandfather Emidio D________ who had the foresight to be born in Vulture, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy.
Tracking down the necessary documentation would be a lot of work. But it could be done.
I’m not one of those wrong-side-of-the-election Americans having a temper tantrum: I’m moving to Costa Rica!
But the parallels with the Weimar Republic could not be stronger, and it would be prudent to have an escape route at the ready.
If any of my 4.3 readers out there has a European or Canadian passport & is unattached, I am open to marriage proposals!
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I also thought a lot about how the dismantling of the current regime under the New Order (Neue Ordnung!) will transpire.
If I depended upon Medicaid for my healthcare insurance, I’d be pretty panicked right about now. (Note that anybody who has wholly or partially subsidized healthcare insurance under Obamacare falls into this category.)
The only way the incoming administration can curb inflation without raising taxes if the Fed Reserve drops interest rates (which it will) is to go after entitlements. I think Social Security & Medicare are safe for now.
But Medicaid?
Fuggetaboutit.
Trump-as he informed us on that stage in Philadelphia some months back-has concepts of a healthcare plan! And these concepts are the best! No where in recorded history has there ever been a healthcare plan as great as the Trump healthcare plan concepts!
His pal Robert Kennedy Jr. will help him out with the vaccination & fluoride-in-the-water parts of that plan.
Also, get ready for that nationwide abortion ban, girlfriend. Elon Musk wants you to have babies!!!
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Because I am Not a Very Nice Person, I’m gonna enjoy the tears & tribulations of all those Walmart workers who voted for Trump & suddenly find themselves without healthcare!
Schadenfreude! It’s kinda the go-back-three-spaces card in the Game of Enlightenment and means I will blow my chances at bodhisattva in this lifetime.
Oh, well.
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I’m also very curious how soon Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc are gonna act to install their boy J.D. Vance in the Presidency.
Trump’s outrageousness was a convenient spearhead into the White House, but if it continues-and it will continue ‘cause Trump has dementia-it will quickly become inconvenient.
Though it hasn’t been speculated upon in the mainstream media, I kinda think the Dems’ insistence upon covering up Biden’s Parkinson’s disease-I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s got; that boxy gait is a classic diagnostic indicator-was another significant factor in the Harris defeat.
I’m sure our new technocrat overlords observed and will learn from that.
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