fashion choices are free targets…the key word is choice..people are born and grow a certain way…that is not fashion, choice is how you want people to notice you..deal with it..if yo don’t like it. don’t look at it
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Today’s Tom Hopkins:
https://open.substack.com/pub/thejackhopkins/p/he-canceled-colorados-drinking-water?r=eo4sv&utm_medium=ios
The thing about a shakedown is that nobody writes it down. That’s the entire craft. Criminals imply. Criminals gesture. Criminals mention how nice the place looks and, “Oh, what a shame it’d be if something happened.”
A Deputy Assistant to the President named Emily Underwood sent an email on December 15th of last year, at 2:43 in the morning. Subject line: brainstorm call. It went to officials at five federal agencies. Energy. Transportation. Interior. Agriculture. And the Office of Management and Budget.
The stated purpose: to prioritize Colorado for the purposes of ensuring grants and federal support are in line with administration priorities. Come prepared to discuss immediate actions your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.
- The very next day…Transportation and Energy announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Colorado. Reporting puts Energy at roughly $615 million and Transportation at $109 million.
- OMB moved to shutter the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
- FEMA rejected disaster relief for the Lee and Elk fires and for flooding
- Agriculture ordered the state to re-certify a hundred thousand SNAP recipients on a short clock. That’s food.
- Trump vetoed the bipartisan Arkansas Valley Conduit bill; a project to bring clean drinking water to southeastern Colorado.
- And Space Command headquarters…got relocated to Alabama.
Not one of those things belongs to Donald Trump. Every dollar of it was appropriated by Congress. He didn’t punish Colorado’s government. He punished Colorado’s people, and used their own money to do it.
Trump got the outcome he wanted. The racket cleared. That’s the part I can’t get past. Not the brazenness; the success. Because a shakedown that works…does not stay a one-off. It becomes a tool.
They canceled the water project. Clean drinking water…southeastern Colorado…bipartisan bill…people who’d been waiting decades for it.
Because a woman who tampered with voting machines was in a state prison where a state judge put her.
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interesting…most of the softwood lumber used in housing is imported from Canada. trumpf just imposed a huge tarif on these imports..Canada doesn’t care..it does not need the usa market, now.it does business all over the world.
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Different squeaks for different freaks.
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normal. nothing to see here.
According to CNN reporting, Harp “jumped into an SUV trunk” in October 2023 when Trump was due at a New York City courthouse. The motorcade idled outside his Trump Tower residence, and staffers told Harp that there was no room for her, according to a CNN article.
“A screaming match then ensued in the lobby of Trump Tower,” CNN senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes reported on Tuesday. “At that time, with essentially Harp saying that the president had personally asked her to go, and she was determined, so determined not to be left behind, that she actually got in the trunk of one of the SUVs that was part of the motorcade.”
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You know, when The First Felon does pass away, the SS will have to keep her from jumping into the casket with him before they close the lid.
This one isn’t quite right in the head.
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I would never tell anybody I disliked what they are wearing – clothing, tats, jewelry. Lately, I’m seeing women – and some men – with rings through their noses, the skin around their eyes, lips etc. Have I been parachuted into some primitive culture seen in some old geography book?
Privately, I will be appalled at the course, uncouth dress, behavior of people I see. Here, we can vent what we would never vent out loud.
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I’m just surprised this loser hasn’t renamed it the US Straitjacket of Hormuz. Because it’s pretty much got him tied up in knots.
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The only possible answer is yes. The question is why the cult thinks this is a good thing.
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I got blisters on me fingers…
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Ah, CO missed an opportunity there.
Good Luck with that 
so win/win
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I prefer “Great Depression” to distinguish it from some other smaller depressions – er, recessions.
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many people l00k dirtylike steve bannon looks soiled..like they never bathe..maybe they dont’t//i guess i’m old school
no. she is not
You and me --we’re steeped in conventionality to be sure, but conventionality serves a profound social function. It provides provide continuity and predictability. . Punishments of norm violations are universal. That’s sociol 101 Just yesterday I read of some guy getting booed in France running bare chested through the streets of one town. Years ago, the author of “Future Shock” predicted people dressing like characters in a Tarzan movie.
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Pfft. Plano is almost inner-city these days.
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