Okay, here they come, the increased prices due to Donny’s tariffs. Companies held the line for a while but ran out of stock or just decided they can’t keep absorbing the cost. Now the consumer is seeing the increases at the grocery store register. The coffee I drink is nothing special. No offense to Folgers, but it’s Folgers. Gourmet blend. One pound, six point six ounces. It used to run around $15 bucks a container. The last time I bought coffee? $25 dollars.

So, look, this isn’t my first day with American corporations. Sure, the tariffs are playing into the cost increase but I would bet the companies see a chance to raise prices just to increase profits, too. We won’t know until they start reporting their earnings for shareholders. The tariffs are definitely part of it, though.

What, does he think he’s going to bring coffee growing back to the US? We don’t do much of that. We never have. So what was the point of a tariff on coffee? Then again, what’s the point of anything he does?

Just be advised. The country is becoming FAR more expensive to live in. Your money won’t go as far. Whatever money you might eventually see in your temporary tax breaks, you’re going to MORE than lose in your day to day life and all of it traces straight back to the fact that Donny doesn’t understand things…

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Oh, he’s threatening to send troops to Chicago? He’s threatening an “investigation” into Chris Christie? He started an “investigation” into John Bolton? None of it is serious. I mean, it’s serious but it’s not important. Sending troops to Chicago won’t do anything other than make a big show. It’s bluster. He tried it in LA. He tried it in Washington, DC. He hasn’t solved anything. He HAS hurt local businesses. All he actually ever does is damage. (It’s the Antichrist way…)

I doubt Bolton is worried about “mishandling classified documents.” I’d bet he didn’t. I don’t even LIKE Bolton but I’d bet there’s no “there” there. It’s the same with Christie. His big “crime” was to question something about 47. Well, kinda. Christie actually asked the same question every thinking American has been asking over the last couple of days: “Why should we believe a damn thing Ghislaine Maxwell has to say about anyone?”

Christie even tried to walk the fine line, question Maxwell’s account without implicating Donny, Jeffrey’s long-time bestie. Christie said, “Now, that doesn’t make Donald Trump guilty of anything.” He even said he doubts Donny was involved, although that was mostly just trying to protect himself from Donny’s wrath. NOBODY questions Donny’s involvement, not even MAGA. But he finished off with, “But we’re going to believe Ghislaine Maxwell? Give me a break.”

See, the “sin” there is that Donny NEEDS people to believe Maxwell. MAGA is desperately trying to, but even they know better. Maxwell is a child sex trafficker and an established liar who has everything to gain from lying. Yeah, that sounds like a trustworthy source.

Christie seemed to brush off the “investigation.” “He told you he was going to do this, that he was going to have a Justice Department that acted as his personal legal representation, and that is what they’re doing.” Donny has weaponized the DOJ. Nobody else did that. That’s all Donny…

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Here comes Gavin again. The Drumpfster has been threatening one university after another and one university after another has simply folded under the pressure and given him whatever it is he demands. It’s kind of a ‘Sopranos’ thing. “Nice school ya got here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.” He finally brought the act to UCLA but when he tried to extort UCLA, he ran into Gavin, America’s favorite Governor.

Donny – America’s least favorite “President” – has accused the school of using ethnic information to pick and choose students. (California stopped using ethnicity on admissions forms several years ago.) He has also pretended he’s fighting antisemitism. He isn’t. At the end of the day, Donny just doesn’t like colleges. He has said, out loud, more than once, he loves the poorly educated. So, he cut off Federal research funds in an attempt to extort money, like he’s done with so many other colleges.

The Felon froze a half billion dollars in research funding, then demanded a one billion dollar tribute to open the spigot again. But Gavin said no. Gavin calls it what it is: extortion. Gavin says he’ll see the criminal regime in court. Gavin is encouraging UCLA to fight back, saying, “I’ll do everything in my power to encourage them to do the right thing and not to become another law firm that bends on their knees, another company that sells their soul, or another institution that takes the easy wrong versus the hard right.”

The obvious problem, here, is that the GOP and the Heritage Foundation have so thoroughly corrupted the higher courts, Gavin is likely to win early (because he’s right) but lose on appeal (because those courts serve Donny, not the law.) Still, it’s nice to see someone standing up to the would-be dictator and not just rolling over…

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Oh, speaking of “rolling over.” MAGA – America’s least favorite bloc – tried to make a thing out of the fact that Gavin – America’s favorite Governor – said that Texas governor Greg Abbot had “rolled over” for the trumpster. GOP was horrified, or, rather, pretended to be. See, Abbot gets around in a wheelchair, so Gavin was clearly making some reference to that. How dumb are we going to get?

The term “rolled over” has existed longer than Greg Abbot and possibly every English speaker in the world knows it and has likely used it at some point. It means to surrender without a fight. It has nothing to do with mobility. More, I can say – for a fact – that mobility-challenged people do, in fact, use common expressions when talking about movement. If one says to a wheelchair bound person, “You walked out of the room,” the conversation just goes on. There’s no, “Oh, you said I ‘walked out,’ you meanie-pants.”

Every moment in this “culture war” makes me tired all over. It’s defining characteristic seems to be “stupidity.” It depends on stupidity. It makes an art form of not understanding basic things. It’s in my face on a daily basis so I have no choice but to notice but – damn! – it’s boring…