Step 1) apply HUGE tarrifs
Step 2) watch markets fall
Step 3) buy the dip (cause you already rich)
Step 4) play diplomacy game and “pause tariffs”
Step 5) sell the rise, take money and…
Step 6) buy shorts on select stocks
Step 7) increase rhetoric on “unfair trading partners”
Step 8) see step 1

(Nods to your neurotypical with ADHD rising as I fly into AuDHD land singing highway to hell at the top of my lungs)

We all may be on the same ride, but we’re all on amazingly different trips.

I think that’s what keeps the world interesting…

Coincidentally, both are from the Seattle area…

I would but I already have a rep and a pair of senators that are Dems, and my rep is even a little too far left for me sometimes… though of late I say “Let’er Rip Jayapal!!!”

If anything - you’re still restrained.

I wonder if he’s imagining Putin whispering sweet dollar signs in his ear as he says this absolute, bald faced, lowlife, scum sucking , back stabbing, cheap ass fucking lie.

What a fucking idiot.

Sorry @adamkinzinger.bsky.social , I won’t idealize Reagan. He’s the chuckle head that started us down this path. His embracing of the religious right and anti government sentiment put us a direct path to where we are today. I was there, and there is no way to sugar coat it.

Will it blend?

I think it’s more of the “oooo, we have your captive eyeballs for at least 2 hours, maybe 5. We can sell the crap out of that space!” And American was like “but it’s 1990”

Time to dust off kimchristiansen(dot)net and get busy… there’s important things going on. Like my recently completed Lego Ferrari photo shoot (that I still need to, you know, actually photograph)

They just perfected their stealth tech. There’s one right behind you…

Science fiction at its best (and yours is among the very best) reflects our possible futures derived from our probable actions.

☝️this, exactly this.