I hadn’t fully appreciated what Trump meme Coin was; a way for any foreign nation, opposed to U.S. hegemony and democracy, to fund Trump by directly deploying capital into his bank account. And he has the receipts to know exactly who his ‘allies’ are—those who bent the knee.

“The blues [music] tradition itself, is the candid acknowledgment and sober acceptance of adversity as an inescapable condition of human existence—and, perhaps in consequence an affirmative disposition toward all obstacles.”
Albert Murray, the founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center