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washparkhorn

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  1. Cormac published his first work of nonfiction in 2016. It is an interesting piece: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/
  2. My favorite author died today. RIP Cormac. Blood Meridian.
  3. Law twitter with a cheap shot. AI not amused.
  4. Arch paleo-Republican Bruce Bartlett understands the silliness of the debt ceiling theater. Want to be brighter than 99% of Americans? Read and understand this. Good luck.
  5. The inverse Cathie Wood trade continues to reap rewards: When she sold:
  6. Cats and dogs joining forces against the utter depravity of trumpism. (Nader and Old GOP mastermind Bruce Bartlett)
  7. Unconstitutional to default (“question”) on the nation’s debt. Original intent and plain reading support illegality of defaulting on the debt. Even Scalia would have ordered the Legislative and Executive Branches to pay the nation’s debt. Not a close call—legally. Congress and the President want ‘default’ as a tool to impose austerity measures. It’s blatantly unconstitutional. They need to do their jobs at the budgeting stage of legislation if they want to impose austerity. They are too chicken-shit to actually float a balanced budget; their buddies would lose their tax breaks and the MIC likes their toys.
  8. Right Wing Death Squads is reference to Pinochet’s Chile and it’s systemic round up, torture and killing of anyone opposed to his right wing military dictatorship. The death squads were trained by German Nazis at Colonia Dignida, a Nazi stronghold in Chile protected by Pinochet. The Germans at Colonia Dignida included former SS and Gestapo. It is thought that Dr. Joseph Mengele was at the camp as well. Colonia Dignida served as a secret torture site for Pinochet. Paul Schäfer, a former Nazi army corporal and founder of Colonia Dignida, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 25 children. (Every accusation is a confessIon for right wing degenerates.) Right wing death squads became a staple of right wing movements in central and South America.
  9. Reminder—under the Debt Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the United States cannot default on the debt. Any law purporting to allow a debt default, such as the debt ceiling, is explicitly unconstitutional. For the US to default, the Constitution must be amended. The debt ceiling crisis is theater. Always has been. Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. If Congress will not act to pay the public debt, the Executive must act to pay the bills. If Congress and the President will not act, the Court must compel payment of the debt. Threatening a default is an empty threat.
  10. Average hourly earnings sharply slowing. Median wage growth in a stall as phase shift appears.
  11. “A Travis County judge Thursday unsealed court records that revealed more anti-protester social media posts and messages that a jury did not see or hear while deciding whether to convict Daniel Perry on a murder charge in the death of Garrett Foster. The posts included messages such as "Black Lives Matter is racist to white people...It is official I am racist because I do not agree with people acting like monkeys," Perry wrote. Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday about Perry's comments on social media about calling himself a racist.” https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2023/04/13/daniel-perry-trial-social-media-racist-anti-protester-comments-gov-abbott-garrett-foster/70113166007/
  12. https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/end-of-capitalism-inflation-greedflation-societe-generale-corporate-profits/ The Fed’s solution: create unemployed Americans.
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