RIP American Experiment in Democracy
Feb. 5th, 2025 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Propane tank swap out? Piece o’cake.
Also had this text exchange with Flo from Dutchess TaxBwana—

—which made me feel all warm & fuzzy.
Shortly I will be sauntering off for more TaxBwana.
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I know I swore off politics, but the hits keep on coming.
This morning comes the news that a 25-year-old Muskateer named Marko Elez has given himself sysop privileges over the U..S. Treasury & made extensive changes to the code base for the critical payment system.
This is a bloodless coup in the form of a ransomware attack threat.
And you can absolutely believe that if I have to take a Trump loyalty oath in order to access my Social Security payments, I will do so: Money is money.
As always, this news was accompanied by a fusillade of other news designed to distract & enrage: Trump plans to 86 the Palestinians to Jordan & Egypt & turn the Gaza strip into a Trump resort (doubtful), the CIA wants to fire its entire workforce (maybe), Trump plans to send all immigrants & presumably future dissidents to the Château d'If in El Salvador (maybe), the U.S. Post Office will no longer deliver parcels from China (fact.)
The American experiment in democracy is essentially over. It lasted just short of 250 years.
It remains to be seen how much impact this will have on the lives of most Americans.
Surprisingly little, I’m guessing.
I'm pestering AlphaMale to teach me how to shoot on his Virginia compound later this summer.
Also had this text exchange with Flo from Dutchess TaxBwana—

—which made me feel all warm & fuzzy.
Shortly I will be sauntering off for more TaxBwana.
###
I know I swore off politics, but the hits keep on coming.
This morning comes the news that a 25-year-old Muskateer named Marko Elez has given himself sysop privileges over the U..S. Treasury & made extensive changes to the code base for the critical payment system.
This is a bloodless coup in the form of a ransomware attack threat.
And you can absolutely believe that if I have to take a Trump loyalty oath in order to access my Social Security payments, I will do so: Money is money.
As always, this news was accompanied by a fusillade of other news designed to distract & enrage: Trump plans to 86 the Palestinians to Jordan & Egypt & turn the Gaza strip into a Trump resort (doubtful), the CIA wants to fire its entire workforce (maybe), Trump plans to send all immigrants & presumably future dissidents to the Château d'If in El Salvador (maybe), the U.S. Post Office will no longer deliver parcels from China (fact.)
The American experiment in democracy is essentially over. It lasted just short of 250 years.
It remains to be seen how much impact this will have on the lives of most Americans.
Surprisingly little, I’m guessing.
I'm pestering AlphaMale to teach me how to shoot on his Virginia compound later this summer.
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Date: 2025-02-05 03:52 pm (UTC)sadly, yes.
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Date: 2025-02-05 08:03 pm (UTC)I enjoyed the Treasury protest yesterday, which I watched the last part of live, via YouTube. But yeah--the coup *has happened*.
Only way is forward, though. And that message from your old tax pals is 100 percent true. And that matters. It matters a lot.
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Date: 2025-02-05 10:29 pm (UTC)Feel much as you do about the American Experiment. At our age, it's also "will this be the REST of my life?" And what will we be afterward? Russian, or Chile? Or some other high-income-inequality North Korea kind of place?
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Date: 2025-02-06 09:30 am (UTC)Very nice that they remember and appreciate the hugeness of your heart X