China no longer copies ...

Representative image of a Chinese stealth fighter jet. Wikimedia Commons

China no longer copies, they innovate. As a small example, check out what they've done regarding stealth and the requirement of being able to communicate while remaining stealthy.

The evolution of military aircraft design has increasingly emphasized stealth and aerodynamic efficiency, pushing engineers to develop low-profile antennas that integrate seamlessly with an aircraft’s structure. Traditional antennas, with their protruding forms, create unwanted radar signatures and disrupt airflow, posing significant challenges for stealth technology.

Stealth aircraft require antennas that minimize radar detectability while maintaining robust communication capabilities. Early attempts at reducing antenna size produced compact 5-millimeter designs, but these were limited to narrow frequency ranges of 2.3 to 2.5 GHz. Expanding frequency coverage required increasing antenna height—up to 0.39 times the low-frequency wavelength—which presented a trade-off between stealth and performance.

A team led by Associate Professor Feng Yang has overcome obstacles that were set by weak tracers that are height adjustable and low-frequency range with the help of adopting a design that is low scale and has extended frequency range.

With an impressive low profile of just 0.047 times the low-frequency wavelength, the prototype presents an efficient radiation pattern, achieved simultaneously together with a 12:1 impedance bandwidth. This enables superior aerodynamic integration while ensuring operational effectiveness is not compromised.

The integration of high gain frequency and vertical polarization increases performance and makes the antenna effective for airborne navigation and secure military communication.

And we won't talk about China's 6 generation stealth fighters either, right?

Background by ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP via Getty Images … Aircraft via X

J-36 - The larger of the two 6th generation fighters

Overall, the J-36 most logically combines a lot of very important features in a relatively advanced design — one potentially capable of executing long-range counter-air, ground and anti-surface strike, SEAD/DEAD roles, as well as offering a very potent standoff surveillance capability and working as a drone controller and networking hub. As we originally stated in our initial analysis, its range, speed, and payload could put many enemy assets at risk, from surface combatants to support aircraft, and especially vulnerable tankers even while operating far from China’s shores. Dismantling the ‘tanker bridge’ that would be critical to enabling U.S. tactical airpower in an anti-access combat environment, the same tanker bridge that supports America’s notoriously short-ranged fighter aircraft, would be devastating and this aircraft appears built to find, fix and kill these aircraft, among other roles.

Overall, this package of design elements, when taken at face value, appears to be tailored to pushing out tactical airpower far from Chinese shores, including to the edges of the second island chain. If fielded in relevant numbers in a truly effective state, it could have major consequences for Beijing’s foes, namely the United States.

Houston, we have a a problem

Please share 5 things ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk may be all smiles, but his stockholders are livid.

Andrew Harnik—Getty Images

Well, the other stable genius wrecking government, is finally taking a deserved hit on the financial side of things regarding the tanking of Tesla stock as people really hate Musk, including yours truly, but that's grist for another story as Elon continues to channel Howard Hughes in ways boggling the mind.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk may be all smiles, but his stockholders are livid.

Shareholders are using Musk’s own words against him, asking what five things he’s done for them in a reference to his DOGE team’s controversial email to federal employees. The stock dipped on Thursday for the sixth straight trading session.

Tesla shareholders want Elon Musk to get a taste of his own DOGE medicine.

Trump’s government efficiency czar sparked a backlash this past week when he demanded civil servants justify their paycheck by listing five things they accomplished in a week—a tactic he first used to thin the ranks at Twitter.

With Tesla shares down heavily since the start of this year, however, investors are now turning the tables on their CEO. They have taken to Musk’s own social media site X to ask what he’s done for them lately. 

“Please share five things you did for Tesla shareholders this week,” celebrity photographer Jerry Avenaim posted on Wednesday, with a graph showing the poor performance of the stock. “Or are you working remotely? Asking for all of us.” 

Don't worry, being the president with deep connects to government regarding contracts for Space X and Starlink, Tesla tanking becomes but an inconvenience.

Semi Fired

Elon Musk participated in a fireside chat with the TV host Rob Finnerty during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., last week.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times

Ready, Fire, Aim sums up this CF of an administration totally clueless on how to do anything with any degree of competency, something similar to how the other "stable genius" in the White House designed the Cybertruck, the only entity capable of surpassing the F35 in terms of how to do something stupendously wrong in the most efficient way possible. 

To whit.

Federal Personnel Office Tells Agencies That Musk’s Directive Is ‘Voluntary’

President Trump said employees would be “sort of semi-fired” or fired if they didn’t comply with an Elon Musk order to detail their work. Some agencies told staff members to ignore it. Federal workers said they didn’t know what to do.

Question, would you know what to do?

It's no secret that we here at Jalopnik have been critical of Elon Musk's stainless steel middle finger to the automotive industry. In fact, we wrote over 60 Tesla Cybertruck blogs in its first year as a real car in the real world.

In the past year the Cybertruck has faced a total of seven recalls, plus a litany of customer complaints and ample bad press from owner crashes and breakdowns. Even many die-hard Tesla stans ended up questioning their loyalty to Musk's vision. Given the vast array of blunders we figured it might be nice to bring some of the Cybertruck's highlights together in one place. Tap or click the title of each fail to read the original blog.

This was one of the most dangerous design flaws that afflicted the Cybertruck in 2024; an accelerator pedal with poorly glued trim that would slide and trap the pedal against the floor, turning the Cybertruck into a 7,000-pound runaway stainless steel death trap. The fix? Rivet the trim piece to the pedal.

How many recalls faced the Cybertruck this year? Seven? Damn. Here's a brief overview of each recall issued throughout the triangular pickup's first year of existence. Click each recall to read the full stories.

Dashboard warning lights that were too small

Unintended acceleration due to throttle pedal issues

Windshield wiper motor failures

Bed trim that kept flying off while driving

Rear-view camera image that took too long to load

Faulty inverter can cause total loss of power

Tire pressure monitor warning failure

Last but not least, the fireside chat with another stable genius.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rev II

I want Musk & Trump gone ... now.

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The image says it all, Trump, channeling Alzheimer's at the same level as Sleepy Joe's, empowered Musk, the "DOGE "expert", who's getting a cool 8 mil per day on our nickel, to take over government as needs warrant. Outrage comes to mind here while witnessing a Constitutional crisis being chaotically crafted 24/7 by "president" Musk, an unelected greedy bastard of epic proportions. Without question, this country needs a drastic reset but not by these clowns determined to turn America into a corrupt dictatorship where the rich get off while we, the great unwashed, get hosed by this "administration" from hell.

Prsident Trump’s determination to bend the American justice system to his will, combined with his broad tolerance for political corruption and his abhorrence of checks and balances on his power, slammed hard last week into the commitment to duty, honor and the rule of law shared by a group of federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and Washington, D.C. The confrontation between Mr. Trump’s lieutenants at the Justice Department — led by his former personal defense lawyer Emil Bove III — and Manhattan’s interim U.S. attorney, Danielle Sassoon, and her colleagues is the clearest example yet of this administration’s efforts to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government and warp its long-held principle of equal justice before the law.

Those tactics are being used not just in Washington but increasingly at the state and city level, too, particularly against local policies that Mr. Trump opposes. In this case, the Justice Department has undermined the ethical and trustworthy governance of New York City by moving to let its mayor, Eric Adams, off the hook for corruption charges brought by Southern District prosecutors, in apparent exchange for Mr. Adams’s acquiescence and support for the Trump administration’s desires, starting with its crackdown on illegal immigration.

I want Musk & Trump gone ... now. 

What part of no don't you understand?

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and US President Donald Trump © FT montage/Getty Images

As much as I detest Agent Orange, the talk with Putin to end a war that never should have happened seems to be a tragedy to finally end if the gods will it as Putin, another guy I detest, said, for years, Ukraine cannot be allowed to join NATO due to its proximity to Moscow and Russia. The expansion of NATO to enable the arms suppliers to make money goes back to 1989, facts eloquently described by Chris Hedges in 1989 and William Smith in 2014, something quoted in BRT titled The Peter Principle clearly showing why this disaster could have been avoided without question. 

Ukraine, the historic link from the west to the east

For years, this writer had discussed the catastrophic foreign policy the US has conducted with the first fubar being Israel and Palestine in 1948 followed up by the house arrest of Iran's democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh by the CIA in 1953 in order for England to gain access to Iranian oil. To do this, the US installed the Shah, thus converting a friendly nation into a hostile one due to the shah's brutal regime, culminating in turning Iran into an enemy when Khomeini took power while converting Iran into a theocratic state in 1979. 

Summing it up ...

And we haven't discussed the cost of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza as the US is the enabler of enablers regarding ordinance to allow Israel to conduct its version of endless war in the year of our lord 2025.

Companies profiting from the Gaza Genocide

The list is long and ... It's all about the money. Always has been, always will be.

A history lesson ...

A history lesson with emphasis on Ukraine, a tragedy that never should have happened. 

Kinda says it all ...

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as X Æ A-12, Elon Musk's son, stands beside him in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque(REUTERS)

Kinda says it all ...

Why Musk is the defacto president ...

Used to be 2 trillion ...

Elon Musk faces new challenges to DOGE’s effort to reshape Washington, but there is one thing he isn’t doing: lowering expectations.

Over the course of a raucous 30-minute back and forth in the Oval Office on Tuesday, both Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to be competing to make the biggest claims about DOGE — with both offering the sense that they felt their time for wholesale action could be limited.

Trump assailed recent legal challenges to his spending plans in part because they "slowed down the momentum" of Musk's moves. The men predicted that Musk's effort would find $1 trillion in cuts and help lead to "no inflation" next year. At another point Musk said he was trying to be "maximally transparent" even as he and Trump repeatedly dodged questions about their undertaking.

It was Musk's first time answering questions from the media since launching his overhaul of the federal bureaucracy, with a session held alongside the signing of a new executive order around implementing his team's efforts to cut the federal workforce.

All in all, it was a striking Oval Office moment complete with Musk's son atop his shoulders "sticking his fingers in my ears" as the world's richest man tried to downplay market fears that his actions at the US Treasury could upend bond markets.

Any questions and remember, it takes, according to Musk, only 6 unqualified people to deal with the complexities of the government's budget and ... let's see what happens when Musk and company deal with the MIC, the real power of the country as it's all about the money, something Kennedy questioned without question and we all know how that turned out, right?

A pie chart showing global military expenditures by country for 2019, in US$ billions, according to SIPRI.
Note that this is not shown as a percentage of GDP.

The Clown Show

Image by Reddit

DOGE, aka The Clown Show, keeps on giving in terms of Musk's hiring people cosmically unqualified, not only in terms of security clearances and government wherewithal but also with ethics and the desire to create havoc as needs warrant.

A teenage member of billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE boys — a youthful entourage currently slicing its way through the federal government — was previously fired from an internship after being accused of leaking sensitive data to a competitor.

The 19-year-old high school grad Edward Coristine, also known by the online moniker "Big Balls," was "terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors," according to a June 2022 message reviewed by Bloomberg.

It's yet another sign that Musk did practically zero vetting while building out his A-team of young men who are now plundering a growing number of government agencies.

And this.

One of Elon Musk's lackeys at his DOGE group, Marko Elez, unexpectedly resigned on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal revealed a litany of extremely racist social media posts he'd apparently made shortly before joining the team.

The exact reason for his abrupt departure remains unclear. However, as Wired reports, White House officials seem to have provided incorrect information about Elez only being given "read-only" permissions to the US Treasury codebase, hinting at the possibility that he could have been in trouble for things other than the egregiously racist posts linked to his departure.

According to Wired, Elez did in fact have write access, allowing him to push unvetted and untested changes straight to the Treasury's payments system — a nightmare scenario that could introduce all sorts of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and leave doors open for adversary hacker groups.

The Musk-led effort to gain entry into Treasury’s huge payment database
drew a lawsuit Monday. | Jose Luis Magana/AP

Elon Musk’s headlong rush to take control of crucial federal agencies and functions — and to dismantle some of them virtually overnight — has stoked widespread alarm in Washington about the aims of his Donald Trump-backed mission.

His so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s early moves have violated the Privacy Act and cybersecurity laws, according to legal experts, and triggered a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s assault on government bureaucracy.

Legal and security experts are particularly exercised by Musk’s move to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and take control of the Treasury Department’s central payments database.

“The scale here is unprecedented in terms of the risk to sensitive personal and financial information,” said Alan Butler of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “It’s an absolute nightmare.”

The tail wagging the dog ...

A view of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024
(AP Photo/Peter Dejong File)

Are there any questions as to who owns who as Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel.

To whit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes over his military response in Gaza after the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children, have been killed during the Israeli military’s response.

The order Trump signed Thursday accuses the ICC of engaging in “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel” and of abusing its power by issuing “baseless arrest warrants” against Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.

“The ICC has no jurisdiction over the United States or Israel,” the order states, adding that the court had set a “dangerous precedent” with its actions against both countries.

Question, do you think Ike would put up with this crap? I thought so.

There's a pulse ...

Representatives of government employees and retirees have sued to stop sensitive data from the Treasury being shared with Elon Musk and others at Doge © AP

There's a pulse after all as Elon Musk barred from accessing US Treasury payments data is in place. It's temporary but maybe it may be the tiny spark needed to save our democracy.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly put the temporary order in place after Musk boasted that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was “rapidly shutting down” Treasury remittances, having apparently gained access to the system that disburses trillions of dollars, including social security payments and Medicare, each year.

Representatives of government employees and retirees have sued to stop the sensitive data being shared with Musk and others at Doge, arguing that such moves were “depriving them of privacy protections guaranteed to them by federal law”.

Although the US government reassured the court that only two of Doge’s emissaries, Cloud Software group chief executive Tom Krause and 25-year-old coder Marko Elez, had access to the sensitive system, Kollar-Kotelly pushed for an order preventing any information being shared outside the Treasury, while she considers a more permanent injunction. 

As a result, Musk himself will not be able to review data pulled from the payments system. 

Hopefully ... forever.

53 days ...

Illustration by George Douglas; source photographs by Arthur S. Aubry and DNY59/Getty Images

An existential threat to the continued existence of America is in play with a blitzkrieg resembling what Hitler did in 53 days whereby the weak Weimar government of Germany was systematically destroyed. 

1933 ...

Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes. The minutes, as we will see, mattered.

Hans Frank served as Hitler’s private attorney and chief legal strategist in the early years of the Nazi movement. While later awaiting execution at Nuremberg for his complicity in Nazi atrocities, Frank commented on his client’s uncanny capacity for sensing “the potential weakness inherent in every formal form of law” and then ruthlessly exploiting that weakness. Following his failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923, Hitler had renounced trying to overthrow the Weimar Republic by violent means but not his commitment to destroying the country’s democratic system, a determination he reiterated in a Legalitätseid—“legality oath”—before the Constitutional Court in September 1930. Invoking Article 1 of the Weimar constitution, which stated that the government was an expression of the will of the people, Hitler informed the court that once he had achieved power through legal means, he intended to mold the government as he saw fit. It was an astonishingly brazen statement.

“So, through constitutional means?” the presiding judge asked.

“Jawohl!” Hitler replied.

Adolf Hitler and his cabinet, January 30, 1933, the day he became Chancellor of Germany.

(Everett Collection / Alamy)

Channeling Hitler's playbook.

It is a mistake to think of the first two and a half weeks of President Trump’s second term as a series of discrete and separate constitutional and legal crises. It is one crisis, with many manifestations. Think of Trump’s second term as a kind of legal hydra, in which the defenders of the Constitution are facing one body with many heads, and those heads are acting in concert.

Trump isn’t merely issuing orders and enacting policies; he’s launching a constitutional revolution. The object is nothing less than the transformation of the American presidency.

So is Elon Musk’s role in the federal government and the extraordinary effort to impound appropriated funds or destroy executive agencies established by Congress.

And so is Trump’s attempt to push the edges of his tariff authority and extend congressional trade statutes far beyond their intended scope.

Even the low and spiteful character of so many people who are being hired in the administration is related to Trump’s constitutional revolution. He needs people who aren’t just willing but also happy to blow through moral and legal guardrails for him.

For example, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just hired a man named Darren Beattie to serve as his acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. Beattie has a horrific record of overt racism. On Jan. 6, 2021, he tweeted at multiple Black lawmakers and public figures, telling them to “learn their place” and “take a knee” before MAGA.

March 13 marks day 53 of the "Musk" administration ...

Admin ...

Photograph: Bill Oxford/Getty Images

One of President Musk's lackeys is now an admin able to read/write government's payment system files as needs warrant, something most disquieting to this writer without question.

A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED.

Two of those sources say that Elez’s privileges include the ability not just to read but to write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: the Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS). Housed on a secure mainframe, these systems control, on a granular level, government payments that in their totality amount to more than a fifth of the US economy.

Despite reporting that suggests that Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force has access to these Treasury systems on a “read-only” level, sources say Elez, who has visited a Kansas City office housing BFS systems, has many administrator-level privileges. Typically, those admin privileges could give someone the power to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to.

Everyday, yours truly asks the cosmic question. What kind of "Trump" administration nightmare are we going to see today? No one knows, do one? - Fat Waller

Interstellar - Orbiting Gargantua

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” ― Albert Einstein

Leftovers ...

 Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; John Macdougal/Getty Images

The picture says it all as Musk is the new Howard Hughes, becoming more power hungry and crazed as we speak. As an unelected operative, Musk now has unprecedented control over the government's payment system as well as access to secret documents thanks to the fact Agent Orange isn't running things, Musk, and significant others, are. With this being said, the "team" charged with the task of hijacking the government are rather young to say the least as seen in a perceptive Wired piece titled The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover. 

To whit.

Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college. Most have connections to Musk, and at least two have connections to Musk’s longtime associate Peter Thiel, a cofounder and chair of the analytics firm and government contractor Palantir who has long expressed opposition to democracy.

WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.

It get better.

The six men are one part of the broader project of Musk allies assuming key government positions. Already, Musk’s lackeys—including more senior staff from xAI, Tesla, and the Boring Company—have taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and General Services Administration (GSA), and have gained access to the Treasury Department’s payment system, potentially allowing him access to a vast range of sensitive information about tens of millions of citizens, businesses, and more. On Sunday, CNN reported that DOGE personnel attempted to improperly access classified information and security systems at the US Agency for International Development and that top USAID security officials who thwarted the attempt were subsequently put on leave. The Associated Press reported that DOGE personnel had indeed accessed classified material.

“What we're seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government,” says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. “We really have very little eyes on what's going on. Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials. So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.”

Question, would this self appointed genius allow these leftovers to design rockets? I thought so. 

Crossing the line

Addendum

President Donald Trump has empowered Elon Musk to undertake a gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development that is pretty clearly illegal. And this week, on numerous fronts, this has suddenly become a much bigger scandal. First, we learned that Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is taking over the agency and locking its workers out of internal systems. Then Musk himself confirmed that Trump had agreed with him that the agency must be shut down.

Sargent: Congressman, Elon Musk has confirmed that Trump agrees with him that USAID should be shut down. Agency staffers were instructed not to come to work. Hundreds have been locked out of the agency’s computer systems. On Monday, some of you went to the agency to investigate. Can you bring us up to date on the situation as of now, Monday afternoon?

Beyer: As of now, there’s not a lot of change from the administration, from Musk, or from Trump. What has changed, though, is an enormous outpouring of public protest and response to this. I think we had close to 15 members of Congress there giving powerful speeches. But even more importantly, we had more people and more press than we’ve had in anything in the first two weeks of the Trump administration saying, This is not right, this is against the law, and really calling out Elon Musk, an unelected, unvetted, unconfirmed person who came to this country illegally in the first place deciding what’s going to happen to our bona fide institutions of government.

This has to stop now!

Lost in the world ...

No words needed ...

Off the rails, for real ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted a handful of members affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system late on Friday.
Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

DOGE, run by Musk, a South African, now has access to the government's checkbook.
What could possibly go wrong?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to five people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.

The system could give the Trump administration another mechanism to attempt to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress, a push that has faced legal roadblocks.

What we are seeing here is Project 2025 writ large with Musk and company in control, not Agent Orange. What will be interesting to see is how the MAGAs react when the cost of goods go thru the roof due to tariffs, the perfect way to shoot one's foot when it comes to all things relating to economics. One cannot make this up and ... thanks goes to the Dems and Joe Biden for letting this CF of biblical proportions happen. Right now, our liberties and our country's future are being taken away piece by piece with the last insult seeing a self appointed expert on government operations taking control of how our government pays for services, something insulting to the max for any American who loves their country like yours truly. For the next four years, us rubes will experience an ongoing nightmare for the ages. The question to ask is, will we put up with this insanity or will we do something about it as this is an existential crisis unlike anything this country has ever faced since the Civil War. 

No one knows, do one? - Fat Waller.

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An Extraordinary Day ...

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