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Tariffs and training moments

Last week I wrote about how I was excited to buy Nintendo Switch 2, which was supposed to go on sale for previous orders. I said the launch of the video game console was “not related” for permanent political chaos. This week chaos came for the games because the uncertainty, created by the tariffs for the Donald Trump market, has pushed Nintendo to delay the previous tips for switching 2 to the US.

My older child who is 12 years old learned about the delay from his friends at schoolAnd he came home in trouble. Will the tariffs make the switch 2 “too expensive” for us to buy?, He asked.

I really didn’t know how to answer. I mostly invest every center of the available income that I have in the video game-so I drive on a 16-year-old car and my holes at least every two socks in my drawer, I own every video game console, as well as expensive PC with sufficient capacity that I could send. We are going to get a 2 switch if it becomes available at any price point, as a result of Nintendo end up landing. However, I did not want to spend a “learning moment”, showing my child that Trump’s crazy actions have real consequences.

In real time, I abandoned the parent regime “we will have to see”, but later he came to me and said he was ready to “work more” and “save money” to make sure we could still get the console. I hated This answer. I hated what I believed that could overcome the slings and arrows of the outrageous government and clumsy capitalism with “hard work” and loud financial planning. It’s not like it works. I told him that there are many people who work on the ass, the delay of pleasure and do everything right, but still can’t resist the irrational dictates of national politics to get what they needMoreover, they just want like video games.

I told him that our family will be able to “overcome” Trump’s terrible economic policy because we have lucky and privileged have a job that is evaluated and quite compensated by society. I said that if he really wants to work more, it should serve others who are not as lucky as us, and that his parents understand how to direct our resources to our entertainment and convenience.

Then his younger brother, at the age of 9, said, “Yes. And in any case, we will be able to shift 2 in four years if Trump is no longer president.” I nodded. I didn’t have a heart to tell the little one that I wasn’t sure of this last part.

Bad and ugly

• Trump has announced that he stopped in his tariffs against most countries, but not in China, causing the stock market to unite on Wednesday, Then again crater the next day. If you knew what Trump was going to do like this Seems some doneYou could make a lot of money on the market this week. In the relevant news, Senator Adam Shiff called for the investigation Whether Trump participated in insider trading or market manipulation.
• Trump has signed a whole executive order About shower heads. I look forward to this EO by performing in a documentary They were not serious peopleRemilled release in 2550, which will be a chronicle decreased and autumn of the 21st century.
• Supreme overturned the order on the lower courts This demanded that Trump restore the illegally fired federal workers.
• Conservative judges in two different vessels cannot understand whether their holy second amendment requires selling firearms Children under the age of 21. It really should tell you how insanely republican interpretation of the second amendment is that these people cannot find out whether the Constitution of the Murder Covenant is required to sell 18-year-old UZIS if they want. Next week, the Supreme Court will decide whether to enter and resolve the dispute.
• I have to fly next week and I really don’t want. If I die in some disaster caused by DOGE, please, for the love of God, politicians from my death.

Inspired to take

• In NationAlex Peter deeply lowered In the “attempted meme”, which are obviously spreading to social media. I do not want to sound like the late Bill Pokstan in every movie he did when -shot but guys I don’t think we’re going to do it.
• Dr. Christina Greer note What is essentially every black intellectual I know tried to tell white people about Trump administration: “Black Americans are not surprised.” Earlier, we literally saw this white supreme shit, and we know that we will see it again, because whiteness regularly goes into oppression in this country. Doctor, cure your amazing i.

The worst argument of the week

The Supreme Court overturned an order with a low court, which prohibits the Trump administration from the deportation of the unprepared, which he claims, without evidence, is part of the Venezuelan gang. The ruling 5-4, made through an unsigned opinion, allowed Trump to continue deporting people in accordance with the law on foreign enemies in 1798, although the majority also stated that the unnecessary substances had the rights they should have in court. It may seem partially victory, but like everything in Roberts’s court, it came with a catch. The court said the abducted migrants could only press these rights in Texas, in the home of the ridicules who can find the magic because they were sent here before giving Salvador.

Sonia’s justice Sotamoior wrote 17 Page of dissent On four pages, the not -signing opinion of the majority, and I can’t explain the problem with most more eloquent than it, so I just quote it:

Critically, even the majority today agrees, and the federal government now admits that people who are subject to removal under the law on foreign enemies are entitled to proper message and court consideration before they can be deleted. It was to be the end. However, when “instructing barbeds, no arguments and deficit time for reflection” the court states that legal issues for removing a person in accordance with the law on foreign enemies must be made in the petition in the area where they are delayed (Texas).

The legal conclusion of the court is suspected. In any case, the court interfers, providing the government with extreme assistance and releasing the district court order only on this basis. This is done without mentioning the grave of damage that the plaintiffs will face when they are mistakenly taken to Salvador or take into account the government’s attempts to undermine the trial during this trial. Since the court should not reward the government’s efforts to destroy the rule of law with discretional relief, I did not disagree with respect.

Translation: Calling the Supreme Court to Trump’s mass deportations is a nonsense – it is obviously so that even republican judges admit that Trump has no powers to do what he is doing. And yet, these most cowardly Republicans allow it to do it anyway.

What I wrote

Hey, I wrote this week. A little! I looked at 30,000 feet on all the victories that Trump was going to the Supreme Court, including mass deportation, and put them in context Without wicked cowardice and complicity of the chief judge John Roberts. Hours after I wrote this, Roberts did exactly what I said to do.

In news not related to current chaos

This week I finished watching the season 2 season Apple TV shows Series. It is difficult to explain without spoilers, or if you have not recently studied Karl Marx or Immanuel Kant. Usually this is a show about alienation of work, science-fiction, psychological horrors.

I liked the 1 season of the show but it was incredible white-code. There were black conversational characters, and Asian, but their race meant nothing. In the version of the Shaw of Distopian Corporate Schemant, “Racism” was perhaps the only public patient who was fully resolved. The bully is for them.

Season 2 gets around. One of the main characters Series obsessive) as a play on the Yiddish word milkEither the dairy, in the kosher food system – the system, it notes that everything is about keeping things separately. Her theory is that this word game is intentional, a comment not only about races, but also about the role of the character of both law enforcement and his victim. .

I have a slightly different reception (about the show). I have no problem if I believe that Milchik’s character was written as a Jewish man on paper. But in the show he played the actor Tramell TillmanWho is black. I also have no problem when Lillman came into this audition, undermined everyone and was thrown into the role, the racial intentions were damned.

Milchik is black but does not play as a season of the 1st season. He is just a medium -the – supervisor Indeed, he is accused of preserving the workers on the task and in the dark. However, in 2 season, the show begins to play with stress and difficulty being a black man in a white company – one that works more than a cult. There is an amazing scene on which Milchik “gifted” portraits of all white founders of Cult, but the founders’ photos were drawn in black to make it feel “enabled”. They gave this person essentially several portraits in black, and is expected to be glad, and Tilman transmits the crime and insult to the whole case, saying “thank you” and smile with the black woman Candace Owens, who was excitedly gave him portraits.

Later in the season Milchik spoke his white chief for being also Well spoken. They don’t like what he uses “big words”. When he finally pushes back, he says to his chief “devouring swimming”. I cheered on my television. For a deeper analysis of Milchick, Check this post In the smuggling camp.

However, through all this Milchick is still a company of a company, still a comptroller, still a bad guy at the exhibition. It makes decisions I would never make, in a situation in which I never found myself, and yet I found myself towards his character. This white and glazing show has entered the subtle forms of racial oppression and insults that occur throughout the corporate America, and I believe that any black man who has ever worked on a “man” would find Milchik’s hero instantly. This testimony of Tilman’s acting skills for sure, but also shows the clever hand of the creator of the show (Dan Erickson), director (Ben Stilller) and other different shows, essentially Blackfish The Jewish hero who does not force me to retreat immediately. Last time I saw a white team writing a black character with this level of depth and difficulty, I watched David Simon Wire.

If you were like me, tended to give Series Transmission because you are not particularly interested in problems with the dying fantasy of white people, give it another look. And “hang up there” up to 2 season.