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I've been busy, thinking about how the election has an unexpected ending.

And I've been blogging about it.

We can argue about it here, or there:

The main ones can be found by following this link:

PS -start at the bottom and work up.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Don't worry about me, I don't need a safety pin, a safe space, or a warm glass of milk, cookie or a blanket.

Let's chat.

K.A. wrote: "I've been busy, thinking about how the election has an unexpected ending."

Notice that I've been very careful to keep from endorsing a candidate, mainly because it doesn't matter any more. I'm trying to stay neutral and intellectual and discuss it as dispassionately as humanly possible.

This is all about dealing with what IS and what we can do with the current state of affairs.

Bunker up - hide out - stay the course - what's it gonna be for you?

The end of the world as we know it? Hell, no, unless you think the end of the world is announced by the circus coming to town. The party is just starting, and it will be much more entertaining than if that dull crook Clinton were elected.

JUST A REMINDER:
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Entertainment - yeah well...There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.

K.A. wrote: "Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times."

Better than dying of boredom.

He says from the safety of Ireland.

Kench.

The good news is Christie is out and Guliani is fading fast.

The bad news is Brightbart's main man is Chief of Staff. The Alt-Right has much of the Force these days.

K.A. wrote: "He says from the safety of Ireland.

Kench."

Yup. Confucius say: "Survivors interpret Chinese wisdom as 'someone else's interesting times.'"

K.A. wrote: "The bad news is Brightbart's main man is Chief of Staff. The Alt-Right has much of the Force these days."

The Force is neutral. It is what you do with it. Bannon is at least more interesting than the standard apparatchiks.

Trumps first targets have been chosen - 2 to 9 million federal jobs are now in jepardy.

2 million are GS positions, the rest are contract positions.

That's gonna help the economy...NOT.

It will cost me about $900 to fly to Rome. Gotta get a passport before I can start packing.

K.A. wrote: "Trumps first targets have been chosen - 2 to 9 million federal jobs are now in jepardy.

2 million are GS positions, the rest are contract positions.

That's gonna help the economy...NOT."

It'll help your taxes, and it will help create jobs in the private sector. A job in the government sector is very rarely a productive job outside of frontline teachers and medical staff (in properly socialized national health systems, not the mess Obama is leaving behind); most are merely positions to interfere in the work of productive members of society. Government jobs are a cost on society, very often an end in themselves, without a corresponding benefit, simply a huge pork barrel.

True.

Here at Fort Knox (in the 1990's) there were thousands of GS jobs that required computer skills, and the people in those jobs had Zero computer skills. I gave computer lessons to people who couldn't navigate windows with a mouse.

However, the combined salaries of the GS positions are less than the money paid to the contractors who are filling those jobs for close to minimum wage.

It's a Catch 22.

Trump has found it easier to get his way in the business world and is shamelessly using his position as president to make money.

Congress doesn't have the balls to stop him. He simply ignores them as he's ignored the media and the tax laws. There will be no blind trust for this president because there is "no conflict of interest."

The world will never see America in the same light. Our emperor has no clothes.

K.A. wrote: "Trump has found it easier to get his way in the business world and is shamelessly using his position as president to make money."

Where's the evidence of this?

K.A. wrote: "However, the combined salaries of the GS positions are less than the money paid to the contractors who are filling those jobs for close to minimum wage. "

I think the intention is to reduce the number of positions overall, rather than just job substitution, which has hidden traps.

That's not what happens. Wish it was.