Fiendish Thingy
Fiendish Thingy's JournalI'm wondering if any US Olympic athletes will stage an anti-Trump/anti-ICE protest at the medaling ceremonies?
Like was done in 1968:
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Two Reasons Why Trump's Rapid Push Towards Autocracy Will Fail
?si=1bdlwFRI4b6zBgTk"I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"
Interview with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, by Perry Bacon.
Bacon asks “why not just say ‘we are winning’ ?”
That is absolutely not the impression that I’m trying to give. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. Why I’m saying this is because things look so dire. And the ability of federal forces to concentrate on slivers of the country and generate these spectacles of hyper-violence is part and parcel of their political strategy to make it look like they have power that they don’t, in fact, have.
Never forget this one absolute truth:
Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless
Pete: the ground is shifting
?si=Rn9b8fcAOXtyjnSJFortune: America's 'Achilles Heel' of national debt is exposed by Trump's Greenland tariff threat, warns Deutsche Bank
https://archive.is/20260120082330/https://fortune.com/2026/01/19/us-achilles-heel-debt-borrowing-deutsche-bank-greenland/#selection-599.0-623.491Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid highlighted that Liberation Day tariffs in April were stepped back a week later, after U.S. Treasury yields saw a “scary” session as investors retreated to safety, away from American borrowing.
“Financial markets may play a big part in how this situation resolves itself,” Reid wrote in a note to clients this morning. “The main Achilles Heel of the U.S. is the huge twin deficits. So while in many ways it feels like the U.S. holds the economic cards, it doesn’t hold all the funding cards in a world that will be very disturbed by the weekend’s events.”
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The EU also has a weapon in its arsenal that it has yet to deploy. French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested now is the time to use the E.U.’s Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI). The tool is a set of countermeasures against any foreign powers that unduly interfere in the policy choices of the E.U. or its member states, by restricting U.S. companies from accessing the European market, banning them from bidding for government work, restricting trade, and curtailing foreign investment.
The E.U. could also impose new tariffs on about $100 billion of its imports from the U.S.
This, Goldman Sachs believes, is likely to be one of the reactions European leaders are now weighing. Analysts Sven Jari Stehn and Giovanni Pierdomenico wrote this weekend that the legislation had been designed precisely for situations like this—though perhaps not with a strong ally like the U.S. in mind.
The EU needs to slam Trump's d*ick in a car door
Figuratively speaking of course.
Denmark is beyond ready, and Macron and Carney are coming to the table- the rest of Europe’s leaders need to step up.
Start by selling off a chunk of US treasury bonds, and prepare to unleash the so called “bazooka”.
And send more troops, planes and ships to protect Greenland- make it abundantly clear that any invasion would not be bloodless.
Update:
Looks like the investors beat the EU to the Trump dick-in-door slamming- Dow is down 800 something points, the dollar is down, and most significantly, Treasury yields had their sharpest rise in nearly a year (meaning they are worth less, seen as riskier, so the Treasury has to pay more interest in order to induce investors to buy them).
Heather Cox Richardson: Some interesting things happened today
Starting in the second half of the video, an excellent rundown of the significant pushback from the Republicans in congress and by the state government of Minnesota against the fascist Trump regime.
Amy Grant (yes, *that* Amy Grant) "6th of January (Yasgur's Farm)"
?si=zfW0N9VLbjv2lVzEOperation Hans Off!
Healthcare workers considering moving to Canada? Important links here:
There is a grassroots network helping American healthcare workers move to Canada and get jobs.
Checkout this link:
https://engageq.notion.site/infusionhosts
(Or go to healthcareinfusion.org )
My local chapter in Nanaimo is hosting an event this April:
https://engageq.notion.site/infusion-2026
The first event was held last spring, and hundreds of Americans showed up - it made the national news!
Since then, dozens of nurses, doctors and other professionals have moved to the island, with many more in the pipeline.
Note: I am not affiliated with any Healthcare Infusion group (yet), so can’t offer any specifics about their activities or events.
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