Trump can't show weakness. He'd get too embarrassed if he was seen as the loser in a game of chicken. He's threatening the fed .. "if I can't control you, I'm going to threaten you with a recession".. but the fed ain't budging and the game of chicken is still on... he keeps threatening them with a recession and all they see is good enough unemployment numbers and worrisome inflation...
"Horrors," said Elphaba.
It was her first word, and it was greeted with silence. Even the moon, the lambent bowl among the trees, seemed to pause.
"Horrors?" Elphaba said again, looking around. Though her mouth was serious, her eyes glowed; she had realized her own accomplishment. She was nearly two years old. The big sharp teeth in her mouth could not keep her words locked inside anymore.
"Horrors," she tried in a whisper. "Horrors."
-Wicked, Gregory Maguire 1995
The United States is currently in the process of committing Seppuku.
Not voting is the slower disembowelment step, which can technically be stopped (but, probably not).
Electing Trump is the beheading step.
I see you, Michigan. I hope your voices are heard.
gg
In the end, we're all flowers.
And flowers must fall.
I have not felt this pissed in a long ass time:
1. Pichai should be fired
2. Google employees, you have a shit ton of leverage and should walk out
3. Voting shareholders, change the fucking company or else!