Malcador

What's sort of funny is that all whites in South Africa aren't Afrikaner, no?

Trump is looking out for you, Bruce https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5130103-trump-national-prayer-breakfast-religious-discrimination-task-force-anti-christian-bias/ At long last the Christian White Genocide will end.

Well two employees are special enough to get access. Just skeptical the data will be as guarded as promised and the two specials won't be Musk and another

"If approved, the order would allow two "special government employees" hired by the Treasury to continue accessing payments data to further DOGE's mission of eliminating government waste. But until the lawsuit is settled, DOGE and anyone outside the Treasury Department would be prohibited from reviewing that data directly, ensuring that nobody's government financial data is shared with any third parties without consent or proper notice." Doesn't seem like much has changed then

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/rubio-accuses-south-africa-of-anti-americanism-and-snubs-g20-meeting "South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] and climate change,” Rubio said in a post on X. “My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.” How long until the US creates a DEI Alert Level.

Doing light reading, reading Cloak of Deception, Star Wars novel that came out after Ep 1. Isn't all that bad, the author really likes the word "nicitating", but at least I learned a new word from the book. Naturally, has a lot of politicking going on, about trade route taxation

Not from the United States, that's for sure.

Ah ok. I just got to 60, so just grinding along doing the headhunts. I'm unlucky but I chalk that up to just not playing all that much. I should do the group stuff at least once though, I am sure pugging in D4 isn't as fraught with toxicity and frustration like WoW . Forgot how much I hate having to play my NPCs in KOTOR 2, running around with T3, Hanharr and Atton was not fun (granted I forgot to keep a good stock of medpacs)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/asked-about-west-bank-annexation-trump-says-israel-a-small-country-in-terms-of-land/ Note Trump says the ceasefire won't last. Lol really now https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-washington-ceasefire-1c8deec4dd46177e08e07d669d595ed3

I just hate Steam for taking focus twice on startup. On to Kotor 2 now with the restoration mod. Have an annoying bug where the camera spins constantly after a cutscene, I guess it's an issue with my mouse driver. New D4 season is interesting, sure is faster than before with the witch powers.

https://apnews.com/article/migration-rubio-panama-colombia-venezuela-237f06b7d4bdd9ff1396baf9c45a2c0b I assume the courts will get involved here if they start exporting citizens to foreign prisons, hah .

You can tell the Mexican and Canadian governments, as they took it seriously enough.

This dude's qualifications for this job are interesting

And Canada evaded tariffs, huzzah. By essentially doing what they were already doing, except creating a fentanyl czar (US likes these czars). Although our premier cancelled a Starlink contract, who knows if that'll cost us. ****ing Americans.

Good point, is SOP for the US.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/03/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-sheinbaum-responds.html As expected, they reached a deal which doesn't seem to be that much of a change, but gives the US a decisive victory or something. Guess Canada may get the same later today. Strange to punch then want to talk, but oh well.

So exactly as I was implying.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trump-cut-off-all-future-funding-south-africa-2025-02-02/ Undoubtedly Miller pitched this to him as White Genocide.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/2/7496431/ As you can imagine now people are running with a narrative that there's 100+ B missing.

Yeah for sure we've tied ourselves to the Americans too much, but I guess on some level alliances should matter somewhat. Also the fact is, I'm not really sure Canada is really harming the US in any way. They send their drugs and guns to us, we send them some drugs and illegals back, but hardly a crisis issue. As the WSJ said, this is the dumbest trade war - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2

Well, raising prices is one thing. Long term damage to US soft power with allies is another. But these Americans only understand force, so allies are to be vassals, I guess. In terms of jobs, not too sure many jobs have left the US for Canada of all places, also here we send the Americans raw materials - stuff like lumber, aluminum, potash - and energy - a lot of our electricity goes to the US, and oil. Goes back to targeting the industries you want to bring back to the US rather than just everything. Project 2025 wanted tariffs instead of income tax, no ?

US has free trade deals with Canada and Mexico, who are friendly nations - particularly Canada, including the USMCA deal Trump was so proud of regardless of how it differed from NAFTA. As is most common in life doing broad things is dumb, so raising prices for Americans, damaging allied economies for nebulous reasons. Shame Putin's hostile to us, we could appeal to him to host some Oreshnik launch sites.

Ah ok, fair, guess my experience over here coloured my view a lot as all we get is rah rah Ukraine stuff.

And apparently if Canada retaliates, then tariffs increase. The US really deserves much worse than it gets.