While wandering the office, looking for an open sink to wash my hands after my lunch, here at #work, I made it a little personal custom to walk up next to the common-area hallway anti-#COVID air filter unit and give it a shin-check, which kept it firmly plugged into the wall plug. Making sure that the air filters we had were always plugged in and functioning. So I noticed just now, and then wandered throughout the entire property, all of the filters are gone. Okay. #BadMove #Consequences

Except THIS is not how any of this works!....

• All it will do is see the #USA as #unpredictable, #unstable and less #trustworthy than the "P.R." #China or even #Russia under #Putin.

#Trump literally lashing out against friends and neighbours will only backfire hard, and I expect @EUCommission and @europarl_en to enact #PrizeFreezes for #US #products & #services whilst forcing #Retaliatory #Tariffs on all US #products and espechally #services, demanding 100%+ in all #fees, and #revenue of #GAFAMs' services and products to the point that they'll effectively cancel half their revenue that flows back.

• Plus forcing all products and services to be processed and sold via a #EU-based #corporation and adding a 30% "#AlienTax" as the #USA already does for i.e. #App #developers that ain't from the US even if they never sold a single license to a US customer.

Not to mention cancelling any #DataProtection agreements that only stalled the foreseeable court decision that #CloudAct is incompatible with #GDPR, thus banning #Office365 / #Microsoft365, #iCloud et. al. from the EU!

• And yes, this level of #retaliation is not only just, but #overdue, as we need @european_alternatives / #EuropeanAlternatives to #VISA, #AMEX, #MasterCard, #PayPal, #Steam, etc.

Given #Trump can't be assed to even fake any #loyality or #allied status even for the cameras, this is a #ForeseeableConsequence.

• As only with #Accountability and #Consequences will we see change, and punishing the GAFAMs is a neessity in this regard.

Unless we want to end up #downgraded into the state of a US-occupied overseas possession without statehood, like #Guam, #PuertoRico or #AVI...

Well, now that we've had solid turnout at the #protests, we shouldn't have anything to worry about from the #Republicans.

I'm sure the investment advisors, who have made record profits for their wealthy clients by gleefully ignoring human rights, the environment and any morality or ethics, need a shoulder to cry on these days. Not mine.

This interview from October 29, 2024 has aged very well so far ... and I am not proud of it.

American Voters Living in Canada (CBC Radio One Sudbury, Morning North, October 29, 2024)

https://media.cooleysekula.net/w/mKQoXfL8behLhymhoXqnQd

We seemingly recognise the threats posed by climate change which will include mass migration (for survival's sake) - but this ‘study' recognises a large number will suffer - and of course it will be the poorer members of our society. Large numbers of poor dispossesed people - I can't wait!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/01/average-person-will-be-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4c-new-research-shows

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adbd58/pdf

I still haven’t gotten over how #ATT recklessness dropped my personal data onto the dark web. And I’ll never do business with them again. #Consequences

https://www.europesays.com/1937490/ Trump administration demands Iran dismantle nuclear program or face consequences #AyatollahKhamenei #consequences #Iran #MiddleEast #MikeWaltz #NationalSecurity #nuclear #NuclearProgram #trump