On the anticipation of the next President of the United States imposing tariffs:
“Some companies are already telegraphing plans to raise prices.

‘If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer,’ Philip Daniele, the chief executive of the vehicle parts supplier AutoZone, told analysts on a recent call — adding that the company would raise prices ‘ahead of’ the imposition of tariffs, rather than wait.” - NYT

Price gouging eh AutoZone? 👊

#Capitalism

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𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘰. 𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢.

There are very few things actually within your control and even some things that are can't be changed solely by one person without support from others.

Your mind, your emotional choices, your understanding and your resilience ARE within your individual control.

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Getting riled up psychologically and emotionally over things that are 100% out of your control serves no purpose other than running you into an early grave and allowing outside powers to have mastery over you. You become enslaved to anger and all that does is further empower the things that are oppressing you.

I wrote other day about "genin wo mitsukeru" - getting to the root of the problem / finding the root cause - being part of hansei.

Think of hansei ultimately as a kind of apology.

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Library of Va

Yesterday, one of the 12 year olds described the stages of genocide they are studying at school. She very simply described the stages and where the US is at now.

If a 12 year old understands?

That's right, I forgot. She is actually more intelligent than half of the US. For real.
#politics

Wall Street Journal editors are warning Trump against his scheme to purge the American military of senior officers. "The military isn’t Mr. Trump’s enemy, and a purge mentality will court political trouble and demoralize the ranks," the editorial board argued. "The draft executive order, leaked to the press, about forming a group of former officers to rule on the fitness of current generals would be a mistake that smacks of politicizing the officer corps."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-military-purge-2669881143/

I’m already exhausted by Trump’s second term and he isn’t even in office yet. In the history of mankind, there are more than 2500 gods or deities, from the most ancient gods of polytheistic societies - Hittite, Sumerian, Mesopotamian - to the most contemporary gods of the major monotheistic religions - Allah, God, Yahweh.

May a few of them bless us all.

RFK Jr. for HHS.

People are going to die.