Linx

Got my first Christmas card today...  I guess this is ok, as it is Advent and there is snow on the ground, but... well, it seems soon?  I also hate winter, and this doesn't exactly help.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/costs-confederacy-special-report-180970731/
Interesting.  Not surprising.  Of course, if I were, say, a GOPer, I would go out and say that as we are the party of small government, we should practice what we preach, and stop funding them... if the UDC and their ilk would like to take over...  the problem, of course, is that then you would indeed have a whitewash of every stripe (ok, just the white one) and it would make fake news seem...quaint.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-gm-should-pay-us-taxpayers-back-for-bailout/ar-BBQcy2K?li=BBnb7Kz
This could be me, but...yes?  It does seem fair to say that they have violated a social contract, and that this money was given so they could grow their business and invest in communities, and if they choose not to.... give us the money back?  To me, this is the sort of politicking Trump can do; much like in 2016 when he could say that the system was rigged for guys like him, and he could stop it... here is the point where he could say that he is trying to build up manufacturing, union work, etc... and they go out and flip the rug out from under the American worker.  It is the sort of thing he could easily do, cost little politically, and... nada.   Oi.