So, it has already begun, huge price hikes, I went to the Dollar Store and prices have increased 25% in a Day, now almost everything is $1.50 as the Tariffs now landed. *Le Sigh* They had gone up 25% only during COVID, from actually being a Dollar or Ninety-Nine Cents, to being $1.25 ever since then. So, it means that since only the Pandemic, not that long ago, their prices had to increase 50% to stay Open, many haven't and had to Close. And Companies are now saying they can't continue to absorb the Losses and will have to pass them along to the Consumer in that Tariff Tax. Above is that Vintage Halloween Blow Mold I got at a Chazza on The Cheap... Grim Reaper Jack O'Lantern, Love it! My Vintage Halloween Collection is Decades in the making, it's difficult to Source and always was.
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The Regime is boasting about Billions of Income rolling in from the Tariffs, but what they fail to mention is it's ALL coming in from Americans paying it, not Foreign Countries. Right now it's American Businesses/Shareholders/Investors paying it, soon it will be all the rest of us in America paying it. But, whatever, all of America will soon be Woke enuf to no longer be Asleep at what's actually happening to them and our Country. Or where that Tariff Money is actually landing?? You'd have to be in a Coma not to finally recognize the Long Con for what it is. When anyone tells me I'm "Too Woke" I respond that the Opposite of being Woke, is being Asleep. And Drops the Mic. *Winks* Above and Below are an Adorable Blast from the Past Pair of Pixs of The Young Prince's Paternal Aunt Stephanie. Now I know where he got his Hair from, when he was little, if I didn't keep it Short, it was a Wild Fro like hers was as a Kiddo. *LOL* Me and his Afro Puerto Rican Hair had many, many Battles to try to Tame it while he was growing up, I Lost, his Hair always Won. *Ha ha ha*
And I've previously Shared the few Pixs I had of Princess T's Paternal Gramma, Saint Maria, but I have even fewer of Gramma Lydia, The Young Prince's Paternal Gramma. We're good Friends to this day, but, we just never seemed to focus on Pixs of ourselves any time we were having Family Gatherings and mostly taking Pixs of our Kids and Grandkids. So, I was glad when she Shared some and so her Grandson could have some also. She wasn't able to make it to The Young Prince and Allen's Wedding, but her Son Officiated, and her Youngest Daughter, Stephanie, was here with her Family for it. I do Wish Lydia had been able to attend his Special Day tho', Allen's Parents would have been in for a Wild Ride if she had been. Lydia is a Trip', and so most of the rest of the Family can be nervous about her being at any Event or Gathering coz Lydia does not always Behave. *LOL* Lydia is a very Wild and Free Spirit and Age has not changed or diminished that. She's so much like The Daughter, in having a Colorful Vida Loca, that they are still Tight to this day, even tho' the Relationship with her Son and The Daughter didn't work out. They did give her the First Grandchild after all and The Young Prince is as Wild and Free Spirited as his Mom and Gramma Lydia. So, No, he didn't get all that from Yours Truly. *Smiles* Lydia "Behaves" in my Presence tho', so if she was Invited anywhere, they'd insist and make me Promise I be there too, to Dial Lydia back. She is a Spicy Puerto Rican Woman. *Bwahahaha*
And now you have Faces to put with Names of Family I put out here from Time to Time. *LOL* But, I digress again. So, yeah, I was out buying Dog Food and a Dog Bowl Friday Morning, even tho' we don't have a Dog. *Eye Roll and Le Sigh* Coz, well, the River Dog is still there and I can't get her off my Heart and Mind, so now I'm her Uber Eats Human. *LOL* She Loved the Can of Sloppy Dog Food I bought her to put over her dry Kibbles. Lapped that shit up and I bought the Primo Brand, natch, with Real Beef and Real Chicken as the 1st Ingredients on the Label's List of what's actually in it. I even Spoil our Wild Birds, so why not the River Dog? *LOL* She is so Small and I don't think she should be, I think she's had Food Insecurities a long time. She's well and truly entrenched herself in that impenetrable Thicket so there'd be no getting her out of there and it's great Protection for her. She's docile, but, has the Jaw strength of her Pit Bull Mix Breed and Face Front in that Thicket entrance, even a Coyote wouldn't dare try to enter.
She doesn't even growl at me, tho' there's no Tail Wag yet, she recognizes me and is less timid each time I come now to ensure she gets at least 1-2 Meals that Day. She's eating sparingly, so there's usually some left from the time before, don't know if she's just Smart enuf to Ration after being left to her own devices, or, just a light eater? I fill her up to ensure she has more than one Meal of what I leave on any given Day. I do that with Eli, he has never waited for Food, his Dry Kibble is in one of those self-serving Containers that keeps a Week's worth of it to come down by Gravity, his Water Container does the same. Only his Sloppy Food is given Daily or he'd overeat that shit, and he's fussy, he only likes Sheba and Fancy Feast small portion Sloppy Cat Food. *Eye Roll* I will probably make River Dog a Canned Dog Food Snob too? *Smiles* Above is a Pix of the Older of the Trio of Granddaughter in Mexico's Two new Kittens, they look Siamese Mix.
And above is one of the Oldest Sisters with her Mexican Hairless Chihuahua Pup. All the Grandkids knows I'm a Sucker for Fur Babies, and so they all have Fur Babies and send me Pixs of them too. The Man is fearful I will fall in Love with this River Dog Animal and want to eventually bring her Home, but, I will try to resist. I am not a Dog Person, I'm a Cat Person. I don't know her History and I do think she has Pups in there she'd protect with her very Life. The Pups wouldn't Survive without her. I don't wanna hafta try to find Homes for a bunch of Feral Born Dogs of Pit Bull Ancestry. I don't even know how many she gave Birth to and have Survived? And tho' my Great Grand Pup Tyson is a Pit Bull, pretty sure Allen won't want him to have a Girlfriend I'd "Gift" him with when and if The Young Prince makes it back to Arizona. Here, I know your Husband is leaving you, but, how about a Dog instead? Where did I get her, oh, Down By The River. If I had a Van I'd sound like a SNL Skit by Chris Farley!!! *LOL* I looked Online for a Dog who most closely looks very similar to River Dog and found one, I guess she's really considered a Grey Pit Bull Mix, not Black... and tho' she's much Smaller, she closely resembles the Dog pictured Below.
Tyson is The Young Prince's Emotional Support Animal, and he's likely more of a pure Pit Bull and a Rescue Dog too that would have otherwise been euthanized if Allen hadn't Adopted him. He senses a Psychotic Episode coming on for The Grandson. It's not just Epilepsy and Diabetes that Animals can Sense in Humans to be Helpful Service Animals. And Tyson is self-taught, nobody Trained him to be anyone's Emotional Support Animal, he just taught himself to be and took the Job voluntarily. So he and The Grandson are so close it's gonna be hard for him to leave Tyson behind, but he is Allen's Dog, and he's getting Geriatric, and we wouldn't separate them, he's been like Allen's Child from before he even met our Grandson. But, since The Young Prince can't Work and isn't Gainfully Employable due to his extent of Disability, he's been Tyson's primary "Pet Parent" at Home for Years now, while Allen works.
I thought about trying to get an actual Photo of River Dog but it might Freak her Out and I'm only just now gaining some Trust with her to feel Safe around me. I'm brief and not intrusive, but just talk softly and lovingly to her as I'm giving her something to eat and she now will come inches from my Hand to receive it in her New Dollar Store Dog Bowl. *LOL* I can use my Aluminum Can "Picker" Stick to retrieve the empty Bowl and not risk a Bite to take it away when it's empty. Don't know how Territorial she could be, so far she seems like a very Chill Personality Canine tho' with a Docile Nature. So, I have to assume at some Point, she's been a Pet Quality Animal owned by someone. Feral Dogs act different, and also Travel in Packs. I've seen enuf Strays and Ferals to notice the difference whether they're Felines or Canines.
Above is our Big Boy, Great-Grandpup Tyson, we Love and Miss him so much. He's a terrific Dog and as big and Loyal a Cupcake as any Canine can come. But bless him, he's like one of those big Dumb powerful Jocks that doesn't know his own Strength. *LOL and Awwww* I tell him he's Clever and so Smart tho', like you do with all your Grands and Great-Grands, to buoy their Confidence and built them Up, but, Tyson has a Great Personality that makes up for his lack of Smarts. But he is very Obedient, so disciplined, and well mannered, which counts, right? *LOL* Anyway, enuf about River Dog for this Post.
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We've covered Tariff Taxes hitting the Shops now, and I'm sure many of you will have your Stories to tell about that Reality. As will the rest of our Trade Partners, since, it will Negatively impact all Exports and Imports Globally and cock things up with Trade Partnerships that have worked well for about the last 80+ Years now. And those who pretend he's doing it to reduce the National Debt... Pleeease, Spare me the Bullshit... he might take in Billions in American Paid Tariff Taxes, but he's Raising the National Debt by Trillions, about Five Trillion, as I recall, with just his Big Ugly Bill they crammed thru. And it's packed with hidden stuff nobody Read or Disclosed, so... there's THAT too. The lack of Transparency is Chilling with this Regime, no telling what they'd Hiding and Covering Up?
And this Guy blows thru Money like nobody ever has, he always has, he always will. It's why he Bankrupted so many times, blew thru a huge Trust Fund, blew thru a huge Inheritance, blew thru all the Money and then some his Businesses made, then blew thru the Bank's Money and Defaulted with them and all his Creditors he Owed. It got to where American Banks wouldn't Lend to him anymore so he had to go Borrow Money from Dark Money Sources he's now beholden to. He's still doing that, mostly with Bitcoin now, which can't Trace whose Trading with him for it. Great for Money Laundering tho'... it's Unregulated... and Uninsured... Backed by Nothing...all Digital, Virtual, and not really a Form of Money, so... it's why he switched from Hating it to now Deep Into it.
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The handy Criminal Element of it became apparent to him and now he's All In. Besides, he LOVES "Concepts", so Crypto would be his Jam, a Natural fit for someone who always only has a perpetual "Concept Of A Plan" and nothing to Back it, nothing "Real". *Bwahahaha* Anyway, I digress, and won't go deep into those Weeds of financial jargon and my opinion about various "Investment" Vehicles some might choose, and Good Luck to them, is all I can say, I Hope it all Works Out for ya. If it's YOUR Money, do with it what you like and have your Peace about, or blow it, I don't really Care. But, I do Care about what anyone does with MY Money, mess with it and we will have us a Situation.
So much of what's going on is enuf to make you look like Edvard Munch's "The Scream" {1893}. Listen, Words have never Fed my Family and I do have my Money on my Mind and my Mind on my Money at all times. Snoop Dogg ~ Gin And Juice, Snoop and I Think alike about THAT, our Money, and the Line meaning more than just Getting Money, but a Message about Living a Quality Life. *Winks* I was Taught to Work my Hustle since I was Two Years Old and how to Deal with the Currencies of Life. Every Culture on Earth has a Form of Currency, one kind or another, as a Society, and as Individuals... you just have to figure out what someone's preferred "Currency" is? It's not the same for all of us, Trust and Believe.
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Try to stay Sane and Centered in this Crazy World my Friends... Dawn... The Bohemian
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