Imagine

kissing and hugging your child every morning before they go to school and you go to work because you don't know if you will be rounded up for deportation during the work/school day?  Imagine being deported from a country you have lived in for 20+ years, that your father brought you to because he was being targeted by Mexican cartels, but your family never went through the official channels to claim asylum because it didn't seem necessary when you arrived, and now has become impossible.  Imagine being forced to leave a home you own, a community and country you love because the GOP decided to use immigration as a wedge issue to get DJT elected so he could enrich himself with a meme coin and stay out of jail.  Imagine not knowing if or when you will ever seen your son again.

Imagine supporting policies like that.

ICE is in the roaring fork valley

 I am not sure if I should be sarcastic or not---given the lovely people at risk I am going to play it straight.

The roaring fork valley (Glenwood Springs to Aspen) is not know for lots of violence, or crime, or pets being eaten by anything but coyotes (the 4 leg kind).  But ICE is here and rounding up illegal immigrants many of whom have lived here for decades.  They work in restaurants, construction, house keeping etc.  This is an area of the country where there is huge demand for workers and these HUMANS fill that void.  If you think the Aspen area is dysfunctional and expensive, just wait till ICE gets through with deporting a huge chunk of the workforce.

PS if you are in the farming or construction business you are about to be fucked by MAGA/Trump.  I guess Trump was smart to get out of the real estate business and into Crypto and digital media.

arg Trump has brought me back.......

 sometimes you gotta be careful what you wish for.  Mr. Musk wished for Trump to be elected president and spent a 1/4 of billion dollars to help make that wish come true.  Yesterday I was listening to Trump's inaugural speech and just after saying drill baby drill he said something to the effect that he was going to get rid of electric cars.  Wonder how Elon fares if Tesla is put out of business by Trump?

While we are at it, do you really want Elon to get rid of all regulations around ohhh lets say car safety.  Given his history of cutting corners and moving fast and breaking things etc you might say to yourself ---I am not going to buy a Tesla.  They probably are not safe.  But here is the thing, what if other folks do buy Teslas only to discover they....aren't safe and their technology results in the Teslas running into you.  And then that Tesla catches on fire, and there are no fire fighters around to put out the fire which is gonna burn hot and long and spew toxins in the air.  Ohhh yea and turns out you don't have health insurance because of a preexisting condition.  And, and , and well you get the point.

The world sure isn't perfect, and I hope DJT doesn't make it worse, but hope really isn't a strategy...and if you want a lecture on tariffs, the effects of cutting taxes on the deficit, and eliminating vaccines on public health and the associated expenses--feel free to reach out to this CO based economist for a lecture.

PS Donald--a quick investment suggestion ---threaten Musk with nationalizing X and force him to sell it to your media company along with TicTok and Metagram.  Why share the stage with Elon and Zuck when you can have it all for yourself?