Qatar has apparently discovered, or more likely now decided to make use of, the fact that if you wave a bundle of money in Krasnov's face, his reaction is that of a toddler presented with a huge bouquet of Tootsie-Pops. "Oooh!! Gimme!!"
So Ol' Yamtits is off on a junket to, yes, Qatar, and the lairs of other Arab baddies, whoever's paying. Qatar, it is to be noted, is behind the vast anti-Semitic network of neo-Nazi goons making US colleges very unfriendly to Jews, students and profs alike.
Yesterday was a blur. I listed stuff, packed stuff and shipped stuff, went to Ross and bought stuff, that was about it.
I *did* however get a decent practice session in, while watching The Winds Of War. Imagine! A nation where the government is anti-Nazi and wherein there's a basic level of competence. Of course this was due to the Depression being bad enough that people smartened up and voted in FDR. The US could have ended up with Lindbergh or some other Nazi and it may have gone very differently.
Ironic that the Nazis in charge now, want another, bigger, Depression. They're really, really bad at "soft skills" by which I mean, knowing history and how dictatorships have fared in the past, and even understanding their own base. I recently saw a clip of Hitler thanking the German people, telling them they're responsible for his success (which they were) while Yamtits constantly insults his base.
Insults, say, from a drill sergeant you respect, are fine and fun. But there's going to be a hell of a rebound when his base finally gets it through their thick heads how incompetent he is.
As for myself, personally, I've been thinking for years now how best to prepare to get out of here. Should I buy gold or silver coins or gold jewelry or something? These are not bad ideas, but the one thing I can "invest" in is my skill at playing the trumpet. Not only is the trumpet in Israel like the shakuhachi in Japan, an instrument with nationalistic and religious significance, but it's a great busking instrument. I may land in Israel with nothing at all, and if I can walk into a music store and convince them to sell me a trumpet on a payment plan, even a beat-up student horn, I can survive. And the key to doing that is a high level of skill.
Latest r/hawaii news on Reddit is that ICE is even going over the coffee plantations on the Big Island, to find undocumented immigrants. There's no way I'd be able to hide out in Hawaii as every corner of the Reich is still the Reich.
They "need" the undocumented workers and I don't doubt them. I remember my older brother and a friend went over there on the SeaFlite to get jobs picking coffee. Well, when they go there my brothers' friend could get a regular job doing that because he was "local" and because my older brother was "haole", he had to pick as a freelancer, maybe picking wild coffee beans or something, and picked that way long enough to afford the SeaFlite back to Oahu.
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