Trump Administration Includes Journalist in Classified Chat

Seriously, you can't make this shit up. Apparently a journalist was included on a chat detailing upcoming military operations against the Houthis in Yemen. What coming out of the White House about this is ludicrous and has gone something like this:

Day 1: We didn't send classified data to a journalist.

Day 2: We sent data to a journalist but it wasn't classified.

Day 3: We didn't send any data to a journalist besides, it wasn't classified.

Day 4: No journalist received any data, besides, President Trump thought about declassifying it before it wasn't sent so it wasn't classified.

Day 5: This data doesn't exist so we couldn't have sent it to anyone, besides, it was never classified and President Trump declassified it anyway.

Day 6: Elon Musk saved $3.46 today so why are you talking about data which doesn't exist that was never sent to a journalist? Besides, the data was never classified, the journalist never received it and President Trump declassified it before it wasn't sent so this is just a big witch hunt.

In the meantime the market is crashing, people can't reach Social Security customer service on the phone, millions of dollars are being pulled from schools because Trump doesn't like their politics and foreign students are being arrested in broad daylight because they expressed disagreement with the administrations foreign policy.

Yet, according to a recent poll, large numbers of Americans now say that the country is headed in the "right direction."

We truly are an Idiocracy.

My Walmart Refund

 I decided to call Walmart Customer Service again but this time I fought my way through the automated answering system to Tammy, a real person.

Tammy did her magic and I immediately got an e-mail telling me that the price of my order "had changed" and I would get a refund.

Whoopie!

The next day I got $22 credited to my account...but I only paid $17. You know what, screw it. I'm keeping the extra five bucks.

Walmart, Taxes and Musk Oh My

It's been a while because I really don't have much to say.

Walmart never refunded my $17 and I just don't have the patience to deal with them so I might just write it off. Then again, I may not.

I got my taxes back and, I knew it was going to be bad, but wow. The federal government gets a check for $41,795 and the state a check for $4,149 bringing my total tax bills this year to $64,477 and $8,364 respectively.

As soon as I got the tax returns I filled out the New Jersey Property Tax relief application. We'll see how that goes. They don't start processing the applications until July and we won't see any payments until October. Given our income level I'm not even sure it was worth filling out the form.

That brings me to Musk who is still causing chaos without taking into account the consequences. He keeps screwing around with Social Security and, so far at least, Social Security isn't impressed. I wonder if Social Security could be Musk's Waterloo as the Army was McCarthy's?