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Unless they’ve also got their stock brokers on speed dial.

Same when I started playing piano. Thought Billy Joel was corny till I started playing and opened up a song book.

Co-sign all of this.

Bernie, running as a Democrat, proposed a return to mid century tax policy. Dems no likey.

Top marginal rate was 91% the year I was born. Kennedy actually pushed to lower it to 70%.

Exactly.

Vance is essentially an ambulatory LLM able to convincingly elocute an amalgam of others’ original ideas in order to please its client (currently Trump) until the plagiarized scrapings get too thin.

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.

It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps

Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe

But it never goes to help Americans

And yet, to sell a show today a thorough, detailed, preconceived plan for pilot, season and series arcs is required, so the exec can tell his boss he did his homework and can’t be blamed if it fails.

“Conservative?” The fact the NY Times can’t identify an authoritarian says a lot about how we got here.

Thanks.

I can’t for the life of me understand people continuing to use a platform run be a guy who employs it as a mass lie machine in support of a fascist project.

Worth remembering George Washington understood he couldn’t “defeat” the British army and determined his strategy was just to “not lose” until the price of drawn out, asymmetrical warfare became too high for the most powerful nation on earth.

Sad. I volunteered for the first available vaccine trial during the first Covid wave.

Can’t afford another subscription but if anyone wants to post the show being promoted…

Trumpism is, and always has been, a white nationalist project fueled by white supremacist ideology. Pretending otherwise for the sake of maintaining a mythology of “norms” is media malpractice.

Right? We were, like, is this even legal?

It is weird. We walked out with 2 and said “Now what?”

He makes a persuasive case.

Great bikes. Got them for my twin girls.

Apparently.

96th and Broadway SW corner.

Is the radical Islam in the room with you right now?

Donald Rumsfeld “The Iraqis will be throwing candy at soldiers as they roll into Baghdad.”

Emperor Hirohito: “We’ve won. Knocked out their entire navy. Total victory.”

Trump: "The people are great, the people are smart, and energetic. It used to be very successful. Now it's a country run by fear. It's a country where they tell protesters, 'Don't go outside, because if you do, we're gonna kill you.'"

What country is he talking about?

Narcissists eventually turn on everyone. Without Roberts’ SC Trump would be wearing an orange jumpsuit today.

Promised unveiling of eternal life-giving fountain of youth derailed by war.

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’”

- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405