The prospect that we are in fact All in This Together reared its ugly head for a minute, and The People recoiled in horror from it, and what it might entail.
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The prospect that we are in fact All in This Together reared its ugly head for a minute, and The People recoiled in horror from it, and what it might entail.
My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."
Churchill.on Ramsay McDonald:."I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’...
The "He who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" treadmill only works if there's a steady supply of absurdities.
I'm hard-pressed to think of a national-scale problem we face that *doesn't* have a huge Congress-shaped hole at the heart of it. Two generations of hammering in nails with the flat of a pair of channel locks is enough. We have a hammer already.
Organs of the state, like the courts, or the justice ministry, exist to serve the Party and not the other way round, for it is the Party, and not they, that is the Vanguard of the Revolution. Good cadres know this. All power to the soviets of car dealers and regional vice presidents!
The proletariat ain't the only thing that votes with its feet, Darth.
After Trump it's Guns, Germs and Thiel.
Right across the northeast -- older houses w/hydronic, HW baseboard, that don't have ductwork for hot air and aren't going to get it -- a lot of houses are going to burn something. Heat pumps until just a couple of years ago couldn't fill that niche, and it's a big one.
400,000 people turned out to see him in Berlin *before he was even elected*. www.theguardian.com/global/2008/...
Tradition! Tradition! (I hope there are committees of correspondence keeping communications open between all cities -- Boston, Chicago, LA -- threatened by the Crown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_...
Every number like that, I automatically turn it into "How much heating oil?" (Retired schoolteacher)
(Me, I'm still pissed about Bobby Zamora to Spurs.)
EPL fans familiar with the warping effects on transfers of the "there are only Six Real Teams" phenomenom can share stories.
Wanna bet you measure mitochondrial challenges with teeny-tiny calipers?
Placebo-included studies at this point would be willfully harming the placebo leg of any such study, to score political points.
"Leave me the f•ck alone" is a net into which all sorts of fish swim. Some of them are more into Tannerite than I would personally care for, but them's the breaks.
Everybody knows about WW2. The sheer amount of state capacity the US spooled up our of essentially nothing for WWI -- nationalizing railroads and telcoms, conjuring entire industries out of thin air for munitions, a 10x increase in federal spending -- is stunning. eh.net/encyclopedia...
"...the crowd then beat Representative Gowdy to death."
This is the Age of They Had It Coming.
I don't believe that, and you don't believe that, but next time you're in line at the supermarket, someone else in that line does, even in some pretty blue places.
Were Biden and Obama chosen by the Lord, from before the beginning of all time, as a special dispensation to this, His beloved country, to deliver it from the specter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and slightly higher top marginal rates of taxation? Because Trump was...
... corrupt, massively unfree, massively unequal, belligerent, expansionist, racist, with an economy based on theft and resource extraction. It's a sick parody of Lincoln Steffens, after visiting post revolutionary Russia, saying "I've been over into the future I've seen it and it works".
And he's surrounded by courtiers for whom Russia is a model state, like the European liberals who lionized Wilson 1917 to 1919. They lionize Putin. They look at Putin's Russia and see the future they want for themselves. They see the White Man's Country of their dreams...
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king" but for 'synapses'.
Predators and English children: ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cp...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee_(...
Two hours a day of the mad king saying whatever pops into his head each morning. This used to be a feature of 17th-18th c. monarchies -- the levee. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee_(...
The Chief Justice delivered the opinion of the Court: "Eh, the Tsar could die. The donkey could die. The donkey could talk."
Even Nazis buy sneakers, or something. Me, I want a Carolene Products Footnote 4 fridge magnet....
If you could a) register at the polls on election day and b) declare "Carhartt" or "UNIQLO" as your party preference, American turnout would resemble or surpass anything in Europe, or places with mandatory voting.
The median voter basically goes to the polls saying "What do you guys think? Does this vote make my ass look fat?"
Cf the Strength in Numbers poll popping up in a number of contexts today. Note support for independent redistricting mechanisms, even if they cost trepondent's party seats. bsky.app/profile/gell...
Re ending gerrymandering... There's a real risk that California - a state with a tradtion of good-governent/non-partisan innovation, of which independent redistricting is just perhaps the most recent example - balks at reversing the process. "This gerrymander is ok" not a slam dunk.
Cf. just now. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
Ever wonder who, in the absence of any legislation or formal statements, decides what's an untouchable official President act, vested with powerful Article II particles, and what's just Presidential dicking around? The Oracle of Roberts.
Tradition. The dive bomber has been part of an American soldier's kit since before there were dive bombers.
The Chief Justice delivered the opinion of the Court: "Eh, the Tsar could die. The donkey could die. The donkey could talk."
He told us during the campaign. He wants lower interest rates, and lower inflation. We could have them both, simultaneosly, except for You Know Who.
That's the size of the forces Moscow sent into Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Czechoslovakia is (was) a little bigger than New England ex-Maine. Six big cities -- only one of over a million.
Pritzker won't fit on TikTok. His aspect ratio is wrong, he's a landscape guy in a portrait world.
He doesn't shitpost. Tired: Invisible primary Wired: Shitposting.
¡Qué lastima, pequeño!
He would appear to have a theory or moral sentiments.
He promised in a *narrative* kind of way. The best way.
One man. One car. One hour. Each way. Burning hydrocarbons. Deus lo vult.
Thankfully they're a firm on the upstroke and can just bull through all of this on the strength of the innovative new products they're pushing out, right? Right?
Criming for power Criming for average Criming to the opposite field Criming down in the count Criming behind the runner
In a century American English will have shed it's first person plural altogether, and 'we' and 'us' will be off to the pronoun boneyard like 'thee and 'thou'. Something will emerge or be borrowed - it's English's superpower - to cover bloodsharing tribemates.
It was imperative that we hustled back to a world anchored on "Other people aren't really people, not the way I am."
Grover Whelan, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_...
A healthy chunk of my generation -- b. 1957 -- would volunteer in large numbers for that in a heartbeat, because we're staring down the barrel of not being able to drive sooner or later, and all the first-tier medical care is in the city. COVID showed us our futures. But we can't afford it.
II'm going to jump in and say "It's lame, and the production values are amateurish", right now, before such a production even exists, to preemptively gain clout. You have to act fast these days.
"¡Yo quiero un caudillo, pero no quiero a este caudillo!"
"He needs to shitpost more. Like Newsom."
Instead we got brands. Literal ones, personal ones...
The meditating institutions were the problem, we were told. They were the scaffolding for oppressive hierarchies. Newer, better ones would emerge spontaneously, organically - to the extent they were even needed.
You don't discard a useful tool.
A Democratic Party taking steps to be more coherent would entail it immediately getting blasted for being exclusionary.
(If the parties could do, and actually did some of them, the same people would scream bloody murder about being excluded and left voiceless.)
The real goldmine is Maria Menounos' Gas Pump TV empire. www.gstv.com
You'd think they'd grab a piece of a firm that wasn't circling the drain.
"Bright intervals".
Still see lots of three-decades-behind takes on South Boston. 'The people you're talking about all live in East Bridgewater and Carver now"
bsky.app/profile/ogda...
Do you want Al Gore and the hippies to have been right?
Cromwell to Charles II took how long?
The Chief Justice delivered the opinion of the Court: "... the Tsar could die. The donkey could die. The donkey could talk."
What did he refuse to do?
That's what you used those $12.95 Dollar Store plastch chairs for in the winter.
Their model is heavily dependent on imports. Same thing with Wayfair but even more so. The industry in NC and SW Virginia is a ghost of its former self. There's not much to revive.
He'll be freed form the onerous duties of office and ready to shitpost and podcast 24/7
I can see atavistic goo-goo reflexes causing real problems with this. November is a ways away yet.
People in Wisconsin hated Scott Walker, enough to trigger a recall election - and then voted against recalling him. Nonpartisan redistricting is one of the most recent products of a more than century-old California progressive/good-government/anti-party tradition. 1/2
Someone who thinks the guy under it was chosen by our Lord from before the beginning of all time as a special dispensation to this, His beloved country, to deliver us from drag queens, oprime dos por español, and slightly higher top marginal tax rates? In His mercy. Oh,.you said 'right mind.'
So, not Martin Luther fans, then?
When you think about it, the number of wrong rocks is the set.if all rocks -1...
"Shut up, we're winning" is the whole of the Law and the Prophets. The rest is commentary.
I've seen Hesgeth & Co.'s 'lethality' fixation refered to as "Bullshido"
"Peace, land, bread and 6-3 in conference.x
Say "The material conditions of the workers" instead.
tired: the invisible primary. wired: shitposting.
Too many snakes, and lose the wings... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_...
It's an attack on homogeneity, which is close to a sacred principle with them.
Not hard to imagine a scenario where Trump will eventually become the biggest obstacle to the whole Trump project. Then it gets interesting.
bsky.app/profile/figg...
Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the court: "...the Tsar could die. The donkey could die. The donkey could talk."
Saying something makes it so. My mother was wrong. I'm glad she's not alive to see this, it would kill her.
These are the days of They Had It Coming.
The first grown-up joke I got: What three towns in Massachusetts are named after Gov. Endicott (Chub) Peabody? Peabody, Marblehead, and Athol. (I was five.)
Deep fat Freikorps
Tired: the invisible primary. Wired: shitposting
Their failure to mostly not countenance shooting bad guys out of hand counts against them.
After a bad day at work you go home and kick the dog. You don't kick the boss - he won't listen and he can fire you. The dog at least looks like he's listening, will probably forget the kick by tomorrow - and needs you to open the cans. The Party of Dog.
Different Last Person Who Spoke With Him Tune in tomorrow, when it's someone else, who thinks Putin's Russia is the model White Man's Country
