People are getting confused and thinking this means I think Joe Biden is the ideal candidate or that nobody else would do a better job - not true! I just think that decision was made four years ago and reversing it is a guaranteed path to utter catastrophe
Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
Read a helpful quote today by Cory Doctorow: “Optimism is why the Titanic didn’t have enough lifeboats. Hope is why people kept swimming.”
I know I may not live long enough to eat the fruits of the trees I plant today, but I will plant them all the same in the hopes others may one day enjoy them.
The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-money-...
The fact that Biden has delivered on left-wing policy far better than any president in generations but is widely despised by left-wing voters reflects more poorly on left-wing institutions and voters than on Biden. This is not a movement showing political maturity, and I say that as a left-winger
You can quibble with these numbers but it is objectively funny to compare the meltdown among pundits and "insiders" etc to an effort at representative sampling. Two completely different universes.
Giving a cop the mugshot treatment because he arrested a rich person who was guilty and acting like that’s totally normal should be a moment that open’s people’s eyes to the jig.
As planets have aligned my 50th bday week’s turned into:
-bourbon tour
-Olympic triathlon
-The National/War On Drugs/Sunny Day Real Estate in Louisville
-Jane’s Addiction/Love and Rockets in Chicago
-Soul Coughing reunion tour
-Friday night beers in Grand Rapids
-Buckeyes football in East Lansing
As planets have aligned my 50th bday week’s turned into:
-bourbon tour
-Olympic triathlon
-The National/War On Drugs/Sunny Day Real Estate in Louisville
-Jane’s Addiction/Love and Rockets in Chicago
-Soul Coughing reunion tour
-Friday night beers in Grand Rapids
-Buckeyes football in East Lansing
Instead of strengthening the social taboo against racism we’ve seen an organized and concerted effort to roll it back and the generally tepid response has led to a ton of negative externalities.
You can say that you’re tired of being told this is The Most Important Election Of Our Lives, but the reality is that preventing a coup is going to take overwhelming numbers of votes for the foreseeable future and if you aren’t willing to vote all the time you have to be ready for The Consequences.
“To use a technical term, it blew my mind,” said Vancouver’s former chief planner Brent Toderian…”They weren’t lazy about it—they didn’t just throw up barriers and ban cars. It might be the best bargain I’ve ever heard,” Toderian said. #Montrealwww.theenergymix.com/montreal-add...