Holy shit. Check out that sneer at "vote blue no matter who."
Imagine being alive in August of 2025 and STILL thinking that voting blue in 2024 was the wrong move.
H R Pickens
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That photo is fake. It's not me. But also, basically, it is.
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And I get it. "Devil take the hindmost" is the other side's ethos, not ours. When we hear that the median earner is doing okay, we immediately think "okay, but what about the bottom quintile? They're people too."
But inflation is necessarily about the aggregate.
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I think part of it is that, no matter how good the economy is, someone somewhere is having a rough go.
So even when inflation is low, there's someone who finds their grocery bill to be a burden, and someone else who's eager to dunk on you for disregarding that person's lived experience.
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If we get through this and are able to get government back into the hands of sensible people, I hope they nuke the goddamn crypto industry from orbit. Scorch the Earth.
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There's no bubble. These tulip bulbs can only rise in value. Don't be such a nervous Nellie.
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It's so depressing when this or anything like it comes up. I learn, over and over, that many, and possibly most, of my fellow Americans WANT to torture death row inmates to death, and are either willing to say so outright or wrap it with no more than a paper-thin veneer of proceduralism.
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The penny-farthing has some historical significance and it's a charming museum piece.
I'm glad it existed. I wouldn't want to spend any time riding one. We've learned a lot since then about how to make bicycles.
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Decades from now, the second graf of your obit will mention this. People will think "Oh yeah. I remember him now. He was that ghoul who dressed a chatbot up like a murder victim for clicks."
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Are you out of your goddamn mind?
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It is, but I hope we can get it done anyway. A commission that can be established can be dis-established.