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Sounds like you're doing something right, then.

Side note: where are the "Collins is old" endless news cycles? I mean, Biden came across as better than this, or at least on the same level in his worst moments, and we got non-stop coverage for months about it. So, where's the breathless "Too old to do the job" coverage?

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100% if this was the other way around, these guys would be saying "Look at him staring Ossoff down, daring him to set a foot out of line! Now, *that's* power!" or some shit.

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Forced divestment of their billionaire owners' interests in the companies, I'd say.

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Maybe this is kind of the photo negative of the PBR thing. Like, do they serve Yeungling as part of a "citywide special" in Austin or something?

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* "Half-and-half" if you're in Ireland, by the way.

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6\If that notion sounds familiar, maybe it's because you heard similar concepts of "eugenics" coming out of, oh, 1930s Germany. So, could be incompetence, could be genuine *evil,* could be a bit of both. But none of it is good, and at a minimum, RFK, Jr. should be removed from office.

5\On the one hand, these guys tend to be incredibly stupid, so it's possible they don't believe this. On the other, they're also fucking evil, so there could be a worse goal behind this: namely, they think they are making the species healthier by "weeding out" the sick from the gene pool.

4\The sick will end up dying more, because they don't have access to preventative care provided by insurance. This, too, will increase costs for everyone, as long as EMTALA exists. We will all eat those costs, and insurance for *everyone* will cost more, or provide less, or both.

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3\When insurers lose healthy people in the risk pool, it becomes more expensive to cover the sick people without the additional revenue from the healthy ones. That will lead them to raise prices on these plans, which will eventually price out the sick folks. Who will then be more likely to die.

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2\Of course, there could also be a more cynical, perverse, and downright evil explanation, which tends to track with RFK, Jr.'s past actions: they want sick people dying off. Because that's where this ends up.

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1\These dipshits are going to screw insurance costs for, let's be clear, *EVERYONE.* You *want* healthy people who don't use insurance in the risk pool. That's how insurance is supposed to work, you fucking numpties!!!

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He looks like he's about to pain the walls with his lunch.

Where'd I put that shotgun?

"Late for the Sky" can also fuck you up, depending on the experiences you've had in life. He does backing vocals (with others) on Warren Zeevon's "Desperados Under the Eaves," and it just so elevates that song. Breaks your heart in the best way.

Maybe it's unnecessary to appeal to the Framers at all, inasmuch as they're dead and we aren't. Maybe law shouldn't be hidebound, with our notions of how the world must work frozen in amber in 1787, or 1791, or 1865, or whenever. Maybe the law must serve society today.

Like, at this point, I'm not sure originalism is even worth debating substantively. "You guys supported Trump ruling like a king. If that's what your position produces, then fuck your position and fuck you."

Given that we've spent the last ~50 years arguing against originalist positions, only to have them reach the apex of their power and reveal it all to be bullshit designed to engineer preferred outcomes, perhaps we can dispense with attempting to refute their methodology, and simply shout them down.

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Velvet Revolver at the Spectrum as a bitchin' show, too.

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Also, Vance should relax. Nobody thinks he wants to fuck Trump. Trump doesn't look anything like a couch.

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This guy has, I want to be clear, *zero* juice. He's a fucking awkward, unfunny dork. And everyone, Vance included, knows it.

I think there's also a good place for "Why would you want to hang around all that shit in the first place?" That's why I left. By that point, I hadn't laughed at stuff on X in ages. I don't laugh all the time here, but I still get a good laugh now and then.

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Ok, so, how many Scaramuccis do we think a Zacharia is going to be? Feel free to round to the nearest hundredth.

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For those wondering, this can be useful if you want to argue "The thing you're saying I had to do wasn't a rule on XYZ date, and I can prove that the rule said something else at the time."

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I deal with this in my line of work when the federal government changes old rules/regulations and the prior copies of such documents are taken off of the main agency website. I've had luck using the Wayback Machine site to find copies of the older rules.

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Like...2nd or 3rd grade, I think? Somewhere in there.

Damn, *that* is a callback.

Bold choice on the flight attendant outfit, too.

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I want you to know, I especially appreciated the Caddyshack reference, because of the relevance here. You did it, and I noticed it, and I appreciated it.

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Imagine the obverse scenario: the press covers him accurately, and relentlessly. The constant drone of how fucking awful he is, how criminal everything he does is, etc. would wear away at his support over time. We saw this with Biden, and he wasn't even a criminal. He was just old and boring.

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I think a huuuuuuge part of it is that the press was and continues to be an enormous aid to Trump. I do believe that, if they covered him accurately, the bottom would fall out. Their sanewashing and stenography approach has served as a bulwark for his popularity.

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This has been my concern. As his power wanes, he'll try to tighten his grip. And the closer he gets to the end of his time in office, the more unhinged and brazen the crimes will be.

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Too late. Already put the trash out.

I think the real question is: What are we going to *do* about it? How do we *stop* it?

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From reading what seems to be a quasi-transcript, it sounds like the judge is pissed because the gov't made her look like a chump. I'm not a litigator, but it's my understanding that making a judge look like a chump is...uh...unwise.

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How'd things go for the last king who prorogued parliament?

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Killing that old account felt great. And I managed to mostly recreate things here in terms of mutuals and follows. I never cared how much of a following I had. Still don't.

I came here, liked it better, loved the nuclear block, and then completely nuked my old Twitter account. Deleted all posts, likes, retweets, all of it, and then deleted the account itself.

Do you want Ned Ludd? Because this is how you get Ned Ludd.

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I don't think one can claim credibly to have written about Columbus Day and *not* include at least some references to this.

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We should ignore him forever. If he wants to show his ass to the world, that's his choice, but we don't have to look.

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Ah, but can you do it with simple, general questions?