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Bots, most likely, have it trending on twitter than antifa plans to show up at Sturgis this week.
No, no... none of that is true.

 

“Tchotchkes” may be my favorite word. Dahlia is a guilty pleasure.

 

Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
We are the voters
The woke generation (the woke generation, generation)
We are the ones they can't get behind

And, I wonder when if they're ever gonna change
Living under the fear, 'til nothing else remains
We don't need another Trump term
We don't need a cringing Putin goon
All we want is a conviction to happen soon

Looking for something, we can rely on
There's gotta be something better out there
Ooh, love and compassion
Their day is coming (coming)
All criticism of him is deemed so unfair

And, I wonder when they're ever gonna change, change
Living under the fear, 'til nothing else remains

All the children say
We don't need another Trump term
We don't need a cringing Putin goon
All we want is a conviction to happen soon

 

Scut Farkas comes to mind.

 

Awfully Woke of them.

 

1. I think you're over-crediting Obama for offering much of anything on that front.

2. The GOP is helpless and hapless, no idea what to do with the unbound whirlwind inside its party. Mitt Romney doesn't want what the party has become; he just can't change it. Neither can David French or Bill Kristol or anyone else. The anarchy will have to run its course, I suspect. Republicans never had a ton of touch, mind you, in the last 50 years, but they burned all their capital for traditional conservatism with the Bush era. DeSantis is some mash-up of Trump and Pence and one of the most unlikable politicians in American history. Trump is madness. I can't do Pence; no one can.

3. Democrats can change their cultural left wing, which has become this weird Twitterized mash-up of supporting foreign interventions, libertarian "get yours or get in the gutter" fatalism in economics and policy and shallow culture masquerading as social commentary.

 

FFS, it should have no bearing whatsoever....but with these clowns....

Trump Indictment Presents New Obstacle in Spending Fight as Shutdown Looms

 

This is an honest request for information, because I've never had to go down this road (though both of my folks are retirees now, though in their 60s and in decent health): Does being your spouse not afford your wife all the privileges that come with a POA? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I'm just a sportswriter.

On the economic side, I think the crux of your problem is that there are only so many ways to skin a cat. I'm pretty middle of the road economically. The biggest problem with socialism/communism is the irrepressible nature of human ambition. The biggest problem with capitalism is the irrepressible nature of human greed. Or to borrow from Thatcher, "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money," but what she didn't care to understand was that the problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of other people (to exploit). Absence of a major revolution in circumstances (war or other catastrophes, a means of acquiring cheap clean energy on a global scale, Star Trek food replicators), I don't think there's an easy way to change that.

I have a theory that the problem with socialism (and its other left-er) cousins, is not that it doesn't "work" but that it's not scalable. After all, a nuclear family is, essentially, a socialist enterprise. Mom, dad, the kids all bring something to the table and all get something out of it that they would not ordinarily have (food, shelter, assets, etc.). There are a lot of collectives that have worked to varying degrees over the years. The more people you introduce into that system, the more strain is put on to it at the top, by people who have too much to lose, or by free riders.

As far as the political matters, I think the bill has come due for a lot of actions by a lot of majority groups in our past. Thanks to the Internet and just overall increased social awareness, I think we all know more about that than our fathers and grandfathers. The problem is that, for example, yeah, this city is built on land someone's white great*5X grandfather stole from a Native tribe. Is there a way to fix that problem that isn't just the same dispossession in reverse? I'd argue that, again, save for that revolution in circumstances, there isn't.

 

Well, they're admitting it. Six more steps to go.

 

We recently set up where I have legal, financial, and medical POA for my mom. She's 78 and in good mental and physical health. The key for a parent is to do it a parent is to do it while they are mentally fit to sign the papers. If you wait until they are not of sound mind, it's a nightmare that requires court action. If we'd waited six more months with my wife's mom, that's where we would have been.

I have the same powers for my wife, and she has them for me. It's all dependent on the person not being able to make decisions for themselves. Right now, she can't pull the plug and put me on the dead cart just because I need a root canal. It would be if I/she were in an accident or something.