Of course he did. If that entire room disappeared, I'm not sure that there's too many people that we'd miss.
19.11.2025 12:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@madmacs.bsky.social
Disappointed American. 35-year English teacher (retired). Reader. Sox fan. Cultivating my garden. "How many good people are there in this world? Too many to count."
Of course he did. If that entire room disappeared, I'm not sure that there's too many people that we'd miss.
19.11.2025 12:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So he's still dead?
19.11.2025 12:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Let's be honest: Money is our God now. Has been for a while.
19.11.2025 11:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Among other things.
19.11.2025 01:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So, quite a steal? (I'll show myself out.)
19.11.2025 00:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And look at Lady Macbeth over there.
18.11.2025 20:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Which he never addressed.
18.11.2025 20:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Please, shut up!
18.11.2025 18:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I read in college as an English major. It didn't click. But my professor (Mickey Stern) was crazy about it, and I respected him, so I thought 'I'll give it another try someday.'
I did, in graduate school, (George Creeger) and I couldn't believe how great it was! Something changed. I guess it was me.
If he was still at the New Yorker, they'd be fact-checking "bamboo". I'm thinking "Japanese knotweed".
18.11.2025 15:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't condone it, but access is everything. You see this with beat reporters in sports. "Why didn't you ask about. . ." Because they have to get quotes for the next 133 games.
And, these people work for somebody else. You talk back to Trump, and you are now worthless to your employer.
"President Trump sent me two thousand dollars. I assume that will cover my heart by-pass surgery?"
18.11.2025 14:26 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They apparently feel the same way about journalists.
18.11.2025 14:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kind of???
18.11.2025 14:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, when you put it that way. . .
18.11.2025 14:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Factor in the insurance liability, too.
18.11.2025 12:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also -- and this is really bugging me -- I assume he's talking about Japanese knotweed, not bamboo.
18.11.2025 12:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Germans have a word for it. (It's 22 letters long.)
18.11.2025 11:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Spend your money. Then go the hell home!"
17.11.2025 23:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was told it was only Democrats!
17.11.2025 22:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βFrom what I hear, prisonβs not bad!β
17.11.2025 22:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0By all means. Great precedent. Let's investigate officials of past administrations.
17.11.2025 17:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Snookered? So he's playing three-dimensional chess again?
Feels like he's making it up as he goes along, and falling back on the old playbook: delay, delay, delay.
"Oh, sure! What idiot didn't know that?"
17.11.2025 14:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These projects need funding. It's not like they're going to make it up at the box office. And, like Willie Sutton said, you have to go where the money is.
Politically, Burns is still the odd man out here.
Because he's a stickler for legality!
17.11.2025 14:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0D-elay J-ustice till T-omorrow.
17.11.2025 11:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An in-depth, five-minute read.
16.11.2025 21:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0To be fair, they have concepts of a plan in mind.
16.11.2025 17:40 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And government health care for himself.
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