Alexander G

who is brave enough to become the bonaparte of los angeles

RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype

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Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation - Harvard Law Review For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his...

I'm a big fan of the "Admit DC as 127 states" proposal

harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation - Harvard Law Review For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his...

harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Me look at Damocles: haha look loser with a fuck ass sword hat

Me with a sword over my head: fuck this sucks

The single law change I would introduce which would infuriate the most people is totally legally exempt pedestrians from the rules of the road. You can now do anything you like if you do it on foot.

Plaque for photo in prior comment Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 Born Little Rock, Arkansas Commander of American land forces in the Pacific at the outbreak of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur suffered the worst defeat of his career in the spring of 1942, when he was forced to flee the Philippines in the wake of Japanese invasion. Uttering on his arrival in Australia his famous words, "I shall return," MacArthur now faced the task of repelling Japan's drive for dominion in the southwest Pacific. His success in that effort, combined with his own genius for self-promotion in the press, made him one of the most popular heroes of the war back in civilian America. By the time he made good on his promise to retake the Philippines in spring 1945, his reputation had reached legendary proportions, and the following September, he was chosen to preside over Japan's final surrender. Howard Chandler Christy (1872-1952) Oil on canvas, c. 1952 Gift of Henry Ostrow NPG.78.271 I'm so sorry I cut off the Spanish, but I genuinely meant this as a personal photo. I didn't think it'd be relevant.

Descriptive plaque for photo in prior comment Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969 Born Denison, Texas With a talent for military strategy and the ability to work effectively with personalities of all types, General Dwight D. Eisenhower proved uniquely suited for the role of supreme commander during World War II. A career army officer, Eisenhower began his wartime service in 1941 as head of the War Plans Division under General George C. Marshall. He was assigned to lead U.S. forces in Britain in the spring of 1942, and later commanded the Allied forces' invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy (1942-43). Named supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force by President Franklin Roosevelt in December 1943, Eisenhower masterminded the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, and directed Allied operations in Europe until the surrender of Germany in May 1945. Enormously popular with the American public after the war, Eisenhower was elected to the presidency in 1952 and served two terms. Thomas E. Stephens (1886-1966) Oil on canvas, 1947 Gift of Ailsa Mellon Bruce NPG.65.63 I'm sorry I cut the Spanish off when I took the photos. I meant them for personal use only and didn't think they would be relevant.

Just took a photo of these two earlier today at the National Portrait Gallery

And for additional context, these two are prominently displayed directly opposite each other

General Douglas MacArthur in the National Portrait Gallery here as a very dramatic, somewhat impressionist, painting, more lifelike to the top of the piece and much more abstract towards the bottom

General Eisenhower at the national portrait Gallery here depicted in a very life like style with what I can only describe as a quiet soul eroding stare

The byronic over-dramatic impressionist General Douglas MacArthur

Vrs

The quiet soul eroding stare of General Eisenhower

I love BUR! Is it easy to arrive at? No. Is it pleasant to be in? No. Is it a beautiful building? Think again. Does it have good food? Listen, it’s not LAX.

Star Wars has a ton of flaws in every property and the fan consensus is "let's make funny memes about them" because, for all of his flaws, George Lucas has managed not to publicly lose his mind on Twitter

Which one is this lol

On top of all the other reasons I like it, it was surprisingly respectful. Like I can easily imagine this being played in a church basement

Are we talking like contract work, at-will, blood oath?

I mean yeah this sounds like it would have been a great summer job in college

What is this panel from by the way and would you recommend checking it out?

I mean honestly, it *does* explain how elite backlash against MeToo was about as intense as the reaction to 9/11.

I learned too late that love needs no permission,
only time which neither of us had;
The words I swore have blurred to salt,
yet still I keep what I half-remember making,
to find you at the edge of things,
to end what shouldn't have begun.

My #Signals fanart for the third anniversary!

There's also Trump Jr's investment in Unusual Machines

I'm not sure how much it matters to this since it seems small relative to other causes & they're already getting substantial graft via the pentagon contract but greed is greed.

Something to keep an eye on at least

Rotini!

I've seldom been disappointed when all I have left is rotini. Can't go with every sauce but works well enough with a lot

“155% tax rates for billionaires at home and 155mm for billionaire dictators abroad”

Nah, Perty runs on resentment and outsmarting himself. I think that one nailed it

Isn't exclusive with him also being a tech-right guy though

Train is already halfway full when I got on. I'm one stop from the end of the line and running damn late.

Boston's No Kings is going to be PACKED

Incomprehensible bangers from the pseudorandom word salad bot

There is a joke I like:

"It's amusing watching Bill Kristol and Noah Smith evolve like a painting of Dorian Grey"

(I really wish I could remember who said it because I know I'm not telling the joke right either)

reading and buying books are two different hobbies, much like sewing and buying fabric, or woodworking and buying tools

every major academic discipline should have a probably not monthly but like quarterly publication that writes directly and accessibly to a interested and educated but non-academic audience about the most substantively relevant empirical findings in the discipline the past several months.

In an age where Americans sell their souls for the thinnest of reasons, justice called for the thickest of men.

I loved Widow! Was damn hard for me but I found the next major boss a cakewalk

“Hey why don’t you invest billions of dollars in a factory here, and every four years we’ll flip a coin and maybe a posse of mouthbreathing thugs will throw hoods over your employees’ heads and fly them to a foreign prison”

I'm actually a little shocked how quickly the de minimus ban impacted me. I didn't think of myself as a frequent online shopper outside of Amazon stuff.

A friend who's into cologne was telling me about Zoologist and it sounded really cool so I bought some samplers...

Well they're in Toronto