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Fraudulent enterprise

So you’d have somebody be a freeholder, a legislator, and a member of the sewer commission getting 3x pension years per year.

Used to be a perk because it gave you pension credit to have more than one office. It’s been limited, but it used to be really abused.

American Eagle is actually very "woke." They have DEI and donate to "woke" causes. They also produce their synthetic-blend jeans offshore, sometimes in factories associated with labor abuse.

But all is forgiven if buying their jeans pisses off libs.

Yeah, we had aim. But we also had typing in 5th through 8th grade.

"Every single millennial never had formal instruction"

My man, formal typing instruction peaked when we were in elementary & junior high, most of us had multiple blocks of full calendar years typing instruction in school. We received more than any generation before or since, wtf are you smoking.

Still lucky that the one time we bought le creuset stuff the person at the register flipped the discount by accident, 70% off instead of 30, noticed it and told us to enjoy it.

This is def. right:

The @jasonleopold.bsky.social, et al. piece reveals a complicity beyond just following orders. By responding callously on Instagram, he mouthed the conspiracy theories and logic that was driving it all.

and as far as responsibility goes, i think ferritor should be held criminally liable for the laws he broke while doing DOGE's work and referred for crimes against humanity

I think the tension here is that his parents were the ones who instilled the badness, or the foundation for it, and that was always gonna be present.

It also happened in 2003.
The current mayor of Houston was one of the legislators.

Why is this surprising?

Why is this surprising?

Old enough to remember when it was coercion for the federal government to tie baseline Medicaid funding to expansions that were >90% paid for by the federal government

Life comes at you fast

David makes powerful points.
On top of it all, what we're seeing is authoritarianism in the USA happening in real time.
Autocrats try to erase facts that don’t fit their preferred narrative.
They get rid of people who tell the truth, including government experts.
They use fear to stop dissent.

That's absolutely right.

Firing the chief labor statistician isn’t just a scandal—it echoes the early warning signs from Argentina, Turkey, and the Soviet Union, where gutting independent economic institutions paved the way for autocracy and total economic collapse.

We’ve seen this movie before.

New York has the same issue, with certain enclaves being legit conservative in ways that don’t map nationally.

The real wild card seems to be how much of a faction of Dems can be conjured into existence to sell out other Dems. CA is so big there’s always a clique or too that will do the right’s bidding.

90 percent of what that guy does/thinks is normal and mainstream but the shitty 10 percent is really shitty. And he compounds it (well, all the guys in the extended honorary Matt circle) by doubling down on it any time his blind spots are questioned.

Thanks for the view from the HOA pool, Conor.

Touv of them in fact.

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

A huge chunk of what’s going on is every one of these dickheads needing to feel like they earned it instead of getting lucky.

She keeps being thrown into the spot against all of her (usually bad) instincts. (Complimentary).

So this clique reading the news gives them just enough info to not be Republicans, but not enough for them not to be insufferable assholes.

This just isn’t true. When Dems had power they expanded health care for the first time in 50 years (Obama) and made historic investments in clean energy (Biden).

What you gotta remember about Politico, Axios, and all of their derivatives is that they are pretty gleefully on the side of Republicans and not remotely shy about hiding the fact that they are rooting for them to win.

Behaviors that make you smarter, healthier, wealthier, more patient, better adjusted, etc aren't class markers. They are just good behaviors.

Only one missing is Igs. Must be nice weather in Maine today.

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