Trump stole the line from Ronald Reagan.
Michael Moore did a video where he asked a bunch of MAGats exactly when America stopped being great?
The ones born in the 1940s said it was the 1960s.
The ones born in the 1950s said the 1970s.
The ones born in the 1960s pointed to the 1980s.
If you aren’t intimately familiar with the Watergate saga you’ll want to keep notes.
They’ll casually throw out a line about Jeb McGruder or Spiro Agnew and you’ll have no idea where those guys fit in.
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https://globalcomix.com/c/big-man-plans
A veteran tunnel rat has a hard time adjusting to life after war.
Thanks.
Learn something new everyday.
Back in the day, some places had laws against begging. A poor person would buy a dozen pencils for a nickel and ‘sell’ them to passersby.
Mr. Bigshot is treating the beggar like a young MBA looking for an important job.
Strange. I was a fan, and never wondered why I wasn’t seeing more stuff from him.
Yeah, fuck cancer.
The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman.
People forget that there were all kinds of giant changes in the years before WW1.
Here’s a book that might help you put it in perspective.
“The Third Wave” by Alvin Toffler.
He wrote it back in the 1970s and accurately predicted most of what is happening now.
His thesis is that the change from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era is going to leave a lot of people stuck. They can’t/won’t change with the times, and will try desperately to cling to a dead past.
It would be like asking someone who practices judo if they feel stupid when they get bruised in a match, or asking a marathon runner if they feel stupid when they are exhausted after a race.
The people they hate most hate Trump. Therefore anything that is good for Trump is good.
Look at all the people who go to wrestling matches and root for the bad guy. Same mentality.
The Reddest states have the worst outcomes and never learn.
From the article.
By the 2020s, conservatives were dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, with the gap concentrated in internal causes (for example, heart disease, cancer and stroke). The divide since 2020 is substantial: while only 0.2% of ‘very liberal’ respondents died of internal causes between 2020 and 2022, the probability for people who identified as ‘very conservative’ was 1.14 percentage points higher (P = 0.021; 95% confidence interval (CI), (0.18, 2.11)). This gap is not limited to deaths from COVID-19 and is not reducible to demographic or geographic differences between the groups, nor is it a pure function of ageing: previous cohorts’ death patterns in older data did not show a similar correlation between health and ideology before 2010.
Literally dying to own the Libs.
Belize.
Tiny country just south of Mexico. It was the only English colony in Central America. It’s a lot like Jamaica with less crime. Beautiful beaches and friendly people. I went there for the scuba diving, but it also has old Mayan ruins to explore.
You can use US dollars anywhere if that matters.
Alex Trebek put it this way. “If I win $100.00 I don’t feel that wonderful, but if I lose $100.00 I’m very angry.”
My sentiments.
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Every once in a while I find a place with the old style chest to floor urinals, the ones with a bowl the size of a sink at the bottom.
It took me years to realize that these were designed so that a drunk could stand up and vomit like a gentleman.
This is what they took from us.
Jerry Seinfeld did a “Comedians In Cars, Getting Coffee” segment with Obama.
One of the things they mentioned is that neither is ever again going to meet someone who doesn’t know who they are.
Lacey from ‘Cagney and Lacey.’
Cagney was the unmarried alcoholic who drove a vintage 'Vette.
Orange camo is a thing.
https://www.amazon.com/Volein-Hunting-Lightweight-Closure-XX-Large/dp/B0BGXHKQRM
One of my proudest accomplishments was sneaking ‘cromulent’ into an official government report before it was mainstreamed into the dictionary.
Already been done.
“Red As Blood” by Tanith Lee. Whole collection of stories about evil princesses.
Snow White is a vampire, Cinderella is a witch who drives the poor prince insane, etc.
Great read.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/red-as-blood-tales-of-the-sisters-grimmer-tanith-lee/de69c0b10c282fda