ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social
Curmudgeon. Retired pedagogue. Lapsed philologist. Maneiac.
Likes: Sparrows. bridges, cardboard boxes, curtain rods
Dislikes: Most everything else.
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🎶Ain't that America... 🎶
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In each case, they know who's going to be on stage at the end of Act V, so they also know who it doesn't matter if you kill them off in Act III.
Same plot, different playwright.
But there is no plot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pov...
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First you have to figure out how to impeach a Senator.
(He needs to be expelled, by his fellow Senators.)
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The taxation is theft > property is theft pipeline.
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Foreiners may be regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with blood-and soil Americans, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they have no rights which the state, or its citizens, are bound to respect.
Welcome to Dred Scott 2.0
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Only drumhead courts martial and summary executions can save the rule of law. To do otherwise risks civil war.
I guess?
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Eric Rudolph stayed on the lam for 5 years
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You can relive those glory days with Tom Levenson's latest:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672378...
(Author of, inter alia, Newton and the Counterfeiter and Money for Nothing)
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Maybe it's just because the idiot assholes are ineffective at stopping change. That's probably some of it.
Nobody likes to see the world they made pass away
But there's real anger, too -- big "This is not how it's done, this is not how I did it." energy.
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I'm an old -- 67. There's a real sense, and I don't think it's left-right based, that everything we'd worked for and wanted to hand to our kids is being pissed away by a bunch of idiot assholes.
I know some real conservative types who feel personally traduced. 1/2
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RETVRN (Grand Review of the Armies, May 10-11 1865)
warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-...
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Saw sign on here from Philadelphia:
Liberté
Egalité
Gritté
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Reading the Christopher Clark "Revolutionary Spring" book and that revolution, from France to Hungary, from Sicily to Berlin, was like:
www.amazon.com/Revolutionar...
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Damn. That's awesome. (i've been to Hollidaysburg. I am speechless.)
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The guerilla swims among the people like a fish in the sea.
Gotta actually fill the ocean first, else he just lies flapping and gasping on the beach.
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Could have lived without the "Destroy Israel" sign in Portland ME, though it was off to the side held by someone standing on the podium of the courthouse...
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The entire rationale for militarizing the Roosevelt Reservation
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Elms? A lot of empty urban spaces are inly recently empty, relatively.
It's the reverse of the countryside, in many places now forested that were farm and cleared pasture a hundred years ago.
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Must have posed quite a risk to the Federal courthouse.
Because we've been assured the active duty military aren't doing arrests for ICE.
Right? Right?
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www.kpax.com/dads-leaf-bl...
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Law of adverse possession takes how long?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse...
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Bucc-ot(h)
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"Wiltshire? Crenshaw? What difference could it possibly make?"
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Did Wilson try to liberate Milwaukee? Did Harring or Coolidge or Hoover?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_s...
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The troops have phones and read the news.
I'm guessing "Damm. Fun's over" is a minority take.
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They're clearly convinced that executive power will never fall into opposition hands again.
This, too, after two generations of struggling with might and main to control the judiciary only to treat it as the enemy.
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From all over, not just Latin American. A Catholic Vietnamese priest buried my Irish Catholic parents. My chaplain when I was in the hospital for a month in '17 was Great Lakes African....
Those guys will eventually rise through the ranks. And that's ok. After all, it's a universal church...
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There's a "Big brick cities built by ex 48-er Germans who loved beer and hated slavery" belt...
(St. Louis was a Union stronghold.)
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"But her (((donors)))!" was all over the place in 2016. Primary and general.
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Have they no maps? Or will it all be oroxies and standoff weapons?
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C64 line- numbered BASIC to calculate BRAPI (an ancestor of WHIP) for a Strat-o-matic league draft.
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L/A and Bangor have working farms witin city limits.
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The theater of a concept of a plan.
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Wilson and Harding and Coolidge never sent the Army to liberate Milwaukee from the socialists somehow
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Golden's chasing those voters. We've had in my time independent governors 2x, and an independent senator, the Green VP candidate, and a bunch of Indy legislators.
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There's a non-trivial constituency in Maine for:
"Get the parties out of politics.
Get the politicians out of politics.
Get the politics out of politics"
People who hate politics and still vote out of a sense of duty or inertia are partially responsible for Collins
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Jared's going to be President some day. When the fever breaks. And people come to their senses. All right thinking people will turn to him, tribune of the forgotten middle, to get the politics out of politics
Just ask him. (I've never seen so much baseless ambition in anyone and I taught teenagers)
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Jared's going to be President some day. When the fever breaks. And people come to their senses. The ordinary people will turn to him, the tribune of the forgotten middle, to get the politics out of politics
Just ask him. (I've never seen so much baseless ambition in anyone and I taught teenagers.)
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What if, in a /narrative/ kind of way, the best way, he failed to identify himself?
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F=mĂ—a. A small number (small m) convinced they're fighting for their people and securing future for white children (big a) are going to roll a diffuse, often mutually antagonistic and frequently apathetic majority all day long.
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Hard to blame the founders for not envisioning a Refrigerator Poetry Magnets™ for the republic's Chief Magistrate
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Head of state. Head of government.
Good going, America.
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Do tankies lick tanks? Now I'm just confused.
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The last person he talked to changed. So he changed.
The eternal present..
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It's a downwards ratchet. The '80% of good is god enough' becomes the new 'good' which then has its kwn '80% is good enough'...
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(Complicated because NY has fusion voting and the American Labor Party had him on their line.)
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LaGuardia ran as a Republican because anti-machine, anti-Tammany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoral...
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www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2025/06/will...