ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social
Curmudgeon. Retired pedagogue. Lapsed philologist. Maneiac.
Likes: Sparrows. bridges, cardboard boxes, curtain rods
Dislikes: Most everything else.
https://davisxmachina.wordpress.com/
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"When one of us, anywhere, is beaten to death and dumped in the Landwehr Canal, all of us are beaten to death and dumped in the Landwehr Canal" is probably too long to fit on a t-shirt anyways.
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A story as old as time...
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If this becomes a trend and not an isolated incident, the 0.01% now more than ever can call upon the full panoply of the state to armor themselves against the threat, and the price, in dollars, and lost liberty, and societal degradation, will be disproportionally paid by the poorest and weakest.
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He says the first thing that pops into his empty head, doesn't he?
Our first aleatory President.
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Boston has form, as the british cop shows say...
You have to bring Marines
revolutionaryspaces.org/the-legacy-o....
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"The Taste Ladies!" my youngest would say.
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Now if only voters voted their economic self-interest and their material circumstances.
And weren't gold-level subscribers to the Moral Panic of the Month Club.
And that we had elections from a single party list and not 450+ local races.
And no Senate.
We'd be golden.
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Tyranny has an upside for a lot of people:
A djinn appears to a peasant: "I will grant you any wish you want -- but know that I also will give your neighbor what you wish for, twofold."
Peasant, thinks for a second.
"Make me blind in one eye."
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.I don't say to him before that operation, "Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it."... I don't want $15--I want my garden hose back after the fire is over.
docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odllpc2.html
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This is the opposite of Roosevelt's Lend-Lease fire hose.
"Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire..
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...and so the nation goes in two directions at once.
Biden and Collins both won in 2020 by roughly comparable margins.
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Quod rex vult, lex fit.
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1/6 taught the fascists a lesson.
The troops stayed in the barracks last time, and that's intolerable.
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Super handy, when the question "is this an illegal order" is going to come up, and come up alot.
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Super handy, when the question "is this an illegal order" is going to come up, and come up alot, having your own hand-picked senior JAG's
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Super handy to have tame senior JAG's, when the question "is this an illegal order" is going to come up, and come up alot.
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Super dodgy. Also super handy, when the question "is this an illegal order" is going to come up, and come up alot.
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Vance would be even weirder than Trump.
He's a wholly-owned subsidiary of the anarcho-broligarch/Futurist wing of the party. Zero ties to the rump of the McConnell-era GOP.
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Not even English majors read Mallory to a first approximation.
But Camelot is one of those things that people don't understand and love anyways.
I mean the story line is terrible - not bad terrible literally terror instilling. Everyone good dies and the world goes smash..
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The Sword in the Stone circulates as a separate book because Disney. And the hero is a kid.
The tetralogy from which it is carved - TOaFK - as a whole is very much a different beast. And it ends with a world ending.
The LotR trilogy is more upbeat.
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Everybody who watched Sgt Bilko not in reruns but the original run, knows better but they are mostly dead now.
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We hold this truth to be selfEVIDENT
We don't do kings, we have a PRESIDENT.
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Especially as social media have begun contracting "Commanders" to "Commies".
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This is what you get when you elect someone not to be President, but to play "The President" on television.
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Hiring back - or "hiring back" - people to win a news cycle.
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(With the upper case like that, you can read that in a Beastie Boys voice.)
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Working backwards from the conclusion you want is an old and time-honored custom.
In HS chemistry it was "Look up the answer in the Rubber Book. Then draw your curve. Then plot your data points. Then if time permits, make observations."
Appellate counsel seems to be onto this.
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Quebec Hydro lights my house, cooks my dinner. It was -4⁰ here last night.
You guys have my permission to do what you gotta do.
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Disorganized crime mugs you and takes your wallet.
Organized crime suborns your accountant and takes your business.
Really organized crime writes the statutes against larceny out of the statute books.
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President Refrigerator Poetry Magnets.
America's first aleatory President, ladies and gentlemen.
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I used to start something - an instrument, a hobby, at the beginning of a school year and share progress with the students. "I can't even remember when I didn't know Latin - but on this I'll be mostly sucking right there next to you."
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Says the first thing that pops into his empty head, doesn't he?
Our first aleatory President.
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Our first aleatory President. Pure Refrigerator Poetry Magnets™
That's what's left. And it wasn't a towering intellect to start with.
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Cap the pen. No more flow. Just stare.
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Frederick Davidson -- does a mean Bertie Wooster...
One of the audiobook legends, along with Wanda McCaddon/Nadia May
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Kissinger understood how these things are done.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World...
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Weath, not income.... Not that that's not doing, too.
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"So long as one person can tell me "No", anyone can tell me "No".
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Fed Governor, given source.
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Social media has creared a world where the only way to get taken seriously is to ostentatiously take nothing seriously.
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"Norris LaGuardia is a perfect nice name. Those other kids are just jealous."
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That's not at all fanciful - and the opposite of sarcasm. It would just be a replay the 2020 primary debate season's anathemas over minutiae of M4A funding mechanisms.
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RETVRN
barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com
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There's an unacknowledged internecine conflict between the vanguard-party people and the mass-party people that will tear the Democrats apart, and probably in consequence destroy the Republic.
(It's not easily reducible to left-right, either. Something like the quondam DLC counts as 'vanguard.)
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"Had he felt informed enough to vote..."
He was president once already.
I'm just going to walk into the sea...
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Is it tens of billions of dollars better than Xtranormal was?
wikianimate.fandom.com/wiki/Xtranor...
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Third time as a series of podcasts.
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What if he sells out to Putin, but it's only covered as "Trump Dealmaker Supreme Reaches Accord With Putin" in our press?
It's not what happened. It's what you say happened.
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But what if it's my brand? Surely there's a carve-out for that?