penguins18.bsky.social
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Negotiating how big the payoff will be. “Raising their child together” my ass.
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Ridiculous but I think in the end pretty unsubstantial. They can’t impeach her, and she has a lifetime appointment.
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Is there a more pathetic politician inexplicably successful enough for us to know her or his name? Dan Quayle?
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What about that quote makes you say that? I don’t get it.
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Hey hey hey, what’s with the fritos shade?
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Isn’t “lot of transactions taking place quickly” kind of a definition of a computer?
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It would be an ugly war but there’s no chance Europe would lose it in the end.
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In the end, likely well more than half of the 3.75% were going to quit or retire anyway this year.
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I met him once in CO (his bro - who’s a very decent guy - lives in Boulder). Totally coherent and obviously very clever. I think part of his degeneration and addlement is the result, of all things, of a mid-life crisis. That and too much money.
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He wouldn’t much from Tesla going belly-up. He’s already extracted a ton from it.
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Ok I got the reference…
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These kinds of stories are dime a dozen on Cap Hill, and more often than not just not true.
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There is no way for them to do that. Ignore shiny objects.
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I was referring to the stereotypical snowbird FL retiree.
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Like Jesus and all his apostles and Paul?
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Absolutely
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I have not seen any proposals to cut Medicare.
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For the record, Medicare and Medicaid are radically different things and the stereotypical FL retiree is most definitely NOT on Medicaid.
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Goldman is right. Focus on actions not words.
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This is very likely a GOP burner account. Ignore.
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For those wondering, he is a conservative party member from Latvia.
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"Even if you think it's unrealistic that the war would ever end without Russia getting some of what they want ..." is a precise dictionary definition of appeasement.
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Yeah NEPA lawsuits from the "just leave us alone it's not that bad" side of environmental disputes are not uncommon. Beauty of the law is it's a process law, and both the green and the non-green sides have to comply.
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No that’s a correct argument. All federal action with significant environmental impacts must go through at least an Environmental Assessment. And if there is judged to be minimal impact, there is a process for that too.
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I’m not surprised. Every influential Dem in Washington (with a couple exceptions) are pushing or past 80.
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Well it works ok if you have someone else who does your job for you.
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I can't place why and hate to judge a book by its cover, but again, if that dude turned out to be a public defender or a saint who worked with street kids, I would be more shocked than any other thing in the world.
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Only online. Again, SO easy to get fooled about public perception by being online all the time.
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This is the first public instance of a new "effect," which doesn't have a name yet: Tech pros who don't really understand AI but love to think it's infallible and you can plug anything in to get the truth. In SV, these guys are legion and uniformly made fun of by actual AI engineers.
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Everyone in the City is elite! He's just a NYC booster!
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That's odd and cool. Wonder how academic heads of universities also got the title?
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"Chancellor"?
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That fight cost us 2024 too, most likely. Obama and Biden staffs never got along. Obama vets were the folks the Dem anti-Biden caucus revolved around all along, and organized to remove him in July. All to return to influence and relevance with Harris. I genuinely hate those people.
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First term Obama had that vigorous reform liberalism in spades. Second term Obama was a catastrophe we're still paying for. Sometime after his reelection, we lost the script, got splintered and started nominating lackluster institutionalists. Killed the brand.
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Does Trump appear in public anymore without Musk? Even sit down interviews are dual, like they're married or something and it's is the post-nomination traditional introduction of the prospective next first couple.
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God the Democratic senatorial leadership is ancient. For goodness sake retire.
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Medicare not medicaid.
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I’d love to say Trump kept all this hidden during the campaign but thing is, he really didn’t.
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If they died for democracy how can they “stand up”?
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He’s not wrong but, gracious, is Schumer old and tired and still using lines written for him in the Bush years.
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Watch Musk closely. He’s not well.
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This is gonna be a tough one to walk back because all of those workers know they’re gone as soon as bird flu recedes a bit.
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More just leftover useful idiots who side passionately and by now instinctively with any foreign leader who opposes the U.S.
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That’s … not a uniquely U.S. idea, or even anywhere close to the most extreme expression of it.
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If any recipients receive a penny less than they usually do believe me, you will know about it.
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Wonder what the entity was she was ordered to act against?
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Yes the system, while not 100% airtight (that's impossible) is as close as it gets and WAY closer than any large private sector system I can think of.
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Definitely not. There are millions of MAGA's out there who would give anything to be in on the fun. These guys though are young, easily manipulated, and have serious practical hacking skills. And are unconditionally loyal. Useful shock troops before they get thrown away.
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At one point do we start suspecting that Putin has something on all Republicans, not just Trump, and that it got nothing to do with what Trump did in Moscow or real estate deals?
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Sadly, most of those investors got what they wanted. Yeah they lost their money but the point was to bribe Trump. The little guy/MAGA diehards got screwed, but the big boys got what they needed.