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1. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   We have to make it thru 4 years with a smaller force. It’s a guerilla campaign.

2. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Krugman’s newsletter is always a good read* but sometimes the music reference at the end is really wonderful: You tube “Willie Nelson & Sinéad O’Connor – Don’t Give Up”.

   If you don’t know this, the doors on Musk’s cars are designed to open electronically; if they have manual releases at all, they’re difficult to get at and use. As a result, there have been multiple instances of people burning alive inside Teslas when the engines catch fire. Well, large parts of the U.S. economy and government appear to be on the verge of self-immolation. And given the combination of arrogance and ignorance shared by Musk and Trump, it’s hard to see how we get out.
3. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   Edsall’s a ray of sunshine in Times opinion this morning… Vengeance Is His … Steven Pinker, a professor of cognitive science at Harvard, foresees significant trouble ahead. Pinker wrote by email that Trump is among those who think well of themselves not in proportion to their accomplishments but out of a congenital sense of entitlement. When reality intrudes, as it inevitably will, they treat the bad news as a personal affront… Assuming that the past six weeks are predictive of what’s coming next, expect an age of anxiety, expect the elimination of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of jobs, expect the decimation of liberal institutions to go on for all four years of Trump’s second term… In other words, expect the worst.

4. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   Thought about posting a late night excerpt, there are some good lines about the clown show. Just can’t muster the appreciation of dark comedy in this bleak moment of national disgrace.

5. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   There’s no one so stupid as a high IQ moron… The problem with wealth is that nobody tells you what you don’t want to hear. Throughout history, people who were successful in one field assumed their mastery would apply in others, to catastrophic effect. Their incompetence is the only hope we have for making it to midterms and getting effective opposition elected.

   Some people I had some respect for are buying the Musk/Trump bs. Very disappointing.

6. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   Just cancelled the Post. Not sure what to do with Amazon. After the rest of “Reacher” drops… :/

7. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   EU’s spine is stiffening and growing before our eyes. The leader of the free world is dead, long live the new one.

8. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   Your point being that our word is worthless. We should have cowed meekly before the Axis powers in 1940. Ukraine never had hope of winning without the support guaranteed by our treaty with them.

9. 7 days ago on Prickly City

   Voters dictate what a party can do. They tied dems’ hands to prevent them from interfering with the reds. So Musk is firing people who bring in revenue and pay bills, Trump is threatening to default on sovereign debt, and the Keystone Cops congress is threatening to not pay the credit card bill and shut down the government. What could go wrong?… The only parallels are the most insane emperors of Rome.

10. 8 days ago on Prickly City

    The plus side of aligning with our adversaries is lower risk of nuclear confrontation. If we’d let Hitler & Tojo have their way in the 40’s, the overall fatality count may have been lower. And my high school German might have had value…

    Krugman this morning: … what is worth noting is that what we’re seeing is that for all the talk about how the G.O.P. is now the party of the working class, the policy agenda is as cruelly plutocratic as ever: Take away health care from Americans who need it so you can cut taxes for the wealthy.