Joe Biden’s insistence on running for re-election was certainly disastrous. It kept credible contenders out of the Democratic presidential primaries and prevented the selection of a nominee who had gained momentum in the winnowing process. Even after his stunningly feeble debate performance on 27 June last year, Biden took several weeks before finally opting out of the race. That left Kamala Harris a mere 107 days between the launch of her campaign and election day.
Ample evidence shows that the Biden team was riddled with obstinate denial and misrepresentation aimed at the public. But tales of tragic egomania in high places can take us only so far. What’s essential is to scrutinize how – and why – the Democratic party, its leaders and its prominent supporters enabled Biden and his inner circle to get away with such momentous stonewalling for so long. https://www.theguardian.com/
Let me be a Republican here…
WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY?
I’m a law-abiding citizen, I pay my bills and my taxes, why should I support exactly who by paying more for my goods?
Yes, that’s the Republican ethos. Screw the takers. I earn my salary, I should pay few taxes and the government should be shrunk.
Not that I’m not pissed at the Democrats here… If I hear one more dyed-in-the-wool left wing baby boomer tell me that we need to bring manufacturing back to America… Yeah, and are you willing to pay $1000 for a flat screen?
We’re addicted to cheap goods made in developing countries oftentimes where workers are underpaid. Sure, there are sweat shops, sure there are abuses, but the bottom line is people want these jobs, to advance their economic status. Whereas…
Good luck finding an Anglo cleaner in Los Angeles. Or a citizen to pick grapes. Because Americans don’t want to do those jobs. They don’t want to do back-breaking work for almost no money. https://lefsetz.com/
Everyone around him saw this. Everyone close to him had seen it for over a year by then. Everyone in his campaign knew that upwards of 86 percent of Americans thought he was too old to serve another term. And no one did anything about it. https://andrewsullivan.
I’m sure they made the participants feel good, but they didn’t move the needle an iota.
This is what happens when old school people employ old school methods and expect the same result they got fifty or sixty years ago.
The reason the anti-Vietnam protests had an impact, to the degree they even did, was they woke up the rest of the country and made people aware of how many were against the war. It brought the issues to the forefront, it made people question their beliefs. And I know, because I was THERE! Yesterday I read a review in the “Wall Street Journal” of the new book, “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs.” Its author is Ian Leslie, who is only FIFTY THREE YEARS OLD! In other words, he didn’t live through Beatlemania, his work is based on research. Which is no match for firsthand experience.
Today’s America is different. It’s deeply divided and people are steadfast in their beliefs. I’m sure no one sat at home and watched yesterday’s protests and changed their mind…
Assuming they were aware of them at all. https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/
A US healthcare director is suing John Oliver for defamation following a Last Week Tonight episode on Medicaid in which the British-American comedian quoted him as saying it was OK for a patient with bowel issues to be “a little dirty for a couple of days”.
Dr Brian Morley, the former medical director of AmeriHealth Caritas, argues that Oliver – an outspoken comic whose show has not only addressed muzzling lawsuits but been subject to them – took the quote out of context in an April 2024 episode on Medicaid.
There’s been a lot of doom-mongering about tariffs recently, hasn’t there? Oh no, my life savings are going to get wiped out and I’m never going to be able to retire! Oh no, grocery prices are going to triple! Oh no, it looks suspiciously as if Donald Trump has used ChatGPT to guide his fiscal policy and now we’re going to see another Great Depression! Moan, moan, moan.
While it might be true that much of these predictions are coming from highly credentialed economists and people who tend to know what they’re talking about, I’d like to remind you that there are two sides to every story – and it’s always worth looking at both of them. You’ve already heard from voices who reckon Trump’s tariffs are misguided and dangerous. Now it’s time to focus on the people who support the president’s assessment that tariffs are a “very beautiful thing” that will usher in a new golden age.
Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom.
Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. https://www.theguardian.com/
Despite the fact that thousands have perished, these people made the decision to embark on the crossing, fully aware of the perils along the way.
In their heads, serfdom in Europe is better than poverty and strife at home, and migration is/was the only way out.
They chose to hand over thousands of Euros to the Libyan gangsters who held them captive in a manner not dissimilar to the millions who undertook the middle passage, centuries ago.
Most do not survive the leaky boats and strong waves and those that do learn the hard way that the streets of Europe aren’t paved with gold and are condemned to a life of servitude, with little hope for advancement, but there are still many more, back home, hoping to undertake the same journey.
When Daniel Cox was growing up in Rochester, N.Y., he spent every Saturday night at Pizza Hut with his father and two brothers. The server got to know the family so well that when she saw their blue Dodge Caravan roll up, she would put their order in: two cheese pan pizzas and two pitchers of Pepsi.
Mr. Cox’s parents were divorced, and the Pizza Hut ritual was centering for the family. “It was a time when we were all together and everyone was enjoying the experience,” he recalled. “Who doesn’t like pizza?”
WHO?
I saw the headline online, something about an influencer running for Congress. That’s all I needed to know, I didn’t have to peruse the article.
And then someone sent me the video.
What do they say about stardom? You know it when you see it?
Kat Abughazaleh is a star. Just watch. You’ll get it.
First and foremost she’s running against an 80 year old incumbent. Just by posting on YouTube she shows up the ancient Democrats still in control.
But it’s the way she speaks, directly to the camera, the way she delineates the issues, the way she radiates INTELLIGENCE! And PASSION!
We’ve all been overwhelmed by streaming TV choices, only to give up and watch something we’ve already seen. But this curated list of the best shows on Netflix is here to narrow down your decision-making and help you figure out exactly which titles you want to sample next. https://www.vanityfair.com/
What They Found, the first documentary by the film and theatre director Sam Mendes, is a short, stark shock. The film straightforwardly combines two precious artefacts held at the Imperial War Museum in London: 35mm film, shot by Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit, before and during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near the town of Celle in northern Germany in April 1945; and audio interviews given by the cameramen in the 1980s. Lewis and Lawrie did not record sound when they visited Belsen; the words they spoke years later are the only sounds we hear. https://www.theguardian.com/
The title of the new documentary Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing is interesting. It could be said to presuppose the existence of a good side to allowing, encouraging or coercing young children and early teens to put their lives online for attention and validation (or deliberately creating content to attract subscribers, brand interest and sponsorship deals). But perhaps, you think, I am being hopelessly old-fashioned. Perhaps this is the way forward. Perhaps it is the way things are these days. Who am I to say how youngsters should connect, spend their time, be raised in 2025?
We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner.
Conversation wasn't flowing, so I suggested that we go
I asked him what was wrong; He said, 'Nothing.' I asked him if it
Husband's Diary: A two-foot putt.. who the hell misses a two-foot putt!
Husband: “Sukitaki”.
Husband says angrily: “Toka a anji rodi roumi yakoo!”
Wife on her knees literally begging: “Mimi nakoundinda tinkouji!”
Husband replied angrily: “Na miaou kina tim kouji!”
You'll read anything as long as it is about sex. I worry about you sometimes!!!
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