is Eat The Rich the Next Big Thing ?

Being progressive is not the same as being kind and thoughtful.

Written after Sandy Hook. That horror could not change our hearts. I cannot conceive of what horror it would take to make us change our ways. www.nybooks.com/online/2012/...

To those who say there is wisdom in crowds, I would caution to take care the crowd you hang out with.

Tack is angle of sail relative to wind Tactic is short term approach Tact is reserved demeanor Only two of them fit the phrase "Try a different..."

Explains a lot, read the rest of the thread and the Nature paper it quotes.

Do you live in a country where you are called Boss Man because you are white? I do. It grinds on me. I hate it. Happy Independence Day Bahamas! May we all soon be freed from mental slavery.

If tariffs are really bad tax policy (and the balance of evidence strongly suggests they are) then why do nations not say "You know what? We are going to set our tariffs at zero. We think others should do the same, but you be you. We get the benefits of zero tariffs, you get what you choose."

Man this oughta cure you of smoking

When will America learn that you can't trust a liar?

The report from a rock out in the ocean is, the US has entered a recession. When Uncle Sam sneezes Bahamas catches pneumonia.

Nothing like experiencing actual tariffs to align progressives and neo-liberals.

"De Minimis" is not just fast fashion and cheap trinkets. It's repair parts for appliances, engines, electronics, tools, all kinds of essential things that can be renewed instead of tossed. Now things will break and they won't get fixed.

It's an old observation that the overprivileged and underprivileged share similar maladies... still worth repeating.

Maybe Wall Street has learned an important lesson... If you're going to buy an election, don't purchase it from a con man.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Some days I make a hundred bucks. Some days I don't. It all evens out in the end.

I already substituted pomace olive oil for virgin in my salad. Now that is gone so I am using soybean oil. What's next, motor oil?

The Bahamas is a high tariff nation, 45% default rate. That is why domestic agriculture and manufacturing dominate the economy here, while international banking and tourism play a minor role.

When I was in diapers, the John Birch Society called fluoridation a Soviet mind control plot. By the time I left grade school opposition had jumped to the hippie-dippie left side. Stayed there for a long time but in the past decade or so it's back on the right again.

Never ascribe to evil genius what is adequately explained by incompetence.

It's the economic equivalent of a pandemic... we know things will be better in a couple of years, but meanwhile about all we can do is endure.

It's like one of those classic sci-fi tales where a time traveler steps on a butterfly and returns to find America using the Cyrillic alphabet with a Nazi in the White House.

Idea for mid-term campaign plank -- return all tariff authority from the President to Congress.

Is Starship a scam? www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-w...

Cut Social Security? Dammit, we sold our souls and now y'all reneging on the payments. Maybe need a Soul Repo Guy soon.

A study suggesting that gun culture does more to replace religion than to augment it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Look. I know how democracy works. I know that when I vote, I am bound by the outcome, regardless of my own choice. But I am REALLY aghast at joining the Axis of Evil as that outcome.

RTO? FAFO. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

RTO? FAFO. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

Tariffs really are self-inflicted wounds. Why would anyone with a basic understanding of economics endorse them?

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Thoughtfulness is not congruent with political orientation.