Saturday Afternoon Open Thread

Here we go again. I actually think the beginning of the end of Elizabeth Warren's campaign's end will be marked as yesterday with the release of her progressive fan fiction on Medicare For All.

Paul Krugman has the funniest reaction - serious libs pulled this together, the numbers sort of add up, this will never make it through Congress anyway, so lets talk about something else. Uh huh. I think Biden and Buttigieg will be happy to talk about this. Time will tell.

DO LET ME ADD: Among her revenue raisers is a proposal to adopt a mark-to-market on capital gains for the 1 percenters. She thinks that will raise $2 trillion, which ain't hay. Presumably she is getting a cue from Sen. Wyden, the ranking Dem on the Senate Finance Committee. As a longshot, maybe the Minuteman got results! (Yeah, yeah, this got booed off here and it hardly makes me want to back Warren, but the idea is coming on like a freight train. President Buttigieg will be looking for sock-the-rich revenue ideas, especially Constitutional ones. Of course, that might mean we're safe until 2025...

Comments

[Richard Campbell]

First!!!

[Jim Eagle]

Worlds largest cocktail party is underway in Jax. Missing Vern Lundquist, though.

[Jim Eagle]

TM,

There is no Dem out there who can beat Trump. That is why impeachment. You maybe the only person on earth who thinks policy is impotyant in this day and age.

[henry]

TM, why do you want to soak the “rich”? The 1% was the limited target of the original income tax. You can see how well that limit held every April. Here in the internet age, government greed moves at internet speed... so that 1% will be 110% within the year it passes.

Worst idea in the universe. (Is say except for communism, but this tax is communism).

[James D.]

Yeah, yeah, this got booed off here and it hardly makes me want to back Warren, but the idea is coming on like a freight train

Really? Among who?

Democrat candidates and NYT pundits?

Certainly not with anyone who (1) cheers for Strelnikov in Doctor Zhivago or (2) actively wishes for the economy to collapse.

[James D.]

Add a “doesn’t” in that last paragraph...

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

There is nothing particularly magical about medicine that makes it not susceptible to free markets.
So why not government motors for all?
Whole wheat bread for all?
Oh yeah, they're socialists now, so it is going to be socialism for all soon enough.
The reality of course would be medicaid, food stamps and subsistence welfare for all except the connected.
What's the point of this glacial divergence?
Let's just cut the interregnum and start shooting each other and see who wins.

[henry]

I am not ready for President Buttgag. Won’t be in 2025 either. Especially if he kills healthcare and taxes unrealized cap gains to fund it. I’d tell him where to put the nearest cactus, except I fear he would enjoy that too.

[henry]

@realDonaldTrump

Schiff will change the transcripts just like he fraudulently made up the phone call. He is a corrupt politician!

Re:

@repmassie

I’ve attended several hours of the secret depositions as a member of @GOPoversight cmte.

Unfortunately, most of my colleagues and all of the media must rely on leaks to form their opinions.

I’m urging @SpeakerPelosi to release the transcripts of the depositions immediately.

[D]

Henry:
It is not going to Mayor Pete.
He can’t get the black vote.
I still think Sanders has a chance because he is honest and what you see is what you get.
I think a Sanders/ Gabbard ticket would be a good one.
If Bernie has another heart attack the Dem guys would be happy with Tulsi.
The Dem women- not so much.

[MissMarple2]

A giant Scam! https://t.co/E2gcPaddD1

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2019

Link goes to a Trump War Room tweet with a video.

[MissMarple2]

The left's impeachment sham sure hasn't slowed President @realDonaldTrump down this week.

See more: https://t.co/A68ueVC88u pic.twitter.com/P65IumL8PP

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 1, 2019

Links go to a set of 4 pictures plua an article from The White House, 1600 Daily, for October 31, 2019.

[anonamom]

I am wondering if Jack offered up his new "no political ads" policy --that's got to be hitting the revenues hard, no?--as a pretext for booting DJT off Twitter.

[jimmyk]

“She thinks that will raise $2 trillion, which ain't hay.”

Lizzie thinks lots of things that are even less farfetched than that, but still harebrained. This is unicorn farts and fairy dust.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
3h
Tate Reeves will be a great Governor of Mississippi, and what an electric Rally last night. Vote for Tate on Tuesday!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
3h
Louisiana has a chance to have a really great Governor in @EddieRispone
. Auto insurance costs and taxes will be coming way down with Eddie, and your 2nd Amendment will be protected. Current Democrat governor has done a really poor job! VOTE EARLY FOR EDDIE!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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43m
Big Rally in Kentucky on Monday night for a man who has worked really hard & done a GREAT job, Governor @MattBevin
. Kentucky is having the best economic year ever under Matt’s leadership. He is a fantastic guy who loves our Military, our Vets and our 2nd Amendment. Vote Tuesday!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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42m
The Whistleblower has disappeared. Where is the Whistleblower?

[JM Hanes]

Ignatz:

My response to your comment on David Brooks was willowed on the Tea Leaves thread, just fyi.

[henry]

@WhiteHouse

"We're now number one, not by a little bit, but by far. Way ahead of Saudi Arabia. Way ahead of Russia.

But we can do even much better than that." 45.wh.gov/4vBvYU

========

Has a “record crude exports” gif

[Another Bob]

JMH, my compliments on your reply re. women and ambitions. Hit all the right topics, and was packed with common sense.

Seemed pretty simple to this man - if a woman was serious about pursuing the feminist “have it all”, she was going to be working damn hard, and there was a good chance she’d fail. Priorities/choices always had to be a part of that.

[MissMarple2]

Schiff will change the transcripts just like he fraudulently made up the phone call. He is a corrupt politician! https://t.co/b12GFXv6tE

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2019

Link goes to a screen cap of a letter from Rep. Thomas Massie complaining about the secrecy and who was allowed to see the documents.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

So Barney's, who have specialized in catering to the gay/metrosexual crowd are being dismantled. Not enough customers for skinny jeans and shirts in a world that is not skinny.

Netflix is going even deeper into debt and the whole industry is following them. Elon Musk is still losing his ass. It would seem the only one who has a clue is Buffett, who is mainly a rent seeker. I smell a lot of vaporware out there.

And yet the real economy is doing well. Even with GM on strike the jobs numbers were good.

It just seems that the core Dem constituencies are starting to take it on the chin.

Nancy warned them that what plays in San Fran and DC and New York doesn't play in the rest of the country andWarren just sounded like Hugo Chavez with her call for medicare for all.

And Hillary is still stumbling around shouting "I coulda been a contender!"

And all the while Trump is out there telling them "Who's Your Baghdadi?"

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President.Link goes to a video of Steve Scalise.

Same story, different day for Dems.

They’ve wanted to impeach @realDonaldTrump from Day 1.

First they tried to use the Mueller Report. When that didn’t work, they started pushing a hoax about a phone call.

The American people can see through their partisan schemes. pic.twitter.com/MdnHfGv8x0

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) November 1, 2019

[Another Bob]

“as a pretext for booting DJT off Twitter.”

Don’t think so amom, i think it was to 1) push the “Trump war room” staff off Twitter, and 2) prevent Trump from fighting back via ”promotedl tweets.

[clarice]

Great, matt

[JimNorCal]

Amom: "wondering if Jack offered up his new "no political ads" policy ... as a pretext for booting DJT off Twitter"

Maybe he'd go to Gab! Yay!

[JimNorCal]

But wasn't that "paid ads" not personal tweets?

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to a video.

The Democrats are pushing the Impeachment hoax because they know the President is going to get re-elected in 2020. So they are doing anything they can to stop it. @realDonaldTrump @LaraLeaTrump pic.twitter.com/A834fX7Qlb

— Danielle D'Souza Gill (@danielledsouzag) November 2, 2019

Link goes to video.

[Jim Eagle]

Getting interesting in JAX at the Georgia v. Florida game.

16-10 Dawgs but Gators on a roll. If only the Gator D can step up. Dawgs OL is the best I have seen this year.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to a picture.

Nancy & Adam: We will worry about your ridiculous fake impeachment bs when ONE of your full-time candidates can fill a stadium like our @realDonaldTrump after working a 16 hour day for America! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/a9YHfLFSOu

— Dr Gina (@RealDrGina) November 2, 2019

[Jim Eagle]

Georgia is just too good for a failing Florida team. The Dawg's OL is the reason. No sacks. Fromm has over 4 secs every passing play. But whoever wins has to face either Bama or LSU in Atlanta and Georgia is not in their category.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Ryan Fournier
@RyanAFournier
·
19h
You can call Trump a bully, racist, xenophobe, liar, islamophobe, fascist, or even a Cheeto.

None of it's true.

THE TRUTH IS, you hate him because he is Christian, an outsider who’s exposing ALL of the Democrat corruption in D.C., and he’s kicking ass for the American people.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to a video, about 1 minute.

President Trump on the mission that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

"American special operators executed a masterful raid that ended his wretched life & punched out his ticket to hell"

"No enemy stands a chance against the righteous might of the United States military" pic.twitter.com/RiukT1rfwm

— Trump War Room (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TrumpWarRoom) November 2, 2019

[Another Bob]

“But wasn't that "paid ads" not personal tweets?”

Nominally yes. But the implication was Twitter’s SJW/prog gangsters would “take care” of the personal tweets.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to pictures, guaranteed to hurt Nancy Pelosi's feelings (but they are funny).

Someone feeling a bit left out? pic.twitter.com/VDsy93Blft

— Kevin⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@1k_kilgore) November 2, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President.

.@HouseDemocrats have been holding a closed-door investigation in @RepAdamSchiff’s basement.

After facing intense flak, their #KangarooCourt has now turned into a full-fledged fishing expedition to find any reason to mask that the American people duly elected @realDonaldTrump.

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) October 31, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to a video.

While Democrats go on with their impeachment sham, President @realDonaldTrump will continue working for the American people. pic.twitter.com/AnFuiB1h4y

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 31, 2019

[Jim Eagle]

Fuck Twitter. I do not click on any Twitter links. It is full of vile, Sorosite comments. No matter the tweet.

Let's get real and give up on Twitter even if Trump wants to use it. Pure BS

[Another Bob]

It’s funny MM until you think about it.

The intelligence Gang of 8 - people who know the most sensitive national secrets - can no longer be trusted.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to a video.

There is serious work to get done on behalf of this country—and Congressional Democrats are blatantly ignoring it. pic.twitter.com/twc4tLNBhY

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 31, 2019

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I replied to you on that old thread, JM.

[MissMarple2]

Jack,

Just read what the tweets say on here. Do not click on the links if the nasty comments bother you. I never go below the videos or pictures so I don't see them.

If you stay here and just read the words, you won't see any of the vile stuff.

Twitter is my news aggregator, so I can't give it up.

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

Even though Stepanie is right, the Dems want to hang their hat on impeachment. They think it is more a winning proposition than doing the Peoples work passing legislation. I think their pollersters are the same ones who predicted Hillary as POTUS.

Trump however is on the right track.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Possibly linked earlier;
A stunning confession from a Deep State member subverting the constitutional republic
By Thomas Lifson.

[Jim Eagle]

Iggy,

They really believe they own us.

[DrJ]

Georgia 24, Florida 17. Good game!

[MissMarple2]

Jack,

I have known leftists since I was in college. They are never, ever interested in constructive things. Instead, they are always interested in tearing things down. That is why they blow things up, set things on fire, and generally cause mass mayhem.

I have never known a leftist who wanted to build a house or repair an antique table. They aren't interested in tasks like that.

Instead, they want to blow up a dam, set off a pipe bomb, or carve graffitti in the side of the cliff.

[JM Hanes]

Thanks Another Bob (and Jim Sunnyvale & Barbara on the previous thread). It would be interesting to know if Republican women feel more comfortable / happier / less guilty about their choices than their liberal and/or feminist peers. It seems to me that we're actually considerably more independent than they are, in that we've made our choices and accepted whatever the consequences of those choices may be/have been. We don't need or seek the continuous reinforcement of our peers.

[Jim Eagle]

Siya Kolisi, the man for the moment. From rags to not riches but a world championship. Enjoy the moment.

[JM Hanes]

My understanding was that Twitter was just eliminating paid ads too, but it would be interesting to see someone trying to figure out how to write the rule that prevented folks from posting an ad in their own twitter stream. In fact, I would't be surprised if their weren't plenty of folks willing to do just that for a modest fee.

ABob: I'm not sure the implication was that the Twitter mob would take care of the personal tweets, but they do seem to be swarming everywhere. I suspect their complaints are why so many totally inoffensive tweets are being marked as containing sensitive material, which means an extra step if you want to read them. I'm not very handy with Twitter myself, but on one person's page I visited almost every single tweet carried a warning. I had to think that some little mobsters must have just gone right down the page ticking off complaints without even bothering to read as they went.

In any case, is Jack what's-his-name really stupid enough to try messing with the President's tweets? Somehow I doubt it. I'd love it if the President took his business to an alternate venue, along with all the activity he generates, but I think it's hard to game the odds on whether that would serve his cause best or not.

[Jim Eagle]

@Jack is a coward and will never try to confront Trump who make the Twitter Asshole a complete worthless jerk that he is.

[Another Bob]

“is Jack what's-his-name really stupid enough to try messing with the President's tweets”

No.

And the Twitter gangsters I referred to are the Twitter employees who will find reasons to delete/suspend “Trump War Room”, Parscale, et al.

My guess is the Trump team anticipated Twitter playing (more) games and was prepared to respond with mass paid tweets, hence the new policy.

[Narciso]

Hes an nyu drop out, i guess he learned to code

[JM Hanes]

Ignatz:

I don't see a whole lot of difference between definitive and absolute, in the prescriptive context. I don't disagree with you on the benefits of marriage, either. Perhaps it's a woman thing, or perhaps it's just me, but I was hearing a dog whistle loud and clear that you did apparently did not. I'd also have to say that when I was in college, the least interesting women, and the ones who contributed least to community life, were the ones who were focused like a lazer on finding husbands. Ironically, I ended up going a pretty traditional route myself. Then it turned out that I wasn't really all that traditional.

[MissMarple2]

45
🇺🇸
@TheTrumpPage1
·
49m
MONDAY Huge Trump Rally in Lexington, KY.
Starts at 7pm EDT.

[DrJ]

MM,

I have known leftists since I was in college. They are never, ever interested in constructive things.

It depends how far left, I suppose.

I work with a lot of very liberal faculty, and most do wonderful work and yes, build new knowledge and things. Many of the Bay Area companies are the same and not all are like the well-known software/Internet companies.

[Jim Eagle]

Good strategy working the red states now and wait until the elections heat heat up then go to the blue states.

[henry]

Apparently these red states have governors up for election now. So good time to build loyalty.

[JM Hanes]

JiB:

Much as I hate to say it, Twitter is the main venue for Trump to get his message out over the heads of the the press on a daily basis.

As Miss Marple has also advised in the past, most of the time I just don't read the comments which is where most of the really vile stuff gets posted.

[MissMarple2]

DrJ,

I have a liberal sister. She's very creative.

However, she is not far, far left line the radicals you see in the streets.

There's a difference between liberals and far left.

[Narciso]

Something he inadvertently noted:

“On July 21, 2019, President Zelensky’s party won Parliamentary elections in a landslide victory. The NSC proposed that President Trump call President Zelenskyy to congratulate him.”

[clarice]

Twitter is to Trump as Fireside chats were to FDR.

[Captain Hate]

I have lots of lib friends. Not many of them are really nutty and all of them know the downside of badmouthing my opinion. There's more to life than politics.

[Narciso]

That came from here:

http://www.digifection.com/2019/11/02/schiffs-impeachment-witness-turns-on-him-admits-trump-call-started-with-national-security-staffers/?fbclid=IwAR2KVFHVPYDnICwDuvR-emaS7hTiZz1PkXWOOvhuIpcIdSqm7w90HEDTV8U

[MissMarple2]

Steven Lundgren
@love4thegameAK

A horse named “Covfefe” won a Breeder’s Cup event at Santa Anita today. Named after President Trump’s famous mistweet, she has now won six of her first eight races.

[Narciso]

Well perhaps skip theology courses at rice:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigCons/status/1190619411423678465

[MissMarple2]

Secretary Pompeo
@SecPompeo
·
1h
At the core of the Trump Administration’s foreign policy is a commitment to make decisions based on reality, not wishes, and to drive outcomes based on facts. The Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2020 does that.

https://www.state.gov/presidential-determination-on-refugee-admissions-for-fiscal-year-2020/

[Narciso]

I think thats fair:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/347171/?fbclid=IwAR1QfZ6Y_GibHgm55zdTnMhHtJgg61OJpjPZKYmL6uwIP78zyBwKraP7CUA

[D]

Captain:
Totally agree that there is more to life than politics.
I have many liberal friends who are creative and loyal.
All have served others in their chosen careers.

[Jane]

Narc,

The NSC made that recommendation? Do you know who?

[Narciso]

So they say, im guessing fiona hill, miskp was middle east focused, grace was focused on china.

[Narciso]

Oh really:

https://mobile.twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1190783308797480961

[Narciso]

Can you believe these people:

https://mobile.twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1190730094886694914

[JM Hanes]

Jane:

The underlying article sourced to something called "The Western Journal" (without a link) says it was in Vindman's testimony:

Vindman dropped a line that anyone could be forgiven for glossing over. But it’s one that also has bombshell implications.

Vindman testified: “On July 21, 2019, President Zelensky’s party won Parliamentary elections in a landslide victory. The NSC proposed that President Trump call President Zelenskyy to congratulate him.”

I'm pretty sure I've heard about this before, so I presume the MSM & Schiff et al have simply ignored the baby in that bathwater - and will continue to do so until the extremely unlikely day when Trump gets to cross-examine witnesses. It's one of only a gazillion things that should have already brought the whole impeachment farce to a screeching halt. But the beat goes on.

[JM Hanes]

Oops, Jane:

I see that didn't answer the actual question you asked about who at the NSC made the suggestion. I assume Schiff wouldn't pose that question, but you might be to find out elsewhere in Vindman's testimony. Assuming any of his testimony is, in fact, publicly available.

[Narciso]

Feels like al pacino in scent of a woman, where he plays the blind major slade? Obaerving the kangaroo hearing

[Jane]

JMH,

My guess is that if impeachment gets legs there will be a revolution in this country the likes of which we’ve never seen. I’m not nearly as worried about that as the deep state not being completely exposed.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/11/01/julie-kelly-lists-all-the-failed-attempts-to-get-trump/

[JM Hanes]

Jane:

My feeling is that the Democrats don't have anything else going for them, including a viable candidate. I think they decided to make impeachment "official" with the Thursday vote, so that they can keep an impeachment document on the burner, ready to go, the second they can find a "crime" to squeeze into it. They will do nothing but beat the bushes and demand documents & testimony for fishing purposes till election day 2020. I just pray we can take back the House, because they are having so much fun, they'll keep fishing for the next four years too.

I'm hoping to find a source that identifies House races where some strategic contributions could really make a difference. I really don't feel like giving anything to the House & Senate Republican Committees anymore, although they do provide structural and GOTV support & experience for candidates who may struggle on their own.

[Jane]

MM,

If you look at all the attempts to get Trump, they seem incompetent. They constantly got just so far, and then screwed it up. It’s something the American people should never have had to put up with. And even tho they screwed it up, no one but Trump could have survived it.

[Jane]

BTW Gateway
Pundit says the ‘Whistleblower
‘ may be implicated in the FISA investigation.

Nice spacing typepad.

[Narciso]

Hes just a disgruntled junior analyst, not an clamdestine operative.

[Narciso]

In that sense, hes like mark felt,

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

You are quite right. It began with Hillary calling us deplorables, and it branched out from that.

They have convinced themselves that we are stupid and they are smart. They also have convinced themselves that Trump is a moron, too.

Thus their plots are very rudimentary and usually don't work. NONE of them would work if it weren't for the newspapers and TV networks!

[Captain Hate]

I'm hoping to find a source that identifies House races where some strategic contributions could really make a difference.

I wouldn't waste my money but that's just me. There are surely some very nervous incumbents who've argued that government is the answer and then haven't done a damn thing for their constituents. The GOP has to learn effective marketing techniques. The last one that understood that was Newt which earned him the enmity of the careerists.

[Captain Hate]

It began with Hillary calling us deplorables, and it branched out from that.

I think it really began with The Beast nattering like a loon about a vast right wing conspiracy which should have brought out the straight jackets
and animal tranqs. That it didn't was my first clue that the unfree press didn't care how stupid they looked as long as they were serving the greater good.

[Catsmeat]

Repost? I'm confused:

Jimsunnyvale--thanks for the Jeeves! But I'm pretty sure Wodehouse had no more than a cursory understanding of Spinoza (as he did of Nietzsche)--he just thought Spinoza was basically all right and knew (through intuition) that Nietzsche was totally wrong. He wasn’t an intellectual but the smartest of the smart. Did y’all know I am the author of I think the most recent Dictionary of National Biography entity on Wodehouse?

Narc—our meetup was on Aug. 30th. As you know, I have reason to remember.

JMH—how did I do four kids as an academic? As an academic! The truth is academics don’t have to work very hard. First child as a grad student—I was 24—I had a University Fellowship at Vanderbilt which meant I didn’t have to teach, so I took a term off from teaching (you have to teach to get a good record to get a job, plus I’m good at it), and then when my first was small after that first term, a lovely Bangladeshi lady in our married student housing compound watched her three days a week for four hours. Her own daughter was the same age, so it was all just nice. When the oldest was three, we moved into rented place in a house, but even then the daycare we needed was just three days a week for half a day. Then I got a tenure-line job at Trinity, but she was then ready for five day a week (to 3:00 p.m.) nursery at a wonderful church school—this couldn’t have harmed her. I could go on—the point is that academics technically don’t work hardly at all—I mean their show-up hours are minimal—so with care and planning one can work from home and have four kids and not at all have to put them in 9-5 daycare—I never did. My colleagues moan and groan about having no time but I suspect them of either being colossal time-wasters or of not being as smart and on the ball as they should be. I have always worked FAST.

Hey, Pin! The reason the canon did not much include women writers is that outside of various whacking geniuses like Austen and George Eliot (aka for those who don’t know Mary Ann Evans) or Charlotte and Emily Bronte, the conditions of educating women were so lopsided in prior generations that only the geniuses could break through. The woman you linked seems to be a mild Stalinist. I myself am a Mary Wollstonecraft feminist—women are the intellectual equals of men, if in different dimensions, and they need an equally strong education.

Henry, I think the current limit is $14K.

[MissMarple2]

President Trump is attending the Ultimate Fight Championship tonight in Madison Square Garden with GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Mark Meadows, Rep. Peter King, Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump.

They were invited by Dana White, the organization president.

[Narciso]

I thought that the date but then there waz all this focus on that storm that luckily didnt do much here, although devastated ths bahamas

[JM Hanes]

Captain:

Well, I'm figuring every little bit helps. If we want Trump to be able to make any progress or any swamp draining he manages to do on his own permanent, we need to take the house back. We have laws to invoke in the future, not just executive orders. Maybe I'm getting way too far out front, but I'm thinking about where things go after his second term.

[Narciso]

Imagine what it waa like when it happened?

https://mobile.twitter.com/Shabbosgoy/status/1190735337389264896

[clarice]

You might watch to see where he's campaign and for whom, JMH.

[rich]

evening all.

trying to catch up.

looks like someone took the coffin lid off as Clinton was stalking about

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/hillary-clinton-mark-zuckerburg-should-pay-a-price-facebook-1202186809/

Zuckerburg's coming date to Ft Marcy Park.

[DrJ]

the point is that academics technically don’t work hardly at all—I mean their show-up hours are minimal

Yes, the required direct contact hours are few in academia. However, the academics I know work incredibly long hours, just on their own schedule. The travel in the sciences also tends to be brutal.

It is much the same with MrsJ and me. We each work for ourselves, and can choose our hours. As long as we put in a LOT of hours.

[Narciso]

Zuck read back to him a atatement from sorkins own treacly american president

[Jane]

Actually it began with the deep state developed under Obama.

[Captain Hate]

JMH,

It's never too early to think where we go post Golden Scalpweasel. I'm very pleased with how Kevin McCarthy seems to be developing a spine, greatly exceeding expectations. That trio in Miss Marple's 9:29 is encouraging.

Fixing the economy was child's play; all it took was removing Gaylord's light loafers from its neck. Fixing the GOP is serious bidness.

[JM Hanes]

What an incredible photo, Narciso. Just stunning.

Clarice:

Yes. I can check out his endorsements, too, because he's probably got the master list, doesn't he?

[Captain Hate]

rich!

Sláinte

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/220/297906/