Back in the before times, when I would to to a movie, I'd get a popcorn and an $11 bottle of water and stare wistfully at the fountain Cherry Coke for a few minutes before going into the theater.
I quit soda twice. After the first time quitting cold turkey, I thought I could allow myself a Coke now and then.
Before I knew it, it was like, 'Welp it's 9:30 a.m. — guess I can have my first of six Cokes today!'
What happened was I had a tooth disaster and the dentist was like, "Well, you smoke, you drink a lot of coffee, and you drink a lot of soda." And I was like, "Yeah okay I guess I have to give up soda cuz those others aren't on the table."
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While we're at it, I would like to tweet about two recent NYT pieces on Trump's marginal gains among non-white/people of color/working-class immigrants.
Taking them in chronological order, I appreciated this piece from @jbouie, who can always be counted on for a thoughtful entry. nytimes.com/2020/11/18/opi…
First, Bouie's contextualizing of these marginal gains are invaluable. I don't think left/liberals need to be in freakout mode. Also, he offers a plausible explanation of what happened. People know who runs the government and they understand what benefits them.
Pretty gross that @maggieNYT shared this extremely garbage Free Beacon hatchet job on the Quincy Institute.
Let's go thru a few of the bullshit points in here!
A long thread!
The article mentions Koch in the hed ("New Koch Group Dogged by Charges of Anti-Semitism") and mentions in passing that the group is also funded by Soros, then has this whopper:
Like, I dunno, but maybe it's scurrilous to suggest that one of "the organization’s financial backers" who happens to be a Holocaust survivor is actually an anti-Semitic, Lindbergh-style America Firster. Maybe just me.