Every time I watch a bit more of Get Back, all I want to do it is talk about it all day!
A few random thoughts: one is that the playfulness and wit of the band, was at the core of their appeal from the very beginning. Something Epstein himself said, but really comes through here.
Also, man could they sign a tight, effortless harmony.
Also, they all really love each other in a profound and moving way. And Paul's monologue about how it's fine that John and Yoko want to be together and how 50 years in the future people will say they broke up because Yoko sat an amp, and that's absurd!
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This our level best attempt to lay out - action by corrupt action - the coup attempt *just as it relates to Georgia*. There is a lot. They tried and tried, and tried some more. They came at it in every way they could think.
I don't really think that's Biden's fault at all. And it's more than a little infuriating to watch Republicans hand off a once-in-a-lifetime crisis to the Democratic successor for the second time in the last 12 years, and then make political hay off the misery.
But the bottom line is this: if thins are...like this 11 months from now Democrats will get annihilated no matter what their legislative accomplishments or messaging are.
It's very obvious that the "sanctity of life" is the unifying ethos of modern conservatism no matter which particular area of policy you look. Just one big ol' seamless garment, really.
Good thing the Covid-super-spreader party for the Pro Life justice didn't kill anyone! (That we know of)
Also so grateful all the president's buddies got the (at that time hard to get) monoclonal antibody treatment while hundreds of thousands died lonely terrifying deaths gasping for air and saying good bye to their loved ones on iPads.
Speaking for myself the root of The Bad Feeling has to do with the tension between the normal dynamics of a competitive two-party democracy, with the growing anti-democratic politics of one of those two parties.
Basically, in a two-party democracy you expect the two coalitions to trade power back and forth, to share it between branches and levels of government and to have lots of fights/conflicts all the time. That's politics. One party isn't gonna win all the time.
Last time a big CBO score was in the news the current governor of Montana assaulted a reporter who asked him about it and then his flack Shane Scalon and him lied to the police about it and no one ever faced any real consequences.
Luckily the very good reporter he assaulted for doing his job, @Bencjacobs was ok. But I've come to realize that if he'd, say, bludgeoned him badly enough to send him to the hospital for a week, it's likely nothing would have been *that* different. I hope I'm wrong.
@Bencjacobs Also, Trump would later approvingly joke about the assualt (of course) just as he will -- mark my words -- one day joke about the "Hang Mike Pence!" chant.