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Okay, I had a chance to talk to my insurance company contact about this last night, so I'm going to give you some more detail on what I've been saying: I'm all for accountability, but yes, it's proper for the Feds to rebuild the bridge and the port NOW, and perhaps total:

https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1773027160426533042

For background, my contact is a senior executive who manages a division who handles maritime shipping/ transport claims, among other commercial programs.

The shipping company is insured by what is called a captive, which is exactly what her division does. (Not a party to this.)

I'm not programmed about shit, and I'm about tired of this kind of sanctimony.

- America is my first, most immediate concern. Things aren't good here.
- That doesn't diminish my capacity to see evil elsewhere.
- Just because we shouldn't meddle reflexively, it can affect us.

https://twitter.com/Yolo304741/status/1711827002607763484

Too many people don't want you to recognize what happened to Israel not because they're really concerned that you will stop caring about America or that they're afraid you want to send our troops, but rather because they think Israel had it coming.

There is propaganda--from all.

The only people still buying into this "rule of law," "this is serious," "well, he shoulda just complied with the law" nonsense are weak, Stockholmed "conservatives" who dream of the heady days of 90s theoretical Newt Gingrich GOP ascendancy, losing to Bill Clinton, but SMARTLY. The Rose Law Firm billing records were found (oopsy!) in the WH after being under subpoena two years. A pre-Media Matters David Brock was a conservative documenting the bottomless well of Clinton scandal. And people said things like "character matters," though no one had any.

New Year's Eve--May you all find something to look forward to.

That's really all it's about. Otherwise, marking time is a very arbitrary occasion.

I admit, it's been hard to do that the last two years, even if I did have immense hopes two years ago.

So how can we find... hope? In short, you're going to have to make it. The time for waiting for heroes is over. We are never to return to the world we knew three years ago, when we still had some faith in our shared institutions.

Nothing will be given to you. You will make or take a means to go forward.

If people finally learn that the people you need to convince Steve particularly ideological, maybe this wasn't for nothing.

People are tribal and approach politics as binary and a team sport. They look at displacing incumbents like trading away a winning player.

They watch TV.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1529416228191838209

They get mad about betrayals, but their memories are short and they fear the team losing more than they value having a rebuilding year where the team becomes better.

They aren't on Twitter a lot. They don't watch 2000 Mules like it's a political porno that they get off to.

I'm still closely watching the Raffensperger SoS race, hovering around 50%, praying for a runoff there.

But with other races called, I owe a little "Here's where I was wrong... AND right, thread.

In the end, Perdue wasn't close and couldn't make it close, so I was wrong. BUT 1/

https://twitter.com/C4CEO/status/1528761778884206592

There is context. This isn't about everyone being done with Trump. The Trump effect cut both ways here.

As I said, Trump made things personal with Kemp after the Loeffler appointment, and unfairly attacked Kemp for reopening GA.

And Perdue disappointed Trump voters in 2020. 2/

Here's a little "What's gonna happen in GA tomorrow" thread, and an entreaty to those of you in GA to get out and vote! (But not for Kemp!)

Okay, so everyone is writing Perdue's obituary, and treating Kemp as a shoo-in. And given the relative quiet from Perdue, is that true? 1/ The truth is that Perdue is behind and out of money. That is why Trump was RIGHT to back Perdue. Think Vernon Jones was going to raise more cash? Nope.

If this were football, this would be 4th Q, 3 seconds on the clock. Perdue isn't going for a touchdown, rather a field goal. 2/

Actually, an interesting analogy:

Because more & more, Ford (& other automakers) are doing that. No sedans--can't make one people would buy & meet CAFE standards. All in on EVs at the expense of producing autos in demand.

Like Twitter, serve government first, markets second.

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1516040339697635330

This is why I thrash the "muh privuht cumpuhny" fake libertarian BS so hard. In regulated industries, there is no free market. Pleasing the regulators to curry favor always comes first. And most industries of any size or importance are regulated.

Fiduciary duty & markets my @$$.

This is the same stupid formula government used to hide inflation to prevent a revolution after ending the gold standard.

Inflation isn't "high prices." You can temporarily lower those with outsourced production and labor. But it doesn't change the excess dollars in the system.

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1516029827844878343

As I started talking about here several years ago, the government loves inflation because it reduces the real value of the national debt. It borrows a trillion here or there, and pays it back when it's worth a previous few hundred billion.

But that destroys savings and wages...

You know what? I'm not bothered by what Biden said on the hot mic.

What I've always been bothered by, and this is a reminder, is the idea that politics was polite pre-Trump, and that Biden was a uniquely nice guy as a contrast.

Biden was always a mean SOB, and politics is ugly. This fiction is often peddled on the Right, even among many who proclaim to have supported Trump, "But if he'd just lay off the tweets!"

Politicians are snakes, murderers, thieves, and tyrants. They spill blood the world over and rob their own citizens. And we tolerate it!

Seems to me the escalated beating of the 🇺🇦 war drum is bluster following the botched presser.

This isn't a proxy war or a sand heap. There's no popular support, and 🇷🇺 would eat our lunch. There's no upside to pursue actual conflict.

But the real danger is 🇷🇺 calling bluff... 🇷🇺 IS an adversary looking to capitalize on weakness, and Biden is giving that in spades.

And 🇺🇲 really does want to protect pols 🇺🇦 money laundering.

This isn't about 🇺🇲 wanting a war for profit. This is about consequences for installing a puppet w/dementia, in over his head..

I have a sad story to tell you. Sit down...

The vaccine passport is coming. Not as a government requirement (at first), but as a requirement of employers, airlines, and pubic establishments.

And the only way for you to stop it is to be willing to face banishment, for a time. You're going to have to take the risk of losing your job. You're going to have to cancel that trip. You're going to have to walk out of that restaurant. It will be inconvenient and uncomfortable. You will lose money, friends, and niceties over it.

You have to draw a line.

Have you noticed the common thread among the doomcasters?

I have.

Hint: it's the same as the one you see among Communists, militant atheists, micromanagers, moguls, and certain personality disorders.

Thought of it yet?

God complex. All of them.

They know better. You're dumb. They will only argue against straw men or opponents lacking their level of rhetorical ability so as to try to look smart by tying them in semantic knots.

They will avoid able opponents, and if forced to engage, seek to patronize them or project their flaws in logic onto them.

"Pay your debt! Pay your debt! Pay your debt!"

Enough with the stupid takes on college. I'm all for responsibility & educating people that college debt is unnecessary.

But universities & Feds shouldn't get away with SCAM that is universal college, pushing it on foolish kids. If a car dealer sold you a car they knew was salvage or flood & didn't disclose it, and the car was worth only scrap value, would you insist that the scammed buyer needed to pay off that car note the same dealer wrote & profits from?

You haven't internalized that college=scam.