Flying Mezerkis
@bananapantz.bsky.social
Ne'er do well, Sailor, accomplisher of little, quick wit and quicker temper. Purveyor of gardening pics. Wondering where this is all going.
He already declined to out of fear for WWII ceremony in France.
This is the most NY Post sourcing ever.
Does RFK live in suburban NY? We asked this local cop who was in our Rolodex.
Me drunk driving down the twisty curvy steep one-sided roads in the Hollywood hills (yelling): Investigate my death!!!
to be clear there is no evidence of any actual conspiracy, and I have to point out again that flying your old helicopter through mountains in zero-viz fog is one of the worst ideas anyone could come up with
High 60s to high 70s. The one good temperature.
That’s all I’m asking for. No more. No less.
I am thoroughly unpersuadable and recalcitrant to fact, in this essay I will … 1/235
Looks pretty bad for Raisi to me. I guess it’s good cover for an assassination. But that feels like trying too hard to imagine the worst. So we’ll have to wait and see.
Certainly sounds disruptive to government functions.
Ok ok ok
Im getting up already.
the monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable, mad, boiling spray
Or even better if it’s from capital or control of an industry that wants to sell to the next highest bidder (ie growth tech) and this wants low interest rates more or less. And also doesn’t care about what happens if we’ve been at the punch bowl too long.
After selling the Post to its employees and letting Washington go uncovered.
On this we very much agree.
And I’m usually the pessimist on this website. So I’ll go back to my knitting.
Come on!
Stick with it. Blend a spinach smoothie, grab some adrenochrome and stick around.
You’re basically my age, and while my plans aren’t infinite, I’ve got a good 20+ years in me.
We’ve got to be there for when Elon’s Millionth Mars Colonist lands.
That a big broad middle of voters wants lower inflation. These aren’t wealth holders. This is yowling at reduced real purchasing power. Probably pensioners too.
Sure. The old style wealthy are still out there. But they aren’t the “political problem” of inflation like in days past, no?
But am I wrong in saying this isn’t the commanding heights or the big capitalists saying they want to preserve the value of loans / debt / capital.
For one. The big capitalists (ie very small numbers of tech overlords) want lower interest rates, no matter the cost.
And the political problem is
Idk.
It’s “never” happened before. But we’ve had plenty of terrible government in this country. Apartheid state. Excessive wealth influence. Jackson. Reconstruction / Post-reconstruction.
I think things can change within a few decades. (Obv I’m not trying to minimize - just to think broadly).
I’m concerned about the further deterioration in institutions. And in norms.
If that isn’t the blandest way to state it.
If you ask political scientists. This is the kind of stuff that has very big long-term consequences.
Also the effect of increasing cruelty and division on our culture.
They had to disown David Duke. He’d be third under Mike Johnson now.
Very fair.
And I certainly had lots of privilege.
But it’s also only somewhat true. At least for someone like me, in Northeast, there were many Republicans there at that time who weren’t like this.
70%+ have left the party, and the other have retreated to tax cuts and cultural issues.
(-ed no one knows, it’s the future, but…)
One guess I have is that it will be very spotty, inconsistent, specific in its worst effects. There will be plenty of awful things, but they will be idiosyncratic and disorganized. Hard to pin down. And lay systematic blame.
It does seem to me like what Trump has created. A light fascism of white nationalism as a ‘successful’ political party in America is too big of a political weapon and too appealing for someone not to try it.
Whether it succeeds is I suppose up to us.
I’m interested in a morbid sense of what kind of non-subtle aggressive pressure he’ll put on the state of NY if he becomes potus. Newsome must be a target too.
This is your contrarian-optimism taken 100% in alignment with.
I think Jr might stick around as a gadfly (almost RFK Jr style) figure in Rightwing politics, with fans and people wanting him to be kingmaker.
But he will never be elected to office.
This is close to my take of:
Them: Everything’s changed!
Me: No. Only if you choose to change it.
A fun thing I’m currently doing is watching Spin City.
You’ve got the cult of Michael J Fox, you’ve got effeminate jokes for gay people, you’ve even got smoking in bars, you’ve got newspapers and journalists and literally no internet in politics.
As we know from history. You can never go back. Good new things are possible in the future.
But society, culture these things are contingent and once they happen they will always affect what comes next.
I imagine the future fights on this will only get harder. Especially at a state level. As towns become self-selecting within a metro.
Unlike in rural places, like you and I are talking about; where you can’t just move.
I am speaking about a NE town that is not uniformly liberal, but has strong liberal impulses & has a strong sense of commitment and community (& highish taxes).
Its deliberate. I don’t know if it’s replicable. Or common. They seem to have decent education support. But I can imagine the latter.
I think some younger people under 30? Wouldn’t believe what the 90s was like culturally or some of the changes that have happened to our politics.
Fwiw & to be contrarian; my parents have an absolutely lovely community which is super aging but has very strong public (non-commercialized) support for local institutions to support the senior community (good for families and children relatively too). It’s not low-income. But it is diverse income.
Yeah. This is another thing that 90s me wouldn’t have believed about the “future”.
I’m not closely following the BlueSky evolution. But they’ve definitely been implementing features and growing users.
I have to imagine this is all runway to a planned commercialization.
It seems inescapable. Though it may be better than the last.
Lack of empathy is literally the American way. So maybe they’ve assimilated too well.
Presumed empathy; or the idea that some would be more able to see the challenges of others based on background, culture or race is not there. (again, this is pretty much the American condition). Or perhaps I’m just reading something wrong in the political winds.