I largely agree with you. The Democratic party is a disaster. The evergreen tactic of throwing the coalition under the bus in order tack to the middle for some imagined Reagan Democrat vote that doesn’t exist is infuriating and the policy that results is dogshit.

The only part I would argue with is that Old Joe ended up with policy that looked a whole lot more progressive than I thought he ever would. I think he deserves a lot of credit for trying. If he could have defended his policy with the voice of a young modern progressive, people would think much higher of his accomplishments.

But yea, I agree with you.

What would that look like in real terms?

What would that look like in real terms?

Fire Emblem: Three Houses. My kid and I assigned video games to each other for the summer and that’s what I got assigned. They’re playing Persona 5 Golden.

Not a patient game anytime soon, but they loved the original Fantasy Life and we’ve been playing and loving the new one too.

When they don’t do the things they say they will do, that makes them a liar.

There are times when a promise can’t be fulfilled. It has become wildly more difficult for Democratic priorities to pass through the legislative process in the last 25 years as Republicans have used more and more obstructive tactics. I think a very good case could be made that Republicans have tilted the table enough to completely block a Democratic agenda even if they took Congress and the Presidency.

Lisa Murkowski got fucked by her own party literally this week. She negotiated and got legislation passed, only for Trump to basically line item veto it with an executive order.

And I’m so old I can remember when the Supreme Court struck down the line item veto. How can you possibly get an agenda through when there are no rules but what the Roberts court says there is?

if not horseshoe why horseshoe shaped

Nice call on Jade Empire.

Exactly the same here. Loved one. Two was not great.

I’ve got a 9.9kwh install on my roof in Seattle and it was mostly cloudy today and I produced 55.7kwh today, which far exceeds my daily usage.

How would you know it’s the green?

Just moved my Win10 machine to Pop OS. No issues at all. Haven’t tried Steam VR on it yet.

There’s no real art to it. It’s done the same way you grew up in a world where horrible shit had happened 20 years before you were born. You just sort of internalize it over time. Or not.

Yea having to do paperwork and keep registration docs is way better than just slapping $20 on my property taxes. Great idea fellas.

Hey siri what month is it

Jesus Christ fellas

I would feel much better about this if it was tied to a bigger housing zoning package, but it wasn’t and that makes it feel dirty.

All these kids are the exact same kids with the exact same problems as the ones I knew growing up, but the parents have more money and therefore more tools to help support their kids. The only real difference is the trauma of being broke as fuck isn’t there but it’s replaced with the pressure of expectations. When I was a kid if I had gotten a job as a mail delivery person, that would have been seen as a total success on my part. Life long stable job with a retirement at the end. I fucking won the game of life. For rich kids, that would be seen as an abject failure.

It’s not that they don’t have empathy. It’s that their entire community is economically high performers. Everyone they meet in their lives fucking won the game of capitalism. The only "not wealthy’ humans they run into wait on them or teach them. In their minds, how hard can it be? They know all these normal looking people and they’re all rich as fuck so how hard can it be?

Because that’s the mind fuck. Rich people aren’t better than you. Some shit went their way and that’s the difference. Elite earners don’t work harder than janitors. And so rich kids grow up in that world and it’s just normalized. It’s not a lack of empathy, it’s that they internalize it as “normal”.

Then a middle class kid runs into them and sees them as lacking in empathy.

You’re right though. It is more luxurious. They live in a world where they know the money ain’t going away, but my trauma finds a way of breaking thru sometimes. My kids both know how to make beans and rice and can shop and cook for themselves for a week for under $20.

That album is killer.

I don’t know the name but I have some growing on my dead rhoadie stump here in Seattle. I haven’t cut it down because I love them so much.

Thanks for writing this. Amazing post.

Federal taxes are going to zero for the top end that have an accountant with any kind of a functioning brain. Now is the time for states to suck up that money and start building a durable, self sustaining system.

For fuck’s sake guys, think big.