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Practice random acts of kindness if that's your thing. It's not mine, yet, but it's probably something to aim for. Physically disabled due to Multiple Myeloma lesions in 15 vertebrae + multiple compression fractures. Cancer treatment keeps the MM at bay
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If this doesn't bring a smile to your face you're probably a soulless doomed individual who hates all that is precious in this world. (Or just having the mother of all bad days, of course)

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Aye aye, captain

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I don't have to sit here and take this... oh wait. Glad to hear.

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And it's always been that way. Pretty sure in the 1200s there were old dudes telling their kids "good luck with that!"

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Read about the role the NYT played in making J.D. Vance a national figure www.findinggravity.net/p/none-of-us...

In early 2016, Vance's Hillbilly Elegy had not yet been published and approximately zero people had ever heard of him — but The New York Times began making him a star anyway. In February 2016, Times columnist Ross Douthat promoted a piece Vance wrote for National Review. In April, the Times published a Vance op-ed. ("Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office," Vance noted after indulging a lengthy bit of self-mythologizing about his own "Mamaw.") Just two months later, the Times published another Vance op-ed, though the book whose sales supposedly made him famous still had not yet been published. # Three days later, Times columnist David Brooks got in on the action, devoting a column to promoting Hillbilly Elegy on the day of its publication. In August, the Times ran pieces promoting Vance and his book on the 2nd, the 5th, a rave review on the 10th, and then featured Vance as the guest on its podcast on the 19th.
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Fair enough--Garland has been infuriating to watch. I suppose I'd need to search for Biden's specific take on the independence of the DoJ to see if your suspicions are correct.

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I'm not sure it's about competence; it's about what the boss wants you to make a priority. This has all the earmarks of irritating Obama-esque "time to turn the page" horse hockey, and the buck stops at Biden's desk. Talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey.

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@dirkbender.bsky.social
Practice random acts of kindness if that's your thing. It's not mine, yet, but it's probably something to aim for. Physically disabled due to Multiple Myeloma lesions in 15 vertebrae + multiple compression fractures. Cancer treatment keeps the MM at bay
25 followers38 following254 posts