I'm going to assume you excerpted the exact part I need to have a complete understanding of the article.
I keep seeing a map that shows annualized GPD change by state for Q1 of 2025 and it shows Nebraska as having had a 6.1% drop. I'm willing to bet that the drop is concentrated in Not-Omaha.
Of course, when a man is tired of Omaha, he is tired of life.
Or it's like July, August, January, February, or a month adjacent to one of those.
my flight is boarding so I'm stuck for getting out my computer and fixing the actual OP.
On the plus side, I didn't have to take off my shoes in security. Thanks Kristi Noem, but why do the worst people occasionally do the easiest low-hanging thing? why can't democrats eliminate the shoe security thing?
For the same reason only Nixon could go to China.
Also why don't they visually post which group is boarding somewhere?
(I must attribute this observation to E. Messily, but it plagues me with its obvious merit.)
And why do they list all contingencies for how you could break the smoke detector in the restroom?
Anyway, white people are broken and America is going to keep sticking its metaphorical dick in the bear trap until something changes.
Miller is going around telling people that paying for the healthcare for immigrants is why healthcare in the United States costs so much. Realistically, there's no way to stop that message from reaching more people than the truth.
"My dad doesn't understand, or won't admit, that Republican lawmakers in his state screwed us out of a fortune, by presiding over a broken healthcare system designed to exploit people like us."
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/sectors
Health $200,022,037(D) $118,237,736(R)
~50/50 donation splits are normal for almost all special interests.
Perhaps the author of 13 would care to articulate an argument? When Obama got 45 milion people insurance (more if the Supreme Court hadn't let Republican states refuse & those states hadn't obliged) and Trump just signed taking it away from at least 15 million, it's pretty clear who's the bad guys and who's just not quite doing enough.
I wondered why her father and brother don't vote.
"They don't vote out of conscience" -- this is kind of a messed-up sentence, given that they don't vote at all. She says it's out of indifference, but her dad seems to have strong opinions on politics.
Honestly, maybe there should just be a policy of not engaging with unsigned comments until someone claims them. There have been more drive-by anonymous comments lately, and their authors don't seem to come back and respond much.
Also why don't they visually post which group is boarding somewhere?
Alaska does this and it's quite nice.
17: I was thinking precisely the same thing.
17: yes, it's kind of insulting, like it's too much effort to come up with a pseud. Trolly Troll is available.
I'm still perplexed by all the people who were holding money out of the stock market while Biden was in office, hoping for Trump to come back and "save" the economy. I mean, I guess you could make an argument that Trumpian chaos creates a lot of buying opportunities, but it's a commonplace to show that you almost always lose money by trying to time the market like that.
It's not even a question of people voting against their own economic interests, it's that they barely understand what an economic interest even is. Like the memes about paying $3,000 more in taxes to avoid spending $10,000 on insurance -- that's already way too complicated for a significant plurality of the electorate. Anything more complex than "taxes bad" is over their heads.
That reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw today. "Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't understand anything. "
Heebie,
I mean this in a good way, so please don't take this as any sort of pushback.
Wow, that substack is triggering. I mean wow, I'm flashing back to my childhood in Texas. Oh wow. And yeah, I am consumed with anger at those people. Just -consumed-. The taxes I pay to the Feds are taxes I pay so that these fuckers can oppress me and my family, my friends, my fellow Californians. It's enraging.
Oof, this is a tough read. My story would be similar. What terrifies me is that the equivalent of 1995 me doesn't have a dad listening to Limbaugh but a dad mainlining InfoWars, and its so much worse. Would I have been allowed to go to college? I have an uncle who hasn't spoken to me since 1997 when I went to college, which is honestly just as well, because there's nothing to say.
Anyhow, I moved 2000 miles away, and since the liberals made it impossible to chain-smoke on airplanes, there has been exactly one visit to us in fourteen years. The last time we flew out to visit, we stayed with my sister and dad showed up for about two hours and then left. My daughter keeps forgetting I have a dad. I feel like I should fix this but if he doesn't care to know his grandkids I am kind of out of cards.
23: nah, I know. But I still want to argue. (Roughly that every state has its horrible parts and its good parts, and it's just the ratios that determine the state government and gets momentum going for good and evil.) But yes. I also have a lot of anger at Texas and Texans.
25: "every state has its horrible parts and its good parts, and it's just the ratios ..."
We might go further and argue that the same is true of California (and all the Blue states). Heck, I look around and I see a state that is in the process of complying with the New Model Nazis. So in a way, I sort of agree with you.
More flooding-related but still MAGA, someone combined Kerr Commissioner's Court video snippets with the flooding. (h/t Barry)
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Coda will have much of interest to, especially, Barry, especially if his exhibitor, unlike mine, actually provides subtitles LIKE THEY PROMISED THEY WOULD.
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25, 26: Right, California has more Republicans than any other state in the country and Texas has the second most Democrats of any state.
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Tokyo Melody is interesting, but kind of choppy and directionless. It is nonetheless extremely worth watching just to see Sakamoto and Yano playing Tong Poo four handed, which is joyous.
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28 oh interesting, have you seen this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto:_Opus
It's on Criterion
It's on the big screen, tomorrow. Seeing it for the third time.