I’ve been marching for LGBTQ+ rights since Pride was thought of as a protest — and I’m proud to keep marching as a celebration of hope and recommitment to the fight for equality today. pic.twitter.com/kyjhROgh3h
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) June 25, 2023
‘But aren’t there bears at *every* Pride parade?…’
Kudos to George McCaskey. Won’t find many other NFL owners marching at a Pride parade. https://t.co/kAxgNMMDsS
— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) June 25, 2023
Pelosi on whether or not Kevin McCarthy will still be speaker at the end of the year, "I have no idea what goes on their caucus. But I do know one thing. Hakeem Jeffries will be Speaker of the House in 2025." pic.twitter.com/VW30b4U446
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) June 25, 2023
President Biden on Saturday: "The press has now called [our economic policy] 'Bidenomics.' I don't know what the hell that is. But it's working"
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre today: "On Wednesday the president will travel to Chicago to deliver a major address on Bidenomics"
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 23, 2023
Happy Schadenfreude Monday…
Giuliani Ordered to Pay Georgia Election Workers’ Attorney Fees https://t.co/CeAnXeIcre
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 24, 2023
Not gonna lie.
This won't be as gratifying as Fox because Newsmax is nowhere near that big, but it is going to be fun to watch. https://t.co/R0QUgr1LS1— Mike Galletly (@galletly_mike) June 26, 2023
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
Good morning! 🙏
Baud
I often refer to Biden’s political skills as Bidenical Science.
Actually, no I don’t, because it’s stupid.
Tony Jay
@rikyrah:
Gooooood Morning.
BretH
Good morning all, stay cool, Texans! A thread on TFG’s many pardons:
https://twitter.com/RyanShead/status/1673064807468273664
Mr. Bemused Senior
Good morning all.
eclare
I’ll join in, good morning, y’all!
WereBear
@rikyrah: Good morning!
MomSense
Metro boulot dodo.
So fresh off of ducking out the door after his promise to pay for everyone’s orders at the Cuban restaurant he visited after his arraignment, he has promised that if people contribute to his legal fund he will pay the legal fees for Jan 6 defendants. He doesn’t even pay his legal fees.
What do we do about people who are so incredibly brainwashed that they keep falling for his cons?
WereBear
@Baud: I was just thinking a natural wonk, like me, would not want a good policy named WereBearianism, because what is important is The Work and it needs a long descriptive name, which is only one of many reasons I volunteer for Baud! instead of running myself.
In a world of marketing, we must use marketing. I think that was a major flaw in Democratic strategy, that was the “bring a knife to the gun fight” thinking.
Baud
@WereBear:
Bidenomics is just economics without the right wing fantasies masquerading as economic theory.
MomSense
@WereBear:
I’m not persuaded there is much we can do about messaging in this media hellscape.
Lapassionara
@BretH: thanks. What corruption.
WereBear
In most cases, wait for them to get out of our way permanently.
Too many reached this space through cowardice and/or childhoods which rewarded them for unthinking obedience. They’re always panicked and they’re always looking for abusive parents.
Baud
On Morning Joe this morning, they were portraying Ohio as a swing state in order to talk about how hard Trump will be to beat in the election.
WereBear
@Baud: We got so good at loving narratives that now they can create a malign life of their own.
THIS is what Skynet was warning us about. In the end, every civilization reaches the Krell dilemma, though perhaps in their own way.
Spanky
@MomSense:
FEMATrump Camps.Geminid
Nancy Pelosi is right about Hakeem Jeffries being the next Speaker come January, 2025. Democrats flipped 40 seats in 2018, and I think they’ll come close to that next year. Only a bad recession would prevent this, and that seems unlikely now.
MomSense
@WereBear:
I think your characterization of them makes sense. They also love to hate others and this is another way to distract themselves from the problems in their lives.
When they obsess about LGBTQIA+ people, those of us on the left often want to know why the fuck they care about this? Live and let live does not provide an adequate escape from dealing with your problems.
Anyway
@Baud:
Was it a rerun from 2012? Haven’t thought of Ohio as a swing state in a loooong time.
I know that’s what keeps teevee shows going but its way too soon for predictions.
Baud
@Geminid:
What do you think? Two more years of “the recession is imminent” articles?
I look forward to the transition to “the economy would have been even better” articles in Biden’s second term.
JPL
@Baud: It’s difficult to pronounce so it wouldn’t work anyway. Plus it’s stupid.
WereBear
@Spanky: I say we move them into the dementia villages NOW.
Betty Cracker
The Trump cult staged an impromptu rally in my town this week. It occurred to me that they may accidentally contribute to our national salvation by insisting on renominating the orange fart cloud or by rejecting an alternate monster if their party establishment refuses. Maybe they are easily programmable meat-sacks, but so far, they sure don’t seem capable of moving on.
Brachiator
@MomSense:
They are not brainwashed. They want to be fooled.
And they have Fox News to reinforce their fears and beliefs.
artem1s
Bidenomics =
The Thin Black Duke
@MomSense: Nothing. There’s nothing to be done. It’s as productive as arguing with trolls online.
Geminid
@Baud: I think that by passing the Infrastructure, CHIPS, and IRA bills in the last Congress, Democrats got their countercyclical spending in early. I guess the Fed could still muck things up, but we seem to be past the inflation cycle that began two years ago, and I think Powell and company won’t jam the brakes any harder.
suzanne
@MomSense:
Good question. I alternate between:
1) FAFO. Let the lose their money.
2) Take one of our few remaining ice floes and stick them on it.
3) Police them closely and then prosecute them for whatever crimes they invariably commit.
4) Try to move far away from them.
Attempting to snap them out of it hasn’t worked, because LIEBURULZ ARE BAD. So I vote for a combination of #1 and #4.
sab
@Baud: Ohio isn’t a swing state except for Sherrod Brown. We are hard nuts insane. I keep begging my granddaughters to get the fuck out of here. My nephews mostly have moved. Trans niece is long gone. Trans nephew isn’t since family responsibilities.
OzarkHillbilly
For 24,248 days, my eldest brother successfully fought off the demons of despair. Yesterday he finally succumbed. In death, he has found the peace he could never fully grasp in life. I love you Brother Dave, always and forever. I hope your wife, children, stepchildren, and grandchildren can find acceptance, because understanding will always be denied them.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
My sincerest condolences. Peace be with him.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Just eyeballing charts of economic indicators does make me think we’re going to get some kind of recession in the next few years–it feels like we’re at the bottom of things like the unemployment rate. But it’s a question of how soon and how bad. If anything things like inflation and the stock market are better than they were a year ago, gasoline prices have stabilized, and the Fed is not going to be super-aggressive about rate hikes. We’ve almost worked our way past the big dislocations caused by the COVID pandemic.
In the lead-up to the 2008 crash, things were already starting to get kind of bad in 2006–I remember the Northeastern real estate market collapsing that summer, while I was trying to move.
Scout211
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh Ozark, I am so sorry. 😢
Mousebumples
@OzarkHillbilly: My sympathies, Ozark. May his memory be a blessing.
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly:
I am so sorry, but what a lovely tribute. May he rest in peace.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I love the way the voting machine companies are taking on right wing media. I did not have that on my bingo card.
artem1s
@Anyway:
Their only hope of beating Brown in OH is massive GOP turnout. Unfortunately they are using Dodd to their advantage here the way they did same sex marriage in 2004. Without TFG the OH GQP has nothing to turn out for in 2020 except the abortion ballot issue. I think they made a mistake pushing the August special election. It’s going to add to the voter fatigue for the GOP normies. And it’s going to be tough for them to turn out just the right mix this election. Dodd will be a factor and those are the people who will vote (or at least read) all the way down the ballot. The GOP normies who are conflicted about abortion are going to want to stop at the POTUS or Senate – or better for us, they will find an excuse to forget to vote altogether. nothing makes a GOP “I got mine fuck you” normie more uncomfortable than having to think about what they are voting for or against.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry, Ozark. Peace and strength to all of you.
Baud
@artem1s:
Dobbs, not Dodd.
Tony Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m so sorry, O/H.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: My condolences.
Nora
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry. Holding his family and you in the light.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@OzarkHillbilly: adding my condolences.
twbrandt
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry.
Spanky
@OzarkHillbilly: Truly, my condolences to you and your extended family. May they never experience that which took him.
Elizabelle
@OzarkHillbilly: My condolences. I wish David and the family peace.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Geminid: Besides existing districts potentially changing hands, there’s what’s happening with court rulings on gerrymandered states, creating new Dem-favorable districts.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: So sorry. My heart goes out to you.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: So sorry, OH.
Steeplejack
@OzarkHillbilly:
Awful news to start the week. Deep condolences to you and the family.
stinger
@OzarkHillbilly: His lifelong pain is over. He, and you and all his family, have my sincerest condolences.
CaseyL
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry. Wishing you and the family healing and peace.
Rusty
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so very sorry. Peace be with you and all his family and friends.
JeanneT
@OzarkHillbilly:
That’s just heartbreaking. May you and your family find comfort in one another.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Re: Giuliani-flavored Schadenfreude. Here’s a timeline of some recent events in that defamation suit as I understand it.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m so sorry to hear that. My thoughts are with you and with his family.
Citizen_X
@OzarkHillbilly: So sorry to hear that.
The Thin Black Duke
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m sorry, dude.
Cheryl from Maryland
@OzarkHillbilly: Deepest sympathy to you and your brother’s friends and family.
mrmoshpotato
And throw himself into the Sun?
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: That is terrible news. I’m so sorry.
peter
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m sorry, O/H. What a beautiful tribute. I think I’m going to call my brother now and tell him I love him.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
Fixed.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
I dunno, absent some external shock, or the Fed deciding that there absolutely HAS to be a recession and they’ll raise interest rates until it happens, it’s hard for me to see the path there. Who’s going to stop spending? Everybody’s working, and getting paid much better than usual. Some cooling down might actually be beneficial, like if housing prices stopped going up like crazy.
opiejeanne
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry. May you and all of his family find peace.
Rebel’s Dad
@rikyrah: Good morning!
Old School
@OzarkHillbilly: My sympathies to you, your family, and all the people who cared about Dave.
A Good Woman
@OzarkHillbilly:
My condolences.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
I cannot begin to imagine the psychic burdens that weighed your brother down for so many decades. I am truly sorry for your family’s loss.
Karen S.
@OzarkHillbilly: My deepest condolences to you and yours.
HeleninEire
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m sorry.
Maxim
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry. What a heartbreaking loss.
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: I’d say “AI-driven technological unemployment” but my experience with these things is that the role of technological unemployment (in the short term) is almost always overhyped. So maybe “the AI bubble bursts” instead, but that will mostly just affect the tech sector…
We could have another real-estate bubble and collapse, I suppose.
There’s always another recession at SOME point, but you can’t really predict when and how bad.
Steeplejack
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Love this! 😻
Bex
@OzarkHillbilly: May his memory be a blessing.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Have you all seen the story about the Belgian shot putter who ran the hurdles for her team in the European Games. The team’s two hurdlers were injured and if no one ran, the team would be disqualified. There’s a video of it in the tweet. As you can imagine, the shot putter isn’t built like a hurdler. She pretty much steps over the hurdles.
Maxim
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Excellent. May the FO phase of his life continue apace.
jonas
@OzarkHillbilly: So sorry to see this. My deepest condolences to you and your family.
Bupalos
@artem1s: where are you getting the idea that abortion rights is an issue that plays to GOP advantage in Ohio? The issue the leg is running in August is to try and sneak in supermajority requirements because they know the majority supports abortion rights.
delphinium
@OzarkHillbilly: My deepest sympathy to you and everyone who loved and cared about Dave.
jonas
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Interesting legal strategy. Nearly George Costanza-esqe in its brilliance. “What if we just don’t do anything the judge tells us to do? After a while maybe he’ll just get sick and tired of asking, or even forget about the case entirely…”
catclub
@Baud:
The trains! run on time but without the fascism.
Jeffro
First it was “Obamacare”
Then it was “Bidenomics”
Why do Democrats keep gratuitously antagonizing Republicans like this, by naming popular programs after themselves?
– Pitchbot and similar
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ozark, I’m so sorry to hear about your beloved brother. Condolences to you and to his extended family.
catclub
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
 
exactly! because he claimed, to the judge, financial problems.
Jeffro
@artem1s: every last bit of this ⬆️
catclub
@lowtechcyclist:
Right.
I think Australia went (has gone) over 35 years without recession. It is not some law of economics. There ARE no laws of economics.
Jeffro
@OzarkHillbilly: my deepest sympathies to you and your family, OH
tobie
@OzarkHillbilly: How harrowing. My deepest sympathies to you and your extended family.
delphinium
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That was cool-good for her! As someone who occasionally had to do hurdles (as well as high and long jump) to fill in for other team mates during high school track & field meets, it ain’t easy.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That is awesome.
Omnes Omnibus
@OzarkHillbilly: My condolences.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Deepest condolences to you and his wife and family on your brother Dave’s passing. Depression is a cruel disease.
gene108
@BretH:
Whats terrifying about Trump’s pardons is a sitting President can commit crimes and then tell his conspirators to not worry about federal charges, because of presidential pardon powers.
Matt McIrvin
@Jeffro: Ha ha!
(I’m pretty sure Democrats didn’t choose “Obamacare”–it was a contemptuous right/centrist label after “Hillarycare”, but Obama just ran with it. Hurt him in the very short term but he was playing a longer game.)
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
I am so sorry, Ozark. May he rest now in the peace that eluded him for so long. Condolences to all who loved your brother Dave.
p.a.
@Geminid:
The Fed: “Hold Our Beer…”
la caterina
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry for your loss, OH. My cousin chose the same path. May your brother’s memory be a blessing. Peace be with you and your family,
WendyBinFL
So sorry, Ozark.
Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
— Celtic blessing
Matt McIrvin
@gene108: Yes, but only the federal ones and only criminal charges, not civil liabilities. And not some other things, like being jailed for contempt unless it’s actually a criminal charge (which it isn’t always). Those limits can be important if you’re trying to sustain a massive program of corruption with the pardon power.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
There are always the possibility of something unpredictable, but right now we’re about as far from a recession as it’s possible for an economy to be. MBS could always cut Saudi oil production way back, or China could cut way back on its production of stuff we use, but barring something like that, it’s hard to see a recession happening in the next fifteen months.
Soprano2
I’m sitting at LaGuardia Airport waiting to board the plane. I’m surprised there isn’t anything in the post about the NY Pride parade yesterday. We saw some people at Chelsea Pier who had obviously been to the parade.
gene108
@OzarkHillbilly:
Condolences.
Hopefully you and your family can heal from this loss.
Quiltingfool
@OzarkHillbilly: I am sorry for your loss.
May your brother walk with joy in the Summerlands; may his memory be a blessing to his loved ones.
Chris
Update, for those who expressed concern about the dog with seizures last week;
First of all, thank you.
Second of all, the dog with seizures is back to normal. The other dog was snarly and snappy towards him for about twenty-four hours, but everything’s been back to normal since then, complete with playing and snuggling each other like nothing happened. So it looks like the aggressiveness was just a slightly lengthened response to the seizures; I’d just never seen her react that way to them before.
Roommate took the dog to the vet on Friday. Dog is still not going on any medications; only change is they’re trying to put him on a different diet that’s supposed to help (which my roommate is absolutely thrilled with since it costs several times as much as the regular food, but what can you do). In the meantime, we just… keep managing symptoms?
Eunicecycle
@Matt McIrvin: as a fundraiser I also knew in 2006. Some of my big corporate donors were cutting their donations in half. This was at a nonprofit nature center.
Betty Cracker
@Chris: I missed the original post but am glad to hear the dog is okay. Regarding the aggression between the two dogs, it sounds like that’s resolved, but if it flares up again, feel free to email me at the address on this page — I have some recent experience with that and will be glad to provide some tips if it would be helpful. (If you do email me, please also alert me in comments as I rarely monitor that inbox unless I’m expecting something and receive a ton of spam, so things get lost in the shuffle.)
Chris
@MomSense:
Roommate and I found out the other day that we both had a grandmother who was born left-handed, only for the nuns at school to force them to become right-handed.
Not the same thing, but a worthwhile reminder that in every time and place, there are human beings with an absolutely pathological obsession with finding completely benign things that mark you out as “not like most people” and then completely losing their shit over it. If it isn’t people being gay, they’ll find something else.
arrieve
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry to hear that. My sincere condolences to you and his family.
catclub
open thread right? I hate Drive thru’s. From CNN. Who knew?
Chris
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, man. My condolences, I am very sorry.
RedDirtGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry for your loss.
Betty Cracker
I saw “Asteroid City” this weekend. I think it’s the first time I had been in a movie theater since the pandemic started! I loved it, but I’m a sucker for Wes Anderson films. My friends who were with me also loved it. I am curious what others think. It’s more than a little meta on the topic of filmmaking, which I didn’t mind, but I wonder if it interferes with the general public’s enjoyment.
twbrandt
@Chris: my great-aunt was a lefty forced to write right-handed. She went to a public school, FWIW. I think it was just the way things were done back then. She was bitter about that to the end of her long life.
Ms. Deranged in AZ
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to all his loved ones
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: That is ought. My heartfelt condolences.
p.a.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Deepest sympathy to you, family, & friends
lowtechcyclist
@Geminid:
Yeah, but we went into the 2018 midterms with 193 House seats, now we’ve got 213. Picking up 20-25 seats would be terrific.
zhena gogolia
It had to happen. Putin Downfall:
https://twitter.com/kvothethearcane/status/1672542001286246404?s=61&t=FGQFnodbYL9aro_R_WDwbg
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry.
Chris
@gene108:
This is why I’m very much on the “presidential pardon should be abolished altogether” train.
And it didn’t even start with Trump. Iran-contra and the way it ended should have made the need for this graphically clear.
Sanjeevs
@OzarkHillbilly: Condolences to you and your family.
Omnes Omnibus
BREAKING: Supreme Court DISMISSES Louisiana’s appeal in Section 2 redistricting case paving the way for the creation of a second minority opportunity congressional district. https://democracydocket.com/cases/louisiana-congressional-redistricting-challenge-robinson/
Roger Moore
@Matt McIrvin:
There are some signs in that direction already. I’d have to double-check, but I remember there were recently some home price declines. The commercial real estate market is also a complete mess, with lots of office buildings under- or un- used because of the switch to remote work, and no sign of relief in sight.
Jeffro
@catclub: this is a real issue here in Cville…we have a “Raising Canes” chicken place and the drive-through line regularly backs up well out onto Route 29, one of the major arteries through town. Accidents happen quite often as frustrated drivers abruptly pull out of the stalled traffic lane.
The weird thing is, right after the Canes’ , there is a Popeyes AND then a KFC. The Fro family calls it “Chicken Alley”. =)
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
I <3 JB!!!
Chris
@Betty Cracker:
Thank you very kindly, I’ll both email you and notify you in the comments if this becomes a recurring thing.
Hope the recent experience you had with this wasn’t too bad.
Sure Lurkalot
@OzarkHillbilly: Condolences to you, your family and all who loved and were loved by your dear brother.
Joey Maloney
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry for your loss.
Layer8Problem
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so very sorry for your loss and his family’s loss. It is such a corrosive disease.
Chris
@twbrandt:
Oh yeah, I say the nuns, but I’m pretty sure this was mainstream at the time, she just happened to experience it in Catholic school.
ETA: I should also have specified. “There are people with a pathological obsession with beating out differences… and unfortunately they tend to end up running society at least for a while.”
Matt McIrvin
@Eunicecycle: In the first quarter of this year it felt like there was a mini-recession going on in the technology sector–lots of high-profile layoffs, companies missing earnings, B2B spending put on hold. If we were in a recession now we’d have called that the first sign.
But then it just ended instead of spreading.
Dorothy A. Winsor
narya
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry; adding my condolences to the BJ pile.
NotMax
@lowtechcyclist
Saudi Arabia accounted for 7% of U.S. oil imports in 2022. Gross number of barrels imported from there less than half what is was ten years ago. If they do cut production (not by a great amount as their society apart from the royal family is in a tenuous cash flow situation), a little juggling on the part of Mexico and Canada can offset a significant portion of potential shortfall in the U.S..
Another table: 2022 U.S. oil imports from all countries.
Roger Moore
@catclub:
Of course the thing about the fascists making the trains run on time was always BS. The trains were less reliable under Mussolini than they had been before. This kind of thing is generally true of the promises of dictatorship. Dictators promise decision making will be more efficient, and that will make everything run more smoothly. In practice, the decision making isn’t any more efficient. The dictator still needs to listen to stakeholders and make a decision that will keep them satisfied, but that process is now opaque and done out of sight. Also, in a lot of cases the way the dictator needs to smooth things over by distributing graft to the losers, which results in massive inefficiency.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry for your loss and that of his family. Mental illness is a terrible decease and little attention is paid to it.
Baud
Year: 2092
GDP: Shrinks for the first time since Covid.
GOP and Media: We warned you about Bidenomics!
JPL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It wouldn’t surprise me if they decided that states could change the results of elections. What they give one day, they take away another day.
Yup I’m a cynic.
satby
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: He’s been a great governor, and though it rained like crazy it was a fantastic parade. I heard from and saw pictures from friends there.
geg6
@Chris:
My sister was shamed for being a lefty and forced to use her right hand while in Catholic elementary/middle school in the 60s. It was a huge relief to her to go to public school for high school.
My deepest sympathies to OH. So sad he couldn’t find peace in this life.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chris: The pardon power also serves a beneficial role. It allows injustices to be remedied. For example, Truman pardoned around 1500 people who were convicted of draft related crimes during WWII. They were actually conscientious objectors but had been denied that status by local draft boards.
Delk
@OzarkHillbilly: sorry to hear this. My condolences to you and your family.
Wapiti
@OzarkHillbilly: Deepest sympathy to his entire family.
Soprano2
@Geminid: I’m concerned about Dems losing the Senate. We’ll get no more judges if that happens.
NotMax
@Soprano2
How went the concert? Inquiring minds….
LaGuardia’s a pretty nice place now, huh?
narya
@Omnes Omnibus: Do you have any interest in tickets to the Great Taste of the Midwest in Madison?
Roger Moore
@catclub:
Anyone paying attention has known this for a long time. Drive-thrus are a classic example of the problems of car dependence. They push all kinds of externalities onto the neighbors and then demand the rest of the world deal with those externalities for them.
UncleEbeneezer
@OzarkHillbilly: So sorry for your loss.
Chris
@geg6:
Huh, maybe not, then. Though it’s also possible public schools were simply ahead of the curve.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh I’m so, so sorry. 😥😥 That’s tough.
Layer8Problem
@zhena gogolia:
Thanks! I haven’t seen a good Downfall parody in a long time.
Wombat Probability Cloud
@OzarkHillbilly: So very sorry, and I too hope he has found peace.
Omnes Omnibus
@narya: Not really, but thank you for thinking of me.
Soprano2
@Matt McIrvin: I think one wild card is the business real estate market. It could collapse in the next year or two.
Roger Moore
@twbrandt:
It’s very hard to write left handed with old-fashioned ink, since the writer’s hand moves over and smudges the ink before it’s had a chance to dry. This can even be a problem with more modern ink that dries much faster. The way schools disciplined kids who tried to write left handed were needlessly cruel, but there were legitimate reasons for teaching them to write right handed.
Geminid
@NotMax: Also, I believe Saudi Arabia already cut production back some, and it did not tighten the market. Some observers say that China is in a recession that hurts demand.
In any event, it seems like a rise in oil prices would stimulate US production in places like the Permian Basin, so fuel prices would not get but so high.
Chief Oshkosh
@MomSense:
Raw material for Soylent green?
Jeffro
For those of you in need of a chuckle this morning, the ‘ambulatory cream cheese sculpture’ (h/t Betty) himself is using his valuable real estate on the WaPo op-ed page to ask two things of today’s GOP presidential field:
1) try to make hay out of China (ie, nothing else is working and the GOP is on the wrong side of every issue, so get people scared about China and Biden’s supposed inability to, I dunno, make it go away?)
2) consider Tom Cotton (yes, REALLY), Mike Pompeo, or Dan Crenshaw as VP for their ticket. (That sound you just heard is every other GOP presidential candidate not named trump or DeSantis going “HEY WAITAMINUTE!!! That’s supposed to be MY gig!!)
Ah Hugh, Hugh, you magnificent shit-stirrer, you….
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@OzarkHillbilly: @WendyBinFL:
How difficult for all. Also, what Wendy said.
kalakal
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry. May he be at peace
Chris
@Omnes Omnibus:
The way the presidential power can used to pardon people who have nothing to do with the president will be either good or bad depending on the people; some will use it to pardon conscientious objectors or people guilty of victimless drug offenses, some will use it, as we’ve seen, to pardon war criminals.
But the way the presidential power can be used to pardon people who are related to the president and carrying out actions on his behalf (or heck, pardon himself, why not?) is just… way too much of a recipe for abuse to keep it lying around.
lowtechcyclist
@Chris:
Yeah, GHW Bush’s Iran-Contra mass pardons were a travesty, and the media just let it be a one-day story.
Unfortunately, it would take a Constitutional amendment to restrict or remove the President’s pardon powers, and we know how steep a hill that is to climb.
Chris
@Roger Moore:
Solution: we should all be bilingual! Right-handed kids can grow up writing in English, left-handed kids can grow up writing in Arabic.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
It doesn’t really matter where the US gets its oil. Oil is sold on a global market, so even a small decrease in global production can result in price spikes everywhere. Those price spikes may mean OPEC+ countries bring in more revenue by reducing production, which is why the cartel exists in the first place. Don’t count on Saudi Arabia needing money to keep it from reducing production.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@lowtechcyclist:
He will, after Trump gets the nom and just in time for election season to heat up. I hope the administration has a plan for that.
Chris
@lowtechcyclist:
Absolutely, but it should still be on the agenda.
Lots of things spend years or even decades on the agenda before the means to make them possible arise (just ask the right-wingers about the fifty years it took to end Roe v. Wade). They still need to get on it at some point.
Chief Oshkosh
@MomSense: I think that the Biden Administration is doing well on this. I think that they are pulling a “Dark Brandon” – essentially turning the RW negative marketing into a positive.
Also note that “Obamacare” is no longer the big bad boogie man that the RW originally attempted to cast it as. I don’t know how it’s playing everywhere, but in my circles, “Obamacare” is no longer considered a bad thing.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That was awesome! Just seeing her lined up against runners, wow.
gvg
@OzarkHillbilly: I am sorry.
Spanky
@lowtechcyclist:
Think so? Let Joe pardon Hunter.
kalakal
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Good for her
Matt McIrvin
@Chief Oshkosh: That’s why I said Obama was playing the long game. “Obamacare” was a boogieman when it was an unknown, and when all the short-term shocks associated with implementation happened–particularly when the federal website rolled out and the development was badly botched. But Obama already knew it was going to be popular down the road.
topclimber
Condolences to you. You will miss your brother, but at least what Churchill called the Black Dog of depression no longer gnaws at his soul. Hopefully that brings you and others in his family some peace.
twbrandt
@Roger Moore: true enough about smudging ink, but I think the motivation for forcing kids to write right-handed was that left-handedness was seen as abnormal – sinister, even :)
Soprano2
@NotMax: It went well, and yes it’s nice, although there’s lots of construction still.
Omnes Omnibus
@Chris:
Our mileage varies. I think that the ability to remedy injustices is too important to toss away. Most pardons are of fairly ordinary people who are allowed to have normal lives after a miscarriage of justice. Our justice system is imperfect enough that I am not willing to give up any means of correcting mistakes.
lowtechcyclist
@catclub:
I almost never see a drive-thru at a business located where people could walk there to begin with. Seems like zoning could take care of that part of the problem, and I’m surprised it hasn’t.
As far as lines extending into traffic lanes on public roads goes, that’s simple: have the cops ticket the shit out of people who are in line while on the public road. They’ll get the idea soon enough.
Jackie
@OzarkHillbilly: What a beautiful and caring tribute to your brother, Dave.
May your acceptance and love help Dave’s family through this time. Sending hugs to you.
Tenar Arha
@OzarkHillbilly: oh I’m sorry to hear this. My condolences.
topclimber
@Baud: That’s why Baud-onmics will rule in the next century.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
This was true for my father and my father-in-law as well. Both products of the NYC public schools of the 1930s.
My Dad for the rest of his life wrote (pretty neatly) with his right hand but did everything else left-handed.
Eerily, later in life my brothers and I all found our right-handed handwriting (which is not cursive) are strikingly similar to each other and to our dad’s.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
I think the real solution is to follow the states’ lead and have some kind of pardon and parole board that has to vet the cases before the President can pardon anyone. That will allow the President to prevent real miscarriages of justice while reining in his ability to use pardons corruptly.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: “[re asset Tucker Carlson] Now he is jobless. Broadcasting from his basement, on Twitter. Everything I touch, dies. My most useful idiot, just indicted for espionage.”
That is a really clever parody.
lowtechcyclist
@Chris:
I could probably come up with a dozen more worthwhile Constitutional amendments. Even just for being on the agenda, restricting pardon powers is one will have to wait its turn in line.
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle: It’s a good one. I don’t get all the references, though. I’m sure Adam does.
ETA: Oh, I just realized who “Luka” is!
Westyny
@OzarkHillbilly: so sorry to hear this. Deepest condolences.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@twbrandt: I see what you did there. :-)
Chief Oshkosh
@OzarkHillbilly: Please accept my deepest condolences.
UncleEbeneezer
We went downtown to LA to check out the new artwork at the Metro Regional Connector on Saturday and it was very cool. Tons of focus on Black, Latinx and Native/Indigenous history/people of Los Angeles. This is a trend that I absolutely LOVE! When I think back to growing up in a Boston suburb in the 80’s, everything we’d see about US (and Boston/MA) history was just so painfully white in every way. I love that major cities are telling the stories of everyone else too, when they depict our history in projects like this. There’s something incredibly refreshing about seeing LA history that isn’t just a bunch of old, rich white men:
lowtechcyclist
@twbrandt:
Well played. :-D
As a lefthander who started elementary school in 1960, I’m very glad that, at least in Fairfax County, VA, the desire to force everyone to write right-handed seemed to have gone away by then.
Sure, my writing was never very neat, but I can’t imagine having to rewire myself to write right-handed.
Barbara
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry for your loss. It’s so hard to understand such a deep level of despair. It must be agonizing for you and your family.
Princess
@Matt McIrvin: I wouldn’t say the real estate market has collapsed but I would say that it was a soft and slow spring compared to last year and 2021 (which were exceptional to be fair). Not a lot of supply, but also not a lot of demand. Fabulous well-priced things go fast but a lot is sitting around.
jonas
@NotMax: While we’re not nearly as dependent on Saudi oil as we once were, the Saudis and OPEC still largely set global oil prices, which we pay regardless of where the oil comes from. So they can still fuck around with the economy by raising prices even if they can’t literally cut us off with an embargo like in the 70s. The Saudis would love nothing more than to see Trump or another Trumpy Republican back in power.
Geminid
@Princess: My friend Debbie was talking about the real estate market in Charlottesville. She said that For Sale signs are lingering longer than last year, when houses were snapped up quickly. Not a crash, but a pause of some sort.
Matt McIrvin
@twbrandt: The old practice of forcing kids to write right-handed created a statistical illusion some years back: There was a disturbing paper claiming to have found that left-handed people have a much lower life expectancy.
It turned out they were finding this by taking databases of obituaries, recording age at death and then figuring out whether these people were left-handed. And since kids sufficiently long ago were usually forced to be right-handed, that biased the left-handed subsample toward people who died younger. They didn’t take into account people who were still alive at all.
I have heard of at least one person who tried to force her kid to be right-handed because of that paper–she thought he’d live longer.
Taken4Granite
@twbrandt: Or at a minimum, gauche.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so, so sorry.
Matt McIrvin
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: My mother has a theory that I was in some sense naturally left-handed but forced myself to be a rightie. I don’t think this is correct, but I do have terrible handwriting and use a hooked hand posture similar to the way left-handers usually write, but with my right hand. My sister and daughter are also left-handed.
I use a mouse almost exclusively with my left hand. But that’s because I discovered back in the 1990s that if I used my right, combined with an extended keyboard with cursor and numeric keypad clusters, I’d have to reach so far over that it gave me agonizing RSIs in my right arm with extended mousing. With my left, the mouse can be closer to center and it’s not a problem. But with a laptop trackpad I generally use my right hand.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: Generally, that is how the federal pardon process works as well. The cases that get all the attention are the exceptions.
Blammo
@Brachiator: I’ve decided this is indeed what’s going on. They want what they want even if it is lies.
Ironic considering how they see themselves as takers of the “red pill”, that is, courageously rejecting a comforting but synthetic reality for uncomfortable truth.
To paraphrase Morpheus, they believe whatever they want to believe. Including having the courage to accept the real world.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry. That’s a hard row to hoe for everyone.
Raoul Paste
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s a tough loss, and I wish the best for you and your family.
catclub
Isn’t that already assigned to a South Carolina Pol of Trump’s choice?
Jackie
@twbrandt: I was born lefty – forced from the getgo info right-handedness. As a result, everything I do that wasn’t supervised, I do lefty. Because I was a stubborn and determined child, I’m ambidextrous. Both of my granddaughters are leftys.
catclub
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
My dad was partly switched. instead of being bitter, he was usefully ambidextrous.
Matt McIrvin
@Princess: I think that in some parts of the economy, especially back at the beginning of the year, we were seeing the lull following the release of pent-up demand after the COVID disruptions. Intuitively you’d expect some sort of delayed oscillations after a shock like that.
And there are things like business real estate that maybe got permanently altered by the move to more remote work.
twbrandt
@Taken4Granite: :-)
Manyakitty
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry. Sending love to you and your family. Peace.
Benw
@OzarkHillbilly: oh man, I’m so sorry.
Manyakitty
@Soprano2: hope your show was all you dreamed!
Madeleine
@OzarkHillbilly: My sympathy with you and all who have loved your brother.
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
I’m a southpaw myself. I disagree very strongly with the notion that there is any legitimate reason to force lefthanded kids to wite with their right hand. In fact, I find the whole idea offensive.
thalarctosMaritimus
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry. I hope you and the rest of the family find solace.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
I am so sorry, OH. Sending my condolences to you and your family.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
Though I’m a lefty, I mouse with my right hand. It’s something my ‘dumb’ hand can do, leaving my left hand free to grab a pen or whatever.
Suzanne
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so, so sorry. May his memory be a blessing to you and your family. Hugs.
Wanderer
@OzarkHillbilly: I am sorry for your loss. Your tribute was lovely. I wish your brother the peace he desired.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@lowtechcyclist:
I try sometimes to do stuff with my left hand, but it really takes a conscious effort. I don’t think I could mouse with my left.
The one exception is piano. I’m a classically-trained piano player and that often means the left hand is required to do some fancy stuff. Classical music generally assumes that your right hand is dominant, that’s where the melody often is. When the left hand is the star, you have to learn to make that happen and to have the right hand stay quiet and in the background. It’s an extra skill you need to learn.
I’ve sometimes wondered what the experience of learning piano is like for lefties, and having the right hand be dominant in so much music. They have to learn that skill a lot earlier.
Kathleen
@WereBear: I think you just described the media perfectly.
Kathleen
@sab: Ohio is trying so hard to be TexaFlorOhio when it grows up!
Kathleen
@OzarkHillbilly: My deepest condolences to you and your family.
ETA: May he rest in peace.
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
Woodwinds are designed for righties, also too. Plus accordions and bagpipes.
Scout211
@Jackie: @catclub:
Same with my mother. She was forced to use her right hand in school but it never took. She ended up being partially ambidextrous. She wrote with her left hand but played sports as a right-handed person. As an adult, she especially excelled at golf using a right-handed swing, which adds power since the left arm leads the swing.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@NotMax: Really? How do left and right hand differ on woodwinds? I would think both hands have pretty much the same job.
I can see that on accordion, where the right has the keyboard.
Ksmiami
@Roger Moore: it’s rough, but ultimately a lot of office space will be converted to much needed housing and retail that serves the units… it’s already happening in California…
brantl
How badly you hurt smartmatic is a cross-product of how badly you lied, times how many people took it seriously. Being a small time (as in are you popular or truseted) times how severely you lied, can still be severe, if you lied like a m’f’er. ANDTHEY DID. Could be veeeery costly; FAFO, m’f’ers.
brantl
How badly you hurt smartmatic is a cross-product of how badly you lied, times how many people took it seriously. Being a small time (as in are you popular or trusted) times how severely you lied, can still be severe, if you lied like a m’f’er. AND THEY DID. Could be veeeery costly; FAFO, m’f’ers.
Mike in Pasadena
@lowtechcyclist: It may sound odd, but demand for boxes (corrugated paper) is down, way down, meaning that the companies that make “things” and ship them do not expect to make as many “things” in the near future. A forecast of a slowdown? I don’t know, but some economists think it does.
Citizen Alan
@Omnes Omnibus: I think the solution to the problem of corrupt pardons is to make sure that we don’t have corrupt presidents. Yes, a Republican president will abuse the Pardon Power, but they will do that with every Presidential power.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
McCoy Tyner was a lefty
James E Powell
@OzarkHillbilly:
Deepest sympathies to you and your family.
Jackie
@Scout211: I played tennis and had a terrible backhand. Unconsciously, I started automatically switching my racquet to my left hand – thus having two forehands. My coach pored through the rules and there wasn’t anything prohibiting me from doing so. Then along came Chris Evert and her two-handed back swing. I adapted to that method.
James E Powell
@Mr. Bemused Senior:
Half of The Beatles – the half still alive – are left handed.
There go two miscreants
@OzarkHillbilly: My condolences to you and your family.
Citizen Alan
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Ex-band director here. While woodwind instruments are designed for a right-handed person, all that means really is that the right hand is responsible for supporting the instrument and holding it steady. Actually playing the music requires all ten fingers. Well, nine of them, at least, since the thumb of the right hand hooks under the thumb rest and supports the instrument. Ironically, while a clarinet or saxophone is designed to be held by a right handed person, the left hand technically does more work since the left thumb is responsible for pressing the register key on a clarinet or the octave key on a saxophone.
I think flutes are similar, but I haven’t even looked at one in nearly 30 years.
the pollyanna from hell
@Mike in Pasadena: covid times home delivery altered container production in ways that are now springing back
@Mike in Pasadena:
Omnes Omnibus
@Citizen Alan: I do not disagree.
Geminid
@Ksmiami: Shopping centers are going under too, in part because of the shift to online shopping. There’s a big one a couple miles from downtown Charlottesville whose parking lots are emptier every year. I think that in 10 years it will be a higher density, residential/commercial property. Probably sooner.
Up in DC, the Lerner family has put the Nationals baseball team up for sale. They bought the franchise 15 years ago, when their commercial real estate empire was going strong. Now they can’t afford it.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: My condolences. I hope your brother is at peace.
Ruckus
@Betty Cracker:
They keep getting told that the only way forward is back. Back to the old days of white power and voter suppression. Which actually worked for them. This really restricted concept of freedom and competence is what they do for their power. Because their power is restricting everything but their hate and stupidity. And in today’s world the only way they can win is the same way they used to win, screw over everyone else bad enough that they are the only ones left standing. They can’t win by normal methods because their only real policy concepts are hate and theft. Earn, lead, humanity? They understand none of that. What we consider normalcy, they consider failure. They have to pardon their friends and accomplices, otherwise they might figure out that hate and theft aren’t really the only way to actually earn and live. They like ShitForBrains because he is the epitome of their concept of life.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
I’m going to see it sometime this week with my fellow Wes Anderson fan/movie-buff friend. The only movie I saw in the theater during the pandemic was The French Dispatch.
evodevo
@Matt McIrvin:
@Chris: Had a Weim who did that..out of nowhere had a grand mal right in the living room floor. Was aggressive (snapped at my husband, which she would NEVER do) coming out of it, but normal afterwards. Our other dog barked at her and was hostile for a day or two. After that, she would ask for comfort when she sensed the beginning of a seizure, so she recognized what they were. We put her on phenobarb for a couple years, and then had to take her off because liver enzymes were abnormal. She never had another one and lived to be 16…
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: When doctors and med techs ask which arm I use more, so they can administer injections or draw blood or something, I just say “it hardly matters–I’m a programmer, I use all ten fingers professionally.”
prostratedragon
Citizen Alan@239: Flutes are very similar to saxes; old flute player here. Left thumb on that key nearly all the time, and a couple more out-of-sequence fingerings with the left. Classical guitar is pretty balanced too, though some prefer a reverse stringing.
Matt McIrvin
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Guitar teachers sometimes try to convince left-handed kids that it’s actually better for them to play right-handed because they’re doing the fingering on the fretboard with their dominant hand. But if that were really the case I suspect the dominant playing position would not be what it is–I think the tighter time constraints in picking/strumming are more suited to the dominant hand than the complicated fingering. A lot of famous left-handed guitarists certainly played either with a left-handed guitar or an upside-down guitar.
My lefty daughter was taught to play right-handed guitar in school but she decided she didn’t like the guitar anyway–she’s a trumpeter, works the valves with her right hand in the usual manner. The French horn is one where the valve fingering is done with the left hand, but my French-horn-playing wife is right-handed.
prostratedragon
Please add my condolences to Ozark Hillbilly on his devastating loss. May he and family find hearts’ ease, and his brother rest in peace.
WhatsMyNym
Commercial RE has been a mess for a long time, especially shopping centers. They were overbuilt and shoppers lost interest quickly in all the walking. They just went to the standalone stores.
db11
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so sorry to hear this. My deepest condolences on the loss of your brother.
This made me cry, since I know that pain of someone close succumbing to those same demons after fighting them his entire adult life… and I’ve lost a brother named Dave (to a freak accident).
R.I.P. Neil
R.I.P Dave(s)
LiminalOwl
@OzarkHillbilly: Sympathy and condolences. I’m so sorry.
Ruckus
@catclub:
In our politics we get one side who want to run things a certain way. A way that really does not have sense on it’s side. Not common or uncommon sense. That way is like a 16 yr old with a drinking problem getting a Ferrari as their first car and being given their DL with the keys, without drivers ed or a learners permit.
It always leads to issues and serious problems when the money that an economy actually makes goes mostly to the people that don’t have any actual need and the people with actual need get squat.
I just described conservative money concepts, which are backasswards compared to bideneconomics. Bideneconomics is the direction the money, the economy goes. What we do with the profit of the economy. Do we Uncle Scrooge it or do we make it work for the people that earned it.
CatRadio
@OzarkHillbilly: So sorry to hear about your brother. Demons of the mind are terrible things. Sending light and love to you all.
Soprano2
@lowtechcyclist: We have a major intersection where there is a Raisin’ Cane, a Chik-Fil-A, a McDonald’s, and a Starbucks all in a row. I have no idea what the city planning people were thinking, approving all of that. It causes major traffic headaches.
Fair Economist
@OzarkHillbilly: Ozark, I’m so sorry. I hope you can find acceptance too.
Soprano2
@Citizen Alan: No, the right thumb operates the key on the back and the left thumb supports the instrument. I don’t think there is a register key on a flute, although I could be wrong.
Fair Economist
@Soprano2: What is it with that? There is – or I guess was – a BIG empty lot on a major intersection with good bus service near me in Southern California. Amidst our huge housing crisis and the need to move away from cars, the city ended up approving two fast food locations – In’N’Out and Chik-Fil-A – with drive through oriented locations. So that huge lot in a prime area is now a ginormous parking lot with two little fast food kitchens in it and long lines of cars spilling out into the street.
Ghost of Joe Liebling’s Dog
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry, OH. All my sympathy. I wish words could do more.
The Lodger
@OzarkHillbilly: I am so sorry.
Origuy
@OzarkHillbilly: My condolences.
SWMBO
@OzarkHillbilly:
Peace and comfort to all of you.
SWMBO
@zhena gogolia:
Everything Trump touches dies. Possibly even Pootie.
Soprano2
@prostratedragon: You’re correct, it’s the left thumb on that key, not the right. How did I forget that? *sigh * I saw a fashion spread where the model was holding the flute backwards – to the left rather than to the right. Made me crazy, I almost wrote them a letter. Now they would get hundreds of angry tweets.
eclare
@Soprano2:
Everyone knows how to hold a flute now thanks to Lizzo!
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh, I am so sorry to hear this, OH. My condolences to you.
Miss Bianca
@zhena gogolia: Yep. It had to happen. >:>
pieceofpeace
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m sorry for the pain you and your family must feel, and hope you find comforts with those who loved him and from within yourself.
Torrey
@OzarkHillbilly:
I am so sorry. Wishing for solace for you, your family and all who loved him.