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R. Scott Rogers
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“Mr. Scott Rogers is correct.” - BBC World Service. Resident on the historic lands of the Kiikaapoi & Ho-Chunk peoples. Jeopardy! champion. ⚽️🦩🏏🥌
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In terms of balance and mechanics, as you’d evaluate a good board game, my list of the best sports is:
1) Ice hockey
2) Cricket
3) Snooker

Baseball would be not far behind, but it’s not top 3 for me.
Also, an agenda for congressional Democrats: Zero out all funding for East Wing executive branch activities until the East Wing is restored. Specifically outlaw spending on any staff who report to or support FLOTUS other than Secret Service security officers. No CoS, no spokesperson, nothing.
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Dumbest president ever.
Trump: "The ocean drugs and the sea drugs, drugs by sea they call it also, that's almost down to nothing."
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Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
No, they won’t. They’re not silent because they’re scared, they’re silent because they’re on board.
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Trump is tearing down the East Wing of the White House because he wants you to feel violated. He wants it to serve as metaphor for what he thinks he can do, at his whim, to your life and the lives of your loved-ones.

Do not submit.
Decades ago, Eisenhower or Kennedy, I forget which, hosted a state dinner at Mount Vernon. Do something like that instead of the White House or the obscene Trump ballroom. National Cathedral! Golden Gate Park! Mount Rushmore! America is full of impressive places to host a state dinner.
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
Sure, that would require some added security & logistical expenses, but also Trump incurs crazy travel/golf security costs, and also just steals money from the Secret Service, so the next Dem president can offset against those savings.
I want the next Democratic nominee to promise not to move into or work from the White House until it’s restored to its pre-Trump condition. Live at Blair House and work from the EEOP, or just rent some office space in whatever city they’re from. POTUS doesn’t need to be in Washington all the time.
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There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
Democratic candidates for president need to declare they won’t live or work in the Trump-desecrated White House until it’s restored. Live in Blair House, work at the EEOB. Or just, like, rent office space in whatever city they’re from. POTUS doesn’t have to be in Washington all the time.
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“Atlantic City” live at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles. October 18, 2025.

🎥: Rob DeMartin
“Atlantic City” (Live at the Academy Museum Gala)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Like two minutes of googling turns up Daira Smith-Rodriguez, who’s a woman and union member with a career of military and public service who’s even more outspoken on progressive issues than Platner. The stuff Bernie bros claim to care about, she’s even more committed than Platner.
Right? And specifically for the Senate, I want someone with a distinguished career in public service. Like, even Fetterman had a decent record as a mayor and lieutenant governor. Senator should be a capstone job in a career of service, not an entry-level job.
Specifically a rich white male. We tend to regard the guy who owns the capital and employs laborers to do the manual work as “working class” when in fact he’s landed gentry. The guy who owns the business isn’t working class, his employees are.
There are only about 622,000 beef cattle ranches in America. Even if most were not owned by diehard Trump supporters, it wouldn’t matter, electorally. Trump could lose them all and barely dent his popularity among rural white folks.
Thanks! Any hint as to the timestamp of the change, roughly? I ask having paused the episode at 35:33 to finish listening while cooking dinner. Terrific episode so far, btw! If only we could get Deus Vult bros to listen.
There is no need for statutory emergency powers; Congress is never more than a few hours from being able to assemble & pass laws if needed. Also ties in to the No Kings message: POTUS is a hired bureaucrat, not a dictator who can rule or change the law by decree. 2/2
An item here I care about doesn’t go nearly far enough. In addition to automatic review of presidential emergency declarations, we need 1) Repeal of all statutory emergency authority, and 2) Statutory, brief time limits on all Art II emergency declarations. Full & total repeal. 1/
Wait, my rural county’s event didn’t start until 1pm. Who pocketed the cash?

(Joking about the cash, though our rally really did run from 1-3pm.)
“But you see, the cultural pressure applies to ME, while the government pressure applies to other people, so …”
Not just in politics, but generally, culturally. We tend to tag rich white men who own capital and employ manual laborers as themselves being “working class.” They’re the landed gentry or boyars of the American economy.