A bunch of cool bars and coffee shops have recently opened near me. Someone recently asked me how I felt about it and I said "it's the kind of thing I would have absolutely loved ten years ago."
Notably, Republicans don't get punished harder for failing to protect the country, because if it ever comes up, we're under attack and people rally to, in this formulation, the big man.
Lol. After I posted my reply I realized you wrote about the auto industry, and you're probably here often enough that you don't need restaurant or tourism suggestions.
In any case, I think this blindness to the politics of the late 70s contributed, and contributes, to blindness about the politics of the Trump era. So never forget that McCarthy supported Reagan.
If I told you about a presidential transition where a devout Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher ceded the White House to a divorcee who invited his Hollywood friends to his inauguration, what would you guess the party labels were?
It's 5am and I'm nap-trapped, so I guess I have time.
Mainly, I think it's easy to forget or fail to understand in retrospect how much right wing politics could code as anti-establishment in the 70s. The most famous anti-war candidate endorsing Reagan is one example.
@kseniamilstein.bsky.social asked me earlier tonight where I'd live if I could live anywhere, and I'd like to change my answer to 'this block, wherever it is.'
Do you mean "not a net gain from current valuations" or "the introduction of AI will overall be a drag on the economy compared to an economy without AI"? Or some third thing?
I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon
Not for a horror movie, but I've long wanted a slow, deeply melancholy cover of Sell Out. My plan if I ever meet Taylor Swift is to ask her to record this.
