And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.

Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.

Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.

Duh.

Turns out personalist rule is geopolitically erratic and consequential! It’s much easier to find a Wilhelm II than a Napoleon.

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Your husband has the same name as me! I have an icon: Hagios Andreas Proto Kletos- “Holy Andrew, the First Called”

Amos is my man!

You’re In my prayers.

No. It’s the same number of lawyers, they just turn down the color saturation so they’re really pale and sort of see through.

I grew up in areas with lots of ice and snow, I'm good at driving in that stuff. It's not hard, just takes a little caution and learning how to stop without using the brakes much.
But in DC its impossible to avoid the terrible drivers who are panicked in the snow.Stay off the road is the proper move

And THEY WERE RIGHT! You'd be crazy to be out in any DC traffic while half an inch of snow was falling. 110 car pileups on the Beltway. Crazy Saudi & Emirati chauffeurs with diplomatic plates going 60 mph on Massachusetts Avenue with ice on the streets! Nobody knows how to drive in snow there.

DC is so funny about winter. Everyone is totally unprepared for just ordinary modest amounts of snow. They don't shovel the sidewalks. My diligent staff started packing up to leave one day at 11:30 AM. I was puzzled, but there was a forecast of snow at 1:30 ....+

Ultimately there was no substantive change in what technology they used, or how they used it, I bet. Just AI hype ain't selling any more.

(When asked where I am politically, I answer, "I'm a Liz Warren/AOC moderate.")

OTOH in an indecent world, being simply decent is a radical choice. When John the Baptist addressed the crowds and answered what they should do, the most radical sounding things he counseled were just what was required in the law (Jewish or Roman)-soldiers extorting was not legal, just common.

By way of agreeing with you: Among the divergent things put forward around this, (nothing in the Trump admin is actually, you know, PLANNED), one guy is thinking he's planning exactly this, but nobody reads his emails and he's not invited to Hegseth's Signal chat.

Don't they have a First Amendment Right™️ to keep us from calling them things they don't like?

That would be *another* stroke. At least one neuroscientist looked at photos and video of Trump & listened to his speech and is convinced there are clear symptoms of a stroke 4 or 5 months ago. (Strokes don't always do ALL the things we think-his dementia is likely separate from that)

Yes, the inventive bullshitters and mansplainers out there can talk about air drops blah blah blah.

But what comes out has to be more valuable than what it costs to produce it.

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