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Like most things, there's a happy medium between coddling and harsh discipline. Going too far in one direction or the other is destructive. I mean, look at the kids in Footloose. They just wanted to dance, for chrissakes.

Yeah, the discussion has been successfully redirected towards the usual political suspects.

To the moon toilet!

In case anyone is finding the current crop of conspiracy theories lacking, Trump's going to get his windfall through a merger with a company with "World Acquisition" in its name that just so happens to be headquartered in Wuhan, China -- the epicenter of COVID-19. Trump, whose companies have a long history of filing for bankruptcy, announced a deal Wednesday night to bring a new media company public through what’s known as a SPAC, or a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation. Trump Media & Technology Group, chaired by Trump, said it will launch a new social media platform that the former president promises will “stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.” RELATED ARTICLEWeWork is finally going public. A lot has changed The media company has agreed to combine with Digital World Acquisition Corp., a blank check company that exists solely to merge with private firms to take them public. The Nasdaq-listed shell company is led by Patrick Orlando, who is also the CEO of Yunhong International, a SPAC based in Wuhan, China, according to filings. The blank check company’s shares nearly quadrupled on Thursday, finishing up 357%. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/business/trump-social-media-spac/index.html

If only the government was as well run as Boeing, X and Purdue Pharma, all our lives would be hunky dory.

I absolutely won't believe that until I see it, but if Letitia James seizes Mar-A-Lago, I hope she makes sure to document the event similarly to this.

This season on Narcos: Tejas.

Same. I under appreciated that a year of lockdown for me was 1/50th of my life, but 1/10th of my 10 year old's life. I under-appreciated how that experience of isolation would affect them. They turned to digital means of interrelation with others and we are still trying to help navigate them out of that.

I hope it doesn't come down to force, but it might. I would hope that the 5% could see that it is in their best interests to ensure the 95% are content even in a capitalistic society. The Camelots of the uber-wealthy are built on the backs of the working class. They need only shrug to shake their foundations.

The American dream only needs to be reset to allow this trend to continue. Rather than asking 95% to reset to accept a lesser reality than they would have experienced in 1973, I'd rather see the 5% reset to experience the reality they would have experienced in 1973.

I think its hysterical that a lavish wedding is being used as the bar for the affordability crisis young American's face. It's far more basic. Take the American dream I experienced growing up and as depicted on leave it to Beaver or whatever. One parent works, the other is focused on home and family. They have a nice house and a couple of cars. They have a couple kids getting decently educated at public schools. The children will go to college and not be saddled with cradle-to-grave debt. Kids aren't disillusioned because they can't have a lavish wedding like they might see on the season finale of "The Bachelor". They are disillusioned because the "American dream" is now a very unrealistic pipe dream for them. That's the result of laissez faire policy decisions that simply trust corporations and the uber wealthy to safeguard the welfare of our society's middle class.

I think there is a sweet spot that policy should endeavor to hold where people who are not "elite" (economically, intellectually, etc...) are able to feel good and happy about their existence and their life's trajectory. Our policy has been to grease the rails by which money can be moved from the middle class to the already wealthy. Its not a perception problem that people in the middle class have to cut back or assume more debt to have the life they had 30 years ago. Or to that they grew up in if they are a young adult. That's not all kumbaya beneficence on my part. Happy, content people don't revolt.

He's slightly smarter than that. He won't directly announce he's for sale. He'll just announce something like the US won't intervene if a NATO ally is attacked when he is President.

If only the 95% could be satisfied with this trend, things would be fucking great!

That Eric rider is gonna torpedo his opportunities.

Oh, no. Destitute Don is getting exposed. When reality can no longer be held at bay is always a dangerous time when dealing with malignant narcissists and cult leaders.

Well, shit, this in the bag. I guess I can stay home in November. To me the wildcard is the nation states that benefit from a weakened U.S. with the means to influence the election. Obviously led by Russia. The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee investigation submitted the first in their five-volume 1,313-page report in July 2019. The committee concluded that the January 2017 intelligence community assessment alleging Russian interference was "coherent and well-constructed". The first volume also concluded that the assessment was "proper", learning from analysts that there was "no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions". The final and fifth volume, which was the result of three years of investigations, was released in August 2020,[8] ending one of the United States "highest-profile congressional inquiries".[9][10] The Committee report found that the Russian government had engaged in an "extensive campaign" to sabotage the election in favor of Trump, which included assistance from some of Trump's own advisers.[9] A 2019 report by the Senate Intelligence Committee[161] found "an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure" by Russian intelligence in 2016.[162] The activity occurred in "all 50 states" and is thought by "many officials and experts" to have been "a trial run ... to probe American defenses and identify weaknesses in the vast back-end apparatus—voter-registration operations, state and local election databases, electronic poll books and other equipment" of state election systems.[163] The report warned that the United States "remains vulnerable" in the 2020 election.[162] Russia's path to victory in the Ukraine is through Donald Trump and conservative congress members that would stymie aid to Zelensky and leave NATO without a super-power's teeth. They are going to go for broke in influencing this election, and as we've seen, you don't have to tilt the odds nationwide, just in a relatively small number of swing counties in a relatively small number of swing states.

Have you ever wondered if Trump is the dildo of consequences that America earned with its post WWII superpower shenanigans?

Oh, shit. My bad. Will avoid town lake and Georgia and the panhandle

MAGA stewardess: You’ll have the shit and like it.

Nicole cares, which means we all gotta fucking care.

No, the most hilarious thing is if he took that $500 million, didn't touch the principal and lived on the interest until October of 2012, and then was smart like all the libertarian dipshits that vote for him and dumped it all into Bitcoin, he'd be the world's richest man with a net worth of more than 285 billion dollars.

I mean, it's a fucking Boeing, what do you expect?

If you are Russia or Saudi Arabia or whoever, you don't loan Donald Trump half a billion with the idea he'll pay you back with interest. You pay him half a billion to be himself and damage, perhaps destroy, the post WWII U.S. leviathan.

Looking at Grimes insane tweet, then at US politics...