Icarus27k

Taking the sign down will have to wait.

One of Musk's personal flaws is his reactionary views. You can't be innovative and regressive. It's impossible.

You're not a fraidy cat. I think Musk is someone who had the potential to be someone respected, a Bill Gates-like figure. (That positive reputation lasted too long, IMO.) But maybe that was impossible. Musk has shown himself to be a deeply flawed individual completely undeserving of that reputation, and his downfall has been spectacular. When you read his biography, he is not an innovator but rather some dope who was in the right place at the right time to take undue credit for things.

On the plus side, they raise horses there.

I'm originally from Kentucky (like when I was an infant), so I can say how horrible it is. The people are a significant part of it. The average Kentuckian is selfish, entitled and unreasonable is the lesson I learned from my connections there. Also public corruption (entire county governments stuff ballot boxes/entire police departments sell the drugs they confiscate) and violent bigotry are more prevalent there than in other states. I see no reason to ever go back.

Best Short Story "Finding Batman" by Kevin Conroy and J. Bone in DC Pride 2022 (DC) Best Single Issue/One-Shot Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC) Best Limited Series The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC) Best Continuing Series Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC) Best Writer James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country (DC), The Closet, The Department of Truth (Image) Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers) Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC) Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC) Best Coloring Jordie Bellaire, The Nice House on the Lake, Suicide Squad: Blaze (DC); Antman, Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)

I regret to inform you the guy running Dmitry Medvedev's social media is making pop culture references.

Gov. Beshear is known for giving daily press conferences for much of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was on TV everyday basically saying "don't panic. We got everything under control".

Oh yeah, the 2024 election is going to be a disaster for Republicans if they choose Trump as their nominee.

From today. Always listen to what Bill Burns says. He's the guy that Biden dispatches somewhere (to Putin, Zelensky, Xi) whenever the U.S. wants to get serious. Burns is arguably why Zelensky is still alive today and wasn't killed by the Russians in the early days of the war, as well.

Where there's an off year election this year, and there's a popular Democratic governor who is seems to be handedly winning reelection.

Yes, those are the guys whose most famous song is "Inside Out".

Marjorie Taylor Greene explains all the good Biden has done. ssstwitter.com_1689795890869.mp4

When you know, you know.

Confirmed recession.

I think the 2022 midterm added to the evidence that as long as the dynamics are "normal versus the Trump party" voters will choose normal. This actually raises interesting questions about the viability of the GOP in the long run.

WASHINGTON — The letter that former President Donald Trump received from special counsel Jack Smith informing him that he is a target of the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election mentions three federal statutes related to the deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., and tampering with a witness. Those three federal statutes were included in the letter Trump said he received on Sunday night, according to two attorneys with direct knowledge of the document. The context surrounding the statutes cited in the target letter is unclear, and their inclusion in the letter doesn't necessarily mean Trump will be charged with related counts or that an indictment would be limited to only those three statutes. One notable thing about this is that "conspiracy to defraud the United States" was the specific crime I expected Trump to get charged with over the Russian collusion in the 2016 election case. It may finally happen, just late and a different election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/trump-jan6-target-letter/

It's an illustration of the Marine Corps not having a commandant.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the imperfect, but most famous, measure of inflation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/12/june-cpi-inflation-report/ I thought you might want some good news.