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October 1, 2021
Tweet of the Afternoon
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1443961550944014336right now some Deplorable with a persistent cough is driving a crappy car on crumbling roads past abandoned storefronts to a low-paying job and pumping his fist and going "hell yeah!" as he hears on the radio about how Biden's infrastructure bill is in danger of failing
September 30, 2021
Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is?
Sorry if this was posted before. Should be required reading, imo.
https://eand.co/do-americans-know-what-a-massive-ripoff-american-life-really-is-8804aa6b65fa
Ive recently moved to the States shudder for a year or two. And Im shocked at how expensive just life is. For no good reason at all.
When I put my economist hat on, a fact becomes clear to me. American life is a gigantic rip-off, one of the worlds biggest, and thats why America is now effectively a country of poor people, and that makes it a nation of angry, cruel, and selfish ones, too.
But Im getting ahead of myself. Let me start over. American life is the biggest ripoff in the world. Or at least one of the biggest, in the top five, certainly. Just existing. It costs way, way more than it should. So much so that America cannot ever move forward as a society. So, trapped in a cycle, which economists call a poverty trap, Americans now stay poor.
Americans dont quite get this, though. Why would they? Theyve never lived anywhere else. So let me give you a few examples which, especially if youre American, might be illuminating. Well begin with basic bills, and then zoom out from there.
September 22, 2021
An anti-vaxxer wises up
https://twitter.com/davidmwessel/status/1440258271374233600?s=20
September 22, 2021
Barf
Saw my first "Pompeo 2024" bumper sticker today.
Of course, he was driving like an asshat.
September 18, 2021
Today's rally from the Washington Post:
A sparsely attended rally in support of the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol began Saturday, as dozens of demonstrators gathered within view of the building where five people lost their lives amid a pro-Trump riot on Jan. 6.
September 13, 2021
Greatest cake ever?
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September 11, 2021
Liberty means being a big baby and never having to do anything you don't wanna do even if it....
hurts or kills other people. Goo goo ga ga - Thomas Jefferson
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1436339077838618624?s=20
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