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andycrain.bsky.social
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Backup quarterback syndrome.
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Restaurant owner. Aspiring amateur historian. Flaming liberal. Packer, Nuggets, Badger, Bucks fan.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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Backup quarterback syndrome.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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I believe you wore the hat. I don’t believe you caught the fish.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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I’m all for using all of the animal. And Goats Head Soup is an under appreciated Rolling Stones album. Heartbreaker and Angie are great songs.
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My sales pitch: The right complain about incrementalism as much the left. Until Trump, they complained that nothing was done on abortion. Under Trump, they complained that he didn’t keep immigrants out. Etc. But they never said don’t vote or vote third party. And that has made all the difference.
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One good thing about Trump is energizing the left, trad Dems, and lean-Dems to vote, and to vote all the way down the ballot. For the first time in decades, more Dems voted for Biden than Republicans voted for Trump (by 1%). That shift will change America. It would be a shame if it shifted back.
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I’m not blaming. We can all blame Democratic leadership. I’m saying that Republicans have had a 5-10 point head start in elections, because the right has consistently voted in each election for Republicans up and down the ballot. That has made this country a much worse place.
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Neither was necessary, but either would have been sufficient on its own. If either one of those had happened, we would have: Universal health care Government paid child care (Nixon vetoed; Humphrey would have signed) Child care tax credit Even more $ to clean energy(Biden has been great at this)
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Two things are true: 1. Democratic leadership should have been more effective and whipped the necessary votes. 2. If the left had as consistently voted for Democrats as the right has voted for Republicans over the last 60 years, the USA would be a far better place.
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luke the myoclonic jerk
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The Epstein grand jury records that were unsealed today contain some entirely unsurprising revelations
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A version of government paid for healthcare came one or two votes short under Truman, Clinton, and Obama. When Truman ran against a “do nothing Congress,” that’s what he was talking about.
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Famously, presidents have gotten a lot passed when they have had big margins in Congress. For example, FDR and LBJ had more than two thirds of both houses when they got their stuff passed.
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The same is true for a Medicare for all option under Obama. It was one or two votes short.
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Biden didn’t allow those tax credits to expire. He was one vote short in the Senate, so it failed. If a handful more people in a couple states had voted, the child poverty tax credits would have remained.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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And then Donald II or Eric I.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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To be honest, it wasn’t a hate crime.
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Most notorious murder of a gay man.
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Did they bury her by the sand trap?
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There have been some really bad supreme courts. The Waite and Fuller courts were every bit as bad as the current court. There were a string of decisions in the last third of the 19th century that made this country much worse than it would have been otherwise.
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Packer fan?
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Nope. It’s the chocolate donuts, with the waxy chocolate coating.
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Mike Miller is one of those guys where I don’t understand why so many teams let him move on. And Kenyon’s mom threatened to beat up Mark Cuban.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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It apparently affects mayors too.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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It’s like stock in the Packers. (I have some.)
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Milkshake Horse
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At least Alan Dershowitz is no longer invited.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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The only good advice is to try and make the most socially awkward person feel comfortable.
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At least he flunked out of a good school.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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And you can’t use water to wash the blood off.
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And why vandalize everything good about our society?
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And I missed some. The Manichean concept of good v. evil, along with similar ideas from Zoroastrianism, has had an impact in our law. You can add to this the ancient Egyptian idea of weighing a dead person’s heart against a feather. Add also: The Mongol tolerance of a variety of religions, Etc.
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Let’s rank ancient legal and moral traditions by their impact on US law: 1. Germanic Pagan 2. Roman Pagan 3. Greek Pagan 4. Hebrew 5. Native North American 6. Muslim 7. Zoroastrian 8. Indian Hindu/Buddist/Jain 9. Chinese Confucian/legalism 10. Mezoamerican The basis of our law is broad.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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My thoughts exactly. Let’s do what has worked so well for Japan. They’ve been kicking everyone’s butts for decades.
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The Leopards Ate My Face Truck
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Always include the unnecessary last word, such as: Where you at?
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Never heard that. Here in Wisconsin we say: jeeeeat yet?
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andycrain.bsky.social
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It wasn’t always like that. Ebbet’s field was pure beauty.
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andycrain.bsky.social
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Yep. The tariffs didn’t cause the depression (but the increase in tariffs around the world at the time made recovery harder). But Trump’s tariff proposals are idiotic, and it’s hard to believe that business leaders are supporting him. (Farmers too, but we’ll just shovel them billions more.)
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Bible study
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As I wrote that, I realized that Michael Jackson had his own beat-it-ude.
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And why is it always the Ten Commandments? Put up the beatitudes.
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Let’s get psychiatric help for people who want it before we start forcing it on people who don’t.
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I do think Gore would have benefited from emphasizing the environment in his campaign in 2000. He ran as a Shrumified traditional Democrat, rather than embracing his concern about the climate.
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If you go by the art, the Italians think there’s something about Mary.
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Yes. Brexit seems like the economic failure we knew it would be. The UK chose to go back to the 50s and 60s, when they grew at a much slower rate than the EU (and it’s the predecessors.)
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There are areas in the UK that feel abjectly impoverished. Brexit took advantage of that.
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Government transfers narrow the gap, but it is still real.
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Yes. I get it. [Your chart also shows that the current discourse about Germany being in an economic tailspin is wrong.]
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Yes, the GDP gap is real, and has been since WWII. But it isn’t increasing. My guess is that the difference in government support makes purchasing power a lot closer.
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