Scott Monje

Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

This was before the Air Force (just before). It was still the U.S. Army Air Forces.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

In French the term is "flying cigar" (cigare volant), which made me think UFOs had a different shape over there. Cigare Volant is also the name of a fictional French restaurant often mentioned on Frasier.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

Ah, Roswell Army Air Field. At first, I wondered what the Royal Australian Air Force was doing there.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

But as unfounded rumors go, it was well worth reporting.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

The next question is: How long will this antifascist coalition hold together?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

People seem to think that Trump, being rich, understands the economy, when what he understands is how to manipulate the system to his own benefit.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

But . . . but . . . Trump is old news. We did that story years ago. Biden is . . . fresh!

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:17 UTC

At the end of four years, Trump will be older than Biden is now.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

Has anyone ever targeted healthcare facilities with ransomware other than purposefully?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:52 UTC

At the same time, "doesn't need any more sleep than Trump" isn't the strongest selling point.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

"Unless they spend lots of money and are okay with lots of things going wrong." Kinda sounds like the standard Trump m.o., really.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

All true, yet it doesn't change the fact that Biden will never be 78 again.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

Not so much hypocrisy as sabotage.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

The question, though, is whether they actually need to be a well-oiled machine if certain states are willing to take the bait.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

Ah, the old Scott Walker crowd.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:42 UTC

"Millions would watch." - - The very definition of success.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:19 UTC

Especially Alito and Thomas.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

SCOTUS will be annoyed when President-for-Life Trump decides that he can ignore them whenever he likes.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

If she does replace him, it would be best not to stress that as the reason.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:27 UTC

In the 1930s she lived a couple of miles from where I am now, in a house that dates from the 1680s.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

So, you're saying that he has to make sure that the one guy he wants shot is in that crowd being massacred.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

I imagine non-Japanese people in Hawaii were also just more accustomed to seeing them around, and thus less likely to see them as aliens.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

He does things on the impulse. How about impulsivism?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:03 UTC

Are there any restrictions on how they're taught?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

He was president when the records were falsified.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:10 UTC

But apparently not if the payment is made after the pardon is issued.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:29 UTC

Well, they're being original, aren't they?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

Besides, the court has already ruled that corruption is okay.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

SCOTUS: Sometimes it's necessary to invent new history and traditions.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

Thanks, didn't take it that way.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

Fair enough. And opening the nomination to a whole new field of mostly unknown contestants at this point, I assume, would also be a disaster. Do you think a quick consolidation around Harris would reassure skeptics without excessive disruption, or is it just better to stick with Biden?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

Even if it was an off night, even if debating skills aren't relevant to the presidency anyhow, it fed into the existing narrative and will be remembered. And he's not likely to get better between now and age 86. It was a disaster.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:35 UTC

Frankly, reading a speech from a prompter is different from debating. On the other hand, presidents frequently have to read speeches from prompters, but once elected they never have to debate again. It's not a presidential skill.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:50 UTC

Okay, I guess I'll have to do it.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

These things should be decided democratically, by whichever side can afford the largest campaign contributions as modified by the good judgment of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

And in this one, they can't use notes because . . . presidents can't use notes?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:54 UTC

And the debating skills that they require will never be needed as president.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

I imagine they could come up with immunity for things like drone strikes that kill U.S. citizens who've joined terrorist organizations.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

Fortunately, blocking new construction has no externalities at all.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

Twenty years ago, a contributor sent me an article on a floppy disk, and the company no long had a computer suited for it.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

Isn't "strong" virtually the only standard he uses for anything?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:19 UTC

He's a top presidential candidate and some people actually believe what he says. Not calling it out would be the irresponsible response.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

I guess it depends on which Ph.D. you're talking about.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 21:45 UTC

Wasn't prosperity under McKinley largely a consequence of the Alaska gold rush inflating the gold-standard-based economy out of depression?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 00:39 UTC

So you're saying they're both the same?

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

It seems to be a common GOP practice to take a priori arguments ("doing X will achieve y"), then doing X and asserting that Y was achieved without checking to see if that was true. "We grew the economy" (i.e., cut taxes) and "chastened Iran" (i.e., walked out of JCPOA).

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

And yet it's a fact that Jews did not kill that many people during the Holocaust.

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

"One of two"? Oh, you optimist!

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 00:38 UTC

My introduction to him was "A Boy Named Sue."

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Scott Monje @scottmonje.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

Even during his first two years in office, with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, he couldn't get them to vote on a border wall or pass an infrastructure bill.

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