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  1. I don’t disagree with you here but it’s wild to get up in arms at him for what he’s been doing to win elections since 1980. I wouldn’t back him for a national election but the Democrats could do much, much worse. He and Mitch both have been a bit of a firewall against some damage in a way people don’t appreciate if they don’t geek out on beltway shit.
  2. More HRC than Bill. Schumer is a retail politician par excellence. And a sophisticated Washington legislator. He’s not the face of the national Democratic Party and doesn’t want to be.
  3. The guy wants to be a Senator from New York and he’s wildly successful at that and delivers for his constituents. The entire gripe here from John Oliver is that he tries to triangulate what he should do based on where he needs votes.
  4. Chuck Schumer has been winning elections to the U.S Senate for 26 years and elections to the House since before I was born, so I’ll need another argument for how his political instincts suck. It’s really bizarre to me how much shit Democrats shovel onto their most successful representatives.
  5. NYC is the textbook example of a place that it is rich enough and deep enough with human capital that it’s almost impossible to fuck it up unless you’re a committed ideologue. All you need is “good enough” and things will buff out. Eric Adams is a super corrupt moron and he’s managed to make NYC mostly better by confining himself to grifting off of Erdogan.
  6. It is honestly difficult to imagine a better scenario for the GOP than the Dems debating “who is correct on Palestine” as part of 2028, FFS. Foreign policy in general is a big loser for generals and this one in particular is the biggest loser.
  7. This one and the “who goes Nazi” essay are required reading. https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
  8. The British lost the war after a Prussian turned the Continental Army into a real fighting force and the French blockade and assistance. Most engagements were with line infantry. The citizen soldier in the bushes is mostly a myth.
  9. Imagine asking your daughter to plunge into the “is my mom a a skank” debate on the internet.
  10. Here’s Samuel Samson’s “free speech only for me” essay. Please internalize that this person is a Senior Advisor on Democracy and Human Rights and gets personal veto policy on what we say about the UK, Israel, and Ukraine. He’s a 2021 college grad who is a Catholic theocrat. I cannot overstate how many completely unfuckable weirdos are roaming around DC. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/elon-musk-and-the-free-speech-lie/
  11. The bureau that pulls this together was especially hard-hit by recent firings. The HRR is something that pisses off authoritarian nations and complicates transactional diplomacy. Samuel Samson is getting custody of the new office to promote “Civilizational Values” which is code for support for European populists. That’s why he gets to review these countries; he has a special interest in casting Western Democracies as hellholes of repression. He has openly written that free speech should not exist for non-conservatives at The American Conservative. Also, as an Aggie who rarely gets to say this: you’re welcome to him.
  12. The anti-Commie party elected Maoists.
  13. This shit is absolutely downstream of how RFK Jr and the MAGA movement talks.
  14. Legit lol’d at the phrasing “ordinary people’s intolerance for military invasions” WRT Ukraine. Perhaps the clearest example of normal people getting something that weirdo conservatives and lefties can’t. Roger Waters is not erudite on NATO or anything else, he’s a person who is basically only ever right on accident.
  15. The YRA is some wild stuff. You’ve got 24 year olds with multiple felonies getting “youth rehabilitated” and records sealed. Sorry, at that point the rehab failed.
  16. The ATV and dirtbike rides are in fact bullshit, they’re dangerous and disrupt traffic and that is the entire goal. It’s OK to point out that dozens of kids on dirtbikes or ATVs shouldn’t be clogging major thoroughfares. As @Bateshorn has pointed out, DC genuinely does have a “teen” disorder problem that regularly metastasizes into real-life consequences for regular people. It’s been a conscious choice by local authorities not to deal with it. That doesn’t mean that deploying the guard is needed, but at the same time people get tired of “just live with it” as a response to stuff that is a real quality of life issue that can be solved.
  17. No, on nearly every level Islam and Judaism are brother religions and Christianity is the odd cousin. This goes for everything from the nature of a singular God, methods and understanding of divine revelation, how to approach sacred texts, the relationship of the faithful to a community, the role of faith in governance and social ordering, and what it means to be part of the faith community. Unsurprising, really, as most of Muhammad’s ideas about monotheism were filtered to him via Judaism.
  18. I do think COVID and the more lenient fed work from home policies did a bit of a number. Tourist areas are fine but it was pretty stark how less foot traffic and legitimate business caused parts of downtown to get— not dicey exactly, but somewhat disorderly. Along with teen lock-ups, Baltimore also mostly dropped its non-prosecution policies in combination with community efforts. They focused on repeat offenders and anyone with weapons. Study after study shows that a tiny minority of people account for a huge amount of crime, everything from violent crime to shoplifting. I don’t give a shit what age you are, if you’re past the third arrest it’s time for you to be ejected from society.
  19. Baltimore has invested in some other stuff too, but the lockup made a difference. There’s no city in the country that has more free/interesting shit available for people so the “nothing to do” shit falls flat. These groups of kids get a thrill by being antisocial where others are being social.
  20. Baltimore has been making some real progress. They’ve expanded drunk tanks and lock up youths who are out past curfew or maliciously loitering for the night and won’t let them go unless someone signs them out. Worth looking at something similar.
  21. I mostly agree with this. MPD has absolutely been cooking the books a bit, especially around crimes in Adams Morgan at night. The leniency on “minor” crime and property damage is a problem. It’s a well known sociological phenomenon that that sort of low-level disorder causes extreme dissatisfaction.
  22. I’ve posted this before but I’m doing it again because it slams and I’ve dialed it in. It may be my favorite thing to make now. Tacos al pastor on the Weber rotisserie. The horizontal trompo is a seven pound pork butt sliced into 1/4-1/2 inch steaks. What put it over the top. 1. Trimming more often even thought it’s a PITA, more crispy stuff made it incredible. 2. Got the salsa how I want it, a tomatillo/serrano/jalepeno mix but blending in an avocado made it the texture I wanted.
  23. Witkoff is truly a bumblefuck.
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