Good for him. The communist DSA is hijacking the Democrat party from respectable common sense liberals (90% of my friends and family). We all need to unite against the socialists. Biggest threat to humanity in the history of civilization.
In America they told me the football game starts at 1 PM.
I arrived at 1 PM.
I was five hours late.
The parking lot was already a city.
A man had built a living room beside his truck. Not metaphorically. He had a couch. A television. A chandelier powered by a generator the size of a small horse.
He was grilling enough meat to feed a village, and when I walked past he said, "You hungry?"
I said I had not been invited.
He looked at me the way you look at someone who has apologized for breathing.
"Brother," he said. "You're here. That's the invitation."
He handed me a plate. It was not a small plate. The brisket hung over the edges like a man sleeping in a bed he has outgrown.
I ate it standing beside a stranger's couch in a parking lot in October, and it was among the finest meals of my life.
A woman across the row had a tent, a smoker, a speaker system, and a flag so large it could have sheltered a family of five beneath it.
She had been here since 6 AM.
The game had not started.
The game, I began to realize, was not the point.
I asked the man what time he would go inside the stadium.
He said, "Depends."
I asked on what.
He said, "On whether the ribs are done."
I want to be clear. He had a ticket. He had driven four hours. He had assembled a small civilization from the back of a pickup truck.
And he was considering not going to the game.
Because the ribs were not ready.
In Japan we tailgate nothing. We do not build living rooms in parking lots. We do not grill for strangers.
We sit quietly on trains and think about whether we remembered to bow at the right angle.
I have since attended eleven tailgates.
I have never once cared who won the game.
Nobody has.
The game is inside the stadium.
America is in the parking lot.
If you find yourself defending a child molester, saying: “WE can’t be judged by OUR worst day”, you probably need to have your hard drives checked. https://t.co/JYvSApplIU
If by calling me a “climate denier” you mean that I don’t think the government of Canada can control the Earth’s climate, by taxing the shit out of us, then yes, I am a climate denier.
Like I said in February when we launched this campaign, I don’t owe anybody anything. I’m doing this to have impact and deliver results for 11 million Georgians.
I am not a climatologist. I double-majored in History and Asian Studies. That's why I took a Geography of China course and found out about the variability of the Yellow River and the extreme efforts in pre-industrial China to control it. I became fascinated about the effects of geography, natural disasters and climate on history. Once I started looking, I noticed a lot of variability even during the historical period. I also noticed that, on general, even minor climate cooling caused much more disruption than warming. The people talking about a "crisis" are deluded or disingenuous.
Instead of panicking we should study the past to see how best to adapt to the future. For instance, medieval Russians sowed rye and wheat together. If the weather was warm and dry they harvested wheat. If it was cold and wet they harvested rye.
The climate is going to change. It's going to get warmer and it's going to get colder. It's been happening for a long time. We have only recorded in high fidelity the merest slice of that time.
To assume we control the climate is hubris.
But I suspect the ultimate goal isn't controlling the climate, it is controlling society and the economy. The "climate crisis" is just a way to scare people into exchanging their freedom for (spurious) security.
So I finally got time to review ‘Young Washington’ about the early days of the father of our country. I can’t recommend this film enough, I love American history and there’s very few movies about the American Revolution or George Washington for that matter. 1/3 #YoungWashington