This is how, when I was a young writer with performance anxiety and a deadline, I'd psyche myself into writing. I'd read an essay I loved and tell myself that it was just another fucking human who wrote it.
@iowahawkblog Drove dozens of these new babies when I washed cars for a National Car Rental outlet. I always set the car radio to a station that I figured a businessman would like.
Couldn’t be more proud of you @TulsiGabbard - class, intelligence, experience, patriot. We are so lucky to have you as Americans.
Confirm her how. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
American democracy survived w/out the Inspector General position at Federal agencies until 1978. I'm sure it will last the duly elected President hiring new ones.
BTW - I don't recall these folks' over-the-top hysteria when Biden fired individuals whose terms had yet to expire.
It was all a con, over and over, year after year, decade after decade. And Americans were rich enough and resourceful enough and later cynical enough to keep getting taken and getting taken and finally to pretend that the con was business as usual rather than admit we had been fooled.
Eventually servicing the con -- keeping it going, distributing its proceeds, covering it up, financing its debts, legitimizing its shoddy tactics, philosophizing about its nature, criticizing it, distracting from it, and a thousand other associated tasks -- nearly became the basis of our society, our culture, and our economy.
But not quite. Not quite. Some residual sense or instinct or hope or maybe fear kept us from giving ourselves entirely to the massive runaway ever-compounding scam that in some fashion we are all in on at this point. It's probably paying half my bills right now. I have no idea!
Though actually I do. It's almost certainly over half.
What a staggering unwinding this will be.
@NoContextBrits Write over it with a dry erase marker. It dissolves permanent marker for some reason and you just wipe it all off clean. Absolutely works.