One of the most intense and profound moments in history. 11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent. This should be shown in every school.
the truth on gas prices and elections.
1/ gas prices are falling and some people are already crediting (or blaming) the midterms. here’s what’s actually going on: it’s fall, and prices tend to drop in the fall. 🧵
Today marks the 51th anniversary of the tragic lost of the #EdmundFitzgerald. The ship departed Superior, WI on Nov 9, 1975 bound for Detroit but sank near Whitefish Point, MI on Nov 10th during a powerful storm over the #GreatLakes. All 29 crew were lost. https://t.co/so62gOxR68
In point of fact, the person who speaks honestly about the war, both privately and publicly, is NOT TO BLAME for the failure -- ONCE FREAKING AGAIN -- of the devastatingly toxic neocon stranglehold on the GOP. THIS IS MADNESS.
There’s an easy cure for this and it’s called medieval peasant-maxxing. You need to be building fires and playing festive carols. You need to be taking long walks, learning crafts and listening to stories read aloud. You need to be loading up on cheese and breads and pies.
With new clarity on Trump, we should speak frankly about his decision March 13-16, 2020, to approve and then champion the most despotic and previously unthinkable policies in US history, including forced universal human separation (6 feet no less), wreckage of small business, school closures, court closures, several trillion in spending and printing, murderous hospital protocols, and signing off on legislation that enabled massive voter fraud, among other outrages.
This was his decision as president. He approved everything Fauci wanted. Yes, he changed his mind several months later but it was too late. Then there's the great inoculation. Trump actually believed the hokum that the lab-created virus could be un-created with an injection – the most preposterous idea that anyone with a first-year medical text could have debunked in one conversation. Did he make that call? No, he trusted industrial ghouls and their agency assets.
Please don't tell me this was only the governors. We have every receipt not to mention hours of press conferences. I wrote an entire book about this that came out in October 2020.
Why in the world was he reelected in 2024? Because the decrepit hologram who succeeded him after he lost in 2020 was even worse, because he forced the injection on the population even while inviting in millions of migrants without a care about disease at all, while censoring all critics on social media.
So Trump was already the worst president ever until his successor was even worse, leaving voters with no choice but to tag the previous guy to fix what he started. He did not. He didn't want to hear about it. He never admitted a single error. Then came Covid 2.0 which was the Iran War: similar model (stamp out the bad thing) and same calamitous results.
The poor suffering American people. It's humiliating. Regardless of the midterm outcomes, nearly everyone agrees that this entire class of rulers and their sponsors has to go. To be sure, Trump 2.0 did some good early on, some wonderful things but the program derailed and then reversed, just like the first term.
Been listening to “Mornings on Horseback” about Teddy Roosevelt.
Fascinating to hear about TR’s v. wealthy father spending huge time supporting/mentoring poor young men in NYC in the mid-19th century. True noblesse oblige. He died relatively young but had a huge funeral with many mentees, etc in attendance.
@sonofasaintorg sounds like a great organization.
I estimate that on election day, Tuesday of next week, the U.S. will hit $150 billion more spent collectively on gasoline and diesel since March 1 versus same period last year. Currently at $146.6 billion and rising.
@SchrodingersAlt Take it from someone who regularly works on family vacation, it’s just not worth it. The market will be there tomorrow and the company will never remember you worked on family time!
Congratulations!
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A husband and wife with four kids will spend $3-4,000 and more per month on medical insurance now, and it buys nothing but the right to pay more when you actually use it. This is an outrage. More outrageous, there is hardly any political talk about this fixing this problem even though the fix is readily at hand. Unsustainable.
It's actually astounding to me how many people think that gentle, tender, unyielding devotion across years isn't "real love" but ephemeral passions that burn out in a month and end in heartbreak is the truest love there is. It seems many people's hearts are bent toward self-destruction entirely