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1. about 15 hours ago on Prickly City

   What’s the meme? The danger isn’t from evildoers, it’s from those who stand by and do nothing.

2. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Times opinions today: A King? A Pawn? A Rogue? The Founders Could Barely Imagine a President By Stacy Schiff — Ms. Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin. “Franklin worried throughout the convention about greed,… Franklin observed there was a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government. … ‘I am apprehensive, therefore, … that the government of these states may in future times end in a monarchy.’”

   The Conversation — Gail: Not thrilled with ushering in four more years with a guy who might blow up the planet. Good Lord, four years. … can we march along for 48 months, standing up for sanity and not going insane ourselves? … but if I have to stagger through it, happy to know I’ll be doing it with you.

   Bret: Feeling is mutual. It’s gonna be a helluva ride.

3. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   Oh good, I so missed the daily “WTF” moments when lil Duce was in office.

4. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   There will still be inaugurations, and elections, just like Putin’s.

5. 5 days ago on Prickly City

   It’s amazing, but not surprising how Trump fans believe Fox over their lying eyes…

   Biden used his last speech as president to warn us about a new American oligarchy. And you can tell the message hit home because of how many people immediately went to Google to search ‘What is oligarchy?’ And weirdly, Google responded: ‘Don’t worry about it.’ Turns out, you don’t need to Google ‘oligarchy’ to understand what it looks like — just tune in to the inauguration this Monday.” — Jordan Klepper

   Surprisingly, Greg Gutfeld doesn’t think an oligarchy is anything to worry about.

6. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That’s actually pretty zen…

7. 8 days ago on Prickly City

   The right is fixated on misreading normal aging as dementia. Biden was fine as president. The whole job is delegating to wisely chosen subordinates. Good luck finding that the next four years…

   Thomas B. Edsall in the Times Opinion: “In other words, the nation may be subjected to a presidency driven by a lust for revenge, implemented through the prosecutorial arms of the Justice Department, through the regulatory powers of the executive branch, and, if Trump has his way, through a politicized civil service subject to at-will dismissal. … It will be rough sailing for the next four years, but it won’t be forever. It is virtually impossible that Trump is going to be ruler for life — there are too many obstacles, not to mention time constraints — but as Madison foresaw in Federalist 51, “ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” both among the politicians and judges who hold the traditional checks and balances in their hands as well as among the MAGA populists and anti-government contrarians of Silicon Valley now battling for Trump’s attention.”

8. 12 days ago on Prickly City

   There will probably be a lot of speculation about Biden’s legacy in the coming weeks. Peter Coy captures my feelings pretty well in the Times Opinion: The Tragedy of Joe Biden — “He thought of himself as a champion of the working class, as a son of Scranton whose dad and family taught him to respect hard work and working people. Their cares become his concern. … Biden will now be remembered as the champion of the working class who lost the support of the working class for his party. And he did so even though some of his achievements helped or will help working-class Americans. “Facts are stubborn things,” Biden said in a speech last month … still trying to make the case that his presidency should be seen as successful. Biden spoke about the more than 16 million new jobs created in the last four years, the progress against inflation. The United States had the strongest economic growth in the Group of 7 wealthy, industrialized nations in 2023 and was projected to be No. 1 again in 2024, the International Monetary Fund projected in October. … he presided over the lowest average unemployment rate of any presidential administration in the past half-century. … inflation had come back down close to 2 percent, which is the Federal Reserve’s target.”

   Voters don’t act on reality; they act on their perception of reality. They decided Trump wouldn’t do to them what he did to everyone who ever trusted him and gave power back to him and his band of robber barons.

9. 17 days ago on Prickly City

   … and we won’t see the sunshine til i don’t know when… don’t get stuck in Folsom prison.

10. 19 days ago on Shoe

    Lol, and i don’t even know what a mojito is…