I also took away from that that people are afraid to step up for fear of failure and humiliation, but also thinking “I’m just a schlub; how dare I aspire to heroic action?”
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It’s like we learned nothing from the pandemic.
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Could be it’s a thread he’s still working out in his head?
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Maybe they are fixing some numbers, but are too incompetent to fix all the numbers?
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Seems like it is indeed that, but is the Guardian the right place to be working through one’s half-formed thoughts? I suppose that can be interesting in the right author’s hands, but not in this case, at least for me. (And really, not at this moment!)
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Is Trumpy winning his golf tournament today?
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Maybe not… but I appreciate him being willing to put such half-formed ideas in a high profile place? Could also be he had a short turn around time?
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He’s going to need an extra caddy cuz the bag will be overflowing with bribes tributes by the 18th hole. maybe there’ll extra room in the fake trophy cup.
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Dear Leader always wins his golf tournament.
Secret Service: Nice golf cart you got there.
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My early retirement is in the toilet and this is who he’s catering to.
TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!
And if he just posts it it still doesn’t make it true.
This would be a PERFECT time for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to cut Interest Rates. He is always “late,” but he could now change his image, and quickly. Energy prices are down, Interest Rates are down, Inflation is down, even Eggs are down 69%, and Jobs are UP, all within two months - A BIG WIN for America. CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!
All that winning or destruction gives him time for a round of golf.
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Even the Human Centipede doc wouldn’t return their calls. He’s evil, but actually quite competent. Didn’t want to be associated with those clowns.
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Tomorrow (saturday April-5th) there will be some hopefully impressive nation-wide protests under the aegis of “Hands Off”. i (humbly) intend to be one of the sign wavers in Seattle then.
Link for the protest in Seattle with general links to national connections/maps: here
Here’s hoping that maybe it’ll stimulate something which will stimulate something which will scare some very rich people and/or republicans to stop/slow-up destroying the country. …maybe.
Edit: this, i think, the more proper link for the Hands Off protests.
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On one side, you have the longtime Trump aide Peter Navarro, who has said that Trump’s tariffs will raise $6 trillion over the next decade, making it the largest tax increase in American history. On another, you have pro-Trump tech folks, such as Palmer Luckey, who have instead claimed that the goal is the opposite: a world of fully free trade, as countries remove their existing trade barriers in the face of the new penalties. On yet another track, there is Stephen Miran, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, who has suggested that the tariff salvo is part of a master plan to rebalance America’s relationship with the global economy by reducing the value of the dollar and reviving manufacturing employment in the United States.
These three alleged goals—raising revenue, restoring free trade, and rejiggering the global economy—are incompatible with one another. The first and second explanations are mutually exclusive: The state can’t raise tax revenue in the long run with a levy that is designed to disappear. The second and third explanations are mutually exclusive too: You can’t reindustrialize by doubling down on the global-trade free-for-all that supposedly immiserated the Rust Belt in the first place. Either global free trade is an economic Valhalla worth fighting for, or it’s the cursed political order that we’re trying desperately to destroy.
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Likewise, I’ll be out there in Portland tomorrow.
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just got back with foamcore poster board for making the signs that mum and i will be carrying tomorrow at Hands Off! in Key Largo.
looking forward to meeting like-minded Conchs and getting the message out.
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indeed.
“Don’t do heroics if you sort of feel that you might not be able to cope with imposter syndrome.”
Right.
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Much qualified, so expert!
I suppose that being completely unqualified is now a primary qualification. 
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