The host of a certain quiz show championed exactly the same blocking behavior. There’s something odd at play where they think the literal plan is an executive order … and then NY doesn’t have Assembly elections. To them I say: virtue signaling and fact accumulation do not equal intelligence.

What I'm saying is that it's facile to dismiss everyone concerned about a skewed election as doomers squawking irrationally about it being "cancelled." I take that term -- like so many slogans -- as just a shorthand for skewing the election to unfairly maintain his R trifecta.

Plus, he threatened Cuba. Don’t forget about Poland, I mean Cuba.

He doesn’t even need to cancel the election. He just needs to disrupt (thru soldiers, governors, or his mobs) just one swing state’s Senate election (Dems must hold GA & flip 4 more), or have sympathizers not seat the winners. He can’t cancel local elections in NY & MN, yes, but he doesn’t need to.

Things people dismissed as 'outrageous'

J6
Stealing classified docs
Taking a jet from Qatar for AF1
Declaring war on a country unilaterally
Threatening:
- Canada
- Mexico
- Greenland
- NATO
Implementing Global import taxes unilaterally
Closing USAID
Freezing funds approved by Congress

He repeatedly tests the waters by floating statements like this, posted an image of himself with “long live the king,” and now openly admits to his role in rousing J6 mobs. It only takes one social media post–driven mob in one swing state to keep Senate. Dems need to keep GA & flip 4 more! Not easy!

He spent 4 yrs. in the cold learning lessons, getting the yes men in line, etc. Some people were onto something years ago when they saw something in Trump himself. Now, I am the one dismissing Levitsky etc. who say things are headed in an authoritarian way, “But c’mon—he won’t cancel the elections.”

This is the point where I was … skeptical about the direst warnings of Trump 1.0. In some ways, I was right. After all, he did have people around him who would pretend to not hear orders or would disobey the biggest bone-headed/hot-headed disasters. Trump 2.0 is diff.

You see, green grass lawns are green and green = environmental. Before Europeans colonized this continent, it was nothing but two-inch grass from sea to shining sea. This is also why historical preservation needs to keep out the native people who, somehow, didn’t exist back then.

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Some people reveal so much about themselves, like parking their cars whenever & wherever. Imagine if a grandfather dropped off a baby stroller “for just a minute” in the middle of a thoroughfare. Why’s it different?

Also, as another pointed out, the dearth of public restrooms is the bigger problem.

In this situation, people who hate the proposal know what the complainers are really doing, and some poor naïfs on the fence will wonder if there really is some environmental impact. This is b/c they don’t consider how mixed-use reduces total driving & assume that loudmouths know their pet causes.

The prof was taken back and a bit embarrassed and asked if this or that author was actually not a feminist scholar, assuming that the righteously upset PhD student knew that corner of academia. “Oh, I don’t know. I didn’t read the whole syllabus.” My jaw hit the floor at that moment.

This is the same again and again. It is bad faith, of course, and in opposition to mixed-use, walkable developments etc. But it also is a behavior that works in life. One guy in my PhD program castigated the prof for not having actual feminists in the syllabus.

I am also reminded of 1950s-era depictions of a future where a button in the armrest of a chair would summon a robot to go up to the TV and change the channel.

I am just happy to see someone use a semi-colon instead of a comma splice and use the em dash.

Em dashes—not just for AI!

(That this became a meme, that only AI uses the em dash, proves most people *cannot* detect AI.)

Look at that pull quote—perfectly ends the article. AI cannot replicate that.