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The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his – pbump

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:10:19 +0000

The metaphor of Trump crushing a portion of the White House as he aims bulldozers at democracy itself is almost too obvious to note. But it’s not just a symbolic parallel: both are rooted in the same indifference to what these American institutions mean to Americans and to America. Both are rooted in Trump wanting to treat those things as his own and now feeling empowered to do precisely that.

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Elizabeth Warren: "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own" - CBS News

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:52:25 +0000

Warren rejects the concept that it is possible for Americans to become wealthy in isolation. "You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did." She continues: "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

Tags: #america #capitalism #economy #politics #warren

Article: The Boeing scandal is an indictment of Trump’s corporate America

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:01:19 +0000

Tags: #Boeing #america #capitalism #imported:pinboard

The Hidden Connection Between Medieval Land Parceling and Modern American Psychology | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:48:51 +0000

The fact that the farm, not the transportation, came first is important. It was a geographic case of the tail wagging the dog.

Tags: #america #farms #imported:pinboard #science #to:fb #transportation

The Hidden Connection Between Medieval Land Parceling and Modern American Psychology | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:48:51 +0000

The fact that the farm, not the transportation, came first is important. It was a geographic case of the tail wagging the dog.

Tags: #america #farms #science #to:fb #transportation

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake! - The Daily Beast

Mon, 07 May 2012 20:54:01 +0000

Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America.

Tags: #america #economics #imported:pinboard #politics #stephenking #taxes #wealth

Americans' right to hang fake balls on trucks left dangling • The Register

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:57:39 +0000

Truck nuts case not seen as low-hanging fruit by court Americans on the horns of a constitutional dilemma over their right to hang simulated, over-sized testicles from the back of their pickups will have to wait even longer for the issue to be decided.…

Tags: #america #funny #trucknuts #trucks

Op-Ed Columnist - An Absence of Class in the G.O.P. - NYTimes.com

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:21:51 +0000

"For decades the G.O.P. has been the party of fear, ignorance and divisiveness. All you have to do is look around to see what it has done to the country. The greatest economic inequality since the Gilded Age was followed by a near-total collapse of the overall economy. As a country, we have a monumental mess on our hands and still the Republicans have nothing to offer in the way of a remedy except more tax cuts for the rich."

Tags: #america #conservatives #failure #gop #politics #republicans #teabaggers

Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:02:05 +0000

"The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster. This is something they could and should do, by majority vote, on the first day of the next Senate session. Don’t hold your breath. As it is, Democrats don’t even seem able to score political points by highlighting their opponents’ obstructionism. Well, America is not yet lost. But the Senate is working on it. "

Tags: #america #gop #history #krugman #obstructionism #politics #republicans #senate #stupidity

Undressing the Terror Threat - WSJ.com

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:04:10 +0000

"No amount of statistical evidence, however, will make any difference to those who give themselves over to almost completely irrational fears. Such people, and there are apparently a lot of them in America right now, are in fact real victims of terrorism. They also make possible the current ascendancy of the politics of cowardice—the cynical exploitation of fear for political gain. ... It's a remarkable fact that a nation founded, fought for, built by, and transformed through the extraordinary courage of figures such as George Washington, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. now often seems reduced to a pitiful whimpering giant by a handful of mostly incompetent criminals, whose main weapons consist of scary-sounding Web sites and shoe- and underwear-concealed bombs that fail to detonate."

Tags: #america #cowardice #fear #politics #risk #security #terror #terrorism

Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:10:33 +0000

"Someone, sometime soon is going to start describing the climb out of this impressive hole we’ve dug for ourselves, and they’re going to call it “America 2.0”. Clever, yes. We need a new version of ourselves and that’s going to involve bright, unexpected ideas from those we least expect them from, and they’re going to strike you as impossible. All you need to do to understand these terrifyingly ambitious ideas is to look back at what we’ve already done to understand what we can do."

Tags: #amen #america #bridges #brooklyn #economy #innovation

Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:10:22 +0000

Tags: #america #economy #education #energy #future #obama #technology

What If US Collapses? Soviet Collapse Lessons Every American Needs To Know | MadConomist.com

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:27:07 +0000

"The point that I do want to stress is that when this economy collapses, it is bound to be much worse. Another point I would like to stress is that collapse here is likely to be permanent. The factors that allowed Russia and the other former Soviet republics to recover are not present here."

Tags: #america #collapse #economy #preparedness #russia #us

Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:26:58 +0000

"Athens failed in Syracuse – and doomed their democracy – not because they fought in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but because they weren’t ruthless enough."

Tags: #america #fiction #future #iraq #islam #scifi #terrorism #timetravel #war

Redneck Woman Rails on Obama Video

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:10:32 +0000

I want to think that this is just a weird funny video, but what I really think is that there are a lot of Americans like this. But what I really hope is that I'm mistaken.

Tags: #america #idiocracy #obama #politics #redneck #scary #video