The awesome stakes of Joe Biden’s presidency. Not since 1945 has more rested on a new US leader.
And Biden is not even remotely up to the task. Sanders might’ve been. AOC, if she were old enough. Maybe even Warren. But Biden? Hell no.
Month: January 2021
Sero
This is great https://t.co/fjVUI3XI41
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) January 18, 2021
Well that is some good fucking news.
Suspect it will be suppressed, though. Lockdowns must continue…forever!
Propaganda Machine
Big Mac in USA: $4.80
Big Mac in Denmark: $5.15McDonalds worker salary in USA: $7.25
McDonalds worker salary in Denmark: $22 https://t.co/y2pZJqwdDa— ℝℍ ℙ (@realCEOofANTIFA) January 16, 2021
Yeah, I believed those lies too until I actually went overseas…and found that food was not that much more expensive.
Then a few years later I did the same calculation and found that a Big Mac would only have to go up about 20 cents in price to pay everyone who worked minimum wage at McD’s $18 an hour.
Oops
How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere?
Oops we did it again
We played with the thermostat
Set the world aflame
Oh, BP, BP
Oops, you bought the gov
Now it’s death from above
Our extinction is imminent
Wave
I wonder if this is what will be used as the excuse for the next wave of lockdowns after most people are vaccinated against the current threat, or they’ll just stick with that Covid is still a risk?
California Knows
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Untouchable Like Eliot Ness
People are surprised when I can recognize an accent or a language in a word or two.
But here’s the thing: I am really fucking good.
Scouse
I didn’t realize Jodie Comer is a scouser! How did I not know this? One of my very favorite accents.
Not as strong as this woman’s, though:
What a personality.
Min Max
America is probably one of the worst places for it, but if people were as interested in helping lift each other up as they are holding other people down, the world would be a vastly better place.
This applies in every area, not just the minimum wage — which should be probably around $22 per hour if it had tracked productivity increases.
Bad Idea After Bad Idea
We should be doing a massive lockdown right now, and it’s sort of bizarre how that policy option has fallen off the radar. Hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved! https://t.co/GSbDgCxGdm
— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) January 17, 2021
It’s fallen off the radar because it’s a terrible idea.
No Not Gram
a world in which other people’s breath isn’t venom was such a damned luxury.
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) January 17, 2021
Steve, now you wanna kill gramma. What’s up with all you gramma-killers?
Real Lock
Whilst 2020 brought misery and dislocation for tens of millions of Americans, thank to boom in asset prices those with stake in stock market and real estate saw a $12.5trn increase in net worth = largest ever recorded. Totally unlike 2008. @Gavekal pic.twitter.com/SXap6fxIGq
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) January 17, 2021
The real reason lockdowns are ongoing and not going to stop anytime soon.
Deplete
How and why did we ever believe in willpower depletion? It sounds absurd now. I can’t believe I ever bought that bullshit.
It’s obviously bogus. I wonder how many other things I believe that are like that?
Shoot Em Up
This is…a lot of murder.
Shit.https://t.co/zdC0wTkHY0 pic.twitter.com/E0CeywZs9X
— Noahtogolpe 🐇 (@Noahpinion) January 17, 2021
Lock people at home all the time, I’d expect murders and suicides to increase.
And they have.
Emergence
Yes, this is accurate. Or when I get angry.