I was heading to a club in Greenpoint last weekend and there was a giant goddamn rat in the middle of the sidewalk noshing on some garbage and he eyeballed me as I approached as if to say "I ain't moving and if you intrude I'm going to bite your ass". I swerved to the side and let him eat his dinner in peace. All part of being a good citizen.
There needs to be a book written on the golden age of 80s daytime talk shows, including Geraldo's and what may arguably be THE GOAT moment when his interview with nazis went very wrong and he got smashed in the face with a chair.
Thank you! Eisenhower as the Good Republican requires ignoring this. Ugh. Dulles was a lawless horror. I imagine being an international passenger whose country suffered for decades under his chosen right-wing autocrat arriving in DC. You must go thru Dulles.
One of the things I liked about Clinton was his opposition to wars and coups. I think because he grew up poor and saw so many of his friends shipped off to Vietnam. Clinton had a stay-the-hell-outta-war head space which I grok even more.
Ta, Dok. Adams wasn't my first choice, but he was one of my choices, and I'll be glad to vote for him on Election Day. This was not just my first time ranked-choice voting, it was my first time early voting, too, because I got the Friday before Juneteenth off work, so it was a perfect opportunity.
The chances of Adams' changing NYPD for the better are...well, they're about the same as every effort to change police departments by working from the inside.
It's not a few bad apples. It's the barrel itself. We're in a crisis of our political class, caused by the deterioration of our systems and institutions. Those systems and institutions are not going to be the source of the solutions to the problems caused by their deterioration. This is why our political class can't solve any of our problems. We know we need to make some radical changes, but we can't because our elites refuse change to our failing systems and institutions.
Our whole society is trapped in a circular argument. At this point, events are in charge. So the best we can do is take care of our own stuff until events force change upon us; so we're best positioned to do what we all know needs to be done when the crisis finally becomes bad enough we can't not act.
I commented about this myself a few years ago, when I heard it show up on a "Classic Rock" station.
SterWonk: I did a double-take just this morning when something from the Beastie Boys showed up on a "Classic Rock" radio station.OtherGuy: SterWonk: To be fair, "Licensed to Ill" came out over thirty years ago.SterWonk: I was alive => it's not old enough to be "classic"SterWonk: That's just scienceOtherGuy: That seems sort of arbitraryOtherGuy: Why should we use your birthdate as the dividing line between classic and contemporary?OtherGuy: Is that Ster Jesus Wonk or something??? ;)SterWonk: lol
Adams is... not 100% terrible, so okay I guess. He had some halfway decent ideas in his policy docs, but since he's an ex-Republican, there were also some alarmingly stupid ones, like "don't replace anyone who leaves a City job for the next two years, that'll solve our budget problems and lol could never possibly backfire in any way."
Garcia was a lot better, but Wiley was hands down my fave.
TBAF attrition is usually how the city cuts staff because public unions are some of the most powerful unions in the city and country.
But the problem isn't that the city spends too much on civil servants, but that it gives away too many tax breaks and spends too much on private contractors.
Nah, Adams has this in the bag. GOP here somehow managed to produce an even less electable candidate than Malliotakis of "how about armed guards outside public schools?" fame, which is saying something. (She's in Congress now, of course, because Staten Island is like that.)
I was heading to a club in Greenpoint last weekend and there was a giant goddamn rat in the middle of the sidewalk noshing on some garbage and he eyeballed me as I approached as if to say "I ain't moving and if you intrude I'm going to bite your ass". I swerved to the side and let him eat his dinner in peace. All part of being a good citizen.
That would make Snooki a native New Jerseyan. I don't blame them.
There needs to be a book written on the golden age of 80s daytime talk shows, including Geraldo's and what may arguably be THE GOAT moment when his interview with nazis went very wrong and he got smashed in the face with a chair.
Thank you! Eisenhower as the Good Republican requires ignoring this. Ugh. Dulles was a lawless horror. I imagine being an international passenger whose country suffered for decades under his chosen right-wing autocrat arriving in DC. You must go thru Dulles.
One of the things I liked about Clinton was his opposition to wars and coups. I think because he grew up poor and saw so many of his friends shipped off to Vietnam. Clinton had a stay-the-hell-outta-war head space which I grok even more.
well then!! they deserve all the get!
Ta, Dok. Adams wasn't my first choice, but he was one of my choices, and I'll be glad to vote for him on Election Day. This was not just my first time ranked-choice voting, it was my first time early voting, too, because I got the Friday before Juneteenth off work, so it was a perfect opportunity.
The chances of Adams' changing NYPD for the better are...well, they're about the same as every effort to change police departments by working from the inside.
It's not a few bad apples. It's the barrel itself. We're in a crisis of our political class, caused by the deterioration of our systems and institutions. Those systems and institutions are not going to be the source of the solutions to the problems caused by their deterioration. This is why our political class can't solve any of our problems. We know we need to make some radical changes, but we can't because our elites refuse change to our failing systems and institutions.
Our whole society is trapped in a circular argument. At this point, events are in charge. So the best we can do is take care of our own stuff until events force change upon us; so we're best positioned to do what we all know needs to be done when the crisis finally becomes bad enough we can't not act.
I commented about this myself a few years ago, when I heard it show up on a "Classic Rock" station.
SterWonk: I did a double-take just this morning when something from the Beastie Boys showed up on a "Classic Rock" radio station.OtherGuy: SterWonk: To be fair, "Licensed to Ill" came out over thirty years ago.SterWonk: I was alive => it's not old enough to be "classic"SterWonk: That's just scienceOtherGuy: That seems sort of arbitraryOtherGuy: Why should we use your birthdate as the dividing line between classic and contemporary?OtherGuy: Is that Ster Jesus Wonk or something??? ;)SterWonk: lol
You keep telling yourself that
That's more than the Red states ever realize.
Fun fact: Upstate New York also tried to threaten to secede in 2013, so us city folk would stop welfare-mooching off their hardworking farmers.
We called their bluff. We even pointed out we proposed the exact same thing in 1968, and again in 2004, because we understand math. They shut up.
AOC's position is safe as houses. Have you already forgotten she won her seat by primarying a moderate Democrat?
Adams is... not 100% terrible, so okay I guess. He had some halfway decent ideas in his policy docs, but since he's an ex-Republican, there were also some alarmingly stupid ones, like "don't replace anyone who leaves a City job for the next two years, that'll solve our budget problems and lol could never possibly backfire in any way."
Garcia was a lot better, but Wiley was hands down my fave.
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TBAF attrition is usually how the city cuts staff because public unions are some of the most powerful unions in the city and country.
But the problem isn't that the city spends too much on civil servants, but that it gives away too many tax breaks and spends too much on private contractors.
Nah, Adams has this in the bag. GOP here somehow managed to produce an even less electable candidate than Malliotakis of "how about armed guards outside public schools?" fame, which is saying something. (She's in Congress now, of course, because Staten Island is like that.)
Maybe Yang will try his hand at the Boise political scene