“I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff wrote. “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.”

First of all, ironic.

Second, why the fuck was Michael Wolff advising Jeffrey Epstein on PR?

We rarely get snow in Texas; we get a solid sheet of ice that covers everything. The city also doesn’t plow, and nobody has snow tires because it’s only going to be a day or two.

Yeah, southern drivers don’t know how to drive (in or out of snow, really), but places like Denver and Dallas have such different experiences that it’s not really fair to compare them. It’d be like mocking Alaskins because they’re miserable in 90°F; they don’t have the AC to handle what is incredibly mild weather to me.

Not saying you’re mocking or disrespectful, I’m just on my soapbox.

I’ve never read The Grapes of Wrath before, but now I’m about a quarter through it.

You can tell that Steinbeck really lived that hard depression life and had an abiding love for the other people who did too, warts and all.

Good talk.

My bad, I didn’t know that you loved Reddit so much.

…but you’re the one complaining that you don’t like Lemmy? Why would they leave because you’re unhappy?

You have to spring for the french fry cuffs.

Jeffrey Epstein?

And hey, Mike Johnson is keeping the Epstein investigation files sealed during this shutdown. So chin up little MAGA, your pedo president is being protected by you getting stranded in the Des Moines airport.

Money money money
Must be funny
In a rich man’s world

I sized her up when she covered for Trump for his first impeachment.

She’s a lying, manipulative, amoral climber who will do anything to advance her profile.

Her helping try to overthrow the government on Jan 6 showed that I had her figured right.

She’s one of the worst vipers in the whole nest.

You’ve got to be some real piece of shit to work for ICE.

Same.

It really begins to get at the depravity of the man.

🎵🎶There goes my gyro

Oh that guy is a paranoid loser. I think it’s also an alt for (among many others) Universal Monk.

The implication was that they’re smarter than “the educated.”

Edit: Here’s the full quote:

We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. We’re the smartest people, we’re the most loyal people, and you know what I’m happy about? Because I’ve been saying it for a long time. 46% were the Hispanics—46%, No. 1 one with Hispanics. I’m really happy about that.

It’s an old fascist saw that folk wisdom is better than book-learning.

From They Thought They Were Free- the Germans, 1933-45:

Because the mass movement of Nazism was nonintellectual in the beginning, when it was only practice, it had to be anti- intellectual before it could be theoretical. What Mussolini’s official philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, said of Fascism could have been better said of Nazi theory: “We think with our blood.” Expertness in thinking, exemplified by the professor, by the high-school teacher, and even by the grammar- school teacher in the village, had to deny the Nazi views of history, economics, literature, art, philosophy, politics, biology, and education itself.

Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own— that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous— not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.

In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk- ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society.

It’s been a pretty decent week.

People can be led by the nose if you confirm their bigotry and make them think they’re smart.

You’re right, I should double down.

I’ll bet $500 that she used the phrase “don’t you know who I am?!”