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Ministry of Truth's avatar

In solidarity with the students at Harvard I also went on a 12 hour hunger strike between supper and breakfast.

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DMC's avatar

So brave!!

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Graham Cunningham's avatar

I bet you feel a whole lot more virtuous for it?

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Ministry of Truth's avatar

My farts now smell at least 90% sweeter.

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Heyjude's avatar

Brad, quick story:

My husband and I go to his office every Friday morning, then to breakfast. I stay in the car and read my substacks while he goes into his office.

When you started Quotes of the Week, I would read some aloud while we drove to breakfast.

Now the first thing he says when he comes out of his office is “Have you got the Quotes?”

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DMC's avatar

dont do it while he's driving!!!!

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Heyjude's avatar

LOL, good point! Luckily he’s an excellent driver!

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Susan G's avatar

Hopefully, the Cut's financial advisor has been fired. Amazon NEVER makes an unsolicited call to a customer. NEVER!! An individual posing as a "financial advisor" must be aware of common scams. Is this column maybe a hoax, designed to warn the unsophisticated while making them feel OK for being caught in a scam a 12 year old should recognize?

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

You can be very book smart yet have the street smarts of a small child. This is what happens when our elite caste never worked a real job or missed a meal or even served in the military. They are hothouse flowers ripe to be plucked by anyone who knows which buttons to press.

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Susan G's avatar

I question if she is even book smart. And agree wholeheartedly with your comment.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

i agree, i was trying to be charitable (!)

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Susan G's avatar

I'm in a "not nice" mood today.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

"An even halfway competent leadership class could’ve firmly established America’s leadership position for the next hundred years just by picking the lowest hanging fruit, but instead ours squandered it all in a few decades.”

This is absolutely false! America's patrimony and the blessings of our prosperity were not "squandered" in any way—they were brazenly stolen by a political class bought off by a business/ finance class and protected by a complicit media class.

By the time we get to NAFTA and post-Cold War America it was obvious what the plan was: ship all middle-class jobs overseas, liquidate wages and pensions, privative our resources (most especially govt-funded IP) while socializing the losses, and never ever say things like "tariff" or "national economic policy" if you want to keep getting your cut.

America is in decline because at least 2 generations of politicians could not resist the lure of big money from Wall St etc—the insider trading, the massive speaking fees, the Board positions, the jobs for their kids and grandkids—and made EVERY decision based on the needs of international capital rather than the needs of their own citizens and society.

Winning the Cold War is one of the worst things that ever happened to America.

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DMC's avatar

I saw a remark by walter Kirn that related this to campaign finance. since it was established as a "pay to play" scheme the real criminals got involved.

The sad story is we thought we were better. Human nature says we are not.

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Heyjude's avatar

Is it possible that even MSNBC has a limit on the beclowning they are willing to cover for?

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Blair's avatar

No, I don't think so. 🤣🤡

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DD's avatar

Jasmine, you are LITERALLY a complete fool, LITERALLY a political embarrassment, LITERALLY a shameless racial provocateur.

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Bill Heath's avatar

ABC's mystery motive takes the prize.

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