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K “This weekend bookends the summer at the back end. The sun is setting earlier and the summer is fading faster. This was the most fleeting summer.”
J “And on our lives. The toilet paper observation of the passage of time as you get older is crude but apt. The roll spins more quickly and the paper flies off faster. Hold on.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
Carpe diem
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K “‘Main’ sounds normal and ‘Stream’ sounds bucolic. Even the messaging is deceptive. How about using ‘WSM’ for ‘War/Wall Street Media’ to describe the corporate media.”
J “The alternative media is shrill, strident and polarizing. I am not unaware that the legacy media is favorably disposed to promote more war than necessary and to protect Wall Street to the exclusion of Main Street.”
K “We need an alternative alternative media.”
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K “One week the NYT proclaims that Russian is running out of bombs and then the next week the NYT screams that Russia is preparing to run into Paris. Seems inconsistent to me.”
J “The NYT is part of the message machine.”
K “After reading the paper for many decades, I concluded a few years ago that any comment in the NYT is presumptively but rebuttably false. After reading the NYT, I am confident that Russia is not running out of bombs and is not preparing to run into Paris. After reading independent and credible sources in the alternative alternative media, I am very confident that Russia is not running out of bombs and is not preparing to run into Paris.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Propaganda is not just about creating fake news. Propaganda is also about hiding real news.
Be skeptical of the WSM
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K “I never thought I would see that headline in my lifetime.”
J “It had to be done.”
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K “I remain satisfied that it is a bad idea.”
J “It had to be done.”
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K “The phrase ‘crossing the Rubicon’ is such a cliché that I do not believe I have ever used it in this life. The U.S.A.’s and Britain’s invasion of Russia crossed the Rubicon.”
J “It had to be done.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Did the Russians really win WW II?
Nous étions au bord de l’abîme, mais depuis, nous avons fait un grand pas en avant.
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K “When he resigned, I felt an immediate shift in the energy level everywhere. Society went through what scientists describe as a phase change. Dupont Circle and other circles had to recalibrate their lives.”
J “Trying to make sense of it at a young age was overwhelming. Presidents were not supposed to lie.”
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K “I despised him more than any other individual at the time. He could have done something about the Southeast Asian War Games. I despise him less now.”
J “A ‘time is the great tincture’ development.”
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J “His efforts to open dialogue with China were prescient. China is still the number one fear and the number one concern.”
K “He did sign legislation creating the Environmental Protection Agency.”
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K “Compared with the rampant corruption deep to the core of both political parties, his antics seem almost sophomoric in hind sight. Donald Segretti talked about ‘rat fucking’ which is really what they were doing then. What the Democratic National Committee is doing to harass, threaten and undermine the Kennedy presidential campaign is much more egregious and outrageous than anything Tricky Dick ever did.”
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J “Fifty years! Time how it flies.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
A crook I am not
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K “Percolating.”
J “Boiling.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
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J “Bankruptcies are up.”
K “And layoffs are rising.”
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J “Foreclosures for property owners.”
K “Evictions for tenants.”
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K “Washington and Wall Street continue to strip mine the American middle class.”
J “And do not remediate and reforest the lives and communities uprooted and destroyed in the process.”
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K “The BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, should drop the pretense and drop the ‘L’ in its name. The unemployment figures are a fraud.”
L “The National Bureau of Economic Research would not recognize a recession if it announced itself with flashing lights and marching band. I can see the lights and hear the band.”
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K “And inflation is much higher than the figures distorted by the government. Some say the consumer price index known as the CPI should be called the ‘CP Lie’.”
J “Yet the thing we call the economy for the wealthy goes on its merry way.”
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K “Maybe.”
J “Maybe.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Unemployment: https://dailyjobcuts.com/ and https://www.macroedge.net/job-cuts-tracker
Inflation: http://www.shadowstats.com/
Fraud + Fraud + Fraud + Fraud + Fraud = / = Truth
Brother, can you spare a dime?
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K “Last Friday night, I observed that he would step down within a fortnight.”
J “He had go. But his policies still trump the alternative.”
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K “One high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. ”
J “It was a chorus. They had to stay on message.”
K “It was a cacophony. Of lies. His condition was obvious years ago. His sycophants have no integrity and no dignity.”
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K “For decades he was a useful obedient puppet. When he was no longer a useful and obedient puppet, they cut his strings.”
J “You are not voting for Biden the avatar, you are voting for the people around him.”
K “The people above him. This is the third term of the O’Bama Administration. They were told by those who control them to jettison Joe.”
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K “So who is in control now?”
J “Those who are in control now?”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
Are tacks really all that sharp?
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K “Once again, something is not right about the whole shooting match.”
J “Assassinations are as American as processed GMO apple pie.”
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K “Negligent or intentional. There is not a third explanation, unless you consider gross negligence a third category. Do the math.”
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K “Someone I trust who is in a position to know said that neither Trump nor Kennedy will be allowed to cross the threshold of the White House as a tenant in an official capacity.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
What happened to America?
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K “Time to disband.”
J “Time to rethink the alliance.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
[Sported by senior citizen] Sometimes I have to remind myself that it is not worth the jail time.
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K “The headline above an Associated Press article astutely sums up the score. Law in America is a game and a sport with winners and losers. The decisions should be printed and debated on the Sports Page. However, there is no justice.”
J “Not allowing them to make their argument was callow.”
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K “The idea that even an ordinary person off the street does not have standing to defend the most fundamental Constitutional right is obscene. They were advocating for free speech and were not even allowed to speak. I know obscenity when I see it.”
J “Time to appoint non-lawyers to the courts. Lawyers are not capable of handling the task. A new team is our only salvation.”
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K “I suspect they were discreetly reminded that they should not forget who they are dealing with. Any one of the more than half dozen vaunted persuasion vectors alone could have been persuasive.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
“[O]ne of the most important free speech cases to reach this Court in years.”
There was “more than sufficient” evidence that Jill Hines, one of the plaintiffs, had standing to sue “and consequently, we are obligated to tackle the free speech issue that the case presents.”
“The Court, however, shirks that duty and thus permits the successful campaign of coercion in this case to stand as an attractive model for future officials who want to control what the people say, hear, and think.”
“The Government’s pressure tactics, which included threats of adverse regulatory action, cannot be dismissed as mere persuasion.”
“This ruling effectively grants the government a free pass to continue its campaign of suppression, threatening the foundational principles of free expression.”
Justice Samuel Alito
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