Chris Walker
@blackcod.bsky.social
Former Urban Institute, Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Community development and arts and culture and their entwining.
Nobody these days would recognize the reference if you said "Uncle Joe" but the ass-kissing is certainly Stalinesque. I wish we could call this guy "Uncle Donald," which would connote both Stalin and Donald Duck.
June 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Nobody these days would recognize the reference if you said "Uncle Joe" but the ass-kissing is certainly Stalinesque. I wish we could call this guy "Uncle Donald," which would connote both Stalin and Donald Duck.
I am retired and living off of social security and IRA distributions. This guy is simultaneously raising prices and reducing my ability to pay them.
April 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am retired and living off of social security and IRA distributions. This guy is simultaneously raising prices and reducing my ability to pay them.
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i think this is right and i will observe that this is essentially the position the court took in plessy v. ferguson, which held that the constitution has no bearing on inequalities of social power
There is a stance I will call "Kavanaugh neutrality" that says the Constitution is "neutral" between vulnerable people and the power of the state and so we will watch and shrug while the vulnerable are beaten up in our presence. #Skrmetti
December 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
i think this is right and i will observe that this is essentially the position the court took in plessy v. ferguson, which held that the constitution has no bearing on inequalities of social power