"you shouldn't do something good FOR them, but something bad WITH them."

Yup!

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"barely legal" 🤢
These guys who think of women like youtubers think of products in unboxing videos need to... there's just too much ick.

And, dear republican women, trying to be a 'pick me girl'* in a pedophile club is no way to live. Ask Ghislaine.

*this is also a shitty way to think of women.

This has been my argument against gmo's for decades now.
It's not that they are safe to eat, though you expect that the revelant agencies would check that before seeding the fields with them, it's that they are intellectual property.
You don't buy seed. You buy a license to seed.

*series of polite but increasingly awkward faux throat clearing coughs*

In other words, simply having the courage of their convictions would have been BOTH more morally credible AND more politically savvy! Instead now they look like fearful empty suits, with no core, chasing public opinion like pathetic tryhards but always just a little behind. Feh.

They could have simply stuck by their principles: immigration needs to be orderly, yes, but by & large it is good & we need more of it. That would have 1) made them look principled even in the face of shifting public opinion, & ALSO 2) positioned them where public opinion was heading!

So now, the public is (predictably) herding *away* from Trump, toward a more sympathetic view of immigration and ... here are Dems, stuck with the panicked reactionary stances they took on the advice of the Moderate to Win bros, unable to properly ride & harness this shift.

"I am in the Epstein emails.."

You might want to follow @philplait.bsky.social's advice to @skepchick.org who's enduring similar circumstances.
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Ps.
I have to apologize to the english language for putting the subject of Larry Summers into a sentence involving being naked.

Je m'excuse.

Ah.. the difference between being naked and being exposed.
He ain't ashamed about being naked.
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That's who he is.

This is the same Elisa New who would have benefited from her contact with Epstein, much like Bill Ackman's wife?
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

From the wiki above:

And this is the same Elisa New who's husband flew on Jeffery's private plane for vacations - like it's spelled out in Jeff's email address - which folks in this circle would have known was the...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_...
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Excuse my French, but these elites are gros idiots.

This is the same Elisa New who would have benefited from her contact with Epstein, much like Bill Ackman's wife?
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The New York Times wrote a breathless scandal article about a mayoral candidate who was born in Uganda as a teenager checking the box “African American” on a college application form for a college he never attended. That’s real news! A scandal!

Ultimately the problem is this: the paper is controlled not by scrupulous reporters but by a clique of Leonhardt types, who surround themselves with chattering class nitwits, cogitate on the news mostly through insular group chats and similar, and always think the GOP has at least half a point

I’m fine conceding that a bunch of nebulously incriminating Epstein statements do not a story make, but in that case neither does the Biden Parkinson’s nonsense, or literally any component of the various Clinton/Wikileaks pseudo-scandals, or tons of other right-wing stuff the paper has laundered

I hope you spare a paragraph or two for how Summers forced his trading "advice"on the professionals managing Harvard's endowment in an episode that cost the university $1.8 billion in the 2008 financial crisis. harvardpolitics.com/larry-summer...