Jerry Jones springs immediately to mind.
It becomes a lot more clear when you realize that the NRA doesn’t exist to benefit their members, they exist to benefit the firearms industry. They want increased sales, nothing else. If fewer people can legally buy guns, that cuts the profit margin, so it’s counterproductive.
She’s one of those, “I’ve got no grudge against them, as long as they stay far away from me” types.
Tom Cotton is the Neidermeyer of the GOP.
Municipal government employee here, and I pay into Social Security.
I agree with you, but his intelligence only extends (in this case) to knowing how to keep his mouth shut. Here’s how I think it went: first day in the DoE offices, some staffers who saw the writing on the wall sat him down for a briefing and proceeded to spend the next several hours scaring the absolute shit out of…
The Calculating Stars is great. Everybody should go read it.
I’d spend the day getting yelled at by my bosses for our systems being down, even though no one here will have any control over it.
I would be astoundingly happy if they would sell 6-packs of the Kosmos Reserve. You can only get single bottles in the Family Reunion packs, and those seem like they can be a dumping ground for the other styles that don’t sell (looking at you, Prickly pear).
Root for a Giant? No way.
It comes and goes. Just like Brandy’s Tinder matches.
“Hey, I wish there was a city that had Dallas’s urban planning, but also drunken bachelorettes!”
I knew it! Commies everywhere! (Further communication restricted to Violet-level clearance or higher)
“look, it’s a nice poem, but poems don’t dictate national policy”
Give me your tired privieged, your poor affluent, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free skilled professionals only
Lack of curiosity about the real world, lack of education, dangerous credulity, susceptibility to propaganda, and an information ecosystem with absolutely no checks and balances.
Realistically:
“was pinning all their hopes on endless growth there a mistake?”