Democrats could accomplish a lot by using the fear playbook. For example if you say DeVos is gonna fire a lot of public school teachers, people will yawn, because don’t we hear all the time how bad public schools are? However, if you tell them DeVos is coming for LITTLE TIMMY’S TEACHER, they’ll fight that, because as…

Michael Lewis explained this in the 80s in Liar’s Poker. Greed is a factor in supporting Trump, as it is for investment decisions, but the much greater factor is FEAR. Republicans either believe, or prey on those who believe, that “the other” is coming for them and their children. Gun sales spiked all through…

Pop. Are you from the Midwest? I grew up in Detroit, and that’s what we called it.

Or LBJ and Lady Bird. Or FDR and Eleanor. Or Truman and Bess, who didn’t even move to D.C. Or JFK and Jackie, even. But in every one of those cases, you could still see the respect and admiration in which they held one another.

I dunno...this is a simple game: you throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. You got it?

It’s sweet of you to care.

Only submariners.

Joke, son.

Or that you are, amirite??

You’re a dunce.

Holy fucking God.

Swing and a miss!

Hoo boy...

Cinema is fucking dead.

Or that depressed or mentally ill people are creative and become rock stars.

One could enter a learning spiral in such a machine pretty quickly, such that we’d learn its rules and game the system. You can’t dispense small doses of setback, with inevitable ultimate success, without people becoming wise right away.

As somebody who watched his young wife die of cancer, I’d say your experience machine is a load of crap.

Of course, the Matrix dude has no compulsion to hold up how end of the bargain. He could extinct what’s his name, and he would know no different. That’s why The Matrix is only considered deep by the illiterate. It’s evaluations are all superficial.

Today’s news: DeVos, Ailes, Flynn, Trump. The Republican Party is simply a collection of evil people is all.

Most of it will go to for profit ed companies, who will take the money, shortchange the students while paying themselves giant salaries, then declare bankruptcy two years later and move on to the next town.