@Horace said in A trillion here and a trillion there...: This debt thing sure does seem like a looming tidal wave that we have no plan for. Musk has been pretty blunt about it, more than most politicians. It will bankrupt us in the not-so-distant future. And who knows more about bankruptcies than...

Visas can be revoked at the stroke of a pen. Just saying..

@Jolly said in $20 Billion: And Washington owned slaves. Agree, but you have to look at the whole work done by him, the time he was living, the context, etc. And I think that even with him owing slaves, most people agree that he is one of the better US president ever. I am sure that we can find one thing that President Biden did well, (LOL), but that does not make his president term great.

Should I ever have an urge to hurt Mr. Trump, I will resist it.

Expert swamp creatures have sufficient experience to know not to publish their list. That's why experience is so important for these cabinet positions. Gotta give the supporters plausible deniability. Keep their rhetorical quivers full.

Better than funding Gaza hip-hop.

Vivek is running for governor.

There was a deadline

Good grief of Moses...There you go again comparing apples and kumquats...

Anna Paulina Luna (née Mayerhofer, later Gamberzky In 2019, she took her maternal grandmother's maiden name, Luna, to represent her Hispanic heritage. She did this to follow suit from her mother who had first changed her surname to the same, following a finalized divorce. Luna began describing herself as Hispanic in 2019. However, when she registered to vote in 2015, she had marked her ethnicity as "White, not of Hispanic origin." Sen Warren is her racial mentor.

I am not a big movie watcher but an interesting video. (on another note, I was reading that more for "TV" series, they are changing how they are written. Because so many watchers are are playing on their phones while watching (or otherwise distracted) scripts are starting to "recap" things because the show makers realize that they do not have the audience full attention anymore. For example: Before: Someone walks into a room and the audience knows where they just came from. Now: Someone walks into a room, and somehow lets it known that they just came from this other location.

Sad - pretty obvious there are mental or addiction problems and probably both.

Academia will be the last culture to change, if it ever does. The free market is not at work there, and there has always been a moat between its culture and popular culture, with built-in, default reasons for academia to be self-satisfied with those differences. (They are the educated and intelligent ones, after all.)

Somewhat related. The US used to print a USD$100,000 bill. But, it was not legal to own. It was supposed to be only for banks. If you have one, or tried to use one, you could be arrested. [image: us-one-hundred-thousand-dollar-bill-1934-100000-usd-treasury-note-serge-averbukh.jpg?&targetx=-2&targety=32&imagewidth=952&imageheight=407&modelwidth=952&modelheight=476&backgroundcolor=A39F94&orientation=1&producttype=bathtowel-32-64]

BTW if you want to see what was "uncovered" (psst, it's all available online), check this out. Here's the program: https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/shelter-services-program/fy24-awards/ssp-a Here's the $59 million: [image: 1739462248577-f708086f-7abd-4819-9395-e7580fbadb1e-image.png] And here are the roll call votes as it passed the House and Senate: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2617/all-actions?overview=closed&q={"roll-call-vote"%3A"all"} House = 225-201 (at least 7 republicans joined the democrats) Senate = 68-29 (at least 18 republicans joined the democrats) And if FEMA spent this money on Hurricane Relief... THAT is what would be illegal. Just some facts.

@Mik said in As Originally Presented: I think it's more valuable to leave them in as a mirror onto our former selves rather than trying to make them conform to today. It's a barometer of how far we've come. Totally. And when they had a disclaimer before Aladdin, I thought... ok so you think it's bad, but you still "sell" it for money. If it was truly offensive, you would remove it completely.