CrayonMaster

https://www.c-span.org/video/?532074-1/fmr-pres-trump-delivers-remarks-cedar-rapids-ia <- From here: https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-no-trump-did-183400610.html

C-span has the line as "War in democracy", and tbh that's what I hear too. Context isn't much of a factor, it's just a generic Trump ramble:

For decades, you watched as a corrupt political class in our nation's capitol looted your money, trampled on your dignity and pushed their radical agenda into every aspect of your lives. You know it very well. But in 2016, you voted to stand up to those liars, losers, crooks and creeps, and you elected an outsider as your president. And it was about America first. We want to put our country first. They haven't done that in a long time, but we did it for four years and that's why we did so well. That's why it was one of the great presidencies, they say. Even the opponents sometimes say that he did very well, I have to say, "Take it back," his people scream. His people say "Take it back." From that day on our opponents, and we had a lot of opponents, but we've been waging an all-out war in (on?) American democracy. You look at what they've been doing, and becoming more and more extreme and repressive. They have just waged an all-out war with each passing day.

I learned originally from my Grandma, just knit and purl. After that YouTube.

I'm all for it. Could we give it a try for a month and decide after if we liked it?

I guess my distaste comes from the fact that this is a "top down" approach when a "bottom up" approach feels both more effective and attainable. The rejection of consumerism should come from people, not from a government, and the idea that the government should work to influence attitudes and not the reverse is worrying to me.

I definitely don't endorse Black Friday, but I think this mindset uses the wrong sorts of tools to answer what might not even be the right question.

You can't fix the "we should go shopping on Friday after Thanksgiving" mindset with a law, or at least not with a law that's even vaugly in line with laws existing where I live. Even if you banned sales the day after Thanksgiving, that's not the issue, the bugger problem is the relationship between people, community, goods and brands.

You know, I was starting to think they were milking the resolution for Tendi's arc. Like, we found out 4 episodes ago, then they brought it up last episode, now it's a plot point again; you can't stretch out the climax that long.

But it turns out we're still in the rising action, this was just a stepping stone. I love this show.

After she was unconscious.

That was good and wholesome... they're going to hurt us in the next episode aren't they?

ETA: also, no ships were stolen this time. Thoughts?

For me it was funny, but only because it kept subverting my expectations. Everytime they gave the "2 hours later" board, I expected it to me chaos, but it was just sweet. And they got me every time.

I'd count Oklahoma before I count Pennsylvania tbh

I've been thinking about this post all day and I still can't figure out what it means. Can you elaborate?

For me the most shocking part is that he's willing to admit Twitter lost so much value. I thought he was still on the "it's finally turning a profit thanks to my brilliant leadership" train.