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Anonymous

Freedom is when the air and the waters are clean.

When the food isn't poisoned.

When the future isn't looming like a threat.

And you have a little time

to kick back and enjoy it all.

That's Freedom.

Overheard

Jay Powell took this joint from 9% inflation down to just over 2% in 5 years, without triggering a generation-killing recession.

That's like doing a double-twisting, fourple backflip on one ice skate and sticking a perfect landing.

Trump is a total fucking idiot for even thinking about trying to remove that guy.

And BTW:

Today's Mr Global

Artificial Scarcity:

When goods or services are made to appear scarce, even when there's enough capacity to produce or share them, often to increase demand and prices

And when you own several coin-operated politicians in the US government, you can do just about anything you want.

Vic Meyers Resists

Mr Global

On Forgiveness

My default position:

Telling me you supported Trump, and voted for him 2 or 3 times, is like telling me you fucked my dog.

You can admit you were wrong - or you were lied to, or scammed, or whatever. You can apologize and we can talk it out, and I can come to forgive you, and then we can move on.

But here's the thing: You will always be that guy who was going around fucking people's dogs.

But then, along comes this Angela lady, who talks about what forgiveness demands, and maybe I can find something in myself that lets me think a bit differently about it.