Said it before, I'll say it again: the grimmest political development in my lifetime is that we went from having old people who remember the Depression to having old people who remember the Eisenhower Administration.

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its the "hard times create hard men, hard men create soft times, soft times create soft men, soft men create hard times" thing for Boomers being the only generation in American history that got to experience a cradle-to-grave welfare state bsky.app/profile/jack...

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"whats wrong with the younger generation why is no one having kids anymore" like 5 seconds after they cut all the school buses and fired half the teachers because there's no property tax revenue to fund them anymore

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Gonna visit Don Quijote while in Osaka and get a stamp cut with my family name. Gotta decide if I should do Katakana パーマー, or a creative Kanji spelling of 波眞 which apparently could mean Spread Truth. I'm not sure if this is correct though and don't want to mess it up like a stupid foreigner.

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Suddenly, Trump's corruption feels like a salient political issue. I don't know why it took this long, but it's happening. Even Republicans are telling pollsters they're souring on Trump's grift.

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