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We are very different kinds of drunks...

I'm posting two in a row because Clark put me in the youtube rabbit hole. I remember this song on the radio but never saw the video until tonight. Feel free to comment on the parts you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztmoPIG_2wI

I agree completely. Massive, massive deflationary forces from unfathomable progress on automation and exploiting foreign labor have made the inflation from runaway government spending invisible. But the geniuses at the Fed haven't put that together. Problem is, there aren't many places left in the world to get nearly-free labor. If we can't keep dropping the prices on TVs and t-shirts, the stagnation in wage growth for the past couple decades and the aforementioned spending spree is going to kick us in the teeth. And the Fed has nowhere to go with rates at zero. Get ready...

Today, I flew an airplane without training wheels for the first time since 1991. All went well. Even caught the #3 wire on the first one... The differences in technology, ATC, and what else is in the air is hugely different and sometimes difficult for an old guy to process. Fcukin' children of the magenta line...look outside. That said, the ability to enter/enter/direct and have George point the way home is pretty cool. But fcukin' look outside and stop staring at the screen. Being in the taxi mix with an MQ-9 and in the pattern with same is pretty weird. But then I remember rotary dial phones with the 12 ft cord twisted all to hell and back. What the hell happened to all the VORs? (kidding, I'm aware). When did every middling airport get a control tower? I am quietly getting drunk now. No doubt Biden will stay awake longer than I will tonight. 'Scuse me, there's some pesky kids on the lawn...

I think you might be late to the party...this has been common for RATM for 30 years.

You have just succinctly described the entire woke movement. Nice job.

Most will overlook the importance of what is happening here. The liberal press machine violated all ethical standards in order to weaponize itself against a President and control a negative narrative in order to remove him from power. I HATE defending Trump....he is a loud mouth narcissist but some of the things he did were very good...all that being said the machine which enjoys special protections under the Constitution ran off the rails. Trump said some shitty things that are on tape (comments on John McCain were horrific), and maybe that is enough to make you hate him...however, many of the "reported" things he said we completely fabricated but they were repeated over and over by the big hate networks as fact. What this retraction really shows is how far the press as an institution has fallen. In the past if there was a negative report the press had a DUTY to confirm the story and the source. It was part of their ethos. What is going on now and what happened here is the WASHPO had one source who passed along the comments. They did not bother to confirm...they other networks picked up the WASHPO story and they called the original source to confirm....and so on and so on and so on...The entire story was a fabrication from ONE person. The EXACT same thing happened with the story about Trump's comments on dead soldiers at Arlington. It was a fabrication from one source and when it was quietly retracted no one noticed and no one cared because the damage was done. Perhaps the biggest failure was the Steele Dossier...opposition research, paid for by Hillary's campaign, used not only politically but also criminally. The press ran with it and we had years of investigations. Years later we learned the FBI and Intel community went through the report line by line and found much of the report was a complete fabrication...damage was done. Again, maybe it doesn't make a difference with a President as divisive as Trump, but the bigger picture is the press which is supposed to the be 4th estate, neutral and in search of the truth, has been weaponized for one political party and that hasn't worked out very well in other countries.