You already did, by refusing to listen to constituents. They’ve taken over, and that’s good.

Everyone should have talked about Flock and then sued this guy for violating the first amendment.

Noam Chomsky is still alive.

Man, it really seems to take off in 1980. What could possibly explain that?

Side note: while he seems good in comparison to Darth Raygun, Jimmy “the peanut” Carter was pretty awful on labor issues.

The CIA has been up to no good in Mexico since the CIA was started.

Paging Luigi…

The only thing that will reduce grocery bills is price controls.

It’s 10x funnier if the milk mustache is a Hitler stache.

Agree. Tax their revenues, and mark any infusions of cash as revenue.

I don’t want 50% of your “spewing raw sewage into people’s houses” business, I want that business to go away.

All the World Cup games are being played in NFL stadiums in the US and existing soccer stadiums in Canada and Mexico. As far as I know there isn’t much new infrastructure being built for this one. The Olympics, on the other hand, have an obscene amount of specialized infrastructure that gets built and is typically abandoned after the games.

MetLife stadium is not in NYC, and no reasonable person is going to walk there.

Yeah, I saw that New York/New Jersey transit will be absurdly expensive for getting to MetLife stadium. Everyone is gouging for the World Cup.

Could you link any of those? I’m inclined to believe you but I’d be interested in reading one of the papers.

Where did they incite violence? They posted a list of state legislative leaders after stating that the power to regulate how corporations behave is a power left to the states. Seems like what they are advocating is that people contact their state legislators and demand state level regulation of these corporations.

Indigenous Hawaiians would greet each other by touching foreheads and “sharing breath.” The English colonizers and missionaries thought that was dirty, and were called “ha ole,” “without breath.” Over time, “haole” came to mean “foreigner” and then “white” (after multiple ethnicities would intermarry while white people largely refused to do so.)

One of my favorite anecdotes is about a (white) professor at University of Hawaii-Manoa who had a white student complain about being called a haole, saying it wasn’t fair that Hawaiians could be “racist” against white people. The professor responded “if you’re white in Hawaii you can be one of three things: a haole, a dumb haole, or a dumb fucking haole.”

I grew up white in Hawaii, and I’m happy to say I was only ever called a haole.

Information about monk seals is all over Hawaii. The idea that this guy who visits frequently and is a fisherman would not know what a monk seal is is absurd. At minimum it should be cause for him to be banned from the state for being too stupid to safely travel there.

That capex number in the article is a big part of it. $200 billion spent to generate $1-2 billion a month in revenue is wasteful, and people at the top are feeling the pressure to justify that expense.

That’s like half of Ed Zitron’s output, although he puts more detail into identifying the specific placid and compliant reporters.