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Is that a bug or a feature? Remember late winter of 2012 in this area? That’s when it was in the 80s not only on St Patrick’s Day, but also for several days afterwards. Everything started blooming in response, and then, the killing frost. We lost an entire crop of Michigan cherries that year because of it.

I’m not at all worried about that.

He knew what he was doing.

And compassion, which, it goes without saying …

I feel like people are giving up on TORK! too soon, especially after learning all we have about the dreadful state of development in this system. I’m basically a blank slate on the guy for this year, not expecting anything either way, which itself might be a little pessimistic. But in the end I would be truly shocked if his career simply crapped out from this point forward. I think there’s a better chance he ends up with a good career than Casey Mize does.

There are sooo many stories coming out just like this. It was far worse than we even feared.

I tend to think that because that whole fascist right wing makes so much noise, with an entire high-profile media ecosystem at their disposal, and because they hold entire states in their thrall, people believe they have bigger support than they likely have in actuality. But there's no way they have the support of 50% of Americans. They probably don't have even 40%. What they have is a system originally tilted to slave-holding states that they still benefit from that makes things electorally close. But yeah, they have for all practical purposes maxed out that base. For every voter they can convert from Biden to Trump/DeSantis, five or ten voters will come back the other way after they wake up from their stupor and come to their senses.

All DeSantis is going to do is split off the vote from Trump. He's going to get the people who want the Trumpism without the Trump, and Trump is going to keep the people who want the Trump. The thing to remember is that they are never going to expand that base. All the people who want fascism are already in. No one who doesn't want fascism now is going to want fascism in a year and a half. Since they can't win a free and fair election, I believe the only way they can get people in line is to steal the election and then use force to impose minority fascist rule on the majority. Otherwise, how else do they win?

Glad to see you have a sense of humor about it all!

Wow, you hit the jackpot. The worst I see when I take the L is people walking between the train cars. Maybe I should take the Green Line more!

You might be right about the gene. I think there's a gene that determines whether you like super hoppy IPAs. A lot of people do. I can't stand it. All it does is give me dry mouth and make me thirsty for water. I hated Vernors when I was a kid, but I learned to appreciate it more as an adult. I think of it as the horseradish of pop.

Here in Big Shoulders, it's June what brings spring.

In the American medical system, every doctor is savvy about business, and some even specialize in it. I'm just wondering whether Malarkey's medical specialty qualifies him to speak as a COVID-19 expert.

Spend a year on this side of Lake Michigan and let's see if you still believe this.

Definitely an acquired taste. I think you have to be introduced to it as an adult.

What is his medical specialty?

Get a brian.

I almost never see crazies on the L, and you see some on your only trip on one? Awww, not fair.

Yeah, this one won’t end well, either.

That’s fine, you don’t have to believe his direct quote here actually happened. I can’t confirm that Paul Vallas is fire, but he sure is a lot of smoke. Chicago is chartered to have a strong council and a weak mayor, although it has evolved across the decades into a strong mayor-weak council system in practice, in part because they can draw up the budget. Vallas also has the endorsement of the cop union, which to me is very different from being pro-safety. It suggests that he is going to try to redirect dollars from social services to recruiting thousands of fresh cops, which sounds good until they start dropping the standards so they can get more dues-paying FOP members on board quickly and easily. Many head crackers had fled the force after all the pressure departments across the country were receiving due to public pressure after the rash of incidents the past few years. It now looks like Vallas wants to go back, and Catanzara could not be more thrilled. Looks like interesting times the next six weeks here in Big Shoulders.

He is establishing what the line should be for future fundraising and marketing efforts.

Note how Hawley says he wants it at $25 so they add credibility to their future claim to the American people they forced a corrupt Democrat pharma company to act in the interests of America’s heartland voters.

Woke pharma company clearly doesn’t want America to be made great again.

Who is Marty Malarkey and why should I care what he has to say about this?

Helping others is socialist. Unless it’s helping to put up a neighbor’s barn. Anything else is socialist. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, cowboy. #Murica