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Anyone remember this classic line from Trump 1.0 about hurricane Florence?

This is a tough hurricane, one of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water

I agree that the process of shoehorning everything into one big bill is crazy, but it wouldn't be as big of an issue without the filibuster. Then it would be possible to pass non-budget bills with a simple majority (50 votes) instead of needing a supermajority (60 votes) for everything.

Trump doesn't have any actual rhetorical abilities so he relies on clichés and bureaucratic language to try to sound important and authoritative.

This was an interesting read. I know, though, that at the time there was a lot of interesting debate among indigenous nations about whether US citizenship was a desirable goal. On the one hand, it can confer some real protections and benefits, like Crook being able to bury his son in his homeland (from which he was forcibly removed). But on the other hand, I know that US citizenship was also viewed as an incursion on tribal sovereignty. See the "debate" section of this Wikipedia page for more info from about 50 years after the story of Crook: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act

I used to know a guy who would regularly say "si" instead of "yes" in English conversations. He also wasn't Spanish/Hispanic. It was super confusing because I thought he was interjecting to see "See..." instead of just responding affirmatively.

I like the book a lot but I think you make a fair point. It was originally written as a work of journalism, a series of articles for the New Yorker.

My brother, have you heard about the benefits of diversification? If you want to retire at all, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

So it's kind of like a real life Food n' Stuff?

And Quaker Oats has a bit of a spotty history too... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spoonful-sugar-helps-radioactive-oatmeal-go-down-180962424/

What Nietzsche really meant in Thus Spoke Zarathustra is that we all just need to get along :)

In America, a handjob is called a "Handy"

And South Korea circa 2018. Unclear if South Korea circa 2024 will be a positive or negative lesson.