#cd_hooks

[thrusticus]

[thrusticus]

[ecologiadigital]

it's pretty funny that the president farted out a tariff on a whim and the EU immediately launched a well-thought-out plan to target industries from the speaker's, senate majority leader's, and house minority leader's states https://t.co/Z515L0fb7L

— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) March 3, 2018

[thrusticus]

The overriding sense I’ve had this election is that despite Trump, and despite many bad years in Congress, the center-left hasn’t fully grappled with the meaning and consequences of the wave of reaction that has gripped the country since 2009. We don’t live anymore in a country with a ruling party and a loyal opposition. That will remain the case after Trump is defeated. And the stakes are really, really high.

That’s what politics is — the way we distribute pain. It’s not a sport or a fraternity or a game. It’s how we determine who gets medication and who dies young, who learns in a class of twenty kids and who learns in a class of thirty, whose school has a counselor that’s trained to look for signs of sexual abuse and who doesn’t.

[thrusticus]