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...Bernie deserves credit for understanding the political poer of big, bold ideas. His call for single-payer health care, free college, and aggressive Wall Street reform inspired millions of Americans, especially young people. Exactly! Dems aren't going to win elections by playing at moderates and trying to appease tRump voters. They'll win by loudly and proudly embracing progressive ideals.

I nonetheless found campaigning against him [Bernie] to be profoundly frustrating. He didn't seem to mind if his math didn't add up of if his plans had no prayer of passing Congress and becoming law. That's because Bernie understands that A) You have to promise the moon to get elected in today's ADD culture, and B) You don't negotiate from a "reasonable" position. You aim sky high and then compromise.

...balanced doesn't mean strictly equal. It means reasonable. It means asking smart question backed by solid reporting and making decisions about coverage that will help people get the information they need to make sound decisions. Picking the midpoint between two sides, no matter how extreme one of them is, isn't balanced--it's false equivalence.

Lauer promised the forum would be an opportunity to "talk about national security and the complex global issues that face our nation."

And you believed him? You believed a serial sexual harasser? This is the problem with establishment Dems. They are fucking naive.

But Republican in Congress were determined to rip up the social safety net. They wanted to lash funding and guarantees, for welfare, Medicaid, school lunches, and food stamps; deny all benefits even to documented immigrants; and send children born out of wedlock to teen mothers to orphanages. While tRump is evil, he is the monster come to fruition from decades of GOP policy.

Bernie Sanders,...had long bowed to the political reality of his rural state of Vermont and supported the NRA's key priorities, including voting against the Brady Bill five time in the 1990s. In 2005, he voted for that special immunity law that protects gun maker and sellers from being sued when their weapons are used in deadly attacks. This definitely tarnishes the esteemed in which I held Sanders.

"Did you say your version is a bit better than the Bible?"
"Well, the Bible's stale."

Heh.

"And then Jesus say, 'Well, watch this'--"
"Really? Well, watch this?"


Actually, I think he said, "Hold my wine and watch this." :D

Heh. Felicity is definitely growing on me.

Reading this today, with the travesty that is Supreme Court appointment process going on...is so...relevant? Depressing? I don't know...

It won't matter, she's someone's mistress. She's just a whore!

Oh, no, boy. You did not say that! Grrrrr.

I really like Monty when he's being rude to rich people.

"Sitting in a boat and watching an island sink slowly into the sea," I say. "What a thrill. Perhaps while we're a thousand miles from home, we'll also take in an eyeful of tea boiling."

:D

The kiss.
Monty, you're an idiot. A lovable idiot, but an idiot just the same.

It quickly became evident that normal debate prep wouldn't work this time. Trump wouldn't answer any question directly, He was rarely linear in his thinking or speaking. He digressed into nonsense and then digressed even more.
Fuck. It would be like debating a toddler who's hours late for his nap. Except the toddler would be cute and lovable.

I ran into Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, walking slowly bu with steely determination. If I had won, she might have enjoyed a nice retirement. Now I hope she'd stay on the bench as long as humanly possible.

I'm not at all religious, but I'm praying for her good health, long may it last.

I really like the protagonist so far. Cheerful and witty, and I'm in need of something mirthful.

Thus far this has been a long backstory exercise. As in, how Matilda learned she was galvanized and hooked up with House Gray...or not. The dialogue is repetitious and info-dumpy. There is no appreciable plot, no sense of urgency. Just a lot of politics. The urge to DNF is stong

Alaska is a self centered asshole. All that manic energy, capriciousness is translating as Me, Me, Me, Me.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Too much yapping, not enough story.

Unique premise and no Insta-love for the win! Endless bickering is growing tiresome, though.

John Green's voice is always engaging, but I'm not as wowed by this as some of his other stuff. Maybe because Alaska is too much of a male-fantasy manic pixie girl type.

Oh, that's why I bought this. The monsters aren't vampires or shifters, or fey, but instead Frankenstein people.

A bufriedo does sound tasty.

"So I always have something to read. But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring."

Nope. I'm old and boring and have no time for reading.

I bought this recently, but can't remember why. LOL.

And they are still traveling. Book, why won't you end?

Some prissy little shit wrote a comment (pencil, fortunately) in this [library] book, whining it had too many curse words. She also crossed out "shit," "fuck," and similar words in the text. I almost added a note, saying, "Honey, if you can't handle salty language in a book, the world's gonna eat you raw and shit you out its ass."

Instead, got a big-ass eraser and restored the book to its shit-fuck-ass glory.

And...they are captured yet again.
And my micro-attention span is looking longingly at other books in my TBR pile.

Not bad, so far. And...unlike a lot of modern YA, it doesn't go on and on and on and on and on and on for 400 pages. (Seriously, what's up with the long-ass YA novels?)