I like watching them both now that they are solidly in their "Ask your doctor if ___ is right for you" years. The fifties are when male movie actors either decide to get more interesting or they panic and try to stay young. I think they are in general going in the right direction.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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G-d did it.
I'm watching The Rip. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are approximately the ages William Holden and Art Carney were when they made The Towering Inferno and Harry and Tonto.
It was so whiplashy! An hour of "Anyone can fall in love" followed by an hour of "Come spend time with us and let us demonstrate to you how stupid you are for wanting what you think you want."
NYCers: If you've never had occasion to be at the NYC Marriage Bureau when a bunch of couples are marrying, I recommend it with all my heart. It is one of the most joyous things imaginable and an instant reminder that the city is both unbelievably diverse and bursting with hope and optimism.
But yeah, those who were hired by Trump appointees for mid-level positions at, for instance, HHS, Justice, and Interior are going to have to be looked at very closely in terms of both qualifications and ideological tilt. If they were hired as loyalists (or loyalists of loyalists), well, that's life.
No, "restaffed from the ground up" does not mean "Fire park rangers." But when the fed govt is run by a party opposed to a huge number of its functions, whole structures start to erode or disintegrate. Entire internal divisions have been gutted & will require restaffing. Thus, "from the ground up."
I mean, to offer just one example, the Department of Education is being overseen by people who are ideologically committed to its future nonexistence. So fixing it is going to be much more of an effort than just putting people back at those empty desks and saying "As you were."
I imagine that you've talked, as I have, to people who came into federal agencies after the first four years of Trump and described their initial work as an almost forensic attempt to try to reconstruct what the agency had been when it was properly functioning; it will be much worse this time.
P.S. YES YES ALL RIGHT PROJECT 2029. Not 2028.
It's not. Rebuilding an agency from the ground up doesn't mean firing every single employee; it means understanding that the damage the Trump administration is doing goes far beyond job elimination and restaffing with boobs and ideologues and deep into areas like infrastructure and record-keeping.
If you come at this with ANY VERSION of "As if there'll even be elections" I will block you instantly. Thanks!
It is not too early for Democrats to build a Project 2028, because if we win, every single agency is going to have to be restaffed and rebuilt from the ground up in the first 100 days, and "We're going to undo the damage" can't be the sole item on our four-year agenda.READ NEXT POST BEFORE REPLYING>
I don't think there's really a way for me to boycott shows in advance because I might not like the way the dialogue is written.
There'd be big trouble if I didn't.
Okay, here's one I don't think anyone's gotten yet (apologies if I missed it):
"I've been working since the '30s
Selling goddamn hats at Macy's
Waiting for the revolution"
(Caroline, or Change)
Alexander's Ragtime Band!
I'll show myself out.
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future"
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"I, who have never researched anything in my life, yelled 'Find me something!' at either an intern or the woman who brings my snacks."
Sad, but you've gotta love that a gawky kid with railroad tracks is going to be an Olympic gold medalist.
Thanks for fighting!
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551 total votes
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| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
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| 2025-01-03 | — | Call by States | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
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