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09/14/2024

09/14/2024

For many anti-Trump Republicans, the lodestar remains Ronald Reagan. But was Reagan Trump’s opposite, or his forerunner? The conservative writer Max Boot grew up idolizing Reagan. He once felt “incredulous that anyone could possibly compare Reagan to Trump”—but he now sees “startling similarities.” In a new biography, Boot asks, “Did Reaganism contain the seeds of Trumpism?” Usually, that’s a question about each man’s beliefs. Looking at Reagan’s life through Boot’s eyes, though, one wonders about their styles, too. Was there something about Reagan’s way of operating that got us here?

“Presidents had lied before, some egregiously. Reagan, however, fabricated an alternate reality,” Daniel Immerwahr writes. “The country no longer expected truth from the world’s most powerful individual. It no longer expected comprehension, even.” Read his reflections on Reagan’s legacy: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/uuT7_j

09/09/2024

Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was our most read piece. https://on.ft.com/3B2ISVp

08/26/2024

From the snake's mouth

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05/03/2024

Please follow my original profile Zack Petra.. You might learn something new.

04/05/2024

Total eclipse coming up on Monday 

04/02/2024

There's no such thing as demons. There's only those aspects of ourselves that we refuse to integrate. Affirm yourself as a being of light.

04/01/2024

we are all flawed. We all have issues.. it’s hard being a Human

03/31/2024

Happy Easter my Facebook followers and friends ! I hope you're spending it with family or friends.

03/29/2024

Who might be interested in going on a safari lol. Actually I mean a trip across the seven seas. Lol actually this is just an introduction. Stay tuned.

03/28/2024

What’s next? DeSantis, governor of Florida will probably start busing Haitian refugees to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. .

03/27/2024

We are all machines of self-deception, constantly creating and believing our own illusions

03/27/2024

GPT4 was trained on the vast expanse of the Internet, which may seem like a lot but is relatively limited in scope compared to the totality of human knowledge. Generative Pre-Trained Transformer language model so badically Linguistics is the key here. it’s not sentient.. it can’t really think not yet at least.

03/26/2024

The illusion of EGO and the things it attached to itself * appear * real "

03/26/2024

TV weekly programming means they were programming you by design. Do you get it yet?

03/24/2024

for Mark Twain, a slave was a simple person .. he or she couldn’t be anything but simple !