Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has urged her Democratic colleagues to stop attacking the “oligarchy” on Thursday, arguing that the word did not resonate with most Americans

Everyone believes that their politics are the politics of MOST Americans, but reality is more complicated than that. I’m not sure that anyone can say what most of the roughly 260 million voting age Americans think, about much of anything, really. Yes, polling can give us some insights, but polls are inherently flawed.

The fact is, the American people are complex. They believe many things, and some of the things they believe contradict other things they believe; and just because an American thinks a certain way today, that doesn’t mean they’ll think that way tomorrow. Plus, we just have such a large and diverse populace, spread out across fifty states. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to point to any one American and say, “that person represents most Americans.”

If I had to guess, I’d say that most Americans don’t give a rats ass about oligarchy or kings. If they could live their lives the way they wanted under an oligarchy or a king, they’d be fine with it. Kings, oligarchs, emperors, despots, who gives a shit, as long as the price of eggs doesn’t go up too much. I think what matters to most Americans isn’t semantic, philosophical or ideological, but material. I think most Americans would be perfectly content to live under a king, if under that king they were able to live a decent, middle class life.

But, that’s just my guess. Again, it’s hard for anyone to say what most Americans want or think or believe.

If you’re still on Earth…

Firefighters, EMTs, and police are all first responders, and so it’s necessary for them all to have at least emergency medical training. Yet, they are distinct agencies, because each job requires unique skills and training. I think police, and for that matter all first responders, should have mental health emergency training, just as they have medical emergency training, but I also think it would be useful for there to be a distinct agency that specializes in mental health emergency response, just as there are agencies that specialize in fire emergency and medical emergency response. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect the police to fill this role, just as I think it would be unreasonable to expect the police to fight fires or provide all of the services of an EMT.

We need an option other than the police for people experiencing a mental health crisis. The police are not mental health professionals, and we shouldn’t expect them to be. The police are enforcers, emphasis on “force.” We need to establish a new agency of responders who are trained to deal with people who are experiencing a mental health crisis.

I think one of the greatest mistakes you can make in war is to underestimate your enemy.

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I’ve figured out a lot as I’ve gotten older, but In many cases it has taken a lot of time and a lot of mistakes to get there. Plus, just because you’ve figured something out, that doesn’t necessarily mean your life will be any easier or better. One of the things I’ve figured out is that many things are outside of my control, and there isn’t a damn thing I can do about them. I’ve also figured out that there are a lot of things that are within my power to change, but knowing and doing are two different things.

I’m 42 years old and if my younger self could see where he would end up, he would probably be furious that he hasn’t accomplished more, that he isn’t more of a success, but that idiot can kiss my ass. He doesn’t know shit.

What does that mean?

Edit: I guess they’re not going to answer. If you’re not capable of completing a coherent thought, maybe just stay out of the conversation.

People are products of their culture and the material conditions that they live under. So, we have two choices: we can either take a hands-off, or laissez-faire, approach and allow conditions to change organically and just accept any political or social changes that might come about, or we can take a more direct approach and try to change the conditions that people live under, and the culture, in such a way that will make something like the Trump movement much less likely to emerge. But, the second option probably won’t just happen, spontaneously or organically, it would probably require a fairly heavy handed, top down approach. I know many people are quite apprehensive about that, so that approach would likely be quite controversial.

So, what’s it going to be? Let things just play out organically and see what happens, and accept that the outcome may or may not be desirable, or try to steer the course of US society more directly and deliberately?

SDR isn’t a currency, it’s a reserve asset. I know you might be thinking, “well, gold is a reserve asset and a currency,” but go down to your local supermarket and try paying for your groceries with like 1/10 of an ounce of gold and see how that works out for you.

Some kind of international organization needs to issue and manage a reserve currency. Maybe the world’s various banks need to come together and form a global central bank that issues the currency.

They’re Western supremacists. They believe that Western culture and ideas are inherently superior to those of the non Western world, and for that reason the West should control the world.

The world needs a neutral reserve currency, not controlled by any one nation.

I’m not Conservative.

And who decides what is or is not “morally repugnant?” You? Are you the arbiter of objectively, universal moral truth? You must be, if you think anyone needs to seek your approval before taking a paying job.

I have no desire to be a famous celebrity, so I’m thankful that I’ll never be one. But, you’re right, if I were a celebrity I would have to demonstrate more tact. Luckily for Frost, he needn’t tell these obnoxious assholes to fuck off, because they’re not relevant enough to warrant such attention. Disabling comments on a few social media posts is sufficient.

Grow up.

That’s his business. If a stranger bitched at me because I took a job and they had some fucking problem with it, I’d tell them to cram it up their ass, and mind their own fucking business.