Hard to make your pitch to undecided voters when your speech starts sometime in the middle of the night Eastern time. By 10::45 last night, despite being interested in hearing what Tim Walz had to say I gave up - I have a business to run and have to have sleep to have my "A" game each day. This above: "Her schedule says that address will begin at 10:45 pm EDT." - so Ms. Harris will be taking the stage around 11:30 EDT is what that means. Again, too late. Scheduling it for 10:45 even if the show runs on schedule is way too late. The on the fence voters are going to bed.
I have no issue with providing meals at schools for children in need; it s a good thing!. But can we please stop saying "free breakfast and lunch" and properly saying "taxpayer funded breakfast and lunch."
Not sure why you are "SMH," but let me expand my thought. There is an absolutely legitimate role for government, at all levels, to provide assistance to those citizens in need. Across-the-board, we tend not to do a good job of finding that correct population, nor funding sufficiently to provide for them. You may not agree, but as a society, we have gotten way too comfortable with "free stuff" from the government. we will never solve our debt issue by taxing the billionaires or big business. Therefore, continuing to give away "free stuff" will eventually lead to economic catastrophe for our country. As a country we need to educate ourselves that any benefit program, from Social Security down to sheltering the homeless costs money. I am probably way too optimistic about this, but if folks would understand that there is a cost to every government program, maybe we could actually reach the point where we would be more serious about deciding exactly what "free stuff" we ought to be giving out. Thanks for listening.
The vast majority of food for student lunches comes from food the government has already purchased to support farmers. The choice is giving to students or paying to store it until it rots. Also removing the stigma of free lunch is worth the price.
I have no disagreements with your statement and fully agree that providing the food to someone is better than letting it rot in storage or in the field. And I still stand with my original statement that we need to stop referring to programs like this as free when in some shape manner of form taxpayers are footing the bill, small or large.
Clever idea to use Kenan Thompson and humor to highlight Project 2025. Now if they could just bring on James Austin Johnson to play Trump, THAT would be special.
I haven’t been able to watch the DNC in prime time. But I’m curious, with all your years of experience - can you rank the speakers (delivery, content, impact), like maybe the top 10? I’d love to search and watch on YouTube.
You put your finger on an important point. Racism in America may seem less virulent than in the past, but those roots run deeper than we like to admit. Jamie noted as much when he mentioned the responses to the Obamas and something tells me that scheduling Harris' acceptance speech after bedtime for much of the East coast may not have been an oversight. Make no mistake about it. Racism remains a serious feature of American politics.
Hard to make your pitch to undecided voters when your speech starts sometime in the middle of the night Eastern time. By 10::45 last night, despite being interested in hearing what Tim Walz had to say I gave up - I have a business to run and have to have sleep to have my "A" game each day. This above: "Her schedule says that address will begin at 10:45 pm EDT." - so Ms. Harris will be taking the stage around 11:30 EDT is what that means. Again, too late. Scheduling it for 10:45 even if the show runs on schedule is way too late. The on the fence voters are going to bed.
Happy to see you answered Morgan's question today! Looking forward to the statue answer next week.
Thank you for the late night coverage. I can't imagine staying up that late anymore.
It’s funny how it makes my day when he responds in the newsletter.
Not funny at all. It feels like you're connected to something bigger.
I have no issue with providing meals at schools for children in need; it s a good thing!. But can we please stop saying "free breakfast and lunch" and properly saying "taxpayer funded breakfast and lunch."
SMH...
Not sure why you are "SMH," but let me expand my thought. There is an absolutely legitimate role for government, at all levels, to provide assistance to those citizens in need. Across-the-board, we tend not to do a good job of finding that correct population, nor funding sufficiently to provide for them. You may not agree, but as a society, we have gotten way too comfortable with "free stuff" from the government. we will never solve our debt issue by taxing the billionaires or big business. Therefore, continuing to give away "free stuff" will eventually lead to economic catastrophe for our country. As a country we need to educate ourselves that any benefit program, from Social Security down to sheltering the homeless costs money. I am probably way too optimistic about this, but if folks would understand that there is a cost to every government program, maybe we could actually reach the point where we would be more serious about deciding exactly what "free stuff" we ought to be giving out. Thanks for listening.
The vast majority of food for student lunches comes from food the government has already purchased to support farmers. The choice is giving to students or paying to store it until it rots. Also removing the stigma of free lunch is worth the price.
I have no disagreements with your statement and fully agree that providing the food to someone is better than letting it rot in storage or in the field. And I still stand with my original statement that we need to stop referring to programs like this as free when in some shape manner of form taxpayers are footing the bill, small or large.
I should've added that food purchased by the government was purchased with money collected from taxpayers.
I’m not sure I agree on how we label it, but you’ve given me some food for thought.
Clever idea to use Kenan Thompson and humor to highlight Project 2025. Now if they could just bring on James Austin Johnson to play Trump, THAT would be special.
Dump-T Rump-T sat on a wall,
Dump-T Rump-T had a great fall;
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Dump-T together again.
I haven’t been able to watch the DNC in prime time. But I’m curious, with all your years of experience - can you rank the speakers (delivery, content, impact), like maybe the top 10? I’d love to search and watch on YouTube.
Hey Jamie 👇
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/the-worm-turns-house-senate-investigate?r=eapxk&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
You put your finger on an important point. Racism in America may seem less virulent than in the past, but those roots run deeper than we like to admit. Jamie noted as much when he mentioned the responses to the Obamas and something tells me that scheduling Harris' acceptance speech after bedtime for much of the East coast may not have been an oversight. Make no mistake about it. Racism remains a serious feature of American politics.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/16/1117762232/the-unspoken-role-of-race-in-the-jan-6-riot