BarneyPiccolo

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on fucking cowards · c/flippanarchy · 4 pts · 14h

Was that the guy that was always cowering behind the corner? The only time he would look out was when the other guy would glance out, and then he'd hide behind him his hand on the lead guy's shoulder. Then he'd dart back to his behind the corner. All the while the killer was murdering little kids. They were all cowardly, but this guy was really on the edge of true panic.

Then there was the Parkland cop, who hid outside the school, listening to the killer murder one student after another, and when other cops showed up, he told them to stay outside, with him.

She's trusted, she's smart, she's always 10 steps ahead, and most of all, she's a GOOD person, and incorruptible. She's thinking about the people, and she makes it very clear she works for US. I don''t have to agree with everything she's for, but that's okay, she's still the kind of person I want to see in charge.

Nannerl! She was a prodigy nearly as accomplished as her brother Wolfgang, and as a young girl, she accompanied him all over Europe, playing for royalty and nobility. He was the greater musical intellect, no doubt about it, but she was highly talented as well.

So why don't we know more of her? For a number of reasons, the first being that she was female. As a young girl, her novelty as a prodigy was exploitable, but as she got older, society had different plans for her, and as soon as she became an adult, she retired from public life. She still taught lessons, and composed music, although none of it survives today.

There was also the matter of competition. There were literally thousands of musicians making a living in Vienna at the time, and that was just one city in Europe, which was filled with similar cities. So as talented as she was, she still had to compete with thousands of MEN, wherever she lived. No matter how talented she might be, she was never going to get a fair break. In fact, the more talented she was, the more her competition would have resented her, and fought her.

So she was destined to remain in her brother's shadow, a footnote in his life story.

There were the occasional slave uprisings, but none of them were successful, and the punishment for anything like that was so harsh that it was hard to get support. In addition, the slaves knew that anyone who reported a burgeoning uprising would get handsomely rewarded, so it was almost certain to be reported. Nobody could be trusted.

I used to believe that we should expand SCOTUS to 13 seats. I no longer believe that. Now I believe that we should expand it to 29 seats, with rolling term limits. That way, each president could appoint a few, but they could never appoint enough to rig the entire court.

SCOTUS should be the most stable of our three branches. It should never be manipulated and subverted like the other branches.

The McConnell thing was a dress rehearsal, to see how long they can drag it out.

Beshear really blew it by not announcing a replacement after 30 days of No Show/ No Call. Make the MAGAs sue to stop him, and then they'd have to produce Proof of Life. But Beshear is one of those cowardly polite Democrats, so he went along with a MAGA hoax.

He'll be running for Prez in 2028, and he doesn't stand a chance of getting my support.