Platner quits Maine Senate race; Democrats set to pick new nominee
... “We did it the right way, we built a campaign, we engaged in electoral politics, we motivated people, we banded together,” he said. “We did it the way we are told we are supposed to make change, and we won, and now they are not going to let us have it. Not if it’s me.” ...
It's always great to see the pretensions of progressives skewered.
Democratic Senate candidates sling mud in post-debate spin room
... “Standing up for Michiganders when their jobs were on the line during the Great Recession, standing up for Michiganders when their jobs were on the line yet again during COVID and the COVID pandemic and securing our manufacturing supply chain. I work to get things done. I am not trying to be a celebrity or famous or to sell a book or to push a podcast. I’m also not a millionaire like Abdul is. I am a hard-working gal who rolls up my sleeves, fights like heck for Michigan and delivers for us.” ...
Tom Kean wasn't in the headlines every damn day.
Mitch hasn't been Senate Majority Leader for 18 months and counting.
If Mitch is absent the Vice President can stand in if there is a tie.
The Mitch-haters on Elon Musk's X are vile and ugly.
Mitch McConnell’s health concerns grow amid 4th week in hospital with few details from aides
GOP Rep. Tom Kean says depression diagnosis caused months-long absence from Congress
His brain is a bucket of eels.
Trump renews Greenland threats at NATO summit, says U.S. could remove troops from Europe
Oil prices rise more than 2% after attacks on tankers in Strait of Hormuz
UKMTO is reporting that three attacks were reported, not four.
Libertarian Bill King spends 90% of his essay on the Fourth of July telling us how joyous, proud, fundamentally good, commonsensical, and apolitical it all was, only to end it by saying a political reckoning can't come soon enough lol.
Here.
OK Bill.
And the winner is . . . stonks.
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| $5 July 1996 to $63 July 2026 = 8.8% CAGR nominal over 30 years, no dividends (cost to secure unknown) |
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| $382 July 1996 to $4,173 July 2026 = 8.3% CAGR nominal over 30 years, no dividends (cost to secure unknown) |
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| $644.07 July 1996 to $7,450.03 June 2026 = 10.46% average per annum with dividend reinvestment, 8.53% without, nominal (VFIAX current expense ratio 0.04% vs. 0.72% average industry) |
All Property, indeed, except the Savage’s temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention.
Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it.
All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of:
But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition.
He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages.
He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
-- Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, quoted here
