D.M. Schmeyer

The origin of this lawyer/attorney canard is sour grapes and the dead-on intent to mislead for personal gain and idk why I'd ever pretend its not.

"I want to be a lawyer but I can't pass the bar, but I'm not gonna let that stop me" is petulance, and I'm not going to pretend it isn't. We all learn in law school the professional, titles included, follow the license. I won't coddle the people who want/can't get one. Stakes are too high.

The origin of this lawyer/attorney canard is sour grapes and the dead-on intent to mislead for personal gain and idk why I'd ever pretend its not.

These attempts at ratfucking are indeed signs of desperation, but they aren't funny- this shit works, which is why its so, so dangerous for the goddamn government to be lending the assist.

Talarico is running in a red state. He has momentum but his road is narrow. He's trying to win a race by 1-5 points, he doesn't have any margin for error. For 2 weeks he's week on something like the defensive, over bullshit, for the very first time since he started running. It's heinous.

These attempts at ratfucking are indeed signs of desperation, but they aren't funny- this shit works, which is why its so, so dangerous for the goddamn government to be lending the assist.

Not for nothing, the investigation following accusations into McKeever, performed by Munger, Tolles, and Olson, is just about the best you'll ever seen a law firm do here: share.google/YPTHzHXn3YzP... In case you want context on what she did and why this is risible.

Calling it bullying and hostile behavior is selling it just a bit short, is all I'll say. This wasnt a "coach coaches too hard and thus goes too far" story.

The same way the rest of us did, unfortunately. If you don't have privilege from generations back, you unfortunately have to work hard and achieve. Being a waiter and a mediocre basketball player at nearly 30 isn't going to take anybody very far.

I grew up in a set of challenging situations. Others had it worse but many had it better. I had to be decisive, creative, hard working, and I had to go the extra mile to get where I am. Unless privilege helps you skip the line, that's true of everybody. These guys just want to skip earning it.

The same way the rest of us did, unfortunately. If you don't have privilege from generations back, you unfortunately have to work hard and achieve. Being a waiter and a mediocre basketball player at nearly 30 isn't going to take anybody very far.

This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable.

I think folks want it to be this massive Rocky 4 moment of "If I can change, you can change", and true, it's rarely that. But there are a whole host of outcomes and responses that are still useful, even defensiveness.

She's an author. An *incredible* author It's her job. People work for money. News at 11. The only artists who refuse to "sell out" as the socks having a go at her define it are the artists nobody ever asked.

A lesson that *still* needs to be learned: Many things that upset you are terrible. A thing upsetting you doesn't make it terrible.

Many things you don't enjoy are bad. You not enjoying a thing does not make it bad.

The Raygun documentary is...something else.

It's like *evverybody else* in the doc is doing a whole different genre than she and her husband are trying to do. I finished the whole thing and still don't quite know if she's in on the joke or if she isn't.

I strongly recommend not boxing through school, holding pencils becomes hard.