Hard for me to believe this guy is in my age group, but he has some pretty good jokes!

“Trillions of dollars [In the United States] were handed out to the mass of people. Checks were sent, remember? Many of you got them. Checks were sent out to businesses, to individuals on a massive scale. That’s not capitalism, friends. That’s the government saving us. And do you know what it’s saving us from? What would have happened in a pandemic if we had allowed regular capitalism to function! But we didn’t. So please understand – if things didn’t go even worse during the pandemic than they did, it’s because we kissed capitalism goodbye and started distributing money to masses of people so they could keep going. Turns out that works. It works pretty well, even in a pandemic. Maybe we ought to think about it under other circumstances…” (08:25) Richard D. Wolff

I recently posted a small list to Youtube that read:

“I have been on a marathon Terence-listening jag recently and realized he has some favorite words in his quiver that he pulls out regularly. I started keeping track of them. Top on my list are “adumbration ”, “casuistry”, and “concrescence”. Other expressions include “gurus geisheis, roshis and rishis” and “yawning grave”. If you can think of others, I’d love to hear about them. Thanks in advance for humoring me!”

adumbration: to vaguely foreshadow

casuistry: “the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; sophistry.”

concrescence: the coalescence or growing together of parts originally separate.

(complete list here) NEWEST ENTRY: malarky @Erik ” meaningless talk; nonsense”

Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School in New York. Wikipedia

by Shawn Hamilton, Oct. 2016

“We could become the first country to go fascist through free elections.” William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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