Jerome Nicolas

@jeromenicolas.bsky.social

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Author of Conservatism is Un-American & Other Self-Evident Truths. Raised on “Schoolhouse Rock.” Also fondly recalls the 1976 Bicentennial

Picture of Hillary Clinton being chummy with Harvey Weinstein at an event.
Photo of the four aforementioned members of The Squad.
Graph in an August 2019 Pew poll showing the demographic makeup of different candidates' bases in the 2020 Democratic primaries. Sanders' was the least male and the least white. Women made up 53% of Sanders' support. Warren was second with 49% and Harris was tied for third with Biden at 48%. Sanders' support was only 49% white. Warren's was 71% white. Biden and Harris were in between at 56% and 59% respectively.
A graph by The Hill on the Harvard-Harris survey that was the first to show that Bernie Sanders was the most popular sitting politician in the US in April 2017. Women liked him more than men did - 58% vs 55%. Only 52% of whites liked him compared to 62% of Asians, 68% of Hispanics, and 73% of African Americans.
Photo of the iconic abstract pattern-painted "Partridge Family" school bus with the TV show's cast members sticking their heads out the windows.
Photo of Fareed Zakaria's 09/20/18 Washington Post column: "I wanted to understand Europe's populism. So I talked to Bono."
A photo of Peter O'Toole in the subversive 1972 comedy "The Ruling Class" in which he plays an English lord who thinks he's Jesus.
The setting is a cafeteria labeled "Reagan Administration Lunch Room." The tables have little signs labeled "Under Investigation" and "Under Subpoena." One guy in a suit holding a tray asks another "I'm under subpoena. Where are you sitting?"
Photo of a belt buckle with the American Revolution Bicentennial logo on it.
Picture of a wolf spider with eight terrifying eyes
Modernist orange and chrome lamp that slightly resembles some of the puppet robots on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" a.k.a. MST3K
A very eighties futuristic desk lamp