Rich

Be happy, warriors. But stay focused, and don't let up.

We're making progress.

Today's Rich

A little hopium on a Tuesday morning.

Under-Babied

Mr Carlin, if you please -

Today's Rich

They are now exactly who they've always been.

Today's Rich

Gas is up 57%

Diesel is up 68%

Rich

Bending their "values" to fit a conclusion works perfectly for MAGA because their leaders have modeled the whole political thing after their favorite brand of religion - "The Supreme One has handed down the answer, and there will be no questioning."

"Cognitive Vacancy"

Rich On The Numbers

Democracy is not something we have

unless it's something we do.

Today's Rich

"... the diversity of unfounded opinion."

IOW:

"I've accomplished very little in terms of education or even plain ol' everyday schooling, but I need affirmation - I need to feel I'm up on things. So I adopt a contrarian view of just about everything, because if I understand and believe what actual well-educated people tell me, then I'm just another sheep. But if I go along with some nutball "theory" that the 5% of my fellow dullards are into, well now - that makes me smarter than the other 95%."

Ohh That's Rich

Today's Rich

Masculine Discrepancy Stress

You Are Not Crazy

I can cook up a fat juicy Conspiracy Fantasy with the best of them.

Humans are really good at doing that because the False Positive(*) is what has kept us going and turned us into a dominant species to rival the dinosaurs.

We've honed Pattern Recognition to a fine art. The problem is that bad actors are well-schooled in the techniques that can be used to co-opt that instinct, and turn it against us.

They've known about it for quite a while, and they've used it to great effect.

You can be forgiven if you've hit on the possibility that Trump orchestrated the shooting at the WHCD last night in order to facilitate his Big Beautiful Ballroom grift.

I just really doubt there's any connection - ie: I don't think anybody put the shooter up to it - but Trump is obviously cunning enough to take anything that happens and twist it into a link that he can say necessitates doing some bullshit thing he wants done. And he knows the MAGA rubes will eat it up and go right along with him

            (*)

Demand More

... and accept nothing less.

Today's Rich

More is not better - better is better.

Today's Rich

We want the same things.

Grease Up And Bend Over - Again

Mathing It Out

Yes, the top 1% pay about 40% of the taxes.

A better way to put it is that the top 1% pay $880 Billion a year in taxes, while controlling - and living on - more than $53 Trillion.

And an even better way to put it:

$880,000,000,000 ÷ $50,000,000,000,000 = 1.7%

The elite 1% are parasites.oo

Today's Rich

The Attention Economy - or more accurately, the Rage Economy.

On Bondi's Departure

Like FemDom Barbie Noem, Pammy Jo isn't getting fired so much as she's being moved to some other slot.

Today's Rich

Stating The Obvious

Trump is one stupid fuck, surrounded by an entourage of stupid fucks.