Today's Robert

Some have become convinced of the absurdities, and are now committing the atrocities.

Today's Robert Arnold

When I let the world fly by at the speed of a 24/7 cycle of rage-baiting, I can lose perspective.

Kinda pisses me off when I have to be reminded of what's important.

Today's Robert

"Something is shifting. Something deep and old and electric is waking up in the marrow of this country."

Today's Robert

I've been called worse than "socialist" or "liberal". A lot worse.

Today's Robert

We can build a world where innocence is not a commodity.

Defiance Til Death

Don't sleep on The South.

Today's Robert

"... because at the end of the day, in this ever-deepening pool of chaos and tragedy, everyone deserves some goddamned cupcakes."

Robert Arnold

Hold fast - the fight is long.

Like the man said: We're still far from the beginning of the end, but we may be seeing the end of the beginning.

One thing we have to work on is resisting the perception of scarcity being pressed on us night and day by a system that can't survive if we recognize what a shitty little game is being played by the clear-eyed pragmatic free-market entrepreneurs who tell us they have more because they work more, or they work smarter, or they're just better - and blah blah blah.

It's bullshit. Billionaires and their multinational conglomerates are parasites. And the benefits that so many people depend on - that the ruling class is bent on withholding - is really just a way of rewarding greedy assholes for things like wage theft, and "externalizing cost".

So the greedy assholes may think they're being clever by "applying discipline" in order to rake in greater profits - that they're getting away with something - but they're actually busy shooting themselves in the foot.

As you concentrate more and more power and money into fewer and fewer hands, you create a bigger and bigger group of angry frustrated people who, eventually, are going to see they have nothing left to lose.

And they will come for you.

embrace the suck

stay in the fight

Defiance Til Death

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Today's Robert

Today's Robert

"... a velvet cage that feels safe until you try to move beyond its bars." 

Today's Robert

In the end it's just a well-organized pile of sticks and rocks, but...

And it becomes even more obvious that Trump is going to absurd lengths to tell us he gets to do whatever he wants, and what he wants right - more than anything in the world - is to keep us focused on stupid shit like his little vanity project instead of the reasons behind it.

• Epstein files
• Outright, swamp-wallowing corruption
• His constant nuzzling of Putin
• The unbelievably stupid "policies" that are sweeping away far more than part of the East Wing

On Love For Our Kids

Today's Robert

The house you built on this hate and this bullshit will one day collapse, and the only sound you'll hear is your own voice echoing in the ruins of it.

Today's Robert

"... and if the lights go out for a while, fuck it. So be it. The truth shines brightest in the dark anyway."

Today's Robert Arnold

A shield of liberty, not a weapon of enforcement.

Daddy State Awareness Guide, Rule 7 and 7a:

The law is my sword, but not your shield.

The law is my shield, but not your sword.

That Deafening Silence

Today's Robert

Call Me That Again

I'm not afraid of words, and I'm not shamed by attempted ridicule.

We're Letting This Happen

I hope all the "good Americans" get a chance to collect the dead bodies of our victims.