The Big Fail

Here in USAmerica Inc, we have lobby shops and marketing departments working tirelessly to make sure of two main things:

1. That we never get to hear anything real about any real problems
2. If we do hear anything real, we're immediately provided with a rebuttal, or a rationalization, or a good way to deflect

There's bad news for Kentucky.

New data released by the Appalachian Regional Commission Tuesday show per capita annual income fell by more than $1,000 in several Eastern Kentucky counties from 2016 to 2017, the most recent year made available by the ARC. 

In Bell County, per capita income fell by more than $1,100, and Whitley County saw a drop of $1,080. 

A total of nine counties in Appalachian Kentucky saw a decrease in per capita income from 2016 to 2017, according to the ARC.

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article231937238.html?fbclid=IwAR3jhDiG2Ufgq59jepzq5xXIAd8X8LDaLXUreIDMpU6KzDupIqsriG9CvkU#storylink=cpy

Cult45 straight up lied about "bringing back the coal industry". They knew it was a lie, and we knew it was a lie, and the good folk in Coal Country knew down deep it was a lie.

But the old story is true now the same as it was true way back when - people need to believe they're going to be OK. They need to believe their troubles aren't just due to their own failings.

So tricksters like 45* and Mitch McConnell are always around to tell them some comforting lies.

• It's those illegal immigrants who're taking all your jobs and are also too lazy to work so they're stealing all the tax dollars that you're not paying into the system because you're not working hard enough.
• It's the librul elites and their love of regulations who're killing all the jobs because they want companies to pay you a living wage, and not poison you or get you killed on the job, while paying their fair share in taxes instead of spending their tax cut windfall on executive bonuses and stock buybacks to boost the earnings on investment portfolios that you can't have because you don't make enough to pay the rent and put food in your bellies.
• It's those scary brown people in Chicago and the icky gay people in San Francisco

Republicans (mostly) continue to prop up the shit that's failing - usually making bank on subsidies - as they look for ways to turn a profit on "providing solutions" that amount to little more than selling off public assets to private interests.

But wait - here comes the Good News: Enter Oleg Deripaska and his apparent intent to buy most of Eastern Kentucky at the bargain basement price of $200M - in the guise of an aluminum processing plant.

When they say "Government should run more like a business", they're telling us everything we need to know about their intentions to rule rather than serve.

The Trump Scampaign®

Aside from a few - Jeb, Kasich, McCain, and some others - Repubs "running" for POTUS have had a distinct aroma. Take it, John:

It's been said before, by people smarter than me - and as such, bears repeating as long as the grass grows and the wind blows - Trump is not some kind of weird anomaly. Trump is doing what the GOP has spent 30 years telling their voters to look for, and prodding them to vote for.

And BTW - try not to think about the fact that Nu-Skin is very much the reason Jason Chaffetz is in office:

Accused in several states of operating an illegal pyramid scheme, the Provo-based multilevel marketing firm has decided to mount an offensive. Nu Skin takes issue with the way national and local media have portrayed the company."Enough is enough," said Jason Chaffetz, Nu Skin administrative assistant for public relations. "We're frustrated and disturbed that a number of inaccuracies continue to be perpetuated."

Today's Tweet

We were trained for, and fully indoctrinated into this mess.  

Barbie dolls and Transformers and GI Joe and all the rest.  

Here, kids - learn about accessorizing - so we'll be able to trigger that response a little later on, when we figure out the next round of putting Competitive Consumerism together with SocioPolitical Paranoia in order to synthesize a more-easily manipulated electorate.

Finally, thank you democrats for taking a stand against gun violence. 💥🔫#Enough #filibuster pic.twitter.com/pZgGh1wp32

— Skook (@skookerG) June 15, 2016

The Co-Marketing and Cross-Branding and the blending of Government with Commercial Interest (which basically is nothing short of Proto-Fascist positioning) has to be stomped on every chance anybody gets.