The History We're Living

It's very hard to look away, but it's possible that we're about to reach a more pleasant kind of critical mass where enough of us think Trump is just boring and we can turn away from him.

Of course, the Plutocracy Project continues apace, and there's always some jagoff willing to step up and audition for the lead in a Fascist Theater Company production.

Don't sleep on this.

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That Univision Flap

John Leguizamo lays it out.

Today's Econ 101

1. Consolidation
2. Charging more for less
3. Exploiting workers
4. The illusion of scarcity
5. Mis-directed rage

Today's Tweext

Everybody has a story about how Trump fucked them over in one way or another.

Everybody.

Maybe send this to your magafamily over the holidays. Project it on the tv during sportsball…

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— 𝙱𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚢𝙳𝟹  (@billyd3_) November 3, 2023

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Sez

I'm alive in the universe,

but I feel small.

No.

The universe is alive within you,

and you should feel large.

Today's Tweext(s)

I’ve never seen so many elected GOP officials sad that a terrible car crash today was just a car crash. All the talking points went poof.

— Chris Swartout (@chrisswartout) November 23, 2023

They are still mourning the fact that they can't crow about a recession or depression, they're sick about good jobs reports, and can't stand the fact that inflation is actually slowing and gas prices are normalizing...so they lie about it in the face of absolute fact

— Kodiak🆘 (@Sensei415) November 23, 2023

We're told that publicly disclosed campaign money is a determinant factor in an election. And there's still some truth to that, but this is not 2009 (ie: before Citizens United v FEC), and we've drifted away from being the kind of democracy we keep telling ourselves we are.

Press Poodles need to start looking beyond what a candidate (particularly a GOP candidate) has in their "campaign war chest".

Any given Republican running for any given office can be pretty sure that whatever they spend on ads and such will be supplemented 3- or 5- or 10-fold by private (and anonymous) "donors" who are basically buying that candidate's vote at whatever level of government they're going to "serve".

And while there's a good bit of that on the Dems' side as well, I estimate a very large majority of it goes to the benefit of the GOP.

Today's Brian

Yes, we have a two-tiered "justice system", and Donald Trump is benefiting from it to the point where it's like he's already the American Emperor.

(paraphrasing) If Trump was a 20-year-old black kid, charged with the pettiest of petty crimes, and he tweeted out or just spouted off in public any tiny bit of what Trump has said about witnesses and judges and court staff - that kid would be sitting in jail incommunicado waiting for his trial to start.

Make A Joyful Noise

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