May 10, 2025
The Woke Pope
I'm no Christian. I've been actively trying to give all of that up over a fairly long string of years, and I'm mostly atheist now.
I was raised Methodist, so we were taught that Catholics were on the expressway bound for hell because they served wine at Communion. Plus, the nuns were "virgins" married to Jesus, hanging out with unmarried "celibate" priests - so lord knows what they got up to after hours.
But - I was also taught that any clergy who ministered to the poor, visited the sick, and prayed with the imprisoned were OK, no matter who they worked for, or what they did on their own time.
These MAGA jokers are against everything Pope Bob has ever done, and they just can't quite grasp why the rest of us have problems with their shitty attitude.
Press Poodles Clutching Pearls
The US Constitution works on the honor system.
Trump is exactly the guy Madison and Hamilton worried out - the unscrupulous jerk who would use the founding documents as a guide to subvert them, and to warp government structure to serve his own ends - to make his own law.
A slug like Trump lives in SmarmSpace© (where loopholes are found, or manufactured).
He simply doesn't care about honor, or the rule of law, or right-n-wrong.
Unfortunately, there are about 275 people in Congress who are willing to go along with all this shit - because they're either cowardly phonies, or active participants in the project to tear down our traditions of democratic self-governance in order to replace it with a corporate-style plutocracy.
It's not a bad thing for media to keep these things in public view, but instead of the usual 10 minutes of exasperation, we need an acknowledgement of the fact that these assholes are actively working to kill democracy, and we need to know how we go about beating them - including civil disobedience.
May 9, 2025
Oy
Cheese, baby girl. It's for the cheese.
White
American
Cheese
On your cheeseburger
It seems more and more obvious that we're not gonna make it.
Marginal Utility
- If you're making $60K, and you get shorted $1000, you notice that, and it hurts - it matters.
- If you're making $600K, and you get shorted $1000, it's no big deal at all - it really isn't.
- If you're making $60M, and you get shorted $1000, you don't even know it's missing.
May 8, 2025
Today's Amy
We're in the eye of the storm, and it's about to get really bad - no matter what Trump decides to do.
I get the feeling that in a few weeks, Trump will be ordering government departments that don't exist to mount a massive effort to implement policies he vaguely remembers seeing in a cartoon movie 65 years ago.
Won't nobody be surprised if he calls a press conference and just keeps repeating something like, "Brawndo's got what the economy craves! Brawndo's got electrolytes!"
Today's Rich
Hard truth.
And it goes for "strategic lefties" too. Youse guys who decided 2024 was another good opportunity to express your dumbass purist opinion about NeoLibs or whatever the fuck you thought were your own ideas, when at least some of it was really just more divisive Bot Bullshit.
Voting against Kamala because you don't like the Israel vs Gaza thing is like rejecting your favorite sausage, black olive, and mushroom pizza because there's one small bit of pepperoni on the outside crust of one piece of a 30-piece pizza.
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