One thing that's definitely true is that the Dems are going to have to do a lot better than the usual "weather the storm" and "stay the course" if they don't want to become completely extinct. If they continue to allow the bloodsucking ghouls who run this country to keep citizens feeling completely scared/stressed, the low-info lumpen will be glad to try Adolph Drumpy again just to see what'll change. It's the economy, stupid.

I think most people in this country would really, really appreciate just having a few days with absolutely nothing completely stupid popping up out of nowhere

Yesterday I learned that I can't write the term "Counter Social" on Facebook when posting a link. I thought that was, um, interesting.

I'm not ready to call the Republicans a "party in disarray", not at all. As always, the minute they decide on their presidential candidate, the ghoulish dark money mutants will make sure they all fall into lockstep like they do every time, without a single exception.

"What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life."
- Barbara Ehrenreich

The Hamas offensive was what the CIA calls "blowback" for countless crimes perpetrated by the Israelis against the Palestinians.

Americans who only get their "news" from the MSM are shocked over the events because they receive nothing but vetted imperial disinformation. The fact is that most American citizens live in a real-life Matrix; it's not just the disinformed MAGA troglodytes.

If you want the whole story, this documentary is now available to be viewed for free.
https://means.tv/programs/gaza

Centrists: Voters who get all their news from their local TV stations, Yahoo & the Today Show.

Center-leftists: Voters who get their news from MSNBC, NYT, & the Daily Show.

Leftists: Rarely if ever get their news from the MSM.

MAGAs: Can't spell "their news" correctly.

In August, even Biden admitted the Inflation Reduction Act did nothing.

- Inflation up 15%
- Cost of groceries up 20%
- US gas prices up 61%
- research into new potential medical treatments stopped
- launch prices of new drugs expected to rise

Um right, so, aside from giving tax subsidies to oil companies, what was the point of it? 🤔

Thanks but I won't be going to see the new Exorcist movie. I can already tell from the previews that it's just a Transformers movie but with a little girl swearing. Hollywood doesn't do pacing anymore, just random spazzing, mawkish anime "human connectivity" and random spaces of badly written "humorous dialog" in between. Stanley Kubrick would be laughed out of the city if he tried stuff like The Shining or Full Metal Jacket today.
Other than that, sure, pea soup totally rules!

California has more residents than the 19 least-populated states, not including DC. CA has 2 US senators, the 19 lowest-populated states have 38.

Until the 17th Amendment passed in 1913, voters couldn't even choose their own senators.

So I'm just wondering, like, what sort of "democracy" did the framers actually want? 🤔

Trump is reportedly worth $2.5 billion. His father gave him $413 million or so during his lifetime via various schemes and frauds. If Trump had simply put this money into a low-cost S&P index fund, he would probably have somewhere around $10 billion today.

Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale in the 80s when she realized that Reagan and his stupid fundie Moral Majority would be ok with turning America into Gilead.
Her one rule during the book's writing process was that every event had literally happened somewhere in real life.

Please make a note of it

Deepest condolences to Lockheed and Boeing for the loss of Diane Feinstein as she takes her seat at "the cool table" with G. Gordon Liddy, Augusto Pinochet and Cersei Lannister.

Our new thrash-polka album is almost done, just need title/band name

Oh noes, studies showing that NFTs are worthless. =(

Anyone who had a basic concept of how copyright laws work and realized that our geriatric court system would never even *understand* NFTs knew this was coming within five seconds of hearing about them.

In our gerontocracy, senators cling to their immense power until they're completely senile.

Since 1990, 12 US Senators have died while in office. All of them but Heinz (plane crash), Wellstone (ditto) and Coverdell (stroke) were well past retirement age when they died.

It's insane.

the neofeudalist system under which we live is supported by malicious laws.
For over 200 years, the elites - knowing that most people either can't or won't read things - have tweaked our laws to the point where everything is stacked in favor of the interests of corporations, finance capitalists, rentier-class land-owners etc.
At this point it's an unbreakable blockchain of unfair laws that literally can't be fixed, and has led to many many thousands of stories like this.

Living corpse Henry Kissinger's resume:

- Helped Nixon fight a secret war in Cambodia
- Encouraged bombing campaigns throughout Southeast Asia that either killed, wounded or left 6 million people homeless
- Helped brutal dictator Pol Pot gain power
- Won a Nobel Peace Prize

Waitwhat