Luigi Mangione turns out to be a heroic figure.
NOT the person using this handle on Substack. Eisenhower Republican (which is to say NOT a Republican — or Democrat — at all). Ain't no cavalry comin'. From now on, we're each on our own, and Alferd E. Packer awaits us in the wilderness.
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Luigi Mangione turns out to be a heroic figure.
Fun fact: That photo wasn't taken this weekend. Trump's still missing. Maybe he's scouting a plot someplace 242 miles from Ivana's.
Happy Labor Day! Enjoy — while they're still here — the gifts of Frances Perkins, the New Deal and the Great Society, for tomorrow, it's back to the 364 days the oligarchs take more of those gifts away from you. Tax the rich.
If Dems can’t handle ANY criticism, they’ll never get their favorables out of the cellar. Ask Jake Tapper.
“Stick your police state where the sun don’t shine!” SEATTLE?
Jack, I think you're wrong. Bigly wrong. Google Rockbridge Network, the Silicon Valley oligarchs behind J.D. Vance, bankrolled by Peter Theil, Heritage Foundation benefactor Rebekah Mercer, et al. Vance says he's ready to step up if hamberders and covfefe take Dear Leader.
"For example, look at all the gratitude Eric Adams showed Trump…uh, I mean the United States! Next question… Q: "The U.S. is taking 10% ownership of the means of production of Intel. Isn't that SOCIALISM?" A. "Not if the president does it."
"Golf outing" implies that he actually played or intended to play golf. He rode around in a cart and glad-handed the racist, misogynist Raiders football coach.
Wait…WHAT? Let the disabled and elderly VOTE after their INSURANCE has been TAKEN AWAY? That's a recipe for (Republican) political disaster! Certainly a bigger disaster than is already predicted!
Of course.
I'm all for it, if only for the sake of honesty. Originally called the National Military Establishment, it was renamed the Dep't of Defense the same year Orwell coined the "newspeak" term "doublethink" (holding two contradictory views at once).
He doesn't see truth as "indeterminate," he sees it as something only he determines. And he hates artificial intelligence less than he hates actual intelligence.
It's not about left or right, black/brown or white, Xtian or not, it's a class war. Always has been. They want you to thinks it's the other stuff.
And folks in the decimated Ninth Ward are bound to the city by a stronger force: Poverty.
Go to jail for a year for burning WHICH FLAG?
Maybe if they'd spend a few hours in the streets with us — walkin’, not talkin’ — instead of 3–4 hours a night phoning up their fat-cat donors, begging for cash… But it's pretty clear whose side most of them are on. "It's a big club, and you ain’t in it." — George Carlin
Jeff, your tragicomedy has been the bright spot of my day for quite a while now. Thanks for helping us deal with the stink of the regime's bullshit.
Would’ve been NYC if Eric Adams hadn’t surrendered the city for a prosecution deal.
It ain't just Trump. It never has been.
Don't kid yourself. It aint't just Trump. He and most of his regime are too stupid to have hatched this plan. Conservatives have striven for this for 50 years, and now have the support of the entire Republican party, down to the local level.
The judge didn't fault rhetoric, he faulted "anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation." There are plenty of racist assholes who aren't exposed to airwaves or internet, but to friends and workmates who're emboldened, not ashamed of their attitudes.
Vance is as much a pawn for the Yarvinist oligarchs as Trump was. The media don't touch it because they know and fear the power and reach of Opus Dei, whose members don't fuck around — so you won't find out.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Wait…WHAT? A gaggle of teen-age hackers with no knowledge of accounting, organization, employment law or government was actually up to no good? How could we not have foreseen this?
Mostly, they're probably glad to not be just standing around in front of news cameras on the National Mall and Union Station, looking threatening to white folks.
The out-of-state troops were deployed under 32 USC 502(f) "training exercises." So they're training to do jobs normally held by immigrants.
Who'd've thunk a salami Subway sandwich would become the official meal of the revolution. I like mine with provolone, roasted peppers and LT with oil & vinegar. (It's actually better as a panini, w/o the LT and oil & vinegar.)
Neither Trump, Noem, Vance or any of the other nincompoops in the regime are smart enough to have figured out ANY of this shit. Russell Vought, however, knows somebody who is, and who wrote the blueprint in Project 2025 and its endnotes.
I don't want to dance on his grave. It'll be muddied with urine.
Project 2025 is the product of 50 years of work by the Heritage Foundation. Between Russell Vought, Steven Miller and the Republican party, they've succeeded in destroying a (largely) functional U.S. government, and they won't stop until they've installed an oligarchical white male Xtian version.
I almost envy you your Naïveté, truly. But no true Scotsman would suggests that oligarchs do not exist on the left OR that a social conscience is utterly absent on the right. A friend once remarked, comparing capitalism to communism, "It doesn't matter. The little guy always gets screwed."
The thing is, too many of the people who elect people can't balance a checkbook, let alone conceptualize the complexity of the world's largest and most influential economy.
My point all along has been that it's not a war of left v. right, it's a class war, and the oligarchs have not only their thumbs, but their weightier gold on the scales. They prefer Republicans, but they'll favor Democrats who'll protect their riches.
I know exactly what we're up against, and stopping it will be nigh impossible. The essence of "dark money" is that it's surreptitious, hidden. But based on what we SEE (e.g., FEC reports), induction suggests a pattern for the unseen. Conclusion: oligarchs exist on the right AND left.
What they really mean is that if they portray Trump, his regime and his sycophants in the GQP, they'll get kicked out the press rooms, press conferences and "off-the-record" chit-chats with insiders, and instead of reporting their shit, they'll have to make up their own.
Thumbs up their asses? Nonsense. Vance was elbow-deep in his couch. Boebert was thumbing her PlayBill.
Would that the West Wing had depicted reality.
Know which House candidate got the highest percentage of small-dollar contributions? Marjorie Taylor Greene, 72.66% (followed by AOC, 69.94%; Bernie, 63.63%; and Gym Jordan, 55.76%. 48 of the top 100 small-dollar beneficiaries were Republican. The lesson? We oughta give candidates more.
You're right: 2023–24 FEC REPORTD contributions analyzed by Open Secrets show big-money donors 56% conservative; 41% lefties, 3% centrist. Granted, the biggest were conservative. But 41% aint hay. Know who's NOT on the list? George Soros.
Wait? Right-wing money funding MY bullshit machine? WTF are you talking about? I'm saying OLIGARCHS, right and left, are fund THE bullshit machine, right and left, just as they fund all politics at all levels. Neither politicians nor the courts will stop it because Citizens United. I'm done here.
Nobody that we know of. If anyone was, they wouldn't admit it. But, assuming that you're right and that only conservatives do it, I'll commence hand-wringing immediately. That oughta stop 'em.
The OP's issue at hand is, "A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers," which happens on the left AND right. Don't believe either, but believe 'em both. Although I hate to quote Ronnie RayGun: trust, but verify.
My point remains: It's not self-contradictory to say, in the same breath, "Believe everybody, but don't believe anybody." Think critically of everything and cull the bullshit. And, know that some bullshitters aren't liars, they're unwittingly passing along somebody else's bullshit.
Wait…WHAT? You mean we have to exercise critical thinking to evaluate oligarch-sponsored bullshit from "influencers" on the left AND right? WTAF!
Gotham. And there ain't no Batman. Gotta admire the irony.
It was never about efficiency. It's about an authoritarianism that makes fascists look like flailing amateurs. Neither is it about Trump. Peter Thiel doesn't GAF who APPEARS to be in charge, as long as the oligarchs ACTUALLY are. They just happen to be white male Xtians.
Funny how the NRA has forgotten their age-old claim that the 2nd Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves from a tyrannical government. The other foot is shod.
I did read it. And I repeat myself: conservatives have been doing the same thing for decades, so spare us the "When they go low, we go high" bullshit. Money rules politics and every other aspect of our lives. Deal with it.
…as if the whole SYSTEM isn't run by "dark money." Can you say "Citizens United"?
as if “dark money” hasn’t funded the right-wing bullshit machine for decades.
“In the event that the cloud server was breached.” I thought the DOGEbags INTENDED to breach it on an ongoing basis — with a back door.
Every accusation is a confession. Except the mortgage fraud thing. That's just plain ol' bullshit (read: lies). And intimidation. And weaponization of government. Oh, wait — they accused Dems of that, so it's a confession.
Hmmm. The secretive $700M ad-testing factory upon whose advice Kamala relied as she LOST to a seditionist serial sex predator and fraudster felon. All y'all can make dumbass consultants richer, but I won't give another dime to most Democrats (with a few noticeable exceptions).
Trump needn't be defeated. The hamberders, covfefe and congestive heart failure will kill him soon. But the Republican party, top to bottom, wants a unitary executive in a white Xtian nation. They've been working toward it for decades, and they're motivated, organized, and bankrolled.
What do the three stars represent?
Arguing over which of his manifold offenses eclipses another is a waste of effort. As a whole, they shred the Constitution and everything we've stood and fought for for 2½ centuries. And it ain't just Trump — the Republican party STRIVES for this at ALL levels of government. They must be stopped.
YAAAAYYY! We’re a SOCIALIST country now!
In his first term, the rules were changed to allow him to be buried in Arlington Nat'l Cemetery. I wonder how many families will have their kin disinterred and moved somewhere else if that happens. They'll have to post a 24-hr. guard to keep folks from pissing on his grave.
The "thorough investigation" will be "Why did we leave ANY witnesses alive?"
Flag burning is soooo 1969. How 'bout burning the Flag of the President of the United States? Walmart's got 'em for 16 bucks.
Current U.S. economic policy regime: "I want to try to get as much as I can."
Here's hoping Dear Leader strokes out or croaks of CHF before Jan. 21, 2027. After that, the two years Vance will inherit won't count as a full term for him, allowing him to run twice and be president for 10 years. It's pro'ly good for us that Dear Leader is excited all the time.
They gave him a HANDCUFF KEY! WTAF!
It's not a MAGA court, it's an Opus Dei court of Xtian nationalism and the unitary executive. MAGA's into QAnon conspiracies. Opus Dei (and oligarch Yarvinists) are into an ACTUAL conspiracy of the powerful — motivated and wealthy.
Democrats stand with organized labor, but organized labor (i.e., Teamsters, UAW) don't stand with Democrats — because at the root of it, Democrats, like Republicans, stand with their oligarch donors. It's not their fault, it's Citizens United.
Maybe Trump will kill himself in a bunker — in Bedminster — similar to hara-kiri, but the weapon will be hamberders and covfefe. I've heard he's got an advance directive insisting on resuscitation by injection of Chlorox®.
The negotiations after WWII weren't with the Axis, but with how the Allies would divvy up the spoils.
Coercion? Extortion.
“Random person” or Republican plant?
Conway probably got the same heads-up as the press corps.
I’m on about the 1% in donor states don’t GAF about a general strike—especially short term—because their money is multinational.
It's donors in the donor states who're funding the regime. But they don't make money off RETAIL in those states. They make money wherever they can. So, by all means, let's shut down the mom-and-pops that are 70% of the economy. That'll change the regime's mind. Or, let's hurt Amazon — for one day.
He had the Resolute Desk cleaned because Musk's kid rubbed boogers on it.
Hmmm. "Crypt" = a chamber in a mausoleum or tomb; "o" = diminutive of "of"; "Currency" = coins, etc., circulating as a means of exchange; "Cryptocurrency" = a chamber for dead money
Indeed, the very idea of educating young people about how their reproductive organs work, how testosterone, estrogen, etc., influence human development and characteristics is beyond the ken of adults who were taught to be ashamed of their bodies and not discuss such things in "polite company."
Granted, all of this is hyped up by conservatives' fears and unwillingness to even try to understand anything related to sex (how many legislators have no idea of how the female reproductive organs relate to each other or work). /3
Polls also show reluctance to support gender-affirming care to minors, although starting such care before the onset of puberty is key. And, there's little support for surgical reassignment of minors. /2
Is he "dehumanizing the transgender community…to court MAGA voters"? Or responding to opinions not only of unaffiliated voters, but Dems? Polls show 56% support trans rights, but falter regarding biological males competing in female sports. /1
That's a GOOD thing! How're we supposed to defend ourselves if they won't let us carry rifles and shotguns where their brownshirts are? Liberals own guns, too, ya know…
Controlling the means of production! We're now a SOCIALIST COUNTRY!
"But Donald, these are copies of the documents you hid in Mar-A-Lago!"
…and start that "emotional education" in the White House.
What could a convicted sex trafficker possibly consider "inappropriate"?
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Not to mention racism and the frustration that their views will never be accepted by decent people anywhere.
Except she's still here, while allegations of sexual assault and discrimination have forced him into exile from the food and hospitality industry.
It's illegal to smoke weed in a public space in D.C.
We're winning when it takes two dozen Nazis to pinch one doper.
"Allegations that Bolton improperly handled classified gov't material," obtained when he was national security advisor for Trump.1?
GOP plan for '26 and '28: 1. Redistrict in GOP's favor. 2. Ban mail-in ballots. 3. Fewer polling places in (Black) Dem strongholds. 4. Brownshirts at polls, arresting colored people. 5. Thiel and Musk fucking with voting machines. 6. Third Trump term (unless his arteries slam shut before then).
B…B…But we were in a CONVOY! We don't brake a convoy for red lights, for CITIZENS to use PUBLIC ROADS!
Maybe somebody oughta make a criminal complaint that X doesn't verify age.
32 USC 502(f) allows Guard activation for TRAINING: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
32 USC 502(f) allows Guard activation for TRAINING. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
No, they’re the OLD Proud Boys. And “Oath Keepers.”
Gov’t control of the means of production isn’t “state capitalism,” it’s SOCIALISM.
At least Trump didn't follow the lead of one of his heros, Kim Jung-Il, and shoot him. Maybe he'll shoot the next one. In the middle of Fifth Avenue.
Great! Disrupt Bezos!
Socialism is defined as government control of the means of production. Trump's government is taking a 10% share of Intel. Thus, the Republican-controlled government is officially SOCIALIST. I don't want the hear any more bullshit from Republicans — or oligarch-controlled Dems — about Mamdani.