How could I not talk about the most wonderful thing to happen in my long lifetime?
To add to that : impeachment is pretty much the only thing that can save the oligarchs.
If they make a big display of sacrificing Dumb Donnie and all his goons to the will of the people. said people might just forget who put them in power in the first place.
Or they might not. They might launch such an enormous investigation into that entire coterie of fucktards that every single link between them and the other billionaires is exposed and people will head straight for the puppet masters once they are done with the puppets and their hangers-on.
But it’s still their best bet. They need to push “the good ones” like Warren Buffet and Mark Cuban to the forefront and have them in some way leading the charge to hang Trump et all so that people have some kind of positive image of billionaires to counter all the crap that Trump and his ilk have done.
This WILL require at least a symbolic sacrifice of profits. Both in the form of allowing themselves to be taxed more (Buffet can lead that) and in accepting new worker protections and price controls and all the rest of the New Deal kind of things that FDR ushered in as a way to keep the angry mobs placated.
This could be the beginning of a new era of actual change.
People are seriously waking up to just how bullshit the era of supposed worship of “the market” has been.
The invisible hand job is over. They have seen how unregulated capitalism can lead to atrocious consequences that nobody in the public wants to see happen. They are not willing to accept that the rules of the game say their child must die. The
Capitalism is a game, and we the people are free to change the rules of said game in order to create better outcomes any time we like. The myth that The Market will somehow shrivel up and die if we so much as touch it was always a cocktail of bullshit and wishful thinking and moral cowardice, and people are catching on to the con.
That why the powers that be need to embrace guys like Oren Cass.
He’s going to help usher in a new era of post-capitalism conservatism that stops kowtowing to Mammon and remembers that Jesus said to take care of the poor.
It’s downright perverse that the socially conservative Christians, at least in the USA, somehow got infected with free market mania in the first place when the entire history of Christianity and especially the New Testament itself strongly indicates that Christianity is meant to restrain capitalism and the pursuit of wealth.
That’s why “prosperity gospel” is such a repulsive thing.
So I am glad to see people like Oren Cass pushing back on that BS.
It would be better for all concerned if the Republican elites in the House and Senate followed Ben Shapiro’s lead in denouncing Trump. These tariffs make for a perfect breaking point. You can plausibly say you were a Trump supporter until he announced the tariffs and thus dodge having to ever admit you were wrong.
And that’s vitally important in today’s world of honourless conservatism that has forgotten the lessons of character and integrity espoused in those old sitcoms they seem to love so much.
You know, things like not lying, fessing up when you messed up and taking the consequences, and trying to be a good person.
Where did all that go? Rush Limbaugh killed it, I guess. Or at least what he started.
I’d love to hear his private unguarded thoughts about this era he began.
Bet he wishes he’d been a bit more understanding.
More after the break.
A little freaked out
I’ve also been feeling a little overwhelmed lately.
But I am pretty sure it’s temporary.
The cause is obvious to me – I have added a relatively major thing to my day, namely making a video, and that has supplanted some of the time I would more usually have to just hang loose, relax, play video games, and revert to my liquid form like Odo.
And my mind is not used to that yet. So there’s times when I feel like I am not getting enough free time, even though that’s still most of my day.
But I remember, way way back in 2011, when I first started blogging every day, and how difficult it was to adjust to that at first, but now I can’t imagine a day without getting to let my emotions out via blogging.
That’s how I know this vaguely hunted feeling that I am “always” busy will fade over time and the videos will become as routine as the blogging.
Speaking of video making, I continue to wonder whether the effort I put into editing the videos could be better spent elsewhere.
Because going through the raw footage to snip up ums and ahs and stutters takes quite a bit out of me. There’s a mental discipline to video editing and a fairly high level of concentration required and by the time I am done with that, I don’t have a single erg of energy left to do anything else.
I was actually going to add pictures and little text jokes to today’s video but by the time I finished editing that was absolutely no longer in the cards.
And all that just to make the video run a little more smoothly. I am pretty sure that my unedited speech is not so full of ums etc. as to be unwatchable and arguably that time would be better spent on something that added a lot more to the final product.
Like the pictures and jokes I mentioned.
I will continue to brood upon the subject. Maybe I will consider doing the record and edit in the early afternoon and then the polish and ornamentation in the evening. I dunno.
I know that I could probably make something really special if I could find the energy.
I know that technically, I don’t have to do a video a day. Not on paper anyhow.
But in reality, I kind of do.
It’s the only way I know how to do things. I have too much creative energy to express for me to really take my time with things.
Maybe that will change at some point, but for now, it’s what I got.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.