It does for you. For the intended audience, it makes them cheer and jeer at the ‘stupid brown woman’ ‘finally getting her comeuppance’ for ‘daring to disrespect the flag by being an illegal’.

They have no sympathy or empathy. They want to see PoC crying in chains as they are led off by white officers. To them, that means the system is working.

It’s been proven over and over again that if you give people at the bottom more money, they buy more things, which makes the economy stronger, which increases industry, which makes more money for the top 1%.

Yet, instead of upping pay for their workers, billionaires fight as hard as possible to do the opposite.

Freefall put it quite succinctly. It’s not about how much they have, it’s about how much other people don’t have. If they had a choice between having a giant pile of gold but everyone else has smaller piles, or having a giant pile of shit and everyone else having nothing, they would choose the pile of shit.

These people have been dreaming for years of a ‘new world order’, with them, the glorious techbros, leading their own kingdoms free of all that pesky ‘government influence’. Their plan is to wreck the world and build their little bunkers, and then all of us plebeians will be begging at their door to be let in, because the world outside will be unlivable.

They write manifestos about all this. It’s their wet dream.

Yeah, nothing’s ‘plunged’ at all. He’s still in the 45-49% approval rating he’s had since taking office. Hell, any ‘dips’ are statistically insignificant enough to possibly be rounding errors.

Dang. You’ve gone from ‘that never happens’ (even though it does) to ‘child labor is hilarious’. You just keep on digging, don’t you?

Here you go!

Tell that to my friend’s grandma. Latest arrest record at 80, for whacking a cop with her handbag at a protest.

What do they think if this latest bit of bullshit?

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

-Isaac Asimov, 1980

Being muzzled by the DNC

It’s not defeatism; they’re not saying lie down and take it. They’re pointing out to the morons who just say ‘oh well, he is kinda awful, but he’ll be voted out in four years’ are idiots.

We need to kick him out now. The 2025 playbook says he’s going to use an engineered ‘border crisis’ to declare martial law, and he’s been sticking to that playbook like glue.

You do realize several plants in the US have already been caught using child labor, right?

Man, what is it about teachers assigning books about dogs dying?

Sometimes it’s just as simple as changing your perspective a little.

My uncle has pretty bad anger issues. Almost every workday he’d have to drive downtown, usually when the traffic was the worst (and he hated downtown driving to begin with), and he’d get super stressed and rage about it. He’d try to make it so he didn’t have to go downtown, but almost without fail something would come up and he’d be stuck doing it.

He told me he realized it wasn’t healthy, so he tried fixing it by changing it from thinking of it as ‘goddamnit I have to drive downtown again after I tried so hard not to!’ to ‘oh well, have to do my daily downtown trip’. And then when he occasionally didn’t have to go downtown, it became sort of an extra bonus treat.

He was amazed at how much anger he lost, just with a small change in thinking.