Attaxk musk where it hurts. European countries must ban twitter and cut any link with fascist musk. Get starlink down! Ban tesla. Any musk product is toxic. Squeeze the billions out of his “pocket”. Ban bitcoin too. Then things shall probably change for the less worse. Avanti popolo!
Respectfully, right now 'our' govt. will not, even if it could, take away the Muck physical empire, which, like most empires, is mostly on paper or digital. It is not clear if Muck or TFG is actually in charge, or if other, silent powers are running this shitshow.
The 'murkan Constitution is a very weak and compromised document when it comes to 'who/what' has real power. No doubt the wannabe monarch TFG envies Muck, and many other oligarchs, and for most all of its life it has grifted and ripped off banks, insurance companies, ordinary citizens, vendors, etc. to amass, again, a mostly paper fortune.
Believe me, right now there are huge silent battles going on between probably 50-150 of the wealthiest males and their power structures, jostling for positions between each other and the few bonkers megalomaniacs at/near 'the top' of the circus. Also, there is a wait-and-see behavior among thousands of others, where allegiances are forming, changing, dissolving, etc. This pathetic drama is a doppelganger for Lord of the Flies. We all know, if we search our memories, of psychopathic, sadistic perverts chewing on each other's legs, forming packs to take down competitors, etc.
The acts of TFG/Muck these first two weeks are real-time, reptile behavior theatre, absolutely the worst example of human weaknesses. This is the madness of narcissistic megalomania. If you watch the TFG artifact, you observe multiple personalities operating almost at the same time, often overlapping. It fervently desires to be the big kahuna, because it sees itself as the elder grifter, cleverest of the clever, the emptiest of the empty soul with the most vicious and indifferent cunning.
Wait till the religious cults get into the act like the Catholic church, the Baptists, the 7 Mountain Dominionists, New Apostolic Reformation, Mormon church all will be vying for top placement and dollars in the newly evolving theocracy.
If any of us have grown up around a community that had numerous religious cults, we know how jealous and critical they are of each other. Hyper competitive for souls to manipulate. The Extreme Sport of Injustice holds one person who is not catholic or pseudo-catholic, all of them adherents at one level or another of Opus Dei. The Tao te Ching has a line that says - 'when the moral man speaks, and no one listens, he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.' Read up on slime mold, a fungi that eats its host until gone, and then feeds on itself. They will feed on us until we either poison them, or we are gone and they have nothing left to parasite upon but themselves. Nature is ever powerful, even and especially at the microbial levels.
At age 17 I lived under the roof of my uncle, a Southern Baptist preacher, a selfish,racist,intolerant person, and a liar, if ever there was one. He got got banging the church secretary on he desk in the rectory.
One day I brought my friends, Catholic cajuns, to church with me, on a lark, and we sat in the front pew.
He dropped his planned sermon for that day, and lit into a tirade, about demon Catholics, we of course chuckled.
I paid for that later, I didn't actually live under his roof, but with my grandparents in a shotgun cabin on his property, about 25 ft from his house.
I am Catholic, I don’t belong to Opus Dei and never have. I detest it as an attempt to court the wealthy and powerful and to exercise authority with unaccountable power behind the scenes. OD and the other cults within the church are a cancer on the church. I would be delighted if Pope Francis suppressed all of these groups because they are nothing more than cults of power centered around an authoritarian leader, and their behavior toward their members is not the least bit reminiscent of Jesus.
especially at the microbial level...the rhizosphere where microbes merge to die into a microscopic ocean of yes, slime, to feed the plant they are inordinately attracted to.
I cannot disagree with what you said. Hopefully a few of the 77 million (expletive) who voted for him are seeing their error. I hope we can vote again.
Your link is to a site to call your senators. Lots of luck with that Daniel, ICYMI the Senate Confirmed Russell Vought, Pete Hegseth and all of Trumps nominees, with some Democrats joining the chorus.
There are 53 Republican senators who don't give a shit what anyone thinks except President Musk and co president Trump.
So what now? Suits have been filed, cautious judges have entered temporary injunctons, if not reversed by the Circuit courts, they will reach SCOTUS and we already know how they (Trump has immunity) will rule.
All considered it is time for extra legal action.
You,Daniel, are a good guy, I admire you, but you having served your life as a government lawyer and judge are an institutionalist.
And the institutions have failed the people, the institutions now belong to the dictator.
Yes. We know Melania won't stand against her husband/ Musk's policies. I say even because she is in the white house again with her platform, 'Be your best.' She only knows grifting as 'best,' which has been reported over the past eight years.
Remember how the right burst a hernia when Obama showed up in a tan suit. Remember when the right was all about morality and family values
And now there is a first lady who was a nude "model" (a euphism for a catalog bride or any other name you can come up with for a person who sells their body for sex)
I can imagine that all of the tea baggers and half of the MAGAts are now full of regrets, but as is their style, they and their lord and savior will blame the libs, the trans, the immigrants, DEI, CRT and everything but themselves.
Out of respect for Daniel, and for all of us, we all have been/are something, participated in different things, made some good decisions, some terrible, barked up some wrong trees, etc. We are perhaps the most habituated animal alive, but that does not determine that all our life has to be a waste or a mistake. This is why we have community, to inform and educate and respect each other, as one of us, and we as one of them. As to Kathy the regular Catholic, thank you for sharing that anyone can have a belief system that is not a total waste, and perhaps has given that person a perspective we can respect.
Mick- agree, totally. This whole drama being acted out and going on now in our lives, is the pre-requisite of the new organized crime syndicates that they plan for the future. All billionaires loosely cooperating presently, but will directly compete in their future world plan and aggressively manipulate for control of territories
I'm not sure if the details but Musk owns the charging stations which he talked Towns into giving him parking spots for recharging. Is he paying them or did they give it free, I don't know. But other Companies Electric Cars aren't compatible. GM did a deal to be able to sell a adapter. How much more that costs their purchaser I don't know, but Tesla is the only public game in town. I believe the orders stopped universal charging stations that would open it up to Ford, GM, Volvo and others.
Jake Tapper. Eugene Robinson. Kathereine Long. I've been asking talking heads to interview Mike Turner, Thom.
Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink’s Contracts in Ukraine.
"The Lever reported Tuesday that USAID’s inspector general was in the process of investigating its own public-private partnership between Musk’s Starlink and the Ukrainian government at the time that the billionaire’s DOGE crippled the agency. Publicly available information about that probe is still online. An announcement from last May reads: “The USAID Office of Inspector General, Inspections and Evaluations Division, is initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine. Our objectives are to determine how (1) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals, and (2) USAID monitored the Government of Ukraine’s use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals.”
"Musk has called the agency “evil” and a “criminal organization,” though the fact that USAID was investigating the Starlink activities may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaire’s vitriol. It’s unclear what the Starlink probe’s status is right now."
Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio was removed from his position atop the powerful House Intelligence Committee, telling CBS News that House Speaker Mike Johnson fired him, citing "concerns from Mar-a-Lago."
Also interview other House Repunlicans like Brian Fitzpatrick, and members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, like my rep, Elvira Salazar.
It is ironic that the only real waste fraud and abuse Musk's DOGE Boys would likely have discovered was associated with Musk himself. Like Trump, he has learned how to use our legal system and social media to hide the crimes that build his power and wealth.
Why MAGAs are not outraged that IGs were fired en masse suggests to me that they are clueless about how their government works. Unfortunately for them, they will eventually get woke, but the cost of their diploma from Hardknocks University will likely rival that of Yale.
The fact that MAGAs voted for Trump, Rick Scott who robbed Medicare, MTG, Boebart, Comer, Jordan, and other mentally and morally challenged people confirms they don't know how the Government, Democracy, or Civilization works.
Ukraine needs Starlink to pursue it's defense against Russia. And in fact, Musk took Starlink down at a crucial moment when it's drone boats were attacking the Russian navy.
So why would the IG of USAID come to Putin's defense by investigating Starlink working with Ukraine.
It appears that the IG of USAID was a Putin asset, so why would Musk call him Evil, given that Musk and Trump are helping Putin.. They recently lifted sanctions on oligarchs.
To investigate one needs the power of investigation and prosecution.
What we do have is reports from the likes of the Associated Press, and the power of deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning is how crimes are solved, and how genealogy is traced.
Iknow that Daniel, But what doesn't compute is that as far as I can determine the investigations actually would have helped Putin, as they were investigations of USAID's inquiry into the Starlink Ukraine connection.
Not the Starlink Russia connection.
Sounds like the Burisma thing all over.
Just another attack on Ukraine.
I am also, always mindful, of the employment of reverse psychology, and how it has been used to manipulate the opposition.
Lenin said: Oppose what you propose, propose what you oppose and your enemy will hand you the keys to the kingdom on a silver platter.
This USAID, Starlink, Ukraine thing doesn't make sense, except if USAID proves corruption with Ukraine it helps Putin.
You know better Daniel. It doesn't make sense, yes concocted in Moscow, so why then is USAID investigating Starlinks relationship with Ukraine, instead of Starlinks relationship with Moscow.
26 years in the military I am familiar with IG's and their scope.
From the news that reaches me. Musk is calling USAID evil because it was investigating Starlink. Starlkinks contract with Ukraine. That sounds like something that Putin would cream his jeans over.
I heard a lot of audit cases down through the years and the typical case involved a misrepresentation of expensee (count) and the extent of damage (amount). For example I heard Service Contract Act that may apply to Musk as a government contactor.
Musk is a Putin supporter who sided Putin by taking Starlink down during the battle. Isn't that what the IG was investigating? And that's why the FAA was hit too, as they were lodging a complaint and investigation into Space X's shoddy rockets. I expect any contracts with Besos will be cancelled too while he's at it. Expect any government agencies looking at exploding Cyber Trucks to be destroyed next.
I know that Musk is supporting Putin, but that USAID-Starlink-Ukraine thing confuses me, because the way I'm reading it ,it has nothing to do with Musk pulling down Starlink when Ukraine was using it to target Russian Ships, but it sounds like it to find some corruption with the Ukraine government,if that is the case it helps Putin, and that would be during the Biden Administration. Very confusing
Concerning CBS, I am not a big fan of corporate mergers that would give news departments new overlords. Nonetheless it is not for the president of the USA to coerce (blackmail) anyone to control the news and also line his pockets as well. How long before they attack sub-stack?
All of the media is collapsing, now it is CBS. If Trump doesn't like the news or the story he sues, and the media immediately collapses like ABC they could win if they went to court, but if they did they would lose access and be a permanent target of der fuhrer.
Tesla (TSLA) losses mounted to more than 3% after news that the company's electric-vehicle sales in China dropped 11.5% in January, according to the latest data from the China Passenger Car Association. Tesla stock is now more than 9% below its 10-week moving average. The final earnings release of 2024 finalized another difficult year for Tesla's bottom line, as its full-year net income came in at $8.4 billion, a 23% decrease from 2023 and a 40% decline from 2022's record $14.1 billion profit, though its full-year revenue rose $97.7 billion, a 1% improvement from 2023's record.
I've seen this movie before, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". In the original 1956 version before the ending was reshot the soulless Pod People win. Guess we have to fight them all over again.
Update: A quick check showed that his team has bought high end "sleep pods" for what they claim to be 120 hour work weeks. (Apparently Musk used similar things at his factory too.) Rawstory has a headline, "DOGE workers 'shacking up' in federal buildings with sleep pods — some with family: report". As usual life imitates art.
2009 TV series V, Lizard People (shades of David Icke) in human form.
The movie The Arrival 1996 version the hero, Zane, discovers that the power plant is a facade for an extraterrestrial base. The aliens blend in with humanity by wearing an external skin, and the base emits massive amounts of greenhouse gases. tomake the earth habitable for his species.
And then there is the Matrix, earth 2, the multiverse.That would explain why billionaires are so invested in destroying the societies and civilization that have made them wealthy
Sadly you don't need devils or space aliens (or even "Snakes in Suits" the title of a book about successful psychopaths) to find people who will do whatever they are told. As a recruiter for the Defense Mapping Agency once answered my qualms on applying there, "What do you care? You're not the one dropping the bombs."
Evidently, a very powerful riposte is needed. I suggest the following: (1) A series of general strikes rallying support for massive tax resistance: income taxes would be withheld or diverted until the President and his appointees begin to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress. Legal support teams for tax resisters could be funded as nonprofit protectors of “Conscientious defense of the Constitution,” since it is one of the implicit though unennumerated rights reserved to the people by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. (2) Create a secure distributed network for organizing acts of resistance, recruiting ex-federal workers for grassroots organizing, establishing a consolidated independent news outlet to distribute suppressed information, and gaining access to back-channel communications of the Team Trump. (3) Lobby State and local government agencies until they back up and secure public databases, especially those related to federal programs and payments. (4) Get serious about publicly shaming the six rogue Justices of Trump v. US until they are forced to resign: sue them for judicial incoherence, mock their every sophistry, taunt them with having expectations of a gratuity for every ruling, etc; and then block every one of Trump's attempts to replace them. Meanwhile, the remnant Court of Three can get on with reversing the judicial linchpins of oligarchic power (eg. Trump, Citizens United etc.). (5) Commit to doing whatever it takes to defeat every MAGA toady up for election in 2026. In particular, by ensuring that every vote cast can be recounted by hand (especially in swing states), supporting only challengers who endorse impeaching those six judicial “kingmakers,” and who pledge to work for a massive economic shift of corporate wealth into the hands of wage earners, students and small businesses. (6) As a matter of conscience, launch a campaign to boycott every enterprise profiting those billionaires who flaunted their influence on the inaugural dais (eg. by abandoning X for Blue Sky, Facebook for Diaspora, Amazon for eBay, Google for Startpage, etc.). (7) As a matter of strategy, facilitate a cadre of online activists who maintain minimal profiles on X, Truth Social, etc. in order to flood those echo-chambers with posts that correct widely circulating errors of fact and reason, but without engaging with adversarial responders or provocateurs. And (8), whatever else comes to mind.
What Trump and Elon know is money and power. Do it my way or get out of the way or be obliterated. USAID was obliterated. There goes one issue for Musk. Who is running this gov't - my guess it is Elon, unelected but he has mighty power. He has in less than 3 weeks turned our gov't agencies upside down, enraged a good portion of the people of this country and what is more amazing he holds no official cabinet position, has not been vetted by Congress but he acts with more power than Trump. Our country has become a runaway train with more testing times ahead.
Some Daniel,probably, but not all. USAID does work, that the CIA doesn't have to, call it international bribery. Also, very effective at keeping deadly disease in Africa, like monkey Pox and Ebola and the African variety of AIDS.
How is it possible that congressmen can be refused entry into government buildings such as USAID and the Department of Education? Certainly this cannot be legal!? What practical remedies are available? Does Congress have no teeth at all? This outrage demands a better, more forceful response than mere hand-wringing!
Are we going to be able to save this country? Because it's looking more and more as though the U.S. is toast. I would love to be more optimistic, but I don't see how we will survive Trump's onslaught on democracy.
Write and call and protest to Republican House members. Stop the takeover by unelected government contractor Musk, who is tied to China and Russia and has a conflict of interests.
WE MAY PRESSURE HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO FLIP.
Pursue impeachment.
At least 20 Republican House members are from districts Harris won or have Dem majorities.
1. Minority ethic Republicans. How can women, Blacks, Hispanics support discrimination?
2. Those who support Ukraine.
3. Those who oppose acquiescence to Musk.
4. Those whose dictricts will be killed by tariffs.
5. Those who have been physically threatened by MAGATs.
According to Heather Cox Richardson this morning:
Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to demand that they stand against President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk as they unilaterally dismantle the United States government and gain access to Americans’ private information. The Senate phone system usually gets about 40 calls a minute; now it is up to 1,600.
You may as well be talking to wall when you speak of convincing republicans to do the right thing. Also, impeachment by the House has become a joke. Trump has been impeached twice before, and it made absolutely no difference to anyone. Besides, the Senate would never convict him. In any case, never count on republicans to do what is right or good for the nation. They won't.
I am not a faith healer but I have seen many a MAGAT have a come to Jesus moment.
The people I am working on, personally, were Dems until relatively recently. One House member here was a Democratic mayor until 2020. Supported HRC in 2016.
Even if we did not prevail, impeachment stalls everything.
Minority Republicans are Quisling. The House slave, Stephen, in Django unchained, and I am not talking about race, but all minorities, gay, Hispanic, Asian, Indian.
I keep track of Democrats who have voted Republican as well. Two in Texas, Cuellar and Gonzales vote with right wing culture warriors, 25 Voted for the Laken Riley act, and in the Senate Marco Rubio was confirmed by 99-0
We need to keep a treason score card, as in the old days when they had organizations rate congress critters as percent liberalor conservative.
Consider the number of women, Blacks, Hispanics who are Republican officeholders.
I worked for the government 30+ years and virtually all of the appointees and hires had to pass the DEI test. Alexander Acosta, Thomas E. Perez, Hilda L. Solis, Elaine L. Chao, Elizabeth Hanford Dole ,Ann Dore McLaughlin. That's just DOL. In # 45, his UN Ambassador, Secretary of Transportatioon, Secretary of Homeland Security, Education, Small Business Administration......Little Marco Rubio is a DEI kind of guy.
He says 20 Republican House members either represent a district Harris won or a majority Democratic. Like mine. Mostly Democratic. But my rep is a Cuban American who calls her opponents commies...and psy ops has convinced my friends and neighbors...even the Democrats to believe this is true and voted for her.
"President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration are causing anxiety in the Miami-Dade school system. This week rumors were flying about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers appearing at two schools, a middle school and a high school. Then news of a science teacher who taught at a magnet middle school being deported also caused feelings of stress and uncertainty, according to United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernandez-Mats."
I yearn for some too Terry, but we aren't going to get it. The DNC just elected another milquetoast as head. Ken Martin. I have seen only one real fighter: Chris Murphy, he is really sticking his neck out.
Chuck Schumer is a charade, a spectacle, he has sat by for years, letting the Republicans obstruct and build up MAGA then like an addled fool, he steps in front of the mic making a fool of himself screaming resist and it ends now. where he fuck was he all these years, before him Harry Reid, with the moral spine of a jelly fish.
The following paragraph was a very scary scenario to me.
..........."In an extraordinary and risky show of defiance, CNN anchor Jake Tapper took to the airwaves to explain that CBS’s considering a payoff is an extraordinarily dangerous thing to do. He said that to “settle the suit would be a white flag of surrender… the network of [veteran broadcaster] Edward R. Murrow… saying, we will not speak truth to power. We will acquiesce to power at the expense of truth.” He wrapped up his rant, saying, “You live long enough and you see how eroded standards that politicians think work for their side always end up being wielded against them. And at that point, it doesn’t even matter who started it. It just matters that corporations are leaning on news divisions to supplicate themselves to whomever is in power because of their bottom line and the implied threat from the government.”
I am perplexed by what John Fetterman said in an interview. As we all know, he went to Mara Lago - okay, but to sit down in an interview and respond with, "I won't criticize our president. That is like being against my country." He is capitulating to power at the expense of truth. I have no idea what Fetterman thinks he is doing, but eventually, this will result in being wielded against him and our government.
Is anybody surprised really? This is so predictable. The only unpredictability is which agency is first. PBS and NPR is not really surprising as their daily reporting is so unFox like they do not intentionally miss-inform and cause brain damage. I do not think the lack of government funding will cause either to shut down. Private funding will take the slack. It just will be harder for them to operate and that is the point. The GOP does not want real daily news being actually informative. A judge has temporarily removed Elon's crew from the Treasury but why is the aid being allowed to be shut down on a Congressionally mandated program? Seems the GOP desire to out the countries spies is an ongoing program since Bush. The Dems lack of immediate reaction is so awful it condemns them as well. I guess killing cops and spies not reported is a GOP value and the Maga cheer it on with other brown shirts. President Elon and crew seem to think they can operate any damn way they want. God will have a few things to say and the real Chosen One will act soon enough that these evil people ot to feel a bit uneasy. They will be surprised. There be dragons in the sky as well as UFO's. Look over your shoulders GOP and maga there are more than just women rage to fear. Your days are numbered says the All mighty most high God.
Thom, thank you for always bringing us the truth in the face of all the constant lies. I just think all of this is so backwards. I do stay positive despite it all. I am glad to be who I am and I know you too, Thom. People need to understand this is far more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. Thanks, Thom. I stay grounded because of knowing things that are facts. Pass it on. We, must speak truth over lies and speak loudly while we are at it. We could have Kamala! Too late. I don’t want the hate no debate on that. Thom.
Accommodation / deal-making is tantamount to the collaboration of Thyssen, Krupp, all the other tycoons and generals who imagined they could moderate or even control the beast.
Thom, this is important…very important, so please share. I refuse to believe that there aren’t some billionaires (Mackenzie Scott, for example?) who might be persuaded that being the champion of the good, honest, caring people of the 99% who are not rich, powerful, smarmy, corrupt, racist, misogynistic, etc., etc., etc.
Fuck the Trumps, the Musks, the Bezoses, the Tim Cook’s bending the knee. If Jeff Fucking Bezos were actually smart, imagine if he had embraced his workforce, its unions, its “independent contractors” in a big tent that says Amazon/Zappos/Whole Foods is great, not in spite of the employees but BECAUSE OF THE EMPLOYEES, he could have become a god on earth…and as Mr. Macy said in “Miracle on 34th St.,” and consequently…make more money than ever before.”
Progressives had better make that case to the super-rich pretty soon, or civilization and the earth will cease to exist.
What a state of affairs, we are saddled with a (expletive) dictator whose unlawful actions, such as, shutting down USAID is killing people. The malignant narcissist and brainless goon in the White House must be enjoying the pain and suffering he's causing. Actually he doesn't have the capacity to care nor to understand what he's doing. Thanks to 77 million voters we are in a huge feedlot sloshing around in hip waders.
Attaxk musk where it hurts. European countries must ban twitter and cut any link with fascist musk. Get starlink down! Ban tesla. Any musk product is toxic. Squeeze the billions out of his “pocket”. Ban bitcoin too. Then things shall probably change for the less worse. Avanti popolo!
How about our government commandeer all Musk properties?
Respectfully, right now 'our' govt. will not, even if it could, take away the Muck physical empire, which, like most empires, is mostly on paper or digital. It is not clear if Muck or TFG is actually in charge, or if other, silent powers are running this shitshow.
The 'murkan Constitution is a very weak and compromised document when it comes to 'who/what' has real power. No doubt the wannabe monarch TFG envies Muck, and many other oligarchs, and for most all of its life it has grifted and ripped off banks, insurance companies, ordinary citizens, vendors, etc. to amass, again, a mostly paper fortune.
Believe me, right now there are huge silent battles going on between probably 50-150 of the wealthiest males and their power structures, jostling for positions between each other and the few bonkers megalomaniacs at/near 'the top' of the circus. Also, there is a wait-and-see behavior among thousands of others, where allegiances are forming, changing, dissolving, etc. This pathetic drama is a doppelganger for Lord of the Flies. We all know, if we search our memories, of psychopathic, sadistic perverts chewing on each other's legs, forming packs to take down competitors, etc.
The acts of TFG/Muck these first two weeks are real-time, reptile behavior theatre, absolutely the worst example of human weaknesses. This is the madness of narcissistic megalomania. If you watch the TFG artifact, you observe multiple personalities operating almost at the same time, often overlapping. It fervently desires to be the big kahuna, because it sees itself as the elder grifter, cleverest of the clever, the emptiest of the empty soul with the most vicious and indifferent cunning.
As I said, Lord of the Flies.
Wait till the religious cults get into the act like the Catholic church, the Baptists, the 7 Mountain Dominionists, New Apostolic Reformation, Mormon church all will be vying for top placement and dollars in the newly evolving theocracy.
If any of us have grown up around a community that had numerous religious cults, we know how jealous and critical they are of each other. Hyper competitive for souls to manipulate. The Extreme Sport of Injustice holds one person who is not catholic or pseudo-catholic, all of them adherents at one level or another of Opus Dei. The Tao te Ching has a line that says - 'when the moral man speaks, and no one listens, he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.' Read up on slime mold, a fungi that eats its host until gone, and then feeds on itself. They will feed on us until we either poison them, or we are gone and they have nothing left to parasite upon but themselves. Nature is ever powerful, even and especially at the microbial levels.
Slime mold. That's it Mick.
At age 17 I lived under the roof of my uncle, a Southern Baptist preacher, a selfish,racist,intolerant person, and a liar, if ever there was one. He got got banging the church secretary on he desk in the rectory.
One day I brought my friends, Catholic cajuns, to church with me, on a lark, and we sat in the front pew.
He dropped his planned sermon for that day, and lit into a tirade, about demon Catholics, we of course chuckled.
I paid for that later, I didn't actually live under his roof, but with my grandparents in a shotgun cabin on his property, about 25 ft from his house.
Great backstory!
I am Catholic, I don’t belong to Opus Dei and never have. I detest it as an attempt to court the wealthy and powerful and to exercise authority with unaccountable power behind the scenes. OD and the other cults within the church are a cancer on the church. I would be delighted if Pope Francis suppressed all of these groups because they are nothing more than cults of power centered around an authoritarian leader, and their behavior toward their members is not the least bit reminiscent of Jesus.
Mick, I love what you wrote and the style with which you wrote it. Slime mold I hope is the result ‘they’ get and it couldn’t happen soon enough!
especially at the microbial level...the rhizosphere where microbes merge to die into a microscopic ocean of yes, slime, to feed the plant they are inordinately attracted to.
Today---US judge temporarily blocks Musk's DOGE from accessing payment systems https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmbzdenpr/02082025doge_order.pdf
Summary
Judge cites risk sensitive data could be improperly disclosed
Prohibited persons must destroy any data already collected
Order comes after lawsuit from Democratic attorneys general from 19 states
Musk calls ruling 'absolutely insane'
I cannot disagree with what you said. Hopefully a few of the 77 million (expletive) who voted for him are seeing their error. I hope we can vote again.
Hope you're not a lawyer.
I am not. Not even close. Just an ordinary person, a gardener by trade.
https://www.commoncause.org/work/fire-elon-musk/?link_id=1&can_id=c21edc35afceb939e29222ede000e0fb&source=email-the-peoples-watchdog-newsletter-feb-8th&email_referrer=email_2611232&email_subject=the-peoples-watchdog-newsletter-feb-8th
Your link is to a site to call your senators. Lots of luck with that Daniel, ICYMI the Senate Confirmed Russell Vought, Pete Hegseth and all of Trumps nominees, with some Democrats joining the chorus.
There are 53 Republican senators who don't give a shit what anyone thinks except President Musk and co president Trump.
So what now? Suits have been filed, cautious judges have entered temporary injunctons, if not reversed by the Circuit courts, they will reach SCOTUS and we already know how they (Trump has immunity) will rule.
All considered it is time for extra legal action.
You,Daniel, are a good guy, I admire you, but you having served your life as a government lawyer and judge are an institutionalist.
And the institutions have failed the people, the institutions now belong to the dictator.
Yes. We know Melania won't stand against her husband/ Musk's policies. I say even because she is in the white house again with her platform, 'Be your best.' She only knows grifting as 'best,' which has been reported over the past eight years.
Remember how the right burst a hernia when Obama showed up in a tan suit. Remember when the right was all about morality and family values
And now there is a first lady who was a nude "model" (a euphism for a catalog bride or any other name you can come up with for a person who sells their body for sex)
I do remember those years, maybe the ‘tea baggers’ all love social security now.
I can imagine that all of the tea baggers and half of the MAGAts are now full of regrets, but as is their style, they and their lord and savior will blame the libs, the trans, the immigrants, DEI, CRT and everything but themselves.
Never up, never in.
BTW Common Cause is a great cause.
Out of respect for Daniel, and for all of us, we all have been/are something, participated in different things, made some good decisions, some terrible, barked up some wrong trees, etc. We are perhaps the most habituated animal alive, but that does not determine that all our life has to be a waste or a mistake. This is why we have community, to inform and educate and respect each other, as one of us, and we as one of them. As to Kathy the regular Catholic, thank you for sharing that anyone can have a belief system that is not a total waste, and perhaps has given that person a perspective we can respect.
Hence, like Shakespeare, whose metaphors are rooted in where and who he was - theater and law.
My comments are to Mick's comment.
Ha Ha!
Mick- agree, totally. This whole drama being acted out and going on now in our lives, is the pre-requisite of the new organized crime syndicates that they plan for the future. All billionaires loosely cooperating presently, but will directly compete in their future world plan and aggressively manipulate for control of territories
You're kidding, right? Musk is running our government!
What I can't grasp is why Musk would want to ban the construction of EV charging stations.
And there are no EV charging stations on Federal Roads, maybe Federal properties, but I doubt that, well there are government motor pools.
I'm not sure if the details but Musk owns the charging stations which he talked Towns into giving him parking spots for recharging. Is he paying them or did they give it free, I don't know. But other Companies Electric Cars aren't compatible. GM did a deal to be able to sell a adapter. How much more that costs their purchaser I don't know, but Tesla is the only public game in town. I believe the orders stopped universal charging stations that would open it up to Ford, GM, Volvo and others.
Thanks Moon Cat, that makes sense. Musk wants to stop the building of competition. mother fucker.
Jake Tapper. Eugene Robinson. Kathereine Long. I've been asking talking heads to interview Mike Turner, Thom.
Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink’s Contracts in Ukraine.
"The Lever reported Tuesday that USAID’s inspector general was in the process of investigating its own public-private partnership between Musk’s Starlink and the Ukrainian government at the time that the billionaire’s DOGE crippled the agency. Publicly available information about that probe is still online. An announcement from last May reads: “The USAID Office of Inspector General, Inspections and Evaluations Division, is initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine. Our objectives are to determine how (1) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals, and (2) USAID monitored the Government of Ukraine’s use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals.”
"Musk has called the agency “evil” and a “criminal organization,” though the fact that USAID was investigating the Starlink activities may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaire’s vitriol. It’s unclear what the Starlink probe’s status is right now."
Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio was removed from his position atop the powerful House Intelligence Committee, telling CBS News that House Speaker Mike Johnson fired him, citing "concerns from Mar-a-Lago."
Also interview other House Repunlicans like Brian Fitzpatrick, and members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, like my rep, Elvira Salazar.
It is ironic that the only real waste fraud and abuse Musk's DOGE Boys would likely have discovered was associated with Musk himself. Like Trump, he has learned how to use our legal system and social media to hide the crimes that build his power and wealth.
Why MAGAs are not outraged that IGs were fired en masse suggests to me that they are clueless about how their government works. Unfortunately for them, they will eventually get woke, but the cost of their diploma from Hardknocks University will likely rival that of Yale.
The fact that MAGAs voted for Trump, Rick Scott who robbed Medicare, MTG, Boebart, Comer, Jordan, and other mentally and morally challenged people confirms they don't know how the Government, Democracy, or Civilization works.
Now I am really confused Daniel.
Ukraine needs Starlink to pursue it's defense against Russia. And in fact, Musk took Starlink down at a crucial moment when it's drone boats were attacking the Russian navy.
So why would the IG of USAID come to Putin's defense by investigating Starlink working with Ukraine.
It appears that the IG of USAID was a Putin asset, so why would Musk call him Evil, given that Musk and Trump are helping Putin.. They recently lifted sanctions on oligarchs.
Investigate first. Could be the count and the amount as they say in audits.
Was Musk a double agent? Someone needs to ask him.
WASHINGTON (AP) [Oct, 2024] — Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of major government contractor SpaceX and key ally of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the last two years, The Wall Street Journal reported. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-to-know-about-elon-musks-reported-phone-calls-with-putin-and-why-it-matters
To investigate one needs the power of investigation and prosecution.
What we do have is reports from the likes of the Associated Press, and the power of deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning is how crimes are solved, and how genealogy is traced.
Apparently--- if you read the articles-- IGs had alreeady started investigations and that's why Trump fired them.
The fired IGs are alive and can testify.
Iknow that Daniel, But what doesn't compute is that as far as I can determine the investigations actually would have helped Putin, as they were investigations of USAID's inquiry into the Starlink Ukraine connection.
Not the Starlink Russia connection.
Sounds like the Burisma thing all over.
Just another attack on Ukraine.
I am also, always mindful, of the employment of reverse psychology, and how it has been used to manipulate the opposition.
Lenin said: Oppose what you propose, propose what you oppose and your enemy will hand you the keys to the kingdom on a silver platter.
This USAID, Starlink, Ukraine thing doesn't make sense, except if USAID proves corruption with Ukraine it helps Putin.
You sure you're not a MAGAT? That crap was concocted in Moscow.
It may just be, like I said above, that Musk was accused of kiting his bills, like 90% of audit cases.
You know better Daniel. It doesn't make sense, yes concocted in Moscow, so why then is USAID investigating Starlinks relationship with Ukraine, instead of Starlinks relationship with Moscow.
That doesn't make sense.
IGs have a limited jurisdiction. Probably just audited the Ukraine contract. Doesn't normally report to DOJ unless a referral is warranted.
26 years in the military I am familiar with IG's and their scope.
From the news that reaches me. Musk is calling USAID evil because it was investigating Starlink. Starlkinks contract with Ukraine. That sounds like something that Putin would cream his jeans over.
I am confused in your reply, Daniel, to William's comment above. What count and what amount are you referring to? Sanctions or drones?
I heard a lot of audit cases down through the years and the typical case involved a misrepresentation of expensee (count) and the extent of damage (amount). For example I heard Service Contract Act that may apply to Musk as a government contactor.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/government-contracts/service-contracts
I didn't assert the penalty but I could debar a contractor form any further government contracts.
Musk is a Putin supporter who sided Putin by taking Starlink down during the battle. Isn't that what the IG was investigating? And that's why the FAA was hit too, as they were lodging a complaint and investigation into Space X's shoddy rockets. I expect any contracts with Besos will be cancelled too while he's at it. Expect any government agencies looking at exploding Cyber Trucks to be destroyed next.
I know that Musk is supporting Putin, but that USAID-Starlink-Ukraine thing confuses me, because the way I'm reading it ,it has nothing to do with Musk pulling down Starlink when Ukraine was using it to target Russian Ships, but it sounds like it to find some corruption with the Ukraine government,if that is the case it helps Putin, and that would be during the Biden Administration. Very confusing
Concerning CBS, I am not a big fan of corporate mergers that would give news departments new overlords. Nonetheless it is not for the president of the USA to coerce (blackmail) anyone to control the news and also line his pockets as well. How long before they attack sub-stack?
There are no news departments in corporate media. Not since the Fairness Doctrine was abandoned, It is infotainment now.
You are correct Chris, it is not for the president to coerce blackmail anyone to control news, but he is and no one is or can stop him.
We'll see how this plays out. If there is no backlash we're screwed.
All of the media is collapsing, now it is CBS. If Trump doesn't like the news or the story he sues, and the media immediately collapses like ABC they could win if they went to court, but if they did they would lose access and be a permanent target of der fuhrer.
Catch 22
Lets start with a selective purchasing boycott. Slow the flow of money. Slow profits. It will hurt. We must do something.
The declassified CIA guide to sabotage: https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Tesla (TSLA) losses mounted to more than 3% after news that the company's electric-vehicle sales in China dropped 11.5% in January, according to the latest data from the China Passenger Car Association. Tesla stock is now more than 9% below its 10-week moving average. The final earnings release of 2024 finalized another difficult year for Tesla's bottom line, as its full-year net income came in at $8.4 billion, a 23% decrease from 2023 and a 40% decline from 2022's record $14.1 billion profit, though its full-year revenue rose $97.7 billion, a 1% improvement from 2023's record.
Also.....
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
Apparently Ellen Weintraub, FEC Chair, is stand against them!!!! 💪👏👏👏👏
One brave soul, and I go out of my way to mention.. a female.
I've seen this movie before, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". In the original 1956 version before the ending was reshot the soulless Pod People win. Guess we have to fight them all over again.
Update: A quick check showed that his team has bought high end "sleep pods" for what they claim to be 120 hour work weeks. (Apparently Musk used similar things at his factory too.) Rawstory has a headline, "DOGE workers 'shacking up' in federal buildings with sleep pods — some with family: report". As usual life imitates art.
See also Braindead, the main antagonist is a remarkable facsmile of Lindsey Graham
,Ant like creatures invade the brains of DC politicians, they live in the Cherry Trees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainDead
2009 TV series V, Lizard People (shades of David Icke) in human form.
The movie The Arrival 1996 version the hero, Zane, discovers that the power plant is a facade for an extraterrestrial base. The aliens blend in with humanity by wearing an external skin, and the base emits massive amounts of greenhouse gases. tomake the earth habitable for his species.
And then there is the Matrix, earth 2, the multiverse.That would explain why billionaires are so invested in destroying the societies and civilization that have made them wealthy
Billionaires building Doomsday shelters and that should terrify you: https://medium.com/financial-invests-win-at-wealth/billionaires-are-building-doomsday-bunkers-and-that-should-terrify-you-9fa364716b34
The rich are hoarding wealth because they know what is coming https://medium.com/edge-of-collapse/the-rich-are-hoarding-wealth-because-they-know-whats-coming-c84afcb2e6c1
Also the movie "They Live", which was a variation on the excellent short story, "Eight O'Clock in the Morning": https://pvto.weebly.com/uploads/9/1/5/0/91508780/eight_o%E2%80%99clock_in_the_morning-nelson.pdf
Sadly you don't need devils or space aliens (or even "Snakes in Suits" the title of a book about successful psychopaths) to find people who will do whatever they are told. As a recruiter for the Defense Mapping Agency once answered my qualms on applying there, "What do you care? You're not the one dropping the bombs."
Everyone has their price.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers
Evidently, a very powerful riposte is needed. I suggest the following: (1) A series of general strikes rallying support for massive tax resistance: income taxes would be withheld or diverted until the President and his appointees begin to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress. Legal support teams for tax resisters could be funded as nonprofit protectors of “Conscientious defense of the Constitution,” since it is one of the implicit though unennumerated rights reserved to the people by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. (2) Create a secure distributed network for organizing acts of resistance, recruiting ex-federal workers for grassroots organizing, establishing a consolidated independent news outlet to distribute suppressed information, and gaining access to back-channel communications of the Team Trump. (3) Lobby State and local government agencies until they back up and secure public databases, especially those related to federal programs and payments. (4) Get serious about publicly shaming the six rogue Justices of Trump v. US until they are forced to resign: sue them for judicial incoherence, mock their every sophistry, taunt them with having expectations of a gratuity for every ruling, etc; and then block every one of Trump's attempts to replace them. Meanwhile, the remnant Court of Three can get on with reversing the judicial linchpins of oligarchic power (eg. Trump, Citizens United etc.). (5) Commit to doing whatever it takes to defeat every MAGA toady up for election in 2026. In particular, by ensuring that every vote cast can be recounted by hand (especially in swing states), supporting only challengers who endorse impeaching those six judicial “kingmakers,” and who pledge to work for a massive economic shift of corporate wealth into the hands of wage earners, students and small businesses. (6) As a matter of conscience, launch a campaign to boycott every enterprise profiting those billionaires who flaunted their influence on the inaugural dais (eg. by abandoning X for Blue Sky, Facebook for Diaspora, Amazon for eBay, Google for Startpage, etc.). (7) As a matter of strategy, facilitate a cadre of online activists who maintain minimal profiles on X, Truth Social, etc. in order to flood those echo-chambers with posts that correct widely circulating errors of fact and reason, but without engaging with adversarial responders or provocateurs. And (8), whatever else comes to mind.
What Trump and Elon know is money and power. Do it my way or get out of the way or be obliterated. USAID was obliterated. There goes one issue for Musk. Who is running this gov't - my guess it is Elon, unelected but he has mighty power. He has in less than 3 weeks turned our gov't agencies upside down, enraged a good portion of the people of this country and what is more amazing he holds no official cabinet position, has not been vetted by Congress but he acts with more power than Trump. Our country has become a runaway train with more testing times ahead.
I always thought some USAID employees were covert CIA officers. Looks like Putin's handiwork.
Some Daniel,probably, but not all. USAID does work, that the CIA doesn't have to, call it international bribery. Also, very effective at keeping deadly disease in Africa, like monkey Pox and Ebola and the African variety of AIDS.
How is it possible that congressmen can be refused entry into government buildings such as USAID and the Department of Education? Certainly this cannot be legal!? What practical remedies are available? Does Congress have no teeth at all? This outrage demands a better, more forceful response than mere hand-wringing!
Are we going to be able to save this country? Because it's looking more and more as though the U.S. is toast. I would love to be more optimistic, but I don't see how we will survive Trump's onslaught on democracy.
Write and call and protest to Republican House members. Stop the takeover by unelected government contractor Musk, who is tied to China and Russia and has a conflict of interests.
WE MAY PRESSURE HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO FLIP.
Pursue impeachment.
At least 20 Republican House members are from districts Harris won or have Dem majorities.
1. Minority ethic Republicans. How can women, Blacks, Hispanics support discrimination?
2. Those who support Ukraine.
3. Those who oppose acquiescence to Musk.
4. Those whose dictricts will be killed by tariffs.
5. Those who have been physically threatened by MAGATs.
According to Heather Cox Richardson this morning:
Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to demand that they stand against President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk as they unilaterally dismantle the United States government and gain access to Americans’ private information. The Senate phone system usually gets about 40 calls a minute; now it is up to 1,600.
You may as well be talking to wall when you speak of convincing republicans to do the right thing. Also, impeachment by the House has become a joke. Trump has been impeached twice before, and it made absolutely no difference to anyone. Besides, the Senate would never convict him. In any case, never count on republicans to do what is right or good for the nation. They won't.
I am not a faith healer but I have seen many a MAGAT have a come to Jesus moment.
The people I am working on, personally, were Dems until relatively recently. One House member here was a Democratic mayor until 2020. Supported HRC in 2016.
Even if we did not prevail, impeachment stalls everything.
Minority Republicans are Quisling. The House slave, Stephen, in Django unchained, and I am not talking about race, but all minorities, gay, Hispanic, Asian, Indian.
I keep track of Democrats who have voted Republican as well. Two in Texas, Cuellar and Gonzales vote with right wing culture warriors, 25 Voted for the Laken Riley act, and in the Senate Marco Rubio was confirmed by 99-0
We need to keep a treason score card, as in the old days when they had organizations rate congress critters as percent liberalor conservative.
Advertise the Quislings.
@ Terry Lo: Check this out: https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
Hakeem Jeffries has been using the 20 number.
Consider the number of women, Blacks, Hispanics who are Republican officeholders.
I worked for the government 30+ years and virtually all of the appointees and hires had to pass the DEI test. Alexander Acosta, Thomas E. Perez, Hilda L. Solis, Elaine L. Chao, Elizabeth Hanford Dole ,Ann Dore McLaughlin. That's just DOL. In # 45, his UN Ambassador, Secretary of Transportatioon, Secretary of Homeland Security, Education, Small Business Administration......Little Marco Rubio is a DEI kind of guy.
What is the 20 number?
He says 20 Republican House members either represent a district Harris won or a majority Democratic. Like mine. Mostly Democratic. But my rep is a Cuban American who calls her opponents commies...and psy ops has convinced my friends and neighbors...even the Democrats to believe this is true and voted for her.
But even as a MAGAT she asked the Trump administragtion not to prosecute Venezuelans and Cubans. https://files.constantcontact.com/1849eea4801/cd2e90be-43c8-4171-b3c6-a357621f7db9.pdf?_gl=1*uo1jgf*_ga*MDMwMjhjMzctZTFlNy00YzExLWE3NTEtZGUxMmY1OGY0YjEw*_ga_14T5LGLSQ3*MTczNzc0NTk1My4zLjEuMTczNzc0Njg2Ny44LjAuMA..
"President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration are causing anxiety in the Miami-Dade school system. This week rumors were flying about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers appearing at two schools, a middle school and a high school. Then news of a science teacher who taught at a magnet middle school being deported also caused feelings of stress and uncertainty, according to United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernandez-Mats."
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article299947014.html#storylink=cpy
I yearn for some too Terry, but we aren't going to get it. The DNC just elected another milquetoast as head. Ken Martin. I have seen only one real fighter: Chris Murphy, he is really sticking his neck out.
Chuck Schumer is a charade, a spectacle, he has sat by for years, letting the Republicans obstruct and build up MAGA then like an addled fool, he steps in front of the mic making a fool of himself screaming resist and it ends now. where he fuck was he all these years, before him Harry Reid, with the moral spine of a jelly fish.
As usual great commentary; Thank you.
The following paragraph was a very scary scenario to me.
..........."In an extraordinary and risky show of defiance, CNN anchor Jake Tapper took to the airwaves to explain that CBS’s considering a payoff is an extraordinarily dangerous thing to do. He said that to “settle the suit would be a white flag of surrender… the network of [veteran broadcaster] Edward R. Murrow… saying, we will not speak truth to power. We will acquiesce to power at the expense of truth.” He wrapped up his rant, saying, “You live long enough and you see how eroded standards that politicians think work for their side always end up being wielded against them. And at that point, it doesn’t even matter who started it. It just matters that corporations are leaning on news divisions to supplicate themselves to whomever is in power because of their bottom line and the implied threat from the government.”
I am perplexed by what John Fetterman said in an interview. As we all know, he went to Mara Lago - okay, but to sit down in an interview and respond with, "I won't criticize our president. That is like being against my country." He is capitulating to power at the expense of truth. I have no idea what Fetterman thinks he is doing, but eventually, this will result in being wielded against him and our government.
Is anybody surprised really? This is so predictable. The only unpredictability is which agency is first. PBS and NPR is not really surprising as their daily reporting is so unFox like they do not intentionally miss-inform and cause brain damage. I do not think the lack of government funding will cause either to shut down. Private funding will take the slack. It just will be harder for them to operate and that is the point. The GOP does not want real daily news being actually informative. A judge has temporarily removed Elon's crew from the Treasury but why is the aid being allowed to be shut down on a Congressionally mandated program? Seems the GOP desire to out the countries spies is an ongoing program since Bush. The Dems lack of immediate reaction is so awful it condemns them as well. I guess killing cops and spies not reported is a GOP value and the Maga cheer it on with other brown shirts. President Elon and crew seem to think they can operate any damn way they want. God will have a few things to say and the real Chosen One will act soon enough that these evil people ot to feel a bit uneasy. They will be surprised. There be dragons in the sky as well as UFO's. Look over your shoulders GOP and maga there are more than just women rage to fear. Your days are numbered says the All mighty most high God.
Thom, thank you for always bringing us the truth in the face of all the constant lies. I just think all of this is so backwards. I do stay positive despite it all. I am glad to be who I am and I know you too, Thom. People need to understand this is far more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. Thanks, Thom. I stay grounded because of knowing things that are facts. Pass it on. We, must speak truth over lies and speak loudly while we are at it. We could have Kamala! Too late. I don’t want the hate no debate on that. Thom.
Accommodation / deal-making is tantamount to the collaboration of Thyssen, Krupp, all the other tycoons and generals who imagined they could moderate or even control the beast.
That needs to be said, often and loudly William.
I'll do my best. Who's with us?
Thom, this is important…very important, so please share. I refuse to believe that there aren’t some billionaires (Mackenzie Scott, for example?) who might be persuaded that being the champion of the good, honest, caring people of the 99% who are not rich, powerful, smarmy, corrupt, racist, misogynistic, etc., etc., etc.
Fuck the Trumps, the Musks, the Bezoses, the Tim Cook’s bending the knee. If Jeff Fucking Bezos were actually smart, imagine if he had embraced his workforce, its unions, its “independent contractors” in a big tent that says Amazon/Zappos/Whole Foods is great, not in spite of the employees but BECAUSE OF THE EMPLOYEES, he could have become a god on earth…and as Mr. Macy said in “Miracle on 34th St.,” and consequently…make more money than ever before.”
Progressives had better make that case to the super-rich pretty soon, or civilization and the earth will cease to exist.
Yes, but he'd be a few million or maybe even a billion less rich, which for some billionaires with hoarding syndrome is intolerable....
What a state of affairs, we are saddled with a (expletive) dictator whose unlawful actions, such as, shutting down USAID is killing people. The malignant narcissist and brainless goon in the White House must be enjoying the pain and suffering he's causing. Actually he doesn't have the capacity to care nor to understand what he's doing. Thanks to 77 million voters we are in a huge feedlot sloshing around in hip waders.