100%! The press is missing a lot of things. It's so damn obvious. If Trump wins Peter thiel and Elon musk are now president. Vance is hollow as well.
I wonder how they'll divide it between themselves. Oh Mercer gets a piece as does adelson. It's absolutely striking and should be a constant drum beat. I keep wondering what the priorities of a new Democratic administration should be there so many damn fires to put out. I think voting rights and dark money are number one because everything flows from that. Publicly funded elections would be wonderful. The amount of billions spent is obscene and if all collected we could remove taxes on everybody under half a million dollars with what's been spent on this election alone. The idea that this country can't solve poverty is preposterous.
I absolutely agree. I hope you are sending this beautifully worded essay to every person who could conceivably help prevent this turn of events! There are many of us cheerleading you and planning to vote, but we don’t have followers or influence. What can we do to help?
I'm liking the idea of a form of strike, a refusing to participate in their Machinery by more folks, but, my God, asking people to quit Xitter and FB is like hoping your drunken brother-in-law will swear off alcohol before he drives the family car off a cliff. You can see the crash coming, you can describe it to your sister, but it all feels like it's gone all "Mosquito Coast" now. So, I don't do those things at all, I don't click on push-bait-ads to get consumer goods in two days, ever, I don't carry a smartphone, I don't do magic-money memberships, and honestly, I'm coming to think that even if 1/5 of the populace just stopped being consumerized and pulled their retirement money out of the market, it still wouldn't make enough difference. Perhaps it'll take tomatoes. Last week's tomatoes. And just being disagreeable.
A President of America should not act like Trump is acting now. Trump is acting like a 7th-grade spoiled juvenile bully whose parents gave the little brat whatever he wanted when he screamed and threw tantrums. Trump does not have the intellect or composure a president requires to run a country or parley with other countries' dignitaries.
Yep! Thank you! You summed it up here: We must fundamentally change the state of play……remove the incentives for antidemocratic billionaires and destructive corporations to continue pressing us in this direction, which includes creating a fair tax system, reversing an era of privatization, and fundamentally shifting the ethos of American and so-called “western culture” from zero-sum destruction to a state of play that prioritizes our interdependence and collective well-being. Exactly!
100%! The press is missing a lot of things. It's so damn obvious. If Trump wins Peter thiel and Elon musk are now president. Vance is hollow as well.
I wonder how they'll divide it between themselves. Oh Mercer gets a piece as does adelson. It's absolutely striking and should be a constant drum beat. I keep wondering what the priorities of a new Democratic administration should be there so many damn fires to put out. I think voting rights and dark money are number one because everything flows from that. Publicly funded elections would be wonderful. The amount of billions spent is obscene and if all collected we could remove taxes on everybody under half a million dollars with what's been spent on this election alone. The idea that this country can't solve poverty is preposterous.
I absolutely agree. I hope you are sending this beautifully worded essay to every person who could conceivably help prevent this turn of events! There are many of us cheerleading you and planning to vote, but we don’t have followers or influence. What can we do to help?
I'm liking the idea of a form of strike, a refusing to participate in their Machinery by more folks, but, my God, asking people to quit Xitter and FB is like hoping your drunken brother-in-law will swear off alcohol before he drives the family car off a cliff. You can see the crash coming, you can describe it to your sister, but it all feels like it's gone all "Mosquito Coast" now. So, I don't do those things at all, I don't click on push-bait-ads to get consumer goods in two days, ever, I don't carry a smartphone, I don't do magic-money memberships, and honestly, I'm coming to think that even if 1/5 of the populace just stopped being consumerized and pulled their retirement money out of the market, it still wouldn't make enough difference. Perhaps it'll take tomatoes. Last week's tomatoes. And just being disagreeable.
Speaking truth to power brother, truth to fu*king power.
A President of America should not act like Trump is acting now. Trump is acting like a 7th-grade spoiled juvenile bully whose parents gave the little brat whatever he wanted when he screamed and threw tantrums. Trump does not have the intellect or composure a president requires to run a country or parley with other countries' dignitaries.
Yep! Thank you! You summed it up here: We must fundamentally change the state of play……remove the incentives for antidemocratic billionaires and destructive corporations to continue pressing us in this direction, which includes creating a fair tax system, reversing an era of privatization, and fundamentally shifting the ethos of American and so-called “western culture” from zero-sum destruction to a state of play that prioritizes our interdependence and collective well-being. Exactly!