These seemingly endless and exhausting battles over Abortion Rights and Gun Rights are just distractions. Their purpose IS to 'distract and exhaust' us while Corporations devour The Commons. In the mean time, Accelerating Climate Change is relentlessly bearing down upon us.

More and more I get badly depressed after I read my news feed. First though, I get Really Fuckin' Angry. The depression comes after when I realize I cannot say out loud what I want to say because I'd get banned from whatever social media platform and possibly even 'investigated for terrorist threats ( Read more... )

Feb. 19th, 2017 at 2:22 AM~I keep reading endless numbers of articles and essays about how Trump became president. And none of the them really seem to get it. Chris Hughes comes close, but he seems to have lost his mind. Can't blame him really, as everyone is dancing around the elephant in the room; we are in fact already IN Collapse, eg, The ( Read more... )

“As ridiculous as it may be, many Americans, and certainly many Trump supporters, especially white evangelicals, have a sort of world-historical mission driven mythology and mindset that, in their own mind, reaches back to and carries forward (appropriates) an odd mix of Old Testament authority and New Testament apostolicism (although twisted into ( Read more... )

~Here is some brutal irony for y'all: Donald Trump could have be a great president, maybe the greatest since FDR. He has long been a conman and as such could see clearly what a massive con job the present political setup is. He even talked about that back in 2016 when he was running, pointing in the GOP debates that he'd donated to everyone on the ( Read more... )

~The consensus across the internet is that this is another Trump scam, that he's using his "I got's da Covid" to duck the rest of the debates, and then emerge in two weeks, all hale and healthy, saying "I beat it and I used hxawhatayamacallit and my shit smells like roses." Then he'll push on to a second term ( Read more... )

“2020 is the first Presidential election since 1860 and 1877 to see a potential situation that could escalate all the way into an outright civil war. I don't think such a thing would remotely resemble 1860 because the scenario is different. I see it as somewhere between Mexican cartel war and the Colombian Civil War in real terms and that it ( Read more... )

~By this point in an Election Year, I am usually able to make a prediction with a fair amount of certainly. [many of y'all scoffed when I said Trump had a real shot] But this year...who the fuck knows? All I can safely say is that this one is gonna be a clusterfuck, to quote The Donald, "like no one has ever seen before."

"He is an inevitable result of a society that overvalues profit and undervalues human lives. If Trump had never been born, we would have some other equally vile sack of excrement sitting in the Oval Office. He is symptomatic of our collective terror and ignorance around the pace of social change. Like God, if Trump did not exist, we would have to ( Read more... )

~I have been posting this paragraph quoting the Chris Hedges article linked below for a while now. But I realized that by breaking it up into individual sentences, it becomes a Bill of Indictment...

"The final stages of capitalism, Marx wrote, would be marked by developments that are intimately familiar to most of us.

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