We need a president who runs the country like a business, i.e. creates a front, scams everyone, then shutters the company to avoid accountability.

I feel like “willful” implies that everyone is equally capable of distinguishing between facts and lies, and that people aren’t easily swayed by propaganda. If the latter were true, the advertising industry wouldn’t exist. Republicans have been working to dismantle public education for decades. How many people have been psychologically manipulated like this since before they could speak? They might be “old enough to know better” but did they ever have an opportunity to learn critical thinking skills? Look at what they’re teaching kids in Oklahoma. What chance do they have?

Thank you for articulating all my thoughts better and faster than I ever could.

Right. They don’t say what THEY believe, they say what they want YOU to believe.

I would argue they also want the government to collect money from taxpayers and distribute it to the rich in the form of subsidies and contracts.

Those are paraphrases of Kirk’s words. It might be more accurate to say those are his positions.

Less than half the *voters, assuming the last election was not fucked with.

Congratulations! Are you willing to share where you’re headed?

Damn. Yeah.

Rushkoff: You could try being nice to them.

Billionaires: But where does that end? How many people do I have to be nice to?

Rushkoff: Well, ideally you’d be nice to everyone.

But what’s their long-term plan, really? They don’t realize how utterly dependent they are on other people, and when shit hits the fan, other people aren’t going to feel so motivated to defend them. There’s a great video of Douglas Rushkoff talking about a billionaires convention he attended. They really think they’re going to chill in their bunkers and eat gourmet food indefinitely.

https://www.youtube.com/live/2XOrvxZRyVI

Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care. When the elderly drain their savings on a nursing home that’s when Medicaid kicks in.

He’s pleading with people to fund the DNC, when DNC-backed candidates are often the most useless losers on the ticket.

To your first point, there was a story about the alarming number of searches for “did Biden drop out” but it didn’t mention that this would have included searches like “when did Biden drop out” and “why did Biden drop out.” So it was a half true and half clickbait.

I also wonder if they’ll make sure the red states aren’t hit as hard. I know the way the bill is written, we assume it’ll be enforced equally, and since red states receive more federal assistance they’ll be hit the worst. But what’s stopping them from selectively fucking blue states?

That wasn’t a strawman, it was a direct challenge to your claim that non-voters decided the election.

911 dispatcher: A kidnapping? Those kidnappers need our help!

Well said. Thanks for writing this.

I feel sick watching it. As others have said, because of J6 and past accusations of fraud from the other side, it will be hard to discuss this with a lot of people without sounding insane.

From a different article:

A New Hope police officer happened upon Boelter in his black SUV, which he had outfitted to look like a police cruiser, and thought he was another officer dispatched to the scene. When the officer tried to speak to him, he did not respond and drove away.

I haven’t read whether they pursued him after that, but that is absolutely wild.