This is the ruling class. They all have skeletons in their closets. They are all evil. The Epsteins, the Diddys, that Friedman guy….the only difference is that Bezos, Trump, Musk, Hunter Biden are getting away with it. There is no chance there are any reprimands for the guy whose dick is being tugged the hardest at the moment. Sure occassionally somebody has to play the scapegoat…but you’re gonna have to denounce genocide or something unforgiveable before that happens. Or even worse just lose favor with your peers. Can you imagine how uncomfortable they would be if somebody actually righteous would be in their midst?

zorg wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:55 pm Can you imagine how uncomfortable they would be if somebody actually righteous would be in their midst?

I want to believe that there are people out there like Shawn Fain who might not have skeletons in their closet.

zorg wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:55 pm Can you imagine how uncomfortable they would be if somebody actually righteous would be in their midst?

Watching Trump and Vance squirm while that Episcopalian Bishop gave the sermon might have been more satisfying than seeing Trump in court. I've been around enough Unitarian, Methodist, Episcopalian folks to know that even though I'll never feel a mystic calling from that Christ fella there are some good people who do and everything they get from it flies in the face of those pseudo religious demagogues and all their idiotic Evangelical followers.

losthighway wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:05 pm

zorg wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:55 pm Can you imagine how uncomfortable they would be if somebody actually righteous would be in their midst?

Watching Trump and Vance squirm while that Episcopalian Bishop gave the sermon might have been more satisfying than seeing Trump in court. I've been around enough Unitarian, Methodist, Episcopalian folks to know that even though I'll never feel a mystic calling from that Christ fella there are some good people who do and everything they get from it flies in the face of those pseudo religious demagogues and all their idiotic Evangelical followers.

Amen

This tech podcast from the FT is incredibly interesting.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f ... 0684796564

If you want a look behind the curtain of the opinions of “people that count”, it pretty shocking. The blasé way they discuss Musk’s influence without referring to buying power or corruption is jarring.

I don't foresee much of anything LOL/popcorn-worthy about this administration's policies and their execution. Other than this "Gulf of America"-type nonsense, most of it will be the opposite of "entertaining."

What will be amusing is when some of these malignant clowns start having falling-outs.

Four years is a long time for people like this to not turn on each other.

Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?

Time will tell.

DaveA wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:34 am Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?

My guess would be Elon and/or Vivek. The rich will eat the rich.

Probably won't be regular commentators though.

Another cringe dramady miniseries. Waiting to happen.

Time will tell.

DaveA wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:34 am I don't foresee much of anything LOL/popcorn-worthy about this administration's policies and their execution. Other than this "Gulf of America"-type nonsense, most of it will be the opposite of "entertaining."

What will be amusing is when some of these malignant clowns start having falling-outs.

Four years is a long time for people like this to not turn on each other.

Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?

Time will tell.

I think this explains the flourish of executive orders. Trump is a lot of things but he does have a sly intelligence. I think he knows it will quickly devolve into four years of bickering and ineptitude so rammed through a massive shopping list of loud and shiny executive orders to offset the grind that’s coming. It’s the theatrics of doing. It gives the appearance of strength but it actually belies the weakness of the “rats in a sack” nature of the Maga “coalition”.

The letter that went out to gov't employees yesterday about snitching on DEI sympathizers is equal parts and "pack up a car and head to the Canadian border". The high school level threats are hard to take seriously, but the intent behind it is serious,1930s-ish weed-out-the-intellectuals stuff. I'm not sure there's legal grounding behind any of it, but right now they're just trying to intimidate and exhaust people into quitting or retiring.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... rcna188871