The Times knows only the motives and emotions of Democrats, the bad faith and hatefulness of Republicans is never observed.

Just in case some still believe the fascist takeover of government is the work of only Trump or the Republican Party, it's actually being bought and sold by the world's richest sociopaths.

Frustration is understandable but this is racist and thoroughly unhelpful. White liberals have decried the assault, apprehension, arrest, deportation, of every POC wrongly taken by the regime, and fought it all the way to the Supreme Court. And plenty of white liberal sins to be found without lying.

Up until now the corporate media's job has been to obscure and prevent voters from engaging in the class war, now media's job is to obscure and check democrats from fighting Republicans in our simmering civil war.

This has been the terrible asymmetry since 1/6/21: Democrats desperately want to avoid a 2nd civil war while Republicans are hell-bent on fomenting one. It's here now and Democratic officials had best turn to fighting.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Masters of the Universe for hoovering up all the information in the universe and making it completely unusable to everyone. It truly was systemic elite incompetence and craven careerism that killed us.

Awesome how the Republican talking point is in no way related to the question of how government law enforcement should treat people who haven't been charged with a crime, according to the law, the Constitution, and any standard of fairness or decency.

Our Betters really don't mind democratic socialism as long as they're the only beneficiaries.

Someone gave away the game. It's always been about the value of the Epstein files to the people who controlled them to blackmail the powerful; some in Epstein's inner circle, some in intelligence and law enforcement, and the people they answer to. They are invaluable, only as long as undisclosed.

"Trump is clearly hell-bent on destroying American democracy and turning us into a rogue nation. He is personally cruel, corrupt and vindictive...But it’s the nature of Trump’s party, not his personal depravity, that is responsible for the decline of American democracy." shorturl.at/hnF9O

Voters underestimate their own power to threaten the sweet, sweet government gigs of Republican lawmakers. They certainly aren't there to do the nation's business, and it's the best job a know-nothing, talentless hack could hope for, by far. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...?

It can't be overstated how much of our social and political divide is based on fundamental personality characteristics, chief among them a basic level of empathy. Without real concern for what happens even to people you don't know, you can be talking into just about anything.

Republicans clearly could have kept the government open if they wanted to, including by simply changing the rules, which they're proud to do to get something they want. The question is, what would make anyone believe they wanted to keep government open?

He sounds afraid - and should be. And he know the crazies and lunatics are all MAGA gun nuts who he helped radicalize and who detest "government elites," "cancel culture," and "jack-booted government thugs."

Can't imagine how or why anyone would need another lesson in how the mainstream political press apportions blame - NEVER ON THE GOP - or how unsuccessfully the bulk of US voters will learn what's happening or who's responsible.

So simple a child could understand if they were told the truth: The political press has been in the business of protecting the Republican Party, the Republican brand, and Republicans officials ever since they elected Bonzo's comic relief president. shorturl.at/iBg6G

Near the top of list of things that may not be said - but desperately needs discussion - is the fact that Republican voters all suffer from a psychopathology marked by fixed delusion and moral turpitude.

This is the most important ne'er-to-be-discussed point about US political media for the past two generations, but also only part of a package of double-standards the mainstream press uses to maintain political equilibrium (two-party stasis) and the narrative media owners prefer.

We should be thanking our lucky stars that these are some of the dumbest, most incompetent people to ever try to subjugate smart, competent people.

I hope senior Democrats still understand the danger of putting Democratic fingerprints on any diminishment of government and are not counting on the press to explain that the looming disaster(s) are 100% the product of Republican malfeasance.

You have to hand it to The Masters of the Universe this time, they've completely trashed the brand of the "Product That Will Save Mankind," instantly upon its public introduction, and it only cost half a $trillion and our next energy crisis.

Another major escalation in our simmering civil war. thehill.com/national-sec...

At least - and I mean that - people are getting an in-your-face lesson on how much the mainstream political press sees its role as protecting the Republican Party from the consequences of its own bad faith and malfeasance.

Sure, if you think no one will notice when they can't get care because they lose coverage and their hospital closes. These sociopaths know what's coming, they are simply buying time so the players can fortify themselves with as much cash as they can amass before the wheels come off the wagon.

Our betters are cashing in before the economic crash they're about to create (again) and it's likely to be doozy. tinyurl.com/wsxyudnd

"...Schumer is once again inclined to squander the only real leverage Democrats have in this fight—letting the Republicans shut down the government they completely control and hanging that failure around Donald’s neck..." ...in some world where Democrats don't get the blame. tinyurl.com/rny2a7dd

Money to burn. "...the real bubbly thing is you've got this massive infrastructure buildout, these insane amounts of money — a projected $400 billion in infrastructure capital expenditures this year — for an industry that has shown no signs it can become profitable." tinyurl.com/b5pkc6cr

Any given evening, there are a little under one million unhoused people in the US and on the same evening there are millions of empty dwellings and commercial spaces. Like wealth, the problem isn't supply, it's hoarding by those with means leading to scarcity for those without.

The, "don't be like US," thing is working out in unexpected ways.

Your occasional reminder that corporations are not, in fact, persons. They are financial entities where executives are legally required to maximize profit, period. They have no conscience or patriotism, just an insatiable need to make money however they can, including collaborating with our enemies.

If the Republican Party hopes to achieve its fascist ambitions, it would need to be growing support beyond the 31% of Americans who elected Trump. It is not.

The costly and shocking effects of this regime's reckless conduct will explode over the coming months. It will be tragic and heartbreaking but if it shakes the public from their moral and political stupor before Republicans complete their police state apparatus, we may still have a chance.

Going after entertainers is a tacit admission that the regime is scared. Absent an adversarial press (RIP), they become society's political truth-tellers, but a brazen attack on popular entertainment is so risky it can only mean the fascists sense they are fast becoming public enemies.

Anyone thinking this is the start of something, including Republican blackmail of the press and press capitulation to Republican wishes, this one's for you. shorturl.at/SHwtt

To be old enough to remember this GOP/MSM-manufactured "scandal," where the admin asked social media companies "censor" dangerous COVID disinformation, you'd need to be about ten-years-old. shorturl.at/XatEk

Let's be clear, this is an attack on free speech by the supposed guardians of free speech - the mainstream media - in collaboration with Trump and the Republican Party.

One thing Democrats learned from the last election is that they'd be crazy to rely on the wisdom of the electorate or expect some kind of reward for policies that make voters materially better off, up to and including saving them from a deadly pandemic and economic catastrophe.

Let's not forget that the Republican Party based every terrible antisocial plot of the last half-century, from racial oppression to gun culture, on the once inviolable principle of "state's rights," which liberals correctly identified as a cynical ploy and the press pretended not to know it.

A pretty good metaphor for the whole rotten system. Elites protecting themselves amidst a scandal so criminal and depraved, the extortion value of the Epstein files is incalculable. In so many unscrupulous hands, its usefulness to blackmail the powerful may help explain why it's still concealed.

That's $38 trillion in lost productivity, hospitalization, and death humans avoided through vaccination, a return most people will never understand or appreciate.

"In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed." ~Abraham Lincoln

Quite a testimonial to our political press that online, non-journalist liberals were the only people to provide an accurate picture of what a Trump reelection would mean.

The fear is palpable that there could be a "finding out" stage of their sociopathic political theater. Although MAGA will try to turn that fear against Democrats - the accountability reserved for Democrats instead of the murderer or rightwing agitators - who they rightly fear is their own kind.

It’s possible the hysterical reaction from the right is just that. It has to be a scary thought that, out of nowhere, you might have to pay the ultimate price for the hate you’ve spewed into the culture, esp. when you previously thought there would be none.

Ultimately: "kill everyone (but us) and let god sort them out."

"It is difficult to get man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair

It's a tacit admission that Robinson is "one of theirs."

"Their terrorism is self-evident. It’s the mass shootings. It’s the terror plots. Our media and politicians refuse to connect the dots and, instead, much like they treat Donald Trump as an aberration, write them off as lone wolves or 'disturbed individuals.'" -JS Yates tinyurl.com/fw688t59

Republicans: Don't call us fascists! Democrats: Stop treating us as subhuman.