How IS that deregulation thing working out?

My eyes burn…
I lost everything in an investment scam…
Is the news only lies these days?
I just got shot…
My daughter, Lucy, is…Oh, gods, where is Lucy?
Oh, she had to get to work.
Work? She’s SIX!
Yeah, I don’t know why she waited so long to be productive, either. Lazy, maybe?
I just got shot…
My bank collapsed so I found another one and IT collapsed, too!
Do we really have to trust criminal minds to do the right thing?
My taxes just went up again so rich people could pay less…
I just got shot…
My insulin is now $1.5 million dollars – per dose.
I can’t get my kid into that “privatized” charter school…
I just got shot…

I’ll tell you this: I liked it better when the lesser angels of our fellow Americans were restrained by rules and regulations. This “winner-take-all” and “survival of the cruelest” is a horrible way to live…

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Do you think the politicians are actually going to default on the debt? I don’t, not really. The cons scare me – more than just a little – but their financial fortunes are tied up in the American economy just like everybody else’s. The scary part is, they spend their time living in a delusional fantasy land where things happen just because they want them to. That makes them difficult to predict.

Crashing the economy would fly directly in the face of the conservative mantra, “Screw you, I got mine.” These days, I actually and honestly believe conservatives hate America. I know, that goes against their flag waving and proclamations of patriotism but, setting the show-pieces aside, everything they stand for is anti-American. They might really crash the economy just to do it.

But mostly, I think their own “motivated self-interest” (read: greed) will get them to pass an extension so we can all live on the edge again in about six months.

It’s a really stupid system…

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So…they’ve convicted some of the Proud Boys for seditious conspiracy. That’s good. One of them wasn’t even in Washington DC on January 6th but prosecutors were able to show enough evidence that he was in on the conspiracy to get the conviction anyway. It’s a very good sign and a portent of how they plan to go after Former Guy.

He wasn’t at the Capitol that day, either. Now, though, they’ve established the idea that he didn’t need to be. All they have to do is show he coordinated with them and they’re good to go…and maybe he’ll be good and gone…

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Speaking of the Dumbass and the massive criminal caseload he’s facing, things seem to be going poorly for him in the rape trial, just like all the other trials. Barring jury nullification, I’m guessing he’s going to be found guilty.

It changes something I said in the past. When that grab them by the…well, you know…recording came out, I really thought it was just locker room talk. I think of trump as FAR too cowardly to be so direct but, once again, I underestimated just how horrible a human being he really is. His ego overpowers his cowardice. He believes himself entitled to assault women (they are, after all, only women) and so he does. Okay, allegedly. (Gotta say ‘allegedly’ until the conviction…)

It’s too bad he won’t go to jail for it. I think I’ll start using his name again when I can write “the rapist Donald Trump” every time. Maybe “lying rapist Donald Trump.” How about “criminal, lying rapist Donald Trump?” Technically, I guess it should be “traitorous, criminal, lying rapist Donald Trump.”

Yeah, it’s a lot to type each time I write his name but he’s earned those distinctions and I would be the last person on Earth to deny him his proper titles…