My entire life I have heard this.

Republicans come in with the slimmest majority and use every avenue to get their agenda passed.

Democrats come in with similar or better majorities and, shucks would you look at that, theres always a just enough turncoats to keep them from doing anything. Or maybe they could technically achieve their agenda through a reconciliation bill but tradition and custom are more important.

The sergeant at arms could actually enforce the subpoena by arresting people, but the congress hasn’t done that in over a century and certainly won’t do it now.

Seating that judge, well the senate has a long standing gentleman’s agreement that both senators from the state with the courthouse get a pocket veto and one of the republicans is using it.

Republicans come in and squeeze every iota of advantage past reason. Democrats play to the rules, then if they could still get something done play to an even stricter set of rules, then compromise for no reward.

And then I’m supposed to hear how they really really wanted to do good stuff but gee golly, once they got power they just couldn’t figure out how.

Let’s just check in on if the 2020 sweep into power let the democrats get some shit done and prosecute the fascists… aw shucks.

I’ll still vote for the Dems since fptp makes it the best option, but until we get a leftist yea party insurgency I expect them to dance for the corporate masters.

There’s a great book called “the advent of the algorithm” and it has a chapter about how frequently logicians lose their minds and take their lives.

Well Cramer is always wrong and this holds in this case as well.

The thing hes wrong about is that he “sounds like Marx”

He simply admitted for a brief moment that the rich are taking all the money and the poor are getting fucked. He didnt meaningfully connect this an ongoing class war, the structural failure of workplaces governed in a dictatorial fashion by an owner class exploiting the excess value of labor.

He did not in fact “sound like Marx” he sounded like a thousand other capitalist apologists who look around at the suffering caused by capitalism and throw out a complaint about how the owner class is going a little too far and maybe should put the baby crushing machine in first gear for a little bit before the workers kill them.

I’ve been waiting 40 years now for that leftward swing.

Best we’ve done so far is Obama passing a heritage foundation free market based “healthcare” system.

I live in rural Ohio, the number of signs that are proudly Republican is too damn high.

I’m always amazed, it’ll just be some guys name and then “REPUBLICAN” and that’s the whole sign, like it’s a good thing.

As a socialist that still votes for the lesser of two evils I look forward to them blaming me in a couple months because their absolute dog shit candidates dont win.

Is it the party and awful candidates to blame that they can’t attract enough votes? No it’s those stupid voters that won’t vote for our terrible candidates.

Wouldnt it have been nice for their to have been actual consequences that flowed out of these things so the same shit bags couldn’t take over the levers of power and attack the witnesses.

I see Jack Smith is also making the rounds saying how he had evidence of trumps crimes. I mean trump commits one a day at least in front of news cameras, often following up his criminal admissions with some word salad like “this will get me in trouble, you aren’t supposed to say it, but I’m not joking I mean it literally, I did this terrible crime because I’m so smart”

And then the media goes “what did trump mean when he said he hopes Iran nukes San Diego” and people get on there like hes some complex mystery they must unravel, perhaps it was a joke, perhaps it was an analogy, perhaps it was a veiled reference to the los alamos project?

The worst thing about this regime has been realizing that at every step there was some authority or institution that should have and could have stopped it, but again and again they failed.

Mueller felt bound by a corrupt memo that Nixon wrote. Smith felt bound by I dont even know what. Biden’s administration slow walked any kind of justice and would you look at that, by golly, we just ran out of time to do anything at all. Shucks. Maybe next time guys.

Yea I just had it on for noise myself but at some point I thought “haven’t they already gone over this” and then it was like seeing something you couldn’t unsee.

It makes sense to have that “drop in” aspect but it really makes me wonder about people that do just sit and watch Fox News all day. I think after 3 or 4 days I decided music or silence was better.

How many times can you get angry about the same news story over and over?

What ive always found crazy about the 24 hour news cycle is how little information is in there.

For a while I watched msnbc all day, just to have something on in the background.

In a day they would cover maybe 6 stories, just over and over and over. Here’s some new talking head to give their take, it’s effectively identical to the take the last 5 talking heads gave.

I stopped watching it because I realized that in a given day I was maybe getting about 20 minutes of information on repeat.

The channels have time, they could give complex and nuanced discussions around the 6 interesting things that happened that day, they could expand their coverage to the other 100 or 1000 interesting things that happened. But everyday they find the 6 stories that will lead to the most eyeballs watching the most ads and hammer them.

Amazon has always been about breaking rules and hurting others to help themselves.

According to Bezos:

“We found a loophole. Their systems were programmed in such a way that you didn’t have to receive ten books, you only had to order ten books. So we found an obscure book about lichens that they had in their system but was out of stock. We began ordering the one book we wanted and nine copies of the lichen book. They would ship out the book we needed and a note that said, ‘Sorry, but we’re out of the lichen book.’”

They took advantage of brick and mortar booksellers in the beginning, eagerly taking advantage of their good will.

The world is currently run by sociopaths. I don’t say that as some fun little insult, the owner class is full of people that look at society and think “how can I find a loophole. How can I take advantage of someone’s good will when they can’t find an obscure book on lichen to help me. Maybe if I make them feel bad I can get one over on them.”

I got a new microwave with some annoying child lock feature. We have no children. I looked in the manual and there was a way to turn it off, it was some weird combination of holding buttons down but it worked just fine and my brand new (as of last year) microwave will happily let me open it with time remaining.

Yoy see critical race theory would help explain the struggles of others, so obviously that’s bad. Now the authors personal struggles, those need to be addressed.

Perfect logical sense