Writer, opera singer, actor and director, arts advocate. Autodidact. Recovering brand designer and advertising creative director. Former drag queen, househead, club kid. Generally lost at all times.
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Last Notes npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I'm saying put the sick people in masks npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John There's something about how Walz is giving a speech right now but nobody cares because he needs to be in the street or resign. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Your Local Epidemiologist just sent out a newsletter about "Strengthening Your Immune System" that is essentially a laundry list of all the expected things: herbs, cold plunges, sleep more, etc. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John This was also a thread about why chronically ill and disabled people are absolutely essential members of society who contribute a vital perspective to humankind, and how the ruling class' eugenicist turn is partly about their recognition of this fact and their vile sense of self-preservation at any cost. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The world has moved forward (as much as they were allowed) and we've stayed put. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John But while I was in the midst of these changes, shit was gnarly. I was anxious as fuck, vigilant, grieving, reluctant, resistant, even reactionary. I wanted stuff to go back and be "simple" again. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I grew agile at it. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John At 27, I developed three chronic illnesses in the same year. I went from essentially a healthy person to someone who was always, in one way or another, sick. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John This difference between now and the past is why I find arguments that we're living in the 1930s laughable. I think people who see this as the 1930s are actually engaging in cope; any half-serious look at what life was like then, and what geopolitics was like then, very quickly returns a negative match with today. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Other eras don't apply to this one: global comm, mobile computing, the internet, gene therapy and mRNA, decentralization of electric power through solar, trans-border communities, the Fediverse; all of these were literally science fiction of the most speculative kind *when I was 10 years old*. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I am not a block universe determinist; I do not believe that the future is already set, or that human beings are subject to an infinite loop of historical mistakes and calamities. I'm not a physicist, but it seems pretty obvious that probability, not certainty, binds and smooths out the universe. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John All that anxiety you're feeling? Part of it is justified, but part of it is just...the unfamiliarity of actual possibility. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John So, I'm nervous about how the US is fucking itself into irrelevance and enmity with the world. Who wouldn't be? npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Is it though? Most of these mechanisms of control were put in place by much more malign and effective people over decades. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Turns out discarding all legitimacy and hamfistedly speedrunning Naziism 90 years after the original in a much larger, much more diverse, much older democracy during a time of global communication and instant media access is a really bad idea and can't work. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Bahahahahaha npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Keep in mind that for the last 40 years society has told you that "change = calamity". npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Your brother is legitimately heroic - you should tell him that. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Concurrently, neolibs implemented their "economy of precarity", in which anyone can be fired at any time and lose everything. In this vision, the poor are, at best, the nefarious enemies of success, and at worst, literally insane, violent criminals. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The reality is that people who defend the cops have been indoctrinated into a neolib story about catastrophic collapse and certain ruin, and their personal future, between which stands only the government. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I see the Mark Ruffalo's as being as important as the direct action heroes on the street stopping the kidnappings. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I daren't hope this, but is it possible that there's *so much evidence* of how good Good was and how absolutely evil her murderer is that even the most broken of Americans might get it? npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Protesting Trump is fine, I guess. But with "allies" like Walz and other Democrats, we have some correction to do inside before we can ever hope to correct the broader national collapse. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John By "correct behavior", I mean Tim Walz should know absolutely no peace until he orders the MN national guard to protect Somali immigrant communities. He should be incapable of sleep until he finds and jails Good's killer, and dares the Feds to stop him. He should arrest any ICE officer seen to be violating State law, or arresting any US citizen (their charter actually forbids it) npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John If you want a mass movement to end Trump, you need the people who are holding onto the vain hope that "the courts will save us" or "vote harder" to realize that their beloved institutions are dead and rotted, full of disease and maggots. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Would our current Council of Wizard Kings opine about the Supremacy Clause in a way that follows the language and precedents? Probably not. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Basically, they are relying on USians piss-poor knowledge of their own Constitution to make extremely suss statements about what they can and cannot do. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John From what I understand, the Supremacy Clause does *not* say that "the Federal govt is Supreme"; it simply states that when a State law and a Federal law appear to contradict one another, courts should privilege the Federal law. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John It is telling that the media has reported that the schools closed because of "potential protests", not because ICE invaded a high school, hurt students and teachers, and then tear gassed the facility. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Efficiency in government is a lie told by people who want government to serve the smallest number of (rich) people possible and no one else. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I suppose, if you assume that we live in a democracy, rather than a democracy-coded neofascist State, then the electorate is responsible for the political class. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John What you're saying is you blame the electorate for the (continued, expected) catastrophic betrayals of the Democratic party and President Biden, who took their mandate (and trillions of $) and squandered it on nonsense and the foundation of what has become Trump's nascent police State (incl ICE, CBP and natsec forces) npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John In 2020, the electorate did their job: they elected someone who campaigned to 1) end COVID, 2) fix student debt, 3) reform police, and 4) make Trump accountable. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000 npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John A key innovation of neofascism was that overt control was unnecessary toward the fascist goal of unlimited power and impunity for a certain class of person. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Imagine being a "world leader" and being *this* worthless in any situation that doesn't 100% conform to your expectations. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Why are these people so aggressively bad at thinking about stuff? npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John People making sure to say that Madura was not a good guy are literally doing Trump's work for him. Like, heavy lifting work. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Two things stood in their way: npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John During Biden's benighted term of office - npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John ...but without the intellectual curiosity or analytical ability to understand how Naziism succeeded at first, or why it ultimately was destroyed. Or, that he owed his life and freedom to the impunity granted people of wealth under Naziism's better designed, more durable successor ideology, neoliberalism. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John But the neofascists didn't count on Donald J Trump, a resentful and petty failson, rapist and pedophile of low talent, abused and belittled by his father and obsessed with the auspices and exercise of power because of it. A man who literally could not have existed outside of the environment of the late 20th/early 21st century that worshiped wealth and rewarded it with impunity. Someone controlled by base impulses and fascinated by Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazis... npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John All of this led to unrest - as, of course, it would - but not enough unrest to destabilize society! npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The people, though, were distracted by "democracy", choosing between the neofascists' presented options: regression or hyper-normalization. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John ..., the other to smooth away the anger by promising to do something and then doing nothing, all the while claiming that it was "impossible", either because it always had been (leftist priorities), because it would be too disruptive (reversing neofascist policies), or because that dastardly other party just wouldn't let them! npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John ...why have a hobby or vocation when you can have *~*a business*~*? npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John This erasure of the *idea* of progress was a key innovation of neofascism's transformation of the West into its imperial core. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The cultural revolution they managed to pull off will take a century of hard work and difficult choices to undo. Neofascism (the true name of neoliberalism) was built to last from the ashes of Axis ambition. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Neoliberals have committed so many atrocities against mankind there will be entire books filled with them by the time we have managed to stamp them out for good. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Within this is the paradox facing anti-capital punishment and anti-prison folks: namely, a small but persistent part of society possesses all the tools to function within and shape society, but none of the tools to make moral or ethical decisions outside of a framework of consequences they fear. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The reason bad people are sure that horrific prison conditions and rampant executions will "prevent" crime is that those are the only things that would prevent them from committing crimes. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/115781909982529364 npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Yeah, but is apathy a condition or a symptom? I don't buy "people are just apathetic". npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John As for artmaking, the "content" mill and "creativity as a feat" memes are almost certainly more dangerous than "AI" algorithms making bad substitutes for human work. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I have a less grim take on this, largely because "AI" has already lost: despite the media's paid insistence that "everyone is using it", nobody is using it. They shoveled it into stuff like *Google Search* so they could just add every Google Search to their user/query numbers. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John You can literally hear the conversation between Bibi and Western leaders in which they tell him he can keep genociding as long as he agrees to a "ceasefire" so they can get the media off their backs. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Also remember that your mask-wearing habits will come in handy when H5N1 erupts this year or next; SARS2 is the first of many airborne viral pandemics in the era of climate collapse, not an outlier. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John But we're concussing the challenges, not releasing them. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Everyone is looking for the lever large enough to move the world. For some small number of things, that lever can exist. But for most things, it doesn't. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John When I read shit like "what's the solution to the masculinity crisis?" or "what's the solution to the loneliness crisis?" or what-have-you, the only thought that comes to mind is that problems like that npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John OMT about the "school closures": npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John - "N95s... “were mostly used to protect workers from inhaling dangerous aerosolized chemicals from paints, solvents and other substances..." npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John - The focus on vaccines and medical interventions misses the trick; the reality is that we learned the hard way that vaccines are *one tool* in a huge arsenal of tools to prevent infection. For many viruses, w/ today's technology, they aren't even the most effective (see: SARS-CoV-2) npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John - The book plays in Liberal propaganda about things like school closures, something that 1) didn't happen in large parts of the US and 2) didn't hurt kids nearly as much as the multiple COVID infections they have been gifted with since "opening up" npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I mean, there's an irony to a book that obviously has a mix of disinformation and truth having a section called "the Infodemic". npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Like, if you have a giant tumor in your abdomen that weighs 20 lbs, and surgeons remove it, you've degrowth'd. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The "lack of efficiency" here isn't a "productivity problem" (meaning it's not capitalists trying to squeeze workers for more work for less money), it's *manufactured by capital to enhance their ability to jack up prices by creating artificial scarcity*. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John When I try to understand "degrowth" - which is a term I honestly do not like, but 🤷♂️ - I think about food waste. Rather than over-harvest food in an unsustainable way, damaging ecosystems, we should just not literally throw out 1/3 of the food we produce. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John When we talk about capitalism as an irrational death cult, food waste is a great example of what we mean. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I'd love to throw out there that these trade agreements were just as much Liberal as they were Conservative inventions. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I will say that most centrist voters are just brainwashed, just like MAGA/Teabagger voters. When you ask them if they support UBI, they say "yes but it's impossible". When you say do you support Universal Healthcare, they say "yes but it's impossible". When you say do you support replacing police with social services that actually work they say "yes but it's impossible". npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Understanding that "centrists" and "moderates" are actually *extremists* and *ideologues* and *faithless bullies* was a watershed moment for me in my political evolution. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John But centrists' behavior is classic bullying: gaslighting, abuse, denigration, finding one thing wrong and pounding it and pounding it and npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Like bullies in the schoolyard, they take the feedback and complaints of progressive/left voters as just weaklings whining. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Every time I post about the collapse of centrist/Liberal ideology that we're living through, in its degraded fascist forms, I lose some liberal followers. C'est la vie. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I remember reading an article about bullying and reconciliation maybe 10 years ago, and something really stood out: npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I'm thinking about how we've all been trained to be polite, even to the worst fucking people we've ever met. Like, there's this interminable and irredeemable bully at school or work, and the prevailing notion is *still* to treat them with respect and approach the authorities. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Our system is, above all else, financialized. Businesses that don't have the capital to financialize still have to pay attention to costs; this is how McD's and Walmart and other corpo chains put local biz out of business. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I call it the "Double Cheeseburger Problem", and it's exactly what you see with the Prozac for my dog: npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John So when I had $80 in my bank account for food, I knew I had 64 Dbl Chsbrgrs. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John When I was a legitimately poor artist living in Chicago in the early 2000s, and I'd get down to what me and my friends called "Struggle Money", I had this game where I would measure my runway to hunger in "Double Cheeseburgers", because there was a MacDonald's down the street with that sweet, sweet early-2000s $1 menu. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John It was $85. I called my vet and asked what they would charge for exactly the same pill by the same manufacturer, and they said $30. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John If you're curious how fucked up our healthcare system is in the US, one of my dogs (a rescue) takes fluoxetine (generic Prozac) every day for reactivity. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John As long as you have police, you will have ICE. It may not be called that, but it will be that. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John In case you thought *politics* was the most salient disaster facing the US I would like to remind everyone that there's a good chance we will have a bird flu pandemic this winter with a Refrigerated Truck-level CFR, no actual public health, a completely broken government, and a population that has been gaslit into thinking that the way you deal with pandemics is by *catching it*. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Dear Liberals, npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Ah! Five universities you can put at the bottom of any rankings from here on out. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Precisely what I mean. The "Ownership", "Property", and "Wealth" of these erstwhile lords and ladies is an illusion and all we need to do to take away their "power" is stop believing in and supporting that illusion. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John "But what about Musk? He *owns* those satellites!" npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John One reason I want these people to discover this absolute truth is because if you think we can correct society without brutally clawing back the fortunes of billionaires, you're kidding yourself. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I wish some of the people being like "oh my God these billionaires are stealing money" and "it's so scary that *one man*, Elon Musk, controls so much of our space infrastructure!" would let themselves realize that private property is NOT sacrosanct and that Elon Musk exists *at the pleasure of the people around him*. He owns things, indeed, *has money at all*, because *we haven't decided to take it from him*. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John My rule when I was a club kid, poor and often walking home between 3 am and 5 am in Chicago's West and South sides, was 1) always walk along major roads, and 2) if someone tries to rob you, run into the street. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I was literally thinking just last night that all the "extraordinary" things people are doing (bringing food to food banks, giving food away for free at restaurants, etc) was just mutual aid replacing SNAP in a way that if it continued would eliminate the power of centralized government to determine who eats and who does not. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The Fash Menagerie that Trump keeps around him at all times is calibrated to be...less than him. That's by design. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Kristi Noem is like a sidepiece villain from the Masters of the Universe cartoon, but with less interesting context and backstory. Even given control of the USSS, she can't quite pull off her "Evilene" role, or shake the obvious fact that she got the job because Trump thought she looked like a good lay. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Mike Johnson is sitting there next to Vance agreeing with him by nodding and making affirmative cooing noises, but every now and again asking Vance if he wants a coffee, or water, or a blow job. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John But Trump is obviously failing physically, because he's old as dirt and has never really taken care of himself. It's a testament to the healthcare that rich people have available to them that he's even still standing. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Something that must be worrying the MAGA lieutenants is that once Trump dies, there's literally nothing to hold the movement together anymore. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John You know, the problem isn't that there aren't enough "choices". The problem is that web services aren't simply a free public utility funded and maintained by the community. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John We're not going to get to that point, because speedrunning the rise of the Nazis was never going to work in the US, for a host of cultural, social, economic and geopolitical reasons.
