I am so beside myself with grief and worry I can hardly get off the couch to do anything. I'm gutted.
But isn't trotting out obscure words like 'Patrimonialism' (and this comes to you from a woman who is a big word collector and user thereof) just more obfuscation? Isn't it just taking what is demonstrably a shitshow of enormous proportions and intellectualizing it and, by doing so, softening it? Why? Why Why Why? It's an autocratic, budding dictatorship, a selfish, reckless, cruel play for power and money. A pugnacious yet pusillanimous swipe at decency and a scourge on democracy if you will. It doesn't need big words. It needs to be stopped.
I agree that corruption is the cornerstone of what's happening so yeah to that. In fact the whole description in that second set of quotes is spot on. Not sure I see 'rule of law' or 'democracy' as being abstractions. People get it.
I call my useless GOP Senator Thom Tillis every day and leave him a message. The other one, Ted Budd, occasionally has someone answer the phone but doesn't take voice messages so I can't reach him as often. The appeal I've fallen on is for these guys to take their jobs back - to DO.YOUR.JOB and protect the constitution. I yell the DO.YOUR.JOB part because ... why not? It won't work but it helps me and I don't have access to benzos so I'll take it.
Tomorrow you will have to write about how the Orange pustule is issuing a death sentence to thousands of Ukrainian and Afghani people. I don't know how you do it, Dave. I can hardly stand to consume it, let alone synthesize it and present it with some amount of humor. I know I just sound like a giant bitch (which I am these days) but I really appreciate what you do. I own your book and a couple of t-shirts, too.
Many of us have been screaming about corruption for 15 years. It was made popular by Citizens United, and now there are not rules at all. The judges get paid off, Congress get a piece, the billionaires pay protection money to the president. The main focus of this administration is to take from the poor, the working class, and the middle class, and give it all to the rich. Then, when things collapse, as they always do in a corrupt society, the rich get bailed out. Why should my taxes go to Elon's companies?
Like you . .. I find myself wide awake at night thinking about how far we've fallen. Thank gawd I have less time ahead than my grandchildren.
The big difference between Russia and the US is we have a chit-load of guns. Unfortunately there may come a time when the true patriots of the three EQUAL (not now) branches of government have had enough and dispatch the rabid oligarchs like the Romanov's were dispatched in Russia.
Let's pray that doesn't happen and we have a fair and FREE election in 2026. But I'm not counting on it.
Like Hitler he, (Loser-Bone-Spurs), has taken over OUR government in about as much time . . . and Bobble-head Mike Johnson, (who claims to be a Christian - what a phuc!), sits back and does nothing!
(We're fk'd, Davey! Your father, Joseph, must be rollin' in his grave or ashes!)
This was classic Dave... thanks for making me smile amid my tears.
I am so beside myself with grief and worry I can hardly get off the couch to do anything. I'm gutted.
But isn't trotting out obscure words like 'Patrimonialism' (and this comes to you from a woman who is a big word collector and user thereof) just more obfuscation? Isn't it just taking what is demonstrably a shitshow of enormous proportions and intellectualizing it and, by doing so, softening it? Why? Why Why Why? It's an autocratic, budding dictatorship, a selfish, reckless, cruel play for power and money. A pugnacious yet pusillanimous swipe at decency and a scourge on democracy if you will. It doesn't need big words. It needs to be stopped.
I agree that corruption is the cornerstone of what's happening so yeah to that. In fact the whole description in that second set of quotes is spot on. Not sure I see 'rule of law' or 'democracy' as being abstractions. People get it.
I call my useless GOP Senator Thom Tillis every day and leave him a message. The other one, Ted Budd, occasionally has someone answer the phone but doesn't take voice messages so I can't reach him as often. The appeal I've fallen on is for these guys to take their jobs back - to DO.YOUR.JOB and protect the constitution. I yell the DO.YOUR.JOB part because ... why not? It won't work but it helps me and I don't have access to benzos so I'll take it.
Tomorrow you will have to write about how the Orange pustule is issuing a death sentence to thousands of Ukrainian and Afghani people. I don't know how you do it, Dave. I can hardly stand to consume it, let alone synthesize it and present it with some amount of humor. I know I just sound like a giant bitch (which I am these days) but I really appreciate what you do. I own your book and a couple of t-shirts, too.
Many of us have been screaming about corruption for 15 years. It was made popular by Citizens United, and now there are not rules at all. The judges get paid off, Congress get a piece, the billionaires pay protection money to the president. The main focus of this administration is to take from the poor, the working class, and the middle class, and give it all to the rich. Then, when things collapse, as they always do in a corrupt society, the rich get bailed out. Why should my taxes go to Elon's companies?
The c word is CUNTSERVATIVE among other expletives. Hope you publish. Keep up the great writing.
Great article- thank you so much for sharing it!
Like you . .. I find myself wide awake at night thinking about how far we've fallen. Thank gawd I have less time ahead than my grandchildren.
The big difference between Russia and the US is we have a chit-load of guns. Unfortunately there may come a time when the true patriots of the three EQUAL (not now) branches of government have had enough and dispatch the rabid oligarchs like the Romanov's were dispatched in Russia.
Let's pray that doesn't happen and we have a fair and FREE election in 2026. But I'm not counting on it.
Like Hitler he, (Loser-Bone-Spurs), has taken over OUR government in about as much time . . . and Bobble-head Mike Johnson, (who claims to be a Christian - what a phuc!), sits back and does nothing!
(We're fk'd, Davey! Your father, Joseph, must be rollin' in his grave or ashes!)