A hero of the right, Ronald Reagan, actually gave a speech condemning tariffs. Yup, I’m actually on Reagan’s side here.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-WBPrVw

The so called geniuses of business have a better batting average than the average person but they are still prone to the same fuck ups and emotionally driven foolishness as anyone else. I was reading about the Theranos scam and how many supposed brilliant corporate leaders all threw big money at it without taking the time to investigate it first.

Sadly their supporters will have to have their homes foreclosed on and eviction notices before they wake up. Farmers will have banks foreclosing on them like in the 1930s.

Remember when the republicans were pro-business? Now what the hell do they represent? Tin foil hat psychos? Maybe they’ve tricked working class americans that they are somehow on their side but distracting them with the boogey man of illegal immigrants taking their jerbs but the reality is they’ll be getting laid off and paying more harder than ever. Education and R&D are being trashed, the things that businesses claim are crucial to progress and an educated workforce. Add on top of that no improvement in healthcare and now public health has been gutted and they’ve essentially been thrown into the gutter. They are so distracted by trivial political distractions though that they can’t even see how badly they are being shoved aside.

Just in time for the next election

If his supporters believe in chem-trails, vaccines causing autism and maybe a flat earth then I’m not going to waste any energy looking to them for any sign of self awareness and to reconsider their choices.

As an old fart I’ve never lived under an administration that I considered a real threat. Even Reagan, who was raged against by the left and beloved by the right, at least had some restraint and considered his actions. Each president did something that I didn’t like but I never felt like psychopaths had taken over and were just letting their whims and manias run rampant. Their personalities also felt reasonable and at the very least respectful of others. I also never felt that a large chunk of my fellow citizens were a threat to democracy. The evangelicals were always that way but felt like a fringe group before.

Empathy is weakness

Let’s add: Poverty is wealth

Trump and Xi both want unlimited terms. Xi got his and Trump is jealous.

My doctor said my cancer will create a golden age of health.

My local fox news is actually pretty good at reporting basic local news, it is the national programs that are foaming at the mouth propaganda.

The Third Reich was terrible when it came to reporting on civilian deaths.

If it was Trump he would’ve just grabbed his crotch in front of the press and said “Tariffs!”

He is covid free now though!

Wonder if he thought there was something going on between them so he decided to escalate it to the “How can she resist a guy jerking off?” level.

I could see accidently leaving your camera on but this guy had to make a deliberate step to save it and send it.

Only in the official public sphere, off to the side it is very sexualized. Ads and tv shows are full of sexual references. You hit strange limits though like genitalia cannot be shown in movies (not X rated) but you can use a fake penis on men and a merkin on woman which is ok for some bizarre reason. The US forced its prudishness with genitalia on the Japanese after WW2 which is why they pixelate it. It likely has its roots in the US as a mainly evangelical Protestant settled nation vs the more Catholic and reformation Europe. Eastern cultures also have their own rules about nudity and sex but it isn’t seen as inherently sinful.

If you go to the roots of it the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) see the natural world as corrupt and a barrier to god. Nature was something to be “conquered”, human impulses are sinful and sexuality is especially impulsive and therefore sinful. It encourages all kinds of stuff like adultery, kids born out of wedlock (a big problem back then), and STDs (generally considered a divine punishment for sex). Clothing also denoted social rank and was even enforced by law.

The wiki page does a decent job of explaining it.

Yup. If you are bought by anything with “capital” or “equity” in its name you are fucked.