I’m also very, very tired of the chicanery around pretending a political organization with a sweeping legislative agenda and expansive mission statement can be distilled down to “Black lives matter” simply because that is the name they chose for the organization.
Also I will never understand what passes for political bravery these days. Every center of political, financial, and cultural power is arraigned alongside BLM except, what, the GOP?
“Welcome to the Fight for Black Trans Lives Matter, hosted by Facebook, Halliburton, Shell Oil, the Dutch East India Company, and Lehman Brothers.”
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See, if cities and states would simply allow everyone, and not just the people in charge, to make their “decision as a husband and father,” this whole mess would blow over.
What I wish people like @MayorHancock and @NYGovCuomo and @LoriLightfoot and @GavinNewsom could just wake up and realize is what they’re telling people is that they don’t think their rules matter enough to follow.
It’s really that simple. If they thought that their travel bans and eating bans and whatever else bans were truly **so important** as to be worth meaningful sacrifices then **they would be making those sacrifices** too
There was a concerted push in the Senate, so it makes sense to start there, where we had many, many examples of people who get paid by your tax dollars pushing a bogus conspiracy theory that repealing #NetNeutrality would mean no more internet.
2020 transition coverage from @NPR sure looks slightly different than 2016 transition coverage, huh?
Also, in case you needed a reminder, here’s the lobbying history of top Biden appointees:
💰CoS Klein lobbied for asbestos & Fannie Mae
💰DHS chief Mayorkas is currently a partner at lobbying shop Wilmer Cutler
💰SecState Blinken currently runs a consulting shop called WestExec
WestExec comes up often.
💰DNI Avril Haynes is a former WestExec partner
💰NSA Sullivan was at consulting its Macro Advisory Partners where he worked on behalf of Uber
💰Counselor Riccheti is one of DCs best known lobbyists
I really do hope that the democratization of pornography is what finally wakes cultural conservatives up to the fact that unfettered capitalism isn’t some moral good.
I say this because it’s obvious that the nonsense with big business and big tech is somehow seen as apart from capitalism but that things like Only Fans, sex work, etc. are a natural outcropping of capitalism.
My general view on capitalism is that it’s done great good (please don’t send me The Graph I have seen it many times) but that in well-developed post-industrial societies we can and must have some bumpers here and there for the things capitalism forces into externalities.
I cannot believe that @WajahatAli, the same guy who said in October 2019 that reaching out to Trump’s base was a lost cause, is now saying in November 2020 that reaching out to Trump’s base is a lost cause, especially given his open minded & thoughtful commentary on “MAGA thugs.”
I am especially surprised because he has seemingly has so many nice things to say about Republicans, like how they’re evil and want to kill people.
Perhaps if he had made clear that Republicans are willing to tolerate any type of evil and can’t be expected to do the right thing it would’ve helped broker more understanding with his subjects?