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"Bad Brokeass White Gals" is America's latest cultural craze. Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey, Sarma Melngailis are young white and busted. Madonna, Britney, Paris and the Kardashians are so yesterday naughty. latimes.com/entertainment-…

"True Crime" is saturating streaming channels. I still like Lord of Scam. Ratings wise...crusty old French pros can never compete with innocent sounding white girls. Not sure why we celebrate criminalty but being nice and productive doesn't snag eyeballs. netflix.com/title/81092697

I suppose it began with post civil war dime novels sold on the east and west coasts. Fabulous tales of daring criminals with a dash of legendary lawmen. Much of it fictionalized. history.org.uk/student/resour…

Cross dressing Edgar mythologized "the most wanted" and the G-Men in the depression. Bonnie and Clyde were two murderous hicks that somehow ended up as Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The myth never dies. fbi.gov/history/brief-…

We had a bunch of criminals in the 60's that were mythologized. Bikers, babes, bank robbers and even Billy Jack. From The Godfather to Dog Day Afternoon there were always insightful, colorful, and impactful.

So flash forward to today. Comic book movies are saturated with evil villains. And we have no shortage of criminals. Many of them colorful but they seem so....banal... All whining that they are innocent. Whata happened to criminals? businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson…

The only real criminal who likes to play the villain is Roger Stone. There is a fairly decent doc on him called "Get Me Roger Stone" but a definite shortage of brokeass white chicks in real life crime. So we can agree that they are overrepresented by TV. businessinsider.com/7-times-roger-…

So perhaps it is this fictionalization of what a criminal is that blurs our focus on who breaks the law. Men are over 8 times more likely than women to be incarcerated with a 9.0% chance in his lifetime of going to prison, while a fe-male has a 1.1% prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie202…

Even more interesting statistics on 1/6 insurrectionists. With much tighter demos. described as "a broader mass movement with violence at its core." or angry old white men. So Netflix....where is the true crime caper series?
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Because there are some plot twists and sudden discoveries. Yes a lot of folks were convinced to come to DC, but that didn't happen magically. Who are the real criminals behind the criminals? An even smaller group of angry white men. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

But wait... another plot twist. Who had the most to lose if Herr Trumpfenfuhrer failed? And the most to spend. evidence of foreign support for the rabble is slowly coming to light. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

But yet another plot twist....left wing dark money "Trumps" right wing dark money. Cut tpthe credits. America's elections and politicians are for sale. Lights down, curtain up. opensecrets.org/news/2021/03/o…