314 Comments

Yup. Also cedar cheese, also too.

Expand full comment

Don't invest in them.

Even this latest outrage won't cause anyone to get stirred up in the least. We continue to have a treasonous sexual predator in an administration full of spies. The citizens of a normal country would have burned the fucking thing to the ground my now. But was just traipse along and look for sales at the mall. If we are real patriots we think that the next round of voting is going to really get our game on. It isn't, because state and local voting districts are already rigged by vigorous and uncontested gerrymandering.

If we are going to let the oligarchs loot us and the treasury, maybe we need to start behaving like the people of banana republics do and start causing some shit.

Expand full comment

Lenin had a way with words. Russian words, true, but translations give some idea of his brutally concise and precise aphorisms.. Two come to mind:"Khuzhe, luchshe." (I think.) Literally "Worse, better." Meaning, the worse things get now the better for us in the long run."Kto kogo?" "Who whom?" Who will do (what) to whom?My point being that the Tax Attack just might be insolence which finally upends our complacency and exhausts our patience.

Expand full comment

Well if course parliamentary systems are vastly superior, but since America isn't one, they have to make do somehow. I think Trump is demonstrating pretty well what happens when you don't have strong presidential leadership - Congress does not step up.

Expand full comment

Treasonous, I’d say.

Expand full comment

I'm in!!!!

I don't really consider myself old either, but my mirror tells me differently.

PS - I was in a small club (the Copacabana on Suzanne Bartsch night) with Leigh Bowery once.

Expand full comment

I used to have a 77 year old friend who called me "a kid" which I thought was hilarious.

Expand full comment

Machine guns.

Expand full comment

Three words: WOULD NOT RECOMMEND.

Vote!

Expand full comment

False!

They would like you to think that it appears to be that way.

However, to think in random fool theory is basically for random fools.

The bill is stuffed with juicy stuff for the billionaire overlords of the Re-PUKE-li-CONVICT swampsters.

Expand full comment

I'm a financial advisor. I help people with guaranteed tax-free cash growth. And this is the most terrifying ducking thing I've ever seen. And I have seen Brussels sprouts, so I know of what I speak.

Expand full comment

And a little Latin: Cui bono?

Expand full comment

Sounds like an Irish rockstar's pet cockatoo, hey?

Expand full comment

When Younger Sister was 7 or so, she wrote a shopping list that included "10 lbs. of cold cats and i scream" but she was seven, not an adult old enough to smoke cigarettes.

Expand full comment

I don't think it's the people. I think it's the propaganda the people have been ingesting. At least 25% of Americans think everything is fine. And tax stuff is boring, so no one is paying attention.

Expand full comment