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Pick one.

I say it's long past time to stop calling them "settlers."

They're a state-sanctioned irregular military occupation force.

They're also criminals - thieves and murderers.

They're also unutterably foul and loathsome.

immigration raids = pogroms

Bullshit.

The thing that five day workweeks won't fund is obscene pay packages for executives.

The problem is that the corporations have no incentive to not pay the extortion money.

If Paramount had, as anyone with any integrity at all would have, told Trump to go fuck himself, the Toddler-in-chief would thrown everything he could get his tiny little hands on at them, and they would've ended up paying far more than $16 million trying to fend it off. So instead, they just cut President Shitbag a check, and now he'll (supposedly) rubber stamp the merger they want.

The responsibility for bringing that loathsome bag of pus to justice falls on someone else - the other two branches of the government. And they're cowardly, complicit and corrupt.

The Supreme Court doesn't even bother pretending to be upholding the law or the Constitution any more. The conservative majority is wholly owned by the same autocratic scumbags who are backing Trump, and they self-evidently see themselves as having one and only one mission - to give that reeking piece of shit whatever he wants no matter what sort of illogic and lies they have to use.

And in Congress, the Republicans are lining up to suck the rapist's deformed dick in the hope of getting to play a role in the oligarchy to come, and the Democrats are entirely focused on destroying the leftists in their midst so that they can continue gorging themselves on conservative soft money in exchange for doing nothing.

So the profoundly mentally ill and brazenly criminal piece of shit who's stinking up the Oval Office is free to do whatever the hell he wants because every single person who might be able to do something about it is one or another sort of piece of shit themselves, with the only minor distinction being whether they're corporate pieces of shit or judicial pieces of shit or congressionsl pieces of shit.

That was when it kicked off in earnest.

I still think that if there's one single person who deserves more of the blame than anyone else for Trump becoming president in the first place, it's Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

But they can't focus on big tech after all the robber barons lined up to pay protection money to Trump.

Even against the staggeringly grotesque day-to-day reality of Trump's corruption and malfeasance, this urge he apparently has to try to come to the rescue of foreign politicians rightly facing consequences for their own corruption and malfeasance really stands out.

It sounds glib, but it really does appear thst he simply, genuinely believes that corrupt sacks of shit have to stick together, and he's trying to do his part (and, no doubt, end up owed a favor).

Unfortunately, the establishment Dems have the desires of the voters in one hand and they're weighing that against hundreds of millions of dollars in soft money in the other, and so far the money has an uninterrupted win streak.

And Gilibrand has already clearly signaled which side she favors.

Why?

Oh FFS. Do you really not know?

This, just like so many other things in our current society, is simply a direct result of the fact that over the last few decades, the system as a whole has shifted sway from the well-being of the many and toward the privilege of the wealthy and powerful few.

Put bluntly, younger people aren't partying (or having children, or buying homes, or planning careers, or supporting establishment political parties, or even going outside much) because the earlier generations have turned the US into a toxic shithole run by and for lying, greedy assholes, so the younger people see no reason to plan or hope and no opportunity to even really look up from their day-to-day gig economy scramble just to fucking survive and the handful of things they can afford to do to wind down from that scramble.

You want to do something about it? Stop raining shit down on them. Tax the fucking billionaires, shut down the student loan opportunists and the health insurance opportunists and the housing opportunists and all the other pieces of shit enjoying government-enabled privilege on the backs of the common people, and do what you can to turn the US back into a place where ordinary people vould have some hope, instead of just facing a life of underpaid drudgery just so that some fucking billionaire who owns a stable of politicians can buy more mansions and a bigger yacht.

And if you can't be bothered to di that, then you're just going to have to accept the fact that the people on whom you're raining down shit are increasingly hopeless, and that has consequences.

Self-awareness really isn't your strong suit, is it?