Chip G.

Why did @X delete Jeff Daniel’s powerful tirade against Trump? x.com/Kennedy_Memory…

I can’t stop laughing. 😆

From now until November, most of what you see in the media-no matter what channel you watch-is going to be designed to scare the hell out of you, and convince you that Donald Trump is becoming a “force” too large and monstrous, that he can’t be defeated. This is going to happen, because of profits. Whether you want to admit it, or not, profits are absolutely, and without question, more important to CEO’s and shareholders…than preserving Democracy. One has to wrap their head around this irrefutable fact. I would also add this: A loss for Trump in November would almost certainly result in a massive loss of income for most MSM. Donald Trump and the associated chaos of the last 8 years has made them billions of dollars. A calm and measured society equals fewer viewers, and fewer advertisers. This, of course…means downward spiraling income. Trump has been the greatest thing-perhaps ever-for MSM. He has been like television set that spits out gold coins every time they show his face on screen. The MSM loves Donald Trump as far as business is concerned, even if they hate him, as a man. Remind yourself of this every time you turn on the TV or tune in on your phone. Their job is to scare you. Fear keeps people coming back. In fact, fear becomes addicting. Why? Because it is energizing, and much of America is depressed. When people are depressed, they unconsciously scan the world for anything that can lift them up-even if only temporarily-out of their funk, and allow them to feel alive. Fear will do that…every time. You are not going to get a reflection of the truth, or what is really going on from MSM. You are going to get an overly focused dose of information from the scariest things they can present to you. It’s just how it is. And we can’t change it. Pay attention. Guard your mind like Fort Knox. They’re after your cerebral gold. Don’t allow them near it.

it's weird that almost every single adult in America spends their days getting absolutely fleeced by ever-more brazen and obvious corporate scams making economic survival increasingly impossible...and yet this is barely a topic of conversation in the country's politics and media

@krassenstein Looney Tunes Brigade, have nothing of substance going on in their lives.

These people still can’t get Hillary Clinton out of their minds. Hillary is a private citizen. Tulsi Gabbard: "Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are not in office right now, but they continue to wield immense power!" Tucker Carlson: Who is running the govt? It’s not Joe Biden. You think Hillary Clinton? Tulsi: "It’s not a leap of imagination to know that that’s true."

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White

Oh the humanity. huffpost.com/entry/billiona…

Please read this thread and share it with everyone you know. It is a big deal.

LEFT WONDERING: Time To Rebrand Climate Change? levernews.com/left-wondering…

@davidsirota The United States’ system of grab the most cash possible for further rule of the slum.

Notice that in all the coverage of the possible UAW strike, corporate media hasn't mentioned a really important fact: The Big 3 automakers just committed $5 BILLION to stock buybacks that are designed to enrich shareholders and executives 👇

Basically the problem is that our whole planet has been gamified. All the Earth's life, resources and geography have been folded into this sick points-scoring game where people commodify them into points called money, for no other reason than to score as many points as possible. A tree is worth a set amount of points in the game. A fish, a liter of water, a barrel of oil, or an acre of land are each worth a set amount of points. Human labor is worth a set amount of points, and the products it produces are worth a greater amount of points. Nothing's what it actually is in the game; first and foremost it's the number of points it can be used to score. Someone who's quite adept at the game never sees things in and of themselves, they see only their point-scoring value. Everything's been reduced to the value of the points it can be used to score, and all of human behavior is driven by this point-scoring game. Food, shelter and resources are not allocated in whatever way would best serve human interests, they're allocated based on the play dynamics of the game. The ecosystem is not treated in ways that benefit its thriving, it's treated in whatever way scores the most points in the game. People are not treated with care and respect, they're treated in accordance with their point-scoring ability in the game. There are a few key differences between this game and other games. Firstly, other games won't leave you homeless and hungry if you lose. Secondly, in most other games the players start out on an even playing field, whereas in this game everyone starts out with a wildly unequal number of points with a wildly unequal ability to score more of them. Thirdly, other games tend to have an end point where a winner is declared and the game is over, whereas in this game players just keep earning as many points as possible for as long as their mortality allows. Fourthly, other games aren't destroying the world. In order to have a healthy planet, we must first de-gamify the earth. We must begin approaching our world in accordance with reality as it actually is, not in accordance with this weird game we made up in our minds. We must build new systems in which we're all collaborating toward the good of everyone and the good of our biosphere, not competing against each other to score more points. Not until we are relating to terrestrial life on terrestrial life's terms will we have the ability to live in health and harmony. At a certain point of maturity you've got to put down the video game controller, go outside, and start living your life. It's as true of our collective species as it is of the individual.

Despicable that corporations and developers are swooping down on Maui and people in the middle of tragedy low-balling them when they’re desperate to pull the land (aina) out from under them.

@nathaliejacoby1 Awesome.

Nobody exports more missiles, bombs & arms than the U.S. This is why you can’t trust U.S. politicians when it comes to matters of war. Because when an empire makes trillions of dollars off war it will always promote conflict and make peace seem “radical.”

I voted against the bloated $900 billion Pentagon budget this week because it is long past time to fundamentally change our national priorities.

Confirming yet again that the Republican Party has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the fossil fuel industry. theguardian.com/environment/20…

As both political parties have colluded to erase health care from The Discourse, medical debt is now the largest form of consumer debt in America, and get this: 🚨60 PERCENT of that medical debt is incurred by people who HAVE health insurance nytimes.com/2023/07/18/opi…

In the UK, banks’ low deposit payments & high lending interest rates are now a big political issue: theguardian.com/business/2023/… In the US, banks’ heist is even worse but not on the political radar because the government is corrupt & the population is docile👇 levernews.com/the-great-bank…

"Obama diagnoses the problem correctly. What's infuriating is that he's commenting on it as if he wasn't a participant & a driving force in creating the backlash conditions he's decrying. He was the one who chose to use bailout money to enrich banks rather than help homeowners."

@davidsirota @LeverNews The wealthy are stealthily healthy.

NEW: 7 healthcare CEOs made $335 million last year - an 18% increase over the prior year's record. Meanwhile, 100 million people are saddled with medical debt, millions are being thrown off Medicaid & healthcare is now erased from the political discourse. levernews.com/the-system-mak…