Thought it was timely that this came out, and then last night, Maddow spent a significant amount of time discussing how we now must confront that we're no longer "at risk" of authoritarianism, we are there, we now have a "consolidating dictatorship" in the US.
Oh certainly, re: the Captain Obvious thing. Different audiences, though. Overlapping, but still different. And I think it matters when these things are said out loud.
Not in a BREAKING! ACHTUNG! DICTATORSHIP OFFICIALLY DECLARED! kind of way -- I've seen your posts about certain, ahem, influencers LOL -- but just to help people incrementally wrap their heads around shit in doses they can emotionally/psychologically handle.
I know so many people who ask me what I think about where we are -- really, really smart people -- who are just not yet able to grapple with it. And they ask me because they respect what I think, but at the same time, what they're saying is "please reassure me."
The good news re: international politics is that these dipshits are probably going to end up nuking the moon before any of us has to worry too hard about it.
White men aren’t even safe anymore.
Fun reading for the first Monday of the week.
I know... I'm Mister Happy Fun Guy all the time.
Going to share this one on Facebook like "LOL, sorry to do this to all of you!"
I'll brace myself for the traffic... lol. :)
Thought it was timely that this came out, and then last night, Maddow spent a significant amount of time discussing how we now must confront that we're no longer "at risk" of authoritarianism, we are there, we now have a "consolidating dictatorship" in the US.
I saw Madcow's rant last night.
My thought was, "Thanks, Captain Obvious."
If anything, my country report was more grounded... since her happy horseshit was, "We can still fight! We can still win! Democracy! Democrats!"
I'm more like, (Neeearer.....my God... to thee....), "Gentlemen... It's been an honor and a privilege."
:P
The only real variable, as I see it, is how international politics shakes out when you have a superpower implode.
I mean, the last time it happened was Rome... and we had 900+ years of complete eating of shit. They don't call it "The Dark Ages," for nothing.
It's going to seriously suck if that's what happens again.
Oh certainly, re: the Captain Obvious thing. Different audiences, though. Overlapping, but still different. And I think it matters when these things are said out loud.
Not in a BREAKING! ACHTUNG! DICTATORSHIP OFFICIALLY DECLARED! kind of way -- I've seen your posts about certain, ahem, influencers LOL -- but just to help people incrementally wrap their heads around shit in doses they can emotionally/psychologically handle.
I know so many people who ask me what I think about where we are -- really, really smart people -- who are just not yet able to grapple with it. And they ask me because they respect what I think, but at the same time, what they're saying is "please reassure me."
The good news re: international politics is that these dipshits are probably going to end up nuking the moon before any of us has to worry too hard about it.