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Thus his sick insistence that coal be labelled “clean” and “beautiful.”

was on full view in the Oval Office today, as he attacked Germany’s renewable energy programs. 

Trump is against anything  that is life sustaining.

Way to go, Kamala Harris, for never mentioning the climate crisis on the campaign trail.

as Jack Cocchiarella calls him, is the kind of mediocrity that corporate publishing loves to promote. He demonstrates that kissing ass is the surefire way to success, as the Tiger Mom and a slew of other notables in corporate publishing all but wrote his reactionary, hate-filled Hillbilly Elegy for him. 

As I said before, let’s be kind and call it a pastiche, or let’s be even kinder and call it a joint effort. 

“Lots of times in the book when he’s talking about Appalachia, it’s almost like he’s never been to Appalachia,” Silas House. Chair of Appalachian studies at Berea College in Kentucky,  pointed out to Politico five years ago.

Vance is completely devoid of morality, conscience or patriotism. It all stems from his lack of core identity, and his decision to discontinue therapy and instead treat his wife as amateur shrink has been disastrous for America.

He seems to want to out-do Trump in the quantity of lies he spews, as he demonstrated anew last week when he disgorged a while new set of lies about Social Security.  Once again, he demonstrated his contempt for American workers, undoubtedly inculcated by his sugar daddy Peter Thiel. Remember, Vance is an empty vessel, a chameleon who takes his coloration from which fat cat he’s in thrall to at any particular moment.

Their bi-cameral shadow hearings are a necessary corrective to the bait-and-switch with which the Republicans have hijacked  Congressional judiciary committees.

Now, in the face of Trump convening the most corrupt, inept, dangerous cabinet in American history, the Democrats need to form their own shadow cabinet. It would graphically demonstrate by comparison what a real cabinet is.

500 law firms signed  a amicus brief supporting Perkins, Coie’s law suit against the fascist Trump regime and its ongoing, so far largely successful attempt to co opt our legal system. Emhoff’s Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP did not.

Yes, we know that Emhoff has criticized them publicly, and we do know how good Democratic neoliberals are at substituting noble-sounding words for action. But he needs to get out of there, at least for the sake of Kama’s future electoral prospects.

Like so much of the super wealthy, your megalomania led you to believe that you were immune to the insanity of Trump unleashed. All you cared about was paying even less in taxes than you do now, as well as complete deregulation in order to be able to fuck over every individual or business entity less powerful than you. And so you blithely went ahead and made a Faustian bargain. 

from around 1935 through 1980. Their tax rates were sufficiently high that they couldn’t entertain mad fantasies of entitlement. Their greed was relatively contained.  Their wealth did not afford them today’s complete detachment from the realities of society at large, so their empathy was not hollowed out by remoteness and disdain. They didn’t entertain treasonous dreams of cleaving themselves away from any concern for the public interest.  They were more aware of the interdependence of all sectors of society. There were fewer Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel type sociopathologies festering among their ranks.

Then Reaganism arrived, and as he cut and cut their taxes, gradually the wealthy began to resent having to pay any income tax at all. And they began to believe that their success was due to exceptional personal genius that owed nothing to the opportunities society gave them. Tthey began to bitterly resent any government support subsidy or that wasn’t directed their way.  Their contempt for their fellow citizens grew.

Republicans may have always been the preferred party of the wealthy, but today the party exists only to service the insatiable greed f the uber wealthy.

which is why he’s levying tariffs against countries whose tariffs on American goods are actually very low. He really is that stupid and that ignorant, and every moronic whim of his is indulged by the battalions of touts and brown-nosing bottle washers who buffer him from reality.

Need I say–frightening?

You saw  how Trump destroyed our economy in 2020 via the deliberate sabotage that was his response to COVID, and yet you went ahead and supported him again because you don’t believe in paying taxes, and you don’t care what happens to Americans’ finances so long as deregulation allows you to get away with every kind of chicanery.

Associates are resigning, internal communications are stifled, Orwellian statements are released by the implicated partners, as Big Law bends the knee to fascism and institutes discriminatory hiring practices.

Well, we will get a chance to see what Doug Emhoff is made up of.  Yes, he urged the ruling partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher not to capitulate, yes he mouthed some nice words at an event, but if he sticks around after his firm eagerly embraced Trumpism, Kamala can forget about those gubernatorial ambitions.