“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.”
- John Lydon, The Sex Pistols
How dare he create hundreds of thousands of jobs, trillions in wealth for others, accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy, help paralyzed/disabled people to become more independent and connect poor/low income areas to the internet!
I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality where we are witnessing, in real time, an election being stolen — and everyone else is just like, ‘eh, that’s the standard process of CA elections.’ LIKE WHATTTTT?!
These people don't appear on any published rich list.
The shadows and gutters of global finance are filled with anonymous billionaires, heirs, and villains.
And we don't have a clue.
.@SecScottBessent: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others. That is a dangerous dependency for any country; it is an unacceptable one for the United States of America."
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
They’re hanging Jews in effigy. In Montreal.
Imagine the government reaction if they were white supremacists hanging a black man. Or Jews hanging a Muslim.
But this particular configuration of hate elicits only shrugs and silence.
A man got off work and discovered that his dog had run the 24 kilometers from his house to his job and was waiting for him on top of his car.
Dogs are the only living creatures in the world that love unconditionally.