Gordon Lightfoot in Quarantine
Talking to Tedd on the phone. It’s been a year in quarantine now. Solitary confinement. The boredom is crushing. Nobody does anything, and nothing ever happens. We struggle for things to talk about.
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Talking to Tedd on the phone. It’s been a year in quarantine now. Solitary confinement. The boredom is crushing. Nobody does anything, and nothing ever happens. We struggle for things to talk about.
Continue readingIf we snap out of our liberal realist trance we’ll see liberal freedom for what it is: anti-political & anti-democratic.
Continue readingTrump thinks we can reduce COVID cases if we stop testing. Lindsey Graham thinks we bring jobs back by bilking Americans on unemployment. League of Morons.
Continue readingThe COVID-19 pandemic places the values of freedom and life into conflict. The spell of capitalist realism keeps us from exploring practical resolutions.
Continue readingLet Them Eat Cake updated for the 2020 US Election Cycle. Who did those Bastille Bros vote for again?
Continue readingAfter polluting their own Republican Party, Never Trump Neocons are invading the Democratic Party.
Continue readingIn the 2020 Democratic primaries issues don’t matter. All that matters is beating Trump. This electability narrative is a grift. We’re all being hustled.
Continue readingSocrates: Picture American voters dwelling in a sort of subterranean cavern. Conceive them as having their arms, legs, and necks fettered, so that they remain in one spot, able to look forward only. Conceive of their chains secured tightly to…
Continue readingIn the customer-centric era we’ve become a bunch of Karens. Unfortunately, Karen’s customer-centric politics is absolutely devastating for democracy.
Continue readingAmerican politics is a multi-billion dollar industry. Let’s examine how the election industry works to cut the electorate out of the political process.
Continue readingGoldilocks trespasses in the bears’ cottage. She eats their food, breaks a chair, and sleeps in one of their beds. The bears come home and find her, and Goldilocks runs off. The story doesn’t go anywhere, just like liberal centrist politics.
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