Celebrity rapists gotta stick together y'know.

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard." - H.L. Mencken

There are few things more painfully stupid than a mass media version of a scientific take on a matter with strong philosophical elements.

Government by a delusional malignant idiot clown.

An entire administration of delusional malignant idiot clowns in fact...

Weird that it seems every time I turn around I see one of two things - voters telling the Democrats that we want them to move back to the left or Democrats telling us that that's not actually what we want.

I'd actually be a little more tolerant of that if the fuckwads would just come out and say that the truth is that they don't care what we want - that their corporate donors want them to stay as far to the right as possible, and that that's the only thing that matters.

And a reminder that to the current right-wing establishment, "privatization" isnt even actual privatization.

Actual privatization would be the government divesting itself of authority over and responsibility for some service, and thereby turning it over to the private sector.

But current American "privatization" is a wholly corrupt and destructive hybrid process by which the government still funds the service, and the only thing that changes is that instead of the money being given to a government agency, it's given to whichever private contractor offers the best bribe and kickback program.

Every time I click on a link to a right-wing site, it's like I'm eavesdropping on a tweaker drywall crew on their lunch break at Hooters.

Some kid pushed him down the stairs and seriously injured him when he was in school

True story?

I wouldn't doubt it.

I really know very little about Musk's past in a biographical sense, but as a lifelong student of human nature - both collectively and individually - I know him all too well.

and I don’t blame them

Nor do I.

You can see it in his mannerisms and the look on his face. He was and still is one of those people who's unjustifiably smug - who's obnoxiously arrogant in spite of the fact that everyone around him just thinks he's a loudmouthed asshole. And the secret behind it is that he's actually desperately insecure and his entire life is bent toward (over)compensating for that.

He's obnoxiously smug and arrogant because he has virtually no empathy or understanding of other people, so he doesn't know how to act to actually appeal to people.

But he sees other people who do know how to act and who have spent a lifetime earning respect and admiration, and he sees their confidence and that's what he wants. So, failing to understand even the most basic principles, he jumps right past the earning respect and admiration stage and to the confidence stage, and unable to even pull that off convincingly, he just ends up smug and obnoxious.

Which makes people dislike him, which leads him to try to compensate, which ends up just being more obnoxious arrogance, which makes people dislike him and 'round and 'round it goes.

You would think that he'd be used to it by now, since he's obviously had the same basic personality since middle school, and everyone undoubtedly hated him then too.

Deliberately.

The long-term goal is to make housing even less affordable, then criminalize homelessness, so that poor people can be fed into the prison-for-profit system and made into slaves.

If the world was a just place, it would cost them their lives, since by cutting the sole source of healthcare funding for many of the poorest Americans, they're effectively committing mass murder, so should be tried, and if convicted, sentenced just as any other mass murderers would be.

Or better yet, if they were just minimally decent human beings, they wouldn't condemn poor people to avoidable sickness and death in the first place.

Remember - everything Trump does is ultimately for his own benefit.

This isn't really about the charges the ICC has leveled against Netanyahu. Trump is trying to get out in front of the charges they're inevitably going to end up leveling against him.