Bullshit.

The thing that five day workweeks won't fund is obscene pay packages for executives.

The problem is that the corporations have no incentive to not pay the extortion money.

If Paramount had, as anyone with any integrity at all would have, told Trump to go fuck himself, the Toddler-in-chief would thrown everything he could get his tiny little hands on at them, and they would've ended up paying far more than $16 million trying to fend it off. So instead, they just cut President Shitbag a check, and now he'll (supposedly) rubber stamp the merger they want.

The responsibility for bringing that loathsome bag of pus to justice falls on someone else - the other two branches of the government. And they're cowardly, complicit and corrupt.

The Supreme Court doesn't even bother pretending to be upholding the law or the Constitution any more. The conservative majority is wholly owned by the same autocratic scumbags who are backing Trump, and they self-evidently see themselves as having one and only one mission - to give that reeking piece of shit whatever he wants no matter what sort of illogic and lies they have to use.

And in Congress, the Republicans are lining up to suck the rapist's deformed dick in the hope of getting to play a role in the oligarchy to come, and the Democrats are entirely focused on destroying the leftists in their midst so that they can continue gorging themselves on conservative soft money in exchange for doing nothing.

So the profoundly mentally ill and brazenly criminal piece of shit who's stinking up the Oval Office is free to do whatever the hell he wants because every single person who might be able to do something about it is one or another sort of piece of shit themselves, with the only minor distinction being whether they're corporate pieces of shit or judicial pieces of shit or congressionsl pieces of shit.

That was when it kicked off in earnest.

I still think that if there's one single person who deserves more of the blame than anyone else for Trump becoming president in the first place, it's Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

But they can't focus on big tech after all the robber barons lined up to pay protection money to Trump.

Even against the staggeringly grotesque day-to-day reality of Trump's corruption and malfeasance, this urge he apparently has to try to come to the rescue of foreign politicians rightly facing consequences for their own corruption and malfeasance really stands out.

It sounds glib, but it really does appear thst he simply, genuinely believes that corrupt sacks of shit have to stick together, and he's trying to do his part (and, no doubt, end up owed a favor).

Unfortunately, the establishment Dems have the desires of the voters in one hand and they're weighing that against hundreds of millions of dollars in soft money in the other, and so far the money has an uninterrupted win streak.

And Gilibrand has already clearly signaled which side she favors.

Those are just stock standard price support tariffs - solely meant to increase the sane prices for foreign products so that the obscenely overpriced American ones can compete.

Trump in charge of voting system changes is sort of like Larry Nassar in charge of sports medicine for teenage girls.

Right - a guy who's known to have visited Epstein's island is denying the conspiracy theories about his oh-so-convenient death.

That has all the credibility of a four-year-old with chocolate on his fingers and crumbs on his face saying "Cookies? What cookies?"

Unfortunately, facts count for nothing now, since Trump is a delusional narcissist whose only reality is inside his own mind, and he's surrounded himself with angrily frightened sycophants who just want to be told that reality is something other than what all the people they hate and fear say it is.

Conservatives live in such a bizarre fantasy world.

You'd think that sooner or later it would filter through to at least some of them that it's meaningful that essentially without exception, if they just let information flow freely, whether on a website or a forum or in public comments or via an AI or whatever - it ends up skewed against conservatism.

But they never seem to get it. Instead, they go to great lengths to carefully censor and silence and astroturf and manipulate to force it over to a pro-conservative position, and they then have to constantly monitor and censor and astroturf to keep it there because if they relax their guard it starts drifting anti-conservative again.

In one sense, yeah - it's easy and obvious - they lie, and often even to themselves.

But that doesn't really explain anything. It goes so far beyond just lying that I really have a hard time making sense of it. Glib answers just don't hack it.

It just doesn't seem possible that they can sincerely believe that opinion consistently turns against them through some sort of near-universal conspiracy and that their constant manipulations and censorship and astroturfing can really be in support of truth. Sure, individuals can be that delusional, but that many of them?

I just can't make sense of it. It's like they believe that gravity is a conspiratorial lie that everyone else pretends to believe in just to stop them from flapping their arms and flying to the moon.

Government of the people, by the idiots, for the psychopaths.