What the fuck did I just watch?! I admit; I didn’t make it all the way through.
“They can’t evict everyone…”
But it won’t stop them trying.
(It’s completely fucked up, but if banks, say, don’t try and recover their assets/loans if borrowers default, they’ll get sued by shareholders.)
Billionaire / corporate influence over Delaware pols and legislation will be in the news again today:
Lots of billionaire myths and GOP talking points designed to protect the wealthy are debunked in this video:
I’m visiting Italy right now and according to my Italian relatives and another local that I met here the Bezos wedding is huge news and the local Venetians are pissed. It’s commonly believed that he’s renting every single water taxi in the city for the duration of this event, despite some of the denials from city officials:
Go ahead, guys! Greenland has bears, too. Polar bears.
Heck, Greenland is cold. These people have thought about what that means for their data centers but I bet they haven’t thought at all about how they get groceries there.
Unfortunately none of this dreaming involves dealing with the local government, and more billionaire support for stealing Greenland for its minerals is not a good thing.
I’m assuming that this is once the rest of the planet becomes uninhabitable.
Stephen Colbert’s funny take on billionaires:
I wonder if they ordered it on Amazon? That would be funny, too.
I especially like this part:
We think we’re seeing a shift this week. We think there are signs — hopeful signs! — that the spell is breaking and the wool is coming back off of people’s eyes, and they’re remembering that Donald Trump is a pathetic, babbling, shitting, whining piece of urinal cake, just a ridiculous man, just a gigantic pile of grievances covered by ugly orange makeup, as opposed to a big scary evil genius dictator whose every wet fart they must obey.
I’m seeing reports like this every week though; “This week people are finally waking up”, “This week the tide is turning” … I’d love to believe it’s true.
For those not clicking through:
“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science,” Mr. Rogen said, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which was a media sponsor of the April 5 event. “It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and R.F.K. Jr. very fast.”
Oh, right; substack. I wonder if wonkette is regretting moving there?
