Rule. He has no interest in serving.
They’ll hail him as saviour for screwing them over. And beg for more.
We get closer and closer to Neal Stephenson’s depiction of “Ameristan” every day.
I hate it.
… mostly given over to the question of what it’s like for Dodge’s friends and family to live in a post-truth society after the “Facebookification of America.”
In this new world, America has split itself in half. In the rural parts of the country, there’s “Ameristan,” where the poor and uneducated live steeped in misinformation, hoarding ammunition for a war that will never come and crucifying those they deem to be heathens.
But the coasts and the cities are full of wealthy elites who pay to have professional editors weed out fake news from their digital feeds, and regard the rest of the country with a kind of disgusted anthropological fascination.
“Their fathers believed that the people in the cities actually gave a shit about them enough to want to come and take their guns and their property,” says one character of an Ameristan gun cult. “So they put money they didn’t really have into stockpiling trillions of rounds and hunkered down waiting for the elites to come confiscate their stuff.”
It’s an elegantly plausible near-future dystopia that neatly replicates the power dynamics of our own time. …
ETA: I blurred this text block after realizing some people may not want spoilers if they have yet to read Stephenson’s book.
Yeah, it’s going to be so, sooo much worse, dismantling the government aside, because food exports will be getting about as low as they can go (because, unlike last time, every trading partner now has tariffs).
In related news:
Trump was right! He is a uniter - he’s uniting everyone against the US! (I mean, it’s pretty impressive to get China, South Korea and Japan, despite their significant differences, to come together in this way.) The US is getting permanently shunned as a trading partner.
Is that Kid Cellulite No Dick?
Yup. Not in a suit either. Wonder if Vance is going to complain (rhetorical)
And there you have it: this broken little man has never gotten over the humiliation visited upon him by Obama.
Joe Rogan thinks Trump is going too far with the deportations to El Salvador prisons. On the one hand, I’m glad he’s not entirely cruel. On the other hand, go fuck yourself, Joe Rogan.
‘False choice’: GOP congressman breaks ranks to deliver Trump history lesson in NY Times
Holy shit, a GOP member with a spine.
Great way to put it:
