Scalability

I ask myself if a person, a certain kind of person, is scalable. If they were everyone would the result be habitable. If everyone were like them could it work. I don't know how useful this is, clearly the scalability standard can't be he only standard, but I think it counts for something. 

Cut Trump a Break

Look at it from Trump's perspective. He got more Americans killed by botching the COVID response than had died in all of America's wars since WWII, by a a lot. Maybe as many as were killed in WWII. 

Just by being a moron and an idiot. Those lost in his stupid Iran war aren't that many by comparison. Republicans reelected him. Getting people killed isn't a problem for them. Why should it be for him? 

The problem isn't Trump. Republicans created this. They could stop it tomorrow.

I Must Be Something Special

Rich techno-geeks get confronted with the conundrum and mystery of their obvious and undeniable superiority as established by their wealth and then, with the kinds of brains the have, analyze how they got there down to the first principle of their indisputable competitive excellence. 

They won. They are winners. But did they get the girl? Hmm. Once you're rich enough you can buy anything. You can buy the girl, but the girl is tainted with insecurity, having been bought. The thing can go several ways from there, probably none of them good but you never know. 

Look for compensation, a sure sign of insecurity. Compensation is trying to get even, to get out of a hole and insecurity is a hole. You suspect you're shit. You decide you're better than everyone else. Being better or worse isn't the problem, comparing yourself is the problem. Don't do it!

You aren't anytime else. There's an obvious limiting-case on the compensation scale, not to be named, but his need for reassurance to the point of adulation and worship is breathtaking, pathetic, and it would produce pity if he weren't fantastically vindictive, a crude form of compensation.

Back to the girl, Cheryl Tiegs was deemed an appropriate geek mate when I first began to observe this. Coming from the other end as a source of insecurity is idealism. The geek brain, gifted at abstraction, reverts to the perfect, platonic ideal of  'girl' or anything else, contributing to insecurity.

Comparison, again. 

We each have our own lives. Don't compare. Live your life, appropriately immersed in the wonder and miracle of creation which some people, again unnamed, appear to want to destroy because it's imperfect, extrapolating from their own imperfection with which they are naggingly familiar. 

No Room for Anyone Else

Republicans are insisting in the most forceful way, as eliminationists, that there's no room for anyone unlike them and they mean business. Call it overshoot, as I think it is. They feel the need to establish their absolute dominance and smash all resistance to the ground. Then, maybe, they'll lighten up and stop killing people for no reason but everything is on the table. 

This is Calvinist and imperial. Calvinist strip the meaning out of life give you back just enough to make it bearable, if you're lucky. Imperialists take all the money and resources by the assumption of arbitrary authority since they, too, are the elect in their own and favored by God. Then they give enough back to you to keep you alive, if you're lucky, in testament to their beneficence. 

Way to Go, Democrats

Democrats, different factions, fight for control of their party. Republicans fight for control of the country. Democrats can't decide what they stand for. Republicans are burning everything down. 

Way to go, Democrats. 

As the World Burns

Republicans are fighting Democrats, Democrats are fighting Democrats. Guess who wins. This has been going on for decades. Democrats struggle for perfection, to get it right, a purity project. Republicans are running the county and burning it to the ground. But Democrats will not change. 

Democrats became our puritans. How weird is that. 

No Recognized Grievance Group Left Behind

If you aren't a protected class you don't exist to Democrats. But it worked out. Democrats have been so defeated the whole party has a grievance, being disenfranchised. They've become a grievance group.

Congratulations, you officially count. To yourself. Now what? 

Democrats Didn't Even Try

While Republicans fought to control the country white women fought to control of Democrats. They won, controlling the character and messaging of the party. Democrats are the party of trans rights and abortion. Republicans run Nazis and psychopaths and win. 

Way to go, Democrats. White women have a stranglehold on Democrats, Republicans a stranglehold on the country, and the country is coming unglued. Maybe the world and civilization, Just a thought, Democrats, but maybe should try beating Republicans. 

Too late now. 

The Day the World Shit a Brick

I think we're shitting a brick but I'm not sure. It's weird not to know but living in a world which the United States held together in some respects and watching it fall apart is stunning. Day after day we think we're maxed out and at our wit's end and then it gets worse.

Crack Addicts

Republicans, even the rich ones, can't get their faces out of Trump's ass. We're a really fucked up country. 

Institutionalizing Injustice

The point of the Trump revolution is a handoff. The corruption is different, not the real intent but a related thing. Handing off the bigotry, repression and authoritarian cravings to the government is the goal. The government, instead of guaranteeing a measure of justice, institutionalizes injustice.

Racism is really personally toxic, absolutely corrosive to the human soul. When your psyche can't do without it you hire enforcers. Professionals, basically, the bigot's bureaucracy. You've got the tools of repression and exploitation working for you and you're insulated from that, so you feel fine. 

Church, country club, a little philanthropy, you do all that. No organization is equipped or positioned to enforce brutality and privilege like the government. The government-hating insanity was nonsense. It was injustice they were after. So now they're throwing resources at the government. 

And they're using it against us. That was always the idea. That was the point. 

Our Darkest Hour

Our darkest hour is here, or we're within its margins, and the resistance is rubbish. Democrats are overwhelmed by the spectacle, never having owned their shit before, and far too stupefied to do it now. 

All That Jizz

I want to know what asshole is doing it, goading Trump into an insult or outrage. Some adolescents or arrested individuals must impel it, proposing dick things to do and following up on execution.

Trump comes up with some of it. You can tell. He's tooling around in the limo or being tooled, sees some treasure and needs to fuck with it -- deface it or desecrate it. Own it, in some way, being Trump.

Stamp it with the brand. Maybe he thought up the arch. But a team must be in on so much horror, jizzing and shitting civilization into a sty. All that jizz. Ejaculating on everything, in Jesus' holy name.

This takes a team. Trump wants to live in memory. Hostages, we pay billions, with perks, emoluments and overhead, to destroy our own country. I want names. Photos. Names, for now. Accountability later. 

We Hold These Truths to Be Expedient

All men are created equal. After that, shit happens. They have the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. On a good day. But what is happiness? Nobody knows. Choice - freedom - invariably makes some persons followers, cogs in the machine of life. Others are managers or masters. Who's to say. 

Over all is ownership. A person is nothing, uninvested in life, without property. Those with property have a larger stake, naturally, and greater incentive to see the society succeed. Noblesse oblige kicks in, one would hope. Average citizens will be cared for. But it's up to the owners. Their prerogative is absolute.

The rabble can't be running things. Look at where that got us. They chose enslavement. 

The Great Mojo Fiasco of 2026

Trump's mojo is in tatters. He's been running from a reckoning forever. Bullies pick on people who can’t fight back trying to prove their worth to themselves, as it's mirrored back to them. They seek validation in adulation and domination. They use other people. They contribute nothing. Trump's life is spent avoiding knowing his vast inadequacy, the rich boy's dilemma. But it's happening.

The world watches. Trump, meet Herr Donald, courtesy of Iran. Courtesy of a reflecting pool. Courtesy of a botched anniversary bash. Courtesy of measles, explosive diarrhea and such accomplishments. Courtesy of masked thugs reviled on the streets. Enemies emboldened, allies embarrassed. The African death count won’t go away. We will remember. On and on, most of it impending. 

The worst is coming. ICE funding goes through the roof. After the election, by design, Trump will unleash Terror in America, his signature domestic program of reform through violent intimidation. Deficits are coming like never before, huge bankruptcy, Trump's talent and special skill. He's got his war now, on credit. Republicans are leaders and leaders start wars. Way to go, Donald. 

You fucking dumbass. With a 'B.'

Adaptive Abuse

Head of abuse and chief insult officer Donald Trump leads a movement that's learning just how long you can go on screwing the hell out of people before they revolt. With MAGA it appears forever. And they're learning how to abuse people with maximum impact. MAGA has been enlisted in the project, so the idiots think they're winning. It's the Civil War all over again. 

King of Farts

A person can only shit so much, by physical limitation, however many Big Macs one consumes, special sauce and all. I suspect Trump, in addition to shitting on everything, is farting a lot as a force multiplier, perhaps with a silencer. This supposition rests on the reactions of people around him. The looks. 

We can't rule out moral compunction. There might be deeply buried, vestigial consciences still existing in Trump's orbit. Eradicating someone's humanity, clearly Trump's only talent and gift, is difficult. I detect strugglingly suppressed and emerging grimaces and indications of disgust in those around Trump. 

The theory is subject to verification. Volunteers? 

Beyond the Paywall

Where your government resides ...

The Trump Trajectory

This is the Trump trajectory. He fucks everything up beyond belief, gets scared as shit and attacks. Huge losses. Who will bear them? To a greater degree than ever, because of his position, anybody but Trump. 

High Plains Grifter

Trump rides into town. He's an outsider, rough around the edges, but he'll straighten everything out. He'll eliminate all the decency with corruption. Wasn't that what you wanted? 

Trump Bites

Trump was never domesticated. Dogs that bite are trained out of it or put down. Trump needed to be trained or kenneled. He's feral. Too late now. 

No One Is Safe

In the intimidation game, go big and go arbitrary. Attack someone prominent. Attack someone random, ideally innocuous. The message is, no one is safe.

Republicans on the Attack

Fucking people up isn't enough. You have to be seen fucking people up, as exaggeratedly as possible. Be a misanthropist they name something after. An airport? The Rand Paul Memorial Burial Mound, maybe. He'll steal an Indian one.

Perhaps occupy it, eventually. Why wait?

Be epochal. Momentous. Apparently Homeric, to be timely. Good has been done. Behaving is bathetic. Building is boring. Rationality isn't creative. It's all been done. Devastation is cool. The world is built out. Blow it up. Be the blitz.

Make a name for yourself. Blow it all up. 

Live Raid

Republican plundering emergency status notification. Looting is reaching a crisis level. Take cover. 

Nice Work but You Can't Get It

I want one of those Republican jobs. You get paid like crazy but you don't do shit. Or, you do do shit. They shit on everything and get paid for it. You have to pledge allegiance to Trump. I'm not going to do that. 

Don't Fence Me In

The freedom crowd wants to corral everything. They have boundary issues. Not that they don't have them, but the foundations are weak. 'Build the wall.' Their freedom is fragile so they demand certainty. 

No ambiguity. Everything is defined, fixed, immutable.

Existential certainty, in the limiting case. They are saved. They are going to heaven. They are patriots. Their worldview is right. See, it's the only one out there. They banned all the others. 

Wiped them out. What do we actually know? 

One real certainly, diversity is stability. They want a weed-free lawn of white men, the most unstable thing imaginable, requiring enormous energy subsidies to create and maintain. Hence the oil.

Apart from fencing everything they want oil. Which means excursions, to go get it. Plunder. They're actively doing this. Boundaries for me, not for thee. Also they want to corral meaning. 

To define reality, which they're scared of.

They're scared of the reality of themselves and their own weakness, mortality and imperfection. They can't see they're afraid of themselves, which they can't escape, so they go after everyone else. 

 

With bombs strapped to their asses. They are the apocalypse.

The forces of compulsion, the opposite of freedom.

Trump Baggage Bombs Iran

Trump is unloading his baggage on Iran ending up with more. I told him it wouldn't work. Call it the baggage paradox. Try to unload it and you end up with more. 

Trump doesn't understand. Psychological baggage piles up when you don't deal with it yourself. Trump is sitting on a mountain of it now.

Try This

Assume everything Republicans say is a lie and that everything they claimed to stand for going back decades was a lie. Voilà, the whole mess magically makes sense. All of it was always a fucking lie. 

The Hidden Truth: Outsider Identification on the Right

Conservatives FEEL themselves to be outsiders storming the gates of the deep state and attacking the inefficiencies Democrats created with their abuse of the public trust. They're wasting your money all over, Republicans say. 

Which I dispute in comparison with the unparalleled profligacy of Trump's administration. The reality underlying the outsider identification of Republicans is they never accepted the legal framework of the country to start.

Fair enough. Change it constitutionally.

The hidden truth is they never accepted the state's validity but were working for factional and partisan interests, firstly for the rights of rich people and fuck everyone else. They are monarchists. Kleptocrats. Oligarchs. Flirty Fascists.

And other things. But they aren't patriotic. 

I don't judge them, they judged themselves. Where do they get off saying rich people are treated unfairly? It's a scam. A scam masking the intention to overthrow the state and reinvent the country as a rich man's playground. 

They ARE outsiders, because they are culture-war combatants. 

January 6 wasn't a one-off. It was war against the state.

Which the Republican Party endorsed and officially signed up for. 

Making them enemies of the country they pretend to support. 

Game of Thrones

Trump's latest executive order 'Protecting the American Mind' corrects history and protects all citizens from the horrors of the truth. Why dwell on that shit? Trump is the shepherd and we are the sheep. Let him lead. Americans must not feel bad or suffer shame and anxiety, let alone over woke ideology and DEI and bad weather and the devastating knowledge that fossils fuels will run out one day and the rich people will have to kill millions of us to live the way they want and deserve. 

Also, Trump won every election and is incapable of losing. When he ascends into heaven he will win there and be further privileged and recognized by Jesus and God as the most holy and best person ever created and a fellow God. He will sit at the right hand in a golden throne at least as nice as Jesus's or God's he never quite understood that triune shit. Everything is gold. Surely Trump's throne will be nicer and bigger. I mean, who is this Jesus and who is he to hold a candle to Trump?

He got hung on a fucking cross. Trump, the great glory-basker, likes people who didn't die on a cross. Twelve apostles? What kind of a posse is that? Trump was president of the most powerful country ever. Heaven is kind of vacant, apart from those thrones. Have they not seen the White House? What splendor! Getting back to the thrones, Trump's must be bigger or he will bomb Iran. And why more than one? Since when? There will be one throne in heaven and Trump will be on it. 

This is a digression from 'history' but an important and natural one. We must think ahead to a time after the Ascension, when Trump goes to see Lindsey who was, he wants it noted, his underling. Everyone was his underling. Did they see his jets? Huge! And not one but two! Can heaven really contain Trump's magnificence? We must consider it so we can prepare for the Ascension. Roman emperors became Gods. The Supreme Court has declared precedent, I'm told, in anticipation. 

The throne thing. There will be one and Donald on it. He will make a deal. Eradicate Sharia Law, whatever makes God happy. Are there tariffs in heaven? These questions will be addressed for a smooth transition. Honestly, it's a takeover or buyout. In a pinch Trump will resort to blackmail. Blow up the earth with all those little people God supposedly loves if God doesn't accede. What is it about little people and that shit? They are nothing. Things will be different when Trump is God. 

Under What Circumstances?

Under what circumstances does Trump's destruction of the country make sense? It makes sense if it's the culmination of a Republican movement that was already in place. It makes sense if the two parts of the Republican coalition, rich, laissez-faire capitalists and disaffected, mostly evangelical white southerners, both want it. It makes sense by having happened. 

Both those groups want to see the country destroyed in some way. Evangelicals wanted crazily restrictive social changes. Outlaw abortion. Racist everything dressed for deniability. Rampant privatization. Their hopes and expectations changed as their grievances were validated over the years. They were fed vague promises that their revanchist dreams would be fulfilled. 

Rich, laissez-faire capitalists had been using them for their votes and stoking their anger but not giving them the crazy shit. They began to take it. Then the big change. The rich began to warm to the apocalyptic crowd. Not the crowd, really. They didn't want rednecks, Proud Boys and bikers showing up at their houses for cocktails, but there was 'disaster capitalism.'

'Creative destruction' was floating around in their realm of opportunistic, money-making ideas. And they want more money. 

They warmed up to catastrophism on the heels of the Great Recession they created and came out of not only unscathed but generally enriched. Enter Trump, an amazing criminal who had to have complete separation from any context of accountability. The average super-rich person might have wanted that, nobody telling them what to do or even making them pay taxes.

Way beyond it, they ended up part of a criminal enterprise to subvert the legal authority and power of the U.S. government. Maybe passively. Average, highly affluent people I'm talking about here. We now have a unified political movement that has seized control of everything solely for purposes of destruction. They had been selectively changing laws in their favor. 

It became impossible to hold them accountable even when they did, sometimes flagrantly, violate the law. Instances come to mind. Democrats fought back with pool noodles. They have tried, and I'll grant it's hard to fight sociopaths, but when you keep getting beat and the system is failing and people are dying at some point you have to question your tactics. But, no. 

Identity politics, the same old shit. Which I support as necessary to a degree as a matter of policy, but if you keep losing leading with it as a political thing YOU FUCKING STOP. Win the election, enact the policies. Where are we now? We are fucked. We have lost to an unbelievable degree. And we had better get our heads out of our asses. The other side is playing to win at any cost.

They want the government functionally obliterated. To go to heaven or to stay out of jail. Some for both. 

America's Fart Health

America's fart health has been deemed excellent after a checkup involving a general assessment of frequency, potency and gross emissions. Also employed was an EAG, and Electrical Ass-o-Gram, to see if the internal, fart-producing components were in good shape. All was well and splendid.

The testing was initiated by reports of extraordinary activity. America was found to be in a fantastic state of anal gaseous generation. Those on the receiving end, the millions and millions of people being farted at and shit upon, were not happy at this news, that America was simply doing what came naturally.

Americans, it was seen, have become the biggest pigs in world history. 

And they have committed themselves to that path no matter what. Venezuelan oil is an example. You want it, you take it, because America is special and the rules don't apply to you. Iran has proved a tougher nut. Americans were high on their own farts when it came to that. And Iran is farting back. 

I love how you hate me.

Democrats are hating on Republicans, a natural outcome of abuse that further empowers the abusers. Republicans welcome it. It means their tactics are working. Not that condemnation doesn't have its place, as a unifying force providing focus among the abused and as defining the nature of the resistance.

But it must translate into understanding and then action. Hate can't be helped faced with such injustice. Let's make it into a positive force. Let's make it count. 

Trump's Reversed New Testament: Tribalism Returns

So, the Old Testament was tribal but it made the king subject to the law. It established the supremacy of the law, which came from God. The New Testament extended it to all of humanity, initiating Christianity as a religion that was about behaviors, adherence to laws and standards and not belonging or tribal membership, universally and among all of humanity.

Universality was a natural and needed development and evolution, implied by the character of the law as natural law. Republicans reverted to tribalism, asserting that behaviors didn't matter, that laws were illegitimate constraints on human freedom, and fuck you. Now they're demanding and asserting universal tribalism, as perverse and self-contradictory as it sounds. 

Not content with being tribal assholes, they want worldwide tribalist assholedom, decency must be eradicated everywhere, being an insult to their worldview. No law, no standards, life is shit. 

Into this steps Donald Trump who is recognized as the King of the Losers and someone with the magical touch. Everything he touches turns to shit, a gilt turd still being a turd. Democrats think an awakening is possible on the right. It really isn't, as a matter of principle. They want everything to be shit. They will have to be swimming in shit for a change of heart to occur. 

Maybe not even then, by which time it is too late anyway. This is the new compact with God being proposed. We'll see what God has to say, assuming God exists. Meanwhile it's life in the sty. 

He's a Soul Man

Donald Trump doesn't have a living soul, an adjunct of which is having a conscience, but he's a soul man. Freed from the constraints of being normal and giving a shit about anything, Trump taps into the animal nature that remains, all that there is of him, to appeal to the animal nature in everyone.

The animal aspect can be dis-integrated from intelligence and decency, Trump's call of the wild.

Don't answer it. Whatever we are, and I don't claim to know, we are more or less than animals if only in our power. More, if we accept the responsibilities of our station. We are worse and less than animals if we fail and refuse, a rogue and unworthy component of creation, inhabiting the land of MAGA.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sharia Law

Sarah Sanders' ridiculous, idiotic worry about the nonexistent threat of the implementation of Sharia Law in America shows us her own degraded, inbred Arkansas agenda, the imposition of Christian Nationalism or religious law in place of the secular legal system. She sees Sharia Law as the competition.  

Both represent the desire for fascist, autocratic, tyrannical religious government. 

This means the destruction of the United States, a secular nation that enables and encourages religious freedom. The morons are pulling it off because destruction is easy. Okay, they're good at it. Tearing everything down is their only talent and all they're capable of. They are the original Nazis. 

The Nazis took their inspiration from southern conservatives. They got their racism from them. And the brutal, inhumane, exploitative laissez-faire economic doctrines of American conservatives trashed the world economy and put the Nazis in power. They're the ticket if you want your life to be shit.

For this purpose they hired Donald Trump, a piece of shit that puts the world to shame. 

Shame Is a Bitch

MAGA is getting rid of its massive reservoir of dishonor by destroying the context that contains it. The shame of their racism, their corruption, the Civil War, segregation, desegregation, fucking country music and NASCAR and the entire pathetic, shit culture of whining, self-pity, false bravado, sin and decay.

They are such fantastically fucked-up and unworthy degenerates the one way out is to destroy all decency and standards, burning everything to the ground. They'll get us all killed to unload their disgrace. 

Making a Run at Unconstrained Evil

For the record, Trump and his gang are going for the full unconstrained evil thing. Those are the stakes. Impunity. Immunity. They can do whatever the fuck they want to anybody. They'll not only do it to make a point they'll go beyond that. Overreach, to establish their dominance, as with the ICE shit. They are not fucking around, but they're a mess so there should be opportunities to stop them. And Democrats are totally unprepared. 

Fuck Y'all

The Republican movement in two words, 'fuck y'all.' Southern white people never signed on to the American state thing, formally. They went along on their own terms. Slavery, then apartheid. 

Desegregation was the last insult. The war was on, again. This time they won. Dishonorably, as always, because the cause is racism and injustice. States' rights is up for argument, as far as I'm concerned. 

I don't care. Democrats who think what they say means anything or that they stand for anything but some brutal, insane fundamentalist shit are wrong. They want to destroy you. 'Fuck you' is all of it. 

The World Is Burning

The world is burning and Republicans are thrilled. Their plan is working. Their desires fulfilled. They came to destroy, so everything is going great. They are celebrating and cheering it on. 

Straight from the Pit of Hell to Your House

That's the thing, people don't expect a vampire to show up in their Sound of Music movie and chomp on the necks of the kids, so they can't take it in when it happens. But it has. America's rich are parasites and vampires. Trump and company are sucking the blood out of everything. 

America Declares Moral Bankruptcy

Every day the Trump insanity goes on America is declaring its moral bankruptcy to the world. They've reacted and are waiting to see if we pull out of it. They haven't foreclosed yet but they will. 

Crime and Punishment

Insider trading is Trump's latest favorite activity. His administration runs on corruption. Then they punish us. Our existence is a threat to them. Standards are a threat to them, so they must be eradicated and fear instilled everywhere. No one can be left who dares challenge them. 

Mad King Donald

We've got a king, Mad King Donald. And his reign of terror. Democrats gave us 'all we have to fear is fear.' Mad King Donald and his spineless supporters give us 'all we have is fear.' 

Democrats, remember where we came from. A fair shake for everyone. Fight for it. We were great then. Good, in any case. Republicans want to destroy it, America's heart and decency. 

Homie That Trashed Spain Suddenly a Fan

Trump, the homie that's been trashing Spain and most recently threatened to cut off all trade, suddenly found his inner fan while wishing Franco were back and they were a dictatorship. Then he could play ball in his preferred way, mano a mano with a fellow autocrat. He wants a dictatorship for everyone. No other form of government makes sense to him. 

Trump Dishonors Dead Soldiers

Donald Trump is dishonoring dead soldiers by claiming he's retaliating on their behalf, of some such shit. Let's get it straight. Trump never does anything for anyone but himself. The whole war is his. The fucked up economy is his. The ICE murders are his. The hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by what he did to USAID is his. Explosive diarrhea is his. Measles is his. The desecration and destruction of our national monuments is his. Attacking renewable energy is his. Creating a Supreme Court supermajority of political hacks is his. And that isn't all that's his, the miserable, psycho piece of garbage.

Headline USA: Trump Mistakes Personal Shit for Reality

Trump, never one to step outside himself, mistakes his personal shit for reality. He attacks Iran for nothing, because of his feelings of inadequacy and the grandiosity arising in denial and compensation, and relatedly his terrific need to belittle everyone sometimes with aggression and violence. 

And because it's his whim, which absolutely fucking sacrosanct. This is no way to run anything. The predictable result is a catastrophic mess which drives him further into fantasy so he screws up more and on and on. He's spiraling into massive personal failure and taking the country with him. 

 

Trump's personal shit is now reality.

Real Freedom Is Never Having to Admit You're Out of Your Minds

Republicans have a niche market, where the crazies live. When they say free they mean me, meaning them. Someone else pays the bills, someone else cleans house, and someone else feeds them, clothes them and wipes their filthy asses. 

No wonder Trump is their idol. Trump says you never have to grow up, that you can live like pigs and the world will still be there to exploit and enjoy, fuck the future and everyone else. Freedom to them is the opportunity to live irresponsibly. 

https://www.salon.com/2014/03/02/baby_boomer_humors_big_lie_ghostbusters_and_caddyshack_really_liberated_reagan_and_wall_street/

The Eternal Frame

A few titles from the Rich Person's Book Club I unearthed ...

1. How to Profit from the Death of DEI

2. Annihilating the Middle Class: the Money in Misery

3. Who Needs Workers We Got Bots

4. The Apocalypse as a Business Opportunity

5. Jesus is on Our Side: Social Darwinism for Believers

6. Memoirs of a Maker

7. Building a Bunker: Guide for the Compleat Idiot

8. The Imitation of the Antichrist

9. Making Money off Musk: Never Mind the Murder

10. Raising a Rich Kid to Win: A Motivational Guide 

11. The Whole Earth Epilogue

FedEx is a Fucking Mess

Rational regulation gives us companies that work. Profitable, responsible, good jobs, long-term success. Laissez-faire gives us plunder. Short-term profits and companies that are shit. 

FedEx is a southern company. An entrepreneurial company. FedEx runs on the plantation model. Screw the workers. Screw the customers, as much as possible. Take the money and run.