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Squirrel-squashin’ deer-smacking driving machine.

Also, Germans trying to say “squirrel” are funny. Some YouTube videos on it.

It’s the best possible way to spot who was the bottom 10% of the high school class.

About 35% of us have been groomed to be cavemen.

McConnell or Murdoch are the most destructive, though I see them more as amoral and self-interested than morally evil.

There are plenty of people who “represent everything wrong with America/the world” but again, I think those are opportunists just working for self interest.

I’m not sure I could come up with who is today’s Moloch.

Soon to be replaced by an election denier.

“In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.” (p. 1108)

We have antitrust laws. Republicans and neoliberals have de-funded the agencies that would enforce those laws to the extent that they can’t take action on 99% of what’s happening.

It’s exactly what Republicans would do if they didn’t like a company. Playing nice with these people is what got us to this point.

This is what 35 years of right-wing talk radio turning any cultural event into a political crusade has gotten us. The right wing echo chamber has brain-poisoned so many Americans, that they no longer have any non-political schemata for interpersonal interaction on any topic.

Want to talk about how to keep the Internet fast and secure? That’s political now.

Want to talk about the science behind the causes of climate change? That’s political now.

Want to talk about making anyone’s life better in any material way, other than a blood-sucking c-suite executive? That’s political now.

Want to talk about medicine? Oh you betcha that’s political now.

Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Lee Atwater, and Fox News have caused this. And I have no problem calling them out for it. Think saying-so is “political?” Screw off. I don’t care if your politics get in the way of everything that’s interesting to discuss. Deal with it, or move to Saudi Arabia where conservatives would be happiest.

They need to start paying taxes too. Church is a business of graft.