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"The quaint and maddening nostalgia for decency, shame and accountability."

Peak weather. Peak day. Peak beauty. Peak being.

In the general disaster of monoculture, I believe we are suffering not a liquidity crisis, but a quiddity crisis.

"Our nation's descent into hell began the moment that we started converting all questions of truth into questions of power." Theodor Adorno, re Nazi Germany. (As per Al Gore.)

Our capitalist system demands perpetual growth. Just a reminder that the only things in nature that exhibit perpetual and constant growth are cancer tumors, viruses and bacteria. So maybe not the most auspicious model for for our economic system? Happy day after Earth Day.

The Chinese are completely destroying MAGA with the one cultural export we didn't think them capable of: to wit, a savage sense of humor! Seems they are collectively smarter than us, harder working than us and now funnier than us. Hmm. Hard not to have some respect.

(Crooned to the melody of the Billy Ocean song "Suddenly") Wake up, suddenly you're in...a Neo fascist police state! (Crooned to the tune of the Chicago's "It's Only the Beginning") "It's only the beginning...of a belligerent authoritarian dystopia that might go on forever...Yeah yeah yeah..."

"The ASTOUNDING absence of honor. The gleeful full frontal assault on integrity. The inconceivable inability to feel love or shame..." "Unfathomable feats of fatuity....when their self dealing deviousness is as obvious as a dog's balls..." "The staggering -- almost superhuman --- smallness..."

As I'm sure Leibniz would agree, we are living in the dumbest of all possible worlds.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

To the Aretha tune: 🎶 Daydreaming and I'm thinking about tariff wars, daydreaming and I'm thinking about toxic micro plastics, daydreaming and I'm thinking about predatory ghouls, day dreaming and I'm thinking about per capita awfulness and how to minimize it. 🎶

It's just economic birtherism, no?

In addition to all time record wealth destruction, the Trump Tariffs are causing an all time record number of expletives uttered per hour.

Might be reaching the point where some mass non compliance is called for? (I think it's already being called for. Strongly. Very strongly, as it were.)

Amazing. The Democrats are acting with passion, conviction and imagination. And it's not even an April Fool's prank.

"If I'm a Soros-funded crisis actor, then where the hell is my paycheck?"