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If I had the inclination, good luck and skills to make billions of dollars, my major motivator would have been that I'd never have to kiss anybody's ass. Shows how much I know about billionaires.

1/8/2025- The Jailbreak www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ja...

I realized today that I am more powerful than Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. I can say Fuck You Donald Trump. They may be richer but I am more powerful. And that is a trade I would make every single day.

"The menace of Adolf Hitler has been greatly exaggerated.... There is an innocence almost childish about the detailed fashion un which he sets out to be blood-curdling." --New York Times, Sept. 27, 1930

Like others, I fear the threat of government retribution, political vengeance and an angry right-wing mob. But I know that giving into it will only strengthen Trump and undermine the future of our democracy. Trump wants us to be scared. He wants us to give up — gradually and then suddenly.

Admittedly I’m no expert in gender politics and I’m just a guy but I’m pretty sure that the election to the presidency of a man found by a federal jury to have forcibly penetrated a woman’s vagina with his hands in a department store dressing room isn’t a great thing for women.

I don't recall Politico -- aka "Tiger Beat on the Potomac" per Charles Pierce -- suggesting Biden would be the new FDR after his much bigger victory over Trump four years ago. Politco and much of our national political media is gormless bullshit.

Endless pontification seeking to explain victory of an ignorant, racist, cruel misogynist will not produce a clear and definitive reason for Americans’ choice. Some voters plainly embraced White Christian nationalism. Others are swimming in a sea of disinformation. Still others impacted by inflation