What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I think of how many comics must have shared a bill w/Joe Rogan over the years, enduring the little sawed-off meatknuckles attempts at humor. The city that made him famous is up in flames and he’s platforming antisemitic alcoholics on his Austin, TX podcast. F’n Loser.

“There is no more corrosive force active on the planet today than Donald Trump. If your mind immediately goes to ‘what about Vladimir Putin’ then just reflect on the fact that he has more sway and control over Trump than any single figure outside of Elon Musk, who also speaks to Putin regularly.”

I've been trying to understand why I feel the particular flavor of distressed that I do right now. I think it's because we can no longer discuss the lessons we should be learning from any kind of disaster without the worst chucklefucks coming out of the woodwork to wreck everything.