Houston yesterday on the way to City Hall:

I have worked hard as hell for almost nothing, and been made independently wealthy while I was asleep. Becoming wealthy isn't about working hard. You can work infinitely hard and make no money at all and even lose money. Our system does not reward hard work, and it does not reward outstanding ideas.

Portland's trolling game is top-notch.

A+

Long live the Ribbitstance

The same reason you can't find footage of that Mohamed Ali v Cassius Clay fight to which nobody seems to have been able to score a ticket...

Portland has got A+ trolling game.

(Portland Frog Brigade outside fascist provocation outpost operated by ICE in Portland)

Extortion is how criminals control outsiders. It's why the KGB worked so hard to generate kompromat, and why the mafia's kidnapping practice led to special statutes governing the interstate transport of captives. Bullies know how to bully.

We need people willing to stop bullies.

So is the mask all the way off yet, or ...?

In a nutshell.

*sigh*

Is there no limit to how loony the bullshit can be that they'll uncritically accept?

Years ago I read that the US scored very low on a scale of conformity, compared to high-conformity autocracies where people would claim belief in official positions they knew were wrong.

Well, that was years ago.

It's a terror campaign conducted with no thought at all to the property rights of innocents, much less the civil rights of law-abiding bystanders.

Without competent oversight, our labor and resources are wasted. I'm not sure what it'll take for MAGAts to comprehend the Dunning-Kruger problem and stop electing grifters to handle our taxes and bankrupts to oversee resource management, but I found this illustration to support the effort:

Florida Man strikes again.

Should I admit I'm now somewhat curious how he envisioned his scheme should have developed, if not foiled?

So true.