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As a longtime leftie, I despair of the deliberately self-defeating tactics the so-called opposition is using to get rid of Trump: "blame Russia" and "Me Too". To pick these two tactics when there are so many other avenues for actually impeaching the man (before he sells what is left of America to the billionaire class, and then blows us all to kingdom come) shows what a phony, Kabuki theater our duopolistic political system has become.

At some point in 2009 or 2010, as I watched the political and economic catastrophes of Barack Obama interposing himself between the banksters and "the pitchforks" unfold, I was reading a book on the history of American industrial technology. The Introduction included a discussion of the republican political thought of the Founders. Those two or three paragraphs launched me into researching American history, to answer two questions:

What is a republic?

The Republican's reverse-Robin Hood policies, plus Trump's ability to insult everyone, have given the Democrats a historic opportunity according to polls.

I thought long and hard about this site after JtC's essay yesterday. It was sad to hear that people have left the site and some have withdrawn donations. What is there for me to say? Well, a lot really.

To begin, I intend to focus on what I know about c99. And what I know is that this community has great value to me, and, I believe, to many other people.

Crime was already a big deal on the Wild West Internet; but Uber has taken it to new depths. The more the judge in the Waymo/Alphabet case against Uber digs, the bigger maggots he digs up. Given Uber, this is no surprise. But the implications of what passes for "accepted business practices" on the Internet should terrify everyone.

Welcome to Monday Morning, and your healthy dose of Paranoid ravings from an isolated bunker.
Remember, Tinfoil is for amateurs! Get yourself a Faraday Cage, and cover the windows!

First off, Looks like the opening to Top Gun is happening...

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One of the greatest points of conflict and division in the U.S. today is built upon assumptions that have no basis in reality. Race, as it is generally understood, isn't a thing according to science. Race, as it is practiced, is an idea that we've simply accepted.

I don't watch much MSNBC or CNN anymore but I usually have a TV droning in the background, especially in the morning. I usually go with CSPAN but today I landed on CNN.

My ears perked up when I heard someone say "Neoliberal has been a bad term for a long time."

Turned out to be David Frum responding to a question from Fareed Zakaria about what the American centrist establishment might learn from Macron.

Alabama, Cults, and Circles

Well finally some good news from an Alabama election....not all is bad in this state with such a bad reputation. There's good and bad everywhere I guess. Alabama does have cults. Have you read Salvation on Sand Mountain? I taught many children from the Holiness Church discussed in the book, but that's not the kind of cult I have in mind. It is the cult of media that Max Blumenthal talks about that we'll discuss in today's column. Then finally we'll go round and round the news cycle and end up celebrating the longest night of the year.