Let's start with 2016. The consensus was formed -- Hillary Rodham Clinton was going to be the next President, and neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump was going to stand in the way. Donald Trump was the chosen opponent -- the Clinton forces thought he would appear so horrible that the voters would be motivated to select Clinton simply to avoid electing Trump. Bernie Sanders was merely trying to chirp in with the notion of social-democratic guarantees of economic security.

Did y'all read the Maddaddam trilogy like I suggested?

Everyone's idea of "what to do" involves presuppositions that "Omigod we've got so much to lose!" while at the same time what they're doing (or not doing) will cause them to lose what it is they most fear losing.

Pro athletes, particularly those in the professional basketball, baseball, football and hockey leagues, are whining again about getting their share of the pie. The way they figure it, the billionaires and investors who own the teams are raking in the dough and since it's because of their "skills", they deserve more of the massive profits. Without them, there would be no leagues and no profits.

Hallmark has been providing cards for LGBTQIA people for some time now.

But someone has noticed that they are now selling cards to celebrate a trans person's transition.

"Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!" --Karl Marx

In this pithy quote Marx, whose 199th birthday was yesterday, encapsulates the insane logic of the capitalist system. Its precise lettering is mentioned in the same paragraph, below:

Here I'd like to briefly interrupt the ongoing discussion of how we're being screwed by the neoliberals to suggest that C99% do two things:

1) institute a candidates' forum, in which candidates who actually claim to do something for us can receive some scrutiny

2) create a coalition for vetting candidates

CORRUPTION

The fraud, corruption and wasteful mismanagement is so deeply ingrained in the present capitalist system that it can make a person "insane" trying to follow up the politicians of both parties, the large corporate charities, the bankers, transnational corporations and media cronies as their corruption poisons the world.