I suspect this is just another stock market manipulation by the cheeto in chief.

Well, the movies tell them existential threat doesn't look like this (where are the explosions, the car chases?) and that the avengers will come along later to set things right.

They don't have to resist. They just need to grab the popcorn and watch.

Believing your own lies is culturally fatal.

I love following your posts, Mary. But ...

Only a tiny proportion of Americans are seriously resisting. The rest are, at most, virtue signaling. When the current regime falls there is always a risk of another future hard right victory.

We need to face facts. They can't ever be trusted again.

Missed this until just now, Jaelyn. Thanks :)

I seriously think that as we get older this "sleep nights, be awake days" thing is our primary mission. Like ... in order to level up as an elder, I need to defeat this dragon ...

Well, Derek, for starters you can get off your ass and get out to the July 4th protests. You can write your representatives, whether municipal, state or federal, demanding action, or commit funds to legal aid.

Maybe you already do these things? But if not, don't clutch your pearls at me.

What a polite way to say that the pigeons were hungry ...

Great song :)

What are you supposed to do? Folks .... look at other countries and their ongoing mass protests against corruption and injustice.

You are SUPPOSED TO RIOT!

Get your asses out on the street, people. Cowards don't make history. Not good history, anyway.