Two faced! She said she was two-faced!

Well, if one wants badly enough to suck Mammon’s dick you’ll find yourself settling for more readily accessible surrogates.

I’ve got a sharp spike and a pretty steady hand. Deprogramming is hard and takes time. A lobotomy, though crude, can be put together in about 20 minutes and performed by someone with minimal training if you’re not to particular about the outcome.

Well, Russia’s gone capitalist now, doncha know! They’re not even godless commies anymore. Hell, their oligarchs are just like ours!

4 parts gin, and let the sunlight pass through the vermouth bottle across your bar as you pour the gin into a tumbler.

You betcha! Every fucking one of them that gets the nod. Whatever the Cheeto Clown says he wants to do they will go along with. Which part of ‘The Imperial Presidency’ that Citizen Dick spent 8 years pushing do you not think is fundamental to their conception of “Rule”. If you want to get a sense of things in…

Remember when we broke up oil companies because they were getting to be too powerful and a threat to our institutions of democracy and might have gotten in the way of national interests in pursuit of profit?

Yes, instead of amateur grifters and scammers we’ll have some professionals!

Well it’s got an event sort of like Christmas, in that a man and a team of mutant animals are going to attempt to enter your home. A sack and your children and cookies are all still involved, too.

When you find a way to increase profitability for US banks by addressing climate concerns you’ll have found a way to get these people to give a shit. I think your research direction has been made pretty clear.

I dunno, I suspect than when some of the poor folk get desperate they’ll be sure to make a few of us go first.

It’s more Burroughs than Orwell, honestly.

How angry they are! Grrr! Grrr!

Yes, rest on your laurels. As we all know, your protests ended the war right away and we haven’t had any foreign military adventurism since. Also, thanks for fixing the environment and getting universal healthcare for your children’s generation. Great job on making sure we all got some of that equality of…

Is it too late to kill a Kennedy to rile up the kids?

There’s no protest. This is all just so much gnashing of teeth and rendering of (ill-fitting or out of fashion) garments.

As a friend and family member of DC residents might I suggest that even Baltimore is a reasonably pretty place to visit for a few days? You could probably make bank if you’re on the airbnb with a good location.

The markets are up. Doesn’t that mean everything’s fine? Haven’t we spent the last 60 or so years telling everyone that the performance of a few key stock market indices were a complete and nuanced view of the national psyche?

Also, the media has to pick and choose where to allocate its reporters. Which event is MOST LIKELY to erupt into a ratings-grabbing orgasm of violence? Then that’s the event you bet on as a TeeVee producer.

If you tweet from an event and all your followers are at the event does the tweet even make a notification?