The thing about sad songs is that they say so much.

You can’t see it, but I have the world’s tiniest violin and I am playing the saddest of sad songs for her.

People still strike here but it is getting harder because of all the advantages the rich have bought for themselves in our legal system. The point of a successful General Strike is that it is all or a critical mass of the working class that will withhold their labor and stop commerce. You as an individual need to…

A 60% tax rate and one of the finest places to live on Earth.

? Couldn’t she hire a caregiver with her Tax Cut Bonus lol

General Strike.

I really should know better, but the dude’s absolute sophistry-laden understanding of how people actually work is just goddamned galling that I cannot help myself.

Like, he’s literally a caricature of a human being with a cause; he’s more or less Macross’s Lynn Kyle, only he’s a real person rather than a cartoon…

And all we get is “USA! USA!” when clearly we want more action from the Democrats to hold Trump and Pence

This blog- much of the internet actually- doesn’t really understand the value of political theater and it is the left’s obsession with authenticity over theater that has hamstrung there electoral possibilities.

It’s kinda funny. Progressives are mad as hell that the Democrats don’t engage in pointless fights they can’t win because the optics matter.

Agreed--but, hey, thanks for the reasonable take on this.

What do you suggest as the alternative to loving one’s country?

People are tribal by nature—they need something to belong to.  What do you propose?

This blog has one unifying message, very blatently pushed down from the top level -

Well it would have to be something actually shameful.

I think, and I may have missed a talking point or two, the gist of it is this:

Jesus fuck, darling, what is wrong with you? First you’re mad at the Democrats for NOT stooping to the Republicans’ level re civility & theatre, and now you want them to stop doing it?

Honeatly, sometimes it is just indistinguishable from Fox News. The story here, it seems to me, is that following an election which we know Russia tried to influence for the benefit of the Republican presidential candidate, and ahead of an election they will almost try to influence, by messing with vote totals,…

Ok, how about the whole story? Republicans stripped funding for this from over $300M to $0. Literally $0. Mock all you want, but this is a legitimate issue. And if showing some awkard patriotism on the floor gets the action some media attention, I think that's a good thing?

At this point, what else are they going to do? Political theater works and the low information voters need to be dragged to the fact that the lying, jingoist republicans are cashing fat Russian checks. They are at least treasonous if not actual traitors.

I have. After extensive research and calculations, I figured the exact sum is: