No war but class war.

And yes - racism is deliberately encouraged by the wealthy few in order to keep the lower class at each other’s throats.

It’s a very simple dynamic really. People look around and recognize that their societies are fucked up. Then they look for somebody to blame.

And there really is somebody to blame. In virtually all cases, the society has been fucked up both by and for the ruling class.

But of course the ruling class doesn’t want anyone else to see that (and in many cases are so irrational themselves that they won’t or can’t see it), so they find somebody else to point to, to distract our attention from them.

And race is a particularly easy thing to point to, since it’s a visible distinction.

This is just standard Democrat strategy.

Their job - the service their rich donors pay them for - is to provide the illusion of opposition to the steady expansion of the wealth and privilege of those same rich donors.

So they posture in order to appear to be opposition, but then they inevitably cave, one way or another, whatever it takes.

There was never any question that the Dems were going to cave - that’s what they always do. The only questions were specifically how and when they were going to do it

And now we know.

History is only written by the winners when the winners benefit their civilization.

When, as has consistently happened in the latter days of past civilizations and as will be the case if Trump and the oligarchs and their fascist tools win, the winners solely benefit themselves and thus ultimately destroy their civilization, history is written by third parties.

It’s sort of amusing that the profound psychological issues that make him the most corrupt POTUS in history, the most self-absorbed POTUS in history, the most dishonest POTUS in history and the most deranged POTUS in history also make him the most tone-deaf POTUS in history.

Less bad is still bad.

Of course they will.

Not to divert attention from Trump’s unprecedented corruption or the utter and complete legal, moral and ethical collapse of this Supreme Court, but it’s near certain that the government would grant the fossil fuel industry some sort of patently undeserved immunity no matter who was in office or on the Supreme Court.

Interfering to protect corporations from the consequences of their negligence and fraud is a long-established service of the federal government.

I really don’t like Newsom much, but I have to admire his Trump-trolling skill.

I disliked it from the moment they called a glorified language database and collator “AI.”

Who’d’ve guessed the Democrats would refuse to vote in favor of cutting health insurance subsidies for millions of poor Americans in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires?