Robert Owen

Ah, here's that old corporatist fever-dream: Nader-stole-my-Gore; Bernie-stole-my-Hillary.

But who stole Kamala? Could it be Ralph again? Sure, he's 91 years old -- but Nader still controls the world's supply of lithium.

Something to think about.

AG Sulzberger is down on Muslims, the poor, and now the middle-class.

They've all betrayed New York's established oligarchy.

Other way around: taxpayers are going to bail this monster out when its loans go bad. Gotta "save the system."

Muslim immigrant stands ground and becomes mayor of NYC.

Tenured Yale Professor flees country to write memo.

I don't think these two are the same.

When shadow banks losses blow out the real banks, the Fed will monetize on a 2008 GFC scale.

Degenerate gamblers will get paid -- and ordinary Americans will learn to work harder for less.

Ah, here's that old corporatist fever-dream: Nader-stole-my-Gore; Bernie-stole-my-Hillary.

But who stole Kamala? Could it be Ralph again? Sure, he's 91 years old -- but Nader still controls the world's supply of lithium.

Something to think about.

Gee whiz, can you folks not enjoy anything?

Also, the left will live with him because he really came out shooting on redistricting. He did a fine thing with Prop 50 and it won’t be forgotten.

What a great pick.

He founded the modern consumer safety movement, which has saved countless lives.

But you do you.

That’s beautiful too.

Too two, you do you.

Ralph Nader was 34 when he convinced Congress to mandate seatbelts.

Apparently, before that, old people were happy flying through glass on impact.

If lumpen proletariat is understood as a social location of resentment, then Trump is clearly in the mold of Napoleon III.

He has assembled the same cross-class, grab-bag collection of disaffected lumpen that kept Napoleon III in power for decades.

Klein is a spokesperson for bourgeois optimism. Those folks kissed reality off after 2008.

Their stock and homes prices went up — which, to them, is proof that the economic system is sound.

Land wrote some excellent (and anti-authoritarian) essays on Kant — but that’s over 30 years ago.

I physically pulled those out of Fanged Noumena and made a good little book.

He just dropped off some sort of mental cliff after that.

That is a gem.

This video can't be parodied because Adams has already claimed the higher ground of outright madness.

It’s also insanely funny.

The Christmas Adventurers Club has to be one of the all-time great parodies of white racism.

And Penn as Lockjaw, wow.

Unregulated capitalism would work, but for —-ism.

That is Gen X thinking for sure.

He’s just an ignorant old con man.

Trump’s one and only insight is that the mass legitimacy of the neoliberal economic order has collapsed.

That’s his entire shtick and he used it to destroy the Republican Party field in 2016.

Dems refuse to get this. In the photo, Harris is embracing 1990.

I feel the same way.

Goodnight.

Austerity is a fetish word for parasites who want to buy assets on the cheap during a finance-induced crisis.

Greek debt could have been written down along with sensible reforms. Austerity destroyed a lot of decenct people. Good for the parasites, though.

Writing down the debt would have only hurt financial parasites.

Ordinary Greeks are miserable and they’ve sold off their country to speculators.

Criminal finance types running everything isn’t the “good life,” except for criminal finance types.

Folks are just sick of free market ideologues getting government handouts. It started with the S&L Crisis, then 2008, then 2020, then 2023 (SVP).

America “saved the system” so many times that that the system morphed into corporate totalitarianism.

The leadership represents “good billionaires” and professionals with big stocks gains in their 401k “portfolios.”

These folks are doing great — market at all time highs.

Ezra Klein is just part of the empty shell of the neoliberal regime that collapsed with Trump's election in 2016.

The neoliberal sound (a cooing noise about markets and abundance) continues, but fewer and fewer people are listening.

If even rich folks can't successfully opt out of the consequences of global warming and inequality, then maybe there's no harm in taxing them to building a shared safety.

Trump is opposed to flow sources (wind, sun) because the energy can’t be hoarded as private riches.

There’s money to be made in clean energy but, by definition, it can’t compare to the money in carbon sources. There will be no Texaco of solar — because the sun is everywhere.

The Democratic Party represents "good billionaires" and professional people with huge stock gains in their 401k plans.

Market is at an all time high.

So, don't expect anything at all from Jeffries. His real constituency is making bank.

This is called the Lauderdale Paradox: privatization creates private riches but it impoverishes the society.