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Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was a slogan of genius. While his supporters (and most Americans) instantly knew what it meant, Democrats hated it. They didn’t know whether to respond, “America is still great,” or “America was never great,” which is what most of them believe. It was a painful dilemma.

But times have changed. Now Democrats embrace Trump’s slogan, or at least its acronym. They constantly refer derisively to “MAGA Republicans.” A Google search for “MAGA Republicans” returns over 58 million hits.

MAGA is the New Nigger.

Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Remdesivir Manufacturer Over Alleged Deceptive Practices

How ‘Cattle COVID’ Is Ravaging Spain’s Farms

Over 277,000 ‘Vaccinated’ COVID-19 Cases Hidden By CDC In 2021: Newly Obtained Files Show

WashPost Puffs Trump’s J-6 Judge: Reasonable Yet Tough, ‘Coolheaded Natural Talent’

Trump goes to trial in New York before a judge who just ruled he’s a fraud (Politico)

The Case for Amplifying Trump’s Insanity (The Garden of Forking Paths) Another mushroom of hate.

Christian Nationalism May Not Be Serious, but It’s Dangerous (N.Y. Times) David French has long since given up any pretense of being a conservative; it appears he’s giving up any pretense of being a Christian as well.

Elitist Deutsch: Trump Cares What My Kind Of People Think — Not Tupelo Bumpkins

Trump Receives Cheers From CA Crowd After Arguing In Favor Of Shooting Looters  I like him already.

Nikki Haley Says Trump’s Campaign Sent Her A Birdcage (Huffington Post) Naw, I don’t believe that. “But it had to be the Trump campaign, who else would do that?” The Trump campaign would have done something a lot more clever.

Hunter Biden’s Daughter Was Living In White House While Representing Peruvian Government

Biden Embarrassingly Reverses Plan To Defund Schools With Archery & Hunting Programs

McCarthy: Border is bigger priority than Ukraine (The Hill) Finally, the sleeper wakes.

Dem Rep. Bowman Faces Investigation After Pulling Capitol Fire Alarm

McCarthy: Punish Rep. Bowman for Pulling Fire Alarm Before Vote

House Passes Spending Bill After Democrat (Allegedly) Pulls Fire Alarm

Political Cursing vs. Pulling a Fire Alarm

Dem Congressman Obstructs an Official Proceeding

A Breakthrough for Diversity

Let’s Play, ‘Find the Hidden Racism’!

GOP Outrage Over Bowman Pulling House Alarm  Not that anyone gives a shit, much less Bowman.

AOC Defends Lawmaker Who Pulled Fire Alarm To ‘Open Door’ And Totally Not Disrupt The Democratic Process  The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Black Caucus Wants Rep. Lee to Replace Feinstein

Lee supporters reignite pressure on Newsom over Senate appointment (Politico)

Manhattan DA Bragg Sued Over ‘Racial Equity’ Pursuit

Science vs. ‘wokeism’: The growing tensions between the doctors’ lobby and the GOP (Politico)

Physical anthropologists, beware – the woke brigade has come for you

Anthropology Session On Importance Of Biological Sex Canceled To Appease LGBT Advocates

The Trans Power Wins Again

Police Chief Who Led Kansas Newspaper Raid Suspended

Elon Musk crosses the border to Nazi (The Handbasket) Every time one turns around, there is a new proglodyte mushroom sprouting from the manure pile of modern progressivism.

Jeffries: House stopgap bill ‘total defeat for the extreme MAGA Republicans’ (The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger. (Ask him whether there are any ‘MAGA Republicans’ who are not ‘extreme’. Go ahead. I dare you.)

These Republican senators voted against the government funding bill (The Hill)

Uncle Fester speaks: Fetterman: ‘I’m done normalizing this dysfunction’  Like being called ugly by a frog….

It’s time to end McCarthy’s reign of error (Washington Poop) I guess Dana Milbank has been turned to the Matt Gaetz side of the farce….

How the right’s elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could now backfire (Washington Poop) Next up is undoubtedly the proclamation of RFK jr as a white supremacist.

Rep. Lawler: Gaetz’s McCarthy Plans ‘Delusional Thinking’  (NewsMax) The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

AOC: Would Vote to Oust ‘Very Weak’ McCarthy

Sen. Graham: ‘Disaster’ if GOP Joins With Dems to Oust McCarthy  It would certainly be a disaster for the Linday Grahams of the party.

House GOP members seek to expel Gaetz amid renewed threat to vacate House Speaker McCarthy (Fox News)

UK home secretary says multiculturalism has ‘failed’ as Europe faces migrant crisis (Fox News)

Suella Braverman’s message of divide and rule must be resisted (The Guardian)

Tory MPs complain to chief whip about Suella Braverman’s asylum speech (BBC)

Is The US Military Laying The Groundwork To Reinstitute The Draft?

Univision Cheers Licenses For Illegals In Minnesota

Newsom Vetoes Bill Offering Strikers Unemployment Pay

Paris Homeless Problem Swept Under the Rug for Olympics

RFK Jr. Could Make Announcement On Run As Independent On Oct. 9  Cleverly timed to give all of the RINOs and never-Trumpers a place to fetch up.

Gaetz says he will force vote to oust McCarthy as House speaker (Washington Poop) Talk is cheap. Don’t say it; do it. This kabuki dance fools no one.

Trudeau Government moves to regulate podcasts

Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services

MSNBC Host Alicia Menendez: DUH, I Won’t Be Covering Daddy’s Bribery Scandal

To Many Americans, Government Dysfunction Is the New Normal (N.Y. Times) They’re shocked, shocked to find that people are seeing government dysfunctional.

CBS Sunday Morning ‘News’ Airs Robert Reich Rant Ending with Vote-Democrat Appeal

Majority of US students now support speech codes

Biden admin quietly released study showing green energy receives far more subsidies than fossil fuels (Fox News)

Confirmed: New Study Shows The Gulf Stream Is Definitely Weakening (ScienceAlert)

Gulf Stream warning issued by scientists as UK temperatures could plummet (UK Daily Record)

Temperatures across UK could plummet as terrifying Gulf Stream warning issued (UK Daily Mirror)

The Myth of “Settled” Climate Science: A Revelatory Study on Cloud Formation

Celebrity Flights  Hate on your favorite emitter.

Great Travel Reset: Poll: 41% of French population favors restricting EVERYONE to ONLY 4 airplane flights in their ENTIRE LIFE to ‘fight against global warming’

‘Quotes were £5000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance cost

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It has taken me years to answer my father’s question — in the form of my new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. In it, I argue that our preferences are now shaped not by markets but by machine networks — what I call “cloud capital”. Amazon’s Alexa, for example, is the portal to a totalitarian, fully centralised system of preference creation and satisfaction. First, it trains us to train it to dictate what we want. Second, it sells us what we now “want” directly, bypassing any actual marketplace. Third, it succeeds in making us sustain this enormous behavioural modification machine with our free labour: we post reviews, rate products. Finally, it amasses huge rents from capitalists who rely on this network of cloud capital, usually 40% of sale price. That’s not capitalism. Welcome to Technofeudalism.

Another seemingly bright person led astray by word-salad. One of these days I’m going to write an essay on the various mythologies of ‘capitalism’, both left and right.

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“Nobody plays with Ken,” Ryan Gosling told Jimmy Fallon in an interview prior to the release of the Barbie movie. “He’s just an accessory and not even one of the cool ones.”

From the original advertising, it seemed that playing Ken was unusual for Gosling, who often portrays complex and troubled male characters. In Blade Runner 2049, for example, his role reflected the sensation of feeling not only lonely, but lost in a world and trying to find purpose within it.

This stands in stark contrast to Ken’s initial depiction as a clingy, unassertive simp who secretly harbours resentment about being in the friendzone. As the infamous Barbie poster says, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”

*sigh* These kids today….