Most of the news looks bad for Dems and good for Repubs. Worse, the Dems seem to be melting down, but maybe that's been the case for some years now. Dem authoritarians Sinema and Manchin blocked Biden's nominations to the NLRB. Presumably they want to let DJT approve anti-labor authoritarians, thereby starting the process of killing federal protections for labor.
Repubs in the senate prevented Biden's nominations of three federal appeals court judges in return for Repubs letting him nominate 11 far less power federal trial court judges. One Dem Poobah has even urged Biden to blanket pardon DJT so that we can start with a "clean slate", whatever the hell that means. In short, a significant portion of the Dem party has apparently gone bull-blown insane.
Meanwhile, DJT has floated the wonderful idea of allowing large polluters to simply avoid regulations if they invest $1 billion in America, whatever that means. I presume that means donating $1 billion to him. One source called it a "plan to let billionaire polluters 'bribe their way' past regulations. On the other hand, climate scientists and experts are freaking out because DJT and MAGA keep saying that global warming is a hoax, or maybe just a minor kerfuffle that we can pollute our way out of somehow. One source comments that as Trump and MAGA escalates their kleptocratic authoritarian war on climate science, scientists warn “we are going to get screwed!” Well, MAGA to that! Those polluters can pay a mere $1 billion in return for gigatons of profitable pollution.
One has to wonder if the $1 billion bribe, or "gratuity" as the USSC would call it, is confined to escape from just environmental regulations, or does it apply to all regulations, e.g., consumer and worker protections.
On the 4th Estate front, the WaPo has degenerated real fast. It has morphed into a blossoming radical right authoritarian dark free speech site. I asked the WaPo if they would give me a prorated refund on the time left in my subscription in return for me just going away. No dice. ☹️ Well, at least I get to keep slamming what the WaPo is doing, especially its editors, until the end of next April. 👍 What fun! I do wonder if the WaPo is going to ban or block my comments to articles there before my time runs out. Another exciting Germaine experiment is well underway!
See, the news really is like doomscrolling on steroids. That is of course, unless one supports kleptocratic authoritarianism, crackpot science, etc. For the MAGA elites, and its rank and file (at least the few who pay any attention) the news is like a box of super cute, fluffy puppies.
Oops, how did Manchin and Sinema
get in there??
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