237 fighting for air

Fighting the impulse to share outrage over our abuser's last flailings. My compromise? He's not getting any screencraps.

He's fired a bunch of people related to national security and the military, maybe in an effort to mount some sort of false flag event that gins up a martial emergency.

He's begging for money to fight in court, but the money is actually going to pay off his campaign debts, which of course he said he was going to pay himself.

More of his inner circle is sick. 

Meanwhile, WWIII (W43's handiwork) continues to slowly unravel. What do Armenia and Azerbajain have to do with Iraq and Syria? Geez, I dunno, you tell me. 

But the UAE is sure interested in arming up, and fuckface (Deb's name, not mine) is circumventing congress to make a deal.

And here at home, Philip Anderson's "more is different" argument continues to play out. 

Back in 1990, $5B was enough to get you into the world's ten richest people. And only two of them were from the US.

By 1998, the dot com era had ushered in the age of the tech billionaire, and the US was owning it.

Thirty years later, you need 12x more money to make the list, and it's all tech players. Next stop: barcoded Amazon slave.

Psst....


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