You know, as a younger man priding myself in having a fair and balanced political opinion based on facts and logic, I used to think that if people can strike it rich, it’s okay as long as they don’t ruin the lives of others doing so.

Not anymore. As I aged, I realized the motherfuckers were either born rich, or became rich on the backs of others - and more often than not, both.

I still have nothing against honest rich men. But what that means is, close to retirement in 2025, I increasingly want all rich men dead.

Because the truth is, in our society, there is no honest rich man. If you’re rich today, somebody else is struggling in life so you can have it good. That’s just how it is today.

The backdoors have been there for years without dinners.

Yes of course. Corruption and sucking up to the powers that be is nothing new.

What’s new - at least in the United States - is the willingness of those ultra-rich sycophants to perform the Dear Leader song-and-dance publicly without any shame. It’s really quite nauseating to watch.

Trump cozies up to Big Tech specifically because their corporate surveillance network can be co-opted to turbocharge the fascist dictatorship he’s putting in place, and also because he needs their resources for his crypto scams.

That doesn’t mean it’s not sickening.

Also, fucking Bill Gates isn’t running a company. He’s just there because he likes being around disgusting psychopathic billionaires. They’re his kind, he’s among peers.

This is drivel. Previous generations did have it easier than some recent ones.

Did I claim otherwise?

Of course we gen-Xers had it easier. And our boomer parents before us even more so. This is totally unrelated to what I said, which is that older folks tend to remember the world as better in the past than it truly was.

Also, America sucks and always will.

That is what I said. There is no better America in the past.

How can a an Epstein victim vote for Trump? Didn’t she see him hanging out and being all pal-like with her abuser? And if she didn’t, how could she not have known the two were good buddies?

If I was an Epstein victim, even if I wasn’t sure someone who was friend with Epstein did or didn’t do something wrong, I sure wouldn’t vote for him just in case.

MTG isn’t a human being. She’s trash-incarnate. But the conspiracy theory rot in her brain is stronger than her loyalty to Trump.

Make no mistake: she doesn’t give a shit about the Epstein victims. All she cares about he exposing the deep-state or whatever nonsense she believes in. It just so happens that it makes her appear on the right side of the issue for once. But she’s on the right side for the wrong reasons.

Remember: when a Republican prays for the victims of something or god-blesses someone, it’s a signal that they won’t do anything more.

A load of shit and a distraction from the Epstein scandal, is what that is.

Yes, and Bernie Sanders is old as dirt yet a decent politician in touch with young people.

But they’re exceptions. We need AOCs and Mamdanis and Sanders as the norm in politics.

That’s not a bad idea. But then you have to outlaw money in politics, because as soon as money is in the picture, it invariably favors rich old dudes, or people with connections that can only be formed over time.

In other words, nothing like this will happen in America in my grandchildren’s lifetime, let alone my children’s or mine.

That’s an illusion.

America 7 millenia ago might have been empty enough of people to be peaceful (though I highly doubt that) but people died young of easily treatable diseases because they didn’t have vacc…

Nevermind…

If you’re not bothered by your conscience and you’re not worried about being put on trial after the Trump regime collapses, you can join the American Gestapo: they’ll give you all of $50k to leave your humanity at the door and turn into a beast, and ruining other people’s lives by kidnapping them in the street at gunpoint like a common thug isn’t really work.

That’s the tragedy of government: rulers and lawmakers need to be old enough to be wise, but age also disconnects them from the needs of the world of today.

As I got older and I reflected on all the grumpy old men waving at the clouds and complaining constantly about this-or-that being better in their days when I was a kid, I realized why.

Now I’m the old man and I avoid becoming bitter my reminding myself of the following truth:

• When you’re a kid, the world belongs to the grown-ups - your parents, adults of authority around you.

• When you reach teenage years, the world starts being yours: you’ve developed tastes for things people your age do and create. As you go through puberty, your identity is reinforced with things of your time, and other young people your age with which you do the same things. You all have a bright future in front of you.

• When you get out of puberty, hopefully you get our of school and start working: the world is fully yours. The trendy things in the world are things you find trendy too. Other people speak like you. You’re not a powerless kid and you’re not weaker old guy/gall yet. You’re fully part of it and it suits you. You may not like the world, but it’s yours. It shares your values and your values are what makes the world go round at that point in time . Your personality, your cultural identity and the cultural norms you respect, and your value system are fully developed, and a pure product of their time.

• And then they stay that way. But the world keeps evolving. Slowly but surely, the things you learned become deprecated. The things you like become old. The way you speak becomes strange to younger ears. The values you believe in no longer apply. The world slowly shifts beneath your feet, but it’s happening very slowly, year after year, until…

• You reach an age at which you’re very visibly and obviously out of sync with the world. Even you notice it at this point.

And here lies the trap: you can either reflect on how the world has changed and acknowledge that it’s not your world anymore, but it’s younger people’s now. People who are now the age you once were: it’s their turn to have a go at owning the world. You’re just in it for the ride.

Or you can take refuge in your old values, wallow in the old things you’ve liked for decades, and bitch and moan about the world going to shit. It’s not going to shit, but it feels that way to you. It’s easier to reject the world around you than admit it’s just not how you like it anymore, but it’s poisonous: it turns you into a bitter person everybody hates.

I choose to ignore the things I dislike - which, at this point, constitute a lot more of the world than the things I like from the past, from my youth. But I also choose to not pass judgment on them because they’re not from my world: they’re from today’s youth’s world, and I have no say in it.

If you’re old and angry, think about this. You might find some comfort in letting go.

The corollary of all this is: there is no better America in the past: the past simply seems rosier to older eyes. America has always been as great or as shit as you find it to be today.

How that fat wino ever got close enough to a woman to be in a position to assault her in the fisrt place is the most puzzling question in this case. What a repugnant man…

the former FLOTUS

Melania’s title is Gold Digger in Chief.

Do an end-run around the crazy bobby brainworm and his ilk.

You know, if you push this logic to its logical conclusion, you should also go around FEMA, federal education, federal SS paramilitary disguised as immigration officers, illegal federal taxes disguised as emergency tariffs…

And when your state has enough federal nonsense to go around, it might want to defederate entirely, and that’s called secession.

Your state of Colorado might not be big enough to amount to much on its own in the world, but larger states like California, with the GDP of large nations, really should consider it. Because while the federal ship is still afloat, the entire deck and rigging are on fire at this point.

With Trump and his sycophantic appointed hacks, “If you hire clowns, you get a circus.” has never held more true.