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These are dark and douchey times, Part II.

Part I.“S&P 500 companies plowed around $880 billion into buying their own shares last year, up from $520 billion in 2020, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.”***Darkness. Doucheosity. The stench is everywhere. The dark in the douche and the douche in the dark. You can’t run. You can’t hide. You can’t spray it with syphilis-spray […]

These are dark and douchey times.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”— President Lyndon Baines Johnson***Attention, world: my country is turning into a …what Don-Don once said. As I write […]

Are you billionaire-friendly? Part II.

Many people who like to think of themselves as “winners” are actually “enablers.” “While the post-Great Recession expansion was long, both the economy’s average annual growth rate and the typical worker’s earnings gains were relatively modest by the standards of earlier long expansions.” – cppb.org“Loser.”  – Donald Trump I have this love/hate relationship with the […]

Are you billionaire-friendly?

“U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70%, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic.” – Inequality.org Riffing off of: • The Petting Zoo Bourgeoisie• Fuck customers. The investor is always right. Years ago, somebody showed me the billionaire-friendly side to her personality.  Life at that time, mainly due to where I worked, had turned evil. A publicly-traded holding company […]

Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton threatened the system when they advocated for Black Americans’ civil rights. They got killed for crossing the color barrier.

At the time of their deaths, these freedom fighters were working towards multi-racial unity. I am writing this on Martin Luther King Day.  I am also writing this one day after Virginia’s new Governor dialed up white fear a few notches by signing an executive order that generates more unfounded hub-bub about the Right’s latest-and-greatest […]

Not gonna happen.

Telling article: Rising wages are the biggest threat to earnings and ‘corporate misery’ is correlated to higher labor costs, Bank of America says *** World: things are tense in the United States of America.  Here’s a sure-fire way to lower the temperature and cool the collective mood.  The following will never happen, but it would […]

Maybe the Petting Zoo Bourgeoisie needs a parenting guide.

While I do not have kids, I am a white male. People like us are good at dispensing advice when we shouldn’t. Riffing off of:  • The New Einsatzgruppen wants to talk fatherhood.• The Petting Zoo Bourgeoisie went to the polls. • Discover how miserable America’s top earners are. Self-publish. We white dudes love nothing more […]

Metrosexual ammosexuals, ammosexual metrosexuals, and the tax-avoiding rich guys who love/hate them. Part II.

The Right doesn’t want civil war. Their game plan is to rub everyone’s noses in their unearned wealth while Planet Earth burns up. The big-ass explosion goes off.  The cataclysmic event lets humanity know: yup, the moment is here. Yes, indeed.  Planet Earth is fucked. Beyond fucked. No going back.  Fifteen or […]

Metrosexual ammosexuals, ammosexual metrosexuals, and the tax-avoiding rich guys who love/hate them.

Thoughts on why this civil war hasn’t happened yet. Here’s how the South declared war on the North back in 1860:  Either it was Beauregard, or Tradd, or Saxby, or Saxton, or Colton, or Braxton—whoever it was, one of those tobacco-chawin’ plantation owners got an idea. So he gathered the other plantation owners together to […]

Operation White Privilege, one year later.

365 days after the Capitol riots on January 6th, 2021, the rubes sit in jail cells while the organizers look for the next business opportunity. Operation White Privilege. 1/6/21. Part II. Part III. Part IV. NEWSFLASH: white supremacy plays a central role in the story of the United States of America.  Yup. Baseball. Apple pie. […]