Étienne de La Boétie² lists 16 reasons there's "really no difference" between Biden and Trump

In Tuesday's post, I shared a memorable one-liner from Stefanie Müller in my novel, Much Ado About Corona: "Trump or Biden, Pepsi or Coca-Cola, it’s all the same."

This fizzy little analogy, however, originates from investigative journalist James Corbett (who Stefanie credits in my tale).

This week, my son and I watched James Corbett's Solutions Watch interview with Étienne de La Boétie². About halfway through the video, Étienne shares an illustration from his new book, To See the Cage is to Leave It. It's titled "Meet the new boss: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum." It depicts Biden (Dee) represented by a can of Pepsi and Trump (Dum) by can of Coca-Cola. Personally, I think he might have the attributions reversed, but the visuals are amusing.

More importantly, Étienne lists 16 ways there "isn't really a difference" between the two presidents.

You can read the list in this screenshot from the interview here:

https://blazingpinecone.com/news/2025/08/23/#list

John C.A. Manley