“So no, I’m not interested in fighting Donald Trump. I’m interested in fighting the thing that made him and will outlast him, the system that lets a genocide run, lets the Epstein names stay buried, lets a child’s abuser walk and then promotes the man who walked him, mints fortunes off our work, and rounds up the weakest people we’ve got while calling it order. That’s the enemy. Not a man. A system.”
Most important thing you’ve ever written. Keep pounding.
Indeed. Trump is a symptom of a corrupt system that has been allowed to flourish because it has been fed by Republicans and corporate/centrist Democrats. Neither group has any interest in making this country more fair, just, or equal. They benefit and profit from sustaining the status quo for their wealthy donors. Both groups need to be removed from power.
Spot-on Corbin, as usual. The rule of law is just a joke to these people because they believe, with good reason and solid precedent, that it will never, ever apply to them. I hope they're wrong, and that accountability for all the war crimes and other evils is closer than we think. In the meantime, we have all the pitchforks and torches - i.e., the rhetorical equivalents, the right messaging, the winning candidates - needed to scare them. And we know it's working because centrist Dems are (finally!) highly energized about doing something: punching left. 🙄 These people are just Reagan Republicans in all but name. That's why centrism is the real joke.
Paxton isn't the only member of the Epstein Class running as a Republican for Senate - check out Montana.
Kurt Alme, who cut a plea deal in 2020 that let a former police officer and convicted pedophile serve less than a year in prison and avoid having to register as a sex offender after sexually abusing a 6-year-old child. Alme, mind you, received Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement" this past spring.
And of course Todd Blanche is about to be confirmed by the Republican Senate for Attorney General, even though Pam Bondi (!!) blamed him for the Epstein coverup.
But the Republican Senate is missing a few votes at the moment.
As always Corbin, you nailed it. We are in the fight of our lives against fascism and all of us must understand the scope of this fight. In Austin, VOCAL-TX has launched a campaign called the Billionaire Backers of Hate to out the villains who are funding and promoting an agenda of criminalizing the unhoused and creating a surveillance state. This campaign is taking a figurative axe to one of the pillars supporting fascism. We must all figure out ways to out these haters and the evil that they do.
If Americans are a group of people then we're suffering from genocide too. Ours is being perpetrated by private health unsurance corporations to the tune of somewhere between 45,000 and >200,000 deaths every year. Nobody's really counting. This does not include the number of American lives being devastated every year by easily preventable disabilities, bankruptcies, loss of homes, living in terror of needing medical care, etc., all caused by our perverse profit-driven health coverage model.
Unlike the genocide in Gaza (which is also unacceptable and despicable), the devastation to American lives is not being reported. No one saw my friend Richard's face as it was slowly eaten away by cancer because even though he worked full time as a bus driver he did not have $1200 extra to be able to have a small benign tumor on his cheek removed before it turned deadly. One picture would have said far more than a thousand words. Richard's story is far from the only one not being told. The stories we are allowed to hear are about Americans who were first denied treatment, then fought it, then got the treatment they needed. Yay! It's not really a big problem after all, right?
Maybe not knowing about the devastation here is why more Americans are not nearly as motivated to fix our uniquely American genocide as we should be? PS- We spent $5.6 trillion on healthcare last year. That's twice more per person on average compared to every other advanced nation with universal coverage. Do the math. Even if we spend 50% more than they do we still would have saved $1.4 trillion (50%more than our military budget) last year after every American was on the exact same plan as the president and congress. For context we spent less than $1 trillion on our military budget and gave $3 billion to Israel. We are being horribly misled by both sold-out sides.
“So no, I’m not interested in fighting Donald Trump. I’m interested in fighting the thing that made him and will outlast him, the system that lets a genocide run, lets the Epstein names stay buried, lets a child’s abuser walk and then promotes the man who walked him, mints fortunes off our work, and rounds up the weakest people we’ve got while calling it order. That’s the enemy. Not a man. A system.”
Most important thing you’ve ever written. Keep pounding.
Musk overstayed his student visa when he quit school so under Trump's rules he's a deportable illegal immigrant. When will ICE grab him?
Indeed. Trump is a symptom of a corrupt system that has been allowed to flourish because it has been fed by Republicans and corporate/centrist Democrats. Neither group has any interest in making this country more fair, just, or equal. They benefit and profit from sustaining the status quo for their wealthy donors. Both groups need to be removed from power.
Spot-on Corbin, as usual. The rule of law is just a joke to these people because they believe, with good reason and solid precedent, that it will never, ever apply to them. I hope they're wrong, and that accountability for all the war crimes and other evils is closer than we think. In the meantime, we have all the pitchforks and torches - i.e., the rhetorical equivalents, the right messaging, the winning candidates - needed to scare them. And we know it's working because centrist Dems are (finally!) highly energized about doing something: punching left. 🙄 These people are just Reagan Republicans in all but name. That's why centrism is the real joke.
Paxton isn't the only member of the Epstein Class running as a Republican for Senate - check out Montana.
Kurt Alme, who cut a plea deal in 2020 that let a former police officer and convicted pedophile serve less than a year in prison and avoid having to register as a sex offender after sexually abusing a 6-year-old child. Alme, mind you, received Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement" this past spring.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/montana-gop-senate-nominee-kurt-alme-child-sex-offender-plea-deal_n_6a3c5f52e4b09ad68678175f
And of course Todd Blanche is about to be confirmed by the Republican Senate for Attorney General, even though Pam Bondi (!!) blamed him for the Epstein coverup.
But the Republican Senate is missing a few votes at the moment.
As always Corbin, you nailed it. We are in the fight of our lives against fascism and all of us must understand the scope of this fight. In Austin, VOCAL-TX has launched a campaign called the Billionaire Backers of Hate to out the villains who are funding and promoting an agenda of criminalizing the unhoused and creating a surveillance state. This campaign is taking a figurative axe to one of the pillars supporting fascism. We must all figure out ways to out these haters and the evil that they do.
Excellent, as always, Corbin.
If Americans are a group of people then we're suffering from genocide too. Ours is being perpetrated by private health unsurance corporations to the tune of somewhere between 45,000 and >200,000 deaths every year. Nobody's really counting. This does not include the number of American lives being devastated every year by easily preventable disabilities, bankruptcies, loss of homes, living in terror of needing medical care, etc., all caused by our perverse profit-driven health coverage model.
Unlike the genocide in Gaza (which is also unacceptable and despicable), the devastation to American lives is not being reported. No one saw my friend Richard's face as it was slowly eaten away by cancer because even though he worked full time as a bus driver he did not have $1200 extra to be able to have a small benign tumor on his cheek removed before it turned deadly. One picture would have said far more than a thousand words. Richard's story is far from the only one not being told. The stories we are allowed to hear are about Americans who were first denied treatment, then fought it, then got the treatment they needed. Yay! It's not really a big problem after all, right?
Maybe not knowing about the devastation here is why more Americans are not nearly as motivated to fix our uniquely American genocide as we should be? PS- We spent $5.6 trillion on healthcare last year. That's twice more per person on average compared to every other advanced nation with universal coverage. Do the math. Even if we spend 50% more than they do we still would have saved $1.4 trillion (50%more than our military budget) last year after every American was on the exact same plan as the president and congress. For context we spent less than $1 trillion on our military budget and gave $3 billion to Israel. We are being horribly misled by both sold-out sides.