The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Death of Free Speech in America? You can thank Israel and its many friends There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world which now despises America’s corrupt political system and its increasing bizarre and out of touch leadership. There were  even reports  this past week that Washington and Tel Aviv have been discussing shipping upwards of two million Palestinians to Sudan and Somalia, two of the most violent places on earth, to permit the development of Trump Gaza resort and the annexation of the rest of historic Palestine by Israel. To be sure, the cancer at the heart of the Israel-US relationship, if one might even call it that, has been in place for a long time as Amer...

Although I suspect that he may be too optimistic regarding DOGE and reducing the size of the federal government, I decided to post this piece for the comic relief.   The Shock Market Crash Oversaturation forecasts a Rainbow Bear. If the  Dr. Frankenfurters and DEIgors  of the NSA were allowed to reply to DOGE’s request — “list 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week” — I think an honest response would have been as follows: Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. The more likely response would’ve involved various forms of papershuffling busywork, much of which was automated into obsolescence long ago. But none of that constitutes their real jobs. That’s not what we’re being forced — at gunpoint, mind you — to pay them for. Technically speaking, we’re not even allowed to know what it is we pay them for. Imagine if 20% of your own employees fit that description. Or I gues...