The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Woking Dead vs. the People Dead and still winning Donald Jeffries The Right- both “awake” and in conservative slumber- are still rejoicing over Donald Trump’s glorious election to a second term as president. He won  every  swing state, we are told repeatedly. Or is it battleground state? I get confused. I guess either one works. Think Hamas and Hezbollah. Trump certainly seemed like a winner at first, bull rushing around with autopen in hand, writing executive orders and breaking the china. But what exactly has changed? Well, the stock market has collapsed. This is almost exclusively due to Trump’s ass backwards policy of implementing- or constantly threatening to implement- tariffs on other countries. That would be fine, and a good way to protect American industry. Except that our industry is gone. Shipped offshore. Outsourced for cheaper foreign labor, under NAFTA and other disastrous trade deals. You have to build new factories, and start actually making products...

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...