The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Great Billionaire Space Caper Let's fly the first black woman to the moon, but send the checks to Jeff Bezos! On the congressional hustle that perfectly captures 2022 America Matt Taibbi In a story that shows how hard it is to deter a billionaire ravenous for public money, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and  The Washington Post  fame appears to have prevailed upon buddies in the Senate to keep alive a childhood dream of not only going to the moon, but getting the public to pay for it. A Bezos company officially lost this moon contract three times in less than a year, but the fourth time’s a charm: thanks to congress, his Jason Voorhees-like determination may be rewarded with a contract worth $6 billion or more. On March 28th, Joe Biden released his fiscal year 2023 budget, which despite eyebrow-raising changes — in particular, a  10% increase in defense spending  — generated few headlines. One of the few items the press did cover was this passage: The Budget provides $7.5 ...

Harsh reality shocks the mollycoddled West                        Frederick Edward TODAY you always hear that the youth are obsessed with the inane and vacuous. TikTok ravages their minds, telling them that they can gain fame and riches by doing nothing more than a silly dance or a make-up tutorial. Toxic levels of mindless television programming have rotted the cerebral cortex of the nation’s most impressionable, leaving us in a stew of unambition and fantasy. Perhaps we are being unfair to ‘da kids’. It might just be that they are aping the adults around them. Many of these now have only the most fleeting grasp of reality and, likewise, exist in a world of make-believe, and in which the difficult-but-necessary is shunned for short, sharp hits of virtue-signal flavoured dopamine. For proof look no further than those purporting to be in charge of the nation. These strange beasts inhabit a universe where word and deed are utterl...

As Prices Rise Americans Turning to Their Credit Cards GOOD SLAVES! Prices keep  rising faster than wages . The stimulus checks are long gone. Savings are being depleted. How is the average American supposed to make ends meet? The only option is to charge it. And that’s exactly what Americans are doing. Consumer debt rose at the fastest pace in 20 years in February. Total consumer debt rose by $41.8 billion 11.3% in February, according to  the latest data from the Federal Reserve . It was an 11.3% increase year-on-year and the highest rate of growth since November 2001. Analysts had projected a modest $15 billion gain. Americans now owe a total of $4.48 trillion in consumer credit. The Federal Reserve consumer debt figures include credit card debt, student loans and auto loans, but do not factor in mortgage debt. When you include mortgages, US consumers are buried under more than $15 trillion in debt. Americans ran up their credit cards at a blistering pace in February. Revolv...

Songs of Shanghai Good Citizen ( Warnings: animal torture in the second video, human torture in the first ) For The Sniffles Virus 27 million people are locked in their homes indefinitely now screaming and crying out in the night They cannot leave for any reason Those who test “positive” have their pets taken and killed Anyone who defies is arrested and disappeared Flying drones through the city making audio announcements “Suppress your soul’s desire for freedom” Your soul’s desire for freedom. If there’s ever a revolution in China from this madness that should be the title of the definitive biography. Even the Chinese know the desire is strong within all of us. Matthew Gartrell @GartrellMatthew @patrickmadrid Another view. People weeping April 9th 2022 591 Retweets 1,369 Likes Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray Welcome to Shanghai. They’re killing the cats and dogs of anyone with COVID. It’s for your health, you see. April 10th 2022 1,195 Retweets 1,770 Likes Xi and the CCP sending a m...