Wall Street and [the] stock market are metaphors for a society rotting from self-indulgence, greed, widening inequality, and financial entrepreneurship that builds nothing, improves nothing, creates nothing, and solves nothing, but merely moves money from one set of pockets to another.
Robert Reich
January 28, 2021
There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish the role of government to create a theocratic state based on ‘biblical law’, and force a recalcitrant world to bend to the will of an imperial and ‘Christian’ America. Its public face is on display in the House of Representatives. This ideology, which is the driving force behind the shutdown of the government, calls for the eradication of social ‘deviants’, beginning with gay men and lesbians, whose sexual orientation, those in the movement say, is a curse and an illness, contaminating the American family and the country. Once these ‘deviants’ are removed, other ‘deviants’, including Muslims, liberals, feminists, intellectuals, left-wing activists, undocumented workers, poor African-Americans and those dismissed as ‘nominal Christians’ — meaning Christians who do not embrace this peculiar interpretation of the Bible — will also be ruthlessly repressed. The ‘deviant’ government bureaucrats, the ‘deviant’ media, the ‘deviant’ schools and the ‘deviant’ churches, all agents of Satan, will be crushed or radically reformed.
Chris Hedges
January 21, 2021
Been clear to me for a long time that for Morrison to utter a word of criticism of Trump, QAnon etc would be tantamount to resignation from the circle of his closest friends. He is guided by mysterious forces and beliefs that most of us don’t even begin to understand.
Paul Barratt
January 16, 2021
[This was a tweet in reference to Scott Morrison's propensity to go on holidays] Shit + Fan = Holidays
Anonymous
January 16, 2021
It takes a special kind of stupid to think the 'left' would dress up like the 'right' and invade the Capitol to change the outcome of an election they just won.
Anonymous
January 13, 2021
Over the past half decade, we have turned much of the country’s mindscape into a group-therapy session for Trump believers. Reporters play the part of the therapist, reassuring the analyzed of a safe space for their grievances and complaints. The pro-Trump world has accepted the invitation. Even as Trump commits one constitutional, legal, and ethical abuse after another, his followers depict themselves as somehow the people truly suffering unfairness. Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
David Frum
January 12, 2021
Stopping short with impeaching Trump suggests that Trump's crimes are equal in severity to lying about a blowjob that got Clinton impeached. Trump's crimes are infinitely worse than Clinton's. Trump's punishment should be equally more severe. He must be imprisoned.
DaShanne Stokes
January 11, 2021
Let’s not hear any more moral lecturing from so-called conservatives. When the test came in the US (but here too) a clear choice between institutions and chaos, democracy and their own system-wrecking advantage, most either actively cheered, or stayed silent. Authority gone.
Mark Kenny
January 9, 2021
Morrison's holidays is when he does nothing in a different location.
Strolling rabbi of no fixed address
January 8, 2021
PM's anthem, verse 3:
I'm s'posed to be accountable
But I don’t give a toss
Rupert still supports me
and Albo's a dead loss
Funding cuts for the auditor
and that pesky ABC
I don't accept the premise
of our democracy.
In joyful strains then let me sing
No-one can question me.
