I find Jamie Dimon's total commitment to bank profits astounding. He's already an industry legend and dynastically wealthy, yet in pursuit of that little bit extra tax and regulatory relief he's willing to shill for a true scumbag like Trump.
Yes, the man is a lying sack...busy working on his alternative to bitcoin while denigrating it every chance he gets. His only motivation is more profit for him whatever it takes, including abusing his position as a "respected" bank president slamming things that don't make him money and ignoring any possibility of equalizing the playing field
Re your penultimate paragraph, all of those things scare me - but I think we’ll see that playing out.
The thing that keeps me up at night is the hollowing out of non-partisan election infrastructure in the states. If the shit they tried at the state level works this time because they’ve scared away all the people with integrity, we likely won’t know about any shenanigans until it’s too late.
Excellent commentary. I have been wondering if McConnell leaked these comments to put pressure on the caucus. The Dems can run on: we tried to fix it and Trump’s narcissistic malignant need for power at the expense of the country is the reason why it didn’t happen. Independents might get that even if Republicans won’t.
I guess one thing I wonder is: to what extent does union endorsement help Biden with working class voters? I guess it's obvious that having such an endorsement is better than not having it. But given how the labor share of the working class has dropped, despite recent activism; that while it was dropping, the working class outside of unions polarized right; and that 'right to work' and other bamboozlements have argued to working people that unions are the aristocracy and full of leftists: does it move the needle? Or does it aid polarization? I should say that as a Biden supporter I'm really glad and grateful to the unions for making an effort. But I guess I'm just caught up in the gulf between the ideals of the labor movement and the political mobilization of the mass of actual wage laborers.
And thanks for sharing the whole post with us ungrateful 'free' subscribers. We may be cheap, but we sincerely appreciate all you do, more than you might guess. Thank you!
So here's a question: how do you relate "democracy" and "freedom" to the normal white Joe/Jane? How do we connect them with people's everyday lives?
These are high-minded ideals, and so many voters are living in gas prices, their resentment of brown people and bi-lingual menus they see every day. And if your team wins and is in power, who cares about ideas and fairness?
I'm a comunicator and I haven't even figured this out.
Project 2025 (https://www.project2025.org/) is real. These anti-democratic radicals from the Heritage Foundation down to the Proud Boys want control of the entire governmental apparatus. And they have an achievable plan. The have no pride. And no respect for the people that fought and died for this country and its freedoms. The fealty to Trump is nauseating.
Mike Johnson will not consider any Senate bill on immigration and the border crisis, should it actually emerge in the wake of Trumps desire to keep the border crisis his top election gripe against Biden. And that is just a small indicator of the crap they will pull to win at pretty much any cost. Because winning is all that matters if you believe that democrats and lib-tards are the devil and need to be punished, and that your god and your motives are righteous.
"It’s not quite the same coarse narcissism that animates Trump, who wants wealth and power for personal aggrandizement and to stay out of prison. They radicalized against democracy because they’re greedy for other things that they’ve reasoned won’t materialize through democratic processes. And in a way it’s worse. Trump is like a dog who will shit on your living room floor if you don’t give him a treat; Dimon and McConnell are like houseguests who will shit on your living-room floor if the toilets are occupied."
I find Jamie Dimon's total commitment to bank profits astounding. He's already an industry legend and dynastically wealthy, yet in pursuit of that little bit extra tax and regulatory relief he's willing to shill for a true scumbag like Trump.
Yes, the man is a lying sack...busy working on his alternative to bitcoin while denigrating it every chance he gets. His only motivation is more profit for him whatever it takes, including abusing his position as a "respected" bank president slamming things that don't make him money and ignoring any possibility of equalizing the playing field
Re your penultimate paragraph, all of those things scare me - but I think we’ll see that playing out.
The thing that keeps me up at night is the hollowing out of non-partisan election infrastructure in the states. If the shit they tried at the state level works this time because they’ve scared away all the people with integrity, we likely won’t know about any shenanigans until it’s too late.
Excellent commentary. I have been wondering if McConnell leaked these comments to put pressure on the caucus. The Dems can run on: we tried to fix it and Trump’s narcissistic malignant need for power at the expense of the country is the reason why it didn’t happen. Independents might get that even if Republicans won’t.
I guess one thing I wonder is: to what extent does union endorsement help Biden with working class voters? I guess it's obvious that having such an endorsement is better than not having it. But given how the labor share of the working class has dropped, despite recent activism; that while it was dropping, the working class outside of unions polarized right; and that 'right to work' and other bamboozlements have argued to working people that unions are the aristocracy and full of leftists: does it move the needle? Or does it aid polarization? I should say that as a Biden supporter I'm really glad and grateful to the unions for making an effort. But I guess I'm just caught up in the gulf between the ideals of the labor movement and the political mobilization of the mass of actual wage laborers.
And thanks for sharing the whole post with us ungrateful 'free' subscribers. We may be cheap, but we sincerely appreciate all you do, more than you might guess. Thank you!
Brian, thanks for this article. It's thought provoking, entirely correct, and one of your best pieces.
So here's a question: how do you relate "democracy" and "freedom" to the normal white Joe/Jane? How do we connect them with people's everyday lives?
These are high-minded ideals, and so many voters are living in gas prices, their resentment of brown people and bi-lingual menus they see every day. And if your team wins and is in power, who cares about ideas and fairness?
I'm a comunicator and I haven't even figured this out.
Project 2025 (https://www.project2025.org/) is real. These anti-democratic radicals from the Heritage Foundation down to the Proud Boys want control of the entire governmental apparatus. And they have an achievable plan. The have no pride. And no respect for the people that fought and died for this country and its freedoms. The fealty to Trump is nauseating.
Mike Johnson will not consider any Senate bill on immigration and the border crisis, should it actually emerge in the wake of Trumps desire to keep the border crisis his top election gripe against Biden. And that is just a small indicator of the crap they will pull to win at pretty much any cost. Because winning is all that matters if you believe that democrats and lib-tards are the devil and need to be punished, and that your god and your motives are righteous.
This was spot on:
"It’s not quite the same coarse narcissism that animates Trump, who wants wealth and power for personal aggrandizement and to stay out of prison. They radicalized against democracy because they’re greedy for other things that they’ve reasoned won’t materialize through democratic processes. And in a way it’s worse. Trump is like a dog who will shit on your living room floor if you don’t give him a treat; Dimon and McConnell are like houseguests who will shit on your living-room floor if the toilets are occupied."
This piece stuck with me all day beautifully written