Hiring Daniel Penny is part of many deliberate signals being sent out. It's a signal being directed at white men who are comfortable with oppressing and harming people who aren't white men. It assures these people that if they will have the greatest advantages in the society that is being built.

Sir, you’d better be talking to YOURSELF! GET UP!!

So you wanna know what’s so wrong about someone becoming a billionaire?

This.

Folks are trying to distance themselves by saying “I didn’t vote for all this. I just wanted cheaper groceries,” like the fact that they were willing to trade people’s basic human rights for the possibility of cheaper groceries isn’t a major character flaw.

Republicans have been gaslit to believe that the events of January 6th was lawful and peaceful.

Democrats have been gaslit to believe that everything possible was done after the events to hold those responsible accountable.

Lies are the foundation of democracy theater.

Some see the electoral vote count this January 6th and the coming inauguration as a peaceful transfer of power respectful of the norms of democracy, but what they really are is a testament to the failure of our institutions and an abdication by those with power to hold others with power to account.

6. Whatever the Democrats do, it won’t be due to GOP malfeasance. It will be due to the Democrats’ willingness to fight. Laughing isn’t fighting. Indeed, it can be a cop out. It can be a way to feel morally superior.