Everyone is going to quit Twitter. Yay for you. That’s not the issue. Nobody gives a rat’s ass about you and twitter. I quit twitter yesterday, nobody cares, my tweets are not even a tiny blip.

The issue is good or bad Twitter is a major news outlet. Some self-important jackal posts on Twitter and that gets picked up my the real news media and the entertainment/news media (CNN, Fox, etc.) and it becomes part of narrative of the day and we react to it actively or passively.

Real or fake information, disinformation or propaganda, Twitter is major outlet and whether you realize it or not it is feeding you part of the story we swim and often drown in everyday.

Now, the richest man on earth just bought it, took it private (read that as now it’s completely unregulated, another kick in the balls for truth) and owns and controls a MAJOR outlet for the words and views we are fed and react to every day.

It’s not just what we are being told: world markets, elections, all kinds of real world shit that impacts our daily lives ebbs and flows with the seemingly idiotic power of the tweet.

Yesterday a right wing, self described “libertarian,” the son of a man who owned a South African diamond mine, who is anything but libertarian and philosophically closer to a fascist, owns this media source.

If you believe a multi-multi-multi-multi billionaire of ANY political bent just spent $46 BILLION in some grand philanthropic gesture to ‘protect free speech’ and that doesn’t white-knuckle scare the fuck out of you, you are just plain old stupid.

This nationalistic, fascist machine is running like a Detroit diesel.

This not not about taking sides. This is not about Trump vs Biden. This is about the wife of a sitting Supreme Court judge actively working to undermine what is largely viewed as the cornerstone of this nations alleged democracy. The sanctity of the vote and election process.

I don’t believe in much with regard to this nations government, but I do believe those in power listen ‘to the people’ only as far as how it impacts their ability to be re-elected, ad Infinitum, and continue to profit from their positions. It’s literally the only power we still have, and that’s hanging by a thread.

The Vietnam War is perhaps the best example. The Nixon administration pulled out of Vietnam, not because the US should have never been there is the first place, but because the court of public opinion—and the people who would re-elect these assclowns—had finally decided enough was enough—and these scumbags would lose thier coveted seats in government. When those who sent 50,000 American kids to die for no reason lost all their flag-waving capital, the war ended.

It was never about it being the right thing to do—it is never about right and wrong, it’s about holding on to those coveted—and hugely profitable—positions.

And now, Mrs. Clarence Thomas sought to undermine that one remaining process and perhaps the only power we still have as citizens—and her husband sits on the highest court in the land.

I don’t give a flying fuck what side of this shit show you find yourself—this should enrage you.

When those charged with upholding the rule of law willfully work to undermine the rule of law that is a coup. This is a long game. Don’t think for a moment this was an isolated event.

This is not to diminish the horrible story of that twenty-two year old woman whose death has become something of a national obsession; I’m in offices all day, many have cable news on wall-mounted TVs. The reporting on this tragedy is well ingrained now into the twenty-four hour news cycle; breathless on-scene reporters sharing each new tidbit of information, at least for this week…

This view has been expressed a few times by others, but I, too, have to wonder would we be be experiencing the same level of near national hysteria about Gabby If she’d been from the hood, or the trailer park, had she been addicted to opioids or meth. If she was last seen leaving the free-clinic, or an abortion clinic and not the majestic Tetons or Yellowstone. If she’d been a little less blond and apple pie pretty; if her hair was a bit darker, maybe a little curlier.

It is a tragedy. Please, I’m not making light of it. But I am sure other young women, and men for that matter, disappear every day without this national obsession. Babies are found abandoned and in dumpsters dead every day, and I hear not a word. People die with needles in veins every day, it doesn’t even make the local news.

Sometimes it’s seems to me we only see tragedy in the reflection of the myth, not the ugly underbelly of the reality of life here in the good ol’ USA.