[image: image.png] opening thoughts:’*Our Very Own Oligarchy by Lyn Ekedahl* We’re off to a great start in 2-0-Twenty-Five. What a marvelous time to still be alive! We’ve a new form of government, aligned with the times, Our own Oligarchy, designed for new crimes!
Most of Don’s creeps come with money bags full, Also full of themselves, full of self-righteous bull! Co-president Musk, the Don’s billionaire booster, Postures and twirls—struts and crows like a rooster!
The Washington Post knows how “Democracy Dies….” And its owner’s ready to help—not a total surprise. He rushed to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the Don’s ring, To give the Don money, his praises to sing!
To placate the Donald and not even embarrassed, He killed the Post’s planned endorsement of Harris! And to prove that with truth he would no longer trifle, His cartoonist’s cartoon he proceeded to stifle.
Zuckerberg rushed in with appeals to the Don, As the “Freedom to Lie” became his new song. “We’ll no longer do fact checks,” quite proudly crowed he, Thus perfectly showing the role of toady!
On the rest of the nation it soon will be dawning— What these billionaires get in return for their fawning— A little help with a contract, relief from some reg, and Tax cuts for which they’re not too proud to beg!
So prepare for the worst and get ready to fight. On their crimes and misdeeds best to shine a bright light. For the oligarch’s goal isn’t justice and peace. The oligarch’s goal is the public to fleece!
speaking of oligarchs read this: Here’s One More Sentence Joe Biden Should Commute Charles Littlejohn did America a service by exposing the tax avoidance of wealthy people like me. by Abigail Disney– Part one: we pivot from TX to talk about the end of the Biden years Mel Goodman * is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, and Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch. <counterpunch.org> The Dangers of Biden’s Legacy and Trump’s Inheritance WASHINGTON POST SUPPORTS MANY OF TRUMP’S MISCREANTS FOR KEY POSTS part two: *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. *Paul Glastris* is currently Editor in Chief at Washington Monthly and has been there for the past 18 years. Prior, he was a speechwriter for the White House, when Bill Clinton was president. topics: Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Bill Curry’s post about Biden’s farewell address Joe Biden gave what may have been the best speech of his life tonight. It was also the first I can recall in which he wasn’t looking back over his shoulder at his donors the whole time. Watching him, I couldn’t help imagining what might have been had he renounced a second term in the spring of 2023 and spent the last two years giving speeches like this. Biden’s a decent man, but I’d bet the farm this was the first time he ever used the word ‘oligarch’ in public. He still doesn’t get it. For four years he chastised the American people for not respecting our institutions instead of chastising the institutions for squandering their respect. Trump said the system was rigged, which is true, but then lied endlessly about how. Instead of telling people how it’s really rigged, Democrats became the party of ‘the system is not rigged’. It’s hard to imagine a bigger mistake. It meant we couldn’t tell voters it’s the economy that’s rigged by oligarchs who use government to rig it, and that democracy is the only way to stop them, but we’d better act fast because the oligarchs are bent on rigging it too and if they succeed no honest business person or worker will ever again stand a chance of a fair shake. It’s what the word ‘oligarchy’ means. We’re half way there and Trump isn’t even sworn in. It’s democracy versus oligarchy and fascism all across the world and we’d better be ready to fight like it’s the Battle of the Five Armies because, truth be told, we’re not ahead. — Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Lyn Ekedahl, oligarchs, Abigail Disney, Mel Goodman, Trump, Biden, foreign policy, Bill Curry, Paul Glastris, Democrats, working folks, policies, oligarchs, rigged economy
*KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
Most of Don’s creeps come with money bags full, Also full of themselves, full of self-righteous bull! Co-president Musk, the Don’s billionaire booster, Postures and twirls—struts and crows like a rooster!
The Washington Post knows how “Democracy Dies….” And its owner’s ready to help—not a total surprise. He rushed to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the Don’s ring, To give the Don money, his praises to sing!
To placate the Donald and not even embarrassed, He killed the Post’s planned endorsement of Harris! And to prove that with truth he would no longer trifle, His cartoonist’s cartoon he proceeded to stifle.
Zuckerberg rushed in with appeals to the Don, As the “Freedom to Lie” became his new song. “We’ll no longer do fact checks,” quite proudly crowed he, Thus perfectly showing the role of toady!
On the rest of the nation it soon will be dawning— What these billionaires get in return for their fawning— A little help with a contract, relief from some reg, and Tax cuts for which they’re not too proud to beg!
So prepare for the worst and get ready to fight. On their crimes and misdeeds best to shine a bright light. For the oligarch’s goal isn’t justice and peace. The oligarch’s goal is the public to fleece!
speaking of oligarchs read this: Here’s One More Sentence Joe Biden Should Commute Charles Littlejohn did America a service by exposing the tax avoidance of wealthy people like me. by Abigail Disney– Part one: we pivot from TX to talk about the end of the Biden years Mel Goodman * is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, and Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch. <counterpunch.org> The Dangers of Biden’s Legacy and Trump’s Inheritance WASHINGTON POST SUPPORTS MANY OF TRUMP’S MISCREANTS FOR KEY POSTS part two: *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. *Paul Glastris* is currently Editor in Chief at Washington Monthly and has been there for the past 18 years. Prior, he was a speechwriter for the White House, when Bill Clinton was president. topics: Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Bill Curry’s post about Biden’s farewell address Joe Biden gave what may have been the best speech of his life tonight. It was also the first I can recall in which he wasn’t looking back over his shoulder at his donors the whole time. Watching him, I couldn’t help imagining what might have been had he renounced a second term in the spring of 2023 and spent the last two years giving speeches like this. Biden’s a decent man, but I’d bet the farm this was the first time he ever used the word ‘oligarch’ in public. He still doesn’t get it. For four years he chastised the American people for not respecting our institutions instead of chastising the institutions for squandering their respect. Trump said the system was rigged, which is true, but then lied endlessly about how. Instead of telling people how it’s really rigged, Democrats became the party of ‘the system is not rigged’. It’s hard to imagine a bigger mistake. It meant we couldn’t tell voters it’s the economy that’s rigged by oligarchs who use government to rig it, and that democracy is the only way to stop them, but we’d better act fast because the oligarchs are bent on rigging it too and if they succeed no honest business person or worker will ever again stand a chance of a fair shake. It’s what the word ‘oligarchy’ means. We’re half way there and Trump isn’t even sworn in. It’s democracy versus oligarchy and fascism all across the world and we’d better be ready to fight like it’s the Battle of the Five Armies because, truth be told, we’re not ahead. — Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Lyn Ekedahl, oligarchs, Abigail Disney, Mel Goodman, Trump, Biden, foreign policy, Bill Curry, Paul Glastris, Democrats, working folks, policies, oligarchs, rigged economy
*KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
