This is how the Roman Republic failed.

> the city legislated the fare the could charge.

/facepalm

No wonder they went out of business.

Only the ruling class is allowed to use capital to generate income.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

This is a tragedy, but it was one of their own choosing.

Why do they need a mascot?

Say hello to my little friend.

> I remember an interview she did at 16 or 17 and she's smoking a cigarette and drinking a mimosa while giving it.

Sounds like my teenage years.

Your father is a lucky man.

With so many things going to ebooks, I fear for the future of used bookstores.

That being said, I only have so many bookcases.

If he were a Democrat, all of his lies would be swept under the carpet.

Vote Republican, cause its the only way the Marxist Socialist Media will hold a candidate's feet to the fire.

https://youtu.be/OaTO8_KNcuo?t=5

Bad criminals go to jail. The best go into government.

Mary Anne can dress up, but Ginger can't cook.

You know there is a recession when kleptocrats increase their paychecks.

It means that kickbacks from special interests aren't coming through.

There are jobs for nurses across the entire united states.

Vote with your feet folks.

The more the politicians make noise about leftist virtue signalling, the more you can be sure that the actual things governments are supposed to be doing are being neglected.

Cue Miami Vice theme...

Your dad is my hero.

His grandson Shelton looks just like him.

There was a case in AZ where some POWs tried to escape and float down the salt river, which was dry at the time. They were captured, and at some point one of them was murdered by the rest for being an informant. The perps were executed.

https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/infamous-murder-phoenix-pow-camp

America is always and forever bad. The virtues of our forebears must never be highlighted. Only their sins and shortcomings should be pointed out.

There was a similar case here in Arizona.

I've been hearing from the Republicans that the Democrats reject the results of every election that they do not win, and have plans and schemes in place to seize power by force.

I hear the same thing about the Republicans from the Democrats.

These partisan hack accusations have been going on for decades now.

Go spend some time on partisan blogs for both factions and you'll soon discover that they are each making much the same accusations against the other.

The choice between the Republicans and the Democrats is the same as the choice between the Gambinos and the Lucchese.

All of the propaganda which portrays the Grifters On Parade as demons and villains can be matched by equally deceptive propaganda designed to portray the Democrats as demons and villains.

Some of this propaganda, put out by both sides, might even be true. Using the truth to tell lies is the hallmark of high grade propaganda.

Do not be fooled into thinking that one or another political party is on your side and fighting the good fight. All political parties are fundamentally corrupt, run by people whose only interest is increasing their own power, wealth, and position.

The most that we as voters can do is play them off against each other and make sure that none ever gain enough power that elections no longer matter, which is something that ALL of them would like to achieve.

That's a caricature.

The Grifters On Parade want to maximize their own power and position...just like the Democrats.

To do this, they lie to voters and pretend to share the values and interests of those voters...just like the Democrats.

JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER POLITICAL PARTY AND FACTION.

All of the above employ propagandists whose job it is to persuade voters that their team are the good guys and opposing teams are comprised of fools and demons. All are lying. There are no good guys in politics, just power hungry psychopaths who want to rob the public treasury, seize control over private industry, and tell the rest of us how we must live.

In societies that are not morally and spiritually bankrupt, the ability of these villains to rob and enslave the public are limited. They must maintain a facade of legitimacy in order to maintain the support of their victims, aka voters. They can only go so far. When one political faction or another oversteps its bounds and does things that are clearly immoral or contrary to the public good, their support drops, they lose elections, and another faction increases its power instead. Over and over, round and round, every faction competes for the folly of the electorate, with no side gaining permanent supremacy.

We call this the political process, in which we the people decide which band of criminals we are going to give power to based upon whose lies and empty promises seem most appealing at that moment. Criminal ambitions on all sides are constrained because criminal ambition is set against criminal ambition, and no gang ever wins forever.

But as America proceeds headlong into abject moral and spiritual bankruptcy, this mechanism increasingly fails to function, and the worst of the worst on all sides are emboldened to be overtly criminal in their actions and aims.

Welcome to 2022.