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P.S. Beck is… extraordinary. Really.

Being in NYC you might imagine what conversations “in the wild” are like for me.

Usually they end with people walking away from me in a red faced huff while I’m grinning.

Sometimes I get lucky and hear “wait, WHAT!?!” which all too often is immediately anteceded with “how come this isn’t in the news?”

People love to be seen as being kind and generous and helpful to their fellow man. It’s a nice badge. The Democratic party, under LBJ (perhaps earlier) realized that this was the heart of their new marketing campaign. To “be seen as good,” entirely independent of the truth. It capitalizes perfectly on the gross political negligence of the people at large.

The machinations that flow from that principle become horrifying very quickly. Consider that it requires there always be “someone to be nice to” AND that there always be “someone to be nicer than.”

Extrapolation is currently left to the reader (and, frankly, the historian.)

It’s this tiny thing, both in dollar size and in meaning. They’re blowing smoke and foaming at the mouth about bonus contracts that were in place for some time. At any point in the past they could have said or done anything (including not have left an explicit loophole allowing this, but that aside…)

It’s a total straw man used to distract from the groundswell of disapproval in the Teleprompter of the US.

I’d be interested to see the amount of money in Congressional salaries (with staff) and news coverage on this issue over the last week and a half.

It’s so hard to pay attention to this stuff without steam coming out of my ears. But people not having paid attention is why we’re here.