Notices by Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)

@BNONews Yeah, that whole “privatize space” thing is going great.

By this same time in the development of the Saturn V rocket, NASA was performing successful manned test flights, without all the explosions. So many explosions!

This guy isn’t getting anyone to Mars.

I was thinking about how to articulate how radical #RightToWork legislation is… so let’s take it to the opposite extreme.

Imagine a bunch of socialists and communists getting together and drafting “Right to Buy” legislation. Their argument is that if you go into a store, and you don’t like the price of an item, or if you simply don’t want to pay, you should have the right to just take it with no recourse from the store.

That’s how extreme Right-to-Work bills sound to a #union guy. #labor

Updated this gem today.

American politics in one graphic:

@simsa03 Click on my profile. There should be three lines or three dots in the top right. Click on that. You’ll have the option to block me there. Buh-bye.

Here’s why #LuigiMangione became an instant folk hero, and rightfully so:

We have an incredibly inequitable system - most of all, in terms of wealth. If you’re not spectacularly rich, our system doesn’t do jack shit for you. You can write to your “representatives”, and they’ll send you some hollow form letter unless you cut a fat check to their campaign fund. Voting doesn’t fix this.

We’ve all felt trapped in this unresponsive system for decades.

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Luigi showed us there’s still a way to bend the arc. There *IS* something that can be done. There is a way to make them listen. If these oligarchs refuse to make this system work for the rest of us even a little bit, we can just…

Kill them. It’s surprisingly easy.

So bring on that job-erasing AI. Take away Social Security and Medicare and give it to the rich. Go another year without raising minimum wage. Let’s really get this party going. I very much look forward to it.

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@mrbadger42 There it is… I’ve been looking for this quote!

Any guesses on how many Super Bowl ads will just be 30 seconds of AI-generated trash? I’m guessing a third.

So, are there still mysterious drones all over the place, or has the populous been sufficiently distracted from how epic it was that the CEO of a literal death panel was gunned down by a regular guy?

Hey, CEOs -

This country sat back and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING after a couple dozen first graders were slaughtered by a gunman. No one gives a shit when malls, churches, dance clubs, grocery stores, or parties get shot up. You think anyone is going to help YOU?

HAHAHAHAHA, welcome to the real world, motherfuckers.

It’s striking how many of our politicians make headlines like “so-and-so fell and broke a hip” or “so-and-so seems to have had a stroke during a press conference” or “so-and-so hasn’t really been lucid in years”.

Why do we continue to elect these people who have been in Congress since the 1970’s? What do you expect from people who probably should have hung it up decades ago? Most of them were corrupt by their second term and have just been part of The Problem ever since.

#LuigiFacts

#LuigiFacts

It’s pretty much unbelievable that a valedictorian-smart guy would just be carrying around a murder weapon days after blasting a guy. There’s a lot wrong with this, but that point sticks out most.

Being a rat doesn’t pay. Don’t be a rat.

RE: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/113631445218085134

My hopes for mass protest up to and including revolution are always squashed when I remember that #SCOTUS has been openly and nakedly corrupt for years, and people just take it.

“Resign?? You want me to RESIGN for not declaring all the sweet, sweet bribes I’ve taken from my billionaire “friends” which were obviously meant to sway my decision on cases that involve them or their businesses? Hahahahaha, no. Silly plebs, that’s not how this works.”

Those now lamenting about a class war have conveniently forgotten Warren Buffett’s words from almost TWENTY YEARS ago:

“There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class - the rich class - that's making war, and we're winning.”

No one should be surprised when people start fighting back against the people who have taken EVERYTHING.

@phaedral I guess everyone is entitled to their own takeaway. I am simply opposed to not getting mad.

“You’ve got to get mad!”

This iconic scene from “Network” is has been relevant every day between the day it was released and today, though it seems even more relevant now.

Highly recommend the #movie if you have not seen it. It’s excellent and has aged very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RujOFCHsxo

I did some math on the insanity of Elmo’s wealth, and I want to share it with you.

If he woke up tomorrow and found that 99% of his wealth had been taxed away, he’d be left with 3.3 billion dollars.

The average U.S. wage earner would have to work over 1,500 LIFETIMES to make 1% of his wealth.