A Few Bullets

 

• I am prepared to give Biden some pretty good marks on the domestic front (Congress too). If this latest bill becomes law it is pretty good, even with the glaring holes that the Dems shamefully put in place.

• Having said that, I give his administration a D in foreign policy. The Afghan withdrawal was a positive, amd probably Ukraine. But the Middle East policy is basically unchanged from Trump, and he seems fairly committed to forever war and American Exceptionalist foreign policy.

• Blaming cancel culture (which is not a thing) on a bunch of people on Twitter who have exactly zero power brings to mind Rick Santelli blaming a few poor people with subprime mortgages for bringing the world economy to it knees -n '07-'08. The difference is that Santelli is a right wing flake, whereas today's kancel kulture kops include a lot of "liberals". Follow the money.

• The idea that the American "free press" has failed us is--in my mind--no longer in doubt. And it's all about money. Big media is run by capitalists and we know the top priority of capitalists. So sad.