This regime could not show more clearly where its priorities lie. If something would benefit citizens, whether a relatively small group or a much wider cohort, it is too expensive. If it will financially benefit the regime and its acolytes, suddenly everything is permitted.
Retribution, when it finally, inevitably arrives, will be a joy to behold.
Shanley, you are a delight to read. Even though you’re discussing shitty things, your essays make me smile and agree. What you say about power and our freakishly bad current regime is exactly right. You say what needs to be said. And I enjoy reading about your kids and your parenting skills. You are a gift to us. You and your mom both. Thank you!
When will the wretched excesses, and overt sadism, of the present regime end? When will Congress grow a spine? When will churchgoing Republicans say, "We didn't vote for this"?
Thank you for your succinct and as always lovely writing, Shanley! We readers feel as though we are part of your extended family, sharing your triumphs and frustrations.
The depths of the depravity of this regime are truly horrific.
I’ve no doubt that every single person who helped pave the way for these depravities to be made manifest - from those who sit on their hands in congress, to those who slip on electric gloves, right down to those ideologues who coined the term ‘sex-rejecting’ - will one day be held accountable. And whether that accounting comes by way of the courts or that other righteous administrator of justice - karma - makes no difference to me…..I’ve heard that one of them can be quite bitchy. 😉
The scale of corruption that can be perpetrated through this normalized way of subscription based inside information can be mind blowing. The insider information based trading that took place before the Epic Fury operation in Iran netted the traders including Trump family and his cabinet Lutnick and Bassent not to mention on Kalshi and Polymarket upwards of $600 billions in one day of trading. The fluctuations in crude oil prices with Truth Social or a press conference, each incident led to such profit taking by the few. Now it can all be legalized.
Shanley,
This regime could not show more clearly where its priorities lie. If something would benefit citizens, whether a relatively small group or a much wider cohort, it is too expensive. If it will financially benefit the regime and its acolytes, suddenly everything is permitted.
Retribution, when it finally, inevitably arrives, will be a joy to behold.
We have to help it come.
Shanley, you are a delight to read. Even though you’re discussing shitty things, your essays make me smile and agree. What you say about power and our freakishly bad current regime is exactly right. You say what needs to be said. And I enjoy reading about your kids and your parenting skills. You are a gift to us. You and your mom both. Thank you!
When will the wretched excesses, and overt sadism, of the present regime end? When will Congress grow a spine? When will churchgoing Republicans say, "We didn't vote for this"?
Thank you for your succinct and as always lovely writing, Shanley! We readers feel as though we are part of your extended family, sharing your triumphs and frustrations.
The depths of the depravity of this regime are truly horrific.
I’ve no doubt that every single person who helped pave the way for these depravities to be made manifest - from those who sit on their hands in congress, to those who slip on electric gloves, right down to those ideologues who coined the term ‘sex-rejecting’ - will one day be held accountable. And whether that accounting comes by way of the courts or that other righteous administrator of justice - karma - makes no difference to me…..I’ve heard that one of them can be quite bitchy. 😉
The scale of corruption that can be perpetrated through this normalized way of subscription based inside information can be mind blowing. The insider information based trading that took place before the Epic Fury operation in Iran netted the traders including Trump family and his cabinet Lutnick and Bassent not to mention on Kalshi and Polymarket upwards of $600 billions in one day of trading. The fluctuations in crude oil prices with Truth Social or a press conference, each incident led to such profit taking by the few. Now it can all be legalized.
What everyone else said!