Repeat after me ….
‘They’ are
NOT
‘elites’.
Repeat after me ….
‘They’ are
NOT
‘elites’.
The Great Grift - No Mercy / No Malice
”The federal response to the pandemic has been massive — a $5 trillion effort. It has also been a con. Under the cloud cover of Covid-19, the shareholder class has used its outsized influence over government to toss a few loaves of bread at those suffering, all the while accruing trillions of dollars in wealth financed on the backs of younger, and future, generations.”.
Political bankruptcy, just like the financial sort, happens two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
John Gruber
…and they weren’t before.
c’est la vie.
”In 2005, Apple moved to Intel to gain equality. In 2020, it’s moved away from Intel to gain superiority,”
Ken Segal
Yes
my first working trigger in Keyboard Maestro … 🅣🅗🅐🅝🅚🅨🅞🅤 @macsparky -
You’re hungry - I get it. We all need to eat, but why am i forced to watch you violently masticate your food while you sit on the other end of the Zoom call conference.
Is Castro broken for anybody else?
GoFundMe Bans Fundraising For Travel To Trump Rallies
I didn’t even know that was a thing!
Just reading the news … it couldn’t happen to a nicer chap.
Liars or Idiots
It’s hard to decide.
Either way - they don’t make good leaders.
It’s not just the ‘computer say no’ … 45% of the country say ‘no’ (pdf)
… dropping this here today to add to my ‘lobster bisque’ for the future …
In action today will come back and bite …. real hard.
”Always seemed pretty obvious that the minds behind Parler weren’t exactly sharp knives, but it’s looking more and more like they’re on the plastic cutlery end of the spectrum.”
Gruber
Daring Fireball: Why Parler Is Likely to Fold
Stripe Stops Processing Payments for Trump Campaign Website.
They won’t be able to raise money to fund their Defence - then again the only lawyers left that would represent him are either charged themselves or would work for free!
Episode 61 of The People First Podcast is now available - a podcast that introduces to Daniel Szuc- an Aussie, living in Hong Kong who with his wife Jo has launched Make Meaningful Work. Take a listen.
Clever :
Sell Your Pre-Owned Subscriptions With Ease
”We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity. Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues.”
Apple
Nobody is being silenced.
It’s controlling the ability to ‘turn it up to 11’ is what is happening.
It’s not news … I just wanted to record the image for posterity and congratulate Jack and the team for the speed with which they acted … it only took 4 years!
Hell Just Froze Over
”Even Stephen Miller told one person close to the White House that it was a terrible day.”
Vanity Fair
This is how to fight back.
Someone should make a list of the 123 House Republicans who signed onto the Texas lawsuit that challenged the election based on frivolous conspiracies
AND
the over 50% of Republican Senators who invoked conspiracy theories to challenge the election results.
Against each name, detail who donates to their campaigns and pressure those companies … because they will primarily be companies … to drop their support or face the consequences.
It’s worked before. It will work again … to borrow a phrase from the SV tech bros … at scale.
