Transcript for Post Elitist Drivel

On October 25, 2024 The Washington Post announced that it would not endorse a Presidential candidate for the pending election. So what? You say. You don’t vote based on what a newspaper says. The Washington Post thinks people do, and it has endorsed presidential candidates, explicitly or implicitly, since 1932 when it endorsed Franklin Roosevelt.

The reaction to the Post’s announcement was apoplectic. One editor-at-large quit. Several staffers have resigned. The editorial board has imploded. As many as 200,000 subscriptions have been cancelled. All because a newspaper declined to take a political position – presumably a noble action, but that remains to be seen.

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Transcript for Tipping on the Balance

On June 9, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate taxes on tips. On August 10, in a bizarre alignment of platforms emblematic of this year’s election arc, presidential candidate Kamala Harris also promised to eliminate income taxes on tips. Neither candidate’s campaign offered a detailed plan of how this tax reduction would work. Whether tips would be exempt from income taxes only, or whether they would also be exempt from payroll taxes, which include Social Security payments.

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Transcript for Too Much Posse

In October of 2024, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is often accused of being a fascist, said something a fascist would say. Regarding people he considered to be “radical left lunatics” he said, “I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can't let that happen”.

A politician using military force against his political opposition is the very definition of fascism as it was conceived by Italy’s Benito Mussolini in 1919.

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Transcript for Tyranny of the Minority

In a two-party system, winning an election is a simple formula, but one that is difficult to execute: First, the candidate must mobilize the base.

And what is the base? The base refers to party-aligned voters who support their party candidate and never consider voting for a candidate from a different party. To mobilize the base voters, the candidate needs to get them excited to the point where they make the effort to visit the ballot box on election day, and ideally, bring a friend – dead or alive.

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Transcript for Unknown Ism of Interest

In this post post-modern world, there is a new ism emerging that has not been observed previously. This new ism is called an Unknown Ism of Interest, or Unism for short.

The Unism is a type of convergence of interests that is not seminal, but unprecedented in breadth and depth of penetration and influence. The corporations that control – or should I say exploit – the world's resources and information continue to dwindle in number but increase in scope, concentrating a continual expansion of power in a continually decreasing number of hands.

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