Author: Stable Genius

I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.

Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services (military, police, paramilitary groups, surveillance), and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another.

Source: Autocracy Is Winning – The Atlantic

This article from 2021 comes to mind every once in a while.

You’re allowed to discuss the cognitive state of some presidents.

A literal image of a word salad. This should be a bowl of salad made up of words in a white ceramic bowl sitting on a placemat on a wood table. There should be silverware next to the bowl on the table. The words in the salad should be in green, red and orange tones.

Very serious people are telling us that it’s irresponsible for the press and political establishment to ignore a clear cognitive and functional decline in the sitting president.

Every accusation is confession or aspiration

Today on NPR Attorneys for a group of news organizations, including NPR, said in a legal filing on Tuesday that evidence used at the sentencing of a rioter charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol had “disappeared” from an online government platform. From Jan. 6 video evidence has ‘disappeared’ from public… Continue reading Every accusation is confession or aspiration

Pineapple Pizza weird versus Lotion in the Basket weird

That Marvel Movie guy is pineapple on pizza weird. It’s an aesthetic thing. Maybe you like pineapple on pizza and maybe you have good taste. But it isn’t something that actually harms anyone. The GOP base is lotion in the basket weird. They have an obsession to control others driven by weird sexual anxieties and they display them all the time.