Dr. Keynes Was Right: Thought For The Day

Now We Bow to President Vance, may be?

The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887

Officials who use their public positions for private gain threaten the integrity of our most important institutions. Greed makes governments — at every level — less responsive, less efficient and less trustworthy from the perspective of the communities they serve.
-- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson/2024 [the MAGAnauts get even more aggressive when their perfidy is exposed]

Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.
-- David Pressman/2025 [former Amb. there - a cautionary tale]

There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]

[Even U.S. producers] will also increase their prices and, in a sense, free-ride this increased pricing environment. The shock for domestically produced goods is likely to be quite significant.
-- Gregory Draxo/2025 [econ pundit, just like me, told ya so]

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery.

-- Marriner Eccles/1951

This Week's thought

The extreme letter sent to Harvard frankly demanded to take outside ideological control of all admissions, all faculty appointments, curriculum, and governance. It proposed a more sweeping system of control by outside ideological MAGA deciders than anything even Communists install these days to control universities. [Trump] is a would-be patrimonial corrupt ruler. The oldest kind in the world.
-- Theda Skocpol/2025

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

31 July 2025

Thought For The Day - 24 July 2025

The headline reads - "Swallowing Reservations, Democrats Go on Offense on Epstein Files"

Whaaaaa?!?!?!

C'mon, dude!! Just how many left-wing lunatic pedophiles do you really think there are? Throughout history, sexual exploitation has been a right wingnut thing. A power trip. The right wingnut manna. Except for Horn Dog Bill, how many more? How many left-wing billionaires can there be? Not a whole lot. Of those, how many hobnobbed with Epstein? Not so many.

As many, if not all, sexual exploitation advocates and researchers have claimed: it's not about the sex, but the power. And which Party is most in thrall to Personal Power? The elephant in the room. Chuck Schumer cavorting with Epstein? Gimme a break.

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