Corporations Are People, My Friend

The problem is that there is a brutal truth sitting at the center of the Joe Biden legacy debate, and no amount of memoir promotion, cable-news defensiveness, party spin…Read the Full Article on Substack! I am not going to sugarcoat this topic, and the only reason I am raising it is because of the new […]

The Democrats Didn’t Lose the Message. They Refused to Say It. Read on Substack! How Donald Trump Mastered America’s Broken Media Age While Democrats and the Press Failed to Explain What Was Happening. For the last several weeks, something remarkable has started happening across portions of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media ecosystem. I

Americans genuinely do not know this still exists. It is almost never talked about, most likely because it feels unbelievable. The modern Southern redistricting battle is usually discussed in sanitized political language. Analysts talk about “mid-decade map corrections,” “partisan balancing,” “electoral optimization,” or “district realignment.” Lawyers debate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Political

Corporations Are People, My Friend: Did everyone receive their ‘Ticketmaster Fee Class Action Notice’ Today? Did everyone receive their ‘Ticketmaster Fee Class Action Notice’ Today? The modern live music industry did not arrive at its current structure organically. What exists today is the result of decades of corporate consolidation, strategic acquisitions, vertical integration, and the

Corporations Are People, My Friend: Using a Gun is Weak Anyone who needs a gun to prove a point is already operating from a position of weakness. If force is required to assert control, influence an outcome, or make a statement, then the argument itself cannot stand on its own. That is the baseline. The

Corporations Are People, My Friend: When “Socialism” Becomes a Moving Target in American Power and Policy The modern political argument over “socialism” in the United States has become less about economic theory and more about rhetorical positioning. What was once a term tied to a defined framework, state ownership of the means of production, centralized

Corporations Are People, My Friend: If a Kid Blamed Everything, You’d Stop It—So Why Don’t We Now? If a 13-year-old got caught doing something wrong and answered every question by blaming the teacher, the kid next door, the weather, the rules, the store owner, the school, the principal, and the person who happened to be

Corporations Are People, My Friend: The SAVE America Act is not a technical adjustment to election law This was my post for the week before I was sidetracked by the Laguna Hills story but anyway, I wrote about this at Explore New Jersey and at the Sunset Daily News the other day. The SAVE America Act is not a

Corporations Are People, My Friend: Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County Reunion I’ve had a strange dichotomy hit me over the last day. It just happened, and I’m trying to make sense of it as I go. I also have another article to post about the SAVE America Act, but at the same time, I

Corporations Are People, My Friend: I Think the War Is Over but Anyway, What Are We Doing? I Got Lost The sequence of events around the Iran conflict has not followed a clean or linear path, and that is the starting point for understanding where things stand now. The lead-up to the ceasefire was defined