Another day, another reason to point out that ***Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers *** is now up to the 54th installment with 1,350 entries of people either in, voting for, or directly affiliated with the Republican party. Evidence for their Republicanness is presented with each entry. The list is comprised primarily of police, government officials, teachers, religious officials, and politicians.

This guy, and many others of this ugly breed, will likely make the next list.

It’s useful to remember that his actions are not an anomaly—this is who they are.

It’s worth keeping in mind that the people who made this decision at Columbia are, themselves, wealthy. They are behaving as wealthy people do–they only respond to power, they only care about power, and they will do ANYTHING to maintain power.

It’s never about non-monetary things with wealthy people. They don’t care about other people, even each other, or about high-falutin’ things like academic freedom or free inquiry or free speech because unless those things bring them more power, more money.

They will sacrifice everything, anything, and anyone to maintain their status and they will ALWAYS bend the knee to anyone with more power, more capital, than they have. They have no investment otherwise. You can’t keep your power if you have any focus other than your own power.

Nothing run by wealthy people is ever safe for the rest of us.

This woman grew up wealthy and privileged–she comes from a family in Wyoming that was always connected and always had money. She’s an attorney married to another attorney.

She is nothing like the people whose concerns she’s laughing at and calling embarrassing. She doesn’t have the same life experience as them, and she’s never, for a single second of a single day, had to worry about paying her bills or lacking necessary things.

So she laughs when her constituents worry about these things, and she mocks them when they voice those concerns.

I think that’s the issue–the current ‘Republicans’ in the Executive Office don’t give a single shit if any of the smaller Republicans can ever return to their home districts. They are plundering all the bank vaults of government and keeping as much as they can for themselves. It’s a party made up of powerful narcissists–the only thing keeping any of them in check is the greater power of other narcissists. They will eat each other once they’ve eaten all of us.

The issue with any of this is that we’re assuming that we’ll have another election in four years, and I’m not so sure about that.

I was just thinking while I drove aimlessly that the internet used to be a real way for real people to communicate real information to one another, often when they had no other way to do so.

This is a perfect example of that. We must all know the many faces of JD Vance so we can recognize him at the kids’ table in the country club and ask him about his big-boy suit or if he’s enjoying the Jell-O®

These sorts of people aren’t really capable of responding to anything other than displays of power; they don’t respect anything else.

It just took one CEO getting murdered for other CEOs to panic, to try to make the story about how the CEO was a ‘family man’ or whatever, for many CEOs to have their pictures removed from company websites–they don’t give a shit about ethics, or history, or anything, but they sure as hell do respond to displays of power.

I think maybe just getting a couple of them would prove to be enough.

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