Yea, I'm just a bit overwhelmed right now with the dysfunctional politics of the system right now. Rethuglicans playing culture war games and salivating over how they can frame law and order issues hoping it can conceal their authoritarian-let-the-wealthy-own-everything agenda. The plutocracy owns them but they have to pretend to have ideas, so they just hijack words and use them like paint on the same decrepit artifice. GOP means Got Only Partisan-politics.

And then there's Joe Manchin who is well paid to pretend he has principles while he stops any meaningful legislation from happening. As if negotiating with devils is bi-partisanship. He knows the plutocracy is behind the scenes stuffing money into politicians pockets, providing lucrative speaking tours or sinecures to foundations funded with their money.

Meanwhile our nation sinks into third world status and we are unable to update our public infrastructure with investment while we wait for billionaire investors to propose false solutions.

I'm looking at you Elon Musk, meat puppet front-man for the oligarchy that owns him (too). Twitter. RIP.

This is not the flu. Every time I hear that I want to punch the wall. A virus is a package of genetic material encased in a lipid shell that hijacks your bodies transport mechanism to your cells. Why do you think our body evolved an immune system to recognize virus's and attack them in multiple ways ? Because genetic mutations create new strains all the time. We get bird flu, swine flu, bat flu, horse flu, cow flu, goat flul, sheep flu, ... all animals that use the same transport mechanism to the cells.

Larger denser populations integrating with domesticated animals increases immensely the chance that the virus's mutate to jump to another species. Covid is no different. This is not the flu. Herpes is not the flu. Polio is not the flu. Smallpox was not the flu. Measles are not the flu. Whooping Cough is not the flu. Etc.

I disagree with Mr. Wolff on his assessment of Biden, but otherwise this is a very informative video -- because as Mr. Wolff himself admits in the video, it's not just a Biden issue, it's the fact that all President's are still shackled to the economic mythology of the elite.

They create this false ideology of economics to explain why the short-term decisions of the wealthy is always in the nation's best interest, when sometimes that is not the case.

The USA almost fell to the last fascist decade in 1934.

This is Dr. Sten Ekberg sharing what foods to avoid and what foods to eat.

Two good reads today:

• low skilled easily replaceable employees must return to work immediately otherwise our society will collapse (a sarcastic retort)
• The point of economics as a discipline is to create a language and methodology for governing that hides political assumptions from the public.

We don't think of our bodies processing the various macro-nutients of the foods we eat as chemical reactions, but that's what happens at the microscopic level within our cells. Dr. Ken Barry makes this clear in almost 2 minutes in the video below.

This is an excellent discussion about the real markers of Heart Disease.

We are tired of their blah blah blah

Here is the link to the congressional text and summary of the bill.

Here is video from MSNBC where representative Pramila Jayapal discusses the bill.

Here is summary from the Congressional Research Service

This bill addresses provisions related to federal-aid highway, transit, highway safety, motor carrier, research, hazardous materials, and rail programs of the Department of Transportation (DOT).

Among other provisions, the bill

• extends FY2021 enacted levels through FY2022 for federal-aid highway, transit, and safety programs;
• reauthorizes for FY2023-FY2026 several surface transportation programs, including the federal-aid highway program, transit programs, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and rail programs;
• addresses climate change, including strategies to reduce the climate change impacts of the surface transportation system and a vulnerability assessment to identify opportunities to enhance the resilience of the surface transportation system and ensure the efficient use of federal resources;
• revises Buy America procurement requirements for highways, mass transit, and rail;
• establishes a rebuild rural bridges program to improve the safety and state of good repair of bridges in rural communities;
• implements new safety requirements across all transportation modes; and
• directs DOT to establish a pilot program to demonstrate a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee to restore and maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and achieve and maintain a state of good repair in the surface transportation system.