Someone on Bluesky just made a point that stabbed me in the eye:

The ENTIRE STORY about the current US presidential election campaign is: it's Joe Biden vs. the fat cats—Business Plot 2.0, as Shiv Ramdas put it.

And look what newspaper of record carried water for the coup conspirators in 1933/34?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Business Plot - Wikipedia

@cstross @paninid

This time they got their guy on the ticket as the potential VP.

No need to alarm anyone with a public march when the old man can just keel over at any time.

@bflipp @cstross
Or be easily assassinated, apparently 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@paninid @cstross

Well that’s what I mean. If Trump’s heart explodes it’ll be the least suspicious death of a public figure ever.

@paninid @cstross

And then we are ruled by proxy by fascist South Africans for some stupid ass reason.