"Are you ready for a year and a half of this? Because you're getting a year and a half of this. A year and a half of all substantive questions about real policy of real consequence getting diverted into the most vapid culture war quagmires you can possibly imagine, because it isn't the US president's job to change the way the US empire operates, it's the US president's job to keep everyone dazzled with fake bullshit while the US empire marches along unimpeded by the wishes of the voting public."

This is concerning, but I think in a way it's always been like this, sometimes more overt while a other times these stories were told behind closed doors and has their effects all the same.

Whenever I read something like this I try to think ok, what does this mean to me? What should I do based on this? All too often the answers are nothing.