The most amusing summary I read -now Teslas may be getting keyed by both political parties.

"Entertaining" in a "ha ha these morons are going to kill us all" way, yes.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

The best line from Justified, so apt here:

"Seeds of Distrust in a Garden of Assholes" https://youtu.be/ifJwLOon6g4

It would be more entertaining if one party didn't have its hands on levers that could make our lives significantly worse on a whim.

Perfect take: Our modern version of bread and circuses is popcorn and tweets.

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

It feels 100% manufactured. Would bet on anything ar this point other than volatility itself.

Do you have any evidence for this or is it just speculation? Their drama seem real enough given an elderly con artist and a neurto-atypical weirdo doing lots of drugs, where both seem rather megalomaniacal and used to getting their ways. They're competing for attention, approval, and power.

Almost 20 years ago now, Prof. Robert I. Sutton suggested that the maximum allowable a-holes should be close to zero.

In the absence of substantive accomplishment, dramatic reality show soma has replaced leadership with a staged performance art that caters to social hierarchy and in-group approval rather than real, stable, effective, efficient benefit and happiness for the protection and thriving of most individuals' needs.