Jeff Bezos corruption party at his DC house.

as the great sage Mongo said..."we are just pawns in game of life."

the Oligarch World.

The Alfalfa Club has been in existence since 1913. Jim Mattis is currently its president. The Bezos dinner party was held after the annual event.


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

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7931191/Jeff-Bezos-throws-lavish-party-new-Washington-DC-mansion.html

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

I was about to get outraged.

is slanting rich and republican. I don't really know anything about this, just commenting based on what is written here.

What does this mean?

and perspective.

Trumpsters who see all politicians except their own heroes as corrupt monsters, who can reel of lists of Democratic names and claim "They relish destruction of democracy," suffer from it also.

I'm confused.

I'm cancelling amazon prime right now.

...and write a tell-all book about it.

This kind of gathering happens in Washington all the time. And not all attendees are corrupt oligarchs. Don't forget, after trashing each other during the day, Tip O'Neill and Reagan used to do cocktails together at the White House.

With TV cameras and microphones on 24/7 everywhere else, something like this might be a substitute for the type of O'Neill-Reagan chats. I was at a thing over New Year's (where I was hanging with Al Franken, among others). I was also hanging with Richard Viguerie, who, apart from being a nice guy, is a total right-wing nut case--a very intelligent, twisted, dangerous, influential nut case. He wouldn't be caught dead chatting with the likes of me in public. But we do--when the cameras and microphones are off. He learns where I come from, I learn (again) where he--and thus the lunatic right wing fringe--come from. It's a setting where no one expects us to shout because no one is listening.

Washington is strange like that, but it's a reality, and there aren't many settings left these days, especially in an election year, where white flags can be raised, and dialogue can take place uncensored. Maybe nothing will come of it, but the chances are better in such a setting than during shouting matches on Fox Noise. I'll never be asked to attend anything like that, but I don't condemn it out of hand. It's better than gunfights across the Senate aisle, and from where I stand, that's the next phase.

I very recently had a much younger relative die suddenly, that caused me to think even more deeply about what life means and how fragile we are. Kobe Bryant and at least one of his children died suddenly today, given that I was already deeply thinking about the meaning of life and how I need to deal with people, those deaths added fuel to that process. Life is just too fragile and precious and I have a lot of good things happening for me, along with some bad, I just have too much going right to frame my life through the lense of what I hate.

If you‘re 32, can‘t get a job that rewards you financially nor intellectually, drowning in student loan debt, have insufficient health insurance and few long term prospects for an improvement, you are looking at the world from a vastly different perspective from someone who has managed to overcome that set of obstacles.

We may not agree on the best way to solve problems, but we need to learn to listen to other people's problems, evaluate their legitimacy honestly and then work toward solutions that take into account something on all interests. In a world where we are increasingly defining our success by how many "losers" we overcome, looking for some common ground is increasingly being seen as a weakness, and that is sad.

Relationships can be tricky. I am in the process of rethinking a lot of how I react to certain people, it is possible to disagree strongly with people without treating them like they are not human beings. I have to swallow hard at times, but I think that if more of us try that, maybe we can begin to chip away at divisions in the country. NEVER give up our values, but realize that people disagree with us and a lot of them are decent human beings.