Political Tea Leaves

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Philanthro-Capitalists for Open Borders and Cheap America Labour, Part II

...Part I

This Time the Labour Costs Tax Free AND Government Subsidized (Welfare/ SNAP/ MediCAID)

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

The Cloak of Gyges: Why the FBI and DoJ Never Get to the Bottom of Their Investigations...

...Gyges, Much like Actaeon, Can't Afford to Be Seen....
"Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)" (1836) by Camille Corot

Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Self-Enslavement of the Capitalist Miser and His Society-Destroying Fake Philanthropic Liberation

from Google AI:

Bataille's concept of sovereignty as it relates to the part maudite

For Georges Bataille, sovereignty is not a legal or political authority, but a radical, anti-utilitarian state of being characterized by freedom, play, and loss. It is defined in opposition to the modern world of work, where life is reduced to a series of means-to-an-end.

The General Economy and 'La Part Maudite'

In The Accursed Share (La Part Maudite), Bataille argues that the universe operates on a "general economy" of overflowing energy. Driven by the sun, life produces an inevitable surplus of energy that must be expelled. Because this excess cannot be fully absorbed by productive growth or reproduction, it becomes an "accursed share"—a surplus destined for waste.

Sovereignty Through Loss

Societies and organisms process this unavoidable excess through either productive expansion (war, colonization) or non-productive expenditure (luxury, sacrifice, art, and eroticism). Sovereignty is achieved only when we embrace the latter. To be sovereign means to exist beyond utility, necessity, and the fear of death. While a "servile" life is entirely dedicated to work, survival, and accumulation, the sovereign individual or society actively asserts its freedom by lavishly and unproductively wasting their excess energy in the "miraculous reign of unknowing".

Key Mechanics of Bataille’s Sovereignty

Bataille explored how this concept manifested historically and anthropologically:
Sacrifice: The deliberate, symbolic destruction of life or wealth, best exemplified by the Aztec sacrifices or Native American potlatch ceremonies. These acts waste the accursed share to achieve a transcendent, spiritual connection with the sacred.
Unproductive Expenditure: The pursuit of luxury, art, and eroticism. Because the ultimate end of all "utility" is uselessness, engaging in purposeless spending is the ultimate realization of freedom.

For further reading on how Bataille contrasts "general economy" with modern capitalism, you can explore the full text of The Accursed Share.

Real Sovereignty Disdains Rational Utility!

It's the SuperEgo NOT the Ego!

Fake News

Sundance, "Media Source Changes Story - DoJ is Not Investigating Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll"

CBS has rewritten their storyline as they now claim their “source” has reversed position. Originally, CBS claimed the U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois was investigating the mentally unstable E. Jean Carroll, the woman who falsely accused President Trump of rape sometime approximately 30 or 40-years ago, she’s not sure.

Now CBS is reporting their source changed the story and the DOJ investigation is actually into the American Future Republic PAC, which is a non-profit run by Reid Hoffman, the man who funded the fraudulent political lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll. A substantive difference in narrative.

Source
(Via CBS) – […] “On Wednesday evening, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News that the investigation was focused on whether Carroll had committed perjury during a deposition in connection with her civil lawsuits against Mr. Trump in which she alleged he had sexually abused and defamed her.

On Thursday, however, that source followed up and said Carroll is not the target of the investigation, which is focused on funding that Hoffman’s nonprofit, American Future Republic, provided to help cover some of her legal team’s expenses.

[…] Carroll accused Mr. Trump of sexually abusing her in a New York City department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and she published an account of the encounter in New York Magazine in 2019. Mr. Trump subsequently denied assaulting her and said Carroll wasn’t his “type.” In 2019, Carroll sued Mr. Trump for defamation, but the case stalled in court.

She then filed a second defamation lawsuit in 2022, adding a claim of rape under ¹New York’s Adult Survivors Act

Carroll sued Mr. Trump in two civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse and defamation. In 2023, a jury found Mr. Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation for comments he made in 2022. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages. (read more)
¹The New York Adult Survivors Act was written by NY legislature specifically to create a legal mechanism for E Jean Carroll to file the lawsuit.

The Adult Survivors Act (ASA) is a New York State law that created a one-year window, from November 24, 2022, to November 24, 2023, allowing adult survivors of sexual assault to file civil lawsuits even if the statute of limitations had expired. {source}

The entire purpose of the ASA was to give Ms. Carroll a window to file the lawsuit against President Trump. Her lawsuit was the only one filed during the one-year window. That’s Lawfare in action.