Jesus! A (Surprisingly) Revealing Conversation With DNC Chair Ken Martin July 14, 2025 But first . . . OPRT The annual meeting is scheduled for Friday at 11am EDT. I missed this press release last week; but if you own OPRT and missed it, too, take a look. If you haven’t voted your shares, or you voted them for management, or you can’t remember whether you voted, I urge you to follow the ISS recommendation and vote AGAINST management. It’s not too late to cast or switch your vote. (Check your email for the subject OPORTUN, which was likely sent by your broker.) It will be interesting to see what the stock does if management wins (I think it could still be $12 in a year) . . . loses (it could be $12 next week and $30 or more in a year or three) . . . or settles with the dissidents in advance of the meeting (someplace in between?). All this, of course, with money you can truly afford to lose. A CRUEL AND BRUTISH NATION “I’d like to punch him in the face,” said our bone-spur president, who has condemned millions to die by cutting off Congressionally appropriated aid. Check out the conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz” — to the extent you even can. According to Gallup, this is not what most Americans want. Indeed, most Americans, I think, would like us to be seen as — and actually to be — a big-hearted, generous nation (within sensible, practical limits). Almost no Americans are communists. But more Americans are socialists, to one degree or another, than they realize. They support public schools. They support Medicare and Medicaid. They support public roads and public police forces and public fire departments. They support a graduated income tax and Social Security and food assistance for children living in poverty. Many of these good people look to Jesus for guidance on what kind of lives to lead. They would surely agree with this graphic: The important thing, 2000 years later, is to attach the word “democratic” to “socialist.” Jesus would have been horrified by the cruel, brutal, un-democratic socialist regimes in Russia, North Korea, and elsewhere. Democratic socialist countries (including the U.S., with its public schools, roads, social safety net, etc.) embrace well-regulated capitalism and, especially, allow the people to hold their leaders accountable in free and fair elections. So the graphic above could be one to cut and paste as you pursue your DIS-disinformation efforts . . . . . . along with these two that I have previously shared: And now . . . A (Surprisingly) Revealing Conversation With DNC Chair Ken Martin BONUS Hey, Cowboy (90 seconds) — posted a few months ago at “n0twoke” (whatever that is).