Politically speaking, I watch Jimmy Dore and Kyle Kulinski and David Doel and Aaron Mate’. I listen with increasing appreciation to TrueAnon, out past Michael Moore and Matt Taibbi who are still on the list too. I doubt this will change soon.

But I also have reason to care more on certain days about immediate existential issues than I do about who scored on who, over at the Twitters.

Seeking real information about what’s happening with the latest failed stimulus bills and fading UI benefits, I’ve come across Dr. Nitin Chhoda. I’d link, but just put that unusual last name into the YouTubes and you’ll get there.

He’s no revolutionary. He preaches the gospel of the Murican Dream, and waves the flag explicitly for ‘American exceptionalism’ without appearing to understand the baggage of the phrase. It would be easy to write him off as another get-rich-quick salesman, because he is one on some level. But he also happens to be doing the best job I’ve seen, of covering the lows and highs in Congress, and of explaining why there hasn’t been anything in the way of relief passed in almost four months.

Some days lately there have been four of five videos a day. I don’t watch many of them, but when I dip in, I’ve been impressed. For an entrepreneurial capitalist, he’s got heart. He nearly broke down crying the other day while noting that were up against 200K in corona deaths.

The latest is that Trump is once again kicking against the gridlock and signalling a willingness to negotiate, much like what happened when he spit out a little executive relief last month for a few weeks on the unemployment scene.

Don’t fret. I still hate him. But I have no reason in my wallet or heart for hating Nancy any less.

A small extra benefit to watching Chhoda has been what appears in the sidebar as suggested viewing. I found another video that linked out to a place that pays you to turn books into audio versions. A side gig as voice talent.

Bookmarked. It might beat going back to the ugly world of gainful employment.