I noticed with a modicum of alarm that there are now more than five thousand missives posted on this blog. What a humongous waste of time that's been!
But it's been therapeutic for me, at some level...
Take this post on the gangster state of Montenegro from three years ago.
Three years on, Montenegro is now a fully made member of the NATO gang. How is that even possible?
Well, dear reader, the most implausible possibilities have come to pass.
Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. How the fuck did that happen?
It's hard to know what to say...
My favourite "leftish" web-site, Counterpunch, has of late been inundated with anti-fascist screeds extolling the virtues of beating up fascists in the streets.
Who is a fascist?
Apparently it's anyone who looks like they might have voted for Trump. It's OK to beat those folks up, whether they voted for Trump or not, because after all, if well-meaning folks had beat down more proto-fascists in the streets of Berlin in the 1920's, Hitler would never have happened.
This is a narrative wholly ignorant of the street violence of 1920's Germany. Violence inevitably begets more violence. The parties most amenable to maximum violence will prevail in the end. And then what?
And then fascism, that's what.
This man, Trump, was at one time the toast of the Professional Black Activist class in America. Your google key can find you all sorts of smarmy liberal feel-good celebrations featuring Trump and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Today Trump is deemed the embodiment of White Supremacist ideology in America. He's brought fascism to the USA.
Bullshit.
America went fascist long before Trump. One could argue that America was already there by the time Ike made his famous speech warning of the dangers of the military-industrial complex.
Maybe Harvey and Irma will help Americans figure out who they really are...
Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Monday, May 23, 2016
Why are all those noxious neocon turds aligning behind Hillary?
The mainstream "liberal" Toronto Star saw fit to run an opinion piece by neocon turd supremo Robert Kagan the other day, the gist of which was that America is flirting with fascism.
Yup, it's that Trump thing.
Trump is the Pied Piper of populism - the American Hitler. Yessiree, America today is just like Germany in the thirties.
There are of course innumerable reasons why America today is nothing whatsoever like Germany in the thirties.
Today, America remains the world's only super-power.
In the thirties, Germany was just digging itself out of failed-state status.
Alas, those parallels are not the ones that Kagan et al would like us to focus on. Whereas Germany was digging itself out of failed-state status in the thirties, America in 2016 is digging itself deeper in.
You see the signs of it everywhere.
The decaying infrastructure.
The student loan crisis.
The failed health care system.
The ninety million working-age Americans not "participating" in the workforce, because if we counted them as unemployed the unemployment rate would be at crisis levels.
America is fucked.
But if you've noticed, it's been salad days for big pharma, the weapons purveyors, and the prison-industrial complex, among others.
That would be the crowd Robert Kagan shills for.
Yes, business has never been better for that tiny elite who have been profiting from America's decline!
That's why Donald J. Trump is such a threat to the status quo.
Trump might, and "might" is the key word here, just upset the apple cart. What a disaster it would be for the Kagan crowd if Trump actually did make peace with Putin. What, no more reason to outspend Russia on bombs and bullets by a factor of ten to one?
That would absolutely cripple the bombs and bullets complex and the dozens of Washington think tanks they fund, wouldn't it?
That said, I fear that the more mainstream advisers Trump takes on, the more likely it is that he will be co-opted by the prevailing DC geist. Nevertheless, there remains a sliver of a chance that Trump "might" overturn the status quo.
After all, he's said "you're fired" before, and maybe those are the words a lot of those establishment advisers could be hearing right after Cleveland.
Which is why those noxious neocon turds are stampeding to the safety of Hillary Clinton.
Yup, it's that Trump thing.
Trump is the Pied Piper of populism - the American Hitler. Yessiree, America today is just like Germany in the thirties.
There are of course innumerable reasons why America today is nothing whatsoever like Germany in the thirties.
Today, America remains the world's only super-power.
In the thirties, Germany was just digging itself out of failed-state status.
Alas, those parallels are not the ones that Kagan et al would like us to focus on. Whereas Germany was digging itself out of failed-state status in the thirties, America in 2016 is digging itself deeper in.
You see the signs of it everywhere.
The decaying infrastructure.
The student loan crisis.
The failed health care system.
The ninety million working-age Americans not "participating" in the workforce, because if we counted them as unemployed the unemployment rate would be at crisis levels.
America is fucked.
But if you've noticed, it's been salad days for big pharma, the weapons purveyors, and the prison-industrial complex, among others.
That would be the crowd Robert Kagan shills for.
Yes, business has never been better for that tiny elite who have been profiting from America's decline!
That's why Donald J. Trump is such a threat to the status quo.
Trump might, and "might" is the key word here, just upset the apple cart. What a disaster it would be for the Kagan crowd if Trump actually did make peace with Putin. What, no more reason to outspend Russia on bombs and bullets by a factor of ten to one?
That would absolutely cripple the bombs and bullets complex and the dozens of Washington think tanks they fund, wouldn't it?
That said, I fear that the more mainstream advisers Trump takes on, the more likely it is that he will be co-opted by the prevailing DC geist. Nevertheless, there remains a sliver of a chance that Trump "might" overturn the status quo.
After all, he's said "you're fired" before, and maybe those are the words a lot of those establishment advisers could be hearing right after Cleveland.
Which is why those noxious neocon turds are stampeding to the safety of Hillary Clinton.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Bomb Iran crowd waxing hysterical over prospective nuke deal
Because what America really needs most is more war!
All the usual Iran-haters are circling the wagons and warning that the doomsday clock is about to strike midnight if the Kerry negotiations reach a successful conclusion.
Here's Charles Krauthammer; he's got this pegged as the "worst deal in American diplomatic history."
Not to be outdone, fellow war-monger John Bolton introduces an international perspective by claiming this deal is "America's Munich." That's code for Kerry is the dupe Chamberlain to Rouhani's Hitler. If Bolton had his druthers he would have bombed Iran years ago.
But wait, those dastardly towel-heads are even worse than that... in fact, they are even worse than ISIS, if such a thing can be imagined! Yup, no less a fear-monger than the Greatest Leader Since Moses came up with that one!
The prospect of a deal is a little more personal for Netanyahu; he's crafted a thirty year political career out of claiming the Iranians are months away from a nuclear weapon.
Wonder what surprises he has in his tool kit to scare his country's voters going forward?
All the usual Iran-haters are circling the wagons and warning that the doomsday clock is about to strike midnight if the Kerry negotiations reach a successful conclusion.
Here's Charles Krauthammer; he's got this pegged as the "worst deal in American diplomatic history."
Not to be outdone, fellow war-monger John Bolton introduces an international perspective by claiming this deal is "America's Munich." That's code for Kerry is the dupe Chamberlain to Rouhani's Hitler. If Bolton had his druthers he would have bombed Iran years ago.
But wait, those dastardly towel-heads are even worse than that... in fact, they are even worse than ISIS, if such a thing can be imagined! Yup, no less a fear-monger than the Greatest Leader Since Moses came up with that one!
The prospect of a deal is a little more personal for Netanyahu; he's crafted a thirty year political career out of claiming the Iranians are months away from a nuclear weapon.
Wonder what surprises he has in his tool kit to scare his country's voters going forward?
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Crimes of the educators
Ran across this gem on my random internet ramblings this evening.
Yes, it's obvious that educators are guilty of crimes against humanity, insofar as their endeavours have produced a public sufficiently gullible to accept that Obama's America shares a page in the history books with Pol Pot's Cambodia, Hitler's Germany, or Stalin's Russia.
Unfortunately, this calibre of imbecility didn't erupt under Obama.
Sam Blumenfeld was born in 1927.
His co-author was educated in a firmly pro-American-exceptionalism pre-Obama era.
Not that Obama has in any way backed down from the doctrine of American exceptionalism.
But folks who have been educated in the no-fault era wouldn't know that. Nor would they recognize that Blumenfeld and Newman are wall-to-wall bullshit.
Thinking back to the last election cycle, I recall that moment when Mitt Romney castigated a critic for forgetting that corporations are people too.
Corporations are not people.
America in general gave Mitt's egregious insult a free pass; after all, the Supreme court had given the corporations-are-people nonsense a pass too.
So it must be true!
By the way, nobody on the supreme court had the misfortune of getting their primary education under "common core."
Yet they were fully able to come up with such an outrageously moronic ruling.
And when they did, they weren't tarred and feathered or run out of town or strung from the nearest lamppost.
No, American education has been heading down the shitter for a long time, and it's a phenomenon that has nothing to do with Obama and very little to do with educators.
It's a by-product of the Zeitgeist.
Yes, it's obvious that educators are guilty of crimes against humanity, insofar as their endeavours have produced a public sufficiently gullible to accept that Obama's America shares a page in the history books with Pol Pot's Cambodia, Hitler's Germany, or Stalin's Russia.
Unfortunately, this calibre of imbecility didn't erupt under Obama.
Sam Blumenfeld was born in 1927.
His co-author was educated in a firmly pro-American-exceptionalism pre-Obama era.
Not that Obama has in any way backed down from the doctrine of American exceptionalism.
But folks who have been educated in the no-fault era wouldn't know that. Nor would they recognize that Blumenfeld and Newman are wall-to-wall bullshit.
Thinking back to the last election cycle, I recall that moment when Mitt Romney castigated a critic for forgetting that corporations are people too.
Corporations are not people.
America in general gave Mitt's egregious insult a free pass; after all, the Supreme court had given the corporations-are-people nonsense a pass too.
So it must be true!
By the way, nobody on the supreme court had the misfortune of getting their primary education under "common core."
Yet they were fully able to come up with such an outrageously moronic ruling.
And when they did, they weren't tarred and feathered or run out of town or strung from the nearest lamppost.
No, American education has been heading down the shitter for a long time, and it's a phenomenon that has nothing to do with Obama and very little to do with educators.
It's a by-product of the Zeitgeist.
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