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Monday, March 16, 2020
Trouble at Truthdig
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Tucker Carlson vs. Max Boot (and Ralph Peters)
The satisfaction of watching a fanatical neocon like @MaxBoot be reduced to a sputtering mess is hard to match https://t.co/1ezswaYccX
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) July 13, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Kunstler: The Pause That Refreshes.
Kunstler: The Pause That Refreshes.
Let’s take a breather from more consequential money matters at hand midweek to consider the tending moods of our time and place — while a blizzard howls outside the window, and nervous Federal Reserve officials pace the grim halls of the Eccles Building.
It is clear by now that we have four corners of American politics these days: the utterly lost and delusional Democratic party; the feckless Republicans; the permanent Deep State of bureaucratic foot-soldiers and errand boys; and Trump, the Golem-King of the Coming Greatness. Wherefore, and what the fuck, you might ask.
The Democrats reduced themselves to a gang of sadistic neo-Maoists seeking to eradicate anything that resembles free expression across the land in the name of social justice. Coercion has been their coin of the realm, and especially in the realm of ideas where “diversity” means stepping on your opponent’s neck until he pretends to agree with your Newspeak brand of grad school neologisms and “inclusion” means welcome if you’re just like us. I say Maoists because just like Mao’s “Red Guard” of rampaging students in 1966, their mission is to “correct” the thinking of those who might dare to oppose the established leader. Only in this case, that established leader happened to lose the sure-thing election and the party finds itself unbelievably out-of-power and suddenly purposeless, like a termite mound without a queen, the workers and soldiers fleeing the power center in an hysteria of lost identity.
They regrouped briefly after the election debacle to fight an imaginary adversary, Russia, the phantom ghost-bear, who supposedly stepped on their termite mound and killed the queen, but, strangely, no actual evidence was ever found of the ghost-bear’s paw-print. And ever since that fact was starkly revealed by former NSA chief James Clapper on NBC’s Meet the Press, the Russia hallucination has vanished from page one of the party’s media outlets — though, in an interesting last gasp of striving correctitude, Monday’s New York Times features a front page story detailing Georgetown University’s hateful traffic in the slave trade two centuries ago. That should suffice to shut the wicked place down for once and for all! [Kunstler's snark aside, you can read the article "A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown" here Update: I found out about this one from The Advocate--P.Z.] The Republican Party, to avoid going full-Whig and sliding down the laundry chute of history, made a bad deal for a new figurehead who is liable to make the party look way worse than it could ever accomplish on its own. This golden boy has dragged the party poobahs to the put-up-or-shut-up room of our nation’s capital — the place that Senator Rand Paul was searching high and low for last week — where they are charged with reforming the country’s health care racket. It looks for now like they will cook up a toxic farrago of new giveaways to their patrons in the hospital cartel, the insurance companies, and pharma. The voting public already detects the odor of 30-day-old carp in the first tastings of the dish. There’s a fair chance that the recipe will end up getting tossed in the capitol dumpster, and that in itself could finish the party because there’s little question that the current system known as ObamaCare or the Affordable Care Act (not) is something like a fatal tumor in the nation’s craw. If the effort to fix that fails, the Republicans complete their transformation from the Party of No to the Party of Just Go.
The Deep State seems eager to sever its connections to both putrifying parties and attempt to run the groaning colossus of government ad hoc if necessary. The military and intel chains of command remain intact, along with their “assets,” and one can easily imagine anxious meetings of scenario-running in the back rooms of the Pentagon and the Langley frat house. What if…? “What if we just smoke the fucker?” an old Agency warrior remarks offhand, and the roomful of colleagues pause in their cogitations to weigh the notion. Some of them nod and make a moue, and others just cough into their sleeves. One young striver in the back mentions “a little something” they’ve been working on that involves hairspray and a neurotoxin derived from the Gaboon viper….
And then there is our President himself: Donald J. Trump, in the awesome solitude of his Twitterverse dome. A strange destiny brought him to his place in history thus far, and many of us surveying the scene lo these many months kind of get it: the festering disgust with the other three corners of American power; the dismal fall of the middle class into a purgatory of repossession, idleness, opiates, and tattoos; the accelerating purposeless of the dwindling consumer economy; the matrix of racketeering that systematically drains everyone’s financial mojo while adding humiliation to the shoddy service it delivers; the pointless, costly wars in faraway places and their conversion into permanent shit-holes; the disgraceful disfigurement of a once grand national landscape into a wilderness of dying malls and freeway ramps.
So, onto the scene strides The Donald, a giant among the squalling midgets of our time, with his promise to bigly re-greatify this suffering land. I suppose he means well in his torturous way. So did a lot of other figures in history who found themselves at the top: Idi Amin, Uncle Joe Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, King Leopold of Belgium, Adolf You-Know-Who, Pol Pot. The list of the well-meaning is very long.
Let’s take a breather from more consequential money matters at hand midweek to consider the tending moods of our time and place — while a blizzard howls outside the window, and nervous Federal Reserve officials pace the grim halls of the Eccles Building.
It is clear by now that we have four corners of American politics these days: the utterly lost and delusional Democratic party; the feckless Republicans; the permanent Deep State of bureaucratic foot-soldiers and errand boys; and Trump, the Golem-King of the Coming Greatness. Wherefore, and what the fuck, you might ask.
The Democrats reduced themselves to a gang of sadistic neo-Maoists seeking to eradicate anything that resembles free expression across the land in the name of social justice. Coercion has been their coin of the realm, and especially in the realm of ideas where “diversity” means stepping on your opponent’s neck until he pretends to agree with your Newspeak brand of grad school neologisms and “inclusion” means welcome if you’re just like us. I say Maoists because just like Mao’s “Red Guard” of rampaging students in 1966, their mission is to “correct” the thinking of those who might dare to oppose the established leader. Only in this case, that established leader happened to lose the sure-thing election and the party finds itself unbelievably out-of-power and suddenly purposeless, like a termite mound without a queen, the workers and soldiers fleeing the power center in an hysteria of lost identity.
They regrouped briefly after the election debacle to fight an imaginary adversary, Russia, the phantom ghost-bear, who supposedly stepped on their termite mound and killed the queen, but, strangely, no actual evidence was ever found of the ghost-bear’s paw-print. And ever since that fact was starkly revealed by former NSA chief James Clapper on NBC’s Meet the Press, the Russia hallucination has vanished from page one of the party’s media outlets — though, in an interesting last gasp of striving correctitude, Monday’s New York Times features a front page story detailing Georgetown University’s hateful traffic in the slave trade two centuries ago. That should suffice to shut the wicked place down for once and for all! [Kunstler's snark aside, you can read the article "A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown" here Update: I found out about this one from The Advocate--P.Z.] The Republican Party, to avoid going full-Whig and sliding down the laundry chute of history, made a bad deal for a new figurehead who is liable to make the party look way worse than it could ever accomplish on its own. This golden boy has dragged the party poobahs to the put-up-or-shut-up room of our nation’s capital — the place that Senator Rand Paul was searching high and low for last week — where they are charged with reforming the country’s health care racket. It looks for now like they will cook up a toxic farrago of new giveaways to their patrons in the hospital cartel, the insurance companies, and pharma. The voting public already detects the odor of 30-day-old carp in the first tastings of the dish. There’s a fair chance that the recipe will end up getting tossed in the capitol dumpster, and that in itself could finish the party because there’s little question that the current system known as ObamaCare or the Affordable Care Act (not) is something like a fatal tumor in the nation’s craw. If the effort to fix that fails, the Republicans complete their transformation from the Party of No to the Party of Just Go.
The Deep State seems eager to sever its connections to both putrifying parties and attempt to run the groaning colossus of government ad hoc if necessary. The military and intel chains of command remain intact, along with their “assets,” and one can easily imagine anxious meetings of scenario-running in the back rooms of the Pentagon and the Langley frat house. What if…? “What if we just smoke the fucker?” an old Agency warrior remarks offhand, and the roomful of colleagues pause in their cogitations to weigh the notion. Some of them nod and make a moue, and others just cough into their sleeves. One young striver in the back mentions “a little something” they’ve been working on that involves hairspray and a neurotoxin derived from the Gaboon viper….
And then there is our President himself: Donald J. Trump, in the awesome solitude of his Twitterverse dome. A strange destiny brought him to his place in history thus far, and many of us surveying the scene lo these many months kind of get it: the festering disgust with the other three corners of American power; the dismal fall of the middle class into a purgatory of repossession, idleness, opiates, and tattoos; the accelerating purposeless of the dwindling consumer economy; the matrix of racketeering that systematically drains everyone’s financial mojo while adding humiliation to the shoddy service it delivers; the pointless, costly wars in faraway places and their conversion into permanent shit-holes; the disgraceful disfigurement of a once grand national landscape into a wilderness of dying malls and freeway ramps.
So, onto the scene strides The Donald, a giant among the squalling midgets of our time, with his promise to bigly re-greatify this suffering land. I suppose he means well in his torturous way. So did a lot of other figures in history who found themselves at the top: Idi Amin, Uncle Joe Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, King Leopold of Belgium, Adolf You-Know-Who, Pol Pot. The list of the well-meaning is very long.
Monday, October 03, 2016
Proyect vs. Blumenthal
Get your popcorn.
Louis Proyect: "Max Blumenthal Follows Ben Norton Down the Bloody Primrose Path."
We'll see if Blumenthal replies to Proyect. Though he concedes anti-anti-Assadism has been "confined to marginal websites, including some very unsavory ones."
Update: He does, sort of.
Louis Proyect: "Max Blumenthal Follows Ben Norton Down the Bloody Primrose Path."
We'll see if Blumenthal replies to Proyect. Though he concedes anti-anti-Assadism has been "confined to marginal websites, including some very unsavory ones."
The fear factor is why analysis challenging regime change has been largely confined to marginal websites, including some very unsavory ones
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 3, 2016
Update: He does, sort of.
Cheer on Al-Nusra and bash the left for failing to do the same https://t.co/m6WVl1TvWh #WokeSyriaHandbook
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 3, 2016
Thursday, August 25, 2016
It's easy to get caught up in the Trumpocalypse & forget to appreciate conservatives destroying each other over it pic.twitter.com/1JHsVcQnnP
— TBogg (@tbogg) August 25, 2016
The Republican Gomorrah moment is here, and the Democrats will be more united behind Hillary than the GOP behind Trump, but Tbogg shouldn't be too smug. E.g.,
.@DrJillStein Feminism is about de-militarization & assuring a just future for all. #JillNotHill https://t.co/eCAKBkDbef
— Green Party US (@GreenPartyUS) August 18, 2016
Not on Facebook but I'm asking progressives who are to ask ppl to vote for #JillNotHill 🌍🌻🍃☀️ #OurRevolution pic.twitter.com/sRlZujrkSH
— Lola's for Chocolate (@Ontheotherhand) August 25, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Leftier Than Thou
Margaret Kimberley notes "Liberal Hate for the Green Party" and especially its candidates Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka.
The degree of antipathy is actually quite useful. It tells us why the Green Party is so important and why liberals are such a dangerous enemy.
The World Socialist Web Site isn't impressed:
WSWS.org: Green Party candidates at CNN town hall: Promoting illusions in the capitalist system
Acting as a flank of bourgeois politics, the Greens promote nothing more than protest and pressure politics within the confines of the existing economic and political system.
A link on WSWS.org leads to the campaign website for Jerry White and Niles Niemuth, running for president and vice president on the Socialist Equality ticket.
Jerry White, 56, is the US labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site. He joined the Workers League, the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party, in 1979, while working at United Parcel Service and attending the City University of New York. For nearly four decades, as a writer and activist, Jerry has played a major role in the struggles of the working class. He was the SEP’s presidential candidate in 2008 and 2012.
Niles Niemuth, 28, was raised in a working-class family in Wisconsin and became a member of the SEP during the 2011 mass protests against budget cuts imposed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Niles joined the staff of the WSWS after completing his master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where he specialized in African-American history. Niemuth has written extensively on US social conditions, working-class struggles and the government’s assault on democratic rights.
The degree of antipathy is actually quite useful. It tells us why the Green Party is so important and why liberals are such a dangerous enemy.
The World Socialist Web Site isn't impressed:
WSWS.org: Green Party candidates at CNN town hall: Promoting illusions in the capitalist system
Acting as a flank of bourgeois politics, the Greens promote nothing more than protest and pressure politics within the confines of the existing economic and political system.
A link on WSWS.org leads to the campaign website for Jerry White and Niles Niemuth, running for president and vice president on the Socialist Equality ticket.
Jerry White, 56, is the US labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site. He joined the Workers League, the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party, in 1979, while working at United Parcel Service and attending the City University of New York. For nearly four decades, as a writer and activist, Jerry has played a major role in the struggles of the working class. He was the SEP’s presidential candidate in 2008 and 2012.
Niles Niemuth, 28, was raised in a working-class family in Wisconsin and became a member of the SEP during the 2011 mass protests against budget cuts imposed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Niles joined the staff of the WSWS after completing his master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where he specialized in African-American history. Niemuth has written extensively on US social conditions, working-class struggles and the government’s assault on democratic rights.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Maybe when I have time later I can explore this more:
Clinton cultists are weirdly depressing https://t.co/Qcd5rnYV9D
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) May 13, 2016
Clintons, Greenwald, Coates--all shelter their riches in LLCs while scolding the rest of us https://t.co/waRVJ5ffg5
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) May 13, 2016
(Mark Ames has had a problem with Ron Paul for years. But his mention of Bernie means maybe he's not totally in the tank for him.)
The only person in Congress courageous enough to vote against AUMF & unlimited wars—not Ron Paul, not Bernie Sanders https://t.co/MGzFkls1bi
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) May 18, 2016
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Politico with a good case for nominating Sanders https://t.co/IrOLUW3JX0
— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) May 16, 2016
Saturday, January 23, 2016
National Review vs. Trump.
National Review vs. Trump.
"Here are the names of the conservative leaders trying to stop Trump:
•Thomas Sowell, economist.
•Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center.
•Glenn Beck, founder of The Blaze.
•Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey, former U.S. attorney generals.
•Dana Loesch and Michael Medved, syndicated radio hosts.
•Cal Thomas and Mona Charen, syndicated columnists.
•William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard.
•R. R. Reno, editor of First Things.
•John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary.
•Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs.
•Mark Helprin, novelist.
•Andrew C. McCarthy, contributing editor, National Review.
•Erick Erickson, founder of The Resurgent.
•David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth.
•Steven F. Hayward, author and presidential scholar.
•Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist.
•David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
•Katie Pavlich, editor of Townhall.com editor.
•Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention."
Update:
"Here are the names of the conservative leaders trying to stop Trump:
•Thomas Sowell, economist.
•Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center.
•Glenn Beck, founder of The Blaze.
•Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey, former U.S. attorney generals.
•Dana Loesch and Michael Medved, syndicated radio hosts.
•Cal Thomas and Mona Charen, syndicated columnists.
•William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard.
•R. R. Reno, editor of First Things.
•John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary.
•Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs.
•Mark Helprin, novelist.
•Andrew C. McCarthy, contributing editor, National Review.
•Erick Erickson, founder of The Resurgent.
•David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth.
•Steven F. Hayward, author and presidential scholar.
•Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist.
•David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute.
•Katie Pavlich, editor of Townhall.com editor.
•Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention."
Update:
Does it matter that National Review violated IRS nonprofit rules in urging voters to oppose Trump? https://t.co/3o3efRMf1B @KatrinaPierson
— Justin Raimondo (@JustinRaimondo) January 24, 2016
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