POLITICS -- I am feeling optimistic and other crazy talk ABOUT OUR BRAND NEW, SHINY, 21ST CENTURY, SOCIAL MEDIA INDUCED WAR
Greetings. Welcome back. This is going to be a bit rushed. Real life and paid writing has gotten in the way. Remember, no matter how bad things get, make it a priority to take care of yourself, then focus on those around you, and, then, ultimately, make time to save democracy and the free world. That’s important too, you know. And, if you can, help the animal and the environment too. Those are also important.
Why am I feeling optimistic? Despite Trump’s new war with Iran? Or because of it?
Well for one thing, I have gotten Congressman Paul Tonko’s communications director to start looking at this column. Now besides the fact that means that she is now well informed on the horrors of the 19th Century Cuban coolie trade from Southern China, what else do i hope to accomplish by this?
Well, for starters although I am absolutely certain that she and the congressman are quite aware already that a sitting US president gave complete access and control of the federal government to a drug crazed, out of control, racist billionaire who fired people en masse at random, destroying agencies and causing the deaths of large numbers of innocent people around the globe, harming the quality of life of millions of Americans, and demoralizing and destroying the careers of thousands upon thousands of federal government workers, and stealing all of our personal data for private and unethical use, I am not sure if they have a sound understanding of possible motivation for these actions by Musk, the tech billionaires, and their sometimes puppet Donald Trump.
One such motivation for the purges and destruction of the US government by billionaire, White South African adult children of apartheid tech oligarch and all-round psycho Elon Musk is found in the writings of an obscure figure using the name “Curtis Yarvin” as he writes about something called “The Dark Enlightenment.” Now this sounds like “crazy talk” -at times i feel like i am living in a superhero comic world minus the superheroes but only with the supervillains - but at this point Heather Cox Richardson, historian and highly respected columnist, is quite aware of this threat (see short video last week and long video this week shared below). So the fact that Congressman Paul Tonko, as stated both publicly and privately, is a pretty smart and responsible guy, and his having staff members who are reading this makes me feel more optimistic that they will put this idea in their mental tool box to interpret events and thus I feel a bit more optimistic about the future of the world and our democracy.
But what about that war our glorious leader just caused, the one his own hand-selected head of national security said was unnecessary and the one which none of the USA’s traditional allies support or were even notified about?
(except of course Israel but at this point it’s about impossible to think of the Israelis as “good guys” -it’d be nice if things turn around and Israel becomes a good guy again but at this point if your only ally is Israel,, you are probably on the wrong side. say no more)
The Good side of this stupid, pointless, unnecessary war with Iran?
Of course, war is bad. It’s always bad. At most one can argue that a war is the least bad thing but it is always bad. So why did Donald Trump attack Iran? Why? Why? Why?
And this is the good part — Donald Trump started a war in a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that everything he is doing or trying to do is not working It’s an entirely selfish, self-centered, narcissistic thing to do, and thus entirely in character.
It’s a personal recognition that he is failing and an attempt to turn that around.
Remember, with Donald Trump, everything, every decision is grounded in personal self-interest. ”
Would he think that way? Well . . .
Yeah, probably . . . 1
This war is a sign of desperation and an attempt to distract from things all around him. Hopefully it’s a sign of the beginning of the end of this craziness. The USA can gain nothing from this and will lose a lot. Many will die, others become maimed, wounded, psychologically or physically scarred for life. Donald Trump doesn’t care. He might even enjoy the idea of all the suffering. The benefit to him is not geo-political or even an end to Iran’s thoughts of getting nuclear weapons.
This newest, American war is happening because Donald Trump recognizes he is failing as a president.
The advantage to Donald Trump is that THIS WAR HIDES HIS SIX MONTHS OF WIDE SPREAD FAILURES.
Working from memory, what were Trumps big promises? Why did he appeal to swing voters?
Groceries. Trump promised to improve the economy and lower prices. Didn’t happen. Just the opposite. Things got worse.
Economic conditions. Trump promised to improve economic conditions and opportunity for the common people. Didn’t happen. Just the opposite. Things got worse.
Keep the US out of War and forge peace in Gaza and Ukraine -Didn’t happen. Just the opposite. Things got worse.
There's a pattern here.
I hope you guys noticed that not very subtle attempt at “regime change” in southern California by inducing wide spread violence and chaos and how it failed to achieve regime change. His plan failed, failed, failed. Newsom and the Mayor of Lost Angeles are still in power, there was not widespread violence, and the only thing that is clear is that Donald Trump, always unpredictable and erractic, is now suffering visibly from serious cognitive decline and unable to stay focused and ordinary people question or fear ICE much more than last month or the month before. And Newsom is getting great support and publicity with his frequent attacks on Donald Trump and his declining mental state. Another anti-Trump leader has emerged. (Do an internet search.) Nothing Trump is doing works.
No one globally really wants to talk to him because his word means so little.
His plan to head his government agencies with incompetent loyalists so that he would be the one making the decisions is failing because they are incompetent and he is not able to make consistent, focused, intelligent decisions, about things himself.
His plan to be a king is not working. (Some say he wants to be a fascist dictator. Fascism requires some sort of mass movement ideology. That’s not really present so I am saying king instead.) A lesson in dictatorship. For a dictatorship, strongman style of government to work, and work well, the people under the leader have to understand what is expected and demanded of them.
Imagine if you will that some evil person has captured you and is pointing a gun at your head. They say “I want you to do exactly what I tell you.” What’s your first reaction? Probably to do nothing and simply hear them out, before making any decision about whether to resist or comply. If their demands are simple, and they still have a gun to your head, you will probably do exactly what they want. Now imagine the same scenario but when the gunman speaks it’s tough to understand his chain of thought and he keeps changing what he wants you to do and it’s awfully confusing to understand and comprehend his demands. You realize there is no way you can possibly do exactly what this gunman wants for long because he does not know what he wants you to do himself. Well, you are in a much more difficult situation, and it suddenly seems like taking the big risk of resisting, while still dangerous, might be the better, somewhat safer but still very dangerous survival option rather than complying as complying is impossible if he does not know what he wants. Our current government is a bit like that.
But let’s look at his big promise, immigration and border security.
So how’s that going Donald?
Well for starters it is so bad that the government spokespeople have to lie. This is probably one of the most dishonest and disgusting interviews I have ever seen in my life. Check it out. If it makes sense to you, and you find her believable, fact check it. (I love the part where the spokesperson says something about her sources being “career civil servants” after DOGE and Elon Musk just purged and demoralized the career civil servants.)
His entire immigration sweeps and a quota based system aimed at terrorizing innocent people who are doing nothing immoral is not just destroying America’s reputation but it is completely unaffordable and the cost is far above budget -and it is hurting all the industries like agriculture, hotels, factories, and restaurants that use such labor.
He knows they are hurting people, both immigrant and native born, both permanent citizens and otherwise, and upsetting the general public and his response is to publicly attend a world summit the G7, and announce that he is going to therefore send more and more of these immigration raids into cities where the local people voted against him and the local politicians despise him, all mixed in with Russian Putin talking points no less. Let me suggest this is not the type of action that will make him a highly respected leader of our country and improve things for the average citizen in any way.
Plus it’s costing a lot of money and while a lot of that money is going into the pockets of Trump supporters (i.e. for profit prison and detention centers and for profit bus and plane companies, etc.) the amount of money spent is huge and it's all coming from taxpayers.
And then there is the way he turned ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, into his own secret police who bully, knock down, and arrest people from the Democratic party. I just don't think this is going to make too many ordinary people happy or be in his long term best interests.
On the positive side, hopefully one of the first signs of things falling apart is Trump turning on Stephen Miller and getting rid of him. We’ll see.
EVEN HIS BIRTHDAY PARADE WAS A BIG FAILURE =NOT ONLY WAS IT MARKED BY THE BIGGEST SINGLE DAY OF PROTEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY, protests against him, BUT THE MEXICANS AND THE NORTH KOREANS ARE BOTH LAUGHING AT HIM SAYING THEIR MILITARY PARADES ARE MUCH BETTER.
NOTE MY KOREAN IS VERY LIMITED, ABOUT 100 WORDS, AND i HAVE NOT CONFIRMED THAT THE SUBTITLES ARE AN ACCURATE TRANSLATION
On the lighter side . . .
AND NOW FOR A SERIOUS INTERVIEW BETWEEN TWO INTELLIGENT AND RESPECTED PEOPLE
Crazy Talk!! I did promise crazy talk.
You know, the kind of thing that crazy conspiracy minded, nutty people say. Well, how about this.
While Elon Musk is currently not front and center, don’t assume he’s completely gone either. He’ll be back and just to remind you, he probably has your home address, your social security number, your work address, and the names and social security numbers of all your children and his associate Peter Thiel is building something called “The Palantir Database” that will store them all, make them easily acccessible, and then they plan to turn this over to Donald Trump and JD Vance or whatever person they have in mind.
And if that’s not crazy enough do an internet search on your favorite internet search engine for “Elon Musk wants to live on Mars.” —
Look over what you find, put in context of the current regime’s lack of interest in ecology or global warming. Think about it. Wonder if you are crazy. Then think about it some more.Then watch this and learn that while Elon Musk, alleged high tech, science minded, genius guy, is in fact completely deluded and building a city on Mars is impossible for many, many reasons at this point in humanity’s technological and scientific development.
CRAZY TALK. AND I DID NOT EVEN REALLY DIG INTO THE TRULY CRAZY STUFF -NEXT WEEK PERHAPS SOME REALLY CRAZY TALK.
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