Things have been in the twilight zone lately. Captain America a member of Hydra? Movies like the Man in the High Tower, where the Nazis rule America? Russians in the white house?
And a fracking Russian Agent as President of the USA!
FRACK!
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Research & Journalism
This article gives wonderful insight to the importance of "reading everything" when researching a person & seeking evidence or understanding about a person. In this article he talks about Lyndon Baines Johnson origins, fictions & deeds as a politician.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/the-secrets-of-lyndon-johnsons-archives
Monday, January 21, 2019
Selling the Country for Parts
The Russian Mob merges with the USA One
Last year I wrote about the relationship between what our Republican operatives did to the Russians after the collapse of the soviet Union and how that paved the way for them to infiltrate our own government. I titled the post.
Well that gift is the gift that keeps giving. There is abundant evidence now that that is exactly what Trump, combined with Trumpist Repubican Grifters, operatives and ₽rivateers, Russian and American, seem to be trying to do.
Experts on Authoritarianism, the mob, like Malcolm Nance or Sarah Kenzior
(and amateurs like me) are pretty sure that this
current shutdown is no accident!
- Trump's Shutdown is a “a power-grab as a policy proposal”
- “insert[s] misleading statistics, grisly depictions of violence”
- Feigns a “fatuous humanitarian framework”
- Overstates grossly “the threat of Central American migrants”
- Deflects from the reckless, violent & criminal treatment of refugees
- and their children
The unsaid words of every Donald Trump demand are the most important,
for they never change: “Or else.”
“Forget the Wall Trump is the National Security Crisis”
Trump is following the rules and protocols of countless dictators to get into power and expand that power until they had total control of the government and could use that power for themselves with impunity. Trump's shutdown is not about the wall now, just as his pre-campaign propaganda strategy was not about Obama's birth certificate. It is the second act in a plot to destroy democracy. His shutdown is part of a campaign of extortion. She writes about Trump's speech Sunday:
“the speech was akin to a hostage video, and American Viewers were his captive audience.” [Sarah Kendzior]
We watch in horror as Trump tries to gin up a “national emergency” and indoctrinate people with sufficient fear and hatred that he can end Democracy in this country. He's also using Trump to destroy NATO, help destroy the European Union, and undermine the entire West, but that is for another post.
“Trump has taunted us with talk of declaring a “national emergency” – an act which gives him the power to do things like kill the internet, freeze bank accounts, and turn military troops into a domestic police force. We watched because Mr. Trump has long applauded death through his praise of dictators and criminals. We watched because the path to American autocracy was laid out upon his election, and we wanted to know which victims were next.” [Sarah Kendzior]
The playbook demands that he “ceaselessly goad” (indoctrinate) people to live in his “noxious fantasy world” with the help of a feckless and enabling media. If we don't stop him and those who actually like his authoritarian, and kleptocratic agenda –soon– we will soon be beyond the point where we can.
I have a lot more to say on this. But I think this is enough for this post.
On this day one has to think of Martin Luther King:
- “We gave the Russians Oligarchy & now they are giving back"
- http://holtesthoughts.blogspot.com/2017/03/we-gave-russians-oligarchs-now-they-are.html?m=0
- Forget the Wall. Trump is the National Security Crisis:
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-forget-the-wall-trump-is-the-national-security-crisis/
- Malcolm Nance The Plot to Destroy America: How Putin and his Spies are Undermining America, and dismantling the West
- With Trump's Help
- https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Destroy-Democracy-Undermining-Dismantling/dp/0316484814
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Dug in Dugin Traditionalism as Evangelical Heresy
Duginism is Alexander Dugin & Putin's World Wide Fascist Movement
Duginism is an ideology created by Alexander Dugin, in tandem with the Russian State. It is obviously meant to serve as both a domestic and an export ideology. It replaces the Leninist ideology, which at least on its face was intended to be modernist and pro science and technology, with the older "conservative", "nationalist" and "traditionalist" & "Eurasionist" ideologies put on the backburner. Dugin, Putin and the post "Glasnost" Russians have dusted off Russian Chauvinism and tried to fashion it into something new. They may call it "fourth political theory" but it is just fascism rebranded. Fascism was always about manipulating people using ideology, patriotism and emotion. Duginism is just a modern variant.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Is Shutdown a Revolutionary Strategy?
Trump is picking a fight on the wall because he is following his strategy of "break and blame." He is a thoroughly corrupt grifter, but he is also a master of labeling and showmanship. He thinks shutting down the government is win/win, marketing, and that breaking the government will get him reelected. He'd like to institute a one party dictatorship, but mostly he just relishes fighting and causing chaos. His goal is to enrage his base, use violence & overt fraud to shut down the opposition & rule by decree; and his base love it0. The could be just the first step in a break and then claim to fix, strategy. He'll claim that it was his brilliance that reopened the government when it eventually does. Despite the reality that it is his stupidity that shut it down in the first place.
But meanwhile he blames "the democrats" for not giving him his wall. I expect him to call for the power to build his wall by decree. If things escalate, and he thinks he can get away with it, he'll launch incidents to make his claims seem plausible so he can suspend congress & habeas corpus to rule by decree. I hope he never gets the opportunity.
On the other hand I'm hoping he's not that smart and is just being a pig.