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Sunday, February 25, 2018
How fast do they grow!
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Second amendment sophism And Militia "Armed in America"
Antonin Scalia has died since I drafted this post. There were 3 separate mass shootings before I published this post. And since I published this there have been many more mass murders using fire-arms that have no business being on the street. I hope the NRA paid him well, because I'm sure he is burning in hell. To come up with Scalia's corrupt claim that the second amendment conveys a unilateral individual right to bear arms, Scalia had to corrupt the English language, parse the plain text of the first half of the second amendment and invent an interpretation that hearkens more to 80 years of NRA propaganda but not to the "originalist founders" he claimed to get his inspiration from.
The fact is that the second amendment is not and should not be a barrier to regulating arms, yet the Supreme Court in their extreme combination of recklessness and fecklessness overturned 200 years of understanding of the Second Amendment. I explained why in this post:
Why DC vs Heller was badly decided
But if you want to truly understand the Second Amendment you have to turn elsewhere from the Corrupt Supreme Court. A good place to start, indeed the smart place to start was with Patrick J Charles' book:
"Armed in America, A history of Gunrights"
While I drafted this before Scalia died. I've been researching the subject since long before the Heller decision. But I needed to do a deep dive. The Heller decision was so awful that it made me do that deep dive on the subject. Anyone wanting to understand the subject deeply should read that book. Maybe others too. It's a big subject.
Monday, February 19, 2018
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Authoritarianism Versus Authority to Fire Anyone
Imperious Trumpus
Identifying the President with the Government
This post follows How to Subvert the USA Government This post delves into what Trump's vision of a Dictatorship looks like some.
Trump met with Russian Top Spies this past week. They tried to keep that hush hush. The memo doesn't say what the Propaganda says it says. But you wouldn't know it from what Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh says. These people are touting Trump's Manfulness. They are using language intended to deify the President. Ironically the people most susceptible to this kind of thinking are folks in the Born Again Christian movement. They can't seem to tell the difference between the Anti-Christ and the return of Christ. They are looking for a Boss to tell them what to do.
Sacralizing Power
Masha Gessen writes about what is happening in the New Yorker, she quotes this tweet:
Note that the tweet contains these "buzz-words":
- Claims that officials politicized the investigation
- Calls the investigative process "sacred"
- labels the process as partisan "in favor of Democrats" & "against Republicans"
- Says that this would be "unthinkable" before.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Money Manager capitalism
Money manager capitalism is financial capitalism. But financial capitalism is only tangential to actual capital. It means money making money from money.
Put baldly it is rentier capitalism. Not concerned with machinery, or tools, roads or bridges, automation or labor but with numbers of digits on financial ledgers.
The money managers, whether managing their own, or other people's money, are primarily concerned with conserving and growing those ledger numbers abstracted from reality. Those become derivative instruments & they lose touch with the real economy, the inputs, real capital & other public goods, that drives a healthy society.
The numbers in such an economy thus become abstracted & unearned properties, & actually can threaten the people & things in the real economy.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Pirates of PenceTrump
Trump the Pirate
- Once there was a pirate,
- Who danced on the deck of his ship
- While Sailing on his Hunts
- And giving the authorities the slip
The Very Stable Genius
He started to Dance!
- I am a very stable genius!
- I am the smartest in the world!
- Nothing ever gets past me
- Unless I let it go
- I am a very able womanizer
- The women always love me
- When I see a woman that's pretty
- I grab her by the kitty!
Grifter Trump
- I am the greatest Pirate!
- the world has ever seen!
- I promise my mates the world.
- Then I pocket the gold
- I sell them Warfs and Docks
- Take their money and then go!
- They wonder where I went
- When their gold is in my hold
He continued:
Watch out for the Pirate King!
My Father gave me money
- I borrowed more from Italians
- I blew it on Casinos
- That started loosing money
- So my Daddy bought some chips
- And gave them to me as a gift.
I am a billionaire in every way!
- Because I collect peoples money and never pay!
- If you loan me money.
- I won't repay
- If you work for me.
- I'll promise you wages you'll never see!
- Eventually even the Italian Mob,
- Didn't want to do business with me.
- But the Russians did!
- The Russians love me!
- They give me everything I want!
- Just so long as I don't recognize them
- When the FBI comes to call.
- (Truth is I'm afraid of them,
- putting me to the wall!)
- I am the Greatest Lover Anyone has Seen!
- I go after the women,
- Grab them by the kitty!
- When I look in the mirror
- I see someone pretty!
- It costs me a pretty penny
- But it is amazing what money will buy.
- This is the only place I have to pay
- Or I'm afraid the mud will fly!
- I went to Russia
- to build a Tower!
- When they stalled
- All I could do was glower
- I hosted A Pageant
- Watched all the girls
- Dressed or undressed, what a time!
- The Russians say they took a video
- I say it is a lie.
- Though when I'm alone privately
- I like to watch!
- The pirate Putin picked me
- Said Run for President!
- I could get in front of crowds
- And preach Nationalism my way.
- The only book I ever studied
- Was Hitler's Speeches, or was it Mein Kampf?
- I don't read much, but Ivanna said it was by my bed.
Candidate Trump
- I am the greatest candidate you've ever seen!
- My Grifting always entertaining
- My Fleecing always Clean!
- Why I'm a Grifters Wet Dream!
- My Organization is Beautiful
- A well oiled machine!
- My Crew is always dutiful
- Only to me!
- The way it should be!
- Says Pirate Trump to his Crew
- When the HMS Mueller comes in View!
- He opens his gun ports.
- What will I do...
To be continued....
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Saving our Democracy
In 300 days we can flip the house and maybe the Senate. If we don't we may flip into a full bore kleptocracy run by kakakrats. I'm not exaggerating. Trump is a plague of Russian Style Mobocracy backed by ambitious criminals, bribery and extortion. He's talking about ending democracy and ruling by decree already. His models are dictators worldwide.
Saving our Country
We have to save our democracy. That starts by defeating the fascists who are dominating the GOP
They are already dismantling our defined benefits, going after Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, giving power and wealth to their top 400 and effing not only the middle class but many small business-people and real farmers. The man is a serious narcissist but otherwise the only promises he keeps are those that promote dictatorship. We have to defeat him this year, or we won't have a Republic with the integrity to defeat him til his degradation has run its course.
Blue Wave
So the task is clear. Every single Frigging Republican in the Country that isn't willing to jump off the Trump Train has to be removed from office. We have to impeach him or we will start disappearing. This is not hyperbole. The man admires Russian Oligarchy. His followers have that in mind here. We can expect misinformation, disinformation, defamation
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