by Sushi for the Saker Blog
If you wish to understand the concerns of those who attended the 1/6 Save America rally, you can learn much by watching the first three minutes of this video . If you wish to understand the issues that lie at the heart of the Nancy Pelosi – Never-Trump response, you can do no better than watching the same three minutes. Three minutes is not a long time. Maybe it saves the Republic. Perhaps not.
I recognize many of the locations shown; it was in Seattle that I met my first wife and my memory of the city is tainted by the youthful hormones associated with love and romantic attachment. Dispense with those gemütlich thoughts, strip all the romance away, and the video remains a searing reintroduction to an America in decline.
The Articles of Impeachment cite Trump for the remark,” ‘if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.’ He said those words because he believed them to be true. His supporters believed them to be true. The founders of this country believed them to be true. The ghosts of Concord, Omaha, Antietam, Betio, and a thousand other forgotten battles, laid down their lives to consecrate those words. America is drenched in blood. Is it worth asking who spilt it and why?
At the end of President Regan’s term in office, America was the greatest exporter of manufactured goods, the world’s largest creditor nation, the world’s largest importer of raw materials. Each year, America created the greatest value added in the history of the world. Today all these numbers are reversed. America is the world’s greatest debtor nation, America imports almost all its manufactured goods, and the main source of value added is found in the FIRE sector.
In an earlier era, America hired people to add value to raw materials and sell the finished products. People had good jobs. They lived the American dream. Today, they live the American nightmare. Today the route to wealth is found in the creation of SPACs and CDOs and other pieces of paper backed by little more than a promise. Or it is found in creating a new virtual universe composed entirely of electrons. The plungers have bid up the market to incredible heights of fantasy, interest rates border on the negative, and Biden is in the process of adding a few trillion more dollars to the top of an already teetering matchstick pyre. As the great sage of America once said: “What, me worry?”
In the years since President Regan, middle America has been in constant decline. Republicans came into office, made a lot of promises, and when they left office the majority of America was worse off than before. The Democrats came into office, promised hope and change, and when the Democrats left office the majority of America was worse off than before. The Red Hatters suspect the emergence of a pattern.
There have been 16 years of Republican presidents: Bush 41, Bush 43, Trump 45, and 16 years of Democrat presidents Clinton and Obama. Trump’s supporters have learned, much to their chagrin, and at great personal expense, that it does not matter who you vote into office, the outcome is always the same. The average American is yearly worse off, their savings erode, their debt explodes as increased debt is the only way to keep their head above water, send their children to school, pay their bills. On the coasts, and in Washington, live the elites who get richer and richer every year. The banks collapse and wipe out the savings of ordinary Americans? No problem. We bail out the culprits with trillions of dollars and the bank executives, the ones who created the funny money in the first place, they give themselves multi-million-dollar bonuses. For what? For crashing the world economy and coming out on top? Nice work if you can get it. And the ordinary folk? They lose their job, their savings, possibly their home. Some get the bonus of a cardboard mansion.
When Enron collapsed, people went to jail. When the savings and loans collapsed people went to jail. In the financial crisis fat paychecks and get out of jail cards went to a small segment of the population. None of them wore Red Hats. The systemic causes were never addressed, except as a band-aid solution, which implies they remain as a hidden set of weaknesses ready to rip open at the next great signs of stress.
The Democrats want you to believe that 1/6 was a coup, a rebellion, a putsch, an overthrow of a legitimate government. It is unclear how you claim to be a legitimate government, of the people, by the people, for the people, when each year the elites get more and more wealthy and ordinary folk are driven into poverty and then laughed at. Called Deplorables. Despicables. Traitors. Insurrectionists. Domestic Terrorists. Refused airline travel because of their political views. Refused legal counsel because of their political views. Have their employment threatened because of their political views. Have their insurance contracts revoked because of their political views. Have their communications media cancelled because of their political views. Put on watch lists because of their political views. Labelled as American ISIS for their political views. Al Qaeda in America. Bin Laden’s corpse is adrift in the Arabian Sea but he is winning.
Two observations. The first is that the Red Hatters have legitimate grounds for grievance. The elites that populate the coasts and inhabit the Capitol appear greatly unwilling to acknowledge that fact. In fact, the response of the Washington and coastal elites appears dedicated to the destruction of any form of political unorthodoxy. The Red Hatters strike me as empiricists. They experience the fact of reduced opportunity, reduced paychecks, a decline in their standard of living. These are the people who staff small business, the fire stations, the police stations, who are shipped overseas to combat the war on error. Those who send them overseas, who seek assistance from the fire stations, the police stations, are ideologues. And the ideologues are disconnected from reality and therefore indifferent to the plight of their fellow citizens. They hold the belief that the physical and financial distress the Red Hatters claim to experience is all in their head. If they removed the hat all would be fine. And what they really require is ostracization. A period of re-education and indoctrination. A few years in the Gulag. Ship them out to the Xinjiang re-education camps. Store them in Gitmo. It’s the American way.
The Ideologues have it all. And they want even more. Their appetites are immense and unyielding. Any form of challenge, appeal, or protest, is to be crushed. Legitimate grievance will be labelled Al Qaeda in America and destroyed. The orange man who appears to have provoked the uprising; he too will be destroyed. None can be allowed to remain standing because the sheer fact of their presence threatens the Ideologues beatific view of a world in which they have absolute mastery. Political mastery, commercial, and military.
The second observation is that history has gone out of fashion. It is an outdated subject well past its best before date. America’s history of rebellion and revolution is outmoded and inapplicable. Not pints, but gallons, hundred of gallons, VLCCs brimming with blood, all of it spilt, and none of it matters. Because this time its different. Those history guys in their funny hats, weird britches, and leggings, they did not have computers. They knew nothing of social media. If any remain alive today, they are dodos, too stupid to know they went extinct years ago. The problem is exacerbated by a Fourth Estate which is of the belief that “goebbels” is a noise made by turkeys, or the description of a rushed and greedy eater. People who do not know history are forever condemned to repeat it. That includes 1929 as well as 1776.
I remain confident of one thing. Joe Biden will unify the country.
The truth of this is found in his first initiatives. His imposition of a $15 minimum wage, his approval of increased immigration, his grant of amnesty to those present in the country illegally, his increase in corporate taxes, and his termination of the XL pipeline, coupled with the termination of drilling on Federal lands, will increase the cost of energy which will act as a regressive tax on those who can least afford it. These initiatives will have negative impact on Blacks, Latinos, hard hats, and Red Hats. All will have a negative impact on jobs and employment.
Biden’s single greatest achievement is the executive order stipulating that those males who self-identify as a woman are to be free to participate in women’s sports. For any impoverished youth seeking a higher education the best means to a scholarship is now to self-attest to female identity and win a post-secondary sports scholarship.
By this initiative alone, Biden will add fifty percent of the population to the group of persons already united against him. He only needs another 15% to 20% and he will have achieved 100% of his inaugural goals. I think he can do it.
There has been some feedback from persons who attended the Save America rally on 1/6. They dispute my estimate of crowd size which was based on the only aerial photograph I was able to locate. I have since found other imagery which confirms a new estimate of close to 500,000. It was standing room only in the ellipse and there was a multitude on the West end of the mall and to the East of the George Washington Monument.
When the British burned the Capitol, they came with a small brigade of 4,500 men. That small force burned the Capitol, the White House, the US Treasury, and the War Department. Then they blew up Fort McNair. That was achieved by 4,500 men.
Does anyone honestly believe there would be much of Washington left standing if a force of 500,000 had been incited to attack?
The current public estimate is of 800 people having entered the Capitol (I believe this to be high. The available imagery does not support such a high number. The F.B.I. presently has case files on 200 persons). If the full size of the crowd was 500,000 then the entrants are 0.0016 of the total participants. The Democrats and the press are gleefully slandering large numbers of people possibly creating grounds for a class action suit. The litigants would have grounds for damages based on loss of employment and loss of reputation.
Second, Incitement requires that people attacking the Capitol, heard what Trump had to say, listened to it as instruction, command, or direction, and acted as they did because of what he said. Press reports show the first attacks commenced at 12:50 and Trump did not complete his remarks until 13:13. The alleged incitement did not occur until the end of his speech. In addition, the significant size of the crowd completely swamped the available cell towers. Many Save America attendees reported no cell phone reception.
Third, incitement requires that those persons allegedly incited are in fact guilty of some crime. Marching to the Capitol is not a crime. Thousands of tourists do it every day. The words: ‘if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore’ is language not found in the criminal statutes. It is used as a legitimate form of grievance and has been used throughout history for exactly that purpose. Trump never incited burglary. He never told anyone “steal Pelosi’s lectern” In fact, it is unclear what exactly it is presumed he incited.
Fourth, there may still exist in this country a legal tradition known as the presumption of innocence. All of those charged by the state for alleged criminal activity are innocent of that criminal charge until such time as the legal process pronounces them guilty. Madame Pelosi and her compatriots in the House have put the cart before the horse. What if every alleged criminal is found innocent? What then is Trump to be found guilty of inciting? An Antifa conspiracy? Was Trump a secret BLM plotter?
Fifth, the evidence suggests that there were multiple independent groups at the Capitol on 1/6. This citizen report by a person with some knowledge of special forces activity claims there were at least four different groups present: 1) Plainclothes militants; 2) Agents-provocateurs; 3) Fake Trump protesters; 4) Disciplined, uniformed column of attackers. This citizen account confirms details found in The Defense of Mr. Trump: there was a relatively minor observed police presence, there was limited, or no, cell phone reception, the majority of the crowd was jovial and friendly, and included people of all ages, and races, including parents with children. There was minimal sense of threat.
Sixth, this new account supports the fact that among the Save America participants there were persons who were not Trump supporters but who sought to appear to be Trump supporters. Some were dressed in militant gear. The exact numbers of these militants, and their pollical affiliation, will not be known until the police complete their investigation (if the police complete an investigation) and have obtained statements. Trump cannot be accused of inciting people who were part of a pre-existing disciplined and militant cadre, persons who conspired to disrupt the Save America rally, and attack the Capitol, weeks before Trump made his remarks. The fact that some of those charged are alleged conspirators suggests the police are aware the violence was pre-meditated well in advance of Trumps remarks at the Save America rally.
Seventh, it is well known that in the summer of 2020 there were riots across the United States and these riots were led by groups known as Antifa and BLM. These riots and violence were described as “peaceful” by both the press and political leaders. In the summer of 2020, a group of violent militants had been permitted to raise havoc. There was no condemnation of this rioting and violence. It was applauded. The Vice-President worked to provide bail for those arrested. These rioters were not Trump supporters. Trump condemned this violent action. If Antifa and BLM agitators were present on 1/6, as it appears that they were, if they conspired to stir up a peaceful protest (as it appears that they did), if they ordered Save America participants forward into the attack (as it is reported that they did), if they sought to prevent peaceful participants from departing the scene (as it is reported that they did), then those individuals are guilty of incitement. If they are found guilty of conspiracy and incitement, then why the impeachment of Trump?
Eighth, by not condemning the violence occurring in the summer of 2020, the political leaders communicated to the citizens that violent protest was acceptable. That to burn buildings was acceptable. To proclaim an independent state was acceptable, That police defunding and disbanding was acceptable. The press, and the political leadership who failed to condemn activity that put lives at risk, condoned unlawful deaths, and caused over 1 billion in property damage. Certain groups known to have led the 2020 violence are reported to be complicit in the events of 1/6. The political leaders and the press, by virtue of their lack of condemnation, gave notice to Antifa and BLM that their actions would be tolerated, that there would be no legal sanctions, that the police would not arrest them, and the state would not prosecute them. They sent entirely the wrong message to the hoodlums. Did sending this inaccurate message lay the foundation for the riots at the Capitol? Was it misleading to claim Antifa to be just an idea? The press reporting during this period, and in prior periods, also gave endorsement to Antifa. Support for Antifa was seen as a means to undermine a sitting President. Does such conduct rise to the level of sedition? Is it possible the wrong president is being impeached? If you can impeach an out of office president, should others also be held to account for their conduct?
I do not have the answer to these questions. But I think the following sums up the situation:
The president-elect’s demeanor and furor certainly were not compatible with his media image as the supposedly angelic uniter of the country. Within 24 hours he had gone from blasting the police authorities as racists to the old reductio ad Hitlerum trope of comparing a few Republican senators to Nazi propogandist Joseph Goebbels, in a hysterical rant that descended into incoherent numerology about the bombing of Dresden. I’m sure Xi Jinping and Ayatollah Khamenei were impressed by his historical recollections. (see American Greatness)
Lastly, if disputing an election result is an impeachable offense what does this say about the Democrats who have disputed election results multiple times in the past? What does it say about the Speaker of the House, the person who bears ultimate responsibility for the security of the Capitol and appears to have been negligent in the discharge of her duties? On 1/6 did she fail to properly execute her responsibilities toward Congress? Is this the reason for her attack on legitimate assembly and grievance? To reassign blame for her own failure? Should Pelosi be subject to impeachment?
Part One of this series: On Democracy
Part Two of this series: What is to be Done?
Part Three of this series: The Defense of Mr. Trump
Here’s another take. Sit back and have a really good belly laugh or two at all the hyperbolic melodrama for a day or two and then simply turn it off. Don’t listen, read, or get worked up about any of it ever again. When you stop to think about it for a moment, you’ll realize that your absolutely powerless to do anything whatsoever about any of it anyway. Once you come to that realization, you’ll realize that you’ve been absolutely powerless to do anything at all about anything this corrupt, utterly reprehensible government has ever done for your entire life. That realization, as terrible as it might seem at first, can then become your personal point of power going forward, as you realize that the personal power you do have is best not squandered on national/global political irrelevancies, and that all of your energies should then be directly focused locally in the here and now.
As for this statement:
I remain confident of one thing. Joe Biden will unify the country.
All I can say is, good luck with that! You’re gonna need it!
The statement is meant ironically and not as Biden would want. Unity will be among MAGA + millions of others from Biden’s minions (like the moron union voters who he has put out of work permanently).
It won’t be a 50-50 nation, like at the voting booth.
That is the author’s expectation.
Personally, I think the US populace has been mind-massaged for three decades or more to accept whatever horrors the Federal government concocts for them.
Revolutions are always conducted by far less than a majority. Many times a small percentage of citizens bring about the change.
Civil war is far different. The question is will the ideologues of the Liberal Cult drive the nation into a civil war?
Right now the lunatics of the left are into Cancel Culture, Black Listing, Demonizing, Doxxing, Banning, and Terrorizing their “enemies”.
The thoroughly, documented-as-corrupt DOJ-FBI are now on the next step to becoming the Stasi of America.
These bad cops have begun the War on Domestic Terror (searching out for pro-Trump, pro-MAGA, pro-Constitution, pro-national populism, anti-Liberal Cult leaders and groups.).
A plethora of new laws, executive orders, regulations and court decisions will soon straight-jacket political action in America.
There will never be a permit given to another Save America rally. Trump’s rallies will probably never be allowed again.
The fear of the power of the People is clearly expressed by the Left’s demand that the Capital be protected for months more by the National Guard.
Filtration of the ranks of the military is in process to identify “loyalists” from “new Terrorists”.
FB is doing the same with all Americans. Filtration of social media will soon produce databases of loyal vs terrorist. These databases are already being handed over to the IC.
The US has changed forever.
You steal an election. You destroy a nation.
Ironic indeed it was!
The bulk of this matter been said by my fellow reader Larchmonter445, I follow the flow of yesterday.
I’m more than happy to read again genuine narrative packed with some hard-to-crack sentences filled with thoroughly measured opinion.
That’s what I value here! Journalism at it’s best. Keep up the good work!
And no irony ment by saying this.
I’m just a crumb, and I prefer to listen when the bread speaks.
Anyways, friends, as a humble, recurring ranger, should I say, a platonic lover of this picturesque vineyard, I follow the American Sage full throttle, saying aloud the other T-shirt printed wisdom, after consuming three articles of today’s selection: Me Happy!
Good day to you all!
I guess I missed the irony in that statement. Still don’t see it.
I think the nation was pretty much destroyed before this latest fiasco, but it certainly won’t be any better off in the aftermath. I think it was less about stealing the election, than demonstrating the military’s favorite phrase: full spectrum dominance. Working pretty well thus far.
Disaffected
You missed the irony in the statement because there is no irony in it. It is pure sarcasm. Irony is usually directed, with some degree of humour, at a situation. So, waiting impatiently in a queue, I might remark: “My, doesn’t time fly”. Sarcasm is usually directed, with some degree of spite, at a person. So, if at a supermarket checkout the operator is clearly struggling to calculate the correct change, I might remark: “My, we seem to have Einstein on the till today”. The author’s statement profoundly undermines his article because sarcasm is impossible to verify in the written word. Verification requires access to tone of voice or body language. So the reader may legitimately ask: “What else is the author saying here that I am meant, somehow, to discount?” This is a question that the reader cannot possibly answer with access to the written word only. The author’s insincerity, as I say, fatally undermines her/his message.
if you really adhered to your statement and advice you would not be watching this blog.
Christ said ‘ Know the Truth’ – that explains how much everyone needs to do.
Nope. I come to this blog because I want to read the unvarnished truth about what’s going on, not because I seriously expect to be able to do anything about it, especially by anything as silly as voting for this or that president, congress critter, or anything like that. Things are just way too far gone now at that level for any of that to be productive.
“When you stop to think about it for a moment, you’ll realize that your absolutely powerless to do anything whatsoever about any of it anyway. Once you come to that realization, you’ll realize that you’ve been absolutely powerless to do anything at all about anything this corrupt, utterly reprehensible government has ever done for your entire life.”
Let me guess, you’re a generation X?
When I hear people cough up this tired, excuse for hedonistic nihilism, it makes me cringe.
That is simply wrong. And if you believe it to be true, why make such comments on a site like this to begin with?
There are scores of courteous individuals around the world doing their part to actually make a difference, but as nationals of counties other than the USA, they are forced to deal with the US military and harsh soft power… as a result there is less they can get done, and at a far higher risk. But they do.
For Americans, all they have to do is participate in their political culture. They don’t have to deal with tomahawks and reapers, only uneducated, obese political opponents. Big difference huh?
So who is sitting there whining about how nothing can be done to the world? Americans. The ones who have the easiest, safest, most effective means to do so…
But why?
Because of junk attitudes and even more, apathetic worldview of ignorance from which this conclusion is derived.
Good thing you are incorrect. On the contrary, this is a time for huge opportunity, but it wont last long. Getting the right attitude now is the decisive prerequisite for which to be able to make the most of this fortuitous moment in history we find ourselves in.
Some of your language has been toned down – be respectful to others. Mod.
Blah, blah, blah. Hurt your little feelings, didn’t I? Nope, a Boomer here. So tell me, what’s the golden opportunity here? Installing Trump again? Puhhh…lease!
” ..absolutely powerless to do anything at all about anything this corrupt, utterly reprehensible government has ever done .. the personal power you do have is best not squandered on national/global political irrelevancies…” Disaffected didn’t say we’re powerless to improve our world, he said we are powerless to change a corrupt government. Everything I know of history, and everything in my personal experience of 66 years of life, proves him right. Trying to fix political corruption is like trying to beat down a concrete wall with you hands: You just get bruised. It is very liberating to let go of the urge to fix it. You gain some inner peace, and you can then focus your energies on worship, family, friends, work, and life in general. Disaffected, thanks for your comment, and best wishes.
Thank you very much. I took a day off from commenting to let all the hurt feelings settle down. I’m 63 and share your experiences. It’s good to note – as I believe Putin, Xi, and others have as well – that the current US led western political dispensation is ascendant at the moment, so it’s best not to swim directly into that breaking wave. It will pass in time, at which it might once again be effectively resisted, but that time is not now. Thanks again!
I agree 100%, Lupine. I realized over 30 years ago that politicians are career criminals who became politicians in order to profit from selling influence under the table. They are incapable of telling the truth about anything, and are fully-committed to the creation of narratives to obfuscate their crimes against humanity. I made a decision to not listen to them in any medium, to not vote, and to live my life without concern for politics. I knew the two parties were simply theater to keep the masses pre-occupied and diverted from looking at the reality of the US in the world. Seeing politicians for the grifters that they are, is the first step in making realistic plans for the future. Simply put, the US government is in a colossal looting operation to extract wealth from where-ever it can be found. The military is its main harvest tool, and sanctions, PR campaigns, NGO’s, regime changes, etc, are also useful tools for them.
Instead of following whatever the Americans say, I follow what the countries who resist are saying and doing. That’s where the real action is.
Patrick
Disaffected
Well, I just about fell out of my chair when I read this ‘gem’. Suffice to say that if we all took this attitude we would be blood-sucked by TPTB until we all go up in a puff of smoke or arrive as a species [fat chance] in the next millennium…whichever comes first. Nuff said, as quite frankly I wouldn’t even know where to stop…I will simply quote Ross Ashcroft and leave it at that…
“To really understand something is to be liberated from it. Humanity’s greatest ally is the self-educated individual, who has read, understood, delays their gratification, and walks around with their eyes wide open.”
Read it again Col. I consider myself to be far more self-educated than most. I’ve seen the current storm brewing since my early 20s in the 1980s. I knew what Ronald Reagan was all about before most of the world even knew his name.
Any prospective “resistance,” should there actually be one, at this point will be one of omission, and not one of commission. Which is to say that it will come from individuals withdrawing their consent – “manufactured” or otherwise – from the current state of affairs en masse, without necessarily being organized or coordinated in any way. That definitely will require individuals to be as you said self-educated, as well as liberated and independent and free-thinking enough to be willing to go it alone without the need for false-messiahs, demagogues, and would-be saviors to show them the way. Needless to say, that will be a REALLY TOUGH lift, as we’re seeing now! Hence the dumbing down of the current population through the destruction of their education systems and the ubiquity of mass social media weapons of mass destruction.
So yes, the best weapon to deploy at the moment is a highly developed sense of skepticism and the mental fortitude to remain agile, independent, and able to accurately evaluate circumstances as they develop, seemingly by the minute these days. And NOT to follow the masses of fools as they mindlessly rush in to follow the latest flavor of the moment leader or program that promises to save them.
I would just like to point out that what you are suggesting is one of possibly many pathways leading toward a unified opposition to the Bidenists asserted policy goals.
Biden speaks of unity but the current trajectory will, I believe, have the effect of creating unity in opposition to the Bidenist regime.
This is not the unity Biden intended in his inaugural address.
The video is age-restricted. Fortunately, it can also be found on BitchUte.
This link works for me:
https://www.nsfwyoutube.com/watchmore?v=WijoL3Hy_Bw
What the US has become today!!! (Lessons for the rest of the world!!!)
https://www.nsfwyoutube.com/watchmore?v=WijoL3Hy_Bw
(Remember the Opium Wars, and what the West did to China — 1839-42, 1856-60???
Now the drugs are in the US — and the West.
What they did to China, they are now doing to themselves!!!)
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Warning:
1. The US is an increasingly DANGEROUS country – it is breaking down/COLLAPSING!!!
2. The claim/perception that the US is the home of “freedom, democracy, human rights, are BIGGGGG LIES, spread by US governments, NGOs, Hollywood.
3. Stay away, as far as possible, from the US for your own safety; and stop thinking of US/Americans as “the good guys”/(super)heroes!!!
4. The “emperor” is NAKED!!! Increasingly, the world is realising this, and losing total respect for the US/American “leadership”/dominance in the world!!!
5. The US has lost much of its “soft power”, and a significant amount of its “hard power”!!!
6. The US$ is heading towards “zero value”. Then, the US will no longer be a superpower and will breakdown in civil war.
7. The decline and fall of the USA:
#1 The day democracy died. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ue5F57dZMU
#2 Battle hymn of the Republic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1eR0ckpJ3bk
#3 We are the worst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1lailGN1xg
And it took time for Reagan’s failed policies to take effect the out sourcing of jobs to the off-shore accounts, the breaking of the unions which were the only fence between the sheep and the wolves old Bush with his looting of the pension programs, (unemployment extension act) so they could usher in the 401k program to place the pension cost on the back of the worker and fuel Wall Street. Yes from 1980 and an old worn out actor the die was cast and the only thing the people can look forward to is poverty, do you have your tent ready?
Reagan was controlled by the spook agency’s agent, his VP. The same person who controlled Bill, his adopted son, and Boy George, his biological son. This agent controlled the WH for 28 years. He was also the mastermind of the Mass Ritual of 2001.
Remember the air controllers strike?
That was the (most obvious) opening shot in the drive to destroy unions.
George Bush I was always a political operative (in addition to spook).
His first major political assignment, given him by Nixon, was to wrest Texas from the Democratics and secure it for the Republican Party. At this he succeeded. Dallas 63 may be been just the icing on the cake. Bush’s main henchman/insider/fixer was James Baker of Baker Botts.
You can read an excellent, readable, documented, detailed account of this history in Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America’s Superstate, by Robert Bryce (Perseus Books, 2004).
Thank you, Sushi, for bringing this perspective to the situation.
Firstly, about “The Ideologues“:
1. have it all. And they want even more. Their appetites are immense and unyielding.
2. Any form of challenge, appeal, or protest, is to be crushed. Legitimate grievance will be labelled… … and destroyed.
3. None can be allowed to remain standing because the sheer fact of their presence threatens the Ideologues beatific view of a world in which they have absolute mastery. Political mastery, commercial, and military.
Who is this?
The same people responsible for doing that kind of stuff, are Creepy Sleep Probably-Incontinent‘s boss!
An interesting thing, one can read all about one globally recognized brand of ideology, from their own governing and direction to the adherents source documentation.
In fact there is no lack of this supporting documentation, the reverse is closer the truth, there is so much, that it is impossible for one to acquire it all (and who would want to?!)
This documentation clearly, and unambiguously describes as its own foundational premises that:
1. adherents are to be considered separate from humanity
2. adherents are superior to humanity
3. discrimination against humanity is encouraged, and under certain circumstances, required observance for adherents of this ideological affiliation
…apparently, very few of them are actually religious in any meaningful way, besides, of course, an devotion to discrimination and hatred.
Clear identification of the root of the issue, is required to develop a feasible solution
”we met the enemy and the enemy is us”,fits the mega group as they accuse the non meganites for all their psychological dislocation ,this group present themselves as the victims, but what shock and awe they visited on syrians,yemenis,lebanese in the past four years or so under the orange man banner is brushed away.The shock and awe was committed under the mage banner ,now that the narrative is shifting in the echo chambers that american live in, and the mega group is advertised as the domestic terrorist, they might soon accuse that somehow the syrians,yenenis and lebanese are in cahoot with the pelosi gang.
in what way did the land of the free and the home of brave, brought freedom and democracy to the rest of humanity?Never mind the genocide against the coloured and the original native nations in the beginning ,what way did the colonist improve the folks still stuck in the reservations and the drug bronx?
about 80 million furious voters can raise hell for 30 million over so left leaning folks, but that would not be the end of trouble for the gulag., what would surely be the end of problem is when they consider the rest of humanity as their brothers and sisters…..amen…or..a man and a women.
‘Fight for the Soul of Seattle’: Program looks at effects of city’s permissive posture
https://komonews.com/news/local/fight-for-the-soul-of-seattle-program-looks-at-effects-of-citys-permissive-posture
this link is not age restricted and the original source for the yt vid in article.
“‘Fight for the Soul of Seattle’: Program looks at effects of city’s permissive posture”
That was 3 very very depressing minutes, my grandfather and his friends All dreamt to own a car produced in Detroit. When they finally got one they babied them, Ford Customline was my grandfathers first car after ww2. (Rustomline as it became known as here at the Norwegian coast)
most of the pictures of my mom as a child have that car in the background 😂
Now Detroit looks like a third world “shithole”🤷♂️
ok,
this video is by Komo News 4 in Seattle, they’re part of the Sinclair Broadcast Group,
I’ve seen them criticised before, this is one example;
https://twitter.com/ivan8848/status/1191338459400744960
I know things are bad in Seattle, I have family in Seattle and have good reason to be concerned,
but be aware that the Sinclair Group is likely to be spinning Seattles problems as hard as possible to suit their particularily right wing agenda,
I’m not defending the way Seattle is currently being run, I’m just noting that the makers of this film could possibly be painting the situation in the worst light possible and maybe even omitting part of the story,
this film illustrates an unbelievable situation that seems baffling and unfathomable, how could a city end up like this?
I think the film might be omitting something that a more neutral observer might mention which would help make sense of this situation,
There is a sad indicator of how Americans are mind-massaged by Dems, Elites, Corporations and Officials.
Schools are closed all over the country because of the Education System, including the teachers unions.
Private and parochial schools are open with no Covid-19 issues.
Parents have seen their children impacted badly by loss of social contacts with the children’s friends and schoolmates, athletic teammates, extra-curricula activities and in-person learning with teachers in a traditional classroom setting. Suicides are rampant among teenagers who have fallen into deep depression.
Nearly all parents who send their children to public schools don’t consider that their kids are being mind-massaged worse than they were when they went to school. The very ideology that has closed and kept closed the schools, helped steal the election, censors public discourse on social media and generally demonizes the parents, their social class, their beliefs, their traditions is what parents desperately want their children to return to.
Many parents have no money to choose private or parochial schools. Many have no time to home school their children.
Many think their children will be “educated”, “enlightened”, “encouraged”. Nothing of the sort will occur in US public schools. The children will be conditioned to hate the country, hate their skin color, hate their family, and to doubt that conscience and God’s and Nature’s Laws should be their touchstone for a good and healthy life.
It hasn’t been safe for children to be instructed in public schools for more than 50 years.
Look, even here in Western Australia with it’s wide open landscape and big beautiful sky I feel the ideological claustrophobia. The digitalised ideologues have prosyletised so very effectively that a casual word spoken that does not conform to the “accepted standards” will render you “suspect”. Everyone seems reset already. I’m obliged to button my lip and try and talk banalities in public, but at home I have rants like Ashli Babbit, R.I.P.
Keep calling them ideologues Sushi.Their fanaticism is hell-bent and awesome.
Yesterday the Australian government announced the opening of Holocaust museum in Canberra, with a commemorative day to coincide with Australia Day.The Victorian premier wants “holocaust teaching” introduced into schools. He is the premier who has signed up with the B.R.I.. In Fremantle, where I live, the current Mayor emblazons his campaign as a Green Party candidate with the “Build Back Better” slogan.
The propaganda onslaught is insidious and designed to weed out those who find the whole thing maddening.
They want us to go mad (bring on the therapists!) rather than get mad.
Oh and about history. Yeah, dinosaur stuff now. Not at all useful unless it can be commoditised.
But first the oligarchs and their political minions must claim the present history. Make it theirs. Tear up and delete or forbid whatever besmirches their bright and shiny narrative creation. History is theirs to claim, it does not belong to the people.
History is not for the people.
Let them have ………stories!
My local paper,today, 27 January, 2021, located in a very “liberal” community
about 1.5 hours west of Seattle, Wa:
Revelers gather to celebrate inauguration of Biden, Harris
https://www.ptleader.com/stories/revelers-gather-to-celebrate-bidens-inauguration,73287
End of Reagan’s term? Which implies before Reagan everything was hunky dory for the American dream?
No, not really. The world suffers America when it started printing infinite free money out of thin air.
… and America used this money to bankroll all its wars, conflicts and other dastardly deeds. A world sponsorship which spans decades of free money, its bliss for the Americans. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. No hard work necessary, just use John Wayne style diplomacy till they submit to your demands.
So, please allow me to put a correction to the author, it wasn’t Reagan, it was the era before the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, America was at its greatest. The creation of WW2 removed the British Empire as an obstacle and America was positioned to replace it, opening a new era of Pax Americana (big oxymoron). What’s all this got to do with free money printing? Well, you can’t print infinite free money unless you’re numero uno in control, which is necessary to cajole the world by force or by guile to agree to your terms – essentially expanding the dollar pool of use. Zimbabwe tried to print free money, it didn’t end well.
Is a free money scheme sustainable? Only idiots think so.
1. People are better informed today. The dollar as primary reserve currency only benefits one country, America. No more freebies for America. When (not if) the opportunity presents itself, off you go. Thus, any MAGA dreams will never happen until America accepts that there will be no more freebies and returns to sanity, feet on ground.
2. A curious thing happens when people receive infinite free money. Do keep in mind, local industries and related economic activities can only sink a finite amount of money (think of it as gold in a different form) and people are always greedy for more. Their solution? Wall Street fiat hedging of course, where else can you sink billions if not trillions of infinite money – its bottomless*.
(*Incidentally, if you’re familiar with the EVE Online MMO, the same scenario plays out when a player finds himself/herself aflush with trillions of ingame money. There is an innate insatiable instinct to create or invent any sort of money making sink so that the player can leverage their trillions over dealing with the more plebeian and mundane millions. This precisely reflects RL.)
End result? Shifting of focus** and atrophy of local industries and its related economic activities. Wall Street and its worldwide associates (which makes nothing and produces nothing directly) becomes the primary focus and money sink.
(** An economy aflush with infinite free money will never maintain any real investment interest on traditional income generators i.e. the local industries & infrastructure projects with long term ROI. Globalization i.e. ease of communications and logistics infra that encourages offshoring, which many blame, is not the root cause imo. It only compounds the atrophy. The root cause is poor American attitude. One example, do America have a working high-speed rail network? .. despite sending rockets to the moon)
Btw, if China made a lot of money manufacturing stuff for exports, then where did the majority buyer retail profits disappear to? Even offshore capital investments or re-investment have its limits. In EVE Online terms, comparing a real manufacturer’s profits vs Jita station trader profits (who just flip orders).
Terrific piece. We are seeing the consequence of decades of neoliberal economic policies, including- 1) multiple tax cuts for the wealthy, 2) financial deregulation, 3) attacks on labor and job outsourcing, 4) lack of investment in infrastructure, and 5) spending $ trillions of taxpayer money on Wall St bailouts, Pentagon and war.
Joe Biden enters the Presidency at a time when American Capitalism confronts the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression- plagued by excess capacity and slack demand, exploding deficits, high unemployment, with millions of families facing eviction from their homes, food insecurity, loss of medical insurance and financial ruin. Wall St. and insolvent banks are being sustained by a constant infusion of taxpayer-backed funds from the FED (> $7 trillion in 2020), without which many will collapse. American taxpayers have provided the Pentagon with $14 trillion since 2001 and spent an additional $ 6.4 trillion on strategic debacles in Afghanistan (longest war in US history), Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen (See: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar), from which the Empire has been unable to extract significant imperial rent. The Pentagon is incapable of extricating itself from these conflicts as doing so is an admission of failure and by extension military/geopolitical weakness. US economic decline has now progressed to the point where the very survival of the American Empire requires a continuous stream of public money from the Treasury to prop up Wall St and large banks, subsidize the military and war. The Biden/Harris team were installed by the ruling elite, as they are perceived as being more effective at supporting the Empire than the more ‘vulgar’ Trump.
no-one can watch this video without signing in to Youtube, i.e. joining google and giving all your data to the Deep State. WTF?
Thanks Sushi, for a nice article. I’ve read it with a mixed feeling of concern and amusement.
For those that maybe don’t recognize instantly the smiling sarcasm, let me add an exaggeration.
From now on, DC will be a fortress of the real new normal, guarded by walls and heavily armed troops. Not again will there be one inch of disrespect. The States will have to comply or else.
In order to celebrate this new normal, DC by new law each year will invite from each state two members, to be chosen by fair lottery, to engage in the new normal games. They will be invited in a great ambiance, representing their State.
These games will be held in special facilities in DC, which will be broadcasted nationwide. The only winner will get lifelong special treaties and be regarded as a hero. The only boundary condition is the strict illegality of anything resembling a Mockingbird, to be punished by death.
OT: after reading this article, my first thought was: now what? Secession is not going to happen, that’s just shouting in the closet. I’m even jumping over most ‘news’ items about the USA because I’m bored and don’t want to spent my time on insanity. This is going to get beyond repair, I’m afraid.
To end with a joke about the great philosopher Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
One day working at the bar AOC burst in and said “boom, 85 days”. Her manager said “boom 85 days, wtf are you trying to say”? She said “I completed a puzzle in 85 days, the box said 2-4 years”!
Enjoy your day while we still can, stay safe and healthy and cheers, Rob
“At the end of President Regan’s term in office, America was the greatest exporter of manufactured goods, the world’s largest creditor nation, the world’s largest importer of raw materials. ”
I doubt. In fact US real economy literally stopped growing after early 1970s (Nixon’s Shock) and I’m old enough to remember how American consumer products were very very rare even in 1970s European markets. During era of Reagan the debt clock was ticking and GDP growth changed more and more from real economy to fake virtual economy making money with money. At that time they put pressure on its vasalls – Japan and W. Germany.
Too many people still naively believe that the moral posture movement (“moral silent majority”) will rise to defeat such madness. In reality, the sinking of Western culture into mere civilization and its subsequent disappearance from the planet has been a long-running process that can no longer be stopped. The decay of culture is a huge process. More likely, the process will only accelerate.
The intelligence behind Trump and his Million Moron Marchers must be truly genius. The utter destruction of the movement by the silent majority IE the rest of us, is being used as a catalyst to completely prevent what they fear most. That is, if Americans might realize that our grievances are almost exactly the same for RWingers and LWingers and only the artificial political construct of RW vs LW keeps us from uniting to deal with the grievances. It is not cultural. But hey, its none of my business. Rock on.