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A Lamentation for my Country

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Grief and fear, apathy and outrage, cynicism and hope, resignation and bewilderment all boil together in an iron cauldron hanging by weak chains above a nation on fire. No sharp, clean Sword of Damocles either. Just a rusty cauldron full of boiling toxic slop. Metaphors of lamentation, these terrible words.

Nearly half of my fellow citizens who voted in the November 2024 Presidential Elections voted for MAGA cult leaders Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and their acolytes. The Far, Far Right thus completed its hijacking of the Republican GOP. This odd MAGA movement, a decentralized yet loyal movement that’s an odd mix of mafia familial mindsets, fascism, libertarianism, and Christian nationalism, has kicked out the “regular” Republicans of Lincoln and Reagan. MAGA gave the dirty boot to both he TradCons and the NeoCons. They forced out common sense, pro-business, low tax, pro-strong defense (but not necessarily pro-war) blocs. They antagonized Evangelical and Mormon Christian blocs. All the anti-Trumper GOP factions ridiculed and dismissed the old school Republicans as RINOs, Republicans In Name Only. Those RINOS were so dismayed and felt so abused by the Trump cult many of them held their noses and voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as well as for other Democrats in the 2024 Elections. Many choose not to vote at all, at least not for president.

Evidence has emerged one of the primary reasons Trump legally won election this time is the Republican push to disenfranchise nearly 4 million Americans of their voting rights in the so-called Battleground States. Most of this disenfranchisement was allegedly over “stupid stuff’’ such as misspelled names and addresses, sloppy writing with illegible signatures, people moving without timely notification of address changes, fear for their safety, and confusion with various misunderstandings among those for whom English wasn’t yet their primary language. This strategic push targeted poorer people, often of color, with less education. Migrants were also among those targeted, even legal immigrants. This push is nothing more than ugly voter suppression. Voter suppression is a direct and dire threat to any democratic republic. Continue reading →

Dangers for a New American Empire

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Trump’s Imperialist Ambitions destroys the PostWar Order

We Americans do not need to expand the borders of our nation. Donald Trump has forgotten, if he ever did know it, the maxim of the super rich: “Control, don’t own. Control everything, own nothing.” Besides, he’s talking about trodding over some of our closest military allies and trading partners and adding them all to his fantasy map of a new empire.

NATO would rupture into a most unnecessary schism at the worst possible time. If NATO self-destruct, it will damage the United States and empower Russian and Chinese efforts to keep taking over their neighbors. Trump will unwittingly or maybe deliberately turn lose wannabe conquerors everywhere. The Orange Man who would be a dictator probably doesn’t care. His MAGA cultists and allied Alt-Right mafias won’t care. These actions, however, will impoverish us Americans. To return to empire building in this 21st Century will tank our economy, deplete our treasury, overextend our quiet, de facto pretend-we-really-aren’t-empire-altho-we-are, turn powerful allies against us, turn comparatively weak dictators into allies. These consequences may well cost us unimaginable lives. We Americans will end up broke and shooting at each other if we keep going on like this.

The incoming President of the United States of America wants to conquer, buy, or otherwise annex several North American countries to a new American Empire. The old empire hasn’t ever gone away, but Americans like to pretend they’re anti-imperialists, genuinely dislike empires, and generally are uncomfortable reigning as overtly racist, colonial overlords. After all, the USA was birthed in a long, chaotic revolutionary war that saw a chain of British colonies along the eastern North American seaboard win their independence from a king. The American Revolution was itself part of a protracted 127 years long world war between multiple empires and kingdoms called the Second Hundred Years War (1688-1815).

So of course Americans, championing their constitutional democratic republic, want to keep their empire hidden. They prefer a network of vested commercial interests, financial control, and economic influence secured by hundreds of military bases and intelligence webs. Trump doesn’t care. He just powers in, bursting down doors and yanking open the curtains so he can see and to show off to the world what he finds. For he is a master finders keeper transactionalist. He doesn’t rob. That’s too stealthy. He takes. National security is usually the excuse. It’s often is the truth, ironically, but he doesn’t hide or deny such things. No discretion or backchannel negotiations. Continue reading →

President Biden’s Inflection Point

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Pay attention to what the American President … and the Chair of the Fed declared

Inflection Point with what’s next. On a rare, hand drawn graph…

“Good evening, my fellow Americans.  We’re facing an inflection point in history — one of those moments where the decisions we make today are going to determine the future for decades to come.” ~ from President Joe Biden’s Address to the Nation Thursday night on the 19th of October 2023.

“We’re facing an inflection point in history…”

Those words are significant. He’s preparing the world for war.

“That’s what I’d like to talk with you about tonight. “ Except he really did not further address the inflection point. Continue reading →

Putin is Stupid and Dangerous

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*Like many bullies are*

The former President of the USA, wannabe autocrat and racist protofascist Donald Trump was, thank God, profoundly incompetent and too slimy to do anything correctly. The dictator of the Russian Federation, however, and his cowardly, quivering, greedy followers are a fucking, stupid mafia of corrupt, incompetent despots. Fucking dumbasses, every single one of them! And as dangerous as rabid rats stuck in corners of blood, madness, and fear. Putin and his nasty siloviki, the Russian intelligence/surveillance-military/security komplex, have gutted Russia to facilitate their imperialist, fascist fantasies of Glorious Empire. 

How DARE they threaten the planet with nuclear weapons! How DARE they spout lies and distortions of Eurasian history as “historical truth!” Are they aware Muscovy was initially a backwater feudal principality that despite its grandiose title as a Grand Duchy was still a part of mighty Kievan Rus’? Do they know Muscovy was part of a loose confederation centered in what is today Ukraine? And all conquered by the Mongol Empire? With Muscovy being a vassal of the Mongols? That upon independence from the Mongols/Tartars was ruled by bloodthirsty butchers such as the deranged Ivan the Terrible? Have they considered why all empires dominated history with failure? So how dare Putin thinks he can do whatever he wants to do to build an empire before he dies in office?

Vladimir Putin the Invader has been corrupted and isolated by his quest for power and supremacy. He’s sat on the throne for too damn long and has become impatient, chaotic, confused, and frightened. Putin’s become as angry as a schoolyard bully after those he beats up sneak up behind him and quickly jerk his britches down to reveal such a little man. Not even Donolf Trumpler’s “very big, very large, and very, very, very powerful” hands could come to the rescue. And what the hell Old Trumpie’s little big hands gonna do with Old Pootie anyway, pet a cheeseburger in bed? Continue reading →