Cash ... oh gee.
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The cognitive dissonance of the humans populating the earth gets more pronounced with each passing year, so much so that a president who champions a basket of deplorables, the latest being one MBS, an MBS of an even more lethal variant than the MBS his Republican predecessor, GWMD Bush, promulgated to enrich himself and his cronies via the hornswoggling of the entire world's middle class, can claim with a straight face his ascendance is due to his Good Genes, as his acolytes, who steadfastly deny that evolution, or even Charles Darwin for that matter, have any validity, cheer wildly.
Yet, of all the major religious groups in the U.S., evangelical Protestants, 80% of whom express their loyalty to the Chief, are among the most likely to reject evolution, of which theory genes are the centerpiece. That they should be unaware of this most salient fact is nonsense, as is the idea that the MSM, all those really "Smart" people, are unaware of that causal link. Yet not the genius Rachel, MS. NBC, not Anderson Cooper, any WaPo reporter, nor those of the NYT, have, nary a one, many of whom reported the remarks of the President, seen fit to point out the disconnect, not between the President and his ridiculous claim, but of the acceptance of such an absurdity by his sycophants despite its flying in the face of their "faith". A faith that shows its true immoral nature by their blithe embrace of what is heretical to everything they profess, to obtain a very earthly, albeit abstract, reward.
The man who created bin Salman, promoted him, and redirected the entire
weight of US foreign policy, military and security establishments to
place their trust in him, Trump, the host of a host of Partietags across
the nation, abets the clown prince's act with total impunity, and the
world, watching as the same two entities pummel the poorest nation in
the world with the weapons developed and delivered by the two richest, pretends to be appalled.
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| The Hairspray Happily Joins in the Slaughter of the Heir's Prey. |
Here's the man partying with the
actual creators of ISIS, the same buffoon who claimed time and again that Obama "Created ISIS", while Obama was still President and Commander-in-Chief of the US armed forces, the same person who claimed that members of congress who didn't stand and applaud his rostrums
during his SOTU speech should be charged with treason, yet pretends that a candidate running for that same position (when it's Him who must be obeyed) shouldn't be investigated by the FBI for making far more treasonous claims, then puts the full backing and support of the American people and its criminal military behind a known murderer, shows exactly
why President Obama, or any sitting President or any State intelligence service, would be remiss in not investigating a treasonous charlatan's base, unfounded allegations that the Commander-in-Chief of the US armed Forces was a Traitor, when said scoundrel is running for the highest office in the land, the oval office.
Again, you'll find no mention of this blatant inconsistency on any of the MSM news outlets, even as they go on and on and on and on about Trump's troubles with the "Deep State" (as though it sprang into existence under DT, and had nothing to do whatsoever with Obama's decision, when the economy was flat on its back and shedding a million jobs a week from the machinations of the last Republican administration, not to prosecute the criminals that had been running it, bringing undreamed-of wealth to them, and ruination to the rest of the country: the same template now being used by the Trumplestiltskin).
But never do you hear the MSM ask, "Exactly why
wouldn't the intelligence services be appalled that a brat billionaire who was denying the country's Chief executive's legitimacy, via the idiotically monikered, "Birther Movement", and hurling treasonous accusations at him?" If elected representatives, members of the government, are accused of being guilty of treason for not applauding a speech, surely a serial bankrupt, which means a man who has time and again deceived and robbed his investors, trying to wheedle his way into the presidency via lies and false accusations, is far more suspect.
Although to hint darkly at hidden motives is hardly helpful, to look at him is immediately to see that he is a collection of grifts, (as masterly woven as his hair is in drifts) which present themselves as such precisely because in each case they have slightly over-flowed their measure. Not that one could accuse him of being inclined to overshoot the truth; it arguably being but an attempt to express a certain quality of passive excess which is the note of the whole man and which for an attentive eye, began with his right-down-to-the-crotch neckties and ended with his wild and totally unsubstantiated accusations.
But he can do things. He can get things done. He can stoke a fire in a blistering hot desert, spurring feverish activity for a commodity we're flooding the world with as though there were no tomorrow. Why the rush rush oil rush Mr. President? Why the unseemly slavish lust ready-made like a silver spoon, the id lib of an ego maniac that inspires uncomfortable squirming to witnesses of his infantile tantrums. Will he be chewing the rug next, like Hitler? He describes himself as being a very successful, happy, clever, active, ambitiously local New Yorker, the same style of elite that his base followers love to tromp. Handsome, or at least convinced, his dress just too fine. His movement, his manner, his tone are respectively just a tad free, too easy, and too familiar; his being in short just too obvious. But the result of it all is a presence that is in itself a close contact, the air of immediate, unconscious, unstinted life, and of his doing what he likes and yet still, the trait his haters prefer not to see, also liking to please. A Rock Star with little rock to show for all the acclamation he receives.
"The world has hit "new twin peaks for demand and supply" of oil at 100 million barrels a day, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced Friday in its monthly oil market report.
"Neither demand nor supply shows signs of ceasing to grow any time soon, the Paris-based organization said.
"Oil could hit $200 'or even double that figure': as the Saudis threaten to retaliate against any sanctions over Khashoggi's disappearance, "the Kingdom’s (Lol!) economy has an influential and vital role in the global economy,” (unless, of course, you're an economist, then you know that oil is just another commodity, its absence, given enough investment, easily enough replaced by something else). The explanation as to what, or why, given the intractable wars and Saudi repudiation of every single value Western Democracies cherish, we haven't deployed oil's replacement a generation ago, is never given for the very simple reason that it needn't be as the question is never asked.
"We've put our man on top!", Donald - "I would have just taken the oil," - Trump, as Michael Wolff reported in his book
Fire and Fury, brags to whoever will listen.
At the same time that these sordid tales of murder and dismemberment get the press roiling, they are less concerned, as in not at all, about the genesis of horrific hurricanes that leave entire beachscapes ravaged and are a direct result of the Trumpian ruffians scorched-earth campaign to drastically increase the pumping of CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere creating a "genocidal level of warming" as they flare with a flair trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, enough to provide the energy needs of Washington State for a year, as though it's inconsequential, while those who are deeply aware that it is, say nothing, even when those consequences are visited upon their fellow citizens. And lest we forget, those trillions of cubic feet of natural gas burned for nothing do so in the same State where energy from all over the world is imported into their refineries to be processed, merges with a transportation sector totally reliant on millions of internal combustion engines, each pouring their own clouds of carbon dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide and myriad other gasses into the surrounding environs, whence they're carried off by the prevailing westerlies, floating right over the Gulf, a gulf already be-speckled with its own resource-extracting rigs, while a fierce sun beats down and supplies energy in far greater amounts, but which, with no wind farm or solar panels anywhere in sight to utilize, gets absorbed by the already warm waters akin to charging a giant battery, ready to unleash its massive store of energy at the slightest provocation Nature might provide. The result of all this venting is as predictable as if you were to allow nuclear plants to simply dump
their waste into the Gulf: dire repercussions to be visited upon others while you walk away Scot free with your profits. But Don't blame Exxon: blame Texas. They Allow it, They Encourage it, They Subsidize it. Florida, if the US were a country of laws, would already be dragging the state of Texas into court to pay the damages wrought in Florida by the avariciousness of Texans. But we don't have a country of laws, we have a country of Cowboy Capitalism: Corporations are above the Law, which they now make themselves, having bought every politician in Texas. There is no Texas Government; there is only Texan acquiescence to the needs of its corporate sponsors.
A recent report on the psychology of Drumph's countryman (Remember, just as Jews, per the Israeli PM, owe allegiance to a
country they've never seen, Germans, and other minorities, often carry
the same conviction: that the support of the country they or their
ancestors left takes precedence over the one that welcomed them to its
shores), Adi Schicklgruber, illustrates, we must see him as he really is – a human being with strengths and weaknesses. He does, after all, display some exceptional abilities. One of which is his ability to somehow discover and successfully apply principles of mass psychology.
From the book of Preyer, "My Fight (Mein Kampf) to Make
Germany America Great Again":
“The lack of knowledge of the internal driving forces of great changes (the steep escalation in costs of obtaining, and leveraging, energy resources) led to an insufficient evaluation of the importance of the great masses of the people; from this resulted the scanty interest in the social question, the deficient courting (by the Democratic Party who prefer to refer to them as deplorables) of the soul of the nation’s lower classes.”
Adi and the Donald believe that since mass reaction contains many feminine elements, there has to be a place for women in promoting a movement:
“Do you know the audience at a rally is just like a woman (Die Masse das Volk is wie ein Wieb). Someone who does not understand the intrinsically feminine character of the masses will never be an effective speaker. Ask yourself: ‘What does a woman expect from a man?’ Clearness, decision, power and action. What we want is to get the masses to act. Like a woman, the masses fluctuate between extremes. . . . The crowd is not only like a woman, but women constitute the most important element in an audience. The women usually lead, then the children follow, and then last, I have won over the whole family, as the fathers follow .”
“The people, in an overwhelming majority, are so feminine in their nature and attitude that their activities and thoughts are motivated less by sober consideration than by feeling and sentiment.
Birther Trump's ancestor, Adi, was able to feel, identify with, and speak irascibly to the people’s deepest concerns and sentiments, while giving them hope that he would eliminate them. He eliminated them alright, by the millions. Just as climate change-wrought destruction is doing for his modern cutout. As though of one mind, they both appeal to the most primitive and idealistic dispositions in people, purposely arousing the most base instincts. At the same time, camouflaging them in noble terms by “justifying all actions as the means of attaining an ideal goal.” That goal being one of an ersatz Nationalism, one that demands loyalty be sworn, not to the Nation they supposedly cherish, but to its leader, whose machinations are quite unabashedly designed to bring about first its utter despoliation, to be soon enough followed by its spectacular ruin, making GW's Cowboy-boot-enhanced stomp in the face look like a friendly pat on the back.
What despots (German is the only nationality, which, just coincidentally, happens to be the most hyper-masculine, power-worshiping cult since the Romans, with the word "MAN", not only in it, but comprising a full half of its ethnic name) understand is that people do not unify in dedication to a common purpose that is against their immediate better interests, or
as Upton Sinclair put it,
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Together with Lord Overstone's prognostication that, "No warning can save a people determined to grow suddenly rich," recognizes that despite the willingness of men to die for an ideal, the need to maintain that zealousness requires more immediate and material satisfaction, they realize that piracy, enslavement, and resource extraction are all acceptable to such a mob, and that the thuggery to which we are all now parties to are not only winked at by our own representatives, but encouraged so as to allow clown princes with their hands on the spigot to continue to enable our lavish, self-important lifestyles of air travel, automobiles as a toy, and the ability to wield the power of supercomputers in order to send through the ether such trivialities as selfies, pictures of kittens and instagrams of our meals by the millions over "free" WiFi as though the energy required to do so is of no consequence whatsoever to anyone whatsoever, or not, at least, to anyone
of consequence.
“All force which does not spring from a firm spiritual foundation will be hesitating and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest on a fanatical view of life.
"In the struggle of two views of life, the weapon of brute force, used continuously and ruthlessly, brings about the decision in favor of the side it supports.
And yet we are shocked, Shocked! by the murder of one lone Saudi, even as the force the Saudis wield comes directly from our own GSE's (All the Defense departments so-called "Free enterprise" adjuncts are GSE's - From IBM to Martin Marietta, Lockheed to Raytheon - they exist to create nothing more than military ascendancy via monies funneled from Labor to the Federal government to these GSE's coffers. They produce nothing of value to the civilian economy, they are kept alive, zombie-like, by a moribund, Centrally-planned bureaucracy, (swamp, if you prefer): Government-Sponsored Enterprises, (as long as you don't look too closely at what "enterprise" actually means)).
“There is only so much room in a brain, so much wall space, as it were, and if you furnish it with your slogans, the opposition has no place to put up any pictures later on, because the apartment of the brain is already crowded with your furniture.”
DT understands the underlying value of a hierarchical political organization that doesn't remain aloof from the people. The opposition, on the other hand, disregards the loneliness and isolation suffered by them, it prefers to proffer "gender fluidity" where no such thing actually exists, while simultaneously promulgating the same hyper-militaristic mindset that is the main culprit in stratifying gender roles in the first place by making youngsters feel they must, since they are more inclined to love than war, be in the wrong skin. This, of course, will get them nowhere. Like Germans who loved Hitler, but not necessarily the Nazi philosophy, Trumpsters will follow him over any cliff.
“The only criterion for membership in the GOP is “unconditional obedience and faithful devotion to Trump.
"Hitler’s memory lapses tended to drive “people, and particularly, his associates, to distraction.” He would say something one day and a few days later say the opposite, and being completely oblivious of his original statement.
Such that,
"The inner difficulties of a Hitler government will be found in the person of Hitler himself.
"He was greatly adverse to experts and had little regard for their opinion. He looked upon them as mere hacks, as brush-cleaners and color-grinders.”
"He is subject to "states", one of which is the state of his being a boy again, and the sign of it was his talking nonsense.
And nonsense is what, as evidenced by the Paris Accords, the world wants to hear. Like the current kerfuffle, the President's decision to withdraw from them caused consternation, even, as evidenced by the 100 million barrel IEA estimate quoted above, it is mostly Showboating. In reality they secretly greet such outbursts of the child-president as face-savers. The Paris accords and the thin veil of civility torn from the face of a whoring world serve them well, as they can, like Democrats, shrug their shoulders and despair, "What can we do?", when in fact, they were doing nothing anyway but paying lipservice to the public while kowtowing to the 100 companies that produce more than 70 percent of global emissions, mostly run by billionaires of the Keptocracy to which Trump belongs. He makes it so convenient, his hanging gut ample enough for the whole world to hide behind as it chastises him, then continues to do what it was doing anyway, but more comfortably knowing that they have someone to point at and say, see, it's all his fault? What choice do we have?
Which happens to be a very good question. Maybe if we keep that up someone will actually try to answer one. It's only a start, but don't you think without that, there'll be no answers even attempted? Apparently so, because every decade we keep burning more and more carbon-based fuel to power an ever-growing array, as if it were no problem, of energy-dependent devises, processes and lives. A trajectory that took us directly to where we find ourselves now, while the path that it's continuing to take us down, is no less fraught with despair and ruin. Yet still there is not a politician alive who knows how to stop mankind's descension into a Mad Max world ruled by insanity and rabid violence. It is perhaps all we are capable of, it is certainly a direction we have most ardently embraced.
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