El Fatso Jokes, "Everything is a Hoax".

The NYT  published a quote from a dying man in Texas this morning:

A 30-year-old Texas man who attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus. Just before he died, he told his nurse: “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.”

Well, "Duh".

That is the result of having a mass murderer as President of the sole SuperPower, the one who's sylph of a Press agent will insist, "It was only a joke", when confronted with the real repercussions of having a heartless demagogue controlling the nation's airwaves, assuring the populace that it's a joke that a virus he has gone out of his way to blame China for, because of which he has withdrawn the USA from the WHO and closed down the economy, yet maintains is 99% harmless. All to a press that doesn't see fit to ask him why then did his administration close down the economy? How can you blame China for not taking action against a virus that is 99% harmless, Mr.President? Why would any country take action against a disease that is 99% harmless, sir? 

"Oh ... of course. You were (once again) using your position as leader of the free world to make light of yet another deadly serious situation". 

"Quaint."

Like Climate change. 

That statement the NYT published that that Texas man supposedly said (sounds a little too pat for me to totally believe it). But even if it were just propaganda ... Propaganda includes omitting facts also, you know. For example Bloomberg noticed something I've been wondering about for weeks now: As California's Covid numbers soared higher than any of the three Superstars of MSNBC's Covid case luminaries, Arizona, Florida and Texas, time and again they would iterate their numbers, numbers that were less than those being suffered by California, yet California was time and again omitted from their stories. California, where the numbers in the San Francisco Bay area remained the lowest of any major metropolis in the nation, while those in the Southland soared. So California's governor fixed that. Gavin Nuisance ordered the prisons in the southern part of the state, where the viral numbers were going, well, viral, to transfer Covid-infected inmates to the penal institutions in the North, where they, Surprise! Surprise!, infected the inmates and guards there. Now every hospital in the region that was relatively Covid-free has inmates, and their THREE GUARDS chaperones, filling the hospitals, stalking their hallways, and spreading the virus where there was previously barely any spread at all. The California Government, in other words, made itself a Super Spreader. 

Rachel Madcow looks deadpan at the camera while informing her viewers how Mississippi's citizens were being warned to stay away from their legislators, repeating it over and over, as is her wont; Rachel Madcow, who has been going on for weeks now about prisons being hotbeds of infections from Corona virus, said not a word about Gave-in Nuisance's deliberate action (if it weren't deliberate, the level of stupidity it evinces is quite enough to warrant his removal from office. If Grey Davis can be recalled for the malicious targeting of the State's energy sector by the Bush administration, using Bush-addled Kenneth Lay's Enron as its agent, then this far more egregious crime easily makes Nuisance eligible for recall) to spread the virus into the Northern part of the State where it had made the least amount of inroads. But such outbreaks, occurring as they did in a Blue State, because of an erratic Democratic Governor, don't serve MSNBC's narrative, as the Bloomberg article pointed out. So they are simply left out of the "news". That is propaganda. (As it doesn't give a proper gander to the full picture of what's going on).

Now, back to the NYT's story. Even if it were propaganda, which I'm not saying it was, it makes for a very good analogy of what the United States is doing to the rest of the world via its untrammeled fracturing of the continent to extract a resource the world had no current need of, and in fact has insisted should be left in the ground. By declaring that "Climate Change is a hoax", the real repercussions of the United States' actions are rendered nothing more than the ravings of overwrought scientists: a conspiracy of hunches to be counteracted by the conspiracy of dunces comprised of religious zealots and race-baiting  desperadoes convinced that the second coming is nigh and they, being, as they are, the chosen ones, have all the answers. 

Meanwhile at the other end of the political spectrum, there are the so-called progressives and Green stalwarts all claiming the same exalted role for science. As though it weren't science, and the uses it's been put to, that has put us in this position in the first place. Without scientific know-how, there would be no such rapid accumulation of global warming gasses in our atmosphere. Gasses that are replacing the very oxygen we need in order to breathe. There would be no onerous concentrations of CO2 disrupting a climate that has been extant during the entire history of mankind, gifting it with the stable environment in which to grow its food. Which also depended on science, long before it was called that, despite agriculture being one of the first instances of scientific observation being used to benefit mankind. Yet the Green machine rejects sound science as soundly as the Trumpelstiltskins do. To the inevitability of the enormous extra burden their proposed replacement of the billion automobiles coursing down the world's freeways with an electric fleet of the same size, the manufacture of which would raise the CO2 content of the already unprecedented 418 ppm's now saturating the troposphere, they have no answer. They pretend as though those billions of autos will somehow come into existence through an act of will alone, with no repercussions, despite the entire new infrastructure needed to produce, fuel and allocate the rare earth elements on which their mobility depends. But the billions of tons of CO2 that would be exhausted into the troposphere in order to effect a change of such magnitude would surely push the global climate regime into overdrive, paying it forward, as it were, even though we are currently seeing that it need not be. And that's just one o fthe negative consequenses, ignoring as it does, the trillions in investment in the electric grid that would be necessary to deliver juice to those vehicles. And least we forget, PG&E has been held accountable for the incineration of Paradise, as well as damage from other wildfires started by their transmission lines. Lines that would necessarily proliferate all over the country. Lines that were strung to make California look Green by transporting energy form hundreds of miles away to keep its own green halo in place while doing nothing to stop its accelerating use of energy: ie to feed its propaganda machine. And now, having learned nothing, a side effect of putting the  onus of blame on a third party, they wish to increase that demand for juice exponentially. All over the country. There may be problems.

                                                             Wildfires: They're all the rage.

A modern economic system is possible. One that's not dependent on the insane level of wasted movement on a daily basis of billions of people driving to offices to do the busy work of building bridges to nowhere, roads to ruin, erecting castles built on sand; to fly to foreign lands to crowd into venues to which they have no connection, no understanding of, no interest in other than to photograph everything ad nauseum that has already been photographed a million times before; to cruise on the ocean in a floating hotel to nowhere in cramped stuffy atmosphere that regularly has breakouts of intestinal diseases and that dump tons of untreated human excrement into the oceans. A modern economic system is entirely possible. What isn't possible is that such an economy would generate the kind of profits still being squeezed from the current one. And those profits are necessary, because it is those profits that the Federal Government taxes, and without the revenue from those taxes there goes the overarching power of the military to maintain the toxic worship of hyper-masculinity that pervades the US and decides how its citizens should live their lives; and there goes the USA's overwhelming strike force necessary to maintain its hegemonic straddling of the globe to bend it to its will while wrapping itself in the banner of Freedom, unabashedly using, as our current president does, the exact same phraseology to exact the tribute of its deplorables that Hitler used to incite the same atavistic impulses in the German hoi plolloi: "Freedom" and Make Germany Great Again (verbatim, btw). 

Irish, Italians, Poles, Slavs, all line up to worship the Aryan white supremacy rhetoric of the US President, as though his ancestral Germany wasn't responsible for the annihilation of millions of their fellow countrymen in the name of Aryan supremacy. Not Irish supremacy. Not Polish. And certainly not Slavic, having, as it did, the annexation of Ukraine and the elimination of its population at the very heart of its policy of Lebensraum. How feeble it is to watch drinkers in an Irish pub cheer our Furor's rhetoric, completely ignorant of the fact that were the black population to be "taken care of" (whatever that means ... it can't be good, though) they would be next. They really think this arrogant Aryan has their best interests at heart, includes their wants in his agenda, considers their offspring members of The Master Race he claims as his birthright. How pathetic to see Russians in America (there are no Russian-Americans ... they are here to make money, something they can't do in Russia; yet they despise American culture, openly revile American Blacks, scoff derisively at the very idea of gay marriage) cheer the man espousing the same philosophy as the Führer who slaughtered 26 millions of their countrymen in order to Make Germany Great Again, as though the rhetoric behind MAGA (Make America Germany's Arsenal?) went so well the first time. For without American and English Corporations' and upper class's investments in Nazi Germany, and specifically in the rearmament of Germany, the dream of a third Reich would never have been realized. Similarly, had the Russian State not allowed the illegal use of its lands to surreptitiously build the Führer's Wehrmacht, the Germans would have had no air force to hurl against Stalin's Russia. But Russians' love of Autarchy, Aristocracy, Authoritarianism, and Autocracy is such that they would prefer to rally behind Trump precisely because he despised and seditiously undermined, Obama, as they also prefer the same mindless form of one-man rule he has made abundantly clear he so fervently embraces. 

Which brings us back to climate change. Because it is this one man's aim, to make America "Energy Independent", which is what he equates with "Making it Grrrrreat Again" (as though it were a box of corn flakes), that has driven the agenda from the first day of his tenure. And it is this maniacal obsession that has driven the world to its current state of climate derangement. Yet it is currently ignoring that fact so as to focus on the corona virus outbreak to such an obsessive degree that it is as though we have all become extras in the remake of Groundhog Day.  But as Siberia's wildfires rage and Arizona burns to a crisp, as the Southwest is embroiled in an unprecedented heatwave centered exactly on the nexus of a fracturing fervor - western Texas, eastern New Mexico, and the four corners region - the acceleration of the change in the weather that has occurred simultaneously with the fevered rush to use the rest of the economy to sustain the bankrupting uneconomic extraction of oil from uncooperative shale; as tons of Freedom Molecules are let loose to build an LNG infrastructure that has no hope of paying for itself, its premier advocate (ie, beneficiary via federal subsidies), Chesapeake Energy, having already, a mere four months into the pandemic, declared bankruptcy; as China suffers, along with Japan, from unprecedented torrential downpours so egregious they threaten the Three Gorges Dam in one country while causing deadly mudslides in the other, and as our own southeastern seaboard gets swamped once again by once-in-a-thousand-years floods, all the major economies want to do is to get back to "normal". Get back to the energy regime that is bringing calamity after calamity in order to maintain. 

Instead, it is as though none of it has anything to do with the "resilient" capitalist economic system we have adopted, as it is too sacrosanct to question any of its failings, point out any of the real costs it extracts, since denying the real cost of Free-for-all Enterprise is what Cowboy Capitalism is all about: push the costs and the risk onto the public, and reap the benefits and profits for the Ruling Keptocracy who reward their sycophants with sinecures such that when actual expertise is needed it is nowhere to be found (since our genius billionaire hates elites, and is in full knowledge that his followers will never figure out that both geniuses and billionaires are the elitist of the elite. Then again, since he's neither ...) Ah, the airs a parent puts on to keep his hiers apparent in line for their completely unearned, untaxed, unlimited incomes for the entirety of their unworking lives. They may have no enterprise, but they are free from life's more sordid dilemmas. And it is for this that we allow our world to be brought to ruin. Oh. Sorry. That's just a hoax. That wasn't my house I just saw go floating down the inundated roadway.