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The MoA Week in Review – OT 2018-58
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
The SDF is very much in trouble. ISIS is still attacking. There is trouble between the locally recruited Arab footsoldiers of the SDF and the Kurdish command. The U.S. is again bombing but the defense front of the SDF has largely broken down.
The UAE and its mercenaries have renewed a large attack on Hodeidah. Should they capture it they will control all supplies to the Houthi areas. The Saudis and the UAE seem to use the 30 days Trump has given them for maximum gain.
Use as open thread …
Trump’s has been the “goofy foot” presidency.
That is, he started off on the wrong foot. Campaigning as a populist who eschewed accepted mainstream “progressive” and “conservative” political positions, he completely cratered the unpopular Republican orthodoxy during the 2016 primaries by promising such heretical ideas as a non-interventionist foreign policy, protection for Medicare/Medicaid and social security, improvement on Obamacare, higher taxes on the wealthiest and a massive infrastructure program to rebuild the decaying facilities of this so-called once grate nation.
These are all ideas that gained the support of enough Obama voters and independents in just the right flyover states to lead Trump to an improbable victory while being soundly thrashed in the popular voting nationwide. A stunning, historical accomplishment as much as and as much in reaction too, the 2008 Obama victory.
Of course, to those of us who understand the modern GOP and the history of the lying-ass self promotion of the Trump entertainment spectacle its own self, we were neither duped nor surprised when the initial 2017 legislative agenda items proferred were none of the populist agenda but instead were the repeal of Obamacare, massive tax cuts for the wealthy and the reversal of all Obama executive orders, most notably in the areas of refugee resettlement and immigration.
Trump, the so-called change agent who in fact was and still is clueless regarding how to function as President simply let the craven Obama opposition leaders of the prior 8 years, McConnell and Ryan set out the typical GOP legislative agenda, which is opposed by a majority, in some cases overwhelming majority, of Amerikkkans.
Obamacare repeal failed memorably based on but one late night thumb’s down taken more out of personal revenge than the ideology of a very soon to be dead Senator.
Trump’s ruling style in large part has substituted for any sense of a coherent agenda in that he obviously cares only about his base (an obdurate block of 36% of the electorate consisting almost entirely of white, entitled, racist baby boomers who have devolved into anti-democratic fascists now that they no longer represent a majority of the US population and believe (falsely) they have something to protect).
Trump has succeeded in implementing some of his campaign ideas and not all of them are 100% evil or wrongheaded. He has shaken the long term calcification of the US foreign and tarde policy, has introduced tariffs especially to combat clearly unfair Chinese trade practices while demanding European and Asian allies pay more for their defense of empire.
While I have my own view of whether any of Trump’s policies contain great value from a long term historical pespective, I do recognise Trump’s appeal to certain sectors of the internet, including most obviously certain useful idiots of the ultraleft.
I do not believe his victory to be a fluke of nature but rather in keeping with the current worldwide trend borne of aging whitebread fear, cyncism and disenchantment with elitist political/economic establishments and which has been amped to a viral degree by a staggering wealth disparity, but only as it impacts the formerly entitled feeling, aging white people situated in western countries.
The natural response to any socially or cultural threat is to band together tribally and fight back. And the main threat, when it is boiled down, is the fear of overpopulation (and its accompnaying unstoppable environmental degradation) driven by what is viewed through the Trump voter political lens as non-white, primitive, illsuited people from shithole countries who are and will continue to ruin Amerikkka and Western Europe.
As perfectly illustrated by the migrant caravan heading to Tijuana.
Unfortunately, Trump through disinterest or incompetence or both hasn’t followed through either with enough of the promises he made that are actually meaningful to most people, whether GOP or Democratic. He has been able to bind his tribe to him and conquer the GOP political apparatus simply because the Party platform was already so badly decayed (overcooked Reagan leftovers) and out of touch with reality pre-Trump that the Donald could bend delusional conservative tropes in any way he saw fit to his electoral advantage. As long as he infotained well, and he has indeed, he would dominate.
As b stated recently, Trump is an astute salesman (unfortunately, that is all he is) but what is left unmentioned is that he is of the sales school that is totally unmoored for any sense of ethical, moral or legal responsibility.
In other words, Trump is that quintessential Amerikkkan salesman: the grifter. This particular breed of business person is not an exception in the US but rather the rule. In fact, the US system has devolved to the point where laws and regulations now enfranchise what previously had been considered illegal activity. Amerikkkans are heavily incentivised these days by the call to a form of monopolistic, crony capitalism and institulionised rigged gambling (“Wall Street”), which in more quaint times was considered mobsterism.
Institutions have been purposefully compromised so they no longer support whatever criminal laws still exist. It is not by accident that the IRS is now chronically understaffed and has no effective way to stop income tax cheating or collection of the minimal taxes now due.
It is not by accident that Trump’s main role as President is to weaken institutions such as the media, to further debase language and kill whatever generally accepted objective truth remain extant in th eland. He is recognisable to all Amerikkkans as a CEO in support of this ongoing wave of legal criminality through which the 1% and their lackeys section have prospered at the expense of the 99%.
The US political system was invested with an ability to self-correct, or self-police through separation of powers within the tripartite political system. It is hardly news this system is about dead, starting not with Trump of course, but now reaching its absolute low point under his rule and the acquiescence of the spineless GOP.
And no, I don’t believe the Demotardic Party to be absolved of blame in any way. Rather, the Demotards have entirely gone along to get along with this same trend because of course the Party leaders have been able to criminally enrich themselves and their cronies along the way too.
However, let’s be real for minute and drop all pretense of holier than thou keyboard revolutionism. The ultimate solution of the world’s disease is not going to be resolved in 2018 through a political revolution, especially one inspired by the disharmony and fraud of internet based social media and its acolytes. D’uh.
Look around. Since we have been blogging our lives away the world has only grown further away from leftism. We live in a fascist police state owned and operated by teh ultra wealthy who have dropped pretense of any humanitarian or religious concern for those less firtunated than themselves.
Donald Trump has one more chance to make himself truly into the transformational leader he believes himself to be in his degraded soul.
The first bill on the 2019 legislative needs to be a bipartisan infrastructure bill of such scope and magnitude that it will serve not only a political change of direction but also redirect the economy in such way that wealth is re-directed from the wealthy to the rest of us, particularly those able bodied non-college educated people who have suffered through the last several decades without hope or gain.
Trump must dictate to his party that Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security will not only be maintained but strengthened through improved benefits.
Am I dreaming? Yes, I admit that I am. But I’m also calling out to the criminal conman in chief: it’s not too late to reclaim your own legacy.
Wake the fock up, dude…
Posted by: donkeytale | Nov 3 2018 17:48 utc | 14
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Apart from Pope Albertus and his Carbon Tithe and Tax Credit Scheme that is clear-cutting the last tropical forests for carbon credit oil plantations, (and it dibs-and-dabs of $Ts in tithe revenue from those papal dispensations to tin pot dictators and their generals, as well as to local and State government drone ‘programs’ and ‘studies’, none of which has anything whatsoever to do with the Garden of Eden, or ‘getting back to the land to set our souls free’, lol), the other extreme I find is, as you say, ‘mandatory medical’.
The Brazilian Vax Report I posted, (which reported commendable vaccination levels for Brazil, much better than USA, in fact was also careful to point out there are many diseases which don’t have vaccines, and there are Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI) after vaccinations, something the AMA never reports. Brazil is attempting to study those AEFIs, and noted historically there were anti-mandatory vaccination riots in Brazil in early 1900s, and so Brazil never tried again what California has now made mandatory.
The important thing to remember, which I learned when a parent went into hospice, as we all will some day, is you can’t leave without ‘medical’ approval, nor can you refuse any treatment or inoculation the ‘medical care’ personnel decide you need. You will be restrained, drugged with SSRIs, electro-shocked or even beaten in the USA. Worse, the AMA recently redefined ‘hypertension’ from 90 130 down to 80 120, and now 10,000,000s of healthy seniors in hospice are being *forced* into a hypertension meds regime, in addition to all the other PDR Galaxy of meds that Big Pharma is pimping.
Hypertension medication leads to lethargy, somnolence and being wheel-chair bound, the ban of the elderly. Then that in turn leads to muscle loss and bone hollowing, until they are invalid, in intensive care. Then comes the hearse after midnight ride to crematorium.
My parent was forced by the ‘medical staff’ to take 29 pills a day, and within a year went from being a cranky old bitch who liked to race her car to the liquor store and back, into a humped-over gunny sack in a wheelchair, parked by the staff in front of Price is Right, until it was Wackenhut airplane-food meal time, whether you have any hunger or not, three meals a day are deducted from your savings.
The ‘medical doctor’ wrote ‘failure to thrive’ on her death certificate.
When the last unencumbered wealth of the Fifth Quintile seniors is ‘hospiced’ out of their life savings accounts, and their retirement homes bulldozed for $650,000 townhouse mortgages for life to their kids, and the Tourist-Retail economy those elders supported collapses; and when the last sweet crude is pumped out of the ground, and their kids are forced to pay a €2 a liter ‘energy tithe’ to Pope Albertus, we will have returned full circle to a New Dark Ages of Finance Royals, a Mil.Gov bureaucracy and a Third Temple Carbon Catholic. 15% for the King, 15% for the Sharif bureaucrats and 15% for the Pope, just like paupers we are.
For now though, in the lead up to WW3, enjoy the show.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Nov 3 2018 21:51 utc | 37
donkeytale @ 14, quite the diatribe on Trump. Agree with much of what you write.
One point is off, too caricatural:
.. the issue of ‘overpopulation’ as a hidden danger, and ‘racism’ as attributed to Trump voters. I’d say few ppl in the US are worried about over-population -> yup some few doomers and collapse types.
Accentuating the ‘racism’ of Trump voters is focussing on a characteristic that the Dems exploit to decry the ‘Deplorables.’ Trump voters may be against ‘immigrants taking jobs’ or ‘drug selling Mexican gangs’ (just made that up), etc. what does that boil down to? Why is the ‘racist’ aspect pointed to, rather than a ‘class’ one (the enemy, 20% with financial, social, educational capital), or a ‘criminal’ one? Simple answer: to draw attention away from economic and other more important socio-economic topics such as health care, education, transport, affordable healthy food, Big Banks, etc.
Trump supporters strike me as quite inclusive, as long as MAGA ‘values’ and the melting pot (yes, diversity..! My muslim bro! Love ya pearled hair Sister! Tex Mex great food! MAGA!) and admiration for the leader,Trump, are shared.
How exactly, besides virtue signalling and fakey discourse, are Dems ‘less racist’?
The Clintons and Obama loathe black ppl. (Bush J. was more tolerant.) Obama married one because he could not get the 11% black vote if he’d married a blondine. Do ‘Dem’ corporate heads hire more blacks, Hispanics? I don’t think so. That was Trump, the equal opportunity employer. A grifter, to be sure. Grifters don’t care about skin color, religion, provenance, btw. Nor do the very rich, the elites, the top tiers. Not at all. It is perfectly understood by them -they laugh about it over fancy drinks – that racist BS is just a tool to fool and control the lower orders.
US citizens have always been manipulated on so-called ‘social’ issues like racism, abortion, bedroom activity, speech patterns, dress, looks, potential bugs, diseases / mind settings, paying for other’s care, etc. in a clumsy attempt to exploit disgust – fear of the ‘other’ in a /slice and dice/ electoral approach.
What did Obama do for Blacks in the US – going with the ‘tribal’ thing? Less than nothing. For ex. (issue complicated, few know anything about it.)
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/15/black-farmers-settlement-money/1991735/
Read O’s books, he despises black men.
Google just had demos etc. about ‘sexual ..’ – lotsa pictures on the net. Where are the black ppl working for Goog?
b, take care. go to a doc.
Posted by: Noirette | Nov 4 2018 16:32 utc | 93
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As part of my Mandarin class assignment, to report on Tibet after the Cultural Revolution, I’m reading Nien Cheng’s ‘Life and Death in Shanghai’ as a foil to the scant few writings available on the meeting between the Dalai Lama and Chairman Mao, which ended in Mao’s declamation that ‘Religion is Poison,” which is to say no more pizza and beer, from now on, everyone eats rice gruel.
Cheng is the Soltzhenitzen of China, a national Chinese married to a husband who unfortunately was general manager for Shell Oil and she became a business contracts translator for Shell, so she was ‘tainted’ by capitalism as well, before the Cultural Revolution seized all foreign-held properties, for a mere 7% of 10c on the $1 annual lease payment.
The 14th Dalai Lama, of course, fled to Dharamsala in the wake of Mao’s brutal attack on Tibet that followed, the destruction of their temples and their culture, the self-immolations and disappearances. He has now declared an end to the chain of reincarnation, thus an end to the Tibetan form of religion, in order to prevent further bloodshed by the Han invaders.
But I don’t want to speak for him. You can contact him here to confirm: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thekchen Choeling, P.O. McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh (H.P.) 176219, India
Nien Cheng gives a street-level view of ‘socialism’, as does Soltzhenitzen, talking of the purges and the inquisitions, the 10,000,000s murders and the gulags, the highway of skulls, the cultural insanity that follows conversion from the old system of feudalism as ‘capitalism’, to the new bright sun and coarse salt of forced socialism and economic redistribution, comrade.
Would you like turnips with that?
Today Tibet is a thriving tourist destination. Lhasa’s ramshackle market stalls have been replaced by Han-run trinket shops, and the main square has been cleared of riff-raff and penitents into a sterile microcosm of Red Square, with not a native Tibetan to be seen, except for the monkey-chain dancers.
Tibetans, for their part, are given free education and healthcare, in Mandarin, of course, so their young people can serve Beijing as expat untrained laborers in the mines and brick factories of the three eastern provinces, and then send their 1000 yuan a month home to their yak-herding family.
It’s a Good Life, …and if Chairman Albertus’ Global Carbon Tithe and Tax Credit Scheme takes root, everyone here will get a taste of that ‘good life’ when the Green Cultural Revolution begins.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Nov 4 2018 17:00 utc | 100
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