The Logic Of Bootlickers Is The Logic Of Too Many Americans

The worst disasters of the my lifetime, starting with the Vietnam War, have been planned by the smartest guys in the room. So who cares if Trump or Biden is smart?

Here, here, yeah, I’ve been pissed off too, as long as I can remember.

Didn’t somebody do a study, where there were two groups, something like “the workers and the hobnobbers”? At the end of the study it was concluded that the reason most workers went nowhere, was because they were working hard at working all the time. Meanwhile the hobnobbers went places because they spent most of their time hobnobbing, improving their hobnobbing skills, and got to hobnob with their PTB and then got moved up.

I think Trump is a super hobnobber. This is why as a workplace incompetent whose resume includes six bankruptcies, two impeachments and one failed national insurrection attempt, he gets to move and shake all over the place. I forsee great things for him.

On the plus, Jomala, Nancy and Jim may be feeling some heat from the workers right about now.

Biden’s not even a good boss if you believe the allegations of sexual assault and harassment: https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html

I used to be like SilentAmuse when I was a kid, then I grew up and my eyes opened up to reality. Some people like SilentAmuse still want to believe in what they taught us as kids in school. To admire people in power and assume that because they are successful and rich, they must be really smart and worked hard to be in the positions they are in. Anyone who has lived long enough in this world without being sheltered in an elite bubble know that is patently false.

A good friend and I were just talking about these issues today. That many of the companies we’ve worked for had CEOs that bring in their own people. Many of their friends/family/confidants do not have the education, experience, or talent for the role, but they are highly paid and among the most powerful within the company. Some similarities I’ve found among these people are that, as Ian has pointed out, they slurp up and kick down. Many of them are snakes who do the CEO’s dirty work. They are kept around and paid a lot because they are not good people. They are snakes with little morals or ethics.

I have had friends who have asked me if I was ever interested in going into politics. I tell them that I’m not a good liar, so how am I expected to succeed in a profession where most of the people in it are professional liars and backstabbers? That is why Pelosi, Harris, Obama, Biden, the Bushes, the Clintons, and everyone else running mega corporations succeed in politics and business. You don’t have to be smart and you don’t have to know what the hell you are doing most days. Nepotism and corruption allow these people and their families to continue to fail upward.

They actually aren’t even good at getting elected. They have campaign managers who tell them what positions to take, when and where to campaign, what to support and what not to, and even on what clothes to wear. They have speech writer to tell them what to say and how to say it. When speaking extemporaneously they sound like idiots.

Biden is telegraphing he is dead set on, firmly committed to, using the Clinton philosophy of trying at bipartisanship and failing versus not trying at all. Obama in his memoir claimed he did the same thing in 2009 and he regrets the decision to go with that strategy, but apparently Biden hasn’t read Obama’s memoir or has and doesn’t care to learn from Obama’s mistake if it was a mistake at all and not just an excuse to avoid any meaningful legislation in favor of the unwashed versus the oligarchy.

Biden is going to give obstructionist power to McConnell and the Republican goons, who are on their heels and on the ropes by the way, and use that as an excuse not to pass any legislation that will improve outcomes for the unwashed. By doing so, he is greasing the skids for the next fascist putsch. He will lose his tenuous progressive support entirely. His gamble is he will replace that loss with moderate Republicans from the suburbs. He and the Dems are going to lose that bet and lose it big time. Biden is America’s Paul von Hindenburg. He is wedded to an establishment that can no longer govern and is in free fall collapse. He is feckless in the face of this rising tide of fascism. We’re f*cked.

ps – I live in Grant Park. Are you and your family in the city?

O/T I’ve read a significant chunk of the comments to a the Gateway Pundit article “After Two Weeks the Identity of the Capitol Policeman Who Shot Unarmed Ashli Babbitt Dead Has Not Yet Been Released – Why Is That? (VIDEO)” At least 2 of my comments appear censored. The one that didn’t get censored was 2 sentences, with no links. In fact, I don’t see any comments with links, which is incredible, given that the Babbitt incident was caught on multiple videos, and a lot of the discussion is about what actually happened, that was observed on video. It’d be nice to be able to refer to the exact video one is talking about….

This can’t be an ‘accident’, though I’m not sure if the censorship is at the disqus level, or the level of the website moderators. In either case, my conclusion is that thegatewaypundit.com is to right wingers what democracynow.org is to left gatekeepers. I.e., a right gatekeeper website. See the waybackmachine (web.archive.org), search for “leftgatekeepers.com”, then select an early date, like Dec 7, 2003, if you want to know what left gatekeeping is all about.

The most interesting comments, that survived the censor, that I’ve run across in this context, were by “David Michael”

IMHO. This woman was pretended to be murdered to.push political pschops planned out by.Democrats.I used to work.with a company that collected from estates .You can find obituaries for just about anyone online by name and city
There is none for her ,just same old ,same old stories.You usually can find a posting for the funeral home services ,viewing obit ect.

Nutting.
Two months(sic) a Friday night press release excessive force case closed no charges , a federal officer just enough info that it could be him.,End of story

and

This woman was pretended to be murdered to push A political narrative by democrats. I used to work in a company that did Estates Collections.You can find Just about anyone in an obituary if you have name city and state.
You can usually find a list of relatives,funeral home ,service, viewing.
There is nothing for this girl but wire service stories.

Interestingly of the 57 Las Vegas victims only 4 stories that kept being repeated.,no obituaries.A 45 year old woman was supposedly killed from.Martinsburg WV .
I am.very familiar with Martinsburg and the town paper the Martinsburg Journal .Not one story in the journal about a local killed ,nor an obituary.
I looked up 5 other victims from.the list that appeared to be small .cities rural.towns and same thing. ,no local stories nor obits.

It also appears that none of her social network has been interviewed. I’ve read quotes by husband and brother, and saw a clip of her grandfather, and that’s it (though did not search through any mainstream article, e.g. in nytimes.com)

@John Emerson and @Ian

Sorry for the fully accredited plagiarism that follows. Feel free to delete/disappear if either of you is offended. But John Emerson’s post, that appeared on now-defunct openleft.com was so insightful, and somewhat relevant to his comments here, that I thought it better to ask forgiveness, than permission. IMNSHO, should be promoted to it’s own diary.
We’ve seen a very recent example reported of Pelosi and McConnell conferring to sideline any challenge to the electoral college vote. (In fact, I think they had foreknowledge and acquiescence to the false flag “storming” of the Capitol, which conveniently curtailed debate and moved it out of primetime; plus was used to demonize Trump and his MAGA followers. But I am mostly speculating on this point.)

Indispensable Enemies
by: John Emerson
Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 11:30
(Another in John’s series on the dark side of party politics. – promoted by Paul Rosenberg)

Indispensable Enemies, Walter Karp, Franklin Square Press, 1993 / 1973
Indispensable Enemies is a wild ride, and very few will want to stay on all the way to the end. Karp has no respect for either of the major parties, and his low opinion extends to such Democratic heroes as Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ, and even McGovern. He was politically unaffiliated, but identified with the Progressive and Populist traditions, and  nowadays he seems to be admired mostly by paleocons and right-libertarians. But his insights into the two-party system can help dissidents of any stripe understand what’s wrong with our political process, and more specifically, what’s wrong with the Democratic Party.
The basic idea of the book is that when you’re trying to understand American politics, you don’t want to start with the candidates and elected officials, or with the voters and public opinion, or even with the lobbyists or with the media, but with the political parties. Karp overstates his case considerably, but there are few who could read his book without learning something from it.
The parties and the pros work for themselves first, last and always, and a party’s ruling group would always rather maintain control of a losing party than win and lose control. Parties do not depend on elected officials for funding. Quite the opposite: elected officials who don’t have their own organizations and who can’t self-finance are pretty much dependent on the party. (This is especially true of low-seniority members of the House, who are little more than but peons.)  The party gets its funding from donors, and donors give money as often to prevent action asthey do to get action: sometimes all they want is nothing.
By and large party leaders do not want reform, progress, or change, since anything new makes  their job harder and threatens to bring in new and competing leaders. The two party oligarchies support one another against the dissident forces in either party, and often their disputes are choreographed dog-and-pony shows leading, like pro wrestling, to foreordained conclusions — as we have seen with free trade, tax reduction, and deregulation, often the two parties are in agreement on the issues.
Some examples of what party leaders will do in order to keep control:
A. Sabotage a popular candidate of their own party, either because he is in some way dissident on the issues, or just because he seems likely to try to take over the party organization.
B. Concede small or large areas to the “opposition” party, ensuring a standoff whereby the leaders of the two parties are able to broker deals at the expense of their own supporters. After the Civil War the Republicans conceded the whole South to the Democrats by accepting the disenfranchisement of black Americans. In many states, the party machines divide the state on an urban-rural basis. Once the nation or the state is stabilized that way and a standoff achieved, the leaders of the two parties can happily do business.
C. Split their own party so that one faction can be played off against the other. For decades, even during periods when liberal Democrats and moderate Republicans had the votes to end segregation, the Democratic leadership (by honoring seniority rules, the filibuster, etc.) allowed the Southern Democrats to block progress. The sacred rules of Congressional procedure are nothing but the devices by which the party leaders manipulate and control Congress. None of them have the sanction of law, and many of them aren’t even very old.  The plain fact is that before LBJ the party leadership, including the northerners, never wanted to end segregation and were perfectly happy to let the South run the show.
D. Build campaigns around wedge issues, peripheral to the real business of government, which set a bloc of voters in one party against a bloc in the other party. Wedge issues aren’t a Rove invention: for decades after the Civil War, the most visible issues were prohibition, foreign-language schools, and anti-Yankee or anti-Reb sentiment. Wedge issues cost little or nothing, and if the level of animosity can be kept high enough they’re the gift that keeps on giving.
For example, the Republicans have been flogging abortion for three decades now without delivering much of anything. They do not really want to win, because if they do, they’ll not only anger their own moderate voters, but will also lose their leverage with anti-abortion voters.  Peripheral issues of this kind are decoys allowing allow the two parties to quietly achieve goals that they really care about.
E. Neglect or sabotage outreach. The party pros do not want enthusiastic new supporters if the new supporters seem likely to make new, inconvenient demands. What they want is predictable, tried-and-true party regulars making specific, limited demands. Voter enthusiasm is not a good thing, but rather a problem to be solved: often the party must figure out how to fail in a non-obvious way, without angering its voters.
The two parties, and the liberal and conservative wings of each party, often secretly cooperate with one another by killing inconvenient measures that their adversaries need to seem to support, but do not want to see passed. When you see support for a popular bill mysteriously evaporating, or when you see factional disputes within the dominant party or faction delivering victory to the weaker one, this is often what has happened.
F. Bipartisanship. Need I say more? The bosses  deal, and Broder rejoices.
Karp makes one point that I can’t develop here, but which is dear to my heart. He asks the reader to assume that political players are agents and know what they’re doing, so that if the players’ actions don’t make sense in terms of their professed goals, we should conclude that their actual goals are different. This goes against fifty years of lumpen-wonk truisms about how politics works. Wonk Democrats seem to be fanatically committed to the idea that blind forces decide everything and that no one ever really knows what they are doing or why, and they automatically accuse anyone who believes that politicians do things for reasons of being a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
This is very strange, because the same wonks who so strongly claim to believe in blind forces also believe that the wise Democrats they support are doing magical things behind the scenes, and that we should just stand behind them without asking what it is that they’re doing.  It’s almost as if the wonks are putting up a smokescreen of conspiracy-theory accusations specifically for the purpose of diverting our attention from their own backroom politics.
Karp makes a vivid case, and every reader has to decide how much of it he accepts. It’s partly outdated: his book was published in 1973, and since then our politics has been transformed by think tanks, talk radio and TV, the conservative colonization of  the serious media, PACS, and so on. I’m not sure that the Gingrich-Delay-Rove Republicans fit into the pattern described by Karp, and the fact that today’s Democrats do seem to fit the pattern might be evidence that they’re living in the past and still haven’t figured out what hit them.
I strongly recommend that everyone read this book. This post gives you only a very sketchy idea of what Karp has to say, and in the book itself he provides a wealth of concrete examples of the kinds of things that I have only been able to summarize.

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John Emerson :: Indispensable Enemies

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The simple truth is, the party organization will dump an election whenever its control over the party would be weakened by the victory of its own party’s candidate…. Fear of the party’s own elected officials is often a determining feature of party politics regardless of who holds the office…. Party organizations cannot afford to take chances. They will even try to defeat a party hack if his victory would prove inconvenient.
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In many states the contest between the majority party’s regulars and its uncontrolled elements is the only real electoral competition that state parties, despite themselves, provide…. minority parties help the ruling party regulars in many ways, first and foremost simply by being a fake opposition…. Anything that stirs up the electorate, anything that rouses their interest in politics, is harmful to party organizations and, most directly, to a state’s ruling party.
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Given every opportunity to crush an influential Bourbon [William Colmer, a conservative Southern Democrat who had deserted the Democrats in two different Presidential elections], the non-Bourbon Democratic majority elevated him to the highest of Congressional stations [Chairman of the Rules Committee).
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The Northern wing could then split its vote four ways and hand Boggs the victory. This sort of manoeuver is usually attributed to the inherent disunity of Northern liberals, but there’s nothing inherent about it. When reporters asked Udall what caused his defeat, his answer was simple: “the big-city boys”. As Jim Folson, the anti-Bourbon former governor of Alabama, once put it, “The Yankees and the Southerners give each other hell up in Congress, and then they get together in the back room and say, well, we put it over on the folks again. It’s been going on for a hundred years.”
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Then came the depression, and Republican voters started casting their votes for Democratic legislative candidates, whoever they might happen to be. By 1934, the Democrats in ten Republican strongholds held 42 percent of the legislative seats, a historic, if unwanted resurgence. Little boodle parties suddenly found themselves saddled with flocks of freshmen legislators and all sorts of unwanted ambitions that threatened the regulars’ control.
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The Bourbons could not have enacted these measures [the disenfranchisement of black Southerners after 1896], would not have dared to enact these measures, had the Bourbons even expected the Republican Party to protest. Republican bosses and Republican Presidents did not protest. They saw their Republican voters decimated by disenfranchisement, they saw their own winning party in NC ruined by disenfranchisement, yet they let this constitutional degradation of American citizens pass unopposed.”
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So there it is: two national apogees of reform and two unexplained blunders that brought reform to a halt. What no one, to my knowledge, has suggested is that.these blunders were not blunders at all, that each was the deliberately chosen means for achieving the very end it achieved: bringing reform to a halt.
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Kennedy was carrying out a basic political strategy for killing pledged reforms – the creation of what political observer Martin Gelfand has termed the “indispensable enemy”, the opposition required to prevent you from doing what you must appear to want done.
His administration declared that it could not pass programs through the Senate without Republican votes and – what was palpably untrue – could win them only if Senator Everett Dirksen gave his approval to Kennedy legislation. Accordingly, Kennedy made elaborate public efforts to win over Senator Dirksen and an “extraordinary rapport” was established between the two men.
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On the other hand, those who make blanket condemnations of “conspiracy theories” base their own view on a farfetched theory indeed, namely that whatever men in high office actually do, they are essentially men of goodwill.
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Whenever the results of deeds are divorced from the deeds themselves, they lose their political character and appear to be the results of happenstance, of larger social forces and historical trends, or even of the providence of God. Although they are the consequences of political action, they will appear beyond reach of political action, since what men do not appear to have done, they appear incapable of undoing. To those who wield irresponsible political power, the advantage of hiding deeds is obvious and profound. By divorcing deeds from their results, they can produce results which serve their own interests yet bear no responsibility for them, for what appears to just happen, or what appears to issue from social and historical processes, is the specific responsibility of no man.
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As Alexis de Tocqueville long ago observed, a despot does not care that his subjects dislike him as long as they dislike each other, for then they cannot act together and so remain impotent.

someofparts, no, we live in the burbs, or the burbs of the burbs. My wife and son work in the city though. Grant Park is a beautiful area. Our neighborhood is a diversified mix though, at least along racial/cultural lines. We have folks from Korea, from China, from India, from Mexico, from Latin America and many blacks. It is not predominantly white by any means, but many of the whites who do reside in the neighborhood are of the conservative variety. Some of the others may be as well. One of them, one of the whites I mean, is the president of the homeowners association and he’s a real Nazi, so much so, he’s a caricature practically.

PS and someofparts:

I live in a cardboard box on the edge of Grant Park. Please help me.

Dave Chappelle, whose performances I like, got COVID-19 after hanging out and snapping pictures with Musk and Grimes (without surgical masks naturally). That’s one thing one may get in a nutshell for hanging out with the elite.

bruce wilder
Studies of the psychological attitudes…

Psychology is so full of fraud research and fraud researchers that it is effectively no different than fantasy and fiction. The approach there is to come up with an amusing and instructive story and then fit data to it. The other half (like Stanford Prison Experiment) is deliberate propaganda to justify our unjust arrangements. So, sure sure, people you do not like are evil as has been ‘shown’ ‘scientifically’ by psychology. Of course, your opponents consider you evil as has been ‘shown’ scientifically. In the end, ‘science’ can settle nothing.

Bias is a strategy for conserving cognitive resources. I’d add emotional resources to that as well.

bruce wilder
“Not enough blame falls on the educated, professional classes, imo, and too much is heaped on the peasants.”

A little known and appreciated fact — when the peasants of the Soviet Union became literate and numerate, they decided that hey know better than their parents (whom they of course treated with disdain as uneducated bumkins) and the communists (whom they also despised), and then destroyed the very system that educated them (i.e., the Soviet Union) — ironic.

Well, just because you can plug numbers in some formulas or put together a couple of sentences together that sort of in a very general outline make sense, does not make you smart or intelligent. It is all wrong to think that manual labor is inferior to brain labor in complexity, I mean it is inferior in that manual labor will age your body quickly, and you may look dirty and not have a clean office and some such, but manual labor is just as mentally demanding as mental labor. I could talk about highly skilled machine work — few people would know what I am talking about.

How about dancing – a manual labor, right, try dancing, go a 4-year institution in dancing, and then dance for us. Taking dancing classes will make you dance better, but you will still look goofy and clumsy in comparison with better (what we call professional) dancers.

Well, your thinking looks just as silly and vacant as your dancing…

When the lights go out … we’ll see who’s “smart.”

Ain’t gonna be 99% of the ghouls in DC.
And it ain’t gonna be 99% of the keyboard jockey’s commenting here.

Smart people are investing in simple, sustainable, means of staying alive during the coming collapse.

If you’re not preparing, you’re dumb.

Che has the right of it.

Biden is a corporate running dog, no doubt. But he’s also a decent enough guy to actual try to help do some good. Not that this lends moral weight to endless wars, the crime bills or the surveillance state. It doesn’t. It can’t. It won’t.

Let’s be clear: the technologies of control are produced in a corporate state partnership that never needs any one politician. It’s systemic.

Want it to change?

Win. Who the feck cares if some lapdogs mewl for their masters?

Win.

Win? How do you win when the system you describe has put controls in place to mitigate you ever winning?

Once again, I’ll ask, win how if the system is designed to mitigate you winning? I’m not self-defeating. I’m genuinely interested in how to win all things considered.

So Marx was a whiner? Do I have that correct? Because his noteworthiness is, a long slog whine about capitalism, right?

A critique of the system is as important as opposing it and deposing it. It you don’t know what you’re up against, you do not stand a chance.

We’re not up against abortion clinics, but many of the unwashed are. I will never be on the same team as some scum who wants to blow up abortion clinics or who wants to storm the Capitol because he or she believes the Bidens and Obamas and Clintons and Pelosi and Schumer and the pope and the prime minister of Italy are satanists who have sex with and eat babies.

Feral Finster: “Someone confuses “smart” with a certain animal cunning.”

There’s a Hiberno-English (Irish) expression: “CUTE HOOR”.
This person is not cute, nor a whore. Former Irish PM Bertie Ahern (who ran the country into the ground, and was up to his oxters in financial corruption, and never spent a day in jail, is a “cute hoor”.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cute%20hoor

phrase used in Ireland to describe a slippery customer, a rogue, a charlatan, someone who seems upstanding or innocent and mild but who never misses an opportunity to screw you over, scam you, rip you off or hide their farcical f**k ups, blame everyone else for the s**t they cause and generally lure you into their Machiavellian trap… unsurprisingly generally applied to cowboy politicians, corrupt rich tax evaders and their ilk

Surgery is a manual labor. Surgeons take long to study and retire early. How unfair.

I agree with SOP’s point;

We saw four years of mindless bullying, an attempt to shout down anyone whose view was not in line with the neoD’s narrative. And when I say that, I don’t mean, just the media, just the National Security State [NSS], just the rump Republicans, no, I mean people who consider themselves “intellectuals” people who decry bullying in others when they don’t have power, but, happily employ it when they do.

Watching self-described intellectual neoDs “leftist”, “liberals” & “progressives” fall all over themselves to put their spin on the “Trump=Hitler” meme…watching them put their spin on the “all Trump voters are Nazis” meme has been a real eye opener.

Trump has done one undeniably great deed, he has shown that people who self-describe as intellectual “leftists”, “liberals” & “progressives” are complete frauds. Trump isn’t any approximation of Hitler, Trump voters are not any approximation Nazis and all the attempts to sell that narrative by intellectuals has proven false over and and over, again and again.

Indeed, Ian was surprised that their wasn’t a 50 state protest and that’s because he has nobody in his circle knows anybody, who knows anybody, who is a Trump voter. Why? Don’t know in Ian’s case but, the neoDs back in 2016 began, cleverly I think, telling people that they should “de-friend” all acquaintances that don’t support Hillary…that way all the information “leftists”, “liberals” & “progressives” get on Trump voters passes through the DNC’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment*.

Thanks to the results of the 2020 election, the next shot at reform the neoD party will have is 2036, 16 years from now…and realistically that’s political eternity and with the neoD’s, NSS, Rump-R’s using the same tactics employed 2016-2021, the same bullying shown Yang, Trump, Gabbard, ANYBODY – who questions the narrative.

No, Ian’s man on a horseback will not make an appearance in 2032 or 2036, nor any strong silhouette that is an easy shot, no, a fanged serpent to come to power in the mindless swamp that the intelligentsia has created. No bugles will herald the arrival, no one will know when the snake arrives to feast on the dying corpse..hell, that keres might already have made it’s lair.

*2016 election, within a two week period about half of my friends posted a message that read like this, “support Hillary over that [racists/Russian-Spy/rapist/] Trump…if not please defriend me”. That’s dozens of people having the “same idea” in a matter of a few weeks…what are the odds of that?

Current money line on S Brennan’s predictions: -$1000.
Updates on the hour.

Dr. Burzynski’s pee saved me.

The Vig said: Current money line on S Brennan’s predictions: -$1000. Updates on the hour.

Fair enough Vig:

Ian has a emailed [and shared here] prediction of mine that outlined the infection/date rate of SARS II in the northern hemisphere particularly above the 35th parallel. In it, I predicted SARS’s II decline and subsequent rise. The key here is..the prediction was not just the events themselves but, exactly when they would happen. It was, as they say, a deadly accurate accounting of what was yet to happen…and counter to all the popular predictions at the time.

Genius? Intuitive? No, not at all, just a simple search through historical data and…a willingness to follow data sets, [wherever they lead] and…i can’t stress this enough…a willingness to ignore mindless popular opinions formed through the machinations of the neoliberal’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment.

Oh, BTW, do we see neoD’s enacting a national lock-down now that they have absolute power? No, no we don’t…and nobody here can bother to ask themselves why…isn’t that odd that when the media stops pumping a story, interest in the subject disappears? Why if I didn’t know better I’d say we were being manipulated…eh?

Mira Furlan has died. Babylon 5. Lost.

Suddenly…

SpaceX Plans to Drill for Natural Gas Next to Texas Launchpad.

I am speechless!

They will pump natural gas out of the group next to the launch pads right into the space ships! Wow.

Or may be not.

Bill Gates is the largest owner of agricultural land.

No, it actually all makes sense.

Who would guessed that Space X has a land-acquisition arm

Dogleg Park LLC

or a subsidiary Lone Star Mineral Development.

I mean if these subs were for acquisition of land and mineral resources on Mars, I can see that, but Texas ain’t Mars.

Or may be it is… sand… dunes… it’s all the same.

There is nothing wrong in theory with a high level Chinamerica detente. So why not address some pandemic stuff and climachange stuff?

But in the longer run, Free Trade is a major cause of global warming, and part of de-warming the global will involve abolishing Free Trade and re-localising or at least re-regionalizing production and consumption of all different things and stuff as much as is feasible.

And that can’t happen under the the Corporate Globalonial Plantation System and its Forcey Free-Trade regime.

If the American government can be conquered by people who intend to use it to make America into its own Metropole-Hinterland system, then tension with China will remain inevitable as long as China wants to make America into a Hinterland serving the China Metropole.

An update, for our beloved lick-spittles who haven’t kept up with the Ministry of Public Enlightenment’s daily bootlicker-briefings. Hugh, you need to pay attention…your comment makes clear you missed an important bootlicker-briefing:

“Pre-election – hydroxychloroquine bad. Post-election – hydroxychloroquine good”

Now run along and remember, check with the Ministry of Public Enlightenment’s daily bootlicker-briefings before reciting your opinion !!! Remember your training, write your thoughts exactly as the Ministry tells you…don’t try to be clever and think on your own!

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Special Meeting AMA- Resolution 509, 30 Oct 2020, for public release after 02 Nov 2020 election.

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Whereas, A proposed regimen to treat COVID-19 for Stage 1, includes 10 days of 27 hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, zinc, and Vitamin D (6);

Whereas, This regimen is not being advocated for Stage 2 and Stage 3 COVID therapy;

Whereas, The original studies published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of 32 Medicine(NEJM) initially citing harm due to hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine use were 33 retracted by said journals due to dubious research methodology and incorrect conclusions34 (7, 8, 9);

Whereas, AMA policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their 37 Physicians,” supports a physician’s autonomy to prescribe medications the physician believes to 38 be in the patient’s best interest, where the benefits outweigh risk and the patient consents;

Whereas, Physicians have used off label medications for years and this use is supported by 41 existing policy;

Whereas, Data regarding harm have been limited due to poorly designed studies or studies 44 usually in Stage 2 or later, or stopped without harm but no effect in phase 2 and hypothesis 45 (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12);

Whereas, There are many studies that indicate that the use of Hydroxychloroquine is effective and front-line physicians are using the therapy where permissible;

RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association rescind its statement calling for physicians 4 to stop prescribing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine until sufficient evidence becomes 5 available to conclusively illustrate that the harm associated with use outweighs benefit early in 6 the disease course. Implying that such treatment is inappropriate contradicts AMA Policy 7 H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” that addresses off 8 label prescriptions as appropriate in the judgement of the prescribing physician (Directive to 9 Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA reassure the patients whose physicians are prescribing 18 hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for their early-stage COVID-19 diagnosis by 19 issuing an updated statement clarifying our support for a physician’s ability to prescribe an FDA-20 approved medication for off label use, if it is in her/his best clinical judgement, with specific 21 reference to the use of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of the 22 earliest stage of COVID-19 (Directive to Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA take the actions necessary to require local pharmacies to fill valid 25 prescriptions that are issued by physicians and consistent with AMA principles articulated in 26 AMA Policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” 27 including working with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health 28 System Pharmacists.

https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-10/nov20-handbook-addendum.pdf

An asshole I worked for sneered behind my back just loud enough to make sure I heard that he didn’t trust anyone who prefers the company of dogs to people. Reading many of the comments here reminds me why I do. That particular asshole btw openly proclaimed that he always considered himself the smartest person in the room. If the shoe fits . . .

Ian, thank you as usual for a great piece that highlights the sycophancy of the pundit-courtier class, with the anger that the subject deserves. It’s amazing how ingrained worshiping-at-the-throne-of-our-betters has become in US social attitudes and of course TPTB, the Masters of the Universe can be satisfied at all the free propaganda protecting them.

Your coverage of Kamala is good, but it doesn’t include all of the things she did. As a local (living in Oakland when she became the S.F. prosecutor) I’d like to share one incident not mentioned here (mia culpa if I missed it in comments, as I didn’t read them all).

The SF business & political Elites (incl. “progressive” John Burton’s Dem machine) ousted the “Red” prosecutor Terence Hallinan (for those who don’t know about Hallinan, I expect he and his family have a wikipedia page, they were true anti-capitalists for decades) & replaced him with Willie Brown’s concubine, Kamala (either at the time or just previous; Willie boasted of the expensive car he’d bought as a “birthday gift” for her services in his regular SF Chronicle column. Terence not only kicked against the pricks of capitalism, as an Irish-American he took the Catholic Church down a peg by gathering substantial evidence of the church’s long pedophilia abuse of children, which he shared with local victims and lawyers as needed. One of the first things Kamala did in office was to take ALL of that material out of circulation to protect the politically powerful Church. F–k the victims a 2nd time, I guess, on behalf of their “betters” in the clergy!!

Here’s a link on that from the Intercept. Additionally, many right-wing sources have decent articles on this as well which I have not bothered to add, but are easily found–

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/

Mira Furlan, she will be missed, very few of the main cast left now. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls023048945/ this will need to be updated.

That said, Antifa and BLM accounts are getting nuked by Big Tech, they outlived their usefulness.

Big Tech itself is on the way out. Amazon will survive as its diversified enough, and youtube as well, but the rest will implode. Blockchain and open source are the way to go and their explosion in use after Trump’s ban spells the doom of Big Tech’s power.

That’s why they dumped Trump! Trump’s bans on TikTok and WeChat, etc only invited retaliation against US corporate interests in China – hello, Elon Musk and his Tesla factory in Shanghai. The Chines communist likely promised protection from TikTok and the likes, and Trump was toast. I admire Musk who saw this all coming through years ahead.

Someone with a Twitter account should post exactly this particular Ian Welsh article and its thread over to this very Tweet thread featured in the article.

I dig around a little in Silent Amuse’s Twitter Account homebase and discover that one of her Twitter Egos is this . . .

https://twitter.com/GetBack2Brunch

She must be a Clintonite.
And a PKKK Democrat. ( Pink Kitty Kap Klintonite Democrat).

Hey Hugh and Willy, thanks for the votes in November and for the good work you guys do promoting my Party. The DNC owes you guys a self-serve all you can eat socially distanced brunch. Contact Neera before February 28th for your free vouchers.

Ian, c’mon man don’t pretend you’re smarter than me, son. That’s just not cool because, you know, the thing, uh, the thing that makes the world tick like clocks, well I got it and you don’t. So drop the Cornpop act and learn some manners. Now I know you ain’t black because you didn’t vote for me but that just makes you a dog faced pony soldier. Nothing to be proud of young man. You need to learn to respect your elders and gently sniff the, uh, hair of my wife’s sister’s friends. While you keep a blog I’m building back better, man, and you better believe it. Now get out of my pool, kid, and let me run the country like only a real, uh, man, real man can.

Authorities and authority figures are little more than surrogate “abusive parents” and behave as such.