Loose Cannon Overboard on SS Trumptanic

    A deranged Hillary hating fake news reader's gun blazing assault on a Washington DC pizza restaurant has shaken the SS Trumptanic and caused a man-overboard alert - even before the ship is cut loose from Trump Tower:

    NYT:

    WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday fired one of his transition team’s staff members, Michael G. Flynn, the son of his designated national security adviser, for using Twitter to spread a fake news story about Hillary Clinton that this weekend led to an armed confrontation in a pizza restaurant in Washington.

    The uproar over Mr. Flynn’s Twitter post cast a harsh spotlight on the views that he and his father, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, aired on social media throughout the campaign. Both men have shared fake news stories alleging that Mrs. Clinton committed felonies, and have posted their own Twitter messages that at times have crossed into Islamophobia.....

    The Trump team has not even taken the SS Trumptanic out of dry dock. Not for a sea trial.

    They are not even close to navigating the treacherous storms and turbulent waters of the world, with the power, prestige and lives of Americans at risk

    In a short few weeks there will be incidents and challenges much more complicated and dangerous then deciding to toss one of their battery of loose cannons overboard. Over an entirely predictable incident that was the result of fake news being promoted by Trump's own National Security advisor and his son.

    Who knows what disasters await when these guys take over? Trump's team is like employing arsonists as the fire department.

    We can be assured that when confronted with a crisis, they will first deny it exists, then they will make it worse. Then they will try blame someone else.

    This collection of liars, grifting billionaires and right wing nutjobs can be expected to do nothing else.

    While the ship's captain in Trump Tower is ranting over SNL or  obsessing over imaginary costs of Boeing aircraft, He will find he has an exponentially increasing list of other things to rant about as the ship takes on water from impact after impact with the unforgiving icebergs of reality. Facts and incidents and decisions which he and his team will be faced with and confronting for the very first time.  Fake news or ranting tweets will not extricate them, or the nation.

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    General Flynn chose fake news over actual intelligence reports. Flynn is poster child for the Trump supporter who is educated but gullible. Flynn doesn't have to get Congressional approval, but the sad fact is that he will get through Congress anyway. Carson will get through because he will be portrayed as facing a Clarence Thomas style lynching..

    BTW

    Carson did not live in public housing

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/06/politics/carson-public-housing/index.html

     


    More curious details from the Daily Mail. (was his father really a bigamist?)

    Is this really his house "in the ghetto, in dire poverty", about the size of many garages today ... one of those early pre-fab post-World War II square boxes", "not even 1000 ft"? It looks roughly similar to my first house - I never knew how bad I had it...


    Trump and Carson are pathological liars.


    This bunch knows how to lie, incite hate, promise anything, threaten  critics and reward cronies. These are not skills that will work running the nation.


    Well one disaster is on the horizen.

    I mean what happens when he closes down his tie manufacturing operation in Jina?

    Hundreds of 14 year-old girls will be out of work?


    And he'll stiff them for 3 months wages. 


    Now the Prurient Elect is tossing tweet bombs at a Carrier union leader who dared to call the groper in chief a liar.

    The Gospel of a Narcissist:

    1. I believe I am fantastic.

    2. If you don't then you are maligning me.

    3. I will make you pay for it.


    From William Burroughs, The Adding Machine  

    (saw him read this a few times, better oral than written)

    Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by folks who
    can't mind their own business, because they have no business of
    their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. Now your
    virus is an obligate cellular parasite, and my contention is that
    evil is quite literally a virus parasite occupying a certain brain
    area which we may term the RIGHT center. The mark of a basic
    shit is that he has to be right. And right here we must make a
    distinction between a hard-core virus-occupied shit and a plain,
    ordinary, mean no-good son of a bitch. Some of these sons of
    bitches don't cause any trouble at all, just want to be left alone
    and are only dangerous when molested, like the Brown Recluse.
    Others cause minor trouble, like barroom fights and bank rob-
    beries. To put it country simple, Anslinger was an obligate shit;
    Dillinger, Jesse James and Billy the Kid were just sons of bitches.
    This RIGHT virus has been around for a long time, and perhaps
    its most devoted ally has been the Christian Church: from
    the Inquisition to the Conquistadores, from the American Indian
    Wars  to  Hiroshima,  they  are  RIGHT  RIGHT RIGHT.  If the
    Christian Church has given the virus a nice long home, it has also
    sustained a number of evictions in the past forty years.      
    When I was in high school in the 1920s, anybody expressing
    doubts about our treatment of the Indians, capital punishment,
    the natural inferiority of blacks, the abomination of being a flit*
    [* "Flit" was a 1920 word for a queer. Since Flit was also an
    insecticide, such pleasantries as "Quick Henry, the Navarro!" 
    made the rounds.] or a dope fiend, would have been shunned by his 
    schoolmates as a dangerous radical or practitioner of the hideous 
    vices he defended.                              

    Yes, quite a change, and quite a few points gained for the
    M.O.B.ists: virtual abolition of censorship, decriminalization of
    pot, gay rights, and segregation issues at least out in the open and
    a lot better than they were forty years ago, and a growing rec-
    ognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should
    be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties. This
    trend towards sanity has brought the last-ditch dedicated shits out
    into the open, screaming with rage. Victimless crime, the assumption
    that what a citizen does in the privacy of his own
    dwelling is nonetheless someone else's business and therefore
    subject to denunciation and punishment, is the very lifeline of the
    RIGHT virus. Cutting off this air line would have the same action
    as interferon, which blocks the oxygen from certain virus strains.
    M.O.B. opponents cling to the victimless-crime  concept,
    equating drug-taking or private sexual behaviour  with robbery
    and murder. If the right to mind one's own business is recognized,
    the whole shit position is untenable, and Hell hath no more
    vociferous fury than an endangered parasite's.          

    ...

    One is tempted to seek a total solution to the shit problem:
    Mass Assassination Day. M.A.D. Slaughter the shits of the world
    like cows with the aftosa. Then we'll all feel a lot better. "It was
    like being cured of clap after twenty dripping years," a survivor
    reported... Perhaps we could accomplish the salubrious work
    with a virus designed to attack the already occupied RIGHT
    centers in the brain, inflaming and irritating these centers so that
    the target, muttering and finally screaming imprecations, dies in
    convulsions of rightness. It was known as Righteous Fever; old
    men need it special.                            

    Probably the most effective tactic is to alter the conditions on
    which the virus subsists. That is the way various manifestations
    of the RIGHT virus have disappeared in the past, as in the In-   
    quisition. Conditions change, and that virus guise is ignored and
    forgotten. We have seen this happen many times in the past forty
    years. With the RIGHT virus offset, perhaps we can get the     
    whole show out of the barnyard and into Space.


    More Burroughs - occasionally he seems like the right antidote for the now:

    • The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
    • Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
    • The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a separate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common 'hallucinations' of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subject's body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the 'Other Half' worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.
    • 1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.
    • There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.
    • You are a Shit Spotter. It's satisfying work. … We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus. Now your virus is an obligate cellular parasite and my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite occupying a certain brain area which we may term the RIGHT center. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right. And right here we must make a diagnostic distinction between the hard-core virus-occupied shit and a plain, ordinary, mean no-good son of a bitch. Some of these sons of bitches don't cause any trouble at all, just want to be left alone.
      • Variant, using much of this passage in a later essay:
      • Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. Now your virus is an obligate cellular parasite and my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite occupying a certain brain area which we may term the RIGHT center. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right. And right here we must make a distinction between the hard-core virus-occupied shit and a plain, ordinary, mean no-good son of a bitch. Some of these sons of bitches don't cause any trouble at all, just want to be left alone and are only dangerous when molested, like the Brown Recluse.
    • Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties. Those individuals who cannot or will not mind their business cling to the victimless-crime concept, equating drug use and private sexual behavior with robbery and murder. If the right to mind one's own business is recognized, the whole shit disposition is untenable and Hell hath no vociferous fury than an endangered parasite.
    •  
    • This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
    • After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. [Now they want to leave the guns to those who did it - PP]
    • England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs. [read "media scene"- PP]
    • Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful — be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. [Burroughs goes mawkish - PP] Recounted by Patti Smith in an Interview by Christian Lund
    • The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
    • ghost in daylight on a crowded street. [ how to be invisible in broad daylight - may translate to online presence - PP]
    • A lot of people made quick easy money during the War and for several years after. Any business was good, just as any stock is good on a rising market. People thought they were sharp operators, when actually they were just riding a lucky streak. Now the Valley is in a losing streak and only the big operators can ride it out. In the Valley economic laws work out like a formula in high school algebra, since there is no human element to interfere. The very rich are getting richer and all the others are going broke. The big holders are not shrewd or ruthless or enterprising. They don't have to say or think anything. All they have to do is sit and the money comes pouring in. You have to get up with the Big Holders or drop out and take any job they hand you. The middle class is getting the squeeze, and only one in a thousand will go up. The Big Holders are the house, and the small farmers are the players. The player goes broke if he keeps on playing, and the farmer has to play or lose to the Government by default.
    • The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.
      • The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client
    • If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.  [think in terms of other needs besides junk - PP]
      •  
    • America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
      • Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.
    • Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.
    • A functioning police state needs no police.
    • The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by intros
    • Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
    • You see control can never be a means to any practical end. … Control can never be a means to anything but more control … like Junk.
    • The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. 'The Human Virus can now be isolated and treated.'
    • Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.
    • You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative
    • William S. Burroughs is one of the most pathetic figures in modern literature, his sadness made more poignant because it has been drawn out for so long. His cadaverous presence gave a hollow echo to a key scene in “Drugstore Cowboy,” in which he was a junkie ex-priest who has long decades of pain in his eyes. It didn’t seem like acting. And in a recent documentary about his life, Burroughs came across as a man who walks around with something wounded inside, something that hurts so much that his spirit simply shut down.
    •  

    Never heard of him. Interesting quotes.

    We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business...

    That is certainly true.

    On the Great Narcissist's attack on a middle class worker, and the threats that followed Trumps twitter attacks on a private citizen exercsing his right to free speech. Attacks from Trumps wanna be Nazi follower Brownshirts.  The fact is the union guy told the truth about Trump's con.

    As usual Trump just attacks him without refuting the facts.  The fact that he, Trump, is a liar and con artist.

    There were not 1100 jobs saved. The upgrade will automate Carrier's Indiana plant and cause more job losses.

    And Trump did not threaten to tax the hell out of Carrier, he cut Carrier's Indiana taxes, some comments on it from WaPo :

    The Insulter-in-chief. Anyone who approves of a president (elect now but I don't see this behavior changing after Jan. 20) who publicly attacks individuals - especially at this level - is as big a threat to the morals of our country as is their orange idiot. I'll say this and I'm an atheist: God save us!

    So, has the Trumpster put out a "hit" on the Union Leader? Perhaps, one of the Trumpster's "Second Amendment" NRA guys to do the job.

    Calling Trump out on his many, many lies results in Trump's terrorists taking action. Nothing new in that, just ask Comet Ping Pong. How many more shootings before the FBI investigates these domestic terrorists? Oh yeah, Comey.

    Moderatepub
     
    So Carrier preserves 730+ jobs temporarily while it updates its plant with the latest technology at which time those who do manage to keep their jobs will be laid off as technology displaces them. This was confirmed as the intent of the upgrade which thanks to Trump will be paid for by the taxpayers...so technically those who remain are really temporary employees....and still the President-elect insists on targeting individual civilians as opposed to doing something like attend an intelligence briefing.....instead his narcissistic disorder requires he go on his "victory tour" so he can get his dose of applause and accolades....
    Trump will be the President of everyone who believes whatever wonderful fantastic lies he tells. For the rest there are his delusional mobs of gun toting loons to take care of them.
     
    I note the same WaPo page the Trumpster trolls trying to rationalize this sad incident in their warped minds have excuses for Trump like 'the union guy was probably a Hillary supporter....blah blah'. Ergo, fair game for the brownshirts.
     

    I think the "ghost in daylight" is an observation of complete adaptation. The place where it does not matter any longer if one is only pretending to be somebody or actually is the person in the story.

    This is where Baudrillard started. If I am only playing back what is scripted, then something has gotten past me and is now speaking for me.


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