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speaking of suffocating

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:05:50 +0000

speaking of suffocating democracy, suffocating either as verb or adjective, take your pick:

labour did say that all options were all on the table https://t.co/Ric9DFH16m
— joe (@mutablejoe) January 15, 2019

This is it boys. The big vote. We few. We happy few. We band of fat wankers. Whatever happens, I want you to know working with you was shite and I wish you a painful death by hedgehog colonoscopy. Tell the fat lady to take a dump over the fan and let's get this shartnado pumping. pic.twitter.com/SgKxr6jtTK
— joe (@mutablejoe) January 15, 2019

Cue up "neolibs".

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:53:00 +0000

In reply to So strange in that as a

Cue up "neolibs", that fascist Hillary. I was thinking of writing about Hillary as a modern "Baba Yaga", that mystical Russian crone who snuffs babies in their cribs while sleeping and tricks children in the woods into her rickety house perched on a giant chicken leg. It's simply amazing the amount of vitriol she's attracted from left & right - or at least that the propaganda has stuck. Because her big proven affronts to humanity are... an email server & a couple speeches to Goldman Sachs? Helping arrange an actual agreed multi-country NATO response to Colonel Qaddafi's threat against pro-democracy Libyan protests (in contrast to a largely unilateral invasion of Iraq aside from our best buds in the Pacific, Nauru)? something about uranium in Russia or pizza pedophiles? If it weren't so harmful, it'd be funny.

Yes, Hillary's email server with a dozen pseudo-confidential memos that could possibly be attacked by Russian hackers (vs State Dept & DNC/DCCC servers that *were* successfully hacked by hackers) was more dangerous than a President giving top secret info to the head of Russia and conspiring with him to destruct various international institutions and military efforts. Must watch "La-la Land" to understand.

This is a great paragraph on

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:38:45 +0000

In reply to I'm reminded that Bernie

This is a great paragraph on how the fourth estate function has been neutered:

The result is the creation of a “Trump bubble” for his base to inhabit that is unrecognizable to viewers of PBS, CNN, and MSNBC and readers of The Washington Post and The New York Times. The highly critical free media not only provide no effective check on Trump’s ability to be a serial liar without political penalty; on the contrary, they provide yet another enemy around which to mobilize the grievances and resentments of his base. A free press does not have to be repressed when it can be rendered irrelevant and even exploited for political gain.

That's everything, including the disinfo ops of Putin. Trump just did it again with praising the National Enquirer going after Jeff Bezos, though things with that may not be exactly as they seem. Trump is talented at one thing, schmoozing naive journos with p.r. to create alternative reality distractive narratives, just saw you interested in that here. Just like with Soviet disinto, there's no plan, no end goal, just keep you distracted with chaos.

The Wall is something he has fixated on, it's a story he needs to defend for some reason. The Wall = Rosebud?

Hope you don't mind the bouncing around allover the place the thoughts, that's the effect these kind of articles have on me: my neurons start firing allover the place.

So strange in that as a

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:21:29 +0000

In reply to I'm reminded that Bernie

So strange in that as a character, he's like the caricature of a depression-era rabble rousing lefty type where the union man is god. Right out of a Ben Shahn mural, I can see Bernie as like, Sacco & Venzetti's lawyer.

Also Bernie fan behavior tis right here in the article, isn't it, the whole perfect the enemy of the good thing In Germany this reached the absurd extreme of the Communists underestimating the Nazis as a transitory challenge while focusing on the Social Democrats—dubbed “red fascists”—as the true long-term threat to Communist triumph.

I'm reminded that Bernie

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:48:37 +0000

In reply to And here's a highly

I'm reminded that Bernie managed to sever the strong support by unions for the Democratic Party by sowing distrust of the union leadership as dishonest for not supporting Bernie. Union forces were largely untapped in the Fall of 2016. The politics of deincentivizing people has worked wonders.

And here's a highly

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 02:11:26 +0000

In reply to The End of History at 30: "Fukuyama Was Right (Mostly)"

And here's another highly recommended piece, Christopher R. Browning on "The Suffocation of Democray" at NY Review of Books in October (free access):

The essay is breathtaking. https://t.co/LWavgupgsg
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) January 14, 2019