Politicians are Rotten and Stupid Because the System is Rotten and Stupid

 

This isn't the best humanity can do.  True, we are a flawed, limited species.  But we're capable of better.  We haven't figured out how to restrict the ability of the sociopathic power-seekers from dominating our societies because for most of our time on this planet human beings lived in smaller groups with less power to control nature and each other.  But as our collective ingenuity has increased our ability to manipulate nature and to politically dominate, physically coerce, and psychologically manipulate ourselves, the nasty people with the impulse for narcissism and domination have become a danger too extreme to ignore.

The old order is dying.  "Zombie Neoliberalism."  That is why the malignant narcissists it pukes up are so godawful.  Nobody truly sane could believe in this garbage.  That's why the USA has Donald Trump.  And it's why the Democratic Party USA is so decrepit and deluded and jaded and stupid that they tried to run Joe Biden as a candidate for re-election, even though they'd been hiding him from his own cabinet since at least 2023.  (When those books at that link came out, Democratic Party stooges uniformly whined: "Why are you bringing this up NOW???  Can't you see that Donald Trump is the danger we need to focus on???"  The fact that books about 2020 election came out after the same interval that books about immediately past elections come out didn't matter.  The fact that those books helped explain how Trump was able to win the 2024 election didn't matter.  What mattered was allowing a cabal of corrupt, incompetent shit-heads escape any consequences for their stupid behaviour.  It never ceases to amaze me how entitled and stupid the Democratic Party is.  Because of their own incompetence, arrogance, delusion and cluelessness, they can't even one-hundred percent take advantage of Trump's own advancing senility and stupidity because they themselves tried to lie to the world that their candidate, Joe Biden, wasn't senile, when they knew he was.  I mean, what an "own-goal"!)

And it's why Canada has Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney.  Poilievre has been a public laughing-stock for years.  And now he's reduced to rigged leadership reviews and whining impotently as his own MP's cross the floor and join the Liberals in order to at least taste power once in their careers.  They join Carney, who, as a central bank governor in Canada and then the UK helped grow two real-estate bubbles.  Carney who blathered about "values" at Davos while supporting genocide in West Asia and starvation sanction in Cuba.  Who is killing national childcare and pharmacare, while increasing military spending and talking about privatizing airports.  

And, of course, a sick society produces an ignorant, deluded, selfish, fucked-up electorate.  "Conservatives" who are afraid of their own shadows, lashing out at immigrants, refugees, feminists, homosexuals, artists, ... and "Progressives" clinging to the official parties of "decency" even when they're dominated by psychopathic thieves and murderers, while castigating anyone who tries to point out their error.

Worst Case Scenario

 

Delusional, megalomaniacal, Blackmailed Trump, ... not wanting to go to prison for raping 13-year old girls, ... because that is what Netanyahu, Mossad, Epstein, are threatening him with, ... incoherently decides that he (and the UNITED STATES of AMERICA) will go out "In A Blaze of Glory"!!!!

He WILL try to attack Chinese ships.  Chinese military vessels are in the area.  

It will lead to war and it will turn nuclear. 

Empty Speculation About Charlie Kirk and Last June's "12 Day War"

 

I've heard unsubstantiated rumours from right-wing bloggers and yootooberz that Trump was supposed to have joined Israel's attack on Iran in a substantial way last June, but that Charlie Kirk went to the White House and talked him out of it.  Ah! Here it is: "Charlie Kirk urged Trump in Oval Office to avoid war with Iran, Carlson says"

Spit-Balling

 

Iran and Iraq make some sort of awesome deal with the Kurds of Iraq to help expel the US-Americans from Iraq and they will be given assistance to fight President Al Qaeda in Syria and thereby save their people in that country. [This is far-fetched, I realize, but let's just go with it.] Maybe the Kurds get some more concessions that are real and that do not frighten the Iranians or the Iraqis.

Iraq and Iran conquer Kuwait outright.  Iraq accepts Iranian leadership and assists Iran financially for its sacrifices.  [Ian Welsh, or someone at his blog, talked about Iraq getting financial guarantees from China, based on the colonialist holding of Iraqi oil revenues in US-American banks, to be doled out to Iraq at the USA's discretion.  Iraqi oil is priced in Yuan, or China gets preferred status or something, and Iraq prospers and has money to pay Iran.

This is the end of the petro-dollar. 

The Enigma of Donald Trump's Intelligence (or lack thereof)

 

I recently read two articles, one of them was from Znet, I'll try to find it.

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"War Against Iran: The Big Picture" by Daniel Axelrod.   The other one was from Craig Murray, "Seeing Trump Clearly". 

I'm mentioning them together because they deal with a subject that is somewhat important and which I have wrestled with here at this blog.  Axelrod's essay focuses more on the long-term continuities of US policy towards Iran over decades, and how Trump's actions actually fit seamlessly within that established framework.  Murray's piece argues that Trump's buffoonery is an act.  Like Axelrod, Murray shows how weakening Iran is long-term US policy and that, for all his seeming oafish stupidity, Trump is winning victory after victory, in Iran, in Venezuela, and now in Cuba.

 I think there's much to be learned from both essays, but there are some things I take issue with.

We Need a Revolution: Part III

 

The first two parts of this series were about the end of European imperialism and Iran's possible victory in the geo-strategically vital Western Asia region.  A victory against a decadent, decayed, debased West, led by a United States of America that chose an imbecilic degenerate like Donald Trump to be its president.

Let's just take stock of the situation here: Donald Trump is a life-long grifter. His financial crimes and scams and corruption were already common knowledge before his first run for the presidency.  He's a racist.  His father was arrested at a KKK rally.  They got in trouble for discriminating against Black tenants.  He's audio-recorded bragging about sexually assaulting women. He proudly admits to lusting after one of his daughters.  He proudly admits to barging in on teenage girls getting undressed backstage at a beauty pageant he subsidized.  Numerous females (some were still minors when they accused him, others charged him after reaching age-of-majority status) accused him of sexually assaulting them when they were adolescents.  He was found liable for "sexual abuse and defamation" in a civil suit, for which he is still on the hook for $80 million.  He was a long-time associate of Jeffrey Epstein.  Jeffrey Epstein: convicted sexual trafficker.  Jeffrey-Fuckshit-Epstein.  Are there bodies of murdered young girls buried in discreet locations on or near his ranch property in New Mexico or on his notorious island in the Caribbean?  Apparently the FBI isn't eager to find out.  Nobody in authority is.

We Need a Revolution: Part II

 

When I started the last post I had planned on talking much more about the stuff that brought us to "Operation Epstein Fury" and how we needed to respond to this atrocity.  But it ended up being more a post about European imperialism and how this war might represent its final death knell.  (Apparently a "knell" is a tolling of a bell.  And that can go on for a while.  But it eventually stops.  So, yes: "final death knell.")