Brief reflections on the 2024 Presidential catastrophe

 

Biden, Harris, Cheney, the dominant corporate democrats in name only are now the neocons of yesteryear (lemmings racing towards the right and inevitably towards the cliff), while the republican party, Trump’s criminal MAGAt cult of personality, has years ago left functional parliamentary politics (we’ve the receipts), and is now percolating to the surface the vast stagnant pool of what used to be latent fascism into the manifestation of pure, abject fascist authoritarianism.  Trump’s MAGAt 2025 program brings the United States to the very precipice of fully bloomed fascist tyranny, only placing the entire human and nonhuman species on Earth onto the brink of extermination and omnicide.

We’re now living within what may well be the death throes of the United States’ Empire, it’s experiment in ratification democracy.   

On the 18^th of September, 1787, the Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention relayed in a journal that on the last day of the convention, Mrs. Powel of Philada asked Benjamin Franklin “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”  Franklin answered, “A republic if you can keep it.”  The keeping of it is well up in the air now and is potentially terminal, omnicidal even.

The corporate democrats in name only deserved to be defeated in a legitimate political spectrum, if the United States even had one, yet the global population doesn’t deserve the looming violence and psychopathy of the MAGAt cult in power.

To be continued...

The Holocaust in Gaza

Netanyahu's criminal-fascist-failed state (if he were not Prime Minister he'd be in prison, where Trump has also long ago belonged) is carrying out a genocidal holocaust right before our eyes.  Gaza has been razed to the ground, the occupied territory of the West Bank is now being targeted, as is the entire nation of Lebanon and, with the active support of the Biden administration, Iran.  Gaza is now clearly more a concentration-extermination camp than the apartheid open-air prison that human rights organizations have been documenting for years.

One is left with no words to describe, let alone fully comprehend, the most genocidal holocaust occurring before our eyes daily, hourly.  How can one begin to describe the children (half of the population of Gaza are children) burned alive right before our eyes.  The imposed starvation that immediately recalls the Nazi concentration camps.  There are no words.   

The Jewish physician, survivor of the Shoah, Dr. Gabor Mate explains this all in detail.  If his testimony and analysis doesn't move one to tears, then one is obviously on the psychopathic spectrum, to the racist, genocidal side.

One may also listen to Israel's own Gideon Levy describing the ongoing catastrophe.

The United States Empire is in an accelerating morbid decline that is potentially lethal to all life on Earth, and at an accelerating nonlinear rate that is beyond comprehension.

The United States is now left with the head MAGAt walking corpse/wax figure, Trump, paraded around to further institute abject fascism, or the perhaps watered down Biden support for the ongoing genocide in Palestine and now the broader Middle East.  The walking MAGAt corpse would ensure not only the completion of the Netanyahu holocaust, recall Trump's criminal murder of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the only ground force successfully fighting the Islamic State, but also race ever faster towards the looming nuclear holocaust and ecological extinction that are on the horizons.

Great choices these, of course the single corporate-state party only offers two prepackaged positions.  

Such times always recall to mind Antonio Gramsci's formulation of pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.  Only all of Earth's life hangs in the balance. 

 

The white-christian-supremacists' ‘judicial lynching’ of Marcellus Williams

 

Need more be said……then you are the problem.

 

 

 

Political Violence

 

Political violence is categorically impermissible (the means by which Adolf Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, murdering democratic socialists in the streets, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht being the most well known) such as the MAGAt who sped his car into the nonviolent protest in Charlottesville murdering Heather Heyer and the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords.  Shall we list the index: James Garfield, William McKinley, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, and that's the least of it.

Trump should have years ago already been in prison where the treasonous psychopath belongs, precluding the possibility of him being shot at in the first place.  As was reasonably hypothesized (the shooter could’ve been either just another psychopath with a weapon, or a disillusioned MAGAt) it turns out that the shooter was a deranged lunatic who had been bullied at school and remarkably shot up the largest gathering within his vicinity (The Trump MAGAt rally) rather than another school mass shooting.  For years there have been more mass shootings within the year than days in the year, currently 604 mass shootings within 200 days in the year so far. 

Given the GQP’s staunch support for the public owning and deregulation of military grade assault rifles and the rest, this is the most distilled example of sowing what one reaps. 

It’s improbably remarkable that Trump turned his head just as the shot was fired at him, blowing off part of his ear rather than blowing his brains out.  Such apocalyptic times we are now living within, when the GQP will allow for citizens to carry weapons such as the one Trump was shot at with, and yet again that's the least of it.

Equally impermissible have been the security and police murders of Samuel Sharpe and D'Vontaye Mitchell, two black men killed just prior to and during the Republican National Convention.  Predictably these killings have received little to no attention in the media.