I feel that we are living through a particularly bad reality show. It will not surprise me in the least to hear that every day is being filmed "to air at a future date." Kayfabe, indeed!
I really hoped the most dire weather forecast would prove true, as a reminder this Nazi-emulating regime is not all-powerful despite efforts to seem otherwise. Unfortunately, he got his spectacle of bloody domination, trashing venues and symbols of the Republic in the process. Not as exhilarating for him as January 6 but in the ballpark - or octagon…
The Universe is not going to rescue us, sigh. Back to the work of resisting and defeating the fantasy of omnipotence Trump sells.
Who are "these" people? Surely they are from a planet far, far away and if that is true we must see that they return. We must not continue this show but must "break Kayfabe" as soon as possible. I'm tired of this pretend, dangerous state the current occupant of the Oval Office has placed us in. I was never a player of the aforementioned game or even a viewer and I harbor grave thoughts about those who participate . In short, Send them ALL back! PLEASE!
All this is shocking in its drama, yet not culturally new. Did it start with George W. Bush? Hardly. His Dad? Na. With Nixon? Kennedy? Eisenhower? Roosevelt? Nope. (Feel free to complete the list, it's still no.) OK, so with the American revolution itself? Hardly. And yet, there's something there, the way in which the English colonial experience (a horror, mostly) in North America led to an Indigenization of the colonists and their descendants, which was incompatible with European rule. It became mythological, or was so from the start, and we are currently witnessing that mythology playing out. Nancy Isenberg's "White Trash" is a good place to have a lot of this making you lose sleep at night all in one place. In no mythology, worldwide, do characters like Trump and his associates win. That is the true folk wisdom, not the twisted mirror that the Evil Queen looks into to see who is the fairest of them all. The fair one is the one of true heart. The narrators of Snow White knew that. The German writer Ernst Wiechert, a national hero who was thrown into Buchenwald for supporting the Church's freedom from Nazi taxation, and then released, nearly dead, to house arrest for the duration of WWII, knew that when he wrote fairytales in the last months of the war. The tales were for children, set in haunted forests and swamps, with all the usual fairytale characters, as well as new demons (Nazi soldiers drifting in packs, trying to find their way home, starving, like lost wolves, not demonic, but confused, unpredictable and themselves haunted but not always soulless). Wiechert's desire was to write something for the children, to show that a true heart wins out over evil, and that a true heart will tell you who to trust, because you have to trust someone, and it's not always the person with the prettiest words or the correct look of authority. He didn't want the kids to be blamed for their parents' terrible crimes. He wrote the manuscript and, because he had been forbidden to ever write again, buried it in his garden, along with his memoir of Buchenwald. It has never been translated. Shame. The English speaking world needs it now.
Humans across borders and time have defined attributes of “evil” with remarkable consistency - seductive deception and lying and knowing cruelty being two key traits. Trump and his cult are powered by these attributes. We owe it to our children and succeeding generations to fight these forces of darkness in our midst, smartly and strategically.
Trump spent years bashing Obama's Iran deal as a catastrophic surrender, then trashed it, and promised something far tougher. Yet after sanctions, escalation, military strikes, economic disruption, and somewhere near $100B spent -- what did we get? the emerging MOU even has some EXACT language as Obama's JCPOA and appears to leave many of the same core issues—enrichment, inspections, sanctions relief, and long-term enforcement to be conveniently kicked down the road.
But here is the real damage. Allies watched Trump's erratic and disjointed performance severely damaging our credibility and reliability as a trustworthy partner. Meanwhile, Iran remains a major regional actor with tacit leverage over the strait any time they feel like it -- to enact fees or close again.
If the agreement fails... as it will, look for Trump to blame everybody else including Obama.
His word and signature are air bubbles. In the end, if the strait opens again, we will still pay more for our goods. Trump made sure that we will pay more for everything. Middleclass and poor will go down more. And rich doesn't really care. And it's not Trump who decides when the strait is open, it's Iran. Trump created a problem where there was no problem. 🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢
I used to be aghast, fed-up, afraid ... and I'm now terrified, appalled, worried ... When trump is gone the problems won't go with him. Younger and well-funded will be around to continue the carnage of the united part of the United States and using the Constitution for toilet paper.
I feel that we are living through a particularly bad reality show. It will not surprise me in the least to hear that every day is being filmed "to air at a future date." Kayfabe, indeed!
I really hoped the most dire weather forecast would prove true, as a reminder this Nazi-emulating regime is not all-powerful despite efforts to seem otherwise. Unfortunately, he got his spectacle of bloody domination, trashing venues and symbols of the Republic in the process. Not as exhilarating for him as January 6 but in the ballpark - or octagon…
The Universe is not going to rescue us, sigh. Back to the work of resisting and defeating the fantasy of omnipotence Trump sells.
Who are "these" people? Surely they are from a planet far, far away and if that is true we must see that they return. We must not continue this show but must "break Kayfabe" as soon as possible. I'm tired of this pretend, dangerous state the current occupant of the Oval Office has placed us in. I was never a player of the aforementioned game or even a viewer and I harbor grave thoughts about those who participate . In short, Send them ALL back! PLEASE!
All this is shocking in its drama, yet not culturally new. Did it start with George W. Bush? Hardly. His Dad? Na. With Nixon? Kennedy? Eisenhower? Roosevelt? Nope. (Feel free to complete the list, it's still no.) OK, so with the American revolution itself? Hardly. And yet, there's something there, the way in which the English colonial experience (a horror, mostly) in North America led to an Indigenization of the colonists and their descendants, which was incompatible with European rule. It became mythological, or was so from the start, and we are currently witnessing that mythology playing out. Nancy Isenberg's "White Trash" is a good place to have a lot of this making you lose sleep at night all in one place. In no mythology, worldwide, do characters like Trump and his associates win. That is the true folk wisdom, not the twisted mirror that the Evil Queen looks into to see who is the fairest of them all. The fair one is the one of true heart. The narrators of Snow White knew that. The German writer Ernst Wiechert, a national hero who was thrown into Buchenwald for supporting the Church's freedom from Nazi taxation, and then released, nearly dead, to house arrest for the duration of WWII, knew that when he wrote fairytales in the last months of the war. The tales were for children, set in haunted forests and swamps, with all the usual fairytale characters, as well as new demons (Nazi soldiers drifting in packs, trying to find their way home, starving, like lost wolves, not demonic, but confused, unpredictable and themselves haunted but not always soulless). Wiechert's desire was to write something for the children, to show that a true heart wins out over evil, and that a true heart will tell you who to trust, because you have to trust someone, and it's not always the person with the prettiest words or the correct look of authority. He didn't want the kids to be blamed for their parents' terrible crimes. He wrote the manuscript and, because he had been forbidden to ever write again, buried it in his garden, along with his memoir of Buchenwald. It has never been translated. Shame. The English speaking world needs it now.
Humans across borders and time have defined attributes of “evil” with remarkable consistency - seductive deception and lying and knowing cruelty being two key traits. Trump and his cult are powered by these attributes. We owe it to our children and succeeding generations to fight these forces of darkness in our midst, smartly and strategically.
Trump spent years bashing Obama's Iran deal as a catastrophic surrender, then trashed it, and promised something far tougher. Yet after sanctions, escalation, military strikes, economic disruption, and somewhere near $100B spent -- what did we get? the emerging MOU even has some EXACT language as Obama's JCPOA and appears to leave many of the same core issues—enrichment, inspections, sanctions relief, and long-term enforcement to be conveniently kicked down the road.
But here is the real damage. Allies watched Trump's erratic and disjointed performance severely damaging our credibility and reliability as a trustworthy partner. Meanwhile, Iran remains a major regional actor with tacit leverage over the strait any time they feel like it -- to enact fees or close again.
If the agreement fails... as it will, look for Trump to blame everybody else including Obama.
His word and signature are air bubbles. In the end, if the strait opens again, we will still pay more for our goods. Trump made sure that we will pay more for everything. Middleclass and poor will go down more. And rich doesn't really care. And it's not Trump who decides when the strait is open, it's Iran. Trump created a problem where there was no problem. 🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢
I used to be aghast, fed-up, afraid ... and I'm now terrified, appalled, worried ... When trump is gone the problems won't go with him. Younger and well-funded will be around to continue the carnage of the united part of the United States and using the Constitution for toilet paper.