Tongue in Speak

 Observations

·        Ultra-rightist OathKeepers’ maximum leader Stuart Rhodes graduated from Yale Law.  Figures. I guess you could call him a Rhodes scholar then. 

·        The criminal regime of Saudi Arabia has now traded allies and will block with Russia on gas prices.  No loss.  In response, Biden refuses to institute gas and diesel price controls or export restrictions.  The holy ‘market’ will not be touched. 

·        Florida real estate companies will continue to build and dredge heavy developments on barrier islands, swamps and marshes.  No one is stopping them.

Sanibel Island

·        Ron DeSantis denounced federal FEMA aid to New York and New Jersey for Superstorm Sandy.  He is welcoming FEMA aid with open arms in Florida for Hurricane Ian.  This is right up there with more than a million PPP loans to large corporations that a Trump official 'unflagged' for fraud review.  Then Republican ads appear blaming Democrats for giving money to golf courses and suchlike.

·        The qualifications for Republican office in Minnesota is that you are married and have kids.  See family photos!  And perhaps served in the military as a paper-pusher.  That is it.

·        Some alt-right ‘anti-imperialists’ oppose the demonstrations in Iran against the morality police and the mullahs, which started after the killing of a young Kurdish woman for showing a wisp of hair under her hijab.  They claim they are CIA plots.  As is everything...

·        “Maga-Communism” seems to be a small ‘thing’ now.  You know, 'leftists' that sound like Republicans.  Naz-Bol / ‘national Bolshevism’ is next.  Yes, it’s similar to the oxymoron of ‘national socialism.’  This is an example of Gramsci's 'morbid symptoms' - even on the left.

·        The degeneration of Marcyism has produced a parody of its original class content.  Don’t know what Marcyism is?  No worries. 

·         Who blew up the Nordstream pipelines?  Everyone ‘knows,’ but facts to follow.  Some circumstantial evidence is pointing at the U.S. via Hersch but now James Bamford has better proof that it was probably Ukraine.

·         Class politics or geo-politics.  Take your pick.

·         If you are getting hired by a city police department or school system to run it as head administrator, you have to mouth clichés, feign affability and tout your questionable record at the last police or education job you had.  Then you are hired and later fired or quit.  That is how it works in Democratic Minneapolis. Our two-month old 'Community Safety' director is already showing his real, vile nature.

·         Fox Weather© lives in Fort Meyers now after Hurricane Ian.  However, no reports from Puerto Rico.  Repeat…

·         Liz Truss engenders less and less trust.

·         It supposedly takes a recession to kill inflation… and more of the working class.  Ignore the fact that supply and profit issues are the real cause.  Thank you monetarist Fed!

·         The Dow© goes down 630+ points, the NASDAQ -421, the S&P -105 all because unemployment is at 3.9%, the lowest since 2000.  And you wonder why they call this a capitalist economy? 

·        Texas’ largest trade partner is Mexico.  Texas biggest source of cheap labor is Mexico.  Texas used to be part of Mexico.  In a way, Texas is now also part-Mexican.  Mexicans seeking asylum or jobs, however, are a different story.  This is what happens when Mexico and Central America are devastated by NAFTA, the cold war, the drug war, capitalism, global warming and the USMCA.

·        Hirohito was provoked into an attack on Pearl Harbor by U.S. efforts to cut off Japan’s gasoline supplies.  But the Left didn’t therefore back Hirohito or Japan.

·         Hitler was provoked into expanding his Aryan fatherland by the injustice of the Versailles Treaty, or so he said.  But the Left didn’t therefore back Hitler or Germany in their fight against 'the imperialists.'

·         The nuclear option is not an option.

·         We’ll have to christen Biden as ‘bitsy Bernie.’  A bit of marijuana legalization, a bit of student loan cancellation, a bit of global warming mitigation.  Could it be that traditional neo-liberal Democratic politics have no legs anymore, except in secret?

·         Two liberal constitutional professors on NPR both suggested our whole Constitution is an archaic document that needs to be virtually replaced.  Even they know the jig is up.

·         Hail Loretta Lynn!  Our personally feminist, initially proletarian coal miner’s daughter.

·         Has the James Webb space telescope discovered the edge of the universe yet?  No?  It never will.  But it has discovered galaxies that are too old for the present Big Bang theory to be true.  Back to the drawing board.

*    Great union supporter Biden will not tell rail companies to institute a simple thing like sick time.  In 1982 Reagan stopped a rail strike after 2 days.  What will Biden do if they do go on strike?  What do you think.

P.S. - When you hear 'leftists' praising the police, denouncing 'woke' efforts, hating on the homeless, the drugged and the loud, embracing vaccine denial, opposing birth control or abortion, loving Russia, opposing 'globalization'  and grabbing onto every event as a CIA conspiracy, you should start to wonder.  And then there is alt-right 'anti-imperialist' Tulsi Gabbard.

The Cultural Marxist  (Thanks and a tip of the HatiLo Hat to Jeffrey St. Clair)

October 8, 2022