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Instagram Insurrection
Holy fucking shit! I take a holiday break from blogging and all hell breaks loose. However, the Instagram insurrection can hardly be a surprise to those of us paying attention. With apologies to Gil Scott-Heron, the revolution will be Instagramed. … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital protests, Donald Trump, feral elite, precarity, propaganda
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Power
Last week I stated that the Democrats are not the party of the Left. Instead, their job is to prevent a real party of the Left from coming to power. To put it in crude sexual terms–they are a cock-block. … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Fredrick Douglas, Karl Polanyi, Kayfabe, neoliberalism
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The Unknowing
I’ve come to realize that most Americans don’t want to know about the problems that confront our country nor the actors that are responsible. Moreover, they prefer fairy tales, relayed by their tribal corporate media source, that depict their hero … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, feral elite, George W. Bush, narrative, neocons
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Decorum
I’ve decided that what really bothers liberals about Trump is his lack of decorum. They claim that oh, no, it’s his policies that they object to but I’m certain that if Biden is elected and continues the very same policies … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy theory, deplorables, Donald Trump, feral elite
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Narrative Management
The last four years of Russia-gate, the fairy-tale collection of made up connections between Donald Trump and Russia, has been one long process of narrative management. All the “cool kids” (meaning the elite-corporate media stenographers) settled on a narrative that … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, new york times, Operation Mockingbird, propaganda, Russia-gate
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Missed Opportunity
What’s fucked is that after the Wall Street crash of 2008, (an event that should have discredited our all-American brand of financial capitalism for a generation), the bi-partisan Washington Consensus sabotaged any effort to re-leash our financial oligarchy. The obscene … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Donald Trump, FDR, New Deal, Obama-care, wall street crash
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Lies on top of lies
For the last 40 years we’ve been told lies on top of lies and we can’t process them anymore without losing our minds. Indeed, what we witnessed the other night at the presidential debate is evidence that America is suffering … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, Donald Trump, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, presidential debates, Republicans
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Discontents
Rick Perlstein’s new book Reaganland chronicles the cultural discontents roiling America during the tumultuous administration of Jimmy Carter (1977 to 1981) that led to the election of Ronald Reagan and the end of the New Deal consensus. Perlstein describes the … Continue reading
Enclosure
Capitalism requires the enclosure of the commons. The reasons are twofold. The first is straightforward primitive accumulation, whereby the commons (land, and natural resources) are seized through force. This process is essential to the creation of capitalist surplus, or … Continue reading