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Pay the Toll
We have a tollbooth economy, where necessary components of modern life–education, healthcare, transportation and communication–have become prohibitively expensive, in the process erecting barriers to economic participation. A major feature of the tollbooth economy is the increasing weight of rentier activities … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, infrastructure spending, Simon Patten
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Concrete material benefits
The Trump-Vance administration can engineer a political transformation if they can provide concrete material benefits to working-class Americans, who have seen their standard and quality of living collapse. If so, Trump has an opportunity to consolidate a durable realignment of … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism
Tagged Donald Trump, Elon Musk, H-1B, neoliberalism, propaganda, Silicon Valley, Wall Street
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Things behind things
We live in a interregnum, where everything, including reality itself, is in flux. The paranoia and distrust of institutions that has taken hold in America is not a function of Donald Trump’s rancid populism no matter what the liberal, intellectual … Continue reading
The end of the end of history
Trump’s reelection has shattered the end of history narrative promulgated by Francis Fukuyama and the assorted coterie of neocons who plotted a perpetual American empire. Former MI-6 military and foreign policy analyst, Alastair Crooke writes–“the U.S. election also, has been … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, neocons, neoliberalism
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Landslide
There was a clear winner in Tuesday’s presidential election. Billionaires won in a landslide. No matter what the public wants and no matter the outcome of elections, the oligarchs almost always win. They get a neoliberal government that does little … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda
Tagged Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, oligarchy, Republican Party
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The F-Bomb
I don’t know about you but I’m pretty fucking sick of the F-Bomb, you know–Fascism–the ultimate liberal pejorative. This warning only applies to Trump and his MAGA supporters, but Team Blue, led by Biden and Harris spent the last year … Continue reading
Posted in deep state, feral elite, propaganda
Tagged Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, fascism, liberals, Lina Khan, propaganda, Russia-gate
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October Surprise?
Wow! Leave town for a while and all hell breaks out, although I suppose that’s to be expected when we’re living through the the Raging Twenties. Historically an October Surprise occurs when when one of our political parties utilizes a … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, Kamala Harris, Lebanon, neocons, Russia, Russia-gate
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Skunked
You may have noticed that I despise both of our political parties. There’s a reason for that: Both Republican and Democrats portray themselves as alternatives to the other but when it comes down to important economic and foreign policies there’s … Continue reading
More basic shit
Neoliberal capitalism doesn’t work for average Americans. To paraphrase James Madison, if bankers on Wall Street were angels there would be no need for government regulation, but you may have noticed that there is a distinct shortage there. And neoliberal … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, Joe Biden, neoliberalism, propaganda
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