It is stressful to be a citizen anywhere today. The US probably grabs first prize for sheer lunacy and stupidity. And it is of great benefit for Putin to put extra effort into stoking the ego of his trumpanzee. Trolling & media buyouts by the right help pile on distractions and lies that are easily sold to the gullible.
I was unaware of the new nuclear plant in Georgia…what could possibly go wrong!?🙄
Trump audaciously compared himself to Navalny. Let’s hope the only comparison we will be able to make are two dead bodies. Trump is an existential threat.
We have been dangerously overwhelmed with authoritarian fascist policies and religious/nationalist intrusion into a secular government.
There are small signs of implosion within the US republican fascist party. The take over by the right is even scarier when there is access to nuclear weapons.
We need a system outside of the unregulated Capitalism that we have today.
I don't wish anyone dead, but short of that I would like to see Trump isolated and silenced. It would be a greater punishment, too.
He has already made the unthinkable normal though, so even with him off the stage we need somebody or some people to swing the pendulum back towards decency again.
Both the Republicans and the Tories are at war, internally. Unfortunately it is the more extreme right who seem to be winning. We can but hope that they become so extreme BEFORE the election that nobody will vote for them.
We definitely need Undo parties, though I would hope they have positive visions, too. I think the more progressive Democrats are showing more promise than Labour at the moment.
It really is amazing to see such a hard swing to the right globally. I see that Labour is struggling and recognize similarities of Tories & our right wing. The craziness is causing republicans here to see that things are going way too far, book banning, collecting data on women, endangering women with pregnancy issues and those who seek abortions. Plenty of right wing women want abortions too. But we should not have to wait for this much damage. Trump should have been removed after the first impeachment but the corruption of the republicans is deep. On the other hand, the best way to apply long term damage to the party is for their own to turn on each other and for public opinion to shift.
Apparently many, when times are troubling, seek the security of a 'strong man' to take care of things, and to be told what to do and who is 'us' and who is 'them'. I'd just started on an article on that theme when Thom Hartmann wrote one so I put mine aside. I'll get back to it soon. Then there are those who want control themselves, even if on a smaller scale, and focus on the weaker sex and the smaller minorities. There is a long history of American presidents being able to get away with cheating and with causing deaths. Each time one gets away with it it emboldens the next, and we ended up with Trump. And Trump's openly saying things that were upspoken in the past has emboldened the Tories over here, and they have started dictator tricks like voter ID and banning protests.
No President in the US has had any consequences for his crime/s. I can say (his) because we have not had a female president!!! Very patriarchal indeed.
Yes.-same assistance and she’d get away with it. The corruption surrounds the office holder. The republican party (both parties except Progressives in the Dem Party) are sold to the highest bidder..fossil fuel, individual billionaire dictator-wannabes. Haley would hop on the trump bandwagon as VP if he were to ask. She is all for the recent ruling in Alabama proclaiming embryos as children. Already hospitals (in Alabama) have stopped IVF for fear of getting sued. Once the campaigns are over, the former opponents fall all over the candidate that they railed against before primaries.
Some history of Washington's withdrawal and opposition to nuclear weapons treaties would be in order, but then there's Robert McNamara's book - "Blundering Into Disaster".
Washington used two nuclear weapons on a defeated Japan. Intentions lay elsewhere.
There will be no use of nuclear weapons, a message otherwise intended to frighten us.
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Jumping the gun on Alexie Navalny is Western Mainstream Media de rigeur. Some buy the line.
Meanwhile, of the failed Ukrainian Proxy War on Russia, of the self-evident . . .
On related themes - Dystopian Realities. The suppression within The West is magical, as foreseen by George Orwell in his 1941 lectures, published under Fascism and Democracy. So . . .
The long and rich history of the contemporary genocides of the cultured, cultivated Europeans, The Americans and the Brits., to nominate yet a few.
And first, of Washington's lost Ukrainian Proxy War to weaken Russia and pillage its resources, perhaps the greatest and most feckless imperial play, something of a progress update.
Thank you for another very informative article
You're welcome.
It is stressful to be a citizen anywhere today. The US probably grabs first prize for sheer lunacy and stupidity. And it is of great benefit for Putin to put extra effort into stoking the ego of his trumpanzee. Trolling & media buyouts by the right help pile on distractions and lies that are easily sold to the gullible.
I was unaware of the new nuclear plant in Georgia…what could possibly go wrong!?🙄
Trump audaciously compared himself to Navalny. Let’s hope the only comparison we will be able to make are two dead bodies. Trump is an existential threat.
We have been dangerously overwhelmed with authoritarian fascist policies and religious/nationalist intrusion into a secular government.
There are small signs of implosion within the US republican fascist party. The take over by the right is even scarier when there is access to nuclear weapons.
We need a system outside of the unregulated Capitalism that we have today.
So much to undo!
I don't wish anyone dead, but short of that I would like to see Trump isolated and silenced. It would be a greater punishment, too.
He has already made the unthinkable normal though, so even with him off the stage we need somebody or some people to swing the pendulum back towards decency again.
Both the Republicans and the Tories are at war, internally. Unfortunately it is the more extreme right who seem to be winning. We can but hope that they become so extreme BEFORE the election that nobody will vote for them.
We definitely need Undo parties, though I would hope they have positive visions, too. I think the more progressive Democrats are showing more promise than Labour at the moment.
It really is amazing to see such a hard swing to the right globally. I see that Labour is struggling and recognize similarities of Tories & our right wing. The craziness is causing republicans here to see that things are going way too far, book banning, collecting data on women, endangering women with pregnancy issues and those who seek abortions. Plenty of right wing women want abortions too. But we should not have to wait for this much damage. Trump should have been removed after the first impeachment but the corruption of the republicans is deep. On the other hand, the best way to apply long term damage to the party is for their own to turn on each other and for public opinion to shift.
Apparently many, when times are troubling, seek the security of a 'strong man' to take care of things, and to be told what to do and who is 'us' and who is 'them'. I'd just started on an article on that theme when Thom Hartmann wrote one so I put mine aside. I'll get back to it soon. Then there are those who want control themselves, even if on a smaller scale, and focus on the weaker sex and the smaller minorities. There is a long history of American presidents being able to get away with cheating and with causing deaths. Each time one gets away with it it emboldens the next, and we ended up with Trump. And Trump's openly saying things that were upspoken in the past has emboldened the Tories over here, and they have started dictator tricks like voter ID and banning protests.
No President in the US has had any consequences for his crime/s. I can say (his) because we have not had a female president!!! Very patriarchal indeed.
Interesting. If Nikki Haley becomes the nominee, do you think she will get the same assistance as the men, and get away with it?
Yes.-same assistance and she’d get away with it. The corruption surrounds the office holder. The republican party (both parties except Progressives in the Dem Party) are sold to the highest bidder..fossil fuel, individual billionaire dictator-wannabes. Haley would hop on the trump bandwagon as VP if he were to ask. She is all for the recent ruling in Alabama proclaiming embryos as children. Already hospitals (in Alabama) have stopped IVF for fear of getting sued. Once the campaigns are over, the former opponents fall all over the candidate that they railed against before primaries.
You certainly deserve more reader comments Sue.
Some history of Washington's withdrawal and opposition to nuclear weapons treaties would be in order, but then there's Robert McNamara's book - "Blundering Into Disaster".
Washington used two nuclear weapons on a defeated Japan. Intentions lay elsewhere.
There will be no use of nuclear weapons, a message otherwise intended to frighten us.
_____
Jumping the gun on Alexie Navalny is Western Mainstream Media de rigeur. Some buy the line.
Meanwhile, of the failed Ukrainian Proxy War on Russia, of the self-evident . . .
God Favours Russia - October, 2022 . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/p/ukraine-long-proxy-war-vi-god-favours
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On related themes - Dystopian Realities. The suppression within The West is magical, as foreseen by George Orwell in his 1941 lectures, published under Fascism and Democracy. So . . .
The long and rich history of the contemporary genocides of the cultured, cultivated Europeans, The Americans and the Brits., to nominate yet a few.
And first, of Washington's lost Ukrainian Proxy War to weaken Russia and pillage its resources, perhaps the greatest and most feckless imperial play, something of a progress update.
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/genocide-and-economics
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