Just so you know, I didn't entrust ANYBODY. I was one of the third of us who expressed his discontent by refusing to vote for anyone who supported Israel. I don't think Harris has ever had any political intentions of her own--only what she was told to believe at the time.
You already know none of that matters very much now. Neither does Trump if you want to start talking about historic forces in motion; he's just the instrument.
Or, he could be a final catalyst if he fails to deliver on anything. All the ingredients for an English or French-style revolution are in place in America. Trump & Vance ARE the off-ramp from such a revolution.
At least, they have a chance to be, and I hope they succeed. After all, I don't want to live through a real revolution and civil war anymore than the next guy does. If they fail, if they don't dismantle enough of the kleptocracy to restore some semblance of a democratic republic, then history will not look kindly on them.
Watching Harris chortling over how a life could be ruined with just the stroke of a pen, by an arrest that was later dismissed, tells me all I need to know about her intentions. Her intentions, IMO, are to wield power and advance herself. Period. She went into loving detail about how an arrest record could ruin credit scores, job opportunities, housing, reputation, etc., even if dismissed. Creepily into detail. Laughing about putting parents of truants in jail - not because she cared about the truants, but because she cared about the money lost. She was very straightforward about that. Nope.
Oh and Hillary Clinton was actually super nice to my four year old daughter when we met her during a production of Hair in Central Park a few years ago. Everyone, despite all their character defects, is looking for the same thing IMO - unconditional love. It’s those pesky ideologies that poke holes in our essence. But then again I can get along with almost anyone.
I'm glad Hillary was nice to your daughter. I've never met the woman. I did stand no more than 15 feet away from Bill when he promised to veto NAFTA in 1992.
I will never forget that, and I'm glad I'm not Christian because I'm not required to forgive the SOB, either.
Yes, unconditional love. And your money, and your vote, and, if you live in, say, the middle east, or Haiti, for example, your life or your livelihood. Central Park in front of voters - slam dunk. Too much blood on her hands to ever be humanized, for me.
I was puzzling over this for a moment or two. Everyone wants love. Esp. warm-blooded mammals like we are. When someone is nice, you can forgive everything. And you really want to do this. So, what one would expect of a cynical race is somebody is going to capitalize on that. They learn to produce what we want. As for "ideology" --- something false that distracts us. Stripping away the ideology, Hitler was a vegetarian, Saddam Hussein's wife said, "he treated me nicely." And Kamala has a nice smile, I guess so! They learn to PRODUCE it. That is scary as hell. Who do we trust? Corporations know how to say the exact correct words that will disarm critics. All we can do, IMO --- look at ourselves.
The next 6 months will tell which way this tipping point in history goes. I have some hope we can keep pushing the Trump team to clean up this mess but I don’t trust Musk and Thiel (JD). It’s going to be a rough winter as cults don’t die gently. If the speaker of the house is a RINO then every step will be more difficult.
Well, obviously there are limitations to an extreme Rightist who worships big amounts of money or thinks "the best" is also the "richest." That mentality, in my view, is the worst. It is completely the wrong direction to go. Will DT ever retreat from the money love? Alt: "will Donald Trump ever retreat from money, love?" Where would he run? A treehouse????
Beautifully well written, and accurate, if elections occurred. But he was selected, not elected. Watch. Nothing he does will even lightly vex the bank. This is fandom. We are no more included in policy than peasants in France under the sun king.
This post isn't fandom for Trump. It is for the American people who rejected Harris, including those of us who didn't vote. I don't see any indication Wall Street is the least bit disturbed by Trump's election--as you know, why should they be?
The major thing we can realistically hope for is de-escalation with Russia. We'll know soon enough whether or not he'll actually make a positive difference for most of his voters.
I agree with the russia thing but emphasis and context needs to be clear. It’s not that he’s going to set policy, it’s that he was chosen to implement policy. The banks know they fucked up in ukraine to the extent that they didn’t get their best case. (they will absolutely profit regardless, as they always do from conflict)
It’s not that Trump will force peace on the banks it’s that the bank decided to lean into cutting losses, or lean away from sunk costs, whichever.
Trump is backed by part of the BIg Tech part of the oligarchy, and by what Marx would call the petit bourgeoise, which in 2024 America means a lot of millionaires but not so many multimillionaires.
A millionaire now is like somebody making $100,000 in the 1960s. Enough billionaires are onboard to prevent a Dem Party coup, and they wouldn't do that if they didn't think they'd be rewarded.
We still live in a kleptocracy, but a paradigm shift has happened anyway. It's as much a cultural revolt against identarian dogma imposed from above as it is a sign that the American working class is starting to move politically and demand that at least some of its needs be met.
You think elections happen and the government makes policy at the top level still. /shrugs
Agree to disagree I guess. Since I feel like I provided ample citation to refute that position but I guess you disagree.
The context you mention imo only matters in a fandom plausibility sense. The idea is to keep people believing as you do, and from there it’s a matter of managing the behavior script.
I think of it like a play, the bank owns the theater and approves the programming, and the idea is to keep the audience convinced they are looking at actual management activity at the top level, and not middle managers playing their roles as directed.
Like do you honestly think the government could close the federal reserve for example?
I sincerely doubt anyone here is a Trump fan. I am a fan of seeing at least ONE awful thing perpetrated by the usual suspects being shut down. IMO, one does not need to be a Trump fan in order to devoutly wish our world is not in the hands of Blinken and Sullivan. That's sort of a Democrat thing, aiming at an individual in order to scuttle an entire group. Sure, I did not like Harris - but I disliked what and who she stood for quite a lot more. This election, much to the dismay of the Democrats, was not personality driven. It was issue driven. And, IMO, the Dems will never ever understand that any further than thinking hey, we should have lied about doing some stuff to help people. FFS, they spent tens of millions buying celebrity endorsements, and likely will never figure out why that did not work.
" Most Americans really do believe racism and sexism is bullshit and should be socially unacceptable. We’re just not afraid to be falsely accused of those things anymore when that’s the primary defense of a predatory capitalist establishment that is sucking the financial life’s blood out of us. "
I was thinking it is really "twisted." They took liberal/Left thinking - and turned it into a paper clip.
My understanding is that at the end of WWII; the US had four 4-star generals, today it is in excess of 40; so; a good metric to show the US is on a better path would be if that number showed a substantial decrease. I wont hold my breath though because all my life I have heard nice-sounding noises coming from US politicians but actions that have belied their words. Peace is just another word, like Liberty and Justice that leak from the mouths of these people that we, the people, recognise now as just another platitude and its now their actions that tell us the truth.
It will be interesting to see if DOGE now changes that.
Just so you know, I didn't entrust ANYBODY. I was one of the third of us who expressed his discontent by refusing to vote for anyone who supported Israel. I don't think Harris has ever had any political intentions of her own--only what she was told to believe at the time.
You already know none of that matters very much now. Neither does Trump if you want to start talking about historic forces in motion; he's just the instrument.
Or, he could be a final catalyst if he fails to deliver on anything. All the ingredients for an English or French-style revolution are in place in America. Trump & Vance ARE the off-ramp from such a revolution.
At least, they have a chance to be, and I hope they succeed. After all, I don't want to live through a real revolution and civil war anymore than the next guy does. If they fail, if they don't dismantle enough of the kleptocracy to restore some semblance of a democratic republic, then history will not look kindly on them.
Watching Harris chortling over how a life could be ruined with just the stroke of a pen, by an arrest that was later dismissed, tells me all I need to know about her intentions. Her intentions, IMO, are to wield power and advance herself. Period. She went into loving detail about how an arrest record could ruin credit scores, job opportunities, housing, reputation, etc., even if dismissed. Creepily into detail. Laughing about putting parents of truants in jail - not because she cared about the truants, but because she cared about the money lost. She was very straightforward about that. Nope.
I rewatched Chappelle’s The Closer last night and his final piece about his trans friend pretty much sums up all the feels you just presented.
I've seen that! Yes, it does, doesn't it?
Oh and Hillary Clinton was actually super nice to my four year old daughter when we met her during a production of Hair in Central Park a few years ago. Everyone, despite all their character defects, is looking for the same thing IMO - unconditional love. It’s those pesky ideologies that poke holes in our essence. But then again I can get along with almost anyone.
I'm glad Hillary was nice to your daughter. I've never met the woman. I did stand no more than 15 feet away from Bill when he promised to veto NAFTA in 1992.
I will never forget that, and I'm glad I'm not Christian because I'm not required to forgive the SOB, either.
These people are straight up neocons so I have no love for them either. They have done so much harm to the world.
PERFECT
Yes, unconditional love. And your money, and your vote, and, if you live in, say, the middle east, or Haiti, for example, your life or your livelihood. Central Park in front of voters - slam dunk. Too much blood on her hands to ever be humanized, for me.
Probably right.
I was puzzling over this for a moment or two. Everyone wants love. Esp. warm-blooded mammals like we are. When someone is nice, you can forgive everything. And you really want to do this. So, what one would expect of a cynical race is somebody is going to capitalize on that. They learn to produce what we want. As for "ideology" --- something false that distracts us. Stripping away the ideology, Hitler was a vegetarian, Saddam Hussein's wife said, "he treated me nicely." And Kamala has a nice smile, I guess so! They learn to PRODUCE it. That is scary as hell. Who do we trust? Corporations know how to say the exact correct words that will disarm critics. All we can do, IMO --- look at ourselves.
Yeah, check out my Zenplay post if you’re interested… I get more into this. But ultimately yeah.
Zen is great at showing one one's own illusions and false perceptions. After you've got that down, spotting those in others is easy.
"I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus..............He has a wife, you know...Incontinetia Buttocks"
I knew somebody would get the old movie reference.
😉
I agree with all you wrote OB, thanks.
The next 6 months will tell which way this tipping point in history goes. I have some hope we can keep pushing the Trump team to clean up this mess but I don’t trust Musk and Thiel (JD). It’s going to be a rough winter as cults don’t die gently. If the speaker of the house is a RINO then every step will be more difficult.
Well, obviously there are limitations to an extreme Rightist who worships big amounts of money or thinks "the best" is also the "richest." That mentality, in my view, is the worst. It is completely the wrong direction to go. Will DT ever retreat from the money love? Alt: "will Donald Trump ever retreat from money, love?" Where would he run? A treehouse????
Trump isn’t handling things or making these cabinet choices.Elon Musk is.
Thank you for your service, OB.
Also thank you for another amazing post - you are speaking for the soul of real America.
Beautifully well written, and accurate, if elections occurred. But he was selected, not elected. Watch. Nothing he does will even lightly vex the bank. This is fandom. We are no more included in policy than peasants in France under the sun king.
This post isn't fandom for Trump. It is for the American people who rejected Harris, including those of us who didn't vote. I don't see any indication Wall Street is the least bit disturbed by Trump's election--as you know, why should they be?
The major thing we can realistically hope for is de-escalation with Russia. We'll know soon enough whether or not he'll actually make a positive difference for most of his voters.
I agree with the russia thing but emphasis and context needs to be clear. It’s not that he’s going to set policy, it’s that he was chosen to implement policy. The banks know they fucked up in ukraine to the extent that they didn’t get their best case. (they will absolutely profit regardless, as they always do from conflict)
It’s not that Trump will force peace on the banks it’s that the bank decided to lean into cutting losses, or lean away from sunk costs, whichever.
So again, my point isn’t Hero vs Heel or who’s who. My point is this was a notification, not a decision. https://substack.com/@innomen/note/c-76763908?
Trump is backed by part of the BIg Tech part of the oligarchy, and by what Marx would call the petit bourgeoise, which in 2024 America means a lot of millionaires but not so many multimillionaires.
A millionaire now is like somebody making $100,000 in the 1960s. Enough billionaires are onboard to prevent a Dem Party coup, and they wouldn't do that if they didn't think they'd be rewarded.
We still live in a kleptocracy, but a paradigm shift has happened anyway. It's as much a cultural revolt against identarian dogma imposed from above as it is a sign that the American working class is starting to move politically and demand that at least some of its needs be met.
You think elections happen and the government makes policy at the top level still. /shrugs
Agree to disagree I guess. Since I feel like I provided ample citation to refute that position but I guess you disagree.
The context you mention imo only matters in a fandom plausibility sense. The idea is to keep people believing as you do, and from there it’s a matter of managing the behavior script.
I think of it like a play, the bank owns the theater and approves the programming, and the idea is to keep the audience convinced they are looking at actual management activity at the top level, and not middle managers playing their roles as directed.
Like do you honestly think the government could close the federal reserve for example?
I sincerely doubt anyone here is a Trump fan. I am a fan of seeing at least ONE awful thing perpetrated by the usual suspects being shut down. IMO, one does not need to be a Trump fan in order to devoutly wish our world is not in the hands of Blinken and Sullivan. That's sort of a Democrat thing, aiming at an individual in order to scuttle an entire group. Sure, I did not like Harris - but I disliked what and who she stood for quite a lot more. This election, much to the dismay of the Democrats, was not personality driven. It was issue driven. And, IMO, the Dems will never ever understand that any further than thinking hey, we should have lied about doing some stuff to help people. FFS, they spent tens of millions buying celebrity endorsements, and likely will never figure out why that did not work.
The bottom 3% of earth basically all want the same thing, they have just been tricked into thinking otherwise.
https://innomen.substack.com/p/so-how-bad-is-income-inequality-really
This is an aweome article. Biggus Dickus should be executed .
" Most Americans really do believe racism and sexism is bullshit and should be socially unacceptable. We’re just not afraid to be falsely accused of those things anymore when that’s the primary defense of a predatory capitalist establishment that is sucking the financial life’s blood out of us. "
I was thinking it is really "twisted." They took liberal/Left thinking - and turned it into a paper clip.
Magnificent!
My understanding is that at the end of WWII; the US had four 4-star generals, today it is in excess of 40; so; a good metric to show the US is on a better path would be if that number showed a substantial decrease. I wont hold my breath though because all my life I have heard nice-sounding noises coming from US politicians but actions that have belied their words. Peace is just another word, like Liberty and Justice that leak from the mouths of these people that we, the people, recognise now as just another platitude and its now their actions that tell us the truth.
It will be interesting to see if DOGE now changes that.