Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy

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Post by blindpig » Sat May 30, 2020 2:40 pm

What's this, a liberal finding context?
But the truth is that if you are Donald Trump, artlessly calling for people to take up arms against Hillary Clinton, as he did in 2016, or calling for citizen protesters to LIBERATE their states from beneath their governor’s public health directives, as he did last month, whether you understand the meaning and context of your statements and whether you intend for them to be read as inviting violence just doesn’t matter. Trump is the most obvious and careless beneficiary of the ultimate manifestation of white privilege: Like the law itself, anticipation of consequences and understanding of context are for suckers. If you’re wealthy, white, and devoid of a worldview that contemplates the reactions of others, you can exist in this way, without knowing what you are doing, and still never, ever be held to account.

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Now then dear Dahlia, apply that to his class peers.
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Re: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy

Post by kidoftheblackhole » Sun May 31, 2020 3:14 pm

These protests are getting REAL

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Re: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy

Post by solidgold » Sun May 31, 2020 8:53 pm

blindpig wrote:
Sat May 30, 2020 2:40 pm
What's this, a liberal finding context?
But the truth is that if you are Donald Trump, artlessly calling for people to take up arms against Hillary Clinton, as he did in 2016, or calling for citizen protesters to LIBERATE their states from beneath their governor’s public health directives, as he did last month, whether you understand the meaning and context of your statements and whether you intend for them to be read as inviting violence just doesn’t matter. Trump is the most obvious and careless beneficiary of the ultimate manifestation of white privilege: Like the law itself, anticipation of consequences and understanding of context are for suckers. If you’re wealthy, white, and devoid of a worldview that contemplates the reactions of others, you can exist in this way, without knowing what you are doing, and still never, ever be held to account.

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... acism.html
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Now then dear Dahlia, apply that to his class peers.
Idk who this is, but this is kinda how all liberals talk these days.

I’m on day three at the White House. Doesn’t look like things are slowing down. Considering how inherently policed this city is, it’s about as *real* as it can be before there’s bullets.

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Re: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy

Post by kidoftheblackhole » Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:27 am

solidgold wrote:
Sun May 31, 2020 8:53 pm
blindpig wrote:
Sat May 30, 2020 2:40 pm
What's this, a liberal finding context?
But the truth is that if you are Donald Trump, artlessly calling for people to take up arms against Hillary Clinton, as he did in 2016, or calling for citizen protesters to LIBERATE their states from beneath their governor’s public health directives, as he did last month, whether you understand the meaning and context of your statements and whether you intend for them to be read as inviting violence just doesn’t matter. Trump is the most obvious and careless beneficiary of the ultimate manifestation of white privilege: Like the law itself, anticipation of consequences and understanding of context are for suckers. If you’re wealthy, white, and devoid of a worldview that contemplates the reactions of others, you can exist in this way, without knowing what you are doing, and still never, ever be held to account.

more...
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... acism.html
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Now then dear Dahlia, apply that to his class peers.
Idk who this is, but this is kinda how all liberals talk these days.

I’m on day three at the White House. Doesn’t look like things are slowing down. Considering how inherently policed this city is, it’s about as *real* as it can be before there’s bullets.
Wish I could be there.

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Re: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy

Post by blindpig » Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:30 am

kidoftheblackhole wrote:
Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:27 am
solidgold wrote:
Sun May 31, 2020 8:53 pm
blindpig wrote:
Sat May 30, 2020 2:40 pm
What's this, a liberal finding context?



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Now then dear Dahlia, apply that to his class peers.
Idk who this is, but this is kinda how all liberals talk these days.

I’m on day three at the White House. Doesn’t look like things are slowing down. Considering how inherently policed this city is, it’s about as *real* as it can be before there’s bullets.
Wish I could be there.
Yep. But I can't run too fast anymore when the pepper & tasers come out...Still, the billies are the same & what other good can the "expensive and unproductive" do? 'If the covid don't get ya the taser will...'

Gitum SG. That wanker is one of the stalwarts at Slate, my go-to for pure liberal crap. DC, Lafayette Park & a whiff of teargas, NG guarding the banks...(they never show that)

Meanwhile the 'outside agitator' card is played by the master of blame deflection. How could the Avatar of the Ruling Class not identify with capitalism & racism?

Trump Says US Will Label Antifa as a Terrorist Organization
The movement itself, short for ‘anti-fascists,’ is an umbrella term for a far-left-leaning groups with no designated leadership that is opposed to far-right ideologies.

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The movement itself, short for ‘anti-fascists,’ is an umbrella term for a far-left-leaning groups with no designated leadership that is opposed to far-right ideologies. | Photo: AFP

Published 31 May 2020 (10 hours 29 minutes ago)

Without evidence, Trump and several top officials from his administration have blamed Antifa and groups it describes as "agitators."

United States President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that the U.S. will go ahead and label Antifa as a “terrorist organization,” raising serious concerns about the unconstitutionality of such a threat if carried out.

“The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization,” Trump said, as protests over the murder of the black man, George Floyd, continued in at least 30 cities in the United States on Sunday, with Minneapolis as the epicenter.

Without evidence, Trump and several top officials from his administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr, have blamed Antifa and groups it describes as "agitators" for taking over the protests in U.S. cities.

"The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly," Barr said in a statement on Sunday following the president's tweet.

The movement itself, short for ‘anti-fascists,’ is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning groups with no designated leadership that is opposed to far-right ideologies; with many in recent years directly confronting white nationalists and Trump-supporters.

Yet for many experts, the worrying fact is the intention of Trump to designate a domestic group in the same way it does foreign entities as he has no legal authority.

"As this tweet demonstrates, terrorism is an inherently political label, easily abused and misused. There is no legal authority for designating a domestic group. Any such designation would raise significant due process and First Amendment concerns," ACLU National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi said.

In stark contrast to the spotlight on left-leaning groups, the rise of the far-right and neo-nazis have been ignored by the Trump administration despite warnings from social movements and lawmakers.

Even FBI Director Christopher Wray has raised concerns about the increase of white supremacist activity driving the domestic terror threat, in some cases surpassing that from foreign terrorist groups.

Meanwhile, for the fourth consecutive night from the city of Los Angeles to Chicago, through Cleveland, Washington D.C. and New York, scenes of wide-spread protests and riots continue, forcing local authorities to announce curfews and to call up to 5,000 troops from the National Guard.

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Jfc, guess we're gonna hafta be nice to to these guys even as they curse us as 'Stalinists'.

It occurs to me that inflaming this situation serves to direct attention away from Trump's disastrous handling of the covid. The prez wouldn't do that, would he?
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Re: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy

Post by blindpig » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:12 pm

Is Trump Jonesing for his own 'Bloody Sunday'?

Of course I am referring to that Sunday in 1905 in Petersburg, Russia, which set the course for the Russian Revolution. History does not repeat itself, but sometimes it gets close, not in the details but in over-all outline. Comparing body-counts, regardless of how our situation plays out, is not the point.(I'm not referring to the events last night in Lafayette Park)

There is certainly a parallel relationship between the Russo-Japanese War and the the Covid19 pandemic. In both cases the government failed badly. That in Petersburg a show of strength was the order of the day, now we have distraction from failure as the motivator. And have these ongoing events not knocked Covid off the front page?

Then we got an inept autocrat in charge in either case, the difference being that Nicky truly had supreme power whereas there are supposedly constitutional means of reining this president in. But with the reins in the hands of one party whose electoral fate is entirely tied to that of the autocrat and the other the backstop of the class both parties represent there ain't no guarantees. In fact it's a good bet that after the usual posturing the Dems will be screaming "Order! Order! Order!" along with their more honest colleagues.

In Imperial Russia the most important result was not 'the imposition or order' or the body count. These were no doubt satisfying to the authorities, but in their arrogance and ignorance they missed the main thing. And the main thing was the loss of faith in and allegiance to the current order. It was not universal, rather the core of 'activists' in urban centers, people who knew there was no going back to some idyllic, fanciful past, who decided that you cannot trust the bosses, ever. These folks of today should be careful(but not too careful if they are to succeed), we have seen the spate of 'unusual deaths' among the Ferguson leadership and know too well what happened to the Black Panthers. There is no difference between the Tsar's secret police and the FBI. The plot thickens...

This about a whole lot more than the prez, it is the structure and history of Amerika. That we have the Avatar of the Ruling Class, the very personification of capitalism(even though he doesn't understand how the modern version works..) in charge is an effect of over-ripe, rotten capitalism, not the cause of current difficulties. I read that the Trots at WSWS are calling for Trump's ouster. How petty booj of them...Snuffing a spark will not make a powerkeg disappear, au contrair, where's that Zippo?

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Post by blindpig » Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:35 pm

Boomerang effect: how the imperial wars turned the US into a police state

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By Rebeca Monsalve

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Police use automatic weapons and military equipment to contain the protests in Ferguson, USA, 2014. Photo: AP / Jeff Roberson

The brutal killing of an African American by police in Minneapolis has prompted President Donald Trump to threaten to take military troops to the streets in American cities, not because it somehow reverses the widespread violence by police forces against civilians, especially with the lower social strata and " racial minorities ".
On the contrary: under the protection of the Insurrection Act of 1807, Trump intends to deploy the army to repress protesters who have been on the streets for more than a week. The Pentagon has reacted against this measure, but Trump insists on executing it.
Although these protests and riots do not stem exclusively from discrimination against the black community in the United States, the federal government's disproportionate military response is not an isolated event.

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Police violence against the African-American community is a historical relationship in the United States. Photo: Julio Cortez / AP Photo

The "endless wars" of Washington in the Middle East, framed in the plans to reshape the region in favor of its interests with the excuse of the "fight against terrorism" after September 11, 2001, have been decisive in the social crisis and economic that suffers the population of the country.
Militarization of the American police
"Many Americans first learned of the 1033 Program in 2014, when both peaceful protests and destructive riots erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, following the fatal Michael Brown police shooting," says Bonnie Kristian, in an article written in Responsible Statecraft. , a publication of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
This Department of Defense program provides security officers with weapons of war: "bayonets, automatic rifles, and grenade launchers, as well as ammunition, bulletproof vests, robots, ships, and aircraft, including surveillance drones."
The increasing and invasive use of the state of permanent vigilance , today expressed in the use of police intelligence to detect and quell protests with sophisticated data collection technologies, deserves special attention, journalist Bonnie Kristian points out .
But beyond the war arsenal (surplus of the military invasions in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria), or the espionage instruments that reach the hands of the officers, it is necessary to observe the culture of repression that has been forged in the academies Police, very much in line with the vision of foreign policy conceived in the White House.
As soon as they give a signal to threaten the US establishment , the civilian population becomes a threat to national security.

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Protest in the US against a possible war with Iran in early 2020. Photo: AFP

There is not a clear denunciation of the imperialist vision of the United States or of the conflicts unleashed abroad, which in the end are causing internal decline.
Rather, the chaos and riots seem like a visceral response to the social and economic decline of a country led by a bipartisan elite that is busier trying to sustain hegemonic power in the world, funding costly armies and hundreds of military bases, in one state. of perpetual war.
Being considered a "threat" to the population in the United States, it receives the same treatment that is given to nations that hinder Gringo hegemony.
And in that scenario, police departments are trained to behave like an occupying force. “If the officers are soldiers, it follows that the neighborhoods they patrol are battlegrounds. And if they are working on the battlefields, it follows that the population is the enemy, "reflected the writer of The Concourse , Greg Howard, during the Ferguson demonstrations in 2014, and who is quoted by Kristian.
Military spending and debt to residents
George Floyd was unemployed when he was captured and killed by officers upon receiving a complaint against him for forgery of a $ 20 bill . Floyd was also infected with coronavirus, as the full autopsy report revealed .
Since Covid-19 rose to a pandemic category and has focused the attention of governments and agencies worldwide, the unemployment rate in the United States could reach 25%, while virus-related infections and deaths have grown chilling: more than 1 million 900 thousand cases and more than 100 thousand deaths .
Health is not a priority in the cradle of financial capitalism, nor is the pockets of the middle and lower classes. But war, the basis that sustains the economic power of Washington, yes it is, and that is why there is nothing strange in the military spending of the federal government, although this does not guarantee it will return to the glory days of a unipolar world. .
The military defense (attack) spending that goes to the Pentagon is around 740 billion dollars annually. Adjusting for inflation differences, that budget is said to be higher than "President Ronald Reagan's defense, built to win the Cold War ."
However, this value is not a complete expression of the waste in resources to feed the military-industrial complex, where government and the private sector are amalgamated, in this last century of conflicts in the Middle East.
According to Willis Krumholz, a member of Defense Priorities , "without counting the cost of the Department of Homeland Security, the total cost of these wars has been more than $ 5 trillion since 2001. That is 25% of our national debt."
It should not be forgotten that the United States has a public debt that exceeds 100% of its GDP .
The countries that lead the multipolar bloc, China and Russia, have a military expenditure of 250 billion dollars and 60 billion dollars a year, respectively.
There are no indications of massive protests claiming that this distribution jeopardizes the security of the population in their territories, or that of others abroad, no matter how much the Western media construct false reports that cover the dimensions of the US military actions.

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US Marines in a confrontation with the Taliban in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photo: Reuters

"The United States is now committed to endless war, and endless interventionism, signaling any fuel situation anywhere in the world," writes international relations analyst Akhilesh Pillalamarri.
It is the permanent attack on Arab oil-producing countries, but so are the sanctions against Iran, the trade and cultural war against China, indirect clashes against Russia attacking its allies, or systematic harassment of Venezuela's institutions, paying coup plans or maintaining the blockade on its economy.
They are foreign interventions that have been invariable to the changes of administration of the last century. American think tanks, such as the Cato Institute, point to the urgency of " moderating " this doctrine of uncontrolled wars, demonstrating its unsustainability in the medium term.
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American war veterans have been abandoned by Washington. Photo: Umair Haque

Perhaps it would not have greater importance if the blows outwards were not being felt with almost the same intensity indoors. Last century, with the Korean War of the 1950s, the Vietnam War of the 1960s, invasions in Guatemala, Vietnam, Panama and Granada, bombings in Yugoslavia, Washington always found a way to justify military occupations under supposed national ends.
These foreign conflicts, all questionable, costly and without any revenue for the American majority, were out of sight of the gringo society. Not so the consequences that were accumulating in the country's own political and social situation, and which are now bursting between viruses, economic-social crisis and police terrorism.

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Photo: CNN

The resources that the military defense devours to achieve this objective are those that Americans no longer perceive in goods as fundamental as health.
Household spending went into building oppressive structures that are now experiencing their prime time cracking down on protests, which seem to come out of the fragile grip the federal government had a few weeks ago, as outside doors Washington continues to pose as the world's police, less credible than a few years ago.
The White House has shown that the elite's agenda is above any citizen's needs or claims, regardless of whether Donald Trump is in charge or a representative of the Democratic wing in power.

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As hideous as the prez is we should always put him in the context of capitalism and never be surrogates of Democratic partisan weaseling, like WSWS. Trump is not only the capitalists' avatar but the class's caricature too.
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Post by blindpig » Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:24 pm

The military raises the stakes against Trump and takes the crisis in the US to a new lev
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James Mattis, former US Secretary of Defense, and General Martin Dempsey. Photo: Myles Cullen

In 2017, the geopolitical analysis medium The Conversation speculated on an event that would be unprecedented in the United States: a military coup against the president.
Although such an event is unlikely to occur, in the opinion of the media some influential intellectual currents and opinion leaders have put the issue on the table like never before.
Donald Trump's erratic presidency and recurring conflicts with the Pentagon have made the idea of ​​a military coup seem less preposterous.
The Conversation took the risk of drawing a sketch of what the coup would look like, what obstacles it would face and what the favorable elements would be.
They argue that for the coup conspirators it would be key to control the communication network of the Pentagon (its National Center of Military Command), as well as the main cities of the country restricting the use of the National Guard, which is ultimately the responsibility of the governors.
The use of a general cyber blackout (after the taking of the US Cyber ​​Command) would favor the coup, since it would inhibit the reaction of Trump supporters and the massification of a narrative counteroffensive to accuse the military of breaking the constitutional order .
Conspirators must ensure effective control of the chain of command and avoid as many defections as possible in the leading layer of the armed forces. They would take advantage of Trump's stay in Florida (as he usually does to play golf and rest) to protect his life and seize political power in his absence.
The Conversation admits the complexity of imagining a scenario like this. It even leaves as unknowns the role that Congress would play and how the military would develop in the face of an eventual armed resistance from Trump's followers protected by constitutional precepts.
However, the importance of this sketch lies not in its precision, but in how the subject of the military coup is no longer a taboo in US media coverage.
The American historian and researcher specialized in security and defense Gareth Porter has been known for narrating the conflicts between the Pentagon and President Trump since he assumed leadership of the White House.
His central thesis is that Trump's isolationist stance has rivaled the Pentagon's "perpetual war" scheme, aimed at sustaining a growing military presence, especially in the Middle East, with the aim of exploiting the huge budgetary resources derived from the failed one " war on terrorism ”.
The relationship between Trump and the Pentagon is dialectical and takes place in a context of position war. On several occasions Trump has played a key role in the interests of the military-industrial complex, although on other occasions he has asserted his positions of withdrawing troops in places where he believes it is a waste of financial resources.
Since 2016, different military chiefs have held leadership positions in the Trump Administration, such as General John Kelly (former Chief of Staff) or General HR McMaster (former National Security Adviser), both of whom were removed from office by the President long ago.

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Los generales Jame Mattis, H.R. McMaster y John Kelly. Fot: The Daily Beast

But the point of greatest friction between the two parties was the resignation of General James Mattis, the head of the Pentagon until the end of 2018, after Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria. The measure was clarified some time later to redirect the troops towards the rich oil fields of the Arab nation, with the objective of maintaining their illegal extraction through military occupation.
The effects of the coronavirus within the Pentagon re-strained relations a few months ago. The Covid-19 mass contagion scandal on the nuclear aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt that led to the firing of popular Captain Brett Crozier, and then the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly, exposed a new Pentagon leadership crisis that has its origin in the conflictive relations with Trump.
The scene of mass protests and widespread riots in reaction to the police murder of George Floyd has caused the conflict to surface. After Trump invoked an Anti-Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military to contain the protests, Pentagon chief Mark Esper showed his rejection of the move and stymied the idea of ​​his boss.

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Pentagon chief Mark Esper rejected Trump's idea of ​​militarizing the crackdown on protests. Photo: Archive

But the president does not give up on his approach to militarize the response to the riots in the main cities of the country.
This would have been the drop that spilled the glass, causing reactions in voices of weight in the military institution.
Analyst Jon Bateman explains to Politico that "constitutional railings and the apolitical tradition of the US military have been slowly eroding in recent years."
For Bateman, the “government system itself could be in danger, and perhaps sooner than we think”, as a result of Trump's persistent push for the military institution to exceed legal limits, since “it has diverted scarce military resources towards for political purposes, it has damaged military justice and circumvented the restrictions imposed by Congress. Each violation helped pave the way for the next. ”
Bateman observes as a possibility that the protests will continue until November and influence the outcome of the presidential elections. He warns that Trump may be re-elected and that he would try to use the military to quell further protests if the result is too tight to infer that there has been any form of manipulation.
Within this framework, tensions have climbed a new rung. Strong voices such as General James Mattis or General John Allen, both laureate war criminals in the colonial invasions of the Middle East, have publicly questioned Trump, accusing him of serious actions such as violating the sacrosanct First Amendment and being a danger to him. country and for the Constitution.

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“With Hillary Clinton, the US will transform the world, said General John Allen in 2016, prior to the presidential elections where Trump was the winner. Photo: The Politician

Both have directly supported the protests, criticizing the divisive and recalcitrant positions of the head of the White House. The treatment given to the Afghans and Iraqis who suffered the American invasion led by these generals, obviously did not have the same support.
These unpublished and dangerous statements by "military leaders" converge with the Republican rebellion against the Trump party, fueled by terrible figures such as Colin Powell and former President George W. Bush. An alliance between the military-military complex and Republican Falcons has begun to take shape to undermine Trump's reelection and obtain a kind of charismatic legitimacy in the context of protests, showing themselves as figures of respect and guarantees for the Constitution.
They play to present themselves as an "alternative" to the chaos of Trump. It is early to know how far they are willing to go.
It cannot be taken for granted that the sketch of The Conversation in 2017 is close to being given, but what is certain is that friction will increase and that the military institution is less and less reliable as a support factor for the head of the White House. .
It is a delicate scenario. Generals with ascendancy in the Pentagon and in public opinion are publicly calling for disorder in the chain of command and for the annulment of Trump as head of the armed forces. They have raised the stakes for Trump to abdicate against the "perpetual war" scheme analyzed by Gareth Porter.
It is a complicated scenario that sharpens the regressive and authoritarian tendencies of the American national formation.
As in any novel fact, no thesis can accurately describe the future evolution of events. At the moment, all forecasts are more or less coherent exercises in futurology.
And some premises are still surprising. For example, the columnist for the influential magazine The Atlantic , Franklin Foer, has used the analytical scheme of the color revolution of the gringo political scientist Gene Sharp (who exalted a method of outsourced intervention that has been used by the United States against Syria, Ukraine, Libya , Venezuela and many other nations), to analyze the current US situation.
The result is amazing. Foer applies Sharp's concepts (nonviolent struggle, reversing loyalties and cooperation with instituted power, the assertive use of the media and narratives that undermine the legitimacy of the authorities) and explains:
“It is surprising how events in the United States, despite all the obvious flaws in the analogy, have traced the early stages of this story. This can be seen in the images of the crowds on successive nights, as Trump's violent crackdown on the Lafayette Square protests has only made his ranks swell. And it is possible to see how elites, over the course of a few days, have begun to retain cooperation, starting with the outer circles of power and quickly turning inward. ”
Foer notes that Twitter's decision to label Trump's posts misleading was "a watershed moment." But it goes further. He claims that he has put
“A cycle of non-cooperation is underway. Local governments were the next layer for the elite to break Trump's command. After the president insisted that governors dominate the streets on his behalf, they flatly refused to step up their response. "
“To a certain extent, the abandonment cycle has already begun. Jim Mattis' excoriation by his former boss caused former Trump chief of staff John Kelly and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to echo his condemnation of the president. As each deserter earns praise for his moral worth, he encourages the next group of deserters, "the columnist concludes.

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Policemen kneel in front of the protesters as a sign of support. Photo: CNN

Trump is in a delicate position as is the United States from the point of view of its internal stability. The “exceptional nation” has been transformed into a laboratory where all the proven paradigms are applied in interventions against independent countries.
Nothing can be taken for granted, but what can be affirmed is that the crisis in the United States is here to stay, and that the alternatives to provide a solution will not be satisfactory for all the competing elites.
The military play with fire, just like Trump.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:21 am

and the beat goes on....
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Trump is scheduled to give a commencement address this Saturday to the graduating cadets at West Point. Rather than delivering it remotely, as various leaders have done for other military academies, Trump—against the wishes of West Point’s leaders—demanded that the Army cadets return to campus, isolate themselves for two weeks, and then, during the ceremony itself, sit in tight formation, ignoring CDC guidelines on social distancing. Of the 1,100 graduating cadets, 17 have tested positive for the coronavirus. The whole business, which seems designed to provide footage of Trump speaking before the newest flock of military officers for his reelection campaign, has sparked quiet resentment from many in the Army.

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Man, I'm loving this. Fuck them chumps, it's what they signed up for.
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Post by blindpig » Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:56 am

"If you don't test, you don't have any cases," he said.
"If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any. But we do," Trump said
This is madness or idiocy or something. I don't think another head of state, in any country, anywhere, could get away with that statement.
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