It’s been almost one year since Trump was elected, and the amount of fake news and blatant lying about ‘Russian interference’ and ‘Russian rigging of the election’ has grown more absurd.
No longer is Russia falsely blamed just for interfering in the US presidential election, or hacking the DNC servers. Russia is now being blamed for every phenomenon and occurrence anywhere in the world that goes against US/EU/NATO interests.
Russia has been accused of being behind BRExit, Catalonian independence campaign, ISIS terrorist attacks, interfering in the elections of every EU country, 'bend the knee' football protests, the US racial divide, the growth of the EU/US-skeptic right-wing movements, and anything or anyone that the US/EU don’t like.
Russian media has been the victim of accusations and harassment for allegedly reporting ‘fake news.’
But what the US/EU don’t like is that Russian media outlets such as RT and Sputnik report on, and expose the negative consequences of EU/US/NATO policies, blunders and crimes. Doing so undermines the west’s ability to manipulate and influence.
For all these accusations against Russia, there is not one shred of credible evidence to back up any of it. The closest these liars have to 'evidence' are some news articles in the Russian English-language media that are rightfully critical of US policies and actions.
But isn’t that what journalists are supposed to do, air out dirty laundry?
In the eyes of the west, Russians are simply not allowed to have any view or opinion whatsoever about anything sketchy that goes on in the west. They either have to ignore it all, excuse it, or twist it around so it looks good-just like the crooked and worthless US MSM does every day.
It has gotten to the point that anyone in the US ruling circles who so much as plans a meeting with a Russian is deemed to be under the Kremlin’s influence. Joseph McCarty’s ghost still hovers over Washington DC, it seems.
The ironic thing about all this anti-Russian drivel is that it is the US that has done all the things it accuses Russia of.
When it comes to interfering in other nations’ elections, meddling in their internal affairs, funding pro-US politicians through front organizations, and causing unrest and chaos to further strategic interests, the US is the world’s number one offender. No one else comes close.
There are three levels of these pathetic anti-Russian bigots and idiot-ologists:
1. The corrupt elite who owe their power and wealth to the cold war. These people are the unelected bureaucracy entrenched within US institutions, the media, and their backers in the private sector. To keep this power and wealth, these groups must have Russia as an enemy no matter what, and will do everything they can to ensure that there is a constant fear of Russia.
2. An army of opportunistic propagandists and self-styled ‘Russia experts,’ whose only credentials seem to be that they hate Russia. It is doubtful if these people even believe the trash they’re saying and writing, and may just be trying to cash in on the anti-Russian hysteria.
3. The morons who believe it all, but have nothing to gain from it. This is the saddest group of the three. At least the first two groups are in it for some kind of tangible material gain. But these sad-sacks genuinely believe this anti-Russian nonsense, and get needlessly worked up about it.
This anti-Russia fake news is a sign of the failures of US/EU/NATO policies. The world is becoming multi-polar, and new partnerships are forming in which the US has no say or control.
This is a bitter pill for the US to swallow. Since 1945, the US has gotten used to doing whatever it wanted in the world, no matter how despicable, without fear of consequences or a ‘No’ from their vassals.
Now that this era is coming to an end, the US doesn’t know how to handle it. So it lashes out at anyone that it sees as standing in its way of getting what it wants.
Russia fits the bill as a convenient enemy that the US knows it will never have to fight; an adversary that justifies so many peoples’ careers and paychecks, and keeps the pentagon generals fat, happy, and employed.
This is the last entry that I shall write about this anti-Russian hysteria. It's nauseating and tiring. It’s been a lie from day one. There is no evidence for any of it. It’s all a side-show to further the financial and political interests of a clique of miserable bastards in Washington and elsewhere, who need a scapegoat to distract the people they govern from their failures, incompetence, and corrupt behavior.
But this anti-Russian hysteria will not achieve what these charlatans want, because this anti-Russia hysteria is based on lies. No policy based on lies can succeed in the long-run.
After the long list of its own lie-driven failures, the US should know better.
Anyone who promotes and believes in this anti-Russian propaganda is lying to themselves.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Trump on the Couch
Donald Trump has certainly aroused a lot of debate, curiosity, and consternation since he stepped onto the political stage.
Part of his program is to help the middle class by creating jobs and bringing back manufacturing to the US from China and elsewhere.
We can now see that the way Trump has decided to go about doing so is radically different from what people generally thought.
What many saw as Trump’s rejection of globalism and embrace of fair trade where the US competes on even terms alongside others has turned out to be very different.
It seems that the definition of ‘fair’ to Trump is something other than what the dictionary states.
Trump’s promotion of US goods and services is based not on fair trade and competition, but on unfairly targeting other nations with sanctions and blockades and forcing upon them US-made goods and services under threat.
Those nations that are adversaries get slapped with sanctions to push them off the market; vassals get slapped with duties and tariffs. Same things, but one sounds less ominous.
Trump’s economic policies are actually a boon for US-based manufacturers’ profits, but not much else.
Therein lies the nature of Trump, but it cannot be simply chalked up to the cliché of Trump just being a ‘money-hungry billionaire.’ It goes deeper than that. It is rooted in Trump’s very psychology and wired into his brain.
This aberrant behavior is normal for a person of Trump’s upbringing. The man was born with a gold spoon up his ass. He comes from money.
Trump has not suffered the type of want that middle/lower classes have to contend with throughout their lives.
Trump had his fortune handed to him. Yes, he worked to increase it, but he was born into privilege.
He never had to worry about going hungry, being out of a job, not able to afford school, lack of opportunity, facing foreclosures and bankruptcies that threatened to put his family out on the street.
His whole life he clung to, and associated with the higher spheres of society and moneyed, famous elites. He lived in a different world from that of most of his constituents.
This makes Trump mentally incapable of truly understanding, let alone addressing the concerns of the lower classes. He may think he understands them because he spoke to some average people here and there, but in reality he doesn’t. Trump is deluded if he thinks he does.
It’s akin to putting a bank teller in charge of running a team of rocket scientists. Both come from very different disciplines, and the bank teller won’t be able to run the team because they simply don’t understand the realities of being a rocket engineer. (no offense to bank tellers)
Trump never lived a poor or middle-class life, and therefore doesn’t have the reference points to understand how people in those classes live. He sees the world through the rose-colored glasses of the wealthy.
And since he cannot really understand the lower classes, he cannot help them. No amount of acting, pretending, and pandering on TV will change that.
However, this is not really Trump’s fault. He’s not being evil; he simply improvises and feigns as a substitute for not really knowing and understanding. He’s not a genius. This pretending to know the concerns of the middle class and the poor was very evident during the Presidential election last year, but one had to pay close attention. And Trump did a lot of posturing, and still does.
This mental limit is a result of Trump’s opulent upbringing. From day one he was surrounded by the wealthy class. He was brought up to understand, represent, and fight for the interests, needs, and concerns of the wealthy class first and foremost. These are the reference points and experiences he has, that worked for him and his class, and is taking his queues from.
But the interests and concerns of the wealthy class do not equal those of the lower classes. Almost always they are polar opposites, and they are virtually irreconcilable.
But Trump doesn’t know any other world other than the wealthy one he came from. So he tries to equate and apply solutions that serve the upper classes to the middle and lower classes. He may not even realize that doing so will be inimical to the well-being of the lower classes.
By trying to equate the interests of the top percentile with the bottom percentile, and applying solutions that work for the top percentile but not for the majority of the bottom percentile, Trump is basically trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It’s not going to work, and he will end up causing greater damage to those under him and the broader economy.
Trump may be a victim of the false and discredited notion of the ‘trickle down’ theory. While that may have worked very briefly in the 19th century, it certainly doesn’t work today. So implementing solutions that serve the wealthy, thinking that these solutions will also help the middle-class and the poor is the wrong way to go. It is also dishonest, and Trump will fail, if he continues to believe in this fallacy.
For Trump to truly understand and help the lower classes, he would’ve had to give up his wealth years ago, be a regular Joe out there working 8 hours a day, live in a modest home with his family, and deal with the everyday headaches most Americans have to deal with. Then he’d be in a good position to know, understand, and help those who aren’t wealthy.
But as things stand, Trump is simply mentally incapable of understanding those who are economically less well-off than he is, and therefore cannot help them.
Part of his program is to help the middle class by creating jobs and bringing back manufacturing to the US from China and elsewhere.
We can now see that the way Trump has decided to go about doing so is radically different from what people generally thought.
What many saw as Trump’s rejection of globalism and embrace of fair trade where the US competes on even terms alongside others has turned out to be very different.
It seems that the definition of ‘fair’ to Trump is something other than what the dictionary states.
Trump’s promotion of US goods and services is based not on fair trade and competition, but on unfairly targeting other nations with sanctions and blockades and forcing upon them US-made goods and services under threat.
Those nations that are adversaries get slapped with sanctions to push them off the market; vassals get slapped with duties and tariffs. Same things, but one sounds less ominous.
Trump’s economic policies are actually a boon for US-based manufacturers’ profits, but not much else.
Therein lies the nature of Trump, but it cannot be simply chalked up to the cliché of Trump just being a ‘money-hungry billionaire.’ It goes deeper than that. It is rooted in Trump’s very psychology and wired into his brain.
This aberrant behavior is normal for a person of Trump’s upbringing. The man was born with a gold spoon up his ass. He comes from money.
Trump has not suffered the type of want that middle/lower classes have to contend with throughout their lives.
Trump had his fortune handed to him. Yes, he worked to increase it, but he was born into privilege.
He never had to worry about going hungry, being out of a job, not able to afford school, lack of opportunity, facing foreclosures and bankruptcies that threatened to put his family out on the street.
His whole life he clung to, and associated with the higher spheres of society and moneyed, famous elites. He lived in a different world from that of most of his constituents.
This makes Trump mentally incapable of truly understanding, let alone addressing the concerns of the lower classes. He may think he understands them because he spoke to some average people here and there, but in reality he doesn’t. Trump is deluded if he thinks he does.
It’s akin to putting a bank teller in charge of running a team of rocket scientists. Both come from very different disciplines, and the bank teller won’t be able to run the team because they simply don’t understand the realities of being a rocket engineer. (no offense to bank tellers)
Trump never lived a poor or middle-class life, and therefore doesn’t have the reference points to understand how people in those classes live. He sees the world through the rose-colored glasses of the wealthy.
And since he cannot really understand the lower classes, he cannot help them. No amount of acting, pretending, and pandering on TV will change that.
However, this is not really Trump’s fault. He’s not being evil; he simply improvises and feigns as a substitute for not really knowing and understanding. He’s not a genius. This pretending to know the concerns of the middle class and the poor was very evident during the Presidential election last year, but one had to pay close attention. And Trump did a lot of posturing, and still does.
This mental limit is a result of Trump’s opulent upbringing. From day one he was surrounded by the wealthy class. He was brought up to understand, represent, and fight for the interests, needs, and concerns of the wealthy class first and foremost. These are the reference points and experiences he has, that worked for him and his class, and is taking his queues from.
But the interests and concerns of the wealthy class do not equal those of the lower classes. Almost always they are polar opposites, and they are virtually irreconcilable.
But Trump doesn’t know any other world other than the wealthy one he came from. So he tries to equate and apply solutions that serve the upper classes to the middle and lower classes. He may not even realize that doing so will be inimical to the well-being of the lower classes.
By trying to equate the interests of the top percentile with the bottom percentile, and applying solutions that work for the top percentile but not for the majority of the bottom percentile, Trump is basically trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It’s not going to work, and he will end up causing greater damage to those under him and the broader economy.
Trump may be a victim of the false and discredited notion of the ‘trickle down’ theory. While that may have worked very briefly in the 19th century, it certainly doesn’t work today. So implementing solutions that serve the wealthy, thinking that these solutions will also help the middle-class and the poor is the wrong way to go. It is also dishonest, and Trump will fail, if he continues to believe in this fallacy.
For Trump to truly understand and help the lower classes, he would’ve had to give up his wealth years ago, be a regular Joe out there working 8 hours a day, live in a modest home with his family, and deal with the everyday headaches most Americans have to deal with. Then he’d be in a good position to know, understand, and help those who aren’t wealthy.
But as things stand, Trump is simply mentally incapable of understanding those who are economically less well-off than he is, and therefore cannot help them.