Liberté,
égalité,
fraternité
ou
la mort
Turkish
Delight:
Turkey's behavior, internal
and external, is understandable when considered in terms of
Erdoğan's main goals: to prevent the formation of a Kurdish state,
the removal of Assad and the concomitant victory of the Caliphate's
forces
(which explains why he had the Russia jet shot down)
and the establishment of a religious-tinged dictatorship in Turkey
with him at the helm. This requires that he completely control the
press in the country – to the point of jailing
journalists who print truthful but sensitive news and arresting
generals who don't assist him in his desire to provide arms to
Assad's enemies. Even “insulting”
Erdoğan is
a crime.
Erdoğan
has
turned the migrant crisis into a
profit center, extorting €3 billion from the EU plus a promise
of postive progress on Turkish membership in the EU in return for
stopping
the flow of refugees and migrants transiting Turkey on their way
to Europe. The migrant flood will not stop and the EU will not admit
Turkey, but the €3 billion will quickly disappear.
The
US has long
been aware of Turkey's ongoing oil trade with the Caliphate, and
the role that Erdoğan's
family plays in the trade, but pretends that no oil wells have been
bombed for
fear of the ecological damage that such attacks might cause.
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Oh,
Shoot!
Tea Party Sweetheart Ted Cruz claims that Robert Dear, the latest
Planned Parenthood shooter, was “registered
as an independent and a woman and transgendered leftist activist”
(he
was none of those things)
and
that pretending that the Republican assualt on women's rights had
anything to do with the assault on “the ongoing criminal
enterprise” called Planned Parenthood was simply “vicious
rhetoric
on the left blaming those who are pro-life”. Elsewhere,
the
Republican head of the House Homeland Security committee, the
virulently anti-abortion Michael McCaul, said that shooting up a
Planned Parenthood was not “domestic terrorism” but
a form of free speech.
And House
Majority Leader Republican
Kevin McCarthy said
that a government shutdown
over Planned Parenthood is
unlikely
now
because
it is much cheaper and easier to let gunmen shut them down one at a
time.
A
Star Is Born:
Fox news has announced the creation of a new religion composed of
"Christian
White
Republicans.”
Toward
A More Perfect Union:
Senator Orrin Hatch (Religious Nut, UT) says that while the 1st
Amendment prohibits Congress – and only Congress – from
establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion,
nothing in the Constitution would prevent a State or city from
establishing Christianity as the official religion, and prohibiting
the practice of any other form of religion.
War
Some More:
War Lovers
John McCain and Lindsey Graham want to
invade Syria with a force of 100,000
foreign troops led
by 20,000 US mercenaries
soldiers.
2 comments:
re a religion of christian white republicans. Maybe she meant the KKK?
re John & Lindsay's excellent misadventurism. What the heck, I say let's do it. Might as well double (triple?) down on destroying our military, our finances, and our credibility, while agitating even further - without repairing - the toxic cauldron of grievances, rage, poverty, blood vengeance, refuges, political instability, corruption, and armed rootless young men.
re Orrin hatch's a plan. Would that be a big-S or little-s "state religion" then?
Re the shooter. God help me I must keep reminding myself that actually innocent people are actually being killed, just to bring us this terrific theater of the deeply absurd self-parody.
re Turkey. Wherein the pretenses are finally almost entirely dropped, and NATO, EU, and sundry platitudes don't even pretend to stand for anything anymore. it's refreshing, in a sick sort of way.
Um, re the whole stinking mess: Imagine the 'Daisy Chain' of collapse once the frustration level reaches 110%. Don't even want to speculate on where it will tip over first.
Worse is what's waiting in the wings to take advantage of the chaos (as McMike posits, an American Taliban or worse) run by the same bunch that exported our economy to line their own pockets.
Global pandemic won't be the half of it.
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