Suspension
of disbelief should not be the basis of US foreign policy.
Once
Upon A Time:
Last week Mrs. Clinton said
that
Mr. Bill
would be “in charge of revitalizing the economy.” You can see why
she might want to say that, since people think
they remember that his time in the White House was all milk and
honey, because of the economic boom, even though mostly it was just
that “he
had the good luck to hold office when good things were happening for
reasons unrelated to politics.” At
the time he was busy shipping millions of jobs overseas, building
private prisons and filling them with young black men while kicking
their mothers and sisters off welfare... things he had the bad luck
to actually do. “Will
Bill Clinton play an important role if Mrs. Clinton wins? ... it will
be important to remember what went right and why on Bill’s watch,”
and
what went very, very wrong.
Conspirators'
Theory:
The Saudis,
who financed and most likely planned the 9/11 attacks now claim the
US “blew up the World Trade Center in order to create the War On
Terror.”
Huh?
Under a new law, the US asserts the right to go anywhere in the
world and arrest and whisk back to the US (or some convenient
way-station) anyone who produces anything used in or resulting in the
production of drugs – coca, opium, marijuana – if there is
“probable cause to believe” they should have known we didn't want
them doing this sort of thing.
Consumers:
Switzerland is considering paying its citizens a basic $2,500
a month and
two
thirds of the British public support a universal basic income, as
more and more people find the economy does not need their productive
efforts but does need them as customers. Places like China, which
has a shallow consumer basis is rapidly
laying off workers -60,000 at a time - and replacing them with AI
and automation. The number of “disposable”
Americans continues to grow as the captains of industry ignore
their role as consumers.
Follow
The Money:
The Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado where Robert Dear went on
a killing rampage is being sued by one of his victims and the widow
of another because Dear has no money and they think Planned
Parenthood does.
Lost,
If Found Please Return:
Officials in charge of the Fukushima
clean-up haave
revealed that 600
tons of radioactive material melted through the pressure containment
vessel and is missing. Gone. Ooops.
Telling
The
Truth:
Mr
Krugman has set out to paint Mr. Sanders – who
according to The Oracle has a problem both in facing reality and
in admitting mistakes - with the same tar and feathers he has spread
on Donald Trump, pointing out that some “disaffected white men”
back Bernie. Gasp! And the young? Well, “because they're very
young...[they] dismiss practical arguments about why all their
dreams can’t be accomplished.” Then there are Sandernistas who
find “ fun and ego gratification of being part of The Movement,”
whom Krugman dismisses because he found their parents to be
distasteful when he was young and serious. Besides, the young
haven't learned to remain quiet and respectful when their leaders act
in deceitful and undemocratic ways. And some of Sander's supporters
have been sucked in by the Fox news anti-Hillary campaign. And there
are “policy intellectuals who have for whatever reason been
excluded from the [Clinton's] inner circles” and are envious of Mr.
Krugman, who knows
the secret handshake.
According to Mr. Krugman, who knows all these things, Mr. Sanders
“is no longer helping the progressive cause,” a complaint that
stems from Krugman mistaking Ms. Clinton for a progressive.
A
Parting Shot:
3 comments:
Weird when every topic raised invokes an 'amen'...and this ain't Facebook where 'amen' means something else altogether!
The Dot.gone debacle occurred during Clinton's watch, giving everybody the 'false impression' the economy was booming. The resultant upswing in the stock market was dumped into the Real Estate market in a futile effort to 'preserve value', which all fell apart when W took over.
While economics are in fact 'political', Mr. Krugman demonstrates that getting it wrong can have disasterous effects on one's credibility.
Excellent and well deserved slap-down!
Having taken the day off from work and run out of things to do, I'm suffering the cruel fate of watching CNN and Fox. Both channels are toggling from two scenes outside a Trump Rally in Anaheim. In one scene people are fighting and taking on a mob-like mentality, no police are in the area, the scene is monitored from a helicopter. In the other, cameramen on the ground are being pushed back by masked police on horseback; there are very few protestors relative to police and press. The police continue to poach and arrest the few protestors who are not seen doing anything other than protesting. Back and forth the coverage goes.
They are conflating the two scenes, but a marginally apt observation should lead to fantastic alarm. The arrests are for show, to indicate the police have the right to arrest protestors. But those being arrested are not being violent. It reminds me of why the ACLU defends hideous people in civil rights cases, because this is where rights are infringed upon to create precedence. Screw Trump, but imagine the power the state gains when the act of protesting is illegal. My god, it's happening on TV, right now.
Conspirators' Theory - what if the two positions are not mutually exclusive?
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