What It's Like 

     Due to family activities, relatives not usually in town being in town, I haven't followed the news for the past week.  I don't know what Trump has tweeted, but I've heard he's in Switzerland with other representatives of wealthy nations determining the course of world history.
     Davos, Switzerland.  The most well-protected gang of motherfuckers on the planet talking about how to run the world.  If a giant could pick up Switzerland and shot-put it into outer space the world would lose the conference participants, including the leaders of the world's top economies; the people who decide for us.
     Jeff Bezos of Amazon, "the richest man in history," got that way by preying on ordinary people, folks working for him with low-paying jobs without benefits, Bezos your basic sweatshop factory owner, but on a massive scale, owning the Washington Post, consulting with the CIA and Defense Department, getting into our food.  Give him a telecommunications company plus access to the NSA, along with a mercenary army, and he'll be more powerful than anyone at the Davos conference.
     Bezos doesn't pay appreciable taxes, either.  A bald monster who resembles Lex Luthor continues to be fed with cash and some people think that's just fine, even "ordinary" folk who don't have more than a hundred thousand a year to be proud of.  Bezos built that brand from the ground up, he's an American success, capitalism, no matter what form it takes, is the best and only sensible way.
     Not paying attention to news causes me to focus more on my own problems.  That's not necessarily a good thing.  I have a lot on my mind in my personal life, it's difficult to sleep sometimes.  News is usually a hobby.  Mainstream news media indulge in corporate propaganda in service to the state, pure fascism.  Donald Trump is a TV show.  Twitter prides itself lately on cracking down on accounts that spread maliciousness, but they don't cancel Trump's Twitter feed.  He's responsible for a consistent stream of poisonous horseshit in the form of ungrammatical tweets mused upon and debated about on cable news nearly every day.  He's treated like an ancient Greek oracle, except that his words are so badly assembled into the kinds of sentences one would expect from a dumbass who never learned the basics of writing in English, hinting at Trump's true academic accomplishments, which, whatever the letter grades, must've been short of mediocre.
     I say don't talk about his tweets, don't talk about his hair, his enmity towards Robert Mueller, the Russia investigation (which is largely bullshit), but rather talk about Trump's policies, his EPA director Scott Pruitt, for example, a climate change denier responsible for numerous rollbacks of pro-environment policies--a man assisting in the annihilation of the human race, thus someone who would be in prison in a country with sane leaders.
     News that doesn't cover what's important, what's really going on, is purposefully produced to deceive.
     The Washington Post doesn't do exposes of its owner, Bezos.  MSNBC, owned by Comcast, doesn't do anti-war programming.  War profiteering corporations advertise on that network, Comcast is a war profiteer with cheerleaders like Brian Williams praising the Tomahawk missiles shot at Syria last Spring, a decision made by Trump--owner of Raytheon stock.  Raytheon's stock went up after that attack, Trump made money bombing Syria and killing the people who died in that attack.
     If an ordinary person were to kill someone and make money from that act, would the police ignore that person?
     Our society is one that allows killing of certain people.  It's okay to kill Black people in America as long it's a cop doing the killing.  Anybody with a heart says, "Black Lives Matter."  Others say, "All lives matter," or "Blue [cop] lives matter," another way of saying "Black lives don't matter."
     The Us versus Them couldn't be more blindingly delineated.  Bezos, the economic forum at Davos, the Defense Department, Scott Pruitt, the shitty bicameral political parties serving only money, are clearly the enemy of 99% plus of the American people.
     This condition will last a while longer.  It takes time and key sudden groundbreaking events to make change start.  Judging from history's many examples, things can shift and then we'll see the militarized police get really bad, becoming even more like Nazi stormtroopers than they already are.
     Will there be an American Spring?  If so, how will the news networks spin that?

                                                                              Vic Neptune