From the Depths
Boredom, seemingly a dead state of mind, also holds a potential in suspension, waiting for release into the next, more active mental patterns.
I wonder about famous philosophers as they found themselves listless and mentally inert. Socrates staring at a wall. Nietzsche getting irritated with a waiter. Camus on a beach fantasizing about touching some woman's ass. Are these unworthy thoughts of the great men of the past of any importance? Does it matter to the "Life of the Mind" that my back hurts on the right side, has been hurting and I should call my chiropractor's receptionist for an appointment?
I suggest that much of what philosophers have written was boiled inside their minds when they were subject to boredom, listlessness, feelings of uselessness, beset by trivialities, the ancient equivalent of what a human brain experiences when stuck in traffic.
Out of these moments of pointlessness came points of contention. This is just an idea based, in my case, on the great number of experiences wherein I've found answers and new interesting questions after periods of unproductive thinking. It's necessary, apparently, to let the brain go down into the valleys of mundane time filler so that later on it can open up to brightness.
The Death of Socrates makes for a dramatic painting. Socrates Jerking Off After a Long-Winded Question and Answer Session seems less important, yet, wouldn't that depict the opposite side of "up time"?
Up Time is when we're at work, interacting with family and friends, driving, getting interviewed for a job. I've found that even inside Up Time, I roll private thoughts about to the extent that I feel like I'm alone even when surrounded by people I like and/or love. Curse of the one who thinks too much.
Yesterday at the museum where I work a former coworker came in and took some time to look at the newly remodeled lower level. That level is devoted to art education and art activities for children. I'm satisfied now with how it turned out. For a while I didn't like some of the new chairs; they reminded me of decor in Dracula's Castle. Now that the place is finished, it looks better, with additional far more comfortable furniture counterbalancing the Dracula element, plus a stage with a curtain and art books to look at, but no coffee machine.
My former coworker came back upstairs and said to me, "IN-Credible!"
"Amazing," "Great," "UN-Believable," followed her first exaggeration. I'm not knocking this woman's personality. I like her. It was good seeing her after so many years. I merely point out that her adjectives describing the new lower level begged for precision and also overstated what she actually saw. Moses climbs Mount Sinai and God talks to him through the medium of a bush burning with a non-consuming fire. That's incredible and amazing. Granted, it's a Biblical story that may or may not have happened, but a words are for qualities or things that exist--or don't exist--in actuality or in theory.
A richer use of language can come about from more Down Time mental moments, I suspect. I'm concerned about the implications of this subject because of the debasement of language by today's criminally negligent Fourth Estate in this country. They ape the word gargle of President Trump, who says, far too often, words like "Amazing," "Tremendous," "Great," "Incredible," "Fantastic." With each utterance of these words, he never uses the adjectives correctly. He may as well describe Vice President Pence's job performance as "Apricot," or "Cheddar," or "Telephone."
Life isn't always interesting, but from the perspective gained from the dead moments of a day, when slight winds move fallen leaves in unnoticed seconds, a profounder approach to expressing thoughts can crystallize, pointing to new ways of thinking, and maybe also of being.
Vic Neptune
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
America's Long Psychotic Episode
The day after Senator John McCain died, CNN commentator Ana Navarro tweeted:
"You know guys, the idea of Aretha Franklin and John McCain hanging out together in the Freshman section of heaven, kinda makes me smile."
Replying to Navarro, Shari Gable wrote:
"Hey Ana do u think she will ask him why he voted against MLK Day several times? That would make me smile."
McCain voted against Martin Luther King Day several times because he was a political opportunist. He had no integrity. In 2000, when George W. Bush's campaign manager Karl Rove devised a tactic involving robocalls in the South Carolina Primary that claimed McCain had fathered an illegitimate Black child, McCain lost that Primary, his chances at becoming president not realizable again until 2008. He probably hated Rove and Bush, yet, in 2004 he campaigned for Bush--because he was a political opportunist with no integrity.
He imposed Governor Sarah Palin on the American people, introducing into political discourse the most irrational politician until Donald Trump. McCain, like Trump, was a master self-promoter. He wrote (or had written for him) books about being a maverick, about living fearlessly in an age of terror and uncertainty. He made frequent appearances on popular TV shows like Saturday Night Live, demonstrating his sense of humor, making him lovable to audiences (Mike Huckabee did the same). The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was a favorite talk show destination for McCain. The show's young audience ate him up. For a while he seemed like the perfect politician, appealing to a wide variety of people, Republican and Democrat.
In 2008 he beat out Mitt Romney for the Republican Nomination. When in full battle mode with the presidency at stake, he revealed himself to be the opportunistic asshole he always was in actuality. He no longer appeared on Jon Stewart's show after the comedian criticized one of his policies. His sense of humor about himself began to look thin. He cancelled an appearance on David Letterman's show in October 2008 to supposedly return to Washington to deal with the newly unfolding worldwide financial crisis. Letterman, on air, discovered that McCain was in the same building on a different floor doing an interview with someone else. Was McCain afraid to talk with David Letterman? Granted, Letterman on occasion would ask a politician a difficult question, but politicians that can't take that heat should just stay home and never get known in the public eye.
Now, the alleged maverick is dead. A maverick is a person of independent mind. When it came to making war on other countries that never attacked the United States, John McCain's mind matched the psychopathic collective brain of both Houses of Congress. He was always in favor of making war, of helping out the military industrial complex. Lockheed Martin, a war profiteering arms manufacturer making a bundle off of Middle East turmoil caused by the United States, released a sugary thank you to the memory of Senator McCain, who always had Lockheed Martin's interests at heart.
Since McCain's murderous viewpoints are equal to those of the mainstream media, to the Washington establishment, his practice of voting in favor of killing strangers in other countries isn't regarded as abnormal or part of a psychopathic syndrome of the powerful people running this nation.
Earlier this year, McCain voted against ending support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war against the Yemeni people. He was a political opportunist. Saudi Arabia is America's "valuable" ally. We can't leave them in the lurch by stopping support for their horrific atrocities committed daily for the sake of gaining control of Yemen's natural resources.
On his deathbed, did McCain find out about the school bus filled with forty children in northern Yemen? How it was blasted to smithereens by a 1,000 pound Lockheed Martin bomb fired by Saudis? If McCain heard this, was he disturbed by the news? I doubt it. If he had what normal people would regard as the least speck of humanity he wouldn't have voted to support Saudi Arabia's depredations against Yemen.
Still, his body lies in state under the Capitol dome. His daughter Meghan McCain (co-host of The View) was caught on camera weeping heavily before the coffin containing the Vietnam War torture victim who became a maniac for war and every other Republican Party value that strips the poor and middle class of their basic necessities. News personnel, pundits, politicians tweeted over the top praise, including the one I started this essay with, imagining McCain hanging out with Aretha Franklin, a woman of great artistry who spoke out for civil rights and women's rights. I doubt that McCain hangs out in the "Freshman section of heaven" with anyone--I suspect he's in Hell.
Actually, I don't believe that either, but if he did make it to Heaven, he may have already encountered the dead children who were on the bus blown up by a missile made by a corporation McCain supported.
Adios, motherfucker.
Vic Neptune
The day after Senator John McCain died, CNN commentator Ana Navarro tweeted:
"You know guys, the idea of Aretha Franklin and John McCain hanging out together in the Freshman section of heaven, kinda makes me smile."
Replying to Navarro, Shari Gable wrote:
"Hey Ana do u think she will ask him why he voted against MLK Day several times? That would make me smile."
McCain voted against Martin Luther King Day several times because he was a political opportunist. He had no integrity. In 2000, when George W. Bush's campaign manager Karl Rove devised a tactic involving robocalls in the South Carolina Primary that claimed McCain had fathered an illegitimate Black child, McCain lost that Primary, his chances at becoming president not realizable again until 2008. He probably hated Rove and Bush, yet, in 2004 he campaigned for Bush--because he was a political opportunist with no integrity.
He imposed Governor Sarah Palin on the American people, introducing into political discourse the most irrational politician until Donald Trump. McCain, like Trump, was a master self-promoter. He wrote (or had written for him) books about being a maverick, about living fearlessly in an age of terror and uncertainty. He made frequent appearances on popular TV shows like Saturday Night Live, demonstrating his sense of humor, making him lovable to audiences (Mike Huckabee did the same). The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was a favorite talk show destination for McCain. The show's young audience ate him up. For a while he seemed like the perfect politician, appealing to a wide variety of people, Republican and Democrat.
In 2008 he beat out Mitt Romney for the Republican Nomination. When in full battle mode with the presidency at stake, he revealed himself to be the opportunistic asshole he always was in actuality. He no longer appeared on Jon Stewart's show after the comedian criticized one of his policies. His sense of humor about himself began to look thin. He cancelled an appearance on David Letterman's show in October 2008 to supposedly return to Washington to deal with the newly unfolding worldwide financial crisis. Letterman, on air, discovered that McCain was in the same building on a different floor doing an interview with someone else. Was McCain afraid to talk with David Letterman? Granted, Letterman on occasion would ask a politician a difficult question, but politicians that can't take that heat should just stay home and never get known in the public eye.
Now, the alleged maverick is dead. A maverick is a person of independent mind. When it came to making war on other countries that never attacked the United States, John McCain's mind matched the psychopathic collective brain of both Houses of Congress. He was always in favor of making war, of helping out the military industrial complex. Lockheed Martin, a war profiteering arms manufacturer making a bundle off of Middle East turmoil caused by the United States, released a sugary thank you to the memory of Senator McCain, who always had Lockheed Martin's interests at heart.
Since McCain's murderous viewpoints are equal to those of the mainstream media, to the Washington establishment, his practice of voting in favor of killing strangers in other countries isn't regarded as abnormal or part of a psychopathic syndrome of the powerful people running this nation.
Earlier this year, McCain voted against ending support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war against the Yemeni people. He was a political opportunist. Saudi Arabia is America's "valuable" ally. We can't leave them in the lurch by stopping support for their horrific atrocities committed daily for the sake of gaining control of Yemen's natural resources.
On his deathbed, did McCain find out about the school bus filled with forty children in northern Yemen? How it was blasted to smithereens by a 1,000 pound Lockheed Martin bomb fired by Saudis? If McCain heard this, was he disturbed by the news? I doubt it. If he had what normal people would regard as the least speck of humanity he wouldn't have voted to support Saudi Arabia's depredations against Yemen.
Still, his body lies in state under the Capitol dome. His daughter Meghan McCain (co-host of The View) was caught on camera weeping heavily before the coffin containing the Vietnam War torture victim who became a maniac for war and every other Republican Party value that strips the poor and middle class of their basic necessities. News personnel, pundits, politicians tweeted over the top praise, including the one I started this essay with, imagining McCain hanging out with Aretha Franklin, a woman of great artistry who spoke out for civil rights and women's rights. I doubt that McCain hangs out in the "Freshman section of heaven" with anyone--I suspect he's in Hell.
Actually, I don't believe that either, but if he did make it to Heaven, he may have already encountered the dead children who were on the bus blown up by a missile made by a corporation McCain supported.
Adios, motherfucker.
Vic Neptune
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
In 2100, Whoever's Left Will Curse Us
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts, including "tax fraud, false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations tied to his work for Trump, including payments Cohen made or helped orchestrate that were designed to silence women who claimed affairs with the then-candidate," according to CNN.
"Cohen admitted," CNN continues, "that 'in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office' he acted to keep information that would have been harmful to the candidate from becoming public."
Trump, not named in the court filing, is referred to as "Individual-1."
Donald Trump tweeted about Cohen and this new development. One of them, from today, reads:
"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!"
By far the funniest thing Trump has ever written or said, the joke deserves to be judged on its own merits. It provoked instead a mass of snide counter-tweets, like:
"Next Trump will say, 'If anyone is looking for a good campaign manager, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Paul Manafort'" [A laughing-crying emoji follows here]
"I hear Michael Avenatti is pretty good."
"Good thing I found this Yelp review before I hired this Cohen guy to handle MY Russian collusion!"
Tommy Vietor, replying to @realDonaldTrump, wrote:
"This was funny."
Moises Cohen tweet-scolded Vietor:
"The sitting president has been implicated in two federal crimes and his first national statement is an attempt at a joke? How is this funny? Mr. Trump is not a victim here. He directed his lawyer to commit felonies. He's angling for sympathy."
Angling for sympathy, Moises Cohen? Maybe so, but it's a fucking hilarious tweet, delivered deadpan and dry. It's one of Trump's only admirable accomplishments. It brightened my day. I laughed hard when I read it. I don't disagree with your points about Trump and Michael Cohen, that the President "directed his lawyer to commit felonies," that this is a serious situation. Trump's tweet is hilarious nevertheless. It also illuminates his ability to persist in the face of extreme opposition. Look at how the news media have been spreading Trump's weird fault-filled life all over the twenty-four hour news cycle for three years now without doing him any harm.
Just recently, former White House employee, Omarosa Manigault, who got into the habit of secretly recording conversations with Trump and others in the Executive Branch, as well as some in Trump's family circle, brought out a tell-it-all book about her time working for "the most powerful man in the world."
She hinted without subtlety that she possesses audio of Trump using the "N-word." Much speculation on what this would do to his presidency if the American people were to hear Trump say that word ensued on cable news. Some judged that the result would be "devastating." Don Lemon of CNN, a Black man, said, correctly in my view, that if we hear Trump say the N-word it will have no meaningful effect whatsoever.
One of the most interesting of the released audio selections is a phone call between Lara Trump (wife of the President's son, Eric) and Omarosa Manigault, dealing with a job opportunity for the latter after she was fired by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
In the recording, Manigault, who is Black, is offered by Lara Trump the opportunity to join the Trump reelection effort. Lara Trump says the job will involve making a few trips to New York, but mostly it won't be heavy in the work category--I'm paraphrasing. Lara Trump says, "In the White House you were making 179, right? Well, we can offer you, let's see--"
Here, she's clearly punching numbers on a calculator. "We can give you 180." She goes on to mention that this money will come from small dollar donations. In other words, Trump supporters of modest means (ordinary people) sending in their small and earnest donations, not realizing that some of their money will pay for a purely symbolic job, to the amount of a hundred and eighty grand, offered to a disgruntled former White House employee to keep her from saying anything embarrassing about Donald Trump.
What screamed at me as I listened to this exchange was the spectacle of a rich White woman trying to buy a Black woman.
Omarosa Manigault, to her credit, refused the "job."
What will happen next in Executive Branch Reality Drama is anyone's guess. I'm not enamored with the Trump shitshow. His policies on the environment, on deregulation of polluting industries, on war, are all horrible and match the viewpoints of the Republican Party, as well as many among the Democrats. His tweets and grotesque personality are the least important elements of his impact on the world, yet these insignificant insipidities continue to obsess pseudo-journalists who have become as stupid and irresponsible as the man they're covering in a sensationalistic way just to boost ratings, thus making money for their corporate masters who actually appreciate Trump and what he does financially for them, while America goes down the toilet.
The son of a bitch made a funny observation. I take that for what it's worth, a good joke that shows that he's poking fun at himself since he's the one who trusted Michael Cohen in the first place, just as he trusted Manigault.
Who else is recording him without his knowledge? Are we supposed to get upset that the rich and powerful get surveilled sometimes without their awareness? I care about the privacy rights of the fuckers in the White House getting caught on audio unawares as much as I care that John Brennan lost his security clearance.
As Trump's life gets more pressured with legal shit, many in the news media speak of impeachment; of, as Rob Reiner put it today, "the President not making it to the end of his first term."
My logical question for Rob Reiner is, "Are you a Mike Pence supporter?"
I sure as fuck don't support Individual-2.
Vic Neptune
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts, including "tax fraud, false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations tied to his work for Trump, including payments Cohen made or helped orchestrate that were designed to silence women who claimed affairs with the then-candidate," according to CNN.
"Cohen admitted," CNN continues, "that 'in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office' he acted to keep information that would have been harmful to the candidate from becoming public."
Trump, not named in the court filing, is referred to as "Individual-1."
Donald Trump tweeted about Cohen and this new development. One of them, from today, reads:
"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!"
By far the funniest thing Trump has ever written or said, the joke deserves to be judged on its own merits. It provoked instead a mass of snide counter-tweets, like:
"Next Trump will say, 'If anyone is looking for a good campaign manager, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Paul Manafort'" [A laughing-crying emoji follows here]
"I hear Michael Avenatti is pretty good."
"Good thing I found this Yelp review before I hired this Cohen guy to handle MY Russian collusion!"
Tommy Vietor, replying to @realDonaldTrump, wrote:
"This was funny."
Moises Cohen tweet-scolded Vietor:
"The sitting president has been implicated in two federal crimes and his first national statement is an attempt at a joke? How is this funny? Mr. Trump is not a victim here. He directed his lawyer to commit felonies. He's angling for sympathy."
Angling for sympathy, Moises Cohen? Maybe so, but it's a fucking hilarious tweet, delivered deadpan and dry. It's one of Trump's only admirable accomplishments. It brightened my day. I laughed hard when I read it. I don't disagree with your points about Trump and Michael Cohen, that the President "directed his lawyer to commit felonies," that this is a serious situation. Trump's tweet is hilarious nevertheless. It also illuminates his ability to persist in the face of extreme opposition. Look at how the news media have been spreading Trump's weird fault-filled life all over the twenty-four hour news cycle for three years now without doing him any harm.
Just recently, former White House employee, Omarosa Manigault, who got into the habit of secretly recording conversations with Trump and others in the Executive Branch, as well as some in Trump's family circle, brought out a tell-it-all book about her time working for "the most powerful man in the world."
She hinted without subtlety that she possesses audio of Trump using the "N-word." Much speculation on what this would do to his presidency if the American people were to hear Trump say that word ensued on cable news. Some judged that the result would be "devastating." Don Lemon of CNN, a Black man, said, correctly in my view, that if we hear Trump say the N-word it will have no meaningful effect whatsoever.
One of the most interesting of the released audio selections is a phone call between Lara Trump (wife of the President's son, Eric) and Omarosa Manigault, dealing with a job opportunity for the latter after she was fired by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
In the recording, Manigault, who is Black, is offered by Lara Trump the opportunity to join the Trump reelection effort. Lara Trump says the job will involve making a few trips to New York, but mostly it won't be heavy in the work category--I'm paraphrasing. Lara Trump says, "In the White House you were making 179, right? Well, we can offer you, let's see--"
Here, she's clearly punching numbers on a calculator. "We can give you 180." She goes on to mention that this money will come from small dollar donations. In other words, Trump supporters of modest means (ordinary people) sending in their small and earnest donations, not realizing that some of their money will pay for a purely symbolic job, to the amount of a hundred and eighty grand, offered to a disgruntled former White House employee to keep her from saying anything embarrassing about Donald Trump.
What screamed at me as I listened to this exchange was the spectacle of a rich White woman trying to buy a Black woman.
Omarosa Manigault, to her credit, refused the "job."
What will happen next in Executive Branch Reality Drama is anyone's guess. I'm not enamored with the Trump shitshow. His policies on the environment, on deregulation of polluting industries, on war, are all horrible and match the viewpoints of the Republican Party, as well as many among the Democrats. His tweets and grotesque personality are the least important elements of his impact on the world, yet these insignificant insipidities continue to obsess pseudo-journalists who have become as stupid and irresponsible as the man they're covering in a sensationalistic way just to boost ratings, thus making money for their corporate masters who actually appreciate Trump and what he does financially for them, while America goes down the toilet.
The son of a bitch made a funny observation. I take that for what it's worth, a good joke that shows that he's poking fun at himself since he's the one who trusted Michael Cohen in the first place, just as he trusted Manigault.
Who else is recording him without his knowledge? Are we supposed to get upset that the rich and powerful get surveilled sometimes without their awareness? I care about the privacy rights of the fuckers in the White House getting caught on audio unawares as much as I care that John Brennan lost his security clearance.
As Trump's life gets more pressured with legal shit, many in the news media speak of impeachment; of, as Rob Reiner put it today, "the President not making it to the end of his first term."
My logical question for Rob Reiner is, "Are you a Mike Pence supporter?"
I sure as fuck don't support Individual-2.
Vic Neptune
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Mister Drone Strike
President Trump revoked John Brennan's security clearance. According to today's The New York Times:
"Citing what he called Mr. Brennan's 'erratic' behavior and 'increasingly frenzied commentary,' Mr. Trump dispatched Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his press secretary, to read a statement saying that Mr. Brennan had abused his access to the United States' secrets 'to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations.'"
In the same article:
"Mr. Brennan has become increasingly vocal in his criticism of the president and often tweets or appears on television as a contributor on NBC [and MSNBC] to question Mr. Trump's fitness for office. Last month, Mr. Brennan said the president should be impeached for 'treasonous' behavior after Mr. Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at a news conference in Finland and cast doubt on the conclusion of the intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election."
Brennan today tweeted, "This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."
Former Vice President Biden tweeted, "In the time I have known him, John Brennan has never been afraid to speak up and give it to you straight. Revoking his security clearance is an act unbecoming of a President. If you think it will silence John, then you just don't know the man."
That Trump's revocation of Brennan's security clearance was an act of revenge I have no doubt. Being called a traitor for something that wasn't treasonous must've irritated Trump a great deal. Brennan's beef regarding what happened in Helsinki recently has been echoed in much of the mainstream news media. Trump, standing behind a podium next to Putin behind his podium, doubted to the assembled reporters that the January 2017 findings of "the intelligence community," (in actuality a small number of analysts from just three of the seventeen intelligence agencies who concluded there was a fair to good possibility of Russian interference in the election)--this honest statement, one of the few Trump has made since becoming President, has been characterized as a crime worthy of the death penalty, since that's the fatal outcome treason implies.
Thus, Brennan and all news parrots speaking of treason imply, without saying so, that Trump should be executed since he doubts findings of "the U.S. intelligence community"--hyperbole, since, as mentioned above, the intelligence community wasn't involved. This same community of often deceitful individuals, propagandists responsible for the lies leading to the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, now work the Russiagate story. John Brennan's (and Rachel Maddow's) favorite conspiracy theory, Russiagate, gets stoked daily on MSNBC and CNN, in The Washington Post and The New York Times, easy to believe in because there's no evidence yet that it actually happened. Did Jesus of Nazareth rise from the dead? Millions of people believe that he did, but no one knows that he did. I'm the kind of person who prefers to know. When Russiagate stops being like a religion I'll take it seriously.
Trump's narcissism is well-known, just look at all the buildings displaying his name. If it's revealed someday that he has a tattoo of his last name along the length of his penis, I won't be surprised. Reread John Brennan's tweet above. Is he a narcissist?
"My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."
Self-important? He laments in the tweet about suppression "of freedom of speech," making himself out to be a citizen attacked for speaking truth to power, not bothering to mention that as a high-ranking American spook, he is power.
Brennan was the principal coordinator of President Obama's "kill list," an assassination program carried out remotely with drones. He claimed that from June 2010 to June 2011, "U.S. counter-terrorism operations had not resulted in a single collateral death." Independent research revealed that seventy-six civilian deaths, with eight children killed, had occurred during that year.
Brennan, speaker of truth to power, is a consultant on world events for Kissinger Associates. If you want to hear a voice you can trust, find someone who works for Henry Kissinger, the most prolific living mass murderer.
Brennan's job as paid consultant to MSNBC and NBC highlights his own practice of subverting the press. A disinformation agent, he's also a respected propagandist with a reputation as "a truth teller" about Donald Trump, the President who foolishly made the former CIA Director into a martyr.
John Brennan, child-killer, got kicked in the teeth by Donald Trump, child-killer. Brennan's harsh and hyperbolic criticisms questioning Trump's loyalty to his own country will indicate for some journalists the President's hypersensitivity to the "truth" of Russiagate. Lifting Brennan to victim status (an obscene thing to do, considering how much blood is on the motherfucker's hands) will further ennoble the same intelligence community that deceives Americans into not realizing how dangerous they are.
John Brennan can go fuck himself. I expect him to write a book.
Vic Neptune
President Trump revoked John Brennan's security clearance. According to today's The New York Times:
"Citing what he called Mr. Brennan's 'erratic' behavior and 'increasingly frenzied commentary,' Mr. Trump dispatched Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his press secretary, to read a statement saying that Mr. Brennan had abused his access to the United States' secrets 'to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations.'"
In the same article:
"Mr. Brennan has become increasingly vocal in his criticism of the president and often tweets or appears on television as a contributor on NBC [and MSNBC] to question Mr. Trump's fitness for office. Last month, Mr. Brennan said the president should be impeached for 'treasonous' behavior after Mr. Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at a news conference in Finland and cast doubt on the conclusion of the intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election."
Brennan today tweeted, "This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."
Former Vice President Biden tweeted, "In the time I have known him, John Brennan has never been afraid to speak up and give it to you straight. Revoking his security clearance is an act unbecoming of a President. If you think it will silence John, then you just don't know the man."
That Trump's revocation of Brennan's security clearance was an act of revenge I have no doubt. Being called a traitor for something that wasn't treasonous must've irritated Trump a great deal. Brennan's beef regarding what happened in Helsinki recently has been echoed in much of the mainstream news media. Trump, standing behind a podium next to Putin behind his podium, doubted to the assembled reporters that the January 2017 findings of "the intelligence community," (in actuality a small number of analysts from just three of the seventeen intelligence agencies who concluded there was a fair to good possibility of Russian interference in the election)--this honest statement, one of the few Trump has made since becoming President, has been characterized as a crime worthy of the death penalty, since that's the fatal outcome treason implies.
Thus, Brennan and all news parrots speaking of treason imply, without saying so, that Trump should be executed since he doubts findings of "the U.S. intelligence community"--hyperbole, since, as mentioned above, the intelligence community wasn't involved. This same community of often deceitful individuals, propagandists responsible for the lies leading to the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, now work the Russiagate story. John Brennan's (and Rachel Maddow's) favorite conspiracy theory, Russiagate, gets stoked daily on MSNBC and CNN, in The Washington Post and The New York Times, easy to believe in because there's no evidence yet that it actually happened. Did Jesus of Nazareth rise from the dead? Millions of people believe that he did, but no one knows that he did. I'm the kind of person who prefers to know. When Russiagate stops being like a religion I'll take it seriously.
Trump's narcissism is well-known, just look at all the buildings displaying his name. If it's revealed someday that he has a tattoo of his last name along the length of his penis, I won't be surprised. Reread John Brennan's tweet above. Is he a narcissist?
"My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."
Self-important? He laments in the tweet about suppression "of freedom of speech," making himself out to be a citizen attacked for speaking truth to power, not bothering to mention that as a high-ranking American spook, he is power.
Brennan was the principal coordinator of President Obama's "kill list," an assassination program carried out remotely with drones. He claimed that from June 2010 to June 2011, "U.S. counter-terrorism operations had not resulted in a single collateral death." Independent research revealed that seventy-six civilian deaths, with eight children killed, had occurred during that year.
Brennan, speaker of truth to power, is a consultant on world events for Kissinger Associates. If you want to hear a voice you can trust, find someone who works for Henry Kissinger, the most prolific living mass murderer.
Brennan's job as paid consultant to MSNBC and NBC highlights his own practice of subverting the press. A disinformation agent, he's also a respected propagandist with a reputation as "a truth teller" about Donald Trump, the President who foolishly made the former CIA Director into a martyr.
John Brennan, child-killer, got kicked in the teeth by Donald Trump, child-killer. Brennan's harsh and hyperbolic criticisms questioning Trump's loyalty to his own country will indicate for some journalists the President's hypersensitivity to the "truth" of Russiagate. Lifting Brennan to victim status (an obscene thing to do, considering how much blood is on the motherfucker's hands) will further ennoble the same intelligence community that deceives Americans into not realizing how dangerous they are.
John Brennan can go fuck himself. I expect him to write a book.
Vic Neptune
Friday, August 3, 2018
Ivanka Trump: Sucking Chest Wound of a Human Being
To me, the elder daughter of Trump illustrates a lot about the father. Here is someone who has never suffered financial difficulties, unlike ninety-nine percent of the human race. Here's someone whose choices in life have been wide open. She could've deviated from her father's influence, but she chose to follow him in the real estate business. She married rich. She converted to Judaism for her husband, whose father is a convicted felon. She and her husband in this past year have made eighty million dollars, both while serving President Trump as his unpaid advisors. These positions don't require a salary. The fact that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner can provide access to the President of the United States equals monetary gain for them. The fact that the mainstream media don't have a problem with this lucrative nepotism equals full acceptance by the mainstream Fourth Estate of corruption practiced by high government officials.
Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump, being so close to her father, is sometimes asked about her thoughts concerning her father's policies. On August 2, 2018, Ivanka Trump, interviewed by a reporter from Axios, related her "low point" concerning family separation at the Mexico-U.S. border, a policy executed from the building where she works in Washington, D.C. Though approximately 500 children remain separated from their parents, Ivanka Trump spoke of her "low point" as if it only occurred in the past, rather than the ongoing hell of innocent children in danger of being orphaned at the behest of her father's and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' actions.
Taking children from their migrant parents violates international law. On June 20, 2018, President Trump scrawled his unreadable signature on yet another of his executive orders, ending migrant family separation, but leaving behind, in "detention centers," i.e. for profit child prisons, hundreds of suffering victims under the age of eighteen, some of them sexually abused by their guards, some injected against their wills with psychotropic drugs. Institutionalized child abuse. These crimes committed by Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions far outweigh alleged collusion with Russian operatives to influence or steal the 2016 election. That Congress and the Senate aren't organizing to get Trump on hundreds of counts of child abuse just goes to show that poor Central American kids don't match in importance the stoking of fears about a Russia bogeyman that can help fuel endless war and the endless profits to be derived therefrom.
Ivanka Trump in her interview brought up her mother, Ivana, a legal immigrant from Czechoslovakia. Ivana Zelníčková attended university in Prague. She was good enough as a downhill and slalom skier to be an alternate on the Czechoslovak ski team for the 1972 Olympics. Prior to living in the U.S., she moved to Montreal, worked as a fur coat model. She met Trump in 1976. Their "lavish wedding" in 1977 was "officiated by Norman Vincent Peale."
Ivana Z. came to the United States during the 1970s, when a Communist state like Czechoslovakia was the kind of country the U.S. State Department didn't have much of a problem receiving defectors from. Not that Ivana defected (like a spy), but she was an Olympic caliber athlete from a country on America's Cold War shitlist. Mind apparently mostly a blank, Ivanka, Ivana's no doubt good-smelling white trash daughter, compares in the same breath her mother's emigration experience with the desperate and dangerous experiences of Central American families fleeing countries made chaotic, hostile, and violent by U.S. foreign policies.
Ivanka Trump disapproves of the practice of "putting children at risk of being trafficked." Further, America's own Marie Antoinette claims that "migrant children are at risk of entering this country with coyotes or making an incredibly dangerous journey alone."
Yes, the coyotes. Perhaps we need a war on foxes, wolves, coyotes. This last weird statement of hers suggests to me that she picks up random bits of information from the news (like her father apparently does) and regurgitates the bits without doing research or seeking to gain a fuller understanding before voicing her views on the subject in public. Sarah Palin, when she was on camera daily eight to ten years ago, often did this kind of thing. Ivanka Trump is probably more intelligent than Palin, but is also vapid, and at least a little bit stupid. You be the judge...
"That was a low point for me..." she said yesterday. "I feel very strongly about that, and I am very vehemently against family separation, separation of parents from their children, so...I think--immigration is incredibly complex as a topic. Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated."
Is her bulb really so dim? Or, perhaps, does she know that she can't speak the truth about her father's crime of committing mass child abuse and therefore she cloaks what she knows, instead saying nothing of even the slightest originality or revealing any insight on the subject; remarkable, considering her job as presidential advisor.
Readers of this blog (thank you for reading it) have perceived that I'm not impressed with Ivanka Trump's humanity. She disgusts me because of her Paris Hilton-like claim to fame that's based only on emerging from a rich woman's vagina. Unlike Paris Hilton, who has nothing to do with politics and is harmless, Ivanka Trump occupies a special place in her father's heart, yet she evidently has no positive effect on Donald Trump's brutal inhumanity. I'm inclined to think she has no effect on that because she doesn't have a problem with it, at least no problem that can't be assuaged with money, the thing that those children, wrongly imprisoned and abused as I write this, have none of.
Vic Neptune
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