Yoda Named Secretary General of U.N.

     What would follow might be "Will Enforce Sanctions Against Empire."

     I've felt buried in information about the state of the world.  Robert S. Mueller trying to form coherent sentences while testifying to two rows of Democratic and Republican politicians, seeking answers from the Mueller of the Mueller Report.

     Mueller pretended he was non compos mentis, or he was on painkillers.  His mind demonstrated a long slowness.  His gaze looked unfocused.  Did the powers that be kidnap him a few hours before the hearings, dope him up, and send him before the cameras?  Is Mueller, like Jeffrey Epstein soon, about to become disposable?  I can be skeptical, and ask questions.  In the plastic reality of news television, the cable kind, Mueller has left those conspiracy-mongers at MSNBC with a problem.  How to spin Mueller's spectacular fail.

     "Though he didn't seem in full charge of his ability to present his knowledge of his Report, Bob Mueller did say the key thing of the entire day: 'They're [Russians] doing it [interfering with our elections] as we sit here.'"

     Obama's Senior Advisor David Axelrod, who looks like Rob Reiner of the "Meathead" era, said less than an hour into Mueller's testimony, "This is very, very painful," though the source of Meathead's pain was not hearing the distinguished ex-FBI director reinforce the fabricated "Russian Hack" story.

     He added, "Mueller does not appear as sharp as he did six years ago."

     Lying about WMD in Iraq, rounding up Muslim citizens after 9/11, directing a domestic intelligence bureau that spied on prominent Black Lives Matter activists.  Mueller, a man dedicated to strengthening the national security state, a Republican, a man who spent one year ten months investigating President Trump to no avail, going after non-existent conspiracies, looking exactly in the wrong places, not bothering to uncover Trump's finances and business practices--a subject that would put him in prison forever.

     Trump, though, like Mueller, like Pelosi, like Schumer, is rich.  Get Trump for financial shenanigans means get half or more of the politicians in Washington on same.  

     My impression of Mueller is that he's getting old, affected adversely by running a complex stupid fucking investigation, a total waste of everybody's time, for nearly two years, a period during which he was able to stay clear of the public, of the press, too.  Like every other official Report, Mueller's is probably a cover-up.  It's possible, isn't it, that this Republican Special Prosecutor preferred not to send to the concrete realities of prison a Republican president? 

     Mueller performed his last act for the security state, deep state, permanent state--whatever you wish to call it--helming an investigation based on fantasies dreamed up by a little shit punk, Robby Mook, and John "I lost my cell phone in a cab" Podesta of the Clinton Campaign.  

     Mueller warns us that Russia is up to its usual chaos thing.  MSNBC commentators run with that.  Okay, the great old man looks like he's headed for a psych ward, his cheeks have hollowed, his firmness has slackened.  Can he convincingly wear an American flag pin?  

     My perception showed me Mueller was fucked up on something during that hearing.  I base this especially on one of his uncommented-on actions: a congressman asked something pertaining to a section and page number of the Mueller Report (Mueller had a copy before him and throughout the sessions he demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the contents of the Report bearing his name).  Mueller picked up a white binder with shiny plastic.  No title or any other printing was written on the binder's back side--obviously not where the Report begins.  He opened the binder from the back, looked at it for a second or two, closed the cover, turned it over and opened it, searched for the mentioned page.  He seemed as if he had just come to with most of his memories gone, but in a familiar place that look unfamiliar.  

     There was something seriously fucked up about Mueller in those hearings.  No cable news host, hostess, pundit, or offscreen cameraman (who could shout out questions or comments, get away with it once) will declare that in those hearings Mueller was fucked up on something, i.e. a drug.

     Is it unthinkable?  It depends on your point of view.

                                                                                Vic Neptune

     

     America Aspires to Kristallnacht

     Some journalists pushing the state apologist line have scoffed at referring to the "detention centers" "housing" illegal immigrants in Texas, Florida, and California, as concentration camps imprisoning thousands of Spanish-speaking people of both sexes and many age groups, including babies.
     MSNBC had a story about Vice President Mike Pence visiting a "detention center," meeting with Border Patrol officials, his own gaze projecting from his bland psychopathic face, seeing firsthand an obviously overcrowded holding pen with maybe a hundred men behind a chain link fence, watched by guards.  A few journalists were allowed in with Pence and his two fellow politicians, Senators Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee, both of whom showed nothing in their expressions, even though other visitors have described the stench of unwashed human beings crammed into hot buildings.  Surely these Washington upper echelon types smelled the neglect, the despair.  Twenty feet away from Pence were men showing with their fingers they'd been there for forty days.
     A guest on the MSNBC show, a former Border Patrol agent, said the holding pen looks similar to a drunk tank where inmates should spend no more than twenty-four hours.  This agent also said the climate of racism and contempt for Latinos coming north from their respective countries in the south is pandemic in the Border Patrol.  Just recently, the head of Border Patrol was revealed to have been a member of a Facebook account run by Border Patrol members who displayed their racist views openly.  Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, not surprisingly, is hated by these disgusting fuckers.  They've posted memes of the congresswoman engaged in faked-photo acts of hardcore sex.
     Donald Trump has piled on, attacking the so-called Squad, four progressive Democratic women--Ilhan Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley--for their opposition to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Pelosi has criticized them in a condescending manner recently.  Their back and forth enmity goes back a ways.  Pelosi and the Squad are fundamentally and morally on opposite sides.  Trump now defends Pelosi (whom he actually hates), misinterpreting (on purpose maybe) Ocasio-Cortez's pointing out that the Squad are all "women of color."
     Nancy's a racist? thinks Trump.  No one gets away with calling Nancy Pelosi a racist, not on my watch!
     Trump tweeted that the Squad should "go back to their own countries and try to change things there."
     For this to happen, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Pressley would stay in the U.S. because this is where they're from.  They are trying to make changes happen in this fucked-up country.  Ilhan Omar grew up in a refugee camp in Somalia.  She knows what it's like to be at the bottom of society, homeless because of power players in distant capitals making financially based power decisions, the chaos from those decisions blamed officially on "others," "terrorists," "immigrants," "refugees."
     Today is supposed to be the day when Trump's executive action against illegal immigrants across the country takes effect, making ICE into the SS once and for all.  Substitute the words illegal immigrants for Jews and you get my point.  This is a country run by a psychopathic and sociopathic privileged class.  Trump's past association with billionaire child rapist Jeffrey Epstein (in custody awaiting trial) could have something to do with the timing of his ICE raids.  His tweet against the Squad has definitely occupied much airtime on cable news.  Trump, if nothing else, is a master of distraction.
     The Epstein scandal involves a lot of wealthy people.  Bill Clinton claims to have flown on Epstein's private jet, the Lolita Express (the actual name of the aircraft), just four times.  Flight logs obtained by court order reveal he actually flew on it twenty-six times.  Epstein owns a vast house in Manhattan, a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, and an island, Little St. James, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
     He owns an island.
     On this island, reportedly, sex parties occurred.  The aptly named private jet would fly guests to the island where, I'm assuming, they did whatever the fuck they wanted to do to underage girls.  If you want to believe that men with the known characters of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton would never fuck underage girls you must have a stronger faith than I do in rich degenerates.
     Why would Clinton insist on just the four flights?  It means, at least, he's reluctant to own up to the other twenty-two.  Why would that be?  It means he has something to hide in relation to the flights and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.  Given that Epstein has been accused, plausibly, by numerous women (underage girls at the time) of having sex with them, of making them have sex with other men, of raping them, too, it's not a stretch of the imagination to assume that Bill Clinton doesn't want the world to find out he's a statutory rapist.  Still, given the evidence of his twenty-six flights on that plane, it's amazing he lies about it; or not, if we assume this is an example of his contempt for the law, the truth, for most of the human race.
     Bear in mind that Bill Clinton, while president, killed approximately half a million Iraqi children in his siege warfare (economic sanctions) against the people of that country.  Denying half a million needy children basic medicines and nutrition, on purpose, should be a crime, but it also might get a man like Clinton the Nobel Prize.
     Epstein's case reminds me of The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.  Four rich pieces of shit go to a villa and spend 120 days torturing, sexually abusing, and ultimately murdering a large group of lower class young men and women.  They can get away with this because they're wealthy.  Who has the power?  Not the victims, not the people in the holding pen looking at Mike Pence.
     Pence tweeted that the Border Patrol is doing a fine job, that the inmates of the detention centers are being treated with compassion.
     In trying to get into the mind of this psychopathic man (who, as Governor of Indiana, signed a bill making it required that aborted remains of embryos or fetuses be given funerals) I can only conclude that he doesn't see the people behind the fence as human beings.
     Donald Trump said, "I would've loved to go--I sent Vice President Pence instead."
     Yes, we can be sure Trump would've loved to have been in that room with the stink of desperation caused by himself.  Trump's racism is documented back to 1973 when he played a hand in preventing African Americans from living in some of his apartment buildings.  It must've existed all of his life, not just springing into being in 1973.  Now that he has such expanded powers as the "leader of the free world," and not just the power of a New York landlord, he can punish those he hates: African Americans, Latinos and Latinas, especially the illegal kind.  Muslims, too.
     He likes to punish, and Pence, with his cruel and sick Christianity, also enjoys being a complete and utter prick.  Donald Trump's mother was a Scottish immigrant, his grandfather a German immigrant.  His current wife is a Slovenian immigrant.  Do these facts ever occur to him?  If he were to take his own advice to the Squad and go back to where he came from, it would be near the end of World War Two in a nice neighborhood in Queens.  Fred Trump, his father, would be fucking a woman, planting a Donald John Trump seed inside a Scottish immigrant.  He would spend nine months inside an immigrant, to be born into a country built by immigrants, growing up to be their persecutor, and we let this shit happen.

                                                                               Vic Neptune  

     Caffeine: Euphoria and Dysphoria

     Some past year when National Geographic was still a fairly thick magazine I looked at pictures in an article about caffeine.  One in particular stays in memory.  A whitish mass of raw caffeine looking unwholesome and even dangerous, for I imagined taking a bite from that blob and then having a heart attack.
     Caffeine's familiarity, its frequency of daily and nightly use, its ability to jumpstart a work shift, contrasts markedly, by its invisibility in our beverages and chocolates, with the image I saw around twenty years ago.  That weird formation of caffeine, what would look naked and unfamiliar even to those used to its daily intake, resembled an insect society's hive.
     With my second cup of strong homemade coffee I am buzzed, a physical sensation describable without exaggeration as a high--a different type of high from being stoned on pot (illegal still in forty of the fifty states) but a real alteration of body feeling, as with marijuana, and of mental focus, as with same; just different.
     Caffeine, a prime natural ingredient in tea, stimulated British bodies and brains for centuries of their empire.  Sugar (also a drug) went into their tea--their empire was grounded economically by drug cultivation.  The British weren't about to make caffeine illegal, it's part of their culture, as is peyote to Southwest Native Americans.  For the British, tea suggests "teatime," a secular sacrament albeit lacking the sacramental purposes of peyote to Native Americans.
     A drug is something taken in, ingested, somehow introduced into one's body for the purpose of causing a change: to alleviate depression, to treat insomnia, to achieve an alternate state of mind, to get a hard-on, to seem intelligent with a magnetic personality (cocaine), to dull or temporarily eliminate pain (opioids), to wake up (caffeine), to increase the desire to socialize (alcohol).
     The twenty or so minutes I watched of the first round of Democratic presidential candidate debates showed rows (ten people, ten podiums each of the two nights) of well-dressed fuck-tards (except for Sanders and Gabbard, both of whom I support) pretending like they're normal.  They believe in upholding law and order, they act like they would never commit murder, steal, or ruin lives in other lands; send soldiers into combat and then ignore them after the combatants return home minus their limbs.
     Granted, some of them say they support marijuana legalization or at least decriminalization.  I've heard that Portugal took the sanest step regarding drugs, decriminalizing all of them with the result that use of formerly illegal drugs has decreased.  American leaders, so bent on advances in military and computer technologies, behave like it's the pioneer days of covered wagons if they even consider the value of removing their heads from their own asses when it comes to the subject of drugs.
     President Richard Nixon, a significant developer of this country's national security state in linkage with the Vietnam War era and the protests--thus, an inspiration, never acknowledged, to many Democratic politicians who want to run the nation using police state tactics and jingoism--invented the War on Drugs.
     Nixon, himself an alcoholic, i.e. drug addict, was in the habit, during the paranoid months of his second term at least, of drinking while on the job.  How many times did he drunk-carpet bomb North Vietnam?  I get the impression that self-pity came out during his alcoholism; a feeling of being persecuted.  Persecutors who feel persecuted themselves are probably acting out long-held emotional dramas from their deep past.  Had Nixon smoked pot, or "grass" as it was then commonly referred to, would his desire to turn Southeast Asia into an inferno, despite his 1968 campaign promise to end the war, have been just a fantasy as he joked with Kissinger and Haldeman?
     I don't know.  I do know that drunk people will yell loudly late at night, walking past my house.  Pot smokers don't do that.  People high on caffeine just talk fast.  Drunk people driving cars kill and maim.  Still, in my state one hears on the news occasionally a story about a drunk driver getting into an accident, killing someone else or not, who has ten or eleven OWIs (Operating While Under the Influence).  It's socially acceptable in Wisconsin (because not punished properly) to get drunk and drive numerous times, caught over and over again by police, but someone walking on the sidewalk smoking a joint might get a big fine, his weed confiscated, harassed also by a cop.
     Nothing I heard or saw from the Democratic debates led me to trust that America will become one of the sane nations starting in 2021.
     One more swallow of the strong coffee.  I'm wired, also tired, feeling the on-edge sense that my skin is slightly outside my actual skin.  This, from a legal drug.

                                                                                   Vic Neptune
     

     Border Patrol Agents in the Image of God

     Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isn't afraid to speak about injustice or to say what something is.  Because Americans, those especially who automatically defend the status quo, warm themselves by habit in a bath of delusions regarding their own country, a twenty-nine year old woman of Puerto Rican descent protesting forcefully about inhumane conditions in "concentration camps" along the U.S.-Mexico border is likely to upset older "patriotic" men who, in mainstream news media, defend this nation's vicious behaviors.
     After Ocasio-Cortez visited one of these concentration camps just recently, she reported that some  women held there were told by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) guards, during a drinking water shortage, to "drink out of the toilets."
     Fox News Channel's take on this had Ocasio-Cortez herself saying "they were drinking out of toilets," neglecting to clarify that the congresswoman said that's what she was told by some of the inmates.  In any case, the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General's report on conditions in the "detention facilities" reports overcrowding reminiscent of World War Two-era Jews filling up cattle cars, with no possibility of finding personal space, a great deal of standing, multiplied by days, weeks, months.  Since the DHS in the time of Trump is hardly an entirely beneficent entity (anymore than it has been since it was first created soon after 9/11), it's reasonable to assume their negative report of conditions in these camps lean toward the truth, rather than in the direction of patient Latinos willing to go through the laborious process of attaining the American Dream, not one of them yet convinced she or he is stuck inside a prison requiring helpless inhabitants, as part of a profit-making enterprise.
     Because the inmates are from south of the border, poor, at the mercy of CBP and ICE employees, many of whom are failed human beings lacking compassion, faced with jobs they don't want to do--looking after families' needs, changing diapers of children separated by Trump's whims from their parents--in a hot and dry climate where some guards may lose their shit and abuse inmates sexually, or neglect them altogether to the point where some of them die, this immigration insanity syndrome has, indeed, created concentration camps.
     A concentration camp houses a persecuted minority in often overcrowded conditions where the inmates lack proper nutrition and enough drinking water, face increased likelihood of disease, and--I add this as an addition to the definition--are regarded as human scum by those who profit politically and financially from their miseries.
     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's reactions to having spoken with people trapped in these camps and also to the robot-cop type behaviors of CBP guards--she found them very intimidating, a normal human reaction--comes across as a real unpracticed set of emotions recorded on video.  She's not making up that she heard the toilet water-drinking story from some of the women she met with.  Given that the Trump administration withheld for a time hygiene items like toothpaste, toothbrushes, and soap from child inmates; that many of the children in these camps have lice, are not given the chance to bathe regularly--it seems probable that dickhead brute guards would say to some Latinas they hold in contempt, "Drink out of the toilet."
     However, a group of pastors, with President Trump's consent--led by one of Trump's Latino-outreach Christian advisors, Reverend Samuel Rodriguez--visited the "detention facility" in Clint, Texas.  They found nothing of what Ocasio-Cortez was talking about.  Rodriguez, interviewed by a blonde marshmallow who challenged him with no facts or curious ideas to ponder, is neither Democrat or Republican, but "a Christian committed to righteousness and justice."
     Rodriguez "found kids created in the image of God, Border Patrol agents created in the image of God, working together in a very difficult environment.  I did not find soiled diapers, I did not find crying children, I did not find deplorable conditions--quite the opposite!  There are amazing people--on both sides--trying to make a very difficult circumstance better."
     The Border Patrol agents, asked by "Pastor Sam" if they "staged this?" replied, "Absolutely not."
     Rodriguez goes on in like vein, concluding, "The truth sets you free," an approximate quote from a first century Jew who, had he lived in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, would likely have been sent to a concentration camp.
     The blonde marshmallow concluded, saying she "prays that our leaders have the wisdom and compassion to solve this border crisis."
     Since she was talking to a man of God this seemed the appropriate sentiment, but also a stupid one  since Rodriguez has the ear of Donald Trump, who, let me suggest, likes to have the occasional representative of a different race nearby, someone he can point to as a "friend," as someone giving him the scoop on what the Latinos think, while he screws some of them and gains the votes of others.
     Pastor Sam in his concluding statement made it clear he seeks resolution to the immigration "crisis," something that's actually not much of a problem compared to what it was ten to twenty years ago.  President Obama deported so many illegal immigrants he acquired the nickname, "Deporter-in-Chief."  America, forever fucking with Latin America, likes to complain about those Latinos displaced because of our Drug War, our coups.  Force is rarely acknowledged in the U.S. mainstream news media and in the words of politicians.  People like Pastor Sam wants us to look at Border Patrol agents as created in the image of God.  God with a buzzcut, God raping people from another land, God lying to visiting pastors sent to concentration camps for the purpose of propagandizing for the Trump administration.
     Anyone who understands the real meaning of Christ's message should realize that the Holy Spirit resides in the wretched conditions inside the camps, not within those men brutalizing prisoners just seeking a better life.
     In one of his many laughable efforts to sound intelligent, Chuck Todd of MSNBC condemned Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez for her use of the term "concentration camps."  That term, Todd seems to believe, only applies to those camps set up by Nazis.  He ignores the definition of a concentration camp; he also doesn't seem to be aware that the British set up concentration camps during the Boer War in South Africa 120 years ago; that the U.S. set up concentration camps for Japanese-Americans during World War Two.  The worst concentration camp during World War Two was in Croatia, run by Croatians.
     Chuck Todd is just another flavor of marshmallow, like his idiot counterpart on Fox, swallowing propaganda spewed by Pastor Sam who hangs out with Donald Trump, meaning he's an unreliable reporter of conditions in camps along the border.  In a word, useful.

                                                                               Vic Neptune