We’ve got a president who is holding a parade for himself on his birthday. From Chris Hedges at chrishedges.substack.com:
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
Puppet Theater of the Absurd – by Mr. Fish
The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations and retreated into echo chambers where fact and fiction were indistinguishable.
Donald Trump, and the sycophantic buffoons in his administration, are updated versions of the reigns of the Roman emperor Nero, who allocated vast state expenditures to attain magical powers; the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, who funded repeated expeditions to a mythical island of immortals to bring back a potion that would give him eternal life; and a feckless Tsarist court that sat around reading tarot cards and attending séances as Russia was decimated by a war that consumed over two million lives and revolution brewed in the streets.
In “Hitler and the Germans,” the political philosopher Eric Voegelin dismisses the idea that Hitler — gifted in oratory and political opportunism, but poorly educated and vulgar — mesmerized and seduced the German people. The Germans, he writes, supported Hitler and the “grotesque, marginal figures,” surrounding him because he embodied the pathologies of a diseased society, one beset by economic collapse and hopelessness. Voegelin defines stupidity as a “loss of reality.” The loss of reality means a “stupid” person cannot “rightly orient his action in the world, in which he lives.” The demagogue, who is always an idiote, is not a freak or social mutation. The demagogue expresses the society’s zeitgeist, its collective departure from a rational world of verifiable fact.
Trump and company are just puppets. Front men for the jews behind the curtain. He is a polarizing figure playing the perfect role. Some of the most intelligent people I know still fall for the charade.
Lil’ Stevie Bannon says Musk should be deported right away.
No big military parade and review like Hitler’s 50th birthday?
When does the conquer Russia, Iran, China, tour start?
Don’t get complacent as the CPUSA (D) makes more sequels than Jason, there is a lot of ruin left in the former republic and Honkler is in LMFAO mode.
Honk, honk.
This article has some exagerations:
14 July is America day.
Qin Sih Huang funded expeditions looking for a potion. There IS a Japanese island where people are still active past 90 years old.
Hitler accurately found the economic problems in Germany had been caused by groups of people forming a nation within his Germany. He fixed it and Germany then believed every of his judgements.
I have got it wrong: 14 July is French Bastille day, while 4 July is US Independence day.
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1974