Back in the 60s and 70s I used to read the Atlantic. So having them OK genocide is kind of a surprise, but since it is a satire I don't know what this jerk actually said. Can you link the article? Sometimes I think accurate reporting of all the murders, rapes, and burnings is better. We seemed to be winning when it was just Gaza rebelling. When Hezbollah got involved it became a war rather than a genocide. Trump is acting like a clown and is headed in the wrong direction. Why do all the aggressive, imperial jerks always get elected. Is the problem Democracy, or are we too big to have a Democracy? Is it the party system, capitalism, the Oligarchy, or the human race?
"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated.
I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered,
will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption,
and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives
of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life…
And I sincerely believe, with you,
that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies;
and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." May 28, 1816.
The neocons have taken over all the opinion magazines except maybe Harpers, and it is less anti-neocon than it used to be. And by the way I did link the article (beginning of 2nd sentence).
It's Capitalism Jim. If you have a look at the Wealth Distribution - where 50% has 1% of the wealth - and the .01 was about 40% - that translates to 100% of the Power. How anyone ever imagined that this degree of imbalance could ever result in a "healthy democratic republic" is way beyond me. Ridiculous.
I've sort of skipped over him - "Cliodynamics" I'm pretty sure is over my head. Demographics driving wars ?? What IS "political disintigration" ?? It reminds me though, of how much I don't know. Or, how much academic liturature is likely never read by anyone, or very few. When I was in academia I used to just GO to the library - spend hours simply perusing the x million volumes at Ohio State library - sense of humility.
David Frum is an old gas bag. Believe me I know from experience as an old gas bag myself.
William was NOT a king when he took his Normans into England. He was a duke. He defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king. Establishing a Norman line of sovereigns. Which ran out at some point leaving the Brits to turn to Germany for a leader.
(After the War of the Roses in which the Angivians challenge ed the Plantagenets.)
Predatory war lords haven't changed all that much in a thousand years since. They just wear better tailored suits.
Yeah, both are good. Sometimes it's truly hard to confront the sheer evil of the world but it has to be done. Communication from sane, observant people, who care about humanity, is therapeutic, even when it bites with satire at the anger and disgust we feel towards the atrocities we witness. The silly comes in handy when overload of observation of evil is just........agh...@! But the other- noir is extremely helpful for keeping it real. The Atlantic belongs in the Atlantic. From Crumb too. Trump, such a loose cannon, God only knows. Sometimes he could be a form of comic relief, if his actions didn't have such serious consequences. Will we ever get out of this bad cartoon? If there were awesome kids cartoons like there were in the 50s and 60s I wonder how they would couch the reality of what is going on. Some of them had some pretty good underlying messages. Thanks for keeping it real for us Kevin in a way that can hit home without overload. Keep both your great styles.
Maybe someone should play the sounds of genocide, like a recording, outside From Crumbs window until he realizes it's real, and he wouldn't want to be on the receiving end.
Liked both, the first one was over the top silly and LOL funny while the second piece was more sly and subtle yet witty enough to induce grins and chuckles. Sometimes life gets so outrageously terrible, mocking the malign forces behind the strife is the only way to stay sane in a world taken over by psychotic criminals! And it is a great way to fight THEM!
Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!
Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!
AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!
Thanks, Amy. I agree that nobody needs this AI crap. But even the global warming alarmists in MSM seem to be fine with "burning even more fossil fuels to generate electricity for server farms so AI can figure out how to save us from global warming, since we're too dumb to figure it out ourselves." The whole world is becoming self-satirizing.
I enjoyed both satires, each in their own way, with the second being more to my personal taste and bias, not being from North America.
Now that I am out of North America I don't much care whether Trump takes it over either ; - )
Back in the 60s and 70s I used to read the Atlantic. So having them OK genocide is kind of a surprise, but since it is a satire I don't know what this jerk actually said. Can you link the article? Sometimes I think accurate reporting of all the murders, rapes, and burnings is better. We seemed to be winning when it was just Gaza rebelling. When Hezbollah got involved it became a war rather than a genocide. Trump is acting like a clown and is headed in the wrong direction. Why do all the aggressive, imperial jerks always get elected. Is the problem Democracy, or are we too big to have a Democracy? Is it the party system, capitalism, the Oligarchy, or the human race?
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Taylor said,
"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated.
I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered,
will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption,
and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives
of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life…
And I sincerely believe, with you,
that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies;
and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." May 28, 1816.
The neocons have taken over all the opinion magazines except maybe Harpers, and it is less anti-neocon than it used to be. And by the way I did link the article (beginning of 2nd sentence).
It's Capitalism Jim. If you have a look at the Wealth Distribution - where 50% has 1% of the wealth - and the .01 was about 40% - that translates to 100% of the Power. How anyone ever imagined that this degree of imbalance could ever result in a "healthy democratic republic" is way beyond me. Ridiculous.
I agree. Peter Turchin's notion of "the wealth pump" that increasingly worsens inequality is relevant too.
I've sort of skipped over him - "Cliodynamics" I'm pretty sure is over my head. Demographics driving wars ?? What IS "political disintigration" ?? It reminds me though, of how much I don't know. Or, how much academic liturature is likely never read by anyone, or very few. When I was in academia I used to just GO to the library - spend hours simply perusing the x million volumes at Ohio State library - sense of humility.
Turchin's basic idea is pretty simple. Over the generations, elites figure out how to rig the rules to pump more and more of the wealth to the top.
Indeed. Well, Marx and Engels had that figured out. Later on, Communists tried to do something about it - which is probably the important thing.
It is kind of funny. I know a smart local Jewish leader who said we were getting rid of Capitalism with DEI. Every one is equal now.
You say "smart" ??!!
David Frum is an old gas bag. Believe me I know from experience as an old gas bag myself.
William was NOT a king when he took his Normans into England. He was a duke. He defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king. Establishing a Norman line of sovereigns. Which ran out at some point leaving the Brits to turn to Germany for a leader.
(After the War of the Roses in which the Angivians challenge ed the Plantagenets.)
Predatory war lords haven't changed all that much in a thousand years since. They just wear better tailored suits.
The SECOND is FAR BETTER - imho, Kevin. It's in your wheelhouse. The Trump thing isn't that funny. As you implied - rather too obvious.
Yeah, trying to satirize the self-satirizing is either (a) too easy, or (b) impossible. It all depends on your perspective.
#2
Yeah, both are good. Sometimes it's truly hard to confront the sheer evil of the world but it has to be done. Communication from sane, observant people, who care about humanity, is therapeutic, even when it bites with satire at the anger and disgust we feel towards the atrocities we witness. The silly comes in handy when overload of observation of evil is just........agh...@! But the other- noir is extremely helpful for keeping it real. The Atlantic belongs in the Atlantic. From Crumb too. Trump, such a loose cannon, God only knows. Sometimes he could be a form of comic relief, if his actions didn't have such serious consequences. Will we ever get out of this bad cartoon? If there were awesome kids cartoons like there were in the 50s and 60s I wonder how they would couch the reality of what is going on. Some of them had some pretty good underlying messages. Thanks for keeping it real for us Kevin in a way that can hit home without overload. Keep both your great styles.
Maybe someone should play the sounds of genocide, like a recording, outside From Crumbs window until he realizes it's real, and he wouldn't want to be on the receiving end.
Trump is actually a fairly talented entertainer, but in a bad cartoon, and we're all stuck in it with him.
Below Fractured Fairy Tales Pinocchio is at 1:31 (1 hr 31 minutes)
Yes. Do you remember Fractured Fairy Tales cartoons from the 60s? Pinocchio - a treasure :
https://youtu.be/pEHUMV0HjBM?feature=shared
If your doing satire, nothing is more fun than the conjugal attempts of judism to rebrand genocide.
Trump's plans would require serious approach.
Why ?
Because he will actually try to do this..
Since we can't stop the plans of the Neo Cons, work describing these plans would require a prepper's approach to the problem.
Liked both, the first one was over the top silly and LOL funny while the second piece was more sly and subtle yet witty enough to induce grins and chuckles. Sometimes life gets so outrageously terrible, mocking the malign forces behind the strife is the only way to stay sane in a world taken over by psychotic criminals! And it is a great way to fight THEM!
Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!
Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!
AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!
Bless and thank you for doing what you do!
Thanks, Amy. I agree that nobody needs this AI crap. But even the global warming alarmists in MSM seem to be fine with "burning even more fossil fuels to generate electricity for server farms so AI can figure out how to save us from global warming, since we're too dumb to figure it out ourselves." The whole world is becoming self-satirizing.