Well, that's definitely an assessment of one of two sides. Trump was an obvious puppet of others' agendas in 2016 and too egomaniacal to see that about himself, and it's only worse as he's aged for the 2024 race. But what is the end game below the surface-level divisions for both sets of political party elites taking media limelight in the U.S.?
Write what you did, and meanwhile, Jake Sullivan who really runs foreign (bleeding into domestic) policy for the aged obviously infirm Biden is at Davos with the global oligarchs updating for 2024 his networking toward these oppressive goals against the American people: 'The “major focus” of the Biden NSC’s work, at least initially, will be on beating the coronavirus pandemic and restructuring the NSC to make public health a permanent national security priority, Sullivan said ...“The way you actually make sure this doesn’t happen again is by sending a very clear message to China that the United States and the rest of the world will not accept a circumstance in which we do not have an effective public health surveillance system, with an international dimension, in China and across the world going forward,” Sullivan said.' (Source: Politico, 11-27-20.)
The hard data's coming in from around the world about the U.S.-led profiteering from covid/big pharma scamming, and more light on the "gain of function" propensities of our own U.S. government to risk unleashing respiratory or other viruses on us --- and then offer us experimental pseudo-vaccines alongside hefty hospital payments for harmful treatment protocols.
Pfizer has an appalling and easily researched track record for what would once have been considered disqualifying fraud of a company never to be trusted. (It's an endemic problem among pharmaceutical corporations.) FDA under Biden/Sullivan is corporate-capture by Pfizer et al., but there'd be no meaningful difference with Trump at the helm as puppet.
Not to mention the added governmental/corporate bonus of putative reason to try fully surveilling the populace and imposing a China-style social credit system because supposititious public health becomes conflated with foreign policy in the U.S.
Sullivan/Biden, as Trump and his cohorts before them, have sidestepped the consumer cost-effective efficacy of nasal rinsing and gargling with povidone iodine solution which I've done, now at age 70, to stop all respiratory symptoms at the head level from going deeper since 2020 --- no covid (although never bothered with bogus testing), no flu, no major colds --- without any medical intervention. Same results among others using this simple method, and no health-damage risks from the experimental (lacking standard scientific safety studies) pseudo-vaccines.
Other countries with less profiteering at the top of the corporate pyramid recommend the rinsing/gargling to their citizens through public health. In the U.S. public health has become a misnomer, as started with Trump and "operation warp speed" and ratcheted up to new levels by Biden/Sullivan.
Public health as global surveillance is just one reason some people are so fed up they'd vote for Trump (the Republican version of oligarchic puppet) who, at least by speeches, comes across as though he opposes the sort of horror show Sullivan/Biden intend for global-sponsored tech surveillance of all regular people.
I know that on balance Trump isn't any better than Biden, and on some things (like a woman's right to choose abortion), much worse, but Trump would be arguably better on not stripping parental rights regarding their minor children's public school social contagion of transgenderism and the trans industry's profiteering pharma/medical corporate sponsors.
Tellingly, when Democrats held majorities in House and Senate after Roe v. Wade, they never passed a national abortion rights bill as they clearly could have --- if they weren't equally with Republican leadership in cahoots to divide Americans on sociocultural and religious issues (Biden v. Trump, Trump v. Biden) while seeking to enact the tech surveillance-controlled world of economically diminished freedom that the Davos elites want for everybody else (as they profit obscenely and build protective new infrastructure around themselves).
None of this is a soundbite-simple thing to convey. But you're too smart not to see it if you want to. So I have to assume you either profit as a public intellectual by being for Biden/Democrats, or you just find comfort in your denial.
Thoreau cautioned that people tended to whack at the branches instead of pulling up the roots of evil. (I think he wrote that, maybe somebody else, the point's good whoever made it.)
In 2024 I find the hypocrisy of the American two-party system obscene. Always a phony media-fostered show by both sides of whacking at the branches. (I'm not a registered R or D, but independent. I screen out almost all political what-if-ing news because it's deceitful distraction signifying nothing real. Tell us what "the powers that shouldn't be" have done once they've done it, and we'll try to stay alive and thrive as best we can despite them.)
This year I won't vote in anything but my local and state elections. Honestly I don't know who on balance would be worse for president, Biden/Sullivan/Zients and Trump/Whoever/Rotating List.
My prayers to our Creator and the infinite love of our eternal Father and Mother hopefully join with contemplative practice of others who seek the greatest and most compassionate good. Jesus lived in a hideous political time of empire as bad (minus the tech encroachments) as ours. I take comfort in trusting there's an ultimate cosmological good to prevail over human evil, so that the end of the story isn't yet here but will be goodness for those who didn't opt out by their hypocrisy, violence, greed and deceit.
Despite facing today's hypocrisy of political reality, I find joy in the creative blessings of every day. That, for me, is the best of the American legacy, not anything likely to be on our political horizon for the 2024 election about voting.
Instead of voting for president this year, I'm praying for God's deliverance from the worst of the presented evils based on what only divine Mind has the capacity to discern as best among all the possibilities taking a partially open future, the importance of learning to love authentically, and humanity's free will into account. (Freed from the errors of blueprint theology and institutional religion's prescribed politics, our prayers matter more than we may know.)
In sum, circumstantially there's overwhelming evidence that our system (both R and D sides complicit legislatively and judicially) supports only big-money preferences in the major U.S. political races --- so in effect, Davos, Black Rock, etc. and the tech and legacy billionaires nationally and globally behind them are running the show. There's always dissent, as a way to let off steam, but actions and results continue to speak louder than words. Just look at resumes of who the presidents of both parties choose as chiefs of staff.
"Our democracy" as the pundits in lockstep call it? What a joke. We don't even have a working republic except for the uber-rich and their puppets. If I were younger and if other Western (or English-speaking) countries had not jumped on the same (sometimes veiled) globalist bandwagon, I'd be emigrating out of here so fast, but circumstances do not currently support that alternative for the "why don't you just leave" mode.
Greg, you're an obviously smart guy, and your musical posts are interesting, so I stay subscribed for those. Don't assume all of your subscriber list agrees with you politically otherwise.
Well, that's definitely an assessment of one of two sides. Trump was an obvious puppet of others' agendas in 2016 and too egomaniacal to see that about himself, and it's only worse as he's aged for the 2024 race. But what is the end game below the surface-level divisions for both sets of political party elites taking media limelight in the U.S.?
Write what you did, and meanwhile, Jake Sullivan who really runs foreign (bleeding into domestic) policy for the aged obviously infirm Biden is at Davos with the global oligarchs updating for 2024 his networking toward these oppressive goals against the American people: 'The “major focus” of the Biden NSC’s work, at least initially, will be on beating the coronavirus pandemic and restructuring the NSC to make public health a permanent national security priority, Sullivan said ...“The way you actually make sure this doesn’t happen again is by sending a very clear message to China that the United States and the rest of the world will not accept a circumstance in which we do not have an effective public health surveillance system, with an international dimension, in China and across the world going forward,” Sullivan said.' (Source: Politico, 11-27-20.)
The hard data's coming in from around the world about the U.S.-led profiteering from covid/big pharma scamming, and more light on the "gain of function" propensities of our own U.S. government to risk unleashing respiratory or other viruses on us --- and then offer us experimental pseudo-vaccines alongside hefty hospital payments for harmful treatment protocols.
Pfizer has an appalling and easily researched track record for what would once have been considered disqualifying fraud of a company never to be trusted. (It's an endemic problem among pharmaceutical corporations.) FDA under Biden/Sullivan is corporate-capture by Pfizer et al., but there'd be no meaningful difference with Trump at the helm as puppet.
Not to mention the added governmental/corporate bonus of putative reason to try fully surveilling the populace and imposing a China-style social credit system because supposititious public health becomes conflated with foreign policy in the U.S.
Sullivan/Biden, as Trump and his cohorts before them, have sidestepped the consumer cost-effective efficacy of nasal rinsing and gargling with povidone iodine solution which I've done, now at age 70, to stop all respiratory symptoms at the head level from going deeper since 2020 --- no covid (although never bothered with bogus testing), no flu, no major colds --- without any medical intervention. Same results among others using this simple method, and no health-damage risks from the experimental (lacking standard scientific safety studies) pseudo-vaccines.
Other countries with less profiteering at the top of the corporate pyramid recommend the rinsing/gargling to their citizens through public health. In the U.S. public health has become a misnomer, as started with Trump and "operation warp speed" and ratcheted up to new levels by Biden/Sullivan.
Public health as global surveillance is just one reason some people are so fed up they'd vote for Trump (the Republican version of oligarchic puppet) who, at least by speeches, comes across as though he opposes the sort of horror show Sullivan/Biden intend for global-sponsored tech surveillance of all regular people.
I know that on balance Trump isn't any better than Biden, and on some things (like a woman's right to choose abortion), much worse, but Trump would be arguably better on not stripping parental rights regarding their minor children's public school social contagion of transgenderism and the trans industry's profiteering pharma/medical corporate sponsors.
Tellingly, when Democrats held majorities in House and Senate after Roe v. Wade, they never passed a national abortion rights bill as they clearly could have --- if they weren't equally with Republican leadership in cahoots to divide Americans on sociocultural and religious issues (Biden v. Trump, Trump v. Biden) while seeking to enact the tech surveillance-controlled world of economically diminished freedom that the Davos elites want for everybody else (as they profit obscenely and build protective new infrastructure around themselves).
None of this is a soundbite-simple thing to convey. But you're too smart not to see it if you want to. So I have to assume you either profit as a public intellectual by being for Biden/Democrats, or you just find comfort in your denial.
Thoreau cautioned that people tended to whack at the branches instead of pulling up the roots of evil. (I think he wrote that, maybe somebody else, the point's good whoever made it.)
In 2024 I find the hypocrisy of the American two-party system obscene. Always a phony media-fostered show by both sides of whacking at the branches. (I'm not a registered R or D, but independent. I screen out almost all political what-if-ing news because it's deceitful distraction signifying nothing real. Tell us what "the powers that shouldn't be" have done once they've done it, and we'll try to stay alive and thrive as best we can despite them.)
This year I won't vote in anything but my local and state elections. Honestly I don't know who on balance would be worse for president, Biden/Sullivan/Zients and Trump/Whoever/Rotating List.
My prayers to our Creator and the infinite love of our eternal Father and Mother hopefully join with contemplative practice of others who seek the greatest and most compassionate good. Jesus lived in a hideous political time of empire as bad (minus the tech encroachments) as ours. I take comfort in trusting there's an ultimate cosmological good to prevail over human evil, so that the end of the story isn't yet here but will be goodness for those who didn't opt out by their hypocrisy, violence, greed and deceit.
Despite facing today's hypocrisy of political reality, I find joy in the creative blessings of every day. That, for me, is the best of the American legacy, not anything likely to be on our political horizon for the 2024 election about voting.
Instead of voting for president this year, I'm praying for God's deliverance from the worst of the presented evils based on what only divine Mind has the capacity to discern as best among all the possibilities taking a partially open future, the importance of learning to love authentically, and humanity's free will into account. (Freed from the errors of blueprint theology and institutional religion's prescribed politics, our prayers matter more than we may know.)
In sum, circumstantially there's overwhelming evidence that our system (both R and D sides complicit legislatively and judicially) supports only big-money preferences in the major U.S. political races --- so in effect, Davos, Black Rock, etc. and the tech and legacy billionaires nationally and globally behind them are running the show. There's always dissent, as a way to let off steam, but actions and results continue to speak louder than words. Just look at resumes of who the presidents of both parties choose as chiefs of staff.
"Our democracy" as the pundits in lockstep call it? What a joke. We don't even have a working republic except for the uber-rich and their puppets. If I were younger and if other Western (or English-speaking) countries had not jumped on the same (sometimes veiled) globalist bandwagon, I'd be emigrating out of here so fast, but circumstances do not currently support that alternative for the "why don't you just leave" mode.
Greg, you're an obviously smart guy, and your musical posts are interesting, so I stay subscribed for those. Don't assume all of your subscriber list agrees with you politically otherwise.
May infinite love be with you!