You are not doing your part for the McResistance
It has recently come to my attention that people here aren't pulling their weight for our corporate elites.
In fact, I'm ashamed to say that some of you are guilty of thought-crimes.
In the interests in Unity(tm) I'd like to remind you that we are in a struggle against
Trump/Putin/ZombieHitler. If that can't motivate you to join the McResistance, I don't know what will.
Now that I have your attention, let me remind you who our enemies are:
Trump, Putin, RT, people with Russian accents, NeoNazis, alt-right internet trolls, Bernie Bros, socialists, former coal miners, anarchists, the ghost of George Carlin, anyone who ever sent a link to Wikileaks, Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald, people against wars and imperialism, those who didn't vote for Hillary, and Zombie Hitler.
It's because of these deplorables that Putin now has a sleeper cell in the White House.
Fortunately the always loyal and trustworthy agencies - the CIA and NSA - are resisting these Russian/Commie/Nazis, so we must rally to their side, by wearing pink hats and engaging in symbolic acts of virtue signaling.
Now that there is a Special Counsel appointed, it's only a matter of time before something is turned up that will trigger regime change.
At which point the nightmare will be over and Kamala Harris will lead us to the neoliberal meritocracy Utopia, where no one is discriminated for their race or sex, only for being poor.
In the neoliberal meritocracy Utopia all the rich, multi-racial kids are pretty and get good grades in their private schools, and poor people accept they are impoverished because they are morally flawed.
In the neoliberal meritocracy Utopia the only true sin is to be an impoverished white male who doesn't check his privilege.
It will be a glorious day when Harris leads us to the promised land. We know she will because wealthy donors have vetted her, and she's a black woman.
The challenge here is that our enemies don't realize that they are Russian/Commie/Nazis.
They are under the delusion that they are regular Americans that have lost faith in a rigged and corrupt political and economic system. They believe that multinational corporations control our political system and our civil rights are being crushed by an omnipresent police/surveillance state.
What's more, these people generally resent being called racist and sexist.
That's where you come in!
It is your job, as part of the McResistance, to call these people bad names, and to shame them into silence. It's very important to defend our freedom by silencing all dissent, especially left-wing dissent. Orwell taught us that the control of language and widespread self-censorship is the cornerstone of democracy and liberty.
Your three methods of accomplishing this goal are:
1) Hyping the threat of Russia, even if it means risking nuclear annihilation of the human race.
It is important to keep people terrified, otherwise people might notice that are being robbed blind by the corporate elites.
2) Hammer the identity politics. Sure they may be impoverished, and none of their ancestors had ever oppressed anyone, but they share the skin color of someone not related to them that probably oppressed people sometime in the past, and they aren't ashamed of it!
There is no greater sin, so let them know it. Especially members of the working classes who couldn’t afford to go to university and learn about intersectionality.
This will keep people atomized in tiny and powerless subgroups that are easy to control. Remember: Solidarity is a bad thing until it is commodified and sold by a PR firm.
3) Keep repeating that Trump = Putin = ZombieHitler.
You just can't say it enough.
I think that's everything. You are now prepared to join the McResistance.
Good luck soldier! And be careful - you never know when a Russian/Commie/Nazi might try to infect you with thought crimes, so always be on guard.
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Nicely done
This part is what I find so ironic.
These agencies have lied to us for decades, but just because Herheinous didn't win the election after stealing it from Bernie, people are believing everything that these agencies are spouting. And if we don't agree with them, there is something very wrong with us.
These are the same people who used to be against everything that they are and have been turning a blind eye to.
After reading the diary on Markos being an ass again, I'm totally flabbergasted by people I once had a lot in common with. I don't recognize them anymore.
This reminds me of the Stanford experiment. This is just nuts.
Oh well, I'm quite happy being labeled (whatever) because I'm in good company here.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
It's like the post-9/11 Bush years never happened
bettersleaders, many of whom are still riding high in the party, have a rather "complicated" history with Bush's various war adventures, which were based on government lies. They were for it before they were against it, or so they say, at least when the cameras are on and they're getting pressure to say so. I have a real hunch had Bush been a D or if 2001 was now, we might have seen less, if any, resistance from elected Democrats.The thing that is really unfortunate is it seems like the lesson too many of the rank and file took from those years wasn't that we have a MIC that is more than willing to lie us into war, if they want it. The lesson learned was partisanship at all cost. Too many can totally ignore that these are the exact same people who lied about Saddam and everything else because now they're making life difficult for Trump. Meanwhile, the government agencies involved are continuing to get what they want, just like in the Bush years. The world is becoming less safe and the rich are getting richer. It's dangerous to put trust in these people and it's depressing to watch such a simple game of playing both sides against the middle work so well.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
They now even refute that the word neo-liberal
1- Historical precedent
2- A well defined and accepted meaning
Apparently any word that upsets them does not exist, so there.
We live in Orwellian/Huxleyan times.
They have not only refute the word neoliberal
They gladly accept the moniker of being centrist. Good lord! Why would they accept that word? Because that was how they could continue to support Obama and his policies as well as vote for Hillary this time around.
The fact that they threw away Bernie and his ideas so readily had to because of worshipping Obama.
Bernie was running on everything that the democrats once stood for and is still trying to change the party from the inside to make it better for us, but the Herheinous bots say that he is the one who is bringing the DP down. Go figure.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Fine with me. They're neocons anyway.
Self-righteous neocons.
Who took military action in more countries, Bush or Obama?
More like the Milgrim experiment
@Song of the lark Yeah, but why are we
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
reminds me of an old cartoon
two zoo pandas are having a philosophical discussion -
"If it's no crime to be a panda as you say, then why are we in jail?"
For some reason I'm
just not feeling the McReistance. Maybe becuz the McDNC is pushing it.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Priceless!
Two thumbs up from BC
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
For the love of heaven, save us, Hillary!
@HenryAWallace +500
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
We all need baseball hats, funny both of them clash with
my natural hair colour, so I'm avoiding then like the plague.
Seriously people red and yellow, how about green or black.
Who did not do that research?
http://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-yellow/
Huh, so the resistance is a bunch of children? But wait there's more:
That made me LOL, thanks.
peace
Now wait a minute.
The color of halos, hope and sunshine.
I didn't know the McResistance was using it. I would have thought they would go for sophisticated, urbanite basic black.
Mary Bennett
@eyo Hah! I'd read
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Mcresistors, how tweet it is for them !
And Mr. Trump is not getting good reviews from the war profiteers:
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/trumps-defense-budget-wont-yield-ser...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
I'm gonna go with... PIRATE!
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Because it's guaranteed to piss off anybody who takes themselves too damn seriously.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
@detroitmechworks
Ramen!
(May you be touched by FSM's dangling appendage as you're presented with a mug of hallowed beer direct from the Sacred Beer Volcano for posting that!)
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@detroitmechworks Yar.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Excellent post! This essay much along the same lines:
More: The De-Putin-Nazification of America by CJ HOPKINS
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
I read that and
Mary Bennett
Really good Counterpunch satirical piece.
Thanks for excerpting and linking to it.
"Bridgehampton cell" is referring to the area of Eastern Long Island that includes the Hamptons, where all the Wall St scumbags, other financial criminals and oligarchs spend their summer galavanting in ostentatious villas and private beaches, after they're helicoptered in from the City.
I do take exception with this though:
In my opinion there's been a corporate coup d'etat, what Sheldon Woolin called Inverted Totalitarianism. It's the complete takeover of life, government and society by monopolistic corporations and Wall St who use their concentrated power to render democracy obsolete. Throw in militarism and nationalism and essentially you're at fascism, which is where I'd argue we've been for some time. It may be a benign form but it's got all the hallmarks of it in place.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Agreed. I thought that line a bit odd. We are really close
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
@ZimInSeattle Been trying, Leon,
When you revolted, there weren't nuclear bombs, weaponized microwave, drones, and omnipresent surveillance. Nor was there a media apparatus like the one we have at present.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Mark from Queens
An awful lot of people in America and other countries would venture to differ with you on this being some benign form... even if the prospect of global destruction wasn't considered.
The last time this happened, a number of Germans had no idea of what exactly Hitler had been doing until after-the-fact either, because they hadn't yet become one of the target groups and the propaganda was... active, while others pushed what they knew aside to get on with their lives or felt it was justified because... propaganda...
And the internet's down again... will this be another double-post, I wonder?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Mark from Queens He's confusing
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
Well, up until now, the Nazi's were (edit: as far as I can currently recall, so not very far???) the first (edit: modern) fascists to try global military conquest so they are most commonly used example... the problem is, of course, that for some reason, any divergence from identical actions to those of the Nazis apparently convinces some that the Nazi's were a one-off...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Ellen North I used to go with
But here's a quotation:
The Labour Charter of 1927, promulgated by the Grand Council of Fascism, stated in article 7:
"The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation," then goes on to say in article 9 that: "State intervention in economic production may take place only where private initiative is lacking or is insufficient, or when are at stakes the political interest of the State. This intervention may take the form of control, encouragement or direct management."
So in other words, in modern terms, laissez-faire is the name of the game unless the CIA needs something, in which case all bets are off.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
That is the 'piece de la McResistance' mon cher ! Merci!
Loved it! I read it outloud to my wife as we drive across 'murica from central TX to Santa Fe, NM.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Brilliant!
that describes what has infected the recently sane people everywhere who has bought into this stupid narrative.
This includes members of my family who at one time saw the world the same as I did.
Sigh.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@ZimInSeattle Love that
Kamala Harris as the new Cinque. Please tell me Tanya was in attendance at the meeting!
The original Tania FYI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Bunke
fought with Che. And killed of course by our deep state.Not that fakey deluded rich girl.
Dupes is what many
Hillbots and HillFans call those that were "duped" by Russian bots who tricked them into believing Hillary was a criminal, leaving a trail of death wherever she goes. Those that didn't vote for Her Highness were duped, and hense, dupes. Anyone with any political savvy would obviously have voted for Her. You didn't? You're obviously a dupe.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
@Wink Uh...I guess Hillary's
Here's what she had to say last year about Russia, China, cybercrime, war, and nuclear weapons:
(start at 4:28)
So, I think that nuclear war with Russia or China would pretty much leave a trail of death everywhere.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
No McResistance for me and my wife jakkalabessie. Fiji bound !
(Oh yeah, happy birthday day Social Security !)
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
In the immortal and inimitable words of
a lady who was part of the audience of a Tim Black broadcast:
"Unity my ass!"
Whomever she may be, I Am With Her!!
Mary Bennett
An obvious PUMA.
Gotta love it!
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
The one funny thing
if we're able to laugh then, will be watching how the Partybots will try to spin things after the soon-to-be economic crash. How will they make it that economic justice still doesn't matter?
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
Maybe like this?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Is that true?
You can have racial, reproductive, environmental justice without having economic justice, so why not the other way around?
For instance, theoretically you can make sure that no one is discriminated based on race, while still having horrible wealth inequality. All you need to do is diversify your upper class.
So I don't see why you can't have economic justice without the other stuff.
I don't think it is true at all. Just posted this in response
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
@gjohnsit Not exactly, but
Here's how I think it goes:
Capitalism requires an underclass. It prefers its underclass divided. Racism was a convenient way to create this underclass at the beginnings of colonial capitalism, and has remained so, especially because it provides, in addition to a group of throwaway workers you can do anything to, for an endless source of division within its underclass. Also, capitalism requires the ability to pollute anywhere and everywhere it wants to.
Therefore racism and pollution are necessary to capitalism. Economic justice requires the abolition of capitalism. Therefore, if you achieve economic justice, you will remove the necessity of racism and pollution to maintaining the status quo. In other words, a great opportunity for racial and environmental justice would open up.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Nice work, gjohnsit. I'll just leave this here.
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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
How about two
Lighting bolts next each other. Should be able to blend in and look cool. ... A yellow and white hat Jesus a pussy hat and MAGA hat looks "better deal" than that.
Well done!
Sharing to twitter!
I love this post!
With my pink vagina virtue
With my pink vagina virtue-signalling hat, intact (if hastily reconstructed) hymen billowing in the breeze, wondering why the Special Sauce of the McResistance looks, smells and tastes like bullshit and being very glad that I didn't step in it...
Even gladder for the giggles, though - thanks for another fabulous essay.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.