Outside the Asylum
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 04/26/2020 - 6:41am

Lesser of Two Evils II
“If they’d wanted to win, they wouldn’t have run Hillary Clinton.”
--my mom, 2016

Lesser of Two Evils II
“If they’d wanted to win, they wouldn’t have run Hillary Clinton.”
--my mom, 2016
I've been puzzled by the amount of anti-China propaganda, until I read this.

Virus as maybe, but things are looking up. Fred's on the porch, soaking up the sun.
In the middle of cooking a Thai green curry, so this will be quick.
What with the recent stillness of life:

Glazunov's 1st piano concerto on in the background. If you like Russian stuff, this will turbo charge your tulips.
You might think that in the middle of a pandemic, combined with a collapse of the labor market, that politicians might show a little sympathy for the working class and want them to get health care.
Obviously you don't know Oklahoma Republicans.

The House passed the Senate version last night; they’d already agreed to. It’s long, but it needs to be, imo. Consider it a a rage of fury on behalf of the underclass.
‘The bipartisan “small business” swindle: Billions for the banks and corporations, pennies for workers and shopkeepers’ Barry Grey, 23 April 2020, wsws.org

A Look at China Part One
Morning. Over the next few weeks I am going to share some of my thoughts and readings on China. It is one of the few places in the world not colonized by a Western power. Our growing antagonism towards China is part of a longer cycle of admiration and disdain for the Chinese culture that has played out for centuries.


