Thursday, November 29, 2018

Mississippi Holds Fast To Racist Roots, Elects Confederate Gun Moll To U.S. Senate

White Supremacy Lives in Mississippi.

Parts of the U.S. corporate propaganda system (aka "the media") such as CBS radio network, are hailing the election of redneck racist Cindy Hyde-Smith to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi as "historic," NOT because she's a throwback to the 19th century Confederate States south, but because she's the "first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi," ever. In which case, they should be remarking on how extremely sexist Mississippi must be! This is the year 2018.

Naturally, the president who represents white supremacists, Donald Trump, campaigned for her.

Hyde-Smith is a reactionary racist in the mold of unreconstructed Confederate Jefferson Beauregard Session III. (Sessions recently made a teary exit as Attorney General of the U.S. on orders of the man who originally anointed him AG, president Donald J. "Jackass" Trump.)

Hyde-Smith went to high school at a so-called "private academy," one of the whites-only private schools set up by the incorrigible white racists of the South determined to maintain a system of quasi-apartheid. These schools were set up to avoid the racial integration being imposed at long last on Southern public school districts by the Federal courts. The descendants of slaves (who are also descended from slave owners who impregnated their slave "property") were for a century forced to endure a grossly inferior education system, deemed legitimate through the legal concept of "separate but equal" under prior Supreme Court doctrine. This mythology was finally abandoned by the Supreme Court under political pressure from the civil rights movement.

Hyde-Smith has posed proudly for photos in Confederate soldier regalia, including rifle. Her latest "gaffe" was informing an admirer that she'd happily attend a "public hanging" (i.e. a lynching of a black victim) "in the front row" with him. U.S. media, such as the awful CBS radio propaganda network, are passing this off as a "joke." Only she wasn't joking, so CBS was guilty of broadcasting disinformation in defense of a racist.

One wonders if CBS would pass off a remark such as "too bad Hitler didn't finish off the Jews" as a "joke." I doubt it. As always, "blacks" are at the bottom of the social pecking order in the U.S. And above all, the corporate propaganda system wants reactionary politicians to occupy the power slots, NOT anyone even slightly to the left, such as Hyde-Smith's Democratic opponent, Hyde-Smith is a Republican. In the South, the white racists- which is most whites in the South- migrated en massa from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party after the Texan Democrat and president Lyndon Johnson sheparded the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act through Congress, to ease somewhat the severe repression African-Americans live under in the Confederate states.

It is also a fact that the U.S. media virtually always covers for reactionaries and racists, bending over backwards to legitimize them.

Being a white racist, of course Hyde-Smith is also an awful reactionary on all political issues. [1]  Thus do the white racists of the "solid South" continue their tradition of packing the U.S. Congress with reactionaries who are enemies of human progress. (Just one example of thousands: for decades they prevented the passage of a Federal anti-lynching law, thus protecting their Southern "tradition" of torturing blacks and hanging them from trees or burning them alive, and passing around the body parts of the victims as souvenirs to the white mobs.)

Hyde-Smith in her native garb, as a warrior for slavery.

Hyde-Smith with Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant who appointed her to fill a U.S. Senate seat vacated by her reactionary racist predecessor Thad Cochran. Now she's been elected to a full term. Note the Mississippi state flag, which incorporates the stars and bars banner of the traitor slave nation, the Confederate States of America.



Tuesday, November 20, 2018

The REAL Reason the White House Media Propagandists' Association Is Breaking With Its Own Tradition and Not Inviting a Comedian to Perform At Its Annual Celebration of Itself

It has been announced that a self-important propagandist group, the "White House Correspondents' Association," whose membership are the propagandists assigned by corporate propaganda outfits to "cover" the White House (i.e. the U.S. presidency), will not be inviting a comedian to entertain them in their tuxedos at their upcoming annual dinner, as they have done in past years. This is being blamed on the performance of comedienne Michelle Wolf at the last shindig of this group on April 28, 2018.

"The" media has taken this occasion to smear Wolf anew. They claim the "Association's" decision was because Wolf was "harsh," and that she made fun of Trump's White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders' appearance. Which she did NOT. In a 19 minute set, less than a minute and a half were about Sanders, and maybe two jokes referenced her appearance in some way, and they were MILD jokes. You can watch that segment on my youtube channel. [1] 

Wolf mocks Sanders' constant lying, and her vile politics. Apparently that is retrospectively unacceptable. Because when you watch the entire 19 minute performance, the audience laughs a lot, and heartily applauds at the ends. So Wolf actually went over well. 

But afterwards, there was a propaganda campaign attacking Wolf's set. Because she ended with a scathing critique of "the" media's symbiotic relationship with the horrid Donald Trump, landing square on the nose. She nails it. And then with a final throwaway line reminds everyone of the unwelcome fact that the people of Flint, Michigan were poisoned with lead in their water and that the situation there had still not been remedied. [2]

Too much truth for the behind-the-scenes bosses- the bastards.


Wolf's entire set is posted by C-Span on youtube.com: "Michelle Wolf COMPLETE REMARKS at 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner."





Saturday, November 03, 2018

What They REALLY Mean When They Say "I Wish President Trump Would Tweet Less."

Republican politicians say this with some frequency. They trot out this stock phrase when they have to defend Trump, and/or justify their support for him and their refusal to criticize his latest outrage, whether something he said or something he did. Sometimes it's paired with advice that he focus more on "doing his job," i.e. doing more malicious actions that are part and parcel of the malign "Republican agenda." 

What they really mean is, I wish he'd stop being so explicit. It puts me on the spot, forcing me to defend insane and vicious statements, and threatens to arouse opposition to our horrible policies.

The "I wish he'd tweet less" trope is now being parroted by Republican voters in interviews with "the" media. When asked how Trump is "doing," or if he's "helping" them, they'll toss in the "wish he'd tweet less" line. 

What they really mean: I wish he'd stop saying what he thinks so I can continue to preserve my brain-dead illusions about who he is and what he wants to do.

The immoral GOP (Gang Of Plunderer) politicians are disciplined and fanatical and willing to be led by a narcissistic grifter mountebank who is irrational, erratic, and unpredictable, but who mostly delivers on their arch-reactionary, repressive, hyper-militaristic "agenda."  The Trump supporters among the populace- which apparently has increased in number to close to 50% of the population, amazingly enough- reject all the factual evidence, that is they reject reality- and insist on believing in the cons of Trump. Also his demagoguery appeals to their base instincts, their racial bigotry, their xenophobia, and their persecution complexes. Trump is a genius in one dimension of intelligence; emotional intelligence. Or to put it another way, he has great animal cunning, as all successful demagogues do, including the classic fascist dictators, Hitler and Mussolini. This confuses some people into seeing Trump as a fascist. He is an authoritarian and a bully. In terms of brutality, he actually hasn't outdone Obama The Drone Assassin or Bush The Torturer yet. But unlike them, he doesn't bother disguising his cruelties, but generally publicly revels in them. His base "base" is thrilled by a sense of vicarious vengeance against victims who have done them no harm. But by calling desperate, terrified refugees fleeing the Central American hellholes created by the U.S. "invaders," and holding publicity stunts to bellow about people murdered by illegal immigrants, Trump gives his bigoted, xenophobic followers an excuse to feel like victims of immigrants. Oh, and immigrants "stole" their jobs, employers didn't hire the immigrants to slash their own labor costs! 

There they go again, blaming those weaker than themselves instead of the actual culprits. What cowards they are.


"I talk so much and so loud and I fool soooo many people. It's terrific. It's terrific."

Friday, November 02, 2018

Trump Asserts Dictatorial Power To Change U.S. Constitution By Fiat, U.S. Media Response Lame

Right before elections for the House of Representatives and a third of the U.S. Senate, Trump is trying to whip up his "base" of white racists and xenophobes. He's doing it in at least two ways. With a week to go until the November 6 election, he is claiming the right to invalidate the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by issuing an executive order abolishing it. The 14th Amendment states that anyone born in the U.S. is automatically a U.S. citizen. (About 30 other countries also do this, contrary to Trump's lie, repeated regularly over the years and again now, that the U.S. is the only country that does this. Oh, and it's "ridiculous" and it "has to stop" He portrays all such people as leeches.) Reactionaries call this "birthright citizenship," as if it is somehow different from citizenship of babies born in the U.S. whose parents are U.S. citizens. They also push a lie called "anchor babies," which the corporate media NEVER call them on. The idea is that citizen babies somehow make it impossible to deport their parents. A lie, as the U.S. has long deported parents with U.S. citizen children. Obama indeed deported thousands of such people.

As far as a president changing the basic law of the U.S., the Constitution, to his liking by his own edict, that is completely illegal. The Constitution specifies two ways in which it can be altered: either by a Constitutional Convention, of which there has only ever been one, the one that created the Constitution, or by a vote of two-thirds of the members of both chambers of Congress AND by ratification by three-quarters of the state legislatures. That is how all subsequent amendments after the first ten (the so-called Bill of Rights) have been enacted.

The media headlines should have been the first part of my title above, Trump Asserts Dictatorial Power To Change U.S. Constitution By Fiat. Instead the predominant media reaction was Hmm, can he do that? There would probably be a legal challenge.

 Not, BLATANTLY ILLEGAL POWER GRAB UNPRECEDENTED IN U.S. HISTORY! And saying "there would be a legal challenge" implies he COULD do it, and THEN people would have to take him to court to try and overturn it! (Keep in mind that the Federal courts are now stuffed with extreme reactionary judges courtesy of the Federalist Society, the GOP, and the Democrats' spinelessness and political fecklessness.)

It seems that the establishment "resistance" to Trump consists of placing all hopes on former FBI secret police chief Robert S. Mueller III pulling a rabbit out of his hat and proving that Trump is Putin's Puppet, a criminal stooge of Moscow. Good luck with that. That means there's no hope at all.

As former CIA secret police chief Michael Morell has stated, if there was evidence to that effect, it would have either been leaked by now, or uncovered by the horde of reporters frantically digging for dirt on Trump. Plenty of dirt has been found- David Cay Johnston and Wayne Barrett have spent years digging up a mountain of misdeeds by Trump- but "Russian collusion," like the piss tape, is a fantasy.


The second way Trump is agitating his vile supporters is by screeching about an "invasion" by a few thousand refugees fleeing the violence and poverty created there by the Obama-Hillary Clinton coup in that nation. These refugees are currently over a thousand miles from the U.S., at the Guatemalan-Mexican border. Trump publicly called for them to be gunned down, U.S. Border Patrol style. ("When they throw rocks like they did at Mexican military police I say consider that a rifle.") The U.S. Border Patrol isn't murderous enough already. Trump has to stoke more murders. Just as he called on cops to bash the heads of people they arrest into their patrol cars' doorframes. Just as he praised a Republican lout for body-slamming a reporter, a thug subsequently elected by the goons of the state of Montana to Congress. [1]

Trump also made a big show of sending 5,200 army troops to the U.S.-Mexican border, following that by announcing his alleged intent to sent 15,000 troops. Hey, why not make it a million, asshole?

To borrow from Lillian Hellman, we're in Scoundrel Time (again), in America.



Der Fuhrer, U.S. version. And he's even of German ancestry! (And believes he's superior because of it. Remember 
he wanted more Norwegians to immigrate to the U.S., and stop the flow from "shithole" -i.e. "non-white"- countries.)


                  Gee, I TRIED to overthrow Trump for you. [Robert S. Mueller III, another guy of German extraction.]