Democracy actually dies in the full glare of the media and us all… (524)

“Democracy dies in darkness” is a quote pompously colonised by The Washington Post which now hangs like a rotting albatross corpse around its neck as owner Jeff Bezos – along with other notable tech billionaires - swiftly pivot away from previous thin moral stances, to pre-obey their chosen overlord and bend the knee to Donald Trump.

Here is the text of a letter of mine published last week in Scottish newspaper The National –

Dear Editor,

Project 2025 attracted focus and panic prior to the November US elections and its negative implications for ordinary Americans.

What is now evident from the foreign funding into Trump org during his last stint in the WH, the ongoing grift, the self-interested placements of billionaires in the transition team, is that Trump is putting the US up for sale in the same way Putin did with Russia.

IN Russia’s case the unwritten devils’ bargain that those oligarchs who made eye-watering wealth out of cashing in on the resources of their motherland and selling out its people, was that they were forever beholden to Putin.

And yes, it begins with getting the turkeys to vote for Christmas. Something we are trained to in the UK (Brexit!). Once that is achieved the rest is easy.

Trump is entirely comfortable with this feudal system and that, not Project 2025, is his blueprint.

It’s a strategy perfected by Putin.

Having got away with an attempted coup – Trump 0.2 has no breaks.

SO, buckle up.

(11^th December 2024)

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In summary, Trump is turning the US into an Oligarchy. It’s not just mad man Musk who has been bending the knee to rapist-elect Trump but Zuckerberg and Bezos etc. come to heel like trained bitches offered the canine equivalent of all their Christmases in one snarf.

As leaders (I use the term loosely) around the world work out just how they are going to placate the toddler-man this time or – to use the 1930s term - appease him, it’s like we are all suffering extreme collective amnesia.

So far Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sunda Pachai, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jeff Bezos of Amazon have all kissed the ring without apparent shame or discomfort or sense of their own titanic cowardice.

Here is MSNBC laying it out.

Ari Melber

SO – Democracy doesn’t just die in darkness it can die out in the open. It can be suffocated in the full daylight; in the glare of traditional and social media and with all of us looking on.

 

Merry Christmas.

That will be the last post until sometime in January.

Assad; The Horror & Devastating Western Hypocrisy… (523)

 

“Events dear boy, events…” is what British Prime Minister (1957 - 63) Harold Macmillan was supposed to have said when asked what was the most difficult part of being a statesman.

No event can have rattled the current political stasis more than the sudden toppling of the murderous psychopathic dictator Assad. After a stalemate that has lasted over a decade the Che-esque figure of Al-Julani – leader of the rebels – has pushed through to Damascus and the monster has fled to Papa Putin in Russia.

Misery loves company but so does evil. And as the rebels uncover the abandoned Assad lifestyle - the dozens of cars, the golden interiors to palatial abodes - the similarities to Trump stare right back at us. A spoiled poisoned brat who inherited power and wealth from his father. More on that maybe in another post.

This is an old doodle of mine from 2017 – not the start of the new Assad horrors - but an indication of just how long and how hard Syria has suffered while the world did nothing.

However, there is one thing almost as upsetting as the way the West sat back while Assad destroyed his own country, used chemical weapons against his own people (his father previously slaughtered – for example – 40k citizens of Hama in one month).That one thing is the sound of gross hypocrisy coming from US and EU spokespeople in relation to Al-Julani – leader of the rebel movement that has ousted the immovable monster.

 

Many are speculating about removing the $10m bounty from the rebel leader’s head – and suggesting that sanctions that have so harmed Syrian civilians for years will be removed ‘if he behaves himself’. Oil taken by the US ‘may’ be returned if he plays nice.

Where were these attitudes when Assad was slaughtering and starving the people of Syria?

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THANKS by the way to Russell - journo at The Herald. I'd used similar text in a letter to that paper and he spotted that I'd credited Assad Jnr with the Hama slaughter actually perpetrated by his father. I suppose you get to the point where one genocidal maniac merges with another... But no excuse for sloppiness.

Pussy-grabbed Trudeau v Sheinbaum’s display of balls - a political lesson the world should heed. (522)

Let's be clear, the cosy bro pic of Justin Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago with the convicted orange felon and rapist elect was cringe factor 10.

 

However, add to that his intention presumably was to schmooze up to the man who doesn't understand how tariffs work to save Canadian trade, I hope Justin is taking note of the success of the leader who actually has the balls.

 

Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, immediately stood up to Trump. The Mexican Peso immediately rose against the dollar.

 

Other Western leaders could learn from her example. Go to Mar-a-lago to have your pussy grabbed like Trudeau or have some balls like Claudia.

 

If  these men never learn from history it bears repeating here - weakness and appeasement NEVER pay.

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