"The Trump Administration is blowing up boats in international waters, committing apparent war crimes with reckless abandon as the world looks on in horror. There is an international trade war destabilizing the global economy. Wary middle-power countries balancing between the West and China are being pushed in Beijing’s direction in the service of stability. Vladimir Putin continues his imperialist march westward to conquer Ukraine—a violent death throe of a declining ancient empire, pathologically obsessed with the extent of its borders."
Have you ever been to an incredible restaurant where every bite of every dish was so wonderful that you could not but eat until you thought you might bust. Well, take the opposite of that and wonder how much more of this shit-hole presidency can I take, or you take or the country take? I was ready to leave after the shocking difference in my sense of well-being during my trip to Spain. I felt ten years younger. I am willing to leave at age 83, but my wife isn't. She has put up with me for 35 years, so guess who has the last say so?
But it's not only so horrible, defeating, disgusting, shameful ad nauseum to hear the babble out of the mouth of Trump and Ass. (stands for assholes), but to see, for the most part, at the weak and disjointed inputs from those opposed to Trump.
Take the murder on the high seas, for example.
1. It's over 3 months since the Sept 2 Hellfire missile murdered the boat in the Caribbean.
▶︎ How big was the boat? It looks to my eyes about the same size as the sailboat I lived on and voyaged on: 45 feet.
▶︎ Where was it located? How far off the coast of Venezuela and exactly where in the Caribbean? I have sailed the Caribbean from one end to the other. It's minor seamanship to know your coordinates. So, where the fuck was this boat and can it be determined from which port it left and where it was heading?
▶︎ How many people were on board before it was blasted to smithereens? It looks like about 6 give or take 2. Who are these people? Did asshole Pete or anyone know any of this? Why haven't all those bright Senators and Congressman been asked this?
▶︎ Was the use of a Hellfire missile overkill, ya think? Answer: $100K to $150K.
▶︎ What is the daily operational cost to move an aircraft carrier like the Gerald Ford? Answer: $6 to $8 million PER DAY.
▶︎ When I was sailing up the coast of Southern California, I happened to stray into Naval testing territory. Within minutes, a helicopter with guns pointed was overhead. Another 5 minutes had a gunboat like that used in Vietnam heading right at me. A fucking sailboat. Do you think I was intimidated? Damn right. My heart was beating out of my chest. I had the first panic attack of my life. Welcome back to the USA. So do you think a friggin aircraft carrier and Hellfire missiles are a reasonable choice to use against a presumed 45 foot boat, also presumed to be carrying we don't know? I am not a Senator or a Congressman, but I am one pissed off former US Army physician and native born American that says get these morons out of office.
The story with Ukraine is even more eggregious. A sovereign Democracy is invaded and people murdered, children (20,000 of them) kidnapped by Putin. Cities razed to the ground. The Earth further fucked up by weaponry. Trump tried to extort Zelensky with his perfect phone call. Trump held back aid to Ukraine at that time and cost many Ukrainians their lives. Trump could have placed more severe sanctions on Putin. We have the same story with Hitler and the Sudetenland and also with Putin's invasion of Chechnya, Georgia, Kosovo, and Crimea, and now Trump holds aid (financial and military to Ukraine) when they were winning. I say that Trump is a functional agent for Putin. Trump and Ass. use the Russian playbook (narrative) as does Fox News. It is a carry over of the Big Lie from Hitler:
“The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one,” Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf 1925
"Many of the tactics Hitler employed to seize and consolidate power, Mussolini had adopted previously: the reliance on violent gangs, the intimidation of parliament, the strengthening and subsequent abuse of authority, the subjugation of the civil service, the affinity for spectacle, and the insistence that the leader, whether Der Führer or Il Duce, could do no wrong." Albright, Madeleine. Fascism: A Warning (pp. 44-45). Harper Perennial. Kindle Edition.
Trump is without question the American Hitler. Why are not those in Washington calling him out on this?
Why doesn't the press service walk out on Trump en masse when Tubby tells a reporter "shut up, piggy."
Why are we putting up with this shit, waiting to see what loss of life and freedoms can be "achieved" by this fucking madman in the White House? I, speaking for myself, would be glad to meet Trump on Fifth Avenue at high noon, and I am 4 years older than that fat slob.
Americans, my supposed fellow citizens, it's time you stopped focusing on the "woke" and instead focus on "woken." Right now you are for sure asleep.
Ben Shapiro is a Gish galloper. (Arguably the late Charlie Kirk was as well.) He just talks and talks really fast and claims victory when not all of his points are rebutted, because he made so many that nobody could rebut them all.
Also, he melted down when being interviewed by Andrew Neil on the BBC and accused him of being a lefty for asking about his own quotes (keep in mind, Andrew Neil was a cheerleader for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, regularly hosted climate-change deniers, and approved articles questioning the scientific consensus on HIV/AIDS when at The Sunday Times): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E
This right here, exactly—“The world is on fire. The Trump Administration is blowing up boats in international waters, committing apparent war crimes with reckless abandon as the world looks on in horror. There is an international trade war destabilizing the global economy. Wary middle-power countries balancing between the West and China are being pushed in Beijing’s direction in the service of stability. Vladimir Putin continues his imperialist march westward to conquer Ukraine—a violent death throe of a declining ancient empire, pathologically obsessed with the extent of its borders.
I am in communion with Antonio Gramsci in this place. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born,” he wrote while sitting in prison, a political prisoner of Mussolini’s fascist regime. “Now is a time of monsters,” he added.
Abroad, dictators update their power calculations as America’s security posture collapses inward from its defense of the liberal order. At home, men whom Roosevelt would recognize as economic royalists and Progressive-era reformers would recognize as robber barons—this time with iPhones and Wi-Fi—are selling off the American people’s inheritance for scrap, paid in crypto, and funneled into the private jet, yacht, and real-estate empires of a politically entrepreneurial oligarch class.”
It’s all extremely overwhelming—I think most of us are traumatized or in shock.
My shit detector went off the first time I heard him speak. I can smell the disingenuousness from here. I can guess, but would imagine that this sort of dishonesty is an early buy-in to wherever the money flows -- unless he's born to this freakdom. "Gish gallop"? "Meretricious twaddle"? Wow. Sets my early warning flags up.
Yeah. That is strange. I'm proud to say, I have never listened to Mr. Shapiro for 30 seconds at one time. Or maybe ashamed to admit it. But the cognitive load of sorting through all that is just too debilitating.
"The Trump Administration is blowing up boats in international waters, committing apparent war crimes with reckless abandon as the world looks on in horror. There is an international trade war destabilizing the global economy. Wary middle-power countries balancing between the West and China are being pushed in Beijing’s direction in the service of stability. Vladimir Putin continues his imperialist march westward to conquer Ukraine—a violent death throe of a declining ancient empire, pathologically obsessed with the extent of its borders."
Have you ever been to an incredible restaurant where every bite of every dish was so wonderful that you could not but eat until you thought you might bust. Well, take the opposite of that and wonder how much more of this shit-hole presidency can I take, or you take or the country take? I was ready to leave after the shocking difference in my sense of well-being during my trip to Spain. I felt ten years younger. I am willing to leave at age 83, but my wife isn't. She has put up with me for 35 years, so guess who has the last say so?
But it's not only so horrible, defeating, disgusting, shameful ad nauseum to hear the babble out of the mouth of Trump and Ass. (stands for assholes), but to see, for the most part, at the weak and disjointed inputs from those opposed to Trump.
Take the murder on the high seas, for example.
1. It's over 3 months since the Sept 2 Hellfire missile murdered the boat in the Caribbean.
▶︎ How big was the boat? It looks to my eyes about the same size as the sailboat I lived on and voyaged on: 45 feet.
▶︎ Where was it located? How far off the coast of Venezuela and exactly where in the Caribbean? I have sailed the Caribbean from one end to the other. It's minor seamanship to know your coordinates. So, where the fuck was this boat and can it be determined from which port it left and where it was heading?
▶︎ How many people were on board before it was blasted to smithereens? It looks like about 6 give or take 2. Who are these people? Did asshole Pete or anyone know any of this? Why haven't all those bright Senators and Congressman been asked this?
▶︎ Was the use of a Hellfire missile overkill, ya think? Answer: $100K to $150K.
▶︎ What is the daily operational cost to move an aircraft carrier like the Gerald Ford? Answer: $6 to $8 million PER DAY.
▶︎ When I was sailing up the coast of Southern California, I happened to stray into Naval testing territory. Within minutes, a helicopter with guns pointed was overhead. Another 5 minutes had a gunboat like that used in Vietnam heading right at me. A fucking sailboat. Do you think I was intimidated? Damn right. My heart was beating out of my chest. I had the first panic attack of my life. Welcome back to the USA. So do you think a friggin aircraft carrier and Hellfire missiles are a reasonable choice to use against a presumed 45 foot boat, also presumed to be carrying we don't know? I am not a Senator or a Congressman, but I am one pissed off former US Army physician and native born American that says get these morons out of office.
The story with Ukraine is even more eggregious. A sovereign Democracy is invaded and people murdered, children (20,000 of them) kidnapped by Putin. Cities razed to the ground. The Earth further fucked up by weaponry. Trump tried to extort Zelensky with his perfect phone call. Trump held back aid to Ukraine at that time and cost many Ukrainians their lives. Trump could have placed more severe sanctions on Putin. We have the same story with Hitler and the Sudetenland and also with Putin's invasion of Chechnya, Georgia, Kosovo, and Crimea, and now Trump holds aid (financial and military to Ukraine) when they were winning. I say that Trump is a functional agent for Putin. Trump and Ass. use the Russian playbook (narrative) as does Fox News. It is a carry over of the Big Lie from Hitler:
“The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one,” Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf 1925
"Many of the tactics Hitler employed to seize and consolidate power, Mussolini had adopted previously: the reliance on violent gangs, the intimidation of parliament, the strengthening and subsequent abuse of authority, the subjugation of the civil service, the affinity for spectacle, and the insistence that the leader, whether Der Führer or Il Duce, could do no wrong." Albright, Madeleine. Fascism: A Warning (pp. 44-45). Harper Perennial. Kindle Edition.
Trump is without question the American Hitler. Why are not those in Washington calling him out on this?
Why doesn't the press service walk out on Trump en masse when Tubby tells a reporter "shut up, piggy."
Why are we putting up with this shit, waiting to see what loss of life and freedoms can be "achieved" by this fucking madman in the White House? I, speaking for myself, would be glad to meet Trump on Fifth Avenue at high noon, and I am 4 years older than that fat slob.
Americans, my supposed fellow citizens, it's time you stopped focusing on the "woke" and instead focus on "woken." Right now you are for sure asleep.
Ben Shapiro is a Gish galloper. (Arguably the late Charlie Kirk was as well.) He just talks and talks really fast and claims victory when not all of his points are rebutted, because he made so many that nobody could rebut them all.
Also, he melted down when being interviewed by Andrew Neil on the BBC and accused him of being a lefty for asking about his own quotes (keep in mind, Andrew Neil was a cheerleader for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, regularly hosted climate-change deniers, and approved articles questioning the scientific consensus on HIV/AIDS when at The Sunday Times): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E
This *exactly*. His entire schtick is meretricious twaddle and absurdly wrong, but just-so, premises.
https://youtu.be/aDMjgOYOcDw?si=Qjz7zDnxs0cdU5zN
Ben Shapiro strikes me as someone who's smart enough to know better but is contractually required to pretend otherwise.
This right here, exactly—“The world is on fire. The Trump Administration is blowing up boats in international waters, committing apparent war crimes with reckless abandon as the world looks on in horror. There is an international trade war destabilizing the global economy. Wary middle-power countries balancing between the West and China are being pushed in Beijing’s direction in the service of stability. Vladimir Putin continues his imperialist march westward to conquer Ukraine—a violent death throe of a declining ancient empire, pathologically obsessed with the extent of its borders.
I am in communion with Antonio Gramsci in this place. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born,” he wrote while sitting in prison, a political prisoner of Mussolini’s fascist regime. “Now is a time of monsters,” he added.
Abroad, dictators update their power calculations as America’s security posture collapses inward from its defense of the liberal order. At home, men whom Roosevelt would recognize as economic royalists and Progressive-era reformers would recognize as robber barons—this time with iPhones and Wi-Fi—are selling off the American people’s inheritance for scrap, paid in crypto, and funneled into the private jet, yacht, and real-estate empires of a politically entrepreneurial oligarch class.”
It’s all extremely overwhelming—I think most of us are traumatized or in shock.
I've rarely listened to Ben Shapiro, so I might be off base with this one, but he sounds like a Snake Oil salesman.
Side note. You spoke of Kant and Hume. I didn't know who they were. Thank you for teaching me something new! :)
My shit detector went off the first time I heard him speak. I can smell the disingenuousness from here. I can guess, but would imagine that this sort of dishonesty is an early buy-in to wherever the money flows -- unless he's born to this freakdom. "Gish gallop"? "Meretricious twaddle"? Wow. Sets my early warning flags up.
Yeah. That is strange. I'm proud to say, I have never listened to Mr. Shapiro for 30 seconds at one time. Or maybe ashamed to admit it. But the cognitive load of sorting through all that is just too debilitating.