Seig Heil, Der Trumpenfuerher
Vitally important message from one of our most-respected journalists.
I’d seen this.
It’s appalling and it’s what I’ve howled about for a long, long time.
They murdered journalists during the first Gulf War if they didn’t toe the party line and sweeten the shots and fake the damage, etc.
(Same group of “dead” kids spotted in image after image of supposedly different places, for instance, or hearing the Patriot Missiles explode in real time, despite physics and doppler effect, etc.)
Embedded journalists were fragged.
The hotel they were forced to live in was shelled repeatedly, by US forces.
Some simply vanished.
Investigative journalists were “found dead” in hotel rooms, having strangled themselves, cut their own throats, and blown their heads off with TWO shots from a shot gun that is not, ahem, in the room. Suicide.
Off bridges, in car and plane crashes, or just vanished while investigating stories. Often after warning their families to run or hide, warnings labeled “paranoid” by the tame media.
No, not all nor even most journalists are bent, duplicitous, or spear-carrying for big brother. It’s more that the truly inquisitive ones are not rewarded, promoted, or published. They’re forced to the fringe, then bumped off edges if they manage to get close to anything real.
System’s corrupt, not necessarily the reporters.
Now it’s percolated to the top, with Amanpour, a remarkable journalist of huge integrity and bravery, because we’ve gone openly fascist. She’s covered wars in countries where the dictators abused the press and media in these Trumpish ways. We’re going to see breath-taking moves soon, guaranteed.
Most will keep gaping like landed carp.
What angers me the most is the Vichy Quisling normalizers, who are acting as if all this is just par for the course. It’s NOT NORMAL, and he is NOT A PRESIDENT. This is a Nazi coup, and we’d better get that straight and pick up resistance to the point of going after the psychopaths physically, violently. Anything short of that allows them to consolidate their power and once that’s achieved, we are toast.
We humanity, I mean. Mankind. Extinction looms, as Stephen Hawking has now come out and said. He characterized Trump as the seal on the deal that we’ve entered into that Most Dangerous Phase of civilization, in which most destroy themselves. Worse, we have the capacity now, as never before, to wipe off all higher forms of life. No more mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, or birds. Maybe nothing down to bacteria, perhaps not even that; with a runaway greenhouse effect, Earth will soon mirror Venus, with temperatures of 900* F. and ponds of liquid metal, sulphuric acid storms, and so on. Nothing lives in that.
It’s accomplished by unfettered fracking, pollution, and despoiling the remaining forests, glaciers, and so on. Which of course Trumpers are all for. Profit über alles, unto extinction.
We’ve passed the point of no return at 400 parts per million carbon in our atmosphere. That happened earlier this year. We passed the tipping point toward full runaway greenhouse during the Cheney Junta. This is what climatologists say. It’s science. Even if we ceased pollution entirely right now, inertia would take us well into full greenhouse, meaning no higher life forms.
It’s incredible, but all we have left is a brief chance at revenge against our murderers. We know who and where they are. Thing is, going after them only shortens the short time we have left anyhow. Humanity will be extinct within the life-times of those alive now, regardless. Do we want a few more years or do we want to avenge our murder?
Kinda like a Noir Mystery by Cornell Woolrich, ain’t it?
And this is why I’m so slap-happy and optimistic. The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades. Always look on the bright side of life.
Joy to the world.
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Yes, steep slide into the pool of slippery-slope run-off. Sadly, this is how I view things. I keep analyzing them over and over and this is what comes up every time, with minor variations.
No one is coming to help us.
We did it to ourselves, or allowed it to be done, and only we could have stopped it, but didn’t.
The guillotine blade has been released and is falling. Anything you’d like to blurt, best be fast about it.
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