ROYTERS: Swedish Climate Activist, Greta Thunberg, sailed into New York harbor this afternoon after braving a 15 day transatlantic voyage. Activists cheered her on into port where she was promptly detained by ICE and placed into a detention center for unaccompanied minors.
“We don’t care what kind of loopy language she speaks, you can’t get asylum here just because the world is too hot. Damn Swedes. I said bring the NORWEGIANS!”, Donald Trump is reported to have said.
Immigration lawyers are representing Thunberg pro bono, hoping to prevent her deportation to Honduras.
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Today’s satire, tommorow’s headlines.
The interesting question is that when Florida’s coastline is gone, and nothing will grow here, as in the movie “Interstellar,” where do the Trumps move to? Russia? Greenland? Take a shot at Mars?
I remember a chilling novel by Philip K. DIck, “The Penultimate Truth.” The entire population has moved underground because of the wars. People work all day to make machines to help the war effort. They are shown TV accounts of the battles, which feature robots in place of people. The President speaks to them, exhorting them to fight on. But there is no real President, it is a simulacrum. Russia has one, too, their speeches are actually written by the same team. And meanwhile, a small group of immensely rich people are living on top of the earth, in spots where the radioactivity has reduced so as make it reasonably habitable. They each own immense demesnes, while they keep the population underground, watching a war on their vidscreens which was over twenty-five years earlier. I’m sure that our current oligarchs have their exit plans as well.
This scenario assumes the Malefactors of Great Wealth are actually intelligent, when the fact of Benedict Donald illustrates vehemently that possession of wealth does not require intelligence in any way at all.
In other words, they’re too stupid to realize they’re sawing off the branch on which they sit.
CNN reports that Trump aides admitted that he lied about receiving calls from China about solving the tariff battle, in an effort to boost the stock market?
Why isn’t this all over the news every hour? This would be utterly illegal, the worst form of insider trading. It seemed pretty obvious to me that Trump was making up those stories about calls, but the media was pretty much accepting of it, and the stock market shot up. If the SEC doesn’t do anything about this, which of course it won’t, it has zero remaining credibility.
The “interesting” thing about this, is that since 90% of trades are done by machines on Wall Street, trying to make instant day trade profits, the average home investor doesn’t have much happen to his/her stocks, they go back to where they were. But Trump and his group, plus the Wall Street people with whom he is clearly in cahoots, make a fortune by day trading the inevitable ups and downs based on his tweets. We might as well be in the early 1920’s. A few people are making billions of dollars, while the average citizen barely gets by. And I don’t think that even Harding tried to game the stock market. I haven’t seen one Trump person go to jail for insider trading or stock manipulation. Martha Stewart did, for something which was not a thousandth as bad as all of this being revealed. That’s why Trump was so sanguine about the market going down last week, saying it was because Moulton dropped out of the primaries. He was certain that it would quickly go back up, and he would make even more money.
It is a measure of our current situation that I am not entirely certain this blog post is satire.
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This should be obvious, but I will write it anyway. Not many in the media do, that’s for sure.
When McConnell keeps saying that he won’t bring any gun control legislation to the Senate floor, he is abrogating the responsibility of the Senate. The Senate is not the right arm of the President, ever. It is not a subsidiary of the Executive Branch. It is supposed to vote on legislation passed by the House. Up or down. That is what the Senate is supposed to be doing.
What McConnell is doing with it, is making sure that his Republican members are not forced to vote on a popular piece of legislation, because if they vote against it, it will damage their chances of being elected. If they vote for it, and the President vetoes it, the President is damaged. This is exactly McConnell’s calculation and rationale. It is violative of the Senate’s role as set out in our Constitution, just like not even holding a hearing on Merrick Garland violated the “Advise and Consent” mandate in that document.
The media is either too obtuse or too much in favor of Republicans, to excoriate him over this. McConnell has basically taken over the Senate, no one has any votes unless he deigns to allow them one on something he and Trump want passed. Otherwise, the Senators just sit there get haircuts, work out, and go to dinners. all on taxpayers’ expense. I am surprised that no Democratic Senators fiercely go after McConnnell on this, whatever the consequences. I would recommend that the DNC, the DSCC, their candidates, run ads and slogans along the line of, “Free the Senate from Mitch McConnell’s one-man tyranny.”
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