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In case you haven't seen it, here is the 12 second clip that inspired this post. An Ignorant Man showing his great grasp of history. https://x.com/i/status/1986213496103592011 ------------------------------------ Karl Marx was born around the year 1000, exact date unknown. After attending Universities in Bonn and Berlin, he felt life on the continent was a little boring, so pushed off across the Channel to witness the upheavals there among various noble lords. He spent most of his time reading and writing in the Library of the British Museum, and around 1060 published his seminal work, Das Kapital. His timing was perfect. In 1066, William the Conqueror came over from Normandy and "conquered" England in what is now known as the Normal Conquest. But those were difficult times, with unruly Lords opposing William (or Guillaume, maybe) both in Normandy and England and he was looking for a way to govern these peoples separated by a Channel. He heard about Karl Marx and imme...

  In his big NBC interview shown yesterday, Dotard said it was a “big mistake” for DeathSantis to sign a 6 week abortion ban. Immediately, numerous pundits speculated that this could cause him to lose a lot of support in Iowa, the first-in-the-nation voters, where evangelicals dominate. And I thought - when will these guys learn? To use a formulation from an interview Jon Stewart did with one of them some months ago, the Talibangelicals don’t give a “flying fvck” about supposedly religious teaching - it’s all about power. To learn from the Brothers Karamazov again, if Jesus came back to earth tomorrow and criticized the Dotard, the Talibangelicals and the MAGA crowd would crucify him without a second thought. When you love and worship a rapist and pornstarfvcker, no other religious norms are going to stop you. ——————- To be very clear, this is true of ALL rulers who rely on religion to keep them in power - whether it’s Putin and Orban defending White Christianity, the Taliban in Af...

 If you like this post, do read others on my blog. It’s free….😀 A couple of years ago there was this discussion about what worthwhile things (If any) the EU has done. I wrote at the time that the EU’s greatest achievement by far (though under appreciated ) was the standardisation of the electric plug and the telephone jack (this was still in the days of landlines and dial-up modems). A business traveller making a trip in the late 80s or early 90s to 3 or 4 countries had to lug around adaptors for plugs and jacks for each country, a real pain somewhere. But then the EU came up with a standard, gave everyone 3 years to comply and it was done. Non-EU countries complied as well, so that soon you had 1 plug and 1 telephone jack for the whole of Europe and much of North Africa. Well, except for the U.K., which even then didn’t consider itself part of Europe, and Switzerland (not part of the EU) which also uses it’s plug and socket as an alcohol test for motorists. Anybody visiting the b...

  Having fairly completely botched his first week as Chief Twit (that people are already calling Chief Piece of Shxt), Elon is now trying to manage the damage. After his disastrous tweet promoting a disgusting conspiracy theory about the Pelosi break-in from the depths of a rightwing sewer, he took 3 hours to delete it. By then VW, Ford, and dozens of others had “paused” advertising on the new “Shxtter”. Seeing his 44 billion go up in smoke faster than anyone expected, he called me to ask if I would be willing to lead his “Content Moderation Council” or whatever it’s called. I said, “yeah, sure, for a billion or two, I’m willing to do it”.  But for anything less than that, you will have to follow my rules. What does that mean? - God asked. I said, “First, you will only be allowed to tweet once a month. And if your tweet breaks my content moderation rules, it will immediately become once in 2 months. And so on, till you learn how to tweet responsibly” Will you torture me so muc...

  How ironic that the GQP, Fox, the Fox News Journal, and the rightwing hysteria-sphere keeps making 1 big point that they think is amazing -  this is unprecedented, and the first time in 246 years that an ex-President’s house has been raided . They keep stressing - first time, first time, first time, never before, never before….. Well, I have news for these hypocrites. Where were you when a lot of other things happened for the first time in 246 years, and never before. Here’s a partial list to jog your memory  - the first time a President called for an assault on the Capitol - the first time a President tried to throw out election results - the first time a President paid $ 25 million to avoid a fraud conviction with Trump “University” - the first time a President lied 30000+ times in 4 years - the first time a President took the 5th 400 times in 1 day (after saying 5 years ago - “why would anybody take the 5th unless they were guilty?” - a statement that has come back t...

  Here is a partial list of “solutions” proposed by GQP Senators and reps, Fox News pundits, and other rightwing, soulless axxholes yesterday, each followed by my comments in brackets. - Give children bullet-proof backpacks. 1 Senator even suggested parents should buy children those instead of toys.  (They don’t wear backpacks in school. How about full bulletproof clothing? Why not give them full body armour? Heck, after your abortion laws have passed, make baby body armour compulsory - straight from the womb to safety). - why can’t we have security like at airports - with full body and backpack screening? (Well, the US has around 5000 airports, and about 150000 schools. They can’t even find enough miserably paid TSA personnel for the airports - good luck for the schools. Of course, since red states are banning books, and firing teachers who dare to mention black or gay people, maybe that money saved can be used to finance those scanners and the people to man them) - From Dan ...

  So, irrespective of what one thinks about the moral dimension of abortion, let me say for the 127th time.  For the GQP, the Talibangelicals, and unfortunately for a large part of the so-called “pro-life” movement,   life begins at conception and ends at birth .  After all, these same pro-life people are all for the death penalty. And the same crowd has opposed any help to poor mothers and their children. Is it a wonder that the rich US has maternal mortality and child mortality rates 4 times as high as Western Europe, and in at least one of those 2, rates worse than countries like Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan or Iran. In fact, Texas has a maternal mortality rate double that of Iran. So much for hypocrites being pro-life. Most of the red states that have restricted abortion and are ready to ban it after the Qourt rules also spend the least amount of money on expectant mothers or their children after they are born (if they don’t die in the process). There is...

  Bitcoin may be Bigtime Monkey Business, but there is smaller MB around as well, although Dotard probably would be mad that I refer to his Greatest Social Media the Planet (GSMP) has ever seen as monkey business. To recall the story till now. Early Sept, DWAC, what is known as a SPAC or blank check company, went public in a $ 300 m offering, with its shares trading at $ 10, which is basically what all monkey business SPACs trade at till they actually have a non-monkey, or real business, which usually takes a year or two. But end Sept, just a month later, it surprisingly announced that it would merge with Trump Media (TMTG),which would be starting their GSMP soon. That sent DWAC shares from 10 to $ 94 in day (did you ever think crap was worth so much?) prompting me to write it would be good to short the shares. They were very thinly traded, but if you succeeded, congratulations. They now trade at $ 40. And are well on their way back to $ 10, which would still be around 10 times mor...

  So after railing for a year or more against the teaching of CRT in schools, to newborns and to fetuses, the GQP passed numerous laws in red states on the issue, although none of those laws or the GQPidiots passing them could define what CRT was. So GQPers in Virginia took it open them to define how racism is to be taught in schools, introducing with great fanfare las week a bill detailing what  can  be taught in schools. Within hours the bill got great praise in states like Texas and Florida, where lawmakers are already wondering whether to go beyond fetuses and ban CRT for men and women who are contemplating having a child. Under the motto - “Your semen should be CRT free. Else please be abstinent.” Well, that great moment lasted a couple of hours. Among the things listed that could be taught in schools were the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates - specified further in the legislation as the debates between Lincoln, you know, the greatest President, and Frederick Douglas, ...

 The day is the Epiphany, when Christians believe the 3 oriental Kings brought presents of gold, frankincense and myrrh for the baby. In Russia and the Eastern Orthodox world, its often the day they celebrate Christmas, though this year it was the 7th. And in the US, this year it was the day when Biden finally realized the old Republican Party he knew is dead, replaced by a racist, bigoted GQP that talks a lot about Jesus but actually kneels before its own Orange Idol, which Jesus would have chased out of the temple,ike he did the money lender's.. That was definitely Biden's best speech of his Presidency. Finally using the biggest bully pulpit in the country. He hit the bloated Orangeman where it hurts most - his EGO. He never used his name - he didn't have to. But his various references to his having lost - being a LOSER - were meant to go for the gut. Almost as though the speech was written by the Lincoln Project. "He can’t accept that he lost, even though that’s wha...

  If you like this, do read other pieces on my blog. Its free 😀 Quiz Time, people. What do Dotard, Melania, Junior and Eric think the blockchain is? A) A device to restrict a dog on a walk B) A valuable necklace with which to show off at a party C) That emergency thingee to pull to stop a train Whatever the right answer is, the Trumps have suddenly realized or been told that the blockchain can provide a new line of criminality for them. To remind you, they (Dotard, Junio, Eric and Ivanka) were just forced some time ago to close down their “children’s charity” which was shown to have nothing to do with children or charity (okay, except charity for Dotard’s children). They also had to commit to never running a charity again. But that still leaves Melania free to grift, and so with big fanfare, Melania Visions was announced yesterday. These will be sold as NFTs on the Solana blockchain (SOL) which is a bitcoin-style monkey business, only monkey-er. Melania Trump’s first NFT offering ...

  (If you like this, do read  other items on my blog. Its free 😀) Bitcoin may be Bigtime Monkey Business, but there is smaller MB around as well, although Dotard probably would be mad that I refer to his Greatest Social Media the Planet (GSMP) has ever seen as monkey business. To recall the story till now. Early Sept, DWAC, what is known as a SPAC or blank check company, went public in a $ 300 m offering, with its shares trading at $ 10, which is basically what all monkey business SPACs trade at till they actually have a non-monkey, or real business, which usually takes a year or two. But end Sept, just a month later, it surprisingly announced that it would merge with Trump Media (TMTG),which would be starting their GSMP soon. That sent DWAC shares from 10 to $ 94 in day (did you ever think crap was worth so much?) prompting me to write it would be good to short the shares. They were very thinly traded, but if you succeeded, congratulations. They now trade at $ 40. And are we...

 If you like this, do read other items on my blog. Its free 😀 Will probably write more about Colin Powell if I get down to it. Its a subject that gives rise to a lot of what ifs and speculations. But another thought is more urgent to send out. Yes, except for the extreme right wing press and associated nutjobs, the papers had a lot of nice things to say about Powell, though all of them mentioned the worst part of his legacy - his speech before the UN making the case to attack Iraq. Even he realized it was a mistake, apologized for it many times, and knew it would unfortunately be part of his obituary and legacy. But of course, the praise for the Great Man Powell was too much for what my good friend Dave called the Supreme Axxhxxx Trump (He really hit the n. on the h. with that one). Showing his complete lack of grace or empathy or basic human feelings, His Most Supreme A sent out this statement: “Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called ...

  Idaho is a small US red state. There are about 6 people who actually know where it is.  It had its fair share of idiots and covidiots including Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who when Gov. Little went out of state yesterday quickly issued an executive order banning “vaccine passports”. You know, the way the GQP keeps banning things that don’t exist - like CRT in schools and abortions after birth. In October 2020, McGeachin was in a conservative think tank’s video — a gun in one hand, a Bible in the other — and questioned the existence of the pandemic. Real Americans were going to beat the virus with their guns - just shoot the damn things - and their Bibles - God will not allow a virus in His House. We know how that has turned out. What we will soon find out is what happens when covid becomes essentially a red state plague. At the moment, 14 of the 15 states with the highest number of cases to date are red states, as are all 15 with the highest cases in the last month. Similarly...

  With so much else going on, nobody in the rest of the world paid any attention to Little England's main political event of the year - the party conferences. You know Little England - that place that was left over after Brexit. Take away London, which voted overwhelmingly against Brexit, and you are left with Huckleberry Finn’s famous majority I mentioned yesterday. BoJo’s bojoes. Labour went first a week ago and it was a sorry affair. New leader Keith Starmer may not be quite as "crazy" as his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, but he also lacks the oomph that made Corbyn so popular among the faithful. Starmer came across as boring, which probably is not going to help Labour's chances. Labour is going to do blah blah blah yada yada yada.....yawn yawn yawn. And then came the Tories - normally representing the moneyed classes, but now just like with Trump and the GQP, claiming to be for the working class common man. Enough of those wccm seem to be impressed with this for now,...

(If you like this post, do read others or follow my blog. Its free😀)   Dotard’s Senate trial  begins on Tuesday . It does remind me a bit of Kafka’s famous work The Trial (Der Process), written 100 years ago. I have written about Kafka before, so you may be right to fear that more is coming. Kafka is one of the few writers to have a new word derived from his name - kafkaesque denotes something eerie, unusual, scary, intimidating, something we are incapable of understanding. Kafka’s Trial is like that, and in a way, so is Dotard’s. Seeing a number of frantic missed calls from my old friends Kayleigh and Kellyanne, being  the good-natured and helpful person I am, I decided to call them back. They sounded desperate, as Trump was losing reputable lawyers left and right, and was only left with the dregs of the trade. I pondered telling them my favorite lawyer joke that I told here some time ago, but decided it probably wasn’t the right time for them to be able to appreciate i...

 (If you like this post, do read others on my blog. Or follow it to get automatic updates. Its free 😀) So this morning there are 4 times as many US troops at the Capitol in Washington, than there are US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Both those countries have now offered to send troops to the US to help preserve democracy. An Iraqi govt spokesman said that they had always mistakenly assumed that the Green Zone in Baghdad was one of the most dangerous places on earth, but they now see that its actually quite a safe haven when compared to the Capitol in DC. So they would be willing to move some of their troops from the Green Zone to DC. His Afghani counterpart said everything is relative and looking at DC, they now feel quite safe in Kabul and so are also willing to help keep the peace next week in DC. A spokesman for Iran-backed militias denied that they were involved in training the rioters who overwhelmed the Capitol. We conduct intelligence tests before we recruit peop...

 (If you like this post, do read others on my blog. Or follow my blog. Its free 😀) We all know about the vaccine race. A bit less visible is the pardon race, with thousands lining up to get a pardon from Trump before he is kicked out of the White House  on Jan 20th.  To see how difficult and desperate that race is, I decided to ask for a pardon myself. In some ways, both races are similar. Earlier this week, the CDC met to decide who would get the vaccine first - a fraught decision with political ramifications. After much discussion, they decided the first recipients would be essential frontline workers (in health care and retail). Also this week the TCC met to discuss who should get a pardon first- also a fraught decision with political ramifications. As Andy Borowitz put it, “The White House is facing the daunting task of distributing thousands of pardons to those who are desperately in need. In an effort to insure an orderly rollout of pardons, the Trump Adm...

  (if you like this post, do look at others on my blog. Its free😀) The disintegration of the Trump legal battle to steal the election proceeds apace. After the departure of the white-shoe law firms I wrote about last week came the “greatest press conference of all time”, something even Hermann Goering could have learned from. While Rudy melted before out eyes, another nutty lawyer, Sidney Powell went into excruciating detail of how Chavez (dead since 2013), Venezuela, Cuba and China worked together with Dominion Systems (a provider of voting machines) to change millions of votes from Trump to Biden (I added the Pharaohs who she had overlooked). You don’t believe it? Well, nobody could. And after a weekend where that performance was pulverized in the news and on TV, even the Mad Man in the White House had to see how over-mad this was, and his remaining 2 lawyers put out this statement last night. TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a memb...