The crazy notion that there’s a syndicate of megabillionaires directing the economic well-being of the entire world is almost used news nowadays. Noam Chomsky even underestimated it saying “the most savage fringe of the Republican Party is carefully advancing policies designed to enrich ‘the masters of mankind,’ to borrow Adam Smith’s phrase.” The people who have this kind of power are named in Giants: The Global Power Elite (Peter Phillips). In this book which states with authority that the news is indeed fake and the agendas of virtually every government institution is directed by them. Phillips states, “…the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management—now represent the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management—the facilitators—of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing.” And I thought sixty-two was small!
These superpeople don’t need to be enriched. They’ve got the whole world in their hands. They manage every penny. They’ve got all of Eastern Europe, Africa is under their thumb, South America is a client continent too. The Middle East, the Pacific Rim. Look at Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Myanmar. The Dark Web is their oyster. Some clever academic wrote not too long ago that capitalism is incompatible with democracy, and now that seems childlike in its worldview. Authoritarians are coming to power everywhere, including under our American noses. Corruption, that most venerable and ubiquitous of ancient institutions, is making a home on our shores.
Tweety caresses a glowing ball with Mo bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. He goes into The Forbidden City with Uncle Ping. Tweety is all in with KJU in NoKo to stop the military exercises in the South China Sea. Park in SoK fawns over him saying he, only he made the 2016 Olympics a success. He does everything in his power to ease the way for Uncle Volodya, and now even Macron in France is attached to his leg. What the actual fuck, as the kids say. What is it about the gentleman? He is an expert grifter. a con man of rare talent. He’s never been stained by any illegality in years of skirting the laws of man and God.
Tim Snyder (The Road to Unfreedom) came up with a pithy apothegm to describe modern civilization: a meaningless farrago of fragments. He describes Western liberal order as the politics of inevitability. Oh yes, count on liberal democracy to overcome authoritarian rule every time, in time, for a time, messianic hegemony, baby, in the form of the inevitable 1000 years of peace or what-have-you, New World Order, New American Century, socialist paradise etc. Comic book nonsense, says Uncle Volodya. Or rather says Professor Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s go-to economist and star of Russian home bookshelves since the 90’s. Ivan says there’s the politics of eternity too, a circular affair in which the powers of liberal democracy prevail for a while then the authoritarians come back to fuck things up again. And so on for eternity amen amen.
Democracy is pointless. People ought to be content with just getting on with life. Life in Russia, in other words. Life actually almost everywhere except the former imperialist nations of Europe and the imperialist nation of USA. That’s where democracy is spouted above all without actually representing the thing because capitalism and democracy are incompatible. Socialism is universally crushed by right-wing authoritarians while the liberal democracies of such as France, USA, Britain, Germany, Canada et al have decimated, enslaved, sickened, massacred, annihilated, assassinated, subverted, and generally been poor landlords and neighbors icepicking their way into the hearts of millions in the so-called 3rd world.
The people piling up at the US-Mexican border were almost all from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. What these three nations have in common is that the United States destroyed them. It was through its squelching of any nationalist tendencies and protecting American corporations like United Fruit that made these places into uninhabitable blood-soaked hellholes. Murderous militias commanded by graduates of the depraved School of The Americas massacred and raped their way through the populace and left survivors at the mercy of vicious gangs whose fortunes rose exponentially when US drug interdiction was so successful in Colombia. Then when the refugees got to our border their families were physically torn into pieces and children were stuffed into yet more despicable hellholes. They weren’t escaping from (or to) Disneyland.
And now, sadly, it’s time to throw into the ashbin of history certain pleasant fictions. The Constitution of the United States is an agreement among Enlightenment gentlemen. They never in their worst hangovers imagined that a lad like Tweety could become president, so they didn’t establish their principles of government under the authority of law. In other words, it’s wide open to interpretation. Bad for us.
The United States hasn’t been “a beacon on a hill” for a long time. Every other nation of the world knows US foreign policy includes election interference, massacres, propping up ravening tin-pot dictators, lies, regime change, and on and on. Stroll through Africa to see what JSOC is doing in our name at this moment as we sit here behaving like we’re really smart. The gaping hypocrisy of our senators and content creators squawking about election interference, or national security state prime squirrels like Brennan throwing shade at Tweety, or the brazen and cynical presidential coup of 2000, gives the lie to any pretense of a democratic state. And if Tweety the amoral transactional grifter doesn’t delude himself about Fourth of July horseshit, why should we?
Think of Brazil: Carnival, Samba, Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer statue. Or do you think illegitimate president, jailed opponents, co-opted media, corrupt legislature, compromised courts? Brazil is Tweety’s happy place and his soulmate is Michel Temer. Forget about Hitler, Tweety likes his dictators warm and bloody.
So, without the delusion of democracy to bog you down and no real law of the land to jam you up, let Tweety be Tweety. We are truly fucked when Kavanaugh comes into the Supreme Court because it’ll be Christmas for all the scoundrels, dimwitted weasels, megabillionaires, criminal oligarchs and diminutive opportunists who know money is the lifeblood of the whole planet and have an endless supply of it.
Boghul & Acephale 