tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post4148271453758873811..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: They Refuse to Be Blessed, Throat, Eye and KnuckleboneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-58804434405699946842010-11-09T19:02:56.706-05:002010-11-09T19:02:56.706-05:00Hell, I didn't get the Triscallions ref til I ...Hell, I didn't get the Triscallions ref til I googled it.<br /><br />But it sounds like we're singing out the same song book.<br /><br />Best,<br />Jim H.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-74451058061351709902010-11-09T16:22:22.907-05:002010-11-09T16:22:22.907-05:00Yes, I've read them and meant to post a link b...Yes, I've read them and meant to post a link but oops. Will do tomorrow.<br /><br />Corporate (I'd change the metonymy to Triscallions if I thought enough people got the allusion) doesn't want more or less gov't, it wants gov't to do what the fuck Corporate wants gov't to do which is to enact regulations that protect private property from Democracy and to dismantle regulation that impedes their amassing capital at such a greedy pace the machine would crash of itself and/or spark a revolution. Call the first the GOP, the second the Democratic Party, in either case the motives are the same.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-48257741226945949632010-11-09T14:18:50.248-05:002010-11-09T14:18:50.248-05:00Dog,
Here's the paradigm: Rs love power and k...Dog,<br /><br />Here's the paradigm: Rs love power and know how to wield it to preserve their own and do; Ds love the institutions and know how to wield them to preserve them and do.<br /><br />Obama is a D. He's about preserving institutions of democracy. Bush was an R. He was about throwing his weight around.<br /><br />Obama is not a strongman. Never will be. He might be viewed one day as a great Reformer, but it's too early to say. Bush didn't care about democracy; it was all political calculation for him.<br /><br />That's not really an opinion from me. It's an observation. That's the analytical lens that makes sense without postulating nebulous, shady powers (a la "Corporate"). That's not to say Corporate isn't out there trying to take every advantage its ungodly, unprecedented historical wealth allows. It is. That's why Corporate allies easiest with the deregulating/less gov't/Libertarian crowd: open-field running.<br /><br />Sure, C wants to press its advantages with O and the Ds on the one hand, and wants to get him and his regulating-for-the-good-of-the-people's-institutions out of town STAT on the other. He's standing b/w it and unfettered profit-accrual.<br /><br />Trying to see O through the lens of the strongman Bush/Cheney is to completely miss the point, IMHO. It's not what does O want; it's what the institutions of gov't demand of him in his role.<br /><br />This is a point I've been trying to articulate for some time @ you know where.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-78277558428613754792010-11-09T11:43:16.636-05:002010-11-09T11:43:16.636-05:00Yes,you were in a blistering mood yesterday. Enjoy...Yes,you were in a blistering mood yesterday. Enjoyed myself! though we do disagree by degrees about Greenwald. He pisses people off who need to be pissed off (besides you) and he gets points from me for that.<br /><br />Well, I tried to present this as the thought experiment I meant it to be. All the post-election autopsies on what Obama *wanted* and *failed* to do got me thinking, what if he *was* the (naive) idealist re: united the country he presented himself to be. Would the status quo be any different?BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-42593750475779217922010-11-09T11:34:58.985-05:002010-11-09T11:34:58.985-05:00Oi, thanks for the potato! Glad you didn't pi...Oi, thanks for the potato! Glad you didn't pick one of the other nasty entries yesterday!<br /><br />Big Q: Why entertain what Obama "wanted"? Isn't the truest indicator of his wants divined by examining his acts? Of course, a trajectory like that of his life really does demonstrate what he wants, as he's spent a lifetime on his knees with his mouth in the zipper area of various corporate bagmen, head moving like a person bobbing for apples. Seems like he wants a full belly, if you ask me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-10392606769495173392010-11-09T11:19:10.949-05:002010-11-09T11:19:10.949-05:00Well, as I said, odds are Obama's inept and di...Well, as I said, odds are Obama's inept and dickish.<br /><br />So is Corporate. Incompetence isn't a bug, it's a feature. And a whip.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-34346475402809171522010-11-09T11:06:17.462-05:002010-11-09T11:06:17.462-05:00I really want to make a movie out of your vision o...I really want to make a movie out of your vision of how "Corporate" conspires to run Uhmuhrikuh. But I stopped taking acid so long ago that I have trouble framing it in my head. Do they have donuts in their underground K Street bunker? Maybe their very own Starbucks? Korean massage parlor? Is it like a mall, busy policymen done with their hard day's plotting your downtrending mediocrity strolling along and contentedly plucking the debauched fruits of their schemes as suits their hedonistic whims?<br /><br />Cause if not, then I'm just spinning my wheels at work. And if so, I sure hope the fuckers let me in. <br /><br />I vote for him being hopelessly bland and stupid. If he (and "Corporate") were as smart as you seem to like to think, you wouldn't even be capable of assembling your theory from observable evidence. Which wouldn't exist anyway.Landruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11954074164878242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-35410501308719912432010-11-09T09:21:24.595-05:002010-11-09T09:21:24.595-05:00Klaatu barada nikto!
Revolution? Only if tri-corn...Klaatu barada nikto!<br /><br />Revolution? Only if tri-corner hats come back into vogue. If you're gonna continue to be on the losing side, be so in style.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.com