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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Got Leverage?

"The Art of the Deal" isn't Rocket Science.  It's "art"

Can America Shake Empire?  Can Trump?

32 comments:

Les Carpenter said...

Nope and Nope.

Maybe Iran can break the trend of many years?

Netanyahu has a desire to initiate the apocalypse.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Then he should nuke them and get it over with.

Les Carpenter said...

Or, they should nuke the Zionist Butcher and get it over with.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

They don't have a nuke, unless Pakistan gave them one.

Les Carpenter said...

Perhaps they should.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

One less bomb to drop on India!

Les Carpenter said...

Pakistan is afraid of India. Mutual self destruction and all that. As is India.

The world should hope neither has a Netanyahu or Trump.

Les Carpenter said...

And Huckabee, what raving moronic Christian Nationalist. Hope Trump ignores his bullsh*t.

Les Carpenter said...

Defining Trumpism and America today.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

That's what collective guilt-pride does to you. It makes you stupid. Like the Germans after WWII vis a vis the Jews. Like the Democrats after the Civil Way vis a vis the Blacks (and doubly today). And like the Colonial Powers after wWII vis a vis their colonial nations races.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

As Hannah Arendt said, "There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

The "collective ethic" makes the collective that identifies with it, "Stupid". And white guilt-pride is a stupid collective ethic.

Les Carpenter said...

Expected your response. White Supremacists love to use that argument. They feel it absolve them of recognizing the TRUTH of their ancestors unethical choices. Choices that left untold scars on indigenous peoples across the globe.

Don't buy your bunk now and won't in the future. Yet I feel no guilt. Just a deep recognition as well as understanding why people of color have trouble trusting White People. Especially people with your mindset.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

My ancestors ended slavery. What did yours do?

Les Carpenter said...

The same. And my ancestors understood the impact slavery had on black people during slavery as well as the governmwnr sanctioned instructional racism that followed people of color to this very day. Unlike you and yours.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

60 years of patronizing them hasn't helped them one bit. Enough is enough. The institutional neoracism of Affirmative Action and DEI has made them weak and dependent. Time to stop handicapping them and make them stand on their own feet.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...and you're the one who gelded them.

Les Carpenter said...

We will continue to disagree.

And I know that I, and muti millions of other people are right in our views.

Once again you're wrong.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

It's the well intentioned stupid people who always do the most harm.

Les Carpenter said...

I've actually done nothing. Except speak truth. As I see it. Truth to power. Truth to the tRump Orange Diarrhea of lies.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Ad hominem only dilutes whatever truth you speak.

Les Carpenter said...

The right needs to learn that IN SPADES.

Anonymous said...

Then... teach em.

But, and that is a sad truthabout demns -- they courageous only while in their comfy echo-chambers ;-p

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The right fights racism, hard AND soft.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...but we try and do it in a colourblind way. The MLK, Jr. way (as opposed to the Critical Race Theory way).

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

@Q,

They'd rather be SEEN to be supportive of blacks than actually BE supportive of them.

Anonymous said...

Not coming through

Anonymous said...

YAP! )))

Faking until you make it??? Naaah )))). Faking, faking, faking... all way down. ))))

Anonymous said...

Well. Let's for how long it will exist.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Its going to get ever faker until the veil of internet and digital anonimity gets lifted. This is the age of "profilicity"... just one step further away from "sincerity" as an identity technology.

Anonymous said...

Naaah. It's just resurfaceing OLD.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Desire for fame?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

A reversal of the "Pauline Intervention"?

The change that is made, the linguistic change, is not merely a swapping out of terminology. It's not one word concept superseding another. It's a transformation in the very operation and the very structure of language. That is the form that legislating values takes in Practical terms. It's a revision, or in this case a full reversal, of the way that language operates. The very goals of language are altered. Language in the previous era was this act of mutual recognition and jubilation in oneself, and one's own goodness, and in the goodness of everyone in the group. The Pauline intervention reverses every one of those aspects.