Karma

 

                                                       "The people have the government they deserve ."

                                                                          Joseph de Maistre

"...defenses against folly..."

                                                           I haven't been able to find a positive conclusion for this morning's Effort, but I haven't looked that hard either .   What follows has been by the side of this machine for a couple of days, maybe it will satisfy .

                                           "When the war had widened its gap, not between nobles and commons, nor between rich and poor, but between the commercial and industrial class, which prospered, and the agricultural which suffered :  and when the city had as leaders  not the far-sighted and independent Pericles, but men of less wisdom and meaner spirit, more disposed to foment and exploit than to restrain outbursts of popular emotion, then these defenses against folly were not strong enough ."

                    The "defenses against folly" are not today's topic and require much more time to articulate.  but here, you can see the parallel .   The above passage is from the chapter, "The Greeks At War" found in Kitto's THE GREEKS .

                                                                 {As best you can}

                                                      Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

"Meanwhile, back at the raunch..."

                                                           American democrats are flailing and thrashing about in a pool of Anti-trump revulsion, they don't know what to do or what to say to the American Electorate to convince them to vote for DEMOCRATS other than "DO YOU BELIEVE THIS FUCKING SHIT ??? "    The American Media Outlets,  specifically NEWS Outlets,  have joined together to boycott trump .   "IT" 's something .  BUT when will those news outlets finally 'get around' to asking democrats for a fucking PLAN OF ACTION ?   At what time will reporters ask democrats  WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GONNA DEMAND THAT THE GOV RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE, and not by a little, but by enough so that it becomes a LIVING WAGE ???    In the Olden Days of Yesteryear [the 70's] we would bemoan the FACT that the Minimum Wage was a SLAVE WAGE , that it was IMPOSSIBLE to advance in Life because "IT" was a --->  SUBSTISTENCE wage INCAPABLE of supplying ANY "liquid capital" .   

                            Further,  when are the news people gonna ask "DO YOU HAVE A PLAN TO TAX THE RICH AND FORCE THEM TO PAY WHAT WE PAY  IN TAXES ????  

                            The PEOPLE have a LIST yet the democrats are listless .

We're gonna "take it up the ass and pay through the nose" .

                                                            The republican candidates that are distancing themselves from trump are DEMANDING an end to trump's WAR  WITHOUT suppling ANY 'specifics' as to the "HOW" .   Notable Figure, James Carville laid out his analysis for an End, and it WASN'T 'pretty' .   The only way out is MONEY  V----------A----------S----------T sums of CASH given to Iran in the expectation that MONEY will ease them towards an END of the WAR and the opening of Hormuz .   Technically its "War REPARATIONS" but what will be the Cost of the MURDER of Iran's Leaders, and the Family Members ????    Trump has NO ---> Leverage, meaning, Iran CLEARLY has "The Upper Hand" and can squeeze America to DEATH .  Resupply ships are steaming from Russia and China and Iran has a FLOURISHING  "Black Market" that exists between Iran and its bordering neighbors --- only the Population is in DIRE STRAITS .   Iran will DEMAND  the Money to rebuild what americans Destroyed, all its Infrastructures, Power Sources, Schools, Hospitals, the List is almost endless .   Even if amercan LEAVES with nothing left behind, Iran will still have Hormuz and use IT to exact tolls, and impose tariffs, and further demand TRIBUTE from those that attacked Iran, the Countries of the Arabian Peninsula and Beyond .   

                               You wanna Believe that in an Enlightened Civilization the U.N. would DEMAND that the u.s. STOP its Aggression and LEAVE ---> IMMEDIATELY and then supply the Funds to rebuild Iran .   We do NOT live in an "Enlightened" Civilization, putin's WAR against Ukraine is Proof .  There it  was that NATO could have admitted Ukraine into its Network thereby NEULTRALIZING putin and HIS Aggression but THAT never happened .    The REASONS why "IT" didn't happen are grotesquely SICKENING .   

Polling the Polis

                                                           70% of those that have been polled [disfavor] trump and his Shit .   The polls are suspect and at times have been utterly RWONG* .   It's difficult for me to accept that between 1,000 and 2,000 folks can represent what a Nation Feels and Thinks .   Can those folks be Trusted to given an HONEST response ?   They may say one thing yet think quite the opposite .  We say, Ya gotta take "IT" with a grain of salt" .   I don't even know what that means .  On the surface it may mean "BE WARY" and >that< does "IT" for me .  {Suspicion is a bit cynical} .   I BELIEVE that folks publicly SAY they voted for a democrat, but SECRETLY they voted for trump--- {shame has power} .

                             Pundits have made assertions that republicans on the ballot are beginning to distance themselves from trump and his ratings, meaning,  NOW they do NOT want to be `associated` with trump, his WAR, his Economy, which are WELDED to each other to produce a fucking morass of SUFFERING .  Still, there is a riding sentiment that "people are 'coming around' ", that is, are awakening to trump AS A FASCIST DICTATOR, whose only CARE is for himself, his kin, and his cult leaders --- the rest of the nation be DAMNED .   No one has yet to declare these same republicans as "RATS DESERTING A SINKING SHIP" .  Trump's "Favorability" is going DOWN and so is he .

                            

"WE WILL BURY YOU"

                                                            Yesterday trump was at the U.N. to deliver some sort of speech welcoming the Nations of the World .  I expected 'fireworks' and 'bombs' .   I figured the World Nations would be incensed over trump's WAR, putin's WAR and netanyahu's WAR and that there would be GLOBAL CONDEMNATION by the Aggrieved .  Holy fuck was I off .

                           Trump's 'speech' if you want to call it that, was as BOASTFUL as ARROGANCE could be, he claimed that america was in a "Golden Age" and it was the LEADER of the World in every category that a Nation could be  evaluated .  I could barely believe what I was hearing .  I had expected the nations to BOOOOOO  trump, I  had wished  they  would  stand  and  walk  out to  express their REVULSION .   Only Cuba walked out--- not Iran, not Yemen, not one from the Arab Peninsula--- .

                          I mean shit, all the Countries that trump has "fucked-over" just sat there receiving his words as if he were Normal .  

                          Trump said he had been deliberating over whether or not he should remove Iran from the Face of the Earth ,  he was Nikita Khrushchev standing, removing his shoe and thundering it on the desk BELLOWING    "WE WILL BURY YOU" .   I was HORRIFIED, Sickened and Dysgusted* .   Not even a PEEP from the nations .     "IT" was all "trump being trump"  as "Ho Hum" as "IT" gets .  WTF can't even get close ... .

Aesop

                                                            Aesop on the Auction Block at Ephesus

                         "Aesop was standing between an orator and a singer .  A prospective buyer was the Lydian philosopher, Xantus .  Xantus asked the orator what he could do--- 'Anything' was his answer .   He asked the same question of the singer--- 'Everything' came the reply.   Finally Xantus got around to Aesop and asked him what he could do --- 'Nothing' said Aesop .  'Nothing' repeated Xantus disbelievingly .   'One of my companions',  said Aesop, 'says he can do anything and the other says he can do everything, that leaves me with nothing' .

                           "Xantus liked Aesop's answer and asked, ' If I buy you will you promise to be good and honest ?'  'I'll be that whether you buy me or not', said Aesop .  'Will you promise not to run away?'  'Did you ever hear of a bird in a cage tell his master he intended to escape ?'

                                                    Quoted by Dick Gregory in his NO MORE LIES .

                                                           Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

*** Just so you know Aesop is pronounced   E  sow  as in the porcine sow .