This is the latest installment in an occasional
series of public service broadcasts.
This is one we should never have had to do, but for whatever reason
here we are, saddled with the single most immoral, evil and corrupt regime in
modern history.
This focuses on the enablers, but it also includes the ramblings of
the degenerate in chief. For that I can only apologise. When you listen to
previous fascist lunatics speaking they sound psychotic. Whether it's Hitler or
Mussolini's impassioned mania, or the cold, clinical sociopaths of the Soviet
Union they come across as intimidating and scary as hell. Trump just sounds
like a two bit con-man trying to sell you a bridge. Which is accurate, because
that's exactly what he is. He doesn't believe what he says, it's all designed
to create confusion and scapegoat soft targets in the population so he can
focus on his real constituents - the Epstein Class.
This isn't about left and
right - it's about the top 1% thinking they can do anything the hell they want
and not be held accountable while the other 99% have to wallow in the dirt they
leave at the bottom of the sty. It's the Orwellian nightmare of Animal Farm and
1984 come to life, 40 years after Orwell thought it would. He may have got the
timing slightly out, but he got the details bang on. The enablers try
to spin you until you don't know what you think you know and you
don't see what you think you see. The only silver lining in all of this is
that, with the exception of Fox, Trump's enablers are all amateurs. If they had
any nous we would be screwed. Instead we get the clown posse.
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The gap between the top 1% wealthiest people in the world
and the other 99% is about the greatest it has been since the time of the
Egyptian pharaohs. It is so great that the top 1% has started to see itself as
being separate from the rest of the human race. Not bound by the same laws.
Viewing humaity as a disposable commodity, or at worst given the most recent
drop of Epstein files, like livestock that can be farmed.
These people do not have your best interests at heart, and they
aren’t going anywhere. They are young, they will be around for another 30-40
years minimum, getting richer and becoming more power hungry and detached.
What right do these people have to such extortionate wealth?
None. They are just the inheritors of good luck and being in the right place at
the right time. They aren’t the only people who have ever had good ideas, but
with access to the entire globe their reach has grown exponentially in an incredibly
short period. Once you get on the wealth wave it just keeps on growing. Money
breeds money. There is no upper limit for these people.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they just stuck to being the new
Scrooge McDuck, but now they want to get involved in politics – on the fascist
side. Democracy? Annoying. Borders? Meaningless when you own properties all
over the globe (look at Trump’s ridiculous ‘Board of Peace’). Morals? The only
morals they have are the ones that appear when they get caught doing something
dodgy. Any other time they can do what the fuck they want. They have moved on
from being the fabled Illuminati of the 20th Century to the Epstein
Class of today.
So what can be done? Short of a French revolution style
solution, the only thing in your power is the power of boycott. Look what
happened to Tesla when Musk ripped off his mask. It lost hundreds of billions
of dollars in value virtually overnight. Don’t buy products associated with
them. Avoid their media platforms. They only understand money and power, so hit
them in their wallets. There are alternatives like Bluesky instead of Twitter
(or X or whatever) and plenty of online shopping platforms other than Amazon.
Just say no, I don’t want any of your shit.
Oh yeah – and don’t support any politician that is supported
by them. Politicians are just legislative janitors– there to do their dirty
work ad protect them from accountability.
All of this requires vigilance and actually doing some
homework, but the days of putting blind faith into the powers that be are over.
Ignorance will just turn you into a peasant, which is ultimately what they
want.
We are talking about mythical creatures here. Something as
likely as a white pony with a horn on its nose dancing on a rainbow. No, it’s
not a Republican with a spine (actually, no it would be a Republican with a
spine as well), I’m talking about rich folks with a generous soul.
It’s been a popular myth since the 1980s, when Reagan,
Thatcher and sundry others put their poisonous agendas into action, that giving
money to rich people benefits everyone. And how does it benefit everyone? Because
they will be spending up large, dishing out their wealth to worthy causes and
passing on savings to the minions with very little. And how often does that
happen? I’ll let you answer that for yourself.
Trickle down economics is the biggest lie ever dreamt up by
the power-at-any-cost elite. Rich people don’t spend money, they tie it up in
property, shares, bonds and other long term and inaccessible forms that benefit
no one except themselves and their families/cronies/shareholders. Right wing
spin doctors love to point out the few examples of philanthropy that exist as
proof that the system works, but it’s like a sighting of bigfoot. It maintains
the myth while allowing the status quo to continue unquestioned.
The trickle down effect is actually a vacuum up effect.
Because rich folks can afford high prices, the people selling the goods pitch
prices aimed at those who can afford to pay top dollar. That’s why you can’t
afford to buy a house, or stay in a hotel, or buy cheese in the supermarket.
Someone else can, and if you can’t, screw you. That’s how economics actually
works. As long as the rich and powerful will pay it, nothing else matters,
because rich and powerful people are political donors, and policy is for sale.
I don’t know if you saw Trump’s ludicrous promotional video
for his vision for Gaza that he had AI generated, with Elon Musk dancing around
throwing money in the air for children to collect at his feet. That’s what
those people want you to think is happening. That’s how dumb they think you
are. And unfortunately, that’s how dumb some people actually are. They look at
those gazillionaires and think they must be good people because they have got
so much. WRONG. They are gazillionaires because they are soulless bastards
without a conscience that have screwed people over for their whole lives and are
hogged everything for themselves.
The latest pennies from heaven myth are Trump’s tariffs. I
don’t know how many times people need to be reminded – tariffs are a tax, paid
by the importer of goods from overseas. The importer pays money they already have to the government as
an import duty (the tariff). It’s a cost to the importer, paid out of their
pocket. No one in their right mind is going to wear that, so the importer
passes that additional cost on to the wholesaler, who isn’t about to carry it
either, so they pass it on to the retailer, who has no profits to absorb it, so
they pass it on to you, the consumer, who ends up paying it. None of that money
has arrived from overseas. It all existed onshore. It is a re-distribution of domestic
wealth from private individuals to the government.
There are no pennies from
heaven when tariffs are imposed. It’s just part of Trump’s endless firehose of lies
and gaslighting. If it was true, and tariffs brought in billions of dollars to
the economy from overseas, every country in the world would set tariffs at
1,000% because then it would just be rainin’ cash.
The truth eventually becomes clear when businesses collapse
and people notice their costs going up, but they don’t necessarily join the
dots. There is always someone for politicians and their enablers in mainstream
media to blame.
So here are some truths for you to learn and repeat:
Rich folks don’t give a shit about you
Tariffs are a tax
Billionaire backed corporate media lie to you
24/7
And always remember this: the only good unicorn is a dead
one.
This is a
belated follow up to my previous post about the big G and his usefulness as a
tool for oppression. You can’t talk about the father without mentioning the
son, or his ghost, or whatever it is that folks think he is.
All myths
and legends have some root in fact, and the myth of Jesus is no different. I
use the word myth for a reason. The Oxford Dictionary defines a myth as “a
traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or
explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural
beings or events”. Sound familiar? Man from humble origins upends established
and hypocritical religious system while carrying out multiple miraculous acts
that build up cult like devotion. Walking on water, feeding thousands with next
to nothing and raising the dead. Not your average protester in other words. But
who was this ancient liberal social activist really?
There seems
to be a considerable amount of embellishment in the origin story, or at least basic
misunderstanding of facts that lead to embellishment. His mother was considered
to be a virgin, but there is a lot of debate about the translation of that from
ancient Hebrew. The word in the original Hebrew texts could also mean an
unmarried woman, which makes more sense if we are trying to dissect the myth
from the fact. Then there is the wandering star leading the wise men to the
baby Jesus, which introduces elements of UFO conspiracy to the story. I don’t
have much of an opinion on that, but the wise men aspect sets up the link to
ancient prophecy that caused the ructions in the religious establishment that
would eventually lead to his demise as an accused charlatan/messiah (delete
according to your beliefs). Along the way there are the aforementioned
miracles, the social activism and the development of the cult that would
eventually take over most of the known world, until Mohammed emerged to present
a counter claim.
The first
thing to ask is, did Jesus exist as a person or is it all a legend using an
avatar to deliver a moral lesson? Well, the fact that both the Jews and the
Romans wrote about him indicates that he was a real person. The Romans in
particular had no need to write about a remote messianic figure when they had
their own well-established pantheon of supernatural beings to worship. They
wouldn’t have bothered promoting the story if there was no actual trouble-maker
to focus on. The fact that they didn’t take him seriously actually adds more
legitimacy to it. They didn’t think he was worthy, but he was causing such a
big stir in their conquered territory that they recorded it for posterity in a
“how about the nerve of this guy” kind of way.
And that is
where the myth-making kicks in. Jesus might have gone unnoticed if the system
he was attacking wasn’t under the control of the most powerful civilization on
Earth at the time. If he was a shaman in some remote Mongolian village it would
have fed the local story tellers for generations, but it would have stayed
below the radar everywhere else. The power of mass information was the same
then as it is now. If you want to make an impact you have to hit the headlines.
If it was left to the rabbis, Jesus would never have been spoken of again, but
his cult followers kept the story alive, embellished it a bit to strengthen its
impact, then started spreading it out from the middle east into the heart of
ancient civilisation. It was the Romans who legitimised Christianity by exposing
the underground cult and later adopting it, albeit with a few devotees fed to
the lions along the way. Jesus was ignored in his home territory, where he was
dismissed as a con-man, and later wholly rejected by the emergence of Islam.
The myth
had legs because, let’s face it, it’s a classic everyman, good guy vs bad guy,
sticking it to the man kind of story that everyone loves and which, with a bit
of added supernature, fitted the mold of Roman legends like Romulus and Remus.
By exposing the cult in its early stages the Romans helped it grow, and as
people started to move further around the world others began to latch onto it. As
Douglas Adams wrote in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Jesus ‘got nailed
to a tree for saying wouldn’t it be great if everyone was nice to each other
for a change’. The essential nugget at the heart of it resonated with people.
That’s the
‘how’, so let’s circle back to the ‘who’ and answer some questions. Was Jesus
the physical son of God? Were his reported miracles actually supernatural? Did
he actually die and make a come-back?
The answer
to all of these is no, no and no. Like I say, myths are based on some essential
truth, but they are built up with a few added bells and whistles to make them
worth re-telling. It would be a yawn to say, “yeah I knew Jesus, he was a good
guy, shame he had such a big mouth”. If you think what he said and did was
worth repeating you’ve got to get people on board, and they won’t listen if
there isn’t a wow factor. The ‘son of God’ thing is a metaphor. He was
embodying the teachings of God as written in ancient texts, which can be
described as him being the ‘son of’. You see that pattern continue over time in
a lower political level in figures like Ghandi, Mao and others who upend the
establishment and seem to embody the zeitgeist of the time.
As for the
miracles and the rebirth? Well, there are plenty of stage magicians that can
recreate similar miracles. The English magician Dynamo, in particular, spent a
lot of effort in the early 2000’s walking on water, emptying thousands of fish
from a barrel and levitating in some pretty spectacular stunts. Jesus no doubt
had some similar skills in the illusion department. Don’t ask me how they do
it, but are they genuine miracles? Even the story of Lazarus must have some
medical roots. Raising someone from a coma is a miracle a lot of doctors
perform on a daily basis, but back then it must have seemed like the work of
God. Jesus raising himself? Indian yogis do some wild stuff with their
metabolism – maybe Jesus was able to ‘play dead’, even with a spear in his
side, until he was cut down and was able to slowly recover in the tomb before
emerging ‘reborn’.
What about
Jesus the man then? What was he actually like? Born-Again Christians make a big
deal about ‘knowing Jesus’, but do they really? From the stories in the bible
it’s obvious he was a complex character with some serious skills in self-promotion.
Narcissism is a horrible thing, but a narcissist focused on doing good would
fit his profile. ‘I am the son of God’ and all that. Couple that with some exhibitionist
manic-depressive episodes (the whole crucifixion thing) and you are getting
close to his personality. He would have stood out in a simpler time with such a
modern personality profile. There was a Jewish mystic who emerged in Turkey in
1666 called Sabbatai Zevi who was similarly endowed in the manic-depressive
exhibitionist stakes, but he wasn’t the complete package and history has
largely forgotten him. You need to be the real deal for messianic longevity.
Who will history remember in 100 years – Muhammad Ali or Evander Holyfield?
Right, Ali all the way.
Having said
that that, after 2,000 years, people are starting to critique Jesus a bit.
Maybe that’s the use by date for messiahs. American “Christians” in particular
find him a bit too liberal for their tastes. They want their messiah to be a
bit more kick-ass and little less forgiving. For a lot of them, Jesus would be
seen as a socialist trouble-maker/ radical left lunatic if he was around today.
So is it
time to move on? It’s always an individual choice, but here is an interesting
little fact as a final twist: Buddhists recognise Jesus as an incarnation of
Buddha. How meta is that from a phenomenological point of view? Maybe people
should just focus on doing what is right as a human being without resorting to
the cult of personality, because no matter what you believe in, actions ultimately
speak louder than words.
The name
gets thrown around a lot. You know: oh my God, thank God, God knows. But who is
this guy God? For someone who is so all pervasive he sure is conspicuous
by his absence. Sure, he may have created the world, but what’s he done lately?
He talks a good talk but for someone with such a vested interest in humanity he
sure is saving those walking shoes.
Then you
hit the complicating factor of him delegating most of the heavy lifting to his
late son. So who do you go to if you have a complaint? The company God &
Son doesn’t even have a website for God’s sake.
Alright,
enough frivolity in the intro. This is actually a serious topic, because the
phenomenon of Christianity has done more damage to the world than any other
human construct over the last couple of thousand years, and continues to do so
as we speak. The initial rationale behind Christianity was pretty straight
forward, and everyone needs some rules to live by. So don’t kill, don’t steal
and don’t lie. I get that. That makes sense. I think most people can accept
that and go on with their lives.
But then
you start going beyond that into the moral rules and the religious clauses.
That’s when it starts getting dodgy. Especially when you read the potential
punishment for breaking said rules. For someone who professes to love humanity
so much, the punishment for crossing him seems a bit extreme. I mean pardon me,
but being burned for eternity while demons stick pins in your flesh seems a bit
disproportionate for envying your neighbour’s donkey and cussing the big G and
J out. And where is the appeal process and probation option? It strikes me as
being a bit narcissistic – I love you as long as you grovel at my feet, but I
will unleash hell on you if you dare to cross me. Fuck that! That sounds like
the approach of every despot in human history, and they all were, are and will
be, scum. If someone like Putin or Trump thinks I’ll be swallowing their shit, they have many thinks coming. Same goes for Mr God, whoever he is.
I think the
biggest problem with Christianity is the way it has been used as a tool by the
empowered elite as a method of ensuring compliance and control. How many of
them have said they are God’s appointed representative, or that they are
blessed by said representative in the Vatican. The two go hand in hand. The
religion sets the rules with the dagger of divine punishment hanging over
everyone, then the power hungry among us latch onto it and say they are chosen,
so if you don’t follow my regime then you are going against God, so hell awaits
if you go against me. That fear factor is what ensures compliance. Occasionally
that system breaks and you have events like the French Revolution and American
War of Independence where people realised the Emperor was, in fact, naked. But
then the replacement regime finds they need legitimacy so they run back to the
Pope or whoever for some endorsement and off you go again. Power hungry people
love to put themselves up there with the big guy, whether through birth right
or by self appointment. More on this later.
The second
biggest problem with the whole corrupt system is the opening book in the bible,
which states that God made the world for the benefit of mankind. That has
opened the door for absurd exploitation and environmental damage. All the rape
and pillage merchants who dig up the ground, pollute the air and poison the
water justify it through that book. God said it’s a smorgasbord so we can go
for it. Get yours while you can and never mind those that come after. And when
we run out over here we’ll find some other part of the world to exploit. It
isn’t coveting your neighbour when God says it’s okay right? That’s just
grabbing what he said is yours.
Those sharp-eyed
readers will have noticed the glimmering of hypocrisy in there, which is the
third major aspect of Christianity that needs to be called out. Never mind the
abuse of power and the destruction of the planet. That can all be justified by
selective application of the bible. But what about when you cross the line and
start drifting into lying, stealing and killing to get what you want? Well, you
use your get out jail card by saying it’s God’s will. Let’s take it for a spin
to see how it works shall we?
Racism:
those other races don’t believe in our God, therefor they don’t fit into his
plans and can be ostracized, abused and, if they get stroppy, killed. They are
sinners because they have other Gods before ours right? And our God doesn’t
like sinners, especially the type that talk back and don’t grovel for
forgiveness.
Colonialism:
natural progression from racism and a major contributor to how fucked up the
world is under Christian authority. Those uneducated, pagan, barbaric people
need to be “saved”. And if they don’t want to be saved they can be punished as
sinners, which means forfeiting their culture, land and resources to those
enacting God’s will. We warned them. It’s God’s way or the highway.
War:
natural progression from colonliasm when you are dealing with whole countries
that don’t buy your shit. Since God doesn’t like heathens, because they are
sinful and won’t put him first, they need to be shown the error of their ways.
The medieval crusades were all about this, even though their opponents actually
followed the same God. But details, huh? They didn’t believe in his son, so
that had to be straightened out. You name just about any other war involving,
say, America and you will see them pushing the Christian side of things to deal
with “Godless communism”, “criminal juntas” and “Islamic terror”. Napalming
villages is what God would do if he could, right? The US army is just acting as
his right hand.
Greed: This
one applies in spades when looking at modern American style evangelism. I could
devote several pages to how ugly and corrupt that is, but let’s look at the
broad strokes. Evangelists believe that God provides to the holy. That the
devout get rewarded. Anything you need, pray for it and God will give it to you,
because you can have a personal relationship with the big guy and he knows what
you want. And what do most people want? Well, money of course. And God rewards
charity too, so once God rewards you with the cash you can give it all to your
local church, which is a tax free charity, and you will be doubly rewarded. See
how that one works. Your private jet having, diamond Rolex wearing, Ferrari
driving mother fucker of a preacher gets you so pious and devout you don’t know
which way is up, then says all you have was given to you by God, so it’s His
money anyway, so why not give it back to Him so you can prove how charitable
you are. But as there’s no return address you can give it to the church, which
represents God, and that will cover it. I, your preacher and God’s chosen
representative (and I know this because I can talk to him and have a better personal
relationship with him than you ever will) will use it to do God’s work; and buy
a couple of mansions and helicopters and gifts for my mistress on the side too,
but that’s okay because I am more devout than you and God wants to reward me (he told me so).
Yes,
piousness is a sweet thing once you know how to use it. Wealth is equal to
Godliness, and since wealth is power, all your political leaders have to do is pretend
to be pious and say they are getting closer to God by following the American
dream (through sucking up to oil barons and billionaires) on their way into
congress. So now you can extrapolate it even further by saying that political
power, enabled by wealth, is God given. Jesus is my saviour and Trump is my
president. Tidy, no? And very effective as we have just seen.
Apologies to
those who can’t deal with speaking truth to power, but these things have to be
said. Allowing corrupt people to run over you is no longer acceptable when the
future of the planet is at stake. People fret about zero oil. How about zero
water? How about apocalyptic genocides in God’s name? How about cataclysmic
shifts in weather patterns destroying food supplies while “Christians” drill,
baby, drill.
If you are
honest, faithful and trusting you have my sympathy, but you need to also need
to realise that you are being played. Don’t lie, don’t steal and don’t kill is
all you need. Everything else is a bunch of bull pucky.
For a bit
of light relief I recommend this channel: Mrs Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. It will educate and enlighten and
have you doubled over laughing if you let it. Don’t be afraid to say no to evil
manipulation. It’s like exiting a bad relationship. After the initial pain and
confusion has passed you will feel a whole lot better. Just replace that
devotion with an equal commitment to the planet and to respecting the good in
other people. And when other people aren’t good? Don’t give them anything, not
even time, and certainly not money or power. That’s how we got into this mess
in the first place.
I was going to put up an image of a swastika inside a star of David, but that would be cheap, sensationalist and a bit misleading. Symbolism needs to be handled with care. It's better to just put up photos of the effect. Have a look at the above photos and spot the difference. It isn't a trick. There isn't any difference. Both are the result of political bullshit forced on the innocent by narcissistic sociopaths.
There is probably a psychological term for it, but the victim often turns into the bully and acts the same way. That's what Israel has become. No one can deny the suffering of the Jewish people at the hands of the nazis, but IN NO WAY does it justify the Jewish people now committing their own genocide on the Palestinians. IN NO WAY does it justify the blind ego of a political leader who has lost all sense of humanity. Cut through all the political spin and righteous anger and what you are watching is history repeating itself, and the victim has become the oppressor.
When you hear right wing Israelis talking about cutting out the infection it is so close to Hitler's rhetoric it is chilling. When they label all Palestinians as terrorists they might as well give them matching uniforms and a badge. It's all the kind of political lie that allows them to bomb hospitals and refugee camps because they can claim they are all harbouring terrorists. If you believe that Hamas uses their own women and children as human shields you will believe anything. And even if they do, how does that justify killing said women and children to get to them? What is happening in Gaza is genocide, pure and simple - unjustifiable evil perpetrated in the name of God.
Fun fact: Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship THE SAME GOD. The only difference is who has the greatest prophet or not, and whether you believe in some fairly wacked out magic tricks - the likes of which are reproduced in the modern era by stage magicians that can pull off the old walking on water or being buried alive routine for the cameras. The madness of this has been going for a couple of thousand years and it is showing no sign of stopping. And it won't. Netanyahu's fine words that he is trying to unite ancient peoples are absurd. It's the same old shit - killing for peace is like fucking for virginity. All those Palestinian children that have watched their families murdered in front of them aren't going to grow up and think what a great guy he was for showing them the error of their ways. They are going to form the next generation of terrorists looking to settle the score. And so it goes on for eternity or until the rest of the world gets sucked into the vortex and self destructs.
What sucks more than anything in this is that the world is more likely to do that than to act to stop it. And why? Because Israel knows it has the USA at its shoulder. Netanyahu is acting like a crazed school yard bully because he knows his cage fighting big bother will come to his rescue when he whistles. As long as the arms flow the madness won't stop, and arms are big business in the USA. Religion and greed - the two compliment each other like wine and cheese at a billionaire's birthday party.
This post doesn't offer any solution other than restating the need for people to reject organised religion and political charlatans. The only religion is the moral standard we set for ourselves. Something completely abandoned by the religious and political hierarchies of the world.
Just to round it out here is one last photo of the precision removal of terrorists by the IDF. Oh yeah, and the 100 or so woman and children that happened to be in the way. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.
