This past week's commentaries
It’s been a tumultuous first week of Donald Trump’s presidency, to say the least. Need to catch up on what you may have missed? Here are some of my commentaries from the past week:
Substack is the home for great culture
It’s been a tumultuous first week of Donald Trump’s presidency, to say the least. Need to catch up on what you may have missed? Here are some of my commentaries from the past week:
I watch the unfolding of the assault on our Federal system. While most look at the carnage, I see the impact on the Treasury. The Executive is making way for a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. That is what I see. Money being laid up to be stolen.
The confirmation of Hegseth indicates the gamesmanship in the Senate is at a high level. The max number of no votes was 3 to get Hegseth confirmed. It is magic. Drama. Clearly there is a lack of empathy and caring that is so prevalent with Republican Senators. Focused on our service members, their lack of empathy and caring shows they suffer psychopathy. Their support of their neo-fascist leader makes them all neo-fascists.
Do you need any other proof that we face an army of psychopathic neo-fascists (PNFs)? I appreciate those that do not like the name and will not support it; however, the name is deadly accurate. Odd words like misogyny and xenophobia are fine, but psychopathic neo-fascist is not fine? Fine! But I beg to differ. Psychopathic neo-fascist is their specific medical malady and political ideology! So give me a break. Enough with inaccurate labels. Knowing exactly who and what they are is critical to knowing their tactics and how to fight them. “Know thy enemy” is a phrase that comes from the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu's The Art of War. The full quote is, “Know thy enemy and know thyself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.” I suggest we learn the term, psychopathic neo-fascist, because that is exactly who we fight. We must raise, rouse, and rile our army to fight ONE demon, not ONE HUNDRED.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fight-psychopathic-neo-fascists?r=3m1bs
Steve is a bulldog of truth, so may I kindly serve up this dose, offered by University of MA Economics Professor Richard Wolff. The video is barely up a week and is at 1.7 million views. Dear Schmidt readers, this is essential listening, as are Wolff's other videos.
We will get nowhere unless we deal in absolute truth going forward. And you will KNOW every word is true as we all have lived it, some (like me) for decades. But pain is difficult, so we all live in our own forms of denial, which must stop. Truth is the only way.
https://youtu.be/sFa4Lm_ZTyI?si=wWhe5_KGbEJ4Z3w6