The pond had hoped to celebrate American exceptionalism, it being the day for it … until the climate denialists got in the road.
But now that's done and dusted, at least until the next outburst, it's time to party.
You know, a few fireworks, and a celebration the way a former Australian turned traitor for the moola has helped comprehensively fuck the United States …
Yes, Australia might be a small player on the United States, but did we send them a worm or what?
It's not just Vlad the impaler that can pull off that trick - dinkum Ozzies, oi, oi, oi can do it too, though perhaps the pond should celebrate with a more modern cartoon …
And so to one of the pillars of the failing, flailing democracy …chairman Rupert's quislings at the WSJ, close-kissing cousins of our domestic reptiles … similarly expert at climate denialism, disruption and dreaming on a star ...
Uh huh, please allow the pond to celebrate with a few more cartoons …
Of course the pond doesn't expect the reptiles to do any meaningful analysis on this day - so many fireworks to see - which perhaps explains why this Mead's fermentation was remarkably short ...
What the fuck's a flag got to do with it? But there at the heart of the country is the fatal disease, the bizarreness that sees every second house and car flapping a flag in the breeze, as if that promises the country salvation …
Well if the pond might take a knee, or at least a cartoon or three …
Mead: "...the US emerged just as the pace of human history was accelerating. In the mid-18th century, the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution unleashed ideas and technologies that would transform the world. Modern capitalism exploded into being."
ReplyDeleteNeed I actually say that absolutely none of this - yes that's nought, nada, nothing - appears in the Ramsay Not A Degree on Western civilisation. You really would be better off ploughing through the Reader's Digest 'Treasury of Great Books'.
The backslapping and big-noting reminds me of so many corporations on their way out. You don't need to self-promote to this extent if you are doing well, you do this to distract from your failures. It's pretty hard, however, to distract from the flashing red sign - Trump, Trump, Trump!
ReplyDeleteThirty years ago the Chinese GDP was maybe 7% of the US GDP. Now it is about 70% (if measured by PPP it may be larger than the US). Whether you think it is a good thing or a bad thing the gap is closing really quickly.
Consider what the Chinese have done to push solar PV or implement pollution controls. In some ways they have moved into the vacuum created by the US - soft power again.
It will no doubt end in tears but I cannot help thinking that the US is to the world economy what Abbott is the LNP.