July 14, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
Fox News, Rosenstein, Senators Schumer, Burr, Graham and Warner, et
al All Say It: The Russkies are Out to Conquer Lizard Lick, NC, and that Little
Community is Only Five Miles from
Me!! Oh My! Where Can I Hide?
Friends,
Every
few months the Neocon, Russophobic zealots at Fox News trot out the failed
billionaire, former Russian oligarch wannabe, Bill Browder (grandson of
American Communist Party chief Earl Browder) to recount just how evil that
Vladimir Putin really is—you see, Putin, quoth Browder, “had his lawyer Sergei
Magnitsky killed.” [For details on this Browder scoundrel, please see: “A
Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War,” https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/02/a-blacklisted-film-and-the-new-cold-war/
“The
Magnitsky Hoax,” http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-magnitsky-hoax/; and https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/01/meet-corrupt-billionaire-who-has-brought-about-new-cold-war.html]
No
doubt ole’ Vlad has gone around the globe and personally assassinated his political
enemies even in the farthest corners of the world. Why, he probably had
something to do with the killing of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, don’t
you know. Vlad was too young—only a 16 year teenager at the time? Never mind…back
in 1968 he still was capable of such acts, because, as Fox News along with all
the other farther Left Media tell us, he is “evil incarnate,” the second-coming
of Adolf Hitler, maybe even Satan himself (oops! I forgot…the Mainstream Media doesn’t
belief in Satan…well, that’s okay, if there ever was going to be one, we have
him now behind those icy Kremlin walls!
And even as a young teenager we can blame Putin!).
Of
course, most of the Neocons at Fox have now jumped on the Trump bandwagon,
conveniently, and the reasons as I have explained previously in various columns
and articles, have to do with power and attempting to shape the president’s foreign
policy. In this they—unlike those consistent Never Trumper Neocons (e.g., Max
Boot, Bill Kristol, George Will, etc. ad nauseum)—are essentially dishonest.
They don’t really agree with Donald Trump’s stated views on foreign policy;
rather they see him, and the ability to ingratiate themselves with him, as an
opportunity to influence his policies, turn them, even if ever so slightly,
towards their own views and globalist objectives. Thus, they couch their foaming-at-the-mouth
Russophobia in terms of—“President Trump is going to really get into it with
Putin!” “The Donald will hand Putin’s
head to him on a platter!” Or, Ms.
Lindsey Graham’s plea—“Mr. President, go into that meeting with Vlad and tell him
where to go, where to get off, that we KNOW what you’ve been doing!”
We
do?
And
then come those addenda about “stopping the invasion of Ukraine,” “get out of
Crimea,” “stop propping up Assad in Syria,” etc. That’s the narrative that
Graham and the Neocons have impressed on Trump that he simply must present to
Putin.
It
is all what some less polite friends of mine would term “BS,” but those are words
my English professor mother taught me never to use in civil conversation, which
I trust this is. In short, for anyone who has read the actual literature—and not
just absorbed the manure spread around by such palpable Fox airheads as Brian
Kilmeade or Ainsley Earhardt—the continued spectacle is rather nauseating.
The
latest little jab came yesterday with the ah-so-not-fortuitous announcement by that paragon of Department of
Justice professional probity and apolitical correctness, Rod Rosenstein, that
the DOJ had indicted 12 more Russkies
on attempts to “interfere” with our 2016 elections….I pause now to collect my
breath at this startling announcement, occurring as it did just two days before
the Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki. Of course, none of those 12 is in the US,
they are all living peacefully in Russia, farming out in Tula or working as cab
drivers in Smolensk. In short, it is
kinda like Old Abe Lincoln and his much-touted “Emancipation Proclamation” (you
know, the second most important document in US history after the Declaration of
Independence) which did not free one slave, as it ONLY applied to areas NOT
under Yankee control, while leaving all those areas with slavery UNDER YANKEE
control like Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri untouched. Rosenstein knows full well that his “determination”
(which I submit, again, is based on very dubious “data” collected by our
completely impartial [sic!!] “intelligence agencies”) has no practical effect…except
that it continues to fuel the rabid Russophobia of the Democrats (who used to
love the Russkies when Communism ruled the roost) and their partners in crime,
the Neocons, who deeply, in the depths of their dark souls, continue to suspect
that Putin and his traditionalist Christian supporters are secret anti-semites
who want to put them into concentration camps and reinstitute those bad old
Tsarist pogroms.
And
what is even more curious about this: it’s basically the same list that was
actually made available back earlier this year, in February—it really isn’t new
at all! Except that back then the media and the Russophobes did not have the
same reason to use it like now, just before the Helsinki Summit! Funny how these
things just aren't “news” until the media decides to make them “news” [see: http://russiafeed.com/breaking-robert-mueller-indicts-13-russians-russian-entities-conspiracy-charges/]
Of
course, the totality of the Democratic Party immediately pounced: “Mr. Trump
[they don’t want to call him “president” because they still hope that Mueller
can find something, anything, to rid them of him] cancel that meeting,” say
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Mark Warner.
Oh,
and that Warner is another pol who obviously had a complete, “invasion-of-the-body-snatchers”
lobotomy at an early age…but I forgot, he and North Carolina’s senior US senator, Republican Deep Stater Richard Burr are buddy-buddy, and both have canonized
and “authenticated” similar “results” about those evil Russkies (information
provided by our sterling white, non-political Intelligence services—yeah,
right, and let me sell you a plot of land, an oil well, in my back yard—for just
a few mil). You know, back in 1861 Virginia and North and South Carolina were
models of true patriotism and constitutional probity. That they are now
represented in the US Senate by such—be careful, Boyd, what you are about to
call these politicos—“individuals” as Senators Graham, Tim Scott, Burr, and
Warner assuredly has our ancestors rolling over at breakneck speed in their
graves. And doesn’t say much about the rapidly descending spiral of
intelligence and rationality among our citizens….
I
invite you to go back and read some of the previous items on this topic now on
my blog; I don’t feel like continuing to re-invent the wheel when the media and
the political Deep State are engaged in endless bouts of lunatic hysteria,
slinging those dried cow pies right and left to somehow solidify the narrative
of those evil Russkies and that new Satan, ur, Hitler, residing in the Kremlin. [see, www.boydcatheyreviewofbooks.blogspot.com]
In
this vein, I pass on another piece of sharp irony (and scathing parody) by our
friend noted author C. J. Hopkins. Hopkins has a tongue and pen even more
wicked than I have…My mother might have corrected some of his language, too.
Hardcore Hitler on Hitler in Helsinki
C.J. HOPKINS • JULY 10, 2018
Here it comes, the moment we’ve
been waiting for, when Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki to officially launch
the “Destruction of Democracy” and very possibly the Apocalypse itself. That’s
right, folks, once again, it appears we’re looking at the end of everything,
because according to the corporate media, on July 16, 2018, Trump is probably going to disband NATO so that Putin can invade the Baltic states, then Germany, then
the rest of Europe, and then presumably order an all-out thermonuclear strike
on the United States, which will pretty much end civilization as we know it. Or
perhaps the plan is to do away with NATO, withdraw all American troops
from Poland, let Putin rape and pillage Western Europe, and then have North
Korea nuke both coasts of the US mainland (and Canada, of course) so that a
Putin-Nazified Middle Amerika will have carte blanche to exterminate the
Mexicans and make women wear those “Handmaid” costumes, or some other
ridiculously paranoid scenario, possibly involving Susan Sarandon as some kind
of Putin-Nazi triple agent.
Tragically, the global
neoliberal establishment is completely powerless to stop Trump and Putin from
carrying out this evil scheme (whatever it turns out to be in the end), because
even the US Intelligence Community [AKA, the FBI and Deep State operative Rod
Rosenstein] has to obey the law, after all, and not do anything sneaky, or
unethical, not even with the fate of democracy at stake. No, unlike the
Russians, who go around blatantly poisoning people with novichok
oatmeal more or less whenever they like, the global capitalist ruling
classes’ hands are tied by their own integrity [sic!!]. All they can do is
watch in horror as these two Hitlerian megalomaniacs destroy their entire
global empire and establish a thousand-year Putin-Nazi Reich.
Thank God at least the
corporate media are raising their collective voices in protest. In a recent piece in The Washington Post, Max Bergmann of the Center for American Progress [AKA, Hilary’s
“think tank”] warns that “this is a summit about appeasement, and we should be
terrified that Trump is going to sell out America and its allies.” According to
Bergmann, Trump might “accidentally” share state secrets with Putin, or promise
to reduce support for our freedom-loving Ukrainian
Nazis, or stop trying to overthrow the Syrian government so that Syria,
with the help of Russia and Iran, can launch a sneak attack on Israel and drive
“the Jews” into the sea. Worse still, Bergmann speculates, he might make
“secret agreements” with Putin without telling the editors of The
Washington Post, which … God help us all if that ever happened.
Not to be out-apocalypsed
by The Post, Roger Cohen of The New York Times published a full-blown
dystopian fantasy vision wherein Trump, Putin,
Marine Le Pen, the AfD, and a variety of other globalist-hating Hitler-alikes
form “the Alliance of Authoritarian and Reactionary States” (the “AARS”),
disband the European Union and NATO, impose international martial law, and
start ethnically cleansing the West of immigrants. Matteo Salvini and Horst
Seehofer, decked out in full Putin-Nazi regalia, personally supervise the
genocidal purges, which frightened Europeans come to support after Putin’s irresistible
“fake news” bots brainwash them into believing that a little Russian girl named
“Tatiana” has been abducted by Moroccan migrants off a beach along the Costa
del Sol.
And as if that wasn’t
horrifying enough to whip folks up into a mindless frenzy, The New York
Times (which, let’s remember, is an extremely distinguished and
respected newspaper [sic!!!], and not at all a cheap propaganda rag)
produced this charming little animated
film depicting Putin and Trump as … well, a couple of
tongue-sucking, titty-pinching homos. I found this kind of weird at first, as I
had thought such ugly anti-gay sentiment had disappeared from liberal society,
but apparently it’s fine in Resistance circles to stigmatize your enemies as
butt-humping queers in order to render them more repulsive in the eyes of your
sophisticated, liberal audience. I did a little research, and it appears this
“Hitler on Hitler” porno The Times produced is just the latest
in a rather long line of Trump on Putin
“homo” jokes, which are perfectly harmless when told by liberals and the Left,
but when told by conservatives are homophobic hate crimes.
Look, I’m not a fan of poofter
humor, or the corporate media, or the so-called “Resistance,” but neither am I
a big fan of Trump, nor am I an employee of Putin. What I am is a student of
propaganda, media manipulation, and mass hysteria, and though I experienced the
roll-out of the War on Terror, and assorted other propaganda campaigns (like
Obama’s “Hope and Change” routine, Reagan’s “Morning in America” schtick,
George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order,” and Bill Clinton’s “Third Way” happy
horsecrap), I have never witnessed anything like this. Most of those other
propaganda campaigns at least bore some vague resemblance to reality. What
we’re experiencing now is more akin to the kind of behavior that goes on in
cults … where people are conditioned to surrender their reason (and,
ultimately, to conform their perception) to whatever paranoid official
narrative the leader of the cult has invented, and eventually to direct their
fear and hatred, not only at the cult’s official enemy, but at anyone who
questions the cult’s “reality.”
If you believe cults work
because people are gullible, or stupid, you need to do some research. Cults
work because their members are gradually conditioned to detach from “society”
(i.e., the social body that conditioned them as children) and conform to the
social body of the cult. This conditioning happens systematically, often over
the course of years. Scientology cult members are not introduced to the “body
thetans” story the day they walk in. Nor were the Manson girls ready to butcher
a house full of people for Charlie at first … it took months of orgies, acid
trips, and other de- and re-programming techniques to get them to buy into his
paranoid prophecy of Imminent Racist Hippie Apocalypse.
Which is what I find so
disturbing, presently. The ease with which the neoliberal ruling classes have
programmed millions of Western consumers to believe a narrative no less
ridiculous than Scientology’s “body thetans,” Manson’s “Helter Skelter” … or
take your pick of any number of other cult narratives. The speed at which they switched from the War on
Terror narrative to the Putin-Nazi narrative attests to the power of the corporate media and the
neoliberal propaganda machine, generally. It really is an amazing achievement.
In less than two years, they managed to condition a significant portion of the
Western masses to forget about “the Islamic terrorists” that they had been
conditioned to live in fear of, and to transfer their fear and hatred to Trump,
and Putin, and anyone who appears to support them, or doesn’t sufficiently hate
and fear them.
The ruling classes have
achieved this feat by generating an ongoing series of episodes of mass
hysteria. Most of them last a week or two, but their cumulative effect is
powerful and enduring. Fake news, bots, travel bans, Confederate statues,
neo-Nazi rallies, “novichok” attacks, kids in cages … anything the corporate
media can use to channel more hatred toward Trump and Putin….
The upcoming summit is next on
the list. It won’t be as juicy as the baby concentration camps, but it will do
as far as reminding people that Trump is a secret Russian operative, or traitor
(or quisling, as Paul Krugman would have it), conspiring with Putin to “destroy
democracy” … that is, when they’re not fellating each other. Once the summit
has come and gone, and democracy has miraculously survived, they will generate
another round of Hitler hysteria, and Resistance cultists will spring into
action like salivating Pavlov’s dogs, denouncing whatever unspeakable horror
they had completely ignored for the previous eight years, jabbering about
concentration camps, and ripping MAGA hats off teenagers. Purely for the sake
of entertainment, I’m hoping it will be the secret Nazi code the
Department of Homeland Security is embedding in its press materials, presumably to alert the Underground Network of Putin-Nazi
Militias to stand by for imminent government takeover, the “securing of the
future for white people and their children,” and the weeks of homosexual
Odinist orgies that are sure to follow.
Seriously, though, the absolute
genius of the ruling classes’ Putin-Nazi narrative (which rational people are
underestimating) is that it is virtually impossible to criticize it without
being labeled a Trump supporter, a Putin apologist, or a crypto-Nazi. Like
Scientology’s Suppressive Persons (i.e., those who criticize Scientology), Putin-Nazi
narrative deniers “seek to upset, continuously undermine, spread bad news about
and denigrate” the cult. These are typically ex-cult members who no longer
subscribe to official cult teachings, and are thus an existential
ideological threat. Such persons are to be stigmatized and shunned, “so that
others will know not to associate with them.” (Those quotes are from the
Scientology website, but the same rules apply in every cult.)
Glenn Greenwald is probably the best example of a prominent “Putin-Nazi
narrative denier” (and he is harassed for it on an daily basis), but an hour or two of research on
Twitter will reveal the same dynamic at work against much less famous “pillow
biting traitors.” Nor is it just fanatical cultists on Twitter. If you happened
to google your humble narrator at any point during the last nine months, and
were concerned that the people “People Also Search For” in my “Knowledge Panel”
are mostly anti-Semites and “alt-right” types … well, I wrote about that in November
of last year. (I have since repeatedly written to Google and advised them to
occasionally alternate the anti-Semites they are associating me with, as using the exactly the same ones
for months is lazy, and makes it rather difficult to blame their
“search results” on some innocent algorithm.)
But what do I know? Maybe I’m
just paranoid, and Google isn’t out to get me. Or maybe they know me better
than myself, and I really am a crypto-Nazi, or some other kind of Suppressive
Person, and democracy really is on the brink of disaster. After all, Glenn Greenwald just flew over
to Moscow, and was selfied in the company of Edward Snowden, and Putin is poisoning random people
in Amesbury for no apparent reason, and Susan Sarandon hacked the
election, or dropped a Sarin bomb on Douma, or else Putin did, or maybe it was Xenu, or the Russians are about to take
down the entire American fiberoptic network, and I almost forgot
those four hundred white supremacist
idiots who are planning to gather and bellow Nazi slogans at each
other in Lafayette Square on August 12, and who are already receiving
international coverage, because we can’t afford to
ignore a few hundred racist morons in polo shirts … if we did, well, who knows
what that might lead to? People might actually have a moment to pause and think
about what’s going on, and why it’s going on, and who it serves, and try to put
it all into some kind of perspective, before they react to the next Pavlovian
stimulus the media waves in their faces. Ready? Good. Because here it comes …
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American
playwright, novelist and satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing (USA). His debut
novel, ZONE 23, is published by Snoggsworthy,
Swaine & Cormorant. He can reached at cjhopkins.com orconsentfactory.org.
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