nixon and the commies

"by that weekend kissinger and dobrynin were negotiating over an exchange of gifts between the two leaders. dobrynin thought the president might like a hydrofoil to use in biscayne bay. and brezhnev? 'a cadillac' said the ambassador." _________"nixon spoke of roosevelt, churchill, and stalin and said: 'that is the kind of relationship that i should like to establish with the general secratary.' 'i am perfectly ready on my side,' said brezhnev." from president nixon: alone in the whitehouse._______________i don't doubt trumpy has had more direct business dealing inside russia and that nixon's relationship with brezhnev was political ( despite the hydrofoil )...however that does not mean that power doesn't seek out power for its own benefit ( this particular summit was in june of 1972...as the presidential season was getting under way...nixon was campaigning by showing his ability by dealing directly with brezhnev...cutting out the mediators...sort of...if you don't count the cadillac ) with little regard to public opinion...kennedy...coldest of cold warriors...wouldn't have been caught dead toasting with nikita...he would however party with konrad adenhauer...who, while he was not a party member and was relieved of his post as mayor of cologne, never sustained nazi animus either ( he was arrested and released after the abortive assassination attempt on hitler due to "lack of evidence"...i am thinking suspicion was ample evidence in those [ and these ] days for drastic action...there may have been "no evidence" but he had friends )...political divides dictate odd friendships ( ask noriega )...trumpy isn't the first president to snuggle up with the bear...that he may be the most corrupt and unstable one may have more sinister elements that nixon's cadillac...still..power does not care what you think.

british humor ( beyond the baloon )

"super, callous, fragile, racist, sexist, nazi, potus" mary poppins grows political fangs https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/12/upshot/trade-war-cost-families.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/business/trade-war-china-consumers.html

soybean oil

witless turd or machiavellian genius? i hold an opinion on this matter but that isn't why i came here

this is what i have been pondering since friday...the whole meuller probe, its guilty pleas, the russian business will never bring trumpy down...at best he would end up an "un-indicted co-conspirator" and there would be a pardon after 2020...he is of the elite, no matter what his misguided base thinks, and they will protect their own because they could be next...and as long as they are making money they will put up with his dithering...and twitter rants..and his racism...and his sexism...and his lame-assed claims to some sort of intellect...however...

all the acres and acres of these little plants...

with these little blooms that will eventually turn into millions, if not billions, of pods with soybeans in them are emblematic of a deep-seated hubris that could bring this bozo down with a thud...a 25% chinese tariff on these will cream a good many mid-western farmers come harvest..

not to mention monsanto or bayer's next year seed sales...we all know no one fucks with monsanto and gets away with it without a protracted and costly fight...ask rape seed farmers in canada...they are the devil incarnate and they don't give a rat's ass who they fuck over...and when this clown starts to cost them he may find he isn't king after all...and it goes well beyond that...i am no fan of the globalitarians and the impact they have had in depressing the quality of life for millions of working people all around the world...that said we are likely to find out that the "world's strongest economy" is not what it is cracked up to be and that we are so deeply enmeshed in the "global marketplace" that withdrawal will be a seriously difficult addiction to kick...despite the support of bought whores like mitch mcconnell, trumpy may find the atmosphere among the real powers that be freezing cold...russia is a non-issue...this whole "trade war" business could do him...in the words of woodward and bermstein, "follow the money"

pardon me

i have seen this all before...and it is just as fine an object lesson in the debilitating stupidity the emanates out of swamptown as anything from tricky dick's era...however king richard is a good place to start in analyzing trumpy's bombast and miscalculations ( rudy giuliani is not helping this at all by the by...nixon was a lawyer and his legal team were at least competent even though the arguments they came up with were doozies...as we will be seeing ) after nixon fired archibald cox and eliot richardson took the high road and resigned ( the peanut from alabama would not ) nixon was forced to appoint a new special prosecutor and leon jawarski got the job...he got a subpoena from judge john sirica of the federal district court of the district of columbia ordering nixon to turn over tapes and documents over his knowledge of the watergate break in...nixon tried an end run releasing transcript of the tapes and then sent his lawyer james d. st. clair into sirica's courtroom task him to quash the subpoena because he maintained the transcripts fulfilled its terms...while in open court st. clair said: "my client ( notice he pins the blame for this on nixon...he wasn't going to argue this ) wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as louis xiv, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment"...the argument for the divine right of presidents did not sit well anywhere from the public to congress ( congress had a vestige of integrity then...the rat fucks there now are basically a criminal enterprise )and nixon resigned to avoid the inevitable impeachment...so...does trumpy have the "absolute power" to pardon himself...in a limited fashion he can but not in the absolute...the president can pardon people convicted of federal crimes...not those of a state...so he could conceivable pardon himself of those...any state crimes are beyond his power to pardon...he can be indicted but not tried until his term in office is complete ( impetus for "president for life"? ) in office he can only be tried by congress ( so nixon was correct about that ) and can only be arrested by the sargeant-at-arms of the senate...nixon let ford pardon him ( in the absence of any indictments ) and, no doubt pence would pardon trump if the time came...trump only thinks his powers absolute...he will continue to do so as long as the co-conspirators in congress allow it.

obviously we are a threat

i hear that the department of homeland security has put a call out for companies that can create a database of journalists and bloggers ( one wonders if this would include twitter accounts that indulge in patent distortion and outright bullshit...know what i mean ? ) in an alleged effort to control the dissemination of "fake news"...as opposed to officially sanctioned "real news" ( which i would term a corporatist sort of propaganda heavily skewed towards an addiction to consumption ) from the crypto-fascist fox network and the fucktards at sinclair...i have a number of blogs and the only one i purport to have any factual "news" on is the gardening one because it is mostly about what is going on in my yard and my basement...the others ( some of which have not seen much activity of late...although, for one, that will be changing very soon, one is actually defunct because the garden it was about is no more ) are simply viewpoint with the occasional vituperative rant tossed in to keep the adrenaline going....i want this made clear...opinion..and my opinion is that homeland security are pretty much a bunch of nosy control freaks with an overblown perception of their mandate...i imagine you have to know who the enemy is ( or who the potential "other" is...goebbels and himmler understood this...they were control freaks who were pigs for data too )...in today's n y times maddy albright says don's a fascist...i am not so sure..i am inclined to think he is an entitled immature self-absorbed jerk who can be led by fascists or authoritarian wannabes...i mean look at fucking bolton...in any event i will continue to express my views ( which you may or may not accept...it is still a free country...be advised you do not have the intellectual tools available to you to change my views...they have not been arrived at without some study...people in russia have begun to call putin "vozhd"..this is not a good sign..look it up ) until some bureaucrat decides i am a threat because of said views...this seems unlikely to me...i am not tremendously influential...still authoritarians are micro-managers...there could be a rumpus.

leaks? nixon called a plumber ( and look where that got him )

from allegations of sexual misconduct to leaks regarding a phone call ( which may or may not have been made...alternative facts...fake news...all very orwellian and we will get back to that soon enough ) congratulating vlad putin on an election result that allowed him to barely squeak out another term ( "it is enough for the people to know there was an election. the people who cast the votes decide nothing. the people who count the votes decide everything" joe stalin ) the trump administration seems to be having some trouble finding a calm center where the master of the "art of the deal" can work his magic...there is a solution to all this that is so obvious it beggars the imagination that it has not been forcefully proposed...well..someone has to bite the bullet so here it is...bring g gordon liddy back from retirement...or from the dead if necessary...an old hand at plumbing leaks and a venerable fixer from the 1970s he could set things in whoretown straight for the big guy"...he has a sterling track record folks...from a wonderfully choreographed "black bag job" on the office of dr. lewis j. fielding in an effort to discredit daniel ellsberg...which was blundered in keystone kops fashion by his cuban operatives who jimmied open a file cabinet with a crowbar only to find no ellsberg file...they threw pills around the office to make it look like "junkies" had broken in trying to find drugs and then celebrated a "clean" job later with champagne...competence like this is not an everyday occurrence...hard to find a good plumber ( and this was only one example of the good work he did for the president )..woman problems? after liddy left the white house staff for the greener pastures of the committee to re-elect the president ( creep ) his plan called GEMSTONE to disrupt the democratic national convention ( with the cubans taking part again to sabotage the convention center air conditioning and roast the democrats out..a nice touch john mitchell liked but refused to fund ) included a sub-heading titled CRYSTAL which entailed floating a barge off miami to serve as a listening post to electronically surveil the democrats' headquarters and as a bordello staffed with, in liddy's words " the finest girls from baltimore" to entrap democratic delegates and blackmail them...someone with these credentials could make the the president's troubles disappear...such a valuable asset to the administration should not be overlooked...implausible? break out the newspeak dictionary and look up doublespeak and doublethink...they are daily events in whoretown these days...there is no going back...the only way out is through...the time for talk is over.

divine right

“I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party.”_____________al franken___________shades of tricky dick…it isn’t illegal if the president does it…nixon invoking the divine right of presidency…well…hypocrisy is a common weapon of power and we are up our necks in it vevery day…al franken may indeed have used a position of celebrity to unduly impose himself on women ( I don’t know…i wasn’t there…neither were you…or kristie gillibrand for that matter ) and there may indeed be some with cause to be angry over that…that isn’t the issue in the senate however…I believe franken when he says his intention was to represent all the people of his state...even though the system would never allow that…what franken’s problem was is that he brought a sense of critical thinking and heterodoxy to an august and thoroughly orthodox institution...the government set up by the constitution was never meant to represent all the people…it was the successful counter-revolution put up in the face of the assumption of the mass of people that the “spirit of 1776” was the valid grounding for the government "by and for the people” ( shay’s rebellion, among other events )…when he wrote “the fundamental constitutions of carolina” in 1669 john locke ( putative philosophical godfather of the framers ) wrote that his intent was to “avoid erecting a numerous democracy”…in other words the franchise should be limited to what the federalist paper called “the best men”...read white male landowners ( and there is a significant movement in this direction in the present era )…you cannot survive questioning the prime directives of an oligarchy posing as a democracy…wealth and special interest have always been at the heart of congress…during the first congress there was considerable debate over the “impost” ( tariff ) bill that was to serve as a financial basis for the federal government…merchants in congress haggled, debated, and delayed the bill until they could land the cargoes they had at sea to avoid paying the proposed tariff ( it eventually passed ) all the while charging customers higher prices to cover the cost of the proposal…one hand has always washed the other in swamptown…or wherever the capitol has been located ( for a clearer understand of how all this came to be, a three book reading list..the federalist papers[dreary as it may be at times]. An economic interpretation of the constitution of the united states by Charles beard…and William maclay’s journal of the first congress )...so roy moore...oligarch wannabe and cracker…will be elected...oh the urban areas will reject him…the rural cracker will not…and he will be seated in the senate because he will do the bidding of his handlers just like the rest of the whores...there is nothing unusual in this…northing unexpected if you pay close attention…it is the way of things and the institutions are buttressed against change…minority rule over the “ interested and overbearing majority” [madison federalist X] was always the intent.