The horror of Israel invading Gaza City and 7months of Trump’s Burnt Orange Hate
The horror of Israel invading Gaza City:
And it begins…
Israel Calls Up 60,000 Reservists as It Begins Gaza City Invasion
Israel has announced plans to call up 60,000 reservists as it escalates its operation to seize all of Gaza City and to forcibly remove the city’s entire population. Al Jazeera reports Israel is carrying out “systematic demolitions” of Palestinian homes across Gaza City. On Wednesday, Israel killed at least 81 Palestinians, including five in an attack on a tent in the Shati camp in Gaza City. The attack killed three children, ages 4, 7 and 9, along with their parents. Israel has killed another 20 Palestinians since dawn today. At least two more Palestinians have starved to death, bringing the total to 271.
…the hour of Israel’s genocide reaches its final solution gambit as Netanyahu appeases his radical Zionist allies with a fully fledged invasion of Gaza.
After witnessing Israel using rape as a weapon inside their prison system, their shooting children in the head, their murder of journalists, their destroying of almost every building including hospitals and their use of hunger as a mass punishment, they walk into the valley of death and push for a new means to shock and sicken every human being of conscience.
All enabled by the orange fascism of Donald Trump.
7months of Trump’s Burnt Orange Hate
This song sums us up best right now:
Since 2016 I have argued that Identity Politics was a deeply flawed strategy for the Political Left.
I have argued that Identity Politics locked into place ‘feelings’ and ‘lived experiences’ that replaced logic, rational debate and reason because logic, rational debate and reason are heteronormative white cis male privileges that we all hate now.
MeToo, Black Lives Matter and the Trans debate – all issues we were prepared to burn every bridge for have come back to bite us all.
I warned that if you spent all this time screaming white men were the problem, they would become the problem.
The greatest danger of Identity Politics for the Left is that the millisecond white poor men see themselves through the same identity lens of victimhood that the Woke do, we were collectively fucked.
The moment men stop seeing themselves as part of a class or as citizens, the millisecond they replace solidarity with victimhood – we were in collective danger.
The Woke believed their ‘feelings’ were more important than anything else, unfortunately angry and frightened right wing people have ‘feelings’ too and their ‘feelings’ are way more demented than ours.
That is what has happened in the American Election and what we have just witnessed with Trump’s first 100 days is the most consequential global pivot in modern political history – it is the beginning of America’s decline and the first true step towards a dystopian nightmare.
Trump’s United States of Wounded Masculinity manipulated the Undermensch into empowering the Ubermensch.
Trump has appointed the most Ghoulish Cavalcade of Political Circus Freaks imaginable to his Cabinet.
It is a Rogues Gallery of Supervillains, people, who are acolytes and loyalists before they are decent people.
I’m pretty sure this is how the Handmaids Tale starts.
Trump won by reaching out to the 34% of Americans who don’t vote, and used his hate, malice, and spite to cut through all the media noise to the disenfranchised male voter who has lost all hope in the system and who voted because Trump’s anger triggers them to support him.
It is a stark and terrifying win because Trump has gained a mandate for the madness he has promised to inflict.
Trump is a fascist whose desire to politicise the bureaucracy with Project 2025 has lead to mass arrest detentions for ‘illegals’ using a a militarised secret police.
His tariffs have caused conflict with China, the Palestinians are screwed, the climate is screwed and the Ukrainians have been betrayed.
Some will say, ‘that’s democracy’ but that isn’t true. We have unregulated social media feeding the lonely and angry and disenfranchised with deeply polarised brainwashing hate algorithms that has re-elected a convicted felon who attempted a coup against the Government.
This isn’t democracy, that is a mutation of cruelty groomed by the Tech bros.
Trump understands political resentment as well as Hitler did and he has weaponised it using social media.
650 000 Americans are homeless, over 100 000 of them are children and 135million live with the threat of homelessness from one bad financial costing month. The level of preciousness so many live with has poisoned the wage slaves of the Land of the Free…
Trump is pursuing a radical agenda. Does he have a strategy, or is he winging it?
For the first weeks of the new administration, it was possible to believe, whatever anyone thought of the specific initiatives and actions, that President Donald Trump and his team had a plan of action with specific goals in mind and the discipline to implement it. So much for that.
As Trump nears the 100-day marker of his second term in office, his opening months have been rife with mistakes, overreach and the hubris that goes with a team that interprets a slender popular vote victory as a sweeping mandate.
The administration did have a plan for disruption and was ready with a flurry of executive orders to get it moving.
The strategy combined policies outlined in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Trump’s long-standing desire to use tariffs to punish countries he believes have ripped off the United States (especially China), and a determination to amass as much power in the presidency as possible.
…Trump represents the vandalism of the Nation State for Bunker Fascist Libertarians…
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
America has misjudged China horribly before. Hyperpower hubris turned the Korean War into a direct conflict between US and Chinese troops.
President Harry Truman thought he had free licence to hurl parts of the US Eighth Army across the 38th parallel in October 1950 and roll back the whole of communist North Korea. Advisers assured him that the infant regime of Mao Tse-tung was too weak to intervene, and too ill-equipped to make much difference if it dared. It was the worst failure of US strategic analysis in modern times.
US-led forces faced rout, encirclement and total humiliation as 200,000 Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River.
Trump’s grotesque narcism and gleeful ignorance IS America.
He is the tangerine stained leering face is what American Capitalism always was.
The largest war economy on earth is now being run by someone who believes God saved him from assassination.
The difference between war crime and genocide tends to be the belief by the person inflicting the violence that God is on their side.
Vance is a client candidate of NZer and Global Libertarian Super Criminal Peter Thiel, he who created the mass surveillance Eye of Mordor Palantir and progresses an anti-democratic agenda to bring about a free market stateless utopia.
Vance sees the state as a betrayer and Thiel’s agenda as a means to punish and break that betrayer and remake American Capitalism in the image of those white working poor who do the actual manual labour.
Trump/Vance represents white poverty, pain and grievance welded onto a Libertarian Billionaire anarchist capitalist class who’ve agreed to amputate America last.
Trump represents the vandalism of the Nation State for Bunker Fascist Libertarians
The dark dull orange fascism of Trump is now upon us and the American Midnight begins.
We have every reason to be genuinely frightened because this step towards dystopia is the turning point of Western Civilisation.
The good news is that the rest of the planet are recoiling in horror at what Trump represents and that is having an impact…
America’s northern ally rejects Trump after he dominates race
Canada’s federal election was the first major test of Donald Trump ’s influence on the affairs of a longtime US ally since he returned to power 100 days ago. And he lost it badly.
The US president’s attacks on Canadian sovereignty outraged voters while the trade war he launched threatened to upend the economy of a nation dependent on US trade.
That reversed the fortunes of the Liberals, who had been expected to be shown the door by an electorate weary of their decade in power, but instead cast themselves as fighting for Canada’s very existence.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, who shares some similarities with Trump style-wise, appeared months ago to be a shoo-in to become Canada’s next prime minister. Now, he is out of his own seat in Parliament.
…and Trump’s plans are unravelling…
Are things falling apart for Trump?
A man who came into office vastly exaggerating the mandate that voters had just given him – and has governed accordingly – appears to have, per public polling, squandered whatever mandate he was given with his brazen actions. And indicators are increasingly dire on a number of significant policy fronts for him.
Multiple polls this week showed Trump hitting new lows. His approval rating has been double-digits underwater in surveys from the Pew Research Centre (-19), Economist-YouGov (-13), Reuters-Ipsos (-11) and now Fox News (-11).
Trump was already more unpopular at this point in his presidency than any modern president not named Trump; he’s now flirting with falling below where he was at this point in his first term.
…his inane plans are tanking his economy…
Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days
Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.
Americans were desperate for relief from high grocery prices and bought into Trump’s promise to make America affordable again in November 2024, partly out of nostalgia for the pre-pandemic economy of his first term.
But the president deliberately and singlehandedly adopted policies that are almost certain to spike prices even more; that could lead to shortages; and that have CEOs and small businesses dealing with chaos and the possibility of a recession.
US economy shrinks in first quarter of Trump 2.0 amid sweeping tariffs
The US economy shrank in the first three months of the year, according to official data, triggering fears of an American recession and a global economic slowdown.
Donald Trump, who returned to the White House promising to “make America great again”, sought to blame Joe Biden for the figure.
However, economists said it was largely driven by an unprecedented surge in imports, as consumers and companies braced for the president to impose his controversial wave of tariffs.
…and his domestic polling is tanking, people are waking up to what Trump’s fascism really looks like. Yes Covid hurt us Collectively, yes it was divisive, yes the woke made things worse with their virtue signalling, but this?
All this venal and stupid wilful ignorance from Trump?
Some will toast his ashes from pure culture war sadomasochism, but many voted in hope disruption might make their lives materially better.
He has betrayed those hopes.
It is time to rise against Trump because he has shown us what he is, and we should believe the Tyrant when they try to make us cower.
Aside from the rampant racism, transphobia, sexism, anti-intellectualism and hatred for anyone poor, liberal media despise Trump because deep down in places they never like to admit at their plush dinner parties, Trump truly represents what America is.
A shallow narcissist culture looking for its next selfish ego stroke paranoidly armed to the teeth with enough corporate weapons to destroy the planet many times over
That’s fine when you are the host of a reality TV show, it’s terrifying when that person leads a nuclear armed country.
Trump wants the world to cower before him.
He wants the threat of American aggression to gain him power and submission.
Threatening friends and allies is not what friends or allies do.
That is what a vile and selfish narcissist on an ego trip does.
That is what a toxic bully does.
We should not cower to Trump.
We should boycott America, shun America, and work with everyone who isn’t America for the next 4 years to see if American Democracy can rebalance itself.
We should not cower before an Orange fascist.
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A problem with identity politics is that it can distract us from the real issues. In this case, Trump is merely the face of an incredibly broken and corrupt political system that unfortunately rules over the entire world. Now, we can focus mainly upon Trump, we may even be able to get rid of him (reckon the rotten system itself will deal to him if he becomes more of a liability than an asset) but this broken political system will still produce the same, or similar results, but perhaps with a more palatable face, next person up.
This bought and paid for political system is the problem, not the latest dummy fronting it.
Exactly. Americans, and their masters, are the problem.
Meanwhile, Winston Peters is meeting with Gaza Holocaust lobbyists.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO2508/S00250/delegation-urges-government-not-yet-and-not-until-on-palestinian-statehood.htm
Apparently, ten times the number of Palestinians must be killed as Israelis were killed in October 23 so they remember. They will remember. Then they will wait for America to abandon its ally as it always does.