Crisis Interruptus

Hooray! The government is open again, the debt ceiling has been raised, thousands of federal employees just got a free two week paid vacation on the taxpayer dime and as Obama came right out and said it today - people are fed up with Washington. Of course Barry conveniently omits the inconvenient truth that HE is a part of Washington and the travesty of his administration along with a corrupt and incompetent congress that has an approval rating somewhere in between used car salesmen and child molesters. In the first business day after the national hysteria of the entire shameless sham Republican spinmeisters were busily polishing the turd of their surrender and El Presidente was engaged in a victory lap not much attention was paid to the agreement only being temporary. Get ready for a do-over of this entire ridiculous farce come February, the lazy, on the payroll ever feckless corporate state media have inherited the gift that keeps on giving. It is like the demon love child of O.J. and Jodi Arias and the remnants of Thanksgiving dinners will hardly be digested before the next wave of wall to wall coverage of the next debt crisis roars into America’s living rooms like a tsunami of digital manure all in high definition on that wonderful 52 inch television that you can get a deal on at Wal-Mart come Black Friday - that is if you don’t get trampled to death on the way to the electronics department.

Now that this spectacle has reached halftime and Team Jackass and Team Elephant are headed for the locker rooms to make their adjustments it would be wise to consider just how much this latest example of ugly Americanism plays in the civilized world. We could barely transition our exceptional asses from the botched war on Syria and the plague of NSA spying and industrial espionage to this idiotic debacle before the globalized masses in the technological era began to whisper - and rather loudly - that the Imperialists have no clothes. The Chinese who incidentally happen to hold one hell of a lot of American paper and are integral in keeping the entire Ponzi scheme of mutated American capitalism going are making noises about the future being a “de-Americanized world” and the International Monetary Fund is also dropping hints that it is about time for the children on Uncle Sam’s plantation to grow up and get their shit together. In today’s “new normal” of the globalized business world we have already taken plenty of hits over the inability for businesses and world consumers to utilize American based cloud computing without being spied on by a pack of voyeurs led by a Nazi with a Star Trek fetish. The future costs of lost business due to Obama’s NSA has yet to be calculated but by the time that all is said and done it will likely result in billions of dollars of lost income for U.S. tech companies. Throw in an unstable government led by a gaggle of clowns along with a neo-confederacy of dunces and it isn’t looking good. Hell, if you were an entrepreneur would you invest in this festering hellhole of dumbness, greed, hellfire missiles and public apathy? I thought so.

Nothing will be learned from any of this, not that anything could be by a pathetic nation of sheep who wear their willful ignorance on their sleeves as though it were a badge of honor were capable of it. The system will continue to list along with Captain Barry at the helm towing a barge filled to the brim with some of the biggest turds in American political history. A ship of fools headed right towards the proverbial iceberg with the boilers stoked to ramming speed. This is not going to end well and the collapse can has only been kicked down the road for a few more months. Crazy Ted from Texas via Canada and his dominionist minions are just dying for another bite at the apple come early 2014. His band of jihadists had their mad little insular worlds destroyed when the deal was done and the “Muslim’s” Soviet style death panels were still in business. Some, like the crazed stenographer whose ugly public meltdown is going viral on the internet today. Dianne Reidy, obviously an acolyte of the type of fascist style religion practiced by the Zamboni cowboy’s snake-handling father was escorted from the chamber in the aftermath of last night’s vote. Reidy ranted about the lie of the separation of church and state as well as raging against Freemasons - “He will not be mocked, he will not be mocked, He will not be mocked” wailed Reidy. “The greatest deception here, is that this is not one nation under God. It never was. Had it been...it would not have been...No. it would not have been...the Constitution would hot have been written by Free Masons...and go against God. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve two masters. Praise be to got, Lord Jesus Christ”. It reportedly was an unsettling event and she was spoke of by those who worked with her as “respectable and dependable, and this is very surprising to anybody who works with her” according to a CNN report. The disturbed woman was turned over to the police and appropriately transported to a local hospital for evaluation - hopefully followed by a Thorazine shot and an extended stay in a rubber room.

Which brings us to a serious problem, at least in libertarian terms in that a good amount of the so-called tea party is filled with people just as batshit crazy as Reidy and hellbent at using the full power of the big government police-surveillance state to deprive their many enemies the most basic of their rights. This was the problem with the tea party after the original libertarian movement was hijacked by political operatives, filled with the re-branded dregs of the worst elements of the Republican base - especially the religious zealots and purged of the earnest libertarians who tended to support Ron Paul. These are very dangerous people and use the very guarantee of freedom of religion as a shield from behind which they work feverishly to ensure that theirs will be the ONLY religion tolerated. The state-corporate media in all of its wretched incompetence, corruption and false equivalencies has never dared to examine those that are the most intolerant of all and occupy a good amount of the seats in the House of Representatives. When it is reported that a meeting of House Republicans opened a meeting over the debt ceiling crisis with a full throated singing of “Amazing Grace” it would seem that such a thing would be at least mildly troubling to those who value freedom and liberty. There is nothing more oppressive and potentially murderous than a religious fanatic who believes that God is on their side, the piles of bodies of those who fell victim to such folks through history could probably reach the foot of the very throne of God were they piled up.  The American religious right has always been very dangerous to any concept of freedom that others who are more rational might have. So far the luck of this on the brink of tyranny society has lasted solely because they have never had an intelligent, articulate and charismatic leader - in Ted Cruz they finally have their Führer. I have to hand it to Ayn Rand who generates mixed feelings among libertarians but at least she was an atheist who refused to allow those in the religion business who were the equivalent of her fictional anti-capitalist/freedom villains any credibility in her circles.

Not that Americans bother with actually reading - a not insignificant contributor to our current plight - but if they were interested in trying it I would suggest that William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich be a mandatory addition to Christmas lists throughout the land.