“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
"Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried, the little children died in the streets."
W. H. Auden, Epitaph To a Tyrant
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars,
whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors
and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, New Poems, City Lights
"The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them."
Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs, 2010
"They live out their days in prosperity, and slide peacefully down into the abyss."
Job 21:13
Time magazine named the 'Hawk Tuah' girl one of the Top 100 Creators of the Year.
Look on our works, ye mighty, and despair.
I just don't have the words.
Stocks attempted to continue on their rally.
Bitcoin enjoyed a midday burst up to a new high.
We are in Trump's crypto country now.
Whatever we say, is.
Gold and particularly silver rallied today.
Silver in particularly rallied up to a new near term high.
And this was noticeably ignored by the equity market in the miners.
Crypto country.
VIX fell again.
The Dollar is chopping around on the 97 handle.
How do do we know that the spokesmodels of empire are lying?
Their lips are moving.
How do we know that Trump is lying?
We no longer care.
We will look back on this and wonder, 'what were we thinking?'
We weren't.
We were sleepwalking in silent submission to the worst of us.
Have a pleasant evening.
