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The Whole World’s Watching [1]

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Date: 2025-02-19

By David Glenn Cox

“When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established Law. Peace is considered already broken.” – Che Guevara

The other day I was walking down the boulevard when approaching from the other direction my eyes did meet a Tesla 3. My first thought upon identification was to immediately flip them off! Then maturity grabbed me by the shoulders and held me back. That’s silly, I thought. To flip off a car because of the manufacturer. It reminded me of a game my mother said the children played in that Irish ghetto of Chicago when she was a girl growing up in the teeth of the Great Depression.

Anyway, as the children variously played their games or skipped rope. The first child to spot a new car would shout “Rock!” Then all the children would drop whatever games they were playing and pick up the nearest rock to throw at the new car. Because in that neighborhood in that day, the only people riding around in new cars were trouble. Rent collectors, bill collectors, skip tracers, bounty hunters or the cops. Just another reason NOT to buy a Tesla. Rocks can be murder on a paint job.

So, I’m seeing all of these nervous news articles below the fold about government funding at universities and research hospitals across the country. Hundreds of millions of dollars which could suddenly be withdrawn from the local economy with thousands of job losses. Now repeat that action fifty times across the country and just watch what happens next.

IF! If you set out on a course riding your donkey with a lance and harpoon to destroy the American economy. You are well on your way! Most Administration’s come to office worried about the economy and unemployment. This Administration encourages it and nurtures it at every opportunity. Let’s fire half of the FAA! Pilots have windows. Computers will fix everything! Let’s gut NOAA, we have the “Weather Channel!” But this is only the flash and not the thunder. This is from now on.

While living in Atlanta, both Ford and GM shuttered their assembly plants. Even though we didn’t do any business with either one, we felt it in our bottom line. Why wreck the economy? Why not impose a hiring freeze and lose people through attrition? Why not an evaluation process to figure out what might be eliminated?

Their goal is to cut as much as possible, as fast as possible. Quick, before someone can stop them! The King plays a shell game. “No, see, Elon? No, Elon’s not in charge. No, it’s somebody else. I don’t know his name exactly, but it’s not Elon.”

And Wall Street goes, “Do, da, do, do, do, do. I can see it coming! I bet you can see it coming too! How can all of these well-educated people not see the writing on the wall? If the government stops giving University Hospital A. thirty million dollars. How many lost tongue depressor sales before Hospital Supply company B. goes out of business? The question is why? Why intentionally nosedive the economy like a terrorist flying a jet on 9-11? This is nothing less than Dr. Smith sabotaging the Jupiter Two. Their goal is a crash.

There are among the many delusional tropes and fantasies of the reactionary Fascist right. A mystical vision towards the setting of a new order. A new order without unions or minimum wages. Without Social Security or government agencies to report wrongdoing to. Without Freedom of Information acts or consumer protections. An age of, “None of your business! That’s why!” But to bring about this new order there will be some pain to endure. The King has already proclaimed it so!

You see if you nosedive the economy all bets are off. Franklin Roosevelt warned Congress in his first inaugural address if they didn’t do something about the economy, he would act unilaterally. So, if we have brain dead moribund Republican Congress and a power mad chief executive. What do you suppose he will do, given the opportunity?

Hello Pentagon? Just a friendly reminder; you do have a legal obligation to defend us (you know, us the people) against all enemies foreign and domestic. You know if someone were to come along and threaten the wellbeing of this nation or its institutions. It would be wrong (Ask your momma.) just plain wrong to sit by on the sidelines and watch. As Congress stumbles and crumbles towards obscurity and the judiciary goes on world cruise on the billionaire’s yacht sipping champagne. The military might be our last hope. Yea! Military Strongman 2025!

Either that or you and I will have to do it ourselves, because we will have no other choice. This whole effort was planned in advance and sprung on us like Pearl Harbor. So, it’s best to expect they have a page two already planned out as well. This is nothing less than a Coup d’état! This isn’t a drill! This all patently illegal conduct. The day the lone superpower and “land of the free” turns on its people and embraces corporate Fascism like the rape of the Sabine’s. And so brazen as to even Seig Hiel about it! Somebody needs to take Mussolini Musk up to the filling station and remind him. You can get more up there than just gasoline.

King Donald the turd holds a crooked meeting to work out a crooked deal in the crooked capital of crooked Saudi Arabia. Then chastises Ukraine for not showing up for the crooked meeting. When it was obviously all a frame up job from the start, designed to put Zelensky on the spot. King Donald the turd deems to leave Europe out of the negotiations. This is between the King and Russia alone and the whole world wretches and convulses at the slime and the utter sickening corruption.

We had a saying back in the day, The whole world’s watching! And they are, and they should be.

“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”

― Vaclav Havel

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