Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Step Right Up .......

Insightful and fun (?) piece by Paul Street at Counterpunch:

Step Right Up to the Quadrennial Extravaganza!


A few examples from a much longer list of spectacular events listed in the full piece:

Malevolent Narcissists and Wall Street Sell-Outs Masquerading as Champions of the Middle and Working Classes!

Elitism Masquerading as Populism!

Dazzling Issue-Avoidance!

Step Right Up! Watch the Biggest Issue of Our or Any Time – the Climate Crisis – Get Amazingly Avoided!

Savage Class Inequalities – a New Gilded Age – Papered Over!

Subtle Neo-McCarthyite Machinations Performed by Vacuous Cable News Automatons!

Amazing Death-Defying Destructions of Democracy, or What’s Left of it!

Peek Behind the Curtain to View the Faces of the Terrifying Un-Elected and Interrelated Dictatorships of Money and Empire!

Remarkable Feats of Nauseating Racism, Sexism, Classism and Ecocide!

Ride Through the Astounding Tunnel of Identity!

Watch Democratic Socialists Get Eaten Alive!

Watch Live Sex Acts Between Financial Institutions and National Party Committees!

Calculate the Candidates’ and Media Operatives’ Carbon Footprints as they Fly Constantly Around the Nation!

Kiss the Species Goodbye at the Extinction Gallery!

2 comments:

Wisewebwoman said...

Gawd that's brilliant and tragic at the same time but all of it has been weighing on my mind lately. I've never felt so sad and hopeless about extinction before and look around at the little ones I know and think: what the eff haven't we done OR what the eff have we done.

I am sure I am not alone.

XO
WWW

Twilight said...

Wisewebwoman ~ No not alone, WWW!

It's kind of ironic that rather than putting his multi-billions into trying to save the beautiful (and probably unique in the universe) planet we have, Jeff Bezos is far more interested spending 'em in getting humans to the other side of the Moon. Tsk!