[AGL] cluster eff article

[Frances Morey]

What is the difference between bi and intersex?
Retiring minds want to know.
Best regards,
Frances

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 1:44 PM Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Very interesting to read your take on 'Merican politics. I doubt the
> anti-Trump conspiracy in the FBi will ever be dragged into the light and
> the perps punished. Some suggest that Obama gave them the go-ahead to snoop
> on a presidential campaign. The FBi will claim that to do so would reveal
> secrets and jeopardize the nation's security.  As for the Dem. hopefuls,
> that's a circus act of left-wing crazies except for Biden who is easily as
> smart as Gerry Ford and may beat Trump.
>
> I would take exception to your claim that the economy is running on fumes
> on account of manipulation of the monetary system. I'm no economist and I
> don't claim to understand the first thing about deficit financing of the
> government, but it seems to me to be an indisputable fact that businesses
> are doing very well producing the crap they produce and paying somewhat
> higher wages (3.1% wage growth over last year) to a great many workers and
> are hiring more as the month job growth figures have been showing. That
> fact, which I believe is sufficiently established, usually leads to the
> re-election of the sitting president.
>
> I suspect that quite a large percentage of ordinary white voters (the
> majority of voters) see through the race hustlers and the pro-illegal
> aliens partisans and that none of the exotics running for the Dem.
> nomination have a chance of winning a general election. So I believe it
> will come down to Trump vs. Biden.
>
> PS I note that the acronym for non cis-gendered people keeps growing and
> growing: LGB to LGBT to . . . Google search says "Some use LGBT+ to mean
> "LGBT and related communities". *LGBTQIA* is sometimes used and adds
> "queer, intersex, and asexual" to the basic term. ... Similarly LGBTIQA+
> stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex,
> queer/questioning, asexual and many other terms (such as non-binary and
> pansexual)".
>
> Have a nice day!
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/10/2019 11:15 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
>
> *I Hear That Train a’Comin’*
>
> Clusterfuck Nation
>
> Think of the American two-party political system as two ramshackle freight
> trains running towards each other over old, neglected tracks, on a one-year
> collision course. Will there even be two parties left for the 2020 election?
>
> The Republican Party is a train of booby-trapped freight cars that can
> blow at any time. The engine is running on the fumes of the financialized
> economy. The engineer, Mr. Trump, only has his eye on the gauge that
> represents the stock market, which produces the gaseous emanations running
> his train. But the tank cars are leaking. The vapors are highly flammable.
> Any little spark can set it off, and surely will.
>
> The Democratic Party is carrying seventeen gondola cars of the worst
> political scandal in US history: RussiaGate, the attempted coup d’état by
> national gaslighting, which will expose dozens of party officers and
> foot-soldiers in an actual criminal conspiracy, and subject them to
> ignominious prosecution in the heart of the election year. The damage could
> run as high as former President Obama when all is said and done, with Mrs.
> Clinton dragged under the wheels in the ensuing train wreck. It will be
> ugly and embarrassing to the max.
>
> The Dem’s train also includes the circus cars of its identity politics
> hustlers, Reps AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley plus the
> sideshow of so-far-suppressed Joe Biden scandals concerning massive cash
> payoffs from Ukraine and China to his entrepreneurial son, Hunter —
> conveniently arranged during his Dad’s official trips to those places as
> Vice-president.
>
> There is reason to believe that a majority of voters are good and goddam
> sick of identity hustling and the tiresome racket of political correctness
> that spawned it. They see its bottomless appetite for grievance and
> complaint — against a reality in which life is difficult for everybody, not
> just self-proclaimed victims of oppression. They smell the odor of bad
> faith in the party’s campaign for an open border with Mexico and its abject
> refusal to legislate immigration law reform — while grandstanding about the
> alleged mistreatment of people who cross the border illegally. Most of all,
> they are sick of the endless moral instruction and coercion, especially
> over “gender” issues and sexual boundary-stretching, the parades of freaks
> in dog masks, ball gags, and S & M get-ups, not to mention the utter
> insanity of the drag queen story hour, in which men perform as monstrous
> caricatures of women for impressionable six-year-olds. That is what it’s
> come to for the party of Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Kennedy.
>
> Yet, Mr. Trump’s chances for reelection hang on the slender thread of his
> fictitious miracle economy, which is something like one of those fabulous
> parties at Jay Gatsby’s place depicted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about
> life before the 1929 crash — a splashy but localized event strictly for the
> denizen elite of the Gold Coasts. It’s the product of world-wide
> money-printing, computer algo fakery in the exchanges, statistical
> spirit-cooking, and the perversions provoked by artificial ultra-low
> interest rates that destroy the basic functions of capital formation.
>
> The cover-story for all that is the completely insane doctrine called
> Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) which states that a nation with the world’s
> reserve currency can never go bankrupt as long as it can keep “printing”
> more money — or punching computer keystrokes into the “systemically
> important” (Too Big to Fail) bank accounts. When that train goes off the
> rails — as it must, because it’s at-odds with reality — it will be the
> biggest wreck in history, and it will bring all the operations of advanced
> societies to a stop, including raw materials supply lines, manufacturing,
> global trade, and industrial-scale Agri-Biz. The last of these will be
> especially punishing in a world where bad weather is hammering this year’s
> grain production.
>
> The Democratic Party already has a big wagon of snake oil to “cure” all
> that: socialism. They’re completely up-front about it. Anyway, it’s just
> another name for the periodic forced redistribution of wealth from the fat
> and greedy over-class to the suffering underclass — an understandable
> impulse in societal extremis, but one with universally unappetizing
> side-effects, namely the destruction of consensual economic relations. The
> catch in this instance is that the “wealth” they seek to redistribute will
> be exactly what goes up in a vapor when the stock and bond markets implode,
> along with the world’s fiat currencies.
>
> As the old axiom goes, debt is always repaid by somebody, even in a
> default. In the present case, it will be paid by the young and by other
> citizens of the future, since the mountain of debt racked up world-wide the
> past several decades was literally a massive borrowing from the future to
> keep running all the systems of today (and yesterday). The future itself
> was the collateral. That’s the sad and tricky part.
>
> These are the dynamics going into the election of 2020. It’s actually not
> just a matter of whether these two old political parties survive, but
> whether the USA can even remain intact when these tensions give way.
>
>
> --
> Charlie Loving
>
>
>
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