Quick note from Steve: I won’t make any extensive comments in this blog about the Israel vs. Palestine situation except to state that outside agents have been in play in the Middle East for decades, just like in Ireland, Yugoslavia, Greeks vs. Turks, Armenia vs. Azerbaijan, and so forth. Old ethnic hatreds linger on, festering for centuries, and they’re about as logical as one wild chimp troop trying to annihilate the other as they battle for territory and power. Human beings, if they deserve the name at all, should be beyond this. That they’re not says negative and profound things about our kind. ‘Nough said.
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While I certainly wouldn’t count Tom Clancy as a progressive, he had several entertaining ideas in his novels that might improve things. Readers might remember, for example, the Iranian leader in one of his novels who had to eat a cruise missile on his balcony; after creating a worldwide pandemic, he deserved that! (If they ever prove that lab in Wuhan leaked the Covid virus, one could wish the same for Xi.)
A better scene created by Clancy occurred when a suicide pilot of a jumbo jet crashed it into Congress during the State of Union address. Probably not as amusing as the similar scene in Mars Attacks!, I suppose, but more a possible event—fiction, yes; sci-fi, no. Those scenes should point to an undeniable fact: Congress does so little work these days that all its politicians wouldn’t be missed. In all the recent interviews involving these grifters, I was particularly struck by one where the honorable representative described their typical day: Arrival at ten a.m., follow that with a power lunch, and then be home at his DC residence by four to participate in the DC social life. That should make anyone who works their butt off, especially back in the home district or state, want that Clancy scene to occur!
Whatever the lame escuse—partisan bickering, “…citizens of my state or district don’t care about that issue…,” “…I don’t think that should be discussed in Congress…,” or whatever—US senators and representatives receive their bloated salaries even though they do minimum work to earn them.
The main problem with the Good Ole Piranhas, though, is that they’re now the Fascist Party of America. Their fuehrer—like Voldemort, that “f&%$ing moron” shall not be named here because everyone knows who that loser is—is followed faithfully by the gullible “marching morons,” and the Piranhas at all levels manipulate them to further their fascist plans. From their leader on down, too many are traitors to the US—anyone who thinks appeasing Putin is an American traitor who either belongs in jail or in front of a firing squad simply because appeasement just motivates that Russian psychotic sociopath. Of course, the Piranhas’ fuehrer is even a worse traitor: His handling of state secrets definitely deserve a firing squad, and we know it goes far beyond the classified documents at Mar a Lago. Divulging stats about US nuclear submarines should lead at least to life in prison if not the firing squad!
If democracy fails in America—it’s headed in that direction—this turn to fascism at all levels will likely be one of the major reasons. Now who’s willing to pilot that plane for Clancy and become a true American hero?