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Tom Toles Cartoon: John Lewis At The Pearly Gates
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Cartoon: Death Count
"Did Trump's Coronavirus Action, Inaction And Ineptitude Kill 91,724 People Needlessly?"
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Cartoon: Has Beans
Trump Wants To Know: "What's The Difference Between A Garbanzo Bean And A Chickpea?"
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Cartoon: "Redskins" Goes But Another Racist Mascot Stays
A Comprehensive Review Of Trump's Racism
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Cartoon: In A Surprise Move, Georgia's Governor Kemp Mandates Mask-Wearing
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Trump's Assault On Election Integrity Is Raising Eyebrows In Both Parties
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Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of Voter Fraud And Voter Suppression Posts
Cartoon: Republicans Can't Win The Oval Office Without Cheating
Trump, Mail-In Voting, And Election Fraud
9 Facts That Blow Up The Voter Fraud Myth
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/9-facts-that-blow-up-voter-fraud-myth.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/9-facts-that-blow-up-voter-fraud-myth.html
The Daily Show Interviews Republican Official Who Spills Beans On Deliberate Voter Suppression
Masquerading As Prevention Of Voter Fraud
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Republican Party Is "Full Of Racists," Colin Powell's Chief Of Staff
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
"Dog Whistle Politics": Coded Language And The Rise Of Racially Scornful Political Rhetoric
Dirty Trickster Lee Atwater: The GOP SOB At The Heart Of Republican Barbarism (Hidden Mic)
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"There Are No White People In The Bible" - "Jesus Died At The Hands Of Roman Police"
Yes, the Romans were swarthy.
It is even debated whether their Italian descendants are white.
"Are Italians White?"
"White Immigrants Weren't Always Considered White"
In any event, the Romans (who were swarthy) looked down on the even darker Israelites.
To review the origin of our discussion...
My meme says: "There Are No White People In The Bible."
By every commonly understood measure of ethno-racial "whiteness," this statement is substantively true.
There are no white people in the Bible.
Sure, anything can be argued.
Any hair can be split.
But the mere fact of devising attractive - even eloquent - arguments does not necessarily make them true.
If Trump cultists (nearly all of them white nationalists or white supremacists) were to openly acknowledge the truth that they quietly "hold to be self-evident," they would admit that the Bible is chock full of people whom their race-obsessed ideological forebears would have called "darkies."
Not "white people."
"Darkies."
Relative to these ubiquitous biblical "darkies" (not a word I am in the habit of using), there are, substantively, NO white people in the bible.
The non-white darkness of biblical people is substantively true despite your unsubstantiated assertions that it is otherwise.
More to the point...
Concerning your bogus assertion that the southern part of the Caucasus are in Mesopotamia, please study the following map to see how wildly wrong you are, and then get back to me with a map link that validates your claim. https://www.freeworldmaps.net/asia/caucasus/map.html
And the following map of Mesopotamia is also pertinent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia#/media/File:N-Mesopotamia_and_Syria_english.svg (You may be tempted to argue that the Zagros mountains ARE the Caucasus. However, they are called the Zagros mountains -- and not the Caucasus mountains -- because Zagros is a different mountain range. The word "Caucasian" evolved in reference to the Caucasus, not the Zagros.)
To be clear, we are specifically talking about Ur, birthplace of Jewish patriarch Abraham which is located in the deep south of present day Iraq.
Here is another link showing the distance -- over 600 miles -- from the southern reach of the Caucasus (the "Lesser Caucasus") to Ur. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Nasiriyah,+Iraq/Tabriz,+East+Azerbaijan+Province,+Iran/@34.4854357,41.2314699,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x3fdde2c4e3571081:0xf079d723024bdaac!2m2!1d46.2569178!2d31.0510427!1m5!1m1!1s0x401a05175b8429e1:0x59cb1dc6f21233fb!2m2!1d46.2738013!2d38.096239!3e0
Until you provide links, I will no longer respond to your plucked-from-the-arse assertions.
I have a ringside seat to "The Intellectual Circle Jerk" by keeping my finger on the pulse of Malignant Messiah and QAnonsense.
Remember.
Provide links, or you are dead to me.
Finally - to bring this all up to date - when we set aside Noise Machine nonsense about "legacy, not hate" and "white lives matter," here is what we find at Ground Zero.
Black 14 year old bombarded with racial slurs for giving a donut to a stranger.
White People Who Say "All Lives Matter" Are The Equivalent Of...
It is a fact - plain as potatoes - that Trump World is in bed with ALL the racists, even when Trump World inhabitants devise "alternative facts""proving" that "everybody's""white."
PS What you say about Roman intolerance of Jews because the first commandment forbade graven images and worship of any God other than Yahweh is, in its own context, true.
However the particular meme analysis we've undertaken is overarched by the cornerstone truth that "There Are No White People In The Bible."
Tommy, can you hear me?
There are no white people in the bible.
Take as much time as you need with that.
PS What you say about Roman intolerance of Jews because the first commandment forbade graven images and worship of any God other than Yahweh is, in its own context, true.
However the particular meme analysis we've undertaken is overarched by the cornerstone truth that "There Are No White People In The Bible."
Tommy, can you hear me?
There are no white people in the bible.
Take as much time as you need with that.
The First Commandment's Counsel On Statues Depicting Slave Owners And Confederates
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Donald Trump: A Cesspool Sampler
Video: "If You Don't Think Trump And Trumpistas Are Hypocritical, Dishonest And Stupid, You Will!"
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"The Daily Show"A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken"
"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"
The Daily Show
"A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken""The Daily Show" Lets Trump Cultists Reveal Their Own Stupidity And Obsequious Boot-Licking
"Jaw-Dropping Stupidity: 3 Short Videos That Will Change Your View Of American Politics Forever"
Video Of Trump Mocking Murder Victim For Crying Out, "I Can't Breathe"
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
https://paxonbothhouses.
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts Concerning Trump's Cruelty
A Comprehensive Review Of Trump's Racism
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful And Cruel
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-critical-mass-of-american.html
Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness
"The Republican Party's Bone Deep Racism"
"George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary"
"The Exquisite Stupidity Of Trump Supporters"
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Robert Graves On Money And Poetry (With Follow-up By G.K. Chesterton And Adam Smith)
Robert Graves
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Chesterton: "To Get All That Money, You Must Be Dull Enough To Want It"
http://paxonbothhouses.
Alan: "A philanthropist is someone who gives a way what he should give back."
Alan: "A philanthropist is someone who gives a way what he should give back."
G.K. Chesterton
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"The Founder Of Capitalism"
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Adam Smith's View Of Trump Supporters
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Jimmy Fallon Presents Sarah Cooper's New Trump "Impression." (If time is short, cut to the "Highlights.")
If you don't know Sarah Cooper's Trump "Impressions," now's the time.
Jimmy Fallon Presents Sarah Cooper's New Trump "Impression"
Sarah Cooper Lip-Sync Highlights
Sarah Explains To Jimmy Fallon How She Created Her Lip-Sync Impressions Of Trump
The Bonus Round!
Trump Wants To Know: "What's The Difference Between A Garbanzo Bean And A Chickpea?"
Open this link only if you're prepared to be offended.
"The Rich Plunder The Poor, Then Pile The Blame On The Dispossessed"
"Did Trump's Coronavirus Action, Inaction And Ineptitude Kill 91,724 People Needlessly?"
This is also as close as Trump gets to Christianity.
(And it doubles as a "double cross.")
Listen up, "conservative""Christians" (who are neither).
Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On The Cornerstone Necessity Of Education
Best Trump Memes From "Pax On Both Houses"
Compilation Of (Mostly) Trump Memes Transferred From Pinterest
Best "Pax On Both Houses" Meme Albums A - H
Best Trump Memes From Pax On Both Houses, #1
Trump Memes, Album 1: The Best From "Pax On Both Houses"
Trump Memes, Album 2: The Best From "Pax On Both Houses"
Memes For My Correspondents On A Trumpista-Moderated Facebook Page
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How Much Does it Cost to Live in Italy: Umbria
How Much Does it Cost to Live in Italy: Umbria
Though Umbria has been known as “the next Tuscany” for decades, this small region in the center of Italy has managed to dodge the bullet of tourist crowds and skyrocketing prices that Tuscany-level name recognition and cachet can bring. Despite equally beautiful countryside, Instagram-ready hill towns, excellent wine and traditional cuisine, and a wealth of art and culture, Umbria hovers just under the radar for most of the world, which is good news for those thinking of moving here.
Set about halfway between Rome and Florence, Umbria is ideal for those who want the leisurely pace and human connection of living in a predominantly rural area while still remaining within striking distance of major cities and their international airports.
If you are considering putting down roots in Italy’s “green heart”, here are some parameters to calculate monthly living expenses for two adults. Taking into account everything from housing to local food festivals, you’ll find that a couple can get by in Umbria on as little as €2,000 a month, and live well with a monthly budget of €2,500.
Housing Costs in Umbria
Though housing in Umbria isn’t as rock-bottom cheap as more remote regions like Basilicata or Abruzzo, with a bit of patience you can find deals both on the real estate and rental markets.
Keep in mind that there are a wide range of housing options in Umbria, which makes it easier to find a home to rent or purchase that suits your budget, from “top shelf” to “penny pinching”.
Purchase Prices
The most expensive homes to purchase are generally restored farmhouses that include a pool, significant parcel of land, often an olive grove or small vineyard, and a view from a scenic hilltop perch. The closer you get to hill towns like Assisi, Todi, or Spoleto, the more expensive these run, quickly pushing past the €1,000,000 mark.
If you would like to purchase a home on a more modest budget, opt for an apartment in the center of a small village, especially one that does not attract much tourism. In this case, you can find a historic 2-bedroom apartment or townhouse for less than €100,000 (or half that, if the property needs extensive restoration). You’ll find that listing prices go up significantly in towns where there is a market for short-term rentals (i.e. vacation rentals or student housing), so apartments and townhouses in touristy Assisi or the university town of Perugia begin at about €200,000.
A note: when purchasing a home, pay close attention to the quality of its insulation and heating system, as one of the most daunting expenses in Umbria is often the cost of heat through the winter.
Rental Prices
If you are not ready to commit to purchasing a home, renting is an excellent alternative, though there are fewer options for long-term rentals of entire homes in the countryside. Instead, you’ll find a wide range of apartments and townhouses to rent everywhere from Umbria’s elegant provincial capital of Perugia—expect to pay between €800 and €1,000 month for a spacious apartment in the historic center, or from €400 in the less charming but more economical suburbs—to the smattering of tiny hamlets in hill towns across the region, where a two-bedroom apartment can be found for as little at €250.
Unfurnished apartments (meaning that there is no kitchen) can be found for a slightly lower monthly rent, but you will have to shell out anywhere from around €1,000 to several thousand euros for a kitchen and other basic furnishings (light fixtures and bathroom cabinets are often no included in unfurnished apartments, for example). Semi-furnished apartments with a kitchen, washing machine, and finished bathroom can be slightly more expensive, but there is no hassle with having to install cabinets or appliances.
A note: though rentals are more expensive in larger towns, you can also get by without a car in the center of Perugia or other towns with shops, pharmacies, and other essential services within walking distance. Maintaining a car in Italy can be quite costly, as we’ll see below.
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Monthly Utility Costs in Umbria
Utilities in Umbria are expensive, as they are across Italy. Expect to pay between €200 and €300 a month for electricity, gas, water, internet, and garbage tax for a two-person household in a city or town. If you own your property, you will also have to factor in property tax (IMU), which is much lower if you are a resident than if the property is registered as your second home.
The biggest factor in monthly utilities is by far heat, which can be either via a natural gas line in a town or city, a refillable tank in the countryside, or a wood or pellet stove in either the city or country. Sprawling old farmhouses in the countryside may be picturesque, but they are also often badly insulated and not connected to the natural gas line; the cost of heat over a single winter can run as high as €1,000 a month. Otherwise, you can install a wood or pellet stove or solar panels, which lowers heating costs significantly. Before you commit to either a purchase or rental, be sure to verify the heating system and estimated cost or you may be in for a very unpleasant surprise!
Another important monthly cost to factor in is ownership of a car. You can easily get by without owning a car in a larger city or town, but a car becomes a necessity if you live in the countryside or a small hamlet with few services. Umbria does not have very good public transportation between the small towns, though there are two main rail lines that connect the towns in the Umbrian valley and those between Rome and Orvieto. In addition to the cost of purchase, you will need to pay insurance, the registration tax (bollo), maintenance, and fuel. These costs can easily add up to at least €2,000 a year.
You will also have to purchase health insurance or opt into the public health system in Italy as a resident, which begins at about €350 a year per person for a basic plan.
Monthly Food Budget in Umbria
Umbria is a foodie paradise, with excellent local meat, cheeses, heirloom legumes, wines, and gourmet goodies like truffles and saffron. In addition, there are excellent informal restaurants in both the towns and countryside where you can tuck into a multi-course meal without breaking the bank. On average, a couple can eat well with a relatively limited budget of around €400, including both groceries and a smattering of meals out. The uniquely Italian pleasures like an espresso tossed down at the bar like a local (€1), an aperitivo with a cocktail and nibbles overlooking the piazza (€5), or a wood-fired pizza fresh from the oven (€7) can be had so cheaply that they quickly become regular habits.
Though you can keep your food budget in check by shopping at the larger chain supermarkets and limiting your meals out, it would be a shame to miss out on the region’s delicious artisan specialties that can be found at the more expensive organic and farmer’s markets and smaller, local grocery stores, butcher shops, bakeries, and greengrocers. Not only is the quality of the food generally much higher than the larger supermarkets, but the opportunity to get to know the vendors personally is priceless.
Be sure to put aside money in your monthly budget for wine, as Umbria has remarkably good wines that can be found for a fraction of what they cost outside the country. A good table wine can be had at little more than €10 a bottle; for double that, you can often find an extraordinary label. That said, a couple can easily go through a bottle of wine a day with just a glass or two at lunch and dinner, so the cost can quickly add up.
Fun and Festivals in Umbria
Though there are a number of delightful museums in Umbria, most of the art and architecture is free for the taking in the region’s many historic towns and churches. You can spend your leisure time strolling through villages like Spoleto, Spello, Assisi, and Bevagna for free, or for the price of a coffee or gelato break.
In addition, Umbria is known for its many historic and food festivals, again most free to wander (though you will have to spring for a meal if you want to taste the wares). Even the world-class Umbria Jazz Festival can be light on the pocket if you avoid the main events and instead stick to the free outdoor concerts and street musician acts. In short, much of Umbria’s culture and entertainment can be enjoyed virtually for free, as well as its beautiful countryside, Lake Trasimeno, and natural parks and reserves.
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Valencia, Spain: A Luminous Travel Destination
Dear Ger,
Late last night, my "Barcelona Photography Project" got me scrolling down a google map of Spain's east coast.
When I got to Valencia (near the southeast corner of the peninsula), I noticed several long stretches of coast where roadways did not run along the shore but some considerable distance inland. This fact caused me to pause and take a closer look at this great city -- originally a Roman colony -- and its hinterland. (The name Valencia derives from the Latin word for "valor." In Spanish, "valor" means both "valor" and "value.")
With a population of 2.5 million -- compared to Barcelona's 5.5 million and Madrid 6.5 million, "greater" Valencia is Spain's third largest city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/
Excerpt: "In its long history, Valencia has acquired many local traditions and festivals, among them the Falles (paella festivals), which were declared Celebrations of International Tourist Interest (Festes de Interés Turístic Internacional) on 25 January 1965 and UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage of humanity list on 30 November 2016." Alan: Valencia is the city that invented paella.
"The 15 Cheapest Cities In Europe" lists Valencia at #5.
https://handluggageonly.co.uk/
Clearly, human opinion ranges across a full spectrum, and there are people (as Hitler famously pointed out) who think "Hell is Heaven and Heaven Hell."
However, one online reviewer who clearly realizes that Barcelona is a great city, was equally clear that he enjoys Valencia even more.
An Aside: Valencia's beaches are low key, almost "kitsch-free" and offer good, inexpensive eateries -- in the heartland of paella!
And!!!
Valencia gets more sunshine than any other European city.
REVIEW: I just spent 4 days in Valencia (October) and really enjoyed it. Four days wasn't enough to do all the things I would have liked to do so I'm planning to go back with my son who is a Valencia football fan.
Getting around the city is very easy. From the airport the metro goes to the centre of town and cost only e1.90 (plus e1 for a rechargeable ticket). Metro trips around town are e1.40, but a ten trip ticket is e6.55. Xativa is the stop closest to the centre.
We stayed at "50 flats" which I would recommend, the same company has similar accommodation in the city. https://www.tripadvisor.
Getting around the city is very easy. From the airport the metro goes to the centre of town and cost only e1.90 (plus e1 for a rechargeable ticket). Metro trips around town are e1.40, but a ten trip ticket is e6.55. Xativa is the stop closest to the centre.
We stayed at "50 flats" which I would recommend, the same company has similar accommodation in the city. https://www.tripadvisor.
The old town is very compact and flat and can be walked easily.
The Mercado Central is a fruit and meat market, as interesting for the presentation of the food as for the building itself. La Lonja is just across the road and has a shady courtyard.
My favourite place in town was the Plaza Ayumiento with fantastic buildings all around. The post office has a spectacular domed glass roof (no photos allowed). Alan: In addition to the enjoyable "Old Town," Valencia is famous for its fantastic modern architecture.
The tower of the cathedral gives good views from the top, up and down is controlled by a traffic light. Tip, don't sit under the bell when you are waiting to come down.
The beachside is not like Spanish resorts. Quite a few low-key restaurants/bars, no souvenir shops. The beach is fantastic for walking along, firm fine sand, no shingle and no crowds. In good weather in October it was nearly empty. The beach can be reached by the metro to Maratim Serreria, which connects to the tram to Neptu (all one ticket). Alan: There is also a high-quality "primitive" beach nearby.
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Pax et amore
Alan
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Paul Krugman : "Paranoid Politics Goes Viral: When Everything Is A Liberal Conspiracy"
We still don’t know how much damage Covid-19 — the coronavirus disease — will do, but it’s reasonable to be very concerned. After all, it appears to be highly transmissible, and it is probably a lot more lethal than ordinary flu.
But not to worry, say right-wing pundits and news organizations: It’s all a hoax, a conspiracy by the liberal media to make Donald Trump look bad. Administration officials and Trump himself have echoed their claims.
These claims are, of course, crazy. Among other things, Covid-19 is a global phenomenon, with major outbreaks ranging from South Korea to Italy. Are the South Korean and Italian media also part of a conspiracy to get Trump?
This craziness was, however, entirely predictable to anyone who has been following right-wing politics. It’s just the latest battle in a long-running war on truth, on the very idea that there exists an inconvenient objective reality.
In the case of Covid-19 the usual suspects were, in part, engaged in projection. After all, they themselves engaged in a concerted effort to politically weaponize the 2014 Ebola outbreak against Barack Obama, whose response was in reality smart and effective. By the way, in the aftermath of that outbreak the Obama administration put in place measures to deal with future pandemics — all of which Trump scrapped.
But as I said, virus denial is just the latest battle in a long-term war on truth.
Remember, conservatives have spent decades denying the reality of climate change, insisting that it’s a gigantic hoax perpetrated by a vast international scientific conspiracy. And as the signs of climate catastrophe multiply, from wildfires in Australia to drought in California, climate denial has only strengthened its grip on the G.O.P. On the eve of the 2018 midterms, a survey found 73 percent of Republican senators denying the scientific consensus that man-made climate change is happening.
Or consider how many on the right reacted after their dire predictions of hyperinflation under Obama failed to pan out — not by admitting that they were wrong, but by insisting that the numbers were being cooked. And I’m not talking about fringe figures, I’m talking about people conservatives consider leading intellectuals.
Now, this kind of conspiracy theorizing isn’t exclusively the province of the right. You can, for example, see some similar tendencies in Bernie Sanders’s team. It was dismaying to find a senior Sanders adviser declaring that all those disagreeing with proposals for a wealth tax — which, by the way, I support — “are the types of groups and academics that are funded by the powers that be, the establishment, the billionaire class.”
The thing is, while corruption by big money does happen — it’s the main force keeping zombie ideas alive — it doesn’t lie behind every policy dispute. Sometimes serious analysts just disagree. And it’s worrying that some of the Sanders people can’t tell the difference.
But the right is where the paranoid style goes hand in hand with real power, and can do real damage. Indeed, it can be deadly.
This is obvious when it comes to climate change, where conspiracy-theory-fueled denial plays a big role in blocking action, and hence poses an existential threat to civilization.
At first, it wasn’t clear whether right-wing paranoia was also hampering the response to Covid-19. But recent reporting makes it clear that one major reason the U.S. has lagged far behind other countries in testing for the coronavirus — an essential step in containing its spread — was that Trump didn’t want to believe that there was a crisis. After all, recognizing that we face a serious problem might hurt his beloved stock market.
This desire to minimize the danger to the market distorted the whole government response to the outbreak. Some have drawn parallels to the run-up to the Iraq war, when the Bush administration’s evident desire to be given a rationale for war skewed intelligence toward seeing nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.
In today’s case, analysis was skewed toward not seeing a threat — and the skew was enabled, in part, by claims that all the evidence that there was, indeed, a threat was a hoax perpetrated by the liberal news media.
And there is little evidence, even now, that the Trump administration is taking the reality of Covid-19 seriously. While the administration is finally asking for additional funds to fight the disease, the sums it has suggested seem grotesquely inadequate.
Trump allies are already denouncing his critics for “politicizing” the outbreak; Donald Trump Jr. has accused Democrats of wanting to see millions die. But it was actually Trump who politicized the virus, by downplaying the danger.
It’s true that Democrats are criticizing Trump’s actions, suggesting that his refusal to accept responsibility for, well, anything is putting America at risk. Last time I checked, however, criticizing America’s leaders was still legitimate.
But that’s the thing about political paranoia: You see even the most normal criticism as part of a sinister conspiracy. And the fact that this kind of paranoia has infected our ruling party is scarier than any virus.
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Umair Haque: "2020 is Such a Terrible Year Because Our Civilization is Beginning to Collapse"
Umair Haque: Compendium Of Writing By The Only Columnist I Always Read
Excerpt: Just like America, the world needs to double its rate of investment. It needs to hit 50% of GDP invested in public goods and social systems. How do I know? Again, because Europe. Europe is the only place in the world which has reduced carbon emissions by now…ever. It’s also the only place in the world where middle classes have grown alongside democracy, where living standards have risen alongside trust and happiness, while pollution and violence and brutality and ignorance and despair have all declined.
2020 is Such a Terrible Year Because Our Civilization is Beginning to Collapse
2020 is a Turning Point — the Collapse of Our Civilization is Becoming Inevitable
How’s your year been so far? Surreal, weird, catastrophic is probably an honest answer.
2020 is one of those years. Those years. The kind history will remember. It is the beginning of the end of our civilization. I know how that sounds, outlandish, impolite, arrogant. And yet — isn’t there a part of you that, deep down, knows it? Your intuition is right. Righter than all the pundits and politicians put together.
We’re only half way through 2020. But it’s already impossible not to see it as a year of desperate wake-up calls to human civilization. In January, megafires swept America and Australia. In February, Asia flooded. In March, a new pandemic erupted. And here we are. Month after month, 2020 made a dystopian future suddenly feel real.
Like there was no escape.
I have some good news, and I have some bad news.
This is in fact the beginning of the end of our civilization. We now face three to five decades of relentless catastrophe. The 2030s will be the decade that climate change goes catastrophic. The 2040s, when mass extinction begins to cause life on planet earth as we know it to collapse. The 2050s will be the age of the Final Goodbye — when the earth’s great ecosystems come finally and irreversibly undone. When the limbs, lungs, breath, and blood of the planet is finally turned to ashes.
As they die, so do we. Because we depend on all those for everything from our secondary systems — shopping, finance, jobs, employment, consumer goods, “money” — to our primary ones, like water, food, air, energy, and medicine. Many of those systems that we take for granted are already reaching their limits — thanks to just six months of a pandemic. Those six months have stretched to breaking point, among other things, our healthcare systems, our employment systems, our social contracts and safety nets, our social bonds, our economies, politics, and cultures, how we feed and shelter and nourish ourselves. All those are stretched to the limit by just six months of pandemic.
So how about decades of climate catastrophe? Of mass extinction? Of the rivers turning to mud, the oceans to acid, the skies to dust, the soil to ashes? Good luck. No civilization can survive the death of the primary resources which fuels its primary systems. The results are — as we should all know all too well — everything from flood to famine to depression to plague to brutality to barbarism. Take a hard look at America to see much of that last list. Many civilizations, from South America to Rome to the Indus Valley, have ended this way — through primary resource depletion causing a catastrophic failure of systems which provide the basics to people — and ours will just be another entry on that list.
As our systems hit their limits, optimism, trust, and faith are just a few the things dying with them — maybe not if you’re lucky enough to be in Europe, but certainly elsewhere, from America to Russia to China to beyond.
Why am I becoming increasingly certain that civilizational collapse is now more or less unstoppable?
Simple economics lead me to a devastating conclusion. One that, if I’m honest with you, keeps me up at night. Because the deeper I peer into them, the more clarity they reveal: there’s no going back now. 2020 was the year it all became unstoppable, this age of catastrophes, which is simply going to rip our civilization apart.
Like I said, they’re simple: enough that anyone can follow, decipher, understand them, so let’s look at them together.
Let me begin with an example. Joe Biden recently announced a $2 trillion plan for green investment in America. Good, right? It’s excellent. Unfortunately, it’s also not enough. How do I know? America’s GDP is about $20 trillion. America’s problem is that its economy is deeply imbalanced: just 25% or so is public expenditure, and that’s a generous estimate. 75% is private. That means that America spends just $5 trillion per year on public goods, which is why it has such poor ones. You can’t have a decent healthcare, education, retirement, childcare, etcetera system on just 25% of GDP. It’s impossible. Can’t be done.
How much do you need? Europe gives us the answer: it’s about 50% of GDP. That means America would have to spend $10 trillion per year — double what it does now. Biden’s plan for green investment barely pushes the needle on American investment north from $5 trillion. Like I said, not enough. Remember, America has to double it’s spending every year. An additional $2 trillion over a decade is a figure small enough so as to be almost meaningless. You can’t do it on that little.
This isn’t to slam Biden — quite the opposite. He’s doing what he can. The problem is that what he has to work with isn’t enough.
America is a poor country now. How can it raise an extra $5 trillion a year to pay for the social contract it needs if it isn’t to fall apart?
Think of how having no real healthcare system in place left it massively vulnerable to a pandemic, and almost instantly resulted in the world’s highest death toll and infections.
That’s what being poor is and does. Now think of having a decrepit energy grid, a banking system that doesn’t provide, a factory food system that churns out malnourishing junk, a water system that’s already hitting its limits — think of how fast, hard, and badly all those are going to snap the moment climate change and mass extinction go catastrophic. Bang! They’re simply going to implode, like America’s almost nonexistent healthcare system did the instant a pandemic hit.
The story is: fragility. Underinvestment creates massive system fragility. That’s why Corona ripped America to shreds — decades of underinvestment in healthcare, in employment insurance, in safety nets, and so forth.
But America is now too poor to find the $5 trillion a year it needs to fix itself. Go ahead and ask the people formerly known as the middle class if they can afford more in taxes. They’ll laugh at you. Sure, go ahead and tax Apple and Google and so forth. That’ll only get you about three to five years of a working society. Go ahead and borrow even more. There’s no way out for America now. It let a vicious cycle of poverty kick off — the middle and working class imploding — and now it’s too poor probably to ever fix itself.
A technical way to put it is that widespread poverty and precarity even amongst those who should be affluent — 80% of American live paycheck to paycheck — means its fiscal base has been destroyed. People can’t afford to fund the systems they need most now. Whether healthcare, retirement, education, pensions, childcare. Bang! Game over. No way out. The tipping point has been reached for America — it was probably around 2010 or so.
America’s an example, and a warning. I know your head’s probably spinning already. Take a breath, take a break. Now let’s do the thinking above for the world.
The world’s GDP is about $80 trillion or so. Just like America — eerily — we as a human race invest just 25% of what we make. That’s too low.
We’re investing about $20 trillion or so a year in our critical systems, the primary and secondary ones both, whether healthcare, energy, food, water, and so on. It’s not enough.
Just like America, the world needs to double its rate of investment. It needs to hit 50% of GDP invested in public goods and social systems. How do I know? Again, because Europe. Europe is the only place in the world which has reduced carbon emissions by now…ever. It’s also the only place in the world where middle classes have grown alongside democracy, where living standards have risen alongside trust and happiness, while pollution and violence and brutality and ignorance and despair have all declined.
Europe tells us the bar human civilization must meet if it’s to survive. That’s the good news, by the way. We know. We have an answer to the question: what must our civilization do if it’s to survive. The answer is: it must double it’s rate of investment to 50%, just like Europe. That’s the threshold at which you can do things like cut back emissions, provide healthcare to protect from pandemics, build and renew the critical systems of subsistence and prosperity for all.
If you don’t hit that threshold, though, if you stay at just 25% — you end up like America. Destroyed, ruined, broken. Undereducation creates idiots, under-healthcare pours fuel on the fire of pandemics, underinvestment in everything makes everything fragile, easily broken, ready to fall apart at the slightest pressure or stress. And maybe everyone, too.
Let’s put some hard numbers to that.
The human race has to double it’s investment level, from $20 trillion, to $40 trillion, in order to hit the critical threshold of 50% of what it produces invested back in itself. My father in law, the farmer, understands the logic of that threshold — if you don’t put back half of what you make, you eat away your future, ultimately. That’s what we’ve done.
But like America, the world is too poor to make that investment. Where is that $20 trillion a year going to come from? That’s the equivalent of the entire American economy, which is the biggest in the world. All of it. You can tax the rich, you can tax the corporations — even if we assume that the world could cooperate to do such a thing. Not going to work. The money does not exist. It is simply not there.
There is one way out — which is for us, as a human race, to understand that “money” is just a polite social fiction. We can create the money, and just start spending it. Who are we “borrowing” it from? Technically, from the future — from our grandkids. But if we invest it in all the things above, from clean energy grids to basic income for every human being to an education for every child on planet earth so tomorrow’s Trumps don’t have idiot armies, right down to nourishing the trees, rivers, reefs, oceans, and creatures great and small — not spend it at a casino, or on designer sneakers — I’m pretty sure they’ll thank us. Because they’ll have a planet, life on it, democracy across it, and a civilization to live in.
That’s the only way out now. It’s not likely to happen, because, well, nobody much really understands 21st century economics. Our leaders and politicians and pundits don’t — they’re still bickering about “deficits,” while the planet burns, and new plagues erupt. Who are you going to pay that money back to, when we don’t have a civilization anymore? Goldman Sachs? LOL. Give me a break. And the average person has been indoctrinated to think that “debt” is a real thing, not a fiction, not an investment, which must always be repaid as soon as possible. They don’t understand — maybe even you don’t — that those false, ancient, capitalist-age economics are now killing us. Probably — I’d bet — even you think that “debt” is real, and we have to pay it off as soon as possible, that you don’t understand the crucial conclusion.
We must invest now, on a scale never before seen in human history. We need to add the equivalent of the biggest economy in the world to the world economy. The scale of this wave of investment is something like creating a whole American economy out of thin air — in a decade or two.
Can that happen, even if the will is there? I doubt it. Because the money isn’t there. We as a civilization simply don’t have enough of a surplus to invest. We’re too poor. We don’t have that money in the bank.
And too many of us believe that we can’t simply invest, anyways, making investments on behalf of everyone who comes after us forever.
Catch-22. No escape. Bang! Game over. That is all why, increasingly, I’m forced to conclude:
This is it. Our civilization is now beginning to collapse. 2020 wasn’t an anomaly. It was a taste of the future. Megafires, megafloods, pandemics? They’re what happens when a civilization invests too little in its critical systems, letting risk spiral out of control.
But we now face three to five decades like the catastrophic year 2020. We need to invest, but we don’t have the colossal amount we need in the bank. And we don’t seem to understand that we can form our own bank. So we can find the money to invest to fix all the existential threats which are now overwhelming critical systems, from healthcare to air, water, food, energy, and medicine. Implosion and collapse is becoming more certain by the day.
“We can’t find the money in the bank to save the world” deserves one further point of discussion. We thought so, many of us, arrogant, conceited, puffed up — but the shattering truth is that we were never a rich civilization, my friends. We had only ever become a slightly less poor one. One that squandered away what little surplus it had created, through all those centuries of brutality and violence, on trinkets and toys, never quite understanding how much more we needed to invest to keep things going. We never understood that being truly rich? It’s being able to invest, as much as you need to, so that life gets better. So that your potential expands and unfurls. So that everything around you comes roaring to life. So you don’t live in and on a dying husk of a country, planet, civilization, in the end. So your garden blooms, instead of withers.
That is where we are now. That is what 2020 has been. A turning point. A point of no return. The probable beginning of the end of our civilization.
Umair
July 2020
July 2020
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It's Starting To Look Like Trump's Response To BLM Is Enough To Take Him Down All On Its Own
“TRUMP COULD NOT BE MORE ON THE WRONG
SIDE”: NEW POLL SHOWS TRUMP’S BLACK LIVES
MATTER PROTEST RESPONSE COULD COST HIM 2020
Exclusive polling suggests the protests changed Americans’ minds so quickly, and so profoundly,
that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.
that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.
If Donald Trump loses in the fall, the first week of June might have marked the beginning of the end. On June 1, with the country consumed by historic protests against racism and police brutality, some of them violent, Trump decided to position himself as the “law-and-order” president, made clear by his tweets and his now infamous march that evening across Lafayette Square, outside the White House. His path cleared by the National Guard and D.C. police who used chemical agents on lawfully assembled protesters and roughed up journalists, Trump walked across the street to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church for an inscrutable and buffoonish photo op, in which he held up a Bible and said nothing much at all about the cities on fire and the country’s dismal legacy of racism. “We have a great country,” Trump said. “That’s my thoughts.” The moment was an emblem of Trump’s presidency: attention-seeking, bereft of empathy, gut over strategy. It was so embarrassing and borderline anti-American that one of his generals, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley, apologized for participating in the walk and reportedly considered resigning. Like so many of Trump’s decisions, it was a sugar-high tactic designed to please his base and get TV ratings, with almost no thought about the larger sweep of American history, let alone his reelection campaign.
Politically, it was a disaster. In the days that followed, Trump’s approval ratings tumbled to their lowest point in over a year, and their lowest point of the coronavirus pandemic, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker. The first two weeks of June also saw Trump fall even further behind his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. Before June, Biden steadily held a four-to-six-point lead over Trump in national polls, fueled in part by massive support among the independent voters whom Trump won in 2016. Shortly after Lafayette Square, though, Biden began to open up an even bigger lead, a nine-point average lead over the president, with a Washington Post–ABC News poll this week showing Biden winning by as many as 15 points.
Politically, it was a disaster. In the days that followed, Trump’s approval ratings tumbled to their lowest point in over a year, and their lowest point of the coronavirus pandemic, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker. The first two weeks of June also saw Trump fall even further behind his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. Before June, Biden steadily held a four-to-six-point lead over Trump in national polls, fueled in part by massive support among the independent voters whom Trump won in 2016. Shortly after Lafayette Square, though, Biden began to open up an even bigger lead, a nine-point average lead over the president, with a Washington Post–ABC News poll this week showing Biden winning by as many as 15 points.
Trump’s reaction to the protests was not the only reason for his summer collapse. Most pollsters say that Trump’s continuing inability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, and the economic havoc that’s come with it, has been the dominant factor. And last week, for the first time, polls began to show Biden beating Trump on the question of who would best handle the economy, the only decent card left in Trump’s deck. But if Trump loses in November, the nationwide protests against racism and police brutality that erupted in early June have to be seen as a significant breaking point. Not just because they threw an exhausted nation into even more chaos, and not just because they forced Trump into the most astoundingly dumb photo op in presidential history, surpassing George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished!” blunder. In fact, new polling and research provided to Vanity Fair suggests that the protests themselves changed America’s opinions about race so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump unknowingly planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.
Shortly after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, the Democratic research firm Avalanche went into nine battleground states—Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, and Pennsylvania—to measure how segments of Americans were reacting to the protests. Unlike most pollsters at the time, Avalanche surveyed two large back-to-back samples of 6,986 registered and unregistered total voters—one on June 1 and a second on June 10 and 11—allowing it to track how sentiments changed during what might have been the most consequential chapter of the protests. Like most polls, Avalanche found widespread support for the protests by June 11, with 68% of respondents saying the protesters were “completely right” or “somewhat right.” But rather than measuring responses by self-identified partisanship—Democrat, Republican, independent—Avalanche measured by vote choice. It organized respondents into five segments: Vote Trump, Lean Trump, Mixed Feelings, Lean Biden, and Vote Biden.
The persuadables—the Lean Trump and Mixed Feelings segments—were more inclined to say the protests were “somewhat right,” describing them using hazier terms like “equality” and “change.” But at the same time, they expressed unease with rioting, looting, and property destruction. So when the demonstrations became almost completely nonviolent and penetrated even the smallest American towns, public opinion came their way—even among soft Trump supporters. “Even among voters who say they will probably vote for Trump, there are still more than 40% of people who talk about this as being a moment about racial equality,” said Tovah Paglaro, Avalanche’s cofounder and COO. “So when you're talking about what's going on with those persuadable voters, and figuring out spaces where they're more aligned with Biden, for them this moment is about racial equality. And 20% of them also cite that it's time to create change. That's a surprisingly large percentage of soft Trump supporters saying something's got to happen here. They’re saying, ‘I don't like rioting and looting and I'm not crazy about the tactics, but I do acknowledge that there's a problem with racial equality.’ It connects to police brutality and a need for change.”
Beyond the presidential race, the Avalanche survey picked up a treasure trove of detail about the anti-racism moment. As seen in other national polls, the intensity of feeling was stronger among Black Americans, who were more likely to talk about the protests in the context of racial justice and reforming police departments, compared to white Americans and undecided voters, who responded with more abstract terms like “equality” or “opportunity.” “When Black respondents talk about what’s happening right now, their response is twice as likely to be about racism or racial justice as it is about equality generally and good treatment,” Paglaro said. “Fear,” “anger,” and “bad” were the terms most used to describe police among Black respondents, who talked about personal experiences with bias and excessive force. White respondents, meanwhile, were more likely to use terms like “good,” “safe,” and “proud” when referring to their local police. Despite those differences, 75% of Americans in the survey favored some kind of policing reform, with respondents expressing a desire for better officer training, increased diversity, and more police accountability. Among both Black and white respondents, there was almost no support for fully defunding police departments, an idea that turned off the persuadable voter segments. There was even less support for hiring more police and raising officer pay.
But according to Prull, the biggest story of early June was the widespread support that rapidly emerged in favor of the protesters, people of all races and ages, who took to the streets to make a statement about racism in America. The protesters, he said, were winning a values argument with Americans of all races, backgrounds, and political persuasions at the very moment President Trump was trying to paint them as an angry and radical minority. “Trump could not be more on the wrong side of this issue for anyone except for a very isolated group of his base, and that’s what he’s stuck with,” Prull said. “He’s taking a line of messaging that works for 34% of his base in our survey. It’s not even that big of a part of his base. He’s really alienating folks. There’s a compelling argument here that Trump’s negatives can be driven up even further among some of these Lean Trump folks, based on his behavior and relationship with the protests,” Prull said, suggesting that NeverTrump groups like the Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump could take up that work.
Yet Trump seems to be doing the work on his own in recent days, by dispatching federal troops to cities like Portland, Chicago, and even Albuquerque to tangle with protesters who, for the most part, have been behaving peacefully for more than a month. As with Lafayette Square, Trump is perversely creating mayhem in the name of law and order, clinging to the apple-pie idea that the “silent majority” of 1968 is still hiding out somewhere. The country will “go to hell” if Biden wins, Trump said this week, as if people don’t understand that he’s the one presiding over the chaos. But if Avalanche’s research is correct, the silent majority of 2020 is firmly on the side of Biden when it comes to issues of race and justice, and its members walked out of Trump’s community theater Richard Nixon impression many weeks ago.
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"George Carlin Describes America's Dumbf*ck Quandary"
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Discussion Of Streetsweepers, Plutocratic Degradation Of The Poor And Martin Luther King's View
There are two fundamental dispositions in this world; the merciful and the punitive. One of the greatest blessings is that your path not cross with the punitive - no matter how “right” they may be.
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Trump Cabinet Meeting: What's Not Wrong With This Picture
What's not wrong with this picture?
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https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/christian-ministers-have-moral.html
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Best Summary Best Epitomization of the shitstorm
Best Summary Best Epitomization of the shitstorm
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https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/07/when-we-finally-cop-to-slavery-separate.html
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