Principled Nihilism And An American Renaissance?  Eliminate And Germinate (May 19, 2025)

Posted in Culture, Society on May 19, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “I read an essay critical of another writer who advanced an insightful analysis of many of society’s problems yet was accused of not advancing workable answers.  A prohibition on complaints devoid of answers?  I thought about it.  That may be the best one can do.  Attacking hypocrisy and dishonesty and the like that we do not like with an eye toward eliminating it while also germinating alternative workable ideas is the only course of action.”

J          “I have all the answers!  Just listen.  Yet too often my answers are underpinned by a belief that we can or must change fundamental human nature.  That is not going to happen.”

. . .

K          “The only way to bring about productive change in America is fundamentally to eliminate not internally reform every major institution.  They are fundamentally broken and must be disassembled in toto and rebuilt from the ground up.”

J          “It is the individual not the institution.  Those limits that nature fixes for human conduct will fix you.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019), 2020: The Year Of Failed Institutions (And Individuals) (December 21, 2020), Revisiting “Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)” Four Years Later (December 11, 2023), Time To MAAA:  Make America America Again? (September 30, 2024), Fight Or Flight In The Face Of Fear? A Principled Reaction To Stand (November 30, 2020) and Trump:  MBA Not MPP:  Meat Cleaver Versus Surgeon’s Scalpel (March 3, 2025).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Eliminate and germinate

“We have met the enemy, and boy oh boy is he and she ever you and me.”  Mr. Pogo

“We have met the friend and he is us.”  Pogo

“If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry.  And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.”  Dalai Lama

What me worry.

“The whole future lies in uncertainty, live immediately.”  Seneca

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Graduation Advice:  Do Something, Anything (Good) (May 12, 2025)

Posted in Graduation Advice on May 12, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Do something, anything (good).”

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K          “Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’25 . . . do something, anything (good). . . .  If I could offer you only one tip for the future . . . do something, anything (good).  You have been studying and partying and extracurricularing at a frantic and frenetic pace.  Now is the time to . . . do something, anything (good).  We are all anesthetized and lobotomized and desensitized.  And do not realize it.  Unable to act.  Unable to think.  Unable to feel.  Unable to react.  Unable to respond.  Unable to able.  . . .  The Smarty Pants phone is not that smart.  Spurn and reject and repudiate and put down your false lover – the Fondle Slab – and step back.  Stand up; sit in.  . . .  Your fears are so well-founded; the saber-toothed tiger lurks everywhere and is on the prowl all the time.  And breeding.  . . .  Read “Everything Is A Fight Today.” Please répondez s’il vous plaît. Oh, And Happy Solstice! (June 17, 2024) for a discussion of our plight and the fight today.  Listen to Bob [Marley].  ‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.  None but ourselves can free our mind.’  Free your mind.  Yourself.  Live, love, learn.  Do something, anything (good).  Go.”

. . .

K          “Wear sunscreen.  Wear hearing protection; listen attentively.  Wear chainsaw safety chaps; cut with care.  Eat dessert: First.  Learn to tie a bowline (and a bow tie).  Stop, pause, think.  Eschew fear.  Transcend:  Maintain FL 44; Make A Few Discrete Dives And Diversions To TPA (Traffic Pattern Altitude).  Find the First Amendment.  Plant a garden.  Do something, anything (good).”

. . .

J          “How about work to ‘Ban the Internet’ as graduation advice for the entire nation to graduate to a more sane and fulfilling existence?  Or work to ‘Sensibly license the Internet akin to shortwave radio licensing’ to save the nation?”

K          “That works.  That is doing something, anything (good).”

. . .

[See the original “Sunscreen Column”, the Wikipedia article “Wear Sunscreen” and listen to “Everbody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”.]

[See the e-commentary at The Möbius Loop Of Stupidity, Dishonesty, Hypocrisy, Incompetence, Indifference, Arrogance, . . .  Oh, And Happy Thanksgiving! (November 25, 2019), Graduation Advice:  Plant A Garden (May 13, 2024), Graduation Advice:  Find The First Amendment (May 15, 2023), Graduation Advice:  Transcend:  Maintain FL 44; Make A Few Discrete Dives And Diversions To TPA (Traffic Pattern Altitude) (May 16, 2022), Graduation Advice: Eschew Fear (May 10, 2021), Graduation Advice:  Stop, Pause, Think (May 18, 2020), Graduation Advice:  Learn To Tie a Bowline (And A Bow Tie) (May 13, 2019), Graduation Advice:  Eat Dessert.  First. (May 14, 2018), Graduation Advice:  Wear Chainsaw Safety Chaps; Cut With Care (May 15, 2017), Graduation Advice:  Wear Hearing Protection; Listen Attentively (May 16, 2016), TeeVee, The Fondle Slab And L’Internet (May 17, 2021), Stalking The Stalking Saber-toothed Tiger (June 12, 2023) and the advice to youth at Go East, Young Person (August 25, 2014).] 

Bumper stickers of the week:

Wear sunscreen.  Wear hearing protection; listen attentively.  Wear chainsaw safety chaps; cut with care.  Eat dessert:  First.  Learn to tie a bowline (and a bow tie).  Stop, pause, think.  Eschew fear.  Transcend:  Maintain FL 44; Make A Few Discrete Dives And Diversions To TPA (Traffic Pattern Altitude).  Find the First Amendment.  Plant a garden.  Do something, anything (good).

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.  None but ourselves can free our mind.”  Bob Marley, “Redemption Song”

Flee the Mobius Loop

Meditate mudita; repudiate schadenfreude

Répondez s’il vous plait

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.  . . .  We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”  Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Sensibly license the Internet akin to shortwave radio licensing

“Don’t do anything, something might happen.”  Dr. Milo H. Fritz

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Tenth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2025 (May 5, 2025)

Posted in Journalism, Pushitzer Prize In Commentary on May 5, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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            “The envelope please.  . . .  This year’s Pushitzer Prize in Commentary is awarded to . . . Chris Hedges . . .  Sage, poet, moralist, philosopher, historian, he is the soul and conscience of today’s small cadre of honest, concerned and courageous journalists and commentators.  For his efforts stirring the pot, asking hard questions, demanding answers, rejecting lies, spotlighting uncomfortable truths, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.  And being a model journalist.”

J          “He speaks truth.” 

. . .

[See the e-commentary on the Commentary Award and previous recipients at Ninth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2024 (May 6, 2024), Eighth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2023 (May 8, 2023), Seventh Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2022 (May 9, 2022), Sixth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2021 (June 7, 2021), Fifth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2020 (May 4, 2020), Fourth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2019 (April 15, 2019), Third Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2018 (April 16, 2018), Second Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2017 (April 10, 2017), First Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2016 (April 18, 2016) and Pulitzers Are Pro-War?  Pressing The Pushitzers (April 22, 2013).]

[Please send your nomination for the Pushitzer Prize in Commentary for 2026 and a supporting letter by January 21, 2026 to e-ssay@gci.net and send the entry fee to your favorite charity.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy.”  Chris Hedges

Make journalism great again

Make journalism journalism again

Knowledge is not power, but ignorance is powerless

“First they came for the journalists.  We don’t know what happened after that.”

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”  George Orwell

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Russian Victory In Europe Turns 80.  U.S. Defeat In Vietnam Turns 50.  Time To Get It? (April 28, 2025)

Posted in Academia, MSM, Professional Managerial Class (PMC), Russia, Vietnam, War, World War II on April 28, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K        “Four score years ago on May 8 / 9, the Russians defeated the Germans and won World War II; since that time the United States has lost every single war it has instigated or inflamed.  What an enviable record in the history of empires.”

J          “Except Grenada.  Do not forget Grenada.  A few grenades in Grenada is all that one took.  Not really a record worth writing home about.  It was more of what the sports world calls a ‘friendly’ competition.”

. . .

K          “An entire generation was condemned to slow percolating despair and an utterly pointless collective death.  I remember fearing that I was given a death sentence with an indeterminate start date.  I found my unburned draft card last year that proclaimed me ‘fit to die’ and recall my low two-digit draft number that said ‘ready to die’.”

J          “The idea of a lottery may be the only way to distribute scarce resources.  The Fates cut strings; the government plucks a ball out of a bin and decrees who has good luck and who does not.  The spectacle is so surreal and perverse and macabre.”

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K          “From his first appearances on tv, McNamara struck me as a smug officious pompous buffoon even before I knew what the words meant.  And then when McNamara II staggers on the American scene in the guise of Donald Rumsfeld who looks and acts and talks like Bob’s little brother, no one sees it.  No one gets it.  America does not get it.  America does it again.”

J          “Oleaginous and hubristic.  Look at the outcome.  America turned tail and fled Saigon in ignominy in April of 1975.  Then America turns tail and flees Kabul in ignominy in August of 2021.  Same game plan.  Different place.”

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K          “At the end of World War II, the US should have proclaimed simply that colonialism is verboten on the planet.  Ho Chi Minh sought independence and self-determination for Vietnam.”

J          “Without leaders, there is no leadership.”

. . .

K          “I had one of the highest scores on the Foreign Service Officers Exam.  I was more than eminently qualified to address and resolve the issues.  In the interview, I noted that diplomacy is always preferable to war.  That was anathema to the State Department clan that absolutely would have none of that.  I knew the cards were stacked, the fix was in.”

J          “The Pentagon may conduct war games and discover that it will continue an almost unbroken streak, except for Grenada, of taking the silver medal in another war.  The Brass may opt for a diplomatic solution over another silver medal.”

. . .

K          “Three conclusions.  America just does not learn.  America just does not learn.  America just does not learn.”

J          “What if America is incapable of learning?  The economic and political and social incentives not to learn are just too great.  The economic and political and social incentives to learn are non-existent.”

K          “And what passes for Academia is part of the problem.  And what passes for the Press in the form of the MSM is part of the problem.  And what passes for the Parvenu PMC is part of the problem.  Problem plus problem plus problem equal problems.  We’ve got problems.”

. . .

K          “We are also talking about the war on drugs and the war on poverty and the war on terror and the war on peace and the war on war.  It does not end.  The goal now is for war not to end.”

J          “I can’t fail to advance the contention that there are times when thoughtful and purposeful military intervention is necessary.”

K          “It don’t disagree, yet America does not think and embarks on so many thoughtless and purposeless crusades on purpose.”

. . .

K          “With all the money given by culpable individuals and corporations, I suspected that Ken Burns would never provide a moral and legal and political truth and reconciliation in his series.  He failed.”

J          “Everyone is owned.”

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K          “America does stupid, etc. over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.”      

J          “Even when America is given a do over, it does stupid, etc. over and over and over again.”

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[See the e-commentary at American Foreign Policy:  1945 –  ____ (July 24, 2023) and Afghanistan: Free Friendlies; Impeach Biden (August 23, 2021) and the many e-commentaries under the Categories on Vietnam and War.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Give war less of a chance

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Hillary Clinton:  Recipient Of The Prestigious John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award for 2025! Oh, And Happy (Early) Law Day! (April 21, 2025)

Posted in John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award, Petrodollar on April 21, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “It says something – profound and troubling – about
the America experiment that the Empire pursues war crimes as national policy and celebrates war criminals as national heroes.”

J          “That it does.  It celebrates war in all its manifestations.  You know what they say.  If you want a state funeral in America, first be a war criminal.”

. . .

J          “And she is a lawyer.”

K          “They say she is American-trained.”

. . .

K          “I shared a story that I reflect on frequently.  An old experienced law professor who taught comparative law in American and European law schools for over two score years shared his settled observations about the fundamental difference in training and perspective between American-trained lawyers and European-trained lawyers.  With some exceptions, an American-trained lawyer first asks:  ‘Can we get away with it?’  With some exceptions, an European-trained lawyer first asks:  ‘Is it lawful?’.”

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K          “Hillary Clinton is a doppelgänger for John McCain, Madeline Albright, Victoria ‘Fuck the EU’ Nuland and Lindsey Graham.  She is eminently qualified for the long overdue honor.”

. . .

K          “Hillary Clinton is a vile and venal admixture of a sociopath and a psychopath who is indifferent at best whether the entire world is obliterated in a nuclear war.  She is pursuing a private agenda on the public dole.  For these and other compelling reasons and despite ferocious competition, she is most deserving of the prestigious ‘John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award’ for 2025.”

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J         “Although I would not quarrel with the observation that she is a fetid waste of protoplasm, Hillary Rodham Clinton was the better candidate for President in 2016.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary announcing the two prior recipients at Lindsey Graham:  Recipient Of The Prestigious John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award!  Oh, And Happy May / Law Day! (April 29, 2024) and Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland:  Recipient Of The Prestigious John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award!  Oh, And Happy May / Law Day! (May 1, 2023).  Among other travesties and transgressions, Hillary Clinton was involved in and proud of the assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi because he sought to undertake oil sales in something other than American PetroDollars.  World’s Reserve Currency War I = Cold War 2.0 = WW III (?) (September 8, 2014).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“We came, we saw, he [Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi] died.”  Hillary Clinton

“And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul:  Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general.  Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.”  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Live Not by Lies” written before he was arrested on February 12, 1974.

We live in a country with many, many, many rules and many, many, many laws, but we do not live in a country that believes in or adheres to the rule of law.

You cannot get out of bed in the morning without violating some section of title 18 of the United States Code, the federal criminal code.  In fact, and as a matter of law, you cannot stay in bed in the morning without violating some section of title 18 of the United States Code, the federal criminal code.  In practice, the United States is a system of men not laws because men and women opt from the panoply of laws that punish all behavior and decide who is and who is not imprisoned.

Pope Francis

Earth Day

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Holographic Treasury Rates?  The 500 Trillion Asset Steal?  And Then The Great Taking?  Oh, And Happy IRS Day! (April 14, 2025)

Posted in Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), Debt/Deficits, Inflation, The Great Taking, Treasury, Unemployment on April 14, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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J          “The latest antic seems to be an attempt to control the ten year Treasury rate, but that has other downside and inescapable consequences.  There is no out for the pickle we are in.”

K          “What if the yield reached an unacceptable 5.3 percent and they simply reported that it was a more palatable 4.2 percent or much more comfortable 3.1 percent?  Who would know?  Who would care?  Some players would love the idea.”

J          “That is the next frontier in the reality-free world of public finance.  The unemployment figures are all a fraud.  Inflation is intentionally and systematically underestimated.  The Treasury yield could easily become a pliable and manipulated hologram.”

K          “Someone may discover that they have decided not even to sell Treasuries but simply to report that they have sold Treasuries at a favorable yield.”

J          “There is every reason and incentive for them to lie.  There is no reason or incentive for them to tell the truth.”

. . .

J          “And then what happens when they go forward with their scheme to steal and privatize 500 Trillion in land and minerals that we have always considered public and even sacred.”

K          “They have stolen from and strip mined the middle class for forty years.  The next step is to steal from and strip mine what is left of America.”

. . .

J          “And then when the economic coup d’état envelopes everything and everyone, “The Great Taking” takes over and unleashes the final coup de grâce to take the remains of the economic carcass.”

K          “I have said it before.  The funny thing about the future is that it is so predictable.”

. . .

J          “And the imposition of CBDCs as a Christmas present.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary on the national Debt at National Debt:  36+ Trillion Or 136+ Trillion?  That Is The Question (March 24, 2025); on the fallacious official statistics for unemployment and inflation and other metrics at Bankruptcies?  Layoffs?  Foreclosures?  Evictions?  Inflation? (July 29, 2024); the fraudulent official figures for inflation and alternative measures of inflation and the obvious inflation that the Fed dismissed as “transitory” at the time at Is Inflation Inflating!?!? (April 26, 2021); the work of Professor Mark Skidmore, the recipient of the Fourth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 14, 2019), accurately calculating some of the real public Debt; and the discussion two years ago about AI and CBDCs at CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currencies):  The End Of Freedom, Privacy, Dignity, Sovereignty And Humanity.  And What Happens When AI (Artificial Intelligence) Takes Over Control Of CBDCs?  (April 17, 2023); see also Third Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 8, 2018), To Be (In Debt), Or Not To Be (In Debt), what is the answer? (July 23, 2018), Debt Insouciance.  Does Debt Really Matter In The “Debt Age”? (February 25, 2019) and Forgiving American Debt? (March 3, 2008).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

2014:  Fed regulated banks into buying Treasuries;

2015:  Fed regulated money market funds into buying Treasuries; and

2018:  Trump tax legislation incentivized U.S. pensions to buy Treasuries

 

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Liberation Day?  Tariffs Are Tarrifying . . . And Enslaving (April 7, 2025)

Posted in Tariffs on April 7, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Markets do not like uncertainty.”

J          “I certainly do not like uncertainty.  His cherished barometer of success – the stock market – is certainly plunging.”

. . .

J          “Trade wars are wars.  No ‘buts, ands or ifs’ about it.  Trumpi has declared war on the world and on Canada and on Mexico and on Greenland and on Denmark and on Panama and on Europe and on . . . name a country.  He is making enemies out of friends.”

K          “The tariffs are not in our national interest.  World War E for Energy.  World War T for Trade.  World War III for War.”

. . .

K          “The cost in lost trust will continue to throw its shadow for generations.  His blunder is on a par with the grievous and obscene decision by Biden’s handlers to steal Russian assets.”

J          “The loss of trust cannot be voted out in two years.  The long term consequences to the country are even greater than the impact of a Supreme Court Justice.  The shadow is long and ominous.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at Tariffs, Taxes, Trade, Trends (August 26, 2019), Terrorized By Trumpi’s Tariffs (March 5, 2018), Tariffs Are Tarrible.  Oh, And Happy Bastille Day! (July 16, 2018) and ‘Mericanize:  Monetize, Mechanize And Militarize (December 30, 2013).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

“It was worthwhile making sure of your potential friends.”  C.P. Snow

“As a rule you couldn’t win over your enemies, but you could lose your friends.”  C.P. Snow

Nations have interests not friends.

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Tenth Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2025 (March 31, 2025)

Posted in Cameo In Courage Award on March 31, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “The envelope please.  . . .  This year, the ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award is awarded to . . . Thomas Harold Massie who selflessly serves as the Congressman from the Fourth District of Kentucky and displays transcendental courage and unwavering conviction in a world of compromise and corruption.  Indifferent to personal threats and caustic criticism, the self-styled ‘hillbilly, nerd, redneck, geek, farmer, Congressman’ and genuine Great American is one of the few statesmen on the American scene today.  With the soul and spirit of a Founding Father, he is a modern day Prophet for our time.”

J          “I vote present.  I concede that he isn’t owned.”

K          “Senator Rand Paul is also from Kentucky.  One must wonder what is in the water down there.”

. . .

[See the tour of the Massie homestead in the video “Off the Grid” that reveals the genius and generosity of Thomas Harold Massie.]

[See the e-commentary at Ninth Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2024 (May 20, 2024), Eighth Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2023 (May 22, 2023), Cameo In Courage Award Nominee: Julian Assange (January 31, 2022), Sixth Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2021 (April 5, 2021), Fifth Annual “Cameo In Courage” Award For 2020 (July 6, 2020), Seeing 2020:  Profiles In Cowardice; Profiles In Courage.  Oh, And Happy Valentine’s Day! (February 10, 2020), Alex J. / J. Assange And The First Amendment (August 13, 2018), Hero or Traitor? (June 10, 2013), Fourth Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2019 (April 8, 2019), Third Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2018 (April 9, 2018), Second Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2017 (March 6, 2017), First Annual ‘Cameo In Courage’ Award For 2016 (May 9, 2016), Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016), Profile In Cowardice Award (May 12, 2014), Profile In Courage Award, 2015 (May 11, 2015), Chelsea And Ed:  Time For ‘Con’ ‘dign’ Treatment (November 30, 2015) and On Courage and Truth (March 17, 2008).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“My philosophy is live and let live:  You don’t worry about what somebody’s doing in their holler, as long as they don’t worry about what you’re doing in your holler.”  Thomas Harold Massie

Dissent remains patriotic, but perilous

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National Debt:  36+ Trillion Or 136+ Trillion?  That Is The Question (March 24, 2025)

Posted in Debt/Deficits on March 24, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Disregard the amounts that are not available to pay Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other future entitlement obligations.  Just calculate the amount that has gone out the door to date.”

J          “That is the choice.  It is not really close.  I don’t doubt that the national Debt is a number much closer to 136+ Trillion than to 36+ Trillion.”

K          “I agree.  A lot closer to 136+ Trillion.  Those are real dollars or at least real electrons in someone’s hands that are a real claim on future public resources.”

. . .

J          “All government policy is built on a lie.”

K          “All government policy is built on a lie.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at Bankruptcies?  Layoffs?  Foreclosures?  Evictions?  Inflation? (July 29, 2024) discussing the fallacious official statistics for unemployment and inflation, Is Inflation Inflating!?!? (April 26, 2021) discussing the fraudulent official figures for inflation and alternative measures, and the work of Professor Mark Skidmore, the recipient of the Fourth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 14, 2019), the determine the true national Debt; see also Third Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 8, 2018), To Be (In Debt), Or Not To Be (In Debt), what is the answer? (July 23, 2018), Debt Insouciance.  Does Debt Really Matter In The “Debt Age”? (February 25, 2019) and Forgiving American Debt? (March 3, 2008).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Debt is death

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Russia Beat The U.S.  Europe[an Union] Wants To Do The European Thing And Go To War.  Let Them.  On Their Own Dime/Euro.  Trump Wants To Blow Up The Mideast.  Oh, And Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! (March 17, 2025)

Posted in Europe, Middle East, NATO, Neoconservatives, Russia, World War E, World War III on March 17, 2025 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K          “The U.S. lost the war to Russia.  European bureaucrats and kleptocrats want to continue the fight . . . and lose another war to Russia.  Let them take the lanyard from the Americans and lose to Russia on their dime.  Or on their Euro.”

J          “Who else will step up.  Europe does not have the resources or public will.  Russia must be stopped.  Trump and Putin are far too closely allied.  This will not turn out well.”

. . .

K          “Trump wants to focus his efforts and energy blowing up the Mideast.”

J          “He is getting there.  How are the MAGAts going to react when they realize that Trump lied to them about seeking peace?”

. . .

[See the comments by Michael Shellenberger, one of the recipients of the Eighth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2023 (May 8, 2023), on “X” dated February 28, 2025 and the editorial “U.S. admits Ukraine proxy war defeat while European elites persist in self-destruct delusions” in “Strategic Culture” dated March 7, 2025.]

[See the e-commentary at Special Edition.  Deciphering Derivatives.  Oh, And Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! (March 17, 2023).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“Frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine and Russia, and it needs to come to an end.”  U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Russia wants war:  Look how close they put their country to our military bases.

How many Frenchmen does it take to liberate Paris?  . . .  None.  The U.S. always has to do it.

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