kunstler does his usual good job describing the craziness rampant in our land;
Surfing the cable channels the evening before my Friday a.m. blog
duties, I came upon Sean Hannity at Fox News completely losing his shit
in a colloquy with Geraldo Rivera about the Iran drone incident. “Bomb
the crap out of them!” Mr. Hannity ranted, several times, the veins in
his neck throbbing visibly on the high-def screen. I thought I was
having an acid flashback to Doctor Strangelove. Geraldo himself
seemed a bit nonplussed and embarrassed by Mr. Hannity’s tantrum, but
his attempts to calm down the raving anchorman only ramped up the
hysteria. One wondered: are there any adult producers off-screen on that
network?
Perhaps the Golden Golem of Greatness, our president, who is also
known to follow the Cable TV news, witnessed the cringeworthy incident
and realized that every other head-of-state on this nervous planet would
also see it, and might infer he was doing the bidding of a crazed
boob-tube performer if he actually went forward with an air strike.
Earlier, he’d told reporters, “You’ll soon find out,” what the USA’s
response to the drone shoot-down would be. He should have just kept his
mouth shut. Planes and ships were on their way to the bottleneck in the
Persian Gulf known as the Straits of Hormuz. Before they could deliver
any payloads, Mr. Trump called the whole thing off suggesting that maybe
some “loose and stupid” Colonel Borat type on Iran’s side had gone
rogue in the incident.
Is there some virus loose in this land that is turning anyone in
authority here into reincarnations of the Three Stooges? The illness is
certainly not concentrated on either the Right or the Left. There’s
plenty of craziness all around. America’s cup runneth over with some
toxic agent that interferes with thinking. It’s most conspicuous among what was formerly considered the Thinking Class, since minus thinking they have no identity at all............https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/crazyland/
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