caitlin describes reality here in the empire, to a T, using hurricane trump's parade as a starting point;
“Putin’s America,” tweeted
Anand Giridharadas, a pundit who was genetically engineered in a
Monsanto laboratory to appeal to NPR listeners on every possible level.
Giridharadas used these words yesterday to caption a short video clip
of two tanks being carted through the streets of DC in preparation for
their appearance in a parade
for Independence Day, a holiday in which Americans gather to eat hot
dogs and drink Mountain Dew in celebration of the anniversary of their
lateral transfer from monarchy to corporatist oligarchy.
The military hardware parade
is taking place at the behest of President Bolton’s social media
assistant Donald Trump, and critics have been vocally decrying it as
alien and un-American. Pundits like Giridharadas and Steve Silberman have been saying it’s something Russia would do. The Independent said it’s a spectacle you’d see in “authoritarian regimes such as North Korea, Iran and China.” Adam Best and Charles Pierce
both likened it to something that would be done in a “banana republic”,
an interesting choice of phrase for a gratuitous display of American
military bravado given that term’s blood-soaked origins in US corporate colonialism.
All of these people are of course being ridiculous. There’s nothing
alien or un-American about Trump’s parade at all. Jingoistic
fetishization of the military is as American as a deep-fried trademark
symbol.............https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/07/no_author/jingoistic-military-fetishization-is-as-american-as-bald-eagle-mcnuggets/
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