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Chris Floyd
@empireburlesque
High Crimes and Low Comedy in the American Imperium
Mar 31, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Richard Nixon was still supported by a large portion of the electorate when he was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by a grand jury investigating the cover-up of a burglary. Should the House not have initiated impeachment, which led to his resignation? Trump's supporters already live in a world of complete derangement, a hallucination of persecution and plots against their great leader. This indictment cannot inflame them any further than they already are. The GOP/Fox/Q combo is already in a paroxysm of pogromist fervour, calling for violence
Mar 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Let's be very clear about this. Biden's budget is an act of surrender to the destruction of the planet, the end of democracy, and the economic ruin of the common people at the hands of the rich and their enforcers, the berserk, militarized, unaccountable police forces. He has set the stage for the coming era to be a blood-soaked firestorm of climate collapse, war, repression, hunger, brutality, rage and despair. With financial resources outstripping the wealth of all the empires of history at his command, he has chosen to set us on this road to hell. But
Dec 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The people working to destabilize the United States are IN the US. They are the massively wealthy US oligarchs who have financed right-wing disruption at every level of our society, with the clear aim of establishing authoritarian rule for their extremist views. They're happy to use any outside help they can get (Saudis, UK tabloids, Eurofascists, Putin, etc.), but the idea that Flynn and co are acting at Putin's behest on Russia's behalf is ludicrous and dangerous, detracting from the real enemies of our democracy in our very midst. If Putin
Nov 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In a real negotiation, you come in with guns blazing: "We want TWO trillion dollars to help ordinary Americans get through this thing & we're going to howl like banshees through every form of media about what we want to do and who is blocking it!" That's how you start; then you can very slowly inch downward from your maximum, fighting at every step while keeping up the full-throttle public pressure on the other side. And yeah, then, in that case, you might get a compromise that could be of some benefit. But that would work ONLY if the other side
Sep 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This isn't going to matter to the govt, which operates on Trumpist principles. They'll shrug it off as noise from "a posh toff trying to overturn the will of the people," even as they stuff their own cronies & families into the Lords. The hypocrisy is the point: @chrisgreybrexit it proves they can do or say anything they want in power without any consequences. Any criticism is fed into their culture war furnace, even if this entails contradicting something they said or did days, or hours, before. Again, see Trumpist America. It's the same dynamic: an
Apr 22, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Hmm. I genuinely don’t like to take issue with the estimable LG&M – but what are these “good ideas” that are so self-evident to engaged Dems? Joining Prince Bonesaw to inflict mass death on Yemen? Supporting a brutal rightwing coup in Honduras? /1 Bailing out bankers, not mortgage holders? Ostentatiously refusing to prosecute torturers? (But prosecuting whistleblowers.) The 1994 Crime Bill? Good old Joe's Bankruptcy Bill? Begging the GOP for a "grand bargain" to cut SS/Medicare? Gutting Glass-Steagall? Ending welfare? /2
Sep 22, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
It's not learned helplessness. The multi-millionaires in charge of the party are not idiots or infants or abuse victims. They are highly intelligent, diligent people dedicated to serving their elite donor base and preserving the economic arrangements that benefit that base. I really think it's time we drop the idea that Democratic leaders like Pelosi and Schumer don't know what they're doing or can't see the consequences of their actions (and inactions) but can perhaps be made to see the light if we just cajole/beg/reason with them enough.
Jul 26, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
It's important to realize that McConnell is first and foremost protecting the GOP-connected voting machine firms that have monkeyed with our elections to an incredible degree from 2000 onward. If the Russians disappeared tomorrow, our elections would be as exactly as vulnerable to subversion as they are now. Because the main subverters - good old red-blooded American companies run by and for some of the most extreme rightwingers we have -- would still be here. I and many others have been writing about this for almost 20 years. The Democrats
Jul 4, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Is promoting an unhinged warmonger who narrowly escaped prosecution for corruption really the best way to oppose an unhinged warmonger who has thus far narrowly escaped prosecution for corruption? Is promoting a raging militarist who, if he'd had his way, would've had us in major wars with Iran and Russia right now, really the best way to oppose a raging militarist who's trying to get us into major wars with Iran and Venezuela?
Apr 19, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Rashomon effect in full play over Mueller report. Everyone seeing what they want to see in it. So here's my take: $40 million spent on a nebulous side issue, while eminently impeachable offenses (emoluments clause, to name just one) are ignored. Why? There's certainly evidence of obstruction of justice in the report, however; but Democratic leaders have already ruled out impeachment over them, even though they've ignored 2.5 years of other high crimes because they were "waiting on the Mueller report."
Jan 5, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
@john_sipher @McFaul Why? What is your point? That Russians haven't ever had a 'good leader'? (Define.) That they haven't had "good times"? (Again, define: good times for which segment or percentage of the population, and for how long?) But this vagueness aside.... @john_sipher @McFaul even if what you say is true -- what follows? What's the unspoken assumption? That Russians are genetically/ethnically incapable of producing good leaders or enjoying "good times"? Are they subhumans who can't match OUR wonderful leaders or rip-roaring good times? What exactly...
Dec 12, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Trump gang's criminal grifting has been the most upfront, brazen, easily prosecutable gaggle of crimes in US presidential history. It's low-hanging fruit, they could all be nabbed in the most straightforward mundane ways. They could've been ousted long ago. But instead... we've had this ouroboros of "Russiagate," where learned scribes spend hours of airtime parsing Jerome Corsi's tweets and Roger Stone's grunts to somehow magically undo the results of the last election. But Jesus Herbert Walker Christ, if you just want Trump gone --