The world cannot afford the diminution of U.S. power, but U.S. power is diminishing.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
The Pathos of the Rational Leader: Goldberg’s Obama
How can a nation survive, can its institutions function, can it prosper and triumph, can the People experience or aspire to satisfaction without recourse at some point to such “tribalism”? The President cannot answer, because no one can.
Posted in International Relations, Neo-Imperialism, The Exception Tagged with: Middle East, Obama, Obama Doctrine
Yes, Tragically: The Pledge to Support Even Trump
With the meaning and true possession the Republican Party radically in doubt, the meaning of any pledge of support from within it will likewise be put radically in doubt. The nominal nominee of the nominal Republican Party would be the actual nominee of an actually different Republican Party, or of a Republican Party revealed never to have actually been a party. Forgiving a candidate for not having tried to explain the above in 30 seconds, on national TV, should not be too hard.
Enabling WordPress Press This for HostGator Sites
Solution of a problem for bloggers who want to use WordPress Press This on their “shared hosting” accounts at HostGator and possibly at other aggressively security-conscious web hosts.
You’re Welcome and Rightbackatcha
I learned a lot WordPressing at OT, and wish the best to everyone over there – a group that as a matter of fact still includes me, if in a much-reduced role. So, you’re welcome, and right backatcha.
A theory of theories of Trump
Trump is finance fully self-invacuated, in a full-length gilt mirror, a Medusa transfixed by its own refracted self-admiration; at the same time, he is the return of the annihilated masses, as mass nihilism.
The League vs Trump – Super Doomsday Open Thread and Twitter List
If we need a clearer definition of our mission – as I think we do – we could do worse for a starting point than “Negation of Trump,” but that thought also implies that it’s significantly our fault that Trumpism is on the verge of taking over the universe…
Posted in Politics
Plus fascistique…
Trump is many ugly things, but he’s not a very developed ideologue. In a way, that might even make him more authentically fascist than the fascists, who merely talked about power for the sake of power and about the rejection of intellectualism.