Guest Post by Fred Reed
It is curious: Though I have for decades worked in journalism, mostly in Washington, I know almost nothing of Congress. I mean this literally. I do not know who Mitch McConnell is, his function, or his politics, though I have the impression that he is a Republican. Who was, or is, Paul (I think it is) Ryan? Is he in the House or the Senate? I don’t know. I have no idea who heads any committee.
You might ask, “What sort of fraud is this Reed guy? Why doesn’t he know stuff that everybody knows?”
Easy. Because Congress doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. It is a bauble that fascinates the strange ingrown world of DC, but the marionettes are less important than those who pull their strings.
It may seem odd, but the national legislature has nothing to do with anything of importance. Consider the most crucial issues affecting America:
The endless wars. These kill millions who have done nothing to deserve killing, threaten America’s position in the world, and cost trillions. Congress does nothing.
The military budget, euphemistically called the “defense” budget. It drains money desperately needed for other things, encourages massive corruption, and distorts the national economy. Congress rubber stamps it.
The Empire. Washington’s attempts to dominate the world through hundreds of military bases, sanctions, and tariffs that have made enemies of Russia and China and increasingly unite the world against America. Congress does nothing.
Israel. Jewish, and therefore Israeli, control of Congress and the media engenders disastrous policies in the Mid-East. In particular it drives Iran into the growing Sino-Russian project of Eurasian integration. Congress does nothing.
The national debt, a form of counterfeiting. Its headlong growth encourages de-dollarization of the international economy with likely catastrophic results for America’s financial position. Congress rubber stamps it.
The opening of American borders. The influx causes fury that offers to tear the country apart and causes all manner of problems that urgently need attention. Congress does nothing.
Racial disaster, especially, the dysfunction of the country’s Negros, their inability to function in a modern society. It has lead to tens of thousands of abandoned buildings, to rotting urban no-go zones infested by rats, to savage racial attacks on whites, and the annual loosing from the schools of millions of semi-literates who will never be employable. It is probably irremediable. It could be ameliorated, however, if Congress had the virility. It doesn’t, instead doing…nothing.
The end of constitutionality. The Constitution is being–has been–eaten away. Congress has abdicated its authority to declare war or not to declare it. If it had not done so, we would have few or no wars. Surveillance increases, censorship rushes onward. Religious freedom dies. Police power grows. Privacy no longer exists. Unelected college dropouts at Facebook, Google, and Twitter determine what we are allowed to know. Congress does nothing.
The rise of lawlessness. Groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa attack anyone they don’t like, besiege government (in Portland, for example), beat reporters, and prevent access of speakers to their audiences. Mobs of blacks loot stores, kick whites into brain damage. America’s murder rates astonish the world. Congress does nothing.
Corruption. In America it takes many forms, often legal. Regulatory agencies are controlled by the industries they are mandated to regulate. Medical care is worse and more expensive than in other developed countries. Wall Street operates cons like the subprime scam, and nobody goes to jail. The pharmaceutical companies rape the government and the public. Congress does nothing.
Deindustrialization. This gutted American manufacturing and created the Rust Belt. Jobs still move to Mexico and China. The result has been profits for shareholders but catastrophe for the American working class. Ditto the importing of cheap labor from Mexico. Congress did nothing, does nothing.
Infrastructure. The problem goes beyond creaking subways and shaky dams. The country seems paralyzed. To anyone who has enjoyed China’s high-speed rail, or its payment system, or watched its domination of 5G, America looks like a country of the past. Fast trains are not just a clever gimmick. They are a major improvement in efficiency. For trips of at least 300 miles, and probably much more, China’s trains at 180 mph are comfortable, and go from downtown to downtown. Their maglev trains in development will cruise at 360 mph.
But in America the automotive and airline lobbies oppose fast rail. They have lots of money. Fairly obviously, this is why…Congress does nothing.
So why pay attention to Congress? Of what use is it?
It works on the principle of the Coca-Cola machine: You choose your law, put in your money, pull the handle, and– voila!–out comes a tax break. You want an overpriced contract for something unnecessary? Repeat the process.
Aside from selling the country to the highest bidders, Congress works chiefly to avoid responsibility and to get reelected. So…what reason is there for knowing who Mitch McConnell is?
In high school we are told that the federal government consists of three parts, the executive, the Supreme Court, and Congress. It does not. Rather it consists of five departments, the Presidency, the corporations, AIPAC, Wall Street, and the media. Do you see Congress in that list?
True, there is amusement value in the more prominent congressistas--AOC, Maxine Waters. These make the legislature seem an overpriced playpen for retarded marsupials. So why Congress? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to watch reruns of Jerry Springer instead?
Really Screwy Stuff
The thundering onrush of weirdness: Hail in Zapotitlán el Rey a few days back. In midsummer. An inelegant pose, but you can’t have everything. The weather has gone mad, and needs counseling. We probably need a federal program.
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Completely true. Ask yourself why the repos who questioned mueller didn’t bring up William Binney’s findings that the dnc emails could only be copied to a thumb drive not downloaded over the internet. The answer is that they weren’t allowed to. They are all on leashes. Then look to see who holds the leash.
Vote, my ass.
Pretty much spot on…We are actually ruled by the MIC and a bunch of leftist techies and bankers who were made billionaires by the criminals at the Fed…
They are very well paid marionettes! We are being played I feel. The sad part is, the sheeple are all lining up to the slaughter. GO FIGURE!
Even if his cynicism is entirely warranted – and it seems like it mostly is – being a commenter on American governance and not knowing who Mitch McConnell is or what his role is is weird. Is Fred being literal or is it a put-on? Geez, I even know – vaguely – who Cardi B is and that Kim Kardashian has a sister named Khloe and an ex-stepfather named Caitlyn. McConnell is the guy who keeps almost all gun control legislation from coming to the senate floor. He also kept Merrick Garland off of the Supreme Court. He’s married to an Oriental and he’s dashingly handsome.
Fred knows who “Cocaine” Mitch McConnell is, he is just making the point that the legislature (House of Reps and Senate) are irrelevant. Can’t disagree with his broader point, the Congress has abdicated both their responsibility and given up their constitutional powers in favor of a few beads of wampum and 30 pieces of silver.
everything iska said here is bs,except 4 the handsome part–
to hell w/tulsi or melania,i want mitch 4 my bitch–
Perhaps he is speaking to the general public that may not really know old Mitch. His point being that none of the 500+ members of congress are worth knowing unless you want to buy a tax-break. They are elected officials so far removed from the problems or concerns of the people who elect them. They’re just there to get the congressional privileges like insider trading and trips to poon paradise.
You must know, as BB knows, that situation awareness involves a bit of judgment. If you walk into a dark alley at night in Detroit, you will have heightened awareness and every soft shoe step whispers, danger! When you see the likes of the Cummins and Waters in that august body, you know the formerly safe halls of congress are now suspect.
Mitch McCONnell= Modern day pirate POS. He should wear a black patch over one eye and walk around with a parrot on his shoulder.
And his old lady needs to wear a sign over her crotch that reads: For Sale.
Spot on. He, however, missed two key departments of the federal government: the Pentagon and the intelligence apparatus.
America is like an over grazed area full of deer. You can tell if it’s over populated because all of the deer will be scrawny, diseased, and generally undesirable. There’s all kinds of crazy things going on today but there is one thing people never talk about, and that is we are like those deer in that a whole lot of people will probably soon die. When that Debt eats up every tax dollar just to pay its interest, and there is no American source for so many items, then you will see very interesting and rather disastrous things. One interesting thing we’re seeing prior to bigger and worse things is the slow-motion destruction of Big Box and anything else that relies upon the middle-class paycheck to survive.
When these interesting times arrive, if all you do is sit on your ass and do nothing but wait for a check, then you will probably die.
Only those, who can actually do something that’s tangible and useful to whatever is left of the society right around them, will have any chance to survive.
Good analogy with a bonus great visual.
Fred Reed may be right for the first time in his comments following the question, “What does Congress do?”, and his speculation of who really pulls all of the strings. After some further reading, and the fact that Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are from Kentucky, I have observed that Big Media and its shills have new narratives pointing out all of the social and economic problems that plague the people in my home state. They also hate Kentuckians because we vote for McConnell and Paul, and of course, for the astounding number of firearms and ammunition that proliferate in the state.
In light of this, I am fond of posting comments in their Elite Mouth Piece publications such as The Washington Post, The Hill, and so on. My favorite shtick is that the Democrats can easily beat both Senators, 60% to 40%, but they have to realize that NONE of their candidates can expect to win in Kentucky if they tout 1) gun control, 2) Abortions-up-to-and-after-Delivery, and 3) Any of their Sexualisms.
It is really interesting to read wave after wave of Triggerings, and their responses usually follow these four lines of thought:
1) You (plural) Kentuckians are ignorant, toothless, and cousin breeding hicks, 2) You are a hateful people, 3) “Ivan, how’s the weather in Saint Petersburg?”, and 4) Most of my postings are deleted within hours and their responses are redirected to other people who had nothing to do with my comments. The Big Thing that will ALWAYS get my comments deleted immediately is, “No one believes what you all say anymore.”
I do believe the NGO Elites are scared, cornered, and likely very dangerous. I also think it’s a good time to buy even more guns and ammunition.
He is a cunt.
I’ve read a lot of Fred’s stuff over the years. Much I agreed with. These days all he writes is how much America sucks. All the while living the expatriate life in Mexico telling us how wonderful and harmonious it is.
What f**king ever.
“According to an International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) survey on armed conflicts released in May 2017, Mexico is now the second-deadliest country in the world, with 22,967 homicide victims in 2016.
That makes Mexico, now in the eleventh year of its war on drugs, more violent than war zones such as Afghanistan or Yemen, the study claims. Its death toll is surpassed only by Syria’s 50,000 conflict deaths in 2016.”
https://www.newsweek.com/mexicos-murder-rate-one-worst-world-why-and-what-can-be-done-623563
This is Mitch before the sex change.
Can you figure out who said these quotes?
“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics”
“Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise “what they would do if they got in.” But the Republicans have to promise “what they would do” and then explain why they haven’t already “done it.”
“I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.”
“This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.”
“I would love to see _______ in there, really. I don’t know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can’t run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That’s the biggest single business in the World.”
“When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.”
“America has the best politicians money can buy.”
“Congress is so strange; a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees.”
“Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they’re doing. Amen.”
“We all joke about Congress but we can’t improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?”
“I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won’t be able to answer roll call.”
“Now these fellows in Washington wouldn’t be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?”
“The “Ways & Means Committee” is a committee that’s supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.”
“Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.”
“The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.”
“Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.”
“Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for — to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell ’em.”
“A president just can’t make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.”
“You know Lincoln’s famous remark about “God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?” Well, you are not going to get people’s votes nowadays by calling ’em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.”
“There wasn’t any Republicans in Washington’s day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn’t be great?”
“The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It’s only in the amount where the Republicans excel.”
“Their greatest trait to recommend the Democrats is optimism and humor. You’ve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one.”
“There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can’t stand him quite that long.”
“A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.”
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously, and the politicians as a joke, when it used to be vice versa.”
“Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.”
“A politician is just like a pickpocket; it’s almost impossible to get one to reform.”
“Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of ’em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they’ve been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.”
“The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal. They have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.”
“Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on ________. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.”
“______________, who is the king of the planners, had tough going this last week, with his ‘Share the Wealth’ plan. I_________ and _________, who handles more money than any man in the world, they said, “No, _________, you’re not goin’ to share any of our wealth.” Well, that’s the wealth ________ was kinda figurin’ on sharin’. You know, the national problem in this country today is not who shall be relieved and whose money shall relieve him, but who shall be the one that plays Santa Claus and actually hands out the presents. That’s the main problem today, it’s who hands out the presents.”
“We know that everybody should ‘share the wealth.’ Now, ___________ plan to “share the wealth,” it’s a marvelous idea. _______ is a smart guy, don’t overlook that. And our own downright conscience tells us that there’s no reason why anybody should have more than you. There ain’t nothing wrong with the plan, only this one little defect: Nobody ain’t going to share it with you, that’s all. I know a lot of tremendously rich people that should share their wealth with me, but they just don’t see it that way. And I know folks that ain’t got as much as I have that think I ought to share it with them. Well, I just can’t hardly see it their way either. That is, even if I can see it that way, I’m not doing it.”
“It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.”
“One party wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don’t know which is right. I’ve never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it’s the middle class that does everything anyhow.”
“I don’t think either one of them knows what it’s all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.”
“You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.”
Yep, most of you old enough or well read enough guessed it…lines from Will Rogers during the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
Nothing much has changed? Has it?