Sabotage Ukraine aid because your donors paid you to? Sabotage your own country’s energy and environmental policies because your donors promise you millions of dollars?
What is this black hole in the human psyche that consumes all who venture too close? Is greed just another name for a deep-seated psychological fear reinforced by a lifetime of paranoia? Is the resulting obsessive-compulsive behavior — hoarding wealth and power — because of an unreasonable fear of emptiness, of not having, of losing that which is most precious, like Sméagol in the Lord of the Rings? One’s greatest passion becomes an all-consuming desire that turns into an inescapable hell.
Putin and Trump will never have enough riches and influence to satisfy the monster within. Little men who already have everything anyone could want or need on this physical plane of existence still cannot slake their unquenchable thirst. Wealth, power, fame — there is no bottom; greed-mongers who’ve reached the pinnacle of worldly success will forever lust after more and more, never reaching ultimate fulfillment...because no such state of being exists.
Yet, unrequited desire and the fear of losing remain their only raison d’être. It’s a shallow existence. And they will finally die losing it all, because they are cowards and fools, leaving a trail of suffering and death and shame as their only legacy. They will have wasted their own worthless lives along with the precious lives of countless victims. Meanwhile, humans continue the march toward oblivion, wasting their energy and the planet’s resources.
Naming, shaming and framing the carbon oligarchs’ Congressional whores with persistent and pithy messaging (as found in Thom’s article) is the same tactic that the oligarchs’ propagandists use, and this has the added benefit of being true so it shouldn’t be as hard to sell. (Hopefully)
OK I didn't read every word. But wouldn't hardball look like, OK sez The President. I am lobbying Congress to defund everything else in the bill. The only thing we are paying for is supporting Ukraine to defend itself against this gross, blatant violation of every hope, principle, law and moral of the world. Everything else is on the table, after that. Submit the aid to Ukraine as a stand-alone budget, stiff everything else.
Defense spending never matters. Now it does. We should always be preemptive with our "national interests". Now we shouldn't. It's "America First". Now it isn't.
The emptiness of their ugliest sentiments is a performance in hypocrisy unrivaled. Or perhaps it's not hypocrisy, but putrid pragmatism in the excluse pursuit of power.
Cui bono? I believe that is all. True nihilism - the absence of any beliefs...
Hey, they supported the Sabotager-in-Chief after that damn phone call. It tracks that they would turn a buck on Ukrainian misery and death. Monkey see, monkey do. Of course that is true also of taking the fossil fuel bribes to begin with. They are trading OUR health and environment for M-O-N-E-Y.
Speaking of money, when you are looking at the psychopaths, obviously they love their rich lifestyles. But, what it represents to them beyond that is it's a way to "keep score". Apparently you can not have the best unless you have the most as well. It is sick, they are sick, and the ones we are discussing are killing people and the environment.
Drill, baby, drill! “Upon death” is the literal answer to Ted Kennedy’s rhetorical question, “When does the greed stop?” https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-does-the-greed-stop?s=r
What is this black hole in the human psyche that consumes all who venture too close? Is greed just another name for a deep-seated psychological fear reinforced by a lifetime of paranoia? Is the resulting obsessive-compulsive behavior — hoarding wealth and power — because of an unreasonable fear of emptiness, of not having, of losing that which is most precious, like Sméagol in the Lord of the Rings? One’s greatest passion becomes an all-consuming desire that turns into an inescapable hell.
Putin and Trump will never have enough riches and influence to satisfy the monster within. Little men who already have everything anyone could want or need on this physical plane of existence still cannot slake their unquenchable thirst. Wealth, power, fame — there is no bottom; greed-mongers who’ve reached the pinnacle of worldly success will forever lust after more and more, never reaching ultimate fulfillment...because no such state of being exists.
Yet, unrequited desire and the fear of losing remain their only raison d’être. It’s a shallow existence. And they will finally die losing it all, because they are cowards and fools, leaving a trail of suffering and death and shame as their only legacy. They will have wasted their own worthless lives along with the precious lives of countless victims. Meanwhile, humans continue the march toward oblivion, wasting their energy and the planet’s resources.
Naming, shaming and framing the carbon oligarchs’ Congressional whores with persistent and pithy messaging (as found in Thom’s article) is the same tactic that the oligarchs’ propagandists use, and this has the added benefit of being true so it shouldn’t be as hard to sell. (Hopefully)
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OK I didn't read every word. But wouldn't hardball look like, OK sez The President. I am lobbying Congress to defund everything else in the bill. The only thing we are paying for is supporting Ukraine to defend itself against this gross, blatant violation of every hope, principle, law and moral of the world. Everything else is on the table, after that. Submit the aid to Ukraine as a stand-alone budget, stiff everything else.
Gelding Of Patris.
Defense spending never matters. Now it does. We should always be preemptive with our "national interests". Now we shouldn't. It's "America First". Now it isn't.
The emptiness of their ugliest sentiments is a performance in hypocrisy unrivaled. Or perhaps it's not hypocrisy, but putrid pragmatism in the excluse pursuit of power.
Cui bono? I believe that is all. True nihilism - the absence of any beliefs...
Hey, they supported the Sabotager-in-Chief after that damn phone call. It tracks that they would turn a buck on Ukrainian misery and death. Monkey see, monkey do. Of course that is true also of taking the fossil fuel bribes to begin with. They are trading OUR health and environment for M-O-N-E-Y.
Speaking of money, when you are looking at the psychopaths, obviously they love their rich lifestyles. But, what it represents to them beyond that is it's a way to "keep score". Apparently you can not have the best unless you have the most as well. It is sick, they are sick, and the ones we are discussing are killing people and the environment.