Best take-down of the USA Oligarchy I will ever see. Even tRump works overtime to wreck our lives in the U.S. He never sleeps. How to take-down the 3,000+ billionaires running the country is the question. The November midterm election is being rigged by Republican redistricting as we speak. Panic is waiting in the wings that fuel, energy grids, vital infrastructure, then water will dry up. Water filters are being hawked online "just in case" and "so that I can sleep at night". Yes, pathetic condition we find ourselves in.
Born American, Canadian by choice, with family in Denmark, I am grateful for my options as the USA drags the world down with it while their collapse continues. Knowing well, the patriotic fervour and delusion which prevent them from ever acknowledging the truth about their own history, it is so true that if nothing changes, nothing changes. The Christian Nationalist insanity that is pressing for the apocalypse, the rapture, will destroy us all if we do not combine our clarity and sense of what truly matters, and turn our backs on their aggressive grandiosity. Can people sacrifice convenience, immediacy or instant gratification? We have been trained to want it, wired to select it, and oblivious to the consequences of our lifestyle. Or are we?
Paul, you contrast European and American lives, but what about Palestinian, Lebanese, and Israeli lives? How many more children under rubble before you say "enough"?
You support continuing U.S. military aid to Israel. But since October 2023, we've seen over 40,000 Palestinians killed, mostly women and children. Hospitals destroyed. Aid blocked. Journalists and aid workers targeted. The International Court of Justice calls it a plausible genocide.
Here's the question you and other aid supporters refuse to answer: Has 75 years of unconditional U.S. aid not only enabled but actually created the corruption and impunity now on full display in Israel?
A government that ignored Hamas, embraced far-right extremists, undermined its own courts, and now faces ICC arrest warrants. That didn't happen in a vacuum. It happened because the U.S. wrote a blank check — no red lines, no consequences, no conditions.
What would Israel have to do for you to pause aid? If you can't name a single red line, then your position is not progressive. It's not moral. It's complicity.
No nation should receive unlimited weapons to commit unlimited horrors with American tax dollars. Not even an ally. Especially not an ally.
George, I’ve never wrote anywhere, at anytime, in support of military assistance for Israel. Not once. Anywhere. So, I’m not sure where you got that from.
Correction: I previously accused Paul Krugman of supporting military aid to Israel. He does not, and I was wrong. I apologize. However, for those who DO support such aid — including many of his readers — I would still ask: What red line would justify cutting off weapons given the destruction in Gaza? Paul, you critique Republican corruption. Do you also critique the corruption of unconditional aid?
So brilliantly written. So well done. Required reading by every American. It is time to take back whatever parts of our country that aren’t ill from either physical or propaganda poisoning. I will print this in a large font, hang it on my refrigerator, close my coffin, never having to say another word again.
I love that Paul Krugman has written a “What will Americans do when we realise we’re miserable” riposte 🤣
I was about to hit publish on my article, and his email dropped. So I had to go off, read his article and edit mine!
Best take-down of the USA Oligarchy I will ever see. Even tRump works overtime to wreck our lives in the U.S. He never sleeps. How to take-down the 3,000+ billionaires running the country is the question. The November midterm election is being rigged by Republican redistricting as we speak. Panic is waiting in the wings that fuel, energy grids, vital infrastructure, then water will dry up. Water filters are being hawked online "just in case" and "so that I can sleep at night". Yes, pathetic condition we find ourselves in.
Thank you George.
Struth!
Absolutely love this!! American Delusion is a real thing.
https://oliverkornetzke.substack.com/p/no-villain-required-no-cackle-no?r=22bkrm&utm_medium=ios
Born American, Canadian by choice, with family in Denmark, I am grateful for my options as the USA drags the world down with it while their collapse continues. Knowing well, the patriotic fervour and delusion which prevent them from ever acknowledging the truth about their own history, it is so true that if nothing changes, nothing changes. The Christian Nationalist insanity that is pressing for the apocalypse, the rapture, will destroy us all if we do not combine our clarity and sense of what truly matters, and turn our backs on their aggressive grandiosity. Can people sacrifice convenience, immediacy or instant gratification? We have been trained to want it, wired to select it, and oblivious to the consequences of our lifestyle. Or are we?
Excellent, thanks
Paul, you contrast European and American lives, but what about Palestinian, Lebanese, and Israeli lives? How many more children under rubble before you say "enough"?
You support continuing U.S. military aid to Israel. But since October 2023, we've seen over 40,000 Palestinians killed, mostly women and children. Hospitals destroyed. Aid blocked. Journalists and aid workers targeted. The International Court of Justice calls it a plausible genocide.
Here's the question you and other aid supporters refuse to answer: Has 75 years of unconditional U.S. aid not only enabled but actually created the corruption and impunity now on full display in Israel?
A government that ignored Hamas, embraced far-right extremists, undermined its own courts, and now faces ICC arrest warrants. That didn't happen in a vacuum. It happened because the U.S. wrote a blank check — no red lines, no consequences, no conditions.
What would Israel have to do for you to pause aid? If you can't name a single red line, then your position is not progressive. It's not moral. It's complicity.
No nation should receive unlimited weapons to commit unlimited horrors with American tax dollars. Not even an ally. Especially not an ally.
George, I’ve never wrote anywhere, at anytime, in support of military assistance for Israel. Not once. Anywhere. So, I’m not sure where you got that from.
Correction: I previously accused Paul Krugman of supporting military aid to Israel. He does not, and I was wrong. I apologize. However, for those who DO support such aid — including many of his readers — I would still ask: What red line would justify cutting off weapons given the destruction in Gaza? Paul, you critique Republican corruption. Do you also critique the corruption of unconditional aid?
So brilliantly written. So well done. Required reading by every American. It is time to take back whatever parts of our country that aren’t ill from either physical or propaganda poisoning. I will print this in a large font, hang it on my refrigerator, close my coffin, never having to say another word again.