Republican Warmonger Wins Contest to Become House Speaker
The squabble on the House floor was partisan political theater, nothing more.
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Yawn. Another warmongering statist is elected to head up the “right” side of the corporatist uniparty in the House of Representatives. The other side of the uniparty—the “woke” contingent, segregated on the “left” side of the aisle—condemned his appointment as a victory for Trump.
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Well, maybe. Let me tell you what it really is.
More of the same. More war, more debt, more suffering for the American people and, above all, more death and destruction in faraway lands, thanks to the likes of Kevin McCarthy and most members of Congress.
It was mildly amusing to watch careerist politicians tussle. Mike Rogers, would-be chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had to be restrained. He was prevented from attacking Matt Gaetz by Richard Hudson while assorted millionaires and K Street water carriers looked on.
I expected a repeat of the caning of Senator Charles Sumner during the late 1850s in the contentious lead-up to the War Between the States. No such luck. Gaetz didn’t have a cane.
It was an irrelevant, grandstanding three-ring circus of Brioni Vanquish clad warmongers. In regard to foreign policy, nothing will change, although the Republican faction of the uniparty has promised to “audit” the transfer of freebies to Ukraine.
It will not end the transfer, mind you. Congress will not close down this aspect of the pernicious neoliberal project. Moreover, it will refuse to bring the troops home. It will not close down more than 750 USG military bases in 80 nations.
Russia has three dozen foreign bases. China, five.
Sadly, there is less than a handful of folks in Congress opposed to funding the ultranats of Ukraine, assisting Saudis in the serial murder of helpless Yemenis, celebrating (and paying for) the slaughter of Palestinian children, journalists, and activists, and illegally occupying eastern Syria and stealing its oil, to name but three of its crimes.
Since the end of WWII, the USG and its enforcer military have intervened in dozens of nations, including but not limited to Greece, Italy (subverting elections), China (intervention in its civil war, establishing Taiwan), Syria (the first CIA coup), the Korean War (one of the most costly wars in terms of death and destruction on a per-capita basis), Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Lebanon, Cuba, the Vietnam War (more than 2 million Vietnamese killed, a million in Laos and Cambodia), two Iraq invasions (well over a million killed), Somalia, Haiti, Panama, Afghanistan, Syria again, Libya—on and on.
A thin slice of the uniparty voted against sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, most on the Republican side of the forever war uniparty.
This is little more than partisan politics. Recall McCarthy parading around the floor with a giant yellow and blue badge on his lapel. He supports killing Russians while “auditing” the irresponsible free flow of cash—not ending it, mind you, but going through the numbers because Republicans claim they want to reduce the debt. If you believe this, you may also be interested in a water slide park for sale in the Kalahari.
Sarcasm aside, there is little to no chance the USG will abandon the effort to kill Russian soldiers and, as the psychopath Lindsey Graham demands, assassinate Russia’s elected leader, Vladimir Putin.
No, this debt-fueled monstrosity will eventually run out of steam, Russia will conclude its SMO, and the USG will pull an Afghanistan cut and run, abandoning the overt war effort in Ukraine (while intensifying a clandestine guerrilla terror war, an amplification of a low-intensity war waged since the fall of the Soviet Union).
The other alternative is WWIII—a full-blown war, conscription, a demand by the state for submission and sacrifice (no opposition permitted, same as in any other autocratic state), and the eventuality of nuclear war threatening the very existence of all life on the planet.
Kevin McCarthy will not stop this. He is a dedicated follower of the malignant narcissist Donald Trump—the president who, like presidents before him, had no problem with war and organized mass murder. Trump violated the precepts of international law by killing people in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. He made a mockery of this by claiming he was against war.
Trump was undermined not for his wishy-washy supposed opposition to war, but because he was not selected by the ruling elite to carry out their control-freak agenda of global domination. He wasn’t invited to the party (or uniparty), so he, and the majority of Americans that voted for him (“deplorables”), must be punished evermore.
McCarthy as House Speaker is meaningless. The brawl on the House floor was partisan political theater, nothing more. The wars will continue, the neoliberal project will inch forward, and the state—its FBI, CIA, DOJ, DHS, and Pentagon, in collusion with Silicon Valley—will continue to demonize, de-platform, and otherwise “neutralize” (as J. Edgar Hoover characterized it) all voices in opposition to what may be an irreversible slide into a nuclear conflagration.
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