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: craigmurray.org.uk
\n\n“without the knowledge of your history you cannot determine your destiny”
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Forty-seven years ago, Misty In Roots played at the Counter Eurovision rock festival in Brussels, in response to the Eurovision song contest being held that year in Jerusalem, and in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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\nLess than a month later, Blair Peach was murdered by the British police on the streets of Southall while defending the town from the National Front.
\nEaling Council allowed the march of the fascists to go ahead despite a 10,000-strong petition from local people opposing it.
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\nClarence Baker, Misty In Roots' manager, was violently assaulted by police that day and left in a coma for five months.
\nOrganist Vernon Hunt was jailed for six months on trumped up charges. He was so broken by this experience of state oppression that he never rejoined the band.
\nToday the British government allowed another fascist march in London on the anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.
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\nToday I dragged my 11 year old down to the Dominion Centre and Library in Southall to meet Misty In Roots in the entrance foyer and learn a little history.
\nThe Dominion Centre is the site of the former Dominion Theatre where Blair Peach’s lifeless body lay “in state” for six weeks while thousands visited to pay their last respects.
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\nThis iconic photo of Misty In Roots outside the entrance now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
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\nWe came home with a signed limited edition red vinyl copy of arguably the best live album ever recorded. We spoke to some very nice people. And we bumped into my friend Happy.
\nAnd we met Poko, Kazi and Tunga from the band.
\n\n\n“if you’re not conscious of the present you’re like a cabbage in this society”
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Trump bombs Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Venezuela, kidnaps Venezuela’s president and his wife, threatens Colombia, Mexico, Greenland (and NATO); sets up “Board of Peace” and invites UK to join.
\nUK Foreign Secretary: Putin.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-01-22T12:01:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2026/01/22/trump-bombs-iran-iraq-yemen.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Politics","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2026/01/14/i-know-its-been-said.html", "content_html": "UK holds off joining Trump's peace board over Putin concerns: bbc.com
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I know it’s been said before about Donald Trump, that he’s like a six year old child, but this morning I heard one of little kid’s new classmates talking and bragging about his xmas presents. He even had Trump’s distinctive New York accent (which at first I thought he must be mimicking, but it must be where he lived before he moved here).
\n“I gotta Nintendo Switch. It’s VERY GOOD. Nintendo Switch TOO. Better than Windows. Windows is VERY BAD. If anyone steals my Switch, I’m gonna STEAL THEM. I’m gonna take out their EYEBALLS!”.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-14T11:41:09+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2026/01/14/i-know-its-been-said.html", "tags": ["Kids","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/07/09/fixed-the-headline-gaza-truce.html", "content_html": "Fixed the headline.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-07-09T13:43:55+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/07/09/fixed-the-headline-gaza-truce.html", "tags": ["Politics","Palestine","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/05/13/starmers-immigration-speech-nonsense-language.html", "content_html": "Gaza truce talks reportedly stall
\n\ndespite second Netanyahu-Trump meetingafter Netanyahu demands the elimination of the people he's negotiating with: bbc.com
Starmer’s immigration speech “nonsense language worthy of a Trump style populist.”
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-05-13T09:50:58+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/05/13/starmers-immigration-speech-nonsense-language.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Politics","Starmer","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/03/04/boris-johnson-has-a-lot.html", "content_html": "New post: Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks
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https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/starmers-disgraceful-and-damaging.html
As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.
Boris Johnson has a lot to answer for.
\nIs he a communist spy, too?
\nHe knew before anyone else that it was Putin who poisoned the Skripals, and held secret meetings with a Russian oligarch soon after.
\nHe’s been stoking Russophobia ever since.
\nHe met with the Russian oligarch again just prior to deciding that “herd immunity” was the way to beat covid-19, leading to tens of thousands of deaths.
\nHe made the Russian oligarch a Lord soon after.
\nHe flew to Kyiv to prevent a ceasefire three years ago, promulgating instead an endless war that will erode our defences and economy before it erodes Russia’s.
\nHe’s a Trump apologist.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-04T23:54:07+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/03/04/boris-johnson-has-a-lot.html", "tags": ["Politics","Trump","Corbyn","Boris Johnson"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/03/03/it-is-worth-noting-that.html", "content_html": "\n\nIt is worth noting that Starmer’s delusional “Hundred Year Alliance” agreement with Zelensky contained the UK’s attempt to grab the same minerals Zelensky is now asking again to be allowed to hand over to Trump.
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\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-03T21:05:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/03/03/it-is-worth-noting-that.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Politics","Starmer","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/03/03/both-corbyn-and-trump-are.html", "content_html": "Ukraine, Diplomacy and War
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Both Corbyn and Trump are communist spies, of course.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-03T20:14:37+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/03/03/both-corbyn-and-trump-are.html", "tags": ["Trump","Corbyn"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/03/02/i-saw-the-heavily-edited.html", "content_html": "I saw the heavily edited Trump-Zelensky smackdown video and couldn’t help but think of Trump as Emperor Ming the Merciless to Zelensky’s Flash Gordon. Vance as General Klytus. Keir Starmer made a grovelling cameo as Prince Thun (RIP).
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-02T17:58:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/03/02/i-saw-the-heavily-edited.html", "tags": ["Politics","TV and Film","Letters to America","Starmer","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/03/02/trump-is-an-evil-narcissist.html", "content_html": "Trump is an evil narcissist for publicly humiliating Zelensky because Zelensky refuses to negotiate a peace deal with Putin because Putin is “the aggressor”, illegally occupies Ukrainian land, and “wants to kill them all”.
\nNetanyahu illegally occupies Palestinian land and reneges on a peace deal he negotiated with “the aggressor” Hamas who “want to kill them all”.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-03-02T17:51:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/03/02/trump-is-an-evil-narcissist.html", "tags": ["Politics","Letters to America","Palestine","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/02/08/find-someone-your-base-already.html", "content_html": "Israel blocks entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza: bbc.com
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‘Find someone your base already dislikes. Attack them. Make it personal. Make it cruel. Make it loud. Then monetize the outrage- both from your supporters who love the show and your opponents who can’t look away.’
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T12:37:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/02/08/find-someone-your-base-already.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Letters to America","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/02/08/the-bbc-contacted-bidens-talent.html", "content_html": "The Cruelty Market joanwestenberg.com
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‘The BBC contacted Biden’s talent agency, which recently signed him, but no response was immediately forthcoming.’
\nMy talent agency said, “WTAF?!”
\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-08T12:03:20+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/02/08/the-bbc-contacted-bidens-talent.html", "tags": ["Politics","Trump","Biden"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/02/05/of-course-its-the-antigenocidal.html", "content_html": "Trump says he is revoking Joe Biden's security clearance bbc.com
Of course, it’s the anti-genocidal voters who didn’t buy the genocidal Biden/Harris presidential ticket who are to blame for the genocidal Trump presidency.
\nSeriously?!
\nDoes anyone seriously believe she wouldn’t have continued to arm and fund Israel to “finish the job” with or without this temporary ceasefire and hostage exchange?
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-05T12:47:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/02/05/of-course-its-the-antigenocidal.html", "tags": ["Politics","Letters to America","Palestine","Trump","Biden"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/02/03/is-trump-doing-a-truss.html", "content_html": "Is Trump doing a Truss and will “the deep state” intervene?
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-02-03T09:50:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/02/03/is-trump-doing-a-truss.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Politics","Letters to America","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2025/01/17/the-new-president-of-israel.html", "content_html": "Trump’s nightmare 2025 is going as I predicted https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02/03/trumps-nightmare-2025-is-going-as-i-predicted/ Trump is dragging financial markets down - and people in the US, from the MAGA to Trump's donors - are not going to like that.
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The new President of Israel.
\nIsrael has changed since Donald Trump's last term – has he? bbc.com\n\n", "date_published": "2025-01-17T10:30:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2025/01/17/the-new-president-of-israel.html", "tags": ["Politics","Letters to America","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2024/12/24/my-year-on-microblog.html", "title": "My year on micro.blog", "content_html": "
I had a lot fun writing and publishing on micro.blog this year, and also looking back and picking out these (for me) highlights.
\nI started the year with the final (so far) part of my curriculum vitae series. The one where I found my dream job:
\n\n\nThere was no welcome… it stank of piss. The only redeeming factor was that none of the inmates seemed able to move.
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\n\nThe beauty of the whole endeavour was that people needing care were no longer seen as tasks to be performed and checked off on a list, but as people who had lives, stories, senses of humour, wants and needs like everyone else.
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\n\nSuch a great thing could obviously have no future.
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On the power of writing:
\n\n\nHaving an hour or so in relatively undisturbed peace and quiet just to write whatever comes into my head has felt very therapeutic. I feel like something significant has changed within me, for the better.
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On journaling:
\n\n\nJournaling is like legacy microblogging minus the passive aggressive bullshit and wit.
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On the power of memory:
\n\n\nNothing was where Jim remembered it. Like his hat, they were very much alive in Jim’s memory, but in the world we walked in the goalposts had literally moved, the final whistle had blown, and everyone had gone home except Jim.
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On travelling abroad for the first time:
\n\n\nIt all felt utterly surreal to me then, like being stranded on another planet, adrift in my bunk bed, alone in the halls of a spacecraft listening to the crickets and the ghostly sounds of train hours.
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On local democracy:
\n\n\nThe event itself was a repeat of several resident surveys and failed plans over the past twenty years or so. The problems are always the same. The responses from the council are always the same.
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On my four year old’s analysis of the state of British politics after the results of the May General Election:
\n\n\nYou can clearly see the Labour supermajority in red, and the Tory wipeout in blue. That they are two cheeks of the same backside is encapsulated in the red triangle atop the blue square in the centre.
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On the state of our national game:
\n\n\n\nNowadays managers - or coaches - are often restricted to, well, coaching players in training and on match days, and speaking to the media before and after games. They are seen as specialists rather than all-rounders, and more specialists from the world of finance are brought in to fire the tea ladies…
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\n\n\nA clear and obvious error, if ever there was one, and yet we are forced to watch repeat after repeat, week after week of him getting it wrong. A bald man somehow getting balder…
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\n\nWorking from home has given me the time and space to transform how I work for the better. I’m better organised, more thoughtful, less rushed and distracted. I can honestly say that I’m now the most productive I’ve ever been thanks to a more comfortable, relaxed and focussed personal workspace.
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On cheese:
\n\n\nDouble Gloucester. Trump-like appearance, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a vote-winner. Biden-like quality: good all-rounder, mild, creamy, child-friendly, goes with most things, melts easily. Oily.
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On the death-grip of neoliberalism:
\n\n\n\nNeoliberalism doesn’t change, and the more that the people are subjected to its bad decisions, its lust for war, for death, for oil, for money, for making the rich richer and the poor poorer, the harder it gets for people to change, and the fewer good decisions are made.
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\n\nIf you like guns, shooting people, torture, (mock) executions, (child) kidnapping, (attempted) murder, blackmail, gambling, Russian Roulette, cyber-stalking, identity theft, mob rule and police corruption, you’ll probably like Person of Interest.
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On Lincolnshire sausages:
\n\n\nA special treat then was boiled sausages for breakfast. The skins would fall off, and we ate them with white bread soaked in the soup or broth they created in the pan along with a dash of English mustard.
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On living and breathing music:
\n\n\nIt’s hard not to love such amazing musicianship, singing and songs, all performed with unconfined joy in the moment.
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And:
\n\n\nI do wonder if sometimes songs speak to me even when I’m not actively listening? When I do pay attention to the words they do carry meaning for me. They just needed to be heard.
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On journaling (again):
\n\n\nDoing this work has made sense of a lot of daily, weekly and monthly events, habits, routines, scenarios, relationships, that otherwise would have remained loosely connected, strung together like the Christmas tree lights every year when you take them out of the box you left them in in January. In a mess, tangled up, half-working.
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On the bales:
\n\n\nMy fingertips took several days to regrow. I had fifty pence deducted from my wages for the cost of replenishing the first aid kit, and received a straight knockout for bleeding on the ropes.
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On writing (again):
\n\n\nI write for me. It helps me breathe and to feel alive.
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On local democracy (again):
\n\n\nIf you’re lucky, you might see something done after a year or two of complaining.
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On driving (and living):
\n\n\nAlways look ahead as far as possible.
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On Al:
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-12-24T21:32:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2024/12/24/my-year-on-microblog.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Longform","Trump","Biden"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2024/11/28/bye-bye-biden.html", "title": "Bye Bye Biden", "content_html": "We think Al is dumb. But we elect dumber, and Al will only get less dumb.
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\nSome highlights and thoughts from Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden by Branko Marcetic 📚
\n\n\nAgainst Biden’s best efforts, disaster had been averted. (p. 127)
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This seems to sum up his career neatly. Far from the popular public image that he has cultivated and that the media have happily gone along with for the most part.
\n\n\n“I’m not going to start World War Three for you!”
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Not Biden, but British army General Mike Jackson refusing to follow Biden’s friend General Wesley Clark’s orders to confront Russia in Kosovo. (p. 172)
\nThe book was written before Russia invaded Ukraine. It seems that Biden wants to go out with a bang, despite his previous utterances.
\n\n\n”There is no such thing as a winnable nuclear war.” (p. 152)
\n
Biden saying one thing and doing another is characteristic of his entire political career. He’s not unique in that respect, of course, and perhaps he’s actually better at it than most. He did get elected president after all.
\nBiden was the ultimate Friend of Israel. He helped provide Israel with huge amounts of US aid money, and Israel lobbyists on his campaign staff returned the favour helping Biden raise huge amounts of money to run his various election campaigns.
\nBiden spent his entire career giving unqualified support to Israel, and claimed that Americans “couldn’t afford” to criticise Israel in public.
\n\n\nToward the end of Bush’s term, the ex-communist Eastern European country of Yugoslavia began disintegrating in a miasma of nationalism and ethnic and religious sectarianism, forces unleashed by a Western-imposed program of economic “shock therapy” that in essence exported Western neoliberal policies to the once prosperous country, running its living standards into the ground. War soon broke out. (p. 156)
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Later, Biden agitated for Clinton’s military intervention in Serbia, which lay the foundations for future “humanitarian” bombing campaigns elsewhere.
\n\n\nIf you cared about political survival, it was safer to err on the side of war. (p. 158)
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\n\nDespite [or because of?] his role in starting the war, Biden was still considered one of the party’s wisest heads on foreign policy. (p. 173)
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George W. Bush apparently followed Biden’s instructions on selling the war on Iraq to the American people and the United Nations.
\nBiden proposed an ethno-nationalist “three state solution” for Iraq similar to Israel’s proposals to came up Arab states into weaker sectarian units.
\nHe proposed to Balkanise Iraq into smaller ethnic and religious sectarian states with limited freedom of movement and borders controlled by foreign troops.
\nA bit like Gaza and the rest of the illegally Occupied Palestinian Territories now.
\n\n\nFlawed as it was, the plan burnished Biden’s credentials as a foreign policy expert. (p. 179)
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Iraq duped Biden forcing withdrawal of US troops. In response, ISIS ‘emerged' from an oppressed religious minority.
\nBiden’s ‘counter-terrorism plus’ policy saw the US bomb seven Muslim countries without declaring war, much like Israel is now doing with more American bombs.
\nThat helped to fuel anti-Americanism and an immigration and prisons crisis.
\n\n\nInstead of providing homes for the poor, he would spend the following decades housing them in jails. (p. 85)
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Racist Clinton doubled the American prison population and achieved the world’s highest rate of incarceration. Mostly with black people.
\nThis policy usefully helped to reduce official unemployment figures and paint Clinton’s neoliberalism as an economic miracle.
\n\n\nAnother lesson Biden had first wrongly internalised from American apartheid: that people of different backgrounds simply couldn’t live together in harmony. (p. 177)
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Instead Biden backed segregation (busing) and individual states' rights over a united federal states of America.
\n\n\n”I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.” (p. 184)
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Biden on the Roe v. Wade decision in 1974
\nBiden presented as a progressive liberal on the side of the working class. But he spent his career siding with Republicans and moving the Democrats ever further to the right.
\nAt one time even a former Klan recruiter thought Biden had gone too far. Another Klan leader praised Biden’s election platform claiming it was as if it had been written by a Klansman.
\nBiden said Jimmy Carter was nothing special, and welcomed Reaganomics as a step in the right direction. Although in typical Biden fashion he also claimed Reagan’s first budget would be an economic disaster before voting for it (along with 29 other Democrats).
\nReagan’s cuts cost 270,000 jobs and reduced access to financial support for millions of Americans. Rather than reducing the deficit, it increased it, and made the rich richer, and the poor poorer.
\nLike Thatcher in Britain, Reagan’s greatest achievement was in transforming his opposition into his mirror image. You still get a choice at the polls, but there’s very little, if any, substantive policy difference between the two.
\n\n\n”Biden isn’t a liberal anymore.”
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Ayn Rand acolyte Paul Ryan, who lost to Biden in the 2012 vice-presidential election, but declared a more important victory.
\nBiden’s support for tax cuts for the rich wasn’t a one-off. This was a repeated pattern of voting indicating where his true loyalties lay. Indeed, later he proposed his own tax cuts that were more severe than Reagan’s, and “right out of the Tea Party playbook”.
\n\n\nWhere once the tyranny of “special interests” meant the control of government by big business and the super-rich, it now referred to the ordinary Americans the New Deal had sought to protect from those same powerful entities. (p. 68)
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No longer aligned with the working class, Biden now focused on the middle class, solidly Conservative, tax-and-government fearing supporters of the super-rich.
\n\n\n”It’s the middle class, stupid.” (p.147)
\n
Much like the South where Biden always pivoted for support of anti-union, pro-slavery and white supremacist votes. Biden could have tried to bring Southern voters to the Democrats, but instead chose to lead the Democrats to align with the politics of the South.
\n\n\nBiden had successfully facilitated the decades-long wholesale robbery of working- class Americans by law enforcement. (p. 91)
\n
Enter Bill Clinton, who with Biden’s full support, carried on Reagan’s economic policies leading to ever more cuts in government spending and hardship for millions more Americans.
\nBiden again offered trillions of dollars of cuts to retirement funds, Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, giving Mitch McConnell everything he asked for.
\n\n\nAs president, much of Obama’s job involved cleaning up messes that Biden had helped create. (p. 191)
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\n\nThe major legislative accomplishments that Biden had racked up in prior decades had succeeded because they had been in pursuit of Republican goals. (p. 199)
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\n\nBiden did what he always did: plead fealty to working class voters in public speeches filled with references to his Scranton roots while privately appealing for the support of big-money interests. (p. 214)
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By 2020, Biden had shifted (and shifted the Democrats) so far to the right, he was finally electable and the safest establishment option to defeat Trump as president.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-28T19:16:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2024/11/28/bye-bye-biden.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Politics","Letters to America","Palestine","Trump","Biden"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2024/11/19/people-dont-change.html", "title": "People Don't Change", "content_html": "People don’t change, but they can make good decisions.
\nThis is a quote, or the gist of a quote, from an episode of Person of Interest, a TV show I watched avidly for two and a half seasons before rapidly losing interest after the scriptwriters killed off one of the only characters with a fully functioning sense of empathy (who happened to be a black woman) and which therewith descended into a cliched, repetitive, and all-too predictable (yet surprising) slapstick parody of itself.
\nIf I wanted to watch a bunch of psychopaths endlessly escalate a brutal war on humanity I could just look at the news. Americans sure like their guns and shooting people for entertainment. Personally, I prefer a nice cup of tea and a good book, and a bit of peace and quiet.
\nAnyway, people don’t change, but they can make good decisions. Especially when they have enough guns pointed at their head. That’s the takeaway, or the moral of this story. But they always escape, and then they’re back to making bad decisions all over again, usually involving pointing guns at other people’s heads.
\nAnd maybe that’s right. People don’t change. Not until there’s a compelling reason to. We carry on mindlessly making the same old bad decisions over and over again like in Einstein’s theory of insanity, repeating the same mistakes and expecting a different outcome.
\nIt’s a horrible take. But it’s true to some extent. Getting better (it can’t get much worse) can be a bit of a song (and a dance). Recovery is a long and winding road. They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said “No, no, no!” There’s a lot of resistance to change, and even to making good decisions.
\nBut is much of this also a result of the world we live in, and who we are? We live in a world consumed by neoliberal orthodoxy. We are in thrall to the ideas of freedom of the market, the decimation of government and public services, and the freedom of individuals (and individual responsibility, even while what’s left of the state bails out the greed and mistakes of unaccountable banks and corporations).
\nThere’s no such thing as society, Thatcher told us. There is no alternative.
\nTrump was right, Americans will never vote for a black woman. Hell, they wouldn’t even vote for a warmongering white woman. The white supremacist patriarchy is strong. Yes, they voted for a black man, but he turned out to be the most murderous president in history.
\nIs there an alternative? There’s always an alternative. It’s just that usually the alternative is more of the same, or worse. Take it or leave it. And even when there is a different option, one which might slightly rein in the excesses of this neoliberal onslaught, it’s demonised as a Stalinist coup that will murder Jews. “Nothing. Has. Changed.” implored Theresa May, quite rightly, as she continued as Prime Minister despite losing her massive parliamentary majority and failing to obtain a mandate to deliver Brexit, or anything other than her own resignation. Calling that election was the most audacious thing she ever did, aside from running through a field of wheat as a child.
\nDespite the people obviously voting for change, and genuine hope, it was clear that what we really needed instead was a lying, racist killer clown to run the country into the ground.
\nAt least he had a plan. An oven-ready plan to deliver Brexit on a plate just in time for the New Year. It would be served cold, and thoroughly unappetising to everyone, toxic even. But it was the will of the people. It’s what we wanted. We voted for it! We wanted to sever our economic ties to our nearest and biggest trading partner and experience the freedom of going it alone in the big wide world, unleashed!
\nBut that wasn’t enough! The killer clown told too many lies, and hosted too many parties in covid lockdown. He had to go. A tiny minority of elderly rich right wingers then voted for a new leader for us. One who would be more honest, less racist, less murderous, and not as stupid. Liz “Pork Markets” Truss.
\nOh, fuck. She might not have been a liar, or a racist, or a murderer, but boy was she stupid. She killed the Queen, trashed the UK economy, and blew up Russia’s Nordstream pipeline, all in less than a month. Talk about a whirlwind. And some bad decisions. She now has a very nice pension. You reap what you sow.
\nPeople don’t change, but they can make good decisions. Neoliberalism doesn’t change, and the more that the people are subjected to its bad decisions, its lust for war, for death, for oil, for money, for making the rich richer and the poor poorer, the harder it gets for people to change, and the fewer good decisions are made.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-19T10:01:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2024/11/19/people-dont-change.html", "tags": ["Quotes","Politics","Letters to America","Trump"] }, { "id": "http://davidmarsden.micro.blog/2024/11/15/my-cheeseometer.html", "title": "My Cheese-o-meter", "content_html": "For the best sensation, please read this post at room temperature.
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\n\nWhat’s so special about the cheesemakers?
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\n\nWell, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
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Now, I’m going to milk this for all it’s worth, but I would question the last sentence. I’m going to stick to cheese. Not literally, of course. That would be messy and smelly. Always wash your hands after operating cheese.
\nI’m going to stick to cheese, metaphorically - for the benefit of the cheeseless.
\n\n[@davidmarsden](https://micro.blog/davidmarsden) I am still waiting, cheeseless.
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While I don’t consider myself to be any kind of big cheese - I’m not a cheese authority or cheese expert - I’m perfectly qualified to write a cheesy summary of my life in cheese.
\nPlease note that I am not affiliated to the Cheese Marketing Board, and clicking any of the links in this post will not help to feed my hungry cheese-loving children.
\nWithout further fondue, here’s my Cheese List.
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\nConvicted felon, fascist and fake news king, the 45ᵗʰ President of the United States paid the porn star ‘stormy Daniels’ hundreds of thousands of dollars not to tell anyone that she had sex with him.
\nLast night, she appeared on a Channel 4 US election special with disgraced former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was there to plug his memoir “Unleashed.”
\nDaniels wanted to know if Johnson had any children, and wondered if Johnson would leave his daughter alone with Trump. (Trump has a whole series of very serious sexual misconduct allegations against him.)
\nJohnson explained that he has met Trump and he’s perfectly polite and well-mannered, so of course he would have no problem with him.
\nJohnson himself, of course, is famous among other things for being a serial liar and not knowing how many children he has.
\nNeedless to say, Trump won the election, and Johnson is trying to make a comeback.
\n", "date_published": "2024-11-06T14:53:00+01:00", "url": "https://davidmarsden.info/2024/11/06/not-fake-news.html", "tags": ["Politics","Letters to America","Trump","Boris Johnson"] } ] }