By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at God’s Spies
Since they operate as a system, the system is honored each time its members are honored. And the system sees that the system is always honored.
—Yours truly, here
I had something wonderful queued up for today, a video that revealed how even more vile and dangerous Flock cameras are. (You can watch it here if you like without my text.)
But Dick Cheney recently died and even more recently was funeralated at the Washington National Cathedral, a soaring monument to what DC calls religion, a bipartisan place where murderers are praised. Requiescat.
What You Need to Know
1. Dick Cheney was an actual murderer, if by murderer you mean the don who orders the hit. Among Dick Cheney’s hits, a million or more formerly living now dead in Iraq.
2. Love of the Cheneys helped Kamala Harris lose. Yet there she is, front row. See image above.
3. The funeral attendance was wide and bipartisan. Not just big Democratic pols, but notables as well showed up to say farewell.
Rachel Maddow and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Nearby, James Carville. (Reuters)
Bottom Line: Elites and Elites
Elites honor each other to keep the whole game alive. As I wrote when the first George Bush died:
From lesser lights to greater, from murderers to comedians, the praise continues.
As usual, the network of those who run the world we merely inhabit have nothing but respect for each other. And why not? They may pick each other off from time to time (both Saddam Hussein and Moamar Khaddafi were once in high favor), but over the long haul, keeping each member of the ruling circle in a reverential spotlight keeps them all — keeps the circle itself — in reverence as well. Since they operate as a system, the system is honored each time its members, no matter how deadly, are honored as well. And the system sees that the system is always honored.
Elites and elites. By honoring each other, they honor eliteness itself, their place in the world. And nothing’s more important to elites than their place in the world.
Notes
1. Some high profile figures, smarter than Harris, did not attend. (Why smarter? Harris reportedly still has White House dreams.) Barack Obama wisely declined to show, avoiding a repeat of this:
Michelle Obama embraces George Bush II as Barack Obama looks on. September 2016. (Astrid Riecken / Getty Images North America / AFP)
Still, he sent his regards:
Although Dick Cheney and I represented very different political traditions, I respected his life-long devotion to public service and his deep love of country. Michelle and I extend our deepest condolences to his family.
“Devotion to public service.” Elites and elites.
2. Bill Clinton also failed to appear. He even more wisely had pre-scheduled a ribbon cutting in Arkansas; Sarah Huckabee Sanders needed the help. Okay, it was actually this. But Huckabee Sanders was involved, as well as her pro-genocide dad, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Elites and elites.
3. It’s going to take more than the Mamdani of our dreams, the one we want him to be, to unseat this world.
Over at Sidecar Grey Anderson provides a more detailed summation of Cheney’s steady bolstering of the administrative and physical infrastructure of executive warmaking powers, linked to “national emergency” provisions constituting a blank check for the repressive state apparatus. Apologies for the long quote from the paywalled article, but it gives you a much better sense of Cheney’s efforts helped to build the scaffolding of what we’re facing today.
And I bet that is such a war scenario, Cheney would see himself as the Commander of the United States with all the power centralized in his hands. But I don’t know why they planned on military administrators installed at state and local level after a major nuclear attack. I mean, who were they supposed to put down and control? A bunch of rebellious cinders?
On the anniversary of January 6, Cheney returned to Congress, where his and the system’s legislative agenda had been furthered by the much more serious 2001 anthrax attacks on key Senators.
Neuburger captures my own feelings of disgust quite well here. There were some (weak) signs that Cheney was more radioactive than even most of the elites in attendance. The Missing Presidents – Obama and Clinton – are mentioned. But I was also interested in how the funeral would be covered on the national news. On NBC it was barely mentioned, in a short spot way down in the newscast. It was humorous, though, that in that short segment they managed to point out a few times that Trump and Vance were not invited. I thought to myself: why is NBC trying to make those two look good?
I have to locate another old geriatric, the living villainous example to cite when otherwise celebrated entertainers ( excluding the Kardashians ) and even an occasional athlete of renown are dying off. Evil that men do doesn’t seem to haunt our leadership much, nor does it hinder their progeny.
I’m very much in a somber mood lately , exceedingly sorry ( doing it to myself ) should this comment not see the light of day.
The pic of Rachel GD Maddow in attendance sums it up. It’s all pro-wrestling, with faces and heels, but at the end of the day, they’re all working for the same company. It’s amazing to me there are still people who haven’t figured this out.
The West doesn’t produce leaders that are murderers because we are the ‘good guys’. Hollywood makes sure of it!
“Americans are used by the Political Industrial Complex of both Political Parties, election cycle after election cycle, in order to elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other side more.”
“And the results are always the same.”
“No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman…”
“… When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington’s machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington, then I’ll be here by their side to rebuild it.”
It sounds like Marjorie Taylor Greene figured it out. Whatever her motives, her words will resonate with anyone who pays any attention at all.
Right. The most ardent “left” leaning mainstream pundit is still closer to Cheney than I am.
“Its a big club, and you ain’t in it”
I’ll plead guilty to having not figured it out. I like to think I have no illusions about Maddow, for instance, or the whole Dem gang. Yet it still surprised me that she showed up at this affair.
Maddow and co.’s narrative at least superficially departs sharply from that of the other side. So wouldn’t it behoove her to keep some distance? Strange but — at least in my case — revealing. It’s as if the system doesn’t mind revealing, or maybe even likes to reveal, its true and unchallengeable nature from time to time.
…and this club of political elites will act to prevent full disclosure of everything Epstein was up to.
The fact that Cheney was part of the “Resistance” says a lot about the performative nature of US politics
It has always been this way.
“It’s a big club, and you’re not in it.” George Carlin
Here is a link to the image of michelle and george hugging it up:
https://people.com/michelle-obama-bff-george-w-bush-jenna-bush-hager-11843219
What was Obama thinking in that moment?
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If nothing else, at least there is consistent form (bought and paid for) between honoring Cheney and honoring Netanyahu. “They make a desert and called it peace.” – Tacitus (ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant).
George W. Bush – jokes about weapons of mass destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YgJx8VGRA
Are we going to see a re-run of this insane comedy routine when someone like JD Vance gets up and jokes about not finding any narco terrorists in Venezuela?
Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Reacts to George W. Bush Joke About Missing WMDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJQS3eLSXgA
I had to look it up to see that funeralated is related to the real word funeralized rather than being a smutty pun. It reminded me of a PBS interview with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, père’s, Freudian response to another interviewee’s comment that “His assertion was fellatio.”
Remember when he exposed an active CIA agent and Dick Army claimed responsibility for the leak. Remember why, her husband who was a diplomat in the state department exposed the yellow cake letter was a fraud. Good times.😆