Paul Haeder, Author

how many blanks do you need to fill in those who are arrogant

Oh, no, sure, I can be arrogant, but, again, I am not in political office, and when I taught or case managed, what have you, and reported on new articles, there was nary an arrogant bone in my body.

When you have lives in the balance, when systems need attending to, when solutions that have no intended or unintended consequences, and when precautionary principle should be the overriding ethos, and when do no harm is the overarching way, arrogance and all the other deadly sins should be never part and parcel of each human being with power, large or small.

But every single one of them — again, fill in the blank, pick your Capitalist poison — are arrogant:

…doctor, lawyer, politician, cop, military man/woman, principal, director of this and director of that, manager, HR director, DMV behind the glass worker, celebrity, athlete, owner, seller, trader, scientist, dictator, president of this or that, code enforcer, bankers, investor, judge, prosecutor, PR spinner, academic, shit, cleric . . . . you get the images above and the graphic below!

Now now, my diatribes and polemics may sound like arrogance, but for fuck’s sake: these are bombast, experiments in taking on personas of say, a crazy communist, a hater of most things Western Civ, a boy man lost in the world with the only option for him (me) to sometimes bray bray bray. The Sky is Falling, Mano!

I get it that we are in our own Private Idaho — an imaginary place where one is locked in the arms of love

That private space in the head which is, both protected and free . . . that internal chamber of the self (there is no “self” as we know, but we are deluded Westerners), all that nonesense of superiority or inferiority, all of the propaganda we’ve been blasted with since diaper days onward, all of the hubris of the inverted totalitarians smearing us with their pathogens of consumerism, retail hell, addictions; all those nano-seconds of constant drip drip drip of marketing and Madison Avenue eating at our brains — we have arrogance of thought and process. We seem to always be alone amongst many, and that is the arrogance of civilization and the precepts put upon us against our will and willingly — we are a community of purpose and place and hope and dreams. We are not alone, in our aloneness.

Here is the full John Done quote from his sermon:

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

But the controllers and masters of digital gulags, all the data demons, all of the militarists and transhumanists, the Davos Gang, the lot of them, making us feel alone, by oursevles, no one out there to confab with and then gather a group of millions to revolt.e

Again, the small-brained among us, the Anglo American syphilitic leadership and misleadership class, they are the ones who should be brought down more than a few notches. Think digging their own graves before, well, before . . .

Imagine all those old suited people in the grave shown below as having been updated to today, 2023, holding, hmm, politicians, Fortune 5,000 corporate heads, 3,900 billionaires and a shit load of the 38,000,000 millionaires:

Arrogance kills: Thanks Mr. Fish and Chris Hedges:

High Court Judge Jonathan Swift — who previously worked for a variety of British government agencies as a barrister and said his favorite clients are “security and intelligence agencies” — rejected two applications by Julian Assange’s lawyers to appeal his extradition last week. The extradition order was signed last June by Home Secretary Priti Patel. Julian’s legal team have filed a final application for appeal, the last option available in the British courts. If accepted, the case could proceed to a public hearing in front of two new High Court judges. If rejected, Julian could be immediately extradited to the United States where he will stand trial for 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act, charges that could see him receive a 175-year sentence, as early as this week. 

Oh, those Brits, and now, this Un-United $nakes of Amnesia and Chaos and Land Theft and Slavery and Terror is deeply embedded in its dirty Anglo Saxon roots, right into the DNA, into the state capitals, everywhere. Julian?

Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionaries imprisoned in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death – horrified the American colonies.

That was just the beginning. The British military command would continue to incarcerate and abuse some 30,000 revolutionaries in New York.

The patriot press spread the news of the prisoner abuse, hardening public opinion against the British. A typical news item from the Connecticut Gazette on Jan. 4, 1782, describes 130 prisoners landed from New York in deplorable condition. “It is enough to melt the most obdurate heart to see these miserable objects landed at our wharves sick and dying, and the few rags they have on covered with vermin and their own excrements,” reported the Gazette.

Somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of the revolutionary prisoners died.  One historian estimates two to three times as many men died in New York prisons than in battle.

“The POW story was, in short, a public-relations disaster for the British,” wrote Edward G. Burrows in The Prisoners of New York in the Long Island History Journal. “It enflamed public opinion, squelched any hope of reconciliation, and turned resistance into a fight to the death.” (Source)

I was talking to my buddy, Toothless in Wisconsin. He filled me in on the Glen Greenwald interview of RFK, JR., and again this fellow, Kennedy, has unflinching love of Israel and zero tolerance of any narrative outside the party line — Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, is a country of goodness, a country of Diaspora from Nazi Genocide, and one of the shining lights on planet earth.

Ahh, I reminded my buddy that there are no critics of Israel in political office, other than a handful of non-Anglo Saxon, non-White, non-Jewish female politicos. The idea is RFK JR., believes this crap, but so does Schumer and Clinton and Obama and Linsey Graham, et al.

Arrogance is this piece of shit rabbi spewing his hate. Again, these people, all of them, the arrogant ones with power, public bully pulpits, million$, and billion$ backing they should have their tongues cut out for their arrogant ways. The shit kicked out of them:

On Christmas Eve, pop star Lorde backed out of plans to perform in Israel less than a week after announcing a concert date in Tel Aviv.

Lorde’s decision was in response to considerable backlash. In an opinion piece for The Spinoff, two fellow New Zealanders—one Jewish and one Palestinian—made personal appeals to the pop star, asking her to join an “artistic boycott” in protest of the Israeli government’s policies. “The weeks prior to your tour announcement have been a difficult time for Palestinians,” Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab wrote. “In this context, a performance in Israel sends the wrong message. Playing in Tel Aviv will be seen as giving support to the policies of the Israeli government, even if you make no comment on the political situation. Such an effect cannot be undone by even the best intention and the best music.”

This whore of a rabbi (sic) needs to be sent to kingdom come, and where are the toughies supporting Lorde and challenging the fat hummus salesman to mano-y-mano?

Read all about it in Daily Beast , and the article quotes so so many arrogant ones, this time around Jewish: The Trump-Loving, Porn-Hating Rabbi Attacking Lorde

So who bankrolled this bullying? The ad is attributed to The World Values Network and its executive director Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. According to The Guardian, The World Values Network is funded by Sheldon Adelson, the Trump-backing billionaire. But Boteach is infamous in his own right: a Hasidic would-be reality TV star and spiritual counsel to the stars who calls himself “America’s Rabbi.” In recent years, Boteach has emerged as a defender of Steve Bannon, a man who been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks himself. In fact Breitbart, which Bannon once called “a platform for the alt-right,” gave Boteach a platform for his anti-Lorde ramblings days before his ad ran in the Post.

Toothless in Wisconsin was talking about that interview with Greenwald, but hands down, these people — Bernie or Pence or Rubio or you name the arrogant one — they will not attack what needs to be attacked about Israel, and they are lock-step, cursed by their arrogance and Eichmann Syndrome, sycophants in high places, amazingly fearful of sweaty and fat punk rabbi’s like this piece of Chlamydia Capitalist Stain. you sick yet? Two human stains coming up:

The point is that politicians of all people should have humility, and Zero arrogance. They are supposed servants of the people, and high horse shit like that Chicago Piece of Shit Rahm or Biden, any of them, Trump on down, they all deserve the award — Enemy of the People.

William Blum’s 2000 book Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower suggests that US-led interventions around the world during and after the Cold War have threatened the world’s peace.

So, an entire country is that, arrogant, and in that collective process, we are the rogue state, with no statemanship, no adults in the room, blind patriotism and arrogance and hubris and here we are: a society of the biggest mouthed miscreants, from Musk to Oprah, to Michelle to Chelsea, to Donald to Hillary, and the list is so fucking long because we valorize all the WRONG fucking people, and they get more than their 15 minutes of fame, mother fuckers.

They — Thiel to Branson, Bezos to Buffet, and Gates to Guilliani, all of them have perception managers, communication coaches, PR handlers, mind molders, all these people holding their fucking hands to get them to a place where their arrogance is at the height of hubris: lies are truth, war is peace, and totalitarianism is philanthropy.

Inverted totalitarianism is different from classical forms of totalitarianism. It does not find its expression in a demagogue or charismatic leader but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. Our inverted totalitarianism pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, civil liberties, freedom of the press, the independence of the judiciary, and the iconography, traditions and language of American patriotism, but it has effectively seized all of the mechanisms of power to render the citizen impotent.

“Unlike the Nazis, who made life uncertain for the wealthy and privileged while providing social programs for the working class and poor, inverted totalitarianism exploits the poor, reducing or weakening health programs and social services, regimenting mass education for an insecure workforce threatened by the importation of low-wage workers,” Sheldon Wolin writes. “Employment in a high-tech, volatile, and globalized economy is normally as precarious as during an old-fashioned depression. The result is that citizenship, or what remains of it, is practiced amidst a continuing state of worry. Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement.”

Inverted totalitarianism, Wolin said when we met at his home in Salem, Ore., in 2014 to film a nearly three-hour interview, constantly “projects power upwards.” It is “the antithesis of constitutional power.” It is designed to create instability to keep a citizenry off balance and passive.

He writes, “Downsizing, reorganization, bubbles bursting, unions busted, quickly outdated skills, and transfer of jobs abroad create not just fear but an economy of fear, a system of control whose power feeds on uncertainty, yet a system that, according to its analysts, is eminently rational.”

Inverted totalitarianism also “perpetuates politics all the time,” Wolin said when we spoke, “but a politics that is not political.” The endless and extravagant election cycles, he said, are an example of politics without politics.

Arrogance takes the eye away from debate, facts, truths, others’ perspectives. That’s why a Bernie or Pelosi, a Biden to Nuland, they will never submit to honest, critical thinking debate. Their lies and their self-imposed lunacy and belief systems cannot stand the heat of real debate. Arrogance: Totalitarian in its luminesce

Arrogance it intentionally forgetting history, or what these presstitutes in Ukraine are doing — asking the Nazi UkroNazi’s to take off Nazi-connected patches for their fucking photos.

Remember The Jersey?

British troops landed in New York City on Sept. 15, 1776 and remained until November of 1783. George Washington and his men tried to dislodge them during the Battle of Long Island in August of 1776. Not only did he fail, but the British captured thousands of Continental Army prisoners. Two months later, the British captured Fort Washington and more revolutionaries.

In the end, they took more than 4,000 Continental Army soldiers, sailors and privateers (4,114 by one count) and 300 officers. And they held them in deplorable conditions in non-Anglican churches, sugar refineries, jails, almshouses and broken-down warships. Civilians, too, ended up in the horribly overcrowded lockups: 800 in one church, 20 per cell in the city jail and 1100 in the most notorious prison ship, the Jersey.

Our buddies, the Monarchy:

Then in December the POW revolutionaries began to die in heaps.

The British military commander, Lt. Gen. Sir William Howe, released nearly 2,300 soldiers on parole. He informed George Washington that only a few remained in New York.

But what happened to the other revolutionary prisoners – nearly 2,000 of them? One patriot said he sent “one half to the world of spirits for want of food.”

Howe loaded hundreds of starving prisoners onto transport ships. Some couldn’t make it that far. Ethan Allen, on parole himself, saw several prisoners fall dead in the streets as they tried to walk to the vessels in New York Harbor.

The Glasgow transported about 200 revolutionary prisoners to Milford, Conn. At least 20 died on the way. Nineteen more died on their first night in Connecticut. Thirty-two were too sick to move once they landed. And many of those who could walk home died en route. Most of those who made it home died soon thereafter. (source: “British cruelty turned colonists against them”)

Bernie Sanders will never be questioned hard on his love of military in his state, or really, someone who knows what the fuck was going on in Ukraine and with Nato and what Russia was attempting to do in 1997, to stop the expansion, stop the nukes along their border, Bernie will never submit to a talk, chat, discussion with someone who knows much more than he thinks he knows. Arrogance, when in fact, politicians, elected ones, should be the people’s servant:

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is a radar-evading stealth fighter jet whose cost overruns and development delays have generated many headlines. This program, which has yet to be deployed in a combat capacity, was commissioned by the Pentagon in 1995 and has a projected cost of $1.5 trillion over the next 55 years, making it the most expensive weapons program in U.S. history. What hasn’t been the subject of as much ink, however, is the antiwar Democratic socialist senator who supports keeping the program in his state of Vermont: Bernie Sanders.

The plan is for the Vermont Air National Guard based at the Burlington National Airport to be the first to get the plane, replacing the aging F-16s, starting in 2019. It will be the first time the Air Force puts a new fighter bomber at a commercial airport in the U.S. And it has triggered a backlash among local residents over noise and other environmental issues. Last week, a federal judge heard arguments over a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force regarding F-35 fighter jets.

During his recent Democratic primary campaign, Sanders contrasted his policy proposals with the more hawkish ones put forth by former Secretary of State and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, so his involvement in a costly project for the military industrial complex may seem to clash with his rhetoric. In a February article called “Bernie Sanders Loves This $1 Trillion War Machine,” The Daily Beast took the senator to task for this very thing.

“The socialist trumpets his antiwar record,” the article said. “But he doesn’t mind expensive war machines — if they’re based in his home state.”

Bernie and his orgasm:

Arrogance is backing a Nazi Jew, and then calling the other side, a Nazi, Hitler.

[A resident flees the village of Gouves, on the island of Evia, Greece, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Elevated risk of fires is just one of the effects of climate change being felt all over the world. — Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg]

Come on now, who are you really without that mother culture being stripped and retrofitted by and for the Chlamydia Capitalists? ZioAzovNaziLensky and our world is burning.

Oh, man, the arrogant!

Mother culture, where are you now?

Here, meaningless political and Greenwald crap: