Jesse, Tariffs & Rice
Just step sideways from this place today
Don't let it beat ya
Don't let it whip ya
Just step right round this futurist world today
The world’s definitely turning faster these days.
Jesse Jackson left the building. The whites in Chicago always disliked him, for more than a few hate wouldn’t be too strong a term. Jesse had a life. He was somebody. Jesse talked a lot about justice. In his two runs for the Democratic nomination for president, very few other candidates ever said as many substantive things about the how the world turned. I voted for Jesse in the primary in ‘84. In my first Californian political venture, I volunteered to help organize the 44th Congressional District with the 1988 San Diego Rainbow Coalition. We got to within a couple points of winning, a handful of votes really, it was there to be had. A rainbow it certainly was and the coalition knew a lot about how and who ran the economy. The best campaigns were always about the people that comprised them. God love Jesse.
The Supreme Court decision on Trump’s Tariffs doesn’t say anything about the system working. It’s broke. In this case, the Court ruled for its true masters, the corporations. For over a century and half, the court’s done more to create and empower national/global corporate organization than either of the other government branches, or state institutions for that matter. Phew, that says something.
The global corporations weren't in favor of tariffs. Best, they’re all demanding refunds. Didn't they just pass all those tariff costs through to the consumers as all those economists said was happening? Where are our refunds Mr. President, the people who actually paid?
Funnily, Trump went after Susan Rice, who is on the Netflix board. Why, that is why is she on Netflix board? Many years ago, I had a couple hour phone call with Susan Rice and some of her Security State cohorts who were looking to get into power with then anti-war (sort of) Democratic front-runner Howard Dean. It was the scariest phone-call I ever had. I remember walking directly into Trippi’s office and saying exactly that. The next day, I found out not one of them on the phone call had been against the war and occupying Iraq. That’s all the Security State's Democratic brand had to offer. They had to wait for Obama to ascend.
The FT piece has Susan Rice in a recent podcast warning the corporations – Dems are feeling their oats ain’t they? – “If these corporations think that Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to play by the old rules . . . I think they’ve got another thing coming,” Rice said.
And there you go. Not that the "old rules" were any good, but we’re in a downward political spiral circling the historical drain. It grows ever tighter and more forceful. The only way out, just step sideways.
