Monday, May 22, 2017

Dealing with the Snake in the White House | Skypin' with Cadillac Man

There's not really much disagreement with Cadillac Man on anything and it's not so surprising as some may find since my views aren't particularly radical.

Both of us are news addicts who look at the news we're offered but there's, at best, vaporous blather and, as usual, distorted rubbish.  There's manufactured melodrama on every MSM channel at once and none of it amounts to much since all of it is unidimensional.

The observation was the snake in the White House only gets replaced by another one if you whack it and the same is true even for a revolution since that accomplishes the same thing in giving a new snake.

Revolution sounds the same but there's no evolution in it.  The French Revolution prevented further devolution but France nearly had Marine Le Pen running it so how much did the snake really change.


The Rockhouse frustration that people don't take much seriously is obvious and there's agreement with Cadillac Man on his observation people won't do anything until it affects them and right now it doesn't but the rich never get less greedy and in time it will come.  Nothing will happen before that time comes and it's not here yet.

Cadillac Man has some optimism people will awaken and evolve rather than shooting, burning witches, or otherwise bringing more drama than the situation really needs and which won't bring any particular advancement anyway.


One of C.M's current fascinations is the parallel between America's Gilded Age which exploded with the Great Depression but which was characterized throughout as the gild on top masking deep corruption below, just as we see today.

Hoover made the first claim trickle down or Reagan's voodoo economics actually works and, of course, it didn't then any more than it did when Reagan pulled the same stunt.  Something which Reagan neglected to mention is the catastrophe which came from the trickle down concept or that it was such a disaster FDR took the next election in a landslide in 1933.


C.M. also said Times Square was so much cooler when it was a slime pit with street hustlers playing Three Card Monty and who knows what other shenanigans in the area.  He brought up Three Card Monty and shell games regarding a recent announcement med care changes will result in eight billion dollars in additional benefit to the people while it neglected the hundred billion which will be withdrawn.  That's misdirection and it's a technique straight off the streets of Manhattan while Times Square was still a sleaze pit.

The best example of misdirection is in the movie, "Swordfish," with John Travolta.  Exceptional and he has a grand time with it.


Killin' snakes just gets more snakes.  They need to be finessed so they're good for something useful.  Snake charmers are good at it but West Virginia preachers suck at it (i.e. they frequently end up ex-preachers from it).

You know what Clint Eastwood did during the Korean War ... he was a lifeguard at Fort Ord - Sondra Locke

Eastwood wasn't much for shooting but he's great for defending snakes.  Just below the gild, there's nothing really there.

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