I'm not big on sports but I enjoy watching bull riding. It goes back to the Pleistocene -- man & beast -- a dance of danger and hubris. In bull riding, the bulls are respected and expected to be fearsome, unpredictable and dangerous. The trick is to know the creature and stay on for 8 seconds to win money.
In this regard, and especially considering the venal and vacuous opportunists so far picked for cabinet positions ( https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/15/roaming-charges-trumps-cabinet-of-curiosities/ ) , I see much resemblance between the Trump admin and bull riding. Trump is the angry and unpredictable bull here and the players are either those who feel, as Elon Musk, that they can profit by riding him as long as possible, the vacuous opportunists like Gabbard, or those trying to corral the mad beast and limit the damage. In any case, it cannot be anything but a Vaudevillian carnival of competitive filth limited by it's own bumbling, fumbling, competitive myopic idiocy. On what positive side there is, whenever the Repugs are dominant, resistance and activism increase. We must make the best of that, building strength from solidarity and on vital issues, from human rights and labor rights, to climate and of course economics and the building of a movement to overthrow corporate rule. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33657): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33657 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109641446/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
