By Philip A
Farruggio
November 24, 2022:
Information Clearing House
-- There are so many out
there that would take a few moments to be
thankful this holiday. Where shall I begin?
All the tens
of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi, Afghan, Libyan and Syrian civilians who
were displaced by US carpet bombs and other WMD.
Those who are alive and still climbing out of
the massive destruction our exceptional
nation has gifted them through our obscene
foreign policy give thanks. Those who are
dead, well... perhaps they will become like
Marley's ghost and haunt Mr. Bush Jr., Mr.
Cheney, Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump on many an eerie
Christmas Eve.
All the myriad
of weapons manufacturers and other assorted
members of the Corporate Military Industrial
Empire who made guzillions on the aforementioned
foreign entanglements ( Let's add Ukraine to
that list) raise a glass to their good
fortune... at taxpayer expense!
All the far
right wing Neo Nazi leaders and groups of the
European countries where millions of Middle
Eastern refugees landed, they are thankful. For,
without those US phony wars few of their
citizens would ever buy their autocratic
fascist bullshit!
All the US
corporate landlords and individual absentee
landlords are so thankful that the subprime
con job opened the door for them to buy up
foreclosed and underwater homes at bargain
prices and keep charging higher and higher
rents... sometimes to the very people who once
owned those homes!
All those
evangelical fools who wouldn't know Jesus if he
sat on their porches are so thankful for men
like Donald Trump and his modern Republican
Party. Many ' Good Christians' initially even
thought that HE was the 'Anointed one', but what
mattered was the gift Trump gave them in
three neo fascist Supreme Court justices to do
their bidding. Today, abortion, tomorrow the
gays.
All those anti
vaxers and anti maskers who just love the two
sacred words: Freedom and Liberty. How
thankful they must be that a nation with but 5%
of the world's population has the highest death
rate from Covid ( over one million and
counting). The freedom of not getting vaccinated
and the liberty of not having to wear a proper
mask indoors has greatly contributed to those
numbers, but... at least we here are FREE to get
the virus and free to die from it!
The current
movers and shakers of the Democratic Party are
so thankful that Trump is still around. Without
him and his right wing Supreme Court's ban of
Roe v Wade the Democrats would never have evened
the score in the Congress. For the time being
they can continue to ignore the plight of
working stiff Americans. They can remain silent
on the need for Universal Health Coverage,
public funding of elections, fairer taxation of
the mega millionaires and mega corporations,
drastic cuts in our obscene and bloated military
spending, better drinking water nationwide to
name but a few.
Pass the
stuffing all you turkeys!!
Philip A
Farruggio is regular columnist on
itstheempirestupid website. Since the 2000
election debacle Philip has written over 500
columns on the Military Industrial Empire. He is
also host of the ‘ It’s the Empire… Stupid ‘
radio show, co produced by Chuck Gregory. Philip
can be reached at paf1222@bellsouth.net
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