Understanding Capitalism aims to answer the question: “Why capitalism fails us”?. It explores the different definitions of what capitalism is and is not – showing why definitions matter. It dissolves the many myths that make it hard to understand the system.
I went to Wilcox yesterday for the first time this season. Also stopped at La Unica Restaurant and Tortilleria for the first time – ever. They are a bit expensive but so are all the places that I have had breakfast in Wilcox. The serving size for green chile and eggs, beans & rice was generous and the tepid coffee issue was quickly fixed. So all things considered I’ll be going back when ever I go to Wilcox.
From there I went to All Tire & Auto to get an oil change for Desperado. As a walk in I was taken in quickly and the work was also done quickly. The place does not look like much but then again nothing in Willcox does so you can’t let that put you off. They provided good service and I’ll go back.
Then did a grocery gathering at Safeway and filled Desperado’s tank with gas at Love’s. An expensive visit to Wilcox, I hope they appreciate my supporting the comunity!
The midterms resolved nothing. They merely shifted the problem and assigned the roles. The Democrats receive visible yet limited power along with the responsibility for a two-year period they will not control; the Trumpian coalition receives a defeat and the opportunity to turn it into proof that the enemy exists, governs, and causes harm. What voters demanded on November 3 – an end to the war and an affordable cost of living – does not align with the agenda of either bloc. Whoever can claim that demand as their own, or at least accuse the other side of betraying it, will enter 2028 with the upper hand. — Its Not Enough Tell Americans They Have Enemies You Have Show Them by Lorenzo Maria Pacini
This is how Trump rides the tiger. He doesn’t fight against the deep state or electoral inevitabilities head on; he makes fool proof strategies that take these as givens in ways that ultimately subvert them. — Where US Midterms Anti Likud Triangulation Trump Rides Tiger by Joaquin Flores
Flores has written a very good article which I recommend. My added thoughts are that Trump has expressed admiration for Teddy Roosevelt and for JFK and he has adopted some of their ideas. What his critics haven’t paid attention to is what he learned while involved with the WWE. I think he was inspired by the playbook of the WWE empire — in terms of character, timing and impact. With the loss of the mid-terms he is now playing the role of the “baby face”, in wrestling terms, the hero that looks like he is on the edge of being defeated before he comes raging back to defeat his opponent.
As the US political sphere becomes one gigantic pro wrestling arena, traditional theories and frameworks are inadequate for making sense of events. We need, therefore, to turn to pro wrestling for answers, particularly the industry-specific concept of “kayfabe”. Initially a label for the illusion that pro wrestling’s predetermined performances were “real”, today, kayfabe describes the peculiar way fans engage with pro wrestling as an acknowledged performance form. In her own insightful writings on pro wrestling and politics, the writer and author Abraham Josephine Riesman proposes “neokayfabe” as a label for Trump-inspired Republican strategies that deliberately blur truth and fiction so that producers and consumers lose the ability to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t. — Donald Trump US Politics World Wrestling Entertainment by David Moon