A Tale of the Blob - Court and Country Parties in Washington

[Kirkhill]

“The Washington octopus,” by James Piereson

James Piereson on the bureaucracy swallowing America’s capital.

newcriterion.com

The article is about the rise of modern Washington, but it references the London antecedents, which never went away and which cast as shadow over Ottawa and Canberra.

The symptoms described, in my opinion, are endemic in all capital cities.

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The modern Court Party is international.

 

[Kirkhill]

Globe and Mail has an interesting headline story today.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1848626471432298986

And apparently the Washington Post is the Court circular.

 

[Kirkhill]

Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter"

England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show

www.racket.news

He’s the softly-spoken genius behind Labour’s victory – and now he’s running Starmer’s No10

Morgan McSweeney guided Sir Keir to a historic election win and he’s now triumphed in a Downing Street power struggle with Sue Gray too

www.telegraph.co.uk

'The most Irish Englishman': Keir Starmer and his advisers have close links to Ireland | BreakingNews.ie

The UK's likely next prime minister has developed strong links to Ireland throughout his life and career

www.breakingnews.ie

PM of Britain - Keir Starmer
Chief of Staff to Keir Starmer - Morgan McSweeney
Adviser to Kamala Harris - Morgan McSweeney
Cousin to Leo Varadkar's adviser - Morgan McSweeney

The most powerful non-elected official in the Labour Party, McSweeney moved to London from his native County Cork when he was 17 and worked on building sites before studying politics as a mature student. He joined the Labour Party in 1997 and worked as an intern for Lord Mandelson before cutting his teeth as a campaigner in the 2005 general election. Mandelson saw in McSweeney a younger version of himself.

As Labour’s director of campaigns, McSweeney was Starmer’s most trusted adviser going into the election. He has taken soundings from other Labour politicians around the world, including the Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, on strategy.

While nobody is more of a Labour insider, McSweeney retains some geographical distance from HQ. He lives in Lanarkshire, outside Glasgow, commuting six hours to the Labour base in Southwark. He is one half of a Labour power couple. At the General Election, his wife, Imogen Walker, became the Labour MP for Hamilton and Clyde Valley, with a majority of 9,000.

McSweeney (47) grew up in the townland of Codrum, just outside Macroom in Co Cork. He is the son of Carmel and Timmy McSweeney, who for years has been prominent in Macroom GAA club.

His family has strong Fine Gael connections – his aunt Evelyn McSweeney was a Fine Gael councillor, and his first cousin Clare Mungovan was one of former taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s top advisers.

Starmer was a staunch remainer and did everything possible to nullify, hobble and reverse Brexit. That agenda corresponded nicely with that of the EU, Eire and Leo Varadkar.

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One man linking the VP of the US (Aspiring President), the PM of the United Kingdom, the PM (Taioseach) of Ireland (Eire) and the EU.
He joins the likes of the Podestas, Mark Carney and the denizens of Center for American Progress.

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The Court Party in evidence - Look under the label "Progressives".

 

[Kirkhill]

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/ceo-campaign-donations-democrats-republicans

Corporate America's leftward shift​

Before Buffett and Gates pledged to give away their billions Carnegie and Rockefeller converted themselves from Robber Barons to Philanthropists.
They followed in the tracks of Arkwright and Cadbury and Owens who aspired to make model communities profitable.

Corporatism is baked into American business.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/ceo-campaign-donations-democrats-republicans

Corporate America's leftward shift​

Before Buffett and Gates pledged to give away their billions Carnegie and Rockefeller converted themselves from Robber Barons to Philanthropists.
They followed in the tracks of Arkwright and Cadbury and Owens who aspired to make model communities profitable.

Corporatism is baked into American business.

Which, they got from the Scots….

 

[Kirkhill]

Which, they got from the Scots….

Aye, it's all our fault

 

[Halifax Tar]

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/ceo-campaign-donations-democrats-republicans

Corporate America's leftward shift​

Before Buffett and Gates pledged to give away their billions Carnegie and Rockefeller converted themselves from Robber Barons to Philanthropists.
They followed in the tracks of Arkwright and Cadbury and Owens who aspired to make model communities profitable.

Corporatism is baked into American business.

Its almost like the political poles are shifting again.

 

[Kirkhill]

Disregard the over-wrought click-bait headline. The article is still interesting in terms of "let the deed shaw".

Walz made appointments in his education administration while he was governor of Minnesota.

His appointee has made some interesting statements.

Brian Lozenski ... whom Walz appointed to craft an “ethnic studies” curriculum for Minnesota children, calls for the overthrow of the United States. (Ethnic Studies, despite its harmless sounding name, is founded on Critical Race Theory and, like CRT, is aimed at overthrowing America.)

"The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist. So if the nation-state as constructed is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with. It must be overthrown. And so we [proponents of critical race theory] can’t be like, “Oh no, critical race theory is just about telling our stories, and diversity. It’s not about that. It’s about overthrow. It’s insurgent. And we need to be, I think, more honest with that.

It’s funny that [critics] don’t understand critical race theory, but they actually tell some truth when they’re like, “Yeah, it is anti-state.” You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S. It is a[n] anti-state theory that says the United States needs to be deconstructed, period."

Katherine Kersten, a senior policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment in Minneapolis, gives us a flavor of the new standards:

• First-graders must “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.”
• Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.”
• High school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.”

These standards are intended to lead students to disdain America and join in the overthrow of their country. In the revolution of which Walz is an important part, students are taught that their country is “irreversibly” racist. As Lozenski says in the video, such a charge is necessarily a call to overthrow America.

Tim Walz 'Says' He Wants to Destroy America

Kamala Harris's running mate reveals his true colors with a radical, anti-American education agenda pushed by revolutionary activists.

tomklingenstein.com

 

[Brad Sallows]

I wonder why anyone imagines that any kind of replacement is capable of being not irreversibly racist. The first thing I'd want to see is an existing national government somewhere that the revolutionaries can point to. If people have tried and failed, I'm prepared to assume that it can't be done.