where for thou now, antiantitrump anti-imperialists?
I feel like I need to check back in with Matt Taibbi– that Glen Glenwald type who soft-pedals the crimes of President Trump because he has a hankering to get after the Deep State. There are two things I am curious to hear. One is to see how much his co-host, Walter Kirn, is gloating on the downfall of Tim Walz, who overall was the most pointless Democratic vice presidential nominee since John Edwards. (Can he sway a half dozen old white dudes in exurban Michigan? Nope!) Kirk had a particular hashing on Walz, which is fair and reasonable enough, but he tended to give his particular game away in comparing his political type in history and throwing out the name Gus Hall. The thing on Walz is I barely can concern myself to notice it look into the matter — his is a political governing style that may be prone to lose sight of details, and the mess of covid is something you would want to give leeway for inevitable mis-choices. Of course, the major lure on the right-wing podcasting YouTube guest to the white house to discuss righteousness of ICE guy who did the expose is “Somalis!”, and this — whatever our story is in looking in– gives him a thing to point at to show credibility of his next thing is incredulous — see, “stop the steal”.
The bigger question on Matt Taibbi comes to our new actions on Venezuela. Taibbi comes out of his constant ragging on the Bush Administration in the “War on Terror” and Iraq and keeping it in through the Obama Administration, always a bit flowing with his drone strikes. So Trump’s isolationist posturing gets him to some spot of basic support — as he allows for the fight for the civil liberties of Tulsi Gabbard and fights Ukraine’s propaganda machine. Welcome now to the nakedly imperialist war with Venezuela, the capture of Maduro and the blunt discussion of capturing oil. I know there will be a rationalizing of this for something which, given his historical positioning, should be nothing short of outrage. I imagine just packs of what-aboutisms and a look see over at a new love of concepts of the Monroe Doctrine. Maybe it is just double down on reminding everyone that the Cheneys backed Harris afterall.