{"id":370133,"date":"2018-07-20T02:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-blue-pill-presidency\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T01:46:12","slug":"the-blue-pill-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-blue-pill-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Pill Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103854\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103854\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2560px-Los_Angeles_Womens_March_24935216137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2560px-Los_Angeles_Womens_March_24935216137.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2560px-Los_Angeles_Womens_March_24935216137-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2560px-Los_Angeles_Womens_March_24935216137-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by nguyengurl | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Who would have predicted that in 2018, the FBI, the CIA, John McCain, Jeff Bezos, and now the monarchy would be be feted as the vanguard of \u2018The Resistance\u2019 by the American \u2018left\u2019? Suddenly Trump\u2019s presidency makes sense. To paraphrase a leaked Deep Squid memo from the deep swamps of Deep Space: \u201cWhen they are forced to eat shit sandwiches around the clock, eventually deep fried vampire squid will appear delectable by comparison. Mission almost accomplished. Mwaah ha ha . . . !\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our cephalopod overlords know us better than we do. After all, they created and control the devices that keep us under surveillance, and the algorithms that accurately predict at what point we will press \u2018accept\u2019 on the terms and conditions of a Trumpless, Squid-led world order that builds walls, empowers banks, oligarchs and polluters, while privatizing and militarizing everything that isn\u2019t nailed down. We now identify with our captors \u2013 at least the ones playing the \u2018good capitalist\u2019 role, rather than recognizing that all the players in this\u00a0absurdist spectacle of \u2018Curtains for the Anthropocene\u2019 are complicit profiteers of impending planetary collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting fascism is a noble and worthy pursuit. Unfortunately, we haven\u2019t quite figured out how to do it. Flaming pitchforks or pussy hats? Collective struggle or individual belief in the power of existing institutions to rein in their own power? (Cue evil laugh track here)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/19\/the-blue-pill-presidency\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by nguyengurl | CC BY 2.0 Who would have predicted that in 2018, the FBI, the CIA, John McCain, Jeff Bezos, and now the monarchy would be be feted as the vanguard of \u2018The Resistance\u2019 by the American \u2018left\u2019? Suddenly Trump\u2019s presidency makes sense. To paraphrase a leaked Deep Squid memo from the deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}