“So no, I’m not interested in fighting Donald Trump. I’m interested in fighting the thing that made him and will outlast him, the system that lets a genocide run, lets the Epstein names stay buried, lets a child’s abuser walk and then promotes the man who walked him, mints fortunes off our work, and rounds up the weakest people we’ve got while calling it order. That’s the enemy. Not a man. A system.”
Most important thing you’ve ever written. Keep pounding.
I agree with you! And I like everything Corbin writes. But this is totally, completely on target and should be distributed widely. I will share it on my FB page.
Indeed. Trump is a symptom of a corrupt system that has been allowed to flourish because it has been fed by Republicans and corporate/centrist Democrats. Neither group has any interest in making this country more fair, just, or equal. They benefit and profit from sustaining the status quo for their wealthy donors. Both groups need to be removed from power.
As always Corbin, you nailed it. We are in the fight of our lives against fascism and all of us must understand the scope of this fight. In Austin, VOCAL-TX has launched a campaign called the Billionaire Backers of Hate to out the villains who are funding and promoting an agenda of criminalizing the unhoused and creating a surveillance state. This campaign is taking a figurative axe to one of the pillars supporting fascism. We must all figure out ways to out these haters and the evil that they do.
Paxton isn't the only member of the Epstein Class running as a Republican for Senate - check out Montana.
Kurt Alme, who cut a plea deal in 2020 that let a former police officer and convicted pedophile serve less than a year in prison and avoid having to register as a sex offender after sexually abusing a 6-year-old child. Alme, mind you, received Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement" this past spring.
And of course Todd Blanche is about to be confirmed by the Republican Senate for Attorney General, even though Pam Bondi (!!) blamed him for the Epstein coverup.
But the Republican Senate is missing a few votes at the moment.
Keep preachin' it, Corbin! I'm sick of the moderates - the centrists - who keep on keepin' on. You called it right, brother: if you're not clearly and loudly against what's happening, then you're for it!
There would been a time when I would have pushed way back against this post. Those days are long gone. President Epstein and the GOP are the secondary problem. The primary problem is what the System has become, and subsequently the people it has disenfranchised and alienated.
Spot-on Corbin, as usual. The rule of law is just a joke to these people because they believe, with good reason and solid precedent, that it will never, ever apply to them. I hope they're wrong, and that accountability for all the war crimes and other evils is closer than we think. In the meantime, we have all the pitchforks and torches - i.e., the rhetorical equivalents, the right messaging, the winning candidates - needed to scare them. And we know it's working because centrist Dems are (finally!) highly energized about doing something: punching left. 🙄 These people are just Reagan Republicans in all but name. That's why centrism is the real joke.
If Americans are a group of people then we're suffering from genocide too. Ours is being perpetrated by private health unsurance corporations to the tune of somewhere between 45,000 and >200,000 deaths every year. Nobody's really counting. This does not include the number of American lives being devastated every year by easily preventable disabilities, bankruptcies, loss of homes, living in terror of needing medical care, etc., all caused by our perverse profit-driven health coverage model.
Unlike the genocide in Gaza (which is also unacceptable and despicable), the devastation to American lives is not being reported. No one saw my friend Richard's face as it was slowly eaten away by cancer because even though he worked full time as a bus driver he did not have $1200 extra to be able to have a small benign tumor on his cheek removed before it turned deadly. One picture would have said far more than a thousand words. Richard's story is far from the only one not being told. The stories we are allowed to hear are about Americans who were first denied treatment, then fought it, then got the treatment they needed. Yay! It's not really a big problem after all, right?
Maybe not knowing about the devastation here is why more Americans are not nearly as motivated to fix our uniquely American genocide as we should be? PS- We spent $5.6 trillion on healthcare last year. That's twice more per person on average compared to every other advanced nation with universal coverage. Do the math. Even if we spend 50% more than they do we still would have saved $1.4 trillion (50%more than our military budget) last year after every American was on the exact same plan as the president and congress. For context we spent less than $1 trillion on our military budget and gave $3 billion to Israel. We are being horribly misled by both sold-out sides.
Thank you Corbin. I appreciated your distinction between opposing a person and examining the systems that make certain outcomes possible. Sustainable change rarely comes from focusing on individuals alone. It comes from understanding the structures, incentives, and concentrations of power that shape behavior over time.
At the same time, I think one of the challenges is ensuring that our critique of systems also leaves room for building something new. Accountability is essential, but so are cultivating trust, strengthening communities, and creating institutions that distribute power more broadly rather than simply replacing one group of leaders with another.
Ultimately, I believe the question is not only what we are fighting against, but what we are working toward. I believe systems change requires both.
You always speak Truth to Power. I wish there were more people like you so that we can start an agitation on the streets every week till the powers in Congress do something about the atrocities happening in the Trump administration. Let us make the 2027 Congress 270 democrats so that they can exert their checks and balances which are much needed in a democracy. Let us win the Senate. I will donate what I can.
IF Abdul El-Sayed wins the primary--and Aipac & the DNC are doing everything they can to stop it--I can't wait to see what shit they'll throw at him. I doubt they can conjure up a sex scandal; maybe they'll have a "witness" declare him an "Islamic terrorist"
they're pissed that we've gotten a few reps, but 6 or 7 out of 435 won't change a thing. They're not gonna let a progressive in the Senate, though. (Hence the railroading of Platner)
One can be FOR a lot of things, or a few things, or maybe even one or two major things in your venue of values. However, one cannot be for a little EVIL, or a lot of Evil, or even all Evil, and expect to be accepted, unless by fellow traveler evilists. Kinda like that word. Now the word Evil can be used by anyone. That is called a linguistic dichotemy. But that dichotemy only exists because of the play on words. Words are real, but they carry different values to different people. So, in essence, they are useless. What is not useless, but is tangible, are occurrences, events, happenings, phenomenae. And with a steady diet of verification, vetting, evidentiary parcels of info that are tangible, occurrences become truths. These parcels are evidentiary, and exclusive. They cannot be taken over by implication or intimidation. They stand alone with evidentiary truth. What is the most powerful weapon of Evil??? Subjective language, spoken or written.But, but, but, You Say, this is too slow and loses value across time. You let that happen, you lazy bastards. If one is one, it is always one, and unless some provocateur pounces on your neck and tear your brain out, you know that one is still one. Corbin is simply, and elequently telling us that If You Are Not A Part Of The Solution, You Are The Problem. WE are the problem. We also are the solution, which linguistically, does not fit into the paradox of the dichotemy. DesCartes was a kind of aged plumber. He had few real skills, but he knew how to feel icky about real work, so he invented linguistic paradox. Whatever one thinks, is what is happening, what is real. The exact opposite of Korzibsky's semantics - to paraphrase Hayakawa, - the word is Not the thing, the map, Not the territory, the symbol Not the thing symbolized. You have the option to believe whatever you want. You do not have the option to excuse yourself from the karma your belief creates in reality. You think TFG is real; sure it is real, but it is not reality. Maybe 1 X 10 to the 30th power and TFG becomes reality. It is up to each of us to create a reality that excels at eliminating TFG's reality, which it did not invent, by any means. is no doubt the sloppiest and most idiotic caricature of a reality, dualism, that does not exist, but absolutely exists as a linguistic dichotemy. The choice is not simple, but it is clear; believe something you can never prove factually, or do some hard work to jusitfy your miserable life on a planet you absolutely Do Not Deserve to be living on. I am very serious; tick, tock, tick, tock. Boom.
The term “center” is worse than useless – it is used/abused to give cover to a corrupt establishment. Even the so-called “liberal media” takes part in this coverup by using terms like “center” and “moderate” when there are more fitting terms. Especially regarding the democratic party: “establishment”, “corporate”, and “big donor funded” are more accurate. Notice also, how the media loves terms like “left” and “far-left” when referring to progressives, and “far-left” and “extreme” when referring to democratic socialists. If they used a scale based on what Americans say they want (affordable housing, Medicare for all, equitable taxation, etc.) you’d find that the “center” is actually occupied by social democrats. These terms are used not to accurately describe anything, rather the point is to mold opinions and stifle support for people-centered organizations and movements.
“So no, I’m not interested in fighting Donald Trump. I’m interested in fighting the thing that made him and will outlast him, the system that lets a genocide run, lets the Epstein names stay buried, lets a child’s abuser walk and then promotes the man who walked him, mints fortunes off our work, and rounds up the weakest people we’ve got while calling it order. That’s the enemy. Not a man. A system.”
Most important thing you’ve ever written. Keep pounding.
I agree with you! And I like everything Corbin writes. But this is totally, completely on target and should be distributed widely. I will share it on my FB page.
Indeed. Trump is a symptom of a corrupt system that has been allowed to flourish because it has been fed by Republicans and corporate/centrist Democrats. Neither group has any interest in making this country more fair, just, or equal. They benefit and profit from sustaining the status quo for their wealthy donors. Both groups need to be removed from power.
As always Corbin, you nailed it. We are in the fight of our lives against fascism and all of us must understand the scope of this fight. In Austin, VOCAL-TX has launched a campaign called the Billionaire Backers of Hate to out the villains who are funding and promoting an agenda of criminalizing the unhoused and creating a surveillance state. This campaign is taking a figurative axe to one of the pillars supporting fascism. We must all figure out ways to out these haters and the evil that they do.
Paxton isn't the only member of the Epstein Class running as a Republican for Senate - check out Montana.
Kurt Alme, who cut a plea deal in 2020 that let a former police officer and convicted pedophile serve less than a year in prison and avoid having to register as a sex offender after sexually abusing a 6-year-old child. Alme, mind you, received Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement" this past spring.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/montana-gop-senate-nominee-kurt-alme-child-sex-offender-plea-deal_n_6a3c5f52e4b09ad68678175f
And of course Todd Blanche is about to be confirmed by the Republican Senate for Attorney General, even though Pam Bondi (!!) blamed him for the Epstein coverup.
But the Republican Senate is missing a few votes at the moment.
Musk overstayed his student visa when he quit school so under Trump's rules he's a deportable illegal immigrant. When will ICE grab him?
Keep preachin' it, Corbin! I'm sick of the moderates - the centrists - who keep on keepin' on. You called it right, brother: if you're not clearly and loudly against what's happening, then you're for it!
Thanks for all the support, John.
This is completely on point, Corbin! I’m restacking & sharing on FB right now!
Thanks!
There would been a time when I would have pushed way back against this post. Those days are long gone. President Epstein and the GOP are the secondary problem. The primary problem is what the System has become, and subsequently the people it has disenfranchised and alienated.
Spot-on Corbin, as usual. The rule of law is just a joke to these people because they believe, with good reason and solid precedent, that it will never, ever apply to them. I hope they're wrong, and that accountability for all the war crimes and other evils is closer than we think. In the meantime, we have all the pitchforks and torches - i.e., the rhetorical equivalents, the right messaging, the winning candidates - needed to scare them. And we know it's working because centrist Dems are (finally!) highly energized about doing something: punching left. 🙄 These people are just Reagan Republicans in all but name. That's why centrism is the real joke.
If Americans are a group of people then we're suffering from genocide too. Ours is being perpetrated by private health unsurance corporations to the tune of somewhere between 45,000 and >200,000 deaths every year. Nobody's really counting. This does not include the number of American lives being devastated every year by easily preventable disabilities, bankruptcies, loss of homes, living in terror of needing medical care, etc., all caused by our perverse profit-driven health coverage model.
Unlike the genocide in Gaza (which is also unacceptable and despicable), the devastation to American lives is not being reported. No one saw my friend Richard's face as it was slowly eaten away by cancer because even though he worked full time as a bus driver he did not have $1200 extra to be able to have a small benign tumor on his cheek removed before it turned deadly. One picture would have said far more than a thousand words. Richard's story is far from the only one not being told. The stories we are allowed to hear are about Americans who were first denied treatment, then fought it, then got the treatment they needed. Yay! It's not really a big problem after all, right?
Maybe not knowing about the devastation here is why more Americans are not nearly as motivated to fix our uniquely American genocide as we should be? PS- We spent $5.6 trillion on healthcare last year. That's twice more per person on average compared to every other advanced nation with universal coverage. Do the math. Even if we spend 50% more than they do we still would have saved $1.4 trillion (50%more than our military budget) last year after every American was on the exact same plan as the president and congress. For context we spent less than $1 trillion on our military budget and gave $3 billion to Israel. We are being horribly misled by both sold-out sides.
Excellent, as always, Corbin.
Thank you Corbin. I appreciated your distinction between opposing a person and examining the systems that make certain outcomes possible. Sustainable change rarely comes from focusing on individuals alone. It comes from understanding the structures, incentives, and concentrations of power that shape behavior over time.
At the same time, I think one of the challenges is ensuring that our critique of systems also leaves room for building something new. Accountability is essential, but so are cultivating trust, strengthening communities, and creating institutions that distribute power more broadly rather than simply replacing one group of leaders with another.
Ultimately, I believe the question is not only what we are fighting against, but what we are working toward. I believe systems change requires both.
You always speak Truth to Power. I wish there were more people like you so that we can start an agitation on the streets every week till the powers in Congress do something about the atrocities happening in the Trump administration. Let us make the 2027 Congress 270 democrats so that they can exert their checks and balances which are much needed in a democracy. Let us win the Senate. I will donate what I can.
IF Abdul El-Sayed wins the primary--and Aipac & the DNC are doing everything they can to stop it--I can't wait to see what shit they'll throw at him. I doubt they can conjure up a sex scandal; maybe they'll have a "witness" declare him an "Islamic terrorist"
they're pissed that we've gotten a few reps, but 6 or 7 out of 435 won't change a thing. They're not gonna let a progressive in the Senate, though. (Hence the railroading of Platner)
One can be FOR a lot of things, or a few things, or maybe even one or two major things in your venue of values. However, one cannot be for a little EVIL, or a lot of Evil, or even all Evil, and expect to be accepted, unless by fellow traveler evilists. Kinda like that word. Now the word Evil can be used by anyone. That is called a linguistic dichotemy. But that dichotemy only exists because of the play on words. Words are real, but they carry different values to different people. So, in essence, they are useless. What is not useless, but is tangible, are occurrences, events, happenings, phenomenae. And with a steady diet of verification, vetting, evidentiary parcels of info that are tangible, occurrences become truths. These parcels are evidentiary, and exclusive. They cannot be taken over by implication or intimidation. They stand alone with evidentiary truth. What is the most powerful weapon of Evil??? Subjective language, spoken or written.But, but, but, You Say, this is too slow and loses value across time. You let that happen, you lazy bastards. If one is one, it is always one, and unless some provocateur pounces on your neck and tear your brain out, you know that one is still one. Corbin is simply, and elequently telling us that If You Are Not A Part Of The Solution, You Are The Problem. WE are the problem. We also are the solution, which linguistically, does not fit into the paradox of the dichotemy. DesCartes was a kind of aged plumber. He had few real skills, but he knew how to feel icky about real work, so he invented linguistic paradox. Whatever one thinks, is what is happening, what is real. The exact opposite of Korzibsky's semantics - to paraphrase Hayakawa, - the word is Not the thing, the map, Not the territory, the symbol Not the thing symbolized. You have the option to believe whatever you want. You do not have the option to excuse yourself from the karma your belief creates in reality. You think TFG is real; sure it is real, but it is not reality. Maybe 1 X 10 to the 30th power and TFG becomes reality. It is up to each of us to create a reality that excels at eliminating TFG's reality, which it did not invent, by any means. is no doubt the sloppiest and most idiotic caricature of a reality, dualism, that does not exist, but absolutely exists as a linguistic dichotemy. The choice is not simple, but it is clear; believe something you can never prove factually, or do some hard work to jusitfy your miserable life on a planet you absolutely Do Not Deserve to be living on. I am very serious; tick, tock, tick, tock. Boom.
The term “center” is worse than useless – it is used/abused to give cover to a corrupt establishment. Even the so-called “liberal media” takes part in this coverup by using terms like “center” and “moderate” when there are more fitting terms. Especially regarding the democratic party: “establishment”, “corporate”, and “big donor funded” are more accurate. Notice also, how the media loves terms like “left” and “far-left” when referring to progressives, and “far-left” and “extreme” when referring to democratic socialists. If they used a scale based on what Americans say they want (affordable housing, Medicare for all, equitable taxation, etc.) you’d find that the “center” is actually occupied by social democrats. These terms are used not to accurately describe anything, rather the point is to mold opinions and stifle support for people-centered organizations and movements.