America First Policy Institute

Watch out for "socialist green globalists" warn the patriots of the AFPI at their annual Global Energy Summit, what they called the "anti-COP". Lots and lots of talk about freedom and independence and the same shit Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman went on and on about: regulation and entrepreneurs and competition, econ 101 shit to put a little lipstick on the pig. As an ecosocialist I was bouyed a bit to hear about "The abyss of green socialism on a world wide scale", thinking maybe there was some amazing leftist movement taking power, but of course they were just talking about Biden policy and Europe's attempt to lower emissions. It is enlightening to watch video of the intellectual giant Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Petroleum, speak about the big changes in Washington now that Trump is ready to take "common sense" advice and facilitate drill baby drill policies. Genius that he is, he even wrote his own book about the evils of central planning and any type of collectivism or other commie bullshit. These are all people who know the climate science but could care less. They understand that millions will suffer and die but again, they could give a shit, they just want to get richer. Right now the price of oil is not helping with that plan but you get a bunch of brilliant people like Harold and the folks at AFPI teamed up with some AI and watch out! America will be great again and secure and independent, lots of freedom of course, plus we'll all get rich. There will be abundance galore! Oliver McPherson-Smith opened the summit by drawing a sharp contrast between globalist energy centralization and America’s tradition of free-market innovation. Ollie looks like a Ken doll, a perfectly plastic person. Ollie had this original observation: “Around the world, governments are using environmentalism as a Trojan horse to justify control. America stands as the shining city on a hill — leading again through competition, innovation, and freedom.” Reagan would be proud. New Jersey Chair Mike Donohue shared the story of citizen-led resistance to destructive offshore wind projects. “They said it was inevitable. It wasn’t. We fought back and won — because truth and perseverance beat globalist lies every time.” Senator Dave McCormick offered a commanding perspective on how energy, AI, and manufacturing define the new American revival. “You can’t have AI leadership without energy leadership. Energy dominance is not just an economic policy — it’s a national security imperative.” You get the idea. Sea rise, melting permafrost, orange rivers, fires floods whatever. Full speed ahead for capitalist growth.

Tornado of Trauma

As Chalmers teaches, it's always the backlash. The CIA trains a killer in Afghanistan and it comes back to haunt. The US trained killers in Iraq and now we have all these damaged souls wandering our streets. Now imagine the generation of Israeli soldiers that just committed a horrific genocide ( just following orders) and the citizens who watched and enabled it. What kind of monsters will now be roaming their streets? Watch the suicide rate for clues. Caught in the vortex of violence and hate, they are sucked downward into the maw and they will have children who will carry the inherited burden of trauma and committ their own atrocities. And on it goes. Some theorize the possibility of collective trauma, manifesting at a national level, and it would be a logical answer for why American culture is all about diverting thought away from introspection. All those dead Indigenous people and all those slaves and all those workers ground up in Capital's maw. Is that how we explain neo-fascism? This familiar theme seems to re-surface whenever people feel unmoored. There is always blood and soil to fall back on. And mindless entertainment. The new National Security Strategy doc released by the Trump Administration is full of language about "civilization", a long-time meme for imperialists looking to save the white race from replacement. The document points to Europe's dissolution as the Gates of Vienna are breached by the brown, non-Christian hordes. It has always been the white man's burden to bring civilization to the inferior races but that doesn't mean they can come streaming into our countries for God's sake! They'll start changing our national culture with their wierd food and music and shit.Your daughter will start wanting to wear a burqa! The fact that it is the emissions from our industrialization which is forcing them to migrate only suggests one solution: start drone striking migrant boats, same as they are doing to the so-called drug boats in the Caribbean. Because we sure as hell aren't going to stop emissions. And everybody knows our biggest problem is overpopulation. Kind of a win- win! What the defense strategy document does is state the obvious: it's all about the money. It has always been written by and for big Capital but in the past they would try to give it some ideological/ intellectual sheen. No longer. They now concede that China has cleaned their clock in most of the globe so they will now focus on our old whipping boy, Latin America. Plenty of oil and gas and minerals to be had close to home. As for domestic policy: an AI in every pot! What can go wrong?