In Goethe's poem, the master leaves the student in charge in order to run some errands. The student has one job that morning: clean up the workplace.
The apprentice casts a spell upon a broom to help with the work. The broom flies to the river and brings back water. The thing is so effective, the workplace is getting flooded. The apprentice doesn't know the appropriate incantation to make the broom stop, so he decides to split the broom in two with an axe. Instead of solving his problem, the resulting two brooms took up the original task and now work four times as fast.
The workplace was almost flooded when the master returns. He uses the right magic words and the brooms fall from the sky like a flock of Chinese drones with drained batteries. A bit more magic, and things are restored and dry. But instead of firing the apprentice, the Sorcerer forgives him.
What's different today: Putin, Musk, Trump, Vance, Thiel and their co-conspirators in treason have no plan to stop from flooding the joint. In fact, they won't stop until they have swamped and destroyed the village, covered the good part of the nation in sewage, and made the inhabitable parts of the planet reflective of their dead and shrunken hearts.
---==-- DU from 2005:
A Planet Full of Hitlers
The world's billionaires, led by the Bush "madministration," are acting like a planet of full of Hitlers. They are willing to invade whatever region in the world has what the world needs most -- oil.
Black gold. Texas tea. Petrodollars.
They figure they have all the money. And basically, apart from a Soros here and a Gates there, they do.
And thus, the world’s billionaires and their hounds of the BFEE want to spend it all before they die. And they have the plan and cash on hand to do so.
Consider the Bush agenda: All War. All the Time. Government spending for the MI-Complex, transferring trillions to the wealthy corporate owners, war and all.
These are the likes of the “industrialists” Mussolini, Franco and Hitler so loved.
And like the fascist trifecta, the American fascists of the BFEE have bought all the political power. Don't just think Tom Roach Motel DeLay and Mr. Friskie Frist. Remember Prescott Bush and Averell Harriman and Allen Dulles and Rheinhard Gehlen and Igor Orlov.
What can we do about it? They’ve bought all the legal power, built law schools for Federalist Society AND Opus Dei judges. Think Bill Eagle Eye Rehnquist and Antonin Fat Tony Scalia.
These turds of the BFEE have worked all the tax breaks and bankrupty laws for the rich. Uncle Sam reverse-Robin Hoods wealth to the top 1-percent of country.
And what do these rich turds who prop up Bush use their tax savings on? They certainly haven't invested it in making America a better place to work or live; they've invested in "off-shoring."
Lots of the tax money goes to buy more vacation homes, yachts and jet planes. Most goes offshore to the Caymans and Switzerland.
And of course they want more without having to pay for the damage to the environment. Farmland depletion in the USA. Rain forest depletion around the globe. Oceans getting acidic. Fish stock depletion. Global air pollution and water shortages.
Well. OK. Maybe a case can be made it’s the rich folk’s money. They can do what they want. But they should pay their fair share of taxes! After all, the rest of society helps keep them in their position. And its our brothers and sisters in the armed forces who are giving their lives to keep their oil and power and privilege.
Budget red ink means no money for middle class. No money for schools. No money for cities and suburbs and farms. No money for roads. No money for science and R and D. No money for the future.
And the media? What media? What Fairness Doctrine?
They cover up their materialism and venality with all the talk about Faith-based this and Conservative-values that. But the reality is these are sinister wolves and satanic bed-wetting bastards in sheep's clothing we are dealing with.
Wasn’t that what Bush really meant when he told Bob Woodward “History? Who cares about history? In a hundred years we’ll all be dead.”
Just like Hitler. And just like Hitler, Bush wants to take us all with him.
-- Octafish
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