The pilot fish is sometimes used as a metaphor or simile; “they are like the pilot fish to the shark, serving to lead him to his victim”.
Pilot fish are also used as a metaphor or simile for scavengers or looters which accompany a greater threat. They are also like zombies, feeding on the parasitic leavings of a malevolent predatory force.
Trump is an extremist who is however unwittingly willing to serve his own and dangerous masters’ self-interests. On this trip, our national beta revealed himself to be subordinate and weak while vainly trying to damage control his position at home as #TrumpRussia continues. Worse is his inability to bond authentically with anyone in the G20 now that he is seen to be damaged goods.
What the shark’s eye tells the jackal’s brain
His lawyers have needed pilot fish and in the style of mentor Roy Cohn, Trump has shown himself to be a caricature of that exercise in power, recall his loyalty(sic) when Cohn contracted AIDS.
Trump’s the pilot fish, since he’s a crappy capitalist, feeding off the lawfare of the modern administrative state and its predatory love affair with neoliberal capitalism. It’s why he’s such a chump for Russians and money laundering, and now as POTUS, his shark of the moment is the GOP’s lawyers and its RW brethren. Trump doesn’t get eaten because he does serve a purpose for the sharks.
”Pilot fish are part of one of nature’s most fascinating mutualistic relationships, guarding themselves from threats by tagging alongside sharks.” And then they get called out for the rent-seeking scavengers that they are:
Holy smokes. Australian journalist provides one of the most brutal takedowns of Trump I’ve heard in a while. ðÂÂÂð½ pic.twitter.com/MPoDJXATlM
â Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) July 8, 2017
Like any good pilot fish, Trump keeps the legal system parasite-free, much like RW attacks on the welfare state, however misdirected like Woody Allen’s views on relationships.
These observations have led to the pilot fish’s distinctive markings being copied for decals supplied as shark protection for surfboards.[28]
“…the zombie serves to index the excessive extremes of capitalism, the overlap of capitalism and cannibalism, and the interplay between capitalism and race…”
Trump is also a Mad Cow, wandering around the G20, deciding to cannibalize the remaining integrity of the US by suggesting that the parties who destabiilzed the US election help to protect it. Trump exemplifies the Austrian economics failure of privileging an anti-social individualism that promotes conflict and war.
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“The Flowres of the Forrest,” fragment of original manuscript by John Skene, ca. 1316
It was September 9, 1513. The place was, and still is, a meadowland on a low hill just south of the village of Branxton, Northumberland, UK. If one looks at satellite images of the area, you can see that the fields still look very much as they must have looked five centuries ago. To find Flodden Field, copy and paste these coordinates into Google Earth or Google Maps: 55°37’44.91″ N 2°10’14.16″ W
The place is called Flodden Field. It is peaceful today, but five hundred years ago, it was a killing field.
40 people dressed in Trump masks and suits rolling into the surf. The world despises the unhinged traitorous & ignorant Trump. pic.twitter.com/mqP1xJvmsv
Ever the self-promoter, Trump’s speech crafted no doubt by Steve(s) Bannon/Miller’s team defended the clash of civilizations and by inference a Fourth Turning apocalypse that warms white nationalists’ heart cockles, even as it stirs neo-nazi racism.
Trump did a Hamburg warmup in Warsaw by reading the lines as closely as the show-runner’s script requires, and Steve Bannon’s ad hoc fascist cribbing from Spengler, Evola, and Dugin is entertaining for those who will always make money from munitions trading and human trafficking. The Wall Street Journal’s boffo review speaks to that audience.
Poland now remains the GOP stop for warmed-over Reaganism … think rMoney among others who have tried to get a hit off conservative Popes and co-opt Gdansk Solidarity
THE WEST WILL NEVER BE BROKEN. Our values will PREVAIL. Our people will THRIVE and our civilization will TRIUMPH! pic.twitter.com/sozuVgdp5T
â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 6, 2017
But—and this shocked Washington—the speech aimed higher. Like the best presidential speeches, it contained affirmations of ideas and principles and related them to the current political moment. “Americans, Poles and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty,” he said. This was more than a speech, though. It was an argument. One might even call it an apologia for the West…
Mr. Trump is taking a clear stand against the kind of gauzy globalism and vague multiculturalism represented by the worldview of, say, Barack Obama and most contemporary Western intellectuals, who are willing, even eager, to concede the argument to critics of the West’s traditions.
Actually the text lingers a bit too long on Bannon’s indulgence of WWII warfare, made more absurd with a recitation by a barely competent reader perhaps because of all that bone-spur deferment PTSD.
If he was taking a stand against gauzy globlism and multiculturalism, it was by omission, much like Clay Higgins thinking that the Holocaust is a photo-op prop.
There’s apologia, and then there’s the apodicticity of the issues of Polish labor migration to the UK that affected Brexit among other conflicts, even as the fear is projected onto PoC.
WSJ was really grasping for Trumpian gravitas; it was just another Donald recitation like his joint session address to Congress and more like that dreadful Inauguration speech, only this time behind bullet resistant glass. It defined Trump as an extremist who is however unwittingly willing to serve his own and dangerous masters’ self-interests
You’re hearing soundbites of Secy Tillerson describing the Trump/Putin Summit because the WH barred TV camera coverage of his briefing.
On April 30, 2016, I escorted my wife to a charitable dinner where she was one of the principal speakers. She was there to tell her story in order to generate donations for The Hochstein School of Music and Dance. Here she is playing piano on stage at Hochstein in their main Performance Hall on June 15, 2016, a short work by Friedrich Kuhlau, his Sonatina in C Major Op. 55 No. 1:
But before I tell you the story about why, about two months earlier, in late April, Clara was up on a brightly lit stage in a large ballroom at a local country club to give a speech to Hochstein’s potential donors, let me first provide a little context. Why digress? Because I consider what she did that night should be important to you as a symbol of so much that is wrong with American society in the 21st century.
Steven D. Searls, better known as ‘Steven D’ in the blogosphere, has been a prolific contributor to several prominent blogs. Steve has written close to 1,500 blog posts on a variety of topics. He has agreed to join our merry band at Flowers for Socrates. He is a welcome addition.
Steve is a retired corporate attorney. He had not planned to retire, but health problems disabled him, making the retirement involuntary. A bright guy with a restless and inquiring mind, he does not do boredom well. He continues to write, and remains productive.
Interests include law (of course), but he also writes poetry, essays on whatever interests him at the moment, and occasional fiction.
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