The Mason Missile, October 27, 2024

Greetings, Americans! We have commemorated the holidays of Rosh ha-Shona and Yom Kippur, along with Sukkot and Simchat Torah; may we continue to learn the true meaning of these events, that a new start is possible. Finally, the news media has been paying attention to trump’s mental health, or lack thereof, with his speeches going all over the place, and he goes on about everything but the topic he’s been asked about. Why has the news media, before Biden dropped out, been so fascinated with Biden’s mental health, but they’ve given trump a pass on it? Perhaps it’s because trump has been in the media for four decades, being hyped as a genius real-estate and casino tycoon, squiring some beautiful women all around Manhattan, and getting into tabloid fodder scandals, and that form of “news” veers into entertainment. Or perhaps also, some billionaire corporate interests, including some media corporations—yes, it’s a business like any other—don’t care about trump’s cognitive decline, or his racism, or his associating with neo-Fascists; all they care about are tax cuts they WOULD receive, along with the repression of workers and of women seeing reproductive freedom, people of color seeking equity and their REAL history told, and of LGBTQ+ people just wanting to live their lives without the risk of harassment and death. Project 2025, the brain-worm of the Heritage Foundation, is still on their minds, no matter how much the trump campaign tried to disassociate itself from it. (https://kamalaharris.com/project2025/) It’s NO different from the German industrial magnates who thought investing in Adolf Hitler and his NSDAP would be a great investment for putting down “Communism”—meaning any effort to empower workers, after the 1929 Crash and the Russian Revolution—and they paid no attention to Hitler’s rantings, the party’s violence and anti-Semitism, the brown-shirted goons stomping on their enemies and playing tin soldiers. They got their profits and the unions were destroyed, so what did they care? Of course you may think, correctly, of the German firms Krupp and IG Farben, who used the slave labor from the concentration camps; and there was Hugo Boss, the fashion house, which manufactured those uniforms for all the NSDAP’s branches, like the SS. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss) But American firms did business with Germany during the Second World War. (https://www.adl.org/resources/news/german-industry-and-third-reich) One is Ford, and Henry Ford was also a notorious Jew-hater and fanboy of Hitler; several subsidiaries of Ford held factories in Cologne and Berlin, using concentration-camp slave labor. Other corporate accomplices included Coca-Cola, Eastman-Kodak, IBM (for the record-keeping machinery they maintained regularly in the concentration camps, and their investments in several German firms, like the aircraft firm Focke-Wulf), General Motors (their Opal division), and certain American and British banks. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust) (https://lorimer.ca/adults/product/big-business-and-hitler/) And if these corporations could collaborate with a foreign tyrant and murderer, they damn sure would be happy to work with a home-grown tyrant, like a future trump regime—which we must make DAMN SURE there isn’t any. We tried it before with trump; respectable, mainstream politicians thought that trump would have “adults in the room,” competent cabinet members and staff workers who could keep him from doing or saying anything stupid; but he was subservient to Putin in that meeting in Helsinki, praised neo-Nazis as “very fine people,” scapegoated immigrants from the Mexican border (but not the Canadian border, mind you) and Muslims (with the travel ban), the contempt he has shown towards women—his bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade, his insults towards accomplished women, and his sexual abuses—his contempt for military personnel (“suckers and losers”), for a start. And we can’t treat this election as just an “election,” a contest between two candidates with more or less differing ideas—or, as some adults I heard say, “just a bunch of crooks, they’re all the same” during my growing-up years. It isn’t. It’s for the future of America and its people; and it would be a disgrace for us to allow trump back into power, so he can abuse it by attacking his enemies—meaning US, his fellow Americans. But, just as our ancestors crossed an ocean to fight foreign fascists—some of them even dying—we can defeat the home-grown fascists of today. Freedom-fighting is in the American blood, from the Revolution, through the movements of pass women’s suffrage and end chattel slavery, through the Civil War and the struggle to organize workers, through the World Wars, through the Civil Rights movements for African Americans and other people of color, for women, for LGBTQ+ people. We Americans have a long and venerable history of standing up to oppressors and bosses, and asserting our right, and in the process, asserting our significance, our value, as human beings. SO, November 5, Americans, don’t let our ancestors, or our progeny, down. Don’t forget the great freedom fighters of our true, sanitized history. Let’s continue to put in the work, to campaign, and VOTE. When we stand up to the fascist goons arrayed against us, we’ll see they’re not so tough after all. Stay safe, stay strong, and stay together! Slava Ukraini! Am Yisrael Chai! America will be free! Bye!