Donald “Rummy” Rumsfeld is dead
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I found out because the people who did the Shakespeare lecture series I watched sent me a email saying how he was “a great American patriot”. Let’s see what he did.
“Rumsfeld served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy before being elected to Congress four times from Illinois’s 13th congressional district. Over the course of nearly 40 years, he served in important offices under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George W. Bush—including twice as Secretary of Defense.”
Under Nixon he headed the Economic Stabilization Program, which was part of Nixonomics (pumping money into the economy to create the illusion of economic growth to assure Nixon’s re-election). The program saw the creation of hte EEOC, SSI, created the HUD and laid the groundwork for Section 8 housing, increased the price of imported goods to nudge Americans into buying American-made products, and put all the people that were unemployed because of Nixon’s attempts to counter inflation to work on mass transit and other public works projects. Legislation was passed to allow Nixon to control prices, rents, wages, and interest rates.
And a “conservative” group is praising all this?
This is why I say the right is just as reactionary and emotional as the left. Put a R after someone’s name and the right will gush over them as surely as the left will when that person has a D.
Under Ford “Rummy” introduced Penis Cheney (one of the evilest people to ever live) to government. “If you don’t give me unlimited power to spy on every American all the time and molest you at the airport, the terrorists win.” “If you don’t get America ensnared in a Forever War that will cost $6.4 trillion, still be continuing after 20 years, kill thousands of Americans and destroy the minds and bodies of tens of thousands more, put them on the streets, and force thousands to commit suicide every year, the terrorists win.”
I thought “conservatives” liked veterans? I thought they liked privacy and freedom and shit? Right, if you oppose the “Patriot Act” you’re not patriotic, and jingoism is all conservatives really care about, because it’s a grift.
“Rummy” left politics for a while and became president and CEO of G. D. Searle & Company. Rummy axed 60% of the staff and sold the company to Monsanto, making a fortune. Searle is responsible for the invention of the birth control pill, probably the evilest invention of all time that is directly responsible for destroying civilization by separating sex from pregnancy, which was the only thing that forced the stupid, violent monkeys called humans to become the responsible monogamous adults necessary for civilization to exist, and also Aspartamine,
which causes brain cancer. Rummy was instrumental to getting the FDA to approve that.
Of course a “conservative” group would support that. It’s the “free market” after all. So what if thousands of people lose their jobs, the guy at the top made a lot of money. That’s crapitalism. So what if incidence of cancer have risen in recent decades, you’re “free” to not buy the product, even if companies don’t have to inform you of the risks and prices are cheaper than the safe alternative. Informed consent sounds socialist to me, and socialism is bad, unless Nixon is doing it, then it’s good because he’s a Republican. So what if the family structure that has maintained stable civilization for thousands of years has collapsed, “conservative” anti-gay crusaders pop up in airport bathrooms committing statutory rape with boys all the time.
Rummy was also chairman of Gilead Sciences, the company that created Tamiflu. Then bird flu conveniently came out and he made a fortune. But creating a drug to combat a disease and then releasing the disease in order to make obscene profits from the cure you had previously created is crapitalism, so that’s a good thing.
Rumsfeld went back to politics and became Secretary of Defense under Dubya Bush, another hideously evil man. He orchestrated the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 Rummy thought “Fuck it, why not?” and surrounded Bush with chosen staff who would push for invasion 24/7 until Rummy got his war. As he said “There aren’t any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq.” (actual quote) You
invade every country surrounding Iran and stay there,
permanently (by the way Bush is played by Thanos).
Rumsfeld set up the program to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. After the vast majority of officers demanded his resignation in 2006 for gross incompetence, Rumsfeld dragged his heels for almost a year before giving in and stepping down from his position as Secretary of Defense.
Back in civilian life Rumsfeld made a fortune with a self-righteous book and started a charity scam to line his pockets. He accepted tons of “conservative” awards for having an R after his name. He died on 29 June 2021 from multiple myeloma at the age of 88.