"The eyes of the world are upon Budapest."---Paul Krugman Election tomorrow..

[Mark Kohut]

What a simply Great, Great focussed commentary on Pynchon's latest novel,
his "shadow" novel about America......😆

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM Joseph Tracy via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Israel has, according to Lancet studies,  killed 75,000 Gazans with
> 180,000 likely total. They shoot children through the head. Gaza is a
> heap of rubble.
> They have now. along with the US, murdered thousands in Iran and
> Lebanon. They rape and torture prisoners. Yet you have never mentioned
> Zionist genocide and cross border violence as a source of concern.  The
> US murdered hundreds in Venezuela and seized their President. The US has
> blockaded and threatened Cuba and Greenland with the same goal .  That
> is the front line of Fascism in the world today. So the conservative
> politics of Orban is pretty damn low on my list of threats to the
> world.  I do not see Hungary killing people or attacking neighbors and
> don't care too much who they buy their oil from, or who they approve or
> disapprove of. Other countries should not interfere in Hungarian
> elections by financing candidates they prefer.
>    Authoritarian England has been arresting old ladies who publicly
> renounce UK support for genocide. They held Assange for years despite
> all charges being dropped. They support the murderous Al Qaeda thug
> Jolani. Germany is equally bent on supporting Israeli war crimes and
> suppressing dissent, even freezing dissenters bank accounts.
>
> On 4/11/26 5:50 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> > I'll bet Kurt Anderson, who writes novels, has read* Shadow Ticket*...
> >
> > Kurt Andersen
> > <https://x.com/KBAndersen>
> > @KBAndersen
> > <https://x.com/KBAndersen>
> > ·
> > 3h <https://x.com/KBAndersen/status/2043036445640736916>
> > Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán are quantum-entangled fascists 7,000
> > kilometers apart— a long-distance bipartite mixed-state spin
> > entanglement.
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> which is why *Shadow Ticket* went there, I suggest. Shadow ticket to
> >> America.
> >>
> >> "It’s not a big place, but it’s symbolic. It is a role model for
> >> right-wing authoritarians everywhere. It still formally has the
> >> institutions of democracy, but has for the past 16 years been a one
> >> party
> >> state — ruled by a right-wing authoritarian ethno-nationalist regime
> >> that
> >> enforces its will partly by rigging elections, partly through an
> >> extensive
> >> system of crony capitalism that rewards its friends and punishes its
> >> enemies.
> >>
> >> In other words, it’s a MAGA kind of place. It’s what they would like
> >> to do
> >> to the United States, although with less sophistication and more
> >> brutality.
> >> " _ Krugman....
> >>
> >> Shadow Ticket, the novel....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>