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Susan Mercurio's avatar

That f*ing @sshole! And all of the f*ing @ssholes who were stampeded into voting for him "because Trump"!

And Bernie "Joe's my friend" Sanders: the DNC really put the fear of Gawd into him at the 2016 DNC convention. He's been licking the floor for them ever since!

WHEN, when are we going to stand up and say, "NO MORE!"?

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Rob Brown's avatar

As Kurt Metzger said recently on Jimmy Dore's show, it's pretty sad that the best case scenario when it comes to Sanders is that he's being blackmailed somehow.

I'll add that this wouldn't even necessarily earn Bernie a pass, depending on what exactly they might be blackmailing him *with*.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

That's what is needed, Susan, but it is unlikely to happen until mainland USA is under threat and the voice of the people (the percentage that bothers to vote that is ) would then be able to make the feeble-minded Biden see that he should be acting for the majority and not just his sponsors, the military / complex and their controllers, the BlackRocks and Vanguards and of course the controllers of both US houses, the Israel Neoconners, through their 100% representation in the corridors of Washington with Netanyahu now back in total control.

(Standing ovation, please).

Hey, when a country like Saudi says “jump, Joe”, Biden jumps as he has been doing for years, Saudi being the grandplanners of the bombing and killings that the US, the UK, Israel and Saudi have been inflicting on poor Yemen since 2014 making that country face, right now, a possible starvation like no other in living memory.

But does the US government care? Hardly. They use their effective weapons such as sanctions, blockades at ports and the supply of their biggest sales of military hardware in history to Saudi Arabia, their #1 weapons purchaser ……ever. It's good business.

Must keep that bit of business going. It’s what they US does best. It allows their hegemonic wars to flourish, justifies their 750 bases in 80 countries, gets easy approval for an US $ 858 billion defence budget and satisfies their corrupt politicians.

Beat that for motivation

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

All of what you say is true, but in the end, it's just beating around the bush for excuses why you don't want to stand up and holler. I know that having to do something more than watch other people on the TV is tiresome, but We. Have. To. Do. It.

Please watch How to Start a Revolution DVD documentary and read From Dictatorship to Democracy, the book by the late Dr Gene Sharp. He tells us how to do it.

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Fran's avatar

Why would anyone think Biden would be interested in stopping war when he supported every war before and after 9/11. In 2003 as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Comm he used his position to push his fellow democrats into war with Iraq in 2003 knowing it was a lie, and he supported every middle eastern war since, and no surprise we are now in a war with Ukraine. As Obama's vice president he was put in control of Ukraine during the US backed coup, and even managed to get his son a job at Burisma. Before 9/11 he supported Ronald Reagan’s invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Libya in 1986, as well as support George H.W. Bush’s invasion of Panama in 1991, and Bill Clinton’s bombing of Kosovo in the late 1990's. "Our Savior" as many would like to see him is a self serving war monger. Most certainly Bernie knows it, as does his democrat buddies and all is a show. Expect nothing in terms of putting an end to the war and death in Yemen.

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Riki Tiki Tavi's avatar

Yes...once again supporting Major General Smedley Butler's proposition: "War is a Racket!"

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Fran's avatar

I've read about Smedley Butler and really admire this man, a man of integrity and honor.

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William Paul's avatar

It's worth a read: The PDF of "War is a Racket."

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf

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Fran's avatar

I read the book. years ago . I didn't know I could read on line again.; Thanks,

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William Paul's avatar

Every time I see Biden, I see a man who is 100% confident that he is going to get away with it. No matter what he does, the controlled opposition of the Republican party will let him:

* Kill Yemenis

* Kill Ukrainians

* Arrest peaceful opposition in the U.S.

* Steal tens of millions of dollars

* Inflate the currency and wipe out the middle class

And when he speaks, he pretends to be friendly, but he's always yelling, with absolute certainty, and laying down the law, as though he were moral.

He looks like the grinning head of death to me.

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

The middle class cause 99% of the world's problems and they defend ruling classes. Maybe they deserve abolition rather than support.

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William Paul's avatar

Sounds murderous. I thought we were against that.

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

It probably feels like it to them, but no, it's just a social death. They merely lose their positional right to roll shit downhill.

Not gonna lie, the eviction of Yoel Roth used to be called "running out of town on a rail" and it seems a bit wholesome. People's exile needs to come back.

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Literally Mussolini's avatar

He looks like the grinning head of death, but he's an avatar. A perfect avatar for what's behind him.

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Victoria's avatar

Debbie Lusignan the Sane Progressive died Friday Dec 9 2022. I know you would want to know

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Caitlin Johnstone's avatar

Thank you.

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denmla's avatar

hmm, psychopaths next to psychopaths, when you get em together, you have nato, 100% excrement surface!....

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Robert Marshall's avatar

The refusal to end our support for the ongoing genocide in Yemen lays bare the hypocrisy of our media/government accusations of atrocities in Ukraine. It's simply geo/political rivalry and has nothing to do with war crimes or securing democracy. Also racism is a factor. In short, brown people don't count.

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Kojo's avatar

Which is why the arab masses are revolting against this hypocrisy of “human rights” which apparently is a privilege reserved for those of European extraction, except when it can be used as a temporary tool to justify wars.

As the Kurds have so dearly learned after being used then betrayed by the US.

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DomeLord's avatar

Saudi is determined to move south to accommodate israel's territorial ambitions as revealed in the Yinon Plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan

Yemen has become Saudi Arabia's Palestine. Biden & the rest of the swamp are determined to assist. Lives mean nothing to these people.

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dar's avatar

BFTP...Seven Countries in Five Years

General Wesley Clark

We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran. Retired General Wesley… Read More ...

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Retired General Wesley Clark

revealed to Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman in 2007

the ambitious imperial plans of the Bush-Cheney inner circle.

Clark is a former four-star general. He served as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

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Feral Finster's avatar

We are governed by sociopaths. Any organization that has power eventually will end up controlled by sociopaths, as sociopaths are the people who will do anything for power.

Unless these people face very real and very personal consequences for their sociopathy, they will continue to do what rewards them.

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bill wolfe's avatar

The political-economic system (Neoliberal finance capitalism and imperialism) creates the psychopaths.

Check out Dr. Gabor Mate's latest book:

The Myth Of Normal

https://drgabormate.com/book/the-myth-of-normal/

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Maria S Calef's avatar

Biden is another warmonger president, whose administration is made up from retirees generals Warhawks that are making money from wars around the world.

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djean111's avatar

Bye bye Bernie.....

you have been enabling a warmonger, which makes you a warmonger, too. Not only is there not a lesser evil any more, but the depth of evil just keeps getting worse.

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Fitzjames Wood's avatar

'Do not put your trust in rulers. Nor in a son of man, who cannot bring salvation'. Psalm 146:3

'...that man’s way does not belong to him. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step' Jeremiah 10:23

hoping or hopeless?

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Britton Leo Kerin's avatar

" It's hard to think of a word to describe all this besides "evil" "

True but it's hard to compress it into one word because it's also incredibly stupid and ineffective. The saudis have now refused to hold energy prices down, referred to their alliance with the US in the past tense and deliberately humiliated the Biden administration. Not a lot to show for kissing ass as hard as possible. At this point we're just helping with this genocide out of habit apparently.

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Dollyboy's avatar

Brown people pfff - who cares! Gay marriage is law! Said the msm.

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William F. Johnson's avatar

Can there be any doubt that we have a single party running the show in DC which is owned and operated by multinationals., banksters and war profiteers? If there is any American left who is actually paying attention to what goes on in the U.S. in particular and NATO in general who doesn't understand this very simple truth, I'd like to know who they are and why they think as they do.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Bernie Sanders should resign and retire. He's been doing far more harm than good for a long time now.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

It is getting worse and worse....

https://rokfin.com/stream/26883 ---- Outstanding -- FBI had Hunter’s laptops for one (ONE) full year and planted disinformation about “Russian disinformation”

Dec 13, 2022 -- The TWITTER FILES Unlocked - GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION!

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