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The image stuck in my visual system comes from a video of Pelosi climbing into an SUV as she fled the scene after her Russia-China-connection comments. Harangued by shouts of protestors, she peremptorily raises her hand like the aristocrat she perceives herself to be, waving off the objections of the peons. It's quite telling. These long-term congressional residents, corruptly funded by AIPAC et al. have lost all conception of the idea of public service, of populace representation, and deep down in whatever neural circuits remain, perceive themselves as above the fray. Of course they sympathize with Israel. They are the god's chosen people; they get it. Everyone else is mere chattel; rubbish.

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Mike Fish's avatar

She could be distraught about delayed home improvement ideas.

Where’s a man with a hammer when you need one?

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Contrarian 33's avatar

Pelosi considers that the FBI, yes, that once respected organisation now tainted like all the others, should investigate anyone demonstrating in support of Palestine for their connections to Russia (McCarthy time again). Yes, true.

Pelosi, looking very much the worse for wear, made this statement.

May I suggest respectfully, Nancy, that you investigate your own Senate and Congress for their connections to the genocidistic Israel. Now that would be a much more worthwhile pursuit. Things to look for would be bribery, corruption, loyalty to the USA, US citizens with Israeli connections, that is Jews, fighting (murdering) Palestinians as members of the IDF.

Never hear a word on that subject

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gypsy33's avatar

I respectfully suggest that Nancy get her implants removed; they look ridiculous on a 110-year-old woman. 😁

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ChazLB's avatar

Maybe toxic silicon poisoning went right into those three brain cells she posesses.

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gypsy33's avatar

😂

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ChazLB's avatar

Yeah but it just crowded out any rational thought the three cells might have cooked up

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ChazLB's avatar

Don't think that would stop your forked tongue from wagging

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ChazLB's avatar

I'll take it further along with the whole Bush cabal of old polusi is just the next ghoul to harm our human collective souls as a sycophantic duplicitous war mongering psycopath..sadly there seems to be and endless supply of these creatures waiting in the wings to take her place ..

The Obama types too..war criminals in plain site..

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jim's avatar

Only on 2023 US can a chicom, war pig chicken hawk call an anti-war group a Chinese plant. Can’t make this shit up. The decrepit old witch pretty much sums up our politics. A bunch or filthy rich old geezers that have no idea what there saying.

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ChazLB's avatar

So many neoliberals and rinoes and main stream media are behind the genocide as well as all most all celebreties and the corporate establishment they all shill for. ...keep records for the future guilitine party

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gypsy33's avatar

I’ll hold the basket for their heads, Chaz!

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ChazLB's avatar

Thanks and I'll bring the pizza and beer.

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pretzelattack's avatar

i dont know what a chicom is, but if you mean Pelosi is an agent of the Chinese government you could not be more wrong.

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Gavin Farrell's avatar

She sped off in her SUV to have some of that boutique chocolate ice cream she loves so much.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Just as October 7th was a pretext, the attack on US troops is a pretext.

Pretend three US soldiers were killed on a bad weekend in Nevada. Would the Pentagon demand that Reno be bombed?

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jim's avatar

Most likely a CIA psyop that’s sole purpose was to keep the genocide rolling in Israel. Now all the chicoms in media on both sides can cackle about dead Americans on the idiot boxes, and how we must retaliate to save democracy or something like that. It’s tiring.

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Felicia's avatar

It sure is

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gypsy33's avatar

Hi Feral

According to Scott Ritter ( and the Jordanian government) the attack didn’t occur in Jordan at all.

It was in Syria.

Where, of course, Amerikkkan troops are illegally stationed.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Doesn't matter, since a pretext is sought after.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I think you missed the point

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ChazLB's avatar

He misses a lot of points but his big fat arrogant ego vastly shields his ability to decern reality ..he's got priors of duplicitous behavior patterns. Beware,, the snake charmers

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ChazLB's avatar

You should make your day in a mirror but you are too cowardly for that.

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Ahnaf Ibn Qais's avatar

Any so called 'War' with Iran means 200+ USD per barrel of Oil overnight & the Implosion of the Global Economy courtesy of the Sea-mining & shutting down of the Straits of Hormuz:

So the collective 'Biden' Regime & its lackeys can try & be as Dystopian & Detached as they wish, it will not help them when practical 'realities on the ground' Crumbles American society from within & yields Violent Revolutions across every Western Nation due to 80%+ reductions in living standards.

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ChazLB's avatar

How to steal your life blood and enslave us while they drive poor kids into military "opertunity" as willing mindless brain washed cannon fodder ..and when they come home damaged they are cast into the street. Especially if they figured out the scam and are too vocal about it.

If they are celebrated war hero's they go on to be just as despicable in a government position and are celebrated and thanked for their service abusing the American people ..

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(For those interested)

If you wish to read (& listen!) to more of My commentary, here is my Main Stack:

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Thank You Kindly to everyone!

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

Whoe dude! I get it- have you been reading my mind? Long ago a really good friend who is now in heaven said this to me: “There are three kinds of people in the world :those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, and those that wonder what happened.” A whole boatload of oligarchs war criminals and on down to stopping at the 90%( income )will be among those in the last group. They see no one -they feel no one, hear no one,they like no one, they know no one except their own. They think the rest of us are stupid. They think the rest of us don’t have any power -when we are the ones that really have the power , and they are just doomed. When, I have no idea- a war with a larger war in the Middle East, a limited nuclear war, that may be when it happens. Since the early odds, I have been telling people to shore up their relationships because we will all need them.😒

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

Fuck no the 0.1 % don’t care ! they don’t know fuck all about us -we know boatloads more about them than they know about us We have to make them care and how do we do that? Well use your imagination.

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ChazLB's avatar

My imaginations come to wooden stumps hatchets and guilitines.. Roaps cheap too... Of course never give up your right to bare arms.

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ChazLB's avatar

Im sure your wood would only fit into the smallest doll

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K Miller's avatar

I wish you weren’t 1000% right.

It has never been laid bare so completely. As though on a dare, they are doing the most heinous crimes in full view of the world with no care to what they are doing to an entire population and culture. And we’re witnessing just a small portion of the atrocities.

Who the fuck have we become?

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JennyStokes's avatar

Well I am in Europe and I am outraged that not one Country (other than Spain) has stood up against the US.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Europeans like being slaves. They will side with whatever side they believe to be stronger.

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Feral Finster's avatar

No, prostitutes get paid for their services. Slaves just get beatings.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Maybe something like an abused spouse or, returning to the theme, the relationship a prostitute has with her pimp.

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gypsy33's avatar

Jenny what about Ireland?

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JennyStokes's avatar

Yes. Ireland too.

Thanks for reminding me.

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John Mann's avatar

And Slovenia - and, apparently Belgium.

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Elisabeth's avatar

Mmmmhm I would NOT agree to this (look at neofascist Germany, Austria not much better - propaganda & brainwash everywhere - just started reading (unfortunately, I think, available only in German) Jonas Toegel - Kognitive Kriegsfuehrung (is about cognitive warfare, some Bernays in there but MAINLY the 'new' program of attack dog NATO ... absolutely disgusting - no hope ...)

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

What makes you think she is an expat? Do you have a crystal ball?

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JennyStokes's avatar

It's called Liberal Socialism. BUT we are being 'played' just like you in the US

The only difference is that in France people will demonstrate. We do not rely on our armchairs ......we get out there and protest.

This Farmers strike is very interesting to me because it is well organised in every Province.

There is just enough food getting in to keep us 'calm.' BUT when there is no food/wine for people the French will go ballistic.

This should be teaching the 'armchair' people in the US that the people ARE in control.

I see more Unions here coming out. We are not like Americans we can have our electricity shut off and then the candlemakers will be on a roll.

My last point is this: I do not agree with all the Farmers. We got shot of Monsanto and it's weed killer chemicals. The farmers want poison back.

+ We have been working on a 'green' agenda here in France. Remember the Gillet Jeaune? They wanted lower prices for diesel!

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Dear dear Gypsy............thanks for your support.

It's getting really bad here in ERP but I have more optimism here than in the US.

We know that we can 'overturn' a so-called Republic because it has been done before at great cost to the people. This time it is much harder BUT we had to fight Kings once and I HOPE we can do this again.

As it is: My view on the EU is as it has always been: Too many countries with different agendas.

If the EU collapses it is the fault of people like URSULA van Robot who I don't think is a human.

C'est la vie.

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Most of the western allied nations have been infiltrated by USrAel operatives ..the trick is they look for the ladder climbing little shit to lavish with money fame and perks and they jump at the chance to be a sniveling obsequice toad to the agenda of western imperialism ..every single leader in the EU is a USrAel stooge..

This all happened systematically and gaining traction for a generation right under everyone's nose as far back as the creation of Israel. till now all you have including in UK and Australia etc are sycophantic lap dogs to USrAel imperialism

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Jenny, is THAT was the strike is about?! The “right” to poison your food the way they do to us Amerikkkans ?

As a former landscaper, I’ve used a LOT of glyphosate and it says right on the container not to allow contact with your skin…but here they’re allowed to spray it on your food. Incredible. And by using it, I got cancer for my troubles as well 😡

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JennyStokes's avatar

"stupider?" The word is more stupid!

Everything is possible BUT at least we are not sitting on our backsides looking at never ending game shows.

Right or wrong we ARE the people.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Keep your blinkers on!

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I disagree

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Whatistobedone's avatar

Always been....to begin with, genocide and slavery. We are superbly yukky.

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

We have come to the end result of capitalist greed. We have become the chattel -the go along -the get along, the nicely fed minions and barnyard animals for them to use and abuse however, they want and can get away with. Lots of them are the flying monkey minions ala the wicked witch of the west. where the US Empire is now, was fated at its beginning. This whole idea was exported from Europe and it’s now come to the end because of the billions of people on the earth who eventually will just say not anymore!!DONE!!!. The best way would be a world strike, but I fear it’s going to be violent revolution. Once we realize that it’s us against them -and we all unite (because what they’ve been doing is divide and conquer racism sexism trans ism, Islamophobia, antisemitism blah blah blah )…once we stop fighting, they are so done. They are history to the trash heap, and good riddance to bad rubbish.

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gypsy33's avatar

Don’t fear it, Bernadene; EMBRACE the Revolution!

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

Gypsy 33 I cannot. I do not have permission to say yes to all the deaths, murder mayhem, destruction, and suffering that will happen in a violent revolution. I cannot. I do not have that permission. I do not have that power. Even if no one I love is lost or suffered, read John Donne’s No Man is an Island: “send not for whom the Bell tolls -it tolls for thee”

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gypsy33's avatar

I completely understand, Bernadene, and I certainly think no less of you for it.

I’m a sweet and gentle Pisces, but my moon is in rebellious Aquarius and my Mars in Scorpio. I personally would have no problem dealing with leaders who have led us down the primrose path; not necessarily involving death, but making sure they faced war tribunals. And if the death sentence is required, so be it. I have no patience for the individuals currently responsible for the death and destruction in both Gaza and Ukraine.

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I’m a little like Voltaire -or maybe a lot: “ I might not agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death you’re right to say it”. I’ll add, NOT do it, write it, BE IT. However, I have no right to say that for others. I’m supremely upset with Hamas, because they knew this would happen. Their Beetle-brained idea, and possibly workable achievable goal, is the plan is to be like Algeria with France. They calculated the number of deaths would happen. They figured the number of deaths would be similar to what it took for France to finally get the fuck out of Algeria. But that was a different time, a different place a different world, a different life. How they could extrapolate that by ACTUALLY DOING THE MATH, I’ll never in my life figure out and I’ll never fucking forgive them for it. This suffering that they have caused to be heaped on the Palestinians WHILE ABSOLUTELY LEGAL, and undoubtedly understandable is unconscionable it’s wrong -it’s not fair and it’s NOT Islam not real Islam. They mention Allah all the time in their manifesto, but to my reckoning this is not at all his plan; this kind of suffering heaped on innocent people without their permission is bullshit. They had no right to do it. The right of conscience is what I’m saying -legally yes; otherwise no. They knew that for every captive, or every Israeli life, thousands of Palestinians would pay the price they knew this. They absolutely fucking knew this. They’ve lived with it for 75 fucking years.. that does not make what they knew Israel would do OK -not in any way shape or form not in any conscience of anyone I know not in any world where people say they love God and one another. ok Done.

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I’m ambivalent about the attack by Hamas. Since Gaza is occupied they have a legal right to kill Israeli soldiers; most of the civilians were killed by the incredibly incompetent IDF. However the taking of civilian hostages was not legal under international law.

The alternative was to remain under occupation indefinitely.

And EVERYTHING that Israhell does is illegal under international law.

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ChazLB's avatar

I'm not sure you meant this but if you think what israel did is in any way "legal" just because they said so and the USA backed them you are also part of the problem..

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

we -all of us -all need to remember that we do not want to become like the enemy -that we do not want to become like that we do not want to embrace revenge vengeance, and the desire to heap on them more than they heaped on us. This is why I’m spiritual. This is why I know that God will do something through the Holy Spirit through people, because there is more of us that care, and now they may have the power but we just have to wrest the power from them one way or another.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Lazy and cowardly

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ChazLB's avatar

Americans and europeans have all equally been spoiled by their privilege while they ignored the murderous colonialism around the world they supported so they could have nice stuff on the backs of others for generations.. Now that they are experiencing a little discomfort they are outraged at every enemies their leaders point them towards.. they can't look in the mirror as the sight is far too ugly...

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

Not for the majority of my life. TY God.

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ChazLB's avatar

maybe i'm referring to the top tear of government and corporations of these said countries and NOT for my life either..my life has always been a struggle and my resentment for a world that seems to not get better but worse in this regard and i harbor a LOT of resentment over it ..and i'm better off than most but all my gains have again leveled out back into a struggle due to malfeasance and corruption of government and the establishment status quo i find myself economically imprisoned by...

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todd smith's avatar

One Party, Two Faces. Pelosi's clearly insane, and Biden's just off his rocker, while AOC continues her careerist climb into the nest of Democratic Party leadership: "She wants to be Pelosi!" (thinking of the Ramones tune "I want to be sedated"). All in all, an End of the Empire kind of look...

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Starry Gordon's avatar

That's what I was thinking. The present condition of the US, especially the Democratic Party, seems like the beginning of the end of the Empire or whatever it is. There is a lot of flailing going on. It's a dangerous time, but it's probably something we have to try to get through in order to get rid of or at least neutralize the present ruling class.

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CarbonCopy's avatar

Oh don't worry the "War Witch" Nuland landed there today so everything is going to be alright!

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pretzelattack's avatar

but did she have cookies. it's possible a sniper could take out Zelensky soon, he seems to be losing favor with the warpigs.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

Nuland. When you take into account her role in what is now the Ukraine fiasco, ignoring the doughnuts, if a sniper took out Zelensky, he would be tempted to try a second shot, surely.

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ChazLB's avatar

He was always a patsy ...The trick of the deep state is to set up these easily impressed by riches and fame of the ladder climbing little shit sycophants to take the fall when it all goes wrong ..

This is what the boards of directors do..like BP, etc.. Find the sniveling toad to lavish them with perks and know they will tow the party line ,,but throw them under a buss when it goes bad..And they never even get it. So busy enjoying those perks or yahts. Or trips to islands.

This is a common tactic of the deep state elite establishment so they never take the heat. The real rullers hide behind polite upper society ..politicians are just figureheads in this theater of the absurd. As well as the news and Hollywood celebrity engine is just used as willing gate keepers to brain wash the public to mindlessly pay and obey. And be propagandised.

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gypsy33's avatar

Er…Pretzel…she ate all those cookies herself 😉

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pretzelattack's avatar

LOL

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ChazLB's avatar

AOC is a self serving narcisist ...scratch that surface and I bet you find a full on sociopath

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

Clearly, all of the oligarchs and war criminals are insane -realizing the billions of people on this earth that they have fucked over for low these many millennia and are now not kept in ignorance and do have some resources -it’s only a matter of time -they’re all fucking insane -they are!

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

"lo these many millennia," not "low..."

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Bernadene Zennie's avatar

Haha maybe below or BE LOW MILLENNIA. I see the literati police or Garrison Keillor’s POEM (Professional Organization of English Majors) membership is alive and well in you Susan! sometimes I do not check the talk to text and homonyms happen so frequently it’s just fucking aggravating as fuck.

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TomLaney's avatar

Please stick with us. We need General Strikes for the common good. Your courage and truth telling is helping us get there!

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Starry Gordon's avatar

I don't see any serious resistance being organized yet. Even Mr. Market, usually sensitive to the possibilities of catastrophe, seems tolerably happy. Maybe the people are confused by the depths of the present disorder.

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Wsws

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Starry Gordon's avatar

As it happens I read them; this morning I read of Mr. Attali's program for the French, thinking: "The French are going to put up with _this_? Unlike the dullards of the Anglosphere, flailing as they go down the tubes, I thought the French would at least be more original." But I guess not.

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Selina Sweet's avatar

Time for a national citizens union‼️

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Crixcyon's avatar

True...as they are aided and abetted by neocon RINOs.

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Veraduerga's avatar

This again is more evidence that this planet is the insane asylum of Universe. Fear runs it. Always has and still does. An egomaniac nightmare.

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Kev's avatar

The plans to attack Iraq were in place for years before the actual assault. The perpetrators were waiting for a good cover story/plausible reason. 9/11 was the opportunity/ initial cover story. When that story turned out to be too full of holes, they made up "weapons of mass destruction." Likewise, military plans to attack Iran have been in place for years. Various politicians and neocons have urged attacking Iran for years, but there has not been a good enough opportunity/cover story for the ignorant public to swallow. Now they have their cover story.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Thanks Che.

Everyone should read this especially concerning Iran.

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Bill Mailler's avatar

the US is as f---ed up as Israel.

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papasha408's avatar

They just can't seem to say no to the MIC kickback money. Their problem is their greed!

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teddyG's avatar

The FBI should be investigating Pelosi and her illegal insider trading. Pelosi is insane AND a war criminal.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

The FBI is part of the problem.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Bring on the moronic/shit/fake liars and more bombs.

None of us can get away from this we are being slowly saturated with gobbledy-gook inane and I mean INANE master criminals. Lock the whole bloody lot of them up.

Simplisicus on here today wrote a wonderful narrative of Biden asking Switzerland to send a very convoluted message to Iran!!! What?

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

No, we can get away from this, we choose not to.

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Selene's avatar

It makes me sick 🤢

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Patricia Blair's avatar

Nancy, Joe, both parties quite disgusting in their immoral acts. They receive a NO VOTE from me and many that I know that are just as appalled.

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Greg C's avatar

Sorry. You left out all the Republican Sluts who suck the cocks of the Military Industrial Complex. They love having "bomb makers" in their districts making "good paying jobs" for their constituents. Bottom line: There is no Left/Right scale. We must Dis-Engage from that concept to have any chance to survive.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

It's the elite vs the rest of us.

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