I can't wait to see our "environmentally friendly" nuclear weapons. The glow on the horizon will be a lovely shade of green and the mushroom clouds will be GMO free . Yes, you can't get anymore Democrat than that. Sigh.
Love the "environmentally friendly nuclear weapons" I'm stealing it ha. in the initial detonation, gamma rays and thermal neutrons are produced , they will scintillate your eye. The column of heat will be visible to ultraviolet.
Hey, we conservatives who love an organic diet and the carnivore lifestyle also look forward to an all-natural nuclear chain reaction that will wipe out cities and bring on a nuclear winter. Don't leave us carnivore, organic right-wingers out of the organic death of all that is.
I feel the threat of nuclear war greater today than when I was sitting under my desk looking into the eyes of teacher who was terrified. That look made me ask questions about why. I have worked in high energy physics now over 40 yrs. If people only knew what trying to survive in that world would be like. Hollywood makes it look easy, The book On the Beach by Nevil Shute is the reality : (
Well said. I am 55 and I remember those terrified looks from teachers. Now, I am a teacher, and I try to do my best to be honest with students while not terrorizing them.
Much love to you, teaching in these times is a struggle. Even though the students I work with are grad students I hear the challenges of teaching today. Honesty , I love you for that, without honesty there is no chance to learn any topic. When will you get the first question about nuclear war? So far in our coffee chats the topic has only come up after a higher level of saber rattling. I am working on a new experiment Oscura. I am so old it might be my last shot at seeing dark matter ha.
Bush is a war criminal. He started an unprovoked war costing $trillions of dollars with the entire premise based on a full and blatant lie. It's incomprehensible. I can't in any way fathom the words Pelosi said to him. There are no realities that these words are more the complete opposite of than "humanity, generosity of spirit, compassion" and George Bush. For decades now I've expected him to be put in prison. Knowing how twisted our country is maybe I could imagine he escapes prison here but why has he not been put in prison when he stepped foot in any other country?! How is it people like Bush and Trump are free?! At the very least how is it that anybody listened to more than 5 minutes of their speaking?! Why wasn't every single media exposure done with the idea that being president was purely comedy?!
Please don't lump Bush and Trump together, since there were no wars under Trump. During the Bush/Cheney years millions were displaced, died, their countries left in shambles, black sites and Guantánamo, and torture. Why aren't you holding those who voted for the lies accountable? Don't you think they knew the truth? I knew they were lies, many knew all our middle eastern wars were based on nothing but lies. So while your at it what about Obama and all the others, especially those that pushed for these wars like Clinton, or should we just send them to purgatory, after all they're democrats.
I lumped them together on the basis of presidents blatantly breaking laws and not answering to it. The insurrection was a serious offense. There are several other impropriety reasons he should be in prison also. Both Trump and Bush also had the similarity to me that any words out of their mouths are so unintelligent that I can't even listen to 5 minutes before being exasperated. As far as war, all of them including Obama are war criminals. Obama as much as any. He signed the NDAA allowing people to be executed without any kind of due process. That paved the way for the despicable drone program where it's now common practice to kill people remotely without any due process.
What laws did Trump break that you are referring to? When you say insurrection I think it's best to call it a riot, since the capital police did let hundreds in through the front door, and I saw it myself. No one was killed, except Ashley Babbitt. Did you see them breaking the windows on the doors, and the cops standing around doing nothing, and moving away before Babbit was killed? Also, hard to take over the reins of government with no weapons. No one is saying Trump isn't in need of improvement, but please don't lump him together with Bush. I agree with you on Obama, Droner and chief that he was. I'll agree Trump wasn't perfect, but the Bush/Cheney team were beyond loathsome. Think, about how someone responsible for so much death, torture and destruction was paraded around during the Jan 6 comm, by his daughter which was set up to determine Trump's guilt. If you do think about it, is it upsetting?
When you add all the ways he tried to alter the votes it equals insurrection. All his crony deals entitle him to prison. His war credits are up to par with all of them. Trump is in every way as horrible as all of them. In every way he was a disgusting man.
Yes, there is plenty of blame for all. Because I had so much hope, Obummer was my greatest disappointment. That was a moment in time to destroy and neuter the War Machine, dismantle the Oligarchic banking system and return it to the people, a credit union of workers : ) Education of desire to learn , not profit. The world could be a better place for all. Guillotines anyone?
I'm wondering if your post is under the wrong comment. Are you saying "destroy and neuter the War Machine, dismantle the Oligarchic banking system and return it to the people, a credit union of workers" is encouraging violence? Those are two salient actions we could take. The way they get implemented matters. It won't work if it's done by force. But if everyone chooses to do those we would see two fundamental problems gone. Those two ideas would put a big dent in large scale global violence and major wealth disparity.
Trump eagerly escalated invasion & occupation in Afghanistan and Syria where he approved the theft of their oilfields. Trump also oversaw growing number of “special military operations” in Africa.
Trump threatened to nuke North Korea until they signalled they would retaliate by hitting Japan. And he tried the same with China, whereupon even U.S. Generals called China to assure them that they wouldn’t follow that command.
So basically you lied. Big time. Trump was also a warmonger.
Trump also supported Saudi bombing in Yemen, and gave at least a billion dollars of weapons to Ukraine. So not as dramatic as Bush's wars or Obama's wars, but still very much a tool of the war mongers.
It's true that Trump did not get the U.S. into any new wars, but he packed his administration with war hawks of the type who ultimately provoked the Ukraine war (think John Bolton and Mike Pompeo). It was during Trump's administration that much of the arming of Ukraine to fight Russia took place. Thus, he does not escape culpability. That said, I think that Trump had his sights fixed more on China. If I may generalize, the Democrats demonize Russia, and the Republicans, China. Naturally, it's a matter of degree, as leaders of both parties despise both countries.
He did pick people like Pompeo, and Bolton, bad, bad choices, but they did not provoke the Ukraine war, although their antipathy toward Russia didn't help. That war was decided during the Obama years, an administration that assisted a coup and sent a pro-Russia president flying into their arms. Obama was not adverse to using neo-nazi's to get the job done, neo-nazis willing to inflict violence on innocent people. Trump got in their way when he unexpectantly won in 2016, but Biden picked up the mantle once he got into office. Read about it and you'll see the validity that from the beginning this was an orchestrated attempt to remove Putin when we initiated a coup back in 2014. Russia-gate kept the hatred of Russia alive.
Oh, I never intended to let Obama off the hook. He and his point man for Ukraine, then Vice President Joe Biden, got the ball rolling with the Maidan coup in 2014. Nevertheless, Trump and his super hawk advisors green-lit or failed to red-light the arming of Ukraine, without which, the war might not have happened. So, I would apportion responsibility for the Ukraine horror as Dems 70%, Repubs 30%.
Let’s not forget his repeated trashing of people of color, you know, the rapists from Mexico, so many from “shithole countries,” tear-gassing BLM legally assembled protestors so he could do a fucking photo-op. The Charlottesville fiasco where he couldn’t bring himself to be unambiguous in criticizing white-supremacist thugs. This mythology regarding his not starting a war...can I get a reward? I haven’t killed anybody! Trump made it clear that he has no problem with killing socialists and Asians. And he’d probably try to kill Asian socialists twice. He never lifted sanctions on Syria, he increased them on Venezuela. Sanctions are an act of war!
Yes, we know, he's a xenophobe, a sexist, a homophobe, etc. Now what about all the others that killed and displaced millions of Muslims? I know Clinton, called him a xenophobe because he initially didn't want Muslims entering the county, but changed his mind on that. However, she is responsible for killing and destroying the lives of millions of Muslims. So, who is the xenophobe here? I think Clinton pushed the false narrative of Russia-gate, and didn't even want him to pay them a visit. Now look where we are.
You may be wasting your time. Evidently, the 2024 campaign has begun, and Comments sections everywhere will be awash with directives to hate Trump (and hate DeSantis, should he become a front-runner), and any criticism of any Democrat will be labeled an attack on Democrat candidates, as if we all were still trapped in that noisome "If you are not a Democrat supporter you must be a Trump supporter" bull-ordure. Yep, the 2024 campaign police are now active. Kind of obvious and a bit amusing and very familiar. And it never occurs to them that folks really just don't care what they spew and bubble about. Much less obey the Dem marching orders.
Bush was Cheney's puppet, just as Biden is a mouthpiece for the 1% and the Pentagon. Trump at least, for better or worse (in this case worse) was his own man, which is why he is so widely hated by those in power.
Trump was not his own man. He completely followed the oligarchic mandates for war, wealth disparity and division of the populace. He was as direct and effective at those as any other administrations. He made it seem like he was bucking trends. The only things he did that were actually unconventional were social and policy faux pas. Instigating and agitating just for the sake of it is not constructive. He modeled 12 year old bully mentality.
That's exactly what my mother used to say when she got old. She could freely speak her mind, and people were free to like or dislike what she said. Pelosi's the same way, except she's wicked and powerful, and my mother was sweet and powerless.
I don't condemn many people, even some involved in terrible crimes: they often virtually don't know what they're doing. But George Dubbya Bush I despise, and curse every time I hear his name. By coincidence, tonight I watched 20 Years of Deception - Full Movie in HD, and every shot of Bush's
sly, lying face, every snide word right from his lying, dead soul straight through to his crooked mouth, filled me with hatred. Yes I hate him. He killed at least 1,000,000 innocent people who had done no one harm, all million of them, including children, pregnant women, the ill and disabled, young and old men and women - and destroyed their country, Iraq. He can never be forgiven, in this world or any other. And the same goes for Condoleeezzzaaa Rice, Cheney and all vile, lying fellow perps.
Among other crimes, his father thought nothing of killing 500,000 children under the age of 6 by sanction of common medicines like aspirin, and common disinfectants like chlorine bleach, along with food supplies. All of these fatalities by 1995, so who knows how many older children through to 2013, died from these sanctions? And sec of state Albright thought it was - "worth it."
The Bushes? A criminal, elitist "Skull and Bones" family with criminal mindset and connections, like Feith, Perle, Rumsfeld, Cheney, "Axis of Evil" Frum, Colon Powell, Condoleeezzza Rice, who shrugged her shoulders and said -who knew? Intelligence can be right or wrong - who knew? So, apparently, if you get intelligence from some "curveball" that the moon harbours aliens of dubious intent - blow up the moon! You go with the intelligence you have!!!
All decent or "human" people must condemn these twisted and stupid, self-serving people for all time.
There was a great statistic shown recently about the breadth of the war profiteer industries in the U.S.
First of all over half of pentagon spending goes to external contractors. Secondly the range of spending was very wide. Of course you have the weapons companies, but among the top 10-15 sectors included IT services companies, food, office supplies etc. So in the end the warmongering is floating the entire economy.
What’s worse then is the same regime that is increasing military spending for a needless war in Ukraine completely denies that this broad and wasteful spending has any inflationary effect!
And in the same breadth they keep raising interest rates, claiming that it’s “labour costs” that need to be brought down to reduce inflation.
Few people know what you have written. Now, a question for you, when does NATO/u.s. send troops to whats left of Ukraine? Now that Bakhmut has fallen dividing the Ukraine defensive line into, Russia will take Kamianske cutting the Dnipro river from Kyiv. That will happen quickly on the flat planes West of Bakhmut. Is that the trigger for troops or Nuclear War? Run to the LIght.
Technically speaking, NATO CANNOT win a conventional war against Russia.
Russia has been producing hypersonic missiles and gliders since 2019. NATO still hasn't been able to successfully test a hypersonic device. If I go by the F-35 fiasco, I don't see how they'll be ready by 2030! Imagine firing Khinzal (2000km) from Kaliningrad at the EU. All countries are within 1000kms from Russia and these missiles CANNOT be intercepted by NATO. Only Russia has deployed S-400 (revised), S-500 and S-550 in Moscow to intercept hypersonic devices.
As far as ICBMs go, 1 Sarmat can destroy the state of Texas and CANNOT be intercepted.
Russia just has to take out New York, Washington DC., Colorado (NORAD) and all is done!
Let's say the "crazies in the basement" chose the nuclear option meaning opting for the MAD doctrine. Well, the entire planet is doomed. But Russia can still use S-500 and S-550 to intercept most of the nuclear war heads in space before they even reach their territory. NATO does not even have that mitigation capability.
Russia just has to launch 2 Poseidons on the East coast and 2 from the West coast from their submarines to clean up the entire costal areas of the US with radioactive tsunamis.
Depending on the half life of the radioactive elements used in the bombs, the US will be history for thousands of years!
As of now, Russia, China and Iran are the only countries that have hypersonic devices in production.
It's time for Bidensky to raise the white flag in UkroNazistan or start preparing his final trip to heaven (hell!).
Back in the 1930s, German Naziism was viewed favorably by some as a bulwark against Soviet communism. In similar fashion, today’s Democratic Party serves as a bulwark against left progressivism. Yes, the Dems do some good things at the margins—just enough to keep their voters from abandoning altogether—but at its core, the Party serves the same ruling class interests as the Republican Party. The so-called “liberal” corporate media share the Democrats’ agenda of blocking social democratic policies as well as feeding the War Machine and its endless wars.
This set of circumstances seems baked into the cake for us westerners, which is why the future may be brighter for people living in countries outside the asylum. But, of course, they have their own ruling elites to deal with.
Well said and yes Bono is really full of crap, years ago he did a song with Luciano Pavarotti called 'Miss Sarajevo' which was beautiful, especially Pavarotti's singing for humanity against war, but last year Bono made a song comparing Zelensky to Saint Patrick and Jesus and he's helped put a smiley face on the worst imperial and corporate oligarch leaders of the west. He wishes to imagine this is making them act better, but they are getting worse and so Bono only succeeded in disillusioning real protest by stealing the stage and diluting the vital criticism of such criminals. I say this as an Irishman myself! 😂 maybe Bono could write a better song again, perhaps about the over 8 million forgotten ethnic Russian people in Ukraine who have been bombed, murdered, raped, tortured, kidnapped and terrorised by the deliberate consequences of the USA empire's 2014 anti ethnic coup to divide and overthrow a peaceful multi ethnic Ukraine society and pivot it as a means to an end against Russia, how about a 'Miss Sarajevo' song of the heart for these murdered and meligned minority peoples, under USA client fascist attack for the last 9 years of war sales? Bono should finally join the protests instead of trying to cancel them and turn the cameras on himself!❤️
Liz Pocahontas Warren, and all the rest of the phony ass progressives in their phony ass democratic party - ought to be sent to the front lines of Ukraine right now. To defend their fake CIA sponsored Ukrainian democracy along their Nazi saluting death battalions. Is anyone tired of this shit yet?
The Democrats are far worse than the Republicans, because they are the party of political correctness. I guess what I’m saying is they are worse because of their sneaky masquerade: Ukrainian flag on a Prius . Dingbat conservatives just say it right out loud. Progressives hide it so very well.
Thank you again Caitlin. The political smile of Pelosi tells all doesn't it. Evil people doing evil things, the real time horror story of our times. Run to the Light.
"I'll just say this honestly, that the Bush family, it's because of their humanity, their faith, their generosity of spirit, their compassion."
I can't believe Pelosi said this about *the Bush family*, whose fortune was built, among others, through collaboration with the Nazis (yes, the original ones from Hitler's Germany) using slave labour from concentration camps, including the most notorious one in Auschwitz.
When one can see a person, yes a woman, yes a Democrat like Pelosi laying on bucketloads of unjustified, sickly praise on a man whose lying, criminal actions were responsible for over half a million children's deaths in Iraq, you know there is no hope for any change in humanity in the USA.
Past history would indicate that if a Democrat feels that such praise is justified, then what chance for a more realistic comment from what has always been in my lifetime the party that justifies wars and military expenditure, that is Republican, the party of Bush & Co.
The devil or the deep blue sea.
One as bad as the other in 2023. Right now one would have to say that Democrats are far more warlike than Republicans, more corrupt as well, but both paying total homage to their masters hiding away in Tel Aviv, represented in the US by hundreds of groups of Israelis, masquerading as Americans. Something of a joke over there. "Yes, we own America", known to all. Even more so now than in the days of Ariel Sharon.
On the other hand, we have seen Obama and the devil herself, Clinton on the Democrat team almost overshadow past Republican actions, confirming yet again that one party is as bad as the other. Women as well, seemingly no different at all.
What a collection of misfits...Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden with Trump and the devil herself, Clinton, gearing up for yet another tilt at the #1 job in 2024 before the empire collapses.
So where do you go to find an acceptable level of humanity. Certainly not to the USA. The United Nations? Hardly, managed as it is by the US. No options available, anywhere.
WWIII will be the only thing that will make a difference. Just around the corner. We all know that the false flags have been prepared, soon to be raised with Biden choosing one of his little NATO puppets to light the fuse....and take the consequences that follow.
I agree, end stage capitalism demands destruction. Demented Biden is the perfect tool surrounded by evil minions of the wealthy. Without a State Dept. there is no other option than greater war. CONgress believes they can win a nuclear war, they say it everyday in so many words. Now that NATO is out of weapons/ammunition there is little choice but to have a tool like Poland step the front line to replace Ukraine's loss of two armies. What proof NATO is out of equipment, the new u.s. order for Ukrainian weapons/ammunition will be filled by production delivery early 2024. Ukraine's defeat in Bakhmut has divided Ukraine's army into behind the defensive lines they have been creating since 2014. West of Bakhmut is a flat plane that will be used as a slaughter table all the way to Dnipro river. The question, will the Russian's take the port city of Zaporizhia blockading shipping or will the Russian's continue West driving North to Kyiv? I realize the Russian's have fought the war limiting civilian deaths unlike what we in the u.s. would have done. Ukraine is demanding NATO/u.s. troops which might depend on which direction Russia chooses? South taking Zaprizhia and Odessa will be the slow grind saving lives, North is nuclear war?
I wanted to write that in reading you, Mrs. Johnstone, you console me with the infinite stupidity that is the essential characteristic of the elite in France. This stupidity is also shared by the American elite. But no, that doesn't console me because if the elite of my country has become so stupid, it is because it has given up being French and preferred to become Americanized.
The ravings of Mrs. Pelosi and Warren are as indecent as those of Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL), a guy who calls himself a philosopher and has the ear of the French leaders. One question: does this sinister cretin have a reputation in the United States?
Can't speak for others, but I have not heard of BHL over here. But the 'progressive' former-left intelligentsia are thoroughly mired in the pseudo-philosophical excreta of Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard and the rest of their merry postmodernist gang. To the point that they no longer have any sense of external reality. We in the US are in deep, deep doodoo.
If BHL is unknown in the United States, that's one less moron who brings shame to France in the world. But it is true that for this mission, we have President Macron who fully satisfies it.
For the United States in trouble, they say in France that we follow you at 20 years. I am an attentive reader of Christopher Lasch, and what he wrote about the American elites more than 20 years ago is totally relevant in France and in Europe. Moreover, thanks to the Internet, which has favored American globalization, we are now following you in a few months, even weeks.
So I googled BHL and found this article in The Atlantic (October, 2021):
"The French Intellectual Who Refuses to Look Away
Rich societies were turning inward even before the pandemic, but Bernard-Henri Lévy won’t let them ignore atrocities elsewhere.
By Anne Applebaum"
Great, another promoter for Humanitarian Imperialism, the new wave of Western imperialist thought, freshly dressed in situational ethics. Manifest Destiny reforged, with the added moral zeal of Zionism. I honestly believe this movement has the potential to become Humanitarian Totalitarianism, because its adherents are so certain of their moral purity, almost like Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China.
And, by the way, you don't have to be Jewish to love Zionism. A majority of Protestant Christians in America are Zionist, because they believe that (A) Jews form a distinct nation of people, (B) Jews have a moral right to a homeland in Judea (now Israel), and (C) All of this is part of God's plan for the redemption of the fallen human world. In fact, Zionism as a Christian idea long predates the late-19th century development of Zionism among Jews, who at that time suffered a sharp increase of anti-Semitism in Europe, especially Eastern Europe (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbcd292.12 ; "Mainstream Christian Zionism", by Peter J. Miano).
Of course, Anne Applebaum is well known as an American neoconservative and wife of the former Defense Minister of Poland.
I believe that we are advancing in this totalitarianism which advances masked behind humanitarian hypocrisies but which in fact is the logical outcome of our materialistic and capitalist societies. Even before the end of the Second World War, Georges Bernanos and Simone Weil warned the European nations that, once they had got rid of the Nazi hydra, they were in danger of submitting to a new totalitarianism that would take the form of American democracy. Almost 80 years later, what do we see? The country that proclaims itself to be the most beautiful and largest democracy in the world (and even in history, no less) supporting a neo-Nazi regime that it itself installed in power, and the nations of Europe supporting this regime against the country that contributed the most to freeing them from Nazism. G. Bernanos and S. Weil had seen it well, but had they even imagined to what extent we would rush into this servitude?
Christopher Lasch was a prophet in modern social analysis. I only became aware of him in the past few years, have read several of his books, and find very little with which I could disagree. Thank you for bringing him to the foreground. Coincidentally, he lived and worked in my neck of the woods, western New York state, near Lake Ontario.
I find that Christopher Lasch's thought is in line with that of G. K. Chesterton, Georges Bernanos or Simone Weil. We are far from B.H.L. and from all these contemporary impostors who have nothing to tell us but are ready to sell us all their propaganda.
I can't wait to see our "environmentally friendly" nuclear weapons. The glow on the horizon will be a lovely shade of green and the mushroom clouds will be GMO free . Yes, you can't get anymore Democrat than that. Sigh.
Love the "environmentally friendly nuclear weapons" I'm stealing it ha. in the initial detonation, gamma rays and thermal neutrons are produced , they will scintillate your eye. The column of heat will be visible to ultraviolet.
Hey, we conservatives who love an organic diet and the carnivore lifestyle also look forward to an all-natural nuclear chain reaction that will wipe out cities and bring on a nuclear winter. Don't leave us carnivore, organic right-wingers out of the organic death of all that is.
(Sarcasm, in case you can't tell.)
I feel the threat of nuclear war greater today than when I was sitting under my desk looking into the eyes of teacher who was terrified. That look made me ask questions about why. I have worked in high energy physics now over 40 yrs. If people only knew what trying to survive in that world would be like. Hollywood makes it look easy, The book On the Beach by Nevil Shute is the reality : (
Well said. I am 55 and I remember those terrified looks from teachers. Now, I am a teacher, and I try to do my best to be honest with students while not terrorizing them.
Much love to you, teaching in these times is a struggle. Even though the students I work with are grad students I hear the challenges of teaching today. Honesty , I love you for that, without honesty there is no chance to learn any topic. When will you get the first question about nuclear war? So far in our coffee chats the topic has only come up after a higher level of saber rattling. I am working on a new experiment Oscura. I am so old it might be my last shot at seeing dark matter ha.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10518
Please hug all those around you from me. You are our only hope : )
That mushroom cloud itself might be GMO free, but what's in it will certainly do a number on all of our genetics.
Bush is a war criminal. He started an unprovoked war costing $trillions of dollars with the entire premise based on a full and blatant lie. It's incomprehensible. I can't in any way fathom the words Pelosi said to him. There are no realities that these words are more the complete opposite of than "humanity, generosity of spirit, compassion" and George Bush. For decades now I've expected him to be put in prison. Knowing how twisted our country is maybe I could imagine he escapes prison here but why has he not been put in prison when he stepped foot in any other country?! How is it people like Bush and Trump are free?! At the very least how is it that anybody listened to more than 5 minutes of their speaking?! Why wasn't every single media exposure done with the idea that being president was purely comedy?!
Please don't lump Bush and Trump together, since there were no wars under Trump. During the Bush/Cheney years millions were displaced, died, their countries left in shambles, black sites and Guantánamo, and torture. Why aren't you holding those who voted for the lies accountable? Don't you think they knew the truth? I knew they were lies, many knew all our middle eastern wars were based on nothing but lies. So while your at it what about Obama and all the others, especially those that pushed for these wars like Clinton, or should we just send them to purgatory, after all they're democrats.
I lumped them together on the basis of presidents blatantly breaking laws and not answering to it. The insurrection was a serious offense. There are several other impropriety reasons he should be in prison also. Both Trump and Bush also had the similarity to me that any words out of their mouths are so unintelligent that I can't even listen to 5 minutes before being exasperated. As far as war, all of them including Obama are war criminals. Obama as much as any. He signed the NDAA allowing people to be executed without any kind of due process. That paved the way for the despicable drone program where it's now common practice to kill people remotely without any due process.
What laws did Trump break that you are referring to? When you say insurrection I think it's best to call it a riot, since the capital police did let hundreds in through the front door, and I saw it myself. No one was killed, except Ashley Babbitt. Did you see them breaking the windows on the doors, and the cops standing around doing nothing, and moving away before Babbit was killed? Also, hard to take over the reins of government with no weapons. No one is saying Trump isn't in need of improvement, but please don't lump him together with Bush. I agree with you on Obama, Droner and chief that he was. I'll agree Trump wasn't perfect, but the Bush/Cheney team were beyond loathsome. Think, about how someone responsible for so much death, torture and destruction was paraded around during the Jan 6 comm, by his daughter which was set up to determine Trump's guilt. If you do think about it, is it upsetting?
When you add all the ways he tried to alter the votes it equals insurrection. All his crony deals entitle him to prison. His war credits are up to par with all of them. Trump is in every way as horrible as all of them. In every way he was a disgusting man.
Yes, there is plenty of blame for all. Because I had so much hope, Obummer was my greatest disappointment. That was a moment in time to destroy and neuter the War Machine, dismantle the Oligarchic banking system and return it to the people, a credit union of workers : ) Education of desire to learn , not profit. The world could be a better place for all. Guillotines anyone?
You’re encouraging violence. That’s reprehensible.
If you want to do anything that disgusting, well you make that comment on your own. Don’t reply or tag to my comment. Am not on your team.
I'm wondering if your post is under the wrong comment. Are you saying "destroy and neuter the War Machine, dismantle the Oligarchic banking system and return it to the people, a credit union of workers" is encouraging violence? Those are two salient actions we could take. The way they get implemented matters. It won't work if it's done by force. But if everyone chooses to do those we would see two fundamental problems gone. Those two ideas would put a big dent in large scale global violence and major wealth disparity.
That’s a lie
Trump eagerly escalated invasion & occupation in Afghanistan and Syria where he approved the theft of their oilfields. Trump also oversaw growing number of “special military operations” in Africa.
Trump threatened to nuke North Korea until they signalled they would retaliate by hitting Japan. And he tried the same with China, whereupon even U.S. Generals called China to assure them that they wouldn’t follow that command.
So basically you lied. Big time. Trump was also a warmonger.
Trump also supported Saudi bombing in Yemen, and gave at least a billion dollars of weapons to Ukraine. So not as dramatic as Bush's wars or Obama's wars, but still very much a tool of the war mongers.
It's true that Trump did not get the U.S. into any new wars, but he packed his administration with war hawks of the type who ultimately provoked the Ukraine war (think John Bolton and Mike Pompeo). It was during Trump's administration that much of the arming of Ukraine to fight Russia took place. Thus, he does not escape culpability. That said, I think that Trump had his sights fixed more on China. If I may generalize, the Democrats demonize Russia, and the Republicans, China. Naturally, it's a matter of degree, as leaders of both parties despise both countries.
He did pick people like Pompeo, and Bolton, bad, bad choices, but they did not provoke the Ukraine war, although their antipathy toward Russia didn't help. That war was decided during the Obama years, an administration that assisted a coup and sent a pro-Russia president flying into their arms. Obama was not adverse to using neo-nazi's to get the job done, neo-nazis willing to inflict violence on innocent people. Trump got in their way when he unexpectantly won in 2016, but Biden picked up the mantle once he got into office. Read about it and you'll see the validity that from the beginning this was an orchestrated attempt to remove Putin when we initiated a coup back in 2014. Russia-gate kept the hatred of Russia alive.
Oh, I never intended to let Obama off the hook. He and his point man for Ukraine, then Vice President Joe Biden, got the ball rolling with the Maidan coup in 2014. Nevertheless, Trump and his super hawk advisors green-lit or failed to red-light the arming of Ukraine, without which, the war might not have happened. So, I would apportion responsibility for the Ukraine horror as Dems 70%, Repubs 30%.
Go away old man, I remember you now.
Let’s not forget his repeated trashing of people of color, you know, the rapists from Mexico, so many from “shithole countries,” tear-gassing BLM legally assembled protestors so he could do a fucking photo-op. The Charlottesville fiasco where he couldn’t bring himself to be unambiguous in criticizing white-supremacist thugs. This mythology regarding his not starting a war...can I get a reward? I haven’t killed anybody! Trump made it clear that he has no problem with killing socialists and Asians. And he’d probably try to kill Asian socialists twice. He never lifted sanctions on Syria, he increased them on Venezuela. Sanctions are an act of war!
Yes, we know, he's a xenophobe, a sexist, a homophobe, etc. Now what about all the others that killed and displaced millions of Muslims? I know Clinton, called him a xenophobe because he initially didn't want Muslims entering the county, but changed his mind on that. However, she is responsible for killing and destroying the lives of millions of Muslims. So, who is the xenophobe here? I think Clinton pushed the false narrative of Russia-gate, and didn't even want him to pay them a visit. Now look where we are.
Great, come in with a one liner and think you have made a point. You haven't.
You may be wasting your time. Evidently, the 2024 campaign has begun, and Comments sections everywhere will be awash with directives to hate Trump (and hate DeSantis, should he become a front-runner), and any criticism of any Democrat will be labeled an attack on Democrat candidates, as if we all were still trapped in that noisome "If you are not a Democrat supporter you must be a Trump supporter" bull-ordure. Yep, the 2024 campaign police are now active. Kind of obvious and a bit amusing and very familiar. And it never occurs to them that folks really just don't care what they spew and bubble about. Much less obey the Dem marching orders.
What goes on inside The Beltway is quite removed from everyday life.
Inside The Beltway, insiders write checks, the outsiders "vote". Who does the government listen to. The last three years is proof enough.
Bush was Cheney's puppet, just as Biden is a mouthpiece for the 1% and the Pentagon. Trump at least, for better or worse (in this case worse) was his own man, which is why he is so widely hated by those in power.
Trump was not his own man. He completely followed the oligarchic mandates for war, wealth disparity and division of the populace. He was as direct and effective at those as any other administrations. He made it seem like he was bucking trends. The only things he did that were actually unconventional were social and policy faux pas. Instigating and agitating just for the sake of it is not constructive. He modeled 12 year old bully mentality.
Because everyone in the room is the same person. We have many to fight. We fight together we win together : )
That's exactly what my mother used to say when she got old. She could freely speak her mind, and people were free to like or dislike what she said. Pelosi's the same way, except she's wicked and powerful, and my mother was sweet and powerless.
I don't condemn many people, even some involved in terrible crimes: they often virtually don't know what they're doing. But George Dubbya Bush I despise, and curse every time I hear his name. By coincidence, tonight I watched 20 Years of Deception - Full Movie in HD, and every shot of Bush's
sly, lying face, every snide word right from his lying, dead soul straight through to his crooked mouth, filled me with hatred. Yes I hate him. He killed at least 1,000,000 innocent people who had done no one harm, all million of them, including children, pregnant women, the ill and disabled, young and old men and women - and destroyed their country, Iraq. He can never be forgiven, in this world or any other. And the same goes for Condoleeezzzaaa Rice, Cheney and all vile, lying fellow perps.
Exactly and if you were to follow him from the time he started as a young man you would see he never did anything good always war and infiltration!
Among other crimes, his father thought nothing of killing 500,000 children under the age of 6 by sanction of common medicines like aspirin, and common disinfectants like chlorine bleach, along with food supplies. All of these fatalities by 1995, so who knows how many older children through to 2013, died from these sanctions? And sec of state Albright thought it was - "worth it."
The Bushes? A criminal, elitist "Skull and Bones" family with criminal mindset and connections, like Feith, Perle, Rumsfeld, Cheney, "Axis of Evil" Frum, Colon Powell, Condoleeezzza Rice, who shrugged her shoulders and said -who knew? Intelligence can be right or wrong - who knew? So, apparently, if you get intelligence from some "curveball" that the moon harbours aliens of dubious intent - blow up the moon! You go with the intelligence you have!!!
All decent or "human" people must condemn these twisted and stupid, self-serving people for all time.
For certain!
Fuck these war criminals, i am so glad that i left the democratic party almost 16 years ago. #DemExit
There was a great statistic shown recently about the breadth of the war profiteer industries in the U.S.
First of all over half of pentagon spending goes to external contractors. Secondly the range of spending was very wide. Of course you have the weapons companies, but among the top 10-15 sectors included IT services companies, food, office supplies etc. So in the end the warmongering is floating the entire economy.
What’s worse then is the same regime that is increasing military spending for a needless war in Ukraine completely denies that this broad and wasteful spending has any inflationary effect!
And in the same breadth they keep raising interest rates, claiming that it’s “labour costs” that need to be brought down to reduce inflation.
This regime includes the Dems. Charlatans!
War is the health of the State.
“If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.”
— George H. W. Bush, 1992
‘Gott mit uns’ – Middle East Jungle.
o ‘I am driven with a mission from god. god would tell me, ‘George, go and fight these
terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did. And then god would tell me George, go and end the
tyranny in Iraq. And I did’ - George Bush, 2005
o Cost of god’s stupidity: $6 - 7 Trillion (Trump’s assessment).
‘Gott mit uns’ – UkroNazistan Jungle (2022).
Fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian:
Europe Commits Hara-Kiri
“Putin cannot remain in power in Moscow” – Bidensky, March 2022.
The end of the power of reason!!!
“We will support Ukraine as long as it takes” – Bidensky
Cost of the emperor’s stupidity:
o $120 billion to US tax payers as of December 2022.
o 417,000 Ukrainian soldiers disabled or dead as of December 2022.
Few people know what you have written. Now, a question for you, when does NATO/u.s. send troops to whats left of Ukraine? Now that Bakhmut has fallen dividing the Ukraine defensive line into, Russia will take Kamianske cutting the Dnipro river from Kyiv. That will happen quickly on the flat planes West of Bakhmut. Is that the trigger for troops or Nuclear War? Run to the LIght.
Technically speaking, NATO CANNOT win a conventional war against Russia.
Russia has been producing hypersonic missiles and gliders since 2019. NATO still hasn't been able to successfully test a hypersonic device. If I go by the F-35 fiasco, I don't see how they'll be ready by 2030! Imagine firing Khinzal (2000km) from Kaliningrad at the EU. All countries are within 1000kms from Russia and these missiles CANNOT be intercepted by NATO. Only Russia has deployed S-400 (revised), S-500 and S-550 in Moscow to intercept hypersonic devices.
As far as ICBMs go, 1 Sarmat can destroy the state of Texas and CANNOT be intercepted.
Russia just has to take out New York, Washington DC., Colorado (NORAD) and all is done!
Let's say the "crazies in the basement" chose the nuclear option meaning opting for the MAD doctrine. Well, the entire planet is doomed. But Russia can still use S-500 and S-550 to intercept most of the nuclear war heads in space before they even reach their territory. NATO does not even have that mitigation capability.
Russia just has to launch 2 Poseidons on the East coast and 2 from the West coast from their submarines to clean up the entire costal areas of the US with radioactive tsunamis.
Depending on the half life of the radioactive elements used in the bombs, the US will be history for thousands of years!
As of now, Russia, China and Iran are the only countries that have hypersonic devices in production.
It's time for Bidensky to raise the white flag in UkroNazistan or start preparing his final trip to heaven (hell!).
Back in the 1930s, German Naziism was viewed favorably by some as a bulwark against Soviet communism. In similar fashion, today’s Democratic Party serves as a bulwark against left progressivism. Yes, the Dems do some good things at the margins—just enough to keep their voters from abandoning altogether—but at its core, the Party serves the same ruling class interests as the Republican Party. The so-called “liberal” corporate media share the Democrats’ agenda of blocking social democratic policies as well as feeding the War Machine and its endless wars.
This set of circumstances seems baked into the cake for us westerners, which is why the future may be brighter for people living in countries outside the asylum. But, of course, they have their own ruling elites to deal with.
Well said and yes Bono is really full of crap, years ago he did a song with Luciano Pavarotti called 'Miss Sarajevo' which was beautiful, especially Pavarotti's singing for humanity against war, but last year Bono made a song comparing Zelensky to Saint Patrick and Jesus and he's helped put a smiley face on the worst imperial and corporate oligarch leaders of the west. He wishes to imagine this is making them act better, but they are getting worse and so Bono only succeeded in disillusioning real protest by stealing the stage and diluting the vital criticism of such criminals. I say this as an Irishman myself! 😂 maybe Bono could write a better song again, perhaps about the over 8 million forgotten ethnic Russian people in Ukraine who have been bombed, murdered, raped, tortured, kidnapped and terrorised by the deliberate consequences of the USA empire's 2014 anti ethnic coup to divide and overthrow a peaceful multi ethnic Ukraine society and pivot it as a means to an end against Russia, how about a 'Miss Sarajevo' song of the heart for these murdered and meligned minority peoples, under USA client fascist attack for the last 9 years of war sales? Bono should finally join the protests instead of trying to cancel them and turn the cameras on himself!❤️
Liz Pocahontas Warren, and all the rest of the phony ass progressives in their phony ass democratic party - ought to be sent to the front lines of Ukraine right now. To defend their fake CIA sponsored Ukrainian democracy along their Nazi saluting death battalions. Is anyone tired of this shit yet?
The Democrats are far worse than the Republicans, because they are the party of political correctness. I guess what I’m saying is they are worse because of their sneaky masquerade: Ukrainian flag on a Prius . Dingbat conservatives just say it right out loud. Progressives hide it so very well.
Thank you again Caitlin. The political smile of Pelosi tells all doesn't it. Evil people doing evil things, the real time horror story of our times. Run to the Light.
But Caitlin isn't it fantastically progressive that two women got the job of saying these things?
"I'll just say this honestly, that the Bush family, it's because of their humanity, their faith, their generosity of spirit, their compassion."
I can't believe Pelosi said this about *the Bush family*, whose fortune was built, among others, through collaboration with the Nazis (yes, the original ones from Hitler's Germany) using slave labour from concentration camps, including the most notorious one in Auschwitz.
Here's one article about the matter:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Pelosi is a warmonger that's why. And a criminal to boot.
When one can see a person, yes a woman, yes a Democrat like Pelosi laying on bucketloads of unjustified, sickly praise on a man whose lying, criminal actions were responsible for over half a million children's deaths in Iraq, you know there is no hope for any change in humanity in the USA.
Past history would indicate that if a Democrat feels that such praise is justified, then what chance for a more realistic comment from what has always been in my lifetime the party that justifies wars and military expenditure, that is Republican, the party of Bush & Co.
The devil or the deep blue sea.
One as bad as the other in 2023. Right now one would have to say that Democrats are far more warlike than Republicans, more corrupt as well, but both paying total homage to their masters hiding away in Tel Aviv, represented in the US by hundreds of groups of Israelis, masquerading as Americans. Something of a joke over there. "Yes, we own America", known to all. Even more so now than in the days of Ariel Sharon.
On the other hand, we have seen Obama and the devil herself, Clinton on the Democrat team almost overshadow past Republican actions, confirming yet again that one party is as bad as the other. Women as well, seemingly no different at all.
What a collection of misfits...Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden with Trump and the devil herself, Clinton, gearing up for yet another tilt at the #1 job in 2024 before the empire collapses.
So where do you go to find an acceptable level of humanity. Certainly not to the USA. The United Nations? Hardly, managed as it is by the US. No options available, anywhere.
WWIII will be the only thing that will make a difference. Just around the corner. We all know that the false flags have been prepared, soon to be raised with Biden choosing one of his little NATO puppets to light the fuse....and take the consequences that follow.
Which one will win the ballot?
I agree, end stage capitalism demands destruction. Demented Biden is the perfect tool surrounded by evil minions of the wealthy. Without a State Dept. there is no other option than greater war. CONgress believes they can win a nuclear war, they say it everyday in so many words. Now that NATO is out of weapons/ammunition there is little choice but to have a tool like Poland step the front line to replace Ukraine's loss of two armies. What proof NATO is out of equipment, the new u.s. order for Ukrainian weapons/ammunition will be filled by production delivery early 2024. Ukraine's defeat in Bakhmut has divided Ukraine's army into behind the defensive lines they have been creating since 2014. West of Bakhmut is a flat plane that will be used as a slaughter table all the way to Dnipro river. The question, will the Russian's take the port city of Zaporizhia blockading shipping or will the Russian's continue West driving North to Kyiv? I realize the Russian's have fought the war limiting civilian deaths unlike what we in the u.s. would have done. Ukraine is demanding NATO/u.s. troops which might depend on which direction Russia chooses? South taking Zaprizhia and Odessa will be the slow grind saving lives, North is nuclear war?
Well it would be progress if we could relegate the US Navy to sail power alone again.
I wanted to write that in reading you, Mrs. Johnstone, you console me with the infinite stupidity that is the essential characteristic of the elite in France. This stupidity is also shared by the American elite. But no, that doesn't console me because if the elite of my country has become so stupid, it is because it has given up being French and preferred to become Americanized.
The ravings of Mrs. Pelosi and Warren are as indecent as those of Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL), a guy who calls himself a philosopher and has the ear of the French leaders. One question: does this sinister cretin have a reputation in the United States?
Can't speak for others, but I have not heard of BHL over here. But the 'progressive' former-left intelligentsia are thoroughly mired in the pseudo-philosophical excreta of Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard and the rest of their merry postmodernist gang. To the point that they no longer have any sense of external reality. We in the US are in deep, deep doodoo.
If BHL is unknown in the United States, that's one less moron who brings shame to France in the world. But it is true that for this mission, we have President Macron who fully satisfies it.
For the United States in trouble, they say in France that we follow you at 20 years. I am an attentive reader of Christopher Lasch, and what he wrote about the American elites more than 20 years ago is totally relevant in France and in Europe. Moreover, thanks to the Internet, which has favored American globalization, we are now following you in a few months, even weeks.
So I googled BHL and found this article in The Atlantic (October, 2021):
"The French Intellectual Who Refuses to Look Away
Rich societies were turning inward even before the pandemic, but Bernard-Henri Lévy won’t let them ignore atrocities elsewhere.
By Anne Applebaum"
Great, another promoter for Humanitarian Imperialism, the new wave of Western imperialist thought, freshly dressed in situational ethics. Manifest Destiny reforged, with the added moral zeal of Zionism. I honestly believe this movement has the potential to become Humanitarian Totalitarianism, because its adherents are so certain of their moral purity, almost like Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China.
And, by the way, you don't have to be Jewish to love Zionism. A majority of Protestant Christians in America are Zionist, because they believe that (A) Jews form a distinct nation of people, (B) Jews have a moral right to a homeland in Judea (now Israel), and (C) All of this is part of God's plan for the redemption of the fallen human world. In fact, Zionism as a Christian idea long predates the late-19th century development of Zionism among Jews, who at that time suffered a sharp increase of anti-Semitism in Europe, especially Eastern Europe (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbcd292.12 ; "Mainstream Christian Zionism", by Peter J. Miano).
Of course, Anne Applebaum is well known as an American neoconservative and wife of the former Defense Minister of Poland.
I believe that we are advancing in this totalitarianism which advances masked behind humanitarian hypocrisies but which in fact is the logical outcome of our materialistic and capitalist societies. Even before the end of the Second World War, Georges Bernanos and Simone Weil warned the European nations that, once they had got rid of the Nazi hydra, they were in danger of submitting to a new totalitarianism that would take the form of American democracy. Almost 80 years later, what do we see? The country that proclaims itself to be the most beautiful and largest democracy in the world (and even in history, no less) supporting a neo-Nazi regime that it itself installed in power, and the nations of Europe supporting this regime against the country that contributed the most to freeing them from Nazism. G. Bernanos and S. Weil had seen it well, but had they even imagined to what extent we would rush into this servitude?
Christopher Lasch was a prophet in modern social analysis. I only became aware of him in the past few years, have read several of his books, and find very little with which I could disagree. Thank you for bringing him to the foreground. Coincidentally, he lived and worked in my neck of the woods, western New York state, near Lake Ontario.
I find that Christopher Lasch's thought is in line with that of G. K. Chesterton, Georges Bernanos or Simone Weil. We are far from B.H.L. and from all these contemporary impostors who have nothing to tell us but are ready to sell us all their propaganda.