The ironic thing with Democrats is their effective propaganda. The 'vote blue no matter who' mantra mixed with the desire to win at any cost is what blinds the voters to how far right the party actually is. Interestingly, the same people that supported things Democrats oppose now are on the side of Democrats. It isn't bipartisan when you abandon the party platform, the ideology, and rhetoric. The weak stance on women's rights by Biden(better luck next time, we didn't get enough votes), the genocide in Gaza, the homelessness epidemic in California, Harris made a weak ambiguous position on illegal immigration on CNN recently...Trump can't be a threat to democracy, it doesn't exist in the US. The election is meaningless, as stated, the empire wins no matter who is elected. I also recall Michelle Obama hugging George W. Bush years ago. Colin Powell called Hillary a friend, though he would rather not vote for her...(2016 wiki leaks), the war in the Ukraine is no longer big headlines. You know, how Putin has this plan to take over all of Europe lol. That he would be the next Hitler...Kim of North Korea is not the big bad guy in the news either. I mean Harris won the delegates in a virtual roll call without there ever being an election. She is the new face of the Democratic party...it just seems so clearly fake an orchestrated.
It has been fake and orchestrated for a very long time. This DNC convention was Deja vu. It was such a replay of the 1968 debacle. Millions wanted the Vietnam war to end, but the antiwar candidates were dismissed as if they never existed (and their supporters beaten as if they didn’t deserve to) and the debate became ‘we must stop Nixon at any price; you must ignore what Humphrey actually represents.’ Same story, same author, different characters.
But there was a twist. Thousands, maybe millions, of young people were radicalized by what they saw happening (myself included), and a counterculture was grown by those who saw the pointlessness of ‘trying to change the system’. We made new pathways that have left real differences, even if we failed utterly to dismantle the MIC and stop wars. It can happen again, maybe much more effectively.
I even went to prison for a short while for the sin of peacefully resisting the American invasion of Vietnam . If we don't nonviolently and courageously resist the madness then the world will have a short future ending with a nuclear bang
Your non violent resistance will not work. This is not Vietnam, There is no draft. No one gives a shit. Only you and a few others. I see a possibility if a madman takes the reins and doesn't do what the blob asks.. Trump is the only one who comes close, and they make a little noise about ending endless wars. They have said that before i'll grant you. But the machine is moving towards the edge and can't be stopped but for the grace of God. We'll just have to see.
I wish I was wrong, but I share your pessimism about the current generation's lack of motivation. I'm glad to be old now and spared the shit show that I believe will be the future. The neocons got in when Cheney first took power with the stooge, Dumya, and their PNAC has become the reality since.
Yes, it's a good time to be old indeed. Just enough time left on this planet to see the beginning of the end.. no scratch that, the middle of the end? or maybe slipping towards the end of the end.... my sister tells me old men always talk like it's the end of the world as we know it, but history is littered with civilizations that grew decadent and collapsed.... it happens... and is happening in real time... the obesity epidemic is one symptom among so very many.
Protests worked against the Vietnam war...when the media switched sides...That's not going to happen this time, the media being almost totally controlled by the neocons and AIPAC...
I can recall listening to the 1960 Democratic National Convention on the radio, lying in the Los Angeles night, when Sam Rayburn called for a voice vote on the nomination of Lyndon Baines Johnson for Vice President. At least from the vantage point of the radio’s microphone, the aye votes were negligible. I learned a valuable lesson in “democracy” that night.
Wow. Good on you for a lifetime of clear vision. I remember that convention, too, but I was nine, and was all taken in by JFK. The media said he was left wing and I thought he would make peace with the USSR. The Cuban Missile Crisis changed everything for me. But looking back, I can relate to the masses of idiots who get caught up in the excitement of what they’re told is something new. The media controlled us even then.
I learned a bit here, thank you. This was before my time and there is a different sort of perspective you gain from those who have lived through it first hand. I appreciate you sharing this and gives a new burning light that we can continue to create more pathways.
Once people realise that it is all a show / an illusion and the two parties are just 2 cheeks of the same @rse... working for the globalists and fulfilling their agenda; people can see or at least look into what is really going on.
The World is a stage Marquis, what we see or are told is all bllx.
I like the way you explained this. The government tries to surpress the information of what's going on. Caitlin is one of those that are outside standard media(main stream) and she and others are a minority. It takes at least some critical thinking and a conviction to reject the status quo. I think there are a fair amount of people that see what's going on but are too afraid to walk away from one of the two parties due to cognitive dissonance. On the other hand there are a lot of people still indoctrinated...still as Caitlin suggests we need to work collectively to wake up consciousness and create awareness.
Did you know for instance ... as of today "Today, there are over 120 armed conflicts around the world, involving over 60 states and 120 non-state armed groups. The majority of these armed conflicts are of a non-international character, the number of which has tripled since the turn of the millennium." ....
When they say non-international, that is officially only, as in many conflicts they have their MERCS or HUSH HUSH SPECIAL FORCES in.
Well, I do remember Donald Trump sitting in front of a bunch of cameras (video), quietly stating "I'm only doing what I'm told. I'm only double what I'm told." and I was thinking "Right. Because presidents are the personal puppets of the real rulers who hide behind closed doors while they pull your strings. Nothing changes, and nothing will ever change."
Granted, Trump didn't officially start any wars, but he definitely had his hand, and his pen, involved in moving the War-Mongering, War-Profiteering agenda of the (behind-closed-doors) ruling elite, the billionaire class, forward.
You don't even have to dig that deep to find this information, because it's all over the world wide web. But don't bother with Wikipedia, obviously, because it's been under the control and guidance of the C.L.I.E.A. since its inception.
But, I do understand your feelings, because I want to believe in the people who allegedly "lead?" us. Unfortunately, the uber-wealthy always tend to want to pretend that they're our friends, and so, they often run for political office, which is always a detriment to ours and our country's well-being.
Indeed I did and it was one of the best Presidencies we’ve ever had. He did most of what he promised he would do. That was in between behind hampered by democrats and their buddies in the media the deep state anyway they could get to try and stop him. Instead of being upset at what destructive games the haters did you bought into all of it. Give me facts instead of insults and we’ll see who might be closer to the truth if it
It sure as fuck isn’t bipartisan when one side is yearns no to vote in a dictator. Take your normalization of MAGA and what the GOP currently is and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!
What is propaganda about wanting healthcare for citizens? What is propaganda about making the rich pay their fair share? What is propaganda about gun control and protecting our children?
What most impresses me these days is the tremendous power of the Israeli Lobby - AIPAC and kindred organs to control the narratives which control the decisions and actions of ALL the leaders of the Western World. All the mouth flapping about impending authoritarianism if Agent Chaos is elected, when daily is the repression of a signal tenet of democracy - the freedom of speech. Who says authoritarianism hasn't all erected itself into dominance? Just a different set of thieves of the citizenry and whatever tattered shreds of democracy we have left. Two warring corporatized spittle foaming fraternities fighting for the spoils and spoiled.
AIPAC requires them to take the pledge - no pledge no campaign contributions.
I find that there's nothing particularly impressive about politici who've sold out their morals along with their country in exchange for generous campaign contributions which considering the roots of AIPAC ought to amount to treason.
AIPAC was ordered to register as a foreign agent way back in 63 but it never did - now the US justice department is demanding that RT register as a foreign agent
I wonder if you are young. Etymology of the word impressive: “late 14c., "have a strong effect on the mind or heart, to stamp deeply in the mind," from Latin impressus, past participle of imprimere "press into or upon, stamp," also figurative, from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + premere "to press, hold fast, cover, crowd, compress" . Never before have I witnessed the level of corruption of institutions of democracy and of journalism on such a grand scale as exhibited today . It astounds. It’s very magnitude presses upon my being. I have known about the darkness of the USA. This time witnessing the terrible brutality wreaked on Palestinians, the Israeli conscious intent to actually starve people in the 21st century , the immediacy of witnessing the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, is awfully impressive. As is the moral depravity of my own country’s handing the Israelis the means -seemingly without end - to murder the Palestinians who had suffered for 70 years in the largest outdoor prison in the world built and controlled and owned by the Israelis . And the fact that my own country disowns one of the pillars of democracy - the right to dissent and the freedom to publish the truth, that impresses too. We are falling down down down. Impressively.
Hitler’s torturers were doctors. Does that make you, a doctor, complicit in the Holocaust? Major logic fail there. For your other claims, what choices do Palestinians have? If you were Palestinian, what would you do? Get some compassion; it’s a requirement for your profession.
OK, lady, I have been compassionate, professionally and otherwise for longer than you have been alive. I was not even born when WWII happened, much less embarked upon a career in medicine. You really really need to take a little course in logic and making believable analogies. Don't they teach you that in nunnery school?
Not only do the Palestinians continue to support Hamas, but the women raise their sons and more recently daughters, to be terrorists, suicide bombers, like US mothers raise their sons to be football players and their daughters to be, I don't know, Taylor Swift, years past I would have said a mother to my grandchildren, but I don't know any more. but as a nun, you would not understand that and how perverse that is.
Early on there was one lonely Palestinian in the West Bank who objected to what Hamas had done. I don't know what happened to him, whether the antisemites in the MSM just. ignored him or whether Hamas silenced him permanently. He was in my mind a hero. If there were enough Palestinians in Gaza that had the balls of that gentleman (and his son, IIRC, this would be over. If I was a Palestinian, I would pray that my family had the wisdom to stay in Israel and make something of their lives so I could make something of my life.
If I was stuck in that hell hole of Hamas' making I would be trying to figure some way to get out. The problem is that the Palestinians have made such a reputation for themselves that none of the other Arab countries will have them. They are considered almost as bad as Jews, or in our terms they are the N!gg3rs of the Middle East, whose only redeeming quality it to stoke the fires of anti-Israeli anger.
You’re very racist and uneducated as any doctor I’ve ever heard speak. If there was a Palestinian in the West Bank, you can assume he is dead now, because Israel kills them. You’re a true POS, fucking racist cunt!
Fellow mohel I see. I started before you had to have a degree, about 500 years ago. What do you do with the leftover foreskins? If you eat them, you can live as long as I have.
Well, there is the immensely strong giant AIPAC being compared to the small weak RT. And the agents who do the bidding of AIPAC are demanding that RT register as a foreign agent. It does have two choices of course. One humbly submit and be allowed to continue or Two refuses and find itself in the outer darkness. I personally think that as demeaning as it is it should submit and we can still enjoy the faint beam of its light
Don't be impressed by the power of the Israel Lobby, Selina. It has taken many decades to get to this point and no one apparently is aiming to change the legislation allowing for 460 politicians to be bought and sold like cattle in a sale yard in the voting marketplace. No one also seems the slightest bit motivated to see organisations like AIPAC listed as foreign agents either, another function of government to correct but not a single voice has been heard to drive this one home.
One can always see the end of a civilisation at times like this when your choice of a Trump or a Harris are the options available
Now, when you add in a Cheney, well described by Caitlin and Tim today, it is just even more corrupt grist for the mill.
Can you sense how I might feel when someone tells me my experience is bad, wrong and that I ought not to have it? How is that not like the government and fat money on university boards telling university presidents to fire a professor who is outspoken in support of Palestinians struggle to survive the recent Israeli version of holocausting the Palestinians in Gaza?
I’m obviously reading posts by people that are part of the TDS so I’m not even going to make an attempt to make my case for Trump 2024. The pessimistic views of the future of the country really leaves me feeling like I’m on an uninhabited island. It my humble opinion and I do know what they say about opinions so please let’s not go there is Trump being a political outsider must be given this final chance to turn the country around in the opposite direction it’s going!
He’s not a political outsider. He’s surrounded by the same people that have been in the government since the 80’s. He’s one of them! If you can’t wrap your head around it, stop talking and start listening.
I am still shocked and horrified that a lobby group could be so goddamn powerful - wait, does it mean that the number of USA's overseas "peacekeeping" missions AIPACs their doing? Genuinely curious here......
Former President Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris for POTUS should be a really clear signal flare of who to NOT vote for. (Yes, I typed "President Cheney".)
Lol…I saw shitlibs telling Kamala that she should choose Liz Cheney for veep. They have lost all touch with reality since Obama continued everything Bush did and especially the wars they were once against.
You don’t even know the answer and that’s a big part of the problem. Those voting for harris have the same problem. No information voters vote these people into office and the rest of us have to live with the consequences of their stupidity
"This election is now a showdown between the Trump Party against the Cheney Party, and no matter who wins, the empire wins. "
Caitlin nails it once again. Horrible Harris is essentially George W. Bush wearing a dress and heels. If those who thought there was some tiny, minute, minuscule difference between Team Red MAGA and Ted Blue MAGA haven't figured out by now that they're one and the same, there's no hope for them. Or for any of us for that matter... Nuclear winter awaits.
It's time to pull out all the stops and promote like hell for the next two months the anti-genocide candidate that can take out the sick genocidal party of Cheney/Trump, Dr. Jill Stein.
Fantastic article Caitlin! I learnt some new things about Liz Cheney (who I thought was one of the sane Republicans - my mistake. There are NO sane politicians in Team D and Team R AFAIK).
Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities. We vote based on how we are made to feel about corporate political puppets. The puppets, Democrat and Republican, engage in hollow acts of political theater keep the fiction of the democratic state alive. There is, however, no national institution left that can accurately be described as democratic. Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on “American Idol.” Mass emotions are directed exclusively toward the culture wars that include battles over abortion and LGBTQ rights. We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power. What we call politics is no longer political.
(I think this pretty much resonates with your article today)
Yes, or what I like to call "Friendly Fascism" - a new form of despotism - one that is an outgrowth of ‘the hidden logic’ of capitalist society's transnational (global) growth - one that emerges gradually but inexorably, as a by-product of a consolidation of the common interests of Big-Government and Big-Business. This ‘undermining of true democracy’ through overt and covert relationships between Big-Government and Big-Business is called "Friendly Fascism" (a term coined by Bertram Gross)
That "friendly fascism" as you call it, is nothing but a matrix "dream" that such is "reality"; when, in-truth, the fascism is now rapidly becoming less and less "friendly", and more and more repressive. The present "vaccine" new holocaust is far from friendly, as we are now being exterminated without, as yet, the use of gas chambers.
So, if you think this increasingly God-playing, mass-murderous, genocidal insanity is "friendly fascism", you are still blue-pilled beyond belief. The "friendly fascism" ended on 9/11/2001, the stops were pulled out, and the license to murder first and don't ask questions later was issued, and money and ideology are buying all of it.
The hounds have been loosed; and, increasingly, we're seeing, and in more and more cases, innocent people being scooped up and "dealt with". Thought crime and pre-crime are now the rule of the day, "justifying" gang-stalking innocent Americans and others, where all of the "suspects" are presumed guilty until proven innocent.
Everything has been flipped upside-down and backwards, and we're increasingly regressing into "legalized" atrocities and barbarism, where raping and pillaging are more and more taking over those who previously never would have been such depraved people. But, as I say, the stops have been removed, they're been given permission to let loose the inner evil beast, devouring all beauty again, but this time, unless God intervenes and stops it, the conflagration is going to be far worse than before, and we're already seeing the beginnings of all hell on Earth breaking loose as never before, with increasingly evil-controlled people becoming out-of-control monsters.
This is where we now are, being deluged with a tsunami of out-of-control government, now entirely corporate- and Zio-fascist-, controlled, aka corporate-fascist, with some totalitarian communism mixed in. And most of the people are already cyborg automatons who blindly follow and obey the new Nazi regime.
Philip K. Dick's novel, The Man in the High Castle, has in some respects become reality. Nazism has taken over, run by the Ashkenazi "Jew" globalists, setting up a global government slave state as the genocide of the citizens has already started, with the cattle and sheep lining up to receive their euthanasia shots and boosters.
The hell on Earth has begun, but most people can't see it, don't want to face it, and/or don't, and refuse to, believe that things are already that bad. But, hey, the matrix control grid has most of us completely plugged in and is directing our "reality". The AI even tolerates some dissent as long as it isn't going to go anywhere.
No, you didn't understand ME. I know what friendly fascism means. I meant that the veil of "friendliness" is being lifted, and the evil is flaunting itself out in the open more and more.. Right now it's come right out and perpetrated their global genocide right in our faces, hiding it less and less.
E.g., the increasing globalist promotion of pedophelia in hand with Zio-fascism, aka corporate fascism, that now permeates what's left of national governments, and has increasingly been doing so for decades under our noses. Yes, some people brought out the truth about this even then, but few would believe it. "There's no way child prostitutes were ever brought into the 'White' House." See how everything is Orwellian now? The black and evil is called "white", and on and on and on. See more Caitlin here:
"Question the media and you're a conspiracy kook. Criticize the government and you're a Russian agent. Oppose war and you're anti-American. Defend Palestinians and you're an anti-Semite. Good is bad. (Bad is good.) Up is down. (Down is up.) War is peace. (Peace is war.) Freedom is slavery. (Slavery is freedom.) Ignorance is strength. (Strength is ignorance.)" - Caitlin Johnstone (Words in parenthesis provided by me.)
Then what are you doing here, besides shilling and/or trolling?! These medical freedom "Stacks" take as an already completely proven given that there is a neo-holocaust now taking place. Don't you realize that that's what these "Stacks" are all about; or is, in addition to money, their bottom line? You really need to get red-pilled and entirely stop living in denial of true reality; or, you're damning yourself to eternal death, as well as all of the others you've influenced against God, our Maker/Creator.
So, what's next for you, continuing to blue-pill, or coming out of the matrix control grid? You better decide quick, because the deception(s) is and/or are going to become a whole lot worse; and, if you don't completely decide for nothing but the right side, you will be sent more and more strong delusions to believe more and more lies; and, if you haven't already, you will sell your soul to Satan, as most will. "Repent, for the kingdom of (God and of) heaven is near at hand"! (Matthew 4:17, et al.)
I love and/or like myself as we're commanded by our Creator to do ["...love your neighbor as yourself..." (Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 5:43, 19:19, 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14; and James 2:8)]. So what? You need to take your evil shilling and/or trolling away from here. As Jack Nicholson said in the movie, As Good As It Gets, "Go sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here" with the insanity of what is really going on, and being surrounded by willful-idiots like yourself, shilling and/or trolling your additional mass-insanity, shoving it down everyone's throats. Therefore, in Jesus the Messiah's name, be gone, Satan[ist(s)], liar(s) and Godless, unrepentant freak(s)!
(Let's see if you're one of those far too many people who act like denials are "admissions".) Not that I'm at all ungrateful for your Liking my comments; but, if my comment was "racist", you really ought not to Like my comments. How is it supposedly "racist"? Racist against Zio-fascism? If so, you've got it backwards, the Zio-fascists are racist against ALL Goyim, aka non-Jews, and want us all eradicated. How is calling them the evil they really are, supposedly "racist"? I'm not against all Ashkenazim, only all of them who reject Jesus the Messiah and/or who embrace Zio-fascism. I came to the conclusion that most Ashkenazim are racist against all non-Ashkenazim relatively recently, after closely observing them and their attitude(s) towards Goy for three years when I was a kid, from 1971 through 1974, living in a "Jewish" foster care agency in San Francisco (though as far as I know for sure, I'm not Ashkenazim myself, though I have reason to believe that I might be partly so on my mother's side---her maiden name was Wolf, a common Jewish-German name, she wouldn't talk about anything, getting extremely angry at me for seeking information about our past and about our family ancestry, thus I know almost nothing about it).
Then, five years ago last month, not knowing then what I know now about the Ashkenazim, I moved into Ashkenazim owned and operated apartment buildings---moving from a studio apartment in one of their buildings, to a one-bedroom unit in another of their buildings---where they have discriminated against me to the max, and where they discriminate against all of the non-Ashkenazim tenants, particularly those like myself who stand up against all of their discrimination, racism and violation of civil and human rights of the tenants, etc. Now, as a result of their evil(s) towards me specifically, and their starting a COMPLETELY FALSE rumor about me, I am gang-stalked, and have been for at least three years, by both them and apparently the authorities as well.
I didn't easily come to the conclusion that most Ashkenazim are racist against everyone who isn't Ashkenazim. My best friend from the foster care agency, Frank Ostreicher, who we got our first apartment together with when we moved out on our own, along with two "friends" from George Washington High School in S.F., was Ashkenazim. While still in the foster care agency, I noticed the coldness from both Ashkenazim staff and kids towards non-Jews, but I didn't understand it at the time. Then, as a result of their gross mistreatment of me for allegedly being a Goy tenant and disability rights advocate, it became crystal clear to me that most of them (all of the staff here) are racist against non-Ashkenazim / Goy. Frank was one of the sweetest guys (strictly heterosexual along with myself) you would ever want to know, and he died from having his colon removed due to ulcerative colitis in 1978 or '79 (sorry, my memory has never been good, and its worse now). I still miss him very much to this day. The good die young.
So, all Ashkenazim who are completely against Zionism, who completely stand against it, who are completely against the Zionist genocide of the Palestinians and "Israehell's" apartheid, racist fascism, and who don't reject Jesus the Messiah, I stand with wholeheartedly. But all of them who reject Jesus the Messiah and/or blindly support "Israehell" and their racist genocide, not just of the Palestinians, but against the entire world, I reject as God the Father through Jesus the Christ rejects them. Love them but not their evil(s)? Yes, I do. I DON'T hate them, I hate their evils, as well as the evil(s) of all Godless people, not only Godless Ashkenazim. They all need to be stood up against and called to repentance; but, until they truly, fully and completely repent, they are evil.
Well there, lone wolf of the Steppes, it's one thing to be against an apartheid political philosophy and another to talk like everyone from that section is evil. You have tread close to that on occasion. And as far as them accepting Jesus as messiah, well that is religious fundamentalist sectarianism. I stand against all of that. Christians have been about the worst genocidal maniacs throughout history, so you don't have much ground to stand on yourself.
I liked your post cause there is a lot of sense in them. I also make common cause with the KKK on issues of foreign wars and medical freedom, but not on race issues. Zionism is a ethno political philosophy adhered to more by Christians than the tiny amount of Jews in the world.
Chang: I agree with you about the term friendly fascism. That is what we have in the United States today, probably since the nineties is what I would say. This is maybe why we as a country can’t do anything about climate change or the destruction of nature… which will be followed by the destruction of humanity. But I care more about nature these days than humans. Those who turn their backs on Gaza will maybe learn?? when Mother Nature turns her back on humans.
Some crazy guy was posting weird comments here. He pissed me off because I read various writers and comments to learn from others, not to see crazy stuff. Asshole. But I see that Caitlin’s readers took him on admirably. Good job people!!
>>"Those who turn their backs on Gaza will maybe learn?? when Mother Nature turns her back on humans."
I wish I could be as optimistic about things as you are. Seeing the absolute other-worldliness of Gaza & Palestine unfolding these last 11 months (to the day) made me re-analyze everything I thought I knew about the world and humanity.
I seriously doubt that homo-sapiens have reached a point in their evolution where they have figured out how to live in peace and harmony with mother nature and each other. IMO, Mother Nature will simply have to teach humanity a lesson. Either humans learn and survive or they perish and a better species will evolve from this experience.
"Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on “American Idol.” "
So very true, especially when considering the electoral college. I mean to say that the popular vote is literally what you have described above. Our representatives have so much control people rarely directly vote on any legislation, when they do, it is superficial and they have contingencies we do not vote on.
"Mass emotions are directed exclusively toward the culture wars that include battles over abortion and LGBTQ rights. We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power"
Well said! This is the influence of propaganda. Caitlin has written Noam Chomsky'a quote about how the best way to control debate is to limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but encourage passionate debate within it. Of course I heavily paraphrased it, perhaps poorly, but I think you really struck a chord here.
When you tar those outside the two-party system with the brush only the two parties deserve, then help me understand how that doesn’t, in and of itself, aid those same two parties?
I believe, to the contrary, that every vote going to third-party candidates is a direct and un-spinnable refutation of the current, perverted system.
Trump takes no pains to conceal his self-centered narcissismor his arrogance. Yet despite his flaws tha man has warm blood and at least some love of America. But all the establishment blather seems to show that the machine will put the vp in office… Also, as John Day suggested, Dick Cheney was probably the acting prez during GWB's tenure.
According to the media, a US coup in 2014 overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine and installed a rabidly anti-Russian regime (https://archive.is/H4U3N#selection-290.0-834.0). That was two years before Trump was elected.
Pretty vague accusation, fed you by the character- assassinating Mockingbird press, and unsupportable. Try supporting it. Was it self-serving for Trump to not take his salary while in office? Go ahead, minimize /dismiss that irrefutable demonstration of selflessness. Give an official xampke that b gates it. Not gossip. Demonstrable fact: let me help you understand what that is.
Trump lost billions personally while president.
How self-centered is that?
We should be discussing the relative condition of the economy in his term compared to the current administration. That is all. There are no unflawed billionaires, or former TV stars, or NYC real estate moguls. It should be enough that he loves America, and wants to fix it. With RFK Jr sitting shotgun (pardon the firearm metaphor, for this allusion.)
The simple fact is, Trump could be enjoying his sunset years in luxury and safety, still the darling of all these honchos who foam at the mouth because he is the People’s Choice, and by THAT metric he is the least self-interested person in public politics today.
They are all narcissists, but if one of them sees their self interest aligns with the interest of the nation and the world, well who knows what could happen. Sure a shooting, not much is liable to happen otherwise but the fast moving train headed towards the broken bridge. This is the climax of the movie and you really can't predict the outcome. Survival or Armageddon..
Then why did he work for 4 years, giving every penny of his salary away, and his fortune lost like 2 billion while he was in office ( managed by a trust) you are consumed by hatred for a man who has done nothing to you and had prospered the nation and all demographics in it. Such derangement such evil heartedness. You are truly mind controlled.
(1) Do you understand how finance works (including the taxation system) ?
Billionaires don't make money on "salaries" (which is chump change). They make money on investments, real-estate, other securities and assets, and financial instrumentation (including mergers-and-aquisitions), stocks, bonds, currencies, and exotic derivatives, not to mention the buying and selling on businesses and trading of intangible assets. That's where the money is for billionaires - NOT IN SALARIES.
(2) What gave you the impression that Trump lost any money while in office? The media? MSM ? Right-wing outlets? Or Trump's mouth? He made money inspite of being in office.
There are FACTS, and there are FICTIONS. You are free to believe FICTIONS if you like. But I suggest you do some research before saying things that make you come across as a naive and gullible fool.
The selective sniping at Trumps character seems almost obligatory. It is media entrainment; arguably the most beloved president in my lifetime(JFK)—gunned down in broad daylight by the ensconced Neocon elements to keep the Vietnam war-crime going—was an unapologetic adulterer/philanderer, as was his equally Democrat, privileged-bloodline brother, who both strayed dangerously far from the Ideological Safe Path.
They were populists; so is Trump.
They came from wealthy backgrounds; again, like Trump.
There is evidence that RFK had Marilyn Monroe (who had been ‘serviced’ by both brothers) killed, as she had gone unstable and knew…the wrong kind of stuff.
Ok, so Trumps a narcissist, you say. Is there a billionaire/president who was not? Rhetorical question. Personality defects and perceived flaws aside, there is a lot of anecdotal (from the sources) material that paints off-camera Trump (which is a public image/role) as quite accessible, considerate, and generous.
Why is the fact that he lost billions during his tenure, and didn’t take his salary either, not a news feature?
You know why.
Why is the outrageously documented long term history of Joe Bidens family selling his influence for millions not a story at all?
You know why.
His daughter’s diary. His son’s laptop—hidden away by every authority we pay to uphold the law and go after criminals—full of stuff so awful we have not even been allowed to see it (imagine if Don Jr. had such a liability!). His blatant speech-plagiarizing (AS A SITTING SENATOR) and his recorded lies about how smart and accomplished he is.
Flaws. Foibles. Weaknesses. Damning stuff, involving his entire family. All fact.
But no one starts off a Biden rant with his irredeemably immoral history. It will be instead (depending on your affiliation) his “determination” or his “incompetence.” Moral assessments are reserved for Trump.
When the ONLY legitimate consideration that should be on the table is the relative condition of the economy in his term. Was it not the squalid Democrat space-alien turned circus freak-pundit James Carville who coined the immortal campaign blurb: ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID!
Ans: his leadership skills. His popularity among his considerable base.
Again, I don’t count myself as MAGA. I am a reasonable, politically non-aligned native born American who would like to see her pull out of this existential cultural nose-dive—engineered courtesy a Kamikaze NWO owned political party—and go into the Golden Age prognosticated by a book entitled The 4th Turning. Trump and the MAGA (patriot ) movement are, realistically, the only way on Gods green Earth I can imagine that happening.
Yup, desperate times indeed! I really like RFK's running mate, Nicole Shanahan. She is a breath of fresh air for me and she aligns with my values. If RFK can get into a position of prominence in the next admin, maybe she can too. And Tulsi as secretary of state. Sure they're all zionistas, except maybe Shanahan.. but they might possibly downsize the American Empire, and give the planet a bit a of a break from constant war. I think it is a fair gamble and maybe the only realistic one at our disposal.
"Donald Trump actually spent his entire term ramping up aggressions against Russia and helped pave the way to the war in Ukraine."
And yet yesterday he again said that if he was president that the Ukraine war would not have started. Not one of his sycophants knows that he was directly responsible for arming Ukraine Nazis.
When he paused the shipments of arms to Ukraine, the House brought the articles of impeachment against him. When he resumed shipments they relented. Funny how that works. He ain't no JFK is suppose.
Well Trump is Alive, for now, to Fight for another term. A tactical retreat is an essential of warfare. JFK learned the fatal way, and Trump almost joined him. I don't dislike Liberals, I once was one, and still retain some issues. But, really people, Get some little Practical Reality before you end up like the Kulaks in the Bolshevik take down of Russia in 1918.
More like what Mussolini described fascism as. The merger of state and corporations... corporatism.... that's what is coming down the pipe.. or rather is already quite here.
'“Abroad, democratic movements will be irreparably jeopardized as Trump and his acolyte JD Vance kowtow to dictators like Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies,” the group writes, adding, “We can’t let that happen.”
Every single member of 'the group' writing this claptrap is certifiably insane.
1. Europe enjoyed peaceful trade in gas with Russia for decades - any American saying otherwise can be shot dead without trial.
2. The USA wished to cause trouble to this trade through organising a coup d'etat in Ukraine (one of the pipelines) and in turning Poland (another pipeline) into their chief prostitute. The primary role of such activities was to destroy European-russian trade.
3. Europe and Russian business paid, together, for alternative pipelines through the Baltic to counter US energy terrorist threats.
4. The US-Ukraine-Poland-Israel axis ensured that the Nordstream Pipelines were blown up, acts of illegal international terrorism. The effect of that was a 500% increase in gas prices in many parts of Europe (not Poland who got a new pipeline from Norway as reward for continual US blowjobs).
5. No-one not in the pay of the USA/UK cabals , under threat from Mossad/CIA, harbouring ill-will toward historical acts by the USSR, considers Vladimir Putin to be a threat to Europe in any way whatsoever. He is infinitely more peaceful than US psychopaths, warmongers and robber barons.
6. The USA is more than prepared to sacrifice any European nation in NATO that does not obey US orders vis a vis the genocidal apartheid state of Israel, the infinitely corrupt regime in Ukraine and which might conceivably think that full scale war with Russia is not something that Europe wishes to take part in.
Let's be clear, the USA does not behave toward Europe as an ally. It behaves like an evil tyrannical master.
The time is rapidly coming when the USA must be cut off from the world and every single American outside the USA must make a choice between going home or renouncing their US citizenship,.
The world is sick and tired of the USA, its thuggery, its genocides, its cowardice and its never ending economic looting.
These are only some of the courageous groups working for justice in Palestine. They all need y/our support now, perhaps more than ever. How can we allow this to happen?
Shitlibs cheered when Liz endorsed the Kam and now they’re giddy as hell over the Dick endorsement. They are waiting for W to do it. Dumb fcks don’t understand why that’s not the win they think it is.
The only reason why they aren’t voting for Trump is he ‘might' not be gung ho on destroying Iran. Well unless Netanyahu orders him to.
A virtuous democratic republic is incompatible with the agenda of a hegemonic empire, regardless of what form of government the hegemon takes or claims for itself. A republic whose all-consuming interest is for the welfare of its citizens within a foundational moral and ethical framework CANNOT project power around the world, manipulate the politics and economies and governments of other countries or maintain a bloated military that styles itself “defensive” while maintaining a presence on every continent. With all its might the U.S. has tried and failed and is destined to fail in its thinly disguised imperial project. It is fiscally irresponsible/disastrous, undemocratic, betrays the founding principles of our republic and has produced and will produce enormous blowback from a world that will not be controlled by a hegemon. Such a hegemon is massively hypocritical, violates international law at will, propagandizes and manipulates its own citizens, violates and erodes their civil rights, suppresses dissent and misdirects and misuses their wealth by using their tax dollars to fund its globalist agenda. Such a polity is not a representational democracy. A virtuous republic cannot exist within this context. It is a sham and a lie and it must and will end. How it ends is the big question, but I am not optimistic.
Thank you, Caitlin. Insightful and succinct, as always. You're so right that this circus is a distraction from what Americans should be focused on, namely educating, organizing and mobilizing ourselves to stop these criminals.
Here's a conspiracy theory for ya. The ruling oligarchs need total control, including the dissolving of our rights to free speech and to protest. They would prefer to install an authoritarian regime, rather than a totalitarian one. So they have enlisted the support of both Cheneys, George W. and hundreds of their functionaries; all total warmongers. Trump, long-time Democrat before 2015, is a plant, terrifying the liberals and moderates into becoming a bunch of hysterical voices screaming 'anyone but Trump!' As the saying goes, talk me out of it. 🤗
The other way around. Authoritarianism relies on a passive population (Democrats), whilst totalitarians actively shut down opposition (MAGA, Project 2025, etc.).
The Dems are deff shutting down opposition, they're trying to put the challenger in jail for god's sake. And the Reps are as passive about the shit they are okay with like devastating the environment. Not much difference really.
Caitlin writes "......: the worst election rigging is happening right out in the open, to ensure that oligarchs and empire managers are happy with either outcome..."
This system is one where any genuine democrat (small d) who wanted to get elected would have near to zero chance no matter how talented and knowledgeable she was .It is a system which offers genuine choice between candidates A B C D....Z. Th only problem is that all 26 of those candidates would be secretly preselected and no matter which on won it would have the same result as if any of the others had . Or maybe the system would allow a couple of genuine wanting change folks who would be able to make some ineffectual noise . Sound like George Orwell's Dystopia in real life to me .
The ironic thing with Democrats is their effective propaganda. The 'vote blue no matter who' mantra mixed with the desire to win at any cost is what blinds the voters to how far right the party actually is. Interestingly, the same people that supported things Democrats oppose now are on the side of Democrats. It isn't bipartisan when you abandon the party platform, the ideology, and rhetoric. The weak stance on women's rights by Biden(better luck next time, we didn't get enough votes), the genocide in Gaza, the homelessness epidemic in California, Harris made a weak ambiguous position on illegal immigration on CNN recently...Trump can't be a threat to democracy, it doesn't exist in the US. The election is meaningless, as stated, the empire wins no matter who is elected. I also recall Michelle Obama hugging George W. Bush years ago. Colin Powell called Hillary a friend, though he would rather not vote for her...(2016 wiki leaks), the war in the Ukraine is no longer big headlines. You know, how Putin has this plan to take over all of Europe lol. That he would be the next Hitler...Kim of North Korea is not the big bad guy in the news either. I mean Harris won the delegates in a virtual roll call without there ever being an election. She is the new face of the Democratic party...it just seems so clearly fake an orchestrated.
It has been fake and orchestrated for a very long time. This DNC convention was Deja vu. It was such a replay of the 1968 debacle. Millions wanted the Vietnam war to end, but the antiwar candidates were dismissed as if they never existed (and their supporters beaten as if they didn’t deserve to) and the debate became ‘we must stop Nixon at any price; you must ignore what Humphrey actually represents.’ Same story, same author, different characters.
But there was a twist. Thousands, maybe millions, of young people were radicalized by what they saw happening (myself included), and a counterculture was grown by those who saw the pointlessness of ‘trying to change the system’. We made new pathways that have left real differences, even if we failed utterly to dismantle the MIC and stop wars. It can happen again, maybe much more effectively.
I even went to prison for a short while for the sin of peacefully resisting the American invasion of Vietnam . If we don't nonviolently and courageously resist the madness then the world will have a short future ending with a nuclear bang
Your non violent resistance will not work. This is not Vietnam, There is no draft. No one gives a shit. Only you and a few others. I see a possibility if a madman takes the reins and doesn't do what the blob asks.. Trump is the only one who comes close, and they make a little noise about ending endless wars. They have said that before i'll grant you. But the machine is moving towards the edge and can't be stopped but for the grace of God. We'll just have to see.
I wish I was wrong, but I share your pessimism about the current generation's lack of motivation. I'm glad to be old now and spared the shit show that I believe will be the future. The neocons got in when Cheney first took power with the stooge, Dumya, and their PNAC has become the reality since.
Yes, it's a good time to be old indeed. Just enough time left on this planet to see the beginning of the end.. no scratch that, the middle of the end? or maybe slipping towards the end of the end.... my sister tells me old men always talk like it's the end of the world as we know it, but history is littered with civilizations that grew decadent and collapsed.... it happens... and is happening in real time... the obesity epidemic is one symptom among so very many.
The draft was restored in the last NDAA.
The draft will be coming back because they have made the military woke and a joke. All recruiters report low numbers
The draft would be easy to bring back since registration for it never ended.
Yes, but it hasn't been implemented yet...If it is, and includes women, there will be huge pushback...
Whaaa????
And this time they intend to include women. Get the word out; we might get more resistance if everyone knows.
You are ignorant of the functions of the National Defense Authorization Act?
Protests worked against the Vietnam war...when the media switched sides...That's not going to happen this time, the media being almost totally controlled by the neocons and AIPAC...
You’re a hero. 🌍
Only those who were vocal about their draft resistance went to jail. Those, like me, who kept their mouths shut were overlooked.
One of my classmates, who was an unindicted co-conspirator of the Chicago 7, went to Canada to avoid the possibility of being arrested...
I can recall listening to the 1960 Democratic National Convention on the radio, lying in the Los Angeles night, when Sam Rayburn called for a voice vote on the nomination of Lyndon Baines Johnson for Vice President. At least from the vantage point of the radio’s microphone, the aye votes were negligible. I learned a valuable lesson in “democracy” that night.
Wow. Good on you for a lifetime of clear vision. I remember that convention, too, but I was nine, and was all taken in by JFK. The media said he was left wing and I thought he would make peace with the USSR. The Cuban Missile Crisis changed everything for me. But looking back, I can relate to the masses of idiots who get caught up in the excitement of what they’re told is something new. The media controlled us even then.
In fact, Kennedy was the most conservative Democratic President since Grover Cleveland in the 19th century...
Thank you for that clarity, Joy. I don't think I heard that before, and it is important.
I learned a bit here, thank you. This was before my time and there is a different sort of perspective you gain from those who have lived through it first hand. I appreciate you sharing this and gives a new burning light that we can continue to create more pathways.
Once people realise that it is all a show / an illusion and the two parties are just 2 cheeks of the same @rse... working for the globalists and fulfilling their agenda; people can see or at least look into what is really going on.
The World is a stage Marquis, what we see or are told is all bllx.
I like the way you explained this. The government tries to surpress the information of what's going on. Caitlin is one of those that are outside standard media(main stream) and she and others are a minority. It takes at least some critical thinking and a conviction to reject the status quo. I think there are a fair amount of people that see what's going on but are too afraid to walk away from one of the two parties due to cognitive dissonance. On the other hand there are a lot of people still indoctrinated...still as Caitlin suggests we need to work collectively to wake up consciousness and create awareness.
Did you know for instance ... as of today "Today, there are over 120 armed conflicts around the world, involving over 60 states and 120 non-state armed groups. The majority of these armed conflicts are of a non-international character, the number of which has tripled since the turn of the millennium." ....
When they say non-international, that is officially only, as in many conflicts they have their MERCS or HUSH HUSH SPECIAL FORCES in.
Disagree. How you can put Trump as a war monger is a mystery to me. Maybe I missed something
Oh dear, we must agree to disagree IF that was not sarcasm.
Well, I do remember Donald Trump sitting in front of a bunch of cameras (video), quietly stating "I'm only doing what I'm told. I'm only double what I'm told." and I was thinking "Right. Because presidents are the personal puppets of the real rulers who hide behind closed doors while they pull your strings. Nothing changes, and nothing will ever change."
Granted, Trump didn't officially start any wars, but he definitely had his hand, and his pen, involved in moving the War-Mongering, War-Profiteering agenda of the (behind-closed-doors) ruling elite, the billionaire class, forward.
You don't even have to dig that deep to find this information, because it's all over the world wide web. But don't bother with Wikipedia, obviously, because it's been under the control and guidance of the C.L.I.E.A. since its inception.
But, I do understand your feelings, because I want to believe in the people who allegedly "lead?" us. Unfortunately, the uber-wealthy always tend to want to pretend that they're our friends, and so, they often run for political office, which is always a detriment to ours and our country's well-being.
https://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5M?si=KhWt8PL4St6_IK7m
Is this a joke or did you not pay attention to Trump’s first presidency?
Indeed I did and it was one of the best Presidencies we’ve ever had. He did most of what he promised he would do. That was in between behind hampered by democrats and their buddies in the media the deep state anyway they could get to try and stop him. Instead of being upset at what destructive games the haters did you bought into all of it. Give me facts instead of insults and we’ll see who might be closer to the truth if it
Team D is basically the political manifestation of the PMC class consciousness, with various grievance groups as junior partners.
Team R fulfills a similar function for the Local Gentry, with white evangelicals as sidekicks.
Anyway, this latest exhibition of neocon fealty ought to put a wooden stake through the heart of those who claims Harris is for peace in Palestine.
It sure as fuck isn’t bipartisan when one side is yearns no to vote in a dictator. Take your normalization of MAGA and what the GOP currently is and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!
What is propaganda about wanting healthcare for citizens? What is propaganda about making the rich pay their fair share? What is propaganda about gun control and protecting our children?
Fuck off!
What most impresses me these days is the tremendous power of the Israeli Lobby - AIPAC and kindred organs to control the narratives which control the decisions and actions of ALL the leaders of the Western World. All the mouth flapping about impending authoritarianism if Agent Chaos is elected, when daily is the repression of a signal tenet of democracy - the freedom of speech. Who says authoritarianism hasn't all erected itself into dominance? Just a different set of thieves of the citizenry and whatever tattered shreds of democracy we have left. Two warring corporatized spittle foaming fraternities fighting for the spoils and spoiled.
AIPAC requires them to take the pledge - no pledge no campaign contributions.
I find that there's nothing particularly impressive about politici who've sold out their morals along with their country in exchange for generous campaign contributions which considering the roots of AIPAC ought to amount to treason.
AIPAC was ordered to register as a foreign agent way back in 63 but it never did - now the US justice department is demanding that RT register as a foreign agent
I wonder if you are young. Etymology of the word impressive: “late 14c., "have a strong effect on the mind or heart, to stamp deeply in the mind," from Latin impressus, past participle of imprimere "press into or upon, stamp," also figurative, from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + premere "to press, hold fast, cover, crowd, compress" . Never before have I witnessed the level of corruption of institutions of democracy and of journalism on such a grand scale as exhibited today . It astounds. It’s very magnitude presses upon my being. I have known about the darkness of the USA. This time witnessing the terrible brutality wreaked on Palestinians, the Israeli conscious intent to actually starve people in the 21st century , the immediacy of witnessing the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, is awfully impressive. As is the moral depravity of my own country’s handing the Israelis the means -seemingly without end - to murder the Palestinians who had suffered for 70 years in the largest outdoor prison in the world built and controlled and owned by the Israelis . And the fact that my own country disowns one of the pillars of democracy - the right to dissent and the freedom to publish the truth, that impresses too. We are falling down down down. Impressively.
Responding with a insult isn't particularly impressive but childish.
Uh Selina, dear, Are Hamas Palestinians? Did Palestinians vote them into power? Have they continued to support them?
That would be 3 Yeses. The Palestinians are complicit, not innocent.
Hitler’s torturers were doctors. Does that make you, a doctor, complicit in the Holocaust? Major logic fail there. For your other claims, what choices do Palestinians have? If you were Palestinian, what would you do? Get some compassion; it’s a requirement for your profession.
OK, lady, I have been compassionate, professionally and otherwise for longer than you have been alive. I was not even born when WWII happened, much less embarked upon a career in medicine. You really really need to take a little course in logic and making believable analogies. Don't they teach you that in nunnery school?
Not only do the Palestinians continue to support Hamas, but the women raise their sons and more recently daughters, to be terrorists, suicide bombers, like US mothers raise their sons to be football players and their daughters to be, I don't know, Taylor Swift, years past I would have said a mother to my grandchildren, but I don't know any more. but as a nun, you would not understand that and how perverse that is.
Early on there was one lonely Palestinian in the West Bank who objected to what Hamas had done. I don't know what happened to him, whether the antisemites in the MSM just. ignored him or whether Hamas silenced him permanently. He was in my mind a hero. If there were enough Palestinians in Gaza that had the balls of that gentleman (and his son, IIRC, this would be over. If I was a Palestinian, I would pray that my family had the wisdom to stay in Israel and make something of their lives so I could make something of my life.
If I was stuck in that hell hole of Hamas' making I would be trying to figure some way to get out. The problem is that the Palestinians have made such a reputation for themselves that none of the other Arab countries will have them. They are considered almost as bad as Jews, or in our terms they are the N!gg3rs of the Middle East, whose only redeeming quality it to stoke the fires of anti-Israeli anger.
I was addressing your very faulty logic: Hamas being Palestinians does not mean all Palestinians are Hamas. And no babies are.
You’re very racist and uneducated as any doctor I’ve ever heard speak. If there was a Palestinian in the West Bank, you can assume he is dead now, because Israel kills them. You’re a true POS, fucking racist cunt!
I’m guessing you’re a proctologist. Only way you could be ok with being such an ass.
In reverse order, opinions differ on that.
Sometimes I am OK with it, and sometimes I regret and am ashamed. This is not one of them.
Wrong, Family Doc, but I have removed probably hundreds of Foreskins, Crumpled or other wise.
Fellow mohel I see. I started before you had to have a degree, about 500 years ago. What do you do with the leftover foreskins? If you eat them, you can live as long as I have.
Comparing the power and status of AIPAC to RT is like comparing the power of the cat to the mouse
Tell that to the US justice department.
Power, yes. But popular support is something else again.
That’s exactly what JFK/RFK wanted…FARA registration!
That and much more which wasn't to the liking of the Zionist.
Well, there is the immensely strong giant AIPAC being compared to the small weak RT. And the agents who do the bidding of AIPAC are demanding that RT register as a foreign agent. It does have two choices of course. One humbly submit and be allowed to continue or Two refuses and find itself in the outer darkness. I personally think that as demeaning as it is it should submit and we can still enjoy the faint beam of its light
Don't be impressed by the power of the Israel Lobby, Selina. It has taken many decades to get to this point and no one apparently is aiming to change the legislation allowing for 460 politicians to be bought and sold like cattle in a sale yard in the voting marketplace. No one also seems the slightest bit motivated to see organisations like AIPAC listed as foreign agents either, another function of government to correct but not a single voice has been heard to drive this one home.
One can always see the end of a civilisation at times like this when your choice of a Trump or a Harris are the options available
Now, when you add in a Cheney, well described by Caitlin and Tim today, it is just even more corrupt grist for the mill.
Can you sense how I might feel when someone tells me my experience is bad, wrong and that I ought not to have it? How is that not like the government and fat money on university boards telling university presidents to fire a professor who is outspoken in support of Palestinians struggle to survive the recent Israeli version of holocausting the Palestinians in Gaza?
I’m obviously reading posts by people that are part of the TDS so I’m not even going to make an attempt to make my case for Trump 2024. The pessimistic views of the future of the country really leaves me feeling like I’m on an uninhabited island. It my humble opinion and I do know what they say about opinions so please let’s not go there is Trump being a political outsider must be given this final chance to turn the country around in the opposite direction it’s going!
Reason number 478 out of 19,361 reasons that Trump should not be President: He’s a pussy-grabber! And proud of it!
Let’s start. No 1? Go for it tell me all these things start with no 1
Watch this and listen to what’s being said.
https://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5M?si=KhWt8PL4St6_IK7m
He’s not a political outsider. He’s surrounded by the same people that have been in the government since the 80’s. He’s one of them! If you can’t wrap your head around it, stop talking and start listening.
"AIPAC and kindred organs to control the narratives "
and those are only controlled because politicians sold their power for money - and the press sat idly by telling themselves this was politics .
Any idea they were innocently taken over is a fantasy
I am still shocked and horrified that a lobby group could be so goddamn powerful - wait, does it mean that the number of USA's overseas "peacekeeping" missions AIPACs their doing? Genuinely curious here......
Thomas Massie is the one rep who says no to them.
And Rashida Tlaib! 👏
Right on the mark Selina.
Former President Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris for POTUS should be a really clear signal flare of who to NOT vote for. (Yes, I typed "President Cheney".)
;-(
Everybody knew he made the decisions, not Dubya, so your title for him is appropriate.
Definitely “President Cheney”. I’m not even sure about the “former”.
And future president Cheney when she runs in '28.
Lol…I saw shitlibs telling Kamala that she should choose Liz Cheney for veep. They have lost all touch with reality since Obama continued everything Bush did and especially the wars they were once against.
Well at least she's LGBTQ friendly... she is isn't she??
She’s whatever they tell her to be, i.e., whatever is in their interest at the moment.
You don’t even know the answer and that’s a big part of the problem. Those voting for harris have the same problem. No information voters vote these people into office and the rest of us have to live with the consequences of their stupidity
'You ain't LGBT if you don't vote Harris'
"This election is now a showdown between the Trump Party against the Cheney Party, and no matter who wins, the empire wins. "
Caitlin nails it once again. Horrible Harris is essentially George W. Bush wearing a dress and heels. If those who thought there was some tiny, minute, minuscule difference between Team Red MAGA and Ted Blue MAGA haven't figured out by now that they're one and the same, there's no hope for them. Or for any of us for that matter... Nuclear winter awaits.
It's time to pull out all the stops and promote like hell for the next two months the anti-genocide candidate that can take out the sick genocidal party of Cheney/Trump, Dr. Jill Stein.
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Fantastic article Caitlin! I learnt some new things about Liz Cheney (who I thought was one of the sane Republicans - my mistake. There are NO sane politicians in Team D and Team R AFAIK).
Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities. We vote based on how we are made to feel about corporate political puppets. The puppets, Democrat and Republican, engage in hollow acts of political theater keep the fiction of the democratic state alive. There is, however, no national institution left that can accurately be described as democratic. Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on “American Idol.” Mass emotions are directed exclusively toward the culture wars that include battles over abortion and LGBTQ rights. We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power. What we call politics is no longer political.
(I think this pretty much resonates with your article today)
You ably describe what Wolins called "Inverted Totalitarianism" - "managed democracy."
“Participatory fascism” 👏👏
Yes, or what I like to call "Friendly Fascism" - a new form of despotism - one that is an outgrowth of ‘the hidden logic’ of capitalist society's transnational (global) growth - one that emerges gradually but inexorably, as a by-product of a consolidation of the common interests of Big-Government and Big-Business. This ‘undermining of true democracy’ through overt and covert relationships between Big-Government and Big-Business is called "Friendly Fascism" (a term coined by Bertram Gross)
That "friendly fascism" as you call it, is nothing but a matrix "dream" that such is "reality"; when, in-truth, the fascism is now rapidly becoming less and less "friendly", and more and more repressive. The present "vaccine" new holocaust is far from friendly, as we are now being exterminated without, as yet, the use of gas chambers.
So, if you think this increasingly God-playing, mass-murderous, genocidal insanity is "friendly fascism", you are still blue-pilled beyond belief. The "friendly fascism" ended on 9/11/2001, the stops were pulled out, and the license to murder first and don't ask questions later was issued, and money and ideology are buying all of it.
The hounds have been loosed; and, increasingly, we're seeing, and in more and more cases, innocent people being scooped up and "dealt with". Thought crime and pre-crime are now the rule of the day, "justifying" gang-stalking innocent Americans and others, where all of the "suspects" are presumed guilty until proven innocent.
Everything has been flipped upside-down and backwards, and we're increasingly regressing into "legalized" atrocities and barbarism, where raping and pillaging are more and more taking over those who previously never would have been such depraved people. But, as I say, the stops have been removed, they're been given permission to let loose the inner evil beast, devouring all beauty again, but this time, unless God intervenes and stops it, the conflagration is going to be far worse than before, and we're already seeing the beginnings of all hell on Earth breaking loose as never before, with increasingly evil-controlled people becoming out-of-control monsters.
This is where we now are, being deluged with a tsunami of out-of-control government, now entirely corporate- and Zio-fascist-, controlled, aka corporate-fascist, with some totalitarian communism mixed in. And most of the people are already cyborg automatons who blindly follow and obey the new Nazi regime.
Philip K. Dick's novel, The Man in the High Castle, has in some respects become reality. Nazism has taken over, run by the Ashkenazi "Jew" globalists, setting up a global government slave state as the genocide of the citizens has already started, with the cattle and sheep lining up to receive their euthanasia shots and boosters.
The hell on Earth has begun, but most people can't see it, don't want to face it, and/or don't, and refuse to, believe that things are already that bad. But, hey, the matrix control grid has most of us completely plugged in and is directing our "reality". The AI even tolerates some dissent as long as it isn't going to go anywhere.
I think you misunderstood the term “friendly fascism”. It refers to the appearance of friendliness, while remaining quite evil.
No, you didn't understand ME. I know what friendly fascism means. I meant that the veil of "friendliness" is being lifted, and the evil is flaunting itself out in the open more and more.. Right now it's come right out and perpetrated their global genocide right in our faces, hiding it less and less.
E.g., the increasing globalist promotion of pedophelia in hand with Zio-fascism, aka corporate fascism, that now permeates what's left of national governments, and has increasingly been doing so for decades under our noses. Yes, some people brought out the truth about this even then, but few would believe it. "There's no way child prostitutes were ever brought into the 'White' House." See how everything is Orwellian now? The black and evil is called "white", and on and on and on. See more Caitlin here:
"Question the media and you're a conspiracy kook. Criticize the government and you're a Russian agent. Oppose war and you're anti-American. Defend Palestinians and you're an anti-Semite. Good is bad. (Bad is good.) Up is down. (Down is up.) War is peace. (Peace is war.) Freedom is slavery. (Slavery is freedom.) Ignorance is strength. (Strength is ignorance.)" - Caitlin Johnstone (Words in parenthesis provided by me.)
I wasn’t being at all critical, just going for clarity.
You lost me with "vaccine holocaust". I don't think I can take anything you say seriously after saying something like that.
AND -> you LIKE your OWN comments. What's up with that behavior?
Then what are you doing here, besides shilling and/or trolling?! These medical freedom "Stacks" take as an already completely proven given that there is a neo-holocaust now taking place. Don't you realize that that's what these "Stacks" are all about; or is, in addition to money, their bottom line? You really need to get red-pilled and entirely stop living in denial of true reality; or, you're damning yourself to eternal death, as well as all of the others you've influenced against God, our Maker/Creator.
So, what's next for you, continuing to blue-pill, or coming out of the matrix control grid? You better decide quick, because the deception(s) is and/or are going to become a whole lot worse; and, if you don't completely decide for nothing but the right side, you will be sent more and more strong delusions to believe more and more lies; and, if you haven't already, you will sell your soul to Satan, as most will. "Repent, for the kingdom of (God and of) heaven is near at hand"! (Matthew 4:17, et al.)
I love and/or like myself as we're commanded by our Creator to do ["...love your neighbor as yourself..." (Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 5:43, 19:19, 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14; and James 2:8)]. So what? You need to take your evil shilling and/or trolling away from here. As Jack Nicholson said in the movie, As Good As It Gets, "Go sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here" with the insanity of what is really going on, and being surrounded by willful-idiots like yourself, shilling and/or trolling your additional mass-insanity, shoving it down everyone's throats. Therefore, in Jesus the Messiah's name, be gone, Satan[ist(s)], liar(s) and Godless, unrepentant freak(s)!
You need help -> I suggest seeking professional therapy (though I don't know if that will be enough)
You’re delusional as hell.
great comment but I think you should forgo racism and stick to politics...
(Let's see if you're one of those far too many people who act like denials are "admissions".) Not that I'm at all ungrateful for your Liking my comments; but, if my comment was "racist", you really ought not to Like my comments. How is it supposedly "racist"? Racist against Zio-fascism? If so, you've got it backwards, the Zio-fascists are racist against ALL Goyim, aka non-Jews, and want us all eradicated. How is calling them the evil they really are, supposedly "racist"? I'm not against all Ashkenazim, only all of them who reject Jesus the Messiah and/or who embrace Zio-fascism. I came to the conclusion that most Ashkenazim are racist against all non-Ashkenazim relatively recently, after closely observing them and their attitude(s) towards Goy for three years when I was a kid, from 1971 through 1974, living in a "Jewish" foster care agency in San Francisco (though as far as I know for sure, I'm not Ashkenazim myself, though I have reason to believe that I might be partly so on my mother's side---her maiden name was Wolf, a common Jewish-German name, she wouldn't talk about anything, getting extremely angry at me for seeking information about our past and about our family ancestry, thus I know almost nothing about it).
Then, five years ago last month, not knowing then what I know now about the Ashkenazim, I moved into Ashkenazim owned and operated apartment buildings---moving from a studio apartment in one of their buildings, to a one-bedroom unit in another of their buildings---where they have discriminated against me to the max, and where they discriminate against all of the non-Ashkenazim tenants, particularly those like myself who stand up against all of their discrimination, racism and violation of civil and human rights of the tenants, etc. Now, as a result of their evil(s) towards me specifically, and their starting a COMPLETELY FALSE rumor about me, I am gang-stalked, and have been for at least three years, by both them and apparently the authorities as well.
I didn't easily come to the conclusion that most Ashkenazim are racist against everyone who isn't Ashkenazim. My best friend from the foster care agency, Frank Ostreicher, who we got our first apartment together with when we moved out on our own, along with two "friends" from George Washington High School in S.F., was Ashkenazim. While still in the foster care agency, I noticed the coldness from both Ashkenazim staff and kids towards non-Jews, but I didn't understand it at the time. Then, as a result of their gross mistreatment of me for allegedly being a Goy tenant and disability rights advocate, it became crystal clear to me that most of them (all of the staff here) are racist against non-Ashkenazim / Goy. Frank was one of the sweetest guys (strictly heterosexual along with myself) you would ever want to know, and he died from having his colon removed due to ulcerative colitis in 1978 or '79 (sorry, my memory has never been good, and its worse now). I still miss him very much to this day. The good die young.
So, all Ashkenazim who are completely against Zionism, who completely stand against it, who are completely against the Zionist genocide of the Palestinians and "Israehell's" apartheid, racist fascism, and who don't reject Jesus the Messiah, I stand with wholeheartedly. But all of them who reject Jesus the Messiah and/or blindly support "Israehell" and their racist genocide, not just of the Palestinians, but against the entire world, I reject as God the Father through Jesus the Christ rejects them. Love them but not their evil(s)? Yes, I do. I DON'T hate them, I hate their evils, as well as the evil(s) of all Godless people, not only Godless Ashkenazim. They all need to be stood up against and called to repentance; but, until they truly, fully and completely repent, they are evil.
Well there, lone wolf of the Steppes, it's one thing to be against an apartheid political philosophy and another to talk like everyone from that section is evil. You have tread close to that on occasion. And as far as them accepting Jesus as messiah, well that is religious fundamentalist sectarianism. I stand against all of that. Christians have been about the worst genocidal maniacs throughout history, so you don't have much ground to stand on yourself.
I liked your post cause there is a lot of sense in them. I also make common cause with the KKK on issues of foreign wars and medical freedom, but not on race issues. Zionism is a ethno political philosophy adhered to more by Christians than the tiny amount of Jews in the world.
Chang: I agree with you about the term friendly fascism. That is what we have in the United States today, probably since the nineties is what I would say. This is maybe why we as a country can’t do anything about climate change or the destruction of nature… which will be followed by the destruction of humanity. But I care more about nature these days than humans. Those who turn their backs on Gaza will maybe learn?? when Mother Nature turns her back on humans.
Some crazy guy was posting weird comments here. He pissed me off because I read various writers and comments to learn from others, not to see crazy stuff. Asshole. But I see that Caitlin’s readers took him on admirably. Good job people!!
>>"Those who turn their backs on Gaza will maybe learn?? when Mother Nature turns her back on humans."
I wish I could be as optimistic about things as you are. Seeing the absolute other-worldliness of Gaza & Palestine unfolding these last 11 months (to the day) made me re-analyze everything I thought I knew about the world and humanity.
I seriously doubt that homo-sapiens have reached a point in their evolution where they have figured out how to live in peace and harmony with mother nature and each other. IMO, Mother Nature will simply have to teach humanity a lesson. Either humans learn and survive or they perish and a better species will evolve from this experience.
"Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on “American Idol.” "
So very true, especially when considering the electoral college. I mean to say that the popular vote is literally what you have described above. Our representatives have so much control people rarely directly vote on any legislation, when they do, it is superficial and they have contingencies we do not vote on.
"Mass emotions are directed exclusively toward the culture wars that include battles over abortion and LGBTQ rights. We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power"
Well said! This is the influence of propaganda. Caitlin has written Noam Chomsky'a quote about how the best way to control debate is to limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but encourage passionate debate within it. Of course I heavily paraphrased it, perhaps poorly, but I think you really struck a chord here.
Every single politician is FUBAR. I am not voting. What an utter joke!
When you tar those outside the two-party system with the brush only the two parties deserve, then help me understand how that doesn’t, in and of itself, aid those same two parties?
I believe, to the contrary, that every vote going to third-party candidates is a direct and un-spinnable refutation of the current, perverted system.
Why not vote for someone like Jill Stein? What have you got to lose?
Your country
Your country is already lost. So that's not relevant.
We got a regular comedian over here!
Trump takes no pains to conceal his self-centered narcissismor his arrogance. Yet despite his flaws tha man has warm blood and at least some love of America. But all the establishment blather seems to show that the machine will put the vp in office… Also, as John Day suggested, Dick Cheney was probably the acting prez during GWB's tenure.
According to the media, a US coup in 2014 overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine and installed a rabidly anti-Russian regime (https://archive.is/H4U3N#selection-290.0-834.0). That was two years before Trump was elected.
>>"Yet despite his flaws tha man has warm blood and at least some love of America."
What universe are you living in? Trump cares about NO ONE but himself. I think that should be obvious to all at this point.
Trump is a major Zionist. That should tell people something.
And his son in law has said he is first in line to buy waterfront real estate in Gaza.
Of course! Not to mention, Jared Kushner’s father was pardoned by Trump… https://www.globalresearch.ca/where-does-israel-gaza-go-from-here-jared-kushner-has-some-interesting-ideas/5852942
Pretty vague accusation, fed you by the character- assassinating Mockingbird press, and unsupportable. Try supporting it. Was it self-serving for Trump to not take his salary while in office? Go ahead, minimize /dismiss that irrefutable demonstration of selflessness. Give an official xampke that b gates it. Not gossip. Demonstrable fact: let me help you understand what that is.
Trump lost billions personally while president.
How self-centered is that?
We should be discussing the relative condition of the economy in his term compared to the current administration. That is all. There are no unflawed billionaires, or former TV stars, or NYC real estate moguls. It should be enough that he loves America, and wants to fix it. With RFK Jr sitting shotgun (pardon the firearm metaphor, for this allusion.)
The simple fact is, Trump could be enjoying his sunset years in luxury and safety, still the darling of all these honchos who foam at the mouth because he is the People’s Choice, and by THAT metric he is the least self-interested person in public politics today.
The “Mockingbird Press”?! I threw my television out over 20 years ago. I use no social media, except Substack, and I read books.
They are all narcissists, but if one of them sees their self interest aligns with the interest of the nation and the world, well who knows what could happen. Sure a shooting, not much is liable to happen otherwise but the fast moving train headed towards the broken bridge. This is the climax of the movie and you really can't predict the outcome. Survival or Armageddon..
https://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5M?si=KhWt8PL4St6_IK7m
If you think the measly salary of the president matters to anyone that’s ever been in that office, then you’re delusional.
Can’t edit these posts for typos unfortunately
We can edit our own by clicking on the three dots to the right, fyi.
Then why did he work for 4 years, giving every penny of his salary away, and his fortune lost like 2 billion while he was in office ( managed by a trust) you are consumed by hatred for a man who has done nothing to you and had prospered the nation and all demographics in it. Such derangement such evil heartedness. You are truly mind controlled.
Question:
(1) Do you understand how finance works (including the taxation system) ?
Billionaires don't make money on "salaries" (which is chump change). They make money on investments, real-estate, other securities and assets, and financial instrumentation (including mergers-and-aquisitions), stocks, bonds, currencies, and exotic derivatives, not to mention the buying and selling on businesses and trading of intangible assets. That's where the money is for billionaires - NOT IN SALARIES.
(2) What gave you the impression that Trump lost any money while in office? The media? MSM ? Right-wing outlets? Or Trump's mouth? He made money inspite of being in office.
There are FACTS, and there are FICTIONS. You are free to believe FICTIONS if you like. But I suggest you do some research before saying things that make you come across as a naive and gullible fool.
You think he really lost money? That’s comical.
Hmm... Wonder who was president in 2014 when the US overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine? Hmm... It wasn't Team Red MAGA, was it?
Oh I remember that. That was the historic first term of the first African American President. Boy those were the days eh!
First Kenyan president
You’re a Moron.
2014 was most definitely the second term.
OMGosh, you are so right!!!!
John McCain and his BFF Lindsay were involved in the coup and made sure that the Ukraine Nazis got their weapons.
Ukraine like all wars are bipartisan.
There is no “team red MAGA”. It’s an illusion because people want to believe it!
https://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5M?si=KhWt8PL4St6_IK7m
The selective sniping at Trumps character seems almost obligatory. It is media entrainment; arguably the most beloved president in my lifetime(JFK)—gunned down in broad daylight by the ensconced Neocon elements to keep the Vietnam war-crime going—was an unapologetic adulterer/philanderer, as was his equally Democrat, privileged-bloodline brother, who both strayed dangerously far from the Ideological Safe Path.
They were populists; so is Trump.
They came from wealthy backgrounds; again, like Trump.
There is evidence that RFK had Marilyn Monroe (who had been ‘serviced’ by both brothers) killed, as she had gone unstable and knew…the wrong kind of stuff.
Ok, so Trumps a narcissist, you say. Is there a billionaire/president who was not? Rhetorical question. Personality defects and perceived flaws aside, there is a lot of anecdotal (from the sources) material that paints off-camera Trump (which is a public image/role) as quite accessible, considerate, and generous.
Why is the fact that he lost billions during his tenure, and didn’t take his salary either, not a news feature?
You know why.
Why is the outrageously documented long term history of Joe Bidens family selling his influence for millions not a story at all?
You know why.
His daughter’s diary. His son’s laptop—hidden away by every authority we pay to uphold the law and go after criminals—full of stuff so awful we have not even been allowed to see it (imagine if Don Jr. had such a liability!). His blatant speech-plagiarizing (AS A SITTING SENATOR) and his recorded lies about how smart and accomplished he is.
Flaws. Foibles. Weaknesses. Damning stuff, involving his entire family. All fact.
But no one starts off a Biden rant with his irredeemably immoral history. It will be instead (depending on your affiliation) his “determination” or his “incompetence.” Moral assessments are reserved for Trump.
When the ONLY legitimate consideration that should be on the table is the relative condition of the economy in his term. Was it not the squalid Democrat space-alien turned circus freak-pundit James Carville who coined the immortal campaign blurb: ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID!
Ans: his leadership skills. His popularity among his considerable base.
Again, I don’t count myself as MAGA. I am a reasonable, politically non-aligned native born American who would like to see her pull out of this existential cultural nose-dive—engineered courtesy a Kamikaze NWO owned political party—and go into the Golden Age prognosticated by a book entitled The 4th Turning. Trump and the MAGA (patriot ) movement are, realistically, the only way on Gods green Earth I can imagine that happening.
Good luck.
I suggest that you do a deep dive on Trump, and his connections.
Gonna have to go with my intuition on this one. I am not the person I was in my teens. My 20’s. 30’s. Are you, madame Axe Grinder?
Yup, desperate times indeed! I really like RFK's running mate, Nicole Shanahan. She is a breath of fresh air for me and she aligns with my values. If RFK can get into a position of prominence in the next admin, maybe she can too. And Tulsi as secretary of state. Sure they're all zionistas, except maybe Shanahan.. but they might possibly downsize the American Empire, and give the planet a bit a of a break from constant war. I think it is a fair gamble and maybe the only realistic one at our disposal.
lol! -Crumpled Foreskin
https://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5M?si=KhWt8PL4St6_IK7m
lol! -Crumpled Foreskin
https://youtu.be/5wwm4OiYY5M?si=KhWt8PL4St6_IK7m
“The establishment blather” as I recall had Queen Hillary on the thrown prior to her scourging by the Donald as well.
"Donald Trump actually spent his entire term ramping up aggressions against Russia and helped pave the way to the war in Ukraine."
And yet yesterday he again said that if he was president that the Ukraine war would not have started. Not one of his sycophants knows that he was directly responsible for arming Ukraine Nazis.
When he paused the shipments of arms to Ukraine, the House brought the articles of impeachment against him. When he resumed shipments they relented. Funny how that works. He ain't no JFK is suppose.
Well Trump is Alive, for now, to Fight for another term. A tactical retreat is an essential of warfare. JFK learned the fatal way, and Trump almost joined him. I don't dislike Liberals, I once was one, and still retain some issues. But, really people, Get some little Practical Reality before you end up like the Kulaks in the Bolshevik take down of Russia in 1918.
More like what Mussolini described fascism as. The merger of state and corporations... corporatism.... that's what is coming down the pipe.. or rather is already quite here.
Oh? In 2014?
'“Abroad, democratic movements will be irreparably jeopardized as Trump and his acolyte JD Vance kowtow to dictators like Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies,” the group writes, adding, “We can’t let that happen.”
Every single member of 'the group' writing this claptrap is certifiably insane.
1. Europe enjoyed peaceful trade in gas with Russia for decades - any American saying otherwise can be shot dead without trial.
2. The USA wished to cause trouble to this trade through organising a coup d'etat in Ukraine (one of the pipelines) and in turning Poland (another pipeline) into their chief prostitute. The primary role of such activities was to destroy European-russian trade.
3. Europe and Russian business paid, together, for alternative pipelines through the Baltic to counter US energy terrorist threats.
4. The US-Ukraine-Poland-Israel axis ensured that the Nordstream Pipelines were blown up, acts of illegal international terrorism. The effect of that was a 500% increase in gas prices in many parts of Europe (not Poland who got a new pipeline from Norway as reward for continual US blowjobs).
5. No-one not in the pay of the USA/UK cabals , under threat from Mossad/CIA, harbouring ill-will toward historical acts by the USSR, considers Vladimir Putin to be a threat to Europe in any way whatsoever. He is infinitely more peaceful than US psychopaths, warmongers and robber barons.
6. The USA is more than prepared to sacrifice any European nation in NATO that does not obey US orders vis a vis the genocidal apartheid state of Israel, the infinitely corrupt regime in Ukraine and which might conceivably think that full scale war with Russia is not something that Europe wishes to take part in.
Let's be clear, the USA does not behave toward Europe as an ally. It behaves like an evil tyrannical master.
The time is rapidly coming when the USA must be cut off from the world and every single American outside the USA must make a choice between going home or renouncing their US citizenship,.
The world is sick and tired of the USA, its thuggery, its genocides, its cowardice and its never ending economic looting.
6.
Work on the Ground: Transforming Lives in Israel-Palestine — American Friends of Combatants for Peace
https://www.afcfp.org
For factual information:
https://www.btselem.org
Gush Shalom has been on the side of peace for many years:
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/index_en.html
ANERA
https://www.anera.org/
ADALAH
https://www.adalahjusticeproject.org/defend
Christian organisations:
FOSNA
https://www.fosna.org
SABEEL
https://sabeel.org
https://paxchristiusa.org/
Jewish organisations:
JVP
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
If now now
https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org
These are only some of the courageous groups working for justice in Palestine. They all need y/our support now, perhaps more than ever. How can we allow this to happen?
And with that the shitlibs' brains exploded and the debate is over: Vote Blue No Matter Who™.
Shitlibs cheered when Liz endorsed the Kam and now they’re giddy as hell over the Dick endorsement. They are waiting for W to do it. Dumb fcks don’t understand why that’s not the win they think it is.
The only reason why they aren’t voting for Trump is he ‘might' not be gung ho on destroying Iran. Well unless Netanyahu orders him to.
A virtuous democratic republic is incompatible with the agenda of a hegemonic empire, regardless of what form of government the hegemon takes or claims for itself. A republic whose all-consuming interest is for the welfare of its citizens within a foundational moral and ethical framework CANNOT project power around the world, manipulate the politics and economies and governments of other countries or maintain a bloated military that styles itself “defensive” while maintaining a presence on every continent. With all its might the U.S. has tried and failed and is destined to fail in its thinly disguised imperial project. It is fiscally irresponsible/disastrous, undemocratic, betrays the founding principles of our republic and has produced and will produce enormous blowback from a world that will not be controlled by a hegemon. Such a hegemon is massively hypocritical, violates international law at will, propagandizes and manipulates its own citizens, violates and erodes their civil rights, suppresses dissent and misdirects and misuses their wealth by using their tax dollars to fund its globalist agenda. Such a polity is not a representational democracy. A virtuous republic cannot exist within this context. It is a sham and a lie and it must and will end. How it ends is the big question, but I am not optimistic.
👏👏 Well said Will Durant!
An astute analysis.
Both parties are far right.
Genocide Joe has become Genocide Joy. Still not working for me.
If I could, I'd vote for Jill Stein the only voice of reason.
While I probably know you disapprove of libertarians, they have ben ANTI-INTEVERIONSISTS from at least the Vietnam War
Thank you, Caitlin. Insightful and succinct, as always. You're so right that this circus is a distraction from what Americans should be focused on, namely educating, organizing and mobilizing ourselves to stop these criminals.
Here's a conspiracy theory for ya. The ruling oligarchs need total control, including the dissolving of our rights to free speech and to protest. They would prefer to install an authoritarian regime, rather than a totalitarian one. So they have enlisted the support of both Cheneys, George W. and hundreds of their functionaries; all total warmongers. Trump, long-time Democrat before 2015, is a plant, terrifying the liberals and moderates into becoming a bunch of hysterical voices screaming 'anyone but Trump!' As the saying goes, talk me out of it. 🤗
Plant.
Pretty slick trick though.
An endorsement from a Chaney should be a candidate kill shot for anybody with an attention span longer than five minutes.
Shit, for a split second it had me questioning whether or not I should take a second look at dirty, dumb, Donald.
Then I inhaled again and returned to my senses.
If you vote blue or red, you’re stupid in the head.
Kind of a small difference between authoritarian and totalitarianism... one or the other could be worse.
I'd say an authoritarian state controls what you may do. A totalitarian state controls what you may think.
The other way around. Authoritarianism relies on a passive population (Democrats), whilst totalitarians actively shut down opposition (MAGA, Project 2025, etc.).
The Dems are deff shutting down opposition, they're trying to put the challenger in jail for god's sake. And the Reps are as passive about the shit they are okay with like devastating the environment. Not much difference really.
Now, they're ramping up the whole 'Russian interference' crap, while 'forgetting' how many times the US 'interferes' in elections across the globe.
I know eh... no self awareness!
Caitlin writes "......: the worst election rigging is happening right out in the open, to ensure that oligarchs and empire managers are happy with either outcome..."
This system is one where any genuine democrat (small d) who wanted to get elected would have near to zero chance no matter how talented and knowledgeable she was .It is a system which offers genuine choice between candidates A B C D....Z. Th only problem is that all 26 of those candidates would be secretly preselected and no matter which on won it would have the same result as if any of the others had . Or maybe the system would allow a couple of genuine wanting change folks who would be able to make some ineffectual noise . Sound like George Orwell's Dystopia in real life to me .
Cheney runs on batteries doesn't he?