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Robert Monaco's avatar

But violence certainly has a place in any country that the U.S. decides to arbitrarily invade, sanction, or suppress? Am I right? Or am I wrong?

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Judy Bancroft's avatar

“Violence has no place in America..” Tweet Kamala Harris. But OK in Gaza. And anywhere else America decides.

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Vonu's avatar

Tell that to those murdered and wounded at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

OH FFS. Never mind foreign policy--what place other than America has school shootings several times a week? And cops empowered to violently arrest peaceful protesters, and shoot anyone who makes them nervous? And entertainment almost entirely centered on violence?

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Dr.Who's avatar

That is precisely why these bloody politicians say “in the US”.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

As they conveniently forget that the USA was founded on expansionist genocide, chattel slavery, and has the largest percentage of its population behind bars of any nation.

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ATM's avatar

Incorrect.

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Seeto Yunguang's avatar

PROVE IT...

JUST SAYING MEANS FUCKALL

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ATM's avatar

The USA was not founded on genocide. It wasn't founded on chattel slavery. the burden of proof is on those claims.

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Vonu's avatar

American politicians prefer bloodying other countries' citizens.

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pretzelattack's avatar

so far.

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Vonu's avatar

Since 1776.

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Wizard's avatar

The occupied always have a right to self defense, even if the occupation is legitimate.

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

No occupation is legitimate 🤡

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Vonu's avatar

Tell that to the surviving Branch Davidians.

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Seeto Yunguang's avatar

OCCUPIERS AND ENSLAVERS AND OPPRESSORS DO NOT HAVE RIGHT OF SELF DEFENSE...

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Jenn's avatar

I was going to say exactly the same

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Vonu's avatar

It isn't a legitimate place in any case.

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Vonu's avatar

It isn't any more fictional than "Kamalala."

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forceOfHabit's avatar

It's not fictional for the rich.

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Seeto Yunguang's avatar

SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD...

FREEDOM?

BASIC PILLAR IN DEMOCRACY IS SADLY LACKING IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE...

ASK JUDGE NAP AND SCOTT RITTER ABOUT THAT ONE...ON YT...

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Vonu's avatar

I doubt if there is room for two in that tiny place.

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Kevin Hammond CMT's avatar

And I agree with you that if they really wanted the orange overlord dead that he'd be dead. Plain and simple. The world is a stage and Kamala trumplestein are playing the leading roles.

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Brian Bixby's avatar

If they actually wanted him dead there are several poisons, some of them simple industrial chemicals, which cause heart attacks and which are never in the standard pathology testing. It would just look like his diet finally caught up with him.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

I’m going to always have that niggling suspicion about what happened to Hugo Chavez. RIP

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Brian Bixby's avatar

Probably not, Portland Downs has created a standardized test for it now. Besides, the only people who ever seemed to die from it were assets that MI6 no longer had any use for.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Funny boy.

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Levi Tate's avatar

"If the Deep State wanted him impeached he'd be impeached already."

- wrong!

"If the Deep State wanted him Lawfared he'd be in jail already."

- wrong again !

"If the Deep State wanted him dead then they would try more than once."

- Right you are!

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Seeto Yunguang's avatar

INDEED, MAGAFLUBULLSHITARTISTRUMP COULD BE PULLING THE FALSE FLAG LEVER TO GARNER SYMPATHY VOTES...WHOTF CAN TRUST THE SNEAKY YANKEES???

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Jerry Latsko's avatar

To say "Violence has no place in America" without using a laugh track means that you believe that none of us have ever studied history or watched anything on television.

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Seeto Yunguang's avatar

AND TERRORISM MAFIA!!!

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Oceanus's avatar

I think you place too much blame on Donald Trump for the Democrats shortcomings and not enough blame on the Democratic Party itself. You are acting like the Democratic Party was some innocent bystander before Trump forced it to adopt Bush and Reaganite positions. No, the Democratic Party threw away its credentials when it elected Obama. It didn't transform, its true face was shown. If anything, Trump driving the Bushist/Cheneyist clique to the Democrats is a good thing because they cannot fool anyone anymore.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

You misunderstand. Trump, by stealing all the attention and focus onto himself - acts as the perfect distraction mechanism for the Dems and the Repubs (remember->uniparty) to achieve their agendas and outcomes. Trump presents himself as the "evil/immoral/etc." person that makes other "evil/immoral" people look acceptable. He LOWERS the bar on what is acceptable and normal. He lowers expectations of what people should expect/demand from their representatives.

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Paula's avatar

Agree, but all of us who disagree with both parties never mention there are other choices and we can chose them win or lose; we strike an obvious fear in the hearts of dems, who think they must denigrate Stein when we all know the electoral system is rigged to deny good people of conscience and morals a candidate that will work for them and what they believe in.

On another note, those against gay people are pointing their anger in the wrong direction. The toxins sprayed on our foods that end up in our soils, air and water are endocrine disrupting chemicals and Africans frogs are changed into another sex. Sure, we are not frogs, but in studies in the 1970s around the Great Lakes area by a woman scientist noted female birds nesting with female birds. These toxins have been in our environment for a long time and it is no wonder we have an explosion of gender confused people. Don't blame them; blame the USDA for the gender bending chemicals they allow in our foods, water, and air. When I talked to an trans person about this "theory" she was totally appalled and did not want to hear that perhaps her gender ID was manipulated by the USDA allowing products in and on our food supply. Food may not be our only sources, because what goes on food leaches into water. I wonder in the Rust Belt, as it is called, how many people were produced like a crop, of gender confused people. Forget going after innocent people and go after the real culprits. Love the victims of such a hidden atrocity. Bring them into your circle of friends, embrace them against the poisons being applied on our foods. Watch a video call My Father's Garden which was put out by Bullfrog films. Hope it's still there. Been some years. This rant is directed at all the gun loving, LBTQ hating people. Keep your guns, but you are hating the wrong people. The people who want to take your rights to farm regeneratively, and shut down organic methods of production are the people you should aim your anger and hatred towards. Ask Will Harris of White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia.

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Jane Baker's avatar

Hegelian choice. Frame the question to get the answer you require

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"the gender bending chemicals they allow in our foods, water, and air"

There are NO gender-bending chemicals for humans in our foods, water, air. Human biology doesn't work the same as for frogs.

>>"When I talked to an trans person about this "theory"

Again, there are NO gender bending chemicals in our products. Please get the science right, otherwise statements such as these lead to conspiracy theories.

Also, you might be interested in reading this book "Who's Afraid of Gender" by Judith Butler (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134059394) to understand the different conceptualizations of gender and how they are formed.

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

There are certainly endocrine disrupting chemical in our food and water, and ever more of them. Whether they have anything to do with the rise in "gender confusion" is another question. But they have been linked to the halving of sperm counts over the last couple generations, still going down by two percent a year.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

No one is questioning the existence of "chemicals" in our food and water or the processed stuff that we eat and are sold as consumers. The discussion is not about that. The discussion is about "theories" about its effects on gender. In all my comments above, the phrase I use is "there are NO gender bending chemicals in our products".

Also, for statements like "But they have been linked to the halving of sperm counts over the last couple generations, still going down by two percent a year", you would have to provide citations to studies - as there is lots of misinformation and "beliefs" but not enough "science".

You may have heard of the confounding bias in research. For example:

(1) First one has to definitely prove (with adequate sample size and randomization) the "sperm count" theory.

(2) Next, one needs to do a controlled study to figure out the correlations and whether correlations is causation (i.e. there may be hundreds of factors/causes for the observed evidence. How does one know exactly which one it is? Have all the other variables been controlled for? Is this an observational study (survey,etc.) or an evidence-based study (strict observation with isolation of other variables over an extended period of time)?

So again, it would be "incorrect" (especially as a scientist) to say "decrease in sperm counts are due to chemicals in food and water" without well-conducted and rigorous studies to back that up (keeping in mind the replication crisis in academia).

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Paula's avatar

How do you otherwise explain the rise, since Shakespeare's time of gender confusion and what is your bias. Yes, people have felt differently about their born gender since indigenous called them two spirited, but the rise needs to be noted and the reasons also. You can deny all you want, but there's a definite connection that is not funded to explore. The not funded part is a clue that not one wants it officially known.

Your denial shows much ignorance in the toxins used on our food that leaks into our ground water supplies. You do not seem stupid to me and I hope you would explore this issue further and without bias.

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Paula's avatar

Again, agricultural toxin studies applied to our food sources on effects of gender is NOT funded for a reason.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Answered in my other response to your comment.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Do a DuckDuckGo search (https://duckduckgo.com) (I dislike Google) for things like "rise in gender dysphoria", "rise in gender care", etc.

There are many reasons. One study suggests that the rise of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, which seems to predominantly involve natal females, points to a complex web of social pressures, changing cultural norms, and new modes of distress and coping that warrant further investigation. For parents, educators, and clinicians alike, caution is warranted in dealing with this growing phenomenon. (https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/201811/why-is-transgender-identity-the-rise-among-teens)

There are many theories out there, and many studies have been performed. You need to do your due diligence before "jumping to conclusions" and "conspiracy theories".

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Some questions to think about:

(1) How much do you know/understand about gender?

(2) How much do you know about gender history and gender in history?

References:

(a) https://historycollection.com/16-remarkable-historical-figures-who-were-transgender/

(b) https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/06/07/trans-history-gender-diversity

(c) https://history.illinois.edu/spotlight/publication/gender-history-very-short-introduction

(d) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_transgender_history

(3) Do you understand how science and the scientific method works?

(4) Do you understand how research studies are performed and accepted?

For a theory to be valid, there is a process it has to go through, and a part of it is hypothesis testing. One doesn't "accept" theories because of their beliefs or who they trust.

Until you understand that, it would be pointless discussing this topic further with you.

As to your "not funding" theory, there are lots of things that are NOT funded. Research into "flat earth theory" is NOT funded, and so many other areas. For something to be funded, it has to be demonstrated that there is a valid hypothesis to be tested. Can you point to even a "single attempt" at funding your baseless theory (whether accepted or rejected)?

>>"Your denial shows much ignorance"

This has nothing to do with anyone's "denial" or "ignorance". This has to do with understanding how the process/methodology of science works.

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Nick Chugg's avatar

I have a degree in sociology and a science degree (life sciences, ecology and environmental studies)

If you cannot separate sex and gender, then you really have no arguments. Biology is reality. Gender is socially constructed.

You cannot choose your biological sex (yet), but you can choose your gender. Every sociologist is taught this.

There is a plethora of evidence showing how chemical pollution is affecting and disrupting human hormones and animal hormones - feminisation, lower sperm counts, lower testosterone levels...

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JennyStokes's avatar

How does anyone know this has not been going on before the internet?

Everything (except the dark state) in out in the open now.

In older times people did all sorts of things but were not challenged by a Govt.

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Tarun's avatar

He's not stupid but kind of evil. He trolls here but his arguments are all flawed. He gets by with a huge ego load. That's all.

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

I blocked that cretin and I've also reported him. They're a fucking bigot.

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Tarun's avatar

He is what is deadly wrong with the left... people like him drive people into the arms of Trump. And they are right to prefer him.

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Jane Baker's avatar

In agreement here.

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Nick Chugg's avatar

Dude, there are anthropogenic hormone disrupting chemicals everywhere in our environment. BPA - a common plastic that lines tinned food, is a hormone disrupting chemical and mimics estrogen when it combines.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Read the full thread please. Science does not work based on JUST presence of chemicals. There are also microplastics and Forever Chemicals in many many edible products.

To evaluate toxicity/effects/etc. one needs to follow a process - scientific methodology - to verify different hypothesis. Links are not sufficient. Correlations are not sufficient.

Check out the rating and classification system used here for more information: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/understanding-cancer-risk/known-and-probable-human-carcinogens.html

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Nick Chugg's avatar

Biology is predominately chemical reactions.

Have you actually studied any science?

There is a 6 stage processes whereby causation can be deduced from correlation - as seen regularly in medicine.

You are sounding like a corporation trying to deny accountability.

Plenty of journal articles out there showing the effects of endocrine disruptions on humans, mammals and reptiles.

I have a science degree dude. I have studied every school of science, apart from medicine. Human biology, zoology, botany, microbiology, genetics, ecology, studied agriculture, environmental studies (including toxins and pollutants), chemistry, physics, data handling and statistics, and a few more.

I did read the whole thread. People are allowed to disagree with you.

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Tarun's avatar

the mindless dogmatic leftist will never surrender cause they see the world as a machine to manipulate and chemicals are a grand way to do that. they are more dangerous than the gun toting people you describe. Way more cause they are in ascendent and they pose great risk to our lives. They will stomp on your rights if they can. They are already doing it all over the liberal democracies. They will track and trace us for our own good and keep feeding us seed oils to prevent obesity cause they follow decades old science that the industry has foisted on us. No, the only people to trust are the holistic tribe. You know who they are. And it is not him.

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pretzelattack's avatar

what leftists? you think Kamala is leftist?

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Oceanus's avatar

I suppose you could say that, but at the same time, libs have been crying “literally Hitler” at every Republican in existence, even those that align with them today. Trump could have been a “compassionate conservative” type Republican and they would have still done this if he wasn’t fully on board with the agenda.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

If Trump was a "compassionate conservative", he wouldn't be where he is. There would be someone else being made fun of instead of Trump. Same goes for the Republicans. There is no difference. It is all theatre that the public (BOTH dems and repubs) buys into and gets suckered.

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Oceanus's avatar

There is no difference yet one is actively being hunted while the others are facing no accountability for anything. Theatre only works when there is no harm involved. Once harm starts becoming the norm it isn't theatre anymore. The public, while mostly stupid, won't stand for a scenario in which they are being actively harmed. That is asking for outright civil strife which ultimately the people in charge will not be able to control.

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Paula's avatar

Hope you are correct, but lots of sheeple out there and the majority due to a lack of in public schools of teaching truths to our young. You can see this in Israel, Germany, others. What it does is give the young a false sense of what their country stands for. As a kid, I experienced JKF and MLK assassination in a foreign country. As an adult selling vacuum cleaners to elders who could not afford them, I saw pictures of JFK still hanging on their walls. I could not "sell shit" to people with values like that. I know JFK, called mattress Jack by some was not perfect, but he held the hope of the USA in his policies towards Russia, towards Cuba, towards the world. A peace president who fully understood the threat of nuclear war and tried to deny Israel access to the means to create a nuclear weapon. So few know the history.

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JFK was not a peace president. he tried to deny Israel access to nukes because he rightly saw them as a threat to US power if they got them. He was all in on the empire, which is why he took the world to the brink to maintain a US nuclear edge over Russia, all while lying about it.

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CarbonCopy's avatar

You are very wrong about this. Watch 1984 New World Order. Trump is owned by Peter Thiel who has an active contract to put Digital Id's on all of us! But for your main point they have an unconstitutional militarized police force! This force is specifically designed to PROTECT THEM FROM US! You can see just how much they care about us and should be able to clearly see how willing they are to kill us if they can make a dime off of it!

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TS's avatar

Perhaps I am not understanding you. But people often go all-in on theatrical displays that will get them killed. Look at the drum-up to war, that got millions of people to sign up to go fight the bad guys, or show the bad guys, or whatever. I think this applies to every war.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

??? Re-read Caitlin's article - slowly - try to understand what she's saying. Stop your "Trump" confirmation bias from preventing you from understanding the article.

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Oceanus's avatar

What is there to reread? She is blaming Donald Trump (a person I myself have criticized multiple times) for the Democratic Party's inevitable evolution into what it is today. Ultimately, the blame lies with the Democratic Party themselves. They chose to allow all the drivel into their ranks. They could have stuck to their guns and kept principles (that they may or may not have pretended to have) while the Bushists faded into irrelevancy. Yet that didn't happen. They didn't allow it to happen. In fact, they see Bush as a preferable alternative because while he is in favor of eternal warfare he doesn't believe in closed borders and demographic preservation which is the ultimate sin in their eyes.

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Wizard's avatar

Leftist have crying "literally Hitler". Not liberals, there is nothing liberal about them.

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Chang, That's it in a nutshell.

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Michael's avatar

‘Elected’ Obama. Another great actor who was placed as the lead in the reality show called ‘America’

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Tarun's avatar

Agreed. He at least made certain things acceptable to say, like deep state, and fake news. He spoke to something in the zeitgeist. Because he is so obviously flawed does not mean he is without merit. The whole conversation has shifted and the right are better at a lot of things the left used to be. Like speech and war. What Caitlin leaves out is hope and wild grace. It is the downside of rational leftism. That is why I relate to the right more these days although I never claim to be on the right. Too many disagreements. But they generally have better converstions and more pertinent. Leftists are often not critical of important parts of capitalism like healthcare. They seem to think that big pharma has made amazing products but they're just too expensive to the gov't should buy them from pharma and give them out for free. No real idea of the harms that they promote. I can't take that anymore. There are only a few leftists left who have holistic views. Most are dogmatists and either boring or dangerous. It's a sad and very strange state of things. But there are hopes scattered here and there on the road to Armageddon.

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Cedar Collander Farris's avatar

Also remember it was Bill Clinton, brought into the Bilderbergs (also a Rhodes Scholar) in 1991. And he was the one who signed US into NAFTA-GAT which destroyed the industrial GIANT that was the Great Lakes states, and this made the region "The Rustbelt". And it's strongly rumored he's one of the Rockefeller illegitimate chosen ones

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Oceanus's avatar

No I am not. She is ridiculing Trump supporters for believing in an all powerful deep state while at the same time believing that the government has the ability to put on spectacular performances without anyone catching on. Performances are only performances when there is no harm involved and the stakes aren't real. When things start getting real, the performance is unable to continue.

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Wizard's avatar

Trump can obviously regenerate considering his ear was completely undamaged when the bandages came off, so the stakes are not that high. 🙄

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

Maybe it came with the hair...

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Oceanus's avatar

What is the "right" in this instance? I am the "right" but I am certain that the right you are talking about and the right I am apart of are two different things.

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Tarun's avatar

Okay, okay.. it's all bad... vote for Stein and then you can say you din't vote for whatstheirname... and whine for another four years or armageddon whichever comes first.. probably armageddon.

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Oceanus's avatar

You understand that realignments happen and that there are large portions of the right that aren't in favor of capitalism or corporate supremacy, correct?

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Michael's avatar

This is my take too. Everything is a reality show sponsored by the same rich guys and Trump has been their greatest actor. Ten years from now (if the remaining mutants who were once Americans are not battling in the Thunderdome) we’ll watch Trump be presented on streaming news as a nice old man who is like a grandfather to President AOC. Mark my words. It’s a scam and we’re the suckers.

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Dennis's avatar

Caitlin, you are a treasure

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Jon Olsen's avatar

You say: " with no voice left for ordinary Americans and their basic human needs." But you have forgotten Jill Stein who will be on 40+ state ballots and now has a clear lead over Harris and Trump among the US Muslim population, just to start. Only she has emphatically denounced the genocide. Pay attention, please.

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Jill Stein and Butch Ware are the people's "voice" to tell the duopoly/uniparty where to go fly a kite! (Insert any other euphemism you like here for "F*** off, fascists!")

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Tarun's avatar

Yup, looking for a big 2 percent this time round!!

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

That percentage is up to us. It depends entirely on how many have slipped out of the duopoly’s narrative, and use their vote as their voice.

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Tarun's avatar

Hope springs eternal.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Do you realize how many millions of people that is in a country of 350 million? It helps Green candidates get onto the ballots easier in the majority of the states. The duopoly have rigged things to make it extremely costly and difficult for alternative candidates, and the "big 2 percent+" is a victory against the corrupt system all of its own. Stay positive. Don't buy into the duopoly's lies and smears.

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russian_bot's avatar

Huge victory indeed. For the system. As they can point at it and claim democracy worked.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Maybe. But they'll be peeing in their pants the whole time, scared that non-corporate owned candidates will have half a chance to take office.

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russian_bot's avatar

They'll definitely be peeing in their pants. From laughing.

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Jon Olsen's avatar

Your cynicism is on full display, Tarun. Congratulations.

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CarbonCopy's avatar

They are actually going "Viral" across the Social Media network! Their Breakfast Club interview went off the charts!

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

The comments section is amazing! Totally turned on Rye.

https://youtu.be/KGm2Fe4G3AA

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

There are 14,000 comments! I read quite a few and they are almost all favourable to Dr. Stein and Professor Ware. Many said it was their first time seeing and hearing them. I think that program may have gained the Green Party some new supporters. 🤞🏾

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Tarun's avatar

The only thing great about Jill is if she can sway the conversation... that is all a third party can accomplish.. so media is important.. i've hardly see her lately

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JennyStokes's avatar

Of course you don't! MSM would never interview her let alone write about her.

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Tarun's avatar

I don't do MSM.. but even the lefty channels have not seen much of her.

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JennyStokes's avatar

WHAT 'lefty' channels?

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

As much as I would like to see her succeed, the Muslim pop in the US is a grain in the big picture. It's great to see them making this statement, and I hope their class and character catch on. But the rest of the "politically engaged" are dumdum nod-alongs.

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If you were paying attention, even to the extent that you read and understood the article on which you are commenting, you wouldn't care who the president is. You wouldn't waste time and energy talking about Stein, or Trump, or what's-her-name, because they simply do not matter.

Pay attention.

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-great-stagnation

Catch a clue.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Such good points! Trump has moved the Democrats so far to the right, they should rightfully be Republicans.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

I know -- unbelievable!

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Tarun's avatar

that window is being pushed all over the western world. Is it all about Trump? Maybe. But liberals are acting like totalitarians and that gets the right thinking communism.. It's actually fascism, but let them have their day. The point is to push back against intrusions of the state into the free lives of people.. hey that used to be a leftist thing to say and not it is far right.

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Dr.Who's avatar

“…but for the record nothing would be accomplished by eliminating him because he’ll only be replaced by an ideological clone of himself just like Biden was.”

That clone has already been identified as JD, who has many more natural years ahead than does DT.

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

What I would be worried about is the "competent Trump" that Chris Hedges, among others, has warned of. Like Cheney with personality.

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Feral Finster's avatar

A competent populist, left or right, would give our overlords fits.

Not a clown like Trump, but a Huey P. Long.

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John Copp's avatar

Hey, Ms. Johnstone, while I usually find your analysis accurate and indeed entertaining, your handling of Trump COMPLETELY misses the point. Namely: that America has morphed into a class-layered autocracy and thereby disenfranchised millions for whom not even the cleverest propaganda machine since Goebbels' can stifle the pain. Sure Trump's a narcissistic sociopath but his embrace of conventional Populism reaches deep into American character. Vast numbers of citizens have been intentionally left out. Hillary's disdain for the "deplorables" conveys a chilling message from the Elite classes: you don't matter any more, even though you fight all the wars that us selfish swine incite, fund, and profit from. Beyond that, since the Vietnam war, the entire Washington apparatus has devoted itself to one crime after another. We've slaughtered millions of innocent human beings. Our Elite increase their wealth and power through war - bombing and killing without a hint of shame or conscience. Vast numbers of my fellow citizens are sick of ALL of it. Anybody who even HINTS that they might put an end to it will get our undivided attention.

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CarbonCopy's avatar

And where on earth did you ever get the idea Trump will stop any war? He never has and will do just as his Zionist Nazi buddy Netanyahu tells him to do which will be start a war with Iran!

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"embrace of conventional Populism reaches deep into American character"

John Copp, that's theatre. That's fake concern. Trump cares ONLY about himself. Lots of people get suckered by sweet words. That's what happened with Obama. Obama was all about fake concern, fake hope, fake populism. Same with Trump.

These people say the words people want to hear, but there is no sincerety to them. These characters are NOT genuine. That's why they are called "populist" leaders - because they know how to pull the "heart-strings" and tap into the anxiety and fear prevalent in society - and take advantage of heightened emotions to manipulate public opinions.

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Tarun's avatar

Right on brother. Any hint of hope is better than the void that many are peering into.

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Kevin Hammond CMT's avatar

Democrips and rebloodlicans.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

CJ>>"I wouldn’t care if Trump got assassinated, but for the record nothing would be accomplished by eliminating him because he’ll only be replaced by an ideological clone of himself just like Biden was. The powers that be benefit too much from having a Trump; if it’s not him it’ll be another."

Thank you Caitlin! THIS is what people need to understand. The 99% (whether Dems or Repubs or something else) need to know/understand WHO THE REAL ENEMY IS. It's the 1% (and NOT your fellow Dem, or Repub, or whatever). The Presidents are figureheads and talking-mouths that represent the Empire Managers, Global corporations and Capitalists, the Oligarch, and the Power Elite. They do NOT represent the PEOPLE (or their interests)! They are replaceable.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"Mainstream US politics has been shoved so far to the right that in it’s now effectively a contest between Donald Trump’s Republican Party and George W Bush’s Republican Party."

Yep, that's about the size of it. And it's why the duopoly/uniparty must be abandoned once and for all for the greater good. Abandon Harris, Dump Trump, and Join Jill Stein and Butch Ware on the Green Party ticket of "people, planet and peace." Why should we care about what happens to the genocide-enablers? They don't care what happens to us. It's time to vote Green, America.

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K Miller's avatar

goddamn. every word of this essay is true.

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Paula's avatar

Did you see the Thomas Massie episode where he claims the moves being made in congress are all political theatre? I'm with you, Caitlin, this too is more political theatre and very much unlike the JFK assassination. I think you are right; if the deep state wants you dead, you will be dead. This theatre and I will treat it as such, seems to want Trump elected. I'm not voting for either of the presented genociders, but I think Trump, according to his and his family's history, would have less resistance to killing American citizens than Kamala for whatever that's worth.

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Tarun's avatar

Hope he kills the shitlibs first tho.

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Luke's avatar

What Donald Trump did during the first attempt was nothing short of legendary. Events like such cannot be predicted or planned for. After taking a slight graze and being thrown to the ground he jumped up and shouted “Fight Fight Fight.”

I know that has to be painful for some of you. Those of you that don’t believe a billionaire can be tough. But the motherfucker is and that’s why strong alpha male role model types of all creeds respect him.

It’s those types who can save us; not Trump himself. I am sorry to report that love and tolerance is not going to cut it. Those people are what got us here. It is the people that flock to Trump who can get us out.

Our enemy is the same thru and thru. It’s a Global Fascist System that used liberalism to subvert the masses. I understand that DT also shares common ground with the beast. It’s kind of a Catch 22 if you think about it honestly.

Right now he’s the best chance we got. It boggles my mind how many people who readily thought those of us who said J Biden was FUBAR brained were peddling yet another conspiracy only to learn it was true. Yet now some of them are ready to vote for those who perpetrated the lie.

So this is what we face. Normally I do NOT fault or look down on someone who points to a problem that has no solution. After all a problem must first be identified before it can be solved. BUT this time I am going to demand an answer……

So what do we do? Allow the Global Fascists under the banner of leftism to become even more entrenched in our politics? Please enlighten me as to your strategy. Don’t think for a moment I have not thought it through.

Do we wait for them to fuck things up so badly that only when enough people are drinking from a ditch the masses stir?

TPTB hate Donald J Trump. Understanding this concept is step one. It is NOT an exaggeration. The evidence is beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.

AND Any fucking time you have a chance to throw sand into the machine YOU DO IT. And unlike 2017 it must be upon those of us wise enough to know the score to push DT in the right direction.

And I shall with whatever I have in me. That’s a promise.

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CarbonCopy's avatar

Get out of this 2 party trap. You are supporting YOUR ENEMY! First Trump Kumala And All but a very few (Thomas Massie for one) are traitors committing TREASON and GENOCIDE! Trump is owned by the Zionist Nazis! Peter Thiel owns him. So if you want to be tagged LIKE A COW AND BECOME HUMAN INVENTORY go ahead and support your enemies! Both parties are YOUR ENEMY! Vote Dr. Jill Stein or forget about you having a happy ending!

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Tarun's avatar

Yeah, the Jill Stein happy ending... I laugh when people present the stark truths of our times, and then say the only solution is we rise up. Yeah, umm when is that happening exactly? When 2 percent of the people vote green? It's gonna take seismic shifts to change our course and they are coming down the pipe as we write. War will rearrange our lives soon I expect. Gov sponsored fascism will do the job barring WW3. No one is going to wake up in numbers till the shit really hits the fan. So maybe see you on the other side of this mess and we'll see what kinda mess we have then.

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Mike Fish's avatar

Massie.

Rashida Tlaib.

After that, I’m out of ideas.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Hero worship, much?

We already saw how "tough" Trump was from 2016-2020. Rhetoric aside, he proved weak, stupid and easily manipulated.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

There’s much more sand in the Green Party. So much so, they aren’t allowed anywhere near the MSM.

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Will Durant's avatar

The MSM is more like a fight promoter in boxing or MMA, profiting from the obscene and absurd spectacle of it all. Like the Vestal Virgins, they maintain the flame of the Overton Window of political discourse. That is precisely why third parties cannot get the exposure and media oxygen they need to be part of the debate. And who owns the MSM? The spectacle itself is the requisite distraction to maintain the status quo that fails so many in America while hugely enriching the few. I have no idea when we awaken from this nightmare, but the first order of business is to reject being manipulated in any way. Speak out, call out and maintain your dignity while others shout out. Don’t play the game for which you did not help write the rules. Don’t give your vote away to the slightly sweeter of two stinkers. Don’t forget to be aware of of your own sins and shortcomings. And remember that Love is the only power that never fails.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Well said Will Durant!

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Darren G Whitney's avatar

I'm sure TPTB will take all this into account when they hand him the picture book (with Bonus Big Mac Meal Vouchers!!!!) that tells him exactly what to do and when.

Like last time.

Remember last time?

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Feral Finster's avatar

I doubt anything so crude is necessary. I suspect without evidence that it's more like something out of "Yes, Minister".

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Luke's avatar

And I appreciate it. Though I try not to get too hung up in semantics. All the best!

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Luke's avatar

Am done with Zionists altogether. And yes I know Trump has it in his blood.

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