Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Republican politicians have found a way to reconcile the fact that scrutinizing the behavior of the US war machine appeals to their base and wins votes with the fact that the Republican Party is built around facilitating war and militarism at every turn. Their solution? Pour mountains of energy into championing the case that the nation's military has gotten too "woke".
1. The Empire doesn't care who pushes the "kill" button on the drone, as long as the button gets pushed. LGTBQXYZPDQ is a perfect distraction, just as it also has no effect on the way the pie is sliced.
2. Pretty much any political or economic arrangement can be made to work tolerably well, to the extent it is run by non-sociopaths. The problem is that power inevitably finds its way into the hands of sociopaths, because they are the people who will do whatever it takes to win power.
“They control the opposition, and they control the opposition to the controlled opposition.”
Standard intelligence networking. Chuikov used it at Stalingrad against the German invaders , Giáp used it against the American invaders in Vietnam, The Taliban use it still in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Israelis and the Iranians are engaged in high stakes treachery, where each wants to be the cat with the mouse in its jaw. And the only way that Cuba has remained a sovereign state is because Castro would not allow U.S. Intelligence to get a foothold.
It’s a damn shame that the psyches of Americans are fodder for the suffocating tactics of siege-state propaganda. Most Americans would laugh at the suggestion that they are controlled or manipulated, but if they see their churches and the schools where they send their children as fronts for an occupying force, and learn that their TV’s are a dressed up version of Voice of America broadcasts pumped into “enemy” territory, it all becomes clear.
Excellent article. And nice how Caitlin points out how Establishment and phony Trump is (which methinks we need more of these days) along with the rest of the Republican phony, corrupt politicians - who are just as corrupt/fake as the Democrats - which Caitlin has written about frequently on her substack.
And again, it's not about whether there are real underlying issues with gender in the US, or women's rights - there certainly is- it's about how these two corrupt parties are cynically using these divisive issues to divert attention to other (also important) societal problems we have right now - that the sociopathic billionaires don't want the American public to be talking about or giving attention to.
It should also be added, that the Democrat and Republican party's cynical/hypocritical use of these issues, undercuts the authenticity of their claims and advocacy, because hypocrites cannot be trusted.
Seems to be that republicans are all triggered by woke ideology.
Before they spend so much time bantering about woke culture in the military, maybe they could address the very real, very common, rape culture in the military.
It’s certainly not new, and it’s certainly not being addressed.
I'm a right wing populist and I disagree with your assumption that what national leaders say and do reflects the beliefs and actions of the average American populist. We try not to pay any attention to those goobers in DC, and instead are busy reforming our counties and states.
"Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are designed to take power away from the people and feed it to the empire."
This sentence summarizes what the entirety of what's wrong with the United States of America in the year 2023. Brand it on your forehead so you can use it as a talking point everywhere you go. Never let up on repeating its truth whenever you are asked why you don't support either the "red" or the "blue team" at the polls. Starve the emperors of new recruits. Power to the people--not the empire!
Not sure how you just connect popularism with just the Republican right. To me, popularism is the rise of Americans, right left and middle leaning, against the corrupt elite government industrial and military establishment that is for their own political, money, and power gain. This being gains that thwart the peaceful aims of its ordinary citizens. War is not anything we have ever gained anything from.
Elective democracy is an income for political parties. And for this to work smoothly for the parties, it's imperative to distract the chaland, pardon me: the consumer, oops: the citizen. Each camp has its puppets, its well-rehearsed show, to amuse the public and distract them from the subjects that make them angry.
The fact that Americans can convince themselves that they're a nation under siege, with a military budget of almost $1,000 billion and 800 bases around the world, proves one thing: Americans suck at geography. That they are still convinced that Russia and China are going to be defeated militarily proves once again that they still suck at geography and learn nothing from 60 years of screwed-up military adventures.
Wokism would be a good thing if it actually took on its true meaning: to awaken, and deliver the people from the hypnotic sleep provided by the mainstream media and political discourse. But the problem is that its aim is not to awaken, but to put citizens' critical minds to sleep even more, by keeping them away from essential issues.
Weapons of mass distraction: fear of...communists, POC, devil worshippers, devil music, aids, gays, saturated fat, acid rain, terrorists, global warming, bird flu, SARS, MERS, climate change, Covid-19, and last but not least, transsexuals. Pick your year, there’s always a boogeyman to be afraid of.
With regard to the military, I’m actually in favor of it going “full woke.” I think everyone in the military who wants sex reassignment surgery should get it. Then we need to reassign their citizenship to Ukrainian. This will solve so many problems.
We laugh at Indians and their sacred cows. Our sacred cow has always been the military. Beyond reproach, always funded to the hilt, never questioned. It doesn't matter if the obscene yearly allocations are bankrupting the nation, alienating the rest of the world, and threatening nuclear holocaust. But we seem to take it all in stride and our city streets are all festooned with banners of our enlisted men and women. Not heroes mind you, but just enlisted persons we are supposed to worship. The Empire marches on to a Gotterdamerung of its own making.
All Empires eventually expire. Be it by outward forces and/or internal corruption. It was debt crisis that accelerated the Soviet Union’s fall. Long costly wars and loss of cohesiveness.
The US citizens have a choice, stop the madness now or wait until the deterioration into a third world nation and tremendous pain. The power to change is always with the people, despite the forces arraigned against them. It takes desperation, courage and sacrifice, and love of country. Does it make sense to die in the streets of our country fighting for our survival, instead of being led to slaughter in foreign lands fighting for the profits of the rich, elite and corporations.
1. The Empire doesn't care who pushes the "kill" button on the drone, as long as the button gets pushed. LGTBQXYZPDQ is a perfect distraction, just as it also has no effect on the way the pie is sliced.
2. Pretty much any political or economic arrangement can be made to work tolerably well, to the extent it is run by non-sociopaths. The problem is that power inevitably finds its way into the hands of sociopaths, because they are the people who will do whatever it takes to win power.
This is the kernel of The Iron Law Of Oligarchy.
“They control the opposition, and they control the opposition to the controlled opposition.”
Standard intelligence networking. Chuikov used it at Stalingrad against the German invaders , Giáp used it against the American invaders in Vietnam, The Taliban use it still in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Israelis and the Iranians are engaged in high stakes treachery, where each wants to be the cat with the mouse in its jaw. And the only way that Cuba has remained a sovereign state is because Castro would not allow U.S. Intelligence to get a foothold.
It’s a damn shame that the psyches of Americans are fodder for the suffocating tactics of siege-state propaganda. Most Americans would laugh at the suggestion that they are controlled or manipulated, but if they see their churches and the schools where they send their children as fronts for an occupying force, and learn that their TV’s are a dressed up version of Voice of America broadcasts pumped into “enemy” territory, it all becomes clear.
Excellent article. And nice how Caitlin points out how Establishment and phony Trump is (which methinks we need more of these days) along with the rest of the Republican phony, corrupt politicians - who are just as corrupt/fake as the Democrats - which Caitlin has written about frequently on her substack.
And again, it's not about whether there are real underlying issues with gender in the US, or women's rights - there certainly is- it's about how these two corrupt parties are cynically using these divisive issues to divert attention to other (also important) societal problems we have right now - that the sociopathic billionaires don't want the American public to be talking about or giving attention to.
It should also be added, that the Democrat and Republican party's cynical/hypocritical use of these issues, undercuts the authenticity of their claims and advocacy, because hypocrites cannot be trusted.
Seems to be that republicans are all triggered by woke ideology.
Before they spend so much time bantering about woke culture in the military, maybe they could address the very real, very common, rape culture in the military.
It’s certainly not new, and it’s certainly not being addressed.
Not adequately anyway.
I'm a right wing populist and I disagree with your assumption that what national leaders say and do reflects the beliefs and actions of the average American populist. We try not to pay any attention to those goobers in DC, and instead are busy reforming our counties and states.
"Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are designed to take power away from the people and feed it to the empire."
This sentence summarizes what the entirety of what's wrong with the United States of America in the year 2023. Brand it on your forehead so you can use it as a talking point everywhere you go. Never let up on repeating its truth whenever you are asked why you don't support either the "red" or the "blue team" at the polls. Starve the emperors of new recruits. Power to the people--not the empire!
Not sure how you just connect popularism with just the Republican right. To me, popularism is the rise of Americans, right left and middle leaning, against the corrupt elite government industrial and military establishment that is for their own political, money, and power gain. This being gains that thwart the peaceful aims of its ordinary citizens. War is not anything we have ever gained anything from.
Elective democracy is an income for political parties. And for this to work smoothly for the parties, it's imperative to distract the chaland, pardon me: the consumer, oops: the citizen. Each camp has its puppets, its well-rehearsed show, to amuse the public and distract them from the subjects that make them angry.
The fact that Americans can convince themselves that they're a nation under siege, with a military budget of almost $1,000 billion and 800 bases around the world, proves one thing: Americans suck at geography. That they are still convinced that Russia and China are going to be defeated militarily proves once again that they still suck at geography and learn nothing from 60 years of screwed-up military adventures.
Wokism would be a good thing if it actually took on its true meaning: to awaken, and deliver the people from the hypnotic sleep provided by the mainstream media and political discourse. But the problem is that its aim is not to awaken, but to put citizens' critical minds to sleep even more, by keeping them away from essential issues.
Weapons of mass distraction: fear of...communists, POC, devil worshippers, devil music, aids, gays, saturated fat, acid rain, terrorists, global warming, bird flu, SARS, MERS, climate change, Covid-19, and last but not least, transsexuals. Pick your year, there’s always a boogeyman to be afraid of.
With regard to the military, I’m actually in favor of it going “full woke.” I think everyone in the military who wants sex reassignment surgery should get it. Then we need to reassign their citizenship to Ukrainian. This will solve so many problems.
Both parties, but especially the retardicans, are stuffed with war loving anti-America neocons. Parasites like Graham desperately want WWIII asap.
Dreizin Report – May 5, 2023 -- https://thedreizinreport.com/2023/05/04/blowing-in-the-wind/
“Without Trump….. …..today, we’d be in a true One-Party State.
But, of course, no “gratitude” to the guy, ever”
We laugh at Indians and their sacred cows. Our sacred cow has always been the military. Beyond reproach, always funded to the hilt, never questioned. It doesn't matter if the obscene yearly allocations are bankrupting the nation, alienating the rest of the world, and threatening nuclear holocaust. But we seem to take it all in stride and our city streets are all festooned with banners of our enlisted men and women. Not heroes mind you, but just enlisted persons we are supposed to worship. The Empire marches on to a Gotterdamerung of its own making.
As annoying as wokeness is, if it was actually a threat to the military then we just need more of it lol
Your Double Daily Dose Of Fascist Politics - Police State Edition
If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There Is No Free Press
https://scheerpost.com/2023/06/02/if-the-police-can-decide-who-qualifies-as-a-journalist-there-is-no-free-press/
All Empires eventually expire. Be it by outward forces and/or internal corruption. It was debt crisis that accelerated the Soviet Union’s fall. Long costly wars and loss of cohesiveness.
The US citizens have a choice, stop the madness now or wait until the deterioration into a third world nation and tremendous pain. The power to change is always with the people, despite the forces arraigned against them. It takes desperation, courage and sacrifice, and love of country. Does it make sense to die in the streets of our country fighting for our survival, instead of being led to slaughter in foreign lands fighting for the profits of the rich, elite and corporations.