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.
When you think of the most divisive cultural issues that keep Americans arguing and fighting one another, it’s not simply that the fake parties take opposing sides and exacerbate conflict within the society. Many of the “elected representatives” are true believers who see themselves in a primal, cosmic battle. This elevates the perceived gravity of these issues, which yields a very credible message for propagandists.
But the whole point of a state and a government and a judiciary is to spell out how individual freedom meshes with racial bigotry, and abortion, and religious belief, for example. So America, which everyone is told stands for freedom, allows racism to be used as virtual agitprop, and abortion is permitted to be legislated by deists, and sympathy-seeking Christians are permitted to violate the freedoms of persons who don’t share their “values.”
This is directly connected to the SCOTUS ruling that corporations are people. Corporations are not sentient, but decide our behaviors and preferences and never accord individual freedom to anyone that isn’t in the corporation’s private interest. So individual freedom only applies to individuals who have the means to go toe to toe with corporations...but that never happens, or rarely, because money allies with money. So as negative as capitalism is as an economic system, it only eats its tail and self-destructs if elites convince us that no regulation and no oversight is how a “free market” works. Shame on us for allowing that.
Well written. The catechism of the 'free market" ideology we've been hearing now for decades, only serves greatly the billionaires running the puppet show in DC. Many Americans have been led to believe a market can only be free without any enforced rules that all people participating in a 'free market" must establish and work with. A free market - isn't meant to be a "free-for-all" market which includes monopolies, collusion, ponzi schemes, grift, exploitation of women, exploitation of workers, no oversight on work conditions, no oversight on the amount of advertisements the population is subject to. The idea that a "free market" means corporations get to do whatever they want whenever they want to people and the planet, and everything living on the planet - and this is moral and good - is a piece of propaganda that we still are not free of in the US and other Western countries. No market is free if the majority of people become victims (not by choice) of those who have complete control over said market. And you hear the same arguments over and over again - i.e. the invisible hand of the free-market will magically correct itself - that everyone has a choice so why blame the corporations who are engaging in the unchecked exploitation and have all the power? It's a never ending barrage of propaganda that serves the wealth class who owns the market and the US government.
Why can’t we just use common sense. Everything in moderation. This includes applying aspects of capitalism or socialism (communism). No such thing as perfection but we can be better
Don't know why we can't just use common sense. I agree with Caitlin that a major problem is the propaganda we've had to ingest for the last half century, which puts many in a psychological cage they're not even aware of. All I know is, the US was a much different place than it is now - when I was growing up. The corporations have grown way more powerful, the US government even more corrupt, and the poverty is far more visible and growing. The middle class is being eaten up by the tax avoiding - obscenely rich, who don't want to take any responsibility for the society they live in and exploit ruthlessly.
Agree with you! I took my son to the ‘doctor’ today only to be hustled in and out without actually seeing a doctor. It felt like a transaction. Faceless masked people providing a service coldly. I left thinking that everything they did for us could be automated and yearning for the old days when private practice doctors gave ‘care’ not medical services
If Americans only were fully aware how broken our health care system has become! In other advanced countries, doctors will even make house visits if needed.
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.
Yep. My wife is in the US army. (she medically retired due to PTSD and we're long-separated). Not only was she raped and then made to watch as the guy walked free after a full day of her testimony, but years later when she was in Iraq, it was an obvious truth that the women were far more afraid of their fellow male soldiers than they were of the enemy.
If they had to go to the bathroom at night, they brought their guns with them.
As to sexual harassment, that was outrageous and too common to even think about addressing.
I once read a tweet that asked, "What if there were no men?" and the responses were sobering. Instantly, the world was safer, women could do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, without fear. I think about that often.
Both issues are important issues. But Caitlin's article was how these issues are being used to divert the populace away from other important issues that are not being addressed. And it's not just the republican party that cynically diverts attention, it is the democratic party that does it as well.
Yup. Prof. Nancy Fraser has written about how the democrats deploy ID politics to mask Neoliberal pro-corporate economic policies - she called it "Progressive Neoliberalism". Do the Google on that term, I'm too lazy!
And many people fail to realize the enormous damage being done to "women's rights" with these pro-corporate, Neoliberal economic agendas - that they deliberately obfuscate from the public - and when it does come time to act, they push forward tiny incremental change that amounts to breadcrumbs of activism. They use popular issues to propel themselves into power (progressives like AOC and Ro Khanna) then once in power, do jack shit.
When it comes to “women’s rights”, I think first, and foremost about bodily autonomy.
When it concerns issues like military rape culture, or reproductive freedom, it seems to me that right wing christian fascists have alot to answer for over the course of many decades.
If woke culture is truly having a detrimental effect on the US military, I’m all for it, although I’m not certain how I could tell.
After all, this is a government organization that has been unsuccessful in its campaigns, from Korea, to Afghanistan.
To Ukraine???
The dysfunction seems to go as far back as the USO shows, and is not necessarily the byproduct of the more current drag shows.
Probably would be worth our while to question the mission of the military, as well as the culture.
As Andrew Bacevich has addressed many times in his writings, winning wars is only a rhetorical priority for the Pentagon. Discounting the Grenada photo-op, and Operation Desert Storm, where Bush1 jubilantly announced that we are no longer suffering from Vietnam Syndrome, American military forays have been goose eggs on the scorecard. But the military “threats” abound, and the military budget only expands.
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.
Totally agree Seth. Instead of equally condemning both corrupt parties, job one should be to stop the US aggression in Ukraine before it devolves into nuclear war. The only hope for that to occur would be to remove the Biden Regime, and all of the war criminal democrat neocons like Nuland and Blinken, from office. Whether it be by re-electing Trump or that a miracle occurs and RFK Jr. is allowed to win the Democrat nomination, this illegal US war on Russia MUST END. After the war is ended, we could then turn our attention to stopping a potential war on China. Take things one step at a time.
"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!
One thing the Biden Regime seems to be accomplishing is that young white men, maybe other ethnic groups as well, no longer want to join the military. They can't meet their enlistment quotas and experienced servicemen have been leaving in droves, along with the thousands who were kicked out of the military for refusing to take the clot shot that Biden demanded. If you believe analysts like Colonel MacGregor, today's military is no longer capable of winning a war against either Russia or China. The only chance that the US has is to go nuclear, and insane psychos like Graham and Nuland would push the button if they could reach it.
Since the beginning reading Macgregor, Lancaster, Scott, Larry Johnson, David Sacks, Eva Bartlett, and the Duran and they all say the same thing. Ukraine is a loosing battle, but then everything Biden and his cabal touches is. Afghanistan was a mess never mind the covid junk. I hope this next election gets a better group in, but it might take an act of God. Our military is a mess because the leadership is. Morals and absolute values make a difference in everything.
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.
And the less popular they are the more the DNC will force them down our powerless throats. Don't fucking vote for any of them or either wing of the Business/War Party.
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.
It took me a long time to realize that most people lack the knowledge of geography I had acquired by the age of seven. Indeed 6% of USA adults can't find their own nation on a map of the world. They also know nothing of war or economics or science. This is why so many believe that Ukraine could win a war with Russia. A public ignorant of basic facts can be lead to believe just about anything that makes them feel good.
It took me even longer to realize that elected officials are pretty much the same. They truly do represent the public.
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.
If Trump had his way, he would run the US like his idol, Benito Mussolini, ran Italy in the 1920s and 1930s—as a true fascist state. Then there would indeed be only one party. With that said, I do believe that the Democrats and the Republicans function as a uniparty. A pox on both their houses.
Which just shows that he didn’t get his way at that time. But the Republican Party is growing increasingly radical with a strong Christofascist element. So the question is whether the United States could turn full-on fascist under the right circumstances. I don’t rule it out. As Caitlin pointed out in a recent article, a bonafide leftist opposition simply does not exist. As for the Democratic Party, I see it as the non-oppositional opposition.
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.
Not always. Even in the 1980's Reagan had to finance the Nicaragua war with cocaine sales due to peace dominance in Congress. That's all gone now though.
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.
#2: Opportunists gonna opportune.
The US government is a huge trough full of slop. Lot's of people pushing and shoving to get their bite.
“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.
When you think of the most divisive cultural issues that keep Americans arguing and fighting one another, it’s not simply that the fake parties take opposing sides and exacerbate conflict within the society. Many of the “elected representatives” are true believers who see themselves in a primal, cosmic battle. This elevates the perceived gravity of these issues, which yields a very credible message for propagandists.
But the whole point of a state and a government and a judiciary is to spell out how individual freedom meshes with racial bigotry, and abortion, and religious belief, for example. So America, which everyone is told stands for freedom, allows racism to be used as virtual agitprop, and abortion is permitted to be legislated by deists, and sympathy-seeking Christians are permitted to violate the freedoms of persons who don’t share their “values.”
This is directly connected to the SCOTUS ruling that corporations are people. Corporations are not sentient, but decide our behaviors and preferences and never accord individual freedom to anyone that isn’t in the corporation’s private interest. So individual freedom only applies to individuals who have the means to go toe to toe with corporations...but that never happens, or rarely, because money allies with money. So as negative as capitalism is as an economic system, it only eats its tail and self-destructs if elites convince us that no regulation and no oversight is how a “free market” works. Shame on us for allowing that.
https://indica.medium.com/the-worst-case-scenario-for-ai-is-already-here-b224721402ee
Well written. The catechism of the 'free market" ideology we've been hearing now for decades, only serves greatly the billionaires running the puppet show in DC. Many Americans have been led to believe a market can only be free without any enforced rules that all people participating in a 'free market" must establish and work with. A free market - isn't meant to be a "free-for-all" market which includes monopolies, collusion, ponzi schemes, grift, exploitation of women, exploitation of workers, no oversight on work conditions, no oversight on the amount of advertisements the population is subject to. The idea that a "free market" means corporations get to do whatever they want whenever they want to people and the planet, and everything living on the planet - and this is moral and good - is a piece of propaganda that we still are not free of in the US and other Western countries. No market is free if the majority of people become victims (not by choice) of those who have complete control over said market. And you hear the same arguments over and over again - i.e. the invisible hand of the free-market will magically correct itself - that everyone has a choice so why blame the corporations who are engaging in the unchecked exploitation and have all the power? It's a never ending barrage of propaganda that serves the wealth class who owns the market and the US government.
Yeah, we have might-makes-right principles at work. A mafia-state!
Social Darwinism 101
Why can’t we just use common sense. Everything in moderation. This includes applying aspects of capitalism or socialism (communism). No such thing as perfection but we can be better
Don't know why we can't just use common sense. I agree with Caitlin that a major problem is the propaganda we've had to ingest for the last half century, which puts many in a psychological cage they're not even aware of. All I know is, the US was a much different place than it is now - when I was growing up. The corporations have grown way more powerful, the US government even more corrupt, and the poverty is far more visible and growing. The middle class is being eaten up by the tax avoiding - obscenely rich, who don't want to take any responsibility for the society they live in and exploit ruthlessly.
Agree with you! I took my son to the ‘doctor’ today only to be hustled in and out without actually seeing a doctor. It felt like a transaction. Faceless masked people providing a service coldly. I left thinking that everything they did for us could be automated and yearning for the old days when private practice doctors gave ‘care’ not medical services
If Americans only were fully aware how broken our health care system has become! In other advanced countries, doctors will even make house visits if needed.
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.
Yep. My wife is in the US army. (she medically retired due to PTSD and we're long-separated). Not only was she raped and then made to watch as the guy walked free after a full day of her testimony, but years later when she was in Iraq, it was an obvious truth that the women were far more afraid of their fellow male soldiers than they were of the enemy.
If they had to go to the bathroom at night, they brought their guns with them.
As to sexual harassment, that was outrageous and too common to even think about addressing.
I once read a tweet that asked, "What if there were no men?" and the responses were sobering. Instantly, the world was safer, women could do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, without fear. I think about that often.
Both issues are important issues. But Caitlin's article was how these issues are being used to divert the populace away from other important issues that are not being addressed. And it's not just the republican party that cynically diverts attention, it is the democratic party that does it as well.
Yup. Prof. Nancy Fraser has written about how the democrats deploy ID politics to mask Neoliberal pro-corporate economic policies - she called it "Progressive Neoliberalism". Do the Google on that term, I'm too lazy!
And many people fail to realize the enormous damage being done to "women's rights" with these pro-corporate, Neoliberal economic agendas - that they deliberately obfuscate from the public - and when it does come time to act, they push forward tiny incremental change that amounts to breadcrumbs of activism. They use popular issues to propel themselves into power (progressives like AOC and Ro Khanna) then once in power, do jack shit.
No love here for democrats.
When it comes to “women’s rights”, I think first, and foremost about bodily autonomy.
When it concerns issues like military rape culture, or reproductive freedom, it seems to me that right wing christian fascists have alot to answer for over the course of many decades.
If woke culture is truly having a detrimental effect on the US military, I’m all for it, although I’m not certain how I could tell.
After all, this is a government organization that has been unsuccessful in its campaigns, from Korea, to Afghanistan.
To Ukraine???
The dysfunction seems to go as far back as the USO shows, and is not necessarily the byproduct of the more current drag shows.
Probably would be worth our while to question the mission of the military, as well as the culture.
Diversity is a fact of life.
Unfortunately, unity, or unanimity are not.
I appreciate your comment(s).
As Andrew Bacevich has addressed many times in his writings, winning wars is only a rhetorical priority for the Pentagon. Discounting the Grenada photo-op, and Operation Desert Storm, where Bush1 jubilantly announced that we are no longer suffering from Vietnam Syndrome, American military forays have been goose eggs on the scorecard. But the military “threats” abound, and the military budget only expands.
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.
I'd say that's the winning strategy.
Totally agree Seth. Instead of equally condemning both corrupt parties, job one should be to stop the US aggression in Ukraine before it devolves into nuclear war. The only hope for that to occur would be to remove the Biden Regime, and all of the war criminal democrat neocons like Nuland and Blinken, from office. Whether it be by re-electing Trump or that a miracle occurs and RFK Jr. is allowed to win the Democrat nomination, this illegal US war on Russia MUST END. After the war is ended, we could then turn our attention to stopping a potential war on China. Take things one step at a time.
"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!
One thing the Biden Regime seems to be accomplishing is that young white men, maybe other ethnic groups as well, no longer want to join the military. They can't meet their enlistment quotas and experienced servicemen have been leaving in droves, along with the thousands who were kicked out of the military for refusing to take the clot shot that Biden demanded. If you believe analysts like Colonel MacGregor, today's military is no longer capable of winning a war against either Russia or China. The only chance that the US has is to go nuclear, and insane psychos like Graham and Nuland would push the button if they could reach it.
Since the beginning reading Macgregor, Lancaster, Scott, Larry Johnson, David Sacks, Eva Bartlett, and the Duran and they all say the same thing. Ukraine is a loosing battle, but then everything Biden and his cabal touches is. Afghanistan was a mess never mind the covid junk. I hope this next election gets a better group in, but it might take an act of God. Our military is a mess because the leadership is. Morals and absolute values make a difference in everything.
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.
The Ds are heavily committed to unpopulism. Just look at Biden/Harris. It's like they are going out of their way to be unpopular.
And the less popular they are the more the DNC will force them down our powerless throats. Don't fucking vote for any of them or either wing of the Business/War Party.
Agreed. When I bother voting now, it's for third party candidates and "no" on all referenda.
Yes the dnc is at this point one big herd voice. To even consider not having debates with JFK and Williamson says it all.
Yep, none of the people Caitlin mentions in her essay are populists.
She doesn’t just connect populism to the right, this article is about right populism
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.
It took me a long time to realize that most people lack the knowledge of geography I had acquired by the age of seven. Indeed 6% of USA adults can't find their own nation on a map of the world. They also know nothing of war or economics or science. This is why so many believe that Ukraine could win a war with Russia. A public ignorant of basic facts can be lead to believe just about anything that makes them feel good.
It took me even longer to realize that elected officials are pretty much the same. They truly do represent the public.
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.
Oh I forgot, we must also be terrified of: illegal aliens, undocumented brown people, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans, and all Russians
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”
If Trump had his way, he would run the US like his idol, Benito Mussolini, ran Italy in the 1920s and 1930s—as a true fascist state. Then there would indeed be only one party. With that said, I do believe that the Democrats and the Republicans function as a uniparty. A pox on both their houses.
Interesting - but Trump is still “bad” ;-))
I detest Trump, but he was unable to get a Team R Congress to repeal Obama care.
Some authoritarian.
Which just shows that he didn’t get his way at that time. But the Republican Party is growing increasingly radical with a strong Christofascist element. So the question is whether the United States could turn full-on fascist under the right circumstances. I don’t rule it out. As Caitlin pointed out in a recent article, a bonafide leftist opposition simply does not exist. As for the Democratic Party, I see it as the non-oppositional opposition.
Team R is basically Team D with a different power base, and consequently, a different idpol.
Go fuck yourself you ugly imposter and paid troll
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.
Not always. Even in the 1980's Reagan had to finance the Nicaragua war with cocaine sales due to peace dominance in Congress. That's all gone now though.
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.