My first thought when I saw the "Joy poster"? I want to add a couple of bloody child-sized handprints across it with drips of blood for added effect. There. That would make it a more accurate campaign poster for Holocaust Harris, the joyful genocide-enabler she is.
I had a similar first thought about the Joy poster: replacing the flowers (that look like stickers for the bottom of a bathtub) with images of bomb craters from Palestine.
There is no future voting for the Democrat or Republican party. You are just perpetuating an abusive relationship, and it will continue to get worse. Even if you decide to participate in this billionaire rigged electoral cycle for whatever "short term" gain you think you'll get, all you've done is traded short term gratification for more long term abuse. The only real choice in an abusive relationship is to leave. A short term "stay" from abuse at the expense of even greater future abuse is not worth it (IMO).
If Caitlin Johnstone sees value in voting against the Republicans, that's enough for me. She is unequivocal about our empire's horrific actions and the leaders enacting them.
I never said I see value in voting against Republicans; I see no value in voting in US presidential elections at all. As I said, I think Obama and Biden disproved the claim that Republicans are more destructive than Democrats. All I'm saying is I can sorta kinda respect someone who thinks voting Democrat helps as long as they still ferociously fight the Democrats.
I hang my head in shame that I voted for Genocide Joe “because he wasn’t Trump”. I had a fleeting inclination to vote for Trump “because he isn’t ByeDone” but of course that ain’t a/gonna happen.
I totally agree with you, Caitlin, and the last presidential election I voted was Obama's first term. He failed to keep his campaign promises just as they all do. I have given up on all the mad men (and whatevers).
give them a pinky, they'll take your arm. some will explain it as an endorsement of kamala. i gamble the 'it will be easier to organise under harris then under trump' narrative will prove to be incorrect. many will take a solemn oath to ferociously fight the democrats and vote kamala.
CJ>>"Israel isn’t responsible for the existence of western warmongering, western warmongering is responsible for the existence of Israel. If there wasn’t an Israel they’d just invent another excuse to sow violence and division in the middle east. Biden himself has acknowledged this, saying “Were there not an Israel the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”"
Yes! There are too many people (on Caitlin's substack) that believe that Israel (or AIPAC or something else) controls the US. NO!!!!! That's what people that don't understand the US Empire (and how it works) think. Blaming Israel for controlling the US is tantamount to giving the depravity of the US a pass. America IS THE EVIL EMPIRE. Israel is America's Mini-me. This Genocide is supported and prolonged by the US (after it was started by Israel).
As used in contemporary discourse, stopping genocide is by definition "unreasonable" because it goes against the desires of people of influence and authority.
Imagine a parent being handed a plastic bag full of miscellaneous body parts weighed to approximate the age and weight of your dead child. That's supposed to give closure?
CJ>>"Trump and Harris are 99% identical in terms of the real policies they’ll promote."
EXACTLY! If you're a "Never-Trumper", then you MUST also be a "Never-Harris-er" or "Never-Biden-er". Anything else and you're a fake (IMO). Also, lesser-evil "voting logic" is not going to solve any problems or make anything better regardless of the outcome of the 2024 elections - especially since there ARE better choices out there ->Jill Stein, Cornel West, Claudia De La Cruz (even NONE is a better choice than Trump or Harris).
— CAN’T ANYONE IN AMERICA — S T O P THE W A R S, •••
MURDER, TORTURE,
I N F A N T I C I D E, … THE COMPLETE MURDERING — DESTRUCTION OF HUMANS - MEN, WOMEN, AND, ALL CHILDREN — IN THE MIDDLE EAST, .. NOT MENTIONING A L L THE MEN • !!!!!!!
Dr. Jill Stein states that on the first day she is in the White House she will call Israel and tell them that's the end of the arms shipments and to stop the genocide right away. And then she'd tell the ICC and ICJ to go ahead with their war crimes cases against everyone guilty of genocide. jillstein2024.com
“Trump and Harris are 99% identical in terms of the real policies they’ll promote. Trump supporters and Harris supporters hate each other because of that 1% difference; I hate them both because of that other 99%.”
And the human species’ genome is 99.9% identical, somehow that hasn’t stopped us from hating our neighbors.
Whenever I feel myself in total agreement with something that includes blanket statements about other people, I have to stop and try and parse the ideas. I’d say that not everyone is knowingly supporting these political parties with full appreciation of all they are doing.
The level of propaganda is outrageously high in America, and that’s because it works. Many decent people have not broken free — yet. But we see more and more who are learning to leave their mental, and emotional straitjackets. And, yes, Project 2025 is terrifying.
I’m voting for Dr. Jill Stein, again. Please join me.
Trump is another one of them and you would have to be completely blind to not see it. I mean, Trump was best friends with the clintons for *decades*, they are all part of the same clubs. "Side A" and "Side B" are both "Side Empire" and its, as you notice, so painfully obvious one wonders how can anyone even start to believe otherwise.
My name is Joy, I find it perhaps even more personally disturbing, and an absolutely anathema, that my country now proclaims “the Joy of Genocide.” NOT in my name!!!
Had to chuckle. Hedges called Kamala "vapid" - adding, there's nothing there. Hmmm. As long as the corporatized Democratic Establishment is not side-lined, we're going to be "given" their "anointed". How's that for arrogance?! (Genocide Joe Biden. Now, Kamala the manageable joyful woman who once was a (fancy) cop.) We must not allow ourselves to be insulted by such disrespect. "Anointed?" Making sufficient noise and good ruckus in insisting on an open convention next time is absolutely critical. And anyone -- who can figure out the crack that will side-line or disperse the existing corporatized Democratic majority to insert more genuine democratic processes for the selection of substantive human beings in an open convention - now, they, they will be mightily appreciated!!!!
Was watching a Cenk Uygur interview on Lex Fridman yesterday. Although I don't listen to him to often these days, the interview was quite good and he made some sharp points on the state of politics right now. Cenk did say unequivocally nothing will really be changed until we get Big Money out of politics. It's all a sideshow circus until then (my own words).
My first thought when I saw the "Joy poster"? I want to add a couple of bloody child-sized handprints across it with drips of blood for added effect. There. That would make it a more accurate campaign poster for Holocaust Harris, the joyful genocide-enabler she is.
Holocaust Harris = HH = 88 = Heil Hitler. Very appropriate.
Fascists like Harris/Biden can't help but repeat fascist history.
He's been smoking some heavy shit (for a while it seems)...
{...heavy shit...}🤣🤣🤣
Next time, he'd better dry it before consumption ...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Punctuation, syntax and checking your text before pressing the "post"-button is not everybody's strength.
But he knows about his shortcoming: "...I was using voice to text and did my best to edit..."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
quite deep down a certain rabbit hole. the take-away for me is that tptb allow for it to happen.
Pssst... "Killemall Harris" ... Pass It On!
When I saw it, I wanted a template image so I could replace the flowers with bombs.
I had a similar first thought about the Joy poster: replacing the flowers (that look like stickers for the bottom of a bathtub) with images of bomb craters from Palestine.
PS - here's where you can find the template image: https://kiiarens.com/products/kamala-vote-joy
I like the bombs for the flowers idea. Thanks for the link. If I can figure out how to modify the image, I will do so!
I prefer Scumala or Scamala.
Or SHAMala.
There is no future voting for the Democrat or Republican party. You are just perpetuating an abusive relationship, and it will continue to get worse. Even if you decide to participate in this billionaire rigged electoral cycle for whatever "short term" gain you think you'll get, all you've done is traded short term gratification for more long term abuse. The only real choice in an abusive relationship is to leave. A short term "stay" from abuse at the expense of even greater future abuse is not worth it (IMO).
If Caitlin Johnstone sees value in voting against the Republicans, that's enough for me. She is unequivocal about our empire's horrific actions and the leaders enacting them.
I never said I see value in voting against Republicans; I see no value in voting in US presidential elections at all. As I said, I think Obama and Biden disproved the claim that Republicans are more destructive than Democrats. All I'm saying is I can sorta kinda respect someone who thinks voting Democrat helps as long as they still ferociously fight the Democrats.
Voters for Stein are voices for peace.
I'm voting for Jill Stein again.
The machine can understand the meaning of that protest-vote.
Me too Dr. John, for the third time.
I hang my head in shame that I voted for Genocide Joe “because he wasn’t Trump”. I had a fleeting inclination to vote for Trump “because he isn’t ByeDone” but of course that ain’t a/gonna happen.
I wrote-in Tulsi Gabbard, with Cynthia McKinney as VP in 2020, a custom protest-vote, also easily understood.
I totally agree with you, Caitlin, and the last presidential election I voted was Obama's first term. He failed to keep his campaign promises just as they all do. I have given up on all the mad men (and whatevers).
give them a pinky, they'll take your arm. some will explain it as an endorsement of kamala. i gamble the 'it will be easier to organise under harris then under trump' narrative will prove to be incorrect. many will take a solemn oath to ferociously fight the democrats and vote kamala.
The words 'joy' and 'fun' don't stack up during a genocide Democrats refuse to stop.
They refuse not just to stop it, they refuse to acknowledge it.
Exactly!
Well, you see, the parties derive joy and fun from mass murder.
It's not fun for the oppressed, but look how cheery those psychopaths are in power!
Makes you almost want to give them a dose of their own joy medicine.
Very much so.
I see intense civil unrest in our future and welcome it.
Diana - This HAS been going on for seventy Years! WE KNOW who is to blame! I urge EVERYONE to visit MATTHEW TOWERS on X , regarding
this subject, and what happened to
JFK! Please check this out 👏💯🧐
CJ>>"Israel isn’t responsible for the existence of western warmongering, western warmongering is responsible for the existence of Israel. If there wasn’t an Israel they’d just invent another excuse to sow violence and division in the middle east. Biden himself has acknowledged this, saying “Were there not an Israel the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”"
Yes! There are too many people (on Caitlin's substack) that believe that Israel (or AIPAC or something else) controls the US. NO!!!!! That's what people that don't understand the US Empire (and how it works) think. Blaming Israel for controlling the US is tantamount to giving the depravity of the US a pass. America IS THE EVIL EMPIRE. Israel is America's Mini-me. This Genocide is supported and prolonged by the US (after it was started by Israel).
No.
As used in contemporary discourse, stopping genocide is by definition "unreasonable" because it goes against the desires of people of influence and authority.
that is why we need to do everything we can to burn this system to the ground. “stopping genocide is unreasonable” is unacceptable
No argument from me.
Hi John Brown
We need to go “John Brown” on Washington in the most literal sense!
Imagine a parent being handed a plastic bag full of miscellaneous body parts weighed to approximate the age and weight of your dead child. That's supposed to give closure?
CJ>>"Trump and Harris are 99% identical in terms of the real policies they’ll promote."
EXACTLY! If you're a "Never-Trumper", then you MUST also be a "Never-Harris-er" or "Never-Biden-er". Anything else and you're a fake (IMO). Also, lesser-evil "voting logic" is not going to solve any problems or make anything better regardless of the outcome of the 2024 elections - especially since there ARE better choices out there ->Jill Stein, Cornel West, Claudia De La Cruz (even NONE is a better choice than Trump or Harris).
Totally twisted opinion! ^ and absolutely flipped over backwards! ISRAEL has to STOP COMMITTING GENOCIDE! ThE World can see the TRUTH!
Good point!
— CAN’T ANYONE IN AMERICA — S T O P THE W A R S, •••
MURDER, TORTURE,
I N F A N T I C I D E, … THE COMPLETE MURDERING — DESTRUCTION OF HUMANS - MEN, WOMEN, AND, ALL CHILDREN — IN THE MIDDLE EAST, .. NOT MENTIONING A L L THE MEN • !!!!!!!
Dr. Jill Stein states that on the first day she is in the White House she will call Israel and tell them that's the end of the arms shipments and to stop the genocide right away. And then she'd tell the ICC and ICJ to go ahead with their war crimes cases against everyone guilty of genocide. jillstein2024.com
Things that will never happen for $100
Whilst my trust in politicians fulfilling their promises has eroded to 0% and I'm highly skeptical, at least she knows what the right thing to say is.
These two other Uniparty clowns can't even scrape together that basic lie.
It’s not a matter of “can.” Many can, none will.
“Trump and Harris are 99% identical in terms of the real policies they’ll promote. Trump supporters and Harris supporters hate each other because of that 1% difference; I hate them both because of that other 99%.”
And the human species’ genome is 99.9% identical, somehow that hasn’t stopped us from hating our neighbors.
Whenever I feel myself in total agreement with something that includes blanket statements about other people, I have to stop and try and parse the ideas. I’d say that not everyone is knowingly supporting these political parties with full appreciation of all they are doing.
The level of propaganda is outrageously high in America, and that’s because it works. Many decent people have not broken free — yet. But we see more and more who are learning to leave their mental, and emotional straitjackets. And, yes, Project 2025 is terrifying.
I’m voting for Dr. Jill Stein, again. Please join me.
In the 'United States of Hypocrisy' ignorance has, yet again, facilitated mass psychosis.
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"
Trump is another one of them and you would have to be completely blind to not see it. I mean, Trump was best friends with the clintons for *decades*, they are all part of the same clubs. "Side A" and "Side B" are both "Side Empire" and its, as you notice, so painfully obvious one wonders how can anyone even start to believe otherwise.
"Democrats believe Trump is going to turn the US into a Nazi dictatorship". He wouldn't though. He would help it to remain a Zionist dictatorship.
My name is Joy, I find it perhaps even more personally disturbing, and an absolutely anathema, that my country now proclaims “the Joy of Genocide.” NOT in my name!!!
The uniparty is taking the whole world on a joyride.
Had to chuckle. Hedges called Kamala "vapid" - adding, there's nothing there. Hmmm. As long as the corporatized Democratic Establishment is not side-lined, we're going to be "given" their "anointed". How's that for arrogance?! (Genocide Joe Biden. Now, Kamala the manageable joyful woman who once was a (fancy) cop.) We must not allow ourselves to be insulted by such disrespect. "Anointed?" Making sufficient noise and good ruckus in insisting on an open convention next time is absolutely critical. And anyone -- who can figure out the crack that will side-line or disperse the existing corporatized Democratic majority to insert more genuine democratic processes for the selection of substantive human beings in an open convention - now, they, they will be mightily appreciated!!!!
'next time', 'existing corporatized ...'. i recommend abandoning that structure all together.
Was watching a Cenk Uygur interview on Lex Fridman yesterday. Although I don't listen to him to often these days, the interview was quite good and he made some sharp points on the state of politics right now. Cenk did say unequivocally nothing will really be changed until we get Big Money out of politics. It's all a sideshow circus until then (my own words).
Lex Fridman interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtPROVsePk