People who rejoice in killing innocent people should not be wandering about free, and certainly never be allowed anywhere near positions of power. The west is being run by psychopaths, and the majority of people are sleepwalking into serfdom.
The main problem in the U.S. is the unshakable belief of ordinary Americans that the benefits of the "rule of the elite" will trickle down to everyone. They are conditioned to believe that wealth is magically created by the "elite" because the elite knows how to manage capital and it is better to have the crumbs than nothing.
Americans at large fail to understand that that most of the wealth of the "elite" is extracted from the working ppl all over the world, including Americans themselves, and the crumbs they enjoy are only an insignificant percentage of what has been taken.
The late stage Capitalism called Imperialism, to be more precise.
***
"This methodology of justifying wars and exploitation abroad and dividing population at home is built into Imperialism, it's absolutely necessary to justify itself"
-Joti Brar
***
The Truth is, modern capitalist world would not exist without colonialism and the drain of resources (incl. slaves) from the colonies..
The obvious tell that this is how the system works is that whenever a "Good Cop" President takes charge they NEVER undo what the "Bad Cop" has done, apologize, or give anything back.
The game is always that the crazy Republican makes aggressive and outrageously violent grabs globally and domestically, and then a genteel Democrat comes in to hold onto the gains, normalize the crimes, and soften the backlash unto the next aggressive cycle begins.
Not really. The Ukraine coup happened under Obama. He just didn't go on international television to boast about it. Biden blew up three of the Nordstreem pipelines and did boast about it.
I don't see the Ds as any different. Well I recall Mrs Harris' joyfully announcing "we have the most lethal military force in the world!"
When it comes to foreign policy. I agree with you, the Democrats are every bit as warmongering as the Republicans, there's no redeeming grace there.
Americans in general have a huge blind spot about their country's role in the world and why it is so disliked abroad. No other country has done as much damage to any chance of having world peace and prosperity.
Some call it the "Ratchet Effect" of how the Republicans push things toward the "right" and then the Democrats prevent things from moving back toward the "left." That's why it's time for the "top" elites to be taken out by the "bottom" working classes--for good!
It used to work that way. The Ds forced Reagan to turn to crime to support the war on Nicaragua. But that restraint is long long gone. On the big issues the duopoly works as one.
Dear Patrick Powers, I hope I am reading your 2 sentences correctly, chastising the lack of restraint that seems to characterize the cartoon character who has commanded the U.S. Electorate majority backers twice and left them mostly satisfied thus far.
Except for the E-CON outcomes that the investor class has been cashing in on more recently in his second term and a foolish Global Trade War that many a big retail employer has been bemoaning for less than stellar bottom line outcomes).
I am very opposed to Trump commanding anything other than the Trump Org that filled my long ago and far away outer boroughs (Flushing hard blue collar working class wage slaves crammed along the shoulders of the LIE aka Long Island Expressway, Queens). My yoot was narrated by bad dreams muck raked into reality, albeit largely suppressed in mainstream media except for the once underground turned big corporate-captured advertiser in the Village Voice's chain of recent decades media owners.
Ideologically long removed from the muck raking glories of my VV and Soho News yoot, except for this stunning Old School inky fingered document seeking investigative journalism newshound throwback more recently gone from metro weekly to salaried or contracting to upscale monthly glossies up until his personal expiration date of January 19, 2017:
PublicAffairs, Sep 29, 2020 - Political Science - 384 pages
"A collection of groundbreaking investigations by Wayne Barrett, the intrepid, muckraking Village Voice journalist who exposed corruption in New York City and beyond."
"With piercing moral clarity and exacting rigor, Wayne Barrett tracked political corruption in the pages of the Village Voice fact by fact, document by document for 40 years. The first to report on the scams and crooked deals that fueled the rise of Donald Trump in 1979, Barrett went on to expose the shady dealings of small-time slum lords and powerful New York City politicians alike, from Ed Koch to Rudy Giuliani to Michael Bloomberg."
"Without Compromise is the first anthology of Barrett's investigative work, accompanied by essays from colleagues and those he trained. In an age of lies, fog, and propaganda, when the profession of journalism is degraded by the White House and the industry is under financial threat, Barrett reminds us that facts, when clearly accumulated, are our best defense of democracy."
"Featuring essays by: Joe Conason, Kim Phillips-Fein, Errol Louis, Gerson Borrero, Tom Robbins, Tracie McMillan, Peter Noel, Adam Fifield, Jarrett Murphy, Andrea Bernstein, Jennifer Gonnerman, Mac Barrett"
Little did we realize that local bid-net man-boy and heir to blue collar contracting construction to luxury condo developer fortune hunter Fred Trump would be breaking in the 21st Century Globalized World as 2-term President Trump of Warring While Wheeling Dealing His US Interests :
I agree. I know we are failures however I was shocked seeing the Chinese eat a giant pile of Genocide Don shit. Somehow the Chinese think they do not have to respond to we in the u.s. until the Marines place Xi in the VAN. Caitlin needs to paint Putin and Xi in the Van. Putin still thinks he can deal with the u.s. ha. I am comforted the UN is dead and the world is now forced to see it. 340 million people in the van : (
I think it's possible Landru that China (in particular) has no need to fight wars, only economic ones. As for Putin in my opinion, he is not thrashing around trying to seek US approval just being diplomatic which the US have no idea about.
Economic war without military support is waste. China invests, cooperates and helps, while USA/West zionists and fascists just come and steal. This is the human reality. Without force balance humanity cannot exist.
Here in Britain we currently have the good cop ending trial by jury, dismantling local democracy and creating a digital id system which can track all your online activity; in full knowledge that he will lose office and give that all to the bad cop.
And in four years will be like “oh where did all these systems of oppression come from? Vote Labour to fight fascism!”
Starmer is good cop like the democrats are good cop. Farage is bad cop like trump is bad cop. We are supposed to vote for good cop because they are lesser evil than bad cop. We’re supposed not to notice that they’re evil at all because of how much lesser they are. Of course they’re still evil. They’re just not as stridently evil. All the same shit, just a friendlier, more empathic tone.
I don’t think we’re ever actually meant to vote for bad cop, they’re just meant to be a threat to push us into voting for good cop. That’s why when bad cop do get in (see also Johnson, Truss) they make no attempt at all to retain power, they just trash everything.
So true !! I saw a comment online that Britain hasn't had a socialist govnt since 1979. I would dispute that. You need to go back to 1945 to find a degree of socialism in a Labour govnt. The Labour Wilson/ Callaghan govnts were just as imperialist on foreign policy as the Tories and just as vicious. In domestic policy Labour was always looking over it's shoulder fearful of upsetting the more powerful right wing elements in Britain that exist outside the political sphere
This same cycle is repeated over and over again with Executive Orders. One president signs a bunch, the next president reverses most and so it goes. The congress hardly passes anything any more, knowing that it would at least take a bit more work to overturn them.
Right, again, Caitlin and Tim, but I will say that Trump’s base who elected him is falling away because they believed he meant it when he said, no more wars and America first. He's losing those vast supporters, but, of course, Trump couldn't care less, and he no longer needs them. Then there are those hanging-on base supporters who are happy he's deporting "illegals," (which, of course they aren't.) [Wonder when Melania will be deported. She meets the criteria.] I love Cuba, their healthcare and education (the best), and feel sickened to the core that this cruel country wants to destroy that wonderful people.
I am very concerned for the Cuban people and how the cruelty of the US will further crush them with recent fuel developments and the Venezuelan situation.
Drumpf also fits the criteria for being deported when you check the Hereditary Americans because hus grandparents were NOT born in America, neither side was. His heritage is from German g'parents. Hus grandfather was a military dodger, just like Drumpf who is now living war from afar again, the coward.
His grandfather tried to go back to Germany but they refused him. He made his money in the gold fields selling liquor and prostitutes. What a horrible personal history but that's where he comes from. With a background like that, what do you expect.
His grandfather went back but ran again when he heard he was to be arrested and tried as a deserter, didn't even bother about pretending he had Bone spurs. Germany would not have refused him entry because of desertion, they would rather imprison him.
A question I’ve wondered about for years is why Cubans fleeing the Castro revolution for the U.S. had problems with Castro but were apparently okay with his predecessor, the dictator Batista, who installed himself as head of the Cuban government after fomenting a military coup in 1952. Were they okay with Batista’s canceling the constitution, ending civil liberties and jailing or killing his critics? And with his transfer of most of Cuba’s wealth to the U.S., e.g., from sugar production? And with his connection with the U.S. Mafia to introduce drug running, gambling and prostitution into Cuba? And yet they are consistently portrayed as refugees and victims fleeing a dictatorship. They shouldn’t all be painted with the same brush, but these are questions that were never really asked, much less answered.
I suppose to generalize it could be assumed that many who fled Cuba were the affluent and wealthy Cubans who benefited from Batista's rule. Despots and tyrants always require large groups of people who are rewarded for providing functions and services needed by the rulers. And of course, all the family and friends of the ruler(s) are given comfortable lives. But when that life is coming to an end - it becomes time to grab your money and go.
Even now, I've read there's speculation the U.S. oligarchs are planning to move their wealth out of US institutions; Gulf countries (e.g., Qatar, UAE) are mentioned as destinations - hence "stabilizing" the region with the US attack dog (Israel) is needed.
Arguably the most comprehensive book about Cuba was written by Ada Ferrer (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and is titled: "Cuba - An American History." Any questions about their history are covered in its nearly 500-pages of small print.
Good on you Nancy! ".... they are consistently portrayed as refugees and victims fleeing a dictatorship." It suits the establishment to paint those who are fleeing a socialist revolution - where they do not want to share the small pie with the rest of their countrymen and women - as fleeing persecution.
"Good Cop-Bad Cop" is a very good way of describing the corrupt duopoly that is the front for the oligarchy/empire in the US. One faction plays the "Good Cop" and then the next term it's the "Bad Cop" team's turn. Repeat ad nauseam. And it works--the majority of Americans think it's the "other side's" fault for the mess the economy is in, etc. Why mess with success, right?
Those supporting the violation of national sovereignty are supporting globalism, plain and simple. Those supporting Trump, given he is attempting to dominate the world, are supporting globalism, plain and simple.
But they don't care, because it's a cult. And Trump isn't really in charge. Whomever owns the photo of him blowing Clinton is in charge. Doesn't he know that being gay is totally accepted and that we wouldn't chastise him for it? Haha
The problem is global, NOT American. American lives and money are funding globalism, but are not in charge of globalism. Trump has consented to be the front man for evil, so deserves whatever disapprobation he gets, but yes, he is just a tool.
My prediction, made in mid-2024, is that there will not be a 2028 presidential election in the US. Haven’t seen anything yet that would require this prediction to be modified.
Those who control the world by controlling money have understood that not only is the empire falling, but also the imperial state, the United States. And as has happened at the end of every empire since Gilgamesh, they need a period of diversion to secure the means that will allow them to maintain their power even after the empire's fall. To do this, they must eliminate every possible alternative to the post-empire era. Therefore, away with socialism, away with formal democracies, away with welfare states, away with central banks that still elude their control, away with international organizations, away with weapons, coins, currencies, and credit systems potentially capable of building alternative social and economic forms to capitalism. But perhaps this time they won't succeed, because what's at stake is no longer just a system of power, but the salvation of humanity and the planet.
It's not just what's at stake; reaching the planetary limits is what is causing the US to turn it's imperial apparatus inward as well as more towards nearby "backyard" nations to begin a process of self-cannibalization that will replace the resource extraction of the erstwhile unilateral Empire.
Central Banks are their friends, not enemies. Central Banks are already being controlled by Governments (despite the illusion of independence). Also, they LOVE weapons, currencies, credit systems, etc. You seem to be confused about a few things.
It may be that central banks control the governments instead of vice versa. Or, perhaps, the entities who own the central banks also own the governments.
They’ve always been cosplayers…just LARPing as tough guys. Most of them wouldn’t know a principled stance if it crawled up their ass. Good times create weak men; weak men create hard times. ^ you are here
This astute observation by Caitlin on the way that elites employ the polished and the brutal reminds me of how the mask of decency hides the violence behind it. In an evil world, decency is complicity in the evil if it presents a clean face without doing anything to remove the rot.
I blame the establishment Democrats for their quiet surrender to power and violence for electing Trump, who represented a middle finger to the liberal elites.
If we want to change this, we have to get our hands dirty working for those who have defied the liberal caution against "extremism" or "radical leftism" and elect more radical progressives and democratic socialists who will shake up the system in a way Trump was elected to do but who are not total corrupt and evil assholes like Trump and his stooges, Cruz, Vance, Bondi, Hegseth, and the other douchbags. What else can bring about change? IN one year, the number of Democrats who voted to support the Sander's bill to stop arming Israel rose from 15 to 28, a majority in the Senate. That is the only plausable way to neuter Trump and stop the genocide. If you have a better idea, what is it? the times they are a changin, and if you can't lend a hand, get out of the way.......for even former Trump stooges like MTG, Massie, and Rand Paul have become woke and are joining the movement to put on the brakes and replace the old moribund leadership with audacious newcomers. Some will claim it's just a front, but that is exactly what Trump and AIPAC want you to believe: they are all fakes, so don't vote. That is how they win.
People who rejoice in killing innocent people should not be wandering about free, and certainly never be allowed anywhere near positions of power. The west is being run by psychopaths, and the majority of people are sleepwalking into serfdom.
Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
The play was wonderful... the interlude, not so much.
The main problem in the U.S. is the unshakable belief of ordinary Americans that the benefits of the "rule of the elite" will trickle down to everyone. They are conditioned to believe that wealth is magically created by the "elite" because the elite knows how to manage capital and it is better to have the crumbs than nothing.
Americans at large fail to understand that that most of the wealth of the "elite" is extracted from the working ppl all over the world, including Americans themselves, and the crumbs they enjoy are only an insignificant percentage of what has been taken.
youtu.be/0V71NSM3A1A?t=110
As a country, the US has been founded on that belief and it runs deeply in the American psyche.
Americans are having REALLY hard time realizing they have been exploited like cattle by their own "Elite".
Not only the US, Europe too.
The entire Western world in fact. I blame our system, capitalism.
The late stage Capitalism called Imperialism, to be more precise.
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"This methodology of justifying wars and exploitation abroad and dividing population at home is built into Imperialism, it's absolutely necessary to justify itself"
-Joti Brar
***
The Truth is, modern capitalist world would not exist without colonialism and the drain of resources (incl. slaves) from the colonies..
***
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Spot on, The hideous ugliness and corruption of the AIPAC Con-Gress occupied USA, the Land of the "deluded" and the home of the dept "Slave"
The obvious tell that this is how the system works is that whenever a "Good Cop" President takes charge they NEVER undo what the "Bad Cop" has done, apologize, or give anything back.
The game is always that the crazy Republican makes aggressive and outrageously violent grabs globally and domestically, and then a genteel Democrat comes in to hold onto the gains, normalize the crimes, and soften the backlash unto the next aggressive cycle begins.
Not really. The Ukraine coup happened under Obama. He just didn't go on international television to boast about it. Biden blew up three of the Nordstreem pipelines and did boast about it.
I don't see the Ds as any different. Well I recall Mrs Harris' joyfully announcing "we have the most lethal military force in the world!"
When it comes to foreign policy. I agree with you, the Democrats are every bit as warmongering as the Republicans, there's no redeeming grace there.
Americans in general have a huge blind spot about their country's role in the world and why it is so disliked abroad. No other country has done as much damage to any chance of having world peace and prosperity.
Some call it the "Ratchet Effect" of how the Republicans push things toward the "right" and then the Democrats prevent things from moving back toward the "left." That's why it's time for the "top" elites to be taken out by the "bottom" working classes--for good!
It used to work that way. The Ds forced Reagan to turn to crime to support the war on Nicaragua. But that restraint is long long gone. On the big issues the duopoly works as one.
Dear Patrick Powers, I hope I am reading your 2 sentences correctly, chastising the lack of restraint that seems to characterize the cartoon character who has commanded the U.S. Electorate majority backers twice and left them mostly satisfied thus far.
Except for the E-CON outcomes that the investor class has been cashing in on more recently in his second term and a foolish Global Trade War that many a big retail employer has been bemoaning for less than stellar bottom line outcomes).
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariff-mexico-canada-inflation-1123ada61916502324ca830347ed8d14
I am very opposed to Trump commanding anything other than the Trump Org that filled my long ago and far away outer boroughs (Flushing hard blue collar working class wage slaves crammed along the shoulders of the LIE aka Long Island Expressway, Queens). My yoot was narrated by bad dreams muck raked into reality, albeit largely suppressed in mainstream media except for the once underground turned big corporate-captured advertiser in the Village Voice's chain of recent decades media owners.
https://www.villagevoice.com/how-a-young-donald-trump-forced-his-way-from-avenue-z-to-manhattan/
Ideologically long removed from the muck raking glories of my VV and Soho News yoot, except for this stunning Old School inky fingered document seeking investigative journalism newshound throwback more recently gone from metro weekly to salaried or contracting to upscale monthly glossies up until his personal expiration date of January 19, 2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Voice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Barrett
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/wayne-barrett-obituary-reporter-village-voice-trump-first-214669/
https://books.google.com/books/about/Without_Compromise.html?id=9zLIDwAAQBAJ
"Wayne Barrett
PublicAffairs, Sep 29, 2020 - Political Science - 384 pages
"A collection of groundbreaking investigations by Wayne Barrett, the intrepid, muckraking Village Voice journalist who exposed corruption in New York City and beyond."
"With piercing moral clarity and exacting rigor, Wayne Barrett tracked political corruption in the pages of the Village Voice fact by fact, document by document for 40 years. The first to report on the scams and crooked deals that fueled the rise of Donald Trump in 1979, Barrett went on to expose the shady dealings of small-time slum lords and powerful New York City politicians alike, from Ed Koch to Rudy Giuliani to Michael Bloomberg."
"Without Compromise is the first anthology of Barrett's investigative work, accompanied by essays from colleagues and those he trained. In an age of lies, fog, and propaganda, when the profession of journalism is degraded by the White House and the industry is under financial threat, Barrett reminds us that facts, when clearly accumulated, are our best defense of democracy."
"Featuring essays by: Joe Conason, Kim Phillips-Fein, Errol Louis, Gerson Borrero, Tom Robbins, Tracie McMillan, Peter Noel, Adam Fifield, Jarrett Murphy, Andrea Bernstein, Jennifer Gonnerman, Mac Barrett"
https://theconversation.com/woody-guthrie-old-man-trump-and-a-real-estate-empires-racist-foundations-53026
Little did we realize that local bid-net man-boy and heir to blue collar contracting construction to luxury condo developer fortune hunter Fred Trump would be breaking in the 21st Century Globalized World as 2-term President Trump of Warring While Wheeling Dealing His US Interests :
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trumps-american-dominance-may-leave-us-with-nothing/685503/
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The US people are INCAPABLE of doing anything it seems!
Nothing more pitiful than watching Trump supporters extol their hero. How far have we fallen?
It was in fact totally obvious even 40 years ago that USA will become a fully fascist nation.
I agree. I know we are failures however I was shocked seeing the Chinese eat a giant pile of Genocide Don shit. Somehow the Chinese think they do not have to respond to we in the u.s. until the Marines place Xi in the VAN. Caitlin needs to paint Putin and Xi in the Van. Putin still thinks he can deal with the u.s. ha. I am comforted the UN is dead and the world is now forced to see it. 340 million people in the van : (
I think it's possible Landru that China (in particular) has no need to fight wars, only economic ones. As for Putin in my opinion, he is not thrashing around trying to seek US approval just being diplomatic which the US have no idea about.
Economic war without military support is waste. China invests, cooperates and helps, while USA/West zionists and fascists just come and steal. This is the human reality. Without force balance humanity cannot exist.
Spot on my Friend
Here in Britain we currently have the good cop ending trial by jury, dismantling local democracy and creating a digital id system which can track all your online activity; in full knowledge that he will lose office and give that all to the bad cop.
And in four years will be like “oh where did all these systems of oppression come from? Vote Labour to fight fascism!”
In what way is entryist genocide enabler, Starmer, a "good cop"?
Starmer is good cop like the democrats are good cop. Farage is bad cop like trump is bad cop. We are supposed to vote for good cop because they are lesser evil than bad cop. We’re supposed not to notice that they’re evil at all because of how much lesser they are. Of course they’re still evil. They’re just not as stridently evil. All the same shit, just a friendlier, more empathic tone.
I don’t think we’re ever actually meant to vote for bad cop, they’re just meant to be a threat to push us into voting for good cop. That’s why when bad cop do get in (see also Johnson, Truss) they make no attempt at all to retain power, they just trash everything.
So true !! I saw a comment online that Britain hasn't had a socialist govnt since 1979. I would dispute that. You need to go back to 1945 to find a degree of socialism in a Labour govnt. The Labour Wilson/ Callaghan govnts were just as imperialist on foreign policy as the Tories and just as vicious. In domestic policy Labour was always looking over it's shoulder fearful of upsetting the more powerful right wing elements in Britain that exist outside the political sphere
This same cycle is repeated over and over again with Executive Orders. One president signs a bunch, the next president reverses most and so it goes. The congress hardly passes anything any more, knowing that it would at least take a bit more work to overturn them.
And the Dems never ever do what they promise before elected. They are truly fake as f ck.
Right, again, Caitlin and Tim, but I will say that Trump’s base who elected him is falling away because they believed he meant it when he said, no more wars and America first. He's losing those vast supporters, but, of course, Trump couldn't care less, and he no longer needs them. Then there are those hanging-on base supporters who are happy he's deporting "illegals," (which, of course they aren't.) [Wonder when Melania will be deported. She meets the criteria.] I love Cuba, their healthcare and education (the best), and feel sickened to the core that this cruel country wants to destroy that wonderful people.
I am very concerned for the Cuban people and how the cruelty of the US will further crush them with recent fuel developments and the Venezuelan situation.
Drumpf also fits the criteria for being deported when you check the Hereditary Americans because hus grandparents were NOT born in America, neither side was. His heritage is from German g'parents. Hus grandfather was a military dodger, just like Drumpf who is now living war from afar again, the coward.
His grandfather tried to go back to Germany but they refused him. He made his money in the gold fields selling liquor and prostitutes. What a horrible personal history but that's where he comes from. With a background like that, what do you expect.
His grandfather went back but ran again when he heard he was to be arrested and tried as a deserter, didn't even bother about pretending he had Bone spurs. Germany would not have refused him entry because of desertion, they would rather imprison him.
Not too many are actually falling away. And those who departed are daily attacked to no end. Some even want to imprison tucker and Candace.
While MAGA does not like wars that much some say that "we have to stick together during the crisis of war"
The Deep State loves him. He's their man for sure. The rest of the world is screwed, including we average Americans.
How right you are!
A question I’ve wondered about for years is why Cubans fleeing the Castro revolution for the U.S. had problems with Castro but were apparently okay with his predecessor, the dictator Batista, who installed himself as head of the Cuban government after fomenting a military coup in 1952. Were they okay with Batista’s canceling the constitution, ending civil liberties and jailing or killing his critics? And with his transfer of most of Cuba’s wealth to the U.S., e.g., from sugar production? And with his connection with the U.S. Mafia to introduce drug running, gambling and prostitution into Cuba? And yet they are consistently portrayed as refugees and victims fleeing a dictatorship. They shouldn’t all be painted with the same brush, but these are questions that were never really asked, much less answered.
I suppose to generalize it could be assumed that many who fled Cuba were the affluent and wealthy Cubans who benefited from Batista's rule. Despots and tyrants always require large groups of people who are rewarded for providing functions and services needed by the rulers. And of course, all the family and friends of the ruler(s) are given comfortable lives. But when that life is coming to an end - it becomes time to grab your money and go.
Even now, I've read there's speculation the U.S. oligarchs are planning to move their wealth out of US institutions; Gulf countries (e.g., Qatar, UAE) are mentioned as destinations - hence "stabilizing" the region with the US attack dog (Israel) is needed.
Paraguay. Hide out in Paraguay. That's my advice to yonder bigshots.
Spot on, TomR!
Arguably the most comprehensive book about Cuba was written by Ada Ferrer (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and is titled: "Cuba - An American History." Any questions about their history are covered in its nearly 500-pages of small print.
Good on you Nancy! ".... they are consistently portrayed as refugees and victims fleeing a dictatorship." It suits the establishment to paint those who are fleeing a socialist revolution - where they do not want to share the small pie with the rest of their countrymen and women - as fleeing persecution.
Marco Rubio comes from one such family.
Trump and Graham are showing their thuggery, which represents the ongoing thuggery of the western world.
And both of them grinning is revolting.
🤮🤮🤮
"Good Cop-Bad Cop" is a very good way of describing the corrupt duopoly that is the front for the oligarchy/empire in the US. One faction plays the "Good Cop" and then the next term it's the "Bad Cop" team's turn. Repeat ad nauseam. And it works--the majority of Americans think it's the "other side's" fault for the mess the economy is in, etc. Why mess with success, right?
Those supporting the violation of national sovereignty are supporting globalism, plain and simple. Those supporting Trump, given he is attempting to dominate the world, are supporting globalism, plain and simple.
But they don't care, because it's a cult. And Trump isn't really in charge. Whomever owns the photo of him blowing Clinton is in charge. Doesn't he know that being gay is totally accepted and that we wouldn't chastise him for it? Haha
The problem is global, NOT American. American lives and money are funding globalism, but are not in charge of globalism. Trump has consented to be the front man for evil, so deserves whatever disapprobation he gets, but yes, he is just a tool.
The benefit of attacking Iran is the elimination of a certain zionist entity.
In shaa Allah
Fidel and Raul were saints compared to psychopaths Donald and Bibi.
“January 2029 is still a long way off”
My prediction, made in mid-2024, is that there will not be a 2028 presidential election in the US. Haven’t seen anything yet that would require this prediction to be modified.
Those who control the world by controlling money have understood that not only is the empire falling, but also the imperial state, the United States. And as has happened at the end of every empire since Gilgamesh, they need a period of diversion to secure the means that will allow them to maintain their power even after the empire's fall. To do this, they must eliminate every possible alternative to the post-empire era. Therefore, away with socialism, away with formal democracies, away with welfare states, away with central banks that still elude their control, away with international organizations, away with weapons, coins, currencies, and credit systems potentially capable of building alternative social and economic forms to capitalism. But perhaps this time they won't succeed, because what's at stake is no longer just a system of power, but the salvation of humanity and the planet.
It's not just what's at stake; reaching the planetary limits is what is causing the US to turn it's imperial apparatus inward as well as more towards nearby "backyard" nations to begin a process of self-cannibalization that will replace the resource extraction of the erstwhile unilateral Empire.
Central Banks are their friends, not enemies. Central Banks are already being controlled by Governments (despite the illusion of independence). Also, they LOVE weapons, currencies, credit systems, etc. You seem to be confused about a few things.
It may be that central banks control the governments instead of vice versa. Or, perhaps, the entities who own the central banks also own the governments.
You didn't read that right. I wrote "the central banks that still escape their control," which are five. Be careful what you say!
There are no central banks that escape their control. If you think differently, which are these so-called Central Banks?
I don't think otherwise. It's different! The central banks of Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, etc.
Duh! Those are not exceptions, those are data that belong to a disjoint set and not in the same sample space.
JFK is who progressive citizens of the USA saw themselves as. Trump is who they are in reality. You can't escape supporting the Empire in the USA.
The USA is apparently sending drones over Caracas again tonight.
To cause fear to the population just like their busom buddies in The Middle East - it is not the far west, don't forget that.
Looks more like the Wild West.
The old immaturewild West.
Yeah, replace 'old' with 'current', and nobody would notice the difference.
100%
I wrote almost a year ago that Trump was a trojan horse just to get the more well-armed, red blooded, American working class to go along with a surveillance state that they would mount and armed resistance to if the likes of Obama had tried to bring forth. https://open.substack.com/pub/tommytrouble/p/big-tech-and-the-creeping-panopticon?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Ah yes, where are all those 2nd amendment militias when you need 'em?
They’ve always been cosplayers…just LARPing as tough guys. Most of them wouldn’t know a principled stance if it crawled up their ass. Good times create weak men; weak men create hard times. ^ you are here
You nailed that one.
This astute observation by Caitlin on the way that elites employ the polished and the brutal reminds me of how the mask of decency hides the violence behind it. In an evil world, decency is complicity in the evil if it presents a clean face without doing anything to remove the rot.
I blame the establishment Democrats for their quiet surrender to power and violence for electing Trump, who represented a middle finger to the liberal elites.
If we want to change this, we have to get our hands dirty working for those who have defied the liberal caution against "extremism" or "radical leftism" and elect more radical progressives and democratic socialists who will shake up the system in a way Trump was elected to do but who are not total corrupt and evil assholes like Trump and his stooges, Cruz, Vance, Bondi, Hegseth, and the other douchbags. What else can bring about change? IN one year, the number of Democrats who voted to support the Sander's bill to stop arming Israel rose from 15 to 28, a majority in the Senate. That is the only plausable way to neuter Trump and stop the genocide. If you have a better idea, what is it? the times they are a changin, and if you can't lend a hand, get out of the way.......for even former Trump stooges like MTG, Massie, and Rand Paul have become woke and are joining the movement to put on the brakes and replace the old moribund leadership with audacious newcomers. Some will claim it's just a front, but that is exactly what Trump and AIPAC want you to believe: they are all fakes, so don't vote. That is how they win.
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The elections are fake
Merely pacification for the masses
The kabuki of voting is an asinine way of submitting and supporting the fraud
I'll never-EVER vote again. Never...ever.
They have made elections, "selections" ever since Wilson to Trump.
I vote socialist