Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): We're already seeing a ton of ridiculous drama queenery about Trump's second presidential run, claiming he's grown even more extremist and fascistic than when he was president in what amounts to a repeat of the "Trump is a second Hitler" narrative that dominated US political discourse in his first run.
In the West prime ministers, presidents and chancellors are irrelevant . Once in office they are owned and controlled by the elites and vested interests.
To read American history of the last seventy five years is to see how presidential authority is subverted by ideologues, agencies and well entrenched power brokers who rule out of the public eye.
In Canada we have a totally inept PM who only remains in office because the system is broken and our Parliament is an adult day care indulging in trivial issues. Our government takes its marching orders from Washington.
We are living Sheldon Wolin's "inverted totalitarianism"- the trappings of democracy, but no democracy.
If we refer to history we will also find that Hitler was financed and equipped by American investors. The Dulles Brothers by Stephen Kinzer is a book everybody should read. Much of Ukraine has already been sold off to Western investors pending the outcome of the war.
Never having been a Trump fan from way back I none the less was appalled by the bureaucratic attempts to vilify his every policy and stupid comment. The repeated failures of these same establishment zealots using blatant lies and non stop propaganda concerned me much more than any of Trumps exaggerations and naive military blustering. Trump made a mess of Covid, released a dangerous gene therapy, rode the economic tailwinds of previous reckless spending and made the whole abortion issue a lightening Rod that keeps the country forever divided. Yea he sucked just as much as every other president during my lifetime. I do think he was better than Hillary would have been. We are always choosing from the least shitty of two shitty options IMHO.
It would bee useful, especially to the many who say that Biden is better than Trump, to do a comparison. E.g. Trump gave Ukraine offensive weapons. Biden gave Ukraine even more offensive weapons. Trump ramped up anti China rhetoric, Biden broke the One China policy by arming Taiwan And so on.
The sad reality is that decent humane people are unelectable. They are filtered out in the way Bernie was filtered out by Debbie Washerwoman and the DNC. Or they are self-disqualified, perhaps recognizing that the presidency is the most dangerous job in the world. For sheer peril, the presidency looms large with half of the presidents since Lincoln having been assassinated or having been the subject of near fatal attempts . Biden proved his mettle by cheerleading the invasion of Iraq, showing he would do as he was told.
I take your point but wasn't Trump actually better than his predecessors on empire stuff? He had many isolationist impulses which to his discredit he allowed to be thwarted by those around him. Axios provided good coverage of his failed efforts to close bases and bring troops home in the last weeks his presidency.
If not for his isolationist /anti empire impulses, why then was Trump so reviled and sabotaged by the national security state, even well before Jan 6?
Trump refused to attack Iran: that made him an outlander He didn't
think war with China or Russia was a good idea either. Bad man. Sure, he has a lot in common with past presidents, and the US state ethos is relentlessly militaristic, but he's a better man than Biden - by a long shot.
Who really gives a shit about Trump or any of them? Maybe you hang your hats on RFK Jr. Yeah, like the CIA will ever let him become president. It's over. Elections mean nothing.
Caitlins article says that Trump is similar to other presidents. To me that means I can substitute Obama or any other president for Trump and change the links to fit. The point of her article is it doesn't matter who is put in office. And "put" is a more appropriate word than "voted".
Trump fomented an insurrection and nothing has been done except hundreds of his followers are being subjected to long prison terms and fines. If people can't agree that the justice system is corrupt, what will it take? Trump could have / should have called for a recount, but instead said the election was "stolen". Now instead of standing trial he's running for president. If people can't see this for what it is, another in your face, you don't count, we own you, what is it going to take? "All men are created equal?" Please. Our government breaks it's own laws on a whim.
Obama was a constitutional lawyer and yet did nothing about the Patriot Act which subverts the constitution and has led to our surveillance society which is being used for control of the people.
Biden is no better given his climate change policy, warmongering with China and Russia and ignoring serious domestic issues. So it goes , back to at least Reagan. The middle class has been destroyed based by "trickle down economics" and not one president has even tried to change it.
Arguing over trivial points about which sociopath is "worse" is pointless for the majority but a gift to the elite.
There isn't even a choice between the lesser of two evils anymore. Evil is evil.
100% right! If anyone thinks Trump is anti-establishment than there as ignorant as he is. The guy made over a billion dollars during his first term - they need HIM as much as he needs them! Hence these ridiculous lawsuits to fuel his fan base. If Obama was rightfully the greatest fairy tale ever told - Trump is the greatest illusion ever invented and they love it because it sells!! The man didn't have a pot to piss in or window to throw it out of - his entire existence (just like Obama) was a charade solidified by the fact and the extent he went to in order to keep his tax records sealed! He simply robbed from Peter to pay Paul to create an image. Deepening the deep state rather than draining it - is what finally put him in the black! If anyone thinks he would ever bite the hand that feeds him - you get what you deserve. The pharmaceutical industry alone gave him OVER ONE MILLION dollars for his inauguration! Therefore he will never renounce the vaccines that have killed and harmed MILLIONS! It's been rumored his own son Baron is on the spectrum because of his childhood vaccines and yet when he had the opportunity to appoint RFK Jr to head a SAFE VACCINE committee - he sold him out to the pharmaceutical industry instead! C'mon people Caitlins, spot-on! Trump is the greatest ruse since Obama!
The other thing is that when he does tell the truth they hate him more. Such as admitting they were in Syria for the oil. "We're taking the oil". What part of Syria are we in? "The part with the oil". They don't like that he says the quiet part out loud. It's not that he's doing less international crime than other Presidents. He did just as much and in some cases more, but he talked about it and was proud of it. they really hate that.
I'm an independent progressive who walked away from the DEM party after the 2004 election, and I DID NOT vote for either of those sexually obsessed bullies in the '20 PRES election ... like Biden, Trump is a complete horse's-ass of human being who easily passed my litmus test for bullies:
1) 24 official allegations of sexual misconduct have been made against him ...
2) In 2020, he tried to cancel food stamp benefits for 700k recipients in the middle of the pandemic ...
3) One of his staffers - Olivia Troye, said when facing the possibility of mingling with supporters at a rally, Trump said "I'm not going to shake hands with those disgusting people" ...
4) Trump visited Epstein's Island many times - much to say on this topic, but I'll spare you ...
5) Trump refused to pay contractors who did the work on his casino ...
And you can bet the ranch Kari Lake knows all about Trump's past ... she has just latched on to his coattails because she knows damn well that it's the politically expedient thing to do right now ...
Like accidental POTUS Truman who stepped up from Vice to POTUS with the death of President Franklin Delno Roosevelt and when engaged against New York Governor , Thomas Edmund Dewey, in the 1948 POTUS tussle, found financial support from American Zionists fully committed to invasion and occupation of Palestine that provided enough financial support to Truman's candidacy, that he won and in 1948 gave a shield of protection to the racist terrorist state founded by genocide against Semite Palestinians; Christians, Arabs and Jews horrified by the rape, murder and reign of terror causing hundreds of thousands of Semite Palestinians to flee their own country, . As POTUS, Truman granted United States recognition of terrorist state of Israel as it continues its genocide against Semite Palestinians. Former POTUS Trump found financial support from Zionists that carried him into being POTUS. Payback was agreeing with Zionists that terrorist state's Capital should be Jerusalem, rather than Tel Aviv. Useful to remember that when terrorist state went to war against the United States with its attempt to sink the U.S.S. Liberty ship during the terrorist state's Pearl Harbor like sneak attack on its neighboring nation states in terrorist state's lust for Third Reich Nazi like Lebensraum, featuring an on going Holocaust against Semite Palestinians. With American armed forces on the way to assist the Liberty ship against terrorist state's offensive war, then POTUS Lydon Baines Johnson, order the U.S. armed force on way in support of Liberty, to stand down and do an about face and return to their home base, leaving Liberty ship on its own. Crew members abord the Liberty when attacked by terrorist state were ordered to practice shut mouth evermore after the Israeli war on their ship.
The presidency is nothing but a side-show specifically designed for purposes of misdirection.
This is completely spot on. Thanks for articulating these ideas so clearly, with many examples and links. Outstanding as always.
In the West prime ministers, presidents and chancellors are irrelevant . Once in office they are owned and controlled by the elites and vested interests.
To read American history of the last seventy five years is to see how presidential authority is subverted by ideologues, agencies and well entrenched power brokers who rule out of the public eye.
In Canada we have a totally inept PM who only remains in office because the system is broken and our Parliament is an adult day care indulging in trivial issues. Our government takes its marching orders from Washington.
We are living Sheldon Wolin's "inverted totalitarianism"- the trappings of democracy, but no democracy.
If we refer to history we will also find that Hitler was financed and equipped by American investors. The Dulles Brothers by Stephen Kinzer is a book everybody should read. Much of Ukraine has already been sold off to Western investors pending the outcome of the war.
Never having been a Trump fan from way back I none the less was appalled by the bureaucratic attempts to vilify his every policy and stupid comment. The repeated failures of these same establishment zealots using blatant lies and non stop propaganda concerned me much more than any of Trumps exaggerations and naive military blustering. Trump made a mess of Covid, released a dangerous gene therapy, rode the economic tailwinds of previous reckless spending and made the whole abortion issue a lightening Rod that keeps the country forever divided. Yea he sucked just as much as every other president during my lifetime. I do think he was better than Hillary would have been. We are always choosing from the least shitty of two shitty options IMHO.
It would bee useful, especially to the many who say that Biden is better than Trump, to do a comparison. E.g. Trump gave Ukraine offensive weapons. Biden gave Ukraine even more offensive weapons. Trump ramped up anti China rhetoric, Biden broke the One China policy by arming Taiwan And so on.
The sad reality is that decent humane people are unelectable. They are filtered out in the way Bernie was filtered out by Debbie Washerwoman and the DNC. Or they are self-disqualified, perhaps recognizing that the presidency is the most dangerous job in the world. For sheer peril, the presidency looms large with half of the presidents since Lincoln having been assassinated or having been the subject of near fatal attempts . Biden proved his mettle by cheerleading the invasion of Iraq, showing he would do as he was told.
I take your point but wasn't Trump actually better than his predecessors on empire stuff? He had many isolationist impulses which to his discredit he allowed to be thwarted by those around him. Axios provided good coverage of his failed efforts to close bases and bring troops home in the last weeks his presidency.
If not for his isolationist /anti empire impulses, why then was Trump so reviled and sabotaged by the national security state, even well before Jan 6?
Trump refused to attack Iran: that made him an outlander He didn't
think war with China or Russia was a good idea either. Bad man. Sure, he has a lot in common with past presidents, and the US state ethos is relentlessly militaristic, but he's a better man than Biden - by a long shot.
Who really gives a shit about Trump or any of them? Maybe you hang your hats on RFK Jr. Yeah, like the CIA will ever let him become president. It's over. Elections mean nothing.
Caitlins article says that Trump is similar to other presidents. To me that means I can substitute Obama or any other president for Trump and change the links to fit. The point of her article is it doesn't matter who is put in office. And "put" is a more appropriate word than "voted".
Trump fomented an insurrection and nothing has been done except hundreds of his followers are being subjected to long prison terms and fines. If people can't agree that the justice system is corrupt, what will it take? Trump could have / should have called for a recount, but instead said the election was "stolen". Now instead of standing trial he's running for president. If people can't see this for what it is, another in your face, you don't count, we own you, what is it going to take? "All men are created equal?" Please. Our government breaks it's own laws on a whim.
Obama was a constitutional lawyer and yet did nothing about the Patriot Act which subverts the constitution and has led to our surveillance society which is being used for control of the people.
Biden is no better given his climate change policy, warmongering with China and Russia and ignoring serious domestic issues. So it goes , back to at least Reagan. The middle class has been destroyed based by "trickle down economics" and not one president has even tried to change it.
Arguing over trivial points about which sociopath is "worse" is pointless for the majority but a gift to the elite.
There isn't even a choice between the lesser of two evils anymore. Evil is evil.
100% right! If anyone thinks Trump is anti-establishment than there as ignorant as he is. The guy made over a billion dollars during his first term - they need HIM as much as he needs them! Hence these ridiculous lawsuits to fuel his fan base. If Obama was rightfully the greatest fairy tale ever told - Trump is the greatest illusion ever invented and they love it because it sells!! The man didn't have a pot to piss in or window to throw it out of - his entire existence (just like Obama) was a charade solidified by the fact and the extent he went to in order to keep his tax records sealed! He simply robbed from Peter to pay Paul to create an image. Deepening the deep state rather than draining it - is what finally put him in the black! If anyone thinks he would ever bite the hand that feeds him - you get what you deserve. The pharmaceutical industry alone gave him OVER ONE MILLION dollars for his inauguration! Therefore he will never renounce the vaccines that have killed and harmed MILLIONS! It's been rumored his own son Baron is on the spectrum because of his childhood vaccines and yet when he had the opportunity to appoint RFK Jr to head a SAFE VACCINE committee - he sold him out to the pharmaceutical industry instead! C'mon people Caitlins, spot-on! Trump is the greatest ruse since Obama!
If you meantion all of Trumps war crimes it will lead right back into the guilt of Obama's..
Glen Greenwald intercept article titled Obama killed a 16year old in Yemen
The other thing is that when he does tell the truth they hate him more. Such as admitting they were in Syria for the oil. "We're taking the oil". What part of Syria are we in? "The part with the oil". They don't like that he says the quiet part out loud. It's not that he's doing less international crime than other Presidents. He did just as much and in some cases more, but he talked about it and was proud of it. they really hate that.
I'm an independent progressive who walked away from the DEM party after the 2004 election, and I DID NOT vote for either of those sexually obsessed bullies in the '20 PRES election ... like Biden, Trump is a complete horse's-ass of human being who easily passed my litmus test for bullies:
1) 24 official allegations of sexual misconduct have been made against him ...
2) In 2020, he tried to cancel food stamp benefits for 700k recipients in the middle of the pandemic ...
3) One of his staffers - Olivia Troye, said when facing the possibility of mingling with supporters at a rally, Trump said "I'm not going to shake hands with those disgusting people" ...
4) Trump visited Epstein's Island many times - much to say on this topic, but I'll spare you ...
5) Trump refused to pay contractors who did the work on his casino ...
And you can bet the ranch Kari Lake knows all about Trump's past ... she has just latched on to his coattails because she knows damn well that it's the politically expedient thing to do right now ...
Biden has proved beyond a doubt that the office holder is irrelevant.
A senile old man (Biden) is as good as a buffoon (Trump) is as good as an eloquent smarty pants (Obama).
Like accidental POTUS Truman who stepped up from Vice to POTUS with the death of President Franklin Delno Roosevelt and when engaged against New York Governor , Thomas Edmund Dewey, in the 1948 POTUS tussle, found financial support from American Zionists fully committed to invasion and occupation of Palestine that provided enough financial support to Truman's candidacy, that he won and in 1948 gave a shield of protection to the racist terrorist state founded by genocide against Semite Palestinians; Christians, Arabs and Jews horrified by the rape, murder and reign of terror causing hundreds of thousands of Semite Palestinians to flee their own country, . As POTUS, Truman granted United States recognition of terrorist state of Israel as it continues its genocide against Semite Palestinians. Former POTUS Trump found financial support from Zionists that carried him into being POTUS. Payback was agreeing with Zionists that terrorist state's Capital should be Jerusalem, rather than Tel Aviv. Useful to remember that when terrorist state went to war against the United States with its attempt to sink the U.S.S. Liberty ship during the terrorist state's Pearl Harbor like sneak attack on its neighboring nation states in terrorist state's lust for Third Reich Nazi like Lebensraum, featuring an on going Holocaust against Semite Palestinians. With American armed forces on the way to assist the Liberty ship against terrorist state's offensive war, then POTUS Lydon Baines Johnson, order the U.S. armed force on way in support of Liberty, to stand down and do an about face and return to their home base, leaving Liberty ship on its own. Crew members abord the Liberty when attacked by terrorist state were ordered to practice shut mouth evermore after the Israeli war on their ship.