I see so many people on the so-called Left even say he "betrayed" his base. No he didn't. You lied to yourselves.
The man started his campaign in 2016 calling Mexicans "rapists". If after that, you believed he was gonna lift a finger to improve the lives of anyone but greedy low lives like himself, then you are part of the problem and deserve the shit that's happening.
Which may be true and could be debated simply because the entire lot of them have represented an eminently corruptible cadre of capitalist/neofeudalist bottom-feeders who hardly ever rejected their own "deals", but were mostly better at keeping it all hush hush.
Yep. To paraphrase the despicable Carville, it’s the system, stupid.
From Corbin Trent - “So no, I’m not interested in fighting Donald Trump. I’m interested in fighting the thing that made him and will outlast him, the system that lets a genocide run, lets the Epstein names stay buried, lets a child’s abuser walk and then promotes the man who walked him, mints fortunes off our work, and rounds up the weakest people we’ve got while calling it order. That’s the enemy. Not a man. A system.”
Well put, Tom. The slime governing, allegedly, in what are now laissez-faire economies around the planet have been permitted to hold their positions and continue to be manipulated by the big-money, -tech, -media controllers. Throw a strong element of amorality into the mix and we finish up with ever more economic, military, environmental and resultant social disasters. And when the so-called supreme courts are bought, the sky's the limit.
Here’s a pretty good piece on why we’re headed for collapse, examining wealth vs. value, or put another way, the way consumer capitalism has blurred the line between want and need.
Trump's collection of multi-billion dollar bribes and similar income from insider trading would be pretty hard to beat. That's something I like about him : he unashamedly does it on a breathtaking scale right out in broad daylight. He's proved the Constitution is utterly powerless. Maybe now something will be done about this (especially the ubercorrupt SCROTUS). Then again, maybe instead it will get worse.
Robert Caro thinks LBJ was the former heavyweight champ of corruption. It was the basis of his power in Congress.
The amount of people I have encountered in the US who think things will "go back to normal" once Trump dies (I fully expect him to refuse to step down after the next theatrical performance we call presidental elections here) is utterly maddening.
It's not even willful ignorance, it's just straight up a mass delusion of some kind.
I see Trump as a fall guy, a figurehead. Why don't they see that he has the full support of the GOP? He's implementing their program to take over the USA then, they believe, the world. The public passively waits for things to return to normal.
I'll toot my own horn in that I predicted this years ago. The two parties were at war. Parliamentary democracy with its compromises has long disappeared. Both parties committed to "climbing the escalation ladder." Eventually one or the other would seize power in order to avoid the otherwise inevitable revenge from the other side. Since the Rs controls the military and police they would surely be the ones to take this final step, as that is what matters in such situations.
The key mechanism to hide this move is the Rs' SCROTUS almost completely disregarding the constitution. How then can the GOP be prevented from taking control of the 2026 elections? I expect they will ban the filibuster and pseudo-legally take federal control of elections. In case you haven't noticed Mr. T. with his occasional openness has publicly advocated this plan. He said it would guarantee 100 years of R victories. The bulk of the Rs is doing its damnedest to institute one-party rule. They aren't even keeping it a secret. The Ds will be helpless.
Maybe endless one-party rule begins in 2026 maybe it doesn't. The only thing that could stop it is overwhelming dissatisfaction with rising prices. Skyrocketing oil and gas prices might cost the Rs so many votes that rigging becomes impractical. That and the rapidly fading R loyalty to the shreds of the Constitution. It still carries some "soft power" with old school types. This was seen in the recent SCROTUS birthright citizenship ruling when two R justices balked at contravening the plain language of the Constitution, resulting in a too-narrow 5-4 defeat of the initiative.
I have said for years that law is meaningless. Enforcement is all that matters. The Constitution has long been a dead letter.
Naturally, this has caused a lot of people to react in pious horror. In a way I can see it. Comforting lies are much more, well, comforting for humans than staring into the abyss and realizing that There Really Is Nothing There, that you are truly on your own.
There are few who will devote their entire working life to the investigation of one man. It seems that the fifth volume of Caro's biography of LBJ will appear only after Caro passes away. Most thorough character study ever written. You never know, someone might step up to bat after Mr. Trump is no more. It has to be long enough afterward that witnesses aren't afraid to talk but not so long that they forget or have died.
The Caro-level biographer lived and contributed yeoman's job of works on Trump going back nearly 40 years. Wayne Barrett. Whose Muck Raking of Empire City's fattest rats got Pride of Place exposure and terrific character grain in his VILLAGE VOICE local Muck Raking beat. Lamentably and regrettably, that journalistic super hero finally collapsed just as Trump's Reality as elected leader sank in (having never held a Public Interest\Public Trust position with which any Presidential electorate could choose after evaluating what level of TRUST, if any to place in that trail of bad paper and WORSE PUBLIC TRUST...)
Yet, Wayne Barrett and his works and many of his contemporaries in the Alternative Press live and Piss not only on but in our living rivers and streams. The VILLAGE VOICE however be dead after being batted about like Big Money's badmitten boiydee.... Mamas Let Yer Babies Grow Up 2B Muck Rakers!!!!
From this point forward we have more to learn about ourselves, the body politic that insists on corruption in the leaders they deign to place the Public Interest Trust in....etc Check the date on this feature in the now dead VILLAGE VOICE.
Trump outlived his Muck Raker In Chief, Wayne Barrett (who truly deserves some patina statuary...) and Trump lives & reigns over US all and gets a last laugh, or will E. Jean or other Suit Presser get the last Big Civil Suit Payout and hearty rueful guffaw at our city full of Caesar Chumps paying the true cost and generations of martyrs, mere untested descendants left to pick up that hernia-inducing tab for an Empire City\State\United States of Naivete Left In Ruins...? Leave it to the Poets In Residence to properly mourn and Lament this ill-fitting hair-piece\self-promotional cod-piece of Civic, National, International deference to the Imperially Repugnant Mother Fugger and Imperial Fug In Chief, the likes of whom may we never bow to nor lament losing the likes of ever and ever again....
Many thanks, fratello Michito. I read the Voice regularly back in my 60's /70's heydays in NY. Great to see something on the Donald, who from the get-go in my Apple days so revulsed me, like most property ghouls, that I tended not to follow that thread.
Vin LoPresti, We will have to invent a whole new vocabulary to describe a strange new species that has evolved in the western ruling class and their oligarchs. The bombastic sycophant Lindsey Graham, personifies that subhuman class.
100% true. How, though can they stop it when the choice is two, with just a change of name. Same in Australia, when I first came here there was a choice of 5 parties to choose from then it became a case of either joining together, which gets rid of one party and cuts choice while hoping to get more votes. We are down to three if we count the Greens, and four if we count tge mist racist party ever. There is the collaboration between the Country party, that has totally abandoned the country people, joined with the laughably called the Liberal party, and of course, one party the liberals, is dominant over the other that get the sop of one of their members as deputy PM. The last one to hold the position got his "bit on the side" pregnant, left his wife and children, got divorced, married the pregnant one, and has spent most of his time since then as a drunkard, thankfully he left the ex-Country party and joined the absolutely worst one in this country which was founded by total racist Pauline Hanson, who is now run by Gina Rinehart, who inherited her father's millions and job, as head of business that digs up the earth with no care for wildlife habitat, and Hanson thinks Rinehart is her friend because she buys her with things that might add up to a few hours worth of the profit her company makes.
Then there is Labor, currently in power, but like so many others, it's PM has allowed himself to be entrapped and "you can all guess" by whom, much as he denies it - this man once is known to call himself a friend of Palestine. I hate to say it, but I think that the pretty face he married had vastly different ideals, and Palestine was not on her important place to protect list.
So, there you have it, the mess Australia has become politically. It was bad enough when they kept bending the knee to whatever tge US wanted, but now straight down the gurgler!
"If you’re expressing condolences for Lindsey Graham’s death, you’re saying you care more about looking like a kind and caring person than you care about actually being one."
know what other former television ‘star’ turned presidential candidate promised his voters ‘No more wars! I will make Peace!’ only to go back on that promise and screw his voters almost immediately after getting into office and then made a mockery of the office as he sold his country out for his personal profit?
Cookies Nuland? married to neocon zionist Robert Kagan, contributing author and founding member of the PNAC, she handed out cookies and donuts in Maidan square to help coordinate 'the revolution'... she also personally 'recommended' her hunka-burning-love boxer to be mayor - per the wikileaks document dump
Robert Kagan (Victoria Nuland(Nudelman)'s husband) co-founded the neoconservative think tank in 1997 which was known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with fellow Neocon William Kristol (Irving's son), Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliot Abrams, all of whom were destined for key positions in the Bush administration - with the exception of Kristol. PNAC became the outfit which wrote the faux-scholarly policy papers, and provided much of the intellectual energy, undergirding not only the unhinged Iraq invasion, but the broader neo-imperial strategy that’s brutally transformed the world and killed maybe millions.
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This extraordinary Robert Kagan/Victoria Nudelman husband-and-wife duo makes quite a one-two punch for the Military-Industrial Complex, an inside-outside team that creates the need for more military spending, applies political pressure to ensure higher appropriations, and watches as thankful weapons manufacturers lavish grants on like-minded hawkish Washington "think tanks".
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Fred Kagan's wife Kimberly (nee Kessler) is the head of the Institute for the Study of War and holds typical neocon positions.
"Fascism is a false revolution. It promises radical change of the society but what it delivers is ongoing war on working people"
-Michael Parenti (RIP)
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"Whenever fascist parties acquired power, they did nothing to carry out any anticapitalist threats.
"Once in power, fascist regimes banned strikes, dissolved independent labor unions, lowered wage earners' purchasing power, and showered money on armaments industries, to the immense satisfaction of employers."
U call "stupid" what is built into da condition of da Human Condition. Find a way out of this veil or vail of tears that is somewhat better or preferable to terms we freely teach as "Tragic" without resorting to unprovable fantasy and I'll actually purchase a ticket on that conveyance...It has suddenly gotten chilly here on this mid July sunny Pacific mid afternoon Ore-e-gone, going, going gone...
You are delusional. What medication are you on. Russia was protecting ethnic Russians in Donbas region. Do you know what happened in 2014? NATO and Ukraine had intention to genocide and ethnically clean region that was always majority ethnic Russian. Believe western propaganda if you want. You just proved everything Caitlin was writing here - useful idiot.
Ukraine attacked armed pro-Russian separatists and Russian insurgents that were fomenting violence within Ukraine. Calling the civilians killed a "genocide" is complete bull shit.
Let us pretend that were true. You admit Ukraine attacked.
Obviously the right to self-determination means nothing to you. So, when Israel attacks Palestinians seeking self-determination, you are good with that, right?
I also find it strange that over the past six months of megascandal, failure, and broken promises Mr Trump support has declined by only 10%. It's because 36% of the population likes the ICE initiative. They want foreigners ejected from the USA and approve of how this is being done. I think they believe this will improve their standard of living. I say they will be disappointed in this, and that Mr. T's meddling with the world economy will cause a worldwide depression. We will see whether they stick with him when everything becomes much more expensive. There will be a major effort to blame it all on Iran and China. Maybe this will succeed. Maybe it won't.
Should be an eye opener when the Democratic party gets back in power and they do nothing substantial about ICE - and the organization continues to build concentration camps all over the country - and kill more Americans on the street without consequence.
I'm further amazed by the USA public's devotion to the "lesser evil" system. I tell people in Indonesia about it and they laugh. There is a certain logic to it but by now I would think the baleful results would be pretty clear. But nope, lesser evilism still going strong.
At least 30%* of the US electorate are full-blown cultists. To be fair to them, their support is not rational, nor is it based on rational concerns. Rather, like the cultists they are, they are for anything the cult leader is for. Until the cult leader is against it. Then they are against it.
The gyrations surrounding The Epstein Files is most instructive. Remember Bondi and Vance waving dossiers in the air? MAGA drooled like Bassett Hounds at the thought. Then, once it became clear that the release of The Files would damage Dear Leader, they insisted that there was nothing there.
If today Trump were to begin and end every speech with "All praise to Lord Satan!", his cult would stop claiming that Trump has a direct line to Jesus and start wearing Dracula capes.
Rationality, consistency, truth never had anything to do with it. This is just basic human nature.
*Around 30% of the electorate are bull goose trumpers. These, however, are not the only political cultists out there. Team D cultists come prominently to mind, the ones who so recently ascribed superpowers to a senile halfwit and Willie Brown's former mistress.
The Economist says 36% approval. They do a new poll every five days or so. https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker Mr. Trump's approval rating is only seven points worse than Biden's at the same point of his reign. I suppose Mr. T's supporters see him as the lesser evil.
Which is quite laughable, considering everyone in America who is not Native American, are descendants of incomers, just like most of us in Australia, both occupied land.
On that final note, not only does it regurgitate our own intelligence back at us it does so at exorbitant energy costs. Brains are incredibly power-efficient structures while LLMs do far less for far more energy. The field of AI has hijacked technical scientific terms from respected fields, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, for example, to sound like it's doing things it is not. They're dressing it up and they've been doing it since the 1960s.
First of what makes this "intelligence"? Enthusiasm for it depends on what you want it to do. Calling on it to destroy whole populations is a crime to me and anyone who uses it for this is a mass murderer. Who will be punished?
More important than ever that the search for justice continues! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
In the comments section of yesterday's NYT article on Lindsey Graham's death, the majority of critical commenters focused on Graham's late-in-life alliance with Donald Trump, not his warmongering. Indeed, the article itself refers to Graham's warmongering as "interventionism." What a bullshit euphemism from a publication that has supported almost every U.S. war for a great many years. In fact, I cannot think of a single war that the Times did not help promote.
It’s too convenient to shift the blame onto a particular person, to divert attention from the very Imperialist system that enables and empowers such psychos
Call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can go to Gaza right now, and insist aid be allowed in. Then on to the West Bank to end the occupation and apartheid.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
How does the USA deliver food without trucks running on ................diesel.
Where are your Railways?
We (in France) and other parts of the world are going to have same problems BUT not as badly as the USA
Who was the last President in the USA who took a walk in the American 'homeland.'
Fixed roads and bridges?
I personally (living in France) know that much of this has been corrected BUT not enough. WHY? Because all western countries are vassals of the US decrepit empire.
Not many people here have commented on the French Revolution. July 14th
You Americans are stuck in your bubble.
The French people changed their Imperial Govt.
After this revolution we had no Kings or Queens. It worked for a while.
The EU are the new Kings and Queens!
I live here in France.....can you believe people are selfish enough..... still having babies.
The Govt. is paying for white French people to have babies.
Than you look at football!
Take a look at the European teams.......filled with black people and yet we still talk about IMMIGRATION!
Hi Jenny, just this afternoon reading such insanity around the world, I started wondering when, oh when, would we, in the US and Australia, have a revolution like the French did?
People power can make changes. The French did it when there was absolutely no social media, no phones, no internet, why can't we?
For me the US has never been this super power, just a country full of people who believe in their own propoganda but, unfortunately with such a lack in education they don't understand that they are being taken for a ride by money hungry new wealthy, who now choose who leads the country, and I don't mean only which party but who they choose to head the party. At the moment, the promise Drumpf made to get himself into the presidency has given them plenty. Now though his greed for himself is overriding any ^promise^ he gave them and they won't tolerate that for long, after all he came from nothing in their eyes - a lowlife housing huckster, married a prostitute because she looked good on his arm, but she brought her Russian handler with her, how else would he have got into the white house?
A country only 250 years old, by the count of white folk, is so corrupt it is eating itself. The sooner it dies the better for the planet. Same with Drumpf, hopefully once he's back in hell where he belongs a bit of sanity can arrive. Of course that depends on the people and whether or not they want a clean life, or one dictated by people that should be in prison.
"We haven’t created artificial intelligence, we’ve created a toy that regurgitates our own intelligence back at us."
No wonder AI "slop" gets worse and worse with each passing day... We're growing ever less creative and intelligent because we're relying on a computer program to do our thinking for us. We're spiraling downward into complete and utter idiocracy!
I guess the corrupt powers-that-be hope we're completely brain dead by the time the next elections come around so we don't notice how they're being diddled with or care what mouth-breathing genocidal apologist we put into office.
People of the world wake up! All you have to lose are your minds (and hearts)!
How true. I remember when the first "adding machine" arrived at the office I worked in after leaving school. Because I was told to use the thing, I did, but then I checked it myself by going over the figures as I normally would. When computers arrived, actually before they arrived, I was sure they were going to be bad for employment, of course there always has to be someone to feed the information into it, to programme it, and only one tiny ^mistake^ and lives can be lost, or millions in money disappear. So, no the machine is not intelligent, not even when built to look more human-like.
This is how a demoralized people act, CJ. No principles, morals, or hope. They (and we) need a hand up ; I'm pretty sure they would be grateful, after a while, for a much better future.
Americans are VERY good at willful ignorance.. The best in the world, actually.
A trait developed over generations ever since the genocide of the native American population.
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Bunch of debt slaves talk bout "freedom" lol
Ppl with six teeth support ppl with six yachts..
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"The American people like their bullshit out front, where they can get a good, strong whiff of it"
-George Carlin
youtube.com/shorts/hSYNZ1yjtUE
None of this is unexpected. A land of greed and lack of morality.
I see so many people on the so-called Left even say he "betrayed" his base. No he didn't. You lied to yourselves.
The man started his campaign in 2016 calling Mexicans "rapists". If after that, you believed he was gonna lift a finger to improve the lives of anyone but greedy low lives like himself, then you are part of the problem and deserve the shit that's happening.
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good!" ~Gordon Gecko
"single most corrupt president in US history."
Which may be true and could be debated simply because the entire lot of them have represented an eminently corruptible cadre of capitalist/neofeudalist bottom-feeders who hardly ever rejected their own "deals", but were mostly better at keeping it all hush hush.
Yep. To paraphrase the despicable Carville, it’s the system, stupid.
From Corbin Trent - “So no, I’m not interested in fighting Donald Trump. I’m interested in fighting the thing that made him and will outlast him, the system that lets a genocide run, lets the Epstein names stay buried, lets a child’s abuser walk and then promotes the man who walked him, mints fortunes off our work, and rounds up the weakest people we’ve got while calling it order. That’s the enemy. Not a man. A system.”
Well put, Tom. The slime governing, allegedly, in what are now laissez-faire economies around the planet have been permitted to hold their positions and continue to be manipulated by the big-money, -tech, -media controllers. Throw a strong element of amorality into the mix and we finish up with ever more economic, military, environmental and resultant social disasters. And when the so-called supreme courts are bought, the sky's the limit.
Here’s a pretty good piece on why we’re headed for collapse, examining wealth vs. value, or put another way, the way consumer capitalism has blurred the line between want and need.
https://www.savageminds.co/p/there-is-no-america?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=65949&post_id=207020185&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=eov1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I think Carville took the fuckshots. He looks and sounds like doo doo
I’m not sure who’s most corrupt, the wolf or the wolf in sheep’s clothing..
Who is more fool? The fool himself, or the fool who follows the fool?
Excellent point
Trump's collection of multi-billion dollar bribes and similar income from insider trading would be pretty hard to beat. That's something I like about him : he unashamedly does it on a breathtaking scale right out in broad daylight. He's proved the Constitution is utterly powerless. Maybe now something will be done about this (especially the ubercorrupt SCROTUS). Then again, maybe instead it will get worse.
Robert Caro thinks LBJ was the former heavyweight champ of corruption. It was the basis of his power in Congress.
The amount of people I have encountered in the US who think things will "go back to normal" once Trump dies (I fully expect him to refuse to step down after the next theatrical performance we call presidental elections here) is utterly maddening.
It's not even willful ignorance, it's just straight up a mass delusion of some kind.
I see Trump as a fall guy, a figurehead. Why don't they see that he has the full support of the GOP? He's implementing their program to take over the USA then, they believe, the world. The public passively waits for things to return to normal.
I'll toot my own horn in that I predicted this years ago. The two parties were at war. Parliamentary democracy with its compromises has long disappeared. Both parties committed to "climbing the escalation ladder." Eventually one or the other would seize power in order to avoid the otherwise inevitable revenge from the other side. Since the Rs controls the military and police they would surely be the ones to take this final step, as that is what matters in such situations.
The key mechanism to hide this move is the Rs' SCROTUS almost completely disregarding the constitution. How then can the GOP be prevented from taking control of the 2026 elections? I expect they will ban the filibuster and pseudo-legally take federal control of elections. In case you haven't noticed Mr. T. with his occasional openness has publicly advocated this plan. He said it would guarantee 100 years of R victories. The bulk of the Rs is doing its damnedest to institute one-party rule. They aren't even keeping it a secret. The Ds will be helpless.
Maybe endless one-party rule begins in 2026 maybe it doesn't. The only thing that could stop it is overwhelming dissatisfaction with rising prices. Skyrocketing oil and gas prices might cost the Rs so many votes that rigging becomes impractical. That and the rapidly fading R loyalty to the shreds of the Constitution. It still carries some "soft power" with old school types. This was seen in the recent SCROTUS birthright citizenship ruling when two R justices balked at contravening the plain language of the Constitution, resulting in a too-narrow 5-4 defeat of the initiative.
I have said for years that law is meaningless. Enforcement is all that matters. The Constitution has long been a dead letter.
Naturally, this has caused a lot of people to react in pious horror. In a way I can see it. Comforting lies are much more, well, comforting for humans than staring into the abyss and realizing that There Really Is Nothing There, that you are truly on your own.
Be interesting to see if a Caro-level biographer of Trump comes along to do the kind of thorough job that Caro did on LBJ
There are few who will devote their entire working life to the investigation of one man. It seems that the fifth volume of Caro's biography of LBJ will appear only after Caro passes away. Most thorough character study ever written. You never know, someone might step up to bat after Mr. Trump is no more. It has to be long enough afterward that witnesses aren't afraid to talk but not so long that they forget or have died.
The Caro-level biographer lived and contributed yeoman's job of works on Trump going back nearly 40 years. Wayne Barrett. Whose Muck Raking of Empire City's fattest rats got Pride of Place exposure and terrific character grain in his VILLAGE VOICE local Muck Raking beat. Lamentably and regrettably, that journalistic super hero finally collapsed just as Trump's Reality as elected leader sank in (having never held a Public Interest\Public Trust position with which any Presidential electorate could choose after evaluating what level of TRUST, if any to place in that trail of bad paper and WORSE PUBLIC TRUST...)
Yet, Wayne Barrett and his works and many of his contemporaries in the Alternative Press live and Piss not only on but in our living rivers and streams. The VILLAGE VOICE however be dead after being batted about like Big Money's badmitten boiydee.... Mamas Let Yer Babies Grow Up 2B Muck Rakers!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Barrett
From this point forward we have more to learn about ourselves, the body politic that insists on corruption in the leaders they deign to place the Public Interest Trust in....etc Check the date on this feature in the now dead VILLAGE VOICE.
Trump outlived his Muck Raker In Chief, Wayne Barrett (who truly deserves some patina statuary...) and Trump lives & reigns over US all and gets a last laugh, or will E. Jean or other Suit Presser get the last Big Civil Suit Payout and hearty rueful guffaw at our city full of Caesar Chumps paying the true cost and generations of martyrs, mere untested descendants left to pick up that hernia-inducing tab for an Empire City\State\United States of Naivete Left In Ruins...? Leave it to the Poets In Residence to properly mourn and Lament this ill-fitting hair-piece\self-promotional cod-piece of Civic, National, International deference to the Imperially Repugnant Mother Fugger and Imperial Fug In Chief, the likes of whom may we never bow to nor lament losing the likes of ever and ever again....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzE1sm0ZQc8
"Patti Smith Group: Pissing in a River, Live on Spinning on Air in The Greene Space"
https://www.villagevoice.com/how-a-young-donald-trump-forced-his-way-from-avenue-z-to-manhattan/
We can't say the Muck Rakers and Gum Shoes didn't warn U.S.!!!!
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Many thanks, fratello Michito. I read the Voice regularly back in my 60's /70's heydays in NY. Great to see something on the Donald, who from the get-go in my Apple days so revulsed me, like most property ghouls, that I tended not to follow that thread.
Vin LoPresti, We will have to invent a whole new vocabulary to describe a strange new species that has evolved in the western ruling class and their oligarchs. The bombastic sycophant Lindsey Graham, personifies that subhuman class.
100% true. How, though can they stop it when the choice is two, with just a change of name. Same in Australia, when I first came here there was a choice of 5 parties to choose from then it became a case of either joining together, which gets rid of one party and cuts choice while hoping to get more votes. We are down to three if we count the Greens, and four if we count tge mist racist party ever. There is the collaboration between the Country party, that has totally abandoned the country people, joined with the laughably called the Liberal party, and of course, one party the liberals, is dominant over the other that get the sop of one of their members as deputy PM. The last one to hold the position got his "bit on the side" pregnant, left his wife and children, got divorced, married the pregnant one, and has spent most of his time since then as a drunkard, thankfully he left the ex-Country party and joined the absolutely worst one in this country which was founded by total racist Pauline Hanson, who is now run by Gina Rinehart, who inherited her father's millions and job, as head of business that digs up the earth with no care for wildlife habitat, and Hanson thinks Rinehart is her friend because she buys her with things that might add up to a few hours worth of the profit her company makes.
Then there is Labor, currently in power, but like so many others, it's PM has allowed himself to be entrapped and "you can all guess" by whom, much as he denies it - this man once is known to call himself a friend of Palestine. I hate to say it, but I think that the pretty face he married had vastly different ideals, and Palestine was not on her important place to protect list.
So, there you have it, the mess Australia has become politically. It was bad enough when they kept bending the knee to whatever tge US wanted, but now straight down the gurgler!
Also Caitlin a couple of years ago: Trump just Puts An Appropriately Ugly Face On A Very Ugly Empire:
youtube.com/watch?v=iRThFwyddvk
"If you’re expressing condolences for Lindsey Graham’s death, you’re saying you care more about looking like a kind and caring person than you care about actually being one."
Democrats and liberals, in a nutshell.
Where the liberals want to take us. Caitlin’s description, boot licking empire simps, is ‘spot on’.
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/soon-it-will-be-illegal-to-oppose?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1402572&post_id=206990042&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=eov1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Feral Finster, As Jeffrey St. Clare says in Counterpunch " Lindsey Graham said he would die with Israel and it has come to pass...".
know what other former television ‘star’ turned presidential candidate promised his voters ‘No more wars! I will make Peace!’ only to go back on that promise and screw his voters almost immediately after getting into office and then made a mockery of the office as he sold his country out for his personal profit?
Volodomyr Zelensky
To be fair, Zelenskii was summoned by the US Ambassador immediately after his election, and the ambassador proceeded to lay down the law.
Aided by Victoria Nuland.
Nuland: the US had "invested" $5 billion in Ukraine "democracy" since 1991, 2013:
rumble.com/v2b6cze-in-2013-victoria-nuland-stated-that-the-united-states-had-invested-5-billio.html
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2014 UKRAINE COUP Victoria Nuland - Geoffrey Pyatt Leaked Phone Call:
rumble.com/vwjn3v-2014-ukraine-coup-victoria-nuland-geoffrey-pyatt-leaked-phone.html
youtube.com/watch?v=OPi6Pv5VrPQ
youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y
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Listen to the school teacher on Obama/Nuland's administration NATO/Ukraine/Syria policy, 2015:
youtu.be/UsT-O5qQaWY?t=6647
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Nuland confirms the Nord Stream destruction plan to Sen. Ron Johnson:
youtube.com/watch?v=rBUIlHM9WSo
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Nuland acknowledges multiple US biolabs in Ukraine:
rumble.com/vwuz8o-victoria-nuland-warns-of-ukrainian-biological-facilities-falling-into-russi.html
youtube.com/watch?v=ydSf57SRtcQ
Deport the Zionists. CXL Israel.
Jenny, Victoria Nuland handing out cookies - who can forget that!
I truthfully do not recall that La Nuland played any role int his, but it doesn't matter. It got to the same place.
Victoria Nuland: War Criminal. Aaron Mate. U-tube.
Cookies Nuland? married to neocon zionist Robert Kagan, contributing author and founding member of the PNAC, she handed out cookies and donuts in Maidan square to help coordinate 'the revolution'... she also personally 'recommended' her hunka-burning-love boxer to be mayor - per the wikileaks document dump
Robert Kagan (Victoria Nuland(Nudelman)'s husband) co-founded the neoconservative think tank in 1997 which was known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with fellow Neocon William Kristol (Irving's son), Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliot Abrams, all of whom were destined for key positions in the Bush administration - with the exception of Kristol. PNAC became the outfit which wrote the faux-scholarly policy papers, and provided much of the intellectual energy, undergirding not only the unhinged Iraq invasion, but the broader neo-imperial strategy that’s brutally transformed the world and killed maybe millions.
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This extraordinary Robert Kagan/Victoria Nudelman husband-and-wife duo makes quite a one-two punch for the Military-Industrial Complex, an inside-outside team that creates the need for more military spending, applies political pressure to ensure higher appropriations, and watches as thankful weapons manufacturers lavish grants on like-minded hawkish Washington "think tanks".
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Fred Kagan's wife Kimberly (nee Kessler) is the head of the Institute for the Study of War and holds typical neocon positions.
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https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/02/09/victoria-nulands-family-ties/
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Nudelman's new Job (NED CIA Cutout):
rumble.com/v5jrx9h-nuland-to-the-ned-a-cia-cutout.html
Jenny, I think you left the 't' out of Nutland.
Ha.
America and Americans are being played by the same folks who have their hand up Zelensky’s back
"Mr. Zman, play ball and you get a billion bucks. Tax free. Cross us and you're a dead man. What'll it be, chump?"
"But that would be betrayal of Ukraine. I'd be sending millions to their deaths! The huge debts would make us slaves forever."
"You say that as though it were a bad thing."
"Fascism is a false revolution. It promises radical change of the society but what it delivers is ongoing war on working people"
-Michael Parenti (RIP)
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"Whenever fascist parties acquired power, they did nothing to carry out any anticapitalist threats.
"Once in power, fascist regimes banned strikes, dissolved independent labor unions, lowered wage earners' purchasing power, and showered money on armaments industries, to the immense satisfaction of employers."
-Robert Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism"
Beautifully said. So true. Also proof how stupid human race can be to repeatedly fall in the same trap.
U call "stupid" what is built into da condition of da Human Condition. Find a way out of this veil or vail of tears that is somewhat better or preferable to terms we freely teach as "Tragic" without resorting to unprovable fantasy and I'll actually purchase a ticket on that conveyance...It has suddenly gotten chilly here on this mid July sunny Pacific mid afternoon Ore-e-gone, going, going gone...
"I've just reached a place
Where the willow don't bend
Not much more to be said
It's the top of the End...
I'm just going
I'm going
I'm gone
ba-da bump
dum dumb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f9PikTQATU
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Hard to make peace with someone who violently took half your country and is attempting to take the rest of it.
You are delusional. What medication are you on. Russia was protecting ethnic Russians in Donbas region. Do you know what happened in 2014? NATO and Ukraine had intention to genocide and ethnically clean region that was always majority ethnic Russian. Believe western propaganda if you want. You just proved everything Caitlin was writing here - useful idiot.
Ukraine attacked armed pro-Russian separatists and Russian insurgents that were fomenting violence within Ukraine. Calling the civilians killed a "genocide" is complete bull shit.
Mega BS. You lost all credibility.
Let us pretend that were true. You admit Ukraine attacked.
Obviously the right to self-determination means nothing to you. So, when Israel attacks Palestinians seeking self-determination, you are good with that, right?
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Read ‘Provoked’.
The book by Scott Horton
The part that voted to be autonomous and was promptly brutally oppressed by the other part?
CNN video from 2016, you don't get to see reports like this these days..:
youtube.com/watch?v=1fsMqYqHnN0
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To thelonegunman, Zelensky not only sold his country but its people too. They became cannon fodder for the US and NATO.
I also find it strange that over the past six months of megascandal, failure, and broken promises Mr Trump support has declined by only 10%. It's because 36% of the population likes the ICE initiative. They want foreigners ejected from the USA and approve of how this is being done. I think they believe this will improve their standard of living. I say they will be disappointed in this, and that Mr. T's meddling with the world economy will cause a worldwide depression. We will see whether they stick with him when everything becomes much more expensive. There will be a major effort to blame it all on Iran and China. Maybe this will succeed. Maybe it won't.
Should be an eye opener when the Democratic party gets back in power and they do nothing substantial about ICE - and the organization continues to build concentration camps all over the country - and kill more Americans on the street without consequence.
I'm further amazed by the USA public's devotion to the "lesser evil" system. I tell people in Indonesia about it and they laugh. There is a certain logic to it but by now I would think the baleful results would be pretty clear. But nope, lesser evilism still going strong.
At least 30%* of the US electorate are full-blown cultists. To be fair to them, their support is not rational, nor is it based on rational concerns. Rather, like the cultists they are, they are for anything the cult leader is for. Until the cult leader is against it. Then they are against it.
The gyrations surrounding The Epstein Files is most instructive. Remember Bondi and Vance waving dossiers in the air? MAGA drooled like Bassett Hounds at the thought. Then, once it became clear that the release of The Files would damage Dear Leader, they insisted that there was nothing there.
If today Trump were to begin and end every speech with "All praise to Lord Satan!", his cult would stop claiming that Trump has a direct line to Jesus and start wearing Dracula capes.
Rationality, consistency, truth never had anything to do with it. This is just basic human nature.
*Around 30% of the electorate are bull goose trumpers. These, however, are not the only political cultists out there. Team D cultists come prominently to mind, the ones who so recently ascribed superpowers to a senile halfwit and Willie Brown's former mistress.
The Economist says 36% approval. They do a new poll every five days or so. https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker Mr. Trump's approval rating is only seven points worse than Biden's at the same point of his reign. I suppose Mr. T's supporters see him as the lesser evil.
Both are cultists.
Which is quite laughable, considering everyone in America who is not Native American, are descendants of incomers, just like most of us in Australia, both occupied land.
Now one of my favourite pieces from you. Well done Caitlin.⭐️
On that final note, not only does it regurgitate our own intelligence back at us it does so at exorbitant energy costs. Brains are incredibly power-efficient structures while LLMs do far less for far more energy. The field of AI has hijacked technical scientific terms from respected fields, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, for example, to sound like it's doing things it is not. They're dressing it up and they've been doing it since the 1960s.
First of what makes this "intelligence"? Enthusiasm for it depends on what you want it to do. Calling on it to destroy whole populations is a crime to me and anyone who uses it for this is a mass murderer. Who will be punished?
More important than ever that the search for justice continues! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
Find out what they’re doing here:
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org
The least we can do is donate to help them:
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In the comments section of yesterday's NYT article on Lindsey Graham's death, the majority of critical commenters focused on Graham's late-in-life alliance with Donald Trump, not his warmongering. Indeed, the article itself refers to Graham's warmongering as "interventionism." What a bullshit euphemism from a publication that has supported almost every U.S. war for a great many years. In fact, I cannot think of a single war that the Times did not help promote.
It’s too convenient to shift the blame onto a particular person, to divert attention from the very Imperialist system that enables and empowers such psychos
Call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can go to Gaza right now, and insist aid be allowed in. Then on to the West Bank to end the occupation and apartheid.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
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On the second to last note;
I think most of the world is feeling or starting to feel the same way about the United States.
Um..............that maybe but the US is STILL perceived as a great power which it is not!
Plenty of 'vassals' in the Western world.
The U.S. is a dying power which still wields enormous power. Like any other dying rat they are now at their most dangerous.
100% agree.
Where is the Aviation fuel?
How does the USA deliver food without trucks running on ................diesel.
Where are your Railways?
We (in France) and other parts of the world are going to have same problems BUT not as badly as the USA
Who was the last President in the USA who took a walk in the American 'homeland.'
Fixed roads and bridges?
I personally (living in France) know that much of this has been corrected BUT not enough. WHY? Because all western countries are vassals of the US decrepit empire.
Not many people here have commented on the French Revolution. July 14th
You Americans are stuck in your bubble.
The French people changed their Imperial Govt.
After this revolution we had no Kings or Queens. It worked for a while.
The EU are the new Kings and Queens!
I live here in France.....can you believe people are selfish enough..... still having babies.
The Govt. is paying for white French people to have babies.
Than you look at football!
Take a look at the European teams.......filled with black people and yet we still talk about IMMIGRATION!
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Hi Jenny, just this afternoon reading such insanity around the world, I started wondering when, oh when, would we, in the US and Australia, have a revolution like the French did?
People power can make changes. The French did it when there was absolutely no social media, no phones, no internet, why can't we?
Hi Davina. There was propaganda especially from England, they were terrified that their people would also revolt.
Not to mention the spying that went on across the channel on both sides.
For me the US has never been this super power, just a country full of people who believe in their own propoganda but, unfortunately with such a lack in education they don't understand that they are being taken for a ride by money hungry new wealthy, who now choose who leads the country, and I don't mean only which party but who they choose to head the party. At the moment, the promise Drumpf made to get himself into the presidency has given them plenty. Now though his greed for himself is overriding any ^promise^ he gave them and they won't tolerate that for long, after all he came from nothing in their eyes - a lowlife housing huckster, married a prostitute because she looked good on his arm, but she brought her Russian handler with her, how else would he have got into the white house?
A country only 250 years old, by the count of white folk, is so corrupt it is eating itself. The sooner it dies the better for the planet. Same with Drumpf, hopefully once he's back in hell where he belongs a bit of sanity can arrive. Of course that depends on the people and whether or not they want a clean life, or one dictated by people that should be in prison.
"We haven’t created artificial intelligence, we’ve created a toy that regurgitates our own intelligence back at us."
No wonder AI "slop" gets worse and worse with each passing day... We're growing ever less creative and intelligent because we're relying on a computer program to do our thinking for us. We're spiraling downward into complete and utter idiocracy!
I guess the corrupt powers-that-be hope we're completely brain dead by the time the next elections come around so we don't notice how they're being diddled with or care what mouth-breathing genocidal apologist we put into office.
People of the world wake up! All you have to lose are your minds (and hearts)!
How true. I remember when the first "adding machine" arrived at the office I worked in after leaving school. Because I was told to use the thing, I did, but then I checked it myself by going over the figures as I normally would. When computers arrived, actually before they arrived, I was sure they were going to be bad for employment, of course there always has to be someone to feed the information into it, to programme it, and only one tiny ^mistake^ and lives can be lost, or millions in money disappear. So, no the machine is not intelligent, not even when built to look more human-like.
This is how a demoralized people act, CJ. No principles, morals, or hope. They (and we) need a hand up ; I'm pretty sure they would be grateful, after a while, for a much better future.
"It's easier to fool a man than to convince a man he has been fooled" - (perhaps) Mark Twain