Yeah , but the Iranians who thought Trump would bring freedom to their country…I wouldn’t place too much weight on that. I know those three guys, and they get high a lot.
Caitlin, I can say with all honesty that currently the MOST DANGEROUS and bat-shit crazy people on the planet are (1) Donald J. Trump (2) Benjamin Netanyahu (or whatever his real name is), (3) Pete Hegseth (another psychotic madman), and the MOST dangerous (and terrorist) regimes are those of U.S. and Israel.
Just imagine how much more peaceful and healthy the people of the world (and the planet) would be with the elimination of the above two regimes....I ponder this everyday and dream scenarios of how that can be made into a reality (for the good of all life on earth).
Damn right, Chang! But Fatman Orange, Mileikowski (aka Satanyahoo) and Pistol-packin' Pete are just at the top of a long list of crazies, domestically and worldwide. Fatman's most recent bleat, er, tweet about the 'fucking Strait' and 'crazy bastards' is so beautifully statesmanlike! Just how crazy does this steaming pile of the rankest ordure have to become to trigger the 25th Amendment?!
Well said David Baird! I often wonder the same thing myself... what's the point of the 25th Amendment if its only use is to occupy space on a piece of paper?
You've discovered the 25th Amendment's real purpose--to occupy space on a piece of paper used to placate the masses by making them think there's some sort of way to lock up a crazy or demented president. Sort of like the 1st Amendment is all about the things you cannot say or post online...
True, it often seems like many administrations keep 're-interpreting' the amendments (and the constitution itself) in ways that benefit their term when they are in power, thus having the effect of lessening the importance/gravity and legality of the whole document itself.
I have heard of this referred to as 'the loophole strategy' (or re-interpretation strategy) for the administrations to get their way without facing appropriate legal consequences.
In effect, the elites (Democrats, Republicans, and others) have created a SHAM where they pay rhetorical lip-service to the Constitution.
Could it be that the Constitution was written as a sham to distract the workers and make them think that they actually have some control over their oligarch-masters? A way to let off steam (like a No Kings parade) that doesn’t really change the reality of how government works but makes the proles feel better? After all, it was written by a bunch of rich white men (some of whom owned slaves) and as such it’s a suspect document, IMO.
What a crazy world we live in that allows a Genocide to happen yet we in the West are NOT allowed to use words to condemn the slaughter even “ From the river to the C “ used to protest against Palestinians living under the rule of occupation . So expect impunity for killing but expect arrest for words
Well done for publishing and saying - Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
Antisemitism? Who cares? 80 years of continuing support for lies, propaganda, land theft, apartheid, corruption, murder, brutal occupation, war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people. Reap what you sow. The pathetic cynical victimhood is a laughable joke.
I’m Palestinian-American. I Don’t. Like. Jews. My father’s family was dispossessed of their land by jews. Jews caused my relations to flee to the four corners of the earth.
Anyone who doesn’t like it; deal with it or fuck off.
1000%. Right on 👍. Devious motherfuckers these fascist organizations are. Destroy, shame, slander, liable, smear, imprison, torture and murder of anyone who doesn't like their pathetic war crimes or any critical thinking at all. Fuck that. And fuck off all and each and every Zionist fanatic and thug out there. Go fuck yourself and your fellow child killers. Long Live our Right to free speech. Facts. The truth. However inconvenient to the fascists and their pathetic sycophants in isrehell and the orange freak' usa. Long live the brave Palestinians living under murderous oppression and occupation. Stop murdering innocent unarmed civilians american and isrehelli fascist thugs. Arrest the ICC indicated isrehelli war mongering coward for genocide and crimes against humanity
I have been thinking the same thing from the very beginning of the terriorst attacks on Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza. WE ARE A TERRORIST NATION...and have always been. People reply that the consequences of disobedience are dire. So what. It's a volunteer military. They have agency. People make difficult moral choices all the time. I cannot imagine being able to live with myself if I were the one NEEDLESSLY slaughtering innocent people. I can see suicides in the future of the surviving troops when/if this INSANITY ends. I am shocked the troops have all obeyed up to this point. Good little Nazis, "just following orders." (and f**k the "antisemetic tropes" bull shit).
The fuel crisis is definitely going to hurt. It's the imperial boomerang speedrun edition. The pain needs to happen and needs to be transformative else it's no different than the surgeon waking you up with half the tumor still inside you.
....and I am seeing little to no discussion about inevitable consequences: BLOWBACK. Hatred for the US is increasing exponentially...all of us are in ever greater danger...i.e. vulnerable infrastructure. If I were Iranian, Lebanese, or Palestinian....I know what my life's work would be....and it wouldn't be kind and polite. If I saw my family pulverized in front of me...my rage would be as great as theirs must be.
Yes. Those of us with a moral imagination can internalize the monstrous evil we are perpetrating on the Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iranian people. We see blowback in our collective future as a result, and we will understand EXACTLY WHY we are targeted. The clueless, cognitively challenged maggot brain war cheerleader 'murKKKans will fail to make the connection, and they will be aghast! "THEY attacked us IN OUR OWN COUNTRY! How dare they?" After a century of inflicting terror on the world, the US will ultimately be hoisted by its own petard.
The turning point is when excesses exceed sustainability. We're almost at the turning point now. The global event that will interrupt the ongoing chain of events will not be painless, but rather "desperate times call for desperate measures."
A military coup in the US would simply be a response to gross strategic military incompetence at the executive government level. It won’t happen but even if it did, it would reflect no change in US war aims. The financial elite see this as their last chance to save US dollar hegemony without which their power crumbles to dust. This war of aggression is unpopular with the masses but it is very much the policy of the financial elites. Trump is just a figurehead. His insane megalomania and sadism grate with factions within the elite but is very useful in other ways. The minute he becomes a hindrance to war aims is the minute he suffers a ‘heart attack.’
What then do you do when you really do have a Game of Thrones "Mad King" in the White House as Caitlin writes?
Are we just going to standby and watch this narcissistic lunatic send young Americans to their deaths over a war that was never approved by congress or the American people?
When the people have enough--which is why they're hiding the actual casualty count coming from the Middle East. No way only a handful of deaths so far as been reported in the MSM. We're looking at hundreds to thousands of casualties currently, but if no one ever sees the body bags/draped coffins/blind and maimed soldiers then it's like nobody has been hurt or died... Amazing that in a time of 24/7 news and internet access, we've not see very many reports on the casualties of American forces. It's about time we open that can of worms and open eyes to the sheer lunacy of this war.
Yes. You are going to stand by. What else can you do? Vote? Well that’s seven months away and the Democrat leadership are very happy that this war is being conducted while they are not in power. This war is being conducted by the US financial capitalist elite. If you want to abolish this class, take away their capital.
But you can’t do that. Iran is trying to do it by fighting with missiles. If you have missiles, go nuts. I’ll cheer you on.
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If you use AI to create art or write, then you're not an artist or a writer. You're a plagiarizer. That's all AI is--a program that steals from others. I may have a few typos here or there in my blog, but at least you know it's a HUMAN writing it and not a soulless machine!
As salaamu alaykum, Caitlin! BTW, it is blasphemy for an infidel to make abusive use of the name of Allah, especially one who has no concept of good or evil, whom Jeffrey Epstein, of all people, said "has no moral compass."
Yes, there is definitely a fuel crisis, but unevenly distributed, initially focused on the Persian Gulf bottleneck causing price spikes. But there are two other critical things you need to be aware of. Depending on US/Israeli actions from here on, a short-term fuel crisis could metastasize into a full-blown, permanent capacity-destruction event for LNG, petroleum and their derivatives. If the production and processing facilities of Iran, Iraq and the GCC countries (and possibly even Syria and Azerbaijan too) are catastrophically damaged or destroyed by this war, global production capacity could be reduced by 30% or more. For a very long time. The ensuing price increases will cause demand destruction in countries unable to afford to pay. It will potentially trigger global stagflation and even depression. The other thing is that it’s not “just” a fuel crisis. Urea (nitrogen fertilizer), sulfur (needed for copper extraction), helium (semiconductor manufacturing processes), aluminium and naphtha (plastics feedstock), among other things, will suffer global supply reduction crises. Shortages in agricultural and base manufacturing inputs will be devastating for food and goods production.
Yeah , but the Iranians who thought Trump would bring freedom to their country…I wouldn’t place too much weight on that. I know those three guys, and they get high a lot.
Rubio, Kegsbreath and .... ?
Caitlin, I can say with all honesty that currently the MOST DANGEROUS and bat-shit crazy people on the planet are (1) Donald J. Trump (2) Benjamin Netanyahu (or whatever his real name is), (3) Pete Hegseth (another psychotic madman), and the MOST dangerous (and terrorist) regimes are those of U.S. and Israel.
Just imagine how much more peaceful and healthy the people of the world (and the planet) would be with the elimination of the above two regimes....I ponder this everyday and dream scenarios of how that can be made into a reality (for the good of all life on earth).
Damn right, Chang! But Fatman Orange, Mileikowski (aka Satanyahoo) and Pistol-packin' Pete are just at the top of a long list of crazies, domestically and worldwide. Fatman's most recent bleat, er, tweet about the 'fucking Strait' and 'crazy bastards' is so beautifully statesmanlike! Just how crazy does this steaming pile of the rankest ordure have to become to trigger the 25th Amendment?!
Well said David Baird! I often wonder the same thing myself... what's the point of the 25th Amendment if its only use is to occupy space on a piece of paper?
You've discovered the 25th Amendment's real purpose--to occupy space on a piece of paper used to placate the masses by making them think there's some sort of way to lock up a crazy or demented president. Sort of like the 1st Amendment is all about the things you cannot say or post online...
True, it often seems like many administrations keep 're-interpreting' the amendments (and the constitution itself) in ways that benefit their term when they are in power, thus having the effect of lessening the importance/gravity and legality of the whole document itself.
I have heard of this referred to as 'the loophole strategy' (or re-interpretation strategy) for the administrations to get their way without facing appropriate legal consequences.
In effect, the elites (Democrats, Republicans, and others) have created a SHAM where they pay rhetorical lip-service to the Constitution.
Could it be that the Constitution was written as a sham to distract the workers and make them think that they actually have some control over their oligarch-masters? A way to let off steam (like a No Kings parade) that doesn’t really change the reality of how government works but makes the proles feel better? After all, it was written by a bunch of rich white men (some of whom owned slaves) and as such it’s a suspect document, IMO.
What a crazy world we live in that allows a Genocide to happen yet we in the West are NOT allowed to use words to condemn the slaughter even “ From the river to the C “ used to protest against Palestinians living under the rule of occupation . So expect impunity for killing but expect arrest for words
Well done for publishing and saying - Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
Actually latest from Qatar is that they are kicking out the Americans and their bases in Qatar. Pretty easy to do - to avoid disaster.
Allah truly is the greatest. The final decision is His.
Allah gave use brains and we should use them as well.
Antisemitism? Who cares? 80 years of continuing support for lies, propaganda, land theft, apartheid, corruption, murder, brutal occupation, war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people. Reap what you sow. The pathetic cynical victimhood is a laughable joke.
Pete THIS!!! 👍👍👍
I’m Palestinian-American. I Don’t. Like. Jews. My father’s family was dispossessed of their land by jews. Jews caused my relations to flee to the four corners of the earth.
Anyone who doesn’t like it; deal with it or fuck off.
1000%. Right on 👍. Devious motherfuckers these fascist organizations are. Destroy, shame, slander, liable, smear, imprison, torture and murder of anyone who doesn't like their pathetic war crimes or any critical thinking at all. Fuck that. And fuck off all and each and every Zionist fanatic and thug out there. Go fuck yourself and your fellow child killers. Long Live our Right to free speech. Facts. The truth. However inconvenient to the fascists and their pathetic sycophants in isrehell and the orange freak' usa. Long live the brave Palestinians living under murderous oppression and occupation. Stop murdering innocent unarmed civilians american and isrehelli fascist thugs. Arrest the ICC indicated isrehelli war mongering coward for genocide and crimes against humanity
I have been thinking the same thing from the very beginning of the terriorst attacks on Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza. WE ARE A TERRORIST NATION...and have always been. People reply that the consequences of disobedience are dire. So what. It's a volunteer military. They have agency. People make difficult moral choices all the time. I cannot imagine being able to live with myself if I were the one NEEDLESSLY slaughtering innocent people. I can see suicides in the future of the surviving troops when/if this INSANITY ends. I am shocked the troops have all obeyed up to this point. Good little Nazis, "just following orders." (and f**k the "antisemetic tropes" bull shit).
The fuel crisis is definitely going to hurt. It's the imperial boomerang speedrun edition. The pain needs to happen and needs to be transformative else it's no different than the surgeon waking you up with half the tumor still inside you.
Americans just now realizing the unsinkable Titanic has hit an iceberg.
....and I am seeing little to no discussion about inevitable consequences: BLOWBACK. Hatred for the US is increasing exponentially...all of us are in ever greater danger...i.e. vulnerable infrastructure. If I were Iranian, Lebanese, or Palestinian....I know what my life's work would be....and it wouldn't be kind and polite. If I saw my family pulverized in front of me...my rage would be as great as theirs must be.
Good. We need to be in danger for what we’ve allowed.
Yes. Those of us with a moral imagination can internalize the monstrous evil we are perpetrating on the Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iranian people. We see blowback in our collective future as a result, and we will understand EXACTLY WHY we are targeted. The clueless, cognitively challenged maggot brain war cheerleader 'murKKKans will fail to make the connection, and they will be aghast! "THEY attacked us IN OUR OWN COUNTRY! How dare they?" After a century of inflicting terror on the world, the US will ultimately be hoisted by its own petard.
The turning point is when excesses exceed sustainability. We're almost at the turning point now. The global event that will interrupt the ongoing chain of events will not be painless, but rather "desperate times call for desperate measures."
A military coup in the US would simply be a response to gross strategic military incompetence at the executive government level. It won’t happen but even if it did, it would reflect no change in US war aims. The financial elite see this as their last chance to save US dollar hegemony without which their power crumbles to dust. This war of aggression is unpopular with the masses but it is very much the policy of the financial elites. Trump is just a figurehead. His insane megalomania and sadism grate with factions within the elite but is very useful in other ways. The minute he becomes a hindrance to war aims is the minute he suffers a ‘heart attack.’
What then do you do when you really do have a Game of Thrones "Mad King" in the White House as Caitlin writes?
Are we just going to standby and watch this narcissistic lunatic send young Americans to their deaths over a war that was never approved by congress or the American people?
When is enough - enough?
When the people have enough--which is why they're hiding the actual casualty count coming from the Middle East. No way only a handful of deaths so far as been reported in the MSM. We're looking at hundreds to thousands of casualties currently, but if no one ever sees the body bags/draped coffins/blind and maimed soldiers then it's like nobody has been hurt or died... Amazing that in a time of 24/7 news and internet access, we've not see very many reports on the casualties of American forces. It's about time we open that can of worms and open eyes to the sheer lunacy of this war.
Yes. You are going to stand by. What else can you do? Vote? Well that’s seven months away and the Democrat leadership are very happy that this war is being conducted while they are not in power. This war is being conducted by the US financial capitalist elite. If you want to abolish this class, take away their capital.
But you can’t do that. Iran is trying to do it by fighting with missiles. If you have missiles, go nuts. I’ll cheer you on.
I don't have any missiles. I don't even own a drone. I don't know any capitalist elites either. I imagine it's pretty nice to be one though.
I guess I'm going to have to stand by. You?
ATTENTION MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS - Say NO. I do not consent to this satanic Agenda!
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If you’re facing deployment soon, please don’t wait!
We’ll work with you to navigate the admin process.
All of our services are completely free of charge.
Who is a Military Conscientious Objector?
A firm, fixed, and sincere objection to participation in war in any form or the bearing of arms, by reason of religious training and/or belief.
DoD 1300.06
Conscientious Objection
Contact the Center on Conscience & War if you’re in the US military and want to seek discharge or reassignment as a Conscientious Objector.
Call 202-483-2220
The Center on Conscience & War has supported conscientious objectors since 1940! We have experienced staff that can support you through the somewhat complex, administrative conscientious objection application process.
Our Counseling Director, Bill Galvin, has extensive experience beginning in the early 1970s during the Vietnam era. Bill is the author of the most recent version of the Draft Counselor’s Manual and the Guide for COs in the Military. All counselors are trained in the military policy and process for Conscientious Objection...¨ Learn More
www.centeronconscience.org
If you use AI to create art or write, then you're not an artist or a writer. You're a plagiarizer. That's all AI is--a program that steals from others. I may have a few typos here or there in my blog, but at least you know it's a HUMAN writing it and not a soulless machine!
As salaamu alaykum, Caitlin! BTW, it is blasphemy for an infidel to make abusive use of the name of Allah, especially one who has no concept of good or evil, whom Jeffrey Epstein, of all people, said "has no moral compass."
Simple answer is to not make ANY speech illegal
Hmmm, has anyone thought of that before??
Re: the fuel crisis
Yes, there is definitely a fuel crisis, but unevenly distributed, initially focused on the Persian Gulf bottleneck causing price spikes. But there are two other critical things you need to be aware of. Depending on US/Israeli actions from here on, a short-term fuel crisis could metastasize into a full-blown, permanent capacity-destruction event for LNG, petroleum and their derivatives. If the production and processing facilities of Iran, Iraq and the GCC countries (and possibly even Syria and Azerbaijan too) are catastrophically damaged or destroyed by this war, global production capacity could be reduced by 30% or more. For a very long time. The ensuing price increases will cause demand destruction in countries unable to afford to pay. It will potentially trigger global stagflation and even depression. The other thing is that it’s not “just” a fuel crisis. Urea (nitrogen fertilizer), sulfur (needed for copper extraction), helium (semiconductor manufacturing processes), aluminium and naphtha (plastics feedstock), among other things, will suffer global supply reduction crises. Shortages in agricultural and base manufacturing inputs will be devastating for food and goods production.