Thank you for putting words to all the horrific thoughts and emotions I've been struggling with for 5 months. You're cathartic and dead on. I hope this helps you to cope as well. This B.S. has been shoveled at us for decades. We're too busy/tired from the treadmill they've forced us on to survive to do anything about it. Your articles open people's eyes and bring about collective discussions. One bright spot is that Gaza has awakened good people who see the truth and have had enough. Now things may change for the better. If we're destined for war let it be to stop this crap permanently.
Revolution from MEDIA, FINANCE, EDUCATION, and POLITICS.
So far (?),
I’ve seen little to NO PLAN.
Righteous anger gives you a French Revolution and a Reign of Terror:
Which gets you NO where.
Start REPLACING fence sitters with people who won’t take “No” to real change.
Burning the house down with everyone in it(?):
Doesn’t get the job done.
Start by recruiting the right people to replace the ones you don’t want. In the next election cycle (‘26): make darn sure you’re ACTIVE and put people in like Katie Porter who can not only TAKE the heat , but give RIGHT BACK with NO apologies.
I'm not entirely sure how the army would react; probably a split. the lower ranks don't see much of the graft money from what I have read. just from dealing with cops and reading a lot, i would expect most of the cops would be on the side of the oligarchs. national guard? lotta Trump supporters in there.
This is all planned and executed by the bankers. All wars are bankers wars. The big banks are crashing so the only way to survive is to find a reason for more money printing. First Covid, then war. More money printing coming. More war coming.
Unless we get another Kennedy who actually manages to smash the CIA into a thousand pieces we are in deep shit. If you have savings then switching to physical assets such as gold, silver, high yield property or a classic car will afford you some sort of protection. They are also likely to come for the gold so make sure you switch to land or housing before this happens. Read Jim Rickards and Bill Bonner and you will get plenty of warning. If they come for the land make sure you emigrate before then, sort out a second passport now if you can just in case...
If you are relying on your wage from week to week then you are right in the firing line. I am not sure there is much you can do apart from emigrating to El Salvador!
I would love to but it is not up to me! I thought you were a realist???? They have all the biological, psychological and kinetic weapons. Even the President does not have the power to destroy the deep state anymore so I think that ship may have already sailed.
We are seeing what happens when government abdicates its role as regulator allowing catpialism to become completely predatory. Its called neoliberalism and it has been in effect for half a century and the damage is proportionate and exponential.
>>"We are seeing what happens when government abdicates its role as regulator..."
Robert, I believe this "regulatory role of the government" was never intended to actually regulate capitalism (or serve the interests of proletariats and lumperproletariats) - not even when the US constitution was written. The government and corporations are mixed together like salt-and-water. The regulation that does happen is a farce. But its more than that. Government regulation has come to mean "how do you regulate a population whose interests are diametrically opposed to the interests of the capital class (power elite, oligarchs, bourgeoisie)?"
I think you're white washing regulations that have been good. It's the same type of white washing when the advocates of Privatizing public works - claim it will be more efficient and lead to a better outcome - when it has been well documented to rarely be the case.
This blind belief that any kind of regulatory control must be bad - and government by default is bad - is hogwash. There are plenty of examples throughout the world where a country and its citizens are thriving because government plays a key role. For example UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE - which the right-wing with all the anti-government rhetoric has been vociferously against now my ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE here in the United States. And ordinary Americans should be sick of this continuing ideological garbage - paid for by the obscenely rich. Americans deserve a Universal Health Care system and fuck anti-government half-truth white washing bullshit.
I hope you are right but the military industrial complex needs war to justify it's insane budgets. Hence when the cold war ended they planned and executed 9/11. If Ukraine ends they will be planning the next war. China, Russia, the American people. They are not fussy about who they kill.
Must be some crossed wires as I did not even mention Carlson. He does not matter. The CIA military industrial complex has now merged with the drug dealers and gone to war with us all. If you are not hyper rich you are a useless eater and will be culled for profit.
John Zwiebel, thank you for sharing the link to the indefatigable Joti Brar. To those who talk of what a revolution will look like and if it's possible, we have to first get rid of the brainwashing that has given us colonised minds that clouds our judgement.
Of course covid was planned. While it's arguable the release in Wuhan from the lab was unintentional, the research to MAKE it into a human-aimed disease was not. In several labs around the world.
And the reaction to the outbreak was certainly planned, thoroughly. That is not a "conspiracy theory", we would EXPECT a viral outbreak to be planned for. In whose interests that planning was for however, can again be arguable.
So apart from the actual release - possibly - the entire 'Covid Experience' had been planned.
Event 201 certainly indicates that a whole lot of planning was going on. I wouldn't rule out Fort Detrick as a source for the Covid leak. Gain-of-function research was actually shut down in the US for 3 years (2014-17) because of all the accidents in BSLs.
I would be fascinated to see the results of of a trial comparing the Iranian-covid strain, and the typical one that swept the West. The Iranians are as good doctors as anywhere in the World, and were not pulling the "Deaths WITH Covid" stunt as the West did. They were genuinely swamped.
As it was soon discovered the strain had been transferred from a couple of clerics visiting Saudis and returning, the possibility of foul play is quite high.
Fauci should be in prison for the rest of his natural for his role in this, as you probably know. It seems being a Grandmaster Freemason, and/or holding dirt on every secret US bioweapon lab around the world, confers immunity for such crimes.
If you want to believe fantastical conspiracy theories that a bat from a deep cave was transported thousands of miles to a wet market, with no other infections along the way, no intermediate stages of infection from bat-human, and that this 1Tn-1 chance of cross-species infection occured instead of from the nearby Viral Infection Lab actually STUDYING this precise disease, in a notably lax biosecurity regime that had already been reported as having several earlier leaks - be my guest.
Me, I stick with the science. And Occams razor.
But you do you, that's cool.
I doubt you've read that full article, you have just "uninformed opinions".
Heartburn, acid reflux. Those are my feelings for the pabulum I see mainstream media shitlibs proffer to reprehensible meatheads like John Fetterman as they pursue grotesque nonsequiturs discussing how Joe Biden's economy is so great -- except for those folks (the bloody majority) who "may not be feeling it". Well, how dare those nonfeeling proles resort to feeling something different -- like outright revulsion and disgust for these war criminals who proffer an economy based on the murder of innocents and pauperization of everyone else. Fall into line you recalcitrant sheep. The correct operant response is Yes Massa Imperialist War Pig. Anything else is mis-responsiveness, and as an unpatriotic utterance is subject to prosecution under the Espionage Act.
The point about the government and elite doing whatever they do and manipulating people’s feelings, is spot on.
Its also exactly what was done when a known CIA contractor was blamed for the world trade center bombings, then suddenly this was turned into an excuse for not only the US but all of “NATO” invading the middle east and shooting and drone-missileing, and bombing Afganistani and Iraqi civilians to a pulp. One million people killed in these wars and as many as five million dead indirectly, the overwhelming majority innocent civilians,indiscriminately killed:
So it’s no surprise when we see once again. the US and NATO vassals, ake “the west”, in unison sending Israel weapons and money to commit genocide, and destroying opposition to this genocide at the UN.
Because its the same old murderous gang, doing the only thing they know how to do: bomb and murder people. It’s the western way of life, and has been for a couple of centuries now.
Don't vote for the lesser evil! We've tried that. ... over and over again! Hoping that the crooks not in power will be better than the crooks in power is just wishful thinking.
Either vote for someone you want, or spoil your paper. All ballots should have a "none of the above" option: then you would see how people feel about the puppets.
yeah I read that Nikki Haley lost in Nevada to none of the above, or whatever the language was on the Nevada ballot. I think that would be common if it were an option.
Spoiling the paper is a good option to my way of thinking. Don't give the psychos any support & certainly don't give them any power. Think about Village Meeting scenarios where local meetings can be networked if the issues affect more than just the locality. Add a more centralised layer as a purely administrative one to provide the means to implement the resolved issues. If that admin level fails then sack the useless ones as WE, the Sovereign People, are the employers. Never abnegate the responsibility for your own life by giving the responsibility for that to psychopathic strangers who've wormed their way up the greasy pole to steal everything you have through 'electoral politics'.
The last Presidential election, I wrote in my friend and comedian Jim Earl and his Comedian wife Martha Previte. I couldn't stomach Genocide Joe even then.
An election without debate, without candidates, changed dates and order is a meaningful signal.
Understand the disgusting feelings experienced within when we learn about the truth of wars. All wars are against the children and it does not matter what side one chooses. Wars create more war and the energy continues to grow, it is like a cancer or worst parasites. Unfortunately there can be a "lesser evil". When we pay taxes, that we believe we do not have a choice, we pay for these corrupt war mongers, that we voted for, to continue their work of destruction of all life and the planet. We continue to feed what we do not want and blame the outside or us. When we choose sides, we feed the war energy called propaganda. It is not the civilians that want war, it is a corrupt dictatorship gov't who are fed by our taxes to continue to feed wars by the Military Industrial Complex. We all are to blame, know or believe it or not. Forgive us Father for we do not know what we do. It is the time to awaken to what we do and what roles we all play in by our abilities to co-create, evil or light, we have a choice.
It's pointless to shame those who vote for Biden, because it doesn't matter--Trump would be at least as bad on this and plenty of other things. As you have pointed out. And don't forget, in the US often your vote doesn't matter because of our ridiculous electoral college system. So, for example, I live in West Virginia, and will likely have to write in West or Stein--but it doesn't matter who I vote for because if he's on the ballot. Trump has already won here, guaranteed. Even if he won by two votes, he would get all of WV's electoral college votes. There is a move to change this but it will never go through BECAUSE the reps from the states with unfair advantage will never willingly give up their extra power. And it isn't worth fighting for, because this is just one of the ways the game is rigged to keep power in fat white sociopathic hands. We desperately need change, radical, a cross-the-board change, but we're overdue to talk about how to actually get there, rather than wasting any more time on electoral politics.
Sick of it all. I can no longer process the hatred, the bloodshed, the inhumaity of it all. U.S. is more than complicit. We are #1 purveyors of death and destruction
Will we ever discover the depth of that control. IF we do learn I think eight yrs. ago me would have been shocked and horrified. Today me, of course what did you think was going on in this illogical pretense of a country hahahahahahahhaahhahaha.
The way I see it, if Trump is elected, we deserve it. That's the flaw in a democratic republic. So be it. But the Palestinians, and all the people whose death and suffering we enable or cause, don't deserve Biden. I'm writing in Marianne Williamson as the only moral choice I can make.
By participating in a corrupt electoral system, you are validating its legitimacy. The US electoral system is no longer legitimate or ethical. Its a con game.
I would disagree my friend. More is accomplished with a third party of any name or a write in as I have done. When trying to get someone on a ballot in IL. that person can purchase a voters register. Seeing large swaths of name voting third party or write in changes abilities of parties and they can and do see the trend. It of course no matter what happens will always be a con game my friend, that I agree on : )
I understand what you are saying Landru - but the entire Electoral system (IMO) is so rotten to the core (from the bottom to the top) that any participation in it, at least for me, legitimizes to some degree - the system itself. And that is something I no longer wish to do, even in the smallest degree.
I do not see a third party viable other than a token Establishment non-entity - who the corrupt corporately owned Uniparty (Democrat and Republican) barely allows to play in the electoral race (with their toy car and pretend steering wheel) who literally has no chance of winning whatsoever, whom the MSM will ignore as much as possible - that sort of makes the farce of the Electoral process appear legitimate, when it is not legitimate at all.
If someone really wants to do something good for the American people - they could do a lot more (IMO) than legitimatizing the now very corrupted Electoral process. For example, they could like MLK Jr. did - organize people's rallies on the ground. They could start a political podcast to let the American people just how corrupt the system has become. They could start a substack etc.
Yes of course I agree with you on most of what you said of course there is this however coming ha, this time is truly unique not unlike Bernie's first run in 2016. Jill Stein has been gaining momentum and is on most state ballots now which is what kills most third parties. If Bernie having seen clinton receive the debate questions and the pre-selected party delegates had run third party he I believe would have won. Stein/West I think would be that unique moment again uniting class and race in a three way battle for voters. How could you not come out to vote for a blues aficionado like Cornel. I even got our spokesperson to send a donation ha. I do agree we are at that tipping point where this is no chance to fix this system without revolution. My friends at Revolutionary Blackout Network point that out in their commentary. Check out their podcast, they bring the heat. They destroyed Cornel ha.
Jill Stein, will be on the Nov. ballot if there is one. Jill I think is in a historical moment in time with a zero Monopoly party choice. Even better a Stein/West ticket. 34%?
Not just the democrats, but ANY & ALL politicians are exactly the same or even worse regarding being completely enslaved by the lobbies & fulfilling the lobby agenda. You seem to suggest that democrats are the only culprits and there are many other choices of politicians who can magically change things. One word answer - “Lobby”. Your culprit is the lobby that precisely runs the world. You know very well that politicians are just puppets. So why marginalize just one team?
And apparently you're a bit new to Caitlin's substack here. There have been plenty of times she has called out the so-called "Right". But right now - it's Joe Biden who is the POTUS, who can pick up the phone and make a call to Netanyahu. And after 2 decades of shitlibs saying they're the good guys - it will probably take another 2 decades to demonstrate what kind of sociopathic liars they really are.
Understood. Not playing sides here, as ALL sides are culpable criminals. The point still remains that whoever is the POTUS, it has not mattered over the last century or more. The POTUS-es won’t make that phone call because they want the lobby money to win elections and retain power. They will do exactly what the lobby tells them to do. What did the then POTUS do in 1948 when the British forcibly created the new “state” & 750,000 indigenous people were killed & persecuted? He just supported blindly. The “state” very well knows that the US, UK & others are helpless slaves of the lobbies. So when we slander only one of all the culpables, we mislead & confuse.
Why I have never voted nor ever will - the entire system is completely corrupt - every single war and ill can be blamed solely because of all politicians. There are more of us then there are of them and yet they still comply - you don't need a wall on the boarders when there is already a fence around the entire country controlled by this scum
Who is controlling the State? You think Joe Biden is running the show?
The problem isn't government itself - it is the corruption of the government. Getting rid of government and pretending it can never do any good doesn't fix a fucking thing. Getting rid of government is exactly what the 1% psychopathic billionaires would love you to do - because then they will be able to commit genocide at will with nothing at all to stop them.
Government is not the problem here. Sorry Charlie.
Caitlin, were that it were only monopoly money we’re left with. Perhaps in Australia, that’s the way it seems. In America being a part of this is unimaginably horrifying, despairing, disparaging, and emotionally draining. It’s a trauma I have not in my most horrific nightmares could have imagined. This is what it means to have a conscience. A few friends that I have are seriously thinking of leaving America. I’m seriously thinking of joining them. this is just too much. This is just. Too. Much. Fred Rogers always said look for the helpers. I want to be one of the helpers but I feel so helpless. My little Baby in the Rubble display in my front yard is all I feel like I can do. I beseech the Power greater than me to wonder if there is some redemption to be had by the maimed and terrorized, all the little martyrs, humans of flesh and blood and bones, of learning and hopes and dreams, murdered and all the sacrifice and all the terror. I just don’t know.
So very well stated and expressed - we all feel your exact same pain and despair! The display is brilliant - people can and should do the same - custom magnetic signs for their cars.
I have always said it will take an act of God so substantial (dwarfing everything) to turn this world around. It seems that we care clearly headed for nuclear war and that will do it.
Every year the USA gives away an $8,000.00 health insurance deductible for every natural born U.S. man, woman, and child, just to Israel alone . . . Israel was just given $20 billion . . . It would cost $20 billion to build apartments for every homeless person in America to live in until they died
Well I guess all that money spent on War and Israel is making us more secure right? That's the argument - we need to protect ourselves! Your security from "terrorists" - even though we're the ones who supply them with arms and sponsor them in other countries - comes first!
Thank you for putting words to all the horrific thoughts and emotions I've been struggling with for 5 months. You're cathartic and dead on. I hope this helps you to cope as well. This B.S. has been shoveled at us for decades. We're too busy/tired from the treadmill they've forced us on to survive to do anything about it. Your articles open people's eyes and bring about collective discussions. One bright spot is that Gaza has awakened good people who see the truth and have had enough. Now things may change for the better. If we're destined for war let it be to stop this crap permanently.
It’s one thing to analyze, speak out, and write essays about the issue: but another one entirely to make a reality based boots on the ground solution.
THAT takes longer, requires very hard work, knowing how to make the powerful connections that will actually effect change.
It’s WAY past time to start
THAT.
People in power will never listen.......time for a revolution in the US.
Then start PLANNING one.
Revolution from MEDIA, FINANCE, EDUCATION, and POLITICS.
So far (?),
I’ve seen little to NO PLAN.
Righteous anger gives you a French Revolution and a Reign of Terror:
Which gets you NO where.
Start REPLACING fence sitters with people who won’t take “No” to real change.
Burning the house down with everyone in it(?):
Doesn’t get the job done.
Start by recruiting the right people to replace the ones you don’t want. In the next election cycle (‘26): make darn sure you’re ACTIVE and put people in like Katie Porter who can not only TAKE the heat , but give RIGHT BACK with NO apologies.
Gotta start locally and build up quickly.
i recommend not planning the revolution online or anywhere where the plans can be seen.
To say that the French Revolution got France nowhere is completely ridiculous. Read history.
I am NOT American...arrange it yourself!
I wish you good luck.
I'm not entirely sure how the army would react; probably a split. the lower ranks don't see much of the graft money from what I have read. just from dealing with cops and reading a lot, i would expect most of the cops would be on the side of the oligarchs. national guard? lotta Trump supporters in there.
Are you saying that because of all these obstacles your citing people should give up and not try?
This is all planned and executed by the bankers. All wars are bankers wars. The big banks are crashing so the only way to survive is to find a reason for more money printing. First Covid, then war. More money printing coming. More war coming.
YUP!, it is all about power, money, loss of status, and cannibalizing their own homelands to survive. The ruthless bastards they are.
Thank you Dr Smith for injecting a hard note of reality into the conversation.
Matthew 24
Unless we get another Kennedy who actually manages to smash the CIA into a thousand pieces we are in deep shit. If you have savings then switching to physical assets such as gold, silver, high yield property or a classic car will afford you some sort of protection. They are also likely to come for the gold so make sure you switch to land or housing before this happens. Read Jim Rickards and Bill Bonner and you will get plenty of warning. If they come for the land make sure you emigrate before then, sort out a second passport now if you can just in case...
If you are relying on your wage from week to week then you are right in the firing line. I am not sure there is much you can do apart from emigrating to El Salvador!
I left the USA in 2002.
I would love to but it is not up to me! I thought you were a realist???? They have all the biological, psychological and kinetic weapons. Even the President does not have the power to destroy the deep state anymore so I think that ship may have already sailed.
We are seeing what happens when government abdicates its role as regulator allowing catpialism to become completely predatory. Its called neoliberalism and it has been in effect for half a century and the damage is proportionate and exponential.
>>"We are seeing what happens when government abdicates its role as regulator..."
Robert, I believe this "regulatory role of the government" was never intended to actually regulate capitalism (or serve the interests of proletariats and lumperproletariats) - not even when the US constitution was written. The government and corporations are mixed together like salt-and-water. The regulation that does happen is a farce. But its more than that. Government regulation has come to mean "how do you regulate a population whose interests are diametrically opposed to the interests of the capital class (power elite, oligarchs, bourgeoisie)?"
I think you're white washing regulations that have been good. It's the same type of white washing when the advocates of Privatizing public works - claim it will be more efficient and lead to a better outcome - when it has been well documented to rarely be the case.
This blind belief that any kind of regulatory control must be bad - and government by default is bad - is hogwash. There are plenty of examples throughout the world where a country and its citizens are thriving because government plays a key role. For example UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE - which the right-wing with all the anti-government rhetoric has been vociferously against now my ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE here in the United States. And ordinary Americans should be sick of this continuing ideological garbage - paid for by the obscenely rich. Americans deserve a Universal Health Care system and fuck anti-government half-truth white washing bullshit.
I suspect "fascism" would be better ... but
- I don't know anything about neoliberalism;
- see "Why You Should Stop Using the Concepts "Left-wing" and "Right-wing"".
https://whatdoino.substack.com/p/why-you-should-stop-using-the-concepts-a49
Neoliberalism is economic fascism
Thanks John, great links to follow!
I hope you are right but the military industrial complex needs war to justify it's insane budgets. Hence when the cold war ended they planned and executed 9/11. If Ukraine ends they will be planning the next war. China, Russia, the American people. They are not fussy about who they kill.
RobertSmith. I agree with you. US is 'losing face' so another war is almost guaranteed at this point.
Must be some crossed wires as I did not even mention Carlson. He does not matter. The CIA military industrial complex has now merged with the drug dealers and gone to war with us all. If you are not hyper rich you are a useless eater and will be culled for profit.
I hope this was irony? Brilliant guy Simplicius.
I mentioned NOTHING about Tucker Carlson!
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John Zwiebel, thank you for sharing the link to the indefatigable Joti Brar. To those who talk of what a revolution will look like and if it's possible, we have to first get rid of the brainwashing that has given us colonised minds that clouds our judgement.
🙄
Of course covid was planned. While it's arguable the release in Wuhan from the lab was unintentional, the research to MAKE it into a human-aimed disease was not. In several labs around the world.
And the reaction to the outbreak was certainly planned, thoroughly. That is not a "conspiracy theory", we would EXPECT a viral outbreak to be planned for. In whose interests that planning was for however, can again be arguable.
So apart from the actual release - possibly - the entire 'Covid Experience' had been planned.
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
Event 201 certainly indicates that a whole lot of planning was going on. I wouldn't rule out Fort Detrick as a source for the Covid leak. Gain-of-function research was actually shut down in the US for 3 years (2014-17) because of all the accidents in BSLs.
I would be fascinated to see the results of of a trial comparing the Iranian-covid strain, and the typical one that swept the West. The Iranians are as good doctors as anywhere in the World, and were not pulling the "Deaths WITH Covid" stunt as the West did. They were genuinely swamped.
As it was soon discovered the strain had been transferred from a couple of clerics visiting Saudis and returning, the possibility of foul play is quite high.
Fauci should be in prison for the rest of his natural for his role in this, as you probably know. It seems being a Grandmaster Freemason, and/or holding dirt on every secret US bioweapon lab around the world, confers immunity for such crimes.
Ft detrick
Believe what you want.
If you want to believe fantastical conspiracy theories that a bat from a deep cave was transported thousands of miles to a wet market, with no other infections along the way, no intermediate stages of infection from bat-human, and that this 1Tn-1 chance of cross-species infection occured instead of from the nearby Viral Infection Lab actually STUDYING this precise disease, in a notably lax biosecurity regime that had already been reported as having several earlier leaks - be my guest.
Me, I stick with the science. And Occams razor.
But you do you, that's cool.
I doubt you've read that full article, you have just "uninformed opinions".
Heartburn, acid reflux. Those are my feelings for the pabulum I see mainstream media shitlibs proffer to reprehensible meatheads like John Fetterman as they pursue grotesque nonsequiturs discussing how Joe Biden's economy is so great -- except for those folks (the bloody majority) who "may not be feeling it". Well, how dare those nonfeeling proles resort to feeling something different -- like outright revulsion and disgust for these war criminals who proffer an economy based on the murder of innocents and pauperization of everyone else. Fall into line you recalcitrant sheep. The correct operant response is Yes Massa Imperialist War Pig. Anything else is mis-responsiveness, and as an unpatriotic utterance is subject to prosecution under the Espionage Act.
Mangia Merda, America.
March 2nd is the Shut it Down for Palestine. Find or start a protest movement in your area.
I feel like I'm doing something other than wishing I could.
https://www.shutitdown4palestine.org/actions
A pollster called me last week, " Can we count on your vote for Joe Biden" Me" I will vote NO on Genocide Joe" ha. Stein 24.
Only a FOOL would think history began after Oct. 7th.
The point about the government and elite doing whatever they do and manipulating people’s feelings, is spot on.
Its also exactly what was done when a known CIA contractor was blamed for the world trade center bombings, then suddenly this was turned into an excuse for not only the US but all of “NATO” invading the middle east and shooting and drone-missileing, and bombing Afganistani and Iraqi civilians to a pulp. One million people killed in these wars and as many as five million dead indirectly, the overwhelming majority innocent civilians,indiscriminately killed:
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ That too was….genocide. The west has been deeply involved in genocide and war crimes for a long time
So it’s no surprise when we see once again. the US and NATO vassals, ake “the west”, in unison sending Israel weapons and money to commit genocide, and destroying opposition to this genocide at the UN.
Because its the same old murderous gang, doing the only thing they know how to do: bomb and murder people. It’s the western way of life, and has been for a couple of centuries now.
Vote Blue as if your life depends upon it.................... in Washington Post comments regularly!
Answer: Vote Blue for genocide Biden whose life it seems is more important than the Palestinians.
Don't vote for the lesser evil! We've tried that. ... over and over again! Hoping that the crooks not in power will be better than the crooks in power is just wishful thinking.
Either vote for someone you want, or spoil your paper. All ballots should have a "none of the above" option: then you would see how people feel about the puppets.
yeah I read that Nikki Haley lost in Nevada to none of the above, or whatever the language was on the Nevada ballot. I think that would be common if it were an option.
Interesting!
Spoiling the paper is a good option to my way of thinking. Don't give the psychos any support & certainly don't give them any power. Think about Village Meeting scenarios where local meetings can be networked if the issues affect more than just the locality. Add a more centralised layer as a purely administrative one to provide the means to implement the resolved issues. If that admin level fails then sack the useless ones as WE, the Sovereign People, are the employers. Never abnegate the responsibility for your own life by giving the responsibility for that to psychopathic strangers who've wormed their way up the greasy pole to steal everything you have through 'electoral politics'.
The last Presidential election, I wrote in my friend and comedian Jim Earl and his Comedian wife Martha Previte. I couldn't stomach Genocide Joe even then.
An election without debate, without candidates, changed dates and order is a meaningful signal.
In the USSR if the majority of the ballots were spoiled then the candidate was not elected. That seems more powerful than what we've got.
Backed into the 2-party problem again!!
One answer to the duopoly problem is to organize, plan, and develop a strategy to
build a multi-party system to present real
alternatives to I the crap thrown at us every 2-4 years. Not easy, but critically
needed to have real options!!
I believe Bernie Sanders threw that opportunity away. I believe he could have easily been elected third party 2016.
So true. Backing a literal genocide kicks you out of the "Lesser Evil" camp right now.
Understand the disgusting feelings experienced within when we learn about the truth of wars. All wars are against the children and it does not matter what side one chooses. Wars create more war and the energy continues to grow, it is like a cancer or worst parasites. Unfortunately there can be a "lesser evil". When we pay taxes, that we believe we do not have a choice, we pay for these corrupt war mongers, that we voted for, to continue their work of destruction of all life and the planet. We continue to feed what we do not want and blame the outside or us. When we choose sides, we feed the war energy called propaganda. It is not the civilians that want war, it is a corrupt dictatorship gov't who are fed by our taxes to continue to feed wars by the Military Industrial Complex. We all are to blame, know or believe it or not. Forgive us Father for we do not know what we do. It is the time to awaken to what we do and what roles we all play in by our abilities to co-create, evil or light, we have a choice.
It's pointless to shame those who vote for Biden, because it doesn't matter--Trump would be at least as bad on this and plenty of other things. As you have pointed out. And don't forget, in the US often your vote doesn't matter because of our ridiculous electoral college system. So, for example, I live in West Virginia, and will likely have to write in West or Stein--but it doesn't matter who I vote for because if he's on the ballot. Trump has already won here, guaranteed. Even if he won by two votes, he would get all of WV's electoral college votes. There is a move to change this but it will never go through BECAUSE the reps from the states with unfair advantage will never willingly give up their extra power. And it isn't worth fighting for, because this is just one of the ways the game is rigged to keep power in fat white sociopathic hands. We desperately need change, radical, a cross-the-board change, but we're overdue to talk about how to actually get there, rather than wasting any more time on electoral politics.
https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/you-cant-be-a-lesser-evil-when-youre?r=8hnh2&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=50323603
Vote for Jill Stein, PEACE and de-militarized u.s.
Well said!
Sick of it all. I can no longer process the hatred, the bloodshed, the inhumaity of it all. U.S. is more than complicit. We are #1 purveyors of death and destruction
Yes we are. Our Military Industrial Complex and unaccountable Deep State now controls the country - and will destroy the country in the end.
Will we ever discover the depth of that control. IF we do learn I think eight yrs. ago me would have been shocked and horrified. Today me, of course what did you think was going on in this illogical pretense of a country hahahahahahahhaahhahaha.
I'm the same. I've been pretty shocked at the depth of corruption, and the literal senility of so many of the corrupt politicians at the top.
The way I see it, if Trump is elected, we deserve it. That's the flaw in a democratic republic. So be it. But the Palestinians, and all the people whose death and suffering we enable or cause, don't deserve Biden. I'm writing in Marianne Williamson as the only moral choice I can make.
By participating in a corrupt electoral system, you are validating its legitimacy. The US electoral system is no longer legitimate or ethical. Its a con game.
Exactly!
A con game not because government is by default evil - but because it has been corrupted by the obscenely wealthy 1% American Elites.
Predominently Zionists.
I would disagree my friend. More is accomplished with a third party of any name or a write in as I have done. When trying to get someone on a ballot in IL. that person can purchase a voters register. Seeing large swaths of name voting third party or write in changes abilities of parties and they can and do see the trend. It of course no matter what happens will always be a con game my friend, that I agree on : )
I understand what you are saying Landru - but the entire Electoral system (IMO) is so rotten to the core (from the bottom to the top) that any participation in it, at least for me, legitimizes to some degree - the system itself. And that is something I no longer wish to do, even in the smallest degree.
I do not see a third party viable other than a token Establishment non-entity - who the corrupt corporately owned Uniparty (Democrat and Republican) barely allows to play in the electoral race (with their toy car and pretend steering wheel) who literally has no chance of winning whatsoever, whom the MSM will ignore as much as possible - that sort of makes the farce of the Electoral process appear legitimate, when it is not legitimate at all.
If someone really wants to do something good for the American people - they could do a lot more (IMO) than legitimatizing the now very corrupted Electoral process. For example, they could like MLK Jr. did - organize people's rallies on the ground. They could start a political podcast to let the American people just how corrupt the system has become. They could start a substack etc.
Yes of course I agree with you on most of what you said of course there is this however coming ha, this time is truly unique not unlike Bernie's first run in 2016. Jill Stein has been gaining momentum and is on most state ballots now which is what kills most third parties. If Bernie having seen clinton receive the debate questions and the pre-selected party delegates had run third party he I believe would have won. Stein/West I think would be that unique moment again uniting class and race in a three way battle for voters. How could you not come out to vote for a blues aficionado like Cornel. I even got our spokesperson to send a donation ha. I do agree we are at that tipping point where this is no chance to fix this system without revolution. My friends at Revolutionary Blackout Network point that out in their commentary. Check out their podcast, they bring the heat. They destroyed Cornel ha.
Jill Stein, will be on the Nov. ballot if there is one. Jill I think is in a historical moment in time with a zero Monopoly party choice. Even better a Stein/West ticket. 34%?
Not just the democrats, but ANY & ALL politicians are exactly the same or even worse regarding being completely enslaved by the lobbies & fulfilling the lobby agenda. You seem to suggest that democrats are the only culprits and there are many other choices of politicians who can magically change things. One word answer - “Lobby”. Your culprit is the lobby that precisely runs the world. You know very well that politicians are just puppets. So why marginalize just one team?
It's the "team" in power right now.
And apparently you're a bit new to Caitlin's substack here. There have been plenty of times she has called out the so-called "Right". But right now - it's Joe Biden who is the POTUS, who can pick up the phone and make a call to Netanyahu. And after 2 decades of shitlibs saying they're the good guys - it will probably take another 2 decades to demonstrate what kind of sociopathic liars they really are.
Understood. Not playing sides here, as ALL sides are culpable criminals. The point still remains that whoever is the POTUS, it has not mattered over the last century or more. The POTUS-es won’t make that phone call because they want the lobby money to win elections and retain power. They will do exactly what the lobby tells them to do. What did the then POTUS do in 1948 when the British forcibly created the new “state” & 750,000 indigenous people were killed & persecuted? He just supported blindly. The “state” very well knows that the US, UK & others are helpless slaves of the lobbies. So when we slander only one of all the culpables, we mislead & confuse.
Why I have never voted nor ever will - the entire system is completely corrupt - every single war and ill can be blamed solely because of all politicians. There are more of us then there are of them and yet they still comply - you don't need a wall on the boarders when there is already a fence around the entire country controlled by this scum
Who is controlling the State? You think Joe Biden is running the show?
The problem isn't government itself - it is the corruption of the government. Getting rid of government and pretending it can never do any good doesn't fix a fucking thing. Getting rid of government is exactly what the 1% psychopathic billionaires would love you to do - because then they will be able to commit genocide at will with nothing at all to stop them.
Government is not the problem here. Sorry Charlie.
Caitlin, were that it were only monopoly money we’re left with. Perhaps in Australia, that’s the way it seems. In America being a part of this is unimaginably horrifying, despairing, disparaging, and emotionally draining. It’s a trauma I have not in my most horrific nightmares could have imagined. This is what it means to have a conscience. A few friends that I have are seriously thinking of leaving America. I’m seriously thinking of joining them. this is just too much. This is just. Too. Much. Fred Rogers always said look for the helpers. I want to be one of the helpers but I feel so helpless. My little Baby in the Rubble display in my front yard is all I feel like I can do. I beseech the Power greater than me to wonder if there is some redemption to be had by the maimed and terrorized, all the little martyrs, humans of flesh and blood and bones, of learning and hopes and dreams, murdered and all the sacrifice and all the terror. I just don’t know.
So very well stated and expressed - we all feel your exact same pain and despair! The display is brilliant - people can and should do the same - custom magnetic signs for their cars.
I have always said it will take an act of God so substantial (dwarfing everything) to turn this world around. It seems that we care clearly headed for nuclear war and that will do it.
https://youtu.be/9m-_tBNwGcQ?si=zqLQb6B1QSyDboCv
Italian TV Show Humiliates Joe Biden and America
https://youtu.be/9m-_tBNwGcQ?si=zqLQb6B1QSyDboCv
A title to carve in a stone!
Apparently there is not enough Zionists in US government
;-))
Every year the USA gives away an $8,000.00 health insurance deductible for every natural born U.S. man, woman, and child, just to Israel alone . . . Israel was just given $20 billion . . . It would cost $20 billion to build apartments for every homeless person in America to live in until they died
Well I guess all that money spent on War and Israel is making us more secure right? That's the argument - we need to protect ourselves! Your security from "terrorists" - even though we're the ones who supply them with arms and sponsor them in other countries - comes first!
We know that bullshit drill