May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-)
Aftermath of US Presidential Elections of 2020
The aftermath of 2020 election revolved around claims of election fraud and it can be viewed as the start of the constitutional crisis in the USA -- the next stage of
the crisis of legitimacy of neoliberal elite
The neoliberal experiment – lower taxes on the rich, deregulation of labor and product markets, financialization, and
globalization – has been a spectacular failure. Growth is lower than it was in the quarter-century after the second world war,
and most of it has accrued to the very top of the income scale. After decades of stagnant or even falling incomes for those below
them, neoliberalism must be pronounced dead and buried.
Vying to succeed it are at least three major political alternatives: far-right nationalism, centre-left reformism and the progressive
left (with the centre-right representing the neoliberal failure). And yet, with the exception of the progressive left, these alternatives
remain beholden to some form of the ideology that has (or should have) expired.
The centre-left, for example, represents neoliberalism with a human face. Its goal is to bring the policies of former US president
Bill Clinton and former British prime minister Tony Blair into the 21st century, making only slight revisions to the prevailing
modes of financialization and globalization. Meanwhile, the nationalist right disowns globalization, blaming migrants and foreigners
for all of today’s problems. Yet as Donald Trump’s presidency has shown, it is no less committed – at least in its American variant
– to tax cuts for the rich, deregulation and shrinking or eliminating social programmes.
Neoliberalism
must be pronounced dead and buried. Where next?
by Joseph Stiglitz
The Guardian
may 30, 2019
A house divided against itself cannot stand ~Abraham Lincoln
Neoliberal elite celebrated the fact that Trump was deposed. And there are definitely positive aspects of this. But what they do
not understand, or do not wish to understand, is the revolt against neoliberalism that brought Trump to power did not dissipate. In
other words their victory is yet another Pyrrhic victory and it will definitely create new Trumps. New fighters against neoliberal
globalization, including unlimited movement of workers and immigrant and offshoring of manufacturing.
We will not moralize about whether the victory of globalists was a dirty and comes at the cost of destroying
the trust in the US election. Color revolutions (and this coup against Trump was a color revolution) are always dirty and always
involve intelligence agencies and bought journalists and MSM outlets. That's the nature of the beast. The real problem
is that neoliberal elite lost the legitimacy in 2016 and did not restore it in 2020. So, in a sense, no matter how one judge
2020 election Biden administration will, by definition, lack the legitimacy.
The Presidential elections of 2020 were less a referendum on neoliberal globalization than 2016 election. This happened mainly to COVD-19
epidemic and coursed by it recession. Also Trump self-destruct betraying his electorate, pandering to Israel lobby and
neocons. In short governing as Bush III. He also proved to be mediocre (or worse) politician. This combination of factors
favored classic neoliberals to take back power from "national neoliberals" like Trump.
Also it demonstrated the power of dirty "troika" of Amazon (WaPo, control of AWS), Facebook and Twitter and their ability
to influence election by pushing the desired narrative and suppressing all alternative information.
But "COVID junta" faces litany of structural problems
which they in no way are ready or willing to solve. Add to this the fact, that expected by neoliberal democrats the "Blue wave" that will give them
not only both Presidency and the control of Senate and the House, simply did not happened. Getting equal number of Senate
seats required from them inordinate amount of money and efforts( including the mobilization all of their resource for the
utilization of mail-invoting bonanza, created under false pretext of COVID-19 scare) while fighting against weak Republican
candidatures. Despite all his blunders and
"pro-rich" tax cut Trump retained a larger part of his voting base, then it was expected, and that helped Republicans to preserve their standing in
Senate and, paradoxically, increase their block in the House.
Looks like people were not exited about the idea of the restoration of neoliberal globalization and the return to the status quo which
existed before Trump. Which is the only agenda Biden proposed under the disguise of the "return to normal" (meaning
Clinton-style normal ;-)
People still hate neoliberalism and neoliberal Dems, and, paradoxically, neoliberal Dems managed to create a situation
in which many people hate them more then Republicans (which was and is the party of big business). Which is not that surprising, if we think about neoliberal Dems as sellouts
to Wall Street interests and financial oligarchy.
Both 2020 election were nor about Trump or Biden (both are dismal candidates, with Biden being a war criminal, if judged by
Nuremberg tribunal standards), but about the course
the country should take to escape from the crisis of neoliberalism which started in 2008.
Biden (who represent Clinton faction of Democratic
Party) proposed the return to the "status quo" (which deceptively marketed as the "return to normal") which existed before 2016. Which
is both impossible and dangerous idea, as you can't enter the same river twice. Both the country and the world changed.
Trump did not proposed anything -- his campaign was based on personality and did not have any distinct agenda outside of mainstream
Bush-style conservatism (which would be difficult in case case due to betrayal of his elections 2016 agenda).
But the most interesting part is that it look like neoliberal Dems tried to manipulate election in their favor resorting to
voting fraud and this way they caused a constitutional crisis in the USA, which might
have profound implications for the future of the country.
And the attempt to swipe it under the rag via Trump impeachment leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
In reality, Biden's domestic program and, especially, foreign policy program, do no differ much from Trump. In foreign policy both are neocons and Zionists;
in essence Biden is Trump-light or "Trump with a human face" if you wish. Similarly Blinken is Pompeo light (this is true
at least for their weights ;-). But "kicking the neoliberal can down the rod" policies did not address the huge
problems facing the country and gives
Republican incentive to block most of their legislative initiatives with the goal to capture the House in 2022 on the wave of voters
disappointment with the performance of Biden Government. What country needs is a kind of the New Deal II and rejection of
neoliberalism on official (both parties and the government) levels. Which is about asking for two much as both parties are so
married to neoliberalism that they will go over the cliff with it.
Trump had spend all his political capital and after he got into Dec 6 trap his legitimacy
will be questioned even more forcefully than in 2016 when neoliberal MSM launched Russiagate hoax against him, supported by powerful factions
within the major US intelligence agencies and the Republican Party.
While 2020 election was less then 2016 referendum on neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization, the issue of the collapse of
neoliberal ideology remains. And it will affect the future of the global, governed from Washington, neoliberal empire.
The neoliberal elite that supports neoliberal globalization and that was defeated in 2016 returned to power. They forgot nothing and learned nothing.
As such the result of this election represent not normalization, but a counterrevolution.
Neoliberalism remains in zombie state which it entered in 2016. The only avenue to maintain the status qui is false flag operations and repressions.
And we see implementation of this strategy, not without help from intelligence agencies, which created the
wave of Neo-McCarthyism and gaslighted the population of the country with "Russian threat" for four years.
And that happened despite the fact that we all now live in the period of collapse of neoliberalism and cracks within the
society. Part of this sad state of affairs can be explained by Trump flaws and the fact that he betrayed his voters both in his domestic
policies and foreign policy.
In 2021 the market fundamentalism and neoliberal globalization approached the end of their shelf lives. They caused the slide of the standard of living
of lower 80% of the USA population. They actually prevent realization of democracy, replacing the notion "one person one vote" with
the notion "one dollar one vote" (money as free speech).
Neoliberals put economic growth above the value of having a healthy middle class, leading to century-high levels of inequality. It
emphasized individuals over communities and divided us by race, class, and culture. And because it preferred markets to democracy, it
looked away as the wealthiest people and corporations rigged the government to serve their own interests, even at the expense of everyone
else:
This is not an ordinary political moment. Everywhere around us, the old order is collapsing. The golden age of postwar economic
growth is over, replaced by a new Gilded Age of inequality and stagnation... People once united by common culture and information
are now fractured into social media echo chambers.
The [neoliberal international order is cracking as nationalism grows in strength and global institutions decay. The United States’
role as a global superpower is challenged by the rising strength of China and a new era of Russian assertiveness.
Optimists hope that generational and demographic change will restore inexorable progress. Pessimists interpret the current moment
as the decline and fall of democracy.
.. we are currently in the midst of one of these epochal transitions. We live on the edge of a new era in politics — the
third since the Great Depression and World War II. The first era is probably best described as liberal.... from the 1940s through
the 1970s, a version of political liberalism provided the paradigm for politics. Charting a path between the state control of communists
and fascists and the laissez-faire market that dominated before the Great Depression, liberals adopted a form of regulated capitalism.
Government set the rules of the road for the economy, regulated finance, invested to create jobs and spark consumer demand, policed
the bad behavior of businesses, and provided a social safety net for Americans. Big institutions—big government, big corporations,
big labor—cooperated to balance the needs of stakeholders in society. In the United States, it was called New Deal Liberalism. In
Europe, social democracy. There were differences across countries, of course, but the general approach was similar. ...even the conservatives
of the time were liberal. Republican president Dwight Eisenhower championed the national highway system and warned of the military-industrial
complex. President Richard Nixon said, “I am now a Keynesian in economics.” His administration created the EPA and expanded Social
Security by indexing benefits to inflation.
...since the 1980s, we have lived in a second era — that of neoliberalism. In economic and social policy, neoliberalism’s
tenets are simple: deregulation, privatization, liberalization, and austerity. Under neoliberalism, individuals are on their
own and should be responsible for themselves. Instead of governments, corporations, and unions balancing the interests of all stakeholders,
the primary regulator of social interests should be the marketplace. Neoliberals opposed unions and unionization, they wanted to
pursue vouchers instead of public provision of services, and they sought to shrink the size and functioning of government, even if
it meant a less effective government. Markets worked like magic, and market logic would be applied to all aspects of life. Around
the world, the neoliberal era came with an aggressive emphasis on expanding democracy and human rights, even by military force. Expanding
trade and commerce came with little regard for who the winners and losers were—or what the political fallout might be. ...It was
President Bill Clinton who said that the "era of big government is over" and who celebrated the legislation deregulating Wall
Street.
...With the election of Donald Trump, the neoliberal era has reached its end. While in control of the House, Senate,
and presidency, Republicans neither repealed the Affordable Care Act nor privatized Social Security and Medicare. Their party is
increasingly fractured between Trumpist conservatives, who are far more nationalist, and the never-Trump old-line conservatives like
Bill Kristol or Jeb Bush. An increasing number of people recognize that neoliberalism’s solutions are unsuited to the challenges
of our time.
I would recommend to listen to the interview by John Anderson by Victor Davis
Hanson -- US Election 2020 - YouTube. While he is a Trump supporter
many of his point sound relevant to people who consider Trump a short-lived aberration, which sooner of later will be deposed by the
neoliberal establishment (aka the "deep state"). And who, before this was fully cooped by Zionist lobby and the Republican establishment and pushed "tax cut for
the rich." For example, he pointed out that the primary role of pollsters is the suppression of votes.
Biden claim that he can fix the country is high questionable taking into account his record as a staunch neoliberal and
warmonger:
PorkyPricklyPants, 2 days ago
Joe Biden’s political Career by year:
1973 Biden enters politics
1974
1975
1976
1977 Biden fights to keep schools segregated because "allowing blacks to integrate would create a racial jungle"
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983 Biden taxes SS
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988 Ran for president but had to end it after getting busted for plagiarism
1989
1990 C’mon man, almost there
1991
1992
1993 Biden taxes SS again
1994 Biden writes the stop and frisk law which is what African Americans blame for systemic racism today
1995
1996
1997 Almost, not yet because y’know the thing
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008 Calls Obama the first articulate and clean mainstream African American
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020 and now he’s ready to "FIX" the Country.
Imagine being so dumb that you think the guy in office for 4 years is the problem and the guy in office for 47 YEARS is
the solution
Jeff Olp 1 day ago
President Trump is exposing the lie and corruption of the whole thing. That is why the old guard are so upset. Opening up the
eyes of the people about the lie they live is part of the reason I voted Trump. They can not let the debt slaves wake up to the
truth or their power is destroyed.
Every government on earth are part of the lie and corruption. They keep us divided so they can pit us against each other. Cruelty
they created but blame on others so they can have their power hungry appetite fed.
Doug Sjogren 1 day ago
Since the days leading up to the election I've felt as if the air had left the room and I was slowly suffocating. I couldn't
believe the world I was seeing. The poles were lying, legacy media was lying, big tech was lying, the FBI was lying and I was
slowly dying inside. My hope was leaving for sure. T
he last hour listening to this man speak with such clarity, and intelligence has become a rush of fresh air into the room.
I again have hope for the future of this country because the left has made such a huge mistake in ignoring the middle class in
the election. They really thought that we couldn't see thru all of this bullshit. The people who stole this election from Trump
and the conservative Americans will have their day of reckoning.
They will lose the race because they have lost every shred of their credibility. It will start in two years when they loose
the House and in another two years when they loose the White House and the Republicans have a super majority with the House, the
Senate, and the Supreme Court. Thank you Donald Trump, for taking all of the rocks and arrows. You will never be forgotten for
pulling the drain stopper in the swamp.
Crisis of neoliberalism will not magically disappear in 2021. It might get worse due to effects of the COVID19 pandemics.
In foreign policy Biden was always a neocon warmonger, so members of his cabinet probably will not differ much from Trump. So the
Secretary of State might be less abrasive then Pompeo, but the policies stay the same: attempt to preserve and whoever possible to
expand
the global neoliberal empire governed from Washington.
In Domestic policy Biden represents a mix bag. On one hand he needs to placate "progressives" support of which contributed to his
victory. On the other he remains staunch neoliberal and it is difficult to teach old dog new tricks
First of all Biden has Chinagate waiting for him in the wings. Also relations with Russia are already
at such a low point that the next step down might be, God forbid, shooting. In other words he has very few degrees of freedom. Biden
was an important player in Russiagate hoax, so it is reasonable to expect that everything will be spoiled and toxic in this area
in his administration. And this fact hangs like albatross around his neck.
Another important negative factor is that Biden will probably appoint way too many female chickenhawks in his administration.
Suffering from the "inferiority complex" those chickenhawks will probably be way too jingoistic, and will contribute to the adoption of
the most dangerous and counterproductive foreign policies. For example, in Syria.
On domestic front the key USA problem -- mass unemployment will not subside. As Biden is Wall Street stooge he will do nothing
serious about it. Race relations, aggravating by BLM and antifa riots and destruction of monuments, will only get worse with "race-neutral"
white American probably moving to the right.
The measure taken against COVID-19 epidemic by COVID-19 junta probably will worsen that state of the economic in the USA
dramatically and increase unemployment to the levels of Great depression. Several important industries such as hospitality
industry, restaurants, health clubs, theaters and entertainment industry in in general, and airlines already took severe hits
and probably will not recover. Those hits will propagate down the food chain to cause additional shocks.
The fundamental
problems, he says, are a dark triad of social maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go around; declining
living standards among the general population; and a government that can’t cover its financial positions.
...The problems are deep and structural—not the type that the tedious process of democratic change can fix in time to forestall
mayhem. Turchin likens America to a huge ship headed directly for an iceberg: ‘If you have a discussion among the crew about which
way to turn, you will not turn in time, and you hit the iceberg directly.’
The past 10 years or so have been discussion. That sickening
crunch you now hear—steel twisting, rivets popping—is the sound of the ship hitting the iceberg.
President Trump was decisively beaten, if not fair and square. The hopes of millions of
American voters were squashed and extinguished. The saga of the Orange Man is over. The victors
used a gambit: they sacrificed the sanctity and security of the Capitol, allowed intruders in,
permitted them to take selfies in the Speaker's office, and then faked horror and outrage. The
attempted calls for electoral transparency were deflated in real time as huge crowds were
dispersed, electors were confirmed, and the ascendancy of Biden was assured, while Trump
followers were branded 'domestic terrorists'.
Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political
allies withdrew their support. Within hours, or even minutes, this ruler of the world admired
by millions became a non-person. Like a boy who posted an obscenity, he was banned by Twitter
and Facebook. Time will tell whether he will go to prison, as so many Dems pray for, but his
political life seems to have ended, even if his cause may live.
Four people were arrested in
Texas
last
month on 150 counts of voter fraud dating back to the 2018 Medina County Primary Election,
according to reports.
The Texas attorney general's Election Fraud Unit on Feb. 11 arrested Medina County Justice of the Peace Tomas Ramirez, and
earlier detained Leonor Rivas Garza, Eva Ann Martinez and Mary Balderrama on election fraud allegations, News4SA reported.
According to a
release
from
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office,
the case involved allegations of vote
harvesting at assisted living centers in Medina County in the 2018 Medina County Primary Election.
Ramirez faces one count of organized election fraud, one count of assisting voter voting ballot by mail, and 17 counts of
unlawful possession of a ballot or ballot envelope, according to the news outlet.
Balderrama is charged with one count of organized election fraud, nine counts of illegal voting, two counts of unlawful
possession of ballot or ballot envelope, one count of mail ballot application, two counts of unlawfully assisting voter
voting by mail, two counts of tampering with government record, and eight counts of election fraud.
Garza faces a single count of organized election fraud, two counts of illegal voting, eight counts of unlawful possession
of a ballot or ballot envelope, two counts of election fraud and four counts of fraudulent use of an absentee ballot by
mail.
Martinez is charged with a single count of organized election fraud, nine counts of illegal voting, 28 counts of unlawful
possession of ballot or ballot envelope, three counts of purportedly acting as an agent, five counts of tampering with
government record, 14 counts of election fraud, and four counts of fraudulent mail ballot application,
according
to News4SA
.
The Texas attorney general's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment by The Epoch Times.
In a separate incident, Raquel Rodriguez, a Texas woman who bragged about being able
to deliver thousands of votes for tens of thousands in cash was arrested in January on charges including election fraud and
illegal voting.
Rodriguez
was
filmed
during an undercover project by Project Veritas,
an investigative journalism nonprofit. She was
recorded in footage released last year that she could deliver "at least 5,000" votes "county-wide" for $55,000 in cash and
that it would hire her "entire team." She acknowledged what she was discussing could land her prison time.
Based on the footage, Paxton, a Republican, opened an investigation. That probe led to the arrest, Paxton announced on Jan.
13.
Rodriguez faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years if convicted.
The
high courts claimed that Trumps cases had no validity. But yet they refuse to see things like this.
Corruption...corruption..corruption in the high courts.
BarneyFife714
7 minutes ago
Can't we just all agree please that voting our way out of tyranny is a pipe dream now?
KekistanisUnite
10 minutes ago
Alright how about some arrests in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI?
Biden has been a major disappointment for those who hoped that he'd change course
regarding America's pathological involvement in overseas conflicts
Who hoped that? He didn't run on such a platform. "Engagement with the world" and a
"restoration of the pre-Trump era" was his platform. Don't ask me why but this made him
more popular. He was literally the VP in the most interventionist Presidency in US
history.
... People like Giraldi sometimes seem like plants put in place to discredit
anti-interventionism by trying to make it synonymous with anti-semitism.
In the late 1980s, Rannie Amiri, an independent commentator on political affairs, challenged
then-Senator Joe Biden on his stance toward the Israel-Palestine conflict following a campus
speech that Biden gave, asking him:
Rather than succumb to the influence of various lobbying groups in Washington, such as
AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee -- which promotes the views of Israel's
right-wing Likud Party], and the untold amount of money they use to dictate policy,
wouldn't it be more prudent to examine the real effects that collective punishment, daily
humiliation, and countless civilian casualties inflicted by the Israelis have on an
occupied population, and use that understanding to formulate a more rational approach
toward the Palestinians?
Here is Biden response to that:
At the end of the exchange, Biden turned, put his arm around Amiri's shoulder, and
addressed the audience.
If this was not such a fine, articulate, and sincere young man, and he implied that my
vote had been bought, I would give him a swift kick in the ass.
The audience roared in applause, and Amiri sat back down to his chair defeated.
However, a friend rose up to defend him, telling Biden: "If my father heard you say such a
thing, I believe he would have done the same to you first."
The tribal stupidity of the people who support Israel first is beyond words. Who would
think in the 20th and the 21th century we would be led by primitive thinking of tribal
fantasies from thousands of year ago?
Most of the us in the west did not know that this has been going on for so long since we
have been deluded with the term "free press" to describe our press in the west. We are slowly
waking up to reality with some "freedom" here and there on the internet like this site.
So, Biden has been a major disappointment for those who expected that he might change
course regarding America's pathological involvement in overseas conflicts while also having
the good sense and courage to make relations with countries like Iran and Israel responsive
to actual U.S. interests.
You're giving the morons way too much credit, Sir. It's doubtful even 5% of voters know or
care about geopolitics, and probably less than 1% who voted based on fraudsident biden's
foreign policies.
For 5 years it was nonstop Trump-hatred from the ((( lügenpresse ))) even as Trump
did weasel jared's bidding. Stevie Fking Wonder could see the election was rigged.
The USA is kaput, the supreme joke spineless
The ((( Underminers ))) are a c ** t-hair away from total control.
The Free United States must part ways with the devils in DC. Texas, Florida,
Oklahoma, the Dakotas and Montana for starters.
Ralph
Nader poses tough questions for Pelosi about her complete bungling of the Impeachment
Trial--twice! The message IMO is there's to be no law enforcement when it comes to High
Crimes committed by the POTUS, for much of what Trump's guilty of Obama and Biden are as
well--and in several cases far worse since they committed thousands of Capital Crimes.
"Yes, the Republican Party may be entering a period of contention or civil war, but if
the 'show trial' showed anything, it demonstrated again the hold that Trump has over the
party base. The trial might well have consolidated that hold if anything – even if some
old-style conservatives depart a metamorphosised GOP, in search of a more peaceful and civil
anchorage. McConnell's conservative contingent seems, in retrospect, to emerge as the
ephemeral element, rather than a key pivot around which a new GOP might form.
Yet Biden, in many ways, is in the politically weaker position. His party is less than
homogenous – it is a more conflicted bunch. Many of its components simply detest each
other. The Clinton-Obama neoliberal wing is fixated in its belief that they, and the U.S.,
have been on the global side-lines for far too long – and are agog to jump back in.
They are escalating in Afghanistan, in Syria, and preparing a new push in Ukraine. Trump's
troop withdrawals have been all reversed (even for Germany) – and numbers deployed
rather, have been augmented.
In spite of their heady eagerness to lead the world, they are likely to find themselves
banging heads with a changed world. Iran, Russia – even the EU – are not showing
regard to the Biden bugle call: 'America is back'."
America has two Presidents on this day, besides Washington and Lincoln.
One half of the country believes Trump rightfully won.
Yet the events of Jan. 6th still hang like a cloud over Washington.
Critics fault his claims of a stolen election for provoking the protests.
But what if the Democrats really did steal the election? Wouldn't the fault be theirs?
And how can we know whether they really stole it?
Claims of "Massive fraud" on one side vs. "No sign of fraud" on the other -- who is
right?
One thing is crystal clear: Unconstitutional, illegal changes to voting laws generated
millions of irregular ballots -- a hundred times greater than the margin between the
candidates, in some swing states. If the balloting is illegal, there is no way the count can
be correct.
An unconstitutional vote can only produce an unconstitutional result. Everything that
followed -- the certification of the popular vote, the electoral college vote, and the
inauguration -- none of these steps had any legal foundation.
Bad data makes bad decisions. Since Nov. 3, our machinery of government has been spinning off
course on erroneous, unlawful inputs.
The only solution in such cases is to correct the error.
Until runoff elections are held in conformity with the law, we will still have two
Presidents.
Only one of them can be the rightful one.
The optics for the establishment of the Capitol incursion were so horrible I find it hard
to believe it was planned. The photoshop of bed guy that the FBI presented as criminal
evidence doubled down on the humiliation. Honk honk! They can't keep this together for long I
don't think.
@AReply that the Japanese Navy was heading towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Well
played, Party* gerontocracy and affiliated corporate elites! That's two wildly successful
covert operations in as many months, the other being the fake election.
3. The massive beat-up of confected hysteria by the media, turning a mildly raucous
event into an 'insurrection' complete with police state witch-hunt of the mainly bumbling
dupes who participated, culminating in yet another show trial of the leftists preferred
scapegoat/scumbag , is to anybody with half a brain, symptomatic of the massively
diseased and terminally cancerous state of the modern JSA.
What crime? The no-warning shot, cowardly point blank murder of Ashli Babbit? The
treasonous mass censorship/public hanging of the First Amendment? Other than those two
atrocities, all I saw was a Tea Party. And it was beautiful.
p.s. The broad wisdom of Gen. Petrov (RIP) is worth some study. for example:
The problem, is that Trump is dirty , has a whole lot of dirty baggage and everyone knows
that Washington's middle name is blackmail or assassin. If he were to ever succeed as a
reformer, he'd have to be ready to commit political and business suicide for the cause
– and he 's not the type. More than 1/2 of America, wanted what he was selling –
but that just turned out to be campaign BS. America is toast unless something really big
happens at the peasant level . What a shame.
Despite the naming of the process as "election", the actual function of the process is the
creation of consent, the belief that so and so is legitimate in custom and law.
Seen objectively, the recent "election" failed. There is no consent. That does not mean
that Mr 10% and his gang or cohort will now go home. It means that they will now use force.
That will work, for a while.
In the longer term, however, regions will invite in the Chinese and Russians, as they have
thousands of tons of gold, functioning industries, and massive resources, and they will pay
the army.
It's collapse. After a time it happens. Empires fall.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
I love optimism, but I just don't do it. Biden is ruling with EO, and the Supreme Court
made it almost impossible for EOs (unless they're Trumps) to go away. So despite the theater
of a two party system, we are under a corporate dictatorship. Kind of a fascism, except the
corporations and bankers are on top. Gotta a plan for fighting any of that? The GOP is in on
it. As for the Donald, he needs to purge his movement of the Kushners to show he is serious.
Since he won't do that, MAGA is toast.
For the record my suggestion is to go small and take as much independence as you can from
the system. Corporations don't like confederations, which will lead them to demand fed
action. The feds are run by doddering old fossils, inbred bureaucratic aristocrats, silly
woke girls , and not nearly bright as advertised Zionist Jews. I think if we act like our
ancient ancestors, we can work against the feds.
And can the corporations even function without using the government for cheating? I have my
doubts on that. We just need to give up defending the USA , and move on to defend
ourselves.
California's Evidence Code § 1230[3] defines "Declarations against interest" as:
"Evidence of a statement by a declarant having sufficient knowledge of the subject is not
made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a witness and the
statement, when made, was so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary
interest, or so far subjected him to the risk of civil or criminal liability, or so far
tended to render invalid a claim by him against another, or created such a risk of making him
an object of hatred, ridicule, or social disgrace in the community, that a reasonable man in
his position would not have made the statement unless he believed it to be true."
Now Trump is more powerful than when he was in the White House.
That anybody celebrates that is nuts.
Nitwit narcissistic Donald Trump is a fatally flawed, fatally failed and totally bogus
change agent. What America needs is a genuine change agent with genuine intelligence, genuine
wisdom and genuine integrity. And that ain't Trump.
Even Ann Coulter, one of Trump's earliest high profile supporters sees Trump for what he
really is, a selfish rank opportunist. America will be hosed as long as Trump is the front
for the anti-Status Quo movement.
As a man who doesn't give two shits about Trump and his carpet bagging family that
includes a greasy Jewish Supremacist racist like Jared Kushner and as a man who thinks
"Honest Joe" is just about the sleaziest individual that I have ever laid eyes on lemme say
that it is at least refreshing to see a positive article here.
The reason I enjoy this website and alethonews.com is because at least a reasonable attempt is made
to see through the MSM propaganda. It doesn't mean, however, that dots are sufficiently
connected to see what is actually happening. For example, thinking that Glenn Greenwald is
some beacon of truth instead of a seriously flawed controlled opposition proponent misses the
point dramatically. And not just Greenwald, if you analyze any of the so-called truth tellers
you'll find they won't be willing to discuss the massive mind fuck that is 9/11 or the
Kennedy assassinations. Our government is a one party system is that is broken beyond all
repair. Thinking that is country is winning at all is blind.
US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) may have voted against impeaching Donald Trump,
but he seems open to holding Vice President Kamala Harris to the same standard after the 2022
midterms.
Appearing on 'Fox News Sunday,' Graham railed against the impeachment trial in the Senate,
which ultimately failed, with the 53-47 vote not enough to reach a 'guilty' ruling. He called
it an "affront to the law" and "unconstitutional."
Despite its failure, however, the Trump-supporting Republican says Democrats have "opened
Pandora's Box" and leaders like Harris could pay the price.
"We've opened Pandora's Box to future presidents. And if you use this model, I don't know
how Kamala Harris doesn't get impeached if the Republicans take over the House," he
said.
Harris was brought up multiple times during the impeachment trial for her past promotion of
a bail fund for Black Lives Matter protesters that released rioters who ended up rearrested on
separate criminal charges.
Graham's apparent threat to Harris, mixed with his own disapproval of the standard used to
try and convict Trump for "inciting an insurrection," have many blasting the senator for
hypocrisy, with many also rushing to Harris' defense.
"Well it only works if the impeachee is a Democrat, a woman or Black (in VP Harris' case
she meets all three of Jim Crow Caucus chairman @LindseyGrahamSC's criteria," MSNBC's Joy
Reid tweeted in response to a user
asking how impeaching Harris could be possible.
Others even suggested Republicans taking control of Congress could mean a chance to overturn
election results in 2024.
"Graham is correct about the stakes of the 2022 midterms: If Republicans take Congress,
they could not only impeach Biden and/or Harris (though unlikely they'd have the votes to
convict), they could potentially succeed in overturning the results of the 2024 election,"
former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau suggested .
Graham also revealed to Fox News that he'd spoken to Trump since the trial ended and
suggested the former president will be actively involved in the Republican Party going
forward.
"I spoke to him last night; he was grateful to his lawyers. He appreciated the help that
all of us provided. You know, he's ready to move on and rebuild the Republican Party," he
said, adding the former president is "excited" for the 2022 midterm elections.
Trump's influence over the Republican Party has been a hotly-debated topic, especially in
light of seven Republican senators voting to impeach on Saturday, and Sen. Mitch McConnell
(R-Kentucky) seemingly turning on his past support and giving a speech on the Senate floor
saying Trump was "responsible" for the January 6 riot at the US Capitol – despite
voting against impeachment – and suggesting he could be pursued in criminal court.
Graham said McConnell's speech could come back to haunt Republicans.
"I think Senator McConnell's speech, he got a load off his chest, obviously, but
unfortunately he put a load on the back of Republicans," he said. "That speech you will
see in 2022 campaigns."
jfc46wv 6 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:13 PM
I don't understand the talk of retaking the house or Senate or winning the presidency in
2024. How is this supposed to happen now that the Dems have masterered the fine art of
controlling the votes?
silvermoon jfc46wv 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 08:12 PM
Another election steal line and obvious while trying to be subtle. You don't even need any
evidence. Of course non has ever been given.
Austin Rock jfc46wv 3 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:20 PM
No, in mid terms, two years from now you will see a swing and a lame duck president for last
three years. I dont think anyonevtruthfully believes their was electoral craud on a scale to
affect result. Trump lost, tough.
Blackace180 5 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:38 PM
The dems took their best shot and failed, but they did loose the dogs of war. What goes
around comes around. Trump was right about a large number of things and the dems will find
out the hard way. Taxes Gas Forever wars Open borders Free trade China virus... See more
Bob Blackace180 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:37 PM
sorry to say-the GOP is one with the Democrat party on all these issues Donald Trump was the
ONLY one not playing by the SWAMP playbook.
Blackace180 6 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:22 PM
Impeach the former escort. I say impeach, impeach, impeach. Take her out tonight. It amazes
me the hate they hurled at Trump and then they want unity and actually expect to return to
normal. No, it ain't happening. Impeach.
justliloleme Blackace180 1 hour ago 14 Feb, 2021 08:53 PM
She also encouraged BLM riots that murdered >19 people according to Forbes who expects
that to be a low number They also rioted, spreading covid widely She should have been
arrested when she encouraged that on TV
CarolABinkley Blackace180 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:47 PM
In a rather stunning and head-scratchingly self-serving and hyprocritical moment, Leader
McConnell spoke after the Senate acquitted former President Trump and threw him back under the
bus while covering his own political ass.
...
This marks the second time in twelve months that Trump has survived impeachment.
Update (1300ET)
: After a couple of
hours of 'negotiations' during which Sen. Cruz threatened to subpoena Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Trump's lawyers said they
would call "100s of witnesses", a deal has been reached that means no witnesses will be called.
House impeachment managers dropped their request to obtain testimony from
Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler
after senators agreed instead to enter into the record an account of her
secondhand account of a phone call between Trump and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.
This agreement has
averted the prospect of an avalanche of requests for testimony
from both sides
that would have extended the impeachment trial beyond its expected conclusion later today (and
perhaps delayed any attempts at reaching a stimulus agreement).
As a reminder, Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been advising Trump's legal team, said that
if
the Senate agrees to the request by House impeachment managers to depose Herrera Beutler, he'll insist on "multiple
witnesses"...starting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He said she should be required "to answer the question as to whether or not there was
credible evidence of pre-planned violence before President Trump spoke? Whether Speaker Pelosi, due to optics, refused
requests by the Capitol Hill Police for additional resources like the National Guard?"
* * *
Just when you thought Donald Trump's second impeachment trials was over,
five
Republicans have joined their Democratic colleagues in a Saturday morning vote (55-45) to call witnesses
- an
unexpected development in this snap impeachment over Trump's alleged role inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
GOP Sens. Collins, Graham, Murkowski, Romney and Sasse were the five.
The move - which was originally opposed by several Democrats, will allow them to strengthen their case. It is unclear what
kind of delay this may cause, after impeachment managers and Trump's defense team estimated it would be over on Saturday.
In response to the vote, Trump attorney Michael van der Veen answered that if witnesses are going to be called, "
I'm
going to need more than 100 witnesses
, not just one," adding "we should close this case out today," but if that
doesn't happen, "Do not handcuff me by limiting the number of witnesses I can have."
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested that a debate on the number of witnesses should not take place, saying "I
don't think there's any limit right now, and that's part of what will be debated."
As
Axios
notes,
Trump
himself is Democrats' most desired witness
, however the former president has already quashed that - saying he
would
not
comply willingly
. The Senate could subpoena him, however it's unclear whether they would have enough support.
Instead,
Democrats plan to call GOP
Rep. Jamie
Herrera Butler
of Washington, who the
NY Times
reported on Friday said Trump
'sided with the mob' during a phone call
as the attack was unfolding. Herrera Butler, who voted to impeach Trump
in the House, was requested to testify by House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin.
In a statement on Friday night, Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of
Washington, recounted a phone call relayed to her by Mr. McCarthy of California, the minority leader,
in
which Mr. Trump was said to have sided with the rioters, telling the top House Republican that members of the mob who
had stormed the Capitol were "more upset about the election than you are."
She pleaded with witnesses to step forward and share what they knew about Mr. Trump's
actions and statements as the attack was underway. -
NY
Times
"
To the patriots who were standing next to the former president as these
conversations were happening, or even to the former vice president: if you have something to add here, now would be the
time
," said Herrera Beutler in a statement.
According to her account, McCarthy 'frantically' called Trump on Jan. 6 and asked him to "publicly and forcefully call off
the riot," and that Trump replied that it was Antifa, not his supporters, who were responsible. When McCarthy pushed back
saying that wasn't true, Trump allegedly said "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you
are."
Senate Democrats who initially opposed witnesses include Kristen Gillibrand of NY, who said on Thursday: "We've heard from
many witnesses based on their interviews and their video presentations, so, I feel like we've heard from enough witnesses."
Sen. Angus King of Maine said "I think the case has been made. I don't know what witnesses would add."
Once witnesses have testified
, impeachment managers and Trump's defense
team will present
closing arguments
- with each side allotted two hours. A
full vote on whether to convict or acquit will follow.
To that end, Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell
(R-KY) has told his
fellow Senate GOP in an email that he will
vote to acquit
the former
president - writing "As I have said for some time, today's vote is a vote of conscience and I know we will all treat it as
such," according to
Politico
's Burgess Everett.
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Foe Jaws
3 hours ago
McConnell got had by the D Rats and now he is backing out of the bargain they made to fcck over Trump.
Foe Jaws
2 hours ago
Same for Mike Pence. All he had to do was investigate the election fraud and he betrayed every single
Trump voter in America. Pence can burn in hell forever.
Doom Porn Star
2 hours ago
Even IF Trump had been provided with intelligence indicating that fringe organizations were plotting a
violent protest at the Capitol, doesn't the power to call in the National Guard reside with the local DC
mayor Bowser who made the decision to call them up or not during the BLM protests earlier in 2020 and on
the closing night of the Republican convention when Rand Paul was famously swarmed?
Why are assertions this call was suddenly Trump's call to make being entertained at all?
Shouldn't any call for National Guard support have been from the Capitol police to the office of Mayor
Bowser?
Doom Porn Star
2 hours ago
(Edited)
Look at what actually happened all throughout 2020.
Mayor Bowser was the person who called in the National Guard or did not.
Bowser had/has the authority and has used it or not at her discretion:
The first witness the defense should be the Ex-US Capitol Police Chief who already said:
"The entire intelligence community seems to have missed this", ... "I must add that I wish that before
placing the blame on the USCP and on me as the Chief for the breach of the Capitol by an insurrectionist
mob, more consideration would have been given to the impact of incomplete information provided by
intelligence assessments, the denied National Guard request, and the subsequent delayed approval for
National Guard assistance", ... "I still cannot fathom why in the midst of an armed insurrection, which
was broadcast worldwide on television, it took the Department of Defence over three hours to approve an
urgent request for National Guard support"
Doom Porn Star
1 hour ago
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link
Exactly WHO had authority to call for the National Guard?
Exactly WHO called for the National Guard?
-Congress may not have the authority to call. -The Capitol police may not either.
-The MSM doesn't have any authority to call the National Guard, or to command troops to act or stand
down.
Exactly WHO did they call and WHO did they speak to?
-There are facts behind all this hysterical rhetoric, newsroom caterwauling, and political puffery.
WHO decided when and which troops to deploy from where?
-Names, rank and serial numbers.
Was DC Mayor Bowser called and what did Mayor Bowser do?
-These questions are all painfully obvious and no one is asking...
SoDamnMad
17 minutes ago
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link
I saw a video which I saved which showed, NOT Capitol Police on the barricades of the Capitol but DC
Metropolitan Police. If the Capitol Police are 2300 strong WHERE THE HELL WERE THEY?
holdbuysell
3 hours ago
Witnesses no longer mean anything. They've poisoned this well when they brushed away thousands of
affidavits, signed under the penalty of perjury, citing massive election and voter fraud.
These people have destroyed any semblance of the rule of law.
GodSpeed
3 hours ago
call the BLM activist as a witness and let people see it wasn't just Trump Supporters in the Capitol.
This spectacle of a show trial would make Stalin proud. Now we have a moron old man with Stage 2 dementia
sitting in Oval Office surrounded barbed wire/steel fencing, and 15,000 troops. Think about what America
has devolved into.
GreatUncle
2 hours ago
Can't recall a senator but I think a petition to enable into state law and constitutionally approved in
the state the ability to expel a senator by a vote that is instigated by 20% of the population signing a
petition would be a dam good start.
Reckon it is needed and not just in SC and not just for Republicans neither but for any that break
promises or expose themselves too poor judgement.
So the Democrats may win more seats does it really matter anymore?
It can also restore accountability to the electorate that a fraudulent election may steal.
Twitter censors Oltmann for revealing truth about Coomer,
Dominion
election
fraud
Dominion
,
which is tied to both Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, appears to have in its upper ranks a diehard
Trump hater who expressed a willingness to do anything possible to prevent Trump from winning reelection.
The news connects the dots between Eric Coomer's actions for
Dominion
Voting
Systems in the U.S., the CIA raid in Frankfurt, Germany to protect
Dominion's
servers
and destroy the evidence of election
fraud
,
and now the actions at Leonardo in Italy. It even ropes in the deep state in the U.S. government.
"We conclude that the
Dominion
Voting
System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic
fraud
and
influence election results," Russell Ramsland Jr.,...
UnicornTears
2 hours ago
(Edited)
Where were all the guns for this alleged 'insurgency' ? Surely in a country with half a billion guns
there would have been one or two in this attempt to 'overthrow the government'? Do you ever ask yourself
why you believe such obvious lies?
boyplunger7777
2 hours ago
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link
Rigged elections, rigged markets, state run media, censorship of opposing views, multi-trillion dollar
fiscal deficits, central bank monetizing debt, and now a show trial that would make Stalin proud. This is
America in 2021. Have a plan, things are going to fall apart very quickly from here.
WolfgangIffans101
2 hours ago
I see complicity everywhere, and at all levels. Why would it fall apart quickly from here? The USSR held
together for quite a while, no?
chunga
3 hours ago
It figures a guy like Raskin is the face of this thing. I can't watch this today because yesterday I was
boiling over.
nmewn
2 hours ago
"In a statement on Friday night, Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of Washington,
recounted a phone call
relayed
to her by
Mr. McCarthy of California, the minority leader, in which Mr. Trump was said to have
sided with the rioters, telling the top House Republican that members of the mob who had stormed the
Capitol were "more upset about the election than you are."
She's going to testify to receiving
second
hand
information, from McCarthy?
She's going to testify that McCarthy said Trump said that some Americans were "more upset about the
election than you are."...meaning, McCarthy?...mmmkay, besides the Senate's complete lack of
jurisdiction over "trying"
a
private citizen
in
the Legislature
I guess we can add some...
she-said-he-said-that-he-said
...nonsense
for the 80yr old "Supreme Court Justice" Patrick Leahy to wade through, if he can stay awake ;-)
Posa
2 hours ago
Illegitimate? Yes. Five key swing states had no signature checks and validation for millions of mail-in votes.
Doesn't prove fraud; then again, this doesn't prove there was no fraud. It does prove this was not a legitimate
election when so many ballots were indiscriminately cast.
SWRichmond
2 hours ago
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Trump "publicly and forcefully calling off the riot" would imply, of course, that he was in charge of it,
would it not? Trump asked for the rally, not the riot.
I think he did the right thing by NOT doing that.
the_pencil
2 hours ago
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If Pelosi is called as a witness, she/they will all be toast. And they know it.
Keep digging your hole, Dems.
Baconeggs
2 hours ago
Must have been trump that ordered the cops to allow everyone into the capitol then right? Maybe we
should have someone investigate that
Aquamaster
2 hours ago
And these clowns in the House, Senate, and the rest of the D.C. swamp
STILL
can't
seem to understand why normal Americans hate them so much.
the_pencil
2 hours ago
"Hate"....is nowhere near strong enough. The whole bunch is pure filth.
cleg
2 hours ago
they have brought it all on themselves
Xena fobe
2 hours ago
They understand. They want to be hated. It means they are getting filthy rich.
Jim in MN
2 hours ago
Here, let me help....
We The People DEMAND TO SEE:
Seth Rich's laptop
Hunter Biden's laptop
Anthony Weiner's laptop
Epstein's tapes
The Soros/DNC riot conspiracy surveillance files
The bioweapon strike files
the_pencil
2 hours ago
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link
If Pelosi is called as a witness, she/they will all be toast. And they know it.
Keep digging your hole, Dems.
Baconeggs
2 hours ago
Must have been trump that ordered the cops to allow everyone into the capitol then right? Maybe we
should have someone investigate that
Aquamaster
2 hours ago
And these clowns in the House, Senate, and the rest of the D.C. swamp
STILL
can't
seem to understand why normal Americans hate them so much.
the_pencil
2 hours ago
"Hate"....is nowhere near strong enough. The whole bunch is pure filth.
cleg
2 hours ago
they have brought it all on themselves
Xena fobe
2 hours ago
They understand. They want to be hated. It means they are getting filthy rich.
Jim in MN
2 hours ago
Here, let me help....
We The People DEMAND TO SEE:
Seth Rich's laptop
Hunter Biden's laptop
Anthony Weiner's laptop
Epstein's tapes
The Soros/DNC riot conspiracy surveillance files
The bioweapon strike files
tyberious
4 hours ago
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Witnesses? To what?
I want hand counted votes and voter ID!
found our POTUS won CO and VA!
chiquita
4 hours ago
This opens the door to calling in Pelosi, Harris, Zuckerberg, and a whole laundry list of people who had
their hands in what happened with the riots and the election fraud. It also means the impeachment
hearing can go on for quite a bit longer, but now a whole lot of information will come out that might
never have been shown to the American public. It's crazy because Trump will still never be convicted,
but if they get out the election fraud information, people will know what happened.
Why they're doing this is to try to make it look like Trump put Pence's life in danger, which is absurd.
No one is going to remember the opening case the demorats presented, nor the boring opening response from
Trump's team, especially his first attorney. All anyone is going to remember is how the demorats were
exposed as lying hypocrites yesterday, and today how they tried undo the damage by gaming their sham to
their advantage. Cheating is all they know, just like their election fraud. But all they did is
actually score the biggest 'own goal' they could to lose in epic fashion, and as a result had to slink off
the field humiliated once again by Trump. This is how their world ends...not with a bang...but with a
whimper. I would love to see how their deranged base is reacting to this. Must be the biggest suicide watch
in history.
USAllDay
32 minutes ago
I am not sure democrats are capable of being humiliated. One must grasp reality and have certain level of
respect to experience the feeling.
Joe Davola
51 minutes ago
(Edited)
Hey Mitch:
How's about prosecuting those who scammed the FISA court and spied on the incoming administration?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
champ2top
1 hour ago
(Edited)
Nancy holds the keys. She knows who sponsored the riots this past summer, she knows who is part of the deep
state, she knows where the dark money comes from, she knows who hired the agent provocateurs who led the
Capitol incursion. The coup and voter fraud are now hidden away unless someone comes forth. We can only hope
someone is brave enough.
Samual Vimes
1 hour ago
She is not alone in that knowledge.
champ2top
1 hour ago
Where are the witnesses? Where is Nancy? The deep state and swamp once again is successful in hiding the
truth from the people. Our government is a sham government. Our media is a sham media. Neither
is representative of the people.
Subsidence
2 hours ago
Meanwhile on main street.... we are losing our jobs, our culture and buried in debt. Our way of life has
been deemed extremist and not compatible with the "new" America. The elites in charge see us as a throwaway
and a useless group of people. We are dying out here and yet our government is more concerned about
appeasing a group of coastal yuppies by placing the former president on a sham trial. They hate us! Its past
sad and getting to the point of pure anger. We are at the breaking point.
hugin-o-munin
43 minutes ago
US elections need to be fully manual and with paper ballots only going forward. The way elections are stolen
using electronic voting machine systems is so obvious and fraudulent that it can't be used any more. Even
with all these sophisticated systems of fraud Biden couldn't win so they had to go full banana and van in
loads of freshly printed fake ballots in the middle of the night and let teams rerun the tabulators many
times to 'win'.
Kina
1 hour ago
Absolutely undoubted the USA
has undergone a total coup by the Global Deep State.
America is now owned and run by a group of international oligarch from various countries, for their own
ideological power purposes.
And people like Lindsay Graham are absolutely traitors to America.
Hard to witness Americans selling out their own country for some global world govt.
"
Insurrection
is a term of art. It's defined in the law
,"
argued Castor. "
It
involves taking over a country, a shadow government, taking the TV stations over and having some plan on what you're going to do
when you finally take power. Clearly this is not that
."
Update (1410ET):
After spending much of
the morning laying out their case for why the impeachment is a sham, former President Trump's legal team proceeded to play
several
montages of Democrats doing the exact same thing they've impeached Trump over
- namely, calling for violence against
Republicans. Interspersed throughout are clips of leftists committing violence against conservatives following the 'incitement.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rhJYHU3ejLc
They also played clips of Democrats
objecting to election results
:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/umsAhEFHFKA
As well as clips of Democrats gunning for a Trump impeachment at all costs:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cq4GiGTZaKQ
* * *
Watch Live:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TMeAOM52n2M
* * *
After Democratic impeachment managers spent the last two days dissecting videos and tweets - and in one case
fabricating
evidence
to try and convince the world that former President Trump incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot,
it's
now time for the defense to counter
.
In what is expected to last just one day,
Trump's impeachment lawyers will reportedly
present a montage of prominent Democrats similarly 'inciting' their base
, as BLM and Antifa extremists spent much of
last year committing violent and destructive crimes throughout the country.
SeaDonkey
6 hours ago
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You guys
keep reducing it down to democrats versus republicans. Both parties are in bed with each other. Both parties
strike deals with corporations, special interest groups, lobbyists, and any other entity which provides wealth and
power. Dan Crenshaw is the exact same thing as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. His job (like hers) is to attract right
leaning voters which may be disenchanted with contemporary American politicians. He brings the outcasts and the
exiled back to the party while reassuring them that they can trust him- since, he claims to not be 'one of them.'
This country needs to hold ALL politicians accountable and clean house.
That is the only thing they really need to answer.
hugin-o-munin 1 hour ago (Edited)
Do we have any irrefutable evidence that she really was shot and died? I'm mentioning this
because there have been video reviews of what actually happened there and nothing makes sense
unless it was a film op.
Everything wrong with the Capitol Shooting HOAX - Ashley Babbit
The former Capitol Police chief sent a letter to congressional leaders explaining why the
Capitol Police appeared unprepared for the January 6 demonstrations. In the letter, which was
addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Steven Sund said the failure to respond to violence
during the demonstrations was largely due to a lack of intelligence on the type of people that
would be there.
Sund, who resigned after the demonstrations, noted he had relied on assessments from the
FBI, Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security when preparing for potential unrest
.
He said three days prior, an internal intelligence assessment showed a number of
extremist groups, including Antifa, were expected to target the Capitol Building and "could
become violent."
That's when Sund detailed a timeline of his many attempts to shore up support and expedite a
mass delivery of protective equipment for his officers. Although 100 riot helmets were
delivered on January 4, Army Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt allegedly told Sund he "did not like the
visual of the National Guard standing in a line with the Capitol in the background."
This came despite several people in the crowd "wearing radio earpieces indicating a high
level of coordination" and "carrying weapons, explosives and climbing gear."
In the letter, Sund recognized that a "number of systems broke down," adding that officials
who violated policies or directives need to be held accountable. He went on to say the National
Guard was far too slow, noting they sent in 150 troops about five-hours after his request for
their support was approved by the Capitol Police Board and called for that process to be
reformed.
On Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he truly appreciated Sund's letter and wished more
people would come forward because the American public deserves to know what really happened on
January 6.
The senator added, he's "suspicious" that Democrat leaders knew about the attack and are
using the upcoming impeachment trial as a "diversion tactic."
Here is the site of Matthew DePerno, one the lawyers in the video. He needs financial aid to
keep up the Absolute Truth about the fraudulent 2020 election.
Time
has published an
explainer
piece
offering a fascinating insight into how the presidential election was won. It's titled "The Secret History of the Shadow
Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election."
The fascinating part is what it tells us about the brazenness of the left in general and the corrupt, mendacious MSM in particular:
they are now heavy-hinting that they cheated but want you to know that it's all OK because they were doing it to not to destroy
democracy but to preserve and enhance it.
Here's the key paragraph:
That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever
dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to
influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the
election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system's fragility in order to ensure that
democracy in America endures.
Do you see what they just did there?
The Democrats (and their sympathisers) didn't
rig
the
election. They just
fortified
it
by taking care to ensure the right guy won rather than the wrong guy won, regardless of what those pesky voters might misguidedly
have wanted.
Could this have anything to do, you wonder, with President Trump's upcoming impeachment trial?
My suspicion that Time's piece is both pre-emptive strike and damage limitation exercise. It anticipates the possibility that Trump
will provide evidence in support of his claim that the election was "stolen."
This evidence will be much harder to brush under the carpet in the Senate.
I'm reminded here of an old article from the
Times
(of
London), which
described
the
process whereby political projects are advanced by stealth.
It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is
not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is
later conceded that it is a serious proposition but that it will never be implemented; after that it is acknowledge that it will
be implemented but in such a diluted form that it will make no difference to the lives of ordinary people; at some point it is
finally recognised that it has made such a difference, but it was always known that it would and voters were told so from the
outset.
This is where we are headed now with the"'stolen" election. Columnists who blithely assured us that the election was above board may
now begin to finesse their position.
"OK, so maybe it was rigged," they will start to concede. 'But isn't that always the case with elections? And anyway it's a done
deal now."
Sorry, my bad -- that use of the word "rigged" was a complete slip of the tongue.
What I meant to say is that the presidential election was "fortified." And what's not to like about that, eh?
"Oh say, can you see! By Dawn's early light; a pro-dollar trade; that puts the bears to
flight?" Bloomberg Daybreak this morning boldly states "American exceptionalism is back"
(baby). Apparently better-than-expected data and corporate earnings and the prospects of fiscal
stimulus show the USA is still the global standout after all. As a result, bearish USD trades
touted for the first month of the year need to suddenly be unwound: EUR is now back below 1.20,
AUD is clinging to 0.76, and JPY is past 105.50, while as an EM proxy, MXN is back to 20.38 at
time of writing vs. 19.55 on January 21.
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President Biden has called on the military in Myanmar to relinquish power after their recent
coup. What happens when they refuse? A signature criticism of the Obama foreign policy team was
its refusal to match US rhetoric (e.g., "pivot to Asia") with any substantive action (e.g., in
the South China Sea or Syria). The new team gave interviews before assuming office saying they
had learned these lessons. So what options with teeth does the US have for the generals in
Naypidaw to back their demand? Sanctions are meaningless for a group who rarely travel abroad
and whom can look to China for support if needed, despite their coolness towards Beijing to
date.
This underlines the need for any top dog (or cat) to build up a pack (or clowder). Here
again we see problems. Many articles have been written about the new US administration's call
for the EU to stand alongside it to create new global frameworks favourable to the West (and by
extension for USD) and not China (and CNY); and about how the EU is not willing to step up to
that plate because of French exceptionalism and German Merkel-cantilism. Macron now says
the EU should not gang up on China with the US : " This kind of common front against China
risks pushing Beijing to lower its cooperation on issues like combatting climate change, and
exacerbating its aggressive behaviour in Asia, including in the South China Sea, " he says. So
will the US response then have to be Trumpian and EUR negative, like last time? If not, then
what exactly?
Of course, the previous administration had been building bridges to India, which has its own
issues with China. However, this relationship is still in its early stages, and India has
traditionally looked to Russia for muscle, a role Moscow would be happy to play again. In that
regard, the White House backing large anti-government protests in New Delhi against an
agricultural reform programme ostensibly to the US's liking, and criticizing the government for
cutting off the internet to try to disrupt them, is unlikely to help build bridges: indeed,
India has already drawn comparisons to the events of 6 January in the US Capitol, showing the
US is not as exceptional as it likes to project it is. These kind of shifts can matter, even if
this is just one small step on a much longer journey (and USD trend channel).
Meanwhile, the Aussie government (which has also never and will never target house prices,
"just land, bricks, mortar, etc.") might be wondering what the US will help do about a report
that
a Chinese company is planning to build a new city on a Papua New Guinea island near Australia's
northern border . 'New Daru City' allegedly includes an industrial zone, seaport, business
and commercial zone, along with a resort and residential area. Will Canberra regard this as a
market-driven response to the well-known Chinese demand for lifestyle residences in the vibrant
cultural hub that is the PNG hinterland, or as a Bond-villain project to develop a port just
200km from their Northern Territory? The PNG Prime Minister himself says he is "unaware" of
this proposal(!) Yes, this may well not come to pass; but one can again see the paving stones
being prepared for alternative paths for currencies like AUD, USD, and CNY (to say nothing of
PNG's Kina) to travel over the course of the 2020s.
Meanwhile, the US can at least rely on the UK, as usual, where yesterday saw regulators ban
China's CGTN TV news service, and the Telegraph also reports that three Chinese spies posing as
journalists have just been expelled from the country. Somehow, along with the whole BNO
passports issue, this is not likely to help ensure the "golden era" of Sino-British relations
promised under previous UK leadership.
But will it ensure a golden era of Bido-BoJo relations? That is another path as yet
untrod.
Happy Friday! "We love it so much, I think you do too."
The first reason is that the impeachment proceedings aren't a criminal trial, so even
conviction wouldn't establish guilt the way an actual criminal court might. Contrary to what
the public thinks -- with its third grade–level understanding of American politics -- and
what the media is happy to imply, impeachment is strictly a political process that does nothing
more than remove a person from office. The Democrats' new interpretation that impeachment can
be used to bar someone from holding office in the future is a rather novel approach.
Justus_Americans 6 hours ago remove link
Gaslight 1944 Movie both timeless and timely the gaslighting of America in 2021.
Projection, accusing others of what they themselves do. https://youtu.be/sLXlAIVP46c
US Banana Republic 10 hours ago remove link
This "impeachment" is 100% a political move (10 RINOs not withstanding).
It is supported 100% by oligarchical propaganda.
It depends on mass hysteria, with no logic whatsoever.
karzai_luver 16 hours ago remove link
Keep it simple. Just go with whatever John Brennan says you can do.
Don't drone me bro.
Don't want to be branded a Domestic Terrorist or extremist.
Over the last four years, there has been a type of race by politicians and pundits who seek
to outdo each other in the most sensational claims of how Donald Trump could be prosecuted or
impeached on an ever-expanding list of offenses. Each claim is
stated with absolute certainty despite long-standing questions or constitutional barriers.
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California has been a
standout in this crowd -- calling for impeachments and prosecutions from the very beginning of
Trump's term in office. She is now insisting that Trump can and should be charged with
"premeditated murder" over the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan.
6th. The statement was made on MSNBC which has trafficked in such ridiculous theories without
any pushback from the media or legal experts.
Waters made her statement in an interview with Joy Reid, who has had one of the most
controversial records in television for her
racially charged language , dubious
legal arguments , and
unsupported claims . Reid notably does not press Waters on her claim that Trump should be
charged with premeditated murder.
Here is the interview:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/l3TfKQYuoDc
In the interview, Reid refers to the 1990s and the "insurrections in Los Angeles." It is not
clear from the interview what constitutes an insurrection in the 1990s but the term "riot"
seems effectively barred today in favor of "insurrection."
When Trump or his allies made outlandish and unsupported claims about the law in the past,
the media piled on with coverage stating that such claims were ridiculous or unfounded. I
regularly called out Trump for such claims, including his call for
changing whole areas of law like defamation. However, equally unsupported claims on the
left are met with little or no push back from hosts or the media.
Waters states "He absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder because of the lives
that were lost for this invasion with his insurrection,. For the President of the United States
to sit and watch the invasion and the insurrection and not say a word because he knew he had
absolutely initiated it – and as some of them said, 'he invited us to come. We're here at
the invitation of the President of the United States."
In Washington, D.C., a person is guilty of first degree murder when he or she specifically
intends to kill another purposely with premeditation and deliberation, or kills while in the
process of committing a felony. See Section 22-2104 . Most states require that
first-degree premeditated murder be proven as a willful, deliberate, premeditated killing. That
is treated as a specific intent crime with the showing of a purposive act or an act with
express malice. You must generally show a specific intent to kill and premeditation is usually
shown by evidence that a defendant reflected on the act or planned for the act of murder.
Waters' home state courts have dealt with this issue recently:
"Murder, whether in the first or second degree, requires malice aforethought. (§
187.) Malice can be express or implied. It is express when there is a manifest intent to kill
(§ 188, subd. (a)(1)); it is implied if someone kills with "no considerable provocation
. . . or when the circumstances attending the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart"
(§ 188, subd. (a)(2)). When a person directly perpetrates a killing, it is the
perpetrator who must possess such malice. People v. Gentile (Riverside County Court December
2020)."
In this case, there is no evidence that Trump directly murdered anyone or sought the death
of anyone. He is being accused of conspiring in the commission of such murders. That sounds
more like a claim of being an aider and abetter to murder. However, even in California where
charges can be based on the the natural and probable consequence of the aided and abetted
crime, courts have balked at such broad interpretations. "Under the natural and probable
consequences doctrine, an accomplice is guilty not only of the offense he or she directly aided
or abetted (i.e., the target offense), but also of any other offense committed by the direct
perpetrator that was the "natural and probable consequence" of the crime the accomplice aided
and abetted (i.e., the nontarget offense)."
This distinction was again recently drawn in California:
"In Chiu, we held that the natural and probable consequences doctrine cannot support a
conviction for first degree premeditated murder. (Chiu, supra, 59 Cal.4th at p. 167.) We
reasoned that in the context of murder, the natural and probable consequences doctrine serves
the purpose of "deterring aiders and abettors from aiding or encouraging the commission of
offenses that would naturally, probably, and foreseeably result in an unlawful killing." (Id.
at p. 165.) But this purpose "loses its force" when an accomplice is held culpable for first
degree premeditated murder under a natural and probable consequences theory. (Id. at p. 166.)
First degree premeditated murder carries significantly higher penalties than second degree
murder and requires the additional mental state that the killing be "willful, deliberate, and
premeditated." PEOPLE v. GENTILE Opinion of the Court by Liu, J. 12 (§ 189, subd. (a);
Chiu, at p. 166.) Whether or not the direct perpetrator killed with premeditation "has no
effect on the resultant harm. The victim has been killed regardless of the perpetrator's
premeditative mental state." (Chiu, at p. 166.) We further concluded that subjecting an
accomplice to enhanced punishment based solely on the "uniquely subjective and personal"
mental state of the direct perpetrator was inconsistent with "reasonable concepts of
culpability." (Chiu, supra, 59 Cal.4th at pp. 166, 165.)"
In her interview, Waters was apparently referencing reports that some of the rioters had
planned in advance to storm the Capitol. On the day of the riot, many of us noted that some of
the rioters clearly brought ropes and other items that indicated preparation to the attack.
Those reports however cut both ways. It certainly shows that those individuals had
premeditation, but it also shows that the speech itself may not have been the incitement for
those individuals. Critics can fairly note that the President had engaged in reckless rhetoric
for weeks. However, there is a difference between reckless and criminal speech. More
importantly, if such comments are now dispositive evidence of premeditation for murder, it
would allow such vicarious charges for homicide in a wide array of cases involving
politicians.
While Waters has defended her long list of impeachable offenses as based on the view that
"impeachment is whatever Congress says it is ," the same is not true of the criminal
code.
I t is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House.
On one side, Trump's endless stoking of political grievances -- and claims that November's
presidential election was "stolen" from him -- spilled over into a mob storming the U.S.
Capitol. They did so in the forlorn hope of disrupting the certification process of the
Electoral College vote, which formally declared his opponent, Joe Biden, the winner.
On the other side, the Democratic Party instituted a second, unprecedented
impeachment process in the slightly less forlorn hope of foreclosing any possibility of him
running again in 2024.
Barely concealing its alliance with the then-incoming Biden administration, Silicon Valley
shut down
Trump's social media megaphone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lobbied the Joint Chiefs of Staff to
cut an "unhinged" Trump out of the chain of command, in a move that was reportedly rejected
out of hand by Pentagon officials because, they told The New York Times , it would
amount to a "military coup."
And Biden, who boasts that he was the author the Patriot Act years before 9/11, has been
touting
a new "domestic terrorism" bill, as though the U.S. did not already have a plethora of ways to
crack down on dissent, of both the legitimate and the illegitimate varieties.
With that as the backdrop, Washington, D.C.,
designated Biden's inauguration last month a "national special security event."
Authoritarian Tribes
None of this is just the latest sign that the U.S. political system has degenerated into
tawdry theater. It is growing evidence that U.S. politics is devolving into a permanent
confrontation between two authoritarian tribes. Both are convinced that the other side is
un-American, perverting the true republic. Both are unwilling to compromise, believing they
share no common ground. And ultimately both are fighting for a rotten cause.
This is not a divide between ethical and unethical politics. This clash is now a bitter
grudge match. It is civil war by other means. Not only is the chasm between these rival camps
widening, but the real criminals are making off -- as they always do -- with the loot.
Each tribe has been coalescing for a while now around a center of gravity. On the Republican
side that became clear with the emergence of the Tea Party and the birther movement during
President Barack Obama's tenure. But it took Trump's election as president in 2016 to create a
proper oppositional center of gravity on the other side.
Those in the Democratic tribe who now disdain Trump and his supporters for their desperate
refusal to accept November's result overlook how they greeted Trump's victory in 2016. They
struggled against the legitimacy of that outcome too, even if they did not resort to the overt
violence of the mob at the Capitol.
It began with arguments that, while Trump might have won the Electoral College vote, he
lost the popular vote . Four years ago, the Electoral College also faced self-serving
accusations that it had disenfranchised the majority.
The Democratic tribe took to the streets as well, in protest marches in cities across the
U.S. under the banner of the Resistance, denying Trump was their president. That was
understandable, given his personal behavior and the policies he advocated. But it did not end
there.
The disavowal of the Trump presidency quickly regressed into a dangerous narrative -- one
that has never properly gone away, despite the dearth of evidence to support it. The claim was
not only that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win, but that Trump
himself had actively colluded with Russia to steal the election from his opponent, Hillary
Clinton.
Anything that had damaged Clinton -- including emails showing that the Democratic leadership
rigged its own primaries to make sure she was the party's candidate rather than Bernie Sanders
-- got sucked into
that vast conspiracy theory. That included the messenger of these bad tidings: WikiLeaks
and its founder Julian Assange.
For years, the Democratic tribe has invested its considerable energies in fruitless efforts
to prove its theory, including the first bid to remove Trump through an entirely self-defeating
impeachment process.
None of this could be justified politically. It was a Democrat counterpoint to Trump's MAGA
slogan: "Make America Great Again". Democrats promised the much less catchy SAPD: "Save America
from President Deplorable."
For this tribe, Trump was an illegitimate president from the outset, one whose election to
the highest office in the land revealed something unwholesome about their country they
preferred to avert their gaze from because it might implicate them too. Removing Trump largely
eclipsed the struggle to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.
The obsession with Trump above everything else seemingly rationalized any means -- fair or
foul -- to be rid of him. Few thought about how this would look to his supporters or to those
not already safely ensconced in one or other tribe.
To understand, they now need only look to the storming of the Capitol How they felt watching
the building being ransacked -- a Deplorable putting his feet up contemptuously on House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk -- was how Trump's tribe felt watching their president being
denounced as a Russian agent and dragged through impeachment proceedings.
This mood is not likely to dissipate. The two political tribes are locked in an antagonistic
tango, mirroring each other's moves, each other's grudges, each other's sense of victimhood.
Much more unites them than they would ever care to admit.
Festering Culture War
This may be the pathology, but what of the cause.
What we see here is the culmination of a festering culture war stoked by an unhealthy
investment by both sides in a simple-minded and highly divisive identity politics.
Much has correctly been made of the white supremacism of the most loyal sections of Trump's
tribe, and that was on show again during the invasion of the Capitol. The Confederate flag, the
neo-Nazi slogans, the T-shirts extolling the Jewish supremacy of Israel are all indicators of a
toxic politics of white grievance that may be less articulated but is still felt by a wider
swath of Trump's supporting constituency.
This ugly identity politics is rightly rejected by the other tribe, but is nonetheless
mirrored in its equally deep commitment to identity politics. The progressive coalition of
identities at the core of the Democratic Party may be more reassuring to modern sensibilities,
but has served in practice to accentuate to parts of the Trump tribe the supposed threat to
their white identity.
This is not to equate the justified struggle of Black Lives Matter against endemic racism,
including in the police, with the reactionary forces seeking to preserve some notion of white
privilege. It is to simply observe that when the political field of battle exclusively revolves
around identity, then one cannot be surprised if each side continues to frame its struggle in
precisely those terms.
Those who live by the identity sword are likely to die by that same sword.
The Trump tribe want their president, and the Republican Party more generally, to guarantee
a white supremacism they fear is being eroded as the Democrat Party flaunts its progressive,
multicultural credentials. The Democrat tribe, meanwhile, wants to challenge the old order --
and most especially reactionary institutions like local police forces -- that have been an
oppressive bulwark against change.
This dynamic can lead only to permanent confrontation, bitterness and alienation.
Class Struggle
There is a way out of the dead-end culture war that pits one tribe against the other. It is
to formulate an alternative, popular politics based on class struggle -- the 99 percent against
the 1 percent. But neither the Republican nor the Democratic leaderships, or the respective
medias that cheerlead them, has any interest in encouraging a political realignment of this
sort.
The Democratic Party is not a vehicle for class struggle, after all. Like the Republican
Party, it is designed to preserve the privileges of an elite. Its biggest donors, like the
Republicans', are drawn from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, the arms industries. The
political battle in the United States is between two parties of capital united by far more than
divides them.
The shadow play of U.S. politics is the enervating, antagonistic confrontation of identities
described above. While ordinary Americans get stoked into a mutual tribal loathing by a
corporate media that profits from this theatre of hate, the elite enjoys a free hand to pillage
the planet and the commons.
While we fixate on identities that have been crafted to divide us, while we remain immersed
in the surface of politics, while we are distracted from the real battle lines, those elites
prosper.
Political paralysis may not harm the establishment. But it is profoundly damaging to us, the
99 percent, when our communities are being ravaged by a pandemic, when our economies are in
meltdown, when the planet is on the brink of ecological collapse.
We need a functioning political system that reflects popular priorities, like Medicare For
All, a dignified minimum wage and free college; that understands the urgency of the challenges
posed by multiple crises; and that can marshal and channel our energies into solutions, not
into endless, irresolvable confrontations based on grievances that have been cultivated to
weaken us.
Trump is not the enemy. That target is far too small and limited. The class he belongs to is
our enemy, as is the system of privilege he has spent the past four years upholding and his
successor will defend just as assiduously.
Whether Trump is ultimately convicted or not in the Senate, the system that produced him
will be acquitted -- by Congress, by the new president, by Wall Street, by the corporate
media.
It is we who will pay the price.
Jonathan Cook is a former Guardian journalist (1994-2001) and winner of the Martha
Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. He is a freelance journalist based in Nazareth. If you
appreciate his articles, please consider offering your financial support .
This dude's father (he was adopted) is a retired general.
The embedded video shows him teaching people how to dress in black bloc. Is he behind
bars? Don't make me laff. Also this AP (agent provocateur) was right next to the woman that
was shot dead on Jan. 6.
Black bloc gear is right out of Germany. This guy didn't learn these tactics on his own.
The scary part is that the MSM is ignoring the real history of black bloc, out of Germany,
and how it migrated here to the US.
Fox News is facing a rise of the machines, voting machines that is, as election software
firm Smartmatic is suing the network, three of its anchors and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney
Powell for allegedly false claims of fraud.
The defamation lawsuit , which was
filed on Thursday in New York state court in Manhattan, seeks $2.7 billion in damages. In
addition to Fox and the two lawyers, Smartmatic names Fox hosts Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and
Maria Bartiromo as defendants, saying they falsely claimed that the company's technology was
used to help 'steal' the November 3 election from former President Donald Trump.
Florida-based Smartmatic said the defendants knew the election wasn't rigged, "but they
also saw an opportunity to capitalize on President Trump's popularity by inventing a story.
Defendants decided to tell people that the election was stolen from President Trump and Vice
President (Mike) Pence." The company added that "without any true villain, defendants
invented one. Defendants decided to make Smartmatic the villain in their story."
Moreover, Smartmatic said its software was used in just one jurisdiction in the November 3
election – Los Angeles County. Democrat Joe Biden won California by more than 5 million
votes. Trump made allegations of election fraud in decisive swing states where Biden had narrow
margins of victory, such as Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
How many people were in the TCF Center and is there any validity to the excuse that they
were over the "COVID capacity" – the excuse they used to exclude the Republicans from
watching vote processing
Why did so many Democrat poll workers bring in suitcases ? Did they hide illegal ballots
in them like their colleagues in Georgia?
Were the machines networked? Can we see the modem and the wires networking the tabulating
machines as described by Patrick
Colbeck?
Who brought in what at 3:30/4:00 am, were they ballots as the Republicans have said they
witnessed or was it food/camera equipment as the media claimed? Shane Trejo and Jose Aliaga claim these were ballots.
Was there any security keeping people out of the building who did not have credentials to
get in?
Were there other unexplained ballot dumps past the 8:00 PM deadline for ballots as
several other witnesses have alleged?
Were GOP Poll Challengers being ejected for making good-faith challenges or were they
refusing to wear a mask?
... ... ...
And after our initial review of the TCF security video, we can assure you -- We have
evidence of illicit and likely criminal activity and we have it on video.
On January 19th, the US Senate held confirmation hearings for Joe Biden's Secretary of State
nominee Antony Blinken. Blinken has a reputation on both sides of the aisle for being
exceptionally qualified for the job of America's top diplomat, which is surprising considering
he was on the wrong side of every major foreign policy blunder of the last 20 years ;
Iraq, Libya, and Syria .
When Senator Rand Paul
asked Antony Blinken what lessons he has learned from his disastrous foreign policy record
in Libya and Syria, Blinken replied that after "some hard thinking" he's proud that he has done
"everything we possibly can to make sure that diplomacy is the first answer, not the last
answer, and that war and conflict is our last resort."
Of course war is the last resort. Even the most hawkish war criminals would agree that war
is the last resort. But the question is, war is the last resort to accomplish what? If war is
the last resort to get a country to fully capitulate to Washington's demands then eventually
the US will be at war with everyone. To Blinken, war as the last resort can only be understood
in the same way a mugger considers shooting his victim as a last resort to stealing their
wallet.
Blinken displayed his hubris a few minutes later when he said, "The door should remain open"
for Georgia to join NATO under the justification of curbing Russian aggression .
Rand Paul informed Blinken, "This would be adding Georgia, that's occupied [by Russia], to
NATO. Under Article 5, then we would go to war ."
Senator Paul is right. According to Washington, Russia has been
occupying 20 percent of Georgia since 2008. Under the principle of collective defense in
Article 5 of NATO, the US would be obligated to treat Russia's occupation of the country of
Georgia the same way the US would treat a Russian occupation of the US state of Georgia. That
sounds like a recipe for war. But don't worry, peaceniks, Antony Blinken has assured us that
war is the last resort!
Blinken's framing of the issue exposes his disingenuous approach. Russian aggression is a
term used by Washington insiders to describe a Russian reaction to western aggression. Blinken
knows that the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia was not Russian aggression, he calls it that
because it suits his agenda and the American press is dependably ignorant enough to not ask
questions.
In the 2008 war, Georgia
was the aggressor against the South Ossetians, a people who are ethnically distinct from Georgians, and
who have never --
not even for one day -- considered themselves a part of Georgia. The Ossetians have a
history of Russian
partiality ; they were among the first ethnic groups in the region to join the Russian
Empire in the 19th century and the USSR in the 1920s. Today, ethnic Ossetians straddle both
sides of the current Russian border, and they are more aligned with the Russian government than with the
Georgian government.
When Georgia gained sovereignty from the former Soviet Union in 1991, South Ossetia declared
its independence. In response, Georgian forces invaded South Ossetia, initiating an armed
conflict that killed more than
2,000 people . In 1992, a ceasefire agreement was signed in Sochi between Georgia, Russia
and South Ossetia, which created a
tripartite peacekeeping force led by Russia. Although the international community never
acknowledged South Ossetia's independence, they have enjoyed political autonomy since the 1992
Sochi agreement.
The Sochi agreement held up until Georgia's ultra-nationalist President Mikheil Saakashvili
came to power in the 2003 western-backed
bloodless " Rose
Revolution " coup-d'etat. The pro-western President Saakashvili advocated joining the EU
and NATO, and insisted on asserting Georgian rule over South
Ossetia. U.S. President George Bush
supported the new Georgian president's effort to bring Georgia into NATO, which for Russia
would mean bringing a hostile military up to its border. In 2006, President Saakashvili offered
South Ossetia autonomy in exchange for a political settlement with Georgia. A
referendum was held, and the South Ossetian people overwhelmingly reaffirmed their desire for
independence from Georgia.
In August, 2008, After exchanging artillery fire with South Ossetia,
Georgia invaded South Ossetia's capital city of Tskhinvali, killing
1,400 civilians and
18 Russian peacekeepers . Georgia's attack triggered a Russian invasion into South Ossetia
and Abkhazia (another breakaway region) to restore stability and protect peacekeeping
forces.
Russia is by no means innocent -- they used
disproportionate force attacking targets inside Georgia -- but only a Russophobic shill
would conclude that this war was somehow caused by Russian aggression. The idea that Russia had
no business intervening is laughable. Under the
1992 Sochi agreement , Russia took charge of a peacekeeping coalition to help prevent
exactly the scenario that happened in the summer of 2008.
If George Bush had succeeded in bringing Georgia into NATO, the United States may have been
dragged into war with Russia in 2008. Antony Blinken claims that NATO membership deters Russian
aggression, but does he really believe that Russia would have been deterred from intervening to
protect its own peacekeeping force? Does Blinken believe that Georgia -- backed by the U.S.
military -- would have acted more cautiously in South Ossetia, or is it more likely they would
have been bolder?
It's undeniable that it is in Russia's best interest to have pro-Russian countries on its
borders. But pretending as if Russia is going to march into Tbilisi and reabsorb the entire
country of Georgia into Russia is a level of paranoia that should disqualify anyone from having
an opinion on the subject. The military conflict in Georgia is about the two breakaway regions
and their right to self determination. Russia's self interest happens to align with the wishes
of the people in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
By supporting Georgia, America -- the champion of democracy and self determination -- has
adopted the position that South Ossetians didn't really mean to repeatedly choose independence
when given the option. This is a situation where America's professed values are diametrically
opposed to its policy of countering Russian influence everywhere on the map.
Antony Blinken should pause to consider if America's policy objectives are worth fighting a
war for. Is it worth confronting Russia in South Ossetia? Was it worth confronting Russia over
Crimea and the Donbas in
Ukraine ? Is it a good idea to withdraw from the INF
Nuclear Treaty and the
Open Skies Treaty ? Should we have spent the last 30 years marching NATO -- a military
alliance hostile to Russia -- right up to the doorsteps of
Russia ? Is any of this really making us safer?
Blinken has bought into his own propaganda. To Blinken, regardless of the stubborn details
of history, every conflict on Russia's border is simply Russian aggression. Washington's
solution is the expansion of NATO, which Russia describes as "
NATO encirclement. " This is an unacceptable military threat to Russia, who has
a deep distrust of western intentions due to a long history of western invasions into Russia.
Antony Blinken still lives in a bipolar world in which the United States and Russia are
existential threats to each other's existence. Every conflict and every alliance is only viewed
through the lens of the New Cold War crusade against Russia. This maniacal crusade could thrust
America in the unthinkable abyss of nuclear war.
Rand Paul got his answer, Antony Blinken learned nothing from all his mistakes! The danger
isn't merely resorting to war too early, the danger is in sticking our noses in conflicts that
we have no business being in. War should be the last resort to defending America's people and
it's homeland from foreign invasion; it should not be the last resort to enforcing America's
utopian vision on the world, and it certainly shouldn't be the last resort to prevent an ethnic
group in the South Caucasus -- that almost no American has ever heard of -- from the right to
self-determination.
Kenny MacDonald is a former Navy SEAL and Afghanistan War veteran. He is currently pursuing
a bachelor's degree in history. Youtube Channel . Medium . Facebook .
It's an hour-and-a-half long, and I just don't have time to listen to it all. It would be
great any readers had to time and the inclination to pick out the highlights and put them in
comments (and if you do, please include time codes).
"AOC on Instagram Live: Recounting Jan. 6 attack details draws more than 160K viewers" [
Staunton News-Leader ]. "[S]he laid out the fact that people knew violence was coming on
Jan. 6. Members of Congress, trying to help her, sent messages as early as the Thursday before
Jan. 6 that they expected bad things to go down as the Congress moved to certify the Electoral
College results of the November election."
The News-Leader is a Gannet paper in the Shenendoah Valley, but they didn't pull the story
from the wires, they had a reporter write it up. The last politician I can remember who
made the story like this was, well Donald Trump.
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Trauma in a Moving and Powerful Instagram Live" [
Marie Claire ].
"On Monday night, in a brave and candid video on Instagram Live, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
revealed her deep trauma following the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, and the prior traumas that
had made it even more triggering. Ocasio-Cortez shared that she is a survivor of sexual
assault: 'I haven't told many people in my life," she said. She began crying during her
retelling of the events of Jan. 6, but fought to continue to tell her story. 'All of your
traumas can, kind of, intersect and interact,' she explained. Ocasio-Cortez compared
Republicans' insistence on telling her and other survivors of the Jan. 6 attack to 'get over
it' to the tactics used by abusers. She added: 'The folks [false note, there] who
are saying we should move on, we shouldn't have accountability, etc., are saying: 'Can you just
forget about this so that we can do it again?' I'm not going to let it happen to me again and
I'm not going to let it happen to our country."
I have mixed reactions to this. On the one hand the "we should just move on" attitude has
done the country a lot of damage. Obama's version of this was " we need to look forward as
opposed to looking backwards ," and as a direct result Gina Haspel, a torturer, headed the
CIA.
On the other, I would want expert testimony on whether traumas "intersect and interact," and
how they do. On yet another, I'm deeply suspicious of the concept that trauma conveys
authenticity, especially political authenticity. If trauma did convey authenticity, then
PSTD-suffering soldiers would make the best cops. Finally, it's a category error, exactly on
the order of confusing government with a household, to equate personal trauma with political
violence. They may have similar roots (say, deaths of despair), and they may feel the same to
the person experiencing them, but they are products of difference systems.
"AOC: Ocasio-Cortez recalls Capitol raid, calls for accountability" [
Al Jazeera ]. "US Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has described being
terrified for her life during the storming of the US Capitol, doubling down on calls for
Republican politicians to be held accountable.
In an emotional broadcast on Monday night, New York House member Ocasio-Cortez said she was
harassed by those she identified as fans of former President Donald Trump for days before the
January 6 incident and was warned by other members of Congress to be "careful" on the day of
the rally."
To me, it looks like AOC -- a very, very talented politician -- is picking up the power
that's lying in the street. First, the "survivor" rhetoric, like it or not -- I don't; see my
comment above -- speaks directly to the bourgeois feminists of the Clintonite wing of the
Democrat Party. Who else is doing that?
Second, the "accountability" rhetoric speaks directly to the broad (albeit PMC) base that
really wants to stick it to the Republicans, bipartisanship be damned. Who else is doing that?
(The pink pussy hat brigade will, of course, do whatever the leadership tells them to, but
that's their initial, default, setting).
Third, in a party with a weak bench thirsting for non-geriatric leadership, AOC is stepping
forward. Who else is doing that? Finally, speaking directly to her fan base (i.e., one assumes,
voters, ultimately) on Instagram -- as, apparently, she while cooking (!) -- bypasses the press
entirely.
Who else is doing that? Again, one thinks of Trump. I wonder if she does A/B testing?
(There are all sorts of reasons to dislike AOC on policy -- I notices a long time ago she was
saying "working class" a lot less -- but there's no denying her talents as a
politician.)
Really sorry that AOC was scared for her life. Was gonna look it up re how many
politicians have been killed by Americans in the past 100 years but .just too much
energy.
We've all been traumatized.
45,000 Americans.die every year from no insurance.
There is a shorter video by AOC linked in the following tweet and I will say this for her.
She knows how to project an image. In the video you will see the black borders on either
side, a cream background, and AOC dressed in a grayish-black top with her face being the only
colour in this 1:37 min video. If these were not her decisions, then she must have a very
good media advisor-
"'Be ready to fight': FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence detailing coordination
of an assault" [
WaPo ]. "FBI agents around the country are working to unravel the various motives,
relationships, goals and actions of the hundreds of Trump supporters who stormed the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6. Some inside the bureau have described the Capitol riot investigation as
their biggest case since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and a top priority of the agents' work
is to determine the extent to which that violence and chaos was preplanned and coordinated."
• And if so,
by whom .
"'Blame Trump' defense from alleged Capitol rioters dovetails with Democrats' impeachment
case" [
CNN ]. "One by one, die-hard supporters of former President Donald Trump are now blaming
him for their actions that day, after being charged by federal prosecutors and facing
possible jail time. A lawyer for one rioter who allegedly attacked police officers with a
baseball bat said he was "inspired" by Trump's incendiary speech at a rally beforehand. The
so-called QAnon shaman, whose horned bearskin headdress made him go viral, now claims he was
"duped" by Trump, his lawyer said. At this point, the statements may be more of a public
relations strategy than an articulated legal defense. But they dovetail with Democrats' case
in favor of impeaching and convicting Trump; they agree that the former president incited the
deadly insurrection that overwhelmed the Capitol on January 6."
"A 2009 warning about right-wing extremism was engulfed by politics. There are signs it's
happening again." [
USA Today ]. "In April 2009, federal intelligence officials issued a prescient warning to
police departments around the country. 'Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and
radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from
military training and combat," experts in the Department of Homeland Security wrote. 'These
skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists –
including lone wolves or small terrorist cells – to carry out violence.' It was one of
DHS' most explicit mentions of homegrown terrorists since 9/11, one with a direct connection
to the military. But the call to action was effectively buried after powerful Republican
politicians and their allies in the right-wing media launched broadsides against President
Barack Obama's administration and Democrats , alleging that they had disrespected the
men and women in the U.S. military while attempting to surveil and silence conservatives. The
blowback shifted the debate away from how to actually address the threat and into another
partisan public spectacle." • Translating, the Democrats -- assuming good faith -- were
weak. Yet another 2009 debacle from Obama.
"How to fix our domestic terrorist problem" [ Washington
Examiner ]. "We saw five dead in the Jan. 6 attempted coup d'etat. We saw possible
assassination plots against both former Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi. We saw coercion designed to prevent certification of President Biden's Electoral
College victory. We now see the Capitol necessarily secured behind razor wire. But we also
see some Republican members of Congress trying to sneak guns onto the House floor. One has
even called for violence. It is time to confront these putschists." One suggested measure:
'Make fire and police departments that receive federal grants have their members sign
commitments not to engage in acts to overthrow the government.'" • Hmm.
Impeachment
"House Dems make their impeachment case in pretrial brief" [
ABC ]. "'The only honorable path at that point was for President Trump to accept the
results and concede his electoral defeat. Instead, he summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted
them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue,' the
managers wrote in their brief submitted ahead of next week's trial of the former president."
•
The Pennsylvania secretary of state who emerged as a villain to supporters of former
President Donald Trump said Monday she will resign for failing to comply with an unrelated
state election law.
Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, will leave office on Feb. 5. Her office botched the handling of
a state constitutional amendment that would allow more sexual abuse victims to sue their
alleged abusers.
In a statement, she said, "I've always believed that accountability and leadership must be a
cornerstone of public service. While I only became aware of the mistake last week, and
immediately took steps to alert the administration to the error, I accept the responsibility on
behalf of the department."
Pennsylvania law requires that proposed amendments pass the state legislature twice. The
secretary of state's office must publicize the proposed amendment in two newspapers in each of
the state's 67 counties ahead of the election between votes, which her office failed to do.
Gov. Tom Wolf, also a Democrat, announced Boockvar's resignation in a press release that
stressed the issue was separate from the presidential election.
"This change at the Department of State has nothing to do with the administration of the
2020 election, which was fair and accurate,"
Wolf said .
6 Warning Signs from Biden's First Week in Office The "progressive" candidate praised as
a "woke bloke" seems to be carrying on where all his authoritarian Imperialist predecessors
left off Kit Knightly
What do these orders, or any of his other moves, tell us about the future plans of the
recently "elected" administration? Nothing good, unfortunately.
1. VACCINATION
PASSPORTS
I still remember people claiming the introduction of vaccination passports (or immunity
passes or the like) was just a "conspiracy theory", the paranoid fantasy of fringe "covidiots".
All the way back in December, when they were
getting fact-checked by tabloid journalists who can't do basic maths .
International Certificates of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. Consistent with applicable law,
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of HHS, and the Secretary of Homeland Security
(including through the Administrator of the TSA), in coordination with any relevant
international organizations, shall assess the feasibility of linking COVID-19 vaccination to
International Certificates of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP) and producing electronic
versions of ICVPs.
2. CABINET APPOINTMENTS
Biden's cabinet is praised as the "most diverse" in history, but will hiring a few non-white
people really change the decades-old policies of US Imperialism? It certainly doesn't look like
it.
His pick for Under Secretary of State is Victoria Nuland , a neocon warmonger and
one of the masterminds of the Maidan coup in Ukraine in 2014. She is married to Robert Kagan , another neocon
warmonger, co-founder of the Project for a New American Century and senior fellow at the
Brookings Institute and one of the masterminds behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The incoming Secretary of State, Antony Blinken , is also an inveterate US
Imperialist, arguing for every US military intervention since the 1990s, and criticised Trump's
decision to withdraw from Syria.
Biden's pick for Defence Secretary is the first African-American ever appointed to this
role, but former General Lloyd Austin is hardly going be some kind of "progressive" voice int
his cabinet. He's a career soldier who retired from the military in 2016 to join the
board of Raytheon Technologies , an arms manufacturer and military contractor.
As "diverse" as this cabinet may be in skin colour or gender there is most certainly no
"diversity" of opinion or policy. There are very few new faces and no new thoughts.
So, it looks like we can expect more of the same in terms of foreign policy. A fact that's
already been displayed in
3. IRAQ
Despite heavy resistance from the military and Deep State, Donald Trump wanted to end the
war in Iraq and pledged to pull American troops out of the country. This was one of Trump's
more popular policies, and during the campaign Biden made no mention of intending to reverse
that decision.
The Iraqi parliament has made it clear it wants the US to
take its military off their soil , so any American forces on Iraqi land are technically
there illegally in contravention of international law. But that never bothered them
before.
4. AFGHANISTAN
Turns out the US can't withdraw from Afghanistan either. Last February Trump signed a deal
with the Taliban that all US personnel would leave Afghanistan by May 2021.
Joe Biden has already committed to "reviewing"
this deal . Sec. Blinken was quoted as saying that Biden's admin wanted:
to end this so-called forever war [but also] retain some capacity to deal with any
resurgence of terrorism, which is what brought us there in the first place".
As a great man once
said , nothing someone says before the word "but" really counts. The US will not be
withdrawing from Afghanistan, and if there is any public pressure to do so, the government will
simply claim the Taliban broke their side of the deal first, or stage a few terrorist
attacks.
5. AND SYRIA
Far from simply continuing the on-going wars, there are already signs Biden's "diverse" team
will look to escalate, or even start, other conflicts.
Syria was another theatre of war from which Donald Trump wanted to extricate the United
States,
unilaterally ordering all US troops from the country in late 2019.
We now know the Pentagon ignored those orders. They lied to the
President , telling Trump they had followed his orders but not withdrawing a single man.
This organized mutiny against the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces was played for a
joke in the media when it was finally revealed.
There will be no need for any such duplicity now Biden is in the Oval Office, he was a
vocal critic of the decision to withdraw , claiming it gave ISIS a "new lease of life".
Indeed, within two days of his being sworn in a column of American military vehicles was
seen entering Syria from Iraq
.
6. DOMESTIC TERRORISM
We called this before the
inauguration . They made it just too obvious. Before the dirty footprints had been cleaned
from Nancy Pelosi's desk it was clear where it was all going.
Direct the Justice Department, FBI and National Security Council to execute a top-down
approach prioritizing domestic terrorism; pass new domestic terrorism legislation; or do a
bit of both as Democrats propose a crack down on social media giants like Facebook for
algorithms that promote conspiracy laden posts.
That last part is key. The "crack down on social media" part, because the anti-Domestic
Terrorism legislation will likely be very focused on communication and so-called
"misinformation".
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has publicly called for a congressional panel to
"rein in" the media :
We're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so you can't just
spew disinformation and misinformation,"
And who will be the target of these crack downs and new legislations? Well, according John
Brennan (ex-head of the CIA and accomplished war criminal), practically anybody:
They're casting a wide net. Expect "extremist", "bigot" and "racist" to be just a few of the
words which have their meanings totally revised in the next few months. "Conspiracy theorist"
will be used a lot, too.
Further, they are moving closer and closer toward the "anyone who disagrees with us is
literally insane" model. With many articles actually talking about "de-programming" Trump
voters. The Atlantic suggests "mental
hygiene" would cure the MAGA problem.
Again AOC is on point here, clearly auditioning for the role of High Inquisitor, claiming
that the new Biden government needs to fund programs that "de-radicalise" "conspiracy
theorists" who are on the "spectrum
of radicalisation" .
*
As I said at the beginning, it's been a busy week for Joe Biden, but you can sum up his
biggest policy plans in one short sentence: More violence overseas, less tolerance of dissent
and strict clampdowns on "misinformation".
Blinken does not seem to have repented from his fundamentalist belief in American
imperial goodness, notwithstanding his appeal for "humility".
Barring an earthquake in Washington, Antony Blinken is set to become the new U.S. Secretary
of State and America's top diplomat. The youthful and telegenic Blinken (58) takes over from
Mike Pompeo who was America's representative to the world under the last Trump
administration.
The contrast could not be more stark. In place of Pompeo's thuggish, rough-edged style,
Blinken has the appearance of consummate diplomat. He's fluent in French owing to a European
education, he's urbane and sophisticated and comes from a family which has diplomacy in its
genes. His father was an ambassador to Hungary and an advisor to President John F Kennedy. An
uncle was ambassador to Belgium.
Blinken has Hungarian and Russian Jewish ancestry. His mother remarried a Polish-American
Jewish survivor of the Nazi holocaust. During his confirmation hearing in the Senate this week,
Blinken
told the story of how his stepfather escaped from a Nazi death march in Bavaria and was
eventually rescued by an American tank driven by an African-American officer.
That story has shaped Blinken's worldview of America's prestige and international role. He's
a proponent of U.S. military interventionism with a presumption of moral duty. He's an advocate
of America working with European allies and upholding the transatlantic alliance – in
contrast to Trump's boorish America First sloganeering. Understandably, Blinken is imbued with
an unshakable belief in "American exceptionalism" and "manifest destiny" as a world leader.
The Senators at his confirmation hearing this week
swooned as Blinken spoke. He's certain to be confirmed as the new Secretary of State in the
coming days. That's because he is seen to be perfect for the task of restoring America's
international image which has been so badly tarnished under Trump and his grumpy gofer Pompeo.
The Europeans will lap up Blinken and his transatlantic romanticism.
Blinken has said that America's foreign policy must be conducted with "humility and
confidence", which may sound refreshingly modest. But it's not. Underlying this "quiet
American" is the same old arrogance about U.S. imperial might-is-right and Washington's
presumed privilege of appointing itself as the "world's policeman".
If Blinken's record is anything to go on, his future role as America's top diplomat is
foreboding.
Previously, he was a senior member in the Obama administrations serving as national security
advisor to both the president and Joe Biden who was then vice-president. Blinken rose to become
deputy Secretary of State in the final years of the second Obama administration. In those roles
he was a key player in a series of foreign interventions which turned out to be utterly
disastrous.
He was a big proponent of U.S. military intervention in Libya in 2011 which led to the
toppling and murder of Muammar Gaddafi. That intervention along with other NATO powers has left
a ruinous legacy not only for Libya but for North Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe.
Blinken was also a point-man in Obama's intervention in Syria where the U.S. (and other NATO
powers) supplied weapons to anti-government militants. The so-called "rebels" were in fact
myriad terrorist groups affiliated with Al Qaeda and other extremist Islamists. Up to half a
million people have been killed in the decade-long Syrian war and much of that blood is on
America's hands from its de facto support for terror gangs. Maybe Blinken genuinely thought he
was supporting "pro-democracy rebels". But even if we give him the benefit of doubt, the upshot
is still a disaster of American interventionism.
Another catastrophic consequence of Blinken's policymaking is Yemen. Under his direction,
the Obama administration backed the Saudi war on its southern neighbor beginning in March 2015
and continuing to this day. Yemen has become the worst humanitarian crisis in the world with
millions facing starvation amid Saudi aerial bombardment carried out with U.S. warplanes and
logistics.
The new Biden administration has indicated it will withdraw military support for Saudi
Arabia in its war on Yemen. But that doesn't absolve the U.S., and Blinken in particular, for
having created the horrendous quagmire from which it is belatedly trying to extricate itself
from.
What's rather perplexing, however, is that Blinken does not seem to have repented from his
fundamentalist belief in American imperial goodness, notwithstanding his appeal for "humility".
During his Senate hearings, he
showed little regret about America's illegal bombing of Libya and its arming of jihadists
in Syria.
He described the world with the conventional brainwashed American ideology as being a place
where China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are enemies that must be confronted. He also
told Senators he was in favor of increasing supplies of lethal weaponry to the Ukraine and
its rabidly anti-Russian regime in Kiev. Recall that it was the Obama administration which
instigated a coup d'état in Kiev against an elected president in February 2014. The new
regime was and is dominated by far-right nationalists who laud past links to Nazi Germany. If
Blinken has his way the war against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine will escalate and could
ignite a bigger confrontation between Russia and the U.S.
One of the hallmarks of the U.S.-backed regime in Kiev is its espousal of Neo-Nazi
traditions and in particular antisemitic hatred.
Given Antony Blinken's own Jewish ancestry and his own intimate connection to the Nazi
holocaust, you do have to question his competence if he becomes America's foreign policy
leader. His boss President Joe Biden has fondly lionized Blinken as a "superstar" of diplomacy.
Superficially perhaps, he has finesse and intelligence. But in much the same basic way of
adhering to American imperialism, Blinken is as crude and thuggish as his predecessor Pompeo.
He just projects a more plausible look and sound, which is most desirable as a moral cover for
America's criminal imperialism.
Blinken is
known to self-deprecate his "insatiable habit" for making up bad puns. For example, on one
occasion when he was addressing an audience on policy regarding the Arctic, he began by joking
he would be "breaking the ice". Given his ability to pursue destructive dead-end policies, he
might therefore appreciate the moniker "Secretary of State Tony Blinkered".
he direct evidence is Pravy Sektor's Sergei Dybynyn at the front of the violent Capitol groups yelling "Faster! Faster!" in
Russian. At first, the media started trying to paint Dybynyn as a Russian propagandist and provocateur. But, the fact Dybynyn
received a medal from former Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko for his work changed that story and big media dropped it.
Because of his work for Poroshenko,
he
is wanted for supporting terrorism
in the Donbass Lugansk People's Republic.
In August 2020, we reported on the ties between Ukrainian neo-Nazis and US Antifa. The Ukrainian fascists were given asylum in
the US by the Obama administration working with John Brennan in the tens of thousands from late 2016 to 2020. When the FBI caught
on to the violent groups relocating to the US from Ukraine, they stopped it. Over 17,000 Ukrainian nationalists emigrated during
this timeframe.
According to the WaPo article,
"an
unlikely nationality has come to represent a disproportionate share of the refugees who have been entering the United States in
recent years: Ukrainians.
The United States last year resettled more nationals from Ukraine, a country that barely registers in the United Nations'
assessments of the global refugee crisis, than it did almost any other nationality
Many
of the newly arrived Ukrainians have ended up here in Washington state, near Seattle "
In that
article
series
we warned the large groups of
Ukrainian
nationalists
came to the US for the purpose of beefing up riots against Donald Trump after they started. This Obama policy
brought the worst of the worst into the US under a false asylum claim until it was finally stopped.
Sergei Dybynyn self-identifies as a Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) member in the middle photo. The blood and soil (red and black)
menorah is what Jewish members wear showing off affiliation.
The connection between Ukraine's radical nationalists (fascists) and AntiFa-BLM is they began their history together. Azov
battalion which I'll be focusing on is another Pravy Sektor spinoff and US aid funding goes through Pravy Sektor leader Dmitro
Yarosh hands.
Time Magazine's January 7
th
article
seems
to be a lead-in waiting for the proof of Azov's participation in the Capitol siege. The article lays it out and makes that point.
"Outside Ukraine, Azov occupies a central role in a network of extremist groups stretching from California across Europe to New
Zealand, according to law enforcement officials on three continents.
"Azov has been recruiting, radicalizing, and training American citizens for years," the letter said. Christopher Wray, the
director of the FBI, later confirmed in testimony to the U.S. Senate that American white supremacists are "actually traveling
overseas to train."
In their letter to the State Department in 2019, U.S. lawmakers noted that "the link between Azov and acts of terror in America
is clear." The Ukrainian authorities have also taken notice."
Former Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko has supported the work of Pravy Sektor and Azov since 2014 when they propelled him
into power; they in turn support him. Poroshenko has worked non-stop to unseat Donald Trump since the 2016 election season.
Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach published taped conversations between Poroshenko and then Vice President Joe Biden explicitly
detailing how Poroshenko fabricated allegations about Paul Manafort in an attempt to derail the Trump campaign.
What kind of opportunities requiring courage would Ukraine be looking for? The following Poroshenko tweet after the Capitol siege
caught my eye for that reason.
The ICC is investigating Ukraine for atrocities committed by Azov and Pravy Sektor on his watch as president and even before any
of the facts are known, he's condemning Donald Trump. Was he in on it? I started watching for a cookie to be thrown to him and
didn't have to wait long for it.
On January 11
th
,
the US Treasury sanctioned the Ukrainians who exposed Poroshenko and Joe Biden's effort against Trump as well as Burisma ties.
MP
Andrey Derkach also exposed
the details of the Biden-Burisma scandal at the same time.
Exposing
the Biden-Ukraine 2016 election interference
is the same as the Russian election interference narrative in 2020.
Poroshenko did take advantage of every window of opportunity to make sure Biden made it past January 6
th
.
What you are about to read raises serious questions for me. Is there such a thing as too many coincidences? When does coincidence
line up to conspiracy? This is
Maxim
Yarosh
(Макс Ярош). According to his own statements, his job in Azov is infiltration and crowd agitation. Yarosh is a Pravy
Sektor member and very active in the violence in Ukraine from Maidan until now. As you can see in the photo, Poroshenko awarded
him medals for his service. His reputation for thuggishness speaks for itself.
In the photo below, he is in the first row, second from the left, and on the right is former US Ambassador Geoff Pyatt. Ukrainian
soldiers didn't take photos with Pyatt unless they have high enough standing with Petr Poroshenko. Poroshenko and Yarosh knew
each other well going all the way back to Pyatt's tenure.
Around the January 9
th
through
the 11
th
,
Yarosh makes a point of establishing he was in Quito, Ecuador for a religious pilgrimage (his words). The timing itself raises an
eyebrow and the proof he posted on Facebook are two photos showing him at the airport and this one placing him outside the Mayor
San Jose Seminary showing off his neo-nazi tattoos.
Even if we know one Pravy Sektor member, Sergei Dybynyn, was videoed taking part in the Capitol siege, so far it's not
newsworthy. But if Yarosh was there, then things change completely.
At the same time, according to Petr Poroshenko, he took his family (wife and children) to Ecuador. His story is they flew in
under an assumed name (fake passports), rented a yacht, and toured the Galapagos Islands for a couple of weeks starting at the
end of December until around January 11
th
or
12
th
.
The circumstantial evidence that points to the possibility Yarosh was involved in the Capitol siege, which involves Poroshenko,
was reported in the news. Maxim Yarosh made a point of confronting Petr Poroshenko on the flight to Amsterdam and again after
they landed.
In light of the events on the 6
th
,
this looks like a crude attempt at establishing an alibi for Maxim Yarosh.
The following video is unedited and of poor
quality. Unless you speak Russian, I'd suggest turning the volume off and concentrating on what's wrong with the video.
Petr Poroshenko was the President of Ukraine until 2019. Ex-presidents have State provided bodyguard details for life. If you
google "Poroshenko bodyguard" you'll see why Poroshenko doesn't travel without bodyguards anywhere.
There were no bodyguards on the plane intervening or even visible. There were none at the airport to intervene for Poroshenko.
The ex-president looks like he's playing a part.
Ukrainian Billionaires like Poroshenko that fly halfway across the world to rent a yacht for a few weeks don't fly business class
on commercial airliners. Looking at the seating arrangement, he might as well have gone with economy class. His wife kneels in
the aisle next to his seat to take part in the conversation. It makes you wonder if he moved to this seat just for the video.
Petr Poroshenko and his wife are the only two people not wearing COVID masks on the flight which makes them the only two people
that were 100% identifiable on the video.
At the airport, for a few seconds, Poroshenko drops back a few steps talking with what might be another radical. Again, there are
no presidential bodyguards to be found.
Here's the problem. Yarosh has the motive, method, time, and opportunity to have been part of the Capitol siege.
Yarosh is the right guy for the job, has the needed skill sets and mentality, and most importantly places himself with the one
guy in the world that wants to make a Capitol siege event happen so he can claw back into power.
If anyone has facial recognition capabilities, this is a key person to look for at the Capitol.
Poroshenko's Ukrainian neo-Nazis and AntiFa
According to AntiFa, from the beginning of the group in pre-Nazi Germany, they were a socialist group fighting fascists like the
Nazis. While the statement is almost true in a specific timeframe, they were never the social humanitarian heroes they pretend to
be.
The leader of the political group Antifa belonged to at the time was an architect of the final solution during WWII. That's a
little different than they like to present themselves.
AntiFa's history can be summarized like this -- the group started out as the military wing of the
German
Communist Party (KPD)
. Before the rise of Hitler, they supported Stalin and Marxist socialism. Nazis were fascists. The KPD
didn't like other socialist groups so they were labeled fascist too.
The KPD's armed group was AntiFa and they fought in the streets against every group the KPD labeled fascist. The KPD decided it
liked Hitler so Stalin was fascist. Then Hitler was fascist again. After this they merged with the SA, better known as the
Brownshirts and Stalin was fascist again.
The Waffen SS was formed as a subgroup by the SA (Antifa) which was demanding the socialism Adolf Hitler promised them.
"The Munich-born American historian Konrad Heiden was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1936 book Hitler: A
Biography, remarking that within the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks there were "large numbers of Communists and Social
Democrats" and that "many of the storm troops were called 'beefsteaks' – brown outside and red within." The switching of
political parties was at times so common that SA men would jest that "[i]n our storm troop there are three Nazis, but we shall
soon have spewed them out."
Wikipedia
Hitler didn't like the political power the leader of the
SA
,
Ernst Rohm was gaining or the AntiFa SA elements who were looting, robbing, and raping and demanding socialism while he was
trying to consolidate power. He set up the Reichstag fire to deal with all the Nazi's undesirables and his competitor. The night
of the long knives followed.
The Nazis prosecuted the KPD-AntiFa's top leader, Ernst Torgler. After Torgler was found innocent, he worked for Reinhard
Heidrich in 1941. Hitler called Heidrich the man with the iron heart.
In 1942, they presented "The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem." Reinhard and the KPD-AntiFa leader Torgler were the
architects of the Holocaust.
In 1941, Ukrainian nationalists formalized their relations in with the SA and SS Antifa groups with 3 Waffen SS Battalions.
In 1991, the last Ukrainian nationalist leader from that period (Slava Stetsko) immigrated to Ukraine and started her own
political party with a militant wing. The militant wing called Trizub-Bandera is led by Dmitro Yarosh, the head of today's Pravy
Sektor, Azov, and the other groups that came out of the 2014 Maidan.
German Foreign Policy notes
the successors to Slava Stetsko's OUN (Ukrainian Nationalists) are Svoboda, CUN, Pravyi Sector,
and UNA-UNSO.
Ultra-Nationalist UNA-UNSO also doubles as Ukraine's Antifa and has taken this mantle for a few decades.
Why would Ukraine neo-nazis help Antifa and the Democrats with the Capitol siege? In the photo they're working together in Lviv,
Ukraine.
All three share the same politics. Imagine the 3
rd
Reich
without Hitler. Imagine.
It's not only the Ukrainian nationalists and US Antifa-BLM, but over 120+ Congressmen and Senators from both parties support the
groups that made this happen and should be investigated formally.
At 12:13 PM on January 6th, 2020, Trump Supporters began chanting "BULLSH*T" in the
overflow area after President Trump made a statement on election fraud. Soon after this a
group began gathering and left for the US Capitol around 12:20 PM while President Trump was
still speaking.
The Capitol is 1.6 miles away from Ellipse Park which is near the White House. This is
approximately a 30-33 minute walk. Trump began addressing the crowd at 11:58 AM and made his
final remarks at 1:12 PM. Therefore, protesters, activists and rioters had already breached
Capitol Grounds a mile away 19 minutes prior to the end of President Trump's speech.
I arrived outside Capitol Grounds at 12:50 PM, within 3 minutes rioters forced the
Capitol Police to retreat and breached both sets of barriers protecting the Capitol from the
backside of the building officially establishing the location where the riot will take
place.
For over an hour a large-scale riot blazed at the base of the US Capitol, leading to over
50 police officer's and countless protestors being injured. A continuous barrage of rubber
bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, and crowd control munitions were deployed at the crowd
affecting thousands of people.
ANTIFA Press can be seen setting up a photo-op of a fellow comrade, this is a very common
tactic they use when framing a specific narrative.
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A man with a hole in his cheek due to a rubber munition makes a statement, then takes a
bath in pepper spray.
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Rioters cut into ramparts and began climbing in an attempt to get past the Police. After
over 20 minutes rioters successfully forced themselves past the remaining Officers guarding
the Capitol.
What seems to be an ANTIFA Provocateur is seen removing his gas mask to take a drink of
water, he immediately put his mask back on when noticed he was being recorded. Rioters are
seen entering the Capitol through broken windows and a pair of double doors that have been
opened from within. A Rioter is also seen attempting to kick doors down inside
unsuccessfully, and another smoking a cigarette.
At approximately 2:35 PM, Ashli Babbitt began to wander from the main group. I then
followed her to a pair of doors leading to the Senate Chambers, a crowd quickly followed and
one rioter in a fur hat began violently punching windows.
John Sullivan, ANTIFA organizer, and BLM Activist is seen telling Officers to "Go home."
After being arrested he faced the following charges; civil disorder, disorderly conduct, and
entering a restricted building without authority. Almost immediately after being detained, he
was released with no bail.
Ashli Babbitt is seen pulling herself through the window frame when she was shot in the
neck, without warning by an agent who was hiding around the corner. All three officers who
were protecting the doors are seen against the wall next to where Ashli was shot. No verbal
warnings or attempts to stop her were made.
A man shifted Ashli's body after she fell from the window. Three Capitol Police Officers are
seen on the stairs, none of which attempted to apply medical aide to Ashli's gunshot wound. For
a brief moment I attempted to provide light so the gunshot wound could be found. When located,
pressure was applied but there was nothing we could have done to save her.
Mainstream Media reported that Ashli Babbitt died in the hospital, this is a lie. I
watched Ashli Babbitt's life drain from her eyes, she died laying in a flag of red, white,
and blue. The same colors she served her Country in for 14 years.
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If Ashli Babbitt died in the hospital, why was she carried down the stairs, upside down, and
with no pressure on her wound?
I, Tayler Hansen, in no way, shape, or form support the events that unfolded on the 6th.
With that being said, it doesn't take a genius to know it's impossible for unarmed protestors
to have successfully breached one of the most secure buildings on Earth, while the Vice
President was inside. As time passes one thing becomes more clear, the Capitol was the perfect
set up, and Trump supporters took the bait.
The Capitol siege was the biggest political power grab in modern-day history. The Left has
officially shifted the spotlight, and this time they're coming for Trump supporters. We're
witnessing the most intense roll out of Big Tech censorship we've ever seen. Which just so
happens to be targeting President Trump, conservatives, and what's left of real journalists.
Big Tech told conservatives to create their own platform if they didn't want to be censored, so
they did. In response, Apple and Google removed that platform Parler, an app founded on free
speech. Mainstream media is attempting to silence independent and fact-based reporting, forming
the ultimate monopoly on the so-called "truth". They have Americans right where they want
them.
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This was ANTIFA's proudest, and most accomplished moment yet. Known ANTIFA provocateurs have
been exposed for causing the initial violence and unrest at the Capitol, but it doesn't matter.
Left-wing extremist groups have caused over $2B in property damage, attempted to burn down
Federal Buildings, and are responsible for over 30 deaths since last May of 2020. There were
never any reports of an "insurrection" or "terrorist attack" when ANTIFA attempted to occupy
Federal Buildings in Portland or the historic courthouse in Nashville. Left-wing terrorists
have received nothing but praise from elected officials, celebrities, and mainstream media
throughout their existence.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media has labeled everyone at the US Capitol "Domestic Terrorists"
even the hundreds of thousands who were there in DC to listen to President Trump and then left
the area after he ended his speech. We're bearing witness to the ultimate double standard.
"The Capitol siege was the biggest political power grab in modern-day history. "
That's a negative, Sir. The biggest political grab in modern-day history was the theft of
the 2020 Presidential election from President Trump right before our very own eyes.
And the indirect proof?
Now D.C. must be militarized indefinitely
because of all the violence on the right.
What violence had the right committed
over the previous 12 months? Almost none.
Who was rioting nonstop for the past year?
This violence is like "racism" in the universities--
yes, there is racism--but perpetuated by whom?
The lying leftist media, and RINO Quisling enablers, will allow the Democrat Nazis to use
this fake "Reichstag Fire" to impose a dictatorship upon the United States.
Was FBI informant Enrique Tarrio was running a off the books operation when he helped
create the Proud Boys in 2016 around the time the RUSSIA!!! hoax was created by the FBI as
well?
This is about painting a target on Tarrio's back. What other purpose could it serve? Just
the kind of sleazeball tactics one expects from the Derp State. And even if it was true, so
what? The people he allegedly help snag were "bad hombres."
Target?
Good!!!!
He put over a dozen people in Fed were there is no parole.
The guy is a FBI snitch and he was being run by the FBI when he helped "create" PB.
The Proud Boys are a FBI creation.
Who the heck knows. At this point. What's it matter. No one can be trusted. Not even you.
You could be an Demokkkrat communist operative feeding false information to stir up conflict.
That is what they want. The Demokkkrats sent Antifa in to stir up trouble at the Capitol.
That is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany to protect the 3rd Reich. Now we have the
Demokkkrats playing the same thing. We all all screwed. It isn't going to end well.
Already did. She was spewing nonsense. Proud Boys was started by Gavin McInnes. So I guess
he's and FBI informant as well. The whole story stinks, and only serves the purposes of the
Derp State. And yet this troll is desperate to blow it up out of all proportion. Cui bono? I
like GP, but the commenters aren't necessarily the most sophisticated crowd, given the
upvotes she's received.
One case that's not making news in the Democrat Party's mainstream media is a
decision made by a Virginia judge on Monday. The
judge ruled that last-minute changes made by election officials to allow absentee ballots
with missing or illegible postmarks to be counted is illegal.
Washington Examiner- "This is a big win for the Rule of Law," said Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams, who represented
Frederick County electoral board member Thomas Reed in the case. "This consent decree gives Mr.
Reed everything he requested -- a permanent ban on accepting ballots without postmarks after
Election Day and is a loss for the Virginia bureaucrats who said ballots could come in without
these protections."
The case was over a Virginia Board of Elections rule issued in August that allowed mail-in
ballots without a postmark to be received up to three days after the November election.
The new Virginia Board of Elections rule notified county election boards that any
ballots "received by the general registrar's office by noon on the third day after the election
but does not have a postmark, or the postmark is missing or illegible" should not be rendered
invalid. The elections board decided a week later that those ballots should be counted. One win
for Virginia voters who care about election integrity. It's a pity this practice wasn't stopped
BEFORE the ballots were tabulated in the November election.
I also noticed two months ago how quickly the vital questions concerning the mail-on ballots
got diverted into some wild goose-chase involving voting machine software from Venezuela.
Another attempt at side-tracking the investigation and drumming up support for 'régime
change'?
As far as the Q-Anons themselves are concerned, I always sympathized with them to a large
extent, even though I thought their 'theories' were a little off. Most of them are good people
by nature, but perhaps just a little too credulous. I agree with Larry here: put your faith in
God, not man. When analyzing the events of this world, stick to evidence and logic as much as
you can. At the end of the day, hope is just another drug--hopium--that can skew your judgment
... which is just what the enemy wants.
But I have to admit that I still like the Q-Anon motto: 'Where we go one, we go all'
(WWG1WGA). I'd like to rehabilitate it for general use by us deplorables, if I may. ;-)
Due to the immense power of propaganda, normal people who should identify politically as the
"left" are actually supporting these dangerous policies and the erosions of liberty are
accelerating in direct proportion to the level of resistance, such as r/Wallstreetbets and the
immediate crackdown across several platforms to stop them.
I've seen an extraordinary erosion of rights and liberties over the past few years. It
really started with the cover up after the Trump election, which sought to steer the
narrative of public opinion away from the failure of the Clintons and the Democratic machine
with obvious fantastic lies about Russia.
For a myriad of reasons probably understood best by likes of Freud, Jüng, and others,
everyone on the left (who are supposed to be the smart and rational ones in society) bought
these lies and repeated them.
Once this was allowed to happen, once Maddow was allowed to lead the vanguard of libel
with no recourse, the snowball began to roll and now we are seeing the enforcement of that
thought-policing, which is as unconstitutional as the libel itself, especially considering it
is being perpetrated ubiquitously among media owners.
The phenomenon of Donald Trump the villain President has been used as an excuse to destroy
free speech and shoe horn in authoritarian policies. Due to the immense power of propaganda,
normal people who should identify politically as the "left" are actually supporting these
dangerous policies and the erosions of liberty are accelerating in direct proportion to the
level of resistance, such as r/Wallstreetbets and the immediate crackdown across several
platforms to stop them.
This Wall St. favoritism is obvious, but will likely end without bankers taking much
damage besides some short term outrage. They still control all the levers of currency and
trade no matter the President.
The real dangers of the day are the clamping down on speech. Starting with imprisoning
Julian Assange and then migrating to various corners of the Internet. I'll be very interested
to see how things shake out with the stock market, but I imagine it will go back to the firm
grip of those who control the money supply, which it was for a very long time.
In the meantime, shutting down the Reddit forums and Discord servers is a very serious
danger and I hope we can shine a light on it.
"... "I am also reading the the next focus of the little people investors is the highly manipulated precious metals markets.....I love the smell of burning Wall Street in the morning." ..."
"... Back in the Oughts when the fraudulent mortgages were grossly inflating Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), there were many instances of naked short selling to keep honest REITs down, activities I learned firsthand. We formed a shareholders organization that lobbied the SEC to enforce its laws but to no avail--the regulators were well captured and did zip. ..."
"... There's short selling, and then there's naked short selling. Why do the markets require naked short selling? If those hedge funds already owned the stocks that they are selling short, they would not be in such trouble now. ..."
Early this week a few amateur stock trading nerds decided to promote a stock that was heavily shortened by certain hedge funds.
The idea was to raise the stock price of Game Stop Corp., a vendor for computer games, by having lots of small stock traders to
buy into it. The hedge fund that shortened the stock, and thereby bet on a dropping stock price, would then make huge losses while
the many small buyers would potentially profit.
Instead of greed, this latest bout of speculation, and especially the extraordinary excitement at GameStop, has a different
emotional driver: anger. The people investing today are driven by righteous anger, about generational injustice, about what
they see as the corruption and unfairness of the way banks were bailed out in 2008 without having to pay legal penalties later,
and about lacerating poverty and inequality. This makes it unlike any of the speculative rallies and crashes that have preceded
it.
The movement was successful. The stock price of Game Stop Corp. rose from some $10 to over $400 within just a few days. The
short seller
had
to take cover under a larger firm:
Hedge fund Melvin Capital closed out its short position in GameStop on Tuesday after taking huge losses as a target of the
army of retail investors. Citadel and Point72 have infused close to $3 billion into Gabe Plotkin's hedge fund to shore up its
finances.
I'm shocked! Absolutely shocked to see that the game of finance is rigged!!!!/snark
There have not been market fundamentals since the beginning of financialization in 1971 when money became fiat instead of gold
backed. I find it interesting that it has taken 50 years for the cancer of financialization to fully compromise the host. It will
be interesting to see where this goes from here.
I think the speed of decline of empire is speeding up as noted by the increase in international investment in China.
I am also reading the the next focus of the little people investors is the highly manipulated precious metals markets.....I
love the smell of burning Wall Street in the morning.
"I am also reading the the next focus of the little people investors is the highly manipulated precious metals markets.....I
love the smell of burning Wall Street in the morning."
Is Max Keiser going after the silver market again? I bet he was posting on r/Wallstreetbets to stir things up!
Back in the Oughts when the fraudulent mortgages were grossly inflating Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), there were many
instances of naked short selling to keep honest REITs down, activities I learned firsthand. We formed a shareholders organization
that lobbied the SEC to enforce its laws but to no avail--the regulators were well captured and did zip.
We even ran full pages ads in the NY Times and WaPost to add visibility to our justifiable outrage, which was well proven when
the bubble burst.
But Obama didn't do his job and enforce the law, and the entire mess is far worse now. This episode epitomizes the amazing
amounts of corruption masquerading as well regulated markets and an equitable financial system.
I support Hudson's debt forgiveness for the main reason it will bankrupt the debt holders--the Financial Parasites--who are
also the beneficiaries of the corrupt system; and with their destruction, will allow for the rise of the Public Financial Utility
that will restore law and order to that realm of the economy. Yes, this must be seen as yet another episode of the longstanding
Class War, one of the most brazen ever.
There's short selling, and then there's naked short selling. Why do the markets require naked short selling? If those hedge
funds already owned the stocks that they are selling short, they would not be in such trouble now.
Citadel and Point72 have infused close to $3 billion into Gabe Plotkin's hedge fund to shore up its finances.
-b
How Robinhood was rigged:
Robinhood sells its orderflow to Citadel for execution. Citadel then chiselled the retail investor for pennies per trade by frontrunning (think high freq trading) before execution
of retail order, inflating the price and cheating the customer.
Citadel bailed out Citron, essentially inheriting the short position. Citadel then threatened Robinhood with refusing payment for orderflow
The Democratic Party controls the Presidency and both houses of Congress. Trump is out of
public life (for now, maybe). This is all starting to feel like 2009 all over again. I
feel as though the focus on understanding Trump voters is to distract away from a lack of a
meaningful agenda to actually progress the country forward, or at worst, an excuse as to why
nothing meaningful will get done. In 2009, the voters handed the Democratic party a gift to
change the system in ways unthinkable and were amenable to such change given the fallout of
the credit crisis. It was largely an opportunity squandered. In 2021, I think the focus on
Trump is displaced energy whereas the focus should be on what the parties agenda is.
That is a good point, Dave, and I think the next Congress will accomplish nothing of
importance. The only changes we will see in the next two years will be executive orders
that will immediately be tied up in Federal Court. Some have said that McConnell prefers to
act as an obstructionist and enjoys a role as the minority leader. I think Schumer, on the
other hand, desperately wants to be King. It's good to be the King!
The Republicans must look upon the democratic party and its control over its subjects
with envy. Worship of feckless leaders and delivery for the PMC and Wall Street class. If a
state party comes out and says this, how much longer can the Republican party exist as a
viable entity without some sort of schism? Granted, Massachusetts GOP was blathering on about
unfair elections and their own Republican disavowed him, so perhaps this is more about the
minor state parties being home to wing nuts while more reasonable types retire to independent
status.
"Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and
consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society,
replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one's natural right to decide for
themselves how to live, what to choose, what stance to express freely?" Putin wondered.
"We've all seen this just now in the US. And everybody understands what I'm talking
about," he added.
The Russian leader was apparently referring to the crackdown by Big Tech corporations like
Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, mostly on Donald Trump and his supporters, during
the recent presidential election in the US. The companies, which, according to some critics,
sided with Democratic candidate Joe Biden, blocked President Trump's social media accounts over
accusations of inciting violence, with the same being done to many pages of groups and
individuals who'd backed him.
However, one-sided bias claim voiced by some might be an overestimation – the accounts
of Democrats supporters were also subject to restrictions, but on a much smaller scale.
Conservative Twitter-like platform Parler was also forced offline, and now there are calls
to block the Telegram app as well.
These events have shown that Big Tech companies "in some areas have de facto become
rivals to the government," Putin said.
Billions of users spend large parts of their lives on the platforms and, from the point of
view of those companies, their monopolistic position is favorable for organizing economic and
technological processes, the Russian president explained. "But there's a question of how
such monopolism fits the interest of society," he stressed.
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shadow1369 8 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 07:51 AM
This is a great opportunity for Russia to create some Big Tech operators which actually allow
free speech. Russia certainly has the expertise and the means, and cannot be bullied by
western regimes.
Proton1963 shadow1369 1 hour ago 27 Jan, 2021 02:54 PM
Sure.. But only after the Russians can build a drivable car or a decent smart phone or a
laptop.
The West is surely giving Russia a lot of opportunities, through its own arrogance and
stupidity, does not it ? It keeps going backwards in its effort to diminish Russia. And the
same goes for China too.
JOHNCHUCKMAN 7 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 08:45 AM
Putin is a remarkable statesman, and he sets a very high standard for political discourse. I
can't think of any of our Western leaders who speak in these truthful and philosophic terms.
What we hear in the West are slogans or whining or complaining.
Tenakakhan JOHNCHUCKMAN 3 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 01:03 PM
The patriarch of the west has become extremely weak. It seems like our leaders lack any moral
authority to speak truth and common sense for fear of being cancelled. What we see now is the
virtue signaling dregs sponsored by extreme groups leading our nations down the toilet. If a
real war was to break out now we would be cannon fodder.
Hilarous 7 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 09:04 AM
I think there's a simple explanation. Big tech is afraid to lose section 230 of the
communications act, which stipulates that online platforms are not legally responsible for
user content. Trump and some Republicans have accused social media sites of muzzling
conservative voices. They said undoing Section 230 would let people who claim they have been
slighted sue the companies. So Big Tech has a strong interest to remove Trump and run down a
few bad examples to convince people and politics that Section 230 must remain.
Count_Cash 8 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 07:40 AM
In many cases they aren't rivals, but owners of government. Money controls everything in the
west and big tech have it. They have taken control of, or are blackmailing governments. The
Western Liberal Regime straddles both Big Tech and government!
RTaccount Count_Cash 7 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 08:57 AM
Correct. Let us never forget that in America we are ruled by oligarchs just like the rest of
the world, and that our oligarchs are largely hidden. They are our true government, and so it
is meaningless to make this type of distinction.
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In a matter of hours, Biden's key national security people -- Antony Blinken as secretary of
state, Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, and Lloyd Austin as defense secretary
-- gave us a remarkably fulsome idea of what we are in for these next four years.
Haines and Austin, neither of whose records are to be admired, are at bottom functionaries
who were nominated and swiftly confirmed because they do what they are told and do not think
too much -- always a career-advancer in Washington.
It is instead Blinken, who is said to enjoy some kind of
"mind-meld" with Biden, that we must consider carefully. (Such a meld must be odd
terrain.)
Blinken's Senate
testimony last Tuesday sprawled over four hours. It is best to scrutinize his remarks while
seated in a chair with sturdy armrests, ideally to calm one's nerves with a pot of chamomile
tea.
Seen or read as a whole, those four hours gave us an extraordinary display of how empire
works and how it prolongs itself. One by one, Blinken's senatorial interlocutors told him in so
many words, "Son, this is what you need to say if you want our confirmation. We want you to
endorse our commitment to aggression, to unlawful interventions, to 'regime change' ops, to
merciless sanctions, and altogether to the empire. But you must make it look nice. Make it look
thoughtful and complicated and considered."
July 14, 2016: Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Deputy Secretary of State Antony
Blinken. (Air Force, Christopher Hubenthal)
I am convinced, having endured the entire C–Span recording, that what I watched was
sheer ritual. Blinken won the Senate's support and now succeeds the shockingly bovine Mike
Pompeo at State. He will do so, however, with the élan and faux sophistication
our nakedly bankrupt foreign policy now requires if the American pantomime is to be sustained
another four years.
Among Blinken's many rather sad-to-witness "Yes sirs," two standout: his finely chiseled
endorsement of Pompeo's reckless assassination a year ago of Qassem Soleimani, Iran's revered
military commander ("Taking him out was the right thing to do"), and his approval of the Trump
administration's decision to send lethal arms to the manically corrupt regime in Kiev
("Senator, I support providing that lethal defensive assistance to Ukraine," when the Obama
administration, from which he comes, did not.)
Late last year, Blinken
appeared on "Intelligence Matters," the podcast run by Michael Morrell, the coup-mongering
former deputy director at the Central Intelligence Agency and now -- of course -- a regular
commentator on the televisions news networks. In their exchange, the two took up the question
of our "forever wars" and Biden's well-advertised commitment to ending them. Here is a snippet
from Blinken's remarks:
"As for ending the forever wars, large-scale deployment of large, standing U.S. forces in
conflict zones with no clear strategy should and will end under his [Biden's] watch. But we
also need to distinguish between, for example, these endless wars with large-scale,
open-ended deployment of U.S. forces with [sic], for example, discreet, small-scale
sustainable operations, maybe led by special forces to support local actors. In ending the
endless wars we have to be careful not to paint with too broad a brushstroke."
This is what we are in for these coming years, the hyper-rational irrationality of the
middling technocrat. There will be adjustments at the margin, reconsiderations of method. There
will be no consideration whatsoever of America's hegemonic objectives -- of the imperial
project.
Blinken's testimony reflected these bitter truths start to finish.
Changes to the Iran Deal
July 14, 2015: President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, announcing the signing
of the Iran-nuclear agreement. (White House)
Of the various questions the new secretary of state took up during his confirmation
hearings, Iran is the most pressing. Senator Bob Menendez, Blinken's interlocutor in this case,
insisted that yes, the U.S. wants to rejoin the 2015 accord governing Iran's nuclear programs,
but only if this includes prohibitions against Tehran's "destabilizing activities" and a
missile program that Iran justly considers essential to its security.
An honest, clear-eyed diplomat who wanted to get somewhere with Tehran would have rejected
the very frame of Menendez's line of inquiry, with its references to "support for terrorism"
and "funding and feeding its proxies." But Blinken read his cues and tucked right in:
"The president-elect believes that if Iran comes back into compliance we would, too, but
we would use that as a platform to seek a longer, stronger agreement and also, as you have
pointed out, to capture these other issues, particularly with regard to missiles and Iran's
destabilizing activities. This would be the objective."
This is sheer charade. Blinken knows as well as anyone else that the added conditions the
Biden regime will require before rejoining the agreement -- an end to Iran's ballistic missile
programs and its support for the Syrian government against Islamists and the illegal U.S.
incursion -- effectively cancel all chances that the U.S. will rejoin the accord.
I
predicted in this space shortly after Biden was elected that he and his foreign policy
people only pretended to be serious about reviving the nuclear agreement with Iran. Blinken's
testimony confirms this.
Over the weekend The Times of Israel , citing Channel 12 television,
reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending Yossi Cohen, chief of Mossad and
a close confidant, to Washington to "set out terms" for any revival of the nuclear deal. Israel
purports to "set out terms," and Biden will receive this spook? This is getting completely
unserious. Completely.
On China, Russia, and Venezuela: Blinken was putty in the hands of the Foreign Relations
Committee's across-the-board hawks. A two-fronted new Cold War across both oceans -- Sinophobia
and Russophobia all at once -- is to be our reality these next four years.
Over the weekend, to be noted, the American Embassy in Moscow had the gall to broadcast
routes protesters could take to demonstrations in various Russian cities to dispute Alexei
Navlany's arrest . A good start.
Marco Rubio, the coup-loving senator from Florida, wanted to know if Blinken thought the
U.S. should continue backing Juan Guaidó, the buffoon Rubio and Pompeo puffed up as
Venezuela's "interim leader" as part of a failed coup operation a couple of years ago.
Blinken:
"I very much agree with you, senator, first of all with regard to a number of the steps
that were taken toward Venezuela in recent years, including recognizing Mr. Guaidó and
seeking to increase pressure on the regime . We need an effective policy that can restore
Venezuela to democracy, and how can we best advance that ball? Maybe we need to look at how
we more effectively target the sanctions that we have ."
Grim, grim times lie ahead if Blinken runs State as he promised the Senate he would.
There are those among us who look for shafts of light. People I greatly respect (some,
anyway) thought it was good news when Biden named William Burns, a career foreign service
officer, to head the CIA. At last diplomacy, not unlawful interventions!
Over the weekend, there were reports
that Biden will review -- not more at this point -- the designation of Yemen's Houthis as
terrorists, a label Pompeo affixed as he emptied his desk last week. Finally, we will stop
supporting the Saudis' savagery!
People believe what they need to believe these days, I find, and belief overrides cognition
in many such cases. I caution these people. At bottom Blinken demonstrated for us that no one
who purports to alter our imperial course will ever be allowed to hold high office. For people
such as Blinken, it is merely a question of wielding influence without having any.
This is where Americans live -- in a crumbled republic no longer capable of changing.
Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International
Herald Tribune , is a columnist, essayist, author and lecturer. His most recent book is
Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century . Follow him on Twitter @thefloutist . His web site is Patrick Lawrence . Support his work via
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John Allen aka Ol' Hippy , January 26, 2021 at 12:16
I'm 66, almost 67, and will, most likely, never see any real peace from the US government.
A big portion of the economy is based on imperialist actions and the manufacture of conflicts
around the globe mainly to keeps the arms makers in business. Or simply, war. And no, there
is no nation willing to risk the wrath of the US government by trying to halt this insane
posture of aggression, it's just too big and has a momentum all its own. Biden will continue
unabated this absurd, insanely expensive machine to its eventual implosion in the near
future. All the parts of the fall of the economy are in place, all that's needed is some ill
defined tipping point to be crossed. Perhaps, a war with Iran?
"Blinken has said that America's foreign policy must be conducted with 'humility and
confidence', which may sound refreshingly modest. But it's not. Underlying this 'quiet
American' is the same old arrogance about U.S. imperial might-is-right and Washington's
presumed privilege of appointing itself as the 'world's policeman'.
"If Blinken's record is anything to go on, his future role as America's top diplomat is
foreboding.
"Previously, he was a senior member in the Obama administrations serving as national
security advisor to both the president and Joe Biden who was then vice-president. Blinken
rose to become deputy Secretary of State in the final years of the second Obama
administration. In those roles he was a key player in a series of foreign interventions which
turned out to be utterly disastrous."
The once upon a time manufactured aura of Virtue projected by the Outlaw US Empire that
was swallowed by so many naïve nations has vanished with nothing other than its stark
ugliness as a replacement. Refusal to see that reality is what Xi just referred to again as
"arrogance" which puts Blinken into the same ideological camp as Pompeo. As Global Times notes
, if the Outlaw US Empire's attitude's not going to change, than why should China's as
Pompeo's constant lying is replaced by Psaki's:
"When White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to a question Monday about US-China
relations, she said that 'China is growing more authoritarian at home and more assertive
abroad,' adding that China 'is engaged in conduct that hurts American workers, blunts [US]
technological edge, and threatens [US] alliances and [US] influence in international
organizations.' She also noted that Washington is 'starting from an approach of patience as
it relates to [its] relationship with China.'"
The editor's response to such inanity:
"Psaki's statement shows that the Biden administration's view and characterization of
China is virtually identical to those of the Trump administration. Psaki stressed that 'We're
in a serious competition with China. Strategic competition with China is a defining feature
of the 21st century,' reflecting that the Biden administration only cares about a "new
approach" to holding China accountable."
And Psaki's words are the same as Blinken's, which were the same as Pompeo's and Trump's.
In other words, the hole digging by the Outlaw US Empire in its relations with the rest of
the world will continue, which will cause further deterioration of its domestic Great
Depression 2.0. Yesterday I posted a comment that highlighted Putin's expounding on the
further enhancement of the educational component of Russia's Social Contract that is
impossible for Navalny's backers to match. On the previous thread, a good comparison was made
between the Yeltsin years and the ongoing drowning of the Outlaw US Empire. The Reset that's
in the works isn't the one envisioned by Global Neoliberals like Klaus Schwab of the
WEF/Davos crew. It's what Xi spoke of yesterday that I commented upon and Escobar reported on
today. The Winds of Change are blowing again, but there's a gaping hole in the USA's wind
sock so it can't see in which direction it's blowing.
blinken is bad news.. i think that is very obvious from a superficial read on him.. the usa
can't get out of the ditch it has made for itself.. nothing is gonna change...
'liberal interventionism' has always been the hallmark of the US Liberal Class and its
foreign policy Establishment, especially since at least Wilson's jumping into WWI.
Has the US ever not intervened in Latin America whenever it felt like it or thought its
"interests" were at stake?
I think Caitlan J. has a good grasp on what to expect from the Biden war mongering crowd
that has recently moved into DC once again:
"....Trump's base has been forcefully pushing the narrative that the previous president
didn't start any new wars, which while technically true ignores his murderous actions like
vetoing the bill to save Yemen from U.S.-backed genocide and actively blocking aid to its
people, murdering untold tens of thousands of Venezuelans with starvation sanctions, rolling
out many world-threatening Cold War escalations against Russia, engaging in insane
brinkmanship with Iran, greatly increasing the number of bombs dropped per day from the
previous administration, killing record numbers of civilians, and reducing military
accountability for those airstrikes....
....Rather than a throwback to "new wars" and the old-school ground invasions of the Bush
era, the warmongering we'll be seeing from the Biden administration is more likely to look
like this. More starvation sanctions. More proxy conflicts. More cold war. More coups. More
special ops. More drone strikes. More slow motion strangulation, less ham-fisted overt
warfare...."
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Simply put, more small scale wars/ops mostly by proxy, more support for local wankers
(like Guaido in Venezuela, who has incredibly little popular support), and more of these
killing sanctions, which are especially pernicious to the civilian populations in vulnerable
countries like Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Nicaragua and Venezuela, etc.
"... Likewise, the looting of BLM was 'largely peaceful', but selfie snapping in the Capitol was a work of 'internal terrorists'. The victors are so dishonest, that I feel pity for Trump – and for all of us. ..."
At 78, after a prolonged illness and without recovering consciousness, Joe Biden succumbed
to the Presidency. The last hopes of the last QAnon believers vanished like smoke in the night,
with Biden assuming the mighty US throne. This is truly a dark day for America and for the
world, as the US example will be followed by many. It is also a farewell to the real world we
were brought up in. The new world is virtual, like most of the inauguration. It is virtual and
dark, ruled by digital companies fronted by old and tired politicians.
The creepy voice of Biden, the voice of a dirty old man offering sweets to a nine-year-old,
delivered some platitudes. Biden was greeted by the dead – by flags marking those who
died of Covid – all highly symbolic: he was elected by the dead, so he owes them. They
say that a man was so annoyed because his in-laws voted for Biden that he stopped visiting
their graves. The King of the Dead, a character out of Game of Thrones, came to govern America
on behalf of lifeless machines.
The frail old man will lead the old women. Together, they are the Gang of Four: Harris, 56,
Pelosi, 80, Clinton, 73. His first days, his first acts were ominous. He donned the mask, an
attribute of Death, and obliged all federal officials and civil servants to wear masks. He
invited Latin America to invade the US. He opened the gates for immigrants from the Middle
East. He promoted sex-change for boys and girls. He returned the US into the climate-change
impending disaster of the Paris Accord. He sent more troops to Syria. He started a new campaign
against Russia and sent warships to the South China Sea.
At the same time, Pelosi
eliminated the words mother , father , son , daughter ,
husband , wife from the vocabulary of Congress as 'sexist'. Such purged language
would never allow a rendering of Virgil's miraculous prophecy ( Incipe, parve puer, risu
cognoscere matrem ) into English, or any other sacred text. It does not matter much; in the
Covid world, there will be no church anyway, no marriage, no woman or man; instead of making
children locally, new Americans will be imported. Indeed, if everything else is outsourced, why
stall at reproduction?
The Biden regime is just a front for the power of Big Data, of the five giants that removed
Trump and installed Biden in the White House. We shall see soon whether the power-thirsty
politicians will be satisfied with fronting for real power. Trump was the last wholly human
statesman at the helm of the Republic, and he was defeated by the mail-in vote.
Whenever Trump complained that it is open to fraud, Bezos' Washington Post screeched,
'President Trump has peddled false claims or imaginary threats about voting by mail'. Three
days after Trump's removal, Amazon (owned by the very same Bezos) rejected mail-in voting for its
unionising employees as the mail-in vote is notoriously unreliable. "We believe that the best
approach to a valid, fair and successful election is one that is conducted manually, in-person,
making it easy to verify",
said Amazon. The mail-in vote for the Presidency was a must because of the pandemic, but
there is no outbreak when Amazon employees try to join a trade union.
Likewise, the looting of BLM was 'largely peaceful', but selfie snapping in the Capitol was
a work of 'internal terrorists'. The victors are so dishonest, that I feel pity for Trump
– and for all of us.
I do feel pity for Donald Trump, though his last days in the White House were anything but
inspirational. He did not dare to pardon people who went for him into the Capitol, he didn't
pardon Assange or Snowden, but surprisingly he pardoned a whole lot of Jewish cheats. The
Jerusalem Postpublished
the list of prominent Jews he pardoned. On the list is an Israeli spy runner Aviem Sella
who was responsible for Jonathan Pollard; the rest are dishonest machers like Sholam
Weiss (who stole US $150 million, sentenced to 850 years) or Eliyahu Weinstein (stole up to
$200 million, sentenced to 24 years). See also a detailed analysis here . A devout believer in the
demonic power of Jews, Trump had thought to make up to them to avoid their anger. In vain:
there are already
plenty of cases against him, from potential tax fraud to sexual assault allegations. A
legal storm is brewing and Mr Trump may not be able to weather it as he has done in the past,
say the US federal prosecutors.
He could be lucky to avoid prison; unless he asks Mr Putin to lend him his excellent if
uncompleted Gelenjik Palace . On
second thoughts, perhaps the palace was built for exactly such an occasion.
The Jews do not need him: they have very strong positions in the new administration, while
gratitude is not a renowned Jewish trait. The Jewish news agency JTA boasted of the Tribe's achievements:
the State Department, CIA, National Intelligence, Homeland Security, NSA, Treasury and in
addition "Nine Jews are in the new Senate (including the new Majority Leader) and 25 in the
House of Representatives, making up more than 6 per cent of the total Congress. That's more
than triple the percentage of Jews in the general population. There are also two Jews out of
the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court."
This is not a good sign: Jews are good when allied with the oppressed. Then they use their
energy to promote the cause of the downtrodden. While at the top, they oppress more vigorously
than anybody; ask the Palestinians, if in doubt.
Mind you, I do not subscribe to the idea of Jewish supremacy and massive IQ. The all-Jewish
country of Israel is devastated by three lockdowns, by the biggest vaccination drive in the
world (86% already vaccinated), by an ongoing civil war of Zionist power against Orthodox Jews
who refuse lockdown and vaccination; by the forthcoming fourth national elections, as liberals
incessantly try to remove the Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu saying he is Israel's Trump. This
week, Israel's only remaining international airport was closed down; the people were told
nobody would get out at least until the summer. In this small country with its huge density of
population and poor housing it feels too much like a ghetto for comfort.
If Jews were as clever as they think they are, they would not get themselves into this
no-win Covid war. The Swedish way remains the only way to deal with it, as a
recent study has proven beyond all possible doubt. Israeli Jews have been whipped into such
a degree of Covid hysteria that there is no way to get out of it. Now they, and the
Brits were told that "having a coronavirus vaccination is not a licence to abandon
lockdown". Even if all will be vaccinated, the masks, lockdowns and social distancing will be
with us forever, if the people who decide now remain in power, because Covid is just a
justification for the Great Reset, or Digital Revolution, or the Brave New World or whatever
you call it. Jews got convinced and convinced others, and now they are being screwed up like
everybody else. If lockdown is a punishment meted out by the global force, as C J Hopkins
says , perhaps it
is Netanyahu's retirement they want to obtain.
The Jewish cause works fine when allied with the wishes of the real power. They could remove
Jeremy Corbyn for his alleged tolerance of antisemitism because the bosses hated his plans to
improve the lot of the workers and cut military spending. But Jews have to shut up or even
support Alexei Navalny who expressed his dislike of Jews right before he learned to keep his
mouth shut.
In this screenshot of his response in 2007, Mr Navalny bans somebody for being "a bugger and
a kike". Still, Jews supported him all right when told by their betters. They didn't even
mention his real anti-Jewish prejudice for they were (reasonably) afraid the Russian masses
would see it as rather a feather in his cap. The Jews are in line with the obscure real power,
and have to follow its demands, like the jesters before the king. The Covid plans for the world
reset are more important for the Masters than Jewish sentiments, and Jewish leaders recognise
that.
The Biden regime considers Russia its enemy Number One. Russia is in relatively good shape.
Russians are on their way out of Covid mass hysteria. They have begun to dismantle the Covid
measures. The rules are still there, but people sabotage them as they sabotaged Brezhnev's
rules. They also have their own vaccine Sputnik-V which is an old-style vaccine without gene
modification, as opposed to much of the Western stuff. I do not think it is necessary for
health, but it could help citizens under the spell of Covid to recover and forget the lockdown
nightmare.
Things began to move very fast after Biden was installed in the White House. After a year of
delays caused by US sanctions, on Monday 25/01/2021 the Russian pipe-laying vessel
Fortuna resumed its work off Denmark's shores on the undersea pipeline Nord Stream 2 to
sell Russian gas directly to Europe bypassing the latest US colony, the Ukraine. The US wants
Germany to stop the project and buy (more expensive) American gas instead. It would make Russia
more vulnerable. Despite the sanctions, Germany refused to stop the project. At the same time,
the Russians began to supply gas to Serbia creating a new line bypassing the Ukraine. At this
time, the Biden regime employed the Navalny card.
The return of Alexei Navalny to Russia is part of a plan to undermine Russia. The immense
power of Big Data and its social networks promoted his return as the new savior. But somehow it
didn't work. Instead of the expected tens of thousands, only one or two thousand followers
turned up at the airport, fewer than for a pop singer. He was promptly detained and arraigned
for thirty days. It was anticipated, and his people published his new Gelenjik Palace
film together with his call to demonstrate on 23/01.
The Russian internet had been saturated by YouTube pushing people to view it. The video had
been offered endlessly, time after time, and the numbers of viewers allegedly grew into the
billions. It was basically a psyops played by Google (the owner of YouTube) against Putin.
Again, it didn't work.
I witnessed the demo on Saturday 23/01, and it was not particularly impressive. Being a day
off, with a lot of people walking the streets and practically nobody carrying a poster or a
slogan, it is difficult to estimate how many were actually demonstrating, but it was in the low
thousands, as far as I could see. The police were well behaved; none of the rough justice we
see meted out in Paris or Amsterdam, let alone Washington. The Navalny activists were also
rather peaceful, excepting some marginal figures who were promptly arrested.
It seems that the Russians are not as silly as the Western planners expected them to be. In
1990 they, or their parents listened to Yeltsin's calls to throw off the privileged Communist
rulers because they, the rulers, had it so good with cars, dachas, Western goods. They paid for
this response with ten of the most awful years our generation experienced. Now they and their
children are unlikely to smash their state and their life just because their president has (or
has not) a palace. We shall see what the Russian state will do against inevitable future
assaults.
Putin is a cautious statesman. He does not want to aggravate relations with the Biden
regime, but the digital giants do not leave him many options. A Russian company gave a hand to
the Parler social network that was
deplatformed by Amazon, and it came back into being. Another Russian social network, Vkontakte , began to attract Western users. And
Russia is not alone: Turkey's Erdogan hit
Twitter , Pinterest and Periscope with advertising bans after they refused to follow
Facebook and appoint a local representative to take down contentious posts under a new law
aimed to pass the right to censure from the networks to the Turkish state. Russia plans to
follow the Turks. China has its own networks and is immune to the Big Five pressure.
Now there is the World Economic Forum's annual meeting online, where the victors will decide
how to proceed with their Great Reset. Trump is not invited. In a few days, we shall know more
about their plans, and whether there are any forces we can hope and cheer for. At present it
does not appear there are. Despite their multiple disagreements, they agree against us, so we
all can disagree with them.
I've received a letter saying: This is Miguel from Florence You mentioned Trump's
pardons
one of the only 143 people he pardoned, who knows why, was a tiny Florentine crook, who
was not even in gaol, just being investigated for fraudulent bankruptcy, a certain Tommaso
Buti.
Here is an article I wrote mentioning him, which touches a lot of other amusing
personalities
I believe the Russian vaccine uses an adenovirus, which causes the body's cells to make a
protein also present in the COVID-19 virus that the immune system suppresses. That may not be
as innnovative and questionable as the use of messenger RNA (I'm no immunologist and both
types of vaccines may prove safe and effective in the long run), but the Chinese
vaccine is the traditional one that uses is dead or attenuated viruses to stimulate the
immune system. If I had to take the jab and could choose the vaccine, I'd choose the Chinese
one.
Biden and Nancy seem to believe that Jay Powell can fix and fund anything they want to do.
But real damage has been done. I see it in grocery stores. Missing items that used to always
be available aren't. Auto Assembly lines shutttered because of the chip shortage.Empty store
fronts. Millions out of work. Not just in America but around the world. There isn't a lot to
reopen if they finally decide to reopen. Mothballed airplanes and cruise ships can't be just
restarted and begin service again even if Fauci and that Ethiopian mountain monkey who runs
the WHO declares it safe to resume travel. It doesn't work like that. Hysteresis sets in made
worse because people are scared and demoralized by the tyranny being imposed on them.
Buti was one of the owners/founders of the Fashion Cafe which opened in NYC back in the
90s. He apparently skimmed from the till. The restaurant got a bunch of supermodels like
Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell to invest and do PR appearances. Melania ran in these
circles and probably knows Buti. Maybe she even liked that he (allegedly) stole from her
modeling competitors!
He did not dare to pardon people who went for him into the Capitol, he didn't pardon
Assange or Snowden, but surprisingly he pardoned a whole lot of Jewish cheats.
Trump could have assured himself a worthwhile legacy, but he listened to the same control
tools as he did throughout his presidency.
I doubt I'm alone in feeling somewhat betrayed. I say 'somewhat' because I certainly would
have been surprised if he did that – pleasantly surprised to be sure, but
surprised.
Sad.
R.C.
Before too many comments accumulate here, I just want to thank Ron Unz, the publisher, for
highlighting this general subject, now consistently. Many of us readers do indeed feel in our
bones that this is a turning point, and you, sir, deserve credit for recognizing the gravity
of this moment in American history. Thank you for placing stories and columns about this at
the top of your now-more-valuable-than-ever publication.
Do you have an alternate plan in case the powers that be try to silence you? I don't
understand how this works, but it would be pretty crazy not to have an alternative way to
publish "online" if you need one.
Maybe you could reassure us with some mention of the subject. (That would be edifying, if
it would not be too revealing. Whatever works. Let's just hope UR can go on. Some of us can
find no substitute.)
And thank you, Israel Shamir, for you work. This selection from today's seems particularly
relevant:
Mind you, I do not subscribe to the idea of Jewish supremacy and massive IQ. The
all-Jewish country of Israel is devastated by three lockdowns, by the biggest vaccination
drive in the world (86% already vaccinated), by an ongoing civil war of Zionist power
against Orthodox Jews who refuse lockdown and vaccination
Not quite masters of the universe. Just people with good PR.
You mean there is an obscure real power above the jews? The jews follow it's demands as
jesters? Who is this obscure power before whom the jews dance as jesters? Who is this great
king?
thing is that like unz, they gather everything you write and use it against you in the
long run. yeah we encourage you in every way. What they don't say is that everything you say
will be recorded and examined by artificial intelligence.
One of the main reasons you can comment here while not being able to comment in any of the
myriad fake sites of alternative right/left. Cuz they are absolutely designed, just like the
cbc.ca to not allow anyone with open opiones to
comment. They will close you down and delete your comments all the time to prevent ordinary
people from commenting on things of importance. To everyone and how much we make and how hard
we have to work for it and how much we hate the government taking it from us to spend on
political wars and ecological destruction (while lying about it all the time) Like how piss
poorly they handled Covid and how many lives that cost while those stupid shits fucked around
with politics. Lot of us knew that back in Jan/Feb last year. Lot of us knew that back then
and watched a tidal wave of protests from where? BLM and Antifa were cover stories financed
by rich people to cover the real indignation of ordinary people about how piss poorly our
governments were doing in relation to this virus which has pretty much smacked us back on our
socks.
It is what turned me off of politics completely. It is what made me realize that I have a far
better understanding of this virus than they do. It was commenting on the cbc with perhaps a
dozen far sighted citizens and being completely over-whelmed by political bots and
ignorance.
What is the answer? The answer is not to drink the koolaid. The answer is to look at your own
country and your own culture and support that. It may be a few decades but that it is what it
is going to return to. Or you could die. Good luck. You give that up and allow your culture
to be overwhelmed by violent, religiously motivated cultures from centuries ago then you
might just as well turn Hari Krishna, to avoid your criminal past and sell vegetarian recipe
books to people who would actually eat that shit. Y'all have a great day.
What a dog's breakfast of half truths and misdirections. Russians and Socialists are
always ready to cuck for jews. They are virtual pornstars of the night.
Y'all want a perfect example of a a fake left-wing site which is actually completely right
wing? Try theTyee.ca .
Looks left wing, smells left wing, has tons of trained porpoises and and other paid and
unpaid fools which support them.
Say a single thing about changing the political status quo and you are banned my friend. Good
luck arguing about it when when you are a monster in a horror flick and cannot say a single
word.
Putin is all too aware of Jewish perfidy for he knows the rotten treatment meted out to
Donald J Trump by the very people who got the most out of him.
Vlad won't make the same mistake and perhaps he might even set the world free by launching
a nuclear missile at the Silicon Valley to take out the "Big Five" before going down, unlike
hapless DJT!
He promoted sex-change for boys and girls.
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This is going to explode. Women are going to go crazy over this.
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Why is it everyone is angry over a man competing in women's sports but no one is angry over
women competing in men's sports?
Trump's great merit – to me and some others – is that he ripped back the cloth
of gold that previously concealed the exalted office of the presidency, and showed everyone
all the horrible rotten decay underneath. Messrs Obama and Biden and the Clintons, in sharp
contrast, are enthusiastic guardians of the cloth of gold. In Jesus's day, they would have
been precisely the scribes and pharisees whom he despised and rebuked for their extreme
hypocrisy.
And that is equally the reason why so many hate Trump. They would have preferred the
hypocrisy to continue unchallenged, the whited sepulchres to remain unbroached.
I can count on my left-hand fingers people who write with empathy and correctly about
those who got depleted uranium bombs on their heads. Thank you for your genuine and valuable
service to the entire humanity and global justice. Good health.
Like the dishonest servant in the parables of Jesus, Trump is a wise man. As a man of the
world, he knows better than us how to make a place for himself after being thrown from the
palace. All this dealing was for continued wealth and freedom from serious prosecution, is my
thought.
Good for him. He can continue to poke at the pigs this way.
In 1990 they, or their parents listened to Yeltsin's calls to throw off the privileged
Communist rulers because they, the rulers, had it so good with cars, dachas, Western goods.
They paid for this response with ten of the most awful years our generation experienced
Now there is the World Economic Forum's annual meeting online, where the victors will
decide how to proceed with their Great Reset. Trump is not invited. In a few days, we shall
know more about their plans, and whether there are any forces we can hope and cheer for. At
present it does not appear there are. Despite their multiple disagreements, they agree
against us, so we all can disagree with them.
@notoneofthem
Cohen, CIA Deputy Director
3. Merrick Garland, Attorney General
4. Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence
5. John Kerry, National Security Agency Special Climate Envoy (Jewish father)
6. Ronald Klain, White House Chief of Staff
7. Eric Lander, Office of Science and Technology Policy director
8. 'Rachel' Levine (trans-sexual), Deputy Health Secretary
9. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security
10. Anne Neuberger, National Security Agency cybersecurity director
11. Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State
12. Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary
I totally agree on the thank you to Ron Unz. This site is my go to site each and every
day. Not only for the articles, but also for all the great information and discussion from
the comments.
Revealing this thought tells us more about the author than it does Trump.
You (anyone) would have been more than half-way to understanding events over the last five
years by accepting that destroying Trump was the greatest dues ex machina for an array of
forces, foreign and domestic (US) as any of us have or will see in our lifetimes.
. . . though his last days in the White House were anything but inspirational.
I don't know how more obvious it needed to be for even intelligent observers to see the
lengths the aligned powers that be were willing to go to not just to deny Trump a second term
but to bring them down to their wholly discredited size.
To many it doesn't seem to matter that Trump foiled the Iranian/Democrat op to seize
American hostages in Bagdad in a replay of the Iranian Hostage Crisis which sunk Carter's
reelection in 1980, the first impeachment hoax that preceded it, and even the China
Virus.
These are only some of the plots we're aware of, and only since the end of 2019.
This entered a surreal phase after Trump won in a landslide despite their malefactions.
First a full court press to complete the steal, and then ever more ominous signaling about
the lengths they were willing to go in terms of a mass casualty event if Trump didn't
relent.
If you cannot see what culminated on 1/6/21 then a cannot help you. They were promoting
threats in "50 state capitols," purportedly from MAGA. This explains why Trump drew the focus
exclusively to the Elipse in DC by announcing just days before that he would speak at the
event. I think it also explains why he was late in starting to speak and was still doing so
when Pence's letter dropped.
This isn't the half of it because then they really amped up their not at all veiled
threats of mass death if Trump didn't resign immediately.
So before anyone even criticizes Trump, especially for nonsense like pardons, consider
what a monumental success his presidency was for what didn't happen, particularly in its last
days.
Why do you imagie that here are 50 states in the US and 32 Holocaust museums, yet there
are only 25 civil war museums. US population is 2% Jewish. Even universities in the US
understand that Jewish equity studies have a higher academic appeal than trans gender equity
studies.
Merchant of Vice updated: From the Merchant of Venice to the Merchant of Vice. A video
that looks at Epstein Island and its many visitors. Was this all an intelligence operation by
Mossad, Wexford and the US deep state or was it merely a diversion for the sensational media?
Will we ever know?
I've been wondering if the Walking Dead Democrats realize they are now the house servants
for a bunch of tech nerds. Just imagine they use to be party favors for bankers. Seems like a
demotion to me. Got to wonder if all those Nat'l Guardsmen were just there to make Congress
feel special one more time.
Concerning impeachment.
Trump is guilty because he should have known that in large crowd there will be trouble makers
who will sway the rest of the crowd to violence.
But all other politicians are guilty as well because they should have rung the alarm bells
and asked to secure the Capitol.
@Anonymous
Poor overmatched hologram Joe Biden reminds me of Konstantin Chernenko, who was appointed to
lead the crumbling Soviet Union in 1984. Both were in failing health, but Chernenko was 6
years younger. He only lasted 13 months before kicking the bucket. It's questionable if Biden
will even last that long.
One difference is that the USSR appointed an intelligent, capable man named Mikhail
Gorbachev to replace him. We have Kamala Harris. Despite Gorbachev's best efforts, communism
could not be saved, and he was forced to resign after 6 years in office. After Biden's death
or resignation, could this country continue to exist after 6 years of Kamala?
@Rahan
Rahan, we are not impressed with your Russian or ability to speak another language! As a
matter of fact I am sure many on this site find your linguistic tastes and silly pretensions
irritating and the rest find you clownish.
Many people here on this site are also bilingual. Should we all comment in our second
language expecting others to translate ?
This is an English site. Many of us do not have the time to translate your hodge podge
even if it takes a few seconds. You will note that Israel wrote IN ENGLISH !
Please comment in English you rude little cretin or find a site that publishes in Russian
!
Mr Shamir, great sarcasm elegantly wrapped in even greater prose. When I think of it, Jews
seem to me to be like typical bullies.
The typical thug does as he pleases for the longest while each time becoming more brazen.
The more people tolerate is the more he pushes his luck. Then one day everyone has enough and
all the frustrations of the multitude erupt with dreadful consequences for the bully.
It is the same with the current crop of rule makers. Its all a lot of fun to force silly
rules on regulations on others. What the legislators never seem to realise is that one day
those very rules come back on them. Then they cry out "Why me ? This is so unfair !"
As for Jews, it looks to me they get caught in their own snare time after time. How many
times have others just had enough of them and their antics. I looked at a video on Youtube by
Rabbi Yaron Reuven titled "Warning to Jews". People need to look at this.
In my opinion though Senior Citizen Joe is just the halfway point to utter disaster. As I
mentioned above, the chickens may well come home to roost and Joe could find himself booted
out by his own VP the "who knows what race she will be today Kamala. With her and some other
Afro female as her side kick we may all well agree that when we think things could not get
any worse, they usually do.
Like the dishonest servant in the parables of Jesus, Trump is a wise man. As a man of
the world, he knows better than us how to make a place for himself after being thrown from
the palace. All this dealing was for continued wealth and freedom from serious prosecution,
is my thought.
Very perceptive and interesting comment, Emslander. It definitely inspires further
thought. Thanks for that.
All of these competing narratives create an almost deafening whirlwind that sucks
everything down into a black hole. The truth is usually much simpler.
Please comment in English you rude little cretin or find a site that publishes in
Russian !
LOL
Not having a good day today, Marckus? I see you are busy in the Linh comment section as
well.
Drink a beer, smoke a cigar, watch the snow fall, relax, (I would say read some humor, but
the two humorous pieces on Unz today seem to have triggered you).
You may be right. But remember at the bottom of every slide is a space for a soft landing
to avoid injury.
With shit slides that "soft landing' is usually a huge shit hole. A soft landing for sure
but a sure fire chance of drowning.
We are gaily rocketing down the slide with play ground Joe in the lead. Right now we may
have some brown sprinkles on our clothes but it is going to be nothing compared to total
immersion.
Trump was the last wholly human statesman at the helm of the Republic, and he was
defeated by the mail-in vote.
Trump was defeated by Trump. If the Trump cabal had issues with the mail-in voting
processes in the states, they should have challenged those processes months before the
election.
Moreover, Trump is little more than a lazy, vulgarian gas-bag who did nothing to extend
his support beyond his deluded base. Given the doddering political hack that the Democrats
nominated, Trump should have coasted to a win.
It was Trump's narcissistic big mouth in which it was all about him that gave Biden an
undeserved victory.
BTW, when the Ponzi Scheme economy implodes and they wake Uncle Joe from his nap in the
Oval Office to tell him, Biden will wish he had never left his basement.
Ron should reach out to Andrew Anglin, who's heroically managed to keep The Daily
Stormer running after the full weight of the state and state aligned corporations was
thrown at him.
At the very least he should set up a Tor address for the UR.
@Marckus
e ' ). I was young ( in college ) when the Communism collapsed and I couldn't understand the
so-called ' shock therapy ' ( promoted by the West ) ' How could you impose to a poor/abused
country this: " In economics, shock therapy is the sudden release of price and currency
controls, withdrawal of state subsidies, and immediate trade liberalization within a country,
usually also including large-scale privatization of previously public-owned assets. " –
wikipedia. In other words, prices like in West and salaries like in East – a ' fair
competition ', isn't ?! I found out (shortly ) that was/is an ' innocent/legal ' description
of a theft/robbery of a country
@Billovskii
e was sentenced to decades in prison by the civil rights division of the DOJ. She served 10
years Trump pardoned her. So much for the great alliance between black criminals and Jewish
feminazis against White men.
Check out the January 12 redpill article about David Bailey, federal cop, just another
black man who killed another White woman. Asli Barrett was assisted to climb in the window by
John Sullivan, another black BLM activist seen in riots all over the country.
And White conservatives rage against black women's abortions and birth control because God
wants us to be overwhelmed and destroyed by blacks. .
If Jews were as clever as they think they are, they would not get themselves into this
no-win Covid war. The Swedish way remains the only way to deal with it, as a recent study
has proven beyond all possible doubt.
I'm surprised that so few have taken the time to compare Sweden's covid-1984 graphs vs the
graphs of countries that have gone the lockdown path. It doesn't even take a peer review
study to see that lockdowns are not helping anyone. The graphs themselves are a very easy way
to compare results.
What is now the Swedish way was once considered the normal way for everyone until someone
decided that countries were really prisons.
While US officials claim that 'far-right extremism' is one of the largest threats facing
America, the leader of the group most commonly singled out as an example - the Proud Boys -
was a 'prolific' informant for federal and local law enforcement, according to Reuters,
citing a 2014 federal court proceeding.
Enrique Tarrio repeatedly worked undercover for investigators following a 2012 arrest,
court documents reveal.
Curiously, Tarrio was ordered to stay away from Washington D.C. one day before the
January 6 Capitol riot after he was arrested on vandalism and weapons charges - upon a
request by government prosecutors that he be prohibited from attending. At least five Proud
Boys members were charged as part of the riot.
In the 2014 hearing, a federal prosecutor, an FBI agent and Tarrio's attorney describe
his undercover work - noting that the Proud Boys leader helped authorities prosecute over a
dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling, accoding to
Reuters.
In a Tuesday interview with Reuters, Tarrio denied working undercover or cooperating in
cases.
"I don't know any of this," he said, adding "I don't recall any of this."
[...]
During Tarrio's 2014 hearing, both the prosecutor and Tarrio's defense attorney asked
for a reduced prison sentence after pleading guilty in a fraud case related to the
relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits. In requesting leniency for Tarrio and two
co-defendants, the prosecutor noted that Tarrio's information had resulted in the
prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and helped local
authorities investigate a gambling ring.
The tell, the dead giveaway, is that the Proud Boys get promoted. They get headlines,
column inches, airtime. Product placement. No homegrown anything gets that attention. They
are a product being sold to us in the media. Apply same standard to BLM, AntiFa, Weathermen,
apply as much as you like and you will seldom be in error.
There's that line is the Costa Gavras film Z, where someone gets chided about being too
quick to blame CIA, and the instant comeback is always blame the CIA, even if you are wrong
you will likely end up right. And of course the Greek colonels were CIA, even if some were
not 100% sure until later. Same standard applies here. Any bogeyman the media stands up and
points to and says be very afraid of this bad bogey, this bogey here, you can be sure it is
fake from the start.
Yes, this whole policing business is just a lot easier if you cultivate and run your own
criminal gangs, and in fact that approach to it has been very popular almost everywhere. No
need to deal with any really dangerous people that way too, a big plus, and seasoned crooks
can be handy for dealing with your enemies, encouraging reluctant counter-parties, etc.
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement,
repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript
of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio's own lawyer described his
undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling
and human smuggling.
Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. "I don't know
any of this,'" he said, when asked about the transcript. "I don't recall any of this."
Law enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio's denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal
prosecutor in Tarrio's case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that "he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid
in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to
operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes".
Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the rightwing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they
believe to be antifa, short for "anti-fascism", an amorphous leftist movement. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly
insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January.
The records uncovered by Reuters are startling because they show that a leader of a far-right group now under intense scrutiny by
law enforcement was previously an active collaborator with criminal investigators.
Washington police arrested Tarrio in early January
when he arrived in the city two days before the Capitol Hill riot. He was
charged with possessing two high-capacity rifle magazines, and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a December
demonstration by supporters of Donald Trump. The DC superior court ordered him to leave the city pending a court date in June.
Though Tarrio did not take part in the Capitol insurrection, at least five Proud Boys members have been charged in the riot. The
FBI
previously
said Tarrio's earlier arrest was an effort to pre-empt the events of 6 January.
The transcript from 2014 shines a new light on Tarrio's past connections to law enforcement. During the hearing, the prosecutor
and Tarrio's defense attorney asked a judge to reduce the prison sentence of Tarrio and two co-defendants. They had pleaded
guilty in a fraud case related to the relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits.
The prosecutor said Tarrio's information had led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and
had helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring.
Tarrio's then lawyer Jeffrey Feiler said in court that his client had worked undercover in numerous investigations, one involving
the sale of anabolic steroids, another regarding "wholesale prescription narcotics" and a third targeting human smuggling. He
said Tarrio helped police uncover three marijuana grow houses, and was a "prolific" cooperator.
In the smuggling case, Tarrio, "at his own risk, in an undercover role met and negotiated to pay $11,000 to members of that ring
to bring in fictitious family members of his from another country", the lawyer said in court.
In an interview, Feiler said he did not recall details about the case but added, "The information I provided to the court was
based on information provided to me by law enforcement and the prosecutor."
An FBI agent at the hearing called Tarrio a "key component" in local police investigations involving marijuana, cocaine and MDMA,
or ecstasy. The Miami FBI office declined comment.
A Proud Boy displays an 'Enrique Tarrio Did Nothing Wrong' shirt as Trump supporters gather for the 'Stop The Steal' rally that
preceded the Capitol assault on 6 January
Photograph: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock
There is no evidence Tarrio has cooperated with authorities since then. In interviews with Reuters, however, he said that before
rallies in various cities, he would let police departments know of the Proud Boys' plans. It is unclear if this was actually the
case. He said he stopped this coordination after 12 December because the DC police had cracked down on the group.
Tarrio on Tuesday acknowledged that his fraud sentence was reduced, from 30 months to 16 months, but insisted that leniency was
provided only because he and his co-defendants helped investigators "clear up" questions about his own case. He said he never
helped investigate others.
That comment contrasts with statements made in court by the prosecutor, his lawyer and the FBI. The judge in the case, Joan A
Lenard, said Tarrio "provided substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of other persons involved in criminal
conduct".
As Trump supporters challenged the Republican's election loss in often violent demonstrations, Tarrio stood out for his swagger
as he led crowds of mostly white Proud Boys in a series of confrontations and street brawls in Washington DC, Portland, Oregon
and elsewhere.
The Proud Boys, founded in 2016, began as a group protesting against political correctness and perceived constraints on
masculinity. It grew into a group with distinctive colors of yellow and black that embraced street fighting. In September their
profile soared when Trump called on them to "Stand back and stand by."
Tarrio, based in Miami, became the national chairman of the group in 2018.
In November and December, Tarrio led the Proud Boys through the streets of DC after Trump's loss. Video shows him on 11 December
with a bullhorn in front of a large crowd. "To the parasites both in Congress, and in that stolen White House,'" he said. "You
want a war, you got one!" The crowd roared. The next day Tarrio burned the BLM banner.
Former prosecutor Johannes said she was surprised that the defendant she prosecuted for fraud is now a key player in the violent
movement that sought to halt the certification of President Joe Biden.
"I knew that he was a fraudster, but had no reason to know that he was also a domestic terrorist," she said.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, horrified Americans were ready to embrace virtually any proposal that promised to keep them
safe. Government officials, for their part, were eager to curry favor with the fearful public and saw an opportunity to
promote legislation and policies that had failed to win support in the past. The result was a surge of authoritarianism from
which the U.S. has yet to recover. Now -- with the public understandably concerned after the January 6 storming of the Capitol -- we
should brace ourselves for another wave of political responses that would, again, erode our liberty.
"We're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and
misinformation," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
told
her Instagram followers
this week. "It's one thing to have differing opinions but it's another thing entirely to just say
things that are false. So that's something that we're looking into."
The socialist lawmaker isn't always careful about her words, but it's worrying when officials talk about a need to "rein in"
the media in any context. There's really no way to cast government action to that end in a good light, no matter what policy
tools are intended (Ocasio-Cortez's office hasn't responded to a request for comment). To let government agencies "rein in"
the media is to put control over speech and the press in the hands of people who always see benefit in less scrutiny and
criticism of their own activities.
That free speech might well take a hit is apparent from the pasting law enforcement is getting for, allegedly, being too
considerate of First Amendment rights before the events at the Capitol.
"FBI intelligence analysts gathered information about possible violence involving the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., but the FBI
never distributed a formal intelligence bulletin, in part because of concerns that doing so might have run afoul of free
speech protections," NBC News
reported
on
Tuesday.
The report goes on to reveal that in preparing for the protest that degenerated into a riot, the FBI
did
share
intelligence with other law enforcement agencies, neglecting only to issue a formal Joint Intelligence Bulletin. But the
overall impression left by NBC and by the behind-the-scenes leaks from officialdom on which its reporting is based are that
respect for free speech got in the way.
Since then, the FBI has made up for lost time,
issuing
a bulletin
highlighting the "threat of violence" from a range of "ideologically diverse" extremists. The danger is real,
as the violence of January 6 demonstrated. But so is the danger of an unrestrained federal agency with a
history
of
interference in domestic policy debates, spying on activists, and even trying to sabotage political parties -- revealed in great
detail by the 1976
Church
Committee report
. An FBI stung for being too respectful of individual rights in the recent past may return to its old
habits in the future.
In its efforts, the FBI and its allied agencies are almost certain to have the support of the new president. After the
storming of the Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden was harsh in his description of the participants. "Don't dare call them
protesters," he
said
.
"They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."
Biden's choice of language is interesting because, even before the election, his campaign promised to "
work
for a domestic terrorism law
" -- an idea
reportedly
favored
by his close advisors. What a new law would look like isn't clear, but Biden has a history with such legislation.
After the 9/11 attacks, Biden claimed authorship of the
Patriot
Act
, which has been much criticized for the damage it does to civil liberties in the name of combating foreign terrorism.
"I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing," he
told
The
New Republic
in October 2001. "And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill."
The uses to which the Patriot Act has been put since its passage should be warning enough to be wary of any legislation
proposed in response to the events of January 6.
"The Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary
Americans by expanding the authority to monitor phone and email communications, collect bank and credit reporting records, and
track the activity of innocent Americans on the Internet," the American Civil Liberties Union
summarizes
.
"While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into
suspects."
"This is really a debate about the standard our government should have to meet in order to obtain personal information about
individuals from banks, hospitals, libraries, retail stores, gun shops, and other institutions," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
argued
about
ongoing controversies surround the Patriot Act in 2011. "Government agents should not be able to collect this sort of
information on law abiding American citizens without showing that they have at least some connection to terrorism or other
nefarious activities."
Twenty years after its passage, the Patriot Act lingers on, still threatening civil liberties.
"The government has interpreted a high-profile provision of the Patriot Act as empowering F.B.I. national security
investigators to collect logs showing who has visited particular web pages," Charlie Savage of
The
New York Times
reported
just
last month. "New tensions have emerged over the extent to which the F.B.I. could use that law to gather logs of people's web
browsing activities, as opposed to using warrants -- a tool that requires investigators to first be able to produce evidence
that a person probably engaged in wrongdoing," he added.
Despite much moaning about the absence of a domestic terrorism law, the Patriot Act has had considerable and very intrusive
domestic impact on Americans' privacy.
The fallout from 9/11 also brought us amendments to the
Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act
, which authorized mass surveillance campaigns that were exposed by Edward Snowden and
ruled
unconstitutional
only last September. We saw the establishment of the
simultaneously
creepy and incompetent
Department of Homeland Security, and the further transformation of air travel into an ordeal under
the groping guidance of the
Transportation
Security Administration
. All of this was presented to a frightened public as part of a necessary response to the attacks
in hopes that nobody would notice that the proposals had been gathering dust on shelves, just waiting for an opening.
"Many of the changes have precious little to do with the dangers that we saw on September 11," George Washington University
Law School's Jonathan Turley
told
PBS
in 2002. "Many of those things are part of a wish list of intelligence agencies that they've wanted for decades."
Given that government officials' wish list of expanded powers are endless, and that they were
calling
for new laws
well before the storming of the Capitol, we should expect a flurry of legislative proposals in the weeks and
months to come. We'll need to scrutinize them very closely, on the assumption that they'll be as dangerous to freedom as past
schemes to protect us from risks real and imagined.
Looks like Dominion now can capitalize on Jan 6 events...
Notable quotes:
"... The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC on Monday. The massive 107-page document lists over 50 statements from Giuliani which he made on Twitter, his podcast, in the media, and during legislative hearings about Dominion – one of the largest companies selling voting machines used in the US. ..."
"... To illustrate the damage presumably done by Giuliani, the lawsuit provides a long list of screenshots from assorted internet uses, primarily from Twitter, fuming at Dominion and accusing it of facilitating the election "steal." The voting machines and sharp spikes in vote counts in favor of Joe Biden, widely attributed to the system, have been among the centerpieces of conspiracy theories for the pro-Trump crowd in the aftermath of the turbulent election. ..."
"... The lawsuit also highlights Giuliani's role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, accusing him of stirring up the violence. The document quotes Giuliani's address at the pro-Trump rally shortly before the violence, when he urged supporters to engage in "trial by combat." ..."
Donald
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems over claims of fraud
during the 2020 US presidential election. The company is seeking $1.3 billion in compensatory
and punitive damages.
The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC on Monday. The massive
107-page document lists over 50 statements from Giuliani which he made on Twitter, his podcast,
in the media, and during legislative hearings about Dominion – one of the largest
companies selling voting machines used in the US.
Giuliani, like many other prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump, has
repeatedly pointed the finger at the company as one of the main culprits behind Trump's
election loss. Dominion has been accused of being part of an alleged plot to fix the election
in favor of the Democrats, which, alongside mass mail-in voting, allegedly facilitated the
"steal" of Trump's presumed 'victory'.
Dominion has accused Giuliani of waging a "viral disinformation campaign" and
repeatedly producing "defamatory falsehoods" about it. It also claimed the allegedly
false statements from Trump's lawyer have stirred up a storm of death threats against its
employees.
To illustrate the damage presumably done by Giuliani, the lawsuit provides a long list of
screenshots from assorted internet uses, primarily from Twitter, fuming at Dominion and
accusing it of facilitating the election "steal." The voting machines and sharp spikes
in vote counts in favor of Joe Biden, widely attributed to the system, have been among the
centerpieces of conspiracy theories for the pro-Trump crowd in the aftermath of the turbulent
election.
The lawsuit also highlights Giuliani's role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, accusing him
of stirring up the violence. The document quotes Giuliani's address at the pro-Trump rally
shortly before the violence, when he urged supporters to engage in "trial by
combat."
The company is seeking at least $1.3 billion in compensatory and punitive damages from
Giuliani, demanding a trial by jury, according to the court documents.
The lawsuit against Giuliani largely resembles the one against another pro-Trump lawyer,
Sidney Powell, filed by the company earlier this month. Powell has been accused of waging a
"viral disinformation campaign" as well, with Dominion seeking the same eye-watering sum
of 1.3 billion in damages from her.
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"Election results in a county in Michigan had to be corrected to show that President Trump
won by nearly 2,000 votes after voting software gave 6,000 of his votes to Biden ." Which
probably never would have been check if Antrim County wasn't such a Red county. Hard to find
fraud when you refuse to look for it.
LeRuscino2 Sue Brown 11 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 11:08 AM
Exactly - Scream & shout 1st like MH-17 & when it's settled & Guiliani wins
nobody will know or even remember.
Banalucki 3 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 07:46 PM
so classic americana - the business that created an electronic voting "process" that
eliminates chain of custody protection, signatures and voter ID is suing Rudy for "fraud"...
Thomas51 2 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 08:26 PM
Political actions of any lawyer should bear consequences
VonnDuff1 2 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 08:01 PM
SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Policy) and nothing more. Unless you throw in
Kangaroo Courts with Monkey Judges.
Trekker 8 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 02:36 PM
Good to put Giuliani away once and for all for all the damage he has caused.
GottaBeMe Skeptic076 7 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 03:39 PM
They'll have to audit the computer code finally. And they'll have to do it using machines in
swing states that haven't been touched since November. Otherwise it's them saying one thing,
Giuliani saying something else.
Pete Wagner 7 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 03:11 PM
I guess that means they've destroyed all the damning evidence and have their judge briefed,
paid off, and ready to rule.
Sue Brown 12 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 10:53 AM
Typical USA style, don't defend yourself . . . when wronged = SUE!!!!
Enki14 9 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 01:54 PM
Methinks this is a publicity stunt as they would not want a jury of Powell's peers to see the
evidence Patrick Byrne PH.D. has amassed and the hundreds of witnesses that would be called
to testify on Powell's behalf. Methinks they managed to destroy the evidence on their hard
drives and thus feel the evidence would be viewed as circumstantial. However the pathways are
real, were tracked and saved.
As Democrats plunge ahead with a post-term impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a
key question remains: Will Chief Justice Roberts take the case?
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he won't -- making
the exercise "a fake, partisan impeachment," the lawmaker told Fox News' Sean Hannity
Friday.
Paul claimed Roberts has "privately said he's not supposed to come unless it's an
impeachment of the president."
According to the US Constitution, "when the President of the United States is tried, the
Chief Justice shall preside" -- a requirement not made for any other impeachment case.
"Congress is going to do what Congress does," Ashley Etienne, Vice President Kamala Harris'
communications director, told MSNBC Saturday.
One thing Trump enemies in Congress appear to be doing is grasping at straws -- even
reaching back to a post-Civil War amendment.
Several Dems have
floated the idea of punishing Trump with the 14th Amendment's rule that shuts those who
"engaged in insurrection or rebellion" out of elective office.
"I certainly think there is a 14th Amendment avenue separate and aside from impeachment,"
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy
told The Hill .
But the stricture, which was written to prevent former Confederate loyalists from regaining
power as the United States struggled through Reconstruction, has not been used since -- and
would
spark a long judicial battle if Congress attempted to invoke it, legal experts say.
Meanwhile, with Trump no longer in the White House, Republicans like Paul continued to
deride the impeachment as "an illegitimate procedure."
Roberts, who has not said publicly whether he will preside over the trial, has two more
weeks to decide.
After the House of Representatives' impeachment managers on Monday read their articles of
impeachment accusing Trump of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot, the Senate will
delay the trial until the week of Feb. 8 so that President Biden can get his administration
up and running, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Friday.
If Trump is convicted with a two-thirds majority of the Senate, Schumer could call for a
second vote, this one requiring only a simple majority, barring him from holding elective
office again.
But conviction will require the votes of at least 17 Senate Republicans -- an increasingly
remote possibility, as more party members climb aboard Paul's argument that only a sitting
president can be impeached.
"It's going to be tough to get even a handful" of GOP defectors, Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.)
told
CNN -- because "everybody has views that it's kind of a constitutional concern."
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Sunday called the impeachment trial of former President Donald
Trump "stupid" and "counterproductive".
In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Rubio
said "we already having a flaming fire in this country, and it's like take a bunch of gasoline
and pouring it on top of the fire."
"First of all, I think the trial is stupid. It's counterproductive," Rubio declared.
"Second, I look back at a time, for example, Richard Nixon, who had clearly committed crimes
and wrongdoing, and in hindsight I think we would all agree that President Ford's pardon was
important for the country to be able to move forward," he added. "And history held Richard
Nixon quite accountable for what he did as a result."
Rubio said Trump does bear "responsibility for some of what happened."
"It was most certainly a foreseeable consequence of everything that was going on," Rubio
said. "All I'm arguing is we have some really important things to work on. ... We're gonna jump
right back into what we've been going through for the last five years, and stirring it up again
with a trial, and it's just going to be bad for the country."
Democrats introduce their first bill in the House: H.R.1 – The bill that will destroy
America. Nationwide mail-in voting, banning restrictions on ballot harvesting, banning voter
ID, criminal voters,DC Statehood roadwork, it's all in here.
1) Internet-only registration with electronic signature submission.
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"(a) Requiring Availability Of Internet For Online Registration. -- Each State, acting
through the chief State election official, shall ensure that the following services are
available to the public at any time on the official public websites of the appropriate State
and local election officials in the State, in the same manner and subject to the same terms and
conditions as the services provided by voter registration agencies under section 7(a):
"(1) Online application for voter registration.
2) Banning the requirement to provide a full SSN for voter registration.
SEC. 1005. PROHIBITING STATE FROM REQUIRING APPLICANTS TO PROVIDE MORE THAN LAST 4 DIGITS OF
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. (a) Form Included With Application For Motor Vehicle Driver's License.
-- Section 5(c)(2)(B)(ii) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C.
20504(c)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting the
following: ", and to the extent that the application requires the applicant to provide a Social
Security number, may not require the applicant to provide more than the last 4 digits of such
number;".
Note that motor voter registration is how thousands of illegal became registered voters
in California and Nevada.
(2) DEFINITION. -- The term "automatic registration" means a system that registers an
individual to vote in elections for Federal office in a State, if eligible, by electronically
transferring the information necessary for registration from government agencies to election
officials of the State so that, unless the individual affirmatively declines to be registered,
the individual will be registered to vote in such elections.
4) 16 year olds required to be registered to vote.
(d) Treatment Of Individuals Under 18 Years Of Age. -- A State may not refuse to treat an
individual as an eligible individual for purposes of this part on the grounds that the
individual is less than 18 years of age at the time a contributing agency receives information
with respect to the individual, so long as the individual is at least 16 years of age at such
time. Nothing in the previous sentence may be construed to require a State to permit an
individual who is under 18 years of age at the time of an election for Federal office to vote
in the election.
"(1) REGISTRATION. -- Each State shall permit any eligible individual on the day of a
Federal election and on any day when voting, including early voting, is permitted for a Federal
election --
"(A) to register to vote in such election at the polling place using a form that meets the
requirements under section 9(b) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (or, if the
individual is already registered to vote, to revise any of the individual's voter registration
information); and
"(B) to cast a vote in such election.
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6) Grants ($25M) for using minors in election activities.
(1) IN GENERAL. -- The Election Assistance Commission (hereafter in this section referred to
as the "Commission") shall make grants to eligible States to enable such States to carry out a
plan to increase the involvement of individuals under 18 years of age in public election
activities in the State.
7) More children voters.
"(k) Acceptance Of Applications From Individuals Under 18 Years Of Age. --
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- A State may not refuse to accept or process an individual's application
to register to vote in elections for Federal office on the grounds that the individual is under
18 years of age at the time the individual submits the application, so long as the individual
is at least 16 years of age at such time.
8) Prohibiting attempts to clean voter rolls of non-residents.
It's this whole section, but in particular, this part below basically says nobody is
allowed to request voter rolls to be cleaned up. ie: making it illegal to do what Tom Fitton
was doing.
"(1) REQUIREMENTS FOR CHALLENGES. -- No person, other than a State or local election
official, shall submit a formal challenge to an individual's eligibility to register to vote in
an election for Federal office or to vote in an election for Federal office unless that
challenge is supported by personal knowledge regarding the grounds for ineligibility which is
--
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9) Murderers and rapists can vote.
(1) NOTIFICATION. -- On the date determined under paragraph (2), each State shall notify in
writing any individual who has been convicted of a criminal offense under the law of that State
that such individual has the right to vote in an election for Federal office pursuant to the
Democracy Restoration Act of 2021 and may register to vote in any such election and provide
such individual with any materials that are necessary to register to vote in any such
election.
10) Mandatory early voting.
Note that I personally like early voting in Florida, but putting it here anyway.
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- Each State shall allow individuals to vote in an election for Federal
office during an early voting period which occurs prior to the date of the election, in the
same manner as voting is allowed on such date.
11) THE BIG ONE – NATIONWIDE VOTE BY
MAIL, BAN ON BALLOT PROTECTION MEASURES, LEGALIZED LIMITLESS BALLOT HARVESTING.
"SEC. 307. PROMOTING ABILITY OF VOTERS TO VOTE BY MAIL.
"(a) Uniform Availability Of Absentee Voting To All Voters. --
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- If an individual in a State is eligible to cast a vote in an election
for Federal office, the State may not impose any additional conditions or requirements on the
eligibility of the individual to cast the vote in such election by absentee ballot by mail.
"(2) ADMINISTRATION OF VOTING BY MAIL. --
"(A) PROHIBITING IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENT AS CONDITION OF OBTAINING BALLOT. -- A State may
not require an individual to provide any form of identification as a condition of obtaining an
absentee ballot, except that nothing in this paragraph may be construed to prevent a State from
requiring a signature of the individual or similar affirmation as a condition of obtaining an
absentee ballot.
"(B) PROHIBITING REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE NOTARIZATION OR WITNESS SIGNATURE AS CONDITION OF
OBTAINING OR CASTING BALLOT. -- A State may not require notarization or witness signature or
other formal authentication (other than voter attestation) as a condition of obtaining or
casting an absentee ballot.
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"(2) PERMITTING VOTERS TO DESIGNATE OTHER PERSON TO RETURN BALLOT. -- The State --
"(A) shall permit a voter to designate any person to return a voted and sealed absentee
ballot to the post office, a ballot drop-off location, tribally designated building, or
election office so long as the person designated to return the ballot does not receive any form
of compensation based on the number of ballots that the person has returned and no individual,
group, or organization provides compensation on this basis; and
"(B) may not put any limit on how many voted and sealed absentee ballots any designated
person can return to the post office, a ballot drop off location, tribally designated building,
or election office.
12) Banning voter ID.
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- Except as provided in subsection (c), if a State has in effect a
requirement that an individual present identification as a condition of receiving and casting a
ballot in an election for Federal office, the State shall permit the individual to meet the
requirement --
"(A) in the case of an individual who desires to vote in person, by presenting the
appropriate State or local election official with a sworn written statement, signed by the
individual under penalty of perjury, attesting to the individual's identity and attesting that
the individual is eligible to vote in the election; or
13) Roadwork for DC statehood and territory statehood.
Deep State Mitch McConnell is proposing to postpone the second bogus
impeachment trial, which is based on a total fabrication, until February, under the guise 'to give president Trump more time
to prepare his defense'.
Mitch
McConnell won his Senate election in Kentucky in November, only with the support of President Trump, and came back to
Washington DC loaded for bear. He's not after the Democrats, who stole the election in thousands of different ways. He has
not said a word about the election being stolen. McConnell doesn't even consider that a review of the election fraud would
likely lead to many of the Republican Senators who lost in November having new elections or outright being awarded the wins in
the states where Democrats won.
McConnell didn't show a commitment to helping the people of America who have been destroyed by COVID because he wouldn't even
provide more than $600 for COVID relief for Americans suffering from shutdowns. Instead McConnell aligned himself with the
Democrat Party.
McConnell has done all he could to slander, disparage and destroy President Trump and the 79 million who voted for him.
(McConnell doesn't realize this is the old Republican Party and then some).
Today
McConnell announced that he is planning to move the bogus impeachment of President Trump to February. McConnell doesn't
realize that any Senators who vote to remove the President from any future terms in office will be replaced. It also will be
the final nail in the coffin of the Republican Party.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) proposed on a call with Republican senators Thursday that former President
Trump's impeachment trial be delayed until February to give him enough time to mount a defense.
McConnell told colleagues that Trump should have at least as much time as the president had in previous trials, which means
he would like to postpone the proceeding until the second week of February, according to Republican senators on the call.
"It would have been the 10th or 11th [of February] or somewhere
in there," said Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who said McConnell wants to give Trump the same amount of time he had to prepare
for the first impeachment trial and that former President Clinton had to prepare for his 1999 impeachment trial.
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But
Republican Senators McConnell and Braun are both lost in DC. Americans who voted for the President in numbers never seen
before by any Presidential candidate, (when accounting for valid votes) are livid that the election got stolen. They're livid
the Democrats staged the riots in the Capitol on January 6th and they are livid Republicans are working with the Democrats,
who stole the election in the greatest heist in world history, to attack the victim, President Trump rather than work for
justice.
Also,
it's a shock Senator Braun, who would not be a Senator if it wasn't for President Trump, doesn't know that Bill Clinton was
under investigation by an independent counsel for years and then was impeached in the House in a process after the independent
counsel identified crimes Clinton had committed. The impeachment of Clinton was supported by laws and a process. This latest
impeachment of President Trump is based on lies and a few hours for Democrats to put together papers. There was no due
process.
Washington DC is a mess. The Democrats have stolen an election and
Republicans are allowing it and saying nothing. Americans are quickly seeing that a new party that works for the people is
the remedy.
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The senate is not "supposed" to do investigations and discovery . Kavanaugh was the first . The house is
supposed to deliver a completed case. But , that's just the constitution. Who really cares about that
anymore ?
Turtle should have thrown out first faux impeachment, and he should have tossed this
second bogus one. Mcconnell needs to be made aware that china mitch is an enemy to the
Republican party and to the millions of Patriots who support President Trump.
The republican party is trash. Trump didn't run as a libertarian because he would've
never won. Republicans didn't elect Trump, Americans did. Republicans can f off with
the rest of them. They're all trash.
Now that Trump easily has 100 million new party members, let's remove the traitors.
I don't think Hawley or the other 3 voted to certify. You left off Ted Cruz & I'm sure he didn't' vote to certify.
These are the only true patriots left in the GOP.
Yes, there they did go, again. And when Reagan said that, he canceled millions of American's ability to get SS
survivor's benefits (death of a parent) during their university studies, and delayed how long you have to "keep
working" into old-age, to get full benefits - so less time to enjoy life, after a lifetime of work for the system.
"Oh, but that was a bipartisan commission," he told Mondale, in the debate - about the law HE Signed, to keep the
Ponzi-Scheme going - when they could have simply pulled the caps off, so the Mega-Rich didn't get to avoid paying
SS-Taxes on MOST of Their income - while working/middle class folks (up to $200+K) pay on ALL of theirs.
The Same Old GOPeee Schmiel, as Reagan WRECKED middle-class wages, and Shamnestied Millions of Illegal-Alien
Invaders - making Americans poor and desperate enough to vote for communism.
I'm for tax cuts - Raise the Personal Deduction on ALL types of taxes.
"... Not surprisingly, Blinken is a favorite of the AIPAC-bankrolled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which, as Phil Giraldi reported , Tweeted that Blinken would be part of a " superb national security team. The country will be very fortunate to have them in public service." ..."
"... We have Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to thank for at least bringing up the fact that Blinken has blundered from foreign policy disaster to foreign policy disaster – which only gets you promoted in Washington DC. In Blinken's confirmation hearing, Paul reminded Blinken of his addiction to intervention in the Middle East and how that has worked out for everyone. ..."
"... Yes, Senator Paul is right. "Regime change" doesn't work. It kills or destroys the lives of the most vulnerable. The poor and the innocent. The US enemies may occasionally find themselves on the wrong end of a noose or a knife rape , but it is the civilians who always suffer when they are "liberated" by Washington. ..."
"... Buckle up, as incoming Senate Majority Leader Schumer advised, there's a whole lot of interventionism in the queue. There's a whole lot of death and destruction to be unleashed by Biden, Blinken, and their gang of " humanitarians ." ..."
While the saccharine continues to ooze from the mainstream media for the incoming Biden
Administration, the real iron fist of what will be the Biden foreign policy is starting to
materialize. As if on cue, major bombings in Baghdad – by ISIS remember them? –
have
opened the door for the Biden Administration to not only cancel President Trump's troop
drawdown from Iraq but to actually begin sending troops back into Iraq.
Is this to be Iraq War 4.0? 3.7? 5.0? Anybody's guess.
If Biden uses this sudden – and convenient – unrest in Iraq as a trigger to
return US troops (and bombs), it should not surprise anyone. As Professor Barbara Ransby points
out in this video , Biden did much
more to make the disastrous 2003 attack on Iraq happen than just vote "yes" on the
authorization to use force. As Professor Ransby reminds us, Biden used the full power of his
position as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to ensure the Senate approved
George W. Bush's lie-based war on Iraq. Biden prevented any experts who challenged the "Saddam
has WMDs and he's about to use them" narrative from being heard by Members of Congress,
guaranteeing that only the pro-war narrative was heard.
As much as Bush or Cheney, Biden owns the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, which killed a million
Iraqi civilians. And he may well be taking us back.
One figure in the Biden Administration who will play a pivotal role in returning the US to
its hyper-interventionism in the Middle East is Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken . As
a Biden Senate staffer in 2003, he helped the then-Foreign Relations Committee Chairman put
together a pro-war coalition in the Democratic Party to support President Bush's Republican
push for invasion.
Later on Blinken was Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, where he successfully made
the case that destroying both Libya and Syria were fantastic ideas. Both countries drowned in
the Obama Administration's "liberation" bloodbath and neither country has recovered from the
"democracy" brought by Washington, but being a neocon foreign policy ideologue means never
having to say you're sorry.
And Blinken isn't.
Not surprisingly, Blinken is a favorite of the AIPAC-bankrolled Foundation for the Defense
of Democracies, which, as Phil Giraldi reported ,
Tweeted that Blinken would be part of a " superb national security team. The country will be
very fortunate to have them in public service."
We have Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to thank for at least bringing up the fact that Blinken has
blundered from foreign policy disaster to foreign policy disaster – which only gets you
promoted in Washington DC. In Blinken's confirmation hearing, Paul reminded Blinken of his
addiction to intervention in the Middle East and how that has worked out for everyone.
Paul reminded the Secretary of State nominee that his only criticism of the Syria "regime
change" plan was that the US did not successfully overthrow Assad. But the US was using
jihadist proxies to overthrow the
secular Assad , so what does this say about Blinken's judgement?
"The lesson of these wars," said
Paul , is that 'regime change' doesn't work!"
Paul added:
Even after Libya you guys went on to Syria wanting to do the same thing again it's a
disaster.
You got rid of one 'bad guy' and another 'bad guy' got stronger.
Yes, Senator Paul is right. "Regime change" doesn't work. It kills or destroys the lives of
the most vulnerable. The poor and the innocent. The US enemies may occasionally find themselves
on the wrong end of a
noose or a
knife rape , but it is the civilians who always suffer when they are "liberated" by
Washington.
Buckle up, as incoming Senate Majority Leader Schumer advised, there's a whole lot of
interventionism in the queue. There's a whole lot of death and destruction to be unleashed by
Biden, Blinken, and their gang of " humanitarians ."
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"... One of the authors cited Wall Street, banks and voting as examples of guaranteed fraud, because it's so easy – naive stupidity on our part knows no bounds. That includes me! It all took place under CIA watch! ..."
So what? Has there been any legal action actually being done against Dominion and the
election? How about some simple audited vote recounting? As I recall in 2016 Jill Stein had
both audits and recounts beginning two weeks after the election. Donald Trump hasn't done
anything other than golf.
Whining is just meant to stir us up because the deep staters really
want the right white wing to go hot. Can you imagine how sad they would be if their planned
color flag revolution violent stage mean't they would have to kill off some of their
miscreant human assets? All that work down the drain because of some damn stubborn white
people.
For the record, I really want to be wrong on this.
First, I want to thank a commenter on another site last week who provided a link to Gary
North's report on computerized electoral fraud – talk about making ballot stuffing easy
and hard to prove!
So I posted this thread in DaLimbraw Library – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2020/11/beyond-shameful-why-it-all-developed.html?m=0
– it shows that it goes back decades to the 60's. In fact, DaBastahds who understood
computer systems were salivating to start computerized voting fraud almost immediately and
improved their techniques constantly to this day.
Shit, any dummy with basic coding skills could probably do it! North has documented
examples.
One whistleblower, for example, asserts that Pat Buchanan was gypped in the 96 AZ primary in
favor of Dole – computerized 'glitches'?
We've all heard 'Garbage in-garbage out' – if you think about it, considering the
intelligence of the average voting dumbquat, it would be impossible NOT to have computerized
fraud – undetected!
Most of us trust those screens we stare at – forgetting totally that we're being
programmed to trust them – while being manipulated.
Did you ever notice the 'coincidence' of computer dependent fraud in three institutions?
One of the authors cited Wall Street, banks and voting as examples of guaranteed fraud,
because it's so easy – naive stupidity on our part knows no bounds. That includes
me!
It all took place under CIA watch!
How can you conduct a successful audit or recount when the secret ballots were separated
from the envelops they came in when they were opened? There is no way to tell who the
individual voters voted for. That's why democrats insisted on mail-in ballots, using the
(deadly?) corona virus as their excuse. It seems that voting at the polls on election day is
for republican chumps. BTW, Jill Stein's recounts in 2016 went nowhere.
"... "The debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur. We never had any presentation in court where we ever looked at the evidence..." ..."
"... '75% of Republicans want to look at election integrity,' Paul responds. Stephanopoulos responds by saying that those 75% agree with him because they were "fed a big lie" from the President. ..."
"... Paul pushed back, telling Stephanopoulos: "You immediately say everything's a lie instead of saying there's two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you'd interview someone else who said there wasn't. But now you insert yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I'm saying is a lie." ..."
"... You gotta ask the question of Rand here though, even as a lone voice of reason that Rand Paul is he and the Trump supporting Senators failed the Republic. They needed to push forward and introduce the Election Fraud evidence after the Jan. 6 planned interruption of the evidence hearing. Why didn't the Election fraud evidence get its day in front of Congress? The Fraud needed to be part of the historical record, and it was not. ..."
"... South Philly judge of elections admits he took bribes to stuff the ballot box for Democratic candidates ..."
"... The problem is that there are only a few decent human beings in the Republic leadership who are not entirely in the pocket of the RNC, which is entirely in the pocket of the globalists. ..."
"... The MSM has given up the pretense of being journalists. They are full-fledged propagandist attack dogs and proud of it. ..."
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) took to ABC on Sunday morning with George Stephanopoulos to discuss
election integrity of the 2020 election, in a discussion which immediately devolved into an
inquisition during which Paul was repeatedly pressed to disavow clams that the election was
stolen.
Paul not only pushed back -- he put Stephanopoulos in his place, accusing the host of
'inserting yourself in the middle' and 'forgetting who you are as a journalist.'
Stephanopoulos began by asking Paul to admit the "election was not stolen" -- to which Paul
responded by saying "The debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur. We never had
any presentation in court where we ever looked at the evidence..."
Paul continued: "There were several states in which the law was changed by the Secretary of
State and not the state legislature. To me those are clearly unconstitutional and I think
there's still a chance those do finally work their way up to the Supreme Court."
"No election is perfect," Stephanopoulos shot back , telling Paul there were "86 challenges
filed by President Trump, all were dismissed". As Paul tries to argue that many cases were
dismissed for lack of standing and not due to examination of evidence, Stephanopoulos responds:
" Can't you just say the words 'this election wasn't stolen'? "
'75% of Republicans want to look at election integrity,' Paul responds. Stephanopoulos
responds by saying that those 75% agree with him because they were "fed a big lie" from the
President.
Paul pushed back, telling Stephanopoulos: "You immediately say everything's a lie instead of
saying there's two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought
there was fraud, you'd interview someone else who said there wasn't. But now you insert
yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I'm saying is a
lie."
"You're saying there's no fraud and it's all been investigated and that's just not true,"
Paul continues, with Stephanopoulos arguing at the same time. Paul then goes into specifics,
detailing irregularities in states in like Wisconsin. "I plan on spending the next two years
going around, state to state, fixing these problems," Paul continues. "Let's have an open
debate. It's a free country!"
"There has been no thorough examination of all states to see what problems we had and see if
we could fix them," Paul says, responding to Stephanopoulos' claims that Bill Barr pronounced
there was "no widespread election fraud".
"There's two sides to every story," Paul says. "Interview someone on the other side, but
don't insert yourself into the story to say we're all liars."
"You're forgetting who you are as a journalist if you think there's only one side," Paul
says. "A journalist would hear both sides and there are two sides to this story."
Election integrity aside, Paul has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration in recent
days . On Saturday,
we noted Paul's interview with Fox host Sean
Hannity, where he pummeled the Biden administration's decision to push for a $15 minimum wage
increase that could put 4 million people out of work - leading the Kentucky Republican to
exclaim:
"'Why does Joe Biden hate Black teenagers?' ... Why does Joe Biden want to destroy all of
these jobs?"
Paul comments come amid ramblings from various leftist economists who insist that there's no
impact on employment from such a drastic minimum wage hike...
...common sense (and historical experience) for anyone who has ever run an actual business
is that raising costs on the lowest-skilled workers in your organization will ripple all the
way up, forcing either higher prices to the end-user (eradicating the 'living wage'
improvement) and or forcing layoffs as management hold margins and reduce costs (the
least-skilled first).
Historically speaking, the black unemployment rate is twice that of whites , while minimum
wage increases - as we've shown repeatedly over the last week - correlate with spikes in job
losses just about every single time.
That's not an "alternative" fact, that's the awkward reality of 'unintended consequences'
from nanny-state intervention write large for the last 70 years.
Paul also blasted Biden for
canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline:
"It's kind of a strange beginning to an administration," Paul said. "You're going to put your best foot forward and the first thing you say is, 'This is how
I'm going to kill jobs' ... 'I'm going to kill thousands of jobs of the Keystone pipeline
with ending it.'"
Explanation : There are multiple ways to commit election fraud using Dominion systems but
the most efficient manner is the full spectrum two-step process.
First at the adjudication step -- effectively covered in the data scientists' presentation
on Georgia video -- massive ballot flipping and with the previous ballot images deleted, no
trail remains.
Secondly at the tabulator stage (GEMS software, covered in detail in the Fractional Magic
video) ----- so ballots which were not adjudicated, and in some counties 90% went to the
adjudication process, proceeded to the tabulation step where they could be
fractionalized.
Boing_Snap 20 minutes ago
You gotta ask the question of Rand here though, even as a lone voice of reason that Rand
Paul is he and the Trump supporting Senators failed the Republic. They needed to push forward
and introduce the Election Fraud evidence after the Jan. 6 planned interruption of the
evidence hearing. Why didn't the Election fraud evidence get its day in front of Congress? The Fraud needed to be part of the historical record, and it was not.
nmewn 2 hours ago (Edited)
George Stephanopoulos: "There was not enough fraud to..."
Oh. So thats how the Leftardian brain works! Thank you Georgie boi. You now admit to voter fraud whereby legitimate votes were cancelled out by the fraud but
it is your opinion that there was not enough fraud for it to matter. Never again do I want to hear this little runt of the litter yapping "Every vote
matters!"
Feck Weed 2 hours ago
That's the fallback, the "widespread" qualifier.
Cheapie 1 hour ago
Yes, "Mostly honest election."
dark_matter 15 minutes ago
Just like mostly peaceful protestors as the buildings burn.
Zero-Hegemon 2 hours ago
Yes, "just enough" fraud to cover for Traitor Joe, but NOT ENOUGH to warrant a look into
the allegations. You got his number.
Samual Vimes 2 hours ago
South Philly judge of elections admits he took bribes to stuff the ballot box for
Democratic candidates
Public schools have zero tolerance for 'bullying' (that definition has been broadened to
irrelevance) or acting out for grade schools kids who barely have the ability to control
themselves... but SOME election fraud is ok. Shining examples of values-driven integrity.
FluTangClan 2 hours ago
Stephanopoulos is Bill Clinton's lapdog. He's not a journalist. He's a democratic party
operative and always has been. He's a warmonger dwarf. He was there for banging interns with cigars. He was there for Vince
Foster...
I would say Rand Paul is one of the few Republicans who is not corrupted. He's not perfect
either, but he seems to be one of a handful who tries to do something he promised to his
voters. As you point out, the problem isn't that there are a few RINOs. The problem is that
there are only a few decent human beings in the Republic leadership who are not entirely in
the pocket of the RNC, which is entirely in the pocket of the globalists.
Wards 1 and 2, all districts, 'normal' results with Trump around 5-15% (he officially won
12% of the black vote and 18% of the black male vote nationwide).
Ward 3 district 1.....and the next few hundred districts in Wards 3, 4, 5, etc.....98%+
D.
Stolen votes. Mostly black men's votes.
Then do Detroit. Same thing, a 'buffer page' or two of normal looking results and then bam
98+% D.
Simple corruption, simple cheating.
NOW we can talk about the chain of custody of the mail-in 'thingies' and the security of
the electronic systems.....but only if you can admit the bald truth in the DNC machine
cities.
The MSM has given up the pretense of being journalists. They are full-fledged propagandist attack dogs and proud of it.
Handful of Dust 2 hours ago (Edited)
One problem Georgie and his Demorat pals have, is the 100 million people who listened to
the State Legislative hearings with Rudy where hundreds of witnesses came forward with
credible evidence of fraud. Then there are the video segments of evidence of fraud. Then you have a dozen of the world's top forensic data people coming from all over
including forensic teams from Wall Street who testified "there is zero probability Biden
could have gotten those numbers."
Inconvenient facts that provide overwhelming proof of fraud. That's why Dems are still in
a tizzy and have 50,000 soldiers and police protecting His Majesty Biden...but this is not
going away from what Rand Paul says.
"Da peeples love me so much I need 15 platoons of soldiers for protection," Pol Pot yelled
to the rabble below his bullet-proof, bomb-proof balcony.
Rattling Bones 2 hours ago
How come Stephanopoulos can't say the words 'there was no Russian collusion'?
Demologos 2 hours ago
He enjoys his nice fat paycheck for looking the other way.
That Old Magic 2 hours ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not
understanding it ." ― Upton Sinclair
philmannwright 2 hours ago
George is not a journalist puhlease everyone knows that. He is the el chapito of the dem
media
FluTangClan 2 hours ago
Thank you. He was on Bill Clinton's staff. He was a happy part of bombing Iraqi babies,
bombing Yugoslavia, bombing phkn Sudan based on internet searches. He has zero credibility.
His credibility is buried with Vince Foster.
adr 2 hours ago (Edited)
They can never allow the evidence to be presented because it is overwhelming proof of
fraud. If there was no fraud, then there would be no harm in having evidence presented in
court. The absolute proof of fraud is the number of adjudicated ballots. Were 68% of people in
Georgia really incompetent enough to not know how to fill out a ballot.
The other irrefutable fact is that the state of PA did not follow an order from the US
supreme court to separate ballots received after election day. Also in Philadelphia election
officials destroyed the envelopes so they could not be matched with ballots.
Even if Biden really did win those two states, which he didn't, the actions of the
election supervisors invalidated the election. The only recourse was to have a new election
in disputed states.
headless blogger 1 hour ago (Edited)
Plus, Paul is not the best person to make the case for the American people on election
integrity, as he isn't even an attorney. He can't debate the issue properly which allows the
Psy-ops operators like Steph to out maneuver him.
People need FACTS, which so far the election integrity researchers are not providing in a
logical and chronological format. The PSY OPS operation that pulled off the Coup, are smooth
operators and are now able to clean up any loose ends with their media.
What needs to happen is an independent investigation that can present the findings in a
way that people understand. As it is, they keep screaming election fraud, but aren't providing details in an orderly
manner so nobody can really get a grip on what happened.....
....which is the hallmark of a psy-ops operation; they don't want you to be able to
process what happened logically and chronologically.
yerfej 43 minutes ago
No, they have implemented a very good long term strategy to take over the positions of
power. Academia is a good example where they own it and now have the ability to pollute minds
rather than get students to look at all sides of the equation. That doesn't do anyone outside
of the elites any good. Reality is its not a left vs. right thing, its the common people vs.
the elites.
rkb100100 2 hours ago
"No election is perfect" - that'll be carved on the countries tombstone.
Lost in translation 1 hour ago
Blows my mind that people forget so quickly how he turned - or just overlook it - and
continue in the foolish belief "Rand is one of the good guys!"
People reveal themselves in a crisis. Rand certainly did...
TruthAbsolute 1 hour ago
of course there was election fraud...and the democrats have set up a system that protects
them well. All the way up to the judicial system and if not their judge then families are
threaten. There is is no integrity in politics, these people are not honest or very, very few
of them! They are not working for the people but ultimately for themselves and their life
treasure chess! USA has become very Evil minded!
Jam 1 hour ago remove link
Nice to see Paul not backing down, someone in politics still has a backbone and can tell
it like it is besides Trump.
'The Day the Music Died'*
A brief history of the decline and fall of the United States of America
- November 22, 1963 The Anglo-American Ruling Elite, through their Deep State operatives,
overthrow the U.S. government. From now on all presidents will rule under Deep State
supervision.
- January 20, 1981
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite's first puppet president is installed. Others will follow
(Clinton, W, Obama).
Over the next 40 years the U.S. economy will be hollowed out while the The Anglo-American
Ruling Elite strip mines the country's assets, leaving both the government and the population
in perpetual debt servitude.
- November 9, 1989
The Soviet Union gives up on the Cold War
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite is now free to rebuild the former British Empire as a new,
improved Global Empire, based in global institutions and without the inconvenience of host
countries.
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite now becomes the 'Global Elite'.
- September 11, 2001
Domestic resistance to the U.S. military becoming the Global Elite's mercenary military force
is removed.
The colonial wars may begin.
- November 3, 2020
After decades of suffering a thousand cuts, U.S. democracy is delivered the final, fatal
blow.
- January 6, 2021 - The Day the Music Died
The U.S. Capitol is under military occupation. The constitution is effectively suspended.
The United States of America, as a constitutional republic, is no more.
From now on the U.S. is just another Globalist colony.
* From Don McLean's 1971 song 'American Pie'. At the time it seemed an omen of things to
come. It took 50 years for the premonition to be realized.
After the Coup in Ukraine in 2014 for several years I listened weekly to the John
Batchelor show when he interviewed Russia scholar the late Stephen Cohen.
From those conversations I learned that Ukraine is politically divided EAST (pro European
Union) / WEST (pro Russian) (a bit like the United States is divided RED / BLUE).
Politically by vote Ukraine was close to 50% pro E.U., 50% pro Russia.
After the Coup Crimea voted to return to Russia thus making the political breakdown of
Ukraine more pro E.U.
Forbes Magazine in 2008 republished an interview with Soviet critic Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn, among other things, noted 1) in 1919 Lenin in bringing Ukraine into the
Soviet Union gave Ukraine "several Russian provinces to assuage her feelings," 2) that when
in 1954 Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine Sevastopol was not transferred to Ukraine as
Sevastopol was a military city subject to the Central Government of the U.S.S.R.
I would note that Khrushchev's transfer of Crimea to Ukraine violated Soviet Law /
Constitution as the people of Crimea were not asked if they wanted to be transferred.
At the time I did some searching about the history of Crimea and Ukraine and it turns out
that shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union Crimea wanted to separate from Ukraine and
the Central Government of Ukraine threatened to invade Crimea.
The Central Government of Ukraine in its Constitution gave Crimea a special status not
given other provinces.
I would note that in October 1962 Joe Biden was 19 years 11 months old and likely a
college student. In October 1962 the world came close to ending (at least a good deal of the
so called civilized world) with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
However, in 2014, ignoring the warning of Robert F. Kennedy of the need to put yourself in
the other Country's shoes, Biden supported the violent Coup which essentially included a
violent takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada) by violent protesters, much akin to the
Trump Taliban taking over the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
It seems that Biden thought that NATO could just move into Sevastopol and take over not
just the port of the Russian navy, but the Russian Navy itself.
"... "Invasion of Capitol" was real, but it does not seem a conspiracy with hidden strings. We know how mobs were use to overthrow government, e.g. in Cairo, Kiev and La Paz -- in chronological order. It was nothing like that. ..."
"... Where there is a wide room for possible conspiracy is how it happened. Methods of defending key buildings in such situations exists and were used, with success, many times, including Washington Mall. And they were not deployed. Why? ..."
"... Defenders of the Capitol were practically removed and Democrats got the possibility of starting the political season of 2021 with impeachment and other jolly diversions, complete with the revival of Russia Gate. ..."
These Keystone Cops would be hilarious if they weren't so nefarious. There was no
"insurrection" – totally manufactured, false flag.
Where were the "insurgents" that were supposedly going to show up Jan-20-21 at every state
capital in the nation and DC? The handful of demonstrators that did show up were anything but
insurgents, and instead some of them talked about populist unity.
Yet for days ever since "the assault on democracy" that's all the mainstream harped about,
with help from notables on "the left" crying wolf over "the rise of fascism." What a joke.
CIA can't even carry out a false flag in its front yard anymore, much less in its
backyard.
Next comes commissions and the legislation and the policy changes to avert the evil.
Meanwhile 4000+ US citizens die per day due to a pandemic that could've, should've been
contained by a half-way decent public health system like the rest of the world has.
The Biden Administration desperately needed an excuse NOT to work on progressive causes
(caged children, M4A, student debt, etc) and they got it: an anti domestic terrorism
bill.
JohnO , January 22, 2021 at 19:50
Sorry, Mrs de Legorreta,
Your comments are completely off point and totally lacking evidence. To suggest that the
violent invasion and trashing of the Capitol was a CIA false-flag operation ignores the facts
on the ground. The leader of The Proud Boys, a neo-nazi group was videotaped at the attack.
He has admitted to planning it. Many of his confederates are in fact fascist. Many of them
hold as their greatest aspiration a race war. The subject of this column was Russiagate, and
you have taken it as an opportunity to promote an interpretation of the January 6 uprising
that has no basis in fact. Well done.
Piotr Berman , January 23, 2021 at 12:06
"Invasion of Capitol" was real, but it does not seem a conspiracy with hidden strings.
We know how mobs were use to overthrow government, e.g. in Cairo, Kiev and La Paz -- in
chronological order. It was nothing like that.
Where there is a wide room for possible conspiracy is how it happened. Methods of
defending key buildings in such situations exists and were used, with success, many times,
including Washington Mall. And they were not deployed. Why?
One possibility is "offside strategy" of Association Football: you remove the defenders
from the area in front of the goal, and then the offense of the opposite side makes a
forbidden move that is otherwise OK. Defenders of the Capitol were practically removed
and Democrats got the possibility of starting the political season of 2021 with impeachment
and other jolly diversions, complete with the revival of Russia Gate.
I am agnostic about the causes, but the situation was highly peculiar.
· The US national security state failed to prevent the pro-Trump mob
attack on the Capitol. Yet instead of accountability, US intelligence officials are being
emboldened via increased militarization, censorship, and surveillance. Max Blumenthal and Aaron
Maté discuss the dangerous fallout.
Rather than prioritize accountability for US intelligence officials' failure to prevent the
pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol, the incident is instead being used to expand the national
security state's powers. Max Blumenthal, who witnessed the Capitol mob and reported on a key
participant, discusses his coverage of the attack and the dangers of a militarized, myopic
response.
Guest: Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone and author of several books including his
latest, "The Management of Savagery."
Aaron Maté is a journalist and producer. He hosts Pushback with Aaron
Maté on The Grayzone. He is also is contributor to The Nation magazine and former
host/producer for The Real News and Democracy Now!. Aaron has also presented and produced for
Vice, AJ+, and Al Jazeera.
"... "You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with -- its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don't steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned." -- Seven Days in May (1964) ..."
"... That January 6 attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real coup, however. Those who answered President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop in and take control. ..."
"... It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned . ..."
"... Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America ..."
"... Seven Days in May ..."
"... Seven Days in May ..."
"... domestic right-wing extremism ..."
"... Battlefield America: The War on the American People ..."
"... This article was originally published on The Rutherford Institute . ..."
"You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country why in the name
of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? You
want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with
-- its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don't steal it
after midnight, when the country has its back turned." -- Seven Days in May
(1964)
No doubt about it: the coup d'etat was successful.
That January 6
attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real
coup, however. Those who answered
President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into
creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military
Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop
in and take control.
It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed
under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or
controversial viewpoints
ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned .
This new order didn't emerge into being this week, or this month, or even this year,
however.
Indeed, the real coup happened when our government "of the people, by the people, for the
people" was overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, techno-corporate state that is in
cahoots with a government "of the rich, by the elite, for the corporations."
We've been mired in this swamp for decades now.
Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought lock, stock
and barrel and made to dance to the Deep State's tune.
Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw:
a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of
a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to
enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended
or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these
consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment,
the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our
constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread
intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or
military invasion
This stealthy, creeping, silent coup that Gross prophesied is the same danger that writer
Rod Serling envisioned in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May ,
a clear warning to beware of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for
the nation's security.
Incredibly enough, almost 60 years later, we find ourselves hostages to a government run
more by military doctrine and corporate greed than by the rule of law established in the
Constitution. Indeed, proving once again that fact and fiction are not dissimilar, today's
current events could well have been lifted straight out of Seven Days in May , which
takes viewers into eerily familiar terrain.
With the Cold War at its height, an unpopular U.S. President signs a momentous nuclear
disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Believing that the treaty constitutes an unacceptable
threat to the security of the United States and certain that he knows what is best for the
nation, General James Mattoon Scott (played by Burt Lancaster), the head of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and presidential hopeful, plans a military takeover of the national government. When Gen.
Scott's aide, Col. Casey (Kirk Douglas), discovers the planned military coup, he goes to the
President with the information. The race for command of the U.S. government begins, with the
clock ticking off the hours until the military plotters plan to overthrow the President.
Needless to say, while on the big screen, the military coup is foiled and the republic is
saved in a matter of hours, in the real world, the plot thickens and spreads out over the past
half century.
We've been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long -- sold to us in the name of
national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and
order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined
to maintain their powers at all costs -- that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started
going downhill, but we've been on that fast-moving, downward trajectory for some time now.
The question is no longer whether the U.S. government will be preyed upon and taken over by
the military industrial complex. That's a done deal, but martial law disguised as national
security is only one small part of the greater deception we've been fooled into believing is
for our own good.
How do you get a nation to docilely accept a police state? How do you persuade a populace to
accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations,
tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in
their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at
drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents
monitoring their communications?
Try to ram such a state of affairs down the throats of the populace, and you might find
yourself with a rebellion on your hands. Instead, you bombard them with constant color-coded
alerts, terrorize them with shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas,
desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and sell the whole package to them as
being for their best interests.
This is not the language of a free people. This is the language of force.
Still, you can't say we weren't warned.
Back in 2008, an Army
War College report revealed that "widespread civil violence inside the United States would
force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic
order and human security." The 44-page report went on to warn that potential causes for such
civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, "unforeseen economic collapse, loss of
functioning political and legal order , purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency,
pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters."
In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that labelled right-wing
and left-wing activists and military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) and called
on the government to subject such targeted individuals to full-fledged pre-crime surveillance.
Almost a decade later, after spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the
greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism .
Meanwhile, the police have been transformed into extensions of the military while the nation
itself has been transformed into a battlefield. This is what a state of undeclared martial law
looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely
for not complying with a government agent's order or not complying fast enough. This hasn't
just been happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It's been happening all across the
country.
Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants
(and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that has been colluding with the
government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing
and inescapable . It's not just the drones,
fusion centers , license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry
about. You're also being tracked by the black boxes in your
cars , your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media
accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader
accounts.
So you see, January 6 and its aftermath provided the government and its corporate
technocrats the perfect excuse to show off all of the powers they've been amassing so
assiduously over the years.
Mind you, by "government," I'm not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy
of the Republicans and Democrats.
I'm referring to "government" with a capital "G," the entrenched Deep State that is
unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach
of the law.
I'm referring to the corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully
operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country and
calling the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White House.
This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its
citizenry.
Brace yourself.
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it
doesn't bode well for the future of this country.
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class
that they are oblivious to all else, you'd better beware.
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force,
and rules by fiat, you'd better beware.
And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are
never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you'd better beware.
All of those dastardly seeds we have allowed the government to sow under the guise of
national security are bearing demon fruit.
The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a
ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money.
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The January Sixth events in Washington D.C., depicted in the corporate media as Donald
Trump's criminal "incitement to insurrection", were predictably greeted by Democrats and their
media as the worst tragedy to ever befall American democracy, the heinous plot to establish a
police state -- a coup d'etat, the final desperate act of a deranged tyrant. That might be
considered something akin to surface discourse. Framed differently, those events could not have
made the Dems happier, for by the time the last demonstrator left the Capitol the political
floodgates were opened: total war against an entire nation of seditious Republicans, now
demonized as "domestic terrorists", could finally be adopted as full-fledged strategy. The
perfect Dems scenario for gaining unchallenged power had been laid.
Beyond the moment of Capitol disorder the Dems would find, without much difficulty, that
most precious of all gifts -- a political godsend. Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, national trauma
would give the power elite just what it coveted – in this case the greatest of all
opportunities to frame Trump and much of the Republican party as enemies of the state,
collectively damned to ideological purgatory. January Sixth, like December Seventh before it,
would serve as political code for converting national chaos into its very opposite: relief. The
Dems, already beginning to solidify power in the White House, Congress, the media, and Big
Tech, could now move toward a scorched-earth policy – war of annihilation.
In his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day
of infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do but
could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S. into World
War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR, whose infamous
eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the Pacific fleet in
Hawaii. In the end, after four difficult years, victory would be heroically wrestled from
defeat.
After what was portrayed as a "sneak attack" (military operations were supposed to be
advertised in advance?), the New York Herald Tribune could exalt: "Since the clash now
appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a sense of relief. The air is
clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war] with the old obstacles
finally removed, forgotten." Public opposition to U.S. entry into the war vanished in two hours
one early Sunday morning. Democratic politicians, joined by a good many Republicans, were now
ready to take military combat to Japan (and then Germany), as the attack had given FDR all the
power, not to mention legitimacy, any president could possibly desire. Since 1941 Pearl Harbor
has been ideological code for unlimited executive freedom, and Roosevelt energetically took
advantage.
In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, shock turned to resolve, momentary defeat to righteous
commitment. Victim status would be transformed into its opposite. Roughly the same dynamic
would be repeated in the case of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which gave president George W.
Bush "permission" to do what he and the neocons were already hellbent on doing – invading
Iraq and "finishing the job" of overthrowing Saddam Hussein. In both cases – Pearl Harbor
and 9/11 – national humiliation was mobilized to "reset" U.S. foreign policy.
For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy
Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more
opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated,
would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of
treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. Pelosi, ready as ever
for vengeful action, would say: "The situation of this unhinged president could not be more
dangerous. He chose to be an insurrectionist." Trump's behavior (in riling up demonstrators)
would demand immediate and harsh retribution. Other Dems quickly followed Pelosi's lead,
amplified by a monolithically frenzied media. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shrill as ever and
clearly speaking for the "progressive" squad, said: "I do believe we should exercise every
avenue possible because the president has shown that his mental status and his actions are
wildly eroding at a rapid pace." Trump represents a "clear and present danger to our
democracy", she blustered, and must be removed from office as soon as possible.
Not to be overshadowed, Senator Chuck Schumer, reprising "Pearl Harbor" no less, would
state: "I have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just
witnessed in this Capitol. President Franklin Roosevelt set aside December 7, 1941 as a day
that will live in infamy. Unfortunately, we can now add January 6, 2021 to that very short list
of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy." Oblivious to months of fire
bombings, lootings, beatings, and killings across the streets and buildings of dozens of
American cities (criminality that persists to this day) – all encouraged by the Dems --
Schumer would add, hypocritically: "The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows
smashed, our offices vandalized."
The authoritarian, virtually fascistic reaction of the media and political establishment was
swift and, well, unhinged: the House would quickly move to impeach the president, again, Trump
was permanently banned from Twitter and other social-media outlets, Republicans (even those far
removed from the Capitol violence) were facing censorship, blacklisting, job loss, and
thoroughly dishonest smears. Within a week the silencing of conservatives across the Internet
had reached new heights. The long-cherished Beltway goal to destroy Trump, his family, and
associates was in sight: any Trump hope for the presidency in 2024 would be smashed. Hysterical
threats of "domestic terrorism" would mean, as always, a drastic Hobbesian response: maximum
state power, strengthened ideological controls, the crushing of political opposition.
As Dower noted, the ideological code emanating from "Pearl Harbor" included yet another
motif: the familiar stereotype of Asians (at that time) as sneaky, backstabbing, and irrational
would be affirmed on December Seventh. Who else could carry out such a dastardly attack? The
same code would naturally apply to millions (tens of millions) of deplorable Trump supporters
– a motley assemblage of gun-toting racists and neo-Nazis. Didn't those sanctimonious CNN
pundits always warn about the backward white-supremacists seduced by the guile of the Orange
Menace? Indeed. The truth was finally illuminated for every Beltway dweller to seize upon and
embellish: Trump followers would now have to pay, their collective guilt revealed beyond doubt
amidst the ashes of January Sixth.
So when all the enlightened Dems repeat their heartfelt sadness over the fate of the
Republic, over Trump's evil subversion of "our democracy", it might be time to look more
closely beneath the surface – or maybe head for the hills. If there were any bars open in
the woke Democratic neighborhoods, that is probably where Pelosi, AOC, Adam Schiff, and other
sad victims of the Orange Menace might be found gathering to celebrate, toasting to their
unbelievably good fortune. Whether such celebrations might be long-lived, however, would be
another matter. Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists.
Thank you for writing this. I am still trying to figure out why Ashli Babbit, the only
person shot on 1/6, was surrounded by cops at the time, with John Sullivan filming the
incident, along with a Chinese videographer from the CIA's Epoch Times. Sullivan's footage of
the event focuses lovingly on the hand of the shooter, until he steps forward and shoots. The
shooter makes a very exaggerated movement before he fires, despite having his gun trained on
Babbitt already. I believe this movement was a necessary signal to Babbitt, so that could
fall backward in sync with the gunshot. She could have been easily restrained and arrested by
the cops on her side of the window, but instead she was "shot" by a conveniently disembodied
arm. And the only evidence of injury is a very small amount of blood coming out of her
mouth.
@Sue Dunham ng
out of her neck and all over the Capital steps.
After I saw the video of Ashli Babbit's rant on gewtube I came to the conclusion it was
just another manufactured event. I was reminded of the woman Astronaut that drove all the way
from the Johnson Space Center down to the Space Coast in Florida to be with her unrequited
love. All the while wearing diapers the whole time so she wouldn't have to take potty breaks
on the drive down.
If anyone else has seen a video of blood spurting out of Ashli's neck and pooling all over
the floor please provide a link.
You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the
movies.
1/6 was a nothingburger that is being jewed out of all proportion.
In reality, 1/6 did about ..1/10000000000000 as much damage as the Antifa and BLM
shitheads did in nine months of REAL insurrection.
The jewish owned MSM lies about everything, turns ANY event into an opportunity to SHIT on
innocent white people to demonize them and instill desire in non-whites to MURDER white
people.
The jew media narrative distilled is blood libel against white people.
In his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day of
infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do
but could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S.
into World War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR,
whose infamous eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the
Pacific fleet in Hawaii.
Roosevelt also knew a Japanese fleet was enroute to attack Pearl Harbor, but withheld this
intel from commanders in Hawaii.
@Beavertales act,
the draconian over-reaction of the elite may prove to be a godsend rallying event for the
oppressed.
Indeed, when I read the title, "January Sixth as Godsend," I thought this article was going
in the direction you indicate.
Events, like arguments, often comprise two, opposing poles. The question is, what will be
the result, the aufheben , this time?
In the near term, clearly it will be further erosion of civil liberties and continued
"American Pravada" fakery. In the long run, however, anything is possible, even things we can't
imagine, because this is now an irrational, complex, disturbed system.
Who will play the role of the Philip Zelikow in the "Insurrection Commission," in the
extension of the 9/11 Commission into the forthcoming 1/6 Commission?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFpw-ioM3dk?feature=oembed 44:00
" a shift of the tectonic plates. It is happening before our eyes, this gathering of the elites
."
I forget the name of the incident, but several years ago there was a very obvious fake
female getting shot incident in an attempted color revolution in Iran. It had cia/mi6/Mossad
written all over it, as usual. However, I think they ended up killing the "useful idiot" a few
hours later when the plan failed. This incident is very similar. If someone knows the incident
I am talking about please remind me/us.
Please don't besmirch fascists by mentioning Pelosi as a representative. A better
description of her would be a plutocratic cypriot. No self respecting fascist would be caught
within a stone's throw of her for fear of catching the backdoor trots.
Quite tame, but Schumer, Pelosi and the rest of the gang are going to work it up into The
Reichstag Fire and would, if they could use it to get an enabling act.
Goebbels would be so proud of all the Dems, especially of Schumer.
We can take this Pearl Harbor analogy a little further. The Japanese Americans were also
stripped of their property in a very planned and devious manner immediately after December 7.
Jews picked up most of this property at fire sale prices and benefitted immensely.
The full effects of how this faked January 6 "insurrection" was "good for the jews" will
become clear in the months ahead. But one thing is clear, the take down of Parler directly
benefitted jew owned Facebook (((Zuckerberg))) and the gaggle of jew controlled social media
outfits like Twitter and Instagram.
The Japanese Americans were stripped of thousands of acres of valuable farmland in central
California. Shortly after the January 6 insurrection it came out the Bill Gates is the largest
owner of farmland in the US. Covid and Climate Engineering has impacted farmers across the US
(derechios). I think there may be some correlation here too.
There is also the issue of the 25,000 National Gaurd called in for the innauguration.
Washington mobilized for war.
They can wear tailored suits that cost five or ten thousand. They can get hair colouring
that cost maybe two grand. They can spend as much as they can spend, but the brutal truth is
they are not getting out of this place alive, no matter how much they spend, no matter how much
political power they have, no matter who they know. They are going to be just as dead as the
rest of us. LOL.
The people pictured above, are hands down, the craziest of the crazies. These comrades make
the Trump administration look like boy scouts by comparison.
The problem is, they weren't carrying guns. No one was really threatened. They stayed
between the purple ropes, those folks with canes and walkers and only a few reached the "inner
sanctum", which looks like a library and there ANTIFA members instigated the usual window
breaking and were actually scolded by some of the Trump supporters telling them to stop it,
when finally an unarmed woman, a Trump supporter was murdered by the police. Only the biggest
dupes and people wanting to believe an absurd narrative were shocked. Thinking people were
not.
Interesting that the troops in DC are STAYING, their active duty orders extending AT LEAST
through 16 February which MAY BE EXTENDED military document below on this
Some say these are Trump troops who will still help 'stop the steal', arrest Biden etc LOL
others say that Biden-Harris are preparing martial law scenarios after possible false flag
terror attack, or some kind of new economic or pandemic crisis Given Biden's USA troops invaded
northern Syria on Biden's first full day in office Thursday, it seems the USA war machine is
back in gear and happy to be ridin' wit' Biden
As is widely noted, the new Biden gov seems to be poking ordinary Americans with a
stick:
– Biden's tranny orders destroying women's sports and that all bio-males 'identifying as
female' be welcome in women's locker rooms & rest rooms
– Biden 'critical race theory' order for white-humiliating 'training', all non-Jew whites
to confess to being inherently 'racist' as price to keep gov etc jobs
– Amnesty & citizenship for 11 million & maybe 30-40 million migrants inside US,
end to deportations & border security
Great summary, though the word 'godsent' implies a passivity which seems misapplied in
describing the actions of the beneficiaries of this deep state instigation.
This type of event, perfunctorily (and rather clumsily) tracing a number of transparent
stages, which are then blasted incessantly through propaganda megaphones, is absolutely
standard practice in all foreign coups.
This dynamic is used to give all the partisans a fig leaf to cover their actions and to
provide the next level actors a cue to start their intervention.
"You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the
movies."
Fair enough.
But -- if she died instantly there'd be very little blood .
I have no idea what really happened, but I'm willing to provisionally accept she was shot dead
by an unidentified shooter.
"The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized."
Most of the Dem' – Establishment reaction to 6.1.21 has been spew inducing, but the above
quote is just perfectly -- funny.
It is SO over the top, SO cynical, self serving & lacking in irony that hilarity is the
only natural response.
There are said to be 2300 Capitol police answerable to Pelosi etc. So when the remarkably
few police actually there conveniently moved the barriers aside to let protestors into the
building, its obvious that the Democrat gerontocracy was still thinking well ahead of the dumb
Trumpstein rabble.
@Sue Dunham staged
"incidents" along the path to Lexington, just like Charlottsville in 2017 was part of the lead
up to the "insurrection" of January 6, 2021.
Samuel Adams and his Masonic Brothers had been planning and inciting the rebellion (Tea
Party, Boston Massacre) from the Green Dragon Tavern.
Boston's Green Dragon Tavern, headquarters of both the Sons of Liberty and St. Andrew's
Lodge
I thought from the title the theme was going to be a far subtler one, not the 'what a gimme
for The Left', the line which everyone still able to publish has taken. I'd argue that 6 Jan
brings peak Democrat hubris forward so pulls nemesis – the revelation of the red tooth
and claw of unhinged, vote-losing socialism – much nearer (say 2022).
Good points. Flip the script tell the truth make it happen.
Yet people still don't believe in Karma?????????
What we need to do is stop tolerating/subsidizing evil.
Easier said than done you say?You're probably right.
Hard to get it out there though,most seem TOO invested in
continuing their blissful expertise .
Looks to me that it's finally beginning to end or not
Yes, and there is also the clear evidence of capitol police standing aside, waving
protestors toward the building, lining the halls to get out of their way as they entered, and
leading them up the correct set of stairs. It was a set up, like what Roosevelt achieved at
Pearl Harbor.
The writer does not say so though it is implied .this 'event' screamed it was STAGED.
Beginning with the most obvious why were the crowd allowed in at all? It's just another of
these 'hoaxes' and with Biden in charge look for many more. Didn't the whole 'hoax' method
(Sandy Hook, Boston Bombing, etc etc) take off during the Obama/Biden years? As Chuck Shumer
said recently "Buckle Up"
1/6 was a false flag attack following the theft of the 2020 election. The purpose? To
establish Chinese style Totalitarianism on behalf of what Pepe Escobar refers to as Techno
Feudalism.
Nothing good can come from Democrats and/or Republicans. Democrats and Republicans have
ruined our Country. Why is Orange Man Bad? Becuase the Deplorables defeated both Parties in
2016. It won't happen again. Nothing good can come from the District of Corruption. Separation
is the ONLY way forward. Why is anyone still talking about future elections?
@Sue Dunham as a
cue to pretend you were shot, if you are, in fact, pretending. So, if the "exaggerated
movement" is your proof that it was "acting," then it was not acting but real. That it was
otherwise a set-up, and "an inside job" by the same people who run Antifa is obvious. That the
police removed the barricades and waved the people to come in, led by bussed in Antifa Judas
goats, is also obvious and well documented. You could say all of America, white and black, was
shot at that moment. Just because all of the fake killings the last few years by white people
are a staged show to incriminate the innocent and create the illusion of "White Supremacy,"
does not mean that the Deep State does not kill when it serves their interest.
Chucky wants to take your guns away, but he knew how to shoot and somewhere on the net is
a
better phrenic matchup than this would suggest, but hairlines do speak as well
"For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy
Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more
opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated,
would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of
treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. "
The author does not seem to be aware yet that the whole invasion was a
CIA/FBI/Antifa/BLM/Q-Anon staged, planned false flag event, [complete with a staged shooting],
with the intent to demonize Trump and his supporters [and to arrest some of them on the spot,
eg Alex Jones and Roger Stone].
A set up from the git go.
SWAT teams came to Roger Stones D.C. hotel room [luckily he'd already left town after
smelling something rotten in the air]. Since then his 70 yr old wife was viciously attacked in
FL. by an anonymous bike rider [Antifa?] who deliberately ran over her body at least 3 times
[she's now under intensive care in a FL hospital, and Stone himself has gone into hiding,
apparently].
A SWAT team also came for Jones in DC [apparently], but local police refused to co-operate
with Feds to the best of my knowledge at present, so that take down didn't go as planned for
the Fed goons either.
Ashli died very quickly, You can see her hands going into tetanic contractions within a very
few seconds of her collapse. She was bleeding internally through her esophagus or wind pipe and
the blood was coming out her mouth. As your heart stops, so does the bleeding.
Curiously this is the second time you have posted this exact same comment, even with the
exact same "Thank you for writing this" to start. Even more curious, your first reply and
agreement comes from the exact same person who agreed with you then (Jan. 15). Who curiously
posted the exact same response he posted then. Are you posing as both? Very convenient, if
true.
I think that they are afraid that old Jubal Early is pissed off about all the Confederate
statues being desecrated and that he is going to rise from the dead, whoop those useless
Yankees and threaten Washington once more
General Early and the Army of the Valley Movements Map
I think most of you are missing the point about the events of 1-6. The only really relevant
photos of that day are the ones of US Congress"men" cowering in abject terror under their
desks, or running in abject terror to their precious "safe" location away from the Capitol
building.
This is the very public demonstration of true sniveling cowardice in a manner that cannot be
naysayed or denied in any way. And now the entire world knows it. Having been so publicly outed
as low grade cowards, we can now expect, going forward, that every reaction of the US Congress
will be a grotesque, and violent, overreaction.
There is also the issue of the 25,000 National [Guard] called in for the [inauguration].
They did give cover for the abysmally small crowd attending the inauguration. From the pics,
it hardly looked to be more than a thousand. Trump had more than that lining the streets when he
returned to Mar-a-Lago.
So of course, the "threat" of further horrendous violence from those oh so vicious Trump
supporters still hiding in the city since Jan. 6 deterred a full half million of those
enthusiastic Biden supporters who so wanted to see him take the oath.
@Schuetze Why would
he shoot with Capitol police standing in the line of fire back in the stairwell?
Winter also tries to make the case that John Sullivan was inciting the riot when there is no
footage yet produced of Sullivan doing anything more than recording events as he saw them, which
is what he said he was doing. He published an hour-long video and nothing there shows him doing
anything physical. He did say things like "Let's burn that shit down" but it could not have been
heard by many (if any) people near him and there is no indication anyone else was paying
attention to him. He was, it seems, simply narrating and role-playing.
I only learned in the last 4 to 5 years what despicable old hags Pelosi and Hillary are.
They compete for being the most despicable with Hillary suggesting Trump was in contact with
Russian President Putin on January 6 to keep him updated on the so called "insurrection". For
over 75 years Americans, most often Jews, have called Germany's Josef Goebbels a liar but I
can't recall the last time they said what he supposedly lied about. No one can compete with
Americans like Hillary Clinton and American Jews like Adam Schiff for being the most unabashed
liars in the world. And it's the Lying Jewish media with mini-mes like CNN's head Jeff Zucker
that create these deliberately false narratives for their stooges Pelosi and Clinton to
propagate. As former Congressman Ron Paul suggested yesterday, no country has interfered in
more foreign elections than the USA.
It would be glorious if Trump ran for President again. I don't expect it and I would think
he would not want to become a human punching bag again, but I believe he would win if his
forces could prevent another fraudulent election. There is no force in the USA as powerful as
the media and it's the same in most "democratic" countries. How glorious it would be too if the
old hags had enough of letting themselves be used by people like Zucker and Twitter's Jack
Dorsey and turned on them and had the justice department put those despicables in jail. Oh, how
glorious. One can dream. But that is unlikely and what is more likely is that within the next
ten years the world won't care much what is happening in the USA, for the USA is in for a big
fall which will reduce its power and influence greatly.
That said, Republicans control the legislatures in quite a few states, and the Constitution
gives those states plenary power over election law, particularly for President and the
Congress. Changing the law to mandate paper ballots and voter ID while eliminating the machines
and mail-in ballots would probably expose the fraud and regain the House and Senate in the
mid-terms.
I remember the film of the vc prisoner, who while being held by guards was shot suddenly in
the temple. The amount of blood forcefully streaming from the hole in his head was both
astonishing and gruesome. I don't know if happened because of being shot in the head though, as
opposed to being shot in the body. Or maybe the bullet hit the artery.
That was a concise truthful account of what we are up against again, Mr. Boggs. Thank
you.
Even the pundit Ann Coulter, someone I've appreciated being on my side for more than a
decade, has fallen for some of this bullshit out of the Lyin' Press in their ceaseless
Infotainment. From her latest column (otherwise, one I agree with):
The raid was disgusting, appalling, sickening, but it's not a license for concocting
imaginary accusations. Trump is bad. The thugs who stormed the Capitol are bad. You don't
need to manufacture evidence against them, media.
Peak Stupidity notes that she lied by using the terms "raid", "disgusting",
and "thugs", in the post "Et tu, Ann?"
Will Ann Coulter, even, be suckered into supporting anti-"domestic-terrorism" laws, just as
she went for the "fight them over there " crap after 9/11? There are cooler heads that don't
get emotionally suckered in by the Lyin' Press narrative. We are the ones they are aiming at
with the new round of oppression to come.
" Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists."
It has already done .Bush or more precisely Cheney to Tea Party to MAGA false prophet of Trump
is linear and traces only a tiny distance.
False hope is entertained because desperation and anger demand it . Obama and Trump are two
sides of the same coin , Both hurt the believers and the faithful most and did
intentionally.
"Since the clash now appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a
sense of relief. The air is clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war]
with the old obstacles finally removed, forgotten."
This would apply equally well to a US civil war . It would clear the air,
people/organizations commit to one side or the other and get on with it.
Agreed. It was truly satisfying to watch uniparty kleptocrat cowards, who torture us daily
with bad laws and invitations for invading hordes, scrambling for their escape choo-choo
train.
@Peripatetic Itch
on in Syria, preceded by waves of Iraeli bombings and missile strikes. Iraq has also been under
the zio-genocide hammer.
Clearly, the next move in the US is going to be the gun grab, and they will try to focus it
on "white supremacists". This is the narrative construction we see going on, of which Babbit
likely was part of. During the Trump administration there seemed to be far fewer false flags. I
would bet that we are about to see a flurry of "white supremacists" shooting up various
synogogues, jewish graveyards, black churches, and I would not be at all surprised if the grand
climax was the bombing of a "holocaust" museum.
Hitler was the only leader in history that knew exactly what must be done with communists.
If you allow even one communist to live in your land, your freedom is at risk. In my view, the
only thing that will remove them now and thus save America is for a Hitlarian type figure to
rise up and ruthlessly deal with the communists in politics, the Judeo media complex, the
courts, and academia. He rounded them up in the 1930's and that is the only way to stop them
now. If that isn't done soon, they will be rounding us up which they are making very clear.
How about all those available resources to fortify the capital since the Big Capital Walk
Thru? Were concrete and metal fence producers considered essential during all our lockdowns?
Did they miraculously have inventory waiting for DC to come beckoning?
@Schuetze every
possible misdemeanor in her life, from accusations of deliberate assault by car to restraining
orders, to adultery, to her "fanatical" propensity to rant, to living in a threesome, as you
say. Her death, on the other hand, is treated matter-of-factly, as if to say, What else would
you expect for such a flaky dumb-ass? No mention that she was not armed.
Compare that to what they did for George Floyd. He came out as a saint who had only wanted
to be president as a kid. Gone to Minneapolis to start a "new life" as I recall. Barely a
mention of his home invasion, holding a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman, possibly raping
her.
__________________
* Hitler and Germans were lucky that Russians/Slavs were not as vengeful as Germans'
Anglo-Saxon kin, who burned about 100,000 or so German civilians – old men, women,
children – just to show what they are capable of. Stalin could have created 100s of
Dresdens, and nobody could have stopped him.
** I understand there is an organized, decades long effort to erase that wonderful
trait.
@GeneralRipper
especially since the servile House democrats don't have the guts to vote her out as Speaker?
And she will continue to be easily re-elected in her far-left district, no matter how senile
and delusional she is.
Think Strom Thurmond in his last years. He lived to be 1oo, dying in office. In fact, since
women live longer than men, Pelosi may finally collapse for the last time when she is 110,
still firmly clutching her gold-plated gavel that she refused to give up. After rigor mortis
sets in, they won't be able to pry it out of her cold dead hand, so she'll be buried with it,
and will lie in State in the Capitol Rotunda for a month.
Anyone trying to find the edges of the U.S. Overton Window right now must feel like they're
tracing an amateur rendition of an early Picasso. After a summer spent chanting "defund the
police," self-identifying progressives applaud the pouring of some 25,000 troops and busloads
of out-of-city law enforcement into the streets of Washington, DC. Those eager to cheer the
departure of a racist, sexist, war-hawking elitist from the White House were quick to welcome a
new racist, sexist, war-hawking elitist. Those who lambasted Trump for dragging more swamp
creatures into the swamp rather than draining it are applauding Biden for his diverse cabinet
appointments, ignoring the revolving
door of corruption and oppression they represent. Those who (correctly) decried the Paris
Climate Agreement for being flimsy and non-committal are celebrating Biden's executive orde
There was fraud everywhere in the 2020 election and to not address this
is to destroy the future of our children while stomping on the graves of those who died for this country.
We've
pointed out literally a million invalid ballots which were included in the 'certified' results in the 2020 election in three
states alone:
Now
today, we have a copy of the letter from data analyst Bobby Piton to the Arizona legislature in December. Remember, Piton
testified in front of the Arizona legislature about the blatant fraud in that state and bet his life on the results.
Today
can report on a letter Piton sent to the Arizona legislature in December. He pointed out that more that 50% of a sample of
1,000 voters in the 2020 election were not real people. The sample came from a list of 100,000 voters in the 2020 election in
Arizona.
Pitton
also notes that 200,000 Pennsylvania ballots were edited the day after the election. The
letter
from Bobby Piton
to the Arizona legislature is below:
The
Arizona legislature did pass a motion to forensically audit the votes in Maricopa County, the most populous county in the
state which includes Phoenix. But now the Board of Supervisors are attempting to prevent a 'real' audit from the likes of
Jovan Hutton Pulitzer and instead have their choice of auditor perform the audit.
The efforts to prevent the people of Arizona from knowing the truth
about the results of the 2020 election continue.
Please contact Arizona's Legislature and let them know you want Jovan
Hutton Pulitzer to perform the forensic audit in Maricopa County of the ballots from the election. Americans and Arizonians
deserve the truth.
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Personally I don't care what political side one is on..... this IS about the process !
If the corruption of the process is NOT fixed, then this Country IS dead !
That is why we need to keep protesting in the millions without the Trump and MAGA hats. Do not
associate with any group and protest as everyday average Jane and Joe Americans - that way the tyrants
cannot label us to any affiliation.
The kkk has been resurrected and is operating in full swing by the left. Everyone
the left appears to embrace from those with deviant sexual behavior to those of
certain races are pawns. They use them to advance their totalitarian agenda. Once
the commiecraps get what they want, the pawns will be eliminated.
Unorganized protest will never even get out the front door. You must have leadership to direct
people's efforts. War doesn't always means military and firearms. Weapons can be simply protest signs,
advertisements on tv and online, mass mailings, phone calls, supplies is money to make the signs, to
purchase the ads, tools and equipment to make protest signs, food, water, car pools to get those who
can't or don't have the means to travel and reduce over all cost. Business is war, and war is
business.
Ask any union boss about strikes and all the planning that goes into one. You just don't show up one
day and get pissed off and tell the boss hey I'm going on strike and hope others will just get fed up
like you and walk off. Nope that almost never happens.
There is always talk, planning, defining of goals and so on. Even boycotts don't work unless there is
a clearly defining means of what is the purpose of the boycotts and what it takes to end it. Unified
effort gets noticed and produces results. Random effort isn't even noticed by anyone. So go ahead and
do your own independent protest and let's see how far you get. Now you get tens of thousands to
millions of people to go along with you, now you get CHANGE. Even in Hong Kong, it's a quagmire. No
good organized protesting.
A whole bunch of people causing chaos and a lot of people dying, jailed, and flat out disappearing.
When someone does come on board and start organizing the resistance, they start making head way until
the CCP whacks the person off and then it's back to ineffective chaos.
That is where clear lines of authority comes into play. When the leader is disposed, a recognized new
one takes the person's place without a hiccup and the battle continues.
They should iether explain proven anomalies or shut up Jan 23, 2021
The burden of proof remains upon those claiming the election was honest to provide
irrefutable evidence to support the claim.
Presidential vote fraud is immaterial, anyway, because the US Constitution empowers each
State Legislature to assign Electoral College Electors any way they so choose. If State
Legislatures choose their Electors according to the fake results from fake elections, that is
their Constitutional right to do so. Even if the States pass laws to the contrary, if they
choose not to prosecute their own lawbreaking, the outcome is the same: whatever the State
Legislatures want or tolerate irregardless of votes from the People. Constitutionally,
Presidential elections are decided by votes of the People for their respective State
Legislators, you remember, those nameless, low-paid, locally elected State Representatives and
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Bill Beeby , Jan 23, 2021 9:41 AM
Trump was the perfect catalyst for this to happen it would seem and he is well out of it.
Old Joe has some tough times ahead and compared to Trump he is a pushover.
@83. The world just witnessed TOTAL collusion between big business and a so called left
government, right here in the USof A. Did u really just come here and say fascism is from the
right only. Wow dude yer seriously bent. Happy to be wrong. If u didnt say that then please
explain what you ment.
By 8 January 2021, Mitch McConnell had determined he would not permit the Senate to try
Trump until 19 January 2021 or later. He ruled that the Senate could not convene for special
session unless all 100 Senators formally agreed; he maintained that ruling consistently,
through 19 January 2021. By 10 January 2021, House majority Whip James Clyburn suggested the
House may not deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate until after Biden has been in
Office 100 days.
Not until today, 20 January 2021, did Pelosi deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate.
The same day, McConnell said: (a) the Senate will receive the House managers at noon ET
Thursday, 21 January, when the managers will present and exhibit the articles; (b) at 2:00 PM
21 January, Chief Justice John Roberts will be escorted into the Senate chamber and swear in
all senators; (c) the impeachment articles' trial will begin Tuesday, 26 January.
Until 20 or 21 January, the Senate majority would remain Republican; and a GOP-majority
Senate would not only acquit Trump but also impeach, strongly, the articles of impeachment. So,
why did Mitch McConnell block early Senate trial? Two possible intersecting reasons:
has
said Trump fed the "mob" lies to provoke the mob to use violence to prevent Congress's
certification of Biden's election.] (b) If trial occurs (as it will) when the Democrats
control the Senate, a conviction might seem a Democrat-framed lynching -- not the GOP's
traitorous assassination of Trump's "populism" and his political career.
I do not suggest such reasons are wise, logical, or even rational, but possibly real.
McConnell is a crafty, dissembling, unscrupulous pseudo-aristocrat, but no Socrates or
Aristotle.
"Liberal" and "moderate" Democrats, never-Trump Republicans,"The Squad, " the "Deep State"
-- the nation's whole jumble of psychopathic and otherwise-psychically-ill "Elite," "woke,"
anti-"White"/anti-male/anti-meritocracy/sexually-deviant members -- all share one mantra :
Trump and populism are evil, inimical to "Democracy" and the "culture," "morality," and "public
interests" of the U.S. Populism must be extinguished. Never again may Trump "hold and enjoy any
Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" [U.S. Constitution Article I § 3
clause 7].
Why ought anyone care?
I voted twice for Trump, the second time (2020) merely because he was the lesser evil. In
2016, Trump promised more than a few moves that would have bettered the nation, e.g.
,
Trump meant and honored some promises -- at least partly. But others -- (a), (b), (f), (h),
(i), and (k) -- were bad jokes. His Israel policy was evil. He railed against growing
impairment of free speech. But his concern was mostly his own freedom of expression; and he
failed to do anything substantial toward restoring the general public's freedom of speech. He
continued, and worsened, Obama's persecution of Julian Assange and Bradley ["Chelsea"] Manning.
Edward Snowden remains exiled. Trump has pardoned or commuted sentence of tens of nefarious
criminals, but not Assange, Manning, or Snowden.
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, George W Bush, and Obama supported the
illegal "state" called Israel. But Trump lifted Israel-support, and, concomitantly, anti-Iran
policy to insane levels. Trump's Israel-related domestic policy included design of blocking or
impeding first-amendment-protected speech and assembly that opposes Israel's genocidal
persecution of Palestinians. Trump rendered formal equation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
and sought to outlaw the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement.
So, why ought we care whether, after Trump is not President, the Senate tries the articles
of impeachment of Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy any Office or honor,
Trust or Profit under the United States"? Why ought we care even whether simply the Senate
tries the articles of impeachment but acquits Trump?
Trump's 2016 election suggested a true populist might become President -- not a closet
"Elite," but one who would resist the Elites and the Deep State, not surround himself with
snakes of the swamp. If the Senate tries Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy
any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" because Trump and his supporters
exercised their First Amendment freedom of speaking and assembling to support populism and
protest a corrupt election, speech and assembly freedoms will cease and near-certainly no
capable, electable populist will run for the Presidency.
But that consideration is subsumed in another, greater, more vital, fundamental
concern. We have a federal Constitution. Every federal legislator and judge promises, by oath,
not to act contrary to that Constitution. Every federal judge must promise this: "I solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right
to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform
all the duties incumbent upon me under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
...You live in a totalitarian state with arbitrary power.
Your government has three branches: CIA, CIA, and CIA. They infest every other corner of
your government with spies. Until you can accept this you will be an irrelevant muppet
writing bullshit.
... ... ...
4. Every jew ever involved in health care fraud over the past 100 years
If you might be a Trump supporter, just stop. Trump was an incompetent fraud. And Biden
(well his handlers really), will be very competent and will soon make you feel the sting of
systemic punishment.
Everyone can claim some African ancestry. Suggest you get familiar with the process real
quick
Back in 1987, as a young political science major, my constitutional law professor made us
attend a lecture by a visiting scholar on the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional
Convention. I cannot remember who the lecturer was, but I do recall one phrase he used that
has stuck in my mind ever since: the Constitution only works if we have a "constitutional
frame of mind." In other words, the Constitution reflected the culture and the attitudes of
its authors. Today, elites in both parties could give a damn about the Constitution. They
simply ignore the Constitution when it suits them -- or, conversely, use it as a club to
bludgeon their enemies when it suits them.
Today we are reduced to parsing the language of the Constitution because nobody is really
committed to the upholding the culture and the attitudes that informed it when it was
written. Therefore it has become meaningless.
The president must dance to the tune of the bankers and assorted oligarchs who actually
control the US. They enjoy confusing the common people with changing rhetoric and theater,
but at the end of the day, the president is little more than a figurehead, and the policies
remain largely the same. Many do not realize that the Obama administration deported some
2,750,000 illegals.. Under Trump it was only 935,000. Foreign wars? Police brutality? the
rich getting richer? Prison industrial complex? decimation of the middle class? endless
currency debasement? these things are consistent regardless, because they represent the
interests of the actual rulers. The red candidate throws a bone to the "conservatives", the
blue candidate throws a bone to the socialists, but the policy makers continue from one
administration to the next. The last president who tried to stand up to the powers that be
was JFK . and look what they did to him.
Tucker Carlson said Monday or Tuesday night on his show that McConnell warned Trump not to
pardon Assange, and he held the impeachment over Trump's head.
Swampington has gone rogue. I have a feeling that during much of Trump's presidency the
threat of impeachment loomed large, and maybe worse.
Look at Sessions, recusing himself and cowering in the corner. Barr comes in and does
diddly squat. The Durham investigation was a very long joke.
Two years of the Mueller Commission (when everybody in the know knew it was a pack of
lies), spying, leaking, abuse of the FISA Court, Kavanaugh, impeachment over Ukraine, Covid,
Antifa, BLM, stolen election ..never-ending chaos.
These corrupt clowns will do whatever the hell they please. They are the law now. If they
do end up following the law, it will only be because the destruction they've caused already
will be deemed to be enough.
With the federal judiciary's corrupt or cowardly treatment of legitimate
election-result challenges, the federal judiciary has shown it has abnegated its
constitutional duty and will incline to commit impeachable offenses to avoid resisting the
Elites' and the Deep State's subjugation of the People. The Supreme Court has shown that
five or more pseudo-aristocrat judges (two Democrats, three or more Republicans) align with
the Elites and the Deep State. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is correct. The People are
suffering a revolution wrought by the "Establishment" (of the Elites and the Deep
State).
I would say that they are more cowardly than corrupt.
They know that if they supported Trump's legitimate (good evidence) questioning of the
election result, they would personally be in big trouble, so the Supreme Court is really not
a Supreme Court at all – it's a piece of establishment window dressing – same as
the rest of the hollowed out US Democratic institutions.
Real power in the US lies with the ZioGlob deep state and their MSM, the military
(whichever way they turn), and the 72 million US gun owners (whatever they decide to do).
There's also the aspect of real military power outside the US (Russia and China) that could
be brought to bear, and would be potentially decisive. Accepted that some of these are
TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) scenarios but that seems to be how it is.
Genuine Democracy isn't coming back to the US any time soon.
@Beavertales at, do you really think Trump will discuss anything that went on in private?
He is not the type to write a memoir.
And some of the most bizarre decisions he made while POTUS were as a result of "advice"
from his favourite daughter Ivanka and her repellant husband. Ann Coulter has an article
where she lists the boneheaded decisions Trump made on "advice" from the two incompetent
rich-kids..
This short video is very indicative of the stupidity of Ivanka: she is so stupid, that she
can't even see the contempt these politicians have for her, and sticks around like a bad
smell:
[French Government Posts Video Of Ivanka Trump At G-20 Summit | NBC News]
McConnell must, not maybe, must be the first person to go if the Republican Senate has any
chance of surviving in a way that serves conservative interests. He has been positively of
Zero support to president Trumps four years in office, only giving lip service to the
interests of the issues the presidents supporters wanted addressed.. For four long years,
McConnell was an expert at bringing every advance, or potential advance in conservative
interests to naught. He however, had no problemo at all in taking advantage of President
Trumps popularity with conservative voters, when his re-election was in doubt. Maybe his
middle name should be Mitt.
@anonymous ChiComs -- from whence In Laws $ all arises . McConnell shows the country is
totally sold out to the ChiComs and in fact "governed" by them -- the rest of Congrassholes
are about the same with various "spies" working them, having sex with them, and screwing us
-- the USA is an occupied country via IsraHell and the Chinese Communists -- very, very bad
days are ahead and most in the USA are moron mask wearers who actually believe the filthy
pieces of cloth do something for their "health" contrary to all actual 41 Medical Studies to
date which state the opposite -- truly Maskholing was an IQ test and the country failed to
reach even the level of "Moron". Easy to steal an election when dealing with Maskhole Morons.
Sad all are being pulled down by them .
@Aardvark you are charged by the Feds you will be railroaded, innocence means zero once
you are charged and all the "Judge" cares about is getting you to plead guilty and move the
case, you will be grossly overcharged to force this to happen and the Judge will glare at you
and let you know he hates you if you go forward -- unless you are a Leftist Political hack or
"activist" then you will be cut loose and probably never even charged ."justice" Roberts is
the "model" -- his rulings in Obamacare etc. show he has no care for the actual "law" at all
-- all the other Federal "judges" follow his example .The best thing that could happen to the
USA is for the end of the Federal Courts, DOJ, and FBI -- all are Enemies Of The People --
get involved with them and find out.
@FoSquare The works of Plato and Aristotle have had much influence on the modern view of
the "sophist" as a greedy instructor who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand and ambiguities of
language in order to deceive, or to support fallacious reasoning. In this view, the sophist
is not concerned with truth and justice, but instead seeks power.
Societies that value truth but recognize the difficulties involved in discovering it also
put value on freedom of expression. Those interested in power for its own sake, not so much.
Unfortunately the power mongers always have the advantage of moral certainty. For them Alinsky
and the Protocols are the only bibles.
@Anon olling 90% of the mass media of mindfuckery, mesmerization and mass megalomania and
finally, the CIA financed and directed "Social Media", the greatest enemy of our First
Amendment rights;;; those nefarious forces nearing absolute control over the federal regime in
the Di$trict of Corruption have now fully succeeded in driving the last nail into the coffin of
the Constitution AND the Bill of Rights, the enabling precondition for establishment of the
federal system.
Behind the scenes, roaring and howling with fits of schadenfreude laughter; the ultimate
shotcallers, those OWNER$ of the Federal Reserve and most other major international banking
institutions, are rubbing their greasy palm$ with total glee by having pulled off the greatest
heist in world history.
Former President Trump is playing his final scene today, making ready to hand over the
lead part of a government like reality show to the mentally infirm Joe Biden. Biden, with
history of pathological lying and a trail of crimes and associations with other crimes had no
actual chance of winning a real election, but real elections are now only part of America's
history. Trumped & Dumped: The Psychological Operation Scrambles to Survive | Jack Mullen
https://blog.thegovernmentrag.com/2021/01/21/trumped-dumped-psychological-operation-enters-phase-two/
@Old and Grumpy wn individual of blackmail able importance -- was discovered in one of
Ep$tein's logs).
Anyone notice how the Joint Chiefs of $taff for the U$ armed forces put out a notice to all
military personnel that they must not participate in acts of sedition prior to the coronation
of the Kamal's Foote/Biding administration.? Since the days of their attempted Operation
Northwoods false flag scheme to attack Cuba, which was vetoed by JFK (among his other sins
against the Deepe$t $tate); the proof was already in the pudding that the JC$ is dirty and our
military is compromised by their chains of command from the top-down -- which is the way the
enemies of We The People choose to employ their nefarious control system over one and all --
excepting, of course, the Elite$ themselves.
@Mefobills of savvy self-promoter and foil for Hillary. That would explain a lot,
especially Hillary's (and the Democrats) absolute hatred of Trump and his supporters. That his
shtick worked is testament to both his talent for self-promotion and our dislike of Hillary.
Guess she miscalculated
In any case, it became obvious that either the fix was in, when he refused to back Flynn and
appointed swamp creatures to fill his administrations' posts, or Trump was a fool. But that's
not to say he wasn't useful in exposing the media and deep state's contempt, hatred and fear of
us -- deplorables all -- by personifying it in their attacks on him.
The question that matters now, for populists, is how do we avoid the leadership trap?
For the most part, our entire legal profession has been taken over by an overeducated,
inexperienced crowd of people who are not able to deal in "Letter" and "Spirit" of law. They're
prisoners of the letter of the law because their only background is of the spoken and written
word.
"... Consequently, there is no sense of irony among the McFauls of the world as US security strategy is committed to global dominance, while berating Russia for "revisionism." ..."
ByGlenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and an editor at the Russia in Global
Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenndiesen
Donald Trump's efforts to reduce the ideologically driven base of US foreign policy fuelled great resentment among those who believed
it betrayed Washington's leadership position in the so-called "liberal international order."
Now that power has changed, will the pendulum swing in the opposite direction, with Joe Biden's administration applying a radical
ideological foreign policy?
A recent article by Michael McFaul, once Barack Obama's ambassador to Russia and a noted 'Russiagate' conspiracy theorist, indicates
what such an ideological foreign policy would look like. McFaul's article, 'How to Contain Putin's Russia', makes a case for a containment
policy.
Containment: learning from the past or living in the past?
To advance his argument, McFaul quotes George Kennan, the author of the Long Telegram and architect of erstwhile US containment
policy against the Soviet Union. McFaul suggests that Kennan's advocacy for a "patient but firm and vigilant containment"
against the revolutionary Bolshevik regime 75 years ago remains as valid as ever.
It would have made more sense to
quote Kennan when
he condemned NATO expansionism and predicted it would trigger another Cold War. As Kennan noted: "there was no reason for this
whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their
graves."
Kennan continued to express disbelief over the rhetoric by the misinformed US leadership, presenting "Russia as a country dying
to attack Western Europe. Don't people understand? Our differences in the Cold War were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now
we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime."
Kennan then went on to correctly predict that, when Russia would eventually react to US provocations, the NATO expanders would wrongfully
blame Russia.
Ideologues often have nostalgia for the Cold War, when the bipolar power distribution was supported by a clear and comfortable
ideological divide. The Western bloc represented capitalism, Christianity, and democracy, while the Eastern bloc represented communism,
atheism, and authoritarianism. This ideological divide supported internal cohesion within the Western bloc and drew clear borders
with the adversary.
The liberal international order has attempted to recast the former capitalist-communist divide with a liberal-authoritarian divide.
However, the ideological incompatibility between American liberalism and Russian conservatism is less convincing. For example, McFaul
cautions against Putin's nefarious conservative ideology committed to "Christian, traditional family values" that threatens
the liberal international order.
The new ideological divide nonetheless advances neo-McCarthyism in the West. McFaul presents a list of European conservatives
and populists that should be treated as American conservatives, purged from political life as enemies of the liberal international
order and thus possible agents of Russia. Hillary Clinton even suggested that the Capitol Hill riots were possibly coordinated by
Trump and Putin – yes, Russiagate is here to stay. The solution, for McFaul, is for American tech oligarchs to manipulate algorithms
to protect populations from Russian-friendly media.
An American ideological project
McFaul cautions against what he refers to as "Putin's ideological project" as a threat to the liberal international order.
Yet he is reluctant to recognize that the liberal international order is an American ideological project for the post-Cold War era.
After the Cold War, liberal ideologues advanced what was seemingly a benign proposition – suggesting that liberal democracy should
be at the center of security strategies. However, by linking liberal norms to US leadership, liberalism became both a constitutional
principle and an international hegemonic norm.
NATO is presented as a community of liberal values – without mentioning that its second largest member, Turkey, is more conservative
and authoritarian than Russia – and Moscow does not, therefore, have any legitimate reasons to oppose expansionism unless it fears
democracy. If Russia reacts negatively to military encirclement, it is condemned as an enemy of democracy, and NATO has a moral responsibility
to revert to its original mission as a military bloc containing Russia.
Case in point: there was nobody in Moscow advocating for the reunification with Crimea until the West supported the coup in Ukraine.
Yet, as Western "fact checkers" and McFaul inform us, there was a "democratic revolution" and not a coup. Committed
to his ideological prism, McFaul suggests that Russia acted out of a fear of having a democracy on its borders, as it would give
hope to Russians and thus threaten the Kremlin. McFaul's ideological lens masks conflicting national security interests, and it fails
to explain why Russia does not mind democratic neighbors in the east, such as South Korea and Japan, with whom it enjoys good relations.
Defending the peoples
States aspiring for global hegemony have systemic incentives to embrace ideologies that endow them with the right to defend other
peoples. The French National Convention declared in 1792 that France would "come to the aid of all peoples who are seeking to
recover their liberty," and the Bolsheviks proclaimed in 1917 "the duty to render assistance, armed, if necessary, to the
fighting proletariat of the other countries."
The American liberal international order similarly aims to liberate the people of the world with "democracy promotion"
and "humanitarian interventionism" when it conveniently advances US primacy. The American ideological project infers that
democracy is advanced by US interference in the domestic affairs of Russia, while democracy is under attack if Russia interferes
in the domestic affairs of US. The liberal international system is one of sovereign inequality to advance global primacy.
McFaul does not consider himself a Russophobe, as believes his attacks against Russia are merely motivated by the objective of
liberating Russians from their government, which is why he advocates that Biden "distinguish between Russia and Russians – between
Putin and the Russian people." This has been the modus operandi for regime change since the end of the Cold War – the US supposedly
does not attack countries to advance its interests, it only altruistically assists foreign peoples in rival states against their
leaders such as Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin etc.
McFaul and other liberal ideologues still refer to NATO as a "defensive alliance," which does not make much sense after
the attacks on Yugoslavia in 1999 or Libya in 2011. However, under the auspices of liberal internationalism, NATO is defensive, as
it defends the people of the world. Russia, therefore, doesn't have rational reasons for opposing the liberal international order.
McFaul condemns alleged efforts by Russia to interfere in the domestic affairs of the US, before outlining his strategies for
interfering in the domestic affairs of Russia. McFaul blames Russian paranoia for shutting down American "non-governmental organizations"
that are funded by the US government and staffed by people linked to the US security apparatus. He goes on to explain that the US
government must counter this by establishing new "non-government organizations" to educate the Russian public about the evils
of their government.
The dangerous appeal of ideologues
Ideologues have always been dangerous to international security. Ideologies of human freedom tend to promise perpetual peace.
Yet, instead of transcending power politics, the ideals of human freedom are linked directly to hegemonic power by the self-proclaimed
defender of the ideology. When ideologues firmly believe that the difference between the current volatile world and utopia can be
bridged by defeating its opponents, it legitimizes radical power politics.
Consequently, there is no sense of irony among the McFauls of the world as US security strategy is committed to global dominance,
while berating Russia for "revisionism."
Raymond Aaron once wrote: "Idealistic diplomacy slips too often into fanaticism; it divides states into good and evil, into
peace-loving and bellicose. It envisions a permanent peace by the punishment of the latter and the triumph of the former. The idealist,
believing he has broken with power politics, exaggerates its crimes."
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"... "Blinken acknowledged that the US must set an example at home on what it preaches abroad. He also stressed the need for "humility". But he insisted nonetheless that the US' global leadership "still matters" since the world is incapable of organising itself "when we're not leading," as some other country may usurp America's lead role impacting "our interests and values", or, simply, chaos may follow! ..."
"... At any rate, Blinken has pledged to "revitalise American diplomacy" and address the challenges of "rising nationalism, reseeding democracy, growing rivalry from China, and Russia and other authoritarian states, mounting threats to a stable and open international system and a technological revolution that is reshaping every aspect of our lives, especially in cyberspace." ..."
I would not set too much store by Plato's political philosophy. For Plato, the political
ideal was a society of three layers: philosopher kings who rule, guardians (the military),
producers / workers.
Ideally philosopher kings would be trained from childhood, adolescence or young adulthood
onwards to be rational and to think in terms of what is best for society as a whole. They
would be trained to be selfless and to shun the pursuit of material wealth.
There are many criticisms that can be made of Plato's ideal society. One such criticism
among others is that philosopher kings / rulers may have a very narrow idea of what is best
for society as a whole and may lead their people into trouble with, erm, "noble lies" (in
whatever form the propaganda and the cultural conditioning take - and when does a "noble" lie
cease to be "noble" and become just plain outright manipulation and falsehood?) if they
confuse their own interests with the interests of society, when the reality is that their
interests as philosopher kings and the interests of the rest of society are far apart.
The irony I've just uncovered is that the present system of government that exists in the
US looks a little too much like Plato's ideal.
@ Jen | Jan 21 2021 0:50 utc | 114... thanks jen... i was waiting to find out from
juliania, but i appreciate your take on this which seems fairly informed... i know nothing
about all of it, but it was an interesting idea cross purposing bidens inaugurations speech
with platos idea of a or the noble lie... the problem with ideals, is they are hard to live
in reality, thus they remain ideals only.. it sems philosopher kings and political leaders
rely heavily on ideals to make a pitch to the public.. not everyone is receptive to them
though... thanks for your input!
"Blinken acknowledged that the US must set an example at home on what it preaches abroad.
He also stressed the need for "humility". But he insisted nonetheless that the US' global
leadership "still matters" since the world is incapable of organising itself "when we're not
leading," as some other country may usurp America's lead role impacting "our interests and
values", or, simply, chaos may follow!
Now, that's an extraordinary boast so soon after the Capitol Riots whose leitmotif was
Chaos in capital "C". Blinken made a laughable claim. But it also betrays delusional
thinking.
At any rate, Blinken has pledged to "revitalise American diplomacy" and address the
challenges of "rising nationalism, reseeding democracy, growing rivalry from China, and
Russia and other authoritarian states, mounting threats to a stable and open international
system and a technological revolution that is reshaping every aspect of our lives, especially
in cyberspace."
@follyofwar
hat Trump did not, and for which Trump deserves credit: NOT attacking Iran; NOT starting a
war in the Donbass region of Ukraine; and NOT escalating the attack on Syria to the point
where Syria collapses and Al-Nusra and ISIS terrorists take over (which is what Israel has
openly said they would prefer to Assad!) And I am NOT a 'Trumper', think he was a disgusting
zionist boot-licker, and that he didn't do diddly squat of what he promised to do for the
average American, but sure kissed Wall Street's bottom. The problem is, Bidet may be worse,
if his past is any indication.
Regardless, the next four years are gonna be ugly, really ugly, foreign policy-wise, I'm
afraid ..
I would not set too much store by Plato's political philosophy. For Plato, the political
ideal was a society of three layers: philosopher kings who rule, guardians (the military),
producers / workers.
Ideally philosopher kings would be trained from childhood, adolescence or young adulthood
onwards to be rational and to think in terms of what is best for society as a whole. They
would be trained to be selfless and to shun the pursuit of material wealth.
There are many criticisms that can be made of Plato's ideal society. One such criticism
among others is that philosopher kings / rulers may have a very narrow idea of what is best
for society as a whole and may lead their people into trouble with, erm, "noble lies" (in
whatever form the propaganda and the cultural conditioning take - and when does a "noble" lie
cease to be "noble" and become just plain outright manipulation and falsehood?) if they
confuse their own interests with the interests of society, when the reality is that their
interests as philosopher kings and the interests of the rest of society are far apart.
The irony I've just uncovered is that the present system of government that exists in the
US looks a little too much like Plato's ideal.
@ Jen | Jan 21 2021 0:50 utc | 114... thanks jen... i was waiting to find out from
juliania, but i appreciate your take on this which seems fairly informed... i know nothing
about all of it, but it was an interesting idea cross purposing bidens inaugurations speech
with platos idea of a or the noble lie... the problem with ideals, is they are hard to live
in reality, thus they remain ideals only.. it sems philosopher kings and political leaders
rely heavily on ideals to make a pitch to the public.. not everyone is receptive to them
though... thanks for your input!
"Blinken acknowledged that the US must set an example at home on what it preaches abroad.
He also stressed the need for "humility". But he insisted nonetheless that the US' global
leadership "still matters" since the world is incapable of organising itself "when we're not
leading," as some other country may usurp America's lead role impacting "our interests and
values", or, simply, chaos may follow!
Now, that's an extraordinary boast so soon after the Capitol Riots whose leitmotif was
Chaos in capital "C". Blinken made a laughable claim. But it also betrays delusional
thinking. At any rate, Blinken has pledged to "revitalise American diplomacy" and address the
challenges of "rising nationalism, reseeding democracy, growing rivalry from China, and
Russia and other authoritarian states, mounting threats to a stable and open international
system and a technological revolution that is reshaping every aspect of our lives, especially
in cyberspace."
Woman I know was arrested by the FBI for going to the Capitol protest. She's a physician
in her 50s. She did vote for Trump. She does think the hatred directed towards Trump was just
insane. But otherwise she's a standard conventional liberal. It's frightening that someone
like her was arrested.
The FBI must be looking at everyone's credit cards for plane tickets train tickets gas
purchases hotels and meals to see who traveled to DC first week of January.
The MSM has been uniformly portraying the Storming of the Capitol as a deadly attack by
Trumpists, and using it to potentially justify a huge civil-liberties crackdown. Yet with the
sole exception of the one Capitol police officer, all the victims were Trumpists, one unarmed
woman shot by a security guard and the rest who apparently died from strokes or heart-attacks
during all the excitement probably because they were elderly or overweight.
Moreover, I've become extremely suspicious of the official MSM account of the killing of
that officer. Here's a couple of comments I made a couple of days ago about the alleged
killing:
Given that zero details of the incident have come out, I'm getting pretty
suspicious.
I wouldn't be surprised if that cop had died from a heart-attack or something, and his
death was then conflated with the video of the thrown fire-extinguisher. I'm pretty sure
that I read in the NYT that the fire-extinguisher video had nothing to do with the cop's
death, and I'm skeptical that there were two entirely separate fire-extinguisher
incidents.
As a follow-up, my morning NYT stated that the person who threw the fire-extinguisher in
the video has now been charged with "assault." That means it's 100% certain that he didn't
kill that cop.
The cop was the only "regime fatality" in the 1/6 incident, and there seems to be
absolutely no effort to track down his alleged attacker even though national law
enforcement is scouring the country for dozens or hundreds of other minor participants. Why
would they make an all-out effort to catch those individuals who were guilty of trespassing
and disorderly-conduct without trying to locate the supposed pro-Trump cop-killer?
I think the most logical explanation is that there *was* no cop-killer, and the officer
died of more-or-less natural causes, e.g. a stroke brought on by all the excitement
Just as numerous people have emphasized, the whole situation sounds like a combination of
9/11 and Charlottesville. But if someone can prove that the alleged cop-killing was actually
a media hoax, maybe average Americans would become suspicious about other elements of the
official story, and deflect some of these plans.
I think Glenn Greenwald would be glad to blast it out, and he has a large public
platform:
"... It's all been clearly coordinated. The Deep State and big business and the media working together. Police are instructed to create unrest on Capitol Hill, allow "rioters" into the building. The media report it as an "attempted coup", while the social networks remove all of Trump's denunciations so he can be blamed for "inciting violence". ..."
"... They created the lie. They spread the lie. They silenced anyone who would dare say that this is the lie. They have, as Karl Rove would put it, "created reality", and now we're here analyzing it. ..."
"... The precedent has been created. They can ban anyone they want and make up the reasons later. ..."
"... The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. ..."
"... As Trump was on his way out of the door, they chose to make it very clear to him who was actually in charge. Which has broader benefits, of course. Occasionally, concentration camp guards would shoot somebody entirely at random. ..."
"... They are now busily reinforcing and imposing tyrannical corporate dictatorship by destroying the rights, freedom of speech and reputations of anyone still brave enough to oppose them. The last great stronghold of democracy, the proles' only way of ever removing corrupt and failed leaders peacefully, has fallen under their full control. ..."
"... Biden is blatantly a senile puppet president approved and selected by the elites, then elected by fraud rather than by the American people. The leftists who laboured so hard to save us from Orange Man Bad have only saved the corrupt power system exploiting us all. ..."
It's all been clearly coordinated. The Deep State and big business and the media working
together. Police are instructed to create unrest on Capitol Hill, allow "rioters" into the
building. The media report it as an "attempted coup", while the social networks remove all of
Trump's denunciations so he can be blamed for "inciting violence".
They created the lie. They spread the lie. They silenced anyone who would dare say that this is the lie.
They have, as Karl Rove would put it, "created reality", and now we're here analyzing it.
It was a big lie, this time, because it had to be. Because the man – or rather the
office – was big. But for Joe Blo it can be a small lie. "He posted child porn"
or "He was spreading hate" or "He was denying the pandemic" .
The precedent has been created. They can ban anyone they want and make up the reasons
later.
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion.
At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down
the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of
the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
Well, we've been shown the wall, and we're being encouraged to cheer because the first
person to run into it was Donald Trump. Rather predictably, millions have fallen for it.
Emily Durron , Jan 16, 2021 8:48 PM
As Trump was on his way out of the door, they chose to make it very clear to him who was
actually in charge. Which has broader benefits, of course. Occasionally, concentration camp
guards would shoot somebody entirely at random. The reason? "Pour encourager les autres".
Politicians and hopeful politicians have been served notice to stay on the reservation. And
that's that. No more aberrations will be allowed.
Thomas Tschoepke , Jan 16, 2021 2:30 PM
Watch the movie "Wag the Dog" and it would be enough
I_left_the_left , Jan 17, 2021 1:44 PM
Leftists and ex-leftists like me have long hated and opposed 'the system', especially the
US state and its long, bloody record of corruption and military intervention for the benefit
of the military-industrial complex, not for the American workers forced to fund the US state,
and who naively offered their sons to die in the endless foreign wars the witless politicians
approved. But the system tricked the hugely influential leftist movement into thinking Trump
embodied the US system they hated, rather than threaten it. Blinded by mass-manufactured
hate, leftists just couldn't and still can't see that Trump, the DC outsider and the greatest
anti-politician of our time, was their key ally and asset against the corrupt system and
mega-rich political class Trump famously called 'the swamp', and which Americans elected him
to drain. The tragedy is that leftist hysteria and hate have been fundamental to ruining
Trump's epic rescue mission for US democracy, and for ensuring the survival of the political
elites and big tech corporate power we all hate.
They are now busily reinforcing and imposing tyrannical corporate dictatorship by
destroying the rights, freedom of speech and reputations of anyone still brave enough to
oppose them. The last great stronghold of democracy, the proles' only way of ever removing
corrupt and failed leaders peacefully, has fallen under their full control.
Biden is blatantly a senile puppet president approved and selected by the elites, then
elected by fraud rather than by the American people. The leftists who laboured so hard to
save us from Orange Man Bad have only saved the corrupt power system exploiting us all.
McConnell shared the following proposed pre-trial timeline with the Republican Conference
today:
When the articles arrive, the House Managers would exhibit (read) the articles to the
Senate, Senators would be sworn in the Members as the Court of Impeachment, and would issue a
summons to former President Trump. While we do not know what day the Managers will choose,
Leader McConnell has asked for this to occur on Thursday, January 28.
Former President Trump would have one week from that day to answer the articles of
impeachment (February 4). The House's pre-trial brief would also be due then.
The President would then have one week from the day he submits his answer to submit his
pre-trial brief (February 11). That means former president Trump has fourteen total days from
when we issue the summons to write his pre-trial brief. The House would also submit its
replication on this date.
The House would then have two days to submit their rebuttal pre-trial brief (February
13).
This approach tracks the structure of the Clinton and Trump pre-trial processes.
The periods between due dates are longer than in 1999 or 2020, but this is necessary
because of the House's unprecedented timeline.
Donald Trump is gone. No storm broke. No reckoning came. There was no plan. In his place, a
career politician assumed the presidency. Joe Biden muttered some platitudes. Most people have
already forgotten them, probably including Joe Biden.
We're told the inauguration was historic and dramatic. It was banal and boring. It
celebrated mediocrity. It had about as much dignity as getting your driver's license -- which
has more personal meaning.
Everyone has strong opinions about President Donald Trump . It's hard to feel anything about
President Joe Biden. Few attended his rallies or watched them online. He ran a modern-day
front-porch campaign, as media and tech companies censored the opposition. He was a prop, a
spectator to his own march to power.
The election was a referendum on President Trump. Many believe the election was stolen. You
may be one of them, and you may be right. Some politicians and journalists accuse President
Trump of attempting a coup, and they may even believe it.
Mr. Trump told his supporters to be patriotic and peaceful. The media have certainly
soft-peddled that. But he didn't march with his people to the Capitol. He went home. What was
supposed to happen? His supporters didn't know. I don't think President Trump knew. What did
Ashli Babbitt die for? Now, we can ask the same question about the entire Trump
administration.
Maybe you still believe in President Trump. You say his allies betrayed him. You say he
turned his back on a life of luxury that men dream of in order to save his country.
His supposed friends -- from Michael Cohen to Anthony Scaramucci -- turned on him, flaunting
their dishonor as heroism. Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and other Republicans were happy to use
President Trump when they needed him, but once his usefulness ended, they dumped him. They tell
us the president of the United States is the most powerful man in the world. Today, he can't
even send a tweet.
Perhaps you are less charitable. You may think President Trump betrayed you. You followed
him to the end, even beyond the end. He gave Kim Kardashian more support than he gave
you. The people who put their bodies on the line for him won't get a pardon, but Jared
Kushner's father did.
When our rulers say "our democracy," they mean the Regime that governs us. Whoever they are
referring to when they say those words, it doesn't include us.
The fact remains that if President Trump had told people to march on Washington, they
would have. After years of failure, pandering, betrayal, and weakness, they still were willing
to face armed men in his name. One died for him.
President Biden took his oath guarded by troops that he doesn't trust. The FBI vetted every
one of those 25,000 men to make sure they weren't "white supremacists." The people who tell us
walls don't work surrounded themselves with walls and barbed wire. Federal agents who let
cities burn all summer are now arresting and humiliating those who had dared trespass in the
"temple of democracy."
Government, oligarchs, and billionaires ruin the lives of the people they don't like while
progressives cheer. Leaders of NGOs rage because teenagers can host podcasts and post on 4chan.
CNN wants to shut down dissidents on YouTube because more people watch livestreams than watch
their darling Brian Stelter.
Journalists who encouraged riots that left dozens dead tell us we have to stop
misinformation. Regime media and its politicians want a " domestic terrorism
" law that would stifle Trump supporters. The Daily Beast wants
secret police . Journalists have been joined by volunteer commissars to hunt down
co-workers, friends, and family who attended the January 6 rally.
Regime media use words like "traitor," "sedition," and "insurrectionist." The sentence for
treason is death. Do they want to kill people?
But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much. In 2016, after the most
remarkable, unlikely, and miraculous campaign in American history, President Trump governed
like a normal Republican. He did not deport illegals, make English the official language, or
tax remittances to Mexico. He did not abolish birth-right citizenship. He was not a "white
nationalist." He did not even eliminate race-based discrimination against whites and
Asians.
President Trump was softer on crime than Bill Clinton. He was weaker on riots than George
H.W. Bush. President Trump is leaving office not because he was strong, but because he was
weak. He did not defy the "Swamp." He couldn't defy his son-in-law.
The "new" president is a man who was a political relic even when he was Barack Obama's vice
president. If 2016 was the "Flight 93" Election, we successfully stormed the cockpit and then
pushed the control stick straight down. But let's give Donald Trump credit: Whether he meant to
or not, he did something no other politician, activist, or artist ever could. He forced the
Regime and its servants to reveal themselves.
Where do you fit here if you are not a Trump supporter, but despise Biden and all he and
his players represent? Can we have a dissident movement that has nothing to do with Trump?
Nothing to do with Republicans? Chabad-Lubavitch has absolutely no relevance to my world
view, nor the view of anyone I've encountered during my lifetime.
Trump is done and I'm actually hoping he's prosecuted on some bogus charge, simply because
he was an incompetent leader, turning his leadership responsibilities over to Jared Kushner.
It was horrible. Drag him off to a prison in the Golan heights. No one cares. A moron could
have had a clue of the blindingly obvious election fraud plans to unseat him.
I'm certain there are very bad times ahead. A long "dark winter" as this senile senate
puppet is fond of repeating. American citizens, those who work, raise families and produce
goods and services, should not be subject to the punishment ahead that will enrich and
further empower people like Biden and his horrific son, Hunter.
Truth be told, I was not a Trump supporter in the sense that I did not vote for him. I
decided to refrain from voting after Bush the Younger for whom I voted. I came to this
decision after realizing he was probably the worst president during my lifetime. I also came
to the conclusion that there is no fundamental difference between the two political parties.
They both lie, cheat, steal, and murder to maintain power.
I enjoyed Trump's election mainly for the disruptive effect it had on politics. I never
believed he would do any of the things he said he would. If he had even tried to do some of
those things he most likely would have been killed. The author of this article nails it when
he writes:
" But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much. In 2016, after the
most remarkable, unlikely, and miraculous campaign in American history, President Trump
governed like a normal Republican. He did not deport illegals, make English the official
language, or tax remittances to Mexico. He did not abolish birth-right citizenship. He was
not a 'white nationalist.' He did not even eliminate race-based discrimination against whites
and Asians ."
Thanks for the analysis and conclusions. If my hope was dependent on political outcomes I
would have done the warm bath and razor blade bit long ago. I've deliberately avoided much
network and cable news for the most part. My hope and trust are in the One who made and
sustains all things.
I don't believe, now, that Trump & Q were ever on our side. I mean fuck him. Q
definitely was a part of Trumps team. I have no doubt of that and Q said over and over they
have everything and then, they did nothing. They passed up every chance to set things right
or even try while all the time telling us,"it's going to happen now". If you block out "hope"
and "wishful thinking" then all the facts point towards him being one of them. We've been
had.
It's better to admit this and swallow your pride than to believe in more nonsense. It's
very depressing to be shit on like this but it's even more fucked up to be shit on and then
keep making excuses for those that shit on us. "Oh well maybe he ate something that upset his
stomach so he shit on me". "Maybe he had a virus so he shit on me". "Maybe he was nervous so
he shit on me".
I don't care what his excuse is, he shit on me and my country.
Look at who Trump pardoned.
"Trump Pardons Sholam Weiss, Criminal Mastermind Behind 'The Largest Life Insurance Fraud
In U.S. History'"
Regarding (1), Netanyahu certainly displayed HIS gratitude toward Trump–fawning over
The Pretender-Select on Nov. 4, with the election (seemingly) still in doubt.
American electorial politics has been meaningless at the national level for a very long
time. I have found it interesting/entertaining never the less. Not any more. I have no
interest and nothing to say about the next election.
...His entire presidency was just one big show... The reason he never fulfilled any of his
promises was because they were all lies for the useful idiots stupid enough not to see what
he truly was. ...this was really just more demoralization and gas lighting.
Take as an example his "march on the capitol" that he cowardly declined to lead,
despite his promises. Not only did he set up any followers stupid enough to enter the capitol
for prosecution for trespassing, but he set all his "followers" up for persecution as
insurrectionists, white supremacists, and racists.
... Then to cap it all off, he doesn't even pardon Julian Assange, the man who got
him into office in the first place. Trump is and always will be nothing but a selfish
douchebag masonic brother.
The society the left is creating can't sustain itself. They appear to be trying to build a
modern day colonial empire out of an established country. Setting up different tribes against
each other, in this case blacks, Hispanics, Whites and Asians, giving power to the weakest
group, the black, so they are completely dependent on the regime. The Romans did it in every
nation they conquered. I think they're making a horrible mistake that will end in Mau Mau
style violence but they can't seem to stop themselves. We have to survive to secure the
future of our children through education and hard work. The Irish survived as a people after
hundreds of years under an occupied power, as did the Greeks and the Slavs, we can do it,
too.
As it was once portrayed in some movie what the Russians thought they were getting when it
was marketed as "workers owning the means of production" and assorted other claims that were
made is not at all what they wound up with. Then they were either murdered or went on to lead
miserable lives. "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work". "The promises of Socialism
are as of yet unfulfilled".
The people that don't seem to mind the USA turning in to the Union of Socialist States are
going to have the same moment of discovery; what they thought they were getting and what they
wind up with will be two different things.
Trump's demise was having his weird Zionist son in law and his ditzy daughter wield so
much power. He became a vassal of the Zionists and couldn't even pardon Assange on his last
day in office.
Karl Marx may have gotten the solution all wrong, but he did diagnose the problem: this is
about class war...
... Western elites are looting their nations and crushing the working class, and they need
to deflect attention away from themselves. Teach the non-white working class to hate the
white working class, and the working class will tear itself apart.
Nothing personal, it's just business.
Funny isn't it, the United States is run by about 600 mostly white billionaires, but
somehow none of these people have any 'white privilege.' It's only working class whites
driving pick up trucks and drowning in debt and one paycheck away from being evicted that are
'privileged'.
The article provokes thoughts for the clueless to ponder after the fact. Suddenly it all
makes "sense" long after it makes any difference. Trump is a businessman turned politician
and anyone who thinks he had their best interests in mind is a hopeless fool. After his
supporters served their purpose they were trash. Trump floated away to his gold plated digs
and his followers to their trailer parks.
But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much.
I'd say, despite his stupidity and ineptness (or maybe because of it), Trump achieved two
good things.
1. He was the first American president in a long time who did not start a single war. Not
for the lack of trying. The shelling of Syria under false pretenses and mafia-style murder of
Soleimani were acts of war by any definition. The only reason no war broke out was that
Syrian and Iranian leadership proved themselves to be ~100 times wiser than American and
Israeli elites. BTW, this was not a huge achievement, considering how degenerate those elites
are.
2.
He forced the Regime and its servants to reveal themselves.
That may be his biggest achievement. Deep sate had to show its ugly mug several times
already, first with massive eleventh-hour election fraud, second with totally unlawful
actions of the courts, third with vicious smear campaign against everyone who did not pretend
to buy its lies and shenanigans, and fourth with occupied country-style inauguration:
thousands of soldiers and no people. Whoever still believes in "American democracy" should
buy a bridge from me.
Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia is what caused my grandparents to leave Italy for
good.
(PS Migrating from one's homeland exacts an enormous toll. My parents would be 100 this year,
& long dead; I only began to understand the turmoil they endured, with grace and dignity,
after they were no longer around to talk about it.)
Oct 29, 2020 Robert O'Brien – Trump's Foreign Policy
Donald Trump is the first American president since Ronald Reagan not to initiate a foreign
war. Moreover, peace is breaking out in the Middle East. National Security Advisor Robert
O'Brien explains the Trump approach.
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."
Which means that when a deserving people find themselves in distress, a leader worthy of
their loyalty and respect will appear to lead them – but not before.
That's an unwarranted generalization. Yes, the Empire and its Western European bootlickers
are going down the drain due to their own actions. Most of the world would say "good
riddance".
But white people also live in Russia and Eastern Europe. Most of them are not as dumb as
Ukrainian "patriots".
Bottom line: normal white people will survive, cucked white people will not. Survival of the
fittest in action.
@Anon ntury
version), and if they keep not minding, they are going to more or less get it again.
Not a chance in hell. People, why don't you stop talking about things you know nothing
about?
What ever problems the Soviet Union had – and many of them curtesy of the West –
it did have equality of the nations and races and, in many ways, economic equality as well. This
is something American can only dream about now, let alone in the future. The Soviet period was
also the time of great achievements in education and culture, which post-soviet Russia is yet to
reach, and that is something that cannot be said of today's America. Carroll
Price , says: January 21, 2021
at 8:01 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago
For awhile I believed the election was stolen, until taking a look at my own large extended
family consisting of several dozen guilt-ridden, propaganderized nephews, neices, and in-laws
etc who nearly all voted for Joe Biden.
Whites are privileged because they have disproportionate power and wealth, but if you
notice that the most disproportionately powerful and wealthy are Jews, that's
antisemitism.
Which, tbh would not bother me much if they used that power to further America's interests
or at least not at America's expense, and if they earned it through actually being better
rather than simply being able to get away with nepotism and tribalism by playing the Holocaust
card.
@Carolyn
Yeager o actually rule the US and most of the world. Assorted international financiers,
also know as banksters, many of them (((small hats))), are the ones who are pulling the
strings. The president is essentially a puppet, who does the bidding of the aforementioned
group. Trump did quite well in stirring up the ire of the unhinged libtards while throwing a
bone to the so called conservatives, but he is a false alternative to the uniparty system. He
is owned by the same Juden banksters as Biden, Obama, and Bush. It is pathetic how you resort
to personal attacks on the author since you have naught but strawman arguments. The last
president who actually was a threat to the powers that be was JFK, and he was JFK-ed. You
should realize that their will be no positive change from within the system.
The Congress and Executive Branch really were the two most important power-network nodes
of civilization control when our country started out as a European-heritage
Christian-heritage republic. Most power was diffuse and local, as befits a genuine
republic.
Now federal institutions are secondary nodes. They dance on the puppets strings wielded by
the hands that own the primary nodes: the manufacture of fiat currency and the financial
system into which it is injected and then used to manage non-financial institutions and the
personnel who staff them. This runs the range from lucrative DoD contracts for Amazon Web
Services to little bags of money for Little Marco Rubio.
The transnational financialists (globalists), who own and operate what used to be OUR
country, control access to the institutions (primarily Congress) which have the power to make
changes to the structure of civilization (immigration, trade, welfare dependence). Dem and
Rep parties are privately owned corporations and the set of people who are their overlapping
primary shareholders is a small one.
Antifa attacks on institutions of the corporate left suggest that the globalists do not
have mass support from either the left or the right. The young left are not on board with the
globalist Great Reset. They have their own vision for a reset, as do we on the civilizational
right. The globalists are like the Weimar Republic. Most people want it gone, but disagree
over with what to replace it.
TLDR: Antifa attacks suggest that the globalists making architectural decisions for OUR
civilization do not have mass support. They have obedient gun-carriers in the forces of order
who are still operating on institutional loyalty inertia and fear of what may come to
pass.
I noticed that in some of the units, none of the enlisted men, (those in ranks) had all of
their backs turned to the motorcade. I also could not see any rifles at their side. It's
likely, in my estimation, that their commands did not want any loose cannon, or otherwise, to
take a shot, notwithstanding the fact that a 5.56mm round will not penetrate the carriages of
the new king and his retinue.
Look at what happened to the Brown Shirts. Same thing will happen to Antifa if they keep
this up. In addition, the Left/Progressives who supported Biden will be thrown under the bus
within a week if they haven't been already. They will be mightily disillusioned.
How do I know this? I believed Obama's hopey changy stuff before his first election. I
even sent him a donation. He discarded us within hours of his election. Decided he would do
nothing about torture. Not even a "thank you" email.
I am saddened by the state of our country. However, it seems to me, we haven't hit bottom
yet. When that happens, we get to watch all the left-wing lunatics (metaphorically I hope)
eat each other like the true zombies they are.
I feel very sorry for those Republicans who are in large metropolitan areas with so many
swarms of army ant-like lefties who haven't yet figured out how to get and keep employment
and so have nothing to do but take Soros money to continue their careers as rioters or Antifa
goons.
Out here in the West, I'm just holding my breath and waiting for them to come here and try
to force us to join their army.
This is farming country and we have deadly chemicals for countering insect
infestations.
The sad thing is that because often our cost of living is cheaper, we are constantly
getting some of the wealthier Lefties buying up our land.
It reminds me of the range wars in the Old West. I sure hope the ranchers and and the
farmers have settled their differences and will work together to keep the Eastern crowd, the
Californian idiots, and the Boulder Marxists away.
I still pray that some day we can draw a boundary around the Boulder area, and let them
try to govern themselves only while keeping them out of our state politics--and especially
out of the governor's mansion after our current governor and his "first gentleman" are
finally gone.
You can be a constitutional republic as long as voters are engaged and infomed. You become
a banana republic when governance is farmed out to surrogate forces, whose only goal is
carving up the now mandatory the government cash resources.
When did the Founders version of America take the wrong turn? Perhaps it was the income
tax amendment - free flow of money for special interests to carve up, instead of our "elected
representatives" actually earning our tax dollars and being personally accountable for how
they were spent.
What government institutions that now work against us, got their start and their now
immortal life, only after this nation ratified the the income tax amendment?
Our only defense now is economic warfare - starve the bastards. Is there even a plan to
make this a viable and influential choice?
BTW: "term limits" is not the answer. Only makes voters even lazier and elected official
even more unaccountable, with the very serious downside that real problems get kicked down
the road for some other "term" to solve -- which is never.
The "new GOP" needs to explore the 16th Amendment, and explore it hard: new GOP litmus
test - do you support over-turning the 16th Amendment?
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows
Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of
population.
It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock
v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number
of states on February 3, 1913, and effectively overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in
Pollock.
IMO, the left-right frame and the partisan frame while convenient does not really point to
the fault lines. I believe the better frames are one, by class - oligarchy + urban
media-managerial class vs working + middle class; and second by belief system - government as
tool to "right inequalities" vs individual liberty + competitive markets, implying government
to enforce fair rules of the game uniformly like a referee in a sports game with reasonably
evenly matched teams.
While the authors of this paper may be classified as from the "left" and automatically
dismissed by the "right", they make many important points for consideration by both the
"left" and "right".
Bill Clinton & Obama were labeled "marxist" by most of the "right" but they actually
did nothing "marxist" in a classical sense. However, they did further the symbiotic
relationship between Big Government & Big Business to further strengthen the Party of
Davos from both an economic & political power perspective. That would rightly be labeled
"fascist". The policies of Reagan & the Bush presidents were really not that different to
further enhance the stranglehold of power by the same group as was Trump's presidency. As
Col. Lang labeled it, we have a "mono-party" in reality. So partisan fervor is misplaced and
a distraction from the real fight. In this context, Trump was a weak leader. While he got the
zeitgeist correct and rode it to the presidency, from the first day on he not only acquiesced
to the demands of the Swamp/Deep State but he also hired them to run his administration.
I am disgusted by all that Antifa or whoever these people are manage to get away with.
For over a week every day in the news there's been articles about the identity of rioters
at the Capitol and their arrests. Why don't more of THESE rioters get arrested for property
damage and risky behavior like lighting fires and hitting people? When there are arrests, why
aren't their mugshots, names and locations revealed? After so much time these mysterious
rioters are still doing whatever they want, wherever they want. Even mayors complain but
nothing gets done. It is high time these people are arrested and revealed.
Aren't they domestic terrorists? If they are, they should be treated that way.
Thanks. Now that's the spirit. After insulting the Guardsmen with the "vetting", this
should be an eye-opening statement to Slow Joe (more likely to his handlers) about what The
Deplorables in the ranks think about that, and furthermore perhaps about his "victory".
A message was sent, but was the message received, and not merely received, but actually
understood? After all, it should be recalled,that there are none so blind, as those who would
not see. Arrogance and condescension make for blinkered vision, and Lord knows, we are
dealing with some people who exhibit world-class arrogance as well as condescension here.
while I don't believe in the existence of US domestic terrorists, I do believe that millions
of US citizens are convinced that the vote was stolen. These people are understandably
disgusted and angry. Many might be desperate or even despondent. Let's call them the
"deplorables" and consider it a badge of honor. Well, these deporables won't take DC by force,
but they will never trust a Dem or GOP politician again, and neither will they ever trust the
corporate media. One of the blessings in disguise of this stolen election is that the GOP and
Fox News have shown their true faces, and their faces are evil, stupid and ugly. 4 years ago
millions of US citizens did not so much vote for Trump as much as they voted against Hillary
whom they (correctly) saw as a symbol and metaphor for the entire "deep state", or "swamp" or
"ZOG" or whatever other expression you prefer.
These deplorables first trusted Obama ("change we can believe in") and, later, Trump
(MAGA). Now they know that both sides are equally evil and false.
In the past, both factions of the Big Money Party had safety valves (Tea Party, Occupy
Wall Street, Rand Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, etc.). I think that now the two parties
are literally standing naked and boy is that an ugly sight!
Third, and this point I primarily address to my readers in the USA and that will force me to
make a sidebar primarily directed at them:
[Sidebar: the planet can be divided into 2 rough parts: ZONE A full controlled by the
AngloZionist Empire and, ZONE B, which includes everybody else. The vast majority of Americans
are only really aware of Zone A. Why? For the following reasons:
and speaking
Spanish knows that totally false this belief is, of course. But few non-Hispanic Americans
ever speak in Spanish to the Hispanics in the USA (FYI – I do). Anglos generally seem
to have a hard time with languages Sadly, most Americans are not educated by their parents,
their religious leaders, their communities, or their schools. Most Americans get most of
their education from watching TV. Since all the US TV channels offer almost the exact same
mix of vulgar entertainment, propaganda and commercials, this "education" resulted in a huge
amount of massively dysfunctional families and communities. This addiction to a flickering
screen (be it the Idiot Tube or You Tube – same difference) gives them a very short
attention span and a limited ability to process large amounts of written information, which
is what is needed to be able to analyze a situation]
As a direct consequence of these factors, most Americans live in a "mental space" where Zone
B simply does not exist, and when it is mentioned, it is invariable in the "same old
clichés" mode.
Finally, considering all of the above, it is truly a miracle that the deplorables completely
ignored a massive brainwashing campaign (waaaay worse than anything the Commies or the Nazis
ever came up with!) against "Trump the New Hitler" and still voted for him twice, both in 2016
and 2020! It really goes to show that most Americans quietly but passionately hate the regime
in DC and that they use every opportunity they get to at least to try to change their country
and their lives by means of voting. Makes you wonder what these "disobedient" deplorables will
do the next time around now that voting became clearly a waste of time, don't it?]
Now here is the good news: Zone B does exist! In fact, it is huge, rich, truly diverse and
it has long figured out that both the AngloZionist Empire and even the USA as we knew them have
basically died, all that's left from it is some residual momentum and many bad habits by
ignorant, arrogant and delusional US politicians.
Why is that so important?
Because if we allow the Great Satan (actually a very good and exact expression, I think that
it fits the new regime perfectly, I will use it more often) to convince us that reality is all
contained in Zone A, we could really fall into despair. Yeah, the USA is screwed, and so is all
of the EU. As for US colonies like AUS or NZ, not only are they screwed (say by siding with the
USA against a much, MUCH more powerful China), they also seem to have a morbid desire to
outstupid even the USA in terms of crazy laws and insane ideological positions (say on COVID,
for example). But all this in ONLY true inside Zone A. Very few people in Zone B still believe
that the USA matters a great deal. Most of them already know otherwise, even if this is never
reported by Zone A media.
There is even more good news: neither the (rump) AngloZionist Empire nor the (rump) USA
represent any credible threat to most countries in Zone B . Oh sure, US politicians can call
Russia a "gas station masquerading as a country" or a "regional power", the truth is that the
united West has completely failed to break, or even meaningfully hurt Russia, despite 46
sanction packages (that's just by Trump, not counting the "change we can believe in" crook).
Heck, even COVID only marginally hurt Russia (which, unlike the flag-waving pseudo-patriotic
crap spewed by western politicians took COVID seriously, very seriously in fact, as early as
March and prepared the country for no less than two major outbreaks, both which happened, and
both which Russia successfully dealt with; this is why the EU is now in full COVID-hysteria
mode, while Russia does not bother to impose any lockdowns at all!).
Now let's place two US propaganda items side by side and take a look, ok?
The USA has the
most powerful economy on the planet. Russia is the #1 adversary of the USA (at least according
to the Dems, the GOP places China as #1 and Russia only as #2)
Do you see the problem?
If the USA is so powerful, how is it that it failed to crush Russia? What about Iran? Or,
in extremis , Venezuela? Yet, even the the last case, the "best" this supposed World
Hegemon did was send a few clueless ex-special ops to get caught and give case of hysterical
laughter to the entire Latin American continent!
And these folks want to take on China or Russia?!
Peuhleeze!
So here is the other very good news: Zone A presents no real threat to Zone B!!!
Yes, of course, the USA can still nuke China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela or some other country.
But let's look at the consequences of such a strike:
comprador regime in Bogota will not
survive such a war and Colombia will also "fall". Against any other Zone B country: the US
successfully nukes this/these country/countries only to find itself being treated like a
pariah by the entire planet (including quite a few US colonies), including the real military
powers. NATO and the EU will also collapse is that happens (the US being their cornerstone).
The bottom line is that while the US triad is still fully functional and capable of waging a
full-scale nuclear war against any adversary (including Russia and, even more so, China), the
truth is that all this triad really achieves is making it impossible for another nuclear power
to use nukes against the USA. Which is not minor or irrelevant, the problem here being that the
US nuclear triad provides with with exactly zero help when trying to deal with any adversary
not using nukes (either because this adversary choose not to use nukes due to the effective
deterrence of the US nuclear triad or simply because it has no nukes in the first place).
As I have mentioned in the past, the US submarine force is, along with the nuclear triad,
the other truly effective and powerful force which the US can count on in case of war. However,
other than launching large numbers of outdated and, therefore, easily countered cruise missiles
there is little this force can do to assist a US ground (or, for that matter) air operation
against anything but a very weak adversary. The problem with so-called "sub-peer" adversaries
is that they have relatively few lucrative targets to strike with cruise missiles (think
Venezuela here). Most of these subpeer adversaries do not have the air defenses needed to deal
with any halfway determined US missile and bomb attack and the US can quickly destroy whatever
air defenses such "sub-peer" countries have. So yes, I admit it. If tomorrow the USA wants a
"short and triumphant war", say to boost morale or distract from internal problems, they could
still attack countries like, say, Antigua and Barbuda or Santa Lucia, but such a farce will
hardly would qualify as "brilliant victory" of the "best armed forces in the galaxy", now would
it? Or maybe would, who knows? Ff the united propaganda machine wants to present that as a
triumph for US forces, like they did with the Grenada invasion (one of the worst military
operation in history!) they can do that, of course. But that would only serve to further
ridicule that propaganda machine since 2021 is not 1983, there are now millions of deplorables
out there who will never buy this kind of silly nonsense.
Besides, considering how the joint efforts of the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia (the
"Axis of Kindness") completely failed to deal with the Houthis, my money would not be on any US
invasion force in the Caribbean (with the possible exception of a re-invasion of Haiti or the
Dominican Republic, but these are already US protectorates, what would be the point?!).
Why does all that matter so much?
Because the Dems are clearly up to no good. Next, not only will we see a wave of repression
against free speech internally, but the Dems are already making noises about, you guessed it,
China and Russia (again!) and, when that inevitably yield exactly zero results, they will turn
to "hate on" Iran and Venezuela again. But even these comparatively weaker countries are now
very much capable of making Uncle Shmuel pay an immense price in blood and hell to pay in terms
of political blowback on to many fronts to count.
The "power" of a nation (or a coalition of nations) can be measured using very many
different type of metrics, but the three most common ones would probably be: economic power,
military power and political power. If we use those three to compare Zone A to Zone B, it would
be reasonable to posit the following:
people worldwide have
long switched their support for Zone B countries. The recent triumph of the people of Bolivia
over their oppressors is a very telling sign of this trend.
And here is the key factor to keep in mind: there is nothing, absolutely nothing, the
Biden/Harris Admin can do to change these trends. It is simply too late and when the initiation
of the internal collapse of the USA, these trends will only accelerate .
Yes, the bad guys did win, but only over Trump and his clueless pseudo-allies (did they
betray him faster than he betrayed them, or was it the other way around?), but they only won
one a battle against the deplorables and they have won exactly nothing against Zone B.
The Dems are now busy with vengeance in all its forms. They also relish in humiliating Trump
and those who dared to support him. This is the political equivalent of torturing people in
basements, not winning glorious battles. But they don't realize that, they are too vain, too
ideologically hateful, and too cowardly to understand that.
Still, brainwashing, like torture (including mental torture!), is real. In this case, this
is a battle for the minds of the deplorables who now have to be beaten down into a catatonic
state of total submission and compliance. The Dems are using lies, their favorite weapon, but
their assault is real, nonetheless. And this is the battle which we, those who opposed
imperialism, have to fight – the battle for the minds of the people in Zone A: we need to
show them that the pseudo-reality of Zone A has no real existence outside the Idiot Box and the
vapid rhetoric of US decision makers.
We have to mentally prepare for a sharp increase in the amount and scope of the lies the US
propaganda machine will be telling us (if you thought the last 4 years were bad, prepare for
much, much worse; good example
here ). And, of course, expect LOTS of false flags, especially to demonstrate the reality
of the alleged danger coming from the "domestic terrorists". That will all go down against a
background of a full-spectrum attack on free speech, dissent and any form of actual (as opposed
to pretend) thought, really.
The irony is, of course, that the coming witch hunt (it will be way worse than Salem or
McCarthy) will be waged in the name of diversity and ostensibly against "hate". In reality, of
course, what the regime wants is to crush real diversity because the leaders of the US
Nomenklatura absolutely hate everything besides their sorry selves. Like all ideologues,
what these folks want is 1) total power and 2) total uniformity. All those rejecting these
modern dogmas will be branded has criminals, terrorists, heretics, racist and, of course,
Russian and Chinese agents.
And that is why this regime will also fail.
Conclusion: diversity WILL win. The REAL diversity, of course!
Our planet is wonderfully diverse, especially outside the uniformity sector of Zone A. There
IS a Zone B out there, and the leaders of Zone A will be defeated by our real common and shared
humanity (and their hatred for us!). Somewhere between Obama and Trump, the world has moved on,
and it is now very busy dealing with the immense challenges and opportunities facing it in Zone
B. And no, neither Russia nor China is busy trying to sabotage or undermine the USA – US
leaders are doing that much better job of that than any Russian or Chinese ever could . So why
even bother (and nevermind the risks!)?
We cannot predict what will happen next, there are simply too many variables to do that. But
what we can do is predict with a great degree of confidence that the new regime in power in DC
will do no better than all the other regimes which came to power by means of color revolutions
in the past couple of decades. There is no hope left for the Empire, as for the USA, there will
be plenty of hope left for them, but only after a long and painful process of collapse and
rebirth (both of which are inevitable by now). The truth is that US is not that unique as
empires go, sorry, it is just your typical arrogant and narcissistic empire which will collapse
just as all the other arrogant and narcissistic empires in history have collapsed, mostly under
their own obscene weight . And those poor souls who sincerely believe that China (or Russia)
want to replace the USA simply don't understand that these two countries already have been
empires, it was a disaster, thank you very much, and they have no desire to repeat their past
mistakes. This desire for non-exceptionalism and normalcy will, with time, also become the
object of a large social consensus in the USA. And, with time, the USA will finally be welcomed
into a truly free Zone B or, should I say, a Zone-free world.
Look how perfectly applicable is the phase "The complaint wants the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Cruz and Hawley failed to
"[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department," to key
Russiagaters
Notable quotes:
"... they "engaged in criminal conduct, or unethical or improper behavior." ..."
"... The Democratic Senators are also asking the Ethics Committee to "offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered." ..."
"... Its as if democrats didnt spend 4 years and millions of dollars questioning the validity of the prevous election. ..."
The complaint wants the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Cruz and Hawley failed to
"[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party,
or Government department," or if they engaged in "improper conduct reflecting on the Senate"
linked to the January 6 Capitol 'riot.'
The Democratic senators also outlined several questions they believed should be probed as
part of an Ethics Committee investigation including if they were in touch with coordinators
for the rally , if they encouraged any "insurrectionist" acts or if they "engaged in criminal
conduct, or unethical or improper behavior."
"While it was within Senators' rights to object to the electors, the conduct of Senators
Cruz and Hawley, and potentially others, went beyond that," they wrote in the letter to
Ethics Committee leadership.
Cruz and Hawley, two potential 2024 presidential contenders, have denounced the mob that
breached the Capitol but they've also stood by their decisions to object to the Electoral
College results from Arizona and Pennsylvania, respectively. -
The Hill
During the counting of electoral votes, Cruz objected to Arizona's results, while Hawley
objected to Pennsylvania's results following the Capitol attack, when a group of Trump
supporters and at least one prominent member of BLM breached the Capitol building and occupied
it for a brief period of time before leaving on their own.
The Democratic Senators are also asking the Ethics Committee to "offer recommendations for
strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts
uncovered."
Forgero 3 hours ago
Its as if democrats didnt spend 4 years and millions of dollars questioning the validity
of the prevous election.
Senator Rand Paul recently challenged the new Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken on
his history of pushing regime change in the Middle East and North Africa:
"Regime change in the Middle East has led to chaos, instability and more terrorism," Sen.
Paul argued.
"Like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton you've been a supporter of military intervention in
the Middle East from the Iraq war to the Libyan war to the Syrian civil war..." he introduced
in his Tuesday questoning of Blinken.
Sen. Paul began his argument by questioning Blinken's role in the NATO intervention of Libya
in 2001 and his support for the US military invasion of Iraq in 2003, which the Kentucky
congressman said was a major disaster that paved the way for a stronger Iran.
The congressman argued that Blinken continued to push regime change in Syria, which he said
was a significant blunder, especially with the amount of money spent training "moderate rebel
forces" .
Sen. Paul said the administration of former President Barack Obama spent $250 million (USD)
on training 60 rebels [as part of the DoD side; the CIA program was much more expansive], which
he said was a waste of money.
He would go on to question why Blinken would support the Syrian opposition groups on the
ground, as he pointed out the most powerful fighters are those from the jihadist groups like
the Al-Nusra Front .
"Even after Libya you guys went on to Syria wanting to do the same thing again... it's a
disaster. The lesson of these wars is that regime change doesn't work!" Paul said.
"You got rid of one 'bad guy' and another 'bad guy' got stronger," Paul added while
lambasting the US strategy of going after Iran while Iraq is still weakened by Bush's regime
change war there.
"Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle East," Paul continued.
Blinken claimed in response that he wasn't supportive of a full-scale 'Iraq-style' regime
change war in Syria while vaguely claiming that he's done "deep thinking" and reflection on the
issue . Blinken never repudiated the policy of regime change in the Middle East, however.
Sen. Paul then shifted his attention to NATO, which he said Blinken was trying to strengthen
for the purpose of combatting Russia. The senator said Blinken's policy on NATO would lead to
war with Russia, which the latter responded would have the opposite effect.
Paul concluded by saying that regime change needs to end because it is involving the US in
long wars that are costly to the military.
The Luftwaffe 8 hours ago
We will see a new major war started by this administration within two years
Cloud9.5 7 hours ago
We have to do something to reduce the population.
Leather-Dog 7 hours ago
You mean in addition to the 103.5% effective covid vaccine?
RiverRoad 7 hours ago
On duckduckgo.com search > "Med
Cram".
On You Tube: Dr. Seheult's med school video lecture "Vitamin D and Covid 19: The Evidence for
Prevention and " (5.3m views)
Vitamin D3 is sold over the counter.
Karma is coming for Covid.
eatapeach 7 hours ago
Hopefully it's also coming for the thieving liars who pushed this cheap PsyOp (Pompeo is
one, Fauci is another).
bigjim 3 hours ago
I guess Bibi mis-spelled Rand's email address on the memo.
boattrash 2 hours ago
103.5%... that sounds like the voter turnout in all the blue cities.
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours ago
If one could take all the people in the world and cram them into a city as dense as Tokyo,
it would cover the area of Rhode Island.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 5 hours ago
BS
Tokyo pop density=16121.8 /sq.mi.
Rhode Island = 1045 sq.mi.
At that density RI would hold 16.8 million people.
At the average annual population growth rate of the last century there will be 1 sq.m. of
land per person in only 750 years. That includes all mountains, frozen tundra, jungles and
deserts... now "get off my lawn".
bearwinkle 6 hours ago
Sure, that's why Xiden is allowing millions of immigrants to invade our borders.
aloha_snakbar 7 hours ago
I thought it might be like today...
Hatterasjohn 7 hours ago
Anyone crazy enough to join ,or be in the military , is out of his friggin mind.
BarnacleBill 7 hours ago
Or likes killing civilians. Don't overlook the psychopaths.
headslapper 7 hours ago
and that will be the end of the US.
RiverRoad 7 hours ago
How about the Regime Change just effected right HERE in the good old USA?
Im1ru12 4 hours ago
Exactly - "Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle East," Paul
continued
That's what they do - they just did it here
starman99 7 hours ago
(((Anthony Blinken)))
USAllDay 7 hours ago
I'd take Assad over Biden.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)
Assad has more integrity in his shoe than Biden has accumulated in the past 50 years.
Armed Resistance 7 hours ago
If the deep state hates Assad, then I know he must be legitimately a good guy deep down.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago
BINGO!
Brutlstrudl 6 hours ago
It seems that after each election, the USA becomes more of a contrarian indicator
SERReal1 7 hours ago
I agree. At least Assad puts his country first and gives the finger to the Deep State.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 5 hours ago
Plus a secular government that respects the rights of all religious minorites. Sets a bad
example for all the intolerant apartheid states in the region.
Hopefully the "Assad Must Go" curse gets the entire Biden Administration sooner rather than
later.
aloha_snakbar 8 hours ago
Who cares...Uncle Scam lost the tiny bit of credibility he had on 01/20/2021. RIP
America....
eatapeach 7 hours ago
I care. Here's yet another Israel-first douchenozzle getting put in a very, very high
position. And acting like it'd be any different with Trump at the helm is severe folly.
(Pompeo)
FluTangClan 6 hours ago
Sorry bro but anyone with eyes hasn't thought the US credible for more than a century.
4Celts 7 hours ago
Paul concluded by saying that regime change needs to end because it is involving the US in
long wars that are costly to the military.
Pardon , but the " cost " to the military shouldn't be the top/only argument. What happened
to morally/ ethically wrong ?
SwmngwShrks 7 hours ago
"All wars are Bankers' wars." -Smedley Butler
white horse 7 hours ago
Moral is dead long ago, replaced by new fake moral called humanitarianism.
DonGenaro 7 hours ago
You're an astute observer - few detect such "tells"
Feck Weed 5 hours ago
Consider the audience
FringeDweller 5 hours ago
Fair point.
Lord JT 5 hours ago
He mentioned that it creates more terrorism, and that the incoming regime may be even worse
than the previous.
Unknown User 8 hours ago
Biden will start a war, or two, or three...
Why-Am-I-Banned 6 hours ago
Maybe the best thing that could happen to free us all finally is an all out war with
Russia, we aren't going to see a revolution to get rid of the corruption the population is
lazy and scared of doing without.
Maybe forced into mutual assured destruction is truly the only way to get rid of the deep
state...
Russia lost approx 250 million via communism over decades, maybe we need to just swallow
the poison pill and get it over with.
Not all of us will die, and definately no one is going to listen to the deep state leaders
after the dust clears...
FluTangClan 6 hours ago
Cho Bai Den fol peace!
wick7 5 hours ago
It's amazing how Democrats flipped overnight to being pro war once Obama started new wars.
They were mad when Trump was signing peace deals. Lol.
You_Cant_Quit_Me 8 hours ago
He's right. One disaster after another. Who has Assad attacked? If small countries want the
US to back off then they must develop nuclear weapons. When was the last time the US attacked a
country with nuclear capabilities?
JRobby 7 hours ago
Bust Blinken's balls until he quits like a little rat trying to naw through steel cables
gespiri 7 hours ago
The only way to stop these wars is to send the people (and their kids) who are pushing for
it in the first place to the front lines.
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours ago
Or make the state obsolete by transitioning to a private law society.
RedDog1 7 hours ago
Remember how Gaddafi surrendered his nukeprogram to Bush, a few years later Obama/HRC
invaded...resulting in Gaddafi being lynched?
eatapeach 7 hours ago
Iran and NK and Syria remember, for sure. Wish we all remembered the USS Liberty when
shaping foreign policy.
LooseLee 4 hours ago
Remember Libya has no central bank?
Pandelis 3 hours ago (Edited)
you really believe that bs ... it is much more than that ... at the end is about the land
and the people ... money can be printed out of thin air and there is nothing libya (or iraq,
iran etc.) central bank can do about it ...
bring on dr. fraucistein to explain it all to us ... maga!!
roach clipper 6 hours ago
Assad placed his country too close to Is ra hell
manofthenorth 8 hours ago
Sorry guys but we have been played like a second hand fiddle.
I assume Paul has figured out by now that being a murderous psychopath is a job requirement
in DC. It's the first question in the job interview. "Do you enjoy death and destruction for
profit and personal power?"
littlewing 7 hours ago
Remember when Trump bombed Syria and all of a sudden everyone in DC loved him for 15
minutes.
Talk about the big reveal.
aloha_snakbar 7 hours ago
The same Rand Paul who was criticizing Trump in the eleventh hour? That one?? They are all
swamp creatures and seriously make me want to vomit...
pro·le·tar·i·at 7 hours ago
The apple rolled away from the tree.
Leather-Dog 7 hours ago
Paul, I like you, you seem to care a little bit. However, if they haven't cared in the last
forever, they are definitely not going to start now. They just regime changed ourselves with
almost no substantial resistance, you think they will care about Syria?
StanleyTheManly 5 hours ago
He puts on a show to care once in a while.
He didn't stand for the truth when it counted.
Goat of Steverino 7 hours ago
GREAT RAND, BUT WHERE WERE YOU ON BIG TECH CENSORSHIP AND ELECTION FRAUD?
Bank_sters 7 hours ago
He's cucked.
Ted Baker 6 hours ago
What is this obsession with Russia? Russia is a peaceful country who defends its people. How
difficult is that to understand?
ReadyForHillary 6 hours ago
Russia isn't down with the NWO.
Dinaric 7 hours ago
(((Blinkin))) is all you need to know.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago
Does anyone honestly believe that if Biden was honest and had any degree if integrity that
he would be president at this moment in U.S. history? That boy is a 50 year swamp critter A
thoroughly reliable member of the compromised fraternity. Same for Nancy.
freakscene 7 hours ago
Remember the video of younger Biden telling some voter that he graduated top of his class,
with honors????
None of which were true.
littlewing 7 hours ago
His degree is from University of Phoenix.
Now all colleges are that. haha
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours ago
Ironically, he wants to set up a comity for Integrity In Government.
freakscene 7 hours ago
Yeah. Thats hysterical!!
Saturday Night Live material - if they had any spine.
BarnacleBill 7 hours ago
Which they don't. Come on, man!
StanleyTheManly 5 hours ago
Yep. They needed someone with zero integrity.
yeketerina velikaya 7 hours ago
You know who's been right all along?
Tulsi Gabbard.
Right on big tech
Right on Kamala
Right on pardoning Assange and Snowden
Right on the uniparty and false flags in Syria
Right on Queen of Warmongers Hillary and DNC
Right on the MSM
Right on securing the elections/ballot harvesting
She's the real deal and would have delivered on these things but never had a shot.
Armed Resistance 7 hours ago
She was wrong on gun control. Very wrong! And that's a non-negotiable.
Why-Am-I-Banned 6 hours ago
Don't worry real gun control is coming and so much more you didn't ask for...
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours ago
She should have been Trump's vp choice.
StanleyTheManly 5 hours ago
You know....I think you're right. I hadn't thought of that.
StanleyTheManly 5 hours ago
I like Tulsi. She seems like a genuine person with integrity that really cares about the
country. BUT I disagree with her on quite a few issues. Maybe she'll come around.
littlewing 7 hours ago
The steal was sealed when the Supreme Court refused to hear the Texas case.
Greasy John Roberts wrecked America.
Max21c 7 hours ago
The steal was sealed when the Supreme Court refused to hear the Texas case.
True.
Vichy John Roberts went full Quisling and brought back Jim Crow laws. The Supreme Court
endorsed election fraud, supported the coup d'etat, forced Trump from power, helped usher in a
new era for the banana republic of Jim Crow laws...
phillyla 7 hours ago
John Roberts is compromised 8 ways to Sunday. Trump should have had him impeached and
removed from the bench
El Chapo Read 7 hours ago
If you thought Trump was surrounded by Red Sea Pedestrians with an agenda, research the
ethno-religious background of Biden's cabinet picks.
Shalom!
SassyPants 7 hours ago
Every administration is. Trumps son in law and advisor is as well. Please see the entire
picture for a change.
snatchpounder PREMIUM 7 hours ago
How about closing all military bases overseas and dismantling the MIC and oh **** it an old
demented neocon is playing president for a few months, scratch that.
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours ago
The crack up boom of the FRNs may force that one day
snatchpounder PREMIUM 7 hours ago
I think it'll happen sooner rather than later, the chances are good based on the demented
old pedophile being selected president and his retards at the fed.
rastanarchocapitalist 4 hours ago
In the long run, that might be a good thing if we return to honest money but you can be sure
they'll try to kick the can for another 50 years with some form of new fiat or erasing a couple
of zeroes of our current notes.
Hopefully the masses will just say know but I wouldn't put much faith in that.
RedNemesis 6 hours ago
Parents, do not let your smart, winning kids into the armed services. The MIC will grind
them out with PTSD, brain injuries, and lost limbs. There is no 'patriotism' or allegience to
the Deep State.
Why-Am-I-Banned 6 hours ago
Maybe the best thing that could happen to free us all finally is an all out war with Russia,
we aren't going to see a revolution to get rid of the corruption the population is lazy and
scared of doing without.
Maybe forced into mutual assured destruction is truly the only way to get rid of the deep
state...
Russia lost approx 250 million via communism over decades, maybe we need to just swallow the
poison pill and get it over with.
Not all of us will die, and definately no one is going to listen to the deep state leaders
after the dust clears...
Max21c 6 hours ago (Edited)
Maybe the best thing that could happen to free us all finally is an all out war with
Russia..
Maybe we should instead just launch a sneak attack on Alpha Centauri instead. Skip the small
fry like Russia and China. In a few generations we shall know whether our Earthling space
torpedoes hit Alpha Centauri. This of course should be debated by the people and approved by a
plebiscite per ballot referendums. Then the space war bill sent to the Earthlings Politburo for
their approval. It'll take around a decade or more to design and build the space torpedoes...
then 100 years plus for travel time and the same to get the data back from the
mothership...
Plus we can have both a Cold War and a Hot War with Alpha Centauri... under the leadership
of an Earthling appointed or elected by the Earthlings Council and elevated to the rank of Don
Quixote with the accompany title of Primal inter Pares
We just need more right thinking smart people to join the cult and become enlightened to the
prospects of a new 100 years war with other planets...and maybe some small wars with
planetoids...asteroids and comets...
We can establish of house of OverLords composed of only the best Astrologers to help pick
out which planets to attack & destroy...based upon whether they have offended our star
charts or the zodiac calls for war... In addition we can establish a lower house of UnderLords
composed of mad scientists and Generalissimos and crazy Spy Chiefs... and maybe some nutty
press types from the official media and puppet press to lead us in the Two Minutes Hate against
the Alpha Centauri folks, the space peoples, and the flying saucer people...
Maghreb2 5 hours ago
CIA already had plans for all this under the Stargate Program. After Ike's treaty with
various alien species the MIC began its descent into madness and universal conquest.
surroundedbyijits 6 hours ago
A war like that might "free" you, because the Russians will kick your ***.
balz 7 hours ago
Each time I see this "Office of the President Elect" picture thing, I get nauseous.
Fake office for a fake president who wasn't elected in the first place.
BLOTTO 8 hours ago
Like nothing happened back here at home.
Max21c 6 hours ago
Blinken may prove out to be more slick and savy than Dumbo Pompeo the flying cartoon
elephant but he's still a fawking neanderthal and a ******. Maybe an elite ****** but he's
still a ******. Blind, deaf, and dumb is still blind, deaf, and dumb even with all the powers
of the secret police at their disposal.
Ms No PREMIUM 7 hours ago
Rand is sick too. He goes on about how these things are bad specifically because they
strengthened Iran? How about liberty crushing mass murder?
"Sen. Paul said the administration of former President Barack Obama spent $250 million (USD)
on training 60 rebels [as part of the DoD side; the CIA program was much more expansive], which
he said was a waste of money."
So your mad they steal money while creating terrorists? Or are you mad that they don't tell
you what they do with the rest? They abduct children from war zones to make them. Maybe the
indoctrination and rape children's homes are expensive. They have screwed the entire
planet.
There is something wrong with him too. He is another limited hangout
silverlinings00 7 hours ago
He's all bark no bite like Elizabeth Warren. Trotted out to show a feigning resistance.
Insert farm animal here 4 hours ago
Poor Rand is going to have a tough and lonely battle over the next few years. Let's wish him
well, he'll be going it alone for sure.
the_pencil 2 hours ago
It seems odd that no one has allied themselves with him in the same manner as McCain &
Graham.
Pareto 6 hours ago
Another life long bureaucrat talking about his resume. And fails to answer a simple
question. Woop there it is. That's why they hated Trump. Because somebody off the street had
better answers than 25 years of experience.
Rand Paul, one of the few good ones left. Good Luck with Biden and his war hawks!
NumbNuts 6 hours ago
These same people are attempting a regime change in the United States too. From Freedom to
Fascism.
Helg Saracen 6 hours ago
The Americans lost perspectives and actually real freedom when Woodrow Wilson sold US to
international banksters in 1913, now this scam just ends and a new scam begins. You haven't
figured it out yet. By the way, fascism is Italian National Socialism. No offense.
frank further 6 hours ago
Then what was German National Socialism, if not fascism?
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BluCapitalist PREMIUM 6 hours ago (Edited)
They are not attempting. They have done it. They have perfected their craft over the last 70
years in other countries and they brought it home to keep their criminal organization
going.
urhotdogs 6 hours ago remove link
They didn't attempt, they did it! Took a little over 4 years but had to stoop to massive
election fraud and changing state laws on the fly. It was coordinated throughout all levels of
government down to states and courts and SCOTUS.
bunkers 5 hours ago
Communism
bunkers 5 hours ago
Maybe not.
WhiteHose 6 hours ago
Russia Russia Russia! They never stop! BTW, wheres scumbag Hunter?
starman99 7 hours ago
(((Anthony Blinken)))
rkb100100 7 hours ago
Yea we know the cabinet is full of heeb's.
brown_hornet 7 hours ago
Is he in the boat with Winken and Nod?
GatorMcClusky 7 hours ago
Good one.
Mount Massive 7 hours ago (Edited)
There is a reason Russia has spent the last 2 months ramping up testing of its mil hardware
including hyper-vel ICBM's and SLBM's. - Xiden
SelectedNotElectedBiden 7 hours ago
Rand will be the only Senator to give the Dems a hard time. Sad since it should be payback
for EVERY Republican Senator.
freakscene 7 hours ago
Cruz will be fun to watch too. They excel being outnumbered.
Ms No PREMIUM 7 hours ago
If they wanted Rand out of that spot he would have been gone a long time ago.
Bob Lidd 5 hours ago
Does anyone think the US policy in the middle east will change with 10 of biden's
appointees being jewish .......??
The "greater israel" will continue no matter the cost to the American tax cattle.......
((((blinken))) ..........
ReadyForHillary 7 hours ago
The neocons are back!
Max21c 7 hours ago
The neocons are back!
Does not matter. They could not win before and they shall not win now. They're ineffective,
inept, and incompetent. They won't be able to fix the messes and disasters they've created for
themselves. At best they might be able to sick the secret police on a few people at home and
drop some bombs or missiles abroad. But for the most part it's some more of the same. Evil is
as evil does. They're not going to be able to work themselves out of the fix they've got
themselves into or figure it out. They're toast. They're bad people and they're toast.
Washingtonians may have absolute power but they've had absolute power all along...and they
still can't fix the disasters they've caused.
Northern Exposure 6 hours ago (Edited)
Oh thank God!
If we're not looking for a new pointless war to start or jumping into an existing one then
this isn't the America that I know and love!
</sarc>
karzai_luver 7 hours ago
Where is the BUFFALOBILL dude storming the Senate to drag this blinken criminal scum out and
do justice for his wanton murder of thousands?
Shut down this freak show.
I would rather have BUFFALOBILL and his idiots running the place than these feckless
people's representatives.
Tony , have you learned your lesson?
Senator - screw you and your people I will think it over.
Alexander 7 hours ago
Silence republicans! Yes we stole the election using widespread mail in ballots, yes your
state governments changed the rules to allow us to count these mail in ballots more quickly,
yes there were far more votes in this election than any other ever. ANDDDD... NO we will not
look into the validity of this election becuase muh capital rioting grandma threatened sweet
little socialist AOC.
Now give us your children to fight a war in syria.
artless 7 hours ago
Barack Obama. Neocon to the core. Biden is no different. Gonna do us some "liberating"
again. And from the left there will be silence as thousands of poor, short brown people are
killed as "collateral damage".
Welcome back America to what you do the best. Destroy lives. Any over/under on how many days
it takes Biden to start killing folks and hence become a war criminal like pretty much all his
predecessors? I might like a piece of that action.
SassyPants 7 hours ago
Republicans are neocons, democrats are neoliberal. You're basically right, just left out
half the problem.
pods 7 hours ago
Can't bitch about foreign actions in our elections when we pick other governments.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours ago
Pick ???? Surely you jest !
pods 7 hours ago
We choose sides right?
We picked the CIA stooge in Venezuela.
Not sure about your question.
Maybe "kinetically pick" would be better?
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours ago
Sorry, I didn't read your post properly. I didn't see "other" governments.
rwe2late 7 hours ago
you either forgot the sarc tag
or failed to notice such as V. Nuland hand-picking leadership in Ukraine,
or the Trump picking of Guiado for Venezuela.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours ago
Poor eye sight is my best and only excuse.
SelectedNotElectedBiden 7 hours ago
Where is Hunter?
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours ago
The Big Guy made him the Advance Minister of Foreign Extortion.
headslapper 7 hours ago
The faces change but the song remains the same. What a waste of energy this government is.
Resources thrown down the toilet to make the Ruling class more wealthy. Why do we even pay
attention. We all need to have a look in the mirror. Myself included of course.
Armed Resistance 7 hours ago
So now that you've looked in the mirror, what are you going to do about it? Send a
strongly-worded letter? Or are you ready to actually step up. As morally wrong and demented as
the radical left is, at least you have to admire them in the sense they actually step up to the
plate to get sh!t done. It's immoral, but effective.
Canadian Dirtlump 7 hours ago
Lest we forget the same bearded butchers that Chris Stevens flew into ben gazi with (al
Quaeda inter alia aligned ) who were funded and trained by the West were the same ones who flew
from ben gazi to the incirlik nato base to try to do the same thing in syria.
The only reason it didn't work was because of the SAA, Hezbollah and of course the ultimate
backstop Russia. I'm thankful for this.
mikka 7 hours ago
Imagine Russian or Chinese parliament publicly debating regime change in USA.
Uncle_Cuddles 7 hours ago (Edited)
Debating? China has ALREADY done it here.
joew8989 7 hours ago
Rand will continue to fight the good fight, when you live a life based on principal, that's
what you do. We will always need more people like him. That's what built this country, not the
parasites at the helm now.
ItsTooHotForThis 6 hours ago
Paul voted to confirm the electors. His challenge to the new Sec. of State means
nothing.
Garciathinksso 5 hours ago
his argument was based on State's right issue, in case you care
bunkers 5 hours ago
It doesn't matter WHY, he voted with traitors, only, that he did.
SillyTheEnemy 6 hours ago (Edited)
This is literally the only guy we have in the senate who even remotely gives a ****. Yet the
amount of **** that is going to happen to us when biden heats up the war in Syria is
immeasurable. F*ck me
hardright 6 hours ago
Rand Paul is wasting his time.
If he wants to make a difference he should be lobbying Russia to send more troops into
Syria.
surroundedbyijits 6 hours ago
And arranging imports of the Russian vaccine. Less likely to kill you and more effective
than the only 45% effective Pfizer ****.
BluCapitalist PREMIUM 6 hours ago
This guys eyes look exactly like the vampires in the movie 30 days of night. Am I in a
simulation? Why do these people actually look like fictional villains? I mean Whitmer, Newsom,
this new fat, unhealthy, mentally ill assistant "health secretary"? Did I do something really
wrong? Am I in hell and don't know it? No. I am here on earth and psychopaths are real and evil
is real.
duckandcover 1 hour ago
they're just a little scared and overwhelmed. You might be too
WhiteHose 7 hours ago
Look at this Blinken twit! F you pal! And....wheres HUnter??? Diddling his brothers minor
niece? Again? Still?
First Ron and now Rand. I think the club just lets them in as the token Don Quixote. They
have been the only voices of reason for the last 25 years or so, but they are only tilting at
windmills. Nothing is going to change until something forces them to change. The war mongering
and corruption will just roll right along while the MIC and congress get richer by the
minute.
The unrelenting droning of brown people in foreign lands that are ill-equipped to fight back
will commence in 3,2,1...
SassyPants 7 hours ago
Leaving the Republican Party would be the first best step.
ejmoosa 7 hours ago (Edited)
We put too much on one man and one man alone to change things.
Faced with judges and a House and A Senate against him the task before Trump was
Herculean.
Add to that 2/5ths of the states with governors also against Trump and it's even worse.
What you need to do is get involved in your local politics and take control back of your
Cities and County Commissions, as well as your state governments.
Had Trump held control of the House and the Senate and we had sitting on Courts people who
put the Constitution first FOR the people rather than using it against them, things would be a
lot different today.
The choice is yours.
Time to play 7 hours ago
It's good to see that Rand, is starting to think more like his father!
north_hand_demon 7 hours ago
So he's controlled opposition, too?
Lyman54 7 hours ago
Pretty early to be smoking crack isn't it?
otschelnik 7 hours ago
With Cookies Nuland as Blinken's deputy, you've got the neocon family business installed at
Foggy Bottom. Robert (Victoria's huband), Fredrick, and Kim each with their own pro-war think
tank, and a list of supporters which constitute the "A-list" of the USSA's merchants of death.
Northrup-Grumman, UTX, Raytheon, Lockheed....
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago
Winken, Blinken and Nod.
That's the administration we got now.
silverlinings00 8 hours ago
Careful Rand, we wouldn't want you to get another "visit" from a neighbor while you're
mowing the lawn.
Pdunne 3 hours ago (Edited)
Biden's biggest Cabinet mistake will ultimately be Blinken.
Like Obama picked H Clinton with disasterous consequences Biden picks Blinken.
JackOliver4 4 hours ago
Rand Paul says " Assad is a terrible person " !!!
Dr Assad is a HERO !!
Rand Paul is either completely misinformed or just another useless politician afraid to
speak the TRUTH !
A COWARD !
Hessler 4 hours ago
Assad may be a good person at heart but he is not qualified to run a state. He should be a
doctor or something.
JackOliver4 4 hours ago
And Joe Biden is ??
OR Boris Johnstone ??
Helg Saracen 4 hours ago
It is up to the Syrians to decide, not you. You already paid for the genocide of the Syrian
Christians in the "fight against the tyrant Assad." I've seen all kinds of idiots and
hypocrites, but you are their king.
Hessler 4 hours ago (Edited)
Why did not Assad anticipated the Zionist invasion even though the Snowden document reveled
the CIA/Mossad works in the making in 2006 ??
If he did anticipated an invasion why he did not do anything to safeguard his nation and
it's people ?
Why every men, women and child capable to lift and shoot was not given and an ordinance and
proper training ?? Israel has that. Why can't Syria ?
Syria is a part of Greater Israel. They have been marked for genocide the day Israel was
created, what haste did Mr. Assad showed to safeguard his country against their genocidal
maniacs psychopaths ??
I will never forgive those who inflicted the terrible atrocities on the children and women
and Mr. Assad has a blame to share.
mark3383 3 hours ago
Assad risked his life and continues to do so every day, trump recently bragged he thought
about "taking him out". he's a true hero more than you or I will ever be
steve2241 5 hours ago
Rand Paul doesn't understand. Blinken follows the path that Israel tells him to. Middle East
instability benefits Israel. The fomenting of Sunni-Shia conflict kills Israels' enemies, the
muslims, without Israel having to lift a finger. Syria is no longer a threat to Israel. Mission
accomplished.
Hessler 4 hours ago (Edited)
You're wrong on two accounts. First, there's no ****te/Sunni conflict. What goes in Miiddle
East is entire different than what is portrayed here. The locals know but how many of them get
interviewed on live TV or get a airtime on a prime time desk ? Those are reserved for the
chosenites who spew BS about Arabs and Muslims 24/7.
****te/Sunni fiction as broadcasts in the west is nothing but a ploy to wash the hands of
the responsibility and pin the blame on the victims.
Second, Syria is now a bigger threat to Israel than it was in Pre War era. Battle Hardened
troops, better organization, training with Russian/Iranian Military, better equipment, talented
strategists and when you fight a war like that for that long you tend to grow a bigger set of
balls.
JackOliver4 4 hours ago
Syria wants the GOLAN back - I would say they are a threat to ISRAEL !!
Sick Monkey 5 hours ago
Speaking of war didn't Rand Paul vote to accept the illegitimate electors. I like Paul he
seems to have a level head but you voted to put the commies in power. Like you said in your
speech "there are repercussions". Those who took a stand against this coup must be kept in
power as they put skin in the game. That's a rare and precious gift to us the people. In the
year 2021 it's as good as gold.
Taffer 5 hours ago
Exactly, hence my previous comment below.
mark3383 3 hours ago
trump lost the election because he allowed million of fraud votes to be counted and never
said or did anything about it in the year leading up to it. he 's the one that lost it. no one
else
Sinophile 6 hours ago
"War Pigs"----Black Sabbath
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Yeah!
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'til their judgement day comes
Yeah!
Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pig's crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
oh lord yeah!
surroundedbyijits 6 hours ago
Circuses. Theatre for the plebes. Not one bit of foreign policy is decided or affected by
debates or hearings in the Legislative branch. They're all following a script, some of them act
like they aren't in on the joke.
Cloudcrusher 6 hours ago
Psychosis the denial of reality. The military industrial complex is make believe. It's
military industrial congress, Congress is in charge they alone are to blame know one else. The
sooner everyone starts living in reality the better off will be. You want to win the war of
words better start with reality. Or your going to get a another kind of war one where only the
strong survive.
Max21c 6 hours ago (Edited)
Watch: Rand Paul Challenges New Secretary Of State Over Regime-Change In Syria
Meaningless inside the beltway for the record drool-n-dribble... Rand Paul just wants to pad
his resume, bio, and gain some street cred claims...
TahoeBilly2012 6 hours ago
When do the new wars start? Dems can't wait. Blame them on Covid or something, they will buy
it.
vspam 7 hours ago
Biden will go to war with Iran and turned thr ME into a fireball. The mainstream media will
cheer him on under the banner of peace and unity
Max21c 7 hours ago
Diablo Corona
Washingtonians are for the most part the spawn of Satan.
DC= the Devil's City... they are evil... Washingtonians are just pure rotten evil...
Washington DC ... Devil's City
Washington DC .... Devil's Crown
The evil ones cannot change their evil ways... they're too far gone... the evil ones cannot
be redeemed...
Max21c 7 hours ago
Paul concluded by saying that regime change needs to end because it is involving the US in
long wars that are costly to the military.
Too late. Washington is toast. It's just a question of when Washingtonians lose in Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, et cetera. They already made a mess of things and they do not
have the brains to fix it. Same with their inabilities as regards nonproliferation, North
Korea, et cetera. They don't have what it takes to figure it out and work it out and nobody is
going to fix it for them because they're assholes regardless of which cabal of Ivy League
assholes or ******* elites are in power.
ThomasEdmonds 7 hours ago
Paul isn't supposed to question a Zionist's motives..
aloha-snackbar 7 hours ago
if the youth said no to war and moms said not my child and burned down the recruitment/death
centers then war would end...
tunEphsh 7 hours ago
Thank goodness that Paul told the idiot Blicken to lay off regime change. Obama-Biden made a
mess of the middle east and caused a refugee crises which is still with us. Instead of being
named secretary of state, me thinks Blicken should be put in jail for acts in the Middle East
which killed hundreds of thousands of people.
moneybots 7 hours ago
The EU has become a mess because of regime change.
freakscene 7 hours ago
Of course he should. But that would require sanity.
yerfej 7 hours ago (Edited)
Simple way to stop all this insane venturism and nation building it to MANDATE that every
aysshole like Blinken have a spouse or child or sibling or relative ON THE GROUND fighting in
one of these shyyytholes. These elites love this crap because THEY never pay a personal price,
no they have farmed that out to the "commoners" who supply the bodies. The filthy elites are
good at leveraging everyone else to fulfill their fantasies while paying no price.
Occams_Razor_Trader 7 hours ago
You've seen the videos of Chelsea and Malia on tour in Kabul? Yeah?
yerfej 7 hours ago
More like Eeyore pontificating from her 20 million dollar penthouse about how she is so not
into money, or Maglia dancing around stoned like a "social justice warrior".
Flynt2142ahh 7 hours ago (Edited)
The senate needs more Rand Paul types - and they dont have to be in the Republican
party...This would force actual accountability of uniparty folks and these appointees. We need
less murkowski and collins
phillyla 7 hours ago
I am going to harp on this
in 2014 Matt Bevin challenged McConnell in a Senate Primary
He was gaining momentum
Then Rand endorsed McConnell
Bevin lost McConnell got re-elected
Bevin was later elected Governor of KY so he had the votes
Rand Paul Broke my heart
Leguran@premium PREMIUM 7 hours ago
We need use the Progressive's signage: He is not my President.
LostMyGunsInABoatingAccident 7 hours ago
You can't necessarily call it an "American" policy.
America lost control of it's policy long ago.....
Mount Massive 7 hours ago
Here comes another war, and this time, it will spiral out of control. In two years or less,
I expect the US to be in a major conflict and/or hit at home. Sigh....Leftist
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours ago
Pelosi just took Rand aside and said, wait and see what your neighbor on the other side of
you has to say about this.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago
Rand is in the senate. nancy runs the house. That would be Schumer's job.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours ago
Pelosi seems to be running the show and is the face of the party
WorkingClassMan 8 hours ago (Edited)
Rand Paul, the lone voice of sanity in a rubber-stamp corrupt government.
If you or someone you care about is either in or thinking about joining this nation's
military...please don't. Let these antiwhites fight their own wars. They hate you and don't
trust you because you're White and they hate you owning guns, but they'll put a gun in your
hand and point you at their and Isn'treal's enemies without hesitation.
fudge punch 8 hours ago
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
AVmaster 3 hours ago
"Regime change in the Middle East has led to chaos, instability and more terrorism,"
Uhhh, yea...
... Thats what they WANTED!
Duh!
Scipio Africanuz 3 hours ago
Thank you Senator Paul..
For your candor..
The challenge of US Foreign Policy, is akin to a heroin addiction. It's bad for the country,
but all attempts to cure the country of addiction to imperialism has failed, including our
energetic efforts over the years..
Too many people benefit from the ruination of the country as it engages in squandering
lives, honor, power, reputation, and treasure, in maintaining a facade of illusory power, at
the expense of the true power of the country..
Put simply Senator, at this point, we don't believe any entity on earth can cure the US of
the addiction to depravity save nature, which cure is more preferable to that of the Entity
whose decision is not subject to appeal..
Now Senator, you may not believe in God Almighty and thus, swat away the simple insight but
God does not require your belief to act..
Over His creation..
The only cure, if sense and rationality don't prevail, is exactly what we don't desire to
know and why?
Because we've seen it before, applied to different societies with similar mentality over the
course of human history and Senator, it's never palatable..
Anyhow, probation is till summer, to allow folks do intensive introspective contemplation,
enough to acquire prudent humility and if they don't, well..
Cheers...
Ckierst1 2 hours ago
I believe the Senator is a Christian.
Pdunne 4 hours ago
Blinken is a bald faced liar and is already working with Ms Nuland on more regime
changes.
Venezuela and Syria need to get ready for more robust attacks.
Dzerzhhinsky 2 hours ago
Control the oil, you control the world.
the_pencil 2 hours ago
Oil was the cause of every war for the past century.
Posa 4 hours ago
A ridiculous exchange. Sen Paul seems to take at face value the Liberal-NeoCon claim that
Regime Change is good-intentioned attempt to democratize the Middle East.
Hardly. Regime Change was always designed to a) install Israeli supremacy in the region
("Operation Clean Break"); and b) secure US Global Uni-polar dominance (the Wolfowitz Doctrine)
as part of the Brezezinski "Grand Chessboard". That's the intention... this exchange
demonstrates how out of it Rand Paul is; and what a nasty weasel Blinken is.
Ckierst1 2 hours ago
That's not what Sen. Paul said. He doesn't agree with regime change. That's what he
said.
PaulDF 5 hours ago
To which the Biden appointee replied, "You know, the thing!"
mark3383 3 hours ago
cmon man!
duckandcover 2 hours ago
do your job!
Taffer 5 hours ago
Rand Paul's opinion and $6 will get him a latte at Starbucks.
Hessler 6 hours ago (Edited)
Foreign policy is never gonna change no matter who's in change because the way system is
setup.
The lifestyle (our way of life) pertaining to the western model of civilization (our values)
needs unlimited supply of money to be supported. The money that can't be made by legal means,
hence the continues war that needs to be maintained overseas while also starting new ones as
requirement arise.
And since this is a continues state, so accompanies it continues propaganda, lies, false
flags, deception and manipulation of facts and truth. LYING IS IN VERY GENES OF THE WHITE
CHRISTIAN WEST. They have been doing it for so long that they have almost mastered the "the art
of lying" the zenith of which is to project your own flaws and crimes on to the subjects you
carried it out on. One thing you can always be sure of, they will never admit their crimes
unless there's no other way. And that they will be accusing their opponents of the same things
they would be doing.
War underpins their society, nation and civilization.
steve2241 4 hours ago
The problem is that the U.S. is abusing its position as printer-in-chief of the Reserve
Currency of the world. With that fake money, it can intervene in the affairs of nations
throughout the world - a capability that no other country enjoys. Take away its reserve
currency and watch how quickly middle eastern strife ends - and the nation of Israel, too.
apparently 6 hours ago
will the left and their mindless supporters be comforted to know that their guy promotes
these "endless wars"? will they be happy to sacrifice their sons and daughters for desert
real-estate whose oil we don't want?
Paul was being way too polite. He should simply say: "I'm not voting to confirm this war
monger" then get up and leave the room.
Hessler 6 hours ago
If you think it's about the oil, you really don't understand the world you inhabit.
apparently 6 hours ago (Edited)
I don't think it's about oil but I'm struggling to name a single US interest in sand-wars.
maybe you can? yes, yes, military/industrial complex, blah, blah, but why the middle east?
please enlighten us.
Hessler 5 hours ago (Edited)
It's to rebuild the world in the image of the west and Islam is the biggest hampering in the
way. Like other religions, it can't be altered or dominated so the only way is to completely
destroy it. This is why Israel was setup by the Anglos at a strategic location in the heart of
the Arab world to engage them into perpetual war and destroy them.
That's about it.
And whenever a war on a civilization is waged, there are always monetary benefits. Oil, MIC,
Political donations come into play here. But that's just a sideshow. And with a civilization as
big as Islamic, benefits also tend to be massive.
apparently 5 hours ago
no evidence that the arab spring was against islam. why aren't we doing regime change in
indonesia? why did joe just reverse the Muslim travel ban?
do you understand anything about the world you live in?
Hessler 5 hours ago (Edited)
A lot actually. We are concentrating on the core of the Islamic civilization for when the
core collapses, the outer layers collapses with it. It's the core that holds the entire thing
together, hence we concentrate on Middle East and not on Indonesia.
Arab spring was to sow chaos and turmoil. By the way of deception.....Jewish moto
It is not that Israel establishes America's foreign policy. It is that the basic world view
produced by WASP culture is naturally aligned with Jewish thought in most ways, especially in
terms of Empire: ruling the world.
InflammatoryResponse 5 hours ago
it was not a muslim travel ban. it was a ban on places that didn't have adequate
infrastructure to verify who was travling.
duckandcover 1 hour ago
where is the last place, core or not core, that Islam religion and Muslim culture has been
eradicated by any means? Yugoslavia? India? Not seeing it. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Your argument does not hold.
starman99 5 hours ago
(((THEM)))
Groucho 5 hours ago
No of course not. Nothing to do with what George Kennan called "the greatest strategic
material prize in world history".
Hessler 5 hours ago
And whenever a war on a civilization is waged, there are always monetary benefits. Oil, MIC,
Political donations come into play here. But that's just a sideshow. And with a civilization as
big as Islamic, benefits also tend to be massive.
apparently 2 hours ago
by now, we should be weary (and wary) of "it's all a sideshow" arguments.
it simply asserts greater knowledge (never disclosed) and terminates the thread.
as for the grand anti-islam plan... how's that going in western europe?
Groucho 5 hours ago
No of course not. Nothing to do with what George Kennan called "the greatest strategic
material prize in world history".
JackOliver4 4 hours ago
It is ALWAYS about the OIL - thats why IRAN and VENEZUELA are being weakened by crippling
sanctions !!
THAT"S how the ZIO/US does it - SANCTIONS first - WAR 2nd !
Doesn't work anymore since RUSSIA stepped in !
nocturnal66 7 hours ago
Just ask if this 100 year plus war is to create "greater Israel" . It all documented. Enough
already with the lies. Just admit it.
Occams_Razor_Trader 7 hours ago
WWE- fake fights have begun again in earnest .....................
Paul Ryan could fake a punch as good as John Boehner ............
Max21c 7 hours ago (Edited)
"Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle East," Paul continued.
The Washington establishment imposed their chosen ruler Joe Schmo Biden to rule over
America.
jesus_loves_you 7 hours ago
H a n g t h e m a l l
Aquamaster 7 hours ago
Should we have a contest to see who can pick the first country Biden will send troops
to?
Lyman54 7 hours ago
DC !
SERReal1 7 hours ago
You win!
WTFUD 7 hours ago
Blinken Heck , don't worry ya'll, Nuland (Nudelman's) back to steady the ship with a fab new
chocolate chip cookie recipe that the terrorists will adore.
littlewing 7 hours ago
And they aren't even trying to hide it.
fzrkid 7 hours ago
Rand can say whatever he wants and it changes NOTHING
Armed Resistance 7 hours ago
Who is still planning on filing taxes? At the very least, turn your back on the
system-right? Upvote for not filing, downvote for I just want to avoid conflict-I'm filing.
brown_hornet 7 hours ago
But, we are getting a return.
No paying next year though.
rwe2late 7 hours ago (Edited)
Doesn't matter if it is a disaster for the peoples invaded and for domestic liberty in the
USA.
It's considered "worth it" by those in power
to protect the financial supremacy of the dollar,
promote the regional military supremacy of Israel,
and continue the war profiteering of the MIC.
north_hand_demon 7 hours ago
So what? Your cushy lifestyle and mine is a direct result of hegemony. Get over it.
rwe2late 7 hours ago (Edited)
Celebration of a "cushy lifestyle" gained by plunder and murder is not for everyone.
To revel in it, one requires a special insensibility.
DonGenaro 7 hours ago (Edited)
This fence-sitter did virtually NOTHING to stop the steal.
Now he's whining about having to lie in bed his cowardice helped make.
Many MORE thousands will soon be massacred by these war-mad psychopaths.
This POS is DEAD TO ME.
littlewing 7 hours ago
Rand is smart, he knew no matter what Xiden was going to be installed.
HominyTwin 7 hours ago
He's smart. A bunch of idiots, after a good breakfast at IHOP, were herded into the capital
by govt informants to break stuff for the cameras, and then herded right back out in time for a
hearty dinner at Golden Corral. They did sacrifice their lunch for exactly nothing, though.
Congrats. He stayed away from all that nonsense.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago
That's about the size of it, in retrospect.
zulu127 7 hours ago
regime change needs to end because it is involving the US in long wars that are costly to
the military.
Wrong! "regime change needs to continue because it is involving the US in wars that are
profitable to the military.
ableman28 4 hours ago
Part of the problems is that neither the democrats or republicans are primarily in favor of
DEMOCRATIC governments in the middle east. When Egypt FREELY ELECTED the Muslin Brotherhood to
power in Egypt the US fell all over itself to help unseat them, using every technique we
can.....currency debasement, food aid manipulation, tacit encouragement to strongment
(military) that we feel are controllable, etc. etc.
The US was never in favor of one man one vote in South Africa during apartheid and explained
this convenient hypocrisy as an unfortunate necessity.
Supporting regime change is entirely, ENTIRELY, different than supporting democracy. The US
has a very very very long history of supporting the former and claiming it was the latter when
in fact it wasn't. Democracy means letting the chips fall where they may. In countries whose
ruling leadership is oppressive to its people and for which we have a long history of support
its very unlikely that any democratic election would bring us new friends. It would, in every
case, bring to power people who opposed the old government and by association US.
People playing to the stands here in the US are smart enough to know this. But maintaining
the correct political position for domestic consumption also trumps doing the right thing in
anywhere else.
International politics is a pure expression of national interest. Our national interest is
economic outside the US. That part of socialist or marxist theory is spot on.
Hessler 4 hours ago
Insightful, thanks!
LooseLee 4 hours ago
'Disaster' is the MO, Rand. Please, get real or get lost.
Musum 5 hours ago
Senator Rand Paul recently challenged the new Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken
on his history of pushing regime change in the Middle East and North Africa
Pointless and hopeless. The only way to end America's endless wars is to deal with the guys
in small hats.
Hessler 5 hours ago
Small hats were employed by the English speaking protestants for their ulterior motives,
world view, global ambitions which were in alignment with the chosenites.
You can't solve the Jewish problem without solving the problem of western civilization.
Fire_Hog 5 hours ago
The real problems are the 3 letter intelligence agencies, not religion.
Musum 4 hours ago
Are you naive or misdirecting? Offices are occupied by people.
train rider 6 hours ago
Deep thinking and reflection...what about our military personnel and contractors...why are
we putting them in danger with these interventionist kockamamie screw balls coming up with
these strategies...meanwhile innocent civilians keep getting maimed and killed.
We have no business over there, let the countries decide for themselves what they want etc.
we need energy idependence...greta can go fly a kite...keep reducing emissions with tech we
have.
It is very sad that paul's neighbor does not have a more lethal right hook.
TheZeitgeist 7 hours ago
Sen. Paul began his argument by questioning Blinken's role in the NATO intervention of Libya
in 2001
So...only off by a decade. I think ZeroHedge drops these snafus into the copy just to see if
anyone actually reads the stuff.
freakscene 7 hours ago (Edited)
Its skimming material at best. Reading all the way through went out the window when ZH
become a CNN sponsor.
:)
littlewing 7 hours ago
When Ron Paul was calling out Bernanke you would see they were alone in the room.
There is no debate, its all a fraud. Saw the vote on election theft and it was their aides
voting for them.
StanleyTheManly 7 hours ago
Give me a break, Rand Paul. YOU KNOWINGLY voted for this by not standing for our elected
President.
You're a traitor. Shut up and sit down.
TRON Paul 7 hours ago
PRESIDENT PAUL!
PRESIDENT PAUL!
PRESIDENT PAUL!
wmbz 7 hours ago
War is a business, and "we" are big business. Matter no how many completely innocent people
get blown away. What matters are the spoils. We were warned over and over again about the MIC
yet here we are.
Profit always wins over peace, no money in it.
totally unwise 7 hours ago
Today, wars aren't meant to be won
they're meant to bring chaos
Chaos
Calling Maxwell Smart and agent 99
Where's that shoe phone ?
freakscene 7 hours ago
I guess, good for Rand? Thats about all he can do.
Dog Will Hunting 7 hours ago
Oh, that Rand Paul. I wondered where he was hiding this whole time peels back Trump's saggy
*** cheeks to find the good doctor
in_xanadu_did_kubla_khan 8 hours ago
Achoo: Hey, Blinkin
Blinkin: Did you say Abe Lincoln?
Achoo: No! I said, HEY, BLINKIN!
createnewaccount 8 hours ago
If we can't have Giant Meteor maybe a global helter skelter of 'regime change' will be a
good consolation prize.
Lt. Frank Drebin 8 hours ago
I voted for Giant Meteor, but the Dominion voting machines switched my vote to turd
sandwich.
Holding My Breath 7 hours ago
A big upvote for sarcasm (or is it utter stupidity?)
The Military/Industrial Complex needs endless foreign wars and imaginary enemies so that the
money won't be spent at home helping Americans. Such as infrastructure projects. The goal from
within is to destroy the American middle class and turn the United States into a third world
country. Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump all served the crooks.
littlewing 7 hours ago
Uh then why didn't Trump start wars?
Bear 11 minutes ago
Like father like son ... insight and wisdom
Arizona1234 26 minutes ago
China Joe and the mentally ill Marxist that run his crap show already started a multi
Trillion dollar endless war. The War on the weather they call Climate Crisis. It's the one
where we loose and wind up praying to find the small potato to make it through the day, and
then hope to find a few dry sticks for the fire to cook it. Where you will have to make the
small fire at night so that mentally ill #AOC carbon police can't easily see the smoke.
Maltheus 1 hour ago
It's taken less than 24 hours, after Biden's inauguration, for ISIS to magically make an
appearance again. They're not even pretending anymore.
Tom Angle 2 hours ago
I think I had heard all I want to hear from Rand Paul after.
boattrash 2 hours ago
Gawdamit Rand, we like you and everything, but the Coup you should be focused on is HERE,
even if it means you should spit in your hands, hoist the black flag and start slittin
throats.
Sincerely,
The American People
Dzerzhhinsky 3 hours ago
If the US can steal Syria, it means it will be able to build a pipeline, steal Iranian gas
and sell it to Europe.
The US needs something to give its financiers and controlling energy supplies to Europe would
go a long way to paying off the debt.
learnofjesuits 4 hours ago
vatican's wars
Hessler 3 hours ago
Puritans burred the Vatican so deep underground that if even the nuke detonates there, if
won't make a shockwave on the ground
TemporarySecurity 4 hours ago
Perfectly fine for anybody in the executive to lie through their teeth.
Say one thing in the hearing and do what they always do once confirmed. Our post
Constitutional government needs to fail.
tangent 4 hours ago
Ran Paul's ability to talk as if they are not simply being outright bribed for their
positions is impressive. I suppose the new CCP SoS will take the positions of the CCP, which is
the one paying him the most money for those positions.
richnhappy 4 hours ago
Just read confessions of an economic hit man, by john perkins, all you need to know. The
playbook sounds like what china is doing in the us now, distract the masses with the middle
east ****show.
Seditious 4 hours ago
We have had just one president so far this century that has not used American blood and
treasure to destroy a nation. He was a rogue billionaire that got taken out by every other
billionaire that wanted to stay in the club. The American people are going to have to figure
out that they will have better results solving this nations problems at the Bezos, Walton,
Zuckerberg and Dorsey homes than they will going to the Capitol in Washington DC.
The Child sacrifice murders committed by these people don't occur in some hidden room at a
pizza parlor. They occur on public roads under semitrailers marked Amazon Prime and Walmart
that wouldn't be allowed on the roads of nations that we used to call the third world.
I suppose the only big question is, who's child dies tomorrow?
Maghreb2 4 hours ago
You could look it at that way. I'd say he was a hairs breadth from starting world war III
with Iran and China and was removed by a stroke of bad luck from Wuhan and the old
establishment asserting their authority through corruption.
Trump might be remembered fondly for actually lowering the number of small conflicts but the
U.S war machine is bigger than any one president and his closeness to Israel show what camp he
was in. Only God or a few insiders can really judge what his ultimate aim was but he wasn't the
man who pulled the first shot of the first world war. Damn well loaded the gun and gave it to
the Israelis in my opinion.
Seditious 4 hours ago
During Obama's time in office we had a year in which the United States dropped bombs in more
nations than they did in any single year during WW2.
Bezos, Walton's and others spill our blood domestically. Biden will spill our blood overseas
to keep some other billionaires happy.
Based on your comment, I take it you REALLY like Blinken! Yes?
Fire_Hog 5 hours ago
The same thing happened in Egypt when Obama pushed for and got quick elections when the only
organization that could field candidates was the Muslim Brotherhood. The result was very
predictable.
The Brotherhood took over and the result was so bad that the people finally rebelled against
Morsi's government. This lead to Al Sisi who was better than Morsi. I question whether the
situation improved by letting the Muslim Brotherhood take control.
Maghreb2 4 hours ago
People? Thought that was the military?
WatchnSee 5 hours ago
"regime change doesn't work" "Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle
East,".... nor in the USA. Time will tell.
Hessler 6 hours ago (Edited)
Don't worry Mr. Paul, these white men in the suits are the leaders of the terrorists groups.
It's hardcoded in their genes, they don't know any other way of earning a living.
Mancolo 6 hours ago
Lessons? I don't need your stinking lessons. I've got friends to pay off.
Pvt Joker PREMIUM 7 hours ago
I like the US policy of Perma War and Regime change. The more troops over there , the less
troops over here.
Scornd 7 hours ago
I dont understand the complaints.
You voted for this.
MCDirtMigger 6 hours ago
By 'you', do you mean Dominion?
littlewing 7 hours ago
District of Criminals
that's all they are.
I am bailing out forever now.
Just looking at them and their actions is self harm.
Max21c 7 hours ago (Edited)
District of Criminals
Diablo Corona
Washingtonians are for the most part the spawn of Satan.
DC= the Devil's City... they are evil... Washingtonians are just pure rotten evil...
Washington DC ... Devil's City
Washington DC .... Devil's Crown
The evil ones cannot change their evil ways... they're too far gone... the evil ones cannot
be redeemed...
LorDampNuts 7 hours ago
Keep sending your donations to Stop the Steal, Trump has a plan and will be sworn in by
April when it warms up. Free Chumptard hat with every $100 donation.
Occams_Razor_Trader 7 hours ago
I'd donate a hunny for you to flush your head in a toilet ...............
foxenburg 7 hours ago
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Rammbock 7 hours ago
Republicans are great actors
Kotwica 44 7 hours ago
This guy speaks truth, but, no one gives a flying fu<k.
Ajax_USB_Port_Repair_Service_ 7 hours ago
Attention Secret Police: We've got one for you!
freedommusic 7 hours ago (Edited)
Whatever these folks say is irrelevant. They are all sitting on foreign soil. The UNITED
STATES CORPORATION is a foreign Municipal entity owned by China claimed in the recent
bankruptcy settlement. POTUS said when he was leaving. Go ahead, take it. The buildings, the
chairs, statues, it's all yours . Anyone who steps outside of that foreign jurisdiction will be
entering American soil and subject to the Laws of the United States Constitutional Republic and
prosecuted for treason and sedition.
DC is now a Chinese embassy.
I wonder how much food they have stocked up in there? I would presume the military would
uphold a blockade and prevent the exchange of trade from occurring into a surrounded hostile
territory of the enemy.
YOU WANT IT
YOU GOT IT
HAVE A NICE DAY
SERReal1 7 hours ago
Where was Rand in calling out the election fraud?
Now he is acting all tough again on the deep state creatures.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)
He wants to stay in office. No way is going to touch the third rail. None of them will.
rkb100100 7 hours ago
This is part of a Punch and Judy show put on for retards.
leodogma1 7 hours ago
And yet not one peep of this Quislings tie's to the Chinese Communist party of Evil !
Southern Discomfort 7 hours ago
I'm sure it will be blamed on an action taken by Trump and the only cure will be
intervention. Maybe Joetard can set up a new cabinet level position to seek out opportunities
for new wars.
More-Cowbell 8 hours ago
The show must go on. As if these asz clowns ( all of them ) matter.
north_hand_demon 8 hours ago
Whatever. Your cushy lifestyle, and mine, exists because we're the dominant imperial power
on the planet. Might makes right. Paul knows it too; this is just virtue signaling.
artless 7 hours ago (Edited)
And in your statement lies the real problem with the vast majority of people in this
country.
Yeah I edited the lame ad hom line after I read a few comments. But perhaps it is long due
that rather than simply accept things as the way they are and calling any opposition to it the
thoughts of a ten year old, it might be high time to actually try to make a change in how
people think and ultimately behave.
"... "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", ..."
"... "We will never give up. We will never concede, it just doesn't happen." ..."
"... " Biden's America Would Be A Dystopian Hellhole ", ..."
"... Trump has not signed the Insurrection Act. ..."
"... 'trust the plan' is a never ending story psyop ..."
"... 'best is yet to come' .. ..."
"... to beam back to the mothership. ..."
"... the humans are out to get them ..."
"... it happening you watch just donate ..."
"... without symptoms. ..."
"... Amnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights advocacy worldwide. ..."
"... Yes yes yes – as if we didn't fucking know! ..."
"... YOU MEAN TO DESTROY THE NHS AND YOU WILL REPEAT THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER UNTIL IT IS DONE! ..."
The Trump Era is over after the incumbent announced in the day after
Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol that "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly
and seamless transition of power", which was widely interpreted by friends and foes alike as
the tacit concession that he previously promised never to provide a little more than 24 hours
prior during his speech at the
Save America Rally .
At that event, he literally said that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it
doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", yet completely changed his
tune following the day's tumultuous events and after mysteriously "going dark" for over 24
hours, during which time some speculate that he was forced by his enemies in the permanent
military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (" deep state ") to give
up the fight.
BETRAYING HIS BASE
This totally devastated his supporters who elected him primarily
for the purpose of executing his chief promise to "drain the swamp" that all of them so
deeply despise. They truly believed that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term
change to the way that America is run, something which Trump himself also sincerely thought he
could do as well, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive
steps that were necessary in order to do so.
Thus, he ended up getting swallowed by the same "swamp" that he attempted to drain, which is
licking its lips after feasting on the political carcass that he's since become as a result of
his capitulation. For as much hope as he inspired in his supporters and the respect that many
of them still have for him, most of them are profoundly disappointed that he gave up and didn't
go down fighting.
That's not to say that the vast majority of them expected him to forcefully resist Biden's
impending inauguration, but just that they never thought they'd see the day where he publicly
capitulated after carefully cultivating such a convincing reputation among them as a fighter
who literally said a little more than 24 hours prior that "We will never give up. We will
never concede, it just doesn't happen."
This prompted an ongoing soul-searching process among the most sober-minded of them who
aren't indoctrinated with the cultish Q-Anon claims that Trump still has a so-called "master
plan" that he's preparing to implement after this latest "5D chess" move. It's over, the Trump
Era has ended, and the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement that he inspired is now at
risk of being declared a "
domestic terrorist " organization in the coming future.
TRUMP'S MOST FATAL POLITICAL
MISCALCULATION
" Biden's America Would Be A
Dystopian Hellhole ", like the author predicted a few months ago, and all of Trump's
supporters know that. Some had already resigned themselves to its seeming inevitability after
his efforts to legally reverse the contested results of the latest elections failed for a
variety of reasons that most of them attribute to the "swamp's" corruption, but they
nevertheless remained as positive as possible after having believed that their hero would go
down with them to the end.
None ever thought twice about his promise to "never give up, never concede", and they even
expected him to have to be escorted from the White House on 20 January, yet his tacit
concession is forcing many of them to re-evaluate their views about him in hindsight. Not only
is he going out with a whimper on the "deep state's" terms, but he never fully "drained the
swamp".
Trump's most fatal political miscalculation is that he thought that he could change the
system from the "inside-out" after symbolically -- yet importantly, not substantively -- taking
control of it as America's first modern-day "outsider" President. He immediately switched from
an "outsider" to an "insider" shortly after his inauguration by capitulating to the "deep
state's" demands that he fire former National Security Advisor Flynn, which was his "original
sin" that paved the way for all that would later follow.
Trump the self-professed "deal-maker" thought that he could strike a "compromise" with his
enemies through these means, but all that he did was embolden them to intensify their fake
news-driven efforts to oust him and continue sabotaging him from within through many of the
same "swamp" creatures that he naively continued to surround himself with.
RINOS + MSM =
TRUMP'S DEFEAT
The most reviled among them in the eyes of his base is "Javanka", the popular portmanteau of
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka. He continued listening to these
"Republicans In Name Only", or RINOs as many MAGA members describe them, as well as many others
such as those who still sit in Congress but pretended to be his friend just to win
re-election.
Furthermore, the influence that his former reality TV career had on him resulted in Trump
remaining obsessed with how his enemies might malign him in the Mainstream Media (MSM) for any
decisive moves that he took to smash the "deep state". This weakness of character proved to be
his greatest personal flaw since he should have followed his instincts instead of submitting to
the egoistic desire to be "liked" by his foes.
So influenced was he by the MSM that his enemies were able to employ the most basic
"reverse-psychology" tricks to manipulate him into "playing it safe" in his struggle against
the "deep state". They fearmongered since even before he entered office that he'd turn into a
so-called "dictator", yet he never seriously contemplated any such authoritarian moves in that
direction despite always having the possibility of utilizing the immense powers vested in him
by the Constitution to do so if he sincerely wanted.
His MAGA supporters passionately pleaded that he should have turned into his enemies' worst
nightmare by declaring at least limited martial law in response to the decades-long Hybrid War
of Terror on America finally going kinetic last summer after Antifa and "Black Lives
Matter" (BLM) orchestrated nationwide riots to oust him.
TRUMP'S THREE GREATEST
FAILURES
Bewildering his base, Trump also failed to revoke Article 230 despite now-proven fears that
it would empower Big Tech to censor him and
his supporters , nor did he thwart the Democrats' mail-in ballot and Dominion voting system
schemes which they argue ultimately led to them stealing the election.
Just as concerning was his decision to not stop the Democrat Governors from locking down
their populations for political reasons under the convenient pretext of COVID-19. The author
addressed all of these issues in his analysis published shortly after the election about why "
The Anti-Trump Regime
Change Sequence Is Worthwhile Studying ". Trump could have legally exercised
near-"dictatorial" powers to avert all of this and thus save America as his supporters see it,
yet time and again he failed to gather the strength needed to do so due to his deep personal
flaws.
THE HYBRID WAR ON AMERICA IS OVER
While Trump was unquestionably victimized by the "deep state" during his entire time in
office, he's no longer as much of a martyr as he used to be after suddenly giving up the fight
following Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol. He surrendered to the shock of his base, was
subsequently swallowed by the "swamp", and is now being mercilessly destroyed in an ominous
sign of what awaits the rest of the MAGA movement in the Biden-Kamala era.
Had he gone down fighting to the end and "never gave up" like he promised, then it would be
an altogether different story, but instead his over-hyped "deal-making" instincts got the best
of him at the very last minute and he foolishly thought that he could save himself by
capitulating to their demands. The "deep state" is now showing their "thanks" by censoring him
from social media and pushing for his impeachment.
The MAGA movement always believed that the country has already been at "war" for years even
though most couldn't articulate the hybrid nature of it like the author did in his piece last
summer about how " The Hybrid War Of Terror
On America Was Decades In The Making ".
They truly felt that Trump shared their threat assessment after he was viciously attacked by
the "deep state" from the second that he stepped onto the campaign trail, but it turned out
that he underestimated the threat even though his enemies never did. To the "deep state" and
their public Democrat proxies, this was always a "war" in its own way, which they never shied
away from expressing.
The supreme irony is that while Trump lambasted the "weak Republicans" in his Save America
Rally speech, he himself ultimately epitomized that very same weakness by later
surrendering.
THE "DEEP STATE" WON
His opponents know no limits and believe in classic Machiavellian fashion that "the ends
justify the means", whereas he thought that he could play by the rules -- and not even all of
them as was early explained by pointing out his refusal to employ the near-"dictatorial" powers
vested in him by the Constitution -- and still come out on top.
His naïveté will go down in history since it's what's most directly responsible
for him failing to fully recognize the seriousness of the "deep state's" no-holds-barred war on
him and the rest of America.
As a born-and-raised New Yorker, Trump perfected the art of slick talking, so much so that
he even managed to dupe his base into believing that he shared their threat assessment about
the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America. They fell for this charade since they
desperately wanted to believe that there was still some hope left.
There isn't, though, since the war is over and the "deep state" won once and for all. The "
Great Reset "/"
Fourth Industrial Revolution " brought about by
World War C is
barreling forward at full speed ahead, and practically every domestic accomplishment that Trump
has to his name will likely be reversed by Biden-Kamala during their first year in office,
especially since the "deep state's" Democrat proxies control all branches of government now
(remembering that the Supreme Court's supposed "conservative supermajority" really just
consists of RINOs as was proven by their refusal to hear his team's convincing election fraud
cases).
In fact, the only real "master plan" was that of the "deep state", which effectively
thwarted every one of Trump's moves and ultimately turned his supporters' "last hurrah" of a
mostly peaceful rally into the nail that'll now be hammered into the MAGA movement's
coffin.
It's extremely suspicious that the US Capitol was so poorly defended despite there being an
ongoing session of Congress on such an historic day and after weeks of preparation to ensure
the site's safety ahead of Trump's long-planned Save America March.
It's even more baffling that some of the police officers removed
the barricades and even
opened the doors to some of the protesters, which in hindsight suggests that the "deep
state" wanted to tempt the most "overly passionate" among them (to say nothing of suspected
provocateurs) into storming the site as the pretext for what followed.
The whole point in passively facilitating this scenario through the masterful exploitation
of crowd psychology was to lay the basis for a comprehensive nationwide crackdown against the
MAGA movement on the grounds that it's now "proven" to be a "domestic terrorist" group.
That explains the push behind impeaching Trump less than two weeks before he himself
acknowledged just the other day that he'll be leaving office after ensuring the "transition of
power".
Had he not surrendered, then he probably would still be a martyr to most of the MAGA
movement, but now he's just a palace hostage awaiting his highly publicized political execution
as the opening salvo of the "deep state's" Democrat-driven reprisals against his supporters in
the name of "defending against domestic terrorism". That, not whatever Q-Anon imagines, is the
real "master plan", and it succeeded.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Trump was swallowed by the "swamp" because he lacked the strength to drain it. Every MAGA
member needs to accept this harsh truth no matter how painful it might be. Time and again, he
failed to muster up the strength needed to meaningfully fulfill what many sincerely believed to
be his destiny.
This was due to his fatal political miscalculation of transforming from an "outsider" into
an "insider" in a doomed-to-fail attempt to change the system from within. He continued relying
on RINOs despite their proven unreliability. Trump's obsession with how his foes portrayed him
in the MSM also led to him never seriously countenancing the use of the near-"dictatorial"
powers vested in him by the Constitution to save America.
He pathetically surrendered after the "deep state's" "master plan" succeeded, and now he
can't even go down in history as a martyr.
Originally published on One World Press Jan
20, 2021 2:08 PM
Trump was part of the show nothing more nothing less. They had the goods on him for decades.
He made Izzrail grate again. That was about it. Notice Jizzlaid Maxwell, the Mossad kiddy
victim procurer watching her mark in the background of the video below from 92 as the king of
bankruptcy eyes the broads and "struts" his stuff.
Meanwhile Kill Bill Gates gets to poison Planet Sheeple and nobody ever questions his
association with Mossad kiddy porn snuff director, Epstein or Kill Bill's sojourns on Pedovore
Island. Anyone remember the CIA Operation Brownstone"? It's global and it's Satanic.
How could Trum 'drain the swamp' when he lives in the swamp. contributes to the swamp and
essentially is part of the swamp.
This story is sh!te. Trump is a swamp dweller.
Trump is just the same as all the other oligarchs and would be oligarchs. He is a rich,
privileged, white entrepreneur. His propaganda campaign in which he claimed to be on the side
of the poor and unemployed whites is just about the biggest lie which has been swallowed
wholesale since Goebbles was whitewashing the Nazi regime.
How you fools here can fall for this tripe has me absolutely beat.
Aethelred , Jan 13, 2021 10:17 AM
Trump in his political ineptitude resembles Jimmy Carter, an idealist incapable of
wielding power. Neither man had the gumption, nor the charisma (much the same thing) to win
over the apparatchiki. Both vain and selfish men (like all politicians), neither inspired
sufficient love nor fear to gather support, unlike Reagan or Clinton, both of whom exuded
calm confidence. Trump differs from Carter in that Trump's social incapacity manifests in
bombast, and Carter's in staged humility. Neither could convince the ruling classes, and so
were ushered away.
The elevation of Biden, an aged hack, is a signal the republic is finally overturned. The
feds not only can convict but now can elect and govern through a ham sandwich.
Blather , Jan 13, 2021 8:21 AM
Does the author know how to read Trump's speech or is he so BIAS as not to see?
Trump DID NOT capitulate. Read careFOOLY. It can go both waze.
ZenPriest , Jan 12, 2021 8:50 PM
Trump was never going to drain the swamp. He was a clown put in place by America's
masters, to keep an endless supply of material for their media and to stir up hatred among
citizens.
It's funny because citizens should be uniting against the puppeteers. Or they would be if
they knew they even existed, or knew they were being played.
S Cooper , Jan 13, 2021 2:47 AM Reply to
ZenPriest
"Quite a number already know this. That number keeps growing with each passing day. Got
Debs?"
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and
I'm here to help." Remember that line? That was Ronnie Raygun back in 1986, with one of his
(or his ghost writers') versions for 'draining the swamp' then, getting government off our
backs, and blah, blah, blah. Agitprop thrown the masses so the corporate state could get down
to bizzness as usual in dispossessing 'we the people' by rolling back government programs for
social welfare and building up wealth and power for elites via the MIC and Wall Street
(complementary to Iron Bitch Thatcher's neoliberal programs for a greater fascism in
Britain).
Hardly anything original, such marketing ads. Politricking fronts of the ruling class have
been campaigning before and after getting into office with noble lies of populism covering
for their brands of treachery as long as the fraudulence of capitalist democracy and
representative government have been around. In the post-WWII era of Pox Americana, the U$
CEOs for the Fortune 500 routinely have disguised their institutional role in managing the
empire under cover of brands of reform that keep promising power to the people with one hand
while taking it away with the other.
But when it comes to the greatest show on earth, it's the words attributed to P.T. Barnum
that there's a sucker born every minute (or at least every election season) which ring
truest. So now we've got the ringmasters retiring the Donald and installing good ole Creepy
Joe to 'build back better' on behalf of the Great Reset. That's after Swamp Thang has played
his part as dictator of distraction overseeing such achievements as the greatest robbery of
the commons in human history and launch of technofascism under Operation Warp(ed) Speed, all
thanks to a global coup with which he's been entirely complicit. And his manufactured base of
true believers still carry on with the covidiocy as much as the controlled opposition of the
faux left.
The more things change, the more they stay the same (only worse!).
Chris , Jan 12, 2021 5:14 PM
The Q group are patriots with access to a quantum computer able to untangle timelines from
a possibility/probability vortex.
Their movement was designed to awaken many individuals with key roles to play in the real
Operation Warpspeed.
The majority of these folks had some connection to the military or other branches of
government including the police.
In 2012 nearly all technology, ancient or more modern, was suddenly rendered non
functional.
The Mayans were obviously dead right with their calender.
The race was on to gain absolute supremacy in the prediction game.
All major stakeholders have access to quantum computing, but the US has the upper hand.
The true value of quantum computers lies not in the task of pure number crunching, but in its
ability to predict probabilities of complex situations.
The quantum computer exposes the most probable timelines and delivers the results in
numerical form that correspond to actual events and dates/times .
Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:43 PM
"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're going to lose, because somebody
has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do
wins."
― I.F. Stone
Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 12:42 PM
President Trump has declared a State of Emergency in the District of Columbia.
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