May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-) Skepticism and critical thinking is not panacea, but can help to understand the world better
Nope. I've already said that George answered his own question when he asked where were all the good people of conscience
in government. He mentioned ,in Life Is Worth Losing, the people who often end up assassinated: Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, JFK,
RFK, MLK, John Lennon, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X. Folks who talk about peace, love and doing good to one another. These folks
RARELY get elected to high office and those that do end up dead!
RagingCapitalist
If you think that the people who didn't get elected would actually be different, you need to watch this video again a few
times.
Putin “needs to keep his commie hands” off of the sovereign Independent Baptist church’s affairs
According to sources, local man Clarence Williams has urged his church’s lead pastor as well as local law enforcement to move
forward with an investigation into Russian hacking, claiming that there was ample evidence to support the theory that malicious
foreign agents infiltrated and influenced the outcome of a vote on the date for next month’s potluck at Second Baptist Church.
The Raytheon Institute, a bipartisan think tank that specializes in starting Middle Eastern
wars, has released a report that estimates the imminent Iran War will be approximately one
letter different from the ongoing Iraq War.
"We based our analysis primarily on the words themselves," explained Richard Cheney, the
institute's Bonelli Fellow. "If you look closely, you'll see that both countries' names start
'IRA,' but 'IRAN' ends with an 'N' while 'IRAQ' ends with a 'Q.'"
The report spelled out further similarities , including America's total lack of
justification for initiating hostilities, a draft dodging Republican president who was born
with a silver spoon in his mouth, spinelessness on the left during the buildup despite virtue
signaling of being antiwar, simmering sectarian tensions in the country to be invaded, the
prospective enemy's large standing military that won't be able to face down America's initial
assault but could become deadly in a drawn out guerilla campaign, a complete lack of support
from the rest of the world, large amounts of oil at stake, media reports that have inflamed
overwrought concerns about weapons of mass destruction, and relief from service members in
Kuwait that they finally have something to do
Pompeo reminds me of the pigs in Animal Farm. He is a grotesque figure, steely-eyed,
cold-blooded, fanatical, and hateful. "We lied, cheated, and stole" Pompous Maximus will get
his comeuppance one of these days. I hope he plans more overseas trips for himself. He is a
vile person, a psychopath proud of his psychopathy. He alone would make anyone considering
conversion to Christianity, his brand of it, run screaming into the night. Repulsive man.
Maybe we should put sanctions on Pompeo. He could use the diet. Maybe raiding his pantry
would feed Iraqi for a couple months. He is truly perfect spokesman American empire.
Sadistic, bloated, and corrupt.
One of two things is wrong with America: Either the entire system is broken or is on the
verge of breaking, and we need someone to bring about radical, structural change, or -- we
don't need that at all! Which is it? Who can say? Certainly not me, and that is why I am
telling you now which candidate to vote for.
Definition of cynicism: that the Colombian State, world-renowned for killing social
leaders, financing narco and paramilitarism, is the organizer of a summit against terrorism
where Mike Pompeo, intellectual author of the murder of Soleimani, is the star.
Again, I don't want to be cruel. But in the Trump Era, we must be prepared to face a certain
amount of callousness in politics. Just imagine all the terrible shots Mr. Trump could take at
Mrs. Warren:
"Liz, I like you a lot. I think you're a nice person. But you need to calm down. I don't
know if you take any medication -- your blood pressure must be very high. I'm worried about
you. I really am. Relax. Put on a nice sweater, have a cup of tea, grade some papers."
"I went to Wharton, okay? A much better school than Harvard, by the way. Harvard used
to be a very good school. Now it's failing, because of people like you. And I did very well at
Wharton. Very well. I don't need any more lectures. Save it for your students,
professor."
"Professor Pocahontas, I call her. Iron Eyes Cody had more Indian blood than Liz! Remember
him? 'Keep America Beautiful.' That was his thing. I like that. He would vote for Trump. But
maybe he'd vote for his fellow Native American. I don't know."
"I'm doing very well with the Latino community, even the Latina community. Not so much with
the Lateen-ex community. But that's okay. Liz can have them. All seven of them. What do
you do with a Lateen-ex ? Blow your nose with it?"
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There are 2 beasts, the first is either America or NATO, or basically "The Empire" or
The Neocon Oligarchy--all work well but America is a bit too broad since there are many
good people in America. The second beast whose number is 666, is Trump. Search: Trump 666
and be amazed.
Financialization killed Boeing. All those MBA's who dreamed up outsourced supply-chains
for the Dreamliner. Thought they were going to make a lot of money through savings.
Silly rabbit MBA's... if you don't spend money? You don't make money.
MBA graduates are f*cking useless retards trained in only one system: FAILURE.
What sank McDonald Douglas - bought out by Boeing? Is the same bullsh*t that is ruining
Boeing. Boeing kept a lot of board member & management failures around from McDonald
Douglas. Poisoned the Boeing culture.
How many of you remember all the McDonald Douglas passenger jet success stories? There
wasnt any - the whole mgmt of MD was to to strip out every possible cost and maximize very
profit at the expense of the end customer and the government - and these are the guys who
bought Boeing - and then made the first step of moving the headquarters to chicago. Guess
which party gave lots and lots of government boondoggles to MD?
I had a Polish executive tell me how proud they were as they were about to hire an
American executive who graduated with an MBA.
That is, until I asked him... "Have you checked what happened to the previous companies
that he worked at?"
So the Polish executive did just that. This led to a ban on hiring any American MBA. Turns
out, the American MBA worked at companies, all of which FAILED.
Though, somehow, despite a track record of working at failed companies? The American was
still quite well off.
The ******* alternative you stupid ******* americunt is already in the air. They are
labelled Airbus A220 and A230, otherwise known as Bombardier CS200 and CS300 and they are
sold out 15 years in advance.
That was part of the problem. The parts from Boeing's foreign suppliers MET
SPECIFICATIONS.
That is, until they went to assemble the Dreamliner. Where parts did not fit together.
You see, Boeing found out LONG, LONG AGO... that it was necessary to have manufacturing
close to design. That way, when parts that "met specifications" did not fit? The engineers
and machinists were there to correct deficiencies. Thus leading to reliable planes that were
fit together very well. Only THEN could Boeing could assemble parts in other locations and
mate them together.
This never happened with the Dreamliner. Quadrupled costs. The Dreamliner only exists
thanks to taxpayer subsidies through the ExIm Bank. The Dreamliner WILL NEVER BE PROFITABLE.
Accounting gimmicks make it appear as if Boeing makes money on the Dreamliner.
Amazing that in less than a generation, we go from "if it's not Boeing, I'm not going" to
wondering what the next Boeing screw-up will be and how many will be killed as a result.
The existing 777 is a fantastic plane and, other than pilot error (Asiana at SFO), a
missile attack (Malaysia 17) and some unknown (but apparently not mechanical) issue (Malaysia
370), the 777 has been the safest plane around.
American executives are incentivized to manipulate their company's stock. So they squeeze
the workforce and cut everything to the bone. That's why Boeing, GM, and other household
names are crashing.
According to economist William Lazonick, Boeing spent $43.1 billion on stock buybacks
from 2013 to 2019, raising the company's stock price to a record high just 10 days before
the second crash of its 737 MAX. Boeing CEO Muilenburg collects most of his pay through
stock or compensation based on financial metrics. Yet the company reportedly avoided
spending the estimated $7 billion it would have needed to engineer a safer plane. Less than
10 years after a public sector bailout, GM has spent $10.6 billion on stock buybacks, while
engaging in layoffs and plant closures. That amounts to $221,308 for each of the 47,897
active UAW members currently on strike at GM. Walmart spent $9.2 billion on stock buybacks
from August 2018 to July 2019, which, by my calculations, could have been used to give a
raise of roughly $5/ hour to each of its 1 million hourly workers instead.
Boeing should have been spending all its supposed profits on R&D. The other problem is
the military side of the business is grossly corrupt. Remember the blowup over Air Force
1?
This is what happens when the Federal Reserve lets the financial cat out the bag, and pump
up the stock market to the tune of 35-60 billion every 3 days, because some hedge funds
"could" fail and topple the financial system.
If multiple entities are now too important and could topple the financial system if they
failed, the Fed has massively screwed up.
In 1991 a Boeing purchaser told me that he would give us a contract if we transferred 51%
of the shares to a minority.
This is God's truth
He added that when he could not find minority businesses that would make components
according to specifications, he would buy stuff from minority owned businesses and not use it
but store it in warehouses around the country indefinitely. this in order to meet a quota of
20% purchases from minority owned businesses mandated by the Feds for all government
suppliers.
I can just imagine how bad the discrimination is now.
These are politically connected animals who feed from the trough of government pork barrel
a.k.a taxpayer money. Exactly what has Nikki Haley achieved in her life, except for being a
pathological liar?
These animals were responsible for our reckless fiscal deficits and looming debt bombs
which will soon come crashing down. Kinda good metaphor for Boeing.
All former CFOs and politicians ( civilian and military - only political types in the
military get stars ). No evidence of any engineering expertise. Sad for a once-proud global
leader.
In the "investor economy", there is no morality. EVERYTHING is "commoditized". Even you ..
your DNA. A pricetag hovers over your head like a dialog bubble. Bean counters can
incorporate your morbidity and mortality into mathematical equations showing investors why
cutting costs and saving 0.01% is worthy of investment. While 911 was the paradigm shift for
Rights ... the Lehman "crisis" was its own "911" -- the death of the labor economy ... and
rise of the "investor economy". Nobody works, trading time for dollars. They "invest" Why
work? Investors can kill without being held personally responsible. They only risk their fiat
capital. You die.
You wanna know who Trump really is? Trump is the dark soul of America. He's everything ugly
that Amerikkka is: greedy, immoral, corrupt, an uncouth bully...more than that, he's a
lawless tyrant, a pretentious hypocrite that sends the dumb masses kids to kill, die and
occupy sovereign property while he, the privileged spends hundreds of millions revelling in
superficial distraction, playing golf, comfortably numb, filthy rich and repulsed at the
sight of tent cities, vets sleeping under bridges and by the migrant help that clean the
toilets, pluck chickens all day and are bent over for hours picking crops at slave wages so
he, his trophy wife and the well-off he favors, can eat.
Trump is America's depraved soul that Republicans and Zionists want to nurture and
protect, because he's the Chosen one delivering everything they dreamed of; that Democrats
are powerless to remove because Trump's the price you pay when your own hands are stained
with the blood of those you killed with those you sent to war, stained with the betrayal of
your principles and your own on behalf of AIPAC and corporate bribery to gain power.
Everything Trump is, Amerikkka is, and that's why he's in power. He's in the White House
because he IS Amerikkka and who Amerikkka desires and deserves. Trump is the irresistable,
uncensored charlatan; the rasputin Amerikkkans lusted after to free their lawless, depraved
nature and latent immorality from the mask of shame, fake decorum and respectability.
He's reassured Amerikkkans that selling your soul to the devil to do God's work is okay, as
long as the end always justifes the means, and they love it!
America can be a force for good in the Middle East. The day is coming when Iran and Israel
will, with US help, partner Israel to lift the ME out of its ignorance and poverty, and
Saudi Arabia will, in the absence of the Shia revolution, be able to ditch its Wahhabist
extremism.
Is Warren Warren the Jussie Smollet of politics. I wonder if she claims Bernie attacked her
while wearing a red hat and screaming, "A woman can't win! This is MAGA country!"
Being one of Liz' constituents and familiar with her career and her base (consisting of
people like me,) I think she faces so little consequence for her "embellishments" at least in
part because "we" (her base) inhabit an environment in which, with ease, we adjust facts and
perceptions to conform to whatever our self-serving narrative of the moment may be.
We know that Liz will say anything she imagines will be to her advantage and it's okay
with "us" that she does. In a way, she's our ideal candidate and media darling because she
reflects and affirms our plastic values.
Yes, with Soleimani assassination and subsequent crisis Trump crossed the red line. But the
House is afraid to tell he whole truth... Obama was probably even bigger threat to the US
national security, especially with Hillary as the Secretary of State and hi Libyan and Syrian
adventures.
The 111-page summons urges the Senate to "eliminate the threat that the President poses to
America's national security" as it lays out the case against President Trump.
Hilarious. What other president would've tolerated this?
**** Cheney would've had the homes of these people "visited" by faceless-looking men long
ago, evidence gathered, and a second visit made a few weeks later to protect himself and
Bush. Just to pluck one recent administration out of thin air.
Trump doesn't seem all that worried. Maybe that's for a reason most of us can't possibly
comprehend.
'He might be a son-of-a-bitch, but he's OUR son-of-a-bitch'. Surely a 'Yeltsin' must replace
or join 'Quisling' in the popular lexicon as a title for a traitor, in future.
I hear tell that Emperor Trump is also grooming his potential successor/s
It's a neck and neck race between Kim Kardashian, who Trump is giving personal 'hands on'
assistance, and Montgomery Burns, who is one of Trump's role models.
"
"I wouldn't go to war with you people," Trump told the assembled brass.
Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, "You're a bunch of dopes and babies."
"
"At this stage in the game anyone who still thinks Trump is an honest man with noble
intentions is a complete fool"
That only needs to be changed to: At this stage in the game anyone who still thinks any
system politician is honest and has noble intentions is a complete fool.
But then religious fundamentalists, such as the cultists of electoralism, cannot be
reached by evidence or rational argument.
This is Trump's idiotic tweet earlier today:
"The noble people of Iran -- who love America -- deserve a government that's more interested
in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect. Instead of
leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!"
And here's Sharmine Narwani's response:
"I'm in Iran right now. These "noble" people find you disgusting, just like most Americans.
Iranians laugh at you and mock you and really, really want their government to bring you to
your knees."
In another sense, however, the passing of the cold war could not have been more
disorienting. In 1987, Georgi Arbatov, a senior adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , had warned:
"We are going to do a terrible thing to you – we are going to deprive you of an
enemy."
...Winning the cold war brought Americans face-to-face with a predicament comparable to that
confronting the lucky person who wins the lottery: hidden within a windfall is the potential
for monumental disaster.
I don't think it will be long before we see Congress in the US calling for invasion of Russia
on the grounds of a lack of diversity, lack of respect for LGBTP and so forth.
"... Why then were all eight House members chosen as managers to prosecute the case against Trump, who ceremoniously escorted the articles across the Capitol, all Democrats? Why did the articles of impeachment receive not a single Republican vote on the House floor? ..."
Why then were all eight House members chosen as managers to prosecute the case against
Trump, who ceremoniously escorted the articles across the Capitol, all Democrats? Why did the
articles of impeachment receive not a single Republican vote on the House floor?
Ban PMs, Ministers, governors, some mayors and judges, from having second citizenships of
foreign residencies; moreover, Presidential candidates should have been resident in Russia
for 25 years (previously 10 years) and never had a foreign citizenship.
I knew that if you kept it up, Putler would get around to targeting you.
I think they are using an old version of BASIC from the cold war era, called BASIC Russia
Hate.
10 Print "Russia bad!"
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Russia bad!
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BREAK IN 10
READY.
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SYNTAX ERROR!!!!!!!
"U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to
undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts with the former vice president
still the front-runner in the race to challenge President Donald Trump, according to two
officials familiar with the matter
Part of the inquiry is to determine whether Russia is trying to weaken Biden by promoting
controversy over his past involvement in U.S. policy toward Ukraine while his son worked for
an energy company there."
... ... ...
Yes, somehow those dastardly Russians have outsmarted the brightest and best-paid political
strategists in Washington, D.C. by brandishing what amounts to some really persuasive memes
over social media, and for just rubles on the dollar. The techies at Wired went so far as to
call this epic assault on the fragile American cranium, "meme warfare to divide America." By
way of evidence, it cited a very creative meme that screamed, "F*CK THE ELECTIONS," which was
intended, as the ironclad argument goes, to cause a number of impressionable Americans to throw
up their hands in a fit of collective exasperation and say, 'Ok, that's it. I'm staying at home
on Election Day.'
Yes, it's really that easy! Imagine all the money the Russians and their radical new
political technologies could have saved guys like casino tycoon, Sheldon Adelson, who
showered the Trump campaign with $100 million dollars.
Donald Trump rode to victory in 2016 on a promise to end the useless wars in the Middle East, but he has now demonstrated
very clearly that he is a liar
He also promised a wall. Maybe he meant the Israeli wall?
Trump is such a douchebag. He claims there were no lives lost due to their "early warning system" -- no mention that the "early
warning system" was a phone call!
Now he's once again justifying assassination, etc.
there was no "better choice" between trump and clinton. i still think clinton represented a greater danger than trump of getting
into a war with russia, but they are both warmongers first class. for our next election, we may have a choice between ebola and
flesh eating bacteria, or brain cancer and leprosy. if the game is rigged there's no winning it playing by the game's "rules".
Also In each episode when Adam Schiff makes announcement about Trump with the USA flag at the background Trump
re-election chances increase one percent.
You have it right. The rhetoric "this is a free country" is only true to an extent now
with the constant chipping away at our freedoms on a daily basis.
In March 2016, the DOJ found that "the FBI had been employing outside contractors who had access to raw Section 702 Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data, and retained that access after their work for the FBI was completed," as Jeff Carlson reported in
The Epoch Times.
"... Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this. ..."
Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long
as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this.
I always learn some thing here. For example imagine my surprise to learn the EU had a
reputation worth protecting. All you need to know about the EU is bitches will do what
bitches are told. This is just one more step on the road to war with China, is that really
what the citizens of the EU want? Are the people of the EU ready to die for the Trump and the
Republican party?
Donald J. Trump: "To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I've stood with you since
the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We
are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage."
Is it possible to imagine that such a trump will write to the brave people of France:
Secretary of State Pompeo claimed that Soleimani was responsible for hundreds of thousands
of deaths in Syria. Basically blaming Iran for all deaths in the Syrian war.
The folks who hatched that particular impeachment plan and pitched it to Nancy Pelosi must have been the same idiots in the DNC
who dreamt up the Russiagate scandal and also pursued Paul Manafort to get him off DJT's election campaign team. Dmitri Alperovich /
Crowdstrike, Alexandra Chalupa: we're looking at you.
The real Trump move would be to hit the twitter right before the house impeachment vote and announce that he has
instructed the House Republicans to vote for impeachment.
Notable quotes:
"... At least this mess made it patently clear the Dem obsession with Russia has been all about preserving their Ukraine pickpocketing operation. ..."
I ordered a truckload of pop corn to snack on during the trial in the Senate. Just imagine Joe Biden under cross examination as
he flips 'n flops! "Was that me in the Video, I can't recall."
I can see a Trump marketing consultant designing a campaign centered on the impeachment hearings called "The Swamp Strikes
Back". It might be most effective as a comic strip.
Most people are familiar with at least the outlines of the biblical Samson story: a mighty
warrior who slays the enemies of the Israelites in great numbers using the jawbone of an ass
among other weapons.
Sadly, after the captivating Delilah seduces Samson into revealing the secret of his
extraordinary strength -- his unshorn hair -- he ends up blind, in chains, and held captive in
the temple of the Philistines.
Samson asks the Lord to restore his strength. The King James Bible explains what happens
next: "And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all
the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which
he slew in his life." It was a huge bloodletting, and among the victims was the hero
himself.
It's a dramatic story, made for the movies. The 1949 Technicolor version, directed by Cecil
B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, remains a camp classic of the
sandal-and-togas genre. But whether in the original text or on celluloid, the denouement does
not qualify as a happy one. Samson was a fool and his own worst enemy. Something of the same
can be said of the United States in recent decades.
Probably in the medium term the situation for the US in ME will be worse, but in the short term (in an electoral year) the people
I talked, with some knowledge of the recent history of the ME, and me, we think:
a) Trump dares to do what at least 3 former administration did not dare to do: kill the first "terrorist" on the list (as ex-admiral
William J. Fallon has said, Suleimani was the Nº 1 in his list for 12 years), so for the American people is the more resolute
and brave POTUS of at least 10 administration (somebody says from Lincoln times). Obama was a coward.
b) The fact that Suleimani was a national hero for a nation of 82 million people and also for 150 million of shia around the
world, mourned by millions in the streets, make a bigger Trump "victory" over the Iranian "regime", and it is a powerful advice
to the others leaders and commanders in the world that try to fight or oppose to USA.
c) People say that after killing Al-Bagdadi, Suleimani, Muhandis, the next in the list is Nasralah (pure wishful thinking but
right now, why not thinking that?)
d) The USA did no use their AA system to shut-down the incoming missiles to not give a clue to the Iranians of their real effectiveness
in combat situation and because the Russians have many SIGINT platforms following the events to capture the signals, methods,
tactics and technology of the US anti-ballistic missiles systems. So now the Iranians are blind of the real effectiveness of their
missiles in a real combat situation and the Russians do not have a clue also. For sure USA can take down at least some modified
SCUD C missiles, simply it was not worth to do.
e) The fact that Trump did not retaliate is not a symptom of weakness, simply no American was hurt after killing Suleimani
(an act of war), only some holes in the sand.
f) In the speech of today Trump is defiant with the killing of Suleimani and with more economic sanctions to Iran, that will
be more crippling than now. He does not want to escalate (more). There will be a deal in the future, but much less good for the
Iranians than the Obama's JCPOA (it was an electoral promise).
g) The retaliation of the PMU, they say, "will be similar than that of Iran", translating it : "lob some katyusha rockets in
the backyard of few US bases giving advice to the Americans do not go out". No risks at all, the se-escalation is complete.
h) Trump is defiant about not leaving Iraq, I think at the end they will go but after they have a very good deal. Of course
it is all about the Iraqi oil, in exchange for the American blood and money wasted in Iraq. Iraq has the biggest oil reserves
in the world and USA want a good chunk of them, they never ever leave "giving" all of them to the Chinese or Iranians or anybody
else. Trump does not want US soldiers in Iraq, but he wants the oil above anything else (it is condition "sine qua non" to maintain
the Empire)
i) Trump has now the full enthusiastic support of the AIPAC and all the others powerful Israeli lobby he will have more money
than required for the election. He has demonstrated he is the best possible POTUS for Israel
j) In the short term USA will leave Syria and in the medium term Iraq, OK, but they never ever leave "all the region", they
need to be there to maintain the "American Way of Live" (US $ as reserve currency)
If nothing dramatically change, I expect a crushing victory of Trump in the coming US election, he has all the cards now in
his hand, and he will not waste them.
The 5 lightweight hangars at the Ain al-Asad airbase that were destroyed in the Iranian bullseye hit
housed US drones. Possibly the very one
used to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani.
See this tweet by Babak Taghvaee
from yesterday with photos:
#BREAKING: It is now confirmed that the #IRGC backed Kataib Hezbollah (45th Brigade of #PMU) launched 40 unguided rockets at
Ain Al Asad Air Base where the #USArmy's MQ-1Cs are based. At-least one of them participated in the operation for elimination
of #Soleimani in #Baghdad!
1. "Being Santa Claus to Netanyahu, the far right and the very rich (Generous donors)"
2. "Doing the impossible, making Hillary look like the better of 2 terrible choices"
3. " Proving 42% of the American public aren't too swift."
"Nancy Pelosi, pressing the Senate to comply with her demands"...Hey, Nancy, this isn't how it works. You, yourself, are in
"contempt of Senate" by not proceeding with the article of impeachment for a vote.
Is there such a thing as "contempt of Senate?" Probably not. Just like there's no such thing as "contempt of Congress." Hey
the Dems used it, so I used it as an example. Ha, ha, ha...stooges!
Shocking Boeing Emails Reveal Contempt For Management, FAA
"Would you put your family on
a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn't," one employee said to a colleague in another
exchange from 2018, before the first crash. "No," the colleague responded.
Maybe the Russians would be willing to drop a handful of anti-left, baitclick ads on Facebook -- you know? Those weird ads that magically swayed our entire
nation into electing Donald Trump for President. I bet Robert Mueller still has their phone
number. The Dems could mention a quid pro quo and offer to lift some of our
sanctions.
As thousands of American service members prepare for the
worst in the Middle East following an American drone strike that killed Iran's second-most
powerful man, just 23% of registered voters can identify the Islamic republic on an unlabeled
map of the globe, according to a Morning
Consult/Politico survey.
When shown an unlabeled map of just the Middle East, the number rose to a still-abysmal 28%
. Eight percent of those thought Iran was Iraq on the second map - just like Joe Biden
.
Of those surveyed, men were around twice as likely as women to identify Iran on both
maps...
One day after 9/11, Russian president Vladimir Putin said that "we are all Americans, now."
And, on the Sunday following 9/11--at an international soccer match in Tehran, Iran--our
flag was raised as 60,000 Iranian spectators sang our national anthem.
Leave it to George W. Bush to turn GOLD into LEAD.
Mr. Dueck of Seminole is breathing a sigh of relief this morning after it was revealed that
some guy he'd never heard of before was now dead.
"Finally I can sleep at night!" said Dueck, quickly Googling 'General Qasem Solemaini' so he
can look smart at the coffee shop this afternoon. "I'm glad we finally have a President who
looks after our interests instead of just being concerned about his own reelection!"
After skimming the Wikipedia article about Solemaini, Dueck now believes that the
assassination was definitely justified.
"I don't know how we survived and thrived as a country all these years with that guy I just
heard of his morning around," said Dueck. "Good thing that guy from out over there somewhere is
gone!"
Dueck spent the rest of the afternoon arguing with people on the Internet and informing them
about some group he recently learned about, but cannot pronounce, called Quds Force.
"You don't have to be scared of them anymore," said Dueck to his buddies who informed him
they weren't actually afraid to begin with. "Having watched more than three YouTube videos on
the topic, I can tell you that the world is a lot safer now that what's his name is dead!"
After a full day's worth of reading Internet comments, Dueck is now the nation's
self-proclaimed foremost expert on foreign policy and is looking forward to his work as a
pundit on Fox News in the very near future.
The unique, really exceptional feature of the USA is that it does not try to hide idiocy of
its leaders and lack of education and interest in knowing the truth of the majority of
population
A new poll has found that Americans doubt Donald Trump has a clear Iran policy, but
nonetheless they support the decision to kill Qassem Soleimani – who, remarkably, had
been an unknown entity for the majority of respondents.
Forty-three percent of Americans said they approved of the US drone strike that killed the
Iranian commander last week in Baghdad, while 38% disapproved and 19% said they were unsure,
according to the results
of a HuffPost/YouGov survey.
And while almost half the country backs Soleimani's assassination, 60% of Americans conceded
that they had never heard of the Quds Force commander before last week. An additional 14% said
they weren't sure if they had known about him before the strike.
Is there a chorus of politicians singing in there about how lazy they are, and how they
never bothered to verify Browder' story? The story is indeed remarkable, but not in the way
that first appears.
Stephen Fry / @stephenfry
You may or may not know the remarkable story of @Billbrowder and the #MagnitskyAct - find
out the startling truth by listening to
#MagnitskytheMusical by the wondrous @JohnnyFlynnHQ & @roberthudson - @BBCRadio3 7.30 Sun
12th Jan
Book and lyrics by Robert Hudson
Music and lyrics by Johnny Flynn
12 January 2020
О 1 hour, 34 minutes
Johnny Flynn and Robert Hudson bring us a musical based on the
incredible story of an American venture capitalist, a Russian tax
advisor, a crazy heist, the Trump Tower meeting and the very rule of
law.
Blending music and satire, the story explores the truths and fictions
surrounding the origins and aftershocks of the Magnitsky Act; global
legislation which allows governments to sanction those who they see
as offenders of human rights.
It tells the story of a tax adviser's struggle to uncover a huge tax
fraud, his imprisonment by the very authorities he is investigating,
and the American financier's crusade for justice.
Johnny Flynn, Paul Chahidi and members of the cast perform songs in
a epic story that explores democracy, corruption, and how we
undervalue the law at our peril.
Bill Paul Chahidi Sergei Johnny Flynn Jamie Fenella
Woolgar Natalia Ellie Kendrick Kuznetsov Gus Brown Guard Clive Hayward Silchenko Ian
Conningham Jared Will Kirk Fisherman Neil McCaul Judge Jessica Turner
Additional singing by Sinead Maclnnes, Laura Christy, Scarlett
Courtney and Lucy Reynolds.
The cellist is Joe Zeitlin. Sound is by Peter Ringrose.
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
1. Being Santa Claus to Netanyahu, the far right and the very rich (Generous donors)
2. Doing the impossible, making Hillary look like the better of 2 terrible choices
3. Proving 42% of the American public aren't too swift.
My favorite line in this article: "I suspect ... like all too many Americans, Trump has a
hard time grasping the fact that other countries are real." So very dismal, but that gave me
a good laugh.
"Soleimani did 9/11!" - Pence helpfully yet insanely chimed in.
"You're not a wimp like Obama, who refused to assassinate this terrorist," he was probably
told. "You're decisive, a real leader. This one blow will change the entire calculus of the
Middle East," they likely told him. "If you take out Soleimani, I guarantee you that it will
have enormous positive reverberations on the region."
That letter is no mistake. It shows that there are 2 opposing sides in the US Military,
the dark hats and the white hats. One side wants to end wars, the other side do not. Just
like what Q has been saying all along.
Good old USA. Invade illegally by lying, killing, build an airbase and tell everyone that
they'll leave if Iraq will pay for the airbase and if not they'll sanction Iraq into
oblivion.
Is it any wonder why most of the world is disgusted with their behaviour.
CNN has slammed the world's best satire site, The Babylon Bee, after CNN executives
realized that "fake news" articles on the website were getting at least as much social media
traction as their own.
"There ain't room in this internet for the both of us," growled one CNN anchor on the air
Monday evening. "There simply aren't enough people out there for us to fool with our fake
news stories and The Babylon Bee to fool with their satire. There isn't enough clickbait and
outrage traffic to go around. "
"They're obviously amateurs over there at The Bee," said Brian Stelter.
"A lot of times, their reporting comes true. If you're gonna do fake news, do it right --
100% fake, guaranteed, 24/7. They really should learn from the pros over here at CNN."
Eminent threat from Soleimani is a close equivalent to Bush "WDM in Iraq" hoax. And Compo
looks like a better fed version of Gondoliza with her "mushroom cloud" evil war propaganda.
As There was implicit agreement that Iran officials can travel safely in Iraq, which was
breached, the natural result might expulsion of the US forces from Iraq. Which also means the
collapse of US forces in Syrian bases and the Trump's idea of stealing oil.
Like Bush II Trump exceeded his authority and ordered illegal assassination. He needs to be
impeached. Pompeo and Ester need to be fired and tried.
n
2008, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he thought George W. Bush should have been impeached for
lying about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We are still feeling the
blowback from that fatally flawed Iraq war. One can only shudder at the gale force of another
one.
The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the
biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American,
we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way...and without
hesitation!
shoe 9:18 PM - 4 Jan 2020
fuck healthcare, fuck our veterans, fuck our crumbling infrastructure, fuck the homless
MOMMY MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX NEEDS MORE MONEY HELL YEAH
Cemi | Jan 6 2020 22:15 utc | 97: "The point is: Trump is loose cannon. We can analyse back
and forth but no-one knows what the narcissistic jackass decides next."
Shame on you for using such language with regard to the current President of the United
States of America!
Because he's just a bully with delusions of grandeur.
Steve, LHR|2h ago
Times Pick
It's finally abundantly clear that the great deal maker is nothing more than an emperor with no
clothes. The real shame is the inability of a large part of America to see this for what it is:
a failure of leadership from voter on up. Unfortunately, America has lost its moral ability to
lead, and more's the pity as the ascendancy of others, like China, will not be as progressive
as America was in the past. You'd think that the great deal maker would understand that leaders
are not bullies. Sad.
no money for healthcare or education or infrastructure but we have 2 trillion dollars for
bombs so that a pathetic old draft-dodging coward who deep down inside knows he's a weak
piece of shit can try to pretend he's the man his tyrant father told him he never will be
Stonekettle 8:30 AM - 27 Dec 2019
Is the best part where the market implodes and we lose our homes, jobs, savings while the
rich fucks who got huge tax breaks blame us for the disaster as they bail out in golden
parachutes and we get to pay to save the country yet again while being lectured about
responsibility?
The danger posed by that ignorance is matched daily by the crises created by Trump's own
erraticism. His performance as commander in chief has been shaped by a collection of scattered
grievances, emotional impulses and random tweets. As the Financial Times's Philip Stephens
has
said of Trump's foreign policy, "Looking for a framework is like searching for symmetrical
patterns in a bowl of spaghetti."
Keyser Söze
Alexander Mahone •
2 days ago • edited Israel will fight against Iran to the last American soldier
😂😂😂
15 million Jews in the whole world against 90 million Iranians in Iran, I think they will need
to fill their ranks with poor, hungry, uneducated teenagers from Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia
(74% of US army recruits) 😂😂😂
Is Mar-a-Lago a US cultural site? Wait, just looked it up -- it's a national historic
landmark. Since Iran obeys international law, it can't be on their list of 35 Best Places to
Attack. Trump Tower on the other hand....
CNN has slammed the world's best satire site, The Babylon Bee, after CNN executives
realized that "fake news" articles on the website were getting at least as much social media
traction as their own.
"There ain't room in this internet for the both of us," growled one CNN anchor on the air
Monday evening. "There simply aren't enough people out there for us to fool with our fake
news stories and The Babylon Bee to fool with their satire. There isn't enough clickbait and
outrage traffic to go around. "
Pelosi hailed the killing just after news broke of Gaddafi's October 2011 death.
She released the following
statement
on her
Congressional website:
Today's news marks the next phase of Libya's march toward democracy. After decades of tyrannical rule in Libya,
the world is hopeful that the next generation of Libyan leaders will bring their country out of this dark chapter.
The strong action taken by the United States, led by President Obama, and NATO, the United Nations and the Arab
League proves the power of the world community working together.
British comedian Ricky Gervais is dropping red pills at the Golden Globes, joking about
"Epstein didn't kill himself" while telling 'woke' virtue signaling celebrities to stop talking
about politics.
... If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent,"
"You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than
Greta Thunberg. " as usual David Brett nails it , the british office was one of funniest tv
shows ever
Trump just managed to tweet support for US members of IS and AQ, thus supporting enemies of
the US and committing Treason as per the US Constitution-
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that
should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully
strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required,
but is given nevertheless!
"We have learned today from #Iraq Prime Minister AdilAbdl Mahdi how @realDonaldTrump uses
diplomacy:
#US asked #Iraq to mediate with #Iran. Iraq PM asks #QassemSoleimani to come and talk to him
and give him the answer of his mediation, Trump &co assassinate an envoy at the airport."
Trump-Kushner is no different than Hillary, Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, Epstein, Maxwell,
Weinstein, Wasserman-Schultz, Bibi. Trump is no friend to American citizens just like all of
Congress.
There will be no draining of any swamps. Trump-Kushner just another Bibi lackey.
@gotmituns I
think we all know the Orange One who is in the pockets of Jews and Israel First nationalists*
will not actually pull out troops. I have also heard someone on this comments board says the
agreement between the US and Iraq stipulates that the US has 1 year to withdraw if requested
to do so by Iraq, so he will no doubt cite that reason for staying there as long as possible
– which leaves ample time for more Jewish tricks and swindles à la USS Liberty
or Lavon Affair.
The real question is whether or not his room-temperature IQ support base will pick up on
the fact that their man in the White House is only increasing troop presence despite being
told to piss off by the Iraqis, thus laying waste to the myth that Iraqis are begging the US
to stay there. Will this be the broken promise that will finally deprogram the hordes of
MAGAtards and awaken them from their slumber?
Not only Mossad but probably many others would like to see a suicide bomber blow himself
up somewhere in the US killing alot of people. That makes it difficult to figure out who
did it and maybe impossible to figure it out. It would be a mess.
But they could always find an un-scorched Iranian passport in mint condition among the
debris of the explosion.
Amusingly, if Trump is indeed serious that Iraq will have to reimburse the US for its
countless military bases, camps and other installations, the US will be able to repay its $23
trillion in debt (and have money leftover), when all is said and done: here is a partial list
of the US camps in iraq:
Camp Abu Naji / FOB Garry Owen (Al Amarah)
Camp Adder also known as Tallil Air Base and Ali Air Base located in Nasiriyah
Just a wild *** guess but what if Maj. Gen. Soleimani was close to kicking the bucket
anyways and wanted to poke America one last time and did so by causing an issue at the
American embassy in Iraq.
If the General was such an asset why be in Iraq? Normally you would send your aide to the
area. If it was really important to meet someone then they would come to Iran.
I don't think Iran is necessarily that careless. I can believe ego can play a big part in
making bad decisions but if he was such an asset for so long why risk it unless you were a
dead man walking already.
The other Iranian leaders could of said to the already dying general if that is the way
you want to go out then by all means do so. It doesn't cost Iran anything if he does.
Just a different look at it. It may also be the reason why Iran won't do anything for
awhile if at all. He might of been a good general in Iran's eyes but still replaceable.
Later.
If our entire dollar racket fueled country were slightly more honestly governed, the Dept.
of Offense would bill Israel for at least 1/2 of its budget.
The actions of the US was a war crime. Those that are responsible should be arrested and
handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution. This would obviously
include Trump, Pompeo and Esper (as well as a number of others).
The US should then negotiate reparations with Iran.
If the US/West will not do so, if the people of the US/West democracies do not insist, if
we do nothing then we are all guilty of this War Crime. I don't really think we can have this
any other way.
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands,
not grunts who are just there for the paycheck"
The Babylon Bee 11 hours ago <S> 554 *10
A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online
platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if
you post your support for attacking another country.
People who bravely post about how the U.S. needs to invade some country in the Middle East
or Asia or outer space will get a pop-up notice indicating they've been enlisted in the
military. A recruiter will then show up at their house and whisk them away to fight in the
foreign war they wanted to happen so badly.
"Frankly, recruitment numbers are down, and we needed some way to find people who are really
enthusiastic about fighting wars," said a DOD official. "Then it hit us like a drone strike:
there are plenty of people who argue vehemently for foreign intervention. It doesn't matter
what war we're trying to create: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China -- these
people are always reliable supporters of any invasion abroad. So why not get them there on the
frontlines?"
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands, not grunts who
are just there for the paycheck," he added.
Strangely, as soon as the policy was implemented, 99% of saber-rattling suddenly ceased.
Some comments reminded me of two sayings at opposite ends of phase space.
The first I learnt from an article of Uri Avnery almost a decade ago. It is the classic
Jewish joke about the Jewish mother in Russia taking leave of her son, who has been called up
to serve the Czar in the war against Turkey. "Don't overexert yourself'" she implores him,
"Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again "
"But mother," the son interrupts, "What if the Turk kills me?"
"You?" exclaims the mother, "But why? What have you done to him?"
This will end great, a fucked up circus called congress who hasn't had the balls to do their
job and legally declare war for nearly three decades, and a president who can't even defend
himself from a gang of thugs staging a direct coup against him in his own government. What
could possibly go wrong?
The second are the immortal words of Thucydides: "the strong do what they will, the weak
suffer what they must."
Yeah, I heard Thucydides had some issues with resolution of uncertainties for targeting,
especially for stand-off precision guided weapons. Plus there were some issues with long
range air-defense systems in Greece in times of Plato and Socrates. You know, GLONASS wasn't
fully operational, plus EW was a little bit scratchy.
So, surely, it all fully applies today, especially in choke points. Plus those Athenians
they were not exactly good with RPGs and anti-Armour operations. Other than that, Thucydides
nailed it.
Interesting to note that it was the party professing those words - Athens - who started
the Peloponnesian War, driven in large part by that haughty attitude. It was Athens that also ended that war, of course. They did so when they surrendered to the Spartans.
US Congresswoman Maxine Waters has allegedly fallen for a prank call in which she thought
activist Greta Thunberg was offering her a tape of Donald Trump confessing to pressuring
Ukraine into investigating his political rivals. YouTube pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and
Alexey Stolyarov, who go by the names Vovan and Lexus, are claiming they tricked Waters
(Dem-Calif.) into thinking she was speaking to teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
Vovan and Lexus made names for themselves by previously pranking Congressman Adam Schiff
(Dem-Calif.) into thinking there were nude photos of US President Donald Trump that Schiff
could get his hands on. They also claim to have pranked Waters two years
ago, in a phone call where one posed as Ukraine's prime minister.
Though Waters herself has not responded to the new video, the woman at the other end of the
phone identifies herself as the congresswoman and sounds an awful lot like her.
In the call, the pranksters pretend to be Thunberg and her father, with help from a female
colleague, and claim to have proof that Trump pressured the Ukrainian government into
investigating his political rivals, something Democrats have claimed, for months now, is
true.
Talleyrand remarked that Napoleon's assassination of the Duke of Enghien was worse than a
crime. It was a mistake. Donald Trump's decision to target Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head
of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for destruction brings to mind the French diplomat's
lapidary verdict. Iran is likely to unleash its fearsome Shia proxy militias, wherever and
whenever it can. Nor is support from Europe, which is on the frontlines of Iranian blowback,
likely to be forthcoming. Quite the contrary.
Ironically, the Hollywood film 'Wag the Dog,' which tells the story of a US president caught
in a similar situation as Clinton's, and the lengths he goes to distract public attention from
his plight, was released just months before Clinton ordered the attack on Yugoslvia.
Maybe: but in the short term at least, it will provide Trump and his creatures with exactly
the jingoistic deflection they need to draw attention away from his and his Administration's
criminality and incompetence.
Even at this early date we're seeing an orgy of bellicose gloating from all the usual
suspects: and it will probably not be too long into tomorrow's news cycle before the full
fury of the RW Machine is turned on their REAL targets: not Iran, but any Americans who might
question Glorious Leader's "tough" actions....
Bombing a civilian airport in another country in order to assassinate Iranian and Iraq
leaders is a very bad diplomacy ;-)
It might well be that today this idiot blow up his chances fro reelection because revenge is
dish that should be served cold and Iran can postpone it for 11 months or so.
What is interesting is that neoliberal MSM are glad and still talking about Zelensky and
impeachment. What a country ! It looks like the decade of the twenties can be the decade of
another World War. "In every war the first casualty is truth."
Bombing a civilian airport in another country in order to assassinate Iranian and Iraq
leaders is a very bad diplomacy ;-)
It might well be that today this idiot blow up his chances fro reelection because revenge is
dish that should be served cold and Iran can postpone it for 11 months or so.
What is interesting is that neoliberal MSM are glad and still talking about Zelensky and
impeachment. What a country ! It looks like the decade of the twenties can be the decade of
another World War. "In every war the first casualty is truth."
January
2, 2020 at 6:56 am GMT 200 Words Intelligence agencies recruit pornographers to lead their
disinformation operations, apparently because porn purveyors are so lacking in ethics they will
tell public lies about anything
The alleged 'founder' of Wikipedia is the arch-Zionist Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales, who attends
intimate birthday parties of Presidents of Israel
Wales was 'selected' for this role after being in the pornography-selling business
For weeks, it was Iranian consulates and facilities that bore the brunt of Iraqi
popular unrest. Iran reacted with restraint. With our lethal attacks on the Kata'ib
Hezbollah, we changed that. Pompeo, Esper and Trump are keeping up the trash talking.
Threatening Iran by killing Iraqis whose ass was that brilliant diplomatic strategy pulled
from?
####
The central claim is also addressed to white Christian women, particularly married women,
who are assumed to identify their interests with those of their families.
Plain English Foundation has voted freedom gas as the worst word or phrase of 2019.
The term comes from the United States Department of Energy, which rebranded natural gas as
"freedom gas" and boasted about bringing molecules of US freedom to the world.
"When a simple product like natural gas starts being named through partisan politics, we
are entering dangerous terrain," said the Foundation's Executive Director, Dr Neil James.
"Why can't natural gas just remain natural gas?"
Each year, Plain English Foundation gathers dozens of examples of the worst words to
highlight the importance of clear and ethical public language.
The full list of 2019's worst words and phrases follows.
Plain English Foundation has voted freedom gas as the worst word or phrase of 2019.
The term comes from the United States Department of Energy, which rebranded natural gas as
"freedom gas" and boasted about bringing molecules of US freedom to the world.
"When a simple product like natural gas starts being named through partisan politics, we
are entering dangerous terrain," said the Foundation's Executive Director, Dr Neil James.
"Why can't natural gas just remain natural gas?"
Each year, Plain English Foundation gathers dozens of examples of the worst words to
highlight the importance of clear and ethical public language.
The full list of 2019's worst words and phrases follows.
1 day ago Maddow is really a propagandist. She really isn't a journalist. Because her
credibility and ratings have gone south because so many of the big stories she has been obliged
to push have been fake from the get-go. People start to notice that after a while. You can't
fool all of the people all of the time as Abe observed. 1 day ago It has been determined to
have been a fabrication. It is not just controversial. Maddow may be spot on in fooling her
drooling sycophants, but facts seldom ever interfere with her fairy tales and TDS motivated
delusions. 10
hours ago Rational Agent:
The CIA told the FBI that the material in the Steele dossier is merely Internet gossip and bar
room talk. This is in the inspector general's report (issued Dec 9) and public testimony under
oath before Congress (Dec 11).
There were several agents in the FBI who were disturbed about the unverified nature of this
material, and they were overruled by other agents and their supervisors and this material was
then presented to the FISA court four times in the knowledge that it was unverified but the
court was told it was verified. That is also in the inspector general's Report and public
testimony.
The result of this misconduct was that the head judge of the FISA court Rosemary Collyer,
issued on Dec 16 an unprecedented and angry public rebuke of the FBI for repeatedly deceiving
the court about the veracity of the Steele dossier.
Enough for you? 1 day ago With apologies to Bob Dylan:
"A man (or woman) sees what he (she) wants to see and disregards the rest."
If you're tuned into cable 'news' at 9 p.m. eastern time looking for objective journalism,
well, good luck with that. Cuomo is probably the best bet; he offers a little bit. 1 day ago I think the
apology should be to Paul Simon?
Not withstanding that, your point is well made. Not much in the way of great thought on the
telly at that time on any station. 1 day ago Independents
view Rachael Maddow, Chris Cuomo and Sean Hannity as hate peddlers who spin, lie and twist
every single issue to fit their fantasy of how the world exists. I cannot imagine how anyone
with a brain or any semblance of logic could be a regular viewer of these hate mongers. If one
does a cursory analysis of the predictions these people have made over the past couple of
years, you will quickly see how ridiculous and wrong they have been. The bigger problem is that
they represent their news organizations and only add to the distrust and declining reliance
that rational folks have of the Media. 2 days ago [she is]
Just another CIA mouthpiece. 2 days ago Maddow is
being sued by the One America News Network for stating the latter were 'really, literally'
Russian assets.
Maddows is furiously back pedalling, not standing by what she said. This speaks volumes.
Maddows is evil. 2 days ago The Steele
dossier is trash. A joke. Comprehensively discredited. Only the wilfully blind or deluded would
believe otherwise. Proof that [neo]liberalism is a form of mental illness. 1 day ago If it is all
propaganda, then we are truly living in a post-truth world. In this world there are no facts,
only competing narratives. This allows us to sink into fact-free thinking and rely only on our
prejudices (or our "gut") to determine our preferences. 2 days ago " The case against Maddow is
far stronger. When small bits of news arose in favor of the dossier, the franchise MSNBC host
pumped air into them. At least some of her many fans surely came away from her broadcasts
thinking the dossier was a serious piece of investigative research, not the flimflam,
quick-twitch game of telephone outlined in the Horowitz report. She seemed to be rooting for
the document."
I constantly receive such letters; letters which
repeat, again and again, year after year, basically the same thing: "If only we would have an
opportunity to vote out our damn system!"
Such letters, emails and messages keep coming to me from the United States, but also from
the United Kingdom. Particularly, after certain events , like when the Western empire
overthrows some progressive government in Asia, Latin America or the Middle East.
I honestly wonder: "Don't my readers actually periodically have that proverbial opportunity
they are longing for? They can, can't they, install socialism; to let it storm into Downing
Street like an early spring?"
But they keep missing that opportunity, again and again. Or, are they really missing
it? Actually, for so many years they have voted in the most extreme forms of capitalism and
imperialism, so one has to wonder whether the British voters perhaps truly deserve their
rulers?
None of the kids wanted toys for Christmas this year, they just wanted cash.
Understandable, but cash as a gift, while practical, always feels impersonal, so I made
special packaging. Went over well pic.twitter.com/urXVCHtDyW
— Donnachaidha O'Chionnaigh (@TwoClawsMedia) December
26, 2019
Tech companies take your privacy seriously, and also use data from inside your home for
cutesy press releases about visits from carolers and people seeking cookie recipes.
https://t.co/o5Lk0G47QL
pic.twitter.com/QX6fvcCFAB
"... ...Michael Tracey offered this apt summary of Washington's bizarre priorities: "This last week teaches us that temporarily freezing and then unfreezing future military aid to one of our many far-flung client states is [a] huge national emergency but the government systematically lying about every aspect of the longest war in U.S. history is a forgettable non-issue." ..."
...Michael Tracey offered this apt summary of Washington's bizarre
priorities: "This last week teaches us that temporarily freezing and then unfreezing future
military aid to one of our many far-flung client states is [a] huge national emergency but the
government systematically lying about every aspect of the longest war in U.S. history is a
forgettable non-issue."
#2 This is known as "the season of giving", but one 65-year-old guy in Colorado decided it
would be more fun to do it
with other people's money : Just after noon on Monday, a 65-year-old man walked into a
downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado bank and stole thousands of dollars before running outside
and tossing the cash up into the air while yelling "Merry Christmas!"
#8 One rapper in Los Angeles decided that the best way to address the problem of
homelessness was to climb on top of a tall building and throw cash down on to the
homeless people living on Skid Row so they could fight over it: The 22-year-old rapper
known as Blueface climbed onboard a black Mercedes SUV in Skid Row before throwing money out of
a bag while dozens of people below scramble to catch the flying cash and pick it up from the
ground. The artist, whose real name is Jonathan Michael Porteris, is known for the Benjamin
Franklin tattoo on his cheek and a handful of hit tracks that reached viral status in recent
years.
reported
that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that
OAN "really, literally is paid Russian propaganda."
Now, Maddow finds herself having to come up with a defense for her statement in court.
And she has also apparently hired Lionel Hutz as her legal adviser.
According to
Culttture , her lawyers argued in a recent motion that " the liberal host was clearly
offering up her 'own unique expression' of her views to capture what she saw as the
'ridiculous' nature of the undisputed facts. Her comment, therefore, is a quintessential
statement 'of rhetorical hyperbole, incapable of being proved true or false."
Oh, it's capable of being proved false, alright. Maddow had previously claimed, on
air, about one of OAN's reporters:
"In this case, the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America is really
literally is paid Russian propaganda," and added, "Their on-air politics reporter ( Kristian
Rouz) is paid by the Russian government to produce propaganda for that government."
The testimony of UC Santa Barbara linguistics professor Stefan Thomas Gries, however, stands
at odds with Maddow's defense. Gries said: "It is very unlikely that an average or
reasonable/ordinary viewer would consider the sentence in question to be a statement of
opinion."
The Deplorables are ascending in America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong,
in much of Europe, in Latin America, in Iran.
...The Mandate of Heaven has been removed from the elitist establishment. It is passing to
the Deplorables.
The Deplorables are ascending in America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong,
in much of Europe, in Latin America, in Iran. Deplorables are the antidote to arrogant
globalists.
Deplorables everywhere say "from now on we will make our own decisions."
What is it with
the Deplorables? What gives them such power?
Three things, I believe, are elevating them.
Deplorables are pragmatic . They are not wedded to any extreme ideology. Deplorables will
go with anything that works. It is no wonder that the Deplorables began in America. For, as
Americans we inherit the pragmatism of our pioneering ancestors.
The article incorrectly lumps the astro-turfed Hong Kong protests in with the "Deplorable"
populist movements in the USA and western Europe.
The Hong Kong protests are being backed by Soros and the Davos globalist elites as well
the the CIA, MIC, and the DC Uniparty. This same bunch of Swamp scum are enemies of the
"Deplorables".
More pure American establishment propaganda as if the globalist movement is essentially a
creature of the socialists, government bureaucracies, and the Asian block. The truth is that
it is a creature mainly of the Rothschild banking cartel and with the support of most Western
based multi-nationals, which have utilized the Rothschild & Soros backed international
socialists, the Western mainstream media, most Western governments, plus the Catholic Church
hierarchy, in order to bring about a world government. The Rothschild wet dream is control of
world finances just like they control those in the West, and their stated intentions are for
a One-World Bank with a one-world currency. However, the cartel cannot do that without a
world government with real enforcement powers for trade and protection with their world
currency. The multinonals mainly want borderless nations for freer access to resources and
markets.
Trump has been used to whump up US stature and ultimately will be seen as much an
instrument of the globalist cause as was Obama. Perhaps he was put in the game by his backers
to secure a higher return on the US dollar when they are cashed in for the proposed one-world
currency, and by the Zionists to secure more turf for Israel. Israel is getting very itchy
with the old trigger finger and we await in the New Year another false flag at least on the
scale of 9/11. It will likely have to involve a US city.
As we know, the term 'deplorables' came from Hillary in the last US presidential election
and was applied to people who amplified "hateful views and voices" about her, but later the
term was used to characterize mainly Trump supporters. The Hong Kong protesters as not
"deplorables" because their cause in not for Trump or for the US. It is for their own liberty
against the communist Chinese government usurping their basic legal and local rights, which
Trump could care less about. Aslo, he is not a populist. He is an elitist and he is totally
controlled by elitists with more money and power than even he every dreamed of.
Left or right, Democrat or Republican, the puppet masters are the same and run the show.
They are all global elites using their money and power to swing the public audiences left and
right with every pull at the strings of their dummy politicians. What they fear the most, is
the people in the middle uniting without their money or the media and taking control of their
lives and their nations.
Then-RNC chairman Jim Nicholson said of Schumer "No self-respecting jury would allow
somebody who's already formed an opinion on the guilt or innocence of the accused," adding "but
Chuck Schumer has loudly proclaimed that he's pre-judged the case. He's already announced that
he's decided the President shouldn't be impeached , much less removed from office."
Schumer responded days later, telling NBC 's "Meet the Press": "The Founding Fathers --
whose wisdom just knocks my socks off every day, it really does -- set this process up to be in
the Senate, not at the Supreme Court, not in some judicial body ."
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"Every day, for instance, hundreds of people call us up and lobby us on one side and the
other. You can't do that with a juror," he added. "The standard is different. It's supposed to
be a little bit judicial and a little bit legislative-political. That's how it's been.
Meanwhile, Schumer said in a 1998 Op-Ed that he would be voting to acquit Clinton , and that
he'd made up his mind that September.
"My decision will not come as a surprise," Schumer
wrote . "I will be voting to acquit the president on both counts. I had to make my decision
in September as a member of the Judiciary Committee in the House, and while I was in the middle
of the campaign."
Responding to CNN 's recent report (yet failing to explain the 'impartial juror' hypocrisy),
Schumer's office said that his statements came after the conclusion of the Starr investigation,
"which included testimony from key witnesses including President Clinton, had concluded and
been made public for months and as Sen. Schumer was in the anomalous position of having already
voted on impeachment in both the House Judiciary Committee and on the House floor."
"As is reflected in these quotes, Schumer believed then and still believes now that all of
the facts must be allowed to come out and then a decision can be made -- in stark contrast to
the Republicans today in both the House and Senate who have worked to prevent all the facts and
evidence from coming out."
Another term unlimited parasite shows that he has become an utter hypocrite, if he wasn't
one in the first place. Praising the wisdom of the founding fathers is such a rookie move,
the kind of thing you say to get elected. Like all other politicians he picks and chooses the
parts of the Constitution that are conducive to his hold on power. The Democrats do not have
a leg to stand on, and for that reason they are going down. What Trump will do with his
second term terrifies me. I still cannot believe this dissembling confidence artist, former
NYC liberal, arch Zionist, Rothschild beneficiary has the best interests of America in
mind.
The idea we have members of the House or Senate still serving who participated in the last
impeachment should be a warning to us all. Yet the number is surprisingly high.
but the larger issue is the money favoring...reducing that will be complic
Never happen. People are ****, and everybody has their price. Term limits would probably
make it worse; if you know you're only getting one or two terms you'll be trying to maximize
your take.
The whole thing is scripted. I've been waiting for stuff exactly like this, actually.
They're not really trying to get rid of Trump; in fact they NEED him in office next term.
Another term unlimited parasite shows that he has become an utter hypocrite, if he wasn't
one in the first place. Praising the wisdom of the founding fathers is such a rookie move,
the kind of thing you say to get elected. Like all other politicians he picks and chooses the
parts of the Constitution that are conducive to his hold on power. The Democrats do not have
a leg to stand on, and for that reason they are going down. What Trump will do with his
second term terrifies me. I still cannot believe this dissembling confidence artist, former
NYC liberal, arch Zionist, Rothschild beneficiary has the best interests of America in
mind.
Legislators have begun to hold hearings on impeaching Santa Claus after an overheard
conversation seemed to imply he was offering a quid pro quo: gifts in exchange for good
behavior. FBI agents spied on Claus at various malls as he repeatedly said things like, "Sure,
I'll get you a pony. But first, I need you to do something for me... be a good little boy!"
The FBI was able to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Claus, because it's easier to get a FISA
warrant than to get a Costco membership.
"Ho ho noooooo!" Santa Claus cried as investigators leaped out and cuffed him at a Dayton,
OH mall. "Not good! Sad!"
Such a Christian nation: " the USA never bothers to meet the requirements of its own
constitution for going to war."
as far as know, Christianity hasn't burned anybody for
being a witch, nor drowned them, in some time; otoh, Christians sure have started a lot of
recent wars, or police actions, or whatever they are called technically since the USA
never bothers to meet the requirements of its own constitution for going to war.
S&P Global Platts does not seem to be in the same jubilatory mood as is the troll in his
belief that Nord Stream 2 has been well and truly fucked by the mighty Empire:
The move by Allseas will certainly mean new delays to the completion of the 55
Bcm/year pipeline, which had originally been scheduled to start operations at the end of
2019.
Delays to the completion of the pipeline?
Delays????
Are you serious Platts?
The Empire has once again been victorious against the doltish Mongol-Tatar subhumans, who
have no technology, no wits, no gumption no nothing , when faced with the awesome
might of the Exceptional Nation.
This is like the debate about the fundamental question "How many angels can dance on the head
of a pin?"
Notable quotes:
"... has President Trump been impeached, or did the House vote merely represent an authorization or intention to impeach -- which becomes an actual impeachment only when the articles are transmitted? ..."
Speaker Pelosi's unconstitutional decision to delay transmission of the articles of
impeachment to the Senate in order to gain partisan advantage raises the following question:
has President Trump been impeached, or did the House vote merely represent an authorization
or intention to impeach -- which becomes an actual impeachment only when the articles are
transmitted? This highly technical constitutional issue is being debated by two of my
former Harvard Law School colleagues -- Professors Laurence Tribe and Noah Feldman -- both
liberal Democrats who support President Trump's impeachment.
Tribe believes that Trump has been impeached and that it would be perfectly proper to
leave it at that : by declining to transmit the articles of impeachment, the Democrats get a
win-win. President Trump remains impeached but he gets no opportunity to be tried and
acquitted by the Senate. This cynical, partisan ploy is acceptable to Tribe because it brings
about the partisan result he prefers: Trump bears forever the stigma of impeachment without
having the opportunity to challenge that stigma by a Senate acquittal. Under the Tribe
scenario, the House Democrats get to "obstruct" the Senate and "abuse" their power (to borrow
terms from the articles of impeachment).
Feldman disagrees with Tribe, arguing -- quite correctly -- that impeachment and a removal
trial go together. If a president is impeached, he must be tried. Impeachment, in his view,
is not merely a vote; it is the first step in a constitutionally mandated two-step process.
He goes so far as to say that if the articles of impeachment are not forwarded to the Senate
for trial, there has been no valid impeachment.
And as liberal family members arrive packing a battery of Maddow-approved, Media Matters
talking points beamed directly into their outrage cortex, conservatives may find themselves ill
equipped to handle the firehose of vitriol pouring out of their loved ones.
In anticipation of holiday triggerings, the 2020 Trump campaign reserved the website "
snowflakevictory.com " two weeks
ago, filling it with all sorts of facts and logic that can be deployed to "win an argument with
your liberal relatives," which can also be viewed in short video clips set to patriotic
background music.
51 minutes ago (Edited)
I read this earlier on ZH, but it was priceless. Just tell your liberal and Democratic relatives that since the House of Representatives
impeached Trump, he is now eligible for two more terms as President. Thanks GunnyG for posting this earlier in this thread.
41 minutes ago (Edited)
If Trump had actually done anything for the American masses, we
would all know it and no list of talking points issued from the Trump administration would be
necessary.
Tulsi had the sense to see impeachment for what it is, a farce that only helps Trump, and
look how she is treated by the party for refusing to go along with it.
In other news, @RANDCorporation report
firmly establishes that Van Gogh was a Russian Agent. May be, the dastardly Kremlin plot
drove him to cut his ear off?.. At any rate, NATO is now on alert. pic.twitter.com/9k9j5K9rx1
Considering there are three billion Muslims determined to rule the planet with their
Sharia Law and forcing everyone to face Mecca five times a day to "pray" while waiting for
Mahamed to return, adding to that millions of Christians, many nutty enough to believe we
need a nuclear war destroying Israel in order to save it and cause Jesus to return on a
cloud, plus good luck converting the billions of Chinese to ANY of this! Destroy the planet
in order to save it! Light a candle, take off your shoes and burn some incense! The end is
nigh!!!
Human beings on this planet, I have come to believe, are all just batshit crazy and
delusional regarding their various "beliefs".
Just look at what that nut editor of "Christianity Today" did to President Trump!
For God's sake! (cough), Trump and his GOP crew are against abortion, going so far as to
stop ALL funding of abortions with federal money, they hate the Commies and on and on.
Probably the fact that neither Trump nor his wife have set foot in a church on a Sunday
morning in four years toting his well-worn Bible, was what really did him in! No regular
photo-ops like with Jimmy and Rosalind or Bill and Hillary. Tsk, tsk
Seriously. I am almost 70 years old and have lived in Los Angeles for the past ten years.
This place has no soul. My friend and I want to leave and buy a small house in a nice town
with normal people. The only problem is that any of these towns that might exist are filled
with depressed people, some slumped over their steering wheels dying of heroin overdoses
while their toddler children sit in the back seats of the cars freezing, screaming and
starving.
Starving for food, warmth and affection.
Too old to fight the snow and frozen roads and sidewalks. Wish I had a pretty lake to swim
in Spring, Summer and Fall with a nice mild Winter.
And the quaint town of my childhood back again.
I wish it wasn't so, but I will probably die here in this hell hole with nothing but my
memories of swimming lakes and pretty gardens with bluebirds and robins and cardinals
singing.
And in my memories I can hear my grandma saying, "If wishes were horses, beggars would
ride".
Transgenders are the new saints of the alt-left. No one dare criticize them, everyone
wants their child to be one, no expense must be spared in glorifying them.
I read JHK's post-apocalypse 4 book series. Don't remember any trannies. A word of advice
to Jim. If you want the establishment media's seal of approval you better put some drag
queens in volume 5. Tough ones who read library stories and practice kung-fu on the bad guys.
Some real role models for the young kids.
As I recall, the critics said your female characters were too feminine. So include some
butchie bitches next time. The New York Times might finally have a kind word.
adding: I listened to part of an NPR report on the French strikes. It was a first person
account by the young US reporter (judging from her voice) living in Paris about how the
strike was affecting her. She started out well enough, then complained that the strike makes
it hard for her nanny to travel to-from her apartment, making it a terrible hardship on the
nanny, and upsetting her childcare arrangement. Then her real complaint about the strikes was
aired: it's making it ever so much harder for her, the intrepid reporter, to travel to all
the upscale holiday parties she's been invited to. (Oh, the humanity!)
NPR foreign correspondents today; "My nanny is inconvenienced. I am inconvenienced.
Workers' pensions are all well and good, but what is that compared to my inconvenience?!"
Not exactly Eric Sevareid reporting from London during the blitz
In May 2016, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, famously proclaimed that, "If
we [Republicans] nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it." Since then,
Graham has become one of President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders, making Graham the
target of critics who paint him as a hypocrite for repeatedly contradicting his previously
expressed stances.
In 2015, for example, Graham called Donald Trump a
"race-baiting xenophobic bigot," but by 2018 he was claiming that he had "never heard [Trump]
make a single racist statement." And in 1999, during impeachment proceedings against
President Bill Clinton (a Democrat), Graham asserted that an
impeachable offense "doesn't even have to be a crime," but then in 2019 Graham
challenged those calling for the impeachment of Trump to "show me something that is a
crime"
It was interesting watching the impeachment vote on the House floor. Several House Democrats
got up and spoke of how impeachment was like the civil rights movement. I guess they forgot
it was the Democratic Party who defended slavery, founded the clan, imposed segregation, and
fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
Spaceforce uniform and so on. Can it be called The Mighty Muskateers after Elon's
rocket.
Maybe Boeing Brigade as they can be sure of returning to earth. One way or
another.
At least the good colonel has his priorities right - the patch is mission critical.
This was a reply to the jarhead Mattis who mentioned the possibly of a preemptive strike on
Russia because of allegations they are violating a missile treaty.
"We have no concept of a preemptive strike," Putin told a forum of international experts
in the southern city of Sochi in response to a question from the audience.
"In such a situation, we expect to be struck by nuclear weapons, but we will not use them"
first, he said.
"The aggressor will have to understand that retaliation is inevitable, that it will be
destroyed and that we, as victims of aggression, as martyrs, will go to heaven.
"They will simply die because they won't even have time to repent,"
Bobbie
last year Russia is a Christian nation since the Soviet Union fell. They believe in the
10 Commandments one of which is do not murder. E D
last year Yup a reply to the jarhead Mattis who mentioned the possibly of a preemptive
strike on Russia because of allegations they are violating a missile treaty.Yup should start
showing the movies 'Fail Safe' New Bedford Incident', 'The Day After', 'Dr Strange Love, '
Missiles of October' now on TV prime time spots. No JFK or RFK to hold the generals in check
this time.and God indeed will judge them for the billions that die.
Reply
last year If it had not been for one brave Soviet officer during the Cuban missle crisis
it is likely few of us would be reading how "unlikely" the communists are to launch a first
strike. I consider Vasili Arkhipov to be a hero but he was not necessarily viewed that way in
Russia. He probably prevented a nuclear world war III. Please read his story... https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/vasili-cuban-missile-crisis.html
Vasili Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer who, upon making a split second decision, prevented
the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into a nuclear Vasili Arkhipov was a Soviet naval
officer who, upon making a split second decision, prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis from
escalating into a nuclear www.warhistoryonline.com wootendw
last year Just a warning to nutjobs in the US who believe Russia won't use nukes because
they know they'll be destroyed. Even if there isn't a heaven, what happened to Libya and
Qaddafi was WORSE than nuclear war. Having lost 20m in WWII, Russia will certainly use nukes in
defense EVEN IF THE WEST ONLY ATTACKS THEM WITH CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS Bond000000007
last year Russia is obviously not the evil society or culture that the evil west is
drumming propaganda against at every opportunity It is unfortunate the western world has
evolved very negative socially; surviving at the cost of lies, murder, cheating, beliefs in the
cultural superiority of the Anglo-Saxons, domination of the world and name it! If it is true
that Russia has achieved the military advances that Russia has publicly made known and if that
was the western world, then they would have most likely planned for a schedule of striking
Russia and China in order to bring the world to the level of subjugation that was existing in
the colonial era and even practically now where they are telling countries which community
should lead a country at the national level and which ones and which ones should work on
cohesion of the nation etc. Without any pretence, a one world government will bring the world
to subjugation which will be more less comparable to the era of slavery! Alex
last year
One correction: Putin didn't say "our enemies will just die", he said "our enemies will
croak" , he used an informal word 'сдохнут' -
zdokhnut.
Trump weighed in on the saga Sunday, suggesting that Democrats have realised they are
driving off a cliff:
Crazy Nancy wants to dictate terms on the Impeachment Hoax to the Republican Majority
Senate, but striped away all Due Process, no lawyers or witnesses, on the Democrat Majority
House. The Dems just wish it would all end. Their case is dead, their poll numbers are
horrendous!
Trump weighed in on the saga Sunday, suggesting that Democrats have realised they are
driving off a cliff:
Crazy Nancy wants to dictate terms on the Impeachment Hoax to the Republican Majority
Senate, but striped away all Due Process, no lawyers or witnesses, on the Democrat Majority
House. The Dems just wish it would all end. Their case is dead, their poll numbers are
horrendous!
"The second is the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip; an unpleasant, misogynistic, racist
98 year old man who has led a life of privilege and leisure by poncing off British tax payers
and who has given the world nothing (except fathering yet another generation of inbred, royal
parasites) and achieved absolutely nothing of any import whatsoever despite being given every
advantage life can offer. Now, Prince Philip fell sick yesterday and was rushed from the
royal estate of Sandringham (in Scotland) by helicopter"
Sandringham isn't in Scotland. Phil allegedly didn't father Andrew and Edward. And he has
given the world some outrageously offensive comments over his many years. A small example -
about 6 years ago a relation of mine witnessed him ask a Polish scientist at a research
laboratory he was opening - "Did you originally come over to pick strawberries?"
hehhehheh..
"... It is noteworthy that not a single House Republican dared or even cared to question Schiff's framing of the issue, which was bolstered by witnesses from the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic establishment, including Trump's appointees. ..."
"... Nor is any Republican Senator likely to point out the inconvenient truth that we have no defense treaty with Ukraine, which thus is not really our "ally." ..."
"... The sole retort from Trump's establishment defenders : He released the aid to Ukraine, including the Javelin missiles Obama denied them! He's every bit the warmonger you want him to be! So there! ..."
"... Senate Demaggotic Leader Chuck Schumer gave the game away when he demanded that the World Greatest Deliberative Body receive testimony from cashiered National Security Adviser John Bolton and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney but not from the man at the center of the whole Ukraine "drug deal" (as Bolton described it): Rudy Giuliani. ..."
For a century and a half American political life has been the exclusive preserve of the
duopoly of Democrats and Republicans, also known as
the Evil Party and the Stupid Party . (If something is both Evil and Stupid, we call that
"Bipartisan.") But the familiar Evil-Stupid dichotomy doesn't even begin to describe the
descent into national dysfunction and galloping irrationality that characterizes the Trump
impeachment hysteria.
Media chatter now centers on the nuts-and-bolts questions of "what's next?" Will House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi send the articles of impeachment over to the Senate? (Yes. Even one of the
legal "scholars" enrolled in the impeachment lynch mob avers that
Trump isn't actually impeached until the Senate receives the articles .) Who will be the
trial managers? (Who cares.) Will there be a "real trial," with witnesses? (It hardly matters.)
Will Trump be removed? (Unlikely unless some bolt from the blue flips 20 GOP Senators.) Will
impeachment be the Democrats' albatross going into November 2020? (Most polls show independents
are turned off, but there's still almost a year to go.)
None of these questions, which are meaningful only in a mental universe of the Evils and the
Stupids shadowboxing over a partisan allocation of political spoils, touch upon the grim
– and occasionally sardonic – symptoms of America's seemingly unstoppable terminal
slide.
With Trump's impeachment it's time to say goodbye to yesteryear's Team Evil and Team Stupid.
Say hello in 2020 to Team Maggot and Team Corpse!
In short, Democrats hate Trump not so much for what he's done (which, contrary to what his
passionate supporters think based on his Tweets, isn't much) but as an expression of an
amorphous dread that by some mysterious populist alchemy he might still breathe life back into
the Corpse Party's deplorable base.
With that in mind, here are a few things to note as we cruise on into Bizarro World
:
As the impeachment spectacle unfolded in the House, one could not fail to be touched by the
hushed, heartfelt reverence with which Democrat after Democrat cited the sage words of the
Founding Fathers: Madison especially, but also Jefferson and Washington. No doubt they can
hardly wait for this spectacle to be over so they can go back to denouncing the Founders as
dead, racist, Christian, patriarchal, " Anglo
," and (presumably) heterosexual slaveholders
in wigs and knee-breeches whose memory should be expunged from the historical record . It's
instructive to glance at the members of
the House Judiciary Committee who – solemnly, reluctantly, and prayerfully, they
assure us! – voted out articles of impeachment in the name of "the American people." But
which "people" might that be? Of the 23 Democrats who voted, only four even arguably fit the
heritage American, male profile of the Founding Fathers. The " gender
balance " (as it's ungrammatically called nowadays) on the voting majority side of the
Committee is 12-11. That's not quite up to
Barack Obama's exhortation that "every nation on earth" should be "run by women ," but it's
progress in that direction! (Just imagine how much more serene the world would be if all
countries were ruled by peaceniks like Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Condi Rice, Susan
Rice, Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michèle Flournoy, Evelyn Farkas, etc., plus
a
bevy of Deep State Democrats now installed in Congress .) By contrast, the 17 Republicans
on the Committee have approximately the same demographic composition they'd have had in 1950
– and aside from the inclusion of two women, that of the First Congress seated in
1789.
In short, in the Congressional Maggot Caucus the approaching
Dictatorship of Victims defined by race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, language,
religion, migratory status, etc., is already becoming a reality, and they voted to get rid of
Trump. Members of the Corpse Caucus defending him still belong demographically and morally to
the declining legacy America, though they'd never, ever admit it. Impeachment is thus more than
just the latest iteration of the years-long anti-constitutional coup to overturn a presidential
election,
though it is that too . Even more fundamentally, it's a coup against the people whose
identity, traditions, and values the Constitution was intended to ensure for themselves and
their posterity.
Foreign interference in our deMOCKracy.
Even more absurd than Democrats' presumption in lip-synching the venerable principles of an
American constitutional tradition they despise almost as much as they loathe the ethnos that
ordained and established it is their feigned horror – horror! – that Trump's phone
chat with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky realized the Founders' worst fears of foreign influence
over American domestic politics. Leaving aside the fact that Ukraine under Zelensky's
predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, did try to queer the 2016 election in favor of Hillary, and that
Hunter and Joe Biden are crooks, the Maggoteers' ability to maintain a straight face of shocked
indignation smack in the middle of a souk, a flea market, a bazaar where both domestic and
foreign interests buy, sell, and trade favors like vintage baseball cards is nothing less than
heroic.
Argentina Caucus, Armenian Issues Caucus, Azerbaijan Caucus, Bangladesh Caucus, Bosnia
Caucus, Brazil Caucus, Cambodia Caucus, Central America Caucus, Colombia Caucus,
Congressional Caucus on Bulgaria, Croatian Caucus, Czech Caucus, Ethiopian-American Caucus,
Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka, EU Caucus, Friends of Australia Caucus, Friends of
Denmark Caucus, Friends of Egypt Caucus, Friends of Finland Caucus, Friends of Ireland
Caucus, Friends of Liechtenstein Caucus, Friends of New Zealand Caucus, Friends of Norway
Caucus, Friends of Scotland Caucus, Friends of Spain Caucus, Friends of Sweden Caucus,
Friends of the Dominican Republic Caucus, Friends of Wales Caucus, Georgia Caucus, Hellenic
Caucus, Hellenic Israel Alliance Caucus, House Baltic Caucus, Hungarian Caucus, India and
Indian Americans Caucus, Iraq Caucus, Israel Allies Caucus, Israel Victory Caucus, Kingdom of
Netherlands Caucus, Korea Caucus, Kyrgyzstan Caucus, Macedonia and Macedonian-American
Caucus, Moldova Caucus, Mongolia Caucus, Montenegro Caucus, Morocco Caucus, Nigeria Caucus,
Pakistan Caucus, Peru Caucus, Poland Caucus, Portuguese Caucus, Qatari-American Strategic
Relationships Caucus, Republican Israel Caucus, Romania Caucus, Serbian Caucus, Slovak
Caucus, Sri Lanka Caucus, Taiwan Caucus, UK Caucus, Ukraine Caucus, U.S.-Bermuda Friendship
Caucus, U.S.-China Working Group, U.S.-Japan Caucus, U.S.-Kazakhstan Caucus, U.S.-Lebanon
Friendship Caucus, U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus, U.S.-Turkey Relations and Turkish
American, Uzbekistan Caucus, Venezuela Democracy Caucus
Recalling
Your Working Boy 's years at the State Department – where there still exists no
"American Interests Section" – the reader can search the above in vain for anything that
looks remotely like "Friends of the United States of America."
In fact, the Democrats' core impeachment narrative – Russia bad, Ukraine good –
is itself an example to which American policy is in the grip of foreign antipathies and
attachments against which the
Father of Our Country warned us in his 1796 farewell address :
"[N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against
particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in
place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which
indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it
astray from its duty and its interest."
"[W]e should care about our allies. We should care about Ukraine. We should care about a
country struggling to be free and a Democracy. We used to care about Democracy. We used to
care about our allies. We used to stand up to Putin and Russia. We used to. I know the party
of Ronald Reagan used to. 'Why should we care about Ukraine?' But of course it's about more
than Ukraine. It's about us. It's about our national security. Their fight is our fight.
Their defense is our defense. When Russia remakes the map of Europe for the first time since
World War II by dint of military force [ JGJ : Well, there was Kosovo, but never mind ] and
Ukraine fights back, it is our fight too."
Indeed, one wonders how hysterical Democrats missed accusing Trump outright of treason ,
which actually is specified as grounds for impeachment in
Article II, Section 4 . After all, as described by Schiff, didn't Trump's actions
constitute (under Article
III, Section 3 ) "adhering" to our evil enemies the Russians, and "giving them aid and
comfort"? It's an open and shut case of a capital crime – and the
House Majority Whip is ready to get the rope ! (Really, how did the Democrats miss this?
Maybe GOP stupidity has migrated to the other side of the aisle )
It is noteworthy that not a single House Republican dared or even cared to question Schiff's
framing of the issue, which was bolstered by witnesses from the permanent military,
intelligence, and diplomatic establishment, including Trump's appointees.
Nor is any Republican
Senator likely to point out the inconvenient truth that we have no defense treaty with Ukraine,
which thus is not really our "ally." Partisanship is the variable; Russophobia is the constant.
The sole retort
from Trump's establishment defenders : He released the aid to Ukraine, including the
Javelin missiles Obama denied them! He's every bit the warmonger you want him to be! So
there!
Thus, even with Trump's almost (at this point) certain survival of a Senate impeachment
trial, the relevant foreign inveterate antipathies and passionate attachments will remain
entrenched. (Not just in the case of Ukraine/Russia but with respect to the rest of the world
our habitual hatreds and fondnesses remain firmly in place and are unlikely to change for the
balance of Trump's presidency, if ever. Trump's
Korea initiative is on life support. Israel/Iran is a flashpoint that could explode at any
time : "Israel, even less than the US, cannot take casualties. A couple of bull's eyes, a
lot of Israelis go back to Brooklyn. The 82 million people in Iran have no place else to
go.")
Further depth on all these subjects can be realised by perusing the collected sayings of
P.T. Barnum... he created the meme for the modern media perversion of reality in accordance
with their Usury Empire masters' wishes.
recently there's been a new salesman coming door-to-door with holiday shopping offers.
Stooped low under the burden of unpaid taxes and smirking as he ports a briefcase jammed with
cheap Chinese-made gadgets, the mysterious bald fellow seems to already know what you want and
offers amazing discounts. A dutiful drone buzzes alongside him, ready to dispense fresh new
items at its master's command.
Both parties are afraid to talk about the real issues facing the nation, converting
impeachment into Kabuki theater drama.
I think the litmus test has to be whether you would defend a democratic president for the
same charges. Would you defend Obama if he would being impeached for the same thing?
Rep. Barry Loudermilk was so incensed by the Democrats' impeachment proceedings that he made
a favorable reference to Pontius Pilate.
"When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to
face his accusers," Loudermilk said on the floor. "During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate
afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president and this
process."
Is Trump facing crucifixion if he's impeached? No; but don't let that get in the way of the
overwrought rhetoric. According to House Republicans, Jesus got a fairer trial than Trump.
Rep. Loudermilk: "When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the
opportunity to face his accusers." pic.twitter.com/HqlRYFMIaN
And, the USA? I keep getting phone calls from god knows where masquerading as local calls.
And our $100 billion per year intelligence services can do nothing to protect Americans from
something as simple as unwanted phone calls. We know every single intelligence service will
use cyber warfare and we have no way to stop it despite colossal expenditures on war
munitions.
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin there are going to be three things in life that are certain.
Death, taxes and the impeachment of a US President when the House is held by a different
party. American politics is going to get a whole lot nastier now than what it has been.
This Punch and Judy show has achieved nothing. The House impeached him and the Senate
won't convict him. Trump now will be playing the victim card. Come November the key thing
that will matter is the economy. If it as successful as it is now then he will get a second
term. If it is in a recession then advantage Democratic candidate.
Well, it looks like we've somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi
attacks on democracy.
It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down the home stretch, what with
Jeremy Corbyn's desperate attempt to overthrow the UK government, construct a
British version of Auschwitz , and start rounding up and mass-murdering the Jews.
That was certainly pretty scary... but then, the whole year was pretty scary.
While Resistance members were still wrapping their heads in anti-cricket aluminum foil,
Putin (i.e., Russian Hitler) ordered Trump (i.e., Russian-asset Hitler) to launch a coup in
Venezuela (i.e., Russian Hitler's South American ally), probably to distract us from "
Smirkboy Hitler "
and his acne-faced gang of MAGA cap-wearing Catholic high-school Hitler Youth, who were trying
to invade and Hitlerize the capital. Or maybe the coup was meant to distract us from the
un-American activities of Bernie Sanders, who had also been deemed a Russian asset, or a
devious " Kremlin-Trump operation ," or
was working with Tulsi Gabbard to
build an army of blood-drinking Hindu nationalists, genocidal Assadists, and American
fascists to help the Iranians (and the Russians, of course, and presumably also Jeremy
Corbyn) frontally assault the State of Israel and drive the Jews into the sea.
As if all that wasn't horrifying enough (and ridiculous and confusing enough), by early
Spring there was mounting evidence that Putin had
somehow gotten to Mueller, possibly with one of those FSB pee-tapes, and was sabotaging the
"Russiagate" coup the Intelligence Community, the Democratic Party, the corporate media, and
the rest of the Resistance had been methodically preparing since 2016. Liberals' anuses began
puckering and unpuckering as it gradually became clear that the "Mueller Report" was not going
to prove that Donald Trump had colluded with Putin and Julian Assange to steal the presidency
from Hillary Clinton and transform the United States of America into a genocidal Putin-Nazi
Reich.
Meanwhile, the anti-Semitism pandemic that
had mysteriously erupted in 2016 (i.e., right around the time Trump won the nomination) was
raging unchecked throughout the West. Jews in Great Britain were on the brink of panic because
approximately 0.08 percent of
Labour Party members were anti-Semitic , as opposed to the rest of the British public, who
have never shown any signs of anti-Semitism (or any other kind of racism or bigotry), and are
practically a nation of Shabbos goys. Clearly, Corbyn had turned the party into his personal
neo-Nazi death
cult and was planning to carry out a second Holocaust just as soon as he renationalized the
British railways!
And it wasn't just the United Kingdom. According to corporate media virologists, idiopathic
anti-Semitism was breaking out everywhere. In France, the "Yellow
Vests" were also anti-Semites . In the U.S.A., Jews were facing " a perfect
storm of anti-Semitism ," some of it stemming from the neo-fascist fringe (which has been a
part of the American landscape forever, but which the corporate media has elevated into an
international Nazi movement), but much of it whipped up by Ilhan Omar, who had apparently
entered into a "Red-Brown" pact with Richard Spencer, or Gavin McInnes, or some other formerly
insignificant idiot.
Things got very confusing for a while, as Republicans united with Democrats to denounce
Ilhan Omar as an anti-Semite (and possibly a full-fledged Islamic terrorist) and to condemn the
existence of "hate," or whatever. The corporate media, Facebook, and Twitter were suddenly
swarming with hordes of angry anti-Semites accusing other anti-Semites of anti-Semitism. Meghan
McCain couldn't take it anymore, and she broke down on the Joy Behar Show and
begged to be converted to Judaism, or Zionism, right there on the air. This unseemly display of
anti-anti-Semitism was
savagely skewered by Eli Valley , an "anti-Semitic" Jewish cartoonist, according to McCain
and other morons.
Then it happened ... perhaps the loudest popcorn fart in political history. The Mueller
Report was finally delivered. And just like that, Russiagate was over . After
three long years of manufactured mass hysteria, corporate media propaganda, books, T-shirts,
marches, etc., Robert Mueller had come up with squat. Zip. Zero. Nichts. Nada. No collusion. No
pee-tape. No secret servers. No Russian contacts. Nothing. Zilch.
Cognitive dissonance gripped the nation. There was beaucoup wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Resistance members doubled their anti-depressant dosages and went into mourning. Shell-shocked
liberals did their best to pretend they hadn't been duped, again, by authoritative sources like
The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Guardian , CNN, MSNBC, et al., which had
disseminated completely fabricated stories about
secret meetings which never took place ,
power grid hackings that never happened ,
Russian servers that never existed ,
imaginary Russian propaganda peddlers , and
the list goes on , and on, and on and hadn't otherwise behaved like a bunch of mindless,
shrieking neo-McCarthyites.
Except that Russiagate wasn't over. It immediately morphed into " Obstructiongate ." As the
corporate media spooks explained, Mueller's investigation of Trump was never about collusion
with Russia. No, it was always about Trump obstructing the investigation of the collusion with
Russia that the investigation was not about, and that
everyone knew had never happened . In other words, Mueller's investigation was launched in
order to investigate the obstruction of his investigation.
Or whatever...
It didn't really matter, because, by this time, Assange had been arrested for
treason, or for jumping bail, or for smearing poo all over the walls of the Ecuadorean embassy,
and
The New York Times was reporting that a veritable "constellation" of social media accounts
"linked to Russia and far-right groups" was disseminating extremist "disinformation," and Putin
had unleashed the
Russian spywhale , and " Jews were
not safe in Germany again ," because the Putin-Nazis had formed an alliance with the
Iranian Nazis and the Syrian Nazis, who were backing the Palestinian Nazis that Antifa was
fighting on behalf of Israel , and Jews were not safe in the UK either, because of Jeremy
Corbyn, who Donald Trump (who, let's all remember, is literally Hitler) was conspiring with a
group of "unnamed Jewish leaders" to prevent from becoming prime minister, and Iran was
conspiring with
Hezbollah and al Qaeda to amass an arsenal of WMDs to launch at Israel and Saudi Arabia,
and other peaceful Middle Eastern democracies, and Trump was finally going to go full-Hitler
and declare martial law on the Fourth of July, and he was operating literal "concentration
camps" where
immigrants were being forced to drink out of toilets , which looked almost exactly the same
as the "detention
facilities" Obama had operated , except for well, you know, the "fascism."
So who had time to worry about the corporate media colluding with an attempted Intelligence
Community coup?
This sudden outbreak of " Trump-inspired
terrorism " and the manufactured
"fascism" hysteria that followed got the Resistance through end of the Summer and into the
Autumn, which was always when the main event was scheduled to begin. See, these last three
years have basically been a warm-up for what is about to happen the impeachment, sure, but
that's only one part of it.
If you thought the global capitalist ruling classes and the corporate media's
methodical crushing of Jeremy Corbyn was depressing to watch well, prepare yourself for
2020.
The Year of Manufactured Mass Hysteria was not just the Intelligence Community and the
corporate media getting their kicks by whipping the public up into an endless series of
baseless panics over imaginary Russians and Nazis. It was the final phase of cementing the
official "Putin-Nazi" narrative in people's minds.
Look at this way, the Democratic Party had two terms in office, under Obama,in order to deliver
a 'New Deal'.
It turned out,they were selling Snake Oil, life got no easier for ordinary Americans,
particularly those of colour.
So, the poor decided to give the Republicans a try, cutting out the middle men of the
democratic party.
Now,in order to get back into power, the neoliberal Left are breaking Trump's legs and the cycle
will start all over again, with so much time and money that could have been used to help those
who need it, going to the politicians and lawyers who run the charade.
The rich will get richer and the ears of the suckers who vote will bleed from listening to
all the bullshit.
Well, calling out the democrats for these. Things is not really a problem rather the
depressing truth. With clown shows like Nader and Schiff on display its not hard for voters
to conclude that the Democratic Party has become haters, undemocratic, not believers in rules
of evidence or due process, all foundations of American justice.
In other words
anti-American. Turning their so called investigation into the Schiff show has confirmed what
most Americans have come to understand, democrats are not fit to lead the country, and will
not after this next November.
When justice is muddied by the vengeance of politics there is little surety of integrity for
the common citizen believe in. When fighting each other in the name of the people becomes an
obsessive intent to hurt but not to serve, there is little foundation left for the common man
to be believe in.
Whilst perfection was never sought nor expected of those who were chosen by
the people to represent their hopes and wishes, the boundaries of common sense and
commonwealth must never be breached. The war which rages on in Washington is one which
represents little, if anything, of or for the people. In truth, regardless of Trump's fate,
the theatre of narrow political dreams go on, in the name of the people.
Since Trump stepped into office the Democrats were looking for something that would make him
impeachable. The deep state delivered them Russiagate, the claim that Trump 'colluded' with
the Russian government, by taking seriously an obvious fake dossier the Clinton campaign had
ordered and paid for. FBI agents who hated Trump even faked FISA court certification
submissions to be able to spy on the Trump campaign. They found nothing that supported the
'collusion' claims.
The FISA court is not amused about that:
"The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be
unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld
information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in
other FBI applications is reliable," Judge Rosemary Collyer wrote in an order published
Tuesday.
The Dems would have been.better off just coming up with some better more appealing
policies but here's the rub, they haven't and that's because they can't, their agenda is one
of stay tje same, no change, keep the status quo, forever wars and printing money and just
hope it all gos away. Instead of hope we've got horseshit.
This article is spot on.
Impeachment probably persuaded only a tiny number of vacillating voters, sidelined Trump's
worst crimes, and rallied his base. Meanwhile, as the author states, the public is no closer to knowing what the Dems stand
for -- another downside in their election chances.
There has never been a president in my lifetime at least that has been so put under the
spotlight as Trump. Literally under investigation since the day he took office and yet the
best they have is a highly disputed telephone conversation. Meanwhile Biden is there on video
in all his glory boasting about using US aid to force behaviour that suited him.
Trump will be aquitted and the Democrats will suffer for their desperation.
you seem to be suffering from the delusion that actual policies and beliefs are being fought
over by two opposing sides,its a pathetic sideshow between two almost identical parties with
identical policies and the same paymasters,the outcome of this farce is utterly meaningless
to the ordinary citizen.
s Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in
the UK election? Not only did the "rabid socialist" Corbyn fail to seize power from the
Russophobic cold-war warriors of Whitehall but Russia's man in the White House is already
planning to move in with them!
And Ms. Pelosi believes that Mr. Trump is so eager for the public vindication of a Senate
acquittal that he will put pressure on the majority leader to make it happen even if it means
offering some concessions to Mr. Schumer.
For now, however, Mr. McConnell -- and many other Senate Republicans -- seem unmoved by the
House posture. He spent much of Thursday gleefully ridiculing Democrats' negotiating
tactics.
"Do you think this is leverage, to not send us something we'd rather not do?" he asked
reporters this week as he cracked a broad smile outside the Senate chamber, in a departure from
his usual dour expression.
"... It will all be "Acting Presidential" like according to CNN's Freed Zakaria when Trump bombed Syria and who will be once again salivating, grinning, and wiggling around so much in his chair you think an orgasm is possibly happening. ..."
He can just gin up another invasion with another WMD ,'imminent mushroom cloud' flurry with
stories in the New York Tool and CIA.po, who are dependable on that front, then get with the
'enhanced interrogations' (better known as torture) and then drone bomb brown people at a
record setting pace (with a couple of Americans thrown in for good measure).
But all he will get is praise, although not like that article in the NY Tool where the
discussion of Obama's 'Star Chamber' was all about how the deep decisions were made along
with mostly unnamed, non-elected people, regarding who goes on the 'kill list', on "Terror
Tuesday". All people that list need not be charged with any crime, along with everyone
near them who are killed or wounded, and nowhere in the article will it mention these are
'war crimes'. "High Crimes" by definition, instead it will all be about the poor President's
heavy decision making duties.
It will all be "Acting Presidential" like according to CNN's Freed Zakaria when Trump
bombed Syria and who will be once again salivating, grinning, and wiggling around so much in
his chair you think an orgasm is possibly happening.
Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi will rise in support of tRump, and people like
Adam 'Raytheon' Shiff will be in his corner.
All will be well with corporate America...'Let the killing begin!'.
Nobody in 1963 would imagine that the USA of the 2000s would be the USA of finance, of
Wall Street ; of football players, of the anti-vaxxers, of the flat earthers and of the
Kardashians.
Well hell, there are still people who believe the earth is flat and that the sun revolves
around the earth. So why should we be surprised? Some people will believe anything.
I suspected that Deep State has at least two opposing factions. The Realistists want him to
break up the empire, turn back into a republic; the Delusionals want to extend the empire,
continue to exploit and destroy the world. If so, the contradictions, reversals, incoherence
make sense. IMO as I said.
Gary Weglarz ,
I predict that all Western MSM will begin to accurately and vocally cover Mr. Binney's
findings about this odious and treasonous U.S. government psyop at just about the exact time
that -- "hell freezes over" -- as they say.
Jen ,
They don't need to, they have Tony Blair's fellow Brit psycho Boris Johnson to go on
autopilot and blame the Russians the moment something happens and just before London Met
start their investigations.
So, if the President wanted to, he could be impeached by the house over and over again
without that helping the Senate to find any illegal, and therefore convictable behavior for the
President?
May be if the house impeach him three times and never send the impeachment articles to the
Senate, the dear President would faint. May be then the doctors would finally decide that he is
incapable of fulling his duties in the White House and declare him officially so sicko that he
gets forced to stay in bed. /sad snark attempt.
For those of you who don't have time to watch the entire video, I offer the "Cliffs Notes" version of Senator McConnell's speech.
It is as follows:
"Our duty in the Senate as parents of petulant adolescents in our House is to ignore their fantasies, send them from the table
to stop their food fight and give them a long time out in their safe spaces (and maybe a permanent one!) since quite a few won't
be returning to the table after Nov 2020."
Impeachment is the Democrat version of the battle of Stalingrad. The Dem's are the
Germans, walking into a trap, refusing to withdraw and regroup as their fanatic Fuhrer, Frau
Nancy, claims Victory, only to be annihilated by her hubris.
Watch Mitch McConnell suck the air right out of the Democrats lungs in about one minute once
this mess goes to the Senate. That's what I think will happen once the House sends this
impeachment bill to the Senate.
"Those in favor of considering the impeachment bill say aye." Democrats screaming
"aye!"
"Those opposed?" Republicans all mutter "No."
"The No's have it. The bill is dismissed."
D-U-N, done.
No drama, no 24/7 newz coverage, no witnesses, no circus. Just crickets. Democrats are seen
wandering around the capitol like lost puppies looking for the television cameras, but the
cameras have all gone home for the holidays.
"... Believing a phone call is bribery, or a tweet is witness intimidation, does not negate the need for the law degree that allows you to use those words accurately. This is about the law, not about writing marketing copy. And kids, I'm sorry, I know how much you wanted to believe in the elves, but it really was Mom and me buying the presents all those years. ..."
The axis of neolib and intelligence agencies want a coup from Santa.
So even as the hive mind agrees that a flippant remark is "demanding foreign intervention"
or "a national security threat," or that an investigation is "interference in our democracy,"
or with even less evidence that Trump is a Russian agent, Tulsi a Russian plant, Facebook a
Russian tool, Jill Stein a Russian something or other, it does not make it true. Adding "-gate"
to a noun does not create a crime.
Believing a phone call is bribery, or a tweet is witness intimidation, does not negate the
need for the law degree that allows you to use those words accurately. This is about the law,
not about writing marketing copy. And kids, I'm sorry, I know how much you wanted to believe in
the elves, but it really was Mom and me buying the presents all those years.
"The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be
unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld
information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in
other FBI applications is reliable," Judge Rosemary Collyer wrote in an order published
Tuesday.
She's shocked, SHOCKED the FBI lied to her.
Seems to me that judges at every level systematically encourage cops and prosecutors to
lie to them. And what kind of legal repercussions are these agents going to face for lying to
the court? Same as any other "law enforcement" personnel caught lying.
- The one senator that decides whether or not Trump will be forced out of office / impeached
is a Republican senator called Mitch McConnell from Kentucky. If McConnell wants Trump to go
then Trump will be gone tomorrow.
- When I pulled up McConnell's bio on Wikipedia then I noticed that McConnell is already
77 years old. This reminds me of the Soviet Union in the last 2 decades of its existence. In
those 2 decades the soviet leaders were all VERY old men. Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko all
died in their 70s.
- Just look at the current leaders of the US. Bill & (K)Hillery Clinton, Trump, Biden,
McConnell, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Bloomberg all are 70 years or older.
- Dianne Feinstein is even older than 80 years old. 86 years to be precise.
The truth of Jay Gould's assertion that he "could buy the vote of a farmer member of the
legislature for the price of a bull calf, about seven dollars and a half," was clearly
disproved at Topeka last January, where not a single People's party member of the Kansas
House could be bought at any price.
It is my prayer to God that all farmers and other toilers will now unite in one solid
phalanx, so that the other characteristic remark of the same gentleman, that he "could hire
one-half the farmers to shoot the other half to death," shall also show him to have
overestimated the power of his money, supplemented though it may be by Satanic cunning,
John Livingston,
President New York State Farmers' Alliance.
Campville, Tioga Co., N.Y., Oct 21, 1891.
The impending House vote is sending a thrill up the legs of Washington journalists, who hope
the public won't go beyond their misleading headlines. Perhaps few will notice that the
Constitution doesn't list "abuse of power" or "obstruction of Congress " as impeachable offenses.
In the early 2000s, writer Michael Wolff reported on a privately compiled, limited-edition
booklet called "The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg." Compiled as a
gag gift from his staff, the 32-page text featured real-life Bloomberg quotations collected by
former executive Elisabeth DeMarse and others who knew the mogul in the 1980s, before his run
for mayor. Among its more prescient gems: "A good salesperson asks for the order. It's like the
guy who goes into a bar, and walks up to every gorgeous girl there, and says 'Do you want to
fuck?' He gets turned down a lot -- but he gets fucked a lot, too!"
So all other presidents who claimed privilege were actually obstructing Congress and were
subject to impeachment as will be all future presidents who claim privilege. Burisma, a
Ukrainian company, can not be investigated because a Biden is on the board. Hunter has a very
lucrative future ahead of him as an insurance against investigation.
What just happened was an inverted U.S. selection. In the U.S., a confused rich man got
elected, because the alternative was a psychopathic war criminal. In the U.K. a confused
upper class twat got elected, because the alternative was too good to be true.
We have been good democrats all our lives. Voted for Clinton, and Obama twice. We all voted
for you in the last election, but after watching this idiocy in the fake impeachment trial, and
seeing the democrat party rapidly turning towards out right communism, which is actually
anti-American, we will no longer vote for any democrats.
Our family is fed up and sick and tired of you taking the taxes we pay and seeing you do
absolutely nothing for us, or our country. We quit! The undersigned do hereby declare that we
no longer choose to vote for you and the witch hunting party, the criminal democrat party of
which you belong. You are all alike. Liars and deceivers. No longer do we wish to be associated
or looked on as accomplices in the democrat criminal communist party that does not care about
the individual voter, their family, or the American People that voted for you.
We the American people that voted for you, are not you. You no longer represent We, the
People. We do not want to be known as criminals, or those who associate with, and empower you
reprobates. We no longer support the democrat party that wastes so much time and taxpayer money
doing nothing good for us. Making up lies to impeach a president is not good. It's
criminal!
The malfeasance of the democrat party, and out right lies and determination to focus only on
impeaching the president for no good justifiable reason is filthy, a farce, and very
embarrassing. We want no part of it anymore. All of you have become a bunch of despicable,
colluding criminals. Corrupt to the core, and you only have one thing on your mind. It is not
we, the voters. It is only the continued hateful idiocy of fake hearings, the impeachment hoax
like the Russia hoax was, and big fat lies to drag out the clock so the real criminals that
everybody knows are criminals get away with their crimes, corruptions, and their treasonous
acts against America and the People of Conscious.
We therefore declare that we will be voting for any republican running against you, because
you are an associate of the criminal democrats that are now communists. We and our families are
not criminals, communist, nor will we ever again be associated with what you and they do. We
now disavow the criminal democrat party of liars and deceivers that do nothing for we
Americans. We disavow you, congressman/woman!
It is said, yea, elected, but only because people are manipulated. Yet people are well
aware that most of the transactions in which they are participating have a degree of
manipulation. For example, when Trump praised how he provided effective relieve to "our nukes
[that] were tired" described them as "now in tip-top shape". This is a rather original way of
talking about nuclear weapons, but absolutely expected from a salesman of a property with all
visible defects repaired or painted over and untold horror of hidden defects. If people do
not pay attention or tolerate it, it is not because of being deprived of access to relevant
information. EVERYONE can read MoonOfAlabama, both the website and the Twitter.
I think we have been looking at RussiaGate from the wrong angle all along. It is actually all
those Russians who have been meeting with their American counterparts that are American
agents who were colluding with the Americans to interfere in Russian politics.
Yeah, that's it, and it is actually Putin who is the Manchurian agent rather than Trump.
The CIA has video of Putin getting a bj from Victoria Nuland while he was helping her give
out cookies to the nazies in Maiden Square. Putin does whatever the US wants, like letting
Israel bomb Syria at will, letting the nazies run amok in Uraine, poisoning the Skripals,
shooting down MH17, poisoning russian athletes by spiking their food with PEDS, hating on the
fags and dykes, and poking fun at the munchkin Greta.
Unbeknownst to many is that Greta is also a sleeper agent. Putin has clandestine meetings
with her at Dunkin Donuts to plot with her how to destroy Russia. Here's the clincher: Putin
sings Fats Domino songs. Pay special attention to Putin when he sings a Fats Domino song
because it signals that his Manchurian programming has been triggered and he is about to
launch a cruise missile at the bundestag to start WWIII.
The last time he sang Blueberry Hill the president of Poland died in a plane crash, that's
how sinister it is. Also, Putin sneaks out of the Kremlin late at night to eat at McDonalds
where he colludes with The Big Macs and the Large French Fries to become fat and ugly and
splotchy like the Americans.
Lastly, Putin eats his glyphosate wheaties that he gets the hookers who peed on Trump to
smuggle in from the US while he watches reruns of Leave it to Beaver and I Love Lucy. What
more proof do you need?
The Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau is a U.S. creation. It is therefore not astonishing to
find that it is corrupt.
@kooleksiy 16:29 UTC
· Dec 13, 2019
Director of Ukraine's National Anti-corruption Bureau Sytnyk will pay a ~$140 fine for
"violation of restrictions on accepting gifts" [valued at ~$1 thousand in his case] - his
lawyer stated today after Appellate Court ruling @dw_ukrainian reports
www.dw.com/uk/
"As part of your rehabilitation, it's crucial that you admit you have a problem - you are
hijacking the Intelligence Committee for political purposes while excusing and covering up
intelligence agency abuses ." -Devin Nunes to Adam Schiff
"...Obama did sign H.R. 4310 into law, also passing the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of
2012. But the bill did not make it legal for independent, private-sector media outlets to
present outright false information to the public. Instead, it allowed government-sponsored
news like Voice of American to be broadcast in the United States. It removed restrictions
on U.S.-generated news from being presented to American audiences.'''"
Oki doki so what about those < cough > "independent, private-sector media outlets"
that are blatant 'governement funded fronts' that only 'claim' to be our independent,
private-sector media...
A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if you post your support for attacking another country.
10 hours ago Rational Agent:
1 day ago Independents view Rachael Maddow, Chris Cuomo and Sean Hannity as hate peddlers who spin, lie and twist every single issue to fit their fantasy of how the world exists. I cannot imagine how anyone with a brain or any semblance of logic could be a regular viewer of these hate mongers. If one does a cursory analysis of the predictions these people have made over the past couple of years, you will quickly see how ridiculous and wrong they have been. The bigger problem is that they represent their news organizations and only add to the distrust and declining reliance that rational folks have of the Media.
2 days ago [she is] Just another CIA mouthpiece.
