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Crisis of legitimacy of neoliberal elite

The American Oligarchy only needs “team players”– shameless, cynical hacks who can be counted on to churn out whatever rank propaganda ordered up by the DNC. After twenty year of betrayal of working class Democrats face the consequences of their "Clinton strategy" in full force: in 2016 Presidential elections workers abandoned them in droves. In 2020 Neoliberal Clinton wing of the Party staged a revenge for the 2016 defeat and boot Trump (who actually betrayed most of his election promised) from the office

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Introduction

   

Bill, Hillary, Barack and the rest should do the decent and honorable thing: disappear completely, along with the rest of their vicious elitist Neoliberal Democrat ilk. Progressives who have insisted on backing these criminals – and who have tried to bully those of us on the actual left into joining them in that ugly and viciously circular embrace – need to make themselves over or just drop off the face of the political landscape and let people who are more serious and radical step in.

www.counterpunch.org - Nov 12, 2016, 7:00 PM

"A credibility trap is when the managerial functions of a society have been sufficiently compromised by corruption so that the leadership cannot reform, or even honestly address, the problems of that system without implicating a broad swath of the powerful, including themselves.

The moneyed interests and their aspirants tolerate the corruption because they have profited from it, and would like to continue to do so. Discipline is maintained by various forms of soft financial rewards and social coercion."

Jesse's Café Américain

Neoliberalism is self-destructive and lowering of standards of living of the majority of population due to redistribution of wealth up at some point is going to produce social unrest. We are probably pretty close to this point that is called the crisis of legitimacy of neoliberal elite. And the rejection of  mainstream candidates during this election cycle is probably a writing on the wall.

In his book Ages of Discord, the scholar Peter Turchin proposes a structural-demographic theory of political instability based on societies throughout history. He suggests that there are three main preconditions to revolution:

  1. Elite oversupply and disunity,
  2. Popular misery based on falling living standards
  3. A state in fiscal crisis.

Hillary was probably most hated Presidential candidate in the US history. Fury over Hillary candidacy was connected not only with her ugly personality and semi-criminal past, but also with the very real concerns over the impact of neoliberal globalization on lives of ordinary Americans, including upper middle class.

Lowly shmucks the US elite thought forever brainwashed and suppressed, recently start to show some signs of independent thinking and neoliberal MSM brainwashing suddenly lost at least 80% of its effectiveness. Unemployed programmers, system administrators, oil and gas drillers and trackers,  and other professionals (especially over 50) which fall from, say,  $80-120K to $20-30K a year  now are quite typical example of shrinking middle class.

So the key tenet of neoliberalism which like socialism professed that the masses will get better with time, became another discredited illusion. And population became restless much like population of the USSR in 80th.  It may not be obvious to the political and media elites living in their  protected homes in privileged areas. But an increasing gulf between the  "establishment crowd" , and those who have to live at the sharp end of neoliberal globalization led to the situation, which probably can be called as a "revolutionary situation".  The US right now a lot in common with  ancien régime France on the eve of the French Revolution. People do hate neoliberal elite especially financial oligarchy and Silicon Valley moguls.

But the  blind rage that characterized the first days of the US anti-establishment movement ("Occupy Wall Street" days) now have given way to political awakening. Which represents direct danger to the current elite, but which this elite can do little to suppress. Impoverishment via disappearance of  "good" jobs, outsourcing, offshoring and automation continued under Trump at the same speed as under Obama. He actually betrayed his electorate much like Obama.

There are several defining characteristics of any revolutionary situation:

  1. The elite can not govern "as usual" and experiences the crisis of legitimacy. The rejection ob Jeb!, Cruz and Rubio by the Republican Party voters is nothing else but the crisis of legitimacy; the same is true for the number of votes that Sanders got in Democratic presidential contest against much better financed establishment candidate Hillary ( supported by the full power and the  bag of dirty tricks of Democratic Party establishment). GB population vote for Brexit is another illustration of the same trend.
  2. The ideology which brought the current elite to power became rotten.  This is just another side of the crisis of legitimacy of the elite mentioned in above. That happened with Marxism in the USSR which in late 80th became completely discredited, this is now happening with the neoliberalism in the USA (which actually became dominant only in 1970th, or  less then 50 years ago, so it will not give up without fierce fight; Marxism in the USSR lasted more then 70 years). The Global Financial Crisis, and the responses of the policy elite proved fatal to neoliberal ideology dominance.  The vacuum started to fill nationalism, and various nationalistic parties and movements emerged after 2008 both in EU and in the USA. The first such movement in the USA the "Tea Party" was cooped by neoliberals.

In addition to that:

  1. The neoliberal elite remains almost completely blind to the dangers: Joe Biden "win" (aka Pyrrhic victory)  in 2020 election is a clear sign that "DemoRat" -- Clinton wing of the Democratic Party,  "forgot nothing and leaned nothing" from 2016.  There are some talking from several oligarchs who feels the danger, but  that's about it.
  2. Covid -19 crisis demonstrated the incompetence and selfishness of neoliberal elite again. It destroyed a large number of small businesses in the USA increasing the slide of lower middle class standard of living.
  3. Despite deafening propaganda from MSM the elite failed to brainwash people on Russiagate, which by design should serve as a cement for the cracks in the US society, offloading all blame to Russia. 
  4. Trump inflicted a crippling blow to the neoliberal paradigm of globalization by openly switched to old imperial principle "Might make right".  That complicates IMF sponsored conversion of weaker nations into debt slaves. And engager huge speculative capital inflows/outflows which destabilizes many countries.  The 50 years period of "classic neoliberalism" when the citizens were reduced to consumers who have to fend for themselves in markets is coming to the end. In 2016 election there was one candidate from Democratic party who was of somewhat anti-neoliberal platform. Not there are at least three such candidates (Andrew Yang, Elisabeth Warren and Tulsi Gabbard).
  5. Atomized, isolated workers at the mercy of employers who are determined to reduce labor costs and hoard the benefits of productivity gains for themselves are against the wall and might start to fight. So far "political wakening" is limited to the refusal to support the establishment candidates, and also provide more and more active support for their own candidates.  The large swats of working class and lower middle start rejecting "status quo" despite all the power of propaganda applied to quell them. And became quite receptive to far-right and neo-Nazi propaganda.
  6. As soon as economy enters the next recession, which might happen as soon as in 2020,  the USA might enter what can be called an “instable, dynamic situation,” in which national leaders, and key technocrats are scrambling to figure out how to respond and what to do next.
  7. The elite itself became split and form several competing groups with at least one group which wants to challenge the "people at the top" (Sanders in the Democratic Party). See Elite [Dominance] Theory And the Revolt of the Elite and The Iron Law of Oligarchy. The last time such a revolt happened over "New Deal capitalism" was "Quite coup" period during which neoliberal elite took power and eventually managed to cement their dominance with the election of Reagan in the USA and Thatcher on the UK.  Now this elite find itself under the attack and the level of hate  toward Hillary in 2016 reflected the level of rejection of neoliberal elite, and especially the financial oligarchy,  by the society.  In the past the rejection of financial oligarchy manifested itself in the growth of anti-Semitism. Right now anti-Semitism in the USA is suppressed to such extent, that the  anger needs to find other channels.
  8. No one trusts mainstream media anymore. People who do not consider NYT to be establishment prostitutes (aka presstitutes) are now probably represent a tiny minority. There are very few such people indeed.
  9. The Congress is trusted by only 6%-14%. And the larger figure probably includes mentally incapacitated folks and children ;-) 
  10. Living standards are falling; the middle class "fades" and gradually descends into poverty.  Full time jobs with a pay above $40K a year are a rarity now. They are difficult to get even for college graduates (which are mercilessly shuffled into helpdesk, bartender and similar dead-end positions).  On average, children from middle class families are no longer can hope to achieve the standard of living of their parents. By the way, you will be shocked, if you hear how many children are living in the USA families with income below the poverty level. This is a banana republic level, not question about it (NCCP Child Poverty):

    More than 16 million children in the United States – 22% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level – $23,550 a year for a family of four. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, 45% of children live in low-income families.

    Most of these children have parents who work, but low wages and unstable employment leave their families struggling to make ends meet. Poverty can impede children’s ability to learn and contribute to social, emotional, and behavioral problems. Poverty also can contribute to poor health and mental health. Risks are greatest for children who experience poverty when they are young and/or experience deep and persistent poverty.

  11. Infrastructure is in a rapid decline. This was particularly evident on the quality of the roads in North-East area (NJ, NY, MA, etc) . Most municipalities have no money even for maintenance repairs. A Mercedes driving on roads with potholes and pits is another telling sign of a Banana Republic.
  12. And although the economy as a whole in 2016 still holding, mass layoffs began again. Imagine losing the work of a programmer, or engineer, or driller with an annual salary around  $60-$120K a year and have to go to the waiters or salesperson for $24K a year. If the spouse works then you still can survive, but if you're a divorced woman with a child, or is a single male over 50, all bets are off (and for the latter category that affects stability of marriages too). And there is not enough  "good jobs" for everybody. Most open positions are McJobs. Such a career growth perspectives: university - unemployment - waiter.

Thirty six year of neoliberalism slow motion train wreck finally produced the revolt of lower 90% of population ("shmucks" in neoliberal jargon) in the USA. The elite of the USA like the nomenklatura of the USSR in 1970th suddenly realized that the ordinary people,  most of the population hate them and that ideological brainwashing (Marxism in the USSR, free market fundamentalism in the USA) no longer can serve as effective  "opium for the masses".  People became restless. For the USSR elite the solution was simple: they changed sides and joined neoliberal crowd (while being lavishly bribed by the USA for this accomplishment, while common people starved on the streets). 

For the USA elite the situation is more complex.  Trump just served as a crystallization point for already preexistent anti-globalization political forces. But it is evident that the neoliberalism is starting to drown in its own filth, along with neoliberal ideology which successfully protected the elite looting of common people for 35 years or so.

Both Hillary and Biden represent "kick the can down the road" neoliberal pro-globalization camp. Actually Biden candidacy says a lot about the neoliberal rationality and the society that the USA became. The level of the corruption of his family is staggering and cant be ignored. And for any non-biased observer voting for a war criminal (Biden voted for Iraq war, Hillary initiated Libya war "we came, we saw, he died" and thousands Libyan people died and continue to die due to destabilization of the country) is not  the lesser even that voting for a loose cannon.

The level of hostility toward Hillary among activist-minded progressives reflected the rejection of pro-globalization and neocons camps that dominate official Washington. Many people figuratively will be happy to throw a hand grenade at official Washington by voting for Trump. But the war-style anti-Trump propaganda campaign unleashed by neoliberal MSM and Trump own blunders have a desired effect and he was ousted from the office (not without help of election fraud but still Biden formally got the majority of votes).

Still the level of hate toward neoliberal establishment demonstrated on Dec 6 did not existed toward the shady figure Barack Obama in 2008, who during election campaign pretended to be a progressive candidate, but then quickly betrayed his voters.  And even in 2012 when everybody already understood that he is a corrupt "bait and switch" neoliberal (and neocon in foreign policy)  luring Democratic sheep for shearing.

Democratic party,  which was sold by Bill Clinton to Wall Street, is based on the idea that blue collar voters have nowhere to go so let's f*ck them ( that what nickname DemoRats implies) now is deeply split and Demexit of the so called "progressive" wing is a real trend, although it is unclear how significant it is.  Depite this "split", the dominant, neoliberal wing of party (Clinton wing) survived Hillary fiasco and managed to stage a counter-revolution by putting Biden into the office.  One interesting side effect of Russiagate which was used against Trump is that now it can morph into Chinagate notoriously corrupt Biden, if Republican leadership wishes to use this path.

Russiagate is an example of neo-McCarthism campaign which which neoliberal MSM went into overdrive claiming the Trump is the second incarnation of Adolph Hitler, who simultaneously is in the pocket of "Russian dictator" Vladimir Putin.  This war-style demonization of Trump (as well as attempts of "red-baiting" --  presenting him as friendly with already demonized Vladimir Putin)  reflects the level of fear of neoliberal establishment after November 2016 elections.  As well as the level of control that intelligence  agencies exercise over the US foreign policy.

In other words the elite started to lose the control of the population and was forced to resort to dirty tricks like false flag operations ( DNC emails leak scandal. Skripals poisoning in UK, etc )/ the repressions that started after Jan 6 just confirm the trend tpward the national security state version of neoliberalism in the USA.  the trend that started on September 11, 2011.

In reality Trump might be viewed as the last attempt to amend the crash of neoliberal ideology in 2008 but switching to "national neoliberalism" and openly imperial forign policy without fig leaf of "democratization" used by previous administrations.  And he managed to alienate so much states that some observers expect the crash of the US neoliberal empire in a decade of two. Although the exact timing is very difficult it looks like the crash itself is just a matter of time like was the case with the USSR  (Crooked timber, Aug 04, 2016):

Lupita 08.04.16 at 4:23 am 167

I think Trump is afraid the imperial global order presided by the US is about to crash and thinks he will be able to steer the country into a soft landing by accepting that other world powers have interests, by disengaging from costly and humiliating military interventions, by re-negotiating trade deals, and by stopping the mass immigration of poor people. Plus a few well-placed bombs .

Much has been written about the internet revolution, about the impact of people having access to much more information than before. The elite does not recognize this and is still organizing political and media campaigns as if it were 1990, relying on elder statesmen like Blair, Bush, Mitterrand, Clinton, and Obama to influence public opinion. They are failing miserably, to the point of being counterproductive.

I don't think something as parochial as racism is sustaining Trump, but rather the fear of the loss of empire by a population with several orders of magnitude more information and communication than in 2008, even 2012.

In this sense the 2020 elections like 2016 election was not about candidates, but more of the second referendum on neoliberal globalization which neoliberal won by fradulent methods, cheating the election.

Hated after  years of outsourcing, offshoring, Wall Street financial machinations (which led to two crisis in 2000 and 2008 with the last almost taking the financial system down due to recklessness of major players), Covid-19 effect on small businesses, sliding wages and shrinking pool of salaried workers (with dramatic rise of contractor labor) people became sick-and-tired with neoliberalism. Unfortunately Trump was co-opted in a month or to after the start of his presidency and  he did nothing to "drain the swamp"; he  quickly become a part of the "neoliberal swamp".

Arguments that people in the USA should be glad to lose employment at 50 so that people from other countries can have higher incomes  and US multinational more money to pay bonuses to top management (slightly exaggerated, but pretty precise depiction of neoliberal approach, see Over 50 and unemployed) now is ripe for a strong backlash.  People do not like to live in "occupied country, unable to challenge the occupiers." That was demonstrated to the horrified neoliberal establishments on Dec 6 and coursed the current wave of repressions against Trump camp (which surprisingly has almost nothing to do with Trump, who betrayed them). That makes Biden administration looks like a junta which is rejected by probably 50% of the country and approximately by 70% of voters, who voted for Trump. And that's why neoliberal press attacked Trump after Jan 6 like a pack of rabid dogs.  Nothing personal, only business.

Good jobs disappeared, so people now understand that they were taken for ride, and the promise of neoliberalism that rampant, criminal enrichment of the top 0.1% will lift standard of living of everybody (trickle down economics)  much like communists promise of  "worker paradise" (but instead enriched nomenklatura and keep both blue and a large part of white collar worker of semi-starvation diet) is a fools gold.  In both case the elite lost legitimacy (trust in congress is in all time low) and became despised by population myth. A discredited ideology can no longer serve as "opium for the people", not it can keep the global neoliberal US-dominated empire intact.   Neoliberals are still very strong and they can still win this particular battle and crown Hillary,  but they are losing the war. Indeed, a Donald Trump loss is likely to fan the flames of population anger further.

Moreover,  while "bait and switch" tactics worked with Obama (neocons who pretend to be progressive during election campaign), and parcally worked for Trump. He promised important changes in the country in order to be elected and then betray his voters. It remains to be sees if the US voters rein as gullible as at the time of Bush II and Obama to elect Trump the second time. Actually even before Bush II the same spectacle played by Bill Clinton (who politically benefitted from  temporary bump up in economic growth from 1991 to 2000 caused by opening and devouring (buying asset for pennies on dollar) the xUSSR markets).

Trump is definitely trying to be as close to President Hillary as one can get. He became the same dangerous warmonger, and his electorate now understands that he is lying and betrayed his election promises. In other words like Hillary in 2016, in 2020 Trump will represents "kick the can down road"  neoliberal candidate, with a strong pro-Israel bent (MIGA instead of MAGA).

Neoliberalism is now a failed and discredited ideology. Masqueraded under posh phases about democracy and "free markets" (why not "fair markets?" neoliberalism promoted the "law of jungle" and destruction of the New Deal in order to enrich few, to redistribute the wealth up. And was very successful in this part.  Essentially it is about new methods of enslavements of people and creating a new type of aristocracy (the top 0.1%). The essence is methodical and quasi-scientific subjugation of people to the needs of transnational corporations.  And after 35 years of its dominance the fact the neoliberalism does not deliver, much like previously happened with communist ideology,  is no longer possible to hide.

It is impossible to hide from population the fact that Trump now like Hillary in 2016 is a Wall Street's dream candidate, a typical neoliberal crusader like Clinton, Bush II and Obama were, who sold interests (and lives) of American people to Wall Street. In this sense his election speeches meant absolutely nothing. This is just a smoke screen to deceive the people. Trump continues Obama foreign policy and failed to stop outsourcing of everything to enrich corporate brass in transnational corporations and Wall Steer financial oligarchy. But while those policies run unopposed for 35 years this situation can't last forever, because like a colony of bacteria of squirrel carcass, neoliberalism sooner or later  will run out of food.  And it is the US society that is this squirrel carcass in this case.

While Trump was assimilated GOP and forced to abandon some of most threatening to neoliberal order proposals, he at least represent some real threat to the neoliberal establishment and Washington neocons mafia that dominated the USA foreign policy for the last 35 years. That's why neoliberal MSM launches such a hysteric anti-Trump propaganda campaign, raising the pitch to the level of war propaganda with its simple rules (Falsehood in War-Time):

1. We do not want war. (Hillary is a candidate of peace; which accentually was instrumental in destruction of two countries (Libya and Syria and wrecking of another two :-)
2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war (Trump is a war monger, that will unleash nuclear war if elected; while in reality the opposite is true)
3. The enemy is the face of the devil (attempt to red bait US electorate linking Trump and Putin)
4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interest (exaggerating facts like Trump University, but swiping under the carpet Clinton cash scandal and other scandal; linking Trump busness past to his opposition on globalization as hypocrisy Donald Trump’s Business Past at Odds With Rhetoric on Trade )
5. The enemy systematically commits cruelties; our mishaps are involuntary. (see Anti Trump Hysteria)
6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons (Trump is proposing "collective punishment" on immigration. Swiftboating Trump: Khan gambit against Trump at the Democratic Convention )
7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous (manipulation of polls, Trump meltdown cover and article in Times despite persistant rumors (supported by vedeos and photos)  of Hillary deteriorating health and onset of Alzheimer)
8. Artists and intellectuals back our cause (Elisabeth Warren, a long line of stooges like Steven Colbert)
9. Our cause is sacred.  American exceptionalism as in "God bless America' is played by Hillary camp once again to the fullest extent possible."TIME
10. All who doubt our propaganda, are traitors (Hillary is the lesser evil and election of Trump will lead to destruction of the USA)

His foreign policy agenda which can't be distinguished from Dick Cheney agenda even under very close examination.  Trump proved to be a staunch neoliberal crusader.   The State Department under Trump remained the branch of CIA and Pentagon with Pompeo. His last Secretary of State Pompeo was  real, undeniable neocon warmonger. 

With Biden reelected you can expect jingoistic  "governance" is the best style of George W. Bush: send the troops and play patriotism card to stay in power. Then try to sort out the resulting mess and estimate the resulting blowback and costs to the Treasury.

Outcome of the 2020 elections also had shown that a faction of of Trump supporters realised that Trump has throw them under the bus, as the first thing he did after inauguration was to forget about all his election promises (much like Obama did twice with his classic "bait and switch" maneuver from fake progressive to staunch neoliberal). Looks like some American voters this time remembered what Bush II uttered (TIME)

On Sept. 17, 2002, President Bush took the podium in Nashville to speak before a group of schoolchildren, parents and teachers. "There's an old saying in Tennessee," he began.

A series of awkward pauses followed. "I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, 'Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!'"

For the record, the correct rendering of the aphorism is: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Or perhaps, as his critics might say, "Elect me once, shame on you. Elect me twice ... shame on you."

And we already saw how skillfully Slick Willi sold Democratic Party to Wall Street for 20 silver coins (sorry, for twenty millions of annul speech fees), the trick later reared by Bush II and Obama.  Now we will observe how Clinton wing which staged a counter-revolution and returned to power will use Biden administration (with Biden being a marionette) to prolong its dominance on the political scheme and crash the opposition by resorting to national security state methods.  Which are clearly in the cards after Dec 6 events, which left neoliberal elite horrified.  This is how  Trotskyites and Bolsheviks (and all neoliberal are Trotskyites in heart as neoliberal is actually close to  "Trotskyism for the rich") typically resolved the problem of the crisis of legitimacy

In any case Biden administration will be probably the least legitimate administration in the USA history. In a  case, the net result of 2020 election is not a victory of a particular candidate (Pyrrhic victory for Biden, so to speak) but the complete destruction of confidence in the integrity and fairness of the US election system.

Not only within the country, but on international level too. Independently whether this is a myth or reality, the memo that "Biden stole election" (#FakePresident hashtag which originally emerged for Trump  migrated to Biden and was suppressed by Twitter after Jan6 events. Not “The President” Or “President Biden” But "The Fake President").

Despite the suppression by Twitter, this hashtag reflect the opinion of approximately 70% of Republicans and up to 30% of Democrats and as such probably will hang around the neck of his administration (much like RussiaGate around the neck of Trump administration) at least for the first two years and will be a factor in 2022 elections. Up to Jan 6 2020 T-shirts were selling well Biden Fake President Black T-shirt - eBay.  And the rumor that started circulating on Jan 7, 2021 just confirms that (Reuters):

Users on social media are sharing a screenshot of a “news article” that falsely claims President-elect Joe Biden “has resigned”. This article was created with a fake news generator website.

Examples are visible here , here, here .

While some users dismiss the claim, others appear to take the content seriously, with comments like: “This is the most honorable thing he has ever done” and “He’s stepping down but not for these reasons. He’s caught and they are having mercy on him”.

The purported article, titled “President Elect Joe Biden steps down as President Elect” carries a timestamp of “5:35 pm 01-01-21” and was allegedly reported by “Fox” from “Atlanta”.

It starts: “Newly President Elect Joe Biden has resigned as President elect after consulting with his family & legal team due to an unspecified health issue”. The article then continues to say Biden’s “advisors and legal team” would make an official announcement “tonight at 9pm ET”.

Reuters found no evidence that this is a legitimate article by Fox nor by any other media. A Google search of the headline brought up other fact-check articles debunking this claim.

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"I'm an American citizen, I can interview whoever I want - and plan to," said the Fox News host.

Presented without further comment, along with Carlson's sit-down with journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Edward Snowden revelations about domestic spying and other illicit activities conducted by the US government.

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Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in a bombshell broadcast that an NSA whistleblower had approached him with evidence that the National Security Agency has been spying on his communications , with the intent to leak his emails to the press and 'take this show off the air.'

Today, Carlson told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that the emails have in fact been leaked to journalists - at least one of whom has contacted him for what we presume is an upcoming article on their contents.

"I was in Washington for a funeral last week and ran into someone I know well, who said ' I have a message for you ,' and then proceeded to repeat back to me details from emails and texts that I sent, and had told no one else about. So it was verified. And the person said 'the NSA has this,' and that was proven by the person reading back the contents of the email, 'and they're going to use it against you.'

To be blunt with you, it was something I would have never said in public if it was wrong, or illegal, or immoral. They don't actually have anything on me, but they do have my emails. So I knew they were spying on me, and again, to be totally blunt with you - as a defensive move, I thought 'I better say this out loud.'"

"Then, yesterday, I learned that - and this is going to come out soon - that the NSA leaked the contents of my email to journalists in an effort to discredit me. I know, because I got a call from one of them who said 'this is what your email was about.'

So, it is not in any way a figment of my imagination. It's confirmed. It's true. They aren't allowed to spy on American citizens - they are. I think more ominously, they're using the information they gather to put leverage and to threaten opposition journalists, people who criticize the Biden administration. It's happening to me right now..."

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[Jul 04, 2021] How Many Have Died From COVID Vaccines

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Mefobills says: July 4, 2021 at 1:24 am GMT • 1.8 hours ago • 300 Words ↑ @RoatanBill

Then there's not selling Syria the latest S#00 system to help keep Israel out of Syrian skies. That tells me he's using Syria for personal / State gain and that is where he's wrong. That's what makes him just another politician.

I totally get it, there are things that are puzzling to those of us in the audience, watching the moves from afar.

An advanced S-300 or S-400 system could paint every F-16 as it took off from Israel. This would be a red line for Israel and would bring in Uncle Shmuel.

Syria (and by extension Russia) has been allowing Israel to overfly her territory and bomb Hezbollah installations.

It's puzzling – why would you allow a foreign power to bomb your territory, especially if you have S-300's. The answer must be that Syria and Russia are holding back on purpose for reasons only known to them. I can speculate, in that they don't want to give away military capability unless the war goes hot.

Think about the situation now, as opposed to the 90's. Russia's military has been modernized; Military physical fitness is up by 30% (better nutrition?); Foreign exchange is in good shape; the economy is modernizing; food production is up – so Russia is no longer food insecure; oil can be extracted at prices that Saudi cannot compete with; the Artic route is opening up; national economy is more diversified thanks to the western sanctions; Yamal LNG will be fueling Asia; Nordstream will be fueling Europe.

[Jul 02, 2021] Mom details 12-year-old daughter's extreme reactions to COVID vaccine, says she's now in wheelchair

Notable quotes:
"... De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck." ..."
"... The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and [physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her neck up. Her neck pulls back." ..."
"... De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut down. "It's just not right," she said. ..."
"... Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee included stories from five people, including De Garay ..."
"... The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums following early clinical trials ..."
"... Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, according to Johnson's letter. ..."
"... You missed the whole point! The issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID. ..."
"... anyone under 25 should not get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact from the vaccine versus the actual virus. ..."
"... With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist / Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences. ..."
"... Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known today. ..."
"... The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19. That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real. ..."
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Mom details 12-year-old daughter's extreme reactions to COVID vaccine, says she's now in wheelchair Stephanie De Garay shares story with Tucker Carlson By Stephanie Giang-Paunon | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email

https://static.foxnews.com/static/orion/html/video/iframe/vod.html?v=20210701170943#uid=fnc-embed-1 Mom describes daughter's bad COVID vaccine reaction, says she's now in wheelchair

Mother Stephanie De Garay joins 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to discuss how her 12-year-old daughter volunteered for the Pfizer vaccine trial and is now in a wheelchair.

An Ohio mother is speaking out about her 12-year-old daughter suffering extreme reactions and nearly dying after volunteering for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine trial.

Stephanie De Garay told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday that after reaching out to multiple physicians they claimed her daughter, Maddie De Garay, couldn't have become gravely ill from the vaccine.

"The only diagnosis we've gotten for her is that it's conversion disorder or functional neurologic symptom disorder, and they are blaming it on anxiety," De Garay told Tucker Carlson. "Ironically, she did not have anxiety before the vaccine."

De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck."

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The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and [physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her neck up. Her neck pulls back."

Carlson asked whether any officials from the Biden administration or representatives from Pfizer company have reached out to the family. "No, they have not," she answered.

"The response with the person that's leading the vaccine trial has been atrocious," she said. "We wanted to know what symptoms were reported and we couldn't even get an answer on that. It was just that 'we report to Pfizer and they report to the FDA.' That's all we got."

After her heartbreaking experience, the Ohio mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also pro-informed consent." De Garay mentioned she's speaking out because she feels like everyone should be fully aware of this tragic incident and added the situation is being "pushed down and hidden."

De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut down. "It's just not right," she said.

"They need to do research and figure out why this happened, especially to people in the trial. I thought that was the point of it," De Garay concluded. "They need to come up with something that's going to treat these people early because all they're going to do is keep getting worse."

Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee included stories from five people, including De Garay.

The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums following early clinical trials.

Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, according to Johnson's letter.

Pfizer and Moderna did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News about Johnson's letters.

J jeff5150357 6 hours ago

My daughter had the same thing happen to her after getting a flu vaccine 9 years ago. Within days of getting it, she went from being as healthy as an ox to years of awful, unexplained illness. The short version is they concluded that she had a severe adverse reaction to the vaccine, but from the delivery chemicals, not the flu content itself. Formaldehyde was the likely major cause. Now she is getting ready to begin college and is being required to get the Covid vaccine by her university and the NCAA for athletics. It is causing her, my wife and I horrible anxiety and we feel like we are being railroaded into something that could be very dangerous for her. Any discussion or concern expressed on social media is immediately blocked. I know from years of working in the research grants office at Yale University that the big pharma industry is powerful and will go to great lengths to control the narrative. What I don't understand is why mainstream media and social media are so willing to help them these days!

jeff5150357 4 hours ago

While the college experience is great for a young adult. I would look at getting a degree online. Her future earnings will be based on her merit, not where she went to school. If someone was telling me what to do with my personal health, and I was uncomfortable with their prescription, I would follow my instincts.

LoraJane92649 jeff5150357 5 hours ago

If her flu vax is well documented she should be able to get a waiver. Hopefully you have an able bodied family physician or medical team to advocate on your behalf.

G gunvald 7 hours ago

You know when you take it that there can be adverse reactions. So, in that sense, you are informed. Any one of us could be the odd person. That said, I have a problem with any child getting these vaccines, especially when most people recover from the disease. It's one thing for me as an elderly person to make the decision to take it as covid affects the elderly person more and I wanted to avoid that ventilator. Most of my life has been lived and that's how I evaluated it. This will always come down to putting it in God's hands.

TheTruthAsItIs gunvald 6 hours ago

You missed the whole point! The issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID.

D DontDestoryUSA gunvald 4 hours ago

It's not being informed when you are forced to take a vaccination that they clearly had trouble with past vaccination sounds like a lawsuit for the university is on the horizon. With a big pay day

Tony5SFG 7 hours ago

"Ohio mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also pro-informed consent." " And as a pediatrician for over 40 yrs (retired now) and a 10 year member of my medical school's Institutional Review Board (which had to approve all human research), THAT is a problem I have been bringing up As far as requiring all young people, such as entering or in college, to get the vaccine Children are a protected class and the informed consent for research on them is much more strenuous than for adults And, requiring young people to take these new vaccines is the equivalent of doing research on them. The issue of myocarditis is quite troubling. And while it has been seen in natural infections, I have not yet seen an adequate risk - benefit evaluation regarding risking natural infection versus vaccination And people say that the myocarditis is not severe, no one can be sure of the long term effects of a young person getting it. The vaccines that we give children have been used for decades and the risks/benefits have been well established

D DallasAmEmail Tony5SFG 6 hours ago

A friends daughter who just went through internship as Physicians assistant based on the percentages in age groups believes anyone under 25 should not get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact from the vaccine versus the actual virus. Yes, older age groups the percent having negative impact from the virus is much greater than the vaccine, so yes older age groups should get the vaccine. What really is bothersome is when Youtube removes Dr. Robert Malone video who helped create the mrna vaccine express concern that normal testing has not happened and be cautious about taking it, especially for the young.

marinesfather601 Tony5SFG 5 hours ago

With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist / Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences.

Hilltopper9 7 hours ago

Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known today. The same could be said of all the chemicals we apply to our body daily through shampoos, hair dyes, body lotions, and suntan lotions. Life's a gamble. It's up to each individual to make the best decisions possible given the facts available.

A akbushrat Hilltopper9 6 hours ago

The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19. That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real.

F Fauxguy930 Hilltopper9 5 hours ago

☢️ N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine is a nitrosamine that has butyl and 4-hydroxybutyl substituents. In mice, it causes high-grade, invasive cancers in the urinary bladder, but not in any other tissues. It has a role as a carcinogenic agent. Ingredient in all shots. How did a carcinogen get FDA approved, oh it was an emergency.

R RussellRika 6 hours ago

I have a twelve year old, and not a chance I'd allow her to volunteer for any vaccine trial, and especially not this one. She very much wanted to get a vaccine, until she started reading about some of the adverse reactions. Sorry, but I'm a child, the benefit does not outweigh the risk.

MrEd50 6 hours ago

I took the vaccine because I'm 60 years old and work with special ed kids. My 18 year old child refuses to take it and I support him on this. COVID shouldn't be an issue for most of us.

[Jun 26, 2021] The End of Faucism is Nigh as Democrats Ditch the Doctor by JD Rucker

"Objective judgement is our jugement about the people we do not like ;-)"
In view of the fact that Delta (Indian) variant can infect vaccinated with the first generation of vaccines people Fauci statement "when you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health, that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community." i obviously wrong. Delta Covid-19 Variant Can Infect Vaccinated People
See also Delta variant infected two Orange County residents who were fully vaccinated - Orlando Sentinel and Just 26 fully vaccinated people have died from Delta variant
May 16, 2021 | freedomfirstnetwork.com

Those who don't get their news from mainstream media have been aware of Anthony Fauci's connection to "gain of function" research for months. Now, mainstream media is picking it up so the White House is scrambling.

For months, there wasn't a day that went by when Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn't doing multiple interviews spreading fear of Covid-19, demanding people take the various "vaccines," and changing his talking points from moment to moment on a slew of healthcare-related issues. We saw a clear change last week when the White House's chief doc seemed to fly under the radar for the first time since Joe Biden took office.

It all comes down to "gain of function" research that is almost certainly the cause of the Wuhan Flu. Developed in the Wuhan Virology Lab, Covid-19 either escaped or was intentionally released. While many in academia still hold onto the notion that the pandemic was started by bats, they do so simply because it hasn't -- and likely cannot -- be completely ruled out as long as the Chinese Communist Party has a say in the matter. But many are now accepting the likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Virology Lab as a result of "gain of function" research.

We also now know that Fauci has been a huge proponent of this research and he participated in funding it at the Wuhan Virology Lab. More evidence is emerging every day despite the bad doctor's protestations. And when I say "we also now know," that's to say more mainstream media watchers know. Those who turn to alternative media have known about Fauci's involvement with the Wuhan Virology Lab for a while.

They've been trying to cover their tracks. A bombshell revelation from The National Pulse yesterday showed they realized this was going to be a problem long before Rand Paul or Tucker Carlson started calling Fauci out.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology scrubbed the U.S. National Institutes of Health as one of its research partners from its website in early 2021. The revelation comes despite Dr. Anthony Fauci insisting no relationship existed between the institutions.

Archived versions of the Wuhan lab's site also reveal a research update – " Will SARS Come Back? " – appearing to describe gain-of-function research being conducted at the institute by entities funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

On March 21st, 2021, the lab's website listed six U.S.-based research partners: University of Alabama, University of North Texas, EcoHealth Alliance, Harvard University, The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States, and the National Wildlife Federation.

One day later, the page was revised to contain just two research partners – EcoHealth Alliance and the University of Alabama. By March 23rd, EcoHealth Alliance was the sole partner remaining .

EcoHealth Alliance is run by long-standing Chinese Communist Party-partner Dr. Peter Daszak , who National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has repeatedly claimed will be the first "fall guy" of the Wuhan lab debacle.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology's decision to wipe the NIH from its website came amidst heightened scrutiny that the lab was the source of COVID-19 – and that U.S. taxpayer dollars from the NIH may have funded the research. The unearthing of the lab's attempted coverup also follows a heated exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Fauci, who attempted to distance his organization from the Wuhan lab.

Beyond establishing a working relationship between the NIH and the Wuhan Institue of Virology, now-deleted posts from the site also detail studies bearing the hallmarks of gain-of-function research conducted with the Wuhan-based lab. Fauci, however, asserted to Senator Paul that "the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

There is still a tremendous gap between those who know the truth about Fauci and those who still think he's just a smart little guy who tells Joe Biden what to do when it comes to Covid. As we've documented multiple times in the past, there seems to be a cult of personality surrounding Fauci, or as many have called it, Faucism. He is practically worshipped as a savior by millions who believe everything he says even if he contradicts something he had said in the past.

Today, he was interviewed on CBS News during "Face the Nation." It was a softball interview, as always, and at no point was "gain of function" research discussed. Instead, John Dickerson tried to sound smart and Fauci gave him kudos in an odd back-and-forth promoting vaccines.

JOHN DICKERSON : So, if- if a person is deciding whether or not to get vaccinated, they have to keep in mind whether it's going to keep them healthy. But based on these new findings, it would suggest they also have an opportunity, if vaccinated, to knock off or block their ability to transmit it to other people. So, does it increase the public health good of getting the vaccination or make that clearer based on these new findings?

DR. FAUCI : And you know, JOHN, you said it very well. I could have said it better. It's absolutely the case. And that's the reason why we say when you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health, that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. And in other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that's when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community. And that's exactly the reason, and you said it very well, of why we encourage people and want people to get vaccinated. The more people you get vaccinated, the safer the entire community is.

JOHN DICKERSON : And do you think now that this guidance has come out on relaxing the mass mandates if you've been vaccinated, that people who might have been hesitant before will start to get vaccinated in greater numbers?

DR. FAUCI : You know, I hope so, JOHN. The underlying reason for the CDC doing this was just based on the evolution of the science that I mentioned a moment ago. But if, in fact, this serves as an incentive for people to get vaccinated, all the better. I hope it does, actually.

Don't let the presence of this interview fool you. It was almost certainly scheduled before the "gain of function" research discussion hit the mainstream. But as Revolver News reported today, we should start seeing less and less of Fauci going forward.

What happened to the almighty Dr. Fauci? Last week he was on TV telling all of us that life wouldn't get back to normal for at least another year or so, and this week he's pretty much gone. So what happened?

Well, a lot, actually. The biggest turn for Fauci involves 3 little words: Gain of Function. It was this past week when the "gain of function" dots were publicly connected to the good doctor. This is nothing new for those of us on the right. Here on Revolver, we've covered Fauci's gain of function research extensively and the evidence against him is very damning.

A couple of months ago Fox News Host Steve Hilton blew the lid off of Fauci's macabre obsession (and funding) of research involving the manipulation of highly contagious viruses. Hilton laid the groundwork, but it was Senator Rand Paul who called out Fauci and his ghoulish research face to face during a Senate hearing.

But even more notable, is that the CDC just updated their guidelines on mask-wearing and essentially ended the pandemic -- a pandemic that Fauci has been the proud face of for over a year now -- and when that announcement hit, he was nowhere to be found. And his absence didn't go unnoticed.

Yes indeed, you'd think that Fauci would have been front and center to discuss the CDC's new guidelines the moment the news hit. The "Golden Boy" taking yet another victory lap. After all, Fauci never misses a moment in the spotlight. But he was not hitting the airwaves with the typical fanfare.

It is still very possible that Fauci can make a resurgence. His fan-base is up there with Meghan Markle and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though even more devoted than the divas'. Unlike other useful idiots, the White House will not be able to detach easily from Fauci, nor do they want to. At this point, they're telling him to lay low and avoid any interviews in which they do not have complete control over the "journalist" involved. John Dickerson has been a Democrat Party pawn for decades.

Behind the scenes, they're already planning on ditching him. It will be done with all the pomp one would expect for one of their heroes and will be used to mark the end of the "emergency" in the United States. He'll still be promoting vaccines and will try to stay in his precious limelight, but Democrats are ready to move on and open up the country. It has just been too politically suicidal to persist with their lockdown mentality.

The key to seeing Fauci's narcissistic reign end is for patriots to continue to hammer him on his involvement with developing Covid-19. His beloved "gain of function research" needs to be explained to any who will listen. Then, maybe, Fauci will go away.

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[Jun 26, 2021] The Racism Of Low Expectations

Sounds like a great book for Tucker to recommend to that Army Chief of Staff!
Notable quotes:
"... I call it ROLE -- The Racism Of Low Expectations. This phenomenon has done ten times more to damage Black lives than can be attributed to CRT or institutionalized racism. ..."
"... A subset of ROLE is MVT. This is Manufactured Victimhood Theory. This comes about from influential Black "leaders" who, instead of teaching Blacks the truth about how to live good lives (work hard, develop skills, etc.), they told them to apply as their life strategy "say you are a victim." ..."
Jun 26, 2021 | www.wsj.com

Cindy Fryman 4 hours ago

Recently the Joint Chiefs of Staff remarked that the US military should teach CTR to our military essentially because they shoild teach all theories.

That doesn't make sense to me but I would like to put another theory into the public sphere. I call it ROLE -- The Racism Of Low Expectations. This phenomenon has done ten times more to damage Black lives than can be attributed to CRT or institutionalized racism.

A subset of ROLE is MVT. This is Manufactured Victimhood Theory. This comes about from influential Black "leaders" who, instead of teaching Blacks the truth about how to live good lives (work hard, develop skills, etc.), they told them to apply as their life strategy "say you are a victim."

I am hoping that ROLE and MVT will become part of all aspects of American life -- all levels of education, the military, businesses, the media, etc.

If the goal really is to improve Black lives, ROLE and MVT should be the rage over the next few years.

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John Callahan 4 hours ago
Corporate America 'makes money critiquing itself.' The rest of us pay the price in diminished freedom.
Wokeism is fascism dressed up in new clothes- the censorship, demonization of groups and individuals and the physical violence against people and property remain the same. Corporate America has one overriding interest- making money. Paying the left (and yes, fascism is of the left) through critiquing itself and token monetary donations is a get out of jail free card for Corporate America.

"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it."
- Thomas Sowell

Dom Fried 4 hours ago
It will end the same. Almost, because there will be nobody to stop it.
Ed Baron 3 hours ago
Very well said, John. Fascism is a fundamental element or subset of Leftist or Marxist thought. It demands conformity of the individual to the new "woke" state and it punishes any who dissent. It's not incidental that American Leftists, including FDR, loved Mussolini prior to WWII. That bromance has been washed clean, and attributed instead to the Right. Such a typical transference technique used by Marxist.
Alex Guiness
I interpret your supposition 'White male global warming', as meaning White Males are particularly flatulent hence are producing Green House Gases with their diets of greasy meats (some on sticks), carnival funnel cakes, corn dogs, Philly cheese-steaks, Popeyes fried chicken, all washed down with Bud Light. Would it kill them to have a salad now and then? How can their spouses stand to be around them unless they are also consuming the same foods. Imagine what it must be like at a sermon in a Lutheran Church, the whitest church of all. They leave the doors open else a spark could set the whole place ablaze.
carol Perry
Thanks for today's chuckle Alex.
Alex Guiness
read my smurfs comment. i just posted it
Lynn Silton
Mr. Ramaswamy is right in every way! I don't belong to the Woke Church. I'll never join. America is an inspirational country as is all it's written declarations. We, the people rule. No religion can overrule it. We will not allow religious 'honor killings.' They are murder here. We will not allow Wokism here it is the murder of our hopes and dreams which belong to everybody regardless of appearance. I don't even know how appearance (of all things) became a religion. The whole thing is so sick, people of all shades are speaking out and we will put this crazy idea down. Here, we marry across all appearances. New people are often different in appearance than parents. Woke will die of that alone. That's why we have an immigration 'problem' . People love our constitution and Declaration of Independence. People love that they rule here, not the government. That's our creed and promise. Help protect it!!

[Jun 26, 2021] VAERS data

Jun 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
boyplunger7777 13 hours ago remove link

VAERS data: "5,888 deaths", "19,597 hospitalizations", "43,891 urgent care", "58,800 office visits", "1,459 anaphylaxis", "1,737 Bell's palsy", "2,190 heart attacks" and "652 miscarriages". CDC says data is "unreliable". You choose who to believe.

WarrenLiz 16 hours ago

Over 15,472 dead from Jab in 27 EU countries, about half of Europe's 50 countries.

The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:

From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (753,657) are serious injuries.

ALL UNNECESSARY...

https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/15472-dead-1-5-million-injured-50-serious-reported-in-european-unions-database-of-adverse-drug-reactions-for-covid-19-shots/

Globalist Overlord 14 hours ago remove link

So between the EU and US there are a confirmed MINIMUM of 21,000 MURDERED by BigPharma and their highly-paid apparatchiks like Fauci and Walensky.

And the public does nothing.

pods 16 hours ago

Graphing VAERS numbers alongside the shot numbers should show abnormalities.

They probably saw the numbers and put the brakes on putting them in the database. So a slope change will be seen in the VAERS data.

They run it so they can do what they want. Public can submit a case, but that doesn't mean it goes into the database. Crooks.

pmc 17 hours ago (Edited)

Tucker Carlson: How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-how-many-americans-have-died-after-taking-the-covid-vaccine

The answer to Carlson's question is because.. it's a money grabbing death cult!.

Natural immun system is destroyed... just wait till next flu season or the next virus they relase and see what death numbers we see!

racing_flowers 17 hours ago

Isn't it curious that the 3 big pharma Corps (think Vacc pushers) and the big 2 MSM Corps are BOTH controlled by Blackrock Partners Hedge Fund...

Nona Yobiznes 18 hours ago remove link

Them going after the children makes me deeply suspicious. Nobody under 50, unless they're made of blubber, dies from this. In 2020, there was practically zero excess death for people younger than 70 years old in Sweden. These are their official statistics. For the vast majority of people it's basically a flu you get for a couple days and you're over it. What the **** is all this about? If the vaccine is only really good for preventing hospitalizations, and doesn't stop you from spreading or from catching variants, what in the hell are we giving kids vaccines when they are more likely to die from the regular flu? It's freaky, and it stinks.

[Jun 26, 2021] So Much Of What The CIA Used To Do Covertly It Now Does Overtly - ZeroHedge

Jun 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,

In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he'd start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was so submitted to his will by that point that I'd gaslight myself into reframing those statements in a sympathetic light. Toward the end one time he told me "I am going to rape you," and then he did, and then he talked about it to some friends trusting that I'd run perception management on it for him.

The better he got at psychologically twisting me up in knots and the more submitted I became, the more open he'd be about it. He seemed to enjoy doing this, taking a kind of exhibitionistic delight in showing off his accomplishments at crushing me as a person, both to others and to me. Like it was his art, and he wanted it to have an audience to appreciate it.

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I was reminded of this while watching a recent Fox News appearance by Glenn Greenwald where he made an observation we've discussed here previously about the way the CIA used to have to infiltrate the media, but now just openly has US intelligence veterans in mainstream media punditry positions managing public perception.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jU58mrEpPvU

"If you go and Google, and I hope your viewers do, Operation Mockingbird, what you will find is that during the Cold War these agencies used to plot how to clandestinely manipulate the news media to disseminate propaganda to the American population," Greenwald said .

"They used to try to do it secretly. They don't even do it secretly anymore. They don't need Operation Mockingbird. They literally put John Brennan who works for NBC and James Clapper who works for CNN and tons of FBI agents right on the payroll of these news organizations. They now shape the news openly to manipulate and to deceive the American population."

In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled " The CIA and the Media " reporting that the CIA had covertly infiltrated America's most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as Operation Mockingbird . It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media are meant to report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the agendas of spooks and warmongers.

Nowadays the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and the public is too brainwashed and gaslit to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news pundits . The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor , and WaPo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when reporting on US intelligence agencies per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha Vinograd, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy Bash, Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known CIA assets like NBC's Ken Dilanian, as are CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like Tucker Carlson.

They're just rubbing it in our faces now. Like they're showing off.

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And that's just the media. We also see this flaunting behavior exhibited in the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a propaganda operation geared at sabotaging foreign governments not aligned with the US which according to its own founding officials was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The late author and commentator William Blum makes this clear :

[I]n 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to "support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts". Notice the "nongovernmental"" part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO (Non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.

"We should not have to do this kind of work covertly," said Carl Gershman in 1986, while he was president of the Endowment. "It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A. We saw that in the 60's, and that's why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created."

And Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."

In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.

We see NED's fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the western power alliance needs to manage public perception about a CIA-targeted government, from Russia to Hong Kong to Xinjiang to the imperial propaganda operation known as Bellingcat.

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Hell, intelligence insiders are just openly running for office now. In an article titled " The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections ", World Socialist Website documented the many veterans of the US intelligence cartel who ran in elections across America in 2018 and 2020:

"In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seats" nearly half the seats where the Democrats were targeting Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican retirements. Some 30 of these candidates won primary contests and became the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 election, and 11 of them won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously Republican-held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of the House of Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA Democrats continues on what is arguably an equally significant scale."

So they're just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel about how propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become. They're laying more and more of their cards on the table. Soon the CIA will just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.

Or maybe not. I said my ex got more and more overt about his abuses in the later years of our relationship because those were the later years. I did eventually expand my own consciousness of my own inner workings enough to clear the fears and unexamined beliefs I had that he was using as hooks to manipulate me. Maybe, as humanity's consciousness continues to expand , the same will happen for the people and their abusive relationship with the CIA.

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[Jun 20, 2021] Was the "Capitol Riot" an Inside Job?

Jun 18, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Jun 17 2021 23:24 utc | 46

Was the "Capitol Riot" an Inside Job? IMO, good reasons to think so are surfacing. Putin's upped the game by saying they could easily be considered political prisoners whose constitutional and human rights are being violated. And given the FBI has orchestrated numerous terrorist attacks in order to frame innocents provides some credibility to that possibility.

And the beat goes on........

[Jun 16, 2021] FBI Operatives Likely 'Unindicted Co-Conspirators', Organizers Of Capitol Riot- Report

Comments for this article are pretty instructive about the particular strata of US population mindset right now. Reminds the mood of dissidents in the USSR.
Jun 16, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Tucker Carlson dropped several bombshells on his show Tuesday night, chief among them was from a Revolver News report that the FBI was likely involved in organizing the Jan. 6 Capitol 'insurrection,' and were similarly involved in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchin Whitmer .

" Why are there so many factual matters that we don't understand about that day? " asked Carlson.

" Why is the Biden administration preventing us from knowing? Why is the administration still hiding more than 10,000 hours of surveillance tape from the US capitol on January 6th? What could possibly be the reason for that - even as they call for more openness... they could release those tapes today, but they're not. Why?"

Carlson notes that Revolver News has dissected court filings surrounding the Capitol riot, suggests that unindicted co-conspirators in the case are likely to have been federal operatives.

We at Revolver News have noticed a pattern from our now months-long investigation into 1/6 -- and in particular from our meticulous study of the charging documents related to those indicted. In many cases the unindicted co-conspirators appear to be much more aggressive and egregious participants in the very so-called "conspiracy" serving as the basis for charging those indicted.

The question immediately arises as to why this is the case, and forces us to consider whether certain individuals are being protected from indictment because they were involved in 1/6 as undercover operatives or confidential informants for a federal agency.

Key segment from Tucker:

"We know that the government is hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers that were present at the Capitol on January 6th, not just the one that killed Ashli Babbitt. According to the government's own court filing, those law enforcement officers participated in the riot - sometimes in violent ways . We know that because without fail, the government has thrown the book at most people who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6. There was a nationwide dragnet to find them - and many are still in solitary confinement tonight. But s trangely, some of the key people who participated on Jan. 6 have not been charged ."

Look at the documents , the government calls those people 'unindicted co-conspirators.' What does that mean? Well it means that in potentially every case they were FBI operatives ... in the Capitol, on January 6th."

"For example, one of those unindicted co-conspirators is someone government documents identify only as "person two." According to those documents, person two stayed in the same hotel room as a man called Thomas Caldwell - an 'insurrectionist.' A man alleged to be a member of the group "The Oathkeepers." Person two also "stormed the barricades" at the Capitol on January 6th alongside Thomas Caldwell. The government's indictments further indicate that Caldwell - who by the way is a 65-year-old man... was led to believe there would be a "quick reaction force" also participating on January 6th. That quick reaction force Caldwell was told, would be led by someone called "Person 3," who had a hotel room and an accomplice with them . But wait. Here's the interesting thing. Person 2 and person 3 were organizers of the riot . The government knows who they are, but the government has not charged them. Why is that? You know why. They were almost certainly working for the FBI. So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6th according to government documents. And those two are not alone. In all, Revolver news reported there are "upwards of 20 unindicted co-conspirators in the Oath Keeper indictments, all playing various roles in the conspiracy, who have not been charged for virtually the exact same activities and in some cases much, much more severe activities - as those named alongside them in the indictments."

Watch:

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Revolver , meanwhile, has important questions about January 6th

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has demanded an explanation from FBI Director Christopher Wray:

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More:

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We recommend you read the entire Revolver piece, which includes the fact that at least five individuals involved int he "Whitmer Kidnapping Plot" were undercover agents and federal informants .

_Rorschach 7 hours ago

Just remember folks

a Klan meeting is always 33 FBI agents

and 2 ACTUAL white supremacists

Dragonlord 7 hours ago

No CIA? I am disappointed.

_Rorschach 7 hours ago (Edited)

Glowies are never at the meetings

theyre busy planting bombs for the false flag afterwards

Misesmissesme 6 hours ago

90% of "terrorists" would never commit acts of terror if the US Guv wasn't coercing them to commit said acts. The wrong people are in jail.

Wonder who in government started the ball rolling on 9/11 before it got away from them?

Sedaeng PREMIUM 6 hours ago

it never got away from them! They directed through and afterwards... Patriot act just 'happened' to be on standby just in case? ha!

Not Your Father's ZH 6 hours ago (Edited)

Amid this chronic Machiavellian conniving, here are creatures who know how to act right:

Goldendoodle Harley saved fawn in lake and then loved on her keeping her safe

"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river." ~ Will Durant, "The Story of Civilization"

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss , the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven." ― Mark Twain

thomas sewell 6 hours ago

everything in the USA is bull sheet. its all polluted with mind fook.

the last 1+ year has gone beyond any psycho drama i could ever imagine.

krda 5 hours ago

Didn't Brennan issue the 9/11 hijackers' visas?

zedwork 1 hour ago

Yes, but no planes. That would have been way too risky when you can just add them into the live feed later using CGI.

Bob Lidd 1 hour ago

You mean like what happen in the 1993 WTC bombing.....??

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-10-28-1993301015-story.html

Misesmissesme 59 minutes ago

How there hasn't been a day of reckoning yet is beyond me.

SexyJulian 6 hours ago

And stacks of bricks.

E5 5 hours ago

The FBI does not have the right to commit a crime. They chose to run an operation they should disavow all agents involved and they know it. Arrest them.

Not Your Father's ZH 4 hours ago

Breaking: Court Documents Confirm FBI Planned & Executed Jan. 6th 'Insurrection'

vova_3.2018 3 hours ago remove link

The FBI does not have the right to commit a crime. ...

Like 9/11, the "Capitol Hill Riot", was a false-flag operation staged by the Deep-State and falsely attributed to a group the DS sought to target.

BaNNeD oN THe RuN 7 hours ago

DoD also has a domestic undercover army of 60,000... so they may have been more involved than the FBI...

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881

There is strong evidence that Ashli Babbit's shooting was also fake...

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gb5nZYoFLuar/

DinduNuffin 6 hours ago

that video destroys the whole narrative ... EVERYTHING IS FAKE

Not Your Father's ZH 5 hours ago

The Pentagon Uses the World's Largest 'Secret Army' of 60,000 Undercover Operatives To Carry Out 'Domestic & Foreign' Operations

Feck Weed 6 hours ago

With Wray out there spreading fear about the Great White Supremacy Threat, you can bet the FBI is working overtime to make something newsworthy happen. Remember folks: 3 "militia" = 2 FBI informants + 1 patsy

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eatapeach 7 hours ago

https://mises.org/library/conspiracy-theory-history-revisited

Until the JFK murder/coup is brought to light, you can bet it's all hoax, including Trump being an 'outsider'. He's not. He did everything Israel told him to do.

GhostOLaz 3 hours ago

America's perception of the FBI comes from TV "programs", not history or reality.

Joiningupthedots 1 hour ago

"Why is the administration still hiding more than 10,000 hours of surveillance tape from the US capitol on January 6th?"

For the same reason the UK government wont release the Skripal Tapes from Salisbury, UK.......LMAO.

Its an inside job........OBVIOUSLY!

Faeriedust 2 hours ago

So. Incidents are being staged and then used as excuses for more draconian State security powers. How is this different from the behavior of known historical groups such as the SS and the KGB? How can this be interpreted except as the actions of a totalitarian State?

Sizzurp PREMIUM 6 hours ago

Scary stuff. They manufacture their own crimes to suit their political narrative and agenda. This is straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Garciathinksso 6 hours ago

this is SOP for FBI, long rich history of manufacturing crimes and low, mid and high level corruption . Prior to that the BOI was even worse.

JaxPavan 7 hours ago remove link

The chickens coming home to roost.

This was a "color revolution" by us, against us. And, it was designed to fail. Like a freakish side show.

Why? Let off political steam. Keep all the people in their respective aisle of the democan and republicrat uniparty bus. Distract political attention away from the full ****** plandemic lockdowns. Keep the rest of the world agape for a few more years thinking things will fall apart on their own, while their resources are extracted. . .

Jam 47 minutes ago

This scam getting some press now is better late than never, but not by much. Some of these media types being all surprised by this must have lived pretty sheltered lives and are lacking any street smarts. This set up was obvious since day one, this is the same bunch that won't call out these crooks for rigged elections.

Oxygen Likes Carbon 48 minutes ago

It should be painfully clear that with the level of surveillance in 2021, nobody can walk into high security governmental building, without being arrested. Let alone organize a mass demonstration then go into Capitol Building during the day, while the politicians being there, to take ... selfies.

... without some help, or coordination from some governmental services.

anti-bolshevik 7 hours ago (Edited)

Replace 'unindicted co-conspirators.' with Agent Provocateurs.

The entire chain-of-command that authorized / planned / executed / gave material support to this Operation should be indicted and prosecuted.

Reminder, Fordham Law's findings

In this course of its investigation, researchers at Fordham discovered that EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 138 terrorist incidents recorded in the USA between 2001-2012 involved FBI informants who played leading roles in planning out, supplying weapons, instructions and even recruiting Islamic terrorists to carry out terrorist acts on U.S. soil.

Enraged 56 minutes ago

With FBI Director Comey, Assistant Director McCabe, and FBI agent/covert CIA agent Strzok acting against President Trump, this should be considered treasonous, and hopefully they will be prosecuted.

The question is who authorized the latest actions on January 6 since Comey, McCabe, and Strzok were fired.

Conductor "Corn Pop" Angelo 38 minutes ago

I can think of two to start with. Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi. Both refused additional security even after being told that the latest intel suggested there was going to be a protest at the capital building on Jan 6th. The two were offered National Guard troops, in addition to Capital Police, to help out, but refused. IIRC, both the Senate and House Sgt at Arms lost their jobs over this, too

Make it three, Mayor Bowser had the same intel and did nothing

Andro1345 7 hours ago

These are old tricks by the FBI. They have been just as bad as the CIA for years.

So many instances going back so far. They plan things, set it up, help to encourage and supply sheep to do these things. If I had someone trying to encourage me to get on board something similar my first guess would be a government operative, seriously.

WeNamedTheDogIndiana 1 hour ago

I attended protests after the election, and it was obvious to be that the rallies at our state capitol were infiltrated by FBI/deep state stooges. A number of them were talking civil war, and said it too boldly in my opinion, and then many of them were carrying AKs, when that was not necessary.

The only rally that I attended that seemed uncorrupted was the first protest in DC a few weeks after the election.

taketheredpill 7 hours ago

Don't be shocked if the FBI funded some of the trips, hotels etc.

And for sure the FBI operatives "wound up" the participants...

But you won't find out for 10 years.

Alfred 7 hours ago

Not just infiltrated.

The FBI actually creates the organizations they then infiltrate.

Someone goes on a good rant here or there, can expect to be befriended by someone of like mind. Thereafter that someone undergoes radicalization and then organization via FBI sting ops. They get funding, they get resources, they get ready, they get busted.

Ha! It's all shake-n-bake, baby!

ProudZion 6 hours ago

...The proud boys was led by a FBI agent....

Mad Muppet PREMIUM 1 hour ago

They're called Agents Provacateurs and it's nothing new. The Government always initiates the violence they say they want to prevent.

Ms No PREMIUM 1 hour ago remove link

"Informants" is a very misleading title. They aren't out there ferretting info of people up to no good. It's more an infiltration and steering game and always has been.

They are basically agents without the boundaries of law. Good front guys too. They will keep them out of trouble and protect them if they can but if it gets too hot they are expendable and even easily patsied. It's all actually actually technically illegal because even when they do real informant work it's actually entrapment.

We used to be protected from these things and now you see the reason behind that. Nothing is new it just has different names and since it's always avoided by media, some of it doesn't even have proper names, at least for the public.

It's basically false flag color revolution operations.

QuiteShocking 6 hours ago (Edited) remove link

The USA's standing in the world is vastly diminished by the continue lies and mischaracterizations of what happened on Jan 6th by the democrats. The police officer died from a stroke and not from the rioters. The unarmed white woman was executed by capital police and no one was held responsible. The democrats have continued to blatantly lie and mislead on what really happened on Jan 6th for political gain...

Max21c 7 hours ago

We recommend you read the entire Revolver piece, which includes the fact that at least five individuals involved int he "Whitmer Kidnapping Plot" were undercover agents and federal informants .

People were already aware that the FBI kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was an FBI thing from the start and all throughout. Just as many if not most of these things are as they involve the secret police creating the plots and then unraveling the plots they've created and managed and orchestrated all along the way.

Angular Momentum 7 hours ago

The states need to outlaw entrapment in cases like that. The FBI moles need to be punished as severely as the dupes.

junction 7 hours ago

The FBI and the CIA apparently fund the so-call White Supremacist organizations. Your tax dollars at work. Meanwhile, total silence for a decade from the FBI as Jeffrey Epstein ran a transnational white slavery operation out of his Manhattan mansion, aided by the Israeli Mossad.

Max21c 7 hours ago

The intelligence community and secret police community were well aware of what was going on with the Epstein operation. It's not just the US side either as the UK and Israelis were aware of it also.

Uncle Sugar PREMIUM 7 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Trump is better than Xiden, but

He left Chris Wray running the FIB

He didn't prosecute Comey, Brennan, anyone

He pushed the "Vax"

He spent worse than a drunken sailor

Conclusion - He's not the answer

OldNewB 6 hours ago

He should have pardoned Snowden.

otschelnik 7 hours ago

Well looks like the DOJ is bringing back the Obummer spygate team. John P. Carlin who was head of DOJ/National Security Division is now deputy AG. He let the FBI give 4 civilian contractors access to the NSA database for 702 inquiries, which Admiral Rogers stopped. Also back is Lisa Monoco who oversaw the FISA warrants for Carter Page, and now she's going to be heading up Garland's domestic terror task force.

That's all very ominous.

Farmer Tink 4 hours ago

I didn't realize that Carlin was back. He tried to defend his actions in the annual report to the FISA court but Adm. Mike Rogers, on whose watch the NSA found out what the DOJ was doing, carried the day. I also didn't realize that Lisa Monaco was the one in charge of those illegal Page warrants. It's just sickening that they are being rewarded. Thanks for the info.

glenlloyd 2 hours ago (Edited)

With such a high percentage of those 'involved' in the "insurrection" (said loosely here) and the so called Whitmer kidnapping being from FBI / CIA / other intelligence agencies AND those same people end up apparently being in leadership roles in these groups that are supposedly going to be doing the kidnapping and insurrecting, then it's really hard not to come to the conclusion that the fault was with the FBI et al.

It just seems like the FBI et al were way more involved in this than they should have been, if you're going to suggest that it was the others that are to blame. The tough pill to swallow is the claim that it was the people the FBI et al infiltrated and coerced into do these things, that are to blame.

Things really do stink with this.

newworldorder 5 hours ago

How are these actions are not "entrapment."

InfiniteIntellRules 5 hours ago

I will stop, just too many tales of FBI corruption. Last 1

From the book " The United States of Paranoia " by Jesse Walker:

Under COINTELPRO, FBI agents infiltrated political groups and spread rumors that loyal members were the real infiltrators. They tried to get targets fired from their jobs, and they tried to break up the targets' marriages. They published deliberately inflammatory literature in the names of the organizations they wanted to discredit, and they drove wedges between groups that might otherwise be allied. In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as "a cowardly, honky group" who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous "dirty work." The operation was apparently successful: In August 1969, just five months after the initial instructions went out, the Baltimore FBI reported that the local Panther branch had ordered its members not to associate with SDS members or attend any SDS events.

EVERY MAJOR EVENT. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

heehaw2 6 hours ago

All happened under Trumps watch. He said he was going to lead the March to Capital building, then totally disappeared.

MrNoItAll 7 hours ago

Got to hand it to them. Those Fed guys sure know how to stage a riot to get media attention and shape public opinion. How else could they explain why all the guard troops were needed in D C. When getting them there could have been the primary goal of this staged event.

lightwork 7 hours ago

In the early 70's it seemed that a government informant/ mole was instrumental in the activities of virtually every left wing group in the country. It became common knowledge that whomever was most vocal and advocated the most activist positions was usually "that guy". It was effective since paranoia caused most groups to disintegrate.

otschelnik 8 hours ago remove link

Probably more snitches than that.

Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell who is one of the lucky few released but still charged is a former FBI contractor who had top secret security clearance according to his lawyer.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/538018-man-charged-in-capitol-riot-says-he-worked-for-fbi-and-holds-top

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio who was arrested 2 days before the riot for vandalism (burning a BLM banner), had been an informer to the FBI and law inforcement in Florida, according to his lawyer.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-fbi-informant

Max21c 6 hours ago remove link

They forgot Antifa and BLM in their list of groups.

State sponsored terrorist groups favored by Liberal Elites and their secret police are generally omitted and immune.

heehaw2 6 hours ago

George Bush Senior, then head of CIA was in Dallas when JFK was assinated. Ol George announced as President the New World order

QE49er 6 hours ago

Reichstag Fire style false flag.

Ruff_Roll 6 hours ago

It makes perfect sense that FBI or government supported operatives were acting as agents provocateurs on 1/6, organizing and instigating the riot, and subsequently let off as "unindicted co-conspirators." Pelosi was probably in on it, too.

TheySayIAmOkay 7 hours ago

This is the biggest "duh" ever. Of course the government is involved. Just like they were in 9/11. Just like they were stealing the election. Just like they are in at least some of these mass shootings (the FBI was warned about the Parkland shooter multiple times). Just like they will be in the next big incident that massively strips rights from the people.

The Deep State is real. And it is the upper echelons of the FBI, DHS, CIA, ATF, etc. They are the shadow government that wags the tail. They can do whatever they want and nobody can do anything about it. Do you think if Ted Cruz or Nancy Pelosi killed someone they'd get away with it? No. They are figures. The limits of their power can be stripped with a single, stupid, scandal. How about John Brennan? I have absolutely no doubt in my mind he could. Because who will hold him accountable? Nobody in the CIA or FBI went down for not listening to the FBI agent about the 20th hijacker. Mueller got PROMOTED! He's deep state. Brennan was regional chief of the CIA in Riyadh leading up to 9/11. He got... PROMOTED! Deep state.

3-fingered_chemist 7 hours ago

The fact the Capitol had essentially zero security the day all members were present to tally the EC votes and people still think this wasn't faked?

Jim in MN 7 hours ago

Speaking as someone who actually attended the earlier 'Stop the Steal' rally in DC, I said at the time that the Jan. 6th event didn't smell right and felt like a setup. Recommended that folks stay away, expect trouble and stay frosty at that time.

Note that the FBI was/is also deeply involved in the BLM riots. AKA a criminal conspiracy to destabilize US civil order. Of course a lot of mayors and police chiefs are also involved in that criminal conspiracy.

The more you know.....

jammyjo 7 hours ago

FBI is making contact with unstable people, and do nothing but keep them on a list of "assets" to be activated when needed.

Patmos 7 hours ago

Gives new meaning to false narrative. More than just spin, they actually create the events themselves. Not quite a false flag, because nothing really happened.

Is anyone involved going to stand up and say no? Or have they all just decided to reserve themselves to being corrupt little b!tches?

Feck Weed 7 hours ago

FBI is the US domestic secret police force for the Globalist Empire. Nationalism is the enemy of the globalists...

[Jun 16, 2021] I guess the crazy conspiracy theorists were right again: FBI Operatives "highly likely" were the organizers Of Capitol Riot

FBI sponsored Arab Spring in the USA ?
Jun 16, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
WeNamedTheDogIndiana 7 hours ago

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

LeadPipeDreams 3 hours ago

The men on the street corners with "The End is Nigh" placards are beginning to resemble Walter Kronkite in demeanor as well as credibility.

But then again Walter was one of the CIA's finest...

Nona Yobiznes 7 hours ago

I guess the crazy conspiracy theorists were right again.

benb 3 hours ago (Edited)

Dumb Hannity used to call the FBI "The Crown Jewel of Law Enforcement,."

C Rabbit PREMIUM 7 hours ago

Why has the FBI never released the surveillance videos from the Alfred P. Murrah Buildings and the others around it from the morning of April 19, 1995. "It's still under investigation."

Why have the videos from all around the Pentagon taken on the morning of 9/11 never been released?

Why does the CIA refuse to release all of their files on the JFK assassination?

Why? Why? Why?

Muffdiver2269vIII 7 hours ago

Ahh, they are waiting for Durham to complete the reports?

wootendw PREMIUM 6 hours ago

"Congressman Matt Gaetz calls on FBI Director Christopher Wray to fully disclose the role and involvement of FBI operatives during the January 6th Capitol riot."

That would be self-incrimination.

radical-extremist 7 hours ago (Edited)

FBI will never talk because that would be revealing "classified methods and procedures".

Why of course they troll the boards looking for "extremists" to exploit. They befriend them and groom them, until they eventually enable them to commit the crime itself. Conspiracy to commit the crime isn't near as sexy as the real thing, let's put these people away for life. If there's collateral damage now and then, so be it. "Justice" comes at a cost. /s

Jim in MN 7 hours ago remove link

WELL WORTH a minute of your time.

https://www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-writing/the-federal-prosecutor/

The Federal Prosecutor, 1940

If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm-in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.

[Jun 12, 2021] How Fanatics Took Over The World

Jun 12, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com,

Early in the pandemic, I had been furiously writing articles about lockdowns. My phone rang with a call from a man named Dr. Rajeev Venkayya. He is the head of a vaccine company but introduced himself as former head of pandemic policy for the Gates Foundation.

Now I was listening.

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I did not know it then, but I've since learned from Michael Lewis's (mostly terrible) book The Premonition that Venkayya was, in fact, the founding father of lockdowns. While working for George W. Bush's White House in 2005, he headed a bioterrorism study group. From his perch of influence "" serving an apocalyptic president" he was the driving force for a dramatic change in U.S. policy during pandemics.

He literally unleashed hell.

That was 15 years ago. At the time, I wrote about the changes I was witnessing, worrying that new White House guidelines (never voted on by Congress) allowed the government to put Americans in quarantine while closing their schools, businesses, and churches shuttered, all in the name of disease containment.

I never believed it would happen in real life; surely there would be public revolt. Little did I know, we were in for a wild ride"¦

The Man Who Lit the Match

Last year, Venkayya and I had a 30-minute conversation; actually, it was mostly an argument. He was convinced that lockdown was the only way to deal with a virus. I countered that it was wrecking rights, destroying businesses, and disturbing public health. He said it was our only choice because we had to wait for a vaccine. I spoke about natural immunity, which he called brutal. So on it went.

The more interesting question I had at the time was why this certified Big Shot was wasting his time trying to convince a poor scribbler like me. What possible reason could there be?

The answer, I now realized, is that from February to April 2020, I was one of the few people (along with a team of researchers) who openly and aggressively opposed what was happening.

There was a hint of insecurity and even fear in Venkayya's voice. He saw the awesome thing he had unleashed all over the world and was anxious to tamp down any hint of opposition. He was trying to silence me. He and others were determined to crush all dissent.

This is how it has been for the better part of the last 15 months, with social media and YouTube deleting videos that dissent from lockdowns. It's been censorship from the beginning.

For all the problems with Lewis's book, and there are plenty, he gets this whole backstory right. Bush came to his bioterrorism people and demanded some huge plan to deal with some imagined calamity. When Bush saw the conventional plan" make a threat assessment, distribute therapeutics, work toward a vaccine" he was furious.

"This is bulls**t," the president yelled.

"We need a whole-of-society plan. What are you going to do about foreign borders? And travel? And commerce?"

Hey, if the president wants a plan, he'll get a plan.

"We want to use all instruments of national power to confront this threat," Venkayya reports having told colleagues.

"We were going to invent pandemic planning."

This was October 2005, the birth of the lockdown idea.

Dr. Venkayya began to fish around for people who could come up with the domestic equivalent of Operation Desert Storm to deal with a new virus. He found no serious epidemiologists to help. They were too smart to buy into it. He eventually bumped into the real lockdown innovator working at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.

Cranks, Computers, and Cooties

His name was Robert Glass, a computer scientist with no medical training, much less knowledge, about viruses. Glass, in turn, was inspired by a science fair project that his 14-year-old daughter was working on.

She theorized (like the cooties game from grade school) that if school kids could space themselves out more or even not be at school at all, they would stop making each other sick. Glass ran with the idea and banged out a model of disease control based on stay-at-home orders, travel restrictions, business closures, and forced human separation.

Crazy right? No one in public health agreed with him but like any classic crank, this convinced Glass even more. I asked myself, "Why didn't these epidemiologists figure it out?" They didn't figure it out because they didn't have tools that were focused on the problem. They had tools to understand the movement of infectious diseases without the purpose of trying to stop them.

Genius, right? Glass imagined himself to be smarter than 100 years of experience in public health. One guy with a fancy computer would solve everything! Well, he managed to convince some people, including another person hanging around the White House named Carter Mecher, who became Glass's apostle.

Please consider the following quotation from Dr. Mecher in Lewis's book: "If you got everyone and locked each of them in their own room and didn't let them talk to anyone, you would not have any disease."

At last, an intellectual has a plan to abolish disease" and human life as we know it too! As preposterous and terrifying as this is "" a whole society not only in jail but solitary confinement" it sums up the whole of Mecher's view of disease. It's also completely wrong.

Pathogens are part of our world; they are generated by human contact. We pass them onto each other as the price for civilization, but we also evolved immune systems to deal with them. That's 9th-grade biology, but Mecher didn't have a clue.

Fanatics Win the Day

Jump forward to March 12, 2020. Who exercised the major influence over the decision to close schools, even though it was known at that time that SARS-CoV-2 posed almost risk to people under the age of 20? There was even evidence that they did not spread COVID-19 to adults in any serious way.

Didn't matter. Mecher's models" developed with Glass and others" kept spitting out a conclusion that shutting down schools would drop virus transmission by 80%. I've read his memos from this period" some of them still not public" and what you observe is not science but ideological fanaticism in play.

Based on the timestamp and length of the emails, he was clearly not sleeping much. Essentially he was Lenin on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. How did he get his way?

There were three key elements: public fear, media and expert acquiescence, and the baked-in reality that school closures had been part of "pandemic planning" for the better part of 15 years. Essentially, the lockdowners, over the course of 15 years, had worn out the opposition. Lavish funding, attrition of wisdom within public health, and ideological fanaticism prevailed.

Figuring out how our expectations for normal life were so violently foiled, how our happy lives were brutally crushed, will consume serious intellectuals for many years. But at least we now have a first draft of history.

As with almost every revolution in history, a small minority of crazy people with a cause prevailed over the humane rationality of multitudes. When people catch on, the fires of vengeance will burn very hot.

The task now is to rebuild a civilized life that is no longer so fragile as to allow insane people to lay waste to all that humanity has worked so hard to build.

[Jun 12, 2021] China Notes That the Same Journalist Pushing Wuhan Lab Hoax Pushed Iraq WMD Hoax by Andrew Anglin

Jun 09, 2021 | www.unz.com
China Notes That the Same Journalist Pushing Wuhan Lab Hoax Pushed Iraq WMD Hoax ANDREW ANGLIN "¢ JUNE 5, 2021 "¢ 1,100 WORDS "¢ 150 COMMENTS "¢ REPLY Tweet Reddit Share Share Email Print More RSS Share to Gab

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Previously: There is Nothing Interesting in the Fauci Emails

China is inching dangerously close to dangerous anti-Semitism.

RT :

China's Foreign Ministry blasted the resurgent interest in the Covid-19 lab-origin theory, noting that the journalist behind a report about Wuhan scientists falling ill is the same one who peddled lies that led to the Iraq War.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin took aim at Michael R. Gordon, a national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and one of the authors of the report that added fuel to speculation about Covid-19's lab origin.

"Not long ago, Michael R. Gordon, an American journalist, by quoting a so-called "˜previously undisclosed US intelligence report,' hinted [at] a far-fetched connection between the "˜three sick staff' at the Wuhan lab and the Covid-19 outbreak," Wang said at a briefing on Friday.

"Nineteen years ago, it was this very reporter who concocted false information by citing unsubstantiated sources about Iraq's "˜attempt to acquire nuclear weapons,' which directly led to the Iraq War," he charged, referring to the 2003 US invasion.

The WSJ piece , published on May 23, cites "a previously undisclosed US intelligence report" as saying that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell seriously ill in November 2019 with symptoms "consistent" with Covid-19 as well as a seasonal flu.

The report got picked up by other mainstream media, which recently began shifting their coverage on Covid-19's origins from outright dismissing theories that the virus was man-made to admitting that a lab leak remains a possibility.

Gordon is supposedly not Jewish, but he co-wrote the New York Times pieces with the Jew Judith Miller.

Furthermore, I wouldn't personally point to Gordon as the source for the "Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis" "" I would point to the Jewish neocon Josh Rogin.

Rogin, like Gordon, spent years promoting various atrocity hoaxes in the Middle East and pushing wars for Israel, and is the original source for the version of the "Wuhan Lab theory," that is currently circulating, writing a Washington Post column promoting the hoax on April 14, 2020.

The point of course is that everywhere you look, there are neocons "" most of them Jewish "" promoting this Wuhan Lab stuff. They are the absolute source of the claim "" they and a Falun Gong Hong Kong CIA feminist woman, Li-Meng Yan.

She is claiming to be a "whistleblower," despite the fact that she in no way meets the definition of that term. The term necessarily implies insider knowledge "" usually, a whistleblower is an employee or former employee of the organization they are blowing the whistle on.

Though none of the media promoting her says it outright, there is an implication that she worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. She did not. She worked at a university in Hong Kong when she was funded by Steve Bannon to write a paper making the claim that the supposed coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon.

Bannon has recently been associated with Guo Wengui, a billionaire who was exiled from China for fraud and various crimes. In June of last year, Bannon declared that Guo is now the real ruler of China in a bizarre video on a boat.

While they were on the boat in front of the Statue of Liberty saying they were going to "overthrow the government of China," they flew planes around with signs announcing their new government.

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No one understood what was going on, and even Fox News reported on "confusion" regarding the banners and the livestream on the boat. The livestream has since been deleted, and there is no news from the Federal State of New China. But there is a Wikipedia page documenting this incredibly strange event.

Guo also runs a fake news website (I use that term in the most literal sense) where he published the Hunter Biden footjob videos.

The point is: this is a very weird operation, and it is absurd to take a person funded by these people seriously, as Tucker Carlson shamefully has.

(I'm not attacking Tucker over this, he's overall great and is sometimes just really slow on the uptake, unfortunately "" but it is shameful to get involved with a Hong Kong woman who was literally given money by Steve Bannon and his "Federation of New China" group to write a fake science paper.)

To pretend that she is a whistleblower, to pretend that political organizations funding papers with a predetermined outcome is serious science, is non-serious behavior.

The first time I heard the Wuhan lab leak theory it was being promoted by neocon extremist Tom Cotton. It was then promoted by neocon extremist Mike Pompeo, who was then in the process of trying to start a war with China. Now, it is being promoted by the Jews of CNN.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WVTZBh83RWk?feature=oembed

There is no one involved in claiming that the supposed coronavirus came from a Chinese lab who doesn't have vested interests in starting a war with the Chinese. This goes for all of these Jews, as well as Steve Bannon, who has actually declared "overthrowing the government of China" (his words) to be his goal.

It's very obvious to see how people who want a war with China would use this hoax, and it is great that China is making the link to the Iraqi WMD hoax. It truly is the same thing.

The United States is a country with a lot of problems. None of those problems are the fault of China. China is not promoting gay sex to children, they are not flooding us with millions of brown people, they did not steal our election, they did not take all of our freedoms and collapse the economy.

Our enemies are domestic and they are Jewish. Any attempt to fear-monger and attack China is intended as a distraction from what is going on in this country, and intended to stoke a war.

Furthermore, this "lab leak" nonsense is designed to get people to continue to believe in this coronavirus hoax.

Rahan , says: June 6, 2021 at 6:33 am GMT "¢ 3.8 days ago

Though none of the media promoting her says it outright, there is an implication that she worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. She did not. She worked at a university in Hong Kong when she was funded by Steve Bannon to write a paper making the claim that the supposed coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon.

Bannon has recently been associated with Guo Wengui, a billionaire who was exiled from China for fraud and various crimes. In June of last year, Bannon declared that Guo is now the real ruler of China in a bizarre video on a boat.

This style of presentation is updated "internet culture" gonzo that stands on the shoulders of Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and in a sense Mark Twain.

That fact that today's Anglospheric system no longer has a place within itself for this type of "dominant narrative-jamming" creativity, and to write like this means one has chosen to become a hunted outcast, means this culture is in a death spiral. It's no longer a self-renewing organism, but simply a collection of isolated biomass units used and thrown away by the masters.

Andreas , says: June 6, 2021 at 8:18 am GMT "¢ 3.7 days ago

"Nineteen years ago, it was this very reporter who concocted false information by citing unsubstantiated sources about Iraq's "˜attempt to acquire nuclear weapons,' which directly led to the Iraq War," he charged, referring to the 2003 US invasion.

Either the neo-cons thought no one would notice or the noe-cons didn't notice themselves.

I'm leaning towards the latter, especially with sloppy drunk Steve Bannon and a "Falun Gong Hong Kong CIA feminist woman" in the mix. Is this really the best they can do?

... ... ...

Ber , says: June 6, 2021 at 8:48 am GMT "¢ 3.7 days ago

"Coronavirus Has Been Found in Sewage Samples From 2019 in Spain, Italy and Brazil Samples as old as March 2019"

https://anti-empire.com/coronavirus-has-been-found-in-sewage-samples-from-2019-in-spain-italy-and-brazil/

BluEidDvl , says: June 6, 2021 at 9:46 am GMT "¢ 3.6 days ago

These times we're living in are absolutely surreal. Not surprised though, we've been doing this for a long time now. Alas, a great many of my fellow White Americans will fall for it completely & be all in for a war with China. None of them ever even contemplating what that would mean for us & the world. But, these are the same people who boast "we're number one" when we rank at or near the bottom in positive stats for all developed nations, beset with crippling societal ills. The same people who think we can vote ourselves out of this mess & Trump will win in "˜24 & somehow save the day. The same people who think our best days are ahead when our productivity base has been utterly gutted, our infrastructure is collapsing & our ability to maintain it & the skill set needed to sustain that productivity/infrastructure is slipping away. The same people who boast of "muh freedoms" when their freedoms & their children's future is being pulled from right under their feet. The same people who think we'll always be on top even when every example of history shows that every empire in history has collapsed. We're racing toward a cliff but they still think "god" is on their side & won't let it happen or we'll stay on top because, well, "we're America"..

Utter denial & abject delusion seem to be a central aspect of our people..

Joe Levantine , says: June 6, 2021 at 10:24 am GMT "¢ 3.6 days ago

" There is no one involved in claiming that the supposed coronavirus came from a Chinese lab who doesn't have vested interests in starting a war with the Chinese. This goes for all of these Jews, as well as Steve Bannon, who has actually declared "overthrowing the government of China" (his words) to be his goal."

" History often repeats itself, first as a tragedy and second as a farce"

Karl Marx.

The tragedy of the WMD of Iraq follows many other tragedies that got young Americans to spill their blood for the sake of special interests making a killing as war profiteers. The farce of " China spread the Corona virus will the biggest tragedy to hit America if the waning bald eagle tries to poke the rising dragon.

Andrew Anglin, is one of the few American journalists who stand boldly for the truth. Not bad for someone labelled a Neo Nazi by Wikipedia.

VICB3 , says: June 6, 2021 at 11:18 am GMT "¢ 3.6 days ago
@Andreas the similarly rotten United States Empire.

We'll all get to see what happens, I guess.

I like reading history, but I don't want to live it.

Just a thought.

VicB3

*That website can offer up a number of interesting links, including this interview with Putin: https://tass.com/economy/1299287

And here's a quote from him:

"The problem of empires is that they think they are so powerful that they can afford small inaccuracies and mistakes. "But problems keep piling up. And, at some point, they are no longer able to cope with them. And the United States is now walking the Soviet Union's path, and its gait is confident and steady."

Dutch Boy , says: June 6, 2021 at 8:13 pm GMT "¢ 3.2 days ago

The current consensus that Covid was likely a Wuhan lab leak was triggered by an article by Nicholas Wade, a former science writer for the NY Times and an impeccably establishmentarian journalist. Previous attempts by right wingers or maverick scientists to advance this hypothesis were ignored or scorned by the establishment press. Wade could not be so easily dismissed. His article, plus the release of emails by Fauci acknowledging the possibility of a lab-created virus (which he publicly ridiculed) and the revelation that Fauci had funded bat research at Wuhan, have changed the game entirely. My own suspicion is that the Biden administration is preparing to throw Fauci under the bus and has signaled the press that he is now fair game. He has served his purpose and can now be used as a scapegoat. It is unlikely that the Wuhan release will ever be definitively proven. It is more important to realize that this research is not restricted to Wuhan or China and that steps should be taken to shut down all such research world-wide, including the USA, lest we have a succession of these disasters.

Mulga Mumblebrain , says: June 7, 2021 at 6:51 am GMT "¢ 2.8 days ago
@Dutch Boy

The USA has been using bio-warfare for 200 years plus and can NEVER be trusted not to carry on such research. It controls c.200 labs, worldwide, where research into pathogens and vectors, particularly arthropods, and the collection of pathogens, is carried out. It used biological agents in Korea in the early 50s, and against Cuba (African Swine Fever and dengue) in the 70s, and God knows where else, and against its own people, most infamously the Tuskegee syphilis abomination. And it is responsible for SARS CoV2, you can be sure.

Commentator Mike , says: June 7, 2021 at 12:37 pm GMT "¢ 2.5 days ago
@Mulga Mumblebrain

The West has been trying to bring down China since they tried to turn them all into opium addicts. Americans were complicit with the British in this and many of the so-called deep state players made their money from the opium trade. Apparently the same families control the present day drugs trade and the laundering of the profits from it; the so-called drug cartels are mostly minor actors well below those who run the operation at the top. Members of the cartels are often sacrificed but those at the top remain the same.

Trial by Wombat , says: June 7, 2021 at 11:02 pm GMT "¢ 2.1 days ago
@Ber t we have is the Josh Hawley demand to declassify everything related to Covid from day-1, and since he made that proposal, it has been crickets from everyone else, which is again indicative that no one in the power elite has any incentive or goal to do more than batter their usual targets.

All that said "" the best practices at this stage of overwhelming deception is to start with what we can in fact establish and prove as actual plain fact, and proceed from there. If you start from what you suspect or theorize, you will soon be enmeshed in fevered propositions ("missiles hit the pentagon on 9/11") that crap all over the genuine facts and do nothing but hand-craft a made-to-order, wild goose chase. This is very welcome by those who want to control the entire denouement, to serve their own agenda.

Arthur MacBride , says: June 9, 2021 at 8:24 am GMT "¢ 16.8 hours ago
@Joe Levantine

"¦ many other tragedies that got young Americans to spill their blood for the sake of special interests making a killing as war profiteers.

Agree the main thrust of your post, Joe.

It is also worth remembering that very many innocent souls in countries across the world have been going about their daily lives when they were attacked, maimed and killed, their houses destroyed, infrastructure wrecked etc by those same young Americans. Some countries at this very hour are occupied and are being looted by the same.

Perhaps not a comfortable thought for Americans to add in as they see their country now descending into certifiable lunacy.
But what goes around does have a habit of coming around, sooner or later.

anonym25 , says: June 9, 2021 at 11:02 am GMT "¢ 14.2 hours ago
@Anon t Ron Unz has been saying from the beginning. If you look at it geostrategically, this is most plausible conclusion. They released the virus in China but those who created it suffered a massive blowback and even worse China came out of it even stronger than ever before. They were hoping China would crumble but instead got stronger while they weakened. That's why they are fanning out a major Anti-China propaganda campaign to contain her now openly with an overwhelming support of western citizens. This frenziness displayed by western politicians is the reflection that China is on the verge an unstoppable economic powerhouse within a few years and they need to put the brakes right now. It is an implicit admission of desperation. The tussle between China and the US is going to dramatically intensify.
Abbybwood , says: June 9, 2021 at 8:52 pm GMT "¢ 4.4 hours ago
@Mulga Mumblebrain

A country can't bring another country down by giving it "Most Favored Nation Trading Status".

Then sending all it's major corporations there to make big deals.

And how has it served the United States where practically every item, pill in the US is "Made in China"?

The American people were sold out decades ago in order for the 1% and their Congressional lackeys to make major bucks. We were even working with them to create a deadly virus!

[Jun 12, 2021] Fifteen percent of Americans agree that the government, media and financial worlds are controlled by pedophiles

Jun 06, 2021 | www.wsj.com

The problem with conspiracy theories (CIA invented term to whitewash CIA participation in killing of JFK) that some of them in ten to twenty years no longer viewed as conspiracies. They enter mainstream.

An online poll this week from Ipsos reported 15% of Americans agree that the government, media and financial worlds are controlled by Satan-worshiping pedophiles. Not 15% of Republicans or conservatives, but of Americans. That's a lot.

... ... ...

America is a lonely place. When you hold to a conspiracy theory, you join a community. You're suddenly part of something. You have new friends you can talk to on the internet ...

... One of the enduring and revealing songs of America asks "Which side are you on / Which side are you on? / You go to Harlan County / There is no neutral there / You'll either be a union man / Or a thug for J.H. Blair."

... ... ...

Conspiracy believers don't believe what the mainstream media tell them. Why would they? Newsrooms are undergoing their own revolution, with woke progressives vs. journalistic traditionalists, advocacy versus old-school news values. It is ideological. "We are here to shape and encourage a new reality." "No, we are here to find and report the news." It is generational: The young have the upper hand and the Slack channel. The woke are winning.

...

When you think your country has grown completely bizarre...Think of what normal human beings have been asked to absorb the past year. The whole country was shut down and everyone was told to stay in the house. They closed the churches, and the churches agreed. There was no school and everyone made believe""really, we all made believe!""screens were a replacement. A bunch of 13-year-old girls in the junior high decided they were boys and started getting shots, and no adults helped them by saying, "Whoa, slow down, this is a major life decision and you're a kid." The school board no longer argues about transgender bathrooms, they're on to transgender boys wanting to play on the girls team. Big corporations now tell you what you should think about local questions, and if this offends you, they don't care. There were riots and protests last summer and local government seemed overwhelmed.

[Jun 07, 2021] Putin sees 'double standard' in US Capitol riot prosecutions

Jun 07, 2021 | www.bbc.com

"They weren't just a crowd of robbers and rioters," Mr Putin said of the Trump supporters who stormed Congress on 6 January and temporarily suspended a session to certify Mr Biden as the winner of last November's election. "Those people had come with political demands."

When the forum moderator at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum suggested Mr Putin's comments about the Capitol riot could see him banned from US social media platforms, the Russian leader drew applause from the audience by retorting: "I don't give a damn about being blocked somewhere."

Earlier this week, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Capitol rioters were being "persecuted" by the US government.

Some 500 suspects have been arrested for the riot, most of them charged with entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds. Many have been released pending trial, but some are being held in solitary confinement.

A member of Mr Biden's own Democratic party, Senator Elizabeth Warren, has said some of the defendants were being subjected to "cruel" treatment.

Mr Putin also rebuked the West for its criticism of Russian authorities' response to anti-Kremlin demonstrations, including jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Opposition protests across Russia earlier this year were suppressed with crackdowns. Riot police were seen beating and dragging protesters away, while thousands of people were detained.

The Russian leader told business leaders that protesters in Europe have faced an even tougher police response, with some shot in the eye by what he mockingly called "democratic rubber bullets".

It is not clear what he was referring to, but a number of French demonstrators were blinded by rubber bullets fired by police during the so-called yellow vest rallies that began in late 2018.

[Jun 07, 2021] Fifteen percent of Americans agree that the government, media and financial worlds are controlled by pedophiles

Jun 06, 2021 | www.wsj.com

The problem with conspiracy theories (CIA invented term to whitewash CIA participation in killing of JFK) that some of them in ten to twenty years no longer viewed as conspiracies. They enter mainstream.

An online poll this week from Ipsos reported 15% of Americans agree that the government, media and financial worlds are controlled by Satan-worshiping pedophiles. Not 15% of Republicans or conservatives, but of Americans. That's a lot.

... ... ...

America is a lonely place. When you hold to a conspiracy theory, you join a community. You're suddenly part of something. You have new friends you can talk to on the internet ...

... One of the enduring and revealing songs of America asks "Which side are you on / Which side are you on? / You go to Harlan County / There is no neutral there / You'll either be a union man / Or a thug for J.H. Blair."

... ... ...

Conspiracy believers don't believe what the mainstream media tell them. Why would they? Newsrooms are undergoing their own revolution, with woke progressives vs. journalistic traditionalists, advocacy versus old-school news values. It is ideological. "We are here to shape and encourage a new reality." "No, we are here to find and report the news." It is generational: The young have the upper hand and the Slack channel. The woke are winning.

...

When you think your country has grown completely bizarre...Think of what normal human beings have been asked to absorb the past year. The whole country was shut down and everyone was told to stay in the house. They closed the churches, and the churches agreed. There was no school and everyone made believe""really, we all made believe!""screens were a replacement. A bunch of 13-year-old girls in the junior high decided they were boys and started getting shots, and no adults helped them by saying, "Whoa, slow down, this is a major life decision and you're a kid." The school board no longer argues about transgender bathrooms, they're on to transgender boys wanting to play on the girls team. Big corporations now tell you what you should think about local questions, and if this offends you, they don't care. There were riots and protests last summer and local government seemed overwhelmed.

[Jun 06, 2021] Watch- A Vindicated Rand Paul Decimates Fauci Over Emails

If we take ZH commentariat opinions as a representative sample of the US conservatives opinion, Fauci days are now numbered. And not only because he over 80.
Jun 05, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Speaking to Laura Ingraham, Paul asserted that "The emails paint a disturbing picture, a disturbing picture of Dr. Fauci, from the very beginning, worrying that he had been funding gain-of-function research. He knows it to this day, but hasn't admitted it."

The Senator also urged that Fauci's involvement has not been adequately investigated because in the eyes of Democrats "he could do no wrong".

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Paul pointed out that Fauci was denying that there was even any funding for gain of function research at the Wuhan lab just a few weeks back, a claim which is totally contradicted by his own emails in which he discusses it.

"In his e-mail, within the topic line, he says "˜acquire of perform research.' He was admitting it to his non-public underlings seven to eight months in the past," Paul emphasised.

The Senator also pointed to the email from Dr. Peter Daszak , President of the EcoHealth Alliance, a group that directly funded the Wuhan lab gain of function research, thanking Fauci for not giving credence to the lab leak theory.

Ingraham asked Paul if Fauci could face felony culpability, to which the Senator replied "At the very least, there is ethical culpability," and Fauci should be fired from his government roles.

Earlier Paul had reacted to Amazon pulling Fauci's upcoming book from pre-sale:

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In softball interviews with MSNBC and CNN Thursday, Fauci dismissed the notion that his emails show any conflicts of interest, and claimed that it is in China's "best interest" to be honest about the pandemic origins, adding that the US should not act "accusatory" toward the communist state.

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Fauci also said it is "far fetched that the Chinese deliberately engineered something so that they could kill themselves, as well as other people."

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Dotard PRO 17 hours ago

Roger Stone was given 9 years for lying to Congress. Fauci should be on the same hook.

truth or go home 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Looks like Fauci is going the way of Gates, but he won't be arrested, because he is doing the bidding of the overlords.

What could he be arrested for? Let's see: Misappropriation of government funds, lying to a senator under oath, covering up a criminal operation, operating a conspiracy to deceive the people of the United States.

Seems like Rand is willing to nail Fauci to the wall, but he is not willing to go after the big kahuna - the entire hoax - the fake vaxxes, the fake lockdowns, the fake "cases", the fake death count, the elimination of flu...

Lucky Guesst 10 hours ago

Fauci is owned by big pharma. All the major news channels have at least one big pharma rat on the board. MSM continues to push the vaccines. They are all in bed together and need busted up if not taken out.

SummerSausage PREMIUM 15 hours ago

2012- Fauci says weaponized virus research may produce a pandemic but it would be worth it.

Jan 9, 2017 NIAD memo recommends lifting ban on funding weaponized virus research. Fauci controls the funds.

Jan 4, 2017 - CIA/FBI/DNC - under Obama's direction are told, essentially, to get Trump.

Obama is behind release of this virus, creating pandemic panic and lockdown to facilitate stealing the 2020 election.

OBAMA must be investigated.

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CheapBastard 10 hours ago

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."

~ Anonymous

serotonindumptruck 17 hours ago remove link

Call me a pessimist, but I predict no accountability, no malfeasance, no criminal charges will be filed against Fauci.

We've all witnessed similar criminal behavior being perpetrated by the wealthy elite which result in no consequences.

Why should this be any different?

(((They))) now know that (((they))) can lie to us with impunity, and get away with it.

alexcojones 16 hours ago

New Nuremberg Needed Now.

Fauci in the witness chair.

"So, Dr. Fauci, your decisions, your outright lies, led to thousands, perhaps millions of unnecessary deaths."

Kobe Beef 10 hours ago

Does the fluzilla exist?

It could be this thing...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26552008/

Baric & Batwoman published their chimeric coronavirus with ACE2 receptor access in 2015. Funded by Fauci, of course.

Kevin 3 hours ago (Edited)

That document only shows that Gain Of Function research exists - not that the deaths, falsely attributed to covid are due to the product of that research.

What self-respecting, lab-created, killer virus, supposedly so deadly that it warrants the shutting down of the entire planet, is incapable of doing any more damage than the flu does every year?

In the case of the UK, and according to its own official figures, it hasn't even been able to do that compared to its history of seasonal flu.

See: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/deceptive-construction-why-we-must-question-covid-19-mortality-statistics

So, 2020 was just a blip compared to the past and most of that blip in increased deaths was due to the insane policies imposed rather than any lab-created Fluzilla. If you subtract the deaths that occurred due to:

1. Kicking seniors out of hospital and dumping them into nursing homes where they died because they no longer got the treatment they needed but where they could infect the other, previously healthy residents.

2. The many tens of thousands of people who had life-saving surgeries and procedures cancelled.

3. The huge increase in suicides.

..... I doubt there would even be that blip.

If those historically, insignificant 2020 death figures are due to a lab-created, chimeric coronavirus then that's an epic fail of the scientists and an enormous waste of money for their education and the G.o.F. research.

However, it has conned enough idiots into believing that there was a Fluzilla in 2020 and got them to beg for jabs that might be how a lab created, chimeric coronavirus with ACE2 receptor access gets into their bodies and kills them.

The new con that it was a leaked GoF bio-weapon that caused the 2020 'pandemic' is just a lie upon a lie.

But it will persuade many of the gullible and fence-sitters to get jabbed because they will have accepted (subconsciously), that the Fluzilla must have existed last year and that the only way to combat such a bio-weapon is to jab themselves with poison. Ironically, that will create in their bodies what they fear most.

Befits 9 hours ago remove link

No, you are not thinking clearly. The Covid death numbers were clearly and horrifically inflated

1) The CDC changed how death certificates were recorded. Co-morbidities ( cancer, congestive heart failure, COPD for example) that co- morbidity was listed as cause of death in part one of the death certificate for 2 decades until the CDC changed death certificates. If that person had for example a flu At that time ( cough, stuffy nose etc) it might be listed as a contributing factor ( part 2 of death certificate) person died of co- morbidity but flu was a contributing factor. The CDC reversed these to make sure Covid was the cause of death- but truth was people died with Covid not from Covid.

2) 95% of Covid listed deaths actually died of co- morbidities- with Covid not from Covid. The CDC published that only 5% of " Covid " deaths had only Covid- the other 95% had on average 4 co- morbidities. In other words their cause of death was co- morbidity not Covid.

3) personal experience. I was a nurse. A close friend's brother had cancer for 7 years- in and out of remission. He was " diagnosed with Covid via PCR, almost no symptoms but for a slight cough and runny nose in March 2020. In April his cancer came back his liver shut down and he was dead by May 2020. He died from liver cancer but his death was recorded as Covid 19 simply because he had tested positive 60 days before on a Covid PCR test. This is the fraud the CDC perpetrated.

4) Hospitals received greatly enhanced financial renumeration if a patient was " diagnosed" with Covid. Compare hospital reimbursement ( Medicare) for a hospitalized Covid patient v influenza patient - similar symptoms- on or off respirator. Bottom line the medical system was financially rewarded for diagnosing " Covid" v influenza. Indeed the hospital did not even have to confirm a " Covid diagnosis with the fraudulent PCR test to diagnose Covid- just " symptom" based.

5) The PCR test can not diagnose any viral illness- simply by amplification cycles (30 plus) you can " find" Covid from a dead, partial RNA fragment. As Kary Mullis, Nobel prize inventor of PCR testing said PCR testing is NOT a diagnostic tool. Hospitals and docs, universities and public health departments, corporations, the CDC, FDA, used false PCR testing to financially enrich themselves while destroying the lives and livelihoods of millions inc careers of medical truth- tellers.

Fauci, the CDC, and the FDA knows all of this. Crimes v humanity trials must be undertaken v every medical person- from Big Pharma, CDC, FDA, Doctor, nurse, hospital administrator, public health official, corporate leader etc who used this Covid plandemic for personal benefit or whom through their actions harmed another.

SoDamnMad 17 hours ago

Watch Tucker Carlson's expose on "Why they lied for so long" At 3:29 he goes into Peter Danzak getting 27 "scientists" to write in the Lancet that the Covid virus didn't come from the Wuhan Lab but rather from nature (with the HIV spliced into the genome). But he also tells individuals at UNC NOT to sign the letter so that their gain-of-function research isn't tied into this. His e-mail goes to Ralph Baric, Antoinette Baric, as well as Andre Alison and Alexsei Chmura at EcoHealthAlliance who Fauci got the money to for funding GOF Chinese research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32V-e7saq60

SummerSausage PREMIUM 15 hours ago

Fauci is 80. Why was he allowed to stay on so long?

He controls $32 billion in annual grants that all US scientists and researchers depend on.

There's a whole lot more corruption to explore.

CatInTheHat 8 hours ago remove link

This whole thing feels CONTRIVED

Why does this even matter anymore?

China is NOT the problem here and focusing on CHINA DISTRACTS from a few things here.

1 FORT DETRIK. A nefarious US BIOWEAPONS lab that Fraudci worked at for 20 years. FD also works in conjunction with DARPA

2. Whenever it's WAPO or Buzzfeed (FFS!) who breaks a story related to the Rona, I am convinced that the elite have called them up to DISTRACT the public from something more important. Maybe that Fort Detrik was the source of the virus transferred to China via the US MIC/CIA and the Wuhan military games in China in Nov of 2019. 2 weeks later the first cases showed up at Wuhan.

3. This VACCINE has now killed over 5000 people and since the rollout for children between 12-16, several hundred have now been hospitalized with MYOCARDITIS OR PERICARDITIS.. In Israel a study conducted as the vax rolled out in YOUNG MEN, it was revealed that one in 3,000 was suffering from MYOCARDITIS within 4 days of the jab.

MSM is now reporting on adolescents in several states hospitalized with INFLAMMATION. ... Which they blame on RONA. FUNNY how every one of those states have rolled out the jab for CHILDREN

WE are being massively LIED too.

Also, Biden's press secretary PSAKI LIED when she said, today, that 63% of the population has had the jab.

Wrong. Only 41% of the US population has had BOTH jabs. Anti gun Biden is now offering guns in exchange for a vax in Virginia. And anti marijuana Biden offering MJ in AZ for those who take the jab. Why the desperation?

For more perspective on the massive deaths piling up due to this jab, in 1976, when 50 people were killed after the Swine flu jab IT WAS PULLED FROM THE MARKET.

Many thousands who have not had the jab are reporting illness after being in close contact with those who are vaxxed.

Lots and lots to DISTRACT from

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

ableman28 10 hours ago

True story....one of my VC firms investments was approached by the defense department to create a wearable lapel style detector for chemical and biological weapons that would work in very low concentrations giving people time to put on their CBW gear. Our investee said sure, we'll take a crack at it, but where are we going to get all the biological and chemical agents to test it with. The DOD response was don't worry, we have everything you'll need. And they did.

The US bio weapons program was supposedly terminated by Nixon in 1969. And our official policy is that we don't research or stockpile such things. ********.

Armed Resistance 15 hours ago (Edited) remove link

This virus was engineered at Ft. Detrick. It's the same place that made the military-grade Anthrax the deep state sent to Tom Daschle and others in government post 9/11 to gin up more fear.

This was a Fauci-coordinated deep state bio weapon they released in Wuhan to kick off the scamdemic and the "great reset". Releasing it China gave some cover to the deep state and the people there are under total control of the state. The rest is just filler. Always about more control.....

BeePee 15 hours ago

The virus was not engineered at Ft. Detrick.

You are a CCP troll.

Sorry you have such a low pay grade job.

Armed Resistance 15 hours ago (Edited)

Anybody who Questions the deep state is a CCP troll? Look in the mirror. You're the one running cover for these satanists! You rack up downvotes like Jordan did points! ZH'ers can spot a troll a mile away son.

louie1 PREMIUM 14 hours ago (Edited)

The US way is to put the perpetrators in charge of the inuiry to control the outcome. Dulles, Zellick, Fauci

Mighty Turban of Gooch 11 hours ago

Our government is corrupt. As long as the Democrats and the MSM have Fauci's back, he has nothing to worry about no matter what he's done.

He's just a typical lying bureaucrat and lying to the public thru the media outlets, as we have seen countless times now by countless government 'officials', is not a crime. Lying under oath however is. But now days we see these guys get away with that too without consequence.

So don't hold your breath. There is absolutely nothing that can take these guys out. Even if they throw one of their own under the bus, the best you can ever hope for is a resignation as criminal charges would never happen.

dustinthewind 16 hours ago (Edited)

"The CDC Foundation operates independently from CDC as a private , nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the State of Georgia."

"Because CDC is a federal agency , all scientific findings resulting from CDC research are available to the public and open to the broader scientific community for review."

"The Board of Directors of the CDC Foundation today named Judith A. Monroe, MD, FAAFP, as the new president and CEO of the CDC Foundation . Monroe joins the CDC Foundation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), where she leads the agency's Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support."

Gates is the largest private donor of the CDC and WHO. Gates is part of the World Economic Forum who controls Fauci which using US taxpayers funds did gain of function studies first in the US and caught moved to China where it was intentionally leaked to blame the Chinese. John Kerry is also part of the WEF and is their man in Washington calling the war mongering narrative against both China and Russia. Gates funded Imperial College and Ferguson to write the code that was fake and used by many countries to justify lockdowns. Gates is the largest ag landowner and wants to ban meat. Who just got hacked and now it is blamed on Russia? Boris is destroying the UK and after a call from Gates gave 500 million pounds to vaccinate third world countries and lockdowns. Both fathers were tied to Rockefeller Institute. Rand, connect the dots!

" Fauci under Global Attack"

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/fauci-under-global-attack/

Fauci is under attack globally and has shown himself to be unreliable and should be fired "" PERIOD! All the emails that have come out from an FOIA request are interesting, and it shows he has information that was credible concerning a leak from the lab in Wuhan. Let me make this PERFECTLY clear! This was NOT a DELIBERATE leak by the Chinese government. If China wanted to really hurt the West, the technology is there where a virus can be used as a delivery system, and as such, it can be designed to attack specific genetic sequences meaning that it could target just Italian, Greeks, English, Germans, or whoever.

COVID-19, based upon everything I see from our model and reliable sources, was created in a lab and was DELIBERATELY unleashed to further this Great Reset. I BELIEVE someone from this agenda bribed a lab technician to release it in the local community. China did NOT benefit from this pandemic. The only ones who benefitted were the World Economic Forum (WEF) consortium, which I know sold stocks and bonds ahead of the crash. They are also in league with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the head of the WHO is a politician and not even a doctor. That is like putting me in charge of surgery at a hospital. How can Tedros Adhanom be in such a position with no background in the subject matter? Tedros appears at the World Economic Forum and has participated in its agenda. The WHO should be compelled to turn over ALL emails and communication ASAP. My bet is they pull a Hillary"¦Oh sorry. They were hacked by Russians who destroyed everything.


The World Economic Forum is at the center of everything. When will someone investigate all of these connections right down to creating the slogan, Build Back Better? Of course, they will call this a conspiracy theory so they can avoid having to actually investigate anything. My point is simple: produce the evidence and prove this is just a conspiracy theory.

'John Kerry's Think Tank Calls for War With Russia Over Climate Change'

https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/12/john-kerrys-think-tank-calls-for-war-with-russia-over-climate-change/

" America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is."" John Kerry

Recently-appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has announced his intention of dealing with the pressing issue of global warming as a national security concern. "America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is," the 76-year-old former Secretary of State wrote. "I am proud to partner with the President-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate movement to take on this crisis." Kerry is a founding member of the Washington think tank, the American Security Project (ASP) , whose board is a who's who of retired generals, admirals and senators.

For the ASP, the primary objectives were:

  1. A huge rebuilding of the United States' military bases,

  2. Countering China in the Pacific,

  3. Preparing for a war with Russia in the newly-melted Arctic.

The ASP recommends "prioritizing the measures that can protect readiness" of the military to strike at any time, also warning that rising sea levels will hurt the combat readiness of the Marine Expeditionary Force. Thus, a rebuilding of the U.S.' worldwide network of military bases is in order.

Nelbev 17 hours ago

... and what kind of kickbacks does Fauci get when he doles out $ millions in grant money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6gAbZdhDc

CatInTheHat 9 hours ago (Edited)

Fort Detrik a US BIOWEAPONS lab working in tandem with the Wuhan lab. The US is the leader in BIOWEAPONS research and has 100's of labs across the US and in other countries.

FRAUDCI having worked at FD for 20 years.

MommickedDingbatter 12 hours ago

Without Nuremberg trials 2.0, this is all meaningless.

Nycmia37 16 hours ago remove link

Follow the science, lol. Just ask yourself who controls the science?? Big drug pharmas, people is so stupid they believe in everything doctors tell them. The vast majority are on the field to get rich and enjoy from the big bonuses and trips they get paid in order to promote a drug. If they speak out they get called a conspiracy person. Nobody cant go against this mafia because they have the total control, media, politicians, government. We the people have to self educate about health and finance otherwise we will become zombies like the majority of people.

SoDamnMad 7 hours ago remove link

Here are the 27 starting with Peter Daszak who signed THE LANCET letter saying ," We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. "

  1. Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, New York
  2. Charles Calisher, Colorado State University
  3. Dennis Carroll, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Texas
  4. Rita Colwell, University of Maryland
  5. Ronald Corley, NEIDL Institute, Boston
  6. Christian Drosten, Charité "" Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  7. Luis Enjuanes, National Center of Biotechnology, Madrid
  8. Jeremy Farrar, The Wellcome Trust, London
  9. Hume Field, EcoHealth Alliance, New York
  10. Josie Golding, The Wellcome Trust, London
  11. Alexander Gorbalenya, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
  12. Bart Haagmans, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  13. James Hughes, Emory University, Atlanta
  14. William Karesh, EcoHealth Alliance, New York
  15. Gerald Keusch, Boston University
  16. Sai Kit Lam, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  17. Juan Lubroth, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
  18. John Mackenzie, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
  19. Larry Madoff, Massachusetts Medical School
  20. Jonna Mazet, University of California at Davis
  21. Peter Palese, Icahn School of Medicine, New York
  22. Stanley Perlman, University of Iowa
  23. Leo Poon, The University of Hong Kong
  24. Bernard Roizman, University of Chicago
  25. Linda Saif, The Ohio State University
  26. Kanta Subbarao, The University of Melbourne, Australia
  27. Mike Turner, The Wellcome Trust, London
gaaasp 6 hours ago

Pangolins indeed.

Moribundus 12 hours ago remove link

Daszak is just cover up for Pentagon. In this case Daszak = Pentagon.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/peter-daszaks-ecohealth-alliance-has-hidden-almost-40-million-in-pentagon-funding/

DesertEagle 12 hours ago

Fauci is protected at the very highest levels of the oligarchy. So regardless of these revelations nothing serious will ever happen to him. At worst, he will step down and retire to his villa in the south of France. Then the controlled MSM will refuse to mention him again.

Clearing 17 hours ago

Gee, while you're at it, sue Fauci in his individual capacity. He doesn't get immunity for lying. See below:

In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from civil suits unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known". It is a form of sovereign immunity less strict than absolute immunity that is intended to protect officials who "make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions" extending to "all [officials] but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law " Qualified immunity applies only to government officials in civil litigation, and does not protect the government itself from suits arising from officials' actions.

DemandSider 3 hours ago (Edited)

"PCR is separate from that, it's just a process that's used to make a whole lot of something out of something. That's what it is. It doesn't tell you that you're sick and it doesn't tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything like that," Mullis said.

-Nobel Prize winning inventor of PCR being used as a "test" to perpetuate the scamdemic. Mr. "small government" Rand Paul is only making it worse.

Almachius 2 hours ago

Never mind Fauci. White Supremacists are the greatest threat to America.

Obiden said so.

And Obiden is an honourable man.

Fiscal Reality 14 hours ago

Fauci doesn't give a crap what happens. He got his book deal payoff. He's praying to get fired so he can cash in on his taxpayer funded pension and get a $10 million contract with CNN.

2types PREMIUM 13 hours ago

Amazon pulled his book from presale so says the article. Probably in his best interest to keep his mouth shut right now. Anything he says can and will be used against him. On second thought.... maybe that's why water carrier Bezos suspended sales?

[Jun 03, 2021] The Lab-Leak Theory: Investigating Fauci's COVID Can Of Worms

Abridged version. See the original for full version.
Notable quotes:
"... In October 2014, the Obama administration imposed a moratorium on new funding for gain-of-function research projects that could make influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses more virulent or transmissible. But a footnote to the statement announcing the moratorium carved out an exception for cases deemed "urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security." ..."
"... the review process shrouded in secrecy. "The names of reviewers are not released, and the details of the experiments to be considered are largely secret," said the Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Marc Lipsitch, whose advocacy against gain-of-function research helped prompt the moratorium. ..."
"... In May 2014, five months before the moratorium on gain-of-function research was announced, EcoHealth secured a NIAID grant of roughly $3.7 million, which it allocated in part to various entities engaged in collecting bat samples, building models, and performing gain-of-function experiments to see which animal viruses were able to jump to humans. The grant was not halted under the moratorium or the P3CO framework. ..."
"... Shi Zhengli herself listed U.S. government grant support of more than $1.2 million on her curriculum vitae: $665,000 from the NIH between 2014 and 2019; and $559,500 over the same period from USAID. At least some of those funds were routed through EcoHealth Alliance. ..."
"... EcoHealth Alliance's practice of divvying up large government grants into smaller sub-grants for individual labs and institutions gave it enormous sway within the field of virology. The sums at stake allow it to "purchase a lot of omertà" from the labs it supports, said Richard Ebright of Rutgers. ..."
"... now the spin doctors come around pointing the finger at china. Sure, china may have done the experimentation and research, but where did the funding, research resources, training, and direction come from? ..."
"... The US banned bioweapon development (in the US) and moved it to China with Fraudci in charge so that they could do human experiments and make lots of money on GMO "vaccines" And now the US is trying to spin the story and put the blame on China ..."
Jun 03, 2021 | ZeroHedge

As the NSC tracked these disparate clues, U.S. government virologists advising them flagged one study first submitted in April 2020. Eleven of its 23 coauthors worked for the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the Chinese army's medical research institute. Using the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, the researchers had engineered mice with humanized lungs, then studied their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. As the NSC officials worked backward from the date of publication to establish a timeline for the study, it became clear that the mice had been engineered sometime in the summer of 2019, before the pandemic even started. The NSC officials were left wondering: Had the Chinese military been running viruses through humanized mouse models, to see which might be infectious to humans?

In October 2014, the Obama administration imposed a moratorium on new funding for gain-of-function research projects that could make influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses more virulent or transmissible. But a footnote to the statement announcing the moratorium carved out an exception for cases deemed "urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security."

In the first year of the Trump administration, the moratorium was lifted and replaced with a review system called the HHS P3CO Framework (for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight). It put the onus for ensuring the safety of any such research on the federal department or agency funding it. This left the review process shrouded in secrecy. "The names of reviewers are not released, and the details of the experiments to be considered are largely secret," said the Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Marc Lipsitch, whose advocacy against gain-of-function research helped prompt the moratorium. (An NIH spokesperson told Vanity Fair that "information about individual unfunded applications is not public to preserve confidentiality and protect sensitive information, preliminary data, and intellectual property.")

Inside the NIH, which funded such research, the P3CO framework was largely met with shrugs and eye rolls, said a longtime agency official: "If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology." He added, "Ever since the moratorium, everyone's gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway."

British-born Peter Daszak, 55, is the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit with the laudable goal of preventing the outbreak of emerging diseases by safeguarding ecosystems. In May 2014, five months before the moratorium on gain-of-function research was announced, EcoHealth secured a NIAID grant of roughly $3.7 million, which it allocated in part to various entities engaged in collecting bat samples, building models, and performing gain-of-function experiments to see which animal viruses were able to jump to humans. The grant was not halted under the moratorium or the P3CO framework.

By 2018, EcoHealth Alliance was pulling in up to $15 million a year in grant money from an array of federal agencies, including the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to 990 tax exemption forms it filed with the New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau. Shi Zhengli herself listed U.S. government grant support of more than $1.2 million on her curriculum vitae: $665,000 from the NIH between 2014 and 2019; and $559,500 over the same period from USAID. At least some of those funds were routed through EcoHealth Alliance.

EcoHealth Alliance's practice of divvying up large government grants into smaller sub-grants for individual labs and institutions gave it enormous sway within the field of virology. The sums at stake allow it to "purchase a lot of omertà" from the labs it supports, said Richard Ebright of Rutgers. (In response to detailed questions, an EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson said on behalf of the organization and Daszak, "We have no comment.")

In July, the NIH attempted to backtrack. It reinstated the grant but suspended its research activities until EcoHealth Alliance fulfilled seven conditions, some of which went beyond the nonprofit's purview and seemed to stray into tinfoil-hat territory. They included: providing information on the "apparent disappearance" of a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher, who was rumored on social media to be patient zero, and explaining diminished cell phone traffic and roadblocks around the WIV in October 2019.

Ebright likened Daszak's model of research -- bringing samples from a remote area to an urban one, then sequencing and growing viruses and attempting to genetically modify them to make them more virulent -- to "looking for a gas leak with a lighted match." Moreover, Ebright believed that Daszak's research had failed in its stated purpose of predicting and preventing pandemics through its global collaborations.

It soon emerged, based on emails obtained by a Freedom of Information group called U.S. Right to Know, that Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific unanimity.

Under the subject line, "No need for you to sign the "Statement" Ralph!!," he wrote to two scientists, including UNC's Dr. Ralph Baric, who had collaborated with Shi Zhengli on the gain-of-function study that created a coronavirus capable of infecting human cells: "you, me and him should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn't work in a counterproductive way." Daszak added, "We'll then put it out in a way that doesn't link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice."

Baric agreed, writing back, "Otherwise it looks self-serving and we lose impact."

Baric did not sign the statement. In the end, Daszak did. At least six other signers had either worked at, or had been funded by, EcoHealth Alliance. The statement ended with a declaration of objectivity: "We declare no competing interests."

Daszak mobilized so quickly for a reason, said Jamie Metzl: "If zoonosis was the origin, it was a validation of his life work . But if the pandemic started as part of a lab leak, it had the potential to do to virology what Three Mile Island and Chernobyl did to nuclear science." It could mire the field indefinitely in moratoriums and funding restrictions.

In a CNN interview on March 26, Dr. Redfield, the former CDC director under Trump, made a candid admission: "I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped." Redfield added that he believed the release was an accident, not an intentional act. In his view, nothing that happened since his first calls with Dr. Gao changed a simple fact: The WIV needed to be ruled out as a source, and it hadn't been.

After the interview aired, death threats flooded his inbox. The vitriol came not just from strangers who thought he was being racially insensitive but also from prominent scientists, some of whom used to be his friends. One said he should just "wither and die."

Peter Daszak was getting death threats too, some from QAnon conspirators.

Inside the U.S. government, meanwhile, the lab-leak hypothesis had survived the transition from Trump to Biden. On April 15, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told the House Intelligence Committee that two "plausible theories" were being weighed: a lab accident or natural emergence.

Even so, lab-leak talk was mostly confined to right-wing news outlets through April, gleefully flogged by Tucker Carlson and studiously avoided by most of the mainstream media. In Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee's Republican minority had launched its own inquiry, but there was little buy-in from Democrats and the NIH didn't provide responses to its lengthy list of demands for information.

The ground began to shift on May 2, when Nicholas Wade, a former New York Times science writer known in part for writing a controversial book about how genes shape the social behavior of different races, published a lengthy essay on Medium. In it, he analyzed the scientific clues both for and against a lab leak, and excoriated the media for its failure to report on the dueling hypotheses. Wade devoted a full section to the "furin cleavage site," a distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2's genetic code that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells.

Within the scientific community, one thing leapt off the page. Wade quoted one of the world's most famous microbiologists, Dr. David Baltimore, saying that he believed the furin cleavage site "was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus." Baltimore, a Nobel Laureate and pioneer in molecular biology, was about as far from Steve Bannon and the conspiracy theorists as it was possible to get. His judgment, that the furin cleavage site raised the prospect of gene manipulation, had to be taken seriously.

Weedlord Bonerhitler, 1 hour ago

Gain of function research is weaponization. We are under attack by a biological weapon designed in a laboratory to kill people. We are, in effect, at war.

KickIce, 1 hour ago, (Edited)

With who, Washington DC? FWIW, that would be my pick.

ted41776, 1 hour ago

Yes, except "we" moved this "research" to china many years ago to speed up the weaponization of bioweapons. the original researchers came to the us from nazi Germany after WW2 (Project Paperclip). it wasn't moving fast enough here because of that whole experimenting on humans thing was looked down upon here in the US (at least in the past). so "we" hired china what "we" couldn't do domestically on "our" own.

And now the spin doctors come around pointing the finger at china. Sure, china may have done the experimentation and research, but where did the funding, research resources, training, and direction come from?

gregga777, 1 hour ago

Gain of function research is weaponization

It's also insane. Hey, look at what we did! We made smallpox* in our gene sequencing laboratory. Oops! It's release into the 'wild' was an unfortunate accident.

Anyone engaged in the research & development of making viruses or bacteria more lethal or the resurrection of presumably extinct pathogens (e.g., smallpox*) are International War Criminals. They should be arrested and placed on trial in a suitable jurisdiction. At the very least they should be barred forever from working in any kind of even remotely related laboratory research.

*The complete gene sequence of smallpox is apparently freely available over the Internet.

tion, PREMIUM, 51 minutes ago, (Edited)

This study https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/JVI.01085-07

is an example of GOF engineering that bat lady Shi Zhengli participated in, engineering chimeras of SARS and SARS like coronaviruses and splicing with HIV to make it more transmissible to humans.

Pax Romana, 1 hour ago

10 page article could have been condensed into one sentence: Fort Detrick -> Canadian Lab -> Wuhan -> Spooks -> Election Fraud -> Vax -> State Control

ted41776, 1 hour ago

The US banned bioweapon development (in the US) and moved it to China with Fraudci in charge so that they could do human experiments and make lots of money on GMO "vaccines" And now the US is trying to spin the story and put the blame on China

no, this covaids was MADE IN THE USA even if it was produced and manufactured in China under US funding, direction, and supervision

brian91145, 1 hour ago

100% right that is the truth that everyone will know very soon

ted41776, 1 hour ago, (Edited)

not sure if it will make any difference

911: US training and funding bin laden for over a decade? WMDs, they got WMDs! pools of molten metal caused by... kerosene (jet fuel)? building 7...

we gotta get that f||cker bin laden though

bammy arming cartels (fast and furious) and guns they got from him used to kill americans (including cops and border patrol)? crickets

there is no election fraud, after seeing them spend 4 years trying to overthrow a president who allegedly used fraud and russian collusion to get elected?

and on and on and on, the neverending 24/7 stream of lies and distortion

unfortunately, truth has become pretty worthless in this sick reality most people live in

konputa, 1 hour ago

Designed in the US, manufactured in China. We've known this since early 2020.

CheapBastard, 1 hour ago

(((Vanity Fair))) has the same editorial weight that Teen Vogue has.

Handful of Dust, 22 minutes ago

The Lab-Leak Theory- Investigating Fauci's COVID -Can Of Worms-

The article is meant to obfuscate the truth, not clarify it.

CheapBastard, 51 minutes ago, (Edited)

The author carefully avoids inconvenient but important truths including::

Fauci funded the Wuhan bioweapons lab thru NIH (proven by emails) Fauci lied repeatedly from day#1 about the characteristics and origin of the deadly virus (also proven by emails) the WHO lied repeatedly about the origin the involvement of Gates in this entire fiasco

S.Parker, · 1 hour ago

Fort Detrick, USA

Handful of Dust, · 4 minutes ago

· Bumbler-in-Chief Biden in the White House Backs 'Incredible' Dr. Anthony Fauci; Refuses Comment on Explosive Emails Exposing the Lies & Deceit

· https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/03/white-house-backs-incredible-dr-anthony-fauci-refuses-comment-on-explosive-emails/

LarryC, 1 hour ago

Its a book! Damn Tylers it will take me days to read. · The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 states:

"Whoever knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, transfers, acquires, retains, or possesses any biological agent, toxin, or delivery system for use as a weapon, or knowingly assists a foreign state or any organization to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both."

Weedlord Bonerhitler, 1 hour ago

Don't need a next leak. Just need time for the leaky vaccines to do their work. A vaccine that doesn't stop transmission and merely reduces symptoms, is not a vaccine, but an evolutionary pressure upon the virus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek's_disease

This is Marek's disease, found in chickens. A few decades ago, it was fairly benign, but then it was treated with a vaccine that merely reduced symptoms to a minimum without stopping the virus. Now, after evolving over a few decades while butting heads with that leaky vaccine, it's so deadly to chickens that any unvaccinated flocks tend to be wiped out by it, making vaccinating every chicken on Earth a necessity.

This is our future. They want people completely dependent on their vaccines to survive.

[Jun 01, 2021] Tesla is dying, and this is how it will end by Adam Kaslikowski

www.amazon.com
May 28, 2019

Tesla completely transformed the automotive landscape when it introduced the Roadster, pioneering the mass-market electric car and reinventing the car as we know . It sold the first widely-available EV, and it did it with a product that you could easily live with every day. The company has done more to further the electric game than anyone else and deserves total credit for making EVs a part of the discussion when it comes to the future of the automobile. Tesla has changed the world. It's also doomed.

The last mainstream automaker to be launched from scratch in the United States was Saturn, a heavily subsidized child of the GM family. Even with those deep pockets, it failed. History is littered with dead automotive brands. The list of deceased automakers is also replete with visionary leaders who pioneered new tech and aimed to dominate the luxury market.

The automobile game is tough. The dirty secret is that the big brands only make around 6% margin on every car they sell

This is all to say: we've been here before. Hudson, Tucker, DeLorean ( twice! ), Packard, and more. The stories here are all different in their specifics, with some succumbing to shady government dealing, others losing to price wars. While the immediate causes of their failures might be unique, the fact that they failed certainly is not.

The consumer automobile game is devilishly tough. The dirty secret of the car making world is that the big brands only make around 6% margin on every car they sell. That's a pathetic amount of profit when compared to other well-known brands like Nike, Apple, or Disney. Shoes, upscale electronics, and entertainment (as well as scores of other industries) all offer double the profit margins, faster production times, less regulation, and fewer unionized workforces. Building cars is dumb. Car companies make billions of dollars in profits because they sell so many cars, not because each car is so profitable. And therein lies the rub for Tesla.

Why Tesla is doomed

The only way to be successful at car manufacturing is to do it at a very large scale. You have to sell hundreds of thousands, if not millions of cars per year to be stable. In 2018, Tesla shifted a total of 245,240 cars . The Tesla Model 3 also became the best-selling luxury automobile in United States; last year was fantastic for Tesla. It also took the company to the very brink of imploding.

Scaling up production lines and capacity is the activity that is killing Tesla, but scaling up further is the only thing that can save it. The company is at the low point of a "production valley" where becoming capable of building 300,000 cars has made them wildly unprofitable, but the only way to get to profit is to build even more capacity to enable it to make 700,000 – 1,000,000 cars. Tesla could potentially have, or raise, the billions needed to do this. It could, that is, if the company could concentrate on doing one thing at a time.

Tesla's worst enemy is Elon Musk. The serial entrepreneur has an affliction that many serial entrepreneurs have: Shiny Thing Syndrome. Mr. Musk loves to chase after new challenges and novel projects. Tesla is currently producing 3 different cars, wall chargers, charging stations, electric semi-trucks, photovoltaic roofs, and spearheading autonomous technology. Throw in the odd flamethrower , underground tunnels , and a new insurance product (not to mention Space X ), and you see a leader not focused on doing the hard work of pushing his company through a crisis of scale, but a man obsessed with moon-shots and new projects.

Scaling up production is the activity that is killing Tesla, but scaling up further is the only thing that can save it

It should be noted that Musk has never operated any business at this scale before. Running a nimble online service such as Paypal is a very different thing than running a multinational car manufacturer -- especially one that is exclusively pursuing new technologies. Quite frankly, Musk is not qualified to be CEO of Tesla any longer, and the mismatch of his skills to the company's needs could not be worse timed for Tesla.

In the next 12 months, practically all other major global auto manufacturers have plans to release their own electric cars. Tesla ate their lunch last year when it became the best-selling luxury car, but at that time, it was the only EV game in town. More worryingly, the most common Tesla owner complaints happen to be the areas that traditional car companies excel at: Fit and finish , service infrastructure , and execution on timelines. When Porsche announced its Taycan electric sedan , its #1 source of reservations was from current Tesla owners. This is a surefire sign that the Tesla customer base is eager to upgrade to something better.

China, the world's largest car market, and the savior of many global brands, cannot save Tesla. Indeed, the current trade war between the U.S. and China is hurting Tesla more than any other car company. The current price for a Tesla Model 3 in China is approximately $73,000, with roughly $30,000 of that price being the result of China's import tariffs. In January, Elon Musk broke ground on a Gigafactory in China, and the total investment in the project is expected to exceed $4 billion, according to Goldman Sachs . That is an amount of money Tesla, quite frankly, doesn't have to spend. After a disastrous first quarter 2019, the company quickly raised $2.35 billion in stock and debt. Even with this recent cash infusion, Musk told employees the company would be out of cash in 10 months if spending continued at current levels.

The end of Tesla

Tesla will not go bankrupt. It cannot go bankrupt. At the moment, the company is still well-placed to raise another funding round and could likely even do as many as three more funding events before investors stop lining up. Failure for Tesla won't happen tomorrow, but it is coming. More and more evangelists are changing their tunes as competition in EVs gets fiercer. Wall street is losing patience with broken promises and erratic CEO behavior. And the everyday consumer is finding more electric car options that tempt their dollar now that Tesla is not the only game in town. No, Tesla's end will not happen tomorrow, nor will it be a dramatic collapse.

Telsa is too valuable a brand to disappear in a cloud of Chapter 11 smoke. Again, history bears this out. The vast majority of automotive brands from years past were acquired or absorbed into larger brands, where some succeeded brilliantly (Dodge) and others slowly morphed into something unrecognizable (Hudson). Arguably, the Tesla brand is the most valuable piece of Tesla's balance sheet as other manufacturers have caught up with their hard technology (batteries, chargers), and are rapidly chasing down their soft technology ( Autopilot ). The Tesla brand is global in reach, and still viewed favorably overall by the public.

The endgame for Tesla is an acquisition. It is the way of the automotive jungle -- the circle of corporate life, as it were. The unknowable part at the moment is exactly who will acquire Tesla, as the list is quite long. Another car company is the reflexive bet, but Silicon Valley and Chinese auto manufacturers are all likely bidders as well. Apple already offered to buy Tesla back in 2013 for more than the company is worth at the time of this story. The field of suitors is wide open, and the eventual winner could well come as a surprise to the everyday public.

Regardless of who steps up to the plate, it will be very surprising if the transaction is labelled as an acquisition. No -- this will be a "merger" or "partnership" to protect egos and that all-important Tesla brand (again, the most valuable asset on their books). Any upcoming news of a partnership with a Toyota or a Mercedes should not be seen as a life preserver thrown out in good faith, but a wholesale pirate sacking of the company. Musk will quietly slip away to chase his shiny things, popping in for product launches and tweetstorms, but the adults will be put in charge and set a profitable course. What happens after that, no one can know.

Before the pitchforks come out, make no mistake: The world is a better place for Tesla having existed. Electric cars are no longer made out of old Porsche 914s by a guy in a shed. We are moving toward an electric future, all thanks to underdog Tesla. The world, and Americans especially, are enamored with an underdog story. But more often than not, the underdog loses. That's why they are underdogs. In the best of worlds, Tesla can influence Mercedes or a Chinese company from the inside to really nail electric cars and make them the most affordable option for consumers. I hope that comes to pass for all our sakes.

Tesla is dead. Long live Tesla.

[May 29, 2021] The bull market in news is over. Now what

May 29, 2021 | finance.yahoo.com

So yes the bull market in news is over, finito, kaput. Not forever of course but for now. Cable TV news ratings were mixed in Q1, but down significantly in March as the election faded into the rearview mirror.


michael 3 hours ago What kind of business model succeeds when it basically dismisses half of it's potential customers as villains, and only markets to the other half? The simple answer is that the business only stands half a chance at surviving. The media was healthier when it was much less partisan or at least appeared to be. Reply 18 1 1 reply Donald 8 hours ago People now understand that the large majority of our media is just a propaganda machine for the Democratic party. Now that the Dems control virtually every level of power at the national level (Congress, presidency, 90% media, large corporations, and most unions) it's hard for the media to whip up that frenzy of hate they achieved when Trump was in office. The outsider and rebel (Trump) is gone and the ultimate lifetime politician (Biden) is securely in office. The iron grip of lifetime politicians on the throat of America has been achieved. Reply 27 7 2 replies Donald 7 hours ago The drop is because most of the media was obsessed with bringing down the outsider (Trump). Now that an establishment man and a lifetime Democrat politician is in control, order has been restored. People were interested in the Trump bashing articles and reports the media generated. Now, the media cannot be outraged because their guys (Dems) control every lever of National power. Now everything is sunshine and roses (not true of course) which doesn't generate as much interest.
Lester 10 hours ago I laughed out loud when I read "less non-partisan". Thanks for that. Reply 23 4 2 replies Pop 10 hours ago The "Media" business model is easy, and ancient. From the days of the Roman criers, to todays digital print. Same model for 2500 years. You twist and distort reality to attract a targeted audience, then you blast them with advertisements from your sponsors. The problem is there is just too much. So you have to distort and fabricate reality more and more and more. Until you have the insane Pravda stuff we have today.

[May 28, 2021] Politifact Quietly Admits COVID-19 Lab Escape Not Debunked Conspiracy Theory

Highly recommended!
Looks like the USA neoliberal elite has serious credibility problems. Neoliberal MSM are no longer trusted by significant strata of the US population. This looks like "Back int he USSR" situation to me.
Notable quotes:
"... There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie. And under certain circumstances, such omissions may be made necessary by powerful outside forces, so that even the most well-intentioned writer is faced with the difficult choice of either excluding certain elements from his analysis or having his important work denied a proper audience. ..."
"... Exactly the same glaring omission is found in Wade's 11,000 word article. Taken together, Lemoine, Baker, and Wade have produced a large collection of high-quality articles on the origins of the global Covid-19 epidemic, but nowhere among their 54,000 words is there even a hint that the virus might possibly have had its origins in America's well-documented and lavishly funded biowarfare program. ..."
"... The same strain of the virus was found in GringoLandia as well as in Europe at earlier dates in 2019. CDC should come clean why they SHUT DOWN Fort Detrick lab in August 2019 and why they was called there in the first place. In 2019 people in the are had "mysterious vaping lung disease" which matches Covid-19. They had that exact virus there. ..."
"... WHO team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus is 'Not Allowed' in secret Pentagon biolabs around the world ..."
"... More likely - Developed at Fort Detrick, samples tested in Falklands and Spain in Feb, modified then sent to Wuhan using a patsy. Close Fort Detrick, blame the Chinese - Ultimate trade war weapon. ..."
"... They lied about bats, pangolins, Wuhan, masks, distancing, surface spread, asymptomatic spread, lock downs, and finally vaccines. Trust none of them. ..."
May 20, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
BLOTTO 12 hours ago

Looks like everything at Fort Detrick was up to standards.

.

'Army germ lab shut down by CDC in 2019 had several 'serious' protocol violations that year

Select agents are defined by the CDC as "biological agents and toxins that have been determined to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, to animal and plant health, or to animal or plant products.'

https://wjla.com/news/local/cdc-shut-down-army-germ-lab-health-concerns

Argon1 12 hours ago

That was their own SAR's variant which caused the 'vaping crisis' absent the s1 cleavege spike protein. Still killed people, nothing like as infectious.

w a l k - a w a y 10 hours ago (Edited)

American Pravda: "The Truth" and "The Whole Truth" About the Origins of Covid-19

As every fan of the old Perry Mason show remembers, courtroom witnesses swear "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie. And under certain circumstances, such omissions may be made necessary by powerful outside forces, so that even the most well-intentioned writer is faced with the difficult choice of either excluding certain elements from his analysis or having his important work denied a proper audience.

...

Suppressing Possible Artificial Origins as "a Conspiracy Theory"

Two months ago I [Ron Unz] published a lengthy article summarizing much of the information from the first year of the outbreak and focusing upon the heated debate regarding the origins of the virus. This compendium of crucial research has now received a major addition, a 11,000 word analysis of the likely origins of Covid-19 by Nicholas Wade, a distinguished former science reporter and editor, who had spent more than four decades at the New York Times, Science, and Nature , and the author of several excellent books dealing with anthropology and evolutionary biology.

Suppressing Possible Artificial Origins as "a Conspiracy Theory"

In the case of Covid-19, Wade demonstrates that once the political barriers have been removed and we are allowed to consider the evidence objectively, our conclusions are transformed. The scientific case for the natural origins of the virus becomes pitifully weak, thereby automatically elevating the competing lab-leak hypothesis, which had previously been denounced and stigmatized as a so-called "conspiracy theory."

The Excluded Third Possibility

Having now twice read Wade's long article, I can say that I find nearly all of his scientific arguments quite compelling, and I have almost no points of significant disagreement. Yet my overall conclusions are entirely different from his.

... ... ...

Exactly the same glaring omission is found in Wade's 11,000 word article. Taken together, Lemoine, Baker, and Wade have produced a large collection of high-quality articles on the origins of the global Covid-19 epidemic, but nowhere among their 54,000 words is there even a hint that the virus might possibly have had its origins in America's well-documented and lavishly funded biowarfare program.

sarz 10 hours ago remove link

Ann Coulter says:

Wade claims to have no preference for one theory over another" he's just laying out the facts! But it's pretty clear that he is coming down on the side of the lab theory.

He doesn't mention that 27 of the original 41 Chinese people who contracted COVID-19 had been to the Wuhan wet market, known the world over for its delectable porcupine anus and snake innards. Several other carriers were family members of those infected there. By contrast, no one from the Wuhan lab appears to have been infected.

She implies this is a weakness of Wade's laboratory hypothesis. But it's actually only so for the WUHAN laboratory hypothesis.

SoDamnMad 11 hours ago

Nothing more at Ft. Detrick than not have containment plans in place with a person assigned the responsibility. This goes on all the time in the chemical industry where spill plans must be in place for every piece of equipment and an inspection by OSHA or CDC catches these deficiencies. A higher level of concern at a facility like Ft. Detrick.

vova_3.2018 10 hours ago remove link

Looks like everything at Fort Detrick was up to standards.

The same strain of the virus was found in GringoLandia as well as in Europe at earlier dates in 2019. CDC should come clean why they SHUT DOWN Fort Detrick lab in August 2019 and why they was called there in the first place. In 2019 people in the are had "mysterious vaping lung disease" which matches Covid-19. They had that exact virus there.

WHO team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus is 'Not Allowed' in secret Pentagon biolabs around the world - FTFY

More likely - Developed at Fort Detrick, samples tested in Falklands and Spain in Feb, modified then sent to Wuhan using a patsy. Close Fort Detrick, blame the Chinese - Ultimate trade war weapon.

vril PRO 11 hours ago

Faucism

boyplunger7777 12 hours ago

They lied about bats, pangolins, Wuhan, masks, distancing, surface spread, asymptomatic spread, lock downs, and finally vaccines. Trust none of them.

Suzy Q 12 hours ago

They lied about JFK

Uri Finberg 12 hours ago

No. They KILLED JFK. The Democrats rigged the election. The Globalists wanted JFK to beat Nixon. So they rigged the election just like Trump vs. Biden.

JFK was going to be the rock star President like Obama. He was going to be the hip Hollywood President that would lead the youth to destruction.

Then JFK wised up. When he found out they rigged the election and he didn't actually win he started thinking about it. He was ready to take down the Deep State, Globalists, Secret Societies whatever you want to call it. He was ready to drain the swamp so they killed him. They killed him, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. They didn't take out Trump because they manipulated him to push the "vaccine" depopulation agenda instead. They used Trump until they could rig the next election.

Suzy Q 12 hours ago

Yes, they killed JFK, but they also lied about JFK

Not Your Father's ZH 12 hours ago

And they're still lying . . . and many are still buying.

Suzy Q 11 hours ago (Edited)

They lied about Russia, Russia, Russia, weapons of mass destruction, throwing babies from incubators onto the cold, hard floor in Kuwait, Bengazi, Epstein killing himself.

They lied about vaccines not causing autism, about HIV/AIDS, about the rainbow belonging to the gays.They lie about lying. They cannot help themselves, it is their nature to lie.

EcoJoker PREMIUM 12 hours ago

I would bet it had more to do with JFK about to take the reigns on money printing. A week before he was to sign that EO, he was shot.

keeper20 10 hours ago (Edited)

DOOD, research this:

Nixon was hired after answering a classified ad in the LA Times for auditions for the part of a politician to run for political office. the man who bought the ad, held the interviews, and hired him was prescott walker bush. nixon was a lackey of the nazi vril paperclip bunch.

Nimby 12 hours ago

People keep wondering when the next civil war/revolution/world war/whatever is going to start. It already has. First rule of war: Know when you're in one.

Not Your Father's ZH 12 hours ago

All warfare is based on deception. ~ Sun Tzu

The first casualty of war is truth. ~ Aeschylus

. . . the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. ~ Herman Goering

[May 28, 2021] Politifact Quietly Admits COVID-19 Lab Escape Not Debunked Conspiracy Theory

Highly recommended!
Looks like the USA neoliberal elite has serious credibility problems. Neoliberal MSM are no longer trusted by significant strata of the US population. This looks like "Back int he USSR" situation to me.
Notable quotes:
"... There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie. And under certain circumstances, such omissions may be made necessary by powerful outside forces, so that even the most well-intentioned writer is faced with the difficult choice of either excluding certain elements from his analysis or having his important work denied a proper audience. ..."
"... Exactly the same glaring omission is found in Wade's 11,000 word article. Taken together, Lemoine, Baker, and Wade have produced a large collection of high-quality articles on the origins of the global Covid-19 epidemic, but nowhere among their 54,000 words is there even a hint that the virus might possibly have had its origins in America's well-documented and lavishly funded biowarfare program. ..."
"... The same strain of the virus was found in GringoLandia as well as in Europe at earlier dates in 2019. CDC should come clean why they SHUT DOWN Fort Detrick lab in August 2019 and why they was called there in the first place. In 2019 people in the are had "mysterious vaping lung disease" which matches Covid-19. They had that exact virus there. ..."
"... WHO team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus is 'Not Allowed' in secret Pentagon biolabs around the world ..."
"... More likely - Developed at Fort Detrick, samples tested in Falklands and Spain in Feb, modified then sent to Wuhan using a patsy. Close Fort Detrick, blame the Chinese - Ultimate trade war weapon. ..."
"... They lied about bats, pangolins, Wuhan, masks, distancing, surface spread, asymptomatic spread, lock downs, and finally vaccines. Trust none of them. ..."
May 20, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
BLOTTO 12 hours ago

Looks like everything at Fort Detrick was up to standards.

.

'Army germ lab shut down by CDC in 2019 had several 'serious' protocol violations that year

Select agents are defined by the CDC as "biological agents and toxins that have been determined to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, to animal and plant health, or to animal or plant products.'

https://wjla.com/news/local/cdc-shut-down-army-germ-lab-health-concerns

Argon1 12 hours ago

That was their own SAR's variant which caused the 'vaping crisis' absent the s1 cleavege spike protein. Still killed people, nothing like as infectious.

w a l k - a w a y 10 hours ago (Edited)

American Pravda: "The Truth" and "The Whole Truth" About the Origins of Covid-19

As every fan of the old Perry Mason show remembers, courtroom witnesses swear "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie. And under certain circumstances, such omissions may be made necessary by powerful outside forces, so that even the most well-intentioned writer is faced with the difficult choice of either excluding certain elements from his analysis or having his important work denied a proper audience.

...

Suppressing Possible Artificial Origins as "a Conspiracy Theory"

Two months ago I [Ron Unz] published a lengthy article summarizing much of the information from the first year of the outbreak and focusing upon the heated debate regarding the origins of the virus. This compendium of crucial research has now received a major addition, a 11,000 word analysis of the likely origins of Covid-19 by Nicholas Wade, a distinguished former science reporter and editor, who had spent more than four decades at the New York Times, Science, and Nature , and the author of several excellent books dealing with anthropology and evolutionary biology.

Suppressing Possible Artificial Origins as "a Conspiracy Theory"

In the case of Covid-19, Wade demonstrates that once the political barriers have been removed and we are allowed to consider the evidence objectively, our conclusions are transformed. The scientific case for the natural origins of the virus becomes pitifully weak, thereby automatically elevating the competing lab-leak hypothesis, which had previously been denounced and stigmatized as a so-called "conspiracy theory."

The Excluded Third Possibility

Having now twice read Wade's long article, I can say that I find nearly all of his scientific arguments quite compelling, and I have almost no points of significant disagreement. Yet my overall conclusions are entirely different from his.

... ... ...

Exactly the same glaring omission is found in Wade's 11,000 word article. Taken together, Lemoine, Baker, and Wade have produced a large collection of high-quality articles on the origins of the global Covid-19 epidemic, but nowhere among their 54,000 words is there even a hint that the virus might possibly have had its origins in America's well-documented and lavishly funded biowarfare program.

sarz 10 hours ago remove link

Ann Coulter says:

Wade claims to have no preference for one theory over another" he's just laying out the facts! But it's pretty clear that he is coming down on the side of the lab theory.

He doesn't mention that 27 of the original 41 Chinese people who contracted COVID-19 had been to the Wuhan wet market, known the world over for its delectable porcupine anus and snake innards. Several other carriers were family members of those infected there. By contrast, no one from the Wuhan lab appears to have been infected.

She implies this is a weakness of Wade's laboratory hypothesis. But it's actually only so for the WUHAN laboratory hypothesis.

SoDamnMad 11 hours ago

Nothing more at Ft. Detrick than not have containment plans in place with a person assigned the responsibility. This goes on all the time in the chemical industry where spill plans must be in place for every piece of equipment and an inspection by OSHA or CDC catches these deficiencies. A higher level of concern at a facility like Ft. Detrick.

vova_3.2018 10 hours ago remove link

Looks like everything at Fort Detrick was up to standards.

The same strain of the virus was found in GringoLandia as well as in Europe at earlier dates in 2019. CDC should come clean why they SHUT DOWN Fort Detrick lab in August 2019 and why they was called there in the first place. In 2019 people in the are had "mysterious vaping lung disease" which matches Covid-19. They had that exact virus there.

WHO team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus is 'Not Allowed' in secret Pentagon biolabs around the world - FTFY

More likely - Developed at Fort Detrick, samples tested in Falklands and Spain in Feb, modified then sent to Wuhan using a patsy. Close Fort Detrick, blame the Chinese - Ultimate trade war weapon.

vril PRO 11 hours ago

Faucism

boyplunger7777 12 hours ago

They lied about bats, pangolins, Wuhan, masks, distancing, surface spread, asymptomatic spread, lock downs, and finally vaccines. Trust none of them.

Suzy Q 12 hours ago

They lied about JFK

Uri Finberg 12 hours ago

No. They KILLED JFK. The Democrats rigged the election. The Globalists wanted JFK to beat Nixon. So they rigged the election just like Trump vs. Biden.

JFK was going to be the rock star President like Obama. He was going to be the hip Hollywood President that would lead the youth to destruction.

Then JFK wised up. When he found out they rigged the election and he didn't actually win he started thinking about it. He was ready to take down the Deep State, Globalists, Secret Societies whatever you want to call it. He was ready to drain the swamp so they killed him. They killed him, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. They didn't take out Trump because they manipulated him to push the "vaccine" depopulation agenda instead. They used Trump until they could rig the next election.

Suzy Q 12 hours ago

Yes, they killed JFK, but they also lied about JFK

Not Your Father's ZH 12 hours ago

And they're still lying . . . and many are still buying.

Suzy Q 11 hours ago (Edited)

They lied about Russia, Russia, Russia, weapons of mass destruction, throwing babies from incubators onto the cold, hard floor in Kuwait, Bengazi, Epstein killing himself.

They lied about vaccines not causing autism, about HIV/AIDS, about the rainbow belonging to the gays.They lie about lying. They cannot help themselves, it is their nature to lie.

EcoJoker PREMIUM 12 hours ago

I would bet it had more to do with JFK about to take the reigns on money printing. A week before he was to sign that EO, he was shot.

keeper20 10 hours ago (Edited)

DOOD, research this:

Nixon was hired after answering a classified ad in the LA Times for auditions for the part of a politician to run for political office. the man who bought the ad, held the interviews, and hired him was prescott walker bush. nixon was a lackey of the nazi vril paperclip bunch.

Nimby 12 hours ago

People keep wondering when the next civil war/revolution/world war/whatever is going to start. It already has. First rule of war: Know when you're in one.

Not Your Father's ZH 12 hours ago

All warfare is based on deception. ~ Sun Tzu

The first casualty of war is truth. ~ Aeschylus

. . . the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. ~ Herman Goering

[May 28, 2021] New Video Reveals Capitol Police Officer Giving Protesters Permission To Enter Building

May 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Julie Kelly via American Greatness (emphasis ours)

A newly-obtained video shows United States Capitol Police officers speaking with several January 6 protestors including Jacob Chansley, the so-called "Q shaman"" inside the Capitol that afternoon.

One officer, identified in the video and confirmed by charging documents as Officer Keith Robishaw, appears to tell Chansely's group they won't stop them from entering the building.

" We're not against . . . you need to show us . . . no attacking, no assault, remain calm ," Robishaw warns. Chansley and another protestor instruct the crowd to act peacefully. " This has to be peaceful, " Chansley yelled. "We have the right to peacefully assemble."

Watch:

https://rumble.com/embed/veiwo5/?pub=4

The video directly contradicts what government prosecutors allege in a complaint filed January 8 against Chansley: "Robishaw and other officers calmed the protestors somewhat and directed them to leave the area from the same way they had entered. Chansley approached Officer Robishaw and screamed, among other things, that this was their house, and that they were there to take the Capitol, and to get Congressional leaders."

Chansley later is seen entering the Senate chambers with a police officer behind him; he led several protesters in prayer and sat in Vice President Mike Pence's chair . (The man in the yellow sweatshirt is William Watson, a drug dealer out on bond. He was arrested in January.)

Chansley is not charged with assaulting an officer; he faces several counts for trespassing and disorderly conduct. He has been incarcerated since January, denied bail awaiting trial. He has no criminal record.

American Greatness obtained the video from RMG News. The 44-second clip is reportedly part of a much longer video that has yet to be released.

* * *

Meanwhile:

Who the hell was this "cop"?? Why encouraging people through? pic.twitter.com/OcXWCh33P9

"" Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) May 16, 2021

I've watched this clip 100 times and I still can't believe it pic.twitter.com/7vYfmPJoxB

"" Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) January 8, 2021

[May 28, 2021] Liz Cheney Faces Chopping Block As GOP Braces For Chaotic Week

It is always good when neocons are demoted. Warmongering neocon pigs should be removed.
May 09, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

"She's done as a member of leadership. I don't understand what she's doing," one former House GOP lawmaker told The Hill of Cheney's ongoing attacks on former President Trump. " It's like political self-immolation. You can't cancel Trump from the Republican Party; all she's done is cancel herself. "

Cheney has repeatedly attacked Trump for 'inciting' the Jan. 6 'insurrection' despite telling supporters to protest peacefully and then go home following the breach of the Capitol.

GOP leaders hope that purging Cheney from the leadership ranks will move Republicans beyond their civil war over Trump" one that's raged publicly since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol" and allow the party to unite behind a midterm campaign message that President Biden and the Democrats are too liberal for the country. - The Hill

"There are still a few members that are talking about things that happened in the past, not really focused on what we need to do to move forward and win the majority back next year," according to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the minority whip. "We're going to have to be unified if we defeat the socialist agenda you're seeing in Washington."

A victory by Stefanik would mark a symbolic shift back towards Trump by leading Republicans - as the former president remains highly engaged this election cycle and has threatened to politically obliterate any remaining GOP opposition.

"By ousting her, what we're saying is: We are repudiating your repudiation of the Trump policies and the Trump agenda and her attacks on the president," according to Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), adding " President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. And when she's out there attacking him, she's attacking the leader of the Republican Party ."

Cheney has already survived one challenge to her leadership post, in February, after she infuriated conservatives by voting to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol rampage on Jan. 6. With the backing of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), she easily kept her seat as conference chair, 145 to 61 by secret ballot.

With McCarthy and Scalise fed up with Cheney and now backing Stefanik, the 36-year-old New Yorker is expected to prevail in Wednesday's contest" a would-be victory for leaders who have failed to unite the conference behind a post-Trump strategy in the early months of the Biden administration. - The Hill

... ... ...

Cheney isn't the only House Republican facing backlash for taking on Trump. Earlier in the week, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), one of seven Republican senators who voted this year to convict Trump, was booed and called a traitor at the Utah GOP state convention, where he narrowly beat back an effort to censure him.

On Friday, the Ohio Republican Party Central Committee voted to censure Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), Cheney and the eight other House Republicans who backed Trump's impeachment in January. The Ohio GOP also formally called for Gonzalez's resignation.

... ... ...

Catullus 51 minutes ago

I don't care if Trump runs again just as long as these gross establishment Republicans are thrown out on their asses

JoeyChernenko PREMIUM 39 minutes ago (Edited)

Romney is a real traitorous worm. Did you hear him say Biden is a good man with good intentions when the Utah crowd was booing his worthless hide? And we need to make sure the Bush dynasty remains out of power.

Anath 51 minutes ago remove link

the cheney family is pure evil. that is all.

chinese.sniffles 52 minutes ago

Why Would Wyoming choose Chenney, after all that evil that **** brought upon America. If there was no ****, Obama would never get elected.

chunga 47 minutes ago remove link

Cynics suspect primaries are also rigged.

Basecamp3 PREMIUM 50 minutes ago

Comstock is a traitor that never read the Navarro Report which goes into detail of how the election was stolen. Also, ousting Cheney has zero risk. She is stupid, weak, and her own constituents hate her.

overbet 50 minutes ago

which has caused some GOP leaders to fear alienating female Republican voters, particularly educated suburbanites who will be key votes in the 2022 elections.

The female republicans I know are smarter than that. All of them

Grave Dancer 22 38 minutes ago remove link

Liz's sociopath dad **** got hundreds of thousands killed based on a total fraud lie of a war. And Liz has a problem with Trump because he tweets some unfiltered stuff once in a while? Freaking kidding me? ay_arrow

GhostOLaz 37 minutes ago

Don't blame Liz, she has a legacy of treason to protect, Daddy removed the only secular anti Communist govt in the middle East which protected Christains and religious minorities...

gaaasp 20 minutes ago (Edited)

Women could wear pants and not be burkahed up in Syria and Libya and Iraq before Bush/Clinton/Obama/Trump sent troops.

chunga 49 minutes ago

I don't want to give up on the process but the GOP has a lot of work to do.

nmewn 39 minutes ago

The thing about "us" is, when we find them we jettison them. Cantor was another one. She voted to impeach an outgoing President who's trial she knew would be held AFTER he was out of office and again just an average American citizen holding no federal office at all.

She is either incompetent, stupid (or both) or a cancer the GOP can live with excised from the body.

Make_Mine_A_Double 40 minutes ago

Peggy Noonan really came out the closet in this weekend's WSJ with editorial of Liz Chaney against the House of Cowards.

They are 2 of the same. We've had these demsheviks in the ranks for decades. Noonan takes it in the anoose at dem cocktail parties and is Team Mascot for the RINOs.

Tucker finally exposed that filth Luntz. McCathry is actually living with him in one of his apartments - I assume it's not platonic in nature.

This is why Trump could never even the bottom of the swamp....g.d. RINOs need to purged with the extreme prejudice.

the Mysterians 40 minutes ago

War pig.

in deditionem acceptos 48 minutes ago

Liz will survive the vote. Too much graff from the MIC to get her out. McCarthey could of got her out in Feb if he wanted. Wonder what honey pot he's dipping into?

A Girl In Flyover Country 43 minutes ago

She won't survive the Wyoming voters, though.

Cogito_ergosum 52 minutes ago (Edited)

She is protecting her dad who was part of the inside gang that carried out the... demolition of the twin towers on 911...

Flying Monkees 37 minutes ago (Edited)

BS. The tribe's fingerprints were all over 9/11 as documented in extensive detail by Christopher Bollyn.

JoeyChernenko PREMIUM 53 minutes ago

Don't any of these evil families ever just fade into oblivion? Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Obama, etc.

beavertails 50 minutes ago

Extending and pretending there are choices when there aren't any. The MIC got this. The "Prez" is just show to sell ads and steal, I mean raise fiat from the gullible.

[May 28, 2021] More Hacks, More Baseless Accusations Against Russia

May 11, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

More Hacks, More Baseless Accusations Against Russia

In January police in various countries took down the Emotet bot-network that was at that time the basic platform for some 25% of all cybercrimes.

Based on hearsay Wikipedia and other had falsely attributed Emotet to Russian actors. The real people behind it were actually Ukrainians :

The operating center of Emotet was found in the Ukraine. Today the Ukrainian national police took control of it during a raid (video). The police found dozens of computers, some hundred hard drives, about 50 kilogram of gold bars (current price ~$60,000/kg) and large amounts of money in multiple currencies.

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Emotet had nothing to do with Russia.

Now the U.S. is accusing Russia of somehow having part in another cybercrime :

President Joe Biden said Monday that a Russia-based group was behind the ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of the largest oil pipeline in the eastern United States.

The FBI identified the group behind the hack of Colonial Pipeline as DarkSide, a shadowy operation that surfaced last year and attempts to lock up corporate computer systems and force companies to pay to unfreeze them.

"So far there is no evidence ... from our intelligence people that Russia is involved, although there is evidence that actors, ransomware is in Russia," Biden told reporters.

"They have some responsibility to deal with this," he said.

Three days after being forced to halt operations, Colonial said Monday it was moving toward a partial reopening of its 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) of pipeline" the largest fuel network between Texas and New York.

Biden however is badly informed. There is no evidence that DarkSide has anything to do with Russia. It is, like Emotet, a commercial 'ransomware-as-a-service' criminal entity that wants to make money and does not care about geopolitics.

Yes, a version of the DarkNet software does exclude itself from running on system with specific language settings :

The DarkSide malware is even built to conduct language checks on targets and to shut down if it detects Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Turkmen, Romanian, and other languages ...

That is a quite long list of east European languages and Russian is only one of it. Why the authors of DarkNet do not want their software to run on machines with those language settings is unknown. But why would a Russian actor protect machines with Ukrainian or Romanian language settings? Both countries are hostile towards Russia. To claim that this somehow points to Russian actors is therefore baseless.

Russia strongly rejected Biden's accusation:

The Kremlin has once again pointed out the importance of cooperation between Moscow and Washington in tackling cyberthreats amid a cyber-attack on Colonial Pipeline, a US company. "Russia has nothing to do with these hacker attacks, nor with the previous hacker attacks," Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Preskov assured reporters on Tuesday.

"We categorically reject any accusation against us, and we can only regret that the US is refusing to cooperate with us in any way to counter cyber-threats. We believe that such cooperation - both international and bilateral - could indeed contribute to the common struggle against this scourge [known as] cyber-crime," Peskov said.

The U.S. seems notoriously bad at attributing computer hacks. It claims that the recent SolarWinds attack which intruded several government branches was also done by Russia. But that attack required deep insider knowledge and access to SolarWinds' computers and processes :

The recently discovered deep intrusion into U.S. companies and government networks used a manipulated version of the SolarWinds Orion network management software. The Washington borg immediately attributed the hack to Russia. Then President Trump attributed it to China. But none of those claims were backed up by facts or known evidence.

The hack was extremely complex, well managed and resourced, and likely required insider knowledge. To this IT professional it 'felt' neither Russian nor Chinese. It is far more likely, as Whitney Webb finds, that Israel was behind it .

Indeed - the programmers of an Israeli company, recently bought up by SolarWinds, had all the necessary access for such a hack. However the U.S. sanctioned Russia over the SolarWinds hack without providing any evidence of its involvement.

If the U.S. continues to blame Russia without any evidence for each and every hack there may come a time when Russia stops caring and really starts to hack into or destroy important U.S. systems. The U.S. should fear that day.

Posted by b on May 11, 2021 at 17:31 UTC | Permalink

David G Horsman , May 11 2021 17:48 utc | 1

Thanks b. I don't think Russia is going to escalate destructive attacks any time soon. There's no upside.
They might even be reluctant to reveal their capabilities in the Ukraine.
For the moment, mockery is the best remedy while they up their game.
psychohistorian , May 11 2021 17:56 utc | 2
@ b who ended with
"
If the U.S. continues to blame Russia without any evidence for each and every hack there may come a time when Russia stops caring and really starts to hack into or destroy important U.S. systems.
"

How can you write such assertions that vary from the approach that both Russia and China are taking?....strong defense but no offense.

Now if empire tried to hack into a Russian or Chinese system/network then appropriate takedowns of malicious systems/networks would seem logical....and I expect they know how...but will not do it on the basis of another avenue of empire lies and deceit.

anon48 , May 11 2021 18:20 utc | 3
You should have titled the post "Killing Two Birds With One Stone".
This pipeline is huge, running from Texas through the Southeast and all the way up to New England. It's condition is beyond awful with multiple leaks along the route some of which lose more than a million gallons per month and much more than can be determined since some of the gasoline / jet fuel went into the aquifers. These faults have been well known for decades and although some of the areas are heavily populated no remediation was done. The local outcry recently caught the attention of the press when kids reported a gasoline smell along the pipeline route to the police. The locals demanded the pipeline be closed for repairs and sought answers from state officials and Federal authorities as to why this situation was allowed. To blame the Russians for the closure of the pipeline which results in a surge in prices and limited availability of gas for the summer is an absolute stroke of genius.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/ncdeq-colonial-pipeline-spill-huntersville/275-70e16fb6-c945-4634-b933-3975d0573f2e
Ike , May 11 2021 18:27 utc | 4
Great article. Russia must be getting so pissed off with the idiots in Washington.The uninformed and easily manipulated Western people surely get the governments they deserve.
Paul Craig Roberts highlights this with another bit of truth telling from Tucker Carlson
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/05/11/the-proof-is-in-tony-fauci-is-responsible-for-the-creation-of-the-covid-19-virus/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_proof_is_in_tony_fauci_is_responsible_for_the_creation_of_the_covid_19_virus&utm_term=2021-05-11
DG , May 11 2021 18:43 utc | 5
@all

I need to ask this: What do you think about the vaccination of children?

...

Josh , May 11 2021 18:44 utc | 6
It is odd that certain elements of the us intelligence community, along with negative factions within the us political establishment, continue to absolutely refuse to enter into verifiable and mutually binding international agreements on cyber security with exactly the nation states that they accuse (without evidence) of malicious activity in the same sphere, while at the same time operating in this field in an openly declared hostile manner under the secrecy deemed necessary for 'national security'.

[May 28, 2021] DOJ Seizes $90K, Charges BLM Agitator John Earle Sullivan Who Stormed Capitol And Sold The Footage

The real question is who is behind this guy...
Notable quotes:
"... John Earle Sullivan of Provo, Utah, was also hit with additional criminal charges and now faces a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges , according to Reuters . Sullivan is one of more than 440 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 'insurrection' in which Trump supporters who rejected the outcome of the 2020 US election stormed the Capitol with the full support of several Capitol Police officers - some of whom took selfies with the protesters. ..."
"... During one conversation with others while inside, Sullivan said, "We gotta get this [expletive] burned." At other times, he said, among other things, "it's our house [expletive]" and "we are getting this [expletive]." ..."
"... Sullivan told U.S. Capitol Police officers to stand down so that they wouldn't get hurt, according to the court filing ( pdf ). He joined the crowd trying to open doors to another part of the Capitol, telling people "Hey guys, I have a knife" and asking them to let him get to the front. He did not make it to the doors. He later tried to get the officers guarding the Speaker's Lobby to go home, telling them: "Bro, I've seen people out there get hurt." ..."
"... Following the riot Sullivan appeared on several mainstream television networks CNN and MSNBC, which paid him for the footage. ..."
May 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

US authorities have seized approximately $90,000 from a far-left BLM organizer who 'stormed the capitol' right alongside Trump supporters and sold footage he took of US Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt being shot dead by a Capitol Police Officer.

John Earle Sullivan of Provo, Utah, was also hit with additional criminal charges and now faces a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges , according to Reuters . Sullivan is one of more than 440 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 'insurrection' in which Trump supporters who rejected the outcome of the 2020 US election stormed the Capitol with the full support of several Capitol Police officers - some of whom took selfies with the protesters.

After breaking into the Capitol through an open window, Sullivan was heard encouraging protesters to climb a wall to gain entrance .

During one conversation with others while inside, Sullivan said, "We gotta get this [expletive] burned." At other times, he said, among other things, "it's our house [expletive]" and "we are getting this [expletive]."

h/t @Cernovich

Sullivan told U.S. Capitol Police officers to stand down so that they wouldn't get hurt, according to the court filing ( pdf ). He joined the crowd trying to open doors to another part of the Capitol, telling people "Hey guys, I have a knife" and asking them to let him get to the front. He did not make it to the doors. He later tried to get the officers guarding the Speaker's Lobby to go home, telling them: "Bro, I've seen people out there get hurt."

Following the riot Sullivan appeared on several mainstream television networks CNN and MSNBC, which paid him for the footage.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y7PXvchh2WQ

[May 25, 2021] Watch- Tucker Carlson Blasts Fauci, WHO, Media For Lying About COVID Lab Leak For A Year

May 25, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

After Russiagate the credibility of CIA is below zero. So this looks like a part of propaganda compaign against China.

"Yet somehow Tony Fauci didn't know this Can we really believe that? No, of course, we can't," Carlson continued, adding "right around the time those Chinese researchers became the world's first COVID patients, the government of Thailand contacted the CDC and Tony Fauci's office to say its intelligence service had picked up 'biological anomalies' around the lab in Wuhan. In other words, there had been a leak."

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AUS-AUD 8 hours ago (Edited)

If fauci funded the wuhan lab then the US funded the wuhan lab.

popeye 6 hours ago

There has been no new credible information released in the past two months pertaining to the origin of SARS-Cov-2. US Intelligence is not a credible source (lying & deception are the tradecraft of espionage). All I see is media narrative spin based on conjecture that you can guarantee has political origins.

Yet Americans, who complain incessantly about the dishonesty of their media, credulously swallow the narrative fed to them without analysis or critique. Stupid. You think you are independent rebels, when you are in reality manipulated sheep, and oh so easily manipulated.

Lets be clear - ZH is now a part of the narrative machine.

SurfingUSA 4 hours ago (Edited)

Can't make inferences????

The Wuhan lab is just the fall guy here.

  • The virus,
  • the lab (or Army games) release,
  • the election impact ...

ALL either Made in the (((USA))) or close to it.

Justin Timberbieber 8 hours ago

Yep, just the CCP. No western involvement whatsoever.

E5 8 hours ago

Until you trace the scientists back to UNC. Then you see that the actual virus they accelerated came from the US.

Heimdall - Torwart von Assguard 6 hours ago

AND Canada

Ted K. 6 hours ago

The Winnipeg lab of the fully infiltrated Canada is indeed a piece of the puzzle.

Herdee 5 hours ago

And Ft. Detrick

RedNemesis 6 hours ago (Edited)

Okay. They accelerated and released a virus obtained from the US. So is the US responsible for a country turning yellow cake uranium mined in Nevada into a nuclear weapon?

truth or go home 5 hours ago

Yes, if the US gives them the recipe and then pays them to develop it.

And if the US did that to get around a law that makes it illegal to do makes it even worse - which is exactly what happened.

SteveNYC 7 hours ago

I'm going with the "populism" route. Stopping populist governments in their tracks has always proven reason enough for panic and overkill from TPTB:

- USA

- Brazil

- India

<< Primary targets.

Heimdall - Torwart von Assguard 6 hours ago

Poland

Hungary

Venezuela

Brazil

popeye 6 hours ago

Most Americans have never left their country, many have never left their state, and few seem to have an education. You can't expect them to know much about anything outside the US. Basically a flat earth mentality - "the world consists only of what I can see".

junction 8 hours ago

The only certainty is that all the major facts are lies.

Jolt 5 hours ago

You're on the right track, "junction", but be aware that the virus is just an ordinary flu/corona virus that isn't deadly for the vast majority of humans. The real culprit, the biggest tool for creating the worldwide "emergency" is the PCR test, which is 100% fraudulent. This is by design, thanks to the pharmaceuticals.

williambanzai7 PREMIUM 8 hours ago remove link

No Tucker, if you just want to blame the whole thing on China you are missing the punchline: Fauci

tion PREMIUM 8 hours ago (Edited) remove link

It's all an assortment of narratives and partial truths. Tucker points the finger at China without mentioning how Fauci was funding Gain of Function work at the Wuhan lab. Here is just one example of people from that lab using an HIV splice to increase transmissibility of a pathogen to humans.

https://jvi.asm.org/content/jvi/82/4/1899.full.pdf

In this study, we investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2 molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat. In addition to full-length S of SL-CoV and SARS-CoV, a series of S chimeras was constructed by inserting different sequences of the SARS-CoV S into the SL-CoV S backbone. Several important observations were made from this study. First, the SL-CoV S was unable to use any of the three ACE2 molecules as its receptor. Second, the SARS-CoV S failed to enter cells expressing the bat ACE2. Third, the chimeric S covering the previously defined receptor-binding domain gained its ability to enter cells via human ACE2, albeit with different efficiencies for different constructs. Fourth, a minimal insert region (amino acids 310 to 518) was found to be sufficient to convert the SL-CoV S from non-ACE2 binding to human ACE2 binding , indicating that the SL-CoV S is largely compatible with SARS-CoV S protein both in structure and in function.

Journal of Virology, February 2008

And by the way let's not pretend that dear Donald aka President Kushner's FIL didn't also know about Fauci's questionable involvement with unethical gain of function research at this lab before appointing him and the PEPFAR mafia to head the Covid taskforce, putting the foxes in charge of guarding the hen house so to speak.

TheAlmightyCorndawg 8 hours ago

Which is precisely why Tucker is Operation Mockingbird.

Billy the Poet 7 hours ago (Edited)

Then show me solid evidence that what you say is true. You do have film of Tucker working with the CIA, right?

2+2 ≠ 5 8 hours ago remove link

Huh?

Tucker has NEVER "supported the election hoax".

In fact, Tucker is one of the very few on MSM to continually call for proper voting audits of the 2020 election, and he repeatedly highlights the obvious fraud that took place.

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GoodyGumdrops 8 hours ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Election fraud has been happening in the US for decades.

The only thing new this time around is they decided to mock the American people openly, so that they can never claim ignorance again about the corruption.

The plandemic is the real worldwide atrocity being played out right now before our eyes.

asteroids 8 hours ago

The heads of the NIH and the CDC have been caught lying. Therefore both agencies have NO credibility and have lost the trust of the people. ...

Flying Monkees 8 hours ago

Imagine being a total POS like Fauci who would destroy the freedom and liberties of his fellow Americans just so he can line his own pockets...

[May 22, 2021] Lysenkoism on the march -- CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx'd

May 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

New policies will artificially deflate "breakthrough infections" in the vaccinated, while the old rules continue to inflate case numbers in the unvaccinated.

The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data logging and testing for "Covid19" in order to make it seem the experimental gene-therapy "vaccines" are effective at preventing the alleged disease.

They made no secret of this, announcing the policy changes on their website in late April/early May, (though naturally without admitting the fairly obvious motivation behind the change).

The trick is in their reporting of what they call "breakthrough infections" – that is people who are fully "vaccinated" against Sars-Cov-2 infection, but get infected anyway.

Essentially, Covid19 has long been shown – to those willing to pay attention – to be an entirely created pandemic narrative built on two key factors:

  1. False-positive tests. The unreliable PCR test can be manipulated into reporting a high number of false-positives by altering the cycle threshold (CT value)

  2. Inflated Case-count. The incredibly broad definition of "Covid case", used all over the world, lists anyone who receives a positive test as a "Covid19 case", even if they never experienced any symptoms .

Without these two policies, there would never have been an appreciable pandemic at all , and now the CDC has enacted two policy changes which means they no longer apply to vaccinated people.

Firstly, they are lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected "breakthrough infections".

From the CDC's instructions for state health authorities on handling "possible breakthrough infections" (uploaded to their website in late April):

For cases with a known RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) value, submit only specimens with Ct value ≤28 to CDC for sequencing. (Sequencing is not feasible with higher Ct values.)

Throughout the pandemic, CT values in excess of 35 have been the norm, with labs around the world going into the 40s.


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Just a Little Froth in the Market 15 hours ago

They are manipulating the numbers to make it look like only the unvaxxed get infected. That is fraud, and this rogue agency needs to be stopped.

Enraged 1 hour ago remove link

The CDC is not an independent government agency, but is actually a subsidiary of Big Pharma.

The CDC owns patents on at least 57 different vaccines, and profits $4.1 billion per year in vaccination sales.

There are CDC patents applicable to vaccines for Flu, Rotavirus, Hepatitis A, HIV, Anthrax, Rabies, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, Group A Strep, Pneumococcal disease, Meningococcal disease, RSV, Gastroenteritis, Japanese encephalitis, SARS, Rift Valley Fever, and chlamydophila pneumoniae.

https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/12/07/robert-kennedy-jr-cdc-is-a-privately-owned-vaccine-company/

yerfej 7 hours ago

People might be starting to get the impression that the federal regime, which owns the media, judiciary, academia, bureaucracy, and big tech, are attempting to manipulate information to increase their power and wealth. The elites have confiscated almost ALL the commoners wealth and now they want the rest of the money and complete and total control. Mao or Stalin would be proud of these fascists.

LetThemEatRand 17 hours ago

Imagine living under the rule of a globalist oligarchy that controls the Press. That.

JakeIsNotFake 14 hours ago remove link

What is that if not an obvious and deliberate act of deception?

Well, before 3/20, this would have been a FELONY. Each time a lab provided a patient with KNOWINGLY FALSE test results, the lab and the doctor would have been subject to a 16 month term in the state penitentiary. For each instance.

Can you imagine getting a positive, terminal prognosis, committing a well deserved murder, and then not dying?

Oopsie! My bad.

gregga777 14 hours ago

Government, and that especially includes the so-called "Scientists" in government service, are Corrupt, Incompetent, Unaccountable and Untrustworthy. The Government's so-called "Scientists," including those funded by Government contracts, are no more trustworthy than politicians.

PeterLong 14 hours ago

Sometimes you have no choice. We had to undergo surgical procedures in a hospital and had to get tested a few days before. Whether they use the same parameters for these type cases as for others I don't know. Perhaps they are reluctant to turn away or delay surgical cases for BS reasons and therefore possibly use more realistic standards , but my opinion of the entire medical industry has become so low that I could believe anything. I still wonder about hospital and other medical practices finances concenring this scam. Have they continued to profit somehow despite being shut down in some ways?

Beebee 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Same here, Peter. Hubby's mother broke her elbow last year. And we had to bring her to tests to do surgery. She was negative. But, afterwards, suddenly, developed lymphoma. Now, I wonder about these tests! The cancer chemo was delayed due to all this stuff. She had so many Covid tests, all negative, and just now completed the chemo rounds. It's not necessary and they do make a profit. She is the only reason we stay here, otherwise we would moved from NY. She's a mess, and I resent the fact the hold-ups are due to testing.

fewer 36 minutes ago

Hospitals made tons of money on this. Uncle Sugar pays so much, and the administrators always slice & dice the budget/reports so they seem on the edge of bankruptcy no matter what. Naturally all of this is "debunked" by (((the usual sources))).

Here's one fact that the "debunkers" deliberately ignore: the feds pay for all the treatment of uninsured C19 patients... including illegals . Normally if an illegal comes to the ED and needs to be admitted, the hospital can't refuse to do that and instead has to eat the cost (well, they pass the cost on to hardworking, insurance having people like you and me, but bear with me).

If they admit the person for a reason *other* than C19, then the hospital still eats the cost. Now, tell me, what's the incentive here if an illegal comes in with a bunch of comorbidities and needs admission to manage those? What should be recorded as the admitting diagnosis/problem if they can get swabbed for a high Ct PCR test (a meaningless positive result)?

lasvegaspersona 7 hours ago

After more than 50 years in medicine, I tell friends and family, 'stay away from us if you can'. Modern medicine is a rats nest of false positive testing and chasing trivial abnormalities on imaging studies.

The sad part is patients feel relieved when they are told 'nothing was finally found'....this after great expense of time and money.

spiff 54 minutes ago

Caught Red-Handed

Yes, define "Caught". I have a feeling life will continue without consequences for the perpetrator of this fraud, or even your average person knowing about it.

_triplesix_ 14 hours ago

CDC, FBI, CIA, DHS, NIH, EPA, DOE...shall I go on?

Drater 6 hours ago

FAA, TSA, SEC, FCC, NHTSA, DOJ

JakeIsNotFake 13 hours ago

CDC is .gov. As an NGO, (funded by 99% .gov and 1% phony donations), the CDC can legally, (not honestly), claim they are just an advisory body.

While noteing the distinction, please pay attention to the language: Mask mandate, guidelines, advisories are NOT laws. Just like travel advisories, protocols, and best practice. These are all weasel words. And totally unenforceable.

snatchpounder PREMIUM 9 hours ago

Everything is rigged, this plandemic, elections, markets you name it because when there's currency to be made you'll always have someone more than willing to do it. Big pharma is making a killing literally in this case and tax slaves paid for the gene therapy shots creation. And all the rubes who took the shot will pay much more than just currency for their naivety.

archipusz 11 hours ago

We can speculate all we want about what the agenda is of the CDC.

But what we know is that it has nothing to do with the truth or our health.

Enraged 1 hour ago remove link

The CDC is not an independent government agency, but is actually a subsidiary of Big Pharma.

The CDC owns patents on at least 57 different vaccines, and profits $4.1 billion per year in vaccination sales.

There are CDC patents applicable to vaccines for Flu, Rotavirus, Hepatitis A, HIV, Anthrax, Rabies, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, Group A Strep, Pneumococcal disease, Meningococcal disease, RSV, Gastroenteritis, Japanese encephalitis, SARS, Rift Valley Fever, and chlamydophila pneumoniae.

https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/12/07/robert-kennedy-jr-cdc-is-a-privately-owned-vaccine-company/

paranoid.dragon 8 hours ago

amazing they do not even try to hide the deception.

but reporting on such deception will have one labeled a "conspiracy theorist", and the FBI classifies "conspiracy theorists" as "domestic terrorists".

That's right, re-stating publicly available comments and policies of government agencies and officials will have you branded as a domestic terrorist.

And the "intellectuals" in the media, academia, and "think-tanks" have abandoned all logic and common sense to serve their masters in the government and big pharma.

history will not forget.

smacker 12 hours ago

Very good article which rightly exposes the CDC and all those around it for being utterly corrupt and are perpetrating a fake pandemic with sinister objectives.

crazzziecanuck 11 hours ago

You realize, it's Putin's fault. Putin can rig a presidential election, it's child's play for him to manipulate the CDC to do his evil bidding.

Everything is Putin's fault: Trump, COVID, 737 Max crashes, slavery, crucifixion of Christ, the end of the dinosaurs, and so on.

archipusz 13 hours ago

Notice how Rand Paul will argue with Fauci about policy over when we should wear a mask, BUT WILL NOT DARE ASK THEM WHY THEY HAVE, AND ARE, COMMITTING CRIMINAL FRAUD WITH THE PCR TESTING?

Demystified 2 hours ago

It's a rigged game, a scam. These people are so dishonest, and intent on falsifying Covid test results by applying different standards for vaccinated and unvaccinated people? They are perpetuating a fraud on the people.

You have to be brain dead to not see what they are doing.

Robert De Zero 3 hours ago remove link

This is so evil. Medicalized dictatorship, supported by propaganda media, is here.

Alien 851 4 hours ago

This is NEWS??? Are you kidding?

It was March 2020 when they changed the rules on reporting of Covid deaths to run the count as high as possible. It is still used in fear headlines today! How about wildly fluctuation "new cases" that seem to totally respect state borders...?

For God's sake, wake the hell up!!!!

In March, the CDC redefined what is to be reported by Medical Examiners in the US. One of them gave examples of Covid Death cases reporting criteria:

"The case definition is very simplistic," Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. "It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means, technically even if you died of clear alternative cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it's still listed as a COVID death."

[May 18, 2021] Why the necessity of populist POTUSes arose in the USA in the first place?

May 18, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

S.P. Korolev , May 18 2021 5:26 utc | 69

Vk @30
..why the necessity of populist POTUSes arose in the USA in the first place?

Perhaps it might be useful to examine the case of the first Western populist of the modern era: Louis Napoleon. It's been a while since I read Marx's 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon' but the short (hopefully not too vulgar) version is that the French ruling class was too divided (between different flavours of Royalist and Republicans, finance capitalists and industrialists etc) for any faction to provide a coherent class project to move France forward and either co-opt or repress the working people of France.

The workers were also divided and not yet ready to articulate a revolutionary project of their own. With France caught between its imperialist rival Great Britain and an awakening Germany, and the threat of revolution working to focus their minds, the French Ruling class came up with a way out of the impass: a populist leader who could stand above the social divisions and 'Make France Great Again'.

Bonaparte's nephew Louis Napoleon was by most accounts a mere grifter and stuffed-shirt, but he had name recognition and the ambition to play the part. The gambit was wildly successful in rolling back the gains the workers had made in 1848 and resulted in the 'second empire' that reinvigorated French imperialism. Well, wildly successful until Louis went up against against a rising power (Prussia/Germany) and the second empire folded like a house of cards.

When Trump was first elected it seemed probable that we were dealing with another 'Bonapartist'. With the ruling class floundering after the 'GFC' of 2008-11 and the crisis of US imperialism after the rise of China and defeat in Ukraine and Syria, some faction of the ruling class was seeking to put the pieces back together under a new strongman. But in this case the attempt was a resounding failure in unifing the ruling class.

The weakness of the US working class may be the key to understanding the failure of Trumpism. While French workers of 1850 may have struggled to create a unified revolutionary project of their own, they were organised and poliicised enough to provide the muscle in removing the Monarchy in 1848 and were a constant threat to French ruling class power. The US working class of 2016 was none of these things. Without the threat of revolution there was no incentive for the dominant ruling class factions to devolve some of their power to a strongman.

The ruling class attack on Trumpism seems to have consolidated the power of the dominant factions of the ruling class under the Democratic party, while hopelessly dividing the working class between those who support the strongman and those that tail after the ruling class attacks on him. So while Trumpism has failed to create a reborn and unified US empire, it has accomplished the next best thing: disorienting and demoralising the greatest threat to that empire. Perhaps it will take a diastrous collision with a rising power to change that. For France's second empire it was Germany and resulted in the Paris Commune. For the US, China and ?

psychohistorian , May 18 2021 5:56 utc | 70

@ S.P. Korolev | May 18 2021 5:26 utc | 69 with the nice description of Trump's Populist failing

Thanks for that...nicely done and, yes, the China/Russia axis is the challenge to the US faced axis....I keep calling it a civilization war because that it the only result I see meaning we have evolved from barbarism and haven't gone extinct trying...

Commenter vk is the MoA ideologue troll that should go create her own web site and stop polluting this one, IMO, and that of others on an ongoing basis....see the latest Week in Review Open Thread about Ivermectin for example.
vk is the main reason I scroll to the bottom of each comment to find the author before reading

Cryogenicman , May 18 2021 7:46 utc | 73

I think Trump is a man for the moment. He is not particularly intelligent. He is not particulary honest. He is not a natural leader. He loves to play to the gallery.He can be dominated.He is weak. He is disingenuous.He is rich. I don't think he can ever be called a self made man. He was chosen to do the job by those more connected and powerful than him. Remember you always get the leader that you deserve.

[May 11, 2021] Sen. Paul Shreds Fauci Over 'Gain-Of-Function' Funding

May 11, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Paul alleged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had used a middle-man to funnel money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance - which worked with the lab on bat coronavirus projects.

Paul specifically referenced so-called "gain-of-function" research which in this case has been focused on how to make animal viruses more transmissible to humans - specifically bat coronaviruses .

"Government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function research," Paul began...

...only to have Fauci interject "I don't favor gain of function research in China," adding "You are saying things that are not correct."

Paul pushed back - continuing:

"[Those who favor gain of function] say that COVID-19 mutations were random and not designed by man."

"I do not have any accounting of what the Chinese may have done," Fauci shot back, adding that he's in favor of further investigation, but that the NIH had nothing to do with the origins of COVID-19.

"We have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology," he added.

"No matter how many times you say it, it didn't happen."

More from Sen. Paul via Twitter:


 Senator Rand Paul @RandPaul · May 11, 2021 Dr Fauci dissembled or tried to hide his long time support for 'gain-of-function' research which creates super-viruses that jump from animals to humans.

ohm 4 hours ago (Edited) remove link

You can't sit on your thumbs and run year long investigations and background checks while thousands are dying .

But that's just the point, thousands were not dying . Instead of seeking out opposing viewpoints, he relied on the bogus Ferguson model that predicted 2 million deaths presented by Fauci and Birx. Plenty of qualified opposing voices were out there - John Ionnides of Stanford for instance. Trump needs to own up to his mistakes and vow not to repeat them.

nodhannum 3 hours ago

How many renminbi do they pay you comrade...as in be "han" or be gone. I've been to a number of seminars given by Fauci back in his HIV days but he is a lying sob now. It's getting hard for the fellow to cover hisw *** now even with the Maserati marxists in power here.

Plus Size Model 1 hour ago

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research

smallblockchevy350 3 hours ago

Rand 2024. I wanted Rand over Trump in 2016 too, but the MSM memed Trump into being the GOP candidate somehow.

replaceme 5 hours ago

So now fauci is on record lying about it, nice.

HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 5 hours ago

Yeah. Classic psychopath. He can't help himself at this point.

win95o PREMIUM 5 hours ago remove link

Why would Fauci say the following in 2017:

"There will be a surprise outbreak"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=puqaaeLnEww

YesitsTrue98 4 hours ago

"We are not prepared for a pandemic," Biden tweeted on Oct. 25, 2019, saying the country needs leadership that "mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores."

this_circus_is_no_fun 4 hours ago

At first Fauxi denied the allegation. Then, after Paul cornered him with facts, Fauxi said something like "this is why we did that". So, he admitted that he did what he was denying just a few seconds before . He is literally incapable of telling the truth. I guess he's not called Fauxi for nothing.

adonisdemilo 5 hours ago

Fauci has known from day one what's going on and going wrong. He's up to his neck in it and taking a good look at his body language under questions from Rand Paul, HE'S CONTINUING TO LIE.

chinese.sniffles 5 hours ago

Dr. Fauci:

Have you or your team send or granted permission for work projects to Wuhan or China?

What were those projects?

Why did you send them?

Why did you not do these projects in the USA?

Were any of these projects illegal in the USA?

etc. simple line of questioning, let him perjure himself.

thezone 5 hours ago

Fauci (the politician) knew to not write a check out to the lab directly. It was great to hear Dr Paul bring up EcoHealth. A shell company to facilitate.

surfer4444 5 hours ago

Exactly, blame it on the sub contractor....an old game and the elite are using it well

radical-extremist 5 hours ago remove link

Fauci knows full well the story in the Democrat State News media will be about how he was ATTACKED by Rand Paul, and not about him lying under oath about funding the Wuhan Lab.

chiquita 5 hours ago

This information has been out for a while if you follow War Room, Steve Hilton, and some other sources. Peter Navarro has been hammering at Fauci relentlessly for the last few months and now the MSM is going after Navarro, trying to discredit him. Gee, I wonder why when it looks like the truth about Fauci is falling apart.

What a mess_man 4 hours ago (Edited)

Tucker blew this wide open last night. Of course lots of us here knew all this many months ago. Fauci is lying through his teeth here, and both he and Daszak are deep in the Chicom's pockets. As Tucker said, in a functioning world there would be a criminal investigation. Instead Biden and Co. kiss his *ss and make him our foremost authority on Covid and vaccines. Clown world for sure.

Meatballs 3 hours ago (Edited)

Actually, Saagar beat Tucker to the punch. Either way, the unraveling has begun.

https://youtu.be/6Pk0wLN5uuU

vic and blood PREMIUM 2 hours ago remove link

Don't let the bioweapon profiteer, Daszak, off the hook.

Both greedy psychopaths should hang for their crimes against humanity.

Furthermore, we have no business sharing infectious disease technology with China, even if they could run a lab properly.

Itinerant 4 hours ago

This story is about 14 months old, though not for the MSM.

Actual documentation of the grants from the NIH via the Eco Alliance have been circulating in the public domain for all that time. In it they exactly describe the gain-of-function research that is being outsourced to China, the viruses involved, the methods, the type of experiments, and the aims of the research ... exactly and technically.

There is no room for caveats, or 'allege' or interpretation or anything like that.
The evidence is rock hard and crystal clear.

toady 4 hours ago

Yet there are no prosecutions.

dogbert8 5 hours ago remove link

Finally, the unmasking (pun intended) of Fauci has started.

bsdetector 5 hours ago

Just listened to the questions and answers. Fauci qualifies his answers with information that was not sought in the questions. His answers change the character of his denials... "we did not fund GOF research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

OK Dr. Fauci, please identify the viruses that you did fund for GOF research at the Institute.

Jack Mayorhaufer 5 hours ago

master gaslighters once they reach certain status and paygrade on the Hill

novictim 2 hours ago remove link

"I don't know how many times I can say it? We did not fund gain of function research to be done in the Wuhan Institute of Virology ...(under his breath) because we funded Eco Health Alliance/Peter Daszak which granted the research funding to do gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

CleeTorres 2 hours ago

A simple internet search shows Fauci is lying about funding for this research. But he knows the media won't do their jobs.

Onthebeach6 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Let me assist Dr Fauci with the truth.

Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan

Dr Christina Lin

April 2020

"A U.S. NIH-funded $3.7 million project was approved by Trump's Covid-19 advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2015, after the Obama White House imposed a ban on 'monster-germ' research. In October 2014, the federal government declared a moratorium on gain-of-function research to weaponize viruses related to influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). As a result, the research was outsourced to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is currently at the center of scrutiny for the Covid-19 pandemic."

https://www.ispsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/689_Lin.pdf

boyplunger7777 4 hours ago remove link

Fauci looks very nervous . Perhaps why he has been so adamant about constantly moving the goalposts? If you were guilty of something wouldn't you keep changing the focus and appear to be very helpful and concerned?

Max21c 3 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Which people in & around the National Security Council, CIA, and Pentagon are involved in this attempt to gain access, penetrate and spy on the PLA Biological Weapons/Warfare programs via funding mechanisms route? Which people had contact with this institute and programs and what if anything did the spy games produce?

When are they in Washington going to establish civilian rule over the US military and CIA and National Security Council?

When are they going to knock off these silly spy games and spy world operations off and stop this nonsense which produces zero positive results?

What did the gangsters on the Intelligence/Spy Committees in Congress know? What did the gangsters atop the Pentagon, CIA, National Security Council know?

Which Washingtonian assholes are going to go to prison for this boomerang disaster?

How many other groups similar to "EcoHealth Alliance" operate as part of the US/UK intelligence "community" and what other stupid stuff are the idiots mixed up in?

TheRapture 3 hours ago remove link

There is a great deal of evidence (NIH, State Dept grants to offshore USA bioweapons research, Bat Lady was the protege of Dr. Ralph Baric at UNC who has been doing coronavirus bioweapon research for more then twenty years, initial and simultaneous infections in Wuhan at different locations suggesting an intentional release, etc., etc., etc.) And of course, Trump had motive, opportunity and means to stage a false flag to destroy China's economy and damage China's political relations with other countries.

It is likely the USA, no doubt using a CIA proxy, released SARS-CoV-2 in simultaneously in multiple locations in Wuhan. The evidence is substantial. But most Americans can't bring themselves to stare down that particular rabbit hole.

WorkingClassMan 3 hours ago

I'd rather an honest CCP commie ruling the roost than those traitors anyway.

"If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it."
― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries

sarret PREMIUM 3 hours ago

Fauci is such a liar, pulling school kid mentality out of a hat to answer serious questions. Likely in his mind he knows it all to be true but since the correct name is 中国科学院武汉病毒研究所 then unless you say that name, or the exact name of the exact subsidiary that was funding or was being funded, then it is not correct and therefore he can answer the question incorrectly without calling himself a liar internally and without saying what the error was in the question that led him to be able to this.

In all respects he just disregards the spirit of the question when he knows full well that he is in the wrong, but denies it every single time based on some concocted fabrication in his mind that the question is not precise enough to nail him to the cross.

Completely disingenuous, can't trust a word he says.

Fish Gone Bad 4 hours ago

Lawyer speak:

We have not funded gain of function research on this virus

They funded all kinds of gain of function on all kinds of permutations of the virus, just not THIS virus.

radical-extremist 5 hours ago remove link

Fauci is also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of men in San Francisco by covering up Bath Houses as the origin of the spread of AIDS...for Mayor Diane Feinstein's political career. No one dares talk about this today.

the Mysterians 5 hours ago

"I did not have sex with that woman!"

Flying Monkees 5 hours ago (Edited)

What could possibly be the reason for gain-of-function research if not bio-warfare?

These evil, irresponsible, arrogant a-holes need to pay.

Posa 5 hours ago

The Eco-Alliance grant from Fauci's NIAID states

We will use S [ie the Spike Protein that makes the SC-2 virus highly infectious] protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential.

That has been interpreted as a commitment to Gain of Function research on the Spike Protein which is the key to turning SARS into a virulently transmissible pathogen.

surfer4444 5 hours ago remove link

Exactly...im just baffled how this PoS can blatantly lie to a Senate committee and get away with it...there is zero accountability in our government...end times

Posa 5 hours ago

Fauci can lie because his audience is a convention of lazy, cowardly , illiterate dunces. If Rand Paul were serious he would have had the damn grant in front of him and read the same quotes as I provided in this post. PAul would have held these hearings last year when his Party controlled the Senate.

Posa 4 hours ago

NOTE: This post was censored by The Hill. Typical free speech in America.

George Bayou 5 hours ago

"11 labs in the US create these super-viruses in the US and one of them collaborated with Wuhan Virology Inst -- Fauci has supported NIH funds for all these labs!"

Why is this a-hole still working?

notfeelinthebern 4 hours ago (Edited)

Yap, yap,. yap. Another dog and pony show and the show is painfully old. They parade personage after personage before congress and ask lots of questions. The swamp rats in the hot seat lie by omission and with sleight of hand answers and when done with the act walk away with smug faces....The show must go on.

George Bayou 5 hours ago

Here's an interesting article on Dr. Baric and what he was doing, mutating virus using serial passaging so that the virus are able to infect a completely different species:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

Take, for instance, this paper from 1995: "High Recombination and Mutation Rates in Mouse Hepatitis Viruses Suggest That Coronaviruses May Be Potentially Important Emerging Viruses." It was written by Dr. Ralph Baric and his bench scientist, Boyd Yount, at the University of North Carolina. Baric, a gravelly voiced former swim champion, described in this early paper how his lab was able to train a coronavirus, MHV, which causes hepatitis in mice, to jump species, so that it could reliably infect BHK (baby-hamster kidney) cell cultures. They did it using serial passaging: repeatedly dosing a mixed solution of mouse cells and hamster cells with mouse-hepatitis virus, while each time decreasing the number of mouse cells and upping the concentration of hamster cells. At first, predictably, the mouse-hepatitis virus couldn't do much with the hamster cells, which were left almost free of infection, floating in their world of fetal-calf serum. But by the end of the experiment, after dozens of passages through cell cultures, the virus had mutated: It had mastered the trick of parasitizing an unfamiliar rodent. A scourge of mice was transformed into a scourge of hamsters. And there was more: "It is clear that MHV can rapidly alter its species specificity and infect rats and primates," Baric said. "The resulting virus variants are associated with demyelinating diseases in these alternative species." (A demyelinating disease is a disease that damages nerve sheaths.) With steady prodding from laboratory science, along with some rhetorical exaggeration, a lowly mouse ailment was morphed into an emergent threat that might potentially cause nerve damage in primates.

GeneKelly 5 hours ago remove link

"We have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,"

Sociopaths can lie without registering on a detector by simply defining terms differently in their cerebral cortex and then answering -- from their perspective truthfully -- "no" because the question doesn't match their internal definition.

So Fauci wasn't funding "gain of function". He was actually funding "increasing the virulence of pathogens" or "enhancing the pathogens' ability to infect different species".

Rand and others will have to ask the question a hundred ways to force Fauci to spill the beans.

DeeDeeTwo 1 hour ago remove link

Tucker finally called Fauci a "criminal" at least twice and said, "In any functioning society Fauci would be investigated."

Txjac 5 hours ago

Fauci also owns the patents on the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines

Everybody All American 5 hours ago remove link

How is it that only one Congressman dare questions Dr. Fauci? One tough questioner. These cowards all need to hang for the crimes they are allowing. If they think we are just going to sit back and watch this man for much longer lead us they are sadly mistaken.

Downhill from here 5 hours ago

Being an MD, Paul has some credibility on the topic. At least educationally and by training, Fauci and Paul are peers.. More than likely other R's are letting him take point.

replaceme 5 hours ago (Edited)

I forgot, that's the same dr daszak that sent the letter to the lancet saying that covid didn't come from Wuhan, and that he had no reason to falsely say this. THAT Dr daszak. Got it.

Wilde1 2 hours ago remove link

https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/anthony-fauci-40-years-of-lies-from-azt-to-remdesivir/

Totally_Disillusioned 2 hours ago (Edited)

"We [NIH/Fauci] did not fund gain of function research to be done in Wuhan." What the weasel didn't say is that the NIH did in deed fund Dr Baric who was working in collaboration with Wuhan with gain of function experiments on the SARS virus. Baric worked with Ft Dettrick and Univ NC researchers who in turn were collaborating with Canada and Wuhan.

Fauci can parse words but he's a traitor and ought to be held responsible along with all others involved with this.

scraping_by 5 hours ago (Edited) remove link

One amendment to the story --

Carlson was quoting a story by Nicholas Wade, former science editor to the NYT. Published in Medium. So it's not just a talking head repeating newsroom copy, as in CNN.

zorrosgato 14 minutes ago remove link

Fauci is part of a flawed system and don't be fooled in believing he is part of any solution. His endorsing of impractical mask mandates along with mandatory vaccinations of the population, using unproven genetically engineered drugs is proof enough.

https://medium.com/swlh/mrna-therapy-a-new-form-of-gene-medicine-5d859dadd1e

Looking4 6 hours ago

wonder which university in North Carolina could possibly be involved in this ???? :) to be sure they would not have a "bat lab"...would they?

[May 09, 2021] I've formed the opinion that the BIC (the Billionaires In Charge) want societies atomised to reduce the likelihood of an anti-neoliberal revolution involving rope, and nooses

Notable quotes:
"... you make the best point: you have to have something seriously "wrong" with your mind to want a job with these spooks in the first place. you can't spell "sociopath" without "c-i-a". ..."
May 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Hoarsewhisperer , May 5 2021 16:15 utc | 38

I asked Google (and thus Wikipedia) what cisgender means?

cisgender /sɪsˈdʒɛndə/ adjective

Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.
"this new-found attention to the plight of black trans folks by primarily cisgender allies is timely and necessary"

On the same page as the search result is a teaser headline: "How An (the) Ad About Cisgender Backfired Spectacularly"

I've formed the opinion that the BIC (the Billionaires In Charge) want societies atomised to reduce the likelihood of a revolution involving rope, and nooses. So guess how surprised I'm not that the BIC's loyal servants/savants, the CIA, are attempting to popularise such vacuous tosh as yet another addition to the LBGTQUERTY "landscape?"

the pair , May 5 2021 16:25 utc | 42

you make the best point: you have to have something seriously "wrong" with your mind to want a job with these spooks in the first place. you can't spell "sociopath" without "c-i-a".

both the bold - and to a lesser extent the italics - are terms people use to sound interesting when they're not. especially the tendency toward self-diagnosis that westerners have; "i'm not dumb with no attention span ...i have " ADHD " or "i don't have low self esteem or work-related anxiety based on the inner knowldge of how inept i am...i have " imposter syndrome ".

the woke types tend to be this kind of malleable and empty vessel...which is what the "company" wants.

karlof1 , May 5 2021 16:25 utc | 43

Thanks for bringing this issue to the main page in a brief article, b. I linked to this article, "CIA & The Woke Totalitarian Generation" , on the Week in Review thread, but it generated no additional comment despite its being one of several recent essays on the issue of the contrived Wokeism "culture" that Alastair Crooke's written about on several occasions over the past months and Pepe Escobar made the focus of his most recent essay.

Crooke argues that Wokeism is the peculiar and singular outcome of the American Malaise prominently exposed by Christopher Lasch in his 1994 Revolt of the Elites , which we've seen in the trenches as the war being waged against the State and citizenry by the Neoliberal Rentier Class that was explained well in this Renegade Inc interview from last year .

The Outlaw US Empire is clearly trying hard to get its Neoliberal vassals to adopt the Woke insanity, which proves beyond doubt Putin's assertion that the Liberalism of the West has died or worse evolved into something profane and loathsome.

[May 06, 2021] Aldous Huxley Foresaw Our Despots - Fauci, Gates, The Vaccine Crusaders

This is starting to look really like staging of "Brave new world..." Today's society is closer to Huxley's "Brave New World" than to Orwell's "1984". But there are clear elements of both. If you will, the worst of both worlds has come true today.
May 06, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Patricia McCarthy via AmericanThinker.com,

In 1949, sometime after the publication of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World (1931), who was then living in California, wrote to Orwell. Huxley had briefly taught French to Orwell as a student in high school at Eton.

Huxley generally praises Orwell's novel, which to many seemed very similar to Brave New World in its dystopian view of a possible future. Huxley politely voices his opinion that his own version of what might come to pass would be truer than Orwell's. Huxley observed that the philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is sadism, whereas his own version is more likely, that controlling an ignorant and unsuspecting public would be less arduous, less wasteful by other means. Huxley's masses are seduced by a mind-numbing drug, Orwell's with sadism and fear.

The most powerful quote In Huxley's letter to Orwell is this:

Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.


Aldous Huxley.

Could Huxley have more prescient? What do we see around us?

Masses of people dependent upon drugs, legal and illegal. The majority of advertisements that air on television seem to be for prescription drugs, some of them miraculous but most of them unnecessary. Then comes COVID, a quite possibly weaponized virus from the Fauci-funded-with-taxpayer-dollars lab in Wuhan, China. The powers that be tragically deferred to the malevolent Fauci who had long been hoping for just such an opportunity. Suddenly, there was an opportunity to test the mRNA vaccines that had been in the works for nearly twenty years. They could be authorized as an emergency measure but were still highly experimental. These jabs are not really vaccines at all, but a form of gene therapy . There are potential disastrous consequences down the road. Government experiments on the public are nothing new .

Since there have been no actual, long-term trials, no one who contributed to this massive drug experiment knows what the long-term consequences might be. There have been countless adverse injuries and deaths already for which the government-funded vaccine producers will suffer no liability. With each passing day, new side-effects have begun to appear: blood clots, seizures, heart failure.

As new adverse reactions become known despite the censorship employed by most media outlets, the more the Biden administration is pushing the vaccine, urging private corporations to make it mandatory for all employees. Colleges are making them mandatory for all students returning to campus.

The leftmedia are advocating the "shunning" of the unvaccinated. The self-appointed virtue-signaling Democrats are furious at anyone and everyone who declines the jab. Why? If they are protected, why do they care? That is the question. Same goes for the ridiculous mask requirements . They protect no one but for those in operating rooms with their insides exposed, yet even the vaccinated are supposed to wear them!

Months ago, herd immunity was near. Now Fauci and the CDC say it will never be achieved? Now the Pfizer shot will necessitate yearly booster shots. Pfizer expects to make $21B this year from its COVID vaccine! Anyone who thinks this isn't about money is a fool. It is all about money, which is why Fauci, Gates, et al. were so determined to convince the public that HCQ and ivermectin, both of which are effective, prophylactically and as treatment, were not only useless, but dangerous. Both of those drugs are tried, true, and inexpensive. Many of those thousands of N.Y. nursing home fatalities might have been prevented with the use of one or both of those drugs. Those deaths are on the hands of Cuomo and his like-minded tyrants drunk on power.

Months ago, Fauci, et al. agreed that children were at little or no risk of getting COVID, of transmitting it, least of all dying from it. Now Fauci is demanding that all teens be vaccinated by the end of the year! Why? They are no more in danger of contracting it now than they were a year ago. Why are parents around this country not standing up to prevent their kids from being guinea pigs in this monstrous medical experiment? And now they are " experimenting " on infants. Needless to say, some have died. There is no reason on Earth for teens, children, and infants to be vaccinated. Not one.

Huxley also wrote this:

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' -- this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats ."

- Crome Yellow

Perhaps this explains the left's hysterical impulse to force these untested shots on those of us who have made the decision to go without it. If they've decided that it is the thing to do, then all of us must submit to their whims. If we decide otherwise, it gives them the righteous right to smear all of us whom they already deplore.

As C.J. Hopkins has written , the left means to criminalize dissent. Those of us who are vaccine-resistant are soon to be outcasts, deprived of jobs and entry into everyday businesses. This kind of discrimination should remind everyone of ...oh, Germany three quarters of a century ago. Huxley also wrote, "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." That is precisely what the left is up to, what BLM is planning, what Critical Race Theory is all about.

Tal Zaks, Moderna's chief medical officer, said these new vaccines are "hacking the software of life." Vaccine-promoters claim he never said this, but he did. Bill Gates called the vaccines " an operating system " to the horror of those promoting it, a Kinsley gaffe. Whether it is or isn't hardly matters at this point, but these statements by those behind the vaccines are a clue to what they have in mind.

There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears , so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.

This is exactly what the left is working so hard to effect: a pharmacologically compromised population happy to be taken care of by a massive state machine. And while millions of people around the world have surrendered to the vaccine and mask hysteria, millions more, about 1.3 billion, want no part of this government vaccine mania.

In his letter to Orwell, Huxley ended with the quote cited above and again here because it is so profound:

Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

Huxley nailed the left more than seventy years ago, perhaps because leftists have never changed throughout the ages. 61,497 173

Fat Beaver 14 hours ago (Edited)

If i am to be treated as an outcast or an undesirable because i refuse the vax, i will immediately become someone that has zero reverence for the law, and i can only imagine 10's of millions will be right there with me.

strych10 14 hours ago

Welcome to the club.

We have coffee in the corner and occasional meetings at various bars.

Dr. Chihuahua-González 13 hours ago

I'm a doctor, you could contact me anytime and receive your injection.

Fat Beaver 13 hours ago (Edited)

I've gotta feeling the normie world you think you live in is about to change drastically for the worse...

sparky139 PREMIUM 10 hours ago

You mean you'll sign papers that you injected us *wink *wink? And toss it away?

bothneither 2 hours ago

Oh geez how uncommon, another useless doctor with no Scruples who sold out to big Pharma. Please have my Gates sponsored secret sauce.

Unknown 6 hours ago (Edited)

Both Huxley and Orwell are wrong. Neoliberalism (the use of once office for personal gains) is by far the most powerful force that subjugates the inept population. Neoliberalism demolished the mighty USSR, now destroying the USA, and will do the same to China. And this poison dribbles from the top to bottom creating self-centered population that is unable to unite, much less resist.

Deathrips 15 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Tylers.
You gonna cover Tucker Carlsons show earlier today on FOX news about vaxxx deaths? almost 4k reported so far this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJQuk-qK2o

19331510 14 hours ago (Edited)

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/death-stats

AGE Deaths

0-24 23

25-50 184

51-65 506

66-80 1164

81-100 1346

U 321

R.I.P.

Joe Joe Depends 13 hours ago

India up in arms about mere 1%

spanish flu was 3%

JimmyJones 9 hours ago

Is the population of india up in arms or is the MSM?

Nelbev 10 hours ago

Facebook just flagged/censored it, must sign into see vid, Tuck also failed to mention mRNA and adenovirus vaxes were experimental and not FDA approved nor gone through stage III trials. Beside deaths, have blood clot issues. Good he mentioned how naturally immune if get covid and recovered, better than vaccine, but not covered for bogus passports. Me personally, I would rather catch covid and get natural immunity than be vaccinated with an untested experimental vaccine.

19331510 14 hours ago

Covid19 links.

Websites:

https://www.americasfrontlinedocs.com/media/

https://covid19criticalcare.com/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/

https://www.constitutionalrightscentre.ca/category/news/

https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/

https://www.flemingmethod.com/

https://gbdeclaration.org/

https://www.lifesitenews.com/

https://healthimpactnews.com/

https://www.mercola.com/

https://drleemerritt.com/

https://www.drtenpenny.com/

https://principia-scientific.com/

https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak

https://thehighwire.com/

https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/ https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/links/general-links/

Video Sharing : https://www.bitchute.com/ ; https://brandnewtube.com/ ; https://odysee.com/ ; https://rumble.com/ https://superu.net

Healthcare Professionals :

Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya; Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche; Dr. Ron Brown; Dr. Ryan Cole; Dr. Richard Fleming; Dr. Simone Gold; Dr. Sunetra Gupta; Dr. Carl Heneghan; Dr. Martin Kulldorff; Dr. Paul Marik; Dr. Peter McCullough; Dr. Joseph Mercola; Dr. Lee Merritt; Dr. Judy Mikovits; Dr. Dennis Modry; Dr. Hooman Noorchashm; Dr. Harvey Risch; Dr. Sherri Tenpenny; Dr. Richard Urso; Dr. Michael Yeadon;

A list of Canadian doctors: https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak

Lawyers : Dr. Reiner Fuellmich; Rocco Galati;

Drug Adverse Reaction Databases:

http://www.adrreports.eu/en/index.html (Search; Suspected Drug Reactions Reports for Substances) COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414); COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH; COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19); COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html

Research papers :

https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/ (pcr tests)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/ (face masks)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484 (lock downs)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670 (child/teacher morbidity)

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1 (transmission by children)

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm (masks/restaurants)

https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/3/199 (biased trial reporting)

Covid19 links.

Websites:

https://www.americasfrontlinedocs.com/media/

https://covid19criticalcare.com/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/

https://www.constitutionalrightscentre.ca/category/news/

https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/

https://www.flemingmethod.com/

https://gbdeclaration.org/

https://www.lifesitenews.com/

https://healthimpactnews.com/

https://www.mercola.com/

https://drleemerritt.com/

https://www.drtenpenny.com/

https://principia-scientific.com/

https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak

https://thehighwire.com/

https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/ https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/links/general-links/

Video Sharing : https://www.bitchute.com/ ; https://brandnewtube.com/ ; https://odysee.com/ ; https://rumble.com/ https://superu.net

Healthcare Professionals :

Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya; Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche; Dr. Ron Brown; Dr. Ryan Cole; Dr. Richard Fleming; Dr. Simone Gold; Dr. Sunetra Gupta; Dr. Carl Heneghan; Dr. Martin Kulldorff; Dr. Paul Marik; Dr. Peter McCullough; Dr. Joseph Mercola; Dr. Lee Merritt; Dr. Judy Mikovits; Dr. Dennis Modry; Dr. Hooman Noorchashm; Dr. Harvey Risch; Dr. Sherri Tenpenny; Dr. Richard Urso; Dr. Michael Yeadon;

A list of Canadian doctors: https://standupcanada.solutions/canadian-doctors-speak

Lawyers : Dr. Reiner Fuellmich; Rocco Galati;

Drug Adverse Reaction Databases:

http://www.adrreports.eu/en/index.html (Search; Suspected Drug Reactions Reports for Substances) COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414); COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH; COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19); COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)

https://www.openvaers.com/

Research papers :

https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/ (pcr tests)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/ (face masks)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484 (lock downs)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670 (child/teacher morbidity)

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1 (transmission by children)

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm (masks/restaurants)

https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/3/199 (biased trial reporting)

Ultramarines 15 hours ago (Edited)

His making of the gamma and delta workforce was quite prescient. We are seeing it play out now, we all know gammas and delta. There was a really good ABC tv movie made in 1980 Brave New World. Excellent show, it shows the Alphas and names them Rothchild and so on. Shows what these people specifically want to do to the world. I wonder if the ruling psychopaths actually wait for science fiction authors to plan the future and then follow their script.

Mineshaft Gap 10 hours ago

If Huxley were starting out today no major publisher would touch him.

They'd tell him Brave New World doesn't have a diverse enough of cast. Even the mostly likable totalitarian guy named Mustapha turns out to be white! A white Mustapha. It's soooo triggering. Also, what's wrong with a little electronic fun and drug taking, anyway? Lighten up , Aldous.

Meanwhile his portrait of shrieking medieval Catholic nuns who think they're possessed in The Devils of Loudun might remind the leftist editors too uncomfortably of their own recent bleating performances at "White Fragility" struggle sessions.

Sorry, Aldous. Just...too...problematic.

[May 03, 2021] Some other countries of the world just aren't swallowing Bidan and his handlers worshipping of all things non-white..

May 03, 2021 | www.unz.com

Defender , says: April 30, 2021 at 8:51 am GMT • 18.6 hours ago

Some other countries of the world just aren't swallowing Bidan and his handlers worshipping of all things non-white..

https://www.youtube.com/embed/CBS8TYLO_A0?feature=oembed

BorisMay , says: April 30, 2021 at 1:38 pm GMT • 13.8 hours ago
@Chris Moore to eternal servitude as debt slaves.

*** Please Note: Russia is not weak considering that it has the ability to nuke America in to ashes within 30 minutes, or any other bunch of idiots that chooses to step over her red lines. Okay the US has 350 million people compared to 150 million Russians, but the US is irrevocably divided and Russia is fully united even the Muslim minority is united with the State in Russia. A divided house can not stand no man can serve two masters. On top of that the US has no moral values whereas Russia is a Christian country where marriage is between a man and a woman, by State law. Biden can fly all the queer flags he likes but he still leads a divided nation with a corrupt State comprised of dual passport holders, amoral materialists and deluded mentally challenged idiots like Waters and Pelosi.

[May 03, 2021] Tucker Carlson Says People Who Wear Masks Outside Should Be Mocked by Paul Joseph Watson

Apr 27, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Leftists reacted with fury after Fox News host Tucker Carlson said people who wear masks outside should be mocked and that parents who made their kids wear them were engaging in "child abuse."

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Carlson noted that masks were "purely a sign of political obedience like Kim Il-Sung pins in Pyongyang" and that the only people who voluntarily wear masks outside are "zealots and neurotics."

He then asserted that the tables should be turned on Biden voters who have been harassing conservatives for almost a year for not wearing a mask in public.

"The rest of us should be snorting at them first, they're the aggressors – it's our job to brush them back and restore the society we were born in," said Carlson.

"So the next time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalk or on the bike path, do not hesitate. Ask politely but firmly, ' Would you please take off your mask? Science shows there is no reason for you to be wearing it. Your mask is making me uncomfortable, " he added.

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"We should do that and we should keep doing it until wearing a mask outside is roughly as socially accepted as lighting a Marlboro on an elevator."

The Fox News host went on to call mask wearing "repulsive" while asserting that forcing children to wear masks outside should be illegal.

"Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from your response to seeing someone beat a kid in Walmart. Call the police immediately. Contact Child Protective Services. Keep calling until someone arrives," Carlson said.

"What you're looking at is abuse, it's child abuse, and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it," he added.

As expected, Carlson immediately began trending on Twitter, with hysterical leftists hyperventilating over Tucker once again challenging their cult. Many called for the Fox News host to be fired while others ludicrously described him as a "national security threat."

As we highlighted yesterday , even Dr. Fauci now admits that the risk of vaccinated people spreading COVID outside is "minuscule," and yet some health professionals are pushing for the mask mandates to be made permanent.

The transmission of COVID-19 outdoors is almost non-existent, making mask mandates merely a political tool of population control.

In a recent open letter to the German government and state premiers, five leading members of the Association for Aerosol Research (GAeF) wrote, "The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 viruses takes place indoors almost without exception. Transmission outdoors is extremely rare and never leads to cluster infections as can be observed indoors."

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Fiscal.Enema 8 hours ago (Edited)

In all fairness... Tucker should have pointed out that SOME MASKS do filter out the virus most of the time.

Wearing a mask outdoors in most situations is ridiculous, stupid, and dangerous.

3M N95's 1860 which are electrostatically charged have good filtration protection against most virus.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-Health-Care-Particulate-Respirator-and-Surgical-Mask-1860-N95-120-EA-Case/?N=5002385+3294795990&rt=rud

Why the us government did not fund this type of mask for all is telling what the overall strategy is.

Controlling you, your neighbor, and others that think for themselves.

Its not about the virus

Robert Neville 7 hours ago

Actually, M95 masks filter out 95% of particles over 4 microns in diameter in perfect conditions. In the real world it is much less effective than that. Viruses are generally less than one micron in size so they are ineffective for most viruses. Also, the masks are so hard to breath through that some version have an exhale valve so they do nothing to protect others if you are infected. Most masks don't protect your eyes. The only thing that works is a space suit that is decontaminated before you remove it. The rest is virtue siganling.

Fiscal.Enema 6 hours ago

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2012/04/lab-study-supports-use-n95-respirators-flu-protection

PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!

Properly fitted n95's do protect against virus and the science proves it.

Dickweed Wang 10 hours ago (Edited)

This is an excerpt from the "Stanford Study" from November 2020 (that's been making the rounds in the alternative media and conservative media space recently) about the uselessness of masks in preventing "the virus":

A meta -analysis among health care workers found that compared to no masks, surgical mask and N95 respirators were not effective against transmission of viral infections or influenza-like illness based on six RCTs [28] . Using separate analysis of 23 observational studies, this meta -analysis found no protective effect of medical mask or N95 respirators against SARS virus [28] . A recent systematic review of 39 studies including 33,867 participants in community settings (self-report illness), found no difference between N95 respirators versus surgical masks and surgical mask versus no masks in the risk for developing influenza or influenza-like illness, suggesting their ineffectiveness of blocking viral transmissions in community settings [29] .

It's predictable that the usual suspects have come out of the woodwork to "fact check" and disparage the entire paper (do an internet search for 'Stanford Mask Paper' and you'll see what I'm talking about). Their main criticism is 'that wasn't published by Stanford', while they totally ignore the claims made in the paper. When you look at the people and organizations doing the fact checking it really shows that the entire mask issue is a political/control ploy. Here's the link to the entire paper if anyone is interested:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/

[May 03, 2021] The beneficiaries of neoliberal distribution of wealth up would rather give up democracy, give up the Rule of Law, rather than see their privileged status compromised.

However, it might be that neoliberal oligarchy owns enough of the Congress now to be as hard to get rid of as herpes and as fatal as cancer.
Apr 15, 2021 | angrybearblog.com
Wealth distribution in the US continues to be a first order economic issue

Tomorrow (Thursday) is one of those days when just about Every Economic Statistic in the World will be released. In the meantime, no new data today.

So, while we wait, let me send you over to this article by Wolf Richter analyzing the distribution of wealth and assets in the US updated by the Fed through the end of last year.

Unsurprisingly, the rich have gotten richer, and their preferred asset classes are the most protected by the tax code.

Just one of many first-order economic problems in the US. Wealth, once entrenched – most particularly when it is unearned and inherited – will never be voluntarily disgorged. The beneficiaries would rather give up democracy, give up the Rule of Law, rather than see their privileged status compromised.

[May 03, 2021] He who wear mask while alone in car should also wear condom while alone in bed. The power of propaganda about wearing masks outdoor coming from TV truly rots your brain

From comments: " Tucker is right on this one. If you wear a mask outside you truly are a moron. You may as well add goggles and a butt plug." ... "Don't forget about those solo drivers with masks on!", "Maskers are stupid scared virtue signalers"
May 03, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Dickweed Wang 10 hours ago (Edited)

As an anti-mask militant for quite a while now I've been going out of my way to ask people with masks on outdoors why they're wearing one (I've really tried to be polite but it's getting increasingly hard to do that). In literally hundreds of instances I haven't gotten a straight answer yet. It's stunning that people are so gullible but it shows what the power of propaganda really is. 99% of that is coming from teevee, which truly rots your brain.

Capt Tripps 10 hours ago remove link

They are signaling the submission to a tyrannical state. That submission makes us all less free.

safelyG 10 hours ago

mister tucker is wrongeddy wrong wrong.

we must all wear multiple masks. indoors. outdoors. at work. at play. while we sleep. while we bathe. while we eat. while we sing praises unto the most high.

and we must remain 8 feet apart, one from the other. at all times.

and report our whereabouts and our contacts and our body temperature. to the authorities.

get your vacines!

lovingly,
bill n melinda

radical-extremist 10 hours ago

When Tucker Carlson says to tell people to take off their masks and call CPS on parents who mask their children he's trolling the Left. And because the Left has no sense of humor or irony or hypocrisy...they're of course OUTRAGED, which was his point.

Realism 10 hours ago remove link

I like it best when hiking outside, in 75 degree weather with a nice breeze, you see people put up their mask as they walk by

Pure comedy, it's hard to understand the stupidity if you think you'll get any disease much less Covid walking by someone

And importantly, would you really be hiking if you had Covid LOL

aztrader 10 hours ago

Mask wears see it as a badge of honor because they "care" about other people. In reality, it's a badge of Stupidity and ignorance.

Prince Velveeta 10 hours ago (Edited) remove link

California is an open-air mental ward. I was just out there and the collective idiocy is astounding. People jogging with masks on , exaggerating their breathing as they pass you in some competitive virtue signaling event. I witnessed some idiot jogging up the hill past my family member's house, with a bandana on his face, being sucked into his mouth as he's gasping for air.....

[May 03, 2021] The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media... Now The CIA Is The Media by Caitlin Johnstone,

Apr 16, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone,

Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all.

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Analysis: US blinks first on Russia-Ukraine tensions

Journalist Glenn Greenwald just highlighted an interesting point about the reporting by The New York Times on the so-called “Bountygate†story the outlet broke in June of last year about the Russian government trying to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan.

“One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia bounty story (originally attributed to unnamed ‘intelligence officials’) say today that it was a CIA claim,†Greenwald tweeted .

“So media outlets - again - repeated CIA stories with no questioning: congrats to all.â€

Indeed, NYT’s original story made no mention of CIA involvement in the narrative, citing only “officials,†yet this latest article speaks as though it had been informing its readers of the story’s roots in the lying, torturing , drug-running , warmongering Central Intelligence Agency from the very beginning. The author even writes “The New York Times first reported last summer the existence of the C.I.A.’s assessment,†with the hyperlink leading to the initial article which made no mention of the CIA. It wasn’t until later that The New York Times began reporting that the CIA was looking into the Russian bounties allegations at all.

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This would be the same “Russian bounties†narrative which was discredited all the way back in September when the top US military official in Afghanistan said no satisfactory evidence had surfaced for the allegations, which was further discredited today with a new article by The Daily Beast titled “ U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops â€.

The Daily Beast , which has itself uncritically published many articles promoting the CIA “Bountygate†narrative, reports the following:

It was a blockbuster story about Russia’s return to the imperial “Great Game†in Afghanistan. The Kremlin had spread money around the longtime central Asian battlefield for militants to kill remaining U.S. forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats and their #resistance amplifiers about the treasonous Russian puppet in the White House whose admiration for Vladimir Putin had endangered American troops.

But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate†confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven â€" and possibly untrue.

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So the mass media aggressively promoted a CIA narrative that none of them ever saw proof of, because there was no proof, because it was an entirely unfounded claim from the very beginning. They quite literally ran a CIA press release and disguised it as a news story.

This allowed the CIA to throw shade and inertia on Trump’s proposed troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Germany, and to continue ramping up anti-Russia sentiments on the world stage , and may well have contributed to the fact that the agency will officially be among those who are exempt from Biden’s performative Afghanistan “withdrawal†.

In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!†and the news media unquestioningly publish it.

In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled “ The CIA and the Media †reporting that the CIA had covertly infiltrated America’s most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as Operation Mockingbird . It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media is meant to report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the agendas of spooks and warmongers.

Nowadays the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and people are too propagandized to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news pundits . The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor , and WaPo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when reporting on US intelligence agencies per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha Vinograd, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy Bash, Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known CIA assets like NBC’s Ken Dilanian, as are CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like Tucker Carlson.

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This isn’t Operation Mockingbird. It’s so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting as the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretence of separation, has been dropped.

This is bad. This is very, very bad. Democracy has no meaningful existence if people’s votes aren’t being cast with a clear understanding of what’s happening in their nation and their world, and if their understanding is being shaped to suit the agendas of the very government they’re meant to be influencing with their votes, what you have is the most powerful military and economic force in the history of civilization with no accountability to the electorate whatsoever. It’s just an immense globe-spanning power structure, doing whatever it wants to whoever it wants. A totalitarian dictatorship in disguise.

And the CIA is the very worst institution that could possibly be spearheading the movements of that dictatorship. A little research into the many, many horrific things the CIA has done over the years will quickly show you that this is true; hell, just a glance at what the CIA was up to with the Phoenix Program in Vietnam will.

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There’s a common delusion in our society that depraved government agencies who are known to have done evil things in the past have simply stopped doing evil things for some reason. This belief is backed by zero evidence, and is contradicted by mountains of evidence to the contrary. It’s believed because it is comfortable, and for literally no other reason.

The CIA should not exist at all, let alone control the news media, much less the movements of the US empire. May we one day know a humanity that is entirely free from the rule of psychopaths, from our total planetary behavior as a collective, all the way down to the thoughts we think in our own heads.

May we extract their horrible fingers from every aspect of our being.

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[Apr 30, 2021] The Big Tech Oligarchy Calls Out for Trustbusters by the founders. By Josh Hawley April 30, 2021 4:53 pm ET
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Listen to this article 6 minutes 00:00 / 06:00 1x This is the year of the woke corporation, the year the chieftains of the most powerful companies got bored with making money and decided to remake America, principally by telling Americans how bigoted and backward they are. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. This is the year of the woke corporation, the year the chieftains of the most powerful companies got bored with making money and decided to remake America, principally by telling Americans how bigoted and backward they are. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy.
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We are living in an age of monopoly power. Since the 1990s, two-thirds of American industry has become more concentrated. In 1995 the nation boasted 60 major pharmaceutical companies. By 2015 they had merged to form just 10. Big banks grow bigger while top airlines control ever larger shares of revenue. The credit-card market is now effectively a duopoly, and online it's no better. Google and Facebook control more than 60% of digital advertising.

Big-business consolidation strips Americans of economic opportunity. In today's corporate economy, small and new businesses struggle. New-business formation is barely half what it was in the 1970s, and the pandemic has further privileged the largest players at the expense of local and family enterprises. Concentrations of market power also mean a smaller share of gross domestic product for labor, which leads to flat wages for workers. As the market power of big U.S. corporations has increased, business investment has declined, meaning less spending on innovation and less productivity growth.

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Not surprisingly, corporate monopoly leads to political power. It has always been thus. The giant railroads of the 19th century tried to bully and buy entire legislatures, including the U.S. Congress. Today, Major League Baseball -- exempt from antitrust laws -- and a cohort of megacorporations such as Delta and Coca-Cola are trying to order about states on election integrity, while Google, Facebook and Twitter decide which citizens may say what in the public square. Nike lectures the nation on social justice while it is suspected of profiting from forced labor overseas, as the Congressional-Executive Commission on China noted in its March 2020 report . Welcome to the woke economy, led by concentrated woke capital. Do as these companies say or face cancellation.

Americans weren't content to let monopolists run the country a century ago, and we shouldn't be today.

I propose three measures. First, break up Big Tech. The tech companies are the most powerful corporations in the country and likely in American history. They control what Americans read and what they say, what Americans share and what they buy. The Big Tech companies are the railroad monopolies, Standard Oil and the newspaper trust rolled into one, and tech CEOs are our robber barons. Congress should enact new bars on industry consolidation that will prevent the dominant tech platforms from simultaneously controlling separate industries and services. Google, for example, shouldn't be able to own the world's dominant web-search platform and run the cloud. That's too much power and it's bad for competition.

Second, cut the other megacorporations down to size. We can start by banning mergers and acquisitions for corporations larger than $100 billion. No exceptions. There is no good reason for a corporation to buy its way to the size of a small country. Vertical integration, in which one company buys up an entire supply chain -- think Amazon marrying Whole Foods with its Prime shipping network -- should also receive antitrust scrutiny.

Third, give courts a new standard to evaluate anticompetitive conduct. For years, courts have asked whether an alleged monopolist harms consumer welfare. In other words, does the business behavior in question drive up consumer costs? That's a fine question, but trustbusting isn't about consumer prices alone. The tech companies insist that most of their services are free, even as they extract monopoly rents in other ways, like taking private consumer data without consent.

Trustbusting is about promoting robust competition. It's competition that helps workers, spurs innovation and ultimately preserves the power of the ordinary citizen. Our founders understood that competition, not monopoly, is a friend to liberty.

Republicans were once the party of trustbusters. They should be again. The left is increasingly willing to cheer on the new monopolists -- so long as they push the left's agenda on cultural and other issues. In the face of this new alliance between big government and big business, conservatives must recover the wisdom of the founders' vision: liberty, not monopoly.

Mr. Hawley, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Missouri. He is author of "The Tyranny of Big Tech," forthcoming May 4.

[Apr 29, 2021] The Populist 'Great Upset'- Decoupling From the Corporate State Deathgrip

Apr 29, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

by Ben Bartee via The Daily Bell

Globalism is a death machine; localization is the antidote .

The social engineers at the World Economic Forum -- seizing on the opportunities presented by mass fear over COVID-19 and the choking lockdowns on economies and societies worldwide -- have an authoritarian vision for the future of humanity, carefully choreographed from on high at the top levels of the global power structure.

Unaccountable, unelected entities are hard at work constructing this brave new world through a shadowy process they have ominously dubbed the " Great Reset ":

"The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world."

A sea change, just now coming into clear focus, is afoot. Without grassroots pushback from a united populist front, as the former CDC director recently forecasted , "nothing is ever going back to normal" – ever.

Addressing the globalist Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group advocating "free trade" – a misleadingly labeled concept which means nothing more than corporate profiteering across borders to capitalize on cheap labor and instantiating dystopian corporate sovereignty into law while bleeding the working classes in rich nations dry – Canadian Prime Minister expounded on the ethos of the "Great Reset":

"This pandemic is truly a global challenge. And not just because every country in every corner of the world has been affected: because there is no part of society, no industry, no aspect of daily life that has not changed . This is our chance to build back societies that are fairer and economics that are more resilient ."

All of which begs the questions:

Again, globalist Trudeau's speechwriters offer insights on this front, a brief glimpse behind the curtain at how the proverbial Global Reset sausage is made :

"The most promising [Global Reset] ideas will be taken up within existing IMF and World Bank processes as well as at the G7 and G20 Leader Summit This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset . This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic systems ."

The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the G7 and G20 are unelected, non-representative international bodies run by and for the interests of the global elite at the expense of the working classes in every country on Earth.

Debt slavery, slave wages, hollowed-out middle classes in the US Rust Belt , corporate tyranny, environmental catastrophe, and destruction of human rights are the rotten fruits of globalism.

Normal people have no seat at the table nor any voice in the decisions by these global behemoths. At its core, the international regime is fundamentally anti-democratic and, increasingly, anti-human.

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The real agenda of the ruling class -- as it has been for decades since globalized trade and politicization began in earnest -- is to further remove power from everyday people and place it into the hands of distant corporations and internationalized bureaucracies:

"We have to do more. We have to diversify our supply chains. We need to deepen our cooperation with different parts of the world we look for new iterations of multilateral structures as people are looking at a transforming world."

At the current crossroads in American -- and indeed, global -- history, reform is no longer a viable solution; on the contrary, reform is a fool's errand. World trade, and even more so world government, is a death machine :

"Globalization now connotes economic dislocation, increasing inequality, unwanted immigration, and a vehicle for the transmission of disease. The pandemic has emphasized the dangers rather than the benefits of efficient linkages between markets, laying bare the dangers of complex global supply chains where any node can become a 'choke point', and the risks of overspecialization or the concentration of technological knowledge and/or production capacity in a single country or region."

"Choke point" indeed. The task before us -- the only possible solution to the corporate, technocratic, medicalized, authoritarian nightmare we are hurdling toward at breakneck speed -- is our own populist, ultra-localized rendition of the "Great Reset" or the "Great UpSet." Some suggest that we are not uprising but rather "upwising" – arming ourselves with knowledge to carry out a peaceful reinstatement of public power.

The DC Swamp – not to mention the lurking global behemoths like the United Nations – is beyond reform. There is no salvation to be found in these institutions. Congress members don't represent average people – how could they ? Average people don't make small talk with them at Georgetown cocktail parties. Average people don't finance their campaigns. Average people don't give them lucrative positions in the never-ending revolving lobbying door after they conclude their terms.

We must insist, by our own means, on restoring control over our own communities. We must work to rebuild intimate human bonds at levels below abstraction – ones in which we are invested spiritually and financially:

"While local government is closest to voters, turnout in local elections is low; it is highest in national elections . Despite the pivotal importance of local politics getting out the vote is the toughest problem that party and labor leaders face."

-William Form, Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics

The only way to reverse course is to decentralize. Decouple from the toxic corporate-state ties that bind and enslave your local community. Reconnect with your neighbors. Shop locally and, whenever possible, sell locally.

Flout immoral laws imposed by far-off authorities. Target and eliminate national and international influence from bloated government and transnational corporations with no allegiance to you, your family, or community. Their claims to authority are illegitimate, non-representative, malevolent, and, increasingly, even genocidal.

Destroy what destroys; nourish what nourishes.

The time has come to #UNRIG not just our elections, but our entire economy and society to restore control to the local level, with the people, the only place it has ever rightfully belonged.

Robert David Steele, alt-right white male and former US spy as well as founder of the Open Source Everything movement, has joined with Kevin Jenkins and others to launch ARISE USA! The Resurrection Tour , that will visit all 50 US states from 15 May to 6 September and could transform into a global movement, Arise.World.

In partnership with Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs movement that challenges federal and state abuse of power, as well as other icons of freedom, they are building the definitive organic pro-human movement from the ground up – the only way to build anything of value.

Join the tour as a Founding Citizen at BigBatUSA.org ; learn about election fraud and reform options at UNRIG.net .

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Contact him via Armageddon Prose .

[Apr 27, 2021] We Can t Police These People by Gregory Hood

Apr 27, 2021 | www.unz.com
We Can’t Police These People GREGORY HOOD • APRIL 21, 2021 • 2,300 WORDS • 16 COMMENTS • REPLY Tweet Reddit Share Share Email Print More RSS Share to Gab After a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts, people celebrated outside of the Hennepin County Government Center and marched downtown in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 20, 2021. (Credit Image: © Dominick Sokotoff / ZUMA Wire)

“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.†â€" Thomas Jefferson

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The trial was pointless . We knew the outcome . We knew the threat. Convict Derek Chauvin of murder, or cities will burn . Jurors surely knew they would be doxxed if they didn’t vote to convict; one potential juror was dismissed after he dared mention this fear.

There is a debate to be had about police conduct. I’m not going to back the blue unconditionally after Charlottesville , Ashli Babbit , and the ruthless manhunt for January 6 rioters. Derek Chauvin would have carried out the same orders against us. However, what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd isn’t even close to what happened to white man Daniel Shaver , gunned down in a hotel hallway by a police officer who was later acquitted and was paid for his mental suffering . This is about race, not police. I expect police will crack down further on law-abiding whites while ignoring black crime .

The howls for Derek Chauvin’s head were primal. I haven’t heard such cries of triumph since O.J. Simpson was acquitted .

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Of course, Derek Chauvin was hardly a champion of white identity . In 2018, the Twin Cities Pioneer Press gave a fawning profile to his then-wife, Hmong refugee Kellie Chauvin. She called her husband a “gentleman†and “just a softie.†Less than two years later, just three days after George Floyd’s death , she divorced him. Her lawyer told journalists about her “utmost sympathy†for Floyd’s family.

What’s so striking about the Derek Chauvin case is that it could have happened anywhere. Every police officer (or white person who lives in a black neighborhood) knows about the sob stories, the wailing, the lying, and the sudden switch from threats to begging and back again when blacks face cops. Floyd himself had tried this soft-shoe routine when he was arrested in 2019. Derek Chauvin and his three colleagues had probably seen far worse.

Yet it was Derek Chauvin’s blasé attitude during the arrest, his business-like nature, that doomed him. If he had acted less professional, by panicking or begging Floyd to remain calm, it would have been different. The other officers were just as relaxed. They must feel dumbfounded that their attempts to subdue a raving man on drugs led to something close to a revolution. The prosecutor’s closing argument was something out of a nursery rhyme, denying that George Floyd’s heart problems and drug-taking caused his death, but rather that Derek Chauvin’s “heart was too small.†(The media loved it.)

Whether a routine arrest like this becomes a cause depends on countless factors. If the teenager Darnella Frazier had not taken a video , nothing would have happened. Even with body cam footage, I suspect there would have been no case. Without a simple image to rouse the simple masses, no one would have cared.

The sanctification of George Floyd makes this even more surreal. The #MeToo movement took down powerful men who had made inappropriate jokes or crude gestures decades ago, but a criminal who spent his last moments on earth trying to rip-off shopkeepers and lying to police has become a holy figure , complete with literal claims of miracles. George Floyd’s life and death were practically a caricature of what the crudest “racist†would conjure out of a hateful imagination. A white man with his record would have been treated exactly the same , but because Floyd was black, journalists made him a saint. Most people let others build their reality . Post-white America has a new faith .

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, author of The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and The Joy of Hate , said that even if Derek Chauvin wasn’t guilty of all charges, he thought the verdict was a good thing. “I want a verdict that keeps this country from going up in flames,†he explained. That’s the bravery of American conservatives for you. While the country didn’t “go up in flames,†there were some troubling signs last night that worse is to come.

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The guilty verdict didn’t calm the streets. It didn’t even calm the politicians. The President of the United States said that “this can be a moment of significant change.†Kamala Harris , whose parents are immigrants, intones that this won’t “heal the pain that existed for generations.†Barack and Michelle Obama want “true justice,†which requires “that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day.†(I don’t think they mean affirmative action.) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the verdict wasn’t justice and doesn’t want people to think the system works. Empty-headed celebrities demand that more be done.

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The guilty verdicts didn’t douse the fire; it fed the flames. It’s yet more proof: rioting works.

And now, we’ve already had a member of Congress demanding that policing be abolished because it can’t be reformed:

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Rep. Tlaib represents Detroit , where the already-ruined city saw a huge increase in homicides and shootings in 2020, just another part of what was undoubtedly the largest single-year increase in the murder rate in American history. Almost all the added victims were black. “The community†doesn’t seem to care, so there’s no reason politicians should.

Let’s hear no wailing about “black lives.†The main victims of the crime wave are black, with victims including children , partygoers , and funeral guests . Voters who elect progressive prosecutors don’t seem to care any more than the “community†does. Do they prefer bloodshed to good police work?

Vox tells us BLM has led to a reduction in “police homicides†in areas where there were protests. Of course, at least some of these homicides would have been justified use of force. Yet the very same research Vox cites says that between 2014 and 2019, there were “somewhere between 1,000 and 6,000 more homicides than would have been expected [absent protests]†in those places. Even if we accept the unhinged premise that police suddenly stopped gunning down blacks for no reasons, the result of BLM was thousands of dead blacks â€" and nice houses for the movement’s co-founder .

Still, it’s not about blacks. It’s about us. Rudyard Kipling, a poet who wouldn’t get far in our affirmative action world , wrote :

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,

To puff and look important and to say: â€"

“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.

We will therefore pay you cash to go away.â€

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

But we’ve proved it again and again,

That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld

You never get rid of the Dane.

We paid the Dane-geld. We’ve shamefully paid it to people with far less nobility and courage than the Vikings. The Minnesota protester screaming that riots worked is right. They worked because they had media backing. If others ran the press, the Cannon Hinnant case alone could have changed everything. Instead, most whites haven’t heard of it, nor about the others of our race butchered every year .

Our loss of identity leaves us vulnerable to moral blackmail. Whites seem to be in a permanent state of shellshock. White conservatives want to be left alone, with Tucker Carlson saying that what the nation needs “more than anything†is “a moment to catch our national breath.†Really? Conservatives know something is wrong, but don’t dare recognize the real problem. Republicans who collaborate with this rotten system have shut down even halting steps towards white identity .

Meanwhile, over the last decade, white liberals have radically changed their views on race and actively discriminate against whites . It’s more correct to say that new views were inserted into their brains through hysterical media coverage of police shootings. Those who call themselves “very liberal†are hopelessly deluded. A majority think that police gun down over 1,000 unarmed black men a year â€" almost 100 times the actual number.

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Statistics can’t compete with sob-stories, and stories give people meaning. I believe many Americans get their moral purpose for life from them.

There are also specific benefits in keeping the system going. Activists and politicians build careers. Blacks get a chance of hitting the “ ghetto lottery †(assumed they aren’t killed) and becoming heroes. It’s a strong incentive to turn a petty scam into an epic showdown. Journalists who want to lead a social revolution or just get clicks (or both) fall right in line.

Even as this is written, there is a case in Columbus, Ohio that could be our next George Floyd-style passion play. Officers arrived at a chaotic brawl and shot a black girl. Body cam footage shows the girl trying to stab someone before she was shot. Nonetheless, the image the Associated Press uses for the story is a Black Lives Matter protest. It looks like yet another case of a degenerate “community†causing chaos, attracting the police, and causing a racial confrontation.

This is what the dead girl’s aunt told The Daily Beast:

The police are going to lie. I’m so thankful that someone from the family was actually on the scene,†[Aunt] Bryant said . . . . “The police are going to lie. The police are going to cover up for themselves. They don’t care. At this point, I feel like they’re just out to kill Black people. They’re not here to protect and serve. That isn’t happening. That’s been over a long time ago. They’re not here to protect and serve. They’re here to kill Black folks.

Like many other whites, I’m exhausted. Unlike Tucker Carlson , I don’t think we need a chance to catch our breath or pursue change more slowly. We need radical change.

Every confrontation between a white officer and a non-white criminal is a potential riot . The process is corrupt because judges, jurors, and politicians know that the mob has a veto over the verdict. The rule of law is dead.

The answer is separation . Without it, this will never stop.

https://www.bitchute.com/embed/2vb9uMyWhLuW/

The strange reality is that there is almost no difference now between being a notorious white advocate or any white guy. Derek Chauvin went, in just one day, from a heartwarming “softie†who married a Hmong refugee to the embodiment of white supremacy. A few days ago, it was a soldier who stopped a black guy from accosting women. He had to be chased from his home. Tomorrow it could be you.

You could try to stop a crime. You could fight back against an assault. Maybe you just look at someone the wrong way. Maybe you do nothing at all. But if you donated $10 to a cause the media don’t like â€" or even if you didn’t â€" you could be the mark for the next great hate hoax.

I write this reluctantly. Many of us become white advocates kicking and screaming, afraid to see the truth. We all get here through experience , usually painful.

However, no matter how far you run, how earnestly you plead, what you say, or even whom you marry, you will always be white to those with power. That means many despise you. At some point, you must decide to stand or kneel, and a society that kneels before the memory of a George Floyd is not one worth serving or saving.

Credit Image: © Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire

Whites created this country. They sustain it. Without whites, there is no America. America is an extension of Western Civilization, white civilization, on this continent. Whites pay to support people who hate, curse, and sometimes kill us. We gain nothing. They owe everything. What they have, we gave them, through weakness, folly, and good intensions .

People celebrated outside of the Hennepin County Government Center after a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty on April 20, 2021. (Credit Image: © Dominick Sokotoff / ZUMA Wire)

We deserve reparations for trillions wasted in a 60-year effort to babysit a population that pays us back with violence and hatred. Most importantly, we deserve liberation from this albatross that prevents any kind of real national life. Almost any price would be worth paying if we could be sovereign and free, something our ancestors took for granted.

All the quasi-theological abstractions about “privilege†and “critical theory†melt away before one immutable truth: They need us; we don’t need them. Until we have the will to say so, all of us â€" including you â€" are just one “viral†incident away from ruin.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: April 21, 2021 at 6:10 pm GMT • 10.8 hours ago

Don’t know who Gregory Hood is but I do know after reading all of his essays, that he is the most erudite writer on race issues. I find him fair and balanced basically sticking to the relevant issue of what ever he is writing about.

SafeNow , says: April 21, 2021 at 7:14 pm GMT • 9.7 hours ago

“Almost any price would be worth paying if we could be sovereign and free…â€

This essay is superb…but worryingly, only as far as it goes. What, very specifically, is the separation plan, and what is the price that might have to be paid and IS worth paying, and what is the price that is NOT worth paying? The action-plan cannot be safely specified, because we have already come too far for one to safely specify it. Already. And worse is to come.

Besides individual ramifications, there is this. In Trump vs. Hawaii, Justice Roberts declined to overrule Korematsu (the Japanese-internment case). He wrote that Korematsu had been “overruled by history.†Group internment remains the law of the land.

And yes, I am too cowardly to speak-out. Again. I was an undergraduate at an elite University exactly when (late 60s) and where this all started. I (and my friends, and like-minded faculty members and administrators) were all too cowardly to speak out, and take action, then. Too much to lose. I apologize to the younger generations.

Jimmy le Blanc , says: April 21, 2021 at 7:23 pm GMT • 9.5 hours ago

American Renaissance is a joke. No mention of the (((real problem))) at all. Until we can discuss and point to the (((instigators))) of our present day horror, we will achieve nothing. The funny and ironic thing about all of this is, (((they))) will suffer as much as any White at the hands of the Frankenstein’s monster they created. I guess Whites can take some small comfort in those just desserts.

Katrinka , says: April 21, 2021 at 7:37 pm GMT • 9.3 hours ago

The U.S. had a good run while it lasted. My plan is to move on. Whites really should consider leaving. Problem is when we establish a new area they will just come to move in on us all over again.

Chris Moore , says: • Website April 21, 2021 at 7:41 pm GMT • 9.2 hours ago

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, author of The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and The Joy of Hate, said that even if Derek Chauvin wasn’t guilty of all charges, he thought the verdict was a good thing. “I want a verdict that keeps this country from going up in flames,†he explained. That’s the bravery of American conservatives for you.

This is how greed-driven “Jews†(Gutfeld is a partially Hebrew, greed-driven Globalist and stooge for Conservatism Inc) have destroyed the neoconned American right, and ultimately the nation. Having no soul or backbone, brushing it all under the carpet in deference to the Golden Calf markets, Satanic Hebrews like Gutfeld will appease the irrational mob all day long, and then just prior to collapse, invoke their “Jewish†heritage and flee to Israel.

This us why they are known as Judenrats , and have always been.

And “liberal†Judenrats are even worse, but had trouble penetrating the GOP until the ((neocons)) came along and sold it on easy-money wars.

Anything for a buck, no matter how Satanic. Morality never enters into the equation. They’re only destroying animal goyim nations, after all.

steinbergfeldwitzcohen , says: April 21, 2021 at 9:29 pm GMT • 7.4 hours ago

Whites don’t need blacks, browns or Jewish parasites.
The day we refuse to be intimidated and believe the lies is the day we get our countries back.
Demand that Congress exercise their constitutional power over money creation.
National strike.
Something.
We need to turn this cancer around rather than waiting for the ship to hit the iceberg. That will be the financial collapse lurking. It is the perfect opportunity for radical reform including constitutional admendments. It will be a blessing in disguise: angry masses looking for soneone to blame. Tptb will try to throw US to the angry masses but we throw them.

Paulbe , says: April 21, 2021 at 10:49 pm GMT • 6.1 hours ago
@Katrinka

The comment above yours expresses well why “moving on†may not be possible. Its not just America they want.

Ultrafart the Brave , says: • Website April 22, 2021 at 12:52 am GMT • 4.1 hours ago
@steinbergfeldwitzcohen y intractable endemic racial frictions in the USA are being systematically nurtured and nourished by malign agents embedded in the American governmental and media frameworks.

The behaviour and loyalties of your Senator Maxine Waters makes this abundantly clear, beyond any ambiguity or doubt.

So there is a cancer, for sure, eating away at the American Republic.

To extend the analogy, the danger with any cancer is permitting it to get past the point of no return, after which the host cannot possibly recover and is inevitably consumed.

So you better find a cure soon, preferably something holistic which feeds the healthy constituents and promotes healing at the same time as extinguishing the poisonous infections.

Otherwise Team America may suffer a tragic and permanent demise.

Phibbs , says: April 22, 2021 at 12:56 am GMT • 4.0 hours ago

Don’t forget that Jews own the media and the politicians. The culture of vicitmhood, cancel culture, “wokeness,†race-baiting and multi-racialism all either originate in the Jewish community or are strongly supported by Jews. Jews brought down white, Christian Russia in 1917 and they are in the process of doing that here. Jews hate us Christian whites and that fact is reflected in their media.

ThreeCranes , says: April 22, 2021 at 1:03 am GMT • 3.9 hours ago

Mighty fine piece of writing.

unwoke , says: April 22, 2021 at 2:34 am GMT • 2.4 hours ago

“All the quasi-theological abstractions about “privilege†and “critical theory†melt away before one immutable truth: They need us; we don’t need them. Until we have the will to say so, all of us…â€

Us who? White liberals don’t want you & don’t need you & never will accept you, let alone agree any hare-brained scheme to ‘separate’ or have a racial homeland. And they’re using Blacks to tell you that.
And until we have the will to say so, nothing will result from DOA dreams about a separate state for “usâ€. A separate quasi-theological state abstraction based on race will melt away in immutable reality as quickly as the communist belief in a dictatorship of the proletariat abstraction. You have to make it here; there is no “us†anymore. Get ready for 2022 or civil war as you will, but there’s no escape to la-la land.

ruralguy , says: April 22, 2021 at 2:46 am GMT • 2.2 hours ago

In the 1960 census, Minnesota was 98.8% white. In 1973, Time magazine ran an article on the “Good Life in Minnesota.†It really was. We led the nation in education. In 1960, there were 1,400 violent crimes in the State. Now, it is 13,000 to 14,000. What happened? We had mass migration from Chicago. Our Minnesota socialists offered generous welfare benefits that attracted Chicago’s blacks and resettled many refugees from failed countries, like Somalia, to the State. The State went from low crime, highly educated, to much crime, much disorder, and a feeling we now live in a 3rd world country. Today, we have armed soldiers with machine guns on the corners of the streets in Minneapolis. You’d think the woke monsters that censure our news and who form the Chauvin jury would awake from their idiocy, but instead, they censure the facts, portray cops as the bad guys, portray drug abusing criminal degenerates like George Floyd as saints.

RoatanBill , says: April 22, 2021 at 3:07 am GMT • 1.8 hours ago

It looks like blacks are now untouchable. This can only cause them to increase their savage ways.

Realistically, wouldn’t it be better if every white person that wanted to be armed could do so, and do so without a gov’t permission slip? The reason we can’t pack a piece is because the gov’t says the police will protect us. I know that’s a lie, do you?

Get rid of street cops like Chauvin because they are the ones that aren’t there to protect us and end up in Floyd type situations. We should be demanding our Constitutional rights to carry a weapon if we want to AND have the laws changed so if we take out some POS there’s nothing to worry about.

Just think if a shop keepers in Portland put a shotgun round through their window through the same hole made by the brick some antifa or blm POS threw. All the rioting and destruction would have been cut off in seconds as these miscreants scatter. That’s the only way to handle the low life trash that currently has immunity via a justice system that is broken.

Eliminate street cops. Demand our Constitutional rights. Tell the gov’t to change the laws that allow for deadly force when attacked by some miscreant.

Robert Dolan , says: April 22, 2021 at 3:38 am GMT • 1.3 hours ago

It was a show trial.

A witch hunt.

And the Pollards were behind it.

Watch as cops refuse to police black areas….and black communities that are already under siege will EXPLODE in mayhem.

Magic Dirt , says: April 22, 2021 at 3:40 am GMT • 1.3 hours ago

Intentions. Not “intensionsâ€. Weird error.

Ray Caruso , says: April 22, 2021 at 4:09 am GMT • 47 minutes ago

No, Whites cannot police them, just like we cannot educate them. That’s why the only acceptable solution is to expel them from White countries. Any other course of action will mean the end of civilization because their presence is incompatible with civilized life. Fuck them all and their cuckservative fans.

[Apr 27, 2021] Peter Schiff- The Federal Reserve Is Basically Just A Big PR Firm - ZeroHedge

Apr 27, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Via SchiffGold.com,

Most people view the Federal Reserve as an important policying-making body driving the economy. But in this clip from an interview with Jay Matin at Cambridge House, Peter Schiff says the Fed's primary role is that of a marketing firm selling the populace on bad economics and trying to convince everybody that everything is great.

Peter said he thinks a large part of the Fed's job today is public relations and spin.

To try to create a false sense of confidence in the US economy and the US dollar."

Peter referenced an interview he saw with former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke . The interviewer played clips of Bernanke back in 2005 and 2006 as he claimed everything was great and there was nothing to worry about. Bernanke said there was no housing bubble and any problems in the subprime mortgage market were contained. The interviewer asked Bernanke how it felt to be so wrong.

Look, you couldn't have been more wrong. And here you were chairman of the Federal Reserve. You had all this information. More than anyone else. Now, he didn't say, 'Peter Schiff was out there saying it's a housing bubble. We're going to have a financial crisis.' He didn't bring me up. But he's basically saying, 'You had more information than everybody, yet you were so completely wrong.' Instead of saying, 'Yeah, I really feel kind of dumb now that I look back. God, what was I thinking? I was so clueless,' what Ben Bernanke said, to basically save face, his answer was, 'Well, you know, I couldn't exactly speak forthrightly or honestly.' I can't remember if he said honestly. But, 'I couldn't actually say what I actually thought because I was part of the administration.' And I'm thinking, what? This is what he just said? Because the Fed is supposed to be independent."

The former Fed chair just put a spike through the myth of central bank independence. He admitted he was toeing the line for the administration. And as Peter points out, Bernanke was basically saying he got it wrong because he wasn't even trying to get it right.

[Bernanke was saying] 'I was just trying to reassure everybody that everything was fine and there was nothing to worry about because I was part of the administration.' I just never believe anything they say at the Fed. I mean, I don't believe what politicians say either."

This should give us pause when we hear Jerome Powell assuring us that inflation is "transitory." Is this just PR spin? Does he know the truth? Is he refusing to tell us because he's "part of the administration?"

Interestingly, nobody was outraged at Bernanke's confession. Nobody seemed particularly concerned that a former Fed chair basically admitted he lied to protect a political narrative.

More disturbingly, Peter said on his podcast that he suspects the same thing is happening today.

Either the Fed knows that we have a huge inflation problem on its hands and is lying about it, or it's completely clueless and doesn't realize it."

Neither scenario is particularly comforting.

The Federal Reserve is hanging its hat on the fact that it printed a bunch of money over the last 10 or 20 years and price inflation never reared its ugly head. Therefore, we can do this forever. But as they say in the investing world, past performance doesn't guarantee future results. Peter said he thinks this will ultimately go down as the Fed's biggest blunder.

Much more so than the mistake in its bad read on subprime problems being contained. The idea that inflation was transitory is going to be an even bigger mistake and an even bigger policy failure, because, by the time the Fed is forced to admit that they were wrong and inflation wasn't transitory, they will have waited too long to do anything about it."

[Apr 19, 2021] Tucker- Elites pushed false narrative to get what they want - YouTube

Apr 19, 2021 | www.youtube.com

Gavriel Akhadu , 2 days ago

When Trump said that we are up against "The Invisible Enemy", this is the enemy he was talking about.

Dichroic Sounds , 22 hours ago (edited)

They've been doing this forever, we're just now becoming aware of it. The false narrative goes much deeper than stealing an election.

Jonathan Sterling , 1 day ago

The politician most responsible for pitting ordinary men and women against each other, ruining marriage among ordinary people, then accusing someone else of "having no soul" is ironic.

remigiusz wójcik , 1 day ago

The biggest problem of it is that media cannot be prosecuted for it and they definitely should be

Robert Jackson , 1 day ago

No war in the last 50 years was started without the support of the press. Julian Assange Truths like this are why they can't let him surface.

KyleHboc , 2 days ago

They knew the bounties story was fake and they all ran with it anyway.

Rogue Agent , 1 day ago

It's the Orwellian narrative: "We have enemies overseas." Enemies that aren't real enemies because we really don't actually want to start a war with them but we need to put on a show to keep the people distracted from looking at who are the real enemies inside their own country.

Cui Bono , 1 day ago

Biden is so full of it, as if he would dare say anything to Putin, then he really would find out how hot things can get behind the gym.

Mari Olsdatter , 1 day ago

These self-appointed "elites" should exchange their lives for the slain lives of the military victims of their lies.

CARRIE REGAN , 1 day ago

All of their dirty tricks are played out and predictable now. These demons will lie about anything and everything.

Das Karnickel , 2 days ago

I remember when journalists had to show their proof and quote their sources. It's now all propaganda.

[Apr 19, 2021] The current political class running the US loathes the average American, and it matters not what side of the isle you sit on. They hate us. They also have their assets squirreled away offshore.

Apr 19, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Old and Grumpy , Apr 17 2021 22:25 utc | 44

...The current political class running the US loathes the average American, and it matters not what side of the isle you sit on. They hate us. They also have their assets squirreled away offshore. One question to ask is our demise something the international financial class wants for their reset or one world?

Lucci , Apr 17 2021 23:11 utc | 47

One question to ask is our demise something the international financial class wants for their reset or one world?

Posted by: Old and Grumpy | Apr 17 2021 22:25 utc | 44

I guess we should just see when there's large movement of patents and technologies transfers to the next capital finance powerhouse. As it is right now i can see US financial elite are doing everything it can to keep their monopolies and current order as is trying to sabotage emerging China+Russia led new economic initiatives.
The US moneyed elites would like it very much at home where they don't have to fear forceful government crackdown on themselves and having their wealth seized.
Just remind you that Venezuelan gold are swiped by it's local British government as soon as they have the pretext. It can happen to them too in China and Russia where local prominent houses already emplaced in position of power.

My guess is they got too used to game the Democratic process in the US that they do not want it to come back functional anytime soon without minding too much of the long term effects of dumbed down populaces.

Mina , Apr 18 2021 10:05 utc | 106

If the US have turned Byzantine, the EU is into late Roman decadence
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/04/thousands-sign-petition-calling-for-mass-concert-to-be-cancelled/

[Apr 14, 2021] Well yeah, "demos" are running all this having robbed any meaning from that traditional labor/common man viewpoint (think FDR) thus in full cahoots with the global cabal which is gates and all the other devils, which must be stopped.

Apr 14, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

dale t hood , 14 February 2021 at 02:20 PM

Well yeah, "demos" are running all this having robbed any meaning from that traditional labor/common man viewpoint (think FDR) thus in full cahoots with the global cabal which is gates and all the other devils, which must be stopped. Too long to list, here is astonishing summary big food/pharma/chemical/oil/$

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-neo-feudalism-farmer-bill/

[Apr 12, 2021] Dark Money by Jane Mayer is about how some nominally right-wing libertarian sociopaths, (i.e. the Kochs and their coterie) seek to control American politics through various 'charitable' think tanks and stealth infiltration of top ranked universities

Apr 12, 2021 | peakoilbarrel.com

I have just finished reading a couple of weighty tomes with similar themes: Dark Money by Jane Mayer is about how some nominally right-wing libertarian sociopaths, (i.e. the Kochs and their coterie) seek to control American politics through various 'charitable' think tanks and stealth infiltration of top ranked universities; and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, which is about how some nominally left-wing(ish) libertarian whiz kid sociopaths seek to control the whole world through social media.

My main take away is that libertarian ideology is just shorthand for narcissistic entitlement and psychopathic greed.

[Apr 11, 2021] Another professional outrage group wants Fox News host Tucker Carlson FIRED: This time it's the ADL

Apr 11, 2021 | www.rt.com

Ms No PREMIUM 2 hours ago

The Jewish Anti-defamation league is after Tucker Carlson. That's as bad as it gets. They have more money than God.

Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan Greenblatt "Tucker must go"...."white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites" that is "anti-Semitic, racist and toxic."

https://www.sott.net/article/451245-Another-professional-outrage-group-wants-Fox-News-host-Tucker-Carlson-FIRED-This-time-its-the-ADL 1 odb 2 hours ago

"To find out who really rules you, find out who it is that you can't criticize". Voltaire. play_arrow

[Apr 07, 2021] Jamie Dimon....Friend of the Little Guy....

Apr 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Herdee 5 hours ago (Edited) remove link

This guy is nothing but a f * c king crook and a gangster. They just paid a fine of a BILLION dollars for manipulating the Gold Market. And they even give time for this shyster to even speak?

jamesblazen62 10 hours ago remove link

Dimon is in greed's grasp and he can't escape. He's had 2 brushes with death (cancer and emergency heart surgery). You'd think a billionaire with more money than he can ever need or want has something better to do in his life than conniving for more money and playing big corporate games of manipulation and deceit.

Evil-Edward-Hyde 50 minutes ago

J P Morgan is a crime Syndicate.

They constantly Break the Laws.

No Problem for Them,

They Just Pay The Fines.

Their secret is they make much much more money on the scam did they have to pay in fines.

FiscalBatman 1 hour ago remove link

It's amazing how out of touch these guys are. They just don't get it. Dimon will be swaying back and forth with the rest of them at this rate

The Competent Man 8 hours ago remove link

This is NOT a boom.

When was the last time houses went for above asking price, ever, with 20 million out of work?

All of this 'boom' is nothing but asset inflation.

Same reason Bitcoin is over $50K.

[Apr 07, 2021] JPMorgan's Dimon criticize the current wave of populism, failing to understand that it was caused by the crisis of neoliberalism

And also by the level of degeneration of the US neoliberal elite. Healthy elite would never resort to "Wokism" in the attempt to crush populism and deflect anger directed on banksters, tech moguls and politicians
Apr 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Political populism, a common lament for Dimon, was also criticized.

" Americans know that something has gone terribly wrong, and they blame this country's leadership: the elite, the powerful, the decision makers - in government, in business and in civic society," he wrote.

"This is completely appropriate, for who else should take the blame?"

That fuels populism on the right and left, he said.

"But populism is not policy, and we cannot let it drive another round of poor planning and bad leadership that will simply make our country's situation worse."

The lengthy letter touched on many perennial policy bugbears like the need for "proper immigration policies" - ie making it easier for tech companies and others to hire skilled labor from abroad - while the CEO also wrote that " affordable housing remains out of reach for too many Americans."

At one point, Dimon offered a defense of the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, arguing that the Chinese yuan isn't "fully convertible" like its American counterpart, and warned of the possibility of capital controls and prohibitions against assets like gold and cyptocurrency.

But the CEO was very candid about China...

"China's leaders believe America is in decline... The Chinese see an America that is losing ground in technology, infrastructure and education – a nation torn and crippled . . . and a country unable to coordinate government policies (fiscal, monetary, industrial, regulatory) in any coherent way to accomplish national goals."

"Unfortunately," Dimon writes, "there is a lot of truth to this."

Warning of the real risks of stagflation, the banker warned

"...the United States could be perceived as a place that is inhospitable to capitalism and capitalists," and he advised readers to think about "currency diversification, country diversification, and asset class diversification."

And as SovereignMan's Simon Black notes , Dimon then lists goes on to provide a wide-ranging laundry list of problems that have been building for years in the United States– "I'll give some examples, but if I tried to address them all this letter would become a book."

He also rails against the education and healthcare systems, saying:

"Our education and health issues come together in this alarming statistic: Seventy percent of today's youth (ages 17-24) are not eligible for military service , essentially due to a lack of proper education (basic reading and writing skills) or health issues (commonly obesity or diabetes)."

Dimon goes on to explain that all of these problems "may explain why, over the last 10 years, the U.S. economy has grown cumulatively only about 18%. "

"Some think that this sounds satisfactory, but it must be put into context: In prior sharp downturns (1974, 1982 and 1990), economic growth was 40% over the ensuing 10 years."

The country ultimately needs to "move beyond our differences and self-interest and act for the greater good," Dimon said. "The good news is that this is fixable."

Of course, a strong economic rebound is good for JP Morgan, and waxing about the threat posed by Big Tech could help the CEO push for less regulation even under a Democratic Administration. Is Dimon once again just talking his book?

Read Dimon's full letter to shareholders here...

[Apr 02, 2021] Our politicians are for sale to the highest bidders. It's no longer democracy, but full-fledged plutocracy with a veneer of "democracy" that's visibly cracked and flaking off to anyone but the willfully blind

Apr 02, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Canadian Cents , Apr 1 2021 21:18 utc | 42

Paul Damascene @22, thanks, I looked up the LBJ/Pearson anectdote and came across this:

https://www.cbc.ca/canadaus/pms_presidents1.html

Apparently it was "You pissed on my rug!". I guess if they update that book and article, they'll include Trump characterizing Justin as "weak and dishonest" - which I would say, based on his 7 years as PM, is blunt but accurate.

I think you're right that any US concessions are just a reprieve. That non-agreement-capable thing. Freeland and Justin don't care, they're looking forward to getting rich after leaving office, like the Clintons, Obama, etc. as a reward for their service to plutocracy.

William Gruff @19, Hoarsewhisperer @16, agreed. That, it seems to me is the root of the problem. Our politicians are for sale to the highest bidders. It's no longer democracy, but full-fledged plutocracy with a veneer of "democracy" that's visibly cracked and flaking off to anyone but the willfully blind.

solo @38, good point. Saudi Arabia also sided with China on Xinjiang:

Importantly, the Crown Prince said Saudi Arabia 'firmly supports China's legitimate position on the issues related to Xinjiang and Hong Kong, opposes interfering in China's internal affairs under any pretext, and rejects the attempt by certain parties to sow dissension between China and the Islamic world.'

Plainly put, Saudi Arabia has undercut the current US campaign against China regarding Xinjiang. It is a snub to the Biden administration.

https://www.indianpunchline.com/the-china-iran-pact-is-a-game-changer-part-i/

[Mar 28, 2021] The revolt of the public- Martin Gurri on a world without trust - Vox

Notable quotes:
"... The Revolt of the Public ..."
Mar 28, 2021 | www.vox.com

The elites have failed

We have lost faith in elites and public institutions. The problem is nothing has taken their place.

By Sean Illing @seanilling [email protected] Updated Mar 27, 2021, 9:07am EDT Share this story
A Q sign and an American flag seen outside the US Capitol. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images
This story is part of a group of stories called Future Perfect

Finding the best ways to do good.

One of the greatest challenges facing democratic societies in the 21st century is the loss of faith in public institutions.

The internet has been a marvelous invention in lots of ways, but it has also unleashed a tsunami of misinformation and destabilized political systems across the globe. Martin Gurri, a former media analyst at the CIA and the author of the 2014 book The Revolt of the Public , was way ahead of the curve on this problem.

Gurri spent years surveying the global information landscape. Around the turn of the century, he noticed a trend: As the internet gave rise to an explosion of information, there was a concurrent spike in political instability. The reason, he surmised, was that governments lost their monopoly on information and with it their ability to control the public conversation.

One of the many consequences of this is what Gurri calls a "crisis of authority." As people were exposed to more information, their trust in major institutions -- like the government or newspapers -- began to collapse.

Gurri's book became something of a cult favorite among Silicon Valley types when it was released and its insights have only become more salient since. Indeed, I've been thinking more and more about his thesis in the aftermath of the 2020 election and the assault on the US Capitol on January 6. There are lots of reasons why the insurrection happened, but one of them is the reality that millions of Americans believed -- really believed -- that the presidential election was stolen, despite a complete lack of evidence. A Politico poll conducted shortly after the election found that 70 percent of Republicans thought the election was fraudulent.

That's what a "crisis of authority" looks like in the real world.

And it's crucial to distinguish this crisis from what's often called the "epistemic crisis" or the "post-truth" problem. If Gurri's right, the issue isn't just that truth suddenly became less important; it's that people stopped believing in the institutions charged with communicating the truth. To put it a little differently, the gatekeeping institutions lost their power to decide what passes as truth in the mind of the public.

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So where does that leave us?

I reached out to Gurri to explore the implications of his thesis. We talk about what it means for our society if millions of people reject every claim that comes from a mainstream institution, why a phenomenon like QAnon is fundamentally a "pose of rejection," and why he thinks we'll have to "reconfigure" our democratic institutions for the digital world we now inhabit.

A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Sean Illing

Have elites -- politicians, corporate actors, media and cultural elites -- lost control of the world?

Martin Gurri

Yes and no. It's a wishy-washy answer, but it's a reality.

They would have completely lost control of the world if the public in revolt had a clear program or an organization or leadership. If they were more like the Bolsheviks and less like QAnon, they'd take over the Capitol building. They'd start passing laws. They would topple the regime.

But what we have is this collision between a public that is in repudiation mode and these elites who have lost control to the degree that they can't hoist these utopian promises upon us anymore because no one believes it, but they're still acting like zombie elites in zombie institutions. They still have power. They can still take us to war. They can still throw the police out there, and the police could shoot us, but they have no authority or legitimacy. They're stumbling around like zombies.

Sean Illing

You like to say that governments have lost the ability to dictate the stories a society tells about itself, mostly because the media environment is too fragmented. Why is that so significant?

Martin Gurri

When you analyze the institutions that we have inherited from the 20th century, you find that they are very top-down, like pyramids. And the legitimacy of that model absolutely depends on having a semi-monopoly over information in every domain, which they had in the 20th century. There was no internet and there was a fairly limited number of information sources for the public. So our ruling institutions had authority because they had a very valuable commodity: information.

So I was an analyst at the CIA looking around the world at open information, at the global media. And I can tell you, it was like a trickle compared to today. If a president, here or somewhere else, was giving a speech, the coverage of it was confined to major outlets or television stations. But when the tsunami of information hit around the turn of the century, the legitimacy of that model instantly went into crisis because you now had the opposite effect. You had an overabundance of information, and that created a lot of confusion and anarchy.

Sean Illing

I'm curious how you weigh the significance of material factors in this story. It's not just that there's more information, we've also seen a litany of failures in the 21st century -- from Hurricane Katrina to the forever wars to the financial crisis and on and on. Basically, a decade of institutions failing and misleading citizens, in addition to the deepening inequality, the deaths of despair, the fact that this generation of Americans is doing materially worse than previous ones.

How big a role has this backdrop of failures played in the collapse of trust?

Martin Gurri

I would say that what matters is less the material factors you mention than the public's perception of these factors. Empirically, under nearly every measure, we are better off today than in the 20th century, yet the public is much angrier and more distrustful of government institutions and the elites who manage them. That difference in perception arises directly from the radical changes in the information landscape between the last century and our own.

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With few exceptions, most market democracies have recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. But the public has not recovered from the shock of watching supposed experts and politicians, the people who posed as the wise pilots of our prosperity, sound and act totally clueless while the economy burned. In the past, when the elites controlled the flow of information, the financial collapse might have been portrayed as a sort of natural disaster, a tragedy we should unify around our leadership to overcome. By 2008, that was already impossible. The networked public perceived the crisis (rightly, I think) as a failure of government and of the expert elites.

It should be a truism that material conditions matter much less than expectations. That was true during the Great Depression and it's true today. The rhetoric of the rant on the web feeds off extreme expectations -- any imperfection in the economy will be treated as a crisis and a true crisis will be seen as the Apocalypse.

Take the example of Chile. For 40 years, it had high economic growth, rising into the ranks of the wealthiest nations. During this time, Chile enjoyed a healthy democracy, in which political parties of left and right alternated in office. Everyone benefited. Yet in 2019, with many deaths and much material destruction, the Chilean public took to the streets in revolt against the established order. Its material expectations had been deeply frustrated, despite the country's economic and political successes.

Sean Illing

Just to be clear, when you talk about this "tsunami" of information in the digital age, you're not talking about more truth, right?

Martin Gurri

As Nassim Taleb pointed out, when you have a gigantic explosion of information, what's exploding is noise, not signal, so there's that.

As for truth, that's a tricky subject, because a lot of elites believe, and a lot of people believe, that truth is some kind of Platonic form. We can't see it, but we know it's there. And often we know it because the science says so.

But that's not really how truth works. Truth is essentially an act of trust, an act of faith in some authority that is telling you something that you could not possibly come to realize yourself. What's a quark ? You believe that there are quarks in the universe, probably because you've been told by people who probably know what they're talking about that there are quarks. You believe the physicists. But you've never seen a quark. I've never seen a quark. We accept this as truth because we've accepted the authority of the people who told us it's true.

Sean Illing

I'm starting to hate the phrase "post-truth" because it implies there was some period in which we lived in truth or in which truth was predominant. But that's misleading. The difference is that elite gatekeeping institutions can't place borders on the public conversation and that means they've lost the ability to determine what passes as truth, so now we're in the Wild West.

Martin Gurri

That's a very good way to put it. I would say, though, that there was a shining moment when we all had truth. They are correct about that. If truth is really a function of authority, and if in the 20th century these institutions really had authority, then we did have something like truth. But if we had the information back then that we have today, if we had all the noise that we have today, nothing would've seemed quite as true because we would've lacked faith in the institutions that tried to tell us.

Sean Illing

What does it mean for our society if an "official narrative" isn't possible? Because that's where we're at, right? Millions of people will never believe any story or account that comes from the government or a mainstream institution.

Martin Gurri

As long as our institutions remain as they are, nothing much will change. What that means is more of the same -- more instability, more turbulence, more conspiracy theories, more distrust of authorities. But there's no iron law of history that says we have to keep these institutions the way they are. Many of our institutions were built around the turn of the 20th century. They weren't that egalitarian or democratic. They were like great, big pyramids.

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But we can take our constitutional framework and reconfigure it. We've done it once already, and we could do it again with the digital realm in mind, understanding the distance we once had between those in power and ordinary citizens is gone forever. It's just gone. So we need people in power who are comfortable in proximity to the public, which many of our elites are not.

Sean Illing

I do want to at least point to an apparent paradox here. As you've said, because of the internet, there are now more voices and more perspectives than ever before, and yet at the same time there's a massive "herding effect," as a result of which we have more people talking about fewer subjects. And that partly explains how you get millions of people converging on something like QAnon.

Martin Gurri

Yeah, and that's very mysterious to me. I would not have expected that outcome. I thought we were headed to ever more dispersed information islands and that that would create a fragmentation in individual beliefs. But instead, I've noticed a trend toward conformism and a crystallizing of very few topics. Some of this is just an unwillingness to say certain things because you know if you said them, the internet was going to come after you.

But I think Trump had a lot to do with it. The amount of attention he got was absolutely unprecedented. Everything was about him. People were either against him or for him, but he was always the subject. Then came the pandemic and he simply lost the capacity to absorb and manipulate attention. The pandemic just moved him completely off-kilter. He never recovered.

Sean Illing

But we're in a situation in which ideas, whether it's QAnon stuff or anything else, are getting more hollow and more viral at the same time -- and that seems really bad moving forward.

Martin Gurri

I'm not quite that pessimistic. You can find all kinds of wonderful stuff being written about practically every aspect of society today by people who are seeing things clearly and sanely. But yeah, they're surrounded by a mountain of viral crap. And yet we're in the early days of this transformation. We have no idea how this is going to play out.

There has always been a lot of viral crap going around, and there have always been people who believe crazy stuff, particularly crazy stuff that doesn't impact their immediate lives. Flat earthers still get on airplanes, right? If you're a flat earther, you're not a flat earther enough to not get in an airplane and disrupt your personal life. It's not really a belief, it's basically giving the finger to the establishment.

Sean Illing

It's a pose.

Martin Gurri

Yeah, it's a pose of rejection. QAnon is a pose of rejection. There are very many flavors of it, but what they have in common is they're saying all these ideas you have and all the facts you're cramming in my face -- it's all a prop for the powerful and I'm rejecting it.

Sean Illing

It's an important point because a lot of us treat QAnon like it's some kind of epistemological problem, but it's not really that at all. It's actually much more difficult than that. And even if we set aside QAnon, the fact that the vast majority of Republicans still believe the 2020 election was fraudulent speaks to the breadth of the problem.

Martin Gurri

Right, it's a problem of authority. When people don't trust those charged with conveying the truth, they won't accept it. And at some point, like I said, we'll have to reconfigure our democracy. Our politicians and institutions are going to have to adjust to the new world in which the public can't be walled off or controlled. Leaders can't stand at the top of pyramids anymore and talk down to people. The digital revolution flattened everything. We've got to accept that.

I really do have hope that this will happen. The boomers who grew up in the old world and can't move beyond it are going to die out, and younger people are going to take their place. That will raise other questions and challenges, of course, but there will be a changing of the guard and we should welcome it.

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[Mar 28, 2021] The West is declining because the elite production system has failed. The worst type of mediocre grinders are pulling the levers of power. The plebes are revolting because immigration, taxes, inflation and the tenuous over-complication of society (fragility) has positioned a great deal of people in precarious positions.

Mar 28, 2021 | www.unz.com

alaska3636 , says: March 25, 2021 at 3:23 pm GMT • 3.0 days ago

This is a reductive argument.

The West is declining because the elite production system has failed. The worst type of mediocre grinders are pulling the levers of power. The plebes are revolting because immigration, taxes, inflation and the tenuous over-complication of society (fragility) has positioned a great deal of people in precarious positions. Might as well loot Target.

I don't agree with it. Violence is the inverse of the type of impulse control necessary for a functioning society.

But impulse control is gone from our overlords as well. So long noblesse oblige. The plebes loot Target while the gentry loots the treasury. Race blindness is a courtesy for civilized people. Ignore the social implications because the enemy has no race. They are global elites with no homes and no loyalty. They may not be sending their best but our worst are sending out the invitations.

We can't go on ignoring the class violence hollowing out the West. The elites today are actively trying to make everyone poorer. Not themselves, obviously. How is that going to induce cops out of the donut shops? The culture wars are making me a retarded Marxist. Marxist in the class conflict sense. Retarded in the spergy libertarian view that economics and politics are intertwined to create the type of society that, as Menken says, we deserve good and hard.

[Mar 26, 2021] The net result of neocon policies of Biden administration

Money spend on military adventures of the neoliberal empire are money stolen from common people
Mar 26, 2021 | www.unz.com

Jeff Davis , says: March 24, 2021 at 5:11 pm GMT • 9.3 hours ago

@ko

Actually, it is the ***American people*** who are fucked. The little people that is. Fucked on behalf of Israel/Neocons, the MIC, the Neolibs, and the other "owners" of the country.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsL6mKxtOlQ?feature=oembed

The good news is that when the above have thoroughly looted the country, and the rest of the world sheds the by then worthless US dollar, and the City on the Hill becomes the Toothless Slum on the Hill,

[Mar 21, 2021] All that Tough guy talk yet Biden can't even maintain his image and posture, this guy really symbolizes America.

Mar 21, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Smith , Mar 20 2021 7:02 utc | 100

https://www.rt.com/usa/518649-joe-biden-tripping-air-force-one/

All that Tough guy talk yet Biden can't even maintain his image and posture, this guy really symbolizes America.

[Mar 08, 2021] Example of naive populism

Mar 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

TruthFreedomPeace 6 hours ago

Hope that more people start cancelling cable TV and boycotting companies like Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon and others to counter the censorship, bias and corruption.

I don't think the corrupt politicians of either party will pay attention until We The People unite behind basic principles and become an economic force. Money talks and it can be used to make positive change in contrast to all the bad things it is also used for.

ACTION PLAN FOR IMMEDIATE CHANGE to counter the corruption , censorship and surveillance by media/tech/finance giants and politicians:

1)Cancel Cable TV (All channels should be made available individually so consumers don't have to give money to channels they don't want to)

2)Do Not donate money to politicians & consider boycotting companies that give them money or pay them for speeches.
Some might decide to boycott Facebook,Twitter,Apple,Amazon,Microsoft, Google and Netflix for censorship or corruption issues alone.

3)Bank with small local banks & invest with small brokerages & insist your employer/pension fund do the same.
Buy from small local merchant stores and use cash when possible.

4)Demand a pardon for Julian Assange & Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers/truthtellers

5)Join Pro freedom social networks like MINDS and Gab ,where freedom of speech and truth are respected.
Follow Zero Hedge and Project Veritas for pro truth/freedom news.

6)Use web browsers like Dissenter,Tor or Brave rather than Chrome or Safari when you surf the web.
Use search engines like Quant or DuckDuckGo rather than Google or Bing for web searches.
Use an email service like ProtonMail rather than Gmail.
Save important online videos/articles/posts to your PC hard drive or phone.
Post videos to Bitchute and LBRY rather than youtube
Shop online at Overstock and smaller independent retailers rather than Amazon/Wayfair

7)Use Linux operating systems like Linux Mint,Debian or others on your computer rather than Windows, Mac or Chrome OS (Almost any PC can be switched to Linux).
Use a Linux based smartphone like PINEPHONE or a "dumbphone" rather than Google Android or Apple iPhone.
Avoid buying a "smart" TV as it is smarter to buy a "dumb" TV with no operating system pre-installed.
Use a Linux mini PC with wireless keyboard on your TV for web browsing/computing/gaming/video streaming rather than amazon fire tv/roku/google chromecast/apple tv/microsoft xbox/nvidia shield.

8) Do NOT support the phony "War on Drugs" which causes more crime,death,murder,gang violence,incarcerations,enriching criminals while millions of people still use illegal drugs anyway.

9) Support a new foreign policy where We The People worldwide unite behind and promote the principles of truth/freedom/goodwill/integrity/humility/Non-Aggression Principle/Golden Rule and focus on winning hearts and minds.

10) Support a worldwide effort to voluntarily help others in the hope that it will win over more people to these principles.

Please share this plan of action with others via text,email & social media if you agree.
Here is the link to share this message.Thank You https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943148464663228416?referrer=truthfreedompeace

littlewing 6 hours ago

If you buy anything from that TREASONOUS Amazon you should be run out of your neighborhood when the truck shows up.

andrew h nelson 2 hours ago

Institutional corruption. And that's why they are sitting behind a barb wire fence around Washington D.C. OBTW, walls seem to work when these idiots want one.

newworldorder 5 hours ago

And there we people of the USA have it all. Brazen in our face political and institutionalized corruption with no consequences for the Senior US Bureaucracy. If that does not say it all, - nothing else will.

Hope and Change? For the "connected elite," - it's a done deal. You are either in the club or you are not.

[Mar 08, 2021] The Prophet Of The Trump Era by Matt Taibbi

The key is the collapse of neoliberalism and this topic Tabbi tries to avoid. Which makes this article junk with a couple of interesting, thought provoking quotes.
The " collapses of faith in traditional hierarchies of power " should peropery called the "deletimization of the elite." and the situation the result due to it "the revolutionary situation" when the elite can't rule "as usual" and "Deplorables" does not want to live "line usual" anymore. Actually Marxists wtore quite a bit about revolutionary situation, although the fact tht they assign mystique stiat of "future hegemon class" to proletariat undermines much of their writings.
Mar 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News ,

I entered Martin Gurri's world on August 1, 2015. Though I hadn't read The Revolt of the Public , at the time a little-known book by the former CIA analyst of open news sources, I hit a disorienting moment of a type he'd described in his opening chapter. There are times, he wrote, "when tomorrow no longer resembles yesterday the compass cracks, by which we navigate existence. We are lost at sea."

Gurri's book is about how popular uprisings are triggered by collapses of faith in traditional hierarchies of power . I felt such a collapse that day in Waterloo, Iowa, covering the Republican presidential primary . The first debate was five days away and the man expected to occupy center stage, Donald Trump, held a seemingly inexplicable six-point lead .

Two weeks before, on July 18th, Trump lashed out against former Republican nominee John McCain. Even McCain's critics considered his physical and mental scars from years as a Vietnam war prisoner to be unassailable proofs of his patriotic gravitas, but the service-evading Trump was having none of it. "I don't like losers," he said, adding, "He's only a war hero because he was captured." It was the universal belief among colleagues in campaign journalism that this was an unsurvivable gaffe, a "Dean scream" moment. We expected him to apologize and wash out. Instead, he called McCain a "dummy" and kept a firm grasp on the lead.

... ... ...

Elections in the pre-Trump era had been stale rituals. As recently as 2013, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post called them " remarkably scripted and controlled ." Donors, party chiefs, and pundits could concoct contenders through sheer alchemy, mesmerizing the public with incantations like "electability." But in Iowa that summer, one "electable" Republican candidate after another -- from Jeb Bush to Scott Walker to Marco Rubio -- flopped in public appearances, savaged as phonies on social media. Walker, the betting favorite among reporters, saw his campaign deflated when his online strategist, Liz Muir, started tweeting her real feelings about Iowa (including the classic, "#agsubsidies #ethanol #brainless").

I'd spent weeks crisscrossing the state in search of even one piece of evidence that conventional wisdom still had predictive power in Republican politics, finding none. Now, here was Christie, reduced from being lionized in a Time cover story as a favorite and a " guy who loves his mother and gets it done ," to being nobody at all, a clown standing alone in a park. The realization that no one was in control of the campaign show anymore was jarring even to me, a critic of the old gatekeeping ritual.

In the introduction to The Revolt of the Public , Arnold Kling speaks of a different "Gurri moment": when Dan Rather's 2004 expose about George W. Bush's military service was blown up by an amateur blogging under the name "Bucklehead ." In the past, a media titan like CBS could only be second-guessed by another major institutional power. In "Rathergate," both the network and one of its most iconic celebrities were humiliated by a single individual, a preview of the coming disorientation.

The thesis of The Revolt of the Public is that traditional centralized powers are losing -- have lost -- authority, in large part because of the demystifying effect of the Internet. The information explosion undermined the elite monopoly on truth, exposing long-concealed flaws. Many analysts had noted the disruptive power of the Internet, but what made Gurri unique is that he also predicted with depressingly humorous accuracy how traditional hierarchies would respond to this challenge: in a delusional, ham-fisted, authoritarian manner that would only confirm the worst suspicions of the public, accelerating the inevitable throw-the-bums-out campaigns. This assessment of the motive for rising public intransigence was not exactly welcomed, but either way, as Kling wrote, "Martin Gurri saw it coming."

Gurri also noted that public revolts would likely arrive unattached to coherent plans, pushing society into interminable cycles of zero-sum clashes between myopic authorities and their increasingly furious subjects. He called this a "paralysis of distrust," where outsiders can "neutralize but not replace the center" and "networks can protest and overthrow, but never govern." With a nod to Yeats, Gurri summed up: "The center cannot hold, and the border has no clue what to do about it."

Read the rest of the report here .

Bank_sters 1 hour ago remove link

Taibbi forgot to cover the Coup?

RedDog1 1 hour ago

Why would he want to be Arkansancided (or what ever Barry's team calls it)?

Oldwood 29 minutes ago

Obamanated.

YuriTheClown 17 minutes ago

Taibbi is a camp follower. He always seems to be on the spot a year or two late.

But at least he gets there unlike so many others.

Estimated_Fractal PREMIUM 1 hour ago

I read the book last week. At times you'll feel like he's pro liberal and times when he sounds pro conservative. It's not a political book. It's about the deluge of information, in the age of being online, and how the public have just as much information, if not more than the elites. This creates a crisis of authority. I'm trying to sum it up. You should just go read it.

This interview with Beck would be a good primer.

https://youtu.be/7jnAspvyiBc

overbet 1 hour ago

how the public have just as much information, if not more than the elites.

Except the information online is filtered by the elites. So theres that.

Patmos 36 minutes ago

MSM outlets no longer have the scoop, because the internet beats them to it. MSM outlets no longer are the gatekeepers, because the internet exposes their lies. Their authority is neutered. It's why people who still follow the MSM parade around like little nutless b!tches.

Isn't Life Gland 30 minutes ago

Yet they slap each other on the back with Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes which nowadays is the equivalent of showing what sellout snakes and intelligence bitches they really are.

fightapathy 23 minutes ago remove link

Happy memories of Trump stomping on Mad Dog McCain's face.

Thank you, Matt!

I Write Code 1 minute ago

Exactly, whatever myths the MSM told themselves about "Maverick", if half the stories about McCain were ever true, he should never have been elected to anything, unfit. Before his brain exploded he was a sweet guy, but never stable, and maybe not even before the POW bit. Taibbi is really shocked when Trump only barks out what everyone already knows, namely the TRUTH?

Isn't Life Gland 45 minutes ago (Edited)

I tried to read the "rest of the report"...subscription required.

Oh, and F*CK John McCain..good riddance

Slaytheist 57 minutes ago

Taibbi is the left's Ben Shapiro. He will use logical arguments to concede certain facts, but never those that threaten the establishment he critiques so tirelessly.

I Write Code 7 minutes ago remove link

The thesis of The Revolt of the Public is that traditional centralized powers are losing -- have lost -- authority, in large part because of the demystifying effect of the Internet.

Gurri might be right or wrong, I dunno, about how it stood in 2015 - but Taibbi here only shows how utterly clueless he and the entire MSM have been since 2015. They had maybe half a clue from 2008-2015. Maybe two-thirds of a clue from 1992 through 2007. But since 2015 they have not even wanted a clue, they've decided to do without.

HOW ABOUT THIS, THE PUBLIC HAD EVERY RATIONAL RIGHT TO BE REVOLTED BY THE ACTIONS OF THE ELITE AND THE CLUELESSNESS OF THE PRESS after 2015. I don't know how or why the MSM had their heads cut off at that point, but Taibbi shows this to be the case - BRAGS about it being the case.

LouTurks PREMIUM 32 minutes ago

This is nothing new. What has happened is there is a new medium the computer so info can now be shared without the ruling consent. Last time it was the printing press. Ideas could be shared acrossed distences. Thomas Locke and his likes could print ideas and sent them far and wide.

But sadly US is going towards a French style revolt instead of the splendid experiment we now have and have destroyed by our own ignorance.

[Mar 06, 2021] Hong Kong vs. USA cancel campaign: I cannot believe the authors of that article think they can win sympathy from the scores of millions of Americans opposed to the establishment crackdown, "cancelling", and labeling of them as "domestic terrorists".

Mar 06, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

vk , Mar 5 2021 16:48 utc | 15

'Hong Kong is crumbling': seven days that crushed city's last resistance

I love some capitalist tears.

William Gruff , Mar 5 2021 18:06 utc | 22

vk @15: "I love some capitalist tears."

More Americans, and in particular the "deplorable" ones, need to read that article. One can safely bet that they will not take away from it what the Grauniad intended. I cannot believe the authors of that article think they can win sympathy from the scores of millions of Americans opposed to the establishment crackdown, "cancelling" , and labeling of them as "domestic terrorists" .

The phones rang on Friday.... More than 50 [agents of American imperialism] across Hong Kong received a call from the authorities: they were to report to police on Sunday.

What? Masked stormtroopers didn't kick in their doors at 3:00AM and drag them naked out of bed as happens in America to "insurrectionists" "? They just got a call to show up in court the next week? Let me play a sad song for them on the world's smallest violin!

[Mar 03, 2021] Trump's Last Stand by Israel Shamir

Trump proved to be a politic weakling. He got what he deserved.
Mar 03, 2021 | www.unz.com

President Trump was decisively beaten, if not fair and square. The hopes of millions of American voters were squashed and extinguished. The saga of the Orange Man is over. The victors used a gambit: they sacrificed the sanctity and security of the Capitol, allowed intruders in, permitted them to take selfies in the Speaker's office, and then faked horror and outrage. The attempted calls for electoral transparency were deflated in real time as huge crowds were dispersed, electors were confirmed, and the ascendancy of Biden was assured, while Trump followers were branded 'domestic terrorists'.

Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political allies withdrew their support. Within hours, or even minutes, this ruler of the world admired by millions became a non-person. Like a boy who posted an obscenity, he was banned by Twitter and Facebook. Time will tell whether he will go to prison, as so many Dems pray for, but his political life seems to have ended, even if his cause may live.

[Feb 27, 2021] The democrats identity politics push way too far for the country to stomach

Feb 27, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

DanP66 , February 27, 2021 at 3:49 pm

I've been saying this same thing for months. Trump's policies were widely popular. It was Trump's personality that did him in along with a lot of help from a pandemic, the FBI and the media.

The democrats are going to push way too far left for the country to stomach. You do not have to be a hard core conservative to think that it is unfair for girls to compete against trans girls or some guy that claims to identify as a girl and nor is any liberal father going to be thrilled with his 13 yr old daughter sharing a locker room with one.

Pretty sure that if we took a vote more than 90% of adults in this country would agree that the government should not be able to step in and override a parents decision not to provide puberty blockers to their child or that children should even be given puberty blockers. BUT that is what is being nominated by the Biden team.

Trump tried to get us out of Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq but the dems fought him tooth and nail right along with the hawks in the republican party. WHO KNEW the dems would become the war hawks? Biden sent more troops into Syria on his first day. Now he is trying to figure out how to get out of the withdrawl in Afghanistan and Germany.

All these "green" energy policies are going to lead to higher costs for electricity, gas, home heating oil, natural gas and they are gonna do it while unemployment is high.

Going to push for $15 minimum wage that they KNOW is going to kill a lot of jobs while unemployment is already obscenely high.

BTW Trump voters were overall higher earning than Biden voters. That they had fewer college degrees tells me two things. First, that the average Trump voter is not a toothless redneck but a professional tradesman or small business owner. It also tells me that a college degree aint worth the paper its printed on if your looking just at earning potential.

Point is .the democrats are going to tick off a lot of people. Pass the minimum wage and those that get the increase will love you but those that lose their jobs will hate you and small business owners across the country will detest you. Do not pass it and the left will never forgive you.

Yep, I think the democrats are going to have a very very hard time and they are going to end up turning on each other. I also think that Trumpism without Trump has a very good future.

Dont get me wrong, Trump will be around. He will attend rallies, raise money, drive the media nuts and the democrats insane but he will not run again. He is going to just create headaches for the media, the democrats, the never Trump republicans and enjoy the heck out of it. But he will not be a candidate.

[Feb 27, 2021] Retarget the Christian Right from abortion to usury and neoliberal Dems will be sidelined. One out of seven Americans has a debt collector after them. Everybody, even this atheist, knows the story about Jesus throwing moneylenders out of the temple.

Feb 27, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

Jack Parsons , , February 27, 2021 at 7:05 pm

The 'New Democrats' have stolen the nouveau riche from the Republicans, and the nouveau riche are fantastically richer than the old money. The NewDems have also abandoned poor people. The only way forward for the Repubs is to corral the poors.

The way to do it? Retarget the Christian Right from abortion to usury. 1 out of 7 Americans has a debt collector after them. Everybody, even this atheist, knows the story about Jesus throwing moneylenders out of the temple.

If Trump wants to get any traction in 2024, he's got to weld the Repubs back together. Usury is a great strategy.

[Feb 27, 2021] A good article by Martin Sieff on the West hall of mirrors delusional politic.

Feb 27, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

uncle tungsten , Feb 27 2021 21:05 utc | 62

Good read by Martin Sieff on the wests hall of mirrors delusional politics.


Trapped in the empty luxury and petty court intrigues of Versailles, the French ruling class could only see their own imagined beauty and illusions of power reflected in mirrors. They were ignorant and blind to the despair and rage building up against them among the ordinary people of France.

Today, old Reagan Free Market, minimum government Republicans and tree-hugging, coal, oil and natural gas-hating and abortion-loving romantic Green Democrats who hold the politics of Washington and its media in an iron (and rusting) grip are the true heirs of those decadent French aristocrats. Their Mainstream Media has become a 21st century Cybernetic Hall of Mirrors 2.0. Across the Atlantic the dark and doomed Spirit of Versailles has migrated from the outskirts of Paris to Brussels where it now resides in the European Commission.

History has repeated itself on a colossally larger scale.

[Feb 27, 2021] Populism is a term used in neoliberal Newspeak instead of the term "mass social protest" and it is used by neoliberal propagandists and neoliberal MSM in order to smear the rejection of neoliberalism by the vast swats of the US population

Feb 27, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

likbez , , February 27, 2021 at 9:06 pm

Populism is a term used in neoliberal Newspeak instead of the term "mass social protest" and it is used by neoliberal propagandists and neoliberal MSM in order to smear the rejection of neoliberalism by the vast swats of the US population. Generally this social movement (and it is a social movement) is about the resistance to neoliberalism and globalization.

When the term "populism" moves on front pages of neoliberal MSM and into papers like this one that, first of all, means the process of de-legitimization of the ruling (in our case neoliberal) elite reached at a moderately dangerous for the elite stage which requires some "active countermeasure" not just passive suppression in MSM and ostracism.

The typical charges of corruption, the control of government by financial oligarchy, outsourcing and offshoring of manufacturing jobs as well and suppression of wages and redistribution of wealth up are just icing on the cake. The core is the rejection of neoliberalism, the rejection of accumulation by dispossession – gangster capitalism in other words. Which is politely called "redistribution of wealth up" in the neoliberal MSM.

Trump during his 2016 election campaign (and only during it; he governed like Bush III ) voiced some concern that are typically associated with this mass rejection of neoliberalism and instantly became kind of de-facto leader of the movement. But, in reality, he was yet another "full-blown BS artist" as Tucker called him.

So Trumpism or "national neoliberalism" is not exactly populism – it is more of the attempt to hijack and channel the protest in a way beneficial for the "nationalist" part of national oligarchy and military-industrial complex like happened in Germany in late 20th – early 30th. Only this time "national neoliberalism" card is played instead of "national socialism". And what is interesting is that intelligence agencies, which typically are viewed as a part of the military-industrial complex, fought Trump and this movement tool and nail. The Russiagate gang of Brennan-Comey-McCabe was not an accident.

Please note that the social base of Trump movement are not so much blue collar unionized workers but owners of small business and contractors. They stick to Trump as their leader despite blatant betrayal of their interests on his part. that does not exclude part of blue collar workers but if you look at the social composition of the Jan 6 meeting participant I do not see many blue color workers in it. But is did included some former police officers, which is pretty telling and makes it superficially looks like Germany 2.0.

And rapid construction of barbed fence and National Guard sleeping on Capitol floors is another testament that neoliberal elite took this threat seriously.

[Feb 24, 2021] Ralph Nader poses tough questions for Pelosi about her complete bungling of the Impeachment Trial--twice!

Feb 24, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Feb 21 2021 21:46 utc | 60

Ralph Nader poses tough questions for Pelosi about her complete bungling of the Impeachment Trial--twice! The message IMO is there's to be no law enforcement when it comes to High Crimes committed by the POTUS, for much of what Trump's guilty of Obama and Biden are as well--and in several cases far worse since they committed thousands of Capital Crimes.

[Feb 24, 2021] If the 'show trial' showed anything, it demonstrated again the hold that Trump has over the party base. The trial might well have consolidated that hold if anything

Feb 24, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Bemildred , Feb 22 2021 17:15 utc | 123

Alistair Crooke explains the Great Reset:

"Yes, the Republican Party may be entering a period of contention or civil war, but if the 'show trial' showed anything, it demonstrated again the hold that Trump has over the party base. The trial might well have consolidated that hold if anything – even if some old-style conservatives depart a metamorphosised GOP, in search of a more peaceful and civil anchorage. McConnell's conservative contingent seems, in retrospect, to emerge as the ephemeral element, rather than a key pivot around which a new GOP might form.

Yet Biden, in many ways, is in the politically weaker position. His party is less than homogenous – it is a more conflicted bunch. Many of its components simply detest each other. The Clinton-Obama neoliberal wing is fixated in its belief that they, and the U.S., have been on the global side-lines for far too long – and are agog to jump back in. They are escalating in Afghanistan, in Syria, and preparing a new push in Ukraine. Trump's troop withdrawals have been all reversed (even for Germany) – and numbers deployed rather, have been augmented.

In spite of their heady eagerness to lead the world, they are likely to find themselves banging heads with a changed world. Iran, Russia – even the EU – are not showing regard to the Biden bugle call: 'America is back'."

The 'Transition' of the Élites

[Feb 21, 2021] One thing is crystal clear: Unconstitutional, illegal changes to voting laws generated millions of irregular ballots -- a hundred times greater than the margin between the candidates, in some swing states. If the balloting is illegal, there is no way the count can be correct.

Feb 21, 2021 | www.unz.com

Knockwood , says: February 16, 2021 at 4:19 am GMT • 4.0 days ago

http://thesaker.is/usa-sitrep-presidents-day-in-a-divided-nation/

Presidents' Day in a Divided Nation

February 15th is Presidents' Day.

America has two Presidents on this day, besides Washington and Lincoln.
One half of the country believes Trump rightfully won.

Yet the events of Jan. 6th still hang like a cloud over Washington.
Critics fault his claims of a stolen election for provoking the protests.

But what if the Democrats really did steal the election? Wouldn't the fault be theirs?
And how can we know whether they really stole it?
Claims of "Massive fraud" on one side vs. "No sign of fraud" on the other -- who is right?

One thing is crystal clear: Unconstitutional, illegal changes to voting laws generated millions of irregular ballots -- a hundred times greater than the margin between the candidates, in some swing states. If the balloting is illegal, there is no way the count can be correct.

An unconstitutional vote can only produce an unconstitutional result. Everything that followed -- the certification of the popular vote, the electoral college vote, and the inauguration -- none of these steps had any legal foundation.
Bad data makes bad decisions. Since Nov. 3, our machinery of government has been spinning off course on erroneous, unlawful inputs.

The only solution in such cases is to correct the error.
Until runoff elections are held in conformity with the law, we will still have two Presidents.
Only one of them can be the rightful one.

[Feb 21, 2021] The optics for the establishment of the capital incursion were so horrible I find it hard to believe it was planned. It was used after it occured

Feb 21, 2021 | www.unz.com

Alfred Muscatia , says: February 15, 2021 at 5:44 pm GMT • 4.5 days ago

@dimples

The optics for the establishment of the Capitol incursion were so horrible I find it hard to believe it was planned. The photoshop of bed guy that the FBI presented as criminal evidence doubled down on the humiliation. Honk honk! They can't keep this together for long I don't think.

[Feb 21, 2021] The invasion of the Capitol building was clearly a setup. The Capitol police made no attempt to keep crowds out of the building like they are actually employed to do.

Feb 21, 2021 | www.unz.com

Wally , says: February 17, 2021 at 7:19 pm GMT • 2.4 days ago

@dimples on the Capitol "insurrection":

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot , by Glenn Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claims

also:
Capitol "Insurrection" Hoax / How Our Lying Press Would Have Spun Jan 6 Protest If Trump Were A Democrat : https://www.unz.com/article/capitol-insurrection-hoax-how-our-lying-press-would-have-spun-jan-6-protest-if-trump-were-a-democrat/

dimples , says: February 15, 2021 at 9:04 am GMT • 4.8 days ago
@AReply that the Japanese Navy was heading towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Well played, Party* gerontocracy and affiliated corporate elites! That's two wildly successful covert operations in as many months, the other being the fake election.

3. The massive beat-up of confected hysteria by the media, turning a mildly raucous event into an 'insurrection' complete with police state witch-hunt of the mainly bumbling dupes who participated, culminating in yet another show trial of the leftists preferred scapegoat/scumbag , is to anybody with half a brain, symptomatic of the massively diseased and terminally cancerous state of the modern JSA.

*there are no Parties any longer, just the Party.

thotmonger , says: February 15, 2021 at 9:50 am GMT • 4.8 days ago
@AReply

What crime? The no-warning shot, cowardly point blank murder of Ashli Babbit? The treasonous mass censorship/public hanging of the First Amendment? Other than those two atrocities, all I saw was a Tea Party. And it was beautiful.

p.s. The broad wisdom of Gen. Petrov (RIP) is worth some study. for example:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZlyGb_Nbhw?feature=oembed

GMC , says: February 15, 2021 at 11:28 am GMT • 4.7 days ago

The problem, is that Trump is dirty , has a whole lot of dirty baggage and everyone knows that Washington's middle name is blackmail or assassin. If he were to ever succeed as a reformer, he'd have to be ready to commit political and business suicide for the cause – and he 's not the type. More than 1/2 of America, wanted what he was selling – but that just turned out to be campaign BS. America is toast unless something really big happens at the peasant level . What a shame.

Walter , says: February 15, 2021 at 1:39 pm GMT • 4.7 days ago

Despite the naming of the process as "election", the actual function of the process is the creation of consent, the belief that so and so is legitimate in custom and law.

Seen objectively, the recent "election" failed. There is no consent. That does not mean that Mr 10% and his gang or cohort will now go home. It means that they will now use force. That will work, for a while.

In the longer term, however, regions will invite in the Chinese and Russians, as they have thousands of tons of gold, functioning industries, and massive resources, and they will pay the army.

It's collapse. After a time it happens. Empires fall.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

Old and Grumpy , says: February 15, 2021 at 2:32 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago

I love optimism, but I just don't do it. Biden is ruling with EO, and the Supreme Court made it almost impossible for EOs (unless they're Trumps) to go away. So despite the theater of a two party system, we are under a corporate dictatorship. Kind of a fascism, except the corporations and bankers are on top. Gotta a plan for fighting any of that? The GOP is in on it. As for the Donald, he needs to purge his movement of the Kushners to show he is serious. Since he won't do that, MAGA is toast.

For the record my suggestion is to go small and take as much independence as you can from the system. Corporations don't like confederations, which will lead them to demand fed action. The feds are run by doddering old fossils, inbred bureaucratic aristocrats, silly woke girls , and not nearly bright as advertised Zionist Jews. I think if we act like our ancient ancestors, we can work against the feds.
And can the corporations even function without using the government for cheating? I have my doubts on that. We just need to give up defending the USA , and move on to defend ourselves.

Mustapha Mond , says: February 15, 2021 at 2:47 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago
@Flying Dutchman fornia, it is expressed thus:

California's Evidence Code § 1230[3] defines "Declarations against interest" as:

"Evidence of a statement by a declarant having sufficient knowledge of the subject is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a witness and the statement, when made, was so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far subjected him to the risk of civil or criminal liability, or so far tended to render invalid a claim by him against another, or created such a risk of making him an object of hatred, ridicule, or social disgrace in the community, that a reasonable man in his position would not have made the statement unless he believed it to be true."

Realist , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:00 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago
@Mulga Mumblebrain

There hasn't been an actual election in years. The Deep State has been in control for decades.

Neutral Observer , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:08 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago

Now Trump is more powerful than when he was in the White House.

That anybody celebrates that is nuts.

Nitwit narcissistic Donald Trump is a fatally flawed, fatally failed and totally bogus change agent. What America needs is a genuine change agent with genuine intelligence, genuine wisdom and genuine integrity. And that ain't Trump.

Even Ann Coulter, one of Trump's earliest high profile supporters sees Trump for what he really is, a selfish rank opportunist. America will be hosed as long as Trump is the front for the anti-Status Quo movement.

Realist , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:17 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago
@GomezAdddams

Trump only tapped into the anger but did nothing.

Trump did plenty he fooled you and tens of millions of other Americans into believing he was on their side.

Trump is a minion of the Deep State sham just part of the cast.

Trinity , says: February 15, 2021 at 3:23 pm GMT • 4.6 days ago

As a man who doesn't give two shits about Trump and his carpet bagging family that includes a greasy Jewish Supremacist racist like Jared Kushner and as a man who thinks "Honest Joe" is just about the sleaziest individual that I have ever laid eyes on lemme say that it is at least refreshing to see a positive article here.

Beautiful Evidence , says: February 15, 2021 at 5:22 pm GMT • 4.5 days ago

The reason I enjoy this website and alethonews.com is because at least a reasonable attempt is made to see through the MSM propaganda. It doesn't mean, however, that dots are sufficiently connected to see what is actually happening. For example, thinking that Glenn Greenwald is some beacon of truth instead of a seriously flawed controlled opposition proponent misses the point dramatically. And not just Greenwald, if you analyze any of the so-called truth tellers you'll find they won't be willing to discuss the massive mind fuck that is 9/11 or the Kennedy assassinations. Our government is a one party system is that is broken beyond all repair. Thinking that is country is winning at all is blind.

[Feb 21, 2021] Some context to the 2016 to 2020 Trump interruption to Business as Usual

Feb 21, 2021 | www.unz.com

Robert Snefjella , says: February 15, 2021 at 8:32 pm GMT • 4.4 days ago

Some context to the 2016 to 2020 Trump interruption to Business as Usual:

The United States in 2016 was long lost as republic. Politically it had been transmuted into something for which there is no simple traditional title. Oligarchy and plutocracy and tyranny and corporatocracy and insane asylum and stupidocracy, with disproportionate Jewish presence at levers of influence and power, still fails to capture the whole adequately.

This – whatever descriptive we give it – political conglomeration aka the 'United States' had residual elements of Empire – 1000 ish military bases and uncounted numbers of biological warfare related facilities outside its borders. It still militarily occupied Japan and Germany and Italy and South Korea and many other countries.

Doctrine promoting 'full spectrum domination' – that is, the intention of achieving global totalitarian control – was still hanging in the air and influencing behaviour. The Federal Reserve dollar was still the dominant international currency. The United States was still a heavyweight in the IMF and UN Security Council. Many countries remained de facto vassal to it (Canada, Australia, Norway )

At home a police state had been in place for generations, but the mass media and educational system steadfastly refused to call a spade a spade. The mass media had comprehensively for generations been a mind warping propaganda system. Publicly execute JFK and RFK. In response the political and judicial system and the media have been comatose or lying to the people for half a century.

The treasonous false flag 9/11 2001 is carried out, and again, the mass media tell lies and censors and the political system is silent or complicit in buttressing the official lies. More police state measures are implemented, and mass murdering wars of aggression abroad are initiated. The more general 'war on terror' war of terror is launched, which is actually merely the old policy of subversion, robbery, murder etc abroad given a new title and a refurbished rationale (from fighting communists to fighting terrorists).

Meanwhile at home the middle class and the blue collar workers and the infrastructure are in steady decline. 40 % of Americans are living hand to mouth while billionaires proliferate. Tens of millions are on anti depressants, while tens of millions more are morbidly obese or beset with chronic serious health problems. Etc. Growing basket case.

Meanwhile David Rockefeller famously confesses that he and his family (and fellow 'intellectual elite' and banking exemplars) have been working against the best interests of America and towards the goal of world government. Sort of a Rockefeller Pinky and the Brain syndrome, but not a cartoon, a real intention, steadily worked towards. He writes that all we need is the "right big crisis" and voila, we will have it!!: World Government. The New World Order.

Then something happened. Whatever folly and genius and everything in between Donald J. Trump possesses, whatever his intentions conscious or unconscious might have been, he in 2o16 won election over the selection of the Powers that BE. They tried to steal the election, but the tide for Trump was too strong.

In the wake of this political rookie's election, while he may have been naive, and foolish, and made any number of questionable moves, he was also facing the entire phalanx of the global establishment.

One of his first acts was to announce that he was going to drain the swamp, and all the many powerful swamp creatures took this as an unforgivable and deeply threatening public challenge. So a four year unending attack on Trump by FBI, DOJ, mass media, former CIA, European politicians, tech giants, and the American political establishment ensued.

Equally guaranteed to create a massive effort by the PTB was his rhetoric on behalf of national sovereignty and against globalism – The Rockefeller-esque extended pipedream. One of his first acts was to cancel the TPP, which had threatened a further erosion of national sovereignty on behalf of the power of transnational corporate and financial power.

Another fundamental really priceless contribution that Trump made was to continually and pointedly jeer at and identify the "fake news": The NYT and CNN were subjected to the public humiliation of a sitting President continually accurately describing them.

Trump's willingness to call out the mass media propaganda and brainwashing system that the CIA under largely Jewish auspices (or vise versa?) had intensely inflicted on the American people for decades was an indispensable act of rebellion. American politics and media is dependent upon the pretense that it is legit. Trump's message was: there's something deeply wrong here: Fake news and the Swamp.

Trump also at least gave frequent voice to the desirability of reducing American military activity and presence abroad, and stands in contrast to his Nobel Peace Prize winning predecessor Barry ( aka B.O.) Soetoro (Libya destroyed) and George Bush the Latter (Iraq and Afghanistan attacked) and Clinton (Serbia attacked). Trump as comparatively a deplorable peacenik.

So then we have the COVID- psyop, creating de facto world medical martial law, which is a kind of sick facsimile to Rockefeller's pipe dream. And also, dislocating, disorienting, social and economic turmoil and pain. Trump was placed at the center of that storm, surrounded by ghoulish Fauci and the CDC and the Bill Gates contaminated WHO.

Then the looters and burners and rioters were let loose. And the underlying goal was to have Americans so sick of it all and Trump could be blamed and surely he would be thrown out of office.

But even so, no. He wins in a huge landslide. And the Swamp goes all out and installs a pathetic creature in Trump's place. This story is not over .

[Feb 20, 2021] The No Change Presidency

Feb 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Mike from Jersey , Feb 19 2021 18:56 utc | 1

After a month as president Joe Biden has already broken several major campaign promises.

There will be:

As Alan MacLeod summarizes :

Biden began his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in June 2019 at a Manhattan hotel, telling wealthy donors that "nothing would fundamentally change" under his presidency. After one month in office, it appears as if that is one campaign promise he is likely to keep.

The U.S. will also continue its wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start another one.

Posted by b on February 19, 2021 at 18:46 UTC | Permalink

I always thought that Biden's campaign slogan should have been a modification of Obama's "Hope and Change" slogan.

Biden's campaign slogan should have been: "No Hope and No Change."

robin , Feb 19 2021 20:11 utc | 17

t Posted by: vk | Feb 19 2021 19:20 utc | 7

And, contrary to the 1960s-1970s, it will now have to start to win those wars, otherwise the wealth will stop flowing.
I believe the objective now is to prevent wealth from flowing East. This means that the definition of 'winning' the war may not be the one we intuitively may think of.

An obvious example which illustrates the strategy is the one of a functioning, promising nation with the highest standard of living on the African continent turned into a devastated stretch of rubble.

Another example is the success the empire is having in Syria. With large chunks of confiscated land and a state of durable smoulder everywhere else, we shouldn't expect the Eastern bloc to extend westward to the Mediterranean anytime soon. Nor should the empire fear the regional actors gaining sufficient economic and political mass to ever make an impression on the world podium and demand the return of occupied territories and repatriation of all refugees as required by law.

uncle tungsten , Feb 19 2021 20:41 utc | 22
No change presidency means that the USA will continue to steal from the poor. Someone should inform Ethiopia and Egypt about this reality.
_K_C_ , Feb 19 2021 20:57 utc | 25
"We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start another one."

Given the context of the past 20 years including the Bush, Obama and Trump presidencies and current geopolitical realities, I doubt Biden starts a war on par with Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and most certainly not on the level of Iraq. They will have to try hard to grow and harvest so-called low hanging fruit if they intend to engage in any real, direct, shooting military engagements much less invasions/occupations. I'm not saying that can't or won't happen - and I predicted a much wider scale military confrontation with Iran if Trump was re-elected. Maybe not an all out invasion which would never sell back home and would be a military and societal folly of epic proportions. But Trump did try with Soleimani, tanker seizures, and standard militaristic posturing and prodding, not to mention brutal sanctions.

Biden isn't as beholden to Israel (which isn't saying much since the rest of the gov't is) or Saudi Arabia (there is a "damning" report coming soon on the Kashogghi murder which allegedly ties it directly to MBS...duh) and most countries which are even possible military targets that represent a "threat" to US or Israeli interests have been thrown into chaos and instability (which was the real goal). China, Russia, North Korea, and even Iran are off the table in my opinion.

Guess we'll have to wait and see. While the US corporate media were the main cheerleaders for the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, they sold Obama's wars much more subtly, often intentionally ignoring or burying stories that were contrary to that administration's image. That is the kind of treatment I expect from them for Biden if and when he starts a new war.

psychohistorian , Feb 19 2021 21:03 utc | 27
The Harris/Biden presidency will not start any more wars just like the Trump presidency because we are in the throes of a civilization war already and it escalated to MAD phase in late Obama days.

Yes, there can be border skirmishes but no more invasions like Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Russia has said that Iran is a strategic partner of Russia and I believe both China and Russia are protecting Venezuela to some degree.

The process of taking sides in this civilization war continues and as the membership of those sides firms up, the firming events at some point will precipitate the final act......extinction or capitulation.......I hope I get to see the final act and maybe experience a bit of the denoueument period.

It sure looks to me like empire is in crash and burn mode but we haven't reached the final act of this shit show yet.

_K_C_ , Feb 19 2021 21:07 utc | 28
Posted by: Jackrabbit | Feb 19 2021 21:02 utc | 26

Of course. That goes without saying at MoA. Those who frequent this site understand the brutality of sanctions and embargoes. We also know they are acts of war. But I don't think that's what b meant when he said: "We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start another one." If so, what other countries are left to sanction? Keep in mind that "another one" means one that isn't currently sanctioned/sabotaged - which Biden will of course continue doing. So what countries do you think might be on their radar for new brutal sanctions?

Closest thing I can think of when it comes to war under Biden would be Reagan/Bush/Clinton (incl. Hillary)style coups and "behind the scenes" support for right wing death squads in Central and South America. Otherwise, I think the Biden administration sits back and supports Israel's invasion or destruction of Lebanon.

tucenz , Feb 19 2021 21:29 utc | 31
Really, why would anyone be surprised that a candidate who did nothing to win the Presidency should similarly do nothing once elected?

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 19 2021 21:15 utc | 30


Thanks for that. I'm sure I'll use that line whenever I can!

Stephen Laudig , Feb 19 2021 21:41 utc | 32
Come on, you can do better:
"its wars"?
How about "Its unlawful, war crime, extra-constitutional wars of aggression".
The US military: most expensive, losingest military in human history. Hasn't won a war since 1945 unless you count Panama and Grenada.
William Gruff , Feb 19 2021 21:41 utc | 33
"America is back!"

So Biden is saying he Made America Great Again ? Just by successfully scamming the election? Even if he never delivered at least Trump's MAGA referenced jobs and industry and economic growth. Biden's MAGA is just about tone and empty posturing. Which one attempted to deal with reality and which one is just delusion? I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader!

Hoarsewhisperer , Feb 19 2021 21:47 utc | 35
Really, why would anyone be surprised that a candidate who did nothing to win the Presidency should similarly do nothing once elected?
Posted by: c1ue | Feb 19 2021 21:15 utc | 30

Ouch!!
Many a true word is spoken in jest...
...
It'll be easy for the Biden Admin to start a new war with Jewed-up John (Assad Must Go) Kerry as USA's Climate Czar. The Climate Czar has a big say in Energy Policy which Trump interpreted as Stealing Oil. Kerry's appointment is unlikely to have been an accident.

_K_C_ , Feb 19 2021 22:03 utc | 36
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Feb 19 2021 21:47 utc | 35

"...which Trump interpreted as Stealing Oil."

LOL

So are you saying that Trump didn't "steal oil" in and around Syria or are you simply commenting on his campaign messaging and not his proven history of stealing (no quotes needed and anyone can find the information) oil?

vetinLA , Feb 19 2021 22:12 utc | 38
IMO Biden's got two choices, continue the class war, or try to mitigate it, by helping the American working classes.

His epitaph is yet to be written....

karlof1 , Feb 19 2021 22:16 utc | 39
Strategic-Culture Editorial on the topic:

"Biden's Post-Trump NATO Reset Points to Failing U.S. Global Power in Multipolar World."

Key snippet:

"American hegemonic ambitions required to satisfy its corporate capitalism are dependent on a zero-sum geopolitics. The globe must divided into spheres of influence as in the earlier Cold War decades. There must be antagonism to thwart genuine cooperation which is anathema to American capitalism. Indeed, it can be said that the Cold War never actually ended when the Soviet Union dissolved more three decades ago. America's imperialist ideology continued under new guises of 'fighting terrorism', 'democracy promotion and nation building', or more recently 'great power competition' with Russia and China.

"The bottom line is that NATO is more important than ever for enabling Washington's global power ambitions given the demise of American capitalism and the rise of China and Eurasia. NATO provides a crucial political cover for what would otherwise be seen as naked American imperialism ." [My Emphasis]

IMO, the socio-political-economic set of crises within the Outlaw US Empire will deter BidenCo from going to war elsewhere, especially if Dollar Hegemony's to be salvaged or at least delayed from ending soon. The one big change that Hudson will raise in his rewritten, third edition of Super Imperialism will be the Outlaw US Empire's loss of ability to have the world finance its Imperialism as was the case until 2008. That's why Stoltenberg's cost-sharing proposition is being warmly received in DC.

Nick , Feb 19 2021 23:39 utc | 43
The Texas has been returning for 7 days the stone age . IF Germany wants destroy the Nordstream II project for American gas.. I wish they see what is happening in TEXAS.
alaff , Feb 19 2021 23:40 utc | 44
We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start another one.

He actually started one already. It's called a war against his own people (~ half of the population, to be precise).
There is no need for a democratically elected president, for whom the majority of voters honestly voted, to sit behind several rows of high barbed wire fences guarded by thousands of soldiers. And if this happens, then not everything is okay. Not okay at all.
Jackrabbit , Feb 20 2021 0:01 utc | 45
_K_C_ @Feb19 21:07 #28

I think there's a hyrid war on all countries that have:

I count at least a dozen countries (along with the stateless Palestinians) that qualify.

And lets not forget the war on whistle-blowers, "populist movements", "conspiracy theorists" and other domestic dissidents. Example: white nationalists are fine when they support Trump's expanded military budget and denunciation of socialism but become an evil threat when they rail against his total support for Israel or demand answers as to why they are being de-platformed/canceled.

Those who claim (directly or indirectly) that Trump didn't start any new wars are (knowingly or unknowingly) minimizing the outrage of the Empire's many, and ongoing, hybrid wars for total global domination.

!!

Jim , Feb 20 2021 0:02 utc | 46
Tannenhouser (#3) said 'Actually lends credence to the theory that there aren't 2 parties anymore ... Soon to b 3 parties just like Canada. Then u will have 3 parties doing squat....except for donors.'

Might be true for the US one day, but here in Canada our third party is a centre-left alternative to the two centre-right parties...

snake , Feb 20 2021 0:03 utc | 47
Why would anyone be surprised that a candidate who did nothing to win the Presidency should similarly do nothing once elected? by: c1ue @ 30 <= based on the laws, decisions and lies in years since 1788 it seems obvious to me the less the USA does, the greater will be America.
Grieved , Feb 20 2021 0:05 utc | 48
@44 alaff

I get what you're saying but I don't think the war is against one half versus another half. In my view the real war is from the top against all below.

~~

On the US domestic scene, I happened to notice today that the Administration signed off on extending foreclosure forbearance until midsummer, but didn't extend the eviction moratorium past March.

I'm on the side of mortgage holders (i.e. small landlords), and forbearance is useful, but no extension for tenants? They are determined to clean the weak off the rolls, aren't they?

That's a 3-month margin for landlords to evict tenants, rehab the property and get it rented again at a a higher rent. Tight, but doable for small landlords (whom I regard as little different from the rest of the poor, by the way - rentier philosophies notwithstanding).

~~

What the US always does supremely well is knock the weakest portion of society into the gutter through financial manipulations (recessions) and then sweep them all into a memory hole so they don't exist anymore. Those who survive don't notice the carnage and it is never mentioned, so life goes on as if there's a working economy.

There's a subliminal tacit agreement in US society, I think, not to mention the ones who fell by the wayside, in case this should plunge the economy into another fall. No one dares to talk about the weak who are lost. Some of the survivors glory in their survivorship, while others I suspect are simply afraid to call the airstrike down on themselves. No negative thinking, lest the magic runs out.

But it keeps the economy running, for a bit longer.

In light of the Romanoff recent articles, I think this dynamic fits the national psyche somewhere.

Tannenhouser , Feb 20 2021 0:19 utc | 49
@jim46. The orange house in Canada is in cahoots w whatever party happens to be in power at any given moment. It spouts
virtuous rhetoric at every opportunity, and then does what ever blue or red house tells it to. ALL three parties in Canada serve the same interests, and it isn't yours or mine. Ever. Look no further than each parties stance on Palestine. All three are beholden to Non sovereign interests. The Red house handed 2 elections to the Blue house under Harper by fielding unelectable candidates. Dion 1st and then Ignatieff. The blue house has done the same, second unelectable candidate being O'tool. The NDP is left in rhetoric only. Under its previous leader it may have had a chance at leading federally. Jagmeet hasnt a hope here, and he knows it, which why he pretends to be relevant with virtue signaling. Its all Kayfabe just like the states.
ian , Feb 20 2021 0:21 utc | 50
Rejoining the Paris accords does not constitute a change as it was purely cosmetic.
Kadath , Feb 20 2021 0:42 utc | 51
Re: Jim #46,

Im not sure if the NCP counts as center left in any meaningful way compared to the Liberals or Progressive Conservatives. Nowadays, the NDP are mostly "Liberals" who weren't cut-throat enough to cut it in the Liberal Party. The Greens are at least slightly different from the Liberals & Conservatives in that they are fanatical in their devotion to "Green" policies. However, I would hesitate to call the Greens "leftist", as they every bit as Neo-liberal in their economic policies as the Liberals & Conservatives (just with a green veneer slapped on top) and pro-war as well, i remember during the last election I was considering voting green and saw their foreign policy boiled down to keep trying to overthrow of Assad and the mass settlement of Syrian refugees into Canada. Call me old fashioned, but I've always felt that sinking ships so you can praise yourself for rescuing the lifeboats is a repugnant morality. Perhaps one day Canada will have a political party worth voting for, but until that day I will keep casting my vote for Putin

Smith , Feb 20 2021 0:45 utc | 52
I love Biden and his quotes.

His "I will not make that (stimulus, minimum wage, student debt writeoff) happen" line is the best of 2021 so far.

Dave , Feb 20 2021 0:52 utc | 53
Just the latest in a long list of no-change presidencies. Obama tinkered, Trump tinkered, and nothing fundamentally changed as usual.
spudski , Feb 20 2021 0:53 utc | 54
Re #46 and #51

I agree with Kadath that the Greens, under Annamie Paul, are neoliberal and not at all antiwar. Ms Paul seems to unquestioningly accept all the Sinophobic and Russophobic propaganda peddled in our Canuckistan media. I was really hoping that Dimitri Lascaris would win the leadership but "Democratic" (DNC) style rigging, including by the outgoing leader, ensured that Dimitri would not succeed Elizabeth May.

Bemildred , Feb 20 2021 0:55 utc | 55
Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 19 2021 22:16 utc | 39

Thanks for your posts, that's what I see too. They found another slice of the salami. I've seen a few other rhetorical touches that suggest they are heading towards less "kinetic" options, and Iran is aware of the situation. They took the bait. Psaki has said that is all we are going to do before talking. Zarif says "we agree", but all the stuff Trump did must be undone. Which would seem like a congenial choice for Biden to consider. But I don't suppose everybody is going to take this lying down. But this all does suggest a dose of reality is at work, which would be nice. I notice the Bidenites want China and Russia in the talks too.

Mao , Feb 20 2021 1:10 utc | 58
China May Ban Rare Earth Tech Exports on Security Concerns
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/china-may-ban-rare-earth-technology-exports-on-security-concerns

Biden to order review of U.S. reliance on overseas supply chains for semiconductors, rare earths
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/18/biden-to-order-supply-chain-review-to-assess-us-reliance-on-overseas-semiconductors.html

Wolle , Feb 20 2021 2:29 utc | 59
Munich Security Conference 2021(video conference): SleepyJoe, no comment, he can't remember his speech anyway.
Obvious stoned Stoltenberg reports about NATO's low-carbon warfare! LOL!
U.v.d.Lying, no comment! Sic!
Looks like dancing vampires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n5s6he1feg
Lisa Fritz Kabarett, sorry German only.
gm , Feb 20 2021 2:42 utc | 61
Re: "China May Ban Rare Earth Tech Exports on Security Concerns"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/china-may-ban-rare-earth-technology-exports-on-security-concerns

-Mao | Feb 20 2021 1:10 utc | 58

This so-called rare earth (RE) element shortage is a false narrative pumped out by the fake media, controlled by the US -asset-liquidating vulture GloboCapitalists.

There are lots of mothballed US/North American RE mines/deposits that were shut down/abandoned/undeveloped, for cheaper Chinese sourced (cheaper labor/dirty coal energy-powered/pollution friendly) RE mined resources.

The Vulture GloboCaps just don't want to pay the extra out-of-pocket to mine RE domestically.

That would cut into their profit margins...[just like in Texas...]

michaelj72 , Feb 20 2021 2:58 utc | 62
Well, NATO is sending 3,500 new troops to... Iraq.

increasing its invasion force from 500 troops to 4,000. So maybe that's an indicator where the next 'war zones' are going to be: Iraq and Syria... Again

Gotta keep a hold on that Syrian oil and the better part of the Syrian northeast as well, which can easily be used as a springboard (along with the al-Tanf area) to mount/support either frequent ISIS and/or al Qaeda, etc attacks on the Syrian government and people.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/02/18/nato-increasing-troops-in-iraq-from-500-to-4000/

vetinLA , Feb 20 2021 3:06 utc | 63
And after endless debate, the simple question is; How much improvement in the lives of workers across America, will Biden's owners let him tinker with? After all is said and done, that's the key to any president's term.

We'll see. Take a deep breath and pay attention to what's done, not what's said, especially in the empire's MSM.

Roger , Feb 20 2021 3:09 utc | 64
@urblintz, @Ian,

So true. Radoslav Dimitrov captured the reality so well in his concept of "Empty Institutions" designed not to make any real policy progress, but rather to provide performative political art on a regular basis to distract from the actual lack of real progress. I have linked to his paper below:

https://politicalscience.uwo.ca/people/faculty/full-time_faculty/Empty%20Institutions%20-%20ISR%20article.pdf

psychohistorian , Feb 20 2021 3:42 utc | 68
Below is a quote from Biden's speech to the Munich conference....at least he agrees with my civilization war context....

"
"We are in the midst of a fundamental debate about the future direction of our world. Between those who argue that -- given all of the challenges we face, from the fourth industrial revolution to a global pandemic -- autocracy is the best way forward and those who understand that democracy is essential to meeting those challenges."

"Historians will examine and write about this moment. It's an inflection point. And I believe with every ounce of my being that democracy must prevail."
"

When is the world going to call BS on the democracy term applied to a society that has its money system controlled by a cult of private individuals? The longer humanity continues to live the myth/lie of democracy in the West, the more likely our species will go extinct because we are unable to evolve beyond barbarism as our form of social organization.

Josh , Feb 20 2021 3:44 utc | 69
No offense to anyone (or their imaginary friends),
But,
What are these silly bitches going to do when the music stops?
Seriously?
https://youtu.be/AULRSOK1KPQ
...
Just sayin'...
div> The world is like an onion, it has layers. Where Trump attacked everything Obama, Biden is attacking everything Trump plus his supporters and, while the MSM is mostly silent on this, about half the USA is gearing up for a civil war. Meanwhile the international wars have been increasing, just not so visibly. Don't forget the digital wars, the apparent biological wars, the propaganda wars, the food wars, and etc. And while most people just recognize the shooting wars the oligarchs, through the military-industrial-congressional complex and other world governments, are playing a global game of Monopoly against each other where even superpowers are but pawns. WWIII started years ago, it's just that most people don't recognize it as such because it's not state actors calling the shots, it's oligarchs who are, in essence, ghosts because we can't see them.

Posted by: Glenn S Olson , Feb 20 2021 4:17 utc | 71

The world is like an onion, it has layers. Where Trump attacked everything Obama, Biden is attacking everything Trump plus his supporters and, while the MSM is mostly silent on this, about half the USA is gearing up for a civil war. Meanwhile the international wars have been increasing, just not so visibly. Don't forget the digital wars, the apparent biological wars, the propaganda wars, the food wars, and etc. And while most people just recognize the shooting wars the oligarchs, through the military-industrial-congressional complex and other world governments, are playing a global game of Monopoly against each other where even superpowers are but pawns. WWIII started years ago, it's just that most people don't recognize it as such because it's not state actors calling the shots, it's oligarchs who are, in essence, ghosts because we can't see them.

Posted by: Glenn S Olson | Feb 20 2021 4:17 utc | 71

psychohistorian , Feb 20 2021 4:29 utc | 72
@ psychohistorian | Feb 20 2021 3:51 utc | 70 quoting US Senator Tom Cotton about calling China "new Evil Empire".

I didn't think about it but would someone ask Tom Cotton to describe the old/existing Evil Empire......grin

james , Feb 20 2021 4:29 utc | 73
"The USA has lied, stolen, and killed its way to the top. China, Russia, Iran, etc needs a plan to beat this Evil Empire."

fixed it for you pschohistorian!

@ 54 spudski.. ditto your comment.. canada isn't far behind in this democracy charade..

vetinLA , Feb 20 2021 4:47 utc | 74
GSO @ 71 said;

"And while most people just recognize the shooting wars the oligarchs, through the military-industrial-congressional complex and other world governments, are playing a global game of Monopoly against each other where even superpowers are but pawns. WWIII started years ago, it's just that most people don't recognize it as such because it's not state actors calling the shots, it's oligarchs who are, in essence, ghosts because we can't see them."

This is obvious to anyone paying attention, so, you'd think more folks would get it.

Well stated GSO, thank you....

[Feb 14, 2021] 'We've opened Pandora's Box'- Graham floats idea of impeaching Kamala Harris if Republicans retake House -- RT USA News

Feb 14, 2021 | www.rt.com

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) may have voted against impeaching Donald Trump, but he seems open to holding Vice President Kamala Harris to the same standard after the 2022 midterms.

Appearing on 'Fox News Sunday,' Graham railed against the impeachment trial in the Senate, which ultimately failed, with the 53-47 vote not enough to reach a 'guilty' ruling. He called it an "affront to the law" and "unconstitutional."

Despite its failure, however, the Trump-supporting Republican says Democrats have "opened Pandora's Box" and leaders like Harris could pay the price.

"We've opened Pandora's Box to future presidents. And if you use this model, I don't know how Kamala Harris doesn't get impeached if the Republicans take over the House," he said.

Harris was brought up multiple times during the impeachment trial for her past promotion of a bail fund for Black Lives Matter protesters that released rioters who ended up rearrested on separate criminal charges.

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Graham's apparent threat to Harris, mixed with his own disapproval of the standard used to try and convict Trump for "inciting an insurrection," have many blasting the senator for hypocrisy, with many also rushing to Harris' defense.

"Well it only works if the impeachee is a Democrat, a woman or Black (in VP Harris' case she meets all three of Jim Crow Caucus chairman @LindseyGrahamSC's criteria," MSNBC's Joy Reid tweeted in response to a user asking how impeaching Harris could be possible.

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Others even suggested Republicans taking control of Congress could mean a chance to overturn election results in 2024.

"Graham is correct about the stakes of the 2022 midterms: If Republicans take Congress, they could not only impeach Biden and/or Harris (though unlikely they'd have the votes to convict), they could potentially succeed in overturning the results of the 2024 election," former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau suggested .

Graham also revealed to Fox News that he'd spoken to Trump since the trial ended and suggested the former president will be actively involved in the Republican Party going forward.

ALSO ON RT.COM 'Traitor' spray-painted outside of home of Trump's impeachment attorney, as he says he's received 'nearly 100 death threats'

"I spoke to him last night; he was grateful to his lawyers. He appreciated the help that all of us provided. You know, he's ready to move on and rebuild the Republican Party," he said, adding the former president is "excited" for the 2022 midterm elections.

Trump's influence over the Republican Party has been a hotly-debated topic, especially in light of seven Republican senators voting to impeach on Saturday, and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) seemingly turning on his past support and giving a speech on the Senate floor saying Trump was "responsible" for the January 6 riot at the US Capitol – despite voting against impeachment – and suggesting he could be pursued in criminal court.

Graham said McConnell's speech could come back to haunt Republicans.

"I think Senator McConnell's speech, he got a load off his chest, obviously, but unfortunately he put a load on the back of Republicans," he said. "That speech you will see in 2022 campaigns."

jfc46wv 6 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:13 PM

I don't understand the talk of retaking the house or Senate or winning the presidency in 2024. How is this supposed to happen now that the Dems have masterered the fine art of controlling the votes?
silvermoon jfc46wv 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 08:12 PM
Another election steal line and obvious while trying to be subtle. You don't even need any evidence. Of course non has ever been given.
Austin Rock jfc46wv 3 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:20 PM
No, in mid terms, two years from now you will see a swing and a lame duck president for last three years. I dont think anyonevtruthfully believes their was electoral craud on a scale to affect result. Trump lost, tough.
Blackace180 5 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:38 PM
The dems took their best shot and failed, but they did loose the dogs of war. What goes around comes around. Trump was right about a large number of things and the dems will find out the hard way. Taxes Gas Forever wars Open borders Free trade China virus... See more
Bob Blackace180 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:37 PM
sorry to say-the GOP is one with the Democrat party on all these issues Donald Trump was the ONLY one not playing by the SWAMP playbook.
Blackace180 6 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 04:22 PM
Impeach the former escort. I say impeach, impeach, impeach. Take her out tonight. It amazes me the hate they hurled at Trump and then they want unity and actually expect to return to normal. No, it ain't happening. Impeach.
justliloleme Blackace180 1 hour ago 14 Feb, 2021 08:53 PM
She also encouraged BLM riots that murdered >19 people according to Forbes who expects that to be a low number They also rioted, spreading covid widely She should have been arrested when she encouraged that on TV
CarolABinkley Blackace180 2 hours ago 14 Feb, 2021 07:47 PM
That, too, is my concern. Why wait?

[Feb 14, 2021] Yanis Varoufakis- Trumpism after Trump NEWSWEEK Magazine, Interviewed by Basit Mahmood

Trumpism is "national neoliberalism." Trump actually betrayed almost all his election promises so it is unfair to call it after him.
Feb 14, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

"The wave of enthusiasm regarding the Biden administration has not washed over me," he says. "I'm glad Trump is out, but at the very same time I'm very worried that Trumpism is going to get stronger. I'm very worried that the Democratic Party is in the process of turning in on itself, of divisions between the establishment figures, those who were effectively supported by Wall Street to become senators or congressmen or presidents for that matter and the socialists.

"The clash is already there, the blame game has begun. While the Trumpists are more united than ever, they're going to be aided and abetted by two things. First, the [financial] slump which is unavoidable given the pandemic, they will be blaming it on the system and the swamp that has taken over again and a false but real sense that they have, false in the sense that it's untrue but real in the sense they do feel it, that they were robbed of the election.

"So this combination, solidity on the Trumpist side, political economy which is strengthening their feeling and their unity and the fragmentation of the Democratic side which is only going to get worse as we're moving towards the congressional elections two years from now. That for me is the great danger."

Varoufakis doesn't believe that the Biden-Harris ticket will improve outcomes for the poor or radically redistribute wealth. Nearly eight million Americans, many of them children and minorities, have fallen into poverty since May last year as the pandemic took its toll, according to Columbia University research .

arkansasangie , February 13, 2021 at 6:39 am

Opinion -- there are Trumpers who like Trump. There are also Trumper who are broadly against the level of corruption today and "1984" materializing before them. They believe that the deep state exists and that the two primary political parties are one and the same; their differences being cosmetic only

And guess what. Neither party likes them.

Northeaster , February 13, 2021 at 7:43 am

Didn't vote for Trump, but in a blue state it wouldn't matter with vote bundling (sans Nebraska & Maine), but this post resonates. Basically we're in political exile, both Party's are corrupt and most spend their time calling donors and/or taking lobby monies for their Party dues in exchange for their vote. The only politician I can stand is Massie, who's not even allowed in the RNC building, and actually walks-the-walk on issues, and me as a Vet, Massie doesn't vote for unending war (NDAA).

kayjay , February 13, 2021 at 6:19 pm

who the hell is massie?

The Rev Kev , February 13, 2021 at 6:27 pm

I would imagine that to be Thomas Massie. You may not know the name but he was one of the few who stood against that CARES Act last March. He copped lot of flak from Trump and John Kerry at the time which means that he must have been right-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie

flora , February 13, 2021 at 11:12 am

This was interesting. I wish YV had defined the term "Trumpism". I haven't seen it defined anywhere; it's used to smear voters, but I haven't seen it defined.

Imo, it's the rising populism (in the good sense) in the US trying to stop financial predations by the banks and Wall St. speculators, stop trade deals that undercut US wages and off shore jobs, again regulate and breakup the new monopolies – especially the tech monopolies whose rents attach to nearly everything now. That's my definition. I wonder what YV's definition is. It's happening in the US, in the UK (Brexit), in France (jillet jaunes), and in other Western countries where the bottom70-80% of the populations – the once large and financially stable middle class – has been economically undermined for the past 30 years by govt policy and deregulation. Its a reasonable, sane response to seeing your childrens' and grandchildrens' life chances and life expectancies fall at the same time billionaires are getting richer and richer.

But calling the idea that this economic destruction needs to be addressed, calling it "Trumpism" smears the entire idea there's something badly out of balance that needs to be addressed. Calling it "Trumpism" dismisses these ideas as unimportant and maybe even slightly unhinged.

So, again, I wish YV had defined "Trumpism" as he understands it. Otherwise, the argument sounds a bit like "these crackpots are a worry, how can we keep the crackpots under control"? Shorter: over half the country has real, long term, ongoing financial grievances against the current system, but I'll use this dimissive name for them and still expect everyone to take half the country's financial and health care grievances seriously. It doesn't work that way, imo.

Amfortas the hippie , February 13, 2021 at 12:13 pm

trump will be a weapon against any populism, at all.
think the next election had problems? the primary? you must be a moron and a trumper.
think the economy is rigged for the powerful, and ruinous for everyone else? damned trumpy racist moron.
on and on on just about every real problem we face, there is a rebuttal there in trump that will dismiss it out of hand no matter the glaring evidence that the problem is real.
just as the Left appeared to be getting it's shit together, the Powers have their out.
see Haydar Khan's part 2:
https://thescrum.substack.com/p/the-great-reset-part-2

of course, dismissing the myriad problems or doing them in such a way that they are ineffective, if very profitable will only make them worse, and that will eventually have consequences.

Patrick , February 13, 2021 at 2:39 pm

From the great reset – an attempted corporate coup: "The recent social media cancellation of former president Donald Trump is certainly a demonstration of private corporations serving as private trustees of society."

Thanks for the link

Alfred , February 13, 2021 at 2:20 pm

Agreed that Newsweek should have pressed Mr Varoufakis to define his key term. 'Trumpism' seems to defy succinct definition, however. Possibly its vagueness counts as an advantage in ideological discourse? Still I think the Wikipedia article on 'Trumpism' is a pretty good place to get a start on understanding it. I noticed that it actually suggests the existence of more than one 'Trumpism' in the US, and as covers it/them as an international phenomenon. It also makes clear what a wide variety of assessments of it have already emerged. It provides a rather vast bibliography. More provocative, in the good sense of thought-provoking, are the several definitions offered up by contributors to Urban Dictionary. They emphasize its reliance on deception to market itself. Personally I think it may make more sense to understand 'Trumpism' as a mode of political discourse – a means of advancing a certain political agenda, apparently a means especially amenable to social media though I very much doubt one engendered by its parameters – than as any particular agenda as such.

Amfortas the hippie , February 13, 2021 at 4:03 pm

that wiki page is a pretty good read in itself, and provides a launch pad for further digging.
and, i hadn't realised that Bob Altemeyer was still around and on the case.
his main book was one of the most important in trying to understand the people i've been embedded in for all my life.
https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/

re: the wiki, the sections on "Methods of Persuasion" and "Social Psychology" are particularly good, and link to a lot of names familiar to me from my own research project/field study into the american right, circa 2002-2014~.

by comparison, just about the entire canon of interpretation of the trump phenomenon by NYT, WaPo, etc etc is useless unless you are after a mirror image emotional response/catharsis, rather that actually trying to understand what why and how.
we'll be dealing with this mess for a long time to come.

RMO , February 14, 2021 at 2:48 pm

Thank you Amfortas! I too hadn't realized Bob Altermeyer was still writing – he hadn't added anything new in quite a while so I figured he had retired and I hadn't been checking.

Runkelstoss , February 13, 2021 at 4:32 pm

I wish YV had defined the term "Trumpism"

a draft

1. America first
2. white supremacy
3. pandering to religious fundamentalists
4. pandering to gun enthusiasts and right wing militias
5. marking people and groups as enemies of the people
6. decrying so called hostile elites
7. creating alternative 'facts' and imaginary realities
8. xenophobia
9. misogyny
10. politics of force, inside and outside

flora , February 13, 2021 at 9:04 pm

2016 campaign:

a. Campaigning against more trade deals like TPP and TPIP (NAFTA on steroids)

b. Campaigning on ending the endless wars and bringing troops home

c. Campaigning on bringing back on shore manufacturing and good jobs.

d. Campaigning on closing the US/Mexico border and stopping the inflow of the cheapest labor possible undercutting wages of already very low paid workers here.

e. Campaigning on lowering military tensions with Russia

(not that he did these things, but he campaigned heavily on economic issues and reducing military adventurism, both important to the middle class/working class in 2016. Not sure what the 2020 message was.)

Keith Newman , February 14, 2021 at 2:29 pm

Good list Flora. For some I would also guess a giant effu to the cultural elites.

Pelham , February 14, 2021 at 10:41 am

Let's see:

1. America first. True. Is this so bad?
2. White supremacy. False. Very few of these characters exist, although they're much in demand from the left.
3. Pandering to religious fundamentalists. False, although substitute "appealing" for "pandering" and it's true.
4. Pandering to gun enthusiasts and right-wing militias. Sigh, true, although there's nothing wrong with gun enthusiasts, broadly speaking.
5. Marking people and groups as enemies of the people. False, I think. Needs to be more specific, though.
6. Decrying so-called hostile elites. True if you omit the "so-called."
7. Creating alternative "facts" and imaginary realities. Sigh, True.
8. Xenophobia. Mostly false. It's not fear of others, it's mostly a plea to at long last shut off the firehose of wage-crushing immigration.
9. Misognyny. Mostly false. Trump has certainly had his moments, but many women were happy to serve in the Trump administration, and I'm not seeing evidence of misogyny among his backers.
10. Politics of force, inside and outside. True to a small degree but not nearly as characteristic of Trumpists as of leftists, who destroyed thousands of buildings and businesses last summer, and the media, which have cheerfully allied themselves with our internationally murderous intelligence community.

Patrick , February 13, 2021 at 12:45 pm

flora, I'm thinking your "populism in the good sense" aligns with the political science textbook definition of a populist, at least the economic component of that definition: a populist is an economic liberal (one who generally believes that government should play a role in the economy to protect the 99% by regulating and otherwise reining in large and powerful private sector interests, especially big business).

The textbook definition says that a populist is also a cultural conservative (one who believes that government should play a role in our private/social/cultural lives by promoting traditional values). (I am not sure you are meaning to discuss this cultural aspect of a populist; I'm just providing the textbook definition.)

I am thinking that arkansasangie (above) is also describing populism in the same way ("Trumper(s) who are broadly against the level of corruption today and "1984" materializing before them. They believe that the deep state exists and that the two primary political parties are one and the same; their differences being cosmetic only" (if by the "deep state" she might mean a government that has been captured by and serves the interest of corporate elites, eg, globalization, market monopoly, empire, etc.).

And I am thinking Amfortas the hippie's "feedstore people" are, likewise, (economic liberal) "populists" (who could have "been won by a new New Deal"). (Having enjoyed many of Ath's posts, I'm guessing they are also cultural conservatives.)

I do think that some if not most "Trumpists" are populists. But what I think is interesting is how they are being managed (as in how the Koch brothers (created and) managed Tea Party "populists").

Conservatives are reactionary – they react to change. It seems to me that one of the ways they react is by co-opting the changes taking place, dressing them up and claiming at least some aspect of those changes as their own. I find myself thinking about the Social Gospel of Christ. Or Adam Smith's "free markets". Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for freedom (transformed into idpol?). I think all of us understand that this is largely what is happening today with the term "populism".

Thomas Frank would agree ("The People, No") https://tcfrank.com/product/the-people-no/
And he would speak to the manipulation – he would as "What's the Matter with Kansas?"

Susan the other , February 13, 2021 at 1:20 pm

While Janet Yellen advocates pouring money into the covid/economic crisis now because it will be cheaper in the long run (and we know from various indications that the term could be a decade) and post-Trump the trade deficit is no longer talked about since nobody's counting – nobody's buying as much – except RVs and groceries and the stats show a vertical drop down in commercial activity and a vertical shot up in bankruptcies and closings and while Klaus Schwab talks about the great capitalist reset from shares to stakes but not to sovereign states, China is busy establishing the new silk road and consolidating its neighbors into cooperative economic behavior. I don't even want to know what that combined CO2 footprint is. Cooperative economics has really already been precluded here in the West – we can't turn back that clock. So, Biden is looking for an excuse to go to war. He is wasting no time letting Russia and China know. It's possible that when Yellen says spend whatever is necessary now she is being encouraged by Biden and the militarists who will receive much of that financial aid whether we actually go to war or not. It would be so idiotic and wasteful it is hard to imagine that even that dope Biden would march us off to war. So when YV talks about "financial engineering for a better world" it sounds too Klaus Schwab to embrace at face value. I don't see how a switch from shareholders to stakeholders is going to change western capitalism significantly unless there is a financial separation between old capitalism and new capitalism. That being the West and China. And the big problem there is that capital seeks its best return. Otherwise it's not capital for long. So either direction we are looking, (neoliberalism or socialism) financial engineering will have to restrain capital, hence "capitalism" will be a euphemism. Which it has been for a long time, but who's even noticing? It's possible that "war" as we knew it is also a thing of the past and when Biden salivates for war he'll have to be content to just do "war engineering" to achieve the necessary separation from China. It's all so meta. The irony is that the thing called "sovereignty" is the only tool we have to organize all this neoliberal and/or social protection. And the big one – the environment? Still no details.

Sound of the Suburbs , February 14, 2021 at 4:14 am

Why isn't capitalism working as it should?
You need to identify where real wealth creation occurs in the economy to get it working well.
Houston, we have a problem.

Mankind first started to produce a surplus with early agriculture.
It wasn't long before the elites learnt how to read the skies, the sun and the stars, to predict the coming seasons to the amazed masses and collect tribute.
They soon made the most of the opportunity and removed themselves from any hard work to concentrate on "spiritual matters", i.e. any hocus-pocus they could come up with to elevate them from the masses, e.g. rituals, fertility rights, offering to the gods . etc and to turn the initially small tributes, into extracting all the surplus created by the hard work of the rest.
The elites became the representatives of the gods and they were responsible for the bounty of the earth and the harvests.
As long as all the surplus was handed over, all would be well.

The class structure emerges.
Upper class – Do as little as they can get away with and get most of the rewards
Middle class – Administrative/managerial class who have enough to live a comfortable life
Working class – Do the work, and live a basic subsistence existence where they get enough to stay alive and breed

Their techniques have got more sophisticated over time, but this is the underlying idea.
They have achieved a total inversion, and got most of the rewards going to those that don't do anything.
The last thing they needed was "The Enlightenment" as people would work out what was really going on.
They did work out what was going on and this had to be hidden again.

The Classical Economists had a quick look around and noticed the aristocracy were maintained in luxury and leisure by the hard work of everyone else.
They haven't done anything economically productive for centuries, they couldn't miss it.
The Classical economist, Adam Smith:
"The labour and time of the poor is in civilised countries sacrificed to the maintaining of the rich in ease and luxury. The Landlord is maintained in idleness and luxury by the labour of his tenants. The moneyed man is supported by his extractions from the industrious merchant and the needy who are obliged to support him in ease by a return for the use of his money. But every savage has the full fruits of his own labours; there are no landlords, no usurers and no tax gatherers."
There was no benefits system in those days, and if those at the bottom didn't work they died.
They had to earn money to live.
The classical economists could never imagine those at the bottom rising out of a bare subsistence existence as that was the way it had always been.

Economics was always far too dangerous to be allowed to reveal the truth about the economy.
How can we protect those powerful vested interests at the top of society?
The early neoclassical economists hid the problems of rentier activity in the economy by removing the difference between "earned" and "unearned" income and they conflated "land" with "capital".
They took the focus off the cost of living that had been so important to the Classical Economists as this is where rentier activity in the economy shows up.
The landowners, landlords and usurers were now just productive members of society again.

Economists do identify where real wealth creation in the economy occurs, but this is a most inconvenient truth as it reveals many at the top don't actually create any wealth.
Confuse making money and creating wealth and this problem goes away and we can get back to the traditional order.

Upper class – Do as little as they can get away with and get most of the rewards
Middle class – Administrative/managerial class who have enough to live a comfortable life
Working class – Do the work, and live a basic subsistence existence where they get enough to stay alive and breed

Sound of the Suburbs , February 14, 2021 at 4:14 am

What happens when you confuse making money and creating wealth?
We are forty years in, just look around.

When you equate making money with creating wealth, people try and make money in the easiest way possible, which doesn't actually create any wealth.
In 1984, for the first time in American history, "unearned" income exceeded "earned" income.
The American have lost sight of what real wealth creation is, and are just focussed on making money.
You might as well do that in the easiest way possible.
It looks like a parasitic rentier capitalism because that is what it is.

You've just got to sniff out the easy money.
All that hard work involved in setting up a company yourself, and building it up.
Why bother?
Asset strip firms other people have built up, that's easy money.
The private equity firms have found an easy way to make money that doesn't actually create any wealth.
Letting private equity firms ransack your economy is not really a good idea, even though they do make lots of money.

Bankers make the most money when they are driving your economy into a financial crisis.
They will load your economy up with their debt products until you get a financial crisis.
On a BBC documentary, comparing 1929 to 2008, it said the last time US bankers made as much money as they did before 2008 was in the 1920s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAStZJCKmbU&list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZQLxg24CAiFgZYldtoCR-R&index=6
At 18 mins.
The bankers loaded the US economy up with their debt products until they got financial crises in 1929 and 2008.
As you head towards the financial crisis, the economy booms due to the money creation of bank loans.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf
The financial crisis appears to come out of a clear blue sky when you use an economics that doesn't consider debt, like neoclassical economics.

UK bankers started to make a lot of money after 1980.
Oh no.

The UK used to be the great financial superpower and it looks as though we understood this in the past.
Someone knew what real wealth creation was and how banks should work.
https://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/uploads/monthly_2018_02/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-13_53_09.png.e32e8fee4ffd68b566ed5235dc1266c2.png

What happened in 1979?
The UK eliminated corset controls on banking in 1979, the banks invaded the mortgage market and this is where the problem starts.
The transfer of existing assets, like real estate, doesn't add to GDP, so debt rises faster than GDP until you get a financial crisis.

Before 1980 – banks lending into the right places that result in GDP growth (business and industry, creating new products and services in the economy)
Debt grows with GDP
Bankers don't make much money

After 1980 – banks lending into the wrong places that don't result in GDP growth (real estate and financial speculation)
Debt rises faster than GDP
Bankers make lots of money

2008 – The financial crisis

Banks – What is the idea?
The idea is that banks lend into business and industry to increase the productive capacity of the economy.
Business and industry don't have to wait until they have the money to expand. They can borrow the money and use it to expand today, and then pay that money back in the future.
The economy can then grow more rapidly than it would without banks.
Debt grows with GDP and there are no problems.
The banks create money and use it to create real wealth.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf

Sound of the Suburbs , February 14, 2021 at 4:17 am

They took the focus off the cost of living that had been so important to the Classical Economists as this is where rentier activity in the economy shows up.
What will happen?
Now everyone trips up over the cost of living, even the Chinese.
It is well hidden.

Someone from the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) has just seen the equation.
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
Two seconds later ..
They realise the UK's high housing costs push up wages, and are actually paid by the UK's employers reducing profit.
UK's high housing costs make UK labour very expensive compared to elsewhere in the world, and it makes it very expensive to do anything in the UK.
Employees get their money from wages.
Employers pay the UK's high housing costs in wages reducing profit.

You can pay wages elsewhere that people couldn't live on in the West.
To maximise profit you will need to off-shore.

Why was China always going to be the winner in an open, globalised world?
Maximising profit is all about reducing costs.
Western companies couldn't wait to off-shore to low cost China, where they could make higher profits.
China had coal fired power stations to provide cheap energy.
China had lax regulations reducing environmental and health and safety costs.
China had a low cost of living so employers could pay low wages.
China had low taxes and a minimal welfare state.
China had all the advantages in an open globalised world.
It did have, but now China has become more expensive and developed Eastern economies are off-shoring to places like Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

China trips up over the cost of living.

Davos 2019 – The Chinese have now realised high housing costs eat into consumer spending and they wanted to increase internal consumption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNBcIFu-_V0
They let real estate rip and have now realised why that wasn't a good idea.

The equation makes it so easy.
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
The cost of living term goes up with increased housing costs.
The disposable income term goes down.
They didn't have the equation, they used neoclassical economics.
The Chinese had to learn the hard way and it took years.

They have let the cost of living rise and they want to increase internal consumption.
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
It's a double whammy on wages.
China isn't as competitive as it used to be.
China has become more expensive and developed Eastern economies are off-shoring to places like Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

I worked the other way.
I looked at the world around me and worked back to find the cause.

Sound of the Suburbs , February 14, 2021 at 5:05 am

We got some stuff from Ricardo, like the law of comparative advantage.
What's gone missing?

Ricardo was part of the new capitalist class, and the old landowning class were a huge problem with their rents that had to be paid both directly and through wages.
"The interest of the landlords is always opposed to the interest of every other class in the community" Ricardo 1815 / Classical Economist

What does our man on free trade, Ricardo, mean?
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
Employees get their money from wages and the employers pay the cost of living through wages, reducing profit.
Employees get less disposable income after the landlords rent has gone.
Employers have to cover the landlord's rents in wages reducing profit.
Ricardo is just talking about housing costs, employees all rented in those days.
Low housing costs work best for employers and employees.

In Ricardo's world there were three classes.
He was in the capitalist class.
The more he paid in labour costs (wages) the lower his profits would be.
He was paying the cost of living for his workers through wages, and the higher that was, the higher labour costs would be.
There was no benefits system in those days and those at the bottom needed to earn money to cover the cost of living otherwise they would die. They had to earn their money through wages.
The more he paid in rents to the old landowning class, the less there would be for him to keep for himself.

From Ricardo:
The labourers had before 25
The landlords 25
And the capitalists 50
.. 100

He looked at how the pie got divided between the three groups.

The capitalist system actually contains a welfare state to maintain an old money, idle rich in luxury and leisure. In the UK we still have an aristocracy, so it is hard to forget.
The Classical economist, Adam Smith:
"The labour and time of the poor is in civilised countries sacrificed to the maintaining of the rich in ease and luxury. The Landlord is maintained in idleness and luxury by the labour of his tenants. The moneyed man is supported by his extractions from the industrious merchant and the needy who are obliged to support him in ease by a return for the use of his money."

There were three groups in the capitalist system in Ricardo's world (and there still are).
Workers / Employees
Capitalists / Employers
Rentiers / Landowners / Landlords / other skimmers, who are just skimming out of the system, not contributing to its success
The unproductive group exists at the top of society, not the bottom.
Later on we did bolt on a benefit system to help others that were struggling lower down the scale.

[Feb 14, 2021] Tucker Carlson Says Show Is Being Targeted for Cancelation

Feb 14, 2021 | www.theepochtimes.com

Fox News ' Tucker Carlson said on the Thursday night episode of his program that his show has been targeted for cancellation.

Carlson said that "in the last several weeks, and particularly in the last 24 hours, the call to take this show off the air by groups funded -- for real -- by the Ford Foundation, or by George Soros, by Michael Bloomberg, by Jeff Bezos, has become deafening, going after our advertisers, going after the companies that carry our signal into your home."

What's more, he added, there has been a "cowardice and complicity" on behalf of the "entire media class in all of this," suggesting that eventually, reporters at legacy news outlets will be targeted as well.

Writing for Fox News' website, Carlson added that it may be part of a larger campaign to silence Fox News and other media, noting that some legacy news outlets have dedicated resources calling for the channel to be taken down. One columnist for The New York Times, he added, "has written three separate columns demanding that someone yank this news channel off the air immediately" and on Wednesday, "suggested that 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' was somehow guilty of terrorism and violence, something that we've opposed consistently for four years."

"Fox is the last big organization in the American news media that differs in even the smallest ways from the other big news organizations. At this point, everyone else in the media is standing in crisp formation, in their starched matching uniforms and their little caps, patiently awaiting orders from the billionaire class. And then there's Fox News off by itself, occasionally saying things that are slightly different from everyone else," Carlson wrote .

He added: "These are craven servants of the Democratic Party. They are feline, not canine. All of their aggression is passive aggression."


[Feb 14, 2021] Impeachment champion

Feb 14, 2021 | twitter.com

This marks the second time in twelve months that Trump has survived impeachment.

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[Feb 14, 2021] McConnell Says Trump -Responsible For Provoking Attack After Voting To Acquit

Feb 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

In a rather stunning and head-scratchingly self-serving and hyprocritical moment, Leader McConnell spoke after the Senate acquitted former President Trump and threw him back under the bus while covering his own political ass.

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This marks the second time in twelve months that Trump has survived impeachment.

[Feb 14, 2021] House Managers Fold -- Will Not Call Impeachment Witnesses After Pelosi Subpoena Threat

Feb 13, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Update (1300ET) : After a couple of hours of 'negotiations' during which Sen. Cruz threatened to subpoena Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Trump's lawyers said they would call "100s of witnesses", a deal has been reached that means no witnesses will be called.

House impeachment managers dropped their request to obtain testimony from Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler after senators agreed instead to enter into the record an account of her secondhand account of a phone call between Trump and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.

This agreement has averted the prospect of an avalanche of requests for testimony from both sides that would have extended the impeachment trial beyond its expected conclusion later today (and perhaps delayed any attempts at reaching a stimulus agreement).

As a reminder, Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been advising Trump's legal team, said that if the Senate agrees to the request by House impeachment managers to depose Herrera Beutler, he'll insist on "multiple witnesses"...starting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

He said she should be required "to answer the question as to whether or not there was credible evidence of pre-planned violence before President Trump spoke? Whether Speaker Pelosi, due to optics, refused requests by the Capitol Hill Police for additional resources like the National Guard?"

* * *

Just when you thought Donald Trump's second impeachment trials was over, five Republicans have joined their Democratic colleagues in a Saturday morning vote (55-45) to call witnesses - an unexpected development in this snap impeachment over Trump's alleged role inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

GOP Sens. Collins, Graham, Murkowski, Romney and Sasse were the five.

The move - which was originally opposed by several Democrats, will allow them to strengthen their case. It is unclear what kind of delay this may cause, after impeachment managers and Trump's defense team estimated it would be over on Saturday.

In response to the vote, Trump attorney Michael van der Veen answered that if witnesses are going to be called, " I'm going to need more than 100 witnesses , not just one," adding "we should close this case out today," but if that doesn't happen, "Do not handcuff me by limiting the number of witnesses I can have."

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Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested that a debate on the number of witnesses should not take place, saying "I don't think there's any limit right now, and that's part of what will be debated."

As Axios notes, Trump himself is Democrats' most desired witness , however the former president has already quashed that - saying he would not comply willingly . The Senate could subpoena him, however it's unclear whether they would have enough support.

Instead, Democrats plan to call GOP Rep. Jamie Herrera Butler of Washington, who the NY Times reported on Friday said Trump 'sided with the mob' during a phone call as the attack was unfolding. Herrera Butler, who voted to impeach Trump in the House, was requested to testify by House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin.

Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of Washington, at the Capitol last week.Credit...

In a statement on Friday night, Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of Washington, recounted a phone call relayed to her by Mr. McCarthy of California, the minority leader, in which Mr. Trump was said to have sided with the rioters, telling the top House Republican that members of the mob who had stormed the Capitol were "more upset about the election than you are."

She pleaded with witnesses to step forward and share what they knew about Mr. Trump's actions and statements as the attack was underway. - NY Times

" To the patriots who were standing next to the former president as these conversations were happening, or even to the former vice president: if you have something to add here, now would be the time ," said Herrera Beutler in a statement.

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According to her account, McCarthy 'frantically' called Trump on Jan. 6 and asked him to "publicly and forcefully call off the riot," and that Trump replied that it was Antifa, not his supporters, who were responsible. When McCarthy pushed back saying that wasn't true, Trump allegedly said "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."

Senate Democrats who initially opposed witnesses include Kristen Gillibrand of NY, who said on Thursday: "We've heard from many witnesses based on their interviews and their video presentations, so, I feel like we've heard from enough witnesses." Sen. Angus King of Maine said "I think the case has been made. I don't know what witnesses would add."

Once witnesses have testified , impeachment managers and Trump's defense team will present closing arguments - with each side allotted two hours. A full vote on whether to convict or acquit will follow.

To that end, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has told his fellow Senate GOP in an email that he will vote to acquit the former president - writing "As I have said for some time, today's vote is a vote of conscience and I know we will all treat it as such," according to Politico 's Burgess Everett.

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Foe Jaws 3 hours ago

McConnell got had by the D Rats and now he is backing out of the bargain they made to fcck over Trump.

Foe Jaws 2 hours ago

Same for Mike Pence. All he had to do was investigate the election fraud and he betrayed every single Trump voter in America. Pence can burn in hell forever.

Doom Porn Star 2 hours ago

Even IF Trump had been provided with intelligence indicating that fringe organizations were plotting a violent protest at the Capitol, doesn't the power to call in the National Guard reside with the local DC mayor Bowser who made the decision to call them up or not during the BLM protests earlier in 2020 and on the closing night of the Republican convention when Rand Paul was famously swarmed?

Why are assertions this call was suddenly Trump's call to make being entertained at all?

Shouldn't any call for National Guard support have been from the Capitol police to the office of Mayor Bowser?

Doom Porn Star 2 hours ago (Edited)

Look at what actually happened all throughout 2020.

Mayor Bowser was the person who called in the National Guard or did not.

Bowser had/has the authority and has used it or not at her discretion:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=Mayor+od+DC+calls+up+National+Guard&ia=web

Unknown User 1 hour ago

The first witness the defense should be the Ex-US Capitol Police Chief who already said:

"The entire intelligence community seems to have missed this", ... "I must add that I wish that before placing the blame on the USCP and on me as the Chief for the breach of the Capitol by an insurrectionist mob, more consideration would have been given to the impact of incomplete information provided by intelligence assessments, the denied National Guard request, and the subsequent delayed approval for National Guard assistance", ... "I still cannot fathom why in the midst of an armed insurrection, which was broadcast worldwide on television, it took the Department of Defence over three hours to approve an urgent request for National Guard support"

Doom Porn Star 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Exactly WHO had authority to call for the National Guard?

Exactly WHO called for the National Guard?

-Congress may not have the authority to call. -The Capitol police may not either.

-The MSM doesn't have any authority to call the National Guard, or to command troops to act or stand down.

Exactly WHO did they call and WHO did they speak to?

-There are facts behind all this hysterical rhetoric, newsroom caterwauling, and political puffery.

WHO decided when and which troops to deploy from where?

-Names, rank and serial numbers.

Was DC Mayor Bowser called and what did Mayor Bowser do?

-These questions are all painfully obvious and no one is asking...

SoDamnMad 17 minutes ago remove link

I saw a video which I saved which showed, NOT Capitol Police on the barricades of the Capitol but DC Metropolitan Police. If the Capitol Police are 2300 strong WHERE THE HELL WERE THEY?

holdbuysell 3 hours ago

Witnesses no longer mean anything. They've poisoned this well when they brushed away thousands of affidavits, signed under the penalty of perjury, citing massive election and voter fraud.

These people have destroyed any semblance of the rule of law.

GodSpeed 3 hours ago

call the BLM activist as a witness and let people see it wasn't just Trump Supporters in the Capitol.

TRUMP WON 3 hours ago

Exposed:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/neo-nazi-ukrainians-forefathers-antifa-instigated-participated-capitol-hill-riot-alongside-antifa/

Foe Jaws 3 hours ago

The FRAUD

https://peternavarro.com/the-navarro-report/

boyplunger7777 3 hours ago

This spectacle of a show trial would make Stalin proud. Now we have a moron old man with Stage 2 dementia sitting in Oval Office surrounded barbed wire/steel fencing, and 15,000 troops. Think about what America has devolved into.

GreatUncle 2 hours ago

Can't recall a senator but I think a petition to enable into state law and constitutionally approved in the state the ability to expel a senator by a vote that is instigated by 20% of the population signing a petition would be a dam good start.

Reckon it is needed and not just in SC and not just for Republicans neither but for any that break promises or expose themselves too poor judgement.

So the Democrats may win more seats does it really matter anymore?

It can also restore accountability to the electorate that a fraudulent election may steal.

Samual Vimes 3 hours ago

Dominion executive admits fixing election to ensure 'Trump ...

https://noqreport.com/2020/11/18/dominion-executive-admits-fixing-election-to-ensure-trumps-not-gonna-win/

Twitter censors Oltmann for revealing truth about Coomer, Dominion election fraud Dominion , which is tied to both Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, appears to have in its upper ranks a diehard Trump hater who expressed a willingness to do anything possible to prevent Trump from winning reelection.

Samual Vimes 3 hours ago

The Italian Job: Explosive New Testimony on Dominion ...

https://coercioncode.com/2021/01/09/the-italian-job-explosive-new-testimony-on-dominion-election-fraud/

The news connects the dots between Eric Coomer's actions for Dominion Voting Systems in the U.S., the CIA raid in Frankfurt, Germany to protect Dominion's servers and destroy the evidence of election fraud , and now the actions at Leonardo in Italy. It even ropes in the deep state in the U.S. government.

Samual Vimes 3 hours ago remove link

Forensics report on Dominion machines in Michigan claim ...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/12/14/forensics-report-on-dominion-machines-in-michigan-claim-intentionally-and-purposefully-designed-to-create-fraud-1005841/

"We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results," Russell Ramsland Jr.,...

UnicornTears 2 hours ago (Edited)

Where were all the guns for this alleged 'insurgency' ? Surely in a country with half a billion guns there would have been one or two in this attempt to 'overthrow the government'? Do you ever ask yourself why you believe such obvious lies?

boyplunger7777 2 hours ago remove link

Rigged elections, rigged markets, state run media, censorship of opposing views, multi-trillion dollar fiscal deficits, central bank monetizing debt, and now a show trial that would make Stalin proud. This is America in 2021. Have a plan, things are going to fall apart very quickly from here.

WolfgangIffans101 2 hours ago

I see complicity everywhere, and at all levels. Why would it fall apart quickly from here? The USSR held together for quite a while, no?

chunga 3 hours ago

It figures a guy like Raskin is the face of this thing. I can't watch this today because yesterday I was boiling over.

nmewn 2 hours ago

"In a statement on Friday night, Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, Republican of Washington, recounted a phone call relayed to her by Mr. McCarthy of California, the minority leader, in which Mr. Trump was said to have sided with the rioters, telling the top House Republican that members of the mob who had stormed the Capitol were "more upset about the election than you are."

She's going to testify to receiving second hand information, from McCarthy?

She's going to testify that McCarthy said Trump said that some Americans were "more upset about the election than you are."...meaning, McCarthy?...mmmkay, besides the Senate's complete lack of jurisdiction over "trying" a private citizen in the Legislature I guess we can add some... she-said-he-said-that-he-said ...nonsense for the 80yr old "Supreme Court Justice" Patrick Leahy to wade through, if he can stay awake ;-)

Posa 2 hours ago

Illegitimate? Yes. Five key swing states had no signature checks and validation for millions of mail-in votes. Doesn't prove fraud; then again, this doesn't prove there was no fraud. It does prove this was not a legitimate election when so many ballots were indiscriminately cast.

SWRichmond 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Trump "publicly and forcefully calling off the riot" would imply, of course, that he was in charge of it, would it not? Trump asked for the rally, not the riot.

I think he did the right thing by NOT doing that.

the_pencil 2 hours ago remove link

If Pelosi is called as a witness, she/they will all be toast. And they know it.
Keep digging your hole, Dems.

Baconeggs 2 hours ago

Must have been trump that ordered the cops to allow everyone into the capitol then right? Maybe we should have someone investigate that

Aquamaster 2 hours ago

And these clowns in the House, Senate, and the rest of the D.C. swamp STILL can't seem to understand why normal Americans hate them so much.

the_pencil 2 hours ago

"Hate"....is nowhere near strong enough. The whole bunch is pure filth.

cleg 2 hours ago

they have brought it all on themselves

Xena fobe 2 hours ago

They understand. They want to be hated. It means they are getting filthy rich.

Jim in MN 2 hours ago

Here, let me help....

We The People DEMAND TO SEE:

Seth Rich's laptop

Hunter Biden's laptop

Anthony Weiner's laptop

Epstein's tapes

The Soros/DNC riot conspiracy surveillance files

The bioweapon strike files

the_pencil 2 hours ago remove link

If Pelosi is called as a witness, she/they will all be toast. And they know it.
Keep digging your hole, Dems.

Baconeggs 2 hours ago

Must have been trump that ordered the cops to allow everyone into the capitol then right? Maybe we should have someone investigate that

Aquamaster 2 hours ago

And these clowns in the House, Senate, and the rest of the D.C. swamp STILL can't seem to understand why normal Americans hate them so much.

the_pencil 2 hours ago

"Hate"....is nowhere near strong enough. The whole bunch is pure filth.

cleg 2 hours ago

they have brought it all on themselves

Xena fobe 2 hours ago

They understand. They want to be hated. It means they are getting filthy rich.

Jim in MN 2 hours ago

Here, let me help....

We The People DEMAND TO SEE:

Seth Rich's laptop

Hunter Biden's laptop

Anthony Weiner's laptop

Epstein's tapes

The Soros/DNC riot conspiracy surveillance files

The bioweapon strike files

tyberious 4 hours ago remove link

Witnesses? To what?

I want hand counted votes and voter ID!
found our POTUS won CO and VA!

chiquita 4 hours ago

This opens the door to calling in Pelosi, Harris, Zuckerberg, and a whole laundry list of people who had their hands in what happened with the riots and the election fraud. It also means the impeachment hearing can go on for quite a bit longer, but now a whole lot of information will come out that might never have been shown to the American public. It's crazy because Trump will still never be convicted, but if they get out the election fraud information, people will know what happened.

Why they're doing this is to try to make it look like Trump put Pence's life in danger, which is absurd.

SoDamnMad 3 hours ago

Small but symbolic is Windam, NH found during autied hand count that the voting machines removed 300 votes from all Republican candidates. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/huge-development-hand-recount-finds-dominion-voting-machines-shorted-every-republican-windham-new-hampshire-300-votes/

SDShack 38 minutes ago

No one is going to remember the opening case the demorats presented, nor the boring opening response from Trump's team, especially his first attorney. All anyone is going to remember is how the demorats were exposed as lying hypocrites yesterday, and today how they tried undo the damage by gaming their sham to their advantage. Cheating is all they know, just like their election fraud. But all they did is actually score the biggest 'own goal' they could to lose in epic fashion, and as a result had to slink off the field humiliated once again by Trump. This is how their world ends...not with a bang...but with a whimper. I would love to see how their deranged base is reacting to this. Must be the biggest suicide watch in history.

USAllDay 32 minutes ago

I am not sure democrats are capable of being humiliated. One must grasp reality and have certain level of respect to experience the feeling.

Joe Davola 51 minutes ago (Edited)

Hey Mitch:

How's about prosecuting those who scammed the FISA court and spied on the incoming administration?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

champ2top 1 hour ago (Edited)

Nancy holds the keys. She knows who sponsored the riots this past summer, she knows who is part of the deep state, she knows where the dark money comes from, she knows who hired the agent provocateurs who led the Capitol incursion. The coup and voter fraud are now hidden away unless someone comes forth. We can only hope someone is brave enough.

Samual Vimes 1 hour ago

She is not alone in that knowledge.

champ2top 1 hour ago

Where are the witnesses? Where is Nancy? The deep state and swamp once again is successful in hiding the truth from the people. Our government is a sham government. Our media is a sham media. Neither is representative of the people.

Subsidence 2 hours ago

Meanwhile on main street.... we are losing our jobs, our culture and buried in debt. Our way of life has been deemed extremist and not compatible with the "new" America. The elites in charge see us as a throwaway and a useless group of people. We are dying out here and yet our government is more concerned about appeasing a group of coastal yuppies by placing the former president on a sham trial. They hate us! Its past sad and getting to the point of pure anger. We are at the breaking point.

hugin-o-munin 43 minutes ago

US elections need to be fully manual and with paper ballots only going forward. The way elections are stolen using electronic voting machine systems is so obvious and fraudulent that it can't be used any more. Even with all these sophisticated systems of fraud Biden couldn't win so they had to go full banana and van in loads of freshly printed fake ballots in the middle of the night and let teams rerun the tabulators many times to 'win'.

Kina 1 hour ago

  • Absolutely undoubted the USA has undergone a total coup by the Global Deep State.

America is now owned and run by a group of international oligarch from various countries, for their own ideological power purposes.

And people like Lindsay Graham are absolutely traitors to America.

Hard to witness Americans selling out their own country for some global world govt.

[Feb 14, 2021] Trump Legal Team Plays Scorching Montage Of Democrats 'Inciting' And Challenging Past Elections - ZeroHedge

Feb 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

" Insurrection is a term of art. It's defined in the law ," argued Castor. " It involves taking over a country, a shadow government, taking the TV stations over and having some plan on what you're going to do when you finally take power. Clearly this is not that ."

Update (1410ET): After spending much of the morning laying out their case for why the impeachment is a sham, former President Trump's legal team proceeded to play several montages of Democrats doing the exact same thing they've impeached Trump over - namely, calling for violence against Republicans. Interspersed throughout are clips of leftists committing violence against conservatives following the 'incitement.

Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rhJYHU3ejLc

They also played clips of Democrats objecting to election results :

https://www.youtube.com/embed/umsAhEFHFKA

As well as clips of Democrats gunning for a Trump impeachment at all costs:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/cq4GiGTZaKQ

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Watch Live:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/TMeAOM52n2M

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After Democratic impeachment managers spent the last two days dissecting videos and tweets - and in one case fabricating evidence to try and convince the world that former President Trump incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, it's now time for the defense to counter .

In what is expected to last just one day, Trump's impeachment lawyers will reportedly present a montage of prominent Democrats similarly 'inciting' their base , as BLM and Antifa extremists spent much of last year committing violent and destructive crimes throughout the country.

SeaDonkey 6 hours ago remove link

You guys keep reducing it down to democrats versus republicans. Both parties are in bed with each other. Both parties strike deals with corporations, special interest groups, lobbyists, and any other entity which provides wealth and power. Dan Crenshaw is the exact same thing as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. His job (like hers) is to attract right leaning voters which may be disenchanted with contemporary American politicians. He brings the outcasts and the exiled back to the party while reassuring them that they can trust him- since, he claims to not be 'one of them.' This country needs to hold ALL politicians accountable and clean house.

[Feb 14, 2021] WHO MURDERED ASHLI WHILE SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY TROOPS AND COPS

Feb 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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Jim in MN 1 hour ago

WHO MURDERED ASHLI WHILE SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY TROOPS AND COPS WITH THEIR WEAPONS ALL HOLSTERED??? AND WHY???

That is the only thing they really need to answer.

hugin-o-munin 1 hour ago (Edited)

Do we have any irrefutable evidence that she really was shot and died? I'm mentioning this because there have been video reviews of what actually happened there and nothing makes sense unless it was a film op.

Everything wrong with the Capitol Shooting HOAX - Ashley Babbit

https://www.bitchute.com/video/mrlDXyYwoQaQ/

Jim in MN 1 hour ago

I had thought that the shooter was way down the hallway hiding behind a chair. Kind of understandable in a way.

But the video the Dems showed had the guy stepping in from the side and just point blank murdering her.

It is beyond anything any cops did to black folks in recent years.

Just sickening.

Jim in MN 1 hour ago

From that distance, he could have shoved her back out of the window.

Or maced her.

Or hit her with something.

But he shot her in the fcking neck.

[Feb 10, 2021] Fmr. Capitol Police chief sends letter explaining how Intel Community failed to respond to Jan. 6 protests

So, the fact is that at least three say before the event there were at least three assessment send to Capitol police.
Also it looks like Antifa is, at least partially a FBI-controlled organization, so FBI was involved not only in creating the assessment.
Feb 10, 2021 | www.oann.com

The former Capitol Police chief sent a letter to congressional leaders explaining why the Capitol Police appeared unprepared for the January 6 demonstrations. In the letter, which was addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Steven Sund said the failure to respond to violence during the demonstrations was largely due to a lack of intelligence on the type of people that would be there.

Sund, who resigned after the demonstrations, noted he had relied on assessments from the FBI, Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security when preparing for potential unrest .

He said three days prior, an internal intelligence assessment showed a number of extremist groups, including Antifa, were expected to target the Capitol Building and "could become violent."

That's when Sund detailed a timeline of his many attempts to shore up support and expedite a mass delivery of protective equipment for his officers. Although 100 riot helmets were delivered on January 4, Army Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt allegedly told Sund he "did not like the visual of the National Guard standing in a line with the Capitol in the background."

This came despite several people in the crowd "wearing radio earpieces indicating a high level of coordination" and "carrying weapons, explosives and climbing gear."

In the letter, Sund recognized that a "number of systems broke down," adding that officials who violated policies or directives need to be held accountable. He went on to say the National Guard was far too slow, noting they sent in 150 troops about five-hours after his request for their support was approved by the Capitol Police Board and called for that process to be reformed.

On Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he truly appreciated Sund's letter and wished more people would come forward because the American public deserves to know what really happened on January 6.

The senator added, he's "suspicious" that Democrat leaders knew about the attack and are using the upcoming impeachment trial as a "diversion tactic."

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[Feb 06, 2021] Clarity In Trump's Wake - ZeroHedge

Feb 05, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Angelo Codevilla via AMGreatness.com,

The United States of America is now a classic oligarchy. The clarity that it has brought to our situation by recognizing this fact is its only virtue...

"Either the Constitution matters and must be followed . . . or it is simply a piece of parchment on display at the National Archives."

- Texas v. Pennsylvania et al.

T exas v. Pennsylvania et al. did not deny setting rules for the 2020 election contrary to the Constitution. On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court discounted that . By refusing to interfere as America's ruling oligarchy serves itself, the court archived what remained of the American republic's system of equal justice. That much is clear.

In 2021, the laws, customs, and habits of the heart that had defined the American republic since the 18th century are things of the past. Americans' movements and interactions are under strictures for which no one ever voted. Government disarticulated society by penalizing ordinary social intercourse and precluding the rise of spontaneous opinion therefrom. Together with corporate America, it smothers minds through the mass and social media with relentless, pervasive, identical, and ever-evolving directives. In that way, these oligarchs have proclaimed themselves the arbiters of truth, entitled and obliged to censor whoever disagrees with them as systemically racist, adepts of conspiracy theories.

Corporations, and the government itself, require employees to attend meetings personally to acknowledge their guilt. They solicit mutual accusations. While violent felons are released from prison, anyone may be fired or otherwise have his life wrecked for questioning government/corporate sentiment. Today's rulers don't try to convince. They demand obedience, and they punish.

Russians and East Germans under Communists Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in the 1970s lived under less ruling class pressure than do today's Americans. And their rulers were smart enough not to insult them, their country, or their race.

In 2015, Americans could still believe they lived in a republic, in which life's rules flow from the people through their representatives.

In 2021, a class of rulers draws their right to rule from self-declared experts' claims of infallibility that dwarf baroque kings' pretensions. In that self-referential sense, the United States of America is now a classic oligarchy.

The following explains how this change happened. The clarity that it has brought to our predicament is its only virtue.

Oligarchy had long been growing within America's republican forms. The 2016 election posed the choice of whether its rise should consolidate, or not. Consolidation was very much "in the cards." But how that election and its aftermath led to the fast, thorough, revolution of American life depended on how Donald Trump acted as the catalyst who clarified, energized, and empowered our burgeoning oligarchy's peculiarities. These, along with the manner in which the oligarchy seized power between November 2016 and November 2020, ensure that its reign will be ruinous and likely short. The prospect that the republic's way of life may thrive among those who wish it to depends on the manner in which they manage the civil conflict that is now inevitable.

From Ruling Class to Oligarchy

By the 21st century's first decade, little but formality was left of the American republic. In 1942, Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy described the logic by which government and big business tend to coalesce into socialism in theory, oligarchy in practice. But by then, that logic had already imposed itself on the Western world. Italy's 1926 Law of Corporations -- fascism's charter -- inaugurated not so much the regulation of business by government as the coalescence of the twain. Over the ensuing decade, it was more or less copied throughout the West.

In America, the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act's authors had erected barriers against private oligopolies and monopolies. By maintaining competition between big business, they hoped to preserve private freedoms and limit government's role. But the Great Depression's pressures and temptations led to the New Deal's rules that differed little from Italy's. No matter that, as the Supreme Court pointed out in Schechter Poultry v. U.S . , public-private amalgamation does not fit in the Constitution. It grew nevertheless alongside the notion that good government proceeds from the experts' judgment rather than from the voters' choices. The miracles of production that America brought forth in World War II seemed to validate the point.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had come to understand large organizations that feed on government power and dispense vast private benefits, was not shy in warning about the danger they pose to the republic. His warning about the " military-industrial complex " that he knew so well is often misunderstood as a mere caution against militarism. But Ike was making a broader point: Amalgams of public and private power tend to prioritize their corporate interests over the country's.

That is why Eisenhower cautioned against the power of government-funded expertise. "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever-present and is gravely to be regarded," he said, because "public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite." Government money can accredit a self-regarding elite. Because "a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity," government experts can end up substituting their power for truth.

The expansion of government power throughout the 1960s and '70s in pursuit of improving education, eradicating poverty, and uplifting blacks created complexes of public-private power throughout America that surpassed the military-industrial complex in size, and above all in influence.

Consider education. Post-secondary education increased fourfold, from 9 percent of Americans holding four-year degrees in 1965 to 36 percent in 2015. College towns became islands of wealth and political power. From them came endless "studies" that purported to be arbiters of truth and wisdom, as well as a growing class of graduates increasingly less educated but ever so much more socio-politically uniform.

In the lower grades, per-pupil expenditure (in constant dollars) went from $3,200 in 1960 to $13,400 in 2015. That money fueled an even more vast and powerful complex -- one that includes book publishers, administrators, and labor unions and that has monopolized the minds of at least two generations. As it grew, the education establishment also detached itself from the voters' control: In the 1950s, there were some 83,000 public school districts in America. By 2015, only around 13,000 remained for a population twice as large. Today's parents have many times less influence over their children's education than did their grandparents.

Analogous things happened in every field of life. Medicine came to be dominated by the government's relationship with drug companies and hospital associations. When Americans went to buy cars, or even light bulbs and shower nozzles, they found their choices limited by deals between government, industry, and insurance companies. These entities regarded each other as "stakeholders" in an oligarchic system. But they had ever less need to take account of mere citizens in what was becoming a republic in name only. As the 20eth century was drawing to a close, wherever citizens looked, they saw a government and government-empowered entities over which they had ever less say, which ruled ever more unaccountably, and whose attitude toward them was ever less friendly.

The formalities were the last to go. Ever since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 A.D., the rulers' dependence on popular assent to expenditures has been the essence of limited government. Article I, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution enshrines that principle. Congressional practice embodied it. Details of bills and expenditures were subject to public hearings and votes in subcommittees, committees, and the floors of both Houses. But beginning in the early 1980s and culminating in 2007, the U.S government abandoned the appropriations process.

Until 1981, Congress had used "continuing resolutions" to continue funding government operations unchanged until regular appropriations could be made. Thereafter, as congressional leaders learned how easy it is to use this vehicle to avoid exposing what they are doing to public scrutiny, they legislated and appropriated ever less in public, and increasingly put Congress' output into continuing resolutions or omnibus bills, amounting to trillions of dollars and thousands of pages, impossible for representatives and senators to read, and presented to them as the only alternative to "shutting down the government." This -- now the U.S government standard operating procedure -- enables the oligarchy's "stakeholders" to negotiate their internal arrangements free from responsibility to citizens. It is the practical abolition of Article I section 9 -- and of the Magna Carta itself.

In the 21st century, the American people's trust in government plummeted as they -- on the political Left as well as on the Right -- realized that those in power care little for them. As they watched corporate and non-profit officials trade places with public officials and politicians while getting much richer, they felt impoverished and disempowered. Since the ruling class embraced Republicans and Democrats, elections seemed irrelevant. The presidential elections of 2008 and 2012 underlined that whoever won, the same people would be in charge and that the parceling out of wealth and power among stakeholders would continue.

Americans on the Right were especially aggrieved because the oligarchy had become culturally united in disdain for Western civilization in general and for themselves in particular. The cultural warfare it waged on the rest of America inflamed opposition. But it also diluted its own focus on solidifying profitable arrangements.

By 2016, America was already well into the classic cycles of revolution. The atrophy of institutions, the waning of republican habits, and the increasing, reciprocal disrespect between classes that have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways of life more different from one another, than did the 19th century's Northerners and Southerners precluded returning to traditional republican life. The election would determine whether the oligarchy could consolidate itself. More important, it would affect the speed by which the revolutionary vortex would carry the country, and the amount of violence this would involve.

The Trump Catalyst

By 2015, the right side of America's challenge to the budding oligarchy was inevitable. Trump was not inevitable. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had begun posing a thorough challenge to the "stakeholders" most Americans disrespected. Candidate Trump was the more gripping showman. His popularity came from his willingness to disrespect them, loudly. Because the other 16 Republican candidates ran on different bases, none ever had a chance. Inevitably, victory in a field so crowded depended on when which minor candidate did or did not withdraw. There never was a head-to-head choice between Trump and Cruz.

Trump's candidacy drew the ferocious opposition it did primarily because the entire ruling class recognized that, unlike McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, he really was mobilizing millions of Americans against the arrangements by which the ruling class live, move, and have their being. Since Cruz's candidacy represented the same threat, it almost certainly would have drawn no less intense self-righteous anger. Nasty narratives could have been made up about him out of whole cloth as easily as about Trump.

But Trump's actual peculiarities made it possible for the oligarchy to give the impression that its campaign was about his person, his public flouting of conventional norms, rather than about the preservation of their own power and wealth. The principal consequence of the ruling class' opposition to candidate Trump was to convince itself, and then its followers, that defeating him was so important that it legitimized, indeed dictated, setting aside all laws, and truth itself.

Particular individuals had never been the oligarchy's worry. In 2008, as Barack Obama was running against Hillary Clinton and John McCain -- far cries from Trump -- he pointed to those Americans who "cling to God and guns" as the problem's root. Clinton's 2016 remark that Trump's supporters were "a basket of deplorables," -- racists, sexists, homophobes, etc. -- merely voiced what had long been the oligarchy's consensus judgment of most Americans. For them, pushing these Americans as far away as possible from the levers of power, treating them as less than citizens, had already come to define justice and right.

Donald Trump -- his bombastic, hyperbolic style, his tendency to play fast and loose with truth, even to lie as he insulted his targets -- fit perfectly the oligarchy's image of his supporters, and lent a color of legitimacy to the utterly illegitimate collusion between the oligarchy's members in government and those in the Democratic Party running against Trump.

Thus did the FBI and CIA, in league with the major media and the Democratic Party, spy on candidate Trump, concocting and spreading all manner of synthetic dirt about him. Nevertheless, to universal surprise, he won, or rather the oligarchy lost, the 2016 election.

The oligarchy's disparate members had already set aside laws, truth, etc. in opposition to Trump. The realization that the presidency's awesome powers now rested in his hands fostered a full-court-press #Resistance. Trump's peculiarities helped make it far more successful than anyone could have imagined.

"Dogs That Bark Do Not Bite"

Applying this observation to candidate Trump's hyperbole suggested that President Trump might suffer from what Theodore Roosevelt called the most self-destructive of habits, combining "the unbridled tongue with the unready hand." And, in fact, President Trump neither fired and referred for prosecution James Comey or the other intelligence officials who had run the surveillance of his campaign. He praised them, and let himself be persuaded to fire General Michael Flynn, his national security advisor, who stood in the way of the intelligence agencies' plans against him. Nor did he declassify and make public all the documents associated with their illegalities.

Four years later, he left office with those documents still under seal. He criticized officials over whom he had absolute power, notably CIA's Gina Haspel who likely committed a crime spying on his candidacy, but left them in office. Days after his own inauguration, he suffered the CIA's removal of clearances from one of his appointees because he was a critic of the Agency. Any president worthy of his office would have fired the entire chain of officials who had made that decision. Instead, he appointed to these agencies people loyal to them and hostile to himself.

He acted similarly with other agencies. His first secretary of state, secretary of defense, and national security advisor mocked him publicly. At their behest, in August 2017, he gave a nationally televised speech in which he effectively thanked them for showing him that he had been wrong in opposing ongoing war in the Middle East. He railed against Wall Street but left untouched the tax code's "carried interest" provision that is the source of much unearned wealth. He railed against the legal loophole that lets Google, Facebook, and Twitter censor content without retribution, but did nothing to close it. Already by the end of January 2017, it was clear that no one in Washington needed to fear Trump. By the time he left office, Washington was laughing at him.

Nor did Trump protect his supporters. For example, he shared their resentment of being ordered to attend workplace sessions about their "racism." But not until his last months in office did he ban the practice within the federal government. Never did he ban contracts with companies that require such sessions.

Thus, as the oligarchy set about negating the 2016 electorate's attempt to stop its consolidation of power, Trump had assured them that they would neither be impeded as they did so nor pay a price. Donald Trump is not responsible for the oligarchy's power. But he was indispensable to it.

#TheResistance rallied every part of the ruling class to mutually supporting efforts. Nothing encourages, amplifies, or seemingly justifies extreme sentiments as does being part of a unanimous chorus, a crowd, a mob -- especially when all can be sure they are acting safely, gratuitously. Success supercharges them. #TheResistance fostered the sense in the ruling class' members that they are more right, more superior, and more entitled than they had ever imagined. It made millions of people feel bigger and better about themselves than they ever had.

Logic and Dysfunction

Disdain for the "deplorables" united and energized parts of American society that, apart from their profitable material connections to government, have nothing in common and often have diverging interests. That hate, that determination to feel superior to the "deplorables" by treading upon them, is the "intersectionality," the glue that binds, say, Wall Street coupon-clippers, folks in the media, officials of public service unions, gender studies professors, all manner of administrators, radical feminists, race and ethnic activists, and so on. #TheResistance grew by awakening these groups to the powers and privileges to which they imagine their superior worth entitles them, to their hate for anyone who does not submit preemptively.

Ruling-class judges sustained every bureaucratic act of opposition to the Trump Administration. Thousands of identical voices in major media echoed every charge, every insinuation, non-stop and unquestioned. #TheResistance made it ruling-class policy that Trump's and his voters' racism and a host of other wrongdoing made them, personally, illegitimate. In any confrontation, the ruling class deemed these presumed white supremacists in the wrong, systemically. By 2018, the ruling class had effectively placed the "deplorables" outside the protection of the laws. By 2020, they could be fired for a trifle, set upon in the streets, prosecuted on suspicion of bad attitudes, and even for defending themselves.

Because each and every part of the ruling coalition's sense of what may assuage its grievances evolves without natural limit, this logic is as insatiable as it is powerful. It is also inherently destructive of oligarchy.

Enjoyment of power's material perquisites is classic oligarchy's defining purpose. Having conquered power over the people, successful oligarchies foster environments in which they can live in peace, productively. Oligarchy, like all regimes, cannot survive if it works at cross-purposes. But the oligarchy that seized power in America between 2016 and 2020 is engaged in a never-ending seizure of ever more power and the infliction of ever more punishment -- in a war against the people without imaginable end. Clearly, that is contrary to what the Wall Street magnates or the corps of bureaucrats or the university administrators or senior professors want. But that is what the people want who wield the "intersectional" passions that put the oligarchy in power.

As the oligarchy's every part, every organ, raged against everything Trump, it made itself less attractive to the public even as Trump's various encouragements of economic activity were contributing to palpable increases in prosperity.

Hence, by 2019's end, Trump was likely to win reelection. Then came COVID-19.

The COVID Fortuna

The COVID-19 virus is no plague. Though quite contagious, its infection/fatality rate (IFR), about 0.01 percent, is that of the average flu, and its effects are generally so mild that most whom it infects never know it.

Like all infections, it is deadly to those weakened severely by other causes. It did not transform American life by killing people, but by the fears about it that our oligarchy packaged and purveyed. Fortuna , as Machiavelli reminds us, is inherently submissive to whoever bends her to his wishes. The fears and the strictures they enabled were not about health -- if only because those who purveyed and imposed them did not apply them to themselves. They were about power over others.

COVID's politicization began in February 2020 with the adoption by the World Health Organization -- which is headed by an Ethiopian bureaucrat beholden to China -- and upon recommendation of non-scientist Bill Gates, of a non-peer-reviewed test for the infection. The test's chief characteristic is that its rate of positives to negatives depends on the number of cycles through which the sample is run. More cycles, more positives. Hence, every test result is a "soft" number. Second, the WHO and associated national organizations like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported COVID's spread by another "soft" number: "confirmed cases." That is, sick persons who tested positive for the virus.

When this number is related to that of such persons who then die, the ratio -- somewhat north of 5 percent -- suggests that COVID kills one out of 20 people it touches. But that is an even softer number since these deaths include those who die with COVID rather than of it, as well as those who may have had COVID. Pyramiding such soft numbers, mathematical modelers projected millions of deaths. Scary for the unwary, but pure fantasy.

For example, the U.S. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), which modeled the authoritative predictions on which the U.S. lockdowns were based, also predicted COVID-19 deaths for Sweden, which did not lock down. On May 3, the IHME predicted that Sweden would suffer 2,800 COVID deaths a day within the next two weeks. The actual number was 38. Reporting on COVID has never ceased to consist of numbers as scary as they are soft.

Literate persons know that, once an infectious disease enters a population, nothing can prevent it from infecting all of it, until a majority has developed antibodies after contracting it -- so-called community immunity or herd immunity. But fear leads people to empower those who promise safety, regardless of how empty the promises. The media pressed governments to do something . The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan screamed: "don't panic is terrible advice." The pharmaceutical industry and its Wall Street backers salivated at the prospect of billions of government money for new drugs and vaccines. Never mind the little sense it makes for millions of people to accept a vaccine's non-trivial risk to protect against a virus with trivial consequences for themselves. All manner of officials yearned to wield unaccountable power.

Because the power to crush the general population's resistance to itself is the oligarchy's single-minded focus, it was able to bend fears of COVID to that purpose. Thus, it gathered more power with more consequences than the oligarchs could have imagined.

But only President Trump's complaisance made this possible. His message to the American people had been not to panic, be mindful of the scientific facts -- you can't stop it, and it's not that bad -- while mitigating its effects on vulnerable populations. But on March 15, Trump bent, and agreed to counsel people to suspend normal life for two weeks to "slow the spread," so that hospitals would not be overwhelmed. Two weeks later, the New York Times crowed that Trump, having been told "hundreds of thousands of Americans could face death if the country reopened too soon," had been stampeded into "abandoning his goal of reopening the country by Easter." He agreed to support the "experts'" definition of what "soon" might mean. By accrediting the complex of government, industry, and media's good faith and expertise, Trump validated their plans to use COVID as a vehicle for enhancing their power.

Having seized powers, the oligarchs used them as weapons to disrupt and disaggregate the parts of American society they could not control.

The economic effects of lockdowns and social distancing caused obvious pain. Tens of millions of small businesses were forced to close or radically to reduce activity. More than 40 million Americans filed claims for unemployment assistance. Uncountable millions of farmers and professionals had their products and activities devalued. Millions of careers, dreams that had been realized by lifetimes of work, were wrecked. Big business and government took over their functions. Within nine months, COVID-19 had produced 28 new billionaires .

Surplus and scarcity of food resulted simultaneously because the lockdowns closed most restaurants and hotels. As demand shifted in ways that made it impossible for distribution networks and processing plants to adjust seamlessly, millions of gallons of milk were poured down drains, millions of chickens, billions of eggs, and tens of thousands of hogs and cattle were destroyed, acres of vegetables and tons of fruit were plowed under. Prices in the markets rose. Persons deprived of work with less money with which to pay higher prices struggled to feed their families. This reduced countless self-supporting citizens to supplicants. By intentionally reducing the supply of food available to the population, the U.S. government joined the rare ranks of such as Stalin's Soviet Union and Castro's Cuba.

But none of these had ever shut down a whole nation's entire medical care except for one disease. Hospitals stood nearly empty, having cleared the decks for the (ignorantly) expected COVID flood. Emergency rooms were closed to the poor people who get routine care there. Forget about dentistry. Most Americans were left essentially without medical care for most of a year. Human bodies' troubles not having taken a corresponding holiday, it is impossible to estimate how much suffering and death this lack of medical care has caused and will cause yet.

The oligarchy's division of all activity into "essential" -- meaning permitted -- and "nonessential" -- to be throttled at will -- had less obvious but more destructive effects. Private clubs, as well as any and all gatherings of more than five or 10 people, were banned. Churches were forbidden to have worship services or to continue social activities. The "social distancing" and mask mandates enforced in public buildings and stores, and often on the streets, made it well-nigh impossible for people to communicate casually. Thus, was that part of American society that the oligarchy did not control directly disarticulated, and its members left alone to face unaccountable powers on which they had to depend.

Meanwhile, the media became the oligarchy's public relations department. Very much including ordinary commercial advertising, it hammered home the oligarchy's line that COVID restrictions are good, even cool. These restrictions reduced the ideas available to the American people to what the mass media purveyed and the social media allowed. Already by April 2020, these used what had become near-monopoly power over interpersonal communications to censor such communications as they disapproved. Political enforcers took it upon themselves even to cancel statements by eminent physicians about COVID that they judged to be "misleading." Of course, this betrayed the tech giants' initial promise of universal access. It is also unconstitutional. (In Marsh v. Alabama , decided in 1946, the Supreme Court barred private parties from acting as de facto governments). Since these companies did it in unison, they also violated the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act. But the ruling class that had become an oligarchy applauded their disabling whatever might be conducive to conservatives' interests and inconvenient to their own candidates.

Private entities wielding public powers in coordination with each other without having to observe any of government's constitutional constraints is as good a definition of oligarchy as there is. Oligarchy had increasingly taken power in the buildup to the 2020 election. In its aftermath, it would try to suffocate America.

Sovereignty of the Vote Counters

The oligarchy's proximate objective, preventing the 2020 presidential election from validating the previous one's results, overrode all others. The powers it had seized under COVID's cover, added to the plethora that it had exercised since the 2016 campaign's beginning, had surely cowered some opposition. But as November 2020 loomed, no one could be sure how much it also had energized.

Few people were happy to be locked down. It was a safe bet that not a few were unhappy at being called systemically racist. The oligarchy, its powers notwithstanding, could not be sure how people would vote. That is why it acted to take the presidential election's outcome out of the hands of those who would cast the votes and to place it as much as possible in the hands of its members who would count the votes.

Intentionally, traditional procedures for voting leave no discretion to those who count the votes. Individuals obtain and cast ballots into a physical or electronic box only after showing identification that matches their registration. Ballot boxes are opened and their contents counted by persons representing the election's opposing parties. Persons registered to vote might qualify to vote-by-mail by requesting a ballot, the issuance and receipt of which is checked against their registration. Their ballots are counted in the same bipartisan manner.

The Democratic Party had long pressed to substitute universal voting by mail -- meaning that ballots would be sent to all registered voters, in some states to anyone with a driver's license whether they asked for them or not and regardless of whether these persons still lived at the address on the rolls or were even alive. The ballots eventually would arrive at the counting centers, either through the mail, from drop boxes, or through "harvesters" who would pick them up from the voters who fill them out, and who may even help them to fill them out. Security, if any, would consist of machine-matching signatures on the ballot and on the envelope in which it had come. The machine's software can be dialed to greater or lesser sensitivity.

But doing away with scrutiny of ballots counted by representatives of the election's contenders removes the last possibility of ensuring the ballot had come from a real person whose will it is supposed to represent. Once the link between the ballot and the qualified person is broken, nothing prevents those in charge of the electoral process from excluding and including masses of ballots as they choose. The counters become the arbiters.

Attorney General William Barr pointed out the obvious: Anyone, in America or abroad, can print up any number of ballots, mark them, and deliver them for counting to whoever is willing to accept them and run them through their machines. Since the counters usually dispose of the envelopes in which ballots arrive -- thus obviating any possibility of tracing the ballot's connection to a voter -- they may even dispense of the fiction that there had ever been any signed envelopes. That is especially true of late-found ballots. Who knows where they came from? Who cares to find out?

Only in a few one-party Democratic states was universal vote-by-mail established by law. Elsewhere, especially in the states sure to be battlegrounds in the presidential election, mail-in voting was introduced by various kinds of executive or judicial actions. Questions of right and wrong aside, the Constitution's Article II section 1's words -- "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct " -- makes such actions unconstitutional on their face. Moreover, in these states -- Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin -- the counting of votes in the most populous counties is firmly in the hands of Democratic Party bosses with a well-documented history of fraud.

To no one's surprise, the 2020 presidential election was decided by super-majorities for the Democratic candidate precisely from these counties in these states. Yes, Trump's percentage of the vote fell in certain suburbs. But Trump received some 11 million more votes in 2020 than four years earlier, and nearly doubled the share of votes he received from blacks. The Democrats' gain of some 15 million votes came exclusively from mail-in ballots, and their victory in the Electoral College came exclusively from the supermajorities piled up in these corrupt counties -- the only places where Trump's share of the black vote was cut by three-quarters. Did people there really think so differently?

This is not the place to recount the list of affidavits sworn under penalty of perjury by persons who observed ballot stuffing, nor the statistical anomaly of successive batches of votes that favored Biden over Trump by precisely the same amounts, of un-creased (i.e., never mailed) ballots fed into counting machines, nor the Georgia video of suitcases of ballots being taken from under tables and inserted into counting machines after Republican observers had been ousted. Suffice it to note that references to these events have been scrubbed from the Internet. It is more important to keep in mind that, in America prior to 2020, sworn affidavits that crimes have been committed had invariably been probable cause for judicial, prosecutorial, or legislative investigations. But for the first time in America, the ruling class dismissed them with: "You have no proof!" A judge (the sister of Georgia's Stacey Abrams) ruled that even when someone tells the U.S. Postal Service they have moved, their old address is still a lawful basis for them to cast a ballot. Certainly, proof of crime is impossible with such judges and without testimony under oath, or powers of subpoena.

Just as important, Republicans in general and the Trump White House in particular bear heavy responsibility for failing to challenge the patent illegality of the executive actions and consent decrees that enabled inherently insecure mail-in procedures in real-time, as they were being perpetrated in key states. No facts were at issue. Only law. The constitutional violations were undeniable.

Pennsylvania et. al. answered Texas's late lawsuit by arguing it demanded the invalidation of votes that had been cast in good faith. True. But Texas argued that letting stand the results of an election carried out contrary to the Constitution devalued the votes cast in states such as Texas that had held the election in a constitutional manner. Also true. Without comment, the Supreme Court chose to privilege the set of voters on the oligarchy's side over those of their opponents. Had the lawsuit come well before the election, no such choice would have existed. Typically, the Trump Administration substituted bluster for action.

The Oligarchy Rides its Tigers

Winning the 2020 election had been the objective behind which the oligarchy had coalesced during the previous five years. In 2021, waging socio-political war on the rest of America is what the oligarchy is all about.

The logic of hate and disdain of ordinary Americans is not only what binds the oligarchy together. It is the only substitute it has for any moral-ethical-intellectual point of reference. Donald Trump's impotent, inglorious reaction to his defeat offered irresistible temptations to the oligarchy's several sectors to celebrate victory by vying to hurt whoever had supported the president. But permanent war against some 74 million fellow citizens is a foredoomed approach to governing.

The Democratic Party had promised a return to some kind of "normalcy." Instead, its victory enabled the oligarchy's several parts to redefine the people who do not show them due deference as "white supremacists," "insurrectionists," and Nazis -- in short, as some kind of criminals -- to exclude them from common platforms of communication, from the banking system, and perhaps even from air travel; and to set law enforcement to surveil them in order to find bases for prosecuting them. Neither Congress nor any state's legislature legislated any of this. Rather, the several parts of America's economic, cultural, and political establishment are waging this war, uncoordinated but well-nigh unanimously.

Perhaps most important, they do so without thought of how a war against at least some 74 million fellow citizens might end. The people in the oligarchy's corporate components seem to want only to adorn unchallenged power with a reputation for "wokeness." For them, causing pain to their opponents is a pleasure incidental to enjoying power's perquisites. The Biden family's self-enrichment by renting access to influence is this oligarchy's standard.

But the people who dispense that reputation -- not just the professional revolutionaries of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, but "mainstream" racial and gender activists and self-appointed virtue-crats, have appetites as variable as they are insatiable. For them, rubbing conservative America's faces in excrement is what it's all about. A Twitter video viewed by 2.6 million people urges them to form "an army of citizen detectives" to ferret out conservatives from among teachers, doctors, police officers, and "report them to the authorities." No doubt, encouraged by President Biden's characterization of opponents as "domestic terrorists," any number of "authorities" as well as private persons will find opportunities to lord it over persons not to their taste. This guarantees endless clashes, and spiraling violence.

Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris, and the people they appoint to positions of official responsibility are apparatchiks, habituated to currying favor and pulling rank. They have neither the inclination nor the capacity to persuade the oligarchy's several parts to agree to a common good or at least to a modus vivendi among themselves, never mind with conservative America. This guarantees that they will ride tigers that they won't even try to dismount.

At this moment, the oligarchy wields an awesome complex of official and unofficial powers to exclude whomever it chooses from society's mainstream. Necessarily, however, exclusions cut both ways. Invariably, to banish another is to banish one's self as well. Google, Facebook, and Twitter let it be known that they would exclude anything with which they disagree from what had become the near-universal means of communication. They bolstered that by colluding to destroy their competitor, Parler. Did they imagine that 74 million Americans could find no means of communicating otherwise? Simon and Schuster canceled a book by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) critical of communications monopolies. Did its officials imagine that they would thereby do other than increase the book's eventual sales, and transfer some of their customers to Hawley's new publisher ? The media effectively suppressed inconvenient news. Did they imagine that this would prevent photos of Black Lives Matter professionals in the forefront of the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol from reaching the public?

In sum, intending to relegate conservative America to society's servile sidelines, the oligarchy's members drew a clear, sharp line between themselves and that America. By telling conservative Americans "these institutions and corporations, are ours, not yours," they freed conservative America of moral obligations toward them and themselves. By abandoning conservative America, they oblige conservative America to abandon them and seek its own way.

Clarity, Leadership, and Separation

To think of conservative America's predicament as an opportunity is as hyperbolic as it was for Machiavelli to begin the conclusion of The Prince by observing that "in order to know Moses' virtue it was necessary that the people of Israel be slaves in Egypt, and to know the greatness of Cyrus's spirit that the Persians be oppressed by the Medes, and to know the excellence of Theseus, that the Athenian people be dispersed, so at the present, in order to know the virtue of an Italian spirit it was necessary that Italy reduce herself to the conditions in which she is at present . . ."

Machiavelli's lesson is that the clarity of situations such as he mentions, and such as is conservative America's following the 2020 election, is itself valuable. Clarity makes illusions of compromise untenable and points to self-reliant action as the only reasonable path. The people might or might not be, as he wrote, "all ready and disposed to follow the flag if only someone were to pick it up." But surely, someone picking up the flag is the only alternative to servitude.

What, in conservative America's current predicament, might it mean to "pick up the flag?" Electoral politics remains open to talented, courageous, ambitious leadership. In Florida and South Dakota, Governors Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem have used their powers to make room for ways of life different from and more attractive than that in places wholly dominated by the oligarchy. Texas and Idaho as well attract refugees from such as California and New York by virtue of such differences with life there as their elected officials have been able to maintain. Governmental and corporate pressures on such states to conform to the oligarchy's standards, sure to increase, are opportunities for their officials to lead their people's refusal to conform by explaining why doing this is good, and by personally standing in the way. They may be sure that President Kamala Harris would not order federal troops to shoot at state officials for closing abortion clinics or for excluding men from women's bathrooms.

For more than a generation, a majority of Americans have expressed growing distrust of, and alienation from, the establishment. The establishment, not Donald Trump, made this happen. That disparate majority, in many ways at cross purposes with itself, demands leadership. Pollster Patrick Caddell's in-depth study of the American electorate, which he titled "We Need Smith," showed how the themes that made it possible for the hero of the 1939 movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" to prevail against the establishment then are even more gripping now and appeal to a bigger majority. Trump was a bad copy of Mr. Smith.

More than ever, an audience beyond the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump hungers for leadership. The oligarchy came together by ever more vigorously denigrating and suppressing these deplorables. Already before the 20th century's turn, the FBI and some elements in the Army and the Justice Department had concluded that they are somehow criminal, and that preparations should be made to treat them as such. The official position of the administration taking power after the 2020 election is that domestic terrorism from legions of "white supremacists" is the primary threat facing America. No wonder those so designated for outlawry demand protection.

The path to electoral leadership is straightforward. Whoever would lead the deplorables-plus must explain their cause to friend and foe, make it his own, and grow it by leading successful acts of resistance.

Increasingly, conservative Americans live as if under occupation by a hostile power. Whoever would lead them should emulate Charles de Gaulle's 1941 basic rule for la résistance : refrain from individual or spontaneous acts or expressions that produce only martyrs. But join with thousands in what amount to battles to defeat the enemy's initiatives, weaken his grip on power, and prepare his defeat. Thus, an aspirant to the presidency in 2024, in the course of debunking the narrative by which the oligarchy seized so much power over America, might lead millions to violate restrictions placed on those who refuse to wear masks. Or, as he pursues legislative and judicial measures to abolish the compulsory racial and gender sensitivity training sessions to which public and private employees are subjected, he might organize employees in a given sector unanimously to stay away from them in protest. They can't all be fired or held back.

Such a persuasive prospective president, or president, could finish the process that, beginning circa 2010, initiated the process of reshaping the Republican Party into something like Caddell's Mr. Smith would have personified.

Electoral politics, however, is the easy part. Major corporations, private and semi-private institutions such as schools, publishing houses, and media, are the oligarchy's deepest foundations. These having become hostile, conservative Americans have no choice but to populate their own. This is far from impossible.

Sorting ourselves out into congenial groups has been part of America's DNA since 1630, when Roger Williams led his followers out of Massachusetts to found Providence Plantations. In the 19th century, the Mormons left unfriendly environments to establish their own settlements. Since 1973, Americans who believe in unborn children's humanity have largely ceased to intermarry with those who do not. Nobody decided this should happen. It is in the logic of diverging cultures.

As American primary and secondary education's dysfunction became painfully apparent, parents of all races have fled the public schools as fast as they could. Businesses have been fleeing the Rust Belt for the Sun Belt for generations. When Democratic governors and mayors used COVID to make life difficult in their jurisdictions, people moved out of them. When Twitter's censorship of conservatives became undeniable, Parler added customers by the hundreds of thousands each day. Facebook and Twitter's stock lost $50 billion in a week. Much more separation follows from the American people's diverging cultures.

As conservative America sorts itself out from oligarchy's social bases, it may be able to restore something like what had existed under the republic. Effectively, two regimes would have to learn to coexist within our present boundaries. But that may be the best, freest, arrangement possible now for the United States.

[Feb 06, 2021] The essence of impeachment is similar to the recall of a government offical -- it is nothing more then a forceful removal from elected office

Feb 06, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The first reason is that the impeachment proceedings aren't a criminal trial, so even conviction wouldn't establish guilt the way an actual criminal court might. Contrary to what the public thinks -- with its third grade–level understanding of American politics -- and what the media is happy to imply, impeachment is strictly a political process that does nothing more than remove a person from office. The Democrats' new interpretation that impeachment can be used to bar someone from holding office in the future is a rather novel approach.

Justus_Americans 6 hours ago remove link

Gaslight 1944 Movie both timeless and timely the gaslighting of America in 2021. Projection, accusing others of what they themselves do.
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US Banana Republic 10 hours ago remove link

This "impeachment" is 100% a political move (10 RINOs not withstanding).

It is supported 100% by oligarchical propaganda.

It depends on mass hysteria, with no logic whatsoever.

karzai_luver 16 hours ago remove link

Keep it simple. Just go with whatever John Brennan says you can do.

Don't drone me bro.

Don't want to be branded a Domestic Terrorist or extremist.

Don't drone me bro.

[Feb 05, 2021] Maxine Waters- Trump Needs To Be Charged With Premeditated Murder - ZeroHedge

Feb 05, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Over the last four years, there has been a type of race by politicians and pundits who seek to outdo each other in the most sensational claims of how Donald Trump could be prosecuted or impeached on an ever-expanding list of offenses. Each claim is stated with absolute certainty despite long-standing questions or constitutional barriers. Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California has been a standout in this crowd -- calling for impeachments and prosecutions from the very beginning of Trump's term in office. She is now insisting that Trump can and should be charged with "premeditated murder" over the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th. The statement was made on MSNBC which has trafficked in such ridiculous theories without any pushback from the media or legal experts.

Waters made her statement in an interview with Joy Reid, who has had one of the most controversial records in television for her racially charged language , dubious legal arguments , and unsupported claims . Reid notably does not press Waters on her claim that Trump should be charged with premeditated murder.

Here is the interview:

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In the interview, Reid refers to the 1990s and the "insurrections in Los Angeles." It is not clear from the interview what constitutes an insurrection in the 1990s but the term "riot" seems effectively barred today in favor of "insurrection."

When Trump or his allies made outlandish and unsupported claims about the law in the past, the media piled on with coverage stating that such claims were ridiculous or unfounded. I regularly called out Trump for such claims, including his call for changing whole areas of law like defamation. However, equally unsupported claims on the left are met with little or no push back from hosts or the media.

Waters states "He absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder because of the lives that were lost for this invasion with his insurrection,. For the President of the United States to sit and watch the invasion and the insurrection and not say a word because he knew he had absolutely initiated it – and as some of them said, 'he invited us to come. We're here at the invitation of the President of the United States."

In Washington, D.C., a person is guilty of first degree murder when he or she specifically intends to kill another purposely with premeditation and deliberation, or kills while in the process of committing a felony. See Section 22-2104 . Most states require that first-degree premeditated murder be proven as a willful, deliberate, premeditated killing. That is treated as a specific intent crime with the showing of a purposive act or an act with express malice. You must generally show a specific intent to kill and premeditation is usually shown by evidence that a defendant reflected on the act or planned for the act of murder.

Waters' home state courts have dealt with this issue recently:

"Murder, whether in the first or second degree, requires malice aforethought. (§ 187.) Malice can be express or implied. It is express when there is a manifest intent to kill (§ 188, subd. (a)(1)); it is implied if someone kills with "no considerable provocation . . . or when the circumstances attending the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart" (§ 188, subd. (a)(2)). When a person directly perpetrates a killing, it is the perpetrator who must possess such malice. People v. Gentile (Riverside County Court December 2020)."

In this case, there is no evidence that Trump directly murdered anyone or sought the death of anyone. He is being accused of conspiring in the commission of such murders. That sounds more like a claim of being an aider and abetter to murder. However, even in California where charges can be based on the the natural and probable consequence of the aided and abetted crime, courts have balked at such broad interpretations. "Under the natural and probable consequences doctrine, an accomplice is guilty not only of the offense he or she directly aided or abetted (i.e., the target offense), but also of any other offense committed by the direct perpetrator that was the "natural and probable consequence" of the crime the accomplice aided and abetted (i.e., the nontarget offense)."

This distinction was again recently drawn in California:

"In Chiu, we held that the natural and probable consequences doctrine cannot support a conviction for first degree premeditated murder. (Chiu, supra, 59 Cal.4th at p. 167.) We reasoned that in the context of murder, the natural and probable consequences doctrine serves the purpose of "deterring aiders and abettors from aiding or encouraging the commission of offenses that would naturally, probably, and foreseeably result in an unlawful killing." (Id. at p. 165.) But this purpose "loses its force" when an accomplice is held culpable for first degree premeditated murder under a natural and probable consequences theory. (Id. at p. 166.) First degree premeditated murder carries significantly higher penalties than second degree murder and requires the additional mental state that the killing be "willful, deliberate, and premeditated." PEOPLE v. GENTILE Opinion of the Court by Liu, J. 12 (§ 189, subd. (a); Chiu, at p. 166.) Whether or not the direct perpetrator killed with premeditation "has no effect on the resultant harm. The victim has been killed regardless of the perpetrator's premeditative mental state." (Chiu, at p. 166.) We further concluded that subjecting an accomplice to enhanced punishment based solely on the "uniquely subjective and personal" mental state of the direct perpetrator was inconsistent with "reasonable concepts of culpability." (Chiu, supra, 59 Cal.4th at pp. 166, 165.)"

In her interview, Waters was apparently referencing reports that some of the rioters had planned in advance to storm the Capitol. On the day of the riot, many of us noted that some of the rioters clearly brought ropes and other items that indicated preparation to the attack. Those reports however cut both ways. It certainly shows that those individuals had premeditation, but it also shows that the speech itself may not have been the incitement for those individuals. Critics can fairly note that the President had engaged in reckless rhetoric for weeks. However, there is a difference between reckless and criminal speech. More importantly, if such comments are now dispositive evidence of premeditation for murder, it would allow such vicarious charges for homicide in a wide array of cases involving politicians.

While Waters has defended her long list of impeachable offenses as based on the view that "impeachment is whatever Congress says it is ," the same is not true of the criminal code.

[Feb 05, 2021] Trump May be on Trial, but System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted Consortiumnews

Feb 05, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

I t is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House.

On one side, Trump's endless stoking of political grievances -- and claims that November's presidential election was "stolen" from him -- spilled over into a mob storming the U.S. Capitol. They did so in the forlorn hope of disrupting the certification process of the Electoral College vote, which formally declared his opponent, Joe Biden, the winner.

On the other side, the Democratic Party instituted a second, unprecedented impeachment process in the slightly less forlorn hope of foreclosing any possibility of him running again in 2024.

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Barely concealing its alliance with the then-incoming Biden administration, Silicon Valley shut down Trump's social media megaphone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lobbied the Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut an "unhinged" Trump out of the chain of command, in a move that was reportedly rejected out of hand by Pentagon officials because, they told The New York Times , it would amount to a "military coup."

And Biden, who boasts that he was the author the Patriot Act years before 9/11, has been touting a new "domestic terrorism" bill, as though the U.S. did not already have a plethora of ways to crack down on dissent, of both the legitimate and the illegitimate varieties.

With that as the backdrop, Washington, D.C., designated Biden's inauguration last month a "national special security event."

Authoritarian Tribes

None of this is just the latest sign that the U.S. political system has degenerated into tawdry theater. It is growing evidence that U.S. politics is devolving into a permanent confrontation between two authoritarian tribes. Both are convinced that the other side is un-American, perverting the true republic. Both are unwilling to compromise, believing they share no common ground. And ultimately both are fighting for a rotten cause.

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This is not a divide between ethical and unethical politics. This clash is now a bitter grudge match. It is civil war by other means. Not only is the chasm between these rival camps widening, but the real criminals are making off -- as they always do -- with the loot.

Each tribe has been coalescing for a while now around a center of gravity. On the Republican side that became clear with the emergence of the Tea Party and the birther movement during President Barack Obama's tenure. But it took Trump's election as president in 2016 to create a proper oppositional center of gravity on the other side.

Those in the Democratic tribe who now disdain Trump and his supporters for their desperate refusal to accept November's result overlook how they greeted Trump's victory in 2016. They struggled against the legitimacy of that outcome too, even if they did not resort to the overt violence of the mob at the Capitol.

It began with arguments that, while Trump might have won the Electoral College vote, he lost the popular vote . Four years ago, the Electoral College also faced self-serving accusations that it had disenfranchised the majority.

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The Democratic tribe took to the streets as well, in protest marches in cities across the U.S. under the banner of the Resistance, denying Trump was their president. That was understandable, given his personal behavior and the policies he advocated. But it did not end there.

Russian Conspiracies

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The disavowal of the Trump presidency quickly regressed into a dangerous narrative -- one that has never properly gone away, despite the dearth of evidence to support it. The claim was not only that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win, but that Trump himself had actively colluded with Russia to steal the election from his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Anything that had damaged Clinton -- including emails showing that the Democratic leadership rigged its own primaries to make sure she was the party's candidate rather than Bernie Sanders -- got sucked into that vast conspiracy theory. That included the messenger of these bad tidings: WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

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For years, the Democratic tribe has invested its considerable energies in fruitless efforts to prove its theory, including the first bid to remove Trump through an entirely self-defeating impeachment process.

None of this could be justified politically. It was a Democrat counterpoint to Trump's MAGA slogan: "Make America Great Again". Democrats promised the much less catchy SAPD: "Save America from President Deplorable."

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Antagonistic Tango

For this tribe, Trump was an illegitimate president from the outset, one whose election to the highest office in the land revealed something unwholesome about their country they preferred to avert their gaze from because it might implicate them too. Removing Trump largely eclipsed the struggle to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.

The obsession with Trump above everything else seemingly rationalized any means -- fair or foul -- to be rid of him. Few thought about how this would look to his supporters or to those not already safely ensconced in one or other tribe.

To understand, they now need only look to the storming of the Capitol How they felt watching the building being ransacked -- a Deplorable putting his feet up contemptuously on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk -- was how Trump's tribe felt watching their president being denounced as a Russian agent and dragged through impeachment proceedings.

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This mood is not likely to dissipate. The two political tribes are locked in an antagonistic tango, mirroring each other's moves, each other's grudges, each other's sense of victimhood. Much more unites them than they would ever care to admit.

Festering Culture War

This may be the pathology, but what of the cause.

What we see here is the culmination of a festering culture war stoked by an unhealthy investment by both sides in a simple-minded and highly divisive identity politics.

Much has correctly been made of the white supremacism of the most loyal sections of Trump's tribe, and that was on show again during the invasion of the Capitol. The Confederate flag, the neo-Nazi slogans, the T-shirts extolling the Jewish supremacy of Israel are all indicators of a toxic politics of white grievance that may be less articulated but is still felt by a wider swath of Trump's supporting constituency.

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This ugly identity politics is rightly rejected by the other tribe, but is nonetheless mirrored in its equally deep commitment to identity politics. The progressive coalition of identities at the core of the Democratic Party may be more reassuring to modern sensibilities, but has served in practice to accentuate to parts of the Trump tribe the supposed threat to their white identity.

This is not to equate the justified struggle of Black Lives Matter against endemic racism, including in the police, with the reactionary forces seeking to preserve some notion of white privilege. It is to simply observe that when the political field of battle exclusively revolves around identity, then one cannot be surprised if each side continues to frame its struggle in precisely those terms.

Those who live by the identity sword are likely to die by that same sword.

The Trump tribe want their president, and the Republican Party more generally, to guarantee a white supremacism they fear is being eroded as the Democrat Party flaunts its progressive, multicultural credentials. The Democrat tribe, meanwhile, wants to challenge the old order -- and most especially reactionary institutions like local police forces -- that have been an oppressive bulwark against change.

This dynamic can lead only to permanent confrontation, bitterness and alienation.

Class Struggle

There is a way out of the dead-end culture war that pits one tribe against the other. It is to formulate an alternative, popular politics based on class struggle -- the 99 percent against the 1 percent. But neither the Republican nor the Democratic leaderships, or the respective medias that cheerlead them, has any interest in encouraging a political realignment of this sort.

The Democratic Party is not a vehicle for class struggle, after all. Like the Republican Party, it is designed to preserve the privileges of an elite. Its biggest donors, like the Republicans', are drawn from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, the arms industries. The political battle in the United States is between two parties of capital united by far more than divides them.

The shadow play of U.S. politics is the enervating, antagonistic confrontation of identities described above. While ordinary Americans get stoked into a mutual tribal loathing by a corporate media that profits from this theatre of hate, the elite enjoys a free hand to pillage the planet and the commons.

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While we fixate on identities that have been crafted to divide us, while we remain immersed in the surface of politics, while we are distracted from the real battle lines, those elites prosper.

Political paralysis may not harm the establishment. But it is profoundly damaging to us, the 99 percent, when our communities are being ravaged by a pandemic, when our economies are in meltdown, when the planet is on the brink of ecological collapse.

We need a functioning political system that reflects popular priorities, like Medicare For All, a dignified minimum wage and free college; that understands the urgency of the challenges posed by multiple crises; and that can marshal and channel our energies into solutions, not into endless, irresolvable confrontations based on grievances that have been cultivated to weaken us.

Trump is not the enemy. That target is far too small and limited. The class he belongs to is our enemy, as is the system of privilege he has spent the past four years upholding and his successor will defend just as assiduously.

Whether Trump is ultimately convicted or not in the Senate, the system that produced him will be acquitted -- by Congress, by the new president, by Wall Street, by the corporate media.

It is we who will pay the price.

Jonathan Cook is a former Guardian journalist (1994-2001) and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. He is a freelance journalist based in Nazareth. If you appreciate his articles, please consider offering your financial support .

This article is from his blog Jonathan Cook.net .

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[Feb 05, 2021] New Video Surfaces of Antifa-Insurgence Leader John Sullivan Training Antifa Soldiers and Selling Riot Equipment at his Website

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HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 16 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Exclusive: New Video Surfaces of Antifa-Insurgence Leader John Sullivan Training Antifa Soldiers and Selling Riot Equipment at his Website

By Jim Hoft
Published February 4, 2021 at 8:10am

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/exclusive-new-video-surfaces-antifa-insurgence-leader-john-sullivan-training-antifa-soldiers-selling-riot-equipment-website/

This dude's father (he was adopted) is a retired general.

The embedded video shows him teaching people how to dress in black bloc. Is he behind bars? Don't make me laff. Also this AP (agent provocateur) was right next to the woman that was shot dead on Jan. 6.

Black bloc gear is right out of Germany. This guy didn't learn these tactics on his own. The scary part is that the MSM is ignoring the real history of black bloc, out of Germany, and how it migrated here to the US.

[Feb 03, 2021] The "accountability" rhetoric speaks directly to the broad base that really wants to stick events of Jan 6 to the Republicans, bipartisanship be damned

I would expect more courage from a former bartender,
Feb 03, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

I'm filing the AOC stuff here, for reasons that will become obvious in a moment:

Here is the entire AOC Instagram on the Capitol Seizure:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fWNWoNaImQA

It's an hour-and-a-half long, and I just don't have time to listen to it all. It would be great any readers had to time and the inclination to pick out the highlights and put them in comments (and if you do, please include time codes).

"AOC on Instagram Live: Recounting Jan. 6 attack details draws more than 160K viewers" [ Staunton News-Leader ]. "[S]he laid out the fact that people knew violence was coming on Jan. 6. Members of Congress, trying to help her, sent messages as early as the Thursday before Jan. 6 that they expected bad things to go down as the Congress moved to certify the Electoral College results of the November election."

The News-Leader is a Gannet paper in the Shenendoah Valley, but they didn't pull the story from the wires, they had a reporter write it up. The last politician I can remember who made the story like this was, well Donald Trump.

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Trauma in a Moving and Powerful Instagram Live" [ Marie Claire ].

"On Monday night, in a brave and candid video on Instagram Live, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed her deep trauma following the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, and the prior traumas that had made it even more triggering. Ocasio-Cortez shared that she is a survivor of sexual assault: 'I haven't told many people in my life," she said. She began crying during her retelling of the events of Jan. 6, but fought to continue to tell her story. 'All of your traumas can, kind of, intersect and interact,' she explained. Ocasio-Cortez compared Republicans' insistence on telling her and other survivors of the Jan. 6 attack to 'get over it' to the tactics used by abusers. She added: 'The folks [false note, there] who are saying we should move on, we shouldn't have accountability, etc., are saying: 'Can you just forget about this so that we can do it again?' I'm not going to let it happen to me again and I'm not going to let it happen to our country."

I have mixed reactions to this. On the one hand the "we should just move on" attitude has done the country a lot of damage. Obama's version of this was " we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards ," and as a direct result Gina Haspel, a torturer, headed the CIA.

On the other, I would want expert testimony on whether traumas "intersect and interact," and how they do. On yet another, I'm deeply suspicious of the concept that trauma conveys authenticity, especially political authenticity. If trauma did convey authenticity, then PSTD-suffering soldiers would make the best cops. Finally, it's a category error, exactly on the order of confusing government with a household, to equate personal trauma with political violence. They may have similar roots (say, deaths of despair), and they may feel the same to the person experiencing them, but they are products of difference systems.

"AOC: Ocasio-Cortez recalls Capitol raid, calls for accountability" [ Al Jazeera ]. "US Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has described being terrified for her life during the storming of the US Capitol, doubling down on calls for Republican politicians to be held accountable.

In an emotional broadcast on Monday night, New York House member Ocasio-Cortez said she was harassed by those she identified as fans of former President Donald Trump for days before the January 6 incident and was warned by other members of Congress to be "careful" on the day of the rally."

To me, it looks like AOC -- a very, very talented politician -- is picking up the power that's lying in the street. First, the "survivor" rhetoric, like it or not -- I don't; see my comment above -- speaks directly to the bourgeois feminists of the Clintonite wing of the Democrat Party. Who else is doing that?

Second, the "accountability" rhetoric speaks directly to the broad (albeit PMC) base that really wants to stick it to the Republicans, bipartisanship be damned. Who else is doing that? (The pink pussy hat brigade will, of course, do whatever the leadership tells them to, but that's their initial, default, setting).

Third, in a party with a weak bench thirsting for non-geriatric leadership, AOC is stepping forward. Who else is doing that? Finally, speaking directly to her fan base (i.e., one assumes, voters, ultimately) on Instagram -- as, apparently, she while cooking (!) -- bypasses the press entirely.

Who else is doing that? Again, one thinks of Trump. I wonder if she does A/B testing? (There are all sorts of reasons to dislike AOC on policy -- I notices a long time ago she was saying "working class" a lot less -- but there's no denying her talents as a politician.)

freedomny , February 2, 2021 at 7:08 pm

Really sorry that AOC was scared for her life. Was gonna look it up re how many politicians have been killed by Americans in the past 100 years but .just too much energy.

We've all been traumatized.

45,000 Americans.die every year from no insurance.

This girl needs to get over herself.

The Rev Kev , February 3, 2021 at 12:01 am

"AOC on Instagram"

There is a shorter video by AOC linked in the following tweet and I will say this for her. She knows how to project an image. In the video you will see the black borders on either side, a cream background, and AOC dressed in a grayish-black top with her face being the only colour in this 1:37 min video. If these were not her decisions, then she must have a very good media advisor-

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1349329251875614720

[Feb 03, 2021] Make fire and police departments that receive federal grants have their members sign commitments not to engage in acts to overthrow the government.

Feb 03, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

Capitol Seizure

"'Be ready to fight': FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence detailing coordination of an assault" [ WaPo ]. "FBI agents around the country are working to unravel the various motives, relationships, goals and actions of the hundreds of Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Some inside the bureau have described the Capitol riot investigation as their biggest case since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and a top priority of the agents' work is to determine the extent to which that violence and chaos was preplanned and coordinated." • And if so, by whom .

"'Blame Trump' defense from alleged Capitol rioters dovetails with Democrats' impeachment case" [ CNN ]. "One by one, die-hard supporters of former President Donald Trump are now blaming him for their actions that day, after being charged by federal prosecutors and facing possible jail time. A lawyer for one rioter who allegedly attacked police officers with a baseball bat said he was "inspired" by Trump's incendiary speech at a rally beforehand. The so-called QAnon shaman, whose horned bearskin headdress made him go viral, now claims he was "duped" by Trump, his lawyer said. At this point, the statements may be more of a public relations strategy than an articulated legal defense. But they dovetail with Democrats' case in favor of impeaching and convicting Trump; they agree that the former president incited the deadly insurrection that overwhelmed the Capitol on January 6."

"A 2009 warning about right-wing extremism was engulfed by politics. There are signs it's happening again." [ USA Today ]. "In April 2009, federal intelligence officials issued a prescient warning to police departments around the country. 'Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat," experts in the Department of Homeland Security wrote. 'These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists – including lone wolves or small terrorist cells – to carry out violence.' It was one of DHS' most explicit mentions of homegrown terrorists since 9/11, one with a direct connection to the military. But the call to action was effectively buried after powerful Republican politicians and their allies in the right-wing media launched broadsides against President Barack Obama's administration and Democrats , alleging that they had disrespected the men and women in the U.S. military while attempting to surveil and silence conservatives. The blowback shifted the debate away from how to actually address the threat and into another partisan public spectacle." • Translating, the Democrats -- assuming good faith -- were weak. Yet another 2009 debacle from Obama.

"How to fix our domestic terrorist problem" [ Washington Examiner ]. "We saw five dead in the Jan. 6 attempted coup d'etat. We saw possible assassination plots against both former Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We saw coercion designed to prevent certification of President Biden's Electoral College victory. We now see the Capitol necessarily secured behind razor wire. But we also see some Republican members of Congress trying to sneak guns onto the House floor. One has even called for violence. It is time to confront these putschists." One suggested measure: 'Make fire and police departments that receive federal grants have their members sign commitments not to engage in acts to overthrow the government.'" • Hmm.

Impeachment

"House Dems make their impeachment case in pretrial brief" [ ABC ]. "'The only honorable path at that point was for President Trump to accept the results and concede his electoral defeat. Instead, he summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue,' the managers wrote in their brief submitted ahead of next week's trial of the former president." •

[Feb 03, 2021] The Trump Administration Viewed from the Right by John Morgan

Feb 03, 2021 | www.unz.com

The Trump experiment is over, and the strange journey that the last five years have been is now at an end. There are already lots of assessments being made about the meaning of Trump's presidency, but most of them are from either liberal or conservative viewpoints. It also needs to be evaluated from the viewpoint of the Dissident Right -- those of us such as myself who fall outside what is usually called "Right-wing" in today's mainstream. And no group had more dramatic ups and downs with Trump than the Dissident Right did.

I imagine my experience with Trump was the same as that of many other people reading this. When he first announced his candidacy in 2015, I was initially dismissive and didn't even think he'd make it to the primaries. It was when I saw him in the Republican debates that I decided that, first, he was preferable to the other candidates in both parties; and second, that he actually had some good positions, such as on immigration and non-interventionism. I never really put my faith in the guy -- I always thought people who hailed him as the "God Emperor" were being naïve -- but I could see that he was the least bad option among his many competitors (and "least bad" is all I ever look for when contemplating the American political scene). As his campaign developed, the signs were more and more encouraging -- mainly because Trump was free to just talk without having to deliver on anything he was saying.

No one was more flabbergasted than me when Trump actually managed to win, and like many people I allowed myself to become giddily optimistic for a few months after the election. I was proud of the fact that Michigan, where I vote, was one of the states that had dramatically swung over into Trump's column after having been solidly Democrat for decades, but it confirmed for me that the white working class, which remains Michigan's backbone despite the weakening of the American auto industry, had finally come to see more or less eye-to-eye with the Dissident Right on many issues. I had suspected this even before the election, but it was nice to see it confirmed in reality.

Perhaps, I thought, as an outsider and maverick, Trump could actually bring about some real change in Washington, especially with the help of genuine populists like Steve Bannon. But those hopes were soon dashed by the bombing of Syria only two and a half months after he took office, which seemed to herald the gradual rolling back of the entire agenda he had campaigned on. By 2018, with Bannon out, Bush leftover John Bolton as Secretary of State, the President himself embroiled in the seemingly endless Russia investigation, and the promised Wall nowhere to be found, it looked like the Swamp had subdued Trump after all.

Still, I never for a moment felt that the support the Dissident Right gave to Trump in 2016 had been a mistake. There was no question that Trump, as poor as his performance was from our perspective, was nevertheless preferable to what we know Hillary would have enacted. (In the run-up to the 2016 election, when people would ask me why I was voting for Trump, I would say, "I know exactly what Hillary will do; I can't say with any certainty what Trump will do, but he's at least saying some of the right things.") And whenever Trump spoke his own mind -- which he made sure to do often -- he usually stayed on message, even though we always knew that the reality would end up being different from his words. (Remember when he promised to abolish birthright citizenship in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections?) For us, I think the epitaph we can write on the tombstone of his presidency is "It could have been worse."

I don't know what Trump really believed while President, and quite honestly I don't care; it was his words and his actions that mattered, and even if it was all a cynical ploy, his impact on American politics and culture is undeniable. It became a tired cliché, but it was nevertheless true that Trump moved the Overton window further to the right in a way that isn't likely to be undone anytime soon. Many issues that were virtually nonexistent except at the margins of American political discourse before 2015 are now front and center. Some dislike Trump for his personality and failings, feeling that these contributed to his lack of achievement as President. While this is justified, it's indisputable that only someone like Trump, who was independently wealthy and already held celebrity status among the white working class, could have made the breakthrough as an outsider that he did. And even if he didn't succeed in remaking Washington, he nevertheless weakened the Washington Establishment during his tenure. Most importantly, it's always best when the Washington elite remains so divided and gripped by internal conflicts that it can't pursue its evil designs on the rest of us, and Trump turned the heat up in Washington beyond where it had been at any time since the Civil War.

We also shouldn't overlook the fact that Trump was continually embattled with the Washington Establishment, the opposition, the mainstream media, and on many occasions even his own party from the day he took office. It also shouldn't be forgotten that when Trump took office, his party controlled the executive branch and Congress, and yet the President still had to fight every step of the way to pursue his agenda -- often unsuccessfully. James O'Meara once commented that Trump was in fact a third-party candidate who managed to hijack one of the two major parties. This was true, and many Republicans in the House never lost sight of that, showing that their true loyalties lay with maintaining the Establishment rather than with supporting their erstwhile leader's agenda.

We can't ignore the short, spectacular life of the Alt-Right, either. Those of us who had been on the Dissident Right for many years prior, and who understood that the only way to bring America into line with genuinely Rightist principles would be to transform the country from its very foundations on issues such as citizenship, immigration, and capitalism, always saw Trump as merely a stepping stone to something grander and better. And indeed, although this fact has vanished into the mists of prehistory, before the 2016 election "Alt-Right" merely referred to anyone on the Right whose views fell outside those of the Republican Party; even Steve Bannon infamously told Mother Jones in 2016 that Breitbart was "the platform of the Alt-Right," a statement I imagine he came to regret later. I myself was happy to accept the label at first. And like many, I was naïve enough to think that the Alt-Right could make use of the mainstream media rather than the other way around.

Once they realized that a Trump presidency was a reality, the mainstream media quickly understood that the "Alt-Right," which was a nebulous phenomenon with no clear leadership or goals, could be used to discredit Trump and populism more generally. Its decentralized nature and lack of an organizational structure were in one sense a strength in that it was more difficult to pin down and target it; but at the same time, anyone ranging from libertarians to outright neo-Nazis could claim the mantle or be designated "Alt-Right" by clever journalists. As such, it was perfect from their perspective as a means of attacking the populist Right as a whole, since they spun the ridiculous narrative that the Alt-Right was somehow vaguely responsible for getting Trump elected. The fact is, of course, that there was never any relationship between what was called the Alt-Right and the Trump administration, but the Alt Right's media-appointed leaders were hungry for attention that the media was more than happy to provide -- and the rest is, regrettably, history.

It might have been possible to develop an alternative movement in late 2016 and 2017 that could have piggybacked on Trump's success while laying the groundwork for a genuinely innovative form of the American Right more in keeping with genuine Right-wing principles, and yet that could still have appealed to ordinary Americans. It quickly became apparent, however, that those individuals who found themselves thrust into the Alt-Right spotlight lacked the character, maturity, and judgment to make it happen. Being wizards at winning followers for websites, podcasts, and social media was no proper education to prepare them for entering the arena of actual politics. Granted, they were confronting forces far beyond what any marginal group could be expected to compete with; but by adopting tactics that had failed for George Lincoln Rockwell half a century earlier and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with actual Nazis and Klansmen, they played the role of cartoon Nazis that the media had cast them in to a tee. After being led into the trap that was Charlottesville, the Alt-Right's tombstone was written and Trump was never again able to plausibly deny that he was a white supremacist. We must persist in our efforts, but the fact remains that the Alt-Right's spectacular and tragically unnecessary failure will continue to hamper us for many years to come.

Despite our disappointment, we must still acknowledge that President Trump accomplished some goals that deserve our thanks. It must be granted that throughout his tenure, despite the constant accusations of warmongering by his opponents, he didn't start any new wars. There were a few close calls, of course, particularly with Syria and Iran, but none of America's enemies called his bluffs despite provocation and things remained at the level of low-intensity conflict. It is certainly true that when it comes to foreign policy, Trump did much more for Israel than he did for America, but he nevertheless made strides toward ending the conflicts he had inherited and never bowed to the pressure to start new ones. As a corollary to this, no Islamist terror attacks occurred within the United States during Trump's tenure apart from the shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, which puts him above both Bush and Obama in that category. (It struck me as odd that Trump didn't play this up more in his second campaign.)The most glorious moment of Trump's presidency for me, however, remains his refusal to denounce the Alt-Right in the notorious press conference that he held three days after Charlottesville. While it certainly wasn't the unequivocal defense of White Nationalism that the media has made it out to have been ever since, the fact that he refused to issue the standard denunciations of the Alt-Right that he had doubtless been asked to deliver stands for me as a rare moment of principle for President Trump. In the end, it meant nothing in practical terms, but it's one of the few clear examples we have that there was something deeper to his presidency than mere egotism. It's also a sign of how much worse things were to get over the subsequent years that he failed to show the same spirit when dealing with those of his supporters who stormed the Capitol, opting for submissiveness rather than the spirit of defiance that had characterized his campaign and the early days of his term.

Additionally, Trump's strident Euroskepticism forced Europe for the first time since the Second World War to consider pursuing greater independence from NATO and the US and to perhaps even solely pursue its own interests in foreign policy yet again, rather than serving as America's lapdog on many issues and continuing to rely on the US for defense. It remains to be seen if this trend will persist or reverse now that Trump is gone, but we can hope that more forward-looking European politicians will continue thinking in terms of preparing for a post-American global order.

We should also bear in mind that the Trump administration established good relations with Right-wing populist parties in Europe in a way that would have been unimaginable under any other presidency. The present governments of Hungary and Poland, in particular, enjoyed friendly relations with Washington for the first time and will sorely miss Trump now that Biden has made it clear that he intends to return to a confrontational policy with them. (At the same time, it's worth noting that some European politicians on the Right I have spoken with said that they preferred a Trump defeat, since they feel that Trump and American politics more generally have become an obsessive distraction for the European Right and that his removal would allow Europeans to focus on their own problems again.)

Domestically, Trump could hardly be considered a success on his signature issue, immigration, although he wasn't entirely a failure, either. We certainly didn't get anything like the sort of sweeping and radical changes on immigration that many of us had hoped for in the beginning. Indeed, the Trump administration did not pass a single new piece of immigration-related legislation. By some metrics , in fact, certain types of immigration remained the same or increased during Trump's tenure. In those currents where it decreased, some of it appears to have occurred as a result of the pandemic rather than due to any political action. And of course, the Wall remains mostly unbuilt and now surely faces cancellation.

At the same time, Trump did fortunately withdraw the US from the United Nations' ethnomasochistic Global Compact on Migration. He did make limited progress in a few other areas as well , particularly making it more difficult for "refugees" to come to the US and for illegal immigrants to remain there. And he did put a stop to some of the more troubling immigration policies that have emanated from both parties in the past, such as the push for amnesties for illegals, and called a temporary moratorium on visas for "guest workers" in response to the pandemic.

The issue that could be regarded as his second-biggest signature issue was opposing globalization and helping ordinary working Americans; bringing industry back home was a constant theme of his first campaign. In the end, however, Trump remained largely ineffectual in this area. We should thank him for ending the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). But the treaty he signed to replace the former, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement , is only slightly better than its precursor. The other nations which were part of the TPP ended up signing the virtually identical Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which the US has not signed but which it remains eligible to join at any time. In other words, the Trump administration didn't do much to halt the drumbeat of globalization.

When it comes to the Dissident Right, Trump offered little but empty rhetoric. Despite occasionally talking about establishing controls over Big Tech to prevent their blatant censorship of non-conformist views that challenge the neoliberal narrative, no action was ever taken in this direction. Apart from his Charlottesville press conference, neither did Trump ever take a stand in defense of white advocates, and he often went in the other direction, such as in September , when he promised to declare the "Ku Klux Klan" a terrorist organization (thus opening the door for any Dissident Right groups to be targeted given the lack of an easily identifiable unified KKK organization), calling for Juneteenth to be declared a federal holiday, and promising $500 billion in aid to black communities.

Thus, President Trump achieved modest successes at best, and even those issues on which he won victories can be easily reversed by the Biden administration -- and in some cases they are already doing so. But such is the ephemeral nature of politics in a liberal democracy.

On the plus side, the Republican Party now finds itself in its direst predicament since the 1940s, if not before, as a result of Trumpism taking root within it. The conflict between populists and neoliberals within its ranks, which now threatens to come to a head as a result of Trump's second impeachment, may very well end the party for good, or at least result in a split -- either outcome of which might perhaps open the door for a more genuinely Right-wing party to fill the void it will leave behind. Only time will tell, but if it happens, it will be a parting gift from Trump to have achieved what once seemed impossible, back when the Republican Party was nothing more than the party of multiculturalism and globalism plus Jesus and low taxes.

President Trump's most important contribution is that he lit the flame that genuinely started the fire of Right-wing populism in America after previous attempts such as Pat Buchanan's campaigns and the Tea Party ( yech ) had guttered out without raising the temperature in Washington by even a degree. Whether that flame can continue burning now that he's gone remains to be seen, but we can still hope that it was the start of a trend rather than a temporary deviation. If American populism is to survive, it will clearly stand on the Right; the Left has already amply demonstrated in its underhanded suppression of more populist Democratic candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard that they will not tolerate the rise of any form of Leftism that doesn't conform to the Washington Elite's expectations.

Now, Unpresident Biden and the entire Democratic Party apparatus, emboldened by their largely successful efforts to discredit the Right as a whole by blaming it in its entirety for the Capitol occupation, believe themselves to be in a place where they can reshape American politics according to their own agenda without any regard for the other side whatsoever. As they've done continuously since the 2016 election, the Democrats always choose to double down on their extremist rhetoric rather than doing any soul-searching about how they might have contributed to bringing the situation about, nor about how they might be able to seek some sort of compromise with the other side. They are too self-righteous to be capable of critical reflection.

The Capitol "coup," harebrained as it was, certainly does not even begin to compare to the Democrats' -- and some Republicans' -- efforts to undermine the Trump administration and the will of the American electorate at every turn over the past four years, which to my mind much more accurately fits the definition of a coup. It will be the task of the Dissident Right -- and hopefully the Right more generally, if they have the stones -- to do to the Left exactly what they have been doing to us by throwing endless obstacles in their path, denying their legitimacy, and constantly calling them to account for their injustices and excesses at every possible opportunity.

The Democrats are not as strong as they believe. Even most liberals only supported Biden grudgingly and purely out of expediency. Unpresident Biden is America's Brezhnev -- his health and stamina failing, he is merely an old Establishment tool who has been resurrected in an attempt to prop up an order that everyone knows is on its last legs. A telling video from the inauguration shows Biden passing a contingent of Marines on guard duty, who any sitting president is supposed to salute, being the Commander-in-Chief. Biden just shambles past them without a gesture, oddly mumbling "salute the Marines" under his facemask. The quite plausible theory that has been making the rounds is that Biden was being instructed on what to say and do through an earpiece, and that he mistakenly repeated an instruction to salute the Marines rather than actually doing it. This seems a good metaphor for his entire administration. (If you're wondering who is on the other end of Biden's earpiece, it might perhaps be one of the many Jews with whom he has packed his cabinet -- such a number that makes Trump's pandering to the Jewish lobby seem tame in comparison. What happened to diversity? Does the White House need affirmative action for whites nowadays?)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/21BU0YK0cO4?feature=oembed

Like the late Soviet Union, however, Washington Inc. will project images of power in order to conceal the reality of their order's decrepitude. That is surely the motive behind the deployment of 26,000 soldiers to Washington, DC -- more than the number currently stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined -- in response to the supposed Right-wing "threat." It isn't about security, it is a show of force to prove to America that they are back and that they intend to keep Washington and propagate their policies by any means necessary. Further, I predict that the US will engage in some significant military action within the next year to make a similar show of force on the world stage, flexing its muscles to prove that America intends to resume its role as the world's policeman.

Starting from before the inauguration, the Left has been making their intention to declare war on anything authentically white or Rightist clear. But while it was very easy for the Establishment to muzzle the few thousand adherents of the Alt-Right, it will be much more difficult for them to silence the 75 million Americans who voted for Trump -- in many cases not because they loved Trump but simply because they wanted to prevent the return of the ruling clique that had been governing our country entirely unopposed for decades before Trump's rise.

In the final analysis, the most important lesson to be taken away from the Trump administration is that the last five years were never about Trump himself. American populism didn't start with him and it won't end with him. Samuel Francis was already predicting the rise of a populist figure like Trump in the 1990s, even heralding a " revolution from the Right " in a way that seems extremely prescient today. What the Capitol occupation showed is that the populist current has grown beyond Trump's ability to channel and contain it. As a result -- maybe -- we have an opportunity to transcend him and construct something real out of the movement he energized, and do it better.

The real news of the last few months was the fact that 11 million more Americans voted for Trump in 2020 over 2016, despite the ongoing demographic changes and despite all of his flaws and failures. There is nothing that more aptly proves that it wasn't all merely about him than this. American populism isn't dead. White America isn't dead. That's why I didn't use a photo of Trump himself to illustrate this post, but rather one of his supporters -- ordinary Americans, who were the real motor behind these changes in the political landscape.

I can't say at present what will come next for the Dissident Right. I'm not sure who will, or even could, emerge to form the leadership of a post-Trump populist movement. Perhaps those who follow the American political scene more closely than I do might have an inkling of who is waiting in the wings that might be qualified to take charge. One thing that is certain is that these new leaders must be completely disconnected in every public way from the fiasco that was the Alt-Right. That brand is dead. But hopefully what is best in the Dissident Rightist milieu can still inform whatever follows in our, and Trump's, footsteps.

With Trump's wings clipped, ordinary white Americans are looking for a leader. Here's hoping they can finally get the one they deserve.

elvisroy0000 , says: January 26, 2021 at 2:02 pm GMT • 4.0 days ago

https://rushlimbaughjrjr.blogspot.com/2021/01/biden-harris-shipwreck-2021.html

Well Lets see interesting year Biden wins ,Pennsyllvanis by 25,000 more votes than Registered voters. He wins Wisconsin by 17,000 more votes than voters, their were two states with over 300,000 combinred votes that were from people who did not exist, But according to the courts all the way up to the supreme court who said it was legal, needless to say i no longer, trust the supreme court

Chris Moore , says: Website January 26, 2021 at 4:01 pm GMT • 3.9 days ago

Trump succeeded in two things, both for the Jewish cause: advanced the Zionist interest in Israel, and put back the opposition to the liberal-neocon Jewish establishment in America. How is that in any way a "win" for authentic America Firsters?

Ann Coulter got it right: His loyalties were to himself and his entitled (Zionist) bloodline.
https://anncoulter.com/2021/01/06/the-election-is-over-heres-the-truth-about-trumpxxx/

Exalted Cyclops , says: January 27, 2021 at 8:10 am GMT • 3.3 days ago

Trump was never anything but a con from the start. Don't feel bad, lot's of us were conned...

RoatanBill , says: January 27, 2021 at 10:39 am GMT • 3.2 days ago

I was proud of the fact that Michigan, where I vote

No real dissident votes. When one votes, he is buying into the scam that continually produces the next savior and continually produces nothing but more repression.

A real dissident understands he is getting reamed and won't cooperate in his own demise. A dissident has a brain that actually thinks. A voter is a mindless spectator in the endless game of politics purposely designed to provide a false sense of control for people too stupid to understand the system offers them no control.

Brian Reilly , says: January 27, 2021 at 12:59 pm GMT • 3.1 days ago

Trump was a little bit better choice than the other candidates. And they were really, really, really bad. I was not disappointed in Trump because I never expected much out of him. RIP Donny!

troof , says: January 30, 2021 at 5:32 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

It's always amazing to see how many right-wingers have invented a country for themselves called "this country", which is everywhere, has no population, but lives in their minds anyway. All for the sake of a chimera called "the white working class".

How is it an imaginary class which is actually a minority, and that has no history anywhere is also going to rule over a continent of 50 States with 300+ million people?

Everything "right wing" is a mental fantasy cult.

Jimmy le Blanc , says: January 30, 2021 at 6:58 am GMT • 7.7 hours ago

I called it the day he rode down the escalator. I was happy he won, but not happy with his performance. Even so, I voted for him again, because the alternative was much worse.

Trump ran on a Democrat 1980 platform: manufacturing jobs, family values, everything the Democrats were before homosexuals, Scientism, and "people of color" changed the party. Hardly "right wing," but given today's politics, who knows what the labels mean anymore. Contrary to the New York Times, he was not a racist or a fascist. He pandered more to blacks and Hispanics than he did to Whites. His pardon of two negro rappers just before he left office was disgusting. Allowing that Kardashian whore into the Oval Office was likewise disgusting. And his Jewish in-laws were nauseating.

He was not my ideal candidate, but, as I said, the alternative was far worse. As for the future, I will not vote again. We are unlikely to ever see a promising leader that Whites can follow.

Yukon Jack , says: January 30, 2021 at 7:53 am GMT • 6.8 hours ago

From a right wing perspective, Trump was in bed with the enemy Israel.

animalogic , says: January 30, 2021 at 7:55 am GMT • 6.8 hours ago
@Exalted Cyclops

If Jared is involved, then the seeds of corruption are already sprouting.

gotmituns , says: January 30, 2021 at 9:26 am GMT • 5.3 hours ago

trump was/is a carnival huckster who fooled enough people to become president.

Anonymous [199] Disclaimer , says: January 30, 2021 at 9:34 am GMT • 5.1 hours ago

While it is true that Trump didn't start the war with Syria, that honor belongs to our 44th White President, make no mistake: we are at war with Syria and should not be.

Can everybody please stop calling it "immigration"? And start calling it "illegal alien invasion"? Immigration is not the problem although the H1B visa program is a disaster for American workers, just a way to import cheap mostly Indian labor and it needs a moratorium.

Ghost of Emanuel Swedenborg , says: January 30, 2021 at 9:45 am GMT • 4.9 hours ago

I think the author is far too generous in his assesssment of Trump. The only positive thing I can see was that he didn't start any new wars, only maintained the ones that was although the blatant zionist provocation of Iran was unforgivable.

It all started the first day after the election when Trump et al decided that they would not be going in opposition to their own party. That was his first mistake. His econd mistake mistake was not hiring people loyal to him and Bannon's vision and third mistake was being a dumbfuck who let himself be led into the most stupid things by the corrupt -- - Kushner who had way too much influence over everything, yes everything, in the administration.

Ultimately Trump was a bloviating buffoon (Although that was known to anybody reasonable before the election) with a degree of narcissism never seen in a white goy in politics before that was only thinking about himself the whole time, without any convictions at all.
He squandered the first two years on going along with the GOPe agenda and ultimately the only people who got anything out of his presidency was blacks/criminals, the left (Because he riled them up and poked them while never using the force of the state to shut them down, even dropping his own voter fraud investigation halfways and crying on twitter that somebody should do something about so many different things when he was the President – an absurd thing to do), the rich 1 % elite and Jews (But i repeat myself).

If Russia anneses Crimea, which was a part of the country until the 1950s or 60s, it's a crime against humanity. If Israel annexes the West bank it's only good and right.

Why? Because Jews run the USA and Trump did nothing at all to stand up to them in any real way that gave any results (And I mean implicitly, not explcitly of course).

R2b , says: January 30, 2021 at 12:50 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago

As mr Morgan said, its not about Trump, it is American Populism rising, and betrayed once again. I
Israel got the most!
Four years wasted, and no organizing but ludicruos fringe alt-right queers, and nazi-fan boys!
This should be about the ordinary people, 75 million, long since betrayed by the democrats calling them "deplorables" and "fly-over-people".
Organize now!
Pick up Tulsi Gabbard and forget about Bernie Sanders!
Create a movement and form resistance, before they jab you out in space!

BannedHipster , says: Website January 30, 2021 at 1:56 pm GMT • 46 minutes ago

The record is quite clear at this point.

Trump never cared about immigration, the wall, deporting illegals, bringing jobs back, ending the wars for Israel in the Middle East.

Trump was always, 100%, about Israel's Likud agenda.

[Jan 29, 2021] Were Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Involved In Planning, Executing The Capitol Hill Siege- - CD Media

Jan 29, 2021 | creativedestructionmedia.com

he direct evidence is Pravy Sektor's Sergei Dybynyn at the front of the violent Capitol groups yelling "Faster! Faster!" in Russian. At first, the media started trying to paint Dybynyn as a Russian propagandist and provocateur. But, the fact Dybynyn received a medal from former Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko for his work changed that story and big media dropped it. Because of his work for Poroshenko, he is wanted for supporting terrorism in the Donbass Lugansk People's Republic.

In August 2020, we reported on the ties between Ukrainian neo-Nazis and US Antifa. The Ukrainian fascists were given asylum in the US by the Obama administration working with John Brennan in the tens of thousands from late 2016 to 2020. When the FBI caught on to the violent groups relocating to the US from Ukraine, they stopped it. Over 17,000 Ukrainian nationalists emigrated during this timeframe.

According to the WaPo article, "an unlikely nationality has come to represent a disproportionate share of the refugees who have been entering the United States in recent years: Ukrainians.

The United States last year resettled more nationals from Ukraine, a country that barely registers in the United Nations' assessments of the global refugee crisis, than it did almost any other nationality Many of the newly arrived Ukrainians have ended up here in Washington state, near Seattle "

In that article series we warned the large groups of Ukrainian nationalists came to the US for the purpose of beefing up riots against Donald Trump after they started. This Obama policy brought the worst of the worst into the US under a false asylum claim until it was finally stopped.

Sergei Dybynyn self-identifies as a Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) member in the middle photo. The blood and soil (red and black) menorah is what Jewish members wear showing off affiliation.

The connection between Ukraine's radical nationalists (fascists) and AntiFa-BLM is they began their history together. Azov battalion which I'll be focusing on is another Pravy Sektor spinoff and US aid funding goes through Pravy Sektor leader Dmitro Yarosh hands.

Time Magazine's January 7 th article seems to be a lead-in waiting for the proof of Azov's participation in the Capitol siege. The article lays it out and makes that point.

"Outside Ukraine, Azov occupies a central role in a network of extremist groups stretching from California across Europe to New Zealand, according to law enforcement officials on three continents.

"Azov has been recruiting, radicalizing, and training American citizens for years," the letter said. Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, later confirmed in testimony to the U.S. Senate that American white supremacists are "actually traveling overseas to train."

In their letter to the State Department in 2019, U.S. lawmakers noted that "the link between Azov and acts of terror in America is clear." The Ukrainian authorities have also taken notice."

Former Ukrainian president Petr Poroshenko has supported the work of Pravy Sektor and Azov since 2014 when they propelled him into power; they in turn support him. Poroshenko has worked non-stop to unseat Donald Trump since the 2016 election season.

Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach published taped conversations between Poroshenko and then Vice President Joe Biden explicitly detailing how Poroshenko fabricated allegations about Paul Manafort in an attempt to derail the Trump campaign.

CD Media's investigation headlined "BREAKING: Ukrainian MEP Releases Further Biden Tapes JOE CONSPIRED WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AGAINST TRUMP ." The media claimed this was just an attempt to interfere with Joe Biden's campaign even though the proof was clear Biden was party to election interference in 2016 . From the 2016 until the impeachment vote in 2021, Poroshenko and the Democrats focused the Information Operations tools, methods, and assets the Obama-Biden administration set Ukraine up with on the Trump presidency.

What kind of opportunities requiring courage would Ukraine be looking for? The following Poroshenko tweet after the Capitol siege caught my eye for that reason.

The ICC is investigating Ukraine for atrocities committed by Azov and Pravy Sektor on his watch as president and even before any of the facts are known, he's condemning Donald Trump. Was he in on it? I started watching for a cookie to be thrown to him and didn't have to wait long for it.

On January 11 th , the US Treasury sanctioned the Ukrainians who exposed Poroshenko and Joe Biden's effort against Trump as well as Burisma ties. MP Andrey Derkach also exposed the details of the Biden-Burisma scandal at the same time. Exposing the Biden-Ukraine 2016 election interference is the same as the Russian election interference narrative in 2020.

Poroshenko did take advantage of every window of opportunity to make sure Biden made it past January 6 th .

What you are about to read raises serious questions for me. Is there such a thing as too many coincidences? When does coincidence line up to conspiracy? This is Maxim Yarosh (Макс Ярош). According to his own statements, his job in Azov is infiltration and crowd agitation. Yarosh is a Pravy Sektor member and very active in the violence in Ukraine from Maidan until now. As you can see in the photo, Poroshenko awarded him medals for his service. His reputation for thuggishness speaks for itself.

In the photo below, he is in the first row, second from the left, and on the right is former US Ambassador Geoff Pyatt. Ukrainian soldiers didn't take photos with Pyatt unless they have high enough standing with Petr Poroshenko. Poroshenko and Yarosh knew each other well going all the way back to Pyatt's tenure.

Around the January 9 th through the 11 th , Yarosh makes a point of establishing he was in Quito, Ecuador for a religious pilgrimage (his words). The timing itself raises an eyebrow and the proof he posted on Facebook are two photos showing him at the airport and this one placing him outside the Mayor San Jose Seminary showing off his neo-nazi tattoos.

Even if we know one Pravy Sektor member, Sergei Dybynyn, was videoed taking part in the Capitol siege, so far it's not newsworthy. But if Yarosh was there, then things change completely.

At the same time, according to Petr Poroshenko, he took his family (wife and children) to Ecuador. His story is they flew in under an assumed name (fake passports), rented a yacht, and toured the Galapagos Islands for a couple of weeks starting at the end of December until around January 11 th or 12 th .

The circumstantial evidence that points to the possibility Yarosh was involved in the Capitol siege, which involves Poroshenko, was reported in the news. Maxim Yarosh made a point of confronting Petr Poroshenko on the flight to Amsterdam and again after they landed.

CDMedia is being de-platformed and obviously too effective! We need your support to put more reporters in the field! Help us here!

In light of the events on the 6 th , this looks like a crude attempt at establishing an alibi for Maxim Yarosh. The following video is unedited and of poor quality. Unless you speak Russian, I'd suggest turning the volume off and concentrating on what's wrong with the video.

Petr Poroshenko was the President of Ukraine until 2019. Ex-presidents have State provided bodyguard details for life. If you google "Poroshenko bodyguard" you'll see why Poroshenko doesn't travel without bodyguards anywhere.

There were no bodyguards on the plane intervening or even visible. There were none at the airport to intervene for Poroshenko. The ex-president looks like he's playing a part.

Ukrainian Billionaires like Poroshenko that fly halfway across the world to rent a yacht for a few weeks don't fly business class on commercial airliners. Looking at the seating arrangement, he might as well have gone with economy class. His wife kneels in the aisle next to his seat to take part in the conversation. It makes you wonder if he moved to this seat just for the video.

Petr Poroshenko and his wife are the only two people not wearing COVID masks on the flight which makes them the only two people that were 100% identifiable on the video.

At the airport, for a few seconds, Poroshenko drops back a few steps talking with what might be another radical. Again, there are no presidential bodyguards to be found.

Here's the problem. Yarosh has the motive, method, time, and opportunity to have been part of the Capitol siege.

Yarosh is the right guy for the job, has the needed skill sets and mentality, and most importantly places himself with the one guy in the world that wants to make a Capitol siege event happen so he can claw back into power.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/501664300?dnt=1&app_id=122963

If anyone has facial recognition capabilities, this is a key person to look for at the Capitol.

Poroshenko's Ukrainian neo-Nazis and AntiFa

According to AntiFa, from the beginning of the group in pre-Nazi Germany, they were a socialist group fighting fascists like the Nazis. While the statement is almost true in a specific timeframe, they were never the social humanitarian heroes they pretend to be.

The leader of the political group Antifa belonged to at the time was an architect of the final solution during WWII. That's a little different than they like to present themselves.

AntiFa's history can be summarized like this -- the group started out as the military wing of the German Communist Party (KPD) . Before the rise of Hitler, they supported Stalin and Marxist socialism. Nazis were fascists. The KPD didn't like other socialist groups so they were labeled fascist too.

The KPD's armed group was AntiFa and they fought in the streets against every group the KPD labeled fascist. The KPD decided it liked Hitler so Stalin was fascist. Then Hitler was fascist again. After this they merged with the SA, better known as the Brownshirts and Stalin was fascist again.

The Waffen SS was formed as a subgroup by the SA (Antifa) which was demanding the socialism Adolf Hitler promised them.

"The Munich-born American historian Konrad Heiden was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, remarking that within the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks there were "large numbers of Communists and Social Democrats" and that "many of the storm troops were called 'beefsteaks' – brown outside and red within." The switching of political parties was at times so common that SA men would jest that "[i]n our storm troop there are three Nazis, but we shall soon have spewed them out." Wikipedia

Hitler didn't like the political power the leader of the SA , Ernst Rohm was gaining or the AntiFa SA elements who were looting, robbing, and raping and demanding socialism while he was trying to consolidate power. He set up the Reichstag fire to deal with all the Nazi's undesirables and his competitor. The night of the long knives followed.

The Nazis prosecuted the KPD-AntiFa's top leader, Ernst Torgler. After Torgler was found innocent, he worked for Reinhard Heidrich in 1941. Hitler called Heidrich the man with the iron heart.

In 1942, they presented "The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem." Reinhard and the KPD-AntiFa leader Torgler were the architects of the Holocaust.

In 1941, Ukrainian nationalists formalized their relations in with the SA and SS Antifa groups with 3 Waffen SS Battalions.

In 1991, the last Ukrainian nationalist leader from that period (Slava Stetsko) immigrated to Ukraine and started her own political party with a militant wing. The militant wing called Trizub-Bandera is led by Dmitro Yarosh, the head of today's Pravy Sektor, Azov, and the other groups that came out of the 2014 Maidan.

German Foreign Policy notes the successors to Slava Stetsko's OUN (Ukrainian Nationalists) are Svoboda, CUN, Pravyi Sector, and UNA-UNSO.

Ultra-Nationalist UNA-UNSO also doubles as Ukraine's Antifa and has taken this mantle for a few decades.

Why would Ukraine neo-nazis help Antifa and the Democrats with the Capitol siege? In the photo they're working together in Lviv, Ukraine.

All three share the same politics. Imagine the 3 rd Reich without Hitler. Imagine.

It's not only the Ukrainian nationalists and US Antifa-BLM, but over 120+ Congressmen and Senators from both parties support the groups that made this happen and should be investigated formally.

[Jan 29, 2021] EXCLUSIVE- Independent Journalist Tayler Hansen- A Riot that Turned Deadly, What I Witnessed at the US Capitol Riot

Jan 29, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

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John Sullivan, ANTIFA organizer, and BLM Activist is seen telling Officers to "Go home." After being arrested he faced the following charges; civil disorder, disorderly conduct, and entering a restricted building without authority. Almost immediately after being detained, he was released with no bail.

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A man shifted Ashli's body after she fell from the window. Three Capitol Police Officers are seen on the stairs, none of which attempted to apply medical aide to Ashli's gunshot wound. For a brief moment I attempted to provide light so the gunshot wound could be found. When located, pressure was applied but there was nothing we could have done to save her.

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In Conclusion

I, Tayler Hansen, in no way, shape, or form support the events that unfolded on the 6th. With that being said, it doesn't take a genius to know it's impossible for unarmed protestors to have successfully breached one of the most secure buildings on Earth, while the Vice President was inside. As time passes one thing becomes more clear, the Capitol was the perfect set up, and Trump supporters took the bait.

The Capitol siege was the biggest political power grab in modern-day history. The Left has officially shifted the spotlight, and this time they're coming for Trump supporters. We're witnessing the most intense roll out of Big Tech censorship we've ever seen. Which just so happens to be targeting President Trump, conservatives, and what's left of real journalists. Big Tech told conservatives to create their own platform if they didn't want to be censored, so they did. In response, Apple and Google removed that platform Parler, an app founded on free speech. Mainstream media is attempting to silence independent and fact-based reporting, forming the ultimate monopoly on the so-called "truth". They have Americans right where they want them.

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This was ANTIFA's proudest, and most accomplished moment yet. Known ANTIFA provocateurs have been exposed for causing the initial violence and unrest at the Capitol, but it doesn't matter. Left-wing extremist groups have caused over $2B in property damage, attempted to burn down Federal Buildings, and are responsible for over 30 deaths since last May of 2020. There were never any reports of an "insurrection" or "terrorist attack" when ANTIFA attempted to occupy Federal Buildings in Portland or the historic courthouse in Nashville. Left-wing terrorists have received nothing but praise from elected officials, celebrities, and mainstream media throughout their existence.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media has labeled everyone at the US Capitol "Domestic Terrorists" even the hundreds of thousands who were there in DC to listen to President Trump and then left the area after he ended his speech. We're bearing witness to the ultimate double standard.

MasterJedi_Yoda • 5 hours ago ,

"The Capitol siege was the biggest political power grab in modern-day history. "

That's a negative, Sir. The biggest political grab in modern-day history was the theft of the 2020 Presidential election from President Trump right before our very own eyes.

Spike Springer MasterJedi_Yoda • 5 hours ago • edited ,

It's the modern day equivalent of the Reichstag fire which allowed Hitler to rule without restraint, and let him crush all dissent toward the State.

thegentletruth Spike Springer • 4 hours ago ,

And the indirect proof?
Now D.C. must be militarized indefinitely
because of all the violence on the right.
What violence had the right committed
over the previous 12 months? Almost none.
Who was rioting nonstop for the past year?
This violence is like "racism" in the universities--
yes, there is racism--but perpetuated by whom?

Reichstag Riot indeed.

ricocat1 thegentletruth • 4 hours ago ,

The lying leftist media, and RINO Quisling enablers, will allow the Democrat Nazis to use this fake "Reichstag Fire" to impose a dictatorship upon the United States.

ZaSu Pitts ricocat1 • 4 hours ago ,

Was FBI informant Enrique Tarrio was running a off the books operation when he helped create the Proud Boys in 2016 around the time the RUSSIA!!! hoax was created by the FBI as well?

Brian Virgin ZaSu Pitts • 4 hours ago ,

This is about painting a target on Tarrio's back. What other purpose could it serve? Just the kind of sleazeball tactics one expects from the Derp State. And even if it was true, so what? The people he allegedly help snag were "bad hombres."

ZaSu Pitts Brian Virgin • 3 hours ago ,

Target?
Good!!!!
He put over a dozen people in Fed were there is no parole.
The guy is a FBI snitch and he was being run by the FBI when he helped "create" PB.
The Proud Boys are a FBI creation.

ZaSu Pitts Brian Virgin • 3 hours ago ,

You are a member of the FBI created Proud Boys!
Do you get a junior FBI agent badge with your membership?

CLM ZaSu Pitts • 2 hours ago • edited ,

Who the heck knows. At this point. What's it matter. No one can be trusted. Not even you. You could be an Demokkkrat communist operative feeding false information to stir up conflict. That is what they want. The Demokkkrats sent Antifa in to stir up trouble at the Capitol. That is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany to protect the 3rd Reich. Now we have the Demokkkrats playing the same thing. We all all screwed. It isn't going to end well.

AgtOso ZaSu Pitts • 6 minutes ago ,

Fed prisoners get good/gain time so your parole is moot.

Brian Virgin Psyops Vet • 40 minutes ago ,

Already did. She was spewing nonsense. Proud Boys was started by Gavin McInnes. So I guess he's and FBI informant as well. The whole story stinks, and only serves the purposes of the Derp State. And yet this troll is desperate to blow it up out of all proportion. Cui bono? I like GP, but the commenters aren't necessarily the most sophisticated crowd, given the upvotes she's received.

[Jan 29, 2021] Five Days After Biden Inauguration, Judge Rules Late Changes To VA Election Law That Allowed Late Mail-in-Ballots Without Pos

Notable quotes:
"... not making news ..."
Jan 29, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

One case that's not making news in the Democrat Party's mainstream media is a decision made by a Virginia judge on Monday. The judge ruled that last-minute changes made by election officials to allow absentee ballots with missing or illegible postmarks to be counted is illegal.

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Washington Examiner- "This is a big win for the Rule of Law," said Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams, who represented Frederick County electoral board member Thomas Reed in the case. "This consent decree gives Mr. Reed everything he requested -- a permanent ban on accepting ballots without postmarks after Election Day and is a loss for the Virginia bureaucrats who said ballots could come in without these protections."

The case was over a Virginia Board of Elections rule issued in August that allowed mail-in ballots without a postmark to be received up to three days after the November election.
The new Virginia Board of Elections rule notified county election boards that any ballots "received by the general registrar's office by noon on the third day after the election but does not have a postmark, or the postmark is missing or illegible" should not be rendered invalid. The elections board decided a week later that those ballots should be counted. One win for Virginia voters who care about election integrity. It's a pity this practice wasn't stopped BEFORE the ballots were tabulated in the November election.

[Jan 29, 2021] Can You Steal a Presidency That Doesn't Exist- -- Strategic Culture

Notable quotes:
"... America's Collapse of Government and Crisis of Legitimacy hasn't gone away. Denial and repression never work. The Worst is Yet to Come. ..."
Jan 29, 2021 | www.strategic-culture.org

America's Collapse of Government and Crisis of Legitimacy hasn't gone away. Denial and repression never work. The Worst is Yet to Come.

The presidential inauguration of Joe Biden passed over peacefully: But then it wasn't a presidential inauguration at all.

The dark genius vision of Philip K. Dick, America's Kafka, greatest and therefore most widely feared and ignored of US writers proved unerringly true again. The Reality of Things is far too difficult, far too disturbing to even attempt any more. Just hang a handwritten tiny note on any piece of junk and 330 million Americans will happily believe that it is more real than reality. Though in reality, not even that.

The official viewing figures of the Biden inauguration on January 20 are now in, and they have even been published. They have predictably been presented as more proof of the restored triumph of American "democracy." Yet the simple figures took an extraordinarily different story.

The later Nielsen figures say an apparently impressive 33.3 million peopel viewed the Inaugural, putting the figures safely higher than Donald Trump's 30 million and only behind Ronald Reagan's 41 million and Barack Obama's 37 million.

It should of course be remembered that the US population is considerably larger than it was in 1980. Yet even if 81 million people voted for Biden, less than half of them bothered actually watching him being sworn in. The total figure was still only one tenth, 10 percent, of a national population of one third of a billion. And that is even assuming we can believe those numbers: There is no independent confirmation so far of what Nielsen said.

Yet 81 million people we are told – more Americans than ever before in the nation's 232 year constitutional history – voted for Biden against that Threat to All That is Holy and Decent Donald Trump.

In other words, well under half of those who were reported as having voted for Biden bothered to actually watch him being sworn in, according to the media establishment's own official figures and admissions.

So at least 48 million people who supposedly voted for Biden never bothered paying any attention to this great ceremony of national renewal. How could that be?

The population of the United States on March 4, 1933 was 125 million – more than 200 million less than it is today. Yet Roosevelt's 1,885 word, 20-minute first inaugural speech is routinely described by historians as being listened to by "tens of millions" of people. (Exact figures are curiously hard to find: It is as if US academic historians simply did not think it was important to find them.)

However, the great narrative historian William Manchester, who as a boy lived through those years, captured the extraordinary national impact in his classic work "The Glory and the Dream."

"The radio networks carried his great voice out across the suffering land, over the sweatshops and the flophouses, the Hoovervilles and hobo jungles, the rocky soil tilled by tenant farmers, the ragged men shivering in the iron cold outside factory gates in the three decker tenements with radios the hungry children looked up; in county courthouses the embattled farmers looked up; housewives patching threadbare clothes looked up; there was a kind of magic in the air."

The intellectuals always sneered and looked down their long pointed noses at Franklin Roosevelt, so did his exceptionally stupid though now of course deified wife Eleanor who confessed she was frightened by the speech. (She was frightened by a lot of things). But the American people, Manchester notes, knew better. Over the next week 450,000 of them wrote directly to the president to express their thanks.

President Biden's inauguration, we can now confirm, did not inspire any such response.

Because of the thuggish and inept Capitol riot on January 6 – already now distilled into convenient, simplistic narratives of fake provocation for the Fake Right and Evil Assault on All that is Holy for the Liberal Fake – and because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the streets of Washington and Northern Virginia were deserted. No one felt like celebrating. There was more ceremony and genuine celebration for FDR at the height of the Great Depression in 1933.

Biden, to his credit, did not indulge in any witless or ridiculous expressions of Sunny Optimism in the now required tradition since Ronald Reagan. He quietly and with dignity acknowledged the stark divisions in the country and the enormous problems it faced. His short speech in fact was a welcome antidote to the empty, bankrupt, infantile soaring relentless optimism with which every recent president has lied his way through taking the Oath of Office.

But within 24 hours, Biden's decent, dignified tone of reconciliation and outreach in his inauguration was belied by his actions.

He announced the United States would rejoin the Paris Climate Accords – which in practice means that the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton war on oil, natural gas and the industrial rescue of continental America will be raging all out again.

He gutted by Executive Order the Trump administration vigorous and highly successful war on murderers, violent criminals and rapists who genuinely flooded the country under the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama administrations.

And with Biden's full approval, Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the House of Representatives and new Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Senate made clear they were determined to push ahead with an unprecedented, unparalleled second impeachment trial of Donald Trump – the first ever for any president who had already left office.

One should not, therefore, be surprised that none of the 74 million Republicans who voted for Trump – and, as even Fox News acknowledged, against Biden – the largest number of Americans ever to vote against a presidential candidate in history – did not express any participation or enthusiasm whatsoever at the inauguration. But where were Biden's supposed 81 million supporters?

Most of the supposed inaugural celebrations were taped in advance. It was another "virtual" – which is to say nonexistent – event, just as, I noted at the time, the Democratic National Convention that "nominated" Biden was in August 2020 .

The heart of the multi-million dollar media consultants busily concocting their Bright, Shining Lies was not even in their work. Any North Korean leader would have blushed with embarrassment at the endless short displays of hapless black, yellow, polka-dotted, gay and transgender (but almost never white and male) kids performing gymnastics and or poorly executed cheerleading displays, not in their hundreds or thousands, but never more than a dozen or so, in one endless video clip after another. Had the performances all been recorded this week? Or four years ago for the anticipated Imperial Triumph of Empress Hillary Clinton? There was no was no way of knowing.

Aldous Huxley in his brilliant sinister dystopian novel "Brave New World" published in 1932 clearly foresaw modern America and the West – an elitist, carefully regimented society in which any dissent or the slightest hint of existential independence or private taste was "compassionately" snuffed out by drugs and repression.

Huxley lived to become a significant architect of this same world in Post World War II America. But even he did not foresee the satanically comprehensive system's most fatal flaw – It's propaganda was so convincing that the people who most fell for it were its own beneficiaries.

The rulers and participants in the oppressive system have now come to fully believe their own absurd lies. And this blinds them to the colossal tidal waves of frustration, alienation and rage slowly yet remorselessly building up against them across the land.

The real lesson of the Inauguration that not that only one tenth of the population at the very most watched and there is no indication as to what most of them were really thinking, or if they even cared.

Inauguration Day never happened. The media fantasies of a New President eagerly supported by 81 million people and Reaching Our Compassionately to 74 million are just phantasms. They are a handful of words scribbled on a paper note pasted with sticky tape on the Washington Monument. They are a Philip K. Dick dream. They aren't real. They never were. They never will be.

America's Collapse of Government and Crisis of Legitimacy hasn't gone away. Denial and repression never work. The Worst is Yet to Come.

[Jan 29, 2021] True, Biden and his picks to run his foreign policy team are aggressive warmongers .But to compliment Donald Trump for ANYTHING is completely absurd

Jan 29, 2021 | off-guardian.org


maxine , Jan 29, 2021 6:37 PM

True, Biden and his picks to run his foreign policy team are aggressive warmongers .But to compliment Donald Trump for ANYTHING is completely absurd .Both these politicians are rotten to the core .But as I've remarked before, it seems that OFF-G would be overjoyed to keep Trump in power .And that shows how OFF-G has in many respects gone from being a responsible Left-Wing site to the Far-Right.

[Jan 29, 2021] Industrial capitalism's resistance to this international pressure is necessarily nationalist, because it needs state subsidy and laws to tax and regulate the FIRE sector

Jan 29, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Jan 29 2021 17:18 utc | 23

The acronym ought to be ISUS or USIS. Of course, al-Tanf is a terrorist base, the terrorists primarily being forces of the Outlaw US Empire and its main accomplice. Accepting that as fact, we must then determine WHY? What is the overall aim? If Hudson's correct about the overall geopolitical aims of the Parasitical Neoliberal Fascists running the Outlaw US Empire and its NATO vassals, then we've known the answer for quite awhile. The following is what Hudson has distilled it to:

"All economic systems seek to internationalize themselves and extend their rule throughout the world. Today's revived Cold War should be understood as a fight between what kind of economic system the world will have . Finance capitalism is fighting against nations that restrict its intrusive dynamics and sponsorship of privatization and dismantling of public regulatory power . Unlike industrial capitalism, the rentier aim is not to become a more productive economy by producing goods and selling them at a lower cost than competitors. Finance capitalism's dynamics are globalist, seeking to use international organizations (the IMF, NATO, the World Bank and U.S.-designed trade and investment sanctions) to overrule national governments that are not controlled by the rentier classes . The aim is to make all economies into finance-capitalist layers of hereditary privilege, imposing anti-labor austerity policies to squeeze a dollarized surplus .

" Industrial capitalism's resistance to this international pressure is necessarily nationalist , because it needs state subsidy and laws to tax and regulate the FIRE sector . But it is losing the fight to finance capitalism, which is turning to be its nemesis just as industrial capitalism was the nemesis of post-feudal landlordship and predatory banking. Industrial capitalism requires state subsidy and infrastructure investment, along with regulatory and taxing power to check the incursion of finance capital . The resulting global conflict is between socialism (the natural evolution of industrial capitalism) and a pro-rentier fascism, a state-finance-capitalist reaction against socialism's mobilization of state power to roll back the post-feudal rentier interests ." [My Emphasis]

The situation in Syria and Iraq represent the kinetic edge of what's mostly a Cold War globally. It's noted that some of the Parasitical organizations have powers equal to some nation-states and that the main underlying aim is the weakening of governments's abilities to regulate them. The pandemic has weakened a great many nations while the Parasites have grown stronger as they get massive transfusions from the Fed. Thus it seems very plausible that given their motive, the Parasites spawned the pandemic, not this or that government. We watched as those forces operated independently of Trump by disobeying his orders, and now we have further understanding of why the so-called Forever Wars. We can also understand the real motive for 911 was the destruction of evidence at Building 7 and the Pentagon that would've gravely injured the Parasites while also providing a covering reason for launching the Forever Wars. IMO, the only way the Outlaw US Empire will leave the areas it occupies is if its physically ousted--Korea, Japan, Europe, Afghanistan, Southwest Asia. It ought to be possible to now see how Full Spectrum Domination can be obtained without a military conflict, as well as the real reasons behind the demonization of China and Russia.

Both Putin and Xi told Davos and the Parasites that they're committed to their development path which is completely at odds with what the Parasites desire. IMO, the global masses would agree with both and join them if they knew what they said. We can also see why the attack on the Ummah, which is the Islamic global collective that adheres to the values that promote the collective, not the Parasites that would feed on it. And we just witnessed how the Parasites are able to quickly counter any concerted effort to disciple them, which also served the purpose of outing Big Tech as an enemy of the collective. Cold War or Class War? The difference between them is close to indistinguishable.

snake , Jan 29 2021 13:52 utc | 12

How can a U.S. citizen even respond? U.S. Intel agency secrets. CENTCOM's treason, the nation's complicity in another eternal war for Israel. It's just too sad to comment about. Maybe voting and the law will fix this mess.

Posted by: PavewayIV | Jan 29 2021 11:31 utc | 2

I think maybe its time to rethink is it actually the nation state of Israel, OR is it that the Nation State of Israel is the same as the Nation State of the USA, a warrior, pawn and get it done group that both holds captive its citizens by rule of law and that serves the will and wishes of the Oligarch..

Oligarchary has gone global. They are in control of the top of nearly all governments and they privately own (92% owned by just 6 entities) the media (the ninth tier in the 9 tier model) At the top and at the bottom they have what it takes to keep divided the populations so the deplorable cannot effectively organize. Until someone comes up with a way to overcome the divided nation,nothing effective is likely to surface. Nation states are the pawns, the war machine (leg breakers) that keep the Oligarch familes wealthy.. forget the nation state as the center of power, the nation state is not, the center of power is invisible, the nation state is just the war machine, and law making machine and the wealth extraction machine the oligarch depend on to keep their wealth and to deny the deplorable their chance at the good life.

One of the biggest challenges to democracy lay in the copyright and patent monopolies. these monopolies are creatures of the rule of law, without law there can be no privately owned monopolies. as of Oct 1, it is reported that 90% of the balance sheets of the traded companies is either patents or copyrights. that only leaves 10% for physical assets. Rule of law, without effective input from those who are the governed, is the enemy of the deplorable and the supression of Democracy, Independence of mind, thought and deed.

If you removed the laws that enable copyright and patents, overnight some mighty big corporate enterprises would be broke.

[Jan 29, 2021] The phenomenon of Donald Trump the villain President has been used as an excuse to destroy free speech and shoe horn in authoritarian policies\

Due to the immense power of propaganda, normal people who should identify politically as the "left" are actually supporting these dangerous policies and the erosions of liberty are accelerating in direct proportion to the level of resistance, such as r/Wallstreetbets and the immediate crackdown across several platforms to stop them.
Jan 29, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Rutherford82 , Jan 28 2021 18:40 utc | 5

I've seen an extraordinary erosion of rights and liberties over the past few years. It really started with the cover up after the Trump election, which sought to steer the narrative of public opinion away from the failure of the Clintons and the Democratic machine with obvious fantastic lies about Russia.

For a myriad of reasons probably understood best by likes of Freud, Jüng, and others, everyone on the left (who are supposed to be the smart and rational ones in society) bought these lies and repeated them.

Once this was allowed to happen, once Maddow was allowed to lead the vanguard of libel with no recourse, the snowball began to roll and now we are seeing the enforcement of that thought-policing, which is as unconstitutional as the libel itself, especially considering it is being perpetrated ubiquitously among media owners.

The phenomenon of Donald Trump the villain President has been used as an excuse to destroy free speech and shoe horn in authoritarian policies. Due to the immense power of propaganda, normal people who should identify politically as the "left" are actually supporting these dangerous policies and the erosions of liberty are accelerating in direct proportion to the level of resistance, such as r/Wallstreetbets and the immediate crackdown across several platforms to stop them.

This Wall St. favoritism is obvious, but will likely end without bankers taking much damage besides some short term outrage. They still control all the levers of currency and trade no matter the President.

The real dangers of the day are the clamping down on speech. Starting with imprisoning Julian Assange and then migrating to various corners of the Internet. I'll be very interested to see how things shake out with the stock market, but I imagine it will go back to the firm grip of those who control the money supply, which it was for a very long time.

In the meantime, shutting down the Reddit forums and Discord servers is a very serious danger and I hope we can shine a light on it.

[Jan 29, 2021] The System Is Rigged - Episode 4537- Game Stop Corp

Notable quotes:
"... "I am also reading the the next focus of the little people investors is the highly manipulated precious metals markets.....I love the smell of burning Wall Street in the morning." ..."
"... Back in the Oughts when the fraudulent mortgages were grossly inflating Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), there were many instances of naked short selling to keep honest REITs down, activities I learned firsthand. We formed a shareholders organization that lobbied the SEC to enforce its laws but to no avail--the regulators were well captured and did zip. ..."
"... There's short selling, and then there's naked short selling. Why do the markets require naked short selling? If those hedge funds already owned the stocks that they are selling short, they would not be in such trouble now. ..."
Jan 29, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

psychohistorian , Jan 28 2021 18:47 utc | 6

Early this week a few amateur stock trading nerds decided to promote a stock that was heavily shortened by certain hedge funds. The idea was to raise the stock price of Game Stop Corp., a vendor for computer games, by having lots of small stock traders to buy into it. The hedge fund that shortened the stock, and thereby bet on a dropping stock price, would then make huge losses while the many small buyers would potentially profit.

These people, who had joined up in the sub-reddit /r/WallStreetBets, were not driven by greed but by rage against the financial machine :

Instead of greed, this latest bout of speculation, and especially the extraordinary excitement at GameStop, has a different emotional driver: anger. The people investing today are driven by righteous anger, about generational injustice, about what they see as the corruption and unfairness of the way banks were bailed out in 2008 without having to pay legal penalties later, and about lacerating poverty and inequality. This makes it unlike any of the speculative rallies and crashes that have preceded it.

The movement was successful. The stock price of Game Stop Corp. rose from some $10 to over $400 within just a few days. The short seller had to take cover under a larger firm:

Hedge fund Melvin Capital closed out its short position in GameStop on Tuesday after taking huge losses as a target of the army of retail investors. Citadel and Point72 have infused close to $3 billion into Gabe Plotkin's hedge fund to shore up its finances.

I'm shocked! Absolutely shocked to see that the game of finance is rigged!!!!/snark

There have not been market fundamentals since the beginning of financialization in 1971 when money became fiat instead of gold backed. I find it interesting that it has taken 50 years for the cancer of financialization to fully compromise the host. It will be interesting to see where this goes from here.

I think the speed of decline of empire is speeding up as noted by the increase in international investment in China.

I am also reading the the next focus of the little people investors is the highly manipulated precious metals markets.....I love the smell of burning Wall Street in the morning.

Rutherford82 , Jan 28 2021 18:50 utc | 7

@6 psychohistorian

"I am also reading the the next focus of the little people investors is the highly manipulated precious metals markets.....I love the smell of burning Wall Street in the morning."

Is Max Keiser going after the silver market again? I bet he was posting on r/Wallstreetbets to stir things up!

karlof1 , Jan 28 2021 18:50 utc | 8

Back in the Oughts when the fraudulent mortgages were grossly inflating Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), there were many instances of naked short selling to keep honest REITs down, activities I learned firsthand. We formed a shareholders organization that lobbied the SEC to enforce its laws but to no avail--the regulators were well captured and did zip.

We even ran full pages ads in the NY Times and WaPost to add visibility to our justifiable outrage, which was well proven when the bubble burst.

But Obama didn't do his job and enforce the law, and the entire mess is far worse now. This episode epitomizes the amazing amounts of corruption masquerading as well regulated markets and an equitable financial system.

I support Hudson's debt forgiveness for the main reason it will bankrupt the debt holders--the Financial Parasites--who are also the beneficiaries of the corrupt system; and with their destruction, will allow for the rise of the Public Financial Utility that will restore law and order to that realm of the economy. Yes, this must be seen as yet another episode of the longstanding Class War, one of the most brazen ever.

lysias , Jan 28 2021 19:41 utc | 18

There's short selling, and then there's naked short selling. Why do the markets require naked short selling? If those hedge funds already owned the stocks that they are selling short, they would not be in such trouble now.

Bemildred , Jan 28 2021 20:20 utc | 24

It's not over yet:

Triden , Jan 28 2021 20:55 utc | 29

Citadel and Point72 have infused close to $3 billion into Gabe Plotkin's hedge fund to shore up its finances.

-b

How Robinhood was rigged:

Robinhood sells its orderflow to Citadel for execution. Citadel then chiselled the retail investor for pennies per trade by frontrunning (think high freq trading) before execution of retail order, inflating the price and cheating the customer. Citadel bailed out Citron, essentially inheriting the short position. Citadel then threatened Robinhood with refusing payment for orderflow

[Jan 28, 2021] This is all starting to feel like 2009 all over again.

Jan 28, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

Dave , January 27, 2021 at 7:01 am

The Democratic Party controls the Presidency and both houses of Congress. Trump is out of public life (for now, maybe). This is all starting to feel like 2009 all over again. I feel as though the focus on understanding Trump voters is to distract away from a lack of a meaningful agenda to actually progress the country forward, or at worst, an excuse as to why nothing meaningful will get done. In 2009, the voters handed the Democratic party a gift to change the system in ways unthinkable and were amenable to such change given the fallout of the credit crisis. It was largely an opportunity squandered. In 2021, I think the focus on Trump is displaced energy whereas the focus should be on what the parties agenda is.

Martin Oline , January 27, 2021 at 9:26 am

That is a good point, Dave, and I think the next Congress will accomplish nothing of importance. The only changes we will see in the next two years will be executive orders that will immediately be tied up in Federal Court. Some have said that McConnell prefers to act as an obstructionist and enjoys a role as the minority leader. I think Schumer, on the other hand, desperately wants to be King. It's good to be the King!

Larry , January 27, 2021 at 7:11 am

The Republicans must look upon the democratic party and its control over its subjects with envy. Worship of feckless leaders and delivery for the PMC and Wall Street class. If a state party comes out and says this, how much longer can the Republican party exist as a viable entity without some sort of schism? Granted, Massachusetts GOP was blathering on about unfair elections and their own Republican disavowed him, so perhaps this is more about the minor state parties being home to wing nuts while more reasonable types retire to independent status.

[Jan 28, 2021] 'Where is the line between global business attempts to control society-' Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech

Jan 28, 2021 | www.rt.com

'Where is the line between global business & attempts to control society?' Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech 27 Jan, 2021 12:10 / Updated 3 hours ago Get short URL 'Where is the line between global business & attempts to control society?' Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech © Pixabay / Gerd Altmann 354 18 Follow RT on RT Technology giants have become powerful rivals to governments, but there are doubts over the benefits for society of their monopoly positions, Russia's President Vladimir Putin told the annual World Economic Forum, on Wednesday .

"Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one's natural right to decide for themselves how to live, what to choose, what stance to express freely?" Putin wondered.

"We've all seen this just now in the US. And everybody understands what I'm talking about," he added.

The Russian leader was apparently referring to the crackdown by Big Tech corporations like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, mostly on Donald Trump and his supporters, during the recent presidential election in the US. The companies, which, according to some critics, sided with Democratic candidate Joe Biden, blocked President Trump's social media accounts over accusations of inciting violence, with the same being done to many pages of groups and individuals who'd backed him.

ALSO ON RT.COM YouTube prolongs Trump suspension citing 'ongoing potential for violence' as Big Tech doubles down on deplatforming policies

However, one-sided bias claim voiced by some might be an overestimation – the accounts of Democrats supporters were also subject to restrictions, but on a much smaller scale.

Conservative Twitter-like platform Parler was also forced offline, and now there are calls to block the Telegram app as well.

These events have shown that Big Tech companies "in some areas have de facto become rivals to the government," Putin said.

Billions of users spend large parts of their lives on the platforms and, from the point of view of those companies, their monopolistic position is favorable for organizing economic and technological processes, the Russian president explained. "But there's a question of how such monopolism fits the interest of society," he stressed.

ALSO ON RT.COM Putin tells Davos that divided modern world facing 'real breakdown', with demographic struggles & echoes of 1930s pre-WW2 tensions

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shadow1369 8 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 07:51 AM

This is a great opportunity for Russia to create some Big Tech operators which actually allow free speech. Russia certainly has the expertise and the means, and cannot be bullied by western regimes.
Proton1963 shadow1369 1 hour ago 27 Jan, 2021 02:54 PM
Sure.. But only after the Russians can build a drivable car or a decent smart phone or a laptop.
Election_Fraud Biden shadow1369 1 hour ago 27 Jan, 2021 02:12 PM
The West is surely giving Russia a lot of opportunities, through its own arrogance and stupidity, does not it ? It keeps going backwards in its effort to diminish Russia. And the same goes for China too.
JOHNCHUCKMAN 7 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 08:45 AM
Putin is a remarkable statesman, and he sets a very high standard for political discourse. I can't think of any of our Western leaders who speak in these truthful and philosophic terms. What we hear in the West are slogans or whining or complaining.
Tenakakhan JOHNCHUCKMAN 3 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 01:03 PM
The patriarch of the west has become extremely weak. It seems like our leaders lack any moral authority to speak truth and common sense for fear of being cancelled. What we see now is the virtue signaling dregs sponsored by extreme groups leading our nations down the toilet. If a real war was to break out now we would be cannon fodder.
Hilarous 7 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 09:04 AM
I think there's a simple explanation. Big tech is afraid to lose section 230 of the communications act, which stipulates that online platforms are not legally responsible for user content. Trump and some Republicans have accused social media sites of muzzling conservative voices. They said undoing Section 230 would let people who claim they have been slighted sue the companies. So Big Tech has a strong interest to remove Trump and run down a few bad examples to convince people and politics that Section 230 must remain.
Count_Cash 8 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 07:40 AM
In many cases they aren't rivals, but owners of government. Money controls everything in the west and big tech have it. They have taken control of, or are blackmailing governments. The Western Liberal Regime straddles both Big Tech and government!
RTaccount Count_Cash 7 hours ago 27 Jan, 2021 08:57 AM
Correct. Let us never forget that in America we are ruled by oligarchs just like the rest of the world, and that our oligarchs are largely hidden. They are our true government, and so it is meaningless to make this type of distinction.

[Jan 27, 2021] America descends into virtual night by Israel Shamir

Notable quotes:
"... Likewise, the looting of BLM was 'largely peaceful', but selfie snapping in the Capitol was a work of 'internal terrorists'. The victors are so dishonest, that I feel pity for Trump – and for all of us. ..."
Jan 27, 2021 | www.unz.com

At 78, after a prolonged illness and without recovering consciousness, Joe Biden succumbed to the Presidency. The last hopes of the last QAnon believers vanished like smoke in the night, with Biden assuming the mighty US throne. This is truly a dark day for America and for the world, as the US example will be followed by many. It is also a farewell to the real world we were brought up in. The new world is virtual, like most of the inauguration. It is virtual and dark, ruled by digital companies fronted by old and tired politicians.

The creepy voice of Biden, the voice of a dirty old man offering sweets to a nine-year-old, delivered some platitudes. Biden was greeted by the dead – by flags marking those who died of Covid – all highly symbolic: he was elected by the dead, so he owes them. They say that a man was so annoyed because his in-laws voted for Biden that he stopped visiting their graves. The King of the Dead, a character out of Game of Thrones, came to govern America on behalf of lifeless machines.

The frail old man will lead the old women. Together, they are the Gang of Four: Harris, 56, Pelosi, 80, Clinton, 73. His first days, his first acts were ominous. He donned the mask, an attribute of Death, and obliged all federal officials and civil servants to wear masks. He invited Latin America to invade the US. He opened the gates for immigrants from the Middle East. He promoted sex-change for boys and girls. He returned the US into the climate-change impending disaster of the Paris Accord. He sent more troops to Syria. He started a new campaign against Russia and sent warships to the South China Sea.

At the same time, Pelosi eliminated the words mother , father , son , daughter , husband , wife from the vocabulary of Congress as 'sexist'. Such purged language would never allow a rendering of Virgil's miraculous prophecy ( Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem ) into English, or any other sacred text. It does not matter much; in the Covid world, there will be no church anyway, no marriage, no woman or man; instead of making children locally, new Americans will be imported. Indeed, if everything else is outsourced, why stall at reproduction?

The Biden regime is just a front for the power of Big Data, of the five giants that removed Trump and installed Biden in the White House. We shall see soon whether the power-thirsty politicians will be satisfied with fronting for real power. Trump was the last wholly human statesman at the helm of the Republic, and he was defeated by the mail-in vote.

Whenever Trump complained that it is open to fraud, Bezos' Washington Post screeched, 'President Trump has peddled false claims or imaginary threats about voting by mail'. Three days after Trump's removal, Amazon (owned by the very same Bezos) rejected mail-in voting for its unionising employees as the mail-in vote is notoriously unreliable. "We believe that the best approach to a valid, fair and successful election is one that is conducted manually, in-person, making it easy to verify", said Amazon. The mail-in vote for the Presidency was a must because of the pandemic, but there is no outbreak when Amazon employees try to join a trade union.

Likewise, the looting of BLM was 'largely peaceful', but selfie snapping in the Capitol was a work of 'internal terrorists'. The victors are so dishonest, that I feel pity for Trump – and for all of us.

I do feel pity for Donald Trump, though his last days in the White House were anything but inspirational. He did not dare to pardon people who went for him into the Capitol, he didn't pardon Assange or Snowden, but surprisingly he pardoned a whole lot of Jewish cheats. The Jerusalem Post published the list of prominent Jews he pardoned. On the list is an Israeli spy runner Aviem Sella who was responsible for Jonathan Pollard; the rest are dishonest machers like Sholam Weiss (who stole US $150 million, sentenced to 850 years) or Eliyahu Weinstein (stole up to $200 million, sentenced to 24 years). See also a detailed analysis here . A devout believer in the demonic power of Jews, Trump had thought to make up to them to avoid their anger. In vain: there are already plenty of cases against him, from potential tax fraud to sexual assault allegations. A legal storm is brewing and Mr Trump may not be able to weather it as he has done in the past, say the US federal prosecutors.

He could be lucky to avoid prison; unless he asks Mr Putin to lend him his excellent if uncompleted Gelenjik Palace . On second thoughts, perhaps the palace was built for exactly such an occasion.

The Jews do not need him: they have very strong positions in the new administration, while gratitude is not a renowned Jewish trait. The Jewish news agency JTA boasted of the Tribe's achievements: the State Department, CIA, National Intelligence, Homeland Security, NSA, Treasury and in addition "Nine Jews are in the new Senate (including the new Majority Leader) and 25 in the House of Representatives, making up more than 6 per cent of the total Congress. That's more than triple the percentage of Jews in the general population. There are also two Jews out of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court."

This is not a good sign: Jews are good when allied with the oppressed. Then they use their energy to promote the cause of the downtrodden. While at the top, they oppress more vigorously than anybody; ask the Palestinians, if in doubt.

Mind you, I do not subscribe to the idea of Jewish supremacy and massive IQ. The all-Jewish country of Israel is devastated by three lockdowns, by the biggest vaccination drive in the world (86% already vaccinated), by an ongoing civil war of Zionist power against Orthodox Jews who refuse lockdown and vaccination; by the forthcoming fourth national elections, as liberals incessantly try to remove the Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu saying he is Israel's Trump. This week, Israel's only remaining international airport was closed down; the people were told nobody would get out at least until the summer. In this small country with its huge density of population and poor housing it feels too much like a ghetto for comfort.

If Jews were as clever as they think they are, they would not get themselves into this no-win Covid war. The Swedish way remains the only way to deal with it, as a recent study has proven beyond all possible doubt. Israeli Jews have been whipped into such a degree of Covid hysteria that there is no way to get out of it. Now they, and the Brits were told that "having a coronavirus vaccination is not a licence to abandon lockdown". Even if all will be vaccinated, the masks, lockdowns and social distancing will be with us forever, if the people who decide now remain in power, because Covid is just a justification for the Great Reset, or Digital Revolution, or the Brave New World or whatever you call it. Jews got convinced and convinced others, and now they are being screwed up like everybody else. If lockdown is a punishment meted out by the global force, as C J Hopkins says , perhaps it is Netanyahu's retirement they want to obtain.

The Jewish cause works fine when allied with the wishes of the real power. They could remove Jeremy Corbyn for his alleged tolerance of antisemitism because the bosses hated his plans to improve the lot of the workers and cut military spending. But Jews have to shut up or even support Alexei Navalny who expressed his dislike of Jews right before he learned to keep his mouth shut.

In this screenshot of his response in 2007, Mr Navalny bans somebody for being "a bugger and a kike". Still, Jews supported him all right when told by their betters. They didn't even mention his real anti-Jewish prejudice for they were (reasonably) afraid the Russian masses would see it as rather a feather in his cap. The Jews are in line with the obscure real power, and have to follow its demands, like the jesters before the king. The Covid plans for the world reset are more important for the Masters than Jewish sentiments, and Jewish leaders recognise that.

The Biden regime considers Russia its enemy Number One. Russia is in relatively good shape. Russians are on their way out of Covid mass hysteria. They have begun to dismantle the Covid measures. The rules are still there, but people sabotage them as they sabotaged Brezhnev's rules. They also have their own vaccine Sputnik-V which is an old-style vaccine without gene modification, as opposed to much of the Western stuff. I do not think it is necessary for health, but it could help citizens under the spell of Covid to recover and forget the lockdown nightmare.

Things began to move very fast after Biden was installed in the White House. After a year of delays caused by US sanctions, on Monday 25/01/2021 the Russian pipe-laying vessel Fortuna resumed its work off Denmark's shores on the undersea pipeline Nord Stream 2 to sell Russian gas directly to Europe bypassing the latest US colony, the Ukraine. The US wants Germany to stop the project and buy (more expensive) American gas instead. It would make Russia more vulnerable. Despite the sanctions, Germany refused to stop the project. At the same time, the Russians began to supply gas to Serbia creating a new line bypassing the Ukraine. At this time, the Biden regime employed the Navalny card.

The return of Alexei Navalny to Russia is part of a plan to undermine Russia. The immense power of Big Data and its social networks promoted his return as the new savior. But somehow it didn't work. Instead of the expected tens of thousands, only one or two thousand followers turned up at the airport, fewer than for a pop singer. He was promptly detained and arraigned for thirty days. It was anticipated, and his people published his new Gelenjik Palace film together with his call to demonstrate on 23/01.

The Russian internet had been saturated by YouTube pushing people to view it. The video had been offered endlessly, time after time, and the numbers of viewers allegedly grew into the billions. It was basically a psyops played by Google (the owner of YouTube) against Putin. Again, it didn't work.

I witnessed the demo on Saturday 23/01, and it was not particularly impressive. Being a day off, with a lot of people walking the streets and practically nobody carrying a poster or a slogan, it is difficult to estimate how many were actually demonstrating, but it was in the low thousands, as far as I could see. The police were well behaved; none of the rough justice we see meted out in Paris or Amsterdam, let alone Washington. The Navalny activists were also rather peaceful, excepting some marginal figures who were promptly arrested.

It seems that the Russians are not as silly as the Western planners expected them to be. In 1990 they, or their parents listened to Yeltsin's calls to throw off the privileged Communist rulers because they, the rulers, had it so good with cars, dachas, Western goods. They paid for this response with ten of the most awful years our generation experienced. Now they and their children are unlikely to smash their state and their life just because their president has (or has not) a palace. We shall see what the Russian state will do against inevitable future assaults.

Putin is a cautious statesman. He does not want to aggravate relations with the Biden regime, but the digital giants do not leave him many options. A Russian company gave a hand to the Parler social network that was deplatformed by Amazon, and it came back into being. Another Russian social network, Vkontakte , began to attract Western users. And Russia is not alone: Turkey's Erdogan hit Twitter , Pinterest and Periscope with advertising bans after they refused to follow Facebook and appoint a local representative to take down contentious posts under a new law aimed to pass the right to censure from the networks to the Turkish state. Russia plans to follow the Turks. China has its own networks and is immune to the Big Five pressure.

Now there is the World Economic Forum's annual meeting online, where the victors will decide how to proceed with their Great Reset. Trump is not invited. In a few days, we shall know more about their plans, and whether there are any forces we can hope and cheer for. At present it does not appear there are. Despite their multiple disagreements, they agree against us, so we all can disagree with them.

Israel Shamir can be reached at [email protected]

This article was first published at The Unz Review .

israel shamir , says: January 26, 2021 at 6:57 pm GMT • 21.9 hours ago

I've received a letter saying: This is Miguel from Florence You mentioned Trump's pardons

one of the only 143 people he pardoned, who knows why, was a tiny Florentine crook, who was not even in gaol, just being investigated for fraudulent bankruptcy, a certain Tommaso Buti.

Here is an article I wrote mentioning him, which touches a lot of other amusing personalities

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Source : http://kelebeklerblog.com/2019/10/14/quando-leccellenza-italiana-incontra-il-mercato-globale/
By Miguel Martinez
[Extremely entertaining but very complicated! Anybody knows how this crook connected to Trump?]

Dane Yorick , says: January 26, 2021 at 9:33 pm GMT • 19.3 hours ago

Bravo Sir! And very funny too. Should make CJ Hopkins and the wilting Fred Reed green with envy.

Diversity Heretic , says: January 26, 2021 at 10:30 pm GMT • 18.3 hours ago

I believe the Russian vaccine uses an adenovirus, which causes the body's cells to make a protein also present in the COVID-19 virus that the immune system suppresses. That may not be as innnovative and questionable as the use of messenger RNA (I'm no immunologist and both types of vaccines may prove safe and effective in the long run), but the Chinese vaccine is the traditional one that uses is dead or attenuated viruses to stimulate the immune system. If I had to take the jab and could choose the vaccine, I'd choose the Chinese one.

unit472 , says: January 26, 2021 at 10:57 pm GMT • 17.9 hours ago

Biden and Nancy seem to believe that Jay Powell can fix and fund anything they want to do. But real damage has been done. I see it in grocery stores. Missing items that used to always be available aren't. Auto Assembly lines shutttered because of the chip shortage.Empty store fronts. Millions out of work. Not just in America but around the world. There isn't a lot to reopen if they finally decide to reopen. Mothballed airplanes and cruise ships can't be just restarted and begin service again even if Fauci and that Ethiopian mountain monkey who runs the WHO declares it safe to resume travel. It doesn't work like that. Hysteresis sets in made worse because people are scared and demoralized by the tyranny being imposed on them.

israel shamir , says: January 26, 2021 at 11:46 pm GMT • 17.0 hours ago
@Diversity Heretic

"Chinese vaccine is the traditional one that uses is dead or attenuated viruses"

so does Russian Vector (not Sputnik V) vaccine.

Bragadocious , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:42 am GMT • 13.1 hours ago

Buti was one of the owners/founders of the Fashion Cafe which opened in NYC back in the 90s. He apparently skimmed from the till. The restaurant got a bunch of supermodels like Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell to invest and do PR appearances. Melania ran in these circles and probably knows Buti. Maybe she even liked that he (allegedly) stole from her modeling competitors!

R.C. , says: January 27, 2021 at 5:28 am GMT • 11.3 hours ago

He did not dare to pardon people who went for him into the Capitol, he didn't pardon Assange or Snowden, but surprisingly he pardoned a whole lot of Jewish cheats.

Trump could have assured himself a worthwhile legacy, but he listened to the same control tools as he did throughout his presidency.
I doubt I'm alone in feeling somewhat betrayed. I say 'somewhat' because I certainly would have been surprised if he did that – pleasantly surprised to be sure, but surprised.
Sad.
R.C.

Buzz Mohawk , says: January 27, 2021 at 5:34 am GMT • 11.2 hours ago

Before too many comments accumulate here, I just want to thank Ron Unz, the publisher, for highlighting this general subject, now consistently. Many of us readers do indeed feel in our bones that this is a turning point, and you, sir, deserve credit for recognizing the gravity of this moment in American history. Thank you for placing stories and columns about this at the top of your now-more-valuable-than-ever publication.

Do you have an alternate plan in case the powers that be try to silence you? I don't understand how this works, but it would be pretty crazy not to have an alternative way to publish "online" if you need one.

Maybe you could reassure us with some mention of the subject. (That would be edifying, if it would not be too revealing. Whatever works. Let's just hope UR can go on. Some of us can find no substitute.)

And thank you, Israel Shamir, for you work. This selection from today's seems particularly relevant:

Mind you, I do not subscribe to the idea of Jewish supremacy and massive IQ. The all-Jewish country of Israel is devastated by three lockdowns, by the biggest vaccination drive in the world (86% already vaccinated), by an ongoing civil war of Zionist power against Orthodox Jews who refuse lockdown and vaccination

Not quite masters of the universe. Just people with good PR.

notoneofthem , says: January 27, 2021 at 6:02 am GMT • 10.8 hours ago

You mean there is an obscure real power above the jews? The jews follow it's demands as jesters? Who is this obscure power before whom the jews dance as jesters? Who is this great king?

Dumbo , says: January 27, 2021 at 6:14 am GMT • 10.6 hours ago

They really are pushing this Navalny guy, especially in Germany. Who cares about that bozo.

Jews never forget and never learn.

Covid is a lie.

anon [625] Disclaimer , says: January 27, 2021 at 8:40 am GMT • 8.1 hours ago

thing is that like unz, they gather everything you write and use it against you in the long run. yeah we encourage you in every way. What they don't say is that everything you say will be recorded and examined by artificial intelligence.
One of the main reasons you can comment here while not being able to comment in any of the myriad fake sites of alternative right/left. Cuz they are absolutely designed, just like the cbc.ca to not allow anyone with open opiones to comment. They will close you down and delete your comments all the time to prevent ordinary people from commenting on things of importance. To everyone and how much we make and how hard we have to work for it and how much we hate the government taking it from us to spend on political wars and ecological destruction (while lying about it all the time) Like how piss poorly they handled Covid and how many lives that cost while those stupid shits fucked around with politics. Lot of us knew that back in Jan/Feb last year. Lot of us knew that back then and watched a tidal wave of protests from where? BLM and Antifa were cover stories financed by rich people to cover the real indignation of ordinary people about how piss poorly our governments were doing in relation to this virus which has pretty much smacked us back on our socks.
It is what turned me off of politics completely. It is what made me realize that I have a far better understanding of this virus than they do. It was commenting on the cbc with perhaps a dozen far sighted citizens and being completely over-whelmed by political bots and ignorance.
What is the answer? The answer is not to drink the koolaid. The answer is to look at your own country and your own culture and support that. It may be a few decades but that it is what it is going to return to. Or you could die. Good luck. You give that up and allow your culture to be overwhelmed by violent, religiously motivated cultures from centuries ago then you might just as well turn Hari Krishna, to avoid your criminal past and sell vegetarian recipe books to people who would actually eat that shit. Y'all have a great day.

Schuetze , says: January 27, 2021 at 8:58 am GMT • 7.8 hours ago

Jews are good when allied with the oppressed.

What a dog's breakfast of half truths and misdirections. Russians and Socialists are always ready to cuck for jews. They are virtual pornstars of the night.

anon [625] Disclaimer , says: January 27, 2021 at 9:22 am GMT • 7.4 hours ago
@anon

Y'all want a perfect example of a a fake left-wing site which is actually completely right wing? Try theTyee.ca .
Looks left wing, smells left wing, has tons of trained porpoises and and other paid and unpaid fools which support them.
Say a single thing about changing the political status quo and you are banned my friend. Good luck arguing about it when when you are a monster in a horror flick and cannot say a single word.

Ilya G Poimandres , says: January 27, 2021 at 9:37 am GMT • 7.2 hours ago
@notoneofthem

Gold and silver, profit – materialism.

Diversity Heretic , says: January 27, 2021 at 9:39 am GMT • 7.2 hours ago
@israel shamir

Thanks for the information! I had not heard of that vaccine.

Ghali , says: January 27, 2021 at 9:56 am GMT • 6.9 hours ago

Navalny is an anti-Muslim bigot. He and his clique hate Russian Muslims. I am not sure why Shamir did not mention it.

Tom Welsh , says: January 27, 2021 at 10:25 am GMT • 6.4 hours ago

" surprisingly he pardoned a whole lot of Jewish cheats".

Has the word "surprisingly" reversed its meaning while I slept?

Temporary Insanity , says: January 27, 2021 at 10:31 am GMT • 6.3 hours ago

Putin is all too aware of Jewish perfidy for he knows the rotten treatment meted out to Donald J Trump by the very people who got the most out of him.

Vlad won't make the same mistake and perhaps he might even set the world free by launching a nuclear missile at the Silicon Valley to take out the "Big Five" before going down, unlike hapless DJT!

gotmituns , says: January 27, 2021 at 10:38 am GMT • 6.2 hours ago

He promoted sex-change for boys and girls.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- –
This is going to explode. Women are going to go crazy over this.
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Why is it everyone is angry over a man competing in women's sports but no one is angry over women competing in men's sports?

Tom Welsh , says: January 27, 2021 at 10:39 am GMT • 6.2 hours ago

"The police were well behaved; none of the rough justice we see meted out in Paris or Amsterdam, let alone Washington".

Or Britain.

Spender_CGB , says: January 27, 2021 at 10:47 am GMT • 6.0 hours ago
@notoneofthem

Lucifer/Satan probably.

Tom Welsh , says: January 27, 2021 at 10:48 am GMT • 6.0 hours ago
@R.C. at the hip.

Trump's great merit – to me and some others – is that he ripped back the cloth of gold that previously concealed the exalted office of the presidency, and showed everyone all the horrible rotten decay underneath. Messrs Obama and Biden and the Clintons, in sharp contrast, are enthusiastic guardians of the cloth of gold. In Jesus's day, they would have been precisely the scribes and pharisees whom he despised and rebuked for their extreme hypocrisy.

And that is equally the reason why so many hate Trump. They would have preferred the hypocrisy to continue unchallenged, the whited sepulchres to remain unbroached.

White Men Can't Jump , says: January 27, 2021 at 11:30 am GMT • 5.3 hours ago

I can count on my left-hand fingers people who write with empathy and correctly about those who got depleted uranium bombs on their heads. Thank you for your genuine and valuable service to the entire humanity and global justice. Good health.

Publius 2 , says: January 27, 2021 at 11:33 am GMT • 5.3 hours ago

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/

Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: January 27, 2021 at 11:46 am GMT • 5.0 hours ago

Bravo to Shamir and Unz! Best article I've seen on Senile Joe and Kammy Ho.

Indeed, the new administration could be billed as a sequel to The Walking Dead .

Emslander , says: January 27, 2021 at 11:54 am GMT • 4.9 hours ago
@israel shamir

Like the dishonest servant in the parables of Jesus, Trump is a wise man. As a man of the world, he knows better than us how to make a place for himself after being thrown from the palace. All this dealing was for continued wealth and freedom from serious prosecution, is my thought.

Good for him. He can continue to poke at the pigs this way.

Rahan , says: January 27, 2021 at 11:54 am GMT • 4.9 hours ago

In 1990 they, or their parents listened to Yeltsin's calls to throw off the privileged Communist rulers because they, the rulers, had it so good with cars, dachas, Western goods. They paid for this response with ten of the most awful years our generation experienced


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Realist , says: January 27, 2021 at 12:09 pm GMT • 4.7 hours ago

At 78, after a prolonged illness and without recovering consciousness, Joe Biden succumbed to the Presidency.

Biden was born a goddamn idiot he is now brain dead. This country has just about reached the bottom of the shit slide.

Realist , says: January 27, 2021 at 12:21 pm GMT • 4.5 hours ago

Now there is the World Economic Forum's annual meeting online, where the victors will decide how to proceed with their Great Reset. Trump is not invited. In a few days, we shall know more about their plans, and whether there are any forces we can hope and cheer for. At present it does not appear there are. Despite their multiple disagreements, they agree against us, so we all can disagree with them.

Solutions anyone???

brabantian , says: January 27, 2021 at 12:24 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago
@notoneofthem Cohen, CIA Deputy Director
3. Merrick Garland, Attorney General
4. Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence
5. John Kerry, National Security Agency Special Climate Envoy (Jewish father)
6. Ronald Klain, White House Chief of Staff
7. Eric Lander, Office of Science and Technology Policy director
8. 'Rachel' Levine (trans-sexual), Deputy Health Secretary
9. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security
10. Anne Neuberger, National Security Agency cybersecurity director
11. Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State
12. Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary
Billovskii , says: January 27, 2021 at 12:30 pm GMT • 4.3 hours ago
@Buzz Mohawk

I totally agree on the thank you to Ron Unz. This site is my go to site each and every day. Not only for the articles, but also for all the great information and discussion from the comments.

Hannah Katz , says: January 27, 2021 at 12:37 pm GMT • 4.2 hours ago
@unit472

That's Xiden and Nanzi, if you don't mind.

MLK , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:03 pm GMT • 3.8 hours ago

I do feel pity for Donald Trump . . .

Revealing this thought tells us more about the author than it does Trump.

You (anyone) would have been more than half-way to understanding events over the last five years by accepting that destroying Trump was the greatest dues ex machina for an array of forces, foreign and domestic (US) as any of us have or will see in our lifetimes.

. . . though his last days in the White House were anything but inspirational.

I don't know how more obvious it needed to be for even intelligent observers to see the lengths the aligned powers that be were willing to go to not just to deny Trump a second term but to bring them down to their wholly discredited size.

To many it doesn't seem to matter that Trump foiled the Iranian/Democrat op to seize American hostages in Bagdad in a replay of the Iranian Hostage Crisis which sunk Carter's reelection in 1980, the first impeachment hoax that preceded it, and even the China Virus.

These are only some of the plots we're aware of, and only since the end of 2019.

This entered a surreal phase after Trump won in a landslide despite their malefactions. First a full court press to complete the steal, and then ever more ominous signaling about the lengths they were willing to go in terms of a mass casualty event if Trump didn't relent.

If you cannot see what culminated on 1/6/21 then a cannot help you. They were promoting threats in "50 state capitols," purportedly from MAGA. This explains why Trump drew the focus exclusively to the Elipse in DC by announcing just days before that he would speak at the event. I think it also explains why he was late in starting to speak and was still doing so when Pence's letter dropped.

This isn't the half of it because then they really amped up their not at all veiled threats of mass death if Trump didn't resign immediately.

So before anyone even criticizes Trump, especially for nonsense like pardons, consider what a monumental success his presidency was for what didn't happen, particularly in its last days.

moi , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:09 pm GMT • 3.7 hours ago
@Ghali

Maybe because Shamir is a bit of phony. ASA!

John Hagan , says: Website January 27, 2021 at 1:11 pm GMT • 3.6 hours ago

Why do you imagie that here are 50 states in the US and 32 Holocaust museums, yet there are only 25 civil war museums. US population is 2% Jewish. Even universities in the US understand that Jewish equity studies have a higher academic appeal than trans gender equity studies.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/l3czFJxV3Z4?feature=oembed

Merchant of Vice updated: From the Merchant of Venice to the Merchant of Vice. A video that looks at Epstein Island and its many visitors. Was this all an intelligence operation by Mossad, Wexford and the US deep state or was it merely a diversion for the sensational media? Will we ever know?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pcAJzAPhqmk?feature=oembed

moi , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:12 pm GMT • 3.6 hours ago
@brabantian

Could be because American goyim are afflicted by the Stockholm Syndrome, hence they genuflect before the Jews to their own detriment.

Zarathustra , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:14 pm GMT • 3.6 hours ago

Holy truth!

Old and Grumpy , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:18 pm GMT • 3.5 hours ago

I've been wondering if the Walking Dead Democrats realize they are now the house servants for a bunch of tech nerds. Just imagine they use to be party favors for bankers. Seems like a demotion to me. Got to wonder if all those Nat'l Guardsmen were just there to make Congress feel special one more time.

Zarathustra , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:24 pm GMT • 3.4 hours ago

Concerning impeachment.
Trump is guilty because he should have known that in large crowd there will be trouble makers who will sway the rest of the crowd to violence.
But all other politicians are guilty as well because they should have rung the alarm bells and asked to secure the Capitol.

gotmituns , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:25 pm GMT • 3.4 hours ago
@Realist

Sir, your post reminds me of the lyrics from an old sixties song – "You mustn't be discouraged, there's always one step further down you can go."

follyofwar , says: January 27, 2021 at 1:48 pm GMT • 3.0 hours ago
@Anonymous Poor overmatched hologram Joe Biden reminds me of Konstantin Chernenko, who was appointed to lead the crumbling Soviet Union in 1984. Both were in failing health, but Chernenko was 6 years younger. He only lasted 13 months before kicking the bucket. It's questionable if Biden will even last that long.

One difference is that the USSR appointed an intelligent, capable man named Mikhail Gorbachev to replace him. We have Kamala Harris. Despite Gorbachev's best efforts, communism could not be saved, and he was forced to resign after 6 years in office. After Biden's death or resignation, could this country continue to exist after 6 years of Kamala?

Marckus , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:11 pm GMT • 2.6 hours ago
@Rahan Rahan, we are not impressed with your Russian or ability to speak another language! As a matter of fact I am sure many on this site find your linguistic tastes and silly pretensions irritating and the rest find you clownish.

Many people here on this site are also bilingual. Should we all comment in our second language expecting others to translate ?

This is an English site. Many of us do not have the time to translate your hodge podge even if it takes a few seconds. You will note that Israel wrote IN ENGLISH !

Please comment in English you rude little cretin or find a site that publishes in Russian !

JimmyCrackCorn , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:13 pm GMT • 2.6 hours ago

I immediately thought "Sputnik-V" was "Vodak"

John Fisher , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:22 pm GMT • 2.4 hours ago
@Notsofast

the first two paragraphs are pure poetic genius. bravo!

Humor and wit in the face of evil and degradation = a necessity

saggy , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:29 pm GMT • 2.3 hours ago

It's difficult to get past the first two paragraphs. Great article ! I'm afraid to look further !!!

Marckus , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:33 pm GMT • 2.3 hours ago

Mr Shamir, great sarcasm elegantly wrapped in even greater prose. When I think of it, Jews seem to me to be like typical bullies.

The typical thug does as he pleases for the longest while each time becoming more brazen. The more people tolerate is the more he pushes his luck. Then one day everyone has enough and all the frustrations of the multitude erupt with dreadful consequences for the bully.

It is the same with the current crop of rule makers. Its all a lot of fun to force silly rules on regulations on others. What the legislators never seem to realise is that one day those very rules come back on them. Then they cry out "Why me ? This is so unfair !"

As for Jews, it looks to me they get caught in their own snare time after time. How many times have others just had enough of them and their antics. I looked at a video on Youtube by Rabbi Yaron Reuven titled "Warning to Jews". People need to look at this.

In my opinion though Senior Citizen Joe is just the halfway point to utter disaster. As I mentioned above, the chickens may well come home to roost and Joe could find himself booted out by his own VP the "who knows what race she will be today Kamala. With her and some other Afro female as her side kick we may all well agree that when we think things could not get any worse, they usually do.

John Fisher , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:37 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago
@Emslander

Like the dishonest servant in the parables of Jesus, Trump is a wise man. As a man of the world, he knows better than us how to make a place for himself after being thrown from the palace. All this dealing was for continued wealth and freedom from serious prosecution, is my thought.

Very perceptive and interesting comment, Emslander. It definitely inspires further thought. Thanks for that.

All of these competing narratives create an almost deafening whirlwind that sucks everything down into a black hole. The truth is usually much simpler.

John Fisher , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:41 pm GMT • 2.1 hours ago
@Marckus

Please comment in English you rude little cretin or find a site that publishes in Russian !

LOL

Not having a good day today, Marckus? I see you are busy in the Linh comment section as well.

Drink a beer, smoke a cigar, watch the snow fall, relax, (I would say read some humor, but the two humorous pieces on Unz today seem to have triggered you).

Marckus , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:47 pm GMT • 2.0 hours ago
@Realist

You may be right. But remember at the bottom of every slide is a space for a soft landing to avoid injury.

With shit slides that "soft landing' is usually a huge shit hole. A soft landing for sure but a sure fire chance of drowning.

We are gaily rocketing down the slide with play ground Joe in the lead. Right now we may have some brown sprinkles on our clothes but it is going to be nothing compared to total immersion.

I think the worse is yet to come !

Neutral Observer , says: January 27, 2021 at 2:53 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago

Trump was the last wholly human statesman at the helm of the Republic, and he was defeated by the mail-in vote.

Trump was defeated by Trump. If the Trump cabal had issues with the mail-in voting processes in the states, they should have challenged those processes months before the election.

Moreover, Trump is little more than a lazy, vulgarian gas-bag who did nothing to extend his support beyond his deluded base. Given the doddering political hack that the Democrats nominated, Trump should have coasted to a win.

It was Trump's narcissistic big mouth in which it was all about him that gave Biden an undeserved victory.

BTW, when the Ponzi Scheme economy implodes and they wake Uncle Joe from his nap in the Oval Office to tell him, Biden will wish he had never left his basement.

Priss Factor , says: Website January 27, 2021 at 3:09 pm GMT • 1.7 hours ago

Thanks Jews

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Johnny Smoggins , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:12 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago
@Buzz Mohawk

Ron should reach out to Andrew Anglin, who's heroically managed to keep The Daily Stormer running after the full weight of the state and state aligned corporations was thrown at him.

At the very least he should set up a Tor address for the UR.

zard , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:12 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago

Watch the spontaneous reaction to a Hitler lookalike:

Look Who's Back (2015) Er ist wieder da


https://www.bitchute.com/embed/x52uEHoCftzT/

He's coming back and all the never ending Hitler hate propaganda programming will vanish in an instant because people are waking up.

Johnny Smoggins , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:16 pm GMT • 1.5 hours ago
@Dumbo

Navalny is just another Guido, the stooge they tried to foist upon the Venezuelans.

Franklin Ryckaert , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:27 pm GMT • 1.4 hours ago
@Spender_CGB

Yes, but they call him "Yahweh" and claim that he is God.

SS-The Independent , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:38 pm GMT • 1.2 hours ago
@Marckus e ' ). I was young ( in college ) when the Communism collapsed and I couldn't understand the so-called ' shock therapy ' ( promoted by the West ) ' How could you impose to a poor/abused country this: " In economics, shock therapy is the sudden release of price and currency controls, withdrawal of state subsidies, and immediate trade liberalization within a country, usually also including large-scale privatization of previously public-owned assets. " – wikipedia. In other words, prices like in West and salaries like in East – a ' fair competition ', isn't ?! I found out (shortly ) that was/is an ' innocent/legal ' description of a theft/robbery of a country
Alden , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:39 pm GMT • 1.2 hours ago
@Billovskii e was sentenced to decades in prison by the civil rights division of the DOJ. She served 10 years Trump pardoned her. So much for the great alliance between black criminals and Jewish feminazis against White men.

Check out the January 12 redpill article about David Bailey, federal cop, just another black man who killed another White woman. Asli Barrett was assisted to climb in the window by John Sullivan, another black BLM activist seen in riots all over the country.

And White conservatives rage against black women's abortions and birth control because God wants us to be overwhelmed and destroyed by blacks. .

Defcon , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:41 pm GMT • 1.1 hours ago
@brabantian

The evidence you present proves that this is not a "government by the people, for the people", but an outside influence against the subjects.

Alden , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:43 pm GMT • 1.1 hours ago
@Neutral Observer

If Trump had promised $3,000 covid checks 5 days after he was elected even the black preachers would have voted for him.

Whitewolf , says: January 27, 2021 at 3:52 pm GMT • 57 minutes ago

If Jews were as clever as they think they are, they would not get themselves into this no-win Covid war. The Swedish way remains the only way to deal with it, as a recent study has proven beyond all possible doubt.

I'm surprised that so few have taken the time to compare Sweden's covid-1984 graphs vs the graphs of countries that have gone the lockdown path. It doesn't even take a peer review study to see that lockdowns are not helping anyone. The graphs themselves are a very easy way to compare results.

What is now the Swedish way was once considered the normal way for everyone until someone decided that countries were really prisons.

[Jan 27, 2021] Proud Boys FBI Snitch Enrique Tarrio's long informant history with the FB

Jan 27, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

gm , Jan 27 2021 17:58 utc | 21

More on Proud Boys FBI Snitch Enrique Tarrio's long informant history with the FBI:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-fbi-snitch-court-docs

While US officials claim that 'far-right extremism' is one of the largest threats facing America, the leader of the group most commonly singled out as an example - the Proud Boys - was a 'prolific' informant for federal and local law enforcement, according to Reuters, citing a 2014 federal court proceeding.

Enrique Tarrio repeatedly worked undercover for investigators following a 2012 arrest, court documents reveal.

Curiously, Tarrio was ordered to stay away from Washington D.C. one day before the January 6 Capitol riot after he was arrested on vandalism and weapons charges - upon a request by government prosecutors that he be prohibited from attending. At least five Proud Boys members were charged as part of the riot.

In the 2014 hearing, a federal prosecutor, an FBI agent and Tarrio's attorney describe his undercover work - noting that the Proud Boys leader helped authorities prosecute over a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling, accoding to Reuters.

In a Tuesday interview with Reuters, Tarrio denied working undercover or cooperating in cases.

"I don't know any of this," he said, adding "I don't recall any of this."

[...]

During Tarrio's 2014 hearing, both the prosecutor and Tarrio's defense attorney asked for a reduced prison sentence after pleading guilty in a fraud case related to the relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits. In requesting leniency for Tarrio and two co-defendants, the prosecutor noted that Tarrio's information had resulted in the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring.

oldhippie , Jan 27 2021 19:19 utc | 27

gm @ 21

The tell, the dead giveaway, is that the Proud Boys get promoted. They get headlines, column inches, airtime. Product placement. No homegrown anything gets that attention. They are a product being sold to us in the media. Apply same standard to BLM, AntiFa, Weathermen, apply as much as you like and you will seldom be in error.

There's that line is the Costa Gavras film Z, where someone gets chided about being too quick to blame CIA, and the instant comeback is always blame the CIA, even if you are wrong you will likely end up right. And of course the Greek colonels were CIA, even if some were not 100% sure until later. Same standard applies here. Any bogeyman the media stands up and points to and says be very afraid of this bad bogey, this bogey here, you can be sure it is fake from the start.

Bemildred , Jan 27 2021 19:33 utc | 29

Posted by: gm | Jan 27 2021 17:00 utc | 17

Yes, this whole policing business is just a lot easier if you cultivate and run your own criminal gangs, and in fact that approach to it has been very popular almost everywhere. No need to deal with any really dangerous people that way too, a big plus, and seasoned crooks can be handy for dealing with your enemies, encouraging reluctant counter-parties, etc.

Smith , Jan 28 2021 1:43 utc | 47

Somehow not surprised by the Proud Boy's revelation, this smells awfully like George Lincoln Rockwell back then.

Everything in America, left or right, is fake.

[Jan 27, 2021] Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant - US news - The Guardian

Jan 27, 2021 | www.theguardian.com

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.

In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio's own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.

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Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. "I don't know any of this,'" he said, when asked about the transcript. "I don't recall any of this."

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Law enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio's denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio's case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that "he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes".

Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the rightwing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be antifa, short for "anti-fascism", an amorphous leftist movement. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January.

The records uncovered by Reuters are startling because they show that a leader of a far-right group now under intense scrutiny by law enforcement was previously an active collaborator with criminal investigators.

Washington police arrested Tarrio in early January when he arrived in the city two days before the Capitol Hill riot. He was charged with possessing two high-capacity rifle magazines, and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a December demonstration by supporters of Donald Trump. The DC superior court ordered him to leave the city pending a court date in June.

Though Tarrio did not take part in the Capitol insurrection, at least five Proud Boys members have been charged in the riot. The FBI previously said Tarrio's earlier arrest was an effort to pre-empt the events of 6 January.

The transcript from 2014 shines a new light on Tarrio's past connections to law enforcement. During the hearing, the prosecutor and Tarrio's defense attorney asked a judge to reduce the prison sentence of Tarrio and two co-defendants. They had pleaded guilty in a fraud case related to the relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits.

The prosecutor said Tarrio's information had led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and had helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring.

Tarrio's then lawyer Jeffrey Feiler said in court that his client had worked undercover in numerous investigations, one involving the sale of anabolic steroids, another regarding "wholesale prescription narcotics" and a third targeting human smuggling. He said Tarrio helped police uncover three marijuana grow houses, and was a "prolific" cooperator.

In the smuggling case, Tarrio, "at his own risk, in an undercover role met and negotiated to pay $11,000 to members of that ring to bring in fictitious family members of his from another country", the lawyer said in court.

In an interview, Feiler said he did not recall details about the case but added, "The information I provided to the court was based on information provided to me by law enforcement and the prosecutor."

An FBI agent at the hearing called Tarrio a "key component" in local police investigations involving marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, or ecstasy. The Miami FBI office declined comment.

A Proud Boy displays an 'Enrique Tarrio Did Nothing Wrong' shirt as Trump supporters gather for the 'Stop The Steal' rally that preceded the Capitol assault on 6 January Photograph: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock

There is no evidence Tarrio has cooperated with authorities since then. In interviews with Reuters, however, he said that before rallies in various cities, he would let police departments know of the Proud Boys' plans. It is unclear if this was actually the case. He said he stopped this coordination after 12 December because the DC police had cracked down on the group.

Tarrio on Tuesday acknowledged that his fraud sentence was reduced, from 30 months to 16 months, but insisted that leniency was provided only because he and his co-defendants helped investigators "clear up" questions about his own case. He said he never helped investigate others.

That comment contrasts with statements made in court by the prosecutor, his lawyer and the FBI. The judge in the case, Joan A Lenard, said Tarrio "provided substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of other persons involved in criminal conduct".

As Trump supporters challenged the Republican's election loss in often violent demonstrations, Tarrio stood out for his swagger as he led crowds of mostly white Proud Boys in a series of confrontations and street brawls in Washington DC, Portland, Oregon and elsewhere.

The Proud Boys, founded in 2016, began as a group protesting against political correctness and perceived constraints on masculinity. It grew into a group with distinctive colors of yellow and black that embraced street fighting. In September their profile soared when Trump called on them to "Stand back and stand by."

Tarrio, based in Miami, became the national chairman of the group in 2018.

In November and December, Tarrio led the Proud Boys through the streets of DC after Trump's loss. Video shows him on 11 December with a bullhorn in front of a large crowd. "To the parasites both in Congress, and in that stolen White House,'" he said. "You want a war, you got one!" The crowd roared. The next day Tarrio burned the BLM banner.

Former prosecutor Johannes said she was surprised that the defendant she prosecuted for fraud is now a key player in the violent movement that sought to halt the certification of President Joe Biden.

"I knew that he was a fraudster, but had no reason to know that he was also a domestic terrorist," she said.

[Jan 27, 2021] Don't Let the Capitol Riot Become a 9-11-Style Excuse for Authoritarianism

Jan 27, 2021 | reason.com

Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.

J.D. TUCCILLE | 1.15.2021 11:00 AM

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, horrified Americans were ready to embrace virtually any proposal that promised to keep them safe. Government officials, for their part, were eager to curry favor with the fearful public and saw an opportunity to promote legislation and policies that had failed to win support in the past. The result was a surge of authoritarianism from which the U.S. has yet to recover. Now -- with the public understandably concerned after the January 6 storming of the Capitol -- we should brace ourselves for another wave of political responses that would, again, erode our liberty.

"We're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told her Instagram followers this week. "It's one thing to have differing opinions but it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false. So that's something that we're looking into."

The socialist lawmaker isn't always careful about her words, but it's worrying when officials talk about a need to "rein in" the media in any context. There's really no way to cast government action to that end in a good light, no matter what policy tools are intended (Ocasio-Cortez's office hasn't responded to a request for comment). To let government agencies "rein in" the media is to put control over speech and the press in the hands of people who always see benefit in less scrutiny and criticism of their own activities.

That free speech might well take a hit is apparent from the pasting law enforcement is getting for, allegedly, being too considerate of First Amendment rights before the events at the Capitol.

"FBI intelligence analysts gathered information about possible violence involving the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., but the FBI never distributed a formal intelligence bulletin, in part because of concerns that doing so might have run afoul of free speech protections," NBC News reported on Tuesday.

The report goes on to reveal that in preparing for the protest that degenerated into a riot, the FBI did share intelligence with other law enforcement agencies, neglecting only to issue a formal Joint Intelligence Bulletin. But the overall impression left by NBC and by the behind-the-scenes leaks from officialdom on which its reporting is based are that respect for free speech got in the way.

Since then, the FBI has made up for lost time, issuing a bulletin highlighting the "threat of violence" from a range of "ideologically diverse" extremists. The danger is real, as the violence of January 6 demonstrated. But so is the danger of an unrestrained federal agency with a history of interference in domestic policy debates, spying on activists, and even trying to sabotage political parties -- revealed in great detail by the 1976 Church Committee report . An FBI stung for being too respectful of individual rights in the recent past may return to its old habits in the future.

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In its efforts, the FBI and its allied agencies are almost certain to have the support of the new president. After the storming of the Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden was harsh in his description of the participants. "Don't dare call them protesters," he said . "They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."

Biden's choice of language is interesting because, even before the election, his campaign promised to " work for a domestic terrorism law " -- an idea reportedly favored by his close advisors. What a new law would look like isn't clear, but Biden has a history with such legislation.

After the 9/11 attacks, Biden claimed authorship of the Patriot Act , which has been much criticized for the damage it does to civil liberties in the name of combating foreign terrorism. "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing," he told The New Republic in October 2001. "And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill."

The uses to which the Patriot Act has been put since its passage should be warning enough to be wary of any legislation proposed in response to the events of January 6.

"The Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans by expanding the authority to monitor phone and email communications, collect bank and credit reporting records, and track the activity of innocent Americans on the Internet," the American Civil Liberties Union summarizes . "While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into suspects."

"This is really a debate about the standard our government should have to meet in order to obtain personal information about individuals from banks, hospitals, libraries, retail stores, gun shops, and other institutions," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) argued about ongoing controversies surround the Patriot Act in 2011. "Government agents should not be able to collect this sort of information on law abiding American citizens without showing that they have at least some connection to terrorism or other nefarious activities."

Twenty years after its passage, the Patriot Act lingers on, still threatening civil liberties.

"The government has interpreted a high-profile provision of the Patriot Act as empowering F.B.I. national security investigators to collect logs showing who has visited particular web pages," Charlie Savage of The New York Times reported just last month. "New tensions have emerged over the extent to which the F.B.I. could use that law to gather logs of people's web browsing activities, as opposed to using warrants -- a tool that requires investigators to first be able to produce evidence that a person probably engaged in wrongdoing," he added.

Despite much moaning about the absence of a domestic terrorism law, the Patriot Act has had considerable and very intrusive domestic impact on Americans' privacy.

The fallout from 9/11 also brought us amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , which authorized mass surveillance campaigns that were exposed by Edward Snowden and ruled unconstitutional only last September. We saw the establishment of the simultaneously creepy and incompetent Department of Homeland Security, and the further transformation of air travel into an ordeal under the groping guidance of the Transportation Security Administration . All of this was presented to a frightened public as part of a necessary response to the attacks in hopes that nobody would notice that the proposals had been gathering dust on shelves, just waiting for an opening.

"Many of the changes have precious little to do with the dangers that we saw on September 11," George Washington University Law School's Jonathan Turley told PBS in 2002. "Many of those things are part of a wish list of intelligence agencies that they've wanted for decades."

Given that government officials' wish list of expanded powers are endless, and that they were calling for new laws well before the storming of the Capitol, we should expect a flurry of legislative proposals in the weeks and months to come. We'll need to scrutinize them very closely, on the assumption that they'll be as dangerous to freedom as past schemes to protect us from risks real and imagined.

[Jan 27, 2021] Part of the reason the establishment ushered Trump into the race in 2016, apart from thinking that would guarantee Clinton a win, was the intention to socially/culturally marginalize the "Deplorables" and crush their morale when their "champion" was brutally humiliated by losing the election bigly

Notable quotes:
"... Blatantly frauding the election against Trump wasn't enough and they have to hold show trials and even label the "Deplorables" as terrorists to get back to where they expected to be after the election in 2016. This is why the establishment feels they have to go forward with the second impeachment, and it is why the public is being treated to the spectacle of hysterical, over-the-top hyperbole from the establishment mass media about the threat of imaginary white supremacists and Capitol building insurrectionists. ..."
"... If Trump WAS a "champion" of the right he would've mauled the establishment via prosecutions (that never came) and true 'America First' actions. Instead, we see Biden just picking up where Trump left off. ..."
Jan 27, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Jan 26 2021 19:30 utc | 24

vinnieoh @14

Part of the reason the establishment ushered Trump into the race in 2016, apart from thinking that would guarantee Clinton a win, was the intention to socially/culturally marginalize the "Deplorables" and crush their morale when their "champion" was brutally humiliated by losing the election bigly. Though Trump winning against all expectations set back the establishment's plans for rolling out its more "inclusive" formulation of capitalist exploitation, they are now fully committed to picking up the pieces of their plans and trying to run with them as if the previous four years never happened.

The only difference in their plans is that Trump actually was president, so the establishment has to work much harder at shaming and humiliating the "Deplorables" into subjugation.

Blatantly frauding the election against Trump wasn't enough and they have to hold show trials and even label the "Deplorables" as terrorists to get back to where they expected to be after the election in 2016. This is why the establishment feels they have to go forward with the second impeachment, and it is why the public is being treated to the spectacle of hysterical, over-the-top hyperbole from the establishment mass media about the threat of imaginary white supremacists and Capitol building insurrectionists.

Of course the establishment's plans will not work any better now than they did in 2016, but it should be fun to watch them continue to cluelessly flounder about.

Jackrabbit , Jan 26 2021 20:51 utc | 42

William Gruff @Jan26 19:30 #24

Part of the reason the establishment ushered Trump into the race in 2016, apart from thinking that would guarantee Clinton a win ...

Firstly, "the establishment" is very broad. I think those who "select" the President is a much narrower group of power people and the interests they represent. If there's one thing that they have in common, it is this: their outlook is EMPIRE-FIRST, and the interests they represent benefit from the Empire.

The Presidency is the lynchpin of the Empire.

There's evidence that Hillary was meant to lose to Trump:

  1. as sheepdog, Bernie all but guaranteed that Hillary would win the Democratic nomination;
  2. Hillary, a seasoned campaigner made egregious "mistakes" that angered key voter groups - mistakes that no seasoned campaigner in a 'must win' campaign would do: she snubbed blacks (she was very cold to BLM); alienated progressives (bringing Debra Wasserman-Schultz into her campaign); and declared that non-progressive whites were "deplorables."

    In the closing weeks of the campaign, she also refused to campaign in the THREE STATES that SHE KNEW would decide the election.

  3. After Russia stood up to USA in Syria and Ukraine, Kissinger wrote a WSJ Op-Ed (August 2014) that all but called for MAGA! He argued for a return to America's global leadership/dominance. 10 months later Trump entered the race as the ONLY MAGA! candidate.
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... was the intention to socially/culturally marginalize the "Deplorables" and crush their morale when their "champion" was brutally humiliated ...

But Trump was hardly a "champion" of the Tea Party Republicans in 2015-16. He was just a billionaire poser that was paying lip service to them. Many weren't sure they could trust him but he was sure as hell better than Hillary. The popular right's embrace of Trump mostly came after the election as propaganda from Qanon and others spun every action of Trump's as heroically fighting the good fight.

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The only difference in their plans is that Trump actually was president ...

And therein lies the rub! If Trump WAS a "champion" of the right he would've mauled the establishment via prosecutions (that never came) and true 'America First' actions. Instead, we see Biden just picking up where Trump left off.

!!

[Jan 25, 2021] Sen. Rand Paul says Chief Justice Roberts won't take Trump impeach trial

Jan 25, 2021 | nypost.com

As Democrats plunge ahead with a post-term impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a key question remains: Will Chief Justice Roberts take the case?

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he won't -- making the exercise "a fake, partisan impeachment," the lawmaker told Fox News' Sean Hannity Friday.

Paul claimed Roberts has "privately said he's not supposed to come unless it's an impeachment of the president."

According to the US Constitution, "when the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside" -- a requirement not made for any other impeachment case.

As lawmakers debated the legitimacy of impeachment, the Biden administration continued to keep its distance from the issue .

"Congress is going to do what Congress does," Ashley Etienne, Vice President Kamala Harris' communications director, told MSNBC Saturday.

One thing Trump enemies in Congress appear to be doing is grasping at straws -- even reaching back to a post-Civil War amendment.

Several Dems have floated the idea of punishing Trump with the 14th Amendment's rule that shuts those who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" out of elective office.

"I certainly think there is a 14th Amendment avenue separate and aside from impeachment," Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy told The Hill .

But the stricture, which was written to prevent former Confederate loyalists from regaining power as the United States struggled through Reconstruction, has not been used since -- and would spark a long judicial battle if Congress attempted to invoke it, legal experts say.

Meanwhile, with Trump no longer in the White House, Republicans like Paul continued to deride the impeachment as "an illegitimate procedure."

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Roberts, who has not said publicly whether he will preside over the trial, has two more weeks to decide.

After the House of Representatives' impeachment managers on Monday read their articles of impeachment accusing Trump of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot, the Senate will delay the trial until the week of Feb. 8 so that President Biden can get his administration up and running, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Friday.

If Trump is convicted with a two-thirds majority of the Senate, Schumer could call for a second vote, this one requiring only a simple majority, barring him from holding elective office again.

But conviction will require the votes of at least 17 Senate Republicans -- an increasingly remote possibility, as more party members climb aboard Paul's argument that only a sitting president can be impeached.

"It's going to be tough to get even a handful" of GOP defectors, Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) told CNN -- because "everybody has views that it's kind of a constitutional concern."

[Jan 25, 2021] We already having a flaming fire in this country, and it's like take a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire

Jan 25, 2021 | www.newsmax.com

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Sunday called the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump "stupid" and "counterproductive".

In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Rubio said "we already having a flaming fire in this country, and it's like take a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire."

"First of all, I think the trial is stupid. It's counterproductive," Rubio declared.

"Second, I look back at a time, for example, Richard Nixon, who had clearly committed crimes and wrongdoing, and in hindsight I think we would all agree that President Ford's pardon was important for the country to be able to move forward," he added. "And history held Richard Nixon quite accountable for what he did as a result."

Rubio said Trump does bear "responsibility for some of what happened."

"It was most certainly a foreseeable consequence of everything that was going on," Rubio said. "All I'm arguing is we have some really important things to work on. ... We're gonna jump right back into what we've been going through for the last five years, and stirring it up again with a trial, and it's just going to be bad for the country."

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"It's just going to continue to fuel the divisions in this country," where already "people hate each other," he said.

Rubio also brushed aside rumors that former White House adviser Ivanka Trump is is considering a primary challenge for the Senate seat.

"I don't really get into the parlor games of Washington," Rubio said.

"I don't own the Senate seat, it doesn't belong to me," he asserted. "If I want to be back in the U.S Senate, I have to earn that every six years."

[Jan 25, 2021] For all their billions and mainstream media dominance the globalist establishment nearly lost to Trump ..again.

Jan 25, 2021 | www.unz.com

John Johnson , says: January 25, 2021 at 7:04 am GMT • 19.8 hours ago

Fortunately, for GloboCap, this was not a major problem.

Not a major problem? For all their billions and mainstream media dominance the globalist establishment nearly lost to Trump ..again.

If anything the Trump period has the globalists terrified.

[Jan 25, 2021] The illusion of democracy will return and the booboise will once again be permitted their panem et circenses sportsball matches, concerts, pubs, as long as GloboCap feels convinced that those things will no longer be fertile ground for spreading populism.

Jan 25, 2021 | www.unz.com

Hockeyguy , says: January 25, 2021 at 9:27 pm GMT • 5.4 hours ago

I suspect that GloboCap will eventually – and in a very controlled fashion – allow some normalcy to resume, once they're finished with the lesson of Covid lockdowns and once they're convinced that the "domestic terrorist" propaganda is sufficiently internalized by enough people to sustain a subtle but pervasive level of distrust, paranoia, and suppression of dissent.

Thus, the illusion of democracy will return and the booboise will once again be permitted their panem et circenses – sportsball matches, concerts, pubs, in-person schooling, and art fairs – as long as GloboCap feels convinced that those things will no longer be fertile ground for spreading populism.

The carrot will return, but the stick will now always be hanging like the sword of Damocles.

[Jan 24, 2021] Mitch McConnell Proposes Postponing Impeachment Trial Until February to Keep Trump Under His Thumb

Jan 24, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

Deep State Mitch McConnell is proposing to postpone the second bogus impeachment trial, which is based on a total fabrication, until February, under the guise 'to give president Trump more time to prepare his defense'.

Mitch McConnell won his Senate election in Kentucky in November, only with the support of President Trump, and came back to Washington DC loaded for bear. He's not after the Democrats, who stole the election in thousands of different ways. He has not said a word about the election being stolen. McConnell doesn't even consider that a review of the election fraud would likely lead to many of the Republican Senators who lost in November having new elections or outright being awarded the wins in the states where Democrats won.

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McConnell didn't show a commitment to helping the people of America who have been destroyed by COVID because he wouldn't even provide more than $600 for COVID relief for Americans suffering from shutdowns. Instead McConnell aligned himself with the Democrat Party.

McConnell has done all he could to slander, disparage and destroy President Trump and the 79 million who voted for him. (McConnell doesn't realize this is the old Republican Party and then some).

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Today McConnell announced that he is planning to move the bogus impeachment of President Trump to February. McConnell doesn't realize that any Senators who vote to remove the President from any future terms in office will be replaced. It also will be the final nail in the coffin of the Republican Party.

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The Hill reports:

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) proposed on a call with Republican senators Thursday that former President Trump's impeachment trial be delayed until February to give him enough time to mount a defense.

McConnell told colleagues that Trump should have at least as much time as the president had in previous trials, which means he would like to postpone the proceeding until the second week of February, according to Republican senators on the call.

"It would have been the 10th or 11th [of February] or somewhere in there," said Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who said McConnell wants to give Trump the same amount of time he had to prepare for the first impeachment trial and that former President Clinton had to prepare for his 1999 impeachment trial.

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But Republican Senators McConnell and Braun are both lost in DC. Americans who voted for the President in numbers never seen before by any Presidential candidate, (when accounting for valid votes) are livid that the election got stolen. They're livid the Democrats staged the riots in the Capitol on January 6th and they are livid Republicans are working with the Democrats, who stole the election in the greatest heist in world history, to attack the victim, President Trump rather than work for justice.

Also, it's a shock Senator Braun, who would not be a Senator if it wasn't for President Trump, doesn't know that Bill Clinton was under investigation by an independent counsel for years and then was impeached in the House in a process after the independent counsel identified crimes Clinton had committed. The impeachment of Clinton was supported by laws and a process. This latest impeachment of President Trump is based on lies and a few hours for Democrats to put together papers. There was no due process.

Washington DC is a mess. The Democrats have stolen an election and Republicans are allowing it and saying nothing. Americans are quickly seeing that a new party that works for the people is the remedy.

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Dallas Box KS Freeman • 2 days ago ,

The senate is not "supposed" to do investigations and discovery . Kavanaugh was the first . The house is supposed to deliver a completed case. But , that's just the constitution. Who really cares about that anymore ?

Proud Communist Dallas Box • 2 days ago • edited ,

Trump should have pardoned Julian Assange & told Manchurian Mitch to F.O.

RandSec Proud Communist • 2 days ago ,

When we cannot trust the count, voting is over.

Abel Washington RandSec • 2 days ago ,

Turtle should have thrown out first faux impeachment, and he should have tossed this second bogus one. Mcconnell needs to be made aware that china mitch is an enemy to the Republican party and to the millions of Patriots who support President Trump.

Bubba Abel Washington • a day ago ,

The republican party is trash. Trump didn't run as a libertarian because he would've never won. Republicans didn't elect Trump, Americans did. Republicans can f off with the rest of them. They're all trash.

Now that Trump easily has 100 million new party members, let's remove the traitors.

Jim Elliott Bubba • a day ago ,

Jordan, Nunes, Hawley, Massie aren't trash, but you are right, the rest of them are.

Reztin Jim Elliott • a day ago ,

They voted to certify the fraudulent election. They are fraud's.

Chris Dennis Reztin • 21 hours ago ,

I don't think Hawley or the other 3 voted to certify. You left off Ted Cruz & I'm sure he didn't' vote to certify. These are the only true patriots left in the GOP.

Tom Davis 1994gls • a day ago ,

Yes, there they did go, again. And when Reagan said that, he canceled millions of American's ability to get SS survivor's benefits (death of a parent) during their university studies, and delayed how long you have to "keep working" into old-age, to get full benefits - so less time to enjoy life, after a lifetime of work for the system.

"Oh, but that was a bipartisan commission," he told Mondale, in the debate - about the law HE Signed, to keep the Ponzi-Scheme going - when they could have simply pulled the caps off, so the Mega-Rich didn't get to avoid paying SS-Taxes on MOST of Their income - while working/middle class folks (up to $200+K) pay on ALL of theirs.

The Same Old GOPeee Schmiel, as Reagan WRECKED middle-class wages, and Shamnestied Millions of Illegal-Alien Invaders - making Americans poor and desperate enough to vote for communism.

I'm for tax cuts - Raise the Personal Deduction on ALL types of taxes.

[Jan 24, 2021] Trump was not the first and will not the the last: on November 22, 1963 The Anglo-American Ruling Elite, through their Deep State operatives, overthrow the U.S. government. From now on all presidents will rule under Deep State supervision.

Jan 24, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

dh-mtl , Jan 24 2021 15:15 utc | 5


'The Day the Music Died'*
A brief history of the decline and fall of the United States of America

- November 22, 1963 The Anglo-American Ruling Elite, through their Deep State operatives, overthrow the U.S. government. From now on all presidents will rule under Deep State supervision.

- January 20, 1981
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite's first puppet president is installed. Others will follow (Clinton, W, Obama).
Over the next 40 years the U.S. economy will be hollowed out while the The Anglo-American Ruling Elite strip mines the country's assets, leaving both the government and the population in perpetual debt servitude.

- November 9, 1989
The Soviet Union gives up on the Cold War
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite is now free to rebuild the former British Empire as a new, improved Global Empire, based in global institutions and without the inconvenience of host countries.
The Anglo-American Ruling Elite now becomes the 'Global Elite'.

- September 11, 2001
Domestic resistance to the U.S. military becoming the Global Elite's mercenary military force is removed.
The colonial wars may begin.

- November 3, 2020
After decades of suffering a thousand cuts, U.S. democracy is delivered the final, fatal blow.

- January 6, 2021 - The Day the Music Died
The U.S. Capitol is under military occupation. The constitution is effectively suspended.
The United States of America, as a constitutional republic, is no more.
From now on the U.S. is just another Globalist colony.


* From Don McLean's 1971 song 'American Pie'. At the time it seemed an omen of things to come. It took 50 years for the premonition to be realized.

[Jan 24, 2021] They forgot nothing and they learned nothing: In 2014, ignoring the warning of Robert F. Kennedy of the need to put yourself in the other Country's shoes, Biden supported the violent Coup which essentially included a violent takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada) by violent protesters, similar to taking over the US Capitol on January 6, 2021

Jan 24, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

Mike Lamb , January 23, 2021 at 15:00

After the Coup in Ukraine in 2014 for several years I listened weekly to the John Batchelor show when he interviewed Russia scholar the late Stephen Cohen.
From those conversations I learned that Ukraine is politically divided EAST (pro European Union) / WEST (pro Russian) (a bit like the United States is divided RED / BLUE).
Politically by vote Ukraine was close to 50% pro E.U., 50% pro Russia.
After the Coup Crimea voted to return to Russia thus making the political breakdown of Ukraine more pro E.U.

Forbes Magazine in 2008 republished an interview with Soviet critic Alexander Solzhenitsyn

see: forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html?sh=593c65b65f53

Solzhenitsyn, among other things, noted 1) in 1919 Lenin in bringing Ukraine into the Soviet Union gave Ukraine "several Russian provinces to assuage her feelings," 2) that when in 1954 Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine Sevastopol was not transferred to Ukraine as Sevastopol was a military city subject to the Central Government of the U.S.S.R.

I would note that Khrushchev's transfer of Crimea to Ukraine violated Soviet Law / Constitution as the people of Crimea were not asked if they wanted to be transferred.

At the time I did some searching about the history of Crimea and Ukraine and it turns out that shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union Crimea wanted to separate from Ukraine and the Central Government of Ukraine threatened to invade Crimea.

The Central Government of Ukraine in its Constitution gave Crimea a special status not given other provinces.

I would note that in October 1962 Joe Biden was 19 years 11 months old and likely a college student. In October 1962 the world came close to ending (at least a good deal of the so called civilized world) with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

However, in 2014, ignoring the warning of Robert F. Kennedy of the need to put yourself in the other Country's shoes, Biden supported the violent Coup which essentially included a violent takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada) by violent protesters, much akin to the Trump Taliban taking over the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

It seems that Biden thought that NATO could just move into Sevastopol and take over not just the port of the Russian navy, but the Russian Navy itself.

[Jan 24, 2021] What a joke. CIA can't even carry out a false flag in its front yard anymore, much less in its backyard.

Notable quotes:
"... "Invasion of Capitol" was real, but it does not seem a conspiracy with hidden strings. We know how mobs were use to overthrow government, e.g. in Cairo, Kiev and La Paz -- in chronological order. It was nothing like that. ..."
"... Where there is a wide room for possible conspiracy is how it happened. Methods of defending key buildings in such situations exists and were used, with success, many times, including Washington Mall. And they were not deployed. Why? ..."
"... Defenders of the Capitol were practically removed and Democrats got the possibility of starting the political season of 2021 with impeachment and other jolly diversions, complete with the revival of Russia Gate. ..."
Jan 24, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

Mrs. Debra L Carr de Legorreta , January 22, 2021 at 16:21

These Keystone Cops would be hilarious if they weren't so nefarious. There was no "insurrection" – totally manufactured, false flag.
Where were the "insurgents" that were supposedly going to show up Jan-20-21 at every state capital in the nation and DC? The handful of demonstrators that did show up were anything but insurgents, and instead some of them talked about populist unity.

Yet for days ever since "the assault on democracy" that's all the mainstream harped about, with help from notables on "the left" crying wolf over "the rise of fascism." What a joke. CIA can't even carry out a false flag in its front yard anymore, much less in its backyard.

Next comes commissions and the legislation and the policy changes to avert the evil. Meanwhile 4000+ US citizens die per day due to a pandemic that could've, should've been contained by a half-way decent public health system like the rest of the world has.

The Biden Administration desperately needed an excuse NOT to work on progressive causes (caged children, M4A, student debt, etc) and they got it: an anti domestic terrorism bill.


JohnO , January 22, 2021 at 19:50

Sorry, Mrs de Legorreta,
Your comments are completely off point and totally lacking evidence. To suggest that the violent invasion and trashing of the Capitol was a CIA false-flag operation ignores the facts on the ground. The leader of The Proud Boys, a neo-nazi group was videotaped at the attack. He has admitted to planning it. Many of his confederates are in fact fascist. Many of them hold as their greatest aspiration a race war. The subject of this column was Russiagate, and you have taken it as an opportunity to promote an interpretation of the January 6 uprising that has no basis in fact. Well done.

Piotr Berman , January 23, 2021 at 12:06

"Invasion of Capitol" was real, but it does not seem a conspiracy with hidden strings. We know how mobs were use to overthrow government, e.g. in Cairo, Kiev and La Paz -- in chronological order. It was nothing like that.

Where there is a wide room for possible conspiracy is how it happened. Methods of defending key buildings in such situations exists and were used, with success, many times, including Washington Mall. And they were not deployed. Why?

One possibility is "offside strategy" of Association Football: you remove the defenders from the area in front of the goal, and then the offense of the opposite side makes a forbidden move that is otherwise OK. Defenders of the Capitol were practically removed and Democrats got the possibility of starting the political season of 2021 with impeachment and other jolly diversions, complete with the revival of Russia Gate.

I am agnostic about the causes, but the situation was highly peculiar.

[Jan 24, 2021] Capitol riot exploited to expand the national security state that failed to stop it by AARON MATÉ

Jan 21, 2021 | thegrayzone.com
· The US national security state failed to prevent the pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol. Yet instead of accountability, US intelligence officials are being emboldened via increased militarization, censorship, and surveillance. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté discuss the dangerous fallout.

Rather than prioritize accountability for US intelligence officials' failure to prevent the pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol, the incident is instead being used to expand the national security state's powers. Max Blumenthal, who witnessed the Capitol mob and reported on a key participant, discusses his coverage of the attack and the dangers of a militarized, myopic response.

Guest: Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone and author of several books including his latest, "The Management of Savagery."

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CAPITOL RIOT CAPITOL TAKEOVER MAX BLUMENTHAL NATIONAL SECURITY STATE RUSSIAGATE US CAPITOL

AARON MATÉ

Aaron Maté is a journalist and producer. He hosts Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone. He is also is contributor to The Nation magazine and former host/producer for The Real News and Democracy Now!. Aaron has also presented and produced for Vice, AJ+, and Al Jazeera.

[Jan 24, 2021] The Deep State's Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Re

Notable quotes:
"... "You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with -- its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don't steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned." -- Seven Days in May (1964) ..."
"... That January 6 attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real coup, however. Those who answered President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop in and take control. ..."
"... It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned . ..."
"... Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America ..."
"... Seven Days in May ..."
"... Seven Days in May ..."
"... domestic right-wing extremism ..."
"... Battlefield America: The War on the American People ..."
"... This article was originally published on The Rutherford Institute . ..."
Jan 24, 2021 | www.globalresearch.ca

"You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country why in the name of God don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with -- its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don't steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned." -- Seven Days in May (1964)

No doubt about it: the coup d'etat was successful.

That January 6 attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real coup, however. Those who answered President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop in and take control.

It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned .

This new order didn't emerge into being this week, or this month, or even this year, however.

Indeed, the real coup happened when our government "of the people, by the people, for the people" was overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, techno-corporate state that is in cahoots with a government "of the rich, by the elite, for the corporations."

We've been mired in this swamp for decades now.

Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought lock, stock and barrel and made to dance to the Deep State's tune.

Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.

Joe Biden will be no different: his job is to keep the Deep State in power.

Step away from the cult of personality politics and you'll find that beneath the power suits, they're all alike.

Follow the money. It always points the way.

As Bertram Gross noted in Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America , " evil now wears a friendlier face than ever before in American history ."

Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw:

a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion

This stealthy, creeping, silent coup that Gross prophesied is the same danger that writer Rod Serling envisioned in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May , a clear warning to beware of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation's security.

Incredibly enough, almost 60 years later, we find ourselves hostages to a government run more by military doctrine and corporate greed than by the rule of law established in the Constitution. Indeed, proving once again that fact and fiction are not dissimilar, today's current events could well have been lifted straight out of Seven Days in May , which takes viewers into eerily familiar terrain.

American Apocalypse: The Government's Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

The premise is straightforward.

With the Cold War at its height, an unpopular U.S. President signs a momentous nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Believing that the treaty constitutes an unacceptable threat to the security of the United States and certain that he knows what is best for the nation, General James Mattoon Scott (played by Burt Lancaster), the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presidential hopeful, plans a military takeover of the national government. When Gen. Scott's aide, Col. Casey (Kirk Douglas), discovers the planned military coup, he goes to the President with the information. The race for command of the U.S. government begins, with the clock ticking off the hours until the military plotters plan to overthrow the President.

Needless to say, while on the big screen, the military coup is foiled and the republic is saved in a matter of hours, in the real world, the plot thickens and spreads out over the past half century.

We've been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long -- sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs -- that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we've been on that fast-moving, downward trajectory for some time now.

The question is no longer whether the U.S. government will be preyed upon and taken over by the military industrial complex. That's a done deal, but martial law disguised as national security is only one small part of the greater deception we've been fooled into believing is for our own good.

How do you get a nation to docilely accept a police state? How do you persuade a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations, tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents monitoring their communications?

Try to ram such a state of affairs down the throats of the populace, and you might find yourself with a rebellion on your hands. Instead, you bombard them with constant color-coded alerts, terrorize them with shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and sell the whole package to them as being for their best interests.

This present military occupation of the nation's capital by 25,000 troops as part of the so-called "peaceful" transfer of power from one administration to the next is telling.

This is not the language of a free people. This is the language of force.

Still, you can't say we weren't warned.

Back in 2008, an Army War College report revealed that "widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security." The 44-page report went on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, "unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order , purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters."

In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that labelled right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) and called on the government to subject such targeted individuals to full-fledged pre-crime surveillance. Almost a decade later, after spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism .

Meanwhile, the police have been transformed into extensions of the military while the nation itself has been transformed into a battlefield. This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent's order or not complying fast enough. This hasn't just been happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It's been happening all across the country.

And then you've got the government, which has been steadily amassing an arsenal of military weapons for use domestically and equipping and training their "troops" for war. Even government agencies with largely administrative functions such as the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Smithsonian have been acquiring body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon launchers and police firearms and ammunition. In fact, there are now at least 120,000 armed federal agents carrying such weapons who possess the power to arrest.

Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that has been colluding with the government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing and inescapable . It's not just the drones, fusion centers , license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry about. You're also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars , your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.

So you see, January 6 and its aftermath provided the government and its corporate technocrats the perfect excuse to show off all of the powers they've been amassing so assiduously over the years.

Mind you, by "government," I'm not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats.

I'm referring to "government" with a capital "G," the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

I'm referring to the corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country and calling the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White House.

This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.

Brace yourself.

There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn't bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you'd better beware.

Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you'd better beware.

And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you'd better beware.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People , we are at our most vulnerable right now.

All of those dastardly seeds we have allowed the government to sow under the guise of national security are bearing demon fruit.

The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money.

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Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute . His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People is available at www.amazon.com . Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected] . He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.

[Jan 24, 2021] Roosevelt knew a Japanese fleet was enroute to attack Pearl Harbor, but withheld this intel from commanders in Hawaii; similarly weakining of police defence lines was a deliberate action by Dems operatives and their Republican collaborators

Jan 24, 2021 | www.unz.com

The January Sixth events in Washington D.C., depicted in the corporate media as Donald Trump's criminal "incitement to insurrection", were predictably greeted by Democrats and their media as the worst tragedy to ever befall American democracy, the heinous plot to establish a police state -- a coup d'etat, the final desperate act of a deranged tyrant. That might be considered something akin to surface discourse. Framed differently, those events could not have made the Dems happier, for by the time the last demonstrator left the Capitol the political floodgates were opened: total war against an entire nation of seditious Republicans, now demonized as "domestic terrorists", could finally be adopted as full-fledged strategy. The perfect Dems scenario for gaining unchallenged power had been laid.

Beyond the moment of Capitol disorder the Dems would find, without much difficulty, that most precious of all gifts -- a political godsend. Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, national trauma would give the power elite just what it coveted – in this case the greatest of all opportunities to frame Trump and much of the Republican party as enemies of the state, collectively damned to ideological purgatory. January Sixth, like December Seventh before it, would serve as political code for converting national chaos into its very opposite: relief. The Dems, already beginning to solidify power in the White House, Congress, the media, and Big Tech, could now move toward a scorched-earth policy – war of annihilation.

In his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day of infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do but could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S. into World War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR, whose infamous eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the Pacific fleet in Hawaii. In the end, after four difficult years, victory would be heroically wrestled from defeat.

After what was portrayed as a "sneak attack" (military operations were supposed to be advertised in advance?), the New York Herald Tribune could exalt: "Since the clash now appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a sense of relief. The air is clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war] with the old obstacles finally removed, forgotten." Public opposition to U.S. entry into the war vanished in two hours one early Sunday morning. Democratic politicians, joined by a good many Republicans, were now ready to take military combat to Japan (and then Germany), as the attack had given FDR all the power, not to mention legitimacy, any president could possibly desire. Since 1941 Pearl Harbor has been ideological code for unlimited executive freedom, and Roosevelt energetically took advantage.

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, shock turned to resolve, momentary defeat to righteous commitment. Victim status would be transformed into its opposite. Roughly the same dynamic would be repeated in the case of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which gave president George W. Bush "permission" to do what he and the neocons were already hellbent on doing – invading Iraq and "finishing the job" of overthrowing Saddam Hussein. In both cases – Pearl Harbor and 9/11 – national humiliation was mobilized to "reset" U.S. foreign policy.

For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated, would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. Pelosi, ready as ever for vengeful action, would say: "The situation of this unhinged president could not be more dangerous. He chose to be an insurrectionist." Trump's behavior (in riling up demonstrators) would demand immediate and harsh retribution. Other Dems quickly followed Pelosi's lead, amplified by a monolithically frenzied media. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shrill as ever and clearly speaking for the "progressive" squad, said: "I do believe we should exercise every avenue possible because the president has shown that his mental status and his actions are wildly eroding at a rapid pace." Trump represents a "clear and present danger to our democracy", she blustered, and must be removed from office as soon as possible.

Not to be overshadowed, Senator Chuck Schumer, reprising "Pearl Harbor" no less, would state: "I have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just witnessed in this Capitol. President Franklin Roosevelt set aside December 7, 1941 as a day that will live in infamy. Unfortunately, we can now add January 6, 2021 to that very short list of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy." Oblivious to months of fire bombings, lootings, beatings, and killings across the streets and buildings of dozens of American cities (criminality that persists to this day) – all encouraged by the Dems -- Schumer would add, hypocritically: "The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized."

The authoritarian, virtually fascistic reaction of the media and political establishment was swift and, well, unhinged: the House would quickly move to impeach the president, again, Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and other social-media outlets, Republicans (even those far removed from the Capitol violence) were facing censorship, blacklisting, job loss, and thoroughly dishonest smears. Within a week the silencing of conservatives across the Internet had reached new heights. The long-cherished Beltway goal to destroy Trump, his family, and associates was in sight: any Trump hope for the presidency in 2024 would be smashed. Hysterical threats of "domestic terrorism" would mean, as always, a drastic Hobbesian response: maximum state power, strengthened ideological controls, the crushing of political opposition.

As Dower noted, the ideological code emanating from "Pearl Harbor" included yet another motif: the familiar stereotype of Asians (at that time) as sneaky, backstabbing, and irrational would be affirmed on December Seventh. Who else could carry out such a dastardly attack? The same code would naturally apply to millions (tens of millions) of deplorable Trump supporters – a motley assemblage of gun-toting racists and neo-Nazis. Didn't those sanctimonious CNN pundits always warn about the backward white-supremacists seduced by the guile of the Orange Menace? Indeed. The truth was finally illuminated for every Beltway dweller to seize upon and embellish: Trump followers would now have to pay, their collective guilt revealed beyond doubt amidst the ashes of January Sixth.

So when all the enlightened Dems repeat their heartfelt sadness over the fate of the Republic, over Trump's evil subversion of "our democracy", it might be time to look more closely beneath the surface – or maybe head for the hills. If there were any bars open in the woke Democratic neighborhoods, that is probably where Pelosi, AOC, Adam Schiff, and other sad victims of the Orange Menace might be found gathering to celebrate, toasting to their unbelievably good fortune. Whether such celebrations might be long-lived, however, would be another matter. Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists.

Sue Dunham , says: January 15, 2021 at 7:49 pm GMT • 7.9 days ago

Thank you for writing this. I am still trying to figure out why Ashli Babbit, the only person shot on 1/6, was surrounded by cops at the time, with John Sullivan filming the incident, along with a Chinese videographer from the CIA's Epoch Times. Sullivan's footage of the event focuses lovingly on the hand of the shooter, until he steps forward and shoots. The shooter makes a very exaggerated movement before he fires, despite having his gun trained on Babbitt already. I believe this movement was a necessary signal to Babbitt, so that could fall backward in sync with the gunshot. She could have been easily restrained and arrested by the cops on her side of the window, but instead she was "shot" by a conveniently disembodied arm. And the only evidence of injury is a very small amount of blood coming out of her mouth.

Crisis actor shenanigans!

My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle , says: January 16, 2021 at 12:04 am GMT • 7.7 days ago
@Sue Dunham ng out of her neck and all over the Capital steps.

After I saw the video of Ashli Babbit's rant on gewtube I came to the conclusion it was just another manufactured event. I was reminded of the woman Astronaut that drove all the way from the Johnson Space Center down to the Space Coast in Florida to be with her unrequited love. All the while wearing diapers the whole time so she wouldn't have to take potty breaks on the drive down.

If anyone else has seen a video of blood spurting out of Ashli's neck and pooling all over the floor please provide a link.

You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the movies.

Robert Dolan , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:19 am GMT • 11.3 hours ago

1/6 was a nothingburger that is being jewed out of all proportion.

In reality, 1/6 did about ..1/10000000000000 as much damage as the Antifa and BLM shitheads did in nine months of REAL insurrection.

The jewish owned MSM lies about everything, turns ANY event into an opportunity to SHIT on innocent white people to demonize them and instill desire in non-whites to MURDER white people.

The jew media narrative distilled is blood libel against white people.

That's all it is.

Louis Hissink , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:29 am GMT • 11.2 hours ago

January Sixth, like December Seventh before it, would serve as political code for converting national chaos into its very opposite: relief.

Isn't "order" the antonym of chaos?

Carlton Meyer , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 5:32 am GMT • 11.1 hours ago

In his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day of infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do but could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S. into World War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR, whose infamous eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the Pacific fleet in Hawaii.

Roosevelt also knew a Japanese fleet was enroute to attack Pearl Harbor, but withheld this intel from commanders in Hawaii.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1niZil4lNjU?feature=oembed

Buzz Mohawk , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:36 am GMT • 11.1 hours ago
@Beavertales act, the draconian over-reaction of the elite may prove to be a godsend rallying event for the oppressed.

Indeed, when I read the title, "January Sixth as Godsend," I thought this article was going in the direction you indicate.

Events, like arguments, often comprise two, opposing poles. The question is, what will be the result, the aufheben , this time?

In the near term, clearly it will be further erosion of civil liberties and continued "American Pravada" fakery. In the long run, however, anything is possible, even things we can't imagine, because this is now an irrational, complex, disturbed system.

Tony Hall , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:39 am GMT • 11.0 hours ago

Who will play the role of the Philip Zelikow in the "Insurrection Commission," in the extension of the 9/11 Commission into the forthcoming 1/6 Commission?

aandrews , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:44 am GMT • 10.9 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFpw-ioM3dk?feature=oembed
44:00
" a shift of the tectonic plates. It is happening before our eyes, this gathering of the elites ."

RedpilledAF , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 10.9 hours ago
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle

I forget the name of the incident, but several years ago there was a very obvious fake female getting shot incident in an attempted color revolution in Iran. It had cia/mi6/Mossad written all over it, as usual. However, I think they ended up killing the "useful idiot" a few hours later when the plan failed. This incident is very similar. If someone knows the incident I am talking about please remind me/us.

mcohen , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:04 am GMT • 10.6 hours ago

she was shot in the chest.the neck shot narrative is disinformation to go with the false flag narrative which is a great sunny day.

Luus Kanin , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:18 am GMT • 10.4 hours ago

Please don't besmirch fascists by mentioning Pelosi as a representative. A better description of her would be a plutocratic cypriot. No self respecting fascist would be caught within a stone's throw of her for fear of catching the backdoor trots.

Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:55 am GMT • 9.7 hours ago

Oh my gosh, is that thing still alive?! And who is that corpse beside her?

Kolya Krassotkin , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:01 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago
@Beavertales

Quite tame, but Schumer, Pelosi and the rest of the gang are going to work it up into The Reichstag Fire and would, if they could use it to get an enabling act.

Goebbels would be so proud of all the Dems, especially of Schumer.

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:02 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago

We can take this Pearl Harbor analogy a little further. The Japanese Americans were also stripped of their property in a very planned and devious manner immediately after December 7. Jews picked up most of this property at fire sale prices and benefitted immensely.

The full effects of how this faked January 6 "insurrection" was "good for the jews" will become clear in the months ahead. But one thing is clear, the take down of Parler directly benefitted jew owned Facebook (((Zuckerberg))) and the gaggle of jew controlled social media outfits like Twitter and Instagram.

The Japanese Americans were stripped of thousands of acres of valuable farmland in central California. Shortly after the January 6 insurrection it came out the Bill Gates is the largest owner of farmland in the US. Covid and Climate Engineering has impacted farmers across the US (derechios). I think there may be some correlation here too.

There is also the issue of the 25,000 National Gaurd called in for the innauguration. Washington mobilized for war.

Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:03 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago

Will these people please die already!

Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:16 am GMT • 9.4 hours ago

They can wear tailored suits that cost five or ten thousand. They can get hair colouring that cost maybe two grand. They can spend as much as they can spend, but the brutal truth is they are not getting out of this place alive, no matter how much they spend, no matter how much political power they have, no matter who they know. They are going to be just as dead as the rest of us. LOL.

GeneralRipper , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:30 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

Pelosi is 80 lol

That filthy fucking treasonous whore is going to die soon.

Her Daddy is waiting to greet her in Hell.

Dube , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:32 am GMT • 9.1 hours ago

Let the show continue. Trump will be in the Senate gallery to enjoy the impeachment. Pass it on.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:41 am GMT • 9.0 hours ago

The people pictured above, are hands down, the craziest of the crazies. These comrades make the Trump administration look like boy scouts by comparison.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:48 am GMT • 8.9 hours ago

The problem is, they weren't carrying guns. No one was really threatened. They stayed between the purple ropes, those folks with canes and walkers and only a few reached the "inner sanctum", which looks like a library and there ANTIFA members instigated the usual window breaking and were actually scolded by some of the Trump supporters telling them to stop it, when finally an unarmed woman, a Trump supporter was murdered by the police. Only the biggest dupes and people wanting to believe an absurd narrative were shocked. Thinking people were not.

brabantian , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:01 am GMT • 8.6 hours ago

Interesting that the troops in DC are STAYING, their active duty orders extending AT LEAST through 16 February which MAY BE EXTENDED military document below on this

Some say these are Trump troops who will still help 'stop the steal', arrest Biden etc LOL others say that Biden-Harris are preparing martial law scenarios after possible false flag terror attack, or some kind of new economic or pandemic crisis Given Biden's USA troops invaded northern Syria on Biden's first full day in office Thursday, it seems the USA war machine is back in gear and happy to be ridin' wit' Biden

As is widely noted, the new Biden gov seems to be poking ordinary Americans with a stick:
– Biden's tranny orders destroying women's sports and that all bio-males 'identifying as female' be welcome in women's locker rooms & rest rooms
– Biden 'critical race theory' order for white-humiliating 'training', all non-Jew whites to confess to being inherently 'racist' as price to keep gov etc jobs
– Amnesty & citizenship for 11 million & maybe 30-40 million migrants inside US, end to deportations & border security

Jewish Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee blurts out that 75% of USA white soldiers 'cannot be fully trusted' , as if hinting there is a war of the new government and Jewish interests, opposing whites who voted for Trump or reject the 'humiliate the whites', LGBTranny etc agendas

The 'troops staying in DC thru February, maybe longer' military document

chris , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:10 am GMT • 8.5 hours ago

Great summary, though the word 'godsent' implies a passivity which seems misapplied in describing the actions of the beneficiaries of this deep state instigation.

This type of event, perfunctorily (and rather clumsily) tracing a number of transparent stages, which are then blasted incessantly through propaganda megaphones, is absolutely standard practice in all foreign coups.

This dynamic is used to give all the partisans a fig leaf to cover their actions and to provide the next level actors a cue to start their intervention.

animalogic , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:18 am GMT • 8.4 hours ago
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle

"You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the movies."
Fair enough.
But -- if she died instantly there'd be very little blood .
I have no idea what really happened, but I'm willing to provisionally accept she was shot dead by an unidentified shooter.

animalogic , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:25 am GMT • 8.2 hours ago

"The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized."
Most of the Dem' – Establishment reaction to 6.1.21 has been spew inducing, but the above quote is just perfectly -- funny.
It is SO over the top, SO cynical, self serving & lacking in irony that hilarity is the only natural response.

dimples , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:05 am GMT • 7.6 hours ago

There are said to be 2300 Capitol police answerable to Pelosi etc. So when the remarkably few police actually there conveniently moved the barriers aside to let protestors into the building, its obvious that the Democrat gerontocracy was still thinking well ahead of the dumb Trumpstein rabble.

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:09 am GMT • 7.5 hours ago
@Sue Dunham staged "incidents" along the path to Lexington, just like Charlottsville in 2017 was part of the lead up to the "insurrection" of January 6, 2021.

Samuel Adams and his Masonic Brothers had been planning and inciting the rebellion (Tea Party, Boston Massacre) from the Green Dragon Tavern.

Boston's Green Dragon Tavern, headquarters of both the Sons of Liberty and St. Andrew's Lodge

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TyRade , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:14 am GMT • 7.4 hours ago

I thought from the title the theme was going to be a far subtler one, not the 'what a gimme for The Left', the line which everyone still able to publish has taken. I'd argue that 6 Jan brings peak Democrat hubris forward so pulls nemesis – the revelation of the red tooth and claw of unhinged, vote-losing socialism – much nearer (say 2022).

goldgettin , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:18 am GMT • 7.4 hours ago
@Beavertales

Good points. Flip the script tell the truth make it happen.
Yet people still don't believe in Karma?????????
What we need to do is stop tolerating/subsidizing evil.
Easier said than done you say?You're probably right.
Hard to get it out there though,most seem TOO invested in
continuing their blissful expertise .
Looks to me that it's finally beginning to end or not

Bert , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:55 am GMT • 5.7 hours ago
@Beavertales

Yes, and there is also the clear evidence of capitol police standing aside, waving protestors toward the building, lining the halls to get out of their way as they entered, and leading them up the correct set of stairs. It was a set up, like what Roosevelt achieved at Pearl Harbor.

Patric , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:56 am GMT • 5.7 hours ago

The writer does not say so though it is implied .this 'event' screamed it was STAGED. Beginning with the most obvious why were the crowd allowed in at all? It's just another of these 'hoaxes' and with Biden in charge look for many more. Didn't the whole 'hoax' method (Sandy Hook, Boston Bombing, etc etc) take off during the Obama/Biden years? As Chuck Shumer said recently "Buckle Up"

WorkingClass , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:56 am GMT • 5.7 hours ago

1/6 was a false flag attack following the theft of the 2020 election. The purpose? To establish Chinese style Totalitarianism on behalf of what Pepe Escobar refers to as Techno Feudalism.

Nothing good can come from Democrats and/or Republicans. Democrats and Republicans have ruined our Country. Why is Orange Man Bad? Becuase the Deplorables defeated both Parties in 2016. It won't happen again. Nothing good can come from the District of Corruption. Separation is the ONLY way forward. Why is anyone still talking about future elections?

The Alarmist , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:05 am GMT • 5.6 hours ago

That might be considered something akin to surface discourse.

Along these lines

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SjbPi00k_ME?feature=oembed

Anonymous [144] • Disclaimer , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:07 am GMT • 5.5 hours ago
@Sue Dunham as a cue to pretend you were shot, if you are, in fact, pretending. So, if the "exaggerated movement" is your proof that it was "acting," then it was not acting but real. That it was otherwise a set-up, and "an inside job" by the same people who run Antifa is obvious. That the police removed the barricades and waved the people to come in, led by bussed in Antifa Judas goats, is also obvious and well documented. You could say all of America, white and black, was shot at that moment. Just because all of the fake killings the last few years by white people are a staged show to incriminate the innocent and create the illusion of "White Supremacy," does not mean that the Deep State does not kill when it serves their interest.
Abdul Alhazred , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:26 am GMT • 5.2 hours ago
@Sue Dunham

Some say Schumer shot Ashli Babbitt? Who did?

Chucky wants to take your guns away, but he knew how to shoot and somewhere on the net is a
better phrenic matchup than this would suggest, but hairlines do speak as well

https://www.sinsthatcrytoheavenforvengeance.com/2021/01/some-say-that-chuck-schumer-is-one-who.html

onebornfree , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 11:30 am GMT • 5.2 hours ago

"For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated, would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. "

The author does not seem to be aware yet that the whole invasion was a CIA/FBI/Antifa/BLM/Q-Anon staged, planned false flag event, [complete with a staged shooting], with the intent to demonize Trump and his supporters [and to arrest some of them on the spot, eg Alex Jones and Roger Stone].

A set up from the git go.

SWAT teams came to Roger Stones D.C. hotel room [luckily he'd already left town after smelling something rotten in the air]. Since then his 70 yr old wife was viciously attacked in FL. by an anonymous bike rider [Antifa?] who deliberately ran over her body at least 3 times [she's now under intensive care in a FL hospital, and Stone himself has gone into hiding, apparently].

A SWAT team also came for Jones in DC [apparently], but local police refused to co-operate with Feds to the best of my knowledge at present, so that take down didn't go as planned for the Fed goons either.

Regards, onebornfree

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:14 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago
@Sue Dunham

Ashli died very quickly, You can see her hands going into tetanic contractions within a very few seconds of her collapse. She was bleeding internally through her esophagus or wind pipe and the blood was coming out her mouth. As your heart stops, so does the bleeding.

Curiously this is the second time you have posted this exact same comment, even with the exact same "Thank you for writing this" to start. Even more curious, your first reply and agreement comes from the exact same person who agreed with you then (Jan. 15). Who curiously posted the exact same response he posted then. Are you posing as both? Very convenient, if true.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:36 pm GMT • 4.1 hours ago
@mcohen

she was shot in the chest.

That's interesting. It would explain a lot of things. Do you have a source for it? Has there been an autopsy?

Temporary Insanity , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:36 pm GMT • 4.1 hours ago

"Whether such celebrations might be long-lived, however, would be another matter."

Only time will tell

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:38 pm GMT • 4.0 hours ago
@Peripatetic Itch "throuple" mind games, clearly she has been a lot more than merely "mentioned"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147335/Dead-MAGA-mobster-Ashli-Babbitt-Marine-ex-husband-THROUPLE-bartender.html

"Ashli and Aaron, who served as a Marine from 2000 to 2005, married in 2019 and met their girlfriend less than a year into their marriage"

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:45 pm GMT • 3.9 hours ago
@brabantian

I think that they are afraid that old Jubal Early is pissed off about all the Confederate statues being desecrated and that he is going to rise from the dead, whoop those useless Yankees and threaten Washington once more

General Early and the Army of the Valley Movements Map

theMann , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:51 pm GMT • 3.8 hours ago

I think most of you are missing the point about the events of 1-6. The only really relevant photos of that day are the ones of US Congress"men" cowering in abject terror under their desks, or running in abject terror to their precious "safe" location away from the Capitol building.

This is the very public demonstration of true sniveling cowardice in a manner that cannot be naysayed or denied in any way. And now the entire world knows it. Having been so publicly outed as low grade cowards, we can now expect, going forward, that every reaction of the US Congress will be a grotesque, and violent, overreaction.

Because that is what cowards do with power.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:00 pm GMT • 3.7 hours ago
@Schuetze lockquote>

There is also the issue of the 25,000 National [Guard] called in for the [inauguration].

They did give cover for the abysmally small crowd attending the inauguration. From the pics, it hardly looked to be more than a thousand. Trump had more than that lining the streets when he returned to Mar-a-Lago.

So of course, the "threat" of further horrendous violence from those oh so vicious Trump supporters still hiding in the city since Jan. 6 deterred a full half million of those enthusiastic Biden supporters who so wanted to see him take the oath.

Nicolae Ceaușescu would have been proud.

Realist , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:18 pm GMT • 3.4 hours ago

Beyond the moment of Capitol disorder the Dems would find, without much difficulty, that most precious of all gifts -- a political godsend.

It was not a godsend it was conceived and designed by subhumans in the Deep State.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:35 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago
@Schuetze Why would he shoot with Capitol police standing in the line of fire back in the stairwell?

Winter also tries to make the case that John Sullivan was inciting the riot when there is no footage yet produced of Sullivan doing anything more than recording events as he saw them, which is what he said he was doing. He published an hour-long video and nothing there shows him doing anything physical. He did say things like "Let's burn that shit down" but it could not have been heard by many (if any) people near him and there is no indication anyone else was paying attention to him. He was, it seems, simply narrating and role-playing.

Petermx , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:41 pm GMT • 3.0 hours ago

I only learned in the last 4 to 5 years what despicable old hags Pelosi and Hillary are. They compete for being the most despicable with Hillary suggesting Trump was in contact with Russian President Putin on January 6 to keep him updated on the so called "insurrection". For over 75 years Americans, most often Jews, have called Germany's Josef Goebbels a liar but I can't recall the last time they said what he supposedly lied about. No one can compete with Americans like Hillary Clinton and American Jews like Adam Schiff for being the most unabashed liars in the world. And it's the Lying Jewish media with mini-mes like CNN's head Jeff Zucker that create these deliberately false narratives for their stooges Pelosi and Clinton to propagate. As former Congressman Ron Paul suggested yesterday, no country has interfered in more foreign elections than the USA.

It would be glorious if Trump ran for President again. I don't expect it and I would think he would not want to become a human punching bag again, but I believe he would win if his forces could prevent another fraudulent election. There is no force in the USA as powerful as the media and it's the same in most "democratic" countries. How glorious it would be too if the old hags had enough of letting themselves be used by people like Zucker and Twitter's Jack Dorsey and turned on them and had the justice department put those despicables in jail. Oh, how glorious. One can dream. But that is unlikely and what is more likely is that within the next ten years the world won't care much what is happening in the USA, for the USA is in for a big fall which will reduce its power and influence greatly.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:49 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago
@WorkingClass

Separation is the ONLY way forward.

That said, Republicans control the legislatures in quite a few states, and the Constitution gives those states plenary power over election law, particularly for President and the Congress. Changing the law to mandate paper ballots and voter ID while eliminating the machines and mail-in ballots would probably expose the fraud and regain the House and Senate in the mid-terms.

Can do both prongs at the same time.

Jiminy , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:51 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago
@animalogic

I remember the film of the vc prisoner, who while being held by guards was shot suddenly in the temple. The amount of blood forcefully streaming from the hole in his head was both astonishing and gruesome. I don't know if happened because of being shot in the head though, as opposed to being shot in the body. Or maybe the bullet hit the artery.

Achmed E. Newman , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 1:59 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago

That was a concise truthful account of what we are up against again, Mr. Boggs. Thank you.

Even the pundit Ann Coulter, someone I've appreciated being on my side for more than a decade, has fallen for some of this bullshit out of the Lyin' Press in their ceaseless Infotainment. From her latest column (otherwise, one I agree with):

The raid was disgusting, appalling, sickening, but it's not a license for concocting imaginary accusations. Trump is bad. The thugs who stormed the Capitol are bad. You don't need to manufacture evidence against them, media.

Peak Stupidity notes that she lied by using the terms "raid", "disgusting", and "thugs", in the post "Et tu, Ann?"

Will Ann Coulter, even, be suckered into supporting anti-"domestic-terrorism" laws, just as she went for the "fight them over there " crap after 9/11? There are cooler heads that don't get emotionally suckered in by the Lyin' Press narrative. We are the ones they are aiming at with the new round of oppression to come.

Tumi , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:00 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago

" Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists."
It has already done .Bush or more precisely Cheney to Tea Party to MAGA false prophet of Trump is linear and traces only a tiny distance.
False hope is entertained because desperation and anger demand it . Obama and Trump are two sides of the same coin , Both hurt the believers and the faithful most and did intentionally.

Miro23 , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:25 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago

"Since the clash now appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a sense of relief. The air is clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war] with the old obstacles finally removed, forgotten."

This would apply equally well to a US civil war . It would clear the air, people/organizations commit to one side or the other and get on with it.

Sick of Orcs , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:44 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago
@theMann

Agreed. It was truly satisfying to watch uniparty kleptocrat cowards, who torture us daily with bad laws and invitations for invading hordes, scrambling for their escape choo-choo train.

Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:45 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago
@Peripatetic Itch on in Syria, preceded by waves of Iraeli bombings and missile strikes. Iraq has also been under the zio-genocide hammer.

Clearly, the next move in the US is going to be the gun grab, and they will try to focus it on "white supremacists". This is the narrative construction we see going on, of which Babbit likely was part of. During the Trump administration there seemed to be far fewer false flags. I would bet that we are about to see a flurry of "white supremacists" shooting up various synogogues, jewish graveyards, black churches, and I would not be at all surprised if the grand climax was the bombing of a "holocaust" museum.

HT , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:47 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago

Hitler was the only leader in history that knew exactly what must be done with communists. If you allow even one communist to live in your land, your freedom is at risk. In my view, the only thing that will remove them now and thus save America is for a Hitlarian type figure to rise up and ruthlessly deal with the communists in politics, the Judeo media complex, the courts, and academia. He rounded them up in the 1930's and that is the only way to stop them now. If that isn't done soon, they will be rounding us up which they are making very clear.

Old and Grumpy , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:56 pm GMT • 1.7 hours ago

How about all those available resources to fortify the capital since the Big Capital Walk Thru? Were concrete and metal fence producers considered essential during all our lockdowns? Did they miraculously have inventory waiting for DC to come beckoning?

Crescent Moon , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:01 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago
@Abdul Alhazred ian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/"> https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-special-agent-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-is-a-brazilian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/

Here is the best footage (professional) of the day. You could him shooting with the black and white bracelet clearly. Now it seems to be edited out, unless I missed it
blob: https://www.newyorker.com/a36c1f75-18a7-4f63-87ba-73fc37e2aebc

Alexandros , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:08 pm GMT • 1.5 hours ago
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle

Well of course it's fake. It's on TV!

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:21 pm GMT • 1.3 hours ago
@Schuetze every possible misdemeanor in her life, from accusations of deliberate assault by car to restraining orders, to adultery, to her "fanatical" propensity to rant, to living in a threesome, as you say. Her death, on the other hand, is treated matter-of-factly, as if to say, What else would you expect for such a flaky dumb-ass? No mention that she was not armed.

Compare that to what they did for George Floyd. He came out as a saint who had only wanted to be president as a kid. Gone to Minneapolis to start a "new life" as I recall. Barely a mention of his home invasion, holding a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman, possibly raping her.

Avery , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:29 pm GMT • 1.2 hours ago
@HT > der Führer

__________________
* Hitler and Germans were lucky that Russians/Slavs were not as vengeful as Germans' Anglo-Saxon kin, who burned about 100,000 or so German civilians – old men, women, children – just to show what they are capable of. Stalin could have created 100s of Dresdens, and nobody could have stopped him.

** I understand there is an organized, decades long effort to erase that wonderful trait.

follyofwar , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:56 pm GMT • 43 minutes ago
@GeneralRipper especially since the servile House democrats don't have the guts to vote her out as Speaker? And she will continue to be easily re-elected in her far-left district, no matter how senile and delusional she is.

Think Strom Thurmond in his last years. He lived to be 1oo, dying in office. In fact, since women live longer than men, Pelosi may finally collapse for the last time when she is 110, still firmly clutching her gold-plated gavel that she refused to give up. After rigor mortis sets in, they won't be able to pry it out of her cold dead hand, so she'll be buried with it, and will lie in State in the Capitol Rotunda for a month.

[Jan 24, 2021] Despite What You Heard, There Was No Peaceful Transition

Jan 24, 2021 | www.mintpressnews.com

Anyone trying to find the edges of the U.S. Overton Window right now must feel like they're tracing an amateur rendition of an early Picasso. After a summer spent chanting "defund the police," self-identifying progressives applaud the pouring of some 25,000 troops and busloads of out-of-city law enforcement into the streets of Washington, DC. Those eager to cheer the departure of a racist, sexist, war-hawking elitist from the White House were quick to welcome a new racist, sexist, war-hawking elitist. Those who lambasted Trump for dragging more swamp creatures into the swamp rather than draining it are applauding Biden for his diverse cabinet appointments, ignoring the revolving door of corruption and oppression they represent. Those who (correctly) decried the Paris Climate Agreement for being flimsy and non-committal are celebrating Biden's executive orde

[Jan 24, 2021] You can counter Trumpism only by ending the conditions which created it, not with authoritarian policies, by Caitlin Johnstone

Jan 24, 2021 | www.rt.com

The option of stopping the rise of Trumpism by changing the system has been taken off the table. Instead, people are being asked to debate the pros and cons of giving more powers to that same corrupt system which created Trump.

The US political/media class have been pushing hard for more authoritarian policies to stave off the threat of "domestic terrorism" in the wake of the Capitol riot. President Biden, who was already working on rolling out new domestic terrorism policies well before January 6, confirmed after the riot that he is making these new measures a priority. Political internet censorship is becoming increasingly normalized , anti-protest bills are being passed , and now we're seeing liberals encouraged to form "digital armies" to spy on Trump supporters to report them to the authorities.

And an amazingly large percentage of the US population seems to have no problem with any of this, even in sectors of the political spectrum that should really know better by now.

"What else can we do?" they reason. "What other solution could there possibly be to the threat of dangerous fascists and conspiracy theorists continuing to gain power and influence?"

Well there's a whole lot that can be done, and none of it includes consenting to sweeping new Patriot Act-like authoritarian measures or encouraging monopolistic Silicon Valley plutocrats to censor worldwide political speech. There's just a whole lot of mass-scale narrative manipulation going on to keep it from being obvious to everyone.

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The way to stem the tide of Trumpism (or fascism, or white supremacism, or Trump cultism, or whatever term you use for what you're worried about here) is to eliminate the conditions which created it.

Trump was only able to launch his successful faux-populist campaign in the first place by exploiting the widespread pre-existing opinion that there was a swamp that needed draining, a corrupt political system whose leadership does not promote the interests of the people.

Conspiracy theories only exist because the government often does evil things and lies about them with the help of the mass media, forcing people to just guess what's happening behind the opaque wall of government secrecy.

People only get it in their heads that they need a trustworthy strongman to overhaul the system if the system has failed them.

People who are actually interested in ending Trumpism would be promoting an end to the corruption in the political system, an end to the opacity of their government, an end to their uniquely awful electoral system , and an end to the neoliberal policies which have been making Americans poorer and poorer with less and less support from the government which purports to protect them.

But these changes are not being promoted by the US political/media class, because the US political/media class speaks for an empire that depends on these things.

Without corruption, the plutocratic class couldn't use campaign donations and corporate lobbying to install and maintain politicians who will advance their interests.

Without government secrecy, the oligarchic empire could not conspire in secret to advance the military and economic agendas which form the glue that holds the empire together.

Without a lying mass media, people's consent could not be manufactured for wars and a system which does not serve their interests.

Without widespread poverty and domestic austerity, people could not be kept too busy and politically impotent to challenge the massive political influence of the plutocrats.

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So the option of stopping the rise of Trumpism by changing the system is taken off the table, which is why you never hear it discussed as a possibility in mainstream circles. The only option people are being offered to debate the pros and cons of is giving more powers to that same corrupt system which created Trump, powers which will be under the control of the next Trumpian figure who is elevated by that very system.

You're not going to prevent fascism by creating a big authoritarian monster to stomp it into silence, and even if you could you would only be stopping the fascism by becoming the fascism. To stop the rise of fascism you need to actually change. Drastically. Believing you can just make it go away without changing your situation is like believing you can avert an oncoming train by putting your hands over your eyes.

There is no valid argument against what I am saying here. Saying the powerful won't allow any positive change is just confirming everything I'm saying and confirming the need to remove the powerful from power. Saying that ending corruption, government secrecy and injustice would just be giving the terrorists what they want would be turning yourself into a bootlicker of such cartoonish obsequiousness there aren't words in the English language adequate to mock you.

Yes, change is desperately needed. Yes, the powerful will resist that change with everything they have. But the alternative is letting them plunge the world into darkness and destruction. We're going to have to find a way to win this thing .

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Paul Ericson 1 day ago 22 Jan, 2021 09:59 PM

Trumpism doesn't really exist, because Trump doesn't really subscribe to all the mythical traits his enemies claim for him. He did however expose the ground-level Americans' resentment of corporate USA and radical liberal USA working them over and wanting to make patsies of them. I'm quite happy to support a real Trumpism if it ever comes along, just as I support Putin. Neither are ideal but are at least appreciative of the instincts of the worker and the patriot.
jayjm1138 Paul Ericson 13 hours ago 23 Jan, 2021 03:33 PM
Very well stated. The so-called "Trumpism" was just people rallying around one figure who was outside of the establishment dictatorship. Trump was far from perfect, but he proved that the establishment will not tolerate anyone who goes even slightly against them. Those who did not support Trump have no right to complain about authoritarianism now. Trump warned them what was coming and they did not care.
Jewel Gyn 1 day ago 23 Jan, 2021 12:44 AM
Politics is about saying what voters want to hear but do otherwise after you won. This is bipartisan and folks must realise the policies are often not for people but to perpetrate the narratives disguised as pro US.

[Jan 22, 2021] Structural Crisis- Senate Threatens to Usurp Presidency, Constitution, and Will of the People by Leonard R. Jaffee

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

By 8 January 2021, Mitch McConnell had determined he would not permit the Senate to try Trump until 19 January 2021 or later. He ruled that the Senate could not convene for special session unless all 100 Senators formally agreed; he maintained that ruling consistently, through 19 January 2021. By 10 January 2021, House majority Whip James Clyburn suggested the House may not deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate until after Biden has been in Office 100 days.

Not until today, 20 January 2021, did Pelosi deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate. The same day, McConnell said: (a) the Senate will receive the House managers at noon ET Thursday, 21 January, when the managers will present and exhibit the articles; (b) at 2:00 PM 21 January, Chief Justice John Roberts will be escorted into the Senate chamber and swear in all senators; (c) the impeachment articles' trial will begin Tuesday, 26 January.

Until 20 or 21 January, the Senate majority would remain Republican; and a GOP-majority Senate would not only acquit Trump but also impeach, strongly, the articles of impeachment. So, why did Mitch McConnell block early Senate trial? Two possible intersecting reasons:

has said Trump fed the "mob" lies to provoke the mob to use violence to prevent Congress's certification of Biden's election.] (b) If trial occurs (as it will) when the Democrats control the Senate, a conviction might seem a Democrat-framed lynching -- not the GOP's traitorous assassination of Trump's "populism" and his political career.

I do not suggest such reasons are wise, logical, or even rational, but possibly real. McConnell is a crafty, dissembling, unscrupulous pseudo-aristocrat, but no Socrates or Aristotle.

"Liberal" and "moderate" Democrats, never-Trump Republicans,"The Squad, " the "Deep State" -- the nation's whole jumble of psychopathic and otherwise-psychically-ill "Elite," "woke," anti-"White"/anti-male/anti-meritocracy/sexually-deviant members -- all share one mantra : Trump and populism are evil, inimical to "Democracy" and the "culture," "morality," and "public interests" of the U.S. Populism must be extinguished. Never again may Trump "hold and enjoy any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" [U.S. Constitution Article I § 3 clause 7].

Why ought anyone care?

I voted twice for Trump, the second time (2020) merely because he was the lesser evil. In 2016, Trump promised more than a few moves that would have bettered the nation, e.g. ,

Trump meant and honored some promises -- at least partly. But others -- (a), (b), (f), (h), (i), and (k) -- were bad jokes. His Israel policy was evil. He railed against growing impairment of free speech. But his concern was mostly his own freedom of expression; and he failed to do anything substantial toward restoring the general public's freedom of speech. He continued, and worsened, Obama's persecution of Julian Assange and Bradley ["Chelsea"] Manning. Edward Snowden remains exiled. Trump has pardoned or commuted sentence of tens of nefarious criminals, but not Assange, Manning, or Snowden.

Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, George W Bush, and Obama supported the illegal "state" called Israel. But Trump lifted Israel-support, and, concomitantly, anti-Iran policy to insane levels. Trump's Israel-related domestic policy included design of blocking or impeding first-amendment-protected speech and assembly that opposes Israel's genocidal persecution of Palestinians. Trump rendered formal equation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and sought to outlaw the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement.

So, why ought we care whether, after Trump is not President, the Senate tries the articles of impeachment of Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States"? Why ought we care even whether simply the Senate tries the articles of impeachment but acquits Trump?

Trump's 2016 election suggested a true populist might become President -- not a closet "Elite," but one who would resist the Elites and the Deep State, not surround himself with snakes of the swamp. If the Senate tries Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" because Trump and his supporters exercised their First Amendment freedom of speaking and assembling to support populism and protest a corrupt election, speech and assembly freedoms will cease and near-certainly no capable, electable populist will run for the Presidency.

But that consideration is subsumed in another, greater, more vital, fundamental concern. We have a federal Constitution. Every federal legislator and judge promises, by oath, not to act contrary to that Constitution. Every federal judge must promise this: "I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me under the Constitution and laws of the United States."

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anonymous [305] Disclaimer , says: January 21, 2021 at 3:44 pm GMT • 1.3 days ago

...You live in a totalitarian state with arbitrary power.

Your government has three branches: CIA, CIA, and CIA. They infest every other corner of your government with spies. Until you can accept this you will be an irrelevant muppet writing bullshit.

Just another serf , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:40 am GMT • 18.2 hours ago

Trump pardoned the following:

... ... ...
4. Every jew ever involved in health care fraud over the past 100 years

If you might be a Trump supporter, just stop. Trump was an incompetent fraud. And Biden (well his handlers really), will be very competent and will soon make you feel the sting of systemic punishment.

Everyone can claim some African ancestry. Suggest you get familiar with the process real quick

Dr. X , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:57 am GMT • 18.0 hours ago

Back in 1987, as a young political science major, my constitutional law professor made us attend a lecture by a visiting scholar on the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention. I cannot remember who the lecturer was, but I do recall one phrase he used that has stuck in my mind ever since: the Constitution only works if we have a "constitutional frame of mind." In other words, the Constitution reflected the culture and the attitudes of its authors. Today, elites in both parties could give a damn about the Constitution. They simply ignore the Constitution when it suits them -- or, conversely, use it as a club to bludgeon their enemies when it suits them.

Today we are reduced to parsing the language of the Constitution because nobody is really committed to the upholding the culture and the attitudes that informed it when it was written. Therefore it has become meaningless.

stevennonemaker88 , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:58 am GMT • 17.9 hours ago

The president must dance to the tune of the bankers and assorted oligarchs who actually control the US. They enjoy confusing the common people with changing rhetoric and theater, but at the end of the day, the president is little more than a figurehead, and the policies remain largely the same. Many do not realize that the Obama administration deported some 2,750,000 illegals.. Under Trump it was only 935,000. Foreign wars? Police brutality? the rich getting richer? Prison industrial complex? decimation of the middle class? endless currency debasement? these things are consistent regardless, because they represent the interests of the actual rulers. The red candidate throws a bone to the "conservatives", the blue candidate throws a bone to the socialists, but the policy makers continue from one administration to the next. The last president who tried to stand up to the powers that be was JFK . and look what they did to him.

Thomasina , says: January 22, 2021 at 7:22 am GMT • 16.5 hours ago

Excellent article. Very well done.

Tucker Carlson said Monday or Tuesday night on his show that McConnell warned Trump not to pardon Assange, and he held the impeachment over Trump's head.

Swampington has gone rogue. I have a feeling that during much of Trump's presidency the threat of impeachment loomed large, and maybe worse.

Look at Sessions, recusing himself and cowering in the corner. Barr comes in and does diddly squat. The Durham investigation was a very long joke.

Two years of the Mueller Commission (when everybody in the know knew it was a pack of lies), spying, leaking, abuse of the FISA Court, Kavanaugh, impeachment over Ukraine, Covid, Antifa, BLM, stolen election ..never-ending chaos.

These corrupt clowns will do whatever the hell they please. They are the law now. If they do end up following the law, it will only be because the destruction they've caused already will be deemed to be enough.

Many of them should be behind bars.

Miro23 , says: January 22, 2021 at 11:27 am GMT • 12.5 hours ago

With the federal judiciary's corrupt or cowardly treatment of legitimate election-result challenges, the federal judiciary has shown it has abnegated its constitutional duty and will incline to commit impeachable offenses to avoid resisting the Elites' and the Deep State's subjugation of the People. The Supreme Court has shown that five or more pseudo-aristocrat judges (two Democrats, three or more Republicans) align with the Elites and the Deep State. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is correct. The People are suffering a revolution wrought by the "Establishment" (of the Elites and the Deep State).

I would say that they are more cowardly than corrupt.

They know that if they supported Trump's legitimate (good evidence) questioning of the election result, they would personally be in big trouble, so the Supreme Court is really not a Supreme Court at all – it's a piece of establishment window dressing – same as the rest of the hollowed out US Democratic institutions.

Real power in the US lies with the ZioGlob deep state and their MSM, the military (whichever way they turn), and the 72 million US gun owners (whatever they decide to do). There's also the aspect of real military power outside the US (Russia and China) that could be brought to bear, and would be potentially decisive. Accepted that some of these are TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) scenarios but that seems to be how it is. Genuine Democracy isn't coming back to the US any time soon.

Avery , says: January 22, 2021 at 2:23 pm GMT • 9.5 hours ago
@Beavertales at, do you really think Trump will discuss anything that went on in private? He is not the type to write a memoir.

And some of the most bizarre decisions he made while POTUS were as a result of "advice" from his favourite daughter Ivanka and her repellant husband. Ann Coulter has an article where she lists the boneheaded decisions Trump made on "advice" from the two incompetent rich-kids..

This short video is very indicative of the stupidity of Ivanka: she is so stupid, that she can't even see the contempt these politicians have for her, and sticks around like a bad smell:

[French Government Posts Video Of Ivanka Trump At G-20 Summit | NBC News]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7yUko1YCuxY?feature=oembed

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 22, 2021 at 3:43 pm GMT • 8.2 hours ago

McConnell must, not maybe, must be the first person to go if the Republican Senate has any chance of surviving in a way that serves conservative interests. He has been positively of Zero support to president Trumps four years in office, only giving lip service to the interests of the issues the presidents supporters wanted addressed.. For four long years, McConnell was an expert at bringing every advance, or potential advance in conservative interests to naught. He however, had no problemo at all in taking advantage of President Trumps popularity with conservative voters, when his re-election was in doubt. Maybe his middle name should be Mitt.

Getaclue , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:13 pm GMT • 6.7 hours ago
@anonymous ChiComs -- from whence In Laws $ all arises . McConnell shows the country is totally sold out to the ChiComs and in fact "governed" by them -- the rest of Congrassholes are about the same with various "spies" working them, having sex with them, and screwing us -- the USA is an occupied country via IsraHell and the Chinese Communists -- very, very bad days are ahead and most in the USA are moron mask wearers who actually believe the filthy pieces of cloth do something for their "health" contrary to all actual 41 Medical Studies to date which state the opposite -- truly Maskholing was an IQ test and the country failed to reach even the level of "Moron". Easy to steal an election when dealing with Maskhole Morons. Sad all are being pulled down by them .
Getaclue , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:18 pm GMT • 6.6 hours ago
@Aardvark you are charged by the Feds you will be railroaded, innocence means zero once you are charged and all the "Judge" cares about is getting you to plead guilty and move the case, you will be grossly overcharged to force this to happen and the Judge will glare at you and let you know he hates you if you go forward -- unless you are a Leftist Political hack or "activist" then you will be cut loose and probably never even charged ."justice" Roberts is the "model" -- his rulings in Obamacare etc. show he has no care for the actual "law" at all -- all the other Federal "judges" follow his example .The best thing that could happen to the USA is for the end of the Federal Courts, DOJ, and FBI -- all are Enemies Of The People -- get involved with them and find out.
waw , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:46 pm GMT • 6.1 hours ago

The Trumpster is a phony. He folded like a cheap suit, as he had done the bidding of the Khazar Satanists like a judas goat.

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 22, 2021 at 5:52 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago
@FoSquare The works of Plato and Aristotle have had much influence on the modern view of the "sophist" as a greedy instructor who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand and ambiguities of language in order to deceive, or to support fallacious reasoning. In this view, the sophist is not concerned with truth and justice, but instead seeks power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist

Societies that value truth but recognize the difficulties involved in discovering it also put value on freedom of expression. Those interested in power for its own sake, not so much. Unfortunately the power mongers always have the advantage of moral certainty. For them Alinsky and the Protocols are the only bibles.

Majority of One , says: January 22, 2021 at 7:12 pm GMT • 4.7 hours ago
@Anon olling 90% of the mass media of mindfuckery, mesmerization and mass megalomania and finally, the CIA financed and directed "Social Media", the greatest enemy of our First Amendment rights;;; those nefarious forces nearing absolute control over the federal regime in the Di$trict of Corruption have now fully succeeded in driving the last nail into the coffin of the Constitution AND the Bill of Rights, the enabling precondition for establishment of the federal system.

Behind the scenes, roaring and howling with fits of schadenfreude laughter; the ultimate shotcallers, those OWNER$ of the Federal Reserve and most other major international banking institutions, are rubbing their greasy palm$ with total glee by having pulled off the greatest heist in world history.

Johnny Walker Read , says: January 22, 2021 at 7:35 pm GMT • 4.3 hours ago

Former President Trump is playing his final scene today, making ready to hand over the lead part of a government like reality show to the mentally infirm Joe Biden. Biden, with history of pathological lying and a trail of crimes and associations with other crimes had no actual chance of winning a real election, but real elections are now only part of America's history.
Trumped & Dumped: The Psychological Operation Scrambles to Survive | Jack Mullen
https://blog.thegovernmentrag.com/2021/01/21/trumped-dumped-psychological-operation-enters-phase-two/

Majority of One , says: January 22, 2021 at 8:09 pm GMT • 3.8 hours ago
@Old and Grumpy wn individual of blackmail able importance -- was discovered in one of Ep$tein's logs).

Anyone notice how the Joint Chiefs of $taff for the U$ armed forces put out a notice to all military personnel that they must not participate in acts of sedition prior to the coronation of the Kamal's Foote/Biding administration.? Since the days of their attempted Operation Northwoods false flag scheme to attack Cuba, which was vetoed by JFK (among his other sins against the Deepe$t $tate); the proof was already in the pudding that the JC$ is dirty and our military is compromised by their chains of command from the top-down -- which is the way the enemies of We The People choose to employ their nefarious control system over one and all -- excepting, of course, the Elite$ themselves.

Spanky , says: January 22, 2021 at 8:51 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago
@Mefobills of savvy self-promoter and foil for Hillary. That would explain a lot, especially Hillary's (and the Democrats) absolute hatred of Trump and his supporters. That his shtick worked is testament to both his talent for self-promotion and our dislike of Hillary. Guess she miscalculated

In any case, it became obvious that either the fix was in, when he refused to back Flynn and appointed swamp creatures to fill his administrations' posts, or Trump was a fool. But that's not to say he wasn't useful in exposing the media and deep state's contempt, hatred and fear of us -- deplorables all -- by personifying it in their attacks on him.

The question that matters now, for populists, is how do we avoid the leadership trap?

gotmituns , says: January 22, 2021 at 9:10 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago
@FoSquare

For the most part, our entire legal profession has been taken over by an overeducated, inexperienced crowd of people who are not able to deal in "Letter" and "Spirit" of law. They're prisoners of the letter of the law because their only background is of the spoken and written word.

[Jan 22, 2021] Woman I know was arrested by the FBI for going to the Capitol protest.

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

Alden , says: January 21, 2021 at 10:09 am GMT • 15.9 hours ago

Woman I know was arrested by the FBI for going to the Capitol protest. She's a physician in her 50s. She did vote for Trump. She does think the hatred directed towards Trump was just insane. But otherwise she's a standard conventional liberal. It's frightening that someone like her was arrested.

The FBI must be looking at everyone's credit cards for plane tickets train tickets gas purchases hotels and meals to see who traveled to DC first week of January.

[Jan 22, 2021] The MSM has been uniformly portraying the Storming of the Capitol as a deadly attack by Trumpists, and using it to potentially justify a huge civil-liberties crackdown. Yet with the sole exception of the one Capitol police officer, all the victims were Trumpists

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

Ron Unz , says: January 21, 2021 at 9:53 pm GMT • 4.2 hours ago

The MSM has been uniformly portraying the Storming of the Capitol as a deadly attack by Trumpists, and using it to potentially justify a huge civil-liberties crackdown. Yet with the sole exception of the one Capitol police officer, all the victims were Trumpists, one unarmed woman shot by a security guard and the rest who apparently died from strokes or heart-attacks during all the excitement probably because they were elderly or overweight.

Moreover, I've become extremely suspicious of the official MSM account of the killing of that officer. Here's a couple of comments I made a couple of days ago about the alleged killing:

Given that zero details of the incident have come out, I'm getting pretty suspicious.

I wouldn't be surprised if that cop had died from a heart-attack or something, and his death was then conflated with the video of the thrown fire-extinguisher. I'm pretty sure that I read in the NYT that the fire-extinguisher video had nothing to do with the cop's death, and I'm skeptical that there were two entirely separate fire-extinguisher incidents.

As a follow-up, my morning NYT stated that the person who threw the fire-extinguisher in the video has now been charged with "assault." That means it's 100% certain that he didn't kill that cop.

The cop was the only "regime fatality" in the 1/6 incident, and there seems to be absolutely no effort to track down his alleged attacker even though national law enforcement is scouring the country for dozens or hundreds of other minor participants. Why would they make an all-out effort to catch those individuals who were guilty of trespassing and disorderly-conduct without trying to locate the supposed pro-Trump cop-killer?

I think the most logical explanation is that there *was* no cop-killer, and the officer died of more-or-less natural causes, e.g. a stroke brought on by all the excitement

https://www.unz.com/isteve/adl-doxxing-is-bad-except-when-we-do-it/#comment-4413978

Just as numerous people have emphasized, the whole situation sounds like a combination of 9/11 and Charlottesville. But if someone can prove that the alleged cop-killing was actually a media hoax, maybe average Americans would become suspicious about other elements of the official story, and deflect some of these plans.

I think Glenn Greenwald would be glad to blast it out, and he has a large public platform:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is

[Jan 22, 2021] Trump's been deleted from internet, and any one of us could be next

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... It's all been clearly coordinated. The Deep State and big business and the media working together. Police are instructed to create unrest on Capitol Hill, allow "rioters" into the building. The media report it as an "attempted coup", while the social networks remove all of Trump's denunciations so he can be blamed for "inciting violence". ..."
"... They created the lie. They spread the lie. They silenced anyone who would dare say that this is the lie. They have, as Karl Rove would put it, "created reality", and now we're here analyzing it. ..."
"... The precedent has been created. They can ban anyone they want and make up the reasons later. ..."
"... The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. ..."
"... As Trump was on his way out of the door, they chose to make it very clear to him who was actually in charge. Which has broader benefits, of course. Occasionally, concentration camp guards would shoot somebody entirely at random. ..."
"... They are now busily reinforcing and imposing tyrannical corporate dictatorship by destroying the rights, freedom of speech and reputations of anyone still brave enough to oppose them. The last great stronghold of democracy, the proles' only way of ever removing corrupt and failed leaders peacefully, has fallen under their full control. ..."
"... Biden is blatantly a senile puppet president approved and selected by the elites, then elected by fraud rather than by the American people. The leftists who laboured so hard to save us from Orange Man Bad have only saved the corrupt power system exploiting us all. ..."
Jan 22, 2021 | off-guardian.org

It's all been clearly coordinated. The Deep State and big business and the media working together. Police are instructed to create unrest on Capitol Hill, allow "rioters" into the building. The media report it as an "attempted coup", while the social networks remove all of Trump's denunciations so he can be blamed for "inciting violence".

They created the lie. They spread the lie. They silenced anyone who would dare say that this is the lie. They have, as Karl Rove would put it, "created reality", and now we're here analyzing it.

It was a big lie, this time, because it had to be. Because the man – or rather the office – was big. But for Joe Blo it can be a small lie. "He posted child porn" or "He was spreading hate" or "He was denying the pandemic" .

The precedent has been created. They can ban anyone they want and make up the reasons later.

Frank Zappa famously said :

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Well, we've been shown the wall, and we're being encouraged to cheer because the first person to run into it was Donald Trump. Rather predictably, millions have fallen for it.

Emily Durron , Jan 16, 2021 8:48 PM

As Trump was on his way out of the door, they chose to make it very clear to him who was actually in charge. Which has broader benefits, of course. Occasionally, concentration camp guards would shoot somebody entirely at random. The reason? "Pour encourager les autres". Politicians and hopeful politicians have been served notice to stay on the reservation. And that's that. No more aberrations will be allowed.

Thomas Tschoepke , Jan 16, 2021 2:30 PM

Watch the movie "Wag the Dog" and it would be enough

I_left_the_left , Jan 17, 2021 1:44 PM

Leftists and ex-leftists like me have long hated and opposed 'the system', especially the US state and its long, bloody record of corruption and military intervention for the benefit of the military-industrial complex, not for the American workers forced to fund the US state, and who naively offered their sons to die in the endless foreign wars the witless politicians approved. But the system tricked the hugely influential leftist movement into thinking Trump embodied the US system they hated, rather than threaten it. Blinded by mass-manufactured hate, leftists just couldn't and still can't see that Trump, the DC outsider and the greatest anti-politician of our time, was their key ally and asset against the corrupt system and mega-rich political class Trump famously called 'the swamp', and which Americans elected him to drain. The tragedy is that leftist hysteria and hate have been fundamental to ruining Trump's epic rescue mission for US democracy, and for ensuring the survival of the political elites and big tech corporate power we all hate.

They are now busily reinforcing and imposing tyrannical corporate dictatorship by destroying the rights, freedom of speech and reputations of anyone still brave enough to oppose them. The last great stronghold of democracy, the proles' only way of ever removing corrupt and failed leaders peacefully, has fallen under their full control.

Biden is blatantly a senile puppet president approved and selected by the elites, then elected by fraud rather than by the American people. The leftists who laboured so hard to save us from Orange Man Bad have only saved the corrupt power system exploiting us all.

[Jan 22, 2021] Impeachment became a political game of "who whom"

Jan 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

McConnell shared the following proposed pre-trial timeline with the Republican Conference today:

When the articles arrive, the House Managers would exhibit (read) the articles to the Senate, Senators would be sworn in the Members as the Court of Impeachment, and would issue a summons to former President Trump. While we do not know what day the Managers will choose, Leader McConnell has asked for this to occur on Thursday, January 28.

Former President Trump would have one week from that day to answer the articles of impeachment (February 4). The House's pre-trial brief would also be due then.

The President would then have one week from the day he submits his answer to submit his pre-trial brief (February 11). That means former president Trump has fourteen total days from when we issue the summons to write his pre-trial brief. The House would also submit its replication on this date.

The House would then have two days to submit their rebuttal pre-trial brief (February 13).

This approach tracks the structure of the Clinton and Trump pre-trial processes.

The periods between due dates are longer than in 1999 or 2020, but this is necessary because of the House's unprecedented timeline.

[Jan 22, 2021] An Open Letter to Trump Supporters by Gregory Hood

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

Donald Trump is gone. No storm broke. No reckoning came. There was no plan. In his place, a career politician assumed the presidency. Joe Biden muttered some platitudes. Most people have already forgotten them, probably including Joe Biden.

We're told the inauguration was historic and dramatic. It was banal and boring. It celebrated mediocrity. It had about as much dignity as getting your driver's license -- which has more personal meaning.

Everyone has strong opinions about President Donald Trump . It's hard to feel anything about President Joe Biden. Few attended his rallies or watched them online. He ran a modern-day front-porch campaign, as media and tech companies censored the opposition. He was a prop, a spectator to his own march to power.

The election was a referendum on President Trump. Many believe the election was stolen. You may be one of them, and you may be right. Some politicians and journalists accuse President Trump of attempting a coup, and they may even believe it.

Mr. Trump told his supporters to be patriotic and peaceful. The media have certainly soft-peddled that. But he didn't march with his people to the Capitol. He went home. What was supposed to happen? His supporters didn't know. I don't think President Trump knew. What did Ashli Babbitt die for? Now, we can ask the same question about the entire Trump administration.

Maybe you still believe in President Trump. You say his allies betrayed him. You say he turned his back on a life of luxury that men dream of in order to save his country.

His supposed friends -- from Michael Cohen to Anthony Scaramucci -- turned on him, flaunting their dishonor as heroism. Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and other Republicans were happy to use President Trump when they needed him, but once his usefulness ended, they dumped him. They tell us the president of the United States is the most powerful man in the world. Today, he can't even send a tweet.

Perhaps you are less charitable. You may think President Trump betrayed you. You followed him to the end, even beyond the end. He gave Kim Kardashian more support than he gave you. The people who put their bodies on the line for him won't get a pardon, but Jared Kushner's father did.

When our rulers say "our democracy," they mean the Regime that governs us. Whoever they are referring to when they say those words, it doesn't include us.

The fact remains that if President Trump had told people to march on Washington, they would have. After years of failure, pandering, betrayal, and weakness, they still were willing to face armed men in his name. One died for him.

President Biden took his oath guarded by troops that he doesn't trust. The FBI vetted every one of those 25,000 men to make sure they weren't "white supremacists." The people who tell us walls don't work surrounded themselves with walls and barbed wire. Federal agents who let cities burn all summer are now arresting and humiliating those who had dared trespass in the "temple of democracy."

Government, oligarchs, and billionaires ruin the lives of the people they don't like while progressives cheer. Leaders of NGOs rage because teenagers can host podcasts and post on 4chan. CNN wants to shut down dissidents on YouTube because more people watch livestreams than watch their darling Brian Stelter.

Journalists who encouraged riots that left dozens dead tell us we have to stop misinformation. Regime media and its politicians want a " domestic terrorism " law that would stifle Trump supporters. The Daily Beast wants secret police . Journalists have been joined by volunteer commissars to hunt down co-workers, friends, and family who attended the January 6 rally.

Regime media use words like "traitor," "sedition," and "insurrectionist." The sentence for treason is death. Do they want to kill people?

But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much. In 2016, after the most remarkable, unlikely, and miraculous campaign in American history, President Trump governed like a normal Republican. He did not deport illegals, make English the official language, or tax remittances to Mexico. He did not abolish birth-right citizenship. He was not a "white nationalist." He did not even eliminate race-based discrimination against whites and Asians.

President Trump was softer on crime than Bill Clinton. He was weaker on riots than George H.W. Bush. President Trump is leaving office not because he was strong, but because he was weak. He did not defy the "Swamp." He couldn't defy his son-in-law.

The "new" president is a man who was a political relic even when he was Barack Obama's vice president. If 2016 was the "Flight 93" Election, we successfully stormed the cockpit and then pushed the control stick straight down. But let's give Donald Trump credit: Whether he meant to or not, he did something no other politician, activist, or artist ever could. He forced the Regime and its servants to reveal themselves.

... ... ...

Just another serf , says: January 21, 2021 at 5:35 am GMT • 20.5 hours ago

Where do you fit here if you are not a Trump supporter, but despise Biden and all he and his players represent? Can we have a dissident movement that has nothing to do with Trump? Nothing to do with Republicans? Chabad-Lubavitch has absolutely no relevance to my world view, nor the view of anyone I've encountered during my lifetime.

Trump is done and I'm actually hoping he's prosecuted on some bogus charge, simply because he was an incompetent leader, turning his leadership responsibilities over to Jared Kushner. It was horrible. Drag him off to a prison in the Golan heights. No one cares. A moron could have had a clue of the blindingly obvious election fraud plans to unseat him.

I'm certain there are very bad times ahead. A long "dark winter" as this senile senate puppet is fond of repeating. American citizens, those who work, raise families and produce goods and services, should not be subject to the punishment ahead that will enrich and further empower people like Biden and his horrific son, Hunter.

Enemy of Earth , says: January 21, 2021 at 6:26 am GMT • 19.6 hours ago

Truth be told, I was not a Trump supporter in the sense that I did not vote for him. I decided to refrain from voting after Bush the Younger for whom I voted. I came to this decision after realizing he was probably the worst president during my lifetime. I also came to the conclusion that there is no fundamental difference between the two political parties. They both lie, cheat, steal, and murder to maintain power.

I enjoyed Trump's election mainly for the disruptive effect it had on politics. I never believed he would do any of the things he said he would. If he had even tried to do some of those things he most likely would have been killed. The author of this article nails it when he writes:

" But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much. In 2016, after the most remarkable, unlikely, and miraculous campaign in American history, President Trump governed like a normal Republican. He did not deport illegals, make English the official language, or tax remittances to Mexico. He did not abolish birth-right citizenship. He was not a 'white nationalist.' He did not even eliminate race-based discrimination against whites and Asians ."

Thanks for the analysis and conclusions. If my hope was dependent on political outcomes I would have done the warm bath and razor blade bit long ago. I've deliberately avoided much network and cable news for the most part. My hope and trust are in the One who made and sustains all things.

Sam J. , says: January 21, 2021 at 6:51 am GMT • 19.2 hours ago

I don't believe, now, that Trump & Q were ever on our side. I mean fuck him. Q definitely was a part of Trumps team. I have no doubt of that and Q said over and over they have everything and then, they did nothing. They passed up every chance to set things right or even try while all the time telling us,"it's going to happen now". If you block out "hope" and "wishful thinking" then all the facts point towards him being one of them. We've been had.

It's better to admit this and swallow your pride than to believe in more nonsense. It's very depressing to be shit on like this but it's even more fucked up to be shit on and then keep making excuses for those that shit on us. "Oh well maybe he ate something that upset his stomach so he shit on me". "Maybe he had a virus so he shit on me". "Maybe he was nervous so he shit on me".

I don't care what his excuse is, he shit on me and my country.

Look at who Trump pardoned.

"Trump Pardons Sholam Weiss, Criminal Mastermind Behind 'The Largest Life Insurance Fraud In U.S. History'"

36 ulster , says: January 21, 2021 at 7:40 am GMT • 18.4 hours ago
@KenH

Regarding (1), Netanyahu certainly displayed HIS gratitude toward Trump–fawning over The Pretender-Select on Nov. 4, with the election (seemingly) still in doubt.

Cthulu Smith , says: January 21, 2021 at 9:12 am GMT • 16.9 hours ago

If Trump did anything, he showed us all who's really in charge, and what the Uniparty is really all about. The curtain's down, the veil torn...

WorkingClass , says: January 21, 2021 at 12:00 pm GMT • 14.1 hours ago

American electorial politics has been meaningless at the national level for a very long time. I have found it interesting/entertaining never the less. Not any more. I have no interest and nothing to say about the next election.

Schuetze , says: January 21, 2021 at 12:11 pm GMT • 13.9 hours ago

...His entire presidency was just one big show... The reason he never fulfilled any of his promises was because they were all lies for the useful idiots stupid enough not to see what he truly was. ...this was really just more demoralization and gas lighting.

Take as an example his "march on the capitol" that he cowardly declined to lead, despite his promises. Not only did he set up any followers stupid enough to enter the capitol for prosecution for trespassing, but he set all his "followers" up for persecution as insurrectionists, white supremacists, and racists.

... Then to cap it all off, he doesn't even pardon Julian Assange, the man who got him into office in the first place. Trump is and always will be nothing but a selfish douchebag masonic brother.

Rich , says: January 21, 2021 at 12:46 pm GMT • 13.3 hours ago

The society the left is creating can't sustain itself. They appear to be trying to build a modern day colonial empire out of an established country. Setting up different tribes against each other, in this case blacks, Hispanics, Whites and Asians, giving power to the weakest group, the black, so they are completely dependent on the regime. The Romans did it in every nation they conquered. I think they're making a horrible mistake that will end in Mau Mau style violence but they can't seem to stop themselves. We have to survive to secure the future of our children through education and hard work. The Irish survived as a people after hundreds of years under an occupied power, as did the Greeks and the Slavs, we can do it, too.

Publius 2 , says: January 21, 2021 at 12:49 pm GMT • 13.2 hours ago

Stein. https://www.thedailybeast.com/after-the-capitol-riots-can-us-spy-agencies-stop-white-terror?ref=home

It's all very obvious. Sad.

Aardvark , says: January 21, 2021 at 1:20 pm GMT • 12.7 hours ago
@Anon ="comment-text">

As it was once portrayed in some movie what the Russians thought they were getting when it was marketed as "workers owning the means of production" and assorted other claims that were made is not at all what they wound up with. Then they were either murdered or went on to lead miserable lives. "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work". "The promises of Socialism are as of yet unfulfilled".

The people that don't seem to mind the USA turning in to the Union of Socialist States are going to have the same moment of discovery; what they thought they were getting and what they wind up with will be two different things.

Z-man , says: January 21, 2021 at 2:51 pm GMT • 11.2 hours ago

Trump's demise was having his weird Zionist son in law and his ditzy daughter wield so much power. He became a vassal of the Zionists and couldn't even pardon Assange on his last day in office.

TG , says: January 21, 2021 at 3:28 pm GMT • 10.6 hours ago

Well and powerfully written. Kudos.

Karl Marx may have gotten the solution all wrong, but he did diagnose the problem: this is about class war...

... Western elites are looting their nations and crushing the working class, and they need to deflect attention away from themselves. Teach the non-white working class to hate the white working class, and the working class will tear itself apart.

Nothing personal, it's just business.

Funny isn't it, the United States is run by about 600 mostly white billionaires, but somehow none of these people have any 'white privilege.' It's only working class whites driving pick up trucks and drowning in debt and one paycheck away from being evicted that are 'privileged'.

Marckus , says: January 21, 2021 at 4:21 pm GMT • 9.7 hours ago

The article provokes thoughts for the clueless to ponder after the fact. Suddenly it all makes "sense" long after it makes any difference. Trump is a businessman turned politician and anyone who thinks he had their best interests in mind is a hopeless fool. After his supporters served their purpose they were trash. Trump floated away to his gold plated digs and his followers to their trailer parks.

AnonFromTN , says: January 21, 2021 at 4:45 pm GMT • 9.3 hours ago

But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much.

I'd say, despite his stupidity and ineptness (or maybe because of it), Trump achieved two good things.

1. He was the first American president in a long time who did not start a single war. Not for the lack of trying. The shelling of Syria under false pretenses and mafia-style murder of Soleimani were acts of war by any definition. The only reason no war broke out was that Syrian and Iranian leadership proved themselves to be ~100 times wiser than American and Israeli elites. BTW, this was not a huge achievement, considering how degenerate those elites are.
2.

He forced the Regime and its servants to reveal themselves.

That may be his biggest achievement. Deep sate had to show its ugly mug several times already, first with massive eleventh-hour election fraud, second with totally unlawful actions of the courts, third with vicious smear campaign against everyone who did not pretend to buy its lies and shenanigans, and fourth with occupied country-style inauguration: thousands of soldiers and no people. Whoever still believes in "American democracy" should buy a bridge from me.

SolontoCroesus , says: January 21, 2021 at 6:15 pm GMT • 7.8 hours ago
@Ugetit

Mostly Agree.

Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia is what caused my grandparents to leave Italy for good.
(PS Migrating from one's homeland exacts an enormous toll. My parents would be 100 this year, & long dead; I only began to understand the turmoil they endured, with grace and dignity, after they were no longer around to talk about it.)

geokat62 , says: January 21, 2021 at 6:43 pm GMT • 7.3 hours ago
@Icy Blast

I for one want to hear what the "Christian Zionists" have to say for themselves. Apparently there are about forty million of these fools.

Fools, indeed. This sermon from Pastor Chuck Baldwin of Liberty Fellowship should be mandatory viewing.

How Christian Zionism Is Dividing And Deceiving The Church :

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sCJxvq3_l4U?feature=oembed

Agent76 , says: January 21, 2021 at 6:49 pm GMT • 7.2 hours ago

Oct 29, 2020 Robert O'Brien – Trump's Foreign Policy

Donald Trump is the first American president since Ronald Reagan not to initiate a foreign war. Moreover, peace is breaking out in the Middle East. National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien explains the Trump approach.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/bPaXimOGva4?feature=oembed

Aug 29, 2020 Black Voters Break the Narrative

These black voters are breaking the MSM narrative about Trump and BLM

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6OBDvi3u_M8?feature=oembed

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 21, 2021 at 7:03 pm GMT • 7.0 hours ago

I've read every single one of Gregory Hoods political essays. He's the most brilliant commentator on today's U.S. hands down.

Peripatetic Itch , says:
Carroll Price , says: January 21, 2021 at 7:30 pm GMT • 6.6 hours ago
@Rocket

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."

Which means that when a deserving people find themselves in distress, a leader worthy of their loyalty and respect will appear to lead them – but not before.

AnonFromTN , says: January 21, 2021 at 7:38 pm GMT • 6.4 hours ago
@Carroll Price

white people are too stupid to survive.

That's an unwarranted generalization. Yes, the Empire and its Western European bootlickers are going down the drain due to their own actions. Most of the world would say "good riddance".

But white people also live in Russia and Eastern Europe. Most of them are not as dumb as Ukrainian "patriots".

Bottom line: normal white people will survive, cucked white people will not. Survival of the fittest in action.

EugeneGur , says: January 21, 2021 at 7:41 pm GMT • 6.4 hours ago
@Anon ntury version), and if they keep not minding, they are going to more or less get it again.

Not a chance in hell. People, why don't you stop talking about things you know nothing about?

What ever problems the Soviet Union had – and many of them curtesy of the West – it did have equality of the nations and races and, in many ways, economic equality as well. This is something American can only dream about now, let alone in the future. The Soviet period was also the time of great achievements in education and culture, which post-soviet Russia is yet to reach, and that is something that cannot be said of today's America. Carroll Price , says: January 21, 2021 at 8:01 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago

@Irish Savant

For awhile I believed the election was stolen, until taking a look at my own large extended family consisting of several dozen guilt-ridden, propaganderized nephews, neices, and in-laws etc who nearly all voted for Joe Biden.

I bet your's did too.

c matt , says: January 21, 2021 at 8:14 pm GMT • 5.8 hours ago
@KenH

Well, he did mention this

Whites are privileged because they have disproportionate power and wealth, but if you notice that the most disproportionately powerful and wealthy are Jews, that's antisemitism.

Which, tbh would not bother me much if they used that power to further America's interests or at least not at America's expense, and if they earned it through actually being better rather than simply being able to get away with nepotism and tribalism by playing the Holocaust card.

c matt , says: January 21, 2021 at 8:17 pm GMT • 5.8 hours ago
@Just another serf

The ultimate irony would be Netanyahoo refusing him asylum in israel

stevennonemaker88 , says: Website January 21, 2021 at 11:57 pm GMT • 2.1 hours ago
@Carolyn Yeager o actually rule the US and most of the world. Assorted international financiers, also know as banksters, many of them (((small hats))), are the ones who are pulling the strings. The president is essentially a puppet, who does the bidding of the aforementioned group. Trump did quite well in stirring up the ire of the unhinged libtards while throwing a bone to the so called conservatives, but he is a false alternative to the uniparty system. He is owned by the same Juden banksters as Biden, Obama, and Bush. It is pathetic how you resort to personal attacks on the author since you have naught but strawman arguments. The last president who actually was a threat to the powers that be was JFK, and he was JFK-ed. You should realize that their will be no positive change from within the system.

[Jan 22, 2021] Antifa protests Biden

Jan 22, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Horace , 21 January 2021 at 01:04 PM

The Congress and Executive Branch really were the two most important power-network nodes of civilization control when our country started out as a European-heritage Christian-heritage republic. Most power was diffuse and local, as befits a genuine republic.

Now federal institutions are secondary nodes. They dance on the puppets strings wielded by the hands that own the primary nodes: the manufacture of fiat currency and the financial system into which it is injected and then used to manage non-financial institutions and the personnel who staff them. This runs the range from lucrative DoD contracts for Amazon Web Services to little bags of money for Little Marco Rubio.

The transnational financialists (globalists), who own and operate what used to be OUR country, control access to the institutions (primarily Congress) which have the power to make changes to the structure of civilization (immigration, trade, welfare dependence). Dem and Rep parties are privately owned corporations and the set of people who are their overlapping primary shareholders is a small one.

Antifa attacks on institutions of the corporate left suggest that the globalists do not have mass support from either the left or the right. The young left are not on board with the globalist Great Reset. They have their own vision for a reset, as do we on the civilizational right. The globalists are like the Weimar Republic. Most people want it gone, but disagree over with what to replace it.

TLDR: Antifa attacks suggest that the globalists making architectural decisions for OUR civilization do not have mass support. They have obedient gun-carriers in the forces of order who are still operating on institutional loyalty inertia and fear of what may come to pass.

fasteddiez , 21 January 2021 at 02:22 PM

I noticed that in some of the units, none of the enlisted men, (those in ranks) had all of their backs turned to the motorcade. I also could not see any rifles at their side. It's likely, in my estimation, that their commands did not want any loose cannon, or otherwise, to take a shot, notwithstanding the fact that a 5.56mm round will not penetrate the carriages of the new king and his retinue.

Walrus , 21 January 2021 at 03:27 PM

Look at what happened to the Brown Shirts. Same thing will happen to Antifa if they keep this up. In addition, the Left/Progressives who supported Biden will be thrown under the bus within a week if they haven't been already. They will be mightily disillusioned.

How do I know this? I believed Obama's hopey changy stuff before his first election. I even sent him a donation. He discarded us within hours of his election. Decided he would do nothing about torture. Not even a "thank you" email.

Diana L Croissant , 21 January 2021 at 03:50 PM

I am saddened by the state of our country. However, it seems to me, we haven't hit bottom yet. When that happens, we get to watch all the left-wing lunatics (metaphorically I hope) eat each other like the true zombies they are.

I feel very sorry for those Republicans who are in large metropolitan areas with so many swarms of army ant-like lefties who haven't yet figured out how to get and keep employment and so have nothing to do but take Soros money to continue their careers as rioters or Antifa goons.

Out here in the West, I'm just holding my breath and waiting for them to come here and try to force us to join their army.

This is farming country and we have deadly chemicals for countering insect infestations.

The sad thing is that because often our cost of living is cheaper, we are constantly getting some of the wealthier Lefties buying up our land.

It reminds me of the range wars in the Old West. I sure hope the ranchers and and the farmers have settled their differences and will work together to keep the Eastern crowd, the Californian idiots, and the Boulder Marxists away.

I still pray that some day we can draw a boundary around the Boulder area, and let them try to govern themselves only while keeping them out of our state politics--and especially out of the governor's mansion after our current governor and his "first gentleman" are finally gone.

Deap , 21 January 2021 at 03:50 PM

You can be a constitutional republic as long as voters are engaged and infomed. You become a banana republic when governance is farmed out to surrogate forces, whose only goal is carving up the now mandatory the government cash resources.

When did the Founders version of America take the wrong turn? Perhaps it was the income tax amendment - free flow of money for special interests to carve up, instead of our "elected representatives" actually earning our tax dollars and being personally accountable for how they were spent.

What government institutions that now work against us, got their start and their now immortal life, only after this nation ratified the the income tax amendment?

Our only defense now is economic warfare - starve the bastards. Is there even a plan to make this a viable and influential choice?

BTW: "term limits" is not the answer. Only makes voters even lazier and elected official even more unaccountable, with the very serious downside that real problems get kicked down the road for some other "term" to solve -- which is never.

Deap , 21 January 2021 at 03:53 PM

The "new GOP" needs to explore the 16th Amendment, and explore it hard: new GOP litmus test - do you support over-turning the 16th Amendment?

The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.

It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 3, 1913, and effectively overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Pollock.

blue peacock , 21 January 2021 at 04:13 PM

Artemesia,

I'm curious if Cesare Sacchetti spoke to the guardsmen or just made an assertion?

Fred , 21 January 2021 at 04:37 PM

Walrus,

It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks.

blue peacock , 21 January 2021 at 04:38 PM

Horace,

Spot on!

IMO, the left-right frame and the partisan frame while convenient does not really point to the fault lines. I believe the better frames are one, by class - oligarchy + urban media-managerial class vs working + middle class; and second by belief system - government as tool to "right inequalities" vs individual liberty + competitive markets, implying government to enforce fair rules of the game uniformly like a referee in a sports game with reasonably evenly matched teams.

While the authors of this paper may be classified as from the "left" and automatically dismissed by the "right", they make many important points for consideration by both the "left" and "right".

https://www.economicliberties.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Courage-to-Learn-Final.pdf

Bill Clinton & Obama were labeled "marxist" by most of the "right" but they actually did nothing "marxist" in a classical sense. However, they did further the symbiotic relationship between Big Government & Big Business to further strengthen the Party of Davos from both an economic & political power perspective. That would rightly be labeled "fascist". The policies of Reagan & the Bush presidents were really not that different to further enhance the stranglehold of power by the same group as was Trump's presidency. As Col. Lang labeled it, we have a "mono-party" in reality. So partisan fervor is misplaced and a distraction from the real fight. In this context, Trump was a weak leader. While he got the zeitgeist correct and rode it to the presidency, from the first day on he not only acquiesced to the demands of the Swamp/Deep State but he also hired them to run his administration.

jerseycityjoan , 21 January 2021 at 04:56 PM

I am disgusted by all that Antifa or whoever these people are manage to get away with.

For over a week every day in the news there's been articles about the identity of rioters at the Capitol and their arrests. Why don't more of THESE rioters get arrested for property damage and risky behavior like lighting fires and hitting people? When there are arrests, why aren't their mugshots, names and locations revealed? After so much time these mysterious rioters are still doing whatever they want, wherever they want. Even mayors complain but nothing gets done. It is high time these people are arrested and revealed.

Aren't they domestic terrorists? If they are, they should be treated that way.

JerseyJeffersonian , 21 January 2021 at 05:26 PM

Artemisia,

Thanks. Now that's the spirit. After insulting the Guardsmen with the "vetting", this should be an eye-opening statement to Slow Joe (more likely to his handlers) about what The Deplorables in the ranks think about that, and furthermore perhaps about his "victory".

A message was sent, but was the message received, and not merely received, but actually understood? After all, it should be recalled,that there are none so blind, as those who would not see. Arrogance and condescension make for blinkered vision, and Lord knows, we are dealing with some people who exhibit world-class arrogance as well as condescension here.

[Jan 22, 2021] The movement now needs leadership that's more cognizant of the political world they live in and capable of more coherent strategies that will move it forward hopefully strategies that can offer more than tweets.

Jan 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

J1234 , says: January 21, 2021 at 9:23 pm GMT • 4.7 hours ago

When I see President Trump, I feel pity, sadness, and grief. I pity him because he has no future and will be go down in history as America's most hated man.

And in exactly which historical document will he go down as this?

A half a century ago, the media tried to tell us that Richard Nixon was the most warped and corrupt political leader of the late twentieth century without using those exact words, of course, because those exact words were a lie, but that was the distinct message it tried to convey. It sort of worked for a couple of decades, but only with a definable segment of the population. That's because political pathos can only stay alive for so long. And historical figures can only be defined solely by their failings and political enemies for so long.

Despite gaffs and missteps that likely cost him his reelection, Trump wasn't "the guy who let us down" but instead, the William Jennings Bryan of the 21st century right leaning populist movement. Like Bryan, he changed the nature of his political party forever. Unlike Bryan, he at least got to be president once, but -again- like the Democrat game changer out of Nebraska 100 years ago, he never was the right person to lead the movement to it's promised land. Instead, he was the tip of a spear that the opposition said it could never be gored by but was.

Trump's loss has a very bright silver lining in the admittedly dark cloud of looming far left authoritarianism. Ultimately, the self-aggrandizing Trump could really do little more than make his opponents really angry, but he also made his supporters aware of just how numerous and (more importantly) potent they are. The movement now needs leadership that's more cognizant of the political world they live in and capable of more coherent strategies that will move it forward hopefully strategies that can offer more than tweets.

Carolyn Yeager , says: Website January 21, 2021 at 10:19 pm GMT • 3.7 hours ago

But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much. In 2016, after the most remarkable, unlikely, and miraculous campaign in American history, President Trump governed like a normal Republican. He did not deport illegals, make English the official language, or tax remittances to Mexico. He did not abolish birth-right citizenship. He was not a "white nationalist." He did not even eliminate race-based discrimination against whites and Asians.

Robert Snefjella , says: January 22, 2021 at 12:24 am GMT • 1.7 hours ago

From brabantian comment 28:

The establishment's hate for what Trump legitimised saying – that media news is often fake, it's ok to fight globalism, it's ok to defend your own culture, we should disentangle from wars – is Trump's enduring badge of honour, despite Trump's flaws and how he disappointed

There was another aspect to Trump that provides possible inspiration for emerging political aspirants: he could at any time go 'alarmingly' and sometimes effectively 'off script', and furthermore, sometimes wield his 'outrageous remarks' repeatedly.

Going 'rogue' is the great heresy within the context of a western (at least) political establishment that considers remaining 'on message', – sticking to the script, no matter how dishonest or absurd the message – to be the basic principle of successful party power politics.

And there was the moon's problem in sunlight: The political establishment near and far, used to being celebrated in noxious ceremony, trained actors just about all, but trained to avoid spontaneity like the plague, were suddenly cast into the dismal light of seeming boring and predictable by comparison.

Trump's forays into rogue utterance sometimes included unmentionable truths that become memes. Trump's swamp is now far more identifiable, and sometimes more accurately now referred to as a cesspool. The fake news universe has been hauled out of their previously self-satisfied abode in the mass media heavens and had their addiction to dishonesty more fully exposed. In desperation the fallen angels have cobbled together an army of fake fact checkers, to identify truth tellers as the real fake news, but their audience nevertheless yawns and dwindles.

From J1234 at comment 129:

[Trump has] also made his supporters aware of just how numerous and (more importantly) potent they are. The movement now needs leadership that's more cognizant of the political world they live in and capable of more coherent strategies that will move it forward hopefully strategies that can offer more than tweets.

The COVID monstrosity has also given countless millions of people opportunity to re-evaluate a lot in their lives and learn a lot, and so a politically more cognizant deplorable/independent political confluence may result.

[Jan 22, 2021] The pot calling the cattle black again: Senate Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Cruz, Hawley For Objecting To Electoral Results

Look how perfectly applicable is the phase "The complaint wants the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Cruz and Hawley failed to "[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department," to key Russiagaters
Notable quotes:
"... they "engaged in criminal conduct, or unethical or improper behavior." ..."
"... The Democratic Senators are also asking the Ethics Committee to "offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered." ..."
"... Its as if democrats didnt spend 4 years and millions of dollars questioning the validity of the prevous election. ..."
Jan 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The complaint wants the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Cruz and Hawley failed to "[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department," or if they engaged in "improper conduct reflecting on the Senate" linked to the January 6 Capitol 'riot.'

The Democratic senators also outlined several questions they believed should be probed as part of an Ethics Committee investigation including if they were in touch with coordinators for the rally , if they encouraged any "insurrectionist" acts or if they "engaged in criminal conduct, or unethical or improper behavior."

"While it was within Senators' rights to object to the electors, the conduct of Senators Cruz and Hawley, and potentially others, went beyond that," they wrote in the letter to Ethics Committee leadership.

Cruz and Hawley, two potential 2024 presidential contenders, have denounced the mob that breached the Capitol but they've also stood by their decisions to object to the Electoral College results from Arizona and Pennsylvania, respectively. - The Hill

During the counting of electoral votes, Cruz objected to Arizona's results, while Hawley objected to Pennsylvania's results following the Capitol attack, when a group of Trump supporters and at least one prominent member of BLM breached the Capitol building and occupied it for a brief period of time before leaving on their own.

The Democratic Senators are also asking the Ethics Committee to "offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered."

Forgero 3 hours ago

Its as if democrats didnt spend 4 years and millions of dollars questioning the validity of the prevous election.

[Jan 21, 2021] Sometimes you drain the swamp sometimes the swamp drains you

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", ..."
"... "We will never give up. We will never concede, it just doesn't happen." ..."
"... " Biden's America Would Be A Dystopian Hellhole ", ..."
"... Trump has not signed the Insurrection Act. ..."
"... 'trust the plan' is a never ending story psyop ..."
"... 'best is yet to come' .. ..."
"... to beam back to the mothership. ..."
"... the humans are out to get them ..."
"... it happening you watch just donate ..."
"... without symptoms. ..."
"... Amnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights advocacy worldwide. ..."
"... Yes yes yes – as if we didn't fucking know! ..."
"... YOU MEAN TO DESTROY THE NHS AND YOU WILL REPEAT THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER UNTIL IT IS DONE! ..."
Jan 21, 2021 | off-guardian.org

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF CAPITULATES

The Trump Era is over after the incumbent announced in the day after Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol that "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power", which was widely interpreted by friends and foes alike as the tacit concession that he previously promised never to provide a little more than 24 hours prior during his speech at the Save America Rally .

At that event, he literally said that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", yet completely changed his tune following the day's tumultuous events and after mysteriously "going dark" for over 24 hours, during which time some speculate that he was forced by his enemies in the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (" deep state ") to give up the fight.

BETRAYING HIS BASE

This totally devastated his supporters who elected him primarily for the purpose of executing his chief promise to "drain the swamp" that all of them so deeply despise. They truly believed that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run, something which Trump himself also sincerely thought he could do as well, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive steps that were necessary in order to do so.

Thus, he ended up getting swallowed by the same "swamp" that he attempted to drain, which is licking its lips after feasting on the political carcass that he's since become as a result of his capitulation. For as much hope as he inspired in his supporters and the respect that many of them still have for him, most of them are profoundly disappointed that he gave up and didn't go down fighting.

That's not to say that the vast majority of them expected him to forcefully resist Biden's impending inauguration, but just that they never thought they'd see the day where he publicly capitulated after carefully cultivating such a convincing reputation among them as a fighter who literally said a little more than 24 hours prior that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it just doesn't happen."

This prompted an ongoing soul-searching process among the most sober-minded of them who aren't indoctrinated with the cultish Q-Anon claims that Trump still has a so-called "master plan" that he's preparing to implement after this latest "5D chess" move. It's over, the Trump Era has ended, and the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement that he inspired is now at risk of being declared a " domestic terrorist " organization in the coming future.

TRUMP'S MOST FATAL POLITICAL MISCALCULATION

" Biden's America Would Be A Dystopian Hellhole ", like the author predicted a few months ago, and all of Trump's supporters know that. Some had already resigned themselves to its seeming inevitability after his efforts to legally reverse the contested results of the latest elections failed for a variety of reasons that most of them attribute to the "swamp's" corruption, but they nevertheless remained as positive as possible after having believed that their hero would go down with them to the end.

None ever thought twice about his promise to "never give up, never concede", and they even expected him to have to be escorted from the White House on 20 January, yet his tacit concession is forcing many of them to re-evaluate their views about him in hindsight. Not only is he going out with a whimper on the "deep state's" terms, but he never fully "drained the swamp".

Trump's most fatal political miscalculation is that he thought that he could change the system from the "inside-out" after symbolically -- yet importantly, not substantively -- taking control of it as America's first modern-day "outsider" President. He immediately switched from an "outsider" to an "insider" shortly after his inauguration by capitulating to the "deep state's" demands that he fire former National Security Advisor Flynn, which was his "original sin" that paved the way for all that would later follow.

Trump the self-professed "deal-maker" thought that he could strike a "compromise" with his enemies through these means, but all that he did was embolden them to intensify their fake news-driven efforts to oust him and continue sabotaging him from within through many of the same "swamp" creatures that he naively continued to surround himself with.

RINOS + MSM = TRUMP'S DEFEAT

The most reviled among them in the eyes of his base is "Javanka", the popular portmanteau of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka. He continued listening to these "Republicans In Name Only", or RINOs as many MAGA members describe them, as well as many others such as those who still sit in Congress but pretended to be his friend just to win re-election.

Furthermore, the influence that his former reality TV career had on him resulted in Trump remaining obsessed with how his enemies might malign him in the Mainstream Media (MSM) for any decisive moves that he took to smash the "deep state". This weakness of character proved to be his greatest personal flaw since he should have followed his instincts instead of submitting to the egoistic desire to be "liked" by his foes.

So influenced was he by the MSM that his enemies were able to employ the most basic "reverse-psychology" tricks to manipulate him into "playing it safe" in his struggle against the "deep state". They fearmongered since even before he entered office that he'd turn into a so-called "dictator", yet he never seriously contemplated any such authoritarian moves in that direction despite always having the possibility of utilizing the immense powers vested in him by the Constitution to do so if he sincerely wanted.

His MAGA supporters passionately pleaded that he should have turned into his enemies' worst nightmare by declaring at least limited martial law in response to the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America finally going kinetic last summer after Antifa and "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) orchestrated nationwide riots to oust him.

TRUMP'S THREE GREATEST FAILURES

Bewildering his base, Trump also failed to revoke Article 230 despite now-proven fears that it would empower Big Tech to censor him and his supporters , nor did he thwart the Democrats' mail-in ballot and Dominion voting system schemes which they argue ultimately led to them stealing the election.

Just as concerning was his decision to not stop the Democrat Governors from locking down their populations for political reasons under the convenient pretext of COVID-19. The author addressed all of these issues in his analysis published shortly after the election about why " The Anti-Trump Regime Change Sequence Is Worthwhile Studying ". Trump could have legally exercised near-"dictatorial" powers to avert all of this and thus save America as his supporters see it, yet time and again he failed to gather the strength needed to do so due to his deep personal flaws.

THE HYBRID WAR ON AMERICA IS OVER

While Trump was unquestionably victimized by the "deep state" during his entire time in office, he's no longer as much of a martyr as he used to be after suddenly giving up the fight following Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol. He surrendered to the shock of his base, was subsequently swallowed by the "swamp", and is now being mercilessly destroyed in an ominous sign of what awaits the rest of the MAGA movement in the Biden-Kamala era.

Had he gone down fighting to the end and "never gave up" like he promised, then it would be an altogether different story, but instead his over-hyped "deal-making" instincts got the best of him at the very last minute and he foolishly thought that he could save himself by capitulating to their demands. The "deep state" is now showing their "thanks" by censoring him from social media and pushing for his impeachment.

The MAGA movement always believed that the country has already been at "war" for years even though most couldn't articulate the hybrid nature of it like the author did in his piece last summer about how " The Hybrid War Of Terror On America Was Decades In The Making ".

They truly felt that Trump shared their threat assessment after he was viciously attacked by the "deep state" from the second that he stepped onto the campaign trail, but it turned out that he underestimated the threat even though his enemies never did. To the "deep state" and their public Democrat proxies, this was always a "war" in its own way, which they never shied away from expressing.

The supreme irony is that while Trump lambasted the "weak Republicans" in his Save America Rally speech, he himself ultimately epitomized that very same weakness by later surrendering.

THE "DEEP STATE" WON

His opponents know no limits and believe in classic Machiavellian fashion that "the ends justify the means", whereas he thought that he could play by the rules -- and not even all of them as was early explained by pointing out his refusal to employ the near-"dictatorial" powers vested in him by the Constitution -- and still come out on top.

His naïveté will go down in history since it's what's most directly responsible for him failing to fully recognize the seriousness of the "deep state's" no-holds-barred war on him and the rest of America.

As a born-and-raised New Yorker, Trump perfected the art of slick talking, so much so that he even managed to dupe his base into believing that he shared their threat assessment about the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America. They fell for this charade since they desperately wanted to believe that there was still some hope left.

There isn't, though, since the war is over and the "deep state" won once and for all. The " Great Reset "/" Fourth Industrial Revolution " brought about by World War C is barreling forward at full speed ahead, and practically every domestic accomplishment that Trump has to his name will likely be reversed by Biden-Kamala during their first year in office, especially since the "deep state's" Democrat proxies control all branches of government now (remembering that the Supreme Court's supposed "conservative supermajority" really just consists of RINOs as was proven by their refusal to hear his team's convincing election fraud cases).

After " Analyzing The MAGA Movement's Democratic Security Failure " on Wednesday, it's clear that whatever "master plan" he and/or the MAGA movement might have had backfired and was actually exploited by their opponents.

THE REAL "MASTER PLAN"

In fact, the only real "master plan" was that of the "deep state", which effectively thwarted every one of Trump's moves and ultimately turned his supporters' "last hurrah" of a mostly peaceful rally into the nail that'll now be hammered into the MAGA movement's coffin.

It's extremely suspicious that the US Capitol was so poorly defended despite there being an ongoing session of Congress on such an historic day and after weeks of preparation to ensure the site's safety ahead of Trump's long-planned Save America March.

It's even more baffling that some of the police officers removed the barricades and even opened the doors to some of the protesters, which in hindsight suggests that the "deep state" wanted to tempt the most "overly passionate" among them (to say nothing of suspected provocateurs) into storming the site as the pretext for what followed.

The whole point in passively facilitating this scenario through the masterful exploitation of crowd psychology was to lay the basis for a comprehensive nationwide crackdown against the MAGA movement on the grounds that it's now "proven" to be a "domestic terrorist" group.

That explains the push behind impeaching Trump less than two weeks before he himself acknowledged just the other day that he'll be leaving office after ensuring the "transition of power".

Had he not surrendered, then he probably would still be a martyr to most of the MAGA movement, but now he's just a palace hostage awaiting his highly publicized political execution as the opening salvo of the "deep state's" Democrat-driven reprisals against his supporters in the name of "defending against domestic terrorism". That, not whatever Q-Anon imagines, is the real "master plan", and it succeeded.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

Trump was swallowed by the "swamp" because he lacked the strength to drain it. Every MAGA member needs to accept this harsh truth no matter how painful it might be. Time and again, he failed to muster up the strength needed to meaningfully fulfill what many sincerely believed to be his destiny.

This was due to his fatal political miscalculation of transforming from an "outsider" into an "insider" in a doomed-to-fail attempt to change the system from within. He continued relying on RINOs despite their proven unreliability. Trump's obsession with how his foes portrayed him in the MSM also led to him never seriously countenancing the use of the near-"dictatorial" powers vested in him by the Constitution to save America.

He pathetically surrendered after the "deep state's" "master plan" succeeded, and now he can't even go down in history as a martyr.

Originally published on One World Press Jan 20, 2021 2:08 PM

Trump was part of the show nothing more nothing less. They had the goods on him for decades. He made Izzrail grate again. That was about it. Notice Jizzlaid Maxwell, the Mossad kiddy victim procurer watching her mark in the background of the video below from 92 as the king of bankruptcy eyes the broads and "struts" his stuff.

Meanwhile Kill Bill Gates gets to poison Planet Sheeple and nobody ever questions his association with Mossad kiddy porn snuff director, Epstein or Kill Bill's sojourns on Pedovore Island. Anyone remember the CIA Operation Brownstone"? It's global and it's Satanic.

King of Bankruptcy and King Pedovore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUDr_c2PalI&ab_channel=TODAY

Kill Bill and King Pedovore

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fg4nK4u8vuU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent 0 0 Reply

Malatok , Jan 20, 2021 2:10 PM Reply to Malatok

https://www.youtube.com/embed/AUDr_c2PalI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

Jams O'Donnell , Jan 13, 2021 6:47 PM

How could Trum 'drain the swamp' when he lives in the swamp. contributes to the swamp and essentially is part of the swamp.

This story is sh!te. Trump is a swamp dweller.

Trump is just the same as all the other oligarchs and would be oligarchs. He is a rich, privileged, white entrepreneur. His propaganda campaign in which he claimed to be on the side of the poor and unemployed whites is just about the biggest lie which has been swallowed wholesale since Goebbles was whitewashing the Nazi regime.

How you fools here can fall for this tripe has me absolutely beat.

Aethelred , Jan 13, 2021 10:17 AM

Trump in his political ineptitude resembles Jimmy Carter, an idealist incapable of wielding power. Neither man had the gumption, nor the charisma (much the same thing) to win over the apparatchiki. Both vain and selfish men (like all politicians), neither inspired sufficient love nor fear to gather support, unlike Reagan or Clinton, both of whom exuded calm confidence. Trump differs from Carter in that Trump's social incapacity manifests in bombast, and Carter's in staged humility. Neither could convince the ruling classes, and so were ushered away.

The elevation of Biden, an aged hack, is a signal the republic is finally overturned. The feds not only can convict but now can elect and govern through a ham sandwich.

Blather , Jan 13, 2021 8:21 AM

Does the author know how to read Trump's speech or is he so BIAS as not to see?

Trump DID NOT capitulate. Read careFOOLY. It can go both waze.

ZenPriest , Jan 12, 2021 8:50 PM

Trump was never going to drain the swamp. He was a clown put in place by America's masters, to keep an endless supply of material for their media and to stir up hatred among citizens.
It's funny because citizens should be uniting against the puppeteers. Or they would be if they knew they even existed, or knew they were being played.

S Cooper , Jan 13, 2021 2:47 AM Reply to ZenPriest

"Quite a number already know this. That number keeps growing with each passing day. Got Debs?"

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsL6mKxtOlQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&listType=playlist&list=FLnnoDlrP9jUXGwJPoM_f7sg

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captain spam , Jan 12, 2021 7:32 PM

F**k Twitter.
#Boycott Twitter.

niko , Jan 12, 2021 7:24 PM

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Remember that line? That was Ronnie Raygun back in 1986, with one of his (or his ghost writers') versions for 'draining the swamp' then, getting government off our backs, and blah, blah, blah. Agitprop thrown the masses so the corporate state could get down to bizzness as usual in dispossessing 'we the people' by rolling back government programs for social welfare and building up wealth and power for elites via the MIC and Wall Street (complementary to Iron Bitch Thatcher's neoliberal programs for a greater fascism in Britain).

Hardly anything original, such marketing ads. Politricking fronts of the ruling class have been campaigning before and after getting into office with noble lies of populism covering for their brands of treachery as long as the fraudulence of capitalist democracy and representative government have been around. In the post-WWII era of Pox Americana, the U$ CEOs for the Fortune 500 routinely have disguised their institutional role in managing the empire under cover of brands of reform that keep promising power to the people with one hand while taking it away with the other.

But when it comes to the greatest show on earth, it's the words attributed to P.T. Barnum that there's a sucker born every minute (or at least every election season) which ring truest. So now we've got the ringmasters retiring the Donald and installing good ole Creepy Joe to 'build back better' on behalf of the Great Reset. That's after Swamp Thang has played his part as dictator of distraction overseeing such achievements as the greatest robbery of the commons in human history and launch of technofascism under Operation Warp(ed) Speed, all thanks to a global coup with which he's been entirely complicit. And his manufactured base of true believers still carry on with the covidiocy as much as the controlled opposition of the faux left.

The more things change, the more they stay the same (only worse!).

Chris , Jan 12, 2021 5:14 PM

The Q group are patriots with access to a quantum computer able to untangle timelines from a possibility/probability vortex.
Their movement was designed to awaken many individuals with key roles to play in the real Operation Warpspeed.

The majority of these folks had some connection to the military or other branches of government including the police.

Chris , Jan 12, 2021 7:34 PM Reply to Chris

In 2012 nearly all technology, ancient or more modern, was suddenly rendered non functional.
The Mayans were obviously dead right with their calender.
The race was on to gain absolute supremacy in the prediction game.
All major stakeholders have access to quantum computing, but the US has the upper hand.
The true value of quantum computers lies not in the task of pure number crunching, but in its ability to predict probabilities of complex situations.

The quantum computer exposes the most probable timelines and delivers the results in numerical form that correspond to actual events and dates/times .

Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:43 PM

"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins."
― I.F. Stone

Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 12:42 PM

President Trump has declared a State of Emergency in the District of Columbia.
White House

Waldorf , Jan 12, 2021 2:00 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

Not reported anywhere else that I can see.

Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 7:00 PM Reply to Waldorf

Try the Whitehouse website

Moneycircus , Jan 12, 2021 2:20 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-approves-district-columbia-emergency-declaration/

Strange that it is reported by overseas news outlets, ignored by domestic.

Strange also that U.S. Capitol Police officer commits suicide days after riots Saw something he didn't oughta? Stepped out of the thin blue line?

Cyd , Jan 12, 2021 3:01 PM Reply to Moneycircus

Witness protection?

Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 12:21 PM

To everyone that believes in the rule of law congratulations President trump has won.

Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 7:03 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

Correction, President Trump has not signed the Insurrection Act.

My error.

REvail , Jan 13, 2021 5:18 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

OW look the fruitcakes and cult follower spent another new moon being juiced , Trump has not signed the Insurrection Act. BUT BUT BUT
Cult of BIG disclosure keep watching.donate huge Arrests and stay tuned keep watching
it happening – keep watching- it happening soon, BIG disclosure huge Arrests . it Happening soon psyop AND distraction

Simple simon and Q nonsense told another lie to the sheep

Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 12:16 PM

President Trump has signed the Insurrection Act.

YouDontCareAboutGrandma , Jan 12, 2021 12:47 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

Proof? And don't link to Simon Parkes' YouTube channel. He's provided no evidence whatsoever for his claims. He says he talks to aliens and "Q" on the telephone.

REvail , Jan 13, 2021 5:20 PM Reply to YouDontCareAboutGrandma

comment is above

Sgt_doom , Jan 12, 2021 3:04 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

Please stop spreading Q-propaganda -- they originate out of Asia and are a silly, cartoonish disinfo outlet of the CCP!

Sgt_doom , Jan 12, 2021 3:07 PM Reply to Sgt_doom

When a serious traceroute is done on the Q lines it tracks back to a Filipino Maoist group.

Moneycircus , Jan 12, 2021 10:12 AM

Capitol Riot: 10 Questions -- James Tracy's Memory Hole Blog

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mEyUmL0_KR0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

Sgt_doom , Jan 12, 2021 6:59 AM

Gosh, evrn more baffling and scarey and reminescent of 1963, never seen footage of the murder of Ms. BABBIT showing collusion between police and antifa agitators, taken by an independent Japanese reporter!

https://youtu.be/5nvqvvsqJ_s

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!nd this is the real plan begun almost 50 years ago:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/31/us-middle-class-still-suffering-from-rockefeller-kissinger-industrial-transfer-scheme-to-china/

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-china-class-fights-trump

Great article but consider how many thousands of people the Islamist extremist, Erdogan of Turkey, had to fire and imprison, to dismantle the positive Deep State structure Attaturk put in place to keep that country secular? Functioned admirably for many years.

DimlyGlimpsed , Jan 12, 2021 1:06 AM

Dems enthusiatically voted from Bill Clinton, Obama, Hillary and Biden. All corrupt and compromised. Repubs voted for Bush Jr., Romney, and Trump. All corrupt and compromised. Both accuse the other of corruption, dishonesty and hypocrisy. Both are right, of course.
Reality, though, is not possible to perceive when limited to a diet of mainstream news. Neither is it a trivial task to navigate the rough seas online disinformation.'
Unless one is privy to big-picture high-level (and secret) information, one is left to attempt to identify and assemble a complex jigsaw puzzle using one's own sleuthing and intuition skills.
Common people without inside knowledge can still interpret the world, however. War is evil, and those who advocate war have been seduced by evil. Kindness and generosity are among the highest values. On the other hand, those who are selish and cruel pollute our world. Etc,, etc.
Let us keep in mind that the most evil cloak themselves in the garb of peace, kindness and generosity, in order to dine on sheep who wishfully and willfully refused to judge behavior rather than be seduced with addictive slogans. Let us also keep in mind that no leaders can remain in power without the compliance of the rest of us.
Any of should be able to recognize Joe Biden as evil. His "track record" is one of corruption, budget cutting, war and authoritarian legislation. And Trump? One of the great mysteries of human civilization is that Trump, the ultimate swap creature, was elected by promising to "clean the swamp".

Julia , Jan 12, 2021 8:52 AM Reply to DimlyGlimpsed

I literally want to copy and paste this comment and send it to as many people as I can. You capture it precisely.

Sgt_doom , Jan 12, 2021 3:11 PM Reply to DimlyGlimpsed

That is fairly accurate but Trump did push back against America's China Class and the CCP -- more than you can say for commies like the Bidens, Obamas, Clintons, Bushes, etc.

REvail , Jan 12, 2021 5:35 PM Reply to Sgt_doom

Trump's America First Hoax: Trump is an Israeli agent. He put #Mossad asset #JaredKushner in charge of infiltration of US Intelligence and Defense. Bidens are Chinese agents? Charles Kushner (Jared's father), is an agent of #AnbangInsurance, a Chinese Communist front group.

Jams O'Donnell , Jan 13, 2021 6:54 PM Reply to REvail

All US presidents, vice-presidents, chiefs of staff, etc are Israeli agents, or more accurately, are in effect the same thing.

Jams O'Donnell , Jan 13, 2021 6:53 PM Reply to Sgt_doom

"commies like the Bidens, Obamas, Clintons, Bushes, etc."

If you think that the above mentioned capitalist clowns are "commies", then you really, REALLY, need to get an education, because clearly you don't know your arse from your elbow.

Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:46 PM Reply to DimlyGlimpsed

"Trump, the ultimate swap creature " I do not think you have any idea what the 'swamp' is to make such a claim.

Otherwise, a great post.

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 12, 2021 12:40 AM

Note: I drafted this as a response, but the person is not worthy of a reply, so I'll post it here instead.
--

I've always said that Q is a deep-state operation. It's the NSA, military intelligence, etc. It's just a different deep state to the CIA/MI6 deep state. And I've always said that people should at least know what "the plan" is. They should know what it is because it's by far the most coherent explanation for what is happening now, and for what has happened over the last four years.

A couple of years ago I thought a deal had been struck between the opposing factions, and it was all going to be wound down. But I changed that view after the Covid911, attempted colour revolution. The overwhelming view on this site, from contributors and posters, was that Trump would fall in June 2020. I was one of only a handful of people saying Trump would survive.

I can't predict the details of what's happening now, but I think Trump will survive this because:
a) he has the ammunition
b) it would make no sense to go this far and not see it through
c) even though it seems to be going to the precipice, it still fits a coherent plan

For some time now, the best rolling updates have been provided by X22 Report:
https://rumble.com/c/X22Report

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 12, 2021 2:35 AM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

I've only recently started following Simon Parkes, but in his latest update he claims to have spoken to the real Q. Of course, as anybody who's been following Q posts would know, this would breach the "no outside comms" principle.

https://www.simonparkes.org/post/11th-january-third-update

Moneycircus , Jan 12, 2021 10:20 AM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

I'm not at all impressed. Appeared on the scene coincidental with Gen McInerney and all the misinformation about "hammer and scorecard" which was a blatant distraction from clear and convincing evidence of election fraud.

Parkes does far too much, "I could have told you beforehand but then I'd have had to kill you."

REvail , Jan 12, 2021 5:37 PM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

Your on the ball wow from 1 psyop to another Now your following simon charlatan parkes.
HE gets excepted into the Q nonsense and trump Savior psyop and becames one of there star leaders over night.
Do you not do basic checks on who you start to worship?? or do they have to say code words like Q and trump maga and its like there chosen to lead you.

Sgt_doom , Jan 12, 2021 3:13 PM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

Negative, far too silly and cartoonish and tracks back to a Filipino Maoist group directed by the CCP!

Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 7:34 PM

We've been manipulated into fighting against each other over trivial differences to divert us from the fact that we're all in the same boat.

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 11, 2021 6:33 PM

Andrew Korybko: "That, not whatever Q-Anon imagines, is the real "master plan", and it succeeded."

Okay, I'm trying to figure this out. With regard specifically to this thread, are we allowed to post direct links to Q posts? For instance, Q has stated explicitly that there is no "Qanon" (#4881). Instead, there is Q and there are anons. I personally think this is debatable, and that Qanon is a collective name for a highly amorphous movement and method of enquiry. Furthermore, that movement and method predates Q and was to some extent co-opted by Q. The movement will also outlive Q, though it may retain the name. As a movement, Qanon stands in opposition to the hierarchical, hive-mind vacuity of the Rationalists and Neo-Platonists. In short, Qanon is Blakean. Welcome to Jerusalem!

We do not want either Greek or Roman models if we are but just & true to our own imaginations, those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall live forever; in Jesus our Lord.
– William Blake
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Milton_(excerpts)/Preface

Sophie - Admin1 , Jan 11, 2021 7:25 PM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

Oh please

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 11, 2021 7:40 PM Reply to Sophie - Admin1

So what happened to my other posts?

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 12, 2021 9:17 PM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

Q Alerts is back up so I'll try again. The following is a critical part of "the plan".
--

Q (Oct 17, 2020):
I'm going to bring the whole diseased, corrupt temple down on your head. It's gonna be Biblical.
Enjoy the show!
https://qalerts.app/?n=4884

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LUsLDzXWUU4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

Marion Reynolds , Jan 11, 2021 6:01 PM

Please – can we have more of Andrew Karybko. I've seen him on Peter Lavelle. For such an acutely well informed young chap about international politics, he demonstrates an equally rigorous understanding about Trumps psyche.

Loverat , Jan 12, 2021 6:28 PM Reply to Marion Reynolds

Andrew Korybko is probably one of the best geo-political analysts I've come across and his depth of knowledge across all continents shines through. A very warm and engaging person.

He runs a site called OneWorld Press. Recently accused by mainstream media and The Daily Beast of being GRU agents. Well if it is, they are most measured and balanced in the history of intelligence services.

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 11, 2021 5:18 PM

The best is yet to come.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ozWZYbYfkp4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

REvail , Jan 11, 2021 11:50 PM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

Your be saying that on the way to the concentration camps!!!
'trust the plan' is a never ending story psyop
Similar to the 'best is yet to come' ..
you trumpsters have your own Down Syndrome language.
WWG1WGA, another bunch of devotees similar to a cult who will not except there guru is a oppressor

mikael , Jan 11, 2021 1:09 PM

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."Reinhold Niebuhr

Pardon moi for the lenght.

I dont know whats with people this days, the shere avalange of bollocks is baffling, the inability to conect the dots to what was, the past, to the present is making me think there must be something, hehe, with the narrative, or should we say in this uh . conpiracy tinfoil hat wearing days, in the tap water, and the rethotic, about Trump, I have my issues, and I have never been quiet about them, but then to whine about things when most of it have been inplace before Trump came into the WH, incl children in gages to wars, Obamalama started more wars than any other American president ever, with Hitlary the Beast from Little Rock beside, after Her husband stole Social sec and now, witch could be massive, is completely eradicated out of existence, and the sactions, etc, most of them are just continuations of existing systems, we can always blame Trump for something, but please, do know the difference and dont just throw bollocks because of the people whom wanted change, when Obamalama said it, you belived, and what happened, again, he pissed upon you all, and have since laughed all the way to the bank, the economic crashes, the insane austeritys, the bailins and outs, you name it to color revolutions.
This isnt to defend Trump, for me, He was more an castrat, singing but otherwise balless, but also tied, unable to move, and been relentlessly attacked by those that defenses the past witch in no way was better.

Then we have the eh .. storming?, and if you look at videos, what sticks out is, what storming, some gass clouds, yea, means what, an Cop throving an gass can, but take an look for your self, it was never in any way what the MSM wants you to belive, and the army of people crawling all over the sites wants you to persive, along with profanitys about people whom did suported Trump, because they hoped for change, you cant attack them, maybe for been a bit naive, but one thing shal be the thing Trump did, exposed them all, in an way witch is unpresedented despite His flaws, nobody have done that in this level, He exposed them all, and if you havent gotten it yet, you have an problem, nobody else, incl the people whom did their duty as free citizens of the USA, did the protesting.
Rioting, again, what riot, the worst thing I can come up with, after watching some videos, is minore, a window, probably by the AntiFags/BLMs/eh leftards?, and one man whom ran off with an piece of the furiture, nothing else, and if I drag that further, maybe the stormers should have wiped their shoos off before entering the Hill, stepping on the fine carpets on the floor in the hallway, what an horrible crime, right.
What storming, do you see anything, do enlighten us.

So, I know I am pushing the attention span to the limit.
BUT, I have thru the years found out that Americans, not that I want to call em stupid, but regarding world poltics, more infantile, naive, brainwashed to such an extent thru the decades/centurys of propaganda, where the various Gov always have had an enemy, it have variated, from muslims etc to what it have become to day, domestic terrorism aka conservatives whatever that means, and not only in the MSM but also thru an army of so called Alternative MSM, witch have feed upon this narratives and played upon this, but overall, gone the same erant as the Gov wanted them to go, and witch have resulted in wars upon wars, and stil some want more wars, like the broad attack line on Iran, just to give you one ex to the strangling of others, like western sahara to the Palestinians.
Then we have the new enemy, in mainly the so called alternative ugh .. rightwinged? whatever whom sommehow manages to blame everything on socialism, yea, apart from the weather because thats Putins fault, despite that, I found Putin to be an scoundrel, the Russian Gov rotten to its core, that dont mean I hate Russians but there will always be those that cant differentiate at all.
Whom is the "enemy" Americans, socialism, China, Russia, Iran, huh.

I have saxed this from P. L. Gonzalez.
Social media networks, payment processors, airlines, hotels, streaming services, and online vendors are strangling people based on ideology but TPUSA is still complaining about "socialism." Burn your money or donate it to TPUSA, it's the same thing.

Yup, briliantly summarised everything in some few lines, and why, do you refuse to see them when they are right infront of your very own eyes, and yet, you blame some imaginary enemy witch have nothing to do with this coup, its an class war, its the oligarcs, the robber barons, witch have an army of buttspreaders in the capitol Hill to their abuse, and this bitches do whatever they are told, do notice how the RepubliCONs threw you under the buss, is that to the Chines fault.

So, I hope the Americans whom stil have some parts of their bran fuctional, can notice the difference, in Norway we have the same problem, but we are an so called socialistic nation, but we are held hostages by the same pack of scums that is plundering your nation and resources, and have nothing but contempt for everyone of us, and an Gov that do whatever they want and whom are we then to blame, the Hottentots, Maoris, communism is an tool for social unrest, and when they have done their job, thrown under the buss, because the PTB wants us to fight each others, as long we do, they will win.
Unite and you have an chanse, if not, well, I am old, and my life span expectanse isnt that long anymore and I will not have to live in the totalistaian regime that comes, but the sole reason for me to even bother, is for our children, and their children.
And to all of you whom went to the protest, you have my deepest respect.
It truly is an war, against the dark forces.
You all need to take an stand.
Be the light.

peace

Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:53 PM Reply to mikael

We have the same problem worldwide. Singling out and scorning the Americans is simply divisive. It has always been the People against the Oppressors. The Americans are people and have Oppressors bearing down on them like the rest of us. There is a cancer that needs to be removed lest it devour us all.

Chris , Jan 11, 2021 10:57 AM

The overtone of Korybko's writing is excessively defeatist. When the "Deep State" applies such overt tools to steal the U.S. election, imposes censorship, labels millions of American citizens as potential "domestic terrorists", silences the still incumbent U.S. President, resorts to provocation, deprives Americans of essential liberties through Covid, curfews or other bogus emergencies, then it means that the establishment behind the "Deep State" is scared. Scared not as much of Donald Trump as scared of You – the People. I know it since I live in a central European country with a very bitter experiences with dicatorship. When the power starts to resort to an open forgery and uses coercion or force it reveals its weakness, not strength. Its power derives only from the passive attitude of majority of population, nothing more. What this so called 'liberal elite' in America hopes for is to return to the good old days, when the whole Middle America remained voiceless, silent, isolated, without any leadership or political representation. Now it is their objective to 'legally' separate the 'progressive America' from the 'populist' one and they might even inspire separation, violence or secessionist moves to achieve it. But MAGA movement must not play this delusional vision of retreat to entrench in false sense of local security. That's what the 'Deep State' wants to achieve – to herd the popular opposition into their home arrests and their privacy soon to be possibly separated by walls, sanitary wards, wired fences or a new Indian reservation. Americans would never win their Independence by acting in defense only, by retreating to 'wait and see' tactics as Korybko suggests. What must be done is to recapture Your state institutions that have been stolen and turned into a travesty of American political tradition. Before that happens a common awareness is needed that those who appear to rule as a new 'government' are just a tiny bunch of criminals who try to impress the whole world that their power has no limits, that they monopolised the mass media and economy, that they are invincible. Do not let this delusion of 'Deep State' victory to dominate Your outlook. Yes, I agree that Trump failed as a leader in a time of crisis but MAGA (or however we call it) but all the people who really care for America need to maintain representation, authority and leadership. They shouldn't accept a comfortable fantasy that sooner or later the 'Deep State' would crumble under its own weight and then by some miracle a new movement would be born. If Trump indicates that 'its only the beginning' then his supporters should join him in any action he offers. All Republican politicians, conservative or libertarian societies, local communities, state legislatures or any other active group must be engaged in this action. Struggle for political freedom always involves risk and mistakes. Trump certainly made a lot of them. But it is the People who are sovereign, not any office, institution or technological dicatorship. When the Constitution, the congressional debate and civil liberties are ruined by 'elite' it is the responsibility of the People to act in emergency to restore law, order and liberty. The 'Deep State' perfectly understands that after the four years of Trump and the emergence of trumpism as a social-political fact there can not be any turning back to the business as usual. Not under normal and peaceful circumstances. That's why they are so frightened and act in panic. That's why they impose health and security 'emergencies' to incapacitate the population, to make it superfluous and useless. We saw it in totalitarian regimes.
The world needs the U.S. not as an imperial power but as an example of well established social contract, human liberty and hope for a better future. The European 'elites' are in revolt against their people too but here we won't have a chance for any anti-establishment president to support us. That's why in Europe we still believe that not all has been lost in America.

Laurence Howell , Jan 11, 2021 12:17 PM Reply to Chris

Lt. General Thomas Mcinerney,

"special forces imbedded in Antifa rioters have Nancy Pelosi's laptop"

Panic in DC would ban understatement.

Bring it on

Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 2:56 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

laptop always the laptop it on the laptop he/she left the laptop at
it etc etc et was found there# etc etc etc bullshit
laptop psyop used as much as the immaculate passport psyop found at the scene of crime in a burning inferno it aimed at idiots

Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 7:24 PM Reply to Asylum

Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 10:37 AM Reply to Asylum

Are you saying that Hunter Biden's laptop and the released information that it contains is of no value?

Conflating 911 with the current conspiracies is not helpful. This would need an article of longer length and written by an unbiased observer which you are not.

Instead of saying etc. etc. bullshit, why not explain why this is your position?
Or does this not fit in with your soundbite posting?

Jacques , Jan 11, 2021 9:41 AM

Historically speaking, the problem with the "deep state" is essentially that the current system has corrupted itself to a point where it is so far from what is claimed, or perhaps appears to be, that there is no way to fix it from within by rebuilding it, by "draining the swamp".

Klaus "Cockroach" Schwab et al understand this, hence the Great Reset, a new vision for the future. Of course, they want a future for themselves, but that's another story.

Even if Trump were entirely sincere in his effort to "drain the swamp", he had nothing to offer apart from some vague anachronistic concept of Making America Great Again. What the fuck is that supposed to mean anyway, eh? The only thing he had behind him was populism which in itself is an empty concept.

Like it or not, a change will only come if people formulate a new philosophy, ideology, and if the new ideology is proposed and embraced on a broad scale. Ideally in a non-violent fashion.

Right now, there is fuck all, people are still stuck on all sorts of left-right bullshit dichotomies, (fake) democracy, the games that have been played for decades if not hundreds of years.

If you ask me, it would be nice if the ideology of the future was loosely based on Hayek's spontaneous order.

Thom1111 , Jan 11, 2021 3:03 PM Reply to Jacques

If Trump can pull something off this week or early next, the new plan is already waiting in the wings. It's called Nesara/Gesara. It's a new economic system not based on a debt based system.

rechenmacher , Jan 12, 2021 3:45 PM Reply to Thom1111

Heard that one before. Fraud.

Thom1111 , Jan 12, 2021 7:09 PM Reply to rechenmacher

It's a real framework plan, it's just whether it can be implemented is the question.

Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:57 PM Reply to Jacques

"Like it or not, a change will only come if people formulate a new philosophy, ideology, and if the new ideology is proposed and embraced on a broad scale. Ideally in a non-violent fashion."

Sure. So we the people have had centuries or more to figure the answer out. Repeating the dilemma is not enlightening. Idealism has no voice with tyrants.

ZenPriest , Jan 11, 2021 8:53 AM

All this talk of the 'deep state' yet no one can name them. Lol.

Thom1111 , Jan 11, 2021 3:04 PM Reply to ZenPriest

you must have been born yesterday. In America it's the alphabet agencies but obviously all runs back to Rothschild and the Vatican.

gordan , Jan 11, 2021 7:48 PM Reply to Thom1111

eustace mullins
book

the curse of canaan

old names
very old
and new ones

written in the 1980s
still up to date

ZenPriest , Jan 12, 2021 2:44 PM Reply to Thom1111

If you think it stops at the Vatican and Rothschilds, maybe you were born yesterday.

Thom1111 , Jan 12, 2021 7:11 PM Reply to ZenPriest

well actually no, it goes off planet or interdimensionally if you want to go that deep.

Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 4:02 PM Reply to ZenPriest

https://www.corbettreport.com/?s=deep+state

Start here.

ZenPriest , Jan 12, 2021 5:02 PM Reply to Igby MacDavitt

Corbett is owned like almost everyone else. Gives you everything but the source.

Joerg , Jan 11, 2021 8:50 AM

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https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/archbishop-vigano-open-letter-to-donald-trump-warns-about-great-reset-plot-to-subdue-humanity-destroy-freedom-2/

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Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 2:59 PM Reply to Researcher

but it does catch certain comments funny that

aspnaz , Jan 10, 2021 11:47 PM

The 6 January protest march clearly shows that the majority of Trump voters had already given up on Trump so did not join the protest. There was originally talk of a possible one million people attending, it didn't get anywhere close. If half the nation was still behind Trump, this was a very puzzling showing.

Trump just did not have what it takes, or was not really trying, to ruthlessly cut out the cancer of corruption in government. History will show that he was a weak leader who allowed the deep state to distract him to the extent that he never did anything of note other than to reveal, through no action of his own, how extreme is the corruption that he had promised to drain.

The Democrat distractions, paid for by their oligarch owners, showed the world that extreme corruption is running the USA. Even the most loyal Democrats must be puzzled by the current purges and threats of extreme centralised thought control, the arrogance of the swamp now that it has gotten rid of the peoples' man.

To his credit, I am still willing to believe that Trump tried to do the right thing.

Although the author is trying to place Trump as a coward who resigned, going back on his word, I think this is not how his original supporters see him. From what I can see, the majority of his original supporters still support him and see him as a figurehead, but they recognise that he doesn't have the skills to do the job. He is not a coward, he did not cave in, he recognised, probably because of the low protest numbers, that he did not have what is takes to continue the fight, he could see that his base had already given up on him. He is still a figurehead in the patriot movement. He may have lost the far right, but he still has a lot of centre-ground supporters.

MaryLS , Jan 11, 2021 4:47 AM Reply to aspnaz

I disagree with your claim that the majority of supporters had already given up on him. It was the middle of the week. People have jobs. It was a significant turn out. People understand what is at stake. I would not place the blame for failure on Trump. He is amazing in so many ways.

Carmpat , Jan 12, 2021 8:39 AM Reply to MaryLS

I just don't understand here how anybody can believe Trump was sincere in wanting to change anything: he's a narcissistic bully in it for his own benefit and that of his offspring. Fighting corruption??? Come on!

Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 4:06 PM Reply to Carmpat

The mere fact that hundreds and hundreds of treasonous actors throughout government and business have been clearly and openly revealed through the process started by Trump is a damn good start.

S Cooper , Jan 11, 2021 5:53 AM Reply to aspnaz

"What is going in DC right now is like what went on at Jonestown after Jim Jones went crackers. Except instead of cyanide laced Kool-Aid they are going to use 'Doc' Billy Eugenics EUTHANASIA DEATH SHOT to off the 'faithful'. If only Billy and they would just off themselves and leave the rest of the World out of it."

" EUTHANIZE the World! Corporate Fascism and Eugenics forever."

S Cooper , Jan 11, 2021 4:24 PM Reply to S Cooper

"Time now for Na n zi Pelosi, Chuckie 'Upchuck' Schumer and all the rest of the war criminal gang of CORPORATE FASCIST FABIAN EUGENICISTS to beam back to the mothership. They see insurrections, rebellions and conspiracies everywhere. They believe the humans are out to get them . They are going full Jim Jones. "

https://giphy.com/gifs/alien-they-live-john-caenter-3og0IUd5D9Y77EXtRK

S Cooper , Jan 11, 2021 6:40 PM Reply to S Cooper

"Also Nasty Na n zi should lay off the hooch. It is beginning to have a deleterious and harmful effect upon the sad thing's cognitive faculties and behavior."

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:35 PM

I *Hope* they name the next Carrier after him – USS Donald J. Trump – CVN 83

😉

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:38 PM Reply to Sgt Oddball

- Nickname: – 'Big Don'

Voxi Pop , Jan 10, 2021 9:57 PM

https://worldchangebrief.webnode.com INSURRECTION ACT "PROBABLY" SIGNED –
Military In Control of the US, Under Commander In Chief Trump/
Updates Will Follow Throughout The Day

Cal , Jan 10, 2021 9:56 PM

.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 9:26 PM

"Captain America's been torn apart,
Now he's a court jester with a broken heart,
He said, "Turn me around and take me back to the start",
"I must be losing my mind!" Are you blind?!
– I've seen it all a *Million Times* "

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 9:02 PM

Situation Update Jan 8th – Trump fighting from secure location, did NOT concede
https://www.hangthecensors.com/487773.html?fbclid=IwAR2Na1XhGeff0jKFmZWBWrQnd5hjKgFEsSqwJOjQIqZFFkzN7flG-FcGG_s

Sukma Dyk , Jan 10, 2021 8:50 PM

You are going to be very surprised. See what happens.

David Meredith , Jan 10, 2021 9:08 PM Reply to Sukma Dyk

I was just about to post a comment saying: It's not over yet, but you beat me to it! Well done.

John Smith , Jan 11, 2021 6:17 PM Reply to Sukma Dyk

Why the secrecy? If you know summit then spill.

Jacques , Jan 10, 2021 8:49 PM

I don't know what Trump's intentions were, and I couldn't care less.

From where I'm standing, it appears that he was elected on a wave of populism, which seemed to be an alternative to the "liberal democracy" fakery, the swamp. An interesting presentation of that was here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA50BE7d1X8 ). IMHO, Bannon kicked Frum's butt in that debate.

It would appear that populism was a big enough threat for the "swamp" to unleash four years of a hate campaign against Trump, possibly, probably culminating with COVID. Hard to believe that it was a coincidence.

Be it as it may, and allowing for the possibility that this or that or the other thing has been staged this way or that way, Trump's presidency has certainly set things in motion, woken up people. Had somebody more slick been elected, the transition to the dystopia that seems to be in the pipeline would probably have been less noticeable, perhaps not noticeable at all. With the shitshow that has been going down since last February, all of a sudden there is a public debate. Perhaps misinformed, perhaps mislead, but there is a debate nevertheless. Will it result in something positive? Hard to say, hopefully.

Bottom line, Trump's presidency has been historically a good thing.

YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 11, 2021 10:05 AM Reply to Jacques

Covid19 was decided in 2010 and earlier.

Jacques , Jan 11, 2021 10:37 AM Reply to YouTube_censors_unfortuna

So what? What sort of relevance does it have to what I said?

First understand the bigger picture, then worry about details.

Carmpat , Jan 12, 2021 8:43 AM Reply to Jacques

Covid 19 was DECIDED? But of course, yes, it's just a detail .. lol

Researcher , Jan 10, 2021 8:45 PM

Turns out the Viking Guy aka QAnon Shaman aka Jake Angeli aka Jacob Anthony Chansley aka Actor and self proclaimed "Super Soldier" pals around with Bernard Kerik and Rudy Giuliani when he takes time off from memorizing the latest NSA script:

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 10, 2021 9:42 PM Reply to Researcher

Oh look, a photo at some sort of book-signing type event. I'll file it alongside the one of Oswald and Mother Teresa.

Researcher , Jan 10, 2021 11:32 PM Reply to Lost in a dark wood

Where's the book? Nowhere. Not a book signing.

Freemason handshake tho, Lost_In_Your_Tiny_Mind

Lost in a dark wood , Jan 11, 2021 4:37 PM Reply to Researcher

BTW: if that's what Bernard Kerik looks like when he's "palling around", you definitely wouldn't want to fall out with him!

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:10 PM Reply to Researcher

Haven't you figured out yet that QAnon is an intelligence agency psyop based in the type of magical thinking that will get you killed and lose the nation? If not, you really aren't qualified to participate in what is currently hitting us. The enemy has your number. This is obviously a photo op staged by the security state to feed the false narrative created around QAnon.

Researcher , Jan 10, 2021 11:23 PM Reply to James Meeks

Can you read? Read what I wrote again. Read it enough times until you understand.

QAnon = Q Group NSA

Nothing is hitting you except the Democrats and Republicans together against the citizens. That's not new.

Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 6:30 PM Reply to Researcher

S Cooper , Jan 11, 2021 10:25 PM Reply to Asylum

"If there was a non WAR RACKETEER CORPORATE FASCIST in SHAM DEMOCRACY USA for whom to vote and the REPUBLICRATS did not FAKE the counts and rig the SHAM elections WE THE PEOPLE might. Where is a Eugene Victor Debs when the world needs one?"

"Soon that is not going to be an issue, however. There will be no need for SHAM ELECTIONS after Billy EugenIcs and the CORPORATE FASCIST FABIAN EUGENICISTS cull all the untermenschen and useless eaters with their EUTHANASIA DEATH SHOT."

https://www.deviantart.com/redamerican1945/art/Eugene-V-Debs-Republican-Democratic-Party-674343047

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsL6mKxtOlQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&listType=playlist&list=FLnnoDlrP9jUXGwJPoM_f7sg

REvail , Jan 11, 2021 11:42 PM Reply to S Cooper

it was a compliment and joke on others who still be lie ve in what you eloquently posted

S Cooper , Jan 12, 2021 12:23 AM Reply to REvail

"Just can not give up the opportunity for a good lead up (segue'). In good faith and in all seriousness, thanks for providing it."

Cmiller , Jan 12, 2021 5:27 AM Reply to Researcher

Masonic handshake

Dayne , Jan 10, 2021 8:40 PM

Peasants in 19th-century Russia clung to a notion of the Czar as a benevolent, fatherly figure. Even when he rained misery and oppression down on them, it was only because he was "misinformed", "surrounded by bad guys", etc.

It makes sense: Those were desperate, illiterate people living in misery. Hoping against hope was all they had. But why would anyone in 2021 think of Trump in essentially the same way is beyond me. An entrenched military-industrial-media-psychiatric-intelligence system, hundreds of years in the making and with untold trillions in funding, just stood by as a Robin-Hood-type hero and people's champion rose to take the Oval Office? Sorry. Trump might as well sprout wings and fly.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:10 PM Reply to Dayne

Thanx for your comment, Dayne – I've been trying to put this into words, and as I'm autistic, I could frankly, literally *Sperg'-out* over this, right now

- TL:DR version is this, tho': – Ever wonder why 'Populism' is such a dirty word for the establishment and their MSM bullhorn? – The argument I've heard thus far generally goes like the South Park underpants gnome's plan for world domination: – Phase 1: Popular Uprising (aka: 'Civil Unrest') Phase 2: ? . Phase 3: Fascist 'Strongman' Dictatorship – Why is that?

- Also that we're *Too Stoopid*(/ie: Self-Absorbed) – Like the Mud-Pickin' peasants in Monty Python' Holy Grail

- I would suggest 2 reasons for this:

- 1.) The Davostanis (Global Banksters/Oligarchs) never *merely* back the *winning horse* in the race, – In fact they back *every* horse that they *allow* to run (ergo: Trump was an Establishment-groomed *Stalking Horse* )

- 2.) The Davostanis (again), have *long since* seen to it that *most everyone*, from birth onwards, is psychologically conditioned, first with childhood myths and fairy-tales about Charming Princes and Fair Princesses, then with religio-spiritual 'adult' myths and fairy-tales about (In Judeo-Christian terms) Messianic, White-Knight champion/rescuer types who, if *we would only* put our lives and our *Utmost Faith* in their holy, heaven-sent hands, would *Save Us All* from all the terrible, terrible *Mess We've All Made* for ourselves down here on Earth, by collectively *Shitting The Bed*

*Obviously*, this is *All* just so much *Childish Nonsense*, and, more to the point, a *Writ-Large Con-Job*

- Cutting to the chase: – The 'Great-Man' theory of history is *Bunk* – Always *Has Been*, always *Will Be*

If you're still "Holding Out For A Hero", I invite you to stare *Long And Hard* into the nearest available mirror, *Take A DEEP Breath*, and then go out and *Elect Yourself* to the office – *Better Yet*, elect your family, elect your friends, elect your neighbors, elect *Everyone*

- And then let's *Do This Shit* – *Together*!

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:23 PM Reply to Dayne

It could have something to do with the fact that Biden is backed by every billionaire member of the Davos gang of criminals getting ready to use this event, coupled with medical martial law, to stage the "great reset" scheme. A wet dream of Malthusian eugenecists like Faucci & Gates, since it includes a drastic reduction in world population aka genocide of the elderly, vulnerable, poor and non compliant. This Globalist Technocracy will be led by un-elected bankers and corporate CEO's effectively ending any form of Democracy planet wide. MSM mockingbirds are completing the programming of the public to make Casey's statement to Reagan ring true" We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is wrong."

janmarsh , Jan 10, 2021 8:16 PM

Insurrection Act signing brought forward.
Scroll down to 10th. January update:
https://www.simonparkes.org/

Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 3:31 PM Reply to janmarsh

Ow look Simon one trick pony parkes been laughed at and ridiculed and busted for his many many many many lies and it happening you watch just donate psyop
gets excepted into the Q nonsense and trump Savior psyop and became s one of there leaders!!!

doesn't anyone go back 5 years and do basic check on thsoes they watch and then make idols of them.

fools follow fools

Mike , Jan 10, 2021 8:15 PM

Trump was never going to be Ameica's hero. He was played to depict America as a fascist, racist, neo-nazi country that needs to be saved by the Left aka Joe Biden/Kamala Harris. The Left can now "save us all" from the "damage" caused by the MAGA movement and Trump. They can do this through heavily increased mass surveillance and what is essentially imprisonment, to make sure that we don't fall victim to the "domestic terrorism" that is represented by Trump and his fan base.

David Meredith , Jan 10, 2021 9:10 PM Reply to Mike

saved by the left? The left has been selling out the US to the globalist agenda for the last 20 years (in power or out). Trump is not finished restoring America to a country that doesn't sell out to China.

S Cooper , Jan 10, 2021 9:32 PM Reply to David Meredith

"Left-Center-Right" seems that paradigm is a tad askew. It is more like a top to bottom pyramid [scheme/racket]. The CORPORATE FASCIST OLIGARCH MOBSTER PSYCHOPATH SLAVE MASTERS sitting on their gold platinum thrones at the very top of the tower/pyramid and all their prole slave victims, WE THE PEOPLE (HUMANITY) in the mud at the base. The PSYCHOS will say or do anything to get the prole slaves at each others throats. IF WE ARE FIGHTING AMONG OURSELVES WE ARE NOT FIGHTING THEM."

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsL6mKxtOlQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&listType=playlist&list=FLnnoDlrP9jUXGwJPoM_f7sg

https://www.tumblr.com/search/v%20debs

Mike , Jan 10, 2021 11:12 PM Reply to David Meredith

Well, being saved by the left was a sarcastic comment. And Trump is clearly done with "restoring America" because it was never his to restore, let alone him conceding to the left after the Capitol "riots".

falcemartello , Jan 11, 2021 3:53 AM Reply to David Meredith

@ David
The left is as left as my right GONAD

Martin Usher , Jan 10, 2021 10:12 PM Reply to Mike

Biden/Harris "the left"? Surely you're joking? These two are conservatives, in another timeline they'd be Republicans. What they have going for them is they, like many Americans, believe in the Constitution of the United States, about what the country is and what its trying to acheve. It strives to build "a more perfect union".

This the fundamenal error many people made about the Deep State. I've no doubt that there's a fom of Deep State out there, an ingrained conservative streak in the bureaucracy, because there is in all bureaucracies. But the real Deep State is all of us, its every last person who believes in the system, in the American form of democracy and the principles upon which the nation was founded. There are innumerable personal interpretations of exactly what this means but the sum total is the United States.

Trump, MAGA and the modern GoP represent 'capture', the idea that the capture of the state can be turned to personal profit. In doing so Trump and his enablers degraded the notion of what the US is and why it exists. This is what's caused the backlash, its not 'the left' or 'socialism'.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:54 PM Reply to Martin Usher

"Biden/Harris "the left"? Surely you're joking?"

- The proverbial 'Overton Window' has, at this point, collapsed to a quantum singularity, about a nothingth of a planck length wide

- Prepare for *Teh Great Suck*!

Peanut butter wolf , Jan 10, 2021 8:11 PM

You seriously think Trump was genuinly elected? All the points you make show obviously he was a puppet and psy-op of the deepstate from the very beginning.
The deepstate won because they never had an enemy, they created him from the start, with or without him knowing we dont know, but anyone on that level is on a need to know basis anyway. It's clear that his every move is steered with the goal to bring down rogue antiestablishment sentiments.

And it worked very well. Radical left antiestablishment is suddenly prodemocrats and radical right antiestablishment is totally disillusioned and just became domestic terrorists.

David Meredith , Jan 10, 2021 9:12 PM Reply to Peanut butter wolf

you spelled Biden incorrectly on your fourth word in.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:57 PM Reply to Peanut butter wolf

- *Divide and Conquer* Churn, same as it ever was

BTW, My condolences for MF Doom

Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 3:07 PM Reply to Sgt Oddball

ironic dont you think a artist MF Doom who is known for wearing a mask gets sacrifices sorry dies on the usual astro constellation
zzzzzzzz

Thom1111 , Jan 11, 2021 3:15 PM Reply to Peanut butter wolf

Trump wasn't supposed to win in 2016. The deep state probably wanted liberal Jeb Bush or Rubio or Cruz in there. Trump destroyed all the competition in the GOP primaries. Remember, Trump wasn't picked by the deep state to be their guy. He financed his own campaign. He was a major burr in their saddle. The Trump phenomenon is real and he proved it with a landslide victory that was stolen.

Martin Usher , Jan 12, 2021 6:16 PM Reply to Thom1111

What 'landslide'? The numbers tell a very different story. Trump should have won a second term but he didn't because of two things, one being the grass roots efforts of Democrats to motivate voter groups despite systematic road blocks being placed in those groups' path and the other -- a important one -- being that there's quite a lot of life long Republicans out there that cannot stand Trump.

Trumpism is like a cult in many ways. One feature is that those who 'believe' find it difficult to come to grips with the fact that they might hold a minority view. They're used to being embattled, that's a signature feature of such groups (they're always fighting for something against an implacable enemy, preferably an unseen one) but its just inconceivable that they're really a fringe group. The events of last Wednesday have probably done more to promote Democrat candidates than anything else this cycle; fortunately for the most part the election was over so all they lost were the two Senate seats.

PS -- May I draw your attention to an old Beatles song -- "Revolution"? (I'd also suggest an even old song "Trouble Coming" from the Mothers of Invention.)

Voz 0db , Jan 10, 2021 7:58 PM

Under the CURRENT MAIN SYSTEM – The Monetary System – there is no "drain the swamp"!

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:29 PM Reply to Voz 0db

Then you're going to love the technocrats "social credits" scheme such as China currently imposes on it's population.

Voz 0db , Jan 11, 2021 10:43 AM Reply to James Meeks

China developed that system with the HELP of the Western Corporations, so that in a near future the tech will be deployed in the western Plantations. OPERATION COVIDIUS is just the 1st of many operations that will create the FEAR & PANIC conditions among the herds of modern western moron slaves, that will make it really easy for THEM to deploy that tech.

Why do you think China was the chosen one to practice a "city lockdown" during EVENT 201 planning?

Why do you think China was on the news of western countries while they were executing the lockdown and then no more China news?

China is also under the Shadow of the SRF & Billionaires at least for now. The only thing China is trying to achieve is to shift the POWER of the SRF into Chinese Families, nothing more.

maxine , Jan 10, 2021 7:48 PM

What has Off-G come to? .One must be truly mad to imagine that D. tHRUMP
"SINCERELY" thought ANYTHING EVER, let alone "changing the way America is run" .He's incapable of comprehending what the word "SINCERITY" means .Sorry the author has lost his hero.

wardropper , Jan 10, 2021 8:24 PM Reply to maxine

OffG publishes articles and anybody who wants to can comment on them.

It does not push, or imagine, any group philosophy other than to support us all in a deep distrust of what the mainstream media ram down our throats every day, and to give us space to express our personal disgust in our own way.

We are not going to imagine what you would like us to imagine merely on your say-so either, although you are quite free to tell us what your personal recommendations are.

OffG has never been pro-Trump, and we are all aware that the alternative is far from being any better.

Perhaps you would like to tell us what is really bugging you, given that you have never been under any pressure even to show up here At the very least, you could stay on topic:
So, what about the swamp, and who you think is most likely to succeed in draining it ?

Carol Jones , Jan 10, 2021 8:53 PM Reply to wardropper

Hear Hear!

Gezzah Potts , Jan 10, 2021 10:26 PM Reply to wardropper

Spot on W👍

YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 10, 2021 7:40 PM

Trump's racist fan base supported America's bogus War of Terrorism against blameless Muslim countries, did they not? What goes around, comes around.

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:40 PM Reply to YouTube_censors_unfortuna

I think you are getting fan bases mixed up. Trump inherited these conflicts from Bush, Iraq 2002 invasion & Obama's 2015 invasion of Syria and it was Trump that threatened to end the propping up of the endless war industry. In fact that played the major role in why Trump had to be removed at all costs including selling treason and vote rigging as Democracy to be defended against "domestic terrorists".

YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 11, 2021 9:45 AM Reply to James Meeks

Did America's white patriots oppose the demonisation of Muslims as being terrorists who did 9/11 or did they participate in this US government fiction?

Thom1111 , Jan 11, 2021 3:17 PM Reply to YouTube_censors_unfortuna

No, at least half of the patriots are and were aware that 9/11 was an inside job.

Geoffrey Skoll , Jan 10, 2021 7:25 PM

Right! The Donald was too weak and too stupid. A smarter president got shot for his troubles, but the rulers knew they didn't have to resort to that against the Donald. He was obsessed with his mirror. All those meeting between Ike and JFK, what do you think they were talking about?

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 11:01 PM Reply to Geoffrey Skoll

- Please also note the *Extreme* copypasta, every other sentence, in the article – Who *Actually Is* this guy?

DM: , Jan 11, 2021 12:22 AM Reply to Sgt Oddball

A fifty-center.

Lisa , Jan 10, 2021 7:09 PM

Fuck Trump and his knuckle dragging moron supporters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_P-0I6sAck

Mr Y , Jan 10, 2021 7:21 PM Reply to Lisa

Now tell us what *you* like.

David Meredith , Jan 10, 2021 9:14 PM Reply to Lisa

hey, my knuckles don't drag – how dare you suggest such a thing.

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:44 PM Reply to Lisa

Sounds like you came to Off Guardian thinking it was the Guardian and expected to find a group of like minded consumers of security state propaganda in a Trump bashing fest.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 11:02 PM Reply to Lisa

"Oook, Oook, Oook!!! "

*Flings Monkey-Poop *

sue , Jan 10, 2021 6:55 PM

A premature judgement. Time will tell.

MANUEL , Jan 10, 2021 6:55 PM

Do u relly guys think Trump was a hope for all pf us? I am still amazed that people(including off-guard) still thinks in terms of left vs right, good vs bad, and all that narrative. I am afraid that nnarrativ has never been true. It is part of the game of "the matrix" to keep us entertained in shows programmed for tth masses, division, polarizaiomn, saviours and "heros". In my opinion it is time for a deep shift. Continuing to hope that some guy will save us all, it is just seeing a tree but not being able to see the woods. While some keep waiting for somebody to save us, they are moving forward with their plans really fast. But no problem guys. Sooner or later the rrality will knock on you door, and you will have to decide if you are going to be a slave or a free human. And it will be all about what you decide. No american hero or any messiah will do it for you.

Sophie - Admin1 , Jan 10, 2021 9:50 PM Reply to MANUEL

We have warned against accepting the Left/Right paradigm many times. This is NOT an editorial and therefore is not 'the voice of OffG'.

Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand we publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion that we consider merits discussion or a wider audience, without necessarily agreeing with all of it.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 11:15 PM Reply to Sophie - Admin1

"Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand we publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion "

- Yep, well that's as may be, but Andrew Korybko's position is *Lame As All Hell* – Every establishment talking point *Covered* – just from the 'Contrarian' side

- Trump was an 'Outsider' who 'Became' an 'Insider'?! – Aww Puh-lease! – He was a *Stalking Horse

- "He didn't have the *'Strength'* to 'Drain The Swamp'(tm)"??!?! – *No-One* *Indivudal* in all Creation could've

- Do you think we're *Children*?!

Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 3:26 PM Reply to Sgt Oddball

been on this site a whole while now not seen any articles discussing trump failures

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 11:06 PM Reply to MANUEL

We are all aware that we are the playthings of the rich and powerful but all you're doing is stating what most of us already know. What is your solution? So tell us please what you are doing to that makes you feel free and not a slave? Are you living off the grid? Not using currency? What is it you're doing that makes you different from those of us you claim are not facing reality? I think many people, myself included, who have no love for Trump see that he is being denounced by every billionaire member of the Davos gang of criminals as a threat to world order and the economy while they shut down the planet with medical martial law and create an authoritarian Globalist Technocratic dictatorship ending Democracies worldwide and targeting "domestic terrorists" who oppose them.

George Mc , Jan 10, 2021 6:35 PM

The steps on how to destroy all of the services, public and private though focussing on the NHS:

Seize on a moderate flu variant. Build it up to be the blackest death since the black death. Seize on all the old people who die anyway and claim their numbers as an indication of the carnage. For anyone still hesitant, introduce hypocritical emotional blackmail about "the most vulnerable" in our society to shame everyone into the game On the basis of those appropriated death figures, endlessly circulate fear porn – enhanced by the fact that the symptoms of this apocalyptic virus are indistinguishable from the regular flu or even the common cold. Get everyone to steer clear of everyone else. Close down all "inessential" work plus communal gathering places to ensure everyone is isolated before the droning monolithic message you are pumping out. Introduce even more draconian measures for anyone who "has" the bug – effectively barring them even (especially) from care work. Prioritise the new bug cases so that they have access to hospital facilities – while anyone with other (real) illnesses are barred to "protect" them! This fills up the hospitals with hypochondriacs with the common cold. Introduce the notion that some may carry the bug without symptoms. Introduce a new test which can determine who has the symptomless bug. On the basis of those magical symptomless bug test kits, bar the essential workers from supporting the vulnerable – in order to "protect the vulnerable"! Constantly report on how the NHS is collapsing – which it is, being filled up with folks with the cold and turning everyone else away, and also being deprived of essential workers who tested positive for the symptomless bug. Just stand back and watch it all collapse whilst continuing to report on it with increasing horror!

George Mc , Jan 10, 2021 6:41 PM Reply to George Mc

PS the list is not exhaustive. I didn't even touch on the phony Left/Right divide.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL , Jan 10, 2021 7:18 PM Reply to George Mc

EXCERPTS FROM THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS INTO COVID-19 AND CARE HOMES.

A must read.

The Department of Health and Social Care . adopted a policy, that led to 25,000 patients, including those (known to be) infected (with Covid-19, and also those who were) possibly infected with Covid-19 (but) had not been tested, being discharged from hospital into care homes between 17 March and 15 April -- exponentially increasing the risk of transmission to the very population most at risk of severe illness and death from the disease. (This, while being denied) access to testing, (being denied) personal protective equipment, (while having) insufficient staff, and limited (and confusing) guidance.

(As expected) care homes were overwhelmed.

http://www.preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1184

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 11:10 PM Reply to AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda Amnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights advocacy worldwide.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/amnesty-international-is-us-state-department-propaganda/32444

DM: , Jan 11, 2021 12:30 AM Reply to George Mc

Who the hell down-voted this. I want a name, address, and employment details.

Teresa , Jan 10, 2021 6:27 PM

No, the entire "game" hasn't played out yet. Hold back on your final conclusions for now. Watchful waiting at the moment.

Moneycircus , Jan 10, 2021 6:21 PM

Computah sez. I mean computer is science, right? And you gotta trust the science Just Google it, OK?

So, AI sez BABY FILTER!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qUm2KWPmnHg?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

George Mc , Jan 10, 2021 6:04 PM

The tackiest of plays unfolding with the most tedious predictability: "And the NHS can't take much more as .."

Yes yes yes – as if we didn't fucking know!

YOU MEAN TO DESTROY THE NHS AND YOU WILL REPEAT THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER UNTIL IT IS DONE!

[Jan 20, 2021] There was and is no great "American democracy" to be restored as the nation had for many decades become "an oligarchy" where wealthy "elites" and their corporations "rule" and "ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does

Dec 21, 2020 | www.rt.com

There was and is no great "American democracy" to be restored after Trump. As the mainstream political scientists Martin Gilens (Princeton) and Benjamin Page (Northwestern) had shown six years into Barack Obama's presidency, the nation had for many decades become "an oligarchy" where wealthy "elites" and their corporations "rule" and "ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does."

That was clear during Obama's corporatist "Hope" and "Change" presidency, which gave Americans what commentator William Greider memorably called "a blunt lesson about power, who has it and who doesn't." Americans, Greider wrote , "watched Washington rush to rescue the very financial interests that caused the catastrophe. They learned that government has plenty of money to spend when the right people want it. 'Where's my bailout,' became the rueful punch line at lunch counters and construction sites nationwide." Then Americans beheld Obama embrace "entitlement reform" (nice-sounding cover for attacking Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefits) and pass a health insurance reform (the so-called Affordable Care Act) that only the big insurance and drug companies could love.

READ MORE Rewriting history: Legacy media shriek Trump is 'bucking tradition'... for doing the same thing they praised Obama for Rewriting history: Legacy media shriek Trump is 'bucking tradition'... for doing the same thing they praised Obama for

The Biden team has no more intention of acting sincerely on the Democratic Party's standard manipulative populist-sounding campaign rhetoric in the wake of the Trump nightmare and the 2020-21 Covid-19 Recession than did the Obama White House in the wake of the George W. Bush nightmare and the 2007-08 Great Recession.

Biden's cabinet picks are loaded with neoliberal center-right operatives inherited from the fake-progressive Obama administration. They hail from the same Wall Street backgrounds and corporate and imperial think tanks that staffed the George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama administrations.

The "diversity" that CNN and MSNBC applaud in Biden's cabinet and agency picks is all about the race, ethnicity, and gender of his elections. It does not extend to ideology to include genuinely progressive Democrats in the mold of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Under the faux-transformative cloak of identity, these are ruling-class personnel trained and doctrinally committed to oppose the decent, humane, progressive, social-democratic, and environmentally sane policies favored by the nation's silenced progressive majority -- Single Payer health insurance, seriously progressive taxation, the abolition of parasitic student debt, free public college, a doubling of the federal minimum wage, the re-legalization of union organizing, and a planet-saving Green New Deal. As liberals fawn over the many female, nonwhite, and gay people holding top positions, the Biden administration will be a monument to the persistent rule of the nation's un-elected and interrelated dictatorships of money and empire.

This follows in accord with the near-octogenarian Biden's promise to super-wealthy campaign donors at a posh Manhattan hotel last year. Pledging not to "demonize anybody who has made money," Biden told a gathering of tuxedo-wearing financial parasites that the rich were not to blame for the nation's savage inequalities (so extreme that the top tenth of the upper US One Percent had more wealth than the nation's bottom 90 percent by the end of the Obama years). "Nothing will fundamentally change" and nobody's wealth or income would have to be reduced if he became president, Biden said . "I need you badly," he added.

njab 18 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 08:58 AM

What exactly is "left"? The author doesn't talk about being "anti-war" for example. And frankly, some of the "left" policies, especially related to LGBQXYZ, I find abhorrent. What is needed is neither "left" nor "right" but something that benefits the MAJORITY of the population and not just a few fringe groups.
Ohhho HypoxiaMasks 12 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 03:11 PM
Americans is the most confused nation on Earth! They confuse plutocracy with democracy, propaganda with news, debt with wealth, individualism with freedom, corruption with influencing, bullying with leading, war with peace and looting with help!
ColdFacts 1justssayn 4 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 11:22 PM
trump is fake anti-establishment, he had 4 years and did not pardon Assange or Snowden, did not expose corrupt elites, he did not declassify anything "interesting", even now with exposed election fraud all he did was to file some pseudo lawsuits which were dismissed by corrupt establishment owned courts.
rubyvolt 16 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 10:41 AM
'MuriKKKa is run by those who OWN it. Their muscle is the US military. Its fodder, the citizens. The PEOPLE of this nation have no say and can't get into the streets as most of us have been so poisoned and brainwashed that independent thought is not possible.
jjikss 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 02:03 PM
There is no such thing as "democratic empire". You either believe that majority decides or you believe that power decides. America is undoubtedly an empire ( over 600 offshore military bases), so the democracy part is just a form of " double think" that comes straight from George Orwell's vision.
Vikiiing 19 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 08:08 AM
The election process could be fixed to be fair but neither party wants that. US elections could be modelled after any scandanavian system to get rid of corruption, but there's big money to be made keeping it corrupt.
DeadRassputin 8 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 07:05 PM
The working class elected Trump as an outsider in the hope he could curb the corruption that was becoming apparent in the Federal Government. Second term they tried to elect him again, however the career politicians were having none of that. MSM propaganda blitz plus social media censorship added to unverifiable mail in ballots, and rigged counting machines sealed the deal.
Khanlenin DeadRassputin 7 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 07:42 PM
Even though he never stopped stuffing millions into the pockets of the super rich, he did offer some improvement to the economic conditions of the working classes which had been stagnating since the 1970's Obama and Clinton had made sure any improvements in productivity and technology were all going to benefit the top financial elites. Having an unstable ego, he kept throwing grenades at everything he didn't understand. In the case of Iranian government officials, the grenades were real
Khanlenin DeadRassputin 7 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 07:42 PM
Even though he never stopped stuffing millions into the pockets of the super rich, he did offer some improvement to the economic conditions of the working classes which had been stagnating since the 1970's Obama and Clinton had made sure any improvements in productivity and technology were all going to benefit the top financial elites. Having an unstable ego, he kept throwing grenades at everything he didn't understand. In the case of Iranian government officials, the grenades were real
Joaquin Montano 12 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 02:54 PM
"There's no great 'American democracy' to be restored after Trump, ..." We used to say "America is the best democracy money can buy". Not even that anymore. It is so disfunctional it isn't worth the money ...
westernman 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 02:29 PM
Some 40 trillion dollars that the rich are stashing away in offshore fictitious bank accounts if taxed even at 1% will more than pay for all social services like single payer health insurance, student loan forgiveness, free college education and much much more. Correct Obama was a faux progressive, he would take one step forward and two back. I agree that Biden seems to be painting a diverse race cabinet portfolio but skin color is no guarantee at all of pro working people ideologies.
Hasse1 14 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 12:59 PM
In reality (with hard evidence) Trump is NO different from his predecessors. In fact, if you compared him with other U.S. presidents, Trump was less violent and caused the death of less people than Clinton, Bush, Obama or Biden. Just to mention the latest few.
Khanlenin Bill Spence 6 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 08:57 PM
"general welfare" or "the welfare of the generals" You're correct. When ordinary citizens opposed the invasion of Iraq, they showed that they did not have the expertise needed to make the decisions in the best interest of the welfare of the generals (or Standard Oil).
czerenkob 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:40 PM
In the USA democracy is talked about, but not practiced.
SheepNotHuman 9 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 06:14 PM
Democracy a dreamy concept for children only. There is no such thing as Democracy when money buys the elections and votes remain secretive. America was never a Democracy, from day one it's a fraud. The first president old George Washington was a blood relative of the UK Royals and his 50 secret society brothers set up America for 200 + years of fraud. Guess what, the royals still run things folks. We on the other hand will only be remembered as man or woman if we turn a blind eye to truth and care nothing for honesty. Some less than human! Now as people catch on to the facts that they have been played their whole life long while they pretend and live in the matrix the Deep State must act to clean us out. It's called Agenda 2030 schemed up by the evil WEF. Don't get tested and don't get vaccinated. Now my awakened ones it's your turn!
shadow1369 15 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 11:48 AM
The US haas been mythologising its nature from day one, all is fraud and pretence there.
Ohhho 14 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:15 PM
All of it is just a bunch of nonsense by a naive American. All that "great republic" and "democracy" garbage! Their dear POTUSes are just puppets to the Global financial oligarchy that "bought them all and in the darkness bound them"! So they underestimated Trump and let him slip by, big deal! Everything is back to normal baby, hallelujah!
athineos Ohhho 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:50 PM
Correct! US has been an Oligarchy since it's Founding when the theft and rape of the land of the INDIGENOUS AMERICAN PEOPLE by the European Colonizers was being undertaken to benefit the few as always. Now it has moved into its advanced cancerous stage where the middle class will be completely assimilated into the poor class to bring about the New Feudal era of the NEW WORLD ORDER.
Sovietski 10 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 05:18 PM
Biden's sole election slogan/promise has been: "I'm not Trump" He's a millionaire and 4-decade career political dinosaur. Of course nothing will change!
The_Chosenites 14 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:03 PM
Biden will spend most of his time as the Donald did. It will be Biden the Blind lead around by his Israelis guide dog Bibi. Biden will be consumed with middle east policy and defeating the enemies of Israel, allowing Israels continued expansionist policies. The American people may have lost the election but there is always a clear winner!
IslandT 3 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 11:45 PM
Trump administration is a complete failure, when Trump comes to power he has basically started war on so many fronts and attacks so many swamp people which is the main reason why so many top level people hate him and causes him to lost the presidency! The swamp in US senate is simply too deep and there is nothing Trump can do about it, when he leaves the office, the swamp people will come back and continue their party, those generals or officials Trump puts on the important positions will be overthrew by Joe Biden, those rules that set by Trump will also get overwritten by Joe Biden, basically it is a complete waste of time for Trump to do all those unproductive works. Also the Mexican-US border wall will also be stopped under Biden as well. If both the democrat and republican not realize they need to change then there is nothing much a President can do to change the entire situation. US is in the ending stage of it's empire and we will see de dollarisation after Trump steps down, think about this, what will happen if other nations want US to buy their currency with the US gold reserves so the American can buy their raw material or finished product? How much gold reserves does the US actually has and how much money does the US owns the foreign countries and how much gold does the us has to pay to foreign nations if de dollarisation actually happen? Do you people realize that Mike Pompeo has just turned into Swamp people as well, there goes the last hope for the American!

[Jan 20, 2021] The Mob Did Not Win!, the plutocratic oligarchy did by The Saker

Jan 19, 2021 | www.unz.com

Most certainly not the abstract concept of "law and order". For one thing, it is now abundantly clear that some cops deliberately let a (rather small) subset of protestors not only across police lines but even inside the Capitol Building itself. That is not exactly law and order, now is it? Furthermore, it is now also clear that Ashli Babbitt was very deliberately shot by an (apparently black) cop who was then quickly hidden away from sight by the authorities. Not exactly law and order either.

Neither did the abstract concept of "democracy" win anything that day. Many protesters were recorded saying that the Capitol building belonged to the people, not to the people working in it on behalf of the people. They are right. But even if we accept the notion that those who entered the building were trespassing, the massive crackdown on free speech which immediately followed the events at the Capitol is a clear sign that "democracy" did not win that day. More about that later.

So who won?

Well, look who is celebrating and who is now demanding that punitive and even repressive measures be taken against Trump supporters:

The Democrats The united legacy corporate ziomedia The letter soup agencies and their top officials Most of the GOP leaders The War Lobby (including lots of ex Cold Warriors) Big Money (MIC, Oil, Pharma, Jails and Prisons, etc.) The Israel Lobby (especially the ADL -- see here and here ) The Russia-hating Lobby Antifa/BLM/etc The many freaks of nature leading various "minorities" Big Tech megacorporations a la Google and Amazon

The list is longer, of course, and it includes pretty much all the folks afflicted with the now famous Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

Our list looks like a cocktail of very different actors, but is that really the case?

I submit that if we look closely at this list of possible "winners" we can quickly see that we are dealing with a single social category /group whose "diversity" is only apparent. Here is what all these groups have in common:

They are numerically small, definitely a minority They are very wealthy They are very close to the real centers of power They share the same narcissistic (Neocon) ideology of self-worship They are driven by the same hate-based ideology of revenge They don't care about the people of the USA They want to dismantle the US Constitutional order

On the basis of these common characteristics, I believe that we can speak about a social class united by a common ideology .

Now, of course, in the plutocratic oligarchy (which the United States in reality is), the notion of "class" has been declared heretical and it has been replaced by identity politics -- the best way for a ruling class to (a) hide behind a fake illusion of pluralism and (b) to divide the people and rule over them.

I have already written about what I consider to be a US version of the Soviet Nomenklatura , a special ruling class which was official in the (comparatively much more honest) Soviet system but which is always hidden from sight by the rulers of the United States.

The actual word we use are not that important: Nomenklatura , class, caste, establishment, powers that be, deep state, etc. -- they all approximate the reality of a small gang of self-declared "elites" (as opposed to the "deplorables") ruling with total impunity and no checks and balances mitigating their de facto dictatorship. Some well-intentioned people began speaking about the "1%" -- which is not bad, even if the actual figure is even smaller than just one percent. Others used "Wall Street" (as in the "occupy WS" movement), again -- not a bad attempt to describe the problem. Whatever the terms you chose, what is certain is that this entity has what Marx would call a " class consciousness " which produces a single " class ideology " characterized by an extremely strong sense of "us versus them" .

By the way, while I disagree with any notion that the US Nomenklatura is Marxist or Socialist in any way, I very much agree that these "elites" are displaying an ideological zeal very similar to what Trotskysts or Nazis typically exhibit, especially when confronted with the "deplorables" or, like FoxNews says, the "mob" (the Polish word " bydło " -- cattle -- very accurately renders this contempt for the masses).

In fact, they see us all as their "class enemy" . And they are quite correct, by the way.

Their ideology is messianic, racist, violent and hate filled while the members of this US Nomenklatura see themselves as the cream of the crop, the "chosen people", whose "destiny" is to rule over the "dark and primitive" "mob".

This contempt for the "mob" is something which self-described "liberals" always try to conceal, but which always comes out, be it in 1917 Russia or in 2021 USA. There is a weird logic to this, by the way. It goes something like this: " we are clearly superior to the plebes, yet these plebes seem to reject that notion, these plebes are therefore a "dark mob" which absolutely needs to be strictly ruled by us ". The underlying assumption is that plebes are dangerous, they can always riot and threaten "us". Hence the need for a police state. QED.

[Jan 20, 2021] Are You Ready for Total (Ideological) War by CJ Hopkins

Notable quotes:
"... Oh, yes, you really did it this time! You stormed the goddamned US Capitol. You and your racist, Russia-backed army of bison-hat wearing half-naked actors have meddled with the primal forces of GloboCap, and now, by God, you will atone! ..."
"... No, do not try to minimize your crimes. You entered a building without permission! The building where America simulates democracy! You walked around in there waving silly flags! You went into the Chamber, into people's offices! One of you actually put his filthy populist feet up on Pelosi's desk ON HER DESK! This aggression will not stand! ..."
Jan 12, 2021 | off-guardian.org

So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores "normality" throughout the world.

or at least attempts to restore "normality," or the "New Normality," or the "Great Normal Reset," or "The New Normal War on Domestic Terror" or whatever they eventually decide to call it.

In any event, whatever they call it, GloboCap is done playing grab-ass. They have had it with all this "populism" malarkey that has been going on for the last four years.

Yes, that's right, the party is over, you Russian-backed white supremacist terrorists! You Trump-loving, anti-mask grandmother killers! You anti-vax, election-fraud-conspiracy theorists! You deviants who refuse to follow orders, wear your damn masks, vote for who they tell you, and believe whatever completely nonsensical official propaganda they pour into your heads!

Oh, yes, you really did it this time! You stormed the goddamned US Capitol. You and your racist, Russia-backed army of bison-hat wearing half-naked actors have meddled with the primal forces of GloboCap, and now, by God, you will atone!

No, do not try to minimize your crimes. You entered a building without permission! The building where America simulates democracy! You walked around in there waving silly flags! You went into the Chamber, into people's offices! One of you actually put his filthy populist feet up on Pelosi's desk ON HER DESK! This aggression will not stand!

OK, before I go any further with this essay, I need to explain to my regular readers (in case it wasn't already clear) that I've decided to forswear every word I've ever written, and all my principles, and my common sense, and join the remainder of my old leftist and liberal friends in the orgy of online hate and outrage they are currently mindlessly indulging in.

Yes, I realize this comes as a shock, but I have seen the GloboCap writing on the wall, and I don't want to you know, get ideologically "cleansed," or charged with " extremism ," or " insurrectionism ," or " domestic terrorism ," or " populism ," or whatever.

I'm already in enough trouble as it is for not playing ball with their " apocalyptic plague ," and whatever else I am, I am certainly no martyr, and I have a career in the arts to consider, so I have decided to listen to my inner coward and join the goose-stepping global-capitalist mob, which is why this column sounds slightly out of character.

See, back in the old days, before my conversion, I would have made fun of my liberal friends for calling this "storming" of the Capitol a "coup," or an "insurrection," and for demanding that the protesters be prosecuted as "domestic terrorists."

I probably would have scolded them a bit for taking to the Internet and spewing their hatred at the unarmed woman shot dead by the police like a pack of soulless, totalitarian jackals.

I might have even made a reference to that infamous scene in Schindler's List where the crowd of "normal" German citizens all laugh and jeer as the Jews are marched away to the ghetto by the Nazi goons.

But, now that I have seen the light, I see how bad and wrong that would have been. Clearly, trespassing in the US Capitol is a crime that should be punishable by death. And comparing contemporary American liberals to the "good Germans" during the Nazi era is so outrageous that well, it should probably be censored.

So, good thing I decided not to do that!

Plus, the woman was a "devoted conspiracy theorist," so she got what she deserved, right? ( "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" was the official liberal shibboleth, I believe.)

In fact (and I hope my liberal friends are still reading this), the police should have shot the entire lot of them! All these Russian-backed Nazi insurrectionists should have been gunned down right there on the spot, preferably by muscle-bound corporate mercenaries and CIA snipers in Black Hawk helicopters with big Facebook and Twitter logos on them!

Actually, anyone who trespassed in the Capitol Building (which is like a cathedral), or just came to the protest wearing a MAGA hat, should be hunted down by federal authorities, charged as a "domestic white-supremacist terrorist," frog-marched out onto Black Lives Matter Plaza, and shot, in the face, live, on TV, so that everyone can watch and howl at their screens like the Two Minutes Hate in 1984 . That would teach these "insurrectionists" a lesson!

Or they could shoot them in one of those corporate-branded stadiums! We could make it a weekly televised event. It's not like there is any shortage of Trump-supporting "domestic terrorists." They could use a different stadium every week, deck the place out with big "New Normal" banners, play music, make speeches, the whole nine yards. Everyone would have to wear masks, of course, and strictly adhere to social distancing. Folks could bring the kids, make a day of it.

How am I doing so far, leftist and liberal friends? No? Not fanatical and hateful enough?

OK, so what is it going to take to convince you that I have changed my tune, got my mind right, and am totally on board with the New Normal totalitarianism? Trump? Sure, I can do Trump. I hate him! He's Hitler! He's Russian Hitler! He's Russian White Supremacist Hitler!

Yes, I know I've spent the last four years pointing out that he isn't actually Hitler, or a Russian agent, and that he's really just the same ridiculous, narcissistic ass clown that he has always been, but I was wrong. He's definitely Hitler, and a Russian agent! He is certainly not just a pathetic old huckster without a single powerful ally in Washington who could not stage an actual coup if Putin nuked every blue state on the map.

No, I soil myself in fear before his awesome power. Never mind that he's just been banned by Facebook , Twitter , and numerous other corporate platforms , and made a fool of by the corporate media, the international political establishment, the Intelligence agencies, and the rest of GloboCap since the day he took the oath of office.

Forget the fact that, although he holds the nuclear launch codes in his tiny little hands and is Commander in Chief of the US military, the most he could do to challenge his removal was file a buttload of hopeless lawsuits and sit around in the Oval Office eating cheeseburgers and tweeting into the night.

No, none of that means a thing, not when he still has the power to "embolden" a few dozen pissed-off Americans to storm ( or calmly walk ) into the Capitol and take selfies sitting in the Vice President's Chair!

Look, the point is, I hate him. And I hate his supporters. I hate everyone who doesn't hate him and his supporters. I hate everyone who won't wear a mask. I hate the Republicans. I hate the Russians. I hate everyone who won't get the vaccine. My God do I hate them! I am so full of hatred and mindless rage that it is making me crazy. I am so consumed with self-righteous hatred, propaganda, and manufactured hysteria that, if Rachel Maddow, or Chris Hayes, or whoever, told me that it was time to round them all up, these "domestic terrorists," these "insurrectionists," these "conspiracy theorists," these "anti-mask extremists" (and anyone else who won't obey us), and put them on trains and send them to camps, I'd probably be OK with that.

How am I doing, liberals? Am I back in the club? Because, I get it. I swear! I'm cured! Praise God! I'm ready to pitch in and do my part. I believe in GloboCap's final victory! I'm willing to work, if our leaders order me, ten, twelve, or fourteen hours a day, and give all I have for GloboCap victory! I am ready for total ideological war an ideological war more total and radical than anything I can even imagine!

Sure, our imaginary enemies are formidable (and this war will probably last forever or at least until the end of global capitalism), but, in the words of one our greatest liberal heroes, George W. Bush, "bring it on!"

*

CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volume I of his Consent Factory Essays is published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .

[Jan 20, 2021] Biden Administration's 'New' Foreign Policy Is The 'More Of The Same' Old One

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

vk , Jan 20 2021 14:03 utc | 10

The USA is now the proverbial Whale in a Swimming Pool: it is big, powerful and impressive - but can't hide its moves anymore and has little to none margin for any maneuver.

The American Center-wing is ossifying, or, in Cold Warrior terminology (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.), is losing its "vitality". It is entering a stage where it must "burn the village in order to save it".

mrm , Jan 20 2021 14:11 utc | 11

... it seems the answer is that Germany plays the role in Europe that the US plays in the world and both are satisfied with that role even though neo-liberalism, austerity and war-mongering are leading us to inhumanity and disaster.
Lucci , Jan 20 2021 14:18 utc | 13
Like i said before elsewhere Biden would capitalize on what Trump has put forth and take the infamy and blame for instead of moving in the opposite directions of whatever Trump criticized for in foreign policy. That means be it trade war with China, renege on climate deals, strong arming NATO and EU countries, or giving everything Israel wants nothing stop Biden from maintaining what has been put in place.
At most they'll just make excuse on why they had to maintain the policies they themselves criticized Trump for without changing direction.
Norwegian , Jan 20 2021 14:43 utc | 15
There will be absolutely no change in policy towards Israel

That is obviously correct: Joe Biden: "I Am A Zionist. You Don't Have To A Jew To Be A Zionist" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-UXZ-1ups

Zanon , Jan 20 2021 14:44 utc | 16
Extreme leftist madness goes on: Washington Post : Blacklist Fox News 'as We Do with Foreign Terrorist Groups' https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/01/18/wapo-pushes-to-bar-fox-news-as-we-do-with-foreign-terrorist-groups/
Norwegian , Jan 20 2021 14:45 utc | 17
He said Joe Biden's strong conviction was that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a "bad idea" and that the administration would use "every persuasive tool" to convince partners, including Germany, to discard the project.
That is pretty much a declaration of war against countries in Europe. Stay away,
vk , Jan 20 2021 14:50 utc | 18
America's disarray is its own woes, not other countries' opportunity The Financial Times lives in a world where the USA doesn't have more than 2,000 operational nukes, doesn't control the financial system (SWIFT), doesn't issue the universal fiat currency (Dollar Standard), doesn't have a big fucking navy, doesn't enjoy absolute ideological hegemony etc. etc.

Trump's 4-year effort to contain China was unwise, unrealistic: Global Times editorial Well, that's what happens when you hire a right-wing ideologue as your main advisor (Steve Bannon): you do policy based on a delirious utopia and get smacked by reality.

pnyx , Jan 20 2021 15:07 utc | 19
...Tronald's foreign policy has been a disaster, even if he has supposedly not sparked a new war. Let's not talk about all the secret operations, multiplied drone attacks, state terrorist assassinations, etc. And the new administration is now continuing this...
bevin , Jan 20 2021 15:07 utc | 20
"How exactly are they "ossifying"?" Jackrabbit@14

They've stopped thinking, become utterly predictable.

They just go through the motions. They know that they can't win-achieve their long held objectives-but they can't stop repeating themselves, including their past errors. They are not allowed to. The US ruling caste-servants of the ruling class- are only allowed to operate within very narrow boundaries. They aren't allowed to take radical measures when faced with new crises- they are confined within ever diminishing political circles. The duopoly has become an obvious One Party system. And its politics are those of the Gilded Age-150 years old and still going strong.

The only solution to America's problems is defeat so complete that it cannot be denied even by the least perceptive. Anyone with money to spare should be buying popcorn futures.

Eighthman , Jan 20 2021 15:08 utc | 21
...Biden is an elderly figurehead. Trump's mistake was being openly bullying and vulgar instead of underhanded. Already, the EU ( as cowardly vassals ) are falling into line on Iran and Russia.
Larry Paul Johnson , Jan 20 2021 15:11 utc | 22
...Paul Craig Roberts is correct. There has not been a regime change, there has been a revolution and treating policies of this "president" as if he is more than a figurehead being run by oligarchs is foolish in the extreme.
Jackrabbit , Jan 20 2021 15:39 utc | 24
bevin @Jan20 15:07 #20
They've stopped thinking, become utterly predictable.

One could say this about the American people who have been herded into two camps so that the Center can rule. Here's an example: One of Biden's first executive actions is to include undocumented residents in the Census. This will please the Left immensely and outrage the Right. But the Census is conducted every 10 years and it was completed in 2020. So Biden's action is actually meaningless. How many people will actual notice this? Very few.

dh , Jan 20 2021 16:04 utc | 25
@24 Some people in Central America have noticed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/honduran-migrants-us-guatemala-crackdown-1.5877244

William Gruff , Jan 20 2021 16:16 utc | 26
It is funny/sad to see the Post Trump Stress Disorder victims are already rationalizing and making excuses for the war that the establishment drones they voted for will be starting, and those drones are not even sworn in to office yet. They know that they voted for war yet their plastic, Hollywood "identities" are so intertwined with their assumed self-evident moral superiority that they are compelled to defend the evil they are responsible for even before it is committed. For them, doing nothing crudely is far worse than murdering millions accompanied by lofty and emotive platitudes.
AntiSpin , Jan 20 2021 16:49 utc | 27
Joe Biden's Cabinet Is on Loan From Corporate America An interview with David Dayen 12/8/20 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/david-dayen-american-prospect-joe-biden-cabinet

Beware of the Hawk: What to Expect from the Biden Administration on Foreign Policy
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/11/08/beware-of-the-hawk-what-to-expect-from-the-biden-administration-on-foreign-policy/

Biden Administration Betrayals of Working Americans
By Leonard C. Goodman
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/democrats-and-ruling-by-fear/Content?oid=85065430 -

Why They're Denying You Healthcare And Financial Support During A Pandemic
by Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/12/20/why-theyre-denying-you-healthcare-and-financial-support-during-a-pandemic/

Biden Goes To Bat For BlackRock, Stays Vague On Direct Aid To Struggling Americans
https://www.dailyposter.com/p/biden-goes-to-bat-for-blackrock-stays

Biden and the Democrats Could Change Everything. But They Won't Try
by Ted Rall | January 7, 2021
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/ted-rall/94642/biden-and-the-democrats-could-change-everything-but-they-won-t-try

The Biden Democrats Already Show They Learned Little from Trump's Loss
by Richard Wolff | December 24, 2020
https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/biden-democrats/

Biden's Foreign Policy History and What it Portends for his Presidency
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https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/01/11/exclusive-series-bidens-foreign-policy-history-and-what-it-portends-for-his-presidency/

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https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/14/bidens-transition-team-war-profiteers-chickenhawks-corporate-consultants/

Biden's Pentagon Transition Team Members Funded by the Arms Industry
by Dave DeCamp – 11/11/2020
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/11/11/bidens-pentagon-transition-team-members-funded-by-the-arms-industry/

Biden's Victory Does Not Guarantee a Progressive Agenda. We Must Fight for It.
by Marjorie Cohn 11-23-20
https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-victory-does-not-guarantee-a-progressive-agenda-we-must-fight-for-it/

Meet the Filthy Rich War Hawks That Make up Biden's New Foreign Policy Team
"I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of "limited engagement," – Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic
by Alan Macleod November 13th, 2020
https://www.mintpressnews.com/filthy-rich-war-hawks-make-joe-biden-foreign-policy-team/273039/

More Humane Cages? Prospects for Immigration Justice Under Biden Appear Dim
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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/adrienne-pine/93930/more-humane-cages-prospects-for-immigration-justice-under-biden-appear-dim

Neera Tanden – Reduce US Deficits by Raiding the Economies of Countries We Have Destroyed:
Neera Tanden, Biden's Pick for Budget Office: Now Is Not the Time To 'Worry About Raising Deficits and Debt'
by Robby Soave
https://reason.com/2020/11/30/neera-tanden-biden-omb-debt-deficit/
She once suggested that if Americans care about the deficit so much, maybe we should make Libya pay for it.
| 11/30/2020
( Ariana Ruiz/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom )

Neera Tanden and Antony Blinken Personify the 'Moderate' Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party
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https://www.laprogressive.com/catfood-commission/

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/norman-solomon/93753/progressives-made-trumps-defeat-possible-now-its-time-to-challenge-biden-and-other-corporate-democra

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by Thomas Neuburger | 12/30/20
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thomas-neuburger/94527/someone-should-ask-ursula-burns-if-she-supports-child-labor-in-africa

The Dark Past of Biden's Nominee for National Intelligence Director
by John Kiriakou 12/31/20
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/12/29/john-kiriakou-the-dark-past-of-bidens-nominee-for-national-intelligence-director/

The REAL Joe Biden
"The Chinese Uyghur Dark Legend and Washington's Campaign to Counter Chinese Economic Rivalry"
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https://gowans.blog/2020/10/25/the-chinese-uyghur-dark-legend-and-washingtons-campaign-to-counter-chinese-economic-rivalry/

Top 10 Reasons to Reject Blinken
by David Swanson
https://davidswanson.org/top-10-reasons-to-reject-blinken/

Who Is Michèle Flournoy, Biden's Rumored Pick for Pentagon Chief
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https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2020/11/who-is-michele-flournoy-bidens-rumored.html

Why Biden Will Keep the U.S.-Imposed Cold War Rolling
by Vijay Prashad| 11/19/20
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/vijay-prashad/93949/why-biden-will-keep-the-u-s-imposed-cold-war-rolling

Why Progressives Should Care About Biden's Pick for Commerce Secretary
by Zena Wolf 1/7/21
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/zena-wolf/94644/why-progressives-should-care-about-bidens-pick-for-commerce-secretary

Why Senators Must Reject Avril Haines for Intelligence
by Medea Benjamin | 12/30/20
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/medea-benjamin/94528/why-senators-must-reject-avril-haines-for-intelligence

Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?
by Medea Benjamin 1/15/21
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/medea-benjamin/94817/will-the-senate-confirm-coup-plotter-victoria-nuland

No, Joe, Don't Roll out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers
by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd 12/22/20
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/medea-benjamin/94425/no-joe-don-t-roll-out-the-red-carpet-for-torture-enablers#comment

Norwegian , Jan 20 2021 16:55 utc | 28
'This Is What 80 Million Votes Looks Like': Biden Inauguration EMPTY (PICS)
Down South , Jan 20 2021 17:05 utc | 29
Zanon @ 16

I'm not surprised. You only have to watch this segment from Tucker Carlson to understand why. https://youtu.be/M0l7xH5zbIg

Paul , Jan 20 2021 17:06 utc | 30
Trump ripped the mask off US foreign policy and exposed it for what it is - ugly Zionism and outrageous Jewish supremacy. Trump did many foreign policy changes previous incumbents and their handlers wanted to do but were constrained by the optics and international opinion.

I agree the Biden administration will continue the same tired old foreign policy, only with the mask back on. Of course the media won't notice the similarities, but the public will. No matter how fervently the managers tinker with the edges it is events that drive changes and change people.

lex talionis , Jan 20 2021 17:08 utc | 31
Blue is the new red! All hail the Bidet administration! Dermocracy (депмократия) dies in the dark!
juliania , Jan 20 2021 17:32 utc | 32
I just listened to President Biden's speech. It was a good one, even a great one. Thinking about what Plato means by the 'noble lie' it was a noble speech, and there wasn't much of a lie about it.

I just wish he were a younger man.

psychohistorian , Jan 20 2021 17:33 utc | 33
b finished the posting with
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While Trump had continued the wars the U.S. waged when he came into office he did not start any new ones. Since Joe Biden first entered the Senate 47 years ago he has cheered on every war the U.S. has since waged. It would be astonishing to find four years from now that he did not start any new ones.
"

Prepare to be astonished. Biden isn't going to start any new wars for the same reason that Trump didn't......MAD

Humanity has been in the MAD phase of the civilization war we are in since the Obama era push back in Syria.

Biden's chest beating will not be as "impressive" as Trump's but the trajectory is the same.

karlof1 , Jan 20 2021 17:34 utc | 34
The new chief says to tighten the circle of wagons, but those accused of besieging the Outlaw US Empire's wagon train stopped attacking and moved on long ago. Meanwhile, supplying the wagon train continues to take resources away from dealing with very real domestic problems. The upshot is China will continue to pull away and increase its lead geoeconomically, and together with Russia will continue to solidify and strengthen the Eurasian Bloc. Very soon, the EU is going to be faced with a very stark choice--to join the Eurasian Bloc and thus stave-off economic atrophy or continue to allow its brand of Neoliberal Parasites to eat and risk rupture, perhaps not in 2021 but before 2030.

The key is that the false narrative that was initiated in 1945 and bolstered in 1979 continues to be treated as gospel despite its path to certain ruin. I noted there were no questions asked about the international call for a Bretton Woods 2.0 that would end dollar hegemony and Petrodollar recycling, while removing the one source of coercion behind its illegal sanctions.

The only possible target of opportunity I see is Venezuela as the frack-patch is about to fold-up shop and fuel prices cause domestic inflation to soar -- Here in Oregon, gas prices have gone up 50cents/gal since the first of the year--25%. The oil being the obvious target now the the lower-48 has definitely peaked.

Lucci , Jan 20 2021 17:38 utc | 35
@Jackrabit 24

|One could say this about the American people who have been herded into two camps so that the Center can rule.|

There's no center or centrist in USA there's only elite capitalist oligarchs who is neocons through and through at the core.

james , Jan 20 2021 17:40 utc | 36
@ 32 juliania... you are the eternal optimist! there is something admirable about that!.. however you have to contend with a lot of cynical people who think like it's business as well, as b's post notes..... you might not like to hear this, but nothing is going to change under biden... big wheels set in motion and biden is not interested in the least in changing any of it... neither was trump as some of his fanbots are coming to see too... political speeches are just so much b.s... juliania - as the saying goes, talk is cheap, it is actions that count.... watch peoples actions, not their talk... biden can talk a good line, but that has nothing to do with his actions... top of the day to you!
dh , Jan 20 2021 17:42 utc | 37
@34 Invading Venezuela and 'taking the oil' won't be easy though there is a possibility Colombia will help out. Which means the total disruption of South America. More economical to just buy the stuff.
Per/Norway , Jan 20 2021 18:00 utc | 38
"It is funny/sad to see the Post Trump Stress Disorder victims are already rationalizing and making excuses for the war that the establishment drones they voted for will be starting, and those drones are not even sworn in to office yet. They know that they voted for war yet their plastic, Hollywood "identities" are so intertwined with their assumed self-evident moral superiority that they are compelled to defend the evil they are responsible for even before it is committed. For them, doing nothing crudely is far worse than murdering millions accompanied by lofty and emotive platitudes."

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 20 2021 16:16 utc | 26

Tnx for expressing this in a much nicer and polite way then i would have written. And yes, yes it is sad/amusing to watch NPC`s turn into pretzels to explain away their cognitive dissonans ,utter foolishness and stupidity.

dh , Jan 20 2021 18:03 utc | 39
@37 On the subject of gas prices perhaps it might be a bad time to cut off Canadian supply?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/keystone-xl-may-sold-scrap-203840567.html

[Jan 20, 2021] The article estimates that the numbers who attended the rally were in the range of 150,000 to 300,000.

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Jen , Jan 20 2021 0:04 utc | 57

The Saker has posted an article "What Is To Be Done?" which shows what is apparently the only image of the size of the crowd that attended the Save America rally at President's Park in Washington DC, in support of outgoing President Donald Trump, on 6 January 2021. The image was taken by a journalist affiliated with an Asian media publication.

The article estimates that the numbers who attended the rally were in the range of 150,000 to 300,000.

These articles (see here and here ) state that "thousands" attended the rally on 7 January 2021.

If what The Saker and the other sources whose articles I linked to are correct, then we do not need to wonder why 26,000 National Guard members were needed to safeguard Joe Biden's inauguration.

[Jan 20, 2021] No one is doing threat analysis. This is a pure demonstration of force by neoliberal elite to frighten the opponents of the regime

Jan 19, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

VietnamVet , 19 January 2021 at 11:32 PM

Colonel,

The USA is facing an existential crisis. This month is the thirtieth anniversary of Desert Storm's first invasion of Iraq. Eight tours overseas and two in combat zones in the Air Force can't help but mess with one's head.

The closure of DC and 25,000 National Guard soldiers but no regular army troops guarding the inaugural is weird. No one is doing threat analysis. National Guard units are deployed overseas too. This appears to be to tamp down dissent but keep the Pentagon's hands clean.

Forever Wars, Identity Politics and the Wuhan Coronavirus have brought things to a head. The only way to fight the war against the virus, end the economic depression, short-circuit unrest, and live in a multi-polar world as a 50-state nation is to restore the Constitution and government by and for the people.

This appears not to be an option anymore.

[Jan 20, 2021] Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

vk , Jan 19 2021 11:47 utc | 139

Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks

The nation's military has a history of downplaying white nationalism and right-wing activism, but the siege of the Capitol has created a new urgency for dealing with them.

I mean they will try.

But, ultimately, they won't succeed. The Pentagon simply wouldn't have enough recruits if they did go all in with this purge.

I still stick with my prediction: the USA will enter a "Byzantine Era", marked by economic, geopolitical decline (more Pacific/West Coast oriented), and by a cultural shift to religious fundamentalism at least in its armed forces.

[Jan 20, 2021] The Military Industrial Complex's Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes

Jan 20, 2021 | www.mintpressnews.com

No doubt about it: the coup d'etat was successful. That January 6 attempt by so-called insurrectionists to overturn the election results was not the real coup, however. Those who answered President Trump's call to march on the Capitol were merely the fall guys, manipulated into creating the perfect crisis for the Deep State -- a.k.a. the Police State a.k.a. the Military Industrial Complex a.k.a. the Techno-Corporate State a.k.a. the Surveillance State -- to swoop in and take control.

It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation's capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed and/or shunned .

This new order didn't emerge into being this week, or this month, or even this year, however.

Indeed, the real coup happened when our government "of the people, by the people, for the people" was overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, techno-corporate state that is in cahoots with a government "of the rich, by the elite, for the corporations."

Unpacking the Aftermath of Trump's Coup Attempt With Brian Becker Dan Cohen is joined by the host of The Socialist Program Brian Becker to discuss what we know about Trump's insurrection at the Capitol. MintPress News | Dan Cohen | Jan 14

We've been mired in this swamp for decades now.

Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought lock, stock and barrel and made to dance to the Deep State's tune.

Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.

Joe Biden will be no different: his job is to keep the Deep State in power.

Step away from the cult of personality politics and you'll find that beneath the power suits, they're all alike.

Follow the money. It always points the way.

As Bertram Gross noted in Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America , " evil now wears a friendlier face than ever before in American history ."

Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw:

a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion "

This stealthy, creeping, silent coup that Gross prophesied is the same danger that writer Rod Serling envisioned in the 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May , a clear warning to beware of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation's security.

Incredibly enough, almost 60 years later, we find ourselves hostages to a government run more by military doctrine and corporate greed than by the rule of law established in the Constitution. Indeed, proving once again that fact and fiction are not dissimilar, today's current events could well have been lifted straight out of Seven Days in May , which takes viewers into eerily familiar terrain.

The premise is straightforward.

With the Cold War at its height, an unpopular U.S. President signs a momentous nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Believing that the treaty constitutes an unacceptable threat to the security of the United States and certain that he knows what is best for the nation, General James Mattoon Scott (played by Burt Lancaster), the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presidential hopeful, plans a military takeover of the national government. When Gen. Scott's aide, Col. Casey (Kirk Douglas), discovers the planned military coup, he goes to the President with the information. The race for command of the U.S. government begins, with the clock ticking off the hours until the military plotters plan to overthrow the President.

Needless to say, while on the big screen, the military coup is foiled and the republic is saved in a matter of hours, in the real world, the plot thickens and spreads out over the past half century.

We've been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long -- sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs -- that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we've been on that fast-moving, downward trajectory for some time now.

A Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law John and Nisha Whitehead on the constitutional fallout of the Capitol protests and social media deplatforming that followed. MintPress News | John Whitehead | Jan 13

The question is no longer whether the U.S. government will be preyed upon and taken over by the military industrial complex. That's a done deal, but martial law disguised as national security is only one small part of the greater deception we've been fooled into believing is for our own good.

How do you get a nation to docilely accept a police state? How do you persuade a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations, tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents monitoring their communications?

Try to ram such a state of affairs down the throats of the populace, and you might find yourself with a rebellion on your hands. Instead, you bombard them with constant color-coded alerts, terrorize them with shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and sell the whole package to them as being for their best interests.

This present military occupation of the nation's capital by 25,000 troops as part of the so-called "peaceful" transfer of power from one administration to the next is telling.

This is not the language of a free people. This is the language of force.

Still, you can't say we weren't warned.

Back in 2008, an Army War College report revealed that "widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security." The 44-page report went on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, "unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order , purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters."

In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that labeled right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) and called on the government to subject such targeted individuals to full-fledged pre-crime surveillance. Almost a decade later, after spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism .

Meanwhile, the police have been transformed into extensions of the military while the nation itself has been transformed into a battlefield. This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent's order or not complying fast enough. This hasn't just been happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It's been happening all across the country.

And then you've got the government, which has been steadily amassing an arsenal of military weapons for use domestically and equipping and training their "troops" for war. Even government agencies with largely administrative functions such as the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Smithsonian have been acquiring body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon launchers and police firearms and ammunition. In fact, there are now at least 120,000 armed federal agents carrying such weapons who possess the power to arrest.

Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that has been colluding with the government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing and inescapable . It's not just the drones, fusion centers , license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry about. You're also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars , your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.

What If Jesus Had Been Born in the American Police State? Today, Jesus' anti-government views would certainly have resulted in him being labeled a domestic extremist by law enforcement agencies. MintPress News | John Whitehead | Dec 22, 2020

So you see, January 6 and its aftermath provided the government and its corporate technocrats the perfect excuse to show off all of the powers they've been amassing so assiduously over the years.

Mind you, by "government," I'm not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats.

I'm referring to "government" with a capital "G," the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

I'm referring to the corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country and calling the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White House.

This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.

Brace yourself.

There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn't bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you'd better beware.

Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you'd better beware.

And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you'd better beware.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People , we are at our most vulnerable right now.

All of those dastardly seeds we have allowed the government to sow under the guise of national security are bearing demon fruit.

The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money.

Feature photo | Two White House Marine stand at the front doors at the US Capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. The door was damaged from last week's violent protest. Jim Lo Scalzo | Pool via AP

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His books Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State are available online at www.amazon.com . He can be contacted at [email protected] . Click here to read more of John Whitehead's commentaries.

[Jan 20, 2021] Biden will technically be President , so it's time to ask ourselves what kind of world are we in for?

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... If not for the "new normal" we 100% would guarantee a new war – or a restarted old war – within a year. As it stands, we're only 60% sure they'll be some kind of military intervention sometime soon (Venezuela wouldn't be a surprise). ..."
"... The real crackdowns are going to be domestic. There is a huge push to take "domestic terrorism" seriously , and that will go hand-in-hand with increased purges of social media (again with "Russian disinformation" playing a major role). ..."
"... I wonder if the military occupation was designed to disguise the total lack of support, given the evidence of election fraud. You couldn't get more emptiness and virtual absence of reality if the military conducted the installation in a bunker in the dying days of the Reich. ..."
"... Another poster said it looked like a junta in a minor banana dictatorship. Spot on. It was a military installation visually and in a political sense for there were no people. ..."
Jan 20, 2021 | off-guardian.org

This particular inauguration is going to look a lot different from all the others – the twin bogus narratives of coronavirus and the "attempted coup" on January 6th have forced, FORCED, capitol city into an almost Martial Law-like standing.

A heavy troop presence as your leader is sworn in is one of the hallmarks of legitimacy, you understand. And not even slightly a sign of power being seized illegitimately.

That said, Biden will technically be "President", so it's time to ask ourselves – what kind of world are we in for?

For one thing, it's possible they are preparing to sideline the covid "pandemic" narrative , as the mayor of Chicago and governor of New York have both said that lockdowns need to end, and a report has been published saying lockdowns don't work.

Internationally it's likely to be business as usual. If you look at his cabinet choices, from Victoria Nuland to Samantha power , we have a LOT of warmongers who bleat about America's "responsibility to protect". While politicians and pundits are already rebuking Trump & Johnson for failing in US/UK's "moral leadership" of the world, or praising Biden for his plans to "counter Russian disinformation".

If not for the "new normal" we 100% would guarantee a new war – or a restarted old war – within a year. As it stands, we're only 60% sure they'll be some kind of military intervention sometime soon (Venezuela wouldn't be a surprise).

The real crackdowns are going to be domestic. There is a huge push to take "domestic terrorism" seriously , and that will go hand-in-hand with increased purges of social media (again with "Russian disinformation" playing a major role).

The big question is whether the inauguration will go off smoothly, or they'll try another manufactured incident to sell that agenda.

How do you think President Creepy Uncle Joe is going to shape our world? How long before, for whatever reason, Kamala Harris replaces him? Will the pandemic be "solved"? Will we have a new war? Discuss below.

Jan 21, 2021 2:24 AM

Washington DC was empty except for the troops. Windblown streets. Jason Goodman did his walkabout could not even get a distant view of the Capitol. It's as if no one voted for Biden: no supporters even tried to attend the inauguration. You would have expected someone a few diehards who hadn't heard about the military occupation.

I wonder if the military occupation was designed to disguise the total lack of support, given the evidence of election fraud. You couldn't get more emptiness and virtual absence of reality if the military conducted the installation in a bunker in the dying days of the Reich.

Another poster said it looked like a junta in a minor banana dictatorship. Spot on. It was a military installation visually and in a political sense for there were no people.

An inauguration of the leader of a nation cannot be legitimate if the people play no part .

Celebrities cheered with exaggerated leering grins and lockjaw, tongues lolling in a vain caricature of support from the class of paid actors.

The term 'State Actor' has a new meaning today. The Corporatist Media could not recognise its own banality. This was like the USSR Actors' Union huddling and fawning around Secretary General Brezhnev as the Soviet Union teetered to collapse.

Social cretinism is the best one can say about this sorry debacle but I fear it is something much, much worse.

Crowdsource the Truth 2

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jowNNrASaFQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent 1 0

Disillusioned Peasant , Jan 21, 2021 2:38 AM Reply to theobalt

Agreed, Trump was used as a puppet to shame anybody who questions the narrative or resists the deep state. He was asked to be a cartoon, a ridiculous exaggeration of a "traditionalist" or "nationalist" to forever tarnish that stance. He was basically the Alex Jones president .the ultimate controlled opposition. A clown.

I'm so embarrassed I fell for it in 2016. Of COURSE he was phony. Jan 21, 2021 1:39 AM

The snake as a new head. It's still the same snake. It still crawls on it's belly and it still spits the same lies on behalf of the masters who stand behind the curtain. We could still hear Bush Sr when Clinton spoke ; We could still hear Bush Jr when Obama spoke. Red and Blue are the same colour.

It was refreshing in parts to have an American president who didn't try to contrive a narrative that would justify invading another country or contrive yet another cell of 'radicalised' terrorists. No explosions on home soil intended to be taken as an attack from foreign soil. Nothing in four years.

It was all the more surprising as many believed that Trump was and is a great real estate dealer and TV celebrity who has manufactured his charisma from arrogance and ignorance. He has never been celebrated for much beyond his business acumen in the real estate area and TV. This wasn't exactly an erudite man. Former presidents of different ages were and were capable of putting it on paper in their memoirs. Trump was the sign of the times ; a Twitter president. His reign was punctuated by the occasional flexing of Uncle Sam's muscles with threats and a go -ahead-punk-make-our-day approach to public speaking. Yet still no threats of war. This was an odd four years. That odd = peace says more about the US than Trump though. So, what was his role ?

In 2001 we had the Twin Towers. The most dramatic mass murder and the destruction of the laws of Physics and Logic all in one day. Soon after we had the destruction of personal freedom and the creation of domestic terror. It had been suggested by Philip Zelikow three years earlier that a 'searing event such as a terror attack' would be a useful and effective tool in transforming the future by breaking away from the past in no uncertain terms. It would be the event that nobody dare question, and that would be perfect for creating a real fear within the people of the west that such a disaster could occur any time without warning. All they needed was the right salesman to address us.

And so the Patriot Act was born. The surveillance of everyone in their streets, in other towns and their homes was pushed through as a public health measure and a matter of national security. If you protested you were a ' 9 /11 denier' and 'unpatriotic'. If we went too long without evidence of this terror then somewhere would be bombed and the bomber would be 'neutralised' before we would ever learn who was behind it. It took time to become a 'new normal' but it became the 'new normal'. Complain- you were a 'dangerous' conspiracy theorist; in some states it was considered grounds to label you under the mental health act. Just for asking questions. This was how to protect democracy- by tyranny.

So, two decades on we were ready and primed.

Gates and his cohort billionaire 'philanderers' had been beavering away for decades creating more subtle forms of terror. No bangs; no smoke; no mess. These 'missiles' were microbes and the control groups had been observed closely. From mice, to bats to black people to gay people. Once the results /data became big enough numbers, the bomb factory went to work behind the closed doors of 'Cancer Research ' facilities.

We all know now about the hypothetical exercises 'imagined' by the Gates 'Good Club' ; nightmares of being unprepared etc. They penned in 2030 as target date for the endgame. . A date that will have seen the human race enslaved or culled by their terrorism.

Liability would have been taken off the table, giving them free reign. All involved sank their pennies into the manufacturing of these little bombs. And all Academic Institutions, MSM platforms, and pharmaceutical industries were funded by Gates and Co. Then Monsanto and it's subsidiaries were purchased the same way, and the same immunity from prosecution granted from the damaging synthetic /poison crops and food.

So, 2020, was Trump's last stand. He had his '9 /11'. He had domestic bio terrorists. Then the rest of the world had it. We had the same threats to national security and the same 'need' for a new version of a Dystopian Patriot Act.

This wasn't about ISIS or Al -Qaeda and their radicalised lunatics. Trump had found a new group of Bogeymen. China. He would have sounded a bit paranoid if Russia was blamed for something again. Besides, everyone knows that all SARS- type or flu-like viruses are made in China quicker and cheaper. And the US should know that by looking in their many, many stockpiles in their own Biological War labs they pretend are trying to cure cancer.

Trump decided to refer to the Covid 19 virus as 'The Chinese disease '. Fang Ling Fauci had told him to on behalf of Wong Sing Gates.

He went on to call himself a 'war time president' ( there you go- he got one).

He invoked the Defence Production Act, an old Cold War law which allows the Executive Branch to control and redirect the production and distribution of scarce materials deemed "essential to the national defense. " In an executive order dated March 18th, 2020.

To add another layer to the movie the troops were brought in and all medics were now 'heroes on the front line'.

The script went global. It began in the country that Gates had composed such a hypothetical scenario- America. Hence the 'Chinese Disease'. It was the new war on terror minus the James Bond bad guy Bin Laden.

So Trump ushered it in right on time. It didn't win the election( we were told). Instead, it won it for Obama's man, Biden.

Biden and Obama were the most vehement advocates of Monsanto, Sterilisation, and Social Technology ( eugenics ; social cleansing). Obama was made a very wealthy man for his services to the Gates agenda, pharma and GM / Frankenfood. He was surprisingly racist as well as elitist. Tom Vilsack was their frontman. Biden has already called him out of retirement.

So, given the 'war-on-(bio)-terror ' that was born in the USA and sold worldwide, there was no place for Trump. His job was to let the the 'enemy' in, warn us of the possible 'war ahead' and leave it to Gates. But Trump seemed to have spotted that and didn't seem too keen on the narrative. So, come on down Barack O Biden. The timing's right.. Jan 20, 2021 11:40 PM Reply to Ben

Do not be bamboozled, in SHAM DEMOCRACY USA there is only one party, THE REPUBLICRATS (the WAR RACKETEER CORPORATE FASCIST political racket so corrupt it needs two aliases).

"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

~ Frederick Douglas, 1857

Schmitz Katze , Jan 20, 2021 10:44 PM

„That said, Biden will technically be "President", so it's time to ask ourselves – what kind of world are we in for? –
The real crackdowns are going to be domestic.-
Will the pandemic be "solved"? „

It will only be solved when people have had enough of it. The deep state got rid of Trump (for the timebeing-) under the guise of a pandemic. For them and their minions in MSM, government and academia it´s a gift that keeps on giving, with never ending corona mutation fearporn.
It´s totalitarianism, it´s dystopia under under the guise of – domestic-safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4hBCBdutUE

[Jan 20, 2021] Did not Trumpstein promise to lead the march to the Capitol Building ..but instead snuck off to his limo and scurried back to the safety of the White House to watch the farce he encouraged on TV?

Notable quotes:
"... Did not Trumpstein promise to lead the march to the Capitol Building ..but instead snuck off to his limo and scurried back to the safety of the White House to watch the farce he encouraged on TV? No balls to go along with no brains. ..."
"... With his gift for bullshit and demagoguery, he could handily siphon off 60% of the R base i.e. the aggrieved rube demographic and the hideous Chrissie morons. Of course, there would be a bit of risk ask the Kennedy family. ..."
Jan 20, 2021 | off-guardian.org

nsa says: January 10, 2021 at 5:58 am GMT • 22.9 hours ago • 100 Words ↑

Did not Trumpstein promise to lead the march to the Capitol Building ..but instead snuck off to his limo and scurried back to the safety of the White House to watch the farce he encouraged on TV? No balls to go along with no brains.

He could even now form a Populist third party and easily bury the Rs, just as the Rs buried the Whigs 170 years ago. With his gift for bullshit and demagoguery, he could handily siphon off 60% of the R base i.e. the aggrieved rube demographic and the hideous Chrissie morons. Of course, there would be a bit of risk ask the Kennedy family.

[Jan 20, 2021] "F--k every single Trump voter"- Biden may be in, but Hollywood's media's crusade to destroy conservatives is just beginning

Many votes for Trump were actually votes against neoliberalism. And neoliberal is very vindictive fold, much like Trotskyites and Bolsheviks.
Jan 20, 2021 | www.rt.com

Biden winning was not enough. Trump remains a convenient boogeyman for the left, and they will never stop reminding us of their worst fantasies about him as it provides such a low bar for Biden to step over as president. He will remain victorious and scandal-free in their eyes no matter how much government spending grows, no matter how messy foreign policy gets, no matter the lies he tells because, hey, he's not Trump.

Biden's words of "unity" and "healing" are just words because his most public supporters have their sights locked on a man who has lost the very power they said made him so dangerous. They will support any aggressive moves made by the Senate, Biden's Justice Department, and social media companies to target Trump or his supporters, no matter the consequences, because their Trump Derangement Syndrome has become chronic, and remains a key part of their worldview.

Biden's presidency will not change the tune of the media or the culture. Trump will remain the bad guy and conservatives will pay the price for this. They continue to be the cultural and political enemy in the eyes of the media and Trump critics, which makes so-called "unity" nothing more than a mirage that has already been dispelled by the left's very words.

RTaccount 1 hour ago 20 Jan, 2021 06:51 PM

They rejected the results of the 2016 election. They stole the 2020 election. And now they are threatening conservatives. We do not need another election in this country.
Skeptic076 46 minutes ago 20 Jan, 2021 07:14 PM
It is up to the people to work together, to create any unity. It can only be recommended by a president and others. Personally I think there is too much hate and division in the country, fueled by media and conspiracy theory lies, for any unity to ever happen. Sad, but true. This article is an example, one written
CuttySark Skeptic076 18 minutes ago 20 Jan, 2021 07:41 PM
For any unity to have a chance there has to be at least an olive branch extended. Instead there are only shaken fists.
Count_Cash 1 hour ago 20 Jan, 2021 06:25 PM
The US is now just Ukraine with unlimited credit. They will be marching with liberal torches and banning conservative language - oh they are already!

[Jan 20, 2021] Russiagate now will be swiped under the rug

Jan 20, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

Feds Quietly Close Flynn Leak Investigation, Find No Wrongdoing By Crooked Obama Officials

frozeninbemidji-INA sec.212(f) • 4 hours ago

Everything will be swept under the rug now.

They have an all too willing media and a bureaucracy loaded with 99% like minded scumbags.

Commie-Crusher dlovely • 3 hours ago ,

Barr is Deep State

flash dlovely • 3 hours ago ,

We begged Trump to get rid of him many months ago. Same with Wray. Without justice you have no society and no Constitution. Halper came into the CIA by Brennan. Should have gotten rid of her many months ago. These are Trumps biggest mistakes.

Donald J Tromp flash • 3 hours ago ,

Sessions, Barr, Wray, Haspel, Coates, Krebs... Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney-Barrett... even his SC Justice picks are suspect at this point. Honestly, it's pathetic!

[Jan 20, 2021] Epitaph For A Post-Trump America by Tom Luongo

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... He made a mockery of the media, stood tall until the final days of his presidency against a self-congratulatory bureaucracy and forced out into the open the depths of the depravity of our ruling class. I friggin' love the guy for that. ..."
"... He's just a placeholder for a system I no longer have any affinity for. Trump always represented a big two-fingers up to that system, which too many conservatives helped Trump prop up for four years. ..."
"... breathless headlines portending a violent assault on the Capitol was the height of political theater. And they know this. ..."
"... The two weeks since the staged assault on the Capitol saw Trump pile-driven in the ground by a vengeful GOP leadership while obviously having his arm twisted behind the scenes. ..."
"... This was the plan. Trump needed to finally be defeated. His followers humiliated. There was never going to be an Assange pardon. There was never going to be a big declassification. He was never allowed to burn the place down. ..."
"... And this is why I'm happy Trump is gone. Because did you really want to live through another four years of pathetic virtue signaling, bureaucratic inertia, media lies and shameful pandering? ..."
"... Trump was ultimately a failure in what he promised, but he delivered in exposing politics for the world wide wrestling federation entity that is is. Not sure if he meant to, but he did it. He showed us the behind the scenes tapes. ..."
Jan 20, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog,

I'm relieved Donald Trump is no longer President. In fact, I'm downright ecstatic. This is the best I've felt in weeks.

Trump was four years of faint hope, failed promises and false narratives.

Oh, don't get me wrong he was also entertaining as hell, did many things I fundamentally agreed with and accelerated the collapse of the biggest, most corrupt organization ever created in human history.

He made a mockery of the media, stood tall until the final days of his presidency against a self-congratulatory bureaucracy and forced out into the open the depths of the depravity of our ruling class. I friggin' love the guy for that.

But I'm also over it. It's time to move on. Today I feel no nostalgia for Trump or America 1.0.

I refuse to go into the same hysterical theatrics the Left did four years ago. Biden's the president. The restoration is complete. He was selected no different than every president other than Trump since Reagan. I have as much emotion for him as I had for Bush the Lesser, Clinton the Rapist or Obama the CIA mole

He's just a placeholder for a system I no longer have any affinity for. Trump always represented a big two-fingers up to that system, which too many conservatives helped Trump prop up for four years.

One of my patrons posted a stray thought in our community on Slack that sums things up perfectly:

"Just think if Trump had won fairly and the "steal" hadn't happened. We'd have had another 4 inept years of placeholding and false hope.

What a godsend that the steal happened as it has decoupled the people from the political establishments and freed them. Ok, so the Great Reset's happening but who cares?

Everybody knows about it.

Necessity is the mother of invention and as long as people "feel" free then they aren't free. That's how it's worked up until now. The decoupling had to happen somehow."

This is the law of unintended consequences writ large. Today should be looked at with relief for the clarity of vision we have for the future. It will suck, but at least there is symmetry.

In the end they stole the election to regain control and doing so set the stage for a wholesale rejection of their authority.

Too many conservatives still believed in the Myth of America . That should stop today.

The lead up to the inauguration with all of the pearl clutching, troop movements, breathless headlines portending a violent assault on the Capitol was the height of political theater. And they know this.

There's no putting that genie back in the bottle. This is a picture that encapsulates everything wrong with post-Trump America. Symbols of America but no Americans. Military and pols everywhere but no governed giving their consent. Image systems matter folks and the world is watching the U.S. transition from a Republic into an Autocracy. I guess Gil Scott Heron was wrong, the revolution will be televised after all.

The two weeks since the staged assault on the Capitol saw Trump pile-driven in the ground by a vengeful GOP leadership while obviously having his arm twisted behind the scenes.

People who should know better can't see through their own coping.

What did they think trust-fund Donald was going to do? Fall on his sword for a whistleblower/journalist? Trump is, after all, still just Trump.

This was the plan. Trump needed to finally be defeated. His followers humiliated. There was never going to be an Assange pardon. There was never going to be a big declassification. He was never allowed to burn the place down.

If any of that was going to happen it would have happened ages ago.

And this is why I'm happy Trump is gone. Because did you really want to live through another four years of pathetic virtue signaling, bureaucratic inertia, media lies and shameful pandering?

No, today the collapse of the U.S. will be on the watch of the people who orchestrated it. It won't have the consent of a majority of the people, but if we were really honest with ourselves that's how it was under Obama, Bush the Lesser and Clinton.

Trump was a guy who made things interesting but he also ensured we would be disabused of any notion of dissidence. Today is the day Trump supporters can finally grow up. He wasn't Orange Jesus sent to save America from itself. There was never a plan. Trump was just a guy in over his head doing something no President did since Calvin Coolidge, giving a shit about what America means for Americans. That's why he had to be destroyed and that's why we ultimately have to put him behind us.

As the U.S. sinks and what's left of the legal protections we've enjoyed are taken away under the guise of 'domestic terrorism' we are also, strangely, free. That's why I'm ecstatic a man more fit for Andrew Cuomo's COVID Death Parlors is president today rather than Trump. Everyone's eyes are now open. A fungus is president.

Absent the false hope of Trump people are now free to conclude what I always have -- politics got us into this, politics will not get us out. We can finally put the childish Red vs. Blue behind us. That false duality is gone. The GOP is dead. The Democrats are ready to knife each other climbing to the pinnacle. They both hate us.

The Capitol knows it is under siege, not from right-wing militias and neo-Nazis but from their own fear of our not feeling anything for them anymore except maybe pity. So, raise a glass to Trump, wish him well, accept his limitations. The Empire is back with a vengeance. The Brave New Post-Trump World is here. And that has never been a more exhilarating thought.

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Spetzco 26 minutes ago remove link

Well, at first I was angry reading this. Then...with a bit more thought and contemplation, I realised this is probably the best analysis of the truth any of us is going to read. 100% agree with every word.

argoz 3 minutes ago

The saying cheaters never prosper may apply to the next 4 years. Like the fall of the Roman empire, they are becoming desperate.

LetThemEatRand 28 minutes ago (Edited)

Our instincts were right to vote for Trump. He exposed the deep state and the uniparty. He took away the heroin from the addict just long enough for the addict to look in the mirror before the next hit. And the other options were Hillary and Biden.

But can the addict clean itself up? The odds are against us. The dealer just came through the door with all kinds of promises and threats.

BLOTTO 53 seconds ago

"The American public has realized that we are in control, which is a fatal mistake on our part. The problem is not the tool or device, but the heathen in control of it. This is the revelation that will be our undoing."

-Harold W. Rosenthal, the Hidden Tyranny 1973

BLOTTO 10 minutes ago remove link

"It is an established rule to destroy all members of pre-existing government, their families and relatives but never ****. They destroy all members of the police, state police, army officers and their families but never ****. You see, we know when a government begins to search for the Communists within its borders -- they are really attempting to uncover **** in their area. We're not fooled! The invisible rulers in the Communist countries have a world control over the propaganda and the governments in free countries.

We control every media of expression including newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Even your music!"

-The Hidden Tyranny, HRW

Tonights musical entertainment by the *tars was enchanting.

homeskillet 25 minutes ago (Edited)

Horse hockey - he is a Zionist and part of the whole charade. That said, I'd still rather have him in there than Biden.

LetThemEatRand 19 minutes ago remove link

Trump was ultimately a failure in what he promised, but he delivered in exposing politics for the world wide wrestling federation entity that is is. Not sure if he meant to, but he did it. He showed us the behind the scenes tapes.

mtanimal 11 minutes ago (Edited)

Obama the Enigma? How about Obama the CIA asset...

[Jan 20, 2021] Collapse of legitimacy of the ruling elite: analogy of Dec 6 events and Perestroika events and February 1917 revolution in in Russia

Jan 20, 2021 | www.unz.com

Harry Huntington , says: January 19, 2021 at 5:10 pm GMT • 23.8 hours ago

Another example might be the collapse of the old Soviet Union. How did it collapse? People just decided that the Communist Party no longer had the authority to rule. Recall, government continued to function in Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed. Water systems worked. Sewers worked. Telephones work. Air traffic flew. The Army and Navy were still the Army and Navy. Recall also there was a dramatic scene in Moscow where Boris Yeltsin faced down the Russian Parliament.

Recall, Yeltson moved to dissolve the Supreme Soviet and Parliament and was supported by citizens and the army. Citizens stormed the Parliamentary chamber. Sound familiar? In recent days, citizens rejected the "parliament" in the US because there was no election transparency and the "parliament" refused inquiry on the issue. The "parliament" reasserted its authority, impeached the President (Yeltsin was impeached by the Soviet parliament too)

The American "parliament" has now surrounded itself with 24,000 soldiers who have been vetted by the FBI for loyalty.

Reality, if an American "parliament" was confident in its authority with the public it would not need 24,000 soldiers to guard its chambers. It has never been the case in America that the "parliament" needed to guard itself from citizens. Dr. Roberts is correct. The Revolution has begun.

Joe Stalin , says: January 19, 2021 at 6:04 pm GMT • 22.9 hours ago

The FBI is vetting the National Guard and they are patrolling without magazines in their rifles; is Biden-Harris afraid of being Sadat?

ruralguy , says: January 19, 2021 at 6:21 pm GMT • 22.6 hours ago

A Sri Lankan who lived through their civil war noted American is in the midst of a civil war but doesn't know it. He said in their civil war, people go about their daily routines, unconcerned, until the violence flares up near themselves and directly affects them. He said you know you're in a civil war when there is a drumbeat of constant negative news.

A recent scientific paper measured the cooperation between the Democrats and Republican members of Congress, over 40 some years, by measuring cooperation on votes for bills. It has decreased to almost no cooperation over the past 20 years. In Game Theory, when there is no cooperation, the game strategies are war strategies.

We are in a civil war. 1/2 of our population wants to erase our culture and history. Over the past 50 years, we've imported 160 million immigrants and their U.S. born children. They have no ties to our history. By their votes, we know they resent the achievements of our home-brewed population. They vote Democrat, because they resent you. We are at war.

Richard B , says: January 19, 2021 at 9:49 pm GMT • 19.2 hours ago

Look beyond the bluster, look beyond the psychotic arrogance and you'll see that what we're witnessing is nothing less than The Pyrrhic Victory of The Hostile Elite .

Rebellion, Revolution, forms of government, Democracies, Republics, etc. whatever they are and whatever you want to call them they all have one thing in common – Explanation . And if history has taught us anything it's that life without Explanation is impossible , but explanations come and go.

The West has been in a state of Explanatory Collapse for the last 200+ years. Cultural History and its relationship to Explanation was being studied in American universities in starting in the 1920's and was gaining steam until the mid to late 60's. It continued somewhat until the 80's and then, well, that was that.

Be that as it may, the best explanations are open-ended from both sides, theory and data and since they function by organizing our transactions with the world they are applied in our social institutions, the beating heart of any civilization.

The key point here is that a social institution isn't similar to an explanation. A social institution is an explanation. And now we're back to the Pyrrhic Victory of the hostile elite. Because, though they may have been good at intilfration and subversion (of something they did not create nor fully understand) they're no good at social management.

Let's put this in propositional form:

The hostile elite's efforts to impose a social order that is free of control and sustained by force only increases the uncontrolled exercise of naked power .

But, it's exactly that force, constantly applied, that undermines the very social institutions their power controls. Especially their economic institutions. And when force fails, there's no alternative. They've been burning the candle from both ends for ages and now their chickens have come home to roost.

To put it bluntly, we're not just watching the collapse of a country, or even explanatory collapse itself, though that's all certainly happening. No. What we're living through is the collapse of an entire civilization. Civilizational collapse is what we're living through right now. As events are sure to reveal the consequences will be immense.

That's why the hostile elite is currently engaged in a Fire Sale where everything must go and with only one buyer – China. Or, more specifically, The CCP. A group of people who, unlike Whites, do not strike one as being all that into power-sharing.

The Readiness Is All!

No Friend Of The Devil , says: January 19, 2021 at 11:14 pm GMT • 17.8 hours ago

I whole heartedly disagree that this is a revolution. It is the Bullshit Counter Revolution of total tyranny and enslavement, and it is all based on lies. It stands for nothing. It was planned and participated in by the self-appointed InfraGard and the candidates that they chose. Who leads it is irrelevant, because it is a comletely evil Brave New World agenda. It elevates corruption, deviancy, and pervsion.

Andrea Iravani

Franz , says: January 20, 2021 at 1:45 am GMT • 15.2 hours ago

Excellent article.

I would only add that Russia, up till the start of WWI, was modernizing faster than much of Europe. Expectations had been rising. With the war, the gains were being squandered and the frustration of the people began to rise. The Russian officer corps would have been very aware of this.

See how this fits the current mess in the US?

Very few high ranking American officers can be unaware that the cheap labor lobby has destroyed opportunities for young people on an epic scale for decades. One trip to their home towns is enough to tell these people that we are descending to third world level at breakneck speed.

The Middle Class sees it, especially small business owners. For instance, the woman the capitol police gunned down on Janury 6th.

No band-aid stimulous check or even some mock new-deal training bill will help. Corporate giants will find a way to send work out or bring foreign workers in anyway.

The traitor class has the courts, media and all the police and army on its side. A serious subversive might look at the working class and see a possible weapon.

Things might get interesting.

Patrick McNally , says: January 20, 2021 at 7:35 am GMT • 9.4 hours ago

The Russian Revolution did not simply arise from the war with Germany. It was already there in 1905 at the time of the war with Japan. 1905 made it clear that Russia would not be able to go through any major wars without having a revolution spontaneously break out. If the Czar had been sensible he would have committed at that point to a 2-pronged policy of avoiding war at all costs while attempting to modernize Russia as rapidly as possible. This was exactly the Soviet policy from 1921 to 1939. Instead the Czar first dithered and then allowed himself to get talked into a partial troop-mobilization in 1914. In this way he doomed himself.

RichardTaylor , says: January 20, 2021 at 8:27 am GMT • 8.5 hours ago
@Harry Huntington

The role of Samizdat needs to be understood. Never underestimate the power of anonymous people who get on a consistent message that resonates with the population.

Richard B , says: January 20, 2021 at 8:30 am GMT • 8.5 hours ago
@ruralguy

In Game Theory, when there is no cooperation , the game strategies are war strategies.

" no cooperation"? That's because it's the Uni Party.

Mitch McConnel just threatened Trump with impeachment if he pardons Julian Assange. The permanent class in D.C. thinks and moves as one. Because they're all paid by the same source. There's no need for "cooperation" because there's no conflict in the first place.

Richard B , says: January 20, 2021 at 8:40 am GMT • 8.3 hours ago
@No Friend Of The Devil

It elevates corruption, deviancy, and pervsion.

Absolutely! But, that's exactly why it will fail.
Their lust for power is no match for their incompetence.

I'm not saying they won't do even more damage than they already have. Not at all. I'm saying that whatever damage they do will simply be a part of their Pyrrhic Victory.

Vlad The Impala , says: January 20, 2021 at 8:41 am GMT • 8.3 hours ago

I don't think it was a rebellion or a revolution. It was a coup d'etat.

This time they did not blow his brains out the back of head in front of his wife but it amounted to the same thing anyway politically speaking.

I don't have a dog in the US race but when I saw what they did on election night my heart sank. Nothing good will come of this that is for sure.

Whatever we live in, it is not a democracy by any definition.

anon [833] Disclaimer , says: January 20, 2021 at 9:13 am GMT • 7.8 hours ago
@ruralguy clear toys they play with. Such squandering precludes a huge number of us from having not only nice things but absolutely essential things, and puts our lives at constant risk.

The gap between us and them is now as large as that between the Czar and the prols was in the first Russian Revolution. I think the whole world comes out a winner when the fall of the greedy, wasteful, paranoid empire exclusively owned and run by the dozen or so uber plutocrats at the tippy top finally comes. I am sure that they are not all even Americans. Just check out who constitutes at least half the board of directors at the Fed. To the "Red Shields" and their cronies the United States of America is no more than the world's most powerful killing machine at their disposal.

Sirius , says: January 20, 2021 at 9:41 am GMT • 7.3 hours ago
@Harry Huntington Future President Medvedev said in 2012: "There is hardly any doubt who won [that election]. It was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin.").

Somewhere in that time Yeltsin also forced through with a more pliant Duma a new constitution that gave him more powers.

While the more independent-minded Putin gets all the blame in Western media for creating an authoritarian presidency, it was actually the subservient to the West Yeltsin who did that, and who therefore never gets the official blame.

Yeltsin should retrospectively make Trump green with envy. Trump must have known about it, since he had ties with some of those crooks and helped them launder their ill-gotten gains.

Bert , says: January 20, 2021 at 9:50 am GMT • 7.2 hours ago

Another element of the current situation to consider. The Republican Establishment guaranteed the destruction of its party by failing to investigate fraud in the presidential election. Rational voters are likely to reason thusly in future elections:

"Well, the Republicans have no chance to be a legislative majority and certainly will not win executive positions because they will accept being defrauded. A few will be allowed to win to maintain the illusion of representative democracy, but they will not be able to influence decisions. Therefore I will not waste my vote on them. I will vote for a third party."

The Republican party is done for, and good riddance.

Cilcoffin , says: January 20, 2021 at 10:15 am GMT • 6.7 hours ago
@No Friend Of The Devil elite. One can argue whether what we in England used to be called "the American War of Independence" was truly a revolution (and I incline to believe it was), but to me present events are more like a coup. The coup leaders (those pulling the strings), however much they may lip service to whatever "woke" nonsense is currently in vogue, actually believe in nothing but holding power and their own greed. If there is to be a true revolution – or maybe a counter-revolution – it is yet to come. Meanwhile, we must hope that the present "powers that be" turn on each other as they divide up their spoils, while their disappointed and deluded supporters howl their disappointment in the wings.
theMann , says: January 20, 2021 at 12:29 pm GMT • 4.5 hours ago

I 100% agree with the commentators who point out that the current crisis isn't a revolution, but a Coup D'Etat. And it is important to remember coups are initiated by people who can't win by legitimate means.

Consider the poor Democrats! After decades of Gerrymanders, dead people voting, massive illegal immigration, total lickspittle obeisance from the Media, and now, the complete assistance of big tech, they STILL can't sell their false and stinking lies to the point where they could ever be majority party they were in 1976. In fact in each election cycle INCLUDING THIS ONE, they fall ever further behind.

Here is the reality of their coup: they may have "Big Tech" on their side, but 70%, at least, of the employees of those companies are Libertarian to really Libertarian, and they will not get with 'the program ". They may have the Generals on their side, but 80% of the enlisted soldiers, and 99% of the ex-soldiers, hate "the program". They may have the Media and Academic Institutions on their side, but the Farmers, Truckers, Oilfield and Power Workers hate their guts.

In six months, the goons in DC are going to be wishing they had never been born

dearieme , says: January 20, 2021 at 12:48 pm GMT • 4.2 hours ago
@anastasia

That's a coup. Like the Bolsheviks'.

geokat62 , says: January 20, 2021 at 1:16 pm GMT • 3.7 hours ago
@Joe Stalin

The FBI is vetting the National Guard

US Representative Cohen: 80% of White Males In Military Can't Be Trusted

[Jan 20, 2021] LOL: Clinton, Pelosi ask "Was Russia/Putin involved in the riots?"

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Zanon , Jan 19 2021 8:11 utc | 137

LOL!

Clinton, Pelosi: Was Russia/Putin involved in the riots?
https://www.foxbangor.com/national-news/clinton-suggests-putin-may-have-known-about-riot-in-capitol-pelosi-wants-9-11-commission-type-probe/

[Jan 20, 2021] Trump the Manchurian Populist

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Christian J. Chuba , Jan 18 2021 18:18 utc | 112

Trump the Manchurian Populist
He made a joke of foreign policy restraint (his restraint is worse than Obama's 'war') and he ruined the career of good people like McGregor. McGregor is now toxic because of Trump.
Trump's domestic policies failed. He gave us $8T of new debt.

Operation Warp speed had a warp core breach . What happened to the 300M doses we were supposed to have in Jan, we only have 30M doses, where did the reserve go?

Jackrabbit , Jan 18 2021 19:10 utc | 115

Christian J. Chuba @Jan18 18:18 #111

Yeah, this "America First" so-called "populist" also weaponized space, doubled-down on Israel and ME idiocy, supported a coup in Venezuela (including seizing Venezuelan State assets), cut taxes (yet again), and lied about the seriousness of the virus.

Oh, and no pardon for Assange or Snowden to support whistle-blowers and independent journalism that keep the Deep State (that Trump supposedly fights) in check.

I could go on but I won't belabor the point.

!!

[Jan 20, 2021] When German scholars use the US populist government as a scapegoat, they overlooked the real question - without addressing the growing inequality in a Western system, will there be a second Trump in the future?

Notable quotes:
"... No examination of Neoliberalism's utter failure to deliver benefits to the masses while expropriating the wealth they produced for delivery to the class of Financial Parasites. At least the writers at Global Times get it right: ..."
Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Jan 19 2021 17:55 utc | 155

Global Times reports on an essay published by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Check it out b or other German barflies) deeming " China's system, although 'authoritarian,' is 'very successful .'" [My Emphasis]

"It explained that as long as a society can reach the following goals - improving social welfare, increasing consumption choices, safeguarding domestic security, promoting education, and providing good healthcare - people will support and trust the system even if their influence in the decision-making process is limited. Such can 'in part ensure the legitimacy' of the social system....

"But the authors' introspection stopped from digging problems as they tried to shift blame to the rise of populism in the US."

No examination of Neoliberalism's utter failure to deliver benefits to the masses while expropriating the wealth they produced for delivery to the class of Financial Parasites. At least the writers at Global Times get it right:

"Populism, which helped crown Donald Trump, is being blamed today. Yet it all started from the widening gap between rich and poor. When German scholars use the US populist government as a scapegoat, they overlooked the real question - without addressing the growing inequality in a Western system, will there be a second Trump in the future?" [My Emphasis]

The fatal thrust is delivered in the two closing paragraphs but still omit naming the actual culprit, which is the ideology of Neoliberalism:

"The article raised the support and trust of people when it comes to judgment over the legitimacy of a society. In this regard, data speak louder than words. According to a poll conducted in 2020 by US-based global public relations and marketing consultancy firm Edelman, 95 percent of Chinese trust their government while the US government only saw an approval of 48 percent .

"What other excuses will the Western world have to question the legitimacy of the Chinese system? If the West, especially the US, the beacon of democracy, actually senses the crisis and does not wish to lose the competition, it should stop burying its head in the sand." [My Emphasis]

The problem isn't heads being buried in sand; rather, it's the design of the ideology to exploit and degrade a nation's masses so they're left with relatively nothing compared to the nation's Financial Parasites, all so the latter will always have their Free Unearned Lunch.


[Jan 20, 2021] The USA and the Crisis: How and Why the Oligarchs Fight Trumpism

Jan 20, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Grieved , Jan 20 2021 1:04 utc | 64

@59 alaff

Thanks for the link to the Rostislav Ischenko article. Are you making the translations of these Russian analyses? I'm grateful to whomever is doing them - the translators are the heroes of the information war. By the way, I think plenty of people here would recognize Ischenko's name and would be glad to know about his articles if you link another in future - it could easily get missed the way you linked it.

~~

Ischenko has some interesting things to say about the US dystopia from a Russian perspective. He speaks of the oligarchs no longer needing a home country - which we've discussed here before - and that they may now feel powerful enough to take on any country in the world.

All of this, Russia should watch with careful interest.

The USA and the Crisis: How and Why the Oligarchs Fight Trumpism - Rostislav Ishenko .

Some quotes (my emphasis):

The American oligarchy no longer needs a strong state. They need power over its remnants. ... As I wrote above, the actions already taken and the future actions of the Democrats are destroying American statehood. However, the American oligarchy felt itself global and became so insolent that it is no longer afraid of being left without a state behind its back, hoping that if they had enough of their own resources to seize America, then they would have enough to defend their interests in a changing world.

Why is it important for us to thoroughly understand what is happening in the United States? Because the left-liberal (including pseudo-communist) movements around the world are guided by the financial oligarchy...They really work to destroy the state.
[...]
Whatever they think, de facto they are doing it in the interests of the trans-national oligarchy, the global financial capital, which is ready to devour the corpses of the USA, Russia, China, the EU and others, just as it is now devouring the corpse of Ukraine. Strong bureaucratic republics hinder them in this regard. They don't need strong states. They want tiny debris.

That is why the internal political struggle in the United States is not just an interesting spectacle for us, but a scientific experimental base for the struggle for our statehood against international financial capital (transnational globalist oligarchy) and its left-liberal mercenaries.

I think this is the overarching view of what's happening in the US and the world today. Oligarchic power and riches are now so great and so globally mobile that nation-states are simply getting in the way of the plunder.

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In my opinion, the very rich of this world actually do have a solution to climate change and resource depletion, and they didn't have to think very hard to see what to them is obvious. As they break up societies to make the plunder easier, they also imperil millions and ultimately billions of people, who will quickly die and relieve the burden on planetary resources.

This is why chaos is success for them. There is no plan to save anything except their own riches. Everything and everyone else can fade away. We spoke of steady-state economies the other day, and the very rich are now prepared to live in one - their own. New world order is a red herring anymore. They don't want to rule anything. They just want it all to go away.

They, the rich, have come up with the obvious, brilliant solution to all recent problems of this world. We the people are the largest ingredient of these planetary problems. Obviously, we'll have to go. And as this happens, the rich will exuberantly - with great zest - increase their own wealth from the very crumbling of former societies.

alaff , Jan 19 2021 23:16 utc | 51

Hillary Clinton & Nancy Pelosi suggest Putin ORDERED Trump to launch Capitol siege in unhinged interview

Sad news (for American society), but not surprising.
I can only repeat that democratic elites (although the Republicans are far from ideal either) are mentally unstable, they have serious brain problems. In the direct/medical sense of the word. There is no joke or metaphor here.

Their bizarre manic obsession with Putin/Russia is striking. These people have invented/artificially created for themselves some kind of alternative reality, where Russia "threatens them", where "Putin wants to undermine world democracy", where "Putin can order Trump to storm the Capitol" and other such nonsense of a sick imagination. Frankly, I am somewhat alarmed that the Americans are consistently choosing a leadership suffering from such a serious mental disorder.

These people created a Big Lie about Russia, believed in it themselves, act (make political decisions, official statements, etc.) on the basis of this Big Lie, and who can give a guarantee that one day they will not press the nuclear button when the mass of their inadequate action (based on a Big Lie) will exceed the critical threshold?

All this wild hysteria with inauguration - an unprecedented 26,000(!) thousand soldiers, several lines of fences, barbed wire, absolutely insane statements by the Democrats, frenzied censorship, repression against disloyal - only confirms the illegality of the seizure of power by the Democrats. They know very well that in reality they would not have won the elections without falsifications. They have essentially carried out a coup. After the seizure of power, their regime is unstable and is in danger for several weeks/months. To strengthen/stabilize their regime, they resort to all these insane actions and statements. The disagreement of the disloyal must be suppressed in the bud, not to be allowed to grow into stable resistance.

The very fact that Trump (and millions of his supporters) resisted until the end, refusing to accept the election results, is, if you will, a moral delegitimization of the power of the Democrats. Probably, this is one of the reasons for the brutal hatred of the Democrats towards the outgoing president, expressed in the ridiculous decision on a second impeachment. And this is the reason for the need for 26,000 soldiers to protect the "elected president" from essentially his own people.

A good recent article by a Russian political scientist examines opposition to Trump from the perspective of the interests of the American oligarchy.

[Jan 19, 2021] How Billionaires Transfer Blame to Others by Eric Zuesse

Notable quotes:
"... In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on either side, Eric Zuesse writes. ..."
"... Mission accomplished ..."
"... Nice work, Mr. Putin. ..."
"... According to a US intelligence community report, Russia's chief goal in interfering in the 2016 election in support of Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton was to "undermine public faith in the US democratic process." Four years on, there have been two impeachments and an insurrection against the US legislature. Millions believe Trump's lies that he was illegally ejected from power, and doubt Biden's legitimacy. ..."
"... Conspiracy theorists have seats in Congress. There are serious questions about whether one of the country's great political parties is now anti-democratic. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in a federal system that grants vast power to the states. And America's self-appointed role as an exceptional nation and beacon of democracy is in the gutter. ..."
"... Most of the disorienting events of the last few years can be blamed directly on Trump and his particular skill at tearing at the social, racial and political divides that are just below the nation's surface. So the ex-KGB man in the Kremlin hardly deserves all the credit. But Russia, China and other autocratic nations are gaining much from Washington's agony. They're already using it to promote their own closed and totalitarian societies as models of comparative order and efficiency -- and to beat back brave local voices calling for democracy and human rights. ..."
"... In an effective declaration of victory for Russia's espionage offensive against the US more than four years ago, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, slid home the knife. "Following the events that unfolded after the presidential elections, it is meaningless to refer to America as the example of democracy," he said. ..."
"... "We are on the verge of reevaluating the standards that are being promoted by the United States of America, that is exporting its vision of democracy and political systems around the world. Those in our country who love to cite their example as leading will also have to reconsider their views." ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | www.strategic-culture.org

In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on either side, Eric Zuesse writes.

Throughout history, aristocrats, and their flaks such as their 'news'-media, cast blame downward, away from themselves who collectively control the government, and onto, instead, some minority or other mass group, who can't even plan or function together so as to be able to control the government.

The U.S. has a two-Party aristocracy, as is clear from the "Open Secrets" list of the 100 biggest political donors in the 2020 U.S. Presidential and congressional campaigns, the "2020 Top Donors to Outside Spending Groups" . Those are only these individuals' publicly acknowledged expenditures, none of the dark political money, which, of course, is donated secretly. At the top there, of the donors' lists, is Sheldon Adelson (who just died, on January 11th in California, and was buried in Israel), who spent far more than anyone in all of U.S. history had ever spent in any campaign cycle, $215 million, which amount far exceeded even the $82 million that he had spent in 2016, which in 2016 was second only to Thomas Steyer's $92 million (the previous all-time highest amount donated in any campaign year). Adelson gave exclusively to Republicans, whereas Steyer gave exclusively to Democrats. Steyer in 2020 gave $67 million, which -- though he was running for President in 2020, and hadn't been running in 2016 -- was only 73% of his 2016 donations, in that year, when he had been the nation's top political donor. He was only the 5th-biggest donor in 2020, instead of #1.

The second-biggest donor in 2020 was the liberal Republican Michael Bloomberg, who ran in the Democratic Presidential primaries in order to defeat the only progressive in that contest, who was Bernie Sanders. Bloomberg spent $151 million of his own funds for that purpose. In 2016, he had spent $24 million in order to help Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders, and then try to beat Donald Trump.

The third-biggest in 2020 was Timothy Mellon, the son of Paul Mellon and grandson of Andrew Mellon . Timothy Mellon gave $70 million, all to Republicans.

In 2020, the top ten donors, collectively, spent $776 million to own their chunk of the U.S. Government. The second group of ten (#s 11-20) donated only $187 million; and, so, the top twenty together donated $963 million, just shy of $1 trillion. All 80 of the other top-100 donors, together, gave around $370 million, so that the total from all 100 was around one-and-a-third trillion dollars. 47 gave to Republicans; 53 gave to Democrats.

The smallest publicly acknowledged donor among the top 100, Foster Friess , gave $2.4 million, all to Republicans.

Most of these 100 donors are among America's approximately 700 billionaires; and, even the ones who aren't are serving and doing business with the billionaires, and therefore are to some extent dependent upon having good relations with them, not being enemies of any billionaire. All of these 100 are, obviously, also dependent upon the governmental decisions that the public officials whom they have purchased will be making, not only regarding regulations and laws, but also regarding foreign policies. For example, Friess merged his company into Affiliated Management Group, which "is a global asset management firm" that "has grown to approximately $730 billion." Virtually all of the top 100 political donors are internationally invested, and their personal wealth is therefore affected by American foreign policies, in ways that the personal wealth of the rest of the population is not.

When the U.S. invades a foreign country, or issues sanctions against a foreign country, it benefits some American investors, not only in corporations such as Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil, but even in some foreign-headquartered corporations. America's spending around half of the entire world's military expenses gives an enormous competitive boost to America's billionaires, which is paid for by all U.S. taxpayers. It takes away money that would otherwise go toward the rest of the U.S. population -- people who might even become crippled or killed by their military service for the benefit of America's billionaires. Marketing this military service to thepublic, as "national defense" -- even at a time when no nation has invaded or even threatened to invade America after 1945 -- is good PR for America's wealthiest families, regardless of whether it's of any benefit whatsoever to other Americans. Because of the success of this PR for the military, Americans consider the U.S. military to be America's best institution -- far higher than any other part of the U.S. Government or any non-governmental institution, such as churches, the press, or the medical system. The U.S. Department of Defense is, also, by far, the most corrupt of all Departments of the U.S. federal Government . This fact is carefully hidden from the U.S. public, so as to keep the public admiring the military.

Billionaires use their media, and their scholars, to point the finger of blame, for the problems that the public does know about, anywhere else than against themselves; and, though the billionaires have political differences amongst themselves, they are unified against the public, so as to continue the gravy train that they all are on.

In order for the aristocracy not to be blamed for the many problems that they cause upon the public, their first trick is to blame some minority or some other vulnerable mass within the public. Or else to blame some 'enemy' country. But if and when such a strategy fails, then, they and their media blame the middle class or "bourgeoisie," in order to fool the leftists, and also they blame the "communists" and the poor, in order to fool the rightists. That's a two-pronged PR strategy -- one to the left, and the other to the right. Since the aristocracy is always, itself, fundamentally conservative, they would naturally rather blame the leftists as being "communists," than to blame the middle class and poor, because to do the latter would place the public's ideological focus on economic class, which then would threaten to expose the billionaires themselves as being the actual economic "elite" who are the public's real enemy (and as being the elite against which the propaganda should instead be focused). Blaming the middle class and poor might work amongst their fellow-aristocrats, but if tried amongst the public, it would present the danger of backfiring. Consequently, there is a return to the days of Joseph R. McCarthy, but this time without communism. Thus, here is how the White House correspondent for a Democratic Party 'news'-site, CNN, closed his 'news'-analysis, on January 14th, under the headline "Washington's agony is a win for autocrats and strongmen" :

Mission accomplished

Nice work, Mr. Putin.

According to a US intelligence community report, Russia's chief goal in interfering in the 2016 election in support of Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton was to "undermine public faith in the US democratic process." Four years on, there have been two impeachments and an insurrection against the US legislature. Millions believe Trump's lies that he was illegally ejected from power, and doubt Biden's legitimacy.

Conspiracy theorists have seats in Congress. There are serious questions about whether one of the country's great political parties is now anti-democratic. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in a federal system that grants vast power to the states. And America's self-appointed role as an exceptional nation and beacon of democracy is in the gutter.

Most of the disorienting events of the last few years can be blamed directly on Trump and his particular skill at tearing at the social, racial and political divides that are just below the nation's surface. So the ex-KGB man in the Kremlin hardly deserves all the credit. But Russia, China and other autocratic nations are gaining much from Washington's agony. They're already using it to promote their own closed and totalitarian societies as models of comparative order and efficiency -- and to beat back brave local voices calling for democracy and human rights.

In an effective declaration of victory for Russia's espionage offensive against the US more than four years ago, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, slid home the knife. "Following the events that unfolded after the presidential elections, it is meaningless to refer to America as the example of democracy," he said.

"We are on the verge of reevaluating the standards that are being promoted by the United States of America, that is exporting its vision of democracy and political systems around the world. Those in our country who love to cite their example as leading will also have to reconsider their views."

That's propaganda from "leftist" (i.e., Democratic Party) billionaires. A good example of an independent American journalist who has been fooled by Republican Party billionaires to blame some amorphous mass of "leftists" is Sara A. Carter's 12 January 2021 youtube "Rudy Giuliani talks big tech censorship" , blaming America's problems on "the government," or "the bureacracy," and, of course, especially on Democrats. At 10:15 there, she said "My mother fled from Cuba." Carter, as a conservative, is so obsessed with her visceral hatred of "communism," that she interpreted America's dictatorship as being communists, instead of as being billionaires -- of both Parties: actually, fascists. In a two-Party fascist dictatorship , she fears the leftists. This is typical of propagandists on the conservative side. But propagandists on the liberal side (such as the CNN correspondent exemplified) are no better, just different.

Both propaganda-operations cast blame away from the real culprits.

In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on either side. What the public sees and hears, instead, is political theater, merely tailored to different audiences.

[Jan 19, 2021] Turley On The No-Show Option -- Trump Could Sit Out The Senate Trial And Still Prevail

Notable quotes:
"... In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial. ..."
"... First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately. ..."
"... Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution. ..."
"... He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris assures us the Senate can politically "multitask" to deal with an impeachment, an incoming Biden administration and a pandemic.

However, the threshold question is whether this is constitutionally one of those tasks -- and for soon-to-be citizen Donald Trump , the best defense may be no defense at all.

In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial.

For a notorious counterpuncher, avoiding a fight might be the most difficult decision of all, particularly because he has obvious defenses.

First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately.

Even a one-day hearing would have allowed evidence to be discussed as well as a formal request for a response.

Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution.

While impeachment can be based on noncriminal grounds, Trump's speech alone did not amount to criminal incitement. Absent direct evidence of intent, a criminal charge would likely collapse in an actual trial or on appeal on First Amendment grounds. Trump expressly called for his supporters "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." He told them to go to the Capitol "to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," to "fight like hell" to challenge the election, and to remind unsupportive Republicans that their actions would not be forgotten. It was a reckless speech -- but, in a court of law, it would constitute protected speech.

Despite the strength of such defenses, the president must first decide whether he wants to sit for trial at all. He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left.

Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution states that the sole purpose of an impeachment trial is whether "the president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office." While the Senate can later add a disqualification from holding federal office again, that is only after removal is decided -- because it is a question of the penalty, not the purpose of the proceeding.

The Constitution refers to a present-tense status of "the president." That status is key to other provisions bestowing official powers and privileges, which do not linger after leaving office. No one would argue that Trump could continue to exercise those powers once President-elect Biden is sworn in. Yet a Senate trial would insist that, while Trump has no continuing powers, he remains subject to continued penalties tied to the office. Moreover, the stated purpose of the impeachment trial is whether a president "shall be removed." Thus, the only person constitutionally subject to an impeachment trial would be the sitting president, Joe Biden.

This issue has been debated since the first impeachment in 1797, when Sen. William Blount of Tennessee faced allegations of conspiring to help Great Britain seize what is now Louisiana. Blount was expelled from the Senate before being impeached, so he insisted he was not subject to trial and refused to appear. The Senate apparently agreed and dismissed the case -- just 10 years after the Constitution's ratification, with most of the Framers still alive and some serving in Congress. (Indeed, Blount was one of its signers.)

The second case fared little better. In 1876, former Secretary of War William Belknap was tried even though he resigned before being impeached. Almost half of the senators voted that they did not have jurisdiction, and Belknap was later acquitted, in part due to doubts over the trial's legitimacy.

The absence of a defendant or defense counsel might not be the only curious element in this trial. It is unclear, for example, if Chief Justice John Roberts would be called upon to preside. After all, the Constitution stipulates that when "the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside" -- but the president will be Biden, not Trump.

The failure to put on a defense is not an admission of guilt. The Senate has a duty to resolve whether there is a valid impeachment trial to be held and then whether the constitutional standard has been satisfied. If the Senate does not dismiss the case in a threshold vote, Trump can treat the proceeding as an extraconstitutional act because he is no longer subject to removal. If the Senate were to convict, he would have standing to challenge any disqualification from future federal offices. He could well prevail, and the Senate would have created a precedent against itself: history's first judicial reversal of an impeachment verdict.

Courts have long maintained that impeachments are left to Congress. Yet this is different. This is a question of whether a private citizen can be subjected to a proceeding that is expressly committed to the removal of officeholders. Impeachments go to the status of an officeholder, while indictments go to the status of an individual. If prosecutors believe Trump incited insurrection, they should charge him. However, the Senate must decide if it wants to hold a trial based on a legal fiction: a vote to remove someone who is no longer in office.

[Jan 19, 2021] That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party

Trump, politically, proved to be complete and upper idiot, who just self-destructed. To the applause from the neoliberal Dems.The blunder with his behaviour of Dec 6 is inexcusable and might well be a set up. But Buchanan is right: neoliberal Dems now own the mess and they have no plans other the to kick the can down the road. Which probably will lead to further impoverishment of "deplorables"
Jan 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

It looks like from a certain point the events of Dec 6 were orchestrated by the neoliberal wing of Democratic Party. Although initially this might well be plotted by Trump supporters, who got into this trap. But later with "invasion" of Capitol building was used as a gambit by the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party to crush the opposition and destroy Trump as a political leader of Republican Party. Which actually is a positive thing -- Trump definitely outlived his usefulness.

At least it is now clear that the security of the Capitol was artificially degraded to the level unacceptable for such events. Also there was strange period of "inaction" both by city authorities (which command substantial and well equipped police force; as of early March, the department had 3,805 officers. ) and Pentagon. But DC major did nothing while she was capable to send at least 2K reinforcement. They also have helicopters and A Communications Division Command Post vehicles, which can be used for coordination of police actions, and armed vehicles which could be used to cut the the rest of the mob from the building. Which always has instant demoralizing affect on attackers much like opening of the second front in real wars. Nothing was done despite direct TV translation form the place of events.

Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Now, The Left Owns It All - ZeroHedge

That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left.

The death of a Capitol cop has enabled the left -- which spent the summer after George Floyd's death trashing "racist cops" and shouting, "Defund the Police!" -- to posture as fighting allies of the men in blue.

Neoliberals who implored us to understand the grievances of the rioters, looters and arsonists last summer have become sudden converts to the church of law and order.

Elites who had condoned the smashing of statues and monuments to Columbus, Washington, Jefferson and Jackson as a needed cleansing of our hateful history have declared themselves sickened that Trumpists would desecrate the temple of democracy.

Had it been antifa or BLM that carried out the invasion, not one statue would have been left standing in Statuary Hall, and we would have been instructed that it was slaves who had, after all, built the Capitol building.

The media is airing endless footage of the mob marauding inside the Capitol. Purpose: to plant indelibly in the public mind the fiction that this was the deliberate work of Donald Trump and his people, and our elites are the real adversaries of violent protest.

Indeed, to protect the nation from rightist uprisings in state capitals, this weekend saw the widespread deployment of the National Guard.

Sunday was to be the day the murderous violence of the right would manifest itself.

What happened? As The Washington Post reported Monday:

... ... ...

In anticipation of Wednesday's inauguration, 25,000 National Guard have been deployed in and around D.C. to defend against right-wing mobs or would-be assassins. Three or four times as many troops are here in D.C. as there are U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria combined.

Now, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And better too much security than not enough. But even given the Jan. 6 outrage, to arm our capital city as though Stonewall Jackson's Confederates were going to march up Manassas Road and capture Abe Lincoln after the Union defeat at Bull Run seems a bit excessive.

Yet, Wednesday is a historic day. Trump will be gone from the White House and national power and responsibility will pass to the Democratic Party.

Democrats take over the House, Senate and White House. Virtually all major media will be in their camp. They will be welcomed in a city that has never elected a Republican mayor and has no Republicans on the city council, a city that voted for Joe Biden 18-1 over Trump. The 30,000 registered Republicans in D.C. are outnumbered 12-1 by Democrats.

The government bureaucracies here are as deeply Democratic as the "deep state" that bedeviled Trump for four years. Biden's Cabinet is the most racially and ethnically diverse ever; the majority of its members are women and people of color. Obama administration holdovers dominate the national security team.

Most of America's major cities -- New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, D.C., Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis -- are run by neoliberal Democrats, and, coincidentally, all experienced surges in shootings and killings in 2020.

While the figures on the criminal perpetrators are rarely reported, it appears that not a great many of the violent and lethal crimes were the work of rogue cops or white supremacists in MAGA hats.

Other problems Trump failed to solve -- the pandemic now killing 3,000 to 4,000 Americans a day, the failure to get vaccines into the arms of millions of more Americans -- are now Joe's problems.

Calling Trump names will no longer cut it.

Now, Democrats must decide whether to proceed with the impeachment trial of Trump for inciting a riot that began on the Capitol steps as he was speaking a mile away, a riot planned long before the rally on the Mall.

Now, Democrats can choose whether they will forego extracting their pound of flesh as the first order of business in the Senate and let Nancy Pelosi sit a while on her impeachment resolution.

Now, Democrats have it all. If they wish, they can abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, make D.C. and Puerto Rico states, forgive all student debt, and vote for slavery reparations.

One reads that a caravan of thousands is forming up in Honduras to pass through Guatemala in the hope of reaching and crossing the U.S. border when Biden becomes president.

That, too, is Joe's party's problem now.

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cankles' server 35 minutes ago

As Greenwald said, it's easy for the neocons to switch because the D's are now the party of "militarism, imperialism, and corporatism."

just_looking 2 hours ago

There was plenty of evidence. Courts would not let into the record, using excuse of "No Standing" - so would not let case proceed.

Why couldnt the fighure out who did have standing, and proceed that way?

I hate to say it, but Republicans are not equipped to deal with the sort of war the Dems fight. The Dems (Hillary) are (sadly) way better at this.

Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 2 hours ago

That doesn't matter to the Cabal. Look at the Warren and 9/11 Commission reports. They are an insult to your intelligence. They don't even care if the sheep believe them as long as they control the narrative and retain power.

You_Cant_Quit_Me 2 hours ago (Edited)

It's clear the law & order crowd only applies if you are white. The FBI did absolutely nothing when federal properties were being destroyed by BLM protestors, the FBI did nothing when businesses were vandalized, looted, and burnt. And all at once our democracy is at stake when protestors on Jan 6th shot no one, burned nothing, and was overall peaceful

SCREW ME!

just_looking 2 hours ago

I think they have arrested more people from Jan 6 Capital Hill protest - than all the looters, in all the cities, all summer combined. And all those arrested for Capital Hill protest had jobs!

[Jan 19, 2021] Turley On The No-Show Option -- Trump Could Sit Out The Senate Trial And Still Prevail

Notable quotes:
"... In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial. ..."
"... First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately. ..."
"... Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution. ..."
"... He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris assures us the Senate can politically "multitask" to deal with an impeachment, an incoming Biden administration and a pandemic.

However, the threshold question is whether this is constitutionally one of those tasks -- and for soon-to-be citizen Donald Trump , the best defense may be no defense at all.

In fairness, people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment. While I have stated that I do not wish to serve as the president's counsel, I have spoken to members of Congress and the White House on the historical and constitutional backgrounds for a trial. From a purely strategic perspective, I believe Trump may be wise to skip any trial.

For a notorious counterpuncher, avoiding a fight might be the most difficult decision of all, particularly because he has obvious defenses.

First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented "snap impeachment" without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately.

Even a one-day hearing would have allowed evidence to be discussed as well as a formal request for a response.

Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump's Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an "incitement to insurrection." His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously , it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution.

While impeachment can be based on noncriminal grounds, Trump's speech alone did not amount to criminal incitement. Absent direct evidence of intent, a criminal charge would likely collapse in an actual trial or on appeal on First Amendment grounds. Trump expressly called for his supporters "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." He told them to go to the Capitol "to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," to "fight like hell" to challenge the election, and to remind unsupportive Republicans that their actions would not be forgotten. It was a reckless speech -- but, in a court of law, it would constitute protected speech.

Despite the strength of such defenses, the president must first decide whether he wants to sit for trial at all. He can legitimately argue that a private citizen cannot be impeached and that the Senate cannot remove a person from office who has already left.

Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution states that the sole purpose of an impeachment trial is whether "the president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office." While the Senate can later add a disqualification from holding federal office again, that is only after removal is decided -- because it is a question of the penalty, not the purpose of the proceeding.

The Constitution refers to a present-tense status of "the president." That status is key to other provisions bestowing official powers and privileges, which do not linger after leaving office. No one would argue that Trump could continue to exercise those powers once President-elect Biden is sworn in. Yet a Senate trial would insist that, while Trump has no continuing powers, he remains subject to continued penalties tied to the office. Moreover, the stated purpose of the impeachment trial is whether a president "shall be removed." Thus, the only person constitutionally subject to an impeachment trial would be the sitting president, Joe Biden.

This issue has been debated since the first impeachment in 1797, when Sen. William Blount of Tennessee faced allegations of conspiring to help Great Britain seize what is now Louisiana. Blount was expelled from the Senate before being impeached, so he insisted he was not subject to trial and refused to appear. The Senate apparently agreed and dismissed the case -- just 10 years after the Constitution's ratification, with most of the Framers still alive and some serving in Congress. (Indeed, Blount was one of its signers.)

The second case fared little better. In 1876, former Secretary of War William Belknap was tried even though he resigned before being impeached. Almost half of the senators voted that they did not have jurisdiction, and Belknap was later acquitted, in part due to doubts over the trial's legitimacy.

The absence of a defendant or defense counsel might not be the only curious element in this trial. It is unclear, for example, if Chief Justice John Roberts would be called upon to preside. After all, the Constitution stipulates that when "the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside" -- but the president will be Biden, not Trump.

The failure to put on a defense is not an admission of guilt. The Senate has a duty to resolve whether there is a valid impeachment trial to be held and then whether the constitutional standard has been satisfied. If the Senate does not dismiss the case in a threshold vote, Trump can treat the proceeding as an extraconstitutional act because he is no longer subject to removal. If the Senate were to convict, he would have standing to challenge any disqualification from future federal offices. He could well prevail, and the Senate would have created a precedent against itself: history's first judicial reversal of an impeachment verdict.

Courts have long maintained that impeachments are left to Congress. Yet this is different. This is a question of whether a private citizen can be subjected to a proceeding that is expressly committed to the removal of officeholders. Impeachments go to the status of an officeholder, while indictments go to the status of an individual. If prosecutors believe Trump incited insurrection, they should charge him. However, the Senate must decide if it wants to hold a trial based on a legal fiction: a vote to remove someone who is no longer in office.

[Jan 19, 2021] New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation

Looks like some lawmakers were not informed that this is a false flag...
Jan 19, 2021 | www.wsws.org

Eric London

[Jan 19, 2021] The neoliberals uses Capitol invasion as Nazis used the Reichstag fire

Jan 19, 2021 | www.naturalnews.com

On Jan. 6, 2021, a right-wing mob of a few hundred people broke away from a peaceful right-wing protest involving tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of American conservatives and forced its way into the U.S. Capitol. One Capitol policeman was killed after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, and one of the right-wing Capitol invaders was shot by a Capitol police officer. (A handful of others who died in the vicinity of the Capitol did so of nonviolent causes.) Aside from smashed windows, the mob seems to have done little damage to the Capitol. Their intent is still not clear. It seems to have been largely catharsis. They hurt no legislators, and if they intended to overthrow the government, they were delusional.

Beginning the next day, the American neoliberals used the Capitol mob just as the Nazis used the Reichstag: as an excuse to subjugate its conservative enemies and further squelch civil liberties in America – specifically, freedom of speech.

Twitter not only permanently banned the account of president of the United States but permanently banned him from Twitter. Any Twitter account found tweeting Donald Trump was permanently banned.

The neoliberals was able to do all this not only by using the Capitol mob incident but also by engaging in a series of lies.

The first was blaming the attack on President Donald Trump. Over and over, in every neoliberals MSM, Trump is blamed for "inciting" the riot in his speech just before it took place. Almost never is a Trump quote cited. Because there is none. On the contrary, he did say, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" (italics added).

Another lie was the immediate labeling of the mob attack on the Capitol as "insurrection." All neoliberals MSM and Democratic politicans now refer to the event as an "insurrection," a term defined by almost every dictionary as "an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government." As morally repulsive as the actions of the mob were, they did not constitute a revolt against civil authority or an established government. Disrupting the work of legislators for a few hours – as wrong as that was – does not constitute a "revolt."

But what proves the neoliberals's "insurrection" label is a lie is that Democrats and their media never labeled the riots of summer of 2020 – which involved the destruction by fire and/or occupation and vandalizing of police stations, and the establishment of "autonomous zones," which, by definition, revolted against "established governments" – as an "insurrection." The number of businesses burned down, looted or otherwise destroyed was barely covered by the mainstream media, and their violent perpetrators were almost never prosecuted, let alone condemned, as engaging in an insurrection. Dozens of people were killed in these riots, yet there was more outcry and condemnation against the hours-long occupation of the U.S. Capitol than against six months of violent riots.

Then, like the Nazi regime after the Reichstag fire, the neoliberals immediately moved to further curtail civil liberties, specifically conservatives' ability to promote their ideas. Twitter and Amazon made it impossible for the alternative to Twitter, Parler, to exist, all in the name of preventing another right-wing "insurrection."

[Jan 19, 2021] Unpacking the Aftermath of Trump's Coup Attempt With Brian Becker

Ok. Let's assume that we have conspiracy. But who was the head of this conspiracy. It was not Trump... We should apply Cue bono question to all this story.
Jan 19, 2021 | www.mintpressnews.com

The evidence of a conspiracy having take that is available to the public at the time of this writing is as follows:

[Jan 19, 2021] This is why Q Anon came on the scene, sponsored by some real government intel

Jan 19, 2021 | fitzinfo.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7j4GS2Kt0

This is why Q Anon came on the scene, sponsored by some real government intel just enough to prove it was inside information to mislead you into apathy while they cement power and bide time to create contingency plans behind the scenes.

[Jan 19, 2021] The Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump- Can He be Convicted

Ralph Nader is tryting to sell his agenda. But some of his observations are interesting: "Last week, the powerful National Association of Manufacturers demanded that Trump be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. " In other words neoliberal corporations dumped Trump.
Jan 19, 2021 | www.counterpunch.org

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Trump's business allies and supporters are not waiting for any verdicts. Major corporations such as Disney, Coca-Cola, and J.P. Morgan Chase have suspended campaign contributions to the GOP. Last week, the powerful National Association of Manufacturers demanded that Trump be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. Trump's banks, to whom he owes hundreds of millions of dollars, are distancing themselves from their insatiable borrower. New York City has canceled its contract with the Trump corporation. More cancellations of deals with TRUMP, Inc. will come.

Though verbally defiant, admitting no mistakes, and as usual taking no responsibility, Trump is a broken man, assailing his most loyal subjects including total toady Vice President Mike Pence. Deprived of his Twitter machine and other Internet platforms, Trump will soon be a besieged debtor, a manyfold investigated and sued defendant abandoned by the likes of Mitch McConnell.

The calculus of political survival for the just re-elected McConnell's Congressional Republicans has changed. In the minority, no longer will Republicans be able to confirm corporatist judges or pass Trump-like corporate tax cuts for the super-rich, or dismantle health and safety regulations.

But out on the MAGA hustings, Trump may be a huge tormentor, raising money and wanting to run again. Such a prospect is intolerable to McConnell. That is why he is turning against Trump by declining to oppose Impeachment and signaling that he may unleash his Republican Senators to convict Trump, if only for their own political survival...

[Jan 19, 2021] To convict Trump, the Senate trial, if it were not a completely political exercise, should have to determine if his words at the rally on Wednesday broke federal law, which states in 18 U.S. Code 373 "Solicitation to commit a crime of violence"

Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

To convict Trump, the Senate trial, if it were not a completely political exercise, should have to determine if his words at the rally on Wednesday broke federal law, which states in 18 U.S. Code § 373 – "Solicitation to commit a crime of violence":

"Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned "

About 30,000 Trump supporters filled the Ellipse between the back of the White House and the Washington Monument. According to the transcript of his remarks, Trump said:

"These people are not going to take it any longer. They're not going to take it any longer. All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats and stolen by the fake news media. We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved.

Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal. We're gathered together in the heart of our nation's Capitol for one very, very basic and simple reason, to save our democracy . we're going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed, and we're not going to stand for that.

You're stronger, you're smarter. You've got more going than anybody, and they try and demean everybody having to do with us, and you're the real people. Unbelievable, what we have to go through, what we have to go through and you have to get your people to fight. If they don't fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight. You primary them .

Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we're going to walk down and I'll be there with you. We're going to walk down. We're going to walk down any one you want, but I think right here.

We're going walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. The radical left knows exactly what they're doing. They're ruthless and it's time that somebody did something about it. And Mike Pence, I hope you're going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country.

So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don't need any of our help, we're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country."

At times the crowd chanted, "Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump!"

Are these words by Trump "strongly corroborative" of an "intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony," an intent that " solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct?"?

Or were these just the fighting words of a politician, directed almost entirely at fellow Republicans? He said: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." [Emphasis added.]

When he said the Democrats were "ruthless" and "it's time that somebody did something about it" he was referring to Pence and the Republicans sending the electoral college votes back to key states. That is the entire context of his more than one hour speech. When he said "you have to get your people to fight," he meant Republican representatives who would have to be primaried.

With no proof so far that Trump had prior knowledge of the plan to take over the Capitol, or evidence of direct instructions from him to do so, it would seem difficult to convict him in a court of law, but maybe not in a political trial in the Senate.

Before Trump spoke, Donald Trump Jr., who acted like he's preparing to run for office, whipped up the crowd saying that Wednesday was the day to prove "if you are a hero or a zero." But he was not referring to the supporters, but to Republicans in Congress who he was demanding vote against certifying election results from key swing states.

Rudy Giuliani, likewise used a strange phrase, "combat justice," but in the context of continuing to challenge the computer results of the election. Trump's people already filed 62 electoral fraud lawsuits across the country, and lost them all.

Whether or not it would be sufficient evidence to convict him, it was troubling that Trump took several hours before he called on the rioters to leave the Capitol and afterward tweeted "Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"

[Jan 19, 2021] 'Organized' March to Capitol Was Not Permitted, Rally Organizers Warned White House

Another confirmation that Trump is a mediocre politician who walked into the trap. Now he is history. The movement against neoliberalism that was hijacked by Trump also will suffer being branded as "white nationalists". So Trump betrayed his supporters again.
Notable quotes:
"... Investigative reporter Greg Palast and photojournalist Zach D. Roberts have covered the issues of vote suppression and right wing violence for two decades in reports for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Democracy Now! ..."
"... Ali Alexander is a phony who has managed to work his way into MAGA Circles. He is an intel asset and everything he has ever done to "assist" MAGA Organizations created disharmony and violence. The MAGA Movement has always been about non-violence and support for the military and law enforcement. Ali's appearances are always well arranged so that he is perfectly framed by fake news cameras as he calls for violence. Hence, we see him very clearly saying "We're going to burn this shit down". ..."
"... Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen? For weeks Trump had been telling his base the election was stolen. Everyone was talking about what Trump might do to try to hold on to power. ..."
"... The NSA surveils everyone. The FBI infiltrates all extremist groups. Are you seriously trying to tell me the capitol was taken by surprise? FFS it was all over Twitter! This was allowed to happen. This was allowed to happen!! Why? Because 2020 was the year that people took to the streets again. Not since Nixon's time have we seen so many people take to the streets. Back then it was anti-Vietnam war protesters and civil rights protesters. Nixon launched the "war on drugs" as a way to control those groups. ..."
"... They allowed it to happen so they can pass The Patriot Act 2.0. Biden is already talking about new powers for the state and police to tackle the threat of "domestic terrorism". The people have good reason to uprise. Financial inequality not seen in 100 years, jobs not coming back, massive personal debt, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, etc., etc. Meanwhile the elites massively expand their wealth. ..."
"... I love most of what you publish, but any excuse for DC not being prepared for this march is preposterous. They new it was being planned even without a permit. They saw the people arriving. And they did not bother to prepare despite all the issues Palast lists above. Trump must be accountable, but Congress and the rest of the government must share the blame. Every large peace march I have attended in Washington (since 1969) has moved down cordoned off routes with police in riot gear looking like armed aliens or perhaps beetles in their armor surrounding the capital. So there is no excuse for their not responding to this event appropriately. ..."
"... ...while the democrats sit around freaking over Trump – who will leave office in a week – who is writing the bill to rescue the American people from a complete economic meltdown. ..."
"... Although there is good research in this article, I find it impossible to determine, at this point, the actors involved. The "protest" and its aftermath have all the hallmarks of a planned psyops provocation that would and has justified the calling for an increased security state that will further erode free speech and demonize, then prosecute anyone who disagrees with the corporate fascist neoliberal elites who control the deep state and its propaganda arm-the legacy media (MSM) and now the censorship of monopoly social media, with the control of reality and history determined corporate controlled searches online of selective if not altered "facts". This is true of all search engines as well as wikipedia. ..."
"... Only Paul Jay has suggested that Trump walked into a trap set by McConnel, Pence and Graham, but Dems are profiting as well. I don't care if Trump fragrantly told the crowd to burn the capitol down, there should have been a police response other than selfies. I don't believe that Trump was responsible for the severe lack of a police presence and until we know who was responsible for that (you can bet we will never be told) we cannot hold those responsible for the events of that day. Trump was an instigator but not the ultimate cause of what happened. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

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The permit issued by the U.S. Interior Department, which has jurisdiction over federal parkland, says: "Women for America First will not conduct an organized march from the Ellipse at the conclusion of the rally." It adds, "Some participants may leave to attend rallies at the United States Capitol to hear results of Congressional certification of the Electoral College count." But an "organized march" was not allowed.

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The insider claims that Woman for America First was quite worried that they had no marshals to keep the crowd in line. "We did advocate against [the march] for all kinds of reasons. So, excuse me , it's not a big stretch to say when you have a bunch of people heading that way, it's going to be a problem."

The first news that there would be, despite warnings, an illegal, uncontrolled march was at 12:15 pm when Trump himself surprised the protest organizers with his announcement. "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard," Trump said.

The march on the Capitol was set in motion when the President announced he himself would join it . "The announcement that he was going to go was news to us," the insider said. "But then [Trump] said he's walking! It caught our team by surprise and unprepared."

Alex Jones stated on his podcast that he and Alexander were called by the White House just before the president's speech and were told to prepare to lead the crowd on a march.

"We had a legitimate deal with the White House," Jones said in an InfoWars show filmed with Alexander after the riot. "'Hey Jones and Ali,' literally, with Alexander, we were supposed to lead a peaceful deal."

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Investigative reporter Greg Palast and photojournalist Zach D. Roberts have covered the issues of vote suppression and right wing violence for two decades in reports for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Democracy Now!

Mark Bradford Benson , January 16, 2021 at 06:16

Following is my comment, which was attached to your YouTube plug for this article. Shame on Greg Palast. I always trusted him until now. He knows the above story is FAKE NEWS and, if he doesn't, he's not really an investigative reporter. There's plenty of video evidence out there Greg. Why did you just happen to fail to do your job on this story?

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Ali Alexander is a phony who has managed to work his way into MAGA Circles. He is an intel asset and everything he has ever done to "assist" MAGA Organizations created disharmony and violence. The MAGA Movement has always been about non-violence and support for the military and law enforcement. Ali's appearances are always well arranged so that he is perfectly framed by fake news cameras as he calls for violence. Hence, we see him very clearly saying "We're going to burn this shit down".

In the case of the first big spontaneous Trump Rally, in DC, following the election, the term #Stopthesteal.org was used by the female organizers of a bus tour across the US. Ali then obtained the same domain name with a different address, #stopthesteal.us" and even copy/pasted some of their original artwork. Before people had been alerted, Ali managed to scam at least $30K from decent people before the scam was exposed. He then showed up and led a counter rally that incited violence at the Capitol Building. He was unsuccessful on that day, because no one from the Trump Movement would go with him.

Then, in Georgia, he managed to show up on a stage behind Attorneys, L. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. After they spoke and left the peaceful rally, most of the people went home. Still, Ali incited violence among a group of trained false flag intel assets and managed to damage the reputations of Wood and Powell, who did not know him. They have since been advised regarding his role playing, as has the President who was once seen in a photo op with Ali, who is known as "Scammy Davis" around Maga Circles because of his resemblance to former "Rat Pack" Member, Sammy Davis, Jr.

On January 6th, Ali again teamed up with Alex Jones, who is also an asset of the Deep State, but he apparently ripped Jones off and Jones has since denounced him. Jones has spoken about this in detail, but one never knows with Jones, since he's a compromised asset and will work for either side to avoid exposure. That's how these people operate, through blackmail. I'm no fan of Alex Jones, but I have NEVER heard him advocate violence and he doesn't actually advocate violence in the video.

I always loved Greg Palast, but either he is missing the story on this one or he is yet another disinformation asset, who will be exposed in the near future. That would be a shame, but we are finding that out about a lot of people that were once trusted. Ali and Jones are just players in a much bigger game, which will be exposed to the world, beginning this week.

Note to Greg: This story makes you and Consortium News look foolish. Perhaps you should go to Toresays or ToreSaysNews on YouTube and find about Ali from an asset that came in from the cold. Her shows are long, but you're an investigative reporter. Take the time to listen to a few of her shows before you start "exposing" Ali as a MAGA Supporter.

Note to the Reader: I supported Bernie Sanders in 2016, with my money and my primary vote. I held my nose and voted for Trump rather than vote for a WAR CRIMINAL who had stolen the nomination. As a former Federal Manager, who fought my Agency for eight years, lost everything and even started a union as my departure gift, I come from the "left". However, this term is no longer valid, since the Deep State has people working both sides of a phony left/right paradigm.

Finally, I'm not an investigative reporter, but I know how to do research beyond the staged mainstream footage, which Mr. Palast conveniently used for this story. Moreover, there's a lot of footage out there and more will be released this week, since there were undercover military assets among the vandals who recorded their activities. Some of it is already in the MSM Greg. How did you miss it?

The bigger story, which is also being missed, is this: Trump and company have just pulled off the greatest sting in history and we will all have a front row seat on January 20, so get your popcorn and tune in. In fact, arrests have already been made and many more are coming. Ali may already have been arrested, but we won't know for a while.

Neil Youngson , January 16, 2021 at 03:07

Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen? For weeks Trump had been telling his base the election was stolen. Everyone was talking about what Trump might do to try to hold on to power.

The NSA surveils everyone. The FBI infiltrates all extremist groups. Are you seriously trying to tell me the capitol was taken by surprise? FFS it was all over Twitter! This was allowed to happen. This was allowed to happen!! Why? Because 2020 was the year that people took to the streets again. Not since Nixon's time have we seen so many people take to the streets. Back then it was anti-Vietnam war protesters and civil rights protesters. Nixon launched the "war on drugs" as a way to control those groups.

The one thing the establishment fears the most is the people taking to the streets and building guillotines (ask the French).

They allowed it to happen so they can pass The Patriot Act 2.0. Biden is already talking about new powers for the state and police to tackle the threat of "domestic terrorism". The people have good reason to uprise. Financial inequality not seen in 100 years, jobs not coming back, massive personal debt, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, etc., etc. Meanwhile the elites massively expand their wealth.

It's a class struggle. Don't fall into the trap of blaming Trump, the whole establishment is your enemy.

Judith Bello , January 15, 2021 at 21:46

I love most of what you publish, but any excuse for DC not being prepared for this march is preposterous. They new it was being planned even without a permit. They saw the people arriving. And they did not bother to prepare despite all the issues Palast lists above. Trump must be accountable, but Congress and the rest of the government must share the blame. Every large peace march I have attended in Washington (since 1969) has moved down cordoned off routes with police in riot gear looking like armed aliens or perhaps beetles in their armor surrounding the capital. So there is no excuse for their not responding to this event appropriately.

Apparently there were such severe threats on social media that the tech giants felt compelled to actually take down Parler, one of the sites where the protesters congregated. But they knew about this in advance, and far more planning went on in google and facebook groups. So, Trump was out of line, but the rest of the DC establishment made a decision to take advantage of this moment of excess rather than contain it...

...while the democrats sit around freaking over Trump – who will leave office in a week – who is writing the bill to rescue the American people from a complete economic meltdown. Who is minding the affairs of state. Who is addressing the real problems that have incited riots on both the left and right by desperate people? Not congress. And the blogosphere is drowning in Trump Trump Trump Trump . Trump Trump Trump Trump well, you get it.

Charles Cox , January 15, 2021 at 18:54

Although there is good research in this article, I find it impossible to determine, at this point, the actors involved. The "protest" and its aftermath have all the hallmarks of a planned psyops provocation that would and has justified the calling for an increased security state that will further erode free speech and demonize, then prosecute anyone who disagrees with the corporate fascist neoliberal elites who control the deep state and its propaganda arm-the legacy media (MSM) and now the censorship of monopoly social media, with the control of reality and history determined corporate controlled searches online of selective if not altered "facts". This is true of all search engines as well as wikipedia.

Jhoblho , January 15, 2021 at 15:00

Only Paul Jay has suggested that Trump walked into a trap set by McConnel, Pence and Graham, but Dems are profiting as well. I don't care if Trump fragrantly told the crowd to burn the capitol down, there should have been a police response other than selfies. I don't believe that Trump was responsible for the severe lack of a police presence and until we know who was responsible for that (you can bet we will never be told) we cannot hold those responsible for the events of that day. Trump was an instigator but not the ultimate cause of what happened.

[Jan 19, 2021] DOJ Now Says There Was No Plot to Kill Elected Officials

Notable quotes:
"... The Washington Post ..."
"... The New York Times ..."
"... Consortium News ..."
"... The New Yorker, ..."
"... The last scene in the video shows that the violent protest and takeover was about more than just the election. After trashing media equipment, one man says, "We gotta change it. They fucking abuse us. They laugh at us. They steal our money." ..."
"... Consortium News ..."
"... The New York Times. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

T he U.S. Justice Department has reversed an earlier assertion in court by prosecutors that protestors who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 had plans to "capture and assassinate elected officials."

Instead, the head of the DOJ investigation into the Capitol siege admitted that federal prosecutors filed a misleading statement before a federal judge in Arizona that was intended to prevent Jacob Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, from being released on bail.

The DOJ said that though there were calls to kill officials during the two-hour takeover of the Capitol, no evidence has been discovered yet to prove any serious effort to carry out such a plan.

"There is no direct evidence at this point of kill-capture teams and assassination," Michael Sherwin, the Washington DC federal district attorney running the investigation of the attack, told reporters, Agence France-Presse reported. Sherwin said it may be "appropriate" to raise it at trial, but at this point it could "mislead the court."

The original story of intentions to kill officials has entered the media discourse and is likely to remain a Democratic talking point despite the DOJ reversal. The only major media outlets that reported the new story is NBC News and The Washington Post . It has not appeared in The New York Times or on CNN's website, for instance.

Having saturated the public with days of lurid tales of intentions to hang Vice President Mike Pence and abduct House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it will be hard to shake such beliefs without reporting the DOJ's reversal with the same intensity.

The original statement filed in court said: "Strong evidence, including Chansley's own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials of the United States government."

There has been no suggestion that the prosecutors in Arizona who made the false claim are being investigated for misleading the court.

The 'Coup'

Riot police at Capitol, Jan. 21, 2017 for Trump's inauguration. (Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons)

The admission dramatically changes the story, repeated as Democratic Party talking points, and undermines the unquestioned certainty that what took place was an attempted coup against the United States government. The new DOJ stance might also weaken efforts to charge Capitol rioters and intruders with "seditious conspiracy" charges for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government.

Consortium News has been among the few media outlets to question the coup narrative from the start.

Even if there were such murderous intentions it would not have amounted to a coup attempt without the backing of the military or paramilitaries, and without taking over the airport and radio and TV stations. These days it would probably mean taking over social media companies too. The U.S. government and media structures are vaster and more powerful than just the legislature.

Even if the protestors had intended and succeeded in hanging Vice President Mike Pence (presuming the gallows erected outside the Capitol was sturdy enough), and even if they had taken Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and others hostage would Donald Trump have said, "Okay, they didn't certify Biden, I'm still president!"?

No branch of government would have supported Trump in that case and the surviving members of Congress would have met elsewhere to certify Joe Biden as president.

New Video Inside Capitol

Chansley, the far-right, bare-chested activist with fur headdress and Viking horns, became the symbol of the brief takeover of the Capitol by Trump supporters. He was arrested and faces a six-count federal indictment, charged with:

Civil disorder Obstruction of an official proceeding Entering and remaining in a restricted building Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building Violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building

He is not charged with insurrection or sedition to overthrow the government.

Jacob Chandsley/ Qananon Shaman. (TheUnseen011101/Wikimedia Commons)

In a new video released on Sunday by The New Yorker, Chansley is seen grunting primordial chants while playing to a photographer a few feet in front of him in a Senate balcony. Later he seats himself in Pence's Senate chair.

After a single Capitol police officer pleads with the intruders to leave, Chansley leads the group in prayer and then files out with the others, but not before scrawling on a piece of paper on Pence's desk: "It's only a matter of time, justice is coming."

Before Chansley sat in it, the video shows one of the protest leaders, dressed in military gear, demanding that the others not occupy the vice president's chair. He says: "It's not our chair. I love you brothers, but we cannot be disrespectful. It's a PR war, okay? You have to understand it's an IO war. We can't lose the IO war. We're better than that. It's an Information Operation."

The video shows a couple of dozen protestors rifling through senators' desks looking for, in the words of one, "something we can fucking use against these scumbags" and taking photos of documents. At one point they thought they found evidence in Senator Ted Cruz's desk that he was going to betray them on certification, but read further and realized he would not.

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The film is interspersed with very violent scenes of police in riot gear trying to prevent protestors from entering the Capitol.

The last scene in the video shows that the violent protest and takeover was about more than just the election. After trashing media equipment, one man says, "We gotta change it. They fucking abuse us. They laugh at us. They steal our money."

As journalist Chris Hedges said last Thursday, one can decry their politics, the racism among many, and their tactics, but their pain is real in a system that has shrunk the middle class and debased workers.

What happened at the Capitol cannot be condoned. But unless Congress defies its oligarchic backers and serves the interests of average Americans, who also fund them, a real insurrection may be inevitable. Instead of the reforms to defuse that and bring more economic justice, we are witnessing a crackdown that will only further inflame the country.

Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former UN correspondent for T he Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe , and numerous other newspapers. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London and began his professional career as a stringer for The New York Times. He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @unjoe .

rosemerry , January 18, 2021 at 13:15

It is interesting that both sides of the House and Senate manage almost all the time to arrange that other countries they have decided are enemies or rivals have real "coups" and takeovers helped by the mighty US . Iraq, Syria,Libya,Venezuela are just a few of the recent examples, but they are not "USA USA" so they do not count.

rosemerry , January 18, 2021 at 13:07

No surprise that the "paper of record" NYT did not bother to mention this legal angle. The descriptions I have seen in European papers and in the Sycophant aka the Guardian hardly vary at all and scream the alleged danger to the poor Congress members.

Anne , January 18, 2021 at 14:25

Nor NPR .Indeed they didn't bother to mention the 1954 shootings in the US Capitol (House) until AFTER the BBC World Service had and then a week later


Tim S. , January 18, 2021 at 12:54

Anyone who has watched the video filmed by the arch-instigator's would-be-journalist sidekick can see for themselves that these were not even serious rioters, much less coup plotters, who were surprised as everybody else about being allowed into the Capitol building.
And despite some toy guns and one man with the slogan on the back of his jacket "God, guns, and Trump), it is obvious from their panicky reactions when a woman was killed that they felt deep down that this was all fun and games. She was trying to break down an interior door, starting with the window, but when an agent inside pointed a pistol at her, she ignored it. When he finally shot her, they all start yelling "She's been shot!" and react rather like a bunch of bystanders.

Does that sound like a gang planning to kill some Congressmen and taken others hostage?

Jonny James , January 18, 2021 at 11:48

Yes, once again the mainstream narrative stinks, and the fresh air is here on CN. That's why we don't breathe the miasma of the corporate media.

The Divide and Rule strategies of the ruling classes are working nicely. We can't have the "99%" get together to work against "the interests of Goldman Sachs" (Hedges). That is not allowed. The rub is that both the so-called right and so-called left work for the interests of Goldman Sachs.

I remember very clearly how brutally the peaceful Occupy protests were smashed. The violent cops used armored vehicles and other military equipment, massive amounts of tear gas, flash-bang grenades, drones, surveillance etc. etc. , Scott Horton was nearly killed by a tear-gas canister fired directly at his head. You are not allowed to work against the interests of the real owners of this country. As George Carlin once said, "they own the f-in place".


Anne , January 18, 2021 at 14:35

I have yet to hear NPR mention anything about the woman who was shot dead (no weapon on her) let alone who shot and killed her that she was ex-mil (thus trained to invade, destroy, devastate, slaughter peoples, cultures, societies far, far, from these shores what you train for and then deploy will eventually come back home and bite

John Drake , January 18, 2021 at 13:37

Agreed, I find the minimizing of this event truly putrid. What is it about an enraged crowd, chanting "stop the steal" breaking into a building full of legislators , assaulting, injuring police and scaring the ..t out of said elected legislators that is not an attempt to overthrow, interfere, interrupt, prevent a key governmental process? This a governmental process whose outcome they wanted to alter keeping the Orange Menace in power. A flight of ridiculous fancy, no doubt, but still attitude, behavior and intent count.

Just because it doesn't rise to the level of well known coups orchestrated by professionals (CIA): Honduras, Guatemala, Chile, Iran and hundreds more; doesn't mean it doesn't belong in the same family of nasty socio/political events. Can we compromise and call it a mini attempted coup or maybe mini coup-lite? Anyway the perpetrators and their enablers need to major consequences; especially those officials that violated their oath of office.

[Jan 19, 2021] Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen?

Jan 19, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

Neil Youngson , January 16, 2021 at 03:07

Am I the only one who thinks this riot was allowed to happen? For weeks Trump had been telling his base the election was stolen. Everyone was talking about what Trump might do to try to hold on to power.

The NSA surveils everyone. The FBI infiltrates all extremist groups. Are you seriously trying to tell me the capitol was taken by surprise? FFS it was all over Twitter!

This was allowed to happen. This was allowed to happen!!

Why? Because 2020 was the year that people took to the streets again. Not since Nixon's time have we seen so many people take to the streets. Back then it was anti-Vietnam war protesters and civil rights protesters. Nixon launched the "war on drugs" as a way to control those groups.

The one thing the establishment fears the most is the people taking to the streets and building guillotines (ask the French).

They allowed it to happen so they can pass The Patriot Act 2.0. Biden is already talking about new powers for the state and police to tackle the threat of "domestic terrorism".

The people have good reason to uprise. Financial inequality not seen in 100 years, jobs not coming back, massive personal debt, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, etc., etc. Meanwhile the elites massively expand their wealth.

It's a class struggle. Don't fall into the trap of blaming Trump, the whole establishment is your enemy.

Judith Bello , January 15, 2021 at 21:46

I love most of what you publish, but any excuse for DC not being prepared for this march is preposterous. They new it was being planned even without a permit. They saw the people arriving . and they did not bother to prepare despite all the issues Palast lists above. Trump must be accountable, but Congress and the rest of the government must share the blame. Every large peace march I have attended in Washington (since 1969) has moved down cordoned off routes with police in riot gear looking like armed aliens or perhaps beetles in their armor surrounding the capital. So there is no excuse for their not responding to this event appropriately.

Apparently there were such severe threats on social media that the tech giants felt compelled to actually take down Parler, one of the sites where the protesters congregated. But they knew about this in advance, and far more planning went on in google and facebook groups. So, Trump was out of line, but the rest of the DC establishment made a decision to take advantage of this moment of excess rather than contain it...

...while the democrats sit around freaking over Trump – who will leave office in a week – who is writing the bill to rescue the American people from a complete economic meltdown. Who is minding the affairs of state. Who is addressing the real problems that have incited riots on both the left and right by desperate people? Not congress. And the blogosphere is drowning in Trump Trump Trump Trump . Trump Trump Trump Trump well, you get it.

Charles Cox , January 15, 2021 at 18:54

Although there is good research in this article, I find it impossible to determine, at this point, the actors involved. The "protest" and its aftermath have all the hallmarks of a planned psyops provocation that would and has justified the calling for an increased security state that will further erode free speech and demonize, then prosecute anyone who disagrees with the corporate fascist neoliberal elites who control the deep state and its propaganda arm-the legacy media (MSM) and now the censorship of monopoly social media, with the control of reality and history determined corporate controlled searches online of selective if not altered "facts". This is true of all search engines as well as wikipedia.

Jhoblho , January 15, 2021 at 15:00

Only Paul Jay has suggested that Trump walked into a trap set by McConnel, Pence and Graham, but Dems are profiting as well. I don't care if Trump fragrantly told the crowd to burn the capitol down, there should have been a police response other than selfies.

I don't believe that Trump was responsible for the severe lack of a police presence and until we know who was responsible for that (you can bet we will never be told) we cannot hold those responsible for the events of that day. Trump was an instigator but not the ultimate cause of what happened.

Jonny James , January 15, 2021 at 13:39

Equal application of the law? Please!

The "rule of law" is something of a joke in this country. War criminals are lavished with praise and perks, rewarded with contracts and cushy jobs. For just one example: Henry K is still alive, never prosecuted – he holds a Nobel Peace Prize for cryin out loud.

Bush Jr., Cheney and the gang were never prosecuted for the many high crimes they committed, let alone the war crimes resulting in the destruction of entire countries and the deaths of over a million innocent people.

Obama and HRC were never held accountable for war crimes and other illegal activities either.

The largest financial crimes in US history were not even investigated, let alone prosecuted. Instead the banksters were (and still are) REWARDED with trillions in public funds and Fed Reserve "quantitative easing". However, millions lost their homes due to fraud, but that's perfectly fine. The Banksters are Above The Law.

Police can murder black, brown and poor white folks with impunity. As servants to the ruling class, police are given special privileges

The equal application of the law is simply not possible in our current system.

Sorry to be so skeptical, but Trump will likely never be held accountable.

Rosemarie Castelli Orr , January 16, 2021 at 21:39

I am in total agreement with you.
I also believe Trump had flagrant delicato information about many politicians on the Hill from Epstein and Maxwell who are mysteriously absent from MSM.
The Empire of Shite is in its Death Knell.
The market will continue its rise post COVID-19 with history repeating itself and mirroring the roaring twenties of 100 years ago.
Rome is in ashes.

JOHN CHUCKMAN , January 15, 2021 at 12:32

An excellent report.

It explains why the police were unprepared which seemed clear to me.

It confirms my view of chaos with the crowd and no central purpose other than to display their unhappiness with events, with individual exceptions of course.

And it confirms the absolute lunatic recklessness of Trump.

Recklessness we have seen displayed many times from tearing up nuclear treaties and giving away the property of others to the criminal abuse of Iran and China.

By the way, just a footnote, a recent study demonstrated that Trump's insane efforts with China actually cost the US 245,000 jobs at one point. And yet his naive followers think he was working for their good.

JoSixPack , January 15, 2021 at 09:02

So it was dangerous because they did not get a permit? Is a permit required to hold a protest? Did the Black Lives Matters protests have permits?

See how that works. A lack of a permit does not make a protest dangerous.

It's also disingenuous to say this protest was not known about to the police or law enforcement.

According to the ACLU,

"What if others react violently to a protest?

A speaker at a protest is not legally responsible for the presence of angry listeners, and their hostile actions do not make the speaker's speech illegal. "

hXXps://www.aclu-wa.org/story/rights-protesters

Some parting words from John Pilger:

"The hysteria in the US about a coup that was not a coup, an "assault on democracy" that was no such thing, is due to a cartoonish insularity that distracts from an unending pre-Trump imperial assault on the rest of humanity, such as stricken Yemen."

hXXps://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1349498383367626754

There are real stories of bad things Trump has done. This is not one of them.

John R , January 15, 2021 at 08:38

They lacked a permit ? I look at the Trump directive to proceed to the Capital and fight like hell as their "unofficial permit."

Mark Walker , January 15, 2021 at 11:33

So, no permit then.
Nixon tried this, "It's legal if the President does it." Didn't work for him or for Reagan.
The "Rule of Law", "Law and Order" guy is on opposite day 24x7x365.

Sally Snyder , January 15, 2021 at 08:25

Here is an interesting look at how Americans view Donald Trump's links to the events on Capitol Hill:

see: viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-americans-perceive-events-on.html

As is becoming typical of the United States, the events of last week are viewed completely differently by each side of the massive political divide.

michae888 , January 15, 2021 at 06:34

Sounds much like when Democrats took Green parties off of ballots because of a change of address of one of the candidates while collecting needed petition signatures (technicalities; legal but unethical disenfranchisement).
The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the right of Americans "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". (Even Mexico "allowed" protests, grudgingly, when AMLO's supporters flooded the streets after his first two losses.) What percent of the George Floyd protests had permits? 93% of those protests– involving 10 million+ people– were peaceful (yet 78% of the arrests were not for violent crimes). The George Floyd protesters destroyed national monuments and statures, a precedent, and did much more damage generally (yet not one unarmed protester was shot to death by Police during these protests).

I'm a life-long Democrat, but am appalled at the partisan CONTROL coming about through the unholy alliance of the DNC, CIA, MSM and social media. I grew up in another world where Freedom of Speech, dissent (often spirited, occasionally violent) and diversity of views were valued. I remember when the CIA was not allowed to operate within the US, and all Intelligence agencies were apolitical (at least for the Democrats and Republicans, who share essentially the same corrupt values though they claim to detest each other). Now the CIA demands other Five Eyes agencies do their dirty work within the US, and all Intelligence Agencies have fought Trump (hate him or not) spying on him constantly and undermining his campaign, somehow legally?

The "modernization" of Smith Mundt removed anti-propaganda restrictions, and it is clear that on any important issue, an Official Narrative is handed down to MSM and enforced through social media as well (and it's not just political; many of us retired scientists, physicians and veterinarians were aghast at obvious mistakes(?) made with Covid-19, calling for glucocorticoids and vitamin D3 and other things IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY and MARCH, which would have saved lives (first peak death rate April 21st) but almost all dissenting views from the WHO and Fauci and the CDC were taken down from social media and comments sections as "MISINFORMATION".

Some of us were even barred from sites briefly; Fauci is an AIDS expert, but knew nothing in January about Covid-19 and the Public Health measures which worked so well in Asia against the virus.) As with the CIA, now LEGALLY controlling Narratives, censorship is not allowed by the Government, BUT they can tell MSM who can tell social media who to censor. As SCOTUS has ruled repeatedly: "HATE SPEECH IS FREE SPEECH!"

U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein doesn't think so, as a federal judge she has violated the First Amendment by refusing to allow Parler to serve as a free speech publisher with no moderation (censoring them). I have never been on that site and am sure it is hateful, but it doesn't bother me, since they are not a publisher, just a free speech platform. With the DNC/ CIA/ MSM/ social media chain making censoring "legal", maybe it will soon be legal to kill people you disagree with (your wife?) provided similar chains of corrupt actors can be established. The US already does this abroad.

Anne , January 16, 2021 at 11:40

I agree with much you have written and I support neither Face of the Janus Party Either you have free speech or you don't. Either you have the right to protest or you don't. (I seem to recall not too many months ago that the MSM were cheering on the Hong Kong rioters no matter what they did, violent or not, including their closing down of the island's airport for a day while beating up at least one journalist but hey what's good for the goose apparently is not for the gander.)

And I too recall protests that were hardly peaceful – protests in good causes that produced rioting, destruction of buildings and looting and what of 1968?

Moreover didn't one Lolita LeBron, a Puerto Rican nationalist and anti-colonialist, and a handful of her compatriots enter the US Capitol and once in Congress, the pubic gallery (the House, I think), and proceed to shoot the members – five sustained injuries

To pretend that nothing kindred to last week has happened in the US Capitol since 1812 is to lie egregiously yes the Puerto Rican nationalists (too few) did not ransack the building but there was an intent to maim if not kill

And the news regarding the one woman shot is totally absent (at least on NPR) she was ex military who shot her?

Given that not a few of the people were ex military or the adult offspring of ex-mil – what can be expected? You train people to kill others, especially others who do not look like you, live differently, have a different culture and that training induces a totally compunctionless attitude toward destruction, devastation of others and their homes, livelihoods and so on when they come back home, why would they suddenly become humane again? Suddenly regain empathy, sympathy? You've destroyed it within them to achieve your political, economic, imperialist ends

This is the result: Chickens home to roost

Luchorpan , January 14, 2021 at 23:12

If Trump and Alexander are punished for this, then apply the law equally and punish the huge number of anti-Trump, BLM, and antifa marches and protests. The law cannot be selective. The impression people have is BLM, Antifa, and really any violent group useful to the powers-that-be are given a free pass, that the law does not apply to them.

If big business, big government, big media, and the Democratic Party continue to unite in violence against their enemies, productive people are just going to leave the US. Whether you call it fascism or communism, it is wrong. And it is quite shocking how many on the Left defend the violence in the US, makes it easier to understand how they can implicitly support so many horrible and ongoing genocides overseas.

[Jan 19, 2021] Wise words from black socialist Ajamu Baraka: You cannot promote lawlessness and deny democracy and national sovereignty to nations around the world without it eventually destroying the illusions that serve as the foundation of your own fragile political institutions.

Notable quotes:
"... *International human rights activist, organizer, political analyst. National Organizer for @blacks4peace ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | caucus99percent.com

wise words from black socialist Ajamu Baraka*

wendy davis on Mon, 01/18/2021 - 4:28pm

on this MLK Day civil rights 2.0 as the nation is being torn asunder with fear and loathing post-Capitol insurrection.

*International human rights activist, organizer, political analyst. National Organizer for @blacks4peace

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[Jan 19, 2021] Trump walked into the DC 'Forum', and ended 'stabbed to death', as had Julius. It has been truly Shakespearean by Alastair Crooke

Jan 19, 2021 | www.strategic-culture.org

The 'Ides of March', they came early this year – on 6 January, at least for one current U.S. 'Caesar'. What happened; how it happened; who concocted the Capitol events, will be long debated. However, the daggers had long been sharpened for Caesar, well before the invasion of the Capitol. In a sense, the stage was already set – Trump walked into the DC 'Forum', and ended 'stabbed to death', as had Julius. It has been truly Shakespearean.

It was well-known that Trump might well reject the election results, because of postal ballot potential fraud (as postal ballots assumed their disproportionate 2020 electoral predominance). The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) precisely (purposefully?) had taunted Trump last June with its forecast of a contested election in which Trump would lose – after "all of the mail-in ballots had been tallied". The TIP then had turned to the prospective tactics and tasks for forcefully ousting a President-in-denial from the White House. (The media and 'platforms' had been participants in this early war-gaming of how to deal with a Trump, who contested the election result, and questioned the legality and authenticity of postal ballots).

It needn't have been this way – but no compromise on rules on postal balloting was attempted (rather, the reverse). In any event, the Capitol invasion now stands as a major psychic event (the "Insurrection") searing the American consciousness. Apart from unnerving the legislators, unused to experiencing a sudden loss of security, the invasion has become the sacrilege to a 'sacred space' (with all the additional connotations of America's exceptional, divine mission). The daggers were gleefully plunged in – Trump is impeached again; he is to be tried in the Senate after the Biden inauguration; and he and his family, may expect the legal dismemberment that will follow.

The 'Blue State' has – from Trump's first election – been determined to crush him. That is underway. And somehow sychronistically, we now have the Tech digital deletion of Red America from social platforms, with talk of a 'purge' and cultural 're-education' for his supporters (and their children), as well. Biden is already speaking like a War President (and the Capitol now has taken the air of a theatre of war, with troops and weapons strewn about its corridors): "Trump", said Biden, "has unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of democracy, from the outset, and yesterday was but the culmination of that unrelenting attack".

Here is the key first implication to that 'psychic event' – not just for Americans, but for the world spectating the unfolding events: Biden has called for measures against "domestic terrorism", and used language that is usually reserved for combat with an external enemy state – language such as accompanies major wars. This is 'revenge cycle' material. In the case of two nations, literally at war, they do do this. This is a part of it. They hope to resolve their conflict through humiliation, repression and the forced submission of the other (i.e. Japan after WW2). But America is, at least nominally, one nation. What happens when a single nation splits, with one turning the 'seditious' elements into an 'alien other'?

We do not know. But hatred is intense, both toward Trump and the 'deplorables'. And now, these sentiments are reciprocated in the wake of the President's humiliation, at a contents-free impeachment, reached in few hours. What seems certain is that the course of events likely will lead to a self-reinforcing cycle of ever greater polarisation.

The rise of Trumpism has created a new radical Manicheanism amongst the liberal élite. Tech, with its algos feeding like-minded material to the like-minded, has a lot to do with this digital and ideological divide. But the bottom line is that this divide is (falsely) cast as a death-struggle now underway between a monolithic liberalism and a monolithic illiberalism.

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[Jan 19, 2021] Neoliberal Democrats are part of the problem not the part of the solution

Jan 19, 2021 | twitter.com

No, I am not excited for the inauguration of a man who: Wrote the crime and bankruptcy bills, voted for the Iraq War, took more money from Wall Street than Trump, and told a room of rich donors that "nothing will fundamentally change." Democrats are part of the problem too.

[Jan 19, 2021] Is Trump a populist, or a populist wanna-be?

Looks like Trump is elevated well beyond his standing and abilities. He proved to be mediocre politician who got into the prepared trap and endangered and then betrayed his supporters.
Notable quotes:
"... Four years ago the Anglo-American deep state concluded that liberal democracy is no longer guaranteed to keep them in power. The new threat comes from populist like Trump. Instead of democracy they decided to turn to totalitarianism. The first step was a totalitarian media regime . ..."
"... LMFAO. Trump is no threat. Listen to his farewell speech . Summary: bend over and salute the flag. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Petri Krohn , Jan 19 2021 22:34 utc | 44

Four years ago the Anglo-American deep state concluded that liberal democracy is no longer guaranteed to keep them in power. The new threat comes from populist like Trump. Instead of democracy they decided to turn to totalitarianism. The first step was a totalitarian media regime .

Jackrabbit , Jan 19 2021 23:25 utc | 52

Petri Krohn @Jan19 22:34 #44

The new threat comes from populist like Trump.
LMFAO. Trump is no threat. Listen to his farewell speech . Summary: bend over and salute the flag.

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[Jan 19, 2021] I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars

Jan 19, 2021 | www.rt.com

banallwars 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 04:32 PM

What a lie. The bombs being dropped from the U.S. made jets the Saudi pilots fly over Yemen killing civilians leaves blood all over his hands not to mention shaking the hand of the Saudi that murdered a journalist before selling him weapons to kill Yemen's civilians.
Waryaa Moxamad 48 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 05:36 PM
1) False flag chemical attack on Syria. 2) killing Soleimani in a sovereign country he was invited to 3) Guaido 4) Bolivia. 5) continuing the wars predecessors started.

Who is being fooled that U.S. presidency has any say in America's imperialism?

Debra***** Waryaa Moxamad 40 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 05:46 PM
Who really pushed for General Soleimani to be killed and has the most personal and intense vendetta against Soleimani? Mike Pompeo. Trump did not give the Pentagon and CIA all the wars they wanted, especially in Syria. Now the Pentagon and the CIA have their puppet, Corrupt Biden, who will do what they command him to do. I would expect in one year to see another massive war. Where? Syria. The US mothers will cry when their sons come home in coffins. The Hez in Lebanon will not back down, and they will enter Syria again. Trump did not want young American boys coming back in coffins!!!!!!!

[Jan 19, 2021] Galloway- Looking forward to Joe Biden's first 100 days, it's impossible to believe he'll actually be in charge by George Galloway

Jan 19, 2021 | www.rt.com

George Galloway George Galloway

was a member of the British Parliament for nearly 30 years. He presents TV and radio shows (including on RT). He is a film-maker, writer and a renowned orator. Follow him on Twitter @georgegalloway

19 Jan, 2021 18:23 It's hard not to wonder if Joe Biden will even last his first 100 days in office... but those arguing his mind isn't sound enough shouldn't expect a swift exit, because since when was that a disqualifier?

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The madness of Donald Trump had nothing on his Republican predecessor and fellow-impeachee Richard Nixon. So disturbing were the last days of Tricky Dicky, it came as a relief to America and the world when he resigned – even though it was famously said his successor Gerald Ford couldn't chew gum and walk in a straight line at the same time. Bovine he may have been, but a mad-cow he wasn't.

The Raging Bull Donald J Trump – grotesque, bizarre, unbelievable – had the misfortune to go quite mad in the age of cable news and social media. His narcissistic predilections always bordered on personality disorder. But his natural braggadocio stormed him to victory in 2016 in a backlash against the super-smooth professorial presidency of Barack Obama, with Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton riding shotgun.

Under Obama, the Clintonite deindustrialisation of America became almost complete . China was presented with America's lunch. And in no less than nine conflicts across the globe Obama was 'nation-building' in other people's countries while his own country was falling apart. But a dark storm was gathering

If only the Democrats had not started out by trying to steal Trump's election in a flurry of pussy-hats and fake Russiagate hoaxes. If only they hadn't striven might and main to railroad the Electoral College into betraying their mandate and – in the case of Nancy Pelosi – make a thinly disguised call for "uprisings throughout the country." If only they hadn't spent countless millions and two whole years of a four year-term with the Mueller Inquiry and the cockamaney theorem that the man who confronted Russia from Ukraine and the Baltics through the wrecked INF and Open Skies treaties to the killing fields of the Levant was, in fact, an agent of Vladimir Putin. If only, if only

ALSO ON RT.COM President Biden now you've got rid of that ghastly Mr Trump, it's time the US and UK rekindled our 'special relationship'

As it happened, the descent into madness of Trump was complete by the end. The coronavirus he derided at first, before predicting it would disappear in the warm weather of spring, before pondering whether bleach up the bahookie might not be an option as a cure. The Tammany Hall skullduggery of election day, practiced over a century in places like New York, rolled out across the country. The political suicide of only half-making a revolution on January 6 dug his own grave. Nobody ever beat a candidate who polled over 75 million votes before. But Sleepy Joe Biden did.

And he did it hardly ever leaving his basement home studio, where he painfully struggled to read an autocue even with an earpiece shrieking the words to him. When he did speak, it was often gibberish that would have made Ronald Reagan blush. He oftentimes plainly didn't know where he was, what office he was running for, which woman was his sister and which was his wife.

When Boris Yeltsin was rattling down, the world endlessly amused itself at the sight of Russia on its back, legs akimbo with thieves picking its pocket. With Joe Biden, though, the political class and its media echo-chamber merely look the other way.

Despite Democratic Party control of all levels of Federal power, it seems unlikely we are about to witness an FDR or a JFK barnstorming 100 days. It seems fair to wonder if Sleepy Joe will even see out a hundred days in office. It is, however, certain that if he is in office he will not be in power. Because power has already passed to the cavernous uncertainty of Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Mark Conley 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:44 PM

Thanks for reminding the world that the president of the USA including his puppet elected office bearers has absolutely no power whatsoever. Well said. Thus you have answered your own observation at the end. The future is indeed dark and uncertain with the only certainty that nothing good can be expected from any USA government. Thus the onus is on the peaceful majority to do what is necessary.
Atilla863 42 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:15 PM
One thing is certain in the new leadership - the debt will go on growing, perhaps reaching 40+ T dollars before the next elections. While this trend continues - the Chinese will be laughing all the way running to their banks as their economy records fortune after fortune proportional only inversely to the rate at which America recedes into superpower sunset.
JJ_Rousseau 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:18 PM
I'm surprised at George Galloway's comments, as he is a former MP in British politics. Kamala in charge? Don't make me laugh. The cabal is in charge, as they have been since Woodrow Wilson. Before actually, as Garfield was assassinated for shedding light on the banker machinations. Garfield knew that control of the nation's money was control of the nation. The coup of America is complete. The POTUS is only the spokesman for the cabal, nothing else
5th Eye 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:08 PM
An election stolen is a stolen election.
KarlthePoet 5th Eye 13 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:43 PM
Biden will be much easier to control and manipulate by the Jewish Banking Cartel, which ultimately controls the US government and Wall Street. Trump was too unpredictable and would have made it difficult for them to achieve their historical hope. "The Jews energetically reject the idea of fusion with other nationalities and cling firmly to their historical hope of World Empire." - Dr. Max Mandelstamm ***We should always listen to the doctors.
Skeptic076 5th Eye 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:13 PM
Not stolen.....50 states certified, 60 plus courts found nothing fraudulent, and the electoral votes were confirmed by the House and Senate, with the Senate led by Pence. So, as the world knows and anyone who knows election laws, the election was one of the most legitimate ever held in the US.
KarlthePoet 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:10 PM
The Jewish Banking Cartel is ultimately in control of the US government and Wall Street. They've been in control for decades. Now they've obviously teamed up with the Jewish Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google in order to gain even more control. Controlling the money, money system, and the minds of the masses has been their goal. Two Jewish controlled companies control over $9Trillion of American's wealth. (BlackRock Inc. & Goldman Sachs) They've finally achieved their goal. The cartel is now in control of a country that is completely out of control. Karma!
Daffyduck011 KarlthePoet 38 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:18 PM
Ashkenasty banking cartel.
JJ_Rousseau KarlthePoet 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:29 PM
It's not only the banking cabal, it's the media (which the same gang own, of course). This cannot happen without a complicit media. This is a very old strategy
Blackace180 7 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:49 PM
He'll be impeached multiple times, along with his family. Removed and jailed. People need a reminder of just how messed up Obama/Biden was and it is coming. The caravans are already on the way and gas has jumped 55 cents a gallon since the election, for no reason other than it is Biden. People will run the nutcracker right out of office, hopefully before the country collapses from his nutcracker policies.
White Elk 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 01:45 PM
The press-elected.
Xilla White Elk 33 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:23 PM
How did the press elect him?
Franc 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:28 PM
Xilla/Herrbifi, you're not welcome here. We all know what your goals are, and we all know you're just here to make a pointless mess.
5th Eye 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:18 PM
An Italian bureaucrat once said, "Everything is changed, so that it remains the same." It will be exactly like that under Biden to legitimate his regime.
The_Chosenites 51 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:06 PM
Since both Trump and Biden are proud zionists, the only thing I am certain of is Israel and the Jewish community have won another election and we'll see many jewish politicians elevated to positions of power in the Biden administration. Biden best do what's best for Israel if he knows whats good for him and his health.
KarlthePoet The_Chosenites 16 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:40 PM
Maybe when Kamala becomes President she can get advice from her Jewish husband, who is a lawyer. What a coincidence.
Enki14 9 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:48 PM
That Henry Kissinger, long time shadow government puppet endorsed demented biden is a clue as to what might happen as they know in 2 years the masses will reinstate conservatives and in 4 years another trumpster. We may see sweeping changes, with some huge blowback.
The_Chosenites Enki14 4 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:53 PM
Kissinger has had a bed in the oval office for many a President, he must have been installed by the Chosennites to stay in office forever. Presidents come and go, but Kissinger remains to pull the strings. Goldman Sach's et al rule the roost.
Daniel Fernald 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:42 PM
Biden's 100 days are interesting. It's exactly 100 days from January 20 to May 1, which is the communist May Day.
Skeptic076 Daniel Fernald 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:44 PM
Used to be the American May Day as well, you know? Interesting if you research why it is not anymore.
Michael Knight 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:46 PM
Impossible to believe he'll be in charge????? That's probably because he won't be!

RCBreakenridge Mike Freeman 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:28 PM
Mike, seriously? What echo chamber are you living in? How can you look at Biden and not understand that he's little more than a life-size cardboard cutout of the man that used to be Obama's puppet? He'll be in office as long as they can continue to stand him up for photo ops and he continues to do exactly what he is told. As soon as either of those conditions falter, Nancy and friends will roll out the 25th amendment, show him the door and lead KH to the presidents chair. But make no mistake, the only choices Sleepy Joe will be making are to do as he is told.

[Jan 19, 2021] McConnell addressed the floor claiming that "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people."

I think McConnell is right. Trump speech was very incoherent but it contained some elements that can be classified as incitement. But I think that he got into trap organized by neoliberal wing of DemParty. BTW giving a 78-year-old Senator a six-year term is a modest gamble, as an actuarial table will show you .
Probably McConnell, who is pretty shrewd political operative despite his age, understands that Trump does not matter anymore. He was spent. Politically on Dec 6, he committed a suicide. So his impeachment might not as harshly affect the Republican Party as some ZH commenters assume. The party does need a new leader, anyway. Trump proved to be mediocre politician and this is an worse then any of his real or imaginable crimes.
Jan 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

McConnell went on:

" We stood together and said an angry mob would not get veto power over the rule of law in our nation. Not even for one night. We certified the people's clear choice for their 46th president.

Tomorrow, President-elect Biden and Vice-President-elect Harris will be sworn in. We will have a safe and successful inauguration right here on the west front of the Capitol -- the space that President Bush 41 called 'democracy's front porch.' And then we'll move forward ."

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This, according to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, is a major problem for the GOP who told Fox News' Ingraham Angle on Friday that he believes that if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans join the Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump, a third of Republican voters will permanently abandon the party as a result.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xroBI23G_eA

PlanetFreeWill.news' Tom Papper notes that, speaking first about the Democrats' aims for impeachment, Paul expressed incredulity.

"I don't understand how they can be moving forward with this," he said, before adding

"The thing they're doing now is an overreaction, and if they think they're going to have a positive feeling from the public, when they're going to go through a partisan impeachment again, I think that's absolutely insane and wrong headed ."

Ingraham then asked Paul if he was surprised that McConnell is reportedly planning to instruct Republicans to vote to convict President Trump after he leaves the presidency, in a move that could strip him of his security and prevent him from running for office in 2024.

"I don't often get asked my advice from leadership on how they should react, but my unsolicited suggestion would be this: They will destroy the Republican Party if leadership is complicit in impeachment, or if leadership votes for impeachment, they will destroy the party."

"Impeachment is purely a partisan thing, it's for the moral, 'Oh I'm so much better than you, and you're a bad person, because I'm so moral.'" Paul added, "These are the kind of people that are going to do this."

"The impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion. If Republicans go along with it, it will destroy the party. A third of Republicans will leave the party."

"This isn't about, anymore, the electoral college," Paul concluded.

"It's about the future of the party, and if you're going to ostracize and excommunicate President Trump from the party, then guess what, millions of his fans will leave as well."

Additionally, congressional leaders, including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will skip President Trump's departure ceremony in Maryland tomorrow morning in favor of attending mass with incoming President Joe Biden ahead of his inauguration, congressional sources familiar with their plans tell Axios .

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Gaius Petronius 31 minutes ago (Edited)

No. If McConnell impeaches Trump, the U.S. becomes an instant one party state. The entire GOP will collapse and collapse quickly. It would destroy the party. But maybe it's time for the GOP to die? The Senate has a bunch of RINOs in it. Impeaching Trump will end their Senate career come their next election. I think if Mitch is doing this, he knows he is doing this and he knows the consequences and he doesn't give a damn because this is really *NOT* about Trump, it's about preventing a true outsider (like Trump) from coming in and running the country when for decades who runs the country has always been decided by the elite. They don't like the people being able to pick their president. They want to be the ones who pick the president. The surest way to make sure that Trump never runs again is to impeach him, but Mitch better get ready to change his party affiliation to D because there won't be a Republican party after that.

zerofucks 28 minutes ago

the uniparty needs the 2 party cover to keep the illusion going

Gaius Petronius 23 minutes ago remove link

He's just part of the deep state. He likes his power.

Buzz-Kill 6 minutes ago (Edited)

Yep... McConnel is a Deep State operator.

chunga 1 hour ago

People love to throw around this term "rino" which is misleading and dumb. It suggests there are a handful of them that suck and block the good ones.

If that were the case Moribund Mitch and House Minority leader what's his name would not be in these "leadership" positions. And they are.

[Jan 19, 2021] Trump was a desperate "Murica must have the biggest dick" imperialist massively triggered by the US decline and trying to save the US Empire. Like a rabid dog that is wounded, he attacked anything that moves, including those who helped him get into power.

Jan 19, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Passer by , Jan 19 2021 21:57 utc | 36

Posted by: teri | Jan 19 2021 21:31 utc | 33

>>Today, the Trump administration filed an appeal against the UK decision not to extradite Assange. I must imagine that means that Trump has no intention of pardoning Assange.

Trump was a desperate "Murica must have the biggest dick" imperialist massively triggered by the US decline and trying to save the US Empire. Like a rabid dog that is wounded, he attacked anything that moves, including those who helped him get into power.

Anyone who thought that he will help the likes of Russia or Assange does not understand the psychology of elite US WASPs.

These people thought that they and the US should rule the world and that they are the cream of the cream. Anything denying them that would lead to crazed reactions, hysteria, rabid animalistic behavior, and snarling and gnashing of teeth at anything that moves.

Simply put, their decline caused them to go rabid. A rabid dog attacks anything that moves, whether friendly or not. Unfortunately for the likes of Russia and Assange.

[Jan 19, 2021] What 'Democracy' Is Under Attack- - ZeroHedge

Jan 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, JAN 19, 2021 - 5:00

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via caitlinjohnstone.com,

To stop the exacerbation of Trumpism, the talking heads are recommending internet censorship, regulations on media, new domestic terror laws, literally anything they can possibly think of except changing the conditions which gave rise to Trumpism.

The most imminent threat to US democracy is not Russia, nor fascist insurrectionists, but the fact that US democracy is entirely fictional.

Saying US democracy is being threatened is like saying Grinches are a critically endangered species.

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The previous president intervened in the primary to appoint his right-hand man as his chosen successor. That successor will be installed in a five-day, star-studded celebration surrounded by a sea of barbed wire and heavily armed soldiers. What "democracy" is under attack, exactly?

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No, the Capitol riot was not "karma" for America's international coups and regime change interventions. Karma would be the US actually reaping what it sows.

https://lockerdome.com/lad/13084989113709670?pubid=ld-dfp-ad-13084989113709670-0&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com&rid=www.zerohedge.com&width=830

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[Jan 19, 2021] Birth of the Digital Oligarchy- The Trump Ban and the Social Media Ruse by Raul Diego

Jan 15, 2021 | www.mintpressnews.com

Predictably, conservative publications like Fox News decried the measures as a power grab by Big Tech and protestations came as far away from Europe, where German Chancellor, Angela Merkel – whose disdain for Donald Trump has never been a secret – called the decision to deplatform a head of state " problematic ," an opinion shared by France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Marie, who warned of a "digital oligarchy" usurping the powers of the state.

Missing in the salacious back-and-forth conversation between ideological factions and absent from the argument that they are private corporations, which have the legal authority to ban or deplatform anybody they wish, is the fact that Twitter, Facebook, and all the other major social media platforms are organs of the state to begin with, and that nothing they do falls outside of the ultimate designs of the powers they serve.

Examples abound of how these platforms regularly engage in cyber reconnaissance missions for American and Atlanticist interests in violation of their own terms of service, such as when NATO commanders made use of coordinates provided by Twitter users in order to select missile strike targets in their war against Libya in 2011.

Facebook's recently created oversight board includes Emi Palmor, who was directly responsible for the removal of thousands of Palestinian posts from the social media giant during her tenure as Director of Israel's Ministry of Justice. She, along with other individuals with clear sympathies to American interests, now sit on an official body tasked with emitting the last word on any disputes regarding issues of deplatforming on the global social network.

Following you since 1972

In Yasha Levine's seminal work , "Surveillance Valley," the military origins of the Internet and the close relationship of social media companies to federal and local law enforcement are made patently clear. Since their creation, Twitter, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley behemoths have worked hand in hand with law enforcement agencies to augment their capacity for mass tracking and surveillance.

From facial recognition technologies to aggregated user post history, these platforms have been a crucial component in the development of the pervasive surveillance state we now live in. In the book's prologue, Levine details the attempted creation of a citywide police surveillance hub in Oakland, California called the "Domain Awareness Center" (DAC), which drew intense opposition from the local citizenry and privacy advocates who were quick to undress city officials who were trying to hide the proposed center's insidious links to the NSA, CIA and military contractors.

Among other capabilities, the control hub would be able to "plug in" social media feeds to track individuals or groups that posed any kind of threat to the establishment. While the DAC project was successfully defeated by an engaged public, similar initiatives were quickly implemented throughout law enforcement agencies across the country and continue to be perfected in order to not only track, but infiltrate political groups deemed problematic.

[Jan 19, 2021] US Department Of Homeland Security Hires $1.6m Protection For Biden's Inauguration - Sahara Reporters

Jan 19, 2021 | saharareporters.com

Following the Capitol coup, the North American country's Department of Homeland Security has hired a private security firm for $1.6m ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, TMZ reports.

Documents obtained by the newspaper revealed that the department awarded a private security company called Hana Industries Inc. a $1.6 million contract for protective services, effective now until the very end of the month.

AFP/Getty Images

It was learnt that Hana's protective security officers will be standing watch in the capital and surrounding areas. The move to hire a private security came directly on the heels of the failed Capitol coup and the contract was awarded two days after last week's siege.

Hana, which has protected Naval bases and shipyards around Hawaii prior to the new contract, has been recruiting to get more boots on the ground, especially people with two to five years of military or law enforcement experience and prior certification from the Department of Homeland Security.

The need for private security to support the National Guard and police forces in Washington, came up after the FBI warned that domestic terrorists were planning to take action in Washington, D.C. and all 50 states between January 16 through Inauguration Day.

[Jan 19, 2021] The US seems to have gone completely crazy these day.

Jan 19, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

vk , Jan 19 2021 18:40 utc | 2

The U.S. seems to have gone completely crazy these day.

Mutazione dello Stato.

We were born and raised in the 20th Century or the 21st Century, so we're accustomed with the idea that deep changes in society can only happen through revolutions. That's not true: Marx delineated in which conditions change happens through revolution, but he never stated all societal changes are revolutions.

A society can change positively or negatively. Positively when it is in an ascendant phase of its mode of production. Negatively when it is in a declining phase of its mode of production (every mode of production has an entropy, so this is always the case).

When it is changing negatively, it can do so mainly in two ways: sectarianism (decay through division and fragmentation) and/or withering (decay through shrinking of economic base and the rise of better systems).

In my opinion the USA is decaying through sectarianism.

We can observe today collapsed by sectarianism in the Middle East (Shia vs. Sunni; destruction of Iraq; destruction of Libya etc. etc.).

A famous example of collapse by withering is Ancient Sparta, which refused to reform and successfully crushed all the revolution attempts that rose against it. But in the end its own system reached its logical conclusion and, by the time the Roman Legions arrived to conquer it, it already was an insignificant village.

So, yes: even societies that successfully crush the revolution attempts against it are condemned to change and eventually disappear. Conservatives from all around the globe should not feed themselves the illusion they can live in their little worlds forever.

William Gruff , Jan 19 2021 20:57 utc | 24

vk @2

The American empire is massive and cannot really be compared with Sparta. It is entirely reasonable to assume that its demise involves both withering and fragmentation. That said I had previously assumed that the empire's vassal states would fragment away while the core withered, but given how unhinged America and its leadership have become we could see the cracks in the USA become chasms surprisingly soon. The empire's vassal states could be left orbiting around a debris field.

Mario , Jan 19 2021 21:09 utc | 28

After the USSR, the USA collapses

by Thierry Meyssan:

"Everything has an end, so do empires, both the United States and the Soviet Union. Washington has outrageously favoured a small camarilla of ultra-billionaires. Now it has to face its old demons, prepare for secession and civil war..."

"...Part of the power has already tipped democratic institutions into the hands of a few ultra-billionaires. The United States that we knew no longer exists. Their agony has begun."
https://www.voltairenet.org/article211982.html

[Jan 19, 2021] "Paranoia strikes deep -- into my soul it creeps": Internet and phone lines cut off in the Russian consulate in New York

Jan 19, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Passer by , Jan 19 2021 19:49 utc | 14

Internet and phone lines cut off in the Russian consulate in New York.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/russia-us-new-york-consulate-phone-lines-b1789485.html

Sunny Runny Burger , Jan 19 2021 20:57 utc | 23

The stuff about the NY consulate really sets me off, Sputnik said the phones are down for two days running and internet intermittent.

It's hard to guess at the reason for any of it since it could be almost anything (and pretty much entirely stupid no matter what) but what's much more noticeable is the apparent lack of interest in truly clarifying what the hell the point is/was supposed to be (instead of bs) from anyone inside anywhere in the US government structures, or intelligence services, or armed forces.

Dystopian and dysfunctional become synonyms at some point.

Other than that I'm only waiting to see if anything within the Pentagon will get a move on to clear up all the mess (rather than "worrying" about National Guards who will do whatever they're told). If anything happens I expect it to be clean and orderly and then after the fact maybe the NG troops will be told something or the other a little before everyone else, and that's about it. They don't have any need to know about anything in advance or as it happens.

That's just me, at least a little bit more realistic in my "if-so" than the FBI and Pelosi gang? :)

[Jan 19, 2021] President Biden's Corruption Already Pervades His Administration -- Strategic Culture

Notable quotes:
"... "A month after the election, Biden's nominations make clear that the president-elect is most focused on trying to fulfill his ..."
"... to donors that nothing fundamentally changes. And yet, that tacit admission may have stunned those who keep hearing from liberal and progressive groups in Washington that, in fact, the left has been notching monumental victories in Biden's cabinet appointments ..."
"... What little organized left political infrastructure exists in Washington is largely valorizing or publicly defending swamp creatures who at minimum deserve a loyal opposition. The ..."
"... being done by a small handful of under-resourced groups to mount a real opposition is getting trampled by a culture of obsequiousness. This culture of acquiescence gives swamp creatures a free pass ..."
"... Despite Tanden's ..."
"... push for Social Security cuts ..."
"... , Beltway liberal groups whose mission is to defend Social Security ..."
"... . Despite Tanden having her organization ..."
"... rake in cash ..."
"... from Wall Street, Amazon, billionaires and ( ..."
"... ) foreign governments, a Ralph Nader-founded, all-purpose consumer advocacy group ..."
"... CAP as "one of our key partners in the fight to tax corporations and the rich, rein in monopoly power, tackle government corruption, and much more." Despite Tanden ..."
"... a union at CAP, ..."
"... union leaders ..."
"... in Washington lauded her. ..."
"... American Prospect ..."
"... "a President Biden would be in the business of confronting Mr. Putin for his aggressions, not embracing him. Not trashing NATO, but strengthening its deterrence, investing in new capabilities to deal with challenges in cyberspace, in outer space, under the sea, A.I., electronic warfare, and give robust security assistance to countries like Ukraine, Georgia, the Western Balkans ..."
"... "a President Putin would be in the business of confronting Mr. Biden for his aggressions (in Syria, or elsewhere), not embracing them. Not trashing the Warsaw Pact, but strengthening its deterrence, investing in new capabilities to deal with challenges in cyberspace, in outer space, under the sea, A.I., electronic warfare, and give robust security assistance to countries like Canada, Mexico, and other nations that are near the U.S. ..."
"... Washington Post ..."
"... Bernard Schwartz, ..."
"... a former Vice Chairman and top investor in Lockheed Martin ..."
"... (which is by far the largest seller to the U.S. Government, and also the largest seller to most of America's allied Governments), is one of Joe Biden's top donors. CNN headlined, on October 24th, ..."
"... "Biden allies intensify push for super PAC after lackluster fundraising quarter" ..."
"... , and reported that, "Bernard Schwartz, a private investor and donor to the former vice president's campaign, said he spoke with Biden within the last two weeks and encouraged him to do just that." It's not for nothing that throughout Biden's long Senate career, he has voted in favor of every U.S. invasion that has been placed before the U.S. Senate. ..."
Jan 19, 2021 | www.strategic-culture.org

President Biden's Corruption Already Pervades His Administration Eric Zuesse December 8, 2020 © Photo: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

That didn't take long. He's not even in office, and he has already surrounded himself, as the incoming President, with individuals who derive their wealth from (and will be serving) America's top defense contractors and Wall Street. The likelihood that these Government officials will be biting the hands that feed them is approximately zero. Great investigative journalists have already exposed how corrupt they are. For that to be the case so early (even before taking office) is remarkable, and only a summary of those reports will be provided here, with links to them, all of which reports are themselves linking to the incriminating evidence, so that everything can easily be tracked back to the documentation by the reader here, even before there are any 'Special Prosecutors' (as if those were serving anyone other than the opposite Party's political campaigns, and, ultimately, the opposite Party's billionaires).

First up, is the independent investigative team of David Sirota and Andrew Perez. On December 4th, they bannered "The Beltway Left Is Normalizing Corruption And Corporatism" , and reported that "A month after the election, Biden's nominations make clear that the president-elect is most focused on trying to fulfill his promise to donors that nothing fundamentally changes. And yet, that tacit admission may have stunned those who keep hearing from liberal and progressive groups in Washington that, in fact, the left has been notching monumental victories in Biden's cabinet appointments ."

Liberal (that's to say Democratic Party) U.S. media hide the corruptness of Democratic politicians, and conservative (that's to say Republican Party) U.S. media hide the corruptness of Republican politicians; and, so, the public today are getting corrupt leaders whichever side they vote for. No mainstream 'news' media report what independent investigative journalists such as Sirota and Perez report. Authentically good journalists use as sources -- and link to in their articles -- neither Democratic nor Republican allegations, but instead are on the margins, outside of the major media, and so rely on whistleblowers and other trustworthy outsiders, not on people who are somebody's paid PR flacks, individuals who are being paid to deceive. As Sirota and Perez state: " What little organized left political infrastructure exists in Washington is largely valorizing or publicly defending swamp creatures who at minimum deserve a loyal opposition. The good work being done by a small handful of under-resourced groups to mount a real opposition is getting trampled by a culture of obsequiousness. This culture of acquiescence gives swamp creatures a free pass ." It's all some sort of mega-corporate propaganda -- 100% billionaire-supported on the conservative side, 100% billionaire-supported also on the liberal side, and 0% billionaire-supported for anything that is authentically progressive (not dependent, at all, upon the aristocracy).

That independent reporting team focused on Biden's having chosen an economic team which will start his Administration already offering to congressional Republicans an initial Democratic Party negotiating position that accepts Republicans' basic proposals to cut middle class Social Security and health care benefits in order for the Government to be able to continue expanding the military budgets and purchases from the billionaire-controlled firms, such as Northrop Grumman -- firms whose entire sales (or close to it) are to the U.S. Government and to the governments (U.S. 'allies') that constitute these firms' secondary markets. (In other words: those budget-cuts aren't going to be an issue between the two Parties and used by Biden's team as a bargaining chip to moderate the Republicans' position that favors more for 'defense' and less for the poor, but are actually accepted by both Parties, even before the new Administration will take office.) Obviously, anything that both sides to a negotiation accept at the very start of a negotiation will be included in the final product from that negotiation; and this means that during a Biden Presidency there will be reductions in middle-class Social security and health care benefits in order to continue, at the present level -- if not to increase yet further -- Government spending on the products and services of such firms as Lockheed Martin and the Rand Corporation (firms that control their market by controlling their Government, which is their main or entire market).

Sirota and Perez focus especially upon one example: Neera Tanden, whom Biden chose on November 30th to be the White House Budget Director, and who therefore will set the priorities which determine how much federal money the President will be trying to get the Congress to allocate to what recipients:

Despite Tanden's push for Social Security cuts , Beltway liberal groups whose mission is to defend Social Security lauded her think tank . Despite Tanden having her organization rake in cash from Wall Street, Amazon, billionaires and ( previously ) foreign governments, a Ralph Nader-founded, all-purpose consumer advocacy group praised CAP as "one of our key partners in the fight to tax corporations and the rich, rein in monopoly power, tackle government corruption, and much more." Despite Tanden busting a union at CAP, two national union leaders in Washington lauded her.

Next up: One of the rare honest non-profits in the field of journalism is the Project on Government Oversight, POGO, which refuses to accept donations from "anyone who stands to benefit financially from our work," and which states in its unique "Donation Acceptance Policy" that, "POGO reviews all contributions exceeding $100 in order to maintain this standard." In other words: they refuse to be corrupt. Virtually all public-policy or think-tank nonprofits are profoundly corrupt, but POGO is the most determined exception to that general rule.

On 20 November 2020, POGO headlined "Should Michèle Flournoy Be Secretary of Defense?" and their terrific investigative team of Winslow Wheeler and Pierre Sprey delivered a scorching portrayal of Flournoy as irredeemably corrupt -- it ought to be read by everybody. It's essential reading throughout, and its links to the evidence are to the very best sources. So, I won't summarize it, because all Americans need to know what it reports, and to be able to verify, on their own (by clicking onto any link in it that interests them), any allegation that the given reader has any question about. However, I shall point out here the sheer hypocrisy of the following which that article quotes Flournoy as asserting: "It will be imperative for the next secretary to appoint a team of senior officials who meet the following criteria: deep expertise and competence in their areas of responsibility; proven leadership in empowering teams, listening to diverse views, making tough decisions, and delivering results." (Of course, that assertion presumes the given 'expert' to be not only authentically expert but also honest and trustworthy, authentically representing the public's interest and no special interests whatsoever -- not at all corrupt -- which is certainly a false allegation in her own case.) She had urged the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and had participated in planning and overseeing both the war against Syria, and the coup that destroyed Ukraine (and none of those countries had ever invaded, or even threatened to invade, the United States); and, so, for her to brag about her "delivering results" is not merely hypocritical, it is downright evil, because she is obviously proud, there, of her vicious, outright voracious, record.

Her business-partner, Tony Blinken, has already received Biden's approval to become his Secretary of State, and the first really good investigative journalist that American Prospect magazine has had, Jonathan Guyer, headlined on November 23rd, "What You Need to Know About Tony Blinken" , and what Guyer reports is just what any well informed reader would expect to see for a business partner of Flournoy's.

Guyer's report closes by making passing reference to a CBS 'news' puff-piece for Blinken. In that CBS puff-piece , Blinken says, "a President Biden would be in the business of confronting Mr. Putin for his aggressions, not embracing him. Not trashing NATO, but strengthening its deterrence, investing in new capabilities to deal with challenges in cyberspace, in outer space, under the sea, A.I., electronic warfare, and give robust security assistance to countries like Ukraine, Georgia, the Western Balkans ." What would Americans think if Russia were to have retained its Warsaw Pact, and "a President Putin would be in the business of confronting Mr. Biden for his aggressions (in Syria, or elsewhere), not embracing them. Not trashing the Warsaw Pact, but strengthening its deterrence, investing in new capabilities to deal with challenges in cyberspace, in outer space, under the sea, A.I., electronic warfare, and give robust security assistance to countries like Canada, Mexico, and other nations that are near the U.S. "? Guyer pointedly noted that "The [CBS News] podcast was sponsored by a major weapons maker. 'At Lockheed Martin, your mission is ours,' read an announcer." Tony Blinken's mission is theirs. These people get the money both coming and going -- on both sides of the "revolving door." Today's American Government is for sale to the highest bidders, on any policy, domestic or foreign. 'Government service' is just a sabbatical to boost their value to the firms that will be paying them the vast majority of their lifetime 'earnings'. This is the reality that mainstream U.S.-and-allied 'news' media refuse to publish (or, especially , to make clear). Only an electorate which is ignorant of this reality can accept such a government.

Back on 26 January 2020, I had headlined "Joe Biden Is as Corrupt as They Come" and documented the reality of this, but America's mainstream media were hiding that fact so as to decrease the likelihood that the only Democratic Party Presidential candidate whom no billionaire supported , Bernie Sanders, might win the nomination. Perhaps now that it's too late, even those 'news' organizations (such as CNN, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, New York Times , Washington Post , PBS, and NPR) will start reporting the fact of Biden's corruptness. Where billionaires control all of the mainstream media, there is no democracy -- it's not even possible , in such a country

As far back as 25 October 2019, I had headlined "Biden Backer -- Former Lockheed Leader -- Convinces Joe Biden to Sell-Out" , and reported that

Bernard Schwartz, a former Vice Chairman and top investor in Lockheed Martin (which is by far the largest seller to the U.S. Government, and also the largest seller to most of America's allied Governments), is one of Joe Biden's top donors. CNN headlined, on October 24th, "Biden allies intensify push for super PAC after lackluster fundraising quarter" , and reported that, "Bernard Schwartz, a private investor and donor to the former vice president's campaign, said he spoke with Biden within the last two weeks and encouraged him to do just that." It's not for nothing that throughout Biden's long Senate career, he has voted in favor of every U.S. invasion that has been placed before the U.S. Senate.

Near the end of the Democratic Party's primaries, on 16 March 2020, CNBC headlined "Megadonors pull plug on plan for anti-Sanders super PAC as Biden racks up wins" , and reported that Bernard Schwartz had become persuaded by other billionaires that, by this time, "Biden could handle Sanders on his own." They had done their job; they would therefore control the U.S. Government regardless of which Party's nominee would head it.

Biden -- like Trump, and like Obama and Bush and Clinton before him -- doesn't represent the American people. He represents his mega-donors. And he is staffing his Administration accordingly. He repays favors: he delivers the services that they buy from him. This is today's America. And that is the way it functions.

[Jan 19, 2021] US expands sanctions against Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, targeting ships Russian firms working on vital pan-European projec

Jan 19, 2021 | www.rt.com

46 Follow RT on RT Outgoing US President Donald Trump has delivered his "parting gift" to the Moscow-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, with newly announced sanctions targeting a pipe-laying vessel and companies involved in the multinational project.

The specialist ship concerned, named, 'Fortuna,' and oil tanker 'Maksim Gorky', as well as two Russian firms, KVT-Rus and Rustanker, were blacklisted on Tuesday under CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) as part of Washington's economic war on Moscow. The same legislation had been previously used by the US to target numerous Russian officials and enterprises.

Russian energy giant Gazprom warned its investors earlier on Tuesday that Nord Stream 2 could be suspended or even canceled if more US restrictions are introduced.

ALSO ON RT.COM Gazprom warns investors that Nord Stream 2 could be canceled as Trump announces more US sanctions in 'parting gift'

However, Moscow has assured its partners that it intends to complete the project despite "harsh pressure on the part of Washington," according to Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Reacting to the new package of sanctions on Tuesday, Peskov called them "unlawful."

Meanwhile, the EU said it is in no rush to join the Washington-led sanction war on Nord Stream 2. EU foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, said that the bloc is not going to resist the construction of the project.

"Because we're talking about a private project, we can't hamper the operations of those companies if the German government agrees to it," Borrell said Tuesday.

Nord Stream 2 is an offshore gas pipeline, linking Russia and Germany with aim of providing cheaper energy to Central European customers. Under the agreement between Moscow and Berlin, it was to be launched in mid-2020, but the construction has been delayed due to strong opposition from Washington.

ALSO ON RT.COM One more European firm caves to US pressure on Nord Stream 2 project – media

The US, which is hoping to sell its Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to Europe, has hit the project with several rounds of sanctions over scarcely credible claims that it could undermine European energy security. Critics say the real intent is to force EU members to buy from American companies.

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Fatback33 4 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 11:20 AM

The group that owns Washington makes the foreign policy. That policy is not for the benefit of the people.
DukeLeo Fatback33 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:06 PM
That is correct. The private banks and corporations in the US are very upset about Nord Stream - 2, as they want Europe to buy US gas at double price. Washington thus introduces additional political gangsterism in the shape of new unilateral sanctions which have no merit in international law.
noremedy 4 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 11:22 AM
Is the U.S. so stupid that they do not realize that they are isolating themselves? Russia has developed SPFS, China CIPS, together with Iran, China and Russia are further developing a payment transfer system. Once in place and functioning this system will replace the western SWIFT system for international payment transfers. It will be the death knell for the US dollar. 327 million Americans are no match for the rest of the billions of the world's population. The next decade will see the total debasement of the US monetary system and the fall from power of the decaying and crumbling in every way U.S.A.
Hanonymouse noremedy 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 01:37 PM
They don't care. They have the most advanced military in the world. Might makes right, even today.
Shelbouy 3 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 12:25 PM
Russia currently supplies over 50% of the natural gas consumed by The EU. Germany and Italy are the largest importers of Russian natural gas. What is the issue of sanctions stemming from and why are the Americans doing this? A no brainer question I suppose. It's to make more money than the other supplier, and exert political pressure and demand obedience from its lackey. Germany.
David R. Evans Shelbouy 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 01:58 PM
Russia and Iran challenge perpetual US wars for Israel's Oded Yinon Plan. Washington is Israel-controlled territory.
Jewel Gyn 4 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 11:34 AM
Sanctions work both ways. With the outgoing Trump administration desperately laying mines for Biden, we await how sleepy Joe is going to mend strayed ties with EU.
Count_Cash 4 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 11:20 AM
The US mafia state continues with the same practices. The dog is barking but the caravan is going. The counter productiveness of sanctions always shows through in the end! I am sure with active efforts of Germany and Russia against US mafia oppression that a blowback will be felt by the US over time!
Dachaguy 4 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 11:24 AM
This is an act of war against Germany. NATO should respond and act against the aggressor, America.
xyz47 Dachaguy 42 minutes ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:20 PM
NATO is run by the US...
lovethy Dachaguy 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 01:04 PM
NATO has no separate existence. It's the USA's arm of aggression, suppression and domination. Germany after WWII is an occupied country of USA. Thousand of armed personnel stationed in Germany enforcing that occupation.
Chaz Dadkhah 3 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 12:19 PM
Further proof that Trump is no friend of Russia and is in a rush to punish them while he still has power. If it was the swamp telling him to do that, like his supporters suggest, then they would have waited till their man Biden came in to power in less than 24 hours to do it. Wake up!
Mac Kio 3 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 12:34 PM
USA hates fair competition. USA ignores all WTO rules.
Russkiy09 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 01:33 PM
By whining and not completing in the face of US, Russia is losing credibility. They should not have delayed to mobilize the pipe laying vessel and other equipment for one whole year. They should have mobilized in three months and finished by now. Same happens when Jewtin does not shoot down Zio air force bombing Syria everyday. But best option should have been to tell European vassals that "if you can, take our gas. But we will charge the highest amount and sell as much as we want, exclude Russophobic Baltic countries and Poland and neo-vassal Ukraine. Pay us not in your ponzi paper money but real goods and services or precious metals or other commodities or our own currency Ruble." I so wish I could be the President of Russia. Russians deserve to be as wealthy as the Swiss or SIngapore etc., not what they are getting. Their leaders should stand up for their interest. And stop empowering the greedy merchantalist Chinese and brotherhood Erdogan.
BlackIntel 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:27 PM
America i captured by private interest; this project threatens American private companies hence the government is forced to protect capitalism. This is illegal
Ohhho 3 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 12:15 PM
That project was a mistake from the start: Russia should distance itself from the Evil empire, EU included! Stop wasting time and resources on trying to please the haters and keeping them more competitive with cheaper Russian natural gas: focus on real partners and potential allies elsewhere!
butterfly123 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 01:58 PM
I have said it before that part of the problem is at the door of the policy-makers and politicians in Russia. Pipeline project didn't spring up in the minds of politicians in Russia one morning, presumably. There should have been foresight, detailed planning, and opportunity creation for firms in Russia to acquire the skill-set and resources to advance this project. Not doing so has come to bite Russia hard and painful. Lessons learnt I hope Mr President!
jakro 4 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 11:37 AM
Good news. The swamp is getting deeper and bigger.
hermaflorissen 4 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 11:49 AM
Trump finally severed my expectations for the past 4 years. He should indeed perish.
ariadnatheo 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 03:06 PM
That is one Trump measure that will not be overturned by the Senile One. They will need to amplify the RussiaRussiaRussia barking and scratching to divert attention from their dealings with China
Neville52 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:01 PM
Its time the other nations of the world turned their backs on the US. Its too risky if you are an international corporation to suddenly have large portions of your income cancelled due to some crazy politician in the US
5th Eye 2 hours ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:03 PM
From empire to the collapse of empire, US follows UK to the letters. Soon it will be irrelevant. The only thing that remains for UK is the language. Probably hotdog for the US.
VonnDuff1 1 hour ago 19 Jan, 2021 02:10 PM
The USA Congress and its corrupt foreign policy dictates work to the detriment of Europe and Russia, while providing no tangible benefits to US states or citizens. So globalist demands wrapped in the stars & stripes, should be laughed at, by all freedom loving nations.

[Jan 18, 2021] The mob never wins. It is always led by the nose by well organised agents provocateur. See Epoch time video:

Jan 18, 2021 | www.unz.com

Faihtful , says: January 12, 2021 at 5:28 am GMT • 6.4 days ago

The mob never wins. It is always led by the nose by well organised agents provocateur. See Epoch time video:


https://www.bitchute.com/embed/FrE27FTf11Q/

[Jan 18, 2021] It was a trap. I really don't know about Trump. Is he that dumb he didn't see this coming? And who is responsible for setting up the Perimeters? Nancy? Mitch? So, this was a False Flag, just like Saker says.

Jan 18, 2021 | www.unz.com

freedom-cat , says: January 12, 2021 at 8:26 am GMT • 6.3 days ago

There's an Attorney in Washington State who used to be a Security Cop at the Capitol. He said he has NEVER seen anything like this. When he was in Security at the Capitol he said they would Always plan for Protests and set Perimeters up where nobody could get through. He also mentioned how everyone knew about this Protest for weeks. ( https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/jan/09/spokane-attorney-and-former-capitol-police-officer/ )

It was a trap. I really don't know about Trump. Is he that dumb he didn't see this coming? And who is responsible for setting up the Perimeters? Nancy? Mitch?

So, this was a False Flag, just like Saker says. It was an event coldly calculated and planned to ensure a result that could be blamed on the "enemy".

And it worked.

Yes, I voted Trump twice. I am not ashamed of it. I'm not a fan of Trump, but am a Proud Pleb/Peasant/Deplorable who is sick of the Self-Appointed Triad (Political Administrators/Technocrats/Media Moguls).

[Jan 18, 2021] It is sickening to watch the demonization of our fellow Americans in high gear this week. The CIA's media assets are certainly earning their thirty pieces of silver. The media shows us images of the "rioters" who terrified their owners

Jan 18, 2021 | www.unz.com

Observator , says: January 12, 2021 at 1:04 pm GMT • 6.1 days ago

Well put article, thank you. Personally, I suspect that for once the bumbling incompetent Democrats out-faked the vote better than the Republicans, for whom sabotaging the will of the people is historically Job No. 1. Maybe seventeen million fake Biden votes trounced ten million phony Trump votes delivered by the ever-reliable electronic voting machines, and there you go. Like the man said, if voting could make a difference, it would not be legal.

Trump is a larger than life figure you must either love or loathe. I was impressed by his inaugural address but skeptical of his intent and his ability to deliver. Yes, it is true the one great thing he has done is to wake millions of Americans to the reality that an unelected government makes all the important policy decisions with no concern for the consent of the governed. And this is a real game changer.

It is sickening to watch the demonization of our fellow Americans in high gear this week. The CIA's media assets are certainly earning their thirty pieces of silver. The media shows us images of the "rioters" who terrified their owners, and assumes we will obediently get scared of them too. No, fellas, not this time.

This system cannot be reformed from within. Its corruption is the logical result of keeping an obsolete form of government to run a 21st century post-capitalist global empire. It was devised by eighteenth century aristocrats primarily not to interfere with their local class privilege in a tiny agrarian country. We are again at a point in our history where the contradictions are too great to sustain. We will either become all of one thing, or all of the other, but we cannot continue to pretend that Washington as it is has anything to do with liberty. In my youth, I thought a socialist revolution would do the job, but since there is zero support for such a thing among a thoroughly indoctrinated population, we'll have to work with what we've got. Our survival, and the world's, is at stake.

[Jan 18, 2021] What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are both controlled opposition?

Notable quotes:
"... After winning the 2016 election Trump caved early and caved often and governed like a neocon, while Sanders let himself get cucked by the DNC in 2016 and folded like a cheap suit during his 2020 campaign. ..."
"... So both of these clowns proved they are no threat to the establishment but it's in the establishment's interest to portray them as dangerous interlopers who threaten the stability of the nation. Why? Because it keeps the "rebellion" in house. As long as the electorate believes a Democrat or Republican POTUS can address their grievances the establishment can sigh in relief knowing that they are still in control. ..."
Jan 18, 2021 | www.unz.com

Squarebeard , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 11:38 pm GMT • 4.7 days ago

...Fact is, Trump was never the savior you wanted him to be. Had president Trump respected candidate Trump's promises he'd at least be a man of his word. But he didn't do that of course. Trump is a rhetorician (or a windbag, take your pick) and if you focus intently on his words only while downplaying his actions, you might be able to convince yourself into believing he is more than a prolific bullshitter.

Fox News is the "conservative" MSNBC. It swings from the GOP's nutsack (as you have apparently just discovered) and in fact pioneered that style of outrage "journalism." The American elite need to keep people believing in the two-party duopoly. Fox plays its roll by keeping its viewers in the Republican fold. Hate the Democrats? Vote GOP! is the message. If you think MSNBC is trash, why would you cut Fox News any slack? They perform the same function.

Here's a conspiracy theory for you. What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are both controlled opposition? Start with their affiliation. The supposedly "independent" Sanders is effectively a Democrat and the supposedly "insurgent" Trump is effectively a Republican. The media has been in TDS mode for four years and when it looked like Sanders might have some bipartisan appeal he was quickly slapped down by liberal pundits and commentators.

But what if all that outage is mostly theater designed to get voters believing that Trump/Sanders are antiestablishment insurgents who present a "real difference" from stale Democrat/Republican politics? The outrage and slap downs gives the impression that the establishment really really hates these guys and lets the people who support them think that they are supporting principled antiestablishmentarians.

The establishment may not like Trump or Sanders very much but as long as they are controllable they are preferable to a strong third party candidate or a mass revolt against the duopoly. After winning the 2016 election Trump caved early and caved often and governed like a neocon, while Sanders let himself get cucked by the DNC in 2016 and folded like a cheap suit during his 2020 campaign.

So both of these clowns proved they are no threat to the establishment but it's in the establishment's interest to portray them as dangerous interlopers who threaten the stability of the nation. Why? Because it keeps the "rebellion" in house. As long as the electorate believes a Democrat or Republican POTUS can address their grievances the establishment can sigh in relief knowing that they are still in control.

I don't know if Trump and Sanders are deliberately controlled opposition. But as a theory it's more plausible than The Saker's undying trust in Trump as a principled POTUS who was derailed by crafty internal and liberal opposition. If only Trump had been left alone to govern without undue interference he would be a real hero and America would be saved. Give me a break, The Saker, you can't have it both ways. Either the Empire and everything it stands for is rotten, in which case supporting anyone running on a GOP/Democrat ticket is a fool's errand, or it's not, in which case you can trust the system, roll up your blog and find a new hobby.

What The Saker and other commentators that serve up predictable and unchallenging opinions tailored for a specific audience do is provide entertainment. It's stuff for the faithful to read and collectively reaffirm their beliefs while tsk-tsking at all the fools who "just don't get it." Occasionally they provide comedic interludes like this piece where The Saker discovers that Fox News is actually a corporate outlet that supports an established political party and promotes the sanctity of the American duopoly. lol Thanks for the midweek chuckle, my dude.

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagence, they have two of them.
– Julius Nyerere (former socialist president of Tanzania)

[Jan 18, 2021] Biden is clearly an enforcer for a faction of what we might call the permanent establishment, the hidden real government that runs on automatic imperial pilot regardless who is nominal US President.

Jan 18, 2021 | journal-neo.org

http://journal-neo.org/2016/09/27/joe-biden-is-washington-troublemaker-in-chief/

Biden is clearly an enforcer for a faction of what we might call the permanent establishment, the hidden real government that runs on automatic imperial pilot regardless who is nominal US President.
That "permanent establishment" is currently becoming "dis-established" everywhere in the world. It sees with horror that its grip on the entire world is crumbling.

It does only what it has always tried in such cases -- war, war, war. Only of late, those wars -- war against Russia over Ukraine, war against Assad's Syria, an attempted war against Erdogan in Turkey, a war against the growing economic muscle in the world of China -- have been impotent flops.

Biden, a dutiful servant of those interests, carries the flag of war to where he is sent, much like the character in Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks.

[Jan 17, 2021] Video evidence of antifa inside capitol before crowd entered

Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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TuicyJits 16 hours ago remove link

Video evidence of antifa inside capitol before crowd entered. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKDHr1Yg9cH/?igshid=9fdp6hd31zv5

AuEagleNest 16 hours ago (Edited)

So Far, More Than 120 Arrests (more coming) for Siege on Capitol

The FBI has over 110,000 pictures and videos that they are sifting through, to identify domestic terrorists that laid siege to the Capitol on Jan 6. If you're in one of those pics or videos, it sux to be you. Expect a knock (or no-knock) at your door, from the FBI, any day now.

Fiscal Reality 16 hours ago remove link

OOPS. Don't look now....

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-brother-arrested-antifa-blm-activist-john-sullivan-turned-brother-says-brother-somehow-charge-us-capitol-riots-video/

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/whats-the-floor-plan-new-suspicious-video-emerges-from-capitol-siege/

bruhaha 20 hours ago remove link

Doesn't seem to me there is any direct connection of that reporter to CNN. She's a freelance reporter (so technically not employed by them). From her website, she has done work for the following: NBC, NPR, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed News and others.

The video is still suspicious. But now that everyone jumped on the "CNN reporter" bandwagon without checking first, now the whole situation can be labelled "fake news" because of that error.

[Jan 17, 2021] The Trial Of Citizen Trump Would Raise Serious Constitutional Questions

Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Below is my column in USA Today on the upcoming Senate trial of President Donald Trump. The Hill recently ran my second column on why the best defense of Trump could be no defense -- to skip the Senate trial and force a threshold vote on the constitutionality of the trial of an ex-president. Here is my column:

With the second impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Congress is set for one of the most bizarre moments in constitutional history: the removal of someone who has already left office. The retroactive removal would be a testament to the timeliness of rage. While it is not without precedent, it is without logic.

The planned impeachment trial of Donald Trump after he leaves office would be our own version of the Cadaver Synod . In 897, Pope Stephen VI and his supporters continued to seethe over the action of Pope Formosus, who not only died in 896 but was followed by another pope, Boniface VI. After the brief rule of Boniface VI, Pope Stephen set about to even some scores. He pulled Formosus out of his tomb, propped him up in court, and convicted him of variety of violations of canon law. Formosus was then taken out, three fingers cut off, and eventually thrown in the Tiber River.

While some may be looking longingly at the Potomac for their own Cadaver Synod, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have stated that their primary interest is in the possible disqualification of Trump from holding future federal office. Disqualification however is an optional penalty that follows a conviction and removal. It may be added to the primary purpose of removal referenced in the Constitution. The Trump trial would convert this supplemental punishment into the primary purpose of the trial.

This did happen before but that precedent is only slightly better than the Cadaver Synod. That case involved William Belknap who served as Secretary of War to President Ulysses S. Grant. Belknap resigned after allegations of corruption -- just shortly before a House vote of impeachment. The Senate held a trial but acquitted him. Twenty nine of 66 voting senators disagreed in a threshold motion that Belknap was "amenable to trial by impeachment . . . notwithstanding his resignation."

In fairness to the Democrats, I have long rejected the argument that there comes a point when it is too late to impeach a president while he is in office. As I said in both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings, the House is under a duty to impeach if it believes that a president has committed a high crime and misdemeanor. If that occurred on the last day of a term, it would still be warranted.

My objection to this second impeachment was that it proceeded without any deliberation of the traditional impeachment process. It was a snap impeachment, which is to the Constitution what Snapchat is to conversations. It reduces the process to a raw, brief and partisan vote. This could have been avoided. A hearing could have been held in a day to allow the language of the article to be amended and the implications of the impeachment considered. It would also have allowed for a formal demand for a response from the president.

Instead, the impeachment was pushed through on a partisan muscle vote with only ten Republicans supporting the single article. It was an ironic moment. In the last Trump impeachment, I chastised the Democrats for pushing through an impeachment on the slimmest record and the shortest time frame of any presidential impeachment. They insisted that there was no time for witnesses before the House Judiciary hearing, but later waited weeks to submit the articles to the Senate. Now they have outdone that record with an impeachment with no traditional record in a matter of a couple of days. The Senate will not sit until January 19th and any trial would likely occur after January 20th.

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I have long wrestled with the notion of a retroactive impeachment trial. I can see the value of establishing that a president was not just accused but convicted of unconstitutional acts. There is also the value of disqualification of such an individual from future office. However, what was an intriguing academic puzzle is now a pressing constitutional concern.

The impeachment trial of a private citizen raises a host of constitutional and practical problems . For example, a president can rely on publicly-funded lawyers like the White House Counsel and can assert presidential privileges. After leaving office, an ex-president would not only pay for his own defense, but he will lose the ability to make privilege determinations. Indeed, many such assertions would be subject to the review of his successor, Joe Biden. It would be like Pope Stephen making determinations on critical evidence of Pope Formosus after pulling him out of the crypt.

The main issue however would be whether this is really an impeachment trial, as opposed to some curious constitutional post-mortem on a passed presidency. That question could face Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts if he has summoned for this role. A chief justice does not simply show up at anything deemed an impeachment trial. He must make an independent judgment over his carrying out a constitutional function. Even if he rules that this is a valid trial, that ruling could be rejected by the Senate in a motion to dismiss the article. In the Clinton impeachment, Democrats demanded such a threshold vote before a trial. Of course, since there is no president to try for impeachment, the Senate may not even ask Roberts to preside -- a telling departure that only undermines the trial as a whole.

This impeachment should end with the Trump administration. I do not fault those who view the president's conduct as impeachable. The speech was reckless and wrong. My primary objection was to the use of a snap impeachment and the language of the article of impeachment. That is now part of Trump's presidential legacy. The question is now what will be the troubling constitutional legacy left by the Senate in the trial of an ex-president.

In my view, a retroactive removal vote would combine with the use of a snap impeachment to fundamentally altering the role of impeachment in the United States. It would take a rush to judgment and turn it into a parade of constitutional horribles. Any party could retroactively impeach or remove a former president for the purpose of disqualifying him from office. Thus, if a party feared a one-term president's possible run, they could hold use impeachment to eliminate the political threat. With the snap impeachment, it would be worse than creating a type of "no confidence vote" under our Constitution. After a non confidence vote in the United Kingdom, a former prime minister can still run again for office.

A conviction would also not bring the closure as many may hope. Such disqualification would be one of the few impeachment issues that could be challenged in court. Trump would have standing to sue for his right to run again and he could well win. He would then be more popular than ever with many citizens eager to defy the Washington establishment. There is another path. The Senate could end the trial with a threshold vote and let history and the voters be the final judge of Donald J. Trump.

[Jan 17, 2021] The pot calling the kettle black: Liz Cheney forgot about Bush II administration crimes

Liz Cheney who probably got her position due to her father might well overplayed her hand.
Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

MhOOMan 5 hours ago remove link

Below is a list of which House Republicans voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday.

[Jan 17, 2021] Rush To Judgment On Trump- Multiple Leftists Arrested For Capitol Riot

ZH commenters are not impressed with the official version of the events, to say the least...
Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
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chelydra 19 hours ago remove link

At this point I don't care that some Antifa Rent-A-Mob types intermingled with the pro-Trump crowd. That unruly mob shown considerable restraint in the face of the criminality of our self-anointed ruling class. The vast bulk of the mob stayed within the velvet rope line. If the riot on Capitol Hill didn't happen, the Deep State would have cooked up some sinister post in some corner of the Internet to justify making the National Guard sleep in the halls and shut down DC (Biden already planned a "virtual" immaculation). Thanks to this show of force, our self-anointed rulers let their masks slip showing how craven and contemptuous they truly are.

SwmngwShrks 18 hours ago

That IS the Deep State cooking it up. People were bussed in. The guards let the people in. There was no forced entry. How was this violent?

sgt_doom 18 hours ago (Edited)

Exactly!!! You see it right in the MASAKO video:

https://youtu.be/5nvqvvsqJ_s

https://mb.ntd.com/analysis-of-ashli-babbit-video-suggests-coordinated-actions-interview-with-masako_551860.html

The video above is the 21st century equivalent of the Zapruder film!

William Dorritt 10 hours ago remove link

ANTIFA IS THE TERRORIST ARM OF THE FBI & DOJ

Antifa-BLM Organizer John Earl Sullivan

Released from Jail Without Bail

By Jim Hoft Published January 15, 2021 at 8:10pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/double-standards-antifa-blm-organizer-stormed-us-capitol-released-jail-without-bail/

Brother of Arrested Antifa-BLM Activist John Sullivan

Says His Brother Was "Somehow in Charge" of US Capitol Riots (VIDEO )

By Jim Hoft Published January 15, 2021 at 5:41pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-brother-arrested-antifa-blm-activist-john-sullivan-turned-brother-says-brother-somehow-charge-us-capitol-riots-video/

Arising 3.0 20 hours ago remove link

More and more, it looks like Trump was framed.

for the majority of ZH readers that was obvious as the events were unfolding live.

HowdyDoody 8 hours ago

Pictures of the Washington Maidan - Trumps supporters - allegedly

https://i1.wp.com/www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ErKKQqcVkAQYfRh.jpg

This image shows Michiel Vos, Nancy Pelosi's son in law with Buffalo Man in front of the White House. He just happened to be there as he is a newsman for a Dutch TV show. If it was anyone but Nancy, I would suspect collusion.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFL2a-W8AUsVD4.jpg

The White House framed in a gallows with a noose in front of it.

https://i0.wp.com/www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/136954744_10158698018982850_6919317569108662572_n.jpg

This is a dog whistle to this image of a similar takeover in Israel.

https://i1.wp.com/www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/136474173_10158698019032850_5296847883469615052_n.jpg

It shows a noose dangling framed before the coffin of Yitzhak Rabin murdered by Zionists in 1995 after being incited by Netanyahu allowing him eventually take control.

Finally we have Aaron Mostofsky, whose father is Judge Shlomo "Steven" Mostofsky of Kings County Supreme Court. He is a prominent in Democratic Borough politics and a former president of National Council of Young Israel.

https://cdn.cms.prod.nypr.digital/images/shutterstock_editorial_11691139q.2e16d0ba.fill-661x496.jpg

Let's give Aaron his 5 minutes of fame. Notice the totally uncontrolled violence on display at the end of the clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewPUMYkaMQ

Jack_Ewing 19 hours ago remove link

Trump was not outsmarted by Dems. He was in on "the plan". The plan: Hand over the nation to globalists on 1/20 without a fight with patriots demoralized, humiliated and living in fear. Don't forget that the con artist set up supporters to be shamed, killed and face-recognized on Jan 6.

Then called the National Guard on them. Now they all belong to a national database, no fly lists. Remember: 4 years of Trump and no end to DACA, no end to birthright citizenship, no FISA arrests, no 'lock her up', no 'drain the swamp', no wall, no voter ID. But Israel got EVERYTHING: embassy, Golan Heights, settlements, billion$ in aid. ‬Trump: Rothschild puppet, Israeli double-agent.

TRM 19 hours ago remove link

Either the biggest Zionist shill since Theodore Herzl or the Mossad had the goods on him. I know which is most likely.

Trump's owners, the military industrial complex and the zionist lobby, have thrown him under the bus. Bummer dude but you don't get to be "the one". It is so easy to manipulate ego maniacs.

What deal did they cut with Biden's owners (media (all 6), med-mafia (pharma on top), tech and CIA+lawfare (DOJ, FBI, IRS))?

1) Biden will NOT end the sanctions against Iran. He may say "we'll negotiate" but it will drag on forever.

2) The MIC gets to keep the "civilian special forces" and most importantly control of the NSA.

So after doing all the dirty work Trump gets thrown under the bus. LMAO. Will he be a broken man like LBJ or Nixon or will he drift off into irrelevance like most of the rest?

The central banking cartel gets what it wants (all FED chair positions, Secretary of Treasury) for its people from both parties so they control the money which controls all else. They have supported Bolsheviks, fascists and FDR so they have no political affiliation other than to themselves. They are the true party of power.

Forced vaccinations, tracking and rigged "science" to justify everything are going to get worse. To all those who think you will get a "Socialist Republic" get a grip. You will get Chinese capitalism. The worst of both worlds. Single party dictatorship and the most exploitative capitalist system ever. It makes the robber barons of the late 1800's roll over in their graves in awe. The left owners worship the Chinese model.

" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTuPFeaD3U"

"Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands"

sgt_doom 17 hours ago (Edited)

Seriously dude, he was outsmarted, but the dems are just the minions of the Deep State, America's China Class.

Trump was the disrupter to the status quo, the Rockefeller Plan -- which created the rigged market of rigged markets.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/31/us-middle-class-still-suffering-from-rockefeller-kissinger-industrial-transfer-scheme-to-china/

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-china-class-fights-trump

🚫pinkos🚫 20 hours ago

There was no rush to judgement. This was ALL planned, probably weeks if not months beforehand. All the leftist operatives were well prepared/rehearsed. They knew exactly who, what, when, where, how and why. Just like they do EVERYTIME.

Templar X 20 hours ago (Edited)

This rush to not only blame President Trump for this "attack" upon Capitol Hill, but to also use it as a false reason to impeach him is not only a wild, insane, and irresponsible rush to judgement, it is proof positive that Nancy Pelosi is not fit for public office.

sgt_doom 17 hours ago

Exactly, exactly, exactly. The mayors and countymexecs, etc., across the nation were reading from,the same script all using the term "white insurrectionists" --- in the Northwesr

T my two sources notified me that the scrips,arrived a week before the 7th!

GreatCaesar'sGhost 20 hours ago

Interesting, but moot. The dems have both houses of Congress and the presidency. They will reek havoc for at least the next 2 years. Hopefully that creepy Liz Cheney gets primaried and loses, at least. She's sickening.

rwmctrofholz 19 hours ago

Bump this story to the top.

Secondly, didn't Matt Gaetz get shouted down/groaned at when he suggested that outside agitators had a role at the event at the Capitol?

ItsDanger 19 hours ago

But they can't investigate election fraud? No standing? Sad

Max21c 19 hours ago

Yeah it is quite amazing how all the drama queens in the Washington establishment rushed out to denounce the events on Capitol Hill and how quickly the phonies in the Justice Department and law enforcement were to launch investigations and make arrests over people barging in to the Capitol building. Yet the coup d'etat has been swept under the rug by the Regime and its state security apparatus and the puppet journalists in the official media.

SwmngwShrks 18 hours ago remove link

After watching the Occupy Wall-Street coverage and CIA handling of how to crush dissent, why would I trust the government's or media's word on any of this?

Musum 19 hours ago

The facts will continue to roll out

But it won't matter. The Russia Hoax proved that.

Truth and facts are the collateral damage of ideological crazies.

Max21c 19 hours ago

The people behind this all along have been deep state secret police and the intelligence community per CIA, Pentagon Gestapo, military intelligence, military secret police, FBI, British Gestapo and others in the cabal drawn from the ranks and world of the secret police and intelligence community.

Cardinal Fang 19 hours ago (Edited) remove link

What I find hilarious about this whole thing is that the exact same failings of the Benghazi attack are readily apparent in the US Capitol attack, right down to and including the unheeded request for reinforcements.

The only difference is the panic room wasn't burned out.

And the very same people who completely downplayed the Benghazi Attack are blowing this same type of operation way out of proportion.

We are being gaslighted.

Jolt 19 hours ago

That leaves Congress and all the jerks who voted for impeachment of President Trump looking like boobs and losers.

No, if Pelosi and McConnell and all of their buddies knew in advance that something was coming (and reports say it's true) and ALL refused to beef up security, passing IMPEACHMENT was an act of treason.

But that's just another conspiracy theory...

NOT EPS TYING 19 hours ago (Edited)

The black boy antifa guy was on cnn with his white partner in crime female as a guest of honor. i can smell the bs from a mile away, over 1000 miles away in this case. DC smells really bad now.

Delusion Spotter 19 hours ago (Edited)

The Truth always come out. This was obviously a staged Left Wing Plot from the beginning. The Democrats will try every dirty trick in the book to try to make sure Trump doesn't run against and defeat Senile Joe in 2024.

Senile Joe is already off to a bad start with his sure to fail $1.9 Trillion - Pork, Deadbeat, and Lost Cause Bonanza Plan.

Looks likes Trumps 2024 re-election will be a sure thing.

NOT EPS TYING 19 hours ago (Edited)

well the media is in big trouble now without trump. biden is more boring than watching paint dry, unless he is not using the teleprompter.

Crush the cube 19 hours ago

No they're not finished, your still standing.

Max21c 19 hours ago (Edited)

Even the press is starting to notice that the pieces aren't fitting together. Rather than a picture of all wicked and crazed Trump supporters, charging the Capitol, leftist news outfit Bloomberg reported that its survey of various parties involved , including those who died or were arrested, didn't paint the desired picture. Conclusion?

Many of those shown in news footage had no party affiliation and voted sporadically, if at all.

It's not unusual for the FBI & CIA to recruit and use drug addicts, alcoholics, derelicts, day workers, and others on the margins of society as they are easy to hire through fronts and easy to manipulate and be used by the secret police. It would not be the least surprising therefore that many of the agent provocateurs have suspicious background, lack stability, and come from the fringes of society as such bear the classic hallmarks of people used as dupes and cannon fodder by the intelligence agencies. They often make use of throw aways and disposable people and people that are vulnerable and easy to take advantage of and easy to handle and dump. These people fit the bill quite nicely as people that can be easily recruited by fronts and dupes and allow the puppet masters to keep it all at arms length.

slumdog_billionaire 19 hours ago

Yup!

11th_Harmonic 19 hours ago (Edited)

OBVIOUS: The 'left wing faction', the media, SillyCon Valley, and their political enablers have:

NOT OBVIOUS: Any well-thought, intelligent challenge to any of the above. You can't just keep hoping that this will go away with time; the time for peaceful action has almost passed.

Max21c 20 hours ago remove link

A left-wing activist who told Fox News last week that he'd followed a pro-Trump mob into the Capitol in order to "document" the siege is now the subject of a criminal complaint in connection with his alleged participation, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

John Sullivan can allegedly be heard egging on protesters in video he provided to the FBI, according to a federal criminal complaint. He has also shared the video to his YouTube and Twitter accounts under the pseudonym Jayden X

Apparently this guy John Sullivan claims to be an ordinary America but has a very suspicious background in allegedly being the son of a US Air Force General... and has been apparently mixed up in suspicious activities and suspicious groups... he may even be on the payroll and funded by front groups such as Anti-Fa or other radical front groups... Like other elites mixed up in these radical activities they all seem to have ties to higher levels of the government and political system... some are even Ivy Leaguers...

It would be interesting to see how many of the folks have been possibly trained by groups associated with the National Endowment for Democracy or other radical front groups for the deep state per CIA, State Department, Pentagon, FBI, National Security Council and rest of the state security apparatus. It would be interesting to see how much of this is just another British Gestapo and CIA and Pentagon Gestapo, State department elites color revolution aimed at the overthrow of the US government and imposing a ruler over America that shall do the biddings of the war machine and secret police machine...

[Jan 17, 2021] Poland Set To Make Censoring Social Media Accounts Illegal

Demonopolizatio0n of Internet giants would be a much better move...
Jan 17, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

On Jan. 6, pro-Trump extremists stormed the US Capitol complex and disrupted Congress's joint session to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory. Days later, social media companies went on a free speech crusade against President Trump, banning or limiting the president from various platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat.

It appears some Polish government officials have denounced big tech's censorship of Trump. They are preparing to draft a law that will make it illegal for tech firms to ban accounts, according to The Guardian .

"Algorithms or the owners of corporate giants should not decide which views are right and which are not," wrote the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

"There is no and can be no consent to censorship."

Morawiecki's comments were published on Facebook days after Twitter and Facebook suspended the US president, citing a "risk of further incitement of violence" in the wake of his supporters storming the US Capitol building in Washington, DC.

Speaking vaguely and without mentioning Trump, Morawiecki said:

"Censorship of free speech, which is the domain of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is now returning in the form of a new, commercial mechanism to combat those who think differently," he said.

"The owners of social platforms cannot act above the law," Morawiecki added, noting that in Poland, the functioning of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are regulated by law.

"We will suggest that similar regulations are also put in place in all of the European Union," he said.

Morawiecki's comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Trump's ban from Twitter is "problematic."

The fallout from last week's deadly raid on the Capitol has included the purging of Parler , which is a social media app mainly used by conservatives. Apple and Google both banned Parler from their respective app stores over concerns the app aided Trump supporters in the Capitol attack.

Banning Trump from Twitter and other social media platforms has set dangerous precedence where big tech companies can, at their convenience, censor anyone they want, even the president of the US.

Sven Novgorod 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

"On Jan 6th, pro-Trump extremists stormed the US Capitol complex and disrupted Congress's joint session"

This article states as fact the storming of Congress is a closed case. Done and dusted.

I say Propaganda.

No comment on the fact BLM was present or Antifa was also there. No comment on the fact, the police encouraged people to enter the building.

takeaction 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

And CNN was in on it... .they are trying to scrub the video...

Note: I could find NO Reference to this video through google. Duck Duck go...there it was.

Ikiru 1 hour ago (Edited)

Google has become entirely useless for anyone looking for the truth. I gave a friend a Google demonstration by punching in "election fraud", which 5 years ago would have pulled up all sorts of information, including the massive evidence. Now, it only pulls up MSM sites and leftist rags. I would recommend trying this with friends and family to show how Google is manipulating the public who are unaware of their evil doings.

mcgman 1 hour ago remove link

This is the biggest problem with the right wing activist base. They run for cover and start dumping people overboard once the going gets rough. Yes there were antifa and blm provocateurs at the protest. But that says nothing for the 99% of the people in attendance that were the most ardent of trump activists. They are responsible for how they behaved. But their justification was IMMEDIATELY cooped by washington GOP talking points in saying how "BAD THEY ARE". Rather than pointing out how they have been systematically disenfranchised and targeted over the last 4 years. The activist base on the right needs to take a lesson from the left. Did you see democrats running for cover and throwing their base under the bus over the summer when the country was on fire ? absolutely NOT. Jerry Nadler told everyone it was a myth and to go piss up a rope. The GOP is the party of fools which is why they are allowing their most ardent supporters to be put on corporate blacklists and DHS no fly lists. If the right intends to be politically active they have a LOT of learning to do. This event exposes why the movement on the right is so weak politically.

Sandwich 2 hours ago

Hey ZH, nobody stormed anything. It was a guided tour.

Debtman And Robbin 1 hour ago

I saw members of Congress storming out on live TV.

takeaction 1 hour ago

Yes sir it was....by CNN We did it!

This should be front page story. Needs to get some legs.

ThomasJefferson69 2 hours ago remove link

Yes it seems the oligarch's have found a weapon they can continue to use to control the masses. A flu virus.

Amazing how many people I still see wearing masks [outside of closed spaces]. Even in a state that doesn't require them.

https://summit.news/2020/10/07/over-6000-scientists-doctors-sign-anti-lockdown-petition/

balz 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

On Jan. 6, pro-Trump extremists stormed the US Capitol complex

Get your facts straight, Tyler. They weren't extremists, the Capitol wasn't "stormed" and some of them weren't even Trump supporters.

Pigeon 1 hour ago (Edited)

+1000

This sort of fake-news editorializing happens far too frequently here. How long until Tylers go full-Drudge?

FYI, did you see American Thinker turned off comments (and those were hosted by POS Vuukle). Can't take a chance on someone saying something naughty.

These sites are shooting themselves in the foot. Personally, my time online has dropped 50% - and will continue to drop as I detox myself from the stupidity , manipulation and propaganda.

[Jan 17, 2021] Why did Trump learn nothing from Charlottesville?

Jan 17, 2021 | www.unz.com

Anonymous [401] Disclaimer , says: January 16, 2021 at 8:37 am GMT • 18.4 hours ago

Trump should have been at the head of his army of supporters, leading them down Pennsylvania Avenue as voting fraud evidence was examined in Congress. It would have been a powerful and wondrous photo op. Why didn't he? Why did he learn nothing from Charlottesville?

Also, why hasn't he pardoned the Proud Boys, James Fields, Assange, etc.? Why did he, yet again, jump to do Israel's bidding by pardoning Kushner's corrupt father and freeing Israeli spy Pollard? Now every pro-Trump media talking-head BEGINS by atoning for the fake "insurrection."

The Republican party is dead, filled with rabid RINOs and masochistic Swampussies. Why would ANY Trumper ever vote again, knowing that election-machinery is rigged? Finally, what good does it do now for Don to unseal the evidence used against him? That should have been done years ago, when it mattered.

[Jan 17, 2021] To what extent Jan 6 events can be viewed as a provocation specifically designed to remove Trump from polical arean and disredit his supporters

Jan 17, 2021 | www.unz.com

Anita Patel , says: January 15, 2021 at 11:31 pm GMT • 1.1 days ago

"Trump and his supporters had to be blackened and discredited with an orchestrated event that stopped the presentation of the evidence of electoral fraud and replaced it with an "insurrection against democracy by MAGA terrorists." Or: "THE SWAMP STRIKES BACK."

Notsofast , says: January 16, 2021 at 12:00 am GMT • 1.1 days ago

what i can't understand is why would trump send his followers to the capitol at the precise time the evidence is about to be read into the congressional record. ted cruz (not that i like or trust him) was about to present "evidence" that would have been available to the public, that is now buried and resulted in calls for his resignation. they had to know that there would be provocateurs after charlotte, i wonder if trump hadn't cut a deal to throw his supporters under the bus in order to save his ass, or if the whole deal is just a massive scripted psyops for the last four years.

[Jan 17, 2021] Is John Sullivan somehow connected to/controlled by FBI

Highly recommended!
Jan 17, 2021 | www.unz.com

HallParvey , says: January 16, 2021 at 2:46 pm GMT • 12.3 hours ago

@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle ations are either dissolved or they merge with the artificial ones, but always in subordinate roles.

Basically, instead of going out to find the radicals you attract them to you. Now you know where they all are and what they are doing. Even better, you are now in command of those very radicalized individuals who want to take you down. Sweet! If you need to thin their ranks you just hatch a fake plot to do whatever and send the ones to die into a kill zone that your military has set up somewhere. Not only do you get rid of some radicals but you build a reputation of omniscience and invulnerability around your military. Alternatively you can steer two or more of your controlled radical organizations into conflict with each other, killing more radicals and building the reputation of your opponents as being a bunch of idiots who kill their own.

, Getaclue , says: January 16, 2021 at 5:58 pm GMT • 9.1 hours ago
@lloyd s been given "Get Out Of Jail Free Cards" for violence before and he is out of jail now – – others (fools) who followed him into the Capitol (which he is on tape inside urging them to "burn it down") have NO Bail and face decades in Prison (Buffalo Horn head guy) -- the FBI is nothing but a NWO KGB -- they "infiltrate" or set up all the "violence" we see to use it so our Rights can be stripped away as we are now seeing and have since the 911 False Flag which they also knew about, allowed, and covered up -- it is all theater to be used to destroy us for the NWO Globalist Agenda: https://national-justice.com/black-lives-matter-organizer-seen-entering-capitol-building-crowd-likely-fbi-agent-provocateur
Corvinus , says: January 16, 2021 at 6:34 pm GMT • 8.5 hours ago
@Getaclue

"No doubt Sullivan works for the FBI "

Citations required.

"it is all theater to be used to destroy us for the NWO Globalist Agenda"

So, assuming this to be true, what are you personally doing about it other than lamenting on a blog?

Peripatetic Itch , says: January 17, 2021 at 1:48 am GMT • 1.2 hours ago
@Corvinus
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ashli-babbitt-shooting-video-jayden-x-maga-riot-interview-1112949/

So you may be on to something. He may be the key witness in the Ashli case. He was certainly most seriously shocked by it.

This is Sullivan's documentary. The murder scene is real. It is extremely difficult to watch, but occurs near the end, at about 1:11. The rest is incredibly good footage. Every second person in the protest was taking pics. No one had weapons. The man who broke the window for Ashli to climb through was probably the same one who snuck down the stairs to change his clothes right after, so most probably Antifa.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P34tO5eaLhg?feature=oembed

[Jan 17, 2021] If we compare two riots

Slightly edited for clarity
Jan 17, 2021 | www.unz.com

KenH , says: January 16, 2021 at 10:30 pm GMT • 4.5 hours ago

The neoliberal MSM and various talking heads now lecture us that the black supremacist and radical left looting of Target stores and businesses on main street and firebombing police precincts and a federal building and killing and maiming dozens of people over a five month period is far less serious than storming the Capitol building, stealing Nancy Pelosi's holy lectern and taking some selfies.

So if the pro-Trump "Capitol rioters" would have just destroyed the nearest Target store and police precinct and used fire extinguishers on wheel chair bound black women then that would have been ok with CNN. But dare to make mischief at the holy Capitol building and all bets are off and it's time for the firing squads and drone strikes. At least for right wingers.

Of course the amnesiac neoliberal morons forgot that they attempted to storm the White House in late May 2020 but of course that is Democracy in action and whenever blacks and leftists riot we better sit up and take notice and do some serious soul searching because we brought it upon ourselves.

Suddenly, neoliberal media, some BLM leaders and assorted left wing gas bags have morphed into back the bluetards and are celebrating the murder of unarmed white woman Ashli Babbitt by a black Capitol police officer. Surprisingly, BLM activist Shaun King, a.k.a. "Martin Luther Cream", actually showed some principle and said the shooting was unwarranted.

[Jan 17, 2021] Does Chuck Schumer really want to try Trump in the Senate on the charges submitted by the House?

Jan 17, 2021 | www.unz.com

anonymous [432] Disclaimer , says: January 16, 2021 at 8:28 am GMT • 18.6 hours ago

So, I must ask, does Chuck Schumer REALLY want to try Trump in the Senate on the charges submitted by the House? Because, if so, is not Trump entitled to a defense a defense that may include evidence touching on all the issues you raised in your piece, Mr. Roberts?

At this point the name of the game is the Democrats trying to besmirch Trump's reputation to the point where he can never participate in the American political system ever again. This is why Schumer says he would try Trump even if January 20th were the last possible opportunity to do so. And, if he missed that deadline, that he would try him AFTER his presidential term as a private citizen, all to i) punish him with jail time to underscore a definitive "win" in the history books for his hardball party politics and ii) preclude him from ever seeking the presidency again because of disqualification under the relevant constitutional amendment, or having the credibility to back another candidate or create his own political party/movement.

Does Mr. Schumer think that he can present only one side of the story in any such Senate trial? Does he think Trump will not be allowed to defend himself with evidence? Or at least with contentions claimed to be evidence which would then have to be examined in detail before the Senate to establish its status as evidence or not? And, unless the Senate trial is a secret kangaroo court closed to the public, whatever is presented to the Senate is now revealed to the public and the scenario you paint in your article, Mr. Roberts, should ultimately be revealed in glorious technicolor to all.

Am I right? Or does Schumer in the Senate have the same prerogatives to short circuit constitutionally guaranteed rights of legal self-defense that Pelosi seemingly employed in the House where only "evidence" provided by the prosecution was allowed? Will Trump, or his lawyers, simply be made to stand in the dock and listen to the accusations with no allowance for rebuttal? Well, that certainly should not impress the public either. I daresay that kind of performance would lead not to the "blue tide" in coming elections that the Dems envision in their dreams but to their next "shellacking," as their silver-tongued Nobel laureate put it.

If Trump is given the legal rights usually extended to most multibillionaires in the American legal system, he should be able to tie up the Senate's time for months or even years to come whilst embarrassing the left side of the aisle no end. I know, justice in the Congress does not take the same form and maybe does not provide the same protections as in the courts, but appearances alone should be a consideration for both sides in this matter. Does it appear that justice and fairness are being applied, or does it look like raw power politics, cold retribution with an old fashioned tar and feathering? So, I again pose the question, does Schumer really want to try Trump in the Senate for his alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors?" I also wonder, if Schumer's dream case against Trump goes awry and the Dems stand to be humiliated with the truth and with evidence of their own crimes, could we ultimately be seeing a resolution similar to the Milosevic case at the Hague? Could the Russians be framed once again for exposing their alleged puppet to a fatal dose of novichok? (Pelosi and the Queen of Warmongers would claim Putin didn't trust the Donald not to spill his guts on their grand conspiracy to rule the world together.) I know, sounds crazy, but what that has happened during the last four years has not been crazy?

[Jan 17, 2021] Baghdad green zone in Washington, DC

Jan 17, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Artemesia , 16 January 2021 at 11:59 AM

...Does anyone share my belief that the "requirement" for heavily armed guards and barricades around state capitols, based on FBI threat assessment that ProudBoys and other white supremacist/deplorables/smellies plan armed attacks in protest of Biden's inauguration is the prequel to imposition of martial law and/or a false flag?

I've never used FB and don't understand how or why to use Twitter.
I don't have TV and haven't watched MSM or cable news for about a decade.
I do, however, -- or did -- watch C Span, including Washington Journal almost religiously.

This morning's Wash. Journ. was outrageous. Moderator Jesse Holland, who teaches journalism, if I'm not mistaken, opened with, "The insurrectionist riots have the nation on edge . . ." Luge downhill from there.
C Span has revealed itself as Propaganda Central. Moderators proclaim themselves to be "objective" and even invisible: the callers are the focus. But especially since the beginning of the pandemic, and blatantly since the election & ensuing controversy, Moderators produce heavily loaded questions that function more as conditioners- normalizers; they validate callers who conform to the party line; and they argue with or cut off callers who disagree with the party line, even when such callers present articulate and soundly sourced information.

Brian Lamb retired in 2012 but remained a presence until about 2 years ago, and to the best of my knowledge has not appeared on the network, in person, since 2018. I believe the C Span project has morphed into something he did not anticipate and might not endorse.

JohninMK , 16 January 2021 at 04:58 PM

BillWade you touch on an interesting topic.

Who made the decision and why is it thought necessary to turn central DC into the equivalent of the Green Zone in Baghdad? With an estimated 30,000 troops, 50 odd medium armour Strikers, engineers, drones plus goodness knows what else.

I understand that it is a 30 day deployment, why for so long after the inauguration?

As military Intel is usually good they surely can't be expecting strike columns of Deplorables in their 'technicals' a la ISIS?

This quite naturally leads to the theory that if they are not to keep someone out, maybe they are there for the opposite. We will know in a few days.

[Jan 17, 2021] Why hasn't Mike Dunn been arrested by the FBI?

Jan 17, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

'Boogaloo Boi' Leader Who Aligns with Black Lives Matter Boasted About Organizing Armed Insurrection On US Capitol

While establishment Republicans and Democrats and the mainstream media continue to blame Trump and his supporters for violent riots at the Capitol, they entirely ignored a Jan. 8 Reuters interview where he admitted "three or four groups of loyalists under his command helped storm the Capitol " and "embraced the moment to strike against the government."

RELATED: WATCH: Jim Jordan Predicts What Democrats' Crazy Next Move Will Be After Impeachment

Asked whether boogaloos had planned to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, he told the publication, "Just know there is more to come."

The 22-year-old Boogaloo leader and Virginia resident bragged about "infiltrating" MAGA during the riot and scoffed at Trump supporters for adhering to the 6pm citywide curfew for the District of Columbia mandated on Jan 6.

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"After MAGA and others stormed the capital building in a moment of anger (which was cool) they retreated to hotels to comply with the Curfew. We obviously didn't stayed out in the streets until 12," he tweeted on Jan. 7.

In response to another Twitter user, he claimed, "Those were infiltrators, not real MAGA," Dunn gloated, "Yeh, we know."

While a Google search of the Boogaloo movement would have you believe the group is comprised of "far right," "white supremacist" Trump supporters, the Boogaloo Bois are actually a far-left group aligned with Black Lives Matter in their disdain for Trump and Republicans.

[Jan 17, 2021] Does Jade Sacker Work for CNN

Jan 17, 2021 | www.snopes.com

On Jan. 15, 2021, a slight wrinkle was added to this rumor: Not only was antifa responsible for the attack, but so was CNN. A viral video supposedly showing " CNN's Own " Jade Sacker quickly racked up more than 2 million views as it circulated on Twitter. Other postings of this video labeled Sacker as " CNN photojournalist " or " CNN reporter ."

Here's a screenshot of one such posting .

While this video was widely shared as if it showed a woman named Jade Sacker, we have not been able to independently verify this. If this video truly does show Sacker, however, it's important to note Sacker is not an employee of CNN. Describing her as "CNN's own" or "CNN reporter Jade Sacker" is inaccurate.

Sacker is a freelance photojournalist who documented the pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. She is not, nor has she ever been, employed by CNN.

Matt Dornic, the head of strategic communications for CNN Worldwide, wrote on Twitter that "no one named Jade Sacker works for CNN."

A spokesperson for CNN reiterated this point to us in an email, writing: "Jade Sacker has never worked for CNN."

So, where does this rumor come from?

On the evening of Jan. 6, Sacker appeared on "Anderson Cooper 360" alongside a man named John Sullivan to talk about what they saw during the Capitol riot. Specially, these two appeared on the network to discuss a piece of footage captured by Sullivan that showed the shooting death of a woman inside the Capitol. Here's a screenshot from that interview:

Sacker appeared on CNN because she was a witness to the Capitol riot, not because she was employed by CNN, or because she was hired by the network to report from the event.

It should be noted that Sullivan was arrested by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the riot a few days after this interview. While Sullivan claims that he was at the Capitol to document the event as a journalist, the FBI affidavit notes that Sullivan can be heard on video yelling things like "we about to burn this shit down" and "we accomplished this shit. We did this together. Fuck yeah! We are all a part of this history."

News of Sullivan's arrest was widely spread on social media attached to the misleading claim that he was a leader of antifa. We took a deeper look into Sullivan's alleged ties to antifa and Black Lives Matter here .

[Jan 17, 2021] The people who stormed the Capitol are easily divided into two groups; the petty bourgeoisie and lumpen-proletariat

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Andrew Watts , January 16, 2021 at 8:35 am

I've previously compared our time to the Revolutions of 1848 and so I reject the notion that these events can be compared to a genuine underclass rebellion. The people who stormed the Capitol are easily divided into two groups; the petty bourgeoisie and lumpen-proletariat. The lumpen proletariat is playing a similar role to what they did during 1848 as useful pawns of reactionary forces. While the petty bourgeoisie in America has seen it's economic prosperity threatened by the pandemic and are seething with fury at the federal/state government(s) after years of anti-government propaganda from the likes of Fox News and/or other "conservative" sources.

In any capitalist system the middle classes typically lack the political influence to be made whole by the State in any emergency and unknowingly live their lives on the edge of ruin. We saw this with the CARES Act when the largest chunk of the Paycheck Protection loans went to politically connected businesses. Babbitt is somewhere in the cross section between these groups. A former soldier without any dedicated profession nevertheless tries to start a business in a monopolistic service industry dominated by capital.

There isn't anything that can convince me her unnecessary and tragic death wasn't a suicide by cop. A former soldier or failed businesswoman attempting to breach a barricade with armed people behind it seems like a clear-cut example.

bob k , January 16, 2021 at 9:56 am

while i disagree with your last paragraph, i think you're right about the class content of the assaulters. I believe it was Marx who talked about the outrage of the petty bourgeoise (if not, then it was Lenin, can't remember). anyway the pb lacks the sweeping world view an enlightened working class and sees the world in terms of its narrow and short term interests, which right now are desperate and dismal.

Interestingly enough, or maybe not, the ranks of Antifa are also made up of the pb.

Andrew Watts , January 16, 2021 at 5:30 pm

I'd have to say that Antifa types are petty bourgeoisie with lumpen inclinations. The common characteristic that defines the lumpen is the inability to view itself with any degree of class awareness. The issue of class is an abstract theory to most of them. They can't connect the challenges of being lower class to their own personal life or contemporary peer's experience.

That very prevalence of abstract thought is commonly found in ages of decline/collapse though.

There is nothing more conducive to the destruction of a nation, whether it be a republic or monarchy, than the lack of men of wisdom or intellect. When a republic has many citizens, or a monarchy many ministers, of high quality it quickly recovers from losses that are brought about by misfortune. When such men are lacking, it falls into the very depths of disgrace. That is why I deplore the present state of the Empire which, having produced so many excellent men in the past, has now been reduced to such a level of sterility that today's governors possess nothing to elevate them above whom they govern. -John Cantacuzenus

Tony Wright , January 17, 2021 at 6:00 am

That quote also seems to perfectly summarise the reason behind the current Brexit and Covid19 situation in the (dis)UK. Little cause for optimism there methinks.

Dennis , January 16, 2021 at 12:01 pm

If there was any real party of the proletariat in the US, it would be pushing to incorporate the petty bourgeoisie into an alliance with the gig workers/retail workers who make up today's proletariat. As Marx pointed out in the Communist Manifesto, the lower middle class are becoming revolutionary "in view of its impending transfer into the proletariat," and it should be the goal of the left to partner with this class, not alienate them.

21st Century America's petty bourgeoisie is rather large as it consists of not only traditional small business owners, but also the kin to the working classes of the 70's and 80s, who benefited from the century of union activism that preceded them. They grew up middle class and in relative comfort, and they still have some of the wealth left over from the past. But now they see the only future for them and their children under Neoliberalism is downward. Since there is no movement from the left, they easily fall prey to the right and slogans like MAGA.

[Jan 17, 2021] Neither of these parties serves the interests of anyone except the ultrawealthy. And with the sliding standard of living of the majority of population this is problem and led to the Jan 6 events.

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KD , January 16, 2021 at 10:26 pm

The mistake I see is partisan thinking. "Working class people who vote for the GOP are voting against their own interests." Perhaps, provided we add "working class people who vote for the Democrats are voting against their own interests." The government serves the oligarchs, and GOP or Dem just expresses the tilt, is it going to be handouts for Hollywood or Oil and Gas?

Neither of these parties serves the interests of anyone except the ultrawealthy. You're more likely to get better representation voting in a local Chinese election, because at least the candidate hasn't been bought off by corporations. As long as the 99% continues to turn on each other in the fight over the table scraps, and keeps voting for these two corrupt "lesser of two evils", the result will be more evil.

VietnamVet , January 16, 2021 at 9:16 pm

[Jan 17, 2021] Lessons From the 6 January Capitol Insurrection

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Yves here.

... It's not hard to imagine that a decent proportion of the rioters were small business owners, like the woman who was fatally shot, Ashli Babbitt, who operated a pool service company with her husband. Small businesspeople have been the loudest opponents of lockdowns and other restrictions on Covid and some are even of the "Covid is a hoax" school. Yes, they favored Trump for economic reasons: they benefitted from his tax reforms and were keen about his refusal to support aggressive Covid containment measures.

By Albena Azmanova, an associate professor of politics at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies and author of Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia (2020) and Marshall Auerback, a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, a fellow of Economists for Peace and Security , and a regular contributor to Economy for All , a project of the Independent Media Institute. Produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute

By the same token, the events of January 6th should be viewed as the point U.S. political dysfunction reached its breaking point. While the country still appears to remain economically powerful, it has become politically weak and socially fragile in ways characteristic of a society in decline. The focus on the relatively small group that broke into the Capitol as a result of lax security is akin to focusing on the Beirut blast wreckage to the exclusion of all else. Far more significant are the surveys of representative samples of Americans that reveal deepening mistrust of the core institutions and a growing commitment to sectarian interests which have, in many parts of the nation, superseded commitment to the republic itself.

This sheds a different light on the events. While the spark that ignited the violent pro-Trump upheaval was the incumbent's allegations that the November Presidential election was fraudulent, for many the assault on the Capitol was also an insurgency against the entire political class. "All these politicians work for us. We pay their salaries, we pay our taxes. And what do we get? Nothing. All of them inside are traitors" -- as a member of the mob stated .

On this particular point, the grievances of the violent mob and the findings of scholars align: America is an oligarchy, not a functioning democracy, as the detailed study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page argued in 2014. Thus, much as this was an assault on American democracy, the storming of the Capitol was also a sign that American democracy had already failed. Surely, these clumsy "revolutionaries" did not storm the Capitol because they are living the American Dream -- and they are blaming, unsurprisingly, the whole political class for their malaise.

Whenever economic explanations of this radicalization are attempted, inequality is singled out as the root of working-class discontent. Commentators from Joseph Stiglitz to Thomas Piketty or Emmaunuel Saez relentlessly hammer on one theme above all others: an economic inequality that has deep roots in the political system. A cross-party consensus is now emerging on fighting inequality through redistribution -- from raising the minimum wage to increasing unemployment benefits.

One reason why inequality has attracted so much attention is that it is easily measurable. Indeed, reports of the top 1% of Americans taking $50 trillion from the bottom 90% easily appeal to our sense of injustice. However, there are studies of the white working class which reveal that despite the outrage about inequality, many in this demographic still admire the rich. Additionally, the singular focus on economic inequality obscures another phenomenon -- the massive economic insecurity which is affecting broader swathes of the population beyond the 'precariat' (those in poorly paid and insecure jobs). While insecurity is not easy to measure and report, it is in fact at the root of the social malaise of Western societies.

Seeing economic precarity as a root cause also helps to better explain why so much of the working-class radicalization has taken a turn to the right. Right-wing populists specifically evoke language that triggers conservative instincts -- the evocation of family, a desire for stability, for clinging strongly to what is familiar ("Make America Great Again"), as opposed to plunging into political experimentation with something new -- with the "foreign", to the American mind, European-style social democracy (especially when combined with "woke" issues that tend to alienate). On the other hand, many on the libertarian right champion free market fundamentalism, which fosters competitive, rather than solidaristic attitudes -- especially when public goods are converted into private rents via privatization, which in turn limits access to resources that mitigate the effects of that intense competition instead of enhancing social solidarity.

Even under recent Democratic Administrations, economic recovery from the 2008 financial meltdown happened through a growth in insecure employment. The services jobs that fueled U.S. economic growth for the past 40 years -- until the pandemic began to destroy them -- were numerous, but of low quality. The rise of neoliberalism at the expense of the conservative-liberal divide that preceded it has enabled employers to tilt the terms of our capitalist economies heavily toward capital and away from labor, via the evisceration of unions, the deconstruction of the welfare state, and the privatization of public services. Most importantly, funding for public services and social programs has been persistently slashed. It is this impoverishment of the public commons that has increased the importance of personal wealth in securing essential goods such as healthcare and education. Thus, economic inequality matters enormously, but as a grave symptom of a broader problem -- that of massive, and growing, fragility of society as a whole. The erosion of the public sector precludes access to many of the social supports that have historically buttressed economic security.

As a result, the American economy has begun to resemble a new, modern feudalism with a small technocracy dominated by Silicon Valley tech overlords and Wall Street billionaires at the top, and a large, uneducated, rapidly growing serf class at the bottom with no social safety net to protect it. . Even if the wealth gap were to be considerably reduced by transfer from rich to poor, precarity would persist because it is rooted not in inequality, but in a depleted public sector, in a public authority that has abandoned the public and increasingly become a vehicle for predatory capitalism .

The pandemic exacerbated both the inequality and the precarity. Wall Street and the stock market have boomed over the past several months, generating affluence imbued with unprecedented levels of risk. At the same time, job growth has collapsed, and unemployment remains stubbornly high. Millions of Americans have withdrawn from the labor force, their jobs likely destroyed for good as the long-term impact of the economic shutdown wreaks havoc in many industries.

That has become a literal life consequence for working people in a system that continues to introduce restrictions to curb the pandemic. It is a particularly acute paradox in the United States, where healthcare remains largely predicated to employment via employer-funded healthcare systems. So we have the makings of a vicious cycle: restrictions are introduced to slow the pandemic, which in turn creates further job losses, which in turn can mean loss of employment and, hence, loss of access to healthcare provision. The very policies designed to safeguard health, then, ultimately exacerbate the problem. Add all of these factors together, align it with a demagogue working to undermine an election result, and you get the ingredients for a very poisonous outbreak of the kind we witnessed on January 6th.

The forces that led to the evisceration of working-class security is now extending to those ensconced in historically well-paid jobs, from lawyers to IT engineers. Even in the midst of a severe recession and a rapidly accelerating pandemic, policy makers remain remarkably indifferent to these trends and the ongoing precarity . They persist in believing that what has happened is merely a disruption to a solid structure, a deviation from normality, all of which can be rectified by the right mix of policy stimulus. A growing political consensus in the United States to tackle inequality appears to be emerging (especially in the wake of the recent Georgia run-off election, which put the Senate back under the control of the Democratic Party). But no matter how equal society becomes in terms of wealth distribution, without a dramatic government investment in public services, notably education, healthcare provision, and job security, trust and disillusionment in American institutions will persist, and with that also the rise of militancy by a radicalized underclass.

jackiebass , January 16, 2021 at 6:48 am

Generally people attending protests aren't poor people. Poor people are living from paycheck to paycheck. They need to work to survive. It is expensive to attend a protest. The travel and other costs along with lost wages if you are a working person aren't affordable. Many are funded by dark money, live off of parents or are borne into privilege. Actually many were protesting against a system that favors them. It is a small but vocal part of the population. People need to take these hate groups seriously. They are the biggest threat to our democracy that exists. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been warning us about this hate groups for decades. It is time we take the warning seriously.

bob k , January 16, 2021 at 8:07 am

i don't know, it was probably a mix of classes. I do know that I attended many many demos in the 60s in DC and always travelled by bus with many others. often we'd have a car wash to raise money for the bus. it was cheap and effective. and as a college student i didn't have much disposable income and often had to rely on the generosity of others. as for getting arrested, who thinks they're going to be arrested?

The Historian , January 16, 2021 at 8:24 am

I tend to agree. It is important not to judge them by what they looked like. It's like what happens at Sturgis. Many of the bikers are doctors, lawyers, techies, etc., but they grow beards and shave their heads, and generally 'dress down' for the event. I think that often happens at MAGA rallies too. Most of the MAGA types I know are small businessmen, i.e., the guy who owns a house painting business, or an auto repair place, or a small construction yard.

Carla , January 16, 2021 at 10:07 am

And safety forces -- almost all police officers and firefighters are unionized. While starting pay can be very low, benefits are excellent, and promotions plus regular raises mean these workers are usually solidly middle class. And tragically for this country, it seems they often identify with the predator class more than they do with the precariat.

Michael Fiorillo , January 16, 2021 at 11:25 am

Most of them seem to be petit bourgeois, which traditionally forms the base of right-wing/fascist movements. While it might have been white working class defectors from the Democratic Party who put Trump over the top in 2016 (as in the many thousands in swing states who voted for Obama before turning to Trump), his base is otherwise similar to that of more conventional Republicans.

As Adolph Reed has pointed out, #McResistance Media, LLC, has racialized the term "working class" to mean "white working class," the better to shame, scold and divide.

John Wright , January 17, 2021 at 9:16 am

One local (Northern Calif) retail business owner I deal with stated that "Trump is better for business" prior to the election, indicating his support for Trump.

Another time, he mentioned that he was "behind on the rent" for his building.

But this business owner still has a small and loyal workforce that he, somehow, pays.

Trump was the carny barker selling his version of (Obama) hope.

And great many USA people are hoping for their lot to improve.

In my view, the Democrats had an opportunity to work with Trump for the betterment of the country from January 2017 to January 2021.

Instead they ridiculed him and accused him of being a traitorous Russian dupe and unleashed the national security state on him..

Maybe if the Democrats had swallowed their pride and dealt in a less adversarial manner with the unworthy Trump, the USA and the world would be better off.

De-facto ignoring the long term economic issues (wages, healthcare, education, infrastructure) in the USA is policy for both parties.

And people USED to look to the Democrats as the party that actually cared for the less well off as in LBJ's War on Poverty.

I'm now expecting "Biden Disappointment Syndrome" to unfold after Jan 21 in Biden supporters.

John Wright , January 17, 2021 at 2:27 pm

I tend to view politicians as skilled in manipulation to get what they want.

Out of the gate, the Democrats Russigated Trump and second guessed his moves (talking with Putin, talking with North Korea).

I suspect businessman Trump is not the winning party in every deal he has made.

In my view, the Democrats did a real disservice to the county by antagonizing Trump from day one, seemingly because the anointed one did not win.

Perhaps the Democrats could have manipulated "serial liar" Trump for the country's benefit if they had t

dcblogger , January 16, 2021 at 7:45 am

when you violently assault the Capitol for the purpose of overturning and election and beat a police officer to death, people are going to say very mean things about you.

Carolinian , January 16, 2021 at 9:46 am

Depends on what you mean by "you." First hand accounts of the riot suggest that only a hard core were out to break into the building (and may have already been at the Capitol as Trump was speaking on the Ellipse). Many others simply walked in almost as tourists when the guards stepped aside. It's also unclear so far who these militant people were although they could have been Proud Boys. The Capitol policeman inside was killed by one person who hit him in the head with a fire extinguisher.

Greg Palast has an article saying that the rally did not have a permit to gather at the Capitol and that may be the reason it was so thinly defended (together one must suggest with incompetence by the now resigned head of the Capitol police). Perhaps the whole incident is more a matter of "stuff happens" than some deep dark insurrectionist plan.

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/14/organized-march-to-capitol-was-not-permitted-rally-organizers-warned-white-house/

lyman alpha blob , January 16, 2021 at 11:54 am

I agree with your take. The Gray Zone piece by Max Blumenthal that someone linked to here a few days ago is the only report I've seen by a reporter who was in the crowd at the scene. Blumenthal reported that there was definitely a core group who had violent intentions, but they were far from the majority. Sounds like that core used the larger protest as camouflage to some extent. Blumenthal also reported that there were many in the crowd who to him at least had some clear mental health issues.

I think the 6th was as you described – stuff happens. If more riots break out in the coming weeks though, that will no longer be the case. And telling people they'll get $1,400 right after you specifically promised them $2,000 isn't exactly the best way to calm the restless masses.

As many have noted here, the crowd was not the poorest of the poor. There have been reports that some pooled funds to charter private jets to the protest. A lot of what you might call petit bourgeoisie – small business owners and merchants.

And I sincerely hope that people don't misunderstand my point since I am not trying in any way to make a direct comparison between the participants in the riots of the 6th who I've never met and people from a couple centuries ago who I've also never met, but here's a list of some other petit bourgeoisie with an axe to grind – Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Paul Revere .

The point is, regardless of the particular grievances of today's rioters and the revolutionaries of yesteryear, these things very rarely start with the poorest of the poor – they start when there is middle class backing, and as we all know, the middle class in the US has been under legislative assault from both parties for decades now.

Louis Fyne , January 16, 2021 at 1:56 pm

there is this account too, from the Martha Vineyards Times -- which I think that we can all agree is not a traditionally right-wing outlet.

https://www.mvtimes.com/2021/01/08/not-huge-angry-mob/

lyman alpha blob , January 16, 2021 at 2:50 pm

Thanks for that – great article. This was particularly interesting –

He said there were agitators wearing military-style clothing along the route from the rally to the Capitol trying to get the crowd fired up, but he repeated that the majority of people were just there to peacefully protest. "There were people trying to incite the crowd and I remember yelling at one. Maybe we should have grabbed their megaphones. I'm not there to get in a fight with anyone. There were people there to incite the crowd. No one was listening to them."

And for some strange reason, no matter the protest, if things do get violent we just never seem to be able to identify these types of agitators

fresno dan , January 16, 2021 at 12:05 pm

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/capitol-capture-assassinate-elected-officials/index.html
(CNN)Justice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to "capture and assassinate elected officials."
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Well, kudos to CNN for reporting against ideology. I wonder if people who appear on CNN TV will get the memo . And with regard to class of the protestors/rioters, it probably was an amalgam of well off AND people, IMHO, rightly justified in being cynical about the people who inhabit congress and the CORRUPT SYSTEM we have in the US that puts them in that building. People who don't read right wing publications would probably be surprised that a significant portion of the readers of such publications DO NOT support the thin blue line. – remember that an awful lot of unarmed white men get shot dead by police too. (National Review often points out unjustified police shootings of both black and white).
One of the problems with our MSM and social media is the idea that you either support or oppose 100% of what Trump ostensibly says (as Trump says so much that is contradictory, meaningless, or so much that just doesn't make sense, it really doesn't mean much to divide people based on such a criterion).
In this case, prosecutors seem to have leveled charges that I would say were premature at BEST, and perhaps due to an overly anti Trump animus (as always, I note that I despise Trump, but I will not defend the indefensible). REMEMBER that a good portion of the FBI and DoJ believed that Russiagate was a thing? Dare I say it – this insurrection was Trumped up? Maybe some conservatives believe, with good cause, that US policing and security functions aren't all that just. There is a movie out now about MLK and the FBI – people on the "left" should see it so that they no longer hold in thrall the FBI and DoJ one should never knee jerk defend or criticize the police.

FluffytheObeseCat , January 16, 2021 at 12:49 pm

" The Capitol policeman inside was killed by one person who hit him in the head with a fire extinguisher."
Based on video and common sense it's fairly clear that most of the people milling around in front of the Capitol on January 6th had no intention of storming it. And they're quite vocal now about how "obvious"* that should be. However. If they're comfortable blaming younger, darker, less privileged Americans for "enabling" the real vandals this past summer .. I feel comfortable holding them to the same account.

They provided cover and validation for the nutjob vandals and the genuinely dangerous (but rare) neofascists who led those charges into the Capitol. With the intent of stopping our legal, orderly transition of power based on an election. However fraught the validity of the election may be, or be claimed to have been, the people who tried to upend it 'cause they so love God Emperor Trump . they need to serve time. Lotsa time.

And the 'nonviolent' middle aged party animals who made it possible with their numbers, and their expensive Trump flags and camo gear, need to grow up and acknowledge the real duties of adult citizens. Just like the tiresome woke 'kids' who dominated the news this summer.

*(I have the sense that we are just expected to 'know' they must be virtuous, on account of their country music fan looks and saintly Republicanism.)

Carolinian , January 16, 2021 at 1:16 pm

cover and validation

I don't think any of us are arguing that Trump and his people should be blameless for letting his protest rally get out of control. But the Whataboutism cuts both ways. During the Floyd protests the media and the Dems were quick to assert that the worst violence was the fault of agent provocateurs but are unwilling to say the same about 1/6. Some of those militants may not even have been Trump supporters but rather anarchist types out for excitement. Too little is known to jump to conclusions.

Which is why if anything the House should have gone for censure rather than snap impeachment. And the new talk about "domestic terrorism" is a huge overreach.

neo-realist , January 16, 2021 at 5:29 pm

Lets not give short shrift to domestic terrorism:

White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.

Two later draft versions of the same document -- all of which were reviewed by POLITICO -- describe the threat from white supremacists in slightly different language. But all three drafts describe the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., listed above the immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-terror-threat-dhs-409236

While the Orange Menace brays "Antifa, Antifa."

FluffytheObeseCat , January 16, 2021 at 9:52 pm

" Some of those militants may not even have been Trump supporters but rather anarchist types out for excitement. Too little is known to jump to conclusions."

Implicit in this statement is the notion that "some of them" may have been Antifa-like false flag, super undercover rodent-effers. After living in these Untied States for 59 years, I suspect this comfortable idea is a pile of hooey. We're not dealing with a horde of super-Machiavellis here. Just over excited heels who tend to congregate with those whom they're most comfortable around.

This Twitter clip https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1349944401179496449/video/1

is the best condemnation of every apologia I have yet seen. "But bleep you for being there."

The Rev Kev , January 16, 2021 at 10:31 pm

Yeah, saw that interview yesterday. But then I remembered that this guy actually applied for that job, is on about $65,000 a year with full pension and health benefits so he has a lot of security in his life, unlike a lot of the people in that riot, so bleep him too. And I bet that that neck tattoo would bar him from a lot of other jobs too.

But like yourself, I seriously doubt that there were any Antifa types in that riot as that would be like a mouse at a cat convention. From the videos that I have seen, their style is to do their stuff when they have superior numbers and are masked so that they could not be identified.

marym , January 16, 2021 at 10:56 pm

As reflected in several discussions at NC, we don't have a clear picture of the economic status of the participants. Sure, there's an argument to be made that, whatever the mix of petit bourgeois or working class, arriving by private plane or shared rides or rented buses, their economic situation, like that of most people now, is somewhere between precarious and more severely distressed.

However, that's not what they were protesting. They were protesting that their preferred candidate didn't win the election, that votes of people not-like-them were counted; and they were willing to use disruption and violence to thwart the legal process of finalizing the election.

The Rev Kev , January 17, 2021 at 1:25 am

Well, I never said that they were intelligent. :)

Carolinian , January 16, 2021 at 11:15 pm

Blumenthal who was there said some who scaled the walls seemed military or trained. Lambert then said from the video he thought they looked more like the people who attacked the Federal Courthouse in Portland.

And please read what I said carefully–that we don't know who they were but it's unlikely that the ones scaling walls were small business people. I also said they could be Proud Boys.

Also check out that Palast link on radical elements that were planning to cause trouble.

I don't think I'm the one who is jumping to conclusions here.

Yves Smith , January 17, 2021 at 4:24 am

I'm not keen about Blumenthal's reporting. He's mixed second-hand accounts with his and presented them all as first hand, or elided them so you can't tell which is which.

And why do you assume people who are fit are military? I'm a small business person and a fitness enthusiast. Before my hip was busted three years ago, I could have scaled a wall (I probably wouldn't have due to the risk of falling on concrete). They have scaling walls in some fancy gyms, along with climbing ropes. And there's also the cohort of people who are climbers and scale pretty sheer rockfaces for fun. Gah.

[Jan 17, 2021] Certainly the several government officials who obstructed getting the Maryland National Guard into DC for several hours were trying to buy time for the " Zip Tie Guys" to succeed in their "stuff that happened".

The mob was mostly ordinary folks out for a spectacle put on by a small group. Of course their presence validated the behaviour of the radicals
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drumlin woodchuckles , January 17, 2021 at 3:06 am

[Jan 17, 2021] Utah Man Charged in Federal Court Following Events at the United States Capitol

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Utah man was charged today in federal court in the District of Columbia in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

John Earle Sullivan was charged by complaint with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and one count of interfering with law enforcement engaged in the lawful performance of their official duties incident to and during the commission of civil disorder. The defendant was arrested today in Utah.

The Complaint alleges that during the events at the U.S. Capitol, Sullivan, wearing a ballistics vest and gas mask, entered the U.S. Capitol through a window that had been broken out, pushing past U.S. Capitol Police once inside. The Complaint also alleges that Sullivan admits to filming and being depicted in video footage that shows him present, outside of the Speaker's Lobby within the U.S. Capitol, at the shooting of a woman by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

[Jan 17, 2021] Black Lives Matter Organizer Seen Entering Capitol Building With Crowd Is Likely An FBI Agent Provocateur

Jan 17, 2021 | national-justice.com

Social media is aflame after it emerged that John Earle Sullivan , a Utah-based Black Lives Matter organizer, was one of the people who entered the Capitol building with Trump-supporters on Wednesday.

Some are theorizing that Sullivan, who was arrested on felony rioting and multiple other charges last Summer after a shooting in Provo, is part of a Black Lives Matter conspiracy to make Trump-supporters look bad. Sullivan, the leader of Insurgence USA, was filmed in July as the ringleader directing a group of armed men who trapped a car and opened fire on the motorist .

Yet unlike dozens of others arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) after they left the Capitol building, Sullivan was released without charges after a short detention.

Despite the Department of Justice and FBI vowing to viciously punish every individual who entered the federal building, Sullivan continues to do public interviews incriminating himself after online sleuths identified him. He also witnessed and filmed the shooting of the unarmed white woman Ashli Babbitt by a black federal agent, but refuses to publish the footage.

While it is certain that Sullivan was at the Trump march to collect intelligence and act as an agent provocateur, evidence suggests he was operating on behalf of the FBI rather than Antifa.

Ideological Informants

During the anarchist riots last summer, National Justice learned of four separate instances of FBI agents approaching members of the Proud Boys and similar groups, offering to pay them large sums of money to fly to Portland and join the Antifa riots to collect evidence to help stop left-wing violence. The Antifa crackdown never materialized.

As they attempted to recruit Proud Boys, the FBI was using the media to seed a baseless claim about far-right provocateurs inciting all the violence at George Floyd riots.

The FBI dangles the prospect of retaliation against ideological enemies as a recruiting tool for informants and marks. While the offer made to right-wing activists has always been a sham later used to entrap them, the FBI is sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter cause.

The FBI At The Capitol

A new article published by Pro Publica suggests that FBI agents and informants played some kind of role at the Stop The Steal rally.

According to the report, the FBI knocked on the doors the day before the event and told various conservative figures they should not attend the First Amendment protest on behalf of the president. Federal agents played a role in the MPD's decision to arrest Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio on weak charges.

Trump-supporter Milo Yiannopolous told his audience over Parler that FBI agents came to his home and told him not to go, "Just had a knock at the door. I won't be going to DC. Whatever operation they've got running to fuck with patriots, it's massive and they aren't playing around."

While there's no evidence that the group that overpowered the police and entered the Capitol was inorganic, open questions remain over the role informants and undercover agents may have played in the deaths that occurred.

[Jan 17, 2021] The Great Purge Approaches

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It appears to me that Schumer has in mind to try former President Trump in the senate with John Roberts presiding. IMO this is unconstitutional. As Alan Dershowitz said on the TeeVee today, the prospect of such a procedure should be horrifying to all. Why? If the congress can try a private citizen and bar him/her from holding federal office, then whichever party controls the congress can simply bar significant opposition figures from office by re-defining the meaning of statutes, imputing motive where there is none and through guilt by association. This all begins to smell like Stalin's show trials in the 30s in which he killed off his Old Bolshevik comrades and the leadership of the Red Army. Trump will always remain vulnerable to the civil courts. The Dems fear that Florida or federal courts in Florida will not extradite him? They should live with that in the interest of maintaining the Union.

We now have most of downtown Washington, DC transformed into a Green Zone on the Baghdad model. 25,000 federalized National Guard troops plus various kinds of cops occupy that zone. 25,000? How about 1,000? How about 2.000? What do they expect, an attack on the Biden inauguration platform from the other end of the Mall? The bridges from Virginia are closed by order of his majesty Ralph Northam. We live here under Ralph's imperial decrees in a vast outdoor prison. The ability of the imperial authorities to wall us up, each in our own crummy little domain bodes ill for the future.

Not for the first time am I disgusted by the susceptibility of those I thought my countrymen to waves of hysteria. German and then Communist spying in WW1, Prohibition, internment of Japanese descended citizens of the US in WW2, McCarthyism, the 2K fantasy in which people waited for the end of civilized life, 9/11, after which the whole country went into a profound funk and stumbled about terrified of the NEXT ATTACK. And now, we have the Left's desire to destroy opposition, the opposition of 75 million citizens and to do it through mass mobilization of political hysteria.

This will never be the same country again. We have lost the talent needed to maintain a federal republic. pl

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/biden-inaugural-national-guard-troops-authorized-use-lethal-force-d-c-turns-police-state/

https://www.iwp.edu/articles/2019/07/29/political-hysteria-american-as-cherry-pie/

Show trial - Wikipedia

Eric Newhill , 17 January 2021 at 01:11 PM

I think we always knew they'd persecute Trump and his family until his last breath; even after that.

However, the move to declare members of congress who questioned the vote "seditious" is somehow, to my mind, much worse. Yes, all opposition will be purged.

https://www.salon.com/2021/01/17/texas-democrats-demand-ted-cruzs-expulsion-from-senate-his-conduct-was-seditious_partner/

The WaPo articles calling for Cruz and Hawley and others to be purged are disgusting hysteria and a naked power grab.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/11/republicans-responsible-sedition-now-want-unity/

The Left is pushing too far too fast. They've lost all perspective. IMO, this won't end well for any of us; including them.

I've lost about a third of my friends on social media, especially FB. These are solid people, ad agency execs, successful writers, business analysts, small business owners, retired cops and military. They left for uncensored [at least for now] forums - or are now entirely off all social media. They aren't going to stop communicating with one another. We talk on the phone or by email. They aren't going to stop feeling the way they do about current events. They're just going underground, where their resentment and sense of disenfranchisement smolders.

My last hope is that the military/NG is, on the whole, in line with our outlook as opposed to the Lefties. The Lefties seem to exist secure in the concept that the military consists of stupid robots that will mindlessly do the bidding of sleaze bags like Pelosi, Schumer, AOC. IMO, keep pushing and maybe find out how misplaced that concept is. Sad it may come to that.

Barbara Ann , 17 January 2021 at 01:28 PM

Show trials, purges & political denunciations - the Soviet parallels are increasing daily. Are Army political commissars next?

"The D.C. National Guard is also providing additional training to service members as they arrive in D.C. that if they see or hear something that is not appropriate, they should report it to their chain of command."
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/01/12/after-deadly-capitol-riot-army-looking-at-which-troops-require-security-screening-ahead-of-biden-inauguration/
English Outsider , 17 January 2021 at 04:12 PM

Artemesia - "The roughly 25,000 National Guardsmen deployed to the U.S. capital to ensure President-elect Joe Biden is able to be sworn in peacefully went through an additional background check to weed out any whiff of domestic extremism."

Wouldn't it be less manpower intensive to go through their ballot papers and weed out any Guardsmen who voted for Trump? You'd have to offer re-education for the rejects and something a little more positive for the hard cases but presumably that'll be done anyway. Can't leave domestic extremists running loose in the community without taking precautions, especially those who've had military training.

It would though be inadvisable to extend this procedure to the American Trump voting population as a whole. Seventy plus million is a lot of people to re-educate and in any case they don't seem to be going the right way about it.

The Dems ought to take a leaf out of the experts' book. The writer Sebastian Haffner, who started off as a lawyer, was one of those who got re-educated in the '30s. The way he tells it you had to do that if you wanted to enter the professions.

So he went along to the indoctrination course. Didn't have much choice if he wanted to be a lawyer. The re-education wasn't coercive at all. The instructors jollied them all along saying "We know all this indoctrination stuff is nonsense but it'll ease off soon. Just go along with it to keep them happy."

So he did. As did his mates. The re-education obviously didn't take with Haffner. He was one of the hard cases. But it took with most of his mates and that seeming acquiescence was enough to keep the Nazis in power without too much domestic opposition.

That was proper soft totalitarianism on the way to becoming hard. The more optimistic Dems seem to want to jump that stage and go all out from the start. Can't see it working.

akaPatience , 17 January 2021 at 04:29 PM

I bet a lot of people are thinking that dispatching 25,000 troops to DC is the only way a decent-sized crowd will be in attendance for Beijing Biden's inauguration. I'll never be convinced that all of this faux outrage and hysteria, like the COVID fearmongering during the campaign season, isn't a way to mask Biden's lack of appeal.

I recall several pre-election pollster warnings that low enthusiasm was going to be a problem for the Democrats. Yet miraculously, we're being coerced and re-educated to believe the senile, do-nothing grifter actually won the all-time highest vote count. Give me a break.

As far as show trials go, Congress has succeeded in cheapening the value of impeachment as to render it nearly unexceptional, a mere asterisk. Unfortunately for them not everyone is as gullible, as willingly credulous, as their faithful partisans.

Eliot , 17 January 2021 at 04:51 PM

"We have lost the talent needed to maintain a federal republic."

Col. Lang,

I agree

These people are incredibly short sighted.

That show trial would be a stupid and self defeating stunt, which would increase the divisions in this country, solidify the resistance to their rule, and certainly make a martyr out of Trump.

At no point would it strengthen their hold on power, it only weakens it. And that should be obvious to them, but it isn't, I don't understand why.

It feels like they can't see passed tomorrow, which is what truly worries me. They continue to destroy the traditions, which protected us, and institutions which sustained us. If anything, they're moving faster and faster.

I think they'll break this country.

- Eliot

[Jan 17, 2021] A note about "reactionary Republicans"

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... Since you like Hitler analogies so much, dear Steven, why don't you contemplate the 'reactionary' aspect of those Germans who resisted, in the 1930s, the 'progress' of the National-Socialist movement. ..."
"... 'Reactionary' simply means 'opposing the change', and the changes instituted by global finance, aided by their faithful servants, your liberal comrades, -- those changes should be opposed by all decent citizens. ..."
Jan 17, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 17 2021 19:03 utc | 23

@steven t johnson: "reactionary Republicans"

Since you like Hitler analogies so much, dear Steven, why don't you contemplate the 'reactionary' aspect of those Germans who resisted, in the 1930s, the 'progress' of the National-Socialist movement.

'Reactionary' simply means 'opposing the change', and the changes instituted by global finance, aided by their faithful servants, your liberal comrades, -- those changes should be opposed by all decent citizens.

And they are opposed by all decent citizens, and especially by the American working class, which is why your liberal comrades have to resort to fascist methods: goebbelsian propaganda, censorship, blacklisting, police repression.

[Jan 17, 2021] America 2.0- After the election by Dmitry Medvedev

It is interesting that former Russian President highlighted criminal behaviour of US Internet monopolies, who became political players.
Jan 17, 2021 | www.rt.com

... the US citizens themselves have called into question their country's conformity with the main criterion of democracy – the ability of the state to ensure fair and transparent expression of the people's will in general.

This is an urgent issue the United States has to deal with. The nation is divided, the fault line running between people of different value orientations, which reflect on the electoral choice between Republicans and Democrats. There is a clear "value divide" between conservative Americans and those who promote change in traditionalist attitudes, between "law-abiding" Americans and those who support active street protest, between those employed in high-tech industry and those left out of the technological revolution. Besides, the election race laid bare the tensions between the federal government and state and local governments. Accusations against the federal government of exceeding its authority in using force to suppress riots have exposed cracks in American federalism, which the central government (regardless of party affiliation) prefers to conceal as far as possible.

There have also been large-scale violations of the election law. The United States still has no standard procedures for voter registration, voter identification, ballot issuance and submission. According to the nonprofit organization Judicial Watch, by September 2020, 29 out of 37 states had 1.8 million more registered voters than actual eligible voting-age citizens. This is largely due to the fact that there is no such concept as a domestic passport or some kind of residence registration in the US, so when shifting their place of residence, people often fail to remove themselves from the voter list. In addition, there were occasions of people who had long since died having voted for one of the candidates. However, courts found no evidence that such cases had been widespread – they were often down to the fact that other family members have similar names, which led to errors in the voter records. Statistics show that there were 153 million registered voters in the US in 2018, with more than 20 million entries in the voter rolls being out of date. According to the California Globe, an NGO, there were nearly half a million such entries in California alone in 2020. In this context, a large-scale campaign was launched urging voters to update their data in the voter lists.

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The most acute situation arose as a result of the mass postal voting, which brought Joe Biden a reported majority during the counting of ballots. It is not even that Democrats created a controversial opportunity to gain votes from a passive part of their electorate, using the pandemic as an excuse. They encouraged a more active use of the mail-in voting procedure, which had been widely used only in some states during previous campaigns. According to Donald Trump, this paved the way to uncontrolled machinations.

Thus, on the eve of voting day, the Democratic Party allegedly attempted to change the procedure for counting postal ballots in the states of Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Alabama in order to considerably lengthen the period of their acceptance. This made it possible to relax the monitoring requirements for vote-counting. Consequently, once the voting was over, the Republicans almost immediately announced that they were filing lawsuits in connection with violations registered in 40 states.

Lawyers representing the Republicans found it unsound that so many states had continued to count the votes for several days after voting day. They had some serious questions as to the legitimacy of accepting the late ballots. Nevertheless, courts rejected most of the filed lawsuits even in Republican states.

All of this is hardly consistent with those norms of democracy that Washington arrogantly imposes on other countries. For instance, US officials in the OSCE constantly point to the need for the OSCE participating states to comply with the recommendations by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) drawn up based on the results of its election observation activities. In the meantime, the US itself fails to act on the relevant recommendations, blatantly violating the provisions of para. 8 of the 1990 Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE and para. 25 of the 1999 Charter for European Security stipulating the obligation to invite observers for monitoring national elections.

Since 2002, the ODIHR election observation missions in the US have recommended in their final reports that international observers be provided with access to all states at the federal level. However, that is not what we see in reality. Besides, the archaic US electoral system is such that the US federal government has no powers to establish procedures even for federal elections as this is the prerogative of the states. Just as when America was a farmers' republic with a population of 3.5 million, the president is still elected by the states, which inform the Congress of their decisions through the electoral college.

During the popular vote in 2016, the ODIHR did not have access to polling stations in 17 states. The international observers, who showed legitimate interest in the elections on the voting day, faced threats of arrest and indictment. In the 2020 popular vote, the number of "inhospitable" states reached 18. Only five states and the District of Columbia have legal provisions in place ensuring international election observation. In all other states, it remains at the discretion of the local authorities and is quite unpopular.

The lengthy disputes over the election results in courts (and, at the end of the day, electing a new president there) is yet another fact demonstrating how inefficient and outdated this voting system is. In the 2000 campaign, the votes cast for George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent, Al Gore, in Florida were recounted multiple times. It was the Supreme Court that had the last word, ruling that the vote recounting should stop, which meant the victory of George W. Bush – even though many Americans still doubt the validity of that decision. But at the time, such a timely consensus between the Republicans and the Democrats was exactly what was needed to quickly stabilize the situation.

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The enormous costs associated with such a voting system have by now practically erased the word "consensus" from the vocabulary of the American political elite. Just recently, no one could imagine – not even in their worst nightmares – that all these partisan differences would lead to the storming of the Capitol, whose first foundation stone was laid by the first US president, George Washington. The attack carried out by pro-Trump protesters while the Congress was counting votes not only appalled national governments all over the world but provoked bloodshed in the country, which was only recently seen by many as the gold standard of democracy. It was hard to believe that the events resembling so much Ukraine's Maidan and other color revolutions that unfolded in recent years across a wide range of countries, including those in the post-Soviet space, were broadcasted live from the United States all over the world.

The techniques previously used by Washington for democratization of other countries backfired. The cold civil war that had been raging in the US for a few months reached its climax. And while the world is condemning the attack on the Capitol, anxiously waiting for what is to come next, it is as yet unclear how the Republicans and the Democrats are supposed to find common ground. The social polarization keeps growing. The long-forgotten spirit of McCarthyism is again felt in the air. And there is no one who could answer the question: are there a person and a timeless value that could unite the nation. The situation that has been brought about by a chain of events predetermined by the archaic voting system can lead to new waves of violence and unrest. On the other hand, the American political system has proved its flexibility over the course of centuries. I am sure this time it will cope, too.

There is one more critical issue which, in the context of the outdated American electoral system, has moved extremely high up the agenda. I am talking about the unprecedented role in public politics of social networks and new media, and, accordingly, of private IT companies that own those platforms. Conventional American media, whose activities are regulated by laws and fall within the First Amendment, have traditionally – and always officially – taken the side of a certain candidate and yet deemed it necessary to give coverage to statements made by the opponent during election and post-election campaigns. The social media, however, are beyond any special regulations and work on the basis of user agreements. And it was them that unleashed the media war without rules! And that war is waged against one single person.

During the vote counting, Trump's posts on Twitter, where he has over 85 million followers, were flagged as potentially misleading and later even hidden. The events in the Capitol resulted in the unprecedented and permanent suspension of Trump's accounts on all social media – where he has a total of about 200 million followers. Noteworthy is that the tone of the posts that provoked the suspension of Trump's accounts was not much different from his narrative of the preceding weeks. Next, they blocked tens of thousands of supporters of the incumbent president across all kinds of platforms which used to be viewed as forums for a full-fledged discussion.

For America, just as for the rest of the world, this level of corporate censorship is a truly extraordinary phenomenon. A question arises: who are those supreme judges that decided that they, of their own volition and based on their own rules – but, in fact, guided by their political preferences, can deprive the country's president of the opportunity to communicate with an audience of many millions? Whether Trump is good or bad, he is his country's national, and, furthermore, an official who enjoys the trust of nearly half of Americans. Thus, it turns out that several technological corporations located in California got an appetite for power and thought it possible to juggle with news and facts to suit their own political preferences. This is but a blatant censorship!

Dictating their own terms, they have sought to substitute for state institutions, encroaching on their mandates, aggressively imposing their views on a great number of people, leaving them no other choice; while the 75 million of Trump's voters and hundreds of millions of his subscribers were left out of their "choice." These were simply labeled as insecure. Isn't it, indeed, a spectre of cyber totalitarianism that is gradually overwhelming society, taking away from it (and potentially the entire world) the opportunity to see the reality for what it is? But even if Donald Trump leaves politics for good and the tech giants wipe out his digital footprint, the minds will remain hugely polarized. This is yet another problem stemming from the US's outdated voting system, and it will push governments of different countries into action to prevent the same scenario in their own states.

Given the special place of the US in the architecture of international relations, all this makes us try and guess the impact of the elections on the "classical" world politics as well as economy. It is crystal clear that the elections influence direct trends in global development. Everything else, with certain reservations, can be regarded as an internal affair of the US itself. Yet outward effects are our common issue. Let me remind you that George W. Bush's victory back in 2000 caused significant, though short-term, volatility on stock markets. It is equally possible after the current shock, which of course provides considerable grounds for concern. But the long-term stability of the US dollar will be largely determined by the resilience of institutions for the protection of property rights, the demand for American goods and services in the global market, as well as the predictability and independence of the Federal Reserve System (FRS), which underpins the confidence in the US dollar. US dollar volatility will abruptly increase only if US manufacturers lose a considerable share of the world market or investors doubt the existing safeguards for the protection of assets, the relevance and soundness of the FRS's long-term policy. Since this is impossible in the near future, it seems of much more interest to us what Joe Biden's economic policy will look like. And this is often shaped based on the thesis "just not the way Trump would have it." It's some sort of a tradition: the same way, the 45th president without hesitation reversed the 44th President Barack Obama's directives on all tracks.

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It is obvious that the development of a national legal and political system is the sovereign choice of a state itself, though many countries (and first of all the US) are seeking to impose their model of development on the world as the most effective. Certainly, there is no legal and political system that can be called the monument of "classical" democracy. It is constantly developing and improving. The question is, how relevant and timely the models that are offered as a replacement for those that have lost their progressive potential are. And here what we need is a combination of sound conservatism and well-timed new laws. Both artificial preservation of and constant experimentation with political and legal realities pose a danger. The post-Soviet nations have the examples of both, state regimes sometimes transiting from the presidential system to parliamentary and back once every two or three years.

Governments in many countries are posing questions about the policy continuity of such an important actor in world affairs as the US. The 2016 elections shattered the century-long tradition of continuity of the administrations, particularly in foreign policy issues. This time, again, the US' stance on a range of key issues depends on the election results. Where shall we witness a reverse in policy, a getting-around to approaches adopted by Barack Obama and his predecessors' administrations? Let us take a look at the critical issue of fighting against the coronavirus. The 2020 candidates' opposing viewpoints regarding the danger of Covid-19 will lead to an expanded scope and increased stringency of pandemic-related measures implemented in the US as one of the main short-term effects of the election outcomes. This will influence the lives and health of Americans as well as the well-being of citizens in neighboring countries and the US' allies. The polarization among citizens themselves, when you could tell with great certainty by the presence or absence of a mask which party the voter has voted for, was grotesque indeed.

The two candidates have adopted very different approaches when addressing relevant economic issues inside the country, which have a direct influence on the entire world. One should note, among many other things, that Donald Trump repeatedly commented on the FRS' activities that lay outside the mandate of the head of state. This caused a certain dollar skepticism in view of a possible loss by the FRS of its actual independence of the executive power, which triggered a discussion on the excessive dependence of trade on the US dollar even among the US' allies in the EU. The reaction of American markets and the actual recognition by Donald Trump of his defeat was clearly reflected, for example, in the S&P 500. November 2020 turned out the best November for the main US stock market index. And for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the month was the best since 1987. The indices were undoubtedly influenced by the positive news about vaccines against Covid-19, but the growth began immediately after the election results were announced.

Support for international organizations (WHO, WTO, and others) turned into a bargaining chip in the presidential election results issue. For decades, the US has increased its weight in these organizations. And until recently, the attitude toward them has not depended on a certain administration in the White House. These elections will inevitably lead to the restoration of the US' full membership and the development of cooperation within international organizations such as the WHO and the WTO. The outgoing administration has been notorious for its abrupt and hardly predictable demarches regarding its participation in such associations, which certainly destabilized their work. Yet the US's financial support is crucial and very significant for them.

Even more important is the US' participation in international arms agreements, such as the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III) and the Treaty on Open Skies (OST), as well as in different integration alliances, climate accords and many others. As in the case of international organizations, the US is trying to restore to a certain extent its image as a reliable strategic partner. Election pledges to extend the START III treaty with Russia which Biden called "an anchor of strategic stability between the United States and Russia," sound very optimistic. The president-elect is an advocate of arms reduction and has been involved in drafting the INF Treaty since the Soviet era. One of the election campaign themes was that the US should not withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty, the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement – processes that have been set in motion in recent years.

By the way, the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement and its expected new accession to it is one of the clearest and most recent examples of political turmoil. There is now a tectonic change in the very basis of economic activity. A new economic order is taking shape. States and individual companies are reshaping their models to be carbon neutral, carrying out rigorous assessment of their business chains starting from suppliers in some countries to consumers in others. Global investors are rethinking their strategies. International organizations are shaping new reporting standards that will obviously apply globally. Finally, most recently the UN Secretary General called on all nations to rethink their tax strategies by cutting taxes on income while raising taxes on carbon. All of these factors are of global importance. And the US position, or rather its floundering, can obviously create new global imbalances. Although everyone will adapt to them after a while, because, as T. Dreiser wrote, "you have to take things as they are and use them to your best advantage."

Building relations with their allies, especially in NATO, is another basic factor that directly influences the trajectory of international development. The Biden administration which is largely made up of the key figures from the Obama administration has already assured its European partners that full cooperation within the North Atlantic Alliance will be restored. The US is expected to drop its claims about the disproportionately small contribution of Europeans to NATO funding and the imbalance in military budgets, which have been repeatedly voiced by the Trump administration. Time will show to what extent the trust of the US European allies will be regained. But it is clear that the US foreign policy somersaults over a relatively short period of time will not go unnoticed.

Even on the issue of interaction with China the candidates have managed to take generally opposing positions. Although both share the opinion that China is America's main competitor. As part of the election campaign, Biden's rhetoric toward China was significantly more peaceful in comparison to Trump's promises and actions. However, trade restrictions imposed by the Trump administration may remain in place in the new circumstances if the situation requires so. The experience of the Jackson-Vanik amendment and other sanctions laws shows that such restrictions can persist for a long time, even after the reason for their imposition has disappeared.

We expect it is highly likely that the United States will consistently pursue an anti-Russian policy. In recent years, the trajectory of relations between Washington and Moscow has been steadily going downhill, no matter who was at the helm in the White House. There was indeed some hope of reversing the negative dynamics during the Trump presidency. After all, back in 2016, it seemed that relations between the two countries could not be any worse than those under B. Obama. However, the following years have dispelled this illusion. The Trump administration consistently strengthened the systemic confrontation between Washington and Moscow, continued its sanctions policy against our country wishing, inter alia, to force it out of the energy markets, and reduced our diplomatic contacts to a minimum. And this was done against the background of D. Trump constantly speaking about the desire to "get along with Russia." His words did not matter much, however, as numerous restrictive measures in Congress were supported by both Democrats and Republicans.

Biden has not yet said anything positive about Russia. On the contrary, his rhetoric has always been openly unfriendly, harsh, even aggressive. He has repeatedly stated that "Russia is the biggest threat to the United States in terms of undermining our security and alliances." Nothing more, nothing less. Moreover, the Democrats' team includes politicians who hold similar views and have no interest whatsoever in improving relations between Moscow and Washington.

Russia, on the contrary, is ready to work with any US president, ready to restore cooperation in a wide range of areas. However, we can hardly expect any reciprocal steps from the new American administration. Our relations are likely to remain extremely cold in the coming years. And right now we do not expect anything but the continuation of a tough anti-Russian policy. But perhaps Biden will revisit the issues still on our joint agenda, for example arms control.

I have listed only a few areas which will obviously be among those deserving special attention. Most importantly: the unpredictability of further US actions in the international arena, a kind of toxicity of this country even for its allies and partners is a result of serious social upheavals that American society faces. This internal and external instability is largely due to a clumsy, hopelessly outdated voting system that has seen no major changes since the 18th century up to the present. And the last election turned out to be not a political competition of ideas that the US had always prided itself on, but rather a confrontation between two campaigns of hatred.

We do not want the US to have problems. And for practical reasons: such problems create waves of instability all around that overflow us as well. The problems of the United States can only be solved by the Americans themselves along with the good governance of the country. One of the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, rightly noted that "the whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." Any election is the most important test of such honesty. Of course, only Americans themselves can decide whether to put aside their national selfishness and launch the voting system reform, and, consequently, the reform of political life, or not. So far, there has been no real move toward this. Nor even the slightest hint of a desire to change anything. And the international community is already paying too high a price for the US' reluctance to change.

Dmitry Medvedev served as Russia's president from 2008 to 2012 and prime minister from 2012 to 2020. He has been deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since January 2020.

apothqowejh 8 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 09:04 AM

An interesting underlying premise of the article is that government is actually about enacting policy. It appears to me, living in the cheap seats, that the purpose of government, while ostensibly about policy, is really to rob its subjects blind while concealing the theft and crushing dissent.
jake234 15 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:31 AM
The former president of Russia is able to write an essay. Whether you agree with him or not, the sentences in this article have weight; and you have to mull what he says over in your mind. Compare this with the soundbites of US presidents.
Observatory jake234 6 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 11:10 AM
President Medvedev has been and apparently somehow remains an idealist/naive man as confirmed by the essay above. Just a babe in the woods of politics.
TheFishh jake234 9 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 08:01 AM
The rhetoric of US presidents has deg
Ligov 10 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 07:23 AM
Given that America is the most influential state in the world, that is, it practically influences everything that happens in the world, then obviously everyone around the world is not indifferent to what is happening in America, especially in its dominant group, the aspen's nest. And what happens there, as all honest people in the world, including the Americans, guess, are clearly dubious things. To stir up this hornet's nest is a noble cause. And the success of this business will determine the well-being of the whole world. May honest Americans striving to clean up their homes feel the support of the world.
Hassam275 16 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 01:32 AM
Its been said that American elected officials are like passengers on a train who come and go, yet the conductor is the non elected establishment politicians loyal to foreign agendas who are extensions of special interest lobbies. That is why policy never changes, though the illusion of democracy is maintained. Now that a large number of citizens caught on to this scheme, the propaganda arm of the establishment, the media, attempts to brand these citizens racists or traitors in an attempt to use fear and shame as thought control. This only makes the masses more enraged and the unfortunate ones are the law enforcement officers who are stuck protecting the establishment. Also unfortunate are the politicians who actually care about their constituents whose lives are also endangered. So violence isnt the way out. The deep state must be exposed.
MotorSlug conformista 5 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 12:10 PM
the US has never been a democracy, that's the last thing the rich, white, land and slave-owning framers wanted. they were scared to death of equality and human rights. France and Russia today have a better grasp on reality than you do
costelmagik 15 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:14 AM
America 2.0, after election and before it is just suggest the fast approaching the end of the Empire ,a lot worse then before the election considering the division between Americans , the fraud through the election and the economic and financial collapse which in his last legs.
Jonathan E 9 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 07:41 AM
The American population has an 'uphill battle' to acquire a functional democracy because they are under the 'heel' of a powerful Plutocracy which has firm control of a powerful Media.
GottaBeMe 6 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 11:19 AM
"According to the nonprofit organization Judicial Watch, by September 2020, 29 out of 37 states had 1.8 million more registered voters than actual eligible voting-age citizens." US democracy is a sham.
MiloDiddlbomb Andy0 2 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:52 PM
Actually I lived just outside NYC during 9/11 I had to go to NYC the week after and what struck me was the absolute silence. NYC is normally crazy noisy but for a couple months you didn't even hear a car horn. The actual divide openly happened when Trump looked like he actually had a shot at winning. And in my opinion it wasn't Trump himself but the fact that an outsider might get let in. Then the political machine started to create this insanity we now have. In a way you are right. What Trump brought into the sunlight was the hate middle America had for 20+ years of war. The people on the coast as a rule have nothing to do with the military since the draft ended - The majority of military people have been coming from Middle America. Plus the fact that any of the wars could have been easily won - except where the future in that? More money is made just dragging them out in stalemate. A lesson learned in Vietnam where it became obvious the money was in keeping the conflict going. Generals don't care. Most have never seen one day of combat.
Ibmekon 13 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 04:11 AM
"We do not want the US to have problems." Oh yes we bloody well do ! They will not dismantle their empire witout the collapse of the dollar. Even today the gravy boat of Democrats are fighting to keep thousands of their army of occupation in Afghanistan - against the wishes of their own electorate and President.
Bjarne Örn Hansen 17 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 12:33 AM
First of all, americans aren't too smart. That the US had a backup system to put a finger on the election scale, should have been obvious to anyone with an iq above 0. No power, let's the mob decide it's future. It will always have an ace up its sleeve ... but using this system, should be done in emergency only and should one time deal, done at the peril of the politicians using it. What americans do from here, should be restore the union and remove all politicians and parties that were involved ...
9/11 Truther Bjarne Örn Hansen 15 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:32 AM
The majority of American schools, colleges, and mainstream media are specifically designed to result in people who "aren't too smart". The " thumb on the election scale" is phase #2.
Gio Con 1 hour ago 16 Jan, 2021 04:36 PM
So basically, the US needs to update its method of screwing the people.

[Jan 17, 2021] "79% of Americans think the US is falling apart" those not accounted for are possibly homeless or illiterate and don't have the opportunity of putting their view forward

Highly recommended!
In the reality the USA is not falling apart. It is neoliberalism that is falling apart and this is just how common people feel during the collapse of neliberalism.
Jan 17, 2021 | www.rt.com

OneHorseGuy 1 day ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:17 PM

"79% of Americans think the US is falling apart" those not accounted for are possibly homeless or illiterate and don't have the opportunity of putting their view forward.
RTaccount 1 day ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:22 PM
There will be no peace, no unity, and no prosperity. And there shouldn't be.
TheFishh RTaccount 1 day ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:38 PM
The US regimes past and present have worn out their bag of tricks. A magician is a con-man. And the only way they can entertain and spellbind the crowd with their routines is if everyone just ignores the sleight of hand. But people are starting to call the US out for the tricks it is pulling, and that's where the magician's career ends.
SJMan333 23 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 01:02 AM
America as a whole is now reaping the fruits of its decades of exceptionalism complex. Through its propaganda machine, Americans as individuals and collectively as a society, have been brainwashed into believing that laws, rules and basic human decency do not apply to themselves. These are only sweetened poisons for them to shove down the throats of other lesser countries, especially those in Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Asia ((bluntly put, non-white countries)) when it suited America's global resource thievery and daylight wealth grabbing. Habitualized into bullying every other countries with no resistance, Americans are now showing their ugly faces on each other. The same exceptionalism delusion "the laws apply to you, not me'' is driving every American (except the colored Americans probably) to blame all the ills of the country on everyone else except himself. Nancy Pelosi advocated total lock-down but treated herself to a total grooming in a hair saloon is just one example. For the sins it has committed over the decades, I guess the time is right for USA to have a dose of its own medicine. Except in this case, America never thought it necessary to develop an antidote.

[Jan 15, 2021] Below is a short clip filmed by the BLM idiot that was just arrested, it shows Jade Sacker from CNN inciting the riot in the capitol right along with him.

Jan 15, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com


2 hours ago remove link

It's all starting to fall apart for the Demtards and their narrative. Below is a short clip filmed by the BLM idiot that was just arrested, it shows Jade Sacker from CNN inciting the riot in the capitol right along with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1uHKEAppU

Then we have Steele coming out and directly telling everyone that he wrote the Dossier for one reason, that was to get the Trump/Russia collusion story going in order to divert attention away from the Clinton emails. So there you have it, you****ingassholelibtards who spent years whining about Trump and how he was controlled by Putin, now know the truth of your idiocy and outright Treason against this country. You people are thebiggestassholesin the world for pulling this crap on America.

When De-class hits full on this weekend and next week, we are all going to get a taste of just what these people are all about.

[Jan 15, 2021] Trump did not tell the protesters to storm the capitol building but he was stupid for sending them there. He should have known there were agitators in the crowd. Intelligence should have informed him, if not, common sense should have told him

Why the DC and Capitol Police who also 'should have known" since they are the professionals, were the ones who chose to not add additional forces. False flag operation ?
Jan 15, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

optimax , 15 January 2021 at 04:33 PM

Trump did not tell the protesters to storm the capitol building but he was stupid for sending them there. He should have known there were agitators in the crowd. Intelligence should have informed him, if not, common sense should have told him.

There were lefties in the riot who entered the capitol e3ven though there is no proof they were a determining factor in the stupidity that followed Trump's speech.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/rush_to_judgment_on_trump_multiple_leftists_arrested_for_capitol_riot.html

I heard AOC say she was afraid for her life. She had no sympathy for the small business owner that lost everything when the cities burned, windows broken, stores looted, people beaten and killed. The Dems supported BLM and antifa riots, in fact, egged them on. Now they want to crack down on the right because they target the source of power and not the little guy unprotected by law enforcement. Defund the capitol police.

TV , 15 January 2021 at 08:01 PM

Optimax:
If there was "intelligence". I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was withheld from Trump.
The "intelligence" (talk about an oxymoron) agencies have been sabotaging him since before his election.
As for the cops, the DC Metro police work for a raging Trump-hater and the Capitol Police, who knows?
My niece worked in the Capital for several years and when I asked her about the Capitol Police, she laughed:
"They can barely operate the metal detectors."

[Jan 15, 2021] Were the people who walked through a door held open by cops saying, "I don't agree with it, but I respect it," stole a podium, and took some selfies and then left after a couple hours implementing the "destroy the Constitution" plan

Will the Senate really take this superfast cooked Impeachment? Impeachment has customarily been understood to be a process to remove a sitting president, not convict a former one -- or bar him from federal office, as is proposed by the count of the indictment. Looks like once Trump's term ends on Jan. 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him -- even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment. Regardless, there's no way the Senate will convict with a 2/3 vote and the dems know it.
Jan 15, 2021 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Annie from Alaska interguru • 2 days ago

The BLM protests, ugly as they were, were not an attempt to destroy the Constitution and overthrow the government.

I get the different parts of the leftist program confused. I guess we have a James Clapper "not under this program" situation here. It wasn't BLM it was some other program. hunh. What was the constitution-overthrow program called again?

Was it the rigged vote-counting? Operation Voteharvest? The activist judges ordering the permanent administrative state to defy the state legislature's election laws? The Soros DAs refusing to enforce the law? The Californians pretending to move to Georgia then moving back? The plans to pack the court and add states that the puppet presidential candidate refused to discuss? The plan to lock everyone in their homes, shut down small businesses, print money and distribute it based on skin color? The plan to legalize all the illegals by illegal executive order? The plan to grab all the guns through some weird scheme of requiring stamps that nobody issues? Burning the police station to the ground and attempting to burn the federal courthouse to the ground while talking about Orange Man's "fascist" attempts to stop that from happening?

Or the black-shirted Marxist roving death squads with bats, bricks, and guns declaring warlord-ruled "autonomous zones" within major cities, with support from local politicians and their party organ media?

Which was the plan to destroy the Constitution and overthrow the government?

oh, sorry. I got it all wrong. it was the people who walked through a door held open by cops saying, "I don't agree with it, but I respect it," stole a podium, and took some selfies and then left after a couple hours. That was the "destroy the Constitution" plan. Did it work? How's it going, guys? We're rooting for you. We've come so far but we have such a long way to go.

Tom Riddle Guest • 3 days ago
In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest? By telling them to cheer on the Senators and Representatives raising objections? By telling them to make people proud?

Trump literally gave a speech filled with insane lies about election fraud and told them to go to the Capitol to stop the steal. His personal lawyer bellowed there will be "trial by combat". Trump advisor and bedding impresario Mike Lindell talk about civil war. Saying "peaceful" once isn't a magic spell that absolves one of responsibility. If it was, Michael Corleone would be as innocent as a babe being baptized.

None of this would have happened without Trump's leadership. Whipping up a mob against Congress is the only thing he's focused on for an extended period of time in his presidency

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As for the riots this summer, I also believe that any rioters should be removed from the office of the president of the United States.

Matthew Maheras Guest • 3 days ago • edited
Yes, there is. In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest?

Probably the parts where he told the crowd that they had to "fight like hell," then the part where he said if they "don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" , then saying they had to "stop the steal" and that if they didn't they would have an "illegitimate president." The latter claim of course being a bald-faced lie.

But what happened in the capitol last week was no uglier than what has been happening in this country for years, virtually every time the left gets it protest wheels turning.

Yes it was uglier.

Attacking businesses ≠ attacking police stations ≠ attacking court houses ≠ attacking State Capitols ≠ attacking The Capitol ≠ threatening to lynch the VP and Members of Congress

If you're going to make a false equivalence like this, why should anyone take you seriously? Yes, threatening to upend our democracy by advocating the death of our elected officials is a lot bigger of an issue than a Target in Minneapolis being looted or burned. It's possible for both things to be bad or unwelcome outcomes, but for one (the Trump insurrection) to be far, far, far, far worse.

How about burning down entire sections of cities, dragging innocent civilians out of their cars, rioting, looting, firebombing, raping, murdering....all part and parcel with conduct we watched go on for months.

Hilariously, Trump pardons war criminals that literally have done all these things, and you pretend like you have the moral high ground.

But he incited a riot. He deserves to be impeached. He deserves to be barred from running for office. He deserves to be deplatformed.

The funniest thing about this is that you could ignore the riot and he still deserves to be impeached . Did you forget when the little impeachable phone call he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger? God knows how many more similar phone calls he's made over the past four years that no one was smart enough to record and leak.

who went around and raised money to bail out rioters from jail so they could go out and riot again have been fired

They primary reason to paying for bail is because we have an unequal and unjust cash bail system that benefits to middle/upper-class and has unequal impact on the poor. Get real.

SatirevFlesti Matthew Maheras • 2 days ago • edited

Funny you leftist didn't mind when left-wing scum occupied the Wisconsin capitol for 40 days in 2011, or attacked and occupied Senate offices during the Kavanaugh hearings, or breached Capitol security barriers during the "Women's March, etc etc.

[Jan 15, 2021] Sen. Josh Hawley responds to critics- 'Why I objected'

Jan 14, 2021 | www.semissourian.com

Last week I objected during the Joint Session count of electoral votes in order to have a debate on the issue of election integrity. My objection proceeded according to the letter of the statute, which specifically permits for objections and debate, and followed the traditions of Congress. In fact, dozens of Democratic members of Congress have lodged objections in precisely the same forum over the last three decades. To be specific, Democrats objected after the elections of 2000, 2004, and 2016–in other words, every time a Republican has won the White House in the last thirty years. And they were within their rights to do so. The Joint Session is the forum where concerns about an election can be raised, debated, and ultimately resolved with a vote.

The difference between those past instances and this year, however, is striking. In the past, when Democrats objected, they were praised for standing up for democracy. In 2005, when Democrats objected to counting Ohio's electoral votes, Nancy Pelosi praised the objections, saying, "This debate is fundamental to our democracy" and "we are witnessing democracy at work."

This time around, anyone who objected has been called an "insurrectionist." Sadly, much of the media and many members of the Washington establishment want to deceive Americans into thinking those who raised concerns incited violence, simply by voicing the concern. That's false. And the allegation itself is corrosive and dangerous.

Let me say again, as I have said before: the lawless violence at the Capitol last week was criminal. There can be no quibbling about that. Those who engaged in it should be prosecuted and punished. Lawless violence undermines the democratic process by which we settle our disputes and threatens our democratic life. That applies to mobs of any and all political persuasions. Mob violence is always wrong.But democratic debate is not mob violence. It is in fact how we avoid that violence.

Our system of government is the envy of the world in part because it contains mechanisms to give Americans of different views a voice -- without resort to threats or violence or unrest of any kind. Debate on the floor of Congress, like the debate that is provided for during the counting of electoral votes, is one of these. It is a forum for registering disagreement, airing differing views, and resolving these differences peaceably. This is our proud tradition as Americans.

Many, many citizens in Missouri have deep concerns about election integrity. For months, I heard from these Missourians -- writing, calling my office, stopping me to talk. They want Congress to take action to see that our elections at every level are free, fair, and secure. They have a right to be heard in Congress. And as their representative, it is my duty to speak on their behalf. That is just what I did last week.

As to my specific objection: I objected with regard to Pennsylvania because the state failed to follow its own constitution. The Pennsylvania constitution has been interpreted by the state's courts for over a century to prohibit mail-in voting, except in clearly stated circumstances. But last year, Pennsylvania politicians adopted universal mail-in voting anyway. To make matters worse, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court then changed the rules for when mail-in ballots could be returned. And when Pennsylvania citizens tried to go to court to object, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the case on procedural grounds, in violation of its own precedent. To this day, no court has found the mail-in voting scheme to be constitutional, or even heard the merits of the case.

I also objected to point out the unprecedented interference of the Big Tech corporations in this election in favor of the Biden campaign, not just in Pennsylvania but everywhere. Their interference in our democratic process has only accelerated in recent days.

Some wondered why I stuck with my objection following the violence at the Capitol. The reason is simple: I will not bow to a lawless mob, or allow criminals to drown out the legitimate concerns of my constituents.

I am proud to represent you in Congress. Your voice helps make this country and our democracy strong. These are difficult days for our country. All I can promise you is that I will do my best, day in and day out, to represent your voice, no matter who criticizes me. And I will do my utmost to preserve, protect and defend this republic that we call home.

Josh Hawley (R-MO) is a United States senator.

[Jan 15, 2021] Trump supporters are pushed into underground

I am strongly against balkanization of the country. The example of the USSR shows where it leads -- misery of common pople and dramatic drop of the standard of living, while new gand of ruthless oligarchs emerge from the ruins.
Jan 15, 2021 | www.rt.com

Pushing the Trump-inspired populist movement underground may only cause it to resort to more drastic measures. As the leftist libertarian reporter Glenn Greenwald observes ,

"these people know they are scorned and looked down upon... and the more you humiliate and make them feel powerless, the more you take away their ability to organize and express that rage, it's gonna find an outlet in more destructive ways."

As a former professor at a top-ranking university, I favored a Trump re-election, not because I support Trump so much as abhor what the opposition represents and is proving itself to be. In response to the social media threat to expression, I have inaugurated a new group on Telegram called 'Thought Criminals'. There, fellow 'thought deviationists' like me are able to express views that are effectively proscribed on mainstream social media platforms. No one among us advocates violence or the overthrow of the government. None of us is 'racist'. We advocate only the rights enshrined in the US Constitution.

But some groups, no doubt, are intent on violence. Yet the violent extremists consist mostly of Antifa and related 'activists', who will unfortunately trick Trump supporters into another error during the inauguration, like some appeared to do when involved in the Capitol siege. It's not as if violent extremists among the Trump base were always there, ready to pounce on any opportunity to express their "racist," "white nationalist" views.

Rather, as the rising party has already demonstrated, these people stand to lose the most under a Biden-Harris regime, whose Big Tech and mainstream media allies act as governmental enforcement apparatuses.

Trump supporters have been hated and demonized simply for wanting to live without being reprimanded and punished for their whiteness, their middle-Americanness, or their values. They face an anti-white, anti-native, anti-middle-America extremism that is set to silence and crush them into submission.

These and others will form a new underground under the prevailing ideological and political hegemony. This banishment of millions, and not Trump, is why the nation will fall apart, if indeed it does.

JJ_Rousseau 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:58 PM

The best thing that could happen is for USA to "balkanize". For the rest of the world, and for Americans too. The founding fathers intentionally put restraints on the federal government's power to prevent the situation we now face. Both parties (actually the duopoly) are guilty of breaching the constitution, on so many levels we have lost count
Ronj14848 JJ_Rousseau 1 hour ago 15 Jan, 2021 07:23 PM
The USA have more American in uniform outside America than civilian Americans inside America. You bleed yourself dry trying to be the boss of the world.
chert JJ_Rousseau 3 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:52 PM
Right, states should have more power than the federal government. Case in point: North Dakota is trying to pass a law to sue Facebook and Twitter for those who have been censored on those platforms. But federal law under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act will supersede because federal law wins.
apothqowejh 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:17 PM
As an American, I can't say a reckoning hasn't been overdue. The myopia in this country, and the tolerance for evil, was bound to rebound. From a refusal to honestly look at 9/11, a refusal to accept responsibility for Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and a host of other insanely brutal blunders, to an acceptance of such horrors as the USAPatriot Act and the COVID scam, everyday Americans have obliviously sleepwalked into a totalitarian dystopia. Tyranny abroad inevitably leads to tyranny at home, and we have well-earned it by refusing to vote for peace and non-interventionism; for limited government, for responsible spending. Now our votes no longer matter, and we are caught helpless in the whirlwind of our own destruction.
newagerage apothqowejh 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:33 PM
The CIA, NSA, Pentagon... all these corporations lead to disaster as the employees have to keep causing trouble to justify their jobs and spend, spend like crazy, the Army and intelligence agencies spending the hard worked money from Silicon Valley and other sectors. The country just doesn't make sense, first outsource jobs to China and then when they see that Chinese people are smarter than them outsource those to India? are Indians idiots? I don't think so... both countries will rule the World by the end of the century. And the most important of all... where is your public education system? you can live without a proper health system, China does, but without a decent public education system? most Americans don't know where Portugal or Belgium is placed, no matter black or white...
ceshawn 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
Trump didn't do this. The irrational reaction to Trump did this. It started with the now-fully mythological Russia-gate nonsense (that started with an almost ridiculously made up FISA warrant application). Continued through constant over-the-top challenges by Democrats of Trump following Obama-era laws (separation of children and adults for illegal border crossings) and the clear obstruction used by opponents during his entire Presidency. Trump was a disaster, Biden will be a nightmare (or a complete liar), but the left shouldn't be complaining when the reaction to their candidate is equally as disturbing as their reaction to the right (and yes, the circus that was the "raid" at the Capitol is just as bad as the intel community doing shady things against a sitting President).
Ronj14848 ceshawn 1 hour ago 15 Jan, 2021 07:27 PM
Trump didnt start new wars......but he has created a situation that foriegn wars will spring from his actions. He has created hate for a country that during the second world war was a much loved country.
billy brown ceshawn 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:36 PM
What could the 'rioters' do? We aren't going to let them poison us anymore. This election will not be stolen and the new patriot act isn't going to get passed quietly. They are going to have to crush us or allow a partition of the country
ceshawn 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:36 PM
If I were Russia or China, I would be watching carefully. Biden almost HAS to go after Russia over the Crimean disaster of Obama and China will be his easy-out enemy if things are complicated otherwise. North Korea will somehow become a big deal again as well. Let those missiles fly, because the incoming administration has a proven track record of blowing up innocent women and children for "funsies" (drone strikes on "suspected" terrorists...oh and their families) without any form of due process or care for the safety of collateral damage.
Ronj14848 ceshawn 58 minutes ago 15 Jan, 2021 07:36 PM
True...the media support the military industrial complex. Their friends own the miltary industrial complex . See who they support politically and avoid them like the plague.
Ronnie Spelbos ceshawn 2 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 06:04 PM
if I was Russia or an Eastern European nation I would offer asylum to white heterosexual men and their families who want to leave the US. Take advantage of the brain capital and work ethic of this group. The US is no country for white men.
Ohhho 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 01:41 PM
The Evil empire felt vulnerable so it lashed out with vengeance! None if it helps to fix the issues behind the problem so I expect to see more of it in the near future!
TheFishh Ohhho 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:32 PM
There are literally just a few things the US can do to rebound as a decent country, but the establishment doesn't want to make those moves. They rather see everything collapse than see their wealth and power decreased by any amount.
OneHorseGuy 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:17 PM
"79% of Americans think the US is falling apart" those not accounted for are possibly homeless or illiterate and don't have the opportunity of putting their view forward.
Ronnie Spelbos OneHorseGuy 2 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 06:02 PM
102% think the US is falling apart - cites Dominion.
newswithoutbord OneHorseGuy 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
Spot on, mate!
RTaccount 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:22 PM
There will be no peace, no unity, and no prosperity. And there shouldn't be.
TheFishh RTaccount 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:38 PM
The US regimes past and present have worn out their bag of tricks. A magician is a con-man. And the only way they can entertain and spellbind the crowd with their routines is if everyone just ignores the sleight of hand. But people are starting to call the US out for the tricks it is pulling, and that's where the magician's career ends.
omyomy RTaccount 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:54 PM
We the sane people know who is picking a fight. No matter what the propaganda outlets decree.
Tor Gjesdal 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:18 PM
79%,sure? OK. Very soon 85% of Westerners will understand their Countries are heading for failures. They have been deceived for way too long.
Twenty Tor Gjesdal 5 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:23 PM
The alternative to western governments is dictators, one party rule. Yes, most western governmental concepts are idealistic, but we wouldn't trade for anything else because we know better.
JIMI JAMES Tor Gjesdal 6 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
0 covid cases,i dont think so.
soumalinna1 4 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:36 PM
Correct. America will never be the same again. Democrats and CNN destroyed a once great nation.
Ronnie Spelbos soumalinna1 2 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 06:06 PM
The 1965 Immigration Act destroyed the US. A country too diverse with little in common was always bound the fall apart.
Drayk soumalinna1 3 hours ago 15 Jan, 2021 04:42 PM
How did they do that?

[Jan 15, 2021] The false flag event was an excuse for all under pressure to toss the POTUS under the bus...to do just that. The stolen election that had multistate collusion

While Trump went into the trap himself, by inciting his supporters instead of putting clear agenda ("demand the establishment of the Congressional commission on election fraud ") and organizing them, there are already some indirect signs of the false flag. First of all speed with which the second impeachment articles were drafted and passed.
Jan 15, 2021 | www.rt.com

Grm Rpr 11 January, 2021 11 Jan, 2021 01:58 PM

Today is 11Jan2021. Very few if any Republicans have stated that what happened on 06Jan2021 was a false flag operation. There are many, many videos proving this. Pres Trump did not encourage violence in anyway shape or form and every communique that proves this was hastily removed from every platform possible, no one makes the connection to hide the truth. The false flag event was an excuse for all under pressure to toss the POTUS under the bus...to do just that. The stolen election that had multistate collusion, multiple foreign states interfering is far, far more dangerous to the USA than any one protest on 06Jan 2021 ever could be. Far too many republicans just rolled over in the name of distancing themselves from him to keep their position without risk. These are the people that like sending others into unending wars. There are still 8.5 days left. Pres Trump can still declassify a lot of treason/sedition//and plan old felonious crimes perpetrated by people in (or formerly in) very, very high places. If he does it quickly enough he could win a second term for the second time.

[Jan 15, 2021] So now that BLM and ANTIFA have been implicated with the events of Jan 6th in DC, can we just say it was a mostly peaceful protest and everyone can go on to the next manufactured crisis?

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Tom , Jan 15 2021 21:12 utc | 122

So now that BLM and ANTIFA have been implicated with the events of Jan 6th in DC, can we just say it was a mostly peaceful protest and everyone can go on to the next manufactured crisis?

[Jan 15, 2021] I'm thinking Pelosi Schumer arranged the invasion. Remember they got themselves vandalized a few days before? That's why she is prancing around like she ate the canary

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Jackrabbit , Jan 15 2021 3:34 utc | 68

...The attack on conservative media and free speech rights is generating much consternation on the right. Some have speculated that the Capitol take-over was allowed to happen so that the liberal establishment could crackdown on the right. The failures of the Capitol police are suspicious. They failed to adequately prepare and failed to call upon additional resources until too late.

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Bemildred , Jan 15 2021 4:47 utc | 74

@Jackrabbit | Jan 15 2021 3:34 utc | 68

I'm thinking Pelosi & Schumer arranged the invasion. Remember they got themselves vandalized a few days before? That's why she is prancing around like she ate the canary. They outfoxed Trump's attempt to put pressure on the counting.

Copeland , Jan 15 2021 2:38 utc | 62

It is fair to observe that if Trump were to be impeached for his real crimes; then his rivals, the Democrats, would be implicated in the same evils: the savage and intentional starvation of children in Yemen, or the overt hostility to any socialist society that offers land reform or social safety nets, or universal healthcare to its citizens. There is bipartisan support for the brutal and perhaps lethal captivity of Julian Assange.

US military chiefs have put out a letter to condemn the abortive siege of the Capitol. The authority of the surveillance state and its covert methods continue undiminished. Joe Biden is putting Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power on the pointy end of regime change for any little country that might reject the Empire's edicts.

Cyril , Jan 15 2021 1:37 utc | 59

@b

The Democrats aren't stupid. They know that they are provoking more strife. They will use that to roll out authoritarian measure that will serve the powerful. It is a suppression strategy that has, at times, worked in other countries.

The forceful suppression works for long -- repeat, for long -- only if the country's military is supported and supplied by an external force...

vk , Jan 14 2021 12:11 utc | 2

Impeachment Is a Call for 'Moral Clarity'

Besides this guy, the WaPo Editorial Board has already called for the Senate to accelerate this impeachment.

It seems this impeachment is more like a desperate attempt by the Legislative to try to restore the image of American democracy than anything else. I don't think there's a bigger conspiracy looming behind it:

'I do not celebrate or feel pride': Twitter CEO defends Trump's permaban, but admits speech crackdown can 'destroy' open internet

Dorsey is right: a permaban on Trump is bad for his business, as his followers obviously will immigrate en masse to another social media platform. It would be an artisanal antitrust breakup.

I think the USA is long gone its phase of scheming and planning. It is now improvising, trying to fix problem after problem in their system as they come. Pretty much how the great empires fall: pressure from the outside, problems from the inside.

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Kabobyak , Jan 14 2021 18:10 utc | 27

The theatre of what's happening in Congress is amusing, even if it seems to be a play by grade-schoolers instead by Broadway. The Dems seem sure their strategy will cripple the Repubs, and there's a good chance that could happen. But McConnell controls the Senate until Jan. 20, and can start the impeachment trial at any time he chooses (he has hinted that it would be on Jan. 19th). Do the Dems really want to spend their important "first hundred days" impeaching someone who is no longer there? If it didn't totally shut down decisions on other issues (cabinet hearings, stimulus checks, healthcare, etc.) it would delay them greatly. Even though Schumer would then be in control, Senate rules would require rules of order that could make the trial go on for weeks. I would think the public backlash could be harsh.

Of course there are many Repubs who I assume would like to see the whole thing disappear quickly, as a prolonged trial will allow the Dems to milk the "domestic terrorists" angle even more, pointing the finger at those lawmakers who were complicit (real or perceived) in stoking the uprising. This could play into McConnell's decisions as well.

From my POV, above the "two party illusion", the impeachment could be the best thing to throw a monkey wrench into whatever upcoming fuckery is in store (as Caitlin J. wrote, "Biden will have the most diverse, intersectional cabinet of mass murderers ever assembled"). Unlike Trump's dysfunctional presidency, this team will have the deep ties with neo-liberal (and neocon) heavy hitters in the MIC, big tech, Wall Street, etc., and may be ready to hit the ground running. Victoria Nuland's appointment was the icing on the cookies to highlight our awful state of affairs.

[Jan 15, 2021] Happened I come across a great 20-minute YouTube video about the blatant and ongoing US/Western hypocrisy regarding what happened at the Capitol and what the US inflicts on others.

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Canadian Cents , Jan 14 2021 18:58 utc | 31

Happened across a great 20-minute YouTube video about the blatant and ongoing US/Western hypocrisy regarding what happened at the Capitol and what the US inflicts on others.

"A Reflection on American Foreign Policy Arrogance & Hypocrisy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv3H9PNw4eQ

Those events that the US mediacracy has made so much of were relatively brief and mild when put into context, but as in Shock Doctrine, the shock is played up and the crisis is readily and extensively made use of by the establishment.

It's from YouTuber Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian expat in China who has lived in Hong Kong, so it relates to what happened in Hong Kong, but the same exercise could probably be done with other US-sponsored insurrections like Maidan in Kiev, Ukraine, the attempt in Belarus, and the countless other protests/insurrections inflicted by the US.

[Jan 15, 2021] What's the floor plan- -- New 'suspicious video' emerges from Capitol siege

Jan 15, 2021 | www.citizenfreepress.com

Miss Marple

I was extremely interested in hearing the General opinions.

You can't blame Antifa, folks. Shouldn't the people who organized this demonstration have co-ordinated better? Didn't they have the least bit of whisper in their ears that Antifa/disguised BLM may show up? Do we not know anything about Antifa? Of course we do!! They're amply funded, organized, and well trained. They have agreements with Soros-elected DAs for nonprosecution for any charges related to rioting and violence. Why would anyone expect them NOT to show up?

Too late now. You KNOW these vids will get no airplay outside of independent journalism. No one in Congress cares.

Btw, Antifa is run by U.S. intelligence. Antifa comes from our own Deep State. I got this clear impression after reviewing many vids of last Wednesday. So now you REALLY know why Antifa/BLM have NOT been charged throughout the country. This is a big operation and highly co-ordinated. They are part and parcel of the Democrat Party = Deep State America Against Americans

Democrat Party's election slogan = Build Back Better

Deep State America/Democrat Party are the water carriers for Klaus Schwab/Davos crowd.

Btw, any Europeans going to attend Klaus' party on Jan. 25 or so when WEF announces The Great Reset?

Maybe we should spread the rumor throughout Europe's immigrant communities that Klaus is planning on showing cartoons of Allah in horrid contexts. Fray

I am not much for conspiracy theories but I am starting to believe this Capital "riot" was a false flag, it's almost as if it has become the Democrats Riechstag fire. They needed a race to blame all of the countries problems on, the Dems use whites as that race, next comes the banning of guns and the purging of academia of differing views. 1 Reply January 14, 2021 11:00 am Obsolete_Man Obsolete_Man

I'm sure by now you saw the poster which calls for armed protests at all the state capitals and in DC the 20th. A perfect excuse to justify the military being called up, it will be ANTIFA and perhaps a few alt right militia members who will show up while the cameras are rolling. If there are peaceful protesters thinking of going to DC they should not fall for this trap. This stunt accomplishes several things for the left; proof of an insurrection, the need to get those pesky guns from supremacists, and of course, Trump is responsible. cromwell

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4bIeKj7fZ8U?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent 3 Reply January 14, 2021 10:51 am Founders1791 Founders1791

[Jan 15, 2021] American Pravda- Our Disputed Election by Ron Unz

The key reson of the protest, which was later hijacked and used against Trump and his supporters, was disputed election. Navaro report https://navarroreport.com/ suggests that the signs of election fraud committed are very plausible. As Ron Unz said "Given these facts, anyone who continues to deny that the election was stolen from Trump is simply being ridiculous."
If those allegations are true, that makes installation of Biden a coup d'état. The fact that the protest was turned into false flag used to depose and silence Trump does not change that fact.
Notable quotes:
"... The Hunter Biden corruption scandal seemed about as serious as any in modern presidential election history and Biden's official victory margin was just 0.01%. So if the American voters had been allowed to learn the truth, Trump almost certainly would have won the election, quite possibly in an Electoral College landslide. Given these facts, anyone who continues to deny that the election was stolen from Trump is simply being ridiculous. ..."
"... Heated election campaigns have consequences, and this is especially true when all of America's most powerful corporations and ruling elites unite to essentially steal a reelection ..."
"... this confused tableau of chaos and popular anger, which recalls scenes from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention protests, has been portrayed as a "coup attempt" incited by President Trump, and therefore justifying his second impeachment. ..."
"... Expanded mail in voting FRAUD, you mean. Most European countries do not accept voting by mail. Because of fraud issues. ..."
"... This is one more typical coup, CIA installing its chosen presidential puppet ruler. It's a wholly routine occurrence ..."
"... Trump would have won despite the hostility of the media and big tech, and despite electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, if he had spent the previous 4 years making a good faith effort to implement the policies he ran on in 2016. ..."
"... He ran as a populist, yet ruled as a plutocrat. ..."
"... Candidate Trump promised a non-interventionist foreign policy. President Trump dug us deeper into the Middle East quagmire, intensifying hostilities against Russia, Syria, Yemen and Iran while being cartoonishly subservient to Israel. ..."
"... He ran on an immigration platform written by Jeff Sessions. As president he prioritized the immigration policies of Sheldon Adelson and Jared Kushner – calling for "more immigration than ever before" in his State of the Union address, and lecturing his dumbfounded rally-goers on the need for increased immigration because "my friends in the business world say we need it". ..."
"... Candidate Trump promised to drain the swamp. President Trump pardoned a menagerie of grotesque swamp creatures. ..."
"... Candidate Trump promised to close the carried interest loophole and make Wall Street pay its fair share. President Trump gave massive tax cuts to the very media moguls and tech oligarchs who would subsequently doom his 2020 campaign. ..."
Jan 15, 2021 | www.unz.com

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In particular, several of the major swing-states contain large cities -- Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta -- that are both totally controlled by the Democratic Party and also notoriously corrupt, and various eye-witnesses have suggested that the huge anti-Trump margins they provided may have been heavily "padded" to ensure the candidate's defeat.

Even leaving aside some of these plausible claims, the case for a stolen election seems almost airtight. I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines, whether they are controlled by Venezuelan Marxists, Chinese Communists, or Martians. But the most blatant election-theft was accomplished in absolutely plain sight.

Not long before the election, the hard drive of an abandoned laptop owned by Joe Biden's son Hunter revealed a gigantic international corruption scheme, quite possibility involving the candidate himself. But the facts of this enormous political scandal were entirely ignored and boycotted by virtually every mainstream media outlet. And once they story was finally published in the pages of the New York Post , America's oldest newspaper, all links to the Post article and its website were suddenly banned by Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets to ensure that the voters remained ignorant until after they had cast their ballots.

Renowned international journalist Glenn Greenwald was hardly a Trump partisan, but he became outraged that the editors of the Intercept , the $100 million publication he himself had co-founded, refused to allow him to cover that massive media scandal, and he angrily resigned in protest. In effect, America's media and tech giants formed a united front to steal the election and somehow drag the crippled Biden/Harris ticket across the finish line.

The Hunter Biden corruption scandal seemed about as serious as any in modern presidential election history and Biden's official victory margin was just 0.01%. So if the American voters had been allowed to learn the truth, Trump almost certainly would have won the election, quite possibly in an Electoral College landslide. Given these facts, anyone who continues to deny that the election was stolen from Trump is simply being ridiculous.

Heated election campaigns have consequences, and this is especially true when all of America's most powerful corporations and ruling elites unite to essentially steal a reelection from a populist incumbent, hero-worshiped by many tens of millions of Americans. And when despite all that blatant unfairness and theft, the final margin of defeat is just one vote in 7,000, an explosion of popular outrage should only be expected.

Solid estimates appear unavailable, but it seems that hundreds of thousands of grass-roots Trump supporters traveled to our nation's capital to protest against what they regarded as a stolen election, and then peacefully assembled to listen to their hero's speech.

Afterwards, a tiny sliver of this vast multitude of angry individuals -- perhaps less than one in a thousand -- barged their way into the strangely-undefended Capitol building of Congress, took souvenir selfies, livesteamed their antics, and generally played the role of tourist-protesters while the lawmakers they so despised as corrupt mostly fled or hid. These Trumpists and some of their colorful costumes brought to mind the radical Yippies of the late 1960s.

The previous year had seen an unprecedented wave of violent riots, arson, and looting across some 200 American cities, which our entirely corrupt and dishonest media had generally characterized as "mostly peaceful protests." In previous years, angry mobs of organized Democratic activists had repeatedly invaded and occupied the Wisconsin Legislature , sometimes winning praise from the media. But when unarmed Trump supporters now did something similar for a few hours in Washington, they were quickly branded "domestic terrorists" seeking to overthrow our democracy.

A video shows Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female protester, being shot dead by a security guard as she tried to climb through a window, an incident not dissimilar to the famous Kent State shootings of a 1960s campus protest, but hardly treated by the media in a similar manner.

A couple of other Trump protesters, probably elderly, overweight, or in poor health, died of strokes or heart-attacks during all the excitement, and one Capitol police officer later died as well, allegedly struck in the head with a fire-extinguisher although there has been no solid account of the incident. Yet this confused tableau of chaos and popular anger, which recalls scenes from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention protests, has been portrayed as a "coup attempt" incited by President Trump, and therefore justifying his second impeachment.

Even more importantly, the incoming Biden/Harris Administration may be considering the most sweeping domestic crackdown upon traditional American civil liberties since the Patriot Act was passed in the hurried aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks twenty years ago. This has been justified by the need to suppress "domestic extremism."

Even without any new governmental legislation, a remarkable Internet crackdown has already begun. In an absolutely unprecedented development, the sitting president of the United States -- who had just lost his reelection by 0.01% of the vote -- has been summarily banned by Twitter, Facebook, and all other major social media outlets, preventing him from communicating with his followers, and with many of his leading supporters suffering the same fate.

Famed libertarian Ron Paul criticized Twitter for banning Trump, and he was immediately locked out of his own Facebook page . Parler, a young but rapidly growing Twitter competitor, refused to ban Trump, and was immediately driven off the Internet by a combined attack from Apple, Google, and Amazon, possibly never to return. Our Information Age has entered a truly Orwellian period.

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Dumbo , says: January 14, 2021 at 9:38 pm GMT • 20.5 hours ago

Another unprecedented aspect of the election is the change of rules implemented due to COVID. I expected Trump vs. Biden to be the lowest turnout ever. Instead it was the highest. This must be a consequence of expanded mail in voting.

Expanded mail in voting FRAUD, you mean. Most European countries do not accept voting by mail. Because of fraud issues. Anyway, probably in the future we will be able to vote with an app, from the safety of our homes, as we will be locked inside forever due to the "new variations" of Covid.

It will all be safe from fraud, of course, Dorsey and Zuck and Cook and Gates and Brin guarantee.

anon [179] Disclaimer , says: January 14, 2021 at 11:23 pm GMT • 18.7 hours ago

Right. This is one more typical coup, CIA installing its chosen presidential puppet ruler. It's a wholly routine occurrence, although the tactics and staging change a bit:

1. Preemptively quashing the candidacy of Robert Taft
2. Murder of John Kennedy
3. Preemptive murder of candidate Robert Kennedy
4. "Watergate" purge of Richard Nixon
5. Iran-hostage "October surprise" ratfuck of Jimmy Carter
6. Botched murder of Ronald Reagan
7. Suspending the vote count for candidate Al Gore
8. Ballot-stuffing in Ohio to stop John Kerry
9. Multi state ballot-stuffing to purge Donald Trump

By the way, it's a hoot to see the censorship hysteria in CIA's Mockingbird social networks, while arch-subversive Ron Unz sits here with his infuriating little grin, permitting the manifest foreign treason of GC34-standard freedom of expression.

A123 , says: January 14, 2021 at 11:36 pm GMT • 18.5 hours ago

The Navarro report provides detailed proof on how elections in multiple states were stolen. (1)

https://thenationalpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2020-12-17-at-9.39.42-AM-1160x651.png

Given that all rational human beings understand, as a matter of objective proven fact, that the election was stolen Where do we go from here?

The slender & extreme, authoritarian, Leftoid margin in the House is certain to be a circular firing squad of internecine discontent. What little they pass will contain more pork than an industrial pig farm. It will be a matter of months before the U.S. Economy is tanked by SJW illegitimacy and misrule.

Much like the GOP beat Gerrymandering, with lead time the GOP will beat Fultoning (named after the Atlanta County). The GOP is sure to take the House in the 2022 elections.

How many times will Biden & Harris be Impeached, shamed, and forced to undergo public trial in the Senate? There will have to be multiple trials to establish for the historical record that Biden/Harris Coup plot was vastly more criminal than Nixon, Clinton, and Trump.

PEACE

P.S.

Theft By A Thousand Cuts’ Report Conclusive On Election Fraud, Slams Media Cover Up

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/navarro-report-conclusive-slams-media/

ruralguy , says: January 15, 2021 at 1:16 am GMT • 16.8 hours ago

I read an interesting article by a Sri Lankan who lived through the recent Sri Lanka Civil War. He made an interesting point that in a civil war, most people just go about their daily routines, not aware they are in a war. They experience the war as a constant drumbeat of negative news, with outbreaks of violence that don't directly affect themselves. He said America is in a civil war, but Americans don't realize it. You know you are in a civil war or insurrection when the news is constantly negative with frequent reports of violence.

John Gruskos , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:31 am GMT • 15.6 hours ago

Trump would have won despite the hostility of the media and big tech, and despite electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, if he had spent the previous 4 years making a good faith effort to implement the policies he ran on in 2016.

He ran as a populist, yet ruled as a plutocrat.

Candidate Trump promised a non-interventionist foreign policy. President Trump dug us deeper into the Middle East quagmire, intensifying hostilities against Russia, Syria, Yemen and Iran while being cartoonishly subservient to Israel.

The troops didn't come home.

He ran on an immigration platform written by Jeff Sessions. As president he prioritized the immigration policies of Sheldon Adelson and Jared Kushner – calling for "more immigration than ever before" in his State of the Union address, and lecturing his dumbfounded rally-goers on the need for increased immigration because "my friends in the business world say we need it".

A tight labor market and rising real wages remained in the world of might-have-been.

Candidate Trump promised to drain the swamp. President Trump pardoned a menagerie of grotesque swamp creatures.

Candidate Trump promised to close the carried interest loophole and make Wall Street pay its fair share. President Trump gave massive tax cuts to the very media moguls and tech oligarchs who would subsequently doom his 2020 campaign.

The most passionate supporters of candidate Trump were stabbed in the back by President Trump – Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, Ann Coulter, the Dissident Right, etc. in a pattern that has continued to the bitter end with his denunciations of the Capitol Hill protesters and scapegoating of Rudy Giuliani. At the same time, a whole series of Never-Trump personalities were promoted within the Trump White House (Rod Rosenstein, Anthony "the Mooch" Scaramucci, John Bolton, etc.).

Trump's most intelligent and active supporters were utterly demoralized, while his enemies were given ample opportunity for sabotage and espionage.

Candidate Trump promised law and order. President Trump did absolutely nothing while his supporters were terrorized by Antifa and BLM.

Thousands of Antifa terrorists and BLM rioters broke federal laws. Why weren't they arrested, charged, indicted and tried?

President Trump didn't support $2,000 stimulus checks until after the election.

He didn't lift a finger against electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, or big tech censorship, until after the election.

Without all these own-goals, the score wouldn't have even been close, and the biased referees wouldn't have mattered.

Ash Williams , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:13 am GMT • 14.9 hours ago
@A123

Here's the link to the full Navaro report https://navarroreport.com/ This election wasn't "close". It was a blowout for Trump. It was OBVIOUS. It was also EASY to find, if anyone bothered looked just a little bit.

Ron put a "I'm a reasonable man" spin on this (and changed his tune from beginning to end, glad I read it before firing off an angry response), but I'm not sure there's a lot gained anymore by trying to reason with thieves and liars. Let's pray this turns around peacefully.

Derer , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:56 am GMT • 14.2 hours ago

But the facts of this enormous political scandal were entirely ignored and boycotted by virtually every mainstream media outlet.

Re: Hunter Biden scandal. A survey of Biden's voters – unaware of his son's corruption – is suggesting that estimated 4.6% would've not voted for Biden, sufficient for Trump victory.

Mr. Dershowitz, strong defender of constitution and who opposed Trump first impeachment is suggesting (BBC Hard Talk) that vindictive Dems lead by Pelosi and Schumer violated 5 articles of constitution in one day during the 2nd not even investigated impeachment. Denying freedom of speech is a violation of constitution.

[Jan 15, 2021] The leaders of Transition Integrity Project (TIP) believe that a mass mobilization will help them to achieve what Russiagate could not, that is, the removal Donald Trump via an illicit coup conjured up by behind-the-scenes powerbrokers and their Democrat allies. by Mike Whitney

Notable quotes:
"... "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." ..."
"... Gatestone Institute ..."
"... The Transition Integrity Project ..."
"... Unlimited Hangout ..."
"... Paul Craig Roberts ..."
Sep 17, 2020 | www.unz.com

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) is a shadowy group of government, military and media elites who have concocted a plan to spread mayhem and disinformation following the November 3 presidential elections. The strategy takes advantage of the presumed delay in determining the winner of the upcoming election. (due to the deluge of mail-in votes.) The interim period is expected to intensify partisan warfare creating the perfect environment for disseminating propaganda and inciting street violence. The leaders of TIP believe that a mass mobilization will help them to achieve what Russiagate could not, that is, the removal Donald Trump via an illicit coup conjured up by behind-the-scenes powerbrokers and their Democrat allies. Here's a little more background from an article by Chris Farrell at the Gatestone Institute:

"In one of the greatest public disinformation campaigns in American history -- the Left and their NeverTrumper allies (under the nom de guerre: "Transition Integrity Project") released a 22-page report in August 2020 "war gaming" four election crisis scenarios: .The outcome of each TIP scenario results in street violence and political impasse.

Is it possible that the leadership of the American Left, along with their NeverTrumper allies, are busy talking themselves into advocating and promoting street violence as a response to a presidential election?

The answer is: Yes . expect violence in the aftermath of the election, because now that is the new 'normal." (" How to Steal an Election", Gatestone Institute )

Farrell is right. As we can see from the many articles that have recently popped up in the media, the American people are being prepared for a contested election that will fuel public anxiety and revolt. This all fits with the overall strategy of the TIP. Selected journalists will be used to provide bits of information that serve the interests of the group while the people will be told to expect a long and drawn-out constitutional crisis. Meanwhile, the media, the Democrat leadership, trusted elites and elements in the Intelligence Community will put pressure on Trump to step down while firing up their political base to take to the streets. TIP's 22-page manifesto makes it clear that mass mobilization will be key to any electoral victory. Here's an excerpt from the text:

"A show of numbers in the streets-and actions in the streets-may be decisive factors in determining what the public perceives as a just and legitimate outcome." ( "Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition" The Transition Integrity Project )

In other words, the authors fully support demonstrations and political upheaval to achieve their goal of removing Trump. Clearly, this scorched earth approach did not originate with Joe Biden, but with the cynical and bloodthirsty puppetmasters who operate behind the curtain and who will do anything to advance their agenda.

This is a full-blown color revolution authored and supported by the same oligarchs and deep-state honchoes that have opposed Trump from the very beginning. They're not going to back down or call off the dogs until the job is done and Trump is gone. And when the dust settles, Trump will likely be charged, tried, sentenced and imprisoned. His fortune will be seized, his family will be financially ruined, and his closest advisors and allies will be prosecuted on fabricated charges. There's not going to be a "graceful transition" of power if Trump loses. He will face the full wrath of the scheming mandarins he has frustrated for the last 4 years. These are the men who applauded when Saddam and Ghaddafi were savagely butchered. Will Trump face the same fate as them?

Trump has less than two months to rally his supporters, draw attention to the conspiracy that has is presently underway, and figure out a way to defend himself against the coup plotters. If he is unable to derail the impending junta, his goose is cooked.

It's worth noting, that the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) has no legal authority to meddle in the upcoming election. They were not appointed by any congressional committee nor did any government entity approve their intrusive activities. This is entirely a "lone wolf" operation designed to exploit loopholes in campaign laws in order to undermine public confidence in our elections and to express their unbridled hostility towards Donald Trump. That said, there analysis will probably influence those who share their views. In the first page of their "Executive Summary" they say:

"We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November's elections will be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape. We also assess that the President Trump is likely to contest the result by both legal and extra-legal means, in an attempt to hold onto power. " (Ibid )

This short statement provides the basic justification for the group's existence. It presents the participants as impartial observers performing their civic duty by objectively analyzing exercises (war games?) that indicate that Trump will challenge the election results in a desperate attempt to hold on to power. Not surprisingly, the group provides no evidence that the president would react the way they think he would. In fact, their hypothesis seems extremely far-fetched given the fact that Trump has no militia, no private army, and very few allies among the political class, the Intelligence Community, the FBI, the military or the deep state. Who exactly does the group think would help Trump hold on to power: Bill Barr, Larry Kudlow, Melania??

There is nothing "impartial" about this analysis. It is partisan gibberish aimed at discrediting Trump while creating a pretext for launching a coup against him. Here is another sample of TIP's "objective analysis" from page 1 of the manuscript:

"The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) was launched in late 2019 out of concern that the Trump Administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process. TIP takes no position on how Americans should cast their votes, or on the likely winner of the upcoming election; either major party candidate could prevail at the polls in November without resorting to "dirty tricks." However, the administration of President Donald Trump has steadily undermined core norms of democracy and the rule of law and embraced numerous corrupt and authoritarian practices. This presents a profound challenge for those –from either party –who are committed to ensuring free and fair elections, peaceful transitions of power, and stable administrative continuity in the United States." (Ibid )

Got that? In other words (to paraphrase) "Trump is a corrupt dictator who hates democracy and the rule of law, but that is just our unbiased opinion. Please, don't let that influence your vote. We just want to make sure the election goes smoothly."

As we noted, the hatred for Trump permeates the entire 22-page document and that, in turn, undermines the credibility of the author to portray his project as an impartial examination of potential problems in the upcoming election. There is nothing evenhanded in the approach to these issues or in the remedies that are recommended. This is a partisan project concocted by malicious elites who despise Trump and who plan to remove him from office by hook or crook.

So, do we know who the leaders of this (TIP) group are?

Well, we know who their two main spokesmen are: Rosa Brooks– Georgetown law professor and co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, and Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary, and chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to an article by Whitney Webb:

" (Rosa) Brooks was an advisor to the Pentagon and the Hillary Clinton-led State Department during the Obama administration. She was also previously the general counsel to the President of the Open Society Institute, part of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a controversial organization funded by billionaire George Soros. Zoe Hudson, who is TIP's director, is also a former top figure at OSF, serving as senior policy analyst and liaison between the foundations and the U.S. government for 11 years .

OSF ties to the TIP are a red flag for a number of reasons, namely due to the fact that OSF and other Soros-funded organizations played a critical role in fomenting so-called "color revolutions" to overthrow non-aligned governments, particularly during the Obama administration. Examples of OSF's ties to these manufactured "revolutions" include Ukraine in 2014 and the "Arab Spring" ..

In addition to her ties to the Obama administration and OSF, Brooks is currently a scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute, where she focuses on "the relationship between the military and domestic policing" and also Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program. She is a currently a key player in the documented OSF-led push to "capitalize" off of legitimate calls for police reform to justify the creation of a federalized police force under the guise of defunding and/or eliminating local police departments. Brooks' interest in the "blurring line" between military and police is notable given her past advocacy of a military coup to remove Trump from office and the TIP's subsequent conclusion that the military "may" have to step in if Trump manages to win the 2020 election, per the group's "war games" described above.

Brooks is also a senior fellow at the think tank New America . New America's mission statement notes that the organization is focused on "honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create." It is largely funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, including Bill Gates (Microsoft), Eric Schmidt (Google), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jeffrey Skoll and Pierre Omidyar (eBay) . In addition, it has received millions directly from the U.S. State Department to research "ranking digital rights." Notably, of these funders, Reid Hoffman was caught "meddling" in the most recent Democratic primary to undercut Bernie Sanders' candidacy during the Iowa caucus and while others, such as Eric Schmidt and Pierre Omidyar, are known for their cozy ties to the Clinton family and even ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign." (" "Bipartisan" Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the Election ", Unlimited Hangout )

Is it safe to say that Rosa Brooks is a Soros stooge overseeing a color revolution in the United States aimed at toppling Trump and replacing him with a dementia-addled, meat-puppet named Joe Biden?

Political analyst Paul Craig Roberts seems to think so. Here's what he said in a recent post at his website:

"I have provided evidence that the military/security complex, using the media and the Democrats, intends to turn the November election into a color revolution The evidence of a color revolution in the works is abundantly supplied by CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, NPR, Washington Post and numerous Internet sites funded by the CIA and the foundations and corporations through which it operates.. All of these media organizations are establishing the story in the mind of Americans that Trump will not leave office when he loses or steals the election and must be driven out.

With Antifa and Black Lives Matter now experienced in violent protests, they will be unleashed anew on American cities when there is news of a Trump election victory. The media will explain the violence as necessary to free us from a tyrant and egg on the violence, as will the Democrat Party. The CIA will be certain that the violence is well funded .

What is a reelected President Trump going to do when the Secret Service refuses to repel Antifa and Black Lives Matter when they breach White House Security?

American Democracy is on the verge of being ended for all times, and the world media will herald the event as the successful overthrowing of a tyrant." ( "America's Color Revolution" , Paul Craig Roberts )

Another of the leading spokesmen for TIP is Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson who made this revealing statement in a recent interview:

"Let me just say some of the things that we're putting out there. Among those things, one that is very important is the media, particularly the mainstream media. They cannot act as they usually act with regard to elections. They have to play a coup on election night. They can't be declaring some state like Pennsylvania for one candidate or the other. When Pennsylvania probably has thousands upon thousands of votes yet to come in and count. So, the media has to get its act in order and it has to act very differently than it normally does."

(NOTE: In other words, Wilkerson does not want the media to follow the normal protocols for covering an election, but to adjust their reporting to accommodate the aims of the coup-plotters. Does that sound like someone who is committed to evenhanded coverage of events, or someone who wants reporters to shape the news to meet the specifications of his own particular agenda? Here's more from Wilkerson:)

"Second, .we also have learned that poll workers have to be younger. And we've started a movement all across the country to train young people. And we've had really good luck with the volunteers to do so , to be poll workers. Because we found out in Wisconsin, for example, poll workers are mostly over 60. And many of them didn't show up because they were afraid of COVID-19. And so Wisconsin went from about one 188 polling places, to about 15. That's disastrous." (" This 'War Game' Maps out what happens if the President contests the Election" , WBUR )

Why is Wilkerson so encouraged by the young people he's trained to act as poll workers? Doesn't that sound a bit fishy, especially from a dyed-in-the-wool partisan who's mixed up with a group whose sole aim is to beat Trump? And why are the authors of the TIP manifesto so eager to reveal their true intentions. Take a look:

"There will likely not be an "election night" this year; unprecedented numbers of voters are expected to use mail-in ballots, which will almost certainly delay the certified result for days or weeks. A delay provides a window for campaigns, the media, and others to cast doubt on the integrity of the process and for escalating tensions between competing camps. As a legal matter, a candidate unwilling to concede can contest the election into January. .."( Ibid)

So, that's the GamePlan, eh? The coup plotters want a contested election that drags on for weeks, deepens divisions among the population, undermines confidence in the electoral system, instigates ferocious street fighting in cities across the country, and gives the Biden camp time to mobilize its political resources in Congress to mount a Constitutional attack on Trump.

Can we at least call this treachery by its proper name: Treason– "the crime of betraying one's country by trying to overthrow the government?"

If the shoe fits ..

[Jan 15, 2021] President Donald J Trump is the medicine the world needed and still needs to expose corruption in the media, deep state, govermment, and big tech. His USA first policy has ruffled many feathers here and abroad. Well done sir!

Jan 15, 2021 | www.rt.com

Pathogen 9 January, 2021 9 Jan, 2021 09:46 AM

President Donald J Trump is the medicine the world needed and still needs to expose corruption in the media, deep state, govermment, and big tech. His USA first policy has ruffled many feathers here and abroad. Well done sir!
Roggenbrot 9 January, 2021 9 Jan, 2021 10:52 AM
Donald, we alrady miss you! Liberals have no sense of humor.

[Jan 15, 2021] Replacement of the Bill of Rights, with the Bill of Don'ts

Jan 15, 2021 | www.rt.com

In their efforts to expunge the Trump movement from memory let alone existence, these neo-Stalinists are hellbent on nullifying constitutionally guaranteed rights – freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to bear arms are under assault.

In place of the Bill of Rights, they would impose a Bill of Don'ts:

Don't say what we don't want to hear.

Don't gather where we don't allow, especially if you are a 'deplorable'.

Don't bother petitioning for grievances, because we don't care. Don't own weapons and don't defend yourself when you or your property are attacked, even as the police are defunded.

Don't tell us about your right to privacy because our right to surveil you supersedes it.

Don't tell us you have the right to confront the witnesses aligned against you, or see the evidence alleged against you, or to present evidence and witnesses in your own defense. That's your white privilege speaking, and we will not tolerate hate speech.

Don't expect us to be bound by due process or the rule of law. Feelings and desired outcomes trump facts and rules, both of which are tools of oppression, relics of the fascist patriarchy.

Don't object, or we will cancel you entirely from these Disunited States of Woketopia.

And first and foremost, don't dare have the temerity to question election results that have handed us uncontested power.

Only authoritarians sanction this state of affairs. The harm they will do, as they neglect and inflict further pain on the Republic, will be immeasurable. The nation is failing, not merely because it is divided, but because a contingent has rejected its foundational principles. That contingent is now in control.

[Jan 15, 2021] Blaming all its problems on foreign actors is the scapegoating and smoke screen over endemic US problems. Especially the vast social and economic inequality caused by neoliberalism and the destruction of the New Deal capitalism. Both parties seem unwilling or incapable of understanding what needs to be fixed in a fundamentally broken system.

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Jan 15 2021 19:31 utc | 115

Strategic-Culture 's Editorial is the best journalistic reporting on the political split within the Outlaw US Empire I've come across. One short telling excerpt:

"This [blaming all its problems on foreign actors] is the ultimate scapegoating and destructive denial over endemic U.S. problems. Those problems are topped by the vast social and economic inequality that has been presaged by decades of neoliberal capitalism overseen by both Republicans and Democrats. Both parties seem unwilling or incapable of understanding what needs to be fixed in a fundamentally broken system . The rise of Trump was something of a diversion from addressing the root problem. And blaming Russia for ongoing problems is also another futile diversion. This systemic denial of reality by the American political class is why the U.S. crisis will continue to deteriorate because blaming everyone else but itself avoids the necessary ways and means to fix it ." [My Emphasis]

At least we're informed as to why there're no attempts to fix the problems as the Neoliberal Parasites don't want them fixed as they profit greatly as the turmoil shrouds their activities. The Editors agree with most of us at MoA in their prescription for a solution:

"The solution will require mass popular mobilization for democratic rights."

But that's just the sort of action that will be resisted by the Neoliberal Parasites. Will it take a reenactment of the Kent State shootings to galvanize the public? Unfortunately, I think that's very much the case, and there'll be more than one massacre.

Johannes Vermeer , Jan 15 2021 19:51 utc | 116

In the old ages in Greece Sparta oppressed the Helots with brute force during more than 400 years. This historical exmaple proves that rule through violent oppression can be quite stable. I doubt the elites in the USA have enough 'Spartan qualities' to organize the same violent oppression that long, my point is however that it is a proven possibillity

[Jan 15, 2021] Choosing to Re-Impeach Trump now proves that the House Democrats are collectively very stupid. Impeachment, now, is a useless, symbolic exercise, a cathartic feel-good reaction, which will only have negative political consequences, short long-term.

Jan 15, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

elkern , Jan 15 2021 18:06 utc | 111

Re: "The Democrats aren't stupid."? This is one of the least accurate sentences you've ever written, b!

Choosing to Re-Impeach Trump now proves that the House Democrats are collectively very stupid. Impeachment, now, is a useless, symbolic exercise, a cathartic feel-good reaction, which will only have negative political consequences, short & long-term.

Trump has recently re-directed his Mob's anger toward the GOP because it didn't manipulate November's elections enough to get Trump another 4 years. If the Democrats had any political brains, they'd just shut up & let Trump destroy the GOP. But instead, they chose to rescue the GOP by Impeaching Trump.

FOX will fill their screens with pix & vid of Pelosi & Clyburn, to remind The Mob that Democrats are The Real Enemy. The Mob will howl & cosplay for a while, but by 2022, Trump will be gone (probably overseas, to avoid arrest and/or taxes), and the Mob will be voting straight GOP again.

[Jan 15, 2021] All pure d j vu this is exactly how the color revolutions work it is the art of winning elections by fraudulent means. The US bombers arrive only if the peaceful transition of power (aka the stealing of election) fails

For anybody who listened to state hearings in one or more state if is clear that there was widespread fraud. And its importance is much larger then the question who won the elections
Notable quotes:
"... Multiple methods of attack on the election outcome have been prepared, all methods well planned, tried and perfected in the string of color revolutions around the World. Because those attacking Trump are the same as those who have been doing the "regime changes" in the vulnerable countries over the past 30 years. ..."
"... The playbook/manual is fully symmetrical – it always addresses both possible outcomes – if their side does not manage to steal the election then they incite an insurrection and oust the winner (the Viktor Yanukovych outcome). ..."
"... It is funny how few people appear to understand that Hunter's laptop was not just a suppressed election decider then an important reason for Biden's suitability – the insurance of ensurance, the media ready Kompromat. ..."
"... Finally, it is very important to keep in mind that none of what transpired would have been possible in a healthy country ..."
"... Maybe it was hostility towards Trump's supporters rather than hostility towards Trump. Trump is a reliable pro-immigration ultra-Zionist rabidly pro-LGBT liberal. The views of a large proportion of Trump's supporters are diametrically opposed to Trump's own views, but his supporters aren't smart enough to figure that out. ..."
"... whatever else Trump may be, he's no white nationalist. But again his supporters can't figure stuff like that out. ..."
"... In extreme situations, it's more important to win than to play by the rules. – This is the moral reasoning **** of the fraudsters. The basic equation they applied is so simple that it hurts (and therefore: worked perfectly well – in all of the West) ..."
"... In the Art of Winning Elections it did not take a genius to develop this solution – the lowest number of night-suitcases (filled with ballots) for the highest number of elector votes . ..."
"... In my mind the election was already unfair when you have the entire MSM and the Internet social media companies rooting for one candidate while attacking the other and banning/censoring the voices of his supporters under various pretexts. Both candidates and their supporters, should have been given equal exposure but I don't know how that could be achieved in practice. ..."
"... At a minimum the circumstantial evidence of vote counts being stopped in swing states along with gerrymandered rules was highly suspicious. To claim a mandate on such a close election while losing house seats is absurd but the Republicans bungling the Georgia Senate run off over $2K checks and a sycophantic MSM ensures they will. ..."
"... We are to believe Biden won 507 counties, the least EVER, but won the most votes ever. Trump won 74 million votes, beating Obama's 69 million in 2008, the previous all-time high. Trump won over 2500 counties. ..."
"... Strange that all these presidential elections are always neck and neck. Just because there are two parties does not mean that election after election the vote will boil down to one or two "swing states" and a few thousand votes. Statistically, it just doesn't make sense. ..."
"... This is strong evidence, if not proof, that these elections are scripted from beginning to end ..."
"... The convenient thing about postal votes is that they make it possible to wait until the opponent's votes are all in and counted – then send in just enough postal votes to tip the balance. It's rather like an auction in which one bidder gets only the one bid, and then a rival can offer $1 more. ..."
"... Well said. I'm sure that it's no coincidence that DJT has been involved with televised wrestling over the years. Every great contest requires a memorable "heel" to engage the spectators. In televised snooker in the UK, final matches often are over best of 35 frames. It's unusual for them not to go to the last ball of the final frame. Got to have a little drama. ..."
"... The point is, it is the average intellect, moral and civic weight of the involved constituencies that allows or doesn't allow what shouldn't be allowed in a real democracy. You don't have actual democracy below a lower threshold of intellect and moral and civic worth of all the main involved parties. ..."
"... When you consider Donald Trump's grotesque antics, his entirely unpresidential behavior, evident falsehoods and blatantly corrupt actions – together with the systematic media blitz taking every opportunity to show him in the worst possible light; it is quite astounding that he received as many votes as he did. Far, far more than could be accounted for by simply ascribing them to his 'deplorables'. ..."
"... I think Trump's greatest legacy will be that he ripped away the curtain and the masks fell and we all got to see just how nefarious and rigged the system is, from federal judges to our intelligence community to the FBI/DOJ to Congress to the media ..."
"... Dominion machines can do anything! They can assign a weight of 1.5 per single vote to one candidate, and .75 per vote to the other, and can adjust as necessary. They can assign batches of "adjudicated" ballots to the candidate of your choice. They can just switch votes from one candidate to the other in increments of several thousand, let's subtract 29,000 votes from candidate a and add them to b's column. They can allow access by a third party to the administrator's identity and password so the third party can enter and participate directly in tabulation of the votes. ..."
"... They won the election the old way: they stole it fair and square. ..."
"... If you like your bourgeois job and want to keep it, you will support the narrative. ..."
"... All of the comments on here that analyze DJT's strengths and weaknesses miss the point. I personally think he made some very poor choices; but, to inappropriately paraphrase Carville, it's the fraud, stupid. ..."
"... Occam's Razor should be applied- instead of the nonsense of Chavez having an interest in voting software; voting machines being manipulated; truckloads of paper ballots being moved across state lines- my favorite; etc. ..."
"... t would be very easy to have individuals in a nursing home or even an adult day care center for mentally (dementia) incapacitated adults sign ballots. There are numerous day care centers in New York City, federally funded, where individuals could be coaxed to sign ballots. Just say Trump will close the day care center -- especially where interpreters must be provided because the individuals cannot understand English due to varying stages of mental incapacity. ..."
"... I wonder how many people have watched the twenty hours or so of state legislature hearings related to the election. Can people just not be bothered? These were historic hearings of huge importance, but I assume they didn't get much coverage in the MSM. I think most of them were livestreamed only by small right-wing networks. ..."
"... What were the results of the 2016 election? Billary received 65 million to Trumps 62 million. Gotcha. So we have roughly 127 million who showed up to vote that time. (Wonder how many of those were legit.) So ONLY 4 years later, Joe "I Look Like I'm Drugged" Biden ALLEGEDLY received 80 million and Trump received 74 million. Okay, that is a turnout of 154 million votes. So if I believe in this fairy tale, I was supposed to believe that in ONLY 4 years the vote count increased by an alleged 27 million. Hell, a lot of our most populous states do not even have that many people. ..."
"... Laws don't say a little bit of fraud is OK, because the fraud committed on or by a business didn't cause bankruptcy. Either there was fraud, or there wasn't. ..."
"... That several courts refused to hear cases for lack of standing, is patently ridiculous. If a candidate has no standing, who does? In an election, everybody has standing because they are affected by the result, and by virtue of Citizens United , corporations do as well. ..."
"... Watch this recent interview of Chris Hedges by Jimmy Dore about the root causes of our current woes. Hedges speaks off the cuff in words that sound as polished, powerful and precise as the language in tracts considered to be classics. His Pulitzer clearly was not found in a Cracker Jack box. ..."
Jan 15, 2021 | www.unz.com

Kiza , says: January 15, 2021 at 7:51 am GMT • 10.2 hours ago

Before the election I polled all my friends who would win. The majority of both left and right oriented said that it would be Trump. I said, yes Trump would win a fair election, but he will lose on who is counting. Multiple methods of attack on the election outcome have been prepared, all methods well planned, tried and perfected in the string of color revolutions around the World. Because those attacking Trump are the same as those who have been doing the "regime changes" in the vulnerable countries over the past 30 years. Trump never had a grain of chance against this mighty machinery. Corrupt local governors and blackmailed and co-opted all levels of judiciary, targeted lawlessness, threats and examples of violence and future civil war if the other side wins, censorship, eviction of election observers, night-time suitcases of ballots, one-sided main sewerage media.

All pure déjà vu – this is exactly how the color revolutions work – the art of winning elections. The US bombers arrive only if the "peaceful transition of power" (aka the stealing of election and post-election) fails. In the color revolution manual, there is also a chapter on prevention of resistance to the stolen election – thus the msm and congress screeching like castrated pigs against Trump's imaginary incitement of insurrection (pure psychological projection). I was always sure that Trump is too much of a cheap demagogue and hot air filled balloon to be able to initiate a real insurrection.

The playbook/manual is fully symmetrical – it always addresses both possible outcomes – if their side does not manage to steal the election then they incite an insurrection and oust the winner (the Viktor Yanukovych outcome).

... ... ...

In political terms, in the 2016 election a quasi-populist candidate slipped through. This will never happen again because state laws will be enacted with built-in mail voting and electronic voting machines. Competent or incompetent populists will never get through again. This will ensure that the choice will always be only between the approved, controllable candidates with plenty of skeletons in wardrobes and dirty laptops in their closets. It is funny how few people appear to understand that Hunter's laptop was not just a suppressed election decider then an important reason for Biden's suitability – the insurance of ensurance, the media ready Kompromat.

Finally, it is very important to keep in mind that none of what transpired would have been possible in a healthy country : election of Trump without enough Kompromat to have to invent the dumbest Putin's puppet meme and the consequent exposure of the manipulative Deep State, the sulfuric acid for the brain MSM and the high-techs fakers. These are all the Hegels' seeds of destruction in action.

dfordoom , says: Website January 15, 2021 at 8:04 am GMT • 10.0 hours ago
@anonymous

One thing to ask is why was this huge effort made to oust Trump?

Maybe it was hostility towards Trump's supporters rather than hostility towards Trump. Trump is a reliable pro-immigration ultra-Zionist rabidly pro-LGBT liberal. The views of a large proportion of Trump's supporters are diametrically opposed to Trump's own views, but his supporters aren't smart enough to figure that out.

dfordoom , says: Website January 15, 2021 at 8:07 am GMT • 10.0 hours ago
@anon

Because Trump inflames white nationalism

Which is hilarious because whatever else Trump may be, he's no white nationalist. But again his supporters can't figure stuff like that out.

Dieter Kief , says: January 15, 2021 at 8:11 am GMT • 9.9 hours ago
@A123

In extreme situations, it's more important to win than to play by the rules. – This is the moral reasoning **** of the fraudsters. The basic equation they applied is so simple that it hurts (and therefore: worked perfectly well – in all of the West): Trump = Hitler.

**** If I might go with Sigmund Freud here, I'd say: – Their rationalizations instead of "their moral reasoning".

Cthulu Smith , says: January 15, 2021 at 8:11 am GMT • 9.9 hours ago
@anon

I prefer this model, and it's not being discussed: Someone was making BIG money off of those programs and policies leftover from Obama. Trade with China? Care to mention one BIG company who peddles Chinese wares? Maybe two or three of them, perhaps?

"Follow the money", is what Deep Throat told Woodward. If we do that with our darling Deep State? Just ask yourself, who stood to benefit from four years of Hillary, pray tell? There's your answer.

Kiza , says: January 15, 2021 at 8:14 am GMT • 9.9 hours ago
@A123

The Deep State regime stole this election in exactly the same states where Trump successfully campaigned in 2016 to win against Clinton. In the Art of Winning Elections it did not take a genius to develop this solution – the lowest number of night-suitcases (filled with ballots) for the highest number of elector votes .

Commentator Mike , says: January 15, 2021 at 8:32 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago

Thanks for a balanced assessment. In my mind the election was already unfair when you have the entire MSM and the Internet social media companies rooting for one candidate while attacking the other and banning/censoring the voices of his supporters under various pretexts. Both candidates and their supporters, should have been given equal exposure but I don't know how that could be achieved in practice.

Trump was severely hamstrung by the role played by the MSM and the social media. In a real democracy this state of affairs should not be allowed: where the rich and powerful who control the media have an unequal say and overwhelming influence compared to the ordinary voters.

SurfingUSA , says: January 15, 2021 at 8:48 am GMT • 9.3 hours ago

Now we have Ruby Freeman, heretofore only on video rolling out suitcases in Fulton County, now on AUDIO discussing her $100 an hour election heist gig and the "Secretary of State" is mentioned at 2:02 by her boss Ralph Jones:

https://thedonald.win/p/11S0bp78qW/georgia–ruby-caught-on-video-wi/c/

Sirius , says: January 15, 2021 at 8:54 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

There is a small element of illogic in the numbers part of the argument, namely in using 2 different metrics to make that argument. (I agree with the corruption part of the argument covered by Glenn Greenwald. It's censorship in action).

As I've done before, I'll reiterate, I'm no fan of Biden or Trump. In fact I'm worried about the war cabinet Biden already seems to be assembling just as I still worry about the crazed maniac Pompeo for the next few days left in the current administration.

But here's the point and it is a very subtle one: to say it was a tight race and only 1 in 7,000 Americans had to change their vote is a bit misleading. In the absurd Electoral College, winner take all the state system (which is far more scandalous in my view), we take one state at a time. If we accept the vote count, Biden won over 7,000,000 more votes more than Trump, a margin of victory of 4.4%. Not very close.

Therefore, if it were a one person one vote nationwide system, 2.2% would have to change their minds, meaning 1 out of every 45 Americans.

But it's a state by state margin that we're after. Thus more to the point would be to take each individual state and its margin. So if we took Georgia as one example, the margin of Biden's lead was 11,779 votes out of 4,935,487 votes cast for Biden and Trump (we disregard all the third party votes in this argument). 5,890 voters would have to "change their minds". Out of the Biden/Trump overall vote, that's 1 out of 838 Georgian voters.

To apply a different system, overall US vote count, to one state, Georgia, is using which system you prefer to come up with an illusionary 1 out of 7000 Americans, not applying the same metric down the line. It's a separate state by state system, not a nationwide vote. You have to stay consistent to be accurate in this method of argumentation.

Very technical, yes. What about mail-in voting? What is the evidence that this is by definition rigged or manipulated? Mailed ballots have a paper trail like in-person ballots. Presumably someone could steal your ballot from your home and vote on your behalf, but this can be traced and found out. At least one state, Washington, doesn't even have in-person voting at all. Does that mean all of their votes are fraudulent?

What about voter suppression? Shouldn't that be factored in? That seems to happen a lot more often in red states than blue states. What about Trumps attempts to sabotage the US Postal System? Doesn't that bother anybody who supports him? What about his refusal to commit to the results prior to Election Day? (He did the same in 2016 by the way). This only added to his opponents concern about his dictatorial tendencies.

Finally, in all the arguments I've seen anywhere, I haven't seen anyone lay out which states use those ridiculous electronic voting machines which leave no paper trail. That should be the other real scandal and those should be immediately banned in every state. Get rid of those and the Electoral College and we might have a fair system.

Oh, and get rid of a system that is eternally dominated by 2 parties as well, whether through run off elections or even better, proportional representation. The latter that would be truly more democratic.

fatmanscoop , says: January 15, 2021 at 9:06 am GMT • 9.0 hours ago
@anonymous

why was this huge effort made to oust Trump? What did they want him to do that he wouldn't do? Was he an impediment to the increase of control over the average person? Did not want to start up another action against Syria? Would not attack Iran without having a coalition of NATO countries lined up? Was against total outsourcing to China? Not confrontational enough against Russia? Perhaps he gave the deplorables dangerous ideas about them having some rights. If that question could be answered then we'd know what is coming.

He humiliated the upper echelons of society so thoroughly via his 2016 campaign and victory.

sarz , says: January 15, 2021 at 9:10 am GMT • 8.9 hours ago
@anon Because Trump inflames white nationalism, which is anathema to the Jews.

There is evidence that Trump himself is a Jew, and a fanatic Zionist at that, so his self-serving incitement of white nationalism (whose causes he did little to implement, unlike his steady support for every imaginable Israeli cause, tbe more outrageous the better, short of war with the "usable" nukes he had had developed for the purpose, that Russia warned him away from) was especially galling to the top Jews such as the Rothschilds for whom Israel is nothing sentimental, just one more piece in their chess game for world power.

Hamilcar , says: January 15, 2021 at 9:15 am GMT • 8.8 hours ago

Thank you Ron.

And thank you for this site which is a beacon of free speech and dissent against our vile, corrupt, incompetent ruling class.

In all the post election rancor little attention has been brought to how razor thin the margin actually was. And with you being a vociferous critic of Trumps boorish antics and insane foreign policy the candor on this issue is appreciated.

At a minimum the circumstantial evidence of vote counts being stopped in swing states along with gerrymandered rules was highly suspicious. To claim a mandate on such a close election while losing house seats is absurd but the Republicans bungling the Georgia Senate run off over $2K checks and a sycophantic MSM ensures they will.

And after abetting barbaric violence and anarchy for months the Democrats will now use trespassing in their "Sacred Temple" to unleash a crackdown by the national security state and unprecedented censorship and social-credit run by woke-corporate oligarchs.

Interestingly (And as many predicted) it appears they will reopen the economy and declare "victory" over Covid shortly after Bidens inauguration. Clearly the bizarre excesses of the lockdowns and dynamiting of the economy were calculated to undermine Trump and consolidate wealth and power from the start.

The question is what exactly this "new normal" will be and how far they're willing to go in order to purge the Trumpists and populist right. It will be easy to garner support for the latter but if the daily disruptions and financial shocks continue the system will collapse.

A new, large scale war would be a useful distraction but it's hard to imagine the U.S sustaining one in its current state much less against capable adversaries like China and Russia.

Then again, arrogant, idiotic, catastrophic policy blunders are the defining feature of this ruling class for the last 30 years so I wouldn't put it past them given the madness we've seen already.

sulu , says: January 15, 2021 at 9:21 am GMT • 8.7 hours ago

In effect, America's media and tech giants formed a united front to steal the election and somehow drag the crippled Biden/Harris ticket across the finish line.

And what ethnic group owns America's media?

thotmonger , says: January 15, 2021 at 9:51 am GMT • 8.2 hours ago
@ruralguy

adjustment via a plastic bag put over their heads. If they were lucky.

There was no real contest. Because? A. Control of the mainstream media was so one sided. And that is where we are at now here in USA. Imagine, a standing President of the USA has been banned and censored by all the "American" mainstream media giants. Actually, you do not have to imagine. It just happened: Big Tech and MSM has openly torpedoed the First Amendment and US Constitution. So we know where they are coming from. It's also kind of disappointing how most of our "representatives" are dealing with this.

Sirius , says: January 15, 2021 at 10:30 am GMT • 7.6 hours ago
@John Gruskos

The only cause other than himself on which Trump has been consistent is serving Israel. One of the only two major policies of Obama's that he didn't reverse was support of Israel, though he took it to yet another level. The other one was increasing military spendings. Obama never cut military spending. My money is on Biden never doing it either, and also that he will take support of Israel to yet another level. I hope I'm wrong.

Contraviews , says: January 15, 2021 at 10:39 am GMT • 7.4 hours ago

On the election night I was listening to two of our New Zealand reporters who were reporting the incoming results. I remember quite clearly after results had been coming in for a while they remarked: "well that's it another four years of the same". That were their exact words. That must have been before the postal votes came in, which suddenly changed the picture completely to Biden's advantage. Postal votes I believe were introduced for the first time in 2020 because of the Corona pandemic. It's believed that postal votes can be more easily tampered with. Postal votes are expected to remain during future elections I believe.

Anon [254] Disclaimer , says: January 15, 2021 at 10:44 am GMT • 7.4 hours ago

We are to believe Biden won 507 counties, the least EVER, but won the most votes ever. Trump won 74 million votes, beating Obama's 69 million in 2008, the previous all-time high. Trump won over 2500 counties.

Clarice Feldman at the Americanthinker.com noted that many residences had multiple votes from the current occupants plus previous occupants (apartment complexes) in this election, because old voter rolls aren't purged in a timely manner. The same addy might have 3 previous residents voting, plus the same individual voters legitimately voting at their new addresses.

My advice for whites is this .we will probably be getting in new wars for neocons now, so you might wanna think twice before signing up for the military. You may find your twenties being used up in multiple deployments in foreign miserable places.

noname27 , says: Website January 15, 2021 at 11:00 am GMT • 7.1 hours ago

A very interesting interview by Brian Ruhe with Dennis Fetcho: https://www.bitchute.com/embed/a9AtcoEyDaPh

noname27 , says: Website January 15, 2021 at 11:05 am GMT • 7.0 hours ago
@shylockcracy

Only if the American people don't adopt the MAGA phenomenon and run with it as their own = The People's MAGA MOVEMENT – who needs Trumpstein?

Schuetze , says: January 15, 2021 at 11:16 am GMT • 6.8 hours ago

@nsa

Strange that all these presidential elections are always neck and neck. Just because there are two parties does not mean that election after election the vote will boil down to one or two "swing states" and a few thousand votes. Statistically, it just doesn't make sense.

Of course the media loves these nail-biter elections because it drives up their viewership. Every election we get the same old farcical "debates", scandals and continual ridiculous sound bites. This is strong evidence, if not proof, that these elections are scripted from beginning to end, even up to and including the "march to the Capitol" and the ensuing "insurrection".

onebornfree , says: Website January 15, 2021 at 11:32 am GMT • 6.6 hours ago
@Ash Williams

"Ron put a "I'm a reasonable man" spin on this"

Exactly. "Spin". He also appears to be entirely ignorant of the fact that the constitution states that each states electors, and the procedure for choosing them, must be accomplished via the state[s] legislatures, and that in all 6[?] swing states that recorded early morning, miraculous turn-around votes from Trump to Biden, that that particular constitutional procedure had been entirely , and very conveniently, ignored:

U.S constitution. Article 2 section 1:

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annamaria , says: January 15, 2021 at 11:57 am GMT • 6.1 hours ago
@Rational

https://thesaker.is/israel-united-states-unite-efforts-in-large-scale-strikes-on-iranian-infrastructure-in-syria/

The Lobby wants Syria by any means, up to a direct confrontation with the Russian Federation. The Jewish hatred for Iran is boundless (same for Russia – take note, Americans). Zionists care not about human lives.

Tom Welsh , says: January 15, 2021 at 12:08 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago

"I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines, whether they are controlled by Venezuelan Marxists, Chinese Communists, or Martians. But the most blatant election-theft was accomplished in absolutely plain sight".

Cui bono? Obviously the main group profiting from the fraudulent election was the Democratic Party and its supporters. So why drag in foreign governments? Most of them are all too well aware that it's very dangerous to attract the attention of the USA for good or bad. Like trying to save a drowning whale.

So their sensible strategy is to stand back at a safe distance and watch the monster perish in its own poisons, hoping it doesn't lash out and harm them in its dying struggles.

Tom Welsh , says: January 15, 2021 at 12:13 pm GMT • 5.9 hours ago
@Contraviews

The convenient thing about postal votes is that they make it possible to wait until the opponent's votes are all in and counted – then send in just enough postal votes to tip the balance. It's rather like an auction in which one bidder gets only the one bid, and then a rival can offer $1 more.

Ridiculous if you want a fair election. But nobody who matters wants or expects anything of that kind. A proper political machine gets everything cut and dried well in advance.

Trump was unpredictable and, to a degree, uncontrollable. He had to go.

Cortes , says: January 15, 2021 at 12:17 pm GMT • 5.8 hours ago
@Schuetze

Well said. I'm sure that it's no coincidence that DJT has been involved with televised wrestling over the years. Every great contest requires a memorable "heel" to engage the spectators. In televised snooker in the UK, final matches often are over best of 35 frames. It's unusual for them not to go to the last ball of the final frame. Got to have a little drama.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch the rancher counts the silver dollars.

Timur The Lame , says: January 15, 2021 at 12:40 pm GMT • 5.4 hours ago

...If ego or narcissism can explain it, so be it. I'll go with insane or suffering from dementia. Any 'drain the swamp' or 'fix the system', MAGA or "build back better" argument would appeal only to retards. Re-visit Carroll Quigly's succinct description of political parties in the USA in Tragedy and Hope, pages 1247-1248 (hardcover) or Google same.

I'm beginning to believe that a different species is holding sway and we are the proverbial Eloi.

atlantis_dweller , says: January 15, 2021 at 12:41 pm GMT • 5.4 hours ago
@Commentator Mike

The point is, it is the average intellect, moral and civic weight of the involved constituencies that allows or doesn't allow what shouldn't be allowed in a real democracy. You don't have actual democracy below a lower threshold of intellect and moral and civic worth of all the main involved parties.

We could in other words say: there will be as much real democracy as is desired by the average citizen, where to desire it is not to blandly say "I agree with democracy".

atlantis_dweller , says: January 15, 2021 at 12:49 pm GMT • 5.3 hours ago
@Kiza

It is funny how few people appear to understand that Hunter's laptop was not just a suppressed election decider then an important reason for Biden's suitability

Yes, few people understand that all regime-approved candidates are people able to be blackmailed for a precise reason, and not at all by chance. What about Hegel though?

Getaclue , says: January 15, 2021 at 1:31 pm GMT • 4.6 hours ago
@obvious Globalist NWO creeps stole the election, they spent 4 years trying to overthrow the 2016 election by coups aided and abetted by the Globalist Mainslime Media, FBI etc. -- you missed all that of course? .

They also PUBlICLY previewed, as they did the COVID Agenda, stealing the election a couple months before, gamed and planned it in various outcomes .Anyone who can't see what is up is either willfully ignorant, lying, or "stupid" as you say.

No decent person is in favor of the Agenda of Harris/Biden serving the NWO "Great Reset" to crush the Peons -- you must see yourself as above the coming carnage -- I have news for you -- your not.

Johnny Smoggins , says: January 15, 2021 at 1:46 pm GMT • 4.3 hours ago
@ruralguy

We'll know we're in an actual civil war when different branches of the military, or units within a branch are fighting each other or when the police are fighting the military. Don't hold your breath of course because every cop and soldier in America is a traitor and they're all on the same team.

Garliv , says: January 15, 2021 at 1:51 pm GMT • 4.2 hours ago
@atlantis_dweller

What I still find unfathomable is the fact that the steal was so obvious: so in your face but yet the big media, big tech, federal and state law enforcements, spooks, judges, big GOP politicians etc still behave like nothing ever happened. Trump and his supporters are now labeled domestic terrorists and lawfare is about to be unleashed on them. It's surreal.

Sick of Orcs , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:09 pm GMT • 3.9 hours ago

Had the Orange heeded his MAGA base rather than his (((rat-in-law))) he'd still be President. There was certainly election fraud; enough of the betrayed base stayed home to make it effective. Trump was a p -- y all four years and got what he deserved. He was always a stop-gap time-buying non-solution...

Emslander , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:20 pm GMT • 3.8 hours ago
@Reg Cæsar

...issues can no longer be discussed openly, the reliability of elections in the USA is the most important issue that faces us. The people will accept an honest winner in a serious election. Nothing is as cleansing to our natural divisions as the result of a well-contested election, in the knowledge that, in a reasonable interval, the same offices will be up for new contests.

Nothing is as damaging to our peace of mind as knowing that one side won fairly, but was robbed of governing. I thank Ron Unz for writing and publishing such a reasonably argued essay on the matter. It is the gold standard for 2020 election analyses.

Trinity , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:25 pm GMT • 3.7 hours ago

This is sad people. Was talking to a friend and even his 80 something year old mother commented on how decrepit Sleazy Joe looks and walks. I was watching him deliver "his speech" last night and the guy had a hard time reading a few sentences off the teleprompter without stammering and stuttering.

After an embarrassing and truly cringe worthy "speech" Biden is seen walking off. The dude can barely walk...

Temporary Insanity , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:36 pm GMT • 3.5 hours ago

For eighty million who cast their ballots for the old geezer, it's mostly out of economic necessity; however, for the seventy plus million people who are Trump supporters, it's a fight for their country and more importantly, culture.

anon [263] Disclaimer , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:42 pm GMT • 3.4 hours ago

Weimerica!!!

Brought to you by the same people who gave us the Weimar Republic, only twice as vicious and vindictive this time because they know what they did wrong last time -- they weren't vicious and vindictive enough.

Albertde , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:44 pm GMT • 3.4 hours ago

In a healthy country, there would have been no need for Trump.

macilrae , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:59 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago

When you consider Donald Trump's grotesque antics, his entirely unpresidential behavior, evident falsehoods and blatantly corrupt actions – together with the systematic media blitz taking every opportunity to show him in the worst possible light; it is quite astounding that he received as many votes as he did. Far, far more than could be accounted for by simply ascribing them to his 'deplorables'.

And, even if Biden did, in fact, just manage to win – presenting himself as a force of reason, stability and sanity – a great mass of voters sensed something in him that they distrusted even more than in Trump. That was a stunning rejection – of almost the same magnitude as Hillary's in 2016!

Old and Grumpy , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:05 pm GMT • 3.0 hours ago
@John Gruskos

You're right, and Ron Unz is right. Had Trump retained his white male voters of 2016, the Democrats likely couldn't have pulled off the steal. But in the end Donald Trump was a mere salesmen selling a con.

Ashley H , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:16 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago

...If you had told people in France in 1785 or Russia in 1913 that within a few short years about a quarter of their population would be slaughtered in revolutionary turmoil and many more displaced, they would have dismissively laughed in your face believing – as do we – that their civilizations were far too advanced for such nonsense.

Let us hope such a horrific fate is not in store for all of us as the Great Reset is imposed on us all given how western civilization has clearly failed to the point where some sort of profound, substantive reform is inevitable.

Given that the foundation of this Reset comprises so much ill-will, deception, theft and coercion, it is unlikely that this new paradigm will benefit the millions of people it will soon dominate.

lysias , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:19 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago

...Interesting book on Brit intelligence in the U.S. in 1940: Thomas Mahl's "Desperate Deception."

Anonymous [164] Disclaimer , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:20 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago
@John Gruskos

Another can of worms, there would be additional Congressional hearings over it, etc. At the time Trump was still in the middle of the Muller investigation. That special prosecutor investigation tied up Trump until March 2019.

I firmly believe that no man in human history could have taken on and fought Deep State, the Swamp, the Establishment, media, GOPe, et al., as valiantly as Trump. Even in his 70's the man has superhuman energy, fortitude, and strategizing. I think Trump's greatest legacy will be that he ripped away the curtain and the masks fell and we all got to see just how nefarious and rigged the system is, from federal judges to our intelligence community to the FBI/DOJ to Congress to the media

sayless , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:21 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago

"I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines"

Why not? Take a look at Patrick Byrne's summary of evidence for massive election fraud involving the Dominion machines, on his blog over at DeepCapture.

It will explain how a man who sheltered in his house, did not campaign, drew no more than six or seven or twenty-five people to his events, got seven million more votes than a man who drew up to thirty thousand people at his rallies.

...An expert witness in Georgia was able to hack into Dominion in front of the legislative committee in less than a minute. "We're in." In Dominion, and on the internet.

Dominion machines can do anything! They can assign a weight of 1.5 per single vote to one candidate, and .75 per vote to the other, and can adjust as necessary. They can assign batches of "adjudicated" ballots to the candidate of your choice. They can just switch votes from one candidate to the other in increments of several thousand, let's subtract 29,000 votes from candidate a and add them to b's column. They can allow access by a third party to the administrator's identity and password so the third party can enter and participate directly in tabulation of the votes.

And more. If your disfavored candidate is winning by a landslide and your 1.5/.75 ratio isn't working, you can put in a USB card and adjust accordingly.

If you're desperate you can upload tens of thousands of votes in a single drop which all, every one, go to your preferred candidate. And you can do it in one hour on a machine which can only handle a few thousand votes per hour, fed in manually.

If things get out of control you can call a halt to the vote count, send the observers home, and haul out the extra ballots stashed under the table skirt. But it's best to be mindful of the video cameras. Which they were not.

Really, read about it: Patrick Byrne, DeepCapture, "Evidence That The 2020 Election Was Rigged." Lays out the various ways by which it was done, then appends evidence using graphs, memos from election administrators, and statistical analysis.

He's no Trump supporter either, is a committed libertarian, and has never voted for either a Democrat or Republican presidential candidate in his life. He thinks Barack Obama graced the presidency and that Michelle Obama was a class act as First Lady.

Also: The Chinese government acquired Dominion for $400 million in the fall of 2020.

The King is a Fink , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:26 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago
@A123

I found this interesting (posted by another commenter back in Nov):

https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020

Finally, does anyone think the Dominion case against Sydney Powell potentially offers an opportunity for the evidence of electoral fraud to be aired in public?

Jeff Davis , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:31 pm GMT • 2.6 hours ago
@utu

They won the election the old way: they stole it fair and square.

anon [954] Disclaimer , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:35 pm GMT • 2.5 hours ago

While it's an effective rhetorical tactic by our fearless leader Unz, there's no reason to be agnostic about CIA ballot-stuffing. That's as blindingly obvious as their censorship.

https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020

The ballot-stuffing shows only the most cursory measures to conceal it, consistent with a command structure that exercises precision control over media attention. CIA can censor adverse information on their candidate's trading in influence and abuse of function. So naturally CIA dumped votes in statistically absurd proportions, trusting to their Mockingbird media to short-circuit public inquiry. When you have arbitrary Nazi-grade life-and-death power, as CIA does, it's hard not to get sloppy. They don't give a fuck that you saw what they did there, cause shut up.

Jeff Albertson , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:37 pm GMT • 2.5 hours ago
@Tom Welsh ent-text">

Spot on about postal votes; it's my only slight disagreement with Ron's take on the affair. These votes were being received for days, if not weeks before the deadline and could have been (and probably were) counted as they came in. The gross imbalance between Trump and Biden votes in these after-hours counts, along with the sudden spikes obvious on many graphs, is proof, imo, of the cheat. In order to get ahead of the narrative, the 'rats said it would happen, and, lo, it did.
If the regime can't provide for trustworthy elections, it can't expect to be regarded as legitimate. Probably by design; they don't need us.

Ashley H , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:49 pm GMT • 2.3 hours ago
@The King is a Fink

Navarro's three reports do a good job of summarizing most of the possible vote fraud. He's a Harvard PhD so more than qualified to pull all the date together etc. They use many graphics and are easy and fast to read.

Ashley H , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:51 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago
@The King is a Fink

In this post-Republic new reality, no Court will take a case in which Discovery reveals any sort of election fraud. The election is over and it's now verboten to revisit it. Don't be surprised if archive.org is forced to delete thousands of articles about it. Orwellian times

utu , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:57 pm GMT • 2.1 hours ago

Incumbent Donald Trump lost Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin by such extremely narrow margins that a swing of less than 22,000 votes in those crucial states would have gotten him reelected. With a record 158 million votes cast, this amounted to a victory margin of around 0.01% . So if just one American voter in 7,000 had changed his mind, Trump might have received another four years in office. One American voter in 7,000

Margins of general vote do not matter. Biden won Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin by much higher margins than 0.01%. In Arizona Biden won by 0.3% of all votes in Arizona and in Georgia by 0.2%. These are small margins but probably comparable to margins in swing states in 2016 where Trump won.

Scut Farkus , says: January 15, 2021 at 4:05 pm GMT • 2.0 hours ago
@Garliv It's for your own good, of course. I once read an article written by someone who had a chance to hang out with the rich, powerful, famous, etc. and gain some perspective on their thinking. They really do believe that it's their role to shape the future for the proles. I know someone who's just like that.

If you like your bourgeois job and want to keep it, you will support the narrative.

All of the comments on here that analyze DJT's strengths and weaknesses miss the point. I personally think he made some very poor choices; but, to inappropriately paraphrase Carville, it's the fraud, stupid.

edward manfredonia , says: January 15, 2021 at 4:19 pm GMT • 1.8 hours ago

Ron,

Occam's Razor should be applied- instead of the nonsense of Chavez having an interest in voting software; voting machines being manipulated; truckloads of paper ballots being moved across state lines- my favorite; etc.

The mail in ballots could be sent to a nursing home or to individuals, who are very old, and these individuals could be instructed by a relative to sign their name.

I frequently explain to individuals, whose first language is not English, the papers, which they are signing. I explain their 401K and retirement plan withdrawals.

It would be very easy to have individuals in a nursing home or even an adult day care center for mentally (dementia) incapacitated adults sign ballots. There are numerous day care centers in New York City, federally funded, where individuals could be coaxed to sign ballots. Just say Trump will close the day care center -- especially where interpreters must be provided because the individuals cannot understand English due to varying stages of mental incapacity.

The day care center is a racket. I believe the reimbursement rate under Medicaid-Medicare is $120 per day. Plus, the transportation fee - approximately $40 per person each way. These centers flourish in cities, such as New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, etc. I have yet to hear anyone mention that Nancy Pelosi's father was Mayor of Baltimore, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. And Baltimore is one city that it totally devastated by drugs, prostitution, crime, etc.

Now for the important question. Did Nancy Pelosi have $12 pints of ice cream in her office?

Thank you.

Edward Manfredonia

RudyM , says: January 15, 2021 at 4:30 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago
@Ash Williams

The Navarro report is a useful summary.

But I wonder how many people have watched the twenty hours or so of state legislature hearings related to the election. Can people just not be bothered? These were historic hearings of huge importance, but I assume they didn't get much coverage in the MSM. I think most of them were livestreamed only by small right-wing networks.

anon [437] Disclaimer , says: January 15, 2021 at 4:31 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago

Servant of Gla'aki 39, Hapalong 101 anent Willke: Willke sold a million books in less than two months. He was more of a media phenom than Trump, much hotter at the time of the election. They were going to make a movie of One World. And his message was more populist, too – basically, fuck your US national interest, we want peace and freedom. He just came out and said what everybody thought, Oh boy, now that we won the war, we'll get the peace and freedom that we fought for! So he didn't need a Sheldon or a Gina to rig elections and install him.

Dulles was squirming around under rocks at that time (he cut his teeth at the League of Nations founding,) even before he and his ultras got their Gestapo in Foggy Bottom, and they arranged Hillary-style party machinations to push Willke aside.

Now of course there's a second line of defense, the CIA proprietaries that steal the election directly:

https://www.madcowprod.com/2020/11/15/short-history-election-fraud/

Diebold and its brass-plate acquirers. CIA set them up to ratfuck Kerry and Maduro and sheep-dipped them to ratfuck Trump.

The whole world knows the USA is a ridiculous fake democracy, a totalitarian CIA pariah state voting alone against peace, development and human rights. (Just look at the 2nd Committee vote on A/C.2/75/L.4/Rev.1) The USA is North Korea with an ugly leisure squad. It's the beltway that deserves our fire and fury. Just wipe it out with WMD and start again.

https://www.rt.com/usa/364288-us-election-international-standards-osce/

Trinity , says: January 15, 2021 at 4:42 pm GMT • 1.4 hours ago

What were the results of the 2016 election? Billary received 65 million to Trumps 62 million. Gotcha. So we have roughly 127 million who showed up to vote that time. (Wonder how many of those were legit.) So ONLY 4 years later, Joe "I Look Like I'm Drugged" Biden ALLEGEDLY received 80 million and Trump received 74 million. Okay, that is a turnout of 154 million votes. So if I believe in this fairy tale, I was supposed to believe that in ONLY 4 years the vote count increased by an alleged 27 million. Hell, a lot of our most populous states do not even have that many people.

Like I say, I concede that Biden might have had about 60-65 million LEGIT votes to Trump's MINIMUM of 74 million. Hmm, so that means that total vote count would be 134-139 million. Hmm, sounds more reasonable to me. Numbers are not adding up folks.

Robert Dolan , says: January 15, 2021 at 4:45 pm GMT • 1.3 hours ago

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-despite-total-media-blackout-78-trump-voters-believe-election-rigged-stolen/

A123 , says: January 15, 2021 at 4:48 pm GMT • 1.3 hours ago
@The King is a Fink

There is a considerable amount of crowd sourced reporting on electoral fraud collected here: https://hereistheevidence.com

They also have a special section for issues related to the Capitol Protest (not riot): https://hereistheevidence.com/capitol-protest-1-6-21/

PEACE

Curmudgeon , says: January 15, 2021 at 5:02 pm GMT • 1.1 hours ago
@A123

...Laws don't say a little bit of fraud is OK, because the fraud committed on or by a business didn't cause bankruptcy. Either there was fraud, or there wasn't. If there was, then the results of the election in those areas are null and void. The certification of those results expands the fraud to the state level.

That several courts refused to hear cases for lack of standing, is patently ridiculous. If a candidate has no standing, who does? In an election, everybody has standing because they are affected by the result, and by virtue of Citizens United , corporations do as well.

David Martin , says: Website January 15, 2021 at 5:22 pm GMT • 43 minutes ago

https://dcdave.heresycentral.is/2021/01/07/the-big-guy-address/

Turk 152 , says: January 15, 2021 at 5:26 pm GMT • 39 minutes ago

In an ideal world, we would be discussing how we can ensure the integrity of our elections, so that both substantively and the appearance of integrity is upheld. Instead, we are trying to get citizens jailed (right & left) for protesting the sanctity of a system in which both sides know is corrupt. There is no question in Dems mind that Bush stole the election in 2000, so why is it any different now that the shoe is on the other foot.

Our oligarch rulers know very well that they rig elections, it has been documented under LBJ, not to mention the long list of coups all over the world organized by the intelligence agencies over the past 50 years, these are historical facts. But rather than citizens being able to focus on the real problem, we are beating the crap out of our fellow citizens for something we know all know is real; and pointing to the other side as the source of the corruption. This is exactly why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor.

Anon [432] Disclaimer , says: January 15, 2021 at 5:29 pm GMT • 36 minutes ago

Mr. Unz, who is always well informed, highly organized and impeccably lucid, gives a credible and succinct analysis of the dumpster fire that is American politics, indeed of this country's leadership across the board. It creates mostly chaos and suffering every time it meddles in our affairs these days, certainly over the long run but especially in its current crash program to impose tyranny over the many so the few can take whatever they want whether they require it or not.

Watch this recent interview of Chris Hedges by Jimmy Dore about the root causes of our current woes. Hedges speaks off the cuff in words that sound as polished, powerful and precise as the language in tracts considered to be classics. His Pulitzer clearly was not found in a Cracker Jack box.

He ain't buying that Trump alone was the fount of all our sorrows or that a deceiving sycophantic grifter like Joe Biden is the fix for anything. There were many bad actors, both GOPers and Dems, both office holders and offstage string-pullers, who have contributed to the coming collapse of this country, which decapitating Trump will not prevent. Joe just happens to be the useful idiot who will be left holding the bag when the end comes, which won't be long now. Factoring in Kamala's possible ascension to the throne will change nothing. Like Joe, she's just a cluck there to take the same orders.

Schuetze , says: January 15, 2021 at 5:31 pm GMT • 34 minutes ago
@Carroll Price ...Trump also flew on the Lolita express. If after all the broken promises that Trump made to his Maga followers anyone still thinks that he is an outsider is, frankly, an idiot.

Trump is a lifetime actor and the entire election was just one big show.

One way we will know if Trump really was a threat to the swamp and an outsider will be what happens after Jan 20. If Trump ends up dead or impoverished and in prison then we will know that he was a real threat. If he flies off into the sunset, perhaps even starting a media company, then we will know that it was all one big vaudeville act.

[Jan 15, 2021] Nuland boomerang returns: the current situation is eerily similar to Provisional Government in Ukraine in 2014. Half of the country does not view it as legitimate

Jan 15, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

William Dorritt 1 hour ago

The Putsch Govt and Tech & Media Oligarchs are "Riding the Tiger"

The reason I'm laughing, is because Joe and the deep state are exposing themselves for who they are, a bunch of corrupt government officials who don't have the support of the citizens.

Joe is going to have a really hard time unless they institutionalize the election fraud and continue it, which is my biggest fear because it means we've become a corrupt banana republic, and poverty will quickly ensue.

Big government brings poverty to the public (and riches to the deep state) while freedom (i.e., small government that just protects our freedoms, rather than socialism that promises to provide for us but instead brings government forcing us to work) brings prosperity to the people.

[Jan 14, 2021] The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building

Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited) otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited)

Here's the facts. The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building.

Among the MAGA demonstrators are Antifa and BLM activists.

At least some of these Antifa were agent-provocateurs.

rwe2late 9 hours ago

Nonetheless,

PBS "news" reported that there is "no evidence"

of Antifa at the Capitol.

[Same as they reported "no evidence" of any election fraud, and "no evidence" of Biden corruption, etc. ]

Don't entirely blame the average bloke who thinks he/she is getting the facts from allegedly non-partisan PBS.

[Jan 14, 2021] Bumerang can return in 2022: Pelosi has lowered the bar of impeachment to the level when it became just a political tool. Which means that once Republicans take congress back in 2022 they can now impeach both Biden and Harris. Biden for his Ukraine dealings and Harris for inciting riots over the summer, saying they should never end

Looks like Nancy again eat way too much ice-cream...
Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

maximin thrax 4 hours ago (Edited)

They've lowered the bar considerably. Once Republicans take congress back in 2022/24 they had better immediately impeach both Biden and Harris concurrently. Biden for his Ukraine dealings and Harris for inciting riots over the summer, saying they should never end. They have no excuses. It should be in the GOP platform. Make impeachment the Democrat's problem.

get nothing and like it 4 hours ago

The precedent is set - impeachment can be for anything without any merit. Start the Biden impeachment now!

US Banana Republic 4 hours ago (Edited)

Congress has resisted the temptation to use Impeachment as a political tool of vindictiveness for almost 250 years. In one fell swoop Nitwit Nancy Pelosi cheapened it to satisfy her selfish vengeance.

I am ashamed that she is an American.

Nancy is 80 years old. Likely in 20 years she will be dead and certainly forgotten. But this damages our country and our Constitution forever.

jim942 11 hours ago

Mitch thinks he is going to purge the Republican party of Trump influence?

jim942 11 hours ago

The New York Times reported that McConnell has told associates he is privately pleased with the impeachment, calculating that it will make it easier to purge the party of Trump's influence.

tangent 23 minutes ago (Edited)

In your honor I will do three minutes of research into the claims of election fraud tomorrow. Here is what I found in three minutes today:

Wisconson:
45% of the WI mail-in ballots are invalid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1692&v=XH9ihoLi1NA&feature=youtu.be
And, a Wisconson supreme court judge ruled those votes should be tossed:
https://rfangle.com/politics/trump-wisconsin/
These absentee votes went from from about 14,000 in 2019 to about 169,000. This type of fraud alone resulted in an estimate of 76,000 illegal votes.
The problem is they will never investigate because the dictator has already been appointed.

hoytmonger 19 minutes ago

With evidence like youtube videos,

What court in their right mind wouldn't look at that case?

tangent 17 minutes ago

The source for this information is the Voter Integrity Project. Sorry you don't like being proven wrong.

tangent 7 minutes ago

I believe they showed that there were about 100,000 people who made false claims of being too handicapped to vote regularly in Wisconson. Everyone has a bias, so by your standard nobody can do the study.

BoiledFrogs 41 minutes ago

In truth, Snowden told us about the Deep State. As for the swamp, they've been teaching government by the bureaucracy in college political science for decades.

Trump showed us nothing. He simply hitched a ride on our anger and resistance, rode our coattails.

Face-off 1 hour ago remove link

This is called being railroaded...on a hyped up bogus charge. T

Xena fobe 3 hours ago

Trump was impeached by multinational monopoly corporations for the crime of representing the people of the US.

John Hansen 3 hours ago

That sums it up pretty good.

de tocqueville's ghost 3 hours ago

the person who videoed the woman being shot was a convicted BLM activist...I wonder why he was in the building right behind her?

NoBigDeal 3 hours ago

Apologies. CIA putting on an Oscar winning performance as a MAGA loving Trump supporter.

mojo_jojo 12 hours ago

Democrats are truly delusional. They keep telling the big lie to try and convince everyone that it's true.

PyrrhicVictory 1 hour ago (Edited)

Trump accomplished exactly zero.

Trump didn't even try.

Why did Trump even want to be President?

Mamachief 1 hour ago

I've asked myself the same question.

Vanity?

Judge_Smails 1 hour ago (Edited)

Do you really think Trump gives a sh*t about a West Virginia coal miner or a Michigan auto worker? No - he only cares about his Wall St buddies and Billionaires

OutaTime43 2 hours ago (Edited)

Article 5 is the final hope. Conservatives need to put forth an amendment to the constitution to add term limits to congress. Via state conventions. It's the only real solution.. Forget twitter, etc. This is the real thing that would make a difference.

Time to put an end to the career politican and all the corruption it brings along with it.

OutaTime43 1 hour ago remove link

Hyperbole much? 3 terms for the house. 2 terms for the senate. After those, you get out and let someone else run. Simple. Vastly reduces corruption.

NAV 2 hours ago

" Today We unconstitutionality Impeached an Innocent Man!" -- - Mark Levin

(Levin will be on Hannity tonight arrmed with the information that the Capitol Police and Metropolitian Police had intell the day before the rally that armed groups were planning violence, but their requests for extra security were turned down. In all probability Pelosi and Schumer knew about this and maybe McConnell. But no one told Trump who should have been warned by the FBI to remain home.)

chiquita 2 hours ago (Edited)

I've been posting all day that Pelosi refused to add any extra security/protection to the Capitol despite being asked under the circumstance that there would be big crowds. The whole incident was a planned set up and everything moved way too fast afterwards to make it anything but that. Remember Rahm Emmanuel's "don't let a good crisis go to waste"--in this case they took an opportunity, created a crisis and ran like hell with it. They haven't stopped running yet.

Lucius Septimius Pertinax 2 hours ago

Nancy is making a big mistake. By doing this impeachment she keep Trump in the news. You know the saying, there is no bad news, only being in the news. Trump is getting all the air. If you do not want him to run again, you do not give him airtime. Also conducting another impeachment. without debate, without presenting evidence, without allowing the defense to ask questions and present a defense, is called a kangaroo court, and may even in the end provide some sympathy for Trump. This is the type of impeachment one would likely see in Stalin Soviet Union. Lastly she is not doing anything to promote unity.

fxrxexexdxoxmx2 3 hours ago (Edited)

...President Trump today.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1349492790531645441

Libtard Clown World - The New Nazi Party 4 hours ago

Ever wonder why the DNC kneecapped Bernie Sanders? ...

littlewing 4 hours ago

Kamala put blacks in for profit prison owed by Diane Feinstein for smoking pot and kept them there beyond their sentences.

Lucius Quinctius 4 hours ago

Further , she laughed when asked about her own pot use.

radical-extremist 4 hours ago (Edited)

Trump was at no time a danger to the country. He was a danger to the entrenched elite establishment in Washington. He was a threat to their power and control over the country. They were afraid he was going to expose their racket and every time he hinted that he would, the hammer came down. He was not going to be a "team player" like most outsiders are threatened to agree to. "Six ways to Sunday." ...

12Doberman 5 hours ago

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat."


― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

onewayticket2 5 hours ago

is the Peace deal (historic) "unethical"?

was giving away his salary unethical?

cutting taxes unethical?

unprecedented vaccine development to save millions of lives is unethical?

AHBL 5 hours ago (Edited)

1) His peace deal? Are you talking about Israel's pacts with Middle Eastern countries...those are grotesquely unethical

2) Yes, when you compensate for it by renting out your hotel rooms to foreign dignitaries, fail to divest, allow for your son in law to do business deals in middle east

3) Absolutely. More trickle down economics increasing the wealth gap and further lowering the effective corporate tax rate, which is already at a historic low of 11% average effective

4) That's just sad, you are giving Trump credit for that one...but that's fine, i'll agree it happened during his term...despite the fact he royally screwed over Covid response

dogfish 5 hours ago

Not for lack of trying to start wars.

LA_Goldbug 6 hours ago (Edited)

Democrats are the modern version of Communists.

Pervert Clinton pardoned Senate bombers and there wasn't even a stir. Why ? Because it was a Juice Rosenberg . Now a few dimwits stormed the Capital and Trump is made to be responsible. US is finished if this goes through.

kharrast 6 hours ago

The impeachment will pass but I don't think the senate will convict. In the end, it will be a meaningless media show. What else are they going to do. No one will watch TV to see what Sleepy Joe and Kamala are up to.

NAV 11 hours ago (Edited)

Regardless of whether he is convicted in the Senate, a second impeachment would further stain a presidency that has culminated in a frightening assault on the storied center of the American democracy. -- - Bloomberg

Bloomberg! From Bloomberg, the biggest reject in the Dems primaries, toppling like all the rest of the rejects until they finally got down to the only primary rejects left, Biden and Harris.

the storied center of the American democracy?

Congress? That den of thieves and traitors? We are witnessing before our very eyes the takeover of the United States bu a massive power network of oligarchical conspirators; how they gained control over the press, radio, tv and social media; how they manipulated themselves into total control of the Congress, the courts, and now the presidency; and how they used open borders to over rule the vote of the majority of the America people by handing it over to third world socialists.

And it all began in earnest when a handful of international bankers took control of America's currency and parlayed it into the world's reserve currency - all which they own - via the Fed.

consider me gone 1 hour ago

World Tribune: Pattern recognition specialist Jovan Hutton Pulitzer has released his report on election fraud and foreign interference in the 2020 election which concludes that by "eliminating the counterfeit mail-in and absentee ballots," President Donald Trump "almost certainly wins."

Dyler Turddin 54 minutes ago

If there was so much fraud in the 2020 election, then why did the Republicans gain so many seats in the House? And again, why did they have to have a runoff January 5th in Georgia to decide the Senate? If there was massive cheating and fraud, they Democrats would not have been stupid enough to let the Republicans pick up seats. You idiots think they targeted Trump with cheating and gave all other republicans a pass.

Fart Vandelay 1 hour ago

Here is your daily update Trumptards. 7 DAYS left to ACCEPTANCE

Let's see where we are.

tangent 1 hour ago remove link

By all appearances Trump actually did win the 2020 election. By the way, how many wars do you suppose you're invalid hero Biden and her police state sidekick Kamala will start?

blumenthal 4 hours ago (Edited)

i could still remember the campaign, it was a debate with Hillary:

Hillary: "it is just awfully good, that someone with the temprament of Donald Trump ist not in charge of the law in our country"

Donald: "because you'd be in jail!"

I thought to myself, hopefully he's not a big mouth. Unfortunately, it has been confirmed during his term in office, because draining the swamp has not worked out, on the contrary, he has brought some bog bodies in the team. I am disappointed because I had hoped for more from him. His Middle East policy was also a big failure, too much Israel, the canceled treaty with Iran, war in Yemen, the cowardly murder of Soleimani .........

Lucius Septimius Pertinax 4 hours ago

This time it is. Impeachment is not removal. And this impeachment in the house, was without debate, and without trial. Even if removal happened in the Senate, (which is unlikely) it is not binding, as Trump does not hold office.

John Hansen 4 hours ago

Nancy made it trivial.

TryingSomethingNew 5 hours ago remove link

The NANNY-NANNY FRAUDSTER MORONS impeached my President again, so he couldn't run for a second term, in spite of brokering peace in the Middle East, lowering prescription drug costs, and generally kicking *** in a skillful and efficacious manner. That is PRECISELY the type of stupid, petty ********, that (dumb) posturing posers do in ineffective workplaces, institutions, and governments around the world.

hcettnauq 5 hours ago

"brokering peace in the Middle East"

nonsense. Throwing the Palestinians under a bus isn't "brokering peace." The treaties that Chabad terrorist Kushner put together serve Israel and the Saudi Arabian beheaders that Trump bowed down to.

KidTwist 5 hours ago remove link

Cocaine Mitch may be pleased in deep-sixing Trump, but the ******** just signed the Repubs death certificate.

JSBach_1 6 hours ago remove link

Recall what Nancy Pelosi stated publicly:

Nancy Pelosi:If capital crumbles to the ground, o ne thing that'll remain is "our" commitment to Israel :

https://youtu.be/53x_zrkJwDs

Judge_Smails 2 hours ago remove link

Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign was one of the greatest marketing campaigns ever - they made a New York real estate shyster look like a Man Of the People.

hoytmonger 2 hours ago

Trump dropped more bombs than Obama or Bush 43...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/donald-trump-is-dropping-bombs-at-unprecedented-levels/

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/430420-121-bombs-per-day/

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/world-peace-trump-dropped-nearly-half-the-number-of-bombs-in-one-year-as-obama-dropped-over-8-years/

And he conducted more drone strikes than Obama...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-donald-trump-drone-strikes-far-exceed-obama-s-numbers

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-killings-count/

https://worldbeyondwar.org/u-s-drone-strikes-gone-432-since-trump-took-office/

So much for the "peace" President.

Pdunne 2 hours ago

Not if you account for Hillary's proxy war in Syria.

hoytmonger 2 hours ago (Edited)

Yes, it does.

Take into account drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia.

Then the massive increase in bombing in Afghanistan.

Trump dropped 3-4x as many bombs.

SurfingUSA 3 hours ago (Edited)

I was 9 when JFK went thru his public execution. I remember feeling sick to my stomach for an age afterwards. Like history had been ripped and interrupted and it was a mistake.

Now of course I am more philosophical about Trump getting jobbed, but without irony, I am just glad that he was not similarly assassinated except in slow motion.

The globalists and Deep State pay NO ATTENTION to any president who sneaks in without their blessing, so all those who thought DJT could prevail based on his authorit-tay alone were mistaken. He would have had to compromise his populism even more than we saw, and go full-CCP, to out-Biden Biden etc. Or else get the military on his side on Day 1 and engineer our transition from a Constitutional Republic to a soft dictatorship. Coloring within the lines, as we saw, no longer works.

alleger 2 hours ago remove link

The main flaw in your premise is that you assume the oligarchs behind the curtain are too dumb to conjure up a populist hero for whom the 'bewildered herd' can suspend their disbelief.

Hence, you let a New York billionaire tycoon--who's created nothing of value all his life--do all the dystopian sh!t you accused his opponent of wanting to do; and you let him get away with it.

[Jan 14, 2021] The purple color revolution finally close to success: Trump Impeached By House For Second Time

Trump speech on Jan 06 was extremely weak "stream of consciousness". He failed to formulate one clear goal: by standing on the steps of Capitol to pus some pressure on the Congress to elect commission to investigate voter fraud. He was all over the place instead. But I would not call it "an incitement". What he in clearly guilty is "reckless endangerment" of his supporters. He let the crowd without any leadership, organization and security. He was a coward. As the result the rally was easily hijecked by extremists and infiltrated agents provocateurs. How Trump will probably the pay the price for his cowardice.
Looks like military industrial complex (Cheney daughter is a typical representative) is not that happy with Trump.
Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Update (1635ET): The House now has voted to impeach President Trump for allegedly inciting last week's riot in the Capitol by a margin of 232-197.

otschelnik 10 hours ago (Edited)

Here's the facts. The Capitol Police at least at the beginning let the protesters into the building.

Among the MAGA demonstrators are Antifa and BLM activists.

At least some of these Antifa were agent-provactuers.

littlewing 40 minutes ago remove link

I'm not mad anymore. Trump did a lot.

He finally got you to boycott the big corps.

He made you realize that MSM is poison

He made it clear there is a uniparty.

He took down the Bush Dynasty.

He didn't start wars.

He showed you that you needed to make wise decisions.

He tore the veil.

I'm happy ...:)

Fart Vandelay 39 minutes ago

He printed $7 TRILLION and jacked stocks and crypto

I'm happy ...:)

DisturbedSilence 36 minutes ago

Yes he should have learned all about wise decisions...his appointments were awful..,

chiquita 47 minutes ago

Someone else posted this below, but I'll post it again. Excellent analysis of what happened around Ashli Babbitt shooting--should have been must watching by all Congressional members before they opened their big fat mouths today:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/video-analysis-of-ashli-babbit-video-suggests-coordinated-actions-interview-with-masako_3652783.html

meanrevers 59 minutes ago

I was just thinking about the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people around the world who died because of Bush/Cheney and comparing that number to all the people around the world who died because of Trump/Pence. Anyone have the stats?

owlpellets PRO 57 minutes ago

And Obama Biden

ReadyForHillary 54 minutes ago

Barry/Joetard are the all-time warmongers.

We had 15 years of continuous war before President Trump came along.

The Persistent Vegetable 53 minutes ago

Oh did the wars end? How come no one told us?

replaceme 49 minutes ago

Trump's military and career civil servants lied and pretended to draw down forces. We're not at the controls any more. And you're ****e.

Kina 2 hours ago (Edited)

So now do we see the number of Deep State owned members of Congress.

Rid'n Dirty 1 hour ago

War criminal Cheney's daughter is a multi-millionaire whose fortune was built on the bones of well over a million dead Afghani goat herds and Iraqis. Afghanis were hired by the CIA in the '70's to fight the Russians and the Iraqis were hired to fight the Iranians. When Cheney needed more cash he started a war so that Halliburton could sell a gallon of gas to the Army for $100. a gallon.

Lizzy Borden Cheney is covered in the blood and guts of innocent women and children but she hates violence? I'm sure that she'll fiind a WMD somewhere among the Trumpers or kill them all trying.

AuEagleNest 55 minutes ago

All true. **** Cheney, Rumsfeld, John Yoo and Bush should've all been tried as war criminals.

Libtard Clown World - The New Nazi Party 3 hours ago

The same party who stalled for 10 months on a 2nd round of stimulus checks for the people slammed home a bogus impeachment in a week's time.

Joe Potato 1 hour ago

What does it matter? Nobody is going to do anything about it. The justice system is corrupt. The military is corrupt. The bureaucracy is corrupt. The Senate is corrupt. The house is corrupt.

There is no system of government left in the US to stop the corruption

outsider9 3 hours ago

where in the speech from Trump did he say they should storm the capitol by all means available and get inside and do violence? Once again, the dems are just playing with hypotheticals and thinking they know what Trump was thinking. These are people who really serve no good, but themselves and their true constituents: china, corporations and whoever can pay top dollar like soros.

Mad Machine 3 hours ago

Does the mob boss tell his henchmen to kill so and so? No, he tells them to "take care of it". He's still responsible for them acting on his behalf. It's no different with Trump. He told them to march on the Capital, and they did. It was all on his behalf.

12Doberman 3 hours ago

He said march down to the capitol to support those that are objecting to the electoral certification in certain states.

Xi the Pooh 10 hours ago (Edited)

The damn capitol police opened the gate and let them in!!

AND ITS TIME FOR TRUMP TO GO ON THE OFFENSE!! NO MORE BEING A BIG *****!!.. PARDON ASSANGE AND SNOWDEN IMMEDIATELY AND START DECLASSIFYING DOCUMENTS!!

sgt_doom 2 hours ago

Worse than that . . .

https://youtu.be/5nvqvvsqJ_s

https://mb.ntd.com/analysis-of-ashli-babbit-video-suggests-coordinated-actions-interview-with-masako_551860.html

Kina 1 hour ago (Edited)

One last comment.

Do you think any election of any kind in any place within the USA will have a result not predetermined by the intent of Deep State.

America you will have no more elections, that are elections.

This theft as obvious and blatant as it was, makes it clear now that there is no way of stopping any electoral corruption Deep State wants.

Deep State are now doing what Hillary Clinton was meant to do behind the scenes.

America has become 'The Truman Show', you are now all Truman Burbank.

except their are no exit doors.

Oldwood 1 hour ago

Our elections have officially evolved to pageantry now, results predetermined and blessed...if they are to be considered valid anyway. This is what Hillary taught us...the failure of a progressive to achieve victory is the definition of election theft, whereas a conservative failure is the certification of election integrity.

chiquita 1 hour ago

Wow! Marjorie Taylor Greene--newbie House member (10 days) just announced on Greg Kelly that she plans to introduce impeachment articles against Joe Biden on January 21st. She's serious and has all her ducks lined up about it. Whoo hoo! The fun begins.

ProblemReactionSolution 1 hour ago

just as much of a waste of time as the Dems first impeachment of Trump, which they knew was doomed from day 1 because the Repubs controlled the Senate

Dems control the House, so impeachment of Biden will not make it out of committee.

You'll have to work on 2022 if you want to change that

kharrast 1 hour ago

Yes it is a waste but it further demonstrates how it is a partisan political process and not a legal or criminal process. In the future, all presidents will be impeached throughout their terms in office.

chiquita 49 minutes ago

Thank Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, and all the other Democrats in this Congress for the new precedent. However, if this action against Biden is presented, there is far more criminal evidence against him than anything they tried to conjure up about Trump, who did nothing wrong that warranted impeachment not only once, not a second time either. I believe there is an indictment in the Ukraine against Biden for his involvement with corruption and other crimes, including taking money from political officials there, which is also illegal here--this is all outside of the stuff on Hunter's laptop about the money from China. These things will be a little difficult to ignore or refute, especially if Ukrainian legal people are brought in to testify about the indictment there. Could be even though presented by Republicans, the Dems let it go through just to save any Amendment 25 to get rid of Joe, which would eventually happen if he doesn't die on cue when they need him to.

Mr Perspective 3 hours ago

Ponder this - someone posted this comment on another website

"Here is what is VERY, VERY STRANGE, to the point of revealing: After clearing the Capitol of its "unexpected guests," security apparently failed to thoroughly and carefully sweep all occupied areas for destructive devices, biological and chemical agents and hidden unauthorized personnel BEFORE allowing the members to occupy their work spaces again. A proper search would have taken days to plan and execute. It would have involved many highly educated and trained specialists that would take days to arrive, set up, work and report. The work of many teams would have to be reviewed, at least once, before clearing the facility for operation.

YET THE MEMBERS RETURNED WITHIN HOURS OF THE MASSIVE SECURITY BREACH.

Clearly, clearly, something is not right here.
And it continues not being right."

chiquita 3 hours ago

Again--I'll point out that Pelosi was responsible to approve the amount of security that the Capitol police put in place to protect the building. When the head of Security consulted her ahead of January 6th with concerns about the March for Trump because of the large numbers of people expected, Pelosi refused additional security measures, which could have included more staffing, additional/better barriers around the building, and possibly requesting National Guard presence. What happened was a DNC planned operation and Nancy was in on it.

OutWithLibs 3 hours ago

Projection....Accuse someone else of doing something while you are doing it yourself

OutaTime43 1 hour ago

Liz Cheney voting to impeach. While her father lied us into a war which killed well over a million. Let's not even discuss 911 (read "Crossing the Rubicon"). Her father and the doltish ex president he controlled should have been poster children for impeachment.

(in case your forgot... this guy)

https://youtu.be/O35NA6TywAg

MongoStraight 1 hour ago

This is NOT about Trump.

Absolutely correct. He was not one of the club and he had the audacity to not only run for the presidency but to win. He and his supporters MUST BE DESTROYED!

heehaw2 2 hours ago

Big Tech has proven they now run and own the United States. They have censored half of Americans voice and information. They have locked down the RNC email so we can't contribute (not that I would until they clean out RINOs).

Biden never won, and is not liked. He is a Global Tech Puppet.

NIRP-BTFD 2 hours ago

Big Tech all funded by the CIA. The CIA and their oligarchic owners in the 0.01% run you

Robert De Zero 3 hours ago remove link

Maxine Waters:

"Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere..."

This was not incitement?

President Trump:

" I know your pain. I know you're hurt, We had an election that was stolen from us, but you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We don't want anybody hurt."

This is incitement?

adamsmith10 3 hours ago

Three skyscrapers. Two planes. No real investigation. Any questions?

Giles Vilhelm Klintoon Jr 3 hours ago

A governing body with a 13% job approval rating, votes by majority to impeach a President with a 48% job approval rating. Cool.

Lucius Septimius Pertinax 24 minutes ago

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/john-mclaughlin-gop-vote-battleground/2021/01/13/id/1005483/

McLaughlin Poll: GOP Majority to Reject Those Voting for Impeachment

"Overall, survey results showed impeaching Trump in the final days of his presidency was widely unpopular, according to McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates."

"

Among the findings:

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Bad news for you ten Rino's that voted to impeach. Bye bye Liz Cheny, just go away.

Leguran@premium PREMIUM 1 hour ago remove link

Trump January 6, 2021 speech remains available outside the USA. You can find it at URL

https://youtu.be/RTK1lm1jk60?t=53

The situation is that the Media Oligarchs, politicians, and our black-robed judiciary have closed the door on freedom of speech in America. It is gone. Now, as with the Chinese, we have to find the video which is the basis for Impeachment of a duly our elected President from a foreign source.

nsurf9 9 hours ago (Edited)

Written Transcript of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

Video of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

"We're going walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women."

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

I don't see where Trump encourages anyone to go INTO the Capitol. Nonetheless , the Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and on Inauguration Day. Capitol Visiting Hours - Open to the Public..

rwe2late 9 hours ago

Sounds like a micro-aggression against the Capitol "safe space".

nsurf9 9 hours ago (Edited)

More like, letting your enemy into your House to talk things over, only to then call the police on him to be arrested - because you reported him as a trespasser who's broken into your house.

rwe2late 8 hours ago

Obviously,

having a public demonstration against their policies made some Congresspersons (even if only one) feel uncomfortable

and created a "hostile work environment" for them.

Robert De Zero 50 minutes ago

No state-wide recounts.

No cases heard in the Supreme Court.

No meaningful debate in Congress.

Mike Dense fell on his sword, "I can't."

Now Trump is impeached again on Trumped -up charges.

The flag is flying at half mast in Biden's dark winter. Now I know what he meant.

el_buffer 1 hour ago

The Senate won't follow through with it. Even then they won't get the votes.

What these morons in the Democrat Party are failing to understand is that you can't keep pissing off working-class people anymore. If the violent fringe elements on both sides figure this out and unite, they'll make the recent riot look like a picnic. Heck, I live in Portland and Antifa is now going after the Mayor with no fear.

PS I loved watching Ted Wheeler cower before the criminals he empowered all last year.

Tikaro 57 minutes ago

If you like seeing them cower, you'll love this one af a lady ripping Chuck Schumer.

https://youtu.be/UYGzkcpH1s4

JR Wirth 4 hours ago

I was never a Trump fan. But he does have one good legacy. Showing the right wingers that this isn't a free country, that is hasn't been in decades and how powerless they are against the establishment. And that's a good legacy. Because no one should live in a fantasy.

adamsmith10 3 hours ago

The right wingers you speak of are classical liberals

RoboFascist 1st 4 hours ago

Who is more desperate for needing 20,000 troops to protect them from being killed by the American people... Biden or Pelosi?

xious 3 hours ago

Harris is a real man, he's not scared.

tangent 28 minutes ago

I think you are just going for downvotes and don't believe you own words.

Evidence of Election fraud:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-court-secretary-of-state-changed-deadline

Oh and a pandemic is now when the population goes up:

2020 7,794,798,739 +1.05 %
2019 7,713,468,100 +1.08 %
2018 7,631,091,040 +1.10 %
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/

[Jan 14, 2021] How to define domestic terrorists

Jan 14, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

ThePub'Lick_Har

Domestic terrorists - one can reasonably argue, are those who align with foreign enemy saboteurs of any given country to undermine and destroy say, a Presidential Election by widescale and seditious vote rigging to the extent a new and illegal regime will be erroneously installed to run the country for four years. That those who object against this state of felonious affairs - all 75,000,000 voters for one candidate and millions of others whose votes were given to the alternate choice, are now maligned and regarded as unpatriotic is a travesty of monumental proportions.

[Jan 14, 2021] Video message from President Donald J. Trump

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[Jan 14, 2021] The policing lesson for today was not that cops should have been more brutal with the Trumpers, it was that they should have been much more restrained during the BLM protests but chose not to be.

Jan 14, 2021 | twitter.com

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If you're shrugging off or celebrating cops killing a Trump supporter, you're taking the wrong lesson about police brutality Quote Tweet Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz · Jan 7 Just so we're clear, the policing lesson for today was not that cops should have been more brutal with the Trumpers, it was that they should have been much more restrained during the BLM protests but chose not to be. Don't let them troll you into cheering for police brutality.
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[Jan 14, 2021] Nancy Pelosi unhealthy preoccupation with Trump impeachment

Jan 14, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Diana L Croissant , 13 January 2021 at 11:38 AM

Thank you for this very interesting analysis. I actually have noticed a sort of hurt little girl in her when she speaks.

That said, I don't really feel sorry for her but for us, the citizens of our country, who have to put up with her damaged psyche, which causes her to use liquor, ice cream and chocolate to assuage the pain.

I am and have always been forever grateful for my own father. He was not a wealthy man, but he was the best father a young girl could ever have. I've put all that Oedipus Complex analysis aside and have lived knowing how much he loved my mother and his children. That made up for all the wealth that other men, fathers of many of my friends, which caused them to demand enormously high expectations of their children. In most cases I out-performed those girls in school and in my working life. I was able to do that simply because I knew my parents felt I could do well since they raised me with values other than the greed for money and power.

Now, please provide an analysis of Diane Feinstein. My bet is that her father was the Devil himself.

fakebot , 13 January 2021 at 12:22 PM

Her brother was accused of raping two very young teenage girls, but was later acquitted.

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roberto , 13 January 2021 at 12:49 PM

ADDITIONALLY, ALL THAT BOTOX MIGHT HAVE FURTHER ADDLED HER ALREADY PATHOLOGICALLY WEAK BRAIN.

akaPatience , 13 January 2021 at 01:32 PM

What an insufferable crone. Her power seems to have derived from and is sustained by being a major conduit between ambitious pols and the tremendously wealthy oligarchs of her CA district.

Leith , 13 January 2021 at 01:44 PM

Her Mom's birthname was Annunciata. Her son Tommy said that she was the true politician in the family. During the depression, hungry people or those seeking work came to her seeking help, not her husband. And the line would extend halfway around the block. During her husband's elections it was her that organized volunteer ladies to write letters, make fliers, and address envelopes. Every evening in the run-up to the election she would host ravioli and lasagna parties. Not just for volunteers and neighborhood ladies from Little Italy but also for the wives and daughters of other Baltimore ethnic groups. She was described as being a stereotype of old world motherliness but was no doormat. She she was a very fiery woman with a lot of moxie. Her political insight and common sense judgement was the reason she was her husband's main political adviser. I seriously doubt that her husband could have made her dump Velvex cosmetics unless she too realized it was in trouble. Ditto for any real estate. She was a child immigrant born in a mountain town of south central Italy, only 15 or 20 miles from Monte Cassino. .

Tommaso her husband was no raging bull. If he had been he would have banned her being on the boards of the Red Cross Home Nursing Association and the YWCA, plus her involvement with Sodality and other church organizations. But with five sons growing up in his home he perhaps had to birch them into shape every now and then when they were teenagers. The people of mountainous Abruzzo, the Abruzzese, where his parents immigrated from are known throughout Italy as being strong and kind . BTW it was he that dedicated the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monuments in B'more.

sbin , 13 January 2021 at 02:31 PM

Absolutely reprehensible person.
People such as Pelosi and McConnell are why congress is held in such low esteem by Americans.
Graft corruption and in fighting seem to be all that branch of government is capable of now.

Eric Newhill , 13 January 2021 at 02:46 PM

Interesting. Seems like sound analysis and does, indeed, explain a lot of Pelosi's behavior.

SWMBO has been telling me for a few years that the crazy trouble making female liberals all have "daddy issues"; all of them. In fact, she is convinced that daddy issues leads one to be liberal in general. Same kind of Electra complex you note in Pelosi and, in men, a sense that they cannot measure up and achieve what is expected of them, which, in turn, leads them to criticize and reject the existing structure. It's way for the defeated to pretend that they are not defeated, but more enlightened.

Artemesia , 13 January 2021 at 03:52 PM

Perhaps it's in the nature of political operatives with an unsavory agenda: they choose damaged people as front men (women) to carry out their plans.

Woodrow Wilson comes to mind. Whether or not the tale of the blackmail letters from a former lover are true, Wilson had other vulnerabilities. Joyce Carol Oates's The Accursed slices and dices Wilson savagely.

Haim Saban invested in Hillary Clinton at a time when she had been about as publicly humiliated as a woman can be. He poulticed with cash & power those wounds in her psyche.

It's not unlikely that Nancy Pelosi's psychological vulnerabilities, coupled with her early exposure to the exercise of political power and relationships with influential Jewish leaders, were assets, in the eyes of those who use her for their purposes.

Jeffrey Epstein couldn't compromise everybody.

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My four grandparents and my mother were born in Barrea, about 60 mi. NW of Pelosi's origins. I never knew my grandparents, but I recognize the style of paternal control. In my Mother's case -- she graduated from 6th grade at age 16 and was offered a scholarship to the high school the French nuns ran. Her father said No, she had to go to work to help support the family, not so much a case of "Italian American men were like that in that era," as "an Italian American laborer had to do what he must to keep his family fed" -- which is what brought him to the USA in the first place. My Mother completed her GED at age 65.

My own father was born in USA of Italian immigrant parents who were probably illiterate (in English). I came upon my Father's grade school report cards: his mother signed the first few with an X; the next few with her printed name, and finally, her signature in script.

My Father benefited enormously from the Americanizing impact of WASPish public schools, then US Navy in WWII until he was wounded and medically discharged. He was intelligent, possessed self-discipline and a sense of order, but his peasant background made him less socially polished than was acceptable to my own spouse and in-laws whose American roots were deep; their family members observed the fighting from their farm on the edge of the Antietam.

American leaders intent on opening borders to one and all would do well to spend some think-tank time considering how immigrants are supposed to learn how to be American, and how matings between long-term Americans and the newly arrived are going to navigate a marriage and child-rearing.

james , 13 January 2021 at 03:52 PM

thanks pat... it widens the picture... projection is a powerful force in her life it seems.. i think you are right in your analysis.. she is living in the past, like a lot of people today...

[Jan 14, 2021] Louie Gohmert DUNKS on Pelosi - Quotes Her Support for Black Lives Matter Riots on House Floor-- Liberals Freak Out!

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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) flipped the script on Democrats on the House floor today.

After a summer of Democrat-sanctioned rioting and $2 billion in damages, Democrats and their fake news media are trying desperately to push to the American public that Republicans and Trump supporters are the violent ones.

This is as outrageous as it is dishonest.

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[Jan 14, 2021] Another sign of false flag: Pentagon Chief Waited Hours to Send Capitol Aid- Why

FBI alone could have prevented this. They have all the information. But it looks like they wanted it to happen. "Repeated requests for Guard assistance were denied and delayed, even though hundreds of National Guard were on standby outside D.C." -- that can be interpreted in two ways -- one is that false flag operation has the support of Pentagon, and another that Pentagon was waiting for Trump supporters which were aptly called Rabble Without a Cause (who have no organization, no plans, and no weapons) to overrun and, possibly, vandalize, the Capitol; to achieve what? The latter is much less plausible than the first. Looks like somebody at the top wanted protestors in to compromise Trump and remove him from the political scene, once and for all. That does not excuse Trump own incompetence, but still...
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Repeated requests for Guard assistance were denied and delayed, even though hundreds of National Guard were on standby outside D.C.

As protesters stormed the Capitol Wednesday, then-chief of U.S. Capitol Police Steven Sund says he requested National Guard assistance six times both ahead of, and during, the attack on the Capitol, and that each of his requests were denied or delayed. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser placed frantic calls to the Governors of Maryland and Virginia asking for the National Guard to send help.

On Tuesday, Bowser had sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen, and acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, explicitly stating that she did not want federal law enforcement personnel to provide additional support on Wednesday, and that Capitol Police were prepared to deal with the expected activity.

During an emergency meeting called by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) with the Maryland police and National Guard, House Minority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called Hogan from "an undisclosed bunker" and told him Capitol Police were "overwhelmed" by the mob storming the Capitol, The Week reports .

There were 500 Maryland National Guard members on standby outside of D.C., ready and waiting to assist. Yet Hogan had to tell Hoyer that he still didn't have authorization to send the National Guard, despite the urgent pleadings of the House's No. 2 Democrat.

It wasn't until 90 minutes later that Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy called Hogan to ask, "Can you come as soon as possible?"

Hogan responded, "Yeah, we've been waiting. We're ready."

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As protesters stormed the Capitol Wednesday, then-chief of U.S. Capitol Police Steven Sund says he requested National Guard assistance six times both ahead of, and during, the attack on the Capitol, and that each of his requests were denied or delayed. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser placed frantic calls to the Governors of Maryland and Virginia asking for the National Guard to send help.

On Tuesday, Bowser had sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen, and acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, explicitly stating that she did not want federal law enforcement personnel to provide additional support on Wednesday, and that Capitol Police were prepared to deal with the expected activity.

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During an emergency meeting called by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) with the Maryland police and National Guard, House Minority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called Hogan from "an undisclosed bunker" and told him Capitol Police were "overwhelmed" by the mob storming the Capitol, The Week reports .

There were 500 Maryland National Guard members on standby outside of D.C., ready and waiting to assist. Yet Hogan had to tell Hoyer that he still didn't have authorization to send the National Guard, despite the urgent pleadings of the House's No. 2 Democrat.

It wasn't until 90 minutes later that Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy called Hogan to ask, "Can you come as soon as possible?"

Hogan responded, "Yeah, we've been waiting. We're ready."

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"I can't tell you what was going on on the other end, on the decision-making process," Hogan said . "There's been lots of speculation in the media about that, but I'm not privy to what was going on inside the White House or inside the Pentagon."

The Army says that they received the first call for help from Bowser shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, followed by several additional calls for assistance.

Darnell Velius • 17 hours ago

Several groups, eg., Antifa, QAnon, etc had been boasting in the days and weeks before that they were planning to go to the Capitol on January 6th and sow chaos. It was all over the 8chan analog chat room boards. It is impossible to believe that our intel agencies and FBI where unaware. More likely they helped stoke the unrest by using contracted agent provocateurs to goad the fringe groups into attacking the Capitol and cajole naïve Trump supporting bystanders into joining them. I also think the CIA, FBI, and DOD conspired to withhold intel and security support at the Capitol precisely so rioting could ensue with little resistance and have the dual effect of tainting the MAGA movement while shutting down the election fraud debate. That the CIA, FBI, and DOD would, let alone could, set such a trap for the President goes to show how corrupt the deep state has become and how diminished in stature the Presidency has become.

kenofken Darnell Velius • 17 hours ago

Yes it was all leftists. Probably all paid by Soros no less.

Nurse, more Haldol over here...

1701 Darnell Velius • 17 hours ago
That the CIA, FBI, and DOD would, let alone could, set such a trap for the President goes to show how corrupt the deep state has become and how diminished in stature the Presidency has become.
engineerscotty Darnell Velius • 7 hours ago

That, Sir, is a brilliant parody. Well done!

(Were it serious, then you're barking mad. Poe's Law comes into play...)

Bob Thompson • 17 hours ago • edited

Maybe the Deep Staters in the military learned the wrong lessons from Hillary and Barack's response to Benghazi.

Terry Ward • 10 hours ago • edited

1. During the January 6 attack by Trump supporters while Congress
was in session, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser requested additional backup from
the D.C. National Guard, but received no response from the Pentagon.

2.
Mayor Bowser then contacted the governors of both Maryland and
Virginia, frantically requesting that they activate their national
guards.

3. The governors were "repeatedly denied approval to do so.

4. Only until over an hour after the attack began did Secretary of the
Army Ryan McCarthy activate the D.C. National Guard, leaving Mike Pence, members of Congress, and Congressional staffers in
grave danger for over an hour.

Secretary Ryan McCarthy is a Trump appointee

Egyptsteve • 6 hours ago • edited

Wait, hold up, Bowser is mayor of DC but she and the DC police have no jurisdiction over the Capitol. She may or may not have dithered over whether the DC metro police needed National Guard support for areas around the Capitol, but what does that have to do with the Capitol riot itself?

[Jan 14, 2021] The events on Jan. 6th was a carefully orchestrated trap set in place by democrats and republicans, at least at leadership positions, to get rid of Trump and his brand once and for all. Of course, Trump and his MAGA clowns were too stupid to see this and this kind of stupidity should have consequences.

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Alpi , Jan 14 2021 18:25 utc | 3

The anti-Trump campaign, from Russiagate to Ukrainegate to this 'insurrection' nonsense, has likely done more damage to the U.S. than Trump managed to do during his four years in office. The hostility the Democrats have show will create a huge backlash. Do they really believe that can suppress 74 million Trump voters?

As M.K. Bhadrakumar diagnoses :

For the outside world Trump Impeachment 2.0 can only appear as a kangaroo trial.
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This ongoing project to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a little over a year is farcical. ...

What happened in Washington, DC, on January 6 was by no means an insurrection. Of course, US citizens were behind the Capitol Building siege. But the parallel ends there. There was no way they could have usurped power in America last Wednesday. In fact, even the vandalism was entirely due to the ineptness of the security personnel deployed there.
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What is the guarantee that another Trump will not arise from outside the cabals that preside over politics in America and reaches out to the people directly? The fact of the matter is that Trump's support base still remains the envy of any American politician. Seventy million Americans voted for him last November. That massive support base will feel further disenfranchised or disempowered by what the cabals are perpetrating on the Capitol Hill.

The real paradox is that the "mob" who besieged the Capitol building was largely drawn from the American middle classes -- the petite bourgeoisie or the 'transitional class,' as Karl Marx described them ...
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Make no mistake, this class is here to stay in America and if the post-pandemic economic recovery does not go brilliantly well or is mismanaged, its ranks will swell further. That is going to be Biden's real challenge even if Pelosi were to dispatch Trump into political wilderness.

The backlash from this Trump impeachment will be huge. It may come in rare events of real domestic terrorism. But it is more likely to swell up through smaller acts of civil disobedience. There is a lot that the petite bourgeoisie can sabotage. The CIA has published volumes of advice, meant for people in other countries, on how to do that.

Feisal al-Istrabadi فيصل الاسترابادي @FIstrabadi - 00:03 UTC · 14 Jan 2021

Joy Reid just spoke on MSNBC of the necessity for "de-Baathifying" the Republican Party to rid it of Trumpian influences.

An excellent precedent. It has worked just great in Iraq.

The Democrats aren't stupid. They know that they are provoking more strife. They will use that to roll out authoritarian measure that will serve the powerful.

The events on Jan. 6th was a carefully orchestrated trap set in place by democrats and republicans, at least at leadership positions, to get rid of Trump and his brand once and for all. Of course, Trump and his MAGA clowns were too stupid to see this and this kind of stupidity should have consequences.

And now that he is deserting his follower on a daily basis, he will be forgotten soon. But I'm afraid the discontent is here to stay and soon we will see an uprising. Then, remains the terrifying future prospects of this new government. Either way, living in US will be hell for the next two years.

US political scene is so poisoned, and trust is at such a non-existent level that only a quasi revolution will be able to put an end to politics as we know it. Revolution not in a traditional sense perhaps, but a political/social awakening. This will need abandoning this Democrat/Republican circus show and start being Americans. Otherwise, we will allow ourselves to be pons in this sick charade for years to come.

Sadly, smart money will be on complacency and status quo after the uprising has been extinguished.

It is a suppression strategy that has, at times, worked in other countries.

But it does not lead to long term stability.

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It is a suppression strategy that has, at times, worked in other countries.

But it does not lead to long term stability.

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[Jan 14, 2021] I'm reading an interesting article that has cost a senior fellow of the Cato institute to lose his job. The title is Reichstag Fire '21. Some Illarionov, a former Putin economic adviser working with the Cato for over 15 years.

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Paco , Jan 14 2021 22:46 utc | 43

I'm reading an interesting article that has cost a senior fellow of the Cato institute to lose his job. The title is Reichstag Fire '21. Some Illarionov, a former Putin economic adviser working with the Cato for over 15 years.

It won't be pleasurable to machine read it, but give it a try, might be interesting as part of the big "migration" taking place, digital and analog.

https://aillarionov.livejournal.com/1215661.html

[Jan 14, 2021] Claims of insurrection as a sign of hysteria by neoliberals who are losing thier grip of the society

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Jan 14 2021 21:41 utc | 35

dadooronron @29

No, there was no attempt at insurrection by the protesters at the Capitol building. You imaging that there was an insurrection attempt is just a symptom of hysteria, like your imaging the Russians were taking over for the last four years. It is an indication that your rational mind has failed and that you are overcome with fight-or-flight fear-based emotional reactions, with that fear being implanted in your head by the corporate mass media in order to remote-control your behavior.

You should probably turn off your TV.

[Jan 14, 2021] A central rule of a color revolution is to avoid an "orderly transition". The new regime must have a revolutionary mandate instead of a democratic one. Only then can it operate outside the constitution and outside the law.

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Petri Krohn , Jan 13 2021 23:08 utc | 51

How to Un-Trump Four Years of Trump?

A central rule of a color revolution is to avoid an "orderly transition". The new regime must have a revolutionary mandate instead of a democratic one. Only then can it operate outside the constitution and outside the law.

The plan here is to declare not only Trump illegitimate but his whole administration illegitimate. The new regime can then undo all of Trump's executive decisions. There is no need to "stuff" the Supreme Court with extra judges. Simply declare Trump's appointments null and void.

[Jan 14, 2021] The refusal of neoliberal Dems to recognize Trump as President has merely set the tone for viewing Biden now as an illegitimate President who stole elections

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Ramon Zarate , Jan 14 2021 18:54 utc | 8

Anyone who thought voting in Biden was going to end the circus is sadly mistaken. The refusal of a large section of the population to recognize Trump as President has merely set the tone for a large portion of the population to think of Biden as illegitimate. If Biden uses domestic terrorism legislation to try to control the opposition it won't end well. Bring on the lions and Christians and any other unpopular section of the country.

norecovery , Jan 14 2021 19:05 utc | 9

A half century of downward mobility -- crippling of the real economy in which productivity was rewarded -- and neglect causing deterioration of infrastructure (including meeting basic human needs like health care), have brought the U.S. to a state of collapse.

Almost everyone seems to sense this and we feel powerless to rectify the situation through accepted channels, thus some people believe they have a 'patriotic' duty to use other means. The combination of disenfranchised minorities and disgruntled middle class becomes dangerous (to the established order) as soon as both groups realize they can't win by blaming and fighting each other.

We haven't reached that stage yet, judging from the comments I've read in the mainstream media, however it's just a matter of time until they do. The divide-and-rule political game keeps people attached to ideology of left vs right until it becomes clear that we all lose by adhering to this mode of thinking.

The war racket and a whole range of other exploitative financial policies are driven by the top echelon of elites, who also control the narratives through media propaganda.

Their game is failing and they're resorting to draconian control measures to prop it up, but this can't continue much longer.

As I see it, the collapse of the Western financial system could happen suddenly or gradually, or it could bring the ultimate destruction of human civilization. In any case, I believe our degradation of the natural world will be the real catalyst leading either to human extinction; or else if we're lucky and smart enough, will induce us to massively downsize our population and industrial activity in order to let the ecosystem heal itself.

karlof1 , Jan 14 2021 19:14 utc | 10
Giraldi's current essay hits on numerous points already brought forth by b and barflies, and IMO is a very well balanced look at the outcome and possible road that lies ahead.

The citation he opens with IMO gets to the heart of the matter of what's been building since the 2000 election and its Judicial Coup:

"In a recent article Catholic University professor Claes G. Ryn wrote [Link at original]

"Few people are really open to persuasion in any case -- not just on political subjects but on any subject about which they care and on which they have adopted certain views. Diehard partisans for a certain outlook will refuse to have their beliefs questioned, and so will many others. They will be no less dismissive of a document challenging their opinions if it is full of footnotes and appendixes. Such a document will, indeed, make them resist it even more. As for the relatively few people who are truly open-minded, they will not find another person's observations dispositive. They will, as they should, want to consider the evidence on a contested matter for themselves."

We experience the above daily here at MoA. IMO, economic reality will alter the equation once the eviction and foreclosure restrictions end unless some very enlightened legislation is proposed and enacted.

Tom , Jan 14 2021 20:06 utc | 18

Rep Jason Crow (Dem Colo) "I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues. ... A couple of them broke down in tears ... saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment."

The only thing they (RINO's, the non Trumpers) are afraid of loosing is their seat on the gravy train express. They are afraid of loosing their seat at the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments with Israel being by far the biggest one that controls that chamber. There, fixed it for you Mr. Crow. Rep Crow could well end up eating crow when this is all over.

Kooshy , Jan 14 2021 20:13 utc | 19

IMO a large number of his supporters like Pat Lang don't care much for him or his policies specially his Israel first policies, majority are America first conservative nationalist they will look for someone else to lead and reorganize, that's when this divide will become dangerous and scary. IMO that is the only reason they really didn't damage the building or even hide themselves behind mask they are not afraid of being identified.
That is even more scary for those who hope there wouldn't be a civil uprising challenge the establishment .

AntiSpin , Jan 14 2021 20:14 utc | 20

"The hostility the Democrats have show will create a huge backlash. Do they really believe that can suppress 74 million Trump voters?"

They don't have to suppress 74 million Trump voters. They don't have to suppress any of the Trump voters. They just have to hold on to the 81 million Democratic voters, and will probably be joined by a relative handful of Republicans who, out of disgust and anger at Trump, will cross over and join the Democrats.

Of course, if the mass of everyday, relatively uninvolved Democratic voters finds out the truth about the true past and about the true intents and purposes of the Biden-Harris wrecking crew, it's possible that some small percentage of them will stop voting and/or switch to minor parties, but it's unlikely that such a small desertion will swing any election to the Republicans, especially if the Biden administration is smart enough and loose-fisted enough to toss a few financial crumbs to the mass of unfortunates who are staring homelessness and starvation in the face.

One result of the eight-year Obama administration was a small group of Democrats who did exactly that -- they walked away while the vast majority of registered Democrats ignored Obama's long list of crimes and misdemeanors and pretended not to see or to know of his lies and betrayals of the working class. So the principled deserters are already gone, and those left in the party are hard-core, thick-headed party-above-principle-in-all-things grifters and groupies who will stick to the party through all manner of thick and thin circumstances. They're not going to participate in any "backlash."

gottlieb , Jan 14 2021 20:17 utc | 21

The Democrats have proven themselves complete idiots for years and years and years. The Republicans are batshit crazy. The last election from the Democratic POV was to remove what they perceive as an existential threat to 'democracy' which is another word for 'deep state.' It is no wonder the rush to judgment to confirm what they already believe about DJT. Critical thinking and common sense are not attributes the elite political class possess. They are all vainglorious grifters.

The USA is FUBAR and none of the king's horses and none of the king's men etc. etc. etc.

Mike from Jersey , Jan 14 2021 21:20 utc | 28
"The Democrats aren't stupid."

I am not sure about that.

Russiagate, Ukrainegate and now Insurrectiongate convinced a lot of Americans - and not just Trump supporters - that the system is broken.

If they keep up with this lunacy, people will conclude that the system is - not just broken but - irrevocably broken.

At that point, even police state suppression won't help them.

fyi , Jan 14 2021 21:24 utc | 30

Mr. Kooshy

The Trump supporters do not care that he is a murderer and a scoundrel as well as yet another US President that started yet another war against a Muslim country.

They think that US can survive a centuries-long war against Islam.

That is a major flaw in their estimation of US power and fragility of what they have in the United States.

1.2 billion Muslims, 1.2 billion Chinese, and a 130 million Russians believing that the United States is their enemy.

No amount of domestic political change in the United States can address this.

In 1976, a 17-year old American boy could travel alone in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. without any fear; he would be welcome because of the correct foreign policy of the United States.

Americans have lost that and are discussing the deck arrangements on Titanic.

Norwegian , Jan 14 2021 21:30 utc | 32

@fyi | Jan 14 2021 21:24 utc | 30

In 1976, a 17-year old American boy could travel alone in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. without any fear; he would be welcome because of the correct foreign policy of the United States.

In Laos, Vietnam or Cambodia the "correct foreign policy of the United States" was in full display. The US was always a murderous monster. The only difference is that it has turned on itself.
Kooshy , Jan 14 2021 21:41 utc | 36

"The Trump supporters do not care that he is a murderer and a scoundrel as well as yet another US President that started yet another war against a Muslim country."

As you know this is not unique to trump supporters for as long as I have experienced this a fundamental group think in America. Americans from early school days are thought the you are "special" and "indispensable "
And "exceptional" they are thought never to accept or believe defeat never agree or accept "mistake" never agree or accept "lack of knowledge " this not just Trump is the entire nation' by now this group think is injected in sole of the nation on hourly bases. This people are just beginning to doubt or question their government' sincerity and its design while middle easterners never trust the government. It will eventually become more difficult for US governments to govern under the mistrust that is building up. New honest deal will be needed.

[Jan 14, 2021] Pepe Escobar: 9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail

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BM , Jan 14 2021 13:37 utc | 114

Pepe Escobar: 9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail

So where will 75 million disenfranchised voters – or 88 million Twitter followers – go?
As it stands, we're deep into Hardcore Class War. The Top of the Scam Gang are in full control. The remains of "Democracy" have gelled into Mediacracy. Ahead, there's nothing but ruthless purge, protracted crackdown, censorship, blanket surveillance, smashing of civil liberties, a single narrative, overarching cancel (in)culture. It gets worse: next week, this paranoid apparatus merges with the awesome machinery of the United States Government (USG).

This is the ultimate foretaste of the century.

If you think change has been fast the last two months, y'aint seen nothin' yet! Take-off starts from 20th January. That is a point of no return. The engineers of this mission cannot afford to go back.

2022/2024 electins??? Just dreaming. Not a chance (if at all, 100% controlled digital elections with predetermined digital results).

Down South , Jan 14 2021 9:43 utc | 111

Alastair Crooke

The Blue state has ousted Trump; and Blue has taken everything across 'the board', and are ready to implement the 'Re-set' – the ultimate subjugation of Red by main force, achieved by the preponderance of wealth, ruling institutional leverage, and military power. A social 'woke' revolution, as well as a political transformation. The full outcome would likely reconstitute the constitutional order, in ways unrecognizable to most Americans today.

That is what it is all about. The purge that will take place is all bout laying the groundwork for the implementation of the Great Reset as spelt out by the WEF. The same people who sponsored Event 201 that foreshadowed COVID-19. Yeah, purely co-incidental!!!

Trump's election delayed the project and they had to rig the election in the swing states to ensure the project was delayed no more.

The second impeachment is not to remove him from office but to bar him from ever holding office again. Sabotage 2024 before it even gets off the ground.

The only question is, what will be the outcome when you go to war with half the electorate and persecute their leader ?

[Jan 14, 2021] V for Vendetta: Pelosi's lost her mind and republicans return fire

It is difficult to image more vulnerable to impeachment proceedings figure then Joe Biden... He has very colorful past in this regard.
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karlof1 , Jan 14 2021 17:27 utc | 120

Returning fire , newly elected Georgia Congresswoman to file Articles of Impeachment against Joe Biden on the 21st. What sort of traction the action might gain is unknown at present; but as I've written, there's plenty in Biden's past that ought to have disqualified him for any political position and made him unelectable.

Bemildred , Jan 14 2021 14:33 utc | 115

The only question is, what will be the outcome when you go to war with half the electorate and persecute their leader ?

Posted by: Down South | Jan 14 2021 9:43 utc | 111

That's a good question. I think Pelosi's lost her mind. Clearly reflection on past misadventures is not on the table. Maybe instead of the renewal of faith and common purpose what we get is the last exciting plunge into the drain.

Here's an interesting take on it:

The 2nd US Civil War has already been fought and won, turning the Republic into 'Our Democracy'

I don't think it's over like he says by any means, but he illuminates Pelosi and the Dems state of mind better than anything else I have seen.

Down South , Jan 14 2021 15:59 utc | 118

Bemildred @ 115

Yes, it is just starting. They're delusional if they think it's done and dusted as that author does.

"Pollster Frank Luntz released results Monday from a poll of Americans who support President Donald Trump after the lethal rioting at the U.S. Capitol.
Luntz said that he polled 800 Trump voters and found that a great majority of them would vote for the president again if given the opportunity.
"Despite their criticism of his conduct since November 3rd and last week, 𝟵𝟭% of Trump voters say they'd still vote for him if another presidential election were held today," Luntz said on his official social media account."
"Luntz said that of the Trump voters he polled, 73% said the election system was rigged, "even after being reminded that Trump and his allies lost more than 60 cases in court challenging election results."
And 61% of the Trump voters polled said they would "never" trust election results again."

Why the Dems have to ban Trump from federal office ...

[Jan 14, 2021] A great 20-minute YouTube video about the blatant and ongoing US/Western hypocrisy regarding what happened at the Capitol and what the US inflicts on others.

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Canadian Cents , Jan 14 2021 18:58 utc | 31

Happened across a great 20-minute YouTube video about the blatant and ongoing US/Western hypocrisy regarding what happened at the Capitol and what the US inflicts on others.

"A Reflection on American Foreign Policy Arrogance & Hypocrisy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv3H9PNw4eQ

Those events that the US mediacracy has made so much of were relatively brief and mild when put into context, but as in Shock Doctrine, the shock is played up and the crisis is readily and extensively made use of by the establishment.

It's from YouTuber Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian expat in China who has lived in Hong Kong, so it relates to what happened in Hong Kong, but the same exercise could probably be done with other US-sponsored insurrections like Maidan in Kiev, Ukraine, the attempt in Belarus, and the countless other protests/insurrections inflicted by the US.

[Jan 14, 2021] Do the Dems really want to spend their important "first hundred days" impeaching someone who is no longer there?

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Kabobyak , Jan 14 2021 18:10 utc | 27

The theatre of what's happening in Congress is amusing, even if it seems to be a play by grade-schoolers instead by Broadway. The Dems seem sure their strategy will cripple the Repubs, and there's a good chance that could happen. But McConnell controls the Senate until Jan. 20, and can start the impeachment trial at any time he chooses (he has hinted that it would be on Jan. 19th). Do the Dems really want to spend their important "first hundred days" impeaching someone who is no longer there? If it didn't totally shut down decisions on other issues (cabinet hearings, stimulus checks, healthcare, etc.) it would delay them greatly. Even though Schumer would then be in control, Senate rules would require rules of order that could make the trial go on for weeks. I would think the public backlash could be harsh.

Of course there are many Repubs who I assume would like to see the whole thing disappear quickly, as a prolonged trial will allow the Dems to milk the "domestic terrorists" angle even more, pointing the finger at those lawmakers who were complicit (real or perceived) in stoking the uprising. This could play into McConnell's decisions as well.

From my POV, above the "two party illusion", the impeachment could be the best thing to throw a monkey wrench into whatever upcoming fuckery is in store (as Caitlin J. wrote, "Biden will have the most diverse, intersectional cabinet of mass murderers ever assembled"). Unlike Trump's dysfunctional presidency, this team will have the deep ties with neo-liberal (and neocon) heavy hitters in the MIC, big tech, Wall Street, etc., and may be ready to hit the ground running. Victoria Nuland's appointment was the icing on the cookies to highlight our awful state of affairs.

[Jan 14, 2021] Were demistrors who entered Capitl builing "domestic terrorists"

The term terrorist imply that a person is ready to commit violent acts against common people or officials for political purposes in the name of the particular ideology (communism, islamism or any other ism). The term terrorist also presuppose existence of some terrorists organization that shared this ideology and goals. Demonstrators did not have any organization, and had no agenda other the their (legitimate) frustration with the election fraud. It was essentially a mob, possibly incited and driven in by agent provocateurs. While being stupid to be lured into the trap, they actually did not have any "terrorist" intention. They did not set the building on fire, for example.
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For now, this definition from 18 U.S. Code § 2331 is worth studying:

(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that -- (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended -- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

ForeverGone , says: January 14, 2021 at 1:10 pm GMT • 1.5 hours ago

One of the first acts at the Capitol on January 6 was "demonstrators" breaking windows. There's also documented evidence that Capitol police attempted to turn back some of the people that entered the building, both verbally and by launching teargas at them. Documented evidence also shows items were stolen from the Capitol building, and that property in it was damaged.

■ Breaking windows in federal property is a crime.
■ Refusing to obey instructions given by a police officer is a crime.
■ Stealing federal property is also a crime, as is vandalising government property.

The group of people that entered the Capitol committed crimes. They committed these crimes whilst entering, and in, the Capitol with the intention of influencing or swaying Republican acceptance or objection of Electoral College votes. Therefore the people that entered the Capitol on January 6 can legally (but perhaps not morally) be known as "domestic terrorists".

Publius 2 , says: January 14, 2021 at 1:11 pm GMT • 1.5 hours ago

"By coincidence, the very day of the takeover -- and without referring to it -- the New York Times told us that "a debate has broken out over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy."

I'm sorry, but one more comment on this. The sheer magnitude of the (pretend?) stupidity here is impossible to quantify or describe with words. So stupid!!!!!

The entire point is that the government does not get to decide what is truth!!!!!! This is Orwell's 1984 and the left–half the country–truly understands nothing!!!!

Realist , says: January 14, 2021 at 1:18 pm GMT • 1.4 hours ago

The central overwhelming issue in Western Civilization is not racial warfare but class warfare. Class warfare is being waged against the ninety-eight percent of Western Civilization, by avaricious, power-hungry people who are actually less than one percent of the population. The main quest of these elitists is power control. Elitists do not covet wealth so they can have nice things wealth is a tool to acquire power and control.

While it is true that the different races tend to occupy different social classes the only interest the elites have with racial issues is using them to strike discordance between the races to facilitate their control. The enemy of the ninety-eight percent is the elitists and their minions.

Miro23 , says: January 14, 2021 at 1:54 pm GMT • 48 minutes ago
@Thomasina the politicians not ignored the Constitution and rigged the election, Trump would have won and there wouldn't have been a rally.

Also if Trump has stuck to his campaign pledges 2016, worked every day for his people (MAGA not MIGA) and selected his team from his very loyal supporters (rather than the Swamp), he would probably have easily won the election – and had big support whatever happened.

Instead, he turned into the champion of Israel. He's from New York, his family is Jewish, his friends are Jewish, he always chose Israel over the USA – and now his best friends have kicked him out and he's on his own. Good riddance.

geokat62 , says: January 14, 2021 at 1:58 pm GMT • 44 minutes ago

Are We All 'Domestic Terrorists'?

No, of course not. But, but under the definition you listed above, the ADL/SPLC and other major Jewish Supremacist Organizations (JSOs) certainly are and should, therefore, be designated as domestic terrorist organizations and disbanded immediately.

[Jan 14, 2021] Trumpism without Trump

Highly recommended!
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The Trump administration denounced or threatened trade agreements and "jaw-boned" particular manufacturers without tangible or lasting results for young workers. It continued drone warfare and bombing runs, exacerbating refugee problems. Its ham-handed actions relating to visa and green card holders with vested rights partially wasted its "trump card" on immigration. Its deregulatory and tax proposals had little appeal to its three new constituencies, and in its kindness to fund managers, it forgot Bernard De Jouvenel's maxim that "the wealth of merchants is resented more than the pomp of rulers."

There are still available, either to a Republican Party cleansed of Trump or to the Biden administration, my 11 proposals of a populist nature, none very expensive. Since the Trump administration was a milder version of what Hermann Rauschning in the 1930s called "A Revolution of Nihilism," any effort to enlarge its constituency of malcontents was forsworn. Accordingly, these ideas are re-tendered:

1. Completely relieving workers under the age of 25 of payroll taxation, as in Germany and Holland. Over the long term, this would render them the most employed, rather than the most unemployed, age cohort. Because they make up at most 10 percent of the labor force, and typically enjoy barely half of average earnings, relieving them of 12.4 percent payroll taxes would require an increase in general payroll tax rates of, at most, 5 to 10 percent of one percent.

2. A revived Civilian Conservation Corps, a cause promoted only by Senator Bernie Sanders, with its focus on low-tech infrastructure projects and services, including such neglected fields of activity as soil conservation, reforestation, disaster relief, reclamation of abandoned mine sites, creation of new national parks in Appalachia, hydrology, desert agriculture, creation of footpaths and youth hostels, and training as practical nurses and nursing assistants.

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3. Making the services of the United States Employment Service, a largely moribund adjunct of the unemployment system, available to all workers under the age of 25.

4. Tax credits, like those in Germany, Finland, and Japan, to encourage the installation of second kitchens in owner-occupied housing, thereby fostering the creation of low-cost housing in the form of accessory apartments, duplex houses, and mother-in-law flats. This is a far more economical method of generating new low-cost small units than subsidized housing, and restrictions to owner-occupied homes would eliminate the fears and controversies accompanying public housing proposals.

5. Limited incentives, in the form of handbooks and nominal tax credits, to foster the creation of cooperative old-age clubs on the Japanese pattern to assist the elderly in remaining in their own homes, removing pressures on Medicaid.

6. Promotion of model state and local legislation and tax incentives for the creation of land readjustment and land assembly districts on the postwar Japanese, Korean, and German pattern, to foster private redevelopment of blighted urban and inner-suburban areas.

7. Support for a revived TEAM Act providing for the organization of single-plant works councils, with the authority to negotiate local pay and productivity deals, work rules, and employee grievances. Legislation to this effect sponsored by the Dunlap Commission appointed by Labor Secretary Robert Reich and including several former Democratic secretaries of labor was vetoed by President Clinton at the behest of the United Auto Workers. Since private-sector union membership has declined by 60 percent since Clinton's veto, even Democratic congressmen might now support it, to the great benefit of the low-income work force in non-union chain establishments.

8. An orderly de-criminalization of marijuana on the Canadian pattern, accompanied by an educational campaign stressing its de-motivating characteristics and enlisting schools and colleges in its discouragement through selective drug testing, as in the military and adult work force. This will eliminate nearly a million arrests a year and defund much of the underworld that is the youth employer of first resort in depressed areas.

9. An effort to revive depressed downtown areas in small towns and cities with incentives for the creation of Business Improvement Districts, together with enhanced enforcement of antitrust, predatory pricing, and bribery laws against offending large retailers.

10. Relief for credit unions and community banks from the more oppressive Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank regulations without holding them hostage to secure unjustified deregulation for larger banks.

11. Grant of work permits to undocumented workers without criminal records and with long records of American employment upon payment by them, their families, employers, or philanthropies of large ($5,000) application fees, the proceeds to be dedicated to a fund for law enforcement, housing, and nurse practitioner programs addressing migration in its Central American and other source countries. As with women's suffrage prior to 1920, the question of enfranchisement should be left to the States, pursuant to Article I, Sections 2 and 4 of the Constitution.

It may be objected that measures to relieve the young are of limited political appeal, since they do not vote in large numbers. They do not, but their mothers do. And many of the other measures will provide citizens with a greater sense of control over their own lives.

While much of this agenda may not appeal to gradgrind Republicans who appreciate the price of everything and the value of nothing, nor to those whose idea of an infrastructure program is aid to a contracting class and its representatives on K Street, some might be led to follow a vagrant thought of former speaker Paul Ryan. It will be recalled that he uttered the only memorable words of the 2012 Republican Convention when he declared that "college graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at faded Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life."

George W. Liebmann, a Baltimore lawyer, is the author of various books on public policy and history, including Solving Problems Without Large Government: Devolution, Fairness, and Equality (Praeger, 1999), reprinted as Neighborhood Futures (Transaction Books, 2003).

Joe Black • 4 hours ago

I would modify Item#1 and Item#3 to not just encourage employment for those under 25 but I would:
1) exclude all (legal, illegal or visa workers from programs to encourage their employment.
2) such programs should also include the difficult to employ like the disabled
3) such programs should also include the difficult to employ over 50 job seeker.

I especially support Item 4 (small studio apartments or granny flats)

I oppose Item#7 It is much to dangerous for such worker councils to be usurped by our leftist Marxist woke culture, political activist, social justice, cancel culture, diversity, inclusivity, cross sectional race theorists, etc. which will translate into a hostile anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-marriage, anti-family, anti-chrildren, anti-American corporate enforced ideology. If you thought the left's false accusations of rape on campus and the lefts false accusations of race hatred on campus, it you thought false accusations of Jesse Smollett in Chicago were an example of ruining an individuals life on hearsay then wake until these work councils get taken over by leftist activists and watch what they do to innocent working class employees who just want to do their job but don't follow the leftist narrative.

I oppose Item#11. We lost 250,000 jobs due to COVID (the chinese bat flu stew). Our unemployment rate is 6.7%. At the same time we are losing jobs our legal immigration rate is steady at 1 million per year. No, I do not support illegal immigration, legal immigration, refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, temporary work or education visas. No western nation can continue to relieve the problems of over population by mass immigration. It is not fair to the citizens of the US or any other western/westernized country.

JonF311 • 5 hours ago • edited

I don't disagree with very much here though as a practical matter I will point out a mistaken assumption that seems to underlie #5:

Re: Limited incentives, in the form of handbooks and nominal tax credits, to foster the creation of cooperative old-age clubs on the Japanese pattern to assist the elderly in remaining in their own homes, removing pressures on Medicaid.

I assume that is about nursing homes, but those are almost always a last resort when the patient is so seriously disabled that they cannot possibly live independently and their medical needs surpass the abilities of family members to care for them.

Also, I don't think that youth unemployment is the big bugaboo with deindustrialization. Young people are a good deal more flexible, and have fewer financial commitments, than older people after all. Rather the disemployment of middle aged (and older) blue collar workers is the larger problem. These people expected to be in the same job (or type of job) for life and they had the rug pulled out from under them and found themselves with few prospects. Some of them ended up in low paying service jobs, some lived off a still-employed spouse, some went on SSDI, and some few even ended up homeless.

Kent • 8 hours ago

I can support every one of those measures. I would add:

12. And export credit system for balancing trade and the current account deficit.


Baruch Dreamstalker • 9 hours ago

Most of these barely sound conservative. One-company workers' councils violate NLRB rules, for reasons probably having to do with Clinton's veto; these days they would vastly increase the number of workers in organized setting.

The marijuana suggestion contains bits of the old War on Drugs: forced drug testing of workers, and propaganda that focuses on marijuana rather than the dangers of any kind of excess substance use/addiction. *Free employers to pursue a drug-free work place rather than a drug-free work force. *Any govt-sponsored statements on drugs should be based on facts and even-handed research, not the whoring that scientists have done for the last 50 years, and should include the tonic effects of both a mild buzz and deep psychedelic experience.

Buddhajerk • 8 hours ago

As a moderate Democrat, most of these ideas appeal to me. As someone who has paid attention for decades, I see no chance in hell of any of these things happening [during Biden administration], especially if proposed by a Democrat. As an optimist, I wish moderate Republicans could join moderate Democrats in making such things a possibility. As a realist, I don't think America is capable of solving any problems right now, especially tough ones. As an American, it saddens me.

populistovice • 3 hours ago

Most of the ideas are excellent. I would add much greater funding for vocational education at the secondary and post-secondary level. Our public schools are far too focused on preparing students for college with insufficient training for those ill suited for or uninterested in seeking a university education.

The lack of affordable housing is a major obstacle for twenty somethings to get out of their childhood home and begin the process of family formation. We need tax incentives to build limited equity cooperative apartment buildings, resident-owned mobile/modular home parks and small bungalow-style houses.

I like the proposal for worker councils but employee ownership is an even better idea. Workers owning a share in their business should be strongly encouraged by public policy at all levels.

[Jan 14, 2021] I accuse virtually the entire US establishment over the events leading to President Donald Trump's impeachment -- RT Op-ed

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It wasn't a single speech by Trump just before events unfolded that led to the violence of January 6 during which five people died. Many of the same people now pointing fingers at Trump bear responsibility for the tragedy themselves. So, in the spirit of Zola

I accuse the Washington establishment of reducing the concept of democracy itself to little more than a convenient pretext for foreign invasion of countries that don't align with America's interests. You've perverted the concept for the average foreigner of target countries that have seen little more than enduring chaos and destruction borne of ' democracy '. So why should the average American trust in the notion when you cry about 'democracy' itself being attacked by a mob?

I accuse the Democratic Party of spending the past four years since Trump was legitimately elected trying to disenfranchise the near-63 million Americans who cast their ballot in his favor by portraying them as useful idiots of a foreign power (namely Russia), rather than people who simply wanted someone in charge who wasn't going to kowtow to the insidious corruption in Washington.

I accuse the Republican Party of placing its own personal interests over those of the citizens by enabling – or even cheerleading – Trump's behavior when it risked becoming a liability for his presidency, for the party, and for the hopes of millions of average Americans who voted for him.

I accuse Big Tech – specifically, social media giants – of rank hypocrisy. The more extreme and buzzworthy the comments on your platforms by Trump and his most fervent supporters, the more money it has made you. And now you have the gall to admonish and blacklist Trump and his supporters while pretending that it's all such a shock. You played just as much a role in all of this as they did. Own it. And to clarify, are you in favor of free speech, or strictly speech that squares with the prevailing political winds and social pressures at any given time?

ALSO ON RT.COM The silencing of President Trump by Big Tech is moral cowardice, and all about the opportunistic pursuit of power and profit

I accuse right-leaning ideological talking heads of self-serving pandering to your audience of consumers – by screaming about unproven 'election fraud', for example – rather than providing rational analysis and credible information that might have helped to make your case to a wider audience beyond the handful of radical extremists who didn't exactly need convincing in the first place.

I accuse left-leaning pundits of hysteria rather than constructive opposition, and reducing any pushback against your agenda or positions to some form of bigotry.

I accuse the mainstream media of obvious and inherent bias against President Trump from the very outset of his presidency, which has ultimately served to radicalize his base and further erode the average American's faith in the important work of the free press.

I accuse the sanitary fascists who emerged over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic and who acted like anyone prioritizing their own solvency and ability to feed their families over various, ever-changing restrictions of questionable effectiveness was some kind of terrorist. Many members of the mob that showed up on Capitol Hill felt that they had little left to lose. And it's in part because of you.

I accuse Wall Street, and the politicians whom it has purchased through lobbying efforts, of failing to see how globalization would ultimately disenfranchise the average American worker by exporting jobs and driving down wages. You, too, contributed to the frustration seen in that mob that congregated in Washington from the four corners of America.

Finally, I accuse President Donald Trump of failing to grow into his presidency, of allowing his own ego to get in the way of his promises, of seemingly prioritizing the interests of friends and associates, and of failing to convert his considerable rhetorical power into lasting achievements and a legacy in which his voters and supporters could take pride.

Every one of these people hold responsibility for catalyzing the events of January 6. Unless those who remain standing when the dust settles on this fiasco change their ways, America is in for a long, rough ride.

[Jan 14, 2021] Echo of Ukranian Maidan: expanstion of the definition of a Domestic Terrorist to the opponents of the regime, by Jared Taylor

This is about the consolidation of power after questionable election; Capitol ransacking is just a pretext for represssions. If it did not occur they would find another one.
Notable quotes:
"... (5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that -- (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended -- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. ..."
"... Why all the talk about "domestic terrorism"? I suspect it's because people can't stand the idea that the Trump mob could be guilty of nothing more than trespassing. Time reports sadly that there are no laws against domestic terrorism, but lists the charges it wants brought: seditious conspiracy, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence, homicide, assault, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, restricted-area violations, vandalism, and trespassing. ..."
"... The authorities promise to hunt the rioters -- many of whom just walked through an open door -- to the ends of the earth as if they were Osama bin Laden. The contrast with the handling of BLM and antifa rioters is stark. ..."
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Joe Biden has the people who took over the Capitol on Jan. 6 figured out. In just two days, he had them pegged for "a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, white supremacists, and anti-Semites, and it's not enough." Not enough? He also said they were "domestic terrorists."

Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham , Gov. Gretchen Whitmer , "Squad" leader Cori Bush and plenty of others agreed that they were domestic terrorists. Even the mayor of Orlando says so, and DC mayor Muriel Bowser called the occupation " textbook terrorism " so that clinches it.

Curiously, there is a federal definition of domestic terrorism, but it isn't a crime. There is now tremendous pressure to change that, and depending on what kind of law takes shape, there could be huge implications for dissidents.

For now, this definition from 18 U.S. Code § 2331 is worth studying:

(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that -- (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended -- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

Does this apply to the Capitol takeover? Domestic terrorism must be an illegal act "dangerous to human life" and meant to influence policy. The Trump supporters wanted to influence policy alright, but what does "dangerous to human life" mean? The Michigan Penal Code says it is "that which causes a substantial likelihood of death or serious injury."

That wouldn't include trespassing, breaking and entering, or even scuffling with the police. Anyone who may have killed Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick would meet the definition of a "domestic terrorist," but the circumstances of his death are still not clear. It may be there wasn't a single "textbook" domestic terrorist at the Capitol that day. Lefties are gloating over the death of Ashli Babbitt, but the only thing she did that was "dangerous to human life" was stop a bullet.

Why all the talk about "domestic terrorism"? I suspect it's because people can't stand the idea that the Trump mob could be guilty of nothing more than trespassing. Time reports sadly that there are no laws against domestic terrorism, but lists the charges it wants brought: seditious conspiracy, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence, homicide, assault, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, restricted-area violations, vandalism, and trespassing.

Sure enough, the Justice Department has set up a task force to file sedition and conspiracy charges . The investigation is said to be "one of the most expansive criminal investigations in the history of the Justice Department." The authorities promise to hunt the rioters -- many of whom just walked through an open door -- to the ends of the earth as if they were Osama bin Laden. The contrast with the handling of BLM and antifa rioters is stark.

Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, has another idea . "Given the heinous domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol," he wants everyone involved put on the No-Fly List. Rep. Jason Crow, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, wants the US Army Secretary to track down and court martial every soldier who entered the Capitol. A court martial requires a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, usually for a serious felony. Police departments in Virginia , Washington , and Pennsylvania are scouring their rosters , looking for officers who went to the rally, whether they entered the Capitol or not. Will they be fired?

Wikipedia describes John McCain's daughter Meghan as a "columnist, author, and television personality." She wants the rioters sent to Guantanamo : "They should be treated the same way we treat Al-Qaeda" -- yet another American frustrated by the lack of a law against domestic terrorism.

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... [neoliberal] Lefties were of course pleased that "white supremacists" can now officially be "terrorists." This is very important for any potential new law because the occupation of the Capitol has unleashed a wave of vitriol against "white supremacy," even though there is no evidence the Trump supporters had the slightest racial motivation. NBC News ran this headline : "'Vintage white rage': Why the riots were about the perceived loss of white power." Politico tells us "there's a term for what happened at the Capitol this week: 'whitelash'." The Atlantic explained that "the Capitol riot was an attack on multiracial democracy." The Guardian 's headline was "Insurrection Day: When White Supremacist Terror Came to the US Capitol."

Black Congressman Hank Johnson told Al Sharpton that the black Capitol policeman who killed Ashli Babbitt had singlehandedly put down a lynch mob: If he hadn't shot her, "I have no doubt that some of us who look like me would've been hanging from the railings of the 3rd floor, onto the House floor, swinging like . . . strange fruit." Nancy Pelosi said that the people who entered the Capitol "have chosen their whiteness over democracy," whatever that means.

This perfectly matches the views of Richard Durbin, ranking member on the Senate Subcommittees for Defense and for the Constitution. In 2019, he introduced the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act , which called white supremacy "the most significant domestic terrorism threat facing the United States." The act was only about 3,000 words but used "white supremacist" 12 times, "neo-Nazi" six times, "far-right" eight times, and "hate crime" 10 times. It was silent on any other kind of domestic terrorism. Sen. Durbin says he will reintroduce the bill right away in light of the Capitol takeover.

There is no telling what laws could pass in this fevered environment, but it's important to note what Mr. Durbin's 2019 bill did and did not do. It did not make domestic terrorism a crime or authorize the designation of "domestic terrorism organizations," which would mean jailing Americans as if they were Al-Qaeda members and seizing assets without notice. What it did do was set up special offices in the FBI, Justice Department, and Homeland Security "to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and . . . take steps to prevent domestic terrorism." It's anyone's guess what those "steps" were supposed to be.

The bill also required the three agencies to "review each hate crime incident reported during the preceding year to determine whether the incident also constitutes a domestic terrorism-related incident," though it didn't say to what end.

Sen. Durbin loves to quote FBI Director Christopher A. Wray's testimony before Congress in 2019: "A majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacy . . . ."

However, the bill used the definition of "domestic terrorism" from 18 U.S. Code § 2331 cited above, which is ideologically neutral. That means Black Lives Matter and antifa commit vastly more "domestic terrorism" than all the "white supremacists," "neo-Nazis," and "far-right extremists" combined. Anyone who shouts "Defund the police," "Justice for Breonna Taylor," "Black lives matter," or even "I can't breathe" is trying to "influence the policy of a government." If, in that context, someone commits an illegal act "dangerous to human life," he is a domestic terrorist. Since the death of George Floyd , there have been countless dangerous-to-human-life acts of arson and aggravated assault; even attempts to stop ambulances from bringing wounded officers to emergency rooms. If "white supremacists" were organizing freeway shutdowns, they would surely count as "dangerous to human life."

Majority of One , says: January 14, 2021 at 5:31 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

The levels of hypocritical hysteria dominating the corporate airwaves and most electronic media, together with an even more amplified level among the pro$titicians in the Di$trict of Corruption means they are scared.

They suddenly feel vulnerable. Are they as vulnerable as the people of Yemen who are being bombed daily and starvation blockaded by the $audi crime clan with the full. assistance of those D.C. Pro$titician$? Are they as vulnerable as those half million!!! deliberately starved Iraqi children whom Madelein Albrietstein declared to be "worth it" in forwarding the I$raeli agenda?

Could it just simply be that they are themselves guilty of crimes against humanity and in violation of their oaths to protect the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC? The little gal under the streetlight with high heels, short skirt and low-hanging purse in the midnight hour at least provides a desired service. Can the same be said for the Pro$titicians on the Hill overlooking Urination'$ Capitol?

As for the media whores and pre$$titute$, being myself a recovering journalist; there is good reason to believe that I have correctly identified them.

The Real World , says: January 14, 2021 at 5:33 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

I don't see how it can't be recognized that Trump set-up his own supporters by luring them to DC.

Going to Wash DC to protest wasn't going to change the vote outcome in Congress and any fool could anticipate Antifa types would show up (apparently Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell and DC Mayor were advised they were planning to come and riot. So Trump had to have known too.)

Now, neither POTUS or Congress members will publicly identify the organized Antifa thug element. So, Trump supporters, and by extension Repubs, are being widely labeled as "domestic terrorists'. While Trump releases another video today lecturing about violence which implicates HIS supporters by no mention of the other elements there.

Despicable! He threw them under a bus.

Lee , says: January 14, 2021 at 5:44 am GMT • 9.0 hours ago

From the article:

Congressman Hank Johnson told Al Sharpton that the black Capitol policeman who killed Ashli Babbitt had singlehandedly put down a lynch mob: If he hadn't shot her, "I have no doubt that some of us who look like me would've been hanging from the railings of the 3rd floor, onto the House floor, swinging like . . . strange fruit.

This statement is quite stupid but Johnson has said worse in the past:

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on March 25, 2010[40] concerning the U.S. military installation on the island of Guam, Johnson said to Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize", to which Admiral Willard replied, "We don't anticipate that."

Wikipedia

Just another serf , says: January 14, 2021 at 5:51 am GMT • 8.9 hours ago

If there are any grounds for optimism

There are no ""grounds for optimism". These people have the upper hand and they want their political/racial opponents absolutely crushed...

niceland , says: January 14, 2021 at 6:18 am GMT • 8.4 hours ago

The most interesting article I read in past years is Ron Unz;
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-our-great-purge-of-the-1940s/

I feel this is happening again, before our very eyes.

stevennonemaker88 , says: January 14, 2021 at 6:22 am GMT • 8.3 hours ago

The great thing about language in the 21st century is it means whatever you want it to mean, sort of like Alice in wonderland. A terrorist is whatever they deem to be a terrorist; anyone who does not go along with their agenda. "building back better" means repression and censorship. "the new normal" means global corporate government and the great reset agenda. "global pandemic" means a plandemic that kills one in a million healthy young people. etc. Facts and information do not matter to these people; it is 1984. This struggle will be decided by force, as logical arguments are useless to those who deny the basic axioms of reality and existence (almost all libtards and most rinos). I think in a way it is a good thing that things are getting worse for the average middle american. Things will need to get much worse before they get better as more than half the people are still totally asleep. Of the minority that are awake, most of us have too much to lose right now . But we need to organize and prepare to take action soon or we will be bled to death by a thousand cuts as they have been doing for a while now. What kind of a world will our children inherit if we stay silent and apathetic?

Wally , says: January 14, 2021 at 6:59 am GMT • 7.7 hours ago
@Colin Wright ten Clarke, who believes that blacks are superior in all ways because they have more melanin.

Seriously, she said it.


https://www.bitchute.com/embed/plWXcxOJQqfe/

recommended:
Tucker Carlson brings up Holocaust Denial, the IHR, and Tony Martin, trying to discredit a Biden nominee : https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13746

more on this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=carlson+kristen+clarke&t=h_&ia=web

Abdul Alhazred , says: January 14, 2021 at 7:40 am GMT • 7.0 hours ago
@The Real World

'Set up like a bowling pin' and from the traitor who pardoned Jonathan Pollard!

idealogus , says: Website January 14, 2021 at 7:47 am GMT • 6.9 hours ago

O MY GOD!
All the discussions around Trump reminded me of Hitler after Stalingrad.
After the defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans waited 2 years for Hitler to use the secret weapon and win the war. The German army suffered defeat after defeat, the Russian communists were searching for Hitler's body through Bunkers and the Germans still waited for the super-secret weapon to save them.

Two months after the election, Trump's team suffered defeat after defeat. Trump is waiting for jail, but his supporters are convinced that Trump still has a secret weapon with which will win the election.When you wake up to reality. Trump is a false Messiah and he he doesn't have a super-secret-weapon.
You have to fight your self for justice and truth and not wait for someoneelse to fight for you while you button porn, tiktok or chat smalltalk on Facebook.
I can't forget what Mother Teresa said 30 years ago: "Don't wait for a leader because he won't come. Be your own leaders."

Ray Caruso , says: January 14, 2021 at 7:53 am GMT • 6.8 hours ago

Are We All 'Domestic Terrorists'?

You all are for sure. I just changed my party registration and I'm now a proud Democrat. I don't want to be denied jobs, loans, transportation, and possibly freedom and life itself for the sake of a country that has collectively decided to destroy itself.

[Jan 14, 2021] After the illegitimate elections, the task is to consolidate power and suppress all those who reject what happened. This is what happened in Ukraine after the Maidan 2014

Highly recommended!
And that's what false flag with Capitol ransacking accomplished. It fives Clinton/Obama/Biden clique card blank for suppressing the dissent
This false flag operation like shooting protesters by snipers during Ukrainian Maydan is a logical end of American Maidan and pursued the same goals -- deposing the current president, hijacking political power and consolidating it via repressions.
Notable quotes:
"... That is why we are witnessing the fussy, aggressive actions of the Democrats - a ridiculous re-impeachment of the president, who will leave the White House in a week, the most severe censorship and suppression of dissent. There is no need for the real winners of fair elections to behave like that, as they are aware of their legitimacy and are confident in themselves (relying on the real, not imaginary, support of the majority of the population). ..."
Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
alaff , Jan 13 2021 20:31 utc | 7

From the "Biden Exploits His Capitol Gains" article:


Joe Biden's own language certainly sounded less like a magnanimous winner uniting his people than like that used by autocrats and dictators to hold onto power, argues Diana Johnstone.

Diana Johnstone's opinion is quite reasonable. In fact, a "creeping"/"bureaucratic" coup d'etat took place in the United States. And it wasn't Trump at all, but Biden & Co. The fact that "Joe Biden's own language sounded like that used by autocrats and dictators to hold onto power" is further confirmation of this.

If you are in the majority and you win the election honestly, then there is no need to act the way the Democrats did. The current aggressive rhetoric of Biden (and other Democrats) is evidence that the elections were stolen/falsified. Biden knows this very well, and therefore his language is as cruel, irreconcilable and repressive as possible. After the illegitimate elections, the task is to consolidate own's power and suppress all those who reject what happened. In fact, this is what happened in Ukraine after the Maidan 2014.

That is why we are witnessing the fussy, aggressive actions of the Democrats - a ridiculous re-impeachment of the president, who will leave the White House in a week, the most severe censorship and suppression of dissent. There is no need for the real winners of fair elections to behave like that, as they are aware of their legitimacy and are confident in themselves (relying on the real, not imaginary, support of the majority of the population).

Wrote some thoughts on this issue.

Leftraru , Jan 13 2021 20:33 utc | 8

Globalization has made the United States a hollow giant. It has produced an enormous wealth gap, and this inequality is producing a breakdown in social cohesion. They have faced crisis before in the form of political polarization, economic hardship and racial tensions, but the situation now is a combination of every one of the mentioned before amplified by orders of magnitude by the pandemic.
The power of the MIC, Wall Street and Big Tech along with their MSM minions acting in a concerted way is the only thing preventing an implosion of the country. Either that or the notion of "American Exceptionalism" is truly implanted in the hearts and minds of the people, whether they realize it or not.

[Jan 14, 2021] Trump actually self-destructed and the Republican Party again will become Bush family playground

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Passer by , Jan 13 2021 19:49 utc | 5

There will be a wipe out of Trumpists and one party Dem state ala California. The Rep party will divide itself into Trumpists and establishment fighting each other.

The clear changes in the culture of the US population, which is found by numerous surveys, back up this assessment of the situation.

Trump's biggest fault is that he managed to corrupt many naturally isolationist rank and file republicans into "I have the biggest dick" imperialism and China/Iran hysteria. He tried to save the US Empire, corrupted MAGA into Make America Rule the World Again, and for that he paid the price.

He was triggered by the US decline in the world (Murica is no longer number 1, how can this be!) and tried to prop up the Empire that will eat him later.

If he tried to run on anti-imperial isolationit platform he still had a chance. But that required better relations with China, Russia, Iran and others, something impossible for a US rightoid massively triggered about Murica not being "number 1".

[Jan 14, 2021] The dissatisfaction with the Establishment goes way beyond the QAnon crowd

Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

gottlieb , Jan 13 2021 19:45 utc | 3

Too many people believe what they choose to read. The constantly reinforced world view of us vs them. I remember when Obama had a real mandate and both houses of Congress his first two years. His big 'socialist' victory - a corporate run for-profit healthcare system which is the laughing stock of the world and oh yeah he expanded the 911 Forever War.

What did Trump do in four years? Nothing. The government of the USA is failed. The dissatisfaction with the Establishment goes way beyond the QAnon crowd.

The idea that there are actually two opposing political ideologies in the USA is Big Lie 101.

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 13 2021 19:49 utc | 4

"The remains of "Democracy" have gelled into Mediacracy."

Tsk. Or, as one might call it, 'liberal fascism'. On account of the liberal establishment serving global financial capital.

Oh well, this too will pass.

[Jan 14, 2021] Three Views On The Current Situation In The USA

Even before the Presidentail election was stolen, the choice was stolen too.
Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
uncle tungsten , Jan 14 2021 4:32 utc | 87

No post by me for today but three views of interest on the current situation in the U.S. of A.

Pepe Escobar: 9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail

So where will 75 million disenfranchised voters – or 88 million Twitter followers – go?

As it stands, we're deep into Hardcore Class War. The Top of the Scam Gang are in full control. The remains of "Democracy" have gelled into Mediacracy. Ahead, there's nothing but ruthless purge, protracted crackdown, censorship, blanket surveillance, smashing of civil liberties, a single narrative, overarching cancel (in)culture. It gets worse: next week, this paranoid apparatus merges with the awesome machinery of the United States Government (USG).

Alastair Crooke: America's Battle Over the Nature and Direction of Change Itself

The next question for 2021 then, concerns that old adage: 'Beware not to win too much'. It can be a mistake to corner your adversaries to having nothing to lose. The Blue state has ousted Trump; and Blue has taken everything across 'the board', and are ready to implement the 'Re-set' – the ultimate subjugation of Red by main force, achieved by the preponderance of wealth, ruling institutional leverage, and military power. A social 'woke' revolution, as well as a political transformation. The full outcome would likely reconstitute the constitutional order, in ways unrecognizable to most Americans today.

But will Red America succumb from exhaustion, or lack of leadership; or, on the other hand, might it find the energy to revitalise 'their' Republic? We shall see – a big question whose ramifications might make the EU élites particularly nervous. Of course Blue now possesses force majeure. But there is another old adage: 'No passionate, partisan assessment has any value, save to inflame' – and Big Tech and the MSM's censorship and accompanying humiliation of Trump may turn him a martyr, and make the spirit of defiance all the stronger.

Diana Johnstone: Biden Exploits His Capitol Gains

From outside the melee, it is easy to define the serious issues that should dominate political debate in the United States. But instead of that, we hear a torrential exchange of insults. The establishment elite cannot stoop to exchange viewpoints with populists denounced as deplorable, racist, misogynist, white supremacist, fascist and now even "terrorist."

The populists' unfocused denunciation of the elite describes Wall Street Democrats as "socialists" and veers off into accusations of genocidal vaccination campaigns, occult pedophile rites and Satanism. Instead of anything resembling a clear political division, America is increasingly split by blind, burning mutual hatred.

What American political life needs is not more censorship, but the self-censorship of reason. That is very far away.

Its not that the election was stolen. But that choice was stolen. The MAGA team wanted to vote Trump but then were obliged to vote for Repugnants. Not forced to vote down ticket and so a sufficient few voted Dimratss.

2022 and 24 will be different imo. There will be many more non 'elite party' candidates.

The MAGA crowd will have a presidential candidate in 2024, likely it won't be Donald as the Dimratss are ripping the wheels off his cart right now. Maybe Ivanka, maybe another billionaire smarty. in 2022 they will also be running hard to win a Congressional or Senate seat as well and accusing the repugnant incumbents of treachery.

The progressives might, could, perhaps run a workers party or some such and they too will have a presidential candidate and contest the Congressional and Senate positions. It will be interesting to see how the first iteration pans out. They too will have lots to flog the dimwitted party bosses with.

One thing you can bet on is that the Dimratss will do nothing good.

michaelj72 , Jan 14 2021 2:50 utc | 81

to me, Diana Johnstone offers the most meaningful and insightful analysis of the three, examining many of the threads of these incredibly complex times, including the scandalously under-educated and under-organized masses in the USA, the truly frightful authoritarianism of Old Joe and his tribe of Know-Little Democrats, and what I consider to be the neo-fascist tendencies of the Techo-Overlords who together with the other Economic Elites truly run the country. These overlords are just beginning their censorship, purges and imprisonments.

"....The oligarchic nature of the American War Party is revealed by the haste with which privately owned social media enterprises silence dissent – even the still acting President of the United States. Indeed, who really rules the United States?.....

Trump managed to appeal to millions of discontented Americans without offering any coherent practical program to replace the War Party with policies capable of transforming the nation into a haven of peace and prosperity. His confusion mirrored the ideological confusion of a population scandalously undereducated in history and political ideas....."

I fully expect the neo-cons and neo-liberal interventionists and war mongers who are packed into the Old Joe administration to launch a new war in the Middle East (or even re-ingnite an old war? perhaps one against Syria) soon after taking office.... And for any protests to be denounced as rioting and terrorism - Not, mind you, that any Democrats will ever protest any foreign war, drone attacks, subversion or coup d'etat initiated by their Party, god forbid!

Keep your eye on the ball, and the ball is Class...... Along with wealth and real power in the country; where and how the ruling class maintains all its incredible advantages

james , Jan 14 2021 2:38 utc | 80

to maintain the Potemkin village facade of a democracy, they have to maintain the facade of legit elections.... as k c points out - 2000 and 2004 looked pretty dicey already... but keeping the illusion up is important.. maybe one of the issues that most challenges the powers that be, and i include the dem party in this - is the fact that trump and the repubs have challenged these election results... people can say it is all bullshit, but one has to question it with the use of computers to generate the result... i am not confident in this approach myself, but i don't like in the usa.. regardless, i am sure many on the inside trying to maintain this facade of democracy are enraged that trump would question the legitimacy of it... good for him that he did!

Fnord13 , Jan 14 2021 2:19 utc | 79

@77 K C

KC, you wrote:
"All of this having been said, I have not been given one single credible account of widespread or even small scale coordinated vote rigging by the Democrats in the presidential election."

If there was any vote rigging done to make sure Trump lost, do you actually think it would have been done by the Democrats? If the Deep State, or the financial oligarchy behind the Deep State, had decided that Trump absolutely had to go, wouldn't they have given the job of vote rigging to the experts at manipulating elections at the CIA or some other part of the Intelligence community?
I don't pretend to know whether there was any anti Trump vote rigging, but I think any discussion of whether or not it was even possible needs to start with a correct identification of who might plausibly have done it.

[Jan 14, 2021] Trump as populist

Is there anything more pathetic than competition between two political mafias hiding as some sort of disagreement over principle?
Notable quotes:
"... Absolutely his instinct to rebalance the economic relationship with China was correct. But he's too stupid to do it in a way that actually benefits or improves the US long term. Every once in a while with him there was hint of a good instinct but he never followed through because his base instincts always win out. ..."
"... The cries of censorship are asinine. Real censorship of diverging opinions was accomplished decades ago. Banning Donald trump from twitter isn't censorship. They didn't ban the POTUS account (they did delete tweets when he tried to use it), they banned his personal account because he's an asshole who broke the rules. Republicans have been telling me about the sanctity of property my whole life. Now they change their minds? ..."
Jan 14, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Lex , Jan 13 2021 23:25 utc | 55

It's all just farts in a jar. The trajectory was set decades ago and the political oligarchy and gerontocracy aren't going to let go of that trajectory. Trump was only a "populist" insofar as it was a means for him to be popular. In reality, he's a dishonest, craven asshole. If he was a populist he would have responded to Covid way differently. What he is, however, is a nationalist. Those are dangerous because they don't think clearly.

Absolutely his instinct to rebalance the economic relationship with China was correct. But he's too stupid to do it in a way that actually benefits or improves the US long term. Every once in a while with him there was hint of a good instinct but he never followed through because his base instincts always win out.

The cries of censorship are asinine. Real censorship of diverging opinions was accomplished decades ago. Banning Donald trump from twitter isn't censorship. They didn't ban the POTUS account (they did delete tweets when he tried to use it), they banned his personal account because he's an asshole who broke the rules. Republicans have been telling me about the sanctity of property my whole life. Now they change their minds?

The empire is in terminal decline. Trump doesn't change it. Biden doesn't change it. Who controls Congress doesn't change it. Because all of them are beholden to the declining empire and/or they believe in America's myths (they are nationalists). A failed color revolution run by people who don't want to accept an election result just says real loud that the empire is falling.

[Jan 13, 2021] I hope they spend the next 4 years on this impeachment hoax: I don't see where Trump encourages anyone to go INTO the Capitol. the Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

ZD commenter goes after neoliberal Dems with the force of sarcasm...
Notable quotes:
"... "Crucifixion was invented by the Persians in 300 BC, adapted by the Romans in 100 BC to crucify Jesus Christ, and extensively used by Democrats in 2021..." ..."
Jan 13, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

PT 5 hours ago

CONgress.

If CON is the opposite of PRO then does that mean:
The opposite of Congress is Progress?
The opposite of Constitution is Prostitution?

CJgipper 4 minutes ago

I hope they spend the next 4 years on this impeachment hoax.

I'm pretty okay with the laws as they are, certainly don't want these monkeys monkeying with them.

Handful of Dust 6 hours ago remove link

"Crucifixion was invented by the Persians in 300 BC, adapted by the Romans in 100 BC to crucify Jesus Christ, and extensively used by Democrats in 2021..."

Dangerclose 5 hours ago

The "illegal entry" was starting before Trump even spoke. He was twenty minutes late for his speaking time. Antifa was rousing up the crowd well before Trump spoke.

NAV 4 hours ago (Edited)

And so they're impeaching Trump because he won the election. And hunting down his supporters for voting for him and participating in Washington's largest rally to show their support for him and America. And because they expect a no-show for Biden's inauguration, they've created an armed insurrection scare as an excuse for why no one attended.

And all we have to do is not fight the noose that already is around our necks.

nsurf9 5 hours ago (Edited)

Written Transcript of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

Video of President Trump's 1/6/21 Speech on Ellipse

"We're going walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women."

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

I don't see where Trump encourages anyone to go INTO the Capitol. Nonetheless , the Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and on Inauguration Day. Capitol Visiting Hours - Open to the Public..

[Jan 13, 2021] House Has Enough Votes To Impeach Trump For Second Time

Jan 13, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

* Ten Republicans have broken ranks and voted for impeachment: Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA) Rep. John Katko (NY) Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) Rep. Fred Upton (MI) Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA) Rep. Peter Meijer (MI) Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (OH) Rep. Tom Rice (SC) and Rep. David Valadao (CA).

House Democrats are leading the charge on a Wednesday vote to impeach President Trump on one count of incitement of insurrection, after protesters were allowed into the US Capitol building last week through an open door - calmly walking inside before proceeding to take selfies and ransack lawmakers' offices.

The article of impeachment accuses Trump of "willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States" in violation of his oath and duty. Once it passes, which we expect it will, Trump will be the first US president in history to be impeached twice.

...

More via Bloomberg :

The timing could complicate Biden's efforts to get cabinet officials approved by the Senate since lawmakers would be occupied by an impeachment trial.

But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has raised the possibility of invoking a 2004 emergency session law to convene a trial this week, although such a move would require the consent of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Regardless of whether he is convicted in the Senate, a second impeachment would further stain a presidency that has culminated in a frightening assault on the storied center of the American democracy. It also opened fissures in the Republican Party that portends a power struggle over its future.

The New York Times reported that McConnell has told associates he is privately pleased with the impeachment, calculating that it will make it easier to purge the party of Trump's influence.

Numerous Republicans, however, argued that impeaching Trump would only worsen divisions in the country.

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who was elected in November, said impeachment "throws gasoline on the fire."

"Both parties need to take a time out and take a deep breath" Mace told reporters at the Capitol. "We need to have a peaceful transition of power and start over."

Mace was not among the 138 Republicans who voted on Jan. 6 to reject Biden's Electoral College win in at least one state even after the mob seeking to overturn the election had stormed the building. Many of them also made pleas for unity.

Check back for updates...


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HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 6 hours ago

John B. Wells had a guest on his show, a new member of Congress, who was walking around and saw a flare go off from the Capital roof. Once that happened he said all hell broke loose. It wasn't an accident. The whole thing, inside was staged. As is the installation of metal detectors.

Discussion on the flare is at the 2:42:00 mark, here: https://youtu.be/FU2f0qD5G6M

yerfej 6 hours ago

Notice there is NO focus on the economy, on Covid, on unemployment, on ANYTHING of value to the citizens. Its all about the progressive elites little fantasy world of power. The progressive supporters need to realize the incoming regime is all about the elites and there will be no crumbs for anyone. Why is it democrat voters can learn from their ownership of cities, there is NOTHING for the little guy but bloviating speeches and bullshyyytt. All of the money goes to entrenched party insiders and their hangers on.

Xi the Pooh 6 hours ago (Edited) remove link

The capital police opened the damn barricade and let them in!!

AND ITS TIME FOR TRUMP TO GO ON THE OFFENSE! NO MORE BEING A GIANT PYSIE. START DECLASSIFYING DEEP STATE DOCUMENTS, AND PARDON ASSANGE AND SNOWDEN ASAP!!

[Jan 13, 2021] Untouchable and deplorables

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Che Guava , says: January 12, 2021 at 2:31 pm GMT • 13.8 hours ago

I am not an American, but am incredulous at US media's lies.

Burn and loot for months, that is nothing it seems. Any arrested released.

A few jokers are waved into the 'Capitol' by the security there, they do no serious damage, they play it as play, yet there are mass arrests.

[Jan 13, 2021] The specter of politicians cowering under their desks on Jan. 6th preceded by the Supreme Court displaying no backbone in support of their Constitutional authority and duty pertaining to massive election fraud, in the wake of lower courts' dishonor on the issue, is now joined by a general piling on, of vindictiveness. Not just Democrats and mass media and the 'woke' universe: Republican rats scurry to abandon the Trumpian ship and hurl departing insults at the Captain.

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Robert Snefjella , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:28 am GMT • 51 minutes ago

Trouble ahead, but things are also looking up.

Solzhenitsyn, after coming to the West, and observing it first hand, observed that the West had lost its civic courage, and that such a loss presaged societal catastrophe.

Lack of courage is not necessarily a hindrance to sudden displays of viciousness.

The specter of politicians cowering under their desks on Jan. 6th preceded by the Supreme Court displaying no backbone in support of their Constitutional authority and duty pertaining to massive election fraud, in the wake of lower courts' dishonor on the issue, is now joined by a general piling on, of vindictiveness. Not just Democrats and mass media and the 'woke' universe: Republican rats scurry to abandon the Trumpian ship and hurl departing insults at the Captain.

For four years Trump was subjected to non-stop Establishment and mass media venom, but leading up to the election things got only crazier. A couple of weeks prior to the election on Nov 3rd, , for example, a large number of remarkably successful 'dissident' citizen journalists were purged from major mass media platforms, undermining both their reach and their incomes. Brazen censorship was deployed in this and many other ways.

Trump derangement syndrome – a remarkable and to me mysterious achievement – already widely inflicting countless 'educated' people in many lands, seems to have been somehow energized to new heights of hysteria and venom after the stolen election: Trump supporters are now to be fired, re educated, put on no fly lists, arrested, and otherwise attacked and removed: they are residual evidence of the great stain upon America's glorious history, or upon the human race itself, perhaps: one Donald J. Trump.

But here is the curious fact: Trump received more votes, if the votes were counted fairly, than any other President in American history. In the aftermath of relentless media hostility, bias, misrepresentation, attacks, etc, Trump became arguably among the most popular Presidents in American history.

So what does that tell us? Among other things, that the near unanimous mass media effort to deprecate Trump failed spectacularly with tens of millions of Americans: the person who mass media rigorously demonized for four years actually won the real election in a landslide. And the person who actually won the election had over the last four years directed continual teasing contempt at the 'fake new' industry/complex, and in my opinion easily holds the title of global champion when it comes to bringing widespread attention to mass media disinformation and corruption.

So while there is a great deal to be concerned about, and many pitfalls, from my perspective there has been an enormous positive sea change in the vast and growing 'peasantry' of America. The deplorable population has grown over the last four years, and they have learned a lot, and endured a lot. They have seen many of their hopes 'blown away in the vicious wind of corruption and cowardice'. They have been locked down and inconvenienced and frightened and impoverished by the fake news propagated dripping-with-evil-intent COVID-19 operation. But for all that, many millions will be more resolute, as well as wiser still.

We don't know how the story unfolds, but as far as I can see it's far from over, and the plot will involve the will power of millions in response to the illegitimate power now much more starkly on display, and wielded by far fewer numbers.

[Jan 13, 2021] Have to agree with Glenn Greenwald that the Capitol invasion was NOT a "coup" or "insurrection" as pushed by the same people who ignored the violence and destruction in the George Floyd protests

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Michael888 , says: January 12, 2021 at 10:08 pm GMT • 6.2 hours ago

Have to agree with Glenn Greenwald that the Capitol invasion was NOT a "coup" or "insurrection" as pushed by the same people who ignored the violence and destruction in the George Floyd protests ( https://greenwald.substack.com/p/violence-in-the-capitol-dangers-in-67f ). While not a benign chanting on a sidewalk, the violation of the Capitol by Deplorables was minor compared to what happened to other federal monuments and statues all summer, and in line with both groups' First Amendment right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". And while NO ONE was shot to death by police in the George Floyd protests (estimated at over 10 million protesters) many lost eyes to flash bangs and beanbags and many were hospitalized from tear gas.
Obviously the Saker is not American or he would know, as Neoliberal Global Elite George W Bush put it: "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

Maybe SCOTUS still pays some attention, but Congress creates their own hysterical deranged Narratives and as Karl Rove said: "in what we call the reality-based community," most Americans "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." But that's no longer true for Congress. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[Jan 13, 2021] Demand Accountability for the Capitol Attack -

Jan 13, 2021 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Washington has long had a political culture of impunity that permits the abuses and crimes of the powerful to go unpunished, and the lack of accountability for our many foreign policy failures is well-known. As a general rule, politicians are rarely held accountable for what they do, and presidents are even less likely to face consequences for their outrages.

the [manipulated] public is demanding accountability right away. According to at least two surveys released in the last few days, most Americans fault the president for the Capitol attack. According to one poll, 56% want Trump removed from office before Biden's inauguration. Even if this weren't what most Americans support, it is what defending the Constitution and the rule of law requires.

NoMoreFalseGods Guest • 17 hours ago

You mad bro?

interguru Guest • 17 hours ago

The BLM protests, ugly as they were, were not an attempt to destroy the Constitution and overthrow the government.

SatirevFlesti interguru • 6 hours ago

No...they were worse.

And besides, they were actually part of an overall coordinated left-wing movement all last year (mostly using Covid as the justification for instituting the most insecure and fraudulent election system in history) designed to undermine the election and enable mass vote fraud, which constitutes material participation in an effort to destroy the constitution and overthrow the truly elected leaders of the government.

rayray SatirevFlesti • 6 hours ago

This is nonsense. Total, unmitigated hogwash. The BLM movement and the attendant voter registration movements were exactly what they were, an attempt to bring sharp attention to racial justice and an attempt to bring people to the polls to vote. Full stop. While I vehemently disagree with the elements of BLM that rioted and damaged property, there is no comparison between the two movements.

ekaneti rayray • 5 hours ago

BLM movement is to destroy the USA as a constitutional republic and replace it with a collectivist system based on race.

Youre right there is no comparison. The body bags are much greater on the BLM side

Gyre rayray • 4 hours ago

Which always seems to happen near a strip mall with an electronics store nearby.

junesxing SatirevFlesti • 5 hours ago

are you saying that more people voting is bad for democracy?

ekaneti junesxing • 5 hours ago

it can be yes.

junesxing ekaneti • 3 hours ago

well then, let's get rid of voting altogether. That way the will of the people won't stand in the way of a democratic society.

Freespeak ekaneti • 2 hours ago

Red arm band or ghost costume?

rayray ekaneti • 2 hours ago

It can be if you're not living in a democracy. Worth noting, autocracy is only fun if it's your guy....

ekaneti interguru • 5 hours ago

That is exactly what they were, The leaders even said so

Gyre interguru • 4 hours ago

So you think protesting the handling of a suspicious election was "an attempt to destroy the Constitution"? Well, you get points for knowing how to spell, if not think clearly.

rayray Gyre • 2 hours ago

But...there was no suspicious election. So what are you referring to?

Tom Riddle Guest • 17 hours ago
In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest? By telling them to cheer on the Senators and Representatives raising objections? By telling them to make people proud?

Trump literally gave a speech filled with insane lies about election fraud and told them to go to the Capitol to stop the steal. His personal lawyer bellowed there will be "trial by combat". Trump advisor and bedding impresario Mike Lindell talk about civil war. Saying "peaceful" once isn't a magic spell that absolves one of responsibility. If it was, Michael Corleone would be as innocent as a babe being baptized.

None of this would have happened without Trump's leadership. Whipping up a mob against Congress is the only thing he's focused on for an extended period of time in his presidency

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As for the riots this summer, I also believe that any rioters should be removed from the office of the president of the United States.

Matthew Maheras Guest • 17 hours ago • edited
Yes, there is. In what specific part of the President's speech did he "incite the mob"? By telling them to go peacefully protest?

Probably the parts where he told the crowd that they had to "fight like hell," then the part where he said if they "don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" , then saying they had to "stop the steal" and that if they didn't they would have an "illegitimate president." The latter claim of course being a bald-faced lie.

But what happened in the capitol last week was no uglier than what has been happening in this country for years, virtually every time the left gets it protest wheels turning.

Yes it was uglier.

Attacking businesses ≠ attacking police stations ≠ attacking court houses ≠ attacking State Capitols ≠ attacking The Capitol ≠ threatening to lynch the VP and Members of Congress

If you're going to make a false equivalence like this, why should anyone take you seriously? Yes, threatening to upend our democracy by advocating the death of our elected officials is a lot bigger of an issue than a Target in Minneapolis being looted or burned. It's possible for both things to be bad or unwelcome outcomes, but for one (the Trump insurrection) to be far, far, far, far worse.

How about burning down entire sections of cities, dragging innocent civilians out of their cars, rioting, looting, firebombing, raping, murdering....all part and parcel with conduct we watched go on for months.

Hilariously, Trump pardons war criminals that literally have done all these things, and you pretend like you have the moral high ground.

But he incited a riot. He deserves to be impeached. He deserves to be barred from running for office. He deserves to be deplatformed.

The funniest thing about this is that you could ignore the riot and he still deserves to be impeached . Did you forget when the little impeachable phone call he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger? God knows how many more similar phone calls he's made over the past four years that no one was smart enough to record and leak.

who went around and raised money to bail out rioters from jail so they could go out and riot again have been fired

They primary reason to paying for bail is because we have an unequal and unjust cash bail system that benefits to middle/upper-class and has unequal impact on the poor. Get real.

SatirevFlesti Matthew Maheras • 6 hours ago • edited

Funny you leftist didn't mind when left-wing scum occupied the Wisconsin capitol for 40 days in 2011, or attacked and occupied Senate offices during the Kavanaugh hearings, or breached Capitol security barriers during the "Women's March, etc etc.

Pure f-ing hypocrit scum.

junesxing SatirevFlesti • 5 hours ago

and where were you when the 'sovereign citizens' occupied government property in Oregon?
'what's that got to do with me", you ask. Whataboutism is not relevant, neither about Bundy in Oregon or those that illegally occupied a state capitol. Maga insurgents occupied the National Capitol, calling for death to the Vice President, stealing government property including potentially classified information in order to support the overturn of the US government.

That is your hypocrisy, Dude

Annie from Alaska SatirevFlesti • 18 minutes ago

They are like vampires. Mirrors send them hissing and reeling into the darkness to conduct more unnecessary depraved sex rituals.

rayray Matthew Maheras • 6 hours ago

"It's possible for both things to be bad or unwelcome outcomes, but for one (the Trump insurrection) to be far, far, far, far worse."

Hard to put it clearer than that.

Matthew K • 17 hours ago

I've deleted my prior comment. It has become obvious that TAC is dominated by leftists and fraudulent Conservatives who are perfectly complicit with the double standards and hypocrisy being imposed on our society. Enjoy your return to the Bob Dole/John McCain party. Enjoy never winning another Presidential election.

Yourcenar Matthew K • 16 hours ago

Sorry, but the sane people actually did win the Presidential election despite every attempt by the current president to screw it up.

thecensoredamerican Matthew K • 14 hours ago

don't back down, put it back up & wait for TAC to delete it for you - they enjoy censoring as much as losing

Zelda Gibran Matthew K • 13 hours ago

It's just that this type of rhetoric and delusion is no longer tolerable, not even within the conservative movement. It's time to come back to Jesus.

Baruch Dreamstalker Zelda Gibran • 7 hours ago

Careful. Rabbi Jesus talked about tending to the beam in your own eye before addressing the mote in your brother's eye.

Curious Baruch Dreamstalker • 6 hours ago

He also sounds like a Marxist with all that Camel through the eye of the needle nonsense

1701 Curious • 5 hours ago

Yeah, this Jesus fella clearly didn't know about the absolute necessity of flying private jets to avoid being surrounded by demons
https://www.foxnews.com/us/...

Baruch Dreamstalker Curious • 5 hours ago

There was a narrow gate in the Jerusalem wall known as "the eye of the needle." Rabbi Jesus said it was easier for a camel to get through that gate than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom. Since Marx didn't come along for another eighteen hundred years or so, "Marxist" is a counter-factual label to put on him.

KevinS Matthew K • 12 hours ago

Bye!!

1701 Matthew K • 10 hours ago

Enjoy your return to the Bob Dole/John McCain party. Enjoy never winning another Presidential election.

Right, 'cause Trump was so good at it that he lost the popular vote twice and when that also led to him losing the Presidency he sabotaged his own party's possibility of winning the Senate and subsequently incited an insurgency against Congress.
I'm sure that's the sensible path forward every conservative should want to follow...
...is what I'd say if I wanted to see the GOP completely annihilate itself. So it's what I say.

Miles R. Matthew K • 9 hours ago

Yeah, Donald Trump, such a big winner: two-time loser in the popular vote and now loser in the electoral college too; leader of the effort to discourage Republicans in Georgia from voting, thereby securing dominance in the senate for the Democratic Party. Tell me again how many times a Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote in the past thirty years. Oh, right: a grand total of once (GWB, 2004).

It's really a question of choosing your losers: do you want losers who can recognize reality and serve their country, or losers who live in narcissistic fantasies of grandeur and serve only themselves?

Feral Finster Matthew K • 9 hours ago • edited

You sound like an ex-boyfriend who is bitter about having just been dumped.

EmpireLoyalist Matthew K • 9 hours ago

As a business decision, it's not a great plan for a conservative paper to go marxist.
You lose your customer base - and your marxist fans soon lose interest as they have so many other options.
It's like a church that tries to be hip and cool and fun. People don't go to church for that.
They can stay home and watch tv for that. Hip-cool-fun churches close down.

KevinS EmpireLoyalist • an hour ago

It hasn't gone Marxist...but other than that you're right on.

EmpireLoyalist Matthew K • 9 hours ago

There is one GREAT thing about TAC.
It's the only marxist site that permits sane people to comment (using disqus). Try and find another one.
Their 'conservative' pretense requires them to tolerate a non-marxist presence.

Matt Russell EmpireLoyalist • 6 hours ago

You clearly do not even know what Marxism is. It's just become a euphemism for everything that Trumpy people don't like.

gnt Matthew K • 6 hours ago

Yet another conservative looking for a safe space to air their feelings....

SatirevFlesti Matthew K • 6 hours ago

Spot on. TAC in the last few months has shown its true colors and is rapidly going the way of NRO, long the flagship of the cucked grifter pseudo-right.

Good riddance, TAC. Though I'm sure that, like NR, they'll still find plenty of useful idiot donors to keep the grift going for a while. They'll try hard now to pivot to being the "conservative opposition" now that Biden-Harris-Pelosi-Schumer will be fully in charge and they don't have to pretend to kinda-sorta be on the same side as the President anymore with Trump gone. Nothing the grifter right likes better than being the "loyal opposition," always losing, but always grifting.

After all, what would the likes of Rod Dreher complain about if the right ever actually won and put a stop to everything he's been complaining about and warning of for years? I think his psychology couldn't take actual victory. Soft-totalitarianism? It's here, and it's not soft. But no matter, better to be the "opposition," and issue dire warnings, and accept Big Tech-Woke Capital censorship of the public square, deplatforming of dissenters from financial and social media services, etc., than support icky Trump and actually score some policy victories (waging war on racist CRT trainings, being the most objectively pro-life President ever, cutting down on illegal immigration, not starting any new wars for the perpetual war machine military-industrial complex etc., etc. How long until Biden and the new Secretary of Defense (sic) from Raytheon start a new war somewhere? I put the over-under at 6 months) .

Annie from Alaska SatirevFlesti • 21 minutes ago

fighting over DOMA while Bush and the rest of the corrupt psychopaths start a war with Iraq because "They tried to kill my dad!"
fighting over wedding cakes and podiums while Pelosi and the rest of these corrupt psychopaths start a war with China because "Shut up and die, white supremacist deplorable racist cannon fodder."
how much more hatred can the rulers have for the ruled before something snaps?

Curious Matthew K • 6 hours ago

Exactly! Democracy is too dangerous to leave to the voters!

junesxing Matthew K • 5 hours ago

so if they don't agree with you, they are 'fraudulent' conservatives? No wonder you think that if your guy didn't win, then the election was fraudulent.

ekaneti Matthew K • 5 hours ago • edited

For some reason this small publication (circulation 5,000) attracts a lot of leftists and obnoxious libertarians. Go read the comment section at Reason if you want to see toxic. It begs the question who reads TAC and what good is it if no one on the right is listening?

junesxing ekaneti • 3 hours ago

seems to me that folks that want to hear responsible, grounded conservative viewpoints read TAC. That perhaps is why when articles or comments veer off into conspiracy theories and Qanon BS, that commenters don't always have good things to say.

Don Dementia Don • 17 hours ago

Felony murder rule... ya gotta act fast and call in for a deal, before it's all hard time only. Things are getting real, fast.

M Orban Don Dementia Don • 16 hours ago • edited

My hunch is that the hammer is about to come down on these lunatics.

Don Dementia Don M Orban • 3 hours ago

Wait see you a side effect? Did your mom take the pill and did you and make it? Ya sure post like this a job for you. ;)

Normally Silent Don Dementia Don • an hour ago

I reckon deals would be erroneous.
Unless we are talking about ''Submit or die, insurrectionist scum''.

thecensoredamerican • 13 hours ago • edited

"...it is likely that there will be further attempts to sabotage and wreck the republic in the coming years."

There certainly will be, you got that part right anyway, even if the rest of your screed is pure...what's the word du jour of your incoming stolen president - malarky! The incoming marxist regime will do everything it can to wreck our republic in the next four years & establish a one-party communist-style government. They must be stopped.
There was no incitement last Wed., or prior to that, on the part of the duly elected President Trump anymore than there was any 'Russian conspiracy' or 'Ukranian quid pro quo' in previous phony impeachment hoaxes. The only "incitement" came after patriotic protestors were allowed into the Capitol building by guards during the mostly peaceful protest & then the Republican/Democrat establishment & fake news tried to incite popular opinion against the President & his supporters with wild accusations & unfounded denunciations like this one. It's true, of course, that "Washington has long had a political culture of impunity that permits the abuses and crimes of the powerful to go unpunished"; which is why Biden was nominated to "win" a rigged election despite his family's unchecked corruption while previously in office which shall go unpunished & unimpeached. Just like rioters & looters & assailants have gone unpunished in last year's Democrat insurrections in major cities around the country. It's not Ted Cruz who authored those civil disturbances but it's true that we shouldn't put those egregious events, or the stolen election, behind us, we must continue to demand accountability, even if it means more division. And we must demand accountability for Ashli Babbitt - not a dangerous criminal like George Floyd - who was murdered by Capitol police. Of course, deadly Democrats & rabid RINO's will continue to try & incite hatred against us but 75 million deplorables aren't going to just give in to you.

Yourcenar thecensoredamerican • 13 hours ago
were allowed into the Capitol building by guards

The videos I saw showed prolonged battles at the barriers, plus scenes of police officers being dragged down steps and beaten with flag poles plus another instance of someone throwing a fire extinguisher at a crowd of cops.

Also a lot of broken windows.

Funny to see an alternative reality being constructed in real time.

EmpireLoyalist • 9 hours ago

To demand accountability for the Capitol riot while glorifying six months of insurrection, violence and destruction can only have one outcome - massive intensification of the culture war.
The chasm between marxism and civilisation is vast and unbridgeable.
We should accept that, and stop the bomb throwing. It's pointless.
There is only one way forward: a peaceful partition - or at the very least, a loose federation, as in the Articles of Confederation, that allows for a common defence and foreign policy.

EmpireLoyalist Baruch Dreamstalker • 6 hours ago

The Left ALWAYS uses the vices, flaws, shortcomings, imperfections of their enemies as justification for their own cosmically horrific crimes.
Look at one of their popular arguments in favour of abortion: "If you guys are not willing to support the creation of socialist utopia which will provide for this child from cradle to grave, then I have every right to brutally hack him apart. So there!" This is marxist logic.
You talk about slavery. Look at what The American Left have done to blacks. Degradation, de-humanisation - reducing them to livestock on bleak, squalid, lawless urban vote plantations. The West was the civilisation that ended slavery - which had been universal.
Homophobia? Look at what The American Left has done to homosexuals. Encouraged them to live empty hedonistic lifestyles in which their whole identity is built around a particular sex practise - which many of them don't even like apparently, judging by the amount of drugs they need to take.
Heresy trials? Stalin used to kill more people before breakfast every morning than the Spanish Inquisition executed in its entire three centuries of existence. On the first day after the Roe v Wade decision, the US abortion industry slaughtered more innocent humans than the total number of Inquisition victims.
Rotten boroughs were actually benign because the representatives from those boroughs had almost no power compared to what modern politicians have. They were a symbolic statement that the State was not important and it should not be a significant presence in a free, rule-of-law society. "It should be left to rot." They provided an argument against expanding the power of the State.

Matt Russell EmpireLoyalist • 5 hours ago

Well let's put that to the test. Do you believe that the election was stolen from Trump and that he actually won a "sacred landslide" (his words), or do you believe Biden is the rightful victor in the election?

EmpireLoyalist Matt Russell • 5 hours ago

We are supposed to pretend there was no fraud because the Media stamps and shrieks and rants and raves and threatens to ruin peoples' lives? That only deepens and hardens the suspicion.
Just look at the circumstances of election night. Most murder cases are solved on circumstantial evidence alone. If that were a court case, the jury would have returned a guilty verdict in five minutes. The statistical aberrations and the mysterious overnight activities are just too bizarre.
We all saw that. Nobody is disputing that part.
Then there were mountains of material evidence and testimony rejected. Rejected by whom? By the Media-State and courts on behalf of their candidate.
If you have a football game - red team v blue team - you should decide it by the score.
You should not allow the owner of the blue team to decide who the winner is, and the referee should not be a member of one of the teams.

engineerscotty rayray • 3 hours ago

The only "unbridgable chasm" is that Empire is unhappy his side lost the last election, and was not successful in overturning it, now he wishes to take his ball and go home.

And is now demanding that he be provided with a "home" to go to.

Had Trump won re-election, of course, he'd be demanding that America's coastal urban areas submit to political dominion by their betters in the heartland.

He's just a sore loser, with emphasis on loser.


Egyptsteve EmpireLoyalist • 4 hours ago

Lots of people got arrested at the BLM protests. But you know, the "violence and destruction" was mostly visited against fast-food restaurants and sports apparel stores. Looting the Capitol, attacking Congress, and threatening to lynch the Vice President is just a little bit of a different kettle of fish.

SatirevFlesti • 6 hours ago

The real accountability needs to be with an insane Congress pursuing wholly unjustified 25th Amendment declarations and yet another groundless impeachment. What this country needs to make its failing and corrupt institutions accountable is not more liberalism and Frenchist procedural BS and worshiping at "temples of democracy," but a real Caesar or Augustus...or to use more recent examples, a Franco or Pinochet.

A few dozen people (including Antifa agents provocateur) invited in by cops who opened gates and doors, larking about taking selfies, doing almost no damage, is hardly an "attack," "insurrection", or "domestic terrorism." A real attack or insurrection would have involved hostages, demands, and real violence, including burning this alleged "sacred temple of democracy" down to the ground (the only real violence was by a clearly racist black supremacist cop who shot an unarmed white woman in the face - the left assumes all white cops who shot black suspects are white supremacist racists, so I'm doing them the courtesy of doing the same with their scum cop;the story of the one cop who died outside the building has been debunked as not having been the result of any violence against him by Trump supporters or anyone at all).

There will be no real right-wing movement worthy of the name in this country until cucked Conservative Inc types like Larison stop simping for liberalism and playing into the hands of the left.

Matt Russell SatirevFlesti • 6 hours ago

Yeah that's the real problem here isn't it... Congress calling for Pence to start the 25th process. What a travesty. Not the riot, not the deaths, the call to use an actual Constitutional process. There is something seriously wrong with you.

Aetius Matt Russell • 5 hours ago

Someday this whole thing is going to go down in the history books just like the Salem Witch Trials as evidence of the fragility of the human pysche, and its capacity for mass delusion

Matt Russell Aetius • 3 hours ago

Yes it's a case study in all sorts of really disturbing human characteristics, from the propagandists to the sheep that have consumed it. It's easy to see how the German people fell in line so quickly, particularly because of their propensity and belief in order. This period will be studied similarly.


longlance • 5 hours ago • edited

Should the Capitol building be the Forbidden City or the Great Hall of the People? Should the canaille be kept out of sight & out of mind? Is there a substantial difference between TAC and Salon or New York Magazine?.

WilliamRD • 5 hours ago

Larison is a 3rd rate hack. It's a tossup who's the worst. Dreher or Larison

Capitol "Insurrection": Will Americans Ever Grow Wise To Alinsky?

By Christopher Adamo

Until the right wakes up, Alinsky disciples will keep steamrolling over conservatives.

https://libertysentinel.org...

Joe Black • 39 minutes ago

I find all this talk of holding the capital protesters accountable hypocritical and preposterous. Is there a full moon? Have people gone mad?
-Changing state constitutions by judicial decree or executive order by the governor should be corrected and those people should be held accountable. The judge should be disbarred. The governor should be impeached.
-Fraud in elections should be prosecuted and isnt
-open borders, human trafficking, drug trafficking, child-sex trafficking, cross border gang activity, criminal acts by non-citizens and illegals should be prosecuted and arent
-The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party have infiltrated the Democratic Party. Bribery, treason, sedition, corruption, using family members to hide payoffs, buyoffs, pay for play access to the Congress or White House, (Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Swalwell, Obama, Clinton, Biden, etc), inviting known Chinese Spies to work for you in the Congress (Feinstein, Boxer, Swalwell) never held accountable
-deleting 30,000 emails and destroying cell phones, PDAs, laptops, with hammers....bleachbit a secret hidden server in the basement of the Clinton house in Chappaqua never held accountable
-Antifa/BLM killing cops, barricading them in police precincts and setting the police precincts on fire in an attempt to burn police officers alive never held accountable
-Antifa/BLM perpetrations of arson, vandalism, violent assault, harassment, traffic obstruction, murder, domestic terrorism never held accountable
-Big Tech, Social Media, Main Stream Media sensationalizing the news, using algorithms to censor and bias news reporting, delisting people, etc never held accountable.
-Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were being paid off by Russia while accusing Trump of being compromised by Russia even though it has yet to be proven that Trump has had any relationship other than professional with a foreign country.
The list goes on and on and on. Why the selective outrage over the capital protesters and no outrage over democratic sedition, treason and corruption which compromises our nations constitutional republic to a far greater extent than anything Trump did. Show me the standard of morals, ethics and enforcement of the law is fair, objective and equally applied then perhaps I will have some sympathy for your selective outrage. The democrats are like the hypocrit who condemns everyone else watching pornography while they sit home and watch it.

[Jan 13, 2021] It seems plausible that Trump's supporters were "set up" for the unprecedented crackdown

Jan 13, 2021 | dissident-mag.com

Here is the summarized timeline of what we know so far:

What we don't know yet:

So far, it seems abundantly clear that Trump's supporters were "set up" for the unprecedented totalitarian crackdown currently unfolding at a pace no one could have predicted. Based on a preponderance of the evidence, it is not possible to conclude anything else. The only matter up for debate at this point is the degree of complicity of those involved in leading tens of thousands of patriotic American citizens to lose their freedom – possibly forever – and in some cases, their lives.

[Jan 13, 2021] Lessons from the Trumpistan Coup, by Thomas Dalton

The main less is not be so stupid: Trump and Trumpists got in a trap and now will be eliminated from the political scene.
Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Mass protests generally have two distinct but intertwined goals: 1) to "make a statement," and 2) to inflict a cost. To state the obvious, mass protests occur because a group of people are unhappy about something, and they want something to change. Change only occurs, in a large bureaucratic nation like ours, if a loud "message" is conveyed, or if the price of non-change becomes too high. If thousands of Trump voters are mad as hell because they believe the election was stolen, and if they want to protest, they can either make their message heard and then hope for the best (not much hope there), or they can attempt to punish the thieves -- that is, make them incur some cost for their malfeasance.

What did the mob achieve on Wednesday? We already knew their message -- Trump won the election, and it was stolen. We know they have support across the country; even our biased media admit to some 74 million Trump voters, of whom 70% to 80% (depending on the poll) think the election was stolen. But then what? "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it." And then what? The message is impotent. It has no consequence.

If 'the message' was doomed to impotence, inflicting 'a cost' was much more tangible, and much more achievable. By forcing their way into the Capitol building, a motivated and reasonably prepared mob could have caused tremendous damage. If -- and I stress the conditional here -- if they wanted to inflict damage, they had a golden opportunity. They had guns, presumably hidden, and far outnumbered the handful of guards. Any firefight would have been over quickly, with the mob victorious. Security guards, staffers, even congressmen would have been easy prey, for kidnapping, injury, or worse. But this did not happen.

... ... ...

Notice how congressmen, left and right, responded to the event. All were indignant. All were outraged. All condemned the "senseless violence" of the crazed mob and the "attempted overthrow" of American democracy. All of them: left, right, and center; Democrat and Republican; Trump supporter or not. All of them condemned it.

Again: Why? The answer here is clear: All congressmen, of all stripes, have a vested interest in sustaining the system, more or less in its current form . This is obvious. They are all 'winners' in the system. It has made them all rich, famous, and powerful. Yes, they fight for relative power and relative influence, but this is largely a sham. The Republican-Democrat battles are only there to give the impression of real competition. Instead, in reality, we have a deep and radical monopoly -- a monopoly of pro-corporate, pro-capitalist, pro-war, pro-Israel, and pro-Jewish individuals. On these things, they all agree. I've been saying as much for many years: We should focus not on what divides the two parties, but on what unites them . This is far more revealing.

... More than anything, Trump was a symbol: a symbol of resistance, of defiance, and of an 'in your face' attitude. But nothing more. The Trump presidency was all show, no substance. It was, and is, hardly worth dying over.

And by 'media,' I mean all media. Consider what our beloved Tucker Carlson had to say , speaking at the beginning of his show on the very first day after the protest:

Political violence begets political violence. That is an iron law that never changes. We have to be against that, no matter who commits the violence or under what pretext, no matter how many self-interested demagogues assure us the violence is justified or necessary. We have a duty to oppose all of this, not simply because political violence kills other people's children, but because in the end it doesn't work.

No good person will live a happier life because [Ashli Babbitt] was killed in a hallway of the Capitol today. So our only option, as a practical matter, is to fix what is causing this in the first place. You may have nothing in common with the people on the other side of the country -- increasingly, you probably don't -- but you're stuck with them. The idea that groups of Americans will somehow break off into separate peaceful nations of like-minded citizens is a fantasy. That will not happen. There is no such thing as 'peaceful separation'; there never has been, and there won't be.

The two hemispheres of this country are inseparably intertwined, like conjoined twins. Neither can leave without killing the other. As horrifying as this moment is, we have no option but to make it better, to gut it out.

Beavertales , says: January 12, 2021 at 10:00 pm GMT • 23.9 hours ago

The entry of the Capitol building was spontaneous. Nobody saw it coming.

In the immediate aftermath, the media didn't know whether to promote it or bury it. It took hours and days for the narrative to coalesce on orders from the top.

As it was happening, the media was gob-smacked. The 'insurrection' narrative didn't truly get going until the protest was long over.

stevennonemaker88 , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 16.1 hours ago

I thought this was a pretty good article. Virtually no politician is on the side of the people (maybe Ron Paul is the exception)...

shylockcracy , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:51 am GMT • 16.0 hours ago

It's real tiresome to do this but people need to be reminded that Ziocorporate conman fraud Trump and his MAGA brand are a product of the same lot that governs the Democrats, and that he was never on his constituency's side:

"Donald Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu for PM"

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_l0N8ru6wII?feature=oembed

And it's necessary because if there's a chance to unite even a small group of people after realising how they're being had, then there's a chance for a small change to snowball into something larger. And it should not stay on the white side of the divide, it's not like the plandemic's been killing the economy for whites only. No "populist anti-Deep State patriot" or national leader goes around endorsing other countries' politicians, much less Israel's, the purest manifestation of corporate bankster power acting in unison with neocolonial globalism, a trait shared by Biden and Trump.

Actions should be peaceful, because entities like the Pentagon and CIA have an absolute monopoly on violent repression...

Thomasina , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:58 am GMT • 15.9 hours ago

One Christian fellow I listened to said that Antifa were definitely there. He took video of them walking down the street. That just proves to me that even Antifa knew they were no threat, otherwise they wouldn't have been mingling among thousands and thousands of Trump supporters.

The fellow said that from what he could see, the Trump protesters were unarmed, well behaved, smiling, and content with waving their flags. He said they are proud patriots and would never think of destroying art work or smashing up the Capitol Building.

He said on the 15 to 20 previous trips he's made to the Capitol Building, the pop-up metal barriers have always been up, but no barriers were up on January 6th. He said on a previous trip he had stepped onto the grass to take a picture and was quickly told by an officer to "get off the grass". But on January 6th, the sidewalks were blocked off, forcing people onto the grass.

We've seen the video of what looks to be an Antifa member breaking a window, only to be stopped by a Trump supporter.

No, these were salt of the earth people who were no threat to Antifa OR the spineless politicians. They knew this, but they've played it up for all it's worth.

And where was the police presence? Nowhere.

SwedeMan , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:59 am GMT • 14.9 hours ago

The main physical damage was the supposed theft of Pelosis laptop. Can I take a look at it?

Franz , says: January 13, 2021 at 7:13 am GMT • 14.6 hours ago
@James Speaks andbook by Edward N. Luttwak

Amazon includes a couple accurate blurbs on the product description page:

This short book is wicked, truthful, and entertaining. The author, after outlining a step-by-step procedure for bringing about a coup, analyzes modern (post–Second World War) coups, and points out why some succeeded and others failed. ( New Yorker )

An extraordinarily competent and well-written work, displaying very wide knowledge of the ways in which coups, both successful and unsuccessful, have actually been organized. ( Times Literary Supplement )

El Dato , says: January 13, 2021 at 7:16 am GMT • 14.6 hours ago

You don't do a "coup" by invading the congressional discussion bunker in a nominal democracy. You do a "coup" by ordering up CIA-organized troops to take over communication centers as checkpoints secured by APCs go up everywhere as congresscritters are frogmarched to a nearby stadium. The CEOs and salaried Wokers of the social meedja companies would swear enthusiastic allegiance to the new powers. Antifa would be issued clean shirts, ties and government-approved truncheons. Then a grand proclamation that there will be a convention to work towards national unity. Ooops, that last part actually happened.

If there had been a coup, it would 100% evident.

If there had been fair elections, it would 100% evident.

El Dato , says:
Whitewolf , says: January 13, 2021 at 10:03 am GMT • 11.8 hours ago

The event was, variously, a "coup," an "insurrection," or at minimum, "a riot." Protesters were "right-wing extremists" and even "domestic terrorists" who were attacking "the very basis of American democracy."

A coup?
An insurrection?
Attacking the very basis of American democracy?

The only reason the crowd was there in the first place was to protest against the people committing those crimes through election fraud. Hopefully at least the crowd has figured out that the Republicans and Trump are not on their side...

Forze , says: January 13, 2021 at 12:11 pm GMT • 9.7 hours ago

http://dissident-mag.com/2021/01/11/trumps-post-election-pentagon-shakeup-ensured-trap-was-sprung-for-patriots-at-the-capitol/

Jazzhand McFeels of https://therightstuff.biz/ has written a very interesting article on Dissident Mag about some sudden changes in the administration that could explain this thing.

There's also a podcast with even more facts: https://fash-the-nation.libsyn.com/ftn-372-rage-against-the-regime

Johnny Walker Read , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:01 pm GMT • 6.8 hours ago

Then things got ugly. Around 3:15, Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed, evidently by a security guard.

I don't know how this hoax could be exposed any better. WTFU people, you are being played.
https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=6NMK57Y5A924

Twodees Partain , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:16 pm GMT • 6.6 hours ago
@Franklin Ryckaert

If the attack on the Capitol was already so clumsy and ineffective, how could those same people succeed in the much more difficult task of seccession?

You're assuming that the phony attack was planned by the people who would be involved in a secession movement. I haven't seen any evidence that it was.

Anonymous [144] Disclaimer , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:54 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago

Cui Bono? The Key to 6 January is what did NOT happen. The two houses of congress had gone off to hear, separately, in public broadcast, evidence from objecting congressmen that there was massive electoral fraud to criminally deliver the election to Biden. MSM transmitted the opening statements to the debate by McConnell and Schumer. These two said that there was no election fraud. MSM then pulled away when the other congressmen started presenting the view that there WAS fraud. Although MSM was not going to carry what the people are not supposed to know, and filled in instead with their own propagandists and the Party Line, the proceedings examining election fraud would have been seen by some of the public through the internet streams and C-Span. This was clear evidence which the courts should have heard, but refused to hear. BUT, instead of Congress publicly hearing evidence, the hearings abruptly STOPPED. Why? The Capitol police, following instructions, opened the barricades and waved the demonstrators to come in. The demonstrators were guided to the spot where the Deep State assassin was waiting. A person was shot. After that, there were NO MORE discussions of election fraud. Biden was confirmed without the airing of evidence of fraud. 6 January was a simple, but elegant, Deep State SETUP. A psyop. The American people have been, once again, deceived. Once everybody submits to vaccination there will never again be disputed elections, just like in the third world.

anastasia , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:01 pm GMT • 4.8 hours ago

Correction: The media said that the policeman "collapsed when he got back to the Precinct. .that he MAY have been hit with a fire extinguisher." It was not reported as fact. No other subsequent report abouthow he died albeit it should have been established by now.

The second poilce officer who the media says was "killed" by the "riots" was a man who we heard nothing about on the date of the event, but who, five days later, committed suicide. The suicide story is not speculation. It was given as a fact. They call this suicide a "killing" because of the riots. It is more likely a police officer shooting his mouth off about these lies,who, five days later was suicided.

This summer and fall at least a dozen police officers were killed. Many more were injured. One got his eye knocked out. Many were very gravely injured. The government officials applauded their killers, posted bail for them, and every step of the way government officials "incited the violence".

Trump made a speech in front of his supporters laying out the evidence of the election fraud. He was complaining about the election fraud, a fraud that was never scutinized or investigated by anyone except his own lawyers and a few other lawyers, like Sidney Powell. They want to impeach him for publicly complaining about their stealing the election from him. It's like someone getting their home stolen, and when the victim publicly complains, he is threatened with arrest.

Again, they fundament their impeachment grounds on the "insurrection" of January 6, but again, like the election fraud, no one has scrutinized or conducted the most cursory investigation of it The fact that we still don't know how that policeman died is telling. The speculations made about him getting hit by a fire extinguisher are still floating around when at this point, it should be an established fact how he died. The dopiest doctor in this country would be able to diagnose a trauma to the head or body, if there were any physical trauma of that kind.

Two people died from natural causes. Yet, no details are given. One woman, age 34 and overweight was said to have been "trampled by the mob." Minutes after her death her family and closest friends were bad mouthing her, saying that she was mentally unstable, a conspiracy theorist, and "had problems in the past." She just died shortly before, and that was their public statements about their dearest friend and family member.

Ashli Babbits death was a provocative act that would have encouraged Trump supporters to turn on the police. It is no coincidence that those around her breaking windows, and screaming that she was dead when she was not, also provoked the crowds of Trump supporters. They are seen clearly on the video near Ashli not only breaking windows but changing their clothes after they had done so to hide their identification. This is clearly seen on the video. One guy provoking the crowds, breaking windows and screaming that Ashli was dead when she was not, was clearly Antifa, proven to be Antifa by video evidence. Yet, after January 6, he was interviewed by CNN. Clearly, the Antifa provocateur was not arrested by the Washington police or the FBI, but at least 6 Trump supporters were arrested for breaking curfew after 6 p.m. when all that happened at the Capitol was over. Those six were the first arrested – for breaking curfew. I do not find it a coincidence that both Ashli Babbitt and those breaking the windows around her, and screaming that she was dead when she was not, all acted to provoke the crowds and were all proven to be Antifa members. Was it coincidence that Ashli Babbitt's getting shot also acted as an unwitting provocateur, along with the Antifa members around her in the Capitol that day? Or was both Ashli and Antifa working for our security agencies that day, all playing their roles as agents provocateurs.

Why wouldn't the DOJ and FBI investigate the election fraud? Was it because the government did it? That would be a good reason not to investigate. Sidney Powell has produced an affidavit from a Serb who said it was the CIA who oversaw the manipulation of the US voting machines from Serbia, a country completely taken over by the CIA. He also writes about Hunter Biden's clandestine trip there in August 2020 to meet with these people.

Ugetit , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:13 pm GMT • 4.6 hours ago
@shylockcracy

Whoever didn't develop a sense of humor with your Ziocorporate fraud reality TV show president posing as patriot anti-deep maverick ain't gonna do it now.

Quite right. Unfortunately.

Thomasina , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:30 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago
@Whitewolf

Yes, the coup and insurrection had ALREADY happened.

The coup and insurrection happened when the Democrats AND Republicans rigged the election. Democratic state courts and election officials changed voting laws, and Republican state legislatures looked the other way.

NOVEMBER 3, 2020 COUP.

gleongelpi , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:46 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago

You are wrong on so many counts. The event was not spontaneous, that is quite clear when the guards let the protesters in and they mostly went inside peacefully while a handful of rioters did minimal damage. Some Antifas, yeah, for sure. But someone stole Pelosi's computer or did they? That smacks of a plan. It achieved the objectives of the groups on the inside. The marchers that went inside had to have been, for the most part, surprised that they were welcomed. Did you see how they walked in between the purple ropes? Took photographs and selfies, some of these with the guards? Did you see the videos of some of the protesters stopping the people trying to break the glass windows? ...

Curmudgeon , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:47 pm GMT • 3.1 hours ago
@Thomasina

This is a very interesting video.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5nvqvvsqJ_s?feature=oembed

Trinity , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 7:58 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago

I see "anti-Semitism" has made it to the floor during these impeachment hearings. LMAO. I would guess that 97% of Trump's base is the muh Israel crowd and Trump is as pro-Israel, pro-Jewish as it gets.

Even more laughable is Maxine Waters standing up and decrying violence. I guess Maxine has a very selective memory. All these demsheviks and the gay guys over at CNN who had no problem with Antifa/BLM are now staunch advocates for the Constitution and have a problem with riots. How in the hell do these cretins live with themselves? Have these hypocrites no shame? It can't be said enuff that Antifa/BLM's and (((the leftoids))) fingerprints are all over these riots. This is the new 9-11, folks, don't believe your lying eyes. Look at some of those scraggly people busting windows and attacking cops? Do they look like the average Trump voter? Do these young punks scaling the walls look like the average Trump voter?

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 8:15 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago

The democratic party is now pretending to "call out" the "white supremacists" in Congress. Even if there were "white supremacists" in Congress, they would be not one bit different from "brown supremacists", "black supremacists","yellow supremaicsts", if by "supremacists" is meant politicians that belong to the Hispanic caucus, Black caucus or Asian caucus , ALL of whom claim to be looking out for the welfare of their respective group.

This is of course what is going on here. The democratic party politicians, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and the whole left has been race baiting against white people as a default manner of doing politics for over sixty years now. It is the fault of the FAUX REPUBLICAN PARTY, that has been posing as conservatives who many whites believe "have their backs", against the hate and shenanigans the anti-white left perpetrates. THEY ARE WRONG. We see plainly now, that what the U.S. has is a uni-party, that is left and far left and includes good old Republican RINO's, but the left and far left is used by the elite to keep and gain control of the U.S. for their own agenda. The idea now operating is to belittle, denigrate and cow white folks as never before, because many of the protesters at the recent "event", scared the living bleep out of the politicians who have simply not been representing them. The corporations and tech moguls,etc. are not taking the side of the left because they are "better" citizens or politicians than people on the right side of the political spectrum. They take the side of the left because that is where these corporations know that the radical Americans are, the ones that burn, loot and murder and therefore can be used to divide the nation for the big corporations and tech moguls,etc. Any honest person that considers what happened at the so called violent demonstration in D.C. knows that compared to the violence that ANTIFA, BLM and other groups perpertrated on innocent Americans last summer, knows perfectly well that there is no comparison. The anti-white left, enabled by the democratic party and the news media, IN SERVICE OF THE U.S. ELITE. BURNED, LOOTED AND MURDERED THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA for months, WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD FROM PELOSI, SCHUMER, BIDEN HARRIS, ETC.

The simple fact is that these D.C. politicians were scared shitless by some plain American citizens, who finally felt they needed to meet these representatives that keep ignoring and abusing them. The wrong people are being blamed here.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 8:26 pm GMT • 1.4 hours ago

"Lessons from the Trumpistan Coup"

Before reading this article, the reader might consider the fact that there was NO COUP, by the accepted meaning that the word "coup" denotes. Now, if the fake news media and the democratic party want to explain the event by bending the facts and actual events to fit their own interpretation of it, that's a problem due to their dishonesty.

[Jan 13, 2021] Parler co-founder is Rebekah Mercer

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

geokat62 , says: January 13, 2021 at 12:53 am GMT • 3.4 hours ago

@Art istently pushed a Zionist worldview and support for Israel's nationalist prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as opposition to Islamic extremism and ISIS.

While the Mercers have helped aid President Trump and other American nationalists, it is clear they are doing so not out of a traditionalist worldview, but to push their own agenda.

https://www.returnofkings.com/131883/meet-the-billionaire-jewish-family-funding-breitbart-and-milo-yiannopoulos

[Jan 13, 2021] This is the very first time in recent US history that a small cabal of "deep insiders" have achieved such total control of all the real instruments of power.

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Miro23 , says: January 12, 2021 at 10:28 pm GMT • 5.8 hours ago

This is the very first time in recent US history that a small cabal of "deep insiders" have achieved such total control of all the real instruments of power. The bad news is that they know that they are a small minority and they realize that they need to act fast to secure their hold on power.

I would take this as the key phrase.

When the small minority if Bolshevik radicals forced their way into power in Russia 1917, they were also very aware that they were a small cabal of "deep insiders" and immediately set out to arrest or simply shoot their opponents (ethnic Russians) to fortify their dictatorship. Plus ASAP they turned this into a process of mass transportation and imprisonment .

I would expect the new Woke US ZioGob regime to do exactly the same, and move fast against the "deplorables".

How that works out is the big question.

[Jan 13, 2021] Trump is the "useful idiot" He supplied a sink in which your discontentments can be tendered into anger, then the anger can be drained.

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

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shylockcracy , says: January 12, 2021 at 7:18 am GMT • 21.0 hours ago

There's a lot of delusion and confusion in this article. The US has never been a "democracy", and if it ever was a republic, that's not been the case for no less than the 150 years since Lobbyington D.C. was incorporated, not counting the incorporation of the dollar in 1913.

The Saker is making the circus shitshow sound like the Trumpet was a simple victim of the evil Democrats when in reality he's a Ziocorporate fraud that's spent the last 4 years trying to destroy the possibility that Americans, left or right, associate with each other to protect their interests as individuals and as a society.

Domestic issues allow the Ziocorporate regime to pretend there're "rival" parties in the US, but sell weapons to Ziodi Arabia or bomb Syria and CNN/Ziocorporate will reveal their true nature and praise the Trumpet for doing "the right thing". Their "rivalry" goes as far as necessary to capture the partisan sentitments of their respective political markets.

Trumpet had 4 years to use antitrust laws against Ziocorporate monopolies, to start contacts between his constituency and whatever Democrat and/or independent factions were willing to come to the table to devise a way forward to "MAGA", to expose the multi-trillion $$ corruption of the Pentagon and its contractors, and a long etc., but zero, zilch, nada.

Trumpet and the Democrats set up and sacrificed the Qtard/MAGA crowds in D.C., did he really expect the Democrats not to treat his idiotic partisans as "terrorists" when he treated the Democrat's idiotic partisans as terrorists during the riots a few months back? Now the people are more radicalised than ever and it'll be harder to find common ground.

Does the Saker really think that progressive anti-war movements, for an example, trying to protest in federal property won't be treated as "domestic terrorists", thanks to Trump's manipulation of his Qtart bunch?

The Trumpet reeks of COINTELPRO, and his work is done.

[Jan 13, 2021] What to do with big tech octopus

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

John Regan , says: January 12, 2021 at 2:22 pm GMT • 13.9 hours ago

@anarchyst hen made public utilities available for all (obviously without compensation to the owners). No more of the sad "private company" excuse, and no more billions into the pockets of criminals who hate us.

Also, make Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Pichai et al. serve serious jail time for election tampering if nothing else. Both to send out a clear warning to others, and for the simple decency to see justice served.

Of course this will not happen short of a French Revolution-style regime shift. But since (sadly) the same is equally true even for your extremely generous and modest proposal, I see no harm in dreaming a little bigger.

[Jan 13, 2021] Trump is a larger than life figure you must either love or loathe. I was impressed by his inaugural address but skeptical of his intent and his ability to deliver. Yes, it is true the one great thing he has done is to wake millions of Americans to the reality that an unelected government makes all the important policy decisions with no concern for the consent of the governed. And this is a real game changer.

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Observator , says: January 12, 2021 at 1:04 pm GMT • 15.2 hours ago

Well put article, thank you. Personally, I suspect that for once the bumbling incompetent Democrats out-faked the vote better than the Republicans, for whom sabotaging the will of the people is historically Job No. 1. Maybe seventeen million fake Biden votes trounced ten million phony Trump votes delivered by the ever-reliable electronic voting machines, and there you go. Like the man said, if voting could make a difference, it would not be legal.

Trump is a larger than life figure you must either love or loathe. I was impressed by his inaugural address but skeptical of his intent and his ability to deliver. Yes, it is true the one great thing he has done is to wake millions of Americans to the reality that an unelected government makes all the important policy decisions with no concern for the consent of the governed. And this is a real game changer.

It is sickening to watch the demonization of our fellow Americans in high gear this week. The CIA's media assets are certainly earning their thirty pieces of silver. The media shows us images of the "rioters" who terrified their owners, and assumes we will obediently get scared of them too. No, fellas, not this time.

This system cannot be reformed from within. Its corruption is the logical result of keeping an obsolete form of government to run a 21st century post-capitalist global empire. It was devised by eighteenth century aristocrats primarily not to interfere with their local class privilege in a tiny agrarian country. We are again at a point in our history where the contradictions are too great to sustain. We will either become all of one thing, or all of the other, but we cannot continue to pretend that Washington as it is has anything to do with liberty. In my youth, I thought a socialist revolution would do the job, but since there is zero support for such a thing among a thoroughly indoctrinated population, we'll have to work with what we've got. Our survival, and the world's, is at stake.

[Jan 13, 2021] It is so good if the USA disappear of the most powerful nation on the Earth?

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Ultrafart the Brave , says: Website January 12, 2021 at 12:13 pm GMT • 16.1 hours ago

@Zarathustra lace?

History has other notable analogs to instruct us in this matter. Recall how the Western powers planned to annihilate their WWII ally Russia once their common foe Germany had been dealt with.

Complacency in games of Empire is ill-advised. What's the end-game? What does Bibi have to say about the USA in particular and the Goyim in general?

And so if all Americans whites will perish, so what? Who cares!

For starters, probably them. Such a lack of empathy for innocent victims, as ignorant and niaive and inactively complicit as they arguably may be, is IMO strikingly reminiscent of the inhuman Israeli attitude towards the Palestinians.

So let's be honest here, who's your Daddy?

[Jan 13, 2021] Coming attempt of purge

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Anonymous [148] Disclaimer , says: January 12, 2021 at 10:03 am GMT • 18.3 hours ago

I see this article is quite relevant to another one on a different blog that I have been fruitlessly attempting to comment upon. It keeps getting disappeared immediately and not even sent to moderation where normally all submissions first go. Have had that trouble two days running on two different articles about i) the impending crackdowns on free speech and ii) the planned purge of Republican officeholders by the triumphalist Clinton/Obama/Biden mob. I'll go with my remarks on the coming attempt at a purge since it is closer to the Saker's treatment of the Nomenklatura (cognate to "nomenclature" specifying ordered classes of things, including people or their offices, in English) or in American street language simply identifying who is a "made man," i.e., an untouchable in the mafia. Yeah, the Dem hierarchy are sure feeling they are all made men (and women) following the set to in the Capitol which they most possibly facilitated and have certainly exploited to the limit.

Diana Johnstone authored the article which was titled "Biden Exploits his Capitol Gains" and may be found at CN.

Ms. Johnstone only hints at the plans that Biden and the DNC have to essentially purge the Republican party from our federal government.

Since I'm still a registered Democrat, I received literally thousands of emails throughout the campaign from Dem candidates across the country, most of whom I had never heard about before, incessantly trying to pump me for money and organize with them to crush Trump and other Republican vermin.

Even before the bruhaha in the Capitol Building on January 6th had settled down I started to receive a new flood of emails from Democratic sources imploring me to aid them financially and "morally" to extirpate not only Trump from office in these last two weeks of his term, but to punish virtually every prominent GOP politician also with forced removal from office. Ted Cruz (whose strident right wing rhetoric I have never personally favored but recognise as protected free speech) and the dozen or so senators and representatives who dared to utilise the specified remedies outlined in the constitution to challenge the results of the electoral college votes were targeted as basically enemies of the state with calls for their immediate resignation or expulsion by congressional action. I've seen no evidence that either Mr. Trump nor any of these legislators requested that the demonstrators break the law or attempt the impossible and try to overthrow the government, which is the most heinous accusation that Biden and his minions make. It would seem that Mr. Biden already had a "counter-coup" working at his behest.

I swear, several of the emails I received spoke of permanently crushing the Republican opposition for good! Obviously Uncle Joe's minions choose not to practice what they preach and his calls for "unity" and comity are basically a load of bushwah. If the readers need evidence, I've cut and pasted from just one such email that I have not yet permanently deleted from my files, to wit:

" AFTER lives were lost in an attempted coup at the Capitol, after walking through destroyed halls and ransacked offices, after explosive devices were removed, 147 Republicans in Congress still voted to overturn the results of the 2020 elections and sided with Donald Trump in order to complete the coup.

The dangerous rhetoric the likes of Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Donald Trump, Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan and others used has resulted in months of death threats against election, public health, and government officials.

They urged Trump supporters to rise up and fight against a "stolen" election, even though none of them contested the integrity of their own re-elections.

It culminated in the first violent occupation of the U.S. Capitol in more than 200 years and nearly resulted in the slaughtering of elected officials by armed insurrectionists.

These Republicans sided with terrorists and White supremacists against our democracy: They do not deserve to collect a taxpayer-provided salary nor deserve the dignity of serving in the very Government they tried to overthrow.

Join Cori Bush and Democrats all across the nation to remove the Republicans who incited a violent coup from office. "

Honestly, this is not the most inflammatory of the rhetoric sent my way by unabashed authoritarians who have not the slightest understanding that they are adopting the exact behavior they are accusing others of practicing. Note how they kneejerk conflate protest of possible election fraud (which is a debatable issue if there is hard evidence to present) with terrorism and purported "white supremacy," apparently a trump card which never has to be acutally shown in this game. They not only want to democratically defeat the "deplorables" at the ballot box but to purge them by force from any national debates over the issues of the day. Mind you, I am still NOT a Republican because I mostly oppose their warmongering and looting of the treasury at the behest of their cronies just as much as I've come to revile the nearly identical actions of the Dems. My opposition to the blatant hyper-partisanship of both sides is not itself rooted in partisanship. I think the founding fathers should have followed Washington's advice and outlawed political parties period. Moreover, money is NOT free speech and corporations are NOT people. Neither should control the process, which, unfortunately, they both do. But those are issues to be debated at some other time probably when we are reduced to a one party state if Biden or his successor gets a really effective purge going.

TRM , says: January 13, 2021 at 12:09 am GMT • 4.2 hours ago

The owners of America have decided. You plebes will do as you are told and the owners will do what they want. Trump's owners, the military industrial complex and the zionist lobby, have thrown him under the bus. Bummer dude but you don't get to be "the one". It is so easy to manipulate ego maniacs.

What deal did they cut with Biden's owners (media (all 6), med-mafia (pharma on top), tech and CIA+lawfare (DOJ, FBI, IRS))?

1) Biden will NOT end the sanctions against Iran. He may say "we'll negotiate" but it will drag on forever.

2) The MIC gets to keep the "civilian special forces" and most importantly control of the NSA.

So after doing all the dirty work Trump gets thrown under the bus. LMAO. Will he be a broken man like LBJ or Nixon or will he drift off into irrelevance like most of the rest?

The central banking cartel gets what it wants (all FED chair positions, Secretary of Treasury) for its people from both parties so they control the money which controls all else. They have supported Bolsheviks, fascists and FDR so they have no political affiliation other than to themselves. They are the true party of power.

Forced vaccinations, tracking and rigged "science" to justify everything are going to get worse. To all those who think you will get a "Socialist Republic" get a grip. You will get Chinese capitalism. The worst of both worlds. Single party dictatorship and the most exploitative capitalist system ever. It makes the robber barons of the late 1800's roll over in their graves in awe. The left owners worship the Chinese model.

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTuPFeaD3U"

"Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands"

shylockcracy , says: January 13, 2021 at 12:33 am GMT • 3.8 hours ago

Thank the great populist patriot, the Trumpet! Saved everyone from the Deepstate Democrats by uniting the Deepstate Democrats and the war-profiteering and surveillance machine in purpose. What a strategist!

Now the Pentagon and 3-letter intelligence agencies can start harassing and framing all Americans, of the left and right, mind you, that dissent from the Ziocorporate regime's party line.

This very website might find itself in the spotlight for its freer approach to speech as Ziocorporate data miners must by now already have all they need to move on to a more aggressive phase of "anti-terrorism" at home.

" US military chiefs condemn Capitol riot as 'sedition' & urge troops to 'stay ready' ahead of inauguration in rare political letter "
https://www.rt.com/usa/512334-joint-chiefs-capitol-riot/

[Jan 13, 2021] The physical means of communication are owned and patrolled by the government, and it looks like explicit Right organizations communication will be outlawed

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

StAugustine , says: January 12, 2021 at 9:08 am GMT • 19.2 hours ago

https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/12/the-seed-from-which-the-sons-of-liberty-grew/

Now that the tech companies are coming out in the open, the parallels with the American Revolution are more appropriate I think. The key to the success of the American revolution was the involvement of successful businessmen, probably for profit and for ideological reasons both. They probably saw the taxation without representation measures continuing, perhaps with the US becoming as oppressed as Scotland (not sure how many Irish were in the colonies in the beginning – but the Scots were certainly there, and perhaps a better analogy)

The linking between the money and mob power (not mafia), as best known through the Loyal Nine and their street muscle, the South Enders is what birthed the revolution. This evolved into the Committees of Correspondence, which was more respectable and took care of the organization and coordination. The Sons of Liberty took more care of the street muscle, evolving into an organized militia (or perhaps just a Rabble in Arms..)

Today, the same problem exists – the physical means of communication are owned and patrolled by the government, and it looks like explicit Right communication will be outlawed. This is the first problem, establishing communications. The second is money – how to provide support and cover (plenty of incidents with identified people, such as the Gaspee Affair – you needed alibis for people in trouble, or lawyers get them out again). Finally, you need street muscle, and later military muscle to capture strategic assets (arms and supply depots), and also the ability to buy external support That's the big risk – inviting in an external actor. Would the revolution been different if French regulars had been sent, not just Prussian mercenaries?

Anyway, the need for secure comms on enemy platforms is the most important and not without risk. The committees of Correspondence functioned as servers to distribute comms. Capture or destruction of these servers I imagine was a high priority for the government.

But can you imagine, these merchants thought they could resist the might of the British Empire! I think that at the beginning they must have thought that they could put pressure on the local officials to make some changes – things kept escalating, and we end up with the Declaration of Independence.

[Jan 13, 2021] Tucker obsession with china

Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

Realist , says: January 12, 2021 at 3:36 pm GMT • 12.7 hours ago

FoxNews finally showed its true face during the election steal when it declared that Trump had lost the election long before any evidence in support of this thesis materialized.

For those that paid attention to Fox News, especially daytime and weekend Fox News its true face has been obvious for some time.

It is now abundantly clear that with a few exceptions (notably Tucker Carlson), FoxNews is very much on the same page as CNN and the rest of them.

While Carlson is not the worst on Fox News he is not a friend. His obsession with the China bad narrative is over the top. He is playing the GOP Inc side of the Deep State coin.

The A block last night was Carlson reiterating over and over, that he and Fox News were against violence like that at the Capitol. He stated that violence from the left was also wrong but that violence from the right was not the answer of course like most articles on this blog, he didn't say what the answer was.

[Jan 13, 2021] The Mob Did Not Win!, by The Saker

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... I have, for some time, been mis-naming the Nomenklatura as the Politburo, with the commune being the many tentacled international banking cartel. ..."
Jan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com

FoxNews finally showed its true face during the election steal when it declared that Trump had lost the election long before any evidence in support of this thesis materialized. It is now abundantly clear that with a few exceptions (notably Tucker Carlson), FoxNews is very much on the same page as CNN and the rest of them. So what just happened and what is taking place now?

Americans have been brainwashed into calling things they don't like, or don't understand, as "Socialist" or even "Marxist". The sad reality is that most Americans sincerely believe that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders are "socialists", and when they see modern movies ridiculously filled with "minorities" and gender fluid freaks – this is a case of "cultural Marxism" (a totally meaningless term, by the way!). This is all utter nonsense, neither Marxism nor Socialism have anything to do with BLM, Antifa, Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer (in fact, Marxism places a premium on real law and order!). I can't take the time and space here to discuss Marxism, but I do believe that there is one analytical tool which we can borrow from Marxist thought to try to make sense of what just happened in the USA. Let's begin by asking a simple question:

If "the mob" did not win, who did?

Most certainly not the abstract concept of "law and order". For one thing, it is now abundantly clear that some cops deliberately let a (rather small) subset of protestors not only across police lines but even inside the Capitol Building itself. That is not exactly law and order, now is it? Furthermore, it is now also clear that Ashli Babbitt was very deliberately shot by an (apparently black) cop who was then quickly hidden away from sight by the authorities. Not exactly law and order either.

Neither did the abstract concept of "democracy" win anything that day. Many protesters were recorded saying that the Capitol building belonged to the people, not to the people working in it on behalf of the people. They are right. But even if we accept the notion that those who entered the building were trespassing, the massive crackdown on free speech which immediately followed the events at the Capitol is a clear sign that "democracy" did not win that day. More about that later.

So who won?

Well, look who is celebrating and who is now demanding that punitive and even repressive measures be taken against Trump supporters:

here and here ) The Russia-hating Lobby Antifa/BLM/etc The many freaks of nature leading various "minorities" Big Tech megacorporations a la Google and Amazon

The list is longer, of course, and it includes pretty much all the folks afflicted with the now famous Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

Our list looks like a cocktail of very different actors, but is that really the case?

I submit that if we look closely at this list of possible "winners" we can quickly see that we are dealing with a single social category /group whose "diversity" is only apparent. Here is what all these groups have in common:

They are numerically small, definitely a minority They are very wealthy They are very close to the real centers of power They share the same narcissistic (Neocon) ideology of self-worship They are driven by the same hate-based ideology of revenge They don't care about the people of the USA They want to dismantle the US Constitutional order

On the basis of these common characteristics, I believe that we can speak about a social class united by a common ideology .

Now, of course, in the plutocratic oligarchy (which the United States in reality is), the notion of "class" has been declared heretical and it has been replaced by identity politics – the best way for a ruling class to (a) hide behind a fake illusion of pluralism and (b) to divide the people and rule over them.

I have already written about what I consider to be a US version of the Soviet Nomenklatura , a special ruling class which was official in the (comparatively much more honest) Soviet system but which is always hidden from sight by the rulers of the United States.

The actual word we use are not that important: Nomenklatura , class, caste, establishment, powers that be, deep state, etc. – they all approximate the reality of a small gang of self-declared "elites" (as opposed to the "deplorables") ruling with total impunity and no checks and balances mitigating their de facto dictatorship. Some well-intentioned people began speaking about the "1%" – which is not bad, even if the actual figure is even smaller than just one percent. Others used "Wall Street" (as in the "occupy WS" movement), again – not a bad attempt to describe the problem. Whatever the terms you chose, what is certain is that this entity has what Marx would call a " class consciousness " which produces a single " class ideology " characterized by an extremely strong sense of "us versus them" .

By the way, while I disagree with any notion that the US Nomenklatura is Marxist or Socialist in any way, I very much agree that these "elites" are displaying an ideological zeal very similar to what Trotskysts or Nazis typically exhibit, especially when confronted with the "deplorables" or, like FoxNews says, the "mob" (the Polish word " bydło " – cattle – very accurately renders this contempt for the masses).

In fact, they see us all as their "class enemy" . And they are quite correct, by the way.

Their ideology is messianic, racist, violent and hate filled while the members of this US Nomenklatura see themselves as the cream of the crop, the "chosen people", whose "destiny" is to rule over the "dark and primitive" "mob".

This contempt for the "mob" is something which self-described "liberals" always try to conceal, but which always comes out, be it in 1917 Russia or in 2021 USA. There is a weird logic to this, by the way. It goes something like this: " we are clearly superior to the plebes, yet these plebes seem to reject that notion, these plebes are therefore a "dark mob" which absolutely needs to be strictly ruled by us ". The underlying assumption is that plebes are dangerous, they can always riot and threaten "us". Hence the need for a police state. QED.

We all remember how the Clinton gang was mega-super-sure that Hillary would easily defeat Trump. And just to make darn sure that the US "plebes" don't do anything stupid, the US legacy corporate ziomedia engaged in probably the most hysterical candidate bashing propaganda operation in history only to find out that the "deplorables" did not vote as they were told to, they voted for "Trump The New Hitler" instead.

What a truly unforgivable affront of these serfs against the masters which God, or Manifest Destiny, placed above them!

And just as their pseudo-liberal colleagues from the past, the US liberals decided that this vote was a slap in their face which, of course, is quite correct (I still believe that most votes for Trump where not votes for Trump, but votes against Hillary); it was, so to speak, a gigantic "f**k you!" from the revolting serfs against their masters. And class consciousness told the US Nomenklatura that this was an anti-masters pogrom , a US " Jacquerie " if you wish. This "revolt of the serfs" had to be put down, immediately, and it was: Trump caved to the Neocons in less than a month (when he betrayed General Flynn) and ever since the US Nomenklatura has been using Trump as a disposable President who would do all the crazy nonsense imaginable to please Israel, and who would then be disposed off. And yet it is now quite clear that the US "deplorables" voted for the "wrong" candidate again! Hence the need for a (very poorly concealed) "election steal" followed by a "test of loyalty" (you better side with us, or else ) which eventually resulted in the situation we have today.

What is that situation exactly?

Simply put, this time the US Nomenklatura has truly achieved total power. Not only do they control all three of the official branches of government, they now also fully control the 4th one, the "media space", courtesy of the US tech giants which now are openly silencing anybody who disagrees with the One And Only Official Truth As Represented By The Propaganda Outlets. This is the very first time in recent US history that a small cabal of "deep insiders" have achieved such total control of all the real instruments of power. The bad news is that they know that they are a small minority and they realize that they need to act fast to secure their hold on power. But for that they needed a pretext.

It is hardly surprising that after successfully pulling off the 9/11 false flag operation, the US Nomenklatura had no problems whatsoever pulling off the "Capitol" false flag.

Think about it: the legally organized and scheduled protest of Trump supporters was announced at least a week before it had to take place. How hard was it for those in charge of security to make sure that the protesters stay in one specific location? At the very least, those in charge of security could have done what Lukashenko eventually did in Mink: place military and police forces around all the important symbolic buildings and monuments and say "you are welcome to protest, but don't even think of trying to take over any government property" (that approach worked much better than beating up protesters, which Lukashenko initially had tried). Yet what we saw was the exact opposite: in DC protesters were invited across police lines by cops. Not only that, but even those protesters which did enter the Capitol were, apparently, not violent enough, so it had to be one of the cops to shoot an unarmed and clearly non-dangerous woman, thereby providing the "sacrificial victim" needed to justify the hysterics about "violence" and "rule of law".

And the worst part is that it worked, even Trump ended up condemning the "violence" and denouncing those who, according to Trump, did not represent the people.

The hard truth is much simpler: the "stop the steal" protestors did not commit any real violence! Yes, they broke some furniture, had some fights with cops (who initially were inviting people in, only to then violently turn against them with batons, pepper sprays and flash-bang grenades). Some reports say that one cop was hit by a fire extinguisher. If true, that would be a case of assault with a deadly weapon (under US law any object capable of being used to kill can be considered a deadly weapon when used for that purpose). But considering the nonstop hysteria about guns, the NRA and "armed militias", this was clearly not a planned murder. Finally, a few people died, apparently from natural causes, possibly made worse by the people trampling over each other. In other words, the Trump supporters did not kill anybody deliberately, at most they can be accused of creating the circumstances which resulted in manslaughter. That was not murder. Not even close. Want to see what a planned murder looks like? Just look at the footage of the Ashli Babbitt murder by some kind of armed official. That is real murder, and it was committed by a armed official. So which side is most guilty of violating laws and regulations?

Furthermore, no moral value can be respected unless it is universally and equally applied. Which, considering that the US deep state has engaged in a full year of wanton mass violence against hundreds of innocent US citizens makes it unbelievably hypocritical for the US liberals to denounce "the mob" now. Frankly, the way I see it, all the US liberals should now "take a knee" before the pro-Trump protestors and declare that this was a "mostly peaceful" event which, objectively speaking, it was .

Won't happen. I know.

What will happen next is going to be a vicious crackdown on free speech in all its forms . In fact, and just to use a Marxist notion, what comes next is class warfare .

We have all seen Pelosi and the rest of them demanding that Trump either be removed by Pence and the Cabinet (25th A.), or they will unleash another impeachment. First, if impeached, Trump won't be able to run in 2024 (which the liberals fully realize is a major risk for them). But even more important, is to humiliate him, make him pay, show him once and for all "who is boss"! These people thrive on revenge and victory is never enough to appease them, they simply hate anybody who dares oppose them and they want to make an example of any and every serf who dares to disobey them. That is why they always send "messages", no matter how inchoate: they want to bully all the deplorables on the planet into total subservience.

But they won't stop with just Trump. Oh no! They will also go after all those serfs who dared defy this Nomenklatura and who objected to the wholesale repudiation of the US Constitution. For example, in a truly Orwellian move, the NY State Bar now wants to disbar Giuliani for acting as Trump's lawyer (not a joke, check here ). Which, considering that Trump already lost several lawyers to such tactics should not come as a surprise to anybody: apparently, in the "new 2021 Woke-USA", some are more entitled to legal representation than others.

Don't expect the ACLU to protest, by the way – equal protection under the law is not a topic of interest to them. Here are a few screenshots take off their website , so see for yourself.

Clearly, the priority for the folks at the ACLU is to destroy Trump and anybody daring to take up his defense.

One one hand, this is truly an absolute disaster, because when the US ruling Nomenklatura agrees to drop any past pretenses of objectivity, or even decency, things will definitely get ugly. On the other hand, however, this immense "coming out" of the US Nomenklatura is, of course, unsustainable (just look at history, every time these folks thought that they had crushed the "plebes", the latter ended up rising and showing their supposed "masters" to the door; this will happen here too).

Last, but not least, let's keep another crucial thing in mind: even if you absolutely hate Trump, you really should realize that it is not just "the vote" which was stolen, it was the entire US Constitutional order . While we often focus on the SCOTUS, we should not remember the many lower courts which showed a total absence of courage or dignity and which caved in to the hysterical demands of the US Nomenklatura . It is impossible to have a country under the rule of law when the courts shy away from their obligation to uphold the said rule of law and, instead, place political expediency above the letter and spirit of the law.

Furthermore, when concepts such as "legal" and "illegal" lose any objective meaning, how can any action be considered illegal or punishable?

Here is, just as an example, the Oath of Office taken by all Supreme Court Justices: (emphasis added)

"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich , and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."

And this is what each member of the US Armed Forces swears: (emphasis added)

"I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (So help me God)."

It does not take a genius to figure out that the SCOTUS is now in the hands of a small cabal of people who clearly are "domestic enemies" of the US Constitution.

Finally, here is what the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence states: (emphasis added)

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it , and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

I don't think that there is any need to further beat this dead horse and I will simply summarize it as so:

The regime which will soon replace the Trump Administration is an illegal occupation government, with strong ties to foreign interests (and I don't mean China or Russia here!), which all those who served in the US military have taken an oath to oppose; this is precisely the kind of occupation regime which the Founding Fathers foresaw in their Declaration of Independence . Furthermore, the rule of law has clearly collapsed, at least on the federal level, this should give the states more freedom of movement to resist the decrees of this new regime (at least those states still willing and able to resist, I think of TX and FL here). The leaders of this US Nomenklatura understand this, at least on some level, and we should expect no decency from them; neither should we expect any mercy. Revenge is what fuels these ideology- and hate-filled people who loathe and fear all the rest of humanity because nobody is willing to worship them as our "lords and masters ". But this is also the beginning of their end.

Conclusion: now we are all Palestinians!

True, no "mob" won on the Capitol, unless we refer to the (disgraced, hated and useless) Congress as "the mob". And, of course, neither did "the people" or the protesters. The only real winner in this entire operation was the US deep state and the US Nomenklatura . But they did not win any war, only the opening battle of a war which will be much longer than what they imagine in their ignorance.

I have said it many times, Trump really destroyed the USA externally, in terms of world politics. The Dems have done the same thing, only internally. For example, Trump is the one who most arrogantly ignored the rule of law in international affairs, but it was the Dems who destroyed the rule of law inside the USA. It was Trump who with his antics and narcissistic threats urbi et orbi who destroyed any credibility left for the USA as a country (or even of the the AngloZionist Empire as a whole), but it was the Dems who really decided to sabotage the very political system which allowed them to seize power in the first place.

What comes next is the illegal rule of an illegitimate regime which came to power by violence (BLM, Antifa, Capitol false flag). This will be a Soviet-style gerontocracy with senile figureheads pretending to be in power (think Biden vs Chernenko here). Looking at the old, Obama-era, names which are circulated now for future Cabinet positions, we can bet on two things: the new rulers will be as evil as they will be grossly incompetent, mostly due to their crass lack of education (even Nuland and Psaki are back, it appears!). The Biden admin will be similar to the rule of Kerensky in "democratic" Russia: chaos, violence, lots and lots of speeches and total social and economic chaos. The next crucial, and even frightening, question now is: what will replace this US version of a Kerensky regime?

It is way too early to reply to this question, but we should at least begin to think about it, lest we be completely caught off guard.

But until then, "domestic terrorism" will, once again, become the boogeyman we will be told to fear. And, as all good boys and girls know, the best way to deal with such a horrible "domestic terrorism" threat is to dismantle the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution. Having corrupt kangaroo courts on all levels, from the small claims level to the Supreme court, will greatly help in this endeavor. Of course, there will be resistance from the deplorables who still love their country and their Constitution.

But no matter how long this takes (might be decades) and how violent this confrontation becomes (and, it will, if only because the regime vitally needs more false flags to survive!), what will happen with this occupation regime is what happened to all of them throughout history (could that be the reason why history is not taught anymore?).

As the Russian poet and bard, Vladimir Vissotski, wrote " it is impossible to trample upon souls with boots " (сапогами не вытоптать душу). Now we are all Palestinians. And we, like they, will win!

obwandiyag , says: January 12, 2021 at 3:36 am GMT • 1.0 days ago

Read this again, boneheads:

"Americans have been brainwashed into calling things they don't like, or don't understand, as "Socialist" or even "Marxist". The sad reality is that most Americans sincerely believe that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders are "socialists", and when they see modern movies ridiculously filled with "minorities" and gender fluid freaks – this is a case of "cultural Marxism" (a totally meaningless term, by the way!). This is all utter nonsense, neither Marxism nor Socialism have anything to do with BLM, Antifa, Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer (in fact, Marxism places a premium on real law and order!)."

anonymous [400] Disclaimer , says: January 12, 2021 at 5:11 am GMT • 23.1 hours ago

"class" has been declared heretical and it has been replaced by identity politics – the best way for a ruling class to (a) hide behind a fake illusion of pluralism and (b) to divide the people and rule over them

It's a neat bait and switch scheme, identity being substituted for class. Billionaires can now be hailed as people's champions by instituting 'gender-fluid' toilets and forcing their peons to kneel. Who knows how much force they'll be willing to use against the deplorables but probably it would know no limit. The shock and awe unleashed against foreign countries could now be instituted domestically with things like the Phoenix Program being tried here, among other things. Anything but relinquish power.

The old war-lovers are coming back in. Although he was considered belligerent the new regime will be worse. War is probably part of the future agenda. Solidifying it's grip upon the domestic population may be the precursor to embarking upon an unpopular and certain to be costly war against Iran or perhaps even some clash with Russia.

Faihtful , says: January 12, 2021 at 5:28 am GMT • 22.8 hours ago

The mob never wins. It is always led by the nose by well organised agents provocateur. See Epoch time video:


https://www.bitchute.com/embed/FrE27FTf11Q/

Old Man Turtle , says: January 12, 2021 at 5:40 am GMT • 22.6 hours ago

From the I Ching: "Large ambitions coupled with meager talent will seldom escape disaster."

The fervid machinations of the current crop of "self"-glorifying wannabes will not, as The Saker reminds us here, be any exception to the rule, either. They're hardly the first bunch of feckless opportunists to take a run at "full spectrum dominance" .aiming to trap Life Herownself within the suffocating CONfines of their own little nut'shell.

The rampant insanity symptomatic of their virulent "self"-sickness, as it runs its inevitable course, looks like being somewhat more than usually trying for the rest of us, though .given all the electro-mechanical and institutional enhancement available to them, for intensifying the degenerative effects of their folly. At the same time, our best response will be just what we all know is always organically and in all Ways imperative for our Kind, anyhow. All our precious attention is best devoted to taking care of the Earth and each other. Our unconditional affection is best lavished on this Living Creation, all our Relations, and The Great Spirit whose gift it is.

Mefobills , says: January 12, 2021 at 4:25 pm GMT • 11.9 hours ago

Nomenklatura is a bad analogy.

It is an Oligarchy of bond holders. I'm using the word bond as an stand-in for debt instruments, or any sort of claim on productivity. Bond/Bondage/Debt are all closely related concepts.

The entire Western World is inter-connected double-entry balance sheets.

One side of the balance sheet is "assets" and the other is "liabilities." One person's liability is another persons asset.

It is best to view the western world as a balance sheet, especially as private bank credit is the dominant money type of the west. Private banking and debt spreading has metastasized like a cancer, and is now consuming the host. Debt instruments and finance paper are being serviced in the finance sector with QE and 'CARES' act shenanigan's, which pays these finance "assets."

If you want to call the bond holders in finance and elsewhere as a nomenklatura, go ahead – but it obscures reality. These people are a class, a class of usurers, who are "taking" wealth in sordid ways by gaming the system.

All through history, plutocracy has arisen out of the population because debts were not annulled, or land was enclosed.

Oligarchs of various types are harvesting the world through various means, including the growth of debt claims. These claims grow exponentially, and outside of nature's ability to pay. The derivative bubble wants to be paid. What cannot go on, will not.

The balance sheet is not really balanced, one side (the debt instrument holder) is making exponential claims on debtors.

https://michael-hudson.com/2016/07/socrates-debt-and-the-cyclical-rise-and-fall-of-societies/

Moritz Hinsch from Berlin collected what Socrates (470-399 BC) and other Athenians wrote about debt, and the conference's organizer, Prof. John Weisweiler, presented the new view of late imperial Rome as being still a long way from outright serfdom. The 99 Percent were squeezed, but "the economy" grew – in a way that concentrated growth in the hands of the One Percent . In due course this bred popular resentment that spread in the form of debtor revolts, not only in the Roman Empire but that of Iran as well, leading to religious reforms to limit the charging of interest and self-indulgent greed in general.

By now Nazi references are getting thread-bare. We actually need to examine how the national socialists operated because their situation is analogous to today.

I very much agree that these "elites" are displaying an ideological zeal very similar to what Trotskysts or Nazis typically exhibit

National Socialism arose as a reaction to finance capitalism's excesses. The very things we are seeing today, were present in Weimar Germany. The country was being bought up, and the people were being denied their birthright. Self-indulgent greed of an arising Oligarchy was smashed by the National Socialists to then re-balance German civilization.

Nazi zeal restoring civilizational balance is quite something different than leftist bolshevism.

Curmudgeon , says: January 12, 2021 at 5:04 pm GMT • 11.2 hours ago
@Biff

I have, for some time, been mis-naming the Nomenklatura as the Politburo, with the commune being the many tentacled international banking cartel. It's the same crowd that funded the original Bolsheviks.
IMO they are only "Neo" by virtue of the old ones having died, but I'm not going to split hairs. We all know it is those whose loyalty is to a shitty little country on the Mediterranean.

Mefobills , says: January 12, 2021 at 5:47 pm GMT • 10.5 hours ago
@Anonymous ties extract, which makes politicians whores for their donor class. The donor class is the "holders of debt instruments" as I explained earlier. Or, they can be part of the military industrial complex, to then whore for more taxpayer dollars. In all cases it is for self aggrandizement. By the same reasoning, press-titutes are whores for their paymasters.

The easy money is taken in by usury or other sordid schemes; then donated/recycled into politicians, to then keep the game going. Average laboring people don't have this surplus wealth to donate.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fD6wxH5gIk8?start=2&feature=oembed

[Jan 11, 2021] Trump's talent has always been to goad his opponent into overplaying their hand

Jan 11, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

The healing is heading our way. Over the last few days I took a little time off from the 'net. Caught a re-run of Rumpole of the Bailey. "The Golden Thread" that runs through English common law. Good stuff, not taught in school nowadays. Too bad, really. Then I tried to catch up on all the goings on, and boy did somebody kick over the chamber pot ant hill. I'm barely keeping up.

"Not since Abraham Lincoln was smuggled into Washington has anyone assumed the presidency of a more divided and angry nation than Joe Biden. He brings with him a satchel full of scandals and an agenda of mumbled promises. His pledge to be the great healer rings hollow. His recent dishonest comments concerning Trump's advocacy of violence at the Capitol only proves the point. " "The elites have no idea how angry millions of Americans are." Quotes from above article in "free Republic" (see the link). Boy, there are some irritated people out there.

"Dear idiots, you're like the wife with her arm in a sling and both eyes blackened telling her husband "Please don't say anything to Joe. He'll be mad." Says woman and immigrant to America, now a citizen. "The 2020 election was a fraud -- and Congress including the Republicans -- are cool with that." To quote another blogger.

Meanwhile inside the Nation's Capital ..... it is, to quote Rumpole, a question of r loyalty.

... "We have Congress critters being hustled in panic down the escape hatch and out through the tunnels for their own protection from outraged American voters ." As one blogger put it . How DARE she say that.

...Those [pictures of summer riots] didn't age well. Remember though, police protection is for those who deserve it, as you saw in NYC.

Here in the Forbidden City we see members of the elite Praetorian Guard secret service and local police escorting a smiling member of the loyal senate past angry rabble voters alledged to be involved in the mostly peaceful protests Wednesday.

EEngineerq , 11 January 2021 at 10:05 AM

If that was his plan he's have done it by now. Trump's talent has always been to goad his opponent into overplaying their hand. I don't have much hope in Kunstler's thesis that Trump is about drop the hammer on the commies, but he can force them to out themselves. This weekends coordinated media lockdown is a straight up big-brother type move that even retards should recognize as tyranny.

[Jan 11, 2021] IMO former officials cannot be impeached

Jan 11, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

"Conviction immediately removes the defendant from office. Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him or her from holding future federal office, elected or appointed. As the threshold for disqualification is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the Senate has taken the position that disqualification votes only require a simple majority rather than a two-thirds supermajority. The Senate has used disqualification sparingly, as only three individuals have been disqualified from holding future office.

Conviction does not extend to further punishment, for example, loss of pension. After conviction by the Senate, "the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law" in the regular federal or state courts . However, the Former Presidents Act of 1958, which provides a pension, and other benefits, does not extend to presidents who were removed from office following an impeachment conviction. Because of an amendment to that law made in 2013, a former president who has been removed from office due to impeachment and conviction is still guaranteed lifetime Secret Service protection. " wiki

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IMO impeachment from federal office exists for the purpose of removal from office. A former official cannot be "removed from office." IMO the Belknap case will be treated as freakish. pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States

Deap , 10 January 2021 at 11:54 AM

Query: Why are "they" so afraid of Trump? Solve for "they".

Outrage at their actions is not pre-emption of their motivations. Solve for "they". And then systematically dismantle.

My favorite candidate for one of the "theys" is the teachers unions. Game plan follows to dismantle the power and control of the teachers unions. Step by step.

Attend school board meetings, Get to know each school board member. Write letters. Field slates of alternate candidates and support their election. Then work on state legislators who are not tools for the teachers unions. Elect a state superintendent of education who is not a tool of the teachers unions.

Elect key state officers who are not members of the teachers unions. Support Freedom Foundation who works to get teachers to opt out of the teachers unions, denying the teachers unions their annual dues ($1000 plus every year for teachers in California.

Or in the alternative, accept the fact it is too late to sweep back the sea. And hand this over to the next generation. They will experience the consequences and the costs. Not us ho are well into the last chapters of our own dotage. I hear my own call to action, and I now find myself too lazy to carry it out. It is no longer my fight. And somehow it is also my fault since my generation collectively delivered this fateful harvest.

.... So we can now only.......... rage, rage against the dying of the light .....

Record our own voices for posterity in case a new generation wants to learn what life on planet earth was like before BigTech defined and controlled its every waking moment. For future amusement, if nothing else. Look, they played Pick-Up-Sticks for fun after a sit down family dinner.

But much like Mr Willet's splendid translations from times long past, we owe future generations to also leave written personal histories. Just make sure it is non-biodegradable hard copy.

Deap , 10 January 2021 at 12:00 PM

Forget the First Amendment or the Second Amendment ..... I am going for the Fifth Commandment. Honor thy father and mother. These kids today, if only they would listen to us.

Wasn't that Socrates or Plato's lament too? I remember in high school in the late 1950's reading this lament against the "young people" of Ancient Greece presented as a letter to the editor. I was perplexed, because I did not know what we as teenagers were doing that was so wrong back then that generated this ancient reminder.

jerseycityjoan , 10 January 2021 at 12:33 PM

I see over at the Daily Mail that my Republican Senator Pat Toomey agrees with me and is calling for Trump to resign. Good.

I also see Nancy Pelosi has declared she has no understanding of Trump supporters and has no desire to understand them. I just saw on CNN that House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn agrees with her.

This is what she said:

"The California Democrat used an online video meeting Saturday with her hometown San Francisco constituents to criticize the overwhelmingly white mob that attacked Congress on Wednesday as it met to formally finalize Joe Biden's presidential victory over Trump.

'It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy,' Pelosi said."

I don't think people around the world think what happened at the capital was about whiteness. It's really too bad the Democratic Party leadership has such a simplistic view. It also shows how anti-white some white people can be and why they want so much immigration we don't need.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9131437/Nancy-Pelosi-accuses-MAGA-mob-stormed-Capitol-choosing-whiteness-democracy.html

jerseycityjoan , 10 January 2021 at 01:12 PM

I don't know what the law is but I certainly have assumed that you had to be in office to be impeached.

So I do not know what to make of this statement from House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn on CNN today;

"We'll take the vote that we should take in the House, and (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) will make the determination as to when is the best time to get that vote and get the managers appointed and move that legislation over to the Senate," Clyburn told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

"It just so happens that if it didn't go over there for 100 days, it could -- let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we'll send the articles sometime after that," the South Carolina Democrat added."

He's talking about waiting more than three months to get the Senate involved which would mean no trial until the summer. This makes no sense. Nobody should want us still dealing with Trump's presidency in DC after January 20.


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/10/politics/james-clyburn-impeachment-senate-trial-biden-cnntv/index.html

[Jan 11, 2021] Trump is a monster of self-centredness.

Notable quotes:
"... I hate virtually all of Trump's policies. I hate his stupidity in continually hiring people who hated him. He could have turned to members of the genuine left -- men such as Stephen Cohen -- for advice. ..."
"... n a classic act of projection, woke Dems accuse Trump of not conceding, whereas in fact they are the ones who never conceded the presidency in 2016. This is so obvious, and yet it has apparently become invisible to most!!! Memory hole opened up like a crack in the earth behind each step. ..."
"... The gullibility of Trump is astounding. He did everything to keep the swamp happy, to keep Israel happy, flipped on Nato and on Russia, had hawks left and right and at the end he will be discarded like a used condom. ..."
"... can't help but think that Donald Trump is a man with no common sense, lacking the real conviction of his words and just not very bright or he was to some degree willfully complicit in this now obviously dire state the U.S. finds itself. ..."
"... If anyone thinks there is some good news because this murderous, warring empire is coming to an end, I suggest you think again. The war machine is still fully intact and funded. The international bankers who are in complete control are buying up everything and are planning on a 'reset' dictated by them. To the world! Understandably, there will likely be a few countries who do not feel inclined to agree with this reset and it's terms. There will have to be war to correct this thinking, even if a billion or more are killed. The more the merrier. Less 'useless eaters' to deal with. ..."
Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

Mike from Jersey on January 07, 2021 , · at 8:00 pm EST/EDT

Mr. Roberts is right on point when he says that Trump will be locked up.

The people running the United States are going to make an example of Trump. They will send a message that no "outsider" should ever again dare to run for President.

Trump will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Mark my words.

citymouse on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:07 am EST/EDT

I fear you are right. In this case it might be better if he weren't such a street fighter, because standing up for himself to me isn't worth the price he will pay. He should get himself and his family post haste to a country with no extradition and simply live the rest of his life in peace. No one needs the vitriol that has been and will continue to be heaped on him.

Jimmy on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:58 am EST/EDT

Trump _should_ spend the rest of his life behind bars -- for contributing to the deaths of tens of thousands of human beings. Ordinary Syrians, Iranians, Cubans, and Venezuelans died because of the murderous sanctions Washington put on their countries, and Pres. Trump did nothing to help -- and in fact, intensified them.

Very similar to his indifference to the plight of Edward Snowden & Julian Assange. Trump is a monster of self-centredness. In fact, in the words of his own former White House Chief of Staff, he is 'the most damaged human being I have ever met.' Just the sort of creature we would expect to find as head of the US empire

James on January 08, 2021 , · at 5:02 am EST/EDT

I'm afraid you are spot on -- Trump lies to the World when he was running for President & then broke almost all of his promises -especially to drain the Swamp. He also unforgivably allowed the Jews to take over Palistinian land etc. He has alot to answer for even if he wasn't as War like as the 3 Presidents before him.

augusto on January 08, 2021 , · at 8:37 am EST/EDT

YOu re problably right, Jimmy.
But it turns out differently when one gets the point where Trump locked up prospect here is not him but a whole lot of american people trying to get rid of globalism and the need for wars
Who might be buried up along with him.

Bill Osborne Jr on January 08, 2021 , · at 9:40 am EST/EDT

Trump should have pardoned Snowden and Assange instead of Jared Kushner's criminal father.

Boris Kazlov on January 08, 2021 , · at 4:14 pm EST/EDT

You are only looking to his overseas policy.
That is an imposition of the military and Zionists, when you dance with a gorilla you gotta him a banana.

eagle eye on January 08, 2021 , · at 6:43 pm EST/EDT

But not a word about the crimes of those who preceded him, which included the ultimate crime, that of engaging in unjustified warfare?

Your post implies you have a standard of behaviour you are judging Trump by. By definition it must be universally applied, otherwise all you are seeking is the selective imposition of your view.

Katherine on January 09, 2021 , · at 9:19 pm EST/EDT

I agree. If Trump deserves lockup, so do Obama, Bush, and the Clintons.

I hate virtually all of Trump's policies. I hate his stupidity in continually hiring people who hated him. He could have turned to members of the genuine left -- men such as Stephen Cohen -- for advice.

But that is not the point. Since 2016 those who tried to eliminate Trump did so not for his real crimes but for made-up. Basically his crime of being president in the first place.

I n a classic act of projection, woke Dems accuse Trump of not conceding, whereas in fact they are the ones who never conceded the presidency in 2016. This is so obvious, and yet it has apparently become invisible to most!!! Memory hole opened up like a crack in the earth behind each step.

Trump's crime, for which he may actually be locked up, was in truth just winning the presidency in 2016 and humiliating Hillary (whom everyone hated anyhow). I am becoming quite terrified of people I have known all my my life and even am related to.

Katherine

Disaffected on January 08, 2021 , · at 7:56 am EST/EDT

Trump is already charred toast. It appears that he's not even in charge now. Self-preservation is his only concern now.

Maltus on January 08, 2021 , · at 7:49 pm EST/EDT

Corrected assessment. His wealth and his 5 children (and their future) are too much of a liability for him to do the necessary. His policy of appeasement will not work though with the rabid bolshevik kabal.

I think he and his family will be persecuted and likely prosecuted unless the has the foresight to move to Russia and save his skin.

Gorgeous George on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:19 pm EST/EDT

The gullibility of Trump is astounding. He did everything to keep the swamp happy, to keep Israel happy, flipped on Nato and on Russia, had hawks left and right and at the end he will be discarded like a used condom.

Russia saw it from the get go, at the end he will have the full weight of both parties against him, and instead of locking her up it will be the other way around. The cowards have no sense of decency, they will not show any good will like he did.

Trump betrayed his base, failed to organize again and again, put his trust in all the wrong people and now is done. I'll be surprised if he doesn't face jailtime on some trumped up charges.

For all his charisma and good intentions he turned out a clueless clown, sad clown at the end. History will not be kind, and neither will the victors.

True Americans have seen their last train leave the station, it will take time to realize that there are no more trains. Game over.

Craig Mouldey on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:07 pm EST/EDT

I thought this was a good summation by Dr. Roberts. I can't help but think that Donald Trump is a man with no common sense, lacking the real conviction of his words and just not very bright or he was to some degree willfully complicit in this now obviously dire state the U.S. finds itself. Maybe he owed the Rothschild clan a favour.

If anyone thinks there is some good news because this murderous, warring empire is coming to an end, I suggest you think again. The war machine is still fully intact and funded. The international bankers who are in complete control are buying up everything and are planning on a 'reset' dictated by them. To the world! Understandably, there will likely be a few countries who do not feel inclined to agree with this reset and it's terms. There will have to be war to correct this thinking, even if a billion or more are killed. The more the merrier. Less 'useless eaters' to deal with.

Try to see something good in creation every day. Try to do good every day. This world as it is does not have much time. Someone said that what cannot go on forever won't! At some point, the One who gives life to all will say it is enough. Some of us just celebrated his most blessed nativity.

Alabama on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:26 pm EST/EDT

This guy biden is king of promises, and as every year goes by and so many promises are not met, don't think these people wont show up on D.C.'s doorstep looking for revenge.

This is just the tip of the iceburg.

Disaffected on January 08, 2021 , · at 3:20 pm EST/EDT

Who better to preside over the collapse of the empire? The usual rules will apply: the feckless Dems – always at their abysmal worst when they assume power – will blame the "evil Reps" for everything that goes wrong (and there will be plenty – although none of it will ever be discussed publicly!), and the Reps will be at their sterling obstructionist best. Talk of impeachment for Biden – who will be nowhere in sight for most of his term – will linger throughout his term, while Trump will soon be prosecuted and jailed, his entire administration canceled from the official histories, with Queen Hillary named "Presidentess in Exile" for 2016-2020 due to alleged Russian interference with her rightful coronation. The Empire will trumpet from on high for all to hear that this signals the glorious victory of US Democracy (angelic chorus sounds here) over the forces of darkness, or some such agitprop; and the skies will clear, the birds will sing, and a rosy glow will return to the cheeks of all the fair maidens and indeterminant gendered of our great land. The masks, of course, will remain firmly in place, as the "new normal" slowly becomes merely business as usual, and the sheeple graze contentedly in their prison stalls, content in the knowledge that Big Brother is looking out for their health and welfare, at least until the ritual sacrificial slaughter of the lambs should be deemed necessary. For the good of all, of course. Should all make for some excellent reality TV.

Alabama on January 09, 2021 , · at 7:35 am EST/EDT

Well the empire is going to collapse the citizens before it collapses, and even before the empire collapse comes a global scare of epic proportions to shake and rattle the cage for those whom are not prepared.

Ken Leslie on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:29 pm EST/EDT

The moronic face of the fake revolution – looks like the fake American wrestling – only Hulk Hogan was more convincing.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1347035563635986432

evilempire on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:54 pm EST/EDT

Trump isn't going anywhere. I was at the rally in DC and listened to his
entire speech on the ellipse. He stated that he would not concede. With
this assurance why would the demonstrators have any reason to aggressively
breach the Capitol building? The whole thing was a staged provocation by antifa.
There are videos of how this was staged all over the internet. Let us all
hope and pray that the Scarlet(Whore) color revolution against Trump is finally
eradiated and extirpated now that all the Deep Satanists have been exposed for
their participation in the coup and election fraud.

Beirut on January 08, 2021 , · at 3:53 pm EST/EDT

The question has been asked – what is the US military going to do? Will they just stay put and watch the theft unfold?
Whilst many commentators were soiling themselves in phantasies of a pro trump military coup to end the charade, drain the swamp and burn down DC, PCR had a very clear view (expressed elsewhere): why would the military object to a new leadership if it promises more war, more blood, more money? It won't, it will welcome it in fact.

Be it as it may, and despite all the stinkin' lies about the election I would think it is too tall an order for a non-murrican to mourn the self-destruction of the most evil, ghastly, ruthless hegemon the world has seen in the last 100 years.

Ken Leslie on January 08, 2021 , · at 4:38 pm EST/EDT

Dear Beirut,

I second the sentiment. It's not even that. The media are full of Muricans' moaning about their fate. It's everywhere – and on top of that, the scumbags are accusing China and Russia for their "tribulations".

We don't care and we don't want to hear about how hard the life is for Billy Bob who would die for the very criminals that have condemned him to a life of meth, moonshine and malingering – while telling him that he is solely responsible for his own miserable existence.

There is a huge big world elsewhere that is currently booming – thousand flowers are blooming despite the oppression by the parasitical cancerous sub-empire – and yet, we obsess over whether Trump is a fraud or not.

I suppose it provides a great platform for ranting :-)

[Jan 11, 2021] The collusion of some police and security, which allowed protesters in indicates Democrat's brass involvement.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

Santiago on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:57 pm EST/EDT

Soros has funded the ANTFIA and BLM who infiltrated the Trump Stop The Steal Rally and it was they who broke into the Capitol Building with the collusion of some police and security which indicates Democrat involvement. There is substantial evidence of that now. SEE https:/www.banned.video

Law enforcement has also failed to do anything about it and all the riots in 2020 and Democrat crimes and corruption.

The US military needs to move on this asap to save the country from this untenable situation which will only get worse over time. Arrest the Democrats, Soros, Pence all those who colluded with him. Because thats what Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams would so.

It is a grave situation.

[Jan 11, 2021] I've sometimes wondered if Trump wasn't intentionally some kind of straw man whether he was in on it or not.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

Mo on January 08, 2021 , · at 12:37 am EST/EDT

This ending of the Trump presidency certainly seems pretty anticlimactic for his supporters. I've sometimes wondered if Trump wasn't intentionally some kind of straw man whether he was in on it or not. Say what you will but in his final act he leads then leaves his supporters in the lurch.
Let's step back and look at what he accomplished:
– Giving the rich one of the largest tax cuts in history at a time when they were already making money hand over fist
– Putting the American embassy in Jerusalem
– Putting vassal states and institutions on notice
– Renegging on the Iran nuclear deal
– Starting a trade war with China
– Most importantly the TOTAL DELEGITIMIZATION of conservatism in America. I have feeling this is no accident.
His associates and cronies like Roger Stone or Jared Kushner look like big time establishment types.
4 years and he's still relying on liberal establishment platform Twitter to get out his message? He could have migrated 70 million+ overnight to another platform. Now that would have been a real act of resistance, not this half-assed Capitol clown show. In all this time conservatives couldn't even cobble together their own social media? There's this stench of wanton incompetence that vaguely reminds me of Saddam Hussein.

Mark W Anderson on January 08, 2021 , · at 1:04 am EST/EDT

The lack of any mention or discussion of labor or working class concerns within what comprises the "Left" or "Progressives" is the most telling feature of our time. The "Liberal Media" rarely mention the working class and when they do, it's nearly always with a disparaging tone. The idea that an organized, national, even international "Left" could emerge and become dominant while deliberately ignoring and debasing working class people and their concerns certainly marks a tremendous achievement among the moneyed elites who actually run the Empire.

But the material interest/needs of the working class continue to express themselves in ways even the smarty pants Silicon Valley CEO's, and MSNBC executives cannot foresee. A significant part (Maybe the most significant part) of the "Trump movement" was never about Trump. It was/is about the issues and concerns of the vast swath of working class and middle class people across this country. Trump was the vehicle to express anger at the liberal elites who have ignored the "commoners," in fly-over America. He was a poor choice for a populist movement but he was all that was available at the time. Trump will be gone soon, but as the events of 1/6/21 show, those issues and those people haven't gone anywhere. What new political figure will arise to address these concerns?

It is common knowledge that high voter turnout favors the Dems and lower turnout favors the Repubs. So of course, the DNC uses all kinds of schemes to manufacture, and generate lots of votes. I know this personally. I received four mail-in ballots in the month of October. Would they have figured out how to count all four if it was for the correct candidate? (For the record I voted for Leonard Peltier to be president) I've never seen an election so filled with fraudulent opportunities as this one. The Repubs in turn have been caught all over the place, in every election, scrubbing voter rolls, denying voting rights etc ..big surprise .it's statistically in their favor to do so. Still the margins of victory in a number of key states have been 1% – 2%. Hardly any kind of "mandate." Also an indication of how difficult it is, even with widespread cheating, to overcome a genuinely popular (albeit extremely odd) candidate.

If Trump had been an effective leader able to unify a real populist movement he would have won in a landslide and a few % points would have been meaningless.

djole on January 08, 2021 , · at 2:47 am EST/EDT

Blackmailed Trump was gradually betraying the American people who trusted him. So many omissions are impossible with common sense....

[Jan 11, 2021] It is inconceivable that any political party can survive in the US without the backing of the 'deep state' and first of all FBI and CIA.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

John Hagan on January 11, 2021 , · at 5:49 am EST/EDT

Hi Ah,
That the US deep state has been terrorising parts of the world for many years my reaction before the election was to hope that Biden would win as I believed that would be the quickest destruction of the terrorist deep state rather than with Trump where I believed it would survive some time longer. It is inconceivable that any political party can survive in the US without the backing of the 'deep state'.

Of course this makes the nuclear option more likely yet democrats are more attached to their lives than many others since the profit motive looms larger.

Secondly the US owes the pension and social security systems so much money they do not have unless they print, print and more print and hope someone will buy their bonds (over 100 trillion for the next 'x' years). That is not going to happen. That is why both political parties will not endorse medicare for all or any further social security programmes. Those with money insurance industries et al will run away to Australia that has more gold than it knows what to do with the Chinese are now trying to buy Aussie gold mines. Wonder why?

https://youtu.be/_uxJ8JYnwAQ

To sum up the US population will experience some of the same terrorism tacticts the deep state exported to the rest of the world while the same population will wonder why it is happening to them just like some of the middle east countries wondered the same for the last 20 years. That the deep state and the army offer pensions and heathcare will not matter if the funds are not there.
What are the options for the citizens that always believed in capitalism and Jesus and were the single moral compass for the rest of humanity? After living in a Buddist country for many years I am not so certain.

[Jan 11, 2021] For whites the 50s and 60s were golden years. Full jobs, a salary allowed them to live decently, to take care of themselves, to get an education, to go on vacation in an owned cabin often in idyllic places. For blacks and Hispanics it was less fun. But with JFK, Nixon, Bush father and now with Trump it is the 4th coup in 60 years.

Jan 11, 2021 | thesaker.is

common man on January 08, 2021 , · at 6:21 am EST/EDT

For whites the 50s and 60s were golden years. Full jobs, a salary allowed them to live decently, to take care of themselves, to get an education, to go on vacation in an owned cabin often in idyllic places. For blacks and Hispanics it was less fun. But with JFK, Nixon, Bush father and now with Trump it is the 4th coup in 60 years.

Big capital has gone from a confrontation with the masses to a subjugation of the masses by culture and the absence of real education. It is more or less the same in Europe, even in Switzerland where I live, direct democracy is no longer a problem for the elites. Votes are hijacked. When the army wants to make a strategic turn by no longer buying American planes, a press campaign and a referendum launched by an anti-militarist association blocks the project and contributes to destroying what remained of credibility to the army...

[Jan 11, 2021] Neoliberal Dems reaction to the protest against election fraud is actually an overreaction and a sign of guilty consciousness

Pelosi is drunk again, this time with the victory...
Jan 11, 2021 | www.rt.com

The document excoriates Trump for "reiterat[ing] false claims that 'we won this election, and we won it by a landslide,'" and accuses him of "willfully [making] statements that, in context, encouraged – and foreseeably resulted in – lawless action at the Capitol." As for which statements actually incited the violence, the charges are vague, mentioning only one line: "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

Democratic Representatives David Ciciline (Rhode Island), Ted Lieu (California), Jamie Raskin (Maryland), and Jerry Nadler (New York) introduced the article, which reportedly has more than 200 Democrat co-sponsors.

The House is planning to introduce a resolution to remove Trump using the 25th Amendment later on Monday, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Should that move to declare Trump unfit and remove him from office not receive unanimous consent – a very likely outcome – it would be taken up on the House floor, at which point Pelosi would call for Vice President Mike Pence to respond "within 24 hours."

ALSO ON RT.COM Trump must be jailed for inciting deadly Capitol riot – former White House communications director Scaramucci

Should that fail as well, Pelosi said in a statement on Sunday, impeachment legislation will be deployed once again. Trump was impeached in December 2019 for alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, the Senate did not vote to convict him.

Given that Trump is due to leave the White House later this month, some have questioned whether another impeachment is overkill. However, some lawmakers are using last week's events – which saw a horde of Trump supporters throng Washington DC and barge into the Capitol while Congress was overseeing the counting of Electoral College votes – as the argument that official reprimand isn't enough. Five people died as a result of the "storming" of the Capitol, which Trump later denounced.

Trump's personal Twitter feed became another casualty of the chaotic events, with the Silicon Valley giant claiming the "interpretation" of the president's posts could cause further violence. Twitter's perma-ban of Trump and the purge of Trump-related conservative accounts that followed were accompanied by the removal of the president from Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch and other liberal-leaning tech platforms.

[Jan 11, 2021] Neoliberal Biden administration may part with a few $2000 dollar relief payments to slow the mighty mortgage foreclosure/eviction rush. But they will never be able to maintain that $2000 periodic payment for two years to get the neoliberal Dems through the next election

Jan 11, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

uncle tungsten , Jan 11 2021 2:50 utc | 83

Thank you b for the Escobar/Hudson link. This proposition is interesting:

All of this [junk mortgage debt] was left on the books, foreclosed and sold to a private capital companies like Blackstone. And the result is that home ownership in America declined from 68 percent of the population down to about 61 percent. Well, right where the Obama administration left off, you're about to have the Biden administration begin in January with an estimated 5 million Americans losing their homes. They're going to be evicted because they've been unemployed during the pandemic. They've been working in restaurants or gyms or other industries that have been shut down because of the pandemic. They're going to be evicted and many homeowners and, low-income homeowners have been unable to pay their mortgages.

There's going to be a wave of foreclosures. The question is, who's going to bear the cost? Should it be 15 million American families who lose their homes just so the banks won't lose money? Or should we let the banks that have made all of the growth since 2008? Ninety five percent of American GDP of the population has seen its wealth go down. All the wealth has been accumulating for the 5 percent in statistics. Now the question is should this 5 percent that's got all the wealth lose or should the 95 percent lose?

The Biden administration says the 95 percent should lose basically. And you're going to see a wave of closures so that the question in China should be that, these intermediate banks (they're not really banks they are sort of like payday loan lenders), should they come in and, bear the loss or should Chinese localities and the people bear the loss? Somebody has to lose when you're charging, you're collecting the land's rent that was paid to the creditors, and either the creditors have to lose or, the tax collector loses and that's the conflict that exists in every society of the world today.

Xerxes Biden and his pickpocket clown cart may part with a few $2000 dollar relief payments to slow the mighty mortgage foreclosure/eviction rush. Will the clown cart maintain that $2000 periodic payment for two years to get the Dimratss through the next election?

I doubt it but it would be good to see the people of the USA get a break.

Xerxes and team clown cart would have to rein in the military spend :) but that too could be detrimental to them winning the mid term elections in two years. So I see Xerxes Biden facing his very own waterloo here. For this lad to be suddenly jammed between a rock and a hard place that he himself created by all his years of snuggling up to Repugnant legislation and banksters and Obummers thieving manipulations, is a mighty fine view.

Biden will sell you out and the people will be destitute and the banksters will be laughing - still. Time will tell.

[Jan 11, 2021] Dear Congress - Stop Wasting Time With Impeaching Trump - End His Famine In Yemen

Jan 11, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

james , Jan 11 2021 19:22 utc | 2

since when has the usa, wall st, it's political class or anyone else in power in the usa been concerned for the welfare of others, in particular brown skinned people in faraway countries like yemen??? i don't recall.... you can watch how the posters here will focus on the distraction of trump and dems doing this endless fucking stupid dance, but you can bet no one will be expressing an interest in helping yemen... the usa is one sick nation and it is no where more apparent then in them wanting to designate ansarallah as a terrorist group... same shit from the same ignoramus's... thanks for drawing my attention to this latest bullshit b..

gottlieb , Jan 11 2021 19:24 utc | 3

Totally agree. The circle-jerk politics is hilarious. Too bad it is also tragic and cruel. The Humpty Dumpty of US Society is not going back together again. Civil War 2.0 is here. Grab your musket and sword, twitter flamethrower and Facebook napalm. Civil War 2.0 will be televised, tweeted and live-streamed for all the world to see the result of bread and circuses to a propagandized population at the end of history.
Les , Jan 11 2021 19:28 utc | 4
It's another one of those wars where the US supplies weapons to both sides. They pretend that they were overrun by the rebels. This was done repeatedly in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Niger, Libya, and so on...
Canadian Cents , Jan 11 2021 19:47 utc | 5
Les @4, would not be surprised to learn that.

US attacks against the Houthis in Yemen seem to be bipartisan, and were happening under Obama in 2009/2010, going by an Eric Margolis article from January 3, 2010 that refers to "extensive covert U.S. military operations in Yemen."

"A military dictator, Ali Saleh, has held power since 1978. Saleh's U.S.-backed regime is accused of extensive human rights violations and deep corruption."

"neighbour Oman, a virtual colony of MI6, British intelligence."

"U.S. warplanes killed 50-100 Yemeni tribesmen fighting the American-backed regime."

"U.S. special forces, warplanes and killer drones have been active since 2001, assassinating Yemeni militants and anti-government tribal leaders."

So bipartisan since 2001, for at least two decades (Margolis started the article with the line "Welcome to the Afghanistan of Arabia.") if not longer if the US-backed dictator was in power since 1978 ...

[Jan 11, 2021] Trump's GREATEST TREASON is the betrayal of populism by Slavoj Zizek

Notable quotes:
"... On Thursday January 7, Trump gave another short speech in which, contradicting what he said before, he unambiguously condemned the attack on the Capitol as a threat to law and order, and promised to collaborate in the peaceful transition of power. Although he probably said this out of fear for his personal fate, this act just confirmed that he was and is a member of the establishment, not even a Rightist hero but a coward. ..."
Jan 11, 2021 | www.rt.com

... ... ... 'Swamp' creature with a populist facade

As Yuval Kremnitzer demonstrated, Trump is a populist who remains within the system. Like any populism, his version also distrusts political representation, pretending to speak directly for the people – it complains about how its hands are tied by the 'deep state' and financial establishment, so its message is: "if only we didn't have our hands tied, we would be able to do away with our enemies once and for all."

However, in contrast to old authoritarian populism (like Fascism) which is ready to abolish formal-representative democracy and really take over and impose a new order, today's populism doesn't have a coherent vision of some new order – the positive content of its ideology and politics is an inconsistent bricolage of measures to bribe "our own" poor, to lower the taxes for the rich, to focus the hatred on the immigrants and our own corrupted elite outsourcing jobs, etc. That's why today's populists don't really want to get rid of the established representative democracy and fully take power: "without the 'fetters' of the liberal order to struggle against, the new right would actually have to take some real action," and this would render obvious the vacuity of their program. Today's populists can only function in the indefinite postponement of achieving their goal since they can only function as opposing the 'deep state' of the liberal establishment: "The new right does not, at least not at this stage, seek to establish a supreme value – for instance, the nation, or the leader – that would fully express the will of the people and thereby allow and perhaps even require the abolition of the mechanisms of representation."

What this means is that the true victims of Trump are his ordinary supporters who take seriously his babble against liberal corporate elites and big banks. He is the traitor of his own populist cause. His liberal critics accuse him of just seemingly controlling his supporters ready to violently fight for him, while he is really at their side, inciting them to act, even violently. But he is NOT really ON their side. On the morning of January 6, he addressed the rally on the Ellipse: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol. And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong." However, when the mob did this and approached the Capitol, Trump retreated to the White House and watched on television as the violence unfolded on Capitol Hill.

Unmasking fake democracy

Did Trump really want to effect a coup d'etat? Unambiguously, NO. When the mob penetrated the Capitol, he made a statement: "I know your pain, I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order." Trump blamed his opponents for the violence and praised his supporters, saying, "We can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you; you're very special."

And when the mob began to disperse, Trump posted a tweet defending the actions of his supporters who stormed and vandalized the Capitol: "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away." He concluded his tweet with: "Remember this day forever!" Yes, we should – because it displayed the fakeness of US democracy as well as the fakeness of the populist protest against it. Just a few elections in the US really mattered – like the California gubernatorial election in 1934: the Democratic candidate Upton Sinclair lost because the entire establishment organized a previously unheard-of campaign of lies and defamations (Hollywood announced that, if Sinclair wins, it will move to Florida, etc.).

On Thursday January 7, Trump gave another short speech in which, contradicting what he said before, he unambiguously condemned the attack on the Capitol as a threat to law and order, and promised to collaborate in the peaceful transition of power. Although he probably said this out of fear for his personal fate, this act just confirmed that he was and is a member of the establishment, not even a Rightist hero but a coward. No wonder masses of his fans are already describing him as a "traitor," a part of the Washington "swamp" he'd promised to clear. This, of course, doesn't mean that his supporters are in any sense progressives betrayed by Trump: they expressed their actual grievances in a Rightist populist way. There is a grain of truth in their complaints, but they themselves betrayed it by the form of their activity. Crazy as it may sound, if they mean it seriously, they should join Bernie Sanders.

The furious, dissatisfied crowd attacking the parliament on behalf of a popular president deprived of his power through parliamentary manipulations sounds familiar? Yes: this should have happened in Brazil or in Bolivia – there, the crowd of the president's supporters would have the full right to storm the parliament and re-install their president. A totally different game was going on in the US. So let's hope that what happened on January 6 in Washington will at least stop the obscenity of the US sending observers to elections in other countries to judge their fairness – now the US elections themselves need foreign observers. The US is a rogue country, and not just when Trump became its President: the ongoing (almost) civil war displays a rift that was there all the time.

See also

[Jan 11, 2021] Is America's Future a Civil War, by Paul Craig Roberts -

Notable quotes:
"... The military would support whomever pays their salary and their pensions, i.e. the Establishment. However, as Iraq and Afghanistan has shown, the U.S. military, while possessing remarkable firepower when taken on directly and openly, is quite vulnerable. The U.S. military is essentially mercenaries. Mercenaries work for pay. Mercenaries are not willing to die for a cause. You can't spend money if you're dead. ..."
Jan 11, 2021 | www.unz.com

As a person who grew up in the glorious aftermath of World War II, it never occurred to me that in my later years I would be pondering whether the United States would end in civil war or a police state. In the aftermath of the stolen presidential election, it seems a 50-50 toss up.

There is abundant evidence of a police state. One feature of a police state is controlled explanations and the suppression of dissent. We certainly have that in abundance.

Experts are not permitted forums in which to challenge the official position on Covid.

Teachers are suspended for giving offense by using gender pronouns.

Recording stars are dropped by their recording studios for attending the Trump rally. Parents ratted on by their own children are fired from their jobs for attending the Trump rally. https://www.rt.com/usa/512048-capitol-riot-employees-fired/ Antifa is free to riot, loot, intimidate and hassle, but Trump supporters are insurrectionists.

White people are racists who use hateful words and concepts, but those who demonize whites are righting wrongs.

Suppression of dissent and controlling behavior are police state characteristics. It might be less clear to some why dictating permissible use of language is police state control. Think about it this way. If your use of pronouns can be controlled, so can your use of all other words. As concepts involve words, they also can be controlled. In this way inconvenient thoughts and expressions along with accurate descriptions find their way into the Memory Hole.

With the First Amendment gone, or restricted to the demonization of targeted persons, such as "the Trump Deplorables," "white supremacists," "Southern racists," the Second Amendment can't have much life left. As guns are associated with red states, that is, with Trump supporters, outlawing guns is a way to criminalize the red half of the American population that the Establishment considers "deplorable." Those who stand on their Constitutional right will be imprisoned and become cheap prison labor for America's global corporations.

Could all this lead to a civil war or are Americans too beat down to effectively resist? That we won't know until it is put to the test.

Are there clear frontlines? Identity Politics has divided the people across the entire country. The red states are only majority red. It is tempting to see the frontiers as the red center against the blue Northeast and West coasts, but that is misleading. Georgia is a red state with a red governor and legislature, but there were enough Democrats in power locally to steal the presidential and US senate elections.

Another problem for reds is that large cities -- the distribution centers -- such as Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles -- are in blue hands as are ports and international airports. Effectively, this cuts reds off from outside resources.

What would the US military do? Clearly, the Joint Chiefs and the military/security complex are establishment and not anti-establishment Trumpers. With the soldiers themselves now a racial and gender mix, the soldiers would be as divided as the country. Those not with the Establishment would lack upper level support.

Where are the youth and younger adults? They are in both camps depending on their education. Many of the whites who went to university have been brainwashed against themselves, and regard white Americans as "systemic racists" or "white supremacists" and feel guilt. Those who did not go to university for the most part have experienced to their disadvantage the favoritism given to people of color and have resentment.

What about weapons? How can the reds lose when guns are a household item and blues would never dirty themselves by owning one? The answer is that unlike the War of Northern Aggression in the 1860s, today the weapons in the hands of the military are devastating compared to those in the hands of the public. Unlike in the past, it is impossible for a citizens' militia to stand against the weapons and body armor that the military has. So, unless the military splits, the reds are outgunned. Never believe that the Establishment would not release chemical and biological agents against red forces. Or for that matter nuclear weapons.

What about communications? We know for an absolute fact that the tech monopolies are aligned with the Establishment against the people. So much so that President Trump, in the process of being set-up for prosecution, has been cut off from communicating with his supporters both in social media and email.

The American Establishment is doing to President Trump exactly what it did to Ukrainian President Yanukovych in Washington's orchestrated "Maidan Revolution," called "the Revolution of Dignity" by the liars at Wikipedia, and precisely what it did to Chavez, Maduro, and would like to do to Putin.

Suppose an American civil war occurs. How is it likely to play out? Before investigating this, first consider how the Establishment could prevent it by bringing the red states to its defense. The Trump supporters are the only patriots in the American population. They tend to wear the flag on their sleeve. In contrast, blue state denizens define patriotism as acknowledging America's evils and taking retribution on those white racists/imperialists who committed the evils. In blue states, riots against the "racist system" result in defunding the police. If the Antifa and Black Lives Matter militias were sicced on the Biden regime, red state patriots might see "their country" under attack. It is possible that the "Proud Boys" would come to Biden's defense, not because they believe in Biden but because America is under attack and he is "our president." Alternatively, an Antifa attack on the Biden regime could be portrayed as an unpatriotic attack on America and be used to discourage red state opposition to the police state, just as "Insurrection" has resulted in many Trump supporters declaring their opposition to violence. In other words, it is entirely possible that the patriotism of the "Trump Deplorables" would split the red state opposition and lead to defeat.

Assuming that the Establishment is too arrogant and sure of itself or too stupid to think of this ploy, how would a civil war play out? The Establishment would do everything possible to discredit the case of the "rebels." The true rebels, of course, would be the Establishment which has overthrown the Constitutional order, but no media would make that point. Controlling the media, the Establishment, knowing of the patriotism of its opponents, would portray the "rebels" as foreign agents seeking to overthrow American Democracy.

The "foreign threat" always captures the patriot's attention. We see it right now with Trump supporters falling for the disinformation that Switzerland and Italy are behind the stolen election. Previously, it was Dominion servers in Germany and Serbia that did the deed.

On whose head will the Establishment place the blame for "the War Against America"? There are three candidates: Iran, China, and Russia. Which will the Establishment choose?

To give Iran credit conveys too much power to a relatively small country over America. To blame Iran for our civil war would be belittling.

To blame China won't work, because Trump blamed China for economically undermining America and Trump supporters are generally anti-China. So accusing the red opposition with being China agents would not work.

The blame will be placed on Russia.

This is the easy one. Russia has been the black hat ever since Churchill's Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Americans are accustomed to this enemy. The Cold War reigned from the end of World War II until the Soviet Collapse in 1991. Many, including retired American generals, maintain that the Soviet collapse was faked to put us off guard for conquest.

When the Establishment decided to frame President Trump, the Establishment chose Russia as Trump's co-conspirator against American Democracy. Russiagate, orchestrated by the CIA and FBI, ensured for three years that Trump was accused in the Western media of being in cahoots with Russia. Despite the lack of any evidence, a large percentage of the American and world population was convinced that Trump was put into office by Putin somehow manipulating the vote.

The brainwashing was so successful that three years of Trump sanctions against Russia could not shake the Western peoples back into factual reality.

With Russia as the historic and orchestrated enemy, whatever happens in the United States that can be blamed elsewhere will be blamed on Russia. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes have already associated "Trump's insurrection" with Russia. https://www.rt.com/russia/512071-capitol-violence-consequences-fear/

Suppose that an American civil war becomes intense. Suppose that the Establishment's propaganda against Russia becomes the reigning belief as propaganda almost always becomes, how can the Establishment not finish the insurrection threat by attacking the country responsible? The Establishment would be trapped in its own propaganda. Emotions would run away. Russia would hear threats that would have to be taken seriously.

You can bet that Biden's neocon government will be egging this on. American exceptionalism. American hegemony. Russia's fifth column, the Atlanticist Integrationists, who wish absorption into the degenerate and failing Western World, will echo the charges against Russia. This would make the situation a serious international incident with Russia as the threatened villain.

What would the Kremlin do? Would Russia's leaders accept yet another humiliation and false accusation? Or will the anger of the Russian people forever accused and never stood up for by their own government force the Kremlin into awareness that Russia could be attacked at any moment.

Even if the Kremlin is reluctant to acknowledge the threat of war, what if another of the numerous false warnings of incoming ICBMs is received. Unlike the past, is it believed this time?

The stolen election in America, the emerging American Police State, more vicious and better armed than any in the past, could result in American chaos that could be a dire threat to the Russian Federation.

What Trump and his supporters, and perhaps the Kremlin, do not understand is that real evidence no longer counts . The Establishment makes up the evidence that it needs for its agendas. Consider how easy it was for the Capitol Police to remove barriers and allow some Antifa mixed in with Trump supporters into the Capitol. This was all that was required to create a "Trump led insurrection" that terminated the presentation of evidence of electoral fraud and turned the massive rally of support for Trump into a liability. Trump now leaves the presidency as an "insurrectionist" and is set up for continued harassment and prosecution.

As I previously wrote, the stolen election and its acceptance abroad signifies the failure of Western democracy. The collapse of the Western world and its values will affect the entire world.

Joe Stalin , says: January 10, 2021 at 5:16 pm GMT • 23.4 hours ago

How long did it take for the mighty USA military to restore electric utilities in the face of insurgency in Iraq?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gg-Zd193j60?feature=oembed

No member of the State wants to be picked off one by one, be it military, cops, leadership or functionaries.

What has been overlooked in the debate over the combat potential of violent extremists is the diffusion of something much more rudimentary and potentially more lethal: basic infantry skills. These include coordinated small-team tactical maneuvers supported by elementary marksmanship. The diffusion of such tactics seems to be underway, and it may generate serious concerns for U.S. security policy in the future if ignored.

https://warontherocks.com/2018/02/shock-of-the-mundane-the-dangerous-diffusion-of-basic-infantry-tactics/

Imagine if fuel pipe lines to urban areas were hit, railroad tracks hit, water processing facilities hit; the vision of an easy victory over Red America would quickly come home to the city dwellers.

Harry Huntington , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:02 pm GMT • 22.6 hours ago
@Joe Stalin /p>

Elections in the US are not about picking winners. They are about making voters complicit in governance by their having voted. The most recent election failed to make the Red voters "complict" because there was no transparency and everyone believes there was fraud. No election with mail in voting in the US will every work because everyone will assume fraud.

In a nation as large as the US with as much concentrated city living, logistics are a nightmare. The next time the lights go out, you may wonder. When your grocery chain runs out of meat, you may wonder. When sewers in your city keep breaking, you may wonder. Thus truly scares me.

Vidi , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:13 pm GMT • 22.4 hours ago

today the weapons in the hands of the military are devastating compared to those in the hands of the public

True enough. However, the weapons and the ammunition don't magically appear; they need to be manufactured somewhere, and those places (and/or their suppliers) can be destroyed.

TG , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:19 pm GMT • 22.3 hours ago

I must disagree. There will be no "civil war" in the United States. The establishment controls the levers of power and all communications and all organized structures. There may be a bunch of disaffected citizens, but they will remain a disorganized mob. Any apparent emergent rival for power will be ruthlessly suppressed, deplatformed, villified, or co-opted. The working class has been effectively divided and will waste its energy fighting itself over crumbs ('diversity').

Disorganized mobs do not fight civil wars.

No, the fate of the United States will be the sort of chaotic autocracy we see in places like Mexico and Brazil. Verging on being a failed state, the rich will nonetheless live lives of great luxury secure in their walled estates. Meanwhile the average person will be crushed into poverty, criminal gangs will flourish, and there will be a tension between the central police and local gangs, but gangs are rarely organized enough to truly challenge centralized states, and life will muddle on. There will be little social cohesion and no real trust of central authorities, but that only matters if you want a strong and unified society. The rich will do fine.

On the other hand, the overall national power will decline, and other powers like China (which for all its flaws has not declared war on the working class, nor does it routinely excuse or celebrate incompetence in leadership) will rise and take its place both on the world stage and as the cutting edge of science and culture.

Wyatt , says: January 10, 2021 at 6:48 pm GMT • 21.8 hours ago
@Vidi

And the people making them don't tend to want those weapons used against their friends and neighbors.

Notsofast , says: January 10, 2021 at 8:03 pm GMT • 20.6 hours ago

to me the biggest outcome of this faux coup/insurrection is the splintering of the republican party. with this schism the trump "populists" have been cleanly pared off of the party and thrown overboard and the remaining party will meekly do the bidding of the neocon deep state that now totally controls both of these sock puppet parties. we will now see both parties calling for a unification of our "indispensable nation". more than likely some false flag will provide the necessary impetus to bury the hatchet and focus us all on our new/old enemy. the only hope i see is an outside chance that so many republicans have been redpilled that the party becomes the new whigs and fades into obscurity, leaving room for new parties to rise from the ash. the dems are ripe for a schism themselves with aoc champing at the bit to kick the boomers to the curb and the bernie bros finally realizing that three card monty is a rigged game. i would love to see the destruction of both of these hopelessly corrupt parties but the deep state cthulhu has its tentacles thoroughly wrapped around our poor planet and anything emerging out of this toxic mess would most likely be even worse. the situation reminds me of voltaire's candide and his sage advice to cultivate your garden.

Anon [912] Disclaimer , says: January 10, 2021 at 8:26 pm GMT • 20.2 hours ago

I'd advise the young to develop a "plan B". Pick another country you find bearable amd study it. Find out what jobs are in demand there. Develop those skills in your spare time (computers, electricians, mechanics, etc.). Practice their language an hour or two per week with online resources/dvd's/books. Research their immigration laws and perhaps contact their embassy.

If it gets really awful for whites here, you may be able to take your family some place more hospitable. Hopefully none of this will be neccessary and the rhetoric will tone down. Trump personally really got under the left's skin. Don't umderestimate Hillary's supporters influence here. They were ticked off. The Obama's too. Perhaps they will calm down a notch now. Have a plan B though young whites.

Citizen of a Silly Country , says: January 10, 2021 at 11:17 pm GMT • 17.4 hours ago

Another insightful article by PCR. However, I must somewhat disagree on some points.

What would the US military do?

The military would support whomever pays their salary and their pensions, i.e. the Establishment. However, as Iraq and Afghanistan has shown, the U.S. military, while possessing remarkable firepower when taken on directly and openly, is quite vulnerable. The U.S. military is essentially mercenaries. Mercenaries work for pay. Mercenaries are not willing to die for a cause. You can't spend money if you're dead.

Think of the Troubles in Ireland.

The Establishment absolutely can deliver a punch to an identifiable opponent, but it can't take a punch. Low level violence directed at officers and politicians would bring them to their knees.

Controlling the media, the Establishment, knowing of the patriotism of its opponents, would portray the "rebels" as foreign agents seeking to overthrow American Democracy.

I agree that they will try. However, I suspect that PCR is underestimating how little faith many whites have in the media.

The Establishment will never be more powerful than it is today. They have inherited institutions, the people to man those institutions and a generally functioning economy. Basically, they stole the keys to car that they didn't create. But the Establishment run those institutions and economy into ground. They will slowly start to show cracks.

Whites need to stay low, start forming small groups and begin preparing for the openings that will come.

Dr. Robert Morgan , says: January 11, 2021 at 1:34 am GMT • 15.1 hours ago

The racial right has been fantasizing about a civil war since forever, but I can't see it. Too many people have too much to lose, there's no real desire for blood, and the people are anyway too soft to initiate or withstand the violence real war would unleash upon them. Further, and in stark contrast to the SJWs and antifa, the few racially conscious whites who fantasize about this are mostly too old to make good soldiers. Also, just like the "God emperor" himself, Trumpers are some of the stupidest people on the face of the earth, largely down with their own enslavement, nauseatingly fond of "law and order", sporting "Blue Lives Matter" badges, etc. Despite being preyed upon by blacks and browns for decades now, they still refuse to become racist. Most of them are Bible thumpers who really believe that race is just skin color, that all are equal before their imaginary friend called God, and that Israel is America's greatest ally. Then too, vast numbers of whites work for the government or its many offshoots such as education, law enforcement, the military, and the defense industry. Civil war would mean they'd be revolting against themselves.

Will America become a police state? In case you haven't noticed, Americans already live in a police state, and have for decades. PCR should know this as well as anyone, as he was part of it during the Reagan years. America is an open-air prison Americans built themselves, and they rat each other out and betray each other to keep themselves ideologically in line. When someone white is doxxed and fired for having bad thoughts, who do you think does the enforcing? For the most part, it's other white people. Fake president and China asset Biden is just the new warden.

Harold Smith , says: January 11, 2021 at 3:45 am GMT • 12.9 hours ago

As a person who grew up in the glorious aftermath of World War II, it never occurred to me that in my later years I would be pondering whether the United States would end in civil war or a police state. In the aftermath of the stolen presidential election, it seems a 50-50 toss up.

In a very meaningful sense we already have a "police state." Why do we have a police state? Because our masters realize that they can't run the whole world from anything resembling a constitutional republic (as the Founders and Framers envisioned it). It's the agenda for complete world domination and control that's driving the domestic oppression. As they continue to squander everything of value on the agenda and take more risks, etc., while the corruption and rot continue to take a toll and the country crumbles, the boot will need to come down ever harder on the neck.

And please stop kidding yourself about Trump. It wasn't for the benefit of Joe and Jill Sixpack that he seized Syrian oilfields, tried to start a war with Iran, tried to overthrow the Maduro government in Venezuela, tried to stop Nord Stream 2, started a trade war with China, pulled out of all the nuclear treaties, etc. Trump wasn't just fully onboard with the agenda, he pursued it enthusiastically.

If Trump's nuclear brinkmanship and aggressive foreign policies aren't promptly reversed, the U.S. may end as a pile of nuclear ash. Comments coming out of Moscow recently seem to suggest that Russia is finally losing its patience with interminable U.S. hostility and may soon start responding more forcefully to U.S./NATO provocations (and Biden's tough talk on Russia isn't helping matters any).

Neither Russia, China nor Iran are going to surrender to the USraeli empire and start taking orders, so either the U.S. "government" must back off and accept a multipolar world or WW3 is still on the table, even by accident.

tanabear , says: January 11, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 10.9 hours ago

From Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

The Civil War in Corcyra

"So savage was the progress of this revolution, and it seemed all the more so because it was one of the first which had broken out. Later, of course, practically the whole of the Hellenic world was convulsed, with rival parties in every state – democratic leaders trying to bring in the Athenians, and oligarchs trying to bring in the Spartans. In peacetime there would have been no excuse and no desire for calling them in, but in time of war, when each party could always count upon an alliance which would do harm to its opponents and at the same time strengthen its own position, it became a natural thing for anyone who wanted a change of government to call in help from outside.

So revolutions broke out in city after city, and in places where the revolutions occurred late the knowledge of what had happened previously in other places caused still new extravagances of revolutionary zeal, expressed by an elaboration in the methods of seizing power and by unheard-of atrocities in revenge. To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings . What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one's unmanly character ; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man, and to plot against an enemy behind his back was perfectly legitimate self-defence. Anyone who held violent opinions could always be trusted, and anyone who objected to them became a suspect. To plot successfully was a sign of intelligence, but it was still cleverer to see that a plot was hatching. If one attempted to provide against having to do either, one was disrupting the unity of the party and acting out of fear of the opposition. In short, it was equally praiseworthy to get one's blow in first against someone who was going to do wrong, and to denounce someone who had no intention of doing any wrong at all. Family relations were a weaker tie than party membership , since party members were more ready to go to any extreme for any reason whatever. These parties were not formed to enjoy the benefits of the established laws, but to acquire power by overthrowing the existing regime ; and the members of these parties felt confidence in each other not because of any fellowship in a religious communion, but because they were partners in crime. If an opponent made a reasonable speech, the party in power, so far from giving it a generous reception, took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect.

As the result of these revolutions, there was a general deterioration of character throughout the Greek world . The simple way of looking at things, which is so much the mark of a noble nature, was regarded as a ridiculous quality and soon ceased to exist. Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps , and each side viewed the other with suspicion. As for ending this state of affairs, no guarantee could be given that would be trusted, no oath sworn that people would fear to break; everyone had come to the conclusion that it was hopeless to expect a permanent settlement and so, instead of being able to feel confident in others, they devoted their energies to providing against being injured themselves."

Just another serf , says: January 11, 2021 at 6:04 am GMT • 10.6 hours ago

Whether civil war as we may imagine it, or something equally unappealing to our every day lives, something bad is about to happen.

I'm curious though, regarding what I do believe was unprecedented election fraud. How is it possible, after watching the Georgia State Farm arena video, that the President of the United States, with all the power that office should hold, could not force the woman identified in that video, one Ruby Freeman, to answer questions about what we saw? Ruby Freeman was never questioned as far as I can find. How is this possible? Nothing makes sense. Before we begin killing one another, can we do two things; 1. Interrogate Ruby Freeman and 2. Interrogate the killer of Ashli Babbit?

Zarathustra , says: January 11, 2021 at 6:24 am GMT • 10.2 hours ago

Little bit feverish article. And I do have to say no.
Civil war can happen only after hyperinflation accompanied with lawlessness.
And that will happen only if US looses its international position.
Everything depend now on Germany.
If Germany joins China Russia camp than US as a world leader will not mean anything anymore.
China now is courting Europe intensively. Particularly is courting Germany.
Nothing is set yet.
So everybody can relax.
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Biden is out of his mind. In his speech he said that he wants to increase minimum wage and reestablish unions. That could be a little help also.

shylockcracy , says: January 11, 2021 at 6:58 am GMT • 9.7 hours ago

People living in the core areas of Ziocorporate globalism, like the US/EU, remain mostly oblivious about the nature of their ruling regime than those living in the direct periphery of globalist power. Take Colombia for an example, like Mexico's, all its presidents are subservient to US Ziocorporate power. Last one, a Nobel peace prize winner under whose pre-presidential stint as "Defense" minister oversaw the US-serving Colombian military's systematic massacre of tens of thousands of lower class Colombian youths who were then disguised as guerrillas to cash in rewards paid US Plan Colombia dollars, proceeded, now as president, to negotiate the disarmament of the actual guerrillas under the Obama/Biden regime's orders. Massmurder and massacres maintained an average level.

Then, in 2018, right after the Trumpet, a shamelessly pro-US regime, even for Colombian standards, took over and massacres and massmurder picked right up again, to an average of 2 or 3 per week, with exploding cocaine production even for Colombia standards as well, and extreme political polarisation, and all the while the Ziocorporate mother ship in Washington, with its Qtard and MAGA bullshit, looked the other way except to accuse Venezuela of being undemocratic and of human rights violations.

If Americans weren't so stupid and daydreaming like fucktards that they live in "muh democracy/republic" instead of the Ziocorporate conglomerate regime that rules over them, they could take a clue or two from their own regime's foreign policy, not only did Trumpet do things like transferring $400 billion in weapons to ISIS/al-Qaeda royal Salafi patrons in Ziodi Wahhabia, he doubled-down on the Obama/Biden policy of Venezuela "is a national security threat to muh democracy and freedom"; to start pondering about the kind of manipulation and radicalisation Ziocorporate agents Trump/Republicans and Biden/Democrats have in store for them. Cointelpro certainly mutates far faster than Covid-1984.

Happy New World Order and Great Reset.

shylockcracy , says: January 11, 2021 at 7:17 am GMT • 9.4 hours ago
@catdog i-deep state" character is actually the opposite of:

"White House teams up with Google to build coronavirus screening site"
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/white-house-teams-up-with-google-to-build-coronavirus-screening-site/

What do Qtarts and the like need to realise this simple, evident facts? That the Trumpet himself comes on national TV telling you all "I and the Democrats have been playing divide and conquer with you dumbfucks for 4 years"?

Feeling that anti-deep state MAGA magick yet?

Miro23 , says: January 11, 2021 at 7:25 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago

The American Establishment is doing to President Trump exactly what it did to Ukrainian President Yanukovych in Washington's orchestrated "Maidan Revolution," called "the Revolution of Dignity" by the liars at Wikipedia, and precisely what it did to Chavez, Maduro, and would like to do to Putin.

What Trump and his supporters, and perhaps the Kremlin, do not understand is that real evidence no longer counts . The Establishment makes up the evidence that it needs for its agendas.

Their playbook "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals" by Saul D. Alinsky, makes it clear that it's necessary to play dirty. This covers all aspects of their Regime Change projects and the current US project surely isn't any different.

It's a cocktail of lies, fabrications, subversion, threats, blackmail, false friendships – in fact any means to advance themselves.

For example: From Alinsky – "Means and Ends" His take on morality:

Rule 10) You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.

Rule 11) Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", "Of the Common Welfare, "Pursuit of Happiness" or "Bread and Peace".

So yes, this is why the most unpatriotic Patriot Act is called the Patriot Act and they operate from patriotic sounding places like the American Enterprise Institute.

If traditional America is going to get anywhere in the upcoming conflict they have to get used to playing by the same rules – difficult for them – but they have to do it. It's inevitably going to be a dirty war.

Abdul Alhazred , says: January 11, 2021 at 8:01 am GMT • 8.6 hours ago

Point of order- Russia is not the historic enemy, but the orchestrated one, rather it was the Soviet Union which is the historic enemy, as the sponsors of the destruction of Russia are behind the destruction of America.

Carlos22 , says: January 11, 2021 at 8:09 am GMT • 8.5 hours ago

We are already in a police state and you can kiss goodbye to the 1st and 2nd amendment soon as free speech becomes hate speech just like they did in Europe.

So this site and many others in the alt news universe will soon be gone.

There's not going to be a civil war as the current generation of young people are too weak and distracted and have been brainwashed into hating themselves.

There's a big elephant in the room and wild card that's been missed too and that's the new covid vaccines who's long term effects on health are unknown.

Vaccines need to be studied for about 10 years before their safety can be guaranteed.

If tens / hundreds of millions are willing to be injected with a new untested genetic engineered substance that could make them disabled or kill them in 5 years to save them against something with a 99% survival rate what does that tell you about the mental state of the Population?

The US as you once knew it is finished it's just that many are still in denial or haven't realized it yet.

noname27 , says: Website January 11, 2021 at 8:34 am GMT • 8.1 hours ago

I see no civil war in the USA. I see no organisation amongst the people in order to carry it out. They have no leader, they have no Hannibal, Boadicea or Adolf to rally them together for a major insurrection against The Beast Empire. Unless of course something is brewing secretly.

A French style form of resistance, as previously mentioned in these comments, also takes a lot of planning and organisational skills, and I see no inkling of that taking place amongst American patriots.

I also believe many do not realise how serious the matter is, they still, being bogged down in irrelevant party politics.

If however a large swathe of the police and US Military including officers were to desert their corrupt masters, things would look very different and a civil war could happen.

Ilya G Poimandres , says: January 11, 2021 at 8:39 am GMT • 8.0 hours ago

The civil was has been on since Crossfire Hurricane, the usurpers of the constitution simply kept it cold because they thought they could enforce their tyranny silently.

And if Trump surrenders then they would have been proven right, at least for the leadership fight.

Biden will likely launch a war because he already has his bay of pigs with his graft, and will need a moonshot for the misdirection.

I don't think they can fight half the nation (and the military will split), and Russia at the same time, so the only question is on whom the war will be launched. I still think the odds are higher that it will be a civil war, but the Russia option looms strong for sure.

TKK , says: January 11, 2021 at 9:39 am GMT • 7.0 hours ago

The US military is the most "woke" diverse incompetent organization in America.

Remember- contractors do all the heavy lifting "in theater"- from cooking to plumbing to firefighting to IT to combat.

This knowledge is hidden from view- kept on the down low.I only know because my brother has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan for KBR for the past 15 years. I have seen him accumulate well over Half a million in cash. What does he do? He makes sure the troops have water and food. He is in logistics. For the past decade I have heard hundreds if not thousands of stories of the jaw dropping incompetence, insouciance and laziness of the American military.

Rank-and-file Americans, indeed no one, talks about this very real infrastructure that props up every dumb, overweight enlisted. About 4 contractors to every enlisted.

Most of the contractors in theater are from Eastern Europe and sub Sahara Africa. If they were given orders to release biological or chemical weapons on the American populace, as long as the huge checks were hitting their account they would do it in a heartbeat

More than the military- fear the shadow military that knows the systems, does the work .. And will do whatever it is asked as long as they are paid.

Their mother doesn't live here.

Everywhere we turn, diversity and hiring people from the "other" never works out.

*** Side note: My brother revealed that when blacks came back from their R&R after the George Floyd insanity, most of them became more aggressive and entitled. Unable to do their work because they could not stop going to report others for incidence of racism.

This includes the American black contractors and enlisted.

These are dumb young black men and women who are making $92,000 a year to move pallets around. If they were asked to stop calling in sick every day, they would run to report their supervisor for-

Racism.

Many whites have lost their lucrative positions or been subject to discipline for having the audacity to ask blacks to come to work.

It's over. It's too far gone.

[Jan 10, 2021] The Failure Of Biden To Denounce This Impeachment Is A Missed Presidential Opportunity by ZeroHedge

This is "V for vendetta" from neoliberal Dems. They at last got Trump...
While ZH commenters are too harsh on Biden who currently is sitting between two chairs, it will be extremely difficult for Biden and his administration to navigate this minefield.
He really might face a national strike despite docile character of white working class... And no in no way Trump was a friend of the working class. He governed like Bush III and appointed a nasty clique of neocons and Wall street bankers in his administration. Just look at Pompeo. He is probably as evil as Cheney.
Notable quotes:
"... Biden has been a mediocre politician for 47 years, taking advantage of his office to skim money for his family when he could. At no point in those 47 years has he demonstrated moral or ethical fortitude. ..."
"... But equally as malicious, at no point did Biden ever condemn the acts by other democrats to undermine an elected government with a series of fabricated and fraudulent investigation, or years of calls for violence and harassment of opposition politicians, and even calls for outright assassination. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Ikiru 1 day ago

J. Turley said he didn't think this was a fraudulent election... If you can be so blind, irrational, and brainwashed as to not see the fraud and illegitimacy of this election, I really can't trust your judgment on other important matters.

Just Another Vietnam Vet 22 hours ago (Edited)

Bad Decisions : the Joe Biden Story... its all over the net......

joyful-feet 1 day ago

100% correct. To try to normalize any of the treachery that has taken place lately or these past four years is pure evil. To try to tell people at this point just to move on will not work...

deep-state-retired 1 day ago

He wants to stay in the cocktail party circuit. They all do.

Ex-Oligarch 1 day ago

If the elections are fraudulent, betraying their constituents won't end these politicians' careers. They'll keep right on pulling in "campaign contribution" bribes and playing footsie with the democrats, secure in the role they play in the system.

CheapBastard 1 day ago (Edited)

Biden also refused to denounce the riots and burning down of over 9 major cities across the nation. In fact, his Ho, Harris, was bailing out the arsonists and looters.

JohnGault 1 day ago (Edited)

Biden has been a mediocre politician for 47 years, taking advantage of his office to skim money for his family when he could. At no point in those 47 years has he demonstrated moral or ethical fortitude. Instead, he pandered to whichever populist forces prevailed to maintain his office.

Biden has recently called for "a return of decency" to Washington, in sharp contrast to his public statements about the current president saying "if we were in high school, I would take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him". How incredibly "decent" of Joe, isn't it?

But equally as malicious, at no point did Biden ever condemn the acts by other democrats to undermine an elected government with a series of fabricated and fraudulent investigation, or years of calls for violence and harassment of opposition politicians, and even calls for outright assassination.

Can you imagine the level of outrage by democrats and the media if a republican called for the assasination of obama or hillary? The uproar would be deafening.

No, Biden is just a mediocre shill with no moral or ethical compass to guide him. And that kind of rudderless leadership inevitably ends in disaster.

NoBigDeal 1 day ago remove link

Biden reads the words from the teleprompter that are written for him. I wouldn't expect much more from him than that.

bsdetector 1 day ago

I saw part of President Elect Biden's speech this week. He denounced President Trump for everything he believes is wrong in America. His speech was hateful and divisive and was made at a time when better words would have been helpful for America.

President Trump has many faults but he delivered a message during the last four years that resonates with many Americans. By attacking President Trump in this speech, Mr. Biden attacks the Americans that believe in President Trump's message.

It would be better for Mr. Biden to acknowledge that causes for election fraud allegations will be investigated.

donkey_shot 1 day ago

how can Biden denounce an impeachment when he`s not sure if it`s his own impeachment, or trump?

Sean7k PREMIUM 1 day ago

...that ship sailed when numerous courts failed to grant any relief on election fraud. It is the main reason courts exist. Therefore, the final nail in the coffin has been secured, the US is no longer anything but a banana republic...

Leguran@premium PREMIUM 1 day ago (Edited)

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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Biden is "America's" choice for president (lower case intended). In my opinion he has already sold out his country. His base is exclusively the cities where stupid people who go back and forth like hedonistic living dead believing that their future lies in a FASCIST Globalism...

My choice is to get my stuff out of reach and let these progressive idiots economically starve.

Snaffew 1 day ago remove link

Biden can't put two words together, let alone two thoughts -- the man is far more criminal and many levels dumber than Trump and "the people" believe this is the right "choice"...

Jon_noDough 1 day ago

Biden isn't and never was "presidential" material. Just a corrupt career politician mouthpiece for whoever is back there running the show...

Whodathunkit 6 hours ago

That was a presidential moment missed by the President-elect.

joe ain't too bright.

Engenie 12 hours ago

Biden will do exactly what he is told, when he is told. Thinking he can make his own decisions is laughable.

PGR88 1 day ago

Biden wasn't very smart to start with, and now he's suffering from dementia. He'll say whatever he's told to say.

gonediving 1 day ago

NOT Important says the Deep State...move along....nothing to see hear NY Times only reported it once so you would not miss it! Plausible deniability when needed.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/nancy-pelosi-tried-to-arrange-a-military-coup-and-thats-sedition/

[Jan 10, 2021] The fake outrage by politicians to score political points and justify additional control over the populace is pretty telling

Notable quotes:
"... More telling is the fake outrage by politicians to score political points and justify additional control over the populace. Chuck Schumer compared it to Pearl Harbor, calling it a date "in American history that will live forever in infamy." President-elect Joe Biden characterized it as "one of the darkest days in the history or our nation" and "an unprecedented assault on our democracy." ..."
"... Schumer and Biden conveniently overlook the irony of their statements. They may be accurate. But only for reasons they never intended. Lost in the ruckus was any candid consideration of election counting shenanigans. This is the real assault on democracy that will forever live in infamy. ..."
"... At the same time, the nation's leaders have little clue what's going on. Schumer. Pelosi. McConnell. All the clowns in Congress. They think that with that ogre Trump out of the way, they can let the good times roll again. They know not what they face. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The storming of the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday was a wacky and wild escapade. But it shouldn't be a surprise. These things happen when a nation's in decline. And, as Wednesday demonstrated, America's recline and flail goes on .

More telling is the fake outrage by politicians to score political points and justify additional control over the populace. Chuck Schumer compared it to Pearl Harbor, calling it a date "in American history that will live forever in infamy." President-elect Joe Biden characterized it as "one of the darkest days in the history or our nation" and "an unprecedented assault on our democracy."

Schumer and Biden conveniently overlook the irony of their statements. They may be accurate. But only for reasons they never intended. Lost in the ruckus was any candid consideration of election counting shenanigans. This is the real assault on democracy that will forever live in infamy.

But, again, proper perspective must be maintained. A fraud election should come as no surprise. These things happen when a nation's in decline. We don't like it. But these are the facts.

At the same time, the nation's leaders have little clue what's going on. Schumer. Pelosi. McConnell. All the clowns in Congress. They think that with that ogre Trump out of the way, they can let the good times roll again. They know not what they face.

[Jan 10, 2021] Natelson- There Is No Constitutional Ground For Impeachment Of President Trump - ZeroHedge

Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

So a "high misdemeanor" was a serious crime not meriting the death penalty. The icing on the cake from this conclusion was that it resolved some other questions that had puzzled scholars as well. And it explained the structure of the Constitution's Impeachment Clause: the words "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" provide one example of a high crime (treason), one example of a high misdemeanor (bribery), and include generic clauses covering other crimes in the same two categories.

Observe what is excluded from the grounds for impeachment. Congress may not impeach and remove for a minor crime. Nor may it do so because an officer is reckless, negligent, or has obnoxious political opinions. The constitutional penalty for those breaches is, for lesser officers, removal by the president and, for the president and vice-president, re-election defeat.

While debate over the meaning of the term continued, the House of Representatives could reasonably assume that non-criminal behavior could constitute a "high misdemeanor." But that's no longer true. Now we can say unequivocally that whatever you may think of the president's speech, it's not a basis for impeachment.

Robert G. Natelson is a leading originalist scholar who served as a law professor for 25 years. He is a senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver. His research articles on the Constitution's meaning have been cited repeatedly by justices and parties in the Supreme Court.

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There are many well intended supporters of Trump. Having voted for him in 2016, I understand some of the reasons. People that attended the events at the Capitol ranged from patriotic, passionate and peaceful Trump supporters to extremists who showed their hate with their symbols as well as their actions. YOU ARE ALL BEING LUMPED TOGETHER; to the good people - be careful of being pulled into the hate by the wolves in sheep's clothing. Flags, signs and symbols of racist, white supremacist and extremist groups were displayed along with Trump 2020 banners and American flags at Wednesday's riot at the US Capitol. They portray messages of tyranny, white supremacy, anarchy, racism, anti-Semitism and hatred. What haters were there: the Three Percenters flag was displayed, as was Release The Kraken flag, Kekistans flag, Gadsden flags, altered Confederate flag of hate, American First flag which sounds nice but are tied to violence, Camp Auschwitz flag - no explanation of what it glorifies is needed, Nationalist Social club - a Nazi group, and the PB okey sign - a militant group. ALL these groups were at the Capitol on Jan 6th. It's guilt by association, do you stand w hate groups in Unity? These hate groups are crafty, they need to trick good people to be among them to legitimize a show of force and hide like cowards in their shadow after instigating their hateful acts.

[Jan 10, 2021] Here It Comes- 'Patriot Act 2.0' Aimed At The UnWoke Enemy Within - ZeroHedge

Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

In my article yesterday – "The Storming of the Capitol": America's Reichstag Fire? – I said this [my emphasis]:


Although there is not yet any talk of legislation [in response to the Capitol Hill riots], it's certainly true there are whispers of purges and other measures to "protect the constitution".

That quote did not age well, indeed it was wrong from the moment it went to print. Because, as it turns out, there has actually been "talk of legislation" for weeks – even months. Soon-to-be-President Joe Biden promised a new "domestic terrorism bill" back in November, according to the Wall Street Journal .

That is why you're seeing so much usage of the phrase "domestic terrorism" in the last couple of days.

It's the meme-phrase. The primary talking point for this whole exercise. It was underlined in all the memos sent out to all the media outlets.

That's why Joe Biden went to such lengths to distinguish "domestic terrorists" from "protesters" in his speech following the riots .

That's why the Council on Foreign Relations had an interview with a "counter-terrorism and national security expert" published within 24 hours of the incident, in which he spends 4 paragraphs arguing that the people who "stormed the capitol" were domestic terrorists.

https://lockerdome.com/lad/13084989113709670?pubid=ld-dfp-ad-13084989113709670-0&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com&rid=www.zerohedge.com&width=830

That's why the Washington Post has got an article dedicated to "lawmakers and experts" arguing that the Capitol Hill protest was an act of "domestic terrorism". And so have Vox . And Mother Jones .

That's why ABC had an article about how "domestic terrorism and hate crimes" were a growing problem in America a week before the riot took place.

And that's why #TrumpisaDomesticTerrorist is trending on Twitter.

Georgetown University, a well-known spook college , published a paper in September 2020 titled the "The Need for a Specific Law Against Domestic Terrorism" , and op-ed pieces bemoaning the lack of such a law have been dotted through the press going back to last summer and even late 2019 .

There was one published yesterday , in which a "senior FBI official" says "more could have been done" if there had been a "specific law outlawing" domestic terrorism.

"Domestic Terrorism" is clearly where it's at in early 2021, so we can expect a brand new law regarding it probably by March, at the latest.

What will "Domestic Terrorism" mean in this law?

The answer to that is pretty much always "whatever they want it to mean."

Certainly, it will include "incitement" and "hate speech", I would expect "denialism" to make an appearance, and be downright shocked if "spreading misinformation" doesn't get a mention. Don't be surprised if "questioning elections" or "bringing democracy into disrepute" is made an outright crime.

It will probably be tied into the Covid "pandemic" in some way, too. After all, what is discouraging people from taking vaccines if not the very definition of "terrorism", right? It's possible that even climate change will get a mention as well. They like to slide that into every issue these days.

Joe Biden has claimed multiple times to be the author of the original Patriot Act , saying it was based entirely on a bill he proposed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.

Well now he has a chance to work on the reboot too, and they are always so much better when you can get the original creative team back together.

[Jan 10, 2021] Federal Prosecutor Opens Excessive Force Investigation Into Death Of Ashli Babbitt- Report

Some ZH commenters view killing of Ashli Babbitt a provocation to incite violence
Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Savyindallas 51 minutes ago remove link

There was no justification for the killing of babbitt. Agent provocateurs' were working the crowd crying to stoke up violence to create a serious incident. The same as with the Antifa riots in Portland and Seattle and elsewhere. In this case they were largely unsuccessful. The crowd was peaceful and non-violent. As a result, the provocateurs and behind the scenes organizers arranged for the Capitol Hill police to remove barricades and allow the crows to advance into the Capital where they were allowed (and even lead) into the Capital building. The paid provocateurs were trying to lead the crowd to violence, but with very limited success. With their plans for violent rioting and destruction unrealized, they arranged for the assassination of Babbitt and then ran their story anyway-totally misrepresenting and exaggerating the false "insurrection" as well as trump's alleged incitement of violence.

This was a setup. The American people have been played and conned. Most sheeple will not know any better and will believe and accept the Bolshevik media's account of what happened.

This is how revolutions are accomplished. Same playbook and modus operandi since the French Revolution. Bolsheviks have done this countless times over the past couple of centuries. The CIA has used an identical script in Iran in 1953, countless revolutions in South and Central America, Color Revolutions in the Middle east and most recently Ukraine. They have this down to a science. Very difficult to stop or prevent when a compliant media and crooked politicians have been lined up to support the narrative.

The establishment elites in charge will now use this bogus "insurrection" to press their white racist privilege narrative, suppress free speech and the internet and go on a expedited campaign for gun confiscation and repeal of the Second Amendment. The Covid hysteria fraud will get worse and lockdowns and forced mask wearing will be enhanced.

This will be used against all who dare question and challenge the establishment narrative-regardless of whether one is a Trump supporter or not. (I am not- I voted for Kanye) They have now conditioned all sheeple to identify all anti-establishment citizens with the sheeple's hatred of Trump. Very slick Deep state Psyop. People better be very careful. The Great Purge appears to have been unleashed.

Mamachief 45 minutes ago

They already have a 20,000 page "domestic terrorism" bill ready.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/amazing-they-magically-already-have-a-20000-page-domestic-terrorism-bill-ready/

Cardinal Fang 1 hour ago (Edited)

So who killed the cop?

They won't tell you because that was a confirmed Antifa kill.

Hurts the narrative.

You can't tell me they don't have a ******** of their own video surveillance.

manofthenorth 1 hour ago

Official narrative; "still determining the cause of death"

The story stinks to high heaven, does NOT pass the sniff test.

theendofish 1 hour ago

The story was possibly invented to overshadow the killing of an unarmed Ashli in my opinion. I have nothing to prove this but it's so convenient that it came out the same day. Whoever killed Ashli should go to prison since his life was hardly in danger. There were cops behind her at the time of shooting. They had long rifles and weren't saying anything. They appeared to be as surprised as anyone else there when she got shot.

TheWalrus22 58 minutes ago

Story I heard was that he died from a blood clot in the brain..

son of sam 42 minutes ago

Trump led his 'base' to the slaughter - in this womans' case, literally. No, he is not guilty of sending them to that building, organizing a 'riot,' or 'inciting violence' to intimidate representatives; his speech did none of those things.

His actual 'crime' was to pose as a person possessing values identical to those of his supporters - to pose as an upholder of 'traditional' values in a world gone mad with gender fluidity, mass fetal murder, profligate government spending, over-regulation, contempt for actual workers and enterprise, to pretend to be 'fighting for the little guy' instead of being himself a minion of financial powers angling for maximum influence over both government and the lives of its citizens.

A poseur who wasted zero time in changing the yardsticks in favor of those whom he 'owed' immediately upon arrival - the GOLDMAN ADMINISTRATION was an apt description of his administrative choices and legislative legacy - the Don was happy to use his gullible base of supporters as cannon fodder in a phony war against a cabal of which he was both an initiate and a lackey. Screened from accountability by a troll army the tattered remnants of which still infect these very pages with a pathetic 'chimera' of their once virulent strain of gaslighting disinfo and misdirection, the man was successful for four years in giving the appearance of being a 'victim' of the very choices he himself had made - to surround himself with dripping wet swamp critters like "Bushey Bandit Barr," the Dershowitz creature, the other cabinet member infamous for getting Jeffy off the hook in Florida,

while a phalanx of willing dissemblers continued to stretch it out so that 'just wait - it's coming - the dossiers are about to be released! etc., became the standard fare by which a large chunk of Americans were slowing starved of hope and belief, but kept hoping and believing anyhow, because the looming alternative - and this moments actual grisly REALITY - where simply to terrible to contemplate. The reality tv star played his role to perfection. There does not need be a 'second season' - the show has run its course, and his supporters into the ground.

The 1% are now ten times richer than they were when this wretched circus started 4 years ago, and "the base" is about to get introduced to a kind of grinding poverty - both mental and physical - which will make images of the dirty thirties look like a Catskills day camp; tru to his word, the Don has delivered on his slogan - Amerika is about to GRATE again - on the skewer of a BBQ of souls which the left has openly promised - and now proceeds to perform, in the HOLOMAR tradition so beloved to haters of humankind.

John Hansen 37 minutes ago

A lot of truth to what you say, but it isn't as if any of them are any better.

Trump was an empty suit but he talked the talk (sometimes), the rest of them can't even manage that.

UnhingedBecauseLucid 12 minutes ago (Edited)

His actual 'crime' was to pose as a person possessing values identical to those of his supporters - to pose as an upholder of 'traditional' values in a world gone mad with gender fluidity, <strike>mass fetal murder</strike>, profligate government spending, over-regulation, contempt for actual workers and enterprise, to pretend to be 'fighting for the little guy' instead of being himself a minion of financial powers angling for maximum influence over both government and the lives of its citizens.

I'd have to upvote you by 1 ... then downvote you by 1.

But for the pinpoint accuracy of the highlight, and since I'm in a good mood today, I'll upvote you by 0.5 ... which I can't do on this platform, so I'll just right it down in comment ... ... for the record . ;-)

pndr4495 49 minutes ago

This woman served our country and took an oath to uphold and defend our Constitution, our law of the land. The TRUTH about this shooting better be laid out in front of the American Public. Many people on ZH have children serving our country.

When was the last time, if ever, any of the cowering politicians considered upholding & defending our Constitution?

sijoittaja 1 hour ago

So can I break into the White House and expect the Secret Service to welcome me with open hands into the oval office?

Here are some relevant laws:

18 U.S. Code § 1361 - Government property or contracts

18 U.S. Code § 2112 - Personal property of United States

18 U.S.C. § 930 - Possession of firearms and dangerous weapons in Federal facilities

18 U.S.C. § 1752 - Restricted building or grounds

18 U.S. Code § 231 - Civil disorders

18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy

Ink Pusher 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Oh so,cold the blooded murder of an unarmed Patriot Veteran by a poorly trained and frightened traitor is now conveniently reduced to an excessive force investigation?

A Fed Up Dude 1 hour ago

IF it was a white cop that shot a black BLM,,,,,,,,,OH MAN !!! can you imagine the charges ?????

Nature_Boy_Wooooo 1 hour ago (Edited)

In the time it took him to walk closer to her and line up his point blank shot......

He could have fled or fired a warning shot in the air.....or like Joe Biden says.....he could have shot her in the hand.

Handful of Dust 1 hour ago (Edited)

The murder was so deliberate ...slow, calculating, careful, and accurate.

What was the guy thinking?

Who paid him to kill?

Nature_Boy_Wooooo 1 hour ago remove link

He attacked her like a woman killing a spider. That was not professional and he should be removed from duty immediately if not charged with murder.

Pro_sanity 1 hour ago (Edited)

Anybody in antifa or blm shot by police? At any point all ******* summer long as they burnt businesses to the ground and wiped people out.

But already on day 1 of a protest by the conservatives and a woman was executed.

That oughta tell you all you need to know about things will unfold.

Neo2021 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Excessive FORCE?? How about negligent homicide at the least. If you or I did this on the street we would be in prison for at least 10-15 years. She was an unarmed protester; trespassing would be the charge at most. I guess BLM and ANTIFA (which was created during WW1 by the fascists by the way) looting burning and injuring people without charges filed was ok. Fail

novictim 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

This is the Kent State massacre of our day. An unarmed patriot and veteran, a woman dedicated to the USA, was using civil disobedience no different from the folks who stormed the Judge Kavanaugh hearings and was executed for it.

(And the trigger person, very ironically, is a black woman with a badge who is clearly premeditated in her choice to execute Ashli).

So now that a person has been literally executed for Civil Disobedience , where is the MSM outrage ? There is none because we no longer live in a free nation. We literally had an election stolen from us and had no free speech leading up to this steal. Why would they let the truth out about their complicity with Communist China ever be known when they can stop it?

Free Speech and Moral Courage are reserved now only for those that the Oligarchy of Tech Giants and their Uniparty goons on Capital Hill/Chinese Embassy approve.

You will not hear the appropriate chorus of anger if you are listening to the MSM. If you are still taking your cues from FOX or MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NYTIMES then you must be incapable of seeing the cage you live in and the bars over your windows, the guards that deny you access to reality.

HER NAME WAS ASHLI BABBITT

[Jan 10, 2021] A Coup of Pelosi's Own

Notable quotes:
"... Mrs. Pelosi's call to Gen. Milley is itself a violation of the separation of powers by seeking to inject herself into an executive-branch military decision. She can offer advice all she wants, but this call at this time has the sound of an order. It might even be construed by some as its own little coup -- conniving with the military to relieve of command the person who remains the elected President. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.wsj.com

Mrs. Pelosi's call to Gen. Milley is itself a violation of the separation of powers by seeking to inject herself into an executive-branch military decision. She can offer advice all she wants, but this call at this time has the sound of an order. It might even be construed by some as its own little coup -- conniving with the military to relieve of command the person who remains the elected President.

What if an adversary leaps on the news and decides this is the moment to stage some military action when the U.S. is consumed with internal conflict? Does Gen. Milley now have to consult with the Speaker before he acts in America's defense? How anyone thinks her intervention would restore good constitutional order to government or some modicum of sanity to politics is a mystery.

Mr. Trump failed his constitutional test on Wednesday. But Mrs. Pelosi showed awful judgment with her grandstanding over the nuclear launch codes. Late Friday she announced that she's also revving up the impeachment machinery. So much for calming political tempers.

[Jan 10, 2021] If true, no wonder Pelosi is in full shrieking harpy mode, calling for the immediate invocation of the 25th Amendment or Impeachment #2.

Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

Buck Ransom , says: January 9, 2021 at 8:36 pm GMT • 5.5 hours ago

@Roacheforque from the FBI or DOJ) who got into the offices of Pelosi and other Swamp elders.

These people appropriated a whole bunch of laptops that had been carelessly left behind in the scuffle, which could soon provide quite a window into the doings of America's august leaders throughout their several recent coup attempts. Imagine Hunter Biden's Laptop from Hell x 20.

If true, no wonder Pelosi is in full shrieking harpy mode, calling for the immediate invocation of the 25th Amendment or Impeachment #2.

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/fog-and-noise/

HeebHunter , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:53 pm GMT • 5.6 hours ago
@Buck Ransom

Yes, because that is how careless these swamp monsters are, just leaving laptops unguarded, as the MIGA hordes were approaching from miles away

I wouldn't expect a 10 year old to leave his digital devices unaccounted for. Man, you amis are a riot.

[Jan 10, 2021] 'Witch hunt'- Police officers firefighters probed, employees losing jobs for partaking in US Capitol protest-turned-riot

Jan 10, 2021 | www.rt.com

The probe comes as businesses and governments across the US look to jettison employees who may have taken part in Wednesday's violent protest in Washington to fight certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral votes. The CEO of suburban Chicago-based data analytics firm Cogensia was fired on Friday after being arrested over his alleged role in the riot, as was the associate general counsel of Texas-based Goosehead Insurance. The latter claimed he was peacefully demonstrating.

READ MORE: USA Today asks to ID rioters in Capitol invasion. Readers question why summer unrest was treated differently

A Chicago real estate agent also lost her job after saying on social media that she took part in "storming the Capitol." A Saint Vincent College professor was cut loose by the Pennsylvania school after he shared pictures of himself outside the Capitol on Wednesday. The president of the Richmond Food Truck Association was forced to resign for participating in the protest.

And as the Seattle investigation shows, public-sector employers also are cracking down. The Allentown School District in Pennsylvania has a similar investigation under way of an employee who may have been involved in the protest.

...The crackdown is raising questions over whether people who took part in the DC protests peacefully and legally will be lumped in with law-breakers and punished.

Juan_More 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:51 PM

I think that firing someone for attending and being captured on video, in pictures or admitting to being there is over the top. Now if someone had been charged and convicted in a court of law then that would be another matter. Anyone loosing their job over being "seen" has been summarily dismissed where the employer has just cause to terminate an employee without any notice or pay in lieu of notice. Summary dismissal is the death penalty in employment law. Therefore, summary dismissal is only appropriate where there is serious misconduct. Is being there just case? IMHO, and under the legal rules, until someone has been through the legal process they are considered innocent.
RTaccount 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:35 PM
And there will be no unity and no peace. Democrats created this situation, they should no complain about it now.
GaravSG RTaccount 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 10:00 PM
They are in power position and hunting down the Republicans on make believe insurrection. Why would they complain ? They are enjoying every bit of it. Expect more to come.
1Just_Dessert 3 hours ago 9 Jan, 2021 08:08 PM
"The department fully supports all lawful expressions of First Amendment freedom of speech'..unless you are against fake democrats and fully support the current president of US - Mr Trump! US - you really are the worst country in the world.
CA_Sue 2 hours ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:09 PM
Does Chief Diaz understand the difference in meaning of demonstration, protest and the act of insurrection? Probably not.
Election_Fraud Biden CA_Sue 56 minutes ago 9 Jan, 2021 10:18 PM
Definitely not.
Paul Ericson 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:18 PM
Lose their jobs? Wow, unlike the leftist marauders, you mean these people actually had jobs? So the globalist collaborators are happy to wreck the already tottering economy out of political spite? Now we see the depth of hate they can mine while claiming to 'fight hate'.
Ally Hauptmann-Gurski 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:25 PM
We don't even know what they are really after, or do we? Better conditions within the US would require less expenses for the military. If they want to restore hegemony they need money and would have to spend more money on the military which always requires shortchanging the people.
Jewel Gyn 29 minutes ago 9 Jan, 2021 10:56 PM
Brace yourself America for a rough ride. Dems have total control come 20 Jan. President, House and Senate. Nothing to stop them from colluding with the big globalist corporations.
Tom_Callan 3 hours ago 9 Jan, 2021 08:02 PM
The USA sounds more like an old communist country everyday! Perhaps they'll even introduce a re-education camps like China. Afterall, 'China Joe' is going to be running the USA!
Paul Ericson Tom_Callan 1 hour ago 9 Jan, 2021 09:25 PM
Too many 'boomers' I'm afraid sat back and let it happen while they binged on dumb consumerism. They let their kids be corrupted by the schools and even when the Web made information so easily available, they just turned-up their TVs and swallowed the propaganda poured into them by the global media cartels. I have sometimes found more info in the Times of India than any western outlet.

[Jan 10, 2021] Democrats 'beginning to sound like ISIS'- Candace Owens hits out at calls for pro-Trump crowd to seek 'redemption'

Jan 10, 2021 | www.rt.com

Demands for Donald Trump backers to seek "redemption" of sorts make Democrats look as intolerant as the most hardline Islamists, conservative political commentator Candace Owens has said.

Outspoken conservative Owens took to Twitter on Saturday, hitting out at calls for "redemption" in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill siege and Trump's social media ban. She condemned the "brown-shirt approach" exhibited by many Democrats, stating that the pro-Trump crowd won't just "magically disappear," and comparing their inability to cope with opposite views to the intolerance displayed by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group.

"Democrats are literally beginning to sound like ISIS. 'Recite the Quran or get your head chopped off, now!' Absolutely psychopathic. You will not make President Trump and his 75 million voters magically disappear or cower in fear."

https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1348112935097393154&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F512060-democrats-isis-trump-purge%2F&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px

Owens' angry message came in response to a tweet from John Brennan, former CIA director and self-described "nonpartisan American," who mused about what should be done to the pro-Trump crowd. Merely ceasing to support the president is not enough, Brennan warned, suggesting that those seeking "redemption" must confess their 'wrong' views.

"Total denunciation of a despot's legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy," he stated.

ALSO ON RT.COM 'Witch hunt'? Police officers & firefighters probed, employees losing jobs for partaking in US Capitol protest-turned-riot

In fact, Brennan is far from alone in expressing such views, with multiple commentators urging the need for a religious-sounding "redemption" of sorts or the outright persecution of Trump-supporters, somewhat resembling denazification in post-WWII Germany. The calls for such measures have been greatly amplified by the recent Capitol Hill incident, which left five people including a law enforcement officer dead.

https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1347544936070180867&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F512060-democrats-isis-trump-purge%2F&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px

Such calls were not taken lightly by Trump supporters, who told their opponents they were not going anywhere.

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Others accused the pro-Democratic crowd of acting like Nazis, sharing more ideas – straight from Hitler's Germany – about how they should try and punish the Trump supporters.

Trump supporters should have to wear an arm badge...that way if they're in a car accident EMS knows they should leave them to die.

-- Gulag Mouser Meownymous (@Meownymous) January 10, 2021

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Many hit out at Brennan personally, accusing him of just holding a grudge against Trump, who booted him from his CIA position back in 2017, and now simply seeking revenge. Moreover, his spiritual-sounding musings were not quite in-line with his spy career, they argued.

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Wazzup 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:17 AM

Owens has a valid point. It's a fair comparison.
Election_Fraud Biden Wazzup 26 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:31 PM
She surely does. It is the Democrats who need to seek redemption,. After applauding to all kinds of property destruction and looting all summer long by Antifa and BLM, including the Federal court houses. What else is left there for all of these immorals to do ? Kamala Harris called riots a movement this summer, and said > 'they should not stop'. youtube.c o m/watch?v=5XxLR2r5oPg ( enter the link without spaces )
Debra***** Wazzup 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:34 AM
She does. It is getting scarier and scarier.
White Elk 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:28 AM
It can still be considered and discussed what should be done to the pro-Trump crowds, while it is quite certain that Mr. J. Brennan should be serving his fair term for what he has committed. Same as many others in the Clinton-Bush-Obama administrations.
Franc White Elk 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:22 AM
Nothing should "be done to" the pro-Trump crowds. Why don't we just come out and acknowledge how authoritarian and dystopian it is to impose penalties on groups for their beliefs?
Hilarous 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:25 AM
People need to stop referring to Nazi Germany. If people would care to research the matter, they would find out that much of it is war propaganda and fake history to suit and excuse the victors. If any American needs an example of an evil empire or nation with a bloddy history, you don't need to look abroad.
JJ_Rousseau Hilarous 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:17 AM
Unfortunately, it is not allowed to research the matter. The Germans were fighting a very small minority that had complete control of banking and media, and was way over-represented in government as well as academia. Which small minority in USA today controls banking, the media, the politicians, courts, and academia?
RTaccount Hilarous 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:08 AM
The National Socialists were the good guys.
Jewel Gyn 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:25 AM
"Total denunciation of a despot's legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy." That's an extremist view from a sleazy former CIA director.
Grob_Hahn Jewel Gyn 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:15 AM
Brennan only exposes the sort of people that have been stabbing Trump and Americans in the back during his entire administration.
Franc Jewel Gyn 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:55 AM
He calls himself non-partisan, and I believe it. There's only one deep state.
1_WhoBenefits 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:03 AM
On side note by the way, an Iraqi politician said: " ....appreciated the role played by top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group, saying only Iran supported the Iraqi nation in its difficult times."
David 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:15 AM
Interesting article, I was talking about what going on American Society long time. Every where Americans believed they were betrayed by Congress and Senate. It was happening last 20 years. Hard working average Americans lost faith on government they realize politicians they send become corrupted after going to Washington. Does not matter they are conservatives and liberals, if they do not solve the problem they both will join together. People realize Trump talking behalf of them some extend it is true not all the time. Polanski done pumping tax payers money to rich criticizing others. That is what she done giving 1200 dollars to people giving more money to big companies. I always call Democracy on RUN
Charredcoal 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:40 AM
Oh C'mon, don't pretend you don't know ISIS is American funded and end product?
Franc Charredcoal 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:57 AM
And started under Obama, an establishment crony just like Biden and the Bush fam.
RTaccount1212 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:24 AM
The war on conservatives will be responded to by action. Civil war will put the democrats in their place and we will be victorious like Abraham Lincoln. We are prepared and we are ready. We will not be silenced you will hear the crackling of our return fire.
Karbonerus_99 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:11 AM
Storm the (((Federal Reserve))) and haang everybody there. That's the real "purge."
RTaccount1212 Karbonerus_99 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:00 AM
I'm also taking out every socialist on the street. We're at war with our enemies and we'll be victorious because we are men not soi boi socialist seeking handouts from tax payers.
James Bomb 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 06:59 AM
Repent for your 'whiteness' and your vote for Trump.. Give your money to the brown people... Or you will be cancelled, or beheaded.. Not hard to see where this is heading.
MeNot 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:36 AM
What we are fully aware of is that there was a fraudulent election arranged and orchestrated by the Democrats. The illegitimate presidency of a corrupted senile old man and his "Heels up Side Kick" will take over on 1/20/2021 and continue to take away the rights of citizens.
Franc MeNot 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:16 AM
1 20 2021 is a palindrome. Just noticed that, thanks for writing it out. Illuminati confirmeded.
T. Agee Kaye 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:34 AM
Younger Democrats have to start seriously wondering whether it is in their long term interests to keep following the fatwas of the septa- and octogenarian mullahs of the Democratic party. The tide is turning. When it comes, the geriatric Democrats will be able to retire, rich. But what about the rest of them? It may be time to cut a deal with the People while they still can.
Mike Smith 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:44 AM
Didn't brennon lie on oath? Or was that some other lovely man
ariadnatheo 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:52 AM
Trump's supporters are "sinners to be saved," says Levitz, which sounds like a jew's cringeworthy attempt to convince Christians to join his revenge bandwagon by speaking in what he thinks is their language.
Jack_O_Lantern 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:18 AM
How far are we from "Are you now, or have you ever been, a supporter of Donald Trump?"
Richland Yabitches" 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:40 AM
Putin wasted ISIS so there you go, follow the Good and you'll live a Long as Prosperous Life, unlike McCaine the Liberal Terrorist got buried Head First LOLOL"
shadow1369 Richland Yabitches" 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:12 AM
Iran also helped destroy ISIS.
Jeffrey Perkins 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:51 AM
trump people have been whipped up to a frenzy, mob mentality, a result of a problem..the politicians who have coveted their money, made laws protecting their rich buddys and themselves..they are also a result of a problem, dig deeper..the sets of laws set for the wealthy are different than the laws for the rest of us..not a specific party..ALL OF US , that is the root problem..they have been after trump for a long time because trump was never really one of them..hes a repeat bankrupt guy, who uses legal loop holes to promote his brand, he should of never been allowed to use twitter, or any public forum to communicate to the world..he should of went after those policies that keep the banks and corporate entities in charge of us..but it was all lost in the fog of democrat, republican name calling and finger pointing, keep everyone confused and chasing results of problems, further eroding our society. We are at each others throats, and the sad man through his twitter feed is stirring the pot..lets think of ways to fix the problem..not fight over the results of the problem
RTreaderCaribb 10 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:47 PM
There went so much wrong in the USA in the last decades that I even dont know where to begin. Even Trump made some mistakes as it is not possible to just start fresh. Also his approach to make the USA again a country was too simple as he underestimated his wrong advisers as Bolton and o many others. Also his his ways of financially crippling others states by sanctions is not smart, even so for China he did the right thing. He also failed to pardon Assange and Snowden and gives in when it does not matter to him. He should have been more calm. He made many enemies trying to do some of the right things. And Owens is right. Absolutely right.
RTaccount1212 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:17 AM
This is blatant war on conservatives. If the conservatives don't push back, then they will be silenced and remain obedient sheep.
shadow1369 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:08 AM
0bomber and co started more genocidal conflicts than any regime in BRA history. No need for redemption though. The DNC orchrstrated months of Burning, Looting and Murder across the BRA. No need for redemption though. Trump's supporters tried to resist a coup, a staged a couple of peacefuol protests. Round them up and k!ll them all!
Richland Yabitches" 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:32 AM
After all ISIS was created by Obama to Destabilise and Murder Syrians, wasn't he Liberal or Democratic ?"
Embla Richland Yabitches" 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:30 AM
When looking at ISIS representatives in Germany as they were presented in Media they look like natives. Whis means Obama and Merkel got it "well" together.
mucky 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:43 AM
its persecution. no truth.
Franc 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:54 AM
Hilarious to see the self-professed righteous ones now advocating for holocausts and re-education camps. Keep going; we're all laughing our guts out at your hypocrisy. "You have become the very thing you swore to destroy." - Obi-wan Kenobi "Are we the baddies?" - German SS soldier, WWII
Ibmekon Franc 3 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 09:02 AM
As a kid, I used to laugh at the cowboys and indians movies. When I realised the reality of deliberate, calculated genocide I lost all respect for the USA. Let us hope that the USA disintegrates, and Mexico and the native inidans can reclaim their lands.
Insulyn 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:23 AM
"Total denunciation of a despot's legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy" Ex-CIA shill Brennan. Brennan would have first hand knowledge of malignancy before Trump got rid of him. Sour grapes from a sour sick CIA man.
Embla Insulyn 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:27 AM
The corruption industry was thriving in Norway when Brennan was in CIA. It just seemed as if Bergen was some extended spot of the deep state; from Obama to Biden and executed by CIA and with "fullscale" Stoltenberg network of corruption. This does not exclude any other representatives of norwegian polical parties. Fjell of Arizona?
Mike Taylor 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:51 AM
Right you will have to say I am sorry I was so wrong and enabled, etc..... Where did I hear this before? Was it in China? Reeducation camps re coming too? Just like to know. U nity via censorship, shaming, etc. is hardly a good path, as it only works for limited time.
ctsread 1 hour ago 10 Jan, 2021 11:21 AM
Trump throws everyone under the bus eventually as long as he achieves his objectives. Trump has thrown his ardent supporters under the bus when they did not do his illegal bidding. Now, Trump throws his rioters under the bus after achieving his insurrection objective and claiming that it was not his fault that the riot had occurred. Trump uses people and then throwing them out. This guy Trump is the worst among the worse.
YankiGoHome 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:19 AM
Hey Joe, I know I'm white and male but I know how to lie, cheat and steal. Don't you have a job for me? I'm getting bored here at that televission station. Greetz, John
Tom_Callan 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:39 AM
John O Brennan....sounds like a despot.
JIMI JAMES Tom_Callan 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:50 AM
Yez,but one my favourite legions,very clever best anti communist double agent,eh'he!
Rogue One 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:54 AM
Democrats are literally beginning to sound like ISIS. "Recite the Quran or get your head chopped off, now!" Absolutely psychopathic. You will not make President Trump and his 75 million voters magically disappear or cower in fear. - Well said.
Enki14 56 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:01 PM
Redemption for? The rush to conclude that the rioters who entered the Capitol were all Trump supporters? One General has said those storming the Capitol were also Antifa, who may have been the first one's through, the guards opened the way and one guard is guilty of murdering an unarmed woman. The photos are available via security cameras and if the deep state publishes these then we will find out the truth....no rush to judgment or redemption for me....
Sebspace Enki14 48 minutes ago 10 Jan, 2021 12:09 PM
An armed mob chanting violent slogans was trying to break into the senate chamber and a woman got shot. Don't misrepresent what happened as if some innocent bystander was shot in cold blood. Did you even watch the videos?
sukmiwangyak 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:41 AM
Just think how many eyes rolled over to focus on what is the obvious hostile take over by Foreign election interference and mountains of evidence of voter fraud. The Deep state is the Media, Big-Tech, and rules over the house of Congress as well as the Senate. Don't fall for the Left & Right parties they both was involved in 911 and like today they both blocked forensic investigation as they roll back the constitution more and more. Think about it... Did the ISIS tell Biden to openly confess putting together the biggest voter fraud in history before the election or was it Russia, China, or the Supreme Court that refused to accept video, Forensic, & eye witness evidence to be placed on record. ISIS, Antifa, BLM is controlled by the same handlers at the top of the pyramid of deceptions. The real enemy of United States is sitting in office ripping up the Bill of Rights. All this, is just Controlling the how many are being depopulate around the word as more vaccinations are released into the public. Think about this........ all these Giant Corporations where intelligence company's that they run to fund their illegal war on humanity to fulfill their handlers wishes, they came out of nowhere's, and just declared the Authority over life, Justice, and Freedom for all. This is just part of the planndemic scheme to advance their end game. When is the world going to wake up and realize the Cabal has declared war on all of us.
daggo77 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:09 AM
Pretty sure The US will send them to re-education camps.
Insulyn daggo77 5 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 07:27 AM
The weight of the state is a heavy hand already, now it is getting worse. Time to choose and act.
Skeptic076 1 hour ago 10 Jan, 2021 11:45 AM
Yeah, redemption like happened on the 6th with them tucking tail and running only to be apprehended with in a day or two. Really smart folks. Go for it. Trump supporters are cleaning up themselves, lol.
JIMI JAMES 4 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 08:10 AM
Democrats are the ones who need redemption,only sin unforgivens of they unrepenteds, Indeed the greates genociders in history post ww2 on all accounts(period) via intimidation,false flags,bomb vietnam based on fake human living rights ethics right? Get Thee Behind Me Satan,Jesus Is Lord:
emnc 2 hours ago 10 Jan, 2021 10:34 AM
Many of the CIA directors should have the same mindset of Mr. Brennan, that should be the reason behind all the missery the CIA have caused to a lot of people in the entire world.

[Jan 10, 2021] The US probably has been weakened on the international stage.

Notable quotes:
"... It has become a hopeless task to try to restore American deterrence and prestige. Rival powers will see new vulnerability in the US. Even the US' firmest allies in Europe are wondering why they should place trust in the trans-Atlantic alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its center when American politics has become so febrile.... ..."
"... The fault lines have become too deep to be papered over and there is growing likelihood that [both] the Republican and Democratic parties might split in a conceivable future, ending the [Duopolistic] system itself. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

karlof1 , Jan 10 2021 22:59 utc | 60

At Asia Times , MK Bhadrakumar has a new article, "The Day American Democracy Died," a hyperbolistic title since such a thing as American Democracy never existed. However, Bhadrakumar does raise a few points:

"Without doubt, the US has been fundamentally weakened on the international stage.

"It has become a hopeless task to try to restore American deterrence and prestige. Rival powers will see new vulnerability in the US. Even the US' firmest allies in Europe are wondering why they should place trust in the trans-Atlantic alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its center when American politics has become so febrile....

..."The fault lines have become too deep to be papered over and there is growing likelihood that [both] the Republican and Democratic parties might split in a conceivable future, ending the [Duopolistic] system itself. The US has become that dreaded divided republic that George Washington and his successor John Adams warned about....

"The answer lies in multiparty democracy. But there is a vicious cycle, what with the elections clause of the constitution, which leaves states to decide their own rules, and reserves to Congress the power to intervene, a power that Congress has used over the years to keep the two-party system in place and ensure that elections largely remain uncompetitive.

"How could there be modern mass democracy without political parties? [There is; look at China!!] Most advanced democracies have moved to proportional representation, supporting multiparty democracies, whereas the US electoral system and voting rules that were imported from Britain without debate in the 19th century remain frozen in time."

Again, much is overlooked and Biden is too highly regarded by the writer. The nature of the Outlaw US Empire's political-economy and those running it are completely ignored. I've yet to read a proper holistic report on the reality within the Empire. And there's no questioning as to how with its dire economic issues the Outlaw US Empire can continue to support its Empire of Bases and numerous occupations that no longer have any rational purpose.

[Jan 10, 2021] Botched 9-11 Repeat -- This Time Targeting the First Amendment -- Don't Be Fooled

Jan 10, 2021 | larouchepac.com

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Even as they rush headlong to ban non-approved speech and prosecute thought crimes, and to attempt to impeach Donald Trump in order to prevent him from running for President again, his approval rating has held steady according to Rasmussen. And their failure to recognize just how weak they are means they are walking into a trap, provided we keep our heads. After all, all they really have is the media's shock and awe. It is the working and middle classes who keep this tattered economy up and running and over 75 million of them voted for Donald Trump, don't believe that Joe Biden is a legitimate president, know that the events at the Capitol on January 6 were a setup, and are not going anywhere.

As Silicon Valley moved Friday to ban the President permanently from all current social media platforms, and de-platformed Parler, the conservative free speech alternative to Twitter, the dumb ass Avatar illegitimate President elect spit out his teleprompter script, declaring Trump supporters, en masse, to be "domestic terrorists," compared Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to Joseph Goebbels, and said the Capitol police were racist in their response to the events at the Capitol on January 6. The addled Avatar seemed to have momentarily forgotten his message of condolences to the family of Officer Brian Sicknick, who died defending the Congress.

This is all designed to scare you or provoke you into violence based on your fears. Since the sole uniting principle of the fascist Democrats is hatred of Donald Trump, and the RINO Republicans are joined at the hip to the same Wall Street/City of London failing financial enterprise, they are compelled to keep it up lest they fall entirely apart, an event which is coming very soon.

That said, here are some urgent pointers and perspectives in the immediate term, the interim, before that happens:

(1). Continue to demand (not plead) that your Congressmen and Senators keep their, "Hands Off Donald Trump." You are not coming to them as an underling, a supplicant. You hold the power here and they are afraid of you. Calmly and serenely tell them that any action against Trump is absolutely unacceptable, they need to get a grip on reality, they need to act for the actual future of the country while the other side seeks to provoke a Civil War, like the one the British Empire worked in their last attempt to cancel the United States.

(2). Understand that anyone urging violence including violence at the inauguration is either a controlled asset of the intelligence community or a fool who will discredit the political movement to take the country back. Coming to Washington to "protest' the inauguration of the Avatar will be, at this point, walking into a complete prepared trap. The President ain't giving him the honor of his presence, why should you? Have you figured out yet that Q is an intelligence agency psyop based in the type of magical thinking that will get you killed and lose the nation? If not, you really aren't qualified to participate in what is currently hitting us. The enemy has your number.

[Jan 10, 2021] Sometimes you drain the swamp sometimes the swamp drains you OffGuardian

Jan 10, 2021 | off-guardian.org

rump sincerely thought that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run by "draining the swamp" that all of his supporters so deeply despise, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive steps that were necessary in order to execute this grand strategic vision due to several important reasons that deserve to be discussed at length.

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF CAPITULATES

The Trump Era is over after the incumbent announced in the day after Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol that "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power", which was widely interpreted by friends and foes alike as the tacit concession that he previously promised never to provide a little more than 24 hours prior during his speech at the Save America Rally .

At that event, he literally said that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", yet completely changed his tune following the day's tumultuous events and after mysteriously "going dark" for over 24 hours, during which time some speculate that he was forced by his enemies in the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (" deep state ") to give up the fight.

BETRAYING HIS BASE

This totally devastated his supporters who elected him primarily for the purpose of executing his chief promise to "drain the swamp" that all of them so deeply despise. They truly believed that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run, something which Trump himself also sincerely thought he could do as well, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive steps that were necessary in order to do so.

Thus, he ended up getting swallowed by the same "swamp" that he attempted to drain, which is licking its lips after feasting on the political carcass that he's since become as a result of his capitulation. For as much hope as he inspired in his supporters and the respect that many of them still have for him, most of them are profoundly disappointed that he gave up and didn't go down fighting.

That's not to say that the vast majority of them expected him to forcefully resist Biden's impending inauguration, but just that they never thought they'd see the day where he publicly capitulated after carefully cultivating such a convincing reputation among them as a fighter who literally said a little more than 24 hours prior that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it just doesn't happen."

This prompted an ongoing soul-searching process among the most sober-minded of them who aren't indoctrinated with the cultish Q-Anon claims that Trump still has a so-called "master plan" that he's preparing to implement after this latest "5D chess" move. It's over, the Trump Era has ended, and the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement that he inspired is now at risk of being declared a " domestic terrorist " organization in the coming future.

TRUMP'S MOST FATAL POLITICAL MISCALCULATION

" Biden's America Would Be A Dystopian Hellhole ", like the author predicted a few months ago, and all of Trump's supporters know that. Some had already resigned themselves to its seeming inevitability after his efforts to legally reverse the contested results of the latest elections failed for a variety of reasons that most of them attribute to the "swamp's" corruption, but they nevertheless remained as positive as possible after having believed that their hero would go down with them to the end.

None ever thought twice about his promise to "never give up, never concede", and they even expected him to have to be escorted from the White House on 20 January, yet his tacit concession is forcing many of them to re-evaluate their views about him in hindsight. Not only is he going out with a whimper on the "deep state's" terms, but he never fully "drained the swamp".

Trump's most fatal political miscalculation is that he thought that he could change the system from the "inside-out" after symbolically -- yet importantly, not substantively -- taking control of it as America's first modern-day "outsider" President. He immediately switched from an "outsider" to an "insider" shortly after his inauguration by capitulating to the "deep state's" demands that he fire former National Security Advisor Flynn, which was his "original sin" that paved the way for all that would later follow.

Trump the self-professed "deal-maker" thought that he could strike a "compromise" with his enemies through these means, but all that he did was embolden them to intensify their fake news-driven efforts to oust him and continue sabotaging him from within through many of the same "swamp" creatures that he naively continued to surround himself with.

RINOS + MSM = TRUMP'S DEFEAT

The most reviled among them in the eyes of his base is "Javanka", the popular portmanteau of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka. He continued listening to these "Republicans In Name Only", or RINOs as many MAGA members describe them, as well as many others such as those who still sit in Congress but pretended to be his friend just to win re-election.

Furthermore, the influence that his former reality TV career had on him resulted in Trump remaining obsessed with how his enemies might malign him in the Mainstream Media (MSM) for any decisive moves that he took to smash the "deep state". This weakness of character proved to be his greatest personal flaw since he should have followed his instincts instead of submitting to the egoistic desire to be "liked" by his foes.

So influenced was he by the MSM that his enemies were able to employ the most basic "reverse-psychology" tricks to manipulate him into "playing it safe" in his struggle against the "deep state". They fearmongered since even before he entered office that he'd turn into a so-called "dictator", yet he never seriously contemplated any such authoritarian moves in that direction despite always having the possibility of utilizing the immense powers vested in him by the Constitution to do so if he sincerely wanted.

His MAGA supporters passionately pleaded that he should have turned into his enemies' worst nightmare by declaring at least limited martial law in response to the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America finally going kinetic last summer after Antifa and "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) orchestrated nationwide riots to oust him.

TRUMP'S THREE GREATEST FAILURES

Bewildering his base, Trump also failed to revoke Article 230 despite now-proven fears that it would empower Big Tech to censor him and his supporters , nor did he thwart the Democrats' mail-in ballot and Dominion voting system schemes which they argue ultimately led to them stealing the election.

Just as concerning was his decision to not stop the Democrat Governors from locking down their populations for political reasons under the convenient pretext of COVID-19. The author addressed all of these issues in his analysis published shortly after the election about why " The Anti-Trump Regime Change Sequence Is Worthwhile Studying ". Trump could have legally exercised near-"dictatorial" powers to avert all of this and thus save America as his supporters see it, yet time and again he failed to gather the strength needed to do so due to his deep personal flaws.

THE HYBRID WAR ON AMERICA IS OVER

While Trump was unquestionably victimized by the "deep state" during his entire time in office, he's no longer as much of a martyr as he used to be after suddenly giving up the fight following Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol. He surrendered to the shock of his base, was subsequently swallowed by the "swamp", and is now being mercilessly destroyed in an ominous sign of what awaits the rest of the MAGA movement in the Biden-Kamala era.

Had he gone down fighting to the end and "never gave up" like he promised, then it would be an altogether different story, but instead his over-hyped "deal-making" instincts got the best of him at the very last minute and he foolishly thought that he could save himself by capitulating to their demands. The "deep state" is now showing their "thanks" by censoring him from social media and pushing for his impeachment.

The MAGA movement always believed that the country has already been at "war" for years even though most couldn't articulate the hybrid nature of it like the author did in his piece last summer about how " The Hybrid War Of Terror On America Was Decades In The Making ".

They truly felt that Trump shared their threat assessment after he was viciously attacked by the "deep state" from the second that he stepped onto the campaign trail, but it turned out that he underestimated the threat even though his enemies never did. To the "deep state" and their public Democrat proxies, this was always a "war" in its own way, which they never shied away from expressing.

The supreme irony is that while Trump lambasted the "weak Republicans" in his Save America Rally speech, he himself ultimately epitomized that very same weakness by later surrendering.

THE "DEEP STATE" WON

His opponents know no limits and believe in classic Machiavellian fashion that "the ends justify the means", whereas he thought that he could play by the rules -- and not even all of them as was early explained by pointing out his refusal to employ the near-"dictatorial" powers vested in him by the Constitution -- and still come out on top.

His naïveté will go down in history since it's what's most directly responsible for him failing to fully recognize the seriousness of the "deep state's" no-holds-barred war on him and the rest of America.

As a born-and-raised New Yorker, Trump perfected the art of slick talking, so much so that he even managed to dupe his base into believing that he shared their threat assessment about the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America. They fell for this charade since they desperately wanted to believe that there was still some hope left.

There isn't, though, since the war is over and the "deep state" won once and for all. The " Great Reset "/" Fourth Industrial Revolution " brought about by World War C is barreling forward at full speed ahead, and practically every domestic accomplishment that Trump has to his name will likely be reversed by Biden-Kamala during their first year in office, especially since the "deep state's" Democrat proxies control all branches of government now (remembering that the Supreme Court's supposed "conservative supermajority" really just consists of RINOs as was proven by their refusal to hear his team's convincing election fraud cases).

After " Analyzing The MAGA Movement's Democratic Security Failure " on Wednesday, it's clear that whatever "master plan" he and/or the MAGA movement might have had backfired and was actually exploited by their opponents.

THE REAL "MASTER PLAN"

In fact, the only real "master plan" was that of the "deep state", which effectively thwarted every one of Trump's moves and ultimately turned his supporters' "last hurrah" of a mostly peaceful rally into the nail that'll now be hammered into the MAGA movement's coffin.

It's extremely suspicious that the US Capitol was so poorly defended despite there being an ongoing session of Congress on such an historic day and after weeks of preparation to ensure the site's safety ahead of Trump's long-planned Save America March.

It's even more baffling that some of the police officers removed the barricades and even opened the doors to some of the protesters, which in hindsight suggests that the "deep state" wanted to tempt the most "overly passionate" among them (to say nothing of suspected provocateurs) into storming the site as the pretext for what followed.

The whole point in passively facilitating this scenario through the masterful exploitation of crowd psychology was to lay the basis for a comprehensive nationwide crackdown against the MAGA movement on the grounds that it's now "proven" to be a "domestic terrorist" group.

That explains the push behind impeaching Trump less than two weeks before he himself acknowledged just the other day that he'll be leaving office after ensuring the "transition of power".

Had he not surrendered, then he probably would still be a martyr to most of the MAGA movement, but now he's just a palace hostage awaiting his highly publicized political execution as the opening salvo of the "deep state's" Democrat-driven reprisals against his supporters in the name of "defending against domestic terrorism". That, not whatever Q-Anon imagines, is the real "master plan", and it succeeded.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

Trump was swallowed by the "swamp" because he lacked the strength to drain it. Every MAGA member needs to accept this harsh truth no matter how painful it might be. Time and again, he failed to muster up the strength needed to meaningfully fulfill what many sincerely believed to be his destiny.

This was due to his fatal political miscalculation of transforming from an "outsider" into an "insider" in a doomed-to-fail attempt to change the system from within. He continued relying on RINOs despite their proven unreliability. Trump's obsession with how his foes portrayed him in the MSM also led to him never seriously countenancing the use of the near-"dictatorial" powers vested in him by the Constitution to save America.

He pathetically surrendered after the "deep state's" "master plan" succeeded, and now he can't even go down in history as a martyr.

Originally published on One World Press

aspnaz , Jan 10, 2021 11:47 PM

The 6 January protest march clearly shows that the majority of Trump voters had already given up on Trump so did not join the protest. There was originally talk of a possible one million people attending, it didn't get anywhere close. If half the nation was still behind Trump, this was a very puzzling showing.

Trump just did not have what it takes, or was not really trying, to ruthlessly cut out the cancer of corruption in government. History will show that he was a weak leader who allowed the deep state to distract him to the extent that he never did anything of note other than to reveal, through no action of his own, how extreme is the corruption that he had promised to drain.

The Democrat distractions, paid for by their oligarch owners, showed the world that extreme corruption is running the USA. Even the most loyal Democrats must be puzzled by the current purges and threats of extreme centralised thought control, the arrogance of the swamp now that it has gotten rid of the peoples' man.

To his credit, I am still willing to believe that Trump tried to do the right thing.

Although the author is trying to place Trump as a coward who resigned, going back on his word, I think this is not how his original supporters see him. From what I can see, the majority of his original supporters still support him and see him as a figurehead, but they recognise that he doesn't have the skills to do the job. He is not a coward, he did not cave in, he recognised, probably because of the low protest numbers, that he did not have what is takes to continue the fight, he could see that his base had already given up on him. He is still a figurehead in the patriot movement. He may have lost the far right, but he still has a lot of centre-ground supporters.

Jacques , Jan 10, 2021 8:49 PM

I don't know what Trump's intentions were, and I couldn't care less.

From where I'm standing, it appears that he was elected on a wave of populism, which seemed to be an alternative to the "liberal democracy" fakery, the swamp. An interesting presentation of that was here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA50BE7d1X8 ). IMHO, Bannon kicked Frum's butt in that debate.

It would appear that populism was a big enough threat for the "swamp" to unleash four years of a hate campaign against Trump, possibly, probably culminating with COVID. Hard to believe that it was a coincidence.

Be it as it may, and allowing for the possibility that this or that or the other thing has been staged this way or that way, Trump's presidency has certainly set things in motion, woken up people. Had somebody more slick been elected, the transition to the dystopia that seems to be in the pipeline would probably have been less noticeable, perhaps not noticeable at all. With the shitshow that has been going down since last February, all of a sudden there is a public debate. Perhaps misinformed, perhaps mislead, but there is a debate nevertheless. Will it result in something positive? Hard to say, hopefully.

Bottom line, Trump's presidency has been historically a good thing.

Dayne , Jan 10, 2021 8:40 PM

Peasants in 19th-century Russia clung to a notion of the Czar as a benevolent, fatherly figure. Even when he rained misery and oppression down on them, it was only because he was "misinformed", "surrounded by bad guys", etc.

It makes sense: Those were desperate, illiterate people living in misery. Hoping against hope was all they had. But why would anyone in 2021 think of Trump in essentially the same way is beyond me. An entrenched military-industrial-media-psychiatric-intelligence system, hundreds of years in the making and with untold trillions in funding, just stood by as a Robin-Hood-type hero and people's champion rose to take the Oval Office? Sorry. Trump might as well sprout wings and fly.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:10 PM Reply to Dayne

Thanx for your comment, Dayne – I've been trying to put this into words, and as I'm autistic, I could frankly, literally *Sperg'-out* over this, right now

- TL:DR version is this, tho': – Ever wonder why 'Populism' is such a dirty word for the establishment and their MSM bullhorn? – The argument I've heard thus far generally goes like the South Park underpants gnome's plan for world domination: – Phase 1: Popular Uprising (aka: 'Civil Unrest') Phase 2: ? . Phase 3: Fascist 'Strongman' Dictatorship – Why is that?

- Also that we're *Too Stoopid*(/ie: Self-Absorbed) – Like the Mud-Pickin' peasants in Monty Python' Holy Grail

- I would suggest 2 reasons for this:

- 1.) The Davostanis (Global Banksters/Oligarchs) never *merely* back the *winning horse* in the race, – In fact they back *every* horse that they *allow* to run (ergo: Trump was an Establishment-groomed *Stalking Horse* )

- 2.) The Davostanis (again), have *long since* seen to it that *most everyone*, from birth onwards, is psychologically conditioned, first with childhood myths and fairy-tales about Charming Princes and Fair Princesses, then with religio-spiritual 'adult' myths and fairy-tales about (In Judeo-Christian terms) Messianic, White-Knight champion/rescuer types who, if *we would only* put our lives and our *Utmost Faith* in their holy, heaven-sent hands, would *Save Us All* from all the terrible, terrible *Mess We've All Made* for ourselves down here on Earth, by collectively *Shitting The Bed*

*Obviously*, this is *All* just so much *Childish Nonsense*, and, more to the point, a *Writ-Large Con-Job*

- Cutting to the chase: – The 'Great-Man' theory of history is *Bunk* – Always *Has Been*, always *Will Be*

If you're still "Holding Out For A Hero", I invite you to stare *Long And Hard* into the nearest available mirror, *Take A DEEP Breath*, and then go out and *Elect Yourself* to the office – *Better Yet*, elect your family, elect your friends, elect your neighbors, elect *Everyone*

- And then let's *Do This Shit* – *Together*!

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:23 PM Reply to Dayne

It could have something to do with the fact that Biden is backed by every billionaire member of the Davos gang of criminals getting ready to use this event, coupled with medical martial law, to stage the "great reset" scheme. A wet dream of Malthusian eugenecists like Faucci & Gates, since it includes a drastic reduction in world population aka genocide of the elderly, vulnerable, poor and non compliant. This Globalist Technocracy will be led by un-elected bankers and corporate CEO's effectively ending any form of Democracy planet wide. MSM mockingbirds are completing the programming of the public to make Casey's statement to Reagan ring true" We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is wrong."

Mike , Jan 10, 2021 8:15 PM

Trump was never going to be Ameica's hero. He was played to depict America as a fascist, racist, neo-nazi country that needs to be saved by the [neoliberal] Left aka Joe Biden/Kamala Harris. The Left can now "save us all" from the "damage" caused by the MAGA movement and Trump. They can do this through heavily increased mass surveillance and what is essentially imprisonment, to make sure that we don't fall victim to the "domestic terrorism" that is represented by Trump and his fan base.

YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 10, 2021 7:40 PM

Trump's racist fan base supported America's bogus War of Terrorism against blameless Muslim countries, did they not? What goes around, comes around.

James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:40 PM Reply to YouTube_censors_unfortuna

I think you are getting fan bases mixed up. Trump inherited these conflicts from Bush, Iraq 2002 invasion & Obama's 2015 invasion of Syria and it was Trump that threatened to end the propping up of the endless war industry. In fact that played the major role in why Trump had to be removed at all costs including selling treason and vote rigging as Democracy to be defended against "domestic terrorists".

Geoffrey Skoll , Jan 10, 2021 7:25 PM

Right! The Donald was too weak and too stupid. A smarter president got shot for his troubles, but the rulers knew they didn't have to resort to that against the Donald. He was obsessed with his mirror. All those meeting between Ike and JFK, what do you think they were talking about?


MANUEL , Jan 10, 2021 6:55 PM

Do u relly guys think Trump was a hope for all pf us? I am still amazed that people(including off-guard) still thinks in terms of left vs right, good vs bad, and all that narrative. I am afraid that nnarrativ has never been true. It is part of the game of "the matrix" to keep us entertained in shows programmed for tth masses, division, polarizaiomn, saviours and "heros". In my opinion it is time for a deep shift. Continuing to hope that some guy will save us all, it is just seeing a tree but not being able to see the woods. While some keep waiting for somebody to save us, they are moving forward with their plans really fast. But no problem guys. Sooner or later the rrality will knock on you door, and you will have to decide if you are going to be a slave or a free human. And it will be all about what you decide. No american hero or any messiah will do it for you.

Sophie - Admin1 , Jan 10, 2021 9:50 PM Reply to MANUEL

We have warned against accepting the Left/Right paradigm many times. This is NOT an editorial and therefore is not 'the voice of OffG'.

Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand we publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion that we consider merits discussion or a wider audience, without necessarily agreeing with all of it.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 11:15 PM Reply to Sophie - Admin1

"Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand we publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion "

- Yep, well that's as may be, but Andrew Korybko's position is *Lame As All Hell* – Every establishment talking point *Covered* – just from the 'Contrarian' side

- Trump was an 'Outsider' who 'Became' an 'Insider'?! – Aww Puh-lease! – He was a *Stalking Horse

- "He didn't have the *'Strength'* to 'Drain The Swamp'(tm)"??!?! – *No-One* *Indivudal* in all Creation could've

- Do you think we're *Children*?!


Cesca , Jan 10, 2021 5:25 PM

Well written article but i just can't agree with its basic premise. Ok, the Scum killed JFK but they politically canceled/neutered Trump from day 1. Like him or not, what happened to him thruout 4 years of office was unprecedented, he was attacked constantly by the Scum puppets in the Capitol and MSM, this extended worldwide too.

He's human, don't think he gave in cos of the betrayal by Pence or the coup hoax, think it was cos he knew the Scum won. The coup hoax meant his only chance of presenting the facts about the Electoral Fraud on a public stage, had disappeared. Pretty sure that was the straw which broke the camel's back, all levels of the Courts refused to even look at the massive evidence given to them, just threw the cases out on vague technicalities.

He ain't a person i can personally admire, wld prefer him to have another 4 years than a glove puppet of the Scum who will be installed tho.


Dafis , Jan 10, 2021 5:07 PM

Just consider – Trump is/was part of the swamp community, just a different segment from that occupied by Clintons and other long term manipulators. To see Trump in terms of radical revolutionary change agent is delusional. Personally I suspect that there are hidden links to a sector of organised crime, people who live by moving money about whether that money is clean or dirty. Another bunch of manipulators.

S Cooper , Jan 10, 2021 5:34 PM Reply to Dafis

"Valid point. Orange Hair Bozo was bribing those corrupt REPUBLICRAT political hack creeps for quite some time before he decided to go direct and eliminate the middle man and set up shop himself. Yes, that must have irked some of the corrupt greedy bastards."

https://www.deviantart.com/redamerican1945/art/Eugene-V-Debs-Republican-Democratic-Party-674343047

mr spam , Jan 10, 2021 4:39 PM

Jan. 6 will provide the pretext for a wide ranging, protracted crackdown, persecution of all opposition, comprehensive, rigid censorship, blanket surveillance, extensive repressive new legislation, shredding of civil liberties, and the imposition of one uniform viewpoint. In short, 1984 on steroids, or Germany in 1933.

Jan. 6 was obviously a staged and planned non organic event.
The complete absence of Antifa (except as provocateurs) proves the point adequately. Although a mass demonstration was publicised well in advance, only a skeleton crew of Capitol Police were present.
And this is the Toytown Police. It's not a real police force. It's a cushy job for people who don't want to have to do much. Normally all they do is check people are wearing their right badges. Occasionally they may have to eject Medea Benjamin and Code Pink from a hearing.

Something strange happened at the Pentagon a few weeks ago. Esper was kicked out and several rabid Zionist warmongers were moved in. At the time, this was thought to signal a last minute attack on Iran by Trump. Requests for 200 troops on Jan. 6 were flatly turned down.

It is a significant watershed moment.
People finally realise Trump is a fraud.
Elites were terrified by the sight of peasants with pitchforks.
This is likely to lead to further radicalisation.

There was an immediate howl of outrage. "Evil white domestic terrorists."
Cue an immediate Censorship/ Doxing/ Firing spree, ready to go, orchestrated by the Anti defamation league, Big Tech, FBI, and their Antifa catspaw.

About 70 people had been charged as of 24 hours ago.
Richard Barnett has been arrested for putting his feet up on Pelosi's desk. Like the others, he faces years in prison.
The charges carry 10 and 20 year sentences. A wave of repression on the scale of Germany in 1933 has to be expected. Ironically, the death of Ashli Babbitt will probably be used to justify longer sentences, as will the inevitable customary planted "pipe bombs."
This is the chutzpah from the Sanhedrin Power Structure to which we have become accustomed.
People like Graham and Pelosi have demanded that all the Capitol demonstrators be tracked down and thrown into dungeons, no matter how long it takes. Though to Pelosi, the petrol bombers who attacked the Hong Kong Parliament were "a beautiful sight."

We already see a wave of censorship. Trump and many of his supporters have already been banned from the MSM and the Internet.
Parler has been completely removed by Apple/ Google/ Amazon.
More will follow.

Trumpism is dead. Where will he go? Where will 70 million disenfranchised Americans go?

Those cheering on the Cancel Culture would do well to remember the old warning, "They're coming for you next."
All ideological deviations and impurities will be rooted out and punished.
The revolution always devours its own. Like the radical feminists who are insufficiently enthusiastic on the transgender issue.

Most people realise that Capitol Hill represents a dirty, disgusting, corrupt system that is incapable of reform.
And crackdowns generally have a bad outcome.
They lead to further radicalisation. The censorship and repression that is being implemented is unprecedented and will be rejected by a vast swathe of the population.
A potent stew remains.
The baby can't be rocked back to sleep.

Will Trump be impeached again/ removed from office? It seems a bit pointless, with 9 days left before Creepy Joe takes over. But they might try it, to ban him from holding office in the future.
Most Republican RINOs hate Trump more than the democrats, and they are spineless jellyfish who are easily intimidated. These people are incorrigibly vindictive and spiteful by nature, and this isnt going to change. Jail everybody, fire everybody, dox everybody,

Kathy Smith , Jan 10, 2021 3:24 PM

It wasn't failure to muster up strength, he was playing the role he's been groomed for over the past couple decades. He is a traitor just like obomber before him and biden will be after him.

James Sinclair , Jan 10, 2021 5:55 PM Reply to Chris

I could not agree more. Trump's biggest advantage is perhaps also his major weakness. As he lacks political experience (not being part of the swamp) he brings both a freshness and momentum into play. Nevertheless, his inexperience meant that his awareness, "marking" and ultimately failure to dispose of key adversaries could have fatally undermined his otherwise wondrous first term as President of the USA and leader of the free world. I now understand and hope that the "Italy gate" affair will shortly end the prospective Biden inauguration (in essence an Obama 3rd term). Lessons now learned, the real man of the people, will really be able to eliminate the dangerous threat from China, "drain the swamp" and eliminate the mistakes (most especially dealing with the media and Big Tech) that Monsieur Korbyko has outlined above, on Uncle Tony's behalf x

mr spam , Jan 10, 2021 2:05 PM

Some issues don't seem to have been considered adequately.

What are the implications of what happened?
How are they going to be (mis)represented?
What kind of a Crackdown should we expect to see now?
What will that lead to in turn?
What happens when 70 million plus realise they have been conned, Trump is a fraud and there is no place for them in the Punch And Judy Show/ Kabuki Theatre provided by the Jewish Power Structure as a harmless diversion?
What happens to Trump now? Where does he go?

Trump may do what favours he can for his wire pullers in his remaining time. He could pardon Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein. He certainly isn't going to pardon any of the supporters he has just thrown under the bus, who now face years and decades in jail.

"The Sacred/ Hallowed Temple Of Freedom has been defiled."
Cue multiple Jerk Off signs.
This place was never more than a Whore House of the most disgusting and corrupt individuals on earth.

The video of the unarmed woman being shot, apparently for doing no more than climbing through an open window, has already been taken down. Strange how all the Hollywood Luvvies and Liberals have gone from ACAB/ defund the police to "We Love Our Police." No condolences being sent by Mike Pence to the family of Ashli Babbitt, unlike career criminals George Floyd and Breanna Taylor. Instead we have the harassing of her family by the despicable, disgusting MSM. Ordinary, salt of the earth people may realise that the police are not their friends, just tools of a criminal elite. These are the people who were kneeling in submission to Antifa and BLM, after all. Nobody is going to go around demanding people say Ashli's name.

Whatever the wisdom of the events of 6 January, those who took part should be seen as heroes. They put the fear of God into a vile, evil criminal elite, just by going into the Belly of The Beast, staying within the velvet rope barriers.
Legitimate rejection of the system will intensify.
An archaic trust in "justice" and "democracy" will disappear. Normal people will be saying, "F**k the police." They are an oppressive, corrupt and politicised organisation. This is no longer a 1950s Norman Rockwell world.

Trump bloviated how "I'll be there with you." "We have to fight." "Fight much harder!" "Trial by combat!"
But Trump didn't lead. He went home.
Now he tells them, "You will pay."
They face long sentences, and persecution by a corrupt and politicised judicial system, for putting their faith in him.

zdb , Jan 10, 2021 7:57 PM Reply to mr spam

um
"They put the fear of God into a vile, evil criminal elite, just by going into the Belly of The Beast, staying within the velvet rope barriers."
Are you sure about that?
Agreed that legit rejection will intensify – at least as much as can be done.

When did Trump say
"Trial by combat!"

May Hem , Jan 10, 2021 9:34 PM Reply to zdb

I'd say Trump will be paid off by the billionaire's banker's boy's club (BBBC) for having played his part well. The crisis actors who 'stormed the bastille' will also be paid off (somewhat less than Trump), and released from jail after a short time.

They are all paid actors. Jan 10, 2021 1:59 PM

Surveying the comments below, I see we're having yet another round of that stale old debate as to whether Trump is getting his ass kicked by the swamp, or in fact is part of that swamp he claims to be fighting.

So let me just cut that whole debate short by saying this: it was never about Trump personally. It was always about us as a people. The votes that were stolen on Nov. 3, 2020 were ours , not his. It was a crime against us, not him. That's why this matters. Because a large percentage–probably a majority–of the American voters realize that the democracy is over. It's now either revolution or a 'great reset' trans-humanist dictatorship. It's now either victory or death.

Which option will the people choose? I wish I knew. But that is now the only choice they have left.

Dors , Jan 10, 2021 5:03 PM Reply to Seamus Padraig

It's now either revolution or a 'great reset' trans-humanist dictatorship.

That's what we're telling ourselves now. In a few years' time other paths may be visible: a trans-humanist dictatorship in one state, a revolution in another state, with possibly a war between them, or between now and then.

Joerg , Jan 10, 2021 11:12 AM

Here a little speech of Trump:
https://www.watergate.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trump-Deep-State.mp4

Rhys Jaggar , Jan 10, 2021 9:32 AM

Here's a thought for the swamp journalists, MSM 'anchors' etc etc.

Given as how you have all stridently demanded the removal of all basic human rights of all humans across the Western World, how about you self-righteous presstitutes have one inalienable human right of 'journalists' removed too, eh?

Make it a criminal offence with 5 yrs in prison to publish a single article at any accredited 'media organisation' without publishing at the bottom a fully audited account of your current salary as an employee, your income from any specific groupings (like energy sector, green lobbies, the EU etc etc etc) over the past 5 years and the value of your house if you own it and the city/town that you live in. Furthermore, you will publish the exact value of your earnings since March 1st 2020.Finally, you will publish where you went on holiday since March 1st 2020, with whom you went and what it cost.

I think it would be very important for the general public to read: 'Oh, all those London-based bedwetters are on well north of one hundred grand a year. None of them saw a decline in salary during lockdown and half the b***ards were swanning off to the Caribbean over Christmas. And well north of half of them own houses worth more than a million quid. Nice ..'

I have zero tolerance for Andrew Marr et al claiming they any longer have any right to personal privacy. They called for lockdown, now they can live with their financial trousers firmly down around their feet ..

Pander Ralph , Jan 10, 2021 10:26 AM Reply to Rhys Jaggar

You totally misunderstand how the neoliberal conscientious works, it is not funded by demons, or a huge conspiracy, these people are not corrupt, they are just complicit. Like you are complicit with many of illusions and lies fed you by the propaganda machine. If you search your own soul you'll find you believe a lot of illusions created for you by the ideology you live in.

finklefacker , Jan 10, 2021 10:30 AM Reply to Rhys Jaggar

Publications by any one for any purpose are not the problem, in fact if the other side does not publish there is nothing to attack and no understanding about the intentions of the other side is made possible.

Publishing is a selection process.. The MSM merely says what the narrative will be and selects for publication, only those writings or art, that fit the narrative.

But can the audience find a weakness in the rule: <=to publish only writings or art that engage the appointed narrative ?

Does the audience have the technology, power, and strength to influence which contents will be published in response to the narrative selection process? IF not, why not, if so, how can that influence be applied? In my opinion the audience needs to gain control over what is published. so to me, the major problem for our society in 2021 is to discover how to use ourselves (the audience) to influence and even control the output from the publishing domain.

LoveEwe , Jan 10, 2021 11:55 AM Reply to Rhys Jaggar

Nice post as usual Rhys but the MSM racket has full 'Mob' protection as long as they keep taking the money. The new revolving door between the BBC and corporations in Britain alone is an indicator of how deeply corrupt they've become.

The BBC are no more than a misinformation racket that the general public have to pay for. Informing people how to rid themselves of the license ransom should be at full steam.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-55561667

Moneycircus , Jan 10, 2021 9:04 AM

What goes on in Trump's head is not interesting -- nor is your opinion of the man.

As Willem says, we have no idea what's in Trump's mind, any more than we know of yours, or you of mine. We should abandon this 20th century style of history in which a Hugh Trevor Roper presumes to read Hitler's or Churchill's mind.

Trump's presidency exposed the wurst of the state and all the unspeakable parts that go into making it.

Peter Strzok stroked his stalk in the public's face.

Objectively Trump's presidency was a watershed . Historians and political analysts should seize upon this administration to expose how government really works (they'll claim they knew all along, and then consign the knowledge to the dustbin).

You can hate Trump (which politicians do you love?) but he served a valuable purpose. He showed us how government works in all our countries: the superiority of the bureaucrat, who conspires against the people, for the institution's benefit as the corporations pull the strings.

The key takeaways:

The Epstein scandal and cover up, which briefly exposed how sex trafficking is used to entrap and blackmail politicians. Epstein's collusion with "philanthropists" like Gates to buy scientists and the media. The utter corruption of the judiciary. A president cannot get a hearing, let alone justice. Not even a ruling on something as important as a general election. The evolution of the military industrial complex into the pharma-military-tech-media complex. The power of the biggest industries: warfare, drugs licit and illicit, trafficking and slavery and energy. The rise of the Corporatist State The subversion of sovereignty as Corporations cease paying tax, while demanding the right to set trans-national rules for their own benefit.

He smashed the two party paradigm forever. If you still believe in the party system after witnessing the RINOs kissing Biden's ring what is there to say?

History will probably airbrush the fraudulent election from the picture. We got to witness how the sausage is made, to paraphrase Bismark. I wonder what other history we imbibed with mother's milk that was thus contaminated at source?

Moneycircus , Jan 10, 2021 11:03 AM Reply to Moneycircus

CONTINUED AT: https://moneycircus.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trumps.html

Andre , Jan 10, 2021 11:36 AM Reply to Moneycircus

And he is not finished yet: how does the author know nothing can happen in this time till Jan.20th? Can he reveal Biden as a traitor? Military Tribunals instead of useless civil legal courts who don't dare to start a trial relating to fraudulent elections? Trump also exposed the opportunists who switched sides to save their positions. This author might be part of those who turn critical while pretending to always appreciated what Trump has actually done as is described here above (by "Moneycircus").

Laurence Howell , Jan 10, 2021 11:58 AM Reply to Andre

Insurrection Act.

Seamus Padraig , Jan 10, 2021 12:41 PM Reply to Moneycircus

Exactly, Money. That was the real benefit of the Trump presidency: finally exposing the system–to the satisfaction of tens of millions of Americans–for what it really is. But the swamp is far too powerful for one man (even a president) to stop. The 'storm' is going to have to be us .

mr spam , Jan 10, 2021 2:27 PM Reply to Moneycircus

Very well said.

Dayne , Jan 10, 2021 8:46 PM Reply to Moneycircus

20 years ago, the media was already carefully and systematically inserting him into popular culture like top-rated TV shows – from 'Friends' through 'Sex and the City' to his very own, you're-fired 'Apprentice'. Correct me if I'm wrong – this only happens with individuals who are very, very useful to the hidden elites.

James Robertson , Jan 10, 2021 8:49 AM Reply to Willem

Indeed, the first sentence had me retching. Unbelievable that people still think they can roll out this utter bullshit and people will lap it up. Still, it has worked until now.

Speculating about someone's intentions or sincerity is laughable four years into the leadership of the most powerful nation on earth.

It is perfectly clear that the Trump presidency was a complete non event save for a futile culture war, the circus that masked the fact that nothing of substance changed during this term.

It might as well have been Barack Obama or George W. Bush for all the difference there was on any fundamental issue.

I have never been a fan of this author but with this piece I lost all respect for him. The same goes for everyone who were accessories to conning the rubes for the past four years. I am genuinely stunned that these schmucks think they can keep pumping this bilge out.

Fred Harris , Jan 10, 2021 4:05 PM Reply to Willem

YesWillem, I agree, and he ignores what was the big delemma for Trump. He fell for the White House COVID Task Force lies. No government wants to lose power because they did nothing so he reacted to pressure and precaution not science and fact. That was the begining of his undoing. He was scared of loosing popularity. The tricked him using fear tactics. Similar to Johnsons capitulation.

He also fails to state In October 2019, President Trump signed an an executive order to curb what he called abuses of authority by unaccountable bureaucrats who were "imposing their private agendas" on Americans.

Thom , Jan 10, 2021 8:34 AM

The 'deep state' still needs a state, however. The military-industrial complex still needs to be funded. At the moment, they can rely on the tech stock market bubble but even these corporations are vulnerable, as they are reliant on US military power and influence to enforce around the world what are basically anti-competitive monopolies. As soon as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and the rest are subjected to proper competition, their value will collapse. And at that point, these corporations will have plundered the US economy so that there is nothing else left.

Edwige , Jan 10, 2021 9:38 AM Reply to Thom

True – but this only goes to show why the term "deep state" is a highly unsatisfactory one.

They openly tell us (e.g. through the WEF) that it's a fusion of public and private – and one of the takeaways from the Trump Presidency is that if the two clash the corporations win.

BTW I don't trust him but I thought Jospeh P. Farrell's insight that there seems to be a chain of literal swamps running through the world's main centers of power for many centuries was a good one. Venice, Amsterdam and D.C. were all undoubtedly swamps and the same is arguable about the City of London (which Farrell didn't argue – he took it as a metaphor). Whether this reveals that there is something in the argument about maritime law that some advocate I couldn't say.

Seansaighdeor , Jan 10, 2021 11:15 AM Reply to Edwige

The LaRouche Pac site offers the idea that London is the hub for this 'network' something I have an open mind about.

Certainly from their involvement in the Steele dossier and their role in trying to subvert the presidency it presents some interesting evidence.

[Jan 10, 2021] The Lafayette Park Protests And The Revision Of History by Jonathan Turley,

Jan 10, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

One of the most unsettling aspects of the last four years is the intentional effort to rewrite history in the media to fit a narrative either by denying facts or echoing clearly false statements.

The recent stories on the riot in Congress is a good example.

Most of us denounced Trump's speech (as it was being given) and, of course, the rioting itself. Some, however, have noted that there have been violent protests for years, including the protest in Lafayette Square. The fact that there have been violent protests by the left does not take away from the disgraceful attack on Congress . Yet, there seems a controlling narrative that must be maintained at all costs -- portraying past protests by groups on the left as peaceful to magnify the criticism of the recent violence in Congress.

Even a site ironically called Media Matters published a piece not only calling the Lafayette protest peaceful but repeating a long discredited claim about the controversial Trump photo op.

I testified in Congress on the Lafayette Park operation and the revisionism surrounding the controversy is alarming.

The Lafayette Park protests occurred over multiple days and the clearing operation was ordered as a result of a decision made before the final day to establish a greater perimeter to protect the White House complex and immediate surrounding area -- much as the same fence perimeter was used last week on Capitol Hill. The operation was carried out, in my view, in an abusive way due to the level of force deployed and, as discussed below, the charging of the police line. They could have cleared the area without that level of force in my judgment, as I discussed in my testimony.

The Media Matters article by Bobby Lewis is illustrative an array of such media pieces. It was sent to my attention by a reader due to a reference to an interview that I did this week:

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"Fox contributor Jonathan Turley compared the Capitol attack to "the Lafayette Park incident," a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest he falsely described as "an attack on the White House." What actually happened was federal security forces tear-gassed protesters and media, without warning or serious provocation, in order to violently clear a path for a Trump photo-op in front of a church whose leaders did not want him there ."

Other sites have described the Lafayette Park protests as " peaceful. "

One site called Quartz said the protests were " entirely peaceful " and objected that there was no "attack on the White House."

That is simply not true. Quartz was open in how it construed the protest as peaceful by referring to only the final day. While that claim is contested by law enforcement which showed objects being thrown at police , it simply ignores that the order to clear the area was due to the preceding violence of the prior two days.

As discussed in my testimony, there was an exceptionally high number of officers injured during the protests around the White House complex. Some 150 officers were injured during the protests and half of those were injured around the White House . The Justice Department claimed 750 injured officers during the various protests. What is clear that is dozens of officers were injured and there are videotapes of officers hit by frozen bottles, bricks and other missiles . For two days, the violence continued with the burning of a historic structure, extensive property damage and the attempted burning down of the historic St. John's Church. The attacks around the complex were so great that the President was moved into the bunker and officers said that they were concerned that the complex might be breached.

It is also untrue that the area was cleared "in order to violently clear a path for a Trump photo-op." A wide array of witnesses and documents detailed how the plan to clear the area was put into motion over 24 hours before the actual operation -- and long before any discussion of a photo op. The Park Police wanted to expand the perimeter to protect the White House and the plan was approved by then Attorney General Bill Barr. It was delayed because the officers were waiting for both fencing material and back-up personnel. When the personnel and fencing arrived, they proceeded with the operation. Barr repeatedly denied having knowledge of Trump's desire for a photo op which arose long after the plan was approved.

At the hearing, I testified that I believed that there were unlawful actions taken in the operation. The final police charge appeared unjustified as was an attack on a media crew. I also criticized with the level of force used and suggested an array of inquiries for Congress to pursue in these areas of possible illegality.

However, the record and videotapes demonstrate that there was a high level of violence and destruction in Lafayette Park. Indeed, there are analogies to the situation at the Capitol. As with the Capitol, National Guard personnel were brought in after the violence had occurred. Indeed, in Lafayette Park, there was violence for two days before the deployment and the clearing of the area. In both situations, fencing was added to protect an expanded perimeter.

The point is not to defend either law enforcement operation. Indeed, I was highly critical of the clearing of Lafayette Park due to the excessive force used by the Park Police. However, it is simply not true that the Lafayette Park protests were peaceful as demonstrated by the high number of law enforcement injuries and extensive property damage . Even on the day of the clearing of the area, there was some violence. However, when the park was cleared, there was not the violence of the preceding days. That is why the level of force was excessive. The reports of a "peaceful" protest intentionally omits the violence leading up to the plan to expand the perimeter. The clearing of the park was not to address the immediate violence in the park. It was approved earlier to clear the park to protect the complex. Thus, there had been considerable violence and destruction but there was not such violence at the time of the clearing of the park. That is what happened in Lafayette Square.

I fail to see why such facts cannot be recognized and still criticize actions in both operations. Indeed, you can make the valid point that the effort to stop a constitutional act in Congress is a far greater threat to our system. Yet, there is no need to revise the facts to make those points. Indeed, they are more compelling when presented in a frank and honest way. We cannot reach a consensus as a nation if we are demanding answers based on diametrically opposed facts. There is clarity -- and a truth -- to be found in these incidents but it will take people of good faith to reach achieve that vital goal.
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OceanX 3 hours ago

" We don't know what was going on in that laboratory ."

I bet if you 'squeezed' billy gates' and tony fauci's neck you could gain a LOT of insights!

skbull44 3 hours ago

So, where can we find archived copies that everyone can download to prevent total erasure and a reformulation of history?

https://olduvai.ca

Birdbob 2 hours ago

Exactly. Fauci moved gain of function to Wuhan when it was outlawed here...

vril PRO 2 hours ago (Edited)

It was never illegal per se, there was just a moratorium on its funding starting in 2014. Trump re-established it again in 2017.

vril PRO 1 hour ago

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research

What year was the funding moratorium lifted and who was the president that year?

Nemtsov 4 minutes ago

The moratorium went into effect in Oct 2014, meaning that the research had been underway for years prior (and Dr. Fauci would have been directly in the decision chain). What administration came into power in Jan 2009 I wonder. If you want to cast arrows, take it up with the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , which advised on the resumption after review of new protocols. Francis Collins signed off on all this, and this would not have been a line item sign-off that would have crossed the President's desk.

Mr. Rude Dog 2 hours ago remove link

The virus did not destroy our economy, or harm the United States...Simply put - it was our own reaction based on the information provided by our so-called experts.

We destroyed our own economy with bad medical advice, propagated by our own media...We should look at our so called experts and their connections to global government...The traitors are within our own walls..!!

vril PRO 3 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Except we do know what was going on the that lab...

You know who else does? Donny! Of course, globalist zio-pawn he is, Trump isn't willing to indulge us with the truth. He's guarded the NIH-funded GoF research as closely as the Epstein tapes. It's exactly why he's never been able to go after Fauci. Remember during the task force press conferences when he would allude to Obama starting those grants through Fauci?

It was true but the Obama administration put a moratorium on it in 2012 and again in 2014 when the funding pause became indeterminant in consideration of the level of risk the research presented.

However, the ban on that funding was lifted under Trump himself in 2017 when Fauci's NIH: NIAID had lobbied extensively for the ban to be lifted in the interest of "global health preparedness" against things such a pandemic threats. such as after the agency determined it was creating more effective safeguards against the risk of a biologically engineered virus "escaping."

The Trump administration willfully obliged . In the event the administration wasn't complicit why wouldn't their air the grievances against Fauci for not coming up with better safeguards? That alone would be appropriate grounds for termination...


I've already done this rather extensively but make sure to research Charles Lieber's network of labs . Lieber was given assimilation into the Harvard network, grants from the university , NIH and DoD , etc. Lieber was only one of at least 54 other scientists to receive grants despite their ties to foreign governments. Lieber himself was employed by the Wuhan Institute of Technology to the tune of about 50k a month. This came to light following his arrest when CCP spies who worked for several of his labs were arrested for attempting to smuggle biologically active material back to China via passenger airlines.

Many of Lieber's grants from the NIH were explicitly to set up a campus for his biological research in China at the Wuhan Institute of Technology. While most investigative research into the origins of the COVID-19 virus center around the Wuhan Institute of Virology, understanding the network of research labs it was a part of is key to examining the origins of the lab-made virus. Lieber creating the That was how those Chinese spies part of the Thousand Talents Program he employed were given student visas so easily.

The application of Lieber's research goes well beyond the ******** viral science. That was the basis by which his biological nanotechnology, like the nanolipids used to transport mRNA in these Covid-19 vaccines...

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[Jan 10, 2021] The Congress Has No Clothes: The "people," whom they love to claim they represent, went from being an ideological abstraction to an angry mob after they felt cheated and decided to take matters into their own hands by John Morgan

Notable quotes:
"... What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille! ..."
"... This is all pretty mild stuff. Useful to see that Washington is not so different to Kiev. With the Biden presidency you can certainly add the USA to the list of countries ruled by governments put in place by colour revolutions ..."
"... The images that arise from this event will remain iconic. It possibly was a shaperoned event, but the plan, that anger would be wide-spread and destruction abundant did not materialize. This is evident in the bizarre, concocted, pre-written M5M media reports. It was a trap, but it backfired. ..."
"... The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility. ..."
"... someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress ..."
"... I was surprised but pleased to see Americans demonstrating their contempt for the hostile elite government we live under. Assault against Democracy? BS. ..."
"... But nobody should delude themselves into thinking that Donald Trump is a patriot who will die for the cause. Hell, he already threw the people risking their lives and liberty protesting the fraudulent election under the bus. It is long past time the whores in Washington become acutely aware of the contempt sane Americans have for them. I do not support violent protests, but I do support a mass demonstration of people expressing their total and absolute contempt for the traitorous whores who rule over us. ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

But for me, I was no less happy to see the Republicans on the run. After all, it is they who have been stoking the anger and resentment of populist Americans, secure in their belief that they had conjured a monster they completely controlled and that they could endlessly exploit for their own purposes no matter what they did. Well, that monster turned around and bit them on their fleeing asses on Wednesday. The "people," whom they love to claim they represent, went from being an ideological abstraction to an angry mob after they felt cheated and decided to take matters into their own hands. It's important to remember that, according to reports , what first inspired the protesters to descend on the Capitol was when word reached them that Pence had refused to challenge the certification of the Electoral College result. They weren't just angry at the Democrats; they were angry at the whole lot of them.

... For me, the Capitol occupation was a spontaneous and dramatic expression of the white working class' frustration with the Washington establishment and an indication that they won't tolerate a return to business as usual. The Democrats -- and more than a few Republicans -- blocked and worked against Trump's agenda from the day he took office. Stealing the election was merely the final prong in their assault on him and on the wishes of ordinary Americans. If Washington doesn't begin to take populist demands seriously, violence is inevitable.

... This means they have to stop attributing the fact that working-class whites aren't on board with their agenda to the influence of scapegoats like Trump or conspiracy theories and instead finally recognize that our nation's yeomanry have legitimate grievances that won't go away just because Trump does.

For its part, the American Left, which now has Biden as its figurehead, really has no moral authority whatsoever to condemn the Capitol occupation given that they've been bending over backward to excuse the violence of BLM and Antifa for years now. Remember "punch a Nazi"?

Not that these are in any way comparable to what happened in the Capitol; BLM and Antifa violence has resulted in dozens of deaths , rapes, other violence, and untold billions in property damage across the United States. The Capitol protesters, by contrast, were mostly peaceful and caused very little serious damage (if there had been extensive damage it seems unlikely the House would have been able to reconvene so quickly). Most importantly, they were not attacking innocent bystanders' private property. There also doesn't seem to have been much looting apart from a few items taken as pranks; compare this to the scenes we witnessed from Minneapolis last spring , when we saw black rioters stripping entire shopping centers down to their frames.

The Left, of course, will never accept this logic; for them, the occupation was the next Charlottesville, if not the next 9/11 -- but we have to never cease from reminding them of their hypocrisy. In looking at the photos of politicians scurrying for cover as the protesters began to break into the House chamber, I was reminded of the mockery that Trump took from Democratic politicians back in May when word got out that he had been briefly sent to the emergency bunker beneath the White House after it had been besieged by BLM rioters . There's also a delicious irony in the fact that some of the politicians who have been calling for police departments to be defunded were hiding behind these very same police when their constituents came calling.

On Wednesday, the world heard the voice of American populism. It wasn't Trump's voice; it was that of the American people. And perhaps, just perhaps, the people are beginning to rule. This isn't about Trump anymore -- it didn't start with Trump and it certainly won't end with him. As for myself, all I can say is that, for the first time in a while, on that day I actually felt proud to be an American.

Roacheforque , says: Website January 8, 2021 at 11:27 pm GMT • 1.1 days ago

Mostly some good and correct points in this article. Yes, Antifa was there, and Capital police expected them. Yes, Washington's corrupt Capital police also did welcome surprised Trump supporters into the building and even to the area where Ashli was assassinated. How do you think there were no less than 5 videos of the murder from 4 angles? Trump supporters were flabbergasted, nonviolent and wondering for the most part how they got so far.

But the END RESULT was a bizarre attempt to REMOVE TRUMP IMMEDIATELY – by any means (25th or impeach – neither will succeed). Do you really think that end result is the product of chance or circumstance? Do you really think Pelosi is foaming at the teeth because she truly believes Trump is ready to enter the launch codes (give me a break)?

In point of fact, because the civilized legal process has been completely exhausted, we now reach the military option, as in executive order on foreign interference in US elections. This means, in the end, a military tribunal convened to prosecute treason. This is the reason certain conspirators are soiling their Depends undergarments.

But how it will end when you have the global banking interests of "the Guardians" as a foe, with their 10 trillion in play? This is a 5th generation world war unlike any before it. Humanity is at stake.

https://roacheforque.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-cards-will-be-shown.html

anonymous [342] Disclaimer , says: January 8, 2021 at 11:51 pm GMT • 1.1 days ago

Congress hasn't had any clothes for years. It was difficult to imagine anything that could make Americans despise congress more. But look at this.

(You need Tor Browser Bundle to see it, and if you don't have it, Why the fuck not?)

Physically cowering in fear of the people they've fucked for all these years.

This is the single most compelling evidence for CIA LIHOP. This quirky peasant uprising and its public happiness scared congress much more than CIA's anthrax attacks. Now congress will do what they're told, take their AIPAC bribes and hide behind high walls.

It's the USA [neoliberlaism] that has no clothes...

Priss Factor , says: Website January 9, 2021 at 5:09 am GMT • 21.0 hours ago

Congress has no clothes because it's the best little whorehouse in America.

By the way, Twitter banning Trump is a great thing. Mass purge is actually better for us.

The problem with limited purges was that most cons and patriots still stuck with Big Tech because there was still enough freedom and conservative material available. But when Big Tech goes whole hog and censors so many people, it will force a Techession(tech-secession or techxodus) among millions and millions of people, and this will make Alt Tech far more viable. Indeed, Alt Tech can turn into counter-tech and the Big Other Tech.

People who were too lazy to get off their butts and join Alt Tech will now have no choice.

Big Tech could maintain monopoly as long as they just banned people like Alex Jones. But when they ban the president and so many of his followers, they are forcing the creation of the Big Other Tech, and that will end the monopoly.

Anonymous [263] Disclaimer , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:31 am GMT • 20.6 hours ago

The people's anger is real. Trump is a false prophet. He's nothing but a Jew loving blowhard, a con man with a below average IQ. He campaigned on draining the swamp but staffed his entire cabinet with nothing but swamp creatures, because he *is* the swamp. He's just been cast aside because the puppet masters have found an even more corrupt puppet that they can extort. The patriots who have been protesting the election deserve someone better, a real deal like Kris Kobach.

This election exposes just how corrupt this country has become, from top to bottom, not just the Executive branch and the legislative branch, but even the judiciary branch is now completely corrupt from the very top, the Chief Justice of SCOTUS. Jews now have firm control on every institution of import in this country, from Wall Street to Hollywood, DC to SV and everywhere in between, media, academia, publishing industry, healthcare, everything. Patriots now have our backs against the Wall. There's no place else to turn to. We either fight our way out or die.

The Roman empire lasted 1,000 years, from 500BC to 500AD. In the first half, Rome was ruled by elected emperors, and in the second half, by unelected emperors. Rome ruled for 500 years, peaked for 200, and fell for 300 years. It was a long, slow death. America was on the ascendance for 300 years, peaked for 50 years (1945-1995), and has been on a decline the last 25 years. The next 75 will be a long, slow, increasingly painful death as we eventually get swallowed whole by huns and visigoths.

Garliv , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:37 am GMT • 20.5 hours ago

"But the END RESULT was a bizarre attempt to REMOVE TRUMP IMMEDIATELY – by any means (25th or impeach – neither will succeed). Do you really think that end result is the product of chance or circumstance? Do you really think Pelosi is foaming at the teeth because she truly believes Trump is ready to enter the launch codes (give me a break)?"

Strange they are unable to wait for less than two weeks for inauguration. These people are truly evil. It's like what did Trump ever do to them that is so personal?

Dan Hayes , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:44 am GMT • 20.4 hours ago

What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille!

Majority of One , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:50 am GMT • 20.3 hours ago

Were I an investor I'd be buying up stocks in private security firms. Just today I viewed a video of that hideous old quean, Lindsay Graham plodding and plunging through an airport passageway on the way (presumably) to his home in South Carolina. All the way he was being harassed, shouted at and called a "traitor" for his RINO collusion in the takedown of the Trumpster.

Then there is the case of Mike Pence. After his refusal to call the question on the Constitutional approach to denying any confirmation of electors from either party, making way for either a compromise (as was reached in a similar kerfuffle in the 1876 showdown between Democrat Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherfraud Hayes) or to call for new elections in the challenged and conflicted swing states; Pence has been broadly excoriated as a traitor who weaseled his way out of supporting the president's back-up plan.

Next, we fast-forward to those photos of Congressional prostiticians cowering behind their seats as the "deplorables" streamed into the sacred chambers of the people's house. A lot of guilty consciences in that zoo. They well know they either sold out for hefty campaign contributions and money under the table or are being blackmailed through the workings of Epstein, Maxwell and Wexner on behalf I$rael's Mo$$ad or maybe a dozen other intel agencies, most specifically Britain's MI-6 and the shot-callers (think 11-22-63 in Dallas) who rule through other deep state organs, the CIA.

Private security agencies will be getting a.lot of calls from terrified prostiticians and many others who have been working for the enemies of WE THE PEOPLE. Consider those talking heads on boobtoob noose who are paid handsomely for constant repetition of a false reality paradigm which has entrapped all those suburban soccer moms who were mind-controlled into voting for the Kamala's Foote/Biden ticket. Awakeners by the millions have been curing themselves of the boobtoob noose habit. Do you think the teevee presenters are sleeping peacefully these days and soon about to enjoy high times at fancy resorts and pricey restaurants?

How about professors and other academics who get the call to appear as talking-heads on PB$ and spread erudite sounding barf and garbage as fast as they spread their legs for all those shekels and the public recognition?

Are gated communities with patrolling guards and cameras galore, places where powerful movers and shakers tend to live will those havens (or those high-rise apartment suites surrounding Central Park -- or placid neighborhoods in Georgetown or Bel-Air–) likely to feel safe from now on?

Private Security services. That's where I'd invest. The "Deplorables" are pissed off at the stolen election and even more so at the political duopoly constituting government of the prostiticians, by the deep $tate bureaucratic Administrators and for the plutocratic oligarchs.

As of January 6th, 2021 the status of our country devolved into a totally ruptured republic. Democracy? Fuggidaboutit.

Twodees Partain , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:51 am GMT • 20.3 hours ago

An Open Letter to Politicians:

https://ussanews.com/News1/an-open-letter-to-every-damned-american-politician-on-the-election-corruption-all-of-it/

globalist deepstate , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:07 am GMT • 20.0 hours ago

About 95% of the US media, and about 70% of US politicians are corrupt deep-state globalists (which makes them implicitly treasonous). The source of their deep-state globalist power is central banking, usury, and enslaving us goyim with debt and "the love of money". The last president who was not a treasonous globalist was Reagan (although most of his cabinet were globalists including VP Bush). President Trump has been constantly under attack by this deep-state globalist cult because he is not an obedient member of their club and has been irreverently exposing their hand.

Nothing will change: the US and the rest of the western civilization will eventually succumb to this cancerous globalist corruption unless the cancer is removed. This is not about politics: it's about removing the cancerous corruption before the cancer destroys its host.

Thank God President Trump has exposed their hand and has got the ball rolling. Now it is up to us: to step up and continue the populist movement that he started.

Dick French , says: January 9, 2021 at 7:01 am GMT • 19.1 hours ago

Beautiful take.

This truly is the end of the Banana Empire. I say "God bless Trump" only because he set into motion the end of this tyranny; like Kerensky he was largely clueless as to the extent of the rot.

This is the beginning of the end. Best case scenario the United States returns to democracy.

Exiled off mainstreet , says: January 9, 2021 at 7:21 am GMT • 18.8 hours ago

No matter what the cause, there was evidence of agents provocateurs present who inflamed the violence, and the reaction, calling those who opposed the regime candidate "terrorists" is going to lead to more serious unrest, particularly if as appears likely, kangaroo courts begin rounding up people for trial. The thing is, close to a majority already suspect that the fix was in in November, and the fact the same methods of fraud were successfully employed in Georgia's senate races inflamed the anger. Proof of agents provocateurs is abundant. Even the guy dressed up in a viking suit whose photograph is run with the article apparently was an antifa figure.

Since the regime's coordinated reaction is attempting to turn this into a sort of Reichstag fire to eliminate opposition to a consolidated deep state fascist regime, we are in for turbulent times. I suspect the tacticians, despite what the author says, actually are hoping for a serious response before the opposition can effectively organize, and the regime operatives are too arrogant to care about the economic consequences, and the likelihood that the numerous vassal states may use the instability as a means of securing a greater degree of independence from the yankee imperium.

Leander Starr , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:05 am GMT • 17.0 hours ago

This is all pretty mild stuff. Useful to see that Washington is not so different to Kiev. With the Biden presidency you can certainly add the USA to the list of countries ruled by governments put in place by colour revolutions

The best way for Trumps place in history to be magnified and consolidated would be for them to imprison him and take away all of his assets (he'd become like a mini Jesus), though I am guessing this is the only reason he has not been assassinated, yet.

hip, hip, hooray (x3) for the alleged rioters

9nope9 , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:19 am GMT • 16.8 hours ago

The images that arise from this event will remain iconic. It possibly was a shaperoned event, but the plan, that anger would be wide-spread and destruction abundant did not materialize. This is evident in the bizarre, concocted, pre-written M5M media reports. It was a trap, but it backfired. I for one likely would have ransacked the place. I must admit I am impressed with their disinterest in marauding. It was an important event, cherish its iconic imagery, for darkness, subversion and false flags will take our guns away and reduce the flame of patriotism to pilot size soon.

Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: January 9, 2021 at 10:49 am GMT • 15.3 hours ago

I've seen at least two videos of the Capitol police opening steel fences at one point and doors at another point only two stand aside and calmly allow protesters to pour in. Looked more like an invitation than an invasion. Obviously they had orders to stand back at those points.

What a wonderful moment to see all the Congressional rabble hitting the decks.

Next time the protesters should bring a guillotine!

Ugetit , says: January 9, 2021 at 10:55 am GMT • 15.2 hours ago

if anything dramatic would happen

Key word, there, "dramatic." And it apparently makes no difference how corny it is (goofball with the horns and even Trump himself) or how idiotic, (the masked moron response to COVID and installing senile Joe on the throne).

Drama is a force that gives empty heads meaning, or at least a bit of entertainment while our owners mock and manipulate us at their adolescent pleasure.

Enjoy the carnival and carry on.

GMC , says: January 9, 2021 at 11:28 am GMT • 14.6 hours ago

I would have enjoyed it more – had 2 million armed Iraqis, Afghanis, Syrians, Libyans, Yemenis, Ukrainians, and others , that have had their countries wasted by the USA , storm the Capital and get even with those that voted and supported those murderous invasions.

Lee , says: January 9, 2021 at 11:57 am GMT • 14.2 hours ago
@Craig Nelsen

CN said:

If he's out in 11 days anyway, why the push to impeach? Pure spite?

It has been suggested that if the Dems could get DT impeached before his time is up then they could attach legislation to his verdict stating that he could never run for any office again.

Some on the Left are terrified that he will come back in 2024 and the same 75M Maga people will be waiting to sweep him back in office.

IMO in 2024 KH as Prez is a sure thing -- -people will be shamed into voting for her to avoid being called a racist AND a sexist.

St-Germain , says: January 9, 2021 at 11:58 am GMT • 14.1 hours ago

Realizing that not only his political but also his personal future might be in jeopardy, Trump was quick to concede the election and promise a peaceful transition of power -- showing that when things get tough, it's his own hide that he's thinking of.

"Trump was quick to concede the election" -- That's the part I somehow missed hearing over here in central Europe, perhaps because not all the relevant news is reported here. Would the author quote the words the president used to do that?

Conceding the election, as I understand it, is something he could have done any time since Nov. 3, making our shadow government very happy. Since mainstream media spent the next two months loudly demanding that he "concede the election", they must also have missed those magic words.

Conceding the election not only acknowledges a valid election was held but also makes monkeys out of the skeptical people who voted for Trump and answered his call to rally in Washington Jan. 6. Are you saying that?

Or does conceding a U.S. election now equate to saying the election was rigged and it looks like not a damned thing we can do about it?

cranc , says: January 9, 2021 at 12:54 pm GMT • 13.2 hours ago
@Dan Hayes te>

A fitting end to the Trump movement, seeing as there was never anything in terms of a structure to organise the political base except for a ludicrous conspiracy prank (i.e. 'Qanon'). The whole thing has been a diversionary venture to corral dissent and neutralise it. It might 'feel good to see patriots in the Capitol Building' but -shorn of any genuine movement, all that really amounts to is .well feelings .
Real populism looks quite different surely, and so do real insurrections. There was no 'invasion', the security was stepped down and they opened the doors for the crowd to walk in. A spectacle to advance an agenda.

Moi , says: January 9, 2021 at 12:58 pm GMT • 13.1 hours ago
@Roacheforque

Trump bans Muslims–no problem
Trump hands over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to Israel–no problem
Trump murders Gen. Soleimani–no problem

Trump goads on his useful idiots to take over the Capitol–impeach the bastard

PS: the US is effed, no matter who's in charge.
PS: it's now China's turn to be #1, and lead a more peaceful world.

The Alarmist , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:00 pm GMT • 13.1 hours ago

I must admit as an American abroad that I felt a little Schadenfreude -- having watched the left burn America through the summer, it was about time the populists got a crack at it -- but I had this nagging feeling this would end very unpleasantly for all; there's an old adage that if you take a shot at the crown, you'd better not miss. That feeling was confirmed as CNN started trumpeting this as being an insurrection, which was picked up by the politicos in short order. It's hard to dismiss out of hand that this was a false flag because the leftists almost immediately had the language and narrative and an action plan in hand to finally put the populist genie back in the bottle. Then again, maybe they're just quick on their feet.

If this was planned, as some above suggest, then I'm really disappointed at the lack of thought given to this. Taking the Capitol was never going to seriously result in a change of government in a country that has been practising Continuity of Government exercises for three-quarters of a century, and at best would only be a symbolic protest. Having taken the Capitol, this was never going to end well for those participating in the frolic, as we will see in the coming weeks as more average Joes and Janes are dragged into court (do you think Buffalo-boy will stand in the dock?). So why not make the best of what was going to be a shit sandwich anyway?

Instead of walking through the halls of the Capitol, taking selfies, and then going home when "asked" to leave, they should have taken a page out of Occupy Wall Street and settled in for the long hall. The left would have shown up with pre-printed signs, some of which would have looked amateurish enough to seem authentic. Where were these guys' signs?

They should have filled every seat in "the Peoples' House" with real people holding signs saying "We are the People" with a few thousand more people sitting peacefully in all the corridors and steps and waiting passively for the the police or military to carry them away. That would have taken days, if not weeks, and would have put a serious damper on the inevitable inauguration.

Truly a missed opportunity.

elmerfudzie , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:01 pm GMT • 13.1 hours ago

Politicians and their fellow bureaucrats have opened the door to the real barbarians; corporate fascism, influence of special interest lobbies in Congress, foreign entanglements (Israel) , endless war, unaccountable government within the ever expanding sixteen Intelligence Agencies, secrecy in place of democracy, the authority to print currency handed over to oligarchs at the Federal Reserve Board, who are, in reality a collection of banksters and financiers- not an agency of the federal government as the organizations' name would have all of us believe.

If there ever was a time for revolution and dissolution of a thoroughly corrupted government (for every western Occident country) the time is now.

The corporate-fascist infection began under Ford the stumbler, he opened the door to The NeoCons followed by Reagan the Union buster who did everything he could to dismantle FDR's social democracy programs such as the CCC (infrastructure support), the social security safety net. Reagan had a close association with the barbarism of Thatcher, she had a set of horns much larger than that, so called "insurrectionist" buffoon who's face was plastered all over newsprint today. Chavez was correct and I add, that a waft of sulfurous odor behind Thatcher was shared by both Bushes. Strategies dedicated to endless war, endless predation(s) for dwindling resources rather than embracing a philosophy that nourishes support for human ingenuity and mutual trust between nations. Instead, adopting long range and global domination plans outlined by Admiral Cebrowski and his assistant, Thomas P. M. Barnett, who announced a new map of our world-according to the Pentagon that is. Visit Dr Henry Gaffney Jr of the CNA Corporation.

ASIDE: This is what happens when an entire people allowed a post World War II dream to die. The Kennedy Brothers dream of a new demilitarized era, and Western European style Marshal Plan for third world countries who desired to attach themselves to the tail of our kite (voluntarily) -Rest in peace John and Robert, I'll never let their guilt, control freakishness or rapacity to go free !

Rusting bridges, potholed autobahns, with an emphasis on who owns them, not when maintenance or repairs will be forthcoming-by extortion no doubt. Gaunt, vitamin deficient citizenry, homelessness, epidemic drug addictions, who needs "society" haven't you heard? Thatcher said there's no such thing as society!

Verymuchalive , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:04 pm GMT • 13.0 hours ago

Thus it seems improbable to me that the Deep State was willing to sacrifice the sense of American invulnerability it projects across the globe simply in order to discredit the populist movement when there are many other, less self-harming methods it could use instead.

America's aura of invulnerability has been gone since September 11th 2001. Civil airliners flown by a ragtag crew of "Islamists", if you believe the official story, smashed into the WTC and the Pentagon. No fighter aircraft made any attempts to intercept them: they were completely unhindered in their actions. The Deep State were willing to let thousands of civilians die in order to achieve its own purposes.
Letting a couple of hundred people occupy the Capitol building for a short period of time seems very minor in comparison.

Robert Dolan , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:33 pm GMT • 12.6 hours ago

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/01/08/i-was-at-the-washington-d-c-save-america-rally/

KMAC shares some observations on the rally.

As to the aftermath, I always ask, "Who benefits?"

theMann , says: January 9, 2021 at 1:35 pm GMT • 12.5 hours ago

Surely one of the first rules of the exercise of Power is to scrupulously avoid demonstrating that you are a low grade coward. Now that the entire US Congress has been videoed cowering in craven fear before an unarmed crowd, whose only "crime" is to seek redress for a stolen election, there are going to be serious consequences.

How many foreign agents, and foreign powers, are now coming to the realization "hey, these guys are bunch of pussies?" How many criminal organizations, in the USA or abroad, formerly operating with some restraint, will now be freed from any restraint? And how many citizens of the Republic, formerly circumspect to the Public Offices in our country, will now proceed to operate with complete contempt of sniveling cowards in Public Office who seek to rule us?

The absolute lowest level of Degeneracy demonstrated by the Political Class is not in their systematic sexual degeneracy, nor their relentless and despicable Negroaltry, nor their thievery of anything they can steal, nor their relentless, pervasive, and relentless dishonesty even when they would be much better served by the truth, but precisely in their pervasive fear of everything Decent, including decent Americans.

So here we are, in the land of the Zoo Monkey Shit-eaters, faced with the only choice that will ever have any real meaning for the rest of our lives:

Bravery, or Cowardice?

Realist , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:14 pm GMT • 11.9 hours ago
@mocissepvis

ANTIFA and BLM are cowards. Why would patriots want to "learn" anything from them? Why would they want any comparison to them at all?

Antifa and BLM are not in prison patriots are that's the reason.

Ugetit , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:50 pm GMT • 11.3 hours ago
@Dan Hayes

What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille!

True.

Just another PR stunt that benefits nobody except the globalists.

Davidoff , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:53 pm GMT • 11.2 hours ago

The US have no clothes After decades and decades of warmongering & murdering innocent people around the globe in the name of "democracy" (what a hypocritical sick joke!!!) to steal and loot other nation's territories and resources now the true face of the USA is visible to All: the face of a horrendous tyrannical evil monster serving not the american people but the interests of a few billionnaires, master puppeteers in the dark. We knew it all along: u are not a democracy and you are not an example to anyone.

All the contrary, you are an example of what not to be or what not to become.

You are and always have been a kleptocracy or something worse.

(wikypedia: Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule") is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to appropriate the wealth of their nation, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.)

_dude , says: January 9, 2021 at 4:45 pm GMT • 9.4 hours ago
@globalist deepstate

About 95% of the US media, and about 70% of US politicians are corrupt deep-state globalists

I think you're being very generous.

BannedHipster , says: Website January 9, 2021 at 5:05 pm GMT • 9.0 hours ago

I didn't vote for Trump and I never supported him.

But I loved seeing the Congress hiding under their seats in fear of Americans storming the gates. It was beautiful.

http://bannedhipster.home.blog/2021/01/09/trump-maga-post-mortem/

Johnny Walker Read , says: January 9, 2021 at 5:10 pm GMT • 8.9 hours ago

One of the few among us who still is in possession of a functioning brain..

What should we expect in 2021?

So far, it looks like this year is going to be plagued by more of the same brand of madness, mayhem, manipulation and tyranny that dominated 2020.

Frankly, I'm sick of it: the hypocrisy, the double standards, the delusional belief by Americans at every point along the political spectrum that politics and politicians are the answer to what ails the country, when for most of our nation's history, politics and politicians have been the cause of our woes.

Consider: for years now, Americans, with sheeplike placidity, have tolerated all manner of injustices and abuses meted out upon them by the government (police shootings of unarmed individuals, brutality, corruption, graft, outright theft, occupations and invasions of their homes by militarized police, roadside strip searches, profit-driven incarcerations, profit-driven wars, egregious surveillance, taxation without any real representation, a nanny state that dictates every aspect of their lives, lockdowns, overcriminalization, etc.) without ever saying "enough is enough."

https://www.technocracy.news/technocrats-have-turned-america-into-ship-of-fools/

ChuckOrloski , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:12 pm GMT • 7.9 hours ago
@Mr. X.

The Zionist establishment vets & selects US presidential candidates...

Jus' Sayin'... , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:22 pm GMT • 7.7 hours ago
@Realist black shirt thugs never went to prison. Antifa/blm are the shock troops for elitists like George Soros, who are seeking to impose a new order, a global, neo-feudal system run solely by them and solely for their benefit.

Antifa/blm are part of the machinery for achieving this neo-feudal vision, as are the USA's Democrat-Republican establishment, DSMIC, and MSM. They will be dealt with when the new order is achieved, just as Hitler dealt with the SA when they had served their purpose. All populists, especially Trump supporters are an immediate threat to our would-be feudal masters. Their eradication is a compelling necessity. There will be no mercy.

anon [157] Disclaimer , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:24 pm GMT • 7.7 hours ago

The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility.

someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress

It is routine for the Capitol Police to coordinate with the federal Secret Service and the Park Police and local police in Washington, DC, before large demonstrations. The National Guard, commanded by the Department of Defense, is often on standby too.
On Wednesday, however, that coordination was late or absent.

The National Guard, which was deployed heavily to quell the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, did not show up to assist the police until two hours after the action started on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempted-coup-federal-law-enforcement-capitol-police-2021-1

This is coordinated among different levels . ( think of 911 and lack of responses preparedness and abuses of the drill )

Trump is a psycho who has convinced the low IQ white of him being a savior facing off deep state which is against the poor white and which doesn't want Trump get elected . So the election must be stolen .

And what's not good about fighting a thief or stealing ?

Zarathustra , says: January 9, 2021 at 6:46 pm GMT • 7.3 hours ago
@Goddard

This article has even more clarity. (Some kind of writer called Nebojsa)
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511963-american-empire-capitol-resistance/

lavoisier , says: Website January 9, 2021 at 6:55 pm GMT • 7.2 hours ago

Excellent essay.

I was surprised but pleased to see Americans demonstrating their contempt for the hostile elite government we live under. Assault against Democracy? BS. Perhaps there is some fight left in the American people?

But nobody should delude themselves into thinking that Donald Trump is a patriot who will die for the cause. Hell, he already threw the people risking their lives and liberty protesting the fraudulent election under the bus. It is long past time the whores in Washington become acutely aware of the contempt sane Americans have for them. I do not support violent protests, but I do support a mass demonstration of people expressing their total and absolute contempt for the traitorous whores who rule over us.

Kolya Krassotkin , says: January 9, 2021 at 8:14 pm GMT • 5.9 hours ago
@follyofwar

Pelosi, Schumer et al. want to pretend this was the burning of the Reichstag, so they can take "appropriate" measures. They want to act with haste.

Pelosi and Schumer fear that people will realize, after looking at how for years Obama and the left stoked racial hatred, which resulted in riots, murder and arson causing billions in damage, this is, by comparison, a nothing-burger. Thus, haste is the order of the day.

Robert Dolan , says: January 9, 2021 at 9:13 pm GMT • 6.2 hours ago

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[Jan 10, 2021] Trump's Last Stand, by Israel Shamir

Highly recommended!
Trump run his election complain of 2016 as champion of common Americans. After he won the office the betrayed them all and governed like Bush III with his own cabal of neocons and neoliberals. \
He betrayed his followed again on Dec 6, when he first incited them for the action but did not provide organization, security and the plan needed to press Congress to appoint the commission for investigation of election "irregularities" for then days before Biden inauguration. He is now completely spent politically and his enemies and first of all, Ms Pelosi, are after him. Moreover he gave a shot in the arm for the gang of Russiagaters who were pursuing him since his inauguration.
The fact that Trump leaves the political scene is good. While useful as a wrecking ball for the neoliberal empire and neoliberal establishment he proved to be completely inept as a politician and lack courage necessary for the national leader. Which he proved again on Dec 6. Famous quote from Friedrich Schiller's play Fiesco "The Moor has done his duty. The Moor can go." is probably applicable. What is interesting is that Zionists betrayed Trump.
But the fact hat he will be replaced by neocon warmonger and staunch neoliberal Biden means that there is no light at the and of tunnel for the common people.
Like Trump, Biden was never Presidential material. He a a mediocre politician, by all accounts. And extremely corrupt in addition to that.
Notable quotes:
"... Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political allies withdrew their support. ..."
"... The deck was stacked against President Trump from Day One. His orders were ignored. The US courts, judges, police, the whole system of law enforcement was against him; his orders were blocked or overturned, while the media made fun of him and the opposition relentlessly delegitimised him. ..."
"... On January 6, a massive demonstration in his support gathered in Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands Americans came to the capital to demand justice after the election fraud became obvious. They hoped that the Republican representatives would refuse to certify the fraud and appoint a commission to check and recount the votes. ..."
"... The horror and outrage of the Dem politicians and media were as faked as their news. During last year, many government buildings were taken over by Dem-sponsored BLM activists, and in not one case did the police use lethal weapons or even rush the protesters out of buildings. ..."
"... For them, it was an honest and funny way to express their indignation. But the real gambit plotters intended to frame them. They even murdered four protesters hoping they would respond with violence, but in vain. ..."
"... White American protesters are exceptionally non-violent lot; as with Occupy Wall Street a few years back the January 6 Capitol protesters were timid and obedient as lambs. For this reason, BLM was invented, for Blacks are able to riot violently, as opposed to well-trained whites. It is not a race thing: lily-white French Yellow Vests and Ukrainian nationalists have fought the police all right. But US whites are not prone to riot, not since the Civil War. ..."
"... Anyway, their non-violence didn't help them. The president-elect Biden begrudged them even the name of protesters: "Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists." Indeed, the name should be preserved for Deep State-authorised looters and their brethren all over the world, whether in Hong Kong or Minsk, in Seattle or Portland. ..."
"... researchers will argue whether duplicitous Biden's minions organised it or just capitalised on the Trumpers' sincere protest. ..."
"... There is no doubt that to an objective observer the 2020 elections were profoundly unfair. I won't trouble you with too many published details about the statistically impossible results, but here is one example of fraud. The city of Detroit gave 95 per cent of its vote to Biden/Kamala, a number that Mr Kim Jong-un would view with slight envy, while Mr Lukashenko would murmur, "How can it be done?" It is highly likely this mind-boggling result was achieved in the following way. ..."
"... The problem is, Trump was a poor organiser. He could win elections, if he could prevent Cynthia Stephens's kind of legislation, outlaw postal ballots, enforce obligatory IDs for voting, mobilise his people for election control. A formidable task, but not impossible, while dealing with a prone-to-cheat adversary. He could even do a revolution on January 6, tasking the right people to act, forming a revolutionary HQ, planning a strategy of takeover, but he didn't do anything of the sort. He probably thought Congress would see the vast crowds and allow for the checking of election results. ..."
"... Alternatively, he was so naïve that he believed revolutions just happen by themselves, as in the movies. They do not. Behind every successful revolution, there is a lot of planning, armed force, weapons ready for use, supply lines, logistics, media support, and communications. Trump had none of that. It was enough to turn off Twitter to make him deaf and dumb. ..."
"... There was no coup attempt, as correctly stated by Tyler Durden : "Trump has never had the concentration, organizational acumen, or ideological coherence to mount a bona fide "coup," and a mob intrusion which was swiftly dispersed by armed agents of the state doesn't change that. ..."
"... Many Trumpists believed in the QAnon and Kayfabe conspiracies; they posted reports of bad guys being arrested, of servers snatched by the FBI, of Clinton and Biden waiting for rough justice behind bars. This belief disarmed people who would otherwise have fought to achieve this very result. That is the problem with conspiracies: imaginary conspiracies prevent real action. ..."
"... He succeeded against enormous odds in improving the lot of American workers: for the first time since the 1970s, their incomes rose in relation to the other classes. He stopped mass migration to the US: legal immigration went down to a trickle. He avoided new wars; he tried to make peace with Russia. He refused to bomb Iran even in the last days of his presidency, though some pro-Israel supporters promised him a second term if he would. ..."
"... His fight against the corona madness was his great achievement. He was against the lockdowns that are about to destroy our world so completely that few things will survive. The last great US ruler who didn't wear the cowardly mask will be remembered. He could not defeat the mighty medical complex, or FAGMA, or the Masters of Discourse, but he tried. ..."
"... Israel Shamir can be reached at ..."
"... The Unz Review ..."
Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

President Trump was decisively beaten, if not fair and square. The hopes of millions of American voters were squashed and extinguished. The saga of the Orange Man is over. The victors used a gambit: they sacrificed the sanctity and security of the Capitol, allowed intruders in, permitted them to take selfies in the Speaker's office, and then faked horror and outrage. The attempted calls for electoral transparency were deflated in real time as huge crowds were dispersed, electors were confirmed, and the ascendancy of Biden was assured, while Trump followers were branded 'domestic terrorists'.

Donald Trump denounced the people whom he personally called to protest. His close political allies withdrew their support. Within hours, or even minutes, this ruler of the world admired by millions became a non-person. Like a boy who posted an obscenity, he was banned by Twitter and Facebook. Time will tell whether he will go to prison, as so many Dems pray for, but his political life seems to have ended, even if his cause may live.

The deck was stacked against President Trump from Day One. His orders were ignored. The US courts, judges, police, the whole system of law enforcement was against him; his orders were blocked or overturned, while the media made fun of him and the opposition relentlessly delegitimised him. He was blocked even by Fox News. Dem-run states adjusted their laws to assure the elections' result. Trump was a lame duck from the very beginning of his presidency to its bitter end. He was kept on a short leash by the almighty Deep State, and when he tried to free himself, they pulled the leash.

On January 6, a massive demonstration in his support gathered in Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands Americans came to the capital to demand justice after the election fraud became obvious. They hoped that the Republican representatives would refuse to certify the fraud and appoint a commission to check and recount the votes. Some of the protesters managed to break into the Capitol, or were let in by the police. This peaceful Occupy Capitol action, the exercise of a natural right to protest, was met with lethal fire, and a young female protester from San Diego, Ashli Babbitt, was murdered by the plainclothes police. The Republican representatives were cowed and surrendered; Biden was confirmed to take office.

The horror and outrage of the Dem politicians and media were as faked as their news. During last year, many government buildings were taken over by Dem-sponsored BLM activists, and in not one case did the police use lethal weapons or even rush the protesters out of buildings.

"Shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the locked King Street entrance to the Capitol, chanting "Break down the door!" and "General strike!" Moments later, police ceded control of the State Street doors and allowed the crowd to surge inside, joining thousands who had already gathered in the Capitol to protest the votes. The area outside the Assembly, which is scheduled to take the bill up at 11 a.m. today, was crowded with protesters who chanted, "We're not leaving. Not this time."

Department of Administration spokesman Tim Donovan said although protesters were being encouraged to leave, no one would be forcibly removed. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said he had instructed Police Chief Noble Wray not to allow his officers to participate in removing demonstrators from the building."

This was what happened in Madison, Wisconsin in March 2011, as Steve Sailer reminded us. Indeed, this is what the protesters expected; some were dressed in flamboyant carnival attire; they behaved well and peacefully, within acceptable limits. It was not an insurrection; they didn't try to take over the Congress in any meaningful sense. For them, it was an honest and funny way to express their indignation. But the real gambit plotters intended to frame them. They even murdered four protesters hoping they would respond with violence, but in vain.

White American protesters are exceptionally non-violent lot; as with Occupy Wall Street a few years back the January 6 Capitol protesters were timid and obedient as lambs. For this reason, BLM was invented, for Blacks are able to riot violently, as opposed to well-trained whites. It is not a race thing: lily-white French Yellow Vests and Ukrainian nationalists have fought the police all right. But US whites are not prone to riot, not since the Civil War. Being a foreigner, I do not understand why the Americans want to keep their guns if they never use them, but that's the way they are.

Anyway, their non-violence didn't help them. The president-elect Biden begrudged them even the name of protesters: "Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists." Indeed, the name should be preserved for Deep State-authorised looters and their brethren all over the world, whether in Hong Kong or Minsk, in Seattle or Portland.

Russian social networks were comparing the Washington DC events with those nearer to home and complained of 'double standards'. The US media expressed no indignation when their appointee Boris Yeltsin shelled the Russian Parliament in 1993. The New York Times and the State Department had encouraged the nationalist mob to storm Ukrainian government offices in 2014. They cheered on the opposition in Minsk in taking over their parliament after failing to win elections. The Belarus protesters claimed their country's election results were rigged, just like Trump supporters did for the US elections, but Biden didn't call them "domestic terrorists". (Actually, neither did President Lukashenko: he called them 'protesters', and their violent demos were dispersed without a single shot fired.) In such cases, Jews respond with "How can you compare?!"

The Russians compared the Capitol 'coup attempt' with their own semi-staged 'coup' of 1991, a partly pre-planned provocation. In 1991, the feeble coup organisers could not detain Yeltsin and surrendered as if on cue; the wave of indignation removed Gorbachev and the Communist party from power. In the Capitol, too, police waved the 'invaders' in, as you can see on this video forwarded by the BBC. More videos suggesting Capitol police involvement in the ostensible provocation are presented here . The orchestrated indignation allowed the victors to censor and purge the defeated Trump and his followers. Just as the USSR went down in August 1991, Trump's America went down in January 2021, and the liberal elites representing the big corporations came to power. It was achieved by a provocation, but ordinary Trump followers were really angry with the Election Steal. Likewise, 1991 was a provocation, but ordinary Russian citizens were angry at Gorbachev's perestroika, while the liberal elites used it to dismantle the Soviet state and transfer all assets to their oligarchs.

People with a good knowledge of history refer to the Reichstag Fire of February 1933, the arson contrived by the newly formed Nazi government itself to turn public opinion against its opponents and to assume emergency powers. Alternatively, other researchers have contended that there was no proof of Nazi complicity in the crime, but that Hitler merely capitalised on the Dutch Communist van der Lubbe's independent act. The fire is the subject of continued debate and research, says the Encycopaedia Britannica . Probably the same will be said about the Capitol "invasion", and researchers will argue whether duplicitous Biden's minions organised it or just capitalised on the Trumpers' sincere protest.

There is no doubt that to an objective observer the 2020 elections were profoundly unfair. I won't trouble you with too many published details about the statistically impossible results, but here is one example of fraud. The city of Detroit gave 95 per cent of its vote to Biden/Kamala, a number that Mr Kim Jong-un would view with slight envy, while Mr Lukashenko would murmur, "How can it be done?" It is highly likely this mind-boggling result was achieved in the following way.

Detroit Dems outsourced ballot harvesting to local drug lords, offering them as a prize – recreational marijuana business licenses. These licences are the best thing since a licence to print money . Having such licenses is like having your own ATM. Here you can read about their profitability and the lengths criminals will go to obtain them. Detroit Dems had changed local laws allowing the sale of marijuana in their fine city (it was forbidden until November 2020). They changed local laws prescribing the issuing of marijuana licences to drug dealers with previous convictions for drug dealing. They let drug lords out of jail . They changed local laws to allow ballot harvesting; that is, collecting postal votes and assisting with the filling in of ballots. After that, the drug dealers went around collecting postal ballots and filling them in immediately, if they were conscientious, or just filling them in at their leisure, if feeling lazy. They had a judge at their disposal, Cynthia Stephens , who single-handedly changed Michigan election laws, and then rejected Trump's claims of fraud.

Yes, Virginia, there was election fraud in many American states. They are used to gambling; they aren't surprised by a beautiful hand of four aces, as Mark Twain suggested. Usually the two parties deal in turns, and cheat in turns. Only this time, Trump convinced many people that it is different; that this is their last chance.

The problem is, Trump was a poor organiser. He could win elections, if he could prevent Cynthia Stephens's kind of legislation, outlaw postal ballots, enforce obligatory IDs for voting, mobilise his people for election control. A formidable task, but not impossible, while dealing with a prone-to-cheat adversary. He could even do a revolution on January 6, tasking the right people to act, forming a revolutionary HQ, planning a strategy of takeover, but he didn't do anything of the sort. He probably thought Congress would see the vast crowds and allow for the checking of election results.

Alternatively, he was so naïve that he believed revolutions just happen by themselves, as in the movies. They do not. Behind every successful revolution, there is a lot of planning, armed force, weapons ready for use, supply lines, logistics, media support, and communications. Trump had none of that. It was enough to turn off Twitter to make him deaf and dumb.

There was no coup attempt, as correctly stated by Tyler Durden : "Trump has never had the concentration, organizational acumen, or ideological coherence to mount a bona fide "coup," and a mob intrusion which was swiftly dispersed by armed agents of the state doesn't change that. Shortly after the breach, he released a video instructing his followers not to take Senators hostage or imprison Mike Pence, but to "go home." No factions of the federal government joined the mob on Trump's orders, because he didn't bother issuing any. The whole episode never stood the remotest chance of preventing the certification of Joe Biden, much less overthrowing the government. It was just another goofball charade, and in that sense, a fitting end to the Trump presidency."

Conspiracy theories played their disappointing part in the debacle. Many Trumpists believed in the QAnon and Kayfabe conspiracies; they posted reports of bad guys being arrested, of servers snatched by the FBI, of Clinton and Biden waiting for rough justice behind bars. This belief disarmed people who would otherwise have fought to achieve this very result. That is the problem with conspiracies: imaginary conspiracies prevent real action.

Still, I do not want to finish this piece on such a sad and disappointing note. President Trump was a great leader. He succeeded against enormous odds in improving the lot of American workers: for the first time since the 1970s, their incomes rose in relation to the other classes. He stopped mass migration to the US: legal immigration went down to a trickle. He avoided new wars; he tried to make peace with Russia. He refused to bomb Iran even in the last days of his presidency, though some pro-Israel supporters promised him a second term if he would.

His fight against the corona madness was his great achievement. He was against the lockdowns that are about to destroy our world so completely that few things will survive. The last great US ruler who didn't wear the cowardly mask will be remembered. He could not defeat the mighty medical complex, or FAGMA, or the Masters of Discourse, but he tried.

The day of his defeat, January 6, was the Epiphany, or Adoration of the Magi, of the Three Wise Men who came to worship Jesus in his cave. It was also Christmas Eve for the Eastern Church. It is the darkest time of the year; from now on, the day will increase and so will our hopes.

Israel Shamir can be reached at [email protected]

This article was first published at The Unz Review .

[Jan 10, 2021] Her Name Was Ashli Babbitt by Gregory Hood

Jan 10, 2021 | www.unz.com

GREGORY HOOD JANUARY 8, 2021 2,200 WORDS 164 COMMENTS REPLY Tweet Reddit Share Share Email Print More A makeshift monument for Ashli Babbitt is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 7, 2021. (Credit Image: © Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA Press)

Anyone can see the footage . Ashli Babbitt was a young woman at Wednesday's protests. She had no weapon, not even a stick. There were armed police in front of her and behind her. She posed no danger to anyone. Still, a police officer, apparently black, shot and killed her.

I never thought I'd say this, but Shaun King is right.

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Joe Biden, allegedly quoting his granddaughter, said of Wednesday's protests:

No one can tell me if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true. And it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable.

That's true. And it is totally unacceptable.

If BLM took over the Capitol, once the mob went home, congressmen would kneel in submission. Journalists would praise the takeover. Corporations would give billions.

It's already happened. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, festooned in kente cloth, knelt for George Floyd. The Capitol Police knelt too. Washington D.C. symbolically renamed 16th Street Black Lives Matter Plaza. New York City painted a huge Black Lives Matter sign on the street just outside Trump Tower.

And we're supposed to think BLM got harsh treatment? In what must have been millions of man-hours of rioting, how many people did police kill? Not one. Did they shoot outright looters or arsonists? Only with rubber bullets, and only a handful. So far as I can tell, police did not even open fire and wound a single BLMer -- not one -- even in the 300 cities with such bad rioting there had to be curfews.

The very phrase "Black Lives Matter" has almost religious importance. The NYPD, unable or unwilling to stop the crime wave , cracked down on people who desecrated the phrase . Saying "All Lives Matter" can get you suspended , fired , maybe even killed .

In Minneapolis, the mob burned down an entire precinct station. In Seattle, anarchists set up an " autonomous zone " that police broke up only after paramilitaries shot two black teenagers. Rioters destroyed an incalculable amount of property. That wasn't just "stuff." Behind countless looted stores were small business owners and their employees. If the lockdowns didn't put them on the breadline, BLM did.

Homicides are rising in Chicago , Los Angeles , Jackson , Philadelphia , and many other major cities. There are several reasons why, but one is undoubtedly the " Ferguson Effect " on a mass scale. Police don't think doing their jobs is worth the risk. Policing blacks is dangerous. They hate cops. It's better to lie low and wait till you get a pension or just quit .

From what I can tell, journalists and the black "community" don't care about crime and disorder, even though blacks suffer from it the most. Journalists, activists, and politicians have defended violent protests and property destruction. The media cheered while mobs tore down monuments to our greatest heroes, including, George Washington , Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt , Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson . Not even the dead can rest in peace -- not white men, anyway. Hapless conservatives think it's about the "Confederacy." When even Lincoln is no longer safe, it's clearly about race.

So spare me the outrage from Tom Daschle , Dick Durbin , Andy Kim , Joe Scarborough , and others who lecture us about "sacrilege" and "desecration" because Americans trespassed in the Capitol. I'm far more offended at what's been done to the memory of Washington.

Police are offering up to $1,000 if you help them catch anyone who "desecrated" the Capital. Were there any rewards offered for turning in BLM arsonists? Or for the people who laid siege night after night to the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, setting fires, trying to blind officers with green lasers, and trying to kill them with commercial-grade fireworks? These are serious felonies. The people who "desecrated" the Capitol were trespassers.

One rabbi tells us "we lost something sacred" when the Capitol was "defiled," comparing it to the fall of the Jewish Temple. After months spent watching our cowardly leaders do nothing while our cities, history, and heroes were ransacked, I think a better parallel may be Jesus Christ driving out the moneychangers. Where have all the respectable people been, now that they're suddenly worried about national honor, civil debate, and the rule of law?

I can tell you where they've been.

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In 2017, a "Bernie Bro" opened fire on Republican congressmen, badly wounding Steve Scalise. Jesse Benn and Tariq Nasheed, both Twitter bluechecks, had this to say:

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It seems like a decade, but it was just two years ago that a mob occupied a Senate office building to protest Brett Kavanaugh . MSNBC called it "well-organized" and a " boost of energy to the opposition ." Organizers bragged they had preemptively shut down the Capitol . It wasn't "desecration" then.

Pollster Matt McDermott called it an "incredible scene." However, this week's action was "domestic terrorism."

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Feminist author Mona Eltahawy:

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When the George Floyd protests began, Chris Cuomo told his audience:

Now too many see the protests as the problem. No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets: persistent, poisonous inequities and injustice. And please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful. Because I can show you that outraged citizens are what made the country what she is and led to any major milestone.

That same month, the Democrats House caucus blocked a GOP resolution that "condemn[ed] violence and rioting" but also mourned the "tragic death of George Floyd."

Trevor Noah, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., said riots are the language of the unheard. He dismissed claims that involving children or "burning" is wrong. "There is no right way to protest because that's what protest is," he said . "It cannot be right because you are protesting against a thing that is stopping you."

Bluecheck Sally Kohn then and now.

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last month:

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Vox:

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Jacobin :

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Still, let's look beyond media hypocrisy. We're used to that. What about actual violence? Joe Biden said BLM protesters would have been handled differently. Really? Let's consider the cults that have grown out of BLM: George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor. "Say his name!" is a theological command. However, in each case, facts demolish the myth.

George Floyd , a career criminal whose violence against women is far worse than anything Harvey Weinstein did, died while lying to police and resisting arrest. He overdosed. Police came for Jacob Blake because of a domestic violence complaint (BLM trumps #MeToo). He ignored police commands and grabbed a knife . Police shot him, and prosecutors found no reason to charge them. Breonna Taylor , arguably the most sensational case, turns out to have been deeply involved in her boyfriend's drug operation. Her boyfriend opened fire before the police shot back.

Just imagine video footage of a white man shooting an unarmed black woman who was clearly no threat. It would be the biggest story in the country. It would be the biggest story in the world. Cities would erupt.

With Ashli Babbitt, we don't need to imagine. We can watch.

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Here is a final exchange between her and a friend:

An officer shot her as she tried to climb through a door. The video shows there were armed police on her side of the door. An officer in front of her had plenty of time to evaluate the situation, take aim, and kill her with a single shot.

Another Twitter bluecheck:

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Why weren't BLM's far more destructive actions terrorism?

Should we remember Ashli Babbitt? Sorry, that's colonialism . Besides, she was an "active threat." A "white supremacist." A "terrorist."

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Exterminated? Well, it's just one deleted tweet from a fringe account. Maybe we shouldn't care.

The political director for ABC News, Rick Klein, tweeted that though President Trump will soon be gone, that's the easy part. "Cleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else," he said. Leftists like to complain about " eliminationist rhetoric ." Does this count, or is it just "fighting hate?"

Keep in mind, Joe Biden said the protesters were "domestic terrorists." USA Today has called on readers to doxx everyone there.

Will Republicans try to understand what motivated the protesters or speak for Ashli Babbitt? Rep. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, said the officer "didn't have a choice at the time." Senator Lindsey Graham wants a " Joint Task Force " to identify every person "who breached the security of the Capitol." Senator Ted Cruz called the demonstrators "terrorists."

Here's original cuckservative Erick Erickson:

Can you one imagine pundits and politicians talking like this about BLM? Vice President Mike Pence said this about George Floyd:

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He has never mentioned Ashli Babbitt.

If our leaders think trespassing justifies lethal force, we would have no problem with illegal immigration .

Political power in America is media power . It's the power to shape consciousness. Violence works when you have media power. It fails when you don't. The protest Wednesday was an example of " hyperreality ." There was no attempted coup by President Trump, nor by people wandering around the Capitol. The media created a story about an "armed insurrection," a putsch , and they seem to believe it.

Ashli Babbitt was also caught in a fantasy. The " QAnon" story told her President Trump was fighting a cosmic struggle against evil. She joined in that struggle. Unfortunately, as in The Matrix , if you die in the simulation, you die in real life. In his concession speech last night, President Trump didn't mention her. He wouldn't say her name.

If anything, QAnon is an opiate because it tells Americans the system still somehow works. It tells well-meaning, naïve people that their country still exists, the old values endure, the Founders' vision lives on, and everything will turn out fine. That illusion died with Ashli Babbitt.

Our rulers apparently believe what they are saying. They think they're fighting a dictator, that Ashli Babbitt and people like her deserve to die, and that there must be a cleansing before the egalitarian paradise arrives. We know what happens when fanatics stop at nothing in the name of equality.

People can try to live in a dream, but reality finally breaks in. For decades, President Donald Trump crafted his media image as a businessman, patriot, and strategist. He may believe himself to be a Great Man. Tens of millions of Americans who saw their country being stolen from them put their trust in him. He let them down -- not because he is an aspiring dictator, but because he is erratic, self-absorbed, and doesn't truly understand what is happening to the country.

Ahsli's surname is the same as Sinclair Lewis's title character in Babbitt , about a middle-class guy who seeks meaning in a conformist world. Babbitt rebels against middle-class values. Today, those values seem idyllic. Today, it is rebellion to uphold natural values of morality, family, and patriotism.

Perhaps Ashli Babbitt died for a false idol, a leader who didn't deserve her loyalty. Perhaps I'm too hard on President Trump, who has been continuously betrayed and sabotaged. Either way, Ashli Babbitt's sacrifice was not pointless. Whatever her mistakes, she was right to believe her country is ruled by a hostile elite. The form her rebellion took was wrong, but she died for her beliefs. Especially in a time when our rulers make saints out of thugs, we should remember Ashli Babbitt, who served a country that killed her.

President Trump can't save you . It was a dream to think he ever could. It's hard to cast off fantasy, but we have no choice. There's just us.

However, you are not alone. You are part of something greater than yourself, something that goes back to the beginning of time. There's no alternative but to accept your duty , face what's coming, remember the fallen, and have faith in victory.

Ashli Babbitt, RIP. We won't forget.

Dr. Robert Morgan , says: January 9, 2021 at 2:00 am GMT • 23.2 hours ago

Gregory Hood: "Perhaps Ashli Babbitt died for a false idol, a leader who didn't deserve her loyalty. "

Perhaps? LOL. That coward couldn't even acknowledge her death.

I have to wonder if she was influenced by the widespread Trump idolatry of the alt-right. People like Andrew Anglin, Kevin MacDonald, and blogger Paul Kersey, to name only a few, may have her blood on their hands.

[Jan 10, 2021] "It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women," former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who just might be the last Democrat in DC with a functioning brain, told Tucker Carlson

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Down South , Jan 10 2021 14:43 utc | 1

"It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women," former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who just might be the last Democrat in DC with a functioning brain, told Tucker Carlson. "Instead of doing something that could actually help save people's lives, they are choosing instead to say 'You can't say mother or father.'"

I would ask for an 'Amen!' at this point, but, thanks to the clown work of lawmaker Emanuel Cleaver, who ended his congressional prayer opening of the very unsexy 117th Congress with the words "amen and awoman," even that simple gender-free term (which simply means 'so be it') is now tainted with foul political intrigue.

With these sort of unforgivable stunts under the belt, the Democrats should be very grateful they have perfected the art of 'winning' elections, otherwise they would probably vanish from the political landscape simply out of lack of doing anything positive for the nation. Indeed, the term 'Democrat' may be on the way out faster than that of 'male' and 'female.'


Oh Brother! Who Will Fight for Women's Rights Now That the Democrats Have Scrapped Gendered Terms?

[Jan 09, 2021] Referendums are really the only check on oligarchy.

Jan 09, 2021 | www.unz.com

davidgmillsatty , says: January 8, 2021 at 9:12 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago

@Rufus Clyde v>

A Republic is, by definition, an oligarchy. We just refuse to acknowledge what it truly is. Put some lipstick on the pig.

But ours is not a pure Republic because we do have democratic referendums all of the time where the people get to make laws that a majority want. We need more of them.

We don't have any at the federal level but there is nothing that prohibits them. Under Amendment 10 all powers not granted to the federal government are granted to the states and the people . The implication is that powers left to the people can be exercised by referendum. Referendums are really the only check on oligarchy.

[Jan 09, 2021] Biden never have agenda other then to depose Trump. Neither in regard to China, no in regard to Russia, no in regard to Israel by Victor Davis Hanson

Highly recommended!
Biden never have agenda other then to depose Trump. Neither in regard to China, no in regard to Russia, no in regard to Israel (Like Trump he claims that he is Zionists).
Trump reverted some USA foreign policies in regard to China. But in general he ruled like Bush II with Pompeo as his Cheney. And Trumpism without Trump is much more dangerous to neoliberal Dems.
Starting from 48 min he provides interesting analysis of the US network hamsters (he calls them drone class)
Notable quotes:
"... We are feeling like we are living in a Banana Republic. The dems, the media, academia, Hollywood....all in cahoots to take power back, even if they have to lie, cheat and steal. ..."
"... They get away with it because they call those of us who question anything they do as "conspiracy theorists". They have already called for lists of Trump supporters. Scary here if you aren't on the "right side" and say the "approved" things. ..."
"... Joe Francis: The corruption throughout this election was extremely obvious in many ways, & in my opinion a necessary evil that needs to be dealt with properly. It should be well known our elections have been phony for many years. ..."
"... Who has control of the U.S. Congress? Answer: "Corporate" politicians, Financiers, & Bankers. ..."
"... "Wanted someone a little less controversial." Biden, a demented, corrupt swamp creature is a little less controversial, hah, that's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. ..."
"... "90% turnout across democrat big cities" across multiple swing states, all stopped counting at the same time, multiple occasions of blocking observance of the vote? ..."
"... Sending mail-in ballots to everybody was election rigging in the first place. Densely populated urban areas are easy to vote harvest, rural areas are not. ..."
"... I believe Mr Hanson expresses the feelings of the majority of Americans. I, and the vast majority of those I meet are especially aggravated by the big tech companies and their control of the narrative, and their censorship. People are very frustrated and angry. It feels like Big Brother is real, and we're getting fed 'double speak' by the mainstream media. Thanks for your program. Beat wishes to you. ..."
Nov 07, 2020 | www.youtube.com

Joe Francis , 7 hours ago

I'm not even American and I got cheated. I can't even begin to imagine how loyal Americans must be feeling tonight.

H. B. Lawrence , 7 hours ago

We are feeling like we are living in a Banana Republic. The dems, the media, academia, Hollywood....all in cahoots to take power back, even if they have to lie, cheat and steal.

They get away with it because they call those of us who question anything they do as "conspiracy theorists". They have already called for lists of Trump supporters. Scary here if you aren't on the "right side" and say the "approved" things.

22sojourner , 5 hours ago

Joe Francis: The corruption throughout this election was extremely obvious in many ways, & in my opinion a necessary evil that needs to be dealt with properly. It should be well known our elections have been phony for many years.

We cure that problem now, so that future elections will be on a more level playing field. I'm not distressed, I'm in the understanding that we'll shine the light of truth on the corrupt ones, & the great division has made our ability to see who's who, so much easier to know. I will continue in good thoughts, & I am confident that our future will continue to be brighter. Peace to you.

Ann Gent , 3 hours ago

It breaks my heart for Trump and Americans who voted in huge numbers, for him. We fought for four years to get Brexit, and it's still not delivered. Corrupt Bastards everywhere! God help us all!! Trump 2020.

Patrick McCormack , 2 hours ago (edited)

Who has control of the U.S. Congress? Answer: "Corporate" politicians, Financiers, & Bankers.

George Ian , 3 hours ago

"Wanted someone a little less controversial." Biden, a demented, corrupt swamp creature is a little less controversial, hah, that's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

Rob N , 2 hours ago (edited)

Smells kinda off IMO "90% turnout across democrat big cities" across multiple swing states, all stopped counting at the same time, multiple occasions of blocking observance of the vote?

Slawomir Chmielewski , 9 hours ago (edited)

Sending mail-in ballots to everybody was election rigging in the first place. Densely populated urban areas are easy to vote harvest, rural areas are not.

The outrageous turn out is just neighbors and "activists" forcing their neighbors to fill in the ballots and hand them (lazy people would just hand them blank), on the threat of "you aren't voting Trump, are you?". Even 1% of people doing this and getting a few extra ballots each is easily enough to swing the battleground states.

smde1 , 3 hours ago

What we are witnessing in the USA is "electioneering"

Douglas Bidwell , 2 hours ago

Mr. Anderson, I think you mean "The American Deception" We The People have been had! Straight up election fraud! Please Pray for Our Nation!

Miss Kitty , 37 minutes ago (edited)

Anyone else think this guy is Brilliant, WOW he seems to really have this situation in a crystal clear vision of what is and has been going on, he knows exactly what the Democrats are and have been planning for years, Trump has the Balls to make things happen and Biden doesn't, People don't like Trump because he's Arrogant and Brilliant and makes his own decisions and takes Action, And Biden is just a Yes man, and is not capable of making his own decisions let alone following through on anything he may promise to change or improve for future generations, really sad😭 Just wondering Did the Democrats pay all the people in prison to fill out ballots and vote for Biden, is that where all the extra votes came from???

Honest Digger , 1 hour ago

What a mind blowing articulate profound interview! That analogy at around 37 mins, of the rough decent gunslinger cleaning up the cattle baron / stand over merchant type and then the 'conmon folk' wanting him to leave... that gave me shivers. Every decent policeman/ serviceman/defender of the weak knows exactly what thats about. The weak fear the bullies but they also fear the decent tough guy who has the guts to stand up to them. Soldiers are extremely popular during wartime but are shunned during peacetime. People are so happy to see the police when they are being threatened but so glad to not see them otherwise. President Trump is such a man but his job isn't finished. The Cattle Baron is attempting to run him off, aided by his minions/ cronies/ stooges. Time for the townsfolk to take his example and stand up for their own folks. Yeehaaa!

Thomas Savoie , 1 hour ago

I believe Mr Hanson expresses the feelings of the majority of Americans. I, and the vast majority of those I meet are especially aggravated by the big tech companies and their control of the narrative, and their censorship. People are very frustrated and angry. It feels like Big Brother is real, and we're getting fed 'double speak' by the mainstream media. Thanks for your program. Beat wishes to you.

Charlene Paolucci , 11 minutes ago

This was an excellent interview, and for the most part, I feel that he hit the nail on the head; however, I am not going to believe the statement that Trump is not going to be president. Well over more than half of the citizens in this country voted for him. This is not going to go away. We will see President Trump re-elected. The Sleeping Giant has woken up!

Steve Tomo , 32 minutes ago

Fascinating insights. "Donald Trump the sequel" can't wait for that. Bring back "the gunslinger"!

weleasewupwecht , 32 minutes ago

The Professor is a great guest. The Anglosphere should stand together against our common enemies. Why not?

[Jan 09, 2021] The Capitol Riot Wasn't A Coup. It Wasn't Even Close

ZH commenters overwhelmingly think that this was a false flag. Was it pre-planned with paid provocators insiting the crowd, or on the spot decision to user rioters to Neoliberal Dems advantage and to crush Trump is unclear. What is clear is cue bono part of this event.
Jan 09, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

On Wednesday, a mob apparently composed of Trump supporters forced its way past US Capitol security guards and briefly moved unrestrained through much of the capitol building. They displayed virtually no organization and no clear goals.

Five people reportedly died during the events - one apparently unarmed female protester died of a gunshot wound, three other protesters "suffered medical emergencies" that resulted in their deaths (one crushed, one heart attack, and one stroke); and a police officer died from a blood clot on his brain reportedly triggered while physically engaging with protesters.

[ZH: Here is one 'terrifying scene' from the clashes as 'rioters' began their 'coup']...

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Yet, the media response has been to act as if the event constituted a coup d'etat. This was " A Very American Coup " according to a headline at The New Republic . " This is a Coup " insists a writer at Foreign Policy. The Atlantic presented photos purported to be " Scenes From an American Coup ."

But this wasn't a coup, and what happened on Wednesday is conceptually very different from a coup. Coups nearly always are acts committed by elites against the sitting executive power using the tools of the elites. This isn't at all what happened on Wednesday.

What Is a Coup?

A gang of disorganized, powerless mechanics, janitors, and insurance agents running through the capitol isn't a coup. And if it was a coup attempt, it was so far from anything that might hope to succeed as a coup that it should not be taken seriously as such.

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So how do we know a coup when we see one?

In their article " Global instances of coups from 1950 to 2010: A new dataset ," authors Jonathan M. Powell and Clayton L. Thyne provide a definition:

A coup attempt includes illegal and overt attempts by the military or other elites within the state apparatus to unseat the sitting executive.

There are two key components of this definition. The first is that it is illegal. Powell and Thyne note this "illegal" qualifier is important to include "because it differentiates coups from political pressure, which is common whenever people have freedom to organize."

In other words, protests, or threats of protest don't count as coups. Neither do legal efforts such as a vote of no confidence or an impeachment.

But an even more critical aspect of Powell's and Thyne's definition is that it requires the involvement of elites.

This can be seen in any stereotypical example of a coup d'etat. This generally involves a renegade military detachment, military officers, and others from within the state apparatus who can employ knowledge, skills, influence, coercive tools gained through membership in the regime's elite circles.

The attempted coup in Japan in 1937, for example, was carried out by more than 1,500 officers and men of the Japanese imperial army. They nonetheless failed, likely because they miscalculated the amount of support they enjoyed among other officers. More recently, in the 2009 Honduran coup, the bulk of the Honduran Army turned on the president Manuel Zelaya and sent him into exile. That was a successful coup. More famously, Chile's 1973 coup was successfully led by Agusto Pinochet, the commander-in-chief of the Army, and this enabled him to shell the Chilean executive palace with military hardware.

Contrast this with nameless MAGA-hat-wearing flag wavers, and the inappropriateness of the term "coup" in this case should be blatantly obvious. With real coups, power is seized by a faction of the elite which has the ability to take control of the machinery of state indefinitely. Although some of Trump's critics claim he was somehow responsible for Wednesday's mob, it is clear that Trump was not coordinating or directing any sort of military operation through Twitter posts. There was no plan for holding power. Had those who invaded the capitol building managed to take control of the building for a time, there's no reason to think this would somehow translate into control of the state. How would it? The real coercive power remained well ensconced within an apparently undivided military apparatus.

Moreover, it has been clear for years that the permanent technocracy which controls the day-to-day execution of federal administrative power (i.e., "the deep state") has long been committed to undermining the Trump administration -- from high ranking FBI agents , to military diplomats , to Pentagon officials . From where would Trump draw the necessary cooperation from elites to overturn more than 200 years of established norms in transfers of presidential power? In any case, the Biden administration is likely to be better for the state's elites than the Trump administration. There is no reason for any group of them to contemplate a coup against Biden.

Thus, if any of Wednesday's capital rioters thought they were about to bring about a coup by smashing some windows in the capitol, they were engaging in thoroughly amateurish thinking. It's unlikely, however, that more than a few of the rioters thought there was a coup d'etat afoot. It's more likely most of them simply wanted to dramatically display their displeasure with the federal regime and to signal they weren't going to placidly submit to whatever the American bureaucracy decided to dish out.

Nonetheless, we should not be surprised that the media has rushed to apply the term to the riot. This phenomenon was examined in a November 2019 article titled " Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research? ," by Leiv Marsteintredet and Andres Malamud. The authors note that as the incidence of real coups has declined, the word has become more common, but with modifiers attached.

Examples of these modifiers include "soft," "constitutional," "parliamentary," and "slow-motion." Numerous critics of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, for example, repeatedly called it a "soft coup." The authors note this is no mere issue of splitting hairs, explaining that "The choice of how to conceptualize a coup is not to be taken lightly since it carries normative, analytical, and political implications."

Increasingly, the term really means "this is a thing I don't like." But the term's use paints the non-coup participants as criminals poised to seize power illegally. By applying this term to the acts of a disorganized group of Trump supporters with no base of support among state elites, the pundits know exactly what they're doing. 34,099 141 NEV

Cardinal Fang 9 hours ago

It was a glorified flash mob

RedDog1 8 hours ago

In the not too distant past...leftist mobs were glorified by the press/Democrat politicians for occupying Senate offices, attempting to occupy SCOTUS/White House and assaulting RNC nomination guest leaving the White House.

Instead of a coup, this weeks events are a Riechstag 2.0 that's being used to coverup a phony election and strip social media access from Democrats rivals.

The First Rule 3 hours ago

When Antifa/BLM/SJW's Burn, Loot, Destroy, even Murder, the MSM calls it "Peaceful Protests".

When Conservatives walk on Federal Property, after being motioned in by DC Police, its "Terrorism".

This is Orwellian Beyond Belief.

Banned Banana 5 hours ago

Indeed, my the crack journalists at my local paper cunningly uncovered this dangerous rebel, who apparently worked at a bulk mail company when he wasn't playing the game of thrones. Now he's been fired for having an opinion:

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/crime_and_justice/frederick-company-fires-employee-who-participated-in-capitol-break-in/article_56159239-a8eb-5c73-bdb9-976606a8cdbc.html

Justus_Americans 2 hours ago

Social media came for Alex Jones Social media came for Donald Trump now they will come for you
https://youtu.be/osgoT22i2ts

not dead yet 2 hours ago remove link

Like Covid the Dems are using this to their advantage. By screaming armed rioters attempting a coup instigated by Trump who should be removed by impeachment or the 25th it's giving the Dems weeks of cover to enact the biggest fokking in history. The kind of crap they are going to pull won't surprise any of us but will be a huge surprise to the Dem faithful and the media so they need to be distracted. There is no time to impeach or overthrow with the 25th and they know that but it's fodder for the faithful.

With the black racist bigot and China boy cementing the Senate for Bidenhoe they are going to start implementing their destruction of America as we know it policies as soon as Joe's hand comes off the bible. This effort will be in parallel to the destruction of Trumps legacy and undoing everything he did. Not everything. Wall Street and the rich didn't back Biden on a whim. Under Trumps tax cuts the rich paid MORE in taxes as many of their deductions were capped. So look for Joe to roll back the cut and restore full deductions and some other sweeteners so the rich pay less taxes than before Trump. To the sheep Joe will be hailed a hero for soaking the rich.

Cabreado 9 hours ago (Edited)

If I missed it, I apologize...

but did the author neglect to mention the most recent 4.5-year-long Coup attempt?

Ah... referred to as "undermining."
How grotesquely disingenuous -- said politely.

CommonsDeered 8 hours ago

Russiagate 2.0:

DONT mention Russiagate 1.0. I think I did once but, apart from being banned immediately, got away with it.

hegger 2 hours ago (Edited)

Having had family members who actually experienced Nazi Germany from the inside, from its birth to its death in 1945, and having heard their gut-wrenching first-hand accounts, I have no respect for the impetulant, blubbering children screaming coupe or comparing Trump to Hitler.

These children have no idea what a dictator actually is. They have no idea what it means to really live in that kind of terror, being surrounded by institutionalized, highly efficient non-stop, constant death.

Like the boy who cried 'wolf,' they'll eventually deprive terms of their meaning so that nobody cares to react to their screaming of "dictator!!!" or "coup!!!" when it really matters.

I have lost respect for these people.

bigdumbnugly 9 hours ago

it wasn't even a chicken coup.

Oh-Globits 8 hours ago

If it was a coup, there would be 535 nicely decorated lamp posts...one could only wish

skizex 28 minutes ago

Dr. Cynthia McKinney: NATO GLADIO joined CIA, Deep State to Steal Presidential Election

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HIUYTOMclafQ/

Charlie Ward & Simon Parkes What Happened on 6 January, What Happens Next, Trump Prevails

https://www.bitchute.com/video/AFmvCzf12wU9/

yeketerina velikaya 9 hours ago

No, it wasn't a coup. Just like there is no apocalyptic COVID-19 pandemic. Or like there is not an EPIDEMIC of violence toward trans women of color.

Liberals live with and by hyperbole. It's one of their less charming attributes.

Is-Be 9 hours ago

They have been taught to trust their feelz. (The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.)

CoraEn 6 hours ago

Invitation tо the Sеx Сlub > amor.threemeadows.com

safelyG 9 hours ago

as a member of the elite Capitol Security Staff, we would like to welcome you to a guided tour of the building. have a nice day!

Ms No PREMIUM 9 hours ago

They are trying to intimidate what could end up some of the biggest and angriest protests ever in the US. They false flagged to get ahead of it. They are trying to prevent those potential protests from exposing the US government as illegitimate. At least one clear motive...

rastanarchocapitalist 9 hours ago

RIP 1st Amendment

RedDog1 8 hours ago

Some animals are more equal...there's still plenty of 1st Amendment freedom for big tech's cronies.

Savvy 9 hours ago

They're identifying Trump supporters at Wednesday's rally and having them fired from their jobs

http://www.tathasta.com/2021/01/rioters-begin-losing-jobs-following.html

The level of malice is boggling.

CENSORBOT1 9 hours ago

they are the most vile humans not even worth reasoning with, show them no mercy if one day they are at the end of a barrel.

honest injun 8 hours ago remove link

It was a false flag. The police opened the gates, waved people into the Capital, and stayed with them until one of them was shot. People with Antifa tattoos put on hats similar to MAGA hats (but a different color) then took control of Pelosi's office. The gullible Trump supporters walked in and put the poles for the rope line that was knocked over by Antifa back in place. Then the media gives a false narritive and anyone with a different narritive is silenced.

Obamanism666 3 hours ago (Edited)

Riot when Trumps supporters are angry but Peaceful protests when BLM/Antifa protest.

So How many shops were looted in DC? How many Buildings were burned doewn?

Apart from a few windows broken and doors busted there was no damage.

journey80 37 minutes ago

Windows were busted by antifa actors, with actual protestors trying to stop them. Bicycle racks, the only "barriers" in the area, were set aside by Capitol police, or people dressed as Capitol police, who waved in the protestors, who were guided into and through the building by Capitol police and protestors, or actors dressed as Capitol police and protestors. Who told the police to stand down and let the protestors onto the Capitol steps, who told them to allow antifa actors to break a few windows, to climb a wall for the photographers, all undisturbed? Who OPENED THE DOORS of the Capitol to let in throngs of protestors? Where were the barriers that surround the Capitol when there is an event of any significance? Where was the real security that is always there, shoulder to shoulder in combat gear when a protest is in progress, or even expected?

iCdeadSheeple 8 hours ago

Take the narrative out of the issues at hand. Denying a platform for grievances by discrediting the source.

Joseph Goebbels

PGR88 5 hours ago remove link

It was the final act of a CIA color revolution

NumbNuts 5 hours ago

It was nothing more than raucous hooliganism, with a Patriotic spirit.

No insurrection. No domestic terrorism.

Xibalba 9 hours ago

It was a coup, by Pelosi

9.0ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)

demsheviks are getting a lot of mileage out of this flea circus. Whippng up fear in the he gullible and the stupid.

Southerly Buster 6 hours ago

A flash mob in the Capitol Building; not much else to say except 'vale' to the unfortunate lady murdered by trigger happy security.

Obamanism666 3 hours ago

False flag to divert the MSM away from how popular Trump is. so 80,000 protested peacefully but you only see images of the few hundred staged to enter the building.

nocturnal66 22 minutes ago

I am old. But this reminded me of watching the RFK assasination live on TV, Oswald getting shot too. And 58 years later they are still lying about it but we know the truth. Events like this never happen unless it's allowed to happen.

bustdriver 24 minutes ago

It's not about truth it's about optics.

Cogito_ergosum 8 hours ago

Are any of you considering the remote possibility that a huge series of staged events are being rolled out?? JAN 6th peasant uprising was the first! MAGA boomers are being herded into a series of false flag events and they already got saddam'd / AL Qaeda'd by the Bush deepstate and they dont even know it....yet!

2021 you will see a year of happenings. The CIA / military is going to stage a fake Qanon coup attempt to track target and remove all armed forces supporting MAGA / q anon theories. Trump may become a casualty in that conflict to explain away his death.

Trump is most likely dead or incapacitated. Trump never shows up live to his supporters after JAN 6th. THE DEAD CANT MAKE IT TO ANY HEARING OR INAGRUATION! Most likely black bagged and killed in TX airbase. He lost the petrodollar and Iran probably demanded his corpse or all out nuke war against Israel. His tweets videos are deepfakes!

https://www.wbap.com/news/iranian-president-declares-trump-dead-in-a-few-days-amid-mounting-tensions/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lets****WithAstrology/comments/j8sp7o/inauguration_day_****stivities_chart_for_the_day/

[Jan 09, 2021] I feel sad for some of the LEGIT protesters who may have allowed their emotions get the best of them. They let the Orange Man order them forward while Donny Jr. and company flew the coop.

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Trinity , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:15 pm GMT • 3.2 hours ago

@Zarathustra ith his boots on Pelosi's desk was an actor? Oh, my, my, I was laughing my ass off at that one. That there is funny, I don't care who you is. Hell, that one should even crack up Pelosi's cracked face. Some of these guys were so RIDICULOUSLY OVER THE TOP, the dude with the pelt and horns, the obvious Confederate flag waving troll, etc. I did catch an Israeli flag or two out there btw. Is any one out there investigating for Jewish Supremacist hate groups or Neo Bolsheviks?

KEEP THE FAITH BROTHERS AND STAY POSITIVE. I think this thing isn't that complicated, even dum-dums like yours truly and even dumber people KNOW WHAT THE SCORE IS, believe this.

[Jan 09, 2021] It is standard practice of ruling class to send agents provocateurs to any demonstration.

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Zarathustra , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:22 pm GMT • 6.0 hours ago

@Trinity

It is standard practice of ruling class to send agents provocateurs to any demonstration.
There is no surprise there.

phillip sawicki , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:52 pm GMT • 5.5 hours ago
@Thomasina

As Oliver Stone's movie JFK point out, numerous safeguards to protect President Kennedy were omitted due to upper command interference. Same thing appears to have happened on Jan. 6.

[Jan 09, 2021] The oligarchy will do their very best to prevent the organization of the "Smellies" into a potent national force. If any small group act out they will be treated harshly

Jan 09, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

"Biden: "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable."" foxnews

Varney commented today on his show that the US is moving rapidly toward an environment in which deviant opinions and the expression of such will be punished by ostracism, loss of employment and ultimately - what?

75 million dissidents voted for Trump. Their party actually grew stronger down ballot, much stronger. These Smelly dissidents are heavily armed. Gun sales are way up. Ammunition is hard to come by because of heavy buying.

President Joe and his "consort" think that the attitudes of the Smellies are "totally unacceptable?"

He should be very careful about condemning the mind set of the Smellies, very careful. The Dems think that they can extrapolate from the hooligans who broke into the capitol to the general attitudes of the Smelly Deplorables?

Be very careful President Joe. pl

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-gaslighting-capitol-hill-rioters-black-lives-matter

blue peacock , 08 January 2021 at 12:21 PM


Col. Lang,

This is just the beginning of cancel culture. Note that Trump has been cancelled by Facebook & Twitter. Obama's IRS went after conservatives, is another example. This is not just about the Democrats and their urban managerial class cohorts. The GOP establishment is part & parcel of this alignment and very much a part of the benefits system. They will be even more brazen in further accelerating market concentration to the benefit of the oligarchy. The past 4 years were just an aberration in their eyes. They've taken Trump down hard as an example to not challenge their authority. Using George Bush's maxim - either you're with us or against us - that's gonna be the attitude.

The next leader who will harness the frustration of the "smellies" will be far more competent & ruthless and likely an authoritarian. The philosophical principles of the primacy of the natural rights of citizens and the rule of law of our founding has long been gone. The oligarchy is firmly in control and will suppress dissent more harshly with a lot of support from the media-managerial class.

The oligarchy will do their very best to prevent the organization of the "Smellies" into a potent national force. If any small group act out they will be treated harshly. Since the "Smellies" cannot use the ballot box to push back, how do you think they will organize and counter the oligarchic forces who have all levers of power and have demonstrated naked exercise of it?

[Jan 09, 2021] STORMING OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING- False Flag Operation Executed by Deep State to Crush the Patriot Movement

This is the most common version of the events in alternative media
Jan 09, 2021 | themillenniumreport.com

The Democrats were desperate to shut down the congressional objections to the Electoral College votes. Once various U.S. senators expressed their objections -- battleground state by battleground state -- the truth about the brazenly stolen election was televised for the first time since the steal occurred. Deep State would not permit the evidence to be disseminated like this -- way too damning! The official record of the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6 would forever contain conclusive evidence of the stolen 2020 POTUS election.

So, they staged a dramatic swarming of The Capitol Building (TCB) in order to DISTRACT everyone's attention. This black operation was led by AntiFa anarchists disguised as Trump supporters. That's why the security at TCB was so lax -- to permit the storming of the building so that Trumpsters would look bad. It's true that there were many MAGA protesters among those who entered TCB, but they were there to STOP THE STEAL. Given the "soft coup by stolen ballot" that was being rubber-stamped by the U.S. Congress, the MAGA protesters have every right to shut down the unlawful, treasonous process.

The Democrats (and Deep State) had to do something quite scary in order to compel the Congressional Republicans to abandon their fight to decertify the Electoral College votes. What better way that to orchestrate a fake takeover of The Capitol Building. They even choreographed a number of photo-ops in Pelosi's office (see this photo ) and the well of the U.S. Senate chambers (see this photo ). Once these 'shocking' photographs make their way around the Congress, inside the Beltway and the Internet, the Left will use them as a false justification to crack down on the Right as never before.

The bottom line here is that the storming of TCB was a meticulously engineered false flag black operation overseen by the U.S. Intelligence Community to include the FBI, CIA, Capitol Police, etc. Which is precisely why the protestors faced virtually no resistance from law enforcement as they breached what little security was quite intentionally set up. In fact, the whole thing was an obvious set-up with several aims and purposes, some of which will become clear in the coming days. In a phrase, this globalist-manufactured false flag event will be used as the "Reichstag fire" was used by Hitler to consolidate his power right after he was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Biden was essentially installed as the Fuhrer of the Fourth Reich.

Sound familiar?!

-- Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S Military Officer

See also

Storming of the Capitol has all the hallmarks of a false flag operation.

This entire black operation was staged by Deep State to terminate the public objections to the Electoral College votes by members of Congress!

[Jan 09, 2021] USA Today asks to ID rioters in Capitol invasion. Readers question why summer unrest was treated differently

Jan 09, 2021 | www.rt.com

They might be up to some unpleasant surprises ;-)

USA Today asks to ID rioters in Capitol invasion. Readers question why summer unrest was treated differently FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Donald Trump climb on walls at the US Capitol during. ©REUTERS / Stephanie Keith USA Today newspaper has published 29 photos from the Capitol building takeover and asked readers to ID Trump supporters shown in them, leaving a few people puzzled and getting a sharp response from many others.

The paper said knowing the identities of those who stormed the US legislature on Wednesday will help them "report this important story."

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Considering the amount of anger that the Capitol invasion provoked, it's no surprise that USA Today's call was answered by many people. Some readily provided names and other details about the rioters, while others pointed to people they suspected of being involved.

#1 is a guy named Mike Hunt#2 is a guy in know from high school. Peter Gosinya.#3 is Jack Mehoff.#4 is Dick Fitzwell#5 is a gay man named Peter O'Stool.#6 is Heywood Jablomie. #7 is Harry AnissI'll keep working on the list. Hope this helps.

-- Denny Chad Halen (@DennyLoggins) January 8, 2021

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Quite a few of the tips were just links to reports by other major media outlets, while some replies seemed to gloat about the repercussions that the Trump supporters will now presumably face.

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Others came up with suggestions how one could identify the suspects – that is if they had privileged access to protected information like hotel reservations.

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A handful of commenters seemed really troubled by USA Today's inquiry. "Since when do journalists conduct police work?" one wondered. Another said it showed the "merger between press and state" in the US.

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Plenty questioned why the newspaper was so eager to learn the identities of the people who broke into the Capitol building, as they point out, it's hardly the only property damaged during mass protests lately.

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Did they find the people responsible for the fires in DC in June? Just curious. pic.twitter.com/nuxIhLtVaY

-- David Black (@David__Black) January 8, 2021

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And some tips will probably not help any investigation, since they focused on individuals that are long dead and only appeared in images picked by USA Today courtesy of their historic significance.

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Richland Yabitches" 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:06 AM

Thanks for the Heads up USA Today, but the World has already Identified Antifa BLM Leadership and Sponsorships since 2014, talk about 'Late for Lunch"
TAKEMYKNEE 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 09:12 AM
How did they get in there so easily and then security pose by a broken window with their guns drawn and one woman gets shot, The security allowed them in, this place is supposed to be the seat of power and authority and this happens, not without a certain amount of collusion by officials within the building and grounds security staff.
Brusselcat TAKEMYKNEE 22 hours ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:18 PM
DC Police Waving People Towards Yesterday's Riots (YouTube) Timed perfectly to halt presentation of vote fraud evidence from entering the senate record. Hired professional rioters from Antifa to lead the charge.
tolof14875 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:30 AM
Feels very good to see that the democracy USA supported in other countries is making a huge come back.
RonThePatriot tolof14875 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 09:49 AM
I am afraid to say that with a Biden (Obama, Clinton, Bush, Kerry) presidency, you will see a full blown war in the middle east or God knows where they pick......the warmongers and war -profiteers need to fill their coffers and their thirst for blood. Biden is their man.
Buster907 1 day ago 8 Jan, 2021 04:12 AM
It's about time the people of BRA (Banana Republic Of America) stood up against the corrupted system were the rich gets richer, and the poor get poorer.

[Jan 09, 2021] USA Today asks readers to rat on rioters while summer unrest was treated differently

They might be up to some unpleasant surprises ;-) Like John Sullivan
Jan 09, 2021 | www.rt.com

The paper said knowing the identities of those who stormed the US legislature on Wednesday will help them "report this important story."

[Jan 09, 2021] PolitiFact - No, the storming of the Capitol wasn't a false flag

It now get to Politfact
Jan 09, 2021 | www.politifact.com
Instagram posts

stated on January 6, 2021 in a Facebook post:

The storming of the Capitol was staged. true false

Ciara O'Rourke
By Ciara O'Rourke January 7, 2021 No, the storming of the Capitol wasn't a false flag

IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT

See the sources for this fact-check

Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed and occupied the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 . As the mob could be heard shouting outside the doors of the Senate, police escorted first Vice President Mike Pence and then senators out of the chamber. The intruders took turns posing for photographs at the dais.

But online, another narrative is unfolding as some deny what happened and instead push "false flag" claims. (False flags are supposed covert operations designed to deflect blame. They are frequently the subject of conspiracy theories.)

"The moment we realized this is a staged psyop," someone tweeted , sharing a video of a Capitol police officer retreating as a mob of people walks toward him.

Other social media users have shared an image of a man behind the dais in the Senate chamber with his arm raised. Standing above him in the gallery, a photographer is pointing his camera down.

The photographer is circled and a red arrow is drawn pointing to another red circle around the man at the dais.

"This look staged to you?" reads the text over the image. "Fist in the air classic Trump supporter signal, right?"

But text elsewhere on the photo seems to refute that illusion: "NOT MAGA," it says.

"I have friends in DC now and they are saying don't believe the media," said one Instagram post that shared the image . "Antifa is who stormed the capital through the back. Protesters are in the front praying and singing. They are looking to divide us even more. They are also blocking live streams from real people. Why on earth would they do that? They don't want you to see what's really going on."

This post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)

[Jan 09, 2021] The tech oligarchs that supported the censoring and the eventual de-platforming the President on social media showed who had political power under neoliberalism

As the people who supported the censoring and the eventual de-platforming the President on social media are about to find out , if you can censor the President you can censor anyone or any group.
It's all been allowed to happen for an obvious agenda of compliance and control. From 'riots' of BLM/Antifa to the 'insurrection' of Trumpeteers, the point is to narrow accepted thought - to manufacture consent, which is much easier with an un or misinformed populace. A social credit system is coming to the west - call it the Karen Revolution. There will be some kind of unexpected blowback, as many "deplorable" are technically savy
Notable quotes:
"... Definitely staged event, whether the protestors knew or didn't. Going forward, I'm switching to Signal from WhatsApp and viber, have to rethink my use of Gmail as well. Don't use faceborg or Jill Dorsey's twat. Enough is enough! ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Down South , Jan 9 2021 19:17 utc | 15

As the people who supported the censoring and the eventual de-platforming the President on social media are about to find out , if you can censor the President you can censor anyone or any group.

But they were so caught up in the hysteria of the #OrangeManBad that they didn't take the actions of Big Tech , that they were supporting, and to its logical conclusion:

Humbert Humbert , Jan 9 2021 18:48 utc | 2

Definitely staged event, whether the protestors knew or didn't. Going forward, I'm switching to Signal from WhatsApp and viber, have to rethink my use of Gmail as well. Don't use faceborg or Jill Dorsey's twat. Enough is enough!

Digital Spartacus , Jan 9 2021 19:31 utc | 22

@18 James

Apropos to what you're saying? I'm certain that you have seen this before.

CIA and Google

[Jan 09, 2021] The events at the Capitol buildings was literally the closest the US has ever come to a working class revolution but woke pseudoleftists are completly blind to that since it didn't feature many black trans women and it wasn't sponsored by JPMorgan and Apple

Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Dr. George W Oprisko , Jan 8 2021 23:49 utc | 106

The events at the Capitol buildings was literally the closest the US has ever come to a working class revolution but woke pseudoleftists are completly blind to that since it didn't feature many black trans women and it wasn't sponsored by JPMorgan and Apple

A revolution it wasn't.

The protesters wanted the election nullified due to fraud....

Anyone who investigated the 2020 election knows fraud was rampant.

Question..... why was it so important for the Democrats to regain power??? Why did they pull out all the stops to hobble Trump these past 4 years...???

What do they intend to do????

INDY

PS: Why doesn't Trump have Biden declared incompetent???

William Gruff , Jan 9 2021 0:04 utc | 112

Dr. George W Oprisko | Jan 8 2021 23:49 utc | 106:

65% voted == 101 million

That leaves 27.5 million for Biden.

Counterargument: "But many states have same-day registration, so there!"

Same-day registration for mail-in ballots? I wonder how that works...

[Jan 09, 2021] The clip where Pelosi says that what remains if the Capitol crumbles is their support for Israel is gold!. Thank you for the link!

Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Norwegian , Jan 9 2021 9:09 utc | 211

J Swift | Jan 9 2021 2:15 utc | 158

I thought SyrianGirl had a pretty interesting take on the whole thing. First debunks some unlikely theories floating around, then points out in no uncertain terms that anyone who would label that shit terrorism has no idea what the real thing is like. Those who have been on the receiving end have no such delusions. She is quite hard on Trump for basically caving in, and predicts very hard times ahead for "deplorables" and all those who might be even tangentially linked to them--since after all, if we're calling it terrorism, you get all kinds of nifty new laws, surveillance, infiltration, and the like which become perfectly accepted.

Anyway, I think it's worth a few minutes of your time.
https://youtu.be/NkxmiANAQCk

That was very powerful from SyrianGirl! This should be viewed by everyone, she makes a lot of sense regarding the definition of what terrorism is and many other things. The clip where Pelosi says that what remains if the Capitol crumbles is their support for Israel is gold!. Thank you for the link!

gm , Jan 9 2021 11:27 utc | 234

@ Norwegian | Jan 9 2021 9:09 utc | 210

WOW!
Hear hear!

That Syrian Girl vid was earth-shattering in its clarity, simplicity and truth. Hope it gets widely viewed and copied saved and shared to other more durable formats, before the Body's bloody red gaze fall's upon it...

In addition to that Pelosi 'giving it all up for Israel' shot,

I also thought what she said about Trump was on target.

Which makes me wonder if the Borg continuum could have already quietly taken care of him, if you know what I mean?

[Jan 09, 2021] Maidan come home

Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Petri Krohn , Jan 8 2021 21:06 utc | 38

Nothing in this year's elections surprises me. I predicted all this over four years ago in August 2016. The only thing that surprised me was that Trump was sworn in on January 20, 2017. For a short time I believed that the United States was a democracy where elections could change policy. It is not!

(I originally wrote this as comment to Andrew Korybko's Facebook post on August 15, 2016.)

Why Trump can't win

Even if Trump gets a majority of the votes the chances of him actually becoming President are slim. Here are some of the tactics and tricks the Hillary camp could use to block his election. I cannot say what is the probability of these options, but they have all been tested in previous US sponsored color revolutions.

  1. Massive propaganda campaign will pressure the electorate to vote against their favorite candidate.
  2. If Trump still gets over 50% of the vote, the vote count will be falsified. (Something similar seems to have happened in the Austrian presidential election.)
  3. If the election results actually show a victory for Trump, the results will be annulled. DNC will claim that "Putin" hacked the voting machines. The Supreme Court will declare Hillary the winner.
  4. If all else fails, Hillary will call for a Maidan-style occupation of Washington DC. The revolutionaries will take over the Capitol and the White House -- with the support of pro-Hillary officials.

I continued in the original post on August 16, 2016.

Trump cannot be allowed to win precisely because -- as you say on the video -- he represents the non-system opposition. He does not even have the support of his own party. This is not a simple question of counting votes. For him to actually become president, he has to win by a large margin.

Andrew, you are an expert on hybrid war. Why would Hillary not unleash the full array of hybrid war weapons on Trump? In fact they are doing it already. Trump has been labeled the "Manchurian Candidate". Ukraine fell to Maidan because no one in Ukraine was willing to defend the institution of the presidency or the Ukrainian constitution. Why would the US be any different.

You write: "4 wouldn't fully succeed because of the counter-Color Revolution technology that the Trump supporters could organize in their own demonstrations and movements" You are wrong. These are not "Trump supporters" but "Putin Trolls". Why would any mainstream media give any voice to these people?

For an anti-Trump Maidan or coup to fail, Trump would personally have to lead the opposition. In doing so he would be putting his life, liberty and fortune at risk. He can be pressured or "advised" to give up the fight. In fact it would be easiest to just assassinate him.

Many things can happen before we are at scenario 4. The simplest option is to escalate a crisis or war with Russia, Hillary's anti-Trump strategy is already framing the election as between her and Putin. In a crisis scenario Trump would simply be dismissed as a Russian enemy agent.

***

Why am I writing all this delusional stuff about a coup in the US or even of potential civil war?

Democracy requires a free press. That no longer exist in the West. Instead the Powers that Be have created an enormously powerful hybrid war machine that they have turned on Libya, Syria, Russia (and on European democracy). They are able to manipulate reality like never before. They are a huge danger to any state or any democracy.

I am just trying to imagine what would happen if these tools were turned on the USA.

[Jan 09, 2021] Democrats Use Capitol Incident To Suppress Political Dissent

Highly recommended!
Digital police state as a logical evolution of neoliberalism in the USA
Jan 09, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Humbert Humbert , Jan 9 2021 18:48 utc | 2

Definitely staged event, whether the protestors knew or didn't. Going forward, I'm switching to Signal from WhatsApp and viber, have to rethink my use of Gmail as well. Don't use faceborg or Jill Dorsey's twat. Enough is enough!

Down South , Jan 9 2021 18:53 utc | 5

It's what I said would happen in the other thread:

Watching the spectacle from a far a couple of things stand out for me.

This event has really put the fear of God into the DC political class. When you see the photos of the politicians during this event you see real fear. I bet not one of them ever thought that the people would be so fed up with the DC political class that they would storm the Capitol to show their frustration. Such behaviour was simply un-American. It was things you saw on TV happening in far away places. Never would such scenes ever happen in the good ole' USA.

The second thing that stands out for me is that the American people have reached their wits end with the political class and are prepared to do what no-one ever thought they would do. Storm the Capitol! Disorganised as it was. What can they achieve with real organisation!

So now the people realise they have power in a collective and this power has put the fear of God in the people they despise. This has truly been a transformative event both for the political class and both for the people.

You can see this fear in the hysterical way the DC political class has reacted to this event. I don't think this hysteria is fake. I think it is quite real. They are so desperate to regain control of the "narrative" that they are flooding this forum (as pointed out eloquently by William Gruff, and no doubt many other forums) with sock puppets to denounce anyone who disagrees with the establishment view.

This hysteria is going to lead to an over reaction which will in turn spur these people not just to lob a Molotov cocktail (politically speaking) at the DC political class but to become one themselves.

There is nothing so dangerous as a person with nothing to lose and nothing so fearful as a man with everything to lose.

How it will play out I don't know, but the old normal has been shattered.

vk , Jan 9 2021 18:57 utc | 7

One thing is for sure: it has nothing to do with political party rivalry:

President-elect Joe Biden: "We need a Republican Party. We need an opposition that's principled and strong."

That the USA is a single-party with two branches that play "good cop, bad cop" already is consensus among serious historians, sociologists, political scientists etc. The news here is that this system won't change with Biden.

The Vandal sack of Rome of 455 CE was a completely different scenario. By that time, Rome had only symbolic importance to the Empire, and already was at an advanced stage of economic decay. Indeed, that's the main factor that differentiates the High from the Late Empire: the end of Italic hegemony, and the economic rise of the Eastern cities (Nicomedia, Antioch, Constantinople, Nicephorum etc.). Or, on a second thought, is it? Is the USA in really such advanced stage of economic decline? Only time will tell.

One last observation is that people usually confuse change with revolution. A given society doesn't need to go through any revolution in order to change itself. On the contrary: societal change is always happening, as we talk. What makes revolutions special is the fact that the previously exploited class becomes the dominant class; they turn the society upside down (hence the name).

But even a society that avoids any revolution will still change and eventually degenerate and die. Personally, I like prof. Moniz Bandeira's "Mutazione dello Stato", literally "mutation of the State", which describes a situation where the contradictions of society (development of the productive forces and the relations of production) continues to develop without a revolutionary situation or scenario. In this case, the USA is "mutating".

gottlieb , Jan 9 2021 18:58 utc | 8

We've been in this environment since 911. It's been one continual project, not something new being being imposed. It's a continual tightening of society, including the Pandemic.

It's all been allowed to happen for an obvious agenda of compliance and control. From 'riots' of BLM/Antifa to the 'insurrection' of Trumpeteers, the point is to narrow accepted thought - to manufacture consent, which is much easier with an un or misinformed populace. A social credit system is coming to the west - call it the Karen Revolution.

Democracy is not an option, and never has been. Time to network with slow-mail and smoke signals, because as an organizing principle beyond sales and marketing, the internet's days are numbered.

NemesisCalling , Jan 9 2021 19:05 utc | 10

@8 gottileb

Yes, the only difference is that one side, the deplorables, are speaking truth to power. The other side is conviently putting its head in the sand right now and begging for more federal overreach.

Couldn't be more obvious.

Blue Dotterel , Jan 9 2021 19:08 utc | 12

I have tried to explain over the past while, that what we are seeing in the US is an ongoing coup, This is a coup against the US people by the US corporate and financial oligarchs. Clearly, they are benefiting by not simply enriching themselves at taxpayers expense, but securing their own criminal amoral behaviour through the supression of human rights and what is left of the freedom of speech in the US. This is accelaerating exponentially and has been going on long before Trump came on the scene.

Avoid paying attention to the distractions, and keep your eye on the ball.

dh-mtl , Jan 9 2021 19:08 utc | 11

Stealing the election. Trying to remove Trump from office, with two weeks to go, and 'erase' him from the internet (and politics and whatelse?). Turning the U.S. into a de-facto police state. And the rush to do this all very quickly.

This smacks of desperation.

What are their Dems (rather their Deep State and 'Globalist' bosses) afraid of?

Blue Dotterel , Jan 9 2021 19:08 utc | 12

I have tried to explain over the past while, that what we are seeing in the US is an ongoing coup, This is a coup against the US people by the US corporate and financial oligarchs. Clearly, they are benefiting by not simply enriching themselves at taxpayers expense, but securing their own criminal amoral behaviour through the supression of human rights and what is left of the freedom of speech in the US. This is accelaerating exponentially and has been going on long before Trump came on the scene.

Avoid paying attention to the distractions, and keep your eye on the ball.

[Jan 09, 2021] What the Constitution REQUIRES Congress to do on January 6, 2021

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

TFS , Jan 8, 2021 3:56 AM

What the Constitution REQUIRES Congress to do on January 6, 2021, by By Publius Huldah (an opinion piece)

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/01/05/what-the-constitution-requires-congress-to-do-on-january-6-2021/

[Jan 09, 2021] What is the US elite so afraid of? What do they fear that Trump might do in the last days of his presidency?

Notable quotes:
"... They are not afraid. It is about creating the atmosphere for the last evisceration of civil liberties, of legalized censorship, the crushing of any dissent, a one-party state (in the service of global capitalism). This is not really just about Trump or his supporters (although, unlike Biden, Trump has genuine mass support). This will be used against all of us. ..."
"... It is stunning to watch now as every War on Terror rhetorical tactic to justify civil liberties erosions is now being invoked in the name of combatting Trumpism, including the aggressive exploitation of the emotions triggered by yesterday's events at the Capitol to accelerate their implementation and demonize dissent over the quickly formed consensus. ..."
"... Within hours of the Capitol being cleared, we heard truly radical proposals from numerous members of Congress. Senators and House members who objected to Electoral College certification, or questioned its legitimacy, should be formally accused of sedition and removed from expelled from the House if not prosecuted, argued Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), with other House members expressing support. Even those unarmed protesters who peacefully entered the Capitol should, many argued, be hunted by the FBI as domestic terrorists. ..."
"... Greenwald doesn't expose what happened yesterday as a filmed, orchestrated psychological operation to create a false narrative to allow for the restrictions on civil liberties that were already written years ago and require manufactured incidents such as this staged coup and all the other staged events like 9-11, terrorism and fake pandemics to justify their passage. ..."
"... This entire farce is playing out exactly as the Transition Integrity Project outlined. ..."
"... The problem I have with people like Greenwald and others who have connections to the Intelligence Community, is that the 20% they don't reveal is far more valuable than the 80% we already know. ..."
"... The crazed attempt by the establishment to completely censor Trump, and then to take down Trump via 25th Amendment or impeachment with just 2 weeks left in his administration, smacks of something they desperately fear: His release of extremely damaging classified materials or the dissemination of other information that he can only do as president. ..."
"... But the idea that he can unilaterally order the careerist members of the armed forces to take over the country, never mind a bunch of yahoos supposedly controlling the capitol building (without inside help), for his benefit is beyond ludicrous. Not for a president whose administration had widespread open insubordination, trumpeted without consequences by MSM. ..."
"... With all the tens of Billions of dollars pumped into State Security and the massive surveillance industry, we are told that the Capitol was unprepared for a rally that had been announced weeks in advance. ..."
"... Every event is conducted with an eye to promoting the same themes in the press. Military intelligence is disciplined not creative. You will know psyops by their familiar M.O., the familiar beneficiary and the familiar headlines in the press. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Steve Hayes Jan 8, 2021 1:52 PM

What is the US elite so afraid of? What do they fear that Trump might do in the last days of his presidency?

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 2:26 PM Reply to Steve Hayes

They don't fear Trump at all. He's the necessary "nasty Right Wing COVID denier" to set up as anti-Pope to the new Green "post capitalist" wonder world.

May Hem , Jan 8, 2021 9:28 PM Reply to George Mc

Correct. Its all a puppet show to easily convince the gullible. And to make the path easy for the planners of this game. Trump is also playing his part, no doubt paid off and laughing at it all.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 3:07 PM Reply to Steve Hayes

They are not afraid. It is about creating the atmosphere for the last evisceration of civil liberties, of legalized censorship, the crushing of any dissent, a one-party state (in the service of global capitalism). This is not really just about Trump or his supporters (although, unlike Biden, Trump has genuine mass support). This will be used against all of us.

From Glenn Greenwald yesterday:

It is stunning to watch now as every War on Terror rhetorical tactic to justify civil liberties erosions is now being invoked in the name of combatting Trumpism, including the aggressive exploitation of the emotions triggered by yesterday's events at the Capitol to accelerate their implementation and demonize dissent over the quickly formed consensus. The same framework used to assault civil liberties in the name of foreign terrorism is now being seamlessly applied -- often by those who spent the last two decades objecting to it -- to the threat posed by "domestic white supremacist terrorists," the term preferred by liberal elites, especially after yesterday, for Trump supporters generally. In so many ways, yesterday was the liberals' 9/11, as even the most sensible commentators among them are resorting to the most unhinged rhetoric available.

Within hours of the Capitol being cleared, we heard truly radical proposals from numerous members of Congress. Senators and House members who objected to Electoral College certification, or questioned its legitimacy, should be formally accused of sedition and removed from expelled from the House if not prosecuted, argued Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), with other House members expressing support. Even those unarmed protesters who peacefully entered the Capitol should, many argued, be hunted by the FBI as domestic terrorists.

Calls proliferated for the banning of the social media accounts of instigators and protest participants. Journalists and politicians cheered the decision by Facebook and Twitter to temporarily bar the President from using their service, and then cheered again when Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the ban on Trump extended through Biden's inauguration. Some journalists, such as CNN 's Oliver Darcy, complained that Facebook had not gone far enough, that more mass censorship was needed of right-wing voices. The once-radical 2006 Gingrich argument -- that some opinions are too dangerous to allow to be expressed because they are pro-terrorist and insurrectionary -- is now thriving, close to a consensus.

These calls for censorship, online and official, are grounded in the long-discredited, oft-rejected and dangerous view that a person should be held legally accountable not only for their own illegal actions but also for the consequences of their protected speech : meaning the actions others take when they hear inflammatory rhetoric. That was the distorted mentality used by the State of Mississippi in the 1970s to try to hold NAACP leaders liable for the violent acts of their followers against boycott violators after hearing rousing pro-boycott speeches from NAACP leaders, only for the Supreme Court in 1982 to unanimously reject such efforts on the ground that "while the State legitimately may impose damages for the consequences of violent conduct, it may not award compensation for the consequences of nonviolent, protected activity," adding that even "advocacy of the use of force or violence does not remove speech from the protection of the first amendment."

The complete reversal in mentality from just a few months ago is dizzying. Those who spent the summer demanding the police be defunded are furious that the police response at the Capitol was insufficiently robust, violent and aggressive. Those who urged the abolition of prisons are demanding Trump supporters be imprisoned for years. Those who, under the banner of "anti-fascism," demanded the firing of a top New York Times editor for publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) advocating the deployment of the U.S. military to quell riots -- a view deemed not just wrong but unspeakable in decent society -- are today furious that the National Guard was not deployed at the Capitol to quash pro-Trump supporters. Antifa advocates are working to expose the names of Capitol protesters to empower the FBI to arrest them on terrorism charges. And while Rep. Cori Bush's proposal to unseat members of Congress for their subversive views went mega-viral, many forget that in 1966, the Georgia State Legislature refused to seat Julian Bond after he refused to repudiate his anti-war work with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, then considered a domestic terrorist group.

Those who argued in the summer that property damage is meaningless or even noble are treating smashed windows and looted podiums at the Capitol as treason, as a coup. One need not dismiss the lamentable actions of yesterday to simultaneously reject efforts to apply terms that are plainly inapplicable: attempted coup, insurrection, sedition . There was zero chance that the few hundred people who breached the Capitol could overthrow the U.S. Government -- the most powerful, armed and militarized entity in the world -- nor did they try.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 4:23 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

But once again Glenn plays the divide and conquer narrative instead of exposing the obvious psychological operation against both sides so they demonize each other instead of the structure that imprisons them through legal fraud.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 4:46 PM Reply to Researcher

How do you get that out of what Greenwald says? Yes, GG stays clear of anything with a CIA conspiracy theory label on it. OTOH, his expertise is Consitutional law and he has been documenting the concentration of power of abrogation of civil liberties for twenty years. And that is really what this response to the "coup" is all about. He is right about that.

There's one quote that I think sums up this moment:

"Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement." -Huey Long

Anti-anti-fascism to be formally inaugurated on 1-20-2021.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 5:31 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

Anti-fascism is the new fascism.
It makes perverse sense if you follow the Corporatist money. Many of the giants of the Corporatist State were persecuted by the Nazis. The fascist titans like Monsanto-Bayer-Exxon are back but they seek a new cloak.
So they are trying the 1940s Corporatist State trick once again, but it cannot be seen in the same light: it should be presented as the opposite.
So anti-anti-fascism will be demonized if not banned.
True anti-fascists, such as those who cling to the Constitution, will be called right wing. Defenders of the family or religion in the face of the state will be called white supremacists. This has already begun.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 5:38 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

"How do you get that out of what Greenwald says?"

Because of his pretense that voting matters or the law matters. The law is ignored, applied or restructured according to whom it serves, which is the cabal who run the world through governments, the monetary system, the legal system and NGOs that hide the criminal acts and the fraud behind their use of the law.

Greenwald doesn't expose what happened yesterday as a filmed, orchestrated psychological operation to create a false narrative to allow for the restrictions on civil liberties that were already written years ago and require manufactured incidents such as this staged coup and all the other staged events like 9-11, terrorism and fake pandemics to justify their passage.

This entire farce is playing out exactly as the Transition Integrity Project outlined.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 7:19 PM Reply to Researcher

RE: Because of his pretense that voting matters or the law matters. The law is ignored, applied or restructured according to whom it serves

Well, I guess everything is hunky dory then, same as it ever was. Fascism is just a state mind, right?

Greenwald clearly leaves open the possibility that this was orchestrated. At the time of his writing, there was not enough info to say that. He's not you , he requires decent sources.

This was not how the TIP script was written. They anticipated a perceived Trump win. Not that it matters much anymore.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 9:54 PM Reply to Tom Larsen

TIP did not anticipate a Trump win. Did you read the scenarios?

My observations are based on understanding that fascism presented with illusory voting is still fascism. Whatever political flavor it's marketed as, is irrelevant.

Greenwald's lies including those about Reality Winner and her fake NSA-Russia hacking documents make him a completely unreliable source, period. Also his insistence that Trump was set up with the Russia hacking and collusion story when Trump and his team were part of the entire plot from its inception and Russiagate was used to make Trump appear like he was a victim of the "Deep State" and liberal media, reveal Greenwald's dishonesty.

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 10:07 PM Reply to Researcher

RE: TIP did not anticipate a Trump win. Did you read the scenarios?

I don't remember seeing a scenario where Trump loses. It was months ago and a very long article. If you can point it out, that would be appreciated.

RE: My observations are based on understanding that fascism presented with illusory voting is still fascism.

Then I would say that you make no distinction between fascism and liberal democracy. I am an anti-capitalist, so I see fascism as a subset of capitalism. Structurally, the differences between them are not huge, nonetheless there are important differences especially regarding civil liberties. As to voting, I would refer to Emma Goldman.

RE: make him a completely unreliable source,

You are entitled to your opinion. I think that is a self-limiting and unwise position to take. That means you'll only consider sources that you agree with 100%. You're making your own information silo.

Bob the Hod , Jan 8, 2021 5:36 PM Reply to Researcher

I guess he just doesn't see it like that, and that's fine, it's his right to have that opinion, and it's his right to not to divulge all of his personal opinions if he thinks that some of them could alienate him from his readers or land him in trouble in some way.

I think you're right. But I think he's speaking a lot of truth too, on another level.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 7:18 PM Reply to Bob the Hod

But surely that's his purpose. To provide 80% truth and 20% untruth through purposeful omission of the most important points. I don't know the exact proportion, I am only using the 80%-20% as a tool for demonstration purposes because I don't read any Greenwald at all since he started working for the Intercept.

The problem I have with people like Greenwald and others who have connections to the Intelligence Community, is that the 20% they don't reveal is far more valuable than the 80% we already know.

SCHOPENHAUER'S LAW OF ENTROPY -- If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel of sewage, you have sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel of wine, you have sewage.

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 1:35 PM

I suspect things will start moving fast now. Our overlords may suspect that the COVID maneuver has weaknesses and cannot be prolonged indefinitely unless an acceleration is applied. And I hear yet again about the ambulance service being stretched to the utmost of cliché mongering.

Yup there it is: "unprecedented pressure that the NHS is facing" etc. Hospitals too busy with cases but hang on – some good news: a new vaccine from Coke or is it Pepsi?

No matter – the "completely unforeseen and not at all forced" pressure on the NHS will continue. And that won't matter because we have innumerable vax chancers to grind out well as much vax as is needed to keep the gravy train going.

Donald Tute , Jan 8, 2021 2:21 PM Reply to Arby

I was never in any doubt, that this is just a GCHQ operation.

Norm , Jan 8, 2021 12:50 PM

The crazed attempt by the establishment to completely censor Trump, and then to take down Trump via 25th Amendment or impeachment with just 2 weeks left in his administration, smacks of something they desperately fear: His release of extremely damaging classified materials or the dissemination of other information that he can only do as president.

But the idea that he can unilaterally order the careerist members of the armed forces to take over the country, never mind a bunch of yahoos supposedly controlling the capitol building (without inside help), for his benefit is beyond ludicrous. Not for a president whose administration had widespread open insubordination, trumpeted without consequences by MSM.

Only in a nation half in denial, which is their cognitive dissonance resolution for the incessant "news" stream supporting Big Lies that is jammed down their throats 24/7, can this occur.

Asylum , Jan 8, 2021 2:06 PM Reply to Norm

The elephant in the room which you left out

...D.C. National Guard to be mobilized for 30 days, including for Biden inauguration
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/national-guard-mobilized-for-30-days-including-biden-inauguration.html

Bilejones , Jan 8, 2021 12:48 PM

Paul Craig Roberts gets it about right.
What happened, Why and what's next.
https://www.unz.com/proberts/americas-color-revolution-2/

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 1:28 PM Reply to Bilejones

This was a Charlottesville-style set up. Expect more of them.

With all the tens of Billions of dollars pumped into State Security and the massive surveillance industry, we are told that the Capitol was unprepared for a rally that had been announced weeks in advance.

Every event is conducted with an eye to promoting the same themes in the press. Military intelligence is disciplined not creative. You will know psyops by their familiar M.O., the familiar beneficiary and the familiar headlines in the press.

K Ford , Jan 8, 2021 12:44 PM

Today I am afraid.

Not for me, but for the people I see around me.

The return of the thousand yard stare – a symptom of those who feel fear, from whatever cause, or from a situation which is perceived as beyond any kind of optimism. Usually seen from photos of Vietnam conflict.

The German photographer, Ute Mahler, portrays this in her photo series from the former East Germany. Her subjects unintentionally have the look in their eyes – the lost look – the knowledge that the future is undetermined and unfathomable.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/06/ute-mahler-images-real-east-germany-in-pictures

[Jan 09, 2021] The Storming of the Capitol - America s Reichstag Fire

NO, not everybody behaved as "visitors". There were violent hooligans as well who got into lawmakers offices and stole things. Were they provicators or onot God knows. But this was a mob. Mass of people without organization., without leadership and without any program.
Notable quotes:
"... ... what happened was an classical highjacking of an event proclaimed in days before it was due to happen, and they where prepared, bussed in the storm troops, and the event that followed was allowed to happen ..."
"... Operation Gladio America? A false flag with a state sponsored murder of an unarmed young woman for flavor? The elites including the Republicans and Democrats staged the event-me thinks. Pence was their man in place. An elitist. Good cover for not wanting to verify the election results which, either way it had gone, would have at least brought closure. Like the results or not. ..."
"... They want control. ..."
"... Lets stop pretending that the far-right as represented by that crowd yesterday are the cuddly freedom lovers and that the democrats are the hateful tyrants. Politically they are are both faces of the corporate fascist state that uses the people as tools in their greedy claims to power. ..."
"... Obviously, these "protests" were a staged event, and participants had the same minuscule mental caliber as the persons who put them up to it. These types of disruptions will make passage of needed legislation and corrections of improper Laws next to impossible. ..."
"... The protests were genuine, peaceful and quite possibly organic. However, the "storming", the "insurrection", the "coup" of the Capitol building was orchestrated to create a climate of fear (like 9/11) to serve a political end. ..."
"... As the Establishment spins it this will be used to concentrate their power, criminalize dissent and crush any organized opposition. They don't want to repeal the Patriot Act, they want to expand it! That is exactly why Tulsi's principled bill will go nowhere. ..."
"... like Cuomo said, "Where does it say protests have to be peaceful?" ..."
"... Trump was never more than a bloviating, empty vessel. He expected other people to fight for him, but never fought for himself. Millions who put their faith in him and supported him now face persecution and worse from a vengeful democrat establishment controlling Congress and the presidency. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

The media are already spinning a narrative around the events in Washington DC. One that bears no resemblance to reality, does not hold up to any kind of scrutiny and will have massive, far-reaching consequences for all of us.

They're calling it "one of the darkest days in our nations history", a day that will "live in infamy". It will likely be memed into a shorthand date – 1/6/21, like 9/11 and 7/7. It will be the day "American democracy was attacked and prevailed", the day the nation nearly fell to "fascists".

It will become just one more grand sweeping illusion upon which the teetering structures of US Imperial power are built.

The story we are being told goes as follows:


Yesterday, as congress was preparing to pass the vote endorsing Joe Biden's election victory, thousands of violent right-wing thugs stormed the Capitol building.

Acting according to Trump's wishes, and with his endorsement, these domestic terrorists overran the police barricades in an attempt to overthrow the senate and preserve Trump's presidency.

Fortunately the police were able to secure the situation, drive the violent rioters out and the democratic process was able to continue.

Not one single part of this story is true:

There was no "storming" There was no "incitement" There was no "violence" And the riot effectively ended Trump's presidency.

Let's tackle them one at a time.

* * *

1. There was no "storming". Rather videos show police opening barriers to let the "rioters" in.

In the entrance hall, the "violent thugs" respected the velvet ropes and kept in orderly lines, took a few selfies with the cops , posed for the press and – when the main events were over – they were quietly allowed to leave .

Compare and contrast the police's treatment of those people inside the capitol, with their later treatment of protesters breaking curfew on the streets .

2. There was no "incitement". All of Trump's social media posts on the subject instructed people to "go home" "with peace and love".

Is that inciting violence?

Twitter and facebook took the totally unprecedented step of completely removing those posts, and blocked him posting any further. They claimed to be preventing further violence, but it looks more like they concealed Trump's denunciations of violence.

3. There was no violence. Indeed whether or not Trump "incited" anything is moot, because there was no violence. Disregard the reports of chemical weapons, pipe bombs or IEDs – none of which ever appeared. None of the "rioters" are as yet shown to have hurt anyone.

The only person reportedly killed or injured was a protester allegedly shot by the police. Compare and contrast the attitude of the media to this "violence", vs the "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests all last summer.

4. The riot ended Trump's presidency. Although the Congressional session was widely described in the press as the "confirmation vote" for Joe Biden's election victory, it was actually rather more than that.

VP Mike Pence was chairing a joint-session which intended to allow full speeches from those opposing the election and maintaining there had been fraud.

The violence brought this session to an end prematurely, totally undermined Trump's legal and procedural challenges and killed any chance he had of overturning the electoral college vote. No sooner was the "attack" over, than many of the Republicans in both houses who were planning to oppose Biden's election backed-down

More than that, it seems Trump's "incitement" of the rioters means he may well be removed from office by enforcement of the 25th amendment , which would end not just this term, but make it illegal for him to run again in the future .

Facebook and Twitter have outright banned him from posting . The press and television pundits are openly accusing him of treason and sedition.

So, who has really benefitted from the "chaos at the Capitol"? Because it surely isn't Donald Trump.

One should always be wary of any event which "accidentally" achieves the exact opposite of its stated or apparent intent.

* * *

In the title, I refer to this as America's Reichstag fire , and that's not just emotive language, the parallels are pretty clear: A staged attack on a political building, deliberately misattributed to political enemies and used to consolidate the power of a freshly installed leader.

Even the media coverage is similar, the Nazi government and their tools in the press talked about it in the same exact terms as the US establishment is describing this farcical "coup attempt". Aiming to terrify people into thinking they were on the verge of an all-out civil war.

Read this quote, and ask yourself if it couldn't be lifted almost completely from the front page of the Washington Post or New York Times today:

The burning of the Reichstag was intended to be the signal for a bloody uprising and civil war. Large-scale pillaging in Berlin was planned for as early as four o'clock in the morning on Tuesday. It has been determined that starting today throughout Germany acts of terrorism were to begin against prominent individuals, against private property, against the lives and safety of the peaceful population, and general civil war was to be unleashed

Within 24 hours of the Reichstag burning, the German President had passed the Reichstag Fire Decree , which declared a state of emergency that totally reversed every civil right the Weimar Republic had guaranteed its citizens:

Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications.

While these freedoms have already been severely undermined in the US by the Patriot Act and its successors, those few rights left to American citizens will definitely be under threat once Trump is finally removed and Biden (or Harris) is put in his place.

Although there is not yet any talk of legislation, it's certainly true there are whispers of purges and other measures to "protect the constitution".

Some prominent voices are calling for all lawmakers backing Trump to be expelled from office . The Washington Post claimed "seditious Republicans must be held accountable" .

The anti-social media campaign has begun again in earnest too, with Parler and GAB already being blamed for allowing "violent language" on their platforms.

As Twitter and Facebook limit discussion, alternative platforms will be shutdown. Enforcing a corporate monopoly that cooperates with the state the very definition of fascism.

All this in the name of protecting the nation from "neo-nazi thugs" or "white supremacists" or other phantom threats. In the name of "protecting the constitution", they are tearing it to pieces. In the name of "preventing a coup", they are carrying one out in front of our eyes.

It puts in mind Huey Long's famous quote when asked if fascism would ever come to America:

Sure, we'll have Fascism in this country and we'll call it anti-Fascism."


Robbobbobin , Jan 9, 2021 12:52 AM

1. Rather videos show police opening barriers to let the "rioters" in.

The linked video starts with a section the fence already removed and, if it were ever there, where it is when the shot opens. No evidence of who removed (?) it – protesters or the police or no-one. Maybe there is a clip which resolves the question, but the linked video is not it and the commentary reports only police-protester 'squabbling'. Stopped reading there. There is 'evidence' of something and there is 'not-evidence'. This is 'not-evidence'. Waiting for an update that includes a either a definitive clip or that presents no such unsupported claim as 'evidence'.

mikael , Jan 9, 2021 12:09 AM

Once again OffG you nailed it thruoutly, realy good.

Some advices, I dont jump on some for me an bit over the top nonsense, events like this have been highjacked before, it happens regulary all over the world even in Norway, even when they where demostrating about issues as AGW, where 99.9% was peaceful, the problem starts when the Gov dont want it to be to big, or for whatever reason, they put provos and civil clouthed Cops in the front and have them to create the havoc needed to end this demonstration, or pays others, incl so called "anarcist" groups to do just that, like in the YW in France, black clad people creating violence, and thereby the reasons to intervine, its standard procedure, back in time as far I can remeber.

To them drool something about operation Gladio is dragging it a bit to far, this was nothing but an standard tactic for creating an false flag and then the reasons to engage into protective issues as we are experiencing right now when the MSM and others are creating narratives as rightwinged domestic terrorists, etc, and focuses in an small group witch highjacked everything and killed the genuine cause and reason for this demonstartion witch took place, since it was an coup, we all know that.

Yea, fascinating isnt it, some can riot, create no go zones unless of course if only BLM and f . everything ellse, and burns down inner citys, police stations, smal bizzenizzes, kill inocent people, incl blacks, execute cildren, harass anyone whom they dont like, attack with violence people whom they find to be politicaly not on their side and accuses them for been everything from Nazis, racists, white ass supremacys, rightwinged, etc, you name it, and all thru this months of unrest, the same people and MSMs whom is now hyping uh . iligale ciolent protests or even better, domestic terrorism, rightwinged terror, etc, what could possibly go wrong, yup, reality is derailing in real time, even the radical fake left, by the way, they are not left, nor socialists, maybe an commie or two, but the fake lefts job was to make sure this times, the last year, was to marginalise and polarize society, with of course promisses never intended to be kept, and right before this uh . event, even the DNCs ignored them, but now, once again they can roam free with narratives as cleansing, etc to rightwinged, of course anyone whom dont suck up their bullshit have to be an nazi.
Hallelujah.

So, why do you apologize, tell me, why, you sould never, never, never apoligize, never, bitches.

Thousands of people did the right thing, protested non voilently, took an stand and went there to make sure we all saw it, and did nothing, absolutely nothing wrong, never forget that, so why the bloody hell do you crawl in front of the scumbags in charge and apologize, people with no spine do that, even when they have to admit things that wasn't done by anyone of them, because they didn't do anything wrong.

... what happened was an classical highjacking of an event proclaimed in days before it was due to happen, and they where prepared, bussed in the storm troops, and the event that followed was allowed to happen because of what you experience now, in the aftermath of the protest, read the MSM, witch the corpoRat bitches and general fake left scums howl, the tech facists cencures everybody whom isnt pimping their propaganda, even an president, and the political theater where they compet about been the best butt cheek spreader for the elite, yeah, what did you expect, they did what their masters told them to do, throw the people of the UssA under the buss, for an fist full of shekles.

Never, forget and never ever forgive the teason you watch unfold this days, they think in short terms, and forgets there comes an time when they will be elected again, what you must never forget is that when that time comes, you must have your options ready, fight back, and kick them all out.
But, never apologize, it was your god dammed duty to protest, because we all know this was an coup.

peace

Leo , Jan 8, 2021 11:50 PM

Operation Gladio America? A false flag with a state sponsored murder of an unarmed young woman for flavor? The elites including the Republicans and Democrats staged the event-me thinks. Pence was their man in place. An elitist. Good cover for not wanting to verify the election results which, either way it had gone, would have at least brought closure. Like the results or not.

But, They don't want closure, they want chaos. They want control.

The good thing is that the Republican Party is now dead, may it rest in pieces. Losing over 74 Million voters plus ( Trump obviously won by a landslide, hence the overt and obvious theft, and add to that atrocity; the overt prevention of an open, honest inquiry of the election). Huge loss never to be gained back. A Trump comes around only once in a crumbling empire. No RINO was (or will) attract those many and diverse votes.

But, the other Silver lining is the implosion of the brain dead Democratic Party can I get an "A-woman!" re "A-women" "A.. . Gender Fluid Woman". Sheesh! Underway is an emerging progressive party that is fully aware of the fraud going on in the "Bizarre -O- World of the Zombies" Leadersh*t.

So America did do extremely well at least as far as "Woke – ness" is concerned. The operation of the Idiocracy of a Harris Administration is "swamp business as usual" with an avalanche of oppressive acts. The sis woman has no morals. Lucky us.

Geoffrey Skoll , Jan 8, 2021 8:32 PM

US Reichstag Fire was 9/11. Of course this Jan 6 event was a show. The Constitution was burned long ago. First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law . . abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble . . ." It does NOT say "except when some people are sick." By the way, for both right and left wing trolls, I am a revolutionary communist and Wobbly. This is not Germany 1933, 1934, or even 1938. The USA is Germany 1942, on the eve of the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution January 20 1942. Watch for it.

To Kit: Keep up the attempts to keep people rational.

Ken Garoo , Jan 8, 2021 8:04 PM

Some strange goings on happened at the protest, for sure

Someone published a photo of the protestors at the White House, framed through a gallows with a noose hanging down from the gallows. This symbol was used by radical right Zionists in Israel to frame images of Yitzhak Rabin shortly before he was assassinated by a zealot.

https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/06/democracy-the-noose-and-the-coffin/

There is also an interesting back story to one of the more outlandishly dressed protestors.

This guy, wearing a raccoon skin cloak and a bullet-proof vest marked 'police' is Aaron Mostofsky, a Brooklyn Orthodox Jew whose father is New York State Superior Court judge and powerful Democratic Party leader.

https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/07/at-maga-rally-israeli-flag-and-neo-nazis-co-exist-awkwardly/

Kathryn Barbour , Jan 8, 2021 7:43 PM

Great encapsulation of our situation. Compared to the 2014 (?) overthrow WE fomented in the Ukraine, where legislators and the president fled for their lives through flames and flying bullets, it was tame. Joe Biden has bragged about his leadership role in it all. And carpetbagged there during Obama's presidency, something Biden is still unapologetic about.

Luckily dark clouds have their silver linings:

Trump's supporters are getting a chance to experience the ire and negation of their patriotism that he has had to endure since getting into office.

Mad with bloodlust, the warmongers from DC to Tel Aviv are lining up new wars to wage now that Trump is not there to obstruct them. Meanwhile, to the calm and clear-eyed the moral high ground is more obvious than ever, and they long ago stopped listening to the propaganda that rules the airways. This is an opportune time for alliances among conservatives and progressives to coalesce and form a solid base for a third party that will rise from the dust of the Democratic and Republican dross.

Taking a long look back at 2020, it is clear now that COVID was launched on the world with the precise goal of removing Donald Trump from office. Live free or die must now be our only aim, to preserve the Republic. To all who read these words, know that you were born for this moment. We will and must win this, or say goodbye to humanity as we know it.

Love conquers all.

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 7:41 PM

One tell-tale sign of media bullshit is the story which is assembled suspiciously quickly and never varies thereafter. As in the case of the Oswald-shot-Kennedy or bin Laden "did" 9/11, the story comes along with preternatural haste and remains impervious to later findings until enough time passes for it to become a historical curiosity.

So Trump "instigated" this "coup" and this story gets endlessly recycled and so I caught a bit about how "we" can get Trump to "admit what he's done" etc.

...

Andre , Jan 8, 2021 6:52 PM

Spot on and again it is about the Dems projecting, i.e. blaming Trump for their own coup(first attempt being the RussiaHoax, projecting their own acts on to Trump)...

Capture , Jan 8, 2021 6:39 PM

Lets stop pretending that the far-right as represented by that crowd yesterday are the cuddly freedom lovers and that the democrats are the hateful tyrants. Politically they are are both faces of the corporate fascist state that uses the people as tools in their greedy claims to power.

Paul Vonharnish , Jan 8, 2021 6:15 PM

Obviously, these "protests" were a staged event, and participants had the same minuscule mental caliber as the persons who put them up to it. These types of disruptions will make passage of needed legislation and corrections of improper Laws next to impossible.

Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill to REPEAL PATRIOT Act – House Bill lnumber HR8970 December 16, 2020 JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill to REPEAL PATRIOT Act – YouTube

Tom Larsen , Jan 8, 2021 7:43 PM Reply to Paul Vonharnish

The protests were genuine, peaceful and quite possibly organic. However, the "storming", the "insurrection", the "coup" of the Capitol building was orchestrated to create a climate of fear (like 9/11) to serve a political end.

As the Establishment spins it this will be used to concentrate their power, criminalize dissent and crush any organized opposition. They don't want to repeal the Patriot Act, they want to expand it! That is exactly why Tulsi's principled bill will go nowhere.

Sgt Oddball , Jan 8, 2021 5:33 PM

"Nan's Nuclear Meltdown!", or: "Nan' Jumps Shark!" – Film At 11'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-pelosi-called-military-chief-about-unhinged-trump-s-access-n1253501

Capture , Jan 8, 2021 5:32 PM

Nobody in America is prepared to fight for democracy because they do not understand like their ancestors did, why it is like to live in a tyranny, That goes for all western countries now.

Ger , Jan 8, 2021 6:50 PM Reply to Capture

WW1 and WW2 the goy were brainwashed just like today , msm is still in the same hands .

paul , Jan 8, 2021 4:52 PM

Within less than 24 hours, it was clear that many things were not quite right, and this was obviously a staged, engineered event.

"Buffalo Man" has already been shown to be a professional actor from Arizona. The whole thing had a theatrical quality.

Nobody was hurt (at least not by the demonstrators.) There was no significant damage to property. A few doors and windows were damaged. Papers were strewn around. People helped themselves to a few souvenirs. No politicians were assaulted, threatened or taken hostage.

Compare this to the protracted rioting over the summer, CNN's "peaceful protests." Entire city blocks looted and burnt out in multiple cities over 100 consecutive nights. Thousands of grocery and liquor store businesses belonging to Mr. Singh and Mr. Patel gone. People murdered for wearing MAGA hats. No Go Areas set up with complete impunity. A "Summer Of Love." No sanctimonious hand wringing and pearl clutching then. But like Cuomo said, "Where does it say protests have to be peaceful?"

All the senators and congressmen cheered themselves hoarse when incomparably greater violence was directed at legislatures in Ukraine, Hong Kong, Bolivia and Venezuela. They deserve little sympathy. They are vile, evil, corrupt people.

Trump wanted a mass demonstration at the Capitol in the hope that it might put some backbone into spineless Republican jellyfish for the first time in their lives. A noisy but peaceful mass protest was in his interests. A violent one was not. There would have been a challenge to a blatantly rigged and stolen election. This did not take place. Instead, we have a blanket dismissal of the evidence by the MSM, condemning "Trump's lies", "Trump's baseless allegations", "Trump's fraudulent claims."

This will just be a new episode in the consensus reality that is created, immune to any evidence, like 9/11, Wmd in Iraq, Skripal, Russiagate, Corbyn's anti semitism, White Helmets, and all the rest. If in doubt, we can always turn to Johnson or Merkel or Trudeau for moral guidance on the issue.

We can already see the uses to which the incident is being put. Rigid censorship by the MSM and Silicon Valley, starting with Trump himself. Sweeping new powers for the FBI against "domestic terrorists." Surprisingly, Putin has not yet been blamed. No doubt this omission will soon be rectified. More calls for Impeachment/ Pence to remove Trump.

Surprisingly, there has been little interest in the dead woman, who seems to have been memory holed already. This seems to be an echo of Charlottesville, where a woman was also killed at another staged and manipulated event. Charlottesville was crawling with operatives of the Trump-hating FBI. The leader of the "Tiki Torch Nazi Rally" was a democrat activist.

Trump was never more than a bloviating, empty vessel. He expected other people to fight for him, but never fought for himself. Millions who put their faith in him and supported him now face persecution and worse from a vengeful democrat establishment controlling Congress and the presidency.

Trump's appointments, apart from early ones like Tillerson and Sessions, which weren't just bad, were almost uniformly disastrous. Pompeo, Bolton (on orders from Adelson), Pence, Kushner, Ivanka peddling her knickers and jewellery, the list is long and undistinguished. They ignored him and actively undermined him to promote their own agendas. Instead of just sacking them, or never appointing them in the first place, Trump was reduced to whining and bleating about them on Twitter, like a latter day King Lear with the benefit of modern technology. And even that consolation is no longer available to him.

Perhaps he would have done better with Bannon and Giuliani, however reptilian they may be.

No doubt a lot more will emerge about this distinctly non-organic event in the near future, to be dutifully ignored by the MSM. They will seek above all to preserve the illusion of democracy to impress the simple minded.

ray , Jan 8, 2021 10:12 PM Reply to paul

Good analysis. Donald never brought in the strong new blood he needed, and said he would hire during the first campaign. Then he sets up Ivanka and Jared as the power-couple of his admin, to rule over the WH.

This guy is supposed to be some genius and finding the right people and retaining them, but couldn't get that job done in his own WH and admin.

lynette cracknell chaplin , Jan 8, 2021 10:20 PM Reply to Jacob Paul

There is virtually no difference between the 2 American parties, they are both ruled by the muili billionaire oligarchy, but the 75 million people who voted for Trump are mostly middle class God fearing and patriotic people who at long last saw Trump as a president who represented them.

George Mc , Jan 8, 2021 4:37 PM

Disasters are always excellent opportunities for re-shaping in the most drastic ways. Hard won and long-time held protections can be undone very easily under conveniently mutable "extreme situations". And any objections can be met with "Don't you know there's a war/ crisis/ pandemic on?"

Edwige , Jan 8, 2021 4:17 PM

Biden's election win finally certified at . 3.33am.

exiled off mainstreet , Jan 8, 2021 6:22 PM Reply to Edwige

That is funny. It is just about the same time the vans with forged ballots arrived simultaneously in various states where the counting had "stopped' until the result could be remedied.

Paul Vonharnish , Jan 8, 2021 5:37 PM Reply to Moneycircus

Hello Moneycircus: All planned by DNC players, and the planned purpose of the flag event:

"CONGRESS WAS HEARING OBJECTIONS TO THE ELECTION
PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN HEARING
Evidence of voter fraud was being submitted to the record – cancelled
Petitioning for a 10-day investigation – cancelled
Not expecting to overturn results but wanted to pursue process – cancelled
Goal was transparency – cancelled"

Excellent analysis.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 5:56 PM Reply to Paul Vonharnish

It's cynical beyond belief.

S Cooper , Jan 8, 2021 4:05 PM Reply to TFS

"Pathetic that the Republicrats (the criminal racket so corrupt it needs two aliases) have decided to descend to the level of a rather bad soap opera before they take SHAM DEMOCRACY USA full Third Reich. Here is a thought, the WAR RACKETEER CORPORATE FASCIST OLIGARCH MOBSTER OLIGARCHS should give back everything that they have stolen from WE THE PEOPLE (HUMANITY ). Then turn themselves in to be held accountable for their many CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. The World will be a better and more peaceful place after they do.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsL6mKxtOlQ

https://www.deviantart.com/redamerican1945/art/Eugene-V-Debs-Republican-Democratic-Party-674343047

Mr Y , Jan 8, 2021 3:24 PM

In case my fellow commenters think I'm a troll etc: Deleting that Trump video where he tell people to go home is a very alarming act; there's def something fishy going on.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 6:15 PM Reply to Mr Y

How is it alarming? Because they can censor any speech, no matter how seemingly innocuous? We know, thanks.

Social media corporations operate through government contracts and licenses, feeding all the data you input into secret files on you and everyone on earth. They then profit by reselling that info without your consent or knowledge and by targeting you with ads and disinfo, 24-7. They are not publishers, they are not social. They are spying networks that function as legal profiteering entities directly partnering with corrupt governments, to manage their distracted ignorant populaces like chattering, mimetic mind monkeys, by playing useless games of online telephone called "retweeting" which is just another word for re-dissemination.

Why do people want to be part of that mind control system? That's more worrying to me than a cabal spokesperson being faux silenced.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 2:46 PM

Whitney Webb :
"If one of these guys is an actor it's more likely they are paid provocateurs who go to rallies on the left and the right. That does not mean they are Antifa or BLM. It's more likely they are on the FBI payroll.

"If you are Trump supporter you should be aware you are walking into a trap with this crap. If you are a critical thinker on the left you should be freaked out that the crazy Biden administration is full of evil neocons like Victoria Nuland, who is back, and they have control of the House and the Senate so they are going to ram through the most authoritarian, 6uild 6ack 6etter, Great Reset imaginable We need to divert the path away from this clusterfuck that they are arming."

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 3:54 PM Reply to Moneycircus

They always have control of the House and the Senate because both parties work for the same side. Political parties have to appear oppositional, otherwise the scam would be exposed for everyone to see.

Bob the Hod , Jan 8, 2021 4:41 PM Reply to Researcher

While that is true to an extent, it isn't nearly that simple. There are individuals within those parties working against one another and with one another, factions within factions pulling in different directions. There is subtlety and nuance within power structures that is easily missed if you regard the whole thing as one homogenous blob. It is never, ever that simple. There are out and out psychopaths there, there are decent people there, there is every shade in between. The system favours psychopaths, that's for sure. The news that they try to feed us is nothing but theatre, but behind the scenes there is a lot that goes on that we don't know about, human flaws and egos abound.

Shit certainly rises to the top, and backstabbing shit at that. Human history is littered with examples of it. We've got where we are because psychopaths rule. Their main loyalty is to themselves. That's why the absurd horseshit espoused by Ayn Rand has come to be mainstream political doctrine. It's always worth remembering that these apparently monolithic power structures are built on the shoulders of inherently flawed individuals and they can and do collapse.

Paul Vonharnish , Jan 8, 2021 5:56 PM Reply to Bob the Hod

Hello Bob the Hod: I agree with the notion that certain individuals within these organizations often uphold their own sense of nuance and decency. Tulsi Gabbard would be an excellent example These persons are overridden by others who are more privy to lobby/PAC interests and media attention

I totally disagree with your assessment of Ayn Rand. If you read her work "Atlas Shrugged", she is warning the audience against the inherent collapse of systems which are corrupted by money, title, and "special" influence. The final chapters detail the dire consequences quite well.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 6:28 PM Reply to Bob the Hod

I don't agree. At all. Those individuals are there only to provide the illusion that there are individual views or beliefs being proffered. Whatever power structures exist within those various groups is normal infighting that occurs within hierarchical structures where people jockey for position based on personal objectives whether that be greed or narcissism. None of that infighting is connected to the functionaries and system that controls policies or agendas because those are predetermined decades ahead.

If you step outside the system, you will be ousted. If you can't be immediately ousted, you will be taken out one way or another. A scandal. A threat. An accident. A political challenger. Access and privileges rescinded. Donations dried up. Unanswered phone calls and emails. Everybody knows this before they get into politics. The only reason they're there is to get in on the gravy train.

Researcher , Jan 8, 2021 2:24 PM

The silencing and censoring is part of the faux drama. If social media can appear to censor the president, it justifies the broader censoring already taking place. Countries already restrict which sites we are allowed visit or know exist through our ISP's and our search results. The cyber pandemic and faux hacking is created to censor and restrict our access even more, which will morph into approved words, approved sites, approved and monitored online activities.

The president has never once gone off script. Everything is staged. They stage "events" and script "narratives" to justify the laws they already intend to pass that were written years ahead.

Voting doesn't matter. Governments are legal constructs that protect criminal racketeering. Nobody gets near the presidency who isn't born into the club. The same goes for Prime Ministerial positions.

All sides work for the same people. They are in a club of criminals and psychopaths and there is no movement within that milieu. Presidents have no agency. They are figureheads. Spokespeople for the criminal cartel.

Trump is a long time money launderer for the Rothschild-Rockefeller cartel. And a reality show actor on television.

Trump has no reason whatsoever to be deposed other than it was planned this way by the people who hired the Transition Integrity Project to write the script to create the staged coup.

Gwyn , Jan 8, 2021 4:09 PM Reply to Researcher

Very concisely (and accurately) put. It's all just staging, actors and scripts. Those who run the show have got it all sewn up (and they have done for a very long time).

Donald Tute , Jan 8, 2021 2:17 PM

Trump looking weak, failed and dejected hides what could have been. It could have been scary and it could all have got very out of control very quickly if his demands had have been met.

Aniesush , Jan 8, 2021 2:08 PM

Trump looking weak, failed and dejected hides what could have been. It could have been scary and it could have got very out of control very quickly if his demands had have been met.

It was clear for anyone to see that Trump has been fishing for support for a coup over the past few months, but it never came to anything. The military kept their powder Dry for reasons best known by them.

God only knows what calls were being made behind the scenes between politicians, the military and big tech during these past few weeks, but in the end the coup failed. I suspect because the traditional power bases who might have gained from the overthrow of this 'democracy' are already doing very well inside the corrupt system, So why overthrow it.

I totally disagree that the new fascist will be anti-fascists. Traditional fascists are still the real danger, despite your many attempts to make them the heroes, and despite Trumps failure, are growing in influence every day as the CIA & groups like you clears a path for them in the media, in parliament and in every day life.

[Jan 09, 2021] It might well be a joint operation staged by the Republicans and Democratsand managed by the CIA, and FBI infiltrators that would have been among the extreme Trump supporters from the beginning of his presidency.

Notable quotes:
"... Whatever pantomime is being played out – trump has to be part of it. There is simply no way his team would not have foreseen this. Just another distraction to keep the people fighting each other – and conveniently bring in the further restrictions we could all see coming. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

IanGB , Jan 8, 2021 1:02 AM

Is it not just as likely that this was staged by the Republicans and Democrats as a joint operation and managed by the CIA, FBI infiltrators that would have been among the extreme Trump supporters from the beginning of his presidency.

Mitch McConnell and the 'sane' Republicans want shot of Trump. They don't want him going around the country for the next four years rallying his supporters for a second shot at the presidency for himself or Jared. They want to get back to business as usual and Biden will go along with them if they finish off Trump.

What better way than painting support of Trump being an attack on the constitution and its symbols, almost a sacred text and icons for a large numbers of Americans. This way they cut away large swathes of his regular Republican support who see this as crossing a line. Then start planning for the next election without the distraction of Trump.

Martin , Jan 8, 2021 2:38 AM Reply to IanGB

You make a good point for why it might have been joint effort – thanks for that thought. I even wonder if Trump was part of it as well. But to the Republican's detriment – we who supported Trump are as sick of the Repub traitors as the Democrats. Cotton, Paul – shitheads. I think disguised antifa scum were the provocateurs here but hurray for all Patriots there that were emboldened to enter on their heels. You should check out the Tiktok photo showing the Congress overrun. Good for them! Hell, there's nothing in that building worth respecting anymore. The party system is corrupt beyond repair.

Serf , Jan 8, 2021 12:48 AM

That could well be a Rehearsal rather than an actual staging. The clue being, the number of casualties was kept at a very strict minimum. You might argue, the loss of prestige for this militaristic country is enormous, but that can be easily fixed by our skillful Media.

4 killed, i would say, if I borrow from Obama's wisdom, this number is not worth talking about it.

Despair! , Jan 7, 2021 11:53 PM

Whatever pantomime is being played out – trump has to be part of it. There is simply no way his team would not have foreseen this. Just another distraction to keep the people fighting each other – and conveniently bring in the further restrictions we could all see coming.

What is there left to do. Accept our lot in life, the cycle of humanity. Reflect and look within – its not what I want materially – spiritually maybe – but either way it feels that really is all we can do.

Cal , Jan 7, 2021 11:55 PM

Obama said 'Trump incited violence at Capitol' https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1347014070096957443?s=20

S Cooper , Jan 8, 2021 12:15 AM Reply to Cal

That coming from the war criminal that had Gaddafi lynched. What a slimy crocodile teared hypocrite, liar and charlatan. "We came, we saw, he died." https://ewn.co.za/2011/10/22/Tutu-slams-Gaddafis-killing

[Jan 09, 2021] Except ANTIFA are government employees

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Jan 8, 2021 11:14 AM

According to one of my US sources "ANTIFA members stormed our capital building. They dressed as Trump supporters (I'll call them MAGA for short)." My source supplied this video which shows MAGA supporters begging with Antifa actors to stop.

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media?thread_id=637455114&attachment_id=1541417792717407&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAAFtLc99Etvowl24ZY6Lsfxu

You can clearly hear them shouting "No Antifa", 5 -6 Reply

Cal , Jan 8, 2021 12:44 PM Reply to John Goss

Except ANTIFA are government employees

[Jan 09, 2021] Evidence of voter fraud was being submitted to the record cancelled; Petitioning for a 10-day investigation cancelled; Not expecting to overturn results but wanted to pursue process cancelled; Goal was transparency cancelled

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 4:01 PM

UK Column News – 8th January 2021
PART ONE

CONGRESS WAS HEARING OBJECTIONS TO THE ELECTION; PROTESTORS SHUT DOWN HEARING
Evidence of voter fraud was being submitted to the record – cancelled
Petitioning for a 10-day investigation – cancelled
Not expecting to overturn results but wanted to pursue process – cancelled
Goal was transparency – cancelled

TRUMP REALIZED THE ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT THE SITTING
Called on followers to "go home now. We have to have peace."
There is no incitement in any of his speeches – MSM is fake news.
Twitter deleted the Tweet. Big Tech did not want evidence Trump called for peace.
That disrupted the narrative that Trump was inciting riots.

POLITICS IS THE NEW HOLLYWOOD
David Corn: Donald Trump is now a Terrorist Leader
Rep David Trone: hysterical victim selfie in boy-in-bubble helmet.

BBC EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
Comparing headlines to video evidence is like two different worlds.

SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
Unarmed Air Force veteran was executed by a kill shot to head by plainclothes assassin.
Real story is unknown: to set an example. Was she a liability?
Gunman was roughly five feet behind her he could see she was unarmed.
She was a Trump supporter among a band of provocateurs.
MSM smeared her reputation, talked of domestic issues, painted her as "unstable woman."
No information on other four deaths. Left vague
Police officer also supposedly died after returning to his office.

ZUCKERBERG DELETE'S TRUMP'S FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS
JOINED TWITTER IN SHUTTING DOWN PRESIDENT

Here's the full post from Zuckerberg:

The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden. His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence.

Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.

Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.

We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.

What Zuckerberg asserts this is his media communication channel. You are privileged to use it even if you are the democratically elected president of the U.S. We shall decide if you communicate with the public.

Zuckerberg labels this violent insurrection yet the only violence was from the police. This is hugely partisan and anything but objective.

Patrick Henningsen: The U.S. has never before used this wording "the peaceful transition of power" -- it was a transfer of elected governments. In this new class of politicians it is only about power. We are entering a post-democratic society.

Mark Zuckerberg and spouse Priscilla Chan spend $400 million in the key six swing states to impose Dominion Voting Systems and to pay pollsters to influence voters in those same states.

FACT CHECKERS ASSERT WITHOUT CHECKING

Reuters, USA Today, Fact Check -- all insist members of Antifa were not identified in the Capitol by facial recognition using random insertion of "recognition" to glaze over the narrative. They had not spent any time investigating these individuals: it was all assertion.

DEMENTIA JOE CONDEMNS DOMESTIC TERRORISTS
"They were not protestors"
By denying civil disobedience he effectively condones a coup d'etat.
Crowd changed for people not to break windows, not to storm Capitol.
Attacks assault on the citadel of American liberty.
Joe Biden slurred his speech throughout. The man is barely lucid.

GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS PUT WHITE HOUSE ON LOCKDOWN
In June 2020, mobs burned White House church, tried to breach security
Joe Biden had nothing to say.
Democrats supported these actions when they didn't control government.

LUSTRATION – SHUTTING OUT RIVAL PARTIES
Patrick Henningsen: Democrats are calling for GOP to be broken up.
"Hold anyone linked to Trump accountable." – Hari Sevugan
"Draw up lists and hold them accountable" – AOC
Remove Congressmen who challenged election results
Simon & Schuster cancelled Josh Hawley's book contract.
This is a policy used in Ukraine after the coup to shut out parties that the new ruling clique did not like.

GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY CRITICIZE U.S.
ATTACK PEOPLE DEFENDING ELECTION INTEGRITY
Charles Michel – EU Council President (unelected)
Jans Stoltenberg – NATO Sec Gen (unelected)
Jacinta Ardern – NZ PM (authoritr*ns)
Nicola Sturgeon – Scotland PM (authoril*z)
Sociopathy toward the majority seems to be relevant.

UK Column News – 8th January 2021

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P6UAGpRGcQM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent

[Jan 09, 2021] BLM activist identified in mob that stormed Capitol, was present at veteran's killing, later detained by DC police

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 4:44 AM

BLM activist identified in mob that stormed Capitol, present at veteran's killing, later detained by DC police

"One of the men who was part of the siege of the Capitol building is John Earle Sullivan, an extreme BLM activist from Utah. He was arrested & charged in July 2020 over a BLM-antifa riot where drivers in Provo were threatened & one was shot." -- Andy Ngo

Sullivan was one of those filming US Air Force Veteran, Ashli Babbitt, as she was shot dead. Babbitt seems to have entered the Capitol on the coattails of a group of provocateurs, perhaps not realizing that she was the odd one out.

The prominent BLM activist said he was not at the Capitol as part of the protest but did not specify what exactly brought him there. Sullivan said he was able to get inside through a broken window.

The Daily Mail and CNN have both interviewed Sullivan.. neither asked what he was doing in the building in the middle of a group of supposed Trump supporters .

Numerous BLM/Antifa 'eventers' and the actor 'Viking horns' identified in the Capitol by Michael Snyder.

Moneycircus , Jan 8, 2021 5:12 AM Reply to Moneycircus

"Interviewed last night by Anderson Cooper, who never asked this fellow why he was in the Capitol. "Two people who saw the shooting, left-wing activist John Sullivan and documentary filmmaker Jade Sacker, provided CNN with video of the incident and described the moment." -- Alan Burks

More on the progressive documentary maker Jade Sacker. A young lady, based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, who usually focuses on migration and women in conflict

[Jan 09, 2021] A police report on the Reichstag fire (1933)

Jan 09, 2021 | off-guardian.org

DM: , Jan 7, 2021 11:23 PM

Hmm! Interesting report here:-
A police report on the Reichstag fire (1933) – document extract (alphahistory.com)

I pulled Göering aside; but he did not let me start. 'Police on an emergency footing; shoot to kill; and any other emergency regulations which might be appropriate in such a case.' I said again that a police radio message would be sent to all police stations in his name, putting the police in a state of alert and ordering the arrest of those Communist officials whose imprisonment had been intended for some time in the event of a ban on the Party. Göering was not listening: 'No Communist and no Social Democrat traitor must be allowed to escape us' were his last words.

When I met Schneider again I tried to collect my thoughts: 'This is a mad-house, Schneider, but apart from that the time has come: all Communist and Social Democrat officials are to be arrested, big raids, a state of alert and all that goes with it!'

Schneider forgot the Social Democrats when he passed on Göering's order as a radio message. When I returned to the 'Alex' after midnight it was buzzing like a beehive. The alerted operational battalions of the police stood lined up in long rows in the entrance drives with steel helmets and rifles. While squad vans arrived and whole troops of detectives with registers prepared many years before jumped on the ramps, joined by uniformed officers, the first cars were arriving back at the entrance of the building with dazed prisoners who had been woken up from their sleep.

[Jan 09, 2021] But Trump did do something very important. He awakened the country to what's really going on. I don't see that as failure. The elite don't either; that's why they're fighting him so hard.

Notable quotes:
"... Monitors, equipped with distinguishing "uniforms", bullhorns and an array of communications devices, along with a set of security personnel, should have been front and center at the capitol to make sure that agents provocateurs, contract hired by the intel agencies of the Deep $tate, would not be able to fool a number of genuine Trump supporters into entering the building at the behest of these highly organized and ultimately protected Cointelpro types. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | www.unz.com

Majority of One , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:55 pm GMT • 5.5 hours ago

Was Trump for real, or was he an actor following a predetermined script? There were many occasions where he could have used the presidential powers to disarm the corporate state, the deep state and even the ruling banksters. Yet he did not act. Perhaps the most telling of all his "failures" was the fact that he called a rally in the Di$trict of Corruption without setting up an organization (or even having one) that would have been specifically instructed to make certain there would be no "riotous" disruptions in the process.

Monitors, equipped with distinguishing "uniforms", bullhorns and an array of communications devices, along with a set of security personnel, should have been front and center at the capitol to make sure that agents provocateurs, contract hired by the intel agencies of the Deep $tate, would not be able to fool a number of genuine Trump supporters into entering the building at the behest of these highly organized and ultimately protected Cointelpro types.

It was a setup, folks. That should be obvious to any informed observer. Did Trump play a role, whether passive or active, in creating the media spectacle which is now being used to once again convince the terminally deluded boobtoob noose addicts that the Kamala's Foote and Biden nominees were the "good guys" who actually won the election fair and square and that the bedizened patriots who showed up in DC in huge numbers were actually the foes of "democracy"?

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Thomasina , says: January 8, 2021 at 7:01 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago
@Majority of One ut the Insurrection Act and how he should have used this or that presidential power, but unfortunately he didn't know enough about what he COULD do. I'm sure he had lousy counsel. He was surrounded by people like Mitch McConnell and Newt Gingrich who would have strung Trump along, saying, "No, you can't do that, we are a democracy," etc. Blah, blah, blah.

Hard to govern when you're surrounded with knives. The White House should be called "The House of Knives".

But Trump did do something very important. He awakened the country to what's really going on. I don't see that as failure. The elite don't either; that's why they're fighting him so hard.

Curmudgeon , says: January 8, 2021 at 7:05 pm GMT • 4.3 hours ago
@Miro23 oulda, coulda, shoulda.

What people do not understand, is that he was screwed before he got the nomination. Republican Inc. would have fixed the convention to deprive him of the nomination, had he not agreed to take Pence and Priebus.

Priebus had met with a group of never Trumpers when it became clear there was no way Trump was going to lose. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/priebus-meets-privately-mike-lee-never-trump-leaders-discuss-procedural-compromise/
He never had a chance.

[Jan 09, 2021] Two neoliberal parties are just two wings of single unipaty

Notable quotes:
"... Unlike most democracies, the USA is dominated by just two parties that use propaganda to fight for control of the power that Government provides. Republicans stand firmly by Milton Friedman, openly and honestly promoting the best interests of the ruling class and against FDR's New Deal that had transformed the quality of life for hundreds of millions of workers. Republicans are a minority but well organized, well funded and speak with a disciplined message. ..."
"... The Democrat Party leadership has the same agenda because both parties operate in a completely privatized communication system which demands enormous sums of cash to participate. Like everything else in America the two parties can be characterized as businesses that use BS to collect money to give to the mass media, in their endless struggle for political power. Although there are many regional variations across time and geographic regions, Democrats tend to hold a 5% advantage over Republicans, but both parties are rightly held in distain by the 40% of voters who consider themselves to be "independent". Independent or not most elections force American voters back into a choice between Democrat or Republican. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | www.unz.com

bayviking ,

says:

January 8, 2021 at 5:13 pm GMT • 6.2 hours ago

I first became aware of Paul Craig Roberts (PCR) during the depression of 2008 when events led to my armchair education in economics. PCR contributed to my education along with Michael Hudson, Steven Keen, Jospeph Stiglitz and others. I learned that economics is an inexact science full of falsehoods that serve the ruling class in their war against the working class. A primary falsehood promoted by the Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman is that unregulated free markets produce the greatest prosperity for the greatest number of people. Friedman's Chicago School of economics, which dominates US policy under the guise of freedom and democracy, has actually spread poverty, death and destruction for hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. Friedman's logic seemingly justifies exploitation of the working class by the ruling class in the great class war defined by Marx. Most Americans have benefited from these policies in so far as they were imposed on third world countries even though they are currently suffering as they have been incrementally imposed on our domestic population, leading to a growing popularity for political outliers like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Unlike most democracies, the USA is dominated by just two parties that use propaganda to fight for control of the power that Government provides. Republicans stand firmly by Milton Friedman, openly and honestly promoting the best interests of the ruling class and against FDR's New Deal that had transformed the quality of life for hundreds of millions of workers. Republicans are a minority but well organized, well funded and speak with a disciplined message.

The Democrat Party leadership has the same agenda because both parties operate in a completely privatized communication system which demands enormous sums of cash to participate. Like everything else in America the two parties can be characterized as businesses that use BS to collect money to give to the mass media, in their endless struggle for political power. Although there are many regional variations across time and geographic regions, Democrats tend to hold a 5% advantage over Republicans, but both parties are rightly held in distain by the 40% of voters who consider themselves to be "independent". Independent or not most elections force American voters back into a choice between Democrat or Republican.

Trump is not a leader, populist or intellectual thinker. His only concern is himself and his immediate family. He spends his time tweeting, golfing while eating and promoting junk food. He seeks immediate profits for himself and his donors in a political system which pays out 10:1 on investments in successful political candidates, where pay back is realized in tax benefits. Trump is a successful self promoter who has a few good ideas and the most substantial following of any Republican politician. But his behavior is too erratic to ever bring his good ideas to fruition, or you could simply say ge is too lazy to bother.

ump used populist issues, Republican gerrymandering, Republican voter caging and purging to overcome popular vote losses in 2016 but not 2020. Since 2000 American democratic voting systems have rightly suffered a credibility gap, which Greg Pallast has documented but is largely ignored by the mass media and Government which prefers to imagine us as the greatest democracy ever. Trump has been able to use these problems to sow doubts about the credibility of the 2020 outcome, even though our voting systems have been much improved on since 2000.

A Princeton Study documented that the USA operates more like an Oligarchy than a Democracy by studying who benefited from 2000 pieces of legislation. The exclusive beneficiaries of all that legislation by Democrats and Republicans are the wealthiest Americans that fund the majority of duopoly activity. This fact helps to explain how wealth is being concentrated into fewer and fewer hands..

You have to look back as far as Eisenhower and Kennedy to find Presidents dedicated to promoting the general welfare, one of our constitutional mandates. Since that period, election results have trapped the US population in a neoliberal economic system where the vast majority of elected officials are mere figureheads. Biden and Harriss's record is no exception to that rule. The "establishment" can be characterized as the military industrial complex, ruling class, .001% or in a variety of other ways. I am not sure how PCR defines that term, but they write and enforce the laws we all live by:

The use of money, the mass media and propaganda to vilify individuals and wage class war is a great American past time. That is how Johnson attacked Goldwater and Bush 41 attacked Dukakis. It is hardly unique to Trump's situation and if anything Trump is a master media manipulator and name caller.

The history of man is the history of man's enslavement of other men usually under some form of capitalism. When white people gained certain technological advantages over other people, they used that technology ruthlessly to gain wealth. This is not unique to white western culture, but it is an undeniable aprt of human history. Abraham Lincoln said that capital cannot be accumulated without the contribution of labor, and therefore labor deserves the first consideration. But we live in a world controlled by capitalists and the only thing worse than being exploited by capitalists is not being exploited by them

Since the New Deal, the US has been on a path determined by the Friedman school of economics. This has included the shuttering of mental health hospitals. As a result there are many white psychotic males running around in a country with more individual guns than the Chinese Army possesses. There is a real need to control access to these weapons, regardless of the meaning of the original intent of the second amendment. One legitimate interpretation of the term "militia" was white armed conscripts used to persistently intimidate and lynch black slaves which far outnumber wealthy plantation owners. That said hunting is a legitimate use of firearms even if slavery and war are impossible to justify.

Like Reagan, Trump has fomented racial and gender conflict as a successful political strategy in a country which still is largely white, even though that proportion is unsustainable. Whether the Covid-19 epidemic serves a similar political function can be debated. However, as long as the US and other major powers operate bio-weapons and nuclear weapons labs life on earth faces unnecessary risks. This website has documented that the 1918 "Spanish Flu" epidemic was most likely started in Kansas from a Rockefeller funded biological research lab. The post 9-11 anthrax attack through the SU mail was almost certainly a deliberate attack by a misguided rogue scientist in one of our labs. Bio-weapons and Nuclear labs should be shut down through international agreements, the initiation of which began during the Kennedy Presidency. But, unfortunately, the reverse is happening. Trump has even suggested we should be more willing to use nuclear weapons to get our way, as long as we are building them.

Overpopulation of the world is a serious problem. Global warming and US war mongering has created tens of millions of refugees which must immigrate or die. Increases in population densities everywhere decreases the quality of our lives and needs to be controlled. But to do so effectively we must attempt to address the underlying causes of mass immigration. Most people would prefer to live in te culture they were raised in as long as they can make a decent living.

Under J Edgar Hoover, blacks, liberals, socialists and communists were enemy number one. Our country has a long history of using the police to contain unrest in the working class. While Hoover was the most extreme, you are still far more likely to suffer death or other injury promulgated by the State if you are poor and considered to be part of any of the groups Hoover vilified. Occupy Wall Street and Black lives Matter protestors were treated much more brutally than any right wing extremists in support of Trump. Compare the caution exercised by police during the Ted Bundy grazing conflict standoff and its aftermath with the Black Panthers and PCR's assertions do not hold up.

[Jan 09, 2021] Actually Tucker Carlson is one of those people and props to the guy for telling us working class Whites what "our elite white leader trash" have always thought about us.

Jan 09, 2021 | www.unz.com

Trinity , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:26 pm GMT • 3.0 hours ago

@Kronos

Actually Tucker Carlson is one of those people and props to the guy for telling us working class Whites what "our elite white leader trash" have always thought about us. Of course Tucker won't dare mention the Jew, but at least he clues us in on white traitor trash that claim to be superior by avoid being seen near chain restaurants and hotels.

Of course we KNOW that the Jew and his elite shabbos goy only think of the common Black and Brown foot soldiers as pets as well, these cats are the real Supremacists. These (((elitists))) will dump the Black and Brown grunts for the Yellow ones, believe that as well.

[Jan 09, 2021] America's Color Revolution by Paul Craig Roberts

Notable quotes:
"... You do know a guy name Milton Friedman was the architect for Reagan economics? For the record we are currently living thru long term dystopia effects of Reagan economics. ..."
Jan 09, 2021 | www.unz.com

Biden and Kamala are mere figureheads put in office by a stolen election. Any agenda they think that they have is irrelevant. Here is the Establishment's agenda:

First: Prevent any political organization of the "Trump Deplorables." Any who attempt to form a real opposition party will be made an example of. In America it is child's play to frame up anyone. We saw the show in Russiagate, and Trump will now be exhausted with endless frameups as the Establishment pursues him into oblivion. If the President of the United States can be so easily framed up, an unknown political organizer in the red states can be disposed of at will.

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Fourth: The Establishment will increase its fomenting of racial and gender conflict in order to keep Americans too divided to resist its increasingly odious control measures, whether they be the use of Covid to suppress freedom of movement and association, charges of being a foreign agent in order to suppress free speech as in the Assange case, or round up and internment of Trump Americans trying to organize a political party that represents the people instead of the Establishment.

Modern weapons in the hands of the state are devastating. Mass spying and control techniques that exist today go beyond those in dystopian novels such as Orwell's 1984 . Free speech is a thing of the past. Free speech no longer even exists in universities. As I write Twitter, Facebook and the presstitutes are suppressing the free speech of the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is powerless to do anything about it. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/533027-twitter-locks-trumps-account-for-at-least-12-hours?rnd=1609978506

The Establishment's control over the media means that no charge against President Trump is too extreme to cause a protest. The enormous support shown for Trump in Washington on January 6 with estimates of participants ranging from 200,000 to 2,000,000 was easy for the Establishment to turn into a liability by infiltrating the rally.

It was naive for President Trump and his supporters not to realize that infiltration was guaranteed as it was necessary for the Establishment to turn massive support into a massive liability. This would achieve two purposes. One purpose was to terminate the challenge to the electors in the Senate, and it succeeded. Here, for example, is Republican Senator Mike Braun from Indiana dropping his intent to object to the electors from the swing states where the election was stolen: "I think that today change things drastically. Yeah, whatever point you made before that should suffice. Get this ugly day behind us," he said. Even Rand Paul was intimidated: "I just don't think there's going to be another objection. I think it's over at that point." https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533033-gop-senators-hopeful-theyve-quashed-additional-election-challenges?rnd=1609980353 Here is Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler whose reelection to the Senate was stolen from her acquiescing in Trump's and her own stolen elections: "When I arrived in Washington this morning, I fully intended to object to the certification of the electoral votes. However, the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider and I cannot now, in good conscience, object," Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.). https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533052-congress-affirms-biden-win-after-rioters-terrorize-capitol

The other purpose served was to insure that Trump would not go out as a president whose reelection was stolen but as an insurrectionist. And it has succeeded.

Internationally Trump was denounced by NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg for not respecting democracy. "The outcome of this democratic election must be respected," declared Stoltenberg. Stolen or not it is democracy to be rid of Trump. https://www.rt.com/usa/511743-uk-france-nato-condemn-capitol/

British prime minister Boris Johnson declared that the US is the world symbol of Democracy and that it is vital there is a peaceful and ordered transfer of power, as if there was an actual insurrection taking place and an election not stolen.

The French President Macron declared: "What happened today in Washington, DC today is not American, definitely." In other words, it is unamerican to protest a stolen election that the Establishment refuses to address. [I watched presentations by independent experts to the Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan legislatures that proved beyond all doubt the presidential election was stolen. Half of the professional presenters were people of color.]

The German Chancellor Merkel blamed Trump for creating an atmosphere that led to a challenge to democracy in the US Capitol. https://www.rt.com/news/511778-germany-merkel-america-trump-capitol/

Republican senators themselves, former members of Trump's cabinet, and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff jumped on Trump with both feet. The no longer Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Trump's "unhinged thugs" "tried to disrupt our democracy. They failed. This failed insurrection underscores how crucial the task before us is" to restore Establishment control. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533039-mcconnell-after-rioters-storm-capitol-they-tried-to-disrupt-our-democracy

Republican Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina said: "The President bears responsibility for today's events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led to this point."

Republican Senator Mitt Romney from Utah said: the violence was "an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States." https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533034-richard-burr-says-trump-bears-responsibility-for-riot

"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob," said Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the third-ranking House Republican. "He lit the flame." https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533052-congress-affirms-biden-win-after-rioters-terrorize-capitol

Trump's Secretary of Defense James Mattis told the presstitutes that "Today's violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump. His use of the presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice."

General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump administration said Republicans "who have continued to undermine a peaceful transition in accordance with our Constitution have set the conditions for today's violence."

The presstitutes had a field day with misleading and lying headlines. One of the worst offenders was The Hill , formerly a source of real news on what was going on in Congress, but today a highly partisan Trump-hating source of Establishment propaganda.

With the American Establishment's foreign puppets, Republicans, Trump's own cabinet members, military leaders, and the presstitutes speaking with one voice setting up President Trump as an insurrectionist threat to democracy, the Democrats' wild charges seemed credible.

Democrat Senator Schumer from New York, the new Senate Majority Leader, Democrat House Speaker Pelosi, and a large number of Democrat members of Congress, together with the New York Times, have called for Trump's impeachment or his removal from office by invoking the 25th Amendment. Here is the new Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) making the case:

"What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president. This president should not hold office one day longer," Schumer said in a statement.

"The quickest and most effective way -- it can be done today -- to remove this president from office would be for the Vice President to immediately invoke the 25th amendment. If the Vice President and the Cabinet refuse to stand up, Congress should reconvene to impeach the president," he added. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533124-schumer-calls-for-25th-amendment-to-be-invoked-after-capitol-riots

Here is Pelosi: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/07/lawmakers-trump-25th-amendment-455832

Here is Adam Smith, Democrat from Washington state and chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, calling for Trump's removal from office: "President Trump incited & encouraged this riot. He & his enablers are responsible for the despicable attack at the Capitol. VP Pence and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th amendment to remove Trump, otherwise Senate Republicans must work with the House to impeach & remove him. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/533136-house-armed-services-chair-calls-for-removing-trump-from-office

For the New York Times , it doesn't not suffice to remove Trump from office. He must be prosecuted as well.

To understand the extraordinary hatred of President Trump by the Establishment, listen to his inaugural address. He described the Establishment accurately as a force arraigned against the American people, a force that he intended to dismantle and restore America to the American people. This was a revolutionary challenge, a reckless one as Trump is a populist, not a revolutionary leading a determined movement. Moreover, Trump was so uninformed about Washington that he never succeeded in appointing anyone to his government, other than General Flynn (an immediate casualty of the Establishment) who agreed with his agenda of normalizing relations with Russia, bringing the troops home from the Middle East, ending NATO, and bringing the jobs home that American corporations had exported to China. Here was Trump unarmed taking on the American Establishment. This was an act of suicide as it has turned out to be.

People who think in terms of party politics have no likelihood of understanding the situation. The struggle is not Democrats vs. Republicans. or red states vs. blue states. It is the Establishment against the people. If you have any doubt about this, note that the US National Association of Manufacturers, always a throughly Republican organization, agrees with Schumer and Pelosi that Trump must be removed from office. Here is the organization's statement: "Vice President Pence, who was evacuated from the Capitol, should seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy." https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532988-democratic-lawmakers-call-for-pence-to-invoke-25th-amendment-remove The National Association of Manufacturers want Trump out because they are the ones responsible for China's rise, the US trade deficit and the destruction of half of the US middle class. All the goods and services imported from offshored production count as imports. It is the offshored production that is responsible for America's trade deficit, not China.

The presstitutes throughout the Western world have intentionally misrepresented the January 6 rally in Washington in support of Trump. The rally had to be misrepresented, because no one in politics today anywhere in the Western World can demonstrate such massive support other than Donald Trump. No one turned out for Biden or Kamala during the presidential campaign. Their events, soon cancelled, had no attendees. Yet, they won the election? What saps people are. Who turns out for Merkel, Macron, Boris Johnson. No one even knows who the leaders are in the rest of the Western World.

Trump could not be permitted to leave office with such a massive showing of support -- a terrible embarrassment to the corrupt scum who "speak for the people." So the support had to be discredited by turning it into an insurrection ordered by Trump against Democracy, a holy word that is observed nowhere in the Western World.

The people who entered the Capitol were a tiny minority of those who attended the rally which was entirely peaceful and well behaved. It was so peaceful and well behaved that Facebook will ban and delete all photos and videos of Wednesday protests: https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/06/facebook-will-ban-and-delete-all-photos-and-videos-of-any-aspect-of-wednesday-protests/ The facts are not consistent with the presstitute narrative and must be suppressed.

Here is a description of agitators who suddenly appeared and provoked the entrance into the Capitol by a few Trump supporters who, unlike the rioters in Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta and elsewhere, did not behave as rioters and did no damage. The report is from a person present not as a Trump supporter but as a person to film the event. The report was sent to NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller. I have left the person's name off so that he doesn't get investigated by the FBI:

"I was in Washington, D.C. today filming the Trump rally and related events. I also ran across your post concerning the Capitol demonstration tonight. Perhaps this short account will help you assess what others are saying in a small way.

"I was also at the Capitol before the crowd appeared setting-up my camera on a stone wall around the perimeter of the back of the capitol (the rear facing Constitution Avenue). Then I waited for President Trump's speech to end and for supporters to walk-up Constitution Avenue to the Capitol. I was located at the precise location where supporters first rushed up the slope towards the back of the Capitol after casting aside a section of the first Capitol perimeter barrier. Supporters gathered roughly at the center of the back of the capitol, but a circle began to grow around the perimeter as the crowd grew larger. I had no sense that the growing crowd intended to rush the Capitol.

"After a large crowd emerged at the perimeter a man in perhaps his late 30's or early 40's showed-up, pacing quickly to his left then to his right before the crowd, and essentially began hurling insults at the crowd challenging their political wisdom. He excoriated the crowd for thinking that their attendance would be taken seriously by members of congress. (Hard to say that he was wrong about that, whoever he was). I cannot recall his precise words, but for a very short period he engaged in a shouting exchange with supporters, and suddenly supporters pushed aside the first barrier and rushed towards the back of the Capitol. Others on the northern edge of the perimeter followed suit. But the first rush was right at the center of the back of the Capitol. I followed the rush to the bottom of the Capitol back steps, and began filming again from atop an inner perimeter stone wall.

"The police, so it appeared, were a little surprised by the rush, and this gave supporters an opportunity to race up the steps. One or two men even made it as far as the steps leading up to the scaffolds on the south side of the Capitol before police arrested them. By this time, five or ten men had climbed to the top of the tall steel tower structure facing the Capitol. Then the police erected and lined-up behind a new barrier perimeter at the foot of the Capitol steps. Police at the top of the Capitol steps aimed rifles down on the crowd (perhaps rubber bullet rifles, I could not tell). The crowd began arguing with police and pressing hard against the new barrier. The police sprayed men pressing directly against the barrier with tear gas from time to time causing them to retreat. "Meanwhile, the men at the top of the tower began rallying the crowd to challenge the new barrier (over bull horns) by filling any gaps between the barrier and the stone wall that I was using as a filming vantage point. Another man worked the crowd with a bull horn immediately in front of me and also encouraged supporters to climb over the inner perimeter stone wall (my filming vantage point) and create a wall of pressure on the new barrier at the bottom of the Capitol back steps.

"After about 30 minutes to an hour I dropped to the bottom of the stone wall to reload my camera when suddenly the barrier gave way and police attempted to fortify it by blasting tear gas into the area between the stone wall and the barrier. I was hit by the gas myself and struggled back over the stone wall in order to breathe. The gas threw many crowd members into a panic. And I was nearly trampled as I struggled to lift my camera and heavy gear bag over the wall after two women began pulling desperately on the back of my coat to pull themselves up and over the moderately high wall in retreat.

"After the second perimeter barrier gave way, the men with the bull horns began working the crowd very hard to fill-up with Trump supporters the steps of the Capitol and the scaffolding on both sides of it. At this point one of the calls, which the men with bull horns repeated from time to time in order to encourage people to climb the Capitol steps was "this is not a rally; it's the real thing." Another frequent call was "its now or never." After about a two hour effort peppered with bull horn calls of this nature the entire back of the Capitol was filled with Trump supporters and the entire face of the Capitol was covered with brilliant small and very large Trump banners, American flags, and various other types of flags and banners.

"Sometime after the rush on the back of the Capitol, people were apparently able to enter the Capitol itself through the front. But I was not witness to anything at the front or inside the Capitol.

"One clearly bona fide Trump supporter who had apparently entered the Capitol himself was telling others emotionally and angrily (including press representatives of some sort, even a foreign newsman) that he witnessed someone inside the Capitol encouraging violence whom he strongly suspected was not a legitimate Trump supporter (apparently on the basis that the man showed no signs at all of Trump support on his apparel). I did not pay that close attention to his claims (for example the precise claim of the violence encouraged) because, naturally, I had not yet read your post and it had not occurred to me that professional outsiders might play a role in instigating particular violent acts in order to discredit the event.

"I overheard one Trump supporter (who followed the rush on the Capitol himself) say aloud, "I brought many others to this rally, but we did not sign on for this" as he watched matters escalate.

"Still, from my seat, I would say that large numbers of very legitimate Trump supporters felt that it was their patriotic duty to occupy the Capitol in light of their unshakable beliefs that (1) the 2020 election was a fraud, (2) that the vast majority of the members of congress are corrupt and compromised, and (3) that the country is in the throes of what they consider a "communist" takeover (although many use the expression "communism" as a synonym for "totalitarianism"). They are also convinced that the virus narrative is a fraud and an essential part of an effort to undermine the Constitution –in particular the Bill of Rights. They have a very real fear that the country and the very conception of any culture of liberty is on the verge of an irreparable collapse. For most (if not a very large majority) rushing the Capitol was a desperate eleventh hour act of partiotism –even of the order of the revolution that created our nation. Some Trump supporters sang the Star Spangled Banner and other patriotic songs as others climbed the Capitol steps. They also demonstrated a measure of respect for the Capitol itself. I saw no attempt by anyone to deface the Capitol simply for the sake of defacing it.

"The incontrovertibly compromised press has called this event a riot. But from what I saw and heard this would indeed be a gross and intentionally misleading oversimplification at best. At least from the standpoint of supporters, if their Capitol event was a riot, then so was the Boston Tea Party. It also seems to me that some professional help (very aware of deep sentiments) might have come from somewhere to make sure that the party happened."

See also: https://www.unz.com/isteve/alternative-timeline-nyt-mostly-peaceful-protesters-call-for-electoral-accountability-inside-capitol/

When I was on the Stanford University faculty, I remember rich and pampered Stanford students occupying the university president's office in a protest either against the Vietnam war or the name of the Stanford Football Team (Stanford Indians) and destroying the papers in the president's files of his life's work. Despite the liberalism of the university president, the presstitutes regarded the protest justified and well intentioned.

The rioters and looters who rampaged through many of America's major cities suffered no media condemnation, only support and encouragement. This is because, unlike Trump, Antifa and Black Lives Matter are financed by and controlled by the Establishment and thus represent no threat.There is no FBI investigation or intended prosecution of any of the rioters who destroyed billions of dollars of property in America's cities.

But the Trump supporters provoked into entering the Capitol are in for it says the Establishment figure Trump, in yet another of his mistakes, put in charge of the FBI.

It is difficult to defend Trump when he consistently puts in charge of his security agencies and Department of Justice members of the Establishment who hate his guts.

The FBI did nothing about the real rioters that did billions of dollars of damage to private businesses, but FBI Director Christopher Wray vowed Thursday to "hold accountable those who participated in yesterday's siege of the Capitol after a pro-Trump mob overtook the building, forcing evacuations." https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/533165-fbi-director-we-will-hold-accountable-those-who-participated-in

Here is Trump's appointee describing the people who elected the man who appointed him:

"The violence and destruction of property at the U.S. Capitol building yesterday showed a blatant and appalling disregard for our institutions of government and the orderly administration of the democratic process," Wray said in a statement.

"As we've said consistently, we do not tolerate violent agitators and extremists who use the guise of First Amendment-protected activity to incite violence and wreak havoc," he continued. "Such behavior betrays the values of our democracy. Make no mistake: With our partners, we will hold accountable those who participated in yesterday's siege of the Capitol."

Wray announced that the bureau "has deployed our full investigative resources" and is working with law enforcement partners "to aggressively pursue those involved in criminal activity" on Wednesday.

"Our agents and analysts have been hard at work through the night gathering evidence, sharing intelligence, and working with federal prosecutors to bring charges," he said.

He requested the public send in any information about Wednesday's events to the FBI, noting "We are determined to find those responsible and ensure justice is served."

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/533165-fbi-director-we-will-hold-accountable-those-who-participated-in

Notice that Wray, the Establishment's servant, not the servant of the rule of law, aligns the First Amendment with "violent agitators and extremists" and thus discredits the First Amendment as a tool of insurrection.

Everyone who was not at the US Capitol building on January 6, which is the entire world except the Trump supporters, has been brainwashed, by a corrupt, despicable collection of media whores serving an Establishment of Oligarchs, that Donald Trump intended an insurrection, but it was defeated. By Whom?

It was Trump who called out the National Guard and who told his supporters to leave the Capitol and to go home.

What kind of people can present this as an insurrection that requires Trump's removal from office and prosecution? The answer is totally evil people who have not only the United States but the entire Western World in their clutches.

The Western World is dead. It is now Mordor.

Trump appointees realize that, unless they add to his orchestrated embarrassment and setup by resigning, they are targeted for reprisals. Seeing permanent unemployment facing him, US Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger has resigned in response to Donald Trump's handling of the crisis on Capitol Hill. "Other people named as likely to abandon the sinking Trump ship are National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien and Deputy Chief of Staff Chris Liddell." https://www.rt.com/usa/511769-white-house-officials-resign/

Everyone everywhere is participating in Trump's destruction. The English language Russian press loves embarrassing America. The fun and games leaves the world in ignorance of the extraordinary consequences of what the stolen election and demonization of Trump and his supporters means. The end of the Western World is a big event, and it will affect everyone.

Addendum: Here is an example of the lies the presstitutes constantly deliver. Every prestitute organization reports that Trump incited a mob of his supporters this week to storm the U.S. Capitol: "House Democrats are racing toward impeaching President Trump for a second time after he incited a mob of his supporters this week to storm the U.S. Capitol and halt Congress's constitutional duty to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory." https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533340-democrats-poised-to-impeach-trump-again

Clearly, the dumbshits at The Hill, Bloomberg, and everywhere else let their hatred of Trump run away with them. What would be the point of halting the certification process? It could only be a temporary halt. The National Guard ordered in by Trump would clear the Capitol and the process would go forward, as it did. If Trump intended to halt the certification by having supporters occupy the Capitol, why did he call in the National Guard and tell his supporters to leave the Capitol? Clearly The Hill's presstitutes are devoid of reasoning ability. What Trump wanted to happen was to have the electors from the stolen swing states rejected by Congress on the basis of the evience. It was an unlikely thing to happen, but Trump had no choice but to exhaust the legal means available.

Chris Moore , says: Website January 8, 2021 at 3:17 am GMT • 20.1 hours ago

Trump was too conflicted to lead a populist revolt. He was too mobbed up with wealthy Zionists and right-leaning factions of the Jewish establishment. Now they'll quickly throw him under the bus. He's finished, and politically homeless. Not even the Deplorables will want anything to do with him, given the fact that he betrayed them time and again.

Trump might have been a populist leader had he immediately abandoned his Jewish handlers, fully adopted the white right, the military and veterans, Christians, Constitutionalists, small business, Main Street, America First industry and working class, etc. and oriented his entire administration in their direction. But given that New York Jews were part of his family, that wasn't going to happen.

A true populist will eventually emerge from the People, and do what Trump should have done but lacked the guts and integrity to do. And the Deep State will do all it can to strangle him in the cradle, but will fail, because like Golden Calf Hebrews from the Bible, or like Cyclops if you prefer Greek fables, it and its sycophants are sick, blind and insane now beyond any possibility for redemption, intoxicated by their own narcissism.

How long the white knight will take to emerge is hard to say, but he's eventually coming. Count on it.

Priss Factor , says: Website January 8, 2021 at 4:16 am GMT • 19.1 hours ago

Over the Establishment is Jewish Power.

The US always had an establishment. So does every country. And in the past, there were patriotic American establishments that cared about the people. What happened? Jews took over as the new masters and severed the ties between white elites and white masses. White elites now exist to serve Jews than to represent the American People.

Elites are formed by social selection. Fish rots from the head. As Jews at the top favor the most craven and venal goy cucks for promotion, the result is that the elites get filled up more and more with venal and craven people. And as people don't want to admit they're craven and venal, they convince themselves that they're on the side of angels and 'liberal democracy' even though all they do is serve Wall Street, spread worship of sodomy, and push for Wars for Israel.

When social selection to the top is predicated on patriotism and national unity, a better kind of people make it to the top. But when selection is based on obeisance to Jews and all their agendas(anti-white politics, globo-homo degeneracy, magic negro worship, and etc), then the result is the elites that the US has today.

There was a time when someone like Pat Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts could serve in the US government or work in elite industries. But today, even the most 'right-wing' Republican would rather be dead than be seen anywhere near such individuals.

shylockcracy , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:29 am GMT • 17.9 hours ago

The Trumpet hasn't been a victim of any "color revolution", he's been the catalyst for the US Ziocorporate regime's new phase of "democratic" government:

"Homeland Security Committee wants all 'domestic terrorists' who besieged US Capitol placed on FBI no-fly list"
https://www.rt.com/usa/511865-capitol-rioters-no-fly-list/

What's so populist about the Trumpet besides his speechwriters' style? He barely repealed Bombamacare's forced payment of premiums to corporate health peddlers, but not before doubling down on the Obama/Biden-backed war on Yemen and giving Ziodi Arabia's royal Salafi headchoppers $400 billion more in weapons, among other pearls of "populist anti-swamp" policies.

People had to occupy their local and state capitols, not the federal Ziocorporatists' temple of corporate governance masquerading as public office. Why even leave your own property unguarded to go fight for some billionaire with a tad too much fake tan, or for his walking corpse president-elect "rival" for the other side of that same coin, though I doubt anyone would fight for Kameltoe Biden without being paid in advance.

Great Reset was coming with Trump as it is with Biden either way, there wasn't any time to be an ignorant partisan tool. Things won't be getting any easier now. Even Mexico with its CIA/DEA-managed druglord wars is looking tame in comparison.

Robert Snefjella , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:51 am GMT • 17.6 hours ago

Trump is a moderate and inherently self-contradictory populist, not a phony populist, but a flawed populist, and in terms of complete program a meager populist. But give him credit, his tepid, flawed brand of populism has been spectacularly – popular – with tens of millions of Americans, and countless others around the planet.

One of his advantages has been that the political leadership stage in not just the United States but in the 'West' is occupied largely by corrupt pathetic figures who do political theater, scripted, banal, dishonest political puppetry on behalf of transnational agendas and powers that be, and their personal advantage. Trump populist program has included giving priority voice to the 'outdated' concepts of national sovereignty and national interest. He has been an implicit and explicit critic of the global 'full spectrum domination' American establishment agenda.

In the land of political midgets a person of even modest stature seems a giant.

But more importantly, Trump is actually a great and singular revolutionary, not in normal terms, of political ideology, or political program, but in terms of the ability to change and animate public perceptions. His has been a needed revolution in terms of style and substance: he has been by far the most effective critic on Earth of and enemy of the mass media mind control system, a system indispensable to establishment power and agenda.

To the political class and the politically minded who demand and depend upon and find their comfort in adherence to normal ritualistic banality and bromides, Trump's bombastic out of bounds style is outrageous, he tossing shocking mental hand grenades like confetti on the nation, his ejaculations sometimes truthful sometimes false, but often refreshing entertainment for some and outrageous for others.

Recall for example when he merely stated the obvious about the annual joint military exercises at the borders of North Korea: he described them as provocative. Howls of foreign policy outrage over this lapse from scripted normality. How dare Trump utter a simple truth contradicting our investment of decades of on message propaganda on the subject.

And truth – even little bites of truth – is the great nemesis – the forbidden fruit that must not be allowed to be shown let alone bitten by the public – of the corrupt system of public mind control and public exploitation and subjugation.

As response to his fundamental, effective if not outright deadly attack on the mind control system, and for his espousal of national sovereignty over transnational hegemony, he has been under continual establishment attack since – actually even before – his 2016 inauguration. Public belief in the veracity of mass media's reliability when it comes to fairness and accuracy has never been as low.

And something else has happened during the last four years: the public perception of the ethical rot, the stench, of the cesspool that the establishment occupies has grown greatly. Beyond Pizza gate and Jeffrey Epstein, there is a greatly increased public opinion and suspicion and perception that elite power is dependent upon and suffused with and tainted with that which goes beyond mere typical variations of corruption: that there exists widespread hitherto unthinkable unspeakable evil that preys on children and innocence.

But now, with the obvious massive coordinated election fraud that was engineered against what was in fact one of the – if not the – greatest landslide presidential victories in American history, another great service has been rendered by Trump. And this service goes far beyond his particular case: The legitimacy of all US elections since the advent of electronic voting machines is now cast into doubt. That is, the entire US political class, state, local and federal, has had their legitimacy appropriately undermined. And the call for election procedures which ensure reasonably fair elections will now be ongoing.

Charlene Richards , says: January 8, 2021 at 6:07 am GMT • 17.3 hours ago
@Priss Factor >

Funny how the MSM apparently missed Trump commuting Jonathan Pollard's sentence and allowed him to fly back to Israel where he disembarked from his plane and kissed the ground.

I think it might have been George W. Bush who was considering pardoning Pollard and the various intelligence agencies told him there would be a mutiny if he did. And he didn't.

But now ..crickets?

Pollard should have been in federal prison for life with no parole or executed.

But Trump won't pardon Assange for being a journalist or Snowden for alerting the American people we are all being surveilled 24/7?

Auntie Analogue , says: January 8, 2021 at 6:10 am GMT • 17.2 hours ago

"People who think in terms of party politics have no likelihood of understanding the situation. The struggle is not Democrats vs. Republicans. or red states vs. blue states. It is the Establishment against the people."

My dear Mr. Roberts, you hit the nail on the head.

Garliv , says: January 8, 2021 at 6:45 am GMT • 16.7 hours ago

Thanks PCR. My exact thoughts. Definitely DC rally was infiltrated with sole intention of discrediting Trump and his supporters. And the chorus of "leaders" from US vassals like UK, Germany, France and others is proof of well choreographed scheme. Where were they when BLM/Antifa with clear support of Dem politicians rampaged through US cities including DC itself?
I wonder whether people of the US would still consider voting as one of the most important civic duties. This election steal has shown that even with a landslide win, the establishment will get its way. Sad.

Miro23 , says: January 8, 2021 at 7:14 am GMT • 16.2 hours ago

I watched presentations by independent experts to the Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan legislatures that proved beyond all doubt the presidential election was stolen.

That the counting was manipulated electronically was proven for me by Shiva Ayyadurai (MIT) in his interesting video showing the statistically impossible change in voting trend in the early morning counting.

It is difficult to defend Trump when he consistently puts in charge of his security agencies and Department of Justice members of the Establishment who hate his guts.

This is a real oddity. At the outset he had a good selection of very loyal people to choose from – but he dumped them all in favour of Establishment people who have predictably backstabbed him – even his own Vice President. The only explanation that I can find is that he doesn't really sympathize with the Deplorables at all (certainly never spends any time with them) and was just using them as an alternative route to a top Establishment position. The surprise was that the Establishment then rejected him, despite his best efforts to ingratiate himself.

What's undeniable, is that the ZioGlob US is starting to look, socially and economically, like an international basket case. Much of the ROW (Rest Of the World) is moving to separate from it as fast as possible – ref. trade agreements/international payments/currencies etc.

nsa , says: January 8, 2021 at 7:22 am GMT • 16.0 hours ago

The filthy old swindler could have easily won re-election if he had done even one tiny thing for the vast demographic making under $34k per year (the median wage) i.e. the working poor. He could have pushed for a federally mandated $15/ hour minimum wage. He could have pushed for a universal basic subsidized medical plan instead of trying to take one away. How about federal money for a new system of trade schools and vocational training institutes? Instead, he signed off on massive tax cuts for himself and his wealthy jew sponsors. He signed off on trillions of dollars for his wall street pals, goosing the stock market into the stratosphere. The old coot played golf while half the nursing home population was wiped out by the wu-wu. He started a pointless trade war with China after listening to three of the dumbest jews on the planet: Munchkin, Krudlow, Koshner jews so stupid they couldn't figure out how to cheat rubes at a corner furniture store. Endless demagoguery, fake religiosity, phony nationalism, counterproductive race baiting, shameless nepotism, constant lying .but then what else would you expect from a former WWE wrestling promoter?

Abdul Alhazred , says: January 8, 2021 at 7:36 am GMT • 15.8 hours ago

Paul,

This was a "False Flag" as evidenced by Speaker's Pelosi's 'Purple" dress as she elbow bump's Pence after he did his dirty deed for the Coup.

Look the whole 'Kabuki' was a set up with Capitol Building guards opening the way for crowds to mill forward after the professional black block antifa gang made the first assault on police lines and subsequently forced entry

Trump had told people at the rally to be peaceful and we know that message has been censored.

The Republican Party has been exposed, and all seems like all is lost as it appears, as is the case that the whole fraud has been accomplished in the open, but I think the wrestling match is not over, which is why impeachment and or 25th Amendment is what seals the coup, or unseals sealed indictments, full disclosure and the Seals.

nickels , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:06 am GMT • 15.3 hours ago

This was not Antifa.
Perhaps antifa helped stir the pot.
But no.
84 million patriots are ready to burn this country to ground. Don't doubt that for a second.
https://rumble.com/vcjdwt-maga-destroys-the-pigs.html

Lynda Brayer , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:11 am GMT • 15.2 hours ago

As a lawyer, I am convinced the election was stolen from Trump. I am absolutely stunned at the total denial of this fact by all and sundry in the Establishment and by the citizenry in both the USA as well as the West who believe the weaponized press and media. In addition the Roman Catholic Church has now officially joined this political Establishment.

Post-modernism and multiculturalism have come home to roost.

Truth has been banished from the Western Establishment. What an achievement!

Whether they realize it fully or not, there is nowhere else but Hell that bids them on. From the real God-fearing understandings of Reality, the anti-Christ/Dajjal now rule the world.

IronForge , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:24 am GMT • 15.0 hours ago

MAGA couldn't be allowed to Continue.
MAGA had to be cut down.
MIGA couldn't Persist with MAGA. Unfortunately, Trump was a MIGA Player First before being a MAGA Leader.
Catholics couldn't Persist with MAGA – they gained a POTUS and a SCOTUS Seat this Round – with a mostly Catholic SCOTUS refusing to hear Electioneering Case Arguments.
OpenBorders wouldn't happen with MAGA.
DNC couldn't Persist with MAGA.
GOP_NeverTrumperz couldn't Persist with MAGA.
McConnell+Chao couldn't Persist with MAGA.
MSM couldn't Persist with MAGA
OffShoring couldn't Persist with MAGA.
FB/TWTR couldn't Persist with MAGA.

nickels , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:26 am GMT • 15.0 hours ago

More NOT ANTIFA:

Nick Fuentes lays out how glorius it was:
https://rumble.com/vcje73-nick-fuentes-on-glorius-bastille-day.html

Zarathustra , says: January 8, 2021 at 8:56 am GMT • 14.5 hours ago

This article is above brilliant. Nobody can see the situation as clearly as PCR.
I am glad that Trump is gone. There will be no more somebody for MSM to serve as punching bag.
It is unbelievable to me that Trump did withstand such a deluge of abuse from MSM and Democrats and deep state. Trump did not have any real support from his coworkers. he was standing alone.

Exiled off mainstreet , says: January 8, 2021 at 9:35 am GMT • 13.8 hours ago

I agree with Mr. Roberts; a bit of anger increased by the repeat of the "steal" in Georgia, and a large dollop of agents provocateurs, including the famous viking with an American flag, created an incident being blown up by the real fascisti, the establishment, as a new Reichstag fire to set up a permanent dictatorial regime based in Washington. They are in your face and probably hope for unrest because its suppression will consolidate this odious regime. The only hope is that temporary instability will instigate a loss of control over the vassal states and/or economic collapse caused by the authoritarian lockdown policies will weaken the yankee state enough so that it loses influence. Otherwise, unfortunately, Dr. Roberts' view of the future unfortunately looks accurate to me.

Thomasina , says: January 8, 2021 at 9:51 am GMT • 13.6 hours ago
@Abdul Alhazred the Capitol Police. She told him that a lot of people feel the police didn't do enough the day before. He told her that at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning he was told to go home, along with his fellow policemen. He thought this odd, considering there was going to be a huge rally taking place that day, but off he went home. After hearing of the breach on the news, he subsequently returned, but he did this on his own; he hadn't been asked to return.

Makes you wonder if they didn't intentionally short-staff the Capitol Police that day in order to ensure the outcome they got. Made it much easier for the agent provocateurs to get through.

lavoisier , says: Website January 8, 2021 at 10:04 am GMT • 13.3 hours ago
@Priss Factor

And cucks hated Trump because his brashness exposed and shamed their cuckery. Servile Dogs hate the wolf.

So true.

Ray Caruso , says: January 8, 2021 at 10:29 am GMT • 12.9 hours ago

The leftwing, or the fraud that passes for one, thinks it is now in the money. This is a naive expectation. The Establishment is in charge, and there will be no leftist agendas unless they serve the Establishment. If Antifa and BLM cut up, their funding will be cut off, and the presstitutes will be sicced on them.

I don't believe this is quite true. The attempt by establishment in the US to use non-Whites and radical leftists for their own ends brings to mind the attempt by the establishment of the Weimar Republic to use the Nazis in the same way. When you put power-hungry people in charge of the levers of power, you shouldn't expect them to pull those levers according to your instructions.

Digital Samizdat , says: January 8, 2021 at 10:38 am GMT • 12.8 hours ago

Trump was so uninformed about Washington that he never succeeded in appointing anyone to his government, other than General Flynn (an immediate casualty of the Establishment) who agreed with his agenda of normalizing relations with Russia, bringing the troops home from the Middle East

I was totally opposed to the railroading of Flynn, and while it is true that he represented a breath of fresh air on Syrian and Russian issues, unfortunately, he–like pretty much everyone else in Washington–is an Iran-hawk. Thus, I doubt he was actually in favor of a total ME pull-out, though it is probably true that he would have pulled us out from Syria if he could have.

Niebelheim , says: January 8, 2021 at 11:01 am GMT • 12.4 hours ago

@Robert Snefjella

Because of his brash, entertaining style of hitting back against the entire MSM, it seems so much easier now to spot the stringpullers and start connecting the dots. Why does the media speak with one voice always in support of the Establishment? Why is everything portrayed by them so falsely and one-sidededly? Who is benefitting from the trajectory being so relentlessly pushed by them? I see Trump's legacy as having awakened a sleeping giant, despite the many ways he betrayed the ideals of his moving inauguration speech. How will the Establishment's coming suppression of free speech for the purpose of attempting to put this genie back in the bottle be resisted?
The Alarmist , says: January 8, 2021 at 11:02 am GMT • 12.4 hours ago

Schulosi know that the 25th Amendment move could easily be foiled by Trump long enough to run out the clock. What they really want and it is being loudly telegraphed in the media is for Congress to go the Impeachment/removal/bar from future Federal office route as a dubiously legal Bill of Attainder to prevent Trump from ever again ascending to the pinnacle of power. Mr. Biden's remarks yesterday seem to suggest Mr. Trump is not going to get the same professional courtesy that Mr. Trump showed to the Obama regime saboteurs who worked from well before the 2016 and well into the Trump administration to bring it down.

Trump has been entertaining, much like the old train wreck shows in days of old, but now he has to accept that his brand has been thoroughly derailed...

Ludwig Watzal , says: Website January 8, 2021 at 11:21 am GMT • 12.1 hours ago

The mainstream media and the Harris/Biden gang won't leave Donald Trump and his family peace until he is destroyed. Craig Roberts described in his excellent article that the script transforms the US into a "benign" dictatorship. There won't ever be fair and democratic elections in the so-called beacon of democracy. The Democrats, their Billionaire instigators, and their storm troopers such as BLM and ANTIFA will transform the US into a living hell for whites. The brainwashing of the public and the President's framing has been started with Trump's victory over a corrupt and criminal Hillary Clinton in 2016. In retrospect, it will look like a child's play what's in the offing for the country in the future.

What happened on Capitol Hill was people power. The phony US political class supported people power in Georgia, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine, Venezuela, Moldova, Iran, Hong Kong, to name a few, not to forget the so-called color revolutions and the Arab spring that were instigated and organized by George Soros' "Open Society," the CIA and their Western intelligence supporters.

On every American, Gender ideology will be forced on them. If it doesn't work, reeducation camps such as in North Korea will be welcome them.

Digital Samizdat , says: January 8, 2021 at 12:11 pm GMT • 11.2 hours ago
@IronForge

MIGA couldn't Persist with MAGA.

Don't be naïve. Israel's self-proclaimed 'guardian,' Chuck Shumer, is now Senate Majority Leader. The zio-state will do just fine. Wish I could say the same about my own country.

Realist , says: January 8, 2021 at 12:17 pm GMT • 11.1 hours ago

I agree with most of what you said except your assertions that Trump was a victim of the Deep State.

Bill Jones , says: January 8, 2021 at 12:59 pm GMT • 10.4 hours ago

These guys see a Reichstag Fire analogy.

https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/07/the-storming-of-the-capitol-americas-reichstag-fire/

zard , says: January 8, 2021 at 1:00 pm GMT • 10.4 hours ago

I am not surprised by this. In fact, nothing that happens surprises me anymore. I expect bad things to happen in a world like this.

Perhaps I can understand the thinking of Trump supporters such as the ones in the above image. They believe that the electoral process has been subverted and that an election that should have been Trump's has gone to Biden instead. They are outraged. They are rioting and revolting in response. Unfortunately, these people are misguided.

1, Trump is a Snake and has been a HORRIBLE President. Why fight to defend him? I could see defending him if he actually did something for America but he did nothing but Tweet. He does not deserve another four years of the same.

2. The entire American political process is owned by Jewish interests. It was this way long ago and it is certainly this way now. Whoever wins serves Jewish interests and the Jews make damn well sure of it. Nobody who is hostile towards Jews stands of chance of getting in the White House. Only Jewish puppets become President. So stop crying Trump supporters and wake the fuck up.

3. There are reasons to Revolt against the System but this is not one of them. If you are going to revolt, revolt for the right reason, not in defense of a lying Jewish scumbag like Trump.

4. Trump is directly to blame for this violence. He incited his followers to do this and then he accepts no blame for it afterwards. Very typical behavior for a lying narcissist like Trump who wraps himself in the American Flag when he is really just a selfish Bastard who wants to remain in the White House for his own Egotistical reasons.

5. As a former Trump supporter, all I can tell current Trump supporters is that you have to wise up and realize that the man you are supporting is not worthy of being supported. You have to wake up to Trump as I had to wake up. He is not who he says he is. He is a liar and deceiver who plays on your ignorance and uses your Patriotism to get you to support him personally. See through his con game.

6. I suspect that this rioting in Washington D.C. is not spontaneous but has been carefully planned in advance by the Jews who use Trump Supporters the same way as they use Antifa. Its all controlled opposition being used to sway the opinion of the American public in a direction that the Jews will use in their favor to further divide Americans from each other. IMO the above image was Staged meaning that these riots were planned and executed in the same way as the George Floyd riots were. Never trust a lying scheming Jew not to be one.

phillip sawicki , says: January 8, 2021 at 1:13 pm GMT • 10.2 hours ago
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I agree with the writer of this comment and his criticism of Coulter. US subservience to Israel began under harry Truman, who recognized Israel in 1948 with this comment: "I have 600,000 Jews and no Arabs." We have seen academia, politics, and industry all become pro-Zionist despite Washington's comment in his Farewell Address that the US should not became attached to any foreign nation or permanently hate any foreign nation. The hated nation has become Russia, and the Democrats have blamed Russia for Trump. But it was Americans who voted for Trump, and fortunately the EC went in his favor. No wonder Hillary wants to abolish it.

Whitewolf , says: January 8, 2021 at 2:00 pm GMT • 9.4 hours ago

After all of Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" and "make America great again" he's managed only to usher in a post-democratic America. In typical Trump style he incited his supporters and after promising to lead them not only abandoned them but disavowed them and sent in the troops to quell them.

On the 20th Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president of the corpse of America. Considering the shameful circumstances of his "victory" it will be fitting that he wears a mask for the occasion.

Richard B , says: January 8, 2021 at 2:16 pm GMT • 9.1 hours ago
@SamwiseGamgee roy (the ones that, until recently, were independent and therefore a threat).

So, obviously from my last point, I'm not denying their destructive power. Not at all. It's only too easy to see. I'm denying their ability to manage themselves now that there is absolutely no obstacle to that power. No obstacle in the West, that is.

They might be partners in crime with The CCP. But it's a dependent relationship and in no way a friendly one. No one kisses the ass of a friend. Say what you want about The CCP, it does not, unlike the now completely defeated host populations of the West, strike one as being all that into power-sharing.

Katrinka , says: January 8, 2021 at 2:31 pm GMT • 8.9 hours ago
@Chris Moore

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KFqoDE5kzaI?feature=oembed

As a final going away present Agent Orange turns on his own supporters. This fraud has no right to complain about stolen elections or how Pence let him down. None of our problems will be solved by voting.

Old and Grumpy , says: January 8, 2021 at 2:42 pm GMT • 8.7 hours ago
@Priss Factor

You do know a guy name Milton Friedman was the architect for Reagan economics? For the record we are currently living thru long term dystopia effects of Reagan economics.

Old and Grumpy , says: January 8, 2021 at 3:02 pm GMT • 8.4 hours ago

Well I'm now depressed, and I voted for the color flag revolution. I didn't predict this milquetoast one. The storming of the capital was kinda lame, although it did make me laugh. Guess when you control both sides you really don't need to go hot. The deep staters must be thrilled they could protect their left wing assets with this one by using Qtards instead. However there are a lot of things that make you "hmm?". My favorite being the black cop and a Maga protester doing a slow walk up some stairs with a guy above them taping everything. Odd but hilarious. Speaking of odd, where were all the Proud Boys? Seems they went poof to live another day.

Sadly the peculiar and unnecessary murder of Ashli Babbit seems to give Qanon life after Trump with a martyr. Give the deep state credit they do think ahead. Guess I have cheered myself up, apparently they aren't done with us yet. My guess is they still need us to keep the lights on and sewer systems running. Also burly white dudes seem to be the preferred choice for private security.

anonymous [331] Disclaimer , says: January 8, 2021 at 3:18 pm GMT • 8.1 hours ago

So CIA wins again. They stole the election and stuck Biden's reanimated corpse in there. And now they'll shake him around like a Barbie and make him talk while they blow shit up.

All Trump did was tease them about killing JFK and knocking down the WTC, which everybody already knows. And Trump wouldn't sit still for their brainwashing briefings, at first. Trump was no Nixon, turning CIA inside out with Schlesinger at DCI. Trump had no one in congress like Pike or even Church.

Back then CIA purged Nixon. Don Gregg threatened congress with martial law. And that was nothing. Look what the ratfuckers at Langley were willing to do to get Trump out. They framed Flynn to cut him off from Turmp. They took SARS-COV-2 off the shelf and used it on us, destroyed the economy and killed us, 300 thousand of us and counting. They infected the whole world to cover their tracks, killed 1.7 million human beings so far. CIA did everything they could to start a war with Russia and called Trump a Russian agent, making shit up to frame him too.

Now we see how CIA controls us. We know now that there is nothing CIA won't do to stay in power. It's like Zappa said: when they were ready, they took away the stage set and left us looking at a blank brick wall. It's like Rockefeller said: They Control it. All of it.

https://www.salon.com/2012/04/13/making_politicians_look_bad_a_fireable_offense/

At this point, anybody who won't face this totalitarian state is not worth listening to for a second, they're not worth a pound of warm shit. Prouty told you fifty years ago, the whole world knows who runs this country. CIA.

So just cut the shit. Face facts. They stormed the wrong capitol. We can't escape. We need the outside world to free us.

Garliv , says: January 8, 2021 at 3:53 pm GMT • 7.5 hours ago
@Katrinka

...Trump is a populist, not a revolutionary. And when faced with a revolution moment he had no clue what else to do. I believe Trump supporters, the Deplorables, are the real substantive patriots. They are sensible and want a stable America. Unfortunately their opponents the Dems/Leftists and all other assorted groupings just want to win even if they burn the whole of US. These people worship god of mammon and nothing else...

KenH , says: January 8, 2021 at 4:25 pm GMT • 7.0 hours ago

It seems to me the intent of the Trump supporters was merely to occupy the Capitol and according to those who were interviewed "make their voices heard". I think those were the words of Ashli Babbitt about an hour before she was gunned down by a black cop as well as a few other interviews I came across.

That's neither intent to commit treason nor sedition. At most they are guilty of trespassing on federal grounds which apparently is now a grievous federal offense if you hold right of center political opinions. The person who killed a Capitol police officer and those who destroyed property have some additional legal problems but that's still a far cry from sedition.

But let's reverse all this and say that Trump was accused of stealing the election from Joe Biden because of the suspicious and massive ballot dumps 95-100% for Trump in all battleground states between 1am and 6:34am after election day along with other irregularities. Then when legal remedies were sought the corrupt state and federal courts refused to hear or allow discovery in the vast majority of them using "laches", standing and other pretexts.

Radical left mobs would have stormed the capitol building and it would be encouraged and supported by the media and all Democrats. Chris Cuomo or some other leftist shitlord would be telling us that "this is what happens when Republicans steal an election." Republicans would be so intimidated that they would probably overturn the election in favor of Joe Biden.

If a female black Biden protester was shot by a white Capitol cop then it would be "say her name" and the white cop would be immediately fired and probably in FBI custody for a hate crime. Blacks would destroy D.C. again while authorities did little.

oldshyfellow , says: January 8, 2021 at 4:36 pm GMT • 6.8 hours ago
@anonymous

Supply side, fiscally reckless, neo conservative Republican party did deserve this. Good riddance to them.

saggy , says: January 8, 2021 at 4:44 pm GMT • 6.7 hours ago
@Katrinka PCR thinks Trump is the victim of a color revolution when in fact Trump is leading a color revolution.

The basis of a color revolution is a claim of a fraudulent election, this was the case in Ukraine, Venezuela, and Belarus. It is Trump who claimed the election was fraudulent, and if you follow StormFront you'll know that the Trumpers are now claiming that the entire voting process in the US is a fraud and worthless.

In the US it is Trump and Trumpers like PCR who are now ripping apart the fabric of US society, on the basis of endless allegations of a fraudulent election that evaporate with a moments scrutiny.

TRM , says: January 8, 2021 at 4:46 pm GMT • 6.6 hours ago

The owners of America have decided. You plebes will do as you are told and the owners will do what they want.

Trump's owners, the military industrial complex and the zionist lobby, have thrown him under the bus. Bummer dude but you don't get to be "the one". It is so easy to manipulate ego maniacs.

What deal did they cut with Biden's owners (media (all 6), med-mafia (pharma on top), tech and CIA+lawfare (DOJ, FBI, IRS))?

1) Biden will NOT end the sanctions against Iran. He may say "we'll negotiate" but it will drag on forever.

2) The MIC gets to keep the "civilian special forces" and most importantly control of the NSA.

So after doing all the dirty work Trump gets thrown under the bus. LMAO. Will he be a broken man like LBJ or Nixon or will he drift off into irrelevance like most of the rest?

... ... ...

AnonFromTN , says: January 8, 2021 at 5:00 pm GMT • 6.4 hours ago

transformation of the United States from a democracy accountable to the people to an oligarchy of entrenched vested interests.

That transformation happened decades ago. The only difference is, in 2020 (both before the elections and in November massive fraud) the beast showed its ugly mug more clearly than before.

[Jan 08, 2021] These people were invited into the Capitol, most of them had no idea what the legal ramifications of this would be. They were angry and they were in a frenzy.

Jan 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
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These people were invited into the Capitol, most of them had no idea what the legal ramifications of this would be. They were angry and they were in a frenzy. It was total mob psychology, something that we understand well. None of them had bad intentions – which we know, because there wasn't even any vandalism, let alone violence against people.

And now they're being accused of being seditionists. And apparently, the president is going to leave them in the lurch.

It's Over: Trump Condemns Capitol Patriots, Surrenders to Democrats

Catullus 25 minutes ago

Sedition by Selfie.

[Jan 08, 2021] Jeffery Prather - Storming Capitol Was False Flag

One of first broadcasters who instantly sensed that this was a false flag operation
Notable quotes:
"... Also, like we are supposed to believe, with protests outside there is only ONE security officer blocking them with a baton going up the stairs INSIDE the CAPITAL. Suuuuuuuure. Anyone that believes that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell them. ..."
"... Was it Trump supporters or Antifa? ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

HolyLand Fan , 23 hours ago

Also, like we are supposed to believe, with protests outside there is only ONE security officer blocking them with a baton going up the stairs INSIDE the CAPITAL. Suuuuuuuure. Anyone that believes that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell them.

Evan Owen , 10 hours ago

The whole thing did seem contrived as did the last election and this one.

Kathy Cote , 12 hours ago

The people are waking, United We Stand. Gardens, Groups, God, and two or three other g's and b's.

Billy Gribble , 1 day ago

When we do this for real we will be armed. #hoax #falseflag #purgetheleft

rob drexel , 14 hours ago

DO you really think Biden will get anywhere near the power buttons?? never never happen - the horned guy is a MARINE WHITE HAT BTW - do a bit more research and update this post -

assassinate evil now , 1 day ago

Pence unfollowed Trump weak n also shows it's a false flag

White Rabbit , 1 day ago

Was it Trump supporters or Antifa?

assassinate evil now , 1 day ago

Trump should have invoked the insurrection act long ago. We have lost confidence in Trump due to his non action to round up traitors.

[Jan 08, 2021] False flag im Kapitol- Eine These

This is German language site. Google translation of selected comments follows.
Notable quotes:
"... Always ask: to whom does it benefit? Can protesters really enter the Capitol without anyone wanting to? Look at the behavior of the "security forces"! ..."
"... False Flags have a long tradition in America. ..."
"... In the opening scene, the friendly security forces "forget" the meaning of the barrier. An Actor, completely untroubled behind the police, wants to animate Trump Fans and Furrows wildly, they may finally run. Quite unusual for marauding gangs planning the" storm "or" coup". But prefer to be pretty sweet with police officers. Not to mention the Wanted film scenes in the Capitol. ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

karoy52, 17 hours ago (edited)

Always ask: to whom does it benefit? Can protesters really enter the Capitol without anyone wanting to? Look at the behavior of the "security forces"!

Captain, 16 hours ago

Of course.. this was a copy of the Storming of the Reichstag steps

Emma Pol, 17 hours ago

The constructors will always tell the media-listening masses: there is a dangerous Mob out there that wants to abolish the Liberal basic order. They will do it in the way of truth reversal...

Collect images against political dissenters and use them later for their own purposes..perfidious reversal devised by well-paid think tanks, who work from morning to night only to destroy the opponent and thus democracy...

Ibiza Video also planned by langer Hsnd and used at useful time....they also know they can't deceive everyone, but most of the crowd believes the hoax

Dio, 17 hours ago

The Plan is to create absolute Kaos in order to get around the corner with a false world peace (after which everyone should sigh). People will then accept things that they would not have accepted before.

Dante, 16 hours ago

False Flags have a long tradition in America.

Info Scout, 16 hours ago (edited)

In the opening scene, the friendly security forces "forget" the meaning of the barrier. An Actor, completely untroubled behind the police, wants to animate Trump Fans and Furrows wildly, they may finally run. Quite unusual for marauding gangs planning the" storm "or" coup". But prefer to be pretty sweet with police officers. Not to mention the Wanted film scenes in the Capitol.

A president surrounded by puppeteers and swamp creatures who have dropped their mask.

Liam v. d. W., 17 hours ago

That's how easy it is to storm one of the safest buildings in the world ....

Rico S, 15 hours ago (edited)

Of course, a False Flag as with every "color Revolution" and every other war so far.
Only probalm is that voluntarily these deep-State criminals will never clear the field.

a shag, 16 hours ago

Steep These? Completely understandable and probable. Recognize patterns and connect dots.

Rainhard, 16 hours ago

Yes, the Western "democracies" are appalled. Well, then take your populations seriously and not just those who speak to you. This happens when the" pressure " in the boiler discharges. Be happy if there is no 1989 Romanian Nicolae Ceaușescu "solution"!


Ralf Schmidt, 15 hours ago (edited)

When it comes to Jo Biden,the following names come to Mind:Hunter Biden, Victoria Nuland.........Does that ring a bell?

Keyword: Ukraine/Eastern Ukraine! It seems to me that some important persons are to be put in "position"......! Mir schwant so much! Let's see who else emerges so everything from the sink!

Red Pill German, 14 hours ago

Reichstag was the test run...

Sybille Kühn, 11 hours ago

An obviously staged spectacle!! If our Public reports in the media about something indignant, everyone can draw his conclusions

ks coco, 16 hours ago

Nothing is as it seems...
Poorly incised acting, slowly let down in the quality of Incination (I only say September 11 that I had still believed) Once again a diversionary maneuver to distract from the problems and the Installation here as well as worldwide and then to pronounce martial law. We enter a new Level in their perfidious game with humanity...

I am curious if you use the Project Blue Beam. Mentally one is already prepared for it on the net on some channels... The Messiah, etc., will come and bring salvation... People don't fall for it and don't let it drive you crazy.

Use your life energy for yourself and your fellow human beings and try to survive the crisis, because every system has its gaps and currently too little has woken up to stop it. Nothing is as it seems...

Michael Kohler, 7 hours ago

My feeling also says. False Flag. Staged. Like almost everything they show us. The Satanists world takeover gang at their work.

Cancel that bacta, Commando, 11 hours ago

In the end, an intelligence service can manipulate everything possible, infiltrate whole political movements or even recreate them, no matter which movement you belong to there is usually the risk that you do not know for whom you are active or which goal is actually achieved with any actions. I think but some things are not disputable about events eg the amount of people that was in D.C., as well as the amount that was in Berlin. So it is already bubbling, but the question whether there was anything manipulated can answer no normal mortal, even people in leadership of movements or parties are never safe from insidiousness or informed about everything.

Hammer 2020, 16 hours ago (edited)

The same as in August last year...I was in Berlin.....we never keep this......none of our people was there with possibly one or the other thought it was real....all set by our government to manipulate the people who still believe in everything the government tells us! Never would a storming of the Bundestag / Reichstag building have gone so smoothly with 3 Federal Police without equipment.....

[Jan 08, 2021] False Flag At The Capitol Cowards In Congress

Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

HeWalksWithUs Everywhere , 10 hours ago

The doors also had not been breached on the Capitol steps when they were evacuating the chamber. Kept saying it's been breached but the doors were still shut well after they were evacuated meaning the ones they guarded as they led them in were absolutely staged.

Lady Blue , 14 hours ago (edited)

It was the Capital Police that shot her. The CP has federal jurisdiction and are immune. Look it up. Biden was certified. I knew he would be. Nothing in government happens by accident.

[Jan 08, 2021] Looks like capitol riot was false-flag operation by neoliberals designed to destroy Trump election fraud narrative that became quite popular and delitimizedbiden administration, making it a neoliberal junta

Notable quotes:
"... Several others have latched onto the false-flag narrative, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, televangelist and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns, and Fox News political analyst Brit Hume, as well as some popular QAnon promoters with large Twitter followings. Franklin Graham, a leading Trump supporter among evangelicals, also raised the specter of antifa, without evidence. ..."
"... Zack Vorhies, a self-described former YouTube and Google engineer turned whistleblower... posted an interview with a man outside the Capitol who claims to have overheard antifa activists "dressed as Trump supporters" discussing how to make Trump fans look bad before smashing a window. The video had received over 100,000 views in just four hours. ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | news.yahoo.com

Originally from: Capitol riot was false-flag operation by leftists, Trump backers claim, with no basis

One of the first to push this narrative was Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican and part of a small group of Trump loyalists who'd pledged to challenge the Electoral College results from several states during Wednesday's joint session of Congress in an ill-fated final attempt to undo Trump's defeat. "Rumor: ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats," Brooks tweeted from the locked-down Capitol where he was taking cover from the mob. "Time will tell what truth is."

Yet it was Brooks himself, addressing Trump supporters at the rally that morning, who had dramatically removed his camouflage cap and replaced it with a bright red one emblazoned with the words "Fire Pelosi" and urged fellow Republicans in Congress to back the effort to overturn the election results, declaring, "Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass."

When the House eventually reconvened Wednesday evening, one of those colleagues, the firebrand Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, declared on the floor that he had seen "some pretty compelling evidence from a facial-recognition company showing that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters, they were masquerading as Trump supporters, and in fact were members of the violent terrorist group antifa."

Lawyer and Trump ally Lin Wood, who has become a devout proponent of the president's baseless and conspiratorial voter fraud allegations, tweeted out several pixelated photos and screenshots Wednesday afternoon that he touted as proof that "Trump supporters are peaceful" and antifa was responsible for storming the U.S. Capitol. One particularly egregious example featured an edited split screen of two images which he described as "Indisputable photographic evidence that antifa violently broke into Congress today to inflict harm & do damage. NOT @realDonaldTrump supporters."

In one photo is a man who had already been widely identified as Jake Angeli...

... ... ...

Several others have latched onto the false-flag narrative, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, televangelist and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns, and Fox News political analyst Brit Hume, as well as some popular QAnon promoters with large Twitter followings. Franklin Graham, a leading Trump supporter among evangelicals, also raised the specter of antifa, without evidence.

Zack Vorhies, a self-described former YouTube and Google engineer turned whistleblower... posted an interview with a man outside the Capitol who claims to have overheard antifa activists "dressed as Trump supporters" discussing how to make Trump fans look bad before smashing a window. The video had received over 100,000 views in just four hours.

[Jan 08, 2021] Maybe people are waking up that this is just neoliberal regime change operation

Notable quotes:
"... It is almost as if the Deep State vampire squid would prefer to bring the Republic that threatens it to 3rd world status in order to protect the oligarchy. ..."
"... If it's any consolation, they have probably tinkered with the voting machines already. Only problem is if different agencies back different candidates! I'd be astounded if they let themselves be caught off guard like they did in 2016, particularly since Biden has to be one of their assets. ..."
"... "The corporate Democrats think they can contain progressive forces; the Trump Republicans believe they should be crushed. ..."
"... Democrats are so cute. First you had your divisive resistance in 2016, but the divisiveness wasn't your fault. Then you moved on to Russia, Russia, Russia. I get the Clinton machine and bipartisan cronies had unfinished business in the raping of post Soviet Russia. Damn that Putin for demanding legitimate tax payment. I always thought you guys loved taxing the rich. ..."
"... Heck, they might even be the secret owners of many of these voting machine manufacturers. ..."
"... In addition, we know that some intelligence services went for Hillary in 2016–former CIA Director Mike Morrell helped kick off RussiaGate with an op-Ed in 2016. CIA Director John Brennan led the interagency charge against Trump's unproven collusion. Now Trump has vowed to make a lot of heads roll if he wins. ..."
"... There is no "left" in America, including BLM and antifa brownshirts blackshirts, so no aspersions that I may cast can land upon real leftists. The US political spectrum starts somewhere around "Baby Doc" Duvalier on the left and goes downhill from there. ..."
Nov 05, 2020 | attempter.wordpress.com

Russ | Nov 3 2020 18:41 utc | 10

It's very weird in DC. The language around it all:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/11/02/these-are-the-protests-happening-around-dc-this-week-3/"> All the protests planned in DC this week

And crazy discussions on https://www.foxnews.com/us/election-day-white-house-demonstrations-zoom-calls-shutdown-dc/">Zoom meetings. (Surprised one Fox News commenter compared it to Ukraine -- maybe people are waking up that this is just neoliberal regime change operation chickens coming home to roost?)

Paul Damascene | Nov 3 2020 20:13 utc | 52

It is almost as if the Deep State vampire squid would prefer to bring the Republic that threatens it to 3rd world status in order to protect the oligarchy.

Rutherford82 | Nov 3 2020 20:14 utc | 53

@32 EoinW

Voting in the U.S. is manipulated at all levels. Fortunately the results probably don't matter due to the financial stranglehold on politics so, except for the those employed by the political candidates, it isn't worth losing sleep over. But if there was a functional government in place then it would be a big deal.

The truth is that the facade of the Democrats is falling while the Republican brand has not changed very much in a long time. Democratic support is an all time low and it is getting harder and harder to spin that brand to a society which is not stupid enough to believe everything anymore, especially in the face of two consecutive Presidential elections rife with internal DNC corruption.

The donors really just want the electorate divided, so any real vote manipulation is inconsequential in the scheme of things if all policy trends in the direction of finance and that sort of thing.

I predict you will see more scandal and spectacle over elections on television and every issue will have its emotional appeal magnified to try and bolster support for a feckless Left, while policy continues to feel like it was written by Count Dracula. Ultimately, violence will be stoked by news media in this subtle way until the "violent left" is used as an excuse to enact law and order policies aimed at shutting down protests of all types.

karlof1 | Nov 3 2020 20:26 utc | 59

Paul Damascene @52--

Yes, that's exactly their plan. They use the government to wage war on the nation and gorge themselves on the ever increasing debt load citizens must carry just to keep their standard of living at a 1970 level while privatizing as many assets as possible. What percentage of protesters are in the streets because of the ongoing Class War is unknown. Regardless the winner, I expect protests to continue.

JohnH | Nov 3 2020 20:36 utc | 65

Josh@32said: "My honest hope is that the more or less responsible elements of military, security, and intelligence, will keep things from getting out of hand,"

If it's any consolation, they have probably tinkered with the voting machines already. Only problem is if different agencies back different candidates! I'd be astounded if they let themselves be caught off guard like they did in 2016, particularly since Biden has to be one of their assets.

Here's a list of voting machine manufacturers: https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/registered-manufacturers

karlof1 | Nov 3 2020 20:46 utc | 66

Upthread, I linked to the Paul Jay podcast with Michael Hudson. Here's the essay he penned that's rather well done. Try this:

"The corporate Democrats think they can contain progressive forces; the Trump Republicans believe they should be crushed.

"This election isn't just about choosing the lesser evil; it's about choosing a more advantageous field upon which to wage battle . Without creating illusions about who Biden represents, the Left should vote for him for President and support progressives in down-ballot races.

"Trump needs to lose, and he needs to lose big." [My Emphasis]

I agree with the bolded point and others made by Jay as well as his analysis of our overall condition:

"While the far-right form of fascism is exceptionally dangerous, it has developed within an 'acceptable' form of fascism that's been evolving for decades right before our eyes."

That's it for the distractions I'll be providing--a lecture, a podcast, and an analytical essay.

JohnH | Nov 3 2020 20:54 utc | 70

"Antiquated, seriously flawed and vulnerable to failure, breach, contamination and attack," U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg wrote of Georgia's aging DRE system before ordering the state to replace it in 2019... Georgia's replacement system for DREs had been rejected by Texas and is the subject of a court battle over accuracy."
https://news.yahoo.com/news/ballot-safe-computer-experts-sound-100129923.html

IMO if Trump wins, it means that the intelligence services have got him under control.

Old and Grumpy | Nov 3 2020 21:29 utc | 78

Democrats are so cute. First you had your divisive resistance in 2016, but the divisiveness wasn't your fault. Then you moved on to Russia, Russia, Russia. I get the Clinton machine and bipartisan cronies had unfinished business in the raping of post Soviet Russia. Damn that Putin for demanding legitimate tax payment. I always thought you guys loved taxing the rich.

Guess not, but the bigger question are you getting any kickback from the global predatory crony system? Probably not. Now it is Trump won't leave. He will. Trump will suppress the vote. No he wants a big turnout. Here in PA our dear AG Josh Shapiro has said a couple days ago that Biden has the early votes to win the state. Kinda sounds like Josh plans on suppressing election day voting...no? Why can't you just win the vote with your positions? Why can't you accept when people don't like your positions? More importantly when did you decide to hate working class people, especially the white ones? They use to be your base. Everyone please stay safe from the deep state's planned insanity.

JohnH | Nov 3 2020 21:38 utc | 80

Gruff@71: The problem is that you have a perfect situation: undercover services and a secret activity with no auditing possible in many cases. I'm sure that the intelligence services understand full well what the margin of error is, and know how to work within it in the places where it can tip the balance.

Heck, they might even be the secret owners of many of these voting machine manufacturers.

In addition, we know that some intelligence services went for Hillary in 2016–former CIA Director Mike Morrell helped kick off RussiaGate with an op-Ed in 2016. CIA Director John Brennan led the interagency charge against Trump's unproven collusion. Now Trump has vowed to make a lot of heads roll if he wins.

Lots of motivation and lots of secret tools, along with a perfect opportunity...

EoinW | Nov 3 2020 23:18 utc | 101

Old and Grumpy @ 78

They don't have any positions! They are the [neoliberal] Democratic Party, therefore entitled to rule America forever. What support they have is from the Looney Left who, spoiled by winning every issue in the culture war, will throw a temper tantrum any time they don't get their way. Because they get there way practically all the time, they freak out if you just look at them the wrong way. No wonder we've had a 4 year meltdown since Trump appeared on the scene. And they'll double down on their hissy fit as we begin another 4 years.

Funny, I used to be left leaning. Certainly could find common ground with Liberals on many issues. Now all you get from the activists and the left wing media is a monotonous virtual signal.

laodan | Nov 4 2020 3:16 utc | 147

_K_C_ @125

There is no "left" in America, including BLM and antifa brownshirts blackshirts, so no aspersions that I may cast can land upon real leftists. The US political spectrum starts somewhere around "Baby Doc" Duvalier on the left and goes downhill from there.

The ACLED organization that you linked only aggregates data from the corporate mass media, so all it can do is concentrate existing bias and disinformation that big business is feeding to the public.

Please note that there is not a single 'leftist' corporate mass media organization in existence on the entire planet Earth. In fact, big business is the antithesis of the left.

How do you think a "Peaceful but fiery" riot is categorized by the corporate mass media? Hint: You don't have to guess because the answer is right in the quote. This is the data that ACLED is working with, and it happens to not support the assumptions that you are working from.

But you are correct that the corporate mass media (and capitalist financed NGOs like ACLED) have division of the population into mutually antagonistic groups as their objective. Where you lose the scent is in thinking that the groups you imagine to be on the side of light are immune to that manipulation. On the contrary, these groups are created by that manipulation.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 4 2020 2:09 utc | 137

"Why all this fuzz? The difference between the two major parties is slim. Whoever wins will be constrained in his policies to fit the general imperial trends the U.S. follows. "

Yes this is right.
But who is setting the agenda of "the general imperial trends the U.S. follows" ? Who are these actors that "the US follows" ?
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Pepe had this pearl in the article he published yesterday : "Big Capital – from East and West – is very much in tune with where all of this is going". This answers the question " Who are these actors that "the US follows" ? "

But the problem is that it is difficult to identify who these "big capital holders" are.
Too often the academic world loses itself in the surface appearances. In the case of studies about power by academics I wrote the following in 2018 in "A growing disconnect between East and West" (in 8.3.1.Global capital or control by the biggest Western capital holders) :

" The Swiss Federal Institute published a study in 2011 that analyzed the different forms of ownership between 43,060 trans-national corporations (TNCs). The team of researchers found that some 1,318 companies form the core of the global economy while 147 control 40% of their total wealth. What's more the top 25 among these 147 are the world's top asset management firms. These 25 can "be thought of as an economic 'super-entity' in the global network of corporations".

By pointing to the role of asset management firms as the real decision makers, the authors of the Swiss Federal Institute are hiding the role of the minority, among capital holders, that owns the controlling stake of the world's total capital base. The owners, of the assets played by asset management firms, are indeed hidden. Furthermore their investments outside of those asset management firms are invisible in the study.

But there is no escaping the fact that the ownership, of the controlling stake of the world's total capital base, procures its holders with 'the ownership' of the Great Game of Power. "

In his study titled " Giants " Peter Phillips further states that some 66% of the world's wealth is owned by EU and US capital holders! This shows how the weight, of past capital accumulation, is still weighing very heavily on the present reality...

So we are in a situation where we know for a fact that -- big capital exists and is represented by a few families -- big capital owns the Western decision making process -- but we can't put family names on what is "big capital" because those family names are hidden by the world's top asset management firms...

What does this imply in terms of Geo-political security ?

I venture to suggest that -- in the short term we'll see Western big capital imposing a quietening of the tone in the public discourses of its servants' -- within a few short years Western big capital and Chinese state capital will eventually find a 'modus operandi' -- that 'modus operandi' will initially be managed within Regional Economic Blocks and then the interactions between blocks will generate a new global architecture in which East-Asia will be dominant.

Today's "governance-world", or "Geo-politics", is driven by the competition between "Western big capital holders" and "China's state capital". But this never appears front page in the mainstream media because, while deciding for the world, Western big capital holders want to remain hidden. And so the Western media shows us the "surface appearance" of Western power but political decision-makers, and the rest of the Western establishment, are merely the servants of "Western big capital". Elections are thus merely a show to blind the peasants.

The shit show of Western governance of these last few years is now concluding with a new "governance-world" reality that can be summed up as follows :

2.1. the Western Geo-political architecture imposed on the world after 1945 has been dynamited by Trump and there is no going back to this architecture. China is confirming this with its "dual circulation" concept while it is reaffirming the priority of state owned enterprises in the Chinese economy (see the last public humiliation of Jack Ma and Aunt financial).

2.2. the only remaining semblance of Int'l order today is found in the Regional Economic Blocks [ North-America, South-America, EU, African Union, Eurasian Economic Union, East-Asia (ASEAN, Chinese civilizational space, North-East Asia), ... ].

Over the following years these blocks are going to go into overdrive trying to strengthen their internal institutional build-up while also trying to coordinate their activities with neighboring blocs. The China-Russia entente has to be analyzed in this particular context to discover what is really going on... and check how the US is trying to destabilize this great game of the century (India, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, ...) and India will rapidly have to adjust to this reality otherwise it will be marginalized in the Great Game of Power of the Century.

Cynica | Nov 4 2020 14:04 utc | 251

It should be painfully obvious by now that the goal of electoral politics in the US - by those who manage it - is to maintain a balance of power between two revolutionary extremes. Of course, balances of power never last forever. It may be instructive to look at the fate of the Concert of Europe , which collapsed when its primary beneficiary (the British Empire) no longer saw it as useful.

Comparisons to professional wrestling are often made as well. It's important to keep in mind the goal of professional wrestling, which is to make as much money as possible. It's a business, after all. There are certain "angles" - narratives - that are marketed, but they don't always work out as expected. Sometimes the audience boos at the face and cheers for the heel. What happens then? A new angle, more favorable to the audience, is adopted. The show must go on.

In both 2016 and this year, Trump has either been trying to play the heel or at least is being used as the heel. Why would that be? To diminish and defuse the revolutionary "right". The revolutionary "left" is hardly any threat these days. Smashing storefront windows and setting police cars on fire does not a revolution make. On the other hand, the revolutionary "right" routinely organizes itself into heavily armed militias. And there's been brewing opposition in the military, mainly from the "right", against the establishment's foreign-policy objectives. It would seem, then, that the "right" is the bigger threat than the "left" these days - to the establishment.

Whether Trump leaves office next year or in 2025, if he's not prosecuted for anything afterwards (notwithstanding pardoning himself), then one can only conclude that he was a part of the kayfabe from the beginning. But to paraphrase his one-time opponent, what difference does it really make?

Cynica | Nov 4 2020 14:04 utc | 251

It should be painfully obvious by now that the goal of electoral politics in the US - by those who manage it - is to maintain a balance of power between two revolutionary extremes. Of course, balances of power never last forever. It may be instructive to look at the fate of the Concert of Europe , which collapsed when its primary beneficiary (the British Empire) no longer saw it as useful.

Comparisons to professional wrestling are often made as well. It's important to keep in mind the goal of professional wrestling, which is to make as much money as possible. It's a business, after all. There are certain "angles" - narratives - that are marketed, but they don't always work out as expected. Sometimes the audience boos at the face and cheers for the heel. What happens then? A new angle, more favorable to the audience, is adopted. The show must go on.

In both 2016 and this year, Trump has either been trying to play the heel or at least is being used as the heel. Why would that be? To diminish and defuse the revolutionary "right". The revolutionary "left" is hardly any threat these days. Smashing storefront windows and setting police cars on fire does not a revolution make. On the other hand, the revolutionary "right" routinely organizes itself into heavily armed militias. And there's been brewing opposition in the military, mainly from the "right", against the establishment's foreign-policy objectives. It would seem, then, that the "right" is the bigger threat than the "left" these days - to the establishment.

Whether Trump leaves office next year or in 2025, if he's not prosecuted for anything afterwards (notwithstanding pardoning himself), then one can only conclude that he was a part of the kayfabe from the beginning. But to paraphrase his one-time opponent, what difference does it really make?

[Jan 08, 2021] Let's turn the clock back a bit: At the 11th hour of the Obama administration, they were holding secret meeting plotting how to destroy Trump, while Samantha Powers was demanding hundreds of FISA unmasking orders that served absolutely no known purpose that late in the game

Neoliberal Dems try to play Bolsheviks... One party, one ideology, one allowed opinion, one official newspaper.
Jan 08, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

"Biden: "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable."" foxnews

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Varney commented today on his show that the US is moving rapidly toward an environment in which deviant opinions and the expression of such will be punished by ostracism, loss of employment and ultimately - what?

75 million dissidents voted for Trump. Their party actually grew stronger down ballot, much stronger. These Smelly dissidents are heavily armed. Gun sales are way up. Ammunition is hard to come by because of heavy buying.

President Joe and his "consort" think that the attitudes of the Smellies are "totally unacceptable?"

He should be very careful about condemning the mind set of the Smellies, very careful. The Dems think that they can extrapolate from the hooligans who broke into the capitol to the general attitudes of the Smelly Deplorables?

Be very careful President Joe. pl

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-gaslighting-capitol-hill-rioters-black-lives-matter

Deap , 08 January 2021 at 11:15 AM

Let's turn the clock back a bit:

At the 11th hour of the Obama administration, they were holding secret meeting plotting how to destroy Trump, while Samantha Powers was demanding hundreds of FISA unmasking orders that served absolutely no known purpose that late in the game.

Obama brought down America in secret, and did far more damage than this momentary street theater takeover of the Capitol Building two days ago, curiously facilitated by the Capitol Police union members. Obama's theft of America was slow and steady and did not let up one minute during Trump's four long years under constant Democrat siege.

The Obama and Democrats dual systems of justice is what cannot stand. The seeds of insurrection were sown in the 11th hours of the Obama administration; not the final hours of the Trump administration.

blue peacock , 08 January 2021 at 12:21 PM

Col. Lang,

This is just the beginning of cancel culture. Note that Trump has been cancelled by Facebook & Twitter. Obama's IRS went after conservatives, is another example. This is not just about the Democrats and their urban managerial class cohorts. The GOP establishment is part & parcel of this alignment and very much a part of the benefits system. They will be even more brazen in further accelerating market concentration to the benefit of the oligarchy. The past 4 years were just an aberration in their eyes. They've taken Trump down hard as an example to not challenge their authority. Using George Bush's maxim - either you're with us or against us - that's gonna be the attitude.

The next leader who will harness the frustration of the "smellies" will be far more competent & ruthless and likely an authoritarian. The philosophical principles of the primacy of the natural rights of citizens and the rule of law of our founding has long been gone. The oligarchy is firmly in control and will suppress dissent more harshly with a lot of support from the media-managerial class.

The oligarchy will do their very best to prevent the organization of the "Smellies" into a potent national force. If any small group act out they will be treated harshly. Since the "Smellies" cannot use the ballot box to push back, how do you think they will organize and counter the oligarchic forces who have all levers of power and have demonstrated naked exercise of it?

Steve Ogle , 08 January 2021 at 01:16 PM

If this is the the hill the democrats choose to stand and fight on.....instead of solving the problems of our country being shutdown for almost a whole year and counting...

Eric Newhill , 08 January 2021 at 01:20 PM

This post is an important warning for all of the Democrats that now rule us and seek to fundamentally change the country while condradulating themselves for their cleverness in twisting Tuesday's events into a condemnation of half of the country. I'm sure it will be ignored.

In the context of analysis not being advocacy (please!), Tuesday's breaching of the Capitol, IMO, hardly merits the level of pearl clutching that it has generated; whether genuine or opportunistic. It could have been a true Constitutional crisis. Rather than a group jesters breaking in, dancing around and generally mocking our politicians, it could have very easily been serious men with guns blazing and Molotov cocktails/bombs being hurled and lots of dead congress people along with dead Capitol security. That with a simultaneous destruction of the power grid and cell phone communications, roads blocked, trucking into the city disrupted, food and other essential goods and services stacked and disrupted and assassinations of bureaucrats and media personalities in key locations - an armed siege of Washington DC and a bloody attack on the establishment; very easily. All it would take is a couple hundred thousand seriously pissed off Deplorables; some percent with military background. Such an uprising would probably spontaneously spread to capitols in democrat governed states across the country; "spread" if not pre-coordinated. There have more than number of MAGA types in DC in recent months airing grievances. In Michigan crowds of armed men were in the capitol last year.

Some will say that such an event is impossible. I don't think so. Make Americans desperate enough and they could very well go all 1776. Would they ultimately prevail? I have no idea. But at least they would show the swamp that they are the men they thought they were.

Some will say the answer is to take away the guns. Attempting to do so will actually greatly increase the odds of the above occurring. The only answer is to truly come together as a people, find a middle ground and to dispense with radicalism on both sides of the aisle. Politicians and whoever is pulling their strings must give up dreams of hegemony and victory. When they thinking act in those terms, it is they who have declared war and there will be a proportional reaction.

Oilman2 , 08 January 2021 at 01:58 PM

"There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution." – John Adams

We have been headed down this binary road for a few generations. Outside of defending the overall borders of the USA, the military has been used based on lies for decades. That simple fact has always reminded me of Rome... Congress has been in gridlock or else playing seesaw between parties, yet executing similar strategies.

One other quote that people ought to digest, remembering this was a REPUBLIC, not just a democracy...

"Democracy while it lasts is more bloody than aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - John Adams

I am going to go reread some Tacitus - it's a fine collection for perspective management.

There will be NO going back to anything like 2016 friends...change is baked in on every front.

[Jan 08, 2021] The arrival of CIA regime change events in the US is met with a perfect display of hypocracy by the likes of Pelosi and Pompeo. A beautiful sight to behold - Nancy Pelosi

Notable quotes:
"... As the duly selected leader of Binomo, I will be having serious words with my Head of Intelligence over this embarrassing political imbroglio. ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:25 utc | 81

The arrival of CIA regime change events in the US is met with a perfect display of hypocracy by the likes of Pelosi and Pompeo.

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:16 utc | 79

Oh noes, I am totally gutted. It turns out the Viking Man is a GRU agent all along, and this is all a last ditch effort by Russia to keep their man in place.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErPQbpTXEAAMxLD?format=jpg&

As the duly selected leader of Binomo, I will be having serious words with my Head of Intelligence over this embarrassing political imbroglio.

[Jan 08, 2021] Neoliberals from Dem party took care that Trump can leave in style

What is a better way to organize a false flag as to remove security and let the mod do what they want
Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
Cemi , Jan 7 2021 15:43 utc | 112

I found this reminder on the German blog "nachdenkseiten.de":

This is how it looked in Washington DC during the BLM demonstrations in May:

Quite a difference to the resistance against protesters yesterday, huh?

;-)

[Jan 08, 2021] How founders viewed similar revolutionary situations: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Ilya G Poimandres , Jan 8 2021 15:31 utc | 21

'But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.'


The train of abuses (short, 4 year recap)

Crossfire Hurricane delegitimised peaceful handover of executive power.

Fake impeachment delegitimised the impeachment process.

Executive overreach due to covid delegitimised the authority of state legislatures.

Scam election delegitimised the election process.

Putting Trump on trial will delegitimise executive privilege.


These plus the previous suspentions of habeas corpus, due process death of the first amendment, imply that the constitution is for the most part de facto dead.


The protest should have been a sit in instead of some larking around, Tiannamen style (for the inevitable lols US hypocrisy would reveal).

Still, Congress has had single digit approval ratings for decades, so it's odd to say these were insurrectionists attacking the people's representatives.


Sadly America is finished, and what is left can only be called 'the nation formerly known as America'.

The incoming fascists and their unwitting kapos won't have much time even with those embers, as its economy was long carved out, in ikizukuri fashion.

[Jan 08, 2021] How do pacify 72 million voters, many of whom are convinced that they have been cheated? How do you stop them ALL from marching on the White house? Easy, you just allow them to capture Capitol building andbrand then as insurrecionalists

Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Stonebird , Jan 7 2021 16:39 utc | 130

How do pacify 72 million voters, many of whom are convinced that they have been cheated?. How do you stop them ALL from marching on the White house?

Answer; You stage a psyop . You let in a number of colourful figures disguised as "Manhatten-cowboy style trappers " - add a bit of shoving and pushing, lots of shouting. Cameramen(or women) at the ready. and bingo... everyone can go home afterwards saying "we tried" or "we did our bit".

Item one, a clip: Notice the two cameramen, one following the "break-in+, and the other at the top of the stairs. All filmed in glorious technicolour and HD by professionals)

https://twitter.com/IndigoLeo10/status/1346941327720796166

I love the first demonstrator signaling the cop to retreat, small hand signal.

The MSM and "Governments" can all now play the " we support Democracy, look how we are above all this mayhem ". Visible moral fibre on tap and statements prewritten?
Zuckerberg and mass media can silence any comment including Trumps or those that come from the "deplorables". Which is what they have done to silence any revision of the narrative, before it gains traction. (Zuckie rules, he must do as he wasn't elected, probably got there by hereditary means )

The bit-parts were played by members of the house who had their masks ready under their seats.

The unfortunate lady was probably an accident as the Police there just can't resist shooting someone.

Stonebird , Jan 7 2021 16:45 utc | 133

Item two; the police open the gates.
https://twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/1346920924310867968

foolisholdman , Jan 7 2021 16:47 utc | 135

psychohistorian | Jan 7 2021 6:31 utc | 6

Read Trump's earlier stuff from Reuters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chaos in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday unfolded after President Donald Trump spent weeks whipping up his supporters with false allegations of fraud in the Nov. 3 election, culminating in a call to march to the building that represents U.S. democracy.

The real question is was the election stolen? On balance, I would guess that it was and that is why the courts all refused to examine the evidence, instead of allowing the evidence to be presented and refuted. Trumps case was never answered only trashed and ridiculed.

michael , Jan 7 2021 16:51 utc | 136

Turka #125
I also find it incredibly disingenuous that protestors/"rioters" made it into the Capitol building despite sturdy doors, and the police couldn't stave it off.

the pair , Jan 7 2021 17:03 utc | 141

just another addition to the "both sides are assholes" exhibit: the first comment on the NPR tweet about the unarmed woman killed by a cop is "coups have consequences".

even putting aside the whole (valid) "if it was a black woman killed by a cop" argument, i've loved seeing the past 4 years of so called "liberals" slowly losing their mask of humanity. they complain about the MAGA types as if they're the barbarians at the gate but they're ALL americans and therefore have violence and hatred of the "other" baked in from birth.

also, if that shitbag thinks this was a "coup" then they're even less informed than their idiotic comment would suggest.

J Swift , Jan 7 2021 17:11 utc | 143

@ William Gruff 57

Very well said. It's amazing how much you can tell about the agenda of the deep state just by careful reading and noticing the words chosen--especially when you keep seeing the same words repeated incessantly.

And incidentally, at first I was a bit curious about all this over-the-top sudden calls to impeach Trump and that sort of nonsense...I was thinking it was just a matter of continued venting of hatred at him for his "gift" of exposing the hypocrisy and duplicity of the deep state, and the US in general. But it just occurred to me that no, it's because it has dawned on them that a Trump drummed out of office by a clearly fraudulent election (i.e., righteously indignant) could be quite a rallying point for the disenfranchised regular citizens of the US. So, they're hoping to spend these last two weeks doing everything they can to tarnish his reputation and try to destroy his ability to rally the troops, so to speak. I don't think it will work, but then again who knows to what depths they will sink to permanently sink Trump. Expect a lot more craziness these last two weeks.

[Jan 08, 2021] By Wrongly Calling The Capitol Rabble 'Terrorists' Joe Biden Will Likely Create Some

Notable quotes:
"... That Biden now falsely declares that the people who enter the capitol are terrorists, who thereby need to be handled as such, will deepen the rift within the U.S. society. It guarantees that some of the 'deplorables' who Biden designates as terrorists will become real ones. The U.S. military has ample experience with doing that in Iraq and elsewhere. During the early years of the occupation it designated legitimate resistance to the occupation as terrorism and thereby sowed the seeds for real terrorism. ..."
"... That Lego is superb. I want one. Note that Pelosi and others are pushing for "impeachment" to stop, legally, Trump from standing for President in four years time. That is what they fear, a return of the Orange with 75 million voters for starters. Pelosi is obviously planning her own return as well. Immortality for the queen Bee? ..."
"... By allowing the protesters into the Capital Building, the chance to challenge the certification of the various states' electors was lost. This was Trump's and his supporters' last chance. They have been played like a piano. Quite brilliant, in its way. Game over. ..."
"... The conspiracy view would acknowledge that Trump walked right into a trap that he himself set. No one knew it would be so easy to stroll into the Capitol building, and therein lies the judo throw to the mat - and if that was planned, then credit is due to the planners. If it was contrived in any way then it happened through whomever/whatever was dictating Capitol security. ..."
"... In our discussion of this last night, the wife and I agreed that the primary actor in this is the "Security Services" since they stand to benefit ASAP as with 911. I posted the following to Escobar's FB earlier this morning: ..."
"... "Biden called the protesters 'Terrorists;' but, how could Biden make such a huge mistake when he was up to his neck in the facilitation of genuine terrorists in Libya then Syria? I'll bet there's lots of dirt connecting Biden to the development of Daesh and support for Al-Ciada and kin. No one has really looked thanks to the various Hunter Biden sideshows." ..."
"... they are not left or even pseudo left. Their party currently serves global, the most predatory kind of capital, and they constantly invoke 'racial' grievances. That's typical far-right shit. ..."
"... You shouldn't be surprised at the rhetoric of the Democrats. It is their corporate identity to call black white and white black. BLM savages, smashing shops, looting and burning cars are "peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators." A white (already guilty!), unarmed woman, Trump supporter (doubly guilty!) shot at point-blank is a "terrorist". ..."
"... The same thing happened in Ukraine (which is the zone of responsibility of the Democrats) after the coup - residents of Donbass who refused to accept the coup were declared "terrorists". ..."
"... One guy wearing an animal skin cloak is actually the son of a New York State Superior Court judge and powerful Democratic Party leader. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/07/at-maga-rally-israeli-flag-and-neo-nazis-co-exist-awkwardly/ ..."
"... This election, they took no chances, ensuring Trump could not use social media, and although he may well have lost simply due to his policies - covid, china ..."
"... And what's important is that with Rs now jumping Trump's ship, the working class must feel that they don't have any political representation at all. ..."
"... The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding? ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

By Wrongly Calling The Capitol Rabble 'Terrorists' Joe Biden Will Likely Create Some

The hyperventilating over Wednesday's MAGA cosplay in the Capitol Building continues :

In a blistering speech one day after pro-trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented security breach, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said the perpetrators should be considered 'domestic terrorists'.

"Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."

That the incoming president declares a number of activist from the opposing party to be 'terrorists' demonstrates how unqualified he is for that job.

Is this a terrorist?


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Those rabbles were in no way terrorists. They were not even a mob. Most of them were out-of-town rednecks who felt that they had been wronged. They wanted to express that. They were surprised when they found how easy it was to enter the Capitol and they apparently took more time to take pictures than to rearrange the furniture.

This was not a coup attempt either. These folks had no weapons, no training and, most importantly, they had no plan of what to do except to maybe enter to then leave:

And yet, and yet . This was no Vietnam-level rioting. This wasn't even a serious occupation, which one would think was the point, to keep Congress from executing the final ratification of the Biden win. Could you image the spectacle of democracy chastened if the Trump mob had held the Capitol and forced Congress to scramble find a hotel ballroom in which to finish their official business?

Nope, Congress was back in business by 8:00 PM, roughly seven hours after the barbarians stormed the walls, albeit with pretty much everyone badly rattled and some Trump supporters rapidly backpedaling from their former positions.

Despite the gravity of the event, if you look not very hard at what happened, both sides in their different ways were shambolic.

Another such view :

[L]et's be clear about what did not take place at the Capitol Building last night. This was not a fascist coup, as so many shrill, supposedly liberal commentators are claiming. Their flagrant use of the word 'fascist' to describe every political movement they disapprove of is an insult to reason and history. This wasn't a coup full stop. The National Guard suppressed the morons, the barricades were put back up, and even their hero Donald Trump told them to go home. A coup is a conscious effort to illegally seize power from the government. These people couldn't even believe they made it into the Capitol Building. They were like children finding a candy store unguarded.

A children's game. Indeed.


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There was also a curious lack of resistance from the relevant authority:

[Rep. Anna] Eshoo also blasted the Capitol Hill police, calling their lackluster response a "failure across the board" and describing the barricades outside the Capitol complex "like doggy doors it was like, 'Welcome, I'm taking you on a tour.' "

Lawmakers, she said, had gotten a detailed memo about street barricades and procedures, but when she arrived and looked across the Capitol Hill plaza, "I thought, where is everyone?"


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These were not terrorists but tourists who came from all over the states to Washington for fun and to register their disagreement with the 'elites'. The Capitol Hill policeman correctly recognized that the protesters were not enemies of the state but rather normal Americans:

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT - 4:16 UTC · Jan 8, 2021
Cops gave rioters directions to Schumer's office but aimed a gun at a photographer and didn't believe she was a journalist. Astonishing this is the level of security in the halls of a co-equal branch of government in the post-9/11 era.

Yet Biden and others are furious about the stunt because it lifted the veil off their vaunted U.S. 'democracy' and its empty rituals:

Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes - 21:01 UTC · Jan 7, 2021
The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding?

Congressional processes are dirty fights about the distribution of the loot. There is nothing sacred about it. Just consider the massive bribes that were taken during the Georgia Senate races. Those hundreds of millions of 'donations' will have to be paid back in kind.

The real danger to the people does not come from those 'deplorables' who walked into the Capitol but from the 'elite' who will use the incident for their purposes :

The threat inflation, the wild claims about a fascist coup, are transparent efforts by the cosseted political and cultural elites to endow their project with moral importance; to give their restoration of managerial, technocratic power after the four-year populist experiment – which is fundamentally the project that Biden and his influential supporters are currently engaged in – the gloss of historical urgency. It is mission creation.

Worse, this narrative-building will allow the elites to circumscribe even more forms of political thought and speech than they already desire to do , on the basis that the latent fascism among the American rabble is likely to be stirred up by inflammatory ideas and commentary. Indeed, we've already been given a chilling glimpse of this post-incursion clampdown on 'violent' speech in Twitter's extraordinary decision to ban, outright, three of Trump's tweets last night and to lock him out of his account for 12 hours.

It strikes me that this unilateral use of corporate power by Silicon Valley to prevent the democratically elected president of the United States from engaging with millions of his voters and supporters, to physically forbid him from partaking in online discussion, is a grave assault on democracy, too. More grave, I would say, than the immoral and anti-democratic incursion of the Capitol Building. Already, right away, we are seeing that the threat-inflating response to last night's events will likely have longer-lasting negative consequences for open debate and democratic norms than the thing itself.

It is even worse than that. The Democrats reaction to the slapstick action is likely to create more strife.

That Biden now falsely declares that the people who enter the capitol are terrorists, who thereby need to be handled as such, will deepen the rift within the U.S. society. It guarantees that some of the 'deplorables' who Biden designates as terrorists will become real ones. The U.S. military has ample experience with doing that in Iraq and elsewhere. During the early years of the occupation it designated legitimate resistance to the occupation as terrorism and thereby sowed the seeds for real terrorism.

An even worse strategy is to blame the whole incident on the 'terrorist leader' Donald Trump. During the rally that preceded the Capitol incident Trump did not tell the people to enter the building:

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard ," Trump told the crowd on Wednesday.

After the people had unexpectedly entered the Capitol building Trump asked them to leave :

He said: "I know your pain, I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us, it was a landslide election and everyone knows it especially the other side.

"But you have to go home now, we have to have peace, we have to have law and order, we have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt."

Some 74 million people voted for Trump. What will they do if the Democrats now unfairly try to impeach him over an incident he did not cause?

Do not expect them to ignore it or to change their opinions. This analogy is apt.

Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms - 14:21 UTC · 5 Jan 2021
Careful what you wish for.
My research shows leaders often restrain lower level members.
So taking out the leader tends to make the group more -- not less -- radical in its tactical choices.
I have loads of empirical & theoretical work on this finding if you'd like to discuss.

Even the Islamic State foresees that this will lead to more strife within the U.S.:

[T]he bitter feeling of defeat that the supporters of the 'Taghut' Trump have expressed during their recent protests- which followed the protests of their adversaries from the supporters of the 'Democratic Party' during the past year- will push them to exert more effort and offer more support for their Taghut during the next four years or whoso stands with him alongside the seat of the presidency, in order to achieve revenge for themselves and achieve victory over their adversaries again. This means that the conflict between the two parties and their supporters inside America will be very intense, and the focus of the policies of the two parties during this time will be greater on the internal issues to guarantee gaining more electoral votes.

By using the 'terrorist' moniker Biden, and the media, are taking this thing into the wrong direction. It creates more extremism and will likely have bloody consequences.

Posted by b on January 8, 2021 at 19:00 UTC | Permalink

Norwegian , Jan 8 2021 19:23 utc | 5
That Lego image makes the whole thing a total farce, great catch. The world is laughing. Compare Actual Capitol Image with Capitol Invasion Some terrorists!
Stonebird , Jan 8 2021 19:36 utc | 7
That Lego is superb. I want one. Note that Pelosi and others are pushing for "impeachment" to stop, legally, Trump from standing for President in four years time. That is what they fear, a return of the Orange with 75 million voters for starters. Pelosi is obviously planning her own return as well. Immortality for the queen Bee?
Norwegian , Jan 8 2021 19:43 utc | 9
Senator Lindsey Graham Confronted And Chased Out Of DC Airport By Trump Supporters
Nev , Jan 8 2021 19:46 utc | 10
There will not be another election since the deplorables know that the system and the elections will be stolen. As we proceed into 2021 and the economy slows, the ungovernables will do their best to counter the deep state at every turn. 70 plus million people will be thinking of ways to turn the ivory castle to ashes. If only 3%, more than 2 million carry out acts as acts of opportunity, then the elites will be in agony.
Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 19:47 utc | 11
"it's the sleaziest brothel in the world"

Whoa, I like this. To the post, I'd add that a woman-protester was martyred (so to say). Shot dead. That's an important moment, in context you're presenting here...

Down South , Jan 8 2021 19:50 utc | 12
Why is anyone surprised ? The first thing they did after the election was start the Trump Accountability Project seeking to blacklist staff who worked for the Trump administration. They tried to derail his administration before he even took office...
Hal Duell , Jan 8 2021 19:53 utc | 14
By allowing the protesters into the Capital Building, the chance to challenge the certification of the various states' electors was lost. This was Trump's and his supporters' last chance. They have been played like a piano. Quite brilliant, in its way. Game over.
Grieved , Jan 8 2021 19:55 utc | 16
This will be one for history to try to decide: Conspiracy or Fuck-up? The shambolic fuck-up view is already very well articulated in b's article, and parses well.

The conspiracy view would acknowledge that Trump walked right into a trap that he himself set. No one knew it would be so easy to stroll into the Capitol building, and therein lies the judo throw to the mat - and if that was planned, then credit is due to the planners. If it was contrived in any way then it happened through whomever/whatever was dictating Capitol security.

hazard9 , Jan 8 2021 20:05 utc | 17
Maybe this is the new type of terrorist: One who is too dumb to even realize that he is one. In these hours the U.S. maybe took a step to a new form of government: The Idiocracy ...
librul , Jan 8 2021 20:05 utc | 18
For four years the Democrats tried to defile the Constitution and disenfranchise those Voters that gave Donald Trump their vote in 2016.

An attempted coup - make that coups, plural.

The Voters noticed. They witnessed the treachery, the endless Russiagate lies, the attempt to nullify their votes. All the while they were also told 24/7 that the President was a racist and by extension so were they the Voters.

The ***reaction*** that occurred was not blamed on the Deep State, nor it's echo chamber the MSM, nor the treacherous Democrats. No, it was blamed on Donald Trump so that they could attempt to coup him one more time. Today Voters witness the Democrats attempt *another* coup. What reaction from the Voters do they seek this time?

Shaun , Jan 8 2021 20:06 utc | 19
First of all, I agree this was not a coup, it was a bunch of literal LARPers messing around. However I think trying to absolve Trump from this is silly, do you really think that if he hadn't spent 2 months whining about how the election was stolen from him and his supporters needed to "stop the steal" this would have still happened? That being said, I think impeaching him (again) is silly, it's just a symbolic act that distracts from more pressing issues.
Chevrus , Jan 8 2021 20:08 utc | 20
Gee Mike #3, what about that cop who got his head bashed? How about the cops who got KIA'd over the summer during the mostly peaceful protests? Where is the outrage? From a few steps back, this whole thing serves many purposes but the one thing for sure is that it will in crease the Red vs. Blue BiPolar divide in the US of A!
karlof1 , Jan 8 2021 20:23 utc | 22
Grieved @16--

In our discussion of this last night, the wife and I agreed that the primary actor in this is the "Security Services" since they stand to benefit ASAP as with 911. I posted the following to Escobar's FB earlier this morning:

"Biden called the protesters 'Terrorists;' but, how could Biden make such a huge mistake when he was up to his neck in the facilitation of genuine terrorists in Libya then Syria? I'll bet there's lots of dirt connecting Biden to the development of Daesh and support for Al-Ciada and kin. No one has really looked thanks to the various Hunter Biden sideshows."

The economic situation I described in my reply to Gruff @350 in the Leaving in Style thread is ripe to generate many more protests. And the protests will retard attempts to crush COVID and thus worsen the Depression further. It would be wise to review how social unrest progressed during the First Great Depression to get an idea of what will come.

Abe , Jan 8 2021 20:27 utc | 24
It was fun to watch "upper cast" (politicians) trembling in fear hiding behind their seats while mob was trying to break doors. They thought they were above it all and that they are under protection from their masters, yet they found out they are just as expendable. This is the shock they are feeling now.
James Cook , Jan 8 2021 20:28 utc | 25
Next up will be people (terrorists) who very publicly point this out this "Anti-Narrative" - like you have just done. Censorship is on the way, because facts have become the enemy and now there is justification. YOU ARE INCITING VIOLENCE BY EXPOSING THE FACTS!!!!!!!!!!! And if censorship does not work, then you WILL become a member of the Julian Assange Club!

Watch your back out there, because this will get worse before it becomes better.

CitizenX , Jan 8 2021 20:34 utc | 28
"These were not terrorists but tourists who came from all over the states to Washington for fun..."
...

Official US Policy is Terrorism.
Economic sanctions are Terrorism.
Military "interventions" and outright bombing invasions are in fact Official US policies OF Terrorism.
US media condones and supports US War Crimes of Terrorism.

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
― Martin Luther King Jr.

The US govt left/right and its propagandized complicit citizens are the "greatest" terrorist on the f'n planet.

foolisholdman , Jan 8 2021 20:39 utc | 29
It seems from the comments the the barflies are all convinced that the election was NOT stolen from Trump. I wonder why? The unanimity of the MSM that it WAS stolen and the unanimous refusal of the various courts to even consider hearing Trump's case, seems very fishy to me. Maybe he lost, but I would not care to bet on it.
Passer by , Jan 8 2021 20:40 utc | 30
@AntiSpin | Jan 8 2021 20:15 utc | 21

I noticed that Democrats increasingly sound Nazi like too, calling their opponents "Low IQ", "Dumb", "Rabble", with "lower education", etc. It sounds increasingly pro-elite and anti-working class.

Note that the left of the 20th century never sounded like that, and embraced "the poor", the "lowly educated", the "rabble", the "low classes", etc. vs the "highly educated" and the "elite", that had the highest education possible.

It again reminds me that actual Left does not exist in the US, rather a heavily propagandized and brainwashed by the local elite pseudo left that is mostly controlled by the elite.

Atreides , Jan 8 2021 20:43 utc | 31
I was watching live footage from Status Coup while the protesters were fighting the cops at the gates, literally had a front row seat of what was going on, and all I could think of was how undermanned and ill prepared the cops were with a bunch of bike cops and very few cops with full riot gear. The mayor had been begging for days if not weeks for more equipment and men but he never got it. It really seems like this was a planned event for some reason, maybe to try and impeach the orange wonder so he can't come back in 4 years and ruin Biden's day. Not that it matters much because neither of them are really in charge of anything important and they're both scumbags anyway, but it would be nice to see the dem elites humiliated in 2024.
TimmyB , Jan 8 2021 20:46 utc | 33
This certainly wasn't a coup. However, the murder of a police officer means it wasn't a peaceful protest either. Exaggerations on one side or the other do no good. It was a crowd of protesters who, in part because of the lack of security, got out of control.
Jen , Jan 8 2021 20:51 utc | 34
Is there video evidence of the protesters attacking and bashing the police officer with the fire extinguisher? This is quite important to know. The police officer (Brian Sicknick) was able to walk back to his station after the attack and it was there where he collapsed. He was known to be a Trump supporter himself. Until there is visual evidence or witnesses to the attack are able to speak freely, we cannot say who or what was responsible for his collapse and death. It may be that something else unrelated to the attack happened later on that caused his death.

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 21:09 utc | 39

@ Passer by | Jan 8 2021 20:40 utc | 30

Well said.

Imo, it's because they are not left or even pseudo left. Their party currently serves global, the most predatory kind of capital, and they constantly invoke 'racial' grievances. That's typical far-right shit.

alaff , Jan 8 2021 21:11 utc | 40
That the incoming president declares a number of activist from the opposing party to be 'terrorists' demonstrates how unqualified he is for that job.

You shouldn't be surprised at the rhetoric of the Democrats. It is their corporate identity to call black white and white black. BLM savages, smashing shops, looting and burning cars are "peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators." A white (already guilty!), unarmed woman, Trump supporter (doubly guilty!) shot at point-blank is a "terrorist".

The same thing happened in Ukraine (which is the zone of responsibility of the Democrats) after the coup - residents of Donbass who refused to accept the coup were declared "terrorists". Despite the fact that it is the Kiev regime that is terrorist - it arranges a blockade of Crimea and Donbass, blows up power transmission towers, tries to enter Crimea to commit terrorist acts, makes successful and not very successful attempts to kidnap people in Donbass and even in Russia, etc. Not even talking about the murders of political and military leaders of the LDPR, secret fascist prisons for torturing people...
But with all this, it is the inhabitants of Donbass who are "terrorists".

You know, absolute hypocrisy as a way of being.

the pair , Jan 8 2021 21:12 utc | 42
well said. random thoughts:
Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 21:12 utc | 43
The Viking Guy has an online profile - on the Backstage talent promotion website https://archive.vn/mIW6p
lex talionis , Jan 8 2021 21:17 utc | 46
@ 36 - I don't think b is at all supporting Trump. He is just pointing out some of the absurdities of this whole situation. And I am a Latino citizen of the USA.
This whole spectacle has made me very sad. Guy Debord hopefully is laughing. I always expected this moment. Chickens come home, taste of our own medicine, etc.

I fear what the future holds for the entire planet with the Bidet administration. At least the orange one created enough discord that we didn't start any new wars. And to me, he seemed sincere in ending some of the ones we have been engaged in for decades. I think the color of our revolution will be rainbow.

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 21:19 utc | 47
teri @35

"Some of these "everyday, average" people hung a noose on a gallows outside the Capitol building." This imagery was used by radical right Israelis who opposed Yitzhak Rabin shortly before his assassination in 1995. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/06/democracy-the-noose-and-the-coffin/

One guy wearing an animal skin cloak is actually the son of a New York State Superior Court judge and powerful Democratic Party leader. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/01/07/at-maga-rally-israeli-flag-and-neo-nazis-co-exist-awkwardly/

The stench of shenanigans is overwhelming.

bevin , Jan 8 2021 21:22 utc | 49
".. the left of the 20th century never sounded like that, and embraced "the poor", the "lowly educated", the "rabble", the "low classes", etc. vs the "highly educated" and the "elite", that had the highest education possible..."
Passer by@30

I agree, B's analysis is spot on in this instance. Congress has been more or less taunting the people for years, daring them to show the displeasure that the oligarchy has ensured cannot be communicated through the ballot box.

Was the election fraudulent? Of course it was- the Green Party cannot even get onto the ballot in many states. The whole system is corrupt and 'the fix' is in in every election. This has been the case for a long time but never more than during the cycles beginning in the Bush 'win' in 2000, since when there has been a rapid and general deterioration in the enforcement of civil rights acts relating to voter suppression and the regulation of election spending. During the same period the Democrats have taken several measures to prevent primary voters from selecting candidates and elected Convention delegates from controlling conventions, policy and party elections.

So when Trump said that the election was corrupt-echoing the claims Clinton made in 2016- it is not surprising that millions took him seriously, because except for the detail that he actually did not win, what he said confirmed what everyone knew.

The surprising aspect of the election is the complete solidarity of the oligarchy, its media and bien pensant opinion that the 2020 Presidential Election was absolutely fair, a model of democracy.

Hell, if what took place in the US had happened in Bolivia the same oligarchs, media etc would have been urging the people of La Paz to storm the Assembly. And they'd have paid the army to back them up and kill.

... ... ...

Peter AU1 , Jan 8 2021 21:29 utc | 52
Reading around the blogs, some authors believe there was no vote rigging and others believe there was something in Trumps claims. Last election Clinton was put up as the face of the Us deep state - Five Eyes Anglosphere and they believed that the controlled media would carry her to victory.

This election, they took no chances, ensuring Trump could not use social media, and although he may well have lost simply due to his policies - covid, china, ect ect, it is also inconceivable to think the powers that be did not tinker with votes. If I could eat the stuff, I would have a big supply of popcorn. This is like watching the headchoppers of Idlib blowing each other away.

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 21:30 utc | 53
"It will polarize the parties in the conflict even more."

And what's important is that with Rs now jumping Trump's ship, the working class must feel that they don't have any political representation at all. Thus, it could turn into the early-to-mid-nineties model with organized armed militias and all that.

Idiocrates , Jan 8 2021 21:41 utc | 59
Could be an interesting spectacle if true: https://www.rt.com/usa/511982-trump-insurrection-impeachement-draft-leaked/ Looks like a 2nd attempt to impeach Trump. I reckon chances are it will succeed. Everyone wants to increase the pressure it seems.

james , Jan 8 2021 21:45 utc | 63

BRW I highlighted this very comment from Biden in the previous thread... it is totally whacked! Biden needs to be taken to a care home..

"Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple."

_K_C_ , Jan 8 2021 21:52 utc | 66
Posted by: Heironymous Dosh | Jan 8 2021 21:19 utc | 47

My information on the son of the judge contradicts yours. I'm not sure of the father's party affiliation, but he's an orthodox pro-Zionist Israel high ranking member of the orthodox Jewish community in New York.

That synagogue has been unwavering in its support for Trump and his pro-Zionist Israeli policies in the past.

Aaron Mostofsky, whose father is Kings County Supreme Court Judge Steven (Shlomo) Mostofsky, entered the building wearing fur pelts and a bulletproof vest and carrying a riot shield he said he found, Gothamist reported, citing the New York Post.

Mostofsky was photographed several times on Wednesday next to Jake Angeli, a QAnon supporter who also wore a horned hat and furry outfit, though it is not clear that their outfits were coordinated.

He was among the many Orthodox Jews who came to the Capitol to protest, telling the Post that he wanted "to express my opinion as a free American that this election was stolen" from President Donald Trump. Mostofsky is one of dozens of "persons of interest" sought by Washington police for unlawful entry to the building.

"We were cheated," he said. "I don't think 75 million people voted for Trump -- I think it was close to 85 million."

Mostofsky's brother Nachman, the executive director of Chovevei Zion, a politically conservative Orthodox advocacy organization, as well as a Brooklyn district leader and vice president of the South Brooklyn Conservative Club, also attended the rally Wednesday but did not enter the Capitol.

More Here

So here we are again. One side simply refusing to believe anything that contradicts the viewpoint they wish was true. I have seen nothing to indicate his father was a Democrat and I'm not going to go out on a limb and say he isn't. But it hardly matters in the orthodox Jewish community as they will support any politician or party that benefits themselves and preserves the Israeli occupation of Palestine, just like Trump's administration bent over backward to do for 4 years.

Jeffrey Kaye , Jan 8 2021 21:53 utc | 67
This posting appears to make an inverse error from those of media and pol accounts that exaggerated the event. There are multiple instances of social media and interviews that show people travelled to this event with the intent of a showdown or even a "revolution" against what they perceived as a socialist takeover and fraud concerning the presidential election.

The US ruling class has ample experience in overturning governments and overturning legitimate elections. There's no evidence that Trump lost by these means. But Trump's insistence that he was cheated out of his landslide victory has mobilized a primarily racist and reactionary core of followers. These protesters are not people who care about democracy in, say, Venezuela!

There are a number of videos of protesters fighting cops at the Capitol. We have the fact as well that some 5 cops were hospitalized, and one has now died. One protester, attempting to break through a barricaded door inside the Capitol, appears to have been shot point-blank by police.

Given Trump's ongoing insistence that the country was being stolen from his supporters and that he won in a landslide, in what fashion does b feel this was going to end?

The issue boils down to what extent one feels that even the shell of a rotten democracy matters when forces are gathered to stop its processes. Up until nearly the invasion of the Capitol, Trump was saying that VP Pence needed to stop the counting of what Trump maintained were fraudulent electoral college votes.

In fact, it matters a good deal. When the corrupt "democratic" Provisional Government that replaced the Russian Czar in Feb. 1917 was threatened with military ouster by a Czarist general six months later, the Bolsheviks defended the government against forces that promised a return to oppressive autocracy, if not fascist rule. A few months after that the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government with the help of soldiers and sailors who hated the fact the PG was still prosecuting the extremely bloody World War.

Today, there is no powerful Bolshevik Party on the left (certainly not in the U.S.). But the Democratic Party has blood on its hands just as the Russian social democrats in the PG did 100 years ago. The issue is also not about a military takeover. But let us look at what would occur if the forces that temporarily occupied the Capitol were to implement their program with a series of victories. These forces are not really populist, but are a plebeian group of rightists who share one thing in common, their hatred and fear of BLM and the idea of black equality in general. It has not been helpful that the Democrats, in administering capitalist austerity for years, have turned a deaf ear to issues such as jobs, leaving poorer whites and lower middle class vulnerable to poverty to turn to racist demagogues like Trump.

To overturn the election in favor of Trump would be to embolden the right and racists. There is a small group of right wing reactionary racists in the military, and it's not impossible that they could gather more power if society were to descend into more chaos.

Hence, while portraying the takeover of the Capitol as an "insurrection" is hyperbole, underplaying it as just an accidental event with no real harm intended is also incorrect. Trump's victory in overturning current electoral processes would represent a huge victory for the Right and increase racist attacks. Biden's win does not bode much lite than a turn back to the status quo, which also has very little to recommend it, for workers, for minorities, and certainly not to the millions who suffer terribly under US sanctions and US-backed oppressive governments abroad.

What we lack is real leadership that can unite both black and white and other minorities with those struggling against US imperialism abroad and bring an end to the rule of the 1% who don't care how many they kill, or what cynicism or bloody manipulations they use to maintain the rule of their Capitalist class.

Outlaw Historian , Jan 8 2021 21:59 utc | 70
I offer this article as something to peruse and think about. When considering the author's sources, remember that today's voices that provide truths are often marginalized in an attempt to delegitimize those truths -- Think of Hudson's political-economic history and his entire corpus of research as an excellent example of the contemporary dismissal of salient Truths.

Also it must be acknowledged that real conspiracies do occur, thus those trying to expose them aren't "theorists" but investigators. Also recall the maxim that all plans fall apart as soon as they meet concerted opposition when rethinking the rise of Trump and the 4 years of certain conspiratorial opposition against most everything he tried to do. And also remember that only Trump knows why he made the choices he made, and that the vast majority of speculation remains just that.

gm , Jan 8 2021 22:02 utc | 71
Very interesting and perceptive take on the Jan 6 Capital Building incident, from a youtuber name Joe Leonard: Chaotic Protest at the Capitol in Washington DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLxX3Rn_EyQ (13 min)

Joe notes the 'photogenic' heavily tattooed Mr. 'Buffalo-Head' alleged MAGA/Q supporter person shown prominently in photos in the Capital Bldg hallways and Rotunda, seems to also have an "actor's resume" web page, and sports a prominent triangular 'Pedo-love' tattoo on his chest. Not very MAGA Deplorable-ish of Mr. Buffalo/Viking Head, Joe wonders.

Mike from Jersey , Jan 8 2021 22:03 utc | 72
Great quote:
The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding?

That really says it all.

lysias , Jan 8 2021 22:08 utc | 74
The police were stood down to allow the crowd into the Capitol. All in order to discredit Trump and his supporters.
Canadian Cents , Jan 8 2021 22:08 utc | 75
Great post b, lot of gems. Loved the great "Is this a terrorist?" image and the Lego / candy store point.

For those that mentioned that a cop was killed, that unfortunate fact does not mean that the majority of the protesters were a "mob" or "terrorists" as opposed to being "like children finding a candy store unguarded" - any more than the fact that an unarmed female protester (the Air Force veteran) was unnecessarily shot dead make all of the Capitol police bad. Both were very unfortunate, but to go from that to calling this "terrorism" makes no sense.

Biden urgently instructed the Western media "Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists."

If these protesters were "terrorists", what then were those in Hong Kong who went around for months armed with umbrellas, pipes, and bricks, and brutally beat and even threw oil and lit fire to people and infrastructure? Those terrorists, always presented by our hypocritical establishment-serving media as "pro-democracy protesters", were sponsored and encouraged by the US. Five Eyes countries like the US, UK, Canada, and I presume Australia, New Zealand, then offered citizenship as reward for their terrorist services, (along with White Helmets Islamic extremist proxies from Idlib, Syria.)

Also loved the Nick J. Fuentes quote: "The US Capitol is hardly a "sacred temple of democracy," it's the sleaziest brothel in the world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments. Who are they kidding?"

Or in Biden's classic words, "The citadel of Liberty".

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:11 utc | 76
_K_C_ @66

"My information on the son of the judge contradicts yours. I'm not sure of the father's party affiliation, but he's an orthodox pro-Zionist Israel high ranking member of the orthodox Jewish community in New York"

I don't see the contradiction. You agree on the cultural aspect, and say you have no idea of the political aspects. The information is not mine. It is reported by Richard Silverstein who seems to be well up on these things - and a fervent anti-Trumper. If you have reason to believe his information is incorrect, you could contact him with a correction. I'm sure he is a nice enough chap and would welcome the clarification.

Mao Cheng Ji , Jan 8 2021 22:14 utc | 78
"Thank you for clarifying American idiom. Now when the police say 'X was injured after making physical contact with the protesters' it really means that 'X was beaten to death with baseball bats'. "

Meh. For all we know, he could've made physical contact with the protesters, slipped, fallen, broken his neck.

Heironymous Dosh , Jan 8 2021 22:25 utc | 81
The arrival of CIA regime change events in the US is met with a perfect display of hypocracy by the likes of Pelosi and Pompeo.

[Jan 08, 2021] Sarah Palin Accuses Antifa of False Flag Op in Capitol Attack

Jan 08, 2021 | www.mediaite.com

Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin leapt right into the conspiracy theory slipstream on Fox News, claiming that she suspected the rioting, looting, and gunshots unleashed inside the Capitol by pro-Trump supporters was actually a false flag operation by... Antifa.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Palin did not share any of this supposedly blockbuster evidence with host Martha MacCallum , who asked her about earlier comments condemning the rioters as "fake patriots"

"Anyone who would storm the Capitol and create this, at least the perception of condoned violence, is not a true patriot," Palin insisted, before quickly pivoting to explicitly blame the media for being partly responsible for the unprecedented attack. "How dangerous it is, in our time, society, to not be able to trust the media. I've been saying this for them years and years, when we cannot trust, on either side, the nformations being fed to us, then, yeah, things like this will be a result because there is so much frustration out there that some misguided -- very, very wrongheaded yahoos are out there causing this mayhem, and we don't -- and a lot of it is the media's fault."

"But Martha, keep in mind, we don't know who all were the instigators in this, these horrible thing that happen today. I think a lot of it is the Antifa folks."

Palin claimed, diving right into the deep end of the conspiracy theory pool with pure, politically-convenient speculation. "I've been sent pictures of the same characters, whom were captured on images today storming the Capitol, as had been in protests on the other side of politics earlier in the summer. So I don't know, there is a lot of questions out there, and I wish that we could trust the media to do its job to do the research and report all these people are."

Watch the video https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sarah-palin-baselessly-accuses-antifa-of-false-flag-op-in-capitol-mob-assault-citing-some-pictures-people-sent-her/?jwsource=cl

[Jan 08, 2021] At the moment, many Americans actually think it makes a difference which puppet of the neoliberal oligarchy is declared the winner. For sure it's being used as distraction from our real fight against TPTB and it may be used for disturbances that will lead to martial law

Jan 08, 2021 | off-guardian.org


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Penelope , Nov 16, 2020 3:00 AM

Absolutely. At the moment, many Americans actually think it makes a difference which mask for the oligarchy is declared the winner. For sure it's being used as distraction from our real fight against TPTB– and it may be used for disturbances that will lead to martial law.

We are possibly the most propagandized people in the world. I have been awake since 1963, and the really surprising thing is that uneducated people saw through it even then– but not so many of the well-educated. That holds true even today. There ARE well-educated who see through it– but those who don't are disproportionately among the educated.

I suppose they've just had more years of propaganda at university, or that they feel themselves to be part of "the system". I've not met a single Mexican immigrant who hasn't seen through it all– from covid to the election. Greatly to my surprise the the group most attached to the covid story are the doctors– but not the nurses & menial hospital workers.

A larger percentage has been sucked into electoral theatrics.

[Jan 08, 2021] FALSE FLAG CONFIRMED- "Viking" stormed the Capitol Building photographed at BLM rally

Jan 08, 2021 | coercioncode.com

The only violence committed today was the Capitol Police shooting and reportedly killing an unarmed female Trump supporter who was shot in the neck.

Jeffrey Prather has confirmed through his intelligence networks that the people who led the storming of the Capitol Building were Antifa / BLM operatives. The entire attack was a false flag event .

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/c5255645-b7d1-4589-aeb6-44c1162d16f0

It's the police, in other words, who are committing the violence, not Trump supporters.

Given that Leftists have rigged everything else -- the media, Big Tech, the elections, U.S. history, etc. -- no one would be surprised if they also rigged the events at the Capitol Building.

Patriots are polite. It's the radical Left that uses violence for political purposes.

Here's a video of the Capitol Police shooting an unarmed female Trump supporter in the neck:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/e72d4a04-d595-43c0-af15-f8dd32147fbc

BREAKING: After the staged "storming" false flag event, Congress to RE-CONVENE tonight and finish its final act of betrayal against America, under the cloak of darkness

( Natural News ) The storming of the US Capitol Building today is now being pounced upon by the left-wing media to demonize Trump supporters as violent terrorists. Yet the same media outlets described Antifa / BLM violence as "mostly peaceful," even when those left-wing actors were hurling Molotov cocktails and wielding blinding lasers against law enforcement.

Update: We have now confirmed that the storming of the Capitol Building was initiated by left-wing provocateurs who met with Capitol Police yesterday and planned the event. A photo has emerged of the "Viking" individual who led the storming action today (shown on the right side of the photo below). This same person -- wearing the same outfit and nearly identical face paint -- was also reportedly spotted at a BLM rally earlier this year.

Note the identical tattoos, facial hair and costume:

This short video shows Capitol Police actively waving a group of protesters to "breach" the Capitol building. It was all coordinated:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/fc6da51b-02d3-4b05-878f-29302cd4f541

You can then see from this video that they were allowed to stream right in, without any police attempting to stop them:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/2f5a4f1a-ef37-4e65-8b1c-4fa2872380a9

[Jan 08, 2021] Were Antifa masquerading as Trump supporters?

Notable quotes:
"... "Our cause is to obtain an honest vote and to end voter fraud before it becomes a permanent tactic of the enabled and media-protected Democrat Party," he wrote. "Violence is rejected, condemned and counterproductive. Antifa involvement is no excuse. It contradicts our values." ..."
"... Alabama Representative Mo Brooks labelled rioters: "ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats." ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | independent.co.uk

Ms Palin was far from the only Trump ally to promote the refrain that the pro-Trump rioters were "infiltrated" by outside "agitators", namely Antifa, in an effort to embarrass the president.

Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani also took to Twitter on Thursday to suggest that Antifa had been involved in the violence, adding that this was "no excuse". Top Articles 'It is what it is:' No regrets from Trump supporters after Capitol siege READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE SKIP AD

"Our cause is to obtain an honest vote and to end voter fraud before it becomes a permanent tactic of the enabled and media-protected Democrat Party," he wrote. "Violence is rejected, condemned and counterproductive. Antifa involvement is no excuse. It contradicts our values."

Alabama Representative Mo Brooks labelled rioters: "ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats."

The Daily Beast reported that Newsmax, a far-right station that has ardently supported Mr Trump and pushed misleading claims about election fraud , also pinned the violence on Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

Fox News host Sean Hannity also cast doubt on the identity of "agitators" in the riots, saying "those who truly support President Trump do not support those that commit acts of violence".

Following hours of chaos, Mr Trump issued a statement telling the rioters to "go home in peace" before adding that he loved the mob, calling them "special".

"We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens you see the way, others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home and peace," he said.

Overwhelmingly, US commentators condemned the violence and Mr Trump's muted response to rioters, with CNN anchor Jake Tapper calling the evening an "absolutely disgraceful moment in American history".

"In my 60 years covering national politics, I've never seen anything like it. And frankly I hope I never do again. It's pretty disturbing," Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace said, according to USA Today.

Washington DC police said four people died during the violent pro-Trump riot in the city, including a woman who was shot inside the Capitol. At least one improvised explosive device was said to have been found.

[Jan 08, 2021] Why did one of the police officers wave people onto the Capitol grounds?

Jan 08, 2021 | www.citizenfreepress.com

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Why did one of the police officers wave people onto the Capitol grounds?

[Jan 08, 2021] Was the assault on the Capitol building a false flag?

Jan 08, 2021 | canadafreepress.com


'm writing this hours before posting it, so events may unfold that add more information.

The first thing you need to ask yourself: was the break-in at the Capitol, while Congress was in session holding a debate about election certification, an attempt to stop a transfer of power to Biden, or an attempt to stop the debate itself -- -during which legislators would have laid out evidence of fraud?

The assault did achieve a stoppage of the debate, which was being carried live on television. False flags do work

For the next 20 years, media will play up Wednesday, January 6, 2021, as the dark day America almost broke apart. You can bet a few dozen production companies are already editing footage for "stunning, award-winning" documentaries.

Democrats are feeling a burst of confidence that Trump's career as a politician is over -- -since he will forever be linked to "The Insurrection of January 6."

In their eyes, this is far better than a physical assassination.

On the night of February 27, 1933, a fire was set in the German Reichstag, the national parliament. It burned a significant portion of the structure. Many historians state Hitler's people set that fire -- -which at the time was successfully blamed on his main political opponent, the Communist Party. The tactic allowed Hitler to consolidate his final needed piece of national power.

Alongside the endorsement and support of IG Farben, the biggest pharmaceutical and chemical cartel in the world, the Reichstag false flag gave Hitler control over the fate of Germany.

False flags do work.

( The link to this article posted on my blog is here .)

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[Jan 08, 2021] Bill Barr accuses Trump of 'orchestrating' Capitol mob scene in shocking statement

Inciting mod is a crime unless this is done neoliberals to achieve their goals. Where has he been during Antifa violence?
Looks like Barr is trying to hide this false flag: Barr released a statement through former Justice Department spokeswoman Keri Kupec, saying: "The violence at the Capitol Building is outrageous and despicable. Federal agencies should move immediately to disperse it."
Jan 08, 2021 | www.bizpacreview.com

In an extraordinary statement, former Attorney General Bill Barr has completely thrown President Donald Trump under the bus, accusing him of "orchestrating" the storming of the U.S. Capitol and calling his alleged actions "inexcusable."

"Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable. The president's conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters," he reportedly said in a statement to the Associated Press on Thursday.

... ... ..

While there was nothing inherently wrong with the rally, it eventually dissolved into a riot as the president's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and commandeered the House and Senate chambers. Barr is clearly among the myriads of Trump critics who believe the president bears responsibility for this.

Another theory, according to the president's most ardent supporters, is that Barr was never loyal in the first place -- that it'd all been an act.

[Jan 08, 2021] Mind blowing hypocrisy! by Saker

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... No country and no regime can stand on such truly galactic levels of doublethink, hypocrisy and cowardice. This is the beginning of the end of this regime. My thoughts tonight are with the "deplorables". In the prophetic words of George Orwell: ..."
Jan 08, 2021 | thesaker.is

I just listened to Trey Gowdy and a few others GOP big-shots condemn the "terrible violations of the law" committed by the protestors today and I take my hat off to these folks: they are truly world class hypocrites.

But when the people, literally, those whom the elected officials are supposed to represent, demonstrate all day peacefully and then a few, not necessarily even Trump supporters (false flags are very easy to organize with crowds!), storm the halls of Congress, then the GOP bigshots take to the air and lament the "tragedy" of the law being violated.

No country and no regime can stand on such truly galactic levels of doublethink, hypocrisy and cowardice. This is the beginning of the end of this regime. My thoughts tonight are with the "deplorables". In the prophetic words of George Orwell:

"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it."

Orwell's "proles" are our "deplorables". And for all the self-evident weaknesses and delusions, they are the only ones left, literally, and they will have to be the soil from which the liberation of the USA will have to begin.

The rest of them make me feel nauseated.

The Saker

teranam13 on January 06, 2021 , · at 7:53 pm EST/EDT

Trump did not fight for the "deplorables" . He allowed Antifa to trash the cities of America with impunity, he allowed the techno-fascist elite to blatantly violate the first amendment and he did not withdraw troops from foreign wars but rather shuffled them around a bit to look like he was doing something, and he shut down and destroyed middle American businesses in favor of Walmart and Amazon and even when warned, he allowed an election steal. What a feckless f-ck head!

Why should "we" fight for him? And anyone with half a brain and a careful reading of history knows that the VP is always the ace in the hole for the deep state . always. So what is the surprise? Don't suborn!! -- Organize!!!

Katie on January 07, 2021 , · at 3:20 am EST/EDT

Trump didn't allow the cities to be trashed by Antifa and BLM. It was the Democrat Governors who allowed the chaos and destruction. Get an education of what really happened and who caused it. If you watched the crooked liars of CNN no wonder you are deceived!

[Jan 08, 2021] Amid The Hysteria, Here Are Two U.S. Coups That Already Quietly Happened by Rabobank

Jan 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Rightly, the conversation still revolves around what happened in D.C. on 6 January. What we do not hear are the usual American homilies about coming together and unity. Quite the opposite. There is talk of the 25th amendment or impeachment, and of " domestic terrorism ". That is as an opinion poll showed 20% of all voters and 45% of Republicans supported the siege of the Capitol. Heuristics elsewhere show that you cannot expect to run 'democratic BAU' with those kind of numbers saying they don't buy into the system. As Philip Marey underlines again in his latest note , this is a bitterly polarized society that no economic stimulus package is a solution for .

Tablet Magazine also has a worrying take in " The Five Crises of the American Regime " by Professor Michael Lind. Agree or disagree, it is worth a serious read:

"In the past eight months, two Capitol Hills have fallen [Seattle and D.C.]. Two shocking events symbolize the abdication of authority by America's ruling class, an abdication that has led to what can be described, not without exaggeration, as the slow-motion disintegration of the USA in its present form Many Democrats claim that Republicans are destroying the republic. Many Republicans claim the reverse. They are both correct . As a rule, comparisons between the US and Weimar Germany or late republican Rome are misleading, but when rival elite political factions tolerate or encourage mob violence in the streets, the comparisons might be forgiven."

Lind then goes on to list the US' Five Crises:

Political: " the centralization of power in a small number of ambitious elite factions and coteries American politicians today tend to be picked by the small number of zealots of various kinds who show up to vote in party primaries. The national parties themselves are no longer functioning organizations, but mere brands. ";

Identity: "Neither America's partisan leaders nor their militant followers are any longer restrained by a common sense of cross-party solidarity and shared American patriotism.";

Social: "People who are rooted in real communities do not make good foot soldiers in partisan armies deployed by remote elites who are battling for control of government offices. They have jobs they can't miss and children they have to pick up from school and errands to run..";

Demographic: "The rise of unmarried and childless young Americans in their 20s and 30s who can be mobilized by left and right for unrestricted partisan warfare "; and

Economic: "The strategy , encouraged by neoliberal Democrats and libertarian conservative Republicans alike since the 1970s, has been to lower labour costs in the US American business has also driven down wages by smashing unions in the private sector, which now have fewer members -- a little more than 6% of the private sector workforce -- than they did under Herbert Hoover."

For now the public debate and headlines remain instead of the latest " coup d'état " (and even Hitler's 1923 failed Munich Beerhall putsch); and of the " coup de grâce " of removing Trump from office, surely risking further polarisation when he will leave in less than two weeks anyway. Fortunately, there was no risk of an actual coup of the kind seen in Thailand dozens of times (and it deserves noting that in the Thai case recent coups were against populist outsiders, not led by them.)

Indeed, Edward Luttwak --the author of the literal handbook on coups -- has criticized Trump for not being conciliatory, and earlier, but also argued " during the Capitol Hill riot, Wall St went up – traders were unmoved by TV hysteria " as there was never any chance that Biden would not be sworn in on 20 January. Ask yourself, would the markets really have rallied Wednesday if an *actual* US coup had been happening?

Perhaps! Because to add another crisis to Lind's list, two coups arguably already happened:

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As Lind concludes:

"The painstaking reconstruction of the United States, if it takes place, is not one to be met by 10-point plans and PowerPoints. First we must agree on the causes of the collapse of the latest in a series of historic American regimes."

Well, Wall St does *not* like things that don't involve 10-point plans or PowerPoints; it usually doesn't even like 9 points of a 10-point plan. Yet Lind's proposal would be a good start, even if it isn't going to happen.

In the meantime, either buy into the reflation trade on the presumption that the new administration will at least attempt to use economic stimulus to bridge the political divide; or expect the worse and just buy Bitcoin , which is at over USD40,000 as even conservative pension funds are apparently now getting interested. (" So, Mr and Mrs Smith, we've looked at your risk appetite and retirement date, and we think that overall it's best to plan for a post-nuclear apocalypse scenario. Have you considered studded-leather hot pants and bondage mask producers? And have you thought about gasoline and water at all? They are going to be quite the ticket!" )

But to end a troubling week on a positive note, Elon Musk is now the world's richest man - provided he never sells any of his shares. So nature is healing.

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eatapeach 5 minutes ago

It became all that fraud and lies that when Kennedy was murdered. Now *that* was a real coup. Mossad, LBJ, and the MIC have bloody hands. LBJ got the Presidency, AIPAC did not have to register as a foreign agent, and the MIC got more war. We've had insiders running the show ever since. That includes Trump (a freemason) and Pence (a freemason) and Biden and almost every other 'elected' official.

PGR88 31 minutes ago (Edited) remove link

American's don't yet seem to grasp that they just experienced a top-down color-revolution / coup. Tech oligarchs, big business and the media have fully revealed themselves as tools of the statist, globalist elites.

NoDebt 30 minutes ago

Half the country does.

[Jan 08, 2021] After the staged storming false flag event, Congress to RE-CONVENE tonight and finish its final act of betrayal against ordinary Americans who expect fair and transparent elections by Mike Adams

Jan 06, 2021 | yournews.com
After the staged "storming" false flag event, Congress to RE-CONVENE tonight and finish its final act of betrayal against America, under the cloak of darkness

Mike Adams

( Natural News ) Today's "storming" of the Capitol Building has already been confirmed as a false flag operation run by Antifa / BLM troops and pre-coordinated with Capitol Police as a way to discredit Trump supporters in the media.

We now know that the people who led the storming of the building are the very same people who have previously been photographed as active individuals at BLM rallies, matching their tattoos, facial hair and even worn equipment.

In addition, Antifa / BLM operators were transported to the event for the sole purpose of carrying out provocateur / false flag operations. "According to a former FBI agent on the ground at the US Capitol, at least one bus load of Antifa goons infiltrated the Trump rally as part of a false flag operation," reports The Gateway Pundit .

Now, we have learned that the treasonous Congress, led by traitors Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell were secretly plotting all along to complete their act of betrayal against America under the cloak of night.

They have issued a press release found at this link, from the office of the Speaker of the House (Pelosi):

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/1621-0

It begins, "Dear Colleague to All Members on Continuation of the Joint Session of Congress" and then claims the attack on the Capitol Buliding was a "shameful assault on our democracy," blaming it fully on President Trump.

Then the letter explains how treasonous members of Congress plan to vote to accept the fraudulent Biden slate of electors later tonight, after Capitol Police had cleared out the protesters with tear gas and by shooting at least one unarmed protester in the neck . From the letter:

To that end, in consultation with Leader Hoyer and Whip Clyburn and after calls to the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the Vice President, we have decided we should proceed tonight at the Capitol once it is cleared for use. Leader Hoyer will be sending out more guidance later today.

We always knew this responsibility would take us into the night. The night may still be long but we are hopeful for a shorter agenda, but our purpose will be accomplished.

They planned this all along

First, they use BLM and Antifa operatives to "storm" the Capitol Building with the help of police, who coordinated the entire thing. Watch the following videos that show the Capitol Police openly ushering "protesters" into the build. They actually invited them in!

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/fc6da51b-02d3-4b05-878f-29302cd4f541

You can then see from this video that they were allowed to stream right in, without any police attempting to stop them:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/2f5a4f1a-ef37-4e65-8b1c-4fa2872380a9

Once the "storming" was complete, the Capitol Police deployed tear gas to remove all the protesters, while Trump was forced to tell everybody to go home.

With the Capitol Building now cleared out, they call the joint session of Congress back into existence, with no one around to observe what they are doing , and they commit their final act of treason against America by accepting the Biden slate of electors to install CCP puppet Joe Biden as president.

Note that this is exactly how they rigged the elections in the first place: By removing all GOP observers, blocking windows and acting like they had "paused" the counting when, in reality, they re-convened the rigged counting in the middle of the night and kept feeding fraudulent votes into Dominion machines until they had produced enough votes to "win."

This is how Democrats and the deep state operate: It's 100% staged, always carried out in the dark of night, always based on deception, false narratives and a complicit media that's happy to lie to the American public.

Your country is being stolen from you tonight. They are doing it while they think the nation is asleep. And by the time you wake up -- just like on November 4th -- you will discover that you've lost your country to a group of pedophile criminal thugs who desire power above all else.

Pray for God to intervene, or this nation is finished at the hands of filthy, treasonous betrayers like Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell.

[Jan 08, 2021] Remove Trump from Office by DANIEL LARISON

Daniel does not understand that the problem is the loss of legitimacy of neoliberal elite. Which staged a false flag operation with ransacking the Capitol to swipe under the rug election fraud charges.
And the problem is not only due to cooked elections. The problem is Biden administration which consists of all rabid neoliberals and warmongers. This is a silly hysterical reaction on events, no so much of analysis that we would expect from this author.
This was a protest that was hijacked for nefarious purposes, which is python for any color revolution. Probably infiltrated and subverted but still a protest against Washington neoliberal political elite. Against all those Schumers, Pelosis, McConnells, Romeys and other enablers of financial oligarchy in both parties
A large part of the nation does not accept the election as legitimate. That's the fact.
Jan 07, 2021 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Joe Black • 4 hours ago

I take serious offense to this article regarding Trump. You say this cannot be tolerated? Can the following actions by the democrats be tolerated:
1) dead people voting
2) people putting in change of address forms in order to be able to vote but are not legal residents of the state
3) changing voting laws so that its impossible to confirm the identity of the voter (fraud)
4) how about hiding boxes of ballots under tables and then telling the tabulators and observers to go home before scanning them multiple times (caught on video)
5) how about voting machines using the internet to send voting tabulations to Germany and China
But wait...you say fraudulent voting can be tolerated because its an issue for courts, governor, legislature, election officials...so lets take a look at the antifa/black lives matters riots in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Ferguson, NYC, Baltimore and elsewhere
1) how about obstructing vehicle traffic, pulling people out of cars and trucks to assault/murder them
2) how about obstructing vehicles with mothers and children...beating the car with fists and bats and pipes
3) how about harrassing people at eating at public restaurants, intimidating them to kneel or raise a fist or apologize for being white
4) how about vandalizing businesses and residences, tearing down statues
5) how about acts of violence and arson
5) how about shooting civilians and cops, or burning down police precincts with police still inside the building which is an act of pre-meditated murder.
6) how about autonomous zones which are acts of sedition and treason against the country
WHOSE ACTIONS DESERVE TO BE SCRUTINIZED BECAUSE THEY ARE INTOLERABLE IN A DEMOCRACY BECAUSE THE WAY 40-50% OF AMERICANS SEE IT...IT IS THE DEMOCRATS THAT ARE DESTROYING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC AND THEN ACTING LIKE THE VICTIM WHEN THEIR ACTIONS RESULT IN A BACKLASH....and if Trump is punished or impeached then your going to initiate an even greater backlash...because it is very clear that the actions of the democrats will never be held accountable and the actions of the republicans will be scrutinized, demonized, criminalized and prosecuted. That is best described as a totalitarian dictatorship, a one party state ruled by a permanent aristocracy. The democrats are closer to Hitler and Stalin than they are to our once pluralistic nation of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, social mobility, objectivity in the press and transparency in our elections.

B-Dog The Man • 4 hours ago • edited

Total BS article...that looks like the norm on this silly fake-conservative site.

Just look at the Author..a Leftist...LOL...what a JOKE of a website

B-Dog The Man • 4 hours ago

The Capitol Hill Keystone Kops shoot an innocent bystander...I don't see any mention of it on this satirical fake- conservative site.

coldjoint • 3 hours ago

To the author of the article, you are a POS. People were praised who rushed the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh bullshit. These people have looked to others sources than the media and know there was fraud. And if you do not you are one dishonest SOB.

r minty • an hour ago • edited

Inciting violence?
Rubbish. DJT called for protesters to return home
Steal the election?
Absolute rubbish. All DJT was for was an accurate tally. There is more than enough evidence of voter fraud.
Negative votes, ballots run through tally machines multiple times, observers ejected from facilities, underage voters, voters with illegitimate addresses, illegal rule modifications, more voters in precincts than adults (much less eligible voters), etc. One hundred people have signed affidavits attesting to having witnessed voting/tally abuses (risking prison once submitted to Congress or courts) and a thousand others have declared their intent to testify if so called
And when adhering to the law becomes an "abuse of power" we no longer have a representative government

You've got nothing except illusions and delusions

[Jan 08, 2021] Cruz Calls for Electoral Commission To Protect Election Integrity

By failure of appoint Congressional commission neoliberal Dems and Bush repugs de-legitimized the the next administration and subsequent elections.
Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com


40 Love , 19 hours ago

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. Thomas Paine


HighburyAFCSoul , 1 day ago

"You billionaires doing all right?" - Ted Cruz


Paul G , 17 hours ago

Election Integrity... whose to say that the states where the majority voted read didn't commit fraud? Because Biden was leading in Texas before switching to Trump, same goes with Florida and even South Carolina. Yet those states aren't being questioned, accused or investigated. This country is suffering from sore loser syndrome: 2016 and 2020.


John Doe , 1 day ago

The evidence has been illegally destroyed to cover their tracks. It was hands down rigged with no dispute, but good luck proving it at all when it's all been shredded, burned, buried, or assassinated. And to do so in 10days, unfortunately is impossible.

[Jan 08, 2021] Congressman Johnson objects to the electoral college submission of Arizona

Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

Ginger Guarin , 5 hours ago

Too bad that it seems like DemRats had a plan to distorted the objections with Antifa! Why these people were able to entered the Capitol so easy. They played all the supporters! Someone inside might be involved!

Marianna Ripple , 11 hours ago

I can't believe that R congress backed down so quickly.... as if rogue "protesters" can erase the vast amounts of fraud in the election. That is exactly what Dems count on. I am tired of The GOP being a doormat! On the whole, the Antifa and BLM protests were way more reckless, severe, and concerning. So we should just let the Dems continue to rig elections and give them the country? Disgusting!


Michael44 , 15 hours ago

Leaders in both major parties have ignored average US citizens for many years while selling themselves to the highest bidders (including foreign interests). A relatively small percentage of protestors turned violent and they should be condemned by everyone, but politicians who don't actually serve US citizens are a major problem. Politicians and their families have become rich from abusing political office for personal benefit rather than serving the people.

[Jan 08, 2021] Partisan media sources, Taibbi added, are driving different groups to hate each other

That's the essence of identify politics. The key idea is put various groups at each other throat so that neoliberal oligarchs are safe. If you do not understand this you understand nothing...
Jan 08, 2021 | thehill.com

Journalist Matt Taibbi joined Hill.TV's "Rising" on Thursday and suggested that partisan media circles resulted in echo chambers that have left many Americans without factual, reliable sources of information.

Taibbi told hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti that those who stormed the U.S. Capitol grounds on Wednesday were victims of misinformation and conspiracy theories resulting from these echo chambers.

"We have two basically conflicting media ecosystems...and what ends up happening when people get an uninterrupted stream of information of this type for long enough, is they just completely lose their ability to assess situations rationally, and they will eventually lash out," Taibbi said.

Partisan media sources, Taibbi added, are driving "different groups to hate each other."

[Jan 08, 2021] McEnany reacts to revelation GA Secretary of State was behind leaked Trump audio

Jan 08, 2021 | www.youtube.com

Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Kayleigh McEnany previews Trump's remarks ahead of Georgia rally and reacts to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger releasing phone call with Trump.


shamla naidoo , 1 day ago

"For security and training purposes, this call will be recorded". ..

[Jan 07, 2021] Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester

Looks more and more like pre-planned provocations that spontaneous breach of Capitol security
Notable quotes:
"... Filming the incident from behind Babbit , however, was Utah resident John Sullivan - founder of the far-left organization "Insurgence USA" who made headlines in July after he was arrested for intimidating drivers in Provo. Sullivan was interviewed by the Daily Mail and CNN following Wednesday's shooting - both of which failed to provide a satisfactory answer as to why he was there in the first place. ..."
"... What was Sullivan doing there? ..."
"... Because it was all scripted theater. Wake up people, you've been trapped in a mind cage your entire life. ..."
"... and within hours the building was secured and highest officials, the most cherished assets of our democracy (cough cough) went back and resumed the process. My local grocery store has a 24 hour clean-up law if they suspect a Covid case entered the premises ..."
"... They Capitol Police did their job alright.... https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-selfies/news-story/45a9be3adf9b447b53d23cf5536c5d02 ..."
"... Note the guy who is already behind the barricades (in a hoodie) who is waving the people forward. And it DOES look like the cops let them in. Unbelievable. If only there were real investigative journalists working on this story. ..."
"... Cui bono? ( Who benefits? ) Who benefitted from yesterday's event? Who was harmed? "Trump supporters" or conservatives certainly did not benefit. Leftist who want to expedite an increasingly totalitarian regime certainly did benefit. ..."
"... But it's obvious that the braintrust who concocted this event also wanted to twist the knife into Trump when he only has 12 (!) days left in office. It was clear he is/was a lame duck. Again, what else is going on here? Or is this simply an example of kicking a man who's already virtually out the door? What's with this 25th Amendment talk? ..."
"... To be fair, the CIA et. al. have been researching mind control since at least 1900 and they used WWI and every other conflict since as testing grounds for their theories and techniques. ..."
"... The whole scene stinks of a setup. The police pulled the barricades aside and invited them through. BLM thugs were on scene to video (and who knows what else). People breaking windows (whoever they might be) were booed by protesters. Were they antifa acting as agents provocateurs? The media and Democrat politicos were all set to demonize the protesters. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

During yesterday's protest in Washington D.C., a Turmp-supporting US Air Force Veteran, Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer ( who has been placed on leave ) as she attempted to climb through a broken window to bypass a barricade, along with other Trump supporters.

Filming the incident from behind Babbit , however, was Utah resident John Sullivan - founder of the far-left organization "Insurgence USA" who made headlines in July after he was arrested for intimidating drivers in Provo. Sullivan was interviewed by the Daily Mail and CNN following Wednesday's shooting - both of which failed to provide a satisfactory answer as to why he was there in the first place.

Sullivan told the Mail that "he was not at the Capitol as part of the protest but did not specify what exactly brought him there. "

Update: Sent in to ZH tips by reader Tony G.

Meanwhile, Trump supporters physically stopped someone from trying to break into the Capitol Building.

What was Sullivan doing there?

LeadPipeDreams 3 hours ago remove link

Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester?

Because it was all scripted theater. Wake up people, you've been trapped in a mind cage your entire life.

Mtnrunnr 3 hours ago

Or maybe agitators for both groups are just agitators and aren't there to progress society.

4DegreesOfSeparation 3 hours ago

Who was in the Capitol, all you need to do is look at social media:

On the Proud Boys' Parler account - which is a Twitter-style social media platform - an image of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk was posted along with the message: "We will not back down."

And on their Telegram site, the militia group boasted of terrifying politicians.

They wrote: "For several hours, our collective strength had politicians in Washington in absolute terror.

"The treacherous pawns (cops) were also terrified."

Karen Durden 29 minutes ago (Edited)

Got this a few minutes ago: https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1610054572353.png (interesting read, sums up:

  • - demoralize conservatives by convince them of fraudulent elections
  • - false flag
  • - white conservatives are vilified
  • - website to publicly identify who's a "white supremacist"
  • - eliminate the problem: Q mentioned " sealed indictments " are YOU, not the pedo elites.

If we consider today's Pelosi's Trump impeachment idea, now in his last 14 days, then it all makes sense as a Farce to Rattle the White Conservatives and vilify us to have an excuse to corral us. Even so called conservative talking heads (Ingraham 4eg) are condemning the peaceful visit to the Capitol where the police opened the barricades and guided the crisis actors around the building. The 4chan autists tend to be right more often than not.

Kiss_My_Schnitzel_Again 1 hour ago

I find it ironic that you clowns didn't read the article clearly stating with facts that ANTIFA was disguised as Trump supporters. Do liberals even read and comprehend?

champ2top 37 minutes ago (Edited)

Its about time the politicians experienced some fear. They don't seem to mind American business owners, police, woman and children in their homes being terrorized and murdered in their places of business by the Democrat Antifa and BLM groups. Why should Pelosi who is voted in by a small handful of people in Northern California be treated differently than the people who voted her in? She shouldn't. She is a root cause of the division we have today. Maybe Pelosi should have come out and addressed the crowd and earned some Kudo's from the Trump supporters. Not her style as a dictator.

Fluff The Cat 6 minutes ago (Edited)

As I've repeatedly said, Proud Boys are a controlled opposition outfit. Gavin McInnes is one of the co-founders, a self-described "pro-gay, pro-Israel, virulently anti-racist libertarian." He shoved a dildo up his rear on video and kissed Milo Yiannopoulos. Up until a short while ago he was a contributor to (((Rebel Media))).

C'mon folks, sort it out.

joyful-feet 2 hours ago (Edited)

Viking man is a professional actor. The protest was bait and lure for conservatives. Link to his backstage actor profile.

https://archive.vn/mIW6p

They already scripted what was going to happen and you can see by the coordinated rapid response in action to now condemn and steal more freedoms and liberties of Americans as a response. You can bet from now on the full power and weight of the US government will be to monitor, track, and surveil YOU patriot.

Democrats and Republicans have been working together since 2016 to craft this whole situation out scene by scene. How many know that Steven Mnuchin of the Treasury is also an Actor/Director? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6518391/

champ2top 33 minutes ago

I thought I recognized Susan Serandon in Trump garb amongst the crowd in the Capitol. I guess during Covid Actors will take just about any job for a few dollars.

Giant 1 hour ago

Old commie tactic, infiltrate real movement and act as agent provocateur to further the goals of your cruel paymasters, if hijacking is not possible. On the up side, this will ''red pill'' every person with brains. Trump might have been a fool to try to ''make deals'' with sociopaths, but he sure ripped the curtain and showed people what really goes on behind the stage. Sad to say, but people who can not see what's going on are too stupid to be reliable and should be treated like that. ''Re-unification'' my arse!

Son of Loki 3 hours ago (Edited)

Looking more and more like an assassination. She was not armed and obviously no threat to anyone. In fact, she was standing between several police and SS guys in suits. Yet that guy took aim and shot her point blank aiming for her head but got her in the neck with one lethal bullet. Who was the killer?

walküre 3 hours ago

the follow-up question should be, was she the intended target?

BigMama 1 hour ago

Based on the New York Post video it appears credible that Ashli Babbitt was the likely intended victim. Her assassin was approximately 20-30 feet away from a clear target framed in the top shattered glass panel of the cross-corridor separating partition.

Billy the Poet 2 hours ago

So if it looks like the woman was murdered for no apparent reason ...

snatchpounder PREMIUM 3 hours ago

Sullivan is an agent of the state and he was there to make the snuff film of Ashli Babbitt. This is so obvious Stevie Wonder could see it and Antifa and BLM scum bags are jerking each other off after watching said snuff film. Sullivan and other degenerates like him will be used up and when they're of no use to TPTSB he'll be the star in a snuff film.

Make_Mine_A_Double 33 minutes ago

Staged litbard version of the Reichstag fire - with the complicity of the Feds and Donkeytards.

Banned Banana 3 hours ago

As someone pointed out in another thread, inside the Capitol there were men calmly and clearly explaining why the election was a fraud. He was inside to help stop that, and they succeeded.

walküre 3 hours ago

and within hours the building was secured and highest officials, the most cherished assets of our democracy (cough cough) went back and resumed the process. My local grocery store has a 24 hour clean-up law if they suspect a Covid case entered the premises

Banned Banana 3 hours ago

Well yeah but the pigs in Congress weren't worried about Covid because they were protected. Here's my congressman's tweet from yesterday:

https://twitter.com/RepDavidTrone/status/1346909364859277317/photo/1

Ms No PREMIUM 3 hours ago

Because your rulers own the intelligence agencies. That's why. They have been working against the American people all along and they are dangerous as hell.

Remember September 11, the dancing Mossad agents, Larry Silverstein, Mossad Epstein Honeypot, etc?

Remember the ISIS compound NM local police discovered and the feds saved? Remember weapons of mass destruction and the US weapons grade anthrax letters? Remember all the mass shootings that turn on and off like a light switch while pushing for taking your second amendment?

Remember the Corona hoax with killer lockdowns, threaten to starve 160 million already?

Get sophisticated quick. Nobody has time for stupid.

BangDingOw 2 hours ago

Speaking of the fake mass shootings...hardly anyone has noticed that there have been no mass shootings since covid. We were averaging one a month since the propaganda act repeal in 2012 (averaged one a year before 2012). Covid hits...poof, gone. So I ask the sheep: are mass shooters that afraid of covid or was it all fake to start with? Logically , those are the only possible explanations. The sheep don't have much of an answer for that question.

daveO 2 hours ago

Remember weapons of mass destruction and the US weapons grade anthrax letters? From Ft. Detrick, which was shut down on August 1st, 2019 ahead of this Scamdemic...

nope-1004 3 hours ago (Edited)

Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester? Because the left war machine hired them, and the police were told to allow entry.

Richard Chesler 3 hours ago

It'll show as "professional services" in the Clinton Foundation balance sheet.

mr1963 3 hours ago

Raise your hand if you think all this evidence will make a bit of difference? The die is cast people. You're on the most wanted list now and forever. Wake up, they are manipulating the whole of the country against people who freely elected a man to the office of the President -- TWICE -- because you had the audacity to elect him. They have destroyed him and you're next.

USAllDay 3 hours ago

Truth be told, Antifa and Trump supporters do have some common ground. I (jokingly) said two years ago if Antifa burned down the capital I might have to go buy some black cloths. I think talk of Antifa its a distraction. Antifa doesn't hold the keys to the Capital. This goes way above Antifa. The Capital is a fortress, it only gets breached if its allowed to be breached. Notice there is zero outrage at the Capital Police utterly failing to do their job.

floosy 3 hours ago

They Capitol Police did their job alright.... https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-selfies/news-story/45a9be3adf9b447b53d23cf5536c5d02

Give Me Some Truth 3 hours ago

Note the guy who is already behind the barricades (in a hoodie) who is waving the people forward. And it DOES look like the cops let them in. Unbelievable. If only there were real investigative journalists working on this story.

putaipan 2 hours ago

two things i am hearing most in all msm coverage- 1) repeated use of the word "insurgents", thereby negating the effect of any trump potential use of said act (btw...i never heard for certain if the insurgency act was in fact withdrawn in the 5000 pages of the covid relief bill) and 2) way more important, and hearing it everywhere- the stoking of racial tension by describing the white priviledge shown towards the protesters. stoke stoke stoke that civil war baby.

BigJim 1 hour ago (Edited)

Yes, the unfortunate Ms Babitt certainly got treated in accordance with her White privilege.

sun tzu 3 hours ago

Antifa are deep state

Give Me Some Truth 3 hours ago

The Deep State uses Antifa.

sun tzu 3 hours ago

Just like all Qaeda and ISIS

domoga 2 hours ago

Based on what I see, that was one cold blooded murder.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Cui bono? ( Who benefits? ) Who benefitted from yesterday's event? Who was harmed? "Trump supporters" or conservatives certainly did not benefit. Leftist who want to expedite an increasingly totalitarian regime certainly did benefit.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago (Edited)

God no. Which actually makes me wonder what's really going on here and why? I get that the "Trump supporters" have now been besmirched and casts as villains. But it's obvious that the braintrust who concocted this event also wanted to twist the knife into Trump when he only has 12 (!) days left in office. It was clear he is/was a lame duck. Again, what else is going on here? Or is this simply an example of kicking a man who's already virtually out the door? What's with this 25th Amendment talk?

daveO 1 hour ago

Because P!zz@G@te is real. See General Flynn's persecution. His last judge was named Emmett Sullivan and an Obama appointee.

Meanwhile, McConnell's wife just resigned from the Cabinet, no doubt to help the 25th amendment invocation and blacklisting Trump from running again.

montanaconserv 2 hours ago

The left did benefit.. they are currently trying to arrange for an impeachment of a Lame-duck President with only 2 weeks left to go... they have successfully shut out any conservative thought or opinion on most social media applications.... how can you say the left hasn't benefited from this?

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago (Edited)

I did say the Left was the clear beneficiary for the reasons you gave, plus others. So people and organizations in the Left are the obvious "primary suspect."

Zero-Hegemon 2 hours ago

Why was he there? Because the whole thing was staged to derail the congressional evidence and protests to out all of the election fraud. The surrender caucus folded like a house of cards at the first hint of bad breath.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago (Edited)

It seems to me the real story here is that the mainstream press WON'T investigate real stories.

Everything I've seen so far comes from independent or alternative news sites.

Needless to say, Drudge doesn't have any of these headlines.

GRDguy 2 hours ago

That's because MSM major holders are the same sociopaths that control CME, which controls Comex, which manipulates the price of precious metal. Leading sociopaths all work together when it benefits them and destroys the 96% who are not sociopathic.

daveO 2 hours ago

Meanwhile, CME open interest on BTC has grown over 15X's in last year. Pumping it up.

SomethingClever 1 hour ago (Edited)

Your comment made me think of the 1% who must all be members of the 4% sociopath group. Now that makes a lot of sense.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Once upon a time, though, he would have been running at least some of these headlines. I doubt he even picks the stories to run or not run anymore. Someone else - who he sold out to (literally or figuratively) now makes the site's editorial decisions.

ExpressConcerns 2 hours ago

he was there for the same reason that the DC police invited protesters inside -- for the show

rjk0279 2 hours ago (Edited)

That was the nothing fence but what about getting in the building. It's not an automatic door like grocery store.

SomethingClever 1 hour ago

To be fair, the CIA et. al. have been researching mind control since at least 1900 and they used WWI and every other conflict since as testing grounds for their theories and techniques.

Their diligence and persistence has paid off with remarkably effective brainwashing capabilities. For many brainwashed sheep, it was not their fault, the technologies are expertly applied and the results are repeatable - look at all the 'color revolutions' around the world.

Ruff_Roll 2 hours ago

The whole scene stinks of a setup. The police pulled the barricades aside and invited them through. BLM thugs were on scene to video (and who knows what else). People breaking windows (whoever they might be) were booed by protesters. Were they antifa acting as agents provocateurs? The media and Democrat politicos were all set to demonize the protesters.

CriswellSpeaks 1 hour ago

Don't they have a ultrasonic weapon that's supposed to be able to drive crowds away from the capital buildings? They probably didn't have it turned on because they wanted the attack happening.

USAllDay 3 hours ago

Remember what that child molester Mike Pence said yesterday "Violence is never the answer" ... you know except for the:

and never mind Waco or Ruby Ridge. And this is a very very short list.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Violence WAS the answer when the Trump administration bombed Syria twice because Assad "gassed his own people" and blew up an Iranian general in his car for the crime of going to Iraq, where he was invited.

fnsnook 2 hours ago

you seem to think the original miga party is going to be different.

GRDguy 2 hours ago

Nice list of leading sociopaths fighting other sociopaths over control of the masses, financed by sociopathic financiers to whom lyin' and stealin' is their way of life.

creviceCaress 2 hours ago

speaking of the greatest purveyor of violence recorded history has seen, for a more insightful look at an exhaustive track record of u.s.s.a.(and friends) take a look at

on the justice of roosting chickens - ward churchill

and if you happen by a thrift store buy all the black tactical-looking gear/clothes you can find.

Goat of Steverino 48 minutes ago (Edited)

PERHAPS HE MISTOOK THE CAPITOL BUILDING AND THE CROWD AS PEOPLE LOOTING A SNEAKER STORE ..... AND DECIDED TO JOIN IN

deus ex machina 31 minutes ago

That was pretty funny queerino. You feeling okay?

TryingSomethingNew 19 minutes ago

He's a GS-6 equivalent for the CIA. He comes from a military family (thus, hired preferentially)???

Nasgob 2 hours ago

I mean its pretty obvious what happened... Establishment needed a contingency plan to never allow Trump to run again or have a chance at staying in the White House so they enabled and incited his followers to break into the capitol so they could frame him for use of the insurrection act. Not hard to figure out. Open the gates to enable "breach," leave weapons all around the ground for any who are feeling extra emotional, break a few windows and tell supporters to go in, lead supporters down specific hallways guarded by 1 police officer in order to create desired imagery for use in the media. Sprinkle a few Soros funded Antifa actors to make things run smoothly... Wouldn't be surprised if they try to put Trump in prison for a while too, of course citing their self incited "insurrection."

Give Me Some Truth 1 hour ago

They "sprinkled" more than a few Antifa professional instigators into the crowd. And all of them seemed to make their way to the exterior walls of the Capitol before just about everyone else.

domoga 2 hours ago

This is all from George Soros playbook

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

And the CIA has probably staged the same type of events in countless countries at countless "protests."

domoga 2 hours ago

Yep

Buck Fanks 2 hours ago

Crisis actors and agent provocateurs as far as the eye can see. Not denying the woman shot was a patriot, but I fear she died for another agenda.

fanbeav 3 hours ago

Everyone needs to turn off any news. They are all scripted theater and their job is to make you think the opposite of what is actually happening. Communism and Socialism will be implemented and you will never be told the truth again!

Tigbits 2 hours ago

Haven't watched in months. It's all lies and propaganda.

ThomasJefferson69 1 hour ago (Edited)

I think one of the terms is called a frame up. They instigate the violence and film it. I am sure he was well paid. Guessing Soros wrote the check.

1CSR2SQN 1 hour ago

I bet Uncle Sam wrote the check with your money.

ThomasJefferson69 1 hour ago

Well considering everyone is getting checks I can't disagree that he got money from the government. However I am sure he got paid extra, through one of Soros many "charitable" organizations. Obviously that man saw a lot of human pain as a Nazi, and gets off on it.

Snaffew 2 hours ago

If you watched the actors break the window to get into the capitol...they were extremely careful to just break the glass and not the wooden muntins that separate the panes. Then they were escorted by police to the house chambers.

This is just like Pelosi's false flag garage door event where no paint made it onto the bricks because shielding was in place.

Can the Dems do anything right? Even false flag events are pathetic in their authenticity---

chiquita 2 hours ago

There were a bunch of jokes made about how protesters were walking around *inside* the velvet ropes and they were taking pictures--videos of it too. Clearly, these were not violent people who were in there trying to do bad things--fits that narrative about some people thinking they were led in there to go on a tour.

Ms No PREMIUM 3 hours ago

They want you to see that the Intel agencies and their proxy groups did this.

This is a show of force and attempt at demoralization of the many that know. They want you to see them as all powerful.

They have been displaying this in many ways for a while now, uncloaking. What is sad is that even when they display it some can't see it still due to their filters.

daveO 1 hour ago

Yes, that's it. They will now target right wing personalities. Jerome Corsi said last night, on the radio, that he was being shut down. January 13th is coming up. I suspect they will "remove" one that day, like they did Scalia on 2/13/16.

Oliver Klozoff 3 hours ago

Narratives no longer matter.

The US is a captive nation.

Ms No PREMIUM 3 hours ago

An occupied people. Have been for a long time.

ComradePuff 3 hours ago

why? because the groups are the same: deep state agents playing both sides. It is a deep state LARP to infiltrate, misdirect, co-opt and discredit actual activism.

paxmundi 3 hours ago

Maybe we need to ratchet it down and go back to Occam's Razor.

It's not a false flag.

It's not the Deep State.

It's MAGA retards.

No_Pretzel_Logic 3 hours ago

A rube in denial. ^^^ Gotta love useful idiots.

Give Me Some Truth 2 hours ago

Okay. Prove it. Question all of these people and see if the really are "MAGA." It shouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to find these people with all the photos and videos of them. If someone did do this, we'd learn who the instigators really are. But this probably won't happen.

sun tzu 2 hours ago

Same thing happened to the Occupy Wall Street and anti-globalist movement in Seattle during the 90's

Bay of Pigs 16 minutes ago

As usual, the official government narrative is falling apart.

Funny how that happens?

youshallnotkill 12 minutes ago

So Trump is not part of the government now?

Leonard T. Bayard 17 minutes ago

The Democrats stole the election. Antifa infiltrated stop the steal rally.

I have to ask, are the Democrats really that smart? Or is the average Republican just not that bright...

gilhgvc 11 minutes ago

not bright at all

nomad943 10 minutes ago


[Jan 07, 2021] The participant of the events: These people were not violent per se, they just want the Senate and House to feel thier presence. Looks like it was turned into provocation with the temporaty and meaningless occupation of Capitol deliberatly and using infiltrated agents

Notable quotes:
"... These people were not violent per se...there was very much a feeling of - we are going to be a presence while the senate does their thing ... we want them to know that this election is ******** and we want them to act accordingly. ..."
"... I couldn't see everything happening but people definitely wanted to get up on the capital steps and that was via the scaffolding etc... ..."
"... It almost seems like this was allowed to happen. ..."
"... I can't discount people freaking out and wanting to be inside. it's OUR HOUSE (one of the chants being chanted). But... with some planning nobody would have put one foot on those steps. ..."
"... They had a very small police force there and the big force didn't get there until the breach. They could put a cop ever 5 (oops 6) feet and we wouldn't be talking about this at all. ..."
"... We were to be a presence to say 'hey...we are here, watching you.' ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

LawOfBass

I WAS THERE

These people were not violent per se...there was very much a feeling of - we are going to be a presence while the senate does their thing ... we want them to know that this election is ******** and we want them to act accordingly.

Yes...there were some people that wanted to storm the gates and all but most of all it just seemed like a logical push forward. I couldn't see everything happening but people definitely wanted to get up on the capital steps and that was via the scaffolding etc...

The police were tear gassing and flash banging but it was not keeping people from doing what they were doing.

I was on the inauguration side on one of the sides that curve in towards the middle. Couldn't see all that much because there was another terrace in front of me. The cops were trying to get people off a tower (5-8 ppl) that was in the middle of the lawn, near the steps going up. Tear gassing etc...they were moving to push people back. Not that many cops...20??? That riled people up and they started climbing up. NOT tons of people...more tear gas. This riled up people more. It was intense at times. At some point someone on 'our' side got a hold of tear gas/mace device and started spraying the cops that were in some sort of island that could not be reached from either side.

1. I watched at least 50 cops who were in front of me on the other side of the scaffolding just *leave*. They went right and were gone. They were all wearing yellow vests so it was easy to see. IF they had moved to the center NO ONE would have gotten through without major violence.

2. Around 4pm, when the police decided to make their presence felt, they cleared out the other side of the Capital VERY easily. I mean...it went from protest to 'I guess this over' VERY quickly. There were cops from Fairfax County, VA (didn't see any) and I saw at least 20 VA State police. I have never seen that many police cars....they were *everywhere*

3. It almost seems like this was allowed to happen. There is no question that there were 10s of 1000s of people there. I can't count them... a LOT OF PEOPLE headed towards the Capital. This could have been easily avoided with a major police presence but that didn't happen until after the breach. I don't know what to say, I can't discount people freaking out and wanting to be inside. it's OUR HOUSE (one of the chants being chanted). But... with some planning nobody would have put one foot on those steps.

They had a very small police force there and the big force didn't get there until the breach. They could put a cop ever 5 (oops 6) feet and we wouldn't be talking about this at all.

I have been to a lot of big events (concerts etc...) and the 2 most peaceful events I have ever been to are the 1/20/20 VCDL event in Richmond, VA and yesterday's rally. Big crowds always get pushy people that want their way...that was not the case at all at either event. These are not people that want to assault the Capital. They [are] people that know "something" must happen eventually...but yesterday was not that day.

We were to be a presence to say 'hey...we are here, watching you.'

Side note: There were tons of anti-CCP Chinese there. They know what happens with communism.

[Jan 07, 2021] They had no plan, no leadership, few allies and no clear agenda.They were united by anger and a desire to fix something that was obviously broken - yet impossible to fix without the buy-in of entrenched special interests and they were played by usual color revolution specialists, pursuing simister aganda

So they tried to prevent delegitimization of Biden, by de-legitimizing Trump via association of his speech with ransacking of the Capitol building. Trump orived to be a coward who misses his change to go with people to Capitol and stand on the steps watching the proceedings.
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Yesterday, January the 6th, a motley band of MAGA, Antifa and what appears to be a Minotaur, entered Congress uninvited.

They had no plan, no leadership, few allies and no clear agenda.

They were united by anger and a desire to fix something that was obviously broken - yet impossible to fix without the buy-in of entrenched special interests.

After spending a few hours pissing off the establishment and taking plenty of selfies, they became distracted - focused on other personal goals, like securing beer and smokes. During their time occupying national attention, they accomplished little and likely caused long-term harm to their causes. They won't be forgotten, but they won't really be remembered either. In many ways, their hours spent in Congress were a metaphor for the past four years of Trump's Presidency.

Trump isn't going to disappear, but after today, he's politically spent.

His own party, far more focused on lucrative insider dealings than serving the American people, have cast him astray.

As a result, we're clearly back on the "Project Zimbabwe" model and it's about to accelerate.

I expect money printing, more election rigging and a good deal of self-enrichment for the Biden family. When you include all the mandatory nap time, it will look quite similar to Robert Mugabe's later years in office.

Blankone 5 hours ago

So now that Trump is not president is he going to prosecute the Clinton's. Now he is going to start doing things?

Trump played his supporters from day 1. He hired swamp and tribe creatures, he increased the wars, the illegals have increased,

He derailed the movement to take back America, that was the job he was tasked with.

He never used the FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security to investigate and prosecute Antifa/BLM or even the election fraud. He just made a show and made noise.

He made big talk to encourage the rally in DC, hinted at something BIG he would do, implied a bold move would occur -- all to lure them in for their destruction.

He stirred them up to action, and then made them into the bad guys to be shunned. His Vice Pres. called them criminals to be prosecuted, the repubs rejected them, they were shot dead, Trump told them to obey orders, Trump called in the military to prepare to shoot more of them if they approached the White House and Trump called in the FBI to shoot them if they did not leave congress building (funny how Trump can use the FBI quickly when he wants to)

And then Trump CONCEDES at the perfect time for the full effect.

Thus destroying their momentum and belief in their movement. They now go home with their tails between their legs, their strong talk silenced with the deaths of their members, spat upon by those they thought were their heros, their idolized hero surrenders, their military called in to shoot them if they continue ---

Trump played them perfectly, from the beginning to the very end. Now they are lost.

UselessEater 3 hours ago remove link

But he moved The Embassy.

takeaction 5 hours ago (Edited)

The photo is all ANTIFA/BLM members that infiltrated the Trump rally.

You know that right?

See the Antifa Tattoo on his hand....

Also...the POLICE INVITED THEM IN....there was no storming of the capital...LOOK

This was planned. It will get real good from here on out.

This movie has just started.

UnicornTears 5 hours ago

The viking dude is not Antifa. He has the volknut and the Yggdrasil tattooed on his chest.

Isecede 5 hours ago

That changes everything

misgivings 5 hours ago (Edited)

https://twitter.com/KelemenCari/status/1346943586810531843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1346943586810531843%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fquestions-about-chaos-capitol-desperately-need-be-answered

(Viking dude: Jake Angell)

Roacheforque 5 hours ago

He's just a paid media stooge. Who knows who funds him, who cares? Fake plants, designed to be noticed.

Blankone 4 hours ago remove link

It was a black plain cloths capital police or FBI agent who shot the woman.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/FdZ0HJR36gpM/

cvp 2 hours ago

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/questions-about-chaos-capitol-desperately-need-be-answered

[Jan 07, 2021] There was nothing that this women did to deserve being shot by another coward in uniform

Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

1CSR2SQN

So next time a black guy gets dropped on the street by the cops we'll remember the quotes on this killing from the left that it was deserved. That about sum it up because there was nothing that women did to deserve being shot by another coward in uniform. The only people who deserved to be shot yesterday are the liars perpetuating a Biden election was honest.

Karma is going to exact a big price for this one.

The CIA is very experienced in overthrowing governments and I believe they enjoyed overthrowing their own. They are cursed.

maximin thrax 5 hours ago

Like the man said, the only standards a liberal has are double standards. Spin to where it's always the right's fault and you have to contort the essence of the story whichever way accomplishes that goal.

[Jan 07, 2021] Officer Who Shot Killed Veteran During Capitol Chaos Placed On Leave, Faces Internal Probe

Was it deliberate provocation to incite violence like Maidan sniper shootings with the goal to invite the crowd to storm of the building, or what ?
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Nearly 24 hours have passed since yesterday's chaos on Capitol Hill, which left one individual dead from a gunshot wound, and three others dead from unrelated medical emergencies on the Capitol grounds, and finally the Capitol Police have published a statement.

In it, Chief of Police Steven Sund denounced the thousands of demonstrators who later participated in the storming of the Capitol as criminals, condemning their "criminally riotous behavior."

Though the demonstrators were determined to cause "great damage," Sund said, the officer - who was not named - responsible for shooting and killing a demonstrator named Ashli Babbitt has been placed on administrative leave. Their police powers have been suspended "pending the outcome of a joint Metropolitan Police and USCP investigation."

[Jan 07, 2021] President Trump should go. He should go now!

I think Colonel is out of depth here
Notable quotes:
"... Trump did not stir up Antifa yesterday. Antifa was waiting in the wings. Rahm Emanuel lingering words more likely stirred up Antifa - "never let a good crisis go to waste". ..."
"... He should have finished up his speech by saying he will walk together with the Deplorables over to the Capitol building where they and he together would peacefully stay behind the barriers just so the legislators knew they were there watching. Oh well. ..."
"... Breaking away from a peaceful million-man demo, a few provocateurs enlisted others to break into the Capitol with them. Cui bono? The President called for them to go home and abandon violence. Your post is a an over-reaction. ..."
"... It also has to be explained why the Capitol Police allowed this break-in to happen. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

IMO President Trump did a lot of good things in his term until he was torpedoed by COVID-19 and the tangled skein of threads involved in the November 3rd election. This electoral circus will be puzzled over for a long time. I take note that Ossoff won in Georgia by just enough to avoid a re-count.

Nevertheless, The president's actions since November 3 have grown more and more erratic and have now culminated in what can only be called an incitement of mob violence directed at the Congress.

People ask why the Capitol Police and other federal authorities were not better prepared to defend the Capitol complex against attack. Well, pilgrims, nobody expected the president of the US to whip up crowd anger and then to send the mob to the Capitol.

I wrote some days ago that Trump's rage and pain were serious factors to consider in a moment of political crisis. These things and his "one man show" mentality" overwhelmed him yesterday and in acting out his personal agony he did serious damage to the country. He is done. Stick a fork in him, maybe over-done.

The Democrat leadership will not want to pursue him although his actions yesterday might make him criminally liable. The squaddies will howl for his blood, but Schumer, Pelosi, etc. are not going to want to do anything that rash.

IMO he should leave the scene. A retreat to Mar a Lago is what should happen. He can let the clock run out there. He can resign and let Pence deal with the mess, but he should go.

The populist revolt that he led is not dead. It is not anything like dead. The 75 million citizens who voted for him are still here. They still want the same things, but he should depart and let a new leadership of the Deplorable Smellies emerge. pl

Deap , 07 January 2021 at 11:33 AM

Trump did not stir up Antifa yesterday. Antifa was waiting in the wings. Rahm Emanuel lingering words more likely stirred up Antifa - "never let a good crisis go to waste".

There was absolutely nothing in Trump's small speech even remotely incinderiary. It is time to get past blaming one person for the systemic violence Democrats have ginned up for four long years against this one man. Stop drinking the media Kool-Aid.

Fred , 07 January 2021 at 11:34 AM

Col.,

I think you are right. He's got a pen and pardon authority so he should get busy. He should fire a few people like Fauci while he's at it.

BillWade , 07 January 2021 at 11:35 AM

I heard a lot of talk about "crossing the Rubicon" lately and found myself thinking yesterday while watching President Trump's speech that he could have easily "crossed the Rubicon". He should have finished up his speech by saying he will walk together with the Deplorables over to the Capitol building where they and he together would peacefully stay behind the barriers just so the legislators knew they were there watching. Oh well.

What's he gonna do now? Like the Colonel suggests, slink off to Mar a Lago. The problem with that is his neighbors there hate him and want him to move out.

I still have some hope Trump has something up his sleeve but it's fading away.

Tony Papert , 07 January 2021 at 12:18 PM

Breaking away from a peaceful million-man demo, a few provocateurs enlisted others to break into the Capitol with them. Cui bono? The President called for them to go home and abandon violence. Your post is a an over-reaction.

It also has to be explained why the Capitol Police allowed this break-in to happen.

Bobo , 07 January 2021 at 12:49 PM

Its only 24 hours and emotions on all sides are still hot so whatever words I could say would be tempered in time.

Yes, Donald said to the crowd "now to the Capitol" but not into the Capitol, granted there is not much difference. He and his family were shocked at the crowds entering the Capitol and his son did attempt to stop or turn the crowd. Except for the rowdys and idiots it seemed to be a very peaceful and orderly stroll through the Capitol as one would be hard pressed to smear the whole crowd negatively. I saw neighbors, plumbers, beauticians, truck drivers and every other sort of hard working people in that crowd. Just good old American people.

Oh, Donald will get the blame but if one sits back and thinks then one realizes people are not satisfied with how our Republic is functioning and their are a good number of people who want change. After yesterday that change will occur but it will take time and a lot of hard days.

Donald has 13 days to go let him be.

Deap , 07 January 2021 at 01:44 PM

No more lies, Democrats. This is who we are: I'm with Mark Steyn https://politicrossing.com/mark-steyn-blisters-the-left-for-hypocrisy/

No more faux calls to unity - you made your bed Democrats four years ago. Sleep in it on your own. You are not cutting off my arms, legs and head to fit into yours now. We are out, but we are not down. Sleep on that.

Horace , 07 January 2021 at 01:58 PM

I agree with Col. Lang. There is no organized disciplined movement behind Pres. Trump. He attempted to remake the Republican Party, and while he has had enormous success with the rank and file, the party operatives and leadership are still overwhelmingly servants of corrupt internationalist oligarchy. We Americans are the most numerous people on Earth not only to not have our own country, but we don't even have a single country-level institution representing our collective interests. We need one.

The Republican Party and Establishment Conservatism (Republican-flavored globalists) have failed to conserve anything but their personal wealth. They will fail at that too, if the communists whose rise their misrule has enabled manage to escape the lassoes with which their Democrat-flavored globalist counterparts in the Democrat Party have managed to bind them.

I hope Pres. Trump will play a leading role in the formation of a replacement for the Republican Party. It would never win at the country level (neither will Republicans at this point: we now live in a one party state), but we need reliable political machinery to produce sheriffs, DA's and governors to protect our rights and preserve our political and social culture in institutions of local governance. "Chapter 1 Fake Democracy: de facto one party state" is over and we are now beginning "Chapter 2 The Oligarchy Revealed: de jure one party state" in what will be a multi-generational civilizational war.

The tut-tutting over violence and mob rule is silly. There was one killing. The shooter was police and the victim was one of us. Our ruling class might have a leg to stand on calling us lawless if they hadn't just carried out the most brazen full-court-press vote fraud operation in American history in collaboration with hostile foreigners. This after not only tolerating but encouraging communist BLM and Antifa thugs from wrecking several American cities over the last year, preceded by decades of utterly lawless tolerance of foreign drugs and illegal immigrants pouring into and corroding our communities.

Making safe our American communities has never been a priority of theirs, so making safe their imperial capital is not one of ours. If they feel they are surrounded by hostile people and have to make their city an armed camp, then maybe they are simply recognizing a new reality (of their own creation) more quickly than many of the rest of us.

AK , 07 January 2021 at 02:03 PM

Edward Goldstick,

" I just hope we can finally discover as a nation how to fully engage in political discourse and debate on the basis of facts and logic and without disparaging people simply because they disagree with us or do not share our path in life or our place in society. "

I share your sentiment, but I and anyone who is watching and listening with two eyes and two ears knows this will not be the case. The mainstream media and tech oligarchs will not permit this, and the more vicious and demagogic members of the partisan Left (which is to say the partisan Left writ large) will happily use this as yet another cudgel to bludgeon the reputations and very souls of the people with whom they disagree politically. We are in for a violent period in American history and I for one will be very surprised to see the country last beyond 2030. Culturally, we are simply too far apart.

Facebook and Twitter are now engaged in full-scale communication suppression of any views contrary to the official media narrative of the events of yesterday. According to this narrative, I and everyone here who voted for Donald Trump are responsible and must be condemned and punished, forthwith. You can only expect this activity to expand and broaden in scope in the coming months to include any speech, thought, or sentiment that goes against the official Left narrative. The hardcore suppression of 74 million people is about to commence in earnest, and what happened yesterday is but a grain of salt what will prove to be an over-boiling cauldron of civil violence in the next few years as the Left seeks its vengeance on the Deplorables. The problem is the Left most certainly does not have a monopoly on violence.

Sixty years of the radical Left hammering away at the foundations of our institutions has led to a fundamental collapse in the public trust of said institutions, and they have now moved on to eroding the personal trust between neighbors and friends by castigating opposition to their diktats as morally reprehensible or " deplorable ". COVID is a microcosmic example of this general erosive process at work. It is only natural that a reciprocal loathing and mistrust of the opposition is emerging among the Deplorables, with the adjoining view that their political adversaries are their enemies. After all, if they openly espouse their desire to see me personally destroyed and silenced for my political views, why should I not treat them as a threat and an enemy?

We will soon rely only our own intuitive sense of self-preservation and those like-minded people closest to us whom we choose to trust. Personally for me, it will be very few. I currently have left wing friends whom I lie to about being a previous gun-owner (tragically, I lost all my guns in a boating accident this summer). They will gradually be phased out of my life completely out of protective necessity. General public trust in institutions is broken. Public trust in and agreement upon the common philosophical and moral foundations of the country is broken. Reciprocal trust among friends and neighbors, to say nothing of trust among strangers, is broken. The country is broken. Perhaps time and distance from these events will prove me wrong, but I'm not optimistic.

Ed Lindgren , 07 January 2021 at 02:50 PM

Spengler (aka David P. Goldman) has some sobering analysis in his column in today's Asia Times Online (open access and not behind a paywall):

https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/american-democracy-died-on-capitol-hill/

He ends his column with the following .

"The US Treasury can still borrow at negative real yields to send a $2,000 check to every American. If the popular mood is ugly today, what will happen when the US can no longer borrow at cheap rates, and the government is compelled to retrench?"

Yes indeed, what will happen then???

[Jan 07, 2021] As Pelosi said about similar protests in Hong Kong: "It is a beautiful sight to behold."

From comments: "The lady martyr, a 14 year air force veteran will be a rallying cry to bring down the corrupt swamp. As Pepe says, the deplorables will become the ungovernables. The real red necks from the intermountain west were not represented. They will be there next time and angry."
Notable quotes:
"... Since the global private finance elite can't start a global war they have to resort to manufactured civil warfare to keep the masses under control and brainwashed against the private finance TINA. ..."
"... The election was stolen. The fraud was blatant, in your face. The election process, the only peaceful means for a transfer of power according to the wishes of the electorate is seen as fatally undermined by a significant portion of the electorate. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.speaker.gov

psychohistorian | Jan 7 2021 5:59 utc | 2

Here's what Steve Bannon's MAGA war-room had to say on today's events..."...What people need to understand is that there's a growing sense among the Deplorables that they've been betrayed not only by their political leaders, but the very institutions that were designed theoretically to protect their liberties."

Who by the way knew that members of Congress have gas masks under their seats ?

Tear gas was deployed in the Capitol rotunda, so the order came down for lawmakers to ready gas masks that are stored under their seats. Allred helped some his colleagues take out their masks as Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Marine Corps veteran, provided instruction.

"When you put your mask on, breathe slowly or you'll hyperventilate," Gallego said, according to Allred.

There surely is a lot of hyperventilating right now. Trump is accused of inciting violence.

It doesn't read like that . In fact Trump spoke out against violence and called on the people to leave peacefully only to get censored by the blue tick monopoly:

If this was the nakedcapitalism web site I would have no question about what the TINA referenced (private finance) but in this posting I am not so sure that is so clear.

How can America have an epiphany moment about the mythological left/right when top/bottom is the reality that TINA should be all about?

Since the global private finance elite can't start a global war they have to resort to manufactured civil warfare to keep the masses under control and brainwashed against the private finance TINA.

A shit show civil war to keep focus off the real TINA of global private finance......and b wants to call that style.....

Down South | Jan 7 2021 6:36 utc | 8

The election was stolen. The fraud was blatant, in your face. The election process, the only peaceful means for a transfer of power according to the wishes of the electorate is seen as fatally undermined by a significant portion of the electorate.

SCOTUS washed their hands of it.

So if their votes don't count and the highest court in the land won't remedy the situation then the only alternative is either dissolve the union or a radical overhaul of the union. Personally I don't think the latter will ever happen.

The only question is will the dissolution of the union be peaceful or violent!

gm | Jan 7 2021 6:52 utc | 13

Full text of Trumps speech at Jan 6 2021 DC Save America rally:

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6

[~75 min long speech--no added color commentary or spin]

I'm sure video of his full speech can also be found with a little searching on internet.

[Jan 07, 2021] Looks like tsnsacking the Capitol builing was an orchestrated 'false flag' designed to derail Trump attempt to uncover the election fraud and scare the senators into dismissing the clear evidence

Jan 07, 2021 | www.rt.com

questionall 1h ago

It was an orchestrated 'false flag' designed to embarrass Trump (falsely) and scare the senators and congress people into dismissing the clear evidence of fraud. The attack on Trump - who had nothing to do with the violence - is disgusting, but entirely predictable. The 'rioters' were not Trump supporters but agents of the CIA or other forces (Antifa?).

They should be compared to the members of the "stay behind" armies in Europe during the 1970s and early '80s - paramilitaries trained and armed by the CIA and British MI6 for the specific purpose of destabilizing post-war western Europe by claiming that their assassinations and bombings (which killed hundreds) were the work of "communist" groups wishing to overthrow governments.

All admitted in the Italian parliament (read the classic expose of this by Swiss historian Daniele Ganser). This clumsy operation - which caused the death of four possibly innocent people (though we may never know how and why they died) - will not prevent Trump from being re-elected. The game is not yet over!

JackOliver1414 1h ago

The whole extravaganza was managed - they are professionals at manipulating public opinion !!

That's how they got away with the Barry and Mike show for 8 years !

"The perpetrators of the crimes against Russia - OWN the media" ~Solzhenitsyn

[Jan 07, 2021] What's happening in DC is pure false falg operation. Staged spectacle. There is no even remote possibility of a coup. It is not in the interests of the ruling class,

Notable quotes:
"... What's happening in DC is pure spectacle. I'm sure many of the protestors feel that the election was illegitimate, and perhaps some of them even think they're part of a movement that has a chance at overthrowing the results. But the media coverage of the event, and the DC police allowing some of them to 'break into' the capitol magnifies their importance to a ludicrous degree. ..."
"... no elements of the US ruling class, in the present moment, would support a coup against Joe Biden in favor of Donald Trump. Regardless of partisan disagreements on strategy, it's obvious that Joe Biden will represent and try to advance the interests of the ruling class much more effectively than some coup government could. ..."
"... A fourth possible benefit, and this is very speculative, is that this present spectacle might be an effort to crush Trumpism as a movement. ..."
"... Allowing the mob to 'Storm the US capitol,' as CBS is reporting presently, gives the US Government an excellent justification for repressing an anti-government right. This would dovetail nicely with the FBI's recent noise about white supremacy (which is certainly a fundamental problem in the United States, but it is not one the FBI would ever be interested in solving). ..."
"... If there is a crackdown on right wing militia groups over the next few months, there would be a further benefit to the ruling class, which is that they would most likely go underground and serve as a pool of highly infiltrated disposable assets. This would be helpful for maintaining a strategy of tension domestically. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Peltast , Jan 7 2021 14:39 utc | 102

I haven't got time right now to catch up with the comments, but I'm reposting my comment from yesterday.

TLDR, there is no possibility of a coup, there never was, and the threat is being overblown to serve the interests of the ruling class

What's happening in DC is pure spectacle. I'm sure many of the protestors feel that the election was illegitimate, and perhaps some of them even think they're part of a movement that has a chance at overthrowing the results. But the media coverage of the event, and the DC police allowing some of them to 'break into' the capitol magnifies their importance to a ludicrous degree.

There is no remote possibility of a coup. It is not in the interests of the ruling class, and there is certainly no other entity in the US today that could carry out a coup. Casting doubt on the integrity of the election serves the interests of some elements of the ruling class. After all, claims of election fraud have served the Republicans extremely well in the past few decades, as part of a larger strategy of demonizing immigrants. But no elements of the US ruling class, in the present moment, would support a coup against Joe Biden in favor of Donald Trump. Regardless of partisan disagreements on strategy, it's obvious that Joe Biden will represent and try to advance the interests of the ruling class much more effectively than some coup government could.

So how are the interests of the ruling class advanced by this spectacle? I have a few ideas. The first should be obvious to any reader of MoA. Russia, China, or Iran will be blamed for the 'attempted coup.' Intelligence agencies will find proof that they somehow stoked the protests. This also provides a neat way to continue demonizing Russia even with Trump out of the way. I'm sure it won't be hard to find some Facebook posts that prove that Russia, China or Iran spread disinformation about the election and that they are therefore to blame. Check out what the 10 former Defense secretaries said:

"Transitions, which all of us have experienced, are a crucial part of the successful transfer of power. They often occur at times of international uncertainty about U.S. national security policy and posture. They can be a moment when the nation is vulnerable to actions by adversaries seeking to take advantage of the situation."

The second benefit is that by magnifying the threat to American democracy, the ruling class can reasonably expect people to rally behind biden. When Biden, with a Democratic majority in house and senate, still fails to improve people's lives and it is clear that he does not care about the welfare of the great majority of the people, some will still defend him because his presidency will symbolize the victory of democracy over authoritarianism, racism, etc.

The third benefit is that every perceived 'threat to America' provides cover for enhancing the powers of state repression.

A fourth possible benefit, and this is very speculative, is that this present spectacle might be an effort to crush Trumpism as a movement. I do not imagine that Trump ever cared much about the interests of the American people, and he certainly never did much to advance those interests, but I think the political movement that brought him to power came as a surprise to the ruling class and that his presidency often damaged the interests of the ruling class at home and abroad. If Trump is to be done away with, the movement that identifies with him must be done away with as well. Allowing the mob to 'Storm the US capitol,' as CBS is reporting presently, gives the US Government an excellent justification for repressing an anti-government right. This would dovetail nicely with the FBI's recent noise about white supremacy (which is certainly a fundamental problem in the United States, but it is not one the FBI would ever be interested in solving).

If there is a crackdown on right wing militia groups over the next few months, there would be a further benefit to the ruling class, which is that they would most likely go underground and serve as a pool of highly infiltrated disposable assets. This would be helpful for maintaining a strategy of tension domestically.

These are my thoughts on present events in DC. There is no coup. There is no overturning the election. There is only the question of who benefits and how.

[Jan 07, 2021] The military and GOP establishment are against Trump, and staged this flase flag operation

Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Muslim_Dude , Jan 7 2021 12:55 utc | 61

My first post (to not have comments that are overly lengthy) on Capitol hill.

1. The Capitol Hill storming shows to even the most apolitical, low-IQ person that America and its politics is dysfunctional and is going through a crisis.

2. The military and GOP establishment are against Trump, the ground level Republicans and right wing (deplorables) are with Trump. Whether Trump starts his own party or media remains to be seen, whether he runs in 2024 (if not imprisoned, tried for any offence ranging from violations of political office, financial irregularities etc) or passes the baton on to one of his children or some pro-Trump republican remains to be seen.

3. This is just a prelude to greater instability in the US and tension between red and blue America....

...One thing is indisputable though, the US is in crisis...but what some don't realize, this is just a picnic compared to what lies in store.

Muslim_Dude , Jan 7 2021 13:03 utc | 65

2nd comment, this time on foreign affairs.

1. Biden/Harris regime will attempt to restore some form of 'Pax Americana' on the global stage and will fail to do so. More and more states realise the weakness of the US and are creating their own local regional security structures in concert with the major powers of that region e.g. China, Russia etc.

2. The US is still the most powerful country in the world and has the huge amount of power or clout to get half of the Arab world to recognise and normalise relations with Israel e.g. Morocco, UAE, Sudan etc. So we should not be dismissive of the fact that it is still and will be for the next few years the most powerful country in the world.

3. Having said that even the US establishment or a wing of it e.g. Trump/Pompeo etc know the US empire is over e.g. the US is essentially absent in:
- Libya
- Turkey's struggle for eastern Mediterranean maritime waters which has involved tension with Greece, Egypt EU states etc (US is quiet on this).
- south China sea, local ASEAN states know that China is the main power and has to be worked with.
- Caucacsus e.g Armenia, Azerbaijan conflict where the US was essentially a non-player.


4. Vicky - F**k the EU - Nuland is being brought back by Biden in to the state department, the key figure behind Maidan 2014. However American adventurism in the Ukraine will fail as Putin has secured Crimea permanently for Russia, will never give up the Donbass, the once glittery EU which held such allure for pro-west Ukranians is now seen as a failing organisation, jaded and a shadow of itself.

5. US will do nothing against Venezuela.
6. US will carry out no military action against Iran and may see a resumption to Obama era deal-making with Tehran.

So Biden/Harris will try to be more aggressive in foreign policy and promote pax Americana and things like Globo-Homo, LBGT and possibly paedophilia which some in the US and other parts of the left in the west support, they are going to fail in the long run. If the US does break up in the mid-2020s it's obviously the end of pax-Americana.

[Jan 07, 2021] The establishment/Deep State/big business are deliberately delegitimizing the protests.

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... A key to distinguishing what is organic from what is manufactured by the establishment/Deep State/big business ruling elites is to parse the mass media narrative. The narrative about events that is accepted by the public is more important than the events themselves. ..."
"... Now scan the news aggregator sites just for the headlines and assemble a ratio of the use of the words "protest" or "protesters" to the use of the terms "riot" or "rioters" . The narrative that the establishment/Deep State/big business is trying to build about the events in DC should stand out rather starkly. The establishment/Deep State/big business are deliberately delegitimizing the protests. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Jan 7 2021 12:40 utc | 57

A key to distinguishing what is organic from what is manufactured by the establishment/Deep State/big business ruling elites is to parse the mass media narrative. The narrative about events that is accepted by the public is more important than the events themselves.

All last year we were treated to the spectacle of violent riots complete with arson, looting, and senseless assaults which the corporate mass media very insistently labeled as "protests" , legitimizing and inciting the behavior of the rioters. All headlines for articles on the events included the word "protest" and the word was repeated multiple times throughout each article to pound the point into the reader's mind. From this we can see that last year's riots were aligned with the agenda of the establishment/Deep State/big business. It is not essential to understanding of this alignment to be able to prove that the establishment/Deep State/big business organized and financed the riots with professional event organizers and free marketing, but it is useful to know that big business has the tools to accomplish this and regularly uses those tools to sell products and brands. Using those tools to build narratives to restructure society into a form that is more profitable for the establishment/Deep State/big business is a no-brainer.

Now scan the news aggregator sites just for the headlines and assemble a ratio of the use of the words "protest" or "protesters" to the use of the terms "riot" or "rioters" . The narrative that the establishment/Deep State/big business is trying to build about the events in DC should stand out rather starkly. The establishment/Deep State/big business are deliberately delegitimizing the protests.

To understand just how extremely inverted the use of the terms are that the establishment/Deep State/big business are using to try and build their narratives note that yesterday's "riots" did not involve arson, looting, or violence, and they occurred in broad daylight. In each of these points the "Fiery but Peaceful Protests" of last year are in complete and diametric opposition.

Finally, how do we know that the election was fraudulent just from the establishment/Deep State/big business narrative-building? This should be so obvious to readers that it abrades their credulity. Every single mention in the mass media of the fraudulent nature of the elections is immediately and without exception preceded by "unsubstantiated" or "unfounded" , regardless of what substantiation or foundation is provided. The mass media is doing the hard-sell on this narrative because they are entirely complicit in the election fraud. If the disagreement were over evolution versus creation, or anthropogenic global warming versus just weather, or the Earth being flat or spherical, the corporate mass media would meticulously walk a center position between the issues to avoid the appearance of bias, even when evidence is overwhelming for one position or the other. Now on the issue of the election of the leader of the "Free World©" they throw that effort at impartiality to the wind? Yeah, right!

Whether there will be a civil war now depends upon the stoicism of the "Deplorables" . Without someone like Trump in a position like President that makes him impervious to being "cancelled" and silenced there will be nothing disempowering and subverting with ridicule the psychological assault by the establishment/Deep State/big business on the population. The soporific "wokeness" that will be forced on the population by the establishment/Deep State/big business will now be largely unopposed except by the "Deplorables" as isolated individuals. All of the institutions that the establishment controls, from schools to the mass media to workplace rules, will be used to bludgeon the "Deplorables" into submission. Will they be able to pull together, organize and mount a resistance? Probably not, but it will be fascinating to see what spirit the American people have left!

A.L. , Jan 7 2021 12:52 utc | 59

Mohamad Safa, the Lebanese Permanent Representative to the United Nations: "If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States."

Oh the Schadenfreude....

Though I can't work out if this was the season finale, or the pilot episode....

...A reality show masquerading as a country

expat , Jan 7 2021 12:59 utc | 63

@ 57 William Gruff

Brilliant summation of the full-court press being applied by the media.

It's so overwhelming I find myself wondering if others who are less used to being skeptical of the official narrative won't pick up on it.

I mean, how many times do they have to say things like "totally unproven" and "unsubstantiated" in every sentence before people start to think that they're being treated like idiots?

Curmudgeon , Jan 7 2021 13:28 utc | 73

In reply to William Gruff @57

Well said. Trollhunters are improving the art now. Soporific? Nobody talks like that, well maybe Tolkien, but the contrast with 'wokeness' (or my thought is 'fulness') and the putting together of the two is genuine genius. I can't decide whether it's irony or dissonance, I suppose a new word is in order to express ironic dissonance. Whether or not we're entertained is a matter of subjective reality. I realize I just don't give a shit about the outcome, but I can't stop watching.

Norwegian , Jan 7 2021 13:39 utc | 77

@William Gruff | Jan 7 2021 12:40 utc | 57

Finally, how do we know that the election was fraudulent just from the establishment/Deep State/big business narrative-building? This should be so obvious to readers that it abrades their credulity. Every single mention in the mass media of the fraudulent nature of the elections is immediately and without exception preceded by "unsubstantiated" or "unfounded", regardless of what substantiation or foundation is provided.

Yes, exactly. The incessant denial and extreme censorship is the best confirmation you can get that these guys know very well what the truth is and where an honest investigation into the facts would lead. If they thought they had all the arguments there would be no problem looking into the issues. But no.
If the disagreement were over evolution versus creation, or anthropogenic global warming versus just weather, or the Earth being flat or spherical, the corporate mass media would meticulously walk a center position between the issues to avoid the appearance of bias, even when evidence is overwhelming for one position or the other.
Actually, this is not true. If you question Darwinism you will lose your job (ask Dr Günter Bechly ). If you point to the political bias and the weakness of the scientific basis for the claims of anthropogenic global warming you will be hounded and censored for years (ask me about it). The similarity between these cases and the current election fraud case is much greater than most people think. If you present arguments questioning any mainstream dogma, you will be hounded and censored by the media and establishment in general. The establishment methods are all the same in these areas: astroturfing, trolling, character assassinations, shadow banning and sometimes much worse. It does not matter if you have solid arguments and fact to back up your position, if it goes against the dogma of power you are in for a very rough ride. Personally, I was banned from a local MSM discussion forum for simply stating that many people in the US considered the election to be fraudulent, and backed it up with links to data, and inviting an open discussion about it. For that I was called a nazi and much worse. The 'moderators' banned me, deleted my references and let all the personal attacks stand. I have seen the same thing happen when discussion about climate science, and I could point to other fields as well (history). You can lie and cheat as much as you want if it fits the power dogma, but do not ever tell the truth because you will be punished.

I agree with your final paragraph.

Prof K , Jan 7 2021 13:54 utc | 82

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212180.shtml

Global Times editorial on the rampage in the Capital.

Key points:

- It wasn't just a farcical spectacle by Trump
- Biden's confirmation won't set things straight
- It shows the severe division in US society
- Indeed, a severe crisis, if not collapse, of US democracy
- US elites are too arrogant, and dishonest, to serve the country
- US politics has no national purpose, just partisan affiliation
- Institutional decay is a consequence of this
- US needs to focus on internal development instead of empire

vk , Jan 7 2021 13:57 utc | 87

NYT piece 'propaganda for China?' US elites too fragile to face reality

Ruth , Jan 7 2021 14:00 utc | 91

I have little doubt the election was fraudulent. The US deep state wouldn't have wanted Trump back. Their influence to hide rigging would permeate through many departments and courts.

I have little doubt that the 2019 election in the UK was fixed. Pre-election there was wholesale smearing of Corbyn in the MSM. Within the Labour party there was movement to damage the leader and put in place one to mirror the Establishment's policies. The Tories won by 80 seats when on the ground there was nothing like this support but because of the MSM smearing people accepted the result. I strongly suspect there was massive rigging of the postal vote in the marginals and traditional northern Labour seats

[Jan 07, 2021] Rioters aren't that organized in the US to set up a revolution. We lack a US embassy

Looks like Trump walked into the trap.
From Zerohedge: This Is The Exact Moment Ashli Babbitt Was Shot While Storming The Capitol Was it a pre-panned provocation designed to to lure the mob to storm the building and inflict some damage do that it can be later played as a pretext of destroying Trump movement?
Dangerous time with a lot of false-flags on both domestic and foreign fronts,
Notable quotes:
"... Good post that calls out the hypocritical way the establishment media responds to civic unrest. When it happens in an "adversarial" country it's all about freedom and democracy (Hong Kong, color revolutions) but when it happens in a "friendly" country it is ignored (yellow vests) or denounced in no uncertain terms (the Capitol riot). ..."
"... Trump is nothing but an egotistical wannabe mobster/strong man who gets off on agitating his followers from afar. He's a LARPer who would shit his pants in a situation where he is faced with physical violence. The fact that such a blatant clown has so many people projecting their hopes and ideals onto him shows how far America has fallen. ..."
"... ...Keep the masses fighting tribe vs. tribe and their attention away from deeper issues of money and power. "Shock Doctrine" therapy sold as necessary to hold back the Barbarians...look for even greater censorship of dissenting views. If the proles won't stick to the script, the time-honored tradition of engaging in a new war may be employed. ..."
"... Dangerous time for false-flag fuckery on both domestic and foreign fronts, hope we can keep our antennas tuned as well as our heads thinking clearly. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
lex talionis , Jan 7 2021 7:52 utc | 26

...If we follow the Maidan / Gene Sharp playbook, though, we will need our first sacrificial victim. Maidan's first victim They aren't that organized in the US to set up a revolution. We lack a US embassy. I agree with Grieved that Orange Man Bad will experience his peripeteia. He was only some half rate shegetz in their opinion.

With so many anti orange man people who have shown up lately, I am surprised Woody Guthrie's song about Orange Man's father hasn't been posted. This one's for you Mark2, you muppet tosser! Work on your spelling, too. ( or grow a pear )

Ain't got no home / The Ballad of Old Man Trump

Dork , Jan 7 2021 7:53 utc | 28

Good post that calls out the hypocritical way the establishment media responds to civic unrest. When it happens in an "adversarial" country it's all about freedom and democracy (Hong Kong, color revolutions) but when it happens in a "friendly" country it is ignored (yellow vests) or denounced in no uncertain terms (the Capitol riot).

However, B's defense of Trump makes no sense. Tiny hands Trump egging on his supporters with inflammatory rhetoric about the "stolen" election and "taking back" the country but then when they storm the chambers of government telling them to "go home" in the name of law and order is completely cowardly.

Trump is nothing but an egotistical wannabe mobster/strong man who gets off on agitating his followers from afar. He's a LARPer who would shit his pants in a situation where he is faced with physical violence. The fact that such a blatant clown has so many people projecting their hopes and ideals onto him shows how far America has fallen.

What no MSM commentator dares say is that the United States is unravelling in real time, live on the internet for all the world to see. The United States is turning into a failed state yet the media pretends it's just a matter of one crazy guy (Trump) and his nasty supporters. (Those Russian Fakebook memes sure are powerful!) They can't say what anyone with half a brain knows: that decades of economic mismanagement and a history of imperial overreach are destroying the United States from the inside out. There is no honest or sober analysis of the issues at play. The media only cares about clicks and propaganda and its inability to report the truth reflects that.

The chickens are coming home to roost and until the American leadership class recognizes the dire straits the country is in, the chaos will continue and scapegoats will be found.

gm , Jan 7 2021 8:07 utc | 29

Re: "Who am I going to be killed by, the left or right?"

-psychohistorian | Jan 7 2021 7:25 utc | 20

Well, my guess is some element of our own "Gain of Function" government will likely find a way to do in the useless ones and the troublemakers first. And then there will be unavoidable collateral damage...so sorry.

And the more conspiracy-minded among us might even wonder if they have already taken some 400K of us off the stage (~same as # of US soldiers killed in WW2) on the past year, thru their 'Shock Doctrine' manipulation of covid pandemic.

Kabobyak , Jan 7 2021 9:02 utc | 32
...Keep the masses fighting tribe vs. tribe and their attention away from deeper issues of money and power. "Shock Doctrine" therapy sold as necessary to hold back the Barbarians...look for even greater censorship of dissenting views. If the proles won't stick to the script, the time-honored tradition of engaging in a new war may be employed.

Dangerous time for false-flag fuckery on both domestic and foreign fronts, hope we can keep our antennas tuned as well as our heads thinking clearly.

b , Jan 7 2021 9:12 utc | 33
The show is over ... but must go on.

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Electoral Certification :

Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our...
...fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!

The Trump2024 campaign has begun.

[Jan 07, 2021] Jimmy Dore questions how easily the protesters were let inside the Capitol by the police

Notable quotes:
"... Well that was easy, so easy as to show how unimportant it was. ..."
"... Demand free bananas for everyone! Banana for all! ..."
"... Trump Supporters or "crisis actors"? Don't believe anything being reportd in the U.S. Where are all the pallets of bricks and ninja outfits? ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Mao , Jan 7 2021 9:50 utc | 39

The Saker: Mind blowing hypocrisy!

Mina , Jan 7 2021 9:59 utc | 40

what I love about FB and Twitter censoring Trump "to preserve democracy and prevent violence" is that when similar events happen everyday in what Trump calls BS countries, the social media pretend that they have no power to suppress the messages inciting to killing or racism... and no one in the MSM establishment protest ....
Norwegian , Jan 7 2021 10:15 utc | 41
Jimmy Dore questions how easily the protesters were let inside the Capitol by the police: Capitol Stormed by Protestors! Trump's Twitter Suspended!
Norwegian , Jan 7 2021 10:20 utc | 42
Biden should be able to easily handle this situation. He has experience from Maidan in Ukraine. All that is missing is the part where they were shooting both sides from the rooftops. Or is it?
Sunny Runny Burger , Jan 7 2021 10:39 utc | 43
Well that was easy, so easy as to show how unimportant it was. Where does these "representatives" and "senators" feel safe? It was funny reading the (false afaik) rumor about them being evacuated to military bases where their location would be far beyond top secret and the keys lost within hours.

Meanwhile Trump is being ignored by parts of "the government" (and censored by puny low-tech "programmer" companies that are the digital equivalent of passing notes in class) while parts of "the government" don't even bother talking to Guaido Biden, the president-to-be of "something".

Demand free bananas for everyone! Banana for all! #b4A :)

par4 , Jan 7 2021 10:52 utc | 44
Trump Supporters or "crisis actors"? Don't believe anything being reportd in the U.S. Where are all the pallets of bricks and ninja outfits?
Blue Dotterel , Jan 7 2021 11:09 utc | 45
I really find it difficult to believe that the duoploy would steal an election from itself. What we are seeing is a continuation and acceleration of the oligarch coup against the US people.

More and more rights and protections, as well as wealth have been removed from the people in the US and globally. In the US, roughly starting with the Clinton admin and Glass Steagall. Then through the Bush and the Patriot Act, followed by the looting of the plebs after the 2008 "crash", down through the war profiteering at the expense of the taxpayer, more looting by the banksters to the COVID heists by the oligarchs and the lockdowns extracting wealth from small business and people trying to make a livling. We see blackmail and the curtailing of the freedom of movement through COVID "passports" and "social distancing", profiting big tech.

All distractions from war to "racism", to "culture wars" to "party politics". All to ensure that the rich get richer and the rest of us continue to enrich these parasites at our own expense. What a racket!

vk , Jan 7 2021 11:21 utc | 46
[...] then why should other civilisations not reject western Enlightenment values?

This phrase is wrong. Modern Western liberalism doesn't descend from Enlightenment. It descends from vulgar economics, which was a separate string of thought that existed parallel with the Enlightenment current of economics (Political Economy). After Marx's critique of Political Economy, the bourgeoisie effectively gave up Reason (the cornerstone of Enlightenment) and started to feed religious-mysticism (vulgar economics, the death of philosophy, nazifascism etc. etc.).

The most you could say is that Western Democracy is an ossification of some old Enlightenment structures of State (e.g. separation of power in three branches, the parliament etc.).

The only ideology/economic theory in existence nowadays that is undoubtedly a direct descendant of the Enlightenment is Marxism - which would make modern China one of its last remnants, ironically.

Sunny Runny Burger , Jan 7 2021 11:22 utc | 47
par4 if all those people are actors they're better than anything out of Hollywood, especially the guy with the brilliant smile lugging Nancy Pelosi's lectern around. Have a look at that and the pictures of the "lawmakers" with their plastic bin bag style gas masks, it's god damn hilarious :D

Too bad anyone got hurt and died but considering the amount of guns and ammunition and hostility/anger they all basically just walked in. Not even a weekend in Chicago.

What they did prove is "the government" (and media etc.) deserves no respect.

[Jan 07, 2021] As a back payment for Russiagate, Russian govement should try to call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and discuss the oppression of peaceful protesters and the repression by the American totalitarian power machine.

Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

alaff , Jan 7 2021 14:00 utc | 90

Oh, this is so undemocratic!

Peaceful protesters only want democracy, freedom, and the realization of their civil rights. The totalitarian American machine suppresses them, one citizen was even shot in the chest. Monstrous barbarism and encroachment on the rights of people to peacefully protest! So awful. It is the duty of the free world to support civic activists and sternly condemn the American oppression machine of freedom!

I think it would be nice for the Russian Foreign Ministry to make a corresponding statement. It would be very appropriate to troll the "western partners" well. The most splendid trolling would be to try to call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council because of the events in the United States and discuss the oppression of peaceful protesters and the repression of the American totalitarian power machine.

A resolution is also absolutely necessary urging the American authorities to immediately end the harassment of peaceful protesters and to release the detainees. Of course, sanctions are also needed in connection with the oppression of civil liberties by the American authorities.

Well, the boomerang returned to those who threw it. That's wonderful.

[Jan 07, 2021] American democracy died on Capitol Hill

Notable quotes:
"... The leadership of the Democratic Party, its allied media, and the Bush-Romney wing of the Republican Party decided to play dirty to expunge an obstreperous, incalculable outsider from the political system. And in doing so, this combination, America's establishment, destroyed public trust in the Congress and the media. It's no surprise that two out of five Americans now believe that a vast conspiracy rigged the 2020 presidential elections. ..."
"... A handful of FBI and CIA agents could create a false narrative about Russian collusion with the help of the infamous Steele Dossier, and the credulous media broadcast it out of rancor against Trump. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | asiatimes.com

...The trouble is that the popular belief in a vast and nefarious conspiracy has a foundation in fact: Starting before Trump's term in office his political opponents abused the surveillance powers of the intelligence community to concoct a black legend of Russian collusion on the part of his campaign. The mainstream media, staffed overwhelmingly by Trump's enemies, slavishly repeated this black legend until large parts of the population refused to believe anything it read in the newspapers or saw on television.

The leadership of the Democratic Party, its allied media, and the Bush-Romney wing of the Republican Party decided to play dirty to expunge an obstreperous, incalculable outsider from the political system. And in doing so, this combination, America's establishment, destroyed public trust in the Congress and the media. It's no surprise that two out of five Americans now believe that a vast conspiracy rigged the 2020 presidential elections.

The spectacle of a serving president inciting a mob against the US Congress to stop the certification of his successor held the world in morbid fascination. But the biggest problem isn't Trump's misbehavior, egregious as it is, but the eruption of popular rancor against the constitutional system that has made America a model of governance for the world. Leftist mobs last spring burned police stations and destroyed shopping districts in a rampage against supposed systemic racism, and Trump supporters desecrated the Holy of Holies of American democracy, the chamber of the United States Senate.

... ... ...

Sometimes there is a conspiracy and sometimes there isn't. But Trump's political supporters, bombarded daily by fake news about Russian collusion and other alleged misbehavior, have come to distrust any criticism of their president. If Trump was right that the whole impeachment business was an extra-legal conspiracy on the part of his enemies, why shouldn't they believe that the election was rigged?

...Assume that Trump is right, and the election was rigged. In that case the United States has become a banana republic and American democracy a twisted joke. Assume that he is wrong, and that nonetheless – as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) intoned to justify his refusal to accept the election outcome – 39% of Americans nonetheless believe that election has rigged, because their president told them it was rigged. In that case the public trust that makes democracy possible has collapsed. The people, as Bertolt Brecht observed after demonstrations against the Soviet puppet government in East Germany, have lost the confidence of the government...

... ... ...

There is extensive evidence of vote fraud, but (in my view) not sufficient evidence to justify preventing an orderly transition of power. I have difficulty believing that the Democrats invented votes for Biden and destroyed votes for Trump while at the same time Republican candidates for the House of Representatives showed a surprising gain. In the US presidential system, voters choose the executive and the legislature separately, and they do so on the same ballot. Why would the Democrats, whose local political organizations depend more on the Congress than on the presidency, fake votes for one and not the other?

Aha, say the conspiracy theorists: the mainstream Republican Party doesn't like Trump any more than the Democrats, so it conspired with the Democrats to elect legislators while cheating the president. That is possible, but improbable in the extreme: It would require a conspiracy involving thousands of people sworn to secrecy. No such conspiracy is possible. The trouble is that the American public can't be asked to apply a high degree of discernment to the probability of different sorts of conspiracies. A handful of FBI and CIA agents could create a false narrative about Russian collusion with the help of the infamous Steele Dossier, and the credulous media broadcast it out of rancor against Trump. Stealing an election through interference in tens of thousands of polling stations would require a conspiracy on an industrial scale.

The problem isn't Trump, or Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris, or any other politician: It is the popular response to the gut-wrenching realization that America is hollowed out, that it is living on borrowed money (which is to say borrowed time), that it lacks both the material and organizational resources to protect its population during an emergency. Hospitals in Los Angeles have told emergency workers not to administer oxygen to patients who are not gravely ill, because the city is running out of oxygen under a deluge of Covid-19 patients. Earlier the United States clothed healthcare workers in garbage bags because it couldn't manufacture protective gear; now it can't produce sufficient oxygen.

For all the talk of making America great again, the deterioration of US industry continued under the Trump Administration (see The Wizard of Wuz , Dec. 7). It isn't simply that the US produces no telecom equipment at all, let alone a world-class product that can compete with China; it can't produce essential medical supplies ...

Americans are frightened for their future, with good reason. They see enormous rewards accrue to a handful of tech companies, and stagnation and decay in large parts of the rest of the country. Donald Trump gave them a frisson of hope, and the Establishment reaction against Trump confirms the popular suspicion that a malevolent global elite has seized control of their country. Trump shamefully exploited this suspicion to direct a popular storm against the Congress.

The US is living off borrowing from the rest of the world. Its net international investment position fell by about $12 trillion during the past 10 years. And the federal deficit is now 15% of gross domestic product, the highest since World War II. What can't go on forever, won't (in the late Herb Stein's famous formulation).

The US Treasury can still borrow at negative real yields to send a $2,000 check to every American. If the popular mood is ugly today, what will happen when the US can no longer borrow at cheap rates, and the government is compelled to retrench?

[Jan 07, 2021] Questions About The Chaos At The Capitol That Desperately Need To Be Answered by Michael Snyder

Notable quotes:
"... And there are multiple reports that Antifa activists were brought in by bus. In fact, one patriot actually recorded video of the Antifa buses that were brought into the heart of Washington D.C. with an escort. So who arranged for those Antifa buses to have that sort of an escort? It is almost as if someone was extremely determined to get those Antifa activists to their location so that they could do their job. Once they got inside the Capitol, the Antifa activists could have done a much better job of disguising themselves. ..."
"... And did you notice that the police let the vast majority of the "protesters" go without arresting them once it was all over? The mainstream media is insisting that "they will be arrested later", but a lot of people aren't buying that. All of this just seems very odd to me. Just as a debate about the evidence of election irregularities was about to begin in the halls of Congress, these riots conveniently broke out. ..."
"... When proceedings finally resumed, the entire atmosphere had completely changed, and all of a sudden hardly anyone was interested in debating whether the election results were legitimate or not. ..."
"... Fear not, our heroic and tireless FBI is on the case. They'll sort it all out pronto. /s ..."
"... "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- CIA Director, William J. Casey ..."
"... Yes, and quite possibly on the US Government Payroll. The way the camera captured the shooting actually looked somewhat staged. Maybe another Sandy Hoax type incident? ..."
"... I noticed that there were 8 cameras waiting at the 3rd floor rotunda. All eight followed the protestors around while they visited the chamber, offices and hallways - posing for pics in Pelosi's chairs. I thought that was odd. ..."
"... Another oddity is that the group stayed the same size, no additional people joined the 3rd floor group. ..."
"... Exactly...I don't like everyone labeling this ANTIFA. Those mindless idiots cant follow a script. I can think of a few NGOs or alphabet agencies that could pull this off with their actor agent provocateurs. If the real Antifa was truly unleashed in that building it would have been devastatingly vandalized and fighting would have ensued between them and the true protesters. ..."
"... The police feigned retreat worked beautifully to draw everyone in. And you know the rest of the story. ..."
"... Just who do you think leads antifa? If you think antifa is just street thugs then you are the one who is not paying attention. ..."
"... Not duped. This is how it has been done in many countries. You are watching The Resistance™ triumph in their revolution/coup with the aid of the captured state security apparatus, and the MSM and social media conglomerates.. The political managerial class and 1%ers don't want to relinquish their globalist gravy train rice bowls. ..."
"... I mean, Trump had an "America First" policy and then filled his administration with Mossad operatives. If people couldn't see through that then it wasn't going to be hard to fool them. ..."
"... Yes, it was predicted there would be agent provocateurs (there ALWAYS is) and so we had the "show" yesterday. Ever notice that when tptb have a "show", it happens in broad daylight? But when they want to perform some sleight of hand, it happens in the wee hours? ..."
"... A very small group went into the Capitol. The main perpetrators' motive - followed in by some young Trump supporters who felt it was a lark - was so the media could make a big deal out of it. ..."
"... You're not even covering the big question. How was security of the building restored so quickly after the security breach. Consider that any one of the people who invaded the capital building yesterday could have been a foreign agent. They would have had the greatest opportunity to plant listening devices, radiological, chemical or biological weapons. ..."
"... Yet just 2 hours after the protesters were kicked out, the Senate was back in session. No security officer should allow that to happen. Not if the breach was real. ..."
"... That and the fact that the front door was never even breached. Someone let the protesters in a side entrance or service entrance out of view of the cameras. Its really some sick, sad ****. ..."
"... You do not just walk into the US capital building. That is an armored building with unlimited funding for security. People got into the capital because it was allowed to happen. The doors were left open on purpose. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

Like most Americans, I was absolutely horrified by the violence that I watched at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. But I had a difficult time trying to understand what I was witnessing. Trump supporters are almost always extremely peaceful, but many of those that were storming the Capitol were being very violent. That didn't make sense to me. And how in the world did protesters get into the U.S. Capitol in the first place?

Well, it turns out that police actually opened up the barricades that were surrounding the U.S. Capitol and purposely allowed protesters to storm the building. You can see this on video right here

I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.

And once they were inside the building, they were herded toward particular areas. For example, you can watch one "guard" actually lead protesters up several flights of stairs right here

Either the U.S. Congress has the worst security personnel that any of us have ever seen, or this was allowed to happen on purpose.

And there are multiple reports that Antifa activists were brought in by bus. In fact, one patriot actually recorded video of the Antifa buses that were brought into the heart of Washington D.C. with an escort. So who arranged for those Antifa buses to have that sort of an escort? It is almost as if someone was extremely determined to get those Antifa activists to their location so that they could do their job. Once they got inside the Capitol, the Antifa activists could have done a much better job of disguising themselves.

In fact, one has already been positively identified as a member of Philly Antifa. If he wanted to pass as a "Trump supporter", he probably should have covered up the hammer and sickle that are tattooed on the back of his hand. Perhaps the most famous "protester" from the chaos on Wednesday is "the guy with the Viking horns". Well, it turns out that he was photographed at a BLM rally in Arizona wearing the exact same outfit back in June. Apparently his name is Jake Angeli and he is a "shamanic practitioner". But on Wednesday he was posing as a hardcore Trump supporter.

So why can't the mainstream media put any of these pieces together? It shouldn't take too much detective work to identify a lot of these people. So why won't they do it?

And did you notice that the police let the vast majority of the "protesters" go without arresting them once it was all over? The mainstream media is insisting that "they will be arrested later", but a lot of people aren't buying that. All of this just seems very odd to me. Just as a debate about the evidence of election irregularities was about to begin in the halls of Congress, these riots conveniently broke out.

Members of Congress were quickly evacuated, and the millions of Americans that were watching never got to see an honest debate about the 2020 election.

When proceedings finally resumed, the entire atmosphere had completely changed, and all of a sudden hardly anyone was interested in debating whether the election results were legitimate or not. So who actually benefitted from the riots? Also, it is important to note that these riots have dealt a severe blow to any political future that President Trump hoped to have.

So with one stone, activists have neutered the debate over the legitimacy of the election and they have devastated the Trump movement as well. It appears that someone really was playing "3D chess", and it wasn't Trump and his supporters. And this is just the beginning. As I keep warning , the radical left will never be satisfied until they accomplish all of their goals. Electing Joe Biden was just a way to get rid of Trump. The radical left actually doesn't like Biden either, and they will fight him bitterly if Biden does not go along with their full agenda.

In the end, what they want is a full-blown "revolution" in this country. And as we witnessed on Wednesday, they will go to extreme lengths in order to get what they want.

* * *

Michael's new book entitled "Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America" is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.

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media_man 4 hours ago

Fear not, our heroic and tireless FBI is on the case. They'll sort it all out pronto. /s

Chaco Cortes 1 hour ago

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- CIA Director, William J. Casey

eatapeach 7 hours ago (Edited)

Yes, and quite possibly on the US Government Payroll. The way the camera captured the shooting actually looked somewhat staged. Maybe another Sandy Hoax type incident?

Quite a few of these scumbags study mass psychology and use it to guide their actions with the intention of control. 9/11 is straight out of Gustav LeBon's 'The Crowd'. Reichstag Fire was similar.

4DegreesOfSeparation 7 hours ago

Wow, you are so cognitively lost

SamAdams 6 hours ago (Edited)

I noticed that there were 8 cameras waiting at the 3rd floor rotunda. All eight followed the protestors around while they visited the chamber, offices and hallways - posing for pics in Pelosi's chairs. I thought that was odd.

Are all of the photos and videos of capital breach coming from the fake media Huff Post, MSNBC, etc? How convenient that they were in the right place at the right time?

I also noticed that the confederate flag was waiting for the protestors before they got to the 3rd floor, and was subsequently used as a prop in the photos.

Another oddity is that the group stayed the same size, no additional people joined the 3rd floor group.

What happened to the protestor that led the group to the 3rd floor? He seems to have disappeared once the 3rd floor group had congregated for photo ops.

What about that photo of two suited men with guns drawn and aimed at a wall? Meanwhile, a "protestor" sits calmly nearby like nothing is going on?

Yet another peculiar thing is that congress returned to the capital building the same day it was vandalized and a woman was shot. Does this make sense to you?

One more thing, the pipe bomb makes no sense. Did the guy carry the pipe bomb to the protest with hopes he could plant it if they ever made entry into the capital? Are people walking around with pipe bombs "just in case". Besides, what was the trigger for the pipe bomb? A Bugs Bunny alarm clock? How fortunate that "bomb squad" was able to find and defuse it so quickly?

Whiteman_Sachs 7 hours ago

Exactly...I don't like everyone labeling this ANTIFA. Those mindless idiots cant follow a script. I can think of a few NGOs or alphabet agencies that could pull this off with their actor agent provocateurs. If the real Antifa was truly unleashed in that building it would have been devastatingly vandalized and fighting would have ensued between them and the true protesters. They've had a couple weeks to plan this out. The police feigned retreat worked beautifully to draw everyone in. And you know the rest of the story.

TheReplacement's Replacement 7 hours ago

Just who do you think leads antifa? If you think antifa is just street thugs then you are the one who is not paying attention. On the other hand, what you say about the police drawing them in is spot on.

Doom Porn Star 4 hours ago

Not duped. This is how it has been done in many countries. You are watching The Resistance™ triumph in their revolution/coup with the aid of the captured state security apparatus, and the MSM and social media conglomerates.. The political managerial class and 1%ers don't want to relinquish their globalist gravy train rice bowls.

The prize is multi-fold: control of the world's reserve currency and associated printing press, the world's largest military, the worlds, most powerful MSM and social media conglomerates, the most powerful computing hardware and software companies, and much more...

It may have been a Republic once, before the vote was diluted, before the currency debauched, before the manufacturing was off-shored, and before the laws were abrogated; -but, it isn't one now.

Raccoon Army 6 hours ago (Edited)

After doing a some cursory research, I'm finding conflicting info. For example, the viking BLM picture appears to be cropped to cut out the Q-anon sign he's holding; however, he's also apparently a paid actor... so who know where his allegiance lies? Additionally, the dude on the Philly Antifa site links to an article about him being a white supremacist, not part of Antifa.

How do people decide what to believe on the internet when anything can change at any moment?

HowdyDoody 3 hours ago remove link

Definitely same guy - based on tattoos on left and right arms.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/10/37686638-9119427-Trump_supporters_stand_in_the_Capitol_before_storming_the_House_-a-1_1610014565410.jpg

Dude on left appears to be wearing brand new clothes and why is the dude on the right wearing an id tag?

vova_3.2018 1 hour ago remove link

the dude on the Philly Antifa site links to an article about him being a white supremacist, not part of Antifa.

The same viking, a growling-voiced MAGA rebel who attracted much attention after the Capitol siege, is a voice actor and minor celebrity in Arizona. His name is Jake Angeli & he has been a prominent fixture of pro-Trump and anti-lockdown rallies since at least 2019.
https://cdni.rt.com/files/2021.01/l/5ff6e0dd2030270fdc50e57f.JPG

Jake Angeli (viking) has a video message in Twitter for the Venezuela extreme-right opposition:
"You can take back your country too. We are setting the example, we are setting the bar, we are setting the precedent,

"You can take back your country. You can put an end to communism and to globalism. You too can take back your nation from this evil. You can win your country back, Venezuela,"
https://twitter.com/LeonardoEFA/status/1347035563635986432

This man offers a perfect example of just how confused America's Right Wing is.

He fights and opposes what he regards as government interference in his own election, but then he completely buys into the lies of that same government concerning Venezuela.

It doesn't even occur to him that the government of Venezuela – including the current President's late predecessor – was elected seven times in clean elections with international observers.

It is the very government he opposes that says otherwise, including the absurd man he supports as President in the US.

vril PRO 5 hours ago remove link

I mean, Trump had an "America First" policy and then filled his administration with Mossad operatives. If people couldn't see through that then it wasn't going to be hard to fool them.

Aqualung 5 hours ago

God you are dumb Snyder. Philly Antifa guy is Matthew Heimbach from the traditionalist workers party. Sickle and hammer symbol, which doesn't look like the sickle and hammer, is actually from a video game called Dishonored. Buffalo guy has a tattoo which is said to be some pedo symbol but if you look closely you will see it's an old pagan symbol. And yes, Trump supporters can actually attend climate rallies, doesn't make you a commie ffs.

LetThemEatRand 8 hours ago

Another conspiracy theory proved conspiracy fact (in less than 24 hours), which will nonetheless be portrayed as a conspiracy theory by MSM until the end of time.

The_Dude 7 hours ago (Edited)

One point... The video of pantifa being bussed in is from another, older protest. Someone mentioned Minneapolis but I can't find it yet.

Check your sources people... This is how you burn your credibility.

Stranded Observer 7 hours ago

Thanks for the heads up on that

Carlin was RIGHT 7 hours ago

Yes, it was predicted there would be agent provocateurs (there ALWAYS is) and so we had the "show" yesterday. Ever notice that when tptb have a "show", it happens in broad daylight? But when they want to perform some sleight of hand, it happens in the wee hours?

Anyway, I have been saying here for years that this is all a show, and the "believers" were being played. Perhaps after witnessing this 4 year long "performance", conservative and freedom loving people will finally realize that politics is theatre - nothing more. And once realized, never allow themselves to be fooled or distracted by this nonsense going forward.

This is truly a war folks. It has been ongoing for decades - certainly since 1913, arguably for centuries. Your enemy is NOT some political ideology. Your enemy has been stealing your rights, freedoms, and most importantly (to them) your wealth. When you rally against someone "on the left", you are disengaged from your true enemy.

This is a war between the top and the bottom - not left vs. right. Elections are designed solely to focus your displeasure in the wrong direction. Your true enemy HATES ALL OF YOU. He wants you to kill each other. He wants the "useless eaters" off the planet. That is YOU.

Take heed and think/plan wisely.

IF VOTING MATTERED, IT WOULD BE OUTLAWED

Mr. Bones 7 hours ago (Edited)

Same thing happened to the tea party. (I was there, I saw the busses) And the left claims the same happened with occupy. The establishment protects itself.

DennisR 7 hours ago

I like the part where only a handful of police were there on a day both houses of Congress and the VP were in the building, and mass protestors were in the area.

Seems legit... /s

Blaster09 7 hours ago

Completely staged to kill the Nationalist movement!!!

Walter Melon 7 hours ago

1. The Viking horn guy has a poedo tattoo on his belly

2. A million people expected, biggest event happening down the street at the Capitol, they put a few police in riot gear to protect the building.

3. The police instigated and escalated the violence by pepper spraying (from what I saw)

4. Why didn't the police use de-escalation tactics in such a volitile and public event?

5. Why did the cop behind the lady who was shot give a "thumb's up" to the shooter after she was shot? And why were 4 police escorting these people up the stairs instead of impeding them?

I could go on.

mrjinx007 7 hours ago

That is called behind the stage activities.

Agent P 7 hours ago

Repost from another thread:

The tattooed hipster in the Buffalo headdress and the long haired dude walking out holding the podium and smiling for the camera? No, I don't think they were Trump supporters. Notice how many were at the Capitol, yet how few went inside once access was granted...yes, I said granted...I've been on two private tours of the Capitol, one with an aide and one with the head of Capitol security (back in the late 80s)...that building is a ******* fortress. Yesterday's events were 100% staged for the TV cameras.

lambda PREMIUM 7 hours ago remove link

So, the Americans got fooled by a bunch of actors and a few compliant police officers. In a civilization maturity scale from 0 to 10, I give it a honorable 1.

9.0ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)

Trump supporters don't get hammer-and-sickle tattoos. This was staged bulls hit.

Garciathinksso 7 hours ago

my guess it was a mix of both camps, but I dont trust anyone

NAV 6 hours ago

It depends on the motive. A very small group went into the Capitol. The main perpetrators' motive - followed in by some young Trump supporters who felt it was a lark - was so the media could make a big deal out of it.

finehowdoyoudo 7 hours ago (Edited)

You're not even covering the big question. How was security of the building restored so quickly after the security breach. Consider that any one of the people who invaded the capital building yesterday could have been a foreign agent. They would have had the greatest opportunity to plant listening devices, radiological, chemical or biological weapons.

It would have been a great time to just scatter some ricin on the carpets or upholstery. While I was watching one of the big three networks yesterday doing live coverage I heard one of the reporters state that it would take a long time to sweep the building to make sure it was secure before they could let congress back in and that the earliest would be sometime the next day before they could resume.

Yet just 2 hours after the protesters were kicked out, the Senate was back in session. No security officer should allow that to happen. Not if the breach was real.

Cardinal Fang 7 hours ago remove link

Lol, good point. I was at my local DMV a few years back and a bomb threat was called in. They closed the place for the rest of the day. And that was some backwater DMV.

L Bean 6 hours ago

I watched a livestream from AZ where they were filming him close up, asking him questions trying to pin his politics down and he just kept reciting the same canned 'kooky' responses and never actually engaged in conversation with anyone. The first chance he got he wandered off to go act silly to another group.

So yes, hes clearly an agent. Having him there again..to the point of posing for pics in the speaker's chair in the middle of the house shows just how dumb they think we are

That and the fact that the front door was never even breached. Someone let the protesters in a side entrance or service entrance out of view of the cameras. Its really some sick, sad ****.

Fabelhaft 7 hours ago

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/exact-moment-ashli-babbitt-was-shot-while-storming-capitol

This Is The Exact Moment Ashli Babbitt Was Shot While Storming The Capitol

44magnum 7 hours ago

In the vid, the cop holding the AR brought it to ready pointing it where the shot came from .He was just as confused as every other by stander. To bad he didn't open up at the shooter.

Tarheel 7 hours ago

That cop can be heard actually yelling "active shooter". was surprised to hear that on the video last night.

USAllDay 6 hours ago

You do not just walk into the US capital building. That is an armored building with unlimited funding for security. People got into the capital because it was allowed to happen. The doors were left open on purpose.

[Jan 07, 2021] I m not a conspiracy theorist, but how does a bloke in a Chewbacca bikini outwit the nation s finest and storm the Capitol by Dr Lisa McKenzie

Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... In a country that spends about 900 billion dollars a year on security and defence, that has made its name as the (often uninvited) police officer of the world, that loves going into other countries and 'helping' prop up one regime over another, or get rid of another it doesn't like, all in the name of 'democracy'... how is it possible that a couple of thousand of badly dressed and quite frankly weird folks break into the USA's centre of power? ..."
"... Because that's what it was, in my view: a show. A stage-managed event. That's the only explanation as to how this ramshackle group of people got into the Capitol building to disrupt political business regarding the transition of their most sacred of symbols, the POTUS. ..."
"... I wondered if it was the deep state orchestrating a more sinister power grab ..."
"... Clearly orchestrated and both parties are a part of it. Take the time to look into the history of what has happened under both parties leadership and how both of their actions brought to this point in time. ..."
"... The media continues to claim the rioters to be "Trump supporters" without any real evidence other than people smashing stuff whilst carrying pro-Trump flags and banners. This is obviously a pre-arranged event ..."
"... For so, so very long now, Americans have played mind games amongst themselves and with the rest of world.... this is the end result.... nothing can be taken at face value.... ..."
"... his staged show was so obviously the work of the Small Hat Production Company, yet, as usual, everyone fell for it. ..."
"... The same way it was possible on 911 to attack the Pentagon, which has the most secure airspace in the world. It was a staged event! ..."
"... There's an image floating around of the bearded guy (standing beside Chewy) hanging with Antifa. That may be meaningless, as both of them could be employed by some intelligence outfit or other. Did anyone actually get arrested? ..."
"... Corporate US get to decide and influence the presidential puppet to preserve the animal farm narrative ..."
"... The deep state have shown their hand openly over the last few months. Chutzpah or necessity? ..."
"... David Icke was right with Trump on Day 1. He was part of the swamp. He was against the deep state just to win the election in 2016. ..."
Jan 07, 2021 | www.rt.com

It's hard to believe how the angry mob of Trump supporters managed to do what they did yesterday and the absence of police and security guards. Was this the deep state's final humiliation of a president it hated?

I watched the astonishing breaking news from Washington yesterday like billions all over the world, our mouths agape, as the citadel of Western democracy was breached – Capitol Hill falls to the angry mob – and pondered one question.

In a country that spends about 900 billion dollars a year on security and defence, that has made its name as the (often uninvited) police officer of the world, that loves going into other countries and 'helping' prop up one regime over another, or get rid of another it doesn't like, all in the name of 'democracy'... how is it possible that a couple of thousand of badly dressed and quite frankly weird folks break into the USA's centre of power?

I'm not a political or a historical expert on the USA, but I do love the country. It has always fascinated me – the opportunity, the dream, its brashness and its bollocks – and I especially love Las Vegas. The USA knows how to put on a good show – it's what they do best – and yesterday's was right up there with them.

Because that's what it was, in my view: a show. A stage-managed event. That's the only explanation as to how this ramshackle group of people got into the Capitol building to disrupt political business regarding the transition of their most sacred of symbols, the POTUS.

Semechki 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:15 PM

I wondered if it was the deep state orchestrating a more sinister power grab, whereby Republicans will now be vilified and condemned as violent extremists that will allow the Biden administration to enforce greater control over citizens by passing restrictive laws, more surveillance, social profiling, loss of civil liberties, and no doubt reducing gun ownership.
Galactic666 Semechki 12 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 05:04 PM
Everything pertaining to politics is planned and scripted and designed to create a narrative to fulfill their NWO agenda.
B Flat 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:02 PM
Clearly orchestrated and both parties are a part of it. Take the time to look into the history of what has happened under both parties leadership and how both of their actions brought to this point in time. Listen then to all the same catch phrases being parroted by many government leaders and world media. This is not organic. This is the unfolding of agenda's. Well published agenda's that the public has access to.
Sérgio Gomes 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:19 PM
There are a lot of videos shedding light on what happened. - capitol refused help from DOD to deploy national guard. - capitol police let them occupy the stairs - rogue actors trying to break windows while supporters trying to stop them - only one guard inside the capitol leading the way through the stairs while someone behind him was filming the show. - supporters follow rogue actors inside the capitol - police shoots 14 years Air Force veteran point blank in the neck through a door. - blame Trump... See more
Chelsea Yorkshire Sérgio Gomes 37 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:40 PM
Add one more fact: a man filmed black police cars who helped large white vans park near the protests, and were filled with "protesters." Some recognized them as "Antifa," and we all know WHO sponsored those idiots.
TAKEMYKNEE 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:41 PM
What no one has yet mentioned nor compared is that riots occurred the day Trump was elected, and continued virtually for his whole tenure, yet this is of no relevance. This more and more looks to me like a democrat coup.
Swanster6450 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:19 PM
The media continues to claim the rioters to be "Trump supporters" without any real evidence other than people smashing stuff whilst carrying pro-Trump flags and banners. This is obviously a pre-arranged event put on by never Trumpers and designed to smear even the last days of the presidency. All the media seem to be playing along with the DNC narrative.
LoveYouLoads Swanster6450 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:33 PM
For so, so very long now, Americans have played mind games amongst themselves and with the rest of world.... this is the end result.... nothing can be taken at face value.... if the Americans had their way we'd all end up being googly-eyed, frothy-mouthed paranoids
Vidarr Kerr David Ireland 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:31 PM
This staged show was so obviously the work of the Small Hat Production Company, yet, as usual, everyone fell for it.
Reilly 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:11 PM
The same way it was possible on 911 to attack the Pentagon, which has the most secure airspace in the world. It was a staged event!
MisterBlaine 50 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:27 PM
There's an image floating around of the bearded guy (standing beside Chewy) hanging with Antifa. That may be meaningless, as both of them could be employed by some intelligence outfit or other. Did anyone actually get arrested?

And: "You can stage your insurrection until 6PM, and then you have to go home." "Oh. Okay." Why not just say "Until the streetlights come on"? What I find amazing is the instantaneous media pivot from "protestors/mostly peaceful" to "rioters/insurrection". A long time ago I read of a 19th Century Indigenous leader who had apparently travelled to Washington or London. While there he learned English. Upon returning home he noted that "English is good language for telling lies".

KingSnorlax 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:53 PM
Video evidence does show the Capitol Police opening the barricade and welcoming the rebel mob into the Capitol. There's also plenty of footage of them palling around and taking selfies with the rebels inside.
Bill Rice KingSnorlax 36 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:41 PM
The common-sense question that should be asked, but largely is not being asked, is "Do these people really fit the description of a "Trump supporter?" Or: Do they fit the description of radical, professional rioters and protestors? Honest reporters: Simply identify the core people involved and tell us their real bios and backgrounds.
Bill Rice 44 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:33 PM
Most of the alleged "Trump supporters" look like people who would be part of the Manson family, or extras on the set of a Mad Max movie. Any high school journalist who looked into the backgrounds of these people (if they were ever identified) could confirm that the vast majority of the pro-active instigators had never voted Republican in their lives, probably did not own their own homes, probably didn't have a real job and probably had participated in many such rallies and protests before (for Leftist causes). And, yes, the defenders of the Capitol couldn't have been more casual and nonchalant in abandoning the barriers set up around the Capitol grounds. The real "dark" part of this story is that the REAL story won't be told by the MSM.
Jewel Gyn 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:49 PM
Corporate US get to decide and influence the presidential puppet to preserve the animal farm narrative. Trump tried but failed to dethrone the establishment. Next will be Biden. Reminds me of Bourne Identity... At the closing, the swamp declared that Treadstone is "all but decommissioned" before discussion turns to a new project codenamed "Blackbriar".
Commenter719 1 hour ago 7 Jan, 2021 03:44 PM
The deep state have shown their hand openly over the last few months. Chutzpah or necessity? Surely there will be many millions who will never trust facebook / twitter / the media / the fbi / the cia again.
RaelianRay 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:35 PM
Well said McKenzie and I may add, divided the world too by breaking up and re-doing all accords, treaties, agreements and hand shakes in favor of America first (which we all know is more like "me" first). "Divide and conquer", now the stage is set for another war ordered by a new presidential puppet.
WhatToBelieve 26 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:51 PM
David Icke was right with Trump on Day 1. He was part of the swamp. He was against the deep state just to win the election in 2016. If the deep state plans against him now, is because he has completely isolated US from the rest of the world, except for some allied countries. I never trusted the man, to become a billionaire you must trample on others.
Rustofur 2 hours ago 7 Jan, 2021 02:40 PM
bugs me people still refer to America as the world's policeman when it's so obviously the world's psychopathic axe murderer
Tango 58 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 04:21 PM
The same false flag modus operandi as when a single man stormed the UK Parliament. I'm no fan of Trump especially after the pardoning of the Blackwater assassins instead of Assange. However, there is little doubt in my mind that the election was stolen and all this staged theatre is a coup against the democratic system or whatever litte was left of it.

Dr Lisa McKenzie is a working-class academic. She grew up in a coal-mining town in Nottinghamshire and became politicized through the 1984 miners' strike with her family. At 31, she went to the University of Nottingham and did an undergraduate degree in sociology. Dr McKenzie lectures in sociology at the University of Durham and is the author of 'Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain.' She's a political activist, writer and thinker. Follow her on Twitter @redrumlisa .

[Jan 07, 2021] Mostly Peaceful Protests in D.C

Jan 07, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Mostly Peaceful Protests in D.C.

Commentary by Fred.

The nation's capital witnessed a massive and mostly peaceful protest today. During this mostly peaceful event tens of thousands of law abiding concerned citizens gathered to discuss their greviences, to air them before the press and government officials. The national leadership was all gathered in the city to attend to pressing matters of state. What better time for a rally and protest and a march for peace than when all our leaders are there to hear and see.

This event even garnered the support of many on the left side of the political spectrum, as we can see from this tweet from a prominent national leader:

Here we see an evening photo of the mostly peaceful event.

Here we see video of the action:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/uQc5uxpl3eM?feature=oembed

- BREAKING NEWS -

That's Minneapolis' earlier "mostly peaceful" protests. The video is of an earlier "mostly peaceful" protest in Chicago, a city that had 4174 shootings, leaving 3455 wounded and 719 dead in 2020. (The Democratic City Government cut police funding as a result.)

Boy do I need a Mea Culpa. How could I put up all those wrong event photos. I sure hope you don't think I'm auditioning for CNN. Fortunately I didn't put up the ones of "mostly peaceful" protests in Portland or Seattle.

Now here we see our nation's finest in action.

Sorry. That didn't happen today. That's FBI kneeling before the Black Liberation Movement Lives Matter people earlier in the year.

I think I might have overdone it. Please Stand Bye.

....

....

Scenes from inside the Capital building:

Truly some Profiles in Courage. Brave Sir Robin must be a role model. Then there's these guys:

Bernie Kerik says two of them on (circled in red) were with BLM protests back in June. False Flag? Agents Provocateur? How dare you think that.

However it looks like Cruz and Cotton, along with Rubio and Romney, all missed their Yeltsin moment. So did Pence and Pelosi.

Yes, somebody might actually have tried to shoot that man.

Also reported today: Two pipe bombs at RNC HQ (That's Repubican BTW).

False Flag? How dare you think that. 74,000,000 people voted for Trump, but now the left will craft a campaign of Covid as the plague that there is ingrained hatred, bigotry and systemic racism amongst those individuals, especially those who went to D.C., regardless of what they did there. If you remember Christine Beasley Ford, if you remember Nathan Phillips and the Covington kids at the Lincoln Memorial, if you remember 15 days to slow the spread - you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Here's the same companies that knew BLM protests were "mostly peaceful".

Aint' the internet grand. You can signal your virtue before the facts are even in. Someone should tell him the tranfer of power isn't today, but the 20th, and also remind him of who did what to whom. As seen here:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-america-pay-1665-billion-historic-justice-department-settlement-financial-fraud-leading

Closing summary: The President called on all supporters to be peaceful and to return home. (Facebook edited the first 15 seconds of the most recent video released by the President of the United States, the 15 seconds that mentioned the stolen election. None dare call that suppression of news.) Update: Facebook either deleted it or someone else did. Sorry. Time, or news suppression, flies. "... isolate, marginalize and eliminate the message of President Trump." as Sundance put it.

On a bright note all media sources say this was the most secure election in national history. I expect they'll say the same thing about Georgia's run off election yesterday, and all future American elections. Reports are that the Senate is due to reconvene tonight (if they have not done so already) and ram through the landslide Jo e continue their business . I'm sure the soon to be inaugurated president's first 100 days will be epic. I can feel the reconciliation in my blood.

......... Footnotes and closing thoughts:

Caption photo is of the Black Panthers inside the Capital building in 1967 .


Also, it was an unarmed white woman shot and killed inside the Capital building today -by the Capitol Hill Police. Fear not, no police officers are going to get charged in that shooting.

What do I think of the actions?

  1. Well, The Donald , WTF did you think would happen with a few hundred thousand people showing up? It would be free of idiots and agents provacateur?
  2. Mayor Bowser, congratulations on demanding the federal government not provide any additional security.
  3. Only one report of one person shot, and that was by the police. "Mostly Peaceful" sure applies.
  4. Lots of running away inside Congress. Just what were you told and where are all those brave combat vets we hear so much about? Not a good look for any of you. Especially The Honorable Mr. Eyepatch.
  5. The left is going to be out for blood. Expect charges, even if fabricated, against Trump and a number of rally organizers. Probably many of the attendees.
  6. Hope your taxes are all in order for the next four years.
  7. NRA, have fun with the new laws coming your way in all 50 states.
  8. Beto, good luck taking those guns away from BLM/Antifa. Just kidding, they'll be auxiliary police units soon.
  9. Where's the Kraken? Oh, yeah. The CIA program, the servers in Germany, yada yada.
  10. Where's Gina Haspel?
  11. You still haven't fired Fauci? At least you still have time to do that.
  12. You haven't initiated the emergency broadcasting system to force all those media companies to at least broadcast your prior message for people to disperse? Now might be a good time for that.

Now, w hat color is your revolution ? Sure looks like the standard playbook in action, but then I'm just a rube of a middle manager in the automotive industry who got a rude awakening when he actually ran for office more than a decade ago.

One final closing thought. This is only day 6 of the new year. I wonder what tommorrow will bring?

Footnote 2:
Trumps suppressed speach is now available via here, enjoy.

JerseyJeffersonian , 06 January 2021 at 10:37 PM

Thanks, Fred.

So, why didn't one of those brave, highly-trained LEOs of the Capitol Police either pull Ashlii through the window that she was awkwardly climbing through and handcuff her, or just shove her back to the other side of the wall instead of shooting her to death? Inquiring minds want to know... And what do you bet that there will be no charges brought at the end of the shamvestigation? They'll probably pin a medal on him instead (and doubtless he will remain anonymous, with his identity protected unlike the white officers who shot criminals trying to grab their guns with which they wanted to shoot the officers).

These last few years have been rather like those home shows with a Great Reveal at the end, but we keep getting reveals one after the other. The only suspense is how much these creatures hate us and want us immiserated, humiliated, and dead. Apparently we're still finding out how bad it can get.

Fred , 06 January 2021 at 10:52 PM

Jersey Jeffersonian,

The Left went from ACAB to Back the Blue in less than an hour. Ashli Babbit, 14 year AF veteran is the first martyr of America's third revolution. The left and the cuckconservatives and Fake Americans are already demanding kneeling in submission. Meanwhile, an hour after I posted this, more confirmation that there were multiple Antifa operatives within the crowd and who entered the capital, including the guy with fur and horned hat.

Senator Coons (?) just labeled the entire crowd of 250,000+ domestic terrorists. Hirono is droning on about "blood was shed" in the capital building, but left out the 'by the police'.

jim ticehurst , 06 January 2021 at 11:42 PM

The Man with Dark Curley Long Hair and White Beard...using a Plastic Device to Break out the Windows ..Similar to Antifas Tactics with thier Skate Boards...and then Pushing Young Men wearing Cammis and Back Packs into the Capital...and who do NOT look at all like anyone MAGA...Is a Primary Operator and should be Identified and Profiled..

[Jan 07, 2021] McConnell scorches Trump's election fraud claims, says democracy would 'enter a DEATH SPIRAL' if results overturned

Jan 07, 2021 | www.rt.com

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) surprised many when he warned against efforts to overturn the Electoral College results in Joe Biden's favor, saying there is not enough evidence behind Donald Trump's voter fraud allegations. "If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side our democracy would enter a death spiral. We'd never see the whole nation accept the election again," McConnell said on Wednesday on the Senate floor as Congress began their process for certifying the Electoral College votes.

Not long after, Trump supporters breached the Capitol building, prompting evacuations and panic. Images showed what appeared to be an armed stand-off between protesters and police at the door of the House of Representatives chamber. Video later emerged of a woman being shot elsewhere inside the building.

ALSO ON RT.COM Trump supporter SHOT during Capitol breach, now in critical condition In his comments before the chaos, McConnell added it would be "unfair and wrong to disenfranchise American voters and overrule the courts and states on this extraordinarily thin basis."

McConnell said he supported Trump pursuing legal avenues in the wake of his loss to Biden, but "over and over the courts rejected these claims including all-star judges whom the president himself has nominated."

Trump's allegations of fraud, he continued, do not equate to be massive enough to tip the scales of the election.

"The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We can't simply declare ourselves a national board of election on steroids," he said.

McConnell breaking with Trump and other Republicans who have supported voter fraud allegations surprised many on social media, especially liberal pundits who are typically highly critical of the Senate majority leader.

More conservative users called the senator out for his sudden turn on the president.

Thousands had gathered in Washington, DC for the 'Save America' rally where President Donald Trump himself spoke, saying he will "never concede" the election to Biden and once again called on Vice President Mike Pence, who presides over the certification, to overrule the "fraudulent" Electoral College votes.

In a statement released Wednesday, Pence said after a study of the Constitution, he does not believe he has the authority to choose which electoral votes get counted and which do not, though he said he shares concern about "the integrity of this election."

Odinsson 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:40 PM

The United States of America will most certainly enter a death spiral if Biden's "victory" is not reversed, for it was based on ballots cast in violation of State election laws in the battleground States of GA, PA, MI, PA, and even little old AZ. The Constitution of the United States of America at Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 mandates that the time and manner of electing Electors to the Electoral College must be established by the State legislatures. However, the manner of conducting elections in the battleground States listed above were changed by elected officials, appointed officials, and even members of the judiciary - none of whom had any lawful authority to establish election procedures. This is a constitutional crisis unlike any in America's history. I'm not even aware of a banana republic that has publicly committed such egregious violations of its own election laws in order to rig an election.
Visbhume2 Odinsson 2 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 10:17 PM
This is clear to everyone except american Democrats, it is the most blatant steal I have ever seen
Odinsson Odinsson 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:47 PM
BTW, I don't even want to hear any complaints about elections in the Russian Federation. I've read its constitution and election laws and the elections there are conducted fairly (contrary to all of the false accusations in Western media that Vladimir Putin has political opponents killed).
David Ireland 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:40 PM
Look at all the fixed elections across the planet, probably for decades. Democracy died a long time ago, if it's illusion was ever even real to begin with.
Ally Hauptmann-Gurski David Ireland 1 hour ago 6 Jan, 2021 10:49 PM
The rule of Helmut Kohl in Germany was also rigged. Industry payed Rainer Barzel to step down and let Kohl in. Kohl was known as a good little boy ever since the denazification troops combed through the US occupation zone in Germany in 1945/46. Merkel was seen as a safe pair of hands because her parents were reliably stereo.
YouLost David Ireland 5 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:43 PM
It's does not exist, just like a lot of thing the west lie about
sommerskid 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:46 PM
McConnell is a part of the deep state. Always was, always will be.
Haereticus sommerskid 1 hour ago 6 Jan, 2021 10:43 PM
I wonder if his wife is CCP. She's Taiwanese-born, but.. hmm.
J_P_Franklin 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:36 PM
I told you President Trump was not leaving the White House. 57,000 at Trump's Pennsylvania rally . Two dozen for Biden. Trump won. Everyone knows Trump won. The whole world is watching .
MotorSlug J_P_Franklin 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:52 PM
yes, lots of brown shirts at the beer hall putsch
Daffyduck011 J_P_Franklin 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:42 PM
You cant stop the deep state.
Daffyduck011 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:41 PM
You see claiming election fraud is so much worse than election fraud. Because the plebes must believe elections matter.
Antipr0 Daffyduck011 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:53 PM
This is exactly the thinking of Mitch Turtleman McEternalLozernell
Tom_Callan 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:35 PM
Sorry Mitch!.......but what democracy?
picklenickel 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:52 PM
Hey Mitch! US democracy died on Nov 22, 1963.
SocraticSoma picklenickel 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:40 PM
Thank you !!!!! Exactly that!!!
Mazzi Popov 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:42 PM
The "death spiral" whether overturned or confirmed. The only way to exit is clarity.
Odinsson Mazzi Popov 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:48 PM
I've never before seen secession spelled as 'clarity'.
FelixTcat 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:38 PM
If elections actually mattered there wouldn't be an electoral college.
samhouston36 FelixTcat 13 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 12:26 AM
What?
jfc46wv 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:44 PM
If good ol' Mitch claims there isn't enough proof of fraud, it is only because he has avoided seeing what has been clearly presented. The evidence of malfeasance is overwhelming.
Silence_Dogood 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:38 PM
It would also go into a death spiral if it is found Biden won illegitimately...
UshouldKnow Silence_Dogood 5 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 07:05 PM
The "death spiral" will be ensured once the left takes over January 20th. We know the election was stolen and we know the result will mean the end of America as we know it.
FarmBread Silence_Dogood 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:00 PM
"It would also go into a death spiral if it is found Biden won illegitimately..." You got it exactly right.
oddthinker 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:03 PM
Since 911, Mitch recognizes that support for the deep state is the best way to keep your job and to keep your pulse.
Hanonymouse 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:25 PM
So letting the fraudulent results stand is the way to "save" democracy?
DMOZ Hanonymouse 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:36 PM
So you gona go fight the 86 Million that voted for Biden?.
alexander 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:36 PM
Death spiral will also occur if you keep blocking checks for people, Mitch.
ErgoSum 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:25 PM
America's current unrest has one single cause. Their electoral system. Every four years, we see the same debacle, though this one is one of the worst. I defy anyone to try and find any same reasoning behind it. It is so convoluted, impractical, and open to abuse, manipulation and downright fraud, it is unworkable. It is almost unbelievable that, a nation as technologically advanced as the US, can't run a simple, "first-past-the-post" election, properly. Compared to Australia, which has compulsory voting, a multi party, preferential system, it should be a cinch, but the US has made a complete hash of it. Their voting system needs some serious reform. Unfortunately, the very mess that it is, is the very same thing that will prevent it. There are too many self interested parties, individual cities, county's and states, all who will refuse to part with their own little bit of control. Add to that, no matter which party proposes change, the other will oppose it because they will see it as a power grab by the other. We shall now just have to sit back and watch what happens. The only thing we can be assured of, it will be very interesting.
John Martin 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:51 PM
McConnell's true colors are finally showing.
glynnius 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:08 PM
How does an already dead democracy enter a death spiral?!
Chris Cottrell 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:08 PM
Except it is not a democracy, but an oligarchy. And that includes Trump as well as Biden as both puppets.
shylockracy1 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:35 PM
US democracy is as fake as the Semitism of the neocolonial Zionist squatters occupying Palestine. The US would be exposed as the terrorist Ziocorporate conglomerate it actually is if the electioneering circus is disrupted. Pentagon would have to start killing some folks to defend "democracy" (their multi-trillion $$$ annual budget), and their partners and contractors, from Microsoft/Google to Big Pharma/Oil and especially MSM, would be their for support.
JIMI JAMES shylockracy1 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:39 PM
FAKE TRILLIONS (PERIOD) they would not be that desperate otherwise(period)
Tinkerbell_Pan 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:35 PM
Kentucky Republican voters have to come up with an alternative to McC asap.
T. Agee Kaye 4 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 07:49 PM
Democracy will pull out of a death spiral if they are overturned.
YouLost 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:42 PM
the population being run by deranged people from an old folks home
TwoBrainCells YouLost 5 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:50 PM
terms limits are desperately needed
Joe Smith 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:05 PM
McConnell is a renegade anti-Trump traitor that should've been put out to pasture many years ago. Like Pence, he's been compromised by China and has betrayed America. Hopefully both these people can be locked up soon.
DMOZ Joe Smith 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:37 PM
Stop blaming other countries for your own failures.
Iamcensored 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:28 PM
No Mitchie Boy democracy died when the democrats cheated Bernie in 2016
Hilarous 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:44 PM
It would be a spiral into the ground for Witch McConnell.
Callme Skeptical 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:41 PM
McConnell is a traitor...period.
apothqowejh 5 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 07:25 PM
The death spiral started decades ago, about the time McConnel sold his soul to the Chinese.
Zeke Aln 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:34 PM
I predict that there will never be another U.S. election..... it has gotten far too serious, the swamp cannot take that chance ever again!
Frank Blangeard 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:36 PM
This isn't the first Presidential election in the U.S.A. to be won by behind the scenes dirty tricks. How about the election of George W. Bush in 2010. And there are certainly doubts about the legitimacy of the J.F.K. election in 1960. No big deal. Move on.
Bellcast 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:29 PM
democracy does not mean democrat and obedience to that party.
Visbhume2 2 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 10:15 PM
When Presidents or States make allegations, it needs to go to court to decide. You cannot say the court has decided when it has not accepted the case, being unconstitutional as well. The USA is done, or it becomes the worst kind of police state, with smiley clown masks hiding the evil.
Darko Baljak 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:03 PM
one last day of meltdowns for the Trumpsters.... it's fitting that the world is watching and seeing the way Trump and those who support him behave...
Daniel Astudillo Estrella 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:51 PM
Mister Deepstate. 😋
joe_go 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:53 PM
These events / people's protests against the powers that be/ happen when said powers become too arrogant and too corrupt. Events in DC today is not the end. It is only the beginning. And in short time it will become apparent that McConnells, Pences, Bidens will go down in history as new Benedict Arnolds.
Werner_Krauss 4 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 08:32 PM
Doesn't he know, democracy is dead? The *central party* has been exposed. Basically the same as Russia all along. The republican party has been a hoax. Just window dressing every four years.
Sinalco 2 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 10:12 PM
It's good watching both controlled sides arguing, as to who won the rigged elections... While the Masters laugh at you from behind the scenes..
JIMI JAMES 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:34 PM
I don't respect cowards without a cause,This worm is asking trump to ignore constituates,let the liberals push sex change on children but its ok for him who can simply go to heterosexual china to live with his vile cheap sloot whos the chinese traitor,(all traitors serve no valour nor justice)good for one another would you agree?
DMOZ JIMI JAMES 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:38 PM
Stop blaming other countries for your own failures.
MotorSlug JIMI JAMES 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:48 PM
back to your rubber room now...
Mazzi Popov 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:42 PM
Or, in other words, the death spiral also comes out of everturning the counting.
swamp_rat 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:34 PM
Sugar....I need sugar.
Rabidsmurf01 swamp_rat 8 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 04:36 PM
in water
TexasShow 5 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 07:11 PM
McConnell is OWNED by China, he should go to trial for treason.
Zeke Aln 7 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:10 PM
Something very fake smelling that they broke through police so easily
Ally Hauptmann-Gurski 2 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 10:43 PM
America is a corporatocracy with democratic water soluble gloss.
bartorama 4 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 08:02 PM
Election fraud must stand... to protect democracy????
Valli127 3 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 08:45 PM
Who is he trying to kid? "Democracy"?.....America is a REPUBLIC! That's the issue.
TwoBrainCells 5 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 06:50 PM
since when are any US elections fair? every race is a matter of which party can out-cheat the other
Spirgily_Klump 53 minutes ago 6 Jan, 2021 11:50 PM
When an unconstitutional election stands that is proven to be riff with fraud and criminality democracy is in a death spiral.
The_Chosenites 30 seconds ago 7 Jan, 2021 12:43 AM
Indeed once the zionist controlled media selects the most pro zionist candidate for President, then it's been decided, no need for Americans to vote anyways.
MeNot 6 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 05:50 PM
Who is this old fool McConnell trying to fool ? There no democracy in the USA.
MongoSlade 5 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 07:00 PM
Yertle the turtle should go back in his shell. Send him back to the planet of the turtles.
Dee Wilson 3 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 09:14 PM
Mc connell MUST go....typical washington rot.
Nullnvoid 4 hours ago 6 Jan, 2021 08:32 PM
Someone check McConnell's nut sack, it's gotta be empty.
samhouston36 19 minutes ago 7 Jan, 2021 12:24 AM
Says the professional RINO loser. Fokc you, Mitch!

[Jan 07, 2021] Any protest those days is subsject to infiltration and manipulation

Jan 07, 2021 | www.thegatewaypundit.com

https://www.the EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Reveals Individuals in the Capital Today Who Weren't Trump Supporters By Joe Hoft
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Who were those people inside the Capital today? It is likely that they weren't all Trump supporters. In fact, some of them may have been there to paint President Trump and his followers as violent (which they aren't).

We reported in a prior post that a retired FBI Agent reported that Antifa was at today's event in Washington DC:

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The Washington Times reports that at least one person the in Capital was related to Antifa as confirmed by facial recognition from our friends at XRVision.

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One individual in the Capital was spotted at a BLM event this summer but he was reportedly holding a QAnon poster. Was he QAnon related or BLM related or something else? We don't know. This guy was sitting in the Speaker's chair this afternoon per our earlier reporting . He wasn't wearing a shirt despite it being nearly freezing outside:

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Others reported that Baked Alaska and Nick Fuentes were in the Speaker's Office:

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"Baked Alaska" was a Trump supporter in 2016 , but then he turned on Trump. He somehow found himself in the Speaker's office in the Capital today with controversial activist Nick Fuentes.

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There were a number of characters in the capital today. At least one individual in the Capital had a communist tattoo on his hand – not something a Trump supporter would likely have:

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Others point out that this was the 3rd time Trump supporters have gathered in Washington DC since the November election with no violence until today. Also, why was Antifa not attacking Trump supporters like they always do? Is it because they infiltrated the event?

Big Media and Big Tech are shaming Trump supporters tonight. They want to shame Trump supporters for speaking out about the horribly corrupt stolen election!

What is clear is that there were a number of bad apples at the event today who may have been there, not to protest, but to place Trump supporters in a bad light.

[Jan 07, 2021] We Ain't Going To Submit and We Won't Forget by Larry C Johnson - Sic Semper Tyrannis

Jan 07, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

After four years of a sustained coup attempt to destroy the Presidency of Donald Trump, the Washington establishment now wants us, the deplorables, to sit down, shut up and accept a steal. Here's a news flash. We will not. This is no longer about ensuring that Donald Trump, who won the election, remains as President. The issue is more profound. It is the preservation of our Republic and a demand for genuine accountability and fairness.

As I listen to the howls of faux outrage by a plethora of Democrat, Republican, media and Silicon Valley tech giants condemning any Trump supporter who dares speak out to challenge the election fraud of November 3rd, I have not forgotten and will not forget their lies and their silence.

When Black Lives Matter and Antifa ravaged some of our major cities over the last 9 months, these clowns did not denounce the rioting, looting and violence. They lied and called it peaceful protests. But the Silent Majority saw with their own eyes the desecration of statues, the assaults on law abiding citizens, the destruction of small businesses.

When disgruntled Democrats and Hollywood elite insisted, "Trump is not our President", the media did not denounce them as "insurrectionists." When Madonna called for blowing up the White House the only outrage came from Trump supporters. The rest of the establishment yawned and celebrated. When Kathy Griffiths, a low rent, untalented comedian, decapitated a model of Donald Trump, the media again shrugged this off as nothing of import.

The double standard, the gargantuan hypocrisy is stunning. And the Washington Establishment expects us to act as Alzheimer patients who can't remember what we had for breakfast? No. We remember every act of resistance.

For more than four years we were fed the damnable lie that the Russians elected Donald Trump. Now we know that the FBI lied repeatedly in submitting false applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. So far, not one of those liars–Comey, McCabe, Strzok–have been called to account. Yet, supporters of Trump–General Michael Flynn and Roger Stone–were accused falsely of lying and prosecuted. Most true Americans recognize this as a flagrant violation of the basic concept of fairness and blind justice.

[Jan 07, 2021] Echo of Maydan snipers: At least one protester was shot and killed apparently by another protester

Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Piotr Berman , Jan 7 2021 1:58 utc | 94

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 6 2021 23:35 utc | 60

From the little I know (visiting Capitol building ca. 25 years ago), this is absurd: to enter, you must pass a gate with metal detectors, which would preclude firearms. It is a reasonable bet that the weapon matching the killing bullet will not be found.

Still, Nuland with her Maidan experience will be sorely needed by the new crew. If the push comes to shove, Dems lack their own sniper squads. Will there be learning camps for Democratic activists in Poland? Who and where will teach them the art of discrete defenestration?

uncle tungsten , Jan 7 2021 2:14 utc | 100

Clueless Joe #83

It only took 6 years into the year after the very last year of US Dominance for it to be turned into your random regime-changeable banana republic, with idiots taking over the parliament. ...... It was a slow build, but the pace of the collapse is currently higher than I expected at this stage.

Thank you. Idiots have been in charge of the parliament for quite some time as far as I can tell. Recently more duplicitous idiots have arrive having convinced people that they were good intentioned idiots. But - they turned out to be the same scabrous traitors as the last lot of the idiots. Useful idiots abound it seems.

I am not convinced that collapse is the term to describe the circumstance. The development of the Weimar republic saw the left progressively appropriated by pseudo lefties and counter revolutionary forces and then, one day, Adolf was installed. It is a method that has traction today in the USAi. There are multiple conflicting/confounding dialogues in play that are constantly used to divide and conquer and the pseudo left in the USAi is busy spinning and spinning. There is a political naivety in the readings and listenings I explore and I am astounded at the poor level of comprehension of matters political in the USAi. I am not saying stupid, rather an education that denies critical dialogue, critical analysis.

I see transformation rather than collapse but I can't see any good transformation there yet and I doubt that a good transformation would be permitted. The private finance global elite cartel have the place by the short and curleys IMO.

[Jan 07, 2021] Who attacked the US democracy?

Jan 07, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Triden , Jan 7 2021 2:49 utc | 105

But trashing the Capitol for daring to say that the winner of an election won is a disgusting attack on democracy as the rule of the majority.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 7 2021 2:28 utc | 104

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Your pretence that the multi-state blatant ballot stuffing operation (one that would have shamed even the legendary Boss Croker), which we witnessed in November 2020, was some sort of example of "democracy" is, frankly, risble

[Jan 06, 2021] Georgia Dems Relied Heavily on Massive Corporate War Chest to Cinch Historic Election by Alan MacLeod

Notable quotes:
"... Democrats decisively outraised their opponents, giving them a critical edge. Ossoff outraised Perdue by $138 million to $89 million while Warnock received $124 million to Loeffler's $92 million. With over 98% of the votes counted, Warnock has been declared the winner, with 50.6% of the vote. Ossoff, meanwhile, is all but assured of winning as well, and has already declared victory. ..."
"... Thus, both contests have conformed to political scientist Thomas Ferguson's "Golden Rule" of politics: that the party that spends the most almost always wins the election. Ferguson's 1995 thesis , "The Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems," argued that elections are essentially contests between rival big businesses and that the two political parties compete to serve those who pay them, not the public. Nearly 20 years later, a University of Princeton study of 1,779 policy issues found that, ..."
"... Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence." ..."
"... Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that, since 2000, the candidate spending the most money has won between 70% and 98% of their races in the House or Senate ..."
"... the real winners in this election were corporate America, who could not lose, whoever won. ..."
Jan 06, 2021 | www.mintpressnews.com

In order to beat GOP incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate elections, Democrats had to spend big, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.

The two Georgia Senate elections -- called today for the Democrats -- were easily the most costly in history, amounting to nearly $830 million in total ($468 million for the race between Democrat Joey Ossoff and Republican David Perdue and more than $361 million for the special election between Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock and Republican Kelly Loeffler.

The Democrats' massive war chest came in no small part from hefty contributions from corporate America. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics , tech companies rallied around the Democratic challengers, plying the two campaigns with millions of dollars. Alphabet Inc., Google's parent organization, was the largest single source of funds, their PACs, shareholders, or employees donating almost $1 million to Ossoff's campaign alone with other big tech companies cracking his top ten, all with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donations from the like of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and AT&T. The rest of the top ten were made up by universities.

The Republican candidates also relied on large corporations for much of their funding. Perdue's biggest donors included Delta Airlines, Home Depot, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America, while Loeffler was generously supported by oil and chemical giant Koch Industries as well as a number of financial institutions like Ryan LLC and Blackstone Group.

However, Democrats decisively outraised their opponents, giving them a critical edge. Ossoff outraised Perdue by $138 million to $89 million while Warnock received $124 million to Loeffler's $92 million. With over 98% of the votes counted, Warnock has been declared the winner, with 50.6% of the vote. Ossoff, meanwhile, is all but assured of winning as well, and has already declared victory.

Thus, both contests have conformed to political scientist Thomas Ferguson's "Golden Rule" of politics: that the party that spends the most almost always wins the election. Ferguson's 1995 thesis , "The Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems," argued that elections are essentially contests between rival big businesses and that the two political parties compete to serve those who pay them, not the public. Nearly 20 years later, a University of Princeton study of 1,779 policy issues found that,

Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."

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Empirical evidence seems to support this notion. Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that, since 2000, the candidate spending the most money has won between 70% and 98% of their races in the House or Senate

The 2020 election was already by far the most expensive in history, even before the Georgia numbers were added into the mix. The sums of $468 million and $361 million are comfortably higher than any of those from two months ago, the most expensive of which was the $299 million contest in North Carolina between Thom Tillis (Republican) and Cal Cunningham (Democrat).

Many were heralding the Democratic upset in Georgia as the start of a new era and a victory against racism and hate. "The votes of Black people have been suppressed in this nation for a very long time. This is the dawning of a new day," said Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Warnock, who will become the state's first black senator, agreed. "Tonight we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible All of us have a choice to make; will we continue to divide, distract and dishonor one another, or will we love our neighbors as we love ourselves?" he said in his victory speech.

Yet while corporations continue to have such an outsized role in funding both major political parties, it is unclear whether substantive change is even possible. The debate over whether this represents a victory for racial justice can be had, but what seems unmistakable is that the real winners in this election were corporate America, who could not lose, whoever won.

Feature photo | Senate candidate Jon Ossoff introduces President-elect Joe Biden in Atlanta, Jan. 4, 2021, as he campaigns for Raphael Warnock and Ossoff. Carolyn Kaster | AP

Alan MacLeod is a Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent . He has also contributed to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting , The Guardian , Salon , The Grayzone , Jacobin Magazine , Common Dreams the American Herald Tribune and The Canary .

[Jan 06, 2021] Do you realize now what you have done- US gets the kind of 'democracy' it championed overseas -- RT Op-ed

Jan 06, 2021 | www.rt.com

Do you realize now what you have done? US gets the kind of 'democracy' it championed overseas Nebojsa Malic Nebojsa Malic

is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Follow him on Twitter @NebojsaMalic 6 Jan, 2021 21:29 Get short URL Do you realize now what you have done? US gets the kind of 'democracy' it championed overseas A protester is seen hanging from the balcony in the Senate Chamber on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC © Win McNamee / Getty Images / AFP 157 1 Follow RT on RT A crowd of protesters stormed Congress protesting a presidential election they claimed had been fraudulent. When this happened in Serbia in 2000, the US called it democracy. When it happened in Washington, DC – not so much.

Scenes from the US Capitol on Wednesday, as protesters backing President Donald Trump disrupted the joint session of Congress meeting to certify the election of Democrat Joe Biden, looked very much like Belgrade in October 2000 .

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The sight was later repeated in Ukraine – twice, in 2004 and 2014 – Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, and several Central Asian former Soviet republics. On every occasion, the US backed the "people power," because American NGOs and embassies were supporting what became known as "color revolutions."

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Same thing happened in 2011 with the "Arab Spring" that started in Tunisia and then burned its way across North Africa to the Persian Gulf. In some places it "succeeded," overthrowing decades-old governments. In others it failed, setting off wars in Libya and Syria and blood on the streets of Bahrain. Again, the US cheered this on as democracy – except for Bahrain, which hosts a major naval base.

More recently, the US denounced as illegitimate the presidential elections in Belarus, Bolivia and Venezuela. While Minsk and Caracas managed to resist – and got sanctioned for it – the "democrats" in La Paz were successful for a while, but ended up losing the vote last year.

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Way back in 2004, the Guardian wrote approvingly about how the US has created a "slick" operation of "engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience," developing since Belgrade a "template for winning other people's elections."

Now the same mainstream media that slavishly followed the State Department line in denouncing elections elsewhere as "rigged" and color revolutions as spontaneous democracy are clutching their pearls when Americans who believe their election was stolen take to the streets and storm their Capitol.

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Ah, but this election wasn't stolen, they'd say – it was pure as driven snow, "most secure ever," all the experts who told us for four years the previous one was "hacked by Russia" tell us so! And Joe Biden won the most votes in history while hardly leaving his basement. Whether you believe this official narrative about the US election or not doesn't really matter, however. Partisan myopia simply won't let people understand the magnitude of what is on display here: utter moral bankruptcy of the entire US political and media establishment.

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Republicans and Democrats alike used "color revolutions" as a political weapon for years, preaching democracy even as their astroturfed coups snuffed out any vestiges of it that might have developed organically. Over the past year, they've done so at home as well, using Covid-19 lockdowns to abolish elementary constitutional rights, culminating with changing the electoral rules to better serve "our democracy," defined as whatever gets them power.

What did they think people would do when all avenues of airing their grievances were closed off? Meekly submit – or take a page out of the same playbook the politicians and the media spent 20 years celebrating?

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Don't go "but Trump," either. The supposed Nazi fascist dictator himself ordered National Guard and police to clear out the protesters who sided with him, and protect the establishment that did not. He's a real Hitler, right? No matter, expect the media to paint him as such anyway.

Perhaps the US ought to take a long, hard look at its own house before it continues calling out, sanctioning, regime-changing or bombing other countries over their supposed lack of "democracy." Maybe actually answer the question Russian President Vladimir Putin asked at the UN back in 2015, addressing the consequences of the 'Arab Spring': "Do you realize now what you have done?"

But we all know that's not going to happen, don't we?

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[Jan 06, 2021] Protester captured Capitol building, but have no plans or leadership

Jan 06, 2021 | www.nytimes.com

The Capitol Police ordered the evacuation of at least one office building on Capitol Hill as protesters flooded the grounds as part of a widespread protest against the certification of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s victory.

Police officers ran door to door in the Cannon House Office Building ordering the evacuation before the alert reached some offices, according to one person working in the building. While the alert sent to Capitol offices cited only "police activity," videos posted on social media showed hundreds of protesters barreling past fence barricades outside the Capitol and clashing with officers.

Representative Nancy Mace, a freshman Republican from South Carolina, described seeing protesters "assaulting Capitol Police." In a Twitter post , Ms. Mace shared a video of the chaos and wrote, "This is wrong. This is not who we are. I'm heartbroken for our nation today."

The police fired what appeared to be flash-bang grenades. Rather than disperse, the protesters cheered and shouted, "push forward, push forward." One protester shouted, "that's our house," meaning the Capitol

As officers and protesters clashed outside, lawmakers were debating an objection to the certification of Arizona electors, ensconced in their respective chambers. Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, warned of a "death spiral" for democracy, while Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, listed a litany of accusations of election fraud with little evidence.

"I don't recognize our country today, and the members of Congress who have supported this anarchy do not deserve to represent their fellow Americans," said Representative Elaine Luria, Democrat of Virginia.

Trump supporters were seen trying to tear down security barriers, confronting the police and trying to enter the building.

[Jan 06, 2021] UPDATED- "Trump Supporters" (Allegedly) Storm the Capitol OffGuardian

Jan 06, 2021 | off-guardian.org

How one of the most secure buildings on the planet was suddenly vulnerable to "storming" froma couple of hundred Trump supporters remains a mystery. There have been only very limited reports of violence, despite the legendarily itchy trigger fingers of America's militarized police forces.

This apparent contradiction has not gone unnoticed, even by mainstream voices:

As always with breaking stories designed to create a narrative, story is picking up and discarding threads. There have been as-yet-unsubstantiated reports of "pipe bombs", but no explosions. Another article accused the "rioters" of "deploying chemicals".

In "progressive" political circles, this absurd series of events is being used as a catalyst to trigger the potential forceful removal of Donald Trump from office, via the 25h Amendment:

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Or even expelling any Republican member of congress that questioned the result of the Presidential election:

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The so-called "President-elect" Joe Biden has been quick to label the protests "chaos which borders on sedition".

The response is escalating quickly. The mayor of Washington DC has been quick to put a curfew order in place , and there is talk of the national guard being brought in .

So, was the whole purpose of the blatantly rigged and fraudulent US election to kick off riots, and eventually a 'civil war' to justify a coup by some faction and martial law?

This is the standard "color revolution" playbook anyhow. Is it currently being used in the US by proponents of the New Normal?

Do we really believe some ad hoc rioters just closed Congress?

This has all the hallmarks of a planned rollout

UPDATE: Donald Trump posted a brief video to social media, repeating his claims of electoral fraud, but telling the protestors to "go home":

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Facebook has taken the video down. While twitter – at first – totally prevented people from commenting on it or sharing, adding the alarmingly Orwellian warning:

This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can't be replied to, retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence

but then totally removed both the video and this tweet, which called on protestors to go home "in love and peace":

Is this about ending the "risk of violence"? Or is it about purging all evidence of Trump telling the protestors to desist, so he can be blamed?

UPDATE: Democratic Congresswoman McBath has asked that VP Mike Pence remove Trump from office:

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UPDATE: Did the police enable the "riot"? Video emerges which appears to show police opening barriers and ushering protesters through:

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UPDATE: Certification is reported to have resumed. Trump's Instagram, Facebook and Twitter have been locked. Various condemnation of Trump for 'inciting' violence in the Capitol, including this tweet from Obama:

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Various calls for impeachment. City-wide curfew in place in Washington DC from 1800 to 0600 hours.

Tom Larsen , Jan 7, 2021 1:43 AM

Here's how the "radical" socialists at the WSWS responded:

"Thousands of Trump supporters, acting at his direction after a rally outside the White House, stormed the Capitol building Wednesday afternoon, putting a halt to the congressional session at which Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election was being certified. This is a coordinated, planned fascist insurrection. Trump supporters passed through police barricades outside the Capitol and entered the building without serious resistance."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/07/coup-j06.html

I thought it was hundreds? And isn't there a slight inconsistency between "storm[ing]" the Capitol building and "pass[ing] through" police barricades ostensibly by police invitation?

My first response when hearing about this "coup" – a yawn.

Deplorable D , Jan 7, 2021 2:29 AM Reply to Tom Larsen

And the theater worked. Republicans who were going to contest the Electoral College certification are falling like flies. The dog-and-pony show resistance has crumbled. "It is for Unity and Democracy!!"

Eric McCoo , Jan 7, 2021 1:37 AM

ANTIFA/BLM being bused in for the rally with a police escort ?

https://twitter.com/RockNPolitics/status/1346900594796146689

paul , Jan 7, 2021 1:13 AM

For the past 4 years, the Antifa/ BLM Fascist Left in America has been rioting with complete impunity.
Night after night, for weeks and months on end.
Continuous rioting in scores of cities every night for 100 consecutive nights and more. Organised looting, arson, tens of billions of dollars of damage.
The famous "mainly peaceful protests" of CNN.
Openly encouraged, condoned and sponsored by democrat city mayors and administrations.
The police ordered to stand down and give them a free hand to set up no go areas and kill and terrorise to their hearts' content.

But when a blatantly rigged and stolen election provokes protests, and Pelosi's office is trashed, cue mega pearl clutching and much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of the Fake Media, who suddenly discover a belated love of law and order.

Mob violence on a vastly greater scale in targeted foreign countries like Venezuela or Syria, invariably CIA orchestrated, is celebrated as "peoples democracy." Though it is certainly wise, knowing past history, to be open to the possibility of agents provocateurs.


Bob Short , Jan 7, 2021 1:01 AM

It is so sad that all these 'good people' will continue to be robbed and destroyed by the neoliberal financial cabal in Washington as long as they keep supporting Corporatists, neo-liberals like Trump. What are they thinking? it is exactly people like Trump who are destroying their businesses, and stealing government wealth. Socialism may not solve all their problems but it will solve most and it is a better route than bashing you head against this patriot brick-wall.

TheOriginalDaveH , Jan 7, 2021 1:12 AM Reply to Bob Short

You really think the Democrats aren't up to their elbows in favoring the billionaire globalists?
Is your cave comfortable?

Eric McCoo , Jan 7, 2021 12:28 AM

The police opened the gates. Common tactic to discredit protests.

https://twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/1346920924310867968

Sandra Wilson , Jan 7, 2021 12:16 AM

The only way to watch this whole event was to watch it via Alex Jones live. If you want to know what the US deep state are up, just watch Alex jones.

Roger , Jan 7, 2021 12:54 AM Reply to Sandra Wilson

"If you want to know what the US deep state are up, just watch Alex jones."

I agree with your statement, but not in the way you mean. That guy is an actor playing a role.

ohn Ervin , Jan 6, 2021 11:48 PM

19 Arabs with box cutters.

I want a refund.

Jeffrey Strahl , Jan 6, 2021 11:45 PM

Excellent analysis, perfect call. All the hallmarks of an op.

Sandra Wilson , Jan 6, 2021 11:35 PM

With all the pain and suffering in the USA at the moment, no healthcare, not compensation for closed businesses and with 60% of small business never reopening, it is so weird that people are marching in support of a billionaire establishment crook, who is clearly acting as a corrupt arm of the military corporate financial complex.

We have two sides, the Democratic 'left' and the Trump alt-right screaming at each other, but who basically agree on almost every issue, ie.. corporate exploitation of the population, just how the CIA like it I suppose.


Sandra Wilson , Jan 6, 2021 11:29 PM

It could have been staged to scare the wavering Republicans into voting for a rerun of the elections? it looks like that may be it. But who knows I think even the CIA have lost track of their own psyops.

Sandra Wilson , Jan 6, 2021 11:26 PM

My problem with this whole event is that the police let them into the Capitol building, there is no way they should have got access, this is so staged. They didn't protect it despite knowing the march was taking place that day. Crazy pantomime.


Rik B. , Jan 6, 2021 11:45 PM Reply to Sandra Wilson

Indeed the "storming of the Capitol" has all the hallmarks of a staged event including actors and agent provocateurs and ofc useful idiots. Media and Dems will spin this show to death. Now they have the excuse to go full Orwell.

Thom1111 , Jan 6, 2021 11:53 PM Reply to Sandra Wilson

New evidence that some were antifa dressed up as patriots. One wearing the same costume with horns as he did back in June in Arizona at a BLM.

Sandra Wilson , Jan 7, 2021 12:10 AM Reply to Thom1111

You mean FBI dressed as Antifa dressed as 'Patriots'.

vector , Jan 6, 2021 11:12 PM

It was far too easy for relatively peaceful protestors to swarm the Capital State without resistance But this neatly replaced the narrative from the lame protests that Republican senators were planning which would have been a nuisance 24 hour filibuster.. This completely took away the spotlight of the attention whores.

Kalen , Jan 6, 2021 11:06 PM

Choreographed Protesters orderly following Capitol Hill visitors lines even wiped their feet before entering House and Senate chambers making sure not to disturb nothing so usual spectacle of anointing a new stooge of oligarchy May proceed shortly after a photo op with a Getty Images hired photographers and live transmitting via FB MSM correspondents that happens to be there. All fake, badly choreographed and directed with no shred of credibility.

if their goal was to stop or disrupt the debate or to stop rotten political charade of lies and deceit they did really nothing to achieve that, likely as planned. They did nothing to prevent voting Biden in, no ballots burned no procedural requirements blocked, no occupation started.

i have never seen such phony protest in my life and I attended and fought in hundreds as first thing those who enter buildings always do is opening all other doors and widows to let thousands in and at least trigger fire alarm if not start small fire to sow confusion and panic for their own protections from security apparatus killers they would encounter.

While not perfectly AF/BLM at least followed some of that script and burned something, looted something a little to make it look more realistic. Unfortunately but deliberately they not only burned symbols of oppression like polices stations but people's livelihoods and small businesses leaving corporate buildings in tact.

Sadly Trump fools showed stupid reverence to the Capitol Hill a building epitomizing autocratic imperial power of oligarchic evil that deserved to be demolished as a symbol of totalitarian rule under thin veneer of phony parliamentary democracy.

Corruption is embedded feature of American electoral system for over 230 years where every election have been stolen by oligarchy from the people and where they could be no shred of democracy existing where routinely 75% or more US citizen opposed or did not support installed POTUS and where opinions of 95% of population are ignored or directly contradict US congress actually enacted policies.

although a little shitting in pants by congressmen and senators Is never bad existence of this abhorrent imperial regime cannot be threatened without mass revolution rejecting entire structure of power and local self governance, including hopelessly manipulated elections, all at once.

S Cooper , Jan 6, 2021 11:18 PM Reply to Kalen

"The aphorism that in SHAM DEMOCRACY USA every "election" above that of local dog catcher is rigged is not far from the truth. WE THE PEOPLE do not choices, we have owners."

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsL6mKxtOlQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&listType=playlist&list=FLnnoDlrP9jUXGwJPoM_f7sg

https://www.deviantart.com/redamerican1945/art/Eugene-V-Debs-Republican-Democratic-Party-674343047


livingsb , Jan 6, 2021 11:38 PM Reply to Kalen

I agree whole-heartedly. This is much of a sham as was Trump being a true 'wild card /rogue' President. Absolute hogwash. Staged Opposition.

Rik B. , Jan 6, 2021 11:50 PM Reply to livingsb

Maybe Trump is staged opposition. But he awakened a lot of folks. Imagine Hillary would have won the Presidency. Endless wars. More control. More corruption. With Trump, at least, almost 70 million Americans are now immune of the media brainwashing and see the problems of Big Tech censorship. More and more people see through the corrupt bs. That's more accomplishment than one can hope for.


JoeC , Jan 7, 2021 2:41 AM Reply to Rik B.

Agree 1000%! His legacy is what counts.

[Jan 06, 2021] Congress Turns Electoral-Vote Ritual Into Bitter Fight on Biden questionable legitimacy

The Capitol building was placed on lockdown, with senators and members of the House locked inside their chambers, as Congress began debating President-elect Joe Biden's victory. President Trump addressed supporters near the White House before protesters marched to Capitol Hill.
Jan 06, 2021 | www.bloomberg.com

...the action hardens the bitter partisanship in Congress and is bound to leave millions of voters questioning the legitimacy of Biden's victory in the November presidential election.

... More than a thousand people gathered at a park south of the White House before dawn on Wednesday. At least three separate pro-Trump rallies are expected in Washington. Lawmakers have been given security instructions, including using underground tunnels between chambers in the Capitol and to nearby office buildings. The city of Washington has activated the National Guard, and many local businesses boarded up their doors and windows in anticipation of possible violence

The lawmakers objecting on Wednesday are poised to form the core of the anti-Biden group in the new Congress, where they will likely urge GOP leaders to refuse any deals with a president they consider illegitimate.

... Josh Hawley, a Republican of Missouri, was the first senator to indicate that he would join the effort to challenge the results. Since then, several other senators, including Ted Cruz of Texas and GOP Republicans elected to the chamber for the first time in November, have indicated they would support the effort unless there is an investigation of the voting process.

[Jan 06, 2021] Biden Taps Architect of 2014 Ukraine Coup for State Department by Dave DeCamp

Notable quotes:
"... Foreign Affairs ..."
Jan 06, 2021 | news.antiwar.com

Victoria Nuland, wife of neoconservative Robert Kagan, is expected be nominated for under secretary of state for political affairs

According to a report from Politico , Joe Biden's transition team is expected to nominate Victoria Nuland to be the under secretary of state for political affairs for the incoming administration's State Department.

Nuland, who is married to neoconservative Robert Kagan, is known for her role in orchestrating the 2014 coup in Ukraine while she was the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs in the Obama administration.

A recording of a phone call between Nuland and then-US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was leaked and released on YouTube on February 4th, 2014 . In the call, Nuland and Pyatt discussed who should replace the government of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was forced to step down on February 22nd, 2014.

The US-backed coup sparked the war in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region and led to the Russian annexation of Crimea. Both regions have a majority ethnic-Russian population who rejected the nationalist, anti-Russian post-coup government that even had neo-Nazis in its midst .

In a 2020 column for Foreign Affairs titled, "Pinning Down Putin," Nuland said Russian President Vladimir Putin "seized" on the 2014 coup and other "democratic struggles" to "fuel the perception at home of Russian interests under siege by external enemies." She also cited the war in the Donbas and annexation of Crimea as examples of Russian aggression, as most in Washington do.

Currently, Nuland is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and works for the Albright Stonebridge Group. She is also a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy , a US-taxpayer funded nonprofit that funds "pro-democracy" movements across the world.

Nuland worked in the Bush administration from 2005 to 2008 as the US ambassador to NATO. From 2011 to 2013, she served as the spokesperson for Barack Obama's State Department, and from 2013 to 2017, Nuland was the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs.

Politico also reported that the Biden administration is tapping Wendy Sherman to work directly under Secretary of State-designee Anthony Blinken. Sherman worked in the Obama administration's State Department and played a crucial role in negotiating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

[Jan 06, 2021] MAGA crowd vs left (anti-Clinton) faction of Dems: Both side actually agree that private banking is bad. After that they disagree on almost everything

There is no organized resistance to neoliberalism. Yet.
Jan 06, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org
psychohistorian , Jan 6 2021 21:35 utc | 45

@ v | Jan 6 2021 21:18 utc | 37 who wrote
"
Some MAGA nutter has just announced that the Kansas State Capitol has been taken over.
"

The interesting thing to me has always been that if you get the nutters on both sides of the mythological left/right to say how they feel about the private bankers, you know, the top/bottom reality we live in, they both agree that private banking is bad. But we can't have that coming to the fore especially in the face of the China example of public banking.

So its MAGA, USA, MAGA, USA, MAGA, USA forever, or until another narrative gripping opportunity comes along or is manufactured.

[Jan 06, 2021] Former Goldman Exec, Trump Advisor Gary Cohn Joins IBM As Vice Chairman - ZeroHedge

Jan 06, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Bokkenrijder 9 minutes ago (Edited)

Former Goldman Exec, Trump Advisor Gary Cohn Joins IBM As Vice Chairman

Another great pick by Trump to help 'drain' (read: FILL) the swamp.

"I'll hire the best people" - Donald J. Trump

The result of 4 years Trump;

Oh wait...it's all 3-D chess... 🙄.

[Jan 06, 2021] 'Out of touch with reality'- Tulsi Gabbard rips fellow Democrats after Congress imposes new rules on gendered language

Jan 06, 2021 | www.rt.com

US Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is calling out her party for pushing through a new code of conduct that essentially denies women exist by requiring gender-neutral language in Congressional rules.

"It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women," Gabbard said on Monday night in an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

//www.youtube.com/embed/y74xmzlvbJ8

New guidelines introduced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday and passed Monday by Congress in a party-line vote endeavor to "honor all gender identities" by making all pronouns and references to familial relationships gender-neutral. For instance, "seamen" has been changed to "seafarers," and House rules have been scrubbed of such words as "father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister.""Aunt" and "uncle" will be replaced by "parent's sibling." Lawmakers also must inculcate such words as "parent-in-law,""stepsibling" and "sibling's child" to replace "mother-in-law,""stepsister" and "niece.""He" or "she" references to House members are instead "such member,""delegate" or "resident commissioner."

"It's mind-blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans people in Congress are," Gabbard said. "Also, their first act as this new Congress could have been to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get the COVID vaccine now , but instead of doing something that could actually help save people's lives, they're choosing instead to say, 'Well, you can't say mother of father in any of this congressional language.' It's astounding."

Amid crises and pandemic, Pelosi chooses to focus on new Congress rules that ELIMINATE 'gendered terms'

Congress also has made permanent its Office of Diversity and now requires all committees to discuss in their oversight plans how they will address "inequities on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or national origin." Committees also must "survey the diversity of witness panels at committee hearings to ensure we are hearing from diverse groups of experts as we craft legislation."

Gabbard has run afoul of Democratic Party orthodoxy repeatedly in the past two years, opposing the impeachment of President Donald Trump, speaking out against election fraud, opposing regime-change wars and blasting the controversial Netflix movie 'Cuties' as " child porn ." She embarrassed party favorite Kamala Harris, now vice president-elect, in a Democrat presidential debate in 2019, and the Iraq War veteran called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the " queen of warmongers " after Clinton suggested that she's a Russian asset.

Gabbard, who didn't seek a new term in Congress, was attacked as a "transphobe" and "bigot" after introducing a bill last month to limit participation in women's sports to biological females. The movement to "deny the existence of biological women – it defies common sense, it defies basic, established science, it just doesn't make any sense," she told Carlson on Monday.

Tulsi Gabbard branded 'transphobe' after introducing bill to limit women's sport to biological females

"No wonder they called you a Russian spy," Carlson replied. "It's dangerous to have you in the Democratic Party. I'm sorry you're leaving [Congress]."

Republicans praised Gabbard's latest contradiction of Democrat talking points. "Can we please trade Mitt Romney for her?" one Twitter user asked. Brazilian entrepreneur Daniel Gonzalez called her "the best Democrat since JFK."

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) was among the many Republicans who opposed Pelosi's rules changes. "This is stupid," he said. "Signed, a father, son and brother."

[Jan 06, 2021] You could not make this up...

Jan 06, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Democrycy 7 hours ago

You could not make this up...

BREAKING: Biden to nominate Victoria Nuland as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1346542671339409408

russian_troll_farm 7 hours ago

F the EU Nuland

buff24seven 6 hours ago

the same Victoria Nuland that said Obama State Dept. informed FBI of reporting from Steele dossier. wow you cant make this stuff up.

ThePub'Lick_Hare 5 hours ago

Not the "Cookie Monster" surely!

Mentaliusanything 1 hour ago

You wait for Hillary to be called up... and the Gangs all here.

What Idiot said there is no Honor amongst thieves

[Jan 05, 2021] The Democrats Have Stolen the Presidential Election by Paul Craig Roberts

Notable quotes:
"... It is difficult to know or to ensure that the ballots are actual ballots from registered voters. For example in the early hours of the morning of November 4 large ballot drops occurred in Michigan and Wisconsin that wiped out Trump's lead. State officials have reported that people not registered -- probably illegals -- were permitted to vote. Postal service workers have reported being ordered to backdate ballots that suddenly appeared in the middle of the night after the deadline. These techniques were used to erase Trump's substantial leads in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. ..."
"... Digital technology has also made it easy to alter vote counts. US Air Force General Thomas McInerney is familiar with this technology. He says it was developed by the National Security Agency in order to interfere in foreign elections, but now is in the hands of the CIA and was used to defeat Trump. Trump is considered to be an enemy of the military/security complex because of his wish to normalize relations with Russia, thus taking away the enemy that justifies the CIA's budget and power. ..."
"... The military/security complex favors the disunity that the Democrat Party and media have fostered with their ideology of Identity Politics. ..."
"... I would take it a little further and say that voting by mail is a method of vote fraud. The supposed safeguards are easily circumvented, as some whistleblowers have illustrated with ballots being brought forth in large numbers after election day without postmarks and postal workers being ordered to stamp them with acceptable postmarks. ..."
"... Eisenhower is always lauded for his MIC warning. Frankly he ticks me off. Thanks for the warning AFTER you were in some position to mitigate. ..."
"... the most likely source of fraud that is hard to detect, is ballot harvesting. This should be outlawed as it violates the idea of a secret ballot. Somebody comes to the home of a disinterested voter and makes sure he votes (of course they will never admit to hounding the person) and "helps" them with the ballot. If the voter cannot be cajoled into voting the correct way, you merely throw his ballot in the trash. ..."
"... Living in an urban setting I often had to visit apartment buildings. Without fail, there was always a pile of undeliverable mail in the lobby under the mailboxes. ..."
"... His farewell address was just flapdoodle; it wasn't really dredged up till the 70s. Eisenhower spent eight years spreading tripwires and mines and then said "Watch out." Thanks buddy. ..."
"... As the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte revealed in his book, Bought Journalism, the European and US media speak with one voice -- the voice of the CIA. The very profitable and powerful US military/security complex needs foreign enemies. ..."
"... inventive creative new ways to deceive.. first it was election machines, then mail in votes. ..."
"... The phrase "there's no evidence" is just a public commitment to ignore any evidence, no matter how blatant or obvious. ..."
"... Paper ballots as ascribed by Tulsi Gabbard legislation is the only safe option for elections. Kudos to Tulsi! ..."
"... Everyone knew about the potential for voter fraud to occur, but the entire system is corrupt, including Trump who has allowed the massive corruption within the system that was present when he entered office to persist and grow because he is a wimpy, spineless, coward, that was too afraid to make any waves and take the heat that he promised his voters. ..."
"... Why anyone voted for Trump in 2020 confounds me. I voted for him in 2016 and he has turned out to be one of the worst presidents in history. ..."
"... Trump in his cowardess and dishonesty knew that the ailing economy would harm his chances of being re-elected, so he allowed the health scare scamdemic to occur and destroy the livelihoods, lives, and businesses of hundreds of millions of Americans because he is a psychopath. Trump did not do what he promised. Trump made America worse than it has ever been since the end of slavery. ..."
"... Trump has also demanded the extradition of Assange after telling his voters that he loved wikileaks. Trump is a two-faced, lying, fraud. It has been his pattern. He consistently supports various groups and people like Wikileaks, Proud Boys, and others and panders to them and voters and tells people that he loves them, and then every time without fail when the heat is on, Trump says," I really don't know anything about them." ..."
"... "I know nothing." Trump saying "I know nothing." defines his presidency and who he is as a person, a spineless, pandering, corrupt, two-faced, narcissist, loser, and wimp! ..."
Nov 12, 2020 | www.unz.com

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Paul Craig Roberts' Interview with the European magazine Zur Zeit ( In This Time ):

https://zurzeit.at/index.php/die-demokraten-haben-die-praesidentenwahl-gestohlen/

English Translation:

A few months ago it looked like the re-election of Trump was almost certain, but now there was a close race between Trump and Biden? What happen during the last months?

In the months before the election, the Democrats used the "Covid pandemic" to put in place voting by mail. The argument was used that people who safely go to supermarkets and restaurants could catch Covid if they stood in voting lines. Never before used on a large scale, voting by mail is subject to massive vote fraud.

There are many credible reports of organized vote fraud committed by Democrats. The only question is whether the Republican establishment will support challenging the documented fraud or whether Trump will be pressured to concede in order to protect the reputation of American Democracy.

For those influenced by a partisan media that is denying the massive fraud that occurred, here is an overview of the elements of the fraud and the legal remedies. https://www.unz.com/article/of-color-revolutions-foreign-and-domestic-the-first-72-hours/

It is difficult to know or to ensure that the ballots are actual ballots from registered voters. For example in the early hours of the morning of November 4 large ballot drops occurred in Michigan and Wisconsin that wiped out Trump's lead. State officials have reported that people not registered -- probably illegals -- were permitted to vote. Postal service workers have reported being ordered to backdate ballots that suddenly appeared in the middle of the night after the deadline. These techniques were used to erase Trump's substantial leads in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.

Digital technology has also made it easy to alter vote counts. US Air Force General Thomas McInerney is familiar with this technology. He says it was developed by the National Security Agency in order to interfere in foreign elections, but now is in the hands of the CIA and was used to defeat Trump. Trump is considered to be an enemy of the military/security complex because of his wish to normalize relations with Russia, thus taking away the enemy that justifies the CIA's budget and power.

People do not understand. They think an election has been held when in fact what has occurred is that massive vote fraud has been used to effect a revolution against red state white America. Leaders of the revolution, such as Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are demanding a list of Trump supporters who are "to be held accountable." Calls are being made for the arrest of Tucker Carlson, the only mainstream journalist who supported President Trump.

In a recent column I wrote:

"Think what it means that the entirety of the US media, allegedly the 'watchdogs of democracy,' are openly involved in participating in the theft of a presidential election.

"Think what it means that a large number of Democrat public and election officials are openly involved in the theft of a presidential election.

"It means that the United States is split irredeemably. The hatred for white people that has been cultivated for many years, portraying white Americans as "systemic racists," together with the Democrats' lust for power and money, has destroyed national unity. The consequence will be the replacement of rules with force."

Mainstream media in Europe claim, that Trump had "divided" the United States. But isn`t it actually the other way around, that his opponents have divided the country?

As the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte revealed in his book, Bought Journalism , the European and US media speak with one voice -- the voice of the CIA. The very profitable and powerful US military/security complex needs foreign enemies. Russiagate was a CIA/FBI successful effort to block Trump from reducing tensions with Russia. In 1961 in his last address to the American people President Dwight Eisenhower warned that the growing power of the military/industrial complex was a threat to American democracy. We ignored his warning and now have security agencies more powerful than the President.

The military/security complex favors the disunity that the Democrat Party and media have fostered with their ideology of Identity Politics. Identity politics replaced Marxist class war with race and gender war. White people, and especially white heterosexual males, are the new oppressor class. This ideology causes race and gender disunity and prevents any unified opposition to the security agencies ability to impose its agendas by controlling explanations. Opposition to Trump cemented the alliance between Democrats, media, and the Deep State.

It is possible that the courts will decide who will be sworn into office at January 20, 2021. Do you except a phase of uncertainty or even a constitutional crisis?

There is no doubt that numerous irregularities indicate that the election was stolen and that the ground was well laid in advance. Trump intends to challenge the obvious theft. However, his challenges will be rejected in Democrat ruled states, as they were part of the theft and will not indict themselves. This means Trump and his attorneys will have to have constitutional grounds for taking their cases to the federal Supreme Court. The Republicans have a majority on the Court, but the Court is not always partisan.

Republicans tend to be more patriotic than Democrats, who denounce America as racist, fascist, sexist, imperialist. This patriotism makes Republicans impotent when it comes to political warfare that could adversely affect America's reputation. The inclination of Republicans is for Trump to protect America's reputation by conceding the election. Republicans fear the impact on America's reputation of having it revealed that America's other major party plotted to steal a presidental election.

Red state Americans, on the other hand, have no such fear. They understand that they are the targets of the Democrats, having been defined by Democrats as "racist white supremacist Trump deplorables."

The introduction of a report of the Heritage Foundation states that "the United States has a long and unfortunate history of election fraud". Are the 2020 presidential elections another inglorious chapter in this long history?

This time the fraud is not local as in the past. It is the result of a well organized national effort to get rid of a president that the Establishment does not accept.

Somehow you get the impression that in the USA – as in many European countries democracy is just a facade – or am I wrong?

You are correct. Trump is the first non-establishment president who became President without being vetted by the Establishment since Ronald Reagan. Trump was able to be elected only because the Establishment thought he had no chance and took no measures to prevent his election. A number of studies have concluded that in the US the people, despite democracy and voting, have zero input into public policy.

Democracy cannot work in America because the money of the elite prevails. American democracy is organized in order to prevent the people from having a voice. A political campaign is expensive. The money for candidates comes from interest groups, such as defense contractors, Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry, the Israel Lobby. Consequently, the winning candidate is indebted to his funders, and these are the people whom he serves.

European mainstream media are portraying Biden as a luminous figure. Should Biden become president, what can be expected in terms of foreign and security policy, especially in regard to China, Russia and the Middle East? I mean, the deep state and the military-industrial complex remain surely nearly unchanged.

Biden will be a puppet, one unlikely to be long in office. His obvious mental confusion will be used either to rule through him or to remove him on grounds of mental incompetence. No one wants the nuclear button in the hands of a president who doesn't know which day of the week it is or where he is.

The military/security complex needs enemies for its power and profit and will be certain to retain the list of desirable foreign enemies -- Russia, Iran, China, and any independent-inclined country in Latin America. Being at war is also a way of distracting the people of the war against their liberties.

What the military/security complex might not appreciate is that among its Democrat allies there are some, such as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who are ideological revolutionaries. Having demonized red state America and got rid of Trump (assuming the electoral fraud is not overturned by the courts), Ocasio-Cortez and her allies intend to revolutionize the Democrat Party and make it a non-establishment force. In her mind white people are the Establishment, which we already see from her demands for a list of Trump supporters to be punished.

I think I'm not wrong in assuming that a Biden-presidency would mean more identity politics, more political correctness etc. for the USA. How do you see this?

Identity politics turns races and genders against one another. As white people -- "systemic racists" -- are defined as the oppressor class, white people are not protected from hate speech and hate crimes. Anything can be said or done to a white American and it is not considered politically incorrect.

With Trump and his supporters demonized, under Democrat rule the transition of white Americans into second or third class citizens will be completed.

How do you access Trump's first term in office? Where was he successful and where he failed?

Trump spent his entire term in office fighting off fake accusations -- Russiagate, Impeachgate, failure to bomb Russia for paying Taliban to kill American occupiers of Afghanistan, causing Covid by not wearing a mask, and so on and on.

That Trump survived all the false charges shows that he is a real person, a powerful character. Who else could have survived what Trump has been subjected to by the Establishment and their media prostitutes. In the United States the media is known as "presstitutes" -- press prostitutes. That is what Udo Ulfkotte says they are in Europe. As a former Wall Street Journal editor, I say with complete confidence that there is no one in the American media today I would have hired. The total absence of integrity in the Western media is sufficient indication that the West is doomed.

Twodees Partain , says: November 12, 2020 at 7:21 pm GMT • 1.0 days ago

Never before used on a large scale, voting by mail is subject to massive vote fraud.

I would take it a little further and say that voting by mail is a method of vote fraud. The supposed safeguards are easily circumvented, as some whistleblowers have illustrated with ballots being brought forth in large numbers after election day without postmarks and postal workers being ordered to stamp them with acceptable postmarks.

It really seems to me that there would be no democrat majorities in Congress or in so many state legislatures without vote fraud.

Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Website November 12, 2020 at 7:42 pm GMT • 1.0 days ago

So fraud is needed to protect the reputation of American democracy. Only fraud can! Thanks, PCR!

endthefed , says: November 12, 2020 at 7:53 pm GMT • 24.0 hours ago
@Notsofast

Eisenhower is always lauded for his MIC warning. Frankly he ticks me off. Thanks for the warning AFTER you were in some position to mitigate.

MarkinLA , says: November 12, 2020 at 9:37 pm GMT • 22.2 hours ago

Worse than the fraud available with vote by mail is the voting of people normally who don't bother to vote. Think of how stupid and uninformed that average American voter is. Now realize how much more stupid and uninformed the non-voter is, only now he votes.

However, the most likely source of fraud that is hard to detect, is ballot harvesting. This should be outlawed as it violates the idea of a secret ballot. Somebody comes to the home of a disinterested voter and makes sure he votes (of course they will never admit to hounding the person) and "helps" them with the ballot. If the voter cannot be cajoled into voting the correct way, you merely throw his ballot in the trash.

Curmudgeon , says: November 12, 2020 at 9:43 pm GMT • 22.1 hours ago

I have little doubt that there have been massive "irregularities", particularly in the so-called battleground states, that are at play in "stealing" the election.

...The favourite phrase these days is "no evidence of wide spread voter fraud". Let's break that down. Only 6 states have been challenged for vote fraud. In the big scheme of things, 6 states is not wide spread, even if there is massive vote fraud within those 6 states. That the vote fraud is not widespread, implies that some vote fraud is acceptable, and that the listener should ignore it. Last and most importantly, in the narrowest of legalistic terms, testimony or affidavits are not evidence. Testimony and affidavits become evidence when supported by physical evidence. An affidavit with a photograph demonstrating the statement would be evidence.

Another phrase is something like "election officials say they have seen no evidence of voter fraud". I have yet to hear a reporter challenge the "seen no evidence of " part of the statement, regardless of the subject, by asking if the speaker had looked for any evidence. They won't, because they know damn well no one has.

That is how the liars operate. Not so different from Rumsfeld's "plausible deniability".

Beavertales , says: November 12, 2020 at 10:21 pm GMT • 21.5 hours ago

Living in an urban setting I often had to visit apartment buildings. Without fail, there was always a pile of undeliverable mail in the lobby under the mailboxes.

The envelopes were mostly addressed to people who had moved out or died. If ballots were sent to these people based on incorrect voter rolls, then these too would likely have been left sitting on the floor or on a ledge for anyone to take.

It doesn't take a leap of faith to know what a Trump-hating leftist would do when no one is looking. This moral hazard was intentionally created by Dems, who know that urban dwellers are transient and lean left politically.

Franz , says: November 12, 2020 at 10:54 pm GMT • 21.0 hours ago
@endthefed

Eisenhower is always lauded for his MIC warning. Frankly he ticks me off. Thanks for the warning AFTER you were in some position to mitigate.

Ike's a mystery. Why did he NOT question Harry Truman's commitments to NATO, the UN, and all that rubbish? Ike was a WWII guy. He knew Americans hated the UN in 1953 as much as they hated the League of Nations after WWI. But he let it all slide and get bigger.

His farewell address was just flapdoodle; it wasn't really dredged up till the 70s. Eisenhower spent eight years spreading tripwires and mines and then said "Watch out." Thanks buddy.

endthefed , says: November 12, 2020 at 11:08 pm GMT • 20.7 hours ago
@Bragadocious

Well, agree on your points however, on the other side of the ledger, he never understood the stupidity of the Korean war (that he could have ended) and majorly up-ramped CIA activities in all manner of regime change (bay of pigs anyone?). Almost a direct path to our foreign policy now (and now domestic policy)

Notsofast , says: November 12, 2020 at 11:28 pm GMT • 20.4 hours ago
@Bragadocious

He did deploy the military assistance advisory group to Vietnam in 1955. This is considered the beginning of U.S. involvement in the war. This allowed the French to moonwalk out the back door leaving us holding the bag. In fairness this was Johnson's war however. Eisenhower did cut the military budget as a peace dividend to fund interstate system and other domestic projects. In today political spectrum he would be considered a flaming liberal.

Louis Hissink , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:30 am GMT • 14.4 hours ago

Hi PCR

As the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte revealed in his book, Bought Journalism, the European and US media speak with one voice -- the voice of the CIA. The very profitable and powerful US military/security complex needs foreign enemies.

What intrigues me is the ultimate political goal of the UN and the WEF when they anticipate a single global government centered at the UN and the absence of nation-states.

So what is the MIC going to do when there are no existential threats of competing nation-states? Or will the MIC re-engineer religious wars between the various religious groups, secular and theological? It seems the aspirations of the WEF and its fellow travellers preclude the occurrence of future armed conflicts.

Of course one needs capitalistic economies to produce the ordnance and materiels for the engineered social factions to war with each other. Yet if the Greens have their way, there will be no mining period.

More likely is the possibility that none of them actually understand what they are doing. As Nassim Taleb is alleged to have remarked, 99% of humans are stupid.

anonymous [284] Disclaimer , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:35 am GMT • 14.3 hours ago

The total absence of integrity in the Western media is sufficient indication that the West is doomed.

It's because Western media is completely under the control of Jews, the world's foremost End Justifies Means people. The Fourth Estate has become the world's most powerful Bully Pulpit. There are still a few good ones though, brave souls they are: Kim Strassel of WSJ, Daniel Larison of The American Conservative , Neil Munro of Breitbart.

The rest are more or less lying scums, including everyone on NYTimes, WSJ, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Fox News (minus Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo), The Economist , and let's not forget the new media: Google, Facebook, Twitter. The world would be a much better place without any of them.

The Real World , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:44 am GMT • 14.1 hours ago
@Beavertales -- with either vote flipping on machines or having the totals that paper ballot scanners tabulate adjust via a pre-programmed algorithm. Many elections have already been stolen this way.

But, in the vein of what you mention is this fascinating article. I urge everyone to read it. He spills the beans in detail. https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/

Imagine hundreds of those people around the country over decades. There must be scads of illegitimate office holders all over. It's horrendous

Alfred , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:51 am GMT • 14.0 hours ago

Nancy Pelosi claims that Biden's victory gives the Democrats a "MANDATE" to alter the economy as they see fit with 50.5%. This proves that Biden will NOT represent everyone – only the left! I have warned that this has been their agenda from day one. Now, three whistleblowers from the Democratic software company Dominion Voting Systems, alleging that the company's software stole 38 million votes from Trump. There are people claiming that Dominion Voting Systems is linked to Soros, Dianae Finesteing, Clintons, and Pelosi's husband. I cannot verify any of these allegations so far.

We are at the Rubicon. Civil War is on the other side. There should NEVER be this type of drastic change to the economy from Capitalism to Marxism on 50.5% of the popular vote. NOBODY should be able to restructure the government and the economy on less than 2/3rds of the majority. That would be a mandate. Trying to change everything with a claim of 50.5% of the vote will only signal, like the Dread Scot decision, that there is no solution by rule of law. This is the end of civilization and it will turn ugly from here because there is no middle ground anymore. As I have warned, historically the left will never tolerate opposition.

Democrats Claim Mandate to Alter the Economy & 3 Whistleblowers from Software Company Allege they stole 38 million votes from Trump | Armstrong Economics

Priss Factor , says: Website November 13, 2020 at 5:56 am GMT • 13.9 hours ago

DEMOCRATS TURN MENACING AS FRAUD FALLS APART

https://www.bitchute.com/embed/WMA7DXLDgzBy/

Just another serf , says: November 13, 2020 at 6:18 am GMT • 13.6 hours ago

Yes, the theft is blatant. But what are you, us, going to do about it? We really can't do much as the Office of the President Elect requires us to wear masks. For our safety.

animalogic , says: November 13, 2020 at 6:35 am GMT • 13.3 hours ago
@Curmudgeon

"in the narrowest of legalistic terms, testimony or affidavits are not evidence. Testimony and affidavits become evidence when supported by physical evidence. " Correct – but they also can become evidence by verbal testimony. ie "I saw the defendant hit the victim with a rock"

Anon [115] Disclaimer , says: November 13, 2020 at 6:55 am GMT • 12.9 hours ago

Not only have they stolen the election but when Joe Biden and other democrats claim that President Trump caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans because of his handling of Covid 19, they are in sane. No world leader could stop the spread of this respiratory virus. However, Joe Biden and democrats have caused the deaths of hundreds of white people, while whipping up weak minded people to kill many whites. Biden and the democrats are criminals. Any one who is white, man or woman, that supports the democratic party is enabling a criminal organization to perpetrate violence on white people, including murder.

chet roman , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:05 am GMT • 12.8 hours ago

Since the article was from a German magazine it's understandable that there is no mention of "the one who shall not be named". No mention of the people behind the Lawfare group, the same people behind the impeachment, the same people providing financial and ideological support for the BLM/Antifa, the same people that own the media that spewed lies for 5 years and censored any mention of the Biden family corruption, no mention of the people behind this Color Revolution, the same people who promoted the mail in voting and those that managed the narrative for the media on election night to stop Trump's momentum.

For the public consumption the election will be described in vague terms, like this article, blaming special interests and institutions like the FBI, CIA and MIC without naming names as if an institution, not the oligarchs and chosen pulling the strings, are somehow Marxist, anti-white or anti-Christian.

Clay Alexander , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:18 am GMT • 12.6 hours ago

The interviewer quotes the Heritage Foundation does anyone even care what they say? The English Tavistock Institute by way of the CIA which the British molded from the OSS created programs for the Heritage Foundation as well as the Hoover Institute, MIT, Stanford University, Wharton, Rand etc. These "rightwing think tanks" were created to counter the CIA's "leftwing think tanks" at Columbia, Berkeley etc. Thank you British Intelligence.

Priss Factor , says: Website November 13, 2020 at 7:24 am GMT • 12.5 hours ago

Bloat the Vote: https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/2020-wisconsin-election-fraud/

Thomasina , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:31 am GMT • 12.3 hours ago

Steve Bannon was just interviewing someone (can't remember his name). Apparently there are about 200 to 300 IT professionals/engineers working on these so-called "glitches" (not glitches at all) which mysteriously "disappeared" thousands of Trump votes. Then they'd dump phony Biden votes into the mix. These IT professionals are going to follow the trail.

I've also heard that Dominion Voting Systems played a big part in this scam by using algorithms. One Trump lawyer said that big revelations are coming.

We're going to have to be patient and just wait.

"The inclination of Republicans is for Trump to protect America's reputation by conceding the election."

I honestly think it's more like the old established Republicans (corporate bought) want Trump to lose because that is what their campaign donors want (Big Pharma, Wall Street, etc.) They are part of the elite, and the elite (both the Democrats AND Republicans) want Trump gone so they can continue their crony capitalist looting. They've got to appear like they're behind Trump, but I don't think they are. Of course, that's not all Republican representatives.

Sounds like they've been rigging elections for awhile now. I bet they just messed up with Hillary. I think that's why she was so upset. She had it, but they screwed up and didn't supply enough ballots.

Biff , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:39 am GMT • 12.2 hours ago

My conclusion is: They are probably going to get away with it.

My advice: Make them suffer.

sally , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:45 am GMT • 12.1 hours ago
@KenH inventive creative new ways to deceive.. first it was election machines, then mail in votes. next it will be magic carpet voting. But the votes don't count, cause it is the electoral college that elects the President.

Trump also lost a significant number who did not understand Trump was an Israeli at heart, they thought he was a uncoothed NYC red blooded American.

As far as white, black or pokadot color or any of the religions ganging up against Trump I don't think that happened, the fall out into statistically discoverable categories is just that, fall out, not those categories conspiring to vote or not vote one way or the other.

Wizard of Oz , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:46 am GMT • 12.1 hours ago

PCR seems to have trouble seeing a difference between the counting of perfectly proper votes which Pres Trump's post office delivered late which may or may not be allowed by law which can be determined in court, and fraud like the dead voting or votes being forged.

Anonymous [272] Disclaimer , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:54 am GMT • 12.0 hours ago

The fraud is all so transparent but no one in the power elite seems to give a crap whether the public catches on or not these days. They know that the entire media which creates the false matrix of contrived "truth" that we all live in will back them to the hilt because they are actually just one more working part in the grand conspiracy. We all know that when "O'Brian" says 2 + 2 equals 5 we must all believe it, or at least say we do. We interface with "O'Brian's" minions on a daily basis but we don't know the ultimate identity of "O'Brian" (in the singular or multiple). Many guesses are made, but they hide that from us fairly well with the aid of their militaries and "intelligence" agencies (aka secret police in other times and places).

Wally , says: November 13, 2020 at 8:08 am GMT • 11.7 hours ago
@MarkinLA s://amgreatness.com/2020/11/09/on-electoral-fraud-in-2020/"> https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/09/on-electoral-fraud-in-2020/
– Why Did Six Battleground States with Democrat Governors (Except One) ALL Pause Counting on Election Night? And How Was This Coordinated?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/six-battleground-states-democrat-governors-pause-counting-election-night-coordinated/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
Biff , says: November 13, 2020 at 8:57 am GMT • 10.9 hours ago

For example in the early hours of the morning of November 4 large ballot drops occurred in Michigan and Wisconsin that wiped out Trump's lead.

In a very similar vein, it is the same thing that happened to Bernie Sanders during the primary's. Joe was down and out, and Bernie was enjoying the lead and then "Bam!" Overnight Joe is back on top.

Well, fool me once,,,,,, .,and blah, blah whatever Bush said .

Verymuchalive , says: November 13, 2020 at 9:48 am GMT • 10.1 hours ago
@Stephen Allen

Dr Roberts has referenced in the interview a UR article that goes into considerable detail about the massive electoral fraud by the Democrats and their partners. You've obviously not bothered to read it.

You're like one of those MSM hacks who denies electoral fraud without making any attempt to look at the evidence.

Sollipsist , says: November 13, 2020 at 10:17 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago
@Begemot And it's almost always a closer race than anyone would have guessed beforehand -- which I also find suspicious. How likely is it that the majority of presidential elections over the last century were decided by more or less even numbers of voters from each party, between more or less evenly matched candidates?

Really seems like they've perfected the art of putting on rigged political shows that you can't quite believe in, but don't have anything really solid to back up your suspicions. It's like the "no evidence of fraud" canard -- anything solid enough to show obvious manipulation is explained away as the exception, rather than the tip of a very deep iceberg

James Speaks , says: November 13, 2020 at 10:40 am GMT • 9.2 hours ago
@S Martini

Like the false accusations about Russia, delegitimizing the presidential election as fraud is turning out to be much ado about nothing.

Let's review. The Democrats perpetrated the phony 2016 Russian influence fraud, and now the Democrats are perpetrating the phony 2020 election victory.

The common elements are Democrats perpetrate fraud.

Do try to keep up.

Lee , says: November 13, 2020 at 11:48 am GMT • 8.1 hours ago

IMO this is a simple remedy to settle the election fraud mess or we will be arguing about this 20 years from now .from the American Thinker.

The candidates on the ballot must have an opportunity to have observers whom they choose to oversee the entire process so the candidates are satisfied that they won or lost a free and fair election.

That is not what happened in the 2020 election. That is the single most important and simple fact that needs to be understood and communicated. The 2020 election was not a free and fair election, because poll-watchers were not allowed to do their essential job. The 2020 election can still be a free and fair election with a clear winner, whoever that may be, but time is running out.

In every instance where poll-watchers were not allowed to observe the process, those votes must be recounted. They must be recounted with poll-watchers from both sides present. If there are votes that cannot be recounted because the envelops were discarded, those votes must be discarded. Put the blame for this on the officials who decided to count the votes in secret. Consider it a way to discourage secret vote counts in the future.

The pandemic has not been fearful enough to close liquor stores, and it in should not be used as excuse to remove the poll-watchers who are essential to a free and fair election. If we must have social distancing, then use cameras.

Certainly, there are other issues with the 2020 election. There may be problems with software, and there are issues like signature verification and dead people voting. Everything should be considered and examined, but no other issue should distract from the simple fact that both sides must be able to view the entire process. If one side is not allowed to view the vote-counting, then that side should be calling it a fraud. We should all be calling it a fraud.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_simplest_most_important_issue_regarding_the_2020_election.html#ixzz6dfsChU00

TomGregg , says: November 13, 2020 at 12:23 pm GMT • 7.5 hours ago
@Anon

https://www.youtube.com/embed/OyBNmecVtdU?feature=oembed

The Spirit of Enoch Powell , says: November 13, 2020 at 1:02 pm GMT • 6.8 hours ago

...Trump had control of the Senate, the House and of course the Executive between his inauguration in January of 2017 and the Midterm Elections of 2018, a total time period of 1 year and 10 months. What did he do during this time? He deregulated financial services and passed corporate tax cuts.

At the end of the day, being emotionally invested in US elections is no different to being emotionally invested in Keeping up with the Kardashians , that is to say your life wouldn't be that different if your don't follow either.

Realist , says: November 13, 2020 at 1:04 pm GMT • 6.8 hours ago

The Democrats Have Stolen the Presidential Election

The Deep State Has Stolen the Presidential Election. FIFY. But they have been in control for decades they just don't care who knows now. They are taking final steps to make their control impervious to attack.

anon [434] Disclaimer , says: November 13, 2020 at 1:06 pm GMT • 6.8 hours ago
@Notsofast nd protect the actual elephant in the Oval Office: CIA.

Trumman did speak up one month after JFK was killed by the unmentionable "I" of M.(I).I.C.

https://archive.org/stream/LimitCIARoleToIntelligenceByHarrySTruman/Limit%20CIA%20Role%20To%20Intelligence%20by%20Harry%20S%20Truman_djvu.txt

This is the reason that the establishment latched on to the Eisenhowerian bon mot but entirely memory hole Trumman's far more explicit warning a freaking month after a sitting president is shot like a turkey in Dallas: it white washes CIA and NSC .

Priss Factor , says: Website November 13, 2020 at 1:31 pm GMT • 6.3 hours ago

Why are CIA goons like Anderson Pooper serving as journalists? CIA is a criminal organization that subverts other nations.

MLK , says: November 13, 2020 at 1:32 pm GMT • 6.3 hours ago

The place to begin, and it's mind-blowing when you think about it this way, is that nothing was resolved on election night. Not who will take the oath on January 20th. Nor which party will control the Senate. Nor even who will be Speaker and which party will control the House.

Suffice it to say, a still raging factional struggle has simply moved to a greater degree behind the curtain.

I noted this movie reference on another thread here:

If your father dies, you'll make the deal, Sonny.

-- "The Godfather"

My point being, you're foolish if you ascribe certainty as to outcome at this point.

Being rid of Trump has been as close to a dues ex machina for the establishment as imaginable since he took the oath. This ineluctable observation elicits no end of foot-stomping by those who assume it necessarily says anything positive about the man.

With every persistent revision of the script they wrote for him, all ending with his political demise at least, Trump has not just survived but grown stronger. While the Democrats turned our elections into something only seen in a third-world shit hole, Trump legitimately drew 71M votes from Americans.

That's a lot of air in the balloon. Believe me, filth like Russian mole Brennan may think everything is finished once they get rid of terrible, awful Trump, but those above his pay grade know better.

Like him or hate him, Trump is the only principal not wholly or largely discredited. He was saved from destruction during his first term by the Republican base moving to protect him. That was the import of his 90-95% approval among them, destroy him and you destroy the Republican Party.

Now, despite -- or perhaps, because of -- everything they've done, that base now includes a significant number of Democrats and independents. Trump is merely a vessel for an American majority attached to this constitutional republic thingie we've got going.

Don't get lost in the details. This isn't a puzzle you can solve by internet sleuthing. The plan they executed -- to steal sufficiently to make the outcome inevitable by the morning after the election at the latest -- failed. This was evident early on Election Day (e.g. fake water main breaks in Atlanta) and necessitated their playing their Fox/AZ card and shutting down the count at least until they had removed Republican monitors.

BannedHipster , says: Website November 13, 2020 at 2:57 pm GMT • 4.9 hours ago

People need to stop falling for Republican bullshit.

The Republicans control:

1. The Senate

2. The Supreme Court with a 6 to 3 majority.

3. The majority of state governments by a huge margin:

https://bannedhipster.home.blog/2020/11/12/bidens-first-cabinet-pick-israel-first-zionist-jew-ron-klain/

"In 22 states, Republicans will hold unified control over the governor's office and both houses of the legislature, giving the party wide political latitude -- including in states like Florida and Georgia."

"Eleven states will have divided governments in 2021, unchanged from this year: Democratic governors will need to work with Republican legislators in eight states, and Republican governors will contend with Democratic lawmakers in three."

The Democrats have: Joe Biden, and a slim majority in the House of Representatives which they are almost certain to lose in two years.

What the Republicans are going to do is everything we hate, but they will pretend they were "forced" to do it by the Democrats – the Democrats being the minority party.

Amnesty? Democrats made us do it.

More immigration? Democrats made us do it.

The Republican party is the greater of two evils.

Rurik , says: November 13, 2020 at 2:59 pm GMT • 4.9 hours ago

Who else could have survived what Trump has been subjected to by the Establishment and their media prostitutes. In the United States the media is known as "presstitutes" -- press prostitutes. That is what Udo Ulfkotte says they are in Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-sYUmnLnoz8?feature=oembed

Mr. Ulfkotte died of a "heart attack" in January, 2017

Rest in Peace Udo.

Zarathustra , says: November 13, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT • 4.9 hours ago

Left and right.
(What you small brains do not understand is this.)
Democrats enabling the elite to invest in far east (lower wage costs, higher profits) did abandon the working class in America. Democrats by this act did throw away the working class as a dirty rug.
Democrats with their TPP exporting most of the production to far east would totally destroy working class in USA. Trump's first act was to cancel this insanity. Democrats are insanely delusional.
Democrats were left. Left is a party that supports the working people.
So here switch occurred. Democratic party now represent the elite, and Republicans now represent the working people.
(The irony of the fate)

Robert Dolan , says: November 13, 2020 at 3:26 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago

https://www.bitchute.com/video/hxrVAGuE7Oo1/

Robert Snefjella , says: November 13, 2020 at 3:30 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago

The headline for PCR's article is a prediction, not yet established, and incomplete.

There is an ongoing massive attempt to steal the Presidential election as well as to steal an unknown number of House and Senate seats, and who knows what else.

The 'game' is still on. Many tens of millions of citizens – actual total unknown but possibly in numbers unprecedented in American history – voted for Trump. Republican candidates for office generally had strong support, but again, the actual percentage of support is unknown but presumably larger than now 'recorded'.

There are also the many millions who ardently supported Trump, know that Biden is illegitimate, deeply corrupt, and the precursor to perils unknown. Their determination and backbone and intelligence will now be tested.

There is the electoral college process; there are the state legislators that have a say in the process; there is the Supreme Court.

There is also the possibility of pertinent executive orders that mandate transparent processes in the face of, say, apprehended insurrection via fraudulent voting processes.

There is also the matter of how millions of 'deplorables' with trucks and tractors and firearms and other means to make their point will react to obvious massive election travesty.

The conjunction of the COVID global scamdemic/plandemic, with crazed Bill Gates and kin lurking in the background with needles, 'peaceful' protesters in many cities setting fires and looting with near impunity, and a mass media that is clearly comprehensively committed to a demonic degree of dishonesty and manipulation, and lunatic levels of 'identity politics' ideology, are among the elements setting the stage for what may be an historical watershed.

The American Revolution in the 18th century, against the British Crown's authority, came about after years of simmering anger and sporadic resistance against British injustice. At some point there was a 'tipping point'. When Germany invaded and occupied Norway early in the 2nd WW, an effective resistance quickly formed in reaction, where death and torture were the known willing risk. Two years before, those forming the resistance would have been just going on with their lives.

No one knows today how this plays out.

Agent76 , says: November 13, 2020 at 3:45 pm GMT • 4.1 hours ago

Who's Afraid of an Open Debate? The Truth About the Commission on Presidential Debates. The CPD is a duopoly which allows the major party candidates to draft secret agreements about debate arrangements including moderators, debate format and even participants.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1NXhoP5bQ2M?feature=oembed

Mar 6, 2014 Truth in Media "End Partisanship"

Ben Swann explains how the new coalition of EndPartisanship org is working to break the 2 party hold on primary elections, which currently lock around 50% of voters out of the process.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/h1zRfXkOmPI?feature=oembed

Sep 5, 2012 DNC Platform Changes on God, Jerusalem Spur Contentious Floor Vote

Democratic National Convention 2012: Delegates opposed to adding language on God, Israel's capital to platform shout, 'No!' in floor vote.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/t8BwqzzqcDs?feature=oembed

anon [287] Disclaimer , says: November 13, 2020 at 4:21 pm GMT • 3.5 hours ago

For those who are sick of Fake News CNN or FoxNews, watch this new channel that many Trump voters are flocking to:

https://www.newsmaxtv.com/

I am currently watching an interview with SD Governor Kristi Noem, who went on ABC to challenge George Stenopolosus' claim that there is no fraud in this election. She pointed out that there has been many allegations, including dead people voting in PA and GA, she says we don't know how widespread this is, but we owe it to the 70+ million people who voted for Trump to investigate and ensure a clean and fair election. She said we gave Al Gore 37 days to investigate the result in 2000, why aren't we giving the same to Trump?

She is extremely articulate and sounds intelligent and honest, and what's more courageous to come forward like this. I hope she runs for president in 2024, I'd vote for her.

Anonymous [721] Disclaimer , says: November 13, 2020 at 4:21 pm GMT • 3.5 hours ago
@Chris in Cackalacky

Am I the only one who sees something profoundly spiritual happening in front of our eyes?

Yes. In reality, 5% of White men sent Trump packing. That doesn't match the GOP negrophile narrative where "based" Hindustanis join the emerging conservative coalition to make sure White people can't get affordable healthcare in their own countries, though. So we'll have to watch you parasites spool up this pedantic "fraud" nonsense until the fat orange zioclown gracelessly gets dragged out.

OutsideMan , says: November 13, 2020 at 4:30 pm GMT • 3.4 hours ago
@Drew

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups and Average Citizens
by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Agent76 , says: November 13, 2020 at 4:31 pm GMT • 3.3 hours ago
@TomGregg

Good post. You will gain more insight from this background on the speech and drafting.

Jan 19, 2011 Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance US National Archives

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, known for its warnings about the growing power of the "military-industrial complex," was nearly two years in the making. This Inside the Vaults video short follows newly discovered papers revealing that Eisenhower was deeply involved in crafting the speech.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gg-jvHynP9Y?feature=oembed

Thomasina , says: November 13, 2020 at 4:42 pm GMT • 3.2 hours ago
@The Real World

Great article. Thanks. Agree with you about the big stealing being electronic. Trump tweeted out yesterday that over 2 million votes were stolen this way. For him to say this, they must have evidence.

Dinesh D'Souza said he hopes that when this matter comes before the Supreme Court that they will tackle once and for all what constitutes a legal vote.

Some pretty big names are involved with this Dominion Voting. It will be interesting to see what Trump's team of IT experts discover re the use of algorithms to swing the vote.

Cyrano , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:03 pm GMT • 2.8 hours ago

Why (Oh, why) did Trump had to go? Because Trump is an enema to the Deep State. He was threatening to expose the biggest lie of the last 100 years – the supposed "liberalism" of US...

Genrick Yagoda , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:07 pm GMT • 2.7 hours ago
@Wizard of Oz

It has already been determined by the court. Pennsylvania ruled that late ballots are not to be counted.

https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/11/602-MD-2020-Order-Nov.-12.pdf

DanFromCT , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:15 pm GMT • 2.6 hours ago
@Stephen Allen

The author refers to a body of overwhelmingly persuasive evidence of voter fraud that can be specified and quantified to provide proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal cases, not to mention hands down proof in civil cases requiring only a preponderance of the evidence to establish guilt. Furthermore, the Democrats' easily documented, elaborate efforts at concealing the vote counting process by shutting down the counting prior to sneaking truckloads of ballots in the back door is by itself powerful circumstantial evidence of their guilt. You have no idea what "evidence" means, either in general usage or in its strictly legal sense.

fatmanscoop , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:15 pm GMT • 2.6 hours ago

The election cannot be trusted at all, just based on the insane entitled emotional state of the Globalist establishment alone. The system as-a-whole cannot be trusted, for the same reason. They are actively corrupting it in every way they can, and fully believe (as a matter of religious conviction) that they are right to do so.

fatmanscoop , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:38 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago
@Curmudgeon

"no evidence of wide spread voter fraud"

That's one of the Jew/Anglo Puritan Establishment's new catch-phrases. There's also "no evidence" that Joe Biden acted in a corrupt manner in Ukraine, even though he admitted to it on tape. There's "no evidence" that Big Tech is biased against conservative plebians, despite their removing conservative plebians' published content arbitrarily and with no State compulsion to do so. The phrase "there's no evidence" is just a public commitment to ignore any evidence, no matter how blatant or obvious.

Robert Dolan , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:39 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago

https://www.trunews.com/stream/michigan-republican-governor-candidate-saw-voter-machines-connected-to-internet

Peripatetic Itch , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:41 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago
@DanFromCT

This newly discovered legal standard goes beyond "preponderance of the evidence" or even "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" to establish absolute certainty as the standard.

Just the obvious and necessary complement of the Bob Mueller standard for Russian collusion, don't you think -- "could not (quite) exonerate"? /s

Don't you dare call this hypocrisy.

Orville H. Larson , says: November 13, 2020 at 5:57 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago
@Rogue

When it comes to protecting the integrity of elections, "low-tech" might be best!

anon [771] Disclaimer , says: November 13, 2020 at 6:05 pm GMT • 1.8 hours ago
@endthefed

His impotence makes a lot more sense when you know the full version was supposed to be Military-Industrial Congressional Complex.

The Real World , says: November 13, 2020 at 6:42 pm GMT • 1.2 hours ago
@TheTrumanShow as the reason why.

They went for a softer approach in KY in 2019. The first-term Repub Gov had a Yankee's forthrightness so they just latched onto comments he made regarding the underfunded teachers pension program and amped-it to high heaven getting teachers all in a frightful frenzy.

In that solidly Red state, with all other prominent offices on the ballot (AG, SoS, etc.) going overwhelmingly Repub , somehow the Repub Gov loses to the Dem by around 5000 votes. The "teachers pension" narrative was rolled-out as the reason. (Btw, it seems that Dominion, or another type, software was used to switch the votes in that race. I've seen video about it.)

Art , says: November 13, 2020 at 6:47 pm GMT • 1.1 hours ago
@Orville H. Larson

When it comes to protecting the integrity of elections, "low-tech" might be best!

Paper ballots as ascribed by Tulsi Gabbard legislation is the only safe option for elections. Kudos to Tulsi!

The Real World , says: November 13, 2020 at 6:55 pm GMT • 56 minutes ago
@Orville H. Larson out how the winds are blowing. There is nothing good about it.

Why not this:
-- ONLY in-person voting over a 2-day period, a Sat and Sun, with polls being open from 6AM to 9PM both days.
-- Exceptions are the traditional requested absentee ballot where the voter can be authenticated.
-- Paper ballots must be used at the polls and no single box of 'Straight Vote by Party' is offered.
-- Some kind of SIMPLE scanning tabulator could be used of the ballots and with it NOT being connected to the internet.

There is far too much cheating opportunity built into our current system. That's intended, of course.
It needs to end!

Priss Factor , says: Website November 13, 2020 at 7:02 pm GMT • 49 minutes ago

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/exclusive-based-reports-auditors-specialists-data-analysts-statisticians-number-illegitimate-votes-identified-four-swing-states-enough-overturn-election/

... ... ...

No Friend Of The Devil , says: November 13, 2020 at 7:09 pm GMT • 42 minutes ago

Because you don't get it. You are missing the big picture. It was well known that these systems had the ability to be hacked as soon as they were implemented. It is also a well known fact that massive mail in ballots increases the likelihood that corrupt individuals are more likely to get away with election fraud.

Everyone knew about the potential for voter fraud to occur, but the entire system is corrupt, including Trump who has allowed the massive corruption within the system that was present when he entered office to persist and grow because he is a wimpy, spineless, coward, that was too afraid to make any waves and take the heat that he promised his voters.

Why anyone voted for Trump in 2020 confounds me. I voted for him in 2016 and he has turned out to be one of the worst presidents in history.

Trump in his cowardess and dishonesty knew that the ailing economy would harm his chances of being re-elected, so he allowed the health scare scamdemic to occur and destroy the livelihoods, lives, and businesses of hundreds of millions of Americans because he is a psychopath. Trump did not do what he promised. Trump made America worse than it has ever been since the end of slavery. Jeremy Powell said today that the economy is dead and will never recover.

The only injustices that Trump gave a damn about were the injustices against himself and his family, and has committed countless injustices against the entire country and world during his term. Trump is a corrupt narcissist. The facts prove it. Trump is such a corrupt narcissist that he was willing to destroy the entire economy based on scientific fraud, high crimes, and treason to use as political cover for his own incompetency which is the most offensive and disgusting diabolical act ever perpetrated on the entire country.

Trump has also demanded the extradition of Assange after telling his voters that he loved wikileaks. Trump is a two-faced, lying, fraud. It has been his pattern. He consistently supports various groups and people like Wikileaks, Proud Boys, and others and panders to them and voters and tells people that he loves them, and then every time without fail when the heat is on, Trump says," I really don't know anything about them."

"I know nothing." Trump saying "I know nothing." defines his presidency and who he is as a person, a spineless, pandering, corrupt, two-faced, narcissist, loser, and wimp!

Why would anyone vote for him the second time around after a record of pathological incompetency and pathological corruption? What's to approve of about him? Go ahead, investigate voter fraud it if is permitted, and if it isn't then ask yourselves why it is that a system that enables election fraud is in place, and ask yourselves who had the ability to change it and, who had the ability to benefit from it!

Andrea Iravani

[Jan 04, 2021] Trump will not be able to overturn fraudulent elections due to the fact that the House is majority Democrat and their are several Republican senators (ie. Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, etc.) who will vote to uphold the results.

Jan 04, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

King Lear , Jan 3 2021 22:42 utc | 43

The only legal pathway he had to overturn the election was the Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit that was struck-down by SCOTUS last month, LOL. Now, his only pathway is declaring Martial law due to massive civil unrest in DC on the sixth or a last-minute War with Iran, both of which are highly unlikely. The civil unrest is unlikely to be a significant Casus Belli, because if the BLM unrest didn't lead to Martial law why would a few drunk militia nuts clashing with a few Antifa people in a few days?

The chances of a last-minute War with Iran are lower then most think, because if Trump was really going to launch a War with Iran, why didn't he do it a year ago after Iran's phony retaliation to the Soleimani assassination (The retaliation was so blatantly coordinated with the U$ it's not even funny)?

In conclusion, I was wrong that Trump was the chosen winner last year, instead he had already served his role of dividing and distracting people in the U$ and abroad as the exaggerated Covid-19 "pandemic" was staged to accelerate the 4th Industrial Revolution to eliminate the Proles. In reality, just like Trump was chosen by the Global Capitalist Elite (Including Wall Street/Silicon Valley/MIC in the U$, the EU Technocrats, the Russian Zionist Oligarchs, the Chinese "Communist" party Billionaires, and all the various Third World Comprador Capitalists) to be the winner in 2016, Biden was chosen last year to be the winner in order to "calm" down the Proles as the "great reset" is implemented, and Trump played the role of the pathetic, washed-up, Sore Loser, LMAO. When it comes to the Iran situation, I was wrong that Trump (or anybody) was supposed to Iaunch a War on Iran, as despite all their bluster, Iran is really not a serious threat to the U$ and/or Israel, due to it refusing to build Nuclear Weapons, its participation in Sunni-Shia sectarian conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, etc. that weaken and divide the Arab world, and the fact that during the Iran-Iraq war, Iran received covert military aid from Israel in order to defeat Baathist Iraq (A Secular, Arab Nationalist, ally of the USSR that desired to unite the Arab world against Israel) as part of Iran-Contra which proves the U$-Iran and Israel-Iran relations are not be what they seem

[Jan 04, 2021] Screw the homegrown globalists like Traitor Romney whose unquenchable love of money would turn our people into neofeudal serfs ruled over by a de facto hereditary aristocracy using a totalitarian corporate-police state that would have made Orwell blanch.

Jan 04, 2021 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Horace , 04 January 2021 at 07:23 PM

My ancestors fought in both the Revolution and for the Union during the War of Southern Secession. The Southerners were and are our brothers and the Southern peoples have existed as distinct cultures longer than have the modern French. They are not just real Americans, but founding Americans.

Screw the unassimilated Fake Americans, the overtly hostile foreigners with papers like Schumer and Nadler raping our civilization to death for fun and profit. Screw the homegrown globalists like Traitor Romney whose unquenchable love of money would turn our people into neofeudal serfs ruled over by a de facto hereditary aristocracy using a totalitarian corporate-police state that would have made Orwell blanch.

This is part of a larger war against the mere existence of European peoples. Johnnie Reb is just the first and easiest target. Joining the attack on the Southerners in the hope that the filthy people will spare you is the height of stupidity. They WILL feast upon you as well. We are in an existential civilizational war: it is both a race war against European people and a religious war against Christians. They are not going to stop until either we are destroyed or they are destroyed.

[Jan 04, 2021] For friends of globalist faction of neoliberal oligarchy everything, for enemies the law

Jan 04, 2021 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

"Obama Official Ben Rhodes Admits Biden Camp is Already Working With Foreign Leaders: Exactly What Flynn Did" [ Glenn Greenwald ]. "Any doubts about how customary it is for such calls to be made by transition officials were unintentionally obliterated on Monday night by former Obama national security official Ben Rhodes, who is almost certain to occupy a high-level national security position in a Biden administration. Speaking on MSNBC -- of course -- Rhodes, while amicably chatting with former Bush/Cheney Communications Director turned-beloved-by-liberals-MSNBC-host Nicolle Wallace, admitted in passing that ' foreign leaders are already having phone calls with Joe Biden talking about the agenda they're going to pursue January 20 ,' all to ensure 'as seamless a transition as possible,' adding: 'the center of political gravity in this country and the world is shifting to Joe Biden.'" • Presumably the FBI should be interrogating Rhodes about his guilty knowledge. Anyhoo, I'm so old I remember when IOKIYAR was current in the blogosphere: "It's OK If You're A Republican." But now IOKIIOG: "It's OK If It's Our Guy."

Billpreston , November 10, 2020 at 2:20 pm

Logan Act? What Logan Act?

Obama Security Adviser Admits Biden Is Already Talking With Foreign Leaders; A Breach Of The Logan Act

zagonostra , November 10, 2020 at 2:34 pm

>David Sirota – "That was enough to barely defeat Trump.."

I'm getting confused, was Trump officially defeated. If not why are all these folks making these kinds of statements without any qualifications, none, zip. He could have said "most likely" or some other qualifier. Am I missing something here? Let the legal process of contesting the election play out for Pete's sake.

ex-PFC Chuck , November 10, 2020 at 7:42 pm

In the words of the late, great Yogi Berra, "It ain't over til it's over."
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/fore/

[Jan 04, 2021] Brick Lives Matter: Vandalis carefully avided speing pain on brick while vandalising Pelosi's garage door under watchful eyes of Secret service agents

Looks like Nancy is just a regular type of gal ;-). No security at all. No even 24x7 cameras. Did they used Photoshop with masking to deface Piglosi's .jpg garage door ?
And amazingly enough the vandals remembered to bring masking tape or at least a peace of cardboard to protect the bricks.
Jan 04, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

When you think of your average Antifa type ( these mug shots may be representative), does that Antifa guy or gal strike you as the kind of person who would carefully avoid getting any paint on bricks so as to spare Pelosi the inconvenience of getting the paint off the bricks?

Soloamber 3 hours ago

No doubt this was a false flag . You don't think Pelosi has security covering her yard, house, cars ?

Nobody gets that close to her house without a swat team there in a minute. So where is the video showing who did it , when , and how . This will be used to justify some full time guard house or something else .

lennysrv 2 hours ago

You are absolutely correct. Years ago, when John Kerry was a candidate in the Democrat primaries, I was walking near his neighborhood in Boston. Near. As in about eight blocks away. Not even close to his house. I didn't even know he was living there. I was challenged by a Secret Service agent and his backup friend (in a vehicle behind him). SS guy asked who I was, what I was doing, why I was there, etc. Spoke into a microphone beneath his overcoat. Told me that my chosen route was no longer available and that if I would be well-advised to head the other direction. The point being that nobody, not a single person, gets near Pelosi's house without a bunch of security knowing about it and stopping it.

This entire "vandalism" thing is a complete tub of BS.

JZ123 6 hours ago

Pelosi pulled a Juicy smollet? Nah, I think the hatred is real for these people. The volcano will erupt this year.

The Ordinal Numbers PREMIUM 4 hours ago remove link

I feel redeemed. I've been saying that these photoshopped since the news broke.

FAKE NEWS is real....

Lamejokes 7 hours ago

You don't understand. Russian agents, following the last plan written by Soleimani, arguably his master plan, tagged poor Nancy's door, and - and there's where you can see how tricky and evil Russians and Iranians are- they PURPOSEFULLY protected the walls, so people would think it's fake, and accuse poor Nancy, that gorgeous woman, that Saint, of manipulation attempt!

(Do I really need a /s here?)

SirBarksAlot 2 hours ago

And just like the Pentagon on 9-11, there were no pictures of the event

AlphaSnail 6 hours ago

the cameras were epsteined

6 hours ago

To those of you that noticed it was a hoax congratulations, you passed the ".gov finger on the pulse of society" test. For those of you who believed it hook, line, and sinker; get more omega 3 fatty acids in your diet, stop voting, and cut back on the high fructose corn syrup and Cheetos.

MieleBauknecht 7 hours ago

antifa's are vegetarian. The hogshead itself is sufficient proof of false flag.

Alexander 2 hours ago

You are fricken dreaming if you think nancy would even pay someone to clean this garage door. She's getting a new garage door and YOU are going to pay for it.

HomeBrewPrepper 2 hours ago

I thought she lived in a gated, luxurious house?

That looks like a house in Dundalk, Md. Outside of Baltimore.

toady 2 hours ago

That's her 4th house in the city where she houses her Chinese slaves.

Ms No PREMIUM 5 hours ago

...People should scream that at her: "Why did antifa use tape around your garage, you lying b*tch?"

[Jan 04, 2021] Brick Lives Matter: There's Something Peculiar About The Selectiveness Of Vandalism At Pelosi's House

Looks like Nancy is just a regular type of gal ;-). No security at all. No even 24x7 cameras. Did they used Photoshop with masking to deface Piglosi's .jpg garage door ?
And amazingly enough the vandals remembered to bring masking tape or at least a peace of cardboard to protect the bricks.
Jan 04, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

When you think of your average Antifa type ( these mug shots may be representative), does that Antifa guy or gal strike you as the kind of person who would carefully avoid getting any paint on bricks so as to spare Pelosi the inconvenience of getting the paint off the bricks?

It's entirely possible that this was an Antifa effort and the person spraying paint had some residual compassion for Pelosi. But it's also possible that this is a false flag effort. I am not offering any suggestions as to who might have raised this false flag. I note only what others have pointed out before: Something's peculiar here.

ay_arrow

Soloamber 3 hours ago

No doubt this was a false flag . You don't think Pelosi has security covering her yard, house, cars ?

Nobody gets that close to her house without a swat team there in a minute. So where is the video showing who did it , when , and how . This will be used to justify some full time guard house or something else .

lennysrv 2 hours ago

You are absolutely correct. Years ago, when John Kerry was a candidate in the Democrat primaries, I was walking near his neighborhood in Boston. Near. As in about eight blocks away. Not even close to his house. I didn't even know he was living there. I was challenged by a Secret Service agent and his backup friend (in a vehicle behind him). SS guy asked who I was, what I was doing, why I was there, etc. Spoke into a microphone beneath his overcoat. Told me that my chosen route was no longer available and that if I would be well-advised to head the other direction. The point being that nobody, not a single person, gets near Pelosi's house without a bunch of security knowing about it and stopping it.

This entire "vandalism" thing is a complete tub of BS.

logically possible 4 hours ago

Instead of guessing who dun it' how about looking at the video footage from the camera on the wall, left side of the garage, the neighbors video footage too.

They don't want to show you.

snblitz 6 hours ago

As a person who paints houses on occasion, the perp, or should we say Agent Provocateur, used a piece of cardboard to protect the bricks.

You can even see the blow back from the paint bouncing off the cardboard.

You could even perform the test yourself and see the same results.

Maybe the whole thing is simply a photo-shop job?

Ms.Creant 5 hours ago

I was joking yesterday they masked it off to prevent overspray!!!

No joke.

gruden 5 hours ago

I saw those comments. Admittedly I was skeptical at first. Then I saw that it happened right before a confirmation vote as House Speaker, then it all suddenly made sense. A false flag to distance her from the demoturd whack-jobs and appear more moderate. A very simple explanation. That old lady has a few tricks still to turn in her old age.

HungryPorkChop 6 hours ago

Propaganda for the masses. They probably needed some "event" so they could get extra security detail as the Plan-Demic and lockdowns continue.

Handful of Dust 6 hours ago remove link

...If you think Pelosi's REAL home is not guarded 24/7 by armed security and camera surviellance, you are nuts.

This is a poorly executed stunt paid for by Nervous Nancy herself.

DurdenRae 7 hours ago

From yesterday's comment: I know a scam when I see one. If you look carefully you will see that nothing has been broken, only the garage door has been slightly defaced (and I'm sure it's going to be easily fixed). Should this have really been antifa, then would have spray painted the bricks and broken windows at the very least, not to mention thrown in a couple of molotovs. Here we have nothing spontaneous. The whole thing has taken between 10 to 30 minutes to put in place, and we are supposed to believe that nobody from the security detail saw anything on their monitoring cameras? Was epstein's phantom there to make security cameras not working that day?

bshirley1968 6 hours ago remove link

Any thinking person knows that this was nothing but a psyop.

Nobody is going to get that close to Pelosi's real house to carry out that kind of vandalism. What? You think there are no surveillance cameras that would have caught that activity? No security?

If Pelosi's property is that wide open to attack, then she isn't who we think she is.

Nice catch on the paint lines......and excellent point that something is up.

Mad Muppet PREMIUM 7 hours ago

The Dems are getting ready to throw the rioters under the bus. Night of The Long Knives style.

Zero-Hegemon 6 hours ago

Reichstag fire style, now that they think they're getting Kameltoe in office, Antifa, etc. have become very dispensible.

Automatic Choke PREMIUM 6 hours ago remove link

if you or I showed up at Nancy's with a can of spray paint, we'd be surrounded by a swat team before we finished shaking the can.

Kan 7 hours ago (Edited)

BLM and Antifa have been directed to reduce the Equity zones that Tech Stock owners have bought into to dodge capital gains tax. These zones are now going for 1/100 their value to the tech stock investors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C1-0XKYAZII minute 29 explains it very well. Its amazing all the riots have benefited value for Gate and Bezos.

This pelosi and company riot is a ploy to change the spot light off the 90% pork in the latest free Trillion dollar handout to my friends.

Brought to you by Dominion Software....

Imagine a world where Pelosi has only won re-election the last 5 times because of the Software.

alexcojones 7 hours ago (Edited)

The pig's head was a nice touch, with that quart (gallon?) of blood, I mean water-based paint.

False Flag to gain some sympathy for the old witch.

Surprised "They" didn't leave a pallet of bricks too.

alienateit 6 hours ago

Where is the plastic bag which contained the pigs head?

No vandal would put that back into their designer backpack.

mike6972 6 hours ago

We live in a world of synthetic reality. Staged (fake) events like this are treated as real. Real events (Hunter Biden's laptop, rampant election fraud) are dismissed without examination. I yearn for the days when you could watch or read the news and it mostly corresponded with reality. Today's "news" would be just another form of entertainment if it were not so painful to watch.
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BoomChikaWowWow 6 hours ago

100% fake, and not just because of the lack of paint on the brick.

I guarantee you a pig's head would be off limits for SF anarchists. The vegans in their ranks would literally be screaming bloody murder.

UselessEater 3 hours ago (Edited)

Its a false flag.

Everything is a lie.

Director of CIA William Casey, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

MASTER OF UNIVERSE 6 hours ago remove link

I agree that this has all the hallmarks of a False Flag Op due to the fact that there are no spelling mistakes on Pelosi's garage door, and the brick must have been shielded to avoid overspray from the spray paint can. Assume that a professional tagger painted the display on Pelosi's garage door and was instructed not to get paint on the brick beforehand.

In addition to this federal crime scene we have the evidence at Mitch McConnel's house where the message was misspelled 'weres the money' when it should have been written by a Democrat hooligan tagger that was educated enough to spell correctly as opposed to the Republican tagger hooligan that painted McConnel's door and misspelled the message.

It's clear that Democrat tagging hooligans are educated enough not to misspell words whereas it is also clear that Republican professional tagging hooligans cannot spell correctly when professionally tagging a known Republican home.

Clearly there is indeed a conspiracy to engender sympathy for the Democrats and Nanci Pelosi whereas no mention of Mitch McConnel's damage at his house.

In addition, the fact that no real pigs blood was evident suggests that the whole display was crafted by professionals knowledgeable in terms of theatrics and theatrical displays as well as propaganda.

Can you say G. Gordon Liddey, boys & girls?

Dadburnitpa 6 hours ago

Another case of GASLIGHTING. "Oh, look at what happened to poor nancy."

JZ123 6 hours ago

Pelosi pulled a Juicy smollet? Nah, I think the hatred is real for these people. The volcano will erupt this year.

[Jan 03, 2021] George Monbiot got it half-right- There is a capitalist civil war, but not exactly the kind of war he describes

Jan 03, 2021 | failedevolution.blogspot.com

As Monbiot points out:

The only way really to understand Brexit is as the outcome of a civil war within capitalism. There are two dominant forms of capitalism. One you could describe as house trained capitalism. This is corporations and rich people who are prepared to more or less go along with democracy, as long as democracy doesn't get out of hand and actually represent the interests of the people, but as long as it's a sort of thin and narrow form of democracy, they'll go with it. What they want is stability. They want regulations which protect their market position from rougher and dirtier companies who would otherwise wipe them out. They're happy with the administrative state.
And then there's another faction who could be described as capitalism's warlords. These are people who don't want any constraints in their way at all. They see taxation as illegitimate, they see regulation as illegitimate. In their unguarded moments, they reveal that they see democracy as illegitimate. People such as Peter Thiel, the guy who founded PayPal says actually democracy and market freedom are incompatible. The conflict should be resolved in favor of this thing he calls the market. Τhe market is an euphemism for the power of money. And they believe that that power should be unmediated, that it should be able to do whatever it wants without anyone standing in its way. And they see as their enemy house trained capitalism. And this is really where the power lies within.

The whole Brexit debate, is on the one side, the august institutions of capitalism, like the Confederation of British Industry, saying this is terrible, we don't want this to happen at all. And on the other side, the oligarchs from the City, very powerful people who are funding dark money think tanks and other lobby groups, saying we want to clear it all out of the way. In Steve Bannon's words, " we want the deconstruction of the administrative state ". And it's a second group, the warlords of money who have won.
First of all, both capitalist factions in this civil war seek the " deconstruction of the administrative state. " And actually, the administrative state could be deconstructed much more efficiently through super-national formations like the European Union. The European Union institutions have been taken over by powerful banking and corporate lobbies. And these are taking advantage of the legislative power of those institutions in order to promote more deregulation and destroy the administrative power of nation-states. As the Corporate Europe Observatory reported in 2016:
Since Jean-Claude Juncker took office as President of the European Commission in November 2014, there has been an even greater deregulation push, not just on specific rules and laws which should be scrapped, but on how decisions are made about future laws. Under Juncker, fundamental changes in policy-making are being introduced which will put major obstacles in the way of new regulations aimed at protecting the environment or improving social conditions. When David Cameron was renegotiating the terms of the UK's membership of the EU with European Council President Donald Tusk, a greater European emphasis on deregulation was one of the four priority areas. To pile on the pressure, Cameron and the UK government spearheaded an appeal from 18 other member states, demanding quantitative targets, meaning that for every new regulation put in place, a certain number of other regulations should be removed. [...] As presented here, Cameron and the European Commission – together with big business - share a common approach on the deregulation agenda.

That's why the "house trained capitalism", as Monbiot describes it, wants the UK to remain member of the EU. And, in fact, it's rather contradictory to say that this capitalist faction is "happy with the administrative state" when at the same time supports a super-national organization whose ultimate goal is to eliminate the administrative power of the nation-states.
Monbiot describes the pro-Brexit capitalist faction as " capitalism's warlords ... people who don't want any constraints in their way at all. They see taxation as illegitimate, they see regulation as illegitimate. In their unguarded moments, they reveal that they see democracy as illegitimate. " Yet, these are common characteristics with the "house trained capitalism" faction. That's because both capitalist factions in previous decades were functioning as a united force through the complete domination of neoliberalism. A domination which was evident not only in an economic and a political level, but also in a cultural level, especially in the Western world. And that's why, as we wrote recently, both the liberal elites and the far right (as representatives of the capitalist factions), are seeing the real Left as the primary threat which must be dealt at all costs, after all.
We need to understand that this civil war between the capitalist factions does not come out of any substantially different ideological or political approach. Essentially, it's only a tough bargain. Capitalists just pick sides to negotiate terms and secure their position in the post-capitalist era, which already looks like a kind of 21st century corporate feudalism. Yet, we would completely agree with Monbiot's remark that " What happens to us, to the citizens of the UK, is of very little interest. We're just the grass that gets trampled in this civil war. "
As we already pointed out , the level of ruthlessness of this capitalist war can also be identified in the behavior of the US political class against the American people. It's astonishing that, inside this terrible situation, where thousands die from the pandemic, millions lose their jobs and live under extreme insecurity, no one is willing to offer anything. Both Democrats and Republicans have turned the oncoming election into a political bargain and they don't even try to hide it.
Inside this ruthless capitalist war, people have become almost irrelevant. What only matters for the political puppets is to secure the interests of the capitalist faction they represent. The rampageous bulls of capitalism are fighting each other in an arena in which democracy has now turned into dust under their violent clatters. Therefore, we would also certainly agree with Monbiot's conclusion: We need a political economy which is good for the people, the people who live today, the people of future generations, good for the rest of the living world and is actually governed by the people themselves. Not by this kind of capitalism or that kind of capitalism. These corporations or those oligarchs. A democracy which responds to people not just once every four or five years, but every day, when we have participation as well as representation. We need a system that transcends both of these warring factions, and puts the people in charge.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/s5VgkCb8lYI Related: Brexit: let there be blood among capitalists and may the real Left finally

[Jan 03, 2021] Humans of the GREAT RESET- What the future MIGHT look like in 2021 if the controlling elites have their way -- RT World News

Jan 03, 2021 | www.rt.com

With vaccine rollouts underway, humanity looks set to win the fight against the coronavirus. But some elites planning a post-coronavirus 'Great Reset' don't want to go back to normal. Here's what they have planned instead.

As lockdowns and mask mandates became a part of daily life over the last year, politicians the world over asked their citizenry to accept "The New Normal." The phrase became ubiquitous, but as vaccines inched closer to deployment, that phrase was replaced with a new one, "The Great Reset," used to describe the monumental changes to human society needed in a post-coronavirus world.

Unveiled in May by Britain's Prince Charles and the World Economic Forum's Klaus Schwab, the 'Great Reset' is an ambitious plan to create a more equal, cashless, integrated and sustainable global society. World leaders have seemingly signed up to the plan, with its catchphrase, "Build Back Better" featured prominently in incoming US President Joe Biden's campaign messaging.

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Overdue liberalization, or technocratic New World Order? Opinion on the plan is divided between those who think it's the shot in the arm the world needs, and those who think it will make Cyberpunk 2077 look like a utopian dreamworld. Whatever your opinion, here's a look at the 'New Normal' that awaits in 2021 and beyond.

Vaccine passports for everyone

Even the World Economic Forum (WEF) has acknowledged that issuing citizens with immunity passports, or certificates of vaccination, could prove "controversial." That hasn't stopped governments toying with the idea though. Britain is "exploring" the idea of creating a digital "freedom passport" database that would only grant access to public places to people who can prove a negative Covid test, while Ireland and Israel have discussed banning the unvaccinated from certain spaces. France may ban the unvaccinated from public transport .

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Such moves have been fiercely criticized by civil liberties advocates, but those pushing them don't care. "Prepare for a form of health passport now," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote last week. "I know all the objections, but it will happen. It's the only way the world will function and for lockdowns to no longer be the sole course of action."

Governments may not be able to force citizens to take a rushed and side-effect-riddled jab at gunpoint, but they won't have to. The air travel industry has already said it will require proof of vaccination to fly this coming year, leaving wannabe travelers with a simple choice: take the jab or stay at home. Budget airline Ryanair boiled the idea down to a blunt catchphrase : "Jab & go!"

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Your vaccination record is just one facet of your identity that the architects of the Great Reset want access to. In a post on Christmas eve, the WEF set out an ambitious plan to create a digital identity app aimed at giving an official identity to more than a billion people worldwide said to be without one. Registering the world's population is a goal shared by the United Nations , and the WEF's proposed app would enable users to link up with 'smart cities,' healthcare and financial services, travel and shopping providers, and government departments.

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Together with the idea of health passports, one can easily imagine a world where the unvaccinated could be excluded from these vital services. The International Monetary Fund has gone one step further, however, proposing this month that AI algorithms could be used to scan a person's social media posts to determine their credit score.

Made too many anti-vax posts on Facebook? Sorry, pal, loan denied.

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Proponents of the Great Reset talk about building a more equal, equitable economy after Covid. But if current trends are anything to go by, that economy looks more like medieval feudalism, with a tiny group of billionaires on top and the rest of us on the bottom.

Lockdowns have been disastrous for small business owners. San Francisco, for example, has seen half of its small businesses close, while New Orleans, heavily dependent on tourism and hospitality, has lost 45 percent of its small businesses. The situation is the same the world over, with countries like Ireland that implemented a second lockdown this winter seeing more businesses fail .

The world's billionaires, however, are doing spectacularly well. America's three-comma titans grew their wealth by nearly a trillion dollars since the pandemic began. Amazon achieved blowout second-quarter results in 2020, earning $89 billion in that period and growing CEO Jeff Bezos' fortune to $200 billion. The combined wealth of the 12 richest Americans – including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO and vaccine evangelist Bill Gates – grew by a staggering 40 percent.

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With lockdowns continuing into 2021, there is no indication that this trend will be reversed any time soon.

All of this bodes well for the world imagined by the WEF. According to the notorious promotional video by the organization, by 2030 the average person will "own nothing and be happy." Goods and services will instead be rented from corporations and delivered by drone, a setup only the likes of Amazon will be in a place to provide.

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Before Covid hit, climate change – a real, but heavily politicized problem – was the pet issue of governments worldwide, as leaders fell over each other to announce closer dates for the phase-out of fossil fuels. The proponents of the Great Reset are no different, and foresee a global carbon tax system in place by 2030, with citizens eating meat as "an occasional treat, not a staple. For the good of the environment."

World leaders will likely kick off 2021 by renewing their commitments to a carbon-free future, whatever the cost. Joe Biden, for one, has promised to sign the US back up to the Paris climate agreement immediately upon taking office.

While the average person may pay a little more for the privilege of driving a car or eating a steak in the coming months and years, the real change, according to the WEF, will be felt by 2030, when climate change displaces a billion people, creating an unprecedented wave of refugees. Under the terms of the Great Reset, "we'll have to do a better job at welcoming and integrating refugees."

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For the west, a wave of climate refugees means more competition for jobs and a growing underclass in the countries that take them in. However, they'll also get the opportunity to "own nothing and be happy," just like the rest of us.

And the WEF can count on legions of 'grassroots' activists to push these policies on the masses. It's youth wing – the Global Shapers Community – was involved in last year's climate marches, and the community's leaders have been trained by the Climate Reality Project , an activist organization run by WEF trustee Al Gore. Expect these activists to demand climate action when the WEF meets in Davos, Switzerland, in January.

The real and unreal blur – discussion is censored

With WEF members literally funding their own activist movements, it's going to be tough to discern top-down from grassroots change. In the case of the WEF's push for a new environmentalism, Greta Thunberg and British Petroleum are on the same team . When it comes to reimagining capitalism, Pope Francis and Mastercard are working together to give corporations a greater say in cultural and political issues. Regarding health policy, the WEF and indeed much of the world's media, seems okay with letting Bill Gates decide the future of medicine and disease prevention.

Discuss any of the contradictions and problems inherent in these post-Covid predictions, however, and you're labeled a conspiracy theorist. With the world's social media giants all cracking down on conspiracy content, it remains to be seen where the line between "dangerous" misinformation and legitimate critique will be drawn in 2021.

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However, it is no stretch to say that in 2021, Silicon Valley will have more say over what's not to discuss. In 2020 alone, Twitter censored the president of the United States and banned a national newspaper for reporting damaging information on his opponent. When it comes to content branded as "conspiracy theory," discussion will in all likelihood be more, not less, restricted from here on out.

Amid the global upheaval brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, it's easy to imagine world leaders and corporations taking advantage of the chaos to impose more controls over the populace. Prince Charles himself even described our turbulent times as a "golden opportunity" to make good on "big visions of change."

However, the movers and shakers who travel every year to the World Economic Forum's summit in Davos have boasted about their "great" plans before, from 2009 's "Shaping the Post-Crisis World," to 2012 's "The Great Transformation." The actual implementation of the 'Great Reset' will depend on the imagination and ambition of governments and their corporate partners, and how well this squares against economic necessity and public resistance.

The most likely outcome is that the reset gets rolled out in a piecemeal fashion. Regardless, the WEF's suggestions will surely continue to shape discussion long after the threat of the coronavirus subsides.

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[Jan 02, 2021] Increasing Exposure of Color Revolution Against Trump

Sep 16, 2020 | larouchepub.com

On Sept. 15, Tucker Carlson brought onto his show Darren Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter. Beattie explained to viewers that the same networks promoting color revolutions overseas are now training their sights on President Donald Trump: "What's unfolding before our eyes is a very specific type of coup called the 'color revolution.' "

Similarly, Revolver website posted a multi-part series on the color revolution against Trump, with its Sept. 9 installment taking up Norm Eisen, one of the participants in the Transition Integrity Project's war gaming of the 2020 election. Eisen was Obama's White House ethics czar and was hired by the Democratic leadership of the House Judiciary Committee in 2019, where he prepared ten articles of impeachment against Trump a month before Pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry. He himself took part in the impeachment proceedings.

But his involvement in ousting Trump began even before the nomination. Eisen ran Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), financed amongst others by George Soros's Open Society, which partnered with David Brock to put forward a blueprint -- issued before the inauguration -- for attacking Trump through such means as policing social media, getting tech companies to censor content (media platforms ... will no longer uncritically and without consequence host and enrich fake news), impeachment itself, fake news (a steady flow of damaging information, new revelations), and other techniques.

Eisen co-authored "The Democracy Playbook: Preventing and Reversing Democratic Backsliding," a Brookings guide to the perplexed seeking to institute policies through frankly undemocratic means. Eisen named Gene Sharp's From Dictatorship to Democracy as an inspiration for his document.

Consider another color revolutionary. Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and a supporter of the Ukraine color revolution, realized that "color revolution" was taking on a negative connotation. In August he tweeted a revised nomenclature: "Autocrats have demonized the phrase, 'color revolutions.' (& revolution generally has a negative connotation for many.) Instead, I use the term 'democratic breakthroughs.' "

What kind of democratic breakthrough? Consider McFaul's Sept. 4 tweet:

"Trump has lost the Intelligence Community. He has lost the State Department. He has lost the military. How can he continue to serve as our Commander in Chief?"

Astute readers will note that neither the IC, State Department, or military appoint the President, who takes that office by means that are actually democratic -- an election!

Eisen also heads the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group, whose website announces that it is "a bipartisan and transatlantic platform for discourse and coordination to address democratic backsliding in Europe." What is "democratic backsliding"? Naturally, it's when the plebes get uppity and vote for their favored candidates, as in, you know, elections.

[Jan 02, 2021] The old sclerotic leaders would never get out of the way

Jun 18, 2020 | www.unz.com

brabantian , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 10:03 am GMT

Even communism had the generational problem, though their system of distributing privileges and goodies was different

Young people chafed for decades at the lack of upward mobility in the communist hierarchies

The old sclerotic leaders would never get out of the way, and so by the 1980s eastern european communism was quite geriatric, symbolised by how two of the Soviet Leaders – Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko – died quickly after taking office

The class issue doesn't 'transcend' the ethnic issues, as the author suggests, it is all packed in with it Bernie Sanders was a white-kid favourite, a dud with minorities

In a 4chan cartoon, a white kid with a Bernie Sanders hat is trying to argue blacks into voting for him: 'Free college! Free health care!' says the white kid. The blacks reply, 'That shite is already free for us, white boy.'

The strong child-support benefits in Western Europe, seem to have quickly become utilised as an accelerant for migration and the rapid expansion of immigrant-heritage populations

Karl Marx himself was opposed to manipulated migration, which he denounced as an oligarch tool against workers

A pro-young-family culture is striking indeed, and ironically it seems to have been a prominent aspect of fascist authoritarians

It's ultimately an issue of social engineering, which is usually controlled by oligarchs, and what those oligarchs seem to have often sought is the decline of european-heritage middle-class families, the breeding ground of 'dangerous dissident' individuals who cannot be so easily controlled

[Jan 02, 2021] Tulsi Gabbard slams COVID relief bill as a 'slap in the face' to Americans - YouTube

Jan 02, 2021 | www.youtube.com


liveltoob , 6 days ago

She voted against the bill because she's smart and she actually reads things

Joseph Klimchock , 6 days ago

Congress has failed the American people again and again. They do almost nothing, we might actually be better if they did NOTHING!!!!!

Shawn Cornell , 1 week ago

One of the few dems that talks sensibly. That's why the communist dems kept changing the rules to keep her out of the debates.

EAZY-E Zero , 5 days ago

Respectfully, Tulsi Gabbard could have been a better candidate than Joe Biden. That's just my opinion.

Jn Stonbely , 3 days ago

Bravo Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for putting it to the "Demagogue" Party for their deviousness, lies, and clearly ; anti-American behavior !


Kai Chinn , 6 days ago

I like Tulsi, she actually has a head on her shoulders and actually cares about the American People! Aaaaand, she is not hard on the eyes either! :)

boonarga , 6 days ago

Gabbard represents what Democrats were before they became evil.


chiefordnance , 4 hours ago

As a Republican Tulsi was the only Democrat I was rooting for, the Democrats destroyed her because she wasn't part of their agenda.


Brian Hariprashad , 2 days ago

She embodies what a true good democrat is idk what's up with the rest of the party, she has my vote


What Is Your Worldview? - Creation or Evolutionism? , 6 days ago

In a world of [neo]liberalism, it is the VICTIM that gets punished, not the criminals.

[Jan 02, 2021] PATRICK LAWRENCE- Trump's Foreign Policy Explained Consortiumnews

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"... Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century ..."
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Jan 02, 2021 | consortiumnews.com

rump the New Yorker was a stranger in a strange land, having nothing of the sensibility of the insular, self-serving swamp-dwellers in Washington and no grasp whatsoever of the power of the Deep State, whose ire he quickly aroused. Trump was a terrible statesman, too seat-of-the-pants, but what was to him dealmaking was at bottom diplomacy, an activity Washington has little time for.

Why did Trump surround himself with people who opposed him and not infrequently sabotaged those few foreign policy ideas one can approve of -- constructive ties with Russia, an end to wasteful wars, peace in Northeast Asia, sending "obsolete" NATO into the history books? What were H.R. McMaster, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and numerous others like them but of lesser visibility doing in his administration?

I am asked this not infrequently. My reply is simple: It is not at all clear Trump appointed these people and at least as likely they were imposed upon him by the Deep State, the permanent state, the administrative state -- whatever term makes one comfortable. Let us not forget, Trump knew nobody in Washington and had a lot of swivel chairs to fill.

We must add to this Trump's personal shortcomings. He is by all appearances shallow of mind, poorly read (to put it generously), of weak moral and ethical character, and overly concerned with appearances.

Put these various factors together and you get none other than the Trump administration's nearly illegible record on the foreign policy side.

Trump is to be credited with sticking to his guns on the big stuff: He held out for a new-détente with Russia, getting the troops out of the Middle East and Afghanistan, making a banner-headline deal with the North Koreans. He was scuttled in all cases.

Complicating the tableau, the prideful Trump time and again covered his impotence by publicly approving of what those around him did to subvert his purposes. A year ago, the record shows, Pompeo and Mark Esper (then the defense secretary) concocted plans to assassinate Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader, flew to Mar–a–Lago, and presented Trump with a fait accompli -- whereupon Trump acquiesced as the administration and the press pretended it was White House policy all along.

Now We Come to Iran

Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly's General Debate, Sept. 25, 2019. (UN Photo/Cia Pak)

Pulling out of the Iran nuclear accord a year into his administration was among the most destructive moves Trump made during his four years in office. It was afterward that the shamefully inhumane "maximum pressure" campaign against Iranians was set in motion.

Trump's intention, however miscalculated, was the dealmaker's: He expected to force Tehran back to the mahogany table to get a new nuclear deal. As secretary of state, Pompeo's was to cultivate a coup or provoke a war. It was cross-purposes from then on, notably since Pompeo sabotaged the proposed encounter between Trump and Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN GA.

Now we have some context for the recent spate of Iranophobic posturing and the new military deployments in the Persian Gulf. We have just been treated to four years of a recklessly chaotic foreign policy, outcome of a war the Deep State waged against a pitifully weak president who threatened it: This is the truth of what we witness as Trump and his people fold their tents.

Trump the dealmaker a year ago now contemplates an attack on Natanz on the pretext Iran is not holding to the terms of an accord he abandoned two years ago? The only way to make sense of this is to conclude that there is no sense to be made of it.

Who ordered the B–52 sorties and the Nimitz patrols? This question promises a revealing answer. It is very highly doubtful Trump had anything to do with this, very highly likely Pompeo and his allies in hawkery got it done and told the president about it afterward.

Trump is out in a few weeks. The self-perpetuating bureaucracy that made a mess of his administration -- or a bigger mess than it may have been anyway -- will remain. It will now serve a president who is consonant with its purposes. And the eyes of most people who support him will remain wide shut.

Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune , is a columnist, essayist, author and lecturer. His most recent book is Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century . Follow him on Twitter @thefloutist . His web site is Patrick Lawrence . Support his work via his Patreon site .

The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.

Ed Rickert , December 31, 2020 at 10:06

A first rate analysis of the inconsistent and inchoate policies of Trump as well as an acute assessment of his psychology, notably his weakness when challenged. Equal cogent is Lawrence's trepidation and concern over the policies and potential actions of the administration that is to replacement Trump. Thank you for your thoughtful work.

Pierre Guerlain , December 31, 2020 at 06:51

I would just like to have a linkto the sources for Pompeo hoodwinking Trump for the assassination of Soleimani.

Linda , December 30, 2020 at 18:42

Thank you, Patrick, for this very clear article summarizing Trump's clumsy attempts at making peace with other countries (a campaign offering to voters) and the Deep State's thwarting of those attempts. My friends and I intuitively knew the people taking roles around the Trump presidency were put there by the "system". Trump had been made into a pariah by the Press, his own Republican Party, and shrieks for 'Resistance' by Hillary Democrats in the millions across the country even before he was inaugurated. There was no 'respectable' person in Washington DC who would dare help Trump make his way in that new, strange land. Remember one of the Resistanace calls to the front? . "Become ungovernable!!!!" Tantrums, not negotiations, have become the norm

So long, any semblance of Washington DC respectability. It was nice to think you were there at one time.

Jerry Alatalo , December 30, 2020 at 16:52

Dear readers and supporters of Consortium News around the Earth,

Please pass the following important message along to the genuine war criminals United States President Donald Trump and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson:

"Do the right & moral thing for once in your hideous, miserable & pathetic lives, – and free genuine peacemaker Julian Assange."

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Please consider making the (1st ever in history) establishment of genuine Peace on Earth the absolute overwhelming #1 New Year's Resolution worldwide for 2021. The quality of life for future generations depends on the good actions of this generation.. Thank you.

Peace.

Patrick Lawrence , December 30, 2020 at 14:32

I thank these commentators, a couple of whom read these pieces regularly, and all others who've taken the time this year gone by to put down their thoughts. I read them always and almost always learn things from them. Blessings to all and wishes for a superb new year! -- Patrick.

Lee C Ng , December 30, 2020 at 14:02

I agree 100% with the writer. Example; if Bolton, probably pushed into the administration by the Deep State, didn't sabotage Trump's talks with the N. Koreans in Vietnam, we might've had a peaceful settlement on the Korean peninsular by now. And it's no surprise that Trump on several occasions prevented the success of US-China trade talks – it was more than likely he was forced to do so. Trump wasn't a politician, much less a statesman. But he wasn't an orgre either, despite the hostility of the corporate press towards him (and I'm no fan of Trump).

Biden will represent better the real forces behind all US administrations – the forces responsible for the over 200 wars/military interventions in its 242 years of Independence.

Jeff Harrison , December 30, 2020 at 00:19

Thank you, Patrick, you have made some sense out of a nonsensical situation. "We have just been treated to four years of a recklessly chaotic foreign policy, outcome of a war the Deep State waged against a pitifully weak president who threatened it: This is the truth of what we witness as Trump and his people fold their tents." What is it that the Brits call their Deep State? It's something like the civil service but it's actually called something else.

You called Donnie Murdo a deal maker. Donnie Murdo is a New York hustler. His "negotiation" style only works when his interlocutor must make a deal with him. If his interlocutor can walk away, he will and Donnie Murdo will go bankrupt. The real problem is that the US doesn't need a deal maker – we have people for that. The Prezzy & CEO is frequently called that, the chief executive officer. But that's an administrative title. He is also frequently called the commander in chief but that really only applies if we are at war which we should be at as little as possible. What the prezzy really is supposed to be is a leader. If Donnie Murdo were, in fact, a leader, John Bolton would have been taking a commercial flight back to the US after his little stunt in Vietnam. But he didn't. So the question isn't what could Donnie Murdo do in the next three weeks, it's what can Donnie Murdo's henchmen do in the next three weeks?

Casper , December 29, 2020 at 18:19

One of the other personal things about Donald Trump, was that he had no skill nor experience in leading and manipulating a bureaucracy. He had basically directed a family business and his personal publicity machine. To the extent that Trump hotels had thousands of employees, Trump hired managers to do that. It would appear that the Trump family business largely concentrated on making of new deals for new hotels.

Thus, Donald Trump arrived in Washington completely unprepared to be the leader of a bureaucracy and completely unskilled at being able to get it to do what he wanted it do do.

I'm not a Joe Biden fan, but he's been in Washington since the 1970's. He's seen the bureaucracy from the Senate point of view for 40 years, then got at least a view of what it was like to try to direct it from watching as Veep. I still suspect the real power lies with the military command, and has since the 1950's, but this administration is going to come in with at least some skills in terms of trying to get a government to do what it wants.

PEG , December 29, 2020 at 17:46

Perfect article – and epitaph on Trump's foreign policy record.

Anne , December 29, 2020 at 14:00

Indeed, Patrick, they (the eyes of most of the electorate) will remain shut, eyelids deftly closed Only other peoples commit barbaric, heinous war crimes, invade other cultures completely without cause, bomb other peoples to death, devastation, loss of livelihood, home water supply We, the perfecto (along with one other group now ensconced – illegally, but apparently western acceptably – in the ME) people do what we do because, well, we are perfecto and thus when we commit these barbarisms, they aren't such. And are, it would seem, totally ignorable. Wake me in the morning style .

Truly, the vast majority of those – whatever their skin hue, ethnic background – who voted for the B-H duo are comfortably off, consider themselves oh so bloody "liberal" (do they really know what that means, in fact? Or don't they care?), so to the left of Attila the Hun (which obviously doesn't mean much, Left wise) .and what the MICMATT does to other people in other societies matters not flying F .After all, aren't they usually of "swarthy" skin hue and likely not western and of that offshoot religion of the one gawd, the third go around?

The west (US, UK, FR, GY etc ) really and truly need to develop a Conscience, a real morality, humanity but I fear that that is all too late

[Jan 02, 2021] For Mitch McConnell Biden is preferable to Trump. He is quite file with Trump losing and Republican senators defeat does not matter much for him

Judging from comments at ZH neoliberal wing of Republican Party that Mitch McConnell represents lost legitimacy and is in retreat.
Jan 02, 2021 | www.youtube.com

yunowot? , 3 days ago

mitch mcconnel is such a savvy operator that he handed over the country to the communist party of china: bank statements, please.


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Rick Wensel , 1 day ago

He sure did! The money laundering schemes are at risk!

Debbie Zatterberg , 4 days ago

So MITCH doesn't care to extend help to workers who get Covid Great job MITCH


Kevin Mack , 4 days ago (edited)

Mcconnell is a malevolent sociopathic genius. He's squeezed every drop of blood he could from the Trump Administration. He knew it was time to cut bait the day after the election.


Teri Albrett , 1 day ago

Mitch McConnell doesn't care about American families needing the extra stimulus money to help with bills.

Brian Jacobsen , 4 days ago

There all the peoples enemy.


Russ Kirby , 2 days ago

China wants Trump to go, and they let Mitch know that, so Mitch complied like a good little Chinese Communist


Denise Bilby , 2 days ago

He's a RINO with a wife whose father was high up in communist China at one point.


Dustin Wind , 3 days ago

He's connected to China and big tech and is the king of the swamp. Why would he want trump to win?


Chris Noneyabiz , 3 days ago

Yeah he's a savvy politician. He's also evil and has no soul or empathy for millions of suffering people in the country

[Jan 02, 2021] Directly from New Brave Wolrd: New House Rules Seek To Erase GenderedTerms Such As 'Father', 'Mother', 'Son', 'Daughter'

Gender neutral Pelosi in full glory ;-) This is funny until you realize how truly sad it is.
Jan 02, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Quia Possum 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link

Well I guess Huxley got one prediction right in Brave New World, that "father" and "mother" would be treated as offensive words.

Pinefox 2 hours ago

How low can we go. Changing language does not change the reality of male and female. God help us if we are ever faced with a horror that really could hurt us, like a war. Thin skinned Americans whose feelings get hurt if they don't feel appreciated or included won't make it. Seeing so many brain dead Americans driving alone in their cars should make all thinking people be alarmed.

kc_kilo 1 hour ago

The results of the [neo]Liberal education system is on full display. Enjoy.

StarOfRighte 1 hour ago (Edited)

Actually you need a war on your territory for various reasons. To see how it feels to be droned, bombed, maimed, killed, to see your daughters and son mutilated and/or killed. Maybe that way Americans stop being blood thirsty and stop creating false flags to go kill innocent people in the Middle East. Second, you need a war to cleanse yourself from all the satanical shyt that is dominant in America.

Make_Mine_A_Double 2 hours ago

This gender disfunction nonsense is straight up out of the communist party handbook circa 1920's.

DurdenRae 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

Tempest in a tea cup. Just like the kind of stupidity that prevailed during the French revolution. And of course this did not survive the return to normal. And for these imbeciles, this would be the achievement of their meaningless and boring life...

KirkPatrickN 2 hours ago remove link

The left: "We must use the preferred gender pronouns of transgenders because otherwise one half of one percent of our population might have a higher suicide risk".

The right: "So given that Covid lockdowns are causing suicide rates to spike by destroying 33% of small businesses, we should go back to work, right?"

The left: (crickets)

[Jan 01, 2021] Five Times This Year The New York Times Accidentally Told The Truth

Only five ;-)
Notable quotes:
"... I'm still stunned that the paper did a study that confirmed what people have suspected, namely that a high cycle threshold used on PCR testing was creating the appearance of a pandemic that might have long receded. The testing mania was generating wild illusions of millions of "asymptomatic" carriers and spreaders. How severe was the problem? Read this and weep ..."
"... up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found. ..."
"... A major reason for the ongoing lockdowns are due to the pouring in of positive case numbers from massive testing. If 90% of these positive tests are false, we have a major problem. The whole basis of the panic disappears. All credit to the Times for running the article but why no follow up and why no change in its editorial stance? ..."
"... I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life -- schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned -- will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. ..."
"... During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is unwittingly conducting what amounts to the largest immunological experiment in history on our own children. We have been keeping children inside, relentlessly sanitizing their living spaces and their hands and largely isolating them ..."
"... in the course of social distancing to mitigate the spread, we may also be unintentionally inhibiting the proper development of children's immune systems. ..."
"... The psychological effects of loneliness are a health risk comparable with risk obesity or smoking. Anxiety and depression have spiked since lockdown orders went into effect. ..."
Jan 01, 2021 | zerohedge.com

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research,

The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might contradict the case for this unprecedented experiment in social and economic control. This article highlights the exceptions.

...

Even within the blatant and aggressive pro-lockdown bias, and consistent with the way the New York Times does its work, the paper has not been entirely barren of truth about Covid and lockdowns. Below I list five times that the news section of the paper, however inadvertently and however buried deep within the paper, actually told the truth.

1. Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn't Be.

I'm still stunned that the paper did a study that confirmed what people have suspected, namely that a high cycle threshold used on PCR testing was creating the appearance of a pandemic that might have long receded. The testing mania was generating wild illusions of millions of "asymptomatic" carriers and spreaders. How severe was the problem? Read this and weep:

In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.

On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times . If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.

The implications of this revelation are incredible. A major reason for the ongoing lockdowns are due to the pouring in of positive case numbers from massive testing. If 90% of these positive tests are false, we have a major problem. The whole basis of the panic disappears. All credit to the Times for running the article but why no follow up and why no change in its editorial stance?

2. Scientists See Signs of Lasting Immunity to Covid-19, Even After Mild Infections .

Byline By Katherine J. Wu

Gone missing this year in public commentary has been much at all about naturally acquired immunities from the virus, even though the immune system deserves credit for why human kind has lasted this long even in the presence of pathogens. That the Times ran this piece was another exception in otherwise exceptionally bad coverage. It said in part:

Scientists who have been monitoring immune responses to the virus are now starting to see encouraging signs of strong, lasting immunity, even in people who developed only mild symptoms of Covid-19, a flurry of new studies suggests. Disease-fighting antibodies, as well as immune cells called B cells and T cells that are capable of recognizing the virus, appear to persist months after infections have resolved -- an encouraging echo of the body's enduring response to other viruses .

Researchers have yet to find unambiguous evidence that coronavirus reinfections are occurring, especially within the few months that the virus has been rippling through the human population. The prospect of immune memory "helps to explain that," Dr. Pepper said.

3. Why You Shouldn't Worry About Studies Showing Waning Coronavirus Antibodies .

Byline Apoorva Mandavilli

Reinforcing the solid point above:

Data from monkeys suggests that even low levels of antibodies can prevent serious illness from the virus, if not a re-infection. Even if circulating antibody levels are undetectable, the body retains the memory of the pathogen. If it crosses paths with the virus again, balloon-like cells that live in the bone marrow can mass-produce antibodies within hours.

4. Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say .

Byline: Apoorva Mandavilli

It's still a shock that so many schools closed their doors this year, partly from disease panic but also from compliance with orders from public health officials. Nothing like this has happened, and the kids have been brutalized as a result, not to mention the families who found themselves unable to cope at home. For millions of students, a whole year of schooling is gone. And they have been taught to treat their fellow human beings as nothing more than disease vectors. So it was amazing to read this story in the Times :

So far, schools do not seem to be stoking community transmission of the coronavirus, according to data emerging from random testing in the United States and Britain. Elementary schools especially seem to seed remarkably few infections.

5. One-Third of All U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Nursing Home Residents or Workers .

Byline Karen Yourish, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Danielle Ivory and Mitch Smith

Another strangely missing part of mainstream coverage has been honesty about the risk gradient in the population. It is admitted even by the World Health Organization that the case fatality rate for Covid-19 from people under the age of 70 is 0.05%. The serious danger is for people with low life expectancy and broken immune systems. Knowing that, as we have since February, we should have expected the need for special protection for nursing homes. It was incredibly obvious. Instead of doing that, some governors shoved Covid patients into nursing homes. Astonishing. In any case, the above article (and this one too) was one of the few times this year that the Times actually spelled out the many thousands times risk to the aged and sick as versus the young and healthy.

Notable Opinion columns

The op-ed page of the paper mirrored the news coverage, with only a handful of exceptions. Those are noted below.

Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease?

Op-ed by David Katz

I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life -- schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned -- will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.

Worse, I fear our efforts will do little to contain the virus, because we have a resource-constrained, fragmented, perennially underfunded public health system. Distributing such limited resources so widely, so shallowly and so haphazardly is a formula for failure. How certain are you of the best ways to protect your most vulnerable loved ones? How readily can you get tested?

Quarantine May Negatively Affect Kids' Immune Systems .

Op-ed by Donna L. Farber and Thomas Connors

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is unwittingly conducting what amounts to the largest immunological experiment in history on our own children. We have been keeping children inside, relentlessly sanitizing their living spaces and their hands and largely isolating them. In doing so, we have prevented large numbers of them from becoming infected or transmitting the virus. But in the course of social distancing to mitigate the spread, we may also be unintentionally inhibiting the proper development of children's immune systems.

What Has Lockdown Done to Us? .

Op-ed by By Drew Holden

Our mental health suffers, too. The psychological effects of loneliness are a health risk comparable with risk obesity or smoking. Anxiety and depression have spiked since lockdown orders went into effect. The weeks immediately following them saw nearly an 18 percent jump in overdose deaths and, as of last month, more than 40 states had reported increases. One in four young adults age 18 to 25 reported seriously considering suicide within the 30-day window of a recent study. Experts fear that suicides may increase; for young Americans, these concerns are even more acute. Calls to domestic violence hotlines have soared. America's elderly are dying from the isolation that was meant to keep them safe.


[Jan 01, 2021] Multiple GOP Senators Announce Plans To Challenge Electoral College Results

It looks like neoliberal Dems created constitutional crisis.
Jan 01, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Update (1250ET): Two more lawmakers have joined Hawley with planned objections to the count during the January 6 vote. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-TN) and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) are also planning to object, according to Bloomberg , along with Rep. Marjorie Greene (R-GA).

That said, it may be all for nothing if rumors are true Pelosi and McConnell are working together to change the rules and block objections.

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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he will object during the counting of the Electoral College vote process on Jan. 6, becoming the first senator to confirm they are joining an effort launched by more than a dozen House Republicans.

" I cannot vote to certify the electoral college results on Jan. 6 without raising the fact that some states, particularly Pennsylvania, failed to follow their own state election laws ," Hawley wrote in a statement on Monday.

"And I cannot vote to certify without pointing out the unprecedented effort of mega-corporations, including Facebook and Twitter, to interfere in this election, in support of Joe Biden," he added.

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) attends the confirmation hearing of Attorney General nominee William Barr at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 15, 2019. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)

Hawley said that Congress should investigate voter fraud allegations and make sure that future elections are secure. According to the Missouri Republican, both chambers have failed to act in an appropriate manner.

"For these reasons," Hawley continued, "I will follow the same practice Democrat members of Congress have in years past and object during the certification process on Jan. 6 to raise these critical issues ."

Hawley noted that Democrats objected during the 2004 and 2016 elections "in order to raise concerns" about election integrity. "They were praised by Democratic leadership and the media when they" objected, Hawley added, saying that they "were entitled to do so" and Republicans concerned about election integrity in the Nov. 3 election "are entitled to do the same."

For the past several weeks, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and other House GOP lawmakers have pledged to object to the counting of the Electoral College votes during the Joint Session of Congress . Their effort requires a senator and a House member that would trigger a series of debates before a vote on whether to certify a state's Electoral College votes is held.

Some members of the GOP leadership, including Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), have said their efforts are doomed to fail. And over the past weekend, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), in comments widely publicized by news outlets, referred to Brooks's effort as "a scam."

And, according to anonymously sourced reports, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told GOP senators that they should not take part in the House GOP-led effort on Jan. 6. Another Republican, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), said the attempt to challenge the votes is an improbable one.

" It's basically going through the motions ," Cornyn said, reported The Hill.

"It's a futile exercise."

But Brooks, for his part, indicated that "dozens" of House members back the effort . "We're going to sponsor and co-sponsor objections to the Electoral College vote returns," Brooks told Fox News on Dec. 28.

In a previous interview with The Epoch Times' American Thought Leaders program, Brooks said he believes the Electoral College vote can be rejected, and the election can ultimately be decided in the House of Representatives.

Former California Sen. Barbara Boxer "tried to strike Ohio for George Bush back in 2005, so this is not unusual," Brooks said in an interview with Fox Business on Dec. 15. "The law is very clear, the House of Representatives in combination with the United States Senate has the lawful authority to accept or reject Electoral College vote submissions from states that have such flawed election systems that they're not worthy of our trust."

The new Congress is slated to be sworn in on Jan. 3.


2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

A clear case of fraud is in front of you, Senators.

What message are you going to send the American people?

WE ARE WATCHING.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jeSIVK3CWk

[Dec 29, 2020] New Relief-Checks Bill From McConnell Boosts Aid Amounts, but Also Leaves Democrats Seething - Newsmax.com

Dec 29, 2020 | www.newsmax.com

After blocking a Senate move to vote on boosting coronavirus stimulus checks on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced an alternative proposal. In it, the checks are increased as President Donald Trump, many Democrats and even some GOP lawmakers have urged.

But McConnell also ties those fatter payments to Trump priorities including probing allegations of election fraud and diminishing liability protections for social media platforms, Newsweek reports.

Sent the original COVID-19 economic stimulus bill, Trump declined to sign without major changes. He wanted individual relief checks boosted from $600 to $2,000.

Unrelated to COVID, he also wanted a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects social media platforms from being sued over third-party content. And he wanted inquiries into his claims of election fraud, which have been been pressed without success in court and at the legislative level for weeks since the Nov. 3 election outcome favored opponent Joe Biden.

[Dec 29, 2020] The unspoken premise of modern capitalism is that the world will be saved by greedy tech oligarchs

Dec 29, 2020 | www.rt.com

The plutocratic class are not good custodians of our world. They are not good people. They are not wise. They are not even particularly intelligent. They're just a very profitable sort of clever, and have a willingness to crush anyone who gets in their way.

The plutocratic class has been buying up control over our political systems to ensure maximum profit, buying up news media outlets to propagandize the masses into supporting the status quo they've built their kingdoms on, and forming alliances with sociopathic government agencies which murder people around the world to ensure continual US unipolar hegemony. These are the people we've placed in charge of the innovation and distribution of emerging technologies, and we're meant to believe that they will save the world?

They will not. They will keep chasing power and profit until we drive ourselves off the cliff of extinction. It's all they know how to do.

[Dec 29, 2020] The Banality Of Bill Barr

From comment it is clear that Trump did a tremendous job undermining and discrediting classic neoliberalism from the position of national neoliberalism. He was a huge wrecking ball...
Dec 29, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Thomas J. Farnan via The National Pulse

In June, Attorney General Bill Barr sat for an interview in CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and predicted widespread fraud with mail in voting.

He said: "People trying to change the rules to this, to this methodology – which, as a matter of logic, is very open to fraud and coercion – is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire."

At the time, Barr was the nation's top law enforcement officer with an obligation to prevent election fraud under a bevy of federal statutes .

What Barr Could've Done.

Maybe an investigation of Silicon Valley billionaires ballot harvesting in black neighborhoods , for starters, and then a warrant for surveillance cameras at counting facilities in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta and Detroit, with federal agents on hand to double check the chain of custody of boxes coming through the back door.

Instead, election integrity was preserved with federal investigations to prevent nonexistent seditious activity emanating from dubious white militias. The "reckless and dangerous" mail-in ballot operation the Attorney General warned about was ignored.

Trump's political rise is because our institutions no longer work for the common good and instead serve the idiosyncratic preferences of the sclerotic establishment. Picking a bombastic outsider is the only way that 75-million Americans know to tell them to cut it out.

Barr, A Typical Washingtonian Creature.

In private practice, Barr was a highly compensated conduit to power, because being the former Attorney General, or ex-FBI Director, or alum of any office that confers a vendable credential pays big bucks in DC.

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He is sufficiently deluded by beltway noise that he does not realize his pandering to shallow political interests as George H.W. Bush's Attorney General – for instance by authoring in 1992 The Case for More Incarceration – was simply grist for the outrage mill that perpetuates the swindle.

Barr and Biden in Washington D.C.

Based on the musings of General Barr, Senator Joe Biden spearheaded a crime bill in 1993. He sold the bill as a way to take "predators" who were "beyond the pale" off the streets.

Because that's how Washington works.

Insiders on both sides help one another perform their Kabuki dance as public servants for the next election even as they pocket a Delaware mansion's worth of foreign money.

H.L. Mencken observed that, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

The Shill Continues.

Barr was appointed AG the second time because he penned a 20-page memo proposing that when the president protests against a ridiculous investigation into whether he colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal an election, he is not obstructing justice.

You know, like how nobody is suggesting that Joe Biden's protests against election fraud investigations means he should get indicted for obstruction under 18 U.S. Code CHAPTER 73.

Any first year law student could tell you that. If you were a warm body willing to help Trump escape a frivolous criminal charge, though, you got a promotion from the practice squad straight into the starting lineup.

As Trump's Attorney General, Barr served the same cadre of Washington insiders as he did the first time, many of whom were still there because the game works so flawlessly.

The Hard Drive From Hell.

Weeks before the 2020 election, a concerned citizen turned over to federal authorities a laptop that had irrefutable evidence of a Biden family operation to sell influence in China, with 10 percent of the take going to "the big guy" – who happened to be the democratic candidate then running for president.

The nation's intelligence agencies mobilized on behalf of the Biden family to call the concerned citizen a Russian stooge, and the contents of the laptop Russian disinformation.

At the time – we didn't know it – the Justice Department had been investigating the very activities confirmed in the laptop.

A copy of Hunter's hard drive from hell (Image: Stuart Mitchell)

Barr knew, obviously, that the slander against the concerned citizen was just deep state tripe to protect the Bidens.

Yet Barr sat on his hands, kept his mouth shut, and let the whistleblower suffer vicious public attack , because Washington insiders put the establishment first even against the heroic decency of the little guy.

The Russia Lie.

For two years Barr had investigated the greatest political scandal in American history.

The Washington establishment, along with the FBI, the CIA, and foreign intelligence services, ran protection for the democratic candidate in 2016 by calling embarrassing disclosures about her Russian disinformation – and, when that dirty trick somehow did not get her elected, carrying the hoax into the Trump presidency to cause maximum political damage.

For more on that, please do yourself a favor and read about the sordid scandal in my short ebook, The Russia Lie . I propose in the book that the scam was a political operation to vilify Donald Trump by falsely claiming Russian election interference.

A week after publication, the DNI released notes John Brennan took of a meeting with Barack Obama that confirmed my controversial take.

Brennan wrote that Hillary Clinton was planning to "vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."

Yeah, but I said it better.

If someone like me sitting at a desk in Pittsburgh can figure this out, then the Attorney General's head-in-the-sand failure to expose the lie amounts to an intentional cover-up sourced in deliberate indifference.

As with the Biden laptop, Barr's first impulse investigating the investigators was to protect his friends and neighbors in Washington, the Republic be damned. Some minor flunky at the FBI will go to jail , and everyone else is going to escape to their lucrative cable television deals.

Because the fix, as always, was in.

Now What?

The 75-million who voted for Trump feel cheated but they're not going anywhere. Their ranks will increase as Washington's Rube Goldberg-ian governance wreaks havoc and the dissatisfied look for an alternative.

Our side should win the next few election cycles. That would be a "will definitely win" except Republican officials in various key states passed permanent mail-in voting laws ostensibly to address the short-term contingencies of a temporary pandemic.

Yes, the Republican Party is staffed with a bunch of "bilbars" (inventing a word here) at the highest levels.

The "reckless and dangerous playing with fire" will continue, with Republican hopes pinned on electing conscientious candidates even though state elections will be fixed by vote harvesting and back door shenanigans into the foreseeable future.

Stop the Steal protests around the United States

It is dire but hopeful. Popular movements are best when they overcome even official corruption.

When Trump wins in 2024, he must avoid hiring swamp dwellers to drain the swamp. Of all the things I've written about Trumpism in the last four or so years, my favorite is this – nailed the problem a few months into the presidency.

There's got to be a law professor in Ohio who actually voted for Trump who can be tapped for the position of Attorney General next time.

No more bilbars, please. As Hannah Arendt knew, beholden insiders who prefer prestige to principle is the banality of evil.

Oh, and whoever came up with the idea of landing Air Force One and Marine One at small airports to hold rallies, give that person whatever job he or she wants.

It contributed to one of the greatest landslides in American presidential history.

USAllDay 4 hours ago

Bill Barr is a fat CIA hack just like his (daddy) that hired Jeffery Epstein.

Tirion 3 hours ago

Barr was appointed as a result of a deal done with the Bush family when Poppy Bush died.

Lorenz Feedback 3 hours ago

You mean the Grassy Knoll poppy Bush? ;)

HAL9000rev1 4 hours ago (Edited)

Not doing anything is doing something.

In that vein he did a lot.

I hope he has a short and unpleasant retirement

Murky Mook 4 hours ago

Barr did nothing.Nothing. He must have a big payday coming from the swamp.

Cardinal Fang 3 hours ago

Trump is not a very good manager.

His hires were a ******* disaster.

BoiledFrogs 4 hours ago

What an utterly naive author.

The Rulers don't give a damn about us, whether we live or die. Barr doing something noble, because WHY? Not for us, not for America, not for Justice. He Rules according to the Rulers' dictates. There is not a single person working inside the Beltway who cares whether we live or die, have jobs or don't, can feed our families or not.

There is no and never has been BY THE PEOPLE.

ZenoOfCitium 3 hours ago

Barr is a dirty birdy. Barr has always been [DS]. His CIA codename was Robert Johnson.

Barr was involved in Operation Screw Worm (part of the Iran-Contra operation)

https://www.conservapedia.com/Iran-Contra_affair . FYI, the Bush and Clinton families are DS, in case you had any doubt.

Barr later had a hand in clearing DS (aka FBI snipers) of any wrong doing when assassinating Vicki Weaver

All of this information can be googled/binged/duckduckgoed. Lots of references to various articles which point to various court cases, etc.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/william-barrs-connection-to-ruby-ridge-defending-fbi-snipers/

dogbert8 1 hour ago

Bill Barr always was a swamp creature, as was Durham. I feel a bit sad for those American patriots who thought Barr/Durham would finally, "hold [them] accountable." That was never going to happen. Swamp creatures never rat on each other; it's an unstated pact. "It's a big club, and [we] ain't in it."

BuckShotJones 2 hours ago (Edited)

Author is either naive or controlled opposition. The deep state has just stolen a land slide election with an "In-Your-Face" attitude. No true reformer is going to win ever again. As imperfect as Trump is, especially with whom he chose to pick to counsel him, he will be the last reformer that will be permitted to run and win an election.

Drag and Drop a win. It is now that simple.

As for Barr, was he AG during the Ruby Ridge fiasco?

marysimmons 3 hours ago

Trump's nomination of Barr was probably the worst of a very long list of horrible nominations/appointments. Probably cost him re-election

Robert De Zero 4 hours ago

Shill Barr was a slick operator. He uncloaked completely when he said "no fraud." He sat on EVERYTHING. I never believed all the Q nonsense about "trusting the plan." I hope all the Q-tards apologize for trying to mislead everyone with their obvious nonsense and naivety.

radical-extremist 3 hours ago

Democrats fight dirty and Republicans don't contest their skullduggery that much because "it's for the good of the country" that these long drawn out battles end. Barr was brought in to make sure the Republicans didn't fight too hard and upset everybody.

liberty2day 3 hours ago

Why argue this?

Trump was either coerced to drop in this skunk or he is one of them. Total fail, either way

No Time for Fishing 3 hours ago

Mitch picked Barr. Mitch made it clear to President Trump that Barr will be AG as no other nominee would make it through the Senate and any push back would be the end of anything else making it through the Senate for Trump. Barr was given clear instructions that the Swamp and most importantantly Mitch and his China In Laws were off limits and Barr was not to do anything that could endanger any Democrat Crime Family or Republican Crime Family made man.

TxRogers 14 minutes ago remove link

"A plutocracy is a system of government where the wealthiest people in a country rule or possess the power, and thus govern directly or indirectly. Plutocracy is often linked to the term "dynastic wealth."

A plutocracy may not be the result of a planned system of government. Instead, plutocracies can gradually form by allowing sole access to essential political and educational resources that only the rich can afford.

The democratic concern of a plutocracy is that the wealthy will wish to maintain their power and, therefore, only represent the interests of the wealthy as opposed to people of all levels of education and income."

Sound familiar boys and girls?

pedro-the-cat 3 hours ago

The same people who go through the ranks in DC as young people end up being appointed to big positions as payback for "services rendered". Barr is but one example. If he is out for justice, then I am the King of Siam.

This is the way it has always been. Trump upended their "thing" and now both parties are pulling out all the stops to get him out.

If Trump does not serve a second term and this vote is given to Biden, a curtain will slam down on the U.S.

The aftermath will make Soviet Russia look like a birthday party in comparison.

Beaker99 3 hours ago

Barr is one of my biggest disappointments. I really thought he was going to bring some accountability to the other side. Shame on me for not realizing he was installed as AG to make sure exactly that did not happen.

Normally Aspirated 54 minutes ago (Edited) remove link

As a non American with nothin invested in US politics, I am still amazed that the US republicans still have faith in Trump. He has achieved nothing except for Israel and his families cronies.

He may have said the things that require change but he achieved nothing.

He made mistake after mistake and, still fails to learn. He is either dumb OR he is not who he claims to be. Indeed, he may be involved in the whole thing. I think he's simply playing a part. A role, not dissimilar to some TV Host on a TV show.

Either way, he has proven that he's no leader, has no conviction, has no insight with people and, fails to identify a HUGE opportunity afforded to him at those rallies for him to lead the country and her people by providing leadership and direction. He lacks political intelligence or any conviction for the saving of the Republic.

Trump is simply in it for Trump! He is wasting your hope.

[Dec 29, 2020] Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet by Matt Taibbi

How you can overheat economy that is in permanent stagnation mode (secular stagnation)? This is nonsense. What Larry is actually afraid of but can't say is the staut of the dollar the world reserve currency.
You can almost physically sense the level of hate toward "neoliberal scum" in comments below
Dec 29, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News

Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama, president of Harvard, and Chief Economist at the World Bank, wrote a post-Christmas editorial for Bloomberg entitled, " Trump's $2000 Stimulus Checks are a Big Mistake ." It's a classic:

Some argue that while $2,000 checks may not be optimal support for the post-Covid economy, taking stimulus from $600 to $2,000 is better than nothing. They need to ask themselves whether they would favor $5,000, or $10,000 -- or more. There must be a limiting principle.

The genesis of this Summers article is a perfect tale in microcosm about how America's intellectual elite manages to lose elections to people like Donald Trump. It's a two-step error. First, they put people like Summers in charge of economic policies. Then, they let them talk in public.

Summers the day before Christmas appeared on Bloomberg to offer his initial thoughts on why $2000 checks must be bad: he looked at which politicians were supporting the plan, and worked backward. "When I see a coalition of Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump getting behind an idea, I think that's time to run for cover," he said, adding: "When you see the two extremes agreeing, you can almost be certain that something crazy is in the air."

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After delivering that cheery message, Summers got feces-pelted on the Internet:

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Seeing that his comments "lit up the Twittersphere," Summers then sat down to compose an article doubling down on his reasoning. Essentially, he argued that from an econometric point of view, we're already overdoing it on the help front. If you were under the impression that huge numbers of people are living off meals from food banks and/or are at risk in an eviction crisis , you were wrong.

Noting that "total employee compensation" is "only running about $30 billion per month behind the Covid baseline," he insisted that $200 billion more in tax rebates per month over the next quarter would "equal an additional seven times the loss of household wage and salary income over the next quarter."

He then showed a graph explaining that "because of the legislation passed in 2020, total household income has exceeded normal levels relative to the economy's potential more or less since the pandemic began." The good news, as a result, is that "the existing stimulus bill is sufficient to elevate household income relative to the economy's potential to abnormally high levels -- unheard of during an economic downturn."

The whole piece reads like an extended New Yorker cartoon, in which an evictee with empty pockets is about to dive after a rotten apple core in a dumpster, only to be blocked by a cauldron-bellied Harvard economist in a $3000 Zegna suit. Caption: " Actually, total household income relative to the economy's potential sits at abnormally high levels ."

There are of course different positions one could take on the question of stimulus checks, but the issue with people like Summers is the utter predictability of their stances. Summers belongs to a club of neoliberal thinkers who've dominated American policy for decades. From Bob Rubin to Tim Geithner to Jason Furman to Michael Froman and beyond, the people one friend jokingly refers to as the "Rubino Crime Family" are all basically the same person, affectless technocrats who play up reputations as giant-brained intellectuals -- I always imagine them with bulbous Alien Nation heads -- while reveling in cold, hard truths about the limits of government assistance.

Read the rest here .

Lordflin 3 hours ago

The people are seen as cattle...

And this by an inbred group of gluttons who couldn't survive without the life they drain from others...

yerfej 3 hours ago remove link

That is the key "the life they drain from others". I have no issue with those who work their aysses off keeping their just rewards, but this kind of insider filth needs a lamppost.

two hoots 1 hour ago

Summers and those of his Jabba class know that uncontrolled Congressional giving could cause collateral damage to their lifestyles. So does every comfortable class below them. It all depends where you are positioned. Here on ZH i find people playing all sides of the class game to whatever suits their current mood of us/them others. The more an event can affect us directly determines where we direct our dislikes...up or down...inconsistently.

Doom Porn Star 1 hour ago

ALL politicians and 'public servants' who advocateor demand lockdowns and restrictions should cede ALL pay, benefits and accrual of all retirement or other benefits for the duration of ANY lockdown or restriction of ANY kind.

Those who advocate or demand sacrificed should make first, fullest largest sacrifices.

The whole lot of fascist 'some animals are better than others' lot should be thrown in gitmo or equivalent.

The_Dude 3 hours ago (Edited)

Study what Summer's and his (((ilk))) did to pillage post - Soviet Russia and you will understand who is untouchable in this society... And why in more sophisticated societies, they were always kept at the periphery where they couldn't harm others.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-boys-do-russia/

Doom Porn Star 3 hours ago

Larry 'Dinner with Epstein' Summers has put more than his foot in his mouth.

BlueLightning 3 hours ago

O boy he's scared now

sgt_doom 2 hours ago (Edited)

Isn't Larry Summers the chief poster boy of the Global Banking Cartel ever since he inserted the credit derivatives clause in the WTO's Financial Services Agreement*** making it acceptable legal tender?

Believe that was during the Clinton Administration.

Is Larry still a lobbyist for the cental bankers? Oh yes, his photo is still there:

https://group30.org/members

***[Credit to Greg Palast for uncovering this item.]

Arising 2.0 2 hours ago (Edited)

Larry is a cabal member who has always been out of touch with the 'silly goy'.

iambrambles 3 hours ago

The real question is why trillions to foreign govs and corporations.

$2000/American is chump change and isnt what anyone should be focusing on.

America never had the right fiscal priorities, people tend to forget the brilliance of the US was with the constitution that enabled more freedoms than before.

But fiscally, America was always doomed after the absolution of the gold standard and the creation of the federal reserve which allowed for endless government largesse.

ElTerco 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

"negative consequences of aid to the less fortunate..."

Yet, no mention from Larry of negative consequences of aid to the more fortunate, which, so far this year, has been around 40x as much money.

ElTerco 2 hours ago (Edited)

The $10+ trillion that has been pumped into the US economy so far has been a firehose to top earners, while people who lost their jobs got a trickle of runoff as it worked its way down the street through a very long, crap filled gutter.

Funny how Summers never mentioned *that*.

Max21c 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link

"When I see a coalition of Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump getting behind an idea, I think that's time to run for cover," he said, adding: "When you see the two extremes agreeing, you can almost be certain that something crazy is in the air."

Thus is just more elitist nonsense from the silly conventional wisdom of Washingtonians, elites, and the Democratic Party establishment. Bernie Sanders was a solid and strong and energetic candidate and he could have had a chance of beating Trump in a free & fair election had the Party nomination not been fixed and stolen from him by elites and their puppet press smear campaigns.

Democrats made a mistake in attacking and undermining Bernie Sanders. Since much of what has transpired this past year has been massive increases in domestic spending and some social spending. Bernie Sanders could have beat Trump--fair and square--whereas the Crats had to cheat with Biden and steal the election. Had the Democratic Party not stolen the election from Sanders it likely Sanders would have had a significant opportunity to beat Trump. Since Sanders was positioned right/correctly to be competitive in contrast and have some edge with a significant part of the public on peace, foreign policy, domestic policy, and social spending agendas. Would have been a tight race with Sanders versus Trump instead of the fraud and fraudulent election of 2020. Definitely would have been a tossup on balance. Would have been even harder if Sanders had teamed with Tulsi Gabbard as they would have had a serious edge in foreign policy. But both Sanders and Gabbard are official pariahs and lepers in the Democratic Party and its establishment as well as in the Washington establishment. Sanders had the issues and would have had the momentum to give Trump a serious run for the money had he not be forced aside in favor of the establishment candidate in a series of rigged primaries and media smear campaigns and other subterfuge & Machavellian intrigues.

Max21c 1 hour ago (Edited)

I don't have issue with the size of company but do not like state sponsored industry whereby the state security apparatus heavily favors state industries and state sponsored industries--and--the secret police community and intelligence community and political class ensure that the statals/SEO and state backed companies are protected by the state security apparatus... The government doesn't have any business being used by Washingtonians, JudeoWASP elites, Ivy Leaguers and their secret police to using military warmaking powers in the secret police and intelligence community to rob one and redistribute back to state industries and state sponsored industries and favor elites and their firms using secret police powers... That's what both the Bolsheviks and Nazis did... It's the banana republoc and police state and tyranny...

The socialism Bernie was talking about seemed more his advocating for increases in social spending. The socialism Washington currently practices both openly and secretively & covertly and illegally through abuses of secret police powers and state secrecy is much more dangerous than what Bernie was advocating. The current socialist system as practiced by Washingtonians and their secret police does much more damage to the country. The police state socialism is much worse than the social spending games.

Bay Area Guy 2 hours ago remove link

LOL. How do you overheat a dead economy? No real growth (inflation adjusted) in at least 20 years; real unemployment at least 12.5% and probably north of 20%; this DESPITE interest rates at all time lows and likely to go negative. And this fool is talking about overheating the economy.

Max21c 2 hours ago remove link

If they can handout hundreds of billions to businesses under a questionable government to business subsidy program that has been previously fraught with fraud, inefficiencies in timeliness & appropriateness and geographical distribution. Also, such government to biz programs which shall likely fail to serve both business and the economy effectively both by practice and natural elements: such as some businesses being located in areas with a more sophisticated biz culture; and set of skills; as well as access to better educated & possibly more skillful entrepreneurs and cultures thereof; as well as some firms being simply better positioned; as well as some firms being more program wise or welfare wise; and still other firms being better tuned in or connected to the political system and or its bureaucracy. Given the afore situation the money is better spent on a basis of widely scattered and unpredictable et uncontrollable and thus not as apt to manipulation as well as a direct to households holding the advantage of timeliness.

About 4k is about right for the floor/minimum on the basis of 2k in the form of a stimulus and another matching 2k+ coming from forwarded tax rebates for future years which can be paid back through payroll deductions or which can be paid back similar to installment loans monthly or quarterly.

2k shall suffice in the near term as to stimulating consumer spending, consumer confidence, business confidence, sales & revenues & profits or the improvement in the outlook of a future return to profitability and the confidence & risks taking that comes with firms seeking current and future profits and potentially making investments and pursuing loans and the potential for an earlier uptick in the credit cycle as banks may change their outlook on lending sooner than they might otherwise.

[Dec 28, 2020] Trump folded and signed the pork-laden spending and covid-19 bill by Robert Willmann

Dec 28, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com

President Trump has signed the estimated $2.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. Its 5,593 pages are stuffed with pork to grease domestic and foreign hands in order to get it passed for the piddling $600 for some people in the U.S., and possibly more for some illegal immigrants. Referred to as House Resolution 133, the copy still sits at the House Committee on Rules. Divided up into Divisions A-FF, it may be the longest law ever passed by Congress. Divisions 'M' and 'N' are for "corona virus response and relief"--

https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf

Trump is signing H.R. 133 in exchange for promises, instead of getting the promises passed by Congress first, and then signing all the bills at once. But this was probably done because the government would run out of other people's money on Monday night, 28 December, and some sort of partial government shutdown would then happen [1].

When the Internet was getting underway for the general public with slow dialup connections over a telephone line, some computer technology companies planned for the future and got Congress -- under the name of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 -- to give them legal liability protection like a common carrier and almost as good as a telephone company. If someone uses a telephone to slander and defame someone, or plan or carry out crime, the telephone company cannot be sued in a civil lawsuit, nor can it be charged with a crime as a party or co-conspirator, including for such things as robbery and murder. It is a "common carrier", and acts as a neutral carrier of communications between people, although a phone company does have to abide by laws concerning such things as wiretapping. The phone companies used to keep your call records private (the "subscriber information"), unless a court order was obtained.

However, after the George W. Bush administration started the illegal domestic surveillance program, it also secretly got the phone companies (except for Qwest) to agree to hand over your calling information in clear violation of the law restricting disclosure without a court order. Lawsuits were filed because a phone company was liable for $1,000 for each disclosure. With millions of customers, that added up to billions of dollars, but Congress kneeled down and gave the phone companies retroactive immunity for their misconduct. Then section 215 of the USA Patriot Act amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow easier collection of call-detail records, and the FISA court, operating in secret, was told by the government that everybody's phone metadata was "relevant", and the "judges" went along with it. This misuse of the statute became well known to the public in 2013. But the computer tech companies quietly got their own protection starting in 1996.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Repub. Kentucky) has stabbed Trump in the back about voting fraud in the election by calling his former colleague Joe Biden the president-elect, and by trying to prevent any senator from objecting on 6 January 2021 about the effect of voting fraud on the Electoral College. Now Congress has gotten its massive appropriations bill for this fiscal year signed.

Trump may otherwise be engaging in wishful thinking, except for maybe an increased payment from $600 to $2,000 for many people barely able to tread water financially. In the meantime, employees of the local, state, and federal governments have continued to get paid since March 2020.

Continue reading "Trump signs the pork-laden spending and covid-19 bill. Maybe a vote to come on more money and section 230." "

[Dec 27, 2020] Think of how little these people actually care about Americans and their future

Dec 27, 2020 | www.unz.com

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: December 26, 2020 at 8:40 pm GMT • 4.2 hours ago

It really is incredible when one goes to neutral and in quiet moments begins to wonder how two bit freaks like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and many far left violent activists, have been allowed to bring this country so low. Of course these two bit freaks also include the likes of Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, the Bush's and many more. Think of how little these people actually care about Americans and their future. These people of the lowest character and lacking in any love for their country represent no one but themselves and the toxic internationally minded elite they work for. It's surreal what has happened and is continuing to happen to this country.

[Dec 27, 2020] The case against secession

Secession is a very questionable idea even in view of neoliberals elite degradation and event getting out of hand. We'd have to consider the possibility the cure is worse than the disease. Dangers far outweighs benefits. Look at the disintegration of the USSR for inspiration. Standard of living dropped to the level of Central Africa very quickly. Jewish oligarchs grabbed national resources and left everybody hanging dry.
The author is way too simplistic. It is not whites against non-white. It is neoliberal globalists against neoliberal nationalists (Trumpists). Both factions of the neoliberal elite are evil. And working and lower middle class is nowhere to go for political representation. Two party system guarantee that this situation can't be changed.
America was an Anglo nation-state that became a multi-national empire. There is not way back.
Dec 27, 2020 | www.unz.com

The Case for Secession, by Thomas Dalton - The Unz Review

Now that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime and their Jewish entourage are measuring the curtains at the White House, it's time to consider next steps. As bad as things are for White America today, they are about to get a lot worse. Physical, psychological, moral, and political threats hang over all our heads. We are being dispossessed in our own nation. The situation is grim but not hopeless. We have options.

In the continental US, 24 states voted majority for Trump, including some of our most populous ones: Texas, Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina, among them. The 10 largest Trump states comprise over 100 million people, and all 24 combined are pushing 150 million. This is a considerable block of people, with a considerable amount of power -- political and otherwise. If these people wish to retain a modicum of self-determination -- not to mention self-respect -- they will have to consider the strongest possible actions. These actions include the possibility of literal secession from the United States. It's time to examine that option with all seriousness.

Biden's Jewish-Diversity Retinue

First, let's be clear about the threat posed by the incoming administration. Even at this early point, it is clear that they hold an antipathy toward Whites, especially White males, and that they intend to either do as little as possible to support and represent White interests, or worse, to actively impede and harm those interests. Of course, we don't yet know what the actual policies will be, but we can make reasonable inferences based on who Biden has appointed to his Cabinet thus far.

Of his " top 16 " picks to date, we find the following: four White males (Brian Deese, Denis McDonough, Tom Vilsack, and Jake Sullivan); five Blacks, of whom four are women (Lloyd Austin, Marcia Fudge, Susan Rice, Cecilia Rouse, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield); one Indian woman (Neera Tander); one Hispanic man (Xavier Becerra) -- and five Jews (Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, Ron Klain, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Janet Yellen).

Here we see a few points of interest. First, there are no White women at all -- given that Jews are not White, at least not in the relevant sense of identifying as part of the traditional White population of America. [1] Second, Blacks and Jews each have more representation than Whites among the top 16, which is amazing in itself, given that Blacks (12.8%) and Jews (circa 2%) are distinct minorities in this country. Third, at least one of the White men, Jake Sullivan, has proven himself to be remarkably philo-Semitic; his appointment "drew broad praise from Jewish leaders," and his wife, Maggie Goodlander, worked extensively with influential Jews like Joe Lieberman, Stephen Breyer, and Merrick Garland (see here ). Fourth, we have an interesting "double-banger" in Mayorkas, who manages to be both Cuban and Jewish, thus checking two important boxes. Fifth, by placing Yellen in charge of the US Treasury, Biden continues a long, nearly-unbroken line of Jews in charge of the top US financial institution. [2]

Furthermore, Biden has placed yet more Jews in important positions among his second tier. These include the half-Jewish John Kerry (environmental advisor), Jared Bernstein (council of economic advisors), Rochelle Walensky (head of CDC), and Jeff Zients (Covid czar and "counsellor to the president").

And then, of course, we have the infamous "family ties" among both Biden and Harris. Biden's three adult children all managed to acquire Jewish spouses: Hunter married "filmmaker" Melissa Cohen in 2019, daughter Ashley married Howard Krein in 2012, and (the now-deceased) Beau married the Jewish dry-cleaning scion Hallie Olivere in 2002. For her part, Kamala Harris married the Jewish lawyer Doug Emhoff in 2014, so we can be sure where her sympathies lie -- as if there was any doubt. Bottom line: Look for lots of policies favoring Jews and Israelis, and little in the way of support for the 61% of Americans who are White. Look for so-called open borders (i.e. very generous immigration and amnesty policies), for promotion of all kinds of 'racial sensitivity' awareness and training, and for increased attacks on "hate speech," that is, on anything that the minority-laden Judeocracy decides that it doesn't like.

Observator , says: December 22, 2020 at 12:53 pm GMT • 4.5 days ago

Come take a walk through the south after the war. The bitter fruit of secession is everywhere: in every city and town, one legged men hobbling on crutches, empty sleeves pinned up where arms once were, and worst of all, the leather masks worn by so many to hide the holes where shot-away noses and cheeks and chins had been. Take a good look: this is what the folly of secession wrought, "a new standard of masculine beauty" based on mutilation, as southern historian Shelby Foote so eloquently phrased it.

The southern Confederacy was fundamentally a moral failure. Secession fanatics did as most politicians do, only more so, corrupted our language and our symbols of freedom and perverted our national heroes. They held no beloved ideal or philosophy as tightly as their love of wealth. Give any one of them a heavy sack of gold coins or a feather-light declaration of liberty (as one author put it), and see which one he surrenders first. You see these old vultures preying on the young, boys ruled by the rising tide of emotions, the ones cynical old politicians and businessmen and army men use against them to convince them to fight and die, to slip out of this life in agony decades before their time, or to spend the rest of their brief lifetimes maimed in body or mind.

Think twice, then think a third time, before you follow their mad example into catastrophe, for no one, but no one, stands with you this time around.

KenR , says: December 22, 2020 at 5:42 pm GMT • 4.3 days ago
@Observator it comes to question of secession today, I wonder if we are ready for it? It would be pointless to engage in such peril if the resulting patchwork of liberated states isn't prepared to fend of the very same ills and subversions that poisoned the union they left. No doubt truth does exist in the notion that the process itself offers inoculation, forms an education and a keener awareness among the people of our foes. The problem is that right now at this stage people can't even widely seem to identify their enemies and the poisons that ail them. It does no good to revolt only to re-affirm the same busted ideas that led to ruination.
G J T , says: December 26, 2020 at 5:27 am GMT • 19.4 hours ago

Separation will only happen if globohomoshlomo decides it's advantageous to them. It would be a temporary solution to a MUCH larger problem, that Jews already have a plan for.

The more likely outcome is Jews decide the USA has outlived its usefulness and they need a new host to maintain their global hegemony. That host will be China and since they share so many traits in common (including the ability to manipulate one another and come out on top) the Jews will never, ever allow whites to create our own breakaway state within the USA. They can and will light the fuse and blow it into a million pieces before they allow such a thing.

Jews are gearing up to pull the plug on ZOG USA, but it's not going to be a peaceful separation of red and blue states. It's going to be a plundering of the USA far worse than what they did to the USSR. They've pozzed the military for this very reason; because Jews play the long game better than anyone else. Did you really think they'd force faggots and trannies into our military and expect those creatures to defend THEIR interests? Of course not.

The Chinese may not think it's possible, but the Jews are going to make China what the USA is now. Don't forget, there was a time when "elected" officials in the US didn't slavishly bend over to Jews, but expected something in return for their betrayal of their country. China will go through the same process, where at first they think it's a net-gain. By the time they realize it's not, the USA will not exist. Not that they will care.

Balkanization isn't the answer. Standing up to Jewish power, and treating them as the nation-wreckers they are, is.

rgl , says: December 26, 2020 at 6:01 am GMT • 18.9 hours ago

Do it. Secede. Secession would mean, without a doubt, war. That can only be viewed as a good thing. For every American killing other Americans, that is one less American killing some poor overseas fuck – who, in the main isn't white – whose only crime was harvesting olives. Or getting married. Or going the hospital. Or doing reportage.

Do it.

Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Website December 26, 2020 at 6:20 am GMT • 18.6 hours ago
@Ann Nonny Mouse

To repeat, great article on almost every point. But it would be better to create two new republics. It is essential that the present USA be wiped out, but those secessions are by far the best way to do it. Almost all Americans would survive, and two secessions would vastly reduce America's threat to the world.

Juri , says: December 26, 2020 at 6:26 am GMT • 18.5 hours ago

I do not believe that nobody has the courage and willpower to secede. And if by some miracle it happens, then liberals take it over like they did with every last thing you had.

Like the UK . Only thing they got with their Brexit, was tougher communism.

Secession by the nature is escapism. And the people who`s only solution to problems is running away, will never fight and defend anything they have.

This is also reason, why gun`s are legal. Regime is sure that people will never ever use those guns, so there is no point to grab them.

notoneofthem , says: December 26, 2020 at 6:57 am GMT • 17.9 hours ago

The only way Jews are "not white", is if you are using the term "White" in a religeous/political sense like the term "White Russian" wich meant a White Christian specifically.
In that sense it is accurate since Jews are definately not Christians and have a distinct identity that is different from White European Christians.
However from a strictly biological standpoint it is really not accurate to say that they are not white.
Bioligically speaking if you take away all the cultural/religeous identity and just look at biology you can easily identify someone being white by simply looking at them. Is thier skin white?
They may be hostile to white European, Christian culture but thier skin is still White, just like White liberal[ non-Jewish] may be just as hostile.
So you are turning "White" into more of a cultural identity than a biological classification.

Lebanese, Syrians, Iranians, nor any other light-skinned Arabs or Middle Easterners. [and Jews]
these people are all considered "White" by the United States Census Bureau.

Anon [240] Disclaimer , says: December 26, 2020 at 7:53 am GMT • 17.0 hours ago

The first thing I do as President Harris is to stop all social security checks, medicare, medicaid, pensions, food stamps, student loans, and currency from entering the seceded states. Next, I charge the governors of the new states with treason, and send some FBI agents in helicopters and black SUVs to arrest and imprison them without bail. I also get court orders to place a lien on their house, and freeze their financial assets. It's over fast.

Btw, in a holiday newsletter I just received, I learned that an old friend of mine is preparing to decamp to Europe to live. What made it sobering is that he is a knowledgeable and analytical fellow, a Harvard Law School grad for what it's worth, and he's outta here.

GMC , says: December 26, 2020 at 8:55 am GMT • 16.0 hours ago

Sounds more like the Balkanization of the United States, and the end results, could be like Yugoslavia. IS there anybody in these States that are politically free , in order to begin this succession? Or will it end up being another American monkey F k. , because every State, has been infiltrated by the NWO shills, and this past election just showed it. As another commenter said – Americans need to understand – exactly , who their enemy is , before the War, to get back America – starts. Hopefully, if Biden's regime ends up in the WH, this will show the people – who their enemy is. We tried to get the peoples government back in Alaska , in the 70s and early 80s – the Establishment won out in the mid and late 80s. Mainly, because the Alaskans wouldn't get their asses, get their guns and demand it.

JackOH , says: December 26, 2020 at 8:56 am GMT • 16.0 hours ago
@KenR artling legitimacy enjoyed by our civil rights apparatus, which, in my opinion, is unduly punitive of White males who are completely innocent of causing injury to anyone. I'm talking of affirmative action, of course, which has been hijacked by corporate America to serve its purposes.

Maybe a politically minded writer with far better skills than I have could talk about the post-secession America that already exists . I'm thinking of the immense "population transfers" we call White flight. Seems to me that speaks to the already existing legitimacy of somehow separating from our deeply alienating Federal government.

Supply and Demand , says: December 26, 2020 at 9:06 am GMT • 15.8 hours ago

The seceding states would be in even worse shape than Civil War 1.0.

Feds infiltrating every militia group and imploding them, Rhodesia-tier bush wars in domestic territory, a hostile Mexico potentially developing a two front war and global sanctions a mile long.

I'm eager for all the Trumpers to try their boog and watch it get droned into dust, but it won't happen. Boomers simply aren't revolutionary material. 1968 proved that in spades.

Franz , says: December 26, 2020 at 9:11 am GMT • 15.7 hours ago
@anon

With the International Bill of Human Rights you get the rights the USA has kept out of your reach. With the UN Charter you stop the US farming your children for cannon fodder for US government wars .

Apex Predator , says: December 26, 2020 at 9:15 am GMT • 15.6 hours ago

Articles like this are why white nationalists are considered a lunatic fringe and a joke. A fairly well respected former officer and politician puts out some fighting words about Constitutionalists going there own way. Huge numbers of people would seriously entertain this idea. But leave it to the WN to come along and destroy it before it's born.

"Thanks so much Colonel West for the idea, but sorry, no niggers allowed!" I'm sure you are just going to have armies of normies and civnats beating down your door to LARP with you in your ethnostate.

Ron Unz wasn't wrong in his long essay about it being a loser movement who for 30 years hasn't been able to see the forest for the trees. Your (((enemies))) learned how to hide behind moderate ideas for decades and only pull the radical agenda out once they were in full control.

Apparently WN IQ levels can't grasp this mild subterfuge as a winning strategy. So enjoy a few more decades of impotent rage knowing you blew it when you had a chance to get normie-cons over to your side of the fence.

Just another serf , says: December 26, 2020 at 10:07 am GMT • 14.8 hours ago

"It is one of the great tragedies of history that a power-mad Abraham Lincoln -- a man who disliked Blacks and who actually, and correctly, sought to ship them back home to Africa[3] -- decided to sacrifice thousands of his fellow countrymen simply to save "the nation." In the end, some 650,000 American soldiers on both sides died Lincoln was, without doubt, the biggest war criminal in American history."

I suspect that the antipathy held toward white people by the powers that control Biden, are more genuinely homicidal than Lincoln's own ambition or that of the forces influencing him at the time. And I'm just guessing here, but whatever biases northerners and southerners held toward one another, they had to be organized into military units to routinely kill one another. Those non-whites presently aligned against white America have already begun the killing. There was never a need to issue them uniforms, divisional flags, etc. Several things suggest an even bloodier second war of secession.

GMC , says: December 26, 2020 at 11:14 am GMT • 13.7 hours ago
@Anon

That's is exactly what the US backed Kyiv government did to it's people in Ukraine – stopped all the pensioner checks , etc. etc. – and Donbass went East and so did Crimea. When the Neo Nazis and the Kyiv Armies went to invade Donbass – they killed 10,000+ but they also paid a huge price. They started to go to Crimea, but the Crimean men, Russian cossacks, the MC Club Nightwolves and the Russian marines were waiting. The big question – will Americans finally see their true enemies – and bring out their guns and fight.

Cthulu Smith , says: December 26, 2020 at 11:35 am GMT • 13.3 hours ago

I do not doubt a secession or, rather, a Balkanization is just over the horizon.

Interesting note: A former KGB scientist, years ago, forecast that the US would break itself apart and into three, possibly four groups, along with Alaska going to either Siberia or Canada, and Hawaii to China or Japan.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/map-of-the-day-ex-kgb-analyst-predicts-balkanization-of-us/58945/

Note the date: 2010. Ten years ago, eh? Interesting, yes.

Franz , says: December 26, 2020 at 11:54 am GMT • 13.0 hours ago
@Supply and Demand nd refused to run precisely because there was fear the situation was getting out of hand. Lyndon admitted it, noting that he was so associated with the war-of-the-moment that he didn't want his candidacy to pour gas on the fire.

Anybody doing that now? A local vet from the Iraq War was complaining at the local bar just the other night that he wished like hell there was some street action about foreign wars Trump said he'd end. He didn't mean BLM, that greatest of all egghead-inspired diversions.

"Revolutionary material" might have left the country during the soporific decades between Reagan and now . It sure was alive in '68.

Juri , says: December 26, 2020 at 12:24 pm GMT • 12.5 hours ago
@GeneralRipper

Then why will Biden and his Commie fags try to "grab" or tax them out of the hands of common men and women

?

Because of collapsing brain dead Empires do irrational things. At the very end, Soviet Union did also weird tricks. Why this half dead Biden become president at all ? In the late Soviet Union, we were also ruled by corpses.

TKK , says: December 26, 2020 at 12:59 pm GMT • 11.9 hours ago
@Wyatt alls or bribes. Where a medical appointment involves a nappy headed idiot speaking ebonics giving you a drug that will cause kidney or liver failure.

And if you complain, if you demand basic white competence- you are arrested, fined, or worse.

If you stop and think of the insanity- the ghoulish joke- of working to pay taxes to support entitled lazy sorry belligerents, to keep them fed and housed and coddled to only replace us -- you will either kill yourself, leave the country or become a very violent man.

The most dangerous people are the ones who have nothing to lose. That is the working class white man.

Trickster , says: December 26, 2020 at 2:28 pm GMT • 10.4 hours ago

Secession means destruction and heartache. Infrastructure as we know it will be destroyed. No heat, no electricity, no water.

The average American is accustomed to the easy life .video games, fast food, weed and porn. How many people can live with just one change of clothes if that, sleep in a hole outdoors, eat every few days and piss and shit behind a bush, rarely clean their rotting teeth, bathe whenever they can and suffer cold, heat, thirst and hunger ? The US is 68% + OBESE ! Living like an animal outdoors is going to thin a lot of these unfit fucks who sit all day and drive the one minute to the convenience store to get a bag of chips and a soda.

Large US cities would become sheer hell holes, where would the residents of a NY high rise get their water and food. And the "sophisticated" folks who have never slept in the woods would piss their pants at the animal noises at night and the bugs.

Even the "hard ass cons" relaxing in Club Fed demand heated cells, proper sanitation, clean clothes and 3 squares. Anything less is considered abuse.

Secession my ass ! And if by chance we do go that route and are successful then ALL non whites and non christians (sympathetic or not) have to be evicted or we will be in the same boat in the future.

It looks like Apartheid and Adolph knew a thing or two HUH ?

Radicalcenter , says: December 26, 2020 at 4:45 pm GMT • 8.1 hours ago
@rgl

Sadly, if I were on the receiving end of the us government's many, many, many aggressive, nondefensive, nonretaliatory wars, cruel sanctions, drone attacks on civilians, arming and aiding savage Islamist terrorists, etc., I would feel the same way.

But I am an American and we have children.

Whatever happens, the us government will lose much of its ability to inflict wanton murder, terror, poverty, and displacement on tens of millions of people far abroad who pose no threat to us. I pray we can achieve that without mass violence over here.

TKK , says: December 26, 2020 at 5:38 pm GMT • 7.3 hours ago

The future of white America .?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ba3E-Ha5Efc?feature=oembed

Begemot , says: December 26, 2020 at 7:02 pm GMT • 5.9 hours ago

It could come down to war, at least in some form, and many in the military would doubtless support the secession. We need not worry about cruise missiles raining down on Dallas or Columbus, or tanks rolling through the Indiana plains [emphasis added], but we can imagine federal troops being compelled to take some sort of action.

Look what happened in Ukraine's Donbass when the people of Donbass tried to secede: armored battles, Scarab missiles and artillery targeting cities, air attacks, and atrocities. Don't think it wouldn't be like that here, if not worse, if it came to another civil war. Wars destroy far more than they preserve.

This whole piece is the vaporings of a Mittyesque scholar, all "sound and fury, signifying nothing".

annamaria , says: December 26, 2020 at 11:18 pm GMT • 1.6 hours ago
@Trickster

One cannot overlook the role of 'locals' in letting the evil in. See Edgar Hoover (the assassination of JFK), Lyndon Johnson (the betrayal of the USSLiberty), the Clintons (the mass-slaughter of white people in defenseless Serbia and Ukraine and destruction of Libya to please the Banksters), the Bush family of war profiteers, and Dick Cheney of 9/11 fame. Who were the authors of the traitorous and pompous Patriot Act?
USA PATRIOT is a backronym that stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.

[Dec 27, 2020] This year found a spectacularly bad ex President put his thumb on a primary

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Pat , December 25, 2020 at 6:26 am

2020 just keeps getting crappier. This is the year when I have had to bow down and accept that there is some line in the sand which past means that it doesn't matter how spectacularly wrong you have been you still get treated as some sort of expert. You would think the fact that Kissinger and Albright not being pariahs would have made that clear long ago, but no I still clung to the belief that actions have consequences.

This year found a spectacularly bad ex President put his thumb on a primary to give the nomination to a racist misogynistic geezer with cognitive issues whose entire time as a public official was as a bank bagman who fought to destroy the middle class, criminalize being a poor minority, increase the police state, indemnify banks and major corporations from criminal acts, and force bad neoliberal economic policies on other countries by force.

That is when he wasn't selling access for profit, lying whenever possible and plagiarising others work. When this "paragon" won we got retreads from the spectacularly bad ex president's administration along with suggestions for positions for CEOs known for destroying well run and ethical corporations leaving shells in their place. But the best is the return of Summers, whose history of hubris and failure should have made him hard pressed to get a job as a night gas station attendant.

The only response anyone should see to this "advice" was: "If Summers is against this and fears its effect on the economy that can only mean the economy must need that payment to not only be that large but be two or three times larger. Forget how mean and cruel his attitude is about Americans in need, except to say perhaps it is long past time to strip him of all income and most of his savings in order to keep the economy from getting overheated so he can learn what the economy actually looks like." But no he is still accorded some respect.

Carla , December 25, 2020 at 8:11 am

Oh, Pat actions only have consequences for the little people.

How many times and in how many ways do our dear leaders have to demonstrate this before we get it?

[Dec 27, 2020] Larry Summers' Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic- -Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound"

Summers and the financial press don't speak of asset price inflation as overheating. No, our elites would very much like stock prices to rise to infinity forever and ever.
Trump's sincerity regarding the $2,000 can be suspect but he has some skill at making the regulars in Washington look ridiculous hypocrites but that's not hard to do
People are angry and that creates problem for neoliberal elite. They tried Russia bogeyman to distract people's attention (Look squirrel), but that did not work.
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none , December 25, 2020 at 5:07 am

I'm terrified of the cruelty Summers would inflict on the dogs in a dog pound if he were allowed to run one. His sadism would run completely rampant.

Kurtismayfield , December 25, 2020 at 9:47 am

Yep.. 2 trillion of liquidity pumped into the economy by the Fed, 2.3 Trillion in the CARES act.. not a peep about inflation on his Twitter. (I looked.. he fully supported all of the spending).

But give $0.5 trillion directly to people.. inflation boogeyman comes out.

[Dec 25, 2020] Bernie's "revolution" was really nothing other than an electoral campaign, after all

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uncle tungsten , Dec 24 2020 21:57 utc | 30

Yasha Levine offer some sober end of year clarification. Always a good writer and thinker.

An extract:

It might have been easy for people to believe that there was surging leftwing movement in American politics while Bernie Sanders' star was rising in 2016 and 2020. I had always been skeptical about how deeply that left movement actually went, but even I -- cynical as I am -- started believing in it a bit last winter. Shit. Bernie has a chance, I thought. Maybe there is something real happening here. But then he got crushed, endorsed drooling Joe Biden, licked the "we can move him left" boot, ducked out of the fight, and exposed a totally barren political left landscape. Turns out that Bernie's "revolution" was really nothing other than an electoral campaign, after all -- and that campaign and all the organizational energy it harnessed dissolved immediately with his candidacy. What did it leave behind? Not much, other than huge platforms for a few top influencers and political operatives who leveraged the Bern into lucrative Patreon and Substack careers.

Who am I talking about? Well, people like David Sirota, who seems to have taken his official Bernie campaign Substack newsletter and privatized its massive email list post-election for personal profit. Or his comrade Briahna Joy Gray, who just launched a podcast with a Chapo cohost that's already raking in more than $35,000 a month. Meanwhile, the people whose interests these two Bernie operatives had represented -- the millions who gave Bernie a few bucks -- are being immiserated more and more. David and Briahna are now on different sides of the Force the Vote fight, arguing endlessly on platforms with multi-tiered subscription offers. And what service do these leftwing influencers provide to the people? As far as I can tell, not much other than distraction and politics-as-entertainment. It's all very fucking grim.

Good luck to all for the year ahead and particularly good luck to Yemen, Iran and Venezuela and all those nations being jackbooted by the USAi. PEACE please.

[Dec 25, 2020] Sorry, Americans: no candies for you this Christmas:

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vk , Dec 24 2020 16:05 utc | 10

Sorry, Americans: no candies for you this Christmas:

Congress Blocks Trump's Request to Increase COVID Relief Aid Amid Looming Government Shutdown

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Joke of the week: this time, we have a double-header, from the same newspaper:

[Dec 25, 2020] The narcissistic sociopaths and their parsimonious $600 offer get totally played by Trump.

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uncle tungsten , Dec 24 2020 23:37 utc | 33

The narcissistic sociopaths and their parsimonious $600 offer get totally played by Trump.

Joe Biden at the centre of the insult to the USA citizens and Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi fawning all over his discounted compassion.

Scumbags like these top four are the sign that the US citizens have ZERO champions in their national leadership.

[Dec 25, 2020] The Rise and Fall of Conservatism in Michigan, by E. Michael Jones - The Unz Review

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In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two seminal decisions ratifying social engineering as the deep grammar of American life. Berman v. Parker established urban renewal as a form of ethnic cleansing, and Brown v. School Board , turned public schools into vehicles of social engineering based on race. Following Brown v. School Board , race, not religion, became the source of ethnic identity in America. The oligarchs chose race because they believed in the Roman motto " divide et impera ."

Two years after the annus mirabilis of 1953, William F. Buckley launched National Review , most probably with the same CIA backing that launched Encounter . As we all probably know, William F. Buckley was a CIA agent. When I asked Joe Sobran if National Review were a CIA front, he told me he didn't know. He had signed on as a young writer at National Review to fight Communism and didn't care where the funds to do it came from. Murray Rothbard, another member of the conservative pantheon of the 1950s and 1960s, wasn't so hesitant. Rothbard was "convinced that the whole National Review is a CIA operation."[5] That quote was taken from John Judis's article "William F. Buckley, Jr., The Consummate Conservative," which appeared in the September 1981 issue of The Progressive . In that article, Judis explains how "after WWII and the birth of the National Security State in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency created, fostered, and molded the synthetic ideological movement known as 'Conservatism.'" According to Charles Burris:

It was "former" deep cover CIA agent Buckley and intelligence community veterans of the OSS and CIA (James Burnham, Willmore Kendall, Priscilla Buckley, and William Casey) who launched National Review , which became the premier publication of this phony "conservative movement." Buckley called Burnham, who had been a leading Trostykist communist WWII consultant for the Office of Strategic Services, and later head of the Political and Psychological Warfare division of the Office of Policy Coordination of the Central Intelligence Agency, "the number one intellectual influence on National Review since the day of its founding." Buckley and NR shaped and set the stentorian dogmatic tone for such "conservatives" for decades, purging and declaring any alternative voices on the Right anathema. Author John T. McManus, in his critical biography of the Buckley described him as the "Pied Piper for the Establishment."[6]

Burnham's concept of managerial elites usurping representative government made a big impression on a Southern boy by the name of Sam Francis, who took the concept and explained how the elites had created in reaction a group he called "Middle American Radicals," whom he defined as "essentially middle-income, white, often ethnic voters who see themselves as an exploited and dispossessed group: excluded from meaningful political participation: threatened by the tax and trade policies of the government: victimized by the tolerance of crime, immigration, and social deviance, and ignored, ridiculed, or demonized by the major cultural institutions of the media and education."[7]

Both Pat Buchanan and Joe Sobran contributed to the book, Shots Fired , which was the source of that quote. Aside from that fact, these three men had something else in common: they were all betrayed by William F. Buckley as part of that man's campaign to purge anyone who disagreed with the CIA's version of conservatism from the conservative movement. In a pie ce which took up an entire issue of National Review, Buckley accused both Buchanan and Sobran of anti-Semitism. Buckley also traveled in person to Washington to the offices of The Washington Times and demanded that Sam Francis be fired. In spite of what Russell Kirk said in 1953, conservatism was never about principle, and certainly not about maintaining moral principle. It was always a CIA black op run by commissars like Buckley according to the whims of the oligarchs, who turned out to be increasingly Jewish as time went on.

Expelled from the synagogue of conservatism, Sam Francis became a white guy because nature abhors a vacuum and, having been raised in the South, that is how he saw his identity. A white guy, in case you don't know, is a Protestant who no longer goes to church. Tom Fleming, editor of Chronicles , tried to keep this fact from the public by censoring Sam Francis's articles, but eventually the truth came out to the embarrassment of all concerned.

Shortly before he died, Sam sponsored a talk in Washington by John Tyndall, founder of the British National Party. During his talk, Tyndall tried to explain how we should all be proud of being white guys and gave Elizabethan England as an example of their achievement. My friend and associate Gerry Bruen looked at me when Tyndall made this claim, because the same thought occurred to both of us. Wasn't Elizabethan England the place where Catholic priests could be and were hanged until not quite dead and then drawn and quartered for saying the Mass? Were Catholics white? When Gerry asked Tyndall if the Irish were white, Tyndall replied with obvious distaste that of course they were. "My mother is Irish," he said hoping to end this train of thought. At that point Sam Francis turned to him and asked, "Are Jews white?" To which Mr. Tyndall had no answer.

I mentioned that incident and tried to answer that question at the memorial which was held in Sam's honor at the National Press Club. I was in the middle of writing the book The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and I thought the time was opportune to broach the question. But I was wrong. It was as if I had just lobbed a hand grenade into the room. Taki said we were all going to be arrested. Peter Brimelow rebuked me by saying that he liked Elizabethan England, doubtless because he would have enjoyed seeing me being drawn and quartered. No one was willing to admit that race had replaced conservatism because conservatism had already collapsed. Nature abhors a vacuum. Sam Francis's intellectual odyssey was proof of that. Sam would spawn intellectual offspring as well. Richard Spenser, by way of his mentor Paul Gottfried, who was also at the Sam Francis memorial, floated the new idea of the white race as the latest manifestation of Middle-American Radical spirit in Charlottesville in 2017, where he handed out spears and told the white boys to charge the machine gun nest. The white boys then got mowed down by a "chubby Lesbian kike" by the name of Roberta Kaplan, who is still pursing lawsuits against them to this day.

Lindbergh's Speech

William F. Buckley didn't just purge individuals. He worked avidly to expel groups like the John Burch Society from the synagogue of conservatism as well. The main group which got purged from the Right and declared anathema was America First. On September 11, 1941, Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator who flew the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic Ocean, gave a speech in Des Moines, Iowa in which he claimed that "the three most important groups which have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration."[8]

Phyllis Schlafly had just graduated from City House, the now defunct Catholic high school in St. Louis, when Lindbergh gave his speech. It's hard to imagine that the brightest girl at City House was unaware of America First, since Lindbergh had already given the same speech to 15,000 people attending an America First rally at the St. Louis arena.

Phyllis Schlafly was a tragic figure. She was the abused wife of the Republican Party, an organization which treated her with contempt until it was time to get out the vote. Then like the husband who had beaten her in a drunken rage the night before, the Republicans would apologize and sweet talk her into supporting them once more. Schlafly was a tragic figure because she was cut off from her natural constituency, which was Midwest, America First Catholics, in Alton, Illinois and St. Louis, most of whom were blue collar union members.

Phyllis was the victim of identity theft, perpetrated on her by the conservative movement by people like William F. Buckley, whose job was policing the conservative movement and expelling anyone who showed genuine, i.e., America First, conservative inclinations.

Three months after Lindbergh gave his speech, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, and America entered the war. One day later the FBI showed up at the door of Henry Regnery's father, the man who was the treasurer of America First, and confiscated their mailing list, thus putting an end to the only genuinely conservative movement in America during the 20th century. Henry told me that story some 50 years after it happened, an indication that the event had made a big impression on him at the time. I never asked him what conclusions he drew from it, but with hindsight the answer to that question was obvious. Henry abandoned America First and created conservatism in its stead. Whether he did it with the CIA in mind is something I can't say, but I can say that conservatism never lost its ethnic flavor. Russel Kirk's book was based on Whig history. Henry Regnery's family may have been Catholic when they arrived in this country, but Henry became a Quaker, largely because of the Quakerspeise , their effort to feed the Germans Winston Churchill was starving to death with his naval blockade. Henry married a Quaker princess from Philadelphia, and he published books which supported the ethnic cleansing of Catholics from their neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago because he was a Quaker and because Quaker was his ethnic identity.

In 1955, four years after Henry published God and Man at Yale , in the same year WFB launched National Review , Will Herberg, who would become religion editor at that magazine, became famous as the author of Protestant, Catholic, Jew , a book which resurrected the 1930s sociological theory known as the triple melting pot. According to that theory, ethnicity did not cease to exist after migration to America. After three generations language was replaced by religion as the source of ethnic identity. America was like Yugoslavia; it was a country which had three ethnic groups based on three religions.

Missing from Herberg's account was the fact that these three religious-based ethnic groups were, as in Yugoslavia, in a constant state of cultural conflict. In the 1920s and the 1930s, the Protestants joined forces with the Catholics in opposing the Jews who ran Hollywood and were using their monopoly on cinema production to corrupt the morals of the American people. Beginning in the late 1940s, with the publication of Paul Blanshard's book American Freedom and Catholic Power , the WASP ruling class switched sides in the culture wars and joined forces with the Jews in opposing the Catholics.

The complicated interface between religion, morality, ideology, and ethnicity gave rise to similar conflicts on the campus of Hillsdale College, where Catholic students started arriving in significant numbers after the sellout of Catholic education which Rev. Theodore Hesburgh inaugurated after issuing the Land O' Lakes statement in 1967. As one of his first acts, when he became president of Hillsdale College in 1971, George Roche III invited Russell Kirk to join the faculty. Kirk's appointment put the world on notice that Hillsdale was serious about being conservative. If Roche had been as serious about thinking as he was about fund-raising and public relations, he might have noticed that Kirk's book The Conservative Mind , had some significant things to say about the need for religion to restrain appetite, lessons that would have increasing relevance to Hillsdale College under George III's increasingly autocratic leadership. "Men's appetites," Kirk wrote describing Burke's point of view, "are voracious and sanguinary . . . reason alone can never chain them to duty."

Both Burke and Adams were referring to religion as the antidote to "reason alone," but it is the recurring tragedy of the Anglo-American philosophy that its traditionalist thinkers could all agree on the necessity of religion, but could never get down to specifying which religion was necessary, so suffused were they with the baleful effects of the Reformation.

Burke, according to Kirk, was dedicated to private property and tradition, but both pillars were to prove fragile mixtures of iron and clay. When Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist Jacobin, asked the tradition-loving Burke if he believed strongly enough in tradition to want to go back to the days when Englishmen worshipped bread, there was no answer forthcoming. When Burke said he followed tradition, he meant going back to the political arrangements of 1688 and no further. When Burke defended private property, he did not enquire too closely into the question of where the richest English families got their property, because if he had, he would have had to admit that they got it by looting the Catholic monasteries of the Middle Ages. Once again tradition and property had distinct if dishonest boundaries.

There is no statue of Edmund Burke on the Hillsdale College campus, but there is a statue of Ronald Reagan and one of Margaret Thatcher as well, the two representatives of the triumph of modern conservatism over Communism, the main 20th century representative of the Jewish revolutionary spirit. On October 12, 1990, right around the time I gave my speech on the fall of Communism at Hillsdale, Margaret Thatcher said:

The new world of freedom into which the dazzled socialists have stumbled is not new to us. What to them is uncharted territory is to us familiar and well-loved ground. For Britain has returned to those basic truths and principles which made her great -- personal liberty, private property, and the rule of law on which democratic freedoms everywhere are based. Ours is a creed which travels and endures. Its truths are written in the human heart.

Hillsdale advocated those "basic truths" for the following decade, and they did nothing to impede the slide into sexual degradation on the Hillsdale College Campus. Both Roche and the conservatism he rode to wealth and power shared this ambivalence about religion. Russell Kirk, after spending most of his life as an Anglophile Bohemian, finally converted to Catholicism when he married in his mid-50s. George Roche followed the exact opposite trajectory. Raised a Catholic in Denver, Roche abandoned the Catholic faith and became an Episcopalian as an adult. When Roche decided that even the decidedly Erastian brand of Christianity that the Episcopal Church had always been was too rigid for his liking, he founded his own Episcopalian Church. It was a move reminiscent of Henry VIII and completely consistent with someone who referred to himself as George III. George Roche was, to use the phrase of St. Augustine, someone who loved money and made use of God. He was not someone who loved God and made use of money.

The crisis came in 1978. Pressured by the growing Catholic presence on campus, Roche put Harry Vereyser in charge of creating a Christian Studies program, and then did everything he could to undermine Vereyser's efforts. In October of 1978, Rev. Eugene Sweeney, the Catholic chaplain, resigned in protest against Roche's animus against any religion which held fast to the moral law in its entirety. Shortly thereafter, Harry Vereyser resigned, and shortly after that Russell Kirk handed in his resignation as well.

After he left Hillsdale, Kirk would eventually get expelled from the movement he founded. When Kirk opined at a meeting of the Heritage Foundation, "Not seldom has it seemed as if some eminent Neoconservatives mistook Tel Aviv for the capital of the United States,"[9] he was excommunicated from the conservative movement he had founded, because that movement had been taken over by a Jewish Trotskyite sect known as neoconservatism, led by Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and Midge Dector, who called Kirk's remark "a bloody outrage, a piece of anti-Semitism by Kirk that impugns the loyalty of neoconservatives."[10]

With all of their faults, both Russell Kirk and John Adams were onto something, but they would remain for their respective generations, voices crying in the wilderness, as their contemporaries plunged toward the gratification of passions which would ultimately destroy them.

Purged of the moral restraint which Catholicism offered, the campus became a hotbed of sexual degradation whose best expression was the Porky's movies which Hillsdale alumnus Bob Clark directed in the 1980s. "The passions," John Adams warned, "are all unlimited." If the citizens of this republic "surrender the guidance for any course or tie to any one passion, they may depend upon finding it, in the end, a usurping, domineering cruel tyrant." Anyone who indulges in and continually gratifies passion will be driven mad by it. Man has a congenital weakness to confound liberty and license, which is why according to Kirk, "Adams preferred the concept of virtue to the concept of freedom." Kirk shared the same preference, and seeing how things were going, left Hillsdale to its own devices.

"Democracy in some form," Kirk concluded at the end of The Conservative Mind , "will endure. Whether it is to be a democracy of degradation, or a democracy of elevation, lies with the conservatives."[11] Hillsdale chose the former path in the year Russell Kirk resigned in 1978. It was in 1978 that George III began his affair with his daughter-in-law Lissa. That affair reached its tragic conclusion when Lissa Jackson Roche committed suicide. Purged of morality, conservatism became nothing more than rationalized appetite, and Lissa had to kill herself to draw everyone's attention to that fact.

Then everything includes itself in power
Power into will, will into appetite,
And appetite, a universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power
Must make perforce a universal prey,
And last eat himself up.

We witnessed the fulfillment of that line from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida over the summer of 2020. Deprived of the morality based conservatism that Russell Kirk proposed as the only way to unite the people of this country, the United States descended into moral anarchy, identity politics and race war, as articulated by the Jewish revolutionary spirit, and Michigan led the way. Governor Gretchen Whitmer turned the COVID pandemic into a lockdown which was nothing less than an undeclared war on the lower end of the state's entrepreneurial class, epitomized by Karl Manke, the barber from Owosso, who defied Whitmer's lockdown regulations and was later vindicated by the Michigan Supreme Court.[12]

The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer surfaced two weeks before the election. At a press conference which she called on October 8, 2020, Michigan attorney general Dana Nessell said that she could not have thwarted the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer without the help of the FBI.13 Five days later, the attorney representing the alleged kidnappers agreed, contending:

that there was no probable cause to arrest and charge the suspect, arguing, among other things, that the suspects had no operational plan to do anything, were engaged in all legal activities – including talking in encrypted group chats and practicing military exercises with lawfully owned guns – and that it was the informants and undercover agents who "pushed" others to do illegal things. "One of the most active leaders was your informant," the defendants' attorney Scott Graham said.[14]

Graham went on to claim that the FBI informant who infiltrated the militia group "was one of the most active leaders of the group pushing the rest of them to follow through with their criminal plans."

The plot to kidnap Gretchen wasn't the first time that the FBI tried to incite terrorism in Michigan. In late March 2010, nine members of a group known as the Hutaree were charged with a conspiracy to overthrow the government. As we have come to suspect, the "undercover FBI agent" provocateur was the most active member of the group. Two years later, on March 27, 2012, a federal judge acquitted seven of the nine defendants. Two of the alleged conspirators were sentenced to "time served on weapons-related charges, to which they pleaded guilty, and placed under supervision for two years."[15]

Unlike the alleged kidnappers, Nessell and Whitmer were actually involved in a plot to prevent Donald Trump from winning Michigan's electoral votes in an election that was less than two weeks away. Evidence of cheating started showing up within a week of the election. On November 5, Kellye Sorelle, an attorney on the Trump legal team who was sent to Michigan to watch the count amidst concern about voter fraud, tweeted a report that she was told to leave for the night because Trump was winning. She got suspicious and hung back with her camera and waited. Later the same night cars started pulling up with luggage and ice chests full of illegal ballots. She is now a witness for the Michigan and U.S. Supreme Courts.

The FBI could not have played their part in this conspiracy without the collaboration of Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, a Jewish Lesbian who got elected with the help of George Soros money.

When former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tried to explain the bad effect that Soros prosecutors were having in cities across America, he was told by the info babe at Fox News, the conservative network, that he was not allowed to mention Soros's name. The look on Gingrich's face spoke volumes. Apparently, Newt hadn't gotten the memo. Merely saying the name George Soros constituted a prima facie case of anti-Semitism.

During the time leading up to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, George Soros gave Black Lives Matter $33 million dollars. During the summer of 2020, Jews like George Soros and Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation league tried to ignite a race war in the United States as part of their campaign to deny Donald Trump re-election.

The ADL was not the only Jewish organization supporting Black Lives Matter. According to a report in the Jewish Telegraph Agency , "More than 400 Jewish organizations and synagogues in the United States have signed on to a letter that asserts 'unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.'"[16] Those groups represented a broad spectrum "of religious, political, gender, and racial identities. The list of signatories – from small congregations to major Jewish organizations – represents millions of Jewish people in the United States . . . ."

What name do we give to this involvement? In America it was called the Black-Jewish alliance. For the 70 years following the lynching of Leo Frank, Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamantion League or ADL and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, tried to foment race war in the United States. The culmination of this campaign came in the 1960s with the creation of the Civil Rights Movement.

Religious Riots in St. Louis

But the Jewish revolutionary spirit goes back farther than that. It goes back to the foot of the Cross. By rejecting Christ as their Messiah, the Jews rejected the Logos incarnate, and when they rejected the Logos they rejected the order God created for this universe, and when they rejected that, they became revolutionaries, which is what they are today in places like St. Louis, where Umar Lee demanded the removal of the statue of the eponymous King of France.

As in Minneapolis where the race wars of 2020 began, appearances are deceptive. Lee claimed to be a Muslim, but he also claimed to be a descendent of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He claimed to have the support of Black Lives Matter, but why should they hold a grudge against a French king from the 13th century? Did Louis IX own black slaves? Did he have secret cotton plantations in Paris? No, Louis IX's crime was that he burned the Talmud.

Do the Blacks care about the Talmud? Do they know what it is? Do they know about the blasphemies it contains, which was the real reason it was burned? Probably not. As in Minneapolis, the group behind the protest was invisible. The Jewish revolutionary spirit was behind the protests in both cities. In spite of appearances to the contrary, the brouhaha over the statue in St. Louis was a battle between Catholics and Jews. Umar Lee, as front man for the Jews, had to disguise that fact, and turn the conflict into a battle between blacks and whites. Catholics became victims of identity theft when Umar Lee turned a group of Catholics who had assembled to pray the Rosary in defense of the statue into "white supremacists." After Lee did this, Black Lives Matter showed up and beat up a 60-year-old Catholic who was trying to pray the Rosary, because, as we learned from the failed attempt to preserve the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, white people have no rights.

In fact, they don't even exist, except in the minds of their enemies. In order to have rights, you first have to have existence. Identity flows from existence because as an essential aspect of being, existence presupposes essence. Essence is the basis of identity, and identity is the basis of unity.

To have unity you have to assert your identity. And this is precisely where the Catholics of St. Louis ran into problems. They were willing to come to the statue and pray the Rosary, but they were unwilling to go any farther than that. Most importantly, they were unwilling to identify their enemy. This was a crucial mistake because, as Sun Tzu once said, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."[17]

The crisis came on June 12, when Umar Lee announced that a group of "white supremacists" were planning to go to the St. Louis statue and beat up a group of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish women. This was a complete fabrication on Lee's part, and his supporters probably knew he was lying because virtually none of the St. Louis iconoclasts showed up to support him. The Catholics, however, showed up en masse led by a black nun ringing a bell, a gesture which did severe damage to the race-based identity theft which Lee attempted to impose on the Catholics. That gesture was an implicit rebuke to Lee's racial narrative, but it was not explicit, nor did that gesture alone explain the identity of the Catholics' enemy.

At this point, I became part of the story by releasing my account of the battle of the statue as a Catholic-Jewish conflict. I say that I became part of the story because within hours after the Culture Wars article appeared on the Internet, Umar Lee challenged me to a debate.

Up to this point, Umar Lee didn't know me from Adam. The fact that he challenged me meant that my article did significant damage to his racial narrative because only people on the losing side of the battle challenge their opponents to debate. Up to this point, Lee was riding high and confident not only that the statue was coming down, but also that the city named after the same saint was going to be renamed Confluence.

Catholic reaction to Umar Lee's challenge was instructive. Almost to a man, the Catholics told me not to debate Lee because, they claimed, if I did they would be called anti-Semites. That statue is still standing, not so much because I accepted Lee's challenge, but because I identified the enemy. If you want to succeed in the culture wars, you must identify the enemy, as Sun Tzu pointed out a long time ago. That means avoiding meaningless labels like "liberal" and "conservative" or "black" and "white," and getting to the heart of the matter in America, which is invariably ethnic, involving a conflict between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. Any other strategy is based on a naïve acceptance of the terms of identity politics, which invariably involves, as it did in St. Louis, identity theft.

Hillsdale College is now witnessing what Sigmund Freud would have called "the return of the repressed." Censored by the administration, which had banned America First clubs on campus, Hillsdale's Catholic ethnics protested against the form of identity theft known as conservatism by inviting me to the local version of the catacombs to speak.

The death of conservatism in 2016 meant the resurrection of America First in 2020. Just look at the map of election results, and you will see the same configuration that Charles Lindbergh addressed in 1941. Both then and now, the center of the country supported isolationism, high wage manufacturing, and limited representative government, and the coasts supported globalization, low wages, identity politics, gender ideology, and Jewish usury. The triple melting pot of religious identity re-asserted itself over race-based identity politics. Religious-based ethnicity trumped race, because in America religious-based ethnicity is a category of reality, whereas race is a category of the mind which invariably gets deployed for political purposes which have nothing to do with race.

The most striking sign of the return of the repressed at Hillsdale was architectural. Brooding over the quadrangle which it created, Christ Chapel is large enough to become the foil balancing Central Hall, the iconic American Gothic administration building which is one of America's most prominent symbols of conservatism. Christ Chapel is an Italianate masterpiece in beige brick and limestone, worthy of Alberti, at least on the outside. Entering the building through the porch of Doric columns during the era of COVID lockdown in Gretchen Whitmer's Michigan proved impossible until, that is, a young female student took pity on my wife and I and buzzed us in through a side door. This young lady had clearly never darkened a church door during her 20 years of existence, and was apologetic about the chapel's price tag. "This money," she said, "should have been spent on the poor," apparently unaware that one of Jesus' disciples had said the same thing, and that that disciple was Judas Iscariot. "Be sure to check out the day chapel," she said leaving us to our own devices.

I would have preferred a tour with her as guide, but the building spoke for itself. The massive Doric columns we had seen at the entrance porch now reappeared and marched in stately file up to what should have been the church's sanctuary, but was in this instance an empty space with a pathetic little altar added at its back almost as an afterthought. I have had similar experiences of architectural disappointment before. Walking up to the Taj Mahal was one of the greatest aesthetic experiences of my life, but when I walked inside the empty tomb which is that building's raison d'etre , I experienced on of the greatest aesthetic disappointments in my life as well. The mosque of the wife of the fourth Imam in Qom is gorgeously adorned with cobalt blue tiles, mirrored ceilings, and a solid silver shrine which inspire weeping and devotion on the part of the Muslims worshipping at its walls, but the interior of the mosque was, in spite of the worshippers conversing with imams seated on gorgeous Persian carpets, disorganized and strangely empty. I had a similar experience at the historic Quaker meeting house at 2nd and Arch in Philadelphia, where one sits on horsehair benches and contemplates others sitting on horsehair benches as well. The chapel at Hillsdale was both magnificent and disappointing because what should be the culmination of the aesthetic experience, which the building offers, is missing. Instead of the Real Presence, we have a significant absence, a vacuum which is of necessity abhorrent.

But then we went to the Day Chapel, just to the right of the empty sanctuary, and there, to our surprise, we found stained glass windows. It was as if we had been touring one of England's stately country estates and had discovered a priest hole. Popery had shown the hidden feature which became the symbolic explicator of the building. Later that day, I learned that the architect who had designed Christ Chapel was the Notre Dame professor Duncan Stroik. As some indication that Stroik knows how to create a full-blooded expression of the Real Presence which balances off the most magnificent interior, one need only visit his masterpiece in the California style at Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, California. There leafy ethereal Corinthian pillars proceed to a baldachino with swirling pillars that were copied from St. Peter's in Rome. That symbolic canopy provides a worthy shrine for the Real Presence. After walking the length of the nave, the pilgrim feels that he has arrived at his cosmic destination in the same way you feel that you have arrived safely home after the last note of a magnificent symphony. Did Duncan Stroik wreck his own building when he left the sanctuary of Christ Chapel bare? He used Anglophilic models like Christ Church in Philadelphia as his model, but they don't seem unbalanced in the way that the chapel at Hillsdale did, probably because those architects didn't know any better. Christ Chapel has the feel of the great Italian architect of the Middle Ages Leon Battisti Alberti on the outside and the American Revolution on its inside. Christ Church in Philadelphia is where our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. Is this bifurcation of purpose going to work? Is it possible to worship God and Mammon? Larry Arnn, who is George Roche's successor at Hillsdale, talked about always needing a place to pray on campus. Lissa's demise at the trysting place known as the Gazebo made that point in a bloody and dramatic way. Christ Chapel totally dominates the quad behind Central Hall. The verdict is still out on how that chapel aligns with the statues of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Frederick Douglass, and Thomas Jefferson which surround it. Conservatism failed to make that connection under George III. If anyone can make it now, it is the students who attended my talk.

We seem a long way from Edmund Burke's hope that "Providence would not abandon mankind to Jacobinism," and even farther from Russell Kirk's vision of America as "the Providential instrument of this redemption."[18] The color revolution continues to unfold before our eyes, but Logos is rising because the prism of conservatism is no longer distorting what we see. Hegel called it "the cunning of reason," but we call it Divine Providence. We now have a chance to win, but only if we can identify the enemy. If we don't know who we are and we can't identify the enemy, we will lose every battle as Sun Tsu predicted many years ago.

[Dec 25, 2020] The center of the country supported isolationism, high wage manufacturing, and limited representative government, and the coasts supported globalization, low wages, identity politics, gender ideology, and Jewish usury

Highly recommended!
Dec 25, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

NemesisCalling , Dec 25 2020 2:24 utc | 36

Excellent unz article titled "The Rise and Fall of Conservatism in Michigan."

The death of conservatism in 2016 meant the resurrection of America First in 2020. Just look at the map of election results, and you will see the same configuration that Charles Lindbergh addressed in 1941. Both then and now, the center of the country supported isolationism, high wage manufacturing, and limited representative government, and the coasts supported globalization, low wages, identity politics, gender ideology, and Jewish usury. The triple melting pot of religious identity re-asserted itself over race-based identity politics. Religious-based ethnicity trumped race, because in America religious-based ethnicity is a category of reality, whereas race is a category of the mind which invariably gets deployed for political purposes which have nothing to do with race.

I am continually fascinated by Ron Unz's site where alternative views thrive and are debated. I would say the above article's thesis, that, through it all, and despite any pet project of those at the bar, the real conflicts at play in the U.S. continually involve the three predominant religious identities of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[Dec 24, 2020] Dominion voting systems demand letter to Sidney Powell

[PDF] (scanned with errors)
Looks like Sidney Powell overplayed her hand with her Hugo Chavez claims and might pay the price... They also attack her penchant for self-promotion.
This is a solid legal document that attack exaggerations and false claims and as such it puts Sydney Power on the defensive. But at the same time it opens the possibility to analyze Dominion machines and see to what extent votes can be manipulated, for example by lowest sensitivity of the scanner for mail-in ballots and then manually assigning votes to desirable candidate. This avenue is not excluded.
It also does not address the claim of inherent vulnerabilities of any Windows based computer used in election, irrespective whether they were produced by Dominion or any other company due to the known vulnerability of windows OS especially to the intelligence agencies attacks. As well as the most fundamental question: whether the use of computers in election represents step forward or the step back in election security? Especially Internet connected voting machines and centralized tabulation centers deployed in 2020 elections.
So the success here depends whether they can narrow the scope tot ht claims made and avid discovery of the voting machines themselves.
The weak point is that the letter references the testimony of Chris Krebs, who is a former Microsoft employee and as such has a conflict of interests in accessing the security of Windows based election machines produced by Dominion and other companies. Moreover he is now a computer science processional but a lawyer, who does not has any independent opinion on the subject matter due to the absence of fundamental CS knowledge required.
Notable quotes:
"... For example, you falsely claimed that Dominion and its software were created in Venezuela for the purpose of rigging elections for the now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, that Dominion paid kickbacks to Georgia officials in return for a "no-bid" contract to use Dominion systems in the 2020 election, and that Dominion rigged the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election by manipulating votes, shifting votes, installing and using an algorithm to modify or "weight" votes such that a vote for Biden counted more than a vote for Trump, trashing Trump votes, adding Biden votes, and training election workers to dispose of Trump votes and to add Biden votes. ..."
"... Fifth, you had a financial incentive in making the defamatory accusations. Your own conduct and statements at the press conference, media tour, and on your websites make it clear that you were publicizing your wild accusations as part of a fundraising scheme and in order to drum up additional business and notoriety for yourself. ..."
Dec 23, 2020 | assets.documentcloud.org

CLARE LOCKE THOMAS A. CLARE, P.C. L L P MEGAN L. MEIER

December 16, 2020 Via Email, Federal Express, & Hand Delivery

Sidney Powell, P.C.

2911 Turtle Creek Blvd, Suite 300 Dallas, Texas 75219

Email: [email protected]

Sidney Powell Defending the Republic 10130 Northlake Blvd. #214342 West Palm Beach, Florida 34412

Re: Defamatory Falsehoods About Dominion

Dear Ms. Powell:

We represent US Dominion Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively, "Dominion"). We write regarding your wild, knowingly baseless, and false accusations about Dominion, which you made on behalf of the Trump Campaign as part of a coordinated media circus and fundraising scheme featuring your November 19 press conference in Washington, D.C. and including your "Stop the Steal" rally and numerous television and radio appearances on -- and statements to -- Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, and the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show, among others.

... ... ...

I. Your reckless disinformation campaign is predicated on lies that have endangered Dominion's business and the lives of its employees.

Given the sheer volume and ever-expanding set of lies that you have told and are continuing to tell about Dominion as part of your multi-media disinformation "Kraken" fundraising campaign, it would be impractical to address every one of your falsehoods in this letter. Without conceding the truth of any of your claims about Dominion, we write to demand that you retract your most serious false accusations, which have put Dominion's employees' lives at risk and caused enormous harm to the company.

For example, you falsely claimed that Dominion and its software were created in Venezuela for the purpose of rigging elections for the now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, that Dominion paid kickbacks to Georgia officials in return for a "no-bid" contract to use Dominion systems in the 2020 election, and that Dominion rigged the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election by manipulating votes, shifting votes, installing and using an algorithm to modify or "weight" votes such that a vote for Biden counted more than a vote for Trump, trashing Trump votes, adding Biden votes, and training election workers to dispose of Trump votes and to add Biden votes.

By way of example only, just last week, you made the following false assertions about Dominion to Jan Jekielek at The Epoch Times:'

Effectively what they did with the machine fraud was to, they did everything from injecting massive quantities of votes into the system that they just made up, to running counterfeit ballots through multiple times in multiple batches to create the appearance of votes that weren't really there. They trashed votes.

These statements are just the tip of the iceberg, which includes similar and other false claims you made at your Washington, D.C. press conference and to other media outlets with global internet audiences. Your outlandish accusations are demonstrably fake. While soliciting people to send you "millions of dollars"2 and holding yourself out as a beacon of truth, you have purposefully avoided naming Dominion as a defendant in your sham litigations-effectively denying Dominion the opportunity to disprove your false accusations in court. Dominion values freedom of speech and respects the right of all Americans-of all political persuasions -- to exercise their First Amendment rights and to disagree with each other. But while you are entitled to your own opinions, Ms. Powell, you are not entitled to your own facts. Defamatory falsehoods are actionable in court and the U.S.

Supreme Court has made clear that "there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact." Gertz v. Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 340 (1974). Dominion welcomes transparency and a full investigation of the relevant facts in a court of law, where it is confident the truth will prevail. Here are the facts:

1. Dominion's vote counts have been repeatedly verified by paper ballot recounts and independent audits.

Dominion is a non-partisan company that has proudly partnered with public officials from both parties in accurately tabulating the votes of the American people in both "red" and "blue" states and counties. Far from being created to rig elections for a now-deceased Venezuelan dictator, Dominion's voting systems are certified under standards promulgated by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission ("EAC"), reviewed and tested by independent testing laboratories accredited by the EAC, and were designed to be auditable and include a paper ballot backup to verify results. Indeed, paper ballot recounts and independent audits have repeatedly and conclusively debunked your election-rigging claims, and on November 12, 2020, the Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees released a joint statement confirming that there is "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised" and that the 2020 election was the most secure in American history.3 The Joint Statement was signed and endorsed by, among others, the National Association of State Election Directors, National Association of Secretaries of State, and the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency ("CISA") -- then led by a Trump appointee, Chris Krebs.

In addition, your false accusation that Dominion rigged the 2020 election is based on a demonstrably false premise that wildly overstates Dominion's very limited role in elections. Dominion provides tools such as voting machines that accurately tabulate votes for the bipartisan poll workers, poll watchers, and local election officials who work tirelessly to run elections and ensure accurate results. Dominion's machines count votes from county-verified voters using a durable paper ballot. Those paper ballots are the hard evidence proving the accuracy of the vote counts from Dominion's machines. If Dominion had manipulated the votes, the paper ballots would not match the machine totals. In fact, they do match. Recounts and audits have proven that Dominion did what it was designed and hired to do: accurately tabulate votes.

2. Dominion has no connection to Hugo Chavez. Venezuela, or China.

As you are well aware from documents in the public domain and attached to your court filings, Hugo Chavez's elections were not handled by Dominion, but by an entirely different company -- Smartmatic. This is a critical fact because you have premised your defamatory falsehoods on your intentionally false claim that Dominion and Smartmatic are the same company even though you know that they are entirely separate companies who compete with each other. Dominion was not created in or for Venezuela, has never been located there, and is not owned by Smartmatic or Venezuelan or Chinese investors. Dominion has never provided machines or any of its software or technology to Venezuela, nor has it ever participated in any elections in Venezuela. It did not receive $400 million from the Chinese in the weeks before the 2020 election or otherwise. It has no ties to the Chinese government, the Venezuelan government, Hugo Chavez, Malloch Brown, George Soros, Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster. Dominion does not use Smartmatic's software or machines, and there was no Smartmatic technology in any of Dominion's voting machines in the 2020 election.

3. You falsely claimed that Dominion's founder admitted he "can change a million votes, no problem at all" and that you would "tweet out the video later''-- but you never did so because no such video exists.

During at least one of your many media appearances, you promised to "tweet out [a] video" of Dominion's founder admitting that he "can change a million votes, no problem at all." Your assertion -- to a global internet audience -- that you had such damning video evidence bolstered your false accusations that Dominion had rigged the election. Yet you have never produced that video because, as you know, it does not exist. Dominion's founder never made such a claim because Dominion cannot change votes. Its machines simply tabulate the paper ballots that remain the custody of the local election officials -- nothing more, nothing less. 4. You falsely claimed that you have a Dominion employee "on tape" saving he "rigged the election for Biden''-- but you know that no such tape exists. In peddling your defamatory accusations, you also falsely told a national audience that you had a Dominion employee "on tape" saying that "he rigged the election for Biden." Your own court filings prove that no such tape exists. In them, you cited an interview of Joe Oltmann, a Twitter- banned "political activist" who -- far from claiming he had that shocking alleged confession "on tape"-claimed he took "notes" during a conference call he supposedly joined after "infiltrating Antifa." This is a facially ludicrous claim for a number of reasons, including the fact that he lives in Colorado, where it would have been perfectly legal to record such a call if it had actually happened. As a result of your false accusations, that Dominion employee received death threats.

II. Because there is no reliable evidence supporting your defamatory falsehoods, you actively manufactured and misrepresented evidence to support them.

Despite repeatedly touting the overwhelming "evidence" of your assertions during your media campaign, every court to which you submitted that socalled "evidence" has dismissed each of your sham litigations, and even Trump appointees and supporters have acknowledged -- including after you filed your "evidence" in court, posted it on your fundraising website, and touted it in the media -- that there is no evidence that actually supports your assertions about Dominion. Indeed:

... ... ...

Fifth, you had a financial incentive in making the defamatory accusations. Your own conduct and statements at the press conference, media tour, and on your websites make it clear that you were publicizing your wild accusations as part of a fundraising scheme and in order to drum up additional business and notoriety for yourself. Your financial incentive and motive to make the defamatory accusations is further evidence of actual malice. See Brown v. Petrolite Corp., 965 F.2d 38, 47 (5th Cir. 1992); Enigma Software Grp. USA, LLC v. Bleeping Computer LLC, 194 F. Supp. 3d 263, 288 (S.D.N.Y. 2016).

Sixth, you cannot simply claim ignorance of the facts. As a licensed attorney, you were obligated to investigate the factual basis for your claims before making them in court. 31 There is no factual basis for your defamatory accusations against Dominion and numerous reliable sources and documents in the public domain have repeatedly debunked your accusations. As such, you either conducted the inquiry required of you as a licensed attorney and violated your ethical obligations by knowingly making false assertions rebutted by the information you found, or you violated your ethical obligations by purposefully avoiding undertaking the reasonable inquiry required of you as a member of the bar. Either is additional evidence of actual malice.

Taken together, your deliberate misrepresentation and manufacturing of evidence, the inherent improbability of your accusations, your reliance on facially unreliable sources, your intentional disregard of reliable sources, your preconceived storyline, your financial incentive, and your ethical violations are clear and convincing evidence of actual malice. See Eramo v. Rolling Stone, 209 F. Supp. 3d 862,872 (W.D. Va. 2016) (denying defendant's motion for summary judgment and finding "[ajlthough failure to adequately investigate, a departure from journalistic standards, or ill

[Dec 24, 2020] America is now ruled by people older than the 'gerontocracy' of Soviet Union's twilight days by Nebojsa Malic

Dec 24, 2020 | www.rt.com

Nebojsa Malic

is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Follow him on Twitter @NebojsaMalic 22 Dec, 2020 12:08 Joe Biden, set to be the oldest-ever US president, is actually on the younger side of people currently running the American political establishment, who show no sign of wanting to ever step aside for another generation.

It is often overlooked that Donald Trump currently holds the distinction of being the oldest-ever US president, being 70 at the time of his inauguration. Biden will take that trophy as well if he's inaugurated in January 2021, having turned 78 last month. Even so, he is actually younger than the current leaders of the House and the Senate!

Though all major power brokers in Washington are older than the "gerontocracy" that ruled the Soviet Union in the 1970s and the 1980s, you won't hear the US mainstream media make the comparison, as it wouldn't fit their Narrative.

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Sure, there has been some carefully calibrated talk about the "cognitive decline" of Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is 87. But Feinstein is from an overwhelmingly Democrat state and she can be easily replaced at the same time as Kamala Harris, Biden's running mate who still hasn't resigned her Senate seat.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is 80, and has raised eyebrows herself with the whole "Good Morning. Sunday Morning" glitch-in-the-Matrix behavior during a TV appearance in September.

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Way back in 2018 , Pelosi insisted that any talk about wanting someone younger in the leadership position was "sexist," and went on to ruthlessly crush any opposition to her getting the gavel – and the power that went with it – inside the party. In the same interview, Pelosi blanked out on the name of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), calling him "whatshisname."

Born several months ahead of Biden in 1942, McConnell is 78 himself. He had a bout with polio when very young, and though successfully treated, he's had difficulty climbing stairs all his life. While he hasn't shown any signs of cognitive decline, his political choices as of late have certainly caused some Republicans to wonder if he's truly the legislative genius his supporters make him out to be.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is "only" 70, but has actually been in Congress longer than McConnell, if one counts his 18 years in the House before he got elected to the Senate in 1998.

Only House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 55, technically qualifies as a member of 'Generation X' rather than a Baby Boomer. Nor does he have any Cold War political baggage like the rest, having been in the House since only 2006. If the Republicans somehow win the House majority in 2022, he might gain more influence – but that's speculation at this point, on both counts.

Meanwhile, the young activist House members who came in with 2018's "Blue Wave," such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), are being kept in check by the old guard. Just last week, AOC was denied a spot on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, thwarting her plans to push for her "Green New Deal" proposal.

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Compare this state of US politics with the notorious "gerontocracy" of the Soviet Union. Three aging Soviet leaders died in quick succession between 1982 and 1985, prompting then-US president Ronald Reagan to say "How am I supposed to get anyplace with the Russians if they keep dying on me?" Yet Reagan was 74 at the time, older than all three.

Leonid Brezhnev was 54 when he took over the Communist Party in 1964. For the sake of political stability, he remained a figurehead after his 1975 stroke and "ruled" the USSR until his death in 1982, as no one in the party could agree on who ought to succeed him. His 18-year tenure was later dubbed the "Brezhnev stagnation."

Former KGB chief Yuri Andropov, part of a triumvirate running things for the better part of Brezhnev's latter years, died himself at the age of 70 in 1984. He had led the Soviet Union for less than 16 months. Konstantin Chernenko, 73, took over from Andropov – and died in March 1985, after only 13 months in charge. His successor, Mikhail Gorbachev, was 54 at the time, two years younger than Kamala Harris is now.

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In one of those strange intricacies of the American political system, Harris went from getting zero delegates in the Democrats' nomination process and dropping out before the first primary to being widely expected to take over from Biden sooner rather than later. One might say her relative youth and being a 'Woman Of Color' – an identity politics feature increasingly important to the Democrats – might spell the end of the Boomer dominance.

The thing to keep in mind, however, is that the "young reformer" Gorbachev managed to run the Soviet Union into the ground within five short years. In 1991, the old guard tried a military coup against him. Though Gorbachev survived the coup, the Soviet Union didn't. By the end of that year, the USSR had "dissolved," breaking up along Communist-drawn boundaries into independent and quasi-independent states.

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UKCitizen 1 day ago 22 Dec, 2020 08:34 AM

Not only American politics but much of USA public life too. I believe one facet of rule by a gerontocracy is maintenance of the status quo; another is less control over younger and more vigorous members of society. The two come together in the rise of Silicon Valley and dominance of USA affairs by corporate interests. But nothing lasts forever and there are long cycles too. Little will change in the short term but I predict at least four years of more serious decline in America. The turning point will be final disillusionment with liberal-left politics (see K/r theory) and the arrival of some younger leaders, not yet known. Liberal-leftism will fail eventually for the simple reason it is founded in utopian like fantasies, disconnection with the real life (however harsh,and probably because it is harsh) but above all an attempt to spread finite resources veneer thin and remove any effort to get them (free everything and equality for all). America will come round eventually but it will be painful and will require it to revise much of its political structure to becoming a true democracy, which even I have realised it isn't, and probably only has been fleetingly since its founding. K/r theory is magnificently expounded in the 'The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics' and long cycles in 'Biohistory'. The former rings true on just about every page.
KarlthePoet UKCitizen 1 day ago 22 Dec, 2020 11:35 AM
America is collapsing because its foundation is solidly built on lies. The US government and Wall Street are ultimately being controlled by the Jewish Banking Cartel. It cannot be denied. Take the Federal Reserve away and America collapses overnight. Trillions upon Trillions of dollars that are being printed out of thin air are keeping the failed system afloat, for now. A massive global economic collapse is imminent. Just watch. Happy Holidays
Thomas74 17 hours ago 23 Dec, 2020 03:46 AM
There are clear parallels between the USSR and USA. The question is whether the leadership in the USA's leader class has the same self-awareness that arose at the top of the USSR in its last years. Also whether the American people will tolerate the economic hardship that the former Soviet peoples endured in the transition. Is this what we're seeing now with the coronavirus situation? A gradual taking down of expectations in the West behind the smokescreen of a virus?
Anubis64 1 day ago 22 Dec, 2020 12:24 PM
Dear Nebojsa, So what? Andropov would have made a first-class statesman (give or take his infatuation with technocracy). Brezhnev was not only a hero but a capable statesman whose era is remembered with nostalgia. Let us focus on the fact that Russia's responses to the blows coming hard and fast are rather passive and lacking any historical vision. It is not age but will that matters.
Anubis64 Anubis64 1 day ago 22 Dec, 2020 12:53 PM
Then, a young scoundrel was brought in by the shady Yakovlev character and destroyed the greatest country in the world in less than a decade. May the same happen to the insufferable Americans.
Krieger 1 hour ago 23 Dec, 2020 08:34 PM
I think this is mostly apples and oranges. In the USSR, the "old guard" were patriots who wanted to preserve their country. The "young reformers" were traitors who wanted to destroy their own country to benefit their Western masters and personally enrich themselves. In the USA, on the other hand, both the young and old politicians are totally corrupt and want to maintain the status quo, which is slowly destroying the country from within.
Mira Golub 1 day ago 22 Dec, 2020 10:17 AM
America is ruled by mobster clans, the puppets are indeed resemble walking dead. Russian imbecile liberal pro Western 2% 'opposition' though are getting their jollies by calling Putin who is 68 'grandpa'. Bunch of degenerates.
Marek Weglinski 1 day ago 22 Dec, 2020 08:25 AM
Maybe it's a telltale that the Soviet-like demise for the US is near. Hopefully the American empire will not come to a SUPERNOVA-like ending (inflicting great damage to the rest of the world), before turning itself into a dwarf.
Ohhho Marek Weglinski 1 day ago 22 Dec, 2020 11:37 AM
The Evil empire will implode and take the rest of the world down with it, that's the problem! USSR had it's own economic system pretty much isolated from the Western world, and when that system collapsed the effect was felt all around the satellite countries for years!

[Dec 24, 2020] The Revenge Agenda by Philip Giraldi

Notable quotes:
"... Washington Post ..."
"... Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is ..."
"... https://councilforthenationalinterest.org ..."
"... address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is ..."
Dec 24, 2020 | www.unz.com

The upcoming year should be interesting. The Establishment "Deep State" has won a major victory in the United States with the election of Joe Biden as president. What remains to be seen is whether or not there will be significant bloodletting as a consequence, revenge for the presumed misdeeds that constituted the core legacy of four years of Donald J. Trump as chief executive. Many in the Democratic Party harbor deep resentments that go back to the election of 2016, which spawned the myth that foreign interference by the Russians was responsible for the upset victory by the GOP candidate. Even at this distance, few if any Democrats are willing to admit that Hillary Clinton was a deeply flawed candidate whose condescension towards whole categories of voters ultimately inspired many "undecideds" to vote against her.

Indeed, Trump came closer to repeating his improbable victory in 2020 than anyone would have predicted and the stench of possible widespread fraud continues to hang over the result. Donald Trump entered office with a pledge to "drain the swamp," something that he found more difficult to actually do rather than just talk about doing. The Democrats will surely now work hard to methodically eliminate all political appointees in the vast bureaucracy guilty of Trumpism.

That replacement of bureaucrats is referred to as the "spoils systems" and it is to be expected, but there is something more sinister in the works with leading Democrats and some journalists calling for heads to roll, metaphorically to be sure but with real impact on the lives of those who supported the losing side. The Washington Post 's resident Trump-hating Zionist Jennifer Rubin summed it up nicely in a tweet three days after the election, posting "Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into 'polite' society. We have a list."

And Bill Clinton's former Labor Secretary Robert Reich has been even more explicit, tweeting a demand to create a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission." The commission borrows the name and would be modeled on the organization set up in South Africa after the fall of the apartheid government and the establishment of majority black rule, an exercise in attempted democratization that has nevertheless failed to put an end to extremely high levels of corruption and communal violence in the country.

Reich's objective is not limited to punishing the Trump White House's top officials who may have promoted policies considered anathema by the incoming Democratic administration. He has also tweeted "When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump's lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe." The Reich proposal would potentially mean punishing thousands of otherwise innocent individuals who had little influence over what happened during the past four years. "Enabled" covers a lot of ground, and is prone to devolve into something like a witch hunt.

One Reich supporter wrote in defense of the proposal "As long as unresolved historic injustices continue to fester in the world, there will be a demand for truth commissions" and there have been numerous comments on social media sites like Facebook insisting that "something be done" about the "deplorables" who voted for and supported Trump. Interestingly, even though the comments constitute actual threats, Facebook has not deleted them, unlike the elimination of posts that run afoul of the censors by questioning the validity of the election or challenging conventional wisdom on COVID-19.

Another commenter on twitter agreed with Reich, though complaining "But it doesn't go far enough, clearly. Trump's assets and those of his voters should be seized by the state through legislation and distributed to those he's harmed as reparations. Surely that's the only way to heal our nation. Land of the free!" And finally, still another cheerleader enthused "Robert you're right. And after we win we'll come for you all we're pretty much over trying to share a country with you anyway. Four years ago I thought you were people with bad ideas. I was wrong: YOU'RE BAD PEOPLE."

To be sure, Trump invited much of the hostile response to what he represents when he held rallies where supporters called out Hillary Clinton with chants of "Lock her up!" So the anger is there on both sides and momentum is building not just to replace or ignore Trump's associates and his supporters, but to punish them for their alleged inability to comprehend the many benefits derived from Democratic Party rule. As no mechanism actually exists to enable the new regime to punish supporters of the previous administration, unless they have actually committed a crime, one suspects the process of purging the bureaucracy and voters rolls will pretty much be improvised while Biden and Harris get settled in.

Donald Trump also does not help either himself or the cause he represents. His insults and abusive language invite hostility, having his tweets turn allies into enemies and making friends of the "revolution" that he represents wish that he would just shut up. Current media reports suggesting that he might not vacate the White House on January 20 th as he continues to be convinced that he won invite a nasty response from the Democrats. Ex-president Barack Obama has warned , possibly in jest, that Trump might need to be removed forcibly by Navy SEALS.

And, of course, violence could beget violence. If denigration of Trump supporters followed by a real purge does take place it will impact on the tens of millions of voters who still believe President Trump should have won re-election but for fraud. They are ready for a fight, and not necessarily limited to the metaphoric. As I said in the beginning, it could be an interesting year here in America.

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [email protected]

Verymuchalive , says: December 22, 2020 at 11:03 am GMT • 16.3 hours ago

To be sure, Trump invited much of the hostile response to what he represents when he held rallies where supporters called out Hillary Clinton with chants of "Lock her up!"

So it's Trump's fault – not for anything he has said or done, but for what his supporters have said.

Indeed, Trump came closer to repeating his improbable victory in 2020 than anyone would have predicted and the stench of possible widespread fraud continues to hang over the result.

I could continue, but won't. Even when criticising the Democrats, his hostility towards Trump and his supporters never lets up. Any dispassionate observer can see that widespread electoral fraud was actual and likely swung the election Biden's way. Even honest leftist observers agree. Giraldi should have mentioned this, but didn't. Having perpetrated it once, the Democrats will do it again. The likelihood is that there will be no fair elections in future. So the Democrats will have the time to enforce their revenge agenda in perpetuity. Again Giraldi fails to mention this.

Sick of Orcs , says: December 22, 2020 at 11:04 am GMT • 16.3 hours ago

Donald Trump entered office with a pledge to "drain the swamp," something that he found more difficult to actually do rather than just talk about doing.

Especially when Trump himself hired nothing but nevertrumpers and swamp rats and listened to his know-nothing rat-in-law.

(Didn't this guy have a tv show for 13 years about hiring the best people?)

It's secession time, has been for years before Orange Golfbag. Don't worry about whether the federal mafia approves of the parting of ways, their new scamulus includes $300,000,000 to bring in more rapefugees aka your replacements.

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[Dec 24, 2020] Matt Gaetz: The DNC ran to the mailbox where they could process hundreds of thousands of votes, oftentimes in the dark of night without signature matches, excluding the observers, sometimes where people voted in different states, sometimes when they lived in different states, sometimes when they weren't even alive at all.

Dec 24, 2020 | www.unz.com

A123 , says: December 22, 2020 at 6:11 am GMT • 21.2 hours ago

#OccupySCOTUS

The January 6, Electoral College floor fight has already been openly declared. Here is Matt Gaetz commentary: (1)

[The DNC] ran to the mailbox where they could process hundreds of thousands of votes, oftentimes in the dark of night without signature matches, excluding the observers, sometimes where people voted in different states, sometimes when they lived in different states, sometimes when they weren't even alive at all.

And so on January 6th, I'm joining with the fighters in the Congress and we are going to object to electors from states that didn't run clean elections.

Trump is organizing Washington DC rally also for January 6. (2)

President Donald Trump has doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on his claim of being the 2020 election's rightful winner by releasing an adrenaline-packed "Fight for Trump" video and vowing to hold a "wild" protest in Washington, D.C. on Jan 6th.

There is still significant hope that on January 6, VP Pence will deliver the accurate Electoral College result confirming Trump's re-election. At that point, keeping the determination for Trump away from SCOTUS interference is the hardest task.

It may or may not be called #OccupySCOTUS , however assembling a mass movement in front of the Supreme Court building will deliver a message. The one thing that spineless Justices want to protect most is themselves. Their jelly-like preference for an "immoral peace" will squish when they see imminent personal risk.

Allowing proven loser Biden to steal office only happens if Justices accept the Fake Stream Media [FSM] narrative that it will defuse the situation. The January 6 rally will show the Justices 1st hand that the FSM narrative is 100% wrong. Allowing Biden's fraud to seize the Oval Office will inflame the situation and guarantee a crisis .

PEACE
_______

(1) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/20/matt-gaetz-promises-to-object-to-electors-from-states-that-didnt-run-clean-elections-on-january-6/

(2) https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/12/20/trump-shares-fight-for-trump-save-america-save-the-world-video-promises-wild-dc-protest-on-jan-6-1007792/

follyofwar , says: December 22, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT • 12.4 hours ago
@A123 the 2000 election, VP Gore was in the awkward position of being in charge of the electoral college ritual. Even though he was convinced he had been screwed in Florida, and other democrats in Congress agreed, not ONE Senator came forward to dispute the Florida results, which GWB allegedly won by a mere 537 votes.

RINO McConnell (no friend of Trump) has already warned republican senators not to challenge the EC vote on Jan.6th. To date, none, to my knowledge, has gone on record saying they plan to defy him. Any that do so know they'll be blackballed, and won't receive any financial support from the RNC. Thus, I doubt if it will happen.

A123 , says: December 22, 2020 at 4:33 pm GMT • 10.8 hours ago
@follyofwar O McConnell (no friend of Trump) has already warned republican senators not to challenge the EC vote

McConnell cannot put the hammer down on pro-USA Senators. He will either have a razor thin margin as leader, or be the guy who lost the Senate for the Republicans. Trump's Team will organize rallies and fundraisers for his loyal supporters, so any GOP financial threats are laughable.

PEACE

(1) https://thegrio.com/2020/12/09/gop-senator-may-challenge-electoral-college-results/

, follyofwar , says: December 22, 2020 at 3:29 pm GMT • 11.9 hours ago
@Kolya Krassotkin

Indeed, I cannot think of one politician who would have had the gonads to stand up to the endless abuse from the deep state, which Trump has withstood for over 4 years, without cracking up and resigning. Nixon, who had recently won a landslide re-election in 1972, resigned after much less. He should have known that you don't voluntarily give up the reigns of power, and knuckle under to some pipsqueaks from the democrat controlled media named Woodward and Bernstein. To his dying day, from what I've read, Nixon regretted his terrible decision.

[Dec 24, 2020] Trump is organizing Washington DC rally also for January 6.

Dec 24, 2020 | www.unz.com

Johnny Smoggins , says: December 22, 2020 at 1:50 pm GMT • 13.6 hours ago

@A123

Trump is organizing Washington DC rally also for January 6.

Do you think he'll actually turn up this time, or just drive by on the way to the golf course like last time?

AKINDLE , says: December 22, 2020 at 1:58 pm GMT • 13.4 hours ago
@knarf base under the bus to embrace blacks and hispanics, and they didn't even turn out to vote for him. If back in 2015, Republican primary, Trump campaigned on a platinum plan for the negro and a Hispanic plan, said he would keep daca, chain/visa lottery, anchor baby. Trump would never have won the Republican primary. Utterly shameless pandering to blacks, whilst entirely ignoring his blue-collar base. His Presidency will go down as a failure. Now he is Persona non Grata on both sides. Maybe the lame do nothing negro worshipping flake can "Tweet" himself a win. Smart Whites stayed home than rather vote for a con. Trump's ego got thumped.
Realist , says: December 22, 2020 at 2:23 pm GMT • 13.0 hours ago
@GomezAdddams

Trump was and is a Deep State minion that is why he hired the very denizens, of the swamp he promised to drain. Trump is a sham.

[Dec 24, 2020] Does current aggressive neoliberal Dems "publish them", we have the list rethoric differs from Mr. Trump's campaign pledges to "drain the swamp" that preceded his appointment of people like Abrams, Bolton, Haspel, et al.?

Dec 24, 2020 | www.unz.com

Greta Handel , says: December 22, 2020 at 8:01 am GMT • 19.4 hours ago

Well, we'll see.

But in the meantime, how does this already cooling rhetoric differ from Mr. Trump's campaign pledges to "drain the swamp" that preceded his appointment of people like Abrams, Bolton, Haspel, et al. ?

Or the hilarious September 30, 2008, assurances of Mr. Obama in his endorsement of that year's bailout of Wall Street that

There will be time to punish those who set this fire , but now is the moment for us to come together and put the fire out.

***

Finally, I will modernize our outdated financial regulations and put in the place the common-sense rules of the road I've been calling for since March – rules that will keep our market free, fair, and honest; rules that will make sure Wall Street can never get away with the stunts that caused this crisis again. And I will take power away from the corporate lobbyists who think they can stand in the way of these reforms. I've done it in Illinois, I've done it [in] Washington, and I will do it again as President.

before allowing that same Wall Street to make his roster picks, including an Attorney General who eventually announced that some of "those who set this fire" were too big to jail?

People need to reconcile themselves to the truth that everything they're allowed to see is a Red+Blue puppet show. Only those who effectively interfere -- Assange, Manning, and others not up there on the stage -- have much to worry about.

Sick of Orcs , says: December 22, 2020 at 11:04 am GMT • 16.3 hours ago

Donald Trump entered office with a pledge to "drain the swamp," something that he found more difficult to actually do rather than just talk about doing.

Especially when Trump himself hired nothing but nevertrumpers and swamp rats and listened to his know-nothing rat-in-law.

(Didn't this guy have a tv show for 13 years about hiring the best people?)

It's secession time, has been for years before Orange Golfbag. Don't worry about whether the federal mafia approves of the parting of ways, their new scamulus includes $300,000,000 to bring in more rapefugees aka your replacements.

BannedHipster , says: Website December 22, 2020 at 12:47 pm GMT • 14.6 hours ago

Does anyone remember 9/11?

The administration was locking up witnesses like Susan Lindauer. Various people, we were told were Muslims, would having bags thrown over their heads and locked into "black sites." They were saying "you're either with us or with the President." They were holding mass rallies to burn Dixie Chicks CDs because they had "disrespected" the President.

Plus, of course, they refused to actually investigate 9/11 and gave us a cockamamie made-for-TV movie explanation with more plot holes than a D-rated Hollywood film.

All Democrats are going to do is call people "racists" and "anti-semites."

These people lecturing anyone about "racism" or "democracy" is of course simply Jewish "chutzpuh" considering they are all open, apartheid-supporting Zionists – just like Trump. And Biden.

[Dec 23, 2020] The Washington Post's resident Trump-hating Zionist Jennifer Rubin summed it up nicely in a tweet three days after the election, posting "Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into 'polite' society. We have a list."

Dec 23, 2020 | www.unz.com

sally , says: December 22, 2020 at 2:05 pm GMT • 13.3 hours ago

The Washington Post's resident Trump-hating Zionist Jennifer Rubin summed it up nicely in a tweet three days after the election, posting "Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into 'polite' society. We have a list."

I think the reporter does not understand the R to be administered by the intelligentzia will now move to the second phase of the preconditions necessary for revolution. The Intelligentzia will no longer play the game in the deep state's digitally controlled Arena. In every stadium in that arena, the deep state has the advantage, it owns the private sector MSM, it owns the members elected to the USA and so it can dictate by rule of law what it wants, it owns the private monopolies embedded in private corporate ownership, and these privately owned corporations own all of the copyrights on all of software and how to instructions and they Deep State owns all of the patented technology on the manufacture and use of all of the hardware. In short, the DEEP STATE used the rule of law, to invent the means for the Deep State to own everything The laws of copyright and patent establish by law the that the Deep State owns everything. Zionism has always opted to use the strength of being wealthy to invoke the power of the state to get what it wants.

Under the Pre Biden scenario, the DEEP STATE always had the upper hand. The DEEP state owns monopolies in technology and media, and the deep state used those monopolies as weapons to defeat the independent intelligentzia and democracy insistent TGD crowds in this election. The Biden win strengthens their DEEP STATE digital power because the deep state can now move forward un resisted <=the power of the nation state will continue to be used to drive to silence the intelligentzia and to kill off all-Deep-State-independent-competition. Nothing will happen without a license to breath, and the license will be approved by the DEEP STATE only to applicants who bow deeply enough.

This election was about economic Zionism and it means that humanity lost one more notch of its democracy and it lost the state as an protector of its independence from Slavey. I think fraud obvious in the recent election together with official admission that all prior elections results were frauds, has raised the level of understanding in the technology governed deplorable to level = awareness; I think too the technology governed deplorable (TGD) now understand collusion between CDC and the DEEP DIGITAL STATE brought a safety questionable solution to the deep state invented virus. Many TGD are asking questions, turning off their the TV news, seeking USA outlawed Huawei type technology, avoiding and being very cautions about what the TGD do or say on social media sites, etc. Generally the digitally governed deplorable are refusing to be governed by DDS.

I think Bidens win moved the American_TGD toward rebellion, but it is not inconsistent with what have happened since 1947 through out the nation state system. The technology governed deplorable in every nation state in the global nation state system have experience much the same. The statement that best describes what it means to be an American might be {Americans will defend everyone's right to choose their own government and Americans will make war on every government that abuses those it governs}. Obviously some dissonance exist between the history of the USA and the description of the meaning of being an American.

The American Declaration of Independence, embodies that essence of that being an American definition when it says: "When in the Course of Human Events it becomes necessary for One People (the technology governed deplorable) to dissolve the Political Bands (the DEEP STATE digitally controlled and outright owned USA) which connected the American people to the DEEP STATE owned Government.

After "..declaring the causes which impel the Separation." the declaration of independence says , it becomes "the duty of the TGD to throw off the Government which has abused them, and to provide new Guards for their future Security..

I think the deep state swap of Trump for Biden may likely bring to the deep state the true meaning of R. Only time will tell.

Temporary Insanity , says: December 22, 2020 at 2:28 pm GMT • 12.9 hours ago

Jennifer Rubin must be careful about the "list" she is bragging about because the opposition must have a list too.

[Dec 23, 2020] Of course Trump was a flawed man and damaged goods. Yes, he pandered to everyone but his base. But for all of that, he didn't impose policies that overtly created war-like divisions in this nation, as Biden and wokeness are about to.

Dec 23, 2020 | www.unz.com

Defcon , says: December 22, 2020 at 4:48 pm GMT • 10.6 hours ago

@AKINDLE mment-text">

The white turnout in 2016 that overturned the voter fraud did not happen this election. Who thought promising 500 billion to the %13 a month before the election was a good idea? Nonstop tweets about black unemployment? As if I give a fuck about blacks, what about all the underemployed and unemployed whites? What did he actually accomplish?

None of his campaign promises, we got a ban on a toy though, something even Obama didn't deem worth outlawing.

His entire presidency was a disaster, martial law January 21st 2017 was our only hope, that is long gone. At this point I'm not sure it matters...

Rurik , says: December 22, 2020 at 5:05 pm GMT • 10.3 hours ago
@AKINDLE ation, as Biden and wokeness are about to. Trump was trying to slow down the horrors looming ahead, and a smart person (white or whatever) should have voted for him regardless of his Negro and Jewish pandering.

Crying that 'he didn't do enough for me, so let's teach him a lesson, is puerile idiocy, and 'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face'. Because now they're really going to get anti-White hatred- on acid.

So, you're wrong about him being 'soundly defeated', and you're wrong about the 'smart white' staying home, so that Kamala and her Deep State crew can get back to sending humanity spiraling into the abyss.

HeebHunter , says: December 22, 2020 at 5:10 pm GMT • 10.2 hours ago
@Defcon Who would have thought, a kike lover and a puppet is a scumbag. Truly a master move by the establishment and the deep state. The Orange kike never did even address his huwhite base. Not once.

Muttmerica deserves this though. No debate. 200 years of serving kike interests will never end well. Same as the island monkeys of the UK. The trump situation is the same as (((brexit))). Fractured any hope of solidarity with mainland while the (((EU))) pulls their pants down and do it raw.

I will never cease laughing at the anglos. They wanted this situation, they fought for it.

Google Jim RATcliffe and laugh.

Oemiktlob , says: December 22, 2020 at 5:22 pm GMT • 10.0 hours ago
@Rurik

Thank you for using the word "coup" here because I believe it is imperative that every concerned person realizes that this is what has happened/is happening.

BannedHipster , says: Website December 22, 2020 at 5:51 pm GMT • 9.5 hours ago
@Rurik p>

Voting for a guy that spent his entire term in office working for the foreign state of Israel, while not lifting a finger for Americans – is puerile idiocy.

If a politician won't do anything for ME – why would I vote for him? I'd vote for the other guy who will do something FOR ME.

But no – you people are like, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for Israel."

Are you also going to tell us how CIA Director Gina Haspel was killed in a Deep State shootout in front of the secret Dominion Voting Machines in Frankfurt Germany as part of Operation Hammer to steal the election from Trump?

What's the latest from QAnon?

God you people are f -- ing hopeless.

Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: December 22, 2020 at 5:57 pm GMT • 9.4 hours ago

The political left will not succeed with their revenge agenda, simply because President Donald Trump has had the effect of alerting the American public to the utter corruption of their politicians, ON BOTH THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT. Notice, Trump was not a Republican president and in fact, received little support from establishment Republicans during his four years and even now. Trump was a grass roots elected president, elected by millions of people who simply have had it with the status quo.

In fact, Trump is not unique. The older generations remember a certain Ross Perot, also a businessman and grass roots candidate who ran for President along with Clinton and Bush the elder. He received over 20 million votes and counting when he suddenly withdrew from the election and tried to re-enter it later. Why did he withdraw? He might have won and instead took away enough votes from Bush to cause the abominable Bill Clinton and his wife to enter the White House. Even then, Americans had enough of the "status quo".

Biden is a complete as can be swamp creature and will continue to, along with Harris, bring this country to its knees. With Trump there was hope of change and a renewed commitment to focusing on the U.S., instead of on every other country in the world, as the democrats plan to do. GOOD LUCK AMERICANS

Rev. Spooner , says: December 22, 2020 at 6:15 pm GMT • 9.1 hours ago
@Greta Handel m was demonstrated for four long years. Not once did he try to reign in the corporations (pharmaceuticals, energy, banking etc., preying on the American people.
He really is an obnoxious person. He hasn't pardoned Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and murdered Solamani and let the Israelis murder an Iranian scientist.
His four years were spent pandering to Zionists and he followed their every diktat. Swamp creatures were given a second chance, while he again and again bent forward with his rump in the air for John Bolton, William Barr, AIPAC, etc, etc.
American patriots should have some pride along with rudimentary intelligence.
Cauchemar du Singe , says: December 22, 2020 at 6:22 pm GMT • 9.0 hours ago
@BuelahMan

Is Trump now questioning his servitude to all things Zionist, now that Bibi the Noo Joisey furniture salesman stabbed him in the back by congratulating Zio Boi Biden immediately after the sElection ?

If Trump has a Christian epiphany (ref. recent Christmas message directed to just Christians) wherein things become clarified and resolve strengthened, The New Year could start with a BANG.

Just another serf , says: December 22, 2020 at 7:17 pm GMT • 8.1 hours ago
@AKINDLE

Gawd, you are delusional.

We are given two choices in these elections. That's the way it works. No where in my comment did I laud Donald Trump. However, I am certain Trump would do less direct damage to middle class Americans than those who control Biden/Harris will inflict upon that group of citizens.

And I'm just old fashioned. The idea that a US Presidential election can be so thoroughly riddled with election fraud is just not acceptable.

Commentator Mike , says: December 23, 2020 at 3:02 am GMT • 21 minutes ago
@BannedHipster

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for Israel."

Brilliant! Sums up any US government, and many others in the West, and not just Trump's.

[Dec 23, 2020] The major in-between 2016 and 2020 election change was a total loss of our collective grip on reality, beginning with the fact that most of the country esd brainwashed that Russiagate is real and that neoliberal Dems somehow represent people of the USA, not just military industrial complex, CIA and Wall street.

Dec 23, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

Which is fine -- victori sunt spoila and all that -- but it's already safe to say the Trump years will be remembered as a brutal black comedy that made winners and losers alike look very, very bad. It was supposed to be a historic, norms-smashing catastrophe, but the reality is that almost nothing actually happened during the Trump years, except for a very long, exhausting story. The major in-between change was a total loss of our collective grip on reality, beginning with the fact that most of the country thinks we just went to hell and back a thousand times, instead of making just one noisy trip in a circle, arriving just where we might have four years ago, if Joe Biden had run instead of Hillary Clinton. The tiniest conceivable step, but oh so much grief and self-deception to get there!

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highwaytoserfdom 1 hour ago

Matt Im sure you know the

"The press is a gang of cruel(censored) . Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for (censored)offs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."


― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

RexSeven 2 hours ago

He put on display for all to see exactly what our media, deep state, and democrat party is. And you dud nothing Matt. Nothing. Go F yourself.

incharge1976 PREMIUM 1 hour ago (Edited)

Crap article and terrible picture.

The reason Trump's 4 years were crazy was because of the corrupt Democrats who lied the entire time with bs investigations and hearings.

Richard Chesler 1 hour ago

A breath of fresh air after corrupt charlatan Homobama.

NotKennedy 1 hour ago

An American hero, Donald Trump prevented Hillary.

Itchy and Scratchy 1 hour ago

Trump garnered a historic 75-80mm legitimate votes and a massive landslide victory and this irrelevant dope writes a banal hit piece on him? SERIOUSLY PATHETIC!

[Dec 23, 2020] Early the USSR vs. the contemporary USA: history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Dec 23, 2020 | www.unz.com

Daniel Rich , says: December 22, 2020 at 7:04 am GMT • 20.3 hours ago

"Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into 'polite' society. We have a list ."

How very early USSR

[Dec 23, 2020] Election or selection?

Dec 23, 2020 | www.unz.com

Biff , says: December 22, 2020 at 6:32 am GMT • 20.9 hours ago

The Establishment "Deep State" has won a major victory in the United States with the election of Joe Biden as president.

That would be 'selection' of Joe Biden.

[Dec 21, 2020] I think that the legal profession - including judges - are so tainted by corruption and cowardice that there is no way the rule of law will ever come back

Dec 21, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

7 hours ago

I am a lawyer by training with 15 years in before I retired. Look, even "conservative" judges tend to be more liberal than conservative. And almost ALL lawyers live in fear of incurring the disapproval of their peers. It really is a very cowardly profession.

So, this is a filthy decision. I think that the legal profession - including judges - are so tainted by corruption and cowardice that there is no way the rule of law will ever come back.

Guaranteed if the roles were reversed and Democrats were benefitted by a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs that indeed the plaintiffs would have prevailed.

It has always been a rigged system but there was at least SOME honor and logic. Now, though, the whole thing is twisted and foul, beyond human comprehension.

[Dec 21, 2020] Saagar Enjeti- Biden, Pelosi, McConnell Are Too Damn OLD, Historically Been A Disaster Together

Dec 21, 2020 | www.youtube.com

Dave Blackman , 1 month ago

These old geezers have two goals. Stay in power as long as they can, and to make their families rich for generations.

Apples McGillicuddy , 1 month ago

America is just a weird country. A tanking empire with a bunch of old people who are like small children playing with tanks and toys.


Cyril O'Reilly , 1 month ago

"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -- George Carlin

Richard Durocher , 1 month ago

Never expect solutions for problems from the people who created them.

[Dec 21, 2020] Biden's 'Will of the People' Malarkey -

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Generations of presidents have cited "the will of the people" to legitimize power grabs. The Founding Fathers wouldn't approve. (By Stratos Brilakis / Shutterstock)

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JAMES BOVARD

In his cough-ridden victory speech Monday night, President-elect Joe Biden proclaimed again that " the will of the people prevailed " in the 2020 election. Biden invoked that phrase four times in one speech, and he'll likely recite it often in the coming months to sanctify his new policies and proclamations. Biden also declared, "In America, politicians don't take power -- the people grant it to them." But invoking the "will of the people" helps president seize all the power they claim to need, regardless of the Constitution or any provision of federal law.

Americans are encouraged to believe that their vote on Election Day somehow guarantees that the subsequent ten thousand actions by the president, Congress, and federal agencies will embody their wishes, spoken or otherwise, known or unknown. In reality, the more edicts a president issues, the less likely his decrees have any connection to popular preferences. And campaign promises are even less legally binding than a Tinder tryst's promise to stay in touch.

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Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to invoke "the will of the people" to consecrate his most audacious power grabs. In a 1937 fireside chat, he denounced the Supreme Court for thwarting "the will of the people " – which FDR supposedly incarnated because he had been re-elected the previous year. The court had struck down several New Deal laws as unconstitutional in part because they turned federal bureaucrats into tinhorn dictators. FDR sought to pack the Supreme Court with appointees to rubberstamp his policies, sparking a backlash in Congress and the nation that hobbled him for years afterwards. If Biden decides to follow FDR's footsteps in seeking to vastly expand the number of justices, expect "will of the people" to shroud his infamy.

FDR invoked "will of the people" to provide a Teflon shield for his sign-off on the enslavement of East Europeans. In the summit communique at the 1945 Yalta conference with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, the three leaders "pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people " in the former Axis nations and liberated countries of Europe. A few weeks later, FDR told Congress that the Yalta agreement was "the most hopeful agreement possible for a free, independent, and prosperous Polish people." Even before Roosevelt died in April 1945, it was clear that the secret deals cut at Yalta guaranteed that a hundred million people in eastern and central Europe would fall under the Soviet boot. But the claptrap in the Yalta communique helped fawning historians protect FDR's legacy.

Presidents sometimes invoke the "will of the people" to shroud the vast damage Washington inflicts on the citizenry. At a 1974 White House Conference on Domestic and Economic Affairs, President Gerald Ford declared, "Federal, State, and local units of government responding to the will of the people will whip inflation." Ford trumpeted a "Whip Inflation Now" campaign and boasted that 150,000 people had requested WIN buttons. Ford labeled inflation, running at a 12% annual rate, as "public enemy number one." Ford talked as if inflation was a moral failing of the American people–rather than primarily the result of the government printing extra money to finance deficit spending. Thanks to the Federal Reserve's monetary spigots, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 80% of its purchasing power since 1974.

The "will of the people" encourages the delusion that ballots have magical powers to control the following four years. On the eve of the 1992 election, President George H. W. Bush told a Texas audience: "With your vote, you are going to help shape the future of this, the most blessed, special nation that man has ever known and God has helped create . Look at your vote as an act of power, a statement of principle." Yet, few if any of the people who voted the following day were making "a statement of principle' in favor of permitting the president to deploy troops abroad on his whim (as Clinton did in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and elsewhere), permitting the government to waive the Posse Comitatus Act and use military equipment against American civilians (as happened at Waco), or permitting the FBI to expand its wiretapping by up to a hundred-fold?

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"Will of the people" provides pre-absolution for any use of power by a winning politician. Two days after his 2004 reelection victory, President George W. Bush declared: "When you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view and the people made it clear what they wanted." But was Bush's vengeful obliteration of Fallujah , Iraq in the following weeks the "will of the people"? Did voters consent to the Bush administration's medieval-like attempt to use tortured confessions as bona fide evidence in federal court? Did voters subconsciously will the National Security Agency's vast illegal surveillance regime of their emails and phone calls?

Since the Electoral College designated Biden the winner of the 2020 election, should we presume that every policy that Biden and his advisors approved in his Delaware basement during the campaign is the will of the American people? Biden said that he would appoint Beto O'Rourke as "the one who leads" his efforts to restrict gun ownership. Beto was famous for his "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15 " campaign promise. Does that mean it is the "will of the people" to confiscate more than ten million firearms? And shall we pretend it is the "will of the people" if Biden attacks and topples the Assad regime in Syria, one of the obsessions of his retread foreign policy team from the Obama era?

The "will of the people" switcheroo is even more farcical for state and local elections. level. When Los Angeles residents voted for mayor in 2017, did they have any idea that Eric Garcetti would prohibit them from taking any walks outside of their home as part of a demented Covid prevention policy? Did Virginian voters in 2017 realize that the candidate who won the most votes would be entitled to prohibit them going out of their homes from midnight to 5 a.m., as Governor Ralph Northam did last week? Did Michigan voters in 2018 secretly will that the winning gubernatorial candidate could prohibit anyone from leaving their home to visit family or friends, as Gretchen Whitmer did earlier this year?

After the election, Biden's buildbackbetter.gov website announced that " social distancing is a dial " that Biden will twist to determine whether people can go to work, school, or church. How many Americans realized that they were voting for a candidate who could dial away almost everything in their daily lives? Over the last four months, Biden has flip-flopped on whether he will impose a national economic shutdown as part of his Covid policy. If he places hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest early next year, rest assured that liberal newspaper editorials will insist that people have no right to complain because they did this to themselves by voting for Biden.

Exalting "the will of the people" is another sign of the downward spiral of representative government–as if the personal preferences of one politician are the essence of democracy. The Founding Fathers designed a political system in which the Constitution perpetually trumped periodic vote counts. At the time of the American Revolution, elections were seen as a means for people to protect themselves against rulers -- kings, ministers, or any other official wrongdoer. Law professor John Phillip Reid observed, "Eighteenth-century representation was primarily an institution of restraint on governmental power." But nowadays, rather than serving as leashes, elections are more likely to be dangerous propellants–especially with ready-made phrases to hallow winning politicians.

Don't expect to hear any doubts or insights into "the will of the people" phrase from editorial writers. The typical Washington pundit could explain the philosophical controversies regarding "will of the people" as well as an Arkansas high school dropout explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity. (" Rousseau who ?" said the PBS panelist.) Many of the commentators who echo Biden's "will of the people" invocation are also champions of Leviathan . They hail "democratic" processes that often enable politicians to capture nearly unlimited government power to impose policies favored by the elite.

Nor will Biden's cheerleaders stoop to explain how the "will of the people" can be divined from 65 million mostly unverified mail-in ballots . This year's "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" is being deduced simply from the sum total of pieces of paper with a blot near Biden's name that happened to turn up in a government bin or mailing address by a certain date. For most federal policies, the 2020 election results provide as reliable guidance as that proffered by Roman priests reading entrails of sacrificed animals to reveal the will of the gods. In lieu of credible evidence, we will be endlessly reminded that submitting to the "will of the people" (manifested in Biden's executive orders) is the cornerstone of our "civic religion." Should we presume Biden can be trusted with vast new powers because of a Holy Ghost of Democracy hovering above the Oval Office? " Democracy requires faith ," declared Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, who was yelping " God Bless the 'Deep State' " not long previously.

"Will of the people" is one of those intellectual circus-shell games in which freedom almost always loses. Admittedly, Biden never campaigned to "make America constitutional again." But the same media cadre now working overtime to valorize his career and legitimize his power will also exploit any deference-inducing shibboleth they can find.

James Bovard is the author of Lost Rights , Attention Deficit Democracy , and Public Policy Hooligan . He is also a USA Today columnist. Follow him on Twitter @JimBovard .

gnt joeo • 2 days ago

joeo Kent • 2 days ago

Wages have be stagnate for the last forty years. Unions represent ~8 percent of the workforce.

Kent joeo • 2 days ago

Not in 1974 they weren't. Back in those days, even if you weren't in a union, your employer treated you like you were so you wouldn't join one.

gnt joeo • 2 days ago

Wages have stagnated for the last 40 years for anyone without education after high school. And the primary economic theory guiding us for that period of time has been the idea that tax cuts for rich people will eventually trickle down to everyone. It has not worked yet, but that might just mean we need to cut taxes again.

We've also passed any number of laws undercutting unions in the same period, on grounds that states needed to do that to attract investment.

[Dec 20, 2020] Here is this ruse of oligarchs today just as in Venice in the 16th and 17th century where the Doges in their magnificence spy on the citizens and reward citizens for spying on each other, where social cohesion and solidarity is corroded and rots within.

Dec 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

uncle tungsten , Dec 18 2020 22:03 utc | 114

India analysis and Modi's neo liberalism backgrounder. 25 minute Video from redfish.

Bemildred , Dec 18 2020 22:22 utc | 115

William Gruff # 97
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 18 2020 21:36 utc | 113

The 70s was when they started selling the good redwood saw logs to Japan instead of cutting them up here because they could get more profit that way. At the time I do not think it was considered that the Japanese would be able to compete with us as well as they did, and I think the same applies to the other sellouts of our working class to foreign cheap manufacturing centers. You have to remember these people really do think they are better. They do think in class terms even if they avoid that rhetoric in public. The problem is they thought they could control China like they did Japan. That was dumb then and it looks even dumber now. You can see similar dumbness in their lack of grip on any realisitic view of Russia. Provincials really. Rich peasants.

Framarz , Dec 19 2020 9:14 utc | 142
@114 uncle tungsten

Thanks for the redfish video suggestion. Worth watching not only to get insight about the current developments in India but also understanding the global Zeitgeist.

I couldn't avoid to identify the exact same type of developments and problems that working class and increasingly also middle class facing in other parts of the world.

The globalization of capitalism since the fall of USSR and Warsaw pact, has caused accelerated monopolization of political and economic power everywhere in the world, this was achieved by enforcing the same neoliberal agenda globally. No matter if you look at the USA, Germany, Iran or India, you discover the same type of "reforms". Reforms that result in increased poverty, more and more middle class families are losing their socioeconomic position and becoming part of working class.

One come to the understanding that the "Great Reset" we are talking about recently, is not something new in the beginning and making, it's only the continuation of an agenda which has been in implementation since 30 years ago.

Framarz , Dec 19 2020 9:42 utc | 143
@114 uncle tungsten

have you noticed that terms like "Imperialism" and "Capitalist government" which were natural parts of the political discourse in 20th century have been increasingly replaced by "Nepotism" and "Oligarchy" in 21st century?

uncle tungsten , Dec 19 2020 10:30 utc | 144
Framarz #142 and #143

Thank you and I have noticed the shift in terminology. I try to avoid it as I believe in the need to be extremely clear about socialism and capitalism. I prefer to avid CCP and prefer Chinese Communist Party. I take care to compare western issues with how Cuba is actually doing. Keep making it clear there is a range of alternatives to private finance capitalism and IMF usury.

The weavers of deceit and theft that are private finance capitalists are indeed oligarchs and they attempt to crush any discussion of repossessing their wealth and redistributing it so that more people can do more work with it and generate stronger societies. The private finance vultures live in dread of a Tobin tax so I say bring it on. Wherever cash is locked away and idle - take it and give it to the people as it is they who know how to put it back to work and generate security and peace within communities.

Wherever power is monopolised in industry then force a devolution of shares to workers and unions and pay shares as taxes to the state so that dividends go to all including the state. As it is now in many countries mega corporations extort tax holidays to set up production units in the counties and dump the entire cost of infrastructure expansion onto those counties as part of their extortion. Information monopolies are the most critical to dismantle. Look at the west where critical journalism has been reduced to mediocre stenography and those with integrity are entirely reliant on other monopolies to squeeze their digital content between the pillars of censorious monopolies like twitter and facebook etc. These monopolies are managing public content and creativity and should be in public ownership - NOT just shareholder public but the entire public.

There is this ruse of oligarchs today just as in Venice in the 16th and 17th century where the Doges in their magnificence spy on the citizens and reward citizens for spying on each other, where social cohesion and solidarity is corroded and rots within. That is what the neo liberal and private finance agenda is - to monopolise $$$ and power and decision making within the hands of decrepit gerontocrats like Pelosi, Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Queen Elisabeth etc, etc.

Enough of this rant... thank you Framarz. Long live those countries that have for decades repelled the evil that would crush their freedom and socialism. May Russia find its way to reintegrate socialism within its future.

[Dec 20, 2020] Financial oligarchy contol and the role of the press

Dec 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

snake , Dec 19 2020 11:29 utc | 36

by: steven t johnson @ 13 says "the Presidency is essentially unchecked: Article II and amendment 12 clearly state
that no one can challenge the president.." <= I add "unless congress can find something they themselves are all
guilty of, and are collectively willing to accept the risk that they themselves might be removed for the same crime
for which the Congress might impeach the President .. from elected Office impeachment is impossible.

It is this improbability of removing the President from office that makes the control of the content allowed or
pushed on the public by the main stream media so important to the stability of the government and the ability of
the President to lead.

The only way a President can be impeached is to do to the President what the Lenin and Tolstoy Bolshevik regime
change team accomplished to bring down the Czar of Russia. The media began its attacks on Christian Czar led
Russia in 1875 by 1919 if the Czar had said it was raining outside the entire nation of Russia wanting to know if
it were raining would go outside to see for themselves.

Tolstoy, a public hero, blamed the Czar for the problems caused by a pandemic and a famine of 1891. The peasants
of Russia were trained by media content to distrust any and everything the Czar or any member of his staff said or
did. Propaganda said there was evil behind every act of the Czar. Tolstoy's famous propaganda undermined the
Christian faith held by millions of people.

"The Minister for the Interior told the Emperor Czar that Tolstoy's letter to the English press 'must be considered
tantamount to a most shocking revolutionary proclamation': not a judgement that can often have been made of a letter
to The Daily Telegraph. Czar Alexander III began to believe that it was all part of an English plot and the Moscow
Gazette, which was fed from the Government, denounced Tolstoy's letters as 'frank propaganda for the overthrow of
the whole social and economic structure of the world'." see destroys Christain Russian government

Norecovery @ 22 says and I have added to what he said to make this list.
1. "The .. criminals have ..take[n] over foreign policy in the U.S.,
these criminals you are talking about are not part of the government, they are private persons and corporations.
Allow me to remind you that Article II of the Constitution of the USA only concerns two persons, The President
and the VP.. to them all power to act domestic and foreign is given, Congress has no power that it cannot get
into law, and no power to govern the office of the President and that has been true since the original constitution
was ratified in 1788. To conduct war around the world, it is necessary only to won the president.

2. leveraging money power .. the oligarch network employees highly motivated highly-paid promoters to force President control onto the world.

3. The Oligarch and their corporations control Congress, Intelligence Agencies, and the content that MSM presents...

4. the MSM distributed content expresses total censorship as does Google, and social media

5. Corona virus is bio-warfare designed to undermine small-scale economies and to establish Oligarch autonomy

6. Using rule of law (generated by nation state power) oligarch owned corporations own all non taxable property (copyrights and patents) and the right to use all technology (copyright and patents).

7. Worldwide compliance is the goal of the oligarch. owning the nation state allows military, financial, and media to be used to crush dissent and to extract wealth.

8. The pharma-promoted questionable gene editing vaccinations are questionable at best.

9. Humanity is witnessing a worldwide COUPS, UBER-Fascism that exceeds all historical examples.

10. WWI was a war to take control of the Ottoman owned oil rich land and to tame German competitive strength.

11. Hilter return Germany to its former power, so WWII was to take German competition completely out of the equation.

12. The wars in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, are about pipeline and control of oil production, transport and profit

13. the wars in Belarus, Ukraine, Modldova, Bulgaria Romania, Hunary, Slovakia Cezech Republic Poland are about getting Western Europe access into Russia.

14. Last week the House passed a bill designed to deny the president any authority to reduce the US troops in Foreign land.

so your question at norecovery @ 22 will it succeed is relevant. I don't think it will, I was told the Governor of Florida
has refused to take the vaccine, word is getting around; people everywhere in USA governed America, in UK governed
Britain, in Republic of France governed France ( riots every weekend for over two years) , and Zionist governed
Israel (riots all over the place all of the time).. everyone is skeptical of the nation state system.

I think the take over would have succeeded if the Oligarchs had not tried to force a vaccination on people that
genetic engineers (changes the way their body works) the bodies those vaccinated were born with.

Mark2 , Dec 19 2020 12:28 utc | 37

Snake @ 36
You must have spent a lot of time and consideration on that far reaching summary !
That's MOA at its very best !!
I could only add -- - the disfunctional mindset that blights America right now is having an immediate impact on all corners of the world.
I see it even in my tiny peaceful backwater.
If they create a fascist monster unleash it on the world -- it will consume everything and everyone in its path.
Whithin a decade.

[Dec 20, 2020] I will miss Trump showing how the republican politicians that wrap themselves in the American flag are liars and traitors

Dec 20, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

PerilouseTimes 53 minutes ago

I will miss Trump showing how the republican politicians that wrap themselves in the American flag are liars and traitors. I find it odd that the democrats and anarchist here hate Trump so much when he shows the lies of the republican politicians. They are brainwashed parrots.

[Dec 20, 2020] I love America and its non-stop CIA psyop cyclops social media television.

Dec 20, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

JohnHellHood 3 hours ago

I love America and its non-stop CIA psyop cyclops social media television.

The New Year will bring renewed police crackdown on private assembly, people's homes, the continued destruction of employment, $40 checks from Uncle Joe to "tide you over," hysterical harpies physically assaulting anyone without a mask in blue states, and a full-out propaganda assault to destroy the defenseless minds of your friends and family.

You're going to lose a lot in the New Year. 2020 was just the beginning. Wait until summer 2021 and BLM/Antifa chaos. Conservative politicians like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul will be crying "insurrection act!" and Tucker Carlson will launch into Season Two of 30-minute cracking-voice monologues "this is your America!" while nothing and no one does a goddamn thing to protect you.

We are on our own. Doctors, schools, cops, families, people you work with -- all are slowly being sucked into the vortex of this simulacrum of hell being broadcast on their "smart" phones. Compared to what's being sold to them, your voice sounds positively insane...

[Dec 20, 2020] The Trump University case is real ugly and it might resuface after Biden became the President

Dec 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

Moorewasthebestbond , Dec 19 2020 9:42 utc | 35

It's a little late to be circling the wagons in defense of Trump.

Yes, Trump-era grifting has peaked and MAGA is coming to a fraudulent end;

http://dissident-mag.com/2020/11/09/stop-the-steal-a-gop-grifters-dream-come-true/

The Trump University case is real ugly if there is any Rule of Law remaining, which is big if;

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-university-fraud-lawsuit-deposition-full-video/

And you don't want to hear how Kushner and friends stand to make billions from the Trump eviction avalanche next year; https://www.altcensored.com/watch?v=K1BR2inmB-k

[Dec 20, 2020] Continuation of neocons wars for Full Spectrum Dominance is the ultimate goal of the Coronavirus putsch

Notable quotes:
"... The neocon criminals have managed to take over foreign policy in the U.S., leveraging money power from their bankster backers. ..."
"... Their latest gambit is the Coronavirus putsch ..."
Dec 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

james , Dec 18 2020 20:28 utc | 1

it seems the purpose of the usa media is in large part to keep the masses riled up over cheering or booing for team red or team blue... speaking of which, i haven't seen one of the cheerleaders here lately...

Haassaan , Dec 19 2020 0:48 utc | 20

Yes, this RussiaGate story will flame out, just like all the rest, but ultimately these stories aren't about Trump, but about setting the stage for the Biden Administration to attack Russia. It doesn't matter that they are all lies, what matters is that the big pile of lies as a whole creates a false reality in which anti-Russian propaganda is so overwhelming that nobody in the west can see outside of the delusion.

norecovery , Dec 19 2020 1:51 utc | 22

The neocon criminals have managed to take over foreign policy in the U.S., leveraging money power from their bankster backers. The latter is a tiny group of oligarchs and their network of highly-paid promoters that are motivated to force U.S. hegemony onto the world. They now have control over the U.S. Congress, Intelligence Agencies, and the MSM, and are increasingly exerting censorship over social media.

Their latest gambit is the Coronavirus putsch using bio-warfare agents to undermine small-scale economies and autonomy, while imposing vast corporate ownership of property.

Worldwide compliance is the goal using a wide range of military, financial, and media control measures to crush dissent. The pharma-promoted vaccinations that are questionable at best reinforce those controls and are part of the plot. We are witnessing a worldwide COUPS ATTEMPT, UBER-Fascism that exceeds all historical examples. Will it succeed?

Fyi , Dec 19 2020 2:35 utc | 26

Mr. Norecovery

Euro-Americans, hiding behind the so-called Neo-con facade, failed in their goals in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

They succeeded in Libya, however.

Americans will have sunk more than 8 trillion dollars before the next decade is out for their venture against Islam.

They have been stopped because of Iran and the Shia Muslims.

The way things are going, Americans are going to be stopped in East Asia with the coming China-Taiwan War as well.

ak74 , Dec 19 2020 4:59 utc | 32

"Yes, he killed foreigners. But no U.S. president will ever be indicted for that. It is seen as a part of the job."

Yes, committing war crimes and "crimes against peace"--the supreme international crime as asserted by the Nuremberg Tribunal--is fundamental to the job description of being America's War-Criminal-in-Chief.

The fact that Americans and citizens in other self-styled "democracies" deny this uncomfortable reality, or support these war crimes, says a lot about their own criminality.

Debsisdead , Dec 19 2020 7:39 utc | 34

@m #33 said

""Lock him up!" It's amazing how often the two political camps in the USA are mirror images of each other."

Sure the scumbag politicians shout "Lock 'em up" at their opponents but that is just the usual divisive partisan nonsense, they spout knowing that they have no intention of locking anyone up. Why? because they know better than anyone that they have pulled exactly the same illegal immorality as the other 'side' and the last thing needed is any such precedent.

By spreading that unfulfilled tosh they hope to negate the popular movement which needs to happen if amerikans are ever going to extricate themselves from the fate of all empires that once were, a millenia of misery e.g watch what is currently happening in england.
If actual ordinary amerikans have a chance of saving what can be preserved it is on to them as citizens to hold the entire ruling elite to account. this must be done regardless of any claimed political affiliation or claimed 'neutrality'.

Anyone who spends more than about 30 minutes objectively assessing the stunts amerika has been pulling since 1945 (much before really, but let's just use 1945 as a cutoff) sees that it is amerika which has been the force for just about all the evil in our world. A handful of sops to the faint-hearted bourgeoisie, eg. finally acknowledging the evil of apartheid South Africa right as the racist's downfall becomes inevitable doesn't excuse a thing. All such stunts demonstrate is the greed driven amorality of amerika's elite.

If they spouted in the 60's, 70's & 80's that allowing the apartheid government of South Africa to continue was a pragmatic call to prevent a bloodbath, yet a much needed change did occur in the early 90's with no bloodbath, blind Freddie can see they got it wrong then just as they are getting it wrong now about apartheid Occupied Palestine.

Yet they still continue, Why? The only conclusion can be that both gangs the dims & the rethugs are going where there is a dollar to be made, just as happened with South Africa.

Insisting that all 3 arms of amerikan government be taken out of the picture regardless of whatever gang the claim allegiance to is not 'more of the same'.
If it occurred it would be an indication that all non-elite amerikans have lost faith in the farcical, allegedly loyal, but in fact only to themselves, congress people, senators, prezes & vice prezes and judges that regularly behave towards 99% of amerikans so contemptuously that the corporate owned media have to expend so much resources distracting Jo/Joe Citizen from.

It won't make much difference to me in my lifetime but it will to my offspring. If amerikans don't sort this out for themselves, my kids or more likely my grankids will have to do the job.

History teaches us that no matter how bloody things can get when a population stands up to its masters, just going with the flow until the boil comes to a head and is then 'lanced' by outside forces, is much worse for everyone. The hardest hit being the citizens of the once domineering nation.

Amerikans have the best knowledge of who the crooks are, if they won't sort the problem because they have been distracted into more partisan tosh such as "they all cry lock 'em up" ; it is they ordinary amerikans, who will finish up paying the piper.

[Dec 20, 2020] The corporate mass media is fully onboard with the coup. With Trump removed from the giant soapbox that the presidency provides then there will be no nucleus for the opposition to the neoliberalism to condense around, and the social media discourse can be buttoned down.

Dec 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Dec 17 2020 17:15 utc | 19

Norwegian @7: "Perhaps someone in the US can offer their perspective on how the present situation can be resolved peacefully."

The plan is actually fairly straightforward. The corporate mass media is fully onboard with the coup, with even presumptive pro-Trump organizations like FOX not willing to challenge it. Alphabet/Google, Facebook, and Twitter gatekeep the vast majority of social media in the US. All of these are pro-coup. With Trump removed from the giant soapbox that the presidency provides then there will be no nucleus for the opposition to the establishment to condense around, and the social media discourse can be buttoned down. In this environment any challenges to the narratives that the establishment is trying to establish as canon du jour can be dismissed as the rantings of a tiny and insignificant but terribly evil fringe minority and ruthlessly purged from the national discourse.

With opposition silenced the establishment (in big business and not just government) will ramp up efforts to "reprogram" the population by embedding the themes and perspectives that they are pushing in all mass media. The vector for delivering this "reprogramming" will primarily be entertainment (movies, TV serials, sports) and education (directly dictating acceptable perspectives). Using these tools the elites will impose their chosen norms of behavior on the population.

The elite's plan is intensely divisive. The faux left who have already largely internalized this reprogramming are only united by a kind of common self-pity over their socially atomized personal isolation. They are socially powerless and easily remote-controlled by mass media suggestions and professional social media "influencers" . With the "deplorables" likewise socially atomized then the threat of any organized opposition to the power elite evaporates. No civil war.

That's the plan anyway. Whether the "deplorables" will roll over and take it is another matter that remains to be seen.

Norwegian , Dec 17 2020 17:47 utc | 23

@William Gruff | Dec 17 2020 17:15 utc | 19
What you describe is the implementation of tyranny, I would not call it peaceful resolution. But you are probably right about the intentions. I hope they fail like many plans in face of reality.

William Gruff , Dec 17 2020 18:02 utc | 25

Norwegian @23: "I hope they fail like many plans in face of reality."

The fact that their plans have been failing and backfiring spectacularly these last several years is very encouraging.

[Dec 20, 2020] Escobar- When Deplorables Become Ungovernables - ZeroHedge

Dec 20, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

China, Russia and Iran are the top three existential "threats" to the U.S., according to the National Security Strategy. Three features distinguish the top three. They are all sovereign powers. They are under varying degrees of sanctions. And they are the top three nodes of the 21st century's most important, evolving geopolitical process: Eurasia integration.

What do the three sovereigns see when they examine the dystopia that took over Exceptionalistan?

They see, once again, three – discombobulated – nodes in conflict:

  1. the post-historic Pacific and Atlantic coasts;

  2. the South – a sort of expanded Dixieland;

  3. and the Midwest – what would be the American heartland.

The hyper-modern Pacific-Atlantic nodes congregate high-tech and finance, profit from Pentagon techno-breakthroughs and benefit from the "America rules the waves" ethos that guarantees the global primacy of the U.S. dollar.

The rest of America is largely considered by the Pacific-Atlantic as just a collection of flyover states: the South – which regards itself as the real, authentic America; and the Midwest, largely disciplined and quite practical-minded, squeezed ideologically between the littoral powerhouses and the South.

Superstructure, though, is key: no matter what happens, whatever the fractures, this remains an Empire, where only a tiny elite, a de facto plutocratic oligarchy, rules.

It would be too schematic, even though essentially correct, to assert that in the presidential election, invisible campaigner Joe Biden represented the Pacific-Atlantic nodes, and Trump represented the whole South.

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Assuming the election was not fraudulent – and that remains a big "if" – the Midwest eventually swung based on three issues.

  1. Trump, as much as he relied on a sanctions juggernaut, could not bring back manufacturing jobs home.

  2. He could not reduce the military footprint across the Greater Middle East.

  3. And, before Covid-19, he could not bring down immigration.

Everything that lies ahead points to the irreconcilable – pitting the absolute majority that voted Dem in the Atlantic-Pacific nodes versus the South and a deeply divided Midwest. As much as Biden-Harris is bound to isolate the South even more, their prospects of "pacifying" the Midwest are less than zero.

Whose ground control?

Beyond the raucous altercations on whether the presidential election was fraudulent, these are the key factual points.

  1. A series of rules in mostly swing states were changed, through courts, bypassing state legislatures, without transparence, before the election, paving the way to facilitate fraud schemes.

  2. Biden was de facto coronated by AP, Google and Twitter even before the final, official result, and weeks before the electoral college vote this past Monday.

  3. Every serious, professional audit to determine whether all received and tabulated votes were valid was de facto squashed.

In any Global South latitude where the empire did "interfere" in local elections, color revolution-style, this set of facts would be regarded by scores of imperial officials, in a relentless propaganda blitz, as evidence of a coup.

On the recent Supreme Court ruling, a Deep State intel source told me, "the Supreme Court did not like to see half the country rioting against them, and preferred the decision be made by each state in the House of Representatives. That is the only way to handle this without jeopardizing the union. Even prominent Democrats I know realize that the fix took place. The error was to steal too many votes. This grand theft indicts the whole system, that has always been corrupt."

Dangers abound.

On the propaganda front, for instance, far right nationalists are absolutely convinced that U.S. media can be brought to heel only by occupying the six main offices of the top conglomerates, plus Facebook, Google and Twitter: then you'd have full control of the U.S. propaganda mill.

Another Deep State source, now retired, adds that:

"the U.S. Army does not want to intervene as their soldiers may not obey orders.

Many of these far right nationalists were officers in the armed forces. They know where the nuclear missiles and bombers are. There are many in sympathy with them as the U.S. falls apart in lockdowns. "

Meanwhile, Hunter Biden's dodgy dealings simply will not be made to vanish from public scrutiny. He's under four different federal investigations. The recent subpoena amounts to a very serious case pointing to a putative crime family. It's been conveniently forgotten that Joe Biden bragged to the Council on Foreign Relations

that he forced Ukraine's chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin to be fired exactly when he was investigating corruption by Burisma's founder.

Of course, a massive army of shills will always invoke another army of omniscient and oh so impartial "fact checkers" to hammer the same message:

"This is Trump's version. Courts have said clearly all the evidence is baseless."

District Attorney William Barr is now out of the picture (see his letter of resignation). Barr is a notorious Daddy Bush asset since the old days – and that means classic Deep State. Barr knew about all federal investigations on Hunter Biden dating back to 2018, covering potential money laundering and bribery.

And still, as the Wall Street Journal delightfully put it, he "worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign".

A devastating report (Dems: a Republican attack report) has shown how the Biden family was connected to a vast financial network with multiple foreign ramifications.

Then there's Barr not even daring to say there was enough reason for the Department of Justice to engage in a far-reaching investigation into voting fraud, finally putting to rest all "baseless" conspiracy theories.

Move on. Nothing to see here. Even if an evidence pile-up featured, among other instances, ballot stuffing, backdated ballots, statistical improbabilities, electronic machine tampering, software back doors, affidavits from poll workers, not to mention the by now legendary stopping the vote in the dead of night, with subsequent, huge batches of votes miraculously switching from Trump to Biden.

Once again an omniscient army of oh so impartial "fact checkers" will say everything is baseless.

A perverse blowback

A perverse form of blowback is already in effect as informed global citizens may now see, crystal clear, the astonishing depth and reach of Deep State power – the ultimate decider of what happens next in Dystopia Central.

Both options are dire.

  1. The election stands, even if considered fraudulent by nearly half of U.S. public opinion. To quote that peerless existentialist, The Dude, there's no rug tying the room together anymore.

  2. Was the election to be somehow overturned before January 20, the Deep State would go Shock and Awe to finish the job.

In either case, The Deplorables will become The Ungovernables.

It gets worse. A possible implosion of the union – with internal convulsions leading to a paroxysm of violence – may even be coupled with an external explosion, as in a miscalculated imperial adventure.

For the Three Sovereigns – Russia, China and Iran – as well as the overwhelming majority of the Global South, the conclusion is inescapable: if the current, sorry spectacle is the best Western liberal "democracy" has to offer, it definitely does not need any enemies or "threats". 111,246 644

[Dec 20, 2020] The American ruling class has failed on pretty much every issue of significance for the past several decades

Neoliberals as an occupying force for the country
Notable quotes:
"... The bottom line is the true enemies of the American people are no foreign nation or adversary---the true enemy of the American people are the people who control America. ..."
"... This way of thinking points to a dilemma for the American ruling class. Contrary to a lot of the rhetoric you hear, much of the American ruling class, including the "deep state" is actually quite anti-China. To fully account for this would take longer than I have here. But the nutshell intuitive explanation is that the ruling class, particularly Wall Street, was happy for the past several decades to enrich both themselves and China by destroying the American working class with policies such as "free-trade" and outsourcing. But in many ways the milk from that teat is no more, and now you have an American ruling class much more concerned about protecting their loot from a serious geopolitical competitor (China) than squeezing out the last few drops of milk from the "free trade." ..."
Dec 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bemildred , Dec 19 2020 2:00 utc | 124

This is awesome, he nails the dilemma which our owners are confronted with;

I'll put it this way: It is not as though the American ruling class is intelligent, competent, and patriotic on most important matters and happens to have a glaring blind spot when it comes to appreciating the threat of China. If this were the case, it would make sense to emphasize the threat of China above all else.

But this is not the case. The American ruling class has failed on pretty much every issue of significance for the past several decades. If China were to disappear, they would simply be selling out the country to India, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, or some other country (in fact they are doing this just to a lesser extent).

Our ruling class has failed us on China because they have failed us on everything. For this reason I believe that there will be no serious, sound policy on China that benefits Americans until there is a legitimate ruling class in the United States. For this reason pointing fingers at the wickedness and danger of China is less useful than emphasizing the failure of the American ruling class. The bottom line is the true enemies of the American people are no foreign nation or adversary---the true enemy of the American people are the people who control America.

This way of thinking points to a dilemma for the American ruling class. Contrary to a lot of the rhetoric you hear, much of the American ruling class, including the "deep state" is actually quite anti-China. To fully account for this would take longer than I have here. But the nutshell intuitive explanation is that the ruling class, particularly Wall Street, was happy for the past several decades to enrich both themselves and China by destroying the American working class with policies such as "free-trade" and outsourcing. But in many ways the milk from that teat is no more, and now you have an American ruling class much more concerned about protecting their loot from a serious geopolitical competitor (China) than squeezing out the last few drops of milk from the "free trade."

The Zürich Interviews - Darren J. Beattie: If Only You Knew How Bad Things Really Are

Grieved , Dec 19 2020 3:12 utc | 129

@102 karlof1 - "By deliberately setting policy to inflate asset prices, the Fed has priced US labor out of a job, while as you report employers sought labor costs that allowed them to remain competitive."

I never heard it said so succinctly and truly as this before. That is what happened isn't it? The worker can't afford life anymore, in this country.

And if the worker can't afford the cost of living - who bears the cause of this, how follows the remedy of this, and what then comes next?

I really appreciate your point of view, which is the only point of view, which is that the designers of the economy, the governors of the economy, have placed the workers of the economy in a position that is simply just not tenable.

No wonder they strive to divide in order to rule - because they have over-reached through greed and killed the worker, who holds up the society.

How long can the worker flounder around blaming others before the spotlight must turn on the employer?

uncle tungsten , Dec 19 2020 3:12 utc | 130

Bemildred #115

You have to remember these people really do think they are better. They do think in class terms even if they avoid that rhetoric in public. The problem is they thought they could control China like they did Japan. That was dumb then and it looks even dumber now. You can see similar dumbness in their lack of grip on any realisitic view of Russia. Provincials really. Rich peasants.

Thank you, they certainly DO think in class terms ALWAYS. + Rich peasants is perfect :))

Thankfully they are blinded by hubris at the same time. The USA destroyed the Allende government in Chile in 1973. After the Nixon Kissinger visit to China in 1979 they assumed they could just pull a color revolution stunt when they deemed it to be the right time. Perhaps in their hubris they thought every Chinese worker would be infatuated with capitalism and growth.

They tested that out in the People Power colour (yellow) revolt in the Filipines in 1986 following a rigged election by Marcos. In 1989 only 16 years after China had been buoyed up with growth and development following the opening to USA capitalism, they tried out the same trick in Tienanmen square in China but those students were up against the ruling party of the entire nation - not the ruling class. BIG MISTAKE. The ruling party of China was solidly backed by the peasant and working class that was finally enjoying some meager prosperity and reward a mere 40 years after the Chinese Communist Party and their parents and grandparents had liberated China from 100 years of occupation, plunder, human and cultural rapine and colonial insult. Then in 2020 it was tried on again in Hong Kong. FAIL.

The hubris of the ruling class and its running dogs is pathetic.

We see the same with Pelosi and the ruling class in the Dimoratss today. They push Biden Harris to the fore, piss on the left and refuse to even hold a vote on Medicare for All in the middle of a pandemic. Meanwhile the USAi ruling class has its running dogs and hangers on bleating that "its wrong tactic, its premature, its whatever craven excuse to avoid exposing the ruling class for what they are - thieves, bereft of compassion, absent any sense of social justice, fakes lurking behind their class supposition.

They come here to the bar with their arrogant hubris, brimming with pointless information some even with emoji glitter stuck on their noses. Not a marxist or even a leftie among them. Still its class that matters and its the ruling class that we must break.

chu teh , Dec 19 2020 4:00 utc | 131

@102 karlof1 and Grieved | Dec 19 2020 3:12 utc | 129

I did not understand inflate-assets/suppress-workers and forgot to return to it to clear it up. Grieved sent me back to Karlof1. I just got it.

That viewpoint indeed explains method of operation to accomplish the results I observed. When Nixon was forced to default on Bretton Woods use of Gold Exchange Standard* [the USD is as good as gold], then printing fiat solved the problem [threat to US inventory of gold]....but printing fiat [no longer redeemable as a promise convert to gold] became the new problem [no way to extinguish the promises to redeem/pay].

So how to proceed? Aha! Steal from the workers; squeeze 'em, entertain and dazzle 'em!.. Such an elegant solution...slow, certain and hardly noticeable...like slow-boiling frogs...an on-going project as we blog.

Now I'll read Karlof1's link.

[Dec 18, 2020] Neoliberals of the USA unite; you can't hide the cat in the the bag: counties which prefered Biden are the counties which are beneficiary of neoliberal globalization ?

So it was another referendum on neoliberal globalization with 70% of counties voting against and 29% pro. GDP is fake metric anyways, so this should be posted in humor section.
Dec 18, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
davenitup , Dec 17 2020 19:10 utc | 32

From Charles Hugh Smith blog:

~500 counties won by Joe Biden generated 70 percent of GDP
~2400 counties won by Donald Trump generated 29 percent of GDP

From this:
1) Democrats claim they're justified in dominating policy
2) Republicans claim they're justified feeling that financialized exploitive capitalism is sucking them dry

https://bit.ly/3amWcEH
https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html

[Dec 05, 2020] I am 100% convinced that covid is a political conspiracy based on personal knowledge and other info. Tonight Tucker Carlson reports that blood samples taken in early Jan 2020 tested positive for covid - all of the samples.

Dec 05, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Eric Newhill , 02 December 2020 at 09:39 PM

Sir,
Pretty sure you're trolling us a little with this post. That said, it is 2020.

I am 100% convinced that covid is a political conspiracy based on personal knowledge and other info. Tonight Tucker Carlson reports that blood samples taken in early Jan 2020 tested positive for covid - all of the samples. In other countries there is evidence of covid in the population going back to Fall 2019; yet no overwhelmed hospitals and spiking death counts from those early months. The internet fact checkers are clearly arrayed against information seekers and forcing conformity to the state's message.

Clearly there was malfeasance in the election as well as a general Charlie Foxtrot created by implementing mail in voting without sufficient time and resources for infrastructure development; a no brainer that everyone should have foreseen and avoided - except for the covid hysteria.

We saw the the Russia collusion hoax, Steele Dossier nonsense, idiotic impeachment and slandering filthy lie campaign against of Justice Kavanaugh.

The list goes on. However, it stretches my credulity that the US military (Army SOF unit?) would be shooting it out with the CIA in Germany and that Haskel would be there to be wounded in the action; or was arrested and whisked off to some secret detention facility.

Would you please consider sharing what you really think?

[Nov 28, 2020] Who need Biden what we have CFR; In 2008, Barack Obama received the names of his entire future cabinet one month prior to his election

Nov 28, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com

In 2008, Barack Obama received the names of his entire future cabinet already one month prior to his election by CFR Senior Fellow (and Citigroup banker) Michael Froman, as a Wikileaks email later revealed. Consequently, the key posts in Obama's cabinet were filled almost exclusively by CFR members, as was the case in most cabinets since World War II. To be sure, Obama's 2008 Republican opponent, the late John McCain, was a CFR member, too. Michael Froman later negotiated the TPP and TTIP international trade agreements, before returning to the CFR as a Distinguished Fellow.

In 2017, CFR nightmare President Donald Trump immediately canceled these trade agreements -- because he viewed them as detrimental to US domestic industry -- which allowed China to conclude its own, recently announced RCEP free-trade area , encompassing 14 countries and a third of global trade. Trump also canceled other CFR achievements, like the multinational Iran nuclear deal and the UN climate and migration agreements, and he tried, but largely failed, to withdraw US troops from East Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, thus seriously endangering the global US empire built over decades by the CFR and its 5000 elite members .

Unsurprisingly, most of the US media , whose owners and editors are themselves members of the CFR , didn't like President Trump. This was also true for most of the European media, whose owners and editors are members of international CFR affiliates like the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission, founded by CFR directors after the conquest of Europe during World War II. Moreover, it was none other than the CFR which in 1996 advocated a closer cooperation between the CIA and the media, i.e. a restart of the famous CIA Operation Mockingbird . Historically, OSS and CIA directors since William Donovan and Allen Dulles have always been CFR members.

Joe Biden promised that he would form "the most diverse cabinet" in US history. This may be true in terms of skin color and gender, but almost all of his key future cabinet members have one thing in common: they are, indeed, members of the US Council on Foreign Relations .

This is the case for Anthony Blinken (State), Alejandro Mayorkas (Homeland Security), Janet Yellen (Treasury), Michele Flournoy and Jeh Johnson (candidates for Defense), Linda Thomas-Greenfield (Ambassador to the UN), Richard Stengel (US Agency for Global Media; Stengel famously called propaganda "a good thing" at a 2018 CFR session), John Kerry (Special Envoy for Climate), Nelson Cunningham (candidate for Trade), and Thomas Donilon (candidate for CIA Director).

Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, is not (yet) a CFR member, but Sullivan has been a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (a think tank "promoting active international engagement by the United States") and a member of the US German Marshall Fund's "Alliance For Securing Democracy" (a major promoter of the "Russiagate" disinformation campaign to restrain the Trump presidency), both of which are run by senior CFR members.

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Most of Biden's CFR-vetted nominees supported recent US wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen as well as the 2014 regime change in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, neoconservative Max Boot, the CFR Senior Fellow in National Security Studies and one of the most vocal opponents of the Trump administration, has called Biden's future cabinet "America's A-Team" .

Thus, after four years of "populism" and "isolationism", a Biden presidency will mean the return of the Council on Foreign Relations and the continuation of a tradition of more than 70 years . Indeed, the CFR was founded in 1921 in response to the "trauma of 1920" , when US President Warren Harding and the US Senate turned isolationist and renounced US global leadership after World War I. In 2016, Donald Trump's "America First" campaign reactivated this 100 year old foreign policy trauma.

Was the 2020 presidential election "stolen", as some allege? There are certainly indications of significant statistical anomalies in key Democrat-run swing states. Whether these were decisive for the election outcome may be up to courts to decide. At any rate, Joe Biden may well be the first US President known to be involved in international corruption before even entering office.

Why are most US and international media hardly interested in this? Well, why should they?

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[Nov 23, 2020] Like was the case with Stalinism in the past, the control of the levels of political power in any neoliberal democracy is too important to be left to the voters

Nov 23, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

DFC , Nov 22 2020 20:33 utc | 47

As Emma Goldman said longtime ago: "If voting could change anything it would be illegal".

The electoral system is designed from scratch to be fully hackable from many points in all the process, and the fraud in the elections is as american as the apple pie. This is a documentary from 2006, where the exact same problems were exposed, but nothing has changed at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YldIdkjrqM

The elections in the Center of the Empire means trillions of $ for many people, not just in US, but around the world, because what it is a stake is the "Imperial Wealth Pump" nothing less.

That is the only reason to maintain this baroque election system based on bags full of ballots inside cars running in the night from one distant place to another, just to be counted by hundreds of people with scanners in some kind of assembly lines, and counted by a software of a private company with a secret code.

The election system could be made much much much more simple, secure and cheap, but THEY DO NOT WANT to do this way.

"Democracy is too important to be left to the voters" (me)

[Nov 18, 2020] This is not just America. It is global. the decades old drive to convert the world's governments to "democracy" is in fact a drive to place the elite in total control of the populations.

Notable quotes:
"... "Democracy" is little more than another word for "rule by money" – it can be nothing else. The entire world is falling under the delusion that "each vote counts". ..."
"... The world is utterly corrupt, ruled almost exclusively by monied interests. Jesus said: "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." ..."
"... Misinformed by the politicians and the MSM, presumably. So if establishment and career politicians are the enemies of the people, then anti-politicians and populist outsiders who want to drain the swamp deserve our fullest support. ..."
Nov 18, 2020 | off-guardian.org

Victor , Nov 16, 2020 7:04 AM

This is not just America. It is global. the decades old drive to convert the world's governments to "democracy" is in fact a drive to place the elite in total control of the populations. "Democracy" is little more than another word for "rule by money" – it can be nothing else. The entire world is falling under the delusion that "each vote counts".

The world is utterly corrupt, ruled almost exclusively by monied interests. Jesus said: "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

Which is your choice?

I_left_the_left , Nov 16, 2020 10:29 AM Reply to Victor

Are voters really as corrupt as those they vote for?

Laurence Howell , Nov 16, 2020 12:44 PM Reply to I_left_the_left

No, just mis-informed

I_left_the_left , Nov 16, 2020 1:11 PM Reply to Laurence Howell

Misinformed by the politicians and the MSM, presumably. So if establishment and career politicians are the enemies of the people, then anti-politicians and populist outsiders who want to drain the swamp deserve our fullest support.

[Nov 18, 2020] Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed

Nov 18, 2020 | off-guardian.org

They are programmed and propagandized, embracing the illusion that the electoral system is not structured and controlled to make sure no significant change can occur, no matter who is president. It is a sad reality promoted as democracy.

They will prattle on and give all sorts of reasons why they voted, and for whom, and how if you don't vote you have no right to bitch, and how it's this sacred right to vote that makes democracy great, blah blah blah. It's all sheer nonsense. For the U.S.A. is not a democracy; it is an oligarchy run by the wealthy for the wealthy.

This is not a big secret. Everybody knows this is true; knows the electoral system is sheer show business with the presidential extravaganza drawing the big money from corporate lobbyists, investment bankers, credit card companies, lawyers, business and hedge fund executives, Silicon Valley honchos, think tanks, Wall Street gamblers, millionaires, billionaires, et. al. Biden and Trump spent over 3 billion dollars on the election. They are owned by the money people.

Both are old men with long, shameful histories. A quick inquiry will show how the rich have profited immensely from their tenures in office. There is not one hint that they could change and have a miraculous conversion while in future office, like JFK. Neither has the guts or the intelligence. They are nowhere men who fear the fate that John Kennedy faced squarely when he turned against the CIA and the war machine. They join the craven company of Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama. They all got the message that was sent from the streets of Dallas in 1963: You don't want to die, do you?

Ask yourself: Has the power of the oligarchic, permanent warfare state with its propaganda and spy networks, its vast intelligence apparatus, increased or decreased in the past half century? Who is winning the battle, the people or the ruling elites? The answer is obvious.

It matters not at all whether the president has been Trump or Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush, Barack Obama or George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, or Jimmy Carter. The power of the national security state has grown under them all and everyone is left to moan and groan and wonder why.

All the while, the doll's house has become more and more sophisticated and powerful. It is now essentially an electronic prison that is being "Built Back Better." The new Cold War now being waged against Russia and China is a bi-partisan affair, as is the confidence game played by the secret government intended to create a fractured consciousness in the population through their corporate mass-media stenographers. Trump and his followers on one side of the coin; liberal Democrats on the other.

Only those backed by the wealthy power brokers get elected in the U.S.A. Then when elected, it's payback time. Palms are greased. Everybody knows this is true. It's called corruption. So why would anyone, who opposes a corrupt political oligarchy, vote, unless they were casting a vote of conscience for a doomed third-party candidate?

hether it's Tweedledee or Tweedledum – will result in the death and impoverishment of so many, that being the end result of oligarchic rule at home and imperialism abroad.

Orwell called this Doublethink:

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary.

And while in Nineteen Eighty-Four Doublethink is learned by all the Party members "and certainly by all who are intelligent as well as orthodox," today in the USA, it has been mastered even by the so-called unintelligent.

To live in the USA is to live in the Church of the Good Hustler.

People often ask: What can we do to make the country better? What is your alternative?

A child could answer that one: Don't vote if you know that both contenders are backed by the super-rich elites, what some call the Deep State. Which of course they are. Everybody knows.

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I_left_the_left , Nov 18, 2020 9:50 AM

"the U.S.A. is not a democracy; it is an oligarchy run by the wealthy for the wealthy." Sorry, no. The whole point about Trump is that he is the great anti-politician, the outsider, the patriot enemy of the corrupt ruling elites who only care about status, power and control, not the interests of the American people or any other. By contrast, Biden is clearly the perfect puppet of the oligarchy and political establishment. The ruling class expected their ally Clinton to win in 2016, never Trump. The great election steal of 2020 is all about reversing this little surprise, and to make sure that the irksome people power of US democracy will finally be under full control. No more land of the free; the USA is now on the cusp of becoming a leftist fascist dictatorship, in which US patriots are the new German Jews, and in which future elections will be as meaningful as those of the Soviet Union.

A Texas Libertarian , Nov 18, 2020 6:05 AM

If you don't see that there is a big difference between Trump and Biden, then you are still in the dollhouse. Trump certainly ain't perfect, but at least he wants to keep the economy open. Biden is the lock down candidate. If that's all I knew about each of these candidates, it'd be enough to vote for Trump. But there is a lot more.

Also, 'democracy' is the virus, not the cure, and Orwell was a dumb ass socialist.

Curmudgeon , Nov 17, 2020 11:55 PM

With all of his warts, Nixon did end the Vietnam war. Reagan ended the Cold War and mutually assured destruction. Wilson got the US into WWI, FDR did WWII, Truman set up Korea and Clinton tried to heat up Yugoslavia.
George Wallace circa 1965 said there wasn't a dimes worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans. They are different branches of the corporate party and globalists competing for the speed of takeover. Trump is a corporatist but for all of his faults has gone off script with his own corporatist agenda to cut in on the action, and the owners ain't havin' it, because the Trumpian party is ever-so mildly nationalistic. Nationalism cannot be allowed to rear its beautiful head, because people will love it. Trump is a turd, alright, but Biden is a pile of shit.

I_left_the_left , Nov 18, 2020 9:53 AM Reply to Curmudgeon

Would Biden end endless wars of intervention against the wishes of the neo-cons and military-industrial complex, as Trump has been doing?

Curmudgeon , Nov 18, 2020 4:05 PM Reply to I_left_the_left

LOL. Biden IS the swamp. Even George Galloway is "defending" Trump.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/506618-henry-kissinger-joe-biden/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1357509/us-election-news-donald-trump-latest-Joe-Biden-wins-George-Galloway-manila-chan

Nobodys Fool , Nov 17, 2020 11:11 PM

Wow what a hopeless and dreary world you live in. I left the dollhouse in the weeks after 9-11 when I realized the official narrative was full of holes. But I don't find the world out here quite so dreary as you. Call me a dreamer, but I still believe that good always (eventually) wins over evil, and I believe the ideals of America – the very same ones that were probably sold to us as a fake bill of goods a long time ago – is REAL and not an illusion because so many people believe in it. Perception is reality. Donald Trump despite all his personal quirks and flaws I sincerely believe to be a deal maker who is interested in protecting and serving the American people. Even if it's out of his own narcissism that he wants to do so I'll take it. Regardless, one good thing that has come out of the last 4 years is that I think a LOT of people have gotten "woke" in their own ways. Not all have left the dollhouse yet but many have. Have faith in people.

Lysias , Nov 17, 2020 2:01 PM

If it made no difference who won, why were the elites so fanatically opposed to Trump?

George Mc , Nov 17, 2020 3:00 PM Reply to Lysias

It does make a difference cf. the mad scramble to get GWB elected in 2000. At that time the rulers had decided on years of aggressive foreign policy therefore they need the "war party" in. When Obama was pitted against the lame duck McCain it was time for some "smiley face" rule with a surge in the woke factor with the first (gasp!) African American president.

With Trump, I think it was a genuine shock when he was elected. Like Brexit in the UK, it just wasn't supposed to happen! Trump is too much of a wild card. Too revealing. Suggesting there's a deep state and actually taking conspiracies seriously? How dare he!. More to the point, he's not getting with the covid program.

I_left_the_left , Nov 18, 2020 10:01 AM Reply to wardropper

Trump had the perfect billionaire's lifestyle, but gave it all up to run for the presidency. He donated all presidential salary to good causes and says he has lost billions by becoming president, unlike any other political leader you care to mention. More seriously, he has put himself and family in grave danger by opposing the corrupt ruling classes of the USA, and by his insolent attempt to 'drain the swamp'. In the near future, the elites will persecute and try to imprison him and his family, to prevent any further rebellion against their control in the land of the unfree.

wardropper , Nov 17, 2020 4:25 PM Reply to Lysias

We don't really know how fanatically opposed to him they actually are.
What the media choose to show us always has several layers of superficial, misleading crap attached to it.
Appearing to be opposed to something is a pretty old trick, after all.
It covers your ass.

Lysias , Nov 17, 2020 10:50 PM Reply to wardropper

Paying off the BLM rioters? That's not something you do just to create an appearance.

[Nov 13, 2020] Neocons Poised to Join New Government by Phil Geraldi

Notable quotes:
"... It would not be overstating the case to suggest that the neoconservative movement has now been born again, though the enemy is now the unreliable Trumpean-dominated Republican Party rather than Saddam Hussein or Ayatollah Khomeini. ..."
"... The transition has also been aided by a more aggressive shift among the Democrats themselves, with Russiagate and other “foreign interference” being blamed for the party’s failure in 2016. ..."
"... The unifying principle that ties many of the mostly Jewish neocons together is, of course, unconditional defense of Israel and everything it does, which leads them to support a policy of American global military dominance which they presume will inter alia serve as a security umbrella for the Jewish state. ..."
"... That change has now occurred and the surge of neocons to take up senior positions in the defense, intelligence and foreign policy agencies will soon take place. In my notes on the neocon revival, I have dubbed the brave new world that the neocons hope to create in Washington as the “Kaganate of Nulandia” after two of the more prominent neocon aspirants, Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland. ..."
"... A Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton protégé, Nuland openly sought regime change for Ukraine by brazenly supporting government opponents in spite of the fact that Washington and Kiev had ostensibly friendly relations. Her efforts were backed by a $5 billion budget, but she is perhaps most famous for her foul language when referring to the potential European role in managing the unrest that she and the National Endowment for Democracy had helped create. The replacement of the government in Kiev was only the prelude to a sharp break and escalating conflict with Moscow over Russia’s attempts to protect its own interests in Ukraine, most particularly in Crimea. ..."
"... A lot of the neocons are Russian Jews who grew up in households that were Bolshevik communists. They're idea of spreading democracy goes back to Trotsky who tried to spread communism through the Soviet Union. Their hatred toward Russia dates back to their ancestors feudal days under the Tsars and the pogroms they suffered and the ice pick Trotsky got to the head. ..."
"... Obama's deep state lied, people died: https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/ ..."
"... I've never quite figured out the "neocon" ideology, beyond the fact that neocons seem devoted to the sort of status quo present in Washington, D.C. during the three administrations prior to Trump. Military adventurism, nation-building, and interventionist foreign policy, all based on nebulous concepts which are applied unevenly around the world. ..."
"... The Neocon movement seems to have morphed into nothing more than a club for bullies trying to one up each other. ..."
"... "It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way." ..."
"... Neocons don't really prefer war, so much as they prefer overseas "engagements" that may look like war and smell like war. All that's missing in neocon military operations is a defined end state. ..."
Nov 13, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com

Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role in wars in the Middle East and Asia. Those individuals are generally described as neoconservatives but the label is itself somewhat misleading and they might more properly be described as liberal warmongers as they are closer to the Democrats than the Republicans on most social issues and are now warming up even more as the new Joe Biden Administration prepares to take office.

To be sure, some neocons stuck with the Republicans, to include the highly controversial Elliott Abrams, who initially opposed Trump but is now the point man for dealing with both Venezuela and Iran. Abrams’ conversion reportedly took place when he realized that the new president genuinely embraced unrelenting hostility towards Iran as exemplified by the ending of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. John Bolton was also a neocon in the White House fold, though he is now a frenemy having been fired by the president and written a book.

Even though the NeverTrumper neocons did not succeed in blocking Donald Trump in 2016, they have been maintaining relevancy by slowly drifting back towards the Democratic Party, which is where they originated back in the 1970s in the office of the Senator from Boeing Henry “Scoop” Jackson. A number of them started their political careers there, to include leading neocon Richard Perle.

It would not be overstating the case to suggest that the neoconservative movement has now been born again, though the enemy is now the unreliable Trumpean-dominated Republican Party rather than Saddam Hussein or Ayatollah Khomeini.

The transition has also been aided by a more aggressive shift among the Democrats themselves, with Russiagate and other “foreign interference” being blamed for the party’s failure in 2016. Given that mutual intense hostility to Trump, the doors to previously shunned liberal media outlets have now opened wide to the stream of foreign policy “experts” who want to “restore a sense of the heroic” to U.S. national security policy. Eliot A. Cohen and David Frum are favored contributors to the Atlantic while Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss were together at the New York Times prior to Weiss’s recent resignation.

Jennifer Rubin, who wrote in 2016 that “It is time for some moral straight talk: Trump is evil incarnate,” is a frequent columnist for The Washington Post while both she and William Kristol appear regularly on MSNBC.

The unifying principle that ties many of the mostly Jewish neocons together is, of course, unconditional defense of Israel and everything it does, which leads them to support a policy of American global military dominance which they presume will inter alia serve as a security umbrella for the Jewish state. In the post-9/11 world, the neocon media’s leading publication The Weekly Standard virtually invented the concept of “Islamofascism” to justify endless war in the Middle East, a development that has killed millions of Muslims, destroyed at least three nations, and cost the U.S. taxpayer more than $5 trillion. The Israel connection has also resulted in neocon support for an aggressive policy against Russia due to its involvement in Syria and has led to repeated calls for the U.S. to attack Iran and destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon. In Eastern Europe, neocon ideologues have aggressively sought “democracy promotion,” which, not coincidentally, has also been a major Democratic Party foreign policy objective.

The neocons are involved in a number of foundations, the most prominent of which is the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), that are funded by Jewish billionaires. FDD is headed by Canadian Mark Dubowitz and it is reported that the group takes direction coming from officials in the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Other major neocon incubators are the American Enterprise Institute, which currently is the home of Paul Wolfowitz, and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins University. The neocon opposition has been sniping against Trump over the past four years but has been biding its time and building new alliances, waiting for what it has perceived to be an inevitable regime change in Washington.

That change has now occurred and the surge of neocons to take up senior positions in the defense, intelligence and foreign policy agencies will soon take place. In my notes on the neocon revival, I have dubbed the brave new world that the neocons hope to create in Washington as the “Kaganate of Nulandia” after two of the more prominent neocon aspirants, Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland.

Robert was one of the first neocons to get on the NeverTrump band wagon back in 2016 when he endorsed Hillary Clinton for president and spoke at a Washington fundraiser for her, complaining about the “isolationist” tendency in the Republican Party exemplified by Trump. His wife Victoria Nuland is perhaps better known. She was the driving force behind efforts to destabilize the Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych, an admittedly corrupt autocrat, nevertheless became Prime Minister after a free election. Nuland, who was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department, provided open support to the Maidan Square demonstrators opposed to Yanukovych’s government, to include media friendly appearances passing out cookies on the square to encourage the protesters.

A Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton protégé, Nuland openly sought regime change for Ukraine by brazenly supporting government opponents in spite of the fact that Washington and Kiev had ostensibly friendly relations. Her efforts were backed by a $5 billion budget, but she is perhaps most famous for her foul language when referring to the potential European role in managing the unrest that she and the National Endowment for Democracy had helped create. The replacement of the government in Kiev was only the prelude to a sharp break and escalating conflict with Moscow over Russia’s attempts to protect its own interests in Ukraine, most particularly in Crimea.

And, to be sure, beyond regime change in places like Ukraine, President Barack Obama was no slouch when it came to starting actual shooting wars in places like Libya and Syria while also killing people, including American citizens, using drones. Biden appears poised to inherit many former Obama White House senior officials, who would consider the eager-to-please neoconservatives a comfortable fit as fellow foot soldiers in the new administration. Foreign policy hawks expected to have senior positions in the Biden Administration include Antony Blinken, Nicholas Burns, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, Samantha Power and, most important of all the hawkish Michele Flournoy, who has been cited as a possible secretary of defense. And don’t count Hillary Clinton out. Biden is reportedly getting his briefings on the Middle East from Dan Shapiro, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, who now lives in the Jewish state and is reportedly working for an Israeli government supported think tank, the Institute for National Security Studies.

Nowhere in Biden’s possible foreign policy circle does one find anyone who is resistant to the idea of worldwide interventionism in support of claimed humanitarian objectives, even if it would lead to a new cold war with major competitor powers like Russia and China. In fact, Biden himself appears to embrace an extremely bellicose view on a proper relationship with both Moscow and Beijing “claiming that he is defending democracy against its enemies.” His language is unrelenting, so much so that it is Donald Trump who could plausibly be described as the peace candidate in the recently completed election, having said at the Republican National Convention in August “Joe Biden spent his entire career outsourcing their dreams and the dreams of American workers, offshoring their jobs, opening their borders and sending their sons and daughters to fight in endless foreign wars, wars that never ended.”

Polish Janitor , 13 November 2020 at 11:34 AM

It should be noted that the return of "neocons" does not mean the return of people like Wolfowitz, Ladeen, Feith, Kristol who are more "straussian" than "liberal/internationalist", but those like Nuland, Rice, Sam Powell, Petraeus, Flournoy, heck even Hilary Clinton as UN Ambassador who are CFR-type liberal interventionist than pure military hawks such as Bolton or Mike Flynn.

These liberal internationalists, as opposed to straussian neocons, will intervene in collaboration with EU/NATO/QUAD (i.e. multilaterally) in the name upholding human rights and toppling authoritarianism, rather than for oil, WMDs, or similar concrete objectives. In very simple terms, the new Biden administration's foreign policy will be none other than the return to "endless wars" for nation-building purposes first and last.

fakebot , 13 November 2020 at 11:43 AM

The name Kagan is the Russianized version of the name Cohen. He was going to be McCain's NSA had he been elected. They pulled a stunt with the Bush admin to make Obama look weak by pushing Georgia into war with Russia in 2008. Sakaasvili, the president of Georgia, was literally eating his own tie:

https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/102445/69/1024456927_0:98:1000:639_1000x541_80_0_0_d2bb118481dc653ec7d2a8b170b8f6bf.jpg

A lot of the neocons are Russian Jews who grew up in households that were Bolshevik communists. They're idea of spreading democracy goes back to Trotsky who tried to spread communism through the Soviet Union. Their hatred toward Russia dates back to their ancestors feudal days under the Tsars and the pogroms they suffered and the ice pick Trotsky got to the head.

I don't think they have that much influence. They pushed a lot of nonsense in the late 70/early 80s about how the Taliban were George Washingtons and here we are today, they're worst than the Comanche. The last time I saw Richard Perle make a TV appearance, he was crying like a baby. Robert Novak, the prince of darkness, was a Ron Paul supporter. The only ones really kicking around are Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin, but Kristol was almost alone when he was talking about putting 50,000 boots on the ground in Syria. Rubin is a harpie who only got crazier and crazier. Kagan had his foot in the door with Hillary only because of his wife. Those two might get back in with Biden on Ukraine, but Biden would do well to keep them at a distance.

Mark K Logan , 13 November 2020 at 11:57 AM

Thanks.

The lone bright spot is Biden's stated intention of restoring the JCPOA. And, I guess, the pending defenestration of Pompeo The Great.

I suspect the condition of the US economy and the massive deficits will assist in discouraging rash actions elsewhere. Have to wait and see.

Fred , 13 November 2020 at 12:36 PM

Obama's deep state lied, people died: https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/

It's great when career professionals sabotage the elected president's foreign policy.

JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 01:00 PM

I've never quite figured out the "neocon" ideology, beyond the fact that neocons seem devoted to the sort of status quo present in Washington, D.C. during the three administrations prior to Trump. Military adventurism, nation-building, and interventionist foreign policy, all based on nebulous concepts which are applied unevenly around the world.

It seems now that there is a new breed of neocons, unified by opposition to Trump's messaging, but not much else. Odd to find people like Samantha Power, John Bolton, Jim Mattis, and Paul Wolfowitz marching together in perfect step.

The Beaver , 13 November 2020 at 02:49 PM

Mr Geraldi

A good perspective by Philip Weiss on the same subject. Eliot A Cohen must be communicating a lot with the Kagan brothers , Dennis Ross and Perle to see who can be parachuted either to the WH or Foggy Bottom.

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/10/neoconservatives-are-flocking-to-biden-and-lets-forget-about-the-iran-deal/

BrianC , 13 November 2020 at 03:08 PM

@JM Gavin

I've never quite figured out the "neocon" ideology

The revolutionary spirit (see E. Michael Jones' work). From communism to neoconservatism it's ultimately an attack on the Beatitudes and Christ's Sermon on the Mount. "The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war" -- Servant of God Dorothy Day

Mark K Logan , 13 November 2020 at 03:23 PM

JM Gavin,

Sir,

I hold the Cold Warriors like Scoop a species distinct from those of the post-USSR era. The current version started at the end of the cold war. We felt like kings of the world after Gulf War 1 and the shoe seemed to fit.

The HW Bush administration pondered how best to use this power for good. I've read some things which report there was a debate within the administration on whether to clean up Yugoslavia or Somalia first. They got Ron to "do the honors" for the invasion of Somalia at Oxford: About 20 minutes in. https://www.c-span.org/video/?35586-1/arising-ashes-world-order

That was played as part of the pep-talk on the Juneau off the coast of Somalia. Stirring stuff.

In some small way I never stopped sipping that Kool Aid. It's hard to stand by and watch unspeakable evil go down when you have the power to stop it...or think you do. Time will tell if the Neocons are capable of perceiving the limits of force. Certainly had some hard lessons in the last few decades.

EEngineer , 13 November 2020 at 03:57 PM

@JM Gavin

Hogs lining up for a spot at the trough? The Neocon movement seems to have morphed into nothing more than a club for bullies trying to one up each other.

Dan , 13 November 2020 at 04:35 PM

I think its generally shocking that Trump or the republicans didn't make a bigger issue of Biden's history of supporting disastrous intervention, especially his Iraq War vote. Maybe they felt like its not a winning issue, that they would lose as many votes as they gain by appearing more isolationist. But overall, Trump favoring diplomacy over cruise missiles should have been a bigger point in his favor in the election.

jerseycityjoan , 13 November 2020 at 04:52 PM

It is distressing to read that we will have people in the government who are looking for a fight. That is especially true in view of China's aggression in recent years and the responses we will have to make to that. I think we will have more than enough to do to handle China. What do the neocons want to do about China?

Here is an article about China that really startled me and made me realize how much of a threat is was becoming. The Air Force chief of staff talks about the challenges of countries trying to compete militarily with us in ways that have not occurred for awhile. Here are two quotes that really got me:

"Tomorrow's Airmen are more likely to fight in highly contested environments, and must be prepared to fight through combat attrition rates and risks to the nation that are more akin to the World War II era than the uncontested environments to which we have since become accustomed," Brown writes."

And

"Wargames and modeling have repeatedly shown that if the Air Force fails to adapt, there will be mission failure, Brown warns. Rules-based international order may "disintegrate and our national interests will be significantly challenged," according to the memo."

https://www.airforcemag.com/brown-air-force-must-speed-up-change-or-face-harsh-consequences/#.X02DjeMiZQM.mailto

The article doesn't say we will have another arms race but that is an obvious response to China's competition with us. I thought all that was done and gone. I do not want to resume it. I don't want another period of foreign entanglements, period. We still haven't paid for the War Against Terrorism. I look into the future and all I see is us racking up bills that we have no ability to pay. And then there is the human cost of all this, I don't want to even think about that.

turcopolier , 13 November 2020 at 05:40 PM

jerseycityjoan

"I thought all that was done and gone. I do not want to resume it." Childish. "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 05:54 PM

EEngineer,

Snouts in the trough accounts for a certain amount of neocons, I'm sure. There is, however, a unifying vision beyond that which puzzles me, given the very different political orientations of various neocons. Neocons are found in academia and the media as well. Those types are less dependent on taxpayer dollars in exchange for their views (they'll get whatever tax money gets pushed their way in grants, etc regardless).

I find Polish Janitor's "straussian" and "liberal/internationalist" flavors of neocon intriguing, as I hadn't considered that before.

JMG

JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 05:59 PM

COL Lang's quote from Plato reminds me of another (from Cormac McCarthy): "It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

Neocons don't really prefer war, so much as they prefer overseas "engagements" that may look like war and smell like war. All that's missing in neocon military operations is a defined end state.

JMG

JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 06:10 PM

Mark K. Logan,

I concur with your thoughts about standing by as evil occurs. We just have a habit of jumping into complex situations we don't understand, and making things worse. I suspect you feel the same way.

The military misadventures during my career (Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria) were marked by our own black and white thinking. The more successful adventures (Colombia, Nepal) were marked by our appreciation (to a certain extent) of the complex nature of the environments we were getting involved in...and the fact that we weren't involved in nation-building in the latter two locales. There were viable governments in place, and we weren't trying to replace them.

JMG

Deap , 13 November 2020 at 06:53 PM

Here is another Biden clip that should have been exploited too - way back when - when the media was a little more trusted, but no less pompous. However, Biden The Plagerizer had it coming.

Now tell me America is not the Land of Opportunity, when one can continuously shoot themselves in the foot and then rise from the dead yet again, and again: https://rumble.com/vb3c09-resurfaced-video-of-joe-biden-should-destroy-him.html?mref=23gga&mrefc=2

Though I am warming more and more to Trump Media becoming the real soul of America. Plus someone, in time. will need to pick up Rush Limbaugh's empire. America needs a counter-weight to fake news more than it needs the keys to the White House, with all its entangling webs, palace intrigues, chains and pitfalls.

Godspeed President Trump. If someone with as few talents s Biden can rise like Lazarus, just think what you can do with your little finger. No wonder the Democrats want Trump destroyed; not just defeated in a re-election. We have your back, Mr President.

TV , 13 November 2020 at 07:03 PM

Mark Logan:
Iran celebrates "Death to America" as a national day.
So let's give them a path to nuclear weapons.

Deap , 13 November 2020 at 07:11 PM

Ex-CIA analyst, Mich Rep. Elissa Slotkin refuses to back Pelosi for Speaker - anyone know her? https://www.newsmax.com/politics/elissa-slotkin-nancy-pelosi-democrat-house/2020/11/13/id/996905/ She wants more mid-West, and less Calif and NY, as the new face of the Democrat Party.

Fred , 13 November 2020 at 07:14 PM

Mark,

"It's hard to stand by and watch unspeakable evil go down when you have the power to stop it...."


I hear Trump is evil/Hitler/worse. I wonder if anyone who thinks that is true has the power to rig an election, or thinks they do?

jerseycityjoan , 13 November 2020 at 07:50 PM

Colonel,

You are right of course.

Are the people of America up for another arms race and a more or less cold war with China? I think the Chinese will give us a lot more trouble than the Soviets ever did.

And yet we allow their students to come here and learn all we know and their elites to bring their dirty money here and we give them green cards and citizenship and protect the money they took from the Chinese people. Not so smart on our part.

I am very concerned about all of this.

Serge , 13 November 2020 at 07:57 PM

What is the next theater of war that Biden's new friends will involve us in? I noticed lots of Cold War era conflicts are heating up lately, Ethiopia Morocco Armenia being recent examples. IS in Syria/Iraq is still castrated due to the continued mass internment of their population base in the dozens of camps, but they have established thriving franchises in Africa and their other provinces continue to smolder.

[Nov 07, 2020] The PNACers rely for their brainpower on the PMC ("Professional, Managerial class"), who are the middle managers, doctors, lawyers, MBAs, tenured professors, finance types and what not who are divorced from the actual hands-on labor. Which means they have much less mooring them to reality.

Nov 07, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Nov 6 2020 13:19 utc | 16

The election is being stolen but once again the establishment dramatically misread the lay of the political landscape among the American population. The adjustments that were made ahead of time to the paperless electronic voting machines were not sufficient to overcome the votes for Trump and so the establishment has to fall back on much more difficult and risky approaches to cooking the count. To help cover this more challenging and time-consuming operation the "Mighty Wurlitzer" has the mass media chanting in chorus that the Trump Administration's charges of fraud are "baseless" before investigations can be done to determine if the charges have a basis.

There will be no "revenge" against the Democrats. If the American public accepts the results of the fraud then the establishment (Democrats and Republicans) will heave a "Huuuge" sigh of relief for dodging the bullet and things will return to "normal" as they were with previous presidents as figureheads for the State. There will be nothing remotely like the ludicrous "Russiagate" hysteria that the mass media indulged in against Trump. Something truly baseless will have to be found for the Republicans to rant at the Democrats about like Obama's birth certificate, but the real issues will be dropped like hot potatoes by both "teams" .

The establishment will then try to restart "Project for a New American Century" . This is bad news for Syria as the "Assad Curse" will start getting more exercise again. This is also bad news for Russia as the PNAC crowd are entirely certain that the Russians are bluffing about engaging the Empire kinetically. They are Russians, after all, right? You just have to push them hard enough like Reagan did and they will roll over.

At least that is what the PNAC crowd thinks. The PNACers rely for their brainpower on the PMC ( "Professional, Managerial class" ), who as c1ue pointed out are "... the middle managers, doctors, lawyers, MBAs, tenured professors, finance types and what not who are divorced from the actual hands-on labor." That part about being "divorced from the actual hands-on labor" is important because it means they have nothing mooring them to reality.

[Aside: I have often mentioned that economics is the keystone social science, and contemporary economics being based around vacuous capitalist apologetics renders the entire realm of the social sciences a limp and constantly shifting mass of liquid shite with no predictive power and only serving to sell pop culture self-help books. Psychology is where the social sciences bump up against the biological sciences. This is how economics plays such an important role in real (not pop) psychology. One's occupation; how one makes a living; how one puts food on the table, is the core of human identity (skin tone isn't anywhere close). The more that individuals fulfill employment roles that are entirely socially constructed and the further they are from direct involvement in the process of transforming natural resources into tangible items humans use for living, then the more tenuous and, to put it politely, more "abstract" and subject to reinterpretation their association with physical reality becomes. This is why c1ue 's PMCs, despite being very intelligent and highly educated, can make such profound mistakes that get hayseed farmers scratching their heads in amazement.]

The PNAC gang (Biden/Harris is their front) will now "shirtfront" Russia and "get in their face" . They will escalate until they succeed at their plans. Trump's escalations were almost entirely symbolic and meaningless, but the PNACer's escalations will be kinetic. When Iran is once again forced to retaliate against the empire and missile-strikes some US assets, the PNAC people will escalate and respond with ten times the violence where Trump had ordered the empire to stand down.

Unfortunately for the empire, America's economic decline is systemic; it is baked into capitalism. It cannot be reversed. While Trump hastened the empire's diplomatic decline and poisoned its "soft power" , Biden/Harris will hasten the empire's economic decline.

As for the Fort Detrick flu, the mass media will now try to downplay it in order to get workers back to making the elites some profits, but the cases and fatalities will continue to increase. There will be no more effective countering of the pandemic by Team Blue than Team Red because the US simply doesn't have the tools, either medically, culturally, or socially, to do anything about it.

Four years of the deep state/establishment exposing itself in panicked hysteria, only to now fade back into the background with nothing gained from those four years. I wonder how the posters here who think it was all part of an elaborate plan will spin their tales of the omnipotent empire now that it can no longer be said "Trump hasn't started a war YET but he will once he cements his image as 'Glorious Leader'!!"

Biden/Harris being installed in such an obvious manner is not a display of the establishment's power, but rather is proof of their weakness and incompetence.

[Nov 07, 2020] A Unified Theory of the 2020 Election by David Shor

Financial oligarchy fully controls neoliberal Dems and this "scholar" does even use the term neoliberalism to describe the US elections. What a jerk.
"Mitt Romney and Donald Trump agreed on basically every issue, as did Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And yet, a bunch of people changed their votes. And the reason that happened was because the salience of various issues changed." -- that a false, phoby statiment. Election for Obama and for Hillary were conducted at the different stages of the crisis of neoliberalism. In Hillary case voters ejected the candidate from neoliberal establishment.
Nov 07, 2020 | nymag.com

David Shor got famous by getting fired. In late May, amid widespread protests over George Floyd's murder, the 28-year-old data scientist tweeted out a study that found nonviolent demonstrations were more effective than "riots" at pushing public opinion and voter behavior leftward in 1968.

Many Twitter users -- and (reportedly) some of Shor's colleagues and clients at the data firm Civis Analytics -- found this post insensitive. A day later, Shor publicly apologized for his tweet. Two weeks after that, he'd lost his job as Civis's head of political data science -- and become a byword for the excesses of so-called cancel culture . (Shor has not discussed his firing publicly due to a nondisclosure agreement, and the details of his termination remain undisclosed).

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So there's a big constellation of issues. The single biggest way that highly educated people who follow politics closely are different from everyone else is that we have much more ideological coherence in our views.

If you decided to create a survey scorecard, where on every single issue -- choice, guns, unions, health care, etc. -- you gave people one point for choosing the more liberal of two policy options, and then had 1,000 Americans fill it out, you would find that Democratic elected officials are to the left of 90 to 95 percent of people.

And the reason is that while voters may have more left-wing views than Joe Biden on a few issues, they don't have the same consistency across their views. There are like tons of pro-life people who want higher taxes, etc. There's a paper by the political scientist David Broockman that made this point really famous -- that "moderate" voters don't have moderate views, just ideologically inconsistent ones. Some people responded to media coverage of that paper by saying, "Oh, people are just answering these surveys randomly, issues don't matter." But that's not actually what the paper showed. In a separate section, they tested the relevance of issues by presenting voters with hypothetical candidate matchups -- here's a politician running on this position, and another politician running on the opposite -- and they found that issue congruence was actually very important for predicting who people voted for.

So this suggests there's a big mass of voters who agree with us on some issues, and disagree with us on others. And whenever we talk about a given issue, that increases the extent to which voters will cast their ballots on the basis of that issue.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump agreed on basically every issue, as did Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And yet, a bunch of people changed their votes. And the reason that happened was because the salience of various issues changed. Both sides talked a lot more about immigration, and because of that, correlation between preferences on immigration and which candidate people voted for went up. In 2012, both sides talked about health care. In 2016, they didn't. And so the correlation between views on health care and which candidate people voted for went down.

So this means that every time you open your mouth, you have this complex optimization problem where what you say gains you some voters and loses you other voters. But this is actually cool because campaigns have a lot of control over what issues they talk about.

Non-college-educated whites, on average, have very conservative views on immigration, and generally conservative racial attitudes. But they have center-left views on economics; they support universal health care and minimum-wage increases. So I think Democrats need to talk about the issues they are with us on, and try really hard not to talk about the issues where we disagree. Which, in practice, means not talking about immigration.

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The problem is that swing voters don't trust either party. So if you get Democrats to embrace Abolish ICE, that won't get moderate- ish , racist white people to support it; it will just turn them into Republicans. So that's the trade-off. When you embrace unpopular things, you become more unpopular with marginal voters, but also get a fairly large segment of the public to change its views. And the latter can sometimes produce long-term change.

But it's a hard trade-off. And I don't think anyone ever says something like, "I think it was a good trade for us to lose the presidency because we raised the salience of this issue." That's not generally what people want. They don't want to make an unpopular issue go from 7 percent to 30 percent support. They want something like what happened with gay marriage or marijuana legalization, where you take an issue that is 30 percent and then it goes to 70 percent. And if you look at the history of those things, it's kind of clear that campaigns didn't do that.

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But ultimately, when people hear from both sides, they're gonna revert to some kind of partisan baseline. But there's not a nihilism there; it's not just that Democratic-leaning voters will adopt the Democratic position or Republican-leaning ones will automatically adopt the Republican one. Persuadable voters trust the parties on different issues.

And there's a pretty basic pattern -- both here and in other countries -- in which voters view center-left parties as empathetic. Center-left parties care about the environment, lowering poverty, improving race relations. And then, you know, center-right parties are seen as more "serious," or more like the stern dad figure or something. They do better on getting the economy going or lowering unemployment or taxes or crime or immigration.

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What's powerful about nonviolent protest -- and particularly nonviolent protest that incurs a disproportionate response from the police -- is that it can shift the conversation, in a really visceral way, into the part of this issue space that benefits Democrats and the center left. Which is the pursuit of equality, social justice, fairness -- these Democratic-loaded concepts -- without the trade-off of crime or public safety. So I think it is really consistent with a pretty broad, cross-sectional body of evidence (a piece of which I obviously tweeted at some point ) that nonviolent protest is politically advantageous, both in terms of changing public opinion on discrete issues and electing parties sympathetic to the left's concerns.

As for "the abolish the police" stuff, I think the important thing there is that basically no mainstream elected officials embraced it.

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But there's always a mix of violent and nonviolent protest; or, there's always some violence that occurs at nonviolent protests. And it's not a situation where a drop of violence spoils everything and turns everybody into fascists. The research isn't consistent with that. It's more about the proportions. Because the mechanism here is that when violence is happening, people become afraid. They fear for their safety, and then they crave order. And order is a winning issue for conservatives here and everywhere around the world. The basic political argument since the French Revolution has been the left saying, "Let's make things more fair," and the right saying, "If we do that, it will lead to chaos and threaten your family."

But when you have nonviolent protests that goad security forces into using excessive force against unarmed people -- preferably while people are watching -- then order gets discredited, and people experience this visceral sense of unfairness. And you can change public opinion.

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So, as a result, campaigns centered around this cosmopolitan elite's internal disagreements over economic issues. But over the past 60 years, college graduates have gone from being 4 percent of the electorate to being more like 35. Now, it's actually possible -- for the first time ever in human history -- for political parties to openly embrace cosmopolitan values and win elections; certainly primary and municipal elections, maybe even national elections if you don't push things too far or if you have a recession at your back. And so Democratic elites started campaigning on the things they'd always wanted to, but which had previously been too toxic. And so did center-left parties internationally

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Many on the left are wary of the Democratic Party's growing dependence on wealthy voters and donors. But you've argued that the party's donor class actually pulls it to the left, as big-dollar Democratic donors are more progressive -- even on economic issues -- than the median Democratic voter. I'm skeptical of that claim. After all, so much regulation and legislation never crosses ordinary Americans' radar. It seems implausible to me that, during negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Obama administration fought to export America's generous patent protections on pharmaceuticals to the developing world, or to expand the reach of the Investor State Dispute Settlement process, because they felt compelled to placate swing voters. Similarly, it's hard for me to believe that the primary reason why Democrats did not significantly expand collective-bargaining rights under Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama was voter hostility to labor-law reform rather than the unified opposition of business interests to such a policy. So why couldn't it be the case that, when it comes to policy, a minority of big-dollar donors who are highly motivated -- and reactionary -- on discrete issues pull the party to the right, even as wealthier Democrats give more ideologically consistent responses to survey questions?

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David Broockman showed in a recent paper -- and I've seen this in internal data -- that people who give money to Democrats are more economically left wing than Democrats overall. And the more money people give, the more economically left wing they are. These are obviously the non-transactional donors. But people underestimate the extent to which the non-transactional money is now all of the money. This wasn't true ten years ago.

So then you get to the question: Why do so many moderate Democrats vote for center-right policies that don't even poll well? Why did Heidi Heitkamp vote to deregulate banks in 2018 , when the median voter in North Dakota doesn't want looser regulations on banks? But the thing is, while that median voter doesn't want to deregulate banks, that voter doesn't want a senator who is bad for business in North Dakota. And so if the North Dakota business community signals that it doesn't like Heidi Heitkamp, that's really bad for Heidi Heitkamp, because business has a lot of cultural power.

I think that's a very straightforward, almost Marxist view of power: Rich people have disproportionate cultural influence. So business does pull the party right. But it does so more through the mechanism of using its cultural power to influence public opinion, not through donations to campaigns.

So, in your view, the reason that Democrats aren't more left wing on economic issues isn't because they're bought off, but because the median voter is "bought off," in the sense of responding to cues from corporate interests?

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So I think people underestimate Democrats' openness to left-wing policies that won't cost them elections. And there are a lot of radical, left-wing policies that are genuinely very popular. Codetermination is popular. A job guarantee is popular. Large minimum-wage increases are popular and could literally end market poverty.

All these things will engender opposition from capital. But if you focus on the popular things, and manage to build positive earned media around those things, then you can convince Democrats to do them. So we should be asking ourselves, "What is the maximally radical thing that can get past Joe Manchin." And that's like a really depressing optimization problem. And it's one that most leftists don't even want to approach, but they should. There's a wide spectrum of possibilities for what could happen the next time Democrats take power, and if we don't come in with clear thinking and realistic demands, we could end up getting rolled.

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The Senate is even worse. And much worse than people realize. The Senate has always been, on paper, biased against Democrats. It overrepresents states that are rural and white, and mechanically, that gives a structural advantage to Republicans. For 50 years or so, the tipping-point state in the Senate has been about one percentage point more Republican than the country as a whole. And that advantage did go up in 2016, because white rural voters trended against us (it went up to 3 percent).

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I think one big lesson of 2018 was that Trump's coalition held up. Obviously, we did better as the party out of power. But if you look at how we did in places like Maine or Wisconsin or Michigan, it looked more like 2016 than 2012. Donald Trump still has a giant structural advantage in the Electoral College.

[Sep 18, 2020] 'Dr. Li-Meng Yan is not a quack' Tucker Carlson

She might be not a quack, but she does has specific to the current position motives
Sep 18, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com

I will go back to an approach that served me well with regard to the Iraq WMD story. I have no way of evaluating Yan's claims, but there are a fair number of people and organizations that do have the resources to evaluate. I rejected WMD claims in 2003 simply because none of the other players with relevant competence acted in ways that indicated serious concern. What is Yan Li-meng's evidence that others do not have? This issue of origin has to have been pursued by at least a couple dozen organizations with the necessary competence. None of those has made any such claims. That doesn't mean that the claims are false. But if the claims are true, then there must be very strong motives for keeping silent. So what would be the common interest between, say, the intelligence agencies of Germany and those of India?

Without such evidence this turns into a she-said-he-said story. Now that does not mean that it is wrong. Suppression and intimidation would not be out of character for the Chinese government. But again the world is loaded with very paranoid people who are capable of evaluating that. And who are pretty much immune to Chinese intimidation. They don't have to face off against the Chinese state. There are plenty of more roundabout ways to get the word out if you want to do so and have government-level resources to put into the effort.

The obvious alternative to publication of the logic for detecting human agency is to engage in simple human retaliation. Are the Chinese the only ones capable of such producing such a catastrophe? Pretty unlikely. Would such a counterstroke catch the Chinese by surprise? Again unlikely if they are aware of having stepped over the line. The measures they are taking against virus outbreaks are more extreme than what western countries have imposed, but not (yet) indicating panic. If somebody let some 1918 swine flu loose in Shanghai, would their measures be able to counter it? (Five times as contagious as what we seeing in covid-19.)

Posted by: Fredw | 17 September 2020 at 03:21 PM

Deap , 17 September 2020 at 05:11 PM

Red State raises additional skepticism about this "scientist's interview", as well as the oddities of the very original days of reporting about the Chinese t "flu" coming out of China. Remembering also one of the very first ways we even started hearing about this "new Chinese virus" in the US were reports about the Great Toilet Paper panic, even though people here did not know why they were supposed to be hoarding it.
https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/09/17/920958/

Best I could trace was to an earlier Australian toilet paper panic they claimed was hawked by Yahoo News in Australia, and then spread via social media to the US. And our Great Toilet Paper Hoax began in earnest here too. China was allegedly the source for all Australian TP, so it was claimed with so many people sick in China with this "flu" there would be no more toilet paper Down Under for their down unders.

But the US did not rely on China for TP, so the TP panic was not warrented to be set in motion here. But it did capture attention and did trigger panic before we even knew what to be afraid of. Greasing the skids in some manipulative way could be one jaundiced conclusion.

Hope someone with better skills can really trace the origins of the Great Toilet Paper Hoax, because it did wipe us out in the US. No sheet. Was that the covid panic transmission route; and not really on a flight from Wuhan to Seattle?

Who funded the movie Contagion?

Personanongrata , 17 September 2020 at 05:24 PM

'Dr. Li-Meng Yan is not a quack' Tucker Carlson

No - but she may be another in a long line of useful idiots.

"Independent fact checkers?" 25 year old Humanities and Social Sciences grads working for Facebook? Independent of what? Independent of their mommies and daddies at long last?

Countervailing research goes light-years beyond "Independent fact checkers?".

Italicized/bold text was excerpted from nature.com a report titled:

The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans; SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe disease, whereas HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E are associated with mild symptoms6. Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data. We offer a perspective on the notable features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios by which they could have arisen. Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.

The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

Italicized/bold text was excerpted from The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene a report titled:

The Origin of COVID-19 and Why It Matters

In 2007, scientists studying coronaviruses warned: "The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV–like viruses in horseshoe bats is a time bomb. The possibility of the re-emergence of SARS and other novel viruses should not be ignored."1

Studying animal viruses that have previously spilled over into humans provides clues about host-switching determinants. A well-understood example is influenza virus emergence into humans and other mammals.2 Human pandemic and seasonal influenza viruses arise from enzootic viruses of wild waterfowl and shore birds. From within this natural reservoir, the 1918 pandemic "founder" virus somehow host-switched into humans. We know this from genetic studies comparing avian viruses, the 1918 virus, and its descendants, which have caused three subsequent pandemics, as well as annual seasonal influenza in each of the 102 years since 1918. Similarly, other avian influenza viruses have host-switched into horses, dogs, pigs, seals, and other vertebrates, with as yet unknown pandemic potential.2,10,11 Although some molecular host-switching events remain unobserved, phylogenetic analyses of influenza viruses allow us to readily characterize evolution and host-switching as it occurs in nature.2

It should be clarified that theories about a hypothetical man-made origin of SARS-CoV-2 have been thoroughly discredited by multiple coronavirus experts.21,28,29 SARS-CoV-2 contains neither the genetic fingerprints of any of the reverse genetics systems that have been used to engineer coronaviruses nor does it contain genetic sequences that would have been "forward engineered" from preexisting viruses, including the genetically closest sarbecoviruses. That is, SARS-CoV-2 is unlike any previously identified coronavirus from which it could have been engineered. Moreover, the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain, which has affinity for cells of various mammals, binds to human ACE2 receptors via a novel mechanism.

Engineering such a virus would have required 1) published or otherwise available scientific knowledge that did not exist until after COVID-19 recognition; 2) a failure to follow obvious engineering pathways, resulting in an imperfectly constructed virus; and 3) an ability to genetically engineer a new virus without leaving fingerprints of the engineering. Furthermore, the 12 amino acid furin-cleavage site insertion between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein's S1 and S2 domains, which some have alleged to be a sign of genetic engineering, is found in other bat and human coronaviruses in nature, probably arising via naturally occurring recombination.24

It is also highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 was released from a laboratory by accident because no laboratory had the virus nor did its genetic sequence exist in any sequence database before its initial GenBank deposition (early January 2020). China's laboratory safety practices, policies, training, and engineering are equivalent to those of the United States and other developed countries,32 making viral "escape" extremely unlikely, and of course impossible without a viral isolate present. SARS-CoV-2 shares genetic properties with many other sarbecoviruses, lies fully within their genetic cluster, and is thus a virus that emerged naturally.

http://www.ajtmh.org/content/journals/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0849

Italicized/bold text was excerpted from nature.com a report titled:

Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic

There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination and its time of divergence from animal viruses. We find that the sarbecoviruses -- the viral subgenus containing SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 -- undergo frequent recombination and exhibit spatially structured genetic diversity on a regional scale in China. SARS-CoV-2 itself is not a recombinant of any sarbecoviruses detected to date, and its receptor-binding motif, important for specificity to human ACE2 receptors, appears to be an ancestral trait shared with bat viruses and not one acquired recently via recombination. To employ phylogenetic dating methods, recombinant regions of a 68-genome sarbecovirus alignment were removed with three independent methods. Bayesian evolutionary rate and divergence date estimates were shown to be consistent for these three approaches and for two different prior specifications of evolutionary rates based on HCoV-OC43 and MERS-CoV. Divergence dates between SARS-CoV-2 and the bat sarbecovirus reservoir were estimated as 1948 (95% highest posterior density (HPD): 1879–1999), 1969 (95% HPD: 1930–2000) and 1982 (95% HPD: 1948–2009), indicating that the lineage giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating unnoticed in bats for decades.

With horseshoe bats currently the most plausible origin of SARS-CoV-2, it is important to consider that sarbecoviruses circulate in a variety of horseshoe bat species with widely overlapping species ranges57. Nevertheless, the viral population is largely spatially structured according to provinces in the south and southeast on one lineage, and provinces in the centre, east and northeast on another (Fig. 3). This boundary appears to be rarely crossed. Two exceptions can be seen in the relatively close relationship of Hong Kong viruses to those from Zhejiang Province (with two of the latter, CoVZC45 and CoVZXC21, identified as recombinants) and a recombinant virus from Sichuan for which part of the genome (region B of SC2018 in Fig. 3) clusters with viruses from provinces in the centre, east and northeast of China. SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 are also exceptions because they were sampled from Hubei and Yunnan, respectively.

It is clear from our analysis that viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 have been circulating in horseshoe bats for many decades. The unsampled diversity descended from the SARS-CoV-2/RaTG13 common ancestor forms a clade of bat sarbecoviruses with generalist properties -- with respect to their ability to infect a range of mammalian cells -- that facilitated its jump to humans and may do so again. Although the human ACE2-compatible RBD was very likely to have been present in a bat sarbecovirus lineage that ultimately led to SARS-CoV-2, this RBD sequence has hitherto been found in only a few pangolin viruses. Furthermore, the other key feature thought to be instrumental in the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect humans -- a polybasic cleavage site insertion in the S protein -- has not yet been seen in another close bat relative of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4

As if on cue Li-Meng Yan appears like manna from heaven aiding/abetting in foisting forth the current dominant Western government/media narrative that China is bad.

How convenient.

[Apr 21, 2020] Say what you want about Trump, (and I mostly agree), but the impeachment was a grotesque farce and low point (which is saying a lot!), of American sewer politics.

Apr 21, 2020 | www.unz.com

Rurik , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:42 pm GMT

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*If* Trump really was a Putin agent, then it not only would have been legal to investigate, but Obama's duty to do so. When it turns illegal, is when they cynically and knowingly use bullshit dossiers from partisan hacks to enlist the power of federal law enforcement to spy on your political opponents, and leak classified documents, and generally engage in a concerted effort to subvert the duly elected president of the United States because you personally hate him, and especially his 'irredeemable' Deplorable, Red State white Christians – as so many 'racists' and 'homophobes' who don't deserve to have any voice in America's democracy, because Bill Maher and Adam Schiff doesn't like them.

that led to Donald Trump's impeachment, so Atkinson had to go and Horowitz might just be next.

Say what you want about Trump, (and I mostly agree), but the impeachment was a grotesque farce and low point (which is saying a lot!), of American sewer politics. Atkinson and Horowitz need to be tossed out on his arses. There's no dearth of things Trump should be impeached for. Bombing Syria for one. But asking for an investigation into the den of snakes in the Deepstate, including Biden and his POS son, was a patriotic and honorable thing to do. The more the rats in the 'Russia-gate' treasonous idiocy are exposed as criminal scum, the better.

The captured U.S. government regulators now represent the interests of the corporations, not the public. This is more like government by a criminal oligarchy rather than of, by and for The People.

Wasn't it Obama who appointed a Monsanto lobbyist to head up the FDA?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810

The reason, I suspect that Trump is so popular with the Deplorables, is because the hatred for Trump is so invariably irrational, personal, and so often not based on anything Trump actually did wrong, but rather for what he's doing right.

When they were screeching the loudest over Trump's 'treason', was when Trump was at his best, conducting diplomacy with the Russia's Putin.

Red State America wants a rapprochement with Russia, not a second cold (or hot) war. Red State America likes Vlad Putin. Even with his 'homophobia' and blitzkrieg into Crimea to enslave the denizens there.

So as the Deplorables see the media in their seething, drooling Trump Derangement syndrome hysteria, blubbering about Trump the 'racist monster' for shutting down travel from China on one day, and on the next day blaming him for not closing it all down sooner, we all see that it simply doesn't matter in the slightest what Trump does or does not do. It's the same as being a straight, American white male (or female),Michelle Obama (and the left) don't hate us for anything we do, she (they) hate us for what we are.

And the Deplorables understand that leftists and progressives and Democrats and media's startling hatred for Trump, is just a thinly veiled hatred for traditional America. Not for anything they did or are doing, but for being what they are. Just like with Trump. They don't hate him for conspiring with Putin to destroy our democracy, or anything else he's "done". They hate him for what he represents. That America from their nightmares

Trump has simply leveraged the last remnants of heritage America into a political alliance with uber-Zionists and evangelicals and financial swindlers extraordinaire, and others in order to prevail in current modern American politics. Where his biggest strength is the unhinged lunacy of his opponents, seeming as they do to resemble the very worst elements of America's putrescent rot most foul.

BL , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:44 pm GMT
@A123 If you were in his position who would you have bet on these last four years?

The Obama administration was engaged in widespread surveillance of its political enemies long before Trump came down the escalator. You don't have to believe me, read between the lines and redactions of the declassified FISC opinion:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf

This followed Brennan engineering his rise to a position he never should have been allowed anywhere near, CIA Director, by using these surveillance tools to compromise and cow everyone, including president Obama.

So I understand why PG is keeping his head down and mouth shut, except for an occasional mumble about how Trump "hates" the intelligence community.

Maybe he or someone else will explain or look into this:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-cia/cia-boss-brennan-visited-moscow-in-early-march-interfax-idUSKCN0WU0S5

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