73 and the past two years finding out the truth about our country. Hating that I was lied to, brainwashed and not informed about so very much. The football coach teaching history …. Not the history teacher coaching football. I’ve watched America disintegrate and I believe it is because millions of us sat in school believing what we were told. MAGA believing Trump. WOKE believing Biden is lucid. I have a healthy skepticism now… 71 years too late. I fear for our country and the children. Let’s do a better job of telling them the truth.
You really want the truth?.... Your country is bankrupt, its economy is floating on an ocean of debt making your economy and perceived wealth completely artificial... You have unfunded liabilities of over $160 trillion to find over the next 30 years of which all of it will have to come off the treasury printing press... Your currency is about to be destroyed by a new BRICS currency and one by one your 'so called' allies will turn their backs on you.... Especially when you default on all your financial obligations to the rest of the world, oh and when the USD collapses it is going to spark the immediate collapse of the New York stock exchange and all those huge US corps are going to lose 95% of their value because their value is also artificially inflated...... THAT is the biggest thing they are lying to you about... THAT is the future for your children.
‘Nothing to disagree with there but of little comfort to those Americans like Abiding Dude who see it as a criticism of his culture, which to the extent that the American culture exalts money and that to do so is not a great strategy, it is. ‘Better tell the dude which country you’re from so he can critique it; he looks like a MAGA type whom you might be better not to furnish with a reason to find stuff unfair. By “critique” I take it he excludes the use of any ordnance but you had better check. The last time I did this the person I reproached for venting irrelevancies said: well, at least I don’t live in a poor country like Scotland. But I think the point you’re making insulates you from that one.
I think it's called a "patriotic reflex" . It's funny how people that make a career out of criticizing their own countries will rush to it's defense if an outsider does it. He could do with posting something other than ad hominem name calling and broad subjective opinions. Calling another "snarky" was hilarious and the best line thus far.
Correct, that is why I moved away from the western financial system... The USA, Canada, western Europe and some of Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. they have all signed the death warrants of their economies... All those USD they are holding and tied into are going to become worthless. But the one who is going to suffer the worst is by far the USA when all those dollars come flooding back to their shore, it becomes worthless as a result... I give it 2 years and BRICS will control 80% of all oil and gas exports and 70% of all commodity exports and will declare no USD will any longer be accepted for trade with a BRICS country... The collapse will be measured in mere days.
I am no turd and I am more than willing to tell you that I am from the UK which is maybe not as bad a situation but equally as terrible future for all the same reasons the USA is in dire trouble... We have also the exact same problems as is the entire world that is tied to the USA financial system from France to German to Japan... It is all going to collapse together including the UK.... But I have one major advantage over you.... I left the UK 14 years ago and have built a new and much safer life in Southeast Asia which is almost debt free and on the rise and is completely sheilded from the destruction of the west... This is the place all you who read this should be flocking to... The golden billion are on the edge of a cliff while the other 7 billion have the brightest future, and if you want to take my advice as a toxic truth so you can insult me, then stay where you are and you can recall my message 5 years from now and possibly as little as 2 years from now when it all unfolds in front of your very eyes... I live in a country where the PEOPLE have the power over the government and is why we will never be in a mess.
please excuse my familiar approach to you but as much as you are correct in what you are saying, please keep in mind that many of us simply can not run off to south east asia. We have our elderly parents to care of, children to raise, who have friends and family here. Some of us still have a job that pays some bills and since I am also an expat for about 27 years by now, I can tell you that even after all those years, I am still a foreigner and will remain one. To ask of people to rip out their roots, I would consider inhuman. The people need to educate themself, that's a duty in my opinion, just that takes time and is hard to do when your every day information is based on hybris, lies and psy-ops against you.
To conclude I would like to citate a song that once was a hymne for the working class: "Uns hilft kein Kaiser, Gott oder Tribun, uns aus dem Elend zu erlösen müssen wir schon selber tun."
"there is no help from royalty, no God or tyrant to help us. To free ourself from the misery, we can do only by ourself"
The UK depresses me greatly. It's been swirling the drain for decades and now its demise will accelerate thanks to voting in Labour.
It's become next to impossible to believe that native Brits want their country completely destroyed. Large swaths of it are already indistinguishable from Third World shitholes.
Labour will definitely accelerate the decline by letting in even more unskilled, useless, antagonistic, and ungrateful illegal aliens.
What country is that David ? I have a great escape plan too but am currently in Canada. I don't know what the fall out will be here but I'd like to keep all my options open.
I was hoping to move to the mild climate and ocean front of Canada's west coast. I have homes and deep roots in the Philippines by virtue of marriage.
I think the key to comfortable and secure living is to keep as many options open as possible and keep your money in the safest currency or basket of currencies you can think of. I got stung bad in the Salinas disaster in Mexico, owning property there. Once you move money into these places it can be very hard to get it out again without a huge haircut.
Accumulate dual citizenships where possible and marrying into alternate citizenships, or privileged status, is a good move for the single people. For those who are married and still want children, give birth in the desired destiny country.
I'm wondering, how americans could believe that they live in a democracy, when the candidates for the presidency have to be rich people and and are supported by rich people. How would they stand in for the interests of normal, hard working people or even unemployed or homeless people? The have to stand for the interests of Americas oligarchs.
73 is just in time! After all, you are still alive and able to realize that ‘reality’ differs from what we were told it is. An unimaginable number of people didn’t have the opportunity or stamina to arrive at that realization; a believer in reincarnation would say ‘well, next time better’.
Great idea Thomas governments telling the truth to the people t they govern i is an essential part of true democracy.. So if there was. genuine democracy ti would be recognised by it efficient and open informations system. Cuba approaches that standard American is the leader in controlled misinformation Go figure
I believe he is a person of no integrity nor character. Many of the people he hires have faced criminal charges. He attempted a coup of the government including betraying his own VP and the American people. He cheats on his wives, is a racist (black jobs) and is narcissistic sociopath. Other than that…
I wonder what the percentage is for narcissistic sociopaths in the general population of very wealthy individuals, especially those who were born into their wealth?
Other than that…he is a whining, posturing, murderous abomination whose idiotic admirers (from the Greek, one who has no duty) still think he accomplished something in office, maybe because he told them so. Some six of his lawyers have now gone to jail, as would he have if the wealth he transfers to their replacements from Republican coffers to keep them working on stalling with vexatious challenges to his indictments were not so disruptive to the regular exercise of the law courts.
To be fair, it's not always FAIR to point to what's been done to someone as reasons for not "liking" them... Smear campaigns are pretty convincing for those who are only willing to skim the surface of things, taking the lazy way of making decisions about people they have no means of investigating on their own... In other words, judge them by what they DO, not by the gossip about them, or even by what they're ACCUSED of.
Abiding Dud, Would that be lawfare like refusing to hear evidence at an impeachment, or frustrating Obama’s right to appoint a Supreme Court Judge during his own term? Or telling your representatives not to pass cross-party agreed legislation on immigration so that the government of the day can’t implement it? Do you have a suitably anal epithet for your own hypocrisy, I wonder? Your embellished list of Trump “accomplishments”represents all the economics Trump has disrupted while benefitting from Obama's economic up cycle. Enjoy your own world of alternative facts, while you’re emotionally unable to look at David Bell’s analysis of the movement from decline to tragic fall of the US empire. None of us want this to be taking place but it is. I suggest you read Chris Hedges’ America, the Farewell Tour.
Meanwhile, I’ll try to stay warm, having to keep the heating off after Biden blew up Europe’s source of cheap Russian gas. He too should be an American hero of yours, playing enormous games of Chicken with the Russians and the Chinese, all the while having been bought by the Israel lobby, meaning that he has done nothing but finance and supply the genocide in Gaza. Except also the destruction of Ukraine fighting to the last Ukrainian.
It matters not which major party you vote for, because as Hedges points out, public policy has been bought and paid for long before you get to vote, by the corporations whose major product is now war. And the American public is the buyer of that product. For all Trump’s critique of the military, he can only turn it inward against the American people as the empire collapses, spending more of your money on it and tripling your national debt. If he gets immunity or gets elected he will make the presidency the seat of criminality in the US. But this doesn’t bother you because you worship your flag and he’s wrapped himself in it. Maybe it‘ll be upside down like his bible. But no matter, to you it’s all “Go Team”.
Well he succeeded in ripping off many blue collar workers that got burned for their wages in his several bankruptcies. If that wasn't a red flag, I don't know what is. So much for the successful business man myth. Regan's son called the Trumps a family of grifters. His son-in-law is a virulent zionist who is sure to steer him in the direction of more Gaza genocide. About the only thing promising about another Presidency is what I hope will be slamming the door on Zelensky and accepting Putin's proposal.
Indeed. I remember reading a LONG time ago about how he stiffed several people who did work for him, contractors, etc. THAT stayed in my mind. I think Trump DID do a few things that weren't slimy while in office, but he also did a lot lousy things.
In fact we do not have a democracy and never really had despite the pretense of one. When a president, Biden to be precise, is quite blunt about ignoring the public protesting his ongoing support for a racist genocide--he doesn't care he said when asked about his response to the mass protests against Israel and US support for this horror. Other nations take to the streets en masse to force change even when the State goon squads begin shooting and killing. In the US we fret over permits that will allow us to demonstrate and accept the caging in of protesters by the State police apparatus. What a fiasco of democracy and freedom that we have.
The govt. we have was NOT the govt. we wanted when we had our "revolution," which was co-opted by the wealthy and FOUGHT by the poor. For example, there was NEVER supposed to be Veto power by ONE MAN, regardless of his office.
Your comment is simply a statement of your bigotry, nothing more.
If you cannot separate Zionism from Judaism, you're just ignorant. It's akin to saying ALL Christians are rich televangelists. It's one thing to judge a person by his ACTIONS, it's entirely something else to judge them by their skin color, their "race," or their heritage.
"Do the jews have the basic decency to oppose genocide in Gaza?"
Many individual ones do, and they should be honoured. Some of the most effective opponents of the horrors are Jews. I am surprised that you seem not to acknowledge that.
But on the other hand, so far as I know, all mainstream Jewish organisations (i.e. those not specifically consisting of anti-Zionist Jews, or set up to oppose the genocide) appear to be happy to go along with it, often denying that it is even happening. And the prominent Jewish politicians you named have not behaved morally in the slightest, and are entirely typical of such people. So I am not as shocked by your use of the short-hand "Jews" as other people seem to be, though it would be better to mention that there are many exceptions to the rule.
Also I don't go along with the idea presented by your critics that it is just Zionism that is the problem, and that you are ignorantly or immorally confusing it with Judaism. Zionism can only be argued to be the only legitimate reason to criticise Jews as a group if you do what I believe Gilad Atzmon does, and extend the word Zionism to mean all forms of supremacist Jewish hyper-in-group-preference. But that is not the traditional meaning, which is restricted to such in-group-preference when it leads to Jews thinking that their wish to live in Palestine over-rides the right of Palestinians to live there. Anti-Zionist Jews are usually highly moral and also oppose the other forms of unpleasant Jewish anti-Goyism, but they are not logically forced to. It would be theoretically possible for an anti-Zionist Jew to think it right for Jews to rule over Gentiles in the West. You and I would be free to criticise such people, but some of your critics seem to have pre-emptively forsworn the right to do so.
No, I’m not a Jew. I’m Irish, English, Scot, French, German, Viking, Cherokee and Choctaw. I have friends that are Jews, and they are good peeps. Are they like Netanyahu? Uh, HELL, no.
"MONEY" IS OUR PRESIDENT, CURRENTLY.. Biden is not, only in title. The war machine, pharmaceuticals, tech, big oil oligarchs. Neo cons are all running the white house, the Pentagon and maybe the Supreme court .. AND THE ELECTIONS. As a child I felt lucky to be born in the US, but I pray for my children and grandchildren. Deterioration since JFK assination, they are still in charge. Sad, love my country.
As I understand it, there is nothing in the Constitution that gives any power to a political "Party"... and certainly not the power to determine who runs for President.
The members of the Parties don't even have to vote in a democratic way (one vote per person) to determine who will run for that Party.
Thanks, Scott. You reiterate the old saw "Brevity is the soul of wit" with this one.
Not to digress nor throw shade on what enlightenment you have provided here, but your old pal Seymour Hersh has just released a seminal short one himself here, more than insinuating that Mr Biden is an actual captive in his, the People's prime residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's chilling when my own presumptions are shared by so stellar a journalist as he.
Look at the squabble that is just above your comment... EXACTLY what the Nasties want from us... They have two very very powerful tools that work exceptionally well: FEAR, and DIVIDE and CONQUER. That we continue to allow this insidious manipulation to suck us in-- and it's EASY to be sucked in! -- is one of our worst troubles, in my opinion.
If there were still those who doubted the accelerated decline of the US empire, this encapsulated "debate" will definitively clear up their doubts. Two elderly billionaires arguing over which of them plays golf better while their country falls apart.
I too was a member of the Green Party before Covid. I was stunned that the local Green party were staunch advocates for the Vaccine, embraced the injections, distancing, masks and any other thing imposed. I was bewildered by the complete acquiescence. I realized these were not my people politically or philosophically. What happened to being anti war and questioning the government? Bygone days.
As is RFK Jr, a clear globalist who loves the [fake] green agenda with his climate zealotry, anti 2A stance, genocidal ethnic cleansing, etc. RFK is a special kind of mentally-deranged hypocrite who pretends he wants to protect kids from certain jabs, while cheering for post birth abortion and murder of children in Gaza. He's a true sociopath, who can't differentiate what he stands for; and his IQ is handicapped since he can't even understand 7th grade science when it comes to "carbon" and CO2... not to mention that his google billionare VP is just as steeped in wokeness and derangement as he is.
Yes. These are RFK Jr's (and all demonrat's) most important ideologies thatvyou should take the time to find out; along with RFK being an advocate for "reparations" for "slavery". And the [fake] green agenda. And being a hard-core z!onist neocon, cuz killing kids in the womb isn't enough to satisfy the country's satanic lust for child sacrifice. We have to condone dropping missiles on infants and children, who just might be terr0rists. This sociopathic lust to kill innocents is out of control, which is the same reason RFK is on board with gun control; because how dare you have the right to protect yourself from criminals who wish you harm. People are far too comfortable justifying genocide... as long as it's not them being "genocided". You think RFK has armed security protection? You bet he does. But for you, the useless CO2 "polluter", your life is much less valuable than his. And BTW... CO2 is necessary for all life, (it's not a "pollutant") as any 7th grader knows. So "carbon zero" means zero humans, too, as humans are carbon life forms.
The United States, who has the brass neck to tell the rest the world how to behave. And behind all the Roman Empire bullshit, pull back the curtain and find a near-imbecile.
Here is an additional ugly story. This morning I got an email from Jill Stein who is running for president in the Green Party. Like Kennedy, she has to get signatures to get on the ballot in each state. She had just announced that her people had collected over 29,000 signatures and turned them in ( Nebraska requires a little over 10,000 signatures, so Jill's amount was almost 3 times the requirement.) Every state has their own requirements and it's getting harder to get the states to pin down the requirements for each state as some states keep upping the ante, so to speak, to prevent Kennedy and Stein from succeeding. Jill's email stated that Nebraska had approved her signatures and she should be on their ballot, but the DNC is now SUING her for the signatures to prevent that !! They probably won't win, but the DNC has decided to sue her in each state as she attempts to collect signatures simply because it will cost her money, and time and energy, that could be used campaigning. This is so evil and disgusting on the part of the extremely wealthy DNC that words fail me. I used to be a Democrat, but I can't believe what a nasty party it has turned into thanks to the DNC. I won't be voting for them again - EVER unless they get rid of the DNC and then I'll think about it. The Democratic party used to be actually democratic and now it has turned solidly fascist. UGH! Roosevelt must be spinning in his grave along with a few others. If our media allows this to happen without saying a word, then we'll know they're fascist too.
One interesting observation was that the inability of Trump to interrupt Biden, when he was answering actually helped Trump. Joe was not able to trail off with his jabberwocky buried beneath Trumps intrusive babble and inflict poor manners allegations against Trump. Rather he had to actually finish each answer without any excuse and in a dead silent studio. His battered train of thought left him wondering how he got there or where it was supposed to go. The only fix I can see and I care not if others strongly dislike him, is to get RFK on the ticket as he is the only one in the Democratic stable who could beat Trump now.
I'm curious as to how, if that is the case, numerous experts have not been aware of that ? Even Cuomo is egging him on to make a call to the Dems to see if he might be their man. Can you provide a link to that rule you speak of ?
What's American "democracy"? Are you aware America is a constitutional republic? What does democracy have to do with anything? This is a republic that is supposed to be governed by, for, and of THE PEOPLE -- who are too lazy and too stupid to do that or even know what that means.
Republic (Latin: Res publica) and Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία) are the SAME BLOODY THING, FOR PITY'S SAKE!!! Just from two different languages! Jeesus H Christ...
Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton are just tools.
The power elite use them as puppets to maneuver the lowly peons.
When Tubularsock refers to the power elite the reference is directed to an unknown power cabal that is in control and directs its decisions based on the control of world wide wealth.
“We” have no say and are duped at every turn.
Haven’t you noticed NOTHING really changes no matter which asshole “WINS”?
73 and the past two years finding out the truth about our country. Hating that I was lied to, brainwashed and not informed about so very much. The football coach teaching history …. Not the history teacher coaching football. I’ve watched America disintegrate and I believe it is because millions of us sat in school believing what we were told. MAGA believing Trump. WOKE believing Biden is lucid. I have a healthy skepticism now… 71 years too late. I fear for our country and the children. Let’s do a better job of telling them the truth.
You really want the truth?.... Your country is bankrupt, its economy is floating on an ocean of debt making your economy and perceived wealth completely artificial... You have unfunded liabilities of over $160 trillion to find over the next 30 years of which all of it will have to come off the treasury printing press... Your currency is about to be destroyed by a new BRICS currency and one by one your 'so called' allies will turn their backs on you.... Especially when you default on all your financial obligations to the rest of the world, oh and when the USD collapses it is going to spark the immediate collapse of the New York stock exchange and all those huge US corps are going to lose 95% of their value because their value is also artificially inflated...... THAT is the biggest thing they are lying to you about... THAT is the future for your children.
‘Nothing to disagree with there but of little comfort to those Americans like Abiding Dude who see it as a criticism of his culture, which to the extent that the American culture exalts money and that to do so is not a great strategy, it is. ‘Better tell the dude which country you’re from so he can critique it; he looks like a MAGA type whom you might be better not to furnish with a reason to find stuff unfair. By “critique” I take it he excludes the use of any ordnance but you had better check. The last time I did this the person I reproached for venting irrelevancies said: well, at least I don’t live in a poor country like Scotland. But I think the point you’re making insulates you from that one.
I think it's called a "patriotic reflex" . It's funny how people that make a career out of criticizing their own countries will rush to it's defense if an outsider does it. He could do with posting something other than ad hominem name calling and broad subjective opinions. Calling another "snarky" was hilarious and the best line thus far.
Thanks for the opportunity to report your insults... You be gone soon.
It doesn’t really matter because once the US economy crashes, every western aligned nations will also collapse.
Correct, that is why I moved away from the western financial system... The USA, Canada, western Europe and some of Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. they have all signed the death warrants of their economies... All those USD they are holding and tied into are going to become worthless. But the one who is going to suffer the worst is by far the USA when all those dollars come flooding back to their shore, it becomes worthless as a result... I give it 2 years and BRICS will control 80% of all oil and gas exports and 70% of all commodity exports and will declare no USD will any longer be accepted for trade with a BRICS country... The collapse will be measured in mere days.
I am no turd and I am more than willing to tell you that I am from the UK which is maybe not as bad a situation but equally as terrible future for all the same reasons the USA is in dire trouble... We have also the exact same problems as is the entire world that is tied to the USA financial system from France to German to Japan... It is all going to collapse together including the UK.... But I have one major advantage over you.... I left the UK 14 years ago and have built a new and much safer life in Southeast Asia which is almost debt free and on the rise and is completely sheilded from the destruction of the west... This is the place all you who read this should be flocking to... The golden billion are on the edge of a cliff while the other 7 billion have the brightest future, and if you want to take my advice as a toxic truth so you can insult me, then stay where you are and you can recall my message 5 years from now and possibly as little as 2 years from now when it all unfolds in front of your very eyes... I live in a country where the PEOPLE have the power over the government and is why we will never be in a mess.
Dear David,
please excuse my familiar approach to you but as much as you are correct in what you are saying, please keep in mind that many of us simply can not run off to south east asia. We have our elderly parents to care of, children to raise, who have friends and family here. Some of us still have a job that pays some bills and since I am also an expat for about 27 years by now, I can tell you that even after all those years, I am still a foreigner and will remain one. To ask of people to rip out their roots, I would consider inhuman. The people need to educate themself, that's a duty in my opinion, just that takes time and is hard to do when your every day information is based on hybris, lies and psy-ops against you.
To conclude I would like to citate a song that once was a hymne for the working class: "Uns hilft kein Kaiser, Gott oder Tribun, uns aus dem Elend zu erlösen müssen wir schon selber tun."
"there is no help from royalty, no God or tyrant to help us. To free ourself from the misery, we can do only by ourself"
Have a great time and all the best to you.
The UK depresses me greatly. It's been swirling the drain for decades and now its demise will accelerate thanks to voting in Labour.
It's become next to impossible to believe that native Brits want their country completely destroyed. Large swaths of it are already indistinguishable from Third World shitholes.
Labour will definitely accelerate the decline by letting in even more unskilled, useless, antagonistic, and ungrateful illegal aliens.
What country is that David ? I have a great escape plan too but am currently in Canada. I don't know what the fall out will be here but I'd like to keep all my options open.
I was hoping to move to the mild climate and ocean front of Canada's west coast. I have homes and deep roots in the Philippines by virtue of marriage.
I think the key to comfortable and secure living is to keep as many options open as possible and keep your money in the safest currency or basket of currencies you can think of. I got stung bad in the Salinas disaster in Mexico, owning property there. Once you move money into these places it can be very hard to get it out again without a huge haircut.
Accumulate dual citizenships where possible and marrying into alternate citizenships, or privileged status, is a good move for the single people. For those who are married and still want children, give birth in the desired destiny country.
The US education system has seriously injured at least three generations of my family…Not so much education, as indoctrination (and abuse).
I'm wondering, how americans could believe that they live in a democracy, when the candidates for the presidency have to be rich people and and are supported by rich people. How would they stand in for the interests of normal, hard working people or even unemployed or homeless people? The have to stand for the interests of Americas oligarchs.
73 is just in time! After all, you are still alive and able to realize that ‘reality’ differs from what we were told it is. An unimaginable number of people didn’t have the opportunity or stamina to arrive at that realization; a believer in reincarnation would say ‘well, next time better’.
Great idea Thomas governments telling the truth to the people t they govern i is an essential part of true democracy.. So if there was. genuine democracy ti would be recognised by it efficient and open informations system. Cuba approaches that standard American is the leader in controlled misinformation Go figure
That's 3 reports.
I believe he is a person of no integrity nor character. Many of the people he hires have faced criminal charges. He attempted a coup of the government including betraying his own VP and the American people. He cheats on his wives, is a racist (black jobs) and is narcissistic sociopath. Other than that…
I wonder what the percentage is for narcissistic sociopaths in the general population of very wealthy individuals, especially those who were born into their wealth?
Other than that…he is a whining, posturing, murderous abomination whose idiotic admirers (from the Greek, one who has no duty) still think he accomplished something in office, maybe because he told them so. Some six of his lawyers have now gone to jail, as would he have if the wealth he transfers to their replacements from Republican coffers to keep them working on stalling with vexatious challenges to his indictments were not so disruptive to the regular exercise of the law courts.
To be fair, it's not always FAIR to point to what's been done to someone as reasons for not "liking" them... Smear campaigns are pretty convincing for those who are only willing to skim the surface of things, taking the lazy way of making decisions about people they have no means of investigating on their own... In other words, judge them by what they DO, not by the gossip about them, or even by what they're ACCUSED of.
That's 4 reports
Abiding Dud, Would that be lawfare like refusing to hear evidence at an impeachment, or frustrating Obama’s right to appoint a Supreme Court Judge during his own term? Or telling your representatives not to pass cross-party agreed legislation on immigration so that the government of the day can’t implement it? Do you have a suitably anal epithet for your own hypocrisy, I wonder? Your embellished list of Trump “accomplishments”represents all the economics Trump has disrupted while benefitting from Obama's economic up cycle. Enjoy your own world of alternative facts, while you’re emotionally unable to look at David Bell’s analysis of the movement from decline to tragic fall of the US empire. None of us want this to be taking place but it is. I suggest you read Chris Hedges’ America, the Farewell Tour.
Meanwhile, I’ll try to stay warm, having to keep the heating off after Biden blew up Europe’s source of cheap Russian gas. He too should be an American hero of yours, playing enormous games of Chicken with the Russians and the Chinese, all the while having been bought by the Israel lobby, meaning that he has done nothing but finance and supply the genocide in Gaza. Except also the destruction of Ukraine fighting to the last Ukrainian.
It matters not which major party you vote for, because as Hedges points out, public policy has been bought and paid for long before you get to vote, by the corporations whose major product is now war. And the American public is the buyer of that product. For all Trump’s critique of the military, he can only turn it inward against the American people as the empire collapses, spending more of your money on it and tripling your national debt. If he gets immunity or gets elected he will make the presidency the seat of criminality in the US. But this doesn’t bother you because you worship your flag and he’s wrapped himself in it. Maybe it‘ll be upside down like his bible. But no matter, to you it’s all “Go Team”.
>>>>>>He attempted a coup <<<<<<
HUH? WHAT THE FUCKETH? WHEN?
That's 5 reports
Well he succeeded in ripping off many blue collar workers that got burned for their wages in his several bankruptcies. If that wasn't a red flag, I don't know what is. So much for the successful business man myth. Regan's son called the Trumps a family of grifters. His son-in-law is a virulent zionist who is sure to steer him in the direction of more Gaza genocide. About the only thing promising about another Presidency is what I hope will be slamming the door on Zelensky and accepting Putin's proposal.
Indeed. I remember reading a LONG time ago about how he stiffed several people who did work for him, contractors, etc. THAT stayed in my mind. I think Trump DID do a few things that weren't slimy while in office, but he also did a lot lousy things.
In fact we do not have a democracy and never really had despite the pretense of one. When a president, Biden to be precise, is quite blunt about ignoring the public protesting his ongoing support for a racist genocide--he doesn't care he said when asked about his response to the mass protests against Israel and US support for this horror. Other nations take to the streets en masse to force change even when the State goon squads begin shooting and killing. In the US we fret over permits that will allow us to demonstrate and accept the caging in of protesters by the State police apparatus. What a fiasco of democracy and freedom that we have.
To TANYA MARQUETTE: Indeed.
The govt. we have was NOT the govt. we wanted when we had our "revolution," which was co-opted by the wealthy and FOUGHT by the poor. For example, there was NEVER supposed to be Veto power by ONE MAN, regardless of his office.
To "ABIDING DUDE"
Your comment is simply a statement of your bigotry, nothing more.
If you cannot separate Zionism from Judaism, you're just ignorant. It's akin to saying ALL Christians are rich televangelists. It's one thing to judge a person by his ACTIONS, it's entirely something else to judge them by their skin color, their "race," or their heritage.
P.S. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Your verbal aggression does not help win people to your position.
"Do the jews have the basic decency to oppose genocide in Gaza?"
Many individual ones do, and they should be honoured. Some of the most effective opponents of the horrors are Jews. I am surprised that you seem not to acknowledge that.
But on the other hand, so far as I know, all mainstream Jewish organisations (i.e. those not specifically consisting of anti-Zionist Jews, or set up to oppose the genocide) appear to be happy to go along with it, often denying that it is even happening. And the prominent Jewish politicians you named have not behaved morally in the slightest, and are entirely typical of such people. So I am not as shocked by your use of the short-hand "Jews" as other people seem to be, though it would be better to mention that there are many exceptions to the rule.
Also I don't go along with the idea presented by your critics that it is just Zionism that is the problem, and that you are ignorantly or immorally confusing it with Judaism. Zionism can only be argued to be the only legitimate reason to criticise Jews as a group if you do what I believe Gilad Atzmon does, and extend the word Zionism to mean all forms of supremacist Jewish hyper-in-group-preference. But that is not the traditional meaning, which is restricted to such in-group-preference when it leads to Jews thinking that their wish to live in Palestine over-rides the right of Palestinians to live there. Anti-Zionist Jews are usually highly moral and also oppose the other forms of unpleasant Jewish anti-Goyism, but they are not logically forced to. It would be theoretically possible for an anti-Zionist Jew to think it right for Jews to rule over Gentiles in the West. You and I would be free to criticise such people, but some of your critics seem to have pre-emptively forsworn the right to do so.
No, I’m not a Jew. I’m Irish, English, Scot, French, German, Viking, Cherokee and Choctaw. I have friends that are Jews, and they are good peeps. Are they like Netanyahu? Uh, HELL, no.
OBVIOUSLY, you can't tell the difference between Jews and ZIONISTS. Get a clue and shut the fuck up.
"MONEY" IS OUR PRESIDENT, CURRENTLY.. Biden is not, only in title. The war machine, pharmaceuticals, tech, big oil oligarchs. Neo cons are all running the white house, the Pentagon and maybe the Supreme court .. AND THE ELECTIONS. As a child I felt lucky to be born in the US, but I pray for my children and grandchildren. Deterioration since JFK assination, they are still in charge. Sad, love my country.
As I understand it, there is nothing in the Constitution that gives any power to a political "Party"... and certainly not the power to determine who runs for President.
The members of the Parties don't even have to vote in a democratic way (one vote per person) to determine who will run for that Party.
Seems quite odd.
Thanks, Scott. You reiterate the old saw "Brevity is the soul of wit" with this one.
Not to digress nor throw shade on what enlightenment you have provided here, but your old pal Seymour Hersh has just released a seminal short one himself here, more than insinuating that Mr Biden is an actual captive in his, the People's prime residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's chilling when my own presumptions are shared by so stellar a journalist as he.
This is some serious intrigue: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/who-is-running-the-country
Straight up WrestleMania 2024 in America, we are the parody.
Look at the squabble that is just above your comment... EXACTLY what the Nasties want from us... They have two very very powerful tools that work exceptionally well: FEAR, and DIVIDE and CONQUER. That we continue to allow this insidious manipulation to suck us in-- and it's EASY to be sucked in! -- is one of our worst troubles, in my opinion.
Seems Bobby is getting the Ron Paul treatment. Those that run the show will not even let him debate.
Shame. Shoot up his family in the 60's and still using dirty tricks. Not providing secret service, wow.
Obviously he is the threat to their empire. It is not democracy.
It's like our military, we spend so much money to prop up a façade. Push comes to shove money is made, by those who have too much, safe we are not!
If there were still those who doubted the accelerated decline of the US empire, this encapsulated "debate" will definitively clear up their doubts. Two elderly billionaires arguing over which of them plays golf better while their country falls apart.
I've voted Peace & Freedom in the late 70s and now vote Green.
Thanks Scott R.
I too was a member of the Green Party before Covid. I was stunned that the local Green party were staunch advocates for the Vaccine, embraced the injections, distancing, masks and any other thing imposed. I was bewildered by the complete acquiescence. I realized these were not my people politically or philosophically. What happened to being anti war and questioning the government? Bygone days.
As is RFK Jr, a clear globalist who loves the [fake] green agenda with his climate zealotry, anti 2A stance, genocidal ethnic cleansing, etc. RFK is a special kind of mentally-deranged hypocrite who pretends he wants to protect kids from certain jabs, while cheering for post birth abortion and murder of children in Gaza. He's a true sociopath, who can't differentiate what he stands for; and his IQ is handicapped since he can't even understand 7th grade science when it comes to "carbon" and CO2... not to mention that his google billionare VP is just as steeped in wokeness and derangement as he is.
Nicole Shanahan: Globalist stooge
https://people.com/nicole-shanahan-moving-on-1-year-after-elon-musk-sergey-brin-story-exclusive-7556751
Shanahan's Bia-Echo Foundation:
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/bia-echo-foundation/
Shanahan's Strumwasser: Lightning Labs:
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/lightning-labs/
https://lightning.engineering/team/
ClearAccessIP: Shanahan
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clearaccessip
Zero Acre: funded by Shanahan:
https://www.zeroacre.com/blog/the-world-needs-an-oil-change
Shanahan donated $4M to RFK campaign:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan
Post birth abortion? Really?
Yes. These are RFK Jr's (and all demonrat's) most important ideologies thatvyou should take the time to find out; along with RFK being an advocate for "reparations" for "slavery". And the [fake] green agenda. And being a hard-core z!onist neocon, cuz killing kids in the womb isn't enough to satisfy the country's satanic lust for child sacrifice. We have to condone dropping missiles on infants and children, who just might be terr0rists. This sociopathic lust to kill innocents is out of control, which is the same reason RFK is on board with gun control; because how dare you have the right to protect yourself from criminals who wish you harm. People are far too comfortable justifying genocide... as long as it's not them being "genocided". You think RFK has armed security protection? You bet he does. But for you, the useless CO2 "polluter", your life is much less valuable than his. And BTW... CO2 is necessary for all life, (it's not a "pollutant") as any 7th grader knows. So "carbon zero" means zero humans, too, as humans are carbon life forms.
Ignorance is bliss... (and you and 'Abiding Dude' are prime examples!)
The United States, who has the brass neck to tell the rest the world how to behave. And behind all the Roman Empire bullshit, pull back the curtain and find a near-imbecile.
Here is an additional ugly story. This morning I got an email from Jill Stein who is running for president in the Green Party. Like Kennedy, she has to get signatures to get on the ballot in each state. She had just announced that her people had collected over 29,000 signatures and turned them in ( Nebraska requires a little over 10,000 signatures, so Jill's amount was almost 3 times the requirement.) Every state has their own requirements and it's getting harder to get the states to pin down the requirements for each state as some states keep upping the ante, so to speak, to prevent Kennedy and Stein from succeeding. Jill's email stated that Nebraska had approved her signatures and she should be on their ballot, but the DNC is now SUING her for the signatures to prevent that !! They probably won't win, but the DNC has decided to sue her in each state as she attempts to collect signatures simply because it will cost her money, and time and energy, that could be used campaigning. This is so evil and disgusting on the part of the extremely wealthy DNC that words fail me. I used to be a Democrat, but I can't believe what a nasty party it has turned into thanks to the DNC. I won't be voting for them again - EVER unless they get rid of the DNC and then I'll think about it. The Democratic party used to be actually democratic and now it has turned solidly fascist. UGH! Roosevelt must be spinning in his grave along with a few others. If our media allows this to happen without saying a word, then we'll know they're fascist too.
One interesting observation was that the inability of Trump to interrupt Biden, when he was answering actually helped Trump. Joe was not able to trail off with his jabberwocky buried beneath Trumps intrusive babble and inflict poor manners allegations against Trump. Rather he had to actually finish each answer without any excuse and in a dead silent studio. His battered train of thought left him wondering how he got there or where it was supposed to go. The only fix I can see and I care not if others strongly dislike him, is to get RFK on the ticket as he is the only one in the Democratic stable who could beat Trump now.
I'm curious as to how, if that is the case, numerous experts have not been aware of that ? Even Cuomo is egging him on to make a call to the Dems to see if he might be their man. Can you provide a link to that rule you speak of ?
In American Democracy the PEOPLE get to choose from the list the power elite provides. NO EXCEPTIONS.
OUR system therefore avoids "mistakes".
What's American "democracy"? Are you aware America is a constitutional republic? What does democracy have to do with anything? This is a republic that is supposed to be governed by, for, and of THE PEOPLE -- who are too lazy and too stupid to do that or even know what that means.
When Tubularsock uses “Democracy Tubularsock was being facetious.
You are very correct in your terminology. And Tubularsock too agrees with the overview of our populous being lazy and stupid.
However their gullible nature has been used to trick many with babels promoted by the immediate power structure.
Republic (Latin: Res publica) and Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία) are the SAME BLOODY THING, FOR PITY'S SAKE!!! Just from two different languages! Jeesus H Christ...
Democracy is mob rule; republic is the protection of the rights of the individual, FOR PITY'S SAKE.
On top of that you have electoral college which can further undermine popular vote by the people.
Time for a write in candidate??
YES!
Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton are just tools.
The power elite use them as puppets to maneuver the lowly peons.
When Tubularsock refers to the power elite the reference is directed to an unknown power cabal that is in control and directs its decisions based on the control of world wide wealth.
“We” have no say and are duped at every turn.
Haven’t you noticed NOTHING really changes no matter which asshole “WINS”?
Oh my. Tubularsock cares not if you wish to delude yourself.
The best camouflage is to convince the delusional in their own delusion.
And the beat goes on.
Biden belongs in a nursing home. And yes, he is the epitome of the word lie - in all it's tenses.
What did Trump say that wasn't true?
> There are parts of the world where democracy thrives.
WTF, seriously? Iran a country where "democracy thrives"??
We should have a box to check that says "None of the Above."