They want you arguing over who should and shouldn't be called a terrorist based on what ideology you subscribe to and what color the latest killer's skin was. They do not want you talking about the way the label "terrorist" itself is being used to justify unconstitutional detentions, torture, mass surveillance, and wars.
They want you arguing over whether to support the Democrats because the Republicans will take civil rights away from disempowered groups or Republicans because the Democrats will take away your guns and force you to bake gay wedding cakes. They don't want you talking about the fact that both parties advance Orwellian surveillance, neoliberal exploitation and neoconservative bloodshed in a good cop/bad cop extortion scheme to keep Americans cheerleading for their own enslavement.
They want you arguing about whether Trump did or did not collude with Russia. They do not want you looking at what preexisting agendas the CNN/CIA Russia narratives are advancing and who stands to benefit from them.
They want everyone fighting over table scraps while they pour unfathomable riches into expanding and bolstering their empire. They psychologically brutalize you with propaganda day in and day out, and then expect you to look to them for protection from the phantoms they invented.
They don't want you paying attention to the growing number of signs that the current administration is gearing up for a major military bloodbath which may lead our species into a third and final world war. They want you talking about Stormy Daniels instead.
And by "they" I of course mean the loose transnational alliance of plutocrats and defense/intelligence agencies who control the US-centralized empire, whose primary agenda is always to expand their own power and influence.
The "they" in question are aware that their empire is (according to their own data) entering post-primacy, which will lead to the rise of a multipolar world in which the US-centralized empire suddenly has rivals which can compete on equal footing for resources, assets and allies. Unless they do something very drastic very soon.
This arrival at post-primacy just so happened to coincide with the choice in 2016 between a warmongering establishment stalwart whom the DNC and media propaganda machine tried to force into the White House at great expense, and a billionaire who knew what people wanted to hear and has proven himself to be every bit the violent empire loyalist that his opponent would have been.
The election was fake and meaningless. Both candidates are owned and operated by the same unelected power establishment.
Now the Trump administration is being filled with more and more bloodthirsty neoconservatives of the same strain which backed Hillary Clinton, who are being promoted to higher and higher positions within that administration. Longtime Iran and Russia hawk Mike Pompeo's promotion into Hillary Clinton's old job as Secretary of State was quickly followed by the elevation of John Bolton, easily the most virulent neoconservative war hawk in Washington, to the position of National Security Advisor.
There were many perfectly qualified candidates who could have served as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, but Trump selected the two most violent neoconservatives on the menu. There is no reason to do such a thing unless wars are planned; none of the countless feeble arguments I'm seeing from Trump apologists come anywhere close to a convincing argument to the contrary. All John Bolton does is war. You don't appoint him to the leading advisory position on national security unless war is what you want.
In response to all this, Trump's political opponents are of course talking about what he did with his penis.
As of this writing, #StormyDanielsDay is the top US trend on Twitter. I don't know what #StormyDanielsDay is. I don't care what #StormyDanielsDay is. Neither should you. Neither should anyone else.
Please stop this shit, America. If the US war machine goes after Iran or Russia it will likely mean a world war against multiple nuclear-armed countries, which could very easily send our species the way of the dinosaurs should a nuke get deployed in the fog of war. We don't have time to focus on Stormy fucking Daniels.
Those most fiendishly devoted to the service of the empire would rather take that risk than see the US lose its dominant role on the global stage; for them there is no difference between the end of their empire and the end of their lives. From their point of view they are fighting for their lives, and they are willing to take all-or-nothing gambles with the lives of every terrestrial organism in order to win.
We are staring down the barrel of world war and possible extinction. This should deeply impact the hearts and minds of Trump's opponents and his supporters. Stop arguing about Stormy fucking Daniels and spread awareness about things that really matter.
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Bolton / Pompeo / Haspel ... what a rotten trio. It truly is a war mongering dream-team. God help us.
now it's your turn to be chased, your post is trash
I think you're confused. I flagged your posts for 6th day comment upvoting and plagiarism not because of my opinion of the quality of your posts.
It's simple, if you made an effort to make posts instead of copy and pasting videos from YouTube or upvoting comments at the last minute, I wouldn't flag you.
Your flags are revenge flags, and illegitimate.
I understand you're angry about the flags but you can easily make some changes and I will stop flagging you. Please consider what I'm saying.
Absolutely correct assessment @v4vapid. Here are a few facts on them:
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"The election was fake and meaningless." Yes, it was. This realization has changed me. And it's changed everything I believe and thought I knew about my country.
I realized the same soon after 2008 election. My son had been born just a month before. I cried when Obama won. It wasn't long after that I realized I was made a fool of. Hope and Change remained Nope and Same.
And even today still.
2008 or 2016. Both fake elections. All fake candidates. Don't expect 2020 or 2024 to be any better. We'll be lucky if we make it that much longer.
You talk about 2008 and 2016, meanwhile I was awoken to the lack of democracy in 2000 when the Supreme Court appointed Bush as president despite Gore getting more votes. They did this because of some convenient voting irregularities in Florida, a state that George's brother Jeb just so happened to be governor of. And I'm sure older people than me might cite other years, like when Democrats conspired to make McGovern lose to Nixon or when JFK was assassinated. The USA hasn't ever really had legitimate democracy.
It has taken me a good year to process what I know understand to be reality. I almost wish I could go back to my previous belief system, but I have grandchildren to worry about and so I have to stay alert to the dangers. Please take care of yourself. It is an awful paradigm shift. The devils really are here.
Good news! Our glorious leaders are taking steps to ensure that climate change won't be a problem for future generations by making sure that there are no future generations.
Some say the ground work has been being laid for years in preparation that the next war would be played out in Syria, I don't know if that's just conspiracy theorist at work but if there's another war it seems about right they'd use Syria as a base for it. The other reasons he could be hiring these people is the lack of people willing to go to work for the administration and the endless bombardment of harassment, fake news, digging though closets to come up with anything to disparage those willing to work for a man that half the country just can't seem to get a grip on the fact that he was duly elected just like any other president.
Coke and Pepsi. You want to know who's in charge? The superior(s) of the 4 star marine general who is the acting gatekeeper of the President of those United States of America.
I didn't t even know who Stormy Daniels was before I read this article. I feel like I'm winning. ;)
Stormy Daniels, she's hot.
Before i knew i had just assumed it was the aftermath of too much Jack Daniels and Chipotle hotwings.
It was....lol.
As of now. The US petro dollar is in decline. Marche 26th 2018 Beijing time. Or right now. Be prepared. Everybody. Massive inflation. Wars.
Big balls, to speak for the whole planet. Count me out.
Excellent as usual, RE-STEEMED
It's time for Americans to WAKE THE F%$# UP!
@bifilarcoil signing the petition...
Good insights, well, good... The world is fucked, I am more happy every day that I withdrew my DNA from the genepool by not having children. I am just hoping that it will last my days but I am not so certain that it will. The cognitive dissonance is at unprecedented levels, not by accident... And even though more people are waking up every day to the reality of our world, i fear it will be too little too late. And even if enough people wake up in time, the psychopaths will stop at nothing. I was actually writing a poem and a post on just this subject, will post it later today or tomorrow.
If America can rule the world it would rather blow it up. A hippie told me that in the early 70s & has been a pretty fair frame of reference to me ever since. Is it true Mexico's building a wall to keep Americans in.
Indeed, the anti-war movement worldwide is over. My guessing is that, in the past, the MSM, although biased as ever, at least had some sort of objectivity and tried to show both sides of the story. The MSM could be in one or the other side BUT at least they used to show both sides.
Now, the anti-war movement is not just dead, its out of the loop so people don't even imagine how close we are from WW3 as they did when the "Missiles Crisis" in Cuba in 1962, when people went out to the streets to demand their leaders to stop that madness. Now, we're living that same dementia and the MSM is hiding it because being anti-russian is the only agenda right now without realizing that a nuclear war between the US and Russia (with or without missile's shield (which actually are useless in case of a full nuclear war, there's no system able to shoot down 1.5k's nukes shot at once, the ABM systems have an effeiciency of around 20%) will mean the end of life on planet earth, with or without nyclear shelters, able to host people for no more than 2 months, when they will have to go out for food and water in an environment catastrophically radioactive which will head to death in a few days.
All this informatiin is easy available and the "pundits" from the MSM ((those same guys that today are "Syrian pundits" and tomorrow they are being introduced as "North Korean" pundits) are driving us straight to a militar confrontation against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea (half the population on Eaerh!). Isn't that proof that the West is ruled by psichopats and that western countries are inhabited by sleepwalking zombies with their sight fixed on their mobiles while we are on the brink of the last war in human life?
It is getting to the point where I am embarrassed to be an American. Our society is herded like a group of sardines surrounded by a school of tuna. Sadly, most of the sardines believe in their superiority over the tuna while not recognizing how they're being consumed.
George Orwell would cry at the stupidity on display in the good ole USA. I'm growing weary of shouting into the face of a hurricane. Stopping the rule of oligarchs over the rest of us is hopeless.
Yet there is still zero anti-war movement in the US.
They want everyone fighting over table scraps while they pour unfathomable riches into expanding and bolstering their empire.
Very insightful @caitlinjohnstone!
Good points all. Stormy Daniels just wants to get PAID for being laid,it's her "career".
I still had slight hopes for Trump and then he signed the budget, one of the biggest screw jobs since Obamacare. He could have got increased military spending without caving on the rest of the crap in that budget. They had a long time to work on that bill and published it 48 hours before voting on it. We spend more on the military than the next 7 countries combined.