Placed on a terror watch list, the former Hawaii congresswoman and her husband were tailed by Air Marshals and bomb dogs. "Unconstitutional on every level," she says. "And I'm not the only one."
Obama (and Holder, etc.) took the surveillance apparatus created by Bush and Cheney via the Patriot Act and re-trained it on their domestic political opposition. The Democrats are straight up fascists at this point — colluding with private corporations to suppress political dissent; attempting to bankrupt, imprison and (I strongly suspect) assassinate the leading candidate of the opposing party; unconstitutionally holding political protesters in jail without trial for years on end; and on and on.
The Bushes and Obamas are besties now. Neocons have joined the DNC and claim they are the “resistance” against fascist Putin puppets like Tulsi and Trump. A marriage made in hell.
That wedding you speak of…Maybe the disgusting scene from the Olympics opening was a metaphor for the wedding feast at Satan’s table. Darn, now it makes sense.
Jeez - I wish I had a nickel for each of the times my friends told me that, after I complained about the Opening Ceremonies.
I had the distinct pleasure of telling them, "Oh yeah? I took French in Junior High School - two whole years - and even I know that "Cene" is French for The Last Supper, and that the title of the piece was "La Cene dans un Scene sur la Seine" - "The Last Supper on a Stage on the Seine".
I typed the sentence into the Translate app on my iPhone and it gave in English what you wrote. I wonder though if the next iOS update will give something else.
"Cene" is not French for The Last Supper. It's French urban slang for NASCAR. The whole thing was a subversive, backdoor plug for NASCAR. Talk to Steve Bannon about it. He'll set you straight on the matter.
"posted a screenshot image of her performance in the Last Supper parody above an image of Da Vinci’s original painting to her Instagram account with the comment, “Oh yes! Oh yes! The new gay testament!”
Since deleted from instagram but still swimming around on X.
Isaac Newton laid the foundations of the modern understanding of physical reality in terms of universal mathematical laws. He was also a devout Christian. Before him, Johannes Kepler discovered basic mathematical laws of planetary motion. He was also Christian, and viewed his discovery as seeing into the mind of God.
The mathematician Georg Cantor related his theory of transfinite numbers to his concept of a transcendent being.
The logician Kurt Gödel, who famously used logical reasoning to demonstrate the limits of logical reasoning, was a theist.
Yet, despite these and many other examples, you and others like you believe that Christianity, or religion in general, is somehow incompatible with rationality and a scientific understanding of the physical world. It's a viewpoint that's remarkably superficial, and unscientific to boot, given how much historical evidence it ignores.
The huge percentage of Scots that kicked off the industrial revolution were educated (for free) by a system that believed learning about how the world worked was essential to learning how God worked. Because He created the heavens and the earth, it was man's duty to study them.
It was a core goal of the church to enable the capable, regardless of class, to learn as much as possible about God's works, without impediment. This core belief became the reason for free higher education in Scotland, with woe unto any politician or even king who stood in the way!
Another version of the whole trend we’ve seen the last few years was that it was a potential Bin Laden saw as needing something to trigger it. Then he acted on it, by planning and executing 9/11.
Cool story bro. Bin Laden was a tool for the Anglo-American spook network, along with his family. By the time 9/11 occurred he was dying from diabetes complications. Multiple reputable sources corroborate that he died in 2001.
Bush used it for 9/11 terrorists in the new world that was created on September 11. Now it’s being expanded by the left to attack their opponents. It’s like creating an oven to bake a cake and using it for evil. Don’t always blame the creator
LTJG Kaffee: Colonel Jessep! (Obama, Harrison, Moore, Austin, Blinken, Harris…) Did you order the Code Red?! Did you order the Code Red?! Answer the question, DNC/Biden Administration. Answer the question.
Lots of us understand. I’m just hoping everyone else sees it. America can’t move on until the normies understand. It’s taken years to get this way. It will take less time to expose since the honest liberal journalists like Matt, Walter, Michael Shellenberger, Lee Fang + others are discussing it.
I hope they’ll be able to hold up after receiving the same treatment as Tulsi. Matt has endured it so far.
Let’s just pray Substack doesn’t go the way of the msm.
I understand cuz I lived there and saw his mafia convince a judge to open the sealed divorce document of Jack Ryan and his ex, Jeri, to expose him and then win the state senate seat which directly led to his presidency. He had little to no senate term before being catapulted. Only the dem political mafia can make that happen.
Jack Ryan's sister was a client, so while it made local news, as you say it wasn't widely reported. BO was knighted by the Axelrod mafia and now BO is the king maker. Ryan was an investment banker and retired early to voluntarily teach at a Catholic high school in Chicago before deciding to jump into politics in '04.
The reason the custody/divorce documents were sealed was because of allegations (of a sexual nature) made by Jeri and in order to protect their autistic son, Jack requested they be sealed. They were until Obama's mafia came along and somehow convinced a judge that was necessary in a political campaign. Obama is a POS.
Thank you for this post. I only vaguely remembered the reporting at the time, which of course was not framed to do anything but make Ryan look guilty of something. No reporting on why the docs were sealed and then, unsealed.
Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, and --- Lawfare. People need to understand The Chicago Way. But it is probably too late.
But the modern Democratic party loves Cheney! Liz is their staunch defender -- all the Never-Trumpers and the great "left" neocon crew, including our Nobel Prize winning clearly captured President who promised not to do regime change. They hate Tulsi and they hate Trump precisely because they didn't want endless war, and the powers that be clearly do as evidenced by the chaos engulfing our world.
The Chicago Way went Federal via Obama and his Chicago outfit. Bush/Cheney would never pull the crap the politicians in Illinois have been doing for decades!
The Chicago model of patronage hires as useful (and convenient) idiots is likely the plan for Washington. Same old crap. Can you say pension debt? I recall walking into any City "service" location and receiving a belligerent assault from the army of government "help". Deflection and misdirection were the primary weapons. Someone mentioned Rahm here. Even he couldn't get anything done. Sad truth is it doesn't matter who is mayor: the government does not run the city.
True enough. There have been authoritarian Nazi's on the right and authoritarian Soviets on the left. Today the Democrats are the clear and present danger. Their sky marshals and attack dogs are the iconography of the modern totalitarian American left and its censorship state.
Nazi’s were Socialists, leftists. Translate the acronym into English. NAZI’s were the National Socialist Worker’s Party of Germany. Socialism. Leftist.
Your description of the acronym is of course, correct, but at that time any German officer would have recoiled at the suggestion that they were anywhere close to being communists, whom they hated. "Socialist" may have been in the party's name, but they didn't think that they were on the "left" (i.e. closer to commnists than to the right side of the political spectrum) as that description is understood today.
Exactly. Sorry most of the authoritarianism I see is from the left. Biden Administration open censorship of Americans in collusion with tech. Vaccine and mask mandates. Closed schools and businesses. For example.
Agreed. It’s weird how in the USA it’s flipped in half a century. Of course Communism was always authoritarian, yet the American right was also pretty authoritarian throughout the 20th century. It’s bizarro world.
Slow motion slide to Whatever It Takes. Which on the day he announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, Illinois, reporting claimed that at the last minute they stuffed the Rev. Jeremiah Wright somewhere. He was there, then he was not, according to reporting at the time. Obama was for gay marriage, AFTER he was re-elected. Hot mic to Russian president, he will have "more flexibility after the election . . ." Obama never slid to the right. He never left Obamaland.
Kammy and Walz are his ultimate achievement. If the harvest goes well, maybe we won't even have to wait till mid-November to know who is our next President. (They can count mail-in ballots up to two weeks after the election here in Illinois, I think.)
Major narcissist with dark triad personality traits. He didn’t do it all alone, but I blame him for the complete corruption of every important national agency. He coerced and threatened and lured until he had a team of cheaters and smearers and liars surrounding while he drove the country into the totalitarian dictatorship it is today. We’re in his 3rd term and he’ll cheat in any way possible to have a 4th. My dearest wish is not that he’s prosecuted and jailed (as he deserves), but that he is rendered absolutely irrelevant —only this can deflate the Everest size ego. And may the Chicago machine die with him.
Obama started out as a guy who promised No Regime Change Wars and wound up green-lighting hiring a Free Syrian Army to overthrow Assad (which only found AQ and ISIS guys to hire)
Obama campaigned on going after Wall Street and the excesses that caused the 2008 securities frauds. Then he hired every one of Jamie Dimon's cabinet picks.
She’s probably a bit frightened. I would be. She’s one of our veterans for God’s sake! We just had an attempted assassination of Trump and still don’t know what the hell went on.
According Seymour Hersh's July 27, 2024 piece on Substack ("Leaving Las Vegas"), an unnamed senior official in Washington told him:
“On Sunday morning [July 21], with the approval of Pelosi and Schumer, Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.'”
Hersh tends to have good sources. He uncovered the Mai Lai massacre in the U.S. war in Vietnam and the torture system at Abu Ghraib prison.
Yeah, the sad truth is she really doesn't have much leverage. The machine will keep grinding her down no matter what she does. This is WHY people usually bend the knee. Do you see any accountability for this stuff, ever? Nope. So why would you, as someone who is a victim of it, expect it to ever stop?
I've been on a long slow slide towards it since the early 2000s, but I'm at the point reading things like this article in disgust where I feel like a stranger in my own country, and consider the government that is supposed to represent me to be a hostile, foreign power.
They are being led by totalitarians and their true believers cannot see past it. They see Kamala and Walz as their new Mom and Dad. Probably won't like it when they get the spanking at 2am by the local police.
It doesn't mean "every person identifying as a Dem voter." A lot of them still think Democrats support the strong American union jobs that Clinton NAFTA'd away.
It's the Dem machine, both federal and state level.
That is what I meant by "as a whole". Many voters have had 60 years of socialist indoctrination and only about a quarter of them are die hard extremist. The Dem machine is actually working for the CCP. It has been for decades and so are the GOP helpers in Congress who still think it is only about the NWO. They don't understand the NWO will be operated out of Beijing.
They absolutely are. Just look at how the modern left is constructed. It's a nexus of corporate and government power. The bureaucracy? Thoroughly left wing. What is the definition of fascism? Mussolini invented it, and he described it as exactly that. The Democrats are the party of oligarchs, the administrative state, and the corporate enforcers.
It's more accurate to say that they have tendencies that, if left unchecked, could easily devolve into full-fledged Maoist tactics: cancel culture metastasizing into struggle sessions, etc.
Threatening Biden with the 25th to cede the nomination to Harris, no voters input, no real convention, just anoint her as Pres candidate, pick VP, and tell the nation that this is the new normal in a democracy and start campaigning the next day, while the voters haven't even blinked.
And when Maduro, I mean Harris wins in November there is No going back. We already live in a Maoist society.
Obama took the Chicago weaponization practices from Illinois and brought it onto the federal estate. Bush/Cheney never targeted their political enemies. Obama and the Chicago boys in his administration took Chicago/Illinois dirty trick to its new home in the national Democratic Party.
This is the continuation of Democrats adopting Stalinist tactics against their political opponents. If not,stopped soon, it will be the end for a free US and will not end well - think Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, etc.
I have been saying for a while that Biden's America is a cheap imitation of Putin's Russia. Our media are effectively regime media. They reliably put out the regime (and elite) narratives. First Biden was sharper than he has ever been and then he must drop out because he's senile and going to lose. MSNBC is little better than Pravda in the Soviet Union. And the Democrat party is adopting the Politburo model for political succession. No need for primary elections and all that democracy. a half dozen party bosses will make the choices because they know better than the people.
I'm thinking about what you said. I don't believe I'm on the list or my family wouldn't have waited 1 1/2 hours for our four duffel bags on our return from Tanzania. Wait one minute.......
The future that I've been warning about is getting closer every day. Today they flag you for extra security on airplanes, tomorrow they stop you from flying all together, and the next day they debank you for being a 'terrorist.'
If they can do it to 'famous' politicians who have the media presence to fight back, the little people like you and me are no problem.
What is in store for us if the Dems continue in the Presidency? Imagine the executive orders that are already being composed. First re-imagine the Supreme Court. Then, "fire at will." Social passports, restricted travel to save the planet, censorship, payback to people who stood in the way? Harris's choice for Veep tells us they are ready to launch. We are going to get our "democracy," hard.
Sad but true. We'll see the 'permification' of the censorship apparatus just like we have to deal with a permanent USA PATRIOT Act. They will pack the court if they have to, and then they'll use that power to do whatever the fuck they want - and lock you up if you complain.
Remember a wise President once said that you can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. Still seems to hold up
Page 403 looks like third paragraph... It's in the section called "Know our Democracy" right after America's Creed in the "You -American Citizen" section which starts on page 393. There are a lot of old fashioned ideas in there which like Mickel Knight asserted are out of date.
The Swamp, enabled by the Federal Reserve. Once the bankers and politicians can collude to print your wealth out from under you, that's exactly what will happen. When the money is fake, the rest of the economy is doomed to follow.
A Rasmussen poll in spring 2021 found 48% of Democrats thought the government should fine or imprison people who questioned the effectiveness of the Covid “vaccines”, 44% thought the unvaccinated should be locked in concentration camps, and 29% thought the unvaxxed should *have their children taken away from them*. They are straight up fascists.
Couldn’t agree more Coco!!!! The unvaccinated don’t deserve medical care, let them die!! I will never forget nor forgive. Obama is the president who began the division of citizens hating each other(their God and guns, learn to code), and this was picked up by Hillary’s basket of deplorables, culminating in Biden’s mandated vaccine for people not remotely vulnerable. Collins at NIH, Fauci at NIAID, the entirety of the CDC, Birx, and all the nefarious hiders of the truth will one day face either jail or God. Lunatics.
I already can't express myself on most places on the internet. Used to be, in the glory days of the internet, every website had a comment section and you could say whatever you wanted. Now almost no general interest websites allow comments; those that do (major social media) will ban you permanently for having opinions that 5-10 years ago were completely benign and mainstream. The only place you can really talk now is... well, here, and a handful of forums from 10-20 years ago, or a private discord server.
The level of alienation is off the charts. It's like they WANT people to be pissed off.
Yep. Any news article without a comment section is worthless, and you see fewer and fewer of them these days. That's one of the great things about Substack!
I trust that what you say is generally true, but the NY Times allows a wide range of comments. Most of mine are contrary to mainstream liberal viewpoints, and very few have not been published. It's not clear why some comments aren't published, but it doesn't seem to based on how "dissident" a comment is.
First they came for the Canadian freedom convoy truckers. A couple pled out guilty to minor charges after a couple of years in jail. NOW a a couple who rolled the dice in court were found not guilty by a jury. This is/was Canada. We kidnapped a Chinese executive for the empire at a cost of tens of billions in lost business and now Huawei is back, bigger and better than ever. Neoliberal extraction parasitic capitalism is on the way out. Industrial capitalism/socialism is taking it's rightfull place. China punishes corruption. The US and it's vassals rewards it.
Think back over the last, say, 20 years. Did you protest against the Iraq war? How about protesting at Occupy Wall Street? Were you a member of the Tea Party? A member of #TheResistance? Did you disagree with the government’s covid response? It’s nearly certain that everybody with a political pulse has crossed the government at one time or another. How comfortable are you with the idea that the person you’re protesting against can shut off your bank account?
Because now, it seems, those perfectly legal actions at least have the potential to come with harsh monetary consequences, as well as the ensuing chaos caused by financial ruin. And this is happening all without a single shred of oversight or due process. It’s just some asshole in an expensive suit giving a list of ‘subversives’ to another asshole in an expensive suit. The no-fly list but with the very real potential to ruin your life.
I have the impression that they do stuff like this to figures like Gabbard as a way of seeing what they can get away with, against whom, and for how long. So they can deny, retreat, and adjust their paradigm for the next big target; meanwhile they put 20 people on their “ssss” list that you HAVEN’t heard of but who they think merit being singled out for harassment.
What you describe is what they have in mind for the prominent types. For ordinary folks the solution for control is much more subtle and global. They want normies to be drugged (with recreational or psychotropic drugs) fat, brainwashed and generally fearful. They want the fear to grow to the point where it's more scary to rebel against that morass than to just remain in it. At that point they will have almost effortless complete control of your life.
Tulsi Gabbard is a military officer. If she was a security threat of any kind she would be removed from that position. This is obviously harassment and intimidation.
I got to thinking about this. If my suspicions are correct that this is meant as a warning to targets that step out of line, could it be that Matt just did the work for whomever is directing these operations? Not blaming Matt, of course, and maybe going down a rabbit hole but it is an interesting thought.
They are busy both harassing and subverting (coopting) the military. When the shit hits the fan, our left-elite wants compliant, captive troops willing to take their orders and shoot into the crowd.
Democrats don't want to govern. They want to rule.
The past decade of hysterical ululations about the incipient rise of MAGA fascism has been a smokescreen, a way for #Resistance smegma to incite a moral panic. Lionel Shriver has written an entire book about how such moral panics are always in fashion during authoritarian times. When the public is effectively terrified, they’ll acquiesce to all sorts of previously unthinkable changes, like wide-scale censorship or sweeping new domestic surveillance programs.
Even if this story is "covered" by the mainstream media, it will be done in such a way as to justify this shit by feigning concern over Muh Russia™ or whatever.
"Democrats don't want to govern. They want to rule."
I have been saying this since Barack Obama's election. A ruling elite is and always has been the progressives' goal - for roughly a century, now, and was core to the "fundamental transformation" of the United States of America.
When people I knew were astonished at the media going berserker on Trump, I told them it was only to be expected, after they spent over 8 years performing the journalistic equivalent of anilingus on Obama's lovely brown derriere.
Unfortunately, as Walter Kirn noted so astutely, many Americans have grown so mentally lazy they don't want the responsibility of self-governance, which, if unchecked, will lead to the destruction of the once-great nation whose Revolutionary battlefields were watered by the blood running in my own veins.
We know John Adams won't qualify for such a list, nor Abraham Lincoln; perhaps Dwight Eisenhower would? I think Calvin Coolidge might, also. Certainly not Herbert Hoover.
I'd have to do more research - much more than my time would comfortably accommodate, to be even reasonably certain of my own opinion on this.
But it's a very good question. Washington was something very special.
I live in the section of Maine which provides one electroral vote to the Republican candidate every 4 years. We cover most of the land, but not as large a percentage of the population.
But we don't make a difference in red states - we maybe can, a little, in bluer or purply ones.
They are now and will continue but a great thing about red states is they typically have red governors and legislators that protect the taxpayers from the overreaching grasp of the left. If you live somewhere where the Left is aggressive, look around.
I'm quite certain she smiled nicely and kindly at the judge who ordered her to turn over the DNA evidence which freed an innocent man on death row, which evidence Harris had fought tooth and nail to withhold.
She must have positively beamed at the 1,500 citizens she jailed for marijuana "infractions," and upon those poor parents who, unable to afford the hefty fines, were jailed for their childrens' truancy.
Uh, just because you have a driver's license . . . Polling places aren't like McDonald's. You are supposed to vote where you reside. And, no voting more than one time.
Since I have never cast a provisional ballot, I don't know if or how different jurisdictions explain where they go. Seems fair to ask if it was counted or not. And, why.
But one way to take out the uncertainty is to take it seriously.
"Democrats don't want to govern. They want to rule." This is really it. "Democracy" is essentially mob rule and they're the mob. They want us to think they're preserving our founding principles, but they're protecting absolutely nothing but their own power.
Stokes is scapegoating Jews. This sort of shithead has been with us for centuries and always pipes up in times of national crisis. Who killed Jesus? The Jews. Who runs the "military-industrial complex"? Jews. Who shot Kennedy? Zionists. Who got Nixon to leave office? Zionists, secretly aided by Kissinger. Who released the coof virus? Ditto. It never ends.
Given our military alliance with Israel, it's easy to see why someone would leap to the conclusion that the current regime is a cabal of "Zionists."
But it's too easy. Life, and especially politics, is not that black-and-white, so your vaporings smell like the flatulence of a pathological Jew-hater.
Bull Hubbard is a literary reference. I like to remain nearly completely anonymous in online forums, and it's none of your business why.
I suggest you go visit Kotaku in Action 2 the Official Gamergate Forum. Lots of Jew-haters there. You'd have a good time prating on about the evil Jew and "Zionism" and all that rot. Get a lot of upvotes.
these programs were actually created during the bush administration, fyi - the programs themselves or their precursors. There are people with the dreaded "SSSS" experiences that go back decades, to the mid 2000's.
I'm getting really sick and tired of people one-sidezing everything, even shit where it's obviously a bipartisan thing.
I think most people know that the Patriot Act was created by the Bush administration after 9/11. At least most people on this board. And I'm sure it was abused then as well, but Tulsi Gabbard?!!! Real Clear Politics has Matt's piece on their site today, that will give it a lot more eyes. And hopefully embarass the HELL out of this administration (as if that's even possible).
I bet you're talking about Lionel Shriver's book Mania. I picked it up at random from the library and devoured it. Now I'm devouring everything of Shriver's I can find. Mania—highly recommended.
After the 2016 Peasants' Rebellions (Trump and Brexit) our ownership class and its political and media arms declared war and congealed to form a single cohesive unit dedicated to 1) regaining social and political control; and 2) making sure their power/control could never be threatened again.
In every sphere of society an implicit threat has gone out, backed by intense social policing: you're either with us or you're a far-right bigoted Deplorable, and if you want to maintain your career, your status and lifestyle, and your chances of ascending the managerial ladder, your every thought and deed needs to blindly support the Regime and its narratives.
The MSM etc have en masse become Narrative Enforcement agents because their careers, status and social lives demand it. They are now the Pravda for our postnational post-democratic Soviet America.
Please don't forget the "Bernie Bro Thug" category. A significant subset on this thread equate collective social action as an expression of totalitarianism.
You're completely correct about the transnational nature of this conflict - on this point Trump is also completely correct - the ownership class isn't coming for him, they're coming for us.
I don't want to be Tulsi Gabbard. I'd volunteer to take her place on the no-fly list if it saved me from being Tulsi Gabbard. You can be Tulsi Gabbard, but I'm taking a hard pass.
"In every sphere of society an implicit threat has gone out, backed by intense social policing: you're either with us or you're a far-right bigoted Deplorable..."
At last, a generalizable explanation for why all my friends have decided that is what I am!
Smith-Mundt. Once it was legal for the government to serve us propaganda on the news, getting served government propaganda on the news was a certainty.
Yes, the "modernization" of the law against domestic propaganda (now handled as Official Narratives from the State Dept (CIA) to be spewed forth by State Media (which replaced legacy MSM). Additionally the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016, which enabled Russiagate.
Tulsi Gabbard served her country in the military (is that even allowed? I have seen at least one Congressman who wears an IDF uniform, and "ex"-spooks have heavily infiltrated Congress). Hillary labeled Gabbard a "Putin Puppet" "Russian Asset", probably the reason for surveillance. The Clintons received $500,000 (not the Clinton Foundation) and personal thanks from Putin in 2010 when Hillary was Secretary of State, and Bill traipsed the globe (at a Moscow bank for Putin) giving $300,000 to $700,000 "speeches" to those wanting favors.
But look at the bright side! Biden created many new jobs, most were probably in the TSA surveilling people and probably explains why so many people are bumped from flights. Biden (like Netanyahu) wants his domestic enemies as provoked/ miserable as possible. To Biden, harassment of political opponents comes naturally.
Vance crashed into Harris' media this afternoon in Wisconsin. He asked the media, "have they given you guys explanations of why she won't take questions from reporters? The tell was not one of the reporters said a word. They didn't know if they should answer, ask a re-directing question, nothing, just crickets. Finally one intrepid "reporter" spoke up asking Vance, " what would you like to hear from her?" Vance went on to say how about what she want's to do, why her positions have changed, etc. At least the reporter asked a question, but I would have had tons of questions for Vance. They probably didn't want to give him air time. The cabal is going to do everything it can keep Kamala from putting herself in a bad light.
Aren't you (and Vance) cute, thinking the role of reporters is to probe and challenge our establishment leaders, instead of parroting whatever narrative has been provided for the day.
Someone needs to relay Big Brother's wisdom to the peasants while making big bucks selling out their country - I suspect that's where the big names in "journalism" have gone.
Exactly! Where is the outrage? At the intrusion for nothing, for the obvious waste of money? For the horrible look? This should be an easy one, why is nobody but Matt touching it?!?
It doesn't exist except for a few like Matt and his readers. The rest of the population is too distracted. In addition to the normal distractions of life, (earning a living, feeding the family, taking care of children, etc.) there are a jillion other distractions to keep people from worrying about important stuff like war, public debt, encroaching security state and the like. And it's not accidental.
Karl Marx once said "Religion is the opiate of the masses". At the time, he was right. Today, however, the opiate of the masses is the media which is corporate owned and controlled to entertain rather than inform.
So we are living in a world in which the vast majority of Americans are deprived of actual news and information while being entertained with every known form of amusement. So it's no wonder there is no outrage except for a few voices crying out in an otherwise empty space. What one wonders (and should worry about) is how long those few voices like Matt's will be permitted to cry out.
MSM and some alt media are part of this program. They try to minimize reporting on real stories of TSDB, TSA, FBI and FISA abuse, Fusion Centers, Infragard, Neighborhood Watch and other abuse agencies in National Security State. They will do their planned leaks from anonymous sources which are only useful to cover-up real stories of real people suffering at the hands of govt.
Remember the old copy paper where you had to press really hard so that the pressure made a bunch of copies?
They just have whoever their contact is at the State Dept to write exactly what they say and that's their job. That's what journalists are now, at least the ones working for the 'respectable' outlets. LOL, I couldn't type that without laughing..
Meta-news? Yes, you're right, of course, but do we really want to get into meta-news? That only leads to meta-meta-news. Then more metas mixed in. And some fakes. Madness!
Who are the Democrats on this site who are going to defend this atrocity? You know, the great defenders of "democracy" and "freedom," speak up now and tell us how this is in any way just or constitutional... speak now, or reveal yourselves to be the cowards that you are.
Please don’t throw your vote away Kathleen. Please. There is no I who can win even 3%. I don’t care if you can’t stand him, we have to elect Trump. All of the things we’re all railing against—-the totalitarian government, the lapdog media, the power grabs, the election cheating, the attempt to make all of it permanent by packing the SC—-only one politician can do this. If they hate him enough to do everything that they’ve done (at least 20 horrifically un-American fascist actions), surely you see it’s not just hate but FEAR. They fear him bc he represents their loss of power and control. Nothing could be more clear. We cannot survive another 4 years of this with Dems & Independents not seeing the truth. Hold your nose and do it for your country. Trump didn’t do one thing they said he did—-it was the largest con of all time & Dems like my sister still believe it all. The cognitive dissonance of “seeing” would destroy their worldview and that’s an upside down feeling. I’m confident that Trump will have a good admiration staffed with people who want to right the ship. And the blob won’t get away with it this time bc they can fire all CIA FBI SS leaders. They can’t get rid of every snake, but if the chief snakes (Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Pelosi, Obama) are fangless, maybe Congress will actually pass laws making our dystopian society illegal. Please consider it
This is precisely the case. Trump haters need to hold their noses and vote for him. The alternative is a nightmare, lots more of the same and then some because they will tell themselves, "The American people approve of what we're doing--they voted for us!"
Well it sure as hell doesn't change if you just whine.
We got Taibbi and Shellenberger in Congress about censorship because the lowly Rs with their barely there majority convened The Weaponization Commitee.
The odds appear overwhelming because the media is suck-ass. That is not the fault of the Republican Party. The overblown bureaucracy is not the fault of the Repubs. Come on, man!
I am all in on the only hope I have left. As a former Dem. As a former elected Dem office-holder. Rs all the way now, not because I want to, but because I do not recognize my party anymore. The Dems don't represent America anymore.
As insane as it sounds, the best thing might be electing Trump with a large enough (R) majority in Congress. He might not have a good vision for the nation, but he would have a chance of displacing the Uniparty.
It’s not insane. It’s literally the only hope we have. Trump is a moderate. Block out the losers. Think if the media actually did their job and were laughing at the stupidity of our current administration and asked hard questions. What s different place we’d be. But they have the govt matrix hose in their brains
Science, please specify what, exactly, is wrong with Trump's "vision" for the country? Because Bring home the troops, Bring home the jobs, Secure the border sounds pretty good to me..
I agree …. and stop printing money, energy independence, cut regulations for small businesses, no tax on SS or tips. Pay down the debt by selling energy. We have more than any other country.
Trump's bombastic racism made the left and the liberals furious. Attention was paid to children in cages, rapes in immigration centers, the inhumane treatment of refugees by the border control.
Biden's quiet racism, and the fact that he's a democrat and therefore beyond critique allowed him to continue Trump's racist border policies and no one paid attention.
Which is worse? Bush or Obama? Bush did obscene war crimes. He lied to the American people. He passed the Patriot act. He tortured people. Eventually, the American people turned on him, especially after Abu Graib. They marched. They turned on that unholy godforsaken war.
Obama did not revoke the Patriot Act. In fact, he gave it teeth. He didn't close Gitmo. He didn't close our black sites. What he did do is take Bush's imperial powers and double down - having weekly meetings about his extrajudicial kill lists which was expanded to do away with habeas corpus and kill Americans abroad. Liberals lunched, because Gosh - he was SO GOOD LOOKING.
What about Reagan V. Clinton. Reagan went on a spree of deregulation, however, he was opposed. He couldn't get it done. Clinton managed to finally kill off those pesky unions, destroy glass-steagel, gut media regulations. Liberals cheered as he passed Nafta! (In his defense, his dirty wars weren't quite so egregious as Reagans.)
Now, let's look at Harris V. Trump. Tell me which is better? They BOTH support genocide. They both want war (one with Russia, the other with China - both fucking insane.) If Harris wins - America will continue to support Israel down to the last dead Palestinian. Liberals will continue to worry about the hurt feelings of Jewish people (ignoring that Jewish people are at the head of the pro-palestinian campus movements.) Police will continue to set-upon students. But - Liberals won't lift a finger because to criticize her would be both racist and sexist.
Say, instead, we elect that openly fascist pig. What happens then? Well, HE sends out cops, liberals will throw a fit and start taking free speech and the consitution seriously again, for one thing. People will be OUTRAGED that he's backing a genocide on behalf of AIPAC and will show up in droves to express that outrage.
Now, I suppose if you are happy with the way things are going, Harris is 'better' for you.
As far as I am concerned - who is better and who is worse is an impossible choice to make. They both back a genocide. And that makes them both equally evil.
Exactly. Applaud Tiabbi for exposing this, hope Gabbard moves forward to bring it into open. But democracy is difficult, always and power corrupts, frequently.
Lesser of two evils voting is what got us where we are, so if there are 3rd parties that appeal to you, especially on a more local level, try to talk the D- and R-diots in your life into going a different way.
No, vote for the lesser evil of the two leading candidates, as your conscience will allow. Voting for a third party candidate that has no realistic chance of winning is a vote that only aids the incumbent.
What tripe. We're voting for someone to do a job. Pick the person best equipped for the job. This partisan bs is how we got here. The lesser of 2 evils.... what a bunch of gaslighting nonsense. That stupidity is how we got here.
Realize, many (most) Democrats HATE the Constitution. They HATE the Bill of Rights. They especially HATE the First and Second Amendments. They have been saying it out loud for quite some time now. "Free speech ties the governments hands!". "Hate speech is a crime and it must be banned!". "We have to stop crime before it happens!?". "We must stop and punish those who MIGHT commit a crime (any crime)!!". Etc. Etc. worse than FASCISTS!!
Maybe they weren't sensible to begin with but there still seems to be a large majority of the voting public who couldn't or wouldn't vote for R or for trump. I see the polls they produce and I can't believe that so many people would vote for Harris and now Walz. They are extremely left. Socialism is just another person's neighborlyness.. Wow..
Yeah, I almost wrote "for what the polls are worth." You're just affirming what I think, that all of the common folk can't be this blind/dumb/crazy. I hope we are right.
Yeah, Socialism is just neighborly ness. Hey neighbor! What is mine is mine. What is yours is ... mine! You don't actually expect me to work, do you? Work is for suckers. No one needs to work. We can just print more money and give it out. It's FREE!!! EVERYTHING IS FREE!! Electricity is FREE! It comes from the socket in the wall.
Food is FREE!! It comes from the ground!! Water is FREE!! It comes from the faucet. If everyone got free money it would help the economy grow because people would have more money to buy FREE stuff!! (Yes, I got a degree in economics from an Ivy League school. And a second degree in gender studies. Why do you ask?)
A very large number of people go about their lives essentially clueless about what is going on. Many of those who think they are "informed" get all of their "information" from the MSM and the large tech companies
/social platforms directly or indirectly. They don't even realize how much of it is propaganda and garbage. They refuse to read or listen to anything else.
Gabbard is a good example. So is RFK Jr. tho I think he'd be conciliatory if they'd accepted him and not driven him out. His pedigree made him a DP apologist until he got the shaft.
If they were paying this much attention, they couldn't vote Democrat. The DNC is relying entirely on party apparatchiks and low-information voters that can be fooled by goofy GenZ'ers dancing to coconut song remixes of Harris' speeches.
Their loyalty is to a sense of obedience and comfort in 'knowing' they're the good guys. You have to tip your hat to the bamboozle. It's extraordinarily effective on a lot of people.
I suspect they, like me, lay low due to the response they’d get here, even if they don’t defend it but identify as left of center. See Mr Stone’s comments below. I find this type of surveillance activity disgusting, illegal, discouraging, but being in my 7th decade, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s a big country with plenty of bad actors and/or decisions on both sides. I would never defend this or the 2017 tax bill or Citizens United or current US actions in Gaza/Israel conflict…I’ve got a long list. But I’m still solidly left of center altho I identify as I these days. I’m looking forward to Gabbard ‘s next steps re this.
I'm a senior and a leftist. People call me a "hard leftist" now when I think I was a mild leftist if not an outright moderate in the 1970s. I recall the Reagan 80s as being harshly right wing, when I think St. Ronnie himself would be considered a leftist today.
I also support Gabbard even though she doesn't represent my view of the world in a lot of aspects. She seems honest and that's possibly the greatest treasure of all.
Hate to tell you Ann--the 2020 election was rigged... the laptop lie/coverup was only the start... don't ne afraid to learn something new and change your position. A realize that a system that will surveil Tulsi would not hesitate to rig an election.
When you consider the scale of “rigging” a national election, fraud involving so many votes, recalls, involving all levels of government, including local, and all those eyes and ears, and courts, judges, ….
When you provide examples of fraud at the level it would take to throw the election….I’m happy to “learn”. 🙄
The scale required to throw a national election is not that big.
Are you aware the outcome of the 2020 election hinged on just a few 10,000s of votes in key swing states?
Perhaps the Presidential election is the one remaining institution in American politics that has not been deeply corrupted. I don't know.
But let's not exaggerate the scale of fraud required to swing the outcome. It could be accomplished by compromising a few strategically chosen polling stations in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Phoenix.
Don't you think it's weird that there were nursing homes in Wisconsin where the voter participation rate was 100%? Biden won Wisconsin by 20k votes.
I don't think the election was stolen. But to play devil's advocate, are we to truly believe that the secret service, FBI, CIA, CDC, FDA, FAA and most other government agencies are run like a dysfunctional whore house, but our elections are run like a Swiss watch? Hard to believe that is true either.
51 intel guys lie on Biden's behalf right before the election, and you are still convinced that the whole thing wasn't rigged? I suppose the laptop lie was just a one-off, right?
One of the commenters during Matt and Walter's podcast on Monday suggested that should Trump win, he should appoint Tulsi head of the TSA, with the mission to dismantle it, and then salt the earth it once occupied. Credit to the writer, I'm only paraphrasing!
The next time Trump wants to take control of the day's news cycle he should release that Tulsi is being considered for Secretary of Defense because he wants no new wars, no DEI, an audit, trimming of the bloated general ranks, and a military readiness review in his second term.
It would be a sensible move and I'd like to believe that it's possible, but I can't see any former political rival getting into a Trump admin. His ego is too colossal.
When did Trump stroke Graham? I missed that. It's nauseating. I haven't heard Vance's anti-Trump statements, either . . . I don't doubt you, but have you a link?
I get the impression that Trump will shit on those who somehow contradict him or wound his ego and then will turn around and praise them once they reverse themselves or agree with anything he says.
I'd just like to make clear that I'm OK with this and fully support him for Prez, MAGA all the way. Despite his faults, he's at least an "America First" populist (if we can take his "Agenda 57" seriously) and the clear choice against the absolute shit show of the DP, which has made no platform statements as far as I know. The choice couldn't be clearer . . . but I digress and am getting garrulous.
Yes, that's the case. By putting innocent people on TSDB they can strip them of their Constitutional rights and follow and electronically surveil them for life. She is very lucky they blew the whistle. Even if it will be hard to go through the process of fighting back, it's better than succumbing unknowingly to a life of unwarranted surveillance.
Hear, hear re: the whistleblowers. I'm so grateful to these whistleblowers, and to the attorneys who are actively pushing back against organizational efforts to find and punish them. Much as I abhor the broader story and the context(s) that birthed it, I am grateful for the courage also here displayed.
Spot on. The would-be intimidators being serially and collectively cowardly, they can't fathom how such signaling is interpreted--as call to action, lest even worse come to pass!--by those with even an iota of courage.
It depends on how dangerous they consider her to be to their continued hold on power. It's not clear if Julian Assange has survived mentally, though he's still alive.
It may have been fortunate for Edward Snowden in the end that the U.S. government trapped him in Russia, making him hard for them to get at.
They accuse us of the very thing they do. When I think of the Twitter Files I still get cold chills down my spine. My liberal friends who would have not approved in earlier days now just shrug it off. When the liberals start censoring and spying on their opponents we are in big trouble.
Masters of projection. Profoundly since 2015. Twitter Files had them praying it could be buried. And when it couldn’t, they just papered over it like it never happened. The only thing that gives me hope is that I think the Dem leaders/ Intel/Deep State haven’t entirely adjusted to an open Twitter/X. They hate Elon for sure but every dumbass post is laughed at openly.
The real fascists are running our 3 letter agencies. The security state & permanent unelected government bureaucrats are dismantling what's left of our constitutional rights in record time. Load up on water and ammo folks.
What do you think would happen if those positions were elected offices? It would just push the "real" positions of power, the non-appointed, non-elected bureaucrats who keep things running . . . down one layer.
If you get rid of all the hired gov't workers, that means everything from teachers to cops to firefighters and more. I don't want to have to elect my garbage truck crew every X many years. Or the folks who keep my drinking water potable.
Unfucking believable. No one loves her country more than Tulsi. THAT is the very reason why she fights so hard for us. She loves the U.S. and dearly wants us to be better than we are.
“It all comes under the heading of the Department of Pre-Crime,”
The Orwellian genius of "pre-crime" and "prevention" programs is that they don't have to show any evidence or metric of success -- they can simply say they *prevented* crimes, an assertion that cannot be proven.
Biden and Harris have been railing about the threat to democracy from the Republican side -- even as they engage in autocratic, censoring, anti-free speech behaviors and policies. The Democratic Party is fast transforming into a party of autocracy and authoritarianism.
More importantly the assertion can't be disproven. Even if there was no crime, it would be very difficult to prove it was because of those "prevention" programs and not other things
This crap was happening when Emperor Hirohi.... err, Obama, was going after James Rosen, who was guilty of working for Fox News and committed journalism.
If you vote for a Democrat, this is what you're voting for. It's been this way for some time. It's getting worse.
Obama (and Holder, etc.) took the surveillance apparatus created by Bush and Cheney via the Patriot Act and re-trained it on their domestic political opposition. The Democrats are straight up fascists at this point — colluding with private corporations to suppress political dissent; attempting to bankrupt, imprison and (I strongly suspect) assassinate the leading candidate of the opposing party; unconstitutionally holding political protesters in jail without trial for years on end; and on and on.
The Bushes and Obamas are besties now. Neocons have joined the DNC and claim they are the “resistance” against fascist Putin puppets like Tulsi and Trump. A marriage made in hell.
That wedding you speak of…Maybe the disgusting scene from the Olympics opening was a metaphor for the wedding feast at Satan’s table. Darn, now it makes sense.
The Racket News comment section is a metaphor for the wedding feast at Satan’s table.
These days, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a metaphor for the wedding feast at Satan’s table.
Does Substack have a way for us to block comments from trolls?
I suppose swinging a dead cat around in the air is better than using it as a fuck doll, you know, like you would.
Elisabeth. Obviously you have absolutely NO understanding of History or art.
This was a tableaux by a Dutch artist. Nothing to do with the Last Supper. You read the MSM.
Right?
Jeez - I wish I had a nickel for each of the times my friends told me that, after I complained about the Opening Ceremonies.
I had the distinct pleasure of telling them, "Oh yeah? I took French in Junior High School - two whole years - and even I know that "Cene" is French for The Last Supper, and that the title of the piece was "La Cene dans un Scene sur la Seine" - "The Last Supper on a Stage on the Seine".
Dopes.
I typed the sentence into the Translate app on my iPhone and it gave in English what you wrote. I wonder though if the next iOS update will give something else.
^^^ Tres bien!
Agree. And you are responding to someone I gave up responding to because just not worth the effort.
"Cene" is not French for The Last Supper. It's French urban slang for NASCAR. The whole thing was a subversive, backdoor plug for NASCAR. Talk to Steve Bannon about it. He'll set you straight on the matter.
Backdoor plug indeed.
Steve Bannon 😔 I miss him so much.
Don’t be ridiculous. Dinner with the Greek Gods LOL. Then I suppose they didn’t need to issue an apology for offending Christians.
What struck me as odd is anybody feeling they had to apologize to Christians for offending them.
I actually look forward to Islamic rule. They won't accept abuse like the Christians do.
Folks like you will be among the first shoved from rooftops.
That's either pretty good sarcasm or pretty poor gaslighting.
the Dutch artist had been riffing on Leonardo's Last Supper, so it was a riff on a riff- thus yes it does track back to the last supper!!
NO it does not!
Barbara Butch who wore the silver halo headress
"posted a screenshot image of her performance in the Last Supper parody above an image of Da Vinci’s original painting to her Instagram account with the comment, “Oh yes! Oh yes! The new gay testament!”
Since deleted from instagram but still swimming around on X.
All about the last supper. Put it on your website.
Explaining reality to Christians will make the comments here extra frothy!
Isaac Newton laid the foundations of the modern understanding of physical reality in terms of universal mathematical laws. He was also a devout Christian. Before him, Johannes Kepler discovered basic mathematical laws of planetary motion. He was also Christian, and viewed his discovery as seeing into the mind of God.
The mathematician Georg Cantor related his theory of transfinite numbers to his concept of a transcendent being.
The logician Kurt Gödel, who famously used logical reasoning to demonstrate the limits of logical reasoning, was a theist.
Yet, despite these and many other examples, you and others like you believe that Christianity, or religion in general, is somehow incompatible with rationality and a scientific understanding of the physical world. It's a viewpoint that's remarkably superficial, and unscientific to boot, given how much historical evidence it ignores.
The huge percentage of Scots that kicked off the industrial revolution were educated (for free) by a system that believed learning about how the world worked was essential to learning how God worked. Because He created the heavens and the earth, it was man's duty to study them.
It was a core goal of the church to enable the capable, regardless of class, to learn as much as possible about God's works, without impediment. This core belief became the reason for free higher education in Scotland, with woe unto any politician or even king who stood in the way!
Well said.
I believe a Powerpoint presentation featuring the 9 Circles of Hell and the accommodations offered would be most frothy and more appropriate.
You live there so you should have a pretty good explanation.
Poe’s Law strikes again!
hahahahahaha
The Bushes started all of this crap. All of these creeps are besties. They accept each other’s perversions & keep them under wraps.
You need to look into Chicago style politics, aka The Chicago Way. Your Bush hate is irrationally applied to the tactics on Chicago and Illinois.
Another version of the whole trend we’ve seen the last few years was that it was a potential Bin Laden saw as needing something to trigger it. Then he acted on it, by planning and executing 9/11.
Cool story bro. Bin Laden was a tool for the Anglo-American spook network, along with his family. By the time 9/11 occurred he was dying from diabetes complications. Multiple reputable sources corroborate that he died in 2001.
Clinton/Gore would like a word.
Bush used it for 9/11 terrorists in the new world that was created on September 11. Now it’s being expanded by the left to attack their opponents. It’s like creating an oven to bake a cake and using it for evil. Don’t always blame the creator
LTJG Kaffee: Colonel Jessep! (Obama, Harrison, Moore, Austin, Blinken, Harris…) Did you order the Code Red?! Did you order the Code Red?! Answer the question, DNC/Biden Administration. Answer the question.
Marriage made in hell. That's bound to provoke China pattern jokes!
🎯
I do still blame Cheney, but nobody seems to understand what Obama's Chicago crew did to this nation.
Lots of us understand. I’m just hoping everyone else sees it. America can’t move on until the normies understand. It’s taken years to get this way. It will take less time to expose since the honest liberal journalists like Matt, Walter, Michael Shellenberger, Lee Fang + others are discussing it.
I hope they’ll be able to hold up after receiving the same treatment as Tulsi. Matt has endured it so far.
Let’s just pray Substack doesn’t go the way of the msm.
Not true. I understand.
All of us here in the land of The Chicago Way understand.
Apparently there are detention centers in Chicago where people get disappeared
Use the sarcasm font.
How's that Obama library doing?
Some of them understand just fine...they are ok with it.
No just OK, but eager--demanding--more!
He probably cooked this up with Emmanuel over at Man's Country between sessions.
I understand cuz I lived there and saw his mafia convince a judge to open the sealed divorce document of Jack Ryan and his ex, Jeri, to expose him and then win the state senate seat which directly led to his presidency. He had little to no senate term before being catapulted. Only the dem political mafia can make that happen.
This is a story that totally reflects The Chicago Way. That never got any play. Just like the national media now.
Of course, we people with a little memory (and values) will be gone soon.
Jack Ryan's sister was a client, so while it made local news, as you say it wasn't widely reported. BO was knighted by the Axelrod mafia and now BO is the king maker. Ryan was an investment banker and retired early to voluntarily teach at a Catholic high school in Chicago before deciding to jump into politics in '04.
The reason the custody/divorce documents were sealed was because of allegations (of a sexual nature) made by Jeri and in order to protect their autistic son, Jack requested they be sealed. They were until Obama's mafia came along and somehow convinced a judge that was necessary in a political campaign. Obama is a POS.
Thank you for this post. I only vaguely remembered the reporting at the time, which of course was not framed to do anything but make Ryan look guilty of something. No reporting on why the docs were sealed and then, unsealed.
Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, and --- Lawfare. People need to understand The Chicago Way. But it is probably too late.
But the modern Democratic party loves Cheney! Liz is their staunch defender -- all the Never-Trumpers and the great "left" neocon crew, including our Nobel Prize winning clearly captured President who promised not to do regime change. They hate Tulsi and they hate Trump precisely because they didn't want endless war, and the powers that be clearly do as evidenced by the chaos engulfing our world.
The Chicago Way went Federal via Obama and his Chicago outfit. Bush/Cheney would never pull the crap the politicians in Illinois have been doing for decades!
The Chicago model of patronage hires as useful (and convenient) idiots is likely the plan for Washington. Same old crap. Can you say pension debt? I recall walking into any City "service" location and receiving a belligerent assault from the army of government "help". Deflection and misdirection were the primary weapons. Someone mentioned Rahm here. Even he couldn't get anything done. Sad truth is it doesn't matter who is mayor: the government does not run the city.
They completely crumpled up and folded into the DNC machine?
Once upon a time Obama politicked like a leftist, before he ever ran for Senate. It's been a slow motion slide to the right ever since.
Authoritarianism isn’t left OR right. It’s just the will to power.
True enough. There have been authoritarian Nazi's on the right and authoritarian Soviets on the left. Today the Democrats are the clear and present danger. Their sky marshals and attack dogs are the iconography of the modern totalitarian American left and its censorship state.
Nazi’s were Socialists, leftists. Translate the acronym into English. NAZI’s were the National Socialist Worker’s Party of Germany. Socialism. Leftist.
Oh, we got one of these on the thread.
Your description of the acronym is of course, correct, but at that time any German officer would have recoiled at the suggestion that they were anywhere close to being communists, whom they hated. "Socialist" may have been in the party's name, but they didn't think that they were on the "left" (i.e. closer to commnists than to the right side of the political spectrum) as that description is understood today.
Let’s not get into semantics. Technically they were Fascists.
I think sky marshalls paired with attack dogs is a pretty cool concept
either way a great number of people are OK with it ifn their side wins
Same as it ever was.
I agree but i grew up in the 70's and labored for a long time under the delusion that liberals were, as they said, different.
Even when I disagreed, i did not doubt their good intentions.
generally speaking.
Exactly. Sorry most of the authoritarianism I see is from the left. Biden Administration open censorship of Americans in collusion with tech. Vaccine and mask mandates. Closed schools and businesses. For example.
Agreed. It’s weird how in the USA it’s flipped in half a century. Of course Communism was always authoritarian, yet the American right was also pretty authoritarian throughout the 20th century. It’s bizarro world.
Slow motion slide to Whatever It Takes. Which on the day he announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, Illinois, reporting claimed that at the last minute they stuffed the Rev. Jeremiah Wright somewhere. He was there, then he was not, according to reporting at the time. Obama was for gay marriage, AFTER he was re-elected. Hot mic to Russian president, he will have "more flexibility after the election . . ." Obama never slid to the right. He never left Obamaland.
Kammy and Walz are his ultimate achievement. If the harvest goes well, maybe we won't even have to wait till mid-November to know who is our next President. (They can count mail-in ballots up to two weeks after the election here in Illinois, I think.)
Major narcissist with dark triad personality traits. He didn’t do it all alone, but I blame him for the complete corruption of every important national agency. He coerced and threatened and lured until he had a team of cheaters and smearers and liars surrounding while he drove the country into the totalitarian dictatorship it is today. We’re in his 3rd term and he’ll cheat in any way possible to have a 4th. My dearest wish is not that he’s prosecuted and jailed (as he deserves), but that he is rendered absolutely irrelevant —only this can deflate the Everest size ego. And may the Chicago machine die with him.
Well said.
Sounds like the two of you once had a very bad date.
Haha, nope, but I hate him on that level 🤣
Obama started out as a guy who promised No Regime Change Wars and wound up green-lighting hiring a Free Syrian Army to overthrow Assad (which only found AQ and ISIS guys to hire)
Obama campaigned on going after Wall Street and the excesses that caused the 2008 securities frauds. Then he hired every one of Jamie Dimon's cabinet picks.
Obama was NEVER a Leftist.
Neo liberal thru and thru.
Like Clintons.
Right wing. as opposed the others who are far right.
Gabbard needs to keep speaking out.
https://principlesvstribes.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-brings-it-home
She’s probably a bit frightened. I would be. She’s one of our veterans for God’s sake! We just had an attempted assassination of Trump and still don’t know what the hell went on.
We don’t know a lot of things.
Who 86’d Biden?
Who “voted” for and nominated Kamala?
Whose head will role for the botched attempt to kill Trump?
Who is running the country?
Obama & Pelosi. No one will pay bc DC is captured.
Way deeper than that my friend. Waayyy deeper
Oh I agree by 10 levels deep and wide! But they’re the directors and charge the other nefarious actors.
So true!
According Seymour Hersh's July 27, 2024 piece on Substack ("Leaving Las Vegas"), an unnamed senior official in Washington told him:
“On Sunday morning [July 21], with the approval of Pelosi and Schumer, Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.'”
Hersh tends to have good sources. He uncovered the Mai Lai massacre in the U.S. war in Vietnam and the torture system at Abu Ghraib prison.
Yes I seem to remember that. Fuzzy memory due to advanced age.
Speaking of Calley who took the fall for the massacre, he just died recently. Right here in Columbus, GA.
Sounds like you're experiencing conspiracy theory block.
Yeah, the sad truth is she really doesn't have much leverage. The machine will keep grinding her down no matter what she does. This is WHY people usually bend the knee. Do you see any accountability for this stuff, ever? Nope. So why would you, as someone who is a victim of it, expect it to ever stop?
I've been on a long slow slide towards it since the early 2000s, but I'm at the point reading things like this article in disgust where I feel like a stranger in my own country, and consider the government that is supposed to represent me to be a hostile, foreign power.
The main point of the Constitution is that citizens should view the government as an at least potentially hostile power.
Sadly, it turns out the country I thought I lived in, is not the country I actually live in, at all.
Not sure about the Dems as a whole being fascist but there is no doubt that Obama, Holder and their ilk like Harris and Walz are Maoist.
They are being led by totalitarians and their true believers cannot see past it. They see Kamala and Walz as their new Mom and Dad. Probably won't like it when they get the spanking at 2am by the local police.
It depends on who's doing the spanking.
It doesn't mean "every person identifying as a Dem voter." A lot of them still think Democrats support the strong American union jobs that Clinton NAFTA'd away.
It's the Dem machine, both federal and state level.
That is what I meant by "as a whole". Many voters have had 60 years of socialist indoctrination and only about a quarter of them are die hard extremist. The Dem machine is actually working for the CCP. It has been for decades and so are the GOP helpers in Congress who still think it is only about the NWO. They don't understand the NWO will be operated out of Beijing.
Socialists, Fascists, Communists, and Nazi’s are ALL exactly the same people.
Native socialism
I was autocorrected or typo
National socialism in Germany
The Maoist are back by all the banksters making them the most lethal.
They absolutely are. Just look at how the modern left is constructed. It's a nexus of corporate and government power. The bureaucracy? Thoroughly left wing. What is the definition of fascism? Mussolini invented it, and he described it as exactly that. The Democrats are the party of oligarchs, the administrative state, and the corporate enforcers.
MAOISTS!!!!!!
You must be so dim.
You are now owned and run by Zionists.
🤨🤦♂️😂 You inhabit a Manachaean fantasy. THE JOOZ! 🙄Get help.
Jenny is a one-note wonder. Every comment in the same lane. Not nasty like Comprof but similar.
One note wonder chiming in from France of all places!
She’s French?? Or in France?
Scroll over her name. She isn't French but lives there. She's also not American.
Lighten up, Francis.
It's more accurate to say that they have tendencies that, if left unchecked, could easily devolve into full-fledged Maoist tactics: cancel culture metastasizing into struggle sessions, etc.
Tendencies? I think not, way past that John.
Threatening Biden with the 25th to cede the nomination to Harris, no voters input, no real convention, just anoint her as Pres candidate, pick VP, and tell the nation that this is the new normal in a democracy and start campaigning the next day, while the voters haven't even blinked.
And when Maduro, I mean Harris wins in November there is No going back. We already live in a Maoist society.
tell me what you think maoism is.
Wait until the election. you aint seen nothin yet.
Obama took the Chicago weaponization practices from Illinois and brought it onto the federal estate. Bush/Cheney never targeted their political enemies. Obama and the Chicago boys in his administration took Chicago/Illinois dirty trick to its new home in the national Democratic Party.
They are owned by ZIONISTS...Israel is too small for them.
We’re coming for you next Jenny! 😇🙄🤦♂️
A Zionist worm lives in your brain Jenny. Please get help.
This is the continuation of Democrats adopting Stalinist tactics against their political opponents. If not,stopped soon, it will be the end for a free US and will not end well - think Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, etc.
Not sure about the assassination bit, but all your other points are spot on.
Fight Fascism With Fascism.
Hooah
I wouldn’t be surprised if Bush & Cheney walked them through the process.
I have been saying for a while that Biden's America is a cheap imitation of Putin's Russia. Our media are effectively regime media. They reliably put out the regime (and elite) narratives. First Biden was sharper than he has ever been and then he must drop out because he's senile and going to lose. MSNBC is little better than Pravda in the Soviet Union. And the Democrat party is adopting the Politburo model for political succession. No need for primary elections and all that democracy. a half dozen party bosses will make the choices because they know better than the people.
Thanks for not going on and on yourself.
How I wish this were hyperbole!
I was hesitant to reply as i dont want to be “on the list”. but I do like dogs. so that part is OK NOT
You have forgotten that if you're worried that you're on a list, you're on a list.
It's guaranteed, anyone who subscribes to the far right wing so-called "journalist" Matt Taibbi is on a list.
I'm thinking about what you said. I don't believe I'm on the list or my family wouldn't have waited 1 1/2 hours for our four duffel bags on our return from Tanzania. Wait one minute.......
The future that I've been warning about is getting closer every day. Today they flag you for extra security on airplanes, tomorrow they stop you from flying all together, and the next day they debank you for being a 'terrorist.'
If they can do it to 'famous' politicians who have the media presence to fight back, the little people like you and me are no problem.
What is in store for us if the Dems continue in the Presidency? Imagine the executive orders that are already being composed. First re-imagine the Supreme Court. Then, "fire at will." Social passports, restricted travel to save the planet, censorship, payback to people who stood in the way? Harris's choice for Veep tells us they are ready to launch. We are going to get our "democracy," hard.
Sad but true. We'll see the 'permification' of the censorship apparatus just like we have to deal with a permanent USA PATRIOT Act. They will pack the court if they have to, and then they'll use that power to do whatever the fuck they want - and lock you up if you complain.
WHO owns you USA?
In my 1978 Boy Scout Handbook, it says the government is for the people, by the people and of the people. I guess my book is out of date...
Oh, your 1978 Boy Scout handbook is out of date in many many more ways than that!
Yeah, it is indeed!
Remember a wise President once said that you can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. Still seems to hold up
https://archive.org/details/officialboyscout00hill/
Feel free to point us all at page and paragraph.
Page 403 looks like third paragraph... It's in the section called "Know our Democracy" right after America's Creed in the "You -American Citizen" section which starts on page 393. There are a lot of old fashioned ideas in there which like Mickel Knight asserted are out of date.
Govts. always spew lies. Laughing.
The Swamp, enabled by the Federal Reserve. Once the bankers and politicians can collude to print your wealth out from under you, that's exactly what will happen. When the money is fake, the rest of the economy is doomed to follow.
SimCom steps in with an infomercial denouncing the Federal Reserve, sponsored by Bitcoin.
According to you my dimwitted bigoted friend, it’s The Elders of Zion.
I thought you already provided the answer, "the Jews." You are a piece of work.
Zionists...not JEWS. Big difference.
Flying is freedom. That is only for the elite.
I still laugh every time I see your handle. I loved Norm MacDonald.
I miss that ol' chunk of coal...
The treatment of "the unvaccinated" was a foreshadowing of what's to come for "wrong thinkers."
Many many normal Dems went along with this. Don’t forget.
A Rasmussen poll in spring 2021 found 48% of Democrats thought the government should fine or imprison people who questioned the effectiveness of the Covid “vaccines”, 44% thought the unvaccinated should be locked in concentration camps, and 29% thought the unvaxxed should *have their children taken away from them*. They are straight up fascists.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/jan_2022/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated
Couldn’t agree more Coco!!!! The unvaccinated don’t deserve medical care, let them die!! I will never forget nor forgive. Obama is the president who began the division of citizens hating each other(their God and guns, learn to code), and this was picked up by Hillary’s basket of deplorables, culminating in Biden’s mandated vaccine for people not remotely vulnerable. Collins at NIH, Fauci at NIAID, the entirety of the CDC, Birx, and all the nefarious hiders of the truth will one day face either jail or God. Lunatics.
Those are astonishing and very disturbing statistics.
Maybe the Dems pushing this should watch this, and then ask their position on it. https://rumble.com/v59ogjh-covid-vaccine-inventor-blows-whistle-mrna-was-designed-to-depopulate-the-wo.html?start=28
I’ll never forget the vitriol…
It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t fascists apologists, but The Media’s a hell of a drug.
America's coming social credit system.
I already have a negative number, no doubt!
Is it rational?
We all do just by being here.
LOL
TwoTierKier: we’ll catch/stop you and punish your wrong thinking before you can board the train…”
I already can't express myself on most places on the internet. Used to be, in the glory days of the internet, every website had a comment section and you could say whatever you wanted. Now almost no general interest websites allow comments; those that do (major social media) will ban you permanently for having opinions that 5-10 years ago were completely benign and mainstream. The only place you can really talk now is... well, here, and a handful of forums from 10-20 years ago, or a private discord server.
The level of alienation is off the charts. It's like they WANT people to be pissed off.
Yep. Any news article without a comment section is worthless, and you see fewer and fewer of them these days. That's one of the great things about Substack!
I trust that what you say is generally true, but the NY Times allows a wide range of comments. Most of mine are contrary to mainstream liberal viewpoints, and very few have not been published. It's not clear why some comments aren't published, but it doesn't seem to based on how "dissident" a comment is.
I thought "first they took away all our peanuts" was how that soliloquy began. Gotta keep us all safe!
First they came for the Canadian freedom convoy truckers. A couple pled out guilty to minor charges after a couple of years in jail. NOW a a couple who rolled the dice in court were found not guilty by a jury. This is/was Canada. We kidnapped a Chinese executive for the empire at a cost of tens of billions in lost business and now Huawei is back, bigger and better than ever. Neoliberal extraction parasitic capitalism is on the way out. Industrial capitalism/socialism is taking it's rightfull place. China punishes corruption. The US and it's vassals rewards it.
Exactly -- that's when I really first started raising the alarm.
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https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/for-a-glimpse-of-the-future-look
Think back over the last, say, 20 years. Did you protest against the Iraq war? How about protesting at Occupy Wall Street? Were you a member of the Tea Party? A member of #TheResistance? Did you disagree with the government’s covid response? It’s nearly certain that everybody with a political pulse has crossed the government at one time or another. How comfortable are you with the idea that the person you’re protesting against can shut off your bank account?
Because now, it seems, those perfectly legal actions at least have the potential to come with harsh monetary consequences, as well as the ensuing chaos caused by financial ruin. And this is happening all without a single shred of oversight or due process. It’s just some asshole in an expensive suit giving a list of ‘subversives’ to another asshole in an expensive suit. The no-fly list but with the very real potential to ruin your life.
I have the impression that they do stuff like this to figures like Gabbard as a way of seeing what they can get away with, against whom, and for how long. So they can deny, retreat, and adjust their paradigm for the next big target; meanwhile they put 20 people on their “ssss” list that you HAVEN’t heard of but who they think merit being singled out for harassment.
What you describe is what they have in mind for the prominent types. For ordinary folks the solution for control is much more subtle and global. They want normies to be drugged (with recreational or psychotropic drugs) fat, brainwashed and generally fearful. They want the fear to grow to the point where it's more scary to rebel against that morass than to just remain in it. At that point they will have almost effortless complete control of your life.
Tulsi Gabbard is a military officer. If she was a security threat of any kind she would be removed from that position. This is obviously harassment and intimidation.
I think you are correct. And it is also a warning to others who dare step out of line.
Why aren't there records that show WHO puts every person into the SSSS category. There's SHOULD be a trail of logs.
Sorry that's classified national security information.
There should be a log trail for many important systems (voter registration databases for examples) but those logs don’t exist.
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I got to thinking about this. If my suspicions are correct that this is meant as a warning to targets that step out of line, could it be that Matt just did the work for whomever is directing these operations? Not blaming Matt, of course, and maybe going down a rabbit hole but it is an interesting thought.
Matt credited the story to uncoverdc.com.
Threatening members of the military is a good move.
Or not.
To be fair, harassing the military is a traditional leftist activity. One of the few the Democrats maintain.
They are busy both harassing and subverting (coopting) the military. When the shit hits the fan, our left-elite wants compliant, captive troops willing to take their orders and shoot into the crowd.
That is why I avoid crowds.
Yes. And the sky is blue.
Democrats don't want to govern. They want to rule.
The past decade of hysterical ululations about the incipient rise of MAGA fascism has been a smokescreen, a way for #Resistance smegma to incite a moral panic. Lionel Shriver has written an entire book about how such moral panics are always in fashion during authoritarian times. When the public is effectively terrified, they’ll acquiesce to all sorts of previously unthinkable changes, like wide-scale censorship or sweeping new domestic surveillance programs.
Even if this story is "covered" by the mainstream media, it will be done in such a way as to justify this shit by feigning concern over Muh Russia™ or whatever.
"Democrats don't want to govern. They want to rule."
I have been saying this since Barack Obama's election. A ruling elite is and always has been the progressives' goal - for roughly a century, now, and was core to the "fundamental transformation" of the United States of America.
When people I knew were astonished at the media going berserker on Trump, I told them it was only to be expected, after they spent over 8 years performing the journalistic equivalent of anilingus on Obama's lovely brown derriere.
Unfortunately, as Walter Kirn noted so astutely, many Americans have grown so mentally lazy they don't want the responsibility of self-governance, which, if unchecked, will lead to the destruction of the once-great nation whose Revolutionary battlefields were watered by the blood running in my own veins.
Carter is an outlier. Are there any other Presidents of any party that didn't want to rule since George Washington's initial example?
We know John Adams won't qualify for such a list, nor Abraham Lincoln; perhaps Dwight Eisenhower would? I think Calvin Coolidge might, also. Certainly not Herbert Hoover.
I'd have to do more research - much more than my time would comfortably accommodate, to be even reasonably certain of my own opinion on this.
But it's a very good question. Washington was something very special.
Coolidge
As I suggested.
I’m crying laughing over Obama’s derrière. 🤣🤣🤣
So so true!!
People, you’ll all have to move to red states. It’s really the only protection out there.
I live in the section of Maine which provides one electroral vote to the Republican candidate every 4 years. We cover most of the land, but not as large a percentage of the population.
But we don't make a difference in red states - we maybe can, a little, in bluer or purply ones.
Running away is not a solution. They will come for everyone.
They are now and will continue but a great thing about red states is they typically have red governors and legislators that protect the taxpayers from the overreaching grasp of the left. If you live somewhere where the Left is aggressive, look around.
Sad but so true.
Haven't you been listening to the twenty somethings since Biden left? Kamala Harris totally rules dude!
She has a nice smile and kind eyes. Also, blue is my favorite color.
I'm quite certain she smiled nicely and kindly at the judge who ordered her to turn over the DNA evidence which freed an innocent man on death row, which evidence Harris had fought tooth and nail to withhold.
She must have positively beamed at the 1,500 citizens she jailed for marijuana "infractions," and upon those poor parents who, unable to afford the hefty fines, were jailed for their childrens' truancy.
As Lewis Carroll wrote about the oysters,
"I weep for you," the Walrus said:
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears, he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
good recitation!
21st-century Miss Havisham commenting on social media.
Thanks - you have just inspired a new internet acronym: PONI, person of no interest.
Those "twenty-somethings" saying "dude" are more likely fifty-somethings. What bars have you been frequenting? /s
Bars? What are those? I said twenty somethings so by “bar” you must mean the internet.
She's Brat! Whatever that is.
Drunk aunt who takes the mic at a wedding after the scheduled toasts are over.
To complain about every tiny imagined slight of her magnificent self by the bride's mother (her brother's much-loved wife of 20 or 30 years).
Here is an example just for fun i decided to go and vote in last election
Basically I flip a coin when I get to the polling booth
I was told I was not on the voting registry that’s not possible as I have a state drivers license
So I was told I need to fill out a special ballot and it would go in another box and they would decide if my vote counts
Based on my racial profile and age and gender I believe my ballot was discarded
We need a way to look up how we voted to ensure the system is honest
Uh, just because you have a driver's license . . . Polling places aren't like McDonald's. You are supposed to vote where you reside. And, no voting more than one time.
Since I have never cast a provisional ballot, I don't know if or how different jurisdictions explain where they go. Seems fair to ask if it was counted or not. And, why.
But one way to take out the uncertainty is to take it seriously.
Did you register to vote?
Were you registered to vote?
In Florida, we have that. You can track your vote (mail in) .
Which I also call "I have really regrettable taste in women energy." Agreed.
That's actually why I fear her most.
Guarantee they will NOT cover this story
"Democrats don't want to govern. They want to rule." This is really it. "Democracy" is essentially mob rule and they're the mob. They want us to think they're preserving our founding principles, but they're protecting absolutely nothing but their own power.
"Democrats don't want to govern. They want to rule."
So, what are you going to do about it?
I fail to see the point you're trying to make.
Sociopaths respond only to reward and punishment.
I always carry nunchucks cat of mine tails and a large bag of Swedish fish on me when I fly in case I ever get quiet skies targeted.
Astonishingly large dildos are a good go-to luggage gag
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Stokes is scapegoating Jews. This sort of shithead has been with us for centuries and always pipes up in times of national crisis. Who killed Jesus? The Jews. Who runs the "military-industrial complex"? Jews. Who shot Kennedy? Zionists. Who got Nixon to leave office? Zionists, secretly aided by Kissinger. Who released the coof virus? Ditto. It never ends.
Hello Feral. IF you do not understand that you are now owned by Zionists who will do everything to keep you RULED.
They have 'outgrown' their own land and are tired of asking the US for weapons.
Who owns your congress?
You 'rattle' on about Sociopaths...you have been rewarding a sociopathic regime in Israel.
NO way back.
Given our military alliance with Israel, it's easy to see why someone would leap to the conclusion that the current regime is a cabal of "Zionists."
But it's too easy. Life, and especially politics, is not that black-and-white, so your vaporings smell like the flatulence of a pathological Jew-hater.
Bull Hubbard. What a name. Why don't you use your own name like I do.
Is this because you are the Zionist here?
Bull Hubbard is a literary reference. I like to remain nearly completely anonymous in online forums, and it's none of your business why.
I suggest you go visit Kotaku in Action 2 the Official Gamergate Forum. Lots of Jew-haters there. You'd have a good time prating on about the evil Jew and "Zionism" and all that rot. Get a lot of upvotes.
Correct. Her name is actually JennyJew-haterStokes. And the "Stokes" part is a descendant of stoking the anti-Zionist fires.
madaboutmd.
You can call me all names under the sun BUT it is obvious you have come onto this site where YOU are an elementary school kid.
I am anti-Zionist (nothing to do with the Jews).
Look it up and stop coming here and making derisive remarks with NO facts.
Oh Jenny, Jenny, Jenny...don't you ever get bored with your own stupidity?
Sorry, but on this topic anyway, you're a nut.
these programs were actually created during the bush administration, fyi - the programs themselves or their precursors. There are people with the dreaded "SSSS" experiences that go back decades, to the mid 2000's.
I'm getting really sick and tired of people one-sidezing everything, even shit where it's obviously a bipartisan thing.
I think most people know that the Patriot Act was created by the Bush administration after 9/11. At least most people on this board. And I'm sure it was abused then as well, but Tulsi Gabbard?!!! Real Clear Politics has Matt's piece on their site today, that will give it a lot more eyes. And hopefully embarass the HELL out of this administration (as if that's even possible).
I bet you're talking about Lionel Shriver's book Mania. I picked it up at random from the library and devoured it. Now I'm devouring everything of Shriver's I can find. Mania—highly recommended.
"Ululations." Get the fuck outta here.
Lionel Shriver is one of my literary heroes. I’ll have to find this book.
Have you read mandibles?
As big as this story is, isn't the silence from MSM even a bigger story? Where have all the journalists gone? (Substack, but what the hell happened?)
After the 2016 Peasants' Rebellions (Trump and Brexit) our ownership class and its political and media arms declared war and congealed to form a single cohesive unit dedicated to 1) regaining social and political control; and 2) making sure their power/control could never be threatened again.
In every sphere of society an implicit threat has gone out, backed by intense social policing: you're either with us or you're a far-right bigoted Deplorable, and if you want to maintain your career, your status and lifestyle, and your chances of ascending the managerial ladder, your every thought and deed needs to blindly support the Regime and its narratives.
The MSM etc have en masse become Narrative Enforcement agents because their careers, status and social lives demand it. They are now the Pravda for our postnational post-democratic Soviet America.
Please don't forget the "Bernie Bro Thug" category. A significant subset on this thread equate collective social action as an expression of totalitarianism.
You're completely correct about the transnational nature of this conflict - on this point Trump is also completely correct - the ownership class isn't coming for him, they're coming for us.
We are all Tulsi Gabbard now.
I don't want to be Tulsi Gabbard. I'd volunteer to take her place on the no-fly list if it saved me from being Tulsi Gabbard. You can be Tulsi Gabbard, but I'm taking a hard pass.
I don't want to be Tulsi, either. Nor do most others, I'd guess.
Our desires are inconsequential to those who demand obedience. You've figured that much out on your own already, I'm sure.
"In every sphere of society an implicit threat has gone out, backed by intense social policing: you're either with us or you're a far-right bigoted Deplorable..."
At last, a generalizable explanation for why all my friends have decided that is what I am!
same here!
Very well stated. Thanks.
Smith-Mundt. Once it was legal for the government to serve us propaganda on the news, getting served government propaganda on the news was a certainty.
Yes, the "modernization" of the law against domestic propaganda (now handled as Official Narratives from the State Dept (CIA) to be spewed forth by State Media (which replaced legacy MSM). Additionally the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016, which enabled Russiagate.
Tulsi Gabbard served her country in the military (is that even allowed? I have seen at least one Congressman who wears an IDF uniform, and "ex"-spooks have heavily infiltrated Congress). Hillary labeled Gabbard a "Putin Puppet" "Russian Asset", probably the reason for surveillance. The Clintons received $500,000 (not the Clinton Foundation) and personal thanks from Putin in 2010 when Hillary was Secretary of State, and Bill traipsed the globe (at a Moscow bank for Putin) giving $300,000 to $700,000 "speeches" to those wanting favors.
But look at the bright side! Biden created many new jobs, most were probably in the TSA surveilling people and probably explains why so many people are bumped from flights. Biden (like Netanyahu) wants his domestic enemies as provoked/ miserable as possible. To Biden, harassment of political opponents comes naturally.
"Biden created many new jobs, most were probably in the TSA surveilling people and probably explains why so many people are bumped from flights."
LOL!!
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Vance crashed into Harris' media this afternoon in Wisconsin. He asked the media, "have they given you guys explanations of why she won't take questions from reporters? The tell was not one of the reporters said a word. They didn't know if they should answer, ask a re-directing question, nothing, just crickets. Finally one intrepid "reporter" spoke up asking Vance, " what would you like to hear from her?" Vance went on to say how about what she want's to do, why her positions have changed, etc. At least the reporter asked a question, but I would have had tons of questions for Vance. They probably didn't want to give him air time. The cabal is going to do everything it can keep Kamala from putting herself in a bad light.
Aren't you (and Vance) cute, thinking the role of reporters is to probe and challenge our establishment leaders, instead of parroting whatever narrative has been provided for the day.
Someone needs to relay Big Brother's wisdom to the peasants while making big bucks selling out their country - I suspect that's where the big names in "journalism" have gone.
Already sold out to AIPAC and Zionism....too late..
You've got a smart-ass reply for everything. Get off Zionism for a while - one-trick pony.
It's all she's got. It's 24/7 the jooooooooos. To blame for everything. Toilet won't flush? JOOOOOOOOOOS!!
Getting a wee bit sensitive, are we?
Nope. Can’t stand her one-note replies. Do you feel the mental illness?
I can't stand them either. And who in the world is LIKING these comments?
Exactly! Where is the outrage? At the intrusion for nothing, for the obvious waste of money? For the horrible look? This should be an easy one, why is nobody but Matt touching it?!?
Where is the outrage?
It doesn't exist except for a few like Matt and his readers. The rest of the population is too distracted. In addition to the normal distractions of life, (earning a living, feeding the family, taking care of children, etc.) there are a jillion other distractions to keep people from worrying about important stuff like war, public debt, encroaching security state and the like. And it's not accidental.
Karl Marx once said "Religion is the opiate of the masses". At the time, he was right. Today, however, the opiate of the masses is the media which is corporate owned and controlled to entertain rather than inform.
So we are living in a world in which the vast majority of Americans are deprived of actual news and information while being entertained with every known form of amusement. So it's no wonder there is no outrage except for a few voices crying out in an otherwise empty space. What one wonders (and should worry about) is how long those few voices like Matt's will be permitted to cry out.
We’re doomed, I think. Slow inexorable grind to totalitarianism.
Bread and circuses
Where have all the journalists gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the journalists gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the journalists gone?
Gone to corporations every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
(Except those who have gone independent.)
MSM and some alt media are part of this program. They try to minimize reporting on real stories of TSDB, TSA, FBI and FISA abuse, Fusion Centers, Infragard, Neighborhood Watch and other abuse agencies in National Security State. They will do their planned leaks from anonymous sources which are only useful to cover-up real stories of real people suffering at the hands of govt.
They are slowly, but surely normalizing the Surveillance State.
If the Snowden revelations came out today, I'm not confident it would see the light of day.
Really bad.
Remember the old copy paper where you had to press really hard so that the pressure made a bunch of copies?
They just have whoever their contact is at the State Dept to write exactly what they say and that's their job. That's what journalists are now, at least the ones working for the 'respectable' outlets. LOL, I couldn't type that without laughing..
Carbon paper. And then you could get it all over your hands. People used to steal credit card carbons in order to do fraud. Those were the days…
Meta-news? Yes, you're right, of course, but do we really want to get into meta-news? That only leads to meta-meta-news. Then more metas mixed in. And some fakes. Madness!
I'd like to comment on this, but I fly a lot!
'We're going to go ahead and give you the permanent SSSS tag for the rest of your life for this little comment" - TSA
Who are the Democrats on this site who are going to defend this atrocity? You know, the great defenders of "democracy" and "freedom," speak up now and tell us how this is in any way just or constitutional... speak now, or reveal yourselves to be the cowards that you are.
Why I, a lifelong D, now vote I.
Can't defend this.
Please don’t throw your vote away Kathleen. Please. There is no I who can win even 3%. I don’t care if you can’t stand him, we have to elect Trump. All of the things we’re all railing against—-the totalitarian government, the lapdog media, the power grabs, the election cheating, the attempt to make all of it permanent by packing the SC—-only one politician can do this. If they hate him enough to do everything that they’ve done (at least 20 horrifically un-American fascist actions), surely you see it’s not just hate but FEAR. They fear him bc he represents their loss of power and control. Nothing could be more clear. We cannot survive another 4 years of this with Dems & Independents not seeing the truth. Hold your nose and do it for your country. Trump didn’t do one thing they said he did—-it was the largest con of all time & Dems like my sister still believe it all. The cognitive dissonance of “seeing” would destroy their worldview and that’s an upside down feeling. I’m confident that Trump will have a good admiration staffed with people who want to right the ship. And the blob won’t get away with it this time bc they can fire all CIA FBI SS leaders. They can’t get rid of every snake, but if the chief snakes (Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Pelosi, Obama) are fangless, maybe Congress will actually pass laws making our dystopian society illegal. Please consider it
This is precisely the case. Trump haters need to hold their noses and vote for him. The alternative is a nightmare, lots more of the same and then some because they will tell themselves, "The American people approve of what we're doing--they voted for us!"
Good pitch, Alice. Keep talking.
Drew - it doesn’t matter if you drink Pepsi or Coke. They all work for the same people, and the bureaucracy doesn’t change.
Well it sure as hell doesn't change if you just whine.
We got Taibbi and Shellenberger in Congress about censorship because the lowly Rs with their barely there majority convened The Weaponization Commitee.
The odds appear overwhelming because the media is suck-ass. That is not the fault of the Republican Party. The overblown bureaucracy is not the fault of the Repubs. Come on, man!
I am all in on the only hope I have left. As a former Dem. As a former elected Dem office-holder. Rs all the way now, not because I want to, but because I do not recognize my party anymore. The Dems don't represent America anymore.
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One strategy for voting is simply to vote against anyone in power (e.g. all incumbents), regardless of party.
Dave, that was my late mother's philosophy, to a T!
As insane as it sounds, the best thing might be electing Trump with a large enough (R) majority in Congress. He might not have a good vision for the nation, but he would have a chance of displacing the Uniparty.
It’s not insane. It’s literally the only hope we have. Trump is a moderate. Block out the losers. Think if the media actually did their job and were laughing at the stupidity of our current administration and asked hard questions. What s different place we’d be. But they have the govt matrix hose in their brains
Science, please specify what, exactly, is wrong with Trump's "vision" for the country? Because Bring home the troops, Bring home the jobs, Secure the border sounds pretty good to me..
I agree …. and stop printing money, energy independence, cut regulations for small businesses, no tax on SS or tips. Pay down the debt by selling energy. We have more than any other country.
No, but a big red wave right about now would be nice. It's fun to watch the rats scurry to the other side of the ship.
Sorry to rain on your cynicism, S.L., but in politics as in life, there is such a thing as Better or Worse....
Ok - tell me which is better or worse.
Trump's bombastic racism made the left and the liberals furious. Attention was paid to children in cages, rapes in immigration centers, the inhumane treatment of refugees by the border control.
Biden's quiet racism, and the fact that he's a democrat and therefore beyond critique allowed him to continue Trump's racist border policies and no one paid attention.
Which is worse? Bush or Obama? Bush did obscene war crimes. He lied to the American people. He passed the Patriot act. He tortured people. Eventually, the American people turned on him, especially after Abu Graib. They marched. They turned on that unholy godforsaken war.
Obama did not revoke the Patriot Act. In fact, he gave it teeth. He didn't close Gitmo. He didn't close our black sites. What he did do is take Bush's imperial powers and double down - having weekly meetings about his extrajudicial kill lists which was expanded to do away with habeas corpus and kill Americans abroad. Liberals lunched, because Gosh - he was SO GOOD LOOKING.
What about Reagan V. Clinton. Reagan went on a spree of deregulation, however, he was opposed. He couldn't get it done. Clinton managed to finally kill off those pesky unions, destroy glass-steagel, gut media regulations. Liberals cheered as he passed Nafta! (In his defense, his dirty wars weren't quite so egregious as Reagans.)
Now, let's look at Harris V. Trump. Tell me which is better? They BOTH support genocide. They both want war (one with Russia, the other with China - both fucking insane.) If Harris wins - America will continue to support Israel down to the last dead Palestinian. Liberals will continue to worry about the hurt feelings of Jewish people (ignoring that Jewish people are at the head of the pro-palestinian campus movements.) Police will continue to set-upon students. But - Liberals won't lift a finger because to criticize her would be both racist and sexist.
Say, instead, we elect that openly fascist pig. What happens then? Well, HE sends out cops, liberals will throw a fit and start taking free speech and the consitution seriously again, for one thing. People will be OUTRAGED that he's backing a genocide on behalf of AIPAC and will show up in droves to express that outrage.
Now, I suppose if you are happy with the way things are going, Harris is 'better' for you.
As far as I am concerned - who is better and who is worse is an impossible choice to make. They both back a genocide. And that makes them both equally evil.
Oh my… you really don’t know Trump 🤦🏻♀️
The crimes you of which you accuse Trump were perpetrated by Democrats!! Kids in cages - Obama!! Raped in immigration shelters - Biden!! Etc. Etc.
What about the unconstitutional Republican Neocons. What to do about them?
Exactly. Applaud Tiabbi for exposing this, hope Gabbard moves forward to bring it into open. But democracy is difficult, always and power corrupts, frequently.
Haven't they all migrated to the DP? Who remains?
No. Please vote your conscience.
Lesser of two evils voting is what got us where we are, so if there are 3rd parties that appeal to you, especially on a more local level, try to talk the D- and R-diots in your life into going a different way.
No, vote for the lesser evil of the two leading candidates, as your conscience will allow. Voting for a third party candidate that has no realistic chance of winning is a vote that only aids the incumbent.
What tripe. We're voting for someone to do a job. Pick the person best equipped for the job. This partisan bs is how we got here. The lesser of 2 evils.... what a bunch of gaslighting nonsense. That stupidity is how we got here.
It's a "feels good" position, the holder of which can look in the mirror and tell themself what a bitchin' guy they are...
Nonsense.
You're circling the drain.
Exactly.
Don't throw your vote into the abyss.
Vote for anyone BUT a D or and R.
Huh?? Voting for anyone other than a "D" or "R" IS "throwing your vote into the abyss".
Nonsense. The Uniparty IS THE ABYSS.
Drew, if I had truly "voted my conscience" I'm not sure I would have voted even once in my entire life... certainly far far less than I have voted...
Have noticed that the more we vote for “lesser” evil, the more these assholes move to the dark side?
Run a legit candida.
That's a useful myth.
Realize, many (most) Democrats HATE the Constitution. They HATE the Bill of Rights. They especially HATE the First and Second Amendments. They have been saying it out loud for quite some time now. "Free speech ties the governments hands!". "Hate speech is a crime and it must be banned!". "We have to stop crime before it happens!?". "We must stop and punish those who MIGHT commit a crime (any crime)!!". Etc. Etc. worse than FASCISTS!!
The sensible Ds have been leaving in droves for years.
Maybe they weren't sensible to begin with but there still seems to be a large majority of the voting public who couldn't or wouldn't vote for R or for trump. I see the polls they produce and I can't believe that so many people would vote for Harris and now Walz. They are extremely left. Socialism is just another person's neighborlyness.. Wow..
Polls are to be trusted as much as gas station sushi.
Yeah, I almost wrote "for what the polls are worth." You're just affirming what I think, that all of the common folk can't be this blind/dumb/crazy. I hope we are right.
Most of the common folk don't pay attention to politics. I'm beginning to think they may have something.
Pray we are
Yeah, Socialism is just neighborly ness. Hey neighbor! What is mine is mine. What is yours is ... mine! You don't actually expect me to work, do you? Work is for suckers. No one needs to work. We can just print more money and give it out. It's FREE!!! EVERYTHING IS FREE!! Electricity is FREE! It comes from the socket in the wall.
Food is FREE!! It comes from the ground!! Water is FREE!! It comes from the faucet. If everyone got free money it would help the economy grow because people would have more money to buy FREE stuff!! (Yes, I got a degree in economics from an Ivy League school. And a second degree in gender studies. Why do you ask?)
A very large number of people go about their lives essentially clueless about what is going on. Many of those who think they are "informed" get all of their "information" from the MSM and the large tech companies
/social platforms directly or indirectly. They don't even realize how much of it is propaganda and garbage. They refuse to read or listen to anything else.
Extremely left or extremely stupid or insensible.
I wish I knew some of them among friends and family I know. Straight koolaid drinkers right from the mouth of Nora O'Donnel.
Gabbard is a good example. So is RFK Jr. tho I think he'd be conciliatory if they'd accepted him and not driven him out. His pedigree made him a DP apologist until he got the shaft.
Yes. .......and as much as you all despise Europe they are all coming here in droves with their money and buying up real estate!
It's China that's buying up real estate, it's a proven fact! 😁
Yeah, yeah people from CA are moving all over. Tons coming to Nashville too.
Matt is a traitor to them. They would never support or respond to his reporting.
If they were paying this much attention, they couldn't vote Democrat. The DNC is relying entirely on party apparatchiks and low-information voters that can be fooled by goofy GenZ'ers dancing to coconut song remixes of Harris' speeches.
They’re in the TDS comment sections screaming about Russian bots.
They won’t even accept this as real.
Their loyalty is to a sense of obedience and comfort in 'knowing' they're the good guys. You have to tip your hat to the bamboozle. It's extraordinarily effective on a lot of people.
I suspect they, like me, lay low due to the response they’d get here, even if they don’t defend it but identify as left of center. See Mr Stone’s comments below. I find this type of surveillance activity disgusting, illegal, discouraging, but being in my 7th decade, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s a big country with plenty of bad actors and/or decisions on both sides. I would never defend this or the 2017 tax bill or Citizens United or current US actions in Gaza/Israel conflict…I’ve got a long list. But I’m still solidly left of center altho I identify as I these days. I’m looking forward to Gabbard ‘s next steps re this.
You're not alone.
I'm a senior and a leftist. People call me a "hard leftist" now when I think I was a mild leftist if not an outright moderate in the 1970s. I recall the Reagan 80s as being harshly right wing, when I think St. Ronnie himself would be considered a leftist today.
I also support Gabbard even though she doesn't represent my view of the world in a lot of aspects. She seems honest and that's possibly the greatest treasure of all.
We need more voters like you.
I like things about Gabbard as well. I liked her more before I heard her support Trump’s stolen election drivel. Very disappointing.
Hate to tell you Ann--the 2020 election was rigged... the laptop lie/coverup was only the start... don't ne afraid to learn something new and change your position. A realize that a system that will surveil Tulsi would not hesitate to rig an election.
When you consider the scale of “rigging” a national election, fraud involving so many votes, recalls, involving all levels of government, including local, and all those eyes and ears, and courts, judges, ….
When you provide examples of fraud at the level it would take to throw the election….I’m happy to “learn”. 🙄
The scale required to throw a national election is not that big.
Are you aware the outcome of the 2020 election hinged on just a few 10,000s of votes in key swing states?
Perhaps the Presidential election is the one remaining institution in American politics that has not been deeply corrupted. I don't know.
But let's not exaggerate the scale of fraud required to swing the outcome. It could be accomplished by compromising a few strategically chosen polling stations in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Phoenix.
Don't you think it's weird that there were nursing homes in Wisconsin where the voter participation rate was 100%? Biden won Wisconsin by 20k votes.
I don't think the election was stolen. But to play devil's advocate, are we to truly believe that the secret service, FBI, CIA, CDC, FDA, FAA and most other government agencies are run like a dysfunctional whore house, but our elections are run like a Swiss watch? Hard to believe that is true either.
51 intel guys lie on Biden's behalf right before the election, and you are still convinced that the whole thing wasn't rigged? I suppose the laptop lie was just a one-off, right?
Well said.
One of the commenters during Matt and Walter's podcast on Monday suggested that should Trump win, he should appoint Tulsi head of the TSA, with the mission to dismantle it, and then salt the earth it once occupied. Credit to the writer, I'm only paraphrasing!
The next time Trump wants to take control of the day's news cycle he should release that Tulsi is being considered for Secretary of Defense because he wants no new wars, no DEI, an audit, trimming of the bloated general ranks, and a military readiness review in his second term.
I think he’d hire her in a minute!! Along with all honest people who love their country and will fight to get it back, regardless of party.
It would be a sensible move and I'd like to believe that it's possible, but I can't see any former political rival getting into a Trump admin. His ego is too colossal.
You misunderstand Trump. He has learned how to be a politician now. He publicly expresses his friendship to snakes like Lindsey Graham.
J.D. Vance was once a never-Trumper.
When did Trump stroke Graham? I missed that. It's nauseating. I haven't heard Vance's anti-Trump statements, either . . . I don't doubt you, but have you a link?
I get the impression that Trump will shit on those who somehow contradict him or wound his ego and then will turn around and praise them once they reverse themselves or agree with anything he says.
I'd just like to make clear that I'm OK with this and fully support him for Prez, MAGA all the way. Despite his faults, he's at least an "America First" populist (if we can take his "Agenda 57" seriously) and the clear choice against the absolute shit show of the DP, which has made no platform statements as far as I know. The choice couldn't be clearer . . . but I digress and am getting garrulous.
"Neither Gabbard nor, apparently, the whistleblowing Marshals know why the former congresswoman would be on a terror watch list. "
My guess is they wanted to intimidate her. they wanted her to know they had power, and she had better behave.
See also the IRS going to Matt Taibbi’s house.
Yes, that's the case. By putting innocent people on TSDB they can strip them of their Constitutional rights and follow and electronically surveil them for life. She is very lucky they blew the whistle. Even if it will be hard to go through the process of fighting back, it's better than succumbing unknowingly to a life of unwarranted surveillance.
Hear, hear re: the whistleblowers. I'm so grateful to these whistleblowers, and to the attorneys who are actively pushing back against organizational efforts to find and punish them. Much as I abhor the broader story and the context(s) that birthed it, I am grateful for the courage also here displayed.
Spot on. The would-be intimidators being serially and collectively cowardly, they can't fathom how such signaling is interpreted--as call to action, lest even worse come to pass!--by those with even an iota of courage.
Tulsi will survive intimidation!
It depends on how dangerous they consider her to be to their continued hold on power. It's not clear if Julian Assange has survived mentally, though he's still alive.
It may have been fortunate for Edward Snowden in the end that the U.S. government trapped him in Russia, making him hard for them to get at.
They accuse us of the very thing they do. When I think of the Twitter Files I still get cold chills down my spine. My liberal friends who would have not approved in earlier days now just shrug it off. When the liberals start censoring and spying on their opponents we are in big trouble.
"My liberal friends who would have not approved in earlier days now just shrug it off."
Yup.
It’s for our own good they think.
Masters of projection. Profoundly since 2015. Twitter Files had them praying it could be buried. And when it couldn’t, they just papered over it like it never happened. The only thing that gives me hope is that I think the Dem leaders/ Intel/Deep State haven’t entirely adjusted to an open Twitter/X. They hate Elon for sure but every dumbass post is laughed at openly.
My left wing friends are pathetic hypocrites. Or they pretend to be neutral, I don’t take sides which is tacit approval
The real fascists are running our 3 letter agencies. The security state & permanent unelected government bureaucrats are dismantling what's left of our constitutional rights in record time. Load up on water and ammo folks.
What do you think would happen if those positions were elected offices? It would just push the "real" positions of power, the non-appointed, non-elected bureaucrats who keep things running . . . down one layer.
If you get rid of all the hired gov't workers, that means everything from teachers to cops to firefighters and more. I don't want to have to elect my garbage truck crew every X many years. Or the folks who keep my drinking water potable.
And strangely my point seems to have been lost on you.
💯🤣
Not sure garbage collector qualifies as "unelected government bureaucrat".
Of course Gabbard is on The List, as is any person who is in the sights of The Eye Of Sauron, aka The National Security State.
What does anyone propose to do about it?
I already know I am on it.
Unfucking believable. No one loves her country more than Tulsi. THAT is the very reason why she fights so hard for us. She loves the U.S. and dearly wants us to be better than we are.
Is that what one gets for trying to pass the “Stop Funding Terrorism Act”? Jfc…
You just reminded me - this is more for Ford Fischer than you, but it's still pretty creepy -
https://hyperallergic.com/941283/videographer-samuel-seligson-who-filmed-vandalism-of-brooklym-museum-leaders-homes-charged-with-hate-crime/
“It all comes under the heading of the Department of Pre-Crime,”
The Orwellian genius of "pre-crime" and "prevention" programs is that they don't have to show any evidence or metric of success -- they can simply say they *prevented* crimes, an assertion that cannot be proven.
Biden and Harris have been railing about the threat to democracy from the Republican side -- even as they engage in autocratic, censoring, anti-free speech behaviors and policies. The Democratic Party is fast transforming into a party of autocracy and authoritarianism.
Already happened. Done deal.
At least we're not full Philip K Dick. Yet.
How do you know?
More importantly the assertion can't be disproven. Even if there was no crime, it would be very difficult to prove it was because of those "prevention" programs and not other things
This crap was happening when Emperor Hirohi.... err, Obama, was going after James Rosen, who was guilty of working for Fox News and committed journalism.
If you vote for a Democrat, this is what you're voting for. It's been this way for some time. It's getting worse.
‘They’ also ‘visited’ James Rosen’s parents.