Did you have to go back and watch all of Maddow's shows during the Trump presidency to put together that montage? I hope TK News has a good medical plan because you're going to need some therapy.
People are so tired of the stupid games, the lies, the spin, the dirty politics. I stopped listening to anything state propagandists have to say (which includes most cable news and traditional news outlets). I only read their garbage to know what is definitely NOT true. That's why they are so desperate to take back control over the narrative (Ministry of Truth-style) and why they get zero dollars from me anymore.
Yo Orf, your videos are like a like a lifesaving raft to me. I'm out here drowning in an endless sea of bullshit. Keep them coming please. You had me at, "Weapons weapons weapons weapons systems weapons S200s S300s weapons."
While I don't spend much time watching mainstream news, every time I watch one of your surreal creepy mash-ups I have to wonder why anyone else bothers.
Uh...I was of the impression that some Democrats, somewhere, had some kind of involvement with, you know, the whole "Get Trump Out of Office" thing. Pretty sure they thought they did too.
But all this time...they were being puppeteered by "Bush Republicans"??
Frenkley, that sounds preposterous. Is it some version of a "QAnon"? I don't know what that is either but I hear it's pretty preposterous too.
I just find it interesting when someone complains that people have derangement syndrome when they themselves suffer from derangement syndrome.
It’s a case of “if people I disagree with have X then X is bad. If I have X then X is good” even though X is the same thing. Said more concisely, you are a hypocrite.
The worst part for me is that our tax dollars pay the corrupt on both sides. If you had to rate what we receive against what we pay, I think it is the world largest grift. And this administration is a house of cards built on love me daddy malcontents. For real, who can argue that the Clinton’s are not as slimy as anyone in politics has ever been. And what Brandon and his puppeteers have been able to set in motion will stay with us for a very long time. Devastating consequences from the elite party of inclusion who somehow manages to one up the last disaster.
The problem is that Bush and the Patriot Act (writen by Biden, but failed to advance without "a big event" like 9/11) was an Establishment Coup, not a Republican Coup; Big Democrats like Hillary and Biden (and Schiff) were complicit with the McCain, Bush and Cheney Republicans.
While I did not and do not support Trump (why is this obligatory?), the Establishment of both parties undercut him as a Duly Elected President which has changed our political system forever. Our Government bureaucrats are supposed to be apolitical; they're not. That is the crux of our problem, unelected Democrats, at the moment (it will be Republicans' turn again soon enough), acting out their politics with no accountability.
So is assassinating American citizens (without due process I might add) considered to be cleaning up Bush's messes? How about appointing Comey as head of the FBI? His handling of Syria? Maybe that's it? Or was it tossing piles and piles of cash at the auto industry? Or maybe it was the continuation, and exponential growth in the use of FISA courts and spying on American citizens? Was that part of the cleanup of Bush's messes?
You sound like you went to a Democratic party fundraiser and have a tattoo. The Bush mess was/is a giant mess. Sadly, Biden and Obama doubled down on the same mess. The drone strike king (Obama) and the man with many fingers in many pies (Biden...how soon we forget his family's deep involvement in grifting off of Ukraine...notice how no one asks these questions in a press conference?). It's one long conga line of b.s. artists. But yeah, it's the Republicans.
Sadly, we may learn that the electorate will move Dems out, and Repubs back in so we can have a repeat of the Bush years.
Your two half assed blog entries totally have me foo-- I mean they totally lend you credibility. Hello completely normal Trump Republican! Nice to meet you! Cary on redpilling those Clinton derangement syndrome conspiracy nutters. For Trump.
Stand in front of a mirror and say that to your reflection ten times with the same fervor you had when you first wrote it here. Now tell yourself that you typed these words to a complete stranger and plead with yourself to seek therapy.
How is Greenwald a "Bush Buttboy" and why do you insist on using stupid, tired, 12th grade homophobic slurs as your insult of choice?
P.S. I have no problem defending his record on Bush wars even though I'm actually banned from Greenwald's Substack for 99 years because I called him out on a glaring blind spot I encountered regarding his and The Intercept's (intentional non) coverage of the war on Syria. He refused to acknowledge it and got all thin skinned. There are some Wikileaks cables that showed Greenwald and his editorial staff almost certainly were aware of some of the American and Gulf Monarchy plans for Syria. No other outlet covered them either. I'm convinced that there was a CIA or NSA hand guiding the decision not to publish those particular leaks.
He doesn't blame Bush's wars on Hillary, dude. He blamed the NATO bombing of Libya on Hillary's State Department, the continuation of the boondoggle in Afghanistan, the war on Syria and the surge in Iraq on the Obama administration. In fact Obama and Hillary were carrying out parts of the PNAC plan which was signed off on by her husband. Find me one example of Greenwald blaming Bush's wars on Hillary or Obummer.
I might add that the Syrian civil war was in reality - to the Obama administration and Hillary - another poke at Russia's ability to project its own power into the oceans. When Obama's folks succeeded in carrying out the coup in Ukraine, Russia saw the writing on the wall and annexed Crimea because that is their OTHER warm water naval port.
Moral of the story: Bush, Obummer, Hillary are all warmongers. Trump would have had his own war on either Iran or Venezuela if he was elected to a 2nd term.
You can't be serious. 4+ years of this b.s. polluting the airwaves, the daily countdowns, the walls closing in and here we are, just as some of suspected, utter garbage. Both parties deserve scrutiny as they pile drive the US experiment into the dirt. Each party has contributed to the mess. It's ok to shine a bright light to watch the rats scramble for cover. thanks Matt. If only there was a way to eliminate both political parties...and drive the $ out of the election process.
Voltaire could really write some great quips. Not sure what he'd say about today's age. Possibly that automatic espresso makers were great (he had quite the coffee habit), but otherwise that we were governed by a class of violent, greedy chimps.
I got into this discussion/argument with a Ghanaian professor of mine about AIDS. He was like “Everyone thinks Africans run around having sex with monkeys” and I was like “As a stereotype that is wrong, but in a continent of 1 billion people, there are probably at least 4 or 5 sick pervs out there”, and he conceded the point.
Jumped on my bed, until the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" Very irritating. Chimps said federal regulations required inspection and testing of bed for spring safety. Also found my CO2 emissions, when I exhale, to be a global warming threat to the planet. Ordered me to cease my pollution immediately, after finding out I'm a Chicago area Republican. "When I die and they lay me to rest, gonna vote in the way that's the best" for the Democrat Chicago Machine.
Voltaire? Is that French for, chicken shit excuse? I was going to do the right thing but then my Voltaire flared up. Less Voltaire, more Snowden. I was tempted to go along to get along. But I found my inner Snowden.
So why be sad about the consequences of being a little bitch in a little bitch culture? Isn’t there something on tv? The only thing worse than bad people doing bad things is when good people stand by and watch.
Chuck, you are late to the party and all this sentiment and aggression would have been much utilized 20 years ago when the last vestiges of power were subsumed by the state. To die a pyrrhic but figurative death here trying to incite action is like ant taking on an army of elephants.
Again, it is positive you want to create change, but a huge piece of creating it is knowing the system, system history, and all of your adversaries. This means you have to do more work than stir up online emotional platitudes.
So why are we talking about it? Or why are you talking about it? To make sure no one has hope? Why? You already stated that there isn’t any. Are you anti hope? Are you shorting humanity? It’s not because of bad people. It’s because of cowards. Buck up.
I think Obama answered this better than I ever could. Hope is jargon. It's anti-analysis and more branding. But its presence or absence should not be the basis for action, because "AND I WILL STATE THIS AGAIN" --- power has seized control over all the levers of change. Read your Chris Hedges to understand all the ways this has happened under the neoliberal regime starting with the Reagan administration all the way to present.
Or read your Mirowski (Road to Mont Pelerin), if your analysis and prescription are wrong, you have wasted everyone's time and energy around you. It is not about hope. Solutions are about finding elite weaknesses and exploiting them, and then preparing for counter responses ---- and if you have not been paying attention a few counter responses are:
1. Stagnant wages for the last 30 years
2. Double digit inflation
3. Debt based economy creating a rentier class
4. Massive criminogenic systems in healthcare, finance, education, foreign policy
5. Unaffordable housing, gutting out the middle class, and creation of US sacrifice zones
6. Foreign wars of imperial dominance trying to maintain a unipolar world order
7. Intelligence and military contractor influence (CIA, NSA, FBI, and Blackwater)
8. Propaganda aimed at both parties (divide and conquer)
9. Privatization schemes, Cryptocurrencies, and massive un-prosecuted fraud
10. Loss of the dollar hegemony and world's reserve currency
11. Pissing off the rest of the world so that it makes nuclear conflict more likely.
12. Climate inaction, Drug Markets supported, and Corrupt Policing
13. Failure to create an effective policy to combat a deadly pandemic
They have been sticking it to the public for a long time --- in fact, British parliament labor leader Tony Benn said it best --- Power does not want a healthy, well-informed, electorate capable of democratic rule because if it allowed this, then they would be prosecuted for their crimes. Benn always said, if we can build armies/weapons to kill people, then we can build/fund projects to love them. When is the last time your government cared about you?
The truth is that the first rule of neoliberalism ---- please fuck off and die. Second rule is please do this faster. Third rule of neoliberalism is to see rules 1 & 2.
You need to slow your roll, killer. You sound like an aggrieved soft body clickety clacking on his keyboard all day. The quote was not cited as a warning. The past is prologue.
I was going to retort on one of your riveting articles comment section but the echo of that empty space would be distracting. I assure you my body fat can best be described as un-American. But even if I’m a cow I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying.
"I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying," says the titan of intellect with the anonymous handle to the guy using his real name.
Comment away, killer. Just don't hurt yourself. Is my willingness to suggest you slow your roll because you're embarrassing yourself offensive to you? Then slow your roll.
Chuck campbell? That’s anonymous? Ok. You’re assertion that if I were not a specimen my thoughts are somehow less relevant (I am a specimen) . But my intellect is at best borderline. My consternation is the result of super intelligent people on this thread (not you) acting as if we are powerless. I’m relatively new to Taibi etc. but the eeyore ass drivel on this comment thread speaks to why we are where we are. All the indicators suggest that historical “consent manufactures” are being discarded as liars. All the sincere smart people ( not you) are winning and are on the verge of meaningful change. Is that ok super star? Or should I jump in the box car with the other chicken little fucks? I’m happy to embarrass myself. Or am I embarrassing others by exposing their big brains( not you) and their lack of resolve?
LOL. Type Chuck Campbell into Google, friend. How this is not obvious to you is interesting in itself, but "Chuck Campbell" is in the same taxonomy of common names as "Mike Jones" and "John Smith."
I have no problem with your perspective. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with much of it. But when you come out like John Wayne and immediately accuse me of a "chicken shit excuse" just because I shared a single Voltaire quote? Yeah, I'm going to tell you to pump your brakes.
This is a wonderful concise record of what went down. It really does make you wonder about our government and the media. I remember thinking during Russia gate when will the madness stop. It did stop and then we got Covid madness and now we have Ukrainian madness where our government is using Ukrainian citizens as cannon fodder. Thank you for fighting the good fight. Keep up the good work
Good work indeed and you make it interesting. Unfortunately, I sincerely doubt that 1% of the population could or would ready the entire piece. Only interested in spectacle. That, of course is why you do it as a podcast. Now, people giving up reading.. that is scary!
The damage done is incalculable and yet none are held accountable. They're already reporting Sussman's lawyers are saying, "So what?" Doesn't matter that he lied. After all Hillary and all the ABC government officials have lied repeatedly under oath before congress.
The damage includes the election of the most incompetent, demented President in our history, the least qualified VP, and cabinet officials who are totally unqualified for their jobs. Open borders, sky high inflation and out of control crime. All of this started in the Clinton campaign offices back in 2015.
This is what the slow motion suicide of the Democrat Party looks like. The media is already dead to most thinking Americans but they are too stupid to just lay down. A new paradigm is emerging and reporters like Glenn, Mike Taibbi, Dan Bongino and others will be the tourchbeares in the coming decade. Quoting any legacy media as proof of anything is a sure way to be laughed out of the room. History will marvel at the complete clueless and hubris ridden institutions that existed during the first decades of the 21st Century.
The last 6, 7, however many years has seen one pretty big change in my behavior. I no longer consume "news" in nearly the quantity I used to.
Right now, sitting at my desk, the house is silent. Wouldn't have been, Morning Edition would have been running.
I was a news junkie from the mid 80s. Back when the cool kids listened to public radio. I was "informed", I knew what was up! For years before kids our Sunday routine was to grab the local papers (Detroit News and Free Press) and the Sunday NYT, go to Bob's Big Boy, and take up a table for quite a while reading the papers over coffee and breakfast.
Consumption continued for decades. I love history; spent two years in graduate school early this century thinking I wanted to be a history teacher. Till I discovered how batshit crazy "the academy" is. (the willful destruction of language/meaning shocked me.) Did I really want to hang with these people as "colleagues" for the rest of my days? lol... nope. Even with that experience, still didn't really doubt the veracity and integrity of most news. Sure there were agendas; first thing I would read in all papers was the editorials. I like good faith discussion and argument. But journalists - purveyors of fact, not editorial - I held in high esteem; they did necessary work that I respected. They had my trust. No longer.
Today I can honestly say I have not read more than a smattering of the NYT since the 2016 election cycle. Hehe, my early 30+ years in tech has given me the skills to, uhem, circumvent most paywalls, but even with that I generally don't bother. I look around the “news” space with the sole purpose of staying informed as a matter of defense; what is the party line and how does it (if it does at all), threaten me and mine.
I trust very little news that I read. If I’m reading it then someone wants to persuade me, not inform me. It’s all editorial now. And their crossing the Rubicon of lying to get that done means I can’t even have a good argument with them.
Seems pretty odd that EVERY leftist communication or radio system appears over time to commit suicide. Leftism is an aggressive cancer. Good sober left leaning radio and print outlets over time are usually taken over by the more radical elements of the ideology. There is never any room for reasoned well thought out left of center political positions. With the left it always ALL or nothing.
The cancer that is leftism always consumes any moderate or reasonable leftwing politics. They don;'t just drift left into radicalism but are subject to a scorched earth policy by their radical comrades. No other points of view are ever tolerated so in the end self destruction is the only path for radical leftism. There is NEVER enough or an end game for their politics except of course total dominance. Cancer is like that.
Leftism always imposes purity tests -- see the Red Guards, Khmer Rouge et al -- which means anyone who criticizes leftist orthodoxy inside a left-leaning organization is run out on a rail, which just drives organizations further and further left until they collapse from irrelevance and infighting over who is purer.
National Petroleum Radio, indeed. When Frontline became defense contractor propaganda during the first Gulf war, Moyers getting censored, akin to Phil Donahue on network TV, that's what did it for me. Fortunately these new platforms enable the likes, no pun intended, of Matt & Matt.
Hey Eric, like you I was a news junkie. Back in the day I read The Freep, Detroit News, WSJ and NYT daily, and then 1/2 of local TV news and 1/2 hour of National. Until 2016 I watched Morning Joe daily, for up the full three hours. I did a full year off in 2017, and the only 'news' I pay for any more is Glenn, Matt, Bari and a couple other substacks and the WJS Op/Ed page. I don't believe anything else on TV or print.
LOL! Amy NJ friend screenshots that for me and emails it… The Sunday NY Times ( I did the Crossword for thirty years) costs $12 here in Western Colorado and I refuse to give them that $ for the rubbish they publish..actually that could be their new motto “ The Rubbish We Publish “
Spot on. The nerd in me can't resist the Wordle, despite my contempt for the NYT, which I suppose makes me a sellout. So when I'm done, I get linked to the freebie Bee, who validates me every time. Ah, those participation trophies......... wonder if 'trump' will get the same treatment as 'fetus' .......
Glen, Matt, Bari, all great. But as one poster said, people are only interested in the spectacle. This is less like the slow evaporation of the Democrtaic party and more like witnessing the country circling the drain in painfully slow motion.
The danger is that when the people get fed up they have a tendency to elect awful demagogues because said demagogues "stand up to the elites." Either way we lose.
Dead on. But they are in essence 'leaving us no choice' at this point. Do these folks ever worry about the effects of the path they have chosen. Clearly NOT. Their choice is the perceived pursuit of influence and power at any price. Atlas Shrugged being played out in real time. It is always interesting to me that former Soviet citizens are absolutely dead on in describing what is now going on within American society.
You are a couple elections ahead of me. I don’t plan to vote again. I spent most of my previous votes since 1974 on third/fourth/fifth party candidates thinking that was some kind of protest. It’s not. Participation is complicity.
On the other hand, I am interested in finding amusing ways to mess with The System. For example, I do appreciate people who use their vote for write-in candidates—a great power I wish more people and organizations would use. Write-ins, at least, generally require human attention to read our scribbles (I think), so it keeps the human vote-counters busy and annoyed and could create delays that prevent the cable news channels from trying to call the election by midnight on Election Day.
But my latest theory is it might be even more disruptive to cast an empty ballot. I’m not sure how empties are tabulated—there are probably so few in number it is easy to simply put them in the discard pile and ignore their statistical importance. But what would happen if a significant percentage—say ten per cent—of ballots cast were empty? At the very least, this would make the elections officials nervous that their machines were hacked—hacked in unexpected/unplanned ways, I mean. Or, if the public learned that there were so many empties cast, it would further erode trust in the voting machines at least, and perhaps in the entire electoral system…if it’s even possible to further to erode that trust.
When I was an election judge, empty and spoiled ballots were separated out of the scanning machine. The empties were tossed. The spoiled examined to determine if they could be "unspoiled", but there were never enough of them to make it worth our time.
All that hard work by Clinton, her lackeys, the corporate media, and operatives in the CIA and FBI to get rid of Trump, and they replace him with . . . Joe Biden? Did they really think this through?
Let us not forget surrender to terrorists, starting new global conflicts, proposing amendments to international public health treaties that strip sovereignty, destroying energy infrastructure, fomenting hate, aiding in human and drug trafficking, enriching the military industrial complex...All in 18mos
Rather anecdotal but I clearly remember when things shifted to corruption back in the 1980’s when I was in the real estate business in Vermont a previously honest and ethical lawyer pulled a crooked stunt and didn’t care because he had adopted “plausible denial” from the Clintons. To me this was the beginning of the ends justify the means political culture. Oh, Vermont has gone on to be the perfect little Marxist utopia.
The V.P. position has too often been occupied by a less than a stellar intellect and often by a political hack. Truman was an example of a product of a political machine but when he ascended to become POTUS he seemed to rise to the occasion.
Sometimes a dolt is really not so clueless as he/she appears. V.P. Harris might be the exception. She seems to have been carried by the wind into every political position without any effort or accomplishment. She is young and should be sharp but appears as clueless as a "valley girl" on ludes. Her speeches sound like a child trying to act like an adult. Politics aside how can the Democrats, with a straight face, condone this ongoing farce.
She's made a lot of people suspicious about how she managed to become California's Attorney General. As a former career California prosecutor I don't think she's up to (or has ever been capable of) prosecuting even an entry-level garden-variety misdemeanor DUI case. The only conclusion I can come up with is that corruption w/in this state's Democratic supermajority party is obviously as deep as it's long-standing.
Holeee-shit, what do people think it means, when they say she was "Willie Brown's protege."? She rose to the AGs office without ever being subjected to a vote or public performance review, just promotion after promotion with no real record of accomplishment to account for it.
Chaney certainly rose to the occasion by becoming POTUS- without having to get elected as such. It may be awhile before that magic act is surpassed. Heck, it was so magical that it was largely unrecognized by the general public. Then or now.
No defense of Chaney but hating him and his politics is no reason to think he was not a shrewd, hard nosed D.C. operative. The entire meme of him being the shadow POTUS is a bit of manufactured political attack. He did have undue influence on G. Bush but that is true of a few other V.P.'s too. Harris could not even get a few votes in the primary. She personally was rejected by Democrats only to be tapped by Biden because of her gender and race. Other V.P's have been selected for their regional appeal or vote getting ability so Biden's criteria had some basis. Thing is she is a huge drag on this Administrations' agenda and public face.
I don't hate Cheney or his politics. I simply believe he and the most of the Bush cabinet members should be in jail right now for illegally invading another sovereign nation. This resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent lives and U.S. military service members. It also unnecessarily cost the U.S. taxpayer an estimated $7-8T of net operating debt that has hamstrung our national security and economic prosperity ever since. If Americans were not so easily manipulated into war and blood lust, these murderers would, at a minimum, have been impeached while in office.
No, Quayle was as dumb as he looked. He belongs in this category as well.
You exaggerate about Harris. She doesn't sound like a moron. She just sounds like a cloyingly bland, milquetoast, paint-by-numbers politician who's phoning it in, with literally nothing original to say. That's acceptable, maybe, for a House rep from Nobodycaresville county, but not for the freaking VP of the nation.
She happened to fit the bill, in terms of gender and ethnicity, in order to allow Biden to be appointed. She also passed the same teleprompter reading class with high marks...and extra credit for never deviating from the script.
Because she’s nowhere near as dumb as she acts , it’s a cynical dumbing down of the message that appeals to her constituents and got her elected multiple times, her constituents being among some of the most insipid, simple morons in the country .
While the act might get you elected on a local or even Statewide election it is not so "cute" when practiced on a national scale or the worldwide stage. As a V.P.. if possible she should drop the dumb act, if it is an act. I really think she is either of a low IQ or has some sort of learning disability. Complexity and nuance appear to be beyond her abilities.
She is what it looks like when you fuck your way into politics, and then become the face of an ideology, and then allowing this to outpace learned skill. At every single point she failed up, simply because she was what the modern Democratic party wants to look like: multi-cultural, female centric. But when you put superficial characteristics ahead of earned skills such as appealing across aisles to an oppositional group, giving speeches, and various other skills that politicians who fight their way up the ladder learn, Harris is what you get.
She might be a bright person, but she doesn't have the chops to be running at the level of VP, let along president. And no amount of smarts will cover for that.
They were just run of the mill politicians. Problem is there are no "qualifications" for holding political office. You get what you get from the general population. Hopefully the good cancels out the bad or the bad is not as bad as we might think. Then again the voters are not the "cream of the intellectual crop" either. Then again those geniuses like Robert McNamara and other "academics" can and do cause havoc on a large scale. No real solution to the disparate abilities of elected officials except an unbiased free press. Thing is that ship has sailed and the media now chooses sides.
There is one major qualification. Unbridled Narcissism. Normal people don't think of themselves the way politicians do. They recognize their own personal flaws, and understand that no one person can 'change the world.'
Maybe we should move to an "arranged marriage" situation. In my state we vote for Lt. Gov separately from Gov. Maybe we should be doing the same on the national level; vote for President separately from Vice Pres. Then they have to figure out how to work with each other rather than compete with each other which has been Harris' MO. She loathes the fact that the demented Biden is actually in the place she thinks she should be in.
You're absolutely correct that "[w]ithout accountability civilization is lost."
Lying -- like any other deeply antisocial behavior, including theft, murder, etc. -- can be justified by one "side" only when, say, (the human beings on) that side are under a genuine existential threat, and are so through no fault of its own. But then, of course, those sides are at war.
Among today's greatest threats to the West is that lying is being *normalized*, no longer an occasion that is duly punished once exposed. It now regularly supports, in tandem, such things as the murder widely justified through warmongering, and the theft justified in bankstering.
No, we got the Patriot Act. And the public keeps electing folks that aim to keep it operational--forever. Time for everyone to demand that be flushed down the toilet. That's how a functioning Republic would work.
You see, the real culprits here are not the neocons who installed the Patriot Act, greenlit a new level of surveillance state, and left a generation of soldiers dead or damaged.
The real culprit is the people who elected them, re-elected them, and continue to re-elect them. The solid half of the public--spanning both the GOP and the Dems-- who like to complain about the Bush/neocon wars now, but supported them with chest-beating enthusiasm, because they turned off their brains and let themselves be led around by a narrow, short-sighted jingoistic fever after 9-11.
As Carlin said, people claim "politicians suck!", but maybe, just maybe, they suck because something else sucks even more. Like...the public. The public sucks. (or at least about 60-70% of it)
I disagree. Those are all flavors of the executive branch. I still believe the free press to be the only legitimate 4th branch of government. However they've been MIA for decades now-- or (arguably) more. My goal is help Substack change that reality by being a paid and active subscriber. I appreciate everyone else here doing the same--regardless of their beliefs or opinions.
Thanks for speaking to my point. However, I doubt Trump showed any "new path[s]" during his tenure. He had 4 years to begin turning the aircraft carrier around. I didn't see it change course, substantively, one bit. The swamp stayed full to the brim.
There is no accountability at the FBI. Read the latest whitewash of how they handled the case against Nasser (the USA Gymnastics team doctor and pervert). There is no accountability in the DoD - look at all of the Generals that lied about what was going on in Afghanistan (or worse, didn't even know they were lying). Look at the cops in Uvalde, TX.
Millions suffered from the financial criminals and their enablers in government throughout the Western world. Millions thrown out of their home's by the criminal rule of law. Many of them black and the people re elected Obomber. Anyone who has any faith or hope in the system has my sympathy, you are beyond hope.
Thing is, those people being IN those homes was part of the scam. The crime wasn't throwing them out of the houses, the crime was giving them mortgage loans they couldn't realistically be expected to pay off.
And without an independent press to report it, there never will be accountability. This next election is desperate in two parts: First, I think the Dems can corrupt the voting process sufficiently to ensure they never lose again, but I don't think it's in place enough to cover the huge disgust people feel for their capitulation to the crazies in their party. Second, if they ever DO get in power again, the last bastion to fall with be the judicial system. Not sure how they're going to manage it, perhaps by "court-packing" and increasing the number of judges suddenly, when they hold all the appointment power.
They they will hold the culture, the press, the corporations, the universities and the judicial system. And we're done.
Here in CA we're already there with a one-party system, the Dems having achieved it with the jungle primary and unsupervised ballot boxes. Nutsom actually came out and said it; The republican party is done in CA.
I always found the "election was stolen" by Trump supporters childish and petulant, except that in a sense, they were right. The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting. What the Democrats and their allies in the FBI and media did is a different kind of election theft. They broke laws and abused government powers to delegitimize an opponent, spent years investigating him on nothing more than fiction, and awarded themselves prizes for journalism in the process.
The failure of the Democrats and the progressive institutional media to recognize that the loss of confidence by the conservative half in the voting process has less to do with wild theories of mysterious ballots and broken pipes on election night, but far more to do with that they clearly rigged the laws and abused government powers to take down a sitting president. After all, the same people who'd easily break laws and commit grave corruption are certainly people who'd have no problems with faking ballots because it'd be in the name of good. I don't think they necessarily did the latter, but they definitely did the former, and therein lies the problem and the massive lost of confidence by large numbers of Americans in the electoral system. And it automatically corrupts future elections too as long as nothing happens and the guilty parties simply walk away intact.
"The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting."
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Yet to this day nobody can explain why the swing states stopped counting when Trump only needed one or two more states, then in the morning those states were flipped based on numbers so lopsided they weren't repeated anywhere else in the country. In other words, Biden got exactly the votes he needed, exactly WHERE he needed them, and exactly WHEN he needed them.
And none of this has been explained at all. Instead the Democrats put up walls in DC, arrested anybody near 1/6, and have acted EXACTLY LIKE a group that stole the election.
Agree. I have no idea if there was actual large-scale vote malfeasance during the election. However, the way "the elite" have reacted seems exactly how someone would react if there was.
If something happened, it happened with Covid mail in ballots and ballot harvesting before Election Day. If Trump wasn’t a nimrod concerning bureaucracy, he would have had the DoJ investigating/cracking down on these practices years in advance of the election.
Absurd. "To this day" every one of the patently absurd arguments Trump's lackeys' trotted out as evidence of election theft have been explained ad nauseam. Just because you like to pretend that Trump's delusions are real does nothing to change this. Has "The Kraken" put in an appearance yet? Maybe you should send Sidney Powell some money so she can get that out at some point. Maybe call up Mike Lindell and see how his tireless investigation is going? Wasn't that going to rock everyone's world a while back? Hell, track down that guy who, back in 2016, was claiming that he had ALL the evidence of "millions" of illegal votes for Clinton in California. Millions I say! He was going to present the evidence and blow everyone's mind with The Truth, wasn't he?
Really? Because I still haven't seen a good explanation of GA kicking people out of the counting process and then pulling ballots from under tables to restart 'counting' when nobody was looking.
The 'fact checkers' simply state the ballots weren't in suitcases, so it's fine.
The 'fact checkers' state a whole lot more than that: No one was "kicked out" of the room. The people in the room were either 'cutters' (prepping ballots for scanning) or 'scanners' who were actually doing the scanning(counting). The 'cutters' had finished - all ballots were opened and placed back into the cases. They then left because THEIR WORK WAS DONE. Those aren't "witnesses" they are the workers. And they weren't "kicked out", they had finished and were leaving for the night. The scanners were just continuing to go about their business of SCANNING THE PREPARED BALLOTS. And every bit of this is attested to by the TRUMP SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS who were in charge of the process.
There. I did your homework for you. But you people always operate in bad faith. You never saw a "good explanation" because you never looked - just blindly accepted whatever OAN or Sidney Powell said.
I have the video that OAN showed right in front of me. Where are the "witnesses" being dragged out? I don't see anyone yelling or protesting or being escorted from the premises. I see some bored looking people going about their work. Where, exactly, in the video is the diabolical activity you allege? I assume you are the person whose been hiding the "Kraken"? Why haven't you released it yet? And as a reminder: you are several comments in now, and have presented no response besides, "Nuh uh!".
Seems odd that the assertions and caterwauling by Al Gore and the entire Democrat Party in 2000 were never met with much criticism but were encouraged and even sent to the Supreme Court for settlement. No nut job name calling for this hysterical mob. Many books were written by dissatisfied Democrats about this election without them being castigated and attacked.
While this 2020 election might have been on the up and up it sure had all the hallmarks of a rigged enterprise. The average individual, whose confidence is necessary, sure did not think Mr. Biden was a stellar example of an 83 million voter winner.
While ALL the Trump haters did not car one way or the other but only wanted him gone even if it were a stolen election. Not ONE Democrat even questioned one vote tells you all you need to know about that Parties concern for an honest election. They had scores of attorneys and Judges standing by in the event that Trump was declared the winner.
This was not an election but a managed stage show to rush Biden's installation into the Office of the Presidency. Even the video evidence of 2000 Mules does not change ONE Democrats mind. That should tell you all you need to know about their unbiased take on this election. Move on nothing to see here. If 2000 Mules were made by Mike Moore after a Biden loss there would be the usual riots and intimidation by the Communists and their Democrat pawns.
In 2000, the entire election came down to a few hundred votes in one state. And the state's governor was the brother of one of the candidates. If there was ever a time for adjudication, this was it.
And yes, Al Gore, who was claiming even before the election that if he lost it was because Bush cheated, then ran around the country filing a series of lawsuits that got laughed out of court for their absurd claims, called up Secretary's of State to demand that they "find some more votes", and after the Supreme Court ruled, tried to overthrow the results, tried to get Democrats to make up fake sets of electors, AND sent a violent mob to attack Congress and stop the certification... Oh wait. He did NONE of those things. He called up Bush and conceded.
Oh no! Democrats wrote angry books afterwards!? Inconceivable! What horror! How dare they!
Hmm, next, you babble nonsensically for s couple paragraphs about the "average individual, whose confidence is necessary"(this sounds like a bad Japanese to English translation: "I'm disrespectful to dirt! Can't you see I'm serious?") and some silly movie from that guy, whatisname, that Indian-American ex con who only dumb right wingers like. John Philip Sousa, right? Didn't he play in a marching band or something?
Anyway, then you are going on about why didn't Democrats challenge any votes, I think. I mean, they won. Why bother challenging anything? And the Democrats had "scores of attorneys and Judges standing by"? Really? Where? Were they all hiding in a closet? Maybe stashed in bunkers? If you are going to just make things up, it helps to add some details. They lend increased verisimilitude.
Meanwhile, reality showed us that Trump REALLY DID have a bunch of lawyers standing by in the event that Biden was declared the winner. Project much?
You are really coming off badly here. I recommend reading your post a few times BEFORE making it public.
Maybe they didn’t steal the election. But Donna Brazil’s book concedes that rigging and stealing elections is in their tool box. Your condescending makes you look even dumber than you actually are. Keep talking so as to confirm.
You can't explain away 2000 Mules. I think Trump's an unethical grifting moron, and I also believe, as the Time article pretty much stated in an almost visible watermark, that the DNC, with a long history of urban election chicanery, used COVID and absentee ballots to produce votes.
And I also believe Gore would have won that election had SCOTUS not stopped the counting, and think we'd have been in a much better position had he won instead of the Neocons.
Lol. I don't need to explain away any of Dinesh D'Souza's ridiculous movies. They are not now, nor have ever been, of any value whatsoever, either factually or artistically. There are so many superior options, why waste precious time on something so far beneath me?
And what Time article "proves" that the 2020 election was stolen? Seems like that would be big news.
Oh, and of course you like to "believe" the election was stolen but can't produce a shred of evidence. Meanwhile, it doesn't seem at all weird to you that Trump, the least popular president ever, who despite being enormously out-voted and barely squeaked into office because of the Electoral College, and spent the next 4 years basically pissing off everyone except his little cult, somehow got 74 million votes when EVERYONE was turning out to vote against him? Sounds a lot more likely that Republicans were manufacturing votes.
Finally, as far as humility goes, there is nothing arrogant about blowing up pathetic arguments with extreme prejudice. Rather, it is richly deserved and those making said pathetic arguments ought to be properly humiliated into, hopefully, shutting up until they gain some measure of intelligence and maturity, and are capable of presenting a worthwhile case.
Half of those judges who adjuncticated the election irregularities (ones only Trump officials saw) were republicans. The 2000 mules? i've seen it and thought it was hilarious, how anyone could imagine that video footage (which is rather easily created these days, but even if it weren't) presented anything like 'proof'. Also, the so called 'data' were given to Georgia election officials (all republicans) who examined it and said there is no there there. It is fabricated. You don't need evidence for an opinion, but you actually need evidence in a court of law. It is also hilarious you think because you cannot imagine Joe Biden being the winner, it must not have happened. Trump lost; get over it.
After 2016 huge segments of American society never accepted Trump's win and continued to believe with all their hearts that he stole the election with Russian help.
Delusional thinking is probably equally divided within the political junky world. With modern instant communication and the social media platforms this tendency is multiplied by 1000 so we have this ongoing cacophony of disgruntled voters. Not sure it it will be any different next election.
Very, very simple to discredit. Since they claimed to have the geo-location of the cell phones of the mules just go and interview a sampling of those identified and show them the video and request an explanation. If they don't have one and are instructed as to their legal jeopardy some might just give up the scheme and who paid them or gave them the ballots to dump.
Or if this is made up it will become obvious instantly and the law suits can begin. Lot of money being made by the producers and if fake it would be nice to relieve them of it. But seems no one wants to make a pile of money challenging the movie. Odd lawyers are always skulking around like vultures when there is easy money to be made. Any law suits filed yet?
If you are speaking of the 2020 presidential election, the MSM stopped even pretending to be objective, and Big Tech openly had its finger on the scale.
I think the key word is RIGGED ... as in, the entire elite establishment (the media, the DNC, academia, Hollywood, Dem-controlled state governments, Big Tech) all conspired together to tilt the election in one party's favor. It's astonishing Trump almost pulled it off, against all those odds.
That said, I also believe it was stolen as well. When a candidate wins 19 of the 20 bellweather counties that have accurately predicted the election winner for four decades in a row .... and then that candidate somehow loses when all the late night, last minute, 'wow, look here's another box of ballots' come in ... well you know it was stolen. And I'll go to my grave knowing that.
Well, in all fairness, the facts have not been allowed the light of day in court. So you'll go to your grave believing that. If it's any consolation, I will too.
There is reliable evidence that Wisconsin was stolen. The audit of voting in 91 nursing homes found 95+% voting in all of them. Normally the turnout for all voters is less than 70% and in nursing homes many people are incapable of voting.
"Last November, the Racine County Sheriff's Office requested that the state attorney general investigate alleged illegal directives issued by the Wisconsin Election Commission to bypass the state's Special Voting Deputy process, under which the clerk of each municipality brings "enough ballots to each residential care facility to vote" and "assist the voters with the voting process."
Instead, the commission had absentee ballots sent to nursing home residents by mail. The sheriff found that facility staff, under the guise of "helping" residents to vote, coaxed votes from some whom family members believed incapable of voting."
The increased voting in these heavily Democratic counties, funded by Zuckerberg, would have produced enough votes for Biden/Harris to give them their ~20,000 majority.
"....The sheriff found that facility staff, under the guise of "helping" residents to vote, coaxed votes from some whom family members believed incapable of voting."
"Straighten up old timer---we're gonna need you to put a little checkmark inside the little box marked "Biden," or you can say goodbye to your Sunday night sundae and hello to double enemas every Wednesday..."
Is Donna Braziles confession made up? The DNC v Sanders was in the bag for HRC, never prosecuted or convicted, so it stands to reason they would never try to rig a general election? Maybe they didn’t but the “none of this is true of course “ as rebuttal infers that of course they did.
I appreciate very much what you wrote. And you are correct - the deception definitely affected not on the 2020 election, but the 2018 misterms. Not to mention the media's collusion to bury the story of Hunter Biden's laptop contents showing Biden family corruption. All of those things can affect elections. However, there was a ton of election fraud, voter fraud, and election theft that occurred in 2020.
Have you seen "2000 Mules" yet? Watch it. There was pervasive multi-state highly coordinated systemic election theft. And the documentary covers only one aspect of the the voter fraud - ballot trafficking. There were many other ways the Dems cheated - too many ways to write about here. There's a massive amount of evidence, but it is all censored and suppressed. Dominion voting machines were completely manipulated; false adjudication; mail in ballots, no signature verifications, destroying results that are mandated to be preserved for 22 months after an election, trucks bringing ballots across state lines to use in other states, breaking chain of custody, changing election laws that only the legislature for each state is charged with doing, censoring people who justifiably spoke out and questioned the results on social media, and more. The 2020 election was 100% stolen.
The idea of trucking ballots from States where Democrats win by large margins is a direct result of a common complaint within Democratic circles. " We always run up large margins in deep blue States but can't transfer those numbers to States where we need to win the necessary electoral votes to swing the election".
Well they found a very simple way by just shipping them to States necessary to win the necessary Electoral College votes needed to surpass 270 number. Simple and genius at the same time. Might be a good time to color code ballots or place a State identifying number on them. Problem solved.
All the ballots cast were actually voted for Biden but they were not within the States in which the voters actually lived. How would anyone really know? The crazy numbers of bellwether counties that oddly switched from Trump to Biden might be an outward sign of that type of election fraud. Also the over voting that was 90 to 110 percent of registered voters is a sure sign of ballots from outside the county being added to the total. Clever by half.
2000 Mules. Massive data rigorously analyzed raise serious questions. If nothing else, have hearings? As others have said, the immediate "shut up you're crazy!" sounds like a batterer, rapist, or abusive parent who knows they're guilty and want to discredit and disempower the victim immediately.
Hillary and the Democrats filed suit against Triump, his cronies and the Russians THREE times over interference in the 2016 Election results. Eventually John G. Koeltl, United States District Judge, a Clinton appointee, dismissed all three cases with prejudice, and noted:
" … The DNC has now had three chances to plead a viable complaint and it is not clear how the DNC could plead around the fundamental defects in the current complaint. … nor is there any reason to believe that the fundamental defects in the Second Amended Complaint can be cured." https://www.lawfareblog.com/judge-dismisses-dnc-suit-against-trump-campaign-and-others
Let's not pretend that Trump has a monopoly on "the Election was stolen" or being "childish and petulent". Unfortunately there isn't much difference between Trump and Hillary, except Hillary had all the forces of the Establishment arrayed on her side, who were willing, and ABLE (unlike Trump's clownish army), to break rules and laws on her benefit.
They didn't take down a "sitting" president. Trump served his full term. What happened was an illegitimate president was "elected" by an illegal voting process engineered by State Governers under perpetual false States of Emergency.
Well, as you say, it may not have been literal fraudulent ballots in the 2020 election...and yet...when confronted with accusations, do the Dems EVER explain them away or reassure their accusers that elections are conducted freely and fairly??
HELL NO! Instead they lobby for ever-less-secure registered voter rolls and identity verification, using the racist claim that "Them po' darkies can't get online to register." or "They too dumb to get a ID."
...and it goes a long way toward explaining Jan. 6th, "the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War!!!!" Situational ethics/morality at its finest.
Most of the American public doesn’t have the necessary attention span to absorb/process this information. Moreover the cognitive dissonance that articles such as this generate in liberal circles guarantee that easily 50% of those that are capable of comprehending it will ignore the evidence out of hand. This story (possibly the most important of the last 50 years) will be relegated to the dustbin of time due in large part to the myopia created by the most pernicious mental disorder ever suffered by the entire US population created by the Clinton’s.
I supported Hillary. I donated money. I went to rallies. The day Comey gave the speech about the emails in July 2016 I pulled the car over and sat stunned. I reviewed everything I'd believed and realized how much I'd passed off due to my wanting not to know. So, I am aware that the cognitive dissonance was great. (kind of how I felt when purgatory was dropped).I don't know why that moment destroyed my belief, but I have paid attention ever since and increasingly bereft.
I completely empathize. I never liked Hillary but I remember my first awareness that I was drifting away from the left. The day I learned that Obama ordered drone strikes that killed civilians in 7 different countries. I know he wasn’t the first - but these actions were so completely divorced from what he pretended to be. then I thought of Benghazi. Then the bailouts of financial criminals. And then his position that Snowden was a traitor. And then the damage that he did to the Constitution.
I think the overall breaking point for me was 2 years ago - whether it was mask mandates and lockdowns or George Floyd riots I can’t say for sure. But as of today I suppose I am “right wing” - I never would have imagined it.
I had a mentor when I was younger, and we started a political conversation and I will never forget what he said to me: "If you're not left when your twenty, you have no heart, if you're not right when your forty, you have no brain lol
This is a well known and nonsensical trope. You don’t think that Democrats are on the left? And which right are you referring to? The 40 Republicans who voted against the war or the majority of them?
Guess I wasn't being that specific, just trying to inject a little humor. I do believe though that the current Dem party is way left and the Rep party is having a battle to see who they are. Snobby country clubbers, or, free market, merit-based joe six packers
I think women, esp. wanted to believe, but looking back with clarity all the evidence was there. It was very difficult at the time. I am sure the flat earthers felt the same when Columbus...
That because your looking for someone else to do the work for you in our Republic. This is why the old adage "If you want it done right, do it yourself" applies.
I also went to a rally in San Jose and voted for Bill in his first term, but saw the direction he was going before the end of it. Everything since has confirmed my suspicions (but it was worse than I could ever have imagined in terms of depth of hypocrisy) about the direction of the Dem Party and the extent of it's corporate version's (DLC) cynicism. However, you deserve credit for having allowed the evidence to overcome your assumptions/hopes. Finally, know that there are tens of millions of us disenfranchised former Dems and we're all bereft too.
We don’t want to think the people leading us can lie without remorse. Who and what can we trust if that’s true? I see only one remedy: judge actions not words. Actions must be accompanied by accountability. No quarter given for good intentions. No quarter for the incompetence excuse. If you want power, accountability is the deal. Well, I can dream.
I think the issue is that people want "leaders" instead of "representatives." It's a representational democracy. The President is the figurehead representing the electors chosen by the people. The Senators represent their states. The REPRESENTATIVES in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES represent their district. At least that's the way it reads in the Constitution. Ain't no mention of LEADERS in that document.
Sincere question: are you one of the few people (Democrat or Republican) that did not believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton sold pardons - for actual cash to their relatives - or are you one of the many (all Democrats) who just forgot or stopped caring by 2016?
I can't remember how I justified that and so many other things but I guess it is like any relationship...you overlook if you think the marriage needs to last. I don't feel betrayed so much as dim.
You're in good company,. This is,similar to what happened to Phaedrus in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". His crystallizing issue was quality, yours happened to be truthfulness.
Plus, the Progressive Press will insure that any truth that does not support the Narrative will die in darkness. WAPO is particularly egregious in this regard, as its faithful readership has sucked from its liberal teat for so long that any truth that shows Trump was actually wronged won’t even see the light of day.
Part of that has to do with how much the press has invested in the current uniparty blob. Bezos has supported how many reps, senators and other elected officials? Same for Jobs's Wife?
When politics replaces your religion some people are immune to logic and reason and indulge in cult like thinking. Seems to be more prevalent with leftists who live politics 24/7. Both sides just ignore that which does not fit their world view. Most cannot change their minds regardless of what is put before them. It is as pointless as arguing religion with a fanatic.
yeah, i often feel that one of the big differences bw liberals and conservatives is that conservatives get their religion elsewhere, whereas for liberals Politics is their Religion.
That's why they exist in a permanent state of outrage over every emergency du jour, why they have RBG votive candles, why they thought Obama was a holy prophet, why they kneeled for George Floyd, why political protest has become a mandatory ritual on every campus, and why they think every election is the Most Important of Our Lifetimes.
I think it's partially based on the honest (yet both received and belied by evidence) belief that if only they elect the right representatives w the right beliefs and the right level of funding, some sort of utopia will appear. And I guess they devoutly believe this like it's a Second Coming, always just up around the bend.
Progressivism is absolutely a pseudoreligion -- separation of the world into good people and bad people, no questioning of dogma permitted, heretics and apostates must be excommunicated and shunned, etc. This is why progressives are immune to facts, logic and reason when they contradict the holy narrative -- “it is impossible to reason a man out of a position he has not arrived at through reason”.
Having faith/religion/belief in God is the only way (for me) to get through where we are in 2022 in the US. You outline the liberal politics as religion beautifully and it validates my position to run as far and as fast away from that as possible. Politicians come and go, God does not.
I think you’re wrong. But it only gets its due if we insert it into the bubble at every opportunity. Two years ago I was one of them. I’m ashamed. But I’m hopeful there are a considerable amount of people like me. The story didn’t fizzle. It was crushed by Covid. Someone wants this story told or Durham wouldn’t be doing the work.
Remembering Matt doesn't like Trump, it proves his journalistic integrity. Us 'conspiracy theorists' knew this was BS within weeks of it hitting the newswaves. Our spidey senses have grown sharp in the era of corruption.
Many people don't detest Trump and voted for him. That is Democracy. Many others detested Obama with all their minds and hearts but he won the election. Whom individuals detest is of little import except as cocktail party chatter. Votes by the populace of individual States is how we elect our POTUS. FDR was a very divisive President who was hated in many quarters yet history seems to have forgotten and paints him as America's grandfather of that time. This like or dislike game is a never-ending preoccupation with the 24/7 self important political chatting class.
I am not arguing any of that. My point is that the russiagate conspiracy theory was ludicrous on its face, and one need not be a Trump supporter to recognize this.
I agree but is mass delusion that easy to "sell" to a nation with a free press? I could name many instances that the press and government "cooperated" to sell this or that war and were never held to account. when exposed., I guess selling the Russian Hoax was just another variation of how unnecessary wars are sold to the American public. The playbook was already written and it was just necessary to dust it off and insert the names and themes. Pretty sad.
I take my mice where I find them, without concern for ideology (I'm hungry, damnit!) and Noam Chomsky's takedown of Andrew Marr explains the situation as well as any other I have seen.
Marr: “How can you know that I’m self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are..”
Chomsky: “I’m not saying your self censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
Many people don't LIKE Trump and still voted for him, because he was the lesser of two evils. This is the part that MSM and DNC (and the rump GOP) don't understand.
Many people intuitively hate ALL candidates for President. They are all insipid, uninspiring drones who exist to enrich themselves at the expense of the populace. Including Trump. Except for this one thing - he was more honest about that than the others. Ivanka was on the USA Payroll. Hunter hid the fact that his Dad was on the Chinese Payroll.
Not only should she be banned, but she should have to pay for damages too (the entire Clinton Foundation resources). If we can sanction other countries foreign held assets in US banks, then we can seize all of the Clinton assets for this massive covert intelligence fuck up.
In fact, I seem to remember Rumsfeld saying in a speech the day before 9/11, that the US Defense department "cannot track" $2.3 Trillion in transactions. They lost the public's money and trust --- lets put the charges to the Clinton's, they owe the public after selling them out for the last 30 years.
Yeah, how well would it have gone for Hillary if the Uranium One deal was dissected with such zeal. Do the math-- no congress-critter can make 160k-250k/yr and end up being worth in the 10s to 100s of millions. Oh yeah, that reminded me of Hillary's novice cattle trade deal way back that miraculously ended up well for her. Lady Macbeth is angry the throne was not rigged for her as it was "supposed to be".
If I have learned anything thru all "this" it's that the FBI, NSA, CIA, Homeland "Security" are the enforcement arm of The Swamp. They are complicit, and at best are just worthless and worse are just the modern day Stasi.
In addition they are a complete waste of billions of dollars. Cut their budgets by 75% until they just rot away. Other agencies can do a better job for way less money.
They represent the new branches of the Federal Government. Part of the Executive Branch, they make their own laws and change them at will. The US Constitution is a barbaric relic of a bygone error. Totalitarian rule is the law of the land. I have not much of an idea how to undo it. Likely it is so pervasive it has become a life form.
Bureaucracy, the governments life blood, is in fact a type of virus life form. Like a cancer it consumes its host at some point. Its' unbridled growth is fed by the apparent bottomless pit of taxpayer money. Has the U.S. government ever in its' long lifetime ever grown smaller or contracted/. Has any agency ever been closed or become obsolete in the last 100 years? Unstructured and unfettered growth is the hallmark of a cancer.
Ignoring a truth is like ignoring an on coming train. it really does not care what you believe it will crush you like a bug and keep moving on as if you never existed. So too with economic reality.
Andrew Jackson was the last U.S. President to leave office (1837) with the country's finances in the black. Do the math, we are now in 2022 with unplayable debt.
In the event my comment is interpreted as I think the U.S. Constitution is a barbaric relic, this could not be further from the truth. I believe some others view it in this manner, I do not.
We have a Constitutional Republic. A very unique form of government on this planet. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin 'you have a Republic, if you can keep it' .
Plus the corrupt Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which makes sure that anyone who is not complicit is kept out of the leadership of the intelligence agencies
The FISA court is what shocked me the most. The attorneys are bound to present exculpatory information and admitted they didn't. I thought they would be disbarred for that, because they are supposed to be protecting American citizens. The attorney got a slap on the wrist and is still practicing law which tells me the FISA courts don't give a sh** and are colluding with the 3 letter agencies to violate citizens' right to privacy. It still makes me want to cry.
The release of the Horowitz report coincides with the day that I realized that the deep state is not a myth. Hillary Clinton, as the presumptive Commander in Chief, was able to manipulate the levers of power against her political adversary using fraudulent evidence to provoke an official investigation.
They fabricated even more evidence that the FBI lied about in order to obtain a secret FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and later, the administration. They repeatedly used former, and now current, government operatives to then lie about it for years. That resulted in not one, but two impeachment hearings that have further deteriorated public trust in our institutions.
The years long campaign has also allowed them to capture technocratic fascist control over every major media platform on the planet. They are now able to police speech all because they have been screaming about disinformation from the rooftops all while they peddle state-sanctioned disinformation.
They have done more collective harm to Americans faith in elections than Russia could ever hope for. And out of spite for crimes that were completely made up, they are now using Ukrainians as cannon fodder to try to destabilize an enemy. I just don't see how Watergate even comes close to that. I really don't.
I'd like to print this out and post it on my wall. VERY succinct description. I commend you for describing this so accurately, since it takes a lot of honest rage to be able to grasp what has happened. It's hard enough to read about it, let alone write out the truth.
They would include active and passive stakeholders who shared a mutual hatred for Trump. I see no reason to believe that it was purely driven by the DNC. The uniparty would have an interest in these efforts even if they didn't agree on outcomes. They are the ruling class. No one wants to have a fly in their ointment and that is exactly what Trump was.
The FBI DoJ and CIA and others in the Administrative State as well as the Media and Academia, the Universities, and Hollywood and even the Unions were all complicit.
They knew, or should have known and those who did not know did not want to know what they could know if they wanted to know.
Yes, the deep state is filled with those who were either active participants or they were complicit. The media apparatus is largely just a PR firm for government organizations. Bootlickers feeding off of mother mayhem to enrich themselves and satisfy their craving for power. It is all so thoroughly out in the open. I will never be able to unsee it.
I have this notepad on the kitchen table where I scribble random thoughts, story ideas, etc. it’s like one of my high school notebooks, minus the Mrs. “crush of the week.” Anyway - on 5/21 at 10:30am I scratched down, “when will rolling black/brown outs begin?” And no, I wasn’t watching news or scrolling social media. Point being it’s perfectly obvious that this is one of the next steps in the bludgeoning death of America. Sorry - I’m fresh out of hope and I don’t think I’m alone.
Not so fast, have you forgotten BLM, woke, the trans agenda and and; All of them setting us up for COVID-19 and now, the biggest fraud yet, the most indoctrination thing yet. Of course, I'm speaking about Ukraine which has little to do with the Ukraine which they're admitting a couple of months in. This is more than the usual distraction; this is about USA hegemony and extending it in perpetuity. Europe has proven to be a 700M vassal State of the empire. Like WWI, this is about financial vs. industrial capitalism. About our system of inverted totalitarianism vs the the government on top of the banksters and the ruling classes in Russia and to a much greater degree in China where they control the banksters and are cutting down and even punishing corruption.
The hypocrisy of the media is so widespread that discussing it is banal.
The problem for the left's Ministry of Truth is that nobody on the right is even engaging with the left's media apparatus. So they can spin the stories however they want, but they are only preaching to the choir.
I sometimes go on to leftist message boards, and 90% of their outrage du jour is something I haven't even heard about. We are truly silo-ed at this point.
Yes--how often I have read about someone who posts a comment on a NYT article multiple times but never sees that comment enter into the online conversation, moderated out of existence, basically. And preaching to the choir is right. I have a lot of friends in NYC, had dinner with a couple of them the other weekend, and they told me that in their opinion the Times was being too harsh with Biden, that he shouldn't be judged by the same standards as Trump, whatever the hell that means.
Yes we are. I mention this and then sound like a crazy person to so many people who think Slate and Maddow are oracles. It's not just this narrative it is anything that they publish now untrusted.
Boom
Did you have to go back and watch all of Maddow's shows during the Trump presidency to put together that montage? I hope TK News has a good medical plan because you're going to need some therapy.
Nice work Matt & Matt! :)
During the Trump era they used to say "the walls are closing in". LOL
Heck yeah! I’d forgotten that dum-de-dum-dump phrase.
People are so tired of the stupid games, the lies, the spin, the dirty politics. I stopped listening to anything state propagandists have to say (which includes most cable news and traditional news outlets). I only read their garbage to know what is definitely NOT true. That's why they are so desperate to take back control over the narrative (Ministry of Truth-style) and why they get zero dollars from me anymore.
Yo Orf, your videos are like a like a lifesaving raft to me. I'm out here drowning in an endless sea of bullshit. Keep them coming please. You had me at, "Weapons weapons weapons weapons systems weapons S200s S300s weapons."
PS Weapons
While I don't spend much time watching mainstream news, every time I watch one of your surreal creepy mash-ups I have to wonder why anyone else bothers.
^^russianbot
Very mature gene. I’m guessing you took the blue pill?
Uh...I was of the impression that some Democrats, somewhere, had some kind of involvement with, you know, the whole "Get Trump Out of Office" thing. Pretty sure they thought they did too.
But all this time...they were being puppeteered by "Bush Republicans"??
Frenkley, that sounds preposterous. Is it some version of a "QAnon"? I don't know what that is either but I hear it's pretty preposterous too.
I once read that somewhere a village was missing it’s idiot. I think we found it!
I just find it interesting when someone complains that people have derangement syndrome when they themselves suffer from derangement syndrome.
It’s a case of “if people I disagree with have X then X is bad. If I have X then X is good” even though X is the same thing. Said more concisely, you are a hypocrite.
sexually impotent dreamer looking for things that may excite himself
Keep drinking the Kool Ade Mr. Frenkle.
Wow, how clever. Did you finish elementary school? Your language conveys a lack of intellect and educational achievement.
What level of educational achievement do you think is required for tard-flaming?
An imbecile speaks
The worst part for me is that our tax dollars pay the corrupt on both sides. If you had to rate what we receive against what we pay, I think it is the world largest grift. And this administration is a house of cards built on love me daddy malcontents. For real, who can argue that the Clinton’s are not as slimy as anyone in politics has ever been. And what Brandon and his puppeteers have been able to set in motion will stay with us for a very long time. Devastating consequences from the elite party of inclusion who somehow manages to one up the last disaster.
The problem is that Bush and the Patriot Act (writen by Biden, but failed to advance without "a big event" like 9/11) was an Establishment Coup, not a Republican Coup; Big Democrats like Hillary and Biden (and Schiff) were complicit with the McCain, Bush and Cheney Republicans.
While I did not and do not support Trump (why is this obligatory?), the Establishment of both parties undercut him as a Duly Elected President which has changed our political system forever. Our Government bureaucrats are supposed to be apolitical; they're not. That is the crux of our problem, unelected Democrats, at the moment (it will be Republicans' turn again soon enough), acting out their politics with no accountability.
thanks for saying this...very true.
So is assassinating American citizens (without due process I might add) considered to be cleaning up Bush's messes? How about appointing Comey as head of the FBI? His handling of Syria? Maybe that's it? Or was it tossing piles and piles of cash at the auto industry? Or maybe it was the continuation, and exponential growth in the use of FISA courts and spying on American citizens? Was that part of the cleanup of Bush's messes?
You sound like you went to a Democratic party fundraiser and have a tattoo. The Bush mess was/is a giant mess. Sadly, Biden and Obama doubled down on the same mess. The drone strike king (Obama) and the man with many fingers in many pies (Biden...how soon we forget his family's deep involvement in grifting off of Ukraine...notice how no one asks these questions in a press conference?). It's one long conga line of b.s. artists. But yeah, it's the Republicans.
Sadly, we may learn that the electorate will move Dems out, and Repubs back in so we can have a repeat of the Bush years.
For someone who complains about Matt having CDS it certainly appears like you have BDS. But that’s just an observation.
Now... even imbecilic humor has its place.
You still believe Russian collusion which means you are a total fucking moron
Give him a break. Leaving a cult is difficult.
Your two half assed blog entries totally have me foo-- I mean they totally lend you credibility. Hello completely normal Trump Republican! Nice to meet you! Cary on redpilling those Clinton derangement syndrome conspiracy nutters. For Trump.
I prefer Killary.
Dude, not even a non-binary, Hermaphrodite has Cliton Derangement syndrome.
Did you get lost on you way to the David Frum substack?
Unfortunately i will miss being assraped by Bush GOP as i am Canadian.
Amusingly, Trudeau is catcher NOT a pitcher. I am positive Freeland, as a woman of NO principles, both pitches (with a strap-on) and catches.
Stand in front of a mirror and say that to your reflection ten times with the same fervor you had when you first wrote it here. Now tell yourself that you typed these words to a complete stranger and plead with yourself to seek therapy.
Tissue?
Isn't it politically incorrect to keep howling "assraped" ?
The butthurt is deep in this one ^^
How is Greenwald a "Bush Buttboy" and why do you insist on using stupid, tired, 12th grade homophobic slurs as your insult of choice?
P.S. I have no problem defending his record on Bush wars even though I'm actually banned from Greenwald's Substack for 99 years because I called him out on a glaring blind spot I encountered regarding his and The Intercept's (intentional non) coverage of the war on Syria. He refused to acknowledge it and got all thin skinned. There are some Wikileaks cables that showed Greenwald and his editorial staff almost certainly were aware of some of the American and Gulf Monarchy plans for Syria. No other outlet covered them either. I'm convinced that there was a CIA or NSA hand guiding the decision not to publish those particular leaks.
He doesn't blame Bush's wars on Hillary, dude. He blamed the NATO bombing of Libya on Hillary's State Department, the continuation of the boondoggle in Afghanistan, the war on Syria and the surge in Iraq on the Obama administration. In fact Obama and Hillary were carrying out parts of the PNAC plan which was signed off on by her husband. Find me one example of Greenwald blaming Bush's wars on Hillary or Obummer.
I might add that the Syrian civil war was in reality - to the Obama administration and Hillary - another poke at Russia's ability to project its own power into the oceans. When Obama's folks succeeded in carrying out the coup in Ukraine, Russia saw the writing on the wall and annexed Crimea because that is their OTHER warm water naval port.
Moral of the story: Bush, Obummer, Hillary are all warmongers. Trump would have had his own war on either Iran or Venezuela if he was elected to a 2nd term.
Regardless you never told us how Greenwald is a Bush "Buttboy" - care to explain with links to things he's actually said?
You have never one anything
Thank you
You can't be serious. 4+ years of this b.s. polluting the airwaves, the daily countdowns, the walls closing in and here we are, just as some of suspected, utter garbage. Both parties deserve scrutiny as they pile drive the US experiment into the dirt. Each party has contributed to the mess. It's ok to shine a bright light to watch the rats scramble for cover. thanks Matt. If only there was a way to eliminate both political parties...and drive the $ out of the election process.
….And drive the $ out of politics.
Please eat a bag of dicks.
Is he fully clothed?
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. - Voltaire
Voltaire could really write some great quips. Not sure what he'd say about today's age. Possibly that automatic espresso makers were great (he had quite the coffee habit), but otherwise that we were governed by a class of violent, greedy chimps.
What have chimps ever done to you?
I think people need to do less things to chimps. You know where monkeypox comes from?
I got into this discussion/argument with a Ghanaian professor of mine about AIDS. He was like “Everyone thinks Africans run around having sex with monkeys” and I was like “As a stereotype that is wrong, but in a continent of 1 billion people, there are probably at least 4 or 5 sick pervs out there”, and he conceded the point.
Jumped on my bed, until the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" Very irritating. Chimps said federal regulations required inspection and testing of bed for spring safety. Also found my CO2 emissions, when I exhale, to be a global warming threat to the planet. Ordered me to cease my pollution immediately, after finding out I'm a Chicago area Republican. "When I die and they lay me to rest, gonna vote in the way that's the best" for the Democrat Chicago Machine.
Yup, greedy chimps with bad cases of “Money Pox” ..
Voltaire? Is that French for, chicken shit excuse? I was going to do the right thing but then my Voltaire flared up. Less Voltaire, more Snowden. I was tempted to go along to get along. But I found my inner Snowden.
Actually Snowden is a fine example of Voltaire's point.
So why be sad about the consequences of being a little bitch in a little bitch culture? Isn’t there something on tv? The only thing worse than bad people doing bad things is when good people stand by and watch.
Chuck, you are late to the party and all this sentiment and aggression would have been much utilized 20 years ago when the last vestiges of power were subsumed by the state. To die a pyrrhic but figurative death here trying to incite action is like ant taking on an army of elephants.
Again, it is positive you want to create change, but a huge piece of creating it is knowing the system, system history, and all of your adversaries. This means you have to do more work than stir up online emotional platitudes.
So why are we talking about it? Or why are you talking about it? To make sure no one has hope? Why? You already stated that there isn’t any. Are you anti hope? Are you shorting humanity? It’s not because of bad people. It’s because of cowards. Buck up.
I think Obama answered this better than I ever could. Hope is jargon. It's anti-analysis and more branding. But its presence or absence should not be the basis for action, because "AND I WILL STATE THIS AGAIN" --- power has seized control over all the levers of change. Read your Chris Hedges to understand all the ways this has happened under the neoliberal regime starting with the Reagan administration all the way to present.
Or read your Mirowski (Road to Mont Pelerin), if your analysis and prescription are wrong, you have wasted everyone's time and energy around you. It is not about hope. Solutions are about finding elite weaknesses and exploiting them, and then preparing for counter responses ---- and if you have not been paying attention a few counter responses are:
1. Stagnant wages for the last 30 years
2. Double digit inflation
3. Debt based economy creating a rentier class
4. Massive criminogenic systems in healthcare, finance, education, foreign policy
5. Unaffordable housing, gutting out the middle class, and creation of US sacrifice zones
6. Foreign wars of imperial dominance trying to maintain a unipolar world order
7. Intelligence and military contractor influence (CIA, NSA, FBI, and Blackwater)
8. Propaganda aimed at both parties (divide and conquer)
9. Privatization schemes, Cryptocurrencies, and massive un-prosecuted fraud
10. Loss of the dollar hegemony and world's reserve currency
11. Pissing off the rest of the world so that it makes nuclear conflict more likely.
12. Climate inaction, Drug Markets supported, and Corrupt Policing
13. Failure to create an effective policy to combat a deadly pandemic
They have been sticking it to the public for a long time --- in fact, British parliament labor leader Tony Benn said it best --- Power does not want a healthy, well-informed, electorate capable of democratic rule because if it allowed this, then they would be prosecuted for their crimes. Benn always said, if we can build armies/weapons to kill people, then we can build/fund projects to love them. When is the last time your government cared about you?
The truth is that the first rule of neoliberalism ---- please fuck off and die. Second rule is please do this faster. Third rule of neoliberalism is to see rules 1 & 2.
So you are here, signaling your superior bravery, rather than, you know, acting?
speaking of bitchy [snap-snap]
You need to slow your roll, killer. You sound like an aggrieved soft body clickety clacking on his keyboard all day. The quote was not cited as a warning. The past is prologue.
I was going to retort on one of your riveting articles comment section but the echo of that empty space would be distracting. I assure you my body fat can best be described as un-American. But even if I’m a cow I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying.
"I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying," says the titan of intellect with the anonymous handle to the guy using his real name.
Comment away, killer. Just don't hurt yourself. Is my willingness to suggest you slow your roll because you're embarrassing yourself offensive to you? Then slow your roll.
Chuck campbell? That’s anonymous? Ok. You’re assertion that if I were not a specimen my thoughts are somehow less relevant (I am a specimen) . But my intellect is at best borderline. My consternation is the result of super intelligent people on this thread (not you) acting as if we are powerless. I’m relatively new to Taibi etc. but the eeyore ass drivel on this comment thread speaks to why we are where we are. All the indicators suggest that historical “consent manufactures” are being discarded as liars. All the sincere smart people ( not you) are winning and are on the verge of meaningful change. Is that ok super star? Or should I jump in the box car with the other chicken little fucks? I’m happy to embarrass myself. Or am I embarrassing others by exposing their big brains( not you) and their lack of resolve?
LOL. Type Chuck Campbell into Google, friend. How this is not obvious to you is interesting in itself, but "Chuck Campbell" is in the same taxonomy of common names as "Mike Jones" and "John Smith."
I have no problem with your perspective. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with much of it. But when you come out like John Wayne and immediately accuse me of a "chicken shit excuse" just because I shared a single Voltaire quote? Yeah, I'm going to tell you to pump your brakes.
My fav Voltaire quote; “Common sense is not so common”
This is a wonderful concise record of what went down. It really does make you wonder about our government and the media. I remember thinking during Russia gate when will the madness stop. It did stop and then we got Covid madness and now we have Ukrainian madness where our government is using Ukrainian citizens as cannon fodder. Thank you for fighting the good fight. Keep up the good work
Don’t forget monkeypox madness!
But first, test all the nursery school kids for Monkeypox.
Mask up!
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Good work indeed and you make it interesting. Unfortunately, I sincerely doubt that 1% of the population could or would ready the entire piece. Only interested in spectacle. That, of course is why you do it as a podcast. Now, people giving up reading.. that is scary!
I would rather read the article, than watch a video.
You need to grow up douchebag.
You’re an illiterate emotionally challenged child. Grow up. Last warning.
The damage done is incalculable and yet none are held accountable. They're already reporting Sussman's lawyers are saying, "So what?" Doesn't matter that he lied. After all Hillary and all the ABC government officials have lied repeatedly under oath before congress.
Without accountability civilization is lost.
The damage includes the election of the most incompetent, demented President in our history, the least qualified VP, and cabinet officials who are totally unqualified for their jobs. Open borders, sky high inflation and out of control crime. All of this started in the Clinton campaign offices back in 2015.
This is what the slow motion suicide of the Democrat Party looks like. The media is already dead to most thinking Americans but they are too stupid to just lay down. A new paradigm is emerging and reporters like Glenn, Mike Taibbi, Dan Bongino and others will be the tourchbeares in the coming decade. Quoting any legacy media as proof of anything is a sure way to be laughed out of the room. History will marvel at the complete clueless and hubris ridden institutions that existed during the first decades of the 21st Century.
The last 6, 7, however many years has seen one pretty big change in my behavior. I no longer consume "news" in nearly the quantity I used to.
Right now, sitting at my desk, the house is silent. Wouldn't have been, Morning Edition would have been running.
I was a news junkie from the mid 80s. Back when the cool kids listened to public radio. I was "informed", I knew what was up! For years before kids our Sunday routine was to grab the local papers (Detroit News and Free Press) and the Sunday NYT, go to Bob's Big Boy, and take up a table for quite a while reading the papers over coffee and breakfast.
Consumption continued for decades. I love history; spent two years in graduate school early this century thinking I wanted to be a history teacher. Till I discovered how batshit crazy "the academy" is. (the willful destruction of language/meaning shocked me.) Did I really want to hang with these people as "colleagues" for the rest of my days? lol... nope. Even with that experience, still didn't really doubt the veracity and integrity of most news. Sure there were agendas; first thing I would read in all papers was the editorials. I like good faith discussion and argument. But journalists - purveyors of fact, not editorial - I held in high esteem; they did necessary work that I respected. They had my trust. No longer.
Today I can honestly say I have not read more than a smattering of the NYT since the 2016 election cycle. Hehe, my early 30+ years in tech has given me the skills to, uhem, circumvent most paywalls, but even with that I generally don't bother. I look around the “news” space with the sole purpose of staying informed as a matter of defense; what is the party line and how does it (if it does at all), threaten me and mine.
I trust very little news that I read. If I’m reading it then someone wants to persuade me, not inform me. It’s all editorial now. And their crossing the Rubicon of lying to get that done means I can’t even have a good argument with them.
My car radio was pretty much tuned to NPR full time for30 years. My children grew up with it. I turned it off around 2019.
National Propaganda Radio--why bother?
Seems pretty odd that EVERY leftist communication or radio system appears over time to commit suicide. Leftism is an aggressive cancer. Good sober left leaning radio and print outlets over time are usually taken over by the more radical elements of the ideology. There is never any room for reasoned well thought out left of center political positions. With the left it always ALL or nothing.
The cancer that is leftism always consumes any moderate or reasonable leftwing politics. They don;'t just drift left into radicalism but are subject to a scorched earth policy by their radical comrades. No other points of view are ever tolerated so in the end self destruction is the only path for radical leftism. There is NEVER enough or an end game for their politics except of course total dominance. Cancer is like that.
Leftism always imposes purity tests -- see the Red Guards, Khmer Rouge et al -- which means anyone who criticizes leftist orthodoxy inside a left-leaning organization is run out on a rail, which just drives organizations further and further left until they collapse from irrelevance and infighting over who is purer.
turned it off in 2009 after a 20 year run
National Petroleum Radio, indeed. When Frontline became defense contractor propaganda during the first Gulf war, Moyers getting censored, akin to Phil Donahue on network TV, that's what did it for me. Fortunately these new platforms enable the likes, no pun intended, of Matt & Matt.
Hey Eric, like you I was a news junkie. Back in the day I read The Freep, Detroit News, WSJ and NYT daily, and then 1/2 of local TV news and 1/2 hour of National. Until 2016 I watched Morning Joe daily, for up the full three hours. I did a full year off in 2017, and the only 'news' I pay for any more is Glenn, Matt, Bari and a couple other substacks and the WJS Op/Ed page. I don't believe anything else on TV or print.
"crossing the Rubicon of lying"
exactly!
Finally, someone is describing my journey in life with respect to the "news". Kudos.
Now give us some details about your first couple of dates.
Amen brother!
NYT’s Spelling Bee tells me I’m good at it everyday. Great for my self esteem.
LOL! Amy NJ friend screenshots that for me and emails it… The Sunday NY Times ( I did the Crossword for thirty years) costs $12 here in Western Colorado and I refuse to give them that $ for the rubbish they publish..actually that could be their new motto “ The Rubbish We Publish “
Spot on. The nerd in me can't resist the Wordle, despite my contempt for the NYT, which I suppose makes me a sellout. So when I'm done, I get linked to the freebie Bee, who validates me every time. Ah, those participation trophies......... wonder if 'trump' will get the same treatment as 'fetus' .......
Glen, Matt, Bari, all great. But as one poster said, people are only interested in the spectacle. This is less like the slow evaporation of the Democrtaic party and more like witnessing the country circling the drain in painfully slow motion.
The danger is that when the people get fed up they have a tendency to elect awful demagogues because said demagogues "stand up to the elites." Either way we lose.
Dead on. But they are in essence 'leaving us no choice' at this point. Do these folks ever worry about the effects of the path they have chosen. Clearly NOT. Their choice is the perceived pursuit of influence and power at any price. Atlas Shrugged being played out in real time. It is always interesting to me that former Soviet citizens are absolutely dead on in describing what is now going on within American society.
True, Trump/Hillary; Trump/Biden; Obama/McCain; Obama/Romney; Bush/Kerry;
Can't think of a single election where I really had an honest choice. I started sitting them out in 2016.
You are a couple elections ahead of me. I don’t plan to vote again. I spent most of my previous votes since 1974 on third/fourth/fifth party candidates thinking that was some kind of protest. It’s not. Participation is complicity.
On the other hand, I am interested in finding amusing ways to mess with The System. For example, I do appreciate people who use their vote for write-in candidates—a great power I wish more people and organizations would use. Write-ins, at least, generally require human attention to read our scribbles (I think), so it keeps the human vote-counters busy and annoyed and could create delays that prevent the cable news channels from trying to call the election by midnight on Election Day.
But my latest theory is it might be even more disruptive to cast an empty ballot. I’m not sure how empties are tabulated—there are probably so few in number it is easy to simply put them in the discard pile and ignore their statistical importance. But what would happen if a significant percentage—say ten per cent—of ballots cast were empty? At the very least, this would make the elections officials nervous that their machines were hacked—hacked in unexpected/unplanned ways, I mean. Or, if the public learned that there were so many empties cast, it would further erode trust in the voting machines at least, and perhaps in the entire electoral system…if it’s even possible to further to erode that trust.
When I was an election judge, empty and spoiled ballots were separated out of the scanning machine. The empties were tossed. The spoiled examined to determine if they could be "unspoiled", but there were never enough of them to make it worth our time.
All that hard work by Clinton, her lackeys, the corporate media, and operatives in the CIA and FBI to get rid of Trump, and they replace him with . . . Joe Biden? Did they really think this through?
Yes they did and YES, it worked. Biden is perfect for them.
after all, when he begs out of running in 2024, who do you think the donkeys will put in his stead?
If joe for a second veers from their agenda- watch how fast an investigation into his son appears.
Let us not forget surrender to terrorists, starting new global conflicts, proposing amendments to international public health treaties that strip sovereignty, destroying energy infrastructure, fomenting hate, aiding in human and drug trafficking, enriching the military industrial complex...All in 18mos
Not sure what you mean by "All", but the Clinton damage is vast and wide...and started long before 2015.
Rather anecdotal but I clearly remember when things shifted to corruption back in the 1980’s when I was in the real estate business in Vermont a previously honest and ethical lawyer pulled a crooked stunt and didn’t care because he had adopted “plausible denial” from the Clintons. To me this was the beginning of the ends justify the means political culture. Oh, Vermont has gone on to be the perfect little Marxist utopia.
I agree except Dan Quayle was pretty unqualified
The V.P. position has too often been occupied by a less than a stellar intellect and often by a political hack. Truman was an example of a product of a political machine but when he ascended to become POTUS he seemed to rise to the occasion.
Sometimes a dolt is really not so clueless as he/she appears. V.P. Harris might be the exception. She seems to have been carried by the wind into every political position without any effort or accomplishment. She is young and should be sharp but appears as clueless as a "valley girl" on ludes. Her speeches sound like a child trying to act like an adult. Politics aside how can the Democrats, with a straight face, condone this ongoing farce.
She's made a lot of people suspicious about how she managed to become California's Attorney General. As a former career California prosecutor I don't think she's up to (or has ever been capable of) prosecuting even an entry-level garden-variety misdemeanor DUI case. The only conclusion I can come up with is that corruption w/in this state's Democratic supermajority party is obviously as deep as it's long-standing.
We know how she became AG. It was at the intersection of Slutsville and WOC.
There's a reason why so many refer to her as "Heels up Harris".
Nice summary but why no mention of Willie Brown?
Carried by the wind is a nice euphemism for sleeping your way to the top
She won at the pole.
Holeee-shit, what do people think it means, when they say she was "Willie Brown's protege."? She rose to the AGs office without ever being subjected to a vote or public performance review, just promotion after promotion with no real record of accomplishment to account for it.
😂😉😂😉
Chaney certainly rose to the occasion by becoming POTUS- without having to get elected as such. It may be awhile before that magic act is surpassed. Heck, it was so magical that it was largely unrecognized by the general public. Then or now.
No defense of Chaney but hating him and his politics is no reason to think he was not a shrewd, hard nosed D.C. operative. The entire meme of him being the shadow POTUS is a bit of manufactured political attack. He did have undue influence on G. Bush but that is true of a few other V.P.'s too. Harris could not even get a few votes in the primary. She personally was rejected by Democrats only to be tapped by Biden because of her gender and race. Other V.P's have been selected for their regional appeal or vote getting ability so Biden's criteria had some basis. Thing is she is a huge drag on this Administrations' agenda and public face.
I don't hate Cheney or his politics. I simply believe he and the most of the Bush cabinet members should be in jail right now for illegally invading another sovereign nation. This resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent lives and U.S. military service members. It also unnecessarily cost the U.S. taxpayer an estimated $7-8T of net operating debt that has hamstrung our national security and economic prosperity ever since. If Americans were not so easily manipulated into war and blood lust, these murderers would, at a minimum, have been impeached while in office.
I don’t know, I think Obama is doing a good job currently phoning it in
I think she is over Xanaxing for GAD…General Anxiety Disorder… the inappropriate cackling is also a symptom.
I think that might be a great 'distance diagnosis'.
"V..P. Harris might be the exception."
No, Quayle was as dumb as he looked. He belongs in this category as well.
You exaggerate about Harris. She doesn't sound like a moron. She just sounds like a cloyingly bland, milquetoast, paint-by-numbers politician who's phoning it in, with literally nothing original to say. That's acceptable, maybe, for a House rep from Nobodycaresville county, but not for the freaking VP of the nation.
Counterpoint: being a cloyingly bland milquetoast anything who phones it in is not acceptable for any human being.
If it's unacceptable, then how do you plan on addressing that unacceptability? Bear in mind that doing nothing means you've accepted it.
She happened to fit the bill, in terms of gender and ethnicity, in order to allow Biden to be appointed. She also passed the same teleprompter reading class with high marks...and extra credit for never deviating from the script.
Because she’s nowhere near as dumb as she acts , it’s a cynical dumbing down of the message that appeals to her constituents and got her elected multiple times, her constituents being among some of the most insipid, simple morons in the country .
While the act might get you elected on a local or even Statewide election it is not so "cute" when practiced on a national scale or the worldwide stage. As a V.P.. if possible she should drop the dumb act, if it is an act. I really think she is either of a low IQ or has some sort of learning disability. Complexity and nuance appear to be beyond her abilities.
She is what it looks like when you fuck your way into politics, and then become the face of an ideology, and then allowing this to outpace learned skill. At every single point she failed up, simply because she was what the modern Democratic party wants to look like: multi-cultural, female centric. But when you put superficial characteristics ahead of earned skills such as appealing across aisles to an oppositional group, giving speeches, and various other skills that politicians who fight their way up the ladder learn, Harris is what you get.
She might be a bright person, but she doesn't have the chops to be running at the level of VP, let along president. And no amount of smarts will cover for that.
That’s why she didn’t even get 2% of the vote in the primaries…
Yeah, Quayle was no Spiro Agnew or Kamala Harris, for sure!
From my perspective, you can add Spiro Agnew, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale and Al Gore to that list.
They were just run of the mill politicians. Problem is there are no "qualifications" for holding political office. You get what you get from the general population. Hopefully the good cancels out the bad or the bad is not as bad as we might think. Then again the voters are not the "cream of the intellectual crop" either. Then again those geniuses like Robert McNamara and other "academics" can and do cause havoc on a large scale. No real solution to the disparate abilities of elected officials except an unbiased free press. Thing is that ship has sailed and the media now chooses sides.
There is one major qualification. Unbridled Narcissism. Normal people don't think of themselves the way politicians do. They recognize their own personal flaws, and understand that no one person can 'change the world.'
Maybe we should move to an "arranged marriage" situation. In my state we vote for Lt. Gov separately from Gov. Maybe we should be doing the same on the national level; vote for President separately from Vice Pres. Then they have to figure out how to work with each other rather than compete with each other which has been Harris' MO. She loathes the fact that the demented Biden is actually in the place she thinks she should be in.
Nice hair, though, and that's worked for Newsome and Romney so...who's up next?
You're absolutely correct that "[w]ithout accountability civilization is lost."
Lying -- like any other deeply antisocial behavior, including theft, murder, etc. -- can be justified by one "side" only when, say, (the human beings on) that side are under a genuine existential threat, and are so through no fault of its own. But then, of course, those sides are at war.
Among today's greatest threats to the West is that lying is being *normalized*, no longer an occasion that is duly punished once exposed. It now regularly supports, in tandem, such things as the murder widely justified through warmongering, and the theft justified in bankstering.
All trust has been broken so lying succeeds.
War justifies murder, which imo is why we got the forever war against terror in 2001. Whoever did it, it was used as a power grab.
And check the list of geniuses who continually vote to renew The Patriot Act. We were like lambs led to the slaughter.
No, we got the Patriot Act. And the public keeps electing folks that aim to keep it operational--forever. Time for everyone to demand that be flushed down the toilet. That's how a functioning Republic would work.
Ding ding ding.
You see, the real culprits here are not the neocons who installed the Patriot Act, greenlit a new level of surveillance state, and left a generation of soldiers dead or damaged.
The real culprit is the people who elected them, re-elected them, and continue to re-elect them. The solid half of the public--spanning both the GOP and the Dems-- who like to complain about the Bush/neocon wars now, but supported them with chest-beating enthusiasm, because they turned off their brains and let themselves be led around by a narrow, short-sighted jingoistic fever after 9-11.
As Carlin said, people claim "politicians suck!", but maybe, just maybe, they suck because something else sucks even more. Like...the public. The public sucks. (or at least about 60-70% of it)
Not only that, we got Homeland Security, and ODNI. Plus a fourth branch of government, consisting of the
ODNI, DOJ, and FBI. The intelligence branch.
I disagree. Those are all flavors of the executive branch. I still believe the free press to be the only legitimate 4th branch of government. However they've been MIA for decades now-- or (arguably) more. My goal is help Substack change that reality by being a paid and active subscriber. I appreciate everyone else here doing the same--regardless of their beliefs or opinions.
That's okay. You believe whatever you like.
Thanks for speaking to my point. However, I doubt Trump showed any "new path[s]" during his tenure. He had 4 years to begin turning the aircraft carrier around. I didn't see it change course, substantively, one bit. The swamp stayed full to the brim.
There is no accountability at the FBI. Read the latest whitewash of how they handled the case against Nasser (the USA Gymnastics team doctor and pervert). There is no accountability in the DoD - look at all of the Generals that lied about what was going on in Afghanistan (or worse, didn't even know they were lying). Look at the cops in Uvalde, TX.
The FBI has been CONTINUOUSLY caught spying on Americans. It just happened again about a month ago.
Their response is to say, “sorry, we’ll fix it and do better”. But they do neither. There seems to be no mechanism to hold them accountable.
Yeah and really “ at this point, what difference does it make ?? “ More arrogant vitriol from the Queen of Mean.
But but but but trump!
Millions suffered from the financial criminals and their enablers in government throughout the Western world. Millions thrown out of their home's by the criminal rule of law. Many of them black and the people re elected Obomber. Anyone who has any faith or hope in the system has my sympathy, you are beyond hope.
Then Pooh said, “Fuck off Eeyore”
Thing is, those people being IN those homes was part of the scam. The crime wasn't throwing them out of the houses, the crime was giving them mortgage loans they couldn't realistically be expected to pay off.
And without an independent press to report it, there never will be accountability. This next election is desperate in two parts: First, I think the Dems can corrupt the voting process sufficiently to ensure they never lose again, but I don't think it's in place enough to cover the huge disgust people feel for their capitulation to the crazies in their party. Second, if they ever DO get in power again, the last bastion to fall with be the judicial system. Not sure how they're going to manage it, perhaps by "court-packing" and increasing the number of judges suddenly, when they hold all the appointment power.
They they will hold the culture, the press, the corporations, the universities and the judicial system. And we're done.
Here in CA we're already there with a one-party system, the Dems having achieved it with the jungle primary and unsupervised ballot boxes. Nutsom actually came out and said it; The republican party is done in CA.
I always found the "election was stolen" by Trump supporters childish and petulant, except that in a sense, they were right. The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting. What the Democrats and their allies in the FBI and media did is a different kind of election theft. They broke laws and abused government powers to delegitimize an opponent, spent years investigating him on nothing more than fiction, and awarded themselves prizes for journalism in the process.
The failure of the Democrats and the progressive institutional media to recognize that the loss of confidence by the conservative half in the voting process has less to do with wild theories of mysterious ballots and broken pipes on election night, but far more to do with that they clearly rigged the laws and abused government powers to take down a sitting president. After all, the same people who'd easily break laws and commit grave corruption are certainly people who'd have no problems with faking ballots because it'd be in the name of good. I don't think they necessarily did the latter, but they definitely did the former, and therein lies the problem and the massive lost of confidence by large numbers of Americans in the electoral system. And it automatically corrupts future elections too as long as nothing happens and the guilty parties simply walk away intact.
"The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting."
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Yet to this day nobody can explain why the swing states stopped counting when Trump only needed one or two more states, then in the morning those states were flipped based on numbers so lopsided they weren't repeated anywhere else in the country. In other words, Biden got exactly the votes he needed, exactly WHERE he needed them, and exactly WHEN he needed them.
And none of this has been explained at all. Instead the Democrats put up walls in DC, arrested anybody near 1/6, and have acted EXACTLY LIKE a group that stole the election.
Agree. I have no idea if there was actual large-scale vote malfeasance during the election. However, the way "the elite" have reacted seems exactly how someone would react if there was.
It doesn't even have to be large-scale. 5 Democratic stronghold cities in 5 battleground states is all it took.
which is why the "widespread" modifier was always a red herring.
Mayor Daley (father) showed how to do this.
American Pharoah is a great book.
He was sui generis, that's for sure.
When the marketing department brands it, "The Big Lie," it does appear someone is trying too hard.
If something happened, it happened with Covid mail in ballots and ballot harvesting before Election Day. If Trump wasn’t a nimrod concerning bureaucracy, he would have had the DoJ investigating/cracking down on these practices years in advance of the election.
If Trump was consistent in defending democracy there would have been an investigation into the DNC primary “collusion.”
Most definitely
As has been said many times "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it just might be a duck."
Absurd. "To this day" every one of the patently absurd arguments Trump's lackeys' trotted out as evidence of election theft have been explained ad nauseam. Just because you like to pretend that Trump's delusions are real does nothing to change this. Has "The Kraken" put in an appearance yet? Maybe you should send Sidney Powell some money so she can get that out at some point. Maybe call up Mike Lindell and see how his tireless investigation is going? Wasn't that going to rock everyone's world a while back? Hell, track down that guy who, back in 2016, was claiming that he had ALL the evidence of "millions" of illegal votes for Clinton in California. Millions I say! He was going to present the evidence and blow everyone's mind with The Truth, wasn't he?
You right wing nut jobs are all the same.
Really? Because I still haven't seen a good explanation of GA kicking people out of the counting process and then pulling ballots from under tables to restart 'counting' when nobody was looking.
The 'fact checkers' simply state the ballots weren't in suitcases, so it's fine.
The 'fact checkers' state a whole lot more than that: No one was "kicked out" of the room. The people in the room were either 'cutters' (prepping ballots for scanning) or 'scanners' who were actually doing the scanning(counting). The 'cutters' had finished - all ballots were opened and placed back into the cases. They then left because THEIR WORK WAS DONE. Those aren't "witnesses" they are the workers. And they weren't "kicked out", they had finished and were leaving for the night. The scanners were just continuing to go about their business of SCANNING THE PREPARED BALLOTS. And every bit of this is attested to by the TRUMP SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS who were in charge of the process.
There. I did your homework for you. But you people always operate in bad faith. You never saw a "good explanation" because you never looked - just blindly accepted whatever OAN or Sidney Powell said.
Wow you're high. That's not even close to what happened and it's plain by watching the video
I have the video that OAN showed right in front of me. Where are the "witnesses" being dragged out? I don't see anyone yelling or protesting or being escorted from the premises. I see some bored looking people going about their work. Where, exactly, in the video is the diabolical activity you allege? I assume you are the person whose been hiding the "Kraken"? Why haven't you released it yet? And as a reminder: you are several comments in now, and have presented no response besides, "Nuh uh!".
Even the bluest shitlibs concede Bernie got jobbed by the DNC on HRC direction. Yes I shot the sheriff but this deputy thing is an outrage? Stfu
Seems odd that the assertions and caterwauling by Al Gore and the entire Democrat Party in 2000 were never met with much criticism but were encouraged and even sent to the Supreme Court for settlement. No nut job name calling for this hysterical mob. Many books were written by dissatisfied Democrats about this election without them being castigated and attacked.
While this 2020 election might have been on the up and up it sure had all the hallmarks of a rigged enterprise. The average individual, whose confidence is necessary, sure did not think Mr. Biden was a stellar example of an 83 million voter winner.
While ALL the Trump haters did not car one way or the other but only wanted him gone even if it were a stolen election. Not ONE Democrat even questioned one vote tells you all you need to know about that Parties concern for an honest election. They had scores of attorneys and Judges standing by in the event that Trump was declared the winner.
This was not an election but a managed stage show to rush Biden's installation into the Office of the Presidency. Even the video evidence of 2000 Mules does not change ONE Democrats mind. That should tell you all you need to know about their unbiased take on this election. Move on nothing to see here. If 2000 Mules were made by Mike Moore after a Biden loss there would be the usual riots and intimidation by the Communists and their Democrat pawns.
In 2000, the entire election came down to a few hundred votes in one state. And the state's governor was the brother of one of the candidates. If there was ever a time for adjudication, this was it.
And yes, Al Gore, who was claiming even before the election that if he lost it was because Bush cheated, then ran around the country filing a series of lawsuits that got laughed out of court for their absurd claims, called up Secretary's of State to demand that they "find some more votes", and after the Supreme Court ruled, tried to overthrow the results, tried to get Democrats to make up fake sets of electors, AND sent a violent mob to attack Congress and stop the certification... Oh wait. He did NONE of those things. He called up Bush and conceded.
Oh no! Democrats wrote angry books afterwards!? Inconceivable! What horror! How dare they!
Hmm, next, you babble nonsensically for s couple paragraphs about the "average individual, whose confidence is necessary"(this sounds like a bad Japanese to English translation: "I'm disrespectful to dirt! Can't you see I'm serious?") and some silly movie from that guy, whatisname, that Indian-American ex con who only dumb right wingers like. John Philip Sousa, right? Didn't he play in a marching band or something?
Anyway, then you are going on about why didn't Democrats challenge any votes, I think. I mean, they won. Why bother challenging anything? And the Democrats had "scores of attorneys and Judges standing by"? Really? Where? Were they all hiding in a closet? Maybe stashed in bunkers? If you are going to just make things up, it helps to add some details. They lend increased verisimilitude.
Meanwhile, reality showed us that Trump REALLY DID have a bunch of lawyers standing by in the event that Biden was declared the winner. Project much?
You are really coming off badly here. I recommend reading your post a few times BEFORE making it public.
Maybe they didn’t steal the election. But Donna Brazil’s book concedes that rigging and stealing elections is in their tool box. Your condescending makes you look even dumber than you actually are. Keep talking so as to confirm.
You can't explain away 2000 Mules. I think Trump's an unethical grifting moron, and I also believe, as the Time article pretty much stated in an almost visible watermark, that the DNC, with a long history of urban election chicanery, used COVID and absentee ballots to produce votes.
And I also believe Gore would have won that election had SCOTUS not stopped the counting, and think we'd have been in a much better position had he won instead of the Neocons.
Both/and. And humility. Try it.
Lol. I don't need to explain away any of Dinesh D'Souza's ridiculous movies. They are not now, nor have ever been, of any value whatsoever, either factually or artistically. There are so many superior options, why waste precious time on something so far beneath me?
And what Time article "proves" that the 2020 election was stolen? Seems like that would be big news.
Oh, and of course you like to "believe" the election was stolen but can't produce a shred of evidence. Meanwhile, it doesn't seem at all weird to you that Trump, the least popular president ever, who despite being enormously out-voted and barely squeaked into office because of the Electoral College, and spent the next 4 years basically pissing off everyone except his little cult, somehow got 74 million votes when EVERYONE was turning out to vote against him? Sounds a lot more likely that Republicans were manufacturing votes.
Finally, as far as humility goes, there is nothing arrogant about blowing up pathetic arguments with extreme prejudice. Rather, it is richly deserved and those making said pathetic arguments ought to be properly humiliated into, hopefully, shutting up until they gain some measure of intelligence and maturity, and are capable of presenting a worthwhile case.
Half of those judges who adjuncticated the election irregularities (ones only Trump officials saw) were republicans. The 2000 mules? i've seen it and thought it was hilarious, how anyone could imagine that video footage (which is rather easily created these days, but even if it weren't) presented anything like 'proof'. Also, the so called 'data' were given to Georgia election officials (all republicans) who examined it and said there is no there there. It is fabricated. You don't need evidence for an opinion, but you actually need evidence in a court of law. It is also hilarious you think because you cannot imagine Joe Biden being the winner, it must not have happened. Trump lost; get over it.
After 2016 huge segments of American society never accepted Trump's win and continued to believe with all their hearts that he stole the election with Russian help.
Delusional thinking is probably equally divided within the political junky world. With modern instant communication and the social media platforms this tendency is multiplied by 1000 so we have this ongoing cacophony of disgruntled voters. Not sure it it will be any different next election.
Very, very simple to discredit. Since they claimed to have the geo-location of the cell phones of the mules just go and interview a sampling of those identified and show them the video and request an explanation. If they don't have one and are instructed as to their legal jeopardy some might just give up the scheme and who paid them or gave them the ballots to dump.
Or if this is made up it will become obvious instantly and the law suits can begin. Lot of money being made by the producers and if fake it would be nice to relieve them of it. But seems no one wants to make a pile of money challenging the movie. Odd lawyers are always skulking around like vultures when there is easy money to be made. Any law suits filed yet?
Paid Brockroaches are super fucking boring.
Exactly.
It has not been explained because "that," as in "this," attains purchase exclusively in your fantasies.
You can keep ignoring the elephant in the room but you look increasingly partisan simply calling names and always siding with the swamp.
I like swamps. A lot.
If you are speaking of the 2020 presidential election, the MSM stopped even pretending to be objective, and Big Tech openly had its finger on the scale.
I think the key word is RIGGED ... as in, the entire elite establishment (the media, the DNC, academia, Hollywood, Dem-controlled state governments, Big Tech) all conspired together to tilt the election in one party's favor. It's astonishing Trump almost pulled it off, against all those odds.
That said, I also believe it was stolen as well. When a candidate wins 19 of the 20 bellweather counties that have accurately predicted the election winner for four decades in a row .... and then that candidate somehow loses when all the late night, last minute, 'wow, look here's another box of ballots' come in ... well you know it was stolen. And I'll go to my grave knowing that.
Well, in all fairness, the facts have not been allowed the light of day in court. So you'll go to your grave believing that. If it's any consolation, I will too.
There is reliable evidence that Wisconsin was stolen. The audit of voting in 91 nursing homes found 95+% voting in all of them. Normally the turnout for all voters is less than 70% and in nursing homes many people are incapable of voting.
"Last November, the Racine County Sheriff's Office requested that the state attorney general investigate alleged illegal directives issued by the Wisconsin Election Commission to bypass the state's Special Voting Deputy process, under which the clerk of each municipality brings "enough ballots to each residential care facility to vote" and "assist the voters with the voting process."
Instead, the commission had absentee ballots sent to nursing home residents by mail. The sheriff found that facility staff, under the guise of "helping" residents to vote, coaxed votes from some whom family members believed incapable of voting."
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/wisconsin-special-counsel-report-2020-election-91-nursing-homes-had-95
The increased voting in these heavily Democratic counties, funded by Zuckerberg, would have produced enough votes for Biden/Harris to give them their ~20,000 majority.
"....The sheriff found that facility staff, under the guise of "helping" residents to vote, coaxed votes from some whom family members believed incapable of voting."
"Straighten up old timer---we're gonna need you to put a little checkmark inside the little box marked "Biden," or you can say goodbye to your Sunday night sundae and hello to double enemas every Wednesday..."
I live here...that's a fact.
All of this is made up of course. None of it is true.
Is Donna Braziles confession made up? The DNC v Sanders was in the bag for HRC, never prosecuted or convicted, so it stands to reason they would never try to rig a general election? Maybe they didn’t but the “none of this is true of course “ as rebuttal infers that of course they did.
It can't be!!
I appreciate very much what you wrote. And you are correct - the deception definitely affected not on the 2020 election, but the 2018 misterms. Not to mention the media's collusion to bury the story of Hunter Biden's laptop contents showing Biden family corruption. All of those things can affect elections. However, there was a ton of election fraud, voter fraud, and election theft that occurred in 2020.
Have you seen "2000 Mules" yet? Watch it. There was pervasive multi-state highly coordinated systemic election theft. And the documentary covers only one aspect of the the voter fraud - ballot trafficking. There were many other ways the Dems cheated - too many ways to write about here. There's a massive amount of evidence, but it is all censored and suppressed. Dominion voting machines were completely manipulated; false adjudication; mail in ballots, no signature verifications, destroying results that are mandated to be preserved for 22 months after an election, trucks bringing ballots across state lines to use in other states, breaking chain of custody, changing election laws that only the legislature for each state is charged with doing, censoring people who justifiably spoke out and questioned the results on social media, and more. The 2020 election was 100% stolen.
The idea of trucking ballots from States where Democrats win by large margins is a direct result of a common complaint within Democratic circles. " We always run up large margins in deep blue States but can't transfer those numbers to States where we need to win the necessary electoral votes to swing the election".
Well they found a very simple way by just shipping them to States necessary to win the necessary Electoral College votes needed to surpass 270 number. Simple and genius at the same time. Might be a good time to color code ballots or place a State identifying number on them. Problem solved.
All the ballots cast were actually voted for Biden but they were not within the States in which the voters actually lived. How would anyone really know? The crazy numbers of bellwether counties that oddly switched from Trump to Biden might be an outward sign of that type of election fraud. Also the over voting that was 90 to 110 percent of registered voters is a sure sign of ballots from outside the county being added to the total. Clever by half.
Sorry for the typos above!
2000 Mules. Massive data rigorously analyzed raise serious questions. If nothing else, have hearings? As others have said, the immediate "shut up you're crazy!" sounds like a batterer, rapist, or abusive parent who knows they're guilty and want to discredit and disempower the victim immediately.
I want to call you crazy. But recently conspiracy theory has become spoiler alert. Mules has been discredited like hunter’s laptop
So the NY Times is promoting conspiracy theories? They have finally agreed that Hunter's former laptop is genuine.
So in a year 2000 mules will be accepted as fact. That’s my point. Hence spoiler alert
Hillary and the Democrats filed suit against Triump, his cronies and the Russians THREE times over interference in the 2016 Election results. Eventually John G. Koeltl, United States District Judge, a Clinton appointee, dismissed all three cases with prejudice, and noted:
" … The DNC has now had three chances to plead a viable complaint and it is not clear how the DNC could plead around the fundamental defects in the current complaint. … nor is there any reason to believe that the fundamental defects in the Second Amended Complaint can be cured." https://www.lawfareblog.com/judge-dismisses-dnc-suit-against-trump-campaign-and-others
Let's not pretend that Trump has a monopoly on "the Election was stolen" or being "childish and petulent". Unfortunately there isn't much difference between Trump and Hillary, except Hillary had all the forces of the Establishment arrayed on her side, who were willing, and ABLE (unlike Trump's clownish army), to break rules and laws on her benefit.
They didn't take down a "sitting" president. Trump served his full term. What happened was an illegitimate president was "elected" by an illegal voting process engineered by State Governers under perpetual false States of Emergency.
Well, as you say, it may not have been literal fraudulent ballots in the 2020 election...and yet...when confronted with accusations, do the Dems EVER explain them away or reassure their accusers that elections are conducted freely and fairly??
HELL NO! Instead they lobby for ever-less-secure registered voter rolls and identity verification, using the racist claim that "Them po' darkies can't get online to register." or "They too dumb to get a ID."
This does not reassure me, for one.
...and it goes a long way toward explaining Jan. 6th, "the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War!!!!" Situational ethics/morality at its finest.
This! yes, thank you
Exactly. It should be a cautionary tale. Currently it’s the template .
Most of the American public doesn’t have the necessary attention span to absorb/process this information. Moreover the cognitive dissonance that articles such as this generate in liberal circles guarantee that easily 50% of those that are capable of comprehending it will ignore the evidence out of hand. This story (possibly the most important of the last 50 years) will be relegated to the dustbin of time due in large part to the myopia created by the most pernicious mental disorder ever suffered by the entire US population created by the Clinton’s.
I supported Hillary. I donated money. I went to rallies. The day Comey gave the speech about the emails in July 2016 I pulled the car over and sat stunned. I reviewed everything I'd believed and realized how much I'd passed off due to my wanting not to know. So, I am aware that the cognitive dissonance was great. (kind of how I felt when purgatory was dropped).I don't know why that moment destroyed my belief, but I have paid attention ever since and increasingly bereft.
I completely empathize. I never liked Hillary but I remember my first awareness that I was drifting away from the left. The day I learned that Obama ordered drone strikes that killed civilians in 7 different countries. I know he wasn’t the first - but these actions were so completely divorced from what he pretended to be. then I thought of Benghazi. Then the bailouts of financial criminals. And then his position that Snowden was a traitor. And then the damage that he did to the Constitution.
I think the overall breaking point for me was 2 years ago - whether it was mask mandates and lockdowns or George Floyd riots I can’t say for sure. But as of today I suppose I am “right wing” - I never would have imagined it.
I had a mentor when I was younger, and we started a political conversation and I will never forget what he said to me: "If you're not left when your twenty, you have no heart, if you're not right when your forty, you have no brain lol
This is a well known and nonsensical trope. You don’t think that Democrats are on the left? And which right are you referring to? The 40 Republicans who voted against the war or the majority of them?
Guess I wasn't being that specific, just trying to inject a little humor. I do believe though that the current Dem party is way left and the Rep party is having a battle to see who they are. Snobby country clubbers, or, free market, merit-based joe six packers
It's tough. I somehow became "right wing" without ever once in my life being labeled "conservative".
It is good that you got wise. I say that without a hint of snark intended, as too many humans just keep on doubling down.
I think women, esp. wanted to believe, but looking back with clarity all the evidence was there. It was very difficult at the time. I am sure the flat earthers felt the same when Columbus...
I feel the same way about supporting almost without question, Bush, McCain and then Romney. Good Lord do I regret that stupidity.
That because your looking for someone else to do the work for you in our Republic. This is why the old adage "If you want it done right, do it yourself" applies.
I also went to a rally in San Jose and voted for Bill in his first term, but saw the direction he was going before the end of it. Everything since has confirmed my suspicions (but it was worse than I could ever have imagined in terms of depth of hypocrisy) about the direction of the Dem Party and the extent of it's corporate version's (DLC) cynicism. However, you deserve credit for having allowed the evidence to overcome your assumptions/hopes. Finally, know that there are tens of millions of us disenfranchised former Dems and we're all bereft too.
It is kind of like religion. So many friends still believers and you can't be the atheist in the room so you just go quiet.
We don’t want to think the people leading us can lie without remorse. Who and what can we trust if that’s true? I see only one remedy: judge actions not words. Actions must be accompanied by accountability. No quarter given for good intentions. No quarter for the incompetence excuse. If you want power, accountability is the deal. Well, I can dream.
I think the issue is that people want "leaders" instead of "representatives." It's a representational democracy. The President is the figurehead representing the electors chosen by the people. The Senators represent their states. The REPRESENTATIVES in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES represent their district. At least that's the way it reads in the Constitution. Ain't no mention of LEADERS in that document.
Sincere question: are you one of the few people (Democrat or Republican) that did not believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton sold pardons - for actual cash to their relatives - or are you one of the many (all Democrats) who just forgot or stopped caring by 2016?
I can't remember how I justified that and so many other things but I guess it is like any relationship...you overlook if you think the marriage needs to last. I don't feel betrayed so much as dim.
You're in good company,. This is,similar to what happened to Phaedrus in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". His crystallizing issue was quality, yours happened to be truthfulness.
It was so strange. I went to a park and sat in the car and cried. It just became clear. And then it all made sense.
Plus, the Progressive Press will insure that any truth that does not support the Narrative will die in darkness. WAPO is particularly egregious in this regard, as its faithful readership has sucked from its liberal teat for so long that any truth that shows Trump was actually wronged won’t even see the light of day.
Part of that has to do with how much the press has invested in the current uniparty blob. Bezos has supported how many reps, senators and other elected officials? Same for Jobs's Wife?
When politics replaces your religion some people are immune to logic and reason and indulge in cult like thinking. Seems to be more prevalent with leftists who live politics 24/7. Both sides just ignore that which does not fit their world view. Most cannot change their minds regardless of what is put before them. It is as pointless as arguing religion with a fanatic.
yeah, i often feel that one of the big differences bw liberals and conservatives is that conservatives get their religion elsewhere, whereas for liberals Politics is their Religion.
That's why they exist in a permanent state of outrage over every emergency du jour, why they have RBG votive candles, why they thought Obama was a holy prophet, why they kneeled for George Floyd, why political protest has become a mandatory ritual on every campus, and why they think every election is the Most Important of Our Lifetimes.
I think it's partially based on the honest (yet both received and belied by evidence) belief that if only they elect the right representatives w the right beliefs and the right level of funding, some sort of utopia will appear. And I guess they devoutly believe this like it's a Second Coming, always just up around the bend.
Progressivism is absolutely a pseudoreligion -- separation of the world into good people and bad people, no questioning of dogma permitted, heretics and apostates must be excommunicated and shunned, etc. This is why progressives are immune to facts, logic and reason when they contradict the holy narrative -- “it is impossible to reason a man out of a position he has not arrived at through reason”.
Lol! Project much?
Having faith/religion/belief in God is the only way (for me) to get through where we are in 2022 in the US. You outline the liberal politics as religion beautifully and it validates my position to run as far and as fast away from that as possible. Politicians come and go, God does not.
sad but probably true.
Good analogy.
Hillary Clinton makes Lady McBeth look like Mother Teresa. Feminist my ass! .
I think you’re wrong. But it only gets its due if we insert it into the bubble at every opportunity. Two years ago I was one of them. I’m ashamed. But I’m hopeful there are a considerable amount of people like me. The story didn’t fizzle. It was crushed by Covid. Someone wants this story told or Durham wouldn’t be doing the work.
I hope you’re right. We’ll see if this time is different.
Passively hope...and take the "wait and see" approach. This is exactly what these criminals want you to keep doing.
My sanity depends on it. No pressure
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In a country with a functioning media system,
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Nearly all of our media is nothing more than a DNC infomercial
With Jake the Fake Sullivan still in there. ICK!
Remembering Matt doesn't like Trump, it proves his journalistic integrity. Us 'conspiracy theorists' knew this was BS within weeks of it hitting the newswaves. Our spidey senses have grown sharp in the era of corruption.
*I* detest Trump, and I knew from the get-go that this was a conspiracy theory that was too loopy for The John Birch Society, ca. 1964.
Many people don't detest Trump and voted for him. That is Democracy. Many others detested Obama with all their minds and hearts but he won the election. Whom individuals detest is of little import except as cocktail party chatter. Votes by the populace of individual States is how we elect our POTUS. FDR was a very divisive President who was hated in many quarters yet history seems to have forgotten and paints him as America's grandfather of that time. This like or dislike game is a never-ending preoccupation with the 24/7 self important political chatting class.
I am not arguing any of that. My point is that the russiagate conspiracy theory was ludicrous on its face, and one need not be a Trump supporter to recognize this.
I agree but is mass delusion that easy to "sell" to a nation with a free press? I could name many instances that the press and government "cooperated" to sell this or that war and were never held to account. when exposed., I guess selling the Russian Hoax was just another variation of how unnecessary wars are sold to the American public. The playbook was already written and it was just necessary to dust it off and insert the names and themes. Pretty sad.
No argument from this cat.
I take my mice where I find them, without concern for ideology (I'm hungry, damnit!) and Noam Chomsky's takedown of Andrew Marr explains the situation as well as any other I have seen.
Marr: “How can you know that I’m self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are..”
Chomsky: “I’m not saying your self censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
http://scratchindog.blogspot.com/2015/07/transcript-of-interview-between-noam.html
As usual you have the goods. Very good and informative read, thanks.
Bingo surprise surprise
Many people don't LIKE Trump and still voted for him, because he was the lesser of two evils. This is the part that MSM and DNC (and the rump GOP) don't understand.
Many people intuitively hate ALL candidates for President. They are all insipid, uninspiring drones who exist to enrich themselves at the expense of the populace. Including Trump. Except for this one thing - he was more honest about that than the others. Ivanka was on the USA Payroll. Hunter hid the fact that his Dad was on the Chinese Payroll.
Not only should she be banned, but she should have to pay for damages too (the entire Clinton Foundation resources). If we can sanction other countries foreign held assets in US banks, then we can seize all of the Clinton assets for this massive covert intelligence fuck up.
In fact, I seem to remember Rumsfeld saying in a speech the day before 9/11, that the US Defense department "cannot track" $2.3 Trillion in transactions. They lost the public's money and trust --- lets put the charges to the Clinton's, they owe the public after selling them out for the last 30 years.
Yeah, how well would it have gone for Hillary if the Uranium One deal was dissected with such zeal. Do the math-- no congress-critter can make 160k-250k/yr and end up being worth in the 10s to 100s of millions. Oh yeah, that reminded me of Hillary's novice cattle trade deal way back that miraculously ended up well for her. Lady Macbeth is angry the throne was not rigged for her as it was "supposed to be".
Anyone remember when the FBI was cleared of "partisan bias" in the FISA warrant?
FBI: "There was nothing unusual about this. We abuse it against normal people all the time too."
Media and Congress: "Checks out to us! Moving on to the next item."
Me: "Um, wait... could we go back to that for just a second? It sounded rather important."
If I have learned anything thru all "this" it's that the FBI, NSA, CIA, Homeland "Security" are the enforcement arm of The Swamp. They are complicit, and at best are just worthless and worse are just the modern day Stasi.
In addition they are a complete waste of billions of dollars. Cut their budgets by 75% until they just rot away. Other agencies can do a better job for way less money.
They represent the new branches of the Federal Government. Part of the Executive Branch, they make their own laws and change them at will. The US Constitution is a barbaric relic of a bygone error. Totalitarian rule is the law of the land. I have not much of an idea how to undo it. Likely it is so pervasive it has become a life form.
Bureaucracy, the governments life blood, is in fact a type of virus life form. Like a cancer it consumes its host at some point. Its' unbridled growth is fed by the apparent bottomless pit of taxpayer money. Has the U.S. government ever in its' long lifetime ever grown smaller or contracted/. Has any agency ever been closed or become obsolete in the last 100 years? Unstructured and unfettered growth is the hallmark of a cancer.
Ignoring a truth is like ignoring an on coming train. it really does not care what you believe it will crush you like a bug and keep moving on as if you never existed. So too with economic reality.
Andrew Jackson was the last U.S. President to leave office (1837) with the country's finances in the black. Do the math, we are now in 2022 with unplayable debt.
Three words from the corporate world: Reduction in Force. Can half of them and put the others on overtime with commission.
In the event my comment is interpreted as I think the U.S. Constitution is a barbaric relic, this could not be further from the truth. I believe some others view it in this manner, I do not.
We have a Constitutional Republic. A very unique form of government on this planet. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin 'you have a Republic, if you can keep it' .
Add in ODNI, and you get the fourth branch of government.
Plus the corrupt Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which makes sure that anyone who is not complicit is kept out of the leadership of the intelligence agencies
Bingo
We investigated ourselves, and found ourselves wholly innocent.
Just ask us!
The FISA court is what shocked me the most. The attorneys are bound to present exculpatory information and admitted they didn't. I thought they would be disbarred for that, because they are supposed to be protecting American citizens. The attorney got a slap on the wrist and is still practicing law which tells me the FISA courts don't give a sh** and are colluding with the 3 letter agencies to violate citizens' right to privacy. It still makes me want to cry.
The release of the Horowitz report coincides with the day that I realized that the deep state is not a myth. Hillary Clinton, as the presumptive Commander in Chief, was able to manipulate the levers of power against her political adversary using fraudulent evidence to provoke an official investigation.
They fabricated even more evidence that the FBI lied about in order to obtain a secret FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and later, the administration. They repeatedly used former, and now current, government operatives to then lie about it for years. That resulted in not one, but two impeachment hearings that have further deteriorated public trust in our institutions.
The years long campaign has also allowed them to capture technocratic fascist control over every major media platform on the planet. They are now able to police speech all because they have been screaming about disinformation from the rooftops all while they peddle state-sanctioned disinformation.
They have done more collective harm to Americans faith in elections than Russia could ever hope for. And out of spite for crimes that were completely made up, they are now using Ukrainians as cannon fodder to try to destabilize an enemy. I just don't see how Watergate even comes close to that. I really don't.
I'd like to print this out and post it on my wall. VERY succinct description. I commend you for describing this so accurately, since it takes a lot of honest rage to be able to grasp what has happened. It's hard enough to read about it, let alone write out the truth.
By "they" do you mean Democrats?
They would include active and passive stakeholders who shared a mutual hatred for Trump. I see no reason to believe that it was purely driven by the DNC. The uniparty would have an interest in these efforts even if they didn't agree on outcomes. They are the ruling class. No one wants to have a fly in their ointment and that is exactly what Trump was.
The FBI DoJ and CIA and others in the Administrative State as well as the Media and Academia, the Universities, and Hollywood and even the Unions were all complicit.
They knew, or should have known and those who did not know did not want to know what they could know if they wanted to know.
Yes, the deep state is filled with those who were either active participants or they were complicit. The media apparatus is largely just a PR firm for government organizations. Bootlickers feeding off of mother mayhem to enrich themselves and satisfy their craving for power. It is all so thoroughly out in the open. I will never be able to unsee it.
So when Ds and libmedia complain of vast right-wing conspiracies and Russia's disinformation campaigns, they are projecting, in the Jungian sense.
"Truer words..."
Hmmm. Russiagate ended and COVID began, COVID petered away and Ukraine began... All three will be shown to be absolute govt s**t-shows in due time.
The climate hoax coming back around. They will shut our grid down. Back to caves and fires.
I have this notepad on the kitchen table where I scribble random thoughts, story ideas, etc. it’s like one of my high school notebooks, minus the Mrs. “crush of the week.” Anyway - on 5/21 at 10:30am I scratched down, “when will rolling black/brown outs begin?” And no, I wasn’t watching news or scrolling social media. Point being it’s perfectly obvious that this is one of the next steps in the bludgeoning death of America. Sorry - I’m fresh out of hope and I don’t think I’m alone.
They say the global elite want us poor. When in reality they want us dead. Depopulation is the order of the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LAFlQ7csc8
Not so fast, have you forgotten BLM, woke, the trans agenda and and; All of them setting us up for COVID-19 and now, the biggest fraud yet, the most indoctrination thing yet. Of course, I'm speaking about Ukraine which has little to do with the Ukraine which they're admitting a couple of months in. This is more than the usual distraction; this is about USA hegemony and extending it in perpetuity. Europe has proven to be a 700M vassal State of the empire. Like WWI, this is about financial vs. industrial capitalism. About our system of inverted totalitarianism vs the the government on top of the banksters and the ruling classes in Russia and to a much greater degree in China where they control the banksters and are cutting down and even punishing corruption.
The hypocrisy of the media is so widespread that discussing it is banal.
The problem for the left's Ministry of Truth is that nobody on the right is even engaging with the left's media apparatus. So they can spin the stories however they want, but they are only preaching to the choir.
I sometimes go on to leftist message boards, and 90% of their outrage du jour is something I haven't even heard about. We are truly silo-ed at this point.
Yes--how often I have read about someone who posts a comment on a NYT article multiple times but never sees that comment enter into the online conversation, moderated out of existence, basically. And preaching to the choir is right. I have a lot of friends in NYC, had dinner with a couple of them the other weekend, and they told me that in their opinion the Times was being too harsh with Biden, that he shouldn't be judged by the same standards as Trump, whatever the hell that means.
I posted this a while back, but it is still relevant. The MSM's playbook in a nutshell:
Mocking Bush: Funny
Mocking Obama: Racist
Mocking Trump: Your Patriotic Duty
Mocking Biden: Terrorist
This is also the playbook of "accepted" comedians these days (if, in fact, you can call them comedians now is debatable).
Yes we are. I mention this and then sound like a crazy person to so many people who think Slate and Maddow are oracles. It's not just this narrative it is anything that they publish now untrusted.
Thanks for seeing the light. Now you need to see the movie “2,000 Mules”.
Some day I can hope to live in a society where the rules are applied fairly to everyone, even if they are rich and/or powerful.
Does anyone know of one?
anarcho-syndicalist commune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng
There's some lovely filth over here, Dennis.
lol perfect!
We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week...
I lived in Switzerland for a couple of years. They're pretty chill.
Have you seen the clips from Davos and Zurich this week? Not so chill anymore thanks to WEF and WHO - our new masters.
nope. never has and never will exist.
“One time votive candle subject Robert Mueller”
"Gobbels-for-a-nanosecond Nina Jankowicz"
SUCH great turns of phrase. I did an episode during that nanosecond but I sadly think that my points will survive her demise: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/nina-jankowicz-the-warbling-warmonger
"Ol’ saggy-face power-crapped on the Prague story in his long-awaited report"
That was my favorite. "...power-crapped"...lol
Business opportunity....Durham votive!