I cannot foresee myself ever voting Democrat again. Unfortunately that may not matter. Our government prints lies as truth.
It's ironic. I voted for Biden. My Democratic worldview shattered when Democrats crushed the railworkers' strike. Now I see over and over how they crush labor. Had they just given A LITTLE BIT, I would still have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Had they let the damn $15 min wage bill go to the floor, I would still be cheering them. Had they done ANYTHING they said they were gonna do, I likely would've remained brainwashed.
But no, they cannot even do the littlest thing for working people, and I will scream on the rooftops to my fellow Georgians that Democrats are total scammers. Republicans aren't the solution either, but Democrats have fallen so far and so fast that I don't see how Georgia could possibly vote Democrat in 2024.
Amen Rachael! Slimy Joe B. put the screws to the railroad workers last December, and I was hoping they were defiant in pulled a wildcat strike , and hopefully, other Labor Unions and non-union workers join the wildcat, but my personal fantasy never transpired.
1. Of course the Empire cares more about Ukrainians than its own citizens. Ukrainians are useful at the moment, while Americans are at most a resource to be exploited and otherwise an unavoidable inconvenience.
To date, the United States alone has given some $3,800 and counting for every Ukrainian man, woman and child, and the Uniparty only talks of more, more more. Meanwhile, the residents of East Palestine are denied so much as a hotel voucher.
2. I suspect that Team D knew exactly what it was doing, in that the removal of McCarthy will delay or derail any Biden impeachment. Ukraine is Priority Number One, and Zalenskii will get his check, at least this time around.
So, in their glee to get rid of McCarthy, the Democrats have helped to put Jim Jordan in the Speaker’s chair, or possibly Steve Scalise. Either way the Dems are about to experience a nightmare. First off, Ukraine is finished. It’s all a downhill disaster now. Biden and his neocon cabal will own this disaster just as they owned the Afghan withdraw debacle. Next up, Biden’s impeachment. The Republicans have all the evidence they need to tie Biden not only to his key role in Project Ukraine but also his corrupt role in his family’s profiting off its misery.
Inflation, immigration, crime, declining life expectancy, homelessness, student debt, looming recession, just a few of the items voters might have on their minds as we are about to begin the campaign for 2024. Have fun with your new Speaker Dems!
The Ukraine disaster won't harm the neocons at all. They'll just glibly blame the Administration for not giving more money, more weapons, more troops, not starting WWIII, they'll blame Team R for denying funds when victory was surely around the corner this time. After Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, defeat rolls off of them like water off a duck's back.
As for the hundreds of thousands of people killed, maimed, displaced, etc. as a result of Nuland's Excellent Adventure? They could not give a shit.
The future is a continuation of the past, until it becomes a reaction to it.
While I agree the current dynamic will go on, as long as it can, it is generating serious blowback and when that point arrives, DC will start building a border wall around itself.
Imagine Nuland being extradited to Ukraine, to stand before a tribunal of mothers and widows. Maybe they will build statues to her and put her up in some leftover oligarch's mansion, or maybe she will be lucky to just get off with a stoning and not a flaying.
The Israel-Hamas conflict adds a new and very dangerous dynamic. Ukraine means less oversight from the great powers. Add to that trouble stirring in Kosovo and the Caucasus regions again, and all of a sudden, World War III looms as a much more serious possibility
Considering the geographic locations you mention, it's like the geostrategic fault line between East and West is rupturing. The Eastern plate is riding up over the Western plate.
Magnier makes the argument it was planned out with Hezbollah and Iran. That Hezbollah distracted them to the north and will attack, if the Israelis go too far in retaliating. Basically giving them the choice of accepting a bit of humility, or total war. Given the chaos in Israel, as the fundamentalists grab power, but are pretty useless otherwise, and the US is distracted by its various other fights, it's not like they don't have a strong position.
Based on everything you state in your article and what those of us that pay attention have already known for years if not decades, who really are the extremists and the radicals? I would say it’s the ones that weaponize the justice department to get rid of political rivals and get sweetheart deals for their own corrupt family members, that use the deep state to put pressure on big tech to not allow any information on said corruption to come out, who crush a rail-workers’ strike and who keep escalating to WW3.
Thank you! Great comment. Just to add to your thoughts: It doesn't get more corrupt then provoking a war, and sacrificing hundreds of thousands of human lives in the hopes of weakening Russia and implementing regime change. The entirety of the Democratic party is onboard with that agenda as is the establishment wing of the Republican party. I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
I second your comment, Cara. At the end of the day after political bickering in front of the television cameras and print media reporters, the R's & D's cuddle up together, in helping to keep what Billy C said, in power.
Will the General Public ever come out of their "Deep Sleep" and start doing their homework on why they're being fleeced, all year round?
I’m struggling with insistence on a diplomatic solution to Ukraine and fiscal discipline now being solely in the wheel house of the Alt Right. How fecked up is that?
I wouldn't worry too much about a diplomatic solution in Ukraine. With Kiev and their western backers still insisting on expulsion of all Russians - including Russian speakers that have lived on their lands for centuries - from within the sacred borders of Ukraine, a reparations bill north of $1 trillion, and the bundling of all top Russian leadership to tribunals in the Hague, there's not going to be an agreement anytime soon.
There is however hope at 149.200 MHz - Volga! Volga! Get me outta here!
This is simply a US intra-elite conflict, between the globalist capitalist elements and those capitalists more dependent on the success of the national US economy (e.g. real estate, retail, and domestic oil and gas and other natural resource extraction). The latter are not part of the Ukraine gravy corruption train (and the Afghan and Iraqi ones before that) and want the focus on a China which threatens to overtake US technology and supply chain dominance.
I know personally, ten registered Democrats and several Republicans, who re-registered as Independents over the last twelve years, as the are fed up - especially the lifelong Dem voters - with the inaction and consistent campaign lies by the party elite.
If the arrogant "Teflon Don" Trump is reelected next year, will the scum de' la' scume' in the DemoRAT Party gonna blame Russia again, rather than looking at themselves in the mirror, before it shatters from fright, and reflect on their real agenda which is to bow down and cater to to War, (MIC) Wall Street, and Israel, and why they have been losing support among the working-class..
Kevin Mc Carthy is just another anti-union, pro big business politician, catering to the whims of the super-rich, and I shed no tears for his ouster, but as Patrick eloquently stated, the next Repulsive Party (my moniker, not P.L.'s) Speaker may be more militant in demands and concessions from the do-nothing party.
Good to see you back, Mr. Auerback. I personally think that our denouement will come from the same source as our rise – money. I know that Gibbon said that, in the end, the Roman empire had been militarily defeated but the Roman empire didn't have any massive defeat except possibly against Attila but they just couldn't win any battles. Sorta like the US. But the money thing looms quite large. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
I cannot foresee myself ever voting Democrat again. Unfortunately that may not matter. Our government prints lies as truth.
It's ironic. I voted for Biden. My Democratic worldview shattered when Democrats crushed the railworkers' strike. Now I see over and over how they crush labor. Had they just given A LITTLE BIT, I would still have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Had they let the damn $15 min wage bill go to the floor, I would still be cheering them. Had they done ANYTHING they said they were gonna do, I likely would've remained brainwashed.
But no, they cannot even do the littlest thing for working people, and I will scream on the rooftops to my fellow Georgians that Democrats are total scammers. Republicans aren't the solution either, but Democrats have fallen so far and so fast that I don't see how Georgia could possibly vote Democrat in 2024.
Amen Rachael! Slimy Joe B. put the screws to the railroad workers last December, and I was hoping they were defiant in pulled a wildcat strike , and hopefully, other Labor Unions and non-union workers join the wildcat, but my personal fantasy never transpired.
1. Of course the Empire cares more about Ukrainians than its own citizens. Ukrainians are useful at the moment, while Americans are at most a resource to be exploited and otherwise an unavoidable inconvenience.
To date, the United States alone has given some $3,800 and counting for every Ukrainian man, woman and child, and the Uniparty only talks of more, more more. Meanwhile, the residents of East Palestine are denied so much as a hotel voucher.
2. I suspect that Team D knew exactly what it was doing, in that the removal of McCarthy will delay or derail any Biden impeachment. Ukraine is Priority Number One, and Zalenskii will get his check, at least this time around.
So, in their glee to get rid of McCarthy, the Democrats have helped to put Jim Jordan in the Speaker’s chair, or possibly Steve Scalise. Either way the Dems are about to experience a nightmare. First off, Ukraine is finished. It’s all a downhill disaster now. Biden and his neocon cabal will own this disaster just as they owned the Afghan withdraw debacle. Next up, Biden’s impeachment. The Republicans have all the evidence they need to tie Biden not only to his key role in Project Ukraine but also his corrupt role in his family’s profiting off its misery.
Inflation, immigration, crime, declining life expectancy, homelessness, student debt, looming recession, just a few of the items voters might have on their minds as we are about to begin the campaign for 2024. Have fun with your new Speaker Dems!
The Ukraine disaster won't harm the neocons at all. They'll just glibly blame the Administration for not giving more money, more weapons, more troops, not starting WWIII, they'll blame Team R for denying funds when victory was surely around the corner this time. After Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, defeat rolls off of them like water off a duck's back.
As for the hundreds of thousands of people killed, maimed, displaced, etc. as a result of Nuland's Excellent Adventure? They could not give a shit.
The future is a continuation of the past, until it becomes a reaction to it.
While I agree the current dynamic will go on, as long as it can, it is generating serious blowback and when that point arrives, DC will start building a border wall around itself.
Imagine Nuland being extradited to Ukraine, to stand before a tribunal of mothers and widows. Maybe they will build statues to her and put her up in some leftover oligarch's mansion, or maybe she will be lucky to just get off with a stoning and not a flaying.
Don't expect any justice in this world.
Not going to argue that. Cheney will certainly die of old age first.
Yet karma does have a way of slipping through the cracks, in ways least expected.
The Hindus had to invent "karma" because it is abundantly obvious that there is no justice in this life.
It is a dog eat dog world, but if everything always balances out, there would be nothing.
No up without down, no attraction without repulsion.
The price we pay to feel, is that a lot of it is pain.
That said, this monetizing everything is an economic Ebola virus that will come back to haunt those thinking they are above the fray.
Cooking their own golden goose.
Very much so! Spot on
Then add in the Israeli-Palestinian War.
As Biden just said to the Israelis, "We got your back." Sounds familiar.
That war with China over Taiwan just got pushed to third place.
Something suggests the current world order is about to go like one of those apartment buildings in Gaza.
Should be an interesting week ahead. What will it look like, on Friday, the 13th?
Need we get into the bond market starting to shake.
The Israel-Hamas conflict adds a new and very dangerous dynamic. Ukraine means less oversight from the great powers. Add to that trouble stirring in Kosovo and the Caucasus regions again, and all of a sudden, World War III looms as a much more serious possibility
The dominos seem to be toppling rapidly.
Considering the geographic locations you mention, it's like the geostrategic fault line between East and West is rupturing. The Eastern plate is riding up over the Western plate.
RT covered the bombing of Gaza in 2014, killing at least 20,000 men, women, children and babies and as usual, the worthless UN did nothing about it.
Gaza looked like Warsaw, Poland after the Luftwaffe flew their sorties in 1939.
It seems to be heading in that direction again.
Magnier makes the argument it was planned out with Hezbollah and Iran. That Hezbollah distracted them to the north and will attack, if the Israelis go too far in retaliating. Basically giving them the choice of accepting a bit of humility, or total war. Given the chaos in Israel, as the fundamentalists grab power, but are pretty useless otherwise, and the US is distracted by its various other fights, it's not like they don't have a strong position.
It will be an interesting fall.
Based on everything you state in your article and what those of us that pay attention have already known for years if not decades, who really are the extremists and the radicals? I would say it’s the ones that weaponize the justice department to get rid of political rivals and get sweetheart deals for their own corrupt family members, that use the deep state to put pressure on big tech to not allow any information on said corruption to come out, who crush a rail-workers’ strike and who keep escalating to WW3.
Thank you! Great comment. Just to add to your thoughts: It doesn't get more corrupt then provoking a war, and sacrificing hundreds of thousands of human lives in the hopes of weakening Russia and implementing regime change. The entirety of the Democratic party is onboard with that agenda as is the establishment wing of the Republican party. I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
I second your comment, Cara. At the end of the day after political bickering in front of the television cameras and print media reporters, the R's & D's cuddle up together, in helping to keep what Billy C said, in power.
Will the General Public ever come out of their "Deep Sleep" and start doing their homework on why they're being fleeced, all year round?
But those dastardly Russians forced Trump on us!!!
Sarcasm maybe, but it does seem that for a fair number of people, that's all the logic necessary.
I’m struggling with insistence on a diplomatic solution to Ukraine and fiscal discipline now being solely in the wheel house of the Alt Right. How fecked up is that?
I wouldn't worry too much about a diplomatic solution in Ukraine. With Kiev and their western backers still insisting on expulsion of all Russians - including Russian speakers that have lived on their lands for centuries - from within the sacred borders of Ukraine, a reparations bill north of $1 trillion, and the bundling of all top Russian leadership to tribunals in the Hague, there's not going to be an agreement anytime soon.
There is however hope at 149.200 MHz - Volga! Volga! Get me outta here!
This is simply a US intra-elite conflict, between the globalist capitalist elements and those capitalists more dependent on the success of the national US economy (e.g. real estate, retail, and domestic oil and gas and other natural resource extraction). The latter are not part of the Ukraine gravy corruption train (and the Afghan and Iraqi ones before that) and want the focus on a China which threatens to overtake US technology and supply chain dominance.
I know personally, ten registered Democrats and several Republicans, who re-registered as Independents over the last twelve years, as the are fed up - especially the lifelong Dem voters - with the inaction and consistent campaign lies by the party elite.
If the arrogant "Teflon Don" Trump is reelected next year, will the scum de' la' scume' in the DemoRAT Party gonna blame Russia again, rather than looking at themselves in the mirror, before it shatters from fright, and reflect on their real agenda which is to bow down and cater to to War, (MIC) Wall Street, and Israel, and why they have been losing support among the working-class..
Kevin Mc Carthy is just another anti-union, pro big business politician, catering to the whims of the super-rich, and I shed no tears for his ouster, but as Patrick eloquently stated, the next Repulsive Party (my moniker, not P.L.'s) Speaker may be more militant in demands and concessions from the do-nothing party.
💯 agree
Good to see you back, Mr. Auerback. I personally think that our denouement will come from the same source as our rise – money. I know that Gibbon said that, in the end, the Roman empire had been militarily defeated but the Roman empire didn't have any massive defeat except possibly against Attila but they just couldn't win any battles. Sorta like the US. But the money thing looms quite large. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.