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October 22, 2024
Election Musings

The current presidential election cycle is the least attractive I have ever watched.

Donald Trump is doing his usual talk giving promises which no one believes he will keep.

Kamala Harris is as disagreeable as many have feared. She is basically an empty vessel with a tendency to authoritarianism. The vessel is ready to be filled with whatever new war project the neo-conservatives – see Liz Cheney – are planning for.

Biden was and is clearly beyond the point of pursuing another presidency. Moving him aside was the best thing the Democrats could do. Offering Harris as a replacement – without any campaign, vote or legitimization – was the worst thing they could do. They will rue this mistake.

My hunch is that Trump will win the election. What policies will follow will largely depend on the people he will select to run the show. He had previously chosen people who were opposing and sabotaging his policies. He lacked the authority and/or will to rein them in. I do not believe that he has learned from it.

Whoever may win the presidency will anyway not make a big difference.

I expect the new president to double down on the anti-Russian project in Ukraine and on support for the genocide the Zionist are committed to finish. The U.S. will continue to be bogged down in Europe and west-Asia. The 'pivot to Asia' to counter China's rise will continue to stall. The economic standing of the U.S. will continue to deteriorate.

This is good news for China, Russia, the BRICS project and those involved in it. As the old world order continues to drag itself down the new one gains time and space to evolve from it.

Comments

I tend to think Ross Perot (1992) was really the last gasp for USA, though also it’s not only the executive branch that matters in demise (an example, the previous 40 years of 1-party rule in Congress set a lot of stages for the next decades, of various reasons).

Posted by: Call it what u will | Oct 22 2024 23:47 utc | 201

Blackeyebart | Oct 22 2024 23:20 utc | 195
…But Israel is a special case. Trump will always want to support Israel…
If Trump were told he had to have a war, and he was allowed to put a pin in a map of anywhere in the world, IMVHO he’d choose China. His reptilian instinct is China is the Hegemon’s real competitor/enemy.
Israel’s enemy is Iran, so the “bomb bomb bomb Iran” crew were able to have him assassinate Soleimani. As there’s nothing more orgastic for the Hegemon than a huuuge theatrical decapitation strike.
Should he be selected to be White House resident 47, his purported (lol) “A” team (RFKjr, Gabbard, et al) will press, coerce, coddle him into conflict with Iran. (Because they too are all Israel muppets)
Them Behind the Scenes have managed to convince Trump Iran is behind the assassination attempts.
Just con Trump into thinking an attack on Iran is also an attack on China… he’ll be in the Situation Room (with a special order of burgers and fries) mere hours after Jan20

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 22 2024 23:49 utc | 202

Posted by: JMW | Oct 22 2024 16:35 utc | 39
“Trump will lose the popular vote for the third time, but be installed again by redneck DEI.”
If the most recent polls are an indication, Trump might win both the popular vote and the electoral college. Listen to Kamala’s word salad for an hour and you might perceive how revolting she is and how unmotivated her base is. I think they would have done better if they had stayed with Biden.

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 22 2024 23:50 utc | 203

Posted by: Sam | Oct 22 2024 23:07 utc | 191
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Hi, Sam,
Matthew Ehret has done some very interesting work on the way the Brits have used Canada as a channel for influencing American politics starting after the lost Colonies in the American Revolution.
I am not a fan of all of Ehret’s work, but I like the “Canadian Patriot” work that delves into Canadian history and especially into Canada as a source of British machinations that have strongly but secretly influenced American history.
Take a look!
https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/01/27/origins-of-deep-state-part1/

Posted by: Jane | Oct 22 2024 23:52 utc | 204

Listen to Kamala’s word salad for an hour and you might perceive how revolting she is and how unmotivated her base is. I think they would have done better if they had stayed with Biden.
Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 22 2024 23:50 utc | 204
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Yeah, to the extent that the American people are exposed to Harris via the MSM I really can’t imagine anyone voting for her except the TDS and “pink pussy hat” addled who will choose any female, no matter how dumb. It’s embarrassing!

Posted by: Jane | Oct 23 2024 0:00 utc | 205

I found the best analysis of the election, bar our hosts, here:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150416865?source=queue
Chris Hedges = author. Lots of good comments including some from a few of our old friends from the bar.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 23 2024 0:02 utc | 206

Re: Posted by: ossi | Oct 22 2024 16:25 utc | 30
I see your point, and you are largely right, but let’s not exaggerate the extent to which people in Europe are informed about other countries or have any idea about them beyond the nonsense propagated by their own mainstream media–and even then. For example, is anyone in Europe better informed about the situation in Ukraine or Russia than anyone in the US? From my experience, no. I lived in Europe for many years and have been back a number of times. A friend of mine in Paris considers Putin a dictator and the war in Ukraine merely Putin’s attempt to gain more territory for Russia–to have more people to rule over, as if that were really a serious motivation.
In another example, a young German woman asked an anti-Zionist Israeli friend of mine where he was from, and he answered, “Palestine.” She then asked where Palestine was. Is she an example of your politically informed Germans?
People in Europe loved to talk about the US and had many ideas about the country, but few had any that were even remotely accurate. The French were especially convinced of many utterly false ideas. And everyone knew about the various parliamentary systems of Europe and the rest of the world, but no one understood (or even was interested in) the US political system. In fact, whenever I talked about the situation in the US, the general reaction was boredom. Typically, they changed the subject.
Now, people would often tell me I wasn’t a typical American, but given their lack of interest in or knowledge of all things American, I seriously question whether they were intellectually able to make such a judgment. And I couldn’t even begin to count the number of times I heard that they understood America because they had watched “Dallas” or “Dynasty” or other American TV programs.
Most of Europe has slavishly followed the US lead with respect to Russia and Ukraine. Does this evidence greater European knowledge of the situation? I hear the same CIA-generated lies spread through the US media coming from the mouths of Europeans. And as concerns the Nordstream pipelines, Americans know very little because the US media have maintained a relative silence on the subject. What about the Germans? Seymour Hersh’s article was available to Germans, as well as everyone else. Olaf Scholz has done nothing about the pipelines and has refused to condemn the US although all available evidence has pointed to US culpability in the affair and Biden even stated, while standing next to Scholz, that the US would end them.
I think you should consider the relative ignorance and real lack of interest in the world shared by your fellow Germans and Europeans when you discuss American ignorance and lack of interest in the world.
If Americans are even worse than Europeans in general, that shouldn’t make you proud.

Posted by: Archie | Oct 23 2024 0:11 utc | 207

Don Bacon | Oct 22 2024 22:11 utc | 176—
Thanks Don. My family arrived in what became the Inland Empire in 1910, my Spanish Great grandfather being first and bought land in what was Cucamonga well before Rancho was added. He sent for his wife, son and daughter to join him from Salamanca, Espana, in 1914. My maternal side came from Ohio via the Arizona Territory and settled in Upland in 1911. Both sides became citrus ranchers and prospered from the water under the ground that irrigated their groves. One uncle had a spread out in the desert, where exactly I can’t recall. The core ranch in Cucamonga remains with its 6-foot thick river-stone walled outbuildings. The Maternal home on Foothill Blvd is now a national historic building. But suburbia killed the groves and vineyards with the old houses from that era standing out starkly from the tract houses that now gird them. The Red Cars still ran when I was very young, with their tracks still present in a few places. Mom opted to attend Cal-Berkley and dad served his draft hitch at the Presidio where I was born, and we became Northerners and 49er & Giant fans, while the rest remained down South. We plan to do a drive down Hwy 1/101 to San Diego in January, stopping to show the wife all the old haunts. Nostalgia.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 23 2024 0:18 utc | 208

karlof1@018
Whatta place to meet…at least digitally…a fellow Giants fan. My mom graduated H.S. with the starting catcher for the 1954 World Champs. So my dad, already a baseball fan, went Giants. As a ten y.o. kid I fell in love with Willie Mays…and the rest has been history.
A.L team is the Twins, as my dad took me to the very first Twins game in April of ’61. Later that year I became an usher at Met Stadium and watched free a lot of Twins games…also ushered at very first Vikings game…but not a particularly big football fan.
Have a nice drive down 101. Checked out a redwood site on Mill Creek, just outside of Big Sur and camped there for a few days in summer of ’70. America was a reasonably free country back in that era. Camped for free on a spur of the moment to drive up thataway…trip to LaLaLand took a little more time than I’d originally anticipated. All good.

Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 23 2024 0:34 utc | 209

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Oct 22 2024 17:45 utc | 88
“Yessiree!!! I hadn’t voted in past three presidential elections but this time I just held my nose and voted for Trump. I may not have done much good for America in doing this, but I’m sure I couldn’t do any worse.”
I voted for the guy they keep trying to kill. I figured that if they want him dead, he must have some redeeming qualities.

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 0:38 utc | 210

I found the best analysis of the election, bar our hosts, here:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150416865?source=queue
Chris Hedges = author. Lots of good comments including some from a few of our old friends from the bar.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 23 2024 0:02 utc | 207
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Well, I kind of stopped reading when I saw Hedges citing Monbiot as an authority on anything.
IMO Monbiot is a dope.
I did actually continue to read and also read many of the comments.
I don’t see this Substack article as a useful guide to the election.
I read a lot of the comments, and basically I am with Fran. Although our voting decisions seem to differ.
I like Hedges as a person—he is very empathetic to the downtrodden—but he suffers from TDS. This is a major handicap for an effective analysis.
Also his argument that Trump represents American oligarchs is not that convincing. Which “oligarchs”? Is that just because Trump started out as a real estate developer that he is categorized as an oligarch?
Tom Luongo also sees a lot of what is going on as the tip of the iceberg of a struggle within the ruling elite. He defines the factions differently (I believe, if I understood him): those who want to incorporate the USA into a global financial system and American bankers who say Eff-off to the globalists and aim to maintain their power base in the USA and not become subservient to globalists and their dream of world-central banking and the destruction of retail banking.
Trump seems to me to fit into the latter category, although his understanding of finance might not match that of either the globalists/Davos/WEF or the USA bankers.

Posted by: Jane | Oct 23 2024 0:42 utc | 211

I remember what happened to JFK when he was going to end the War in Vietnam
(I was a high school junior in a Dallas suburb.)
Posted by: qparker | Oct 22 2024 16:41 utc | 44
I remember what happened to JFK when he was going to force the Israelis to open their nuclear reactor at Dimona to international inspection.
https://www.unz.com/book/michael_collins_piper__final-judgment/

Posted by: Joe Turner | Oct 23 2024 0:43 utc | 212

I remember what happened to JFK when he was going to force the Israelis to open their nuclear reactor at Dimona to international inspection.
https://www.unz.com/book/michael_collins_piper__final-judgment/
Posted by: Joe Turner | Oct 23 2024 0:43 utc | 213
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Right on!

Posted by: Jane | Oct 23 2024 0:48 utc | 213

I read the Chris Hedges piece linked to by Ghost of Zanon | Oct 23 2024 0:02 utc | 207
The Choice this Election is between Corporate and Oligarchic Power
As the God Of Mammon cult promotor I question his framing…..where do the corporation and oligarchs keep their money?
Chris Hedges alludes to the power of finance but does not call it out directly and contrast it with China PBOC….why do we keep misrepresenting reality folks?
Does the misrepresentation only exist in the Western bubble? I keep wanting China to speak clearly about the public/private finance difference but its like no one wants to confront the bully directly in this way.
I don’t like thinking about the coming US (s)election. Events have not happened to push Americans away from the genocide red/blue teams like I had hoped…..things are moving forward in a good direction but results are still in suspense. In spite of some misgivings I will vote for Jill Stein and hope enough others do to jolt the American public a bit into reflection and to tell the RoW that there are some of us non-barbaric humans in America.
What did the Germans who voted for Hitler later say about their learning the historic reality of their actions?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 23 2024 0:48 utc | 214

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 22 2024 18:19 utc | 104
“For the faithful believers in a Trump engendered nirvana … one of his first acts post inauguration was to personally approve the murder by drone, assasination, overseas, of an unconvicted/less ever even charged American citizen”
Sorry, Obama was the first to claim that honor. I remember him geeking out when he got to watch the drone feed and assign the target. I believe he took out the son of a radical Islamist preacher from Arizona who traveled to Yemen to wage jihad.

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 0:51 utc | 215

Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 0:51 utc | 216
My recollection of Obama’s first act of international terrorism was the father and family had been living in New York for years. They were non political and not jihadis. Immediately post 9/11 they became targeted for simply being “A-rabs”. Couldn’t walk down the street without experiencing an “interaction”. House raided several times.
The harassment antagonised them. Eventually they “went back to where they came from” as the hostility in the U$ was too extreme.
Back in Yemen, reflecting on their experience in the U$ saw them become more “radicalised”, and of course the family, once on a “watch list”, always on a watch list.
After the U$ sanctioned killing of the father, Obama took out the 14yo son “before he became a problem”, assuming he’d eventually want revenge for his father’s murder. Interestingly (or not really) the boy was sitting with friends and scrolling (intel agency controlled FB), which allowed the U$ intel to know his exact location….. simple to send in a drone.
I attended a Festival of Dangerous Ideas [lol… this @bar is waaaay more dangerous]… where Jeremy Scahill spoke on this extrajudicial murder.
My recollection could be patchy, due it being to a decade at least, and of course, Scahill’s account could be “limited hangout” info.
Who knows anymore what is the “truth” of anything ….

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 23 2024 1:14 utc | 216

karlof1, California is truly beautiful. I’ve been all the way up the coast from Monterrey to Canada. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of the people are ugly. Not in a physical sense, but that’s also true. Didn’t spend much time in Southern California but I’ve seen a little of it. Have you ever been to Honeyman state park in Oregon? The sand dunes? Awesome.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 1:20 utc | 217

“On January 23, 2009, just three days into his presidency, President Obama authorized his first kinetic military action: two drone strikes, three hours apart, in Waziristan, Pakistan, that killed as many as twenty civilians. Two terms and 540 strikes later, Obama leaves the White House after having vastly expanding and normalizing the use of armed drones for counterterrorism and close air support operations in non-battlefield settings—namely Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.”
its being going on a long time… it’s now a presidential tradition..
Obama’s Final Drone Strike Data

Posted by: james | Oct 23 2024 1:24 utc | 218

Went to Vancouver Island. Butchart gardens. I’m sure james is familiar with it. Also lived in Point Roberts for awhile. They used to have big raves there right on the border. Since the bars were par for Canadian/US money, we’d convert ours to theirs and drink for cheap. Good times back then.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 1:30 utc | 219

Sorry, Obama was the first to claim that honor. I remember him geeking out when he got to watch the drone feed and assign the target. I believe he took out the son of a radical Islamist preacher from Arizona who traveled to Yemen to wage jihad.
Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 0:51 utc | 216
Classic case of don’t let the truth or plain facts get in the way when dealing with a TDS disciple.
K

Posted by: kupkee | Oct 23 2024 1:41 utc | 220

Miriam Adelson, widow of Israhelli billionaire Sheldon, is the GOP/Trump’s largest donor.
Adelson also fueled Trump’s 2016 run
Saban Haim, Israhelli billionaire, is Democrats/Harris largest donor (with Soros a close 2nd).
What we will get is more ZIONIST BILLIONAIRE wars for the theft of resources and theft of land for ZIONIST supremacy in trade routes. From Ukraine to Israhell.
It’s also no coincidence that the political puppets in positions of power in Ukraine and Israhell are ZioJew white supremacists.

Posted by: Kay | Oct 23 2024 1:49 utc | 221

Miriam Adelson, widow of Israhelli billionaire Sheldon, is the GOP/Trump’s largest donor.
Adelson also fueled Trump’s 2016 run
Saban Haim, Israhelli billionaire, is Democrats/Harris largest donor (with Soros a close 2nd).
What we will get is more ZIONIST BILLIONAIRE wars for the theft of resources and theft of land for ZIONIST supremacy in trade routes. From Ukraine to Israhell.
It’s also no coincidence that the political puppets in positions of power in Ukraine and Israhell are ZioJew white supremacists.

Posted by: Kay | Oct 23 2024 1:49 utc | 222

@ qparker | Oct 22 2024 16:41 utc | 44
I remember what happened to JFK when he was going to end the War in Vietnam
Could be, but the popular thought is that Jack wanted to make nice with the USSR — forbidden (now with Russia).
wiki
The American University speech, titled “A Strategy of Peace”, was a commencement address delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy at the American University in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 10, 1963.[1] Widely considered one of the most powerful speeches Kennedy delivered,[2] he not only outlined a plan to curb nuclear arms, but also “laid out a hopeful, yet realistic route for world peace at a time when the U.S. and Soviet Union faced the potential for an escalating nuclear arms race.”[3]
JFK was killed later that year at Dealey Plaza. I was in Vietnam at the time, and there wasn’t much going on.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 23 2024 1:59 utc | 223

It will be Blue deep state or Red deep state. Same difference. (Hate that expression but the shoe fits.)
The US economic catastrophe that’s coming regardless of the sham election will rule the US future the next four years. The Mexicanization will proceed and street violence will be the outcome. Those on high will frown down upon such uncouth behavior.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Oct 23 2024 2:06 utc | 224

Chris Hedges
The irony is that the unchecked greed of the corporatists, the housebroken capitalists, created a small number of billionaires who became their nemesis, the warlord capitalists. If the pillage is not halted, if we do not restore through popular movements control over the economy and the political system, then warlord capitalism will triumph. The warlord capitalists will cement into place neo-feudalism, while the public is distracted and divided by the antics of killer clowns like Trump.
I see nothing on the horizon to avoid this fate.
Trump, for now, is the figurehead of warlord capitalism. But he did not create it, does not control it and can easily be replaced. Harris, whose nonsensical ramblings can make Biden look focused and coherent, is the vacuous, empty suit the technocrats adore.
Pick your poison. Destruction by corporate power or destruction by oligarchy. The end result is the same. That is what the two ruling parties offer in November. Nothing else.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-150416865
Yanis Varoufakis the age of Techno-Feudalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3FdIyNMaFY

Posted by: William Manchester | Oct 23 2024 2:07 utc | 225

Short and pithy essay that neatly summarizes the pessimistic side of my own view of this election and aftermath, b. On the other hand, my optimistic side observes the mainstream media gangbang of Trump and their fantasy narrative of a neck-and-neck race between him and Harris as a bellwether that a Trump Presidency would, in some way, upset the Globalist’s plans. Mine is a thin, perhaps pathetic hope, but maybe Trump would make just a little difference in the right direction.

Posted by: Activist Potato | Oct 23 2024 2:12 utc | 226

@ Posted by: Archie | Oct 23 2024 0:11 utc | 208
Well stated, sir.
I think that some people like to keep up with politics in general, but very few want to go into understanding the real structures that the politics is based on, and then the changing dynamics as different people/POV run that structure or make (or try to) changes to it.
I can name 3 or 4 Euro prime ministers, but certainly not all of them. And not really anyone else in power in their countries, except maybe a few Brits. And even though Euro countries are “parliamentary rule” there are variances between them that I have little knowledge of.
In truth, maybe a few professors of political science can remember all these differences, but since they mean nothing in the lives of everyone else, why bother to learn them?
I think that applies to the Euro view of the USA. Everyone here (the bar) dwells on the national level, while the state level is rarely brought up, and there are 50 variations to deal with. Very few in the US knows all the differences between them, although they can probably be lumped into 3 similar types. You actually have to live in a state 4 or 5 years (and pay attention) to figure out the intricacies of that state’s politics.
To that end, outsiders don’t understand the dynamics of power between the states and the federal government. The state’s power has been shrinking for over 50 years, and federals has grown. Hence we have near unlimited illegal immigrants allowed in, even though the border states don’t want it. We have mandates and laws about federal “hate crimes” and various other things that anyone could be charged with. Then we have the controls placed over the states and industry by the many federal agencies, many of whom willing overstep their authority regularly, until they get cut back by losing lawsuits or shamed by the media. It will take almost a million dollars these days for a private citizen to sue and finally win against the US government.
So while the bar thinks “ohhh Ukaraine…Ohhh Palestine” the avg US voter is thinking..
Oohh – criminal illegal aliens forced on us
oohh – inflation (real inflation is cumulative 30% since Jan 2021)
oohh – homeless drug zombies in our area
oohh – everything in the big box store in made in China
oohh – FEMA fucked up again
oohh – DOE wants to shut down out factories, and force us to put windmills that rarely make energy in our town.
ooHH – we just spent $1 TRILLION on interest?
OOHH – there are no new cars listed for under $20,000 now
OOHH – There are no new houses anywhere listed for under $400,000.
oohh – my taxes are going to void the debt for $$ millions of worthless college degrees.
And so on.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Oct 23 2024 2:17 utc | 227

@ Elmagnostic | Oct 23 2024 2:06 utc | 225
The Mexicans surely know how to put one on, but I’m afraid that the US isn’t there yet, with the disciplined and bannered full-street marching demonstrations.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 23 2024 2:19 utc | 228

It’s imperial end times, who calls themself president or emperor is almost unimportant. The wheels of history are gaining speed. The only difference between the two candidates is which stupid thing that’s even more damaging to the empire they’ll choose to focus on.
Both are liable to send troops to fight directly with Israel, unless Israel convinces Biden before then and then both candidates will continue or escalate. Neither will completely abandon Ukraine until there is no other choice. Both are likely to poke China. Harris is probably more likely to do something stupid in Korea, but when Trump calls Kim and gets the brush off his pride will be wounded.

Posted by: Lex | Oct 23 2024 2:22 utc | 229

The Constitution first describes a congress to make the laws, then a president to execute the laws. But the US has a do-nothing congress and an oligarch president executing orders from the PTB.. . . .It doesn’t work.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 23 2024 2:31 utc | 230

Over the past 50 years of observing politics and global affairs, I’ve never seen such a profound disconnect between ordinary citizens and their leaders. What’s even more disturbing is that the current system offers no meaningful political choices. No matter which political party we vote for, the same corrupt framework remains because the true power brokers operate behind the political facade.
As voters, we’re left with two dismal choices: the lesser of two evils. It’s a matter of choosing your poison. Real change won’t come until the entire system is dismantled and replaced by a genuinely improved alternative—one that restores the People’s natural Commons, creates a public banking system, reforms capitalism, eradicates extreme individual wealth, and prioritizes ecological and economic sustainability. Until then, we’re merely managing the last voyage of the Titanic.

Posted by: William Manchester | Oct 23 2024 2:40 utc | 231

@ William Manchester | Oct 23 2024 2:40 utc | 232
Hm. Has the robotic ring, flat effected emotionless voice, of an AI-bot summarizing selected general comments in the Bar. Is that really you Willie ? Will the real William Manchester, please stand up, please stand up ?
Dearest Willie …
See: Here.
October 18, 2024, Warrior With A Just Cause Dies As Such.
Oct 21 2024 14:49 utc | 531

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 23 2024 3:04 utc | 232

Western capitalist camp (self proclaiming Democlacy) just gonna rotten.

Posted by: Nokaz | Oct 23 2024 3:18 utc | 233

@ Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 0:51 utc | 216
It occurred as described. And demonstrates the true character, nature & values of Trump.
Yet “Obama was the first have that ‘honor‘ ?” Are you for real ?

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 23 2024 3:18 utc | 234

I don’t vote. Trump may not be the best guy, but he’s better than the alternative. I’ve seen him go into a restaurant and buy everybody pizza or whatever. When is the last time you saw a Democrat do that? It ain’t like they don’t have money.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 3:19 utc | 235

I’ve never seen a Democrat go into a bar or restaurant and say “drinks and food are on me.” They always expect you to pay for their drinks. Like they’re royalty.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 3:23 utc | 236

@ Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 1:30 utc | 220
yes, butchart gardens.. beautiful place – at least it was, before it became this intensely overcrowded zoo of a place! i used to go there when a pass for the year was 20$ now they are probably charging more for the daily entry..34.45 is the daily fee now.. it is a nice place when it is quiet.. not in the summer with the place overwrought with tourists..

Posted by: james | Oct 23 2024 3:31 utc | 237

What did the Germans who voted for Hitler later say about their learning the historic reality of their actions?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 23 2024 0:48 utc | 215
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Hitler was named Chancellor after his party had gotten just 33% of the vote in January 1933.
Hitler immediately dissolved the Reichstag and called for new elections. Then he arranged or LIHOP the Reichstag fire as a pretext to unleash a terror campaign against all opposition parties, especially the Communists and the SPD, and to declare all members of the Communist Party traitors. Many forms of terror were applied against opposition party leaders and members and the public to boost votes for the NSDAP and reduce votes for other parties. Nevertheless the Nazis got just 43% of the vote on March 5, 1933. They never had a majority. A few weeks later Hitler managed to get another party to vote with the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act, which empowered him to govern and pass laws without benefit of Parliament.
He moved swiftly to activate Gleichschaltung, a plan and method to rapidly reorder and drastically “rationalize” every aspect of Germany’s civil society, politics, bureaucracy, and administration from top to bottom and create a new totalitarian order run by the Nazi Party.

Posted by: Jane | Oct 23 2024 3:57 utc | 238

I use to think Jon Stewart was a decent Jew.
Not anymore.

Posted by: Suresh | Oct 23 2024 4:00 utc | 239

F*ck the Democrats.
F*ck the Republicans.
And F*ck Trump and Kamala.
There is only one viable candidate and force to support that will literally end all of America’s problems:
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Posted by: ak74 | Oct 23 2024 4:06 utc | 240

james. Yeah I went there in the 70s and the 80s. It was pleasant. The first time was the best time. Actually have a an old friend that lives on Friday harbor. Everything is overrun now. We went to the wax museum and all the tourist stuff. We hit every tourist trap between Monterey and Canada back in the day. It was cool.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 4:07 utc | 241

@ Jane | Oct 23 2024 3:57 utc | 239
Excellent. Bravo.
And he crucially merged the offices of both Chancellor & President, powers & privileges, into a single office, in his person, and changed all oaths of allegiance to Germany(The State), to instead his person, by name, most critically all members of the Wermacht(Army, Navy, Airforce) had to formally so retake their oath. Everything tied up ‘legally’ with a pretty bow. Down hill rapidly from there …

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 23 2024 4:14 utc | 242

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 23 2024 1:14 utc | 217
Thanks for tidying up for my faulty memory. I remembered the event, but you filled in the significant details.

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 4:23 utc | 243

I use to think Jon Stewart was a decent Jew.
Not anymore.
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 23 2024 4:00 utc | 240
Well obviously. The ridiculous idpol appeal is always the tell. The more idpol, the more a tool of the Dem genociders.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 23 2024 4:26 utc | 244

james. We’re working on building a small studio in my shop. Mostly for online recording. Unfortunately, my son’s Mac pro took a shit, otherwise we could send files and stuff. Have to reboot. Shit always happens, right?

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 4:29 utc | 245

Over the past 50 years of observing politics and global affairs, I’ve never seen such a profound disconnect between ordinary citizens and their leaders. What’s even more disturbing is that the current system offers no meaningful political choices. No matter which political party we vote for, the same corrupt framework remains because the true power brokers operate behind the political facade.
As voters, we’re left with two dismal choices: the lesser of two evils. It’s a matter of choosing your poison. Real change won’t come until the entire system is dismantled and replaced by a genuinely improved alternative—one that restores the People’s natural Commons, creates a public banking system, reforms capitalism, eradicates extreme individual wealth, and prioritizes ecological and economic sustainability. Until then, we’re merely managing the last voyage of the Titanic.
Posted by: William Manchester | Oct 23 2024 2:40 utc | 232
Totally agree, but I’m not sure Capitalism can be reformed at this stage of decline. It’s like trying to restore a corpse to life. Failure to accept this historical fact is a big part of the political problem in the US, everywhere really.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 23 2024 4:29 utc | 246

Anyway, it’s bedtime for bonzo on the West Coast. Check you later.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 23 2024 4:35 utc | 247

karlof1,
You gotta write some of this family background on your substack. Very VERY few have the slightest understanding of „Latino“ Ranching in California.

Posted by: Exile | Oct 23 2024 4:40 utc | 248

So while the bar thinks “ohhh Ukaraine…Ohhh Palestine” the avg US voter is thinking..
Oohh – criminal illegal aliens forced on us
oohh – inflation (real inflation is cumulative 30% since Jan 2021)
oohh – homeless drug zombies in our area
oohh – everything in the big box store in made in China
oohh – FEMA fucked up again
oohh – DOE wants to shut down out factories, and force us to put windmills that rarely make energy in our town.
ooHH – we just spent $1 TRILLION on interest?
OOHH – there are no new cars listed for under $20,000 now
OOHH – There are no new houses anywhere listed for under $400,000.
oohh – my taxes are going to void the debt for $$ millions of worthless college degrees.
And so on.
Posted by: BroncoBilly | Oct 23 2024 2:17 utc | 228
Believe it or not, Bronco, but most of that shit is a result of the endless wars of Imperialism, the final putrid stage of the Capitalist system. Another shocker, a lot a average Americans are making that connection. More and more everyday.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 23 2024 4:43 utc | 249

Karlof,
Obit of a old fashioned Rancher Woman
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/We-Sail-to-Finish.html?soid=1102737359787&aid=hdItVafzXKA
Suspect your family crossed paths with Her many times 🙂

Posted by: Exile | Oct 23 2024 4:48 utc | 250

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 23 2024 3:18 utc | 235
Yet “Obama was the first have that ‘honor’ ?” Are you for real ?
Sorry, I forgot to add /S to indicate sarcasm.

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 4:50 utc | 251

Paranaense | Oct 23 2024 4:23 utc | 244
…filled in the significant details
Well. Maybe.
I now have my own summation. Based on nothing more than my own conjecture and cynicism.
Using the Chechen Tsarnaev {Boston “bombing”} brothers script (and others)
First up, I’m now curious as to the why and how of a Yemeni family in New York pre 9/11.
Were they intel assets of some sort?
Did everyday New Yorkers (and witless NYC cops) harass them in the paranoid immediate post 9/11 aftermath?
Probably.
If they were originally assets of one or some other agency, they could still have been targeted, either (i)by their own agency, (ii)by branches of their home agency that, under Need To Know, didn’t Know they were actually their own assets (it’s happened) (iii) targeted by Other Agencies who may not (or may) have known they were at one time, assets…
In spycraft it gets messy, fast.
So. They go back to Yemen. At the time, Yemen wasn’t really on the radar… well, not mine.
Knowing what we now know of Yemen… hmm, their status is curious.
It’s said that once back In Yemen he became “radicalised”. Did he?
Certainly, Someone … who had the capability of influencing Action wanted him dead for some reason. And so dead he became. A cover story of him being a jihadi radical was enough to quell questioning.
Killing the son certainly sent a message.
Since then Yemen has moved closer to center stage of international events.
The Saudis were involved in 9/11.
Did this family know something? Immediately post 9/11 there was a strong imperative to shield the Bush-Saudi connections.
Given the Saudi/Yemen situation, it’s possible an Yemeni asset could know of Saudi involvement in 9/11.
Given the eventual conflict between Saudi and Yemen, and the “nuisance” the Yemenis now are to international shipping….
I am open to the possibility there is WAAAAY more to the “Obama” elimination of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki (16, not 14, as I remembered it).
BTW. All just musing and conjecture on my part….

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 23 2024 5:31 utc | 252

Another topic of impassioned nonsense about the AIPAC parties. Look at the differences between clapping seals as they wedge issue fish over squid preferences

Posted by: Hankster | Oct 23 2024 5:43 utc | 253

https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/major-national-cybersecurity-exercise-on-election-day
It is noteworthy that since this was posted, links to/about AFCEA fail to load.
Recalling that archive.org & its WayBackMachine have been under heavy assault for the last 1-2 weeks, I was able to pull up a page for atlanta.afceachapters.org from October 2024, which does say:

 AFCEA Atlanta
 Homeland Security Conference 
 on Critical Infrastructure 
 November 6-7 , 2024
 with a large scale cybersecurity exercise 
 on November 5, 2024
 AFCEA Atlanta is proud to announce our Fourth Annual Homeland Security Conference is back for 2024! This will be a multi-day event focused on critical infrastructure, with a pre-conference cybersecurity exercise open to registrants who want to observe or participate. 

Live CyberSecurity “drill” to coincide with Election Day.
…can’t make this stuff up.

Posted by: retroflecks | Oct 23 2024 5:44 utc | 254

America loves to boast about how it’s the world’s leading “democracy” and thus a model for the entire globe.
The USA is certainly a model alright–of what not to be.
America’s so-called democracy is essentially a war between feuding gangs like the Bloods vs. the Crips.
The Red State Bloods (Republicans) are currently repped by Mafia Don Trump, with an army of bagmen, capos, propagandists, foot soldiers and chumps.
The Blue State Crips (Democrats) are currently repped by Killer Kamala, also with an army of bagmen, capos, propagandists, foot soldiers and chumps.
American elections are turf wars between these two gangs.
And, as in all turf wars, blood must be spilled.
That’s gangland America.

Posted by: ak74 | Oct 23 2024 5:59 utc | 256

As a German, I have spoken to hundreds of Americans, but when it comes to political issues, they all stopped at their own leadership, nobody knew anything about ….
Posted by: ossi | Oct 22 2024 16:25 utc | 30

If we charitably assume you have talked to 900 Americans, then 900 / 331M = 0.00027%. Your generalizations past this statement are moot.
Perhaps stop trying to strike up political discussions at Taylor Swift concerts?

Posted by: retroflecks | Oct 23 2024 6:03 utc | 257

Genocide? Way to lose what little credibility you had, or were you just pandering to your audience.

Posted by: jim | Oct 23 2024 6:22 utc | 258

Hitler was named Chancellor after his party had gotten just 33% of the vote in January 1933.
Hitler immediately dissolved the Reichstag and called for new elections. Then he arranged or LIHOP the Reichstag fire as a pretext to unleash a terror campaign against all opposition parties, especially the Communists and the SPD, and to declare all members of the Communist Party traitors. Many forms of terror were applied against opposition party leaders and members and the public to boost votes for the NSDAP and reduce votes for other parties. Nevertheless the Nazis got just 43% of the vote on March 5, 1933. They never had a majority. A few weeks later Hitler managed to get another party to vote with the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act, which empowered him to govern and pass laws without benefit of Parliament.
He moved swiftly to activate Gleichschaltung, a plan and method to rapidly reorder and drastically “rationalize” every aspect of Germany’s civil society, politics, bureaucracy, and administration from top to bottom and create a new totalitarian order run by the Nazi Party.
Posted by: Jane | Oct 23 2024 3:57 utc | 239
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And why could HE become Chancellor with only 33%?
That’s right, because the SPD built a “firewall” to the KPD and refused to form a coalition with it.
What does that remind us of in Europe?
The “firewall” that the CDU, for example, built to the AFD… the AFD is the party that wants to separate itself from the US dominance in Germany… AND HAS TO
Ami go home… demonstrations are almost regular and can be found all over Europe.
WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO YOU
As an American here in the bar?

Posted by: ossi | Oct 23 2024 6:51 utc | 259

All this is highly theoreitcal. For Trump to win, he needs to be ahead 4-5% in the polls in battleground states. This is because the ballot harvesting operations and mail-ins draw from a certain population where the ballots are more or less secured for Kamala via racially connected local organisations.

Posted by: alek_a | Oct 23 2024 6:52 utc | 260

Oh yes
With all the discussion about Trumph and & don’t forget that a lot can change today that neither Trumph nor Kamelis nor the Deep State can influence!
By:
Yuri Podolyaka one of Russia’s best analysts and bloggers
BRICS Summit: Today a new world order is emerging in Russia…
So UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Kazan…
And representatives of 36 countries of the world also arrived there. 22 of them will be presented at the highest level. 6 international organizations.
Together these countries comprise more than half of the world’s population and more than half of the world’s GDP.
This is exactly what Russia’s “isolation” looks like today after 2.5 years of the Northern Military District.” At the same time, all Western media are writing about Moscow’s great victory on the diplomatic front and are sadly wondering what impact this will have on the future of the whole world.
Recognizing that new rules are being written in it without their involvement.
Meanwhile, the “darling” of Western puppeteers, the late “president” of Ukraine Zelensky, is snorting angrily in his bunker and sadly recalling that almost none of the country’s leaders came to him for the peace summit in Switzerland. And Guterres too.
And in general, it is very likely that today’s 16th BRICS summit will officially draw a line under the unipolar world and become the starting point for the formation of a new reality.
The reality in which we will continue to live. Without the dictates of the West or anyone else.
424.5KViews
Yuri Podolyaka
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Posted by: ossi | Oct 23 2024 7:01 utc | 261

Posted by: ak74 | Oct 23 2024 4:06 utc | 241
I would vote for giant meteor as my number 2 if we had ranked choice voting as I don’t think that they are quite as fair as my number one choice of lock everyone in a gibbet and lose the key.

Posted by: Badjoke | Oct 23 2024 9:48 utc | 262

@ William | Oct 23 2024 10:47 utc | 264
Dearest Willie …
Did you perhaps fail to notice the following below Post a comment prior to posting:

Please choose ONE unique username and stick to it. Using multiple names is sockpuppeteering and will get you banned.

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 23 2024 11:13 utc | 263

b-
Please understand this is written without malice.
It is natural for foreigners to think of America only as demonstrated by American foreign policy. There is SO much more to this country and its political system than is perceivable by those who do not live here, by those who are not immersed in daily contact with us Deplorables.
The American President, by design, is not an all-powerful decree spewer. For Trump (or any President for that matter) to effect policy requires significant consensus among the other two branches of the Federal Govt., as well as consensus among the political leadership of a majority of the several States comprising the Union. Which is why the “down-ballot” races are just as important. Sadly, most American voters don’t understand this.
It is facile to caricature America by its President. We are much more complex, as am sure the several different manifestations of the German nation are to us outsiders, who really can’t tell the difference between Stiuttgart and Hamburg., or Vienna. Trump will achieve what he can.
As to American foreign policy, nothing will change no matter which side wins the election. American foreign policy will only change when our leadership is willing to tell us the truth about our military impotence. They don’t have the stomach for that, yet. Delusions are the most difficult things to part with…

Posted by: OldFart | Oct 23 2024 11:13 utc | 264

Posted by: Jane | Oct 23 2024 0:42 utc | 212
Hedges’ piece is more diagnostic than prognostic. I could quibble a bit with his characterization of Trump as an oligarch, when Trump seems more like a guy who built his real estate empire first and then became a TV star. But his description of private equity as a parasite is brilliant. Trump would no doubt let the PE guys run wild in a second term.
PE is a blight on the country. They rape and pillage everything they touch – dental practices, fast food chains, etc. Only law practices are currently immune – the ABA made a rule that no law practice can be incorporated. It has to be a LLC. Interesting that the lawyers always protect their own profession. Other professions should take note and follow.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 23 2024 11:14 utc | 265

Posted by: onetwothree | Oct 22 2024 19:24 utc | 140
+++++++++++++++++++++++
One of the most accurate comments in a long while.

Posted by: AI | Oct 23 2024 12:17 utc | 266

Joementia during a campaign visit to New Hampshire stated that he wanted DJT locked up……….so there it is the Biden plan….
Lock up your political opponents like in Venezuela or Nicaragua or Kieve…………….this just what to expect from Kamyhoe Harris if forbid, she wins the election…..a fascist dictatorship……..
Buy more ammo, and plenty of it…..

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 23 2024 12:29 utc | 267

Jane 239 – another excellent post…..Hitler’s party NSP never received majority approval by the German voters…never…
The same will be true for Kamyhoe Harris, whose chief supporter is now threatening to jail her political opponent – DJT……..sound familiar?
America is teetering on the edge of a fascist dictatorship………….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 23 2024 12:41 utc | 268

Trump has a huge mess to clean up for sure and it won’t be easy for him. It will be hard for him to get us out of the wars Brandon got us into “quickly” as he says. Trump is the obvious choice being that he is the only candidate that honors our constitution. Under Kamala free speech will be anialated and America will become a totalitarian government. Trump vows to clean up our FDA and CDC with RKJ in charge, that is huge. The FDA and CDC are killing people.

Posted by: Fortuna | Oct 23 2024 12:49 utc | 269

@ Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 23 2024 4:43 utc | 250
I certainly don’t believe any of that, nor do I think more and more Americans are coming to that conclusion.
Feel free to believe what you want.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Oct 23 2024 13:09 utc | 270

Believe it or not, Bronco, but most of that shit is a result of the endless wars of Imperialism, the final putrid stage of the Capitalist system. Another shocker, a lot a average Americans are making that connection. More and more everyday.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 23 2024 4:43 utc | 250
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This is all very true, but the Americans who vote still believe that voting for a Dim or a Thug is a vote for fixing things…and the half that doesn’t vote believes, sensibly enough, that nobody likely to win an election is going to fix anything.
Only a statistically insignificant sliver of the electoral pie longs for the socialist revolution (nonviolent or otherwise).

Posted by: malenkov | Oct 23 2024 13:19 utc | 271

For those misguided into thinking trump will be any different than harris for the brave heroes fighting the zionazis:
Weekend news that “Neocon Nikki” Haley is in talks to hit the campaign trail for Donald Trump should raise red flags to everyone cautiously optimistic that Trump 2.0 will avoid some of the personnel disasters that Trump 1.0 fell into time and time again.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/22/neocons-circling-trump-campaign/

Posted by: motorslug | Oct 23 2024 13:38 utc | 272

There is only one viable candidate and force to support that will literally end all of America’s problems:
Giant Meteor
Help Giant Meteor Make an Impact in 2024!
https://votegiantmeteor.com/?srsltid=AfmBOooxyoL5aW9lBBHY7zH4sZSC6UE-2VYf59_5lxy30QbRyQEMNRU8
Posted by: ak74 | Oct 23 2024 4:06 utc | 241

I retract my previous question.
Nevertheless, I’d prefer a kind of meteor that does away with the foundation of division and which establishes, in it’s place, one of unity. Then ‘blows’ this world and moves the worthy to the other so they may rest.
In regards to this election, I wonder which candidate Israel needs in charge to use as a scapegoat for furthering it’s own needs? In case the retaliatory strike will come to fruition, at the expense of the American military and their taxpayers.

Posted by: Arctaroll | Oct 23 2024 15:15 utc | 273

I don’t think it matters who Americans vote for – afterall they are only voting for a new face in the hot seat, whilst the well oiled machine in the background carries on and doesn’t skip a beat – the days of voters making a difference are sadly over – even more so in America, which is utterly captured by the huge corporations along with wealthy individuals and groups with their own agendas -whilst many many politicians are complicit in the agendas.
The US isn’t alone in this – Europe and the UK are fast moving in the same direction – a direction where voting make no real difference to the agendas going on behind the scenes.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 23 2024 15:53 utc | 274

As a German, I have spoken to hundreds of Americans, but when it comes to political issues, they all stopped at their own leadership, nobody knew anything about ….
Posted by: ossi | Oct 22 2024 16:25 utc | 30
If we charitably assume you have talked to 900 Americans, then 900 / 331M = 0.00027%. Your generalizations past this statement are moot.
Perhaps stop trying to strike up political discussions at Taylor Swift concerts?
Posted by: retroflecks | Oct 23 2024 6:03 utc | 258
As a US citizen, who has lived in several foreign countries, my observations align with Ossi’s. With the exception of some embassy and consular staff, US citizens abroad tend to have little interest in, or knowledge of any country except their own. That applies to citizens of other countries as well. One’s knowledge of and interest in other nations are primarily products of their education and media exposure.

Posted by: Samu | Oct 23 2024 15:59 utc | 275

We know Harris and Biden are staunchly pro-Zionist – other’s who are not pro-Zionist are treated poorly.
A former Democratic candidate for Congress and prominent Muslim in Metro Detroit has been removed from US Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s rally in Michigan.
Ahmed Ghanim, who is opposed to US support for Israel’s military actions, said on Tuesday that he had accepted an invitation to the event and was seated in the Royal Oak Music Theatre the day before when a campaign organizer ordered him to leave, without giving him a reason.
“She took me to the door, and she closed it, and I found two police officers waiting there, and she said, ‘You have to leave right now,’” Ghanim said.
“I asked why she was kicking me out. She wouldn’t answer. I was very calmly asking why I was being kicked out,” he added.
The prominent Muslim Democrat said that he had told her, ‘OK,’ and left., while a police officer said, ‘You either leave now or I’ll put you in the back of my car.’”
Ghanim further said that he and many other Muslims feel alienated by the Democratic Party and that Harris’s campaign will be impacted by it.
“They keep saying they want the Muslims and the Arabs, but we aren’t even welcome at an event,” he said, stressing, “If that happened to me, imagine what would happen to any other Muslim.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 23 2024 16:17 utc | 276

Somebody in AIPAC probably saw Ghanim’s name on a list of attendees at that rally and threw a fit. They probably have lists of undesirables.

Posted by: Lysias | Oct 23 2024 17:00 utc | 277

motorslug 273 – if I were DJT I would have nothing what so every to do with Neo Con Nikki Randawaannaa.
She is a huge backer of the fascist government in Kieve which is surrpressing the Russian Orthodox Church, and imposing complete censorship on all media.
Nikki is a huge fan girl for endless foreign wars………what a trainwreck………
Is it just a coincidence that her husband, an army major, took an overseas assignment during her entire Presidential campaign?

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 23 2024 18:04 utc | 279

Ya of course it’s a shitshow, but consider this :
Trump being voted in the first time instead of Hillary, retarded Empire’s plans vis-à-vis Russia, which – considering all the good work Russia has been doing with China and BRICS – will continue to be the gift that keeps on giving, to the ROW. He royally fucked up the Globalists’ timing.
So it’s not that he’s good presidential material, or even a good person, nor is it just a question of “pick your poison/lesser evil”.
Would Trump continue to fuck up the Globalists’ plans ?
Just for that, I would vote for Trump.
Ya it’s a shame the Palestinians and the Arabs and Muslims in general will continue to suffer. But is that preventable with either of these political whores ?

Posted by: Featherless | Oct 23 2024 19:25 utc | 280

Ask Eric Idle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

Posted by: Featherless | Oct 23 2024 19:29 utc | 281

People really think trump will be good because he has Elon musk on his side hahaha.
It’s rather illustrative of how pathetically captured by culture wars the average American is. Completely unable to see that they are being played by the ruling class.
America is doomed either way. The rot is terminal. The tie colour of the one in charge during the fall matters little.

Posted by: FatGary | Oct 23 2024 20:52 utc | 282

Harris trying hard to lose Michigan, her husband pandering to Zionists while a Muslim Democrat gets thrown out of a Harris Rally for being “Democratic While Moslem”. He was literally just sitting minding his own business dressed in a suit when told to leave and threatened by two cops.
– Jews in Michigan: 90,000
– Moslems in Michigan: 240,000
Detroit Muslim leader ejected from Kamala Harris rally, deepening rift between Democrats and Arab Americans

Posted by: Roger | Oct 23 2024 22:06 utc | 283

Naive 199 – Trump received some very bad advice from multiple neo cons the Bushies recommended he appoint to jobs in his administration – Bolton, Haley, McMaster, Kelly, Pompeo, Esper, Milley etc., etc.
In a second term he will appoint only his own men………not the neo con clown car…….
Remember he ordered a total Syrian withdrawal only to be slow walked by the neo con deep Milley in company…. same goes for the Iraq withdrawal.
Or he ordered Airborne troops from Fort Bragg to put down the insurrection in DC and Portland in June 2020 again only to be slow walked by Milley and Esper….
The neo con deep state drove him…….he has learned his lesson…….we hope !
Bibi is in for a rude shock……DJT will cut him like a melon…..if he feels the need.

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 24 2024 3:59 utc | 284

My hunch is that Trump will win the election.

Only if Democrats let that happen because they don’t want to win. It’s possible. That they might give the next 4 yr to Republicans. Otherwise, they will win because since 2020 they have the system in place to win all presidential elections. After all, it matters little which of the two wins.

What policies will follow will largely depend on the people he will select to run the show. He had previously chosen people who were opposing and sabotaging his policies. He lacked the authority and/or will to rein them in. I do not believe that he has learned from it.

This is a common and mistaken view. He could not govern with his people because Republicans threatened him with supporting the impeachment initiative by the Democrats if he did not accept nominations by the party. He started with his own team, then Democrats and Republicans teamed up to destroy it, and they succeeded, the rest was forcing his hand with the impeachment threat.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Oct 24 2024 5:34 utc | 285

FWIW:
If You Take Your Political Advice From Celebrities Like Taylor Swift and D.L Hughley Then Maybe You Don’t Deserve To Vote. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/snakes-gonna-snake-celebrity-snakes
A Modern Black Lynching Biden-Harris DOJ Style https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/a-modern-black-lynching-biden-harris

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Oct 24 2024 9:46 utc | 286

#PunishThem
https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1850206532887101585
“If your comfort and privileges are more important than rejecting and punishing Joe Biden/Kamala Harris/the Democrats’ Holocaust in Gaza, then don’t kid yourself. You’re capable of rationalizing gas chambers too.”
Israeli Mass Crimes in the Concentration Camps of Gaza
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1850152054636859583
“This is what it looks like when masses of people are transported to concentration and torture camps in the 21st century…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 26 2024 18:30 utc | 287