The New York Times just posted an investigation into lucrative deals between the Trump family and United Arab Emirates that blur the line between Trump family business and the presidency. Gift article. This could blow up into the biggest money-based scandal in U.S. presidential history. We’ll see.
I don’t know who Breccan F. Thies is, but his opinion piece in The Federalist is the ugliest and most hateful expression of post-Charlie Kirk right-wing lunacy yet. I think people need to read this to understand what we’re dealing with. Be warned that it’s very disturbing.
I would say to "Breccan F. Thies", that I don't care about his stupid lies – appearing in his second sentence, that Kirk's killer was "a left-wing maniac", when he plainly was not. I don't care about his call to arms, the knee jerk reaction of anybody or anything writing at a right wing rag.
I don't like that people were happy that Kirk was killed, but that's pretty normal given the divisive stuff Kirk promoted. I hope he was glad to make the sacrifice he talked about, that it's OK to shed some blood for the sake of the second amendment (I'm only half kidding).
I don't waste time with crap like this because it's just a distraction, and "Breccan F. Thies" is just a willing scribbler painting a fiction promoted by 45 and his people.
Anything to distract from the Epstein files, 45's Achilles heel, anything to divide and conquer this country, pitting one group of people against another, no matter how far fetched the logic. I also feel that "Breccan F. Thies" is a random name strung together by an algorithm. His boilerplate screed could've been written by the same.
Not so. It's the persistent and primary underlying problem we face now. It's important that we acknowledge this. Our opposition is not rational. But they’re in charge.
I'm not saying there isn't an underlying landscape of propaganda (see the Paul Waldman article below) that will have an effect, but looking at the big picture, and the turning points in this political battle, it is an attempt to distract from the things that will ultimately bring down this regime.
As Waldman explains, it's just something they do all the time, and are positively delighted to use CK's assasination for their purposes. While the extremes to which they played this moment are new, it's part of the same old game plan.
Moreover, it won't work. The truth about Epstein is going to come out sooner or later. And so I don't care about a tactic I've seen many times before, it's just noise that won't placate Kirk's followers who started to question the regime, demanding the release of the Epstein files. And I certainly am not going waste time on a right wing tool who lies to me in the second sentence.
The topic of the second article was on my mind today. The jackass who wrote it articulated what worries me. Trump has made it clear he wants to criminalize opposing him. The process is evident in the murders in the Caribbean. Another one happened yesterday, I guess.First, accuse the victims of links to terrorism (with no proof). Second, accuse them of crimes (drug trafficking). Again, no proof. Last, act as cop, prosecutor, and executor, murdering the accused and destroying any evidence that would convict or exonerate in a court of law.
There is a problem. Trump is doing his extrajudicial murders off the coast of Venezuela. Civil Rights groups have no jurisdiction to bring a case. But start killing citizens of the US in the US who have NOT committed a crime, and this will wind up in STATE and Federal court fairly quickly. I emphasize 'state' because CA, IL, and NY are likely to be targets and able to field a legal fight.
What's impossible to gauge is if the USSC will sanction extrajudicial murder if/when there are convictions in State courts. There's a historical footnote, and not a pretty one. Back in the 60s, the Black Panthers were wiped out by the FBI in extrajudicial murders. In a lot of instances, the Black Panthers (reportedly) had troves of weapons which is consistent with their rhetoric. IMO, the cops were not interested in evidence, arrests, trials or convictions.
At their peak, the Black Panther movement was not huge. Wiping out Progressives means murdering millions, or murdering enough to force millions into hiding and/or submission. Again, where would the USSC come down?
There's another buyout of I forget what media conglomerate. That does not change that there are independent sources who can fill the gap. But they will come under attack by the government for speaking the truth. Congress will NOT pass laws that legally allow Trump to gag those publishers. If they move offshore, they can speak out.
Breccan F. Thies is a fucking moron. He writes this same dribble over at Breitbart which I scan sometimes just for a chuckle. His article is the same projection that the wing-nuts have been practicing for decades. Everything he says about those on the left (they want to kill righties) can be found in the articles and comments at Brietbart only directed at democrats and those on the left. It didn't take the killing of what's his name, they have been spewing this swill all along.
Paul Waldman says it way better than I ever could, in How the Right Turned Charlie Kirk's Murder Into a Propaganda Masterclass
October 7th is soon approaching, two years from the event that triggered so much. What led up to it?
The House of Saud was negotiating with Israel.
The House of Saud had spent 2 billion dollars with the Trump family for something they wanted.
The House of Saud and Iran had a strained relationship with quite a history.
Why Saudi Arabia and Iran are bitter rivals
The Mossad had a very suspicious 'slip up' in intelligence.
Almost two years later the plot seems to continue with chips and crypto in the mix and no plan for peace. The military of the US is in the process of being taken over by an authoritarian regime.
Israel is not constrained by its own people, lack of funds, or restriction or lack of war supplies nor international rules of warfare or principles of national sovereignty.
As for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, not even the US SCOTUS is corrupted enough rule justice that way. We passed that standard many moons ago.
Go figure.
Bifurcation is their stock in trade, and Manichean is their morality with the end always the justification for any means even including summary executions. Not just the authoritarians in this country but elsewhere also, but only for perverse authoritarian rule without recognition of the basic rights of all humans.
Pam Bondi went perverse with her statements on hate speech. Yes, the United States has a very liberal position on hate speech, and one can argue it is too liberal of a position. Hate speech is protected speech here however, and as AG she, of all people, should be damn well aware of that. She should also be aware that writing a law and enforcing it fairly on restricting hate speech is probably not a good idea. Not because hate speech tends to be evil but because no one can define the line between good speech and evil speech objectively. We can easily see what Pam might consider evil speech, and her argument would probably be ad hominem one of course. She like fearless leader is perfect (in their minds only) so they think their authoritarian position is correct by something akin to divine right. Only humans with divine right have good morals in their perverse world. That is what is twisted about their elitism.
Just us can't have moral sense because we don't have divine right. We are but second- class citizens at best. Worse that that depending on skin color or even the wrong anything else they do not like especially voting them out of power or pointing out their flaws. That would be hate speech in their twisted world.
It is speech I hate to make, I wish I did not need to. It is not what, I am fairly sure, Pam Bondi would consider good-speak. What horror.
The Waldman article that moonbat linked is spot on. I read that and it occurs to me that the wing-nuts for all their lies, paranoia, bullshit propaganda and outright insanity just plain work harder than our side. They are relentless, they fight constantly they do not give up or compromise one inch. I mean just look at Stump the man is as flawed as politician as possible, convicted felon, rapist, pals around with pedophiles but he still fights and his backers do not give in. On our side we had a president with a relatively successful term (if you don't count his disastrous foreign policy blunders, Ukraine, Gaza, etc) who had one bad debate and the entire party beat him out of the primary like a bad drum. We instead put forward a candidate woefully unprepared to win. The wing-nut media is way more effective than anything we could dream of. We have one real celebrity media figure Rachel Maddow (though I don't quite understand the attraction) and she can't be bothered to do more than one lousy show a week? MSNBC fires people at the direction of Laura Looner for Christ sake. That Charlie Kirk fellow was definitely a fascist sympathizer if not a full on white supremacist out there spewing hate and sowing division but he was out there everyday touring the country, working hard and getting results. We don’t have anything even vaguely resembling that on our side that I can think of. If you tune into wing-nut cable the magat politicians are everywhere and on message, on our side they all seem to be hiding and when they do speak the message is fractured. The bottom line is we have been had, our side doesn't see the potential of the new media landscape. We do not have to go to the extremes to formulate an effective message like they do on the right but we do need to emulate their tactics. Get organized, work hard, stay on message. I've been bitching and moaning about FAUX news on this site for over 20 years I think, they have been hard at work and it has paid off in spades. Leaders on our side of the aisle and moderates in the media need to get off their asses and get to work before it's too god damn late if it isn’t already?
Meant to link this to my rant?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7cCZsNZGY&list=RDbL7cCZsNZGY&start_radio=1">We've been Had</a>
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