It's still the job of a journalist to highlight the dishonesty of the majority party that controls both houses of Congress and the White House. The fact that you know this already doesn't mean everyone already does.
When accusations of racism are being recklessly hurled, it becomes particularly important to subject them to critical scruti…
It's still the job of a journalist to highlight the dishonesty of the majority party that controls both houses of Congress and the White House. The fact that you know this already doesn't mean everyone already does.
When accusations of racism are being recklessly hurled, it becomes particularly important to subject them to critical scrutiny.
Also, the Russian angle is the part that is of particular interest to me. That Democrats can go to bat this aggressively in defense of Russia interests, while continuing to have their media allies insist that it's Trump who is the Putin pawn, is very significant. This is not only an article about Senate Democrats but also the conduct of the conspiracists in corporate media.
I agree with all that, but the problem is obvious and staring us in the face. The question is -- what are we going to do about it? From where I'm sitting, it's clear the politicians and media will gaslight us right into the ground and then claim domain over the ashes.
"People are able to be reached with reason and information if you are persistent and persuasive about it." And nobody is better at doing just that than Glenn is.
I admire what GG is attempting. I’m just not quite so optimistic that it would work. I agree that he is an exceptionally talented and energetic writer who is fighting the good fight.
The pain that Americans are feeling under the Biden regime is strong enough reason for Joe's miserable ratings. ideology and wisdom have little to do with it. The economy is in a nosedive, and it can only get worse. The reasons to reject Biden have been there before the 2020 election. He has been a crook his whole political career.
Biden is only in office because the 2020 election was rigged.
But, but, but.... those mean tweets - I guess all the problems that you highlight about what the Biden Administration is creating pale in comparison to Trump's responses on Tweeter - at least according to the MSM and the rest of the pro-Biden supporters, right? /sarc
Well if you believe Rasmussen polls almost 50% of Democrats want the unvaccinated put into concentration camps. I’m not joking. Look it up. These people have lost all sense of morality if they ever had it.
And the kicker is they think they are being moral. It’s absolutely insane. Propaganda works.
Another case of the fake wool falling off of the wolves. These Dems are the same people who are running Austria back into being a penal colony. It's demented, it's sick, and it's among the gravest threats to freedom. I may be vaccinated and boosted, but should anyone act on such desires and try to put people in camps well...they will have announced to the world whom the prime enemy of humanity is.
Observe it isn't because of bad press making Biden blunders obvious. They helped with Afghanistan only because the visuals demanded it - spin impossible. But they ignore negatives. The people have lost faith because they see their conditions first hand.
People whom use reason need to be able to have a platform to reach out to the populous. MSNBC has effectively canceled you Greenwald, while I highly doubt that CNN or The Atlantic would have you on to give their audiences a dose of reality given their lies about the Rittenhouse case that you have chronicled. Additionally, what about the rest of us, how can we reach others when we lack a voice?
People need to look for Greenwald to find him. Will the viewership of the legacy press ever have him on? Will their 'journalists' ever look into anything he says? The only network that has him on regularly is Fox, and most of the people whom associate with the left have nothing to do with Fox.
not 33% of them. and probably not 33% on the other end of the spectrum. the truth is fighting for the 33% in the middle. probably less. 10 ro 15% dont care
I'm just an old guy who worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in the 60s and 70s.
But I can assure you that right wing and left wing reporters who did not leave their political beliefs at the door into the newsroom were soon demoted to the society or sports pages by management.
And those hard headed guys and gals who continued to expose their political views in the newsroom were often fired.
Of course, we all had heated debates at the local the local watering holes..
From my perspective he has always been a classical liberal with some progressive social positions. Now because he tells the truth he is labeled “far right” along with anyone else that dares tell the truth.
When parents who criticize local school boards are treated like the enemy, there is little wonder that free lance reporters like Glen and Matt are said to be wacky far right shills when they pen accurate reports about various important topics.
What's next? Perhaps treating more than half of the U.S. population as the greatest danger facing our "democracy."
Any of us who where awake during civics classes in grade school and high school know we live in a constitutional republic.
Those who have not studied civics are prone to saying the U.S. is a democracy.
Often, however, the misuse of the word is deliberate.
So far this is true. But the challenge of our current media and social media environment is that it is now much harder to penetrate a large group that used to follow reason a lot more readily. Today, these people don't even have know basic things that are happening in the world because they still trust their usual media and social media sources. They trust the headline written by the WaPo's AI algorithm is true without even noticing that it's not backed up by the facts in the text of the article. They are the ones who fail to realize that, to cite one of your greatest pieces, that Bush and Cheney were worse by nearly every possible measure than Trump. When you tell them that Bobulinski was incredibly credible, they look at their phone for 20 minutes and think about deeply for days. They emerge a bit wiser, but it's a fraught situation until more of them go through the process.
The test is, will enough of them have gone through it by 2024 that we won't have a revolution if Trump is elected? Will the unrest then be an Occupy Wall St moment (prolonged but ineffective venting), because enough rational people have come to grips with reality, or a Euromaidan?
C'mon Glenn; Homo sapiens is a rationalizing story believing animal, not a rational animal. Emotional hooks sell, reason seldom does. Not to many Mr. Spock's, lot's of Captain Kirk's and that only works in Hollywood.
This is why propaganda works. It’s science after all and we must trust the science. If our government actually followed their oath to the Constitution to protect the general welfare then civics, critical thinking and Cognitive Behavior Therapy would be taught in all government schools. Oh, and they would also terminate the bureaucratic state.
Your article is just another attempt by you to demonize the Democratic Party and "liberals" (always left undefined by you) while almost always completely ignoring context, perspective, and challenging facts--leaving the impression that Trump, Tucker Carlson and Fox News, and the Republican Party are really pretty good people and constant victims. Ever since The Intercept burned you, you have been like a super villain in the comic books, a mad scientist who was pushed into a vat of toxic chemicals and came out of it deranged and hell-bent on getting revenge, no matter who it hurts--like your misleading bullshit about COVID.
I read a lot of gg articles and in none of them do I come away thinking that trump, Carlson and republicans are “good people and victims”. Stop being such a drama queen as evidenced by your ridiculous supervillain comparison, which I’m sure you’ve been waiting to use for so long.
This guy is obviously a troll who can't garner a single reader of his own content so he replies to Glenn just to get the attention he craves. Ignore him.
$100 says this never happens regardless of the amount of engagement. Some people will defend their tribe to the detriment of their own mental health as is clearly the case here.
I was a registered democrat, never voted for a republican in my life. I was also extremely active against our many wars, and too bad the democrats weren't. I was politically active on any number of issues which most would define as liberal, and I see myself that way. As far as Greenwald drawing attention to the hypocrisy and lies of the democratic party, well someone has to do it, and they so need someone to take up that challenge. They need to be called out for their lies and total hypocrisy during the Trump years, and this year too. They also need to be held accountable for the fraud they perpetrated with Russia-gate during Trumps four years in office whose intent was to oust an elected president. The mainstream press and the left helped the democrats in that regard, and in doing so lost what little journalistic integrity they had left. The so call left news outlets followed suit. Greenwald is doing them a favor because no one changes until people confront them with the truth.
They know what the truth is and refuse to change or acknowledge it. And no quarter is given to anyone who points out their obvious inconsistencies and blatant hypocrisy.
Does anyone really think Boris Johnson was worried about covid being deadly when he had big Christmas parties last year but demanded a total shutdown for everyone else?
Does anyone believe Bill Gates is really worried about co2 levels as he flies around in his private jet? Buying carbon offsets is nothing more than a bait and switch.
Does anyone believe that Fauci is anything more than a bureaucrat with a medical degree?
In terms of Johnson, Gates and Fauci, I don't trust them, but I can't substantiate that mistrust with facts. My mistrust has become profound in these last four years. Russia-gate really did a number on me, since I didn't believe it from the beginning, and not only because we've scapegoated Russia for decades, but when the hack of the DNC e-mails came to light Clinton's campaign manager, Mooky, immediately said, and with no substantiating evidence, "The Russian's did it." As far as Clinton goes I do know enough about her to justifiably not trust her.
I can help you with evidence for not trusting Fauci. He admitted to lying to our faces in early 2020 about masks. He intentionally covered up the origins of COVID because he is personally implicated and lied to congress about gain of function.
Couldn’t agree more! Just a copy edit, though: It is RFK’s book—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The book is titled, "The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health". IMHO, it is not only the singular best book on the pandemic, but it is, perhaps more importantly, one of the best books ever on the nature of evil.
Does everyone here know that Dr. Death is the highest paid person in our government and is set to receive a pension of $350,000 a year, the highest pension in the history of the United States? This is the fruit of intentionally murdering tens of thousands of Americans.
Well, I think I remember him contradicting himself about masks, and I do believe Covid came from the lab in Wuhan and I know he wasn't honest about NIH funding gain of function in China. I have no love for him, and don't really trust him, but I want to wait a bit on Fauci. I hope I don't get Covid and die, so I can see how this story ends.
As long as you don’t have multiple comorbitities your risk of dying from the current strain is about the same as dying in a car accident on the way to the grocery store. That is, unless you got the jab. Then you should be extra vigilant. I wish you the best of health, mental and physical.
Just assume whatever they say is the exact opposite of the truth and you will be closer to the actual truth than assuming they are being honest. It really works. I haven’t been stumped yet. The only variable is how much time it takes for the truth to come out.
I understand and to a large part agree with your view of the Russiagate fiasco, but why aren't you equally appalled by the same kind of behavior from Trump's Republicans, the racist scapegoating of immigrants, for one example, and spreading dangerous bullshit about COVID instead of doing something about it, and so much more? Glenn, I think, might want to say that he's applying the standard of "a pox on both their houses," but that's not what he's doing. He's almost totally one-sided, a true monomaniac with all the trimmings.
Oh, I answered your other post. Okay, well, I'm really into genealogy and have seen thousands of ship manifests, and all the information required before you could enter this country. I don't know why we never implemented something similar for our contiguous borders. I don't believe in open borders and neither did Biden, or Obama who was given the title of deporter-in-chief, exporting some two and a half million during his presidency. I pretty much follow the news, not the mainstream corporately owned news, or even those left wing sites that have lost their journalistic integrity, since much of what they had to say about Trump wasn't true, like he's a racist. What bullshit about Covid? He was funding big pharma to develop a vaccine, remember warp speed? Do you want to honestly talk about racism and more, well what about Hilary calling half of Trump's base deplorables, that is, racists, homophobes, xenophobes, sexists, etc. Does that statement not disgust you? It gave a thumbs up for others to make the same assertions about millions and millions of Americans. There was a meme floating around Facebook, and a cousin picked it up since if referenced Trump supporters as an uneducated, amoral lot. That is an extremely prejudicial perception to have, and many anti-Trumpers have adopted it. Also, Biden didn't believe in busing when they wanted to integrate schools, back in the sixties, well, you can't integrate schools without busing and he knew it. You say Greenwald views the political scene in black and white, but John that's just not true.
Fran, I don't think I ever said what he thinks. Who knows? I'm talking about what he presents, and those could be wildly different things. I said he is a monomaniac, and yes, he presents things in black and white most of the time: liberals bad, Trump and allies, victims of liberal news media and liberals in general. The only evil that he dwells on in the vast majority his articles and tweets is "liberals."
As I recall, as soon as Trump uttered the word “hydroxychloroquine”, the media went out all out to suppress its usage and vilify it, even getting the Lancet to publish a “study” (which they were later forced to retract). Our fearless media and medical statists then went on to suppress information on, and discredit, ivermectin, aspirin and anything else that could be helpful in recovering from Covid. The crime of the century considering the hundreds of thousands of lives that could have been saved.How much of that was pure TDS? Or a desire to prolong the pandemic and blame it on Trump? Interesting that India, which went with early ivermectin usage and virtually eliminated Covid without vaccinations, has 1/35th our Covid death rate.
Healthfeedback is dishonest. I ran a test: they published a claim that there was "no evidence" (sound familiar?) that hydroxychloroquine worked. I happened I had just read a fulsome endorsement from a highly-qualified doctor in a high position at a teaching hospital in Boston. That's evidence. So I sent it to them. They didn't respond, and they didn't change their false claim.
They're Big Pharma propagandists - regardless of how good HCQ really is.
Not that it will matter to your smooth brain but the continent of Africa has an infection rate of about 6% although very few are vaccinated(15% is the number I saw in a recent study).
I guess you've missed the information about all the criminals, potential terrorists, drug traffickers, human traffickers, and other assorted "bad people" who have crossed our borders illegally, e.g., the stats on the numbers of illegal aliens in our jails, etc. It's being reported that countries are now emptying their jails and asylums and encouraging these people to enter the USA illegally. I guess you don't live near the Southern Border and/or you haven't been impacted by illegal immigration, e.g., job competition, lower wages, overcrowded schools and other government services, crime, etc., so you can pontificate about Trump's language, but if your family and friends were impacted you might have a different opinion of illegal immigration.
DJT remained un-captured by the State (and therefore became the enemy of the Party establishments), helped awake millions, and changed the course of U.S. history.
There is no problem. There never was save actual pollution. The day our corrupt politicians, led by RINOS BTW, voted to make CO2 a pollutant was the day science died. Now it is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on humanity with the Covid vaccines a close runner up.
The catastrophic man-made global warming psychopaths are anti-human any way you look at it. They are literally causing the poor and elderly to freeze to death and think this is a good thing.
How do you think certain chemical compounds get put on the evil list? What body voted to give authority to the EPA to decide whatever chemicals are pollutants simply because they are part, no matter how minuscule, of the run away green house gas theory? Congress you fool.
What’s hilarious is you think grid scale batteries won’t eventually get the same treatment as natural gas. Most unbrainwashed people already know how dirty the battery lifecycle actually is and that will be what they use when it is time to come for it. That WILL happen. It is only a matter of time.
First the corrupt scammers call it a clean fuel. Then they call it a transition fuel. Then they call it evil and destroy it leaving hundreds of billions spent on infrastructure rotting away while they duplicate that infrastructure for whatever new source they are getting filthy rich off of. That is what they are currently doing for wind, solar and battery all throughout New England. Maine voted down gigawatts of clean hydro because a 100 yard wide corridor of 55 miles of forest literally in the middle of the wilderness no one ever goes or sees would be cleared for transmission wires. Now MA and ME can’t meet their emission goals🤣.
But guess what they are also doing at the same time? That’s right. Clear cutting tens of thousands of acres in populated and prime farming land for solar farms as far as the eye can see. Dead trees. Dead grass. Lower property values. Duplicative infrastructure. Negative impact on wild life. Yet they see no contradiction in any of this. It is clown world made up of clowns that beg to have their wealth forced from them while the poor freeze to death because they can’t heat their homes when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine.
Bill Gates is following in his fathers footsteps as a eugenicist who wants to rid the world of all but the elites of the white race. Look at his family history:
Fran, I have no problem calling out the democrats for their hypocrisy and lies, none whatsoever, and I applaud anyone for doing so. But just as I oppose only focusing on Republican (Trumpism, etc) to the exclusion of almost all else, and lying about it at times as well, I also oppose doing the same approach with Dems and "liberals" (a term Greenwald NEVER defines and uses to paint absolutes). I'm for putting things in a more holistic perspective, not being a monomaniac like Greenwald has become.
John, trust me he's liberal, and no monomaniac, and I think he's fair and balanced. In this article he pointed out the hypocrisy of the democrat's position on the filibuster when used by republicans, but at the same time he agreed that Russia and Germany should be left to their own decisions about the pipeline and oil. The article also pointed out that while the democrats claimed Trump was Putin's puppet he tried to sabotage this pipeline which is economically extremely important to Russia, contradicting the democrat's allegation that he was doing Putin's bidding during his time in office. However that certainly doesn't mean he has nothing but good feelings for the republicans. People complain he's on FOX, real liberal of them, and to be honest during the Trump presidency I turned to FOX too, because they weren't spinning lies about Trump and Russia-gate, or his hiring prostitutes to pee on the bed Obama and his wife slept on in Russia. Those 4 years were crazy and someone has to sort it out, so to speak.
P.S. Hard to define the word liberal in today's day and age, especially when liberals have become so dogmatic in what you should and shouldn't believe.
Hmmm... Surely Obama's a Neo-Liberal, as is Clinton, Biden et al. However I'm not sure what your point is about the TPP. It was a horrific idea, giving huge power to corporations literally over national governments. One great thing Trump did was end the TPP.
Exactly and my point was that Trump didn't like it, liberals didn't like it, but the so called liberal droner and chief really pushed it. Boy have they used Trump to cover their asses, and even Cheney with all that blood and torture on his hands has gotten a pass.
Why does he have to define "liberals?" I don't understand that argument, I think we all know what it means. It might be a generalization in a way but so is saying "conservative, "democrat, republican, the main stream media." It's a group of people with similar ideas and values, and we all know what those ideas and values are. Obviously not all of them think exactly alike. But I don't understand why it's Glenns job to narrowly define a term that we all understand to be a description, not an absolute. I think his readers have enough brain power to understand that.
Liberal isn't one he routinely gets wrong, it's "left," and second behind that is "Progressive." For the most part when he uses those terms he doesn't mean those groups at all, but rather the Neo-Liberals who have in recent times begun to call themselves that while holding none of the beliefs.
Really? LOL Your define is pretty vague, isn't it? Please tell me what "those ideas and values are," ok? Phil Ochs explained his definition of liberal pretty well, at least for a song, but I have no idea what Glenn's or your definition means because you both use the word in such a sweeping fashion. The best I can figure is from what he says is that liberals are Democrats, because he uses the words interchangeably. But are all Dems the same? Are all liberals the same? Or are they vastly different (remember, Glenn usually speaks in absolutes). Is Rachael Maddow, one of Glenn's most justifiable targets, a liberal? She's probably a Democrat, but I sure don't consider her a liberal (ask me for my definition and I will give it to you, if you want). I don't care how he defines it, except that I need to know what he's talking about. There are, you should know, different definitions of lots of political and philosophical terms, most especially "liberal." Vague writing is bad writing.
Almost but not quite. Some of us are Individualists that also support limited collectivism when voluntary and at a local level...Part of the problem is designating things in such opposing terms. Humanity did not rise above nature without group cooperation, this is a fact. At the same time there must be integrity of the individual and his or her rights.
I apologize, I was not making myself clear. I was not trying to define the word liberal, though I can see why you would assume that I was. I'm not a skilled writer. What I was trying to say is that the meanings of words change and evolve over time. My point is to say that it will have a different meaning depending on the context of the writing. I don't agree that "Glenn speaks in absolutes." That's a pretty broad statement that seems like it would be difficult to back up with evidence. I always understand the meanings of his words in terms of the context of the writing. In my opinion, it's not necessary to have a strict definition of a political/philosophical term when you have context and when you're speaking to an audience familiar with current political and societal events. It's a weak criticism.
You are right that the [popular] meaning of words changes overtime, all the more important to make sure that people know what you're talking about. And I would add that it can occur to the point that words can lose any specific meaning other than being used as a scapegoat tool for demagogues, like calling people a "witch." I strongly disagree with your conclusion that Glenn doesn't speak in absolutes. In fact, he does it much of the time and using undefined words as he does is part of that process.
Right, I can see your point about precision of language. I can also see how he speaks in absolutes regarding certain values, like freedom of speech and due process in particular. I guess I don't see that as a negative, but I take your point.
Thanks for the link. I look forward to reading through it. Which reminds me that there is a standard definition of words and then the intended definition by their users; so, what does <Glenn> mean, etc.
Care to provide any substantive reasoning to your claim?
What is the context and perspective being left out?
What is the misleading BS about Covid you refer to?
Without addressing these assertions, your comment is just vapid, overly emotional, whining. Perhaps you do have point, but I suspect any retort will be more of the same - completely emotion driven with zero reason and principle underlying any of it.
I have often commented on all of those points both here and on Mr. Greenwald's twitter feed. The evidence is rampant in his writings; also, it's self-evident in the current post. Go back and read them all yourself. He knows exactly what I'm talking about. In the meantime, apply your sophist reasoning to yourself.
I asked 2 questions that invited you to support your claim. Hard to see much sophistry there.
In your defense, you were commenting directly to Glen, so I suppose it is not the commentariat you wish to persuade.
Still, if you'll indulge me, I noticed that you claim that the voting legislature in question is racist, and I submit that not only is this logically inconsistent, the very reasoning often offered to support it is *incredibly* racist - ironically.
You make no actual answer to Joshua's question Mr. Earl. And then you accuse him of the sophistry you yourself have been plying here in every comment you make.
How cute. Just like most liberals, you think we need liberal LIARS like Fraudci and Biden to tell us how to think, both of whom are HIGHLY compromised via Big pharma, Bill Gates and George Soros.
The accusations that GG must be simping for the right or that he somehow is a Trump supporter or a "Tuckems" loyalist, because he (RIGHTLY) criticizes fascist Democrats says FAR more about your pwn hypocrisy and tribalism than it does him..
As a former Democrat, I think most of his criticisms are spot on and GG has what liberal dominated MSM does not; integrity and consistency and a commitment to truth
You need not worry about those of us
who DESPISE Dem fascists being misinformed.
We are NOT and are perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves
BTW, just about everything MSM SAYS about Covid, along with your favorite beagle killer, Fraudci, IS A LIE. It should not be surprising that those of us who know that follow folks like GG and Rogan, cuz science
There is a difference between facts and emotion. One supersedes the other, yet sadly, you have people whom feel something and equate it with reality.
Regarding Greenwald's use of 'liberal', I agree, he should switch to 'hard left' to describe the CPC types whom openly champion reparations for slavery rather than lumping everyone on the political left into one group.
Still, that fault is as minor as a drop of water in a swimming pool when compared to the legacy press and technocrats. Greenwald never reported that Rittenhouse shot black people, nor did he tout the lie that the Russians altered vote tallies in the 2016 election.
Which one supersedes the other makes all the difference, all the time. Each of us is subject to either one being superior at times - though many of us here let the facts lead much more of the time.
Indeed, we can all be blinded by emotion, though we have to be vigilant to look at the facts. I say this as a life-long Republican whom has voted in every election, off year and on, and whom has always voted Republican, yet whom supports Greenwald and Gabbard because they, like me, look at logic over emotion.
Those are some harsh and extraordinary claims that you are making about Greenwald demonizing the left as if a mentally deranged, spited comic book villain.
However, as the late Carl Sagan famously said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." And you have failed to provide anything beyond a POV.
I love Carl Sagan and agree with him. But you are misapplying his philosophy here. There is nothing extraordinary about my claims. All you have to do is actually read, with a reasonably critical mind, Glenn's work post-Intercept to see that my similes (borrowed almost exactly from typical Glenn absolutist, hyperbolic tirades--e.g. "deranged") to see that I am spot on.
Good journalists should critique those in power. Though Trump is still living in the heads of most Democrats to the point he still wields power over their emotions, he is no longer living in the White House from what I can tell.
The precedent set by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Rupert Murdoch is alive and well in the Democratic Party and most corporate media. The “with us or against us” attitude of the Democrats is something out of the Iraq Invasion playbook.
So, what is your fact-based, verifiable, refutation to the points that Glenn made in this article? Wait: is that a 1965 Simon & Garfunkel hit that I hear playing faintly in the background?
Please refer to my opening comment about Greenwald's critique of Biden's remarks, wherein I defend Biden's "hypocritical" effort to end the filibuster.
Odd that you bother with his postings given his new alignment with the darkside. I suppose Gabbard is another one of Tucker's dream democrats. I ss a lot of the old democrats agreeing with GG (and Gabbard). They also know that the MSM will no longer book moderates. At least Fox provides a platform.
To be clear, I completely share Glenn's criticism of the DNC (ex: I never bought off on Russia-gate) here and suspect you do too, but refuse to speculate on his motives as you do. I'll expand on your point with a kinder tone.
1) "Filibuster hypocrisy of this sort is the norm in Washington." Honest journalism probably ought to provide an example or two of GOP's contributions to this norm.
2) "It's still the job of a journalist to highlight the dishonesty of the majority party that controls both houses of Congress and the White House." No, it's to highlight and explain dishonesty and hypocrisy by any party with enough power to influence, in this cases. national and international politics. And perhaps even explain the issues involved. In this case, the RNC is doing its damnest to maintain power despite being a party that represents a minority of the country and to roll back legislation dating to FDR's administration. That level of nuance is not to be found in Glenn's writings, which have the tone of a litigator trying to win a case.
When Glenn writes in a comment elsewhere here that the US effort to stop Russian natural gas from being exported to Germany is futile, well, maybe not. He may have underestimated the capabilities of the American Empire. Mind you, I hope he's right.
Here's one of my favorite formulations: the job of journalism is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. While he does a great job on the (allegedly liberal) DNC, I fail to see Glenn afflicting the GOP.
The irony is, even without any feds involved (which I doubt more and more with each passing day), Jan 6th was the result of the legitimizing of rioting, arson and looting for the previous 9 months. After watching people get away with looting, being encouraged to commit arson and loot, being able to declare a 'zone' which refused to acknowledge municipal, county, state and federal authority--all while being cheered on by the bulk of the press--why wouldn't people end up thinking it was alright to breach the capitol?
All you gotta do is watch the extensive leftist-supplied videos of Epps to know he was a ringleader, if not the ringleader, of the Capitol incursion. The fact that the Jan 6 kangaroo court is now saying “he wasn’t arrested because he did nothing wrong” tells me everything I need to know.
If he did nothing wrong, why was he at the top of the FBI’s Jan 6 most wanted webpage, before they clumsily tried to memory-hole him? Thank God for the WAYBACKMACHINE.
As I said I'm doubting it more every day. However, after briefly following the conspiricy theory that the world's governments are hiding crashed UFOs and dead aliens, I am wary of jumping to conclusions.
There could still be (although doubtfully) an explanation--like Epps named names and got a sweetheart deal to send a message that working with the feds pays off, all while the people he named are punished beyond any justifiable measure to send a message not to cross the FBI.
I'll let the case in Michigan decide 1/6 for me. If charges are dismissed there due to agents and informants driving the plot, I'll be fully behind the same people doing the same thing on 1/6.
Maybe, but I think the reality is only a handful of people in that huge crowd had anything more on their minds other than hearing Trump, taking a leisurely walk to and through the Capitol and it's grounds. The bad guys there to stir the pot knew what they had to do to appear to be "insurrecting" and pose for the cameras. Like the guy taking the video outside of the Senate chamber that was heard saying "We did it!" as he sold his video to CNN. The crew with the matching bullhorns, Epps, etc. The people walking through the rountunda contained by the velvet ropes is the reality. Those that vandalized should be dealt with appropriately including the provocateurs, Feds or otherwise.
I'm not in his head and don't pretend to know his motivations for those things, but on Libya, that was a Hillary thing, "we came, we saw, he died! HA!" ...I saw a video clip where Obama commented on it - after he was out of office - that he didn't approve of what she did there. I think he put it something like, "I should have been more hands-on on that one."
Mr. Greenwald, the truth is self evident. I don't need a journalist to tell me the truth. What I do need is Fake News that flatters my self esteem and depicts my enemies as a bunch of wilfully ignorant cretins.
Given that there isn't a single mainstream news media organization whose business model is based on telling the truth, I don't think I am alone in my predilections.
Agreed. The truth, being in such self-evident OVER-supply, is certainly (and even PUBLICALLY evidently) NOT in demand these days. I, for one, just love my sheepskin blanket much more than boring, cheap, overbearing, and mere truth.
As I linked above, it's easy to see why they support Russian interests, because they are directly taking money from Gazprom's lobbyists. The links I posted above are irrefutable evidence of this.
It's hard to have a view on Biden that isn't contradictory as the guy seems to wear a different mask every day. He is in bed with the CCP and several Russian and Ukrainian companies, he doles out influence through his mediocre son's selling of paintings, he plagiarizes speeches because he lacks the ability to create them on his own. He has no original ideas and like other political lifers, seeks ever increasing power. Yet internationally, he doesn't want to ruffle feathers because he both lacks a spine and has everyone giving him money.
Regarding the comparison to Carter, I believe you are aware that he conversed with the Mullahs in the late 70s and agreed to abandon the Shah, something revealed as fact in 2018. It wasn't a case of him being incompetent, it was of selling out, and all of the blood from the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf War is thus on his hands.
IF you want to discuss the Iran situation and "blood on hands" it might behoove you to go back a bit further in time; to 1953, GB/BP, and the US CIA... That incompetent boob Carter may well have blood on his hands, but if so, it is arguably second-hand blood...
See here you paint a much more complete picture of Biden, but you also have to factor in his extremely malevolent spirit, hidden behind the folksy fondant, but often poking through. Biden doesn't care about 'everyone is happy'--he cares about how portraying that persona can allow him and his cronies to loot the world and gain as much power as possible, while destroying the good for being the good and thus salving their own sense of their fundamental moral inferiority. If all good is destroyed then their sense of their own evil, stamped on them by malevolent adults at an early age, or possibly through mental deficiencies, becomes a non-issue. If there is no good, they can't be evil. This is why corrupting good people is more important to them than anything.
I honestly think making themselves feel less guilty about their elitism by forcing the population at large to suffer in a sort of perverted sadomasochism. They can pat themselves on the back then for having 'bettered humanity' while everyone else pays.
World domination ala Klaus Schwab/WEF's Great Reset? Or something different? It would seem clear "they" want to control the game, not just play it and take their chances. One of the reasons you see them fielding political candidates and seeding all for profit and nonprofit entities with their acolytes. Your question is a good one that deserves further thought and discussion.
Unfortunately, Trump’s loutish behavior and ego has caused many actually loyal citizens to lose their ability to think critically. Anything bad about Trump or any other action regardless of how illegal, anti-constitutional or dishonest, if couched as against Trump, is accepted. Let us hope will all our energy that there is an historic rebuke coming. And when it comes, God willing, we clean out the bureaucracy once and for all. Take no quarter.
Thanks for the update! It pales compared to Germany's 1922-23 inflation. The German mark went from around 300 to the dollar to 4 trillion to the dollar. My father lived through this.
I guess I'm just not cynical enough because you'r scenarios make perfect sense. We know he's an alcoholic and he's rich so WHY not a dirty old queen? I gotta get more cynical. At their base, most of what goes on in the world are banality and conspiracy. Shakespeare and the Bible lay it out and the human condition don't change, only the technology does. Paleo emotions, medieval institutions and god like technology, Harari is right and it's not a good recipe. I would only add, in the same way there are a small number of genius and a small number of Olympic athletes and homosexuals, there are a number of psychopaths/sociopaths and they basically run the world and always have. Good luck to us.
At the outset of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci used wildly inaccurate modeling that overestimated US deaths by 525 percent.21,22 Scammer and pandemic fabricator Neal Ferguson of Imperial College London was their author, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) of $148.8 million.23 Dr. Fauci used this model as justification for his lockdowns.
Kennedy Jr., Robert F. . The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) (pp. 57-58). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
Fauci may have once been a scientist, however he let his ego and power go to his head...before Covid. Now he isn't even a politician, he's one of the unelected bureaucrats whom is on TV, he is Agent Smith in the spotlight as opposed to the shadows. I probably will end up sick when we ultimatly find out what kind of 'research' he has been engaging in all of these years, assuming that comes out before I turn 90 in 2075.
And Fauch is a Nazi doctor when it comes to Beagles. There is a clear link between cruelty to animals and serial killers...and these 'experiments' are of the same shit as what the Nazis did to humans.
The Democrats would do anything in their power to undermine Russia (two wings of the corporate partly have a neat "divide of labor" - Democrats are Russophobes, Republicans are Sinophobes, MIC rakes in profits either way) but there are number of other reasons why this is not advisable now:
- trying to kill NS2 at this point would possibly blow up newborn and already shaky post-Merkel coalition, and political disarray in Germany would undermine the NATO/EU "tough" posture in the ongoing clash over Ukraine.
- killing NS2 is best left to rabidly Russophobe "Greens" in the new German ruling coalition at some later point so it can look as internal German affair and not US slapping its vassal. The "Greens" were groomed over a decade to become "government worthy" exactly on condition of becoming most NATO cheerleading political party in Germany, one that would not veto admission of Ukraine into NATO for example.
- in case of any clash on Ukrainian / Russian border, adding NS2 to the list of sanctions would be even "bang for buck" - and in addition could be an excuse to never pay the contract cancellation penalty.
The German's of today couldn't hold a candle to the German's who rebuilt the country in record time. They have bought the neo liberal agenda although not to the extent of the Anglo 5. Chancellor Merkel; literally a scientist with a brilliant mind that was against mass immigration sees one dead kid of hundreds of thousands laying on a beach and next thing takes a million refugee's. She sees Fukashima and shuts down the German nukes to burn the worst Lignite coals. The best and brightest want to be parasitic financial engineers instead of real engineers. The country missed the boat on digital and is playing catch up and it may be too late for that. Such a great past, such potential, squandered. The President of the country admitted that they were in Afghanistan because "Germany is a trading nation"; Merkel fired him tout suite. Schable and Merkel screwed Greece for the empire and the whole of Europe is basically a giant vassal state of the empire. I think they picked the wrong empire.
The Germans of today would be kicked into submission by Bismarck. Then again, had he lived, Hitler would have been shot by Bismarck. In any event, I never thought I'd say it, but it seems as though the French are smarter than the Germans.
Hmm some good points and alarming that Germany has followed Deutche Bank into murky waters. I don’t think any nation at this point can be said to ‘have a great past’ but I think it’s unfair to characterize Merkle as more emotionally motivated than GBush2 who literally believed expatriots from Iraq with an agenda that, as heinous as it was, using gas on their ppl turned into false WMD’s and war. So throwing the first stone and unintended consequences is a bitter lesson.
Bite your tongue; I didn't compare Chancellor Merkel to that fool dubya. She at least took the refugee's from the empires war's. I just believe her rationale was emotional but of course, I have no way of knowing. There seems to be a move afoot to rehab the war criminals, dubya and Cheney and watching the democratic party sidle up to Cheney makes me puke.
Since you bring them up, the greatest societal event in world history that would be a gift to all future generations would be to have GWBJr and Cheney tried for treason and war crimes BEFORE they're dead of natural causes - and NOT acquitted, of course. ...It's very close to certain it will never happen, but a boy can dream!
And you do it well, kudos! As James Carvill once said but using a different word.."it's the system stupid". The corporate duopoly is always in power; you are not allowed a choice, only the pretence of a choice. As Chompsky said; it's "manufactured consent" and you have to be wilfully blind not to see it. Much cheaper and more effective than a police state could even be.
I stand corrected. In the last few years the effects of propaganda writ large has been tested on fMRI machines. What happens is that the pre frontal cortex actually shuts down leaving you open to suggestion/propaganda/stories. This explains why homo sapiens is the story believing primate which allows us to build large societies based on commonly believed stories. It also explains why we're so easy to control by a small cottier of elites.
NordStream2 is a European - most specifically - German interest. If the US and its poodles succeed in strangling that commercial project, Russian gas will flow through the Power of Siberia pipeline to China instead.
Why are you buying into this iteration of Russiagate idiocy?
I have read the entire article. Of course the Dems are hypocritical regarding the filibuster. That was not my point. I am objecting to this paragraph:
"What makes the Democrats’ conduct here even more notable is the substance of Cruz's bill that they blocked with the filibuster. Cruz sought to impose sanctions on the Russian pipeline company Nord Stream 2, which is constructing the pipeline that will allow Moscow to sell large amounts of cheap natural gas to Germany and to Europe more broadly. There are few more pressing priorities for the Kremlin, if there are any, than construction of this pipeline. So by blocking Cruz's bill, Democrats not only used a racist filibuster, but they did so in order to protect Vladimir Putin and a vital Russian company from sanctions."
The idea that Nord Stream 2 is the most pressing priority of the Kremlin is false. The idea that the Dems did so "in order to protect Vladimir Putin and a vital Russian company from sanctions" just buys into red-baiting idiocy, of the kind we had more than enough of during Russiagate. In that iteration, the Dems screamed that Trump and the GOP were doing the bidding of "Putin" and "the Russians." Now, Glenn is framing hypocrisy on the filibuster in terms of the Dems doing the bidding of "the Russians." In both cases, we're to believe that the evil Russians are controlling domestic US politics. The message drilled into the minds of US citizens, from both parties, is that we must "take on" Russia. Make all the arguments for and against the filibuster; point out all the hypocrisy and criminality of both the Dems and the Republicans; but for the sake us all, ditch the Red Scare bullshit that has scarred our political life for more than a century!
Spot on. NS2 - and its reliable and direct flow of natural gas at cheap and predictable prices - is critical for competitiveness of German industry. In 40+ years since Soviet, and then Russian gas flows to Europe it was always reliable supply regardless of how geopolitics changed, and there were many upheavals. Gas can flow to Germany also through Ukraine and Turkey, but both of these are prone to blackmail. Turkey is already doing that successfully (refugee deal from 2016) and Ukraine can - if they receive a permission from Washington - extort extra price, esp. given industrial collapse its main income is gas transit fees (and leasing / selling agricultural land). https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/europe-cannot-allow-itself-to-be-blackmailed-forever-5082/
It's still the job of a journalist to highlight the dishonesty of the majority party that controls both houses of Congress and the White House. The fact that you know this already doesn't mean everyone already does.
When accusations of racism are being recklessly hurled, it becomes particularly important to subject them to critical scrutiny.
Also, the Russian angle is the part that is of particular interest to me. That Democrats can go to bat this aggressively in defense of Russia interests, while continuing to have their media allies insist that it's Trump who is the Putin pawn, is very significant. This is not only an article about Senate Democrats but also the conduct of the conspiracists in corporate media.
I agree with all that, but the problem is obvious and staring us in the face. The question is -- what are we going to do about it? From where I'm sitting, it's clear the politicians and media will gaslight us right into the ground and then claim domain over the ashes.
Biden's approval rating is at 33%. People are able to be reached with reason and information if you are persistent and persuasive about it.
And the optimist of the year goes to….GG.
"People are able to be reached with reason and information if you are persistent and persuasive about it." And nobody is better at doing just that than Glenn is.
And what, M Snow, would you do instead?
I admire what GG is attempting. I’m just not quite so optimistic that it would work. I agree that he is an exceptionally talented and energetic writer who is fighting the good fight.
Award me runner-up, please, M. M Snow.
So be it. You are the runner up. Congrats.
The pain that Americans are feeling under the Biden regime is strong enough reason for Joe's miserable ratings. ideology and wisdom have little to do with it. The economy is in a nosedive, and it can only get worse. The reasons to reject Biden have been there before the 2020 election. He has been a crook his whole political career.
Biden is only in office because the 2020 election was rigged.
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But, but, but.... those mean tweets - I guess all the problems that you highlight about what the Biden Administration is creating pale in comparison to Trump's responses on Tweeter - at least according to the MSM and the rest of the pro-Biden supporters, right? /sarc
Never forget what they took from us. Trump’s tweets were the only thing about politics I enjoyed in the last 50 years.
That's fair.
I'm concerned that many STILL approve.
Well if you believe Rasmussen polls almost 50% of Democrats want the unvaccinated put into concentration camps. I’m not joking. Look it up. These people have lost all sense of morality if they ever had it.
And the kicker is they think they are being moral. It’s absolutely insane. Propaganda works.
Another case of the fake wool falling off of the wolves. These Dems are the same people who are running Austria back into being a penal colony. It's demented, it's sick, and it's among the gravest threats to freedom. I may be vaccinated and boosted, but should anyone act on such desires and try to put people in camps well...they will have announced to the world whom the prime enemy of humanity is.
Phisto...me too.
Observe it isn't because of bad press making Biden blunders obvious. They helped with Afghanistan only because the visuals demanded it - spin impossible. But they ignore negatives. The people have lost faith because they see their conditions first hand.
People whom use reason need to be able to have a platform to reach out to the populous. MSNBC has effectively canceled you Greenwald, while I highly doubt that CNN or The Atlantic would have you on to give their audiences a dose of reality given their lies about the Rittenhouse case that you have chronicled. Additionally, what about the rest of us, how can we reach others when we lack a voice?
Glenn has his own platform and surely serious journalists worth their salt read him. He is influencing the influencers ?
People need to look for Greenwald to find him. Will the viewership of the legacy press ever have him on? Will their 'journalists' ever look into anything he says? The only network that has him on regularly is Fox, and most of the people whom associate with the left have nothing to do with Fox.
LOL. They despise him for it which is the best endorsement he could get. Cue PJ O’Rourke comment on what journalists are.
You just did. I heard you.
All five of them? Shouldn’t be too difficult.
not 33% of them. and probably not 33% on the other end of the spectrum. the truth is fighting for the 33% in the middle. probably less. 10 ro 15% dont care
Keep it up Glenn. Wikileaks is going to add another evil adjective to their current “far-right” description of you. Giv’em hell!!
I'm just an old guy who worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in the 60s and 70s.
But I can assure you that right wing and left wing reporters who did not leave their political beliefs at the door into the newsroom were soon demoted to the society or sports pages by management.
And those hard headed guys and gals who continued to expose their political views in the newsroom were often fired.
Of course, we all had heated debates at the local the local watering holes..
From my perspective he has always been a classical liberal with some progressive social positions. Now because he tells the truth he is labeled “far right” along with anyone else that dares tell the truth.
When parents who criticize local school boards are treated like the enemy, there is little wonder that free lance reporters like Glen and Matt are said to be wacky far right shills when they pen accurate reports about various important topics.
What's next? Perhaps treating more than half of the U.S. population as the greatest danger facing our "democracy."
Any of us who where awake during civics classes in grade school and high school know we live in a constitutional republic.
Those who have not studied civics are prone to saying the U.S. is a democracy.
Often, however, the misuse of the word is deliberate.
So far this is true. But the challenge of our current media and social media environment is that it is now much harder to penetrate a large group that used to follow reason a lot more readily. Today, these people don't even have know basic things that are happening in the world because they still trust their usual media and social media sources. They trust the headline written by the WaPo's AI algorithm is true without even noticing that it's not backed up by the facts in the text of the article. They are the ones who fail to realize that, to cite one of your greatest pieces, that Bush and Cheney were worse by nearly every possible measure than Trump. When you tell them that Bobulinski was incredibly credible, they look at their phone for 20 minutes and think about deeply for days. They emerge a bit wiser, but it's a fraught situation until more of them go through the process.
The test is, will enough of them have gone through it by 2024 that we won't have a revolution if Trump is elected? Will the unrest then be an Occupy Wall St moment (prolonged but ineffective venting), because enough rational people have come to grips with reality, or a Euromaidan?
C'mon Glenn; Homo sapiens is a rationalizing story believing animal, not a rational animal. Emotional hooks sell, reason seldom does. Not to many Mr. Spock's, lot's of Captain Kirk's and that only works in Hollywood.
This is why propaganda works. It’s science after all and we must trust the science. If our government actually followed their oath to the Constitution to protect the general welfare then civics, critical thinking and Cognitive Behavior Therapy would be taught in all government schools. Oh, and they would also terminate the bureaucratic state.
Your article is just another attempt by you to demonize the Democratic Party and "liberals" (always left undefined by you) while almost always completely ignoring context, perspective, and challenging facts--leaving the impression that Trump, Tucker Carlson and Fox News, and the Republican Party are really pretty good people and constant victims. Ever since The Intercept burned you, you have been like a super villain in the comic books, a mad scientist who was pushed into a vat of toxic chemicals and came out of it deranged and hell-bent on getting revenge, no matter who it hurts--like your misleading bullshit about COVID.
I read a lot of gg articles and in none of them do I come away thinking that trump, Carlson and republicans are “good people and victims”. Stop being such a drama queen as evidenced by your ridiculous supervillain comparison, which I’m sure you’ve been waiting to use for so long.
Oh my, aren't you the little mind reader? Why don't you try not being a sycophant, go back and read the articles again with a critical mind.
Your comment requires one to be a mind reader in order to know what it is you're talking about.
It requires you to do some reading and critical reviewing on your own.
This guy is obviously a troll who can't garner a single reader of his own content so he replies to Glenn just to get the attention he craves. Ignore him.
I disagree. He should be engaged, that someday he wakes from his super-hero fantasy.
$100 says this never happens regardless of the amount of engagement. Some people will defend their tribe to the detriment of their own mental health as is clearly the case here.
Read and critically review this Earl:
The Black Magic of Philanthropy: Gates, Clintons, Abramovic, Gaga, WHO + more
Bill Gates, his associates, his companies and his patents.
https://williamw.substack.com/p/the-black-magic-of-philanthropy-gates
https://thedissedent.page/2021/10/20/scanning-transmission-electron-microscopy-reveals-graphene-oxide-in-cov-19-vaccines/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/10/11/william-gates-sr-financed-eugenics/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/09/26/mkultra/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/09/19/the-fauci-covid-19-dossier/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/07/30/jonestown-mkultra-cia/
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Ok John I’ll get right on that, lol
Good to know!
You are an idiot Earl, fuck off.
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I was a registered democrat, never voted for a republican in my life. I was also extremely active against our many wars, and too bad the democrats weren't. I was politically active on any number of issues which most would define as liberal, and I see myself that way. As far as Greenwald drawing attention to the hypocrisy and lies of the democratic party, well someone has to do it, and they so need someone to take up that challenge. They need to be called out for their lies and total hypocrisy during the Trump years, and this year too. They also need to be held accountable for the fraud they perpetrated with Russia-gate during Trumps four years in office whose intent was to oust an elected president. The mainstream press and the left helped the democrats in that regard, and in doing so lost what little journalistic integrity they had left. The so call left news outlets followed suit. Greenwald is doing them a favor because no one changes until people confront them with the truth.
They know what the truth is and refuse to change or acknowledge it. And no quarter is given to anyone who points out their obvious inconsistencies and blatant hypocrisy.
Does anyone really think Boris Johnson was worried about covid being deadly when he had big Christmas parties last year but demanded a total shutdown for everyone else?
Does anyone believe Bill Gates is really worried about co2 levels as he flies around in his private jet? Buying carbon offsets is nothing more than a bait and switch.
Does anyone believe that Fauci is anything more than a bureaucrat with a medical degree?
In terms of Johnson, Gates and Fauci, I don't trust them, but I can't substantiate that mistrust with facts. My mistrust has become profound in these last four years. Russia-gate really did a number on me, since I didn't believe it from the beginning, and not only because we've scapegoated Russia for decades, but when the hack of the DNC e-mails came to light Clinton's campaign manager, Mooky, immediately said, and with no substantiating evidence, "The Russian's did it." As far as Clinton goes I do know enough about her to justifiably not trust her.
I can help you with evidence for not trusting Fauci. He admitted to lying to our faces in early 2020 about masks. He intentionally covered up the origins of COVID because he is personally implicated and lied to congress about gain of function.
Once you read JFK, Jr book your mind will explode over Fauci. Fauci will never be held to account.
Couldn’t agree more! Just a copy edit, though: It is RFK’s book—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The book is titled, "The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health". IMHO, it is not only the singular best book on the pandemic, but it is, perhaps more importantly, one of the best books ever on the nature of evil.
That is RFK Jr. THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI.
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Does everyone here know that Dr. Death is the highest paid person in our government and is set to receive a pension of $350,000 a year, the highest pension in the history of the United States? This is the fruit of intentionally murdering tens of thousands of Americans.
Well, I think I remember him contradicting himself about masks, and I do believe Covid came from the lab in Wuhan and I know he wasn't honest about NIH funding gain of function in China. I have no love for him, and don't really trust him, but I want to wait a bit on Fauci. I hope I don't get Covid and die, so I can see how this story ends.
M. Fran, thank you for your patience with the State apparatchik otherwise known as Anthony Fauci.
He is nothing more and nothing less than the typical Statist, the enemy of free people the world over.
I hope my opinion helps you decide.
As long as you don’t have multiple comorbitities your risk of dying from the current strain is about the same as dying in a car accident on the way to the grocery store. That is, unless you got the jab. Then you should be extra vigilant. I wish you the best of health, mental and physical.
The Fauci/COVID-19 Dossier
https://thedissedent.page/2021/09/19/the-fauci-covid-19-dossier/
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/there-is-no-variant-not-novel-no-pandemic-dr-david-martin-with-reiner-fuellmich/
https://williamw.substack.com/p/the-thin-line-genetics-and-eugenics
https://williamw.substack.com/p/dr-david-martin-exposes-the-the-great
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Just assume whatever they say is the exact opposite of the truth and you will be closer to the actual truth than assuming they are being honest. It really works. I haven’t been stumped yet. The only variable is how much time it takes for the truth to come out.
I understand and to a large part agree with your view of the Russiagate fiasco, but why aren't you equally appalled by the same kind of behavior from Trump's Republicans, the racist scapegoating of immigrants, for one example, and spreading dangerous bullshit about COVID instead of doing something about it, and so much more? Glenn, I think, might want to say that he's applying the standard of "a pox on both their houses," but that's not what he's doing. He's almost totally one-sided, a true monomaniac with all the trimmings.
Oh, I answered your other post. Okay, well, I'm really into genealogy and have seen thousands of ship manifests, and all the information required before you could enter this country. I don't know why we never implemented something similar for our contiguous borders. I don't believe in open borders and neither did Biden, or Obama who was given the title of deporter-in-chief, exporting some two and a half million during his presidency. I pretty much follow the news, not the mainstream corporately owned news, or even those left wing sites that have lost their journalistic integrity, since much of what they had to say about Trump wasn't true, like he's a racist. What bullshit about Covid? He was funding big pharma to develop a vaccine, remember warp speed? Do you want to honestly talk about racism and more, well what about Hilary calling half of Trump's base deplorables, that is, racists, homophobes, xenophobes, sexists, etc. Does that statement not disgust you? It gave a thumbs up for others to make the same assertions about millions and millions of Americans. There was a meme floating around Facebook, and a cousin picked it up since if referenced Trump supporters as an uneducated, amoral lot. That is an extremely prejudicial perception to have, and many anti-Trumpers have adopted it. Also, Biden didn't believe in busing when they wanted to integrate schools, back in the sixties, well, you can't integrate schools without busing and he knew it. You say Greenwald views the political scene in black and white, but John that's just not true.
Fran, I don't think I ever said what he thinks. Who knows? I'm talking about what he presents, and those could be wildly different things. I said he is a monomaniac, and yes, he presents things in black and white most of the time: liberals bad, Trump and allies, victims of liberal news media and liberals in general. The only evil that he dwells on in the vast majority his articles and tweets is "liberals."
Perhaps GG has come to believe that modern "liberals" ARE the only evil.
As I recall, as soon as Trump uttered the word “hydroxychloroquine”, the media went out all out to suppress its usage and vilify it, even getting the Lancet to publish a “study” (which they were later forced to retract). Our fearless media and medical statists then went on to suppress information on, and discredit, ivermectin, aspirin and anything else that could be helpful in recovering from Covid. The crime of the century considering the hundreds of thousands of lives that could have been saved.How much of that was pure TDS? Or a desire to prolong the pandemic and blame it on Trump? Interesting that India, which went with early ivermectin usage and virtually eliminated Covid without vaccinations, has 1/35th our Covid death rate.
That is such bullshit. But you believe what you want to believe, for whatever the reason: https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/no-evidence-suggests-a-causal-link-between-ivermectin-recommendation-and-the-decline-of-covid-19-cases-in-the-indian-state-of-uttar-pradesh/
John Earl has been brainwashed by mainstream media, thus his constant oinking here.
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Healthfeedback is dishonest. I ran a test: they published a claim that there was "no evidence" (sound familiar?) that hydroxychloroquine worked. I happened I had just read a fulsome endorsement from a highly-qualified doctor in a high position at a teaching hospital in Boston. That's evidence. So I sent it to them. They didn't respond, and they didn't change their false claim.
They're Big Pharma propagandists - regardless of how good HCQ really is.
Not that it will matter to your smooth brain but the continent of Africa has an infection rate of about 6% although very few are vaccinated(15% is the number I saw in a recent study).
Guess what Africans have in common.
I guess you've missed the information about all the criminals, potential terrorists, drug traffickers, human traffickers, and other assorted "bad people" who have crossed our borders illegally, e.g., the stats on the numbers of illegal aliens in our jails, etc. It's being reported that countries are now emptying their jails and asylums and encouraging these people to enter the USA illegally. I guess you don't live near the Southern Border and/or you haven't been impacted by illegal immigration, e.g., job competition, lower wages, overcrowded schools and other government services, crime, etc., so you can pontificate about Trump's language, but if your family and friends were impacted you might have a different opinion of illegal immigration.
John Earl obviously is a stranger in our house.
He needs to move on to somewhere he is welcome.
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Nearly all who were advising Trump are still there advising Biden. Trump was unable to affect facts on the ground.
Nope.
DJT remained un-captured by the State (and therefore became the enemy of the Party establishments), helped awake millions, and changed the course of U.S. history.
In regards to the CDC cabal Hardeho is correct. Trump should have fired Fauci and Scarf Lady on day one but they would have impeached him for it.
You missed the most glaring evidence of their insincerity - going nuclear eliminates the Co2 crisis in one fell swoop.
No, it doesn't.
“Co2 crisis” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It trades one problem for another. And, at this point, it's WAY too little WAY too late.
There is no problem. There never was save actual pollution. The day our corrupt politicians, led by RINOS BTW, voted to make CO2 a pollutant was the day science died. Now it is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on humanity with the Covid vaccines a close runner up.
The catastrophic man-made global warming psychopaths are anti-human any way you look at it. They are literally causing the poor and elderly to freeze to death and think this is a good thing.
That's a pathetic comment; nobody VOTED and made anything a pollutant.
ANYTHING in either too much quantity or too much can be a problem; it all depends on when and where.
Open a fucking book and learn something.
oPeN a FuCkInG bOoK🤣🤣
How do you think certain chemical compounds get put on the evil list? What body voted to give authority to the EPA to decide whatever chemicals are pollutants simply because they are part, no matter how minuscule, of the run away green house gas theory? Congress you fool.
What’s hilarious is you think grid scale batteries won’t eventually get the same treatment as natural gas. Most unbrainwashed people already know how dirty the battery lifecycle actually is and that will be what they use when it is time to come for it. That WILL happen. It is only a matter of time.
First the corrupt scammers call it a clean fuel. Then they call it a transition fuel. Then they call it evil and destroy it leaving hundreds of billions spent on infrastructure rotting away while they duplicate that infrastructure for whatever new source they are getting filthy rich off of. That is what they are currently doing for wind, solar and battery all throughout New England. Maine voted down gigawatts of clean hydro because a 100 yard wide corridor of 55 miles of forest literally in the middle of the wilderness no one ever goes or sees would be cleared for transmission wires. Now MA and ME can’t meet their emission goals🤣.
But guess what they are also doing at the same time? That’s right. Clear cutting tens of thousands of acres in populated and prime farming land for solar farms as far as the eye can see. Dead trees. Dead grass. Lower property values. Duplicative infrastructure. Negative impact on wild life. Yet they see no contradiction in any of this. It is clown world made up of clowns that beg to have their wealth forced from them while the poor freeze to death because they can’t heat their homes when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine.
"Does anyone believe Bill Gates is really worried about co2 levels as he flies around in his private jet?"
Yes.
As one of the wealthiest people and high-profile, he would be a juicy target. He's not stupid.
Bill Gates is following in his fathers footsteps as a eugenicist who wants to rid the world of all but the elites of the white race. Look at his family history:
https://thedissedent.page/2021/10/11/william-gates-sr-financed-eugenics/
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And to make things sweeter, looks like he will be able to fly to EU on his private jet and navigate his Yacht around lovely Adriatic islands free of green fuel tax - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yachts-be-exempt-eus-carbon-pricing-plan
No, he is not stupid. But he's very well protected and wealthy enough to not care about my opinion of him or yours or anyone else's.
Most white collar criminals like Gates are highly intelligent.
Gates is less harmful than Bezos...
Agreed; his only real error was in calling these people "left." He should just use either "Democrat" or "neo-liberal."
Agree!
I agree! (Second time in history, If I am not mistaken.)
Fran, I have no problem calling out the democrats for their hypocrisy and lies, none whatsoever, and I applaud anyone for doing so. But just as I oppose only focusing on Republican (Trumpism, etc) to the exclusion of almost all else, and lying about it at times as well, I also oppose doing the same approach with Dems and "liberals" (a term Greenwald NEVER defines and uses to paint absolutes). I'm for putting things in a more holistic perspective, not being a monomaniac like Greenwald has become.
John, trust me he's liberal, and no monomaniac, and I think he's fair and balanced. In this article he pointed out the hypocrisy of the democrat's position on the filibuster when used by republicans, but at the same time he agreed that Russia and Germany should be left to their own decisions about the pipeline and oil. The article also pointed out that while the democrats claimed Trump was Putin's puppet he tried to sabotage this pipeline which is economically extremely important to Russia, contradicting the democrat's allegation that he was doing Putin's bidding during his time in office. However that certainly doesn't mean he has nothing but good feelings for the republicans. People complain he's on FOX, real liberal of them, and to be honest during the Trump presidency I turned to FOX too, because they weren't spinning lies about Trump and Russia-gate, or his hiring prostitutes to pee on the bed Obama and his wife slept on in Russia. Those 4 years were crazy and someone has to sort it out, so to speak.
P.S. Hard to define the word liberal in today's day and age, especially when liberals have become so dogmatic in what you should and shouldn't believe.
Agreed, but regarding your P.S., that's a group - the dogmatic, authoritarian ones, who we call Neo-Liberals to distinguish them.
Whom, not who. (tee hee.)
Neo-liberalism like Obama pushing TPP and Trump was against it.?
Hmmm... Surely Obama's a Neo-Liberal, as is Clinton, Biden et al. However I'm not sure what your point is about the TPP. It was a horrific idea, giving huge power to corporations literally over national governments. One great thing Trump did was end the TPP.
Exactly and my point was that Trump didn't like it, liberals didn't like it, but the so called liberal droner and chief really pushed it. Boy have they used Trump to cover their asses, and even Cheney with all that blood and torture on his hands has gotten a pass.
I agree again! (What is happening to me...)
Why does he have to define "liberals?" I don't understand that argument, I think we all know what it means. It might be a generalization in a way but so is saying "conservative, "democrat, republican, the main stream media." It's a group of people with similar ideas and values, and we all know what those ideas and values are. Obviously not all of them think exactly alike. But I don't understand why it's Glenns job to narrowly define a term that we all understand to be a description, not an absolute. I think his readers have enough brain power to understand that.
Liberal isn't one he routinely gets wrong, it's "left," and second behind that is "Progressive." For the most part when he uses those terms he doesn't mean those groups at all, but rather the Neo-Liberals who have in recent times begun to call themselves that while holding none of the beliefs.
Yes, he does use "left" a lot, too. I think he should clarify what he means, not leave it up to the reader.
Yes, or just use the more specific term.
Really? LOL Your define is pretty vague, isn't it? Please tell me what "those ideas and values are," ok? Phil Ochs explained his definition of liberal pretty well, at least for a song, but I have no idea what Glenn's or your definition means because you both use the word in such a sweeping fashion. The best I can figure is from what he says is that liberals are Democrats, because he uses the words interchangeably. But are all Dems the same? Are all liberals the same? Or are they vastly different (remember, Glenn usually speaks in absolutes). Is Rachael Maddow, one of Glenn's most justifiable targets, a liberal? She's probably a Democrat, but I sure don't consider her a liberal (ask me for my definition and I will give it to you, if you want). I don't care how he defines it, except that I need to know what he's talking about. There are, you should know, different definitions of lots of political and philosophical terms, most especially "liberal." Vague writing is bad writing.
Let's distinguish between collectivists and individualist.
Individualists support the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
Collectivists are socialist and Communists and fascists (corporatists) and Nazis.
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Almost but not quite. Some of us are Individualists that also support limited collectivism when voluntary and at a local level...Part of the problem is designating things in such opposing terms. Humanity did not rise above nature without group cooperation, this is a fact. At the same time there must be integrity of the individual and his or her rights.
I apologize, I was not making myself clear. I was not trying to define the word liberal, though I can see why you would assume that I was. I'm not a skilled writer. What I was trying to say is that the meanings of words change and evolve over time. My point is to say that it will have a different meaning depending on the context of the writing. I don't agree that "Glenn speaks in absolutes." That's a pretty broad statement that seems like it would be difficult to back up with evidence. I always understand the meanings of his words in terms of the context of the writing. In my opinion, it's not necessary to have a strict definition of a political/philosophical term when you have context and when you're speaking to an audience familiar with current political and societal events. It's a weak criticism.
You are right that the [popular] meaning of words changes overtime, all the more important to make sure that people know what you're talking about. And I would add that it can occur to the point that words can lose any specific meaning other than being used as a scapegoat tool for demagogues, like calling people a "witch." I strongly disagree with your conclusion that Glenn doesn't speak in absolutes. In fact, he does it much of the time and using undefined words as he does is part of that process.
Right, I can see your point about precision of language. I can also see how he speaks in absolutes regarding certain values, like freedom of speech and due process in particular. I guess I don't see that as a negative, but I take your point.
Here, the historical meanings are provided, and it includes a walk through to modern times as well:
http://thetroypress.com/articles/art/20210314/art.20210314.html
The Troy Press is opinion, not fact. One opinion out of a myriad of them.
Left and Right is derived from the Hegelian Dialectic. It is metaphysics, like all of Hegel's conceptualizations.
Hegel greatly influenced Marx and Engels, who transferred much of his thought into their Manifesto.
There is no such thing as authentic Left and Right. There is only right and wrong.
Individualism is right, and collectivism is wrong.
Individualism is derived and expounded in the Declaration of Independence. Collectivism is derived and expounded in the Marxist Manifesto.
Collectivism is totalitarian. Individualism is republican.
So let us speak plainly now, for the hour is getting late.
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Self-referral to claim proof?
It saves a lot of typing.
Thanks for the link. I look forward to reading through it. Which reminds me that there is a standard definition of words and then the intended definition by their users; so, what does <Glenn> mean, etc.
YVW.
Care to provide any substantive reasoning to your claim?
What is the context and perspective being left out?
What is the misleading BS about Covid you refer to?
Without addressing these assertions, your comment is just vapid, overly emotional, whining. Perhaps you do have point, but I suspect any retort will be more of the same - completely emotion driven with zero reason and principle underlying any of it.
I have often commented on all of those points both here and on Mr. Greenwald's twitter feed. The evidence is rampant in his writings; also, it's self-evident in the current post. Go back and read them all yourself. He knows exactly what I'm talking about. In the meantime, apply your sophist reasoning to yourself.
Sophist? lol
I asked 2 questions that invited you to support your claim. Hard to see much sophistry there.
In your defense, you were commenting directly to Glen, so I suppose it is not the commentariat you wish to persuade.
Still, if you'll indulge me, I noticed that you claim that the voting legislature in question is racist, and I submit that not only is this logically inconsistent, the very reasoning often offered to support it is *incredibly* racist - ironically.
If it’s so self evident, you shouldn’t have much trouble spelling it out then would you?
You make no actual answer to Joshua's question Mr. Earl. And then you accuse him of the sophistry you yourself have been plying here in every comment you make.
You are a disinformant and a shill.
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How cute. Just like most liberals, you think we need liberal LIARS like Fraudci and Biden to tell us how to think, both of whom are HIGHLY compromised via Big pharma, Bill Gates and George Soros.
The accusations that GG must be simping for the right or that he somehow is a Trump supporter or a "Tuckems" loyalist, because he (RIGHTLY) criticizes fascist Democrats says FAR more about your pwn hypocrisy and tribalism than it does him..
As a former Democrat, I think most of his criticisms are spot on and GG has what liberal dominated MSM does not; integrity and consistency and a commitment to truth
You need not worry about those of us
who DESPISE Dem fascists being misinformed.
We are NOT and are perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves
BTW, just about everything MSM SAYS about Covid, along with your favorite beagle killer, Fraudci, IS A LIE. It should not be surprising that those of us who know that follow folks like GG and Rogan, cuz science
You are wasting your time trying to frame Greenwald as a villain Mr. Earl.
save your shit for your toilet.
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I counted 114 facts in Glenn's article and zero facts in your tirade. Who is ignoring context and perspective?
There is a difference between facts and emotion. One supersedes the other, yet sadly, you have people whom feel something and equate it with reality.
Regarding Greenwald's use of 'liberal', I agree, he should switch to 'hard left' to describe the CPC types whom openly champion reparations for slavery rather than lumping everyone on the political left into one group.
Still, that fault is as minor as a drop of water in a swimming pool when compared to the legacy press and technocrats. Greenwald never reported that Rittenhouse shot black people, nor did he tout the lie that the Russians altered vote tallies in the 2016 election.
Edit: Greenwald lists the facts, Earl does not.
Which one supersedes the other makes all the difference, all the time. Each of us is subject to either one being superior at times - though many of us here let the facts lead much more of the time.
Indeed, we can all be blinded by emotion, though we have to be vigilant to look at the facts. I say this as a life-long Republican whom has voted in every election, off year and on, and whom has always voted Republican, yet whom supports Greenwald and Gabbard because they, like me, look at logic over emotion.
"Uhg! It's in the subtext! Can't you feel, err, see it?!"
-John Earl
I realize it hurts your partisan heart, but it's possible for BOTH major parties to be utterly corrupt.
That's exactly what I said.
Yet here you are. Paying him even!
Those are some harsh and extraordinary claims that you are making about Greenwald demonizing the left as if a mentally deranged, spited comic book villain.
However, as the late Carl Sagan famously said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." And you have failed to provide anything beyond a POV.
I love Carl Sagan and agree with him. But you are misapplying his philosophy here. There is nothing extraordinary about my claims. All you have to do is actually read, with a reasonably critical mind, Glenn's work post-Intercept to see that my similes (borrowed almost exactly from typical Glenn absolutist, hyperbolic tirades--e.g. "deranged") to see that I am spot on.
Fuck me, you're full of shit.
Good journalists should critique those in power. Though Trump is still living in the heads of most Democrats to the point he still wields power over their emotions, he is no longer living in the White House from what I can tell.
The precedent set by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Rupert Murdoch is alive and well in the Democratic Party and most corporate media. The “with us or against us” attitude of the Democrats is something out of the Iraq Invasion playbook.
So, what is your fact-based, verifiable, refutation to the points that Glenn made in this article? Wait: is that a 1965 Simon & Garfunkel hit that I hear playing faintly in the background?
What context, perception, and challenging facts is Greenwald missing in this particular instance?
Please refer to my opening comment about Greenwald's critique of Biden's remarks, wherein I defend Biden's "hypocritical" effort to end the filibuster.
John Earl is obviously a flaming Bidenista and a shill.
Fuck'em.
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Best I can tell, you mean this one?
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/senate-democrats-use-the-jim-crow/comment/4486877
Odd that you bother with his postings given his new alignment with the darkside. I suppose Gabbard is another one of Tucker's dream democrats. I ss a lot of the old democrats agreeing with GG (and Gabbard). They also know that the MSM will no longer book moderates. At least Fox provides a platform.
To be clear, I completely share Glenn's criticism of the DNC (ex: I never bought off on Russia-gate) here and suspect you do too, but refuse to speculate on his motives as you do. I'll expand on your point with a kinder tone.
1) "Filibuster hypocrisy of this sort is the norm in Washington." Honest journalism probably ought to provide an example or two of GOP's contributions to this norm.
2) "It's still the job of a journalist to highlight the dishonesty of the majority party that controls both houses of Congress and the White House." No, it's to highlight and explain dishonesty and hypocrisy by any party with enough power to influence, in this cases. national and international politics. And perhaps even explain the issues involved. In this case, the RNC is doing its damnest to maintain power despite being a party that represents a minority of the country and to roll back legislation dating to FDR's administration. That level of nuance is not to be found in Glenn's writings, which have the tone of a litigator trying to win a case.
When Glenn writes in a comment elsewhere here that the US effort to stop Russian natural gas from being exported to Germany is futile, well, maybe not. He may have underestimated the capabilities of the American Empire. Mind you, I hope he's right.
Here's one of my favorite formulations: the job of journalism is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. While he does a great job on the (allegedly liberal) DNC, I fail to see Glenn afflicting the GOP.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
or Liz
Right and if we protest, the DNC says we are doing an "insurrection".
Ironic after 4 years of #Resist
The irony is, even without any feds involved (which I doubt more and more with each passing day), Jan 6th was the result of the legitimizing of rioting, arson and looting for the previous 9 months. After watching people get away with looting, being encouraged to commit arson and loot, being able to declare a 'zone' which refused to acknowledge municipal, county, state and federal authority--all while being cheered on by the bulk of the press--why wouldn't people end up thinking it was alright to breach the capitol?
All you gotta do is watch the extensive leftist-supplied videos of Epps to know he was a ringleader, if not the ringleader, of the Capitol incursion. The fact that the Jan 6 kangaroo court is now saying “he wasn’t arrested because he did nothing wrong” tells me everything I need to know.
If he did nothing wrong, why was he at the top of the FBI’s Jan 6 most wanted webpage, before they clumsily tried to memory-hole him? Thank God for the WAYBACKMACHINE.
As I said I'm doubting it more every day. However, after briefly following the conspiricy theory that the world's governments are hiding crashed UFOs and dead aliens, I am wary of jumping to conclusions.
There could still be (although doubtfully) an explanation--like Epps named names and got a sweetheart deal to send a message that working with the feds pays off, all while the people he named are punished beyond any justifiable measure to send a message not to cross the FBI.
I'll let the case in Michigan decide 1/6 for me. If charges are dismissed there due to agents and informants driving the plot, I'll be fully behind the same people doing the same thing on 1/6.
Yes, Ditto.
Bingo!
Maybe, but I think the reality is only a handful of people in that huge crowd had anything more on their minds other than hearing Trump, taking a leisurely walk to and through the Capitol and it's grounds. The bad guys there to stir the pot knew what they had to do to appear to be "insurrecting" and pose for the cameras. Like the guy taking the video outside of the Senate chamber that was heard saying "We did it!" as he sold his video to CNN. The crew with the matching bullhorns, Epps, etc. The people walking through the rountunda contained by the velvet ropes is the reality. Those that vandalized should be dealt with appropriately including the provocateurs, Feds or otherwise.
I find a sick peace in knowing the truth is exactly the opposite of what they say. At least this way I can know what is really going on.
I didn't know, for example, that Obama was a white supremacist according to Biden. This was news to me.
I'm not in his head and don't pretend to know his motivations for those things, but on Libya, that was a Hillary thing, "we came, we saw, he died! HA!" ...I saw a video clip where Obama commented on it - after he was out of office - that he didn't approve of what she did there. I think he put it something like, "I should have been more hands-on on that one."
Not so fast, Biden and the Democrats finally have a win.
They have successfully beat down the last vestiges of optimism.
Mr. Greenwald, the truth is self evident. I don't need a journalist to tell me the truth. What I do need is Fake News that flatters my self esteem and depicts my enemies as a bunch of wilfully ignorant cretins.
Given that there isn't a single mainstream news media organization whose business model is based on telling the truth, I don't think I am alone in my predilections.
Agreed. The truth, being in such self-evident OVER-supply, is certainly (and even PUBLICALLY evidently) NOT in demand these days. I, for one, just love my sheepskin blanket much more than boring, cheap, overbearing, and mere truth.
As I linked above, it's easy to see why they support Russian interests, because they are directly taking money from Gazprom's lobbyists. The links I posted above are irrefutable evidence of this.
Biden, like Carter, is also an appeaser. He doesn't care what happens so long as 'everyone is happy.' Money is just the icing on the cake.
You have a very naïve view of Biden.
It's hard to have a view on Biden that isn't contradictory as the guy seems to wear a different mask every day. He is in bed with the CCP and several Russian and Ukrainian companies, he doles out influence through his mediocre son's selling of paintings, he plagiarizes speeches because he lacks the ability to create them on his own. He has no original ideas and like other political lifers, seeks ever increasing power. Yet internationally, he doesn't want to ruffle feathers because he both lacks a spine and has everyone giving him money.
Regarding the comparison to Carter, I believe you are aware that he conversed with the Mullahs in the late 70s and agreed to abandon the Shah, something revealed as fact in 2018. It wasn't a case of him being incompetent, it was of selling out, and all of the blood from the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf War is thus on his hands.
IF you want to discuss the Iran situation and "blood on hands" it might behoove you to go back a bit further in time; to 1953, GB/BP, and the US CIA... That incompetent boob Carter may well have blood on his hands, but if so, it is arguably second-hand blood...
"...second-hand blood..."
What a turn of phrase! I don't know if that sentiment defends Mr. Carter, or condemns him all the more!!
See here you paint a much more complete picture of Biden, but you also have to factor in his extremely malevolent spirit, hidden behind the folksy fondant, but often poking through. Biden doesn't care about 'everyone is happy'--he cares about how portraying that persona can allow him and his cronies to loot the world and gain as much power as possible, while destroying the good for being the good and thus salving their own sense of their fundamental moral inferiority. If all good is destroyed then their sense of their own evil, stamped on them by malevolent adults at an early age, or possibly through mental deficiencies, becomes a non-issue. If there is no good, they can't be evil. This is why corrupting good people is more important to them than anything.
Very well put. You persuasively argue for blaming Mr. Biden for much more than his 40-public-years of empty suit.
What are the true interests of the corporate elite one may ask and their water carriers ?
I honestly think making themselves feel less guilty about their elitism by forcing the population at large to suffer in a sort of perverted sadomasochism. They can pat themselves on the back then for having 'bettered humanity' while everyone else pays.
More profit, more power.
World domination ala Klaus Schwab/WEF's Great Reset? Or something different? It would seem clear "they" want to control the game, not just play it and take their chances. One of the reasons you see them fielding political candidates and seeding all for profit and nonprofit entities with their acolytes. Your question is a good one that deserves further thought and discussion.
The older I get I think they just want unbridled ego gratification. I think thats the ultimate goal of the cocksucking profit-first lunatics.
I think at least.
Unfortunately, Trump’s loutish behavior and ego has caused many actually loyal citizens to lose their ability to think critically. Anything bad about Trump or any other action regardless of how illegal, anti-constitutional or dishonest, if couched as against Trump, is accepted. Let us hope will all our energy that there is an historic rebuke coming. And when it comes, God willing, we clean out the bureaucracy once and for all. Take no quarter.
C'mon Glenn, it's all about the Benjamins. Oh and their "power" etc. etc.
You mean the McKinleys. Inflation makes the $500 bill worth what the $100 was worth 100 years ago (however,the $500 no longer circulates).
I stand corrected!!
Actually the Salmon P. Chase's. He's in the $10,000 bill. No longer in circulation, but the largest ever printed.
Thanks for the update! It pales compared to Germany's 1922-23 inflation. The German mark went from around 300 to the dollar to 4 trillion to the dollar. My father lived through this.
About strange nude man attack on Pelosi: Paul Pelosi was most likely attacked by a male prostitute
An unavoidable conclusion about Paul Pelosi
1. Assailant in his underpants
2. Paul Pelosi knows his name and tells police he’s a “friend.”
3. Assailant asks “where’s Nancy?” to make sure she’s not home.
4. Pelosi takes bathroom break from spat and makes 911 call
Conclusion: This guy was a sex partner or male prostitute!
I guess I'm just not cynical enough because you'r scenarios make perfect sense. We know he's an alcoholic and he's rich so WHY not a dirty old queen? I gotta get more cynical. At their base, most of what goes on in the world are banality and conspiracy. Shakespeare and the Bible lay it out and the human condition don't change, only the technology does. Paleo emotions, medieval institutions and god like technology, Harari is right and it's not a good recipe. I would only add, in the same way there are a small number of genius and a small number of Olympic athletes and homosexuals, there are a number of psychopaths/sociopaths and they basically run the world and always have. Good luck to us.
At the outset of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci used wildly inaccurate modeling that overestimated US deaths by 525 percent.21,22 Scammer and pandemic fabricator Neal Ferguson of Imperial College London was their author, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) of $148.8 million.23 Dr. Fauci used this model as justification for his lockdowns.
Kennedy Jr., Robert F. . The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) (pp. 57-58). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
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One area you and I agree 100% is that Tony Fauci is a 100% hack.
Fauci may have once been a scientist, however he let his ego and power go to his head...before Covid. Now he isn't even a politician, he's one of the unelected bureaucrats whom is on TV, he is Agent Smith in the spotlight as opposed to the shadows. I probably will end up sick when we ultimatly find out what kind of 'research' he has been engaging in all of these years, assuming that comes out before I turn 90 in 2075.
And Fauch is a Nazi doctor when it comes to Beagles. There is a clear link between cruelty to animals and serial killers...and these 'experiments' are of the same shit as what the Nazis did to humans.
The beagle thing I already made an infuriated rant on, about, and people threw a fit that I cared more about animals than people.
Well fuck that, I agree with you:
I WILL NOT TOLERATE CRUELTY TO DOGS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
Hear hear!
The Democrats would do anything in their power to undermine Russia (two wings of the corporate partly have a neat "divide of labor" - Democrats are Russophobes, Republicans are Sinophobes, MIC rakes in profits either way) but there are number of other reasons why this is not advisable now:
- trying to kill NS2 at this point would possibly blow up newborn and already shaky post-Merkel coalition, and political disarray in Germany would undermine the NATO/EU "tough" posture in the ongoing clash over Ukraine.
- killing NS2 is best left to rabidly Russophobe "Greens" in the new German ruling coalition at some later point so it can look as internal German affair and not US slapping its vassal. The "Greens" were groomed over a decade to become "government worthy" exactly on condition of becoming most NATO cheerleading political party in Germany, one that would not veto admission of Ukraine into NATO for example.
- in case of any clash on Ukrainian / Russian border, adding NS2 to the list of sanctions would be even "bang for buck" - and in addition could be an excuse to never pay the contract cancellation penalty.
The German's of today couldn't hold a candle to the German's who rebuilt the country in record time. They have bought the neo liberal agenda although not to the extent of the Anglo 5. Chancellor Merkel; literally a scientist with a brilliant mind that was against mass immigration sees one dead kid of hundreds of thousands laying on a beach and next thing takes a million refugee's. She sees Fukashima and shuts down the German nukes to burn the worst Lignite coals. The best and brightest want to be parasitic financial engineers instead of real engineers. The country missed the boat on digital and is playing catch up and it may be too late for that. Such a great past, such potential, squandered. The President of the country admitted that they were in Afghanistan because "Germany is a trading nation"; Merkel fired him tout suite. Schable and Merkel screwed Greece for the empire and the whole of Europe is basically a giant vassal state of the empire. I think they picked the wrong empire.
The Germans of today would be kicked into submission by Bismarck. Then again, had he lived, Hitler would have been shot by Bismarck. In any event, I never thought I'd say it, but it seems as though the French are smarter than the Germans.
Hmm some good points and alarming that Germany has followed Deutche Bank into murky waters. I don’t think any nation at this point can be said to ‘have a great past’ but I think it’s unfair to characterize Merkle as more emotionally motivated than GBush2 who literally believed expatriots from Iraq with an agenda that, as heinous as it was, using gas on their ppl turned into false WMD’s and war. So throwing the first stone and unintended consequences is a bitter lesson.
Bite your tongue; I didn't compare Chancellor Merkel to that fool dubya. She at least took the refugee's from the empires war's. I just believe her rationale was emotional but of course, I have no way of knowing. There seems to be a move afoot to rehab the war criminals, dubya and Cheney and watching the democratic party sidle up to Cheney makes me puke.
Since you bring them up, the greatest societal event in world history that would be a gift to all future generations would be to have GWBJr and Cheney tried for treason and war crimes BEFORE they're dead of natural causes - and NOT acquitted, of course. ...It's very close to certain it will never happen, but a boy can dream!
And you do it well, kudos! As James Carvill once said but using a different word.."it's the system stupid". The corporate duopoly is always in power; you are not allowed a choice, only the pretence of a choice. As Chompsky said; it's "manufactured consent" and you have to be wilfully blind not to see it. Much cheaper and more effective than a police state could even be.
I agree wiht all that except this: "you have to be wilfully blind not to see it."
...Propaganda is AMAZINGLY powerful!
I stand corrected. In the last few years the effects of propaganda writ large has been tested on fMRI machines. What happens is that the pre frontal cortex actually shuts down leaving you open to suggestion/propaganda/stories. This explains why homo sapiens is the story believing primate which allows us to build large societies based on commonly believed stories. It also explains why we're so easy to control by a small cottier of elites.
Have You Seen These Latest Deaths & Adverse Effects From The Experimental COVID Shots?
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/have-you-seen-these-latest-deaths-adverse-effects-from-the-experimental-covid-shots/
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NordStream2 is a European - most specifically - German interest. If the US and its poodles succeed in strangling that commercial project, Russian gas will flow through the Power of Siberia pipeline to China instead.
Why are you buying into this iteration of Russiagate idiocy?
No, as he clearly states in the article. You might try reading ALL of it.
I have read the entire article. Of course the Dems are hypocritical regarding the filibuster. That was not my point. I am objecting to this paragraph:
"What makes the Democrats’ conduct here even more notable is the substance of Cruz's bill that they blocked with the filibuster. Cruz sought to impose sanctions on the Russian pipeline company Nord Stream 2, which is constructing the pipeline that will allow Moscow to sell large amounts of cheap natural gas to Germany and to Europe more broadly. There are few more pressing priorities for the Kremlin, if there are any, than construction of this pipeline. So by blocking Cruz's bill, Democrats not only used a racist filibuster, but they did so in order to protect Vladimir Putin and a vital Russian company from sanctions."
The idea that Nord Stream 2 is the most pressing priority of the Kremlin is false. The idea that the Dems did so "in order to protect Vladimir Putin and a vital Russian company from sanctions" just buys into red-baiting idiocy, of the kind we had more than enough of during Russiagate. In that iteration, the Dems screamed that Trump and the GOP were doing the bidding of "Putin" and "the Russians." Now, Glenn is framing hypocrisy on the filibuster in terms of the Dems doing the bidding of "the Russians." In both cases, we're to believe that the evil Russians are controlling domestic US politics. The message drilled into the minds of US citizens, from both parties, is that we must "take on" Russia. Make all the arguments for and against the filibuster; point out all the hypocrisy and criminality of both the Dems and the Republicans; but for the sake us all, ditch the Red Scare bullshit that has scarred our political life for more than a century!
Spot on. NS2 - and its reliable and direct flow of natural gas at cheap and predictable prices - is critical for competitiveness of German industry. In 40+ years since Soviet, and then Russian gas flows to Europe it was always reliable supply regardless of how geopolitics changed, and there were many upheavals. Gas can flow to Germany also through Ukraine and Turkey, but both of these are prone to blackmail. Turkey is already doing that successfully (refugee deal from 2016) and Ukraine can - if they receive a permission from Washington - extort extra price, esp. given industrial collapse its main income is gas transit fees (and leasing / selling agricultural land). https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/europe-cannot-allow-itself-to-be-blackmailed-forever-5082/
Yes! By the way, there is a fake YouTube account posting things in your name. It tried to contact me, and I fell for it. see https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHXtKxP85Yi6XvUFtOIzrUA