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Apr 24·edited Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

Argentina is asking to become a member of NATO. Did the CIA actually raise Milei from childhood to be a perfect little neocon neoliberal? Leaving BRICS, joining NATO. Not the same things, but certainly woe to ordinary Argentinians, IMO. Milei is, though, just another backyard helper- critter, as far as the US is concerned. Help with the looting and the wars.

Watching to see if a measure enabling green card holders to be able to vote is introduced through Congress or more likely by presidential decree. The Dems are losing the black vote, from what I am seeing. That would likely never get through a GOP-held Congress - although Mike Johnson is certainly the Dems' little helper now - but I believe Biden can do anything he wants if it does not affect the US "budget". There may be too many eyes on the corrupted voting machinery now.

Always remember - the Dems motto is "any horrendous Dem-desired ends justify any horrendous Dem-inflicted means". A corollary is that anything horrendous that the Dems accuse others of doing usually means the Dems are already doing whatever that is. Crematory smoke, and mirrors.

Most excellent, as always, thanks, OB!!!

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Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

Ninety Five Billion... $95,000,000,000... $95 FIVE FUCKING BILLION DOLLARS - Chuck Schumer wouldn't know a defense of democracy plan if it shot up his ass and out of his niece's mouth... Oh, that happened, didn't it? And, NO ONE is listening to the majority of us as these mental midgets in Washington are pretending everyone wants to continue this another minutes. Are Mr. & Mrs. America through with their wallet extraction to push us all to the brink of WWIII yet? I will never stop fighting against this shit.

I'm happy to finally see how non-stop the student pro-Palestine protest is across this nation where voices of the people reach deaf ears and the dead eyes only focused on war. WHAT the absolute fuck is going on where the heart and mind of the speaker does a 180 on pushing this legislation through.

Summer Lee won, and PA's a swing state. Hey, how many voted "uncommitted" for the prez primary?

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Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

I did invite a number of "friends" to join me in giggling, guffawing, and snorting their morning coffee onto their keyboards here at this barbarous site, but apparently my "friends" have no sense of humor and are concerned that I seem contaminated with Putin Propaganda.... sigh. Thank YOU for being my friend! It's getting very lonely IRL.

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When a random reptile sunning himself on the tarmac does more to impede your nation's genocide than its workers... /smh

FTR: I've lost patience with Americans. I am still anti-vengeance, and I don't use the word "deserve" to excuse torment, ever. But to me, if you're still going to work, when you can possibly survive not doing so, you might as well work in a prison staffed by child slaves building white phosphorus bomblets disguised as MREs to be dropped from IDF drones on aid convoys.

It's clear that everyone is totally cool with flaying infants from the sky, just so long as they get their next paycheck.

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Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

Great roundup OB. By the way the real scandal of the Rwanda deportation plan is it will cost about a million per head, will deport only a few hundred, and these will be netted out 1 for 1 by immigration from Rwanda, as per the treaty. Or if you are generally pro immigration, the common ground critique is that this is pure "immigration theater" by a morally, politically and intellectually bankrupt Tory party that wants to throw "red meat" to its base without actually moving the dial one millimeter on the Uniparty globalist agenda.

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Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

I'm undecided about Millei. As a right libertarian sort myself I am cautiously optimistic but there are some worrying tell tales. He comes across a lot like the barely adolescent student libertarians I used to know back in the day. More worryingly his refusal to join BRICS and get a Plan B to dollar hegemony doesn't really fit with his libertarian declarations and smells of "belonging to [US] Intelligence", as they said about Epstein.

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Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

Thanks to all the protestors, including Mr. Gator.

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Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

God Bless The Alligator!!! It takes a reptile to halt the reptilian empire.

FYI, thought you and others would be interested in the following:

Mike Hampton is one of my early Substack subscribers. He is an activist in South Africa and been targeted by the government, I love the title of his Substack:

Same Shit, Different Government (SSDG)

So, today's post focused on an interview with a guy named Gary Stevenson, born poor working class in England but had a penchant for math and became a multimillionaire working trades for Citibank. The wealth brought a personal/moral crisis for him. He is now working for political change and speaking out about what is really going on and how it works.

https://www.mikehampton.co.uk/p/why-are-we-poorer-gary-stevenson-novara-media?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1023805&post_id=143184928&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2iji4s&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Mike posted an interview that was 2 hours and I wasn't initially going to watch it but decided to watch the first 20 minutes. I watched it all the way through. He is reporting out of the belly of the beast and really explains what is happening, unfolding and where things are going and doing so from a working class view. He really understands both the poor and struggling and the super wealthy and what they are up to.

There is a short 8-minute documentary on him that gives some good sense of what he's about and his roots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ6ZSgkxgFQ

I also ordered his book.

He really lays out the intentionally strategic hollowing out of the middle class that is going on worldwide and how the wealthy manipulate the working and middle class against themselves. We are now at the stage where the super wealthy will buy up and steal all the assets of the middle class, really taking us to a new fascism.

Combine this with the teachnofacists and it explains a lot.

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I have had a serious aversion to alligators since watching Peter Pan on TV at a very impressionable age. I know, that was a crocodile, but I still can’t tell the difference. But now, I’ll never feel the same way about them again. Still won’t get near one, but will say ‘you rock, dude’ from a safe distance.

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Thank you OB and fellow readers - but to recognize how far we have come or descended, tomorrow is the 79th anniversary of the 'Meeting on the Elbe'....here is a little remembrance....

https://youtu.be/LQ-rgxJo3Kg

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Good post, linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

Please see my IMAGE FOR THE DAY from yesterday either on my website https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/2024/04/23/84125/ or Substack https://watchman2016.substack.com/p/image-for-the-day-from-httpsnothingnewunderthesu-22d. You will see that I think pretty much the same thing about "congresscritters"!!!!

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Apr 24Liked by Ohio Barbarian

Love that GATOR!

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Did you see they tried to fine Thomas Massie.

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The Russian perspective? You mean the Putin perspective. Putin says 500k Ukrainian soldiers have died, Zelenskyy, the Jewish Ukrainian president, says 32k. I believe the number of dead Russian conscripts is closer to 500k. But you keep spewing Putin’s propaganda, JD Vance!

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And "...about those congresscritters"? They look so SELF-CONFIDENT. This is delusion, ultimate delusion. So confident, so wrong. Cannot admit they are wrong; incapable of it. There are people in the world who just won't admit they are wrong. There are no Ukrainians left. The Congresspeople are totally lost. This is mental delusion. Totally crazy. Let's face it, there is no sanity left. They should at least be sad-looking. So many dead; Ukraine clearly losing if not finished off. Yet these "critters," these insane persons looke to be crazy with joy --- just like the Saudi prince who chopped up the journalist That is how that Saudi prince usually is, in photographs. Insanely happy. No, just say "insane," that is description enough.

-thanks to Ohio Barbarian or whomever he call himself these days, for what? Letting me have a say and no requirement that I "pay up or die." (Comments are open to non-paying audiences all over the known universe, so thanks!)

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Apr 27Liked by Ohio Barbarian

Is it the swamp or the soup. It’s very fascinating how people who go to Washington DC become part of the blob. They arrive and there is a ray of hope. This person will be different. After about 3 years or so even the most revolutionary critter will have been absorbed by the blob and will move with the blob. Any person who still has any difference after 10 years is like 3 standards deviations out. And the distribution is definitely not “normal”

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