You could have voted Green last election. If they received over 5% of pop vote they'd be eligible for fed. funding. We need more options than the duopoly.
That is factually incorrect because I live in Ohio. No votes for the Green candidate were counted because the Republican Secretary of State said they got on the state ballot too late. There was a big sign at the voting place saying so.
The only reason I was going to vote for Stein at all was because Palestine supporters asked me to. Otherwise, I wouldn't have considered it.
The Greens lost all credibility with me when they nominated Howie Hawkins over Jesse Ventura in 2020. Plus, they believe in identity politics, transgender experimentation on children, and the Green Grift, which is why they wouldn't nominate Ventura.
I think they're just a party for vanity candidates now, and most Americans know it. That's why they will never get over 5%.
The reality of biological sex is literally everyone's call. Science like the existence of X and Y chromosomes that code for sexual characteristics are not a subjective experiential thing, it's an objective reality. People like YOU who will believe any horseshit, ruined the left. Marx who was a scientific socialist spins in his grave, and people like me bailed and became right wingers, good job idiot!
I really don't want to get into my whole history with the Greens. I was something of a founding member, a member of the original Committees of Correspondence in the early 1980s that eventually became the Green Party USA.
We only hear from them every four years during a presidential election. I've contacted them by email in off years, asked how I can help. No response.
I'm sorry, but I just can't take them any more seriously than I can Bernie Sanders or AOC. My ancestors founded Missouri. They have to show me otherwise.
Yeah I studied the founding of the Greens in Germany in the 1970s when I was at Oberlin in the 1980s. I have tremendous respect for those bio-regionalist pro peace, pro permaculture Greens, those were serious people. Now the Greens are the pro NATO pro war with Russia party in Germany, madness. If I remember right Cynthia McKinney ran as a Green in like 2000 or 2004, pretty sure I voted for her as my last vote, where it all just became too corrupted on all the sides for me to care enough to show up to vote.
I used to correspond with some of those same people. Peace was a central theme, peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. It was supposed to be part of a paradigm shift.
The Eurogreens sure shifted their paradigm, all right. Those old German Greens are either appalled or sold out.
Same, TBH this sort of general trend is why I stopped being a leftist, it just isn't intellectually serious anymore. I get there are actual Marxists like you, but you are like 5% of the perhaps 15% of people who are leftists, shrug.
It is why I don't call myself a Marxist much, because most people don't know what I mean by that. Or leftist, for that matter, for the same reason.
In my life I've called myself a liberal, a progressive, a Marxist, a revolutionary. Of those four terms only the latter hasn't been twisted out of all recognition in the capitalist propaganda mill, and I gave up on the first by the time I got out of college.
Trump's secret intention to crash the Western-based $U.S. Dollar system so he and his corrupt family can become fabulously wealthy. The Bitcoin King, as he wishes to be politely referred to, is promoting "stable" (sic) coins through Eric Trump's World Liberty Financial.
Can you say, "Conflict of Interest"?
After his punitive tariffs bring down the $U S dollar and millions of Americans with hyperinflation, Trump, with the Fed, will 'come to the rescue' with a CBDC by August, 2025.
King Donald Trump for Totalitarian control of the U.S.A.
Oh, there's no doubt the Trump Crime Family intends to enrich themselves. As for everything else, we'll see. You gave dates and everything. August's not very far off, either.
Here it says ''punitive'' tariffs. But where does the money come from. What I read somewhere was that the tariff is paid by the importing business firm, ie the American side. I suppose that, if the money was charged to the external (foreign) actor, that firm would just need to charge the importer, in any case. So it kind of doesn't matter. It is our domestic buyers who have to pay for this added charge. On anything imported, or apparently a lot of it.
Correct. Tariffs are paid by the importers, not the exporters, even though Trump constantly says the exact opposite. I'm not even sure Trump understands what tariffs are.
Oh, it's still there, just as much of a cultist cesspool as it ever was. I check it out sometimes because I swear the DNC or somebody tests out slogans on them.
They're also a good gauge of when the Party's divided. Then they make you pay to see anything. It happened on Election Day, of course, and a couple of times since Trump was inaugurated.
Power Elite. That was a book by C. Wright Mills in the 1950s. Blew my mind when I read it in the 70s, and he got a lot right. Are you familiar with him?
Yes, but haven't read it. Only know it from the description in David Talbot's great ‘The Devil's Chessboard’ about Allen Dulles (you've probably read, but highly recommended if not).
That extravagantly funded war game keeps coming back to haunt the Pentagon. Of course the Adelsons have either never heard of it or don't want to believe it, and Netanyahu doesn't care.
This sort of thing becomes fairly common knowledge throughout the military, especially the branch most likely to get its ass kicked. In this case, the Navy.
That's one of several reasons why a mutiny or a military coup in the US is now thinkable, but they'll try a Come to Jesus meeting first.
Oh I know. I love wild turkeys. We see them in our inner suburban Cleveland neighborhood every once in awhile. There's even a wild turkey crossing warning sign just a few miles up the road.
We kept domestic turkeys for a few years, several wild turkey hens took to hanging out with our flock when we let them free range- And quickly figured out that when I went out at sundown to shut them up in the run, turkey treats would be available only INSIDE. The wild birds would see me coming and RACE into the run while I walked the Bourbon Reds back, they didn't want to be shut away from the bed time treats (and feeder) over night! I still see an occasional wild turkey which looks a bit broader and more reddish than the straight wild turkeys.
A man who bragged not paying taxes is now worried about America’s taxman situation? If silicon valley and other tech & banking giants (for example) paid true taxes from their worldwide business then things would have been different. But as it happens in a mafia - feeling the pressure is something for the regular guy in the street while those with really deep pockets do as they please, and pretend to be concerned with fairness of tariffs. Another distraction from a twisted system. These tariff changes are likely to only increase corruption and systemic rot.
As I thought, Big Oil and the Pentagon are shifting the contest of power with the Zionists in their favor. Trump announced his administration will start talks with the Iranians this Saturday.
Tariffs for penguins! .. reign insane! 😂😂
No, not all is lost!!
You could have voted Green last election. If they received over 5% of pop vote they'd be eligible for fed. funding. We need more options than the duopoly.
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Planet
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That is factually incorrect because I live in Ohio. No votes for the Green candidate were counted because the Republican Secretary of State said they got on the state ballot too late. There was a big sign at the voting place saying so.
The only reason I was going to vote for Stein at all was because Palestine supporters asked me to. Otherwise, I wouldn't have considered it.
The Greens lost all credibility with me when they nominated Howie Hawkins over Jesse Ventura in 2020. Plus, they believe in identity politics, transgender experimentation on children, and the Green Grift, which is why they wouldn't nominate Ventura.
I think they're just a party for vanity candidates now, and most Americans know it. That's why they will never get over 5%.
Both parties and just about all our States make it almost impossible for 3rd parties yo get on the ballot.
In OH how many signitires did the Green need and how much time did they have to get those signitire approved.
Not sure what you mean by identity politics. As far as the trans gender argument goes. Its not my call nor should it be .
The reality of biological sex is literally everyone's call. Science like the existence of X and Y chromosomes that code for sexual characteristics are not a subjective experiential thing, it's an objective reality. People like YOU who will believe any horseshit, ruined the left. Marx who was a scientific socialist spins in his grave, and people like me bailed and became right wingers, good job idiot!
I really don't want to get into my whole history with the Greens. I was something of a founding member, a member of the original Committees of Correspondence in the early 1980s that eventually became the Green Party USA.
We only hear from them every four years during a presidential election. I've contacted them by email in off years, asked how I can help. No response.
I'm sorry, but I just can't take them any more seriously than I can Bernie Sanders or AOC. My ancestors founded Missouri. They have to show me otherwise.
Yeah I studied the founding of the Greens in Germany in the 1970s when I was at Oberlin in the 1980s. I have tremendous respect for those bio-regionalist pro peace, pro permaculture Greens, those were serious people. Now the Greens are the pro NATO pro war with Russia party in Germany, madness. If I remember right Cynthia McKinney ran as a Green in like 2000 or 2004, pretty sure I voted for her as my last vote, where it all just became too corrupted on all the sides for me to care enough to show up to vote.
I used to correspond with some of those same people. Peace was a central theme, peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. It was supposed to be part of a paradigm shift.
The Eurogreens sure shifted their paradigm, all right. Those old German Greens are either appalled or sold out.
Same, TBH this sort of general trend is why I stopped being a leftist, it just isn't intellectually serious anymore. I get there are actual Marxists like you, but you are like 5% of the perhaps 15% of people who are leftists, shrug.
It is why I don't call myself a Marxist much, because most people don't know what I mean by that. Or leftist, for that matter, for the same reason.
In my life I've called myself a liberal, a progressive, a Marxist, a revolutionary. Of those four terms only the latter hasn't been twisted out of all recognition in the capitalist propaganda mill, and I gave up on the first by the time I got out of college.
Trump's secret intention to crash the Western-based $U.S. Dollar system so he and his corrupt family can become fabulously wealthy. The Bitcoin King, as he wishes to be politely referred to, is promoting "stable" (sic) coins through Eric Trump's World Liberty Financial.
Can you say, "Conflict of Interest"?
After his punitive tariffs bring down the $U S dollar and millions of Americans with hyperinflation, Trump, with the Fed, will 'come to the rescue' with a CBDC by August, 2025.
King Donald Trump for Totalitarian control of the U.S.A.
Oh, there's no doubt the Trump Crime Family intends to enrich themselves. As for everything else, we'll see. You gave dates and everything. August's not very far off, either.
Here it says ''punitive'' tariffs. But where does the money come from. What I read somewhere was that the tariff is paid by the importing business firm, ie the American side. I suppose that, if the money was charged to the external (foreign) actor, that firm would just need to charge the importer, in any case. So it kind of doesn't matter. It is our domestic buyers who have to pay for this added charge. On anything imported, or apparently a lot of it.
Correct. Tariffs are paid by the importers, not the exporters, even though Trump constantly says the exact opposite. I'm not even sure Trump understands what tariffs are.
All power to penguins and turkeys!!!
Yah. How about we let them run things for a year, just to see how it goes?
Democratic Underground! Oh my heavens - I'd forgotten it existed!
Oh, it's still there, just as much of a cultist cesspool as it ever was. I check it out sometimes because I swear the DNC or somebody tests out slogans on them.
They're also a good gauge of when the Party's divided. Then they make you pay to see anything. It happened on Election Day, of course, and a couple of times since Trump was inaugurated.
Oh hell no I don't pay to see anything.
Canadians do have an anti-establishment choice this election: Maxime Bernier and the People's Party of Canada.
He's a libertarian kook, but he makes the power elite skittish enough that they've banned him from the leaders debates
Thank you! I didn't know about him.
Power Elite. That was a book by C. Wright Mills in the 1950s. Blew my mind when I read it in the 70s, and he got a lot right. Are you familiar with him?
Yes, but haven't read it. Only know it from the description in David Talbot's great ‘The Devil's Chessboard’ about Allen Dulles (you've probably read, but highly recommended if not).
Good wrap up as usual, will be linking it today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Also linking the following today as well - "Are Trump's Advisors Lying to Him About Iran?? - Mike Whitney ", https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/are-trumps-advisors-lying-to-him-about-iran/
which kind of coincides with your comment on Iran.
That extravagantly funded war game keeps coming back to haunt the Pentagon. Of course the Adelsons have either never heard of it or don't want to believe it, and Netanyahu doesn't care.
This sort of thing becomes fairly common knowledge throughout the military, especially the branch most likely to get its ass kicked. In this case, the Navy.
That's one of several reasons why a mutiny or a military coup in the US is now thinkable, but they'll try a Come to Jesus meeting first.
"Mr President, we have God, missiles and stupidity on our side. They only have God and missiles. We have the advantage."
"There is nothing more frightening than watching stupidity in action."--Adlai Stevenson
Thanks for reminding me of my comment. I now have a Note.
Those turkeys were just being friendly, probably used to getting handouts at that house.
Oh I know. I love wild turkeys. We see them in our inner suburban Cleveland neighborhood every once in awhile. There's even a wild turkey crossing warning sign just a few miles up the road.
"Wild turkey crossing" - oxymoron to love.
Don't worry. The turkeys seldom cross at the Turkey Crossing sign. They prove their wildness by crossing wherever and whenever they want.
We kept domestic turkeys for a few years, several wild turkey hens took to hanging out with our flock when we let them free range- And quickly figured out that when I went out at sundown to shut them up in the run, turkey treats would be available only INSIDE. The wild birds would see me coming and RACE into the run while I walked the Bourbon Reds back, they didn't want to be shut away from the bed time treats (and feeder) over night! I still see an occasional wild turkey which looks a bit broader and more reddish than the straight wild turkeys.
Lovely anecdote.
Brilliant. I didn't vote either. Couldn't stomach the hypocrisy.
The less the Public mention fake Presidents, the closer they will address the truth of the power against them.
Thank you, for keeping a cool head in troubling times.
A man who bragged not paying taxes is now worried about America’s taxman situation? If silicon valley and other tech & banking giants (for example) paid true taxes from their worldwide business then things would have been different. But as it happens in a mafia - feeling the pressure is something for the regular guy in the street while those with really deep pockets do as they please, and pretend to be concerned with fairness of tariffs. Another distraction from a twisted system. These tariff changes are likely to only increase corruption and systemic rot.
These days, I don't think ANYTHING happens with our government unless somebody can grift off of it.
As I thought, Big Oil and the Pentagon are shifting the contest of power with the Zionists in their favor. Trump announced his administration will start talks with the Iranians this Saturday.
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/04/07/trump-claims-us-and-iran-will-hold-direct-talks-this-saturday/