I think the glaring hypocrisy of an America First agenda collared and leashed to the monsters committing genocide in Gaza will prove to be this administration’s Achilles Heel, unless the president somehow manages to put common sense and America’s interest ahead of the nonsense puffery that replaces reason in and around this issue.
I think you are right. That poll showing 2/3rds of Americans are against the idea of sending ANY troops to Gaza must have come as a shock to them. They can't sub Israel for America First and get away with it. Not now, not after everything that's just happened.
"Free speech" is an inherent right in the US, but "health care" isn't an inherent right, although the US has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that health care is indeed a human right (inherent right). Hmm....
Very true. Health care isn't in the Constitution because it didn't occur to anyone back then. Remember that the idea of inalienable human rights to anything at all, such as the right to even think unapproved thoughts, was a revolutionary one.
I'm afraid it will take another revolution before we see that right enshrined in anything.
At the beginning of Biden’s term, the democrats ruled, both houses of congress and executive office. They chose to destroy January 6 participants in their quest to block President Trump from ever running for office again. In doing so they chose to break their voters trust by not passing Medicare for all.
Churchill was voted out 2 months after victory in Europe so although the war with Japanese went on for a few more months, an election was called in the UK after the immediate hostilities in the west had ceased, as was decided early on in the war.
Yes, but Britain was still at war with Japan for another few months, and I think Churchill was in Potsdam for the big conference when he got the news. Not quite the same thing as Lincoln faced, but that's not the point about the Z-man.
Elections can be held in a war. To say otherwise is asking for mocking.
“Elections can be held in a war”, absolutely true, however the Churchill thing shows that there is a precedent for suspension of elections in democratic countries during a conflict.
Point taken, there is precedent. However, Churchill never banned opposition parties, and Zelensky DID. He is governing as a dictator now. Churchill? Not so much.
And like all dictators who are no longer useful to the US Empire, his days in office are numbered.
Weeel actually……. In May 1940, after the outbreak of the Second World War, Mosley was imprisoned and the British Union of Fascists was banned. You may argue that this is not the same but I would think it similar. Zelensky has banned 19 parties, all for ties to Russia or subversive activities against the state….so not much different to the banning of the BUF. Sure the numbers are different but Ukrainian has a lot of parties and the UK, traditionally has rather few.
While I don’t really agree with your characterisation of Zelensky as a dictator, I do agree that, not being useful to the US Empire his days may well be numbered. An interesting parallel to the prompt removal of Churchill once his use as a war leader was no longer required.
I wonder how many people who will "attend" my congresswoman's "Tele-Town-Hall" meeting tomorrow and have a firm grasp of a range of things going on in the good ole U.S.A.? In fact, it's been a long time since the 12th congressional district here in PA had a town hall. The ones I went to in person were MUCH more meaningful, but that stopped after Clinton started setting fires in Waco. Now, this twice re-elected woman (Summer Lee) has had a busy office. They're ALL busy and can't do simple things anymore because... Trump. I can also sense the DNC mind police behind Summer's words going out in her recent emails.
People are confused because our news isn't doing their job going on for decades now, and unless you're an Gen Xer or Boomer like me, you have no comparative range of what it's like to have a face to face with them powers in Washington running around and not understanding how to handle exactly what Trump promised he'd do... The devil is in the details, and the details are all mixed up with no clear understanding. That's about how much sense the EU makes when deciding to meet, then grimace themselves into a fart cloud over what is likely to happen without (gulp) war.
True, but if you're a dog on the manor and a new master inherits, you learn to obey the new master or else. If the Europeans don't like this arrangement, then they need to do something about it.
The biggest issue is that the EU parliament is where we send our unwanted political trash to get them out of our countries. Now, even if we sent decent politicians, it wouldn't matter, as the parliament has no actual power; that is all the EU Commission, arseholes that are all appointed in conjunction with the WEF.
I admit I don't understand all the ins and outs of the EU bureaucracy. I'm pretty good at my own, but that's complicated enough!
As an American, I am very resistant to any bunch of foreign bureaucrats telling me how I am allowed to live, much less telling me what I'm allowed to say online. I don't see this country ever becoming a member of any organization like the EU.
Dunno !! JD lecturing NATO, reminds me of what I had said to my daughter when she asked me about the genesis of the Ukraine war, she disagreed with my explanation but said to me (about a month later) that after going through the history, she agreed with me. The Truth is, the Ukraine war should never have happened if it had refused to play the proxy game that NATO foisted upon it, and only the extremely dense could avoid the conclusion as to who did the foisting !!. This is not lost on the NATO members, and Sweden must be having buyer's remorse for having joined this organisation that now has a very limited shelf life. Should never have happened !! - this is about the only thing Trump has said that I agree with. If there were to be any prosecutions of the people responsible, then Victoria Nuland and others in the then State Department would be quaking in their boots.
Still, the people of the US had very little to choose from; either the impotent successor to a venal and senile old goat or Trump. When he is done running your country and huge swathes of the rest of the world to the brink of anarchy, maybe, just maybe, you will realise another truth; your Democrat versus Republican system of government needs to be overturned. It doesnt work !!
JD is simply one of the myriad of symptoms of disfunction.
It is a concern to me (and should be to you) that more and more, I hear one word emanating from the political discourse in the US, that word is 'Revolution'.
When all of the alternatives are systematically eliminated, revolution becomes the only option left. They're calling Trump himself a revolution, but he's really just a reformer, trying to get rid of some of the worst corruption to keep the Empire tottering along another few years.
He may accelerate the anti-imperialistic trend in the US, even if Trump prefers to be a blustering imperialist. He can't put America AND the MIC first, and is at least somewhat aware of that fact. If he wasn't, he wouldn't be talking about cutting the defense budget by half and eliminating nuclear weapons.
It would be very nice if he did that, but I'm not holding my breath.
We sided up with NAZIS that in reality gave Z no choice. When the peace agreement was agreed on in 2022, Boris Johnson is highlighted as the cause celeb for its failure. It was the Banderas promise to hang him, Zelensky if he ever signed.
Zelensky was a very unfunny comedian, by my comedic standards, and then he became a puppet. Yes, the Banderista Nazis would have killed him at any time before now if he tried to make peace with Russia, but he chose to become a puppet, has lived a life of luxury for years, and is an annoying little turd.
Exactly. Elected on a peace ballot. I'm a complete wuss myself so won't judge anyone else for cowardice but if Zelensky didn't have the bottle to stand up to nazi death threats, he could have said so and resigned immediately. Instead he sold out, basking in his latest role as Glorious Leader, meanwhile, the death toll is huge and people are being dragged off the streets to go fight the unwinnable proxy war. Fuck him indeed.
Thank you for the first sane account of Vance's antics in Munich. Like Vance and the Orange Man are in any position to talk about free speech or free anything else when they are firm backers of a holocaust. Of course what Vance said was true as far as a guy who has changed his name three times and claims to hale from Appalachia can be expected to go, I suppose.
He really is from Appalachia. He really did grow up in Middletown, Ohio. I read his book. He blamed individual failings more than the system for a lot of the problems there, but I think he still remembers where he came from.
I voted for him for Senate, you know. For one reason and one reason only. He was staunchly opposed to the Ukraine War, and he delivered by voting against every military appropriation for them. His Democratic opponent was of course rabidly prowar.
HOWEVER, he still supports Israel and hasn't said a word about the right to protest against the apartheid state. Like Russell Dobular said, a hypocrite shamed a bunch of other hypocrites. I still enjoyed his show.
Speaking of President Diem of Vietnam was once called , “The Churchill of Asia”, by Vice President Lyndon Johnson during his visit 1961. Eventually Diem was assassinated, November 2, 1963 in a coup orchestrated by the CIA. Literally 20 days before President John Kennedy met the same fate. Zelensky being compared to Winston Churchill may not bode well for his time on earth, especially after attacking the Alpha Dog.
Diem was assassinated, and JFK greenlighted it. I saw JFK in San Antonio the day before he was killed. My mom took me downtown to see him and Jackie drive past in that convertible. I was five.
I vaguely remember Diem's assassination. I DO remember the film of his body in a car trunk or something on the network news.
It is true that President Kennedy did agree with getting rid of Diem, but not with the murder. He expected a coup d’etat without violence. This was the second big let down that the CIA had given him. Bay of pigs was the first. I believe that these two acts of insubordination cemented Kennedy’s resolve to eliminate the CIA, which consequently led to his death.
Looking from Europe, this seems optimistic, maybe a bit too much so.
Ukraine nonsense is still widely accepted here, and it will take a bigger nonsense to displace it in public opinion — just as it took Ukraine nonsense to displace covid nonsense.
What are the current bets on an extraterrestrial invasion?
It seems his opponents apply terms from all the wrong games to try to nab him. They at least need to figure what game is being played.
Neoliberal tears really are quenching.
I think the glaring hypocrisy of an America First agenda collared and leashed to the monsters committing genocide in Gaza will prove to be this administration’s Achilles Heel, unless the president somehow manages to put common sense and America’s interest ahead of the nonsense puffery that replaces reason in and around this issue.
I think you are right. That poll showing 2/3rds of Americans are against the idea of sending ANY troops to Gaza must have come as a shock to them. They can't sub Israel for America First and get away with it. Not now, not after everything that's just happened.
"Free speech" is an inherent right in the US, but "health care" isn't an inherent right, although the US has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that health care is indeed a human right (inherent right). Hmm....
Very true. Health care isn't in the Constitution because it didn't occur to anyone back then. Remember that the idea of inalienable human rights to anything at all, such as the right to even think unapproved thoughts, was a revolutionary one.
I'm afraid it will take another revolution before we see that right enshrined in anything.
At the beginning of Biden’s term, the democrats ruled, both houses of congress and executive office. They chose to destroy January 6 participants in their quest to block President Trump from ever running for office again. In doing so they chose to break their voters trust by not passing Medicare for all.
Churchill was voted out 2 months after victory in Europe so although the war with Japanese went on for a few more months, an election was called in the UK after the immediate hostilities in the west had ceased, as was decided early on in the war.
Yes, but Britain was still at war with Japan for another few months, and I think Churchill was in Potsdam for the big conference when he got the news. Not quite the same thing as Lincoln faced, but that's not the point about the Z-man.
Elections can be held in a war. To say otherwise is asking for mocking.
“Elections can be held in a war”, absolutely true, however the Churchill thing shows that there is a precedent for suspension of elections in democratic countries during a conflict.
Point taken, there is precedent. However, Churchill never banned opposition parties, and Zelensky DID. He is governing as a dictator now. Churchill? Not so much.
And like all dictators who are no longer useful to the US Empire, his days in office are numbered.
Weeel actually……. In May 1940, after the outbreak of the Second World War, Mosley was imprisoned and the British Union of Fascists was banned. You may argue that this is not the same but I would think it similar. Zelensky has banned 19 parties, all for ties to Russia or subversive activities against the state….so not much different to the banning of the BUF. Sure the numbers are different but Ukrainian has a lot of parties and the UK, traditionally has rather few.
While I don’t really agree with your characterisation of Zelensky as a dictator, I do agree that, not being useful to the US Empire his days may well be numbered. An interesting parallel to the prompt removal of Churchill once his use as a war leader was no longer required.
I wonder how many people who will "attend" my congresswoman's "Tele-Town-Hall" meeting tomorrow and have a firm grasp of a range of things going on in the good ole U.S.A.? In fact, it's been a long time since the 12th congressional district here in PA had a town hall. The ones I went to in person were MUCH more meaningful, but that stopped after Clinton started setting fires in Waco. Now, this twice re-elected woman (Summer Lee) has had a busy office. They're ALL busy and can't do simple things anymore because... Trump. I can also sense the DNC mind police behind Summer's words going out in her recent emails.
People are confused because our news isn't doing their job going on for decades now, and unless you're an Gen Xer or Boomer like me, you have no comparative range of what it's like to have a face to face with them powers in Washington running around and not understanding how to handle exactly what Trump promised he'd do... The devil is in the details, and the details are all mixed up with no clear understanding. That's about how much sense the EU makes when deciding to meet, then grimace themselves into a fart cloud over what is likely to happen without (gulp) war.
i understand the hurt silence. In defense of the EU leadership, they were only doing what their masters told them to do.
True, but if you're a dog on the manor and a new master inherits, you learn to obey the new master or else. If the Europeans don't like this arrangement, then they need to do something about it.
One can always hope.
The biggest issue is that the EU parliament is where we send our unwanted political trash to get them out of our countries. Now, even if we sent decent politicians, it wouldn't matter, as the parliament has no actual power; that is all the EU Commission, arseholes that are all appointed in conjunction with the WEF.
I admit I don't understand all the ins and outs of the EU bureaucracy. I'm pretty good at my own, but that's complicated enough!
As an American, I am very resistant to any bunch of foreign bureaucrats telling me how I am allowed to live, much less telling me what I'm allowed to say online. I don't see this country ever becoming a member of any organization like the EU.
Dunno !! JD lecturing NATO, reminds me of what I had said to my daughter when she asked me about the genesis of the Ukraine war, she disagreed with my explanation but said to me (about a month later) that after going through the history, she agreed with me. The Truth is, the Ukraine war should never have happened if it had refused to play the proxy game that NATO foisted upon it, and only the extremely dense could avoid the conclusion as to who did the foisting !!. This is not lost on the NATO members, and Sweden must be having buyer's remorse for having joined this organisation that now has a very limited shelf life. Should never have happened !! - this is about the only thing Trump has said that I agree with. If there were to be any prosecutions of the people responsible, then Victoria Nuland and others in the then State Department would be quaking in their boots.
Still, the people of the US had very little to choose from; either the impotent successor to a venal and senile old goat or Trump. When he is done running your country and huge swathes of the rest of the world to the brink of anarchy, maybe, just maybe, you will realise another truth; your Democrat versus Republican system of government needs to be overturned. It doesnt work !!
JD is simply one of the myriad of symptoms of disfunction.
It is a concern to me (and should be to you) that more and more, I hear one word emanating from the political discourse in the US, that word is 'Revolution'.
I wish you all well.
When all of the alternatives are systematically eliminated, revolution becomes the only option left. They're calling Trump himself a revolution, but he's really just a reformer, trying to get rid of some of the worst corruption to keep the Empire tottering along another few years.
He may accelerate the anti-imperialistic trend in the US, even if Trump prefers to be a blustering imperialist. He can't put America AND the MIC first, and is at least somewhat aware of that fact. If he wasn't, he wouldn't be talking about cutting the defense budget by half and eliminating nuclear weapons.
It would be very nice if he did that, but I'm not holding my breath.
We sided up with NAZIS that in reality gave Z no choice. When the peace agreement was agreed on in 2022, Boris Johnson is highlighted as the cause celeb for its failure. It was the Banderas promise to hang him, Zelensky if he ever signed.
Zelensky was a very unfunny comedian, by my comedic standards, and then he became a puppet. Yes, the Banderista Nazis would have killed him at any time before now if he tried to make peace with Russia, but he chose to become a puppet, has lived a life of luxury for years, and is an annoying little turd.
Fuck him.
Yes, he made his bed..
Exactly. Elected on a peace ballot. I'm a complete wuss myself so won't judge anyone else for cowardice but if Zelensky didn't have the bottle to stand up to nazi death threats, he could have said so and resigned immediately. Instead he sold out, basking in his latest role as Glorious Leader, meanwhile, the death toll is huge and people are being dragged off the streets to go fight the unwinnable proxy war. Fuck him indeed.
Thank you for the first sane account of Vance's antics in Munich. Like Vance and the Orange Man are in any position to talk about free speech or free anything else when they are firm backers of a holocaust. Of course what Vance said was true as far as a guy who has changed his name three times and claims to hale from Appalachia can be expected to go, I suppose.
He really is from Appalachia. He really did grow up in Middletown, Ohio. I read his book. He blamed individual failings more than the system for a lot of the problems there, but I think he still remembers where he came from.
I voted for him for Senate, you know. For one reason and one reason only. He was staunchly opposed to the Ukraine War, and he delivered by voting against every military appropriation for them. His Democratic opponent was of course rabidly prowar.
HOWEVER, he still supports Israel and hasn't said a word about the right to protest against the apartheid state. Like Russell Dobular said, a hypocrite shamed a bunch of other hypocrites. I still enjoyed his show.
I believe he grew up poor. He just didn't do it in Appalachia. Appalachia is the southeast of Ohio, e.g., Vinton County.
Speaking of President Diem of Vietnam was once called , “The Churchill of Asia”, by Vice President Lyndon Johnson during his visit 1961. Eventually Diem was assassinated, November 2, 1963 in a coup orchestrated by the CIA. Literally 20 days before President John Kennedy met the same fate. Zelensky being compared to Winston Churchill may not bode well for his time on earth, especially after attacking the Alpha Dog.
Diem was assassinated, and JFK greenlighted it. I saw JFK in San Antonio the day before he was killed. My mom took me downtown to see him and Jackie drive past in that convertible. I was five.
I vaguely remember Diem's assassination. I DO remember the film of his body in a car trunk or something on the network news.
It is true that President Kennedy did agree with getting rid of Diem, but not with the murder. He expected a coup d’etat without violence. This was the second big let down that the CIA had given him. Bay of pigs was the first. I believe that these two acts of insubordination cemented Kennedy’s resolve to eliminate the CIA, which consequently led to his death.
Looking from Europe, this seems optimistic, maybe a bit too much so.
Ukraine nonsense is still widely accepted here, and it will take a bigger nonsense to displace it in public opinion — just as it took Ukraine nonsense to displace covid nonsense.
What are the current bets on an extraterrestrial invasion?
Hey, Rat! Good to see you!
ET invasion. Hmmm. Million-to-one against any FUTURE invasion, but the lizard people may already be here.
I wonder if rats can scent the difference?
Russia won the war. And there is nothing the US can do about it.
You won't hear Trump say those words - he's too busy grandstanding.