CARTOON: Rainbow Flag Genocide Vs MAGA Hat Genocide
Any political worldview that’s worth a damn necessarily includes a deep and visceral hatred of Dick Cheney, and an abhorrence toward any ideology which sympathizes with him.
“So long as Americans are looking to their electoral system to address the murderousness, tyranny and injustice of their government, that murderousness, tyranny and injustice will continue. The first step to escaping from a burning building is to stop pushing on the fake fire exit that’s been painted on the wall. These fake elections are there to keep you trapped in the burning building. The real exit lies elsewhere.”
Cartoon by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
By Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter (9/9/24)
Kamala Harris has enthusiastically accepted the endorsement of Dick Cheney.
The degree of comfort US liberals have with men like Cheney is more evidence that they don’t view people in the global south as fully human. If they did, his endorsement would be rejected with the same revulsion they’d show endorsements from NAMBLA or neo-Nazis. The emotional comfort they receive from all this warm cozy talk about “unity” between Democrats and Bush-era war criminals matters more to them than the lives of millions of Iraqis.
Any political worldview that’s worth a damn necessarily includes a deep and visceral hatred of Dick Cheney, and an abhorrence toward any ideology which sympathizes with him.
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American democracy means getting to choose between genocide wearing a MAGA hat and genocide waving a rainbow flag.
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Mark my words: the same people telling you Harris is the better vote to save Gaza will make all kinds of excuses for her when she becomes president and you point out that she isn’t saving Gaza. Happened with Trump, happened with Obama. Same schtick over and over again.
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New rule: I’m just going to ignore anyone who tries to tell me Trump will do things if re-elected that he didn’t do the first time he was president. If you say he’s going to End The Wars and fight the Deep State, I’m ignoring that. If you say he’s going to turn America into a Nazi dictatorship where LGBT people are kept in concentration camps, I’m ignoring that. If he was going to do those things he would have done them.
Trump said a lot of offensive things and received a lot of incendiary coverage, but in terms of actual policy and governance he was a standard shitty Republican. His actual administration was very similar to that of his predecessors, and was evil not in some new way but in all the same ways those prior administrations were evil. If you need to concoct some weird fantasy that goes against all the evidence of his previous term in office to defend your position, your position is too weak to deserve attention.
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I talk about the US election not because I think it matters but to stress the fact that it doesn’t. This fake charade that consumes all political oxygen every four years will result in no meaningful changes to the behavior of the globe-spanning empire centralized around Washington.
So long as Americans are looking to their electoral system to address the murderousness, tyranny and injustice of their government, that murderousness, tyranny and injustice will continue. The first step to escaping from a burning building is to stop pushing on the fake fire exit that’s been painted on the wall. These fake elections are there to keep you trapped in the burning building. The real exit lies elsewhere.
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Next month will mark the one-year anniversary October 7th, that terrible day when more than a thousand people were brutally massacred in southern Israel by Israeli helicopters and Israeli tanks and also by Hamas a bit.
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A new poll says 70 percent of Jewish Israelis think it should be forbidden to express any sympathy for civilians in Gaza on social media platforms. Israelis will murder, oppress and steal from an ethnic group they’ve designated as less than human for 75 years, cry victim when that group retaliates, commit genocide in response to the retaliation, and then say you should be forcefully banned from criticizing them for this.
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Can’t wait til things calm down in the middle east so I can stop getting accused of being an antisemite and go back to the old wholesome accusations of being a Russian agent.
Link to story and 5-minute video
CHILLING ASSESSMENT: The Biggest Act Of Mass Terrorism Since September 11th Is Just The Beginning
“They're using your money so the crimes that Israel has committed is being paid for not by your government, but by you. And you are allowing your government to do it. In fact, you're electing politicians who made no secret of the fact that they are going to continue to do it. Do you see where I'm going here?…
“Your soldiers are there. Your sailors, your warship, your war planes, your intelligence men, your special services, your undercover spies are all there tonight in Lebanon?”
By George Galloway
Mother of All Talk Shows (9/18/24)
We appear to be hurtling to the end of times. Israel’s tech attack. Motorola will never work again. And if there was democracy in Lebanon Nasrallah would have been president for decades.
18-minute video
George Galloway and Chris Hedges talk of the likely result of the US/Israel electronics terrorist attack on thousands of Lebanese civilians.
Note: I include the US in this attack because — as we have seen with the horrors in Gaza — the flaccid, subservient American ’government’ is completely controlled by Tel Aviv and the ZioNazi lobby. That obsequious servitude encourages and enables terror attacks on innocent civilian as we have seen in Gaza and now Lebanon.
14-minute video
Like George Galloway says, how can you ever trust these companies again?
BDS, it may save your life!
Well said! A splendid summary of the idiocy of Politics of Joy meets the Gaza Genocide. And don't you ever forget that Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself if you're arguing with someone who objects to their slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children with 2,000 lb bombs.