Trump will do to the populist right what Barack Obama did to the populist left: screw ‘em over and leave them as dispirited and disillusioned as the populist left. One week in and it's already begun.
Chris Hedges tells the story of how late one night he was interviewing some Czechoslovakia activists about their struggle to take down the communist government. He asked when they thought their movement might be strong enough to revolt. They sighed, rubbed their chin, one said "Maybe three years." Another said five. Someone else said they couldn't hazard a guess. The fall of the government happened the next day. They were right in the midst of the movement and not one of them could see it coming.
The job now is to resist, help people be informed, make connections and alliances wherever possible, speak up, connect people with information. Learn. Study. Resist. There does come a breaking point and I'm hearing a lot of creaking and groaning in the corrupt system these days.
The overlords desperately want to stir up a race war to prevent us eating them 😈 But their plan is going to backfire. People can see the scam now. Never trust a liberal! Never talk to the cops! Do not comply in advance! Always punch the Nazis! But above all BE KIND 🕊 Help and care for each other🌈 In a world filled with hate, love is revolutionary💕
Mark got it right with his subheader, "Trump will do to the populist right what Barack Obama did to the populist left: screw ‘em over and leave them as dispirited and disillusioned as the populist left." I say "YAY". It helps expose the Empire. Sometimes truth requires self-destruction.
If people can learn the lesson, Obama and Trump could prove to be the two most consequential presidents in an unexpectedly good way. But -- damn -- people gotta wake up to the reality they both represent.
Why is anyone surprised? What have been the mantras for decades in our country? “That’s YOUR problem” “I don’t owe anyone anything” “I must love myself before I can love (or give damn) about anyone else” “How did that make you feel?”
So what if children in poverty and the elderly have a problem with hunger, it’s not YOUR problem (or concern), you don’t owe them anything since it doesn’t affect you, and you’re busy loving yourself and are really tired of people trying to make you feel guilty.
Idiot TV sitcoms, reality TV, self-appointed gurus doling out advice to always put yourself first and screw everyone else if they don’t like it — here’s where we are.
Always has. Let's hope as Trump supporters discover they too have been deceived people in this country can join together and exercise the power we have. The oily oligarchs are terrified of us.
I have long been of the opinion that we need to put some of our political differences aside for a successful revolution. People on both sides of the aisle agree that this regime is FUBAR and needs to GO, the sooner the better.
If tRump declares war on Iran or anyone else, I believe we will have a military revolt. Very helpful to have the military on one’s side while fomenting an overthrow of the government.
So, how many senators and representatives from either side of the aisle would vote to resend CITIZENS United?
The name of this act rivals one of the most oxymoronic euphemisms I can think of, for example the cap of good hope
Which is one of the most treacherous places for sailors in the world. Who exactly are the “citizens” who are “united” by this act? Those who manage the United States feudal system. And, who proclaimed loudly with reverent patriotic, posturing “give me liberty or give me death” Patrick Henry’s plea when he was the largest slave owner in Virginia.
What kind of “Liberty“ was he really talking about? Don’t teach that history! It might make someone feel bad. While we’re all being boiled alive.
Also end corruption and restore balance by respecting Constitutional boundaries between all three branches of government. The Executive branch does not get to create or defy laws. The legislative branch makes laws that apply equally to all Americans, not just to those who can afford lawyers. The Justice branch does not get to write new laws to justify injustice. Laws are not created by a 6 to 3 majority vote.
And Church is SEPARATE. It's their separation that allows them to exist without needing to prove their chosen beliefs are in fact true.
Gypsy, as the empire implodes the narratives become more and more bizarre as the various hypocrisies pile up, spill over and multiply. All the pretenses, lies, deceptions, wigs and fake mustaches are dropping away one by one before the world. It's like some 1950s Hollywood satire. In many ways, Trump is THE perfect character for the lead role for the US denouement. The scary thing is, as Jeffrey Sachs commented yesterday, whether the US can accept being 'one' of the international players instead of the sole big bad boy without resorting to nuclear war.
Hopefully it doesn’t come to nuclear war; I don’t want our beautiful flora and fauna decimated.
We “humans” have allowed this shitshow to occur. Most of us don’t give a shit about anything but our own goddamned selves. Our apathy has allowed all these current situations to progress.
Wipe us out; leave everything else so that Mother Earth can begin her reset. There are too few of us that want REAL CHANGE and are willing to die for it.
PS What’s the most vital thing on the planet for Amerikkkans right now? WHO’S GONNA WIN THE SUPER BOWL!
IsraHell has one more country on its list of seven that it wants Amerikkka to destroy for its benefit. That country is of course Iran. Do these psychopaths not realize that on 17 January Iran and Russia signed a mutual defense pact? Hello pretty mushroom clouds!
IsraHell is on its last legs and wishes to take down the entire world with it, is my guess.
Check out this quote from Col. Larry Wilkerson: “I think we have convinced Vladimir Putin that we are utterly unreliable; we are deceitful. We have drug the EU and NATO into that deceit and unreliability and I think he has made a conscious decision — I'm almost positive he's made — that Russia will have to fight NATO eventually, or some facsimile thereof.
“I don't think he thought it was imminent. I think now he thinks in his lifetime — in his time as the leader of Russia — he may have to fight NATO.”
He's a good man and he and Colin Powell came to see and understand the evil running things behind the White House curtain. I've heard him mention possible arrest. Makes me wonder what he has heard on background from his sources. He just turned 80 two days ago. Hope I'm that sharp if/when I reach/hit that milestone.
Hi Mark, had to share Davids video about Trumps deportation to remind our next PM Pierre Poilievre that his wife Ana is a Venezuelan born immigrant. I want to make sure that he fight Trump over the 51st state comments and tht he has no desire to become a Govenor. I wonder if it's worth reminding DJT that his wife Melania was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia and (forgive the pun) she and Baron might be skating on thin I.C.E.. LOL
Speaking of Govenors, Gretchen Whitmer was on the Seth Myers show last night and mentioned the special relationship Detroit, Michigan auto workers have with our auto workers in Windsor Ontario. Also, our Ontario Premier, Doug Ford (Conservative) has called an election for 27/2 and expects to strengthen his stance on retaliatory tariffs. He mentioned cutting of hydro electric power exports to New York, Maine, Vermont and Michigan.
Finally, US data shows that Canada is responsible for less than 1% of Fentynal and less than 1% of illegal crossings in to the states. Maybe Trump will take the time to study the subject(s) before making anymore tariff and sanction threats?
Um, Shelley, that ain't gonna happen. Remember, the guy couldn't even hold his prop Bible right side up at his staged protest photo op in 2020.
Honestly, on the whole tariffs and stealing Greenland and re-invading Panama stuff the rest of the world should be telling the US to F-off and joining BRICS to create a multi-polar world of cooperation and collaboration. If Trump puts a tariff on Canada, within an hour Canada should cut off that hydro-power. I'm betting Trump has absolutely no idea of that critical source of power.
I hope Canadians are getting united on not accepting this statehood BS. Believe me, the last thing any Canadian should want is being part of this collapsing shitshow and first on the long list of reasons not to be part of the US is our shitty (w)ealthcare system.
The Europeans should be telling the US to GTH, repair their relations with Russia and step as far away from our flaming outhouse as possible and get on with taking care of themselves and each other.
The US/Isr*el murder machine is an abomination that the world needs to insulate themselves from. We lie, steal, murder and warmonger. I have never been more ashamed to be an American than now. As I've studied and read about the US/Israel criminal syndicate I have learned just how much we Americans have been lied to and deceived.
In defense of our overlords - they've tried more subtle ways to get rid of us, but we refuse to die.
So now they must actually go to great efforts to dispose of us.
Meals on wheels,just keeps old people alive.
And with well educated East Indians coming here to do our hi paying tech jobs, we need only enough education to be janitors.
Housing for thr elderly ?
Fuck them. Us old folks just are in the way.
It's a shame that we refuse to stand up and put the lot of these fat cats on a prison barge.
Maybe when we're homeless and starving we'll wake up.
Don't bet on that,though.
Chris Hedges tells the story of how late one night he was interviewing some Czechoslovakia activists about their struggle to take down the communist government. He asked when they thought their movement might be strong enough to revolt. They sighed, rubbed their chin, one said "Maybe three years." Another said five. Someone else said they couldn't hazard a guess. The fall of the government happened the next day. They were right in the midst of the movement and not one of them could see it coming.
The job now is to resist, help people be informed, make connections and alliances wherever possible, speak up, connect people with information. Learn. Study. Resist. There does come a breaking point and I'm hearing a lot of creaking and groaning in the corrupt system these days.
The overlords desperately want to stir up a race war to prevent us eating them 😈 But their plan is going to backfire. People can see the scam now. Never trust a liberal! Never talk to the cops! Do not comply in advance! Always punch the Nazis! But above all BE KIND 🕊 Help and care for each other🌈 In a world filled with hate, love is revolutionary💕
I love the thought of kindly punching a Nazi. "It's for your own good, dear." 😹 ❤️
🤣😂🤣
It almost happened when Trump forze funds that included rent assistance for low income housing.
But someone woke him up.
Just think what would have happened with millions of people on the street.
That would have been the end of the USA as we know it.
Mark got it right with his subheader, "Trump will do to the populist right what Barack Obama did to the populist left: screw ‘em over and leave them as dispirited and disillusioned as the populist left." I say "YAY". It helps expose the Empire. Sometimes truth requires self-destruction.
If people can learn the lesson, Obama and Trump could prove to be the two most consequential presidents in an unexpectedly good way. But -- damn -- people gotta wake up to the reality they both represent.
Why is anyone surprised? What have been the mantras for decades in our country? “That’s YOUR problem” “I don’t owe anyone anything” “I must love myself before I can love (or give damn) about anyone else” “How did that make you feel?”
So what if children in poverty and the elderly have a problem with hunger, it’s not YOUR problem (or concern), you don’t owe them anything since it doesn’t affect you, and you’re busy loving yourself and are really tired of people trying to make you feel guilty.
Idiot TV sitcoms, reality TV, self-appointed gurus doling out advice to always put yourself first and screw everyone else if they don’t like it — here’s where we are.
Divide and conquer works.
Always has. Let's hope as Trump supporters discover they too have been deceived people in this country can join together and exercise the power we have. The oily oligarchs are terrified of us.
"Immigrant families aren't the reason we can't afford eggs or prescription drugs; billionaire CEOs are..."
It's time to end the left vs right arguing. It's the top vs bottom. Billionaires are not your friends.
If You Give a Billionaire Some Power...
https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/if-you-give-a-billionaire-some-power
Hi TRC
I have long been of the opinion that we need to put some of our political differences aside for a successful revolution. People on both sides of the aisle agree that this regime is FUBAR and needs to GO, the sooner the better.
If tRump declares war on Iran or anyone else, I believe we will have a military revolt. Very helpful to have the military on one’s side while fomenting an overthrow of the government.
So, how many senators and representatives from either side of the aisle would vote to resend CITIZENS United?
The name of this act rivals one of the most oxymoronic euphemisms I can think of, for example the cap of good hope
Which is one of the most treacherous places for sailors in the world. Who exactly are the “citizens” who are “united” by this act? Those who manage the United States feudal system. And, who proclaimed loudly with reverent patriotic, posturing “give me liberty or give me death” Patrick Henry’s plea when he was the largest slave owner in Virginia.
What kind of “Liberty“ was he really talking about? Don’t teach that history! It might make someone feel bad. While we’re all being boiled alive.
Rescind Citizens United not resend, right?
Also end corruption and restore balance by respecting Constitutional boundaries between all three branches of government. The Executive branch does not get to create or defy laws. The legislative branch makes laws that apply equally to all Americans, not just to those who can afford lawyers. The Justice branch does not get to write new laws to justify injustice. Laws are not created by a 6 to 3 majority vote.
And Church is SEPARATE. It's their separation that allows them to exist without needing to prove their chosen beliefs are in fact true.
The Constitutional Right is both freedom OF religion and freedom FROM religion.
Hi Mark
I couldn’t be more incensed that NATIVE AMERICANS are being questioned about their citizenship! Where the fuck does ICE propose to deport them to?
As far as I’m concerned, the rest of us can just fuck off to the lands of our ancestors and give the Americas back to the rightful inhabitants!
Gypsy, as the empire implodes the narratives become more and more bizarre as the various hypocrisies pile up, spill over and multiply. All the pretenses, lies, deceptions, wigs and fake mustaches are dropping away one by one before the world. It's like some 1950s Hollywood satire. In many ways, Trump is THE perfect character for the lead role for the US denouement. The scary thing is, as Jeffrey Sachs commented yesterday, whether the US can accept being 'one' of the international players instead of the sole big bad boy without resorting to nuclear war.
Hi Mark
Hopefully it doesn’t come to nuclear war; I don’t want our beautiful flora and fauna decimated.
We “humans” have allowed this shitshow to occur. Most of us don’t give a shit about anything but our own goddamned selves. Our apathy has allowed all these current situations to progress.
Wipe us out; leave everything else so that Mother Earth can begin her reset. There are too few of us that want REAL CHANGE and are willing to die for it.
PS What’s the most vital thing on the planet for Amerikkkans right now? WHO’S GONNA WIN THE SUPER BOWL!
Agreed. I will have a post in a day or two on the nuclear war issue.
As a species, humans are 'smart' enough to put together nuclear bombs, but we are not intelligent enough to deal with them.The Atomic Dooms Day Clock is now at 89 seconds to midnight. That is worse than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-89-seconds-to-midnight-closest-ever-to-human-extinction/
Hi Mark
IsraHell has one more country on its list of seven that it wants Amerikkka to destroy for its benefit. That country is of course Iran. Do these psychopaths not realize that on 17 January Iran and Russia signed a mutual defense pact? Hello pretty mushroom clouds!
IsraHell is on its last legs and wishes to take down the entire world with it, is my guess.
Check out this quote from Col. Larry Wilkerson: “I think we have convinced Vladimir Putin that we are utterly unreliable; we are deceitful. We have drug the EU and NATO into that deceit and unreliability and I think he has made a conscious decision — I'm almost positive he's made — that Russia will have to fight NATO eventually, or some facsimile thereof.
“I don't think he thought it was imminent. I think now he thinks in his lifetime — in his time as the leader of Russia — he may have to fight NATO.”
The whole interview is worth a listen. He covers multiple crisis points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee66V6oeZkE
Hi Mark
I hang onto every word Larry Wilkerson utters; I scour YouTube for interviews with him.
He also believes that he’ll be jailed at some point.
Thanks.
He's a good man and he and Colin Powell came to see and understand the evil running things behind the White House curtain. I've heard him mention possible arrest. Makes me wonder what he has heard on background from his sources. He just turned 80 two days ago. Hope I'm that sharp if/when I reach/hit that milestone.
Hi Mark, had to share Davids video about Trumps deportation to remind our next PM Pierre Poilievre that his wife Ana is a Venezuelan born immigrant. I want to make sure that he fight Trump over the 51st state comments and tht he has no desire to become a Govenor. I wonder if it's worth reminding DJT that his wife Melania was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia and (forgive the pun) she and Baron might be skating on thin I.C.E.. LOL
Speaking of Govenors, Gretchen Whitmer was on the Seth Myers show last night and mentioned the special relationship Detroit, Michigan auto workers have with our auto workers in Windsor Ontario. Also, our Ontario Premier, Doug Ford (Conservative) has called an election for 27/2 and expects to strengthen his stance on retaliatory tariffs. He mentioned cutting of hydro electric power exports to New York, Maine, Vermont and Michigan.
Finally, US data shows that Canada is responsible for less than 1% of Fentynal and less than 1% of illegal crossings in to the states. Maybe Trump will take the time to study the subject(s) before making anymore tariff and sanction threats?
Trump?
Study?
Um, Shelley, that ain't gonna happen. Remember, the guy couldn't even hold his prop Bible right side up at his staged protest photo op in 2020.
Honestly, on the whole tariffs and stealing Greenland and re-invading Panama stuff the rest of the world should be telling the US to F-off and joining BRICS to create a multi-polar world of cooperation and collaboration. If Trump puts a tariff on Canada, within an hour Canada should cut off that hydro-power. I'm betting Trump has absolutely no idea of that critical source of power.
I hope Canadians are getting united on not accepting this statehood BS. Believe me, the last thing any Canadian should want is being part of this collapsing shitshow and first on the long list of reasons not to be part of the US is our shitty (w)ealthcare system.
The Europeans should be telling the US to GTH, repair their relations with Russia and step as far away from our flaming outhouse as possible and get on with taking care of themselves and each other.
The US/Isr*el murder machine is an abomination that the world needs to insulate themselves from. We lie, steal, murder and warmonger. I have never been more ashamed to be an American than now. As I've studied and read about the US/Israel criminal syndicate I have learned just how much we Americans have been lied to and deceived.
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Fuck the system😤
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