Our Dying Republic

[wizard]

IMO... that's 63% who think they know everything... when in reality... they know nothing!!!

All I can say is that I wish I smart enough to know everything about the goping ons of all the world affairs from just sitting in the comfort of my own living room!!!

Well... atleast on the bright side... we have 23% capable of rational thinking.

Just incredible Docker,unbelievable really!!!!...Far from looking stupid,weak,and unwilling to sacrifice,large numbers of Americans polled support measures almost sure to ''provoke'' a ''direct'' war between Nato and Russian forces in Ukraine,and have likewise clamored to embrace a sanctions regime certain to inflict upon themselves 'higher prices' at a time of dizzying inflation...

How delusional,emotional,and compliant Americans are can be seen when 74% agree to a NO FLY ZONE,but it only goes down to 38% if that NO FLY ZONE MEANS WW3,you know we are in ''DEEP S*HIT''...The higher prices from sanctions are a mere inconvenience to those who are 'willing' to be turned to ''DUST''!!!!

With the looming economic ''collapse'' from sanctions 'blowback',from narrative and propaganda collapse as Russia takes control of Ukraine,from U.S. cultural,social,and political ''Wars-of-Woke-ness,from inflation,from illegal immigration,from divide and conquer politics,from misplaced ignorant anger at Trump and his supporters,from the deceitful activities of BLM,from the absolute corruption and thievery of Congress and Senate,from drugs pouring over the border,from poor education,from indoctrination,from fragmenting of society into atoms of hatred and division individuals,from homelessness,from the rising crime and violence in our major urban cities,and from the absolute lies and propaganda from ALL of corporate and social media...

All these factors both close enough and far enough off to provoke God knows what sort of catastrophe between now and November,this electoral season is shaping up to be an ''apocalyptic spectacle'' to put 2016 and 2020 to ''Shame''....While crossing my fingers for ''No Nuclear War,Please'',I must confess,I have no idea what the hell might or could happen,and the only goddamn thing that ''We the People'' can do about it....is to watch in ''SHOCK and AWE''....And who's 'fault' is that?...Peace!!!!!

Here's a great insightful and enlightening article by Douglas Macgregor...Retired decorated combat veteran and advisor in the Trump administration...He's been coming under a lot of fire from the MIC and Deep State because of his ''HONEST INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY''...The PTB hate it when when honest and well credentialed military men choose to be truthful and discuss 'facts' rather than accept a retainer to puke out the Deep State and MIC BS Propaganda.....


https://www.theamericanconservative....ly-in-ukraine/

[Docker]

Just incredible Docker,unbelievable really!!!!...Far from looking stupid,weak,and unwilling to sacrifice,large numbers of Americans polled support measures almost sure to ''provoke'' a ''direct'' war between Nato and Russian forces in Ukraine,and have likewise clamored to embrace a sanctions regime certain to inflict upon themselves 'higher prices' at a time of dizzying inflation...

How delusional,emotional,and compliant Americans are can be seen when 74% agree to a NO FLY ZONE,but it only goes down to 38% if that NO FLY ZONE MEANS WW3,you know we are in ''DEEP S*HIT''...The higher prices from sanctions are a mere inconvenience to those who are 'willing' to be turned to ''DUST''!!!!

With the looming economic ''collapse'' from sanctions 'blowback',from narrative and propaganda collapse as Russia takes control of Ukraine,from U.S. cultural,social,and political ''Wars-of-Woke-ness,from inflation,from illegal immigration,from divide and conquer politics,from misplaced ignorant anger at Trump and his supporters,from the deceitful activities of BLM,from the absolute corruption and thievery of Congress and Senate,from drugs pouring over the border,from poor education,from indoctrination,from fragmenting of society into atoms of hatred and division individuals,from homelessness,from the rising crime and violence in our major urban cities,and from the absolute lies and propaganda from ALL of corporate and social media...

All these factors both close enough and far enough off to provoke God knows what sort of catastrophe between now and November,this electoral season is shaping up to be an ''apocalyptic spectacle'' to put 2016 and 2020 to ''Shame''....While crossing my fingers for ''No Nuclear War,Please'',I must confess,I have no idea what the hell might or could happen,and the only goddamn thing that ''We the People'' can do about it....is to watch in ''SHOCK and AWE''....And who's 'fault' is that?...Peace!!!!!

Here's a great insightful and enlightening article by Douglas Macgregor...Retired decorated combat veteran and advisor in the Trump administration...He's been coming under a lot of fire from the MIC and Deep State because of his ''HONEST INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY''...The PTB hate it when when honest and well credentialed military men choose to be truthful and discuss 'facts' rather than accept a retainer to puke out the Deep State and MIC BS Propaganda.....


https://www.theamericanconservative....ly-in-ukraine/

Great post and a great article Wizard.... and you're absolutely right... we are in deep shit... and just what are 63% of Americans focusing on... pitying Ukraine and hating Putin. All I can say is "God help us all"!!!

I think that the whole Biden presidency could be accurately described as a folly...

[wizard]

Just incredible Docker,unbelievable really!!!!...Far from looking stupid,weak,and unwilling to sacrifice,large numbers of Americans polled support measures almost sure to ''provoke'' a ''direct'' war between Nato and Russian forces in Ukraine,and have likewise clamored to embrace a sanctions regime certain to inflict upon themselves 'higher prices' at a time of dizzying inflation...

How delusional,emotional,and compliant Americans are can be seen when 74% agree to a NO FLY ZONE,but it only goes down to 38% if that NO FLY ZONE MEANS WW3,you know we are in ''DEEP S*HIT''...The higher prices from sanctions are a mere inconvenience to those who are 'willing' to be turned to ''DUST''!!!!

With the looming economic ''collapse'' from sanctions 'blowback',from narrative and propaganda collapse as Russia takes control of Ukraine,from U.S. cultural,social,and political ''Wars-of-Woke-ness,from inflation,from illegal immigration,from divide and conquer politics,from misplaced ignorant anger at Trump and his supporters,from the deceitful activities of BLM,from the absolute corruption and thievery of Congress and Senate,from drugs pouring over the border,from poor education,from indoctrination,from fragmenting of society into atoms of hatred and division individuals,from homelessness,from the rising crime and violence in our major urban cities,and from the absolute lies and propaganda from ALL of corporate and social media...

All these factors both close enough and far enough off to provoke God knows what sort of catastrophe between now and November,this electoral season is shaping up to be an ''apocalyptic spectacle'' to put 2016 and 2020 to ''Shame''....While crossing my fingers for ''No Nuclear War,Please'',I must confess,I have no idea what the hell might or could happen,and the only goddamn thing that ''We the People'' can do about it....is to watch in ''SHOCK and AWE''....And who's 'fault' is that?...Peace!!!!!

Here's a great insightful and enlightening article by Douglas Macgregor...Retired decorated combat veteran and advisor in the Trump administration...He's been coming under a lot of fire from the MIC and Deep State because of his ''HONEST INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY''...The PTB hate it when when honest and well credentialed military men choose to be truthful and discuss 'facts' rather than accept a retainer to puke out the Deep State and MIC BS Propaganda.....


https://www.theamericanconservative....ly-in-ukraine/

Yup....Rinse and Repeat!!!!!

[Docker]

Who’s In Charge Of America Right Now? Because It Isn’t The Man Getting Wrangled By A Giant Easter Bunny

Given the state of our grocery shelves, southern border, gas prices, job openings, foreign policy, public schools, inflation, and health care, it would be awfully nice to know who’s really running the greatest country on earth.

The White House celebrated Easter on Sunday with its traditional egg roll, but the Resurrection Day festivities turned into a national embarrassment thanks to the president. His handlers, including his wife, did their best to walk him around like a pet, telling him when to sit, speak, and stay. This all raises the obvious and alarming question: Who is in charge of the greatest country on Earth right now? Because it sure as heck isn’t Joe Biden. If you haven’t seen any of the footage, you might think this is an exaggeration, but it isn’t. Here’s Jill Biden monopolizing a children’s book reading, with her husband announcing, “And they’re not going to let me read at all.” “I’ll let you— here, you can start us off,” the first lady said patronizingly, letting the president read only the first page.


And here’s Jill Biden tapping Joe on the arm with the command to “just stay,” presumably so he didn’t wander off as he is wont to do, followed by the duo awkwardly laughing it off as if she hadn’t just treated the president of the free world like a puppy in training.


Following the president’s address from the White House, the first lady jumped in, instructing him to do the obvious: “Wave, wave.”




Of course, if there’s anything we know about marital dynamics, it’s that “Type A” wives often stay on top of the little details and help their husbands do the same. But this Joe Biden cringiness wasn’t just the presidential equivalent of misplacing a wallet or not being able to find something that’s located smack-dab in the middle of the fridge. This was like watching an assisted-living nurse spoon-feed a patient. Worse, it wasn’t just Biden’s wife taking care of him; even a giant furry was tasked with wrangling the president. When Biden started yammering about Pakistan and Afghanistan — his failed and deadly withdrawal from which became one of the many defining crises of his presidency — the Easter bunny stepped in to cut off the president from saying another word.

If by some delusion, anyone still had any remaining confidence in the competence of our executive, that should have shattered it. But this isn’t just about pointing out the Biden gaffe machine’s perpetual blunders. It’s a serious question: Who is in charge?

We know it isn’t Joe Biden, and although his wife had the reins on Sunday, we know the first lady’s power is extremely limited. It probably isn’t the person in the bunny suit either.

We also know it isn’t Kamala Harris, who despite being decades his junior can’t string together a more coherent sentence than he can and seems to be largely shielded from the administration’s pet policy work in true “Veep” fashion.

It isn’t White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who gets schooled by Fox News’ Peter Doocy on a near-daily basis and is rumored to be leaving her post soon for a gig at MSNBC, where she’ll continue to spin for the Biden administration.

We also know it isn’t the Democrats in Congress, who don’t have a large enough majority to do jack-diddly except to advance Biden’s Supreme Court nominee (not to be confused with a biologist) to the bench — with Republican help.

Who’s in charge of the United States is an important question, and this isn’t a laughing matter. All our foreign adversaries are watching this and licking their chops. Weakness invites aggression, as we’ve already seen with Russia’s advance on Ukraine and the systematic destruction of the U.S. southern border.

So here we are: more than 330 million people, ostensibly in the hands of a president who’s being ushered around by an Easter bunny, with no idea who’s actually in charge around here. Given the state of our grocery shelves, southern border, gas prices, job openings, foreign policy, public schools, inflation, and health care, it would be awfully nice to know.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/19...-easter-bunny/

So... that's where we stand today... the United States of America... supposedly America's Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world having to be supervised by his wife and led around by the nose and literally having to be manhandled by the Easter Bunny.

And if "We the People" don't start waking up and stop with all this red-blue... left-right idiotic BS... and actually think that a red wave will be the cure-all..

God help us all!!!

[crazy]

So... that's where we stand today... the United States of America... supposedly America's Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world having to be supervised by his wife and led around by the nose and literally having to be manhandled by the Easter Bunny.

And if "We the People" don't start waking up and stop with all this red-blue... left-right idiotic BS... and actually think that a red wave will be the cure-all..

God help us all!!!

Maybe this will help..

[crazy]

Maybe this will help..

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[Sayheykid]

Yes, Ben...We have lost the "Republic" ....and it's not about "We the People" anymore....maybe never has......


https://www.unz.com/trall/when-it-ca...ely-efficient/


"More than 18,000 Americans die annually due to lack of medical insurance.

This is very sad, especially for them and their families. But nothing can be done about it. Lame as it is, the Affordable Care Act is as good as it gets — until the Republicans get back in charge, when they will try to get rid of it again. Political dysfunction, amirite?

When they care about something, however, the U.S. government can be incredibly efficient.

The U.S. government really cares about war.

Just two days after Russia invaded, President Joe Biden signed a memo authorizing the transfer of $350 million of weapons to Ukraine. Within three weeks, almost all the anti-tank weapons, kamikaze drones and other war materiel had arrived in Ukraine. That’s less time than it takes first-class mail to get to some places within the United States.

If you are sick and uninsured, consider a move to Kyiv. As we saw in Afghanistan, U.S. weapons have a habit of disappearing and being sold for profit in war zones. If you still have enough energy and a little luck, you might be able to pilfer one of those American-made radar systems or a few boxes of grenade launchers to finance your chemotherapy. Even if not, Ukraine offers something the United States probably never will: a universal health care system.'

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[Docker]

The Illusion Of Freedom: We're Only As Free As The Government Allows

“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government … doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety… It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing. Keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”

- George Carlin

We’re in a national state of denial.

For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people, letting us enjoy just enough freedom to think we are free but not enough to actually allow us to live as a free people.

For those who have been paying attention, there’s a curious pattern emerging: the government appears reasonably tolerant of those who want to exercise their First Amendment rights in a manner that doesn’t challenge the police state’s hold on power, for example, by praying on a football field or in an execution chamber.

On the other hand, dare to disagree with the government about its war crimes, COVID-19, election outcomes or police brutality, and you’ll find yourself silenced, cited, shut down and/or branded an extremist.

The U.S. government is particularly intolerant of speech that reveals the government’s corruption, exposes the government’s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices. For instance, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the latest victim of the government’s war on dissidents and whistleblowers, is in the process of being extradited to the U.S. to be tried under the Espionage Act for daring to access and disclose military documents that portray the U.S. government and its endless wars abroad as reckless, irresponsible, immoral and responsible for thousands of civilian deaths. Even political protests are fair game for prosecution. In Florida, two protesters are being fined $3000 for political signs proclaiming stating “F—k Biden,” “F—k Trump,” and “F—k Policing 4 Profit” that violate a city ban on “indecent” speech on signs, clothing and other graphic displays.

The trade-off is clear: pray all you want, but don’t mess with the U.S. government. In this way, the government, having appointed itself a Supreme and Sovereign Ruler, allows us to bask in the illusion of religious freedom while stripping us of every other freedom afforded by the Constitution.

We’re in trouble, folks.

Freedom no longer means what it once did.

This holds true whether you’re talking about the right to criticize the government in word or deed, the right to be free from government surveillance, the right to not have your person or your property subjected to warrantless searches by government agents, the right to due process, the right to be safe from militarized police invading your home, the right to be innocent until proven guilty and every other right that once reinforced the founders’ belief that this would be “a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Not only do we no longer have dominion over our bodies, our families, our property and our lives, but the government continues to chip away at what few rights we still have to speak freely and think for ourselves.

My friends, we’re being played for fools.

On paper, we may be technically free.

In reality, however, we are only as free as a government official may allow.

We only think we live in a constitutional republic, governed by just laws created for our benefit. Truth be told, we live in a dictatorship disguised as a democracy where all that we own, all that we earn, all that we say and do—our very lives—depends on the benevolence of government agents and corporate shareholders for whom profit and power will always trump principle. And now the government is litigating and legislating its way into a new framework where the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the inalienable rights of the citizenry. With every court ruling that allows the government to operate above the rule of law, every piece of legislation that limits our freedoms, and every act of government wrongdoing that goes unpunished, we’re slowly being conditioned to a society in which we have little real control over our lives.

As Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone and an insightful commentator on human nature, once observed, “We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.” Indeed, not only are we developing a new citizenry incapable of thinking for themselves, we’re also instilling in them a complete and utter reliance on the government and its corporate partners to do everything for them—tell them what to eat, what to wear, how to think, what to believe, how long to sleep, who to vote for, whom to associate with, and on and on. In this way, we have created a welfare state, a nanny state, a police state, a surveillance state, an electronic concentration camp—call it what you will, the meaning is the same: in our quest for less personal responsibility, a greater sense of security, and no burdensome obligations to each other or to future generations, we have created a society in which we have no true freedom.

Government surveillance, police abuse, SWAT team raids, economic instability, asset forfeiture schemes, pork barrel legislation, militarized police, drones, endless wars, private prisons, involuntary detentions, biometrics databases, free speech zones, etc.: these are mile markers on the road to a fascist state where citizens are treated like cattle, to be branded and eventually led to the slaughterhouse.

Freedom, or what’s left of it, is being threatened from every direction. The threats are of many kinds: political, cultural, educational, media, and psychological. However, as history shows us, freedom is not, on the whole, wrested from a citizenry. It is all too often given over voluntarily and for such a cheap price: safety, security, bread, and circuses. This is part and parcel of the propaganda churned out by the government machine. That said, what we face today—mind manipulation and systemic violence—is not new. What is different are the techniques used and the large-scale control of mass humanity, coercive police tactics and pervasive surveillance.

We are overdue for a systemic check on the government’s overreaches and power grabs. By “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law. For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry.

We have lingered too long in this strange twilight zone where ego trumps justice, propaganda perverts truth, and imperial presidents—empowered to indulge their authoritarian tendencies by legalistic courts, corrupt legislatures and a disinterested, distracted populace—rule by fiat rather than by the rule of law.

Where we find ourselves now is in the unenviable position of needing to rein in all three branches of government—the Executive, the Judicial, and the Legislative—that have exceeded their authority and grown drunk on power.

We are the unwitting victims of a system so corrupt that those who stand up for the rule of law and aspire to transparency in government are in the minority. This corruption is so vast it spans all branches of government: from the power-hungry agencies under the executive branch and the corporate puppets within the legislative branch to a judiciary that is, more often than not, elitist and biased towards government entities and corporations.

The predators of the police state are wreaking havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives. The government doesn’t listen to the citizenry, it refuses to abide by the Constitution, which is our rule of law, and it treats the citizenry as a source of funding and little else. The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) has sucked the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere. This dissolution of that sacred covenant between the citizenry and the government—establishing “we the people” as the masters and the government as the servant—didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t happen because of one particular incident or one particular president. It is a process, one that began long ago and continues in the present day, aided and abetted by politicians who have mastered the polarizing art of how to “divide and conquer.”

Unfortunately, there is no magic spell to transport us back to a place and time where “we the people” weren’t merely fodder for a corporate gristmill, operated by government hired hands, whose priorities are money and power. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, our freedoms have become casualties in an all-out war on the American people.

If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...ernment-allows

[wizard]

Another fantastic article Docker from George Carlin to Julian Assange to Rod Serling and 'every' single ''truth'' in between...as is most of your articles that you post,I play it forward to everyone I know,like yourself,who's pissed about the ''RIGHT STUFF''

Their lies and BS propaganda have become more and more openly 'brazen',but when one considers the years of corporate media and political manipulation and indoctrination,the ''We're number 1'' superiority,the American exceptionalism,the over simple reduction of complex relations to GOOD and EVIL,the erasure of historically relevant lessons,the ''Powers That Be'' KNOWS that it can safely dispense with any notion of a ''hidden agenda''....

In fact,it's gotten to a point where the masses have been so brainwashed,that they've now been 'weaponized'....meaning...a SIMPLE nudge-nudge,wink-wink from their favorite ideological news source and everyone becomes 'Chicken Little',parroting the accepted narrative...

Add to that a lazy,narcissistic,spoiled,arrogant,distracted,holi er-than-thou fear trained culture,who could care less,and won't even attempt to actually wade through the 'muck' and 'mire' to determine the actual ''facts'' about anything,let alone ''critical thinking analysis''!!!!

Sheer batshit 'insanity' has become ''official'' government policy and narrative,if for no other reason that it best reflects current ''REALITIES''!!!!

Who the hell knows Docker...Maybe we're all just in a John Le Carre' novel set in the land of Orwell!!!!!...lol...The only I know for sure is,at the end of the 3rd Punic War,Rome didn't have to worry about Carthaginian Empire firing off it's 'nukes' before they razed Carthage to the ground and 'salted' over the remains....

Speaking of George Carlin,he was one of the last great ''ICONOCLAST'' of our time...Today we have maybe Dave Chappelle,Joe Rogan,even Bill Maher seems to be coming around,everyone else is afraid of getting ''CANCELLED''

I've posted this video of Carlin from I believe 2007 or 8 many times before,and I will post it again because it's so goddamn ''VISIONARY'' of exactly how OUR whole political system has ALWAYS WORKED....For the ''Big Club,and WE Ain't in It".....He was one of a KIND,and I miss his ''TRUTH''...his ''HONESTY''...his ''INTELLIGENCE''...and his ''WISDOM''!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxbnLxd-ik