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It's Just Me's avatar

Per the Gateway Pundit,

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/house-gop-passes-controversial-bill-labeling-certain-christian/

I almost expected to see this as a Babylon Bee headline.

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It's Just Me's avatar

I'm supportive of any man's right to protest, regardless if I agree or disagree with the speaker. I don't support blocking roads or shutting down highways, property damage, trespassing, assault or violence.

I agree with Mr. Wauck that it's instructive to see who has free speech rights and who doesn't.

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Brother Ass's avatar

While I happen to agree with anyone protesting Israel’s criminal Gaza campaign, I also believe that many of the same culprits behind BLM/antifa are fanning the flames of campus unrest today. Yesteryear’s alliance of convenience between the neocon establishment and the globalist left is devolving into civil war. It was only a matter of time that Israel would become a bone of contention between the two wings of our ruling class. Check out this video showing erstwhile antifa/BLM Alinskyite agitators working the pro-palestinian protests.

https://youtu.be/ISe9xSwU2jU?si=KYTXzGsTgU65l50m&t=990

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ML's avatar

BA, can you express that via a Venn diagram? The two extremes conjoined…

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NFO's avatar

Setting aside entirely the valid, good-faith objections of many of these protesters and the free-speech implications of crushing their dissent, I did get a kick out of this story as illustrative of the age-old social dynamics of college campuses. The shrill, Lefty misfits vs. the Bro-letariat. The latter seem to have had their "I hate Illinois N@zis" moment and have raised $125K for beer in the process. ;-)

https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/124k-raised-for-unc-frat-brothers-who-saved-american-flag-from-anti-israeli-mob/

Again, not making light of the profound issues here, just an amusing tangent.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Sachs' concluding remarks:

What the US is trying to do--to assert military Supremacy and hegemony around the world--cannot work. It will lead us into Wars everywhere as it is doing, but because the public understands that this is completely the wrong course it means more and more internal suppression. So we're seeing the bottom line of this policy right now. An approach that is destroying Ukraine, an approach that supports genocide in Gaza, and an approach which leads to our campuses being overrun by the police. This is where we are heading right now. We are really on the brink and it's the security state which is our unbelievable threat, and it's their delusion that they run the world or *can* run the world that is the underlying mover of this disastrous approach which is getting us into wars everywhere.

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ML's avatar

…and into deeper and deeper potholes. Our roads are going to hell.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Sounds like the Zionist influence has led our Nation's leadership into a serious case of National Socialism.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Gotta luv titles like this:

"Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Are Bankrolling Anti-Israel Demonstrations"

Where's the concern over AIPAC not registering as an agent of a foreign power? Where's the concern over some of that money going to buy off BOTH political parties? And much of the military?

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

If AIPAC was registered as what it actually is, an agent of a foreign power, then by logical extension any officeholder or candidate that accepted AIPAC's "contributions", really bribes, would be considered an agent of a foreign power. Which is precisely what they actually are.

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ML's avatar

Which is precisely what our Resident is

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

It's not just that, Mark, it's the fact this dark money is not so dark it's hardly been hidden that Soros and company are funding both sides. There is a serious desire to re-enact the worst excesses of the first half of the 20th century.

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Lyon's avatar

AIPAC is likely funding the Violent Agitators to make the protestor look bad.

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Jeff Martineau's avatar

We are now in the DIGITAL Paradigm, so all talk of “democracy” is just fantasy. No one believes it is the way forward. It is obsolete. So the parties, which are products of TELEVISION, which is now in the dustbin, have become goat rodeos led by the lobbyists.

The interesting question for the next 10-20 years is what replaces it?

We are retrieving all of the pre-modern ideas: think Scribal or Medieval. People now want answers on how to live as humans, not silly choices about what to buy or turn themselves into. The pre-Modern is going to get a hard look. Think subsidiary.

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Chuck l's avatar

I’m not believing what “trump advisors” are saying I want to hear from him. Too many time we hear made up crap

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Antonio's avatar

The first part of this piece (BLM protests versus Universities campi protests) is exactly what is revealing for me. So, burning and looting cities is 'mainly peaceful protests'. Protest camping is 'violent, terrorist action? we live in an upside down world:

https://antoniojfgil.substack.com/p/the-violence-of-camping-for-palestine

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Steghorn21's avatar

There's madness in the air.

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Antonio's avatar

When the person who's supposed to be steering the ship doesn't even know where it is, I suppose all the icebergs are aiming for the vessel.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

All those icebergs look like ice cream cones to the King of Dementia.

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Steghorn21's avatar

November will be interesting theatre, assuming there aren't any big sports events to compete with it. But that's about all it will be. Trump has sold out completely. The final straw for me was his criticism of JFK Jr over his vaxx stance. Whatever his other faults, JKF Jr was absolutely spot-on about the deathshots and evils of Fauci and Co. He offered the kind of leadership and direction that Trump should have supplied. As for the Jewish religious zealots, I've been flicking through Karen Armstrong's book on religious fundamentalism. Very few people outside of Israel understand just how deeply Israel is divided between the secularists and religious extremists. The original leftwing zionists who flooded into Palestine in 1948 wanted not only to escape from Nazi persecution but also from what they saw as the dreary culture of death represented by Eastern European Jewish orthodoxy. It was felt until recently that the secularists had won. Wrong! As the "enlightened" western Ashkenazi Jews die out, the Eastern religion Jews are taking over. As for Meir Kahane, he was as close to a Jewish Nazi as it is possible to get. At the time, he was mostly an outlier. Today, his type are common place and increasingly powerful. Israel has no future with these crazies in charge.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I hope Trump debates RFK.

RFK is right on the clot shot, and probably right on vaccines in general. Trump is probably closer to mainstream opinion on vaccines. RFK has enough other crazy beliefs, Trump should leave vaccines alone, or be more skeptical on them.

And Trump had a negative comment on Netanyahu and the October 7th attack.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/30/trump-netanyahu-attacks-oct-7/

Trumps has negatives, but he is a huge improvement over his opponents.

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Sandra ---'s avatar

I'm done with both parties. I agree w/Jake Shields--both parties serve the same master. America is an Israeli occupied territory. We are allowed to criticize the US govt, but not Israel. That's all you need to know about who really rules the US.

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It's Just Me's avatar

The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican. The only thing worse than a Republican is a Democrat.

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ML's avatar

Startlingly well said.

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D F Barr's avatar

We aren’t even allowed to criticize the American government. Any one of a wide array of three letter agencies await anyone who gets out of line.

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Lyon's avatar

USA =ZOG

Zionist Occuppied Government

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Sandra ---'s avatar

100%

I don't know how we are going to get out of this nightmare.

We have a treasonous government that is saying anyone who protests a genocide is a terrorist.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I don't dispute your main points. However ...

Re Trump. Trump, as a centerpiece of his campaign, published a list of judges from which he pledged to choose his judicial nominees. He followed through and, while the results haven't been perfect (Gorsuch Bostock), they have by and large been a breath of fresh air for our constitutional lungs. That's a fact, not a free pass, has already made a difference, not a product of wanting to believe, bids fair to continue dismantling the admin state--which strikes at the heart of the "neoliberal" or Prog-expert state.

Students of American politics will be aware that in our current state of decline most major policy issues are "passed" by the SCOTUS, so this was no small matter.

EDIT: This is precisely why Trump retains so much support. Americans pay little attention to distant foreign lands, to their detriment.

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I'm keeping an open mind as to whether DJT has become a swamp dweller, or not.

An Evangelical friend frequently says that if God doesn't judge the United States soon, He's going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gemorrah.

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Tamsin's avatar

Jared asked him to jump, and Trump asked how high, same as last time?

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Steghorn21's avatar

I think he's made his peace with the GOPe Deep State: "Let me back in and I'll toe the line"

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Gotta agree with you Cass, big time!! I’m starting to get a really bad feeling about the way things are shaping up. If DJT does not realize by now that you absolutely, totally cannot trust anything these people say, do or promise, then we are pretty much doomed as a country.

He was, as you stated, betrayed, deceived and hampered at every turn by virtually everyone in the entire government and that will never change. Yep, a really, really bad feeling.

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Kieran Telo's avatar

Yeah. That for sure looks like a Deep L

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Brother Ass's avatar

Good morning, Rip Van Winkle! Alot has changed since you fell asleep in the mid-80s. No one who knows ANYTHING at all about post-Soviet Russia would cast the current East-West rift in such ideological terms.

1. Everyone over 50 in Russia today was “educated in soviet/Marxist-Leninist doctrine.” However, that does not mean (a) they all “bought” it or (b) adhere to it today. Indeed, you would have a very hard time finding anyone in Russia pining for the “glory days” of Communism.

2. Case-in-point: Putin is personally more of a free-marketeer than most of our ruling class. In fact, Russian society is arguably more entrepreneurial and capitalist than the U.S.

3. You are quite right about Marxist infiltration and funding of destabilizing trends in Western societies. George Soros is the current poster child. Yet, Soros is the sworn enemy of the current Russian regime.

4. If anything the Marxist shoe is now on the other (Western) foot. The American Empire is now the one sowing the seeds of dystopian Revolution around the world. Russia is now the champion of traditional Christian values, national sovereignty, common sense about human nature, etc. For example, Alexandr Dugin (a.k.a., “Putin’s Brain”) can be accused of many things, but being a Marxist-Leninist is not one of them:

https://youtu.be/GIULmTprQ6o?si=AH1qm-1GNjQGrmrE

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Stupid free zone.

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susan mullen's avatar

Hans, you made me think of a dictatorship US loves, one whose doctrine of beheadings in the public square "hasn't changed," one to whom US is constantly supplying weapons of war, the Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: "Most executions are carried out by beheading...In some cases executions are carried out in public, and the bodies put on display." In 2023 Saudi executed at least 172. Since 2015 under King Salmans, 1,257+ have been executed, an avg. of 140 per year.

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ML's avatar

Time warp run amok!

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