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Debt Rattle November 20 2024

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• Ukraine ATACMS Strike On Russia After Putin Lowers Threshold For Nukes (ZH)
• On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes (Lauria)
• Biden Committing Unconstitutional Act Of War- Rep. Massie (RT)
• Kiev Has Permission To Launch Long-Range Strikes – Zelensky (RT)
• Ukrainian Attacks Could Merit Nuclear Response Against NATO – Medvedev (RT)
• New Russia Nuclear Doctrine: What Has Changed (Sp.)
• Kremlin Urges Foreign Nations To Study Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine (RT)
• The Western World Has Degenerated Into Idiocy (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Can Trump End Ukraine’s ‘Endless War?’ (Victor Davis Hanson)
• Kremlin Reveals Why Ukraine Conflict Will Last ‘A Little Longer (RT)
• ‘Audit’ By Trump Would Be Nightmare For Zelensky – Moscow (RT)
• Secret British Military Cell Plotting To ‘Keep Ukraine Fighting’ (Klarenberg)
• Trump Confirms Plan To Use Military For Deportations (RT)
• Musk Goes All In On ‘Judge Dredd’ Matt Gaetz (ZH)
• Musk Mocks Pandemic Claim From Son of George Soros (RT)
• Diabetes Cases Quadruple Over 30 Years; WHO Urges Lifestyle Changes (ET)

 

 

 

 

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• Ukraine ATACMS Strike On Russia After Putin Lowers Threshold For Nukes (ZH)

About a day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use the long-range US-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System to strike deeper into Russian territory, a new report suggests that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have hit a military installation in the western Bryansk region. This comes after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia’s nuclear weapons doctrine was changed and signed by President Vladimir Putin, indicating “the use of Western non-nuclear rockets by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia can prompt a nuclear response.” “For the first time, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck Russian territory with ATACMS ballistic missiles,” RBC Ukraine news agency reported Tuesday. RBC Ukraine said the military facility near the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region was successfully hit with ATACMS. This location was about 115 kilometers (71 miles) from the border with Ukraine.

“Indeed, for the first time, we used ATACMS to strike Russian territory. The strike was carried out against a facility in the Bryansk region, and it was successfully hit,” one source told the local media outlet. Separately, media outlet Kyiv Post stated the 67th arsenal of the Main Directorate of the Missile and Artillery Directorate of Russia was hit. The facility reportedly had large stockpiles of anti-aircraft missiles, munitions for multiple launch rocket systems, artillery ammunition, and guided bombs, much of which was supplied by North Korea. Kyiv Post noted: “Russian media sources, including residents on social networks, reported explosions coming from within the Karachev district, and suggesting that a “military base” was being attacked.” The Russian Astra Telegram channel shared videos of the incident, while local reports said that there had been strikes on this arsenal in late 2023 and again in June and October this year.

Bloomberg revealed more details about the attack: Russian Defense Ministry confirmed Ukrainian armed forces launched a strike with US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles at a military object in Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine, Interfax reports. • 5 missiles were shot down, 1 damaged; no casualties reported • Missile debris caused fire in a military installation. Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that President Vladimir Putin signed new changes to Russia’s nuclear weapons doctrine. Peskov said the new modifications signify “the use of Western non-nuclear rockets by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia can prompt a nuclear response.”

Peskov’s comments were made shortly after President Biden approved Ukraine’s use of ATACMS against military targets deep inside Russia. Additionally, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed the nuclear doctrine, stating that the threshold for using nuclear weapons has been lowered, during an event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit. Lavrov asserted that Russia’s position is that nuclear war won’t happen, and that fundamentally Russian nuclear doctrine doesn’t differ from the United States’ – which sees nukes as a ‘deterrent’. But still, he added, Russia will “react accordingly” to Ukraine firing a US long-range missile.

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The story of the presence of 10,000 or so North Korean troops in Russia/Ukraine is highly questionable. It does come in handy when used as the reason to let Ukraine fire long range missiles at Russian targets.

• On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes (Lauria)

Biden ultimately sided with the Pentagon, and he couldn’t be more explicit why. He opposed a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine fighting Russian aircraft, he said, because “that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the time backed him up, saying: “President Biden’s been clear that U.S. troops won’t fight Russia in Ukraine, and if you establish a no-fly zone, certainly in order to enforce that no-fly zone, you’ll have to engage Russian aircraft. And again, that would put us at war with Russia.” But now Biden has reversed himself on his sensible positions and is defying the Pentagon to roll the dice that Russia’s warnings, repeated on Monday by Putin’s spokesman, won’t lead to nuclear conflict.

While he previously would not even authorize British long-range missile attacks into Russia in September, let alone U.S. ATACMS, on Sunday he authorized the ATACMS, risking Russia taking direct action against U.S. targets. So what changed Biden’s addled mind? [..] Biden staked his legacy on Ukraine. He was involved in the 2014 coup, in allegedly shady practices there with his son and then in provoking Russia to invade in 2022. He foolishly believed he would prevail in bringing down Putin with an economic, information and proxy ground war. All three are now decisively lost as the U.S. — still under Biden — prepares for the end game. Biden’s only face saver is for Ukraine to get back some of its lost territory by trading for it with Russian territory it seized in Kursk this summer.

So he is authorizing U.S. soldiers to operate ATACMS missiles from Ukraine to beat back a 50,000-man Russian force seeking to take back all of that Russian territory. Part of that force, according to the Pentagon spokesman, is a contingent of at least 10,000 North Korean troops invited by Moscow, thus operating legally on pre-war Russian territory. Yet the presence of these North Koreans has sent the Biden administration and its allied media into paroxysms of near insanity. The New York Times reported on Sunday: “Officials said Mr. Biden was persuaded to make the change in part by the sheer audacity of Russia’s decision to throw North Korean troops at Ukrainian lines. He was also swayed, they said, by concerns that the Russian assault force would be able to overwhelm Ukrainian troops in Kursk if they were not allowed to defend themselves with long-range weapons.”

It is not like Biden doesn’t know the potentially grave consequences he is recklessly unleashing. He was already warned about the no-fly zone and said “that’s called World War III, okay?” He was then warned by the Pentagon against allowing the British missiles and acted like a responsible statesman. But now, when it comes to his precious legacy, he doesn’t appear to give a damn about anything else. He was deprived of a second term (by traitors within his own party he no doubt thinks) and he will risk a NATO-Russia war to avoid the taint of utter defeat in Ukraine. This is what he’s ignoring, according to the Times:

“Some of Mr. Biden’s advisers had seized on a recent U.S. intelligence assessment that warned that Mr. Putin could respond to the use of long-range ATACMS on Russian soil by directing the Russian military or its spy agencies to retaliate, potentially with lethal force, against the United States and its European allies. The assessment warned of several possible Russian responses that included stepped-up acts of arson and sabotage targeting facilities in Europe, as well as potentially lethal attacks on U.S. and European military bases.” Where it goes from there, nobody knows. Thanks, Joe.

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“President Joe Biden has violated the US Constitution and ought to be impeached..”

“Biden is committing an unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all US citizens..”

“This is an impeachable offense, but the reality is he’s an emasculated puppet of a deep state..”

• Biden Committing Unconstitutional Act Of War- Rep. Massie (RT)

President Joe Biden has violated the US Constitution and ought to be impeached for permitting Ukraine to fire American-supplied long-range missiles into Russia, Congressman Thomas Massie has said. Multiple US outlets reported over the weekend that Biden had lifted the restrictions on Kiev’s use of US-supplied rockets. While the White House has neither confirmed nor denied the news officially, a volley of missiles was fired at Russia’s Bryansk Region early on Tuesday. “By authorizing long range missiles to strike inside Russia, Biden is committing an unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all US citizens,” Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. “This is an impeachable offense, but the reality is he’s an emasculated puppet of a deep state,” he added.

According to anonymous officials who spoke to the media, the US permission would “mostly” apply to the Kursk Region of Russia, which Ukraine invaded in August. The decision was reportedly triggered by the Ukrainian claim that 10,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed to Kursk to aid the Russian troops. The US and its allies had placed certain restrictions on the use of the weapons they have supplied to Kiev since 2022, in order to maintain plausible deniability regarding their involvement in the conflict with Russia.Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the use of long-range missiles would change the nature of the conflict and make NATO a direct participant in the hostilities. Moscow has also revised its nuclear doctrine to encompass conventional attacks by proxies.

Massie has served in the US House of Representatives since 2012 and won his latest re-election bid unopposed. His insistence on constitutionalism has often put him at odds with both the Democrats and his own party. Under the US Constitution, only Congress has the power to start a war. The last time this happened, however, was in 1942, when it was declared against Axis-aligned Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. Since 1991, the national legislature has passed three Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF), twice against Iraq and once against Al-Qaeda. The AUMF targeted at Al-Qaeda has been stretched to justify the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan as well as subsequent interventions in Syria, Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere.

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“At least six long-range ATACMS missiles were fired into Russia’s Bryansk Region overnight..”

• Kiev Has Permission To Launch Long-Range Strikes – Zelensky (RT)

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that several Western countries have given Kiev permission to use their long-range missiles against internationally-recognized Russian territory. The New York Times reported on Sunday that US President Joe Biden had lifted some restrictions on the use of US-provided ATACMS missiles. The White House has neither confirmed nor denied the NYT article, which cited anonymous officials. “Now that there are relevant decisions, not just in the media, but also from the relevant countries, it is very important to add to these decisions the number of opportunities with which we can reduce the military potential of the Russian Federation, wherever it is,” Zelensky said on Tuesday at a press-conference in Kiev.

Speaking alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Zelensky added that Ukraine is now “working to ensure that all countries support long-range capabilities,” urging Germany in particular to “take the appropriate decision” as well. The UK and France have also reportedly lifted restrictions on the use of the long-range missiles they have provided to Kiev, although they haven’t confirmed the move either. Germany and Italy have publicly said their policy remained unchanged, however, and that their weapons can only be used on Ukrainian soil.

At least six long-range ATACMS missiles were fired into Russia’s Bryansk Region overnight, Moscow’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday. Five of them were shot down, while debris from one reportedly caused a localized fire at a military base, causing no property damage. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned that long-range strikes with Western weapons would change the nature of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, making it a direct confrontation between NATO and Moscow. On Tuesday, Russia officially updated its nuclear deterrence doctrine to authorize an atomic response to conventional attacks from countries backed by nuclear powers. This has been widely interpreted as applying to Ukrainian strikes with weapons supplied by the US, UK and France.

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“Russia reserves the right to retaliate with weapons of mass destruction against Kiev and key NATO facilities, wherever they may be located,” Medvedev said. “This would amount to World War III..”

• Ukrainian Attacks Could Merit Nuclear Response Against NATO – Medvedev (RT)

Moscow’s revised nuclear doctrine permits retaliatory strikes against NATO for the kind of attacks that US President Joe Biden reportedly authorized last week, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned. Washington has reportedly granted Kiev permission to use ATACMS ballistic missiles deep inside Russian territory. Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, warned on Tuesday that such actions would qualify as a threat warranting a nuclear response under the new doctrine, which President Vladimir Putin enacted earlier in the day. In response to such an attack, “Russia reserves the right to retaliate with weapons of mass destruction against Kiev and key NATO facilities, wherever they may be located,” Medvedev said. “This would amount to World War III,” he added.

Unrestricted strikes using Western weapons are part of Vladimir Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’, which he presented to the US president in September. The reported change in US policy, which was confirmed by several American allies, came after Donald Trump won the presidential election earlier this month. The Republican politician has claimed that he could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours, once he is back in office in January. Some of his close supporters have accused Biden of trying to railroad the incoming administration into prolonging hostilities with Russia with his decision.

While Washington has not issued an official statement on the matter, State Department Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols told the Brazilian newspaper O Globo on Tuesday that strikes by Kiev as authorized by Biden may encourage Russia to negotiate peace. In September, Putin issued a warning to NATO member states, which Zelensky was lobbying to authorize long-range strikes on Russia. Kiev is incapable of launching Western weapons without direct help of donor states, so any such attack would put NATO and Russia directly at war with each other, the Russian leader said. The updated Russian nuclear posture introduces several changes, one of which states that an attack by a foreign nation that does not have weapons of mass destruction but is backed by a nuclear power should be considered as a joint attack by both.

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“.. the previous version of the doctrine contained no mention of Russia being authorized to use nuclear weapons if attacked by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear power.”

• New Russia Nuclear Doctrine: What Has Changed (Sp.)

The new Russian nuclear doctrine recently signed by President Vladimir Putin features several notable articles that were absent from the doctrine’s previous iterations, Russian military analyst Ret.Col. Viktor Litovkin tells Sputnik. “Firstly, the 2020 edition of the doctrine contained no mention of Belarus where we deployed our nuclear weapons and whom we had taken under our ‘nuclear umbrella’,” Litovkin explains. “Secondly, the previous version of the doctrine contained no mention of Russia being authorized to use nuclear weapons if attacked by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear power.” According to him, Russia thus sends a direct warning to the United States and NATO who supply Ukraine with long-range missiles and urge Kiev to use them, effectively waging a war against Russia by proxy.

“This is a serious warning that, if they go too far and long-range missiles are used against Russian territory – and these long-range missiles are programmed by NATO specialists because Ukrainian specialists lack the necessary equipment and expertise, not to mention NATO aircraft and heavy UAVs guiding these missiles – we would be empowered to strike against the sites these missiles are launched from,” he adds. Dmitry Stefanovich from the Moscow-based Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences also points out that the new edition of the nuclear doctrine states that nuclear weapons could be used in case of a threat to Russia’s “territorial integrity and sovereignty” rather than in case of a threat to “the country’s very existence” as before.

The doctrine thus serves as a reaction to “global processes in the military-political sphere, not all of which are related to Ukraine,” Stefanovich notes. “Most importantly, the document still maintains that nuclear deterrence works only until nuclear weapons are used. One can only guess what would happen ‘beyond the nuclear threshold’ and I hope these speculations remain purely hypothetical,” he remarks.

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“..the weapons authorized by President Biden would enhance Ukraine’s defense capabilities and may encourage Russia to negotiate peace..”

• Kremlin Urges Foreign Nations To Study Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine (RT)

Foreign leaders should carefully study Russia’s new nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, after President Vladimir Putin formally authorized the document. Published on Tuesday, the eight-page policy statement on Russian nuclear deterrence includes changes previewed by Putin in September. It is “extremely important” and should be “the subject of very deep analysis both in our nation and, probably, abroad,” Peskov told journalists during a regular briefing. Among the changes under the new rules, Russia will now consider an attack by a non-nuclear power backed by a nuclear one as a joint attack, and will also treat a massive air assault as warranting a nuclear response. Peskov highlighted specific wording in the doctrine “aimed at ensuring realization by the potential enemy of the inevitability of retaliation in case of aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies.”

Last week, US President Joe Biden reportedly granted Kiev permission to use American-made long-range weapons to deliver strikes deep into Russia. The policy change has been confirmed by some US allies, but not by Washington itself. Putin previously said that any such attack would amount to a direct war between NATO and Russia. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has included unrestricted attacks with Western weapons in his ‘victory plan’ for the conflict with Moscow, which he touted to Biden in September. Other points of his proposal include the deployment of a “conventional deterrence package” on Ukrainian soil. He reportedly requested the US to station Tomahawk cruise missiles in Ukraine and threatened to launch them against Russia.

Peskov was asked on Tuesday whether such a deployment would trigger a Russian nuclear strike under the new doctrine. He declined to answer directly, instead referring to the new provision about foreign attacks backed by nuclear states that Moscow wants to deter with the update. Moscow reserves the right to use nuclear weapons when its sovereignty and territorial integrity or those of its allies is at stake, the official added. On Tuesday, US State Department Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols appeared to indirectly confirm the policy change when he claimed to the Brazilian newspaper O Globo that the weapons authorized by President Biden would enhance Ukraine’s defense capabilities and may encourage Russia to negotiate peace.

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“..it would make more sense for Trump to deport the Democrats and take in the Hispanics.”

• The Western World Has Degenerated Into Idiocy (Paul Craig Roberts)

The moron, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, has threatened China for supporting Russia. What is it with Western politicians that they think they have authority over the foreign policy of sovereign countries and threaten powerful countries that can blow them off the face of the earth? Why do they so cavalierly stir up powerful enemies that can crush them? Annalena Baerbock is clearly a stupid person. The American Biden regime is even more stupid. The Biden morons have turned a contemptuous eye to Russian military doctrine and the Russian government’s statement that any missiles fired into Russia will be regarded as fired by the US and NATO and will receive a response that includes the possible use of nuclear weapons. The idiot Biden regime has thumbed its nose at Russia and, thereby, regarding the warning as “Putin’s bluff,” has invited nuclear war.

It is possible that Putin will accept Russia’s humiliation in order to spare the world, but he must know that sooner or later he must fight or surrender Russia to Washington. What is being gained from taking such an irresponsible risk? It would be one thing if it were only a risk the consequence of which would be borne only by the Biden morons. But it is another when the risk is borne by the entire world. Where is the world’s denunciation of the Biden idiots for exposing the world to nuclear war? What purpose justifies this extraordinary risk? Is the entire world as stupid as Biden? The notion that America whose government is demonstratively insane is a world leader is beyond absurdity. Such a threat to life as Washington presents cannot be made great. It can only be eliminated. If you care to understand how utterly stupid tens of millions of Americans are, note that about 45% of Americans who voted in the election voted for Democrats.

When almost half of the American population is totally mindless and supports with its votes military attack on Russia, how can Trump make America great again? Indeed, how can America even survive? If you think about it, it would make more sense for Trump to deport the Democrats and take in the Hispanics. America would be better off. To be great a country needs smart people, and clearly Hispanics are smarter than Democrats. We must hope that Trump has risen to the occasion, asked Putin to hold off, and promised to reverse the policy once inaugurated. To remind you, I warned that we would reach this dangerous point because Putin refused to use sufficient force to end the conflict with Ukraine before Washington could get deeply involved. Trying to avoid a larger war, Putin produced one. Note that the US and NATO are already in violation of this new doctrine.

For example, an Aegis Ashore facility, which is almost identical to the anti-ballistic missile Aegis Combat System carried by US naval vessels, just opened in Poland. This is the second such facility on the Russian border (the first is in Romania). Both facilities are armed with the dual-use Mark 41 launch system that can launch both ballistic and Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can be armed with nuclear weapons. The missiles arrive and are loaded into the launchers concealed in large crates that make it impossible for observers to ascertain which type of missile is being used. It is difficult to understand such provocative actions by Washington that clearly threaten the world with nuclear war.

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“..how could Putin reassure the Russian people of anything short of an absolute annexation of Ukraine after the cost of one million Russian casualties?”

1/ Russia doesn’t want to annex Ukraine. 2/ There are not nearly one million Russian casualties.

• Can Trump End Ukraine’s ‘Endless War?’ (Victor Davis Hanson)

Trump was elected in part on promises to avoid “endless wars” of the sort that cost American blood and treasure in Afghanistan and Iraq but without resulting in strategic advantage or civilized calm. Yet as a Jacksonian, Trump also restored American deterrence through punitive strikes against ISIS and terrorist thugs like Baghdadi and Soleimani—without being bogged down in costly follow-ups. During the last four administrations, Putin stayed within his borders only during the Trump four years. But upon entering office, Trump will likely still be faced with something far more challenging as he confronts what has become the greatest European killing field since World War II—the cauldron on the Ukrainian border that has likely already cost 1-1.5 million combined dead, wounded, and missing Ukrainian and Russian soldiers and civilians.

There is no end in sight after three years of escalating violence. But there are increasing worries that strategically logical and morally defensible—but geopolitically dangerous—Ukrainian strikes on the Russian interior will nonetheless escalate and lead to a wider war among the world’s nuclear powers. Many on the right wish for Trump to immediately cut off all aid to Ukraine for what they feel is an unwinnable war, even if that abrupt cessation would end any leverage with which to force Putin to negotiate. They claim the war was instigated by a globalist left, serving as a proxy conflict waged to ruin Russia at the cost of Ukrainian soldiers. They see it orchestrated by a now non-democratic Ukrainian government, lacking elections, a free press, or opposition parties, led by an ungracious and corrupt Zelensky cadre that has allied with the American left in an election year.

In contrast, many on the left see Putin’s invasion and the right’s weariness with the costs of the conflict as the long-awaited global proof of the Trump-Russian “collusion” unicorn. Thus, after the 2016 collusion hoax and 2020 laptop disinformation ruse, they see in some of the right’s opposition to the war at last proof of the Russophiliac Trump perfidy. They judge Putin, not China’s imperialist juggernaut, as the real enemy and discount the dangers of a new Russia-China-Iran-North Korean axis. And to see Ukraine utterly defeat Russia, recover all of the Donbass and Crimea, and destroy the Putin dictatorship, they are willing again to feed the war to the last Ukrainian while discounting escalating Russian threats to use tactical nuclear weapons to prevent defeat.

Trump has vowed to end the catastrophe on day one by doing what is now taboo: calling Vladimir Putin and making a deal that would do the now impossible: entice Russia back to its February 24, 2022, borders before it invaded and thus preserve a reduced but still autonomous and secure Ukraine.How could Trump pull that unlikely deal off? Ostensibly, he would follow the advice of a growing number of Western diplomats, generals, scholars, and pundits who have reluctantly outlined a general plan to stop the slaughter.

But how could Putin reassure the Russian people of anything short of an absolute annexation of Ukraine after the cost of one million Russian casualties? Perhaps in the deal, Putin could brag that he institutionalized forever his 2014 annexations of once Russian-speaking majority Donbass and Crimea; that he prevented Ukraine from joining NATO on the doorstep of Mother Russia; and that he achieved a strategic coup in aligning Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea in a new grand alliance against the West and particularly the United States, with the acquiescence if not support of NATO member Turkey and an ever more sympathetic India.

And what would Ukraine and the West gain from such a Trump art of the deal? Kyiv might boast that, as the bulwark of Europe, Ukraine heroically saved the country from Russian annexation as envisioned in the 2022 attempt to decapitate Kyiv and absorb the entire country. Ukraine subsequently was armed by the West and fought effectively enough to stymie the Russian juggernaut, wound and humiliate the Russian military, and sow dissension within the vastly weakened Russian dictatorship, as evidenced by the assassinated would-be insurgent Prigozhin.

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“..it started against the Kiev regime. And now it is continuing as a war between Russia and NATO. That is why it took a little bit longer and will take a little bit longer..”

• Kremlin Reveals Why Ukraine Conflict Will Last ‘A Little Longer (RT)

Russia’s military operation was initially aimed at Ukraine but quickly became a conflict with NATO, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. Putin sent troops towards Kiev in February 2022 after the Ukrainian government openly rejected the Minsk Agreements and began shelling the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in the Donbass. In an extended interview with Indian media on Tuesday, Peskov was asked why the hostilities have taken 1,000 days and counting, and if he could predict when they might end. “When all this started, it started against the Kiev regime. And now it is continuing as a war between Russia and NATO. That is why it took a little bit longer and will take a little bit longer,” the Kremlin spokesman said.

“It will come to an end as soon as we reach our goals,” Peskov said, adding that Russia would prefer to achieve its objectives through negotiations, but Ukraine has literally outlawed any talks with Moscow. “So that’s why we’re continuing the military operation, because the possibility of peaceful negotiations is now being denied, both by Kiev and their [bosses] in Washington,” Peskov told the Indian media. The initial spring 2022 peace talks between Russia and Ukraine were reportedly derailed by Boris Johnson, the British prime minister at the time, who told Kiev that the West was not ready to make peace with Moscow. The US and its allies have funneled almost $200 billion worth of aid to Ukraine since 2022, including weapons, ammunition and combat equipment such as artillery, tanks, fighter jets and long-range missiles, while insisting this did not make them a party to the conflict.

On Tuesday morning, Ukraine used long-range ATACMS missiles provided by the US to strike Russia’s Bryansk Region, confirming media reports that Washington had given Kiev permission to do so. Putin has warned that such a step would change the very nature of the conflict and make NATO a direct participant in the hostilities. He also updated Russia’s nuclear doctrine to allow a strategic response to a conventional attack by the proxy of an atomic power.

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Put Musk and Ramaswamy and their investigators on it. They’ll have a ball.

• ‘Audit’ By Trump Would Be Nightmare For Zelensky – Moscow (RT)

A possible financial review under the administration of US President-elect Donald Trump must be a cause of alarm for Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, Russia’s envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia has said. Trump’s election victory earlier this month, having made a critical approach to Ukraine part of his platform, poses a threat to Zelensky, because he could force an unfavorable peace deal on Kiev in order to deliver on his promise to end the fighting. Commenting on Monday at a UN Security Council meeting dedicated to Ukraine, Nebenzia said officials in Kiev likely have more personal reasons to be concerned.“The new authorities might want to check all the money that was sent to Ukraine and conduct a full audit of the assistance already provided,” the Russian envoy stated.

“This scenario… is much more frightening for Zelensky, because a significant part of the aid has been simply plundered and misappropriated by [him] and his entourage,” he added. Nebenzia cited media reports that Ukrainian officials had gone into panic mode after news of Trump’s victory. All Western support for Kiev is inherently vulnerable to graft, he claimed, stating that “the scale of the corruption is something we can only guess.” Trump has called Zelensky the “greatest salesman ever” over the Ukrainian’s repeated extraction of aid money from the incumbent Democratic US administration. Government graft has been consistently named by observers as a major problem for Ukraine since it gained independence in the 1990s. Transparency International last year ranked it 104th among 180 nations for which the West-sympathetic organization calculates its corruption perception index.

The Zelensky government claims that it has made great strides in tackling the problem. Kiev has reportedly complained about US Ambassador Bridget Brink, maintaining that she creates “unnecessary tensions” with Washington by pressing the corruption issue. Contrary to the assurances, the problem seems acute, Time magazine reported last November, citing a source claiming that Ukrainian officials are “stealing like there’s no tomorrow.” Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch reported this week that “corruption continues to complicate Ukraine’s efforts to achieve its EU and NATO aspirations,” particularly due to multiple scandals in the Defense Ministry.

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Desperately seeking relevance.

• Secret British Military Cell Plotting To ‘Keep Ukraine Fighting’ (Klarenberg)

Emails and internal documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war “at all costs.” Convened under the direction of the British Ministry of Defense in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the cell referred to itself as Project Alchemy. As British leadership sabotaged peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, the cell put forward an array of plans “to keep Ukraine fighting” by imposing “strategic dilemmas, costs and frictions upon Russia.” The leaks obtained by The Grayzone expose a hidden hand behind Britain’s policy in Ukraine, showing in unusually granular detail how it aimed to engineer a long, grinding war through covert operations that stretched the bounds of legality.

Project Alchemy’s proposed schemes spanned every conceivable field of warfare, from cyber attacks to “discreet operations” to outright terrorism. The secret cell even put forward a plan to “aggressively pursue” and “dismantle” independent media outlets – including The Grayzone – through an aggressive campaign of legal harassment and online censorship, so they “would be forced to close.” The incendiary blueprints were fed to the highest levels of the British state and national security structure, where they were apparently well-received. Founded by a senior British Ministry of Defence official, Project Alchemy is composed of veteran military and intelligence operatives united by a desire for all-out war between the West and Russia. Some have trained Ukrainian forces in clandestine sabotage tactics. Members of the national security cabal tacitly acknowledged that their proposed operations stretched the bounds of British law.

Thus they suggested that London should be “prepared to creatively use the law” to meet its goals, and even be willing to erase “legal restrictions on UK deniable ops” against Russia. Some of Project Alchemy’s most extreme recommendations have already been implemented, often with calamitous results. These include the cell’s proposal to strike Crimea’s Kerch Bridge, which prompted a Russian escalation that saw punishing attacks on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure. Alchemy also envisioned the construction of a secret, Gladio-style army of Ukrainian partisan fighters to carry out assassination, sabotage, and terror missions behind enemy lines. It appears the British premier, Keir Starmer, fell under the influence of the Project Alchemy cabal soon after his election in July, when he eagerly embraced the role of “wartime prime minister.”

After pledging to support Ukraine “as long as it takes,” however, Starmer is quietly backing away from the maximalist policy. In Kiev, Ukrainians are left to ponder how their “friends” in London got them into this mess, and why they can not, or will not get them out of it. The British spooks who gathered around Project Alchemy reasoned that the longer the proxy war continued, the more Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “credibility at home and abroad drops, and his ability to fight NATO is degraded.” Today, Project Alchemy’s gambit has clearly backfired, as Putin remains popular within Russia, while a crumbling Ukrainian army loses territory by the day despite constant re-arming by the West. But the war planners in London remain staunchly committed to escalation, refusing to shelve their diabolical proposals.

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“Under legislation from 1976, US presidents can declare national emergencies at their discretion..”

• Trump Confirms Plan To Use Military For Deportations (RT)

US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that he intends to declare a national emergency and use military resources to deport undocumented immigrants. During his re-election campaign, Trump vowed to launch “the largest deportation program” of criminals in US history, and repeatedly floated the possibility of involving the army. On Monday, Trump shared a post by conservative activist Tom Fitton on the Truth Social media platform. Fitton, who is the president of Judicial Watch, a public interest group dedicated to investigating government corruption, had written that Trump’s administration would “declare a national emergency and will use military assets” to address illegal immigration “through a mass deportation program.” Reposting Fitton’s comment, Trump wrote, “TRUE!!!” Under legislation from 1976, US presidents can declare national emergencies at their discretion and redirect funds designated by lawmakers for other purposes.

Trump’s plans regarding illegal migration include ramping up deportations, reinstating a “travel ban” for certain countries, and closing the border to asylum seekers. He’s also vowed to end birthright citizenship for infants born on domestic soil to undocumented migrant parents. Trump’s top immigration adviser Stephen Miller told The New York Times last year that the military could construct large-scale camps to hold people slated for deportation. According to Department of Homeland Security estimates, around 11 million people are in the US illegally. Trump declared a national emergency at the southern US border amid a surge in asylum seekers during his first term in 2019 and reappropriated military funds for the construction of a wall along the border with Mexico. When Joe Biden was elected president in 2021, further construction of the wall was halted.

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“Matt Gaetz has 3 critical assets that are needed for the AG role: a big brain, a spine of steel and an axe to grind..”

• Musk Goes All In On ‘Judge Dredd’ Matt Gaetz (ZH)

Elon Musk has come out swinging for Rep. Matt Gaetz, as the Florida lawmaker and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general faces scrutiny over sexual misconduct allegations that may throw his Senate confirmation into disarray. “Matt Gaetz has 3 critical assets that are needed for the AG role: a big brain, a spine of steel and an axe to grind,” Musk wrote in a Tuesday post on X. “He is the Judge Dredd America needs to clean up a corrupt system and put powerful bad actors in prison,” Musk continued, adding “Gaetz will be our Hammer of Justice.” Musk also addressed the allegations, saying he considers them “worth less than nothing,” as “Under our laws, a man is considered innocent until proven guilty.

“If AG Garland (an unprincipled douchebag) could have secured a conviction against Gaetz, he would have, but he knew he could not. “Case closed.” Senators on both sides of the aisle are requesting more information into a House ethics probe of Gaetz which allegedly contains accusations that Gaetz paid for sex with a woman who was 17 at the time. The DOJ investigated the allegations, but decided in February of 2023 not to file any charges against him. Gaetz has denied the allegations.

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Scamdemic.

• Musk Mocks Pandemic Claim From Son of George Soros (RT)

SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk has ridiculed a claim made by Alex Soros, son of billionaire financier George Soros, that Americans would be “screwed” if there was another pandemic. The comment appeared to target President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for the next US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, Soros, heir to his father’s business and philanthropic empire, suggested that the plans for health agencies announced by RFK Jr. “could weaken a future pandemic response.” “They are playing with fire! Americans will be screwed if there is another pandemic!” Alex Soros wrote. ”*scamdemic,” responded Musk, a close confidant of Donald Trump, who played a prominent role in the former president’s re-election campaign.

RFK Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, has pledged to revise the work of US health agencies, claiming that the Food and Drug Administration’s “war on public health is about to end.” During the Covid-19 pandemic, RFK Jr. railed against response measures such as lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations, claiming they were more about power grabs than genuine public health concerns. Among RFK Jr.’s current healthcare policy priorities are reviewing vaccine safety and combating chemicals, pollutants, and additives that he claims contribute to chronic disease in the US. Critics argue that RFK Jr.’s views run contrary to the medical and scientific consensus.

Elon Musk has also slammed governments’ handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and mass inoculations, suggesting that the “vaccine is potentially worse” than the disease if administered to the whole population. The tech mogul said in 2021 that he and his family were vaccinated against the virus. Trump has nominated Musk for a role aimed at streamlining the work of the government, co-leading a Department of Government Efficiency – which will be an advisory body without the status of a department.

American investor and philanthropist Alex Soros is one of five children of Hungarian-American billionaire investor and liberal George Soros. The 39-year-old chairs the Board of Directors of the Open Society Foundations, and sits on the investment committee of Soros Fund Management. His father, 94-year-old George Soros, has an estimated net worth of nearly $7 billion. George Soros has for decades been a prominent US Democratic Party donor. In the run-up to the recent US presidential election, Musk earned the nickname “George Soros of the Right,” due to his large financial contributions to the Trump campaign. The Tesla CEO has on numerous occasions been critical of Soros, accusing him of trying to destroy Western civilization and of hating humanity.

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“Out of every $4 in health care spending in the United States, $1 was used for people diagnosed with diabetes..”

That Tedros guy still has a job? Whatever he urges, who will listen?

• Diabetes Cases Quadruple Over 30 Years; WHO Urges Lifestyle Changes (ET)

Hundreds of millions of people globally have become diabetic over the past 30 years, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to call for “urgent action” to deal with the health crisis. The number of adults living with diabetes worldwide has more than quadrupled since 1990, the WHO said in a Nov. 13 statement citing the results of a recent study it supported. An estimated 828 million adults were living with the condition worldwide in 2022, an increase of 630 million from 1990. The lowest prevalence of diabetes was in “Western Europe and East Africa for both sexes, and in Japan and Canada for women.” The highest prevalence was in Polynesia and Micronesia, certain nations in the Caribbean, North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Pakistan and Malaysia. In total, 14 percent of the world’s adults had diabetes in 2022, double the seven percent 30 years back.

“We have seen an alarming rise in diabetes over the past three decades, which reflects the increase in obesity, compounded by the impacts of the marketing of unhealthy food, a lack of physical activity, and economic hardship,” said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “To bring the global diabetes epidemic under control, countries must urgently take action. This starts with enacting policies that support healthy diets and physical activity, and, most importantly, health systems that provide prevention, early detection, and treatment.”Nearly 450 million adults aged 30 and above with diabetes remained untreated in 2022. This represented 59 percent of all adults who have the condition, a 3.5-fold jump. Ninety percent of untreated adults were living in low- and middle-income countries.

According to data from the CDC, around 38 million Americans were living with diabetes in 2021, which was roughly one in 10 individuals. One in five didn’t know they had the condition. Nearly 100 million, or more than one in three Americans, suffered from pre-diabetes. A bipartisan group of senators in June announced legislation aimed at improving the early detection and screening of type 1 diabetes, titled “Strengthening Collective Resources for Encouraging Education Needed (SCREEN) for Type 1 Diabetes Act.” Early identification “can prevent life-threatening conditions like diabetic ketoacidosis and potentially allow for the use of therapeutics to delay the clinical onset of the condition, helping to improve patients’ quality of life and reliance on insulin,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

A report from the American Diabetes Association last year found that the country’s annual cost of the illness was nearly $413 billion in 2022, which included more than $306 billion in direct medical costs. Out of every $4 in health care spending in the United States, $1 was used for people diagnosed with diabetes, it said.“In addition to its enormous physical and health burden, diabetes also carries an untenable cost burden that is often disproportionately borne by vulnerable and underserved communities,” said Charles Henderson, CEO of the organization. He pointed out that the medical costs for such people have risen by 35 percent over the previous decade. “Reducing the cost of diabetes is essential to improving the lives of all people with diabetes.”

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  • November 20, 2024 at 9:47 am #174873
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Caravaggio St. John the Baptist in the wilderness 1604   • Ukraine ATACMS Strike On Russia After Putin Lowers Threshold For Nukes (ZH) • On Way O
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 20 2024]

    November 20, 2024 at 10:46 am #174875
    tboc
    Participant

    looks like we have found what the market will bear(bare)

    November 20, 2024 at 10:48 am #174876
    tboc
    Participant

    kudos to Kunstler

    we await the dildo of consequences
    73.9%
    “seldom lubed”

    November 20, 2024 at 10:50 am #174877
    Germ
    Participant

    Good Morning :-))

    https://dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14102857/Shock-Underground-Lovers-musician-Richard-Andrew-dies.html

    TVASSF

    November 20, 2024 at 10:52 am #174878
    Germ
    Participant

    https://msn.com/en-gb/news/newsliverpool/heartbroken-mums-tribute-to-amazing-son-with-infectious-laugh/ar-AA1ukG3N

    TVASSF

    November 20, 2024 at 11:02 am #174879
    poppie
    Participant

    In reference to the update to Russias buclear doctrine.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20241119/full-text-of-russias-updated-nuclear-doctrine-1120932192.html
    Last nights post to Military Summary.

    Walks us through article 10. Ukraine is unable to target within Russia. This targeting must be provided by another country. That makes this other country a party to the war. Article 10 extends this liability for the war to all countries to which the other country has an alliance. The entirety of NATO and the west is now a valid target for any type of attack under Russian law. It doesnt matter if you accept this or not. Russia accepts it and it is they who will attack. While the other articles allow for this attack to be nuclear. Article 10 allows for it not to be nuclear. Under sea cables attached to any western country may be cut. Satellites servicing any western country can be disabled. Ships can be sunk. Bases can be bombed. Power and logistics can be disrupted. Any of this could be done by any ally of Russia. Article 10 brings in a long and wide spectrum of barriers between today and nuclear war tomorrow. Lets keep our fingers crossed and pray for Russia.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:20 am #174880
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dems’ farewell present to America.

    Ha ha, the Dems really are getting overwhelmed by the Trumptastic PR. It is easy to be popular when you are making promises, that is why politicians do it all the time, and the people are easily excited by promises, which is why politicians do it all the time. You really think that Putin gives a shit what Ukraine is chucking at him? Give us a break. Ukraine even took Russian land in Kursk and what did Putin do, he let the military work it out in time.

    What I find really amusing about this is how people seem to believe that this is an escalation. Ukraine sent drones to Moscow and attacking 300 km into Russia is an escalation …. duh, a question for junior readers, how far is Moscow into Russia from Ukraine?

    The story is illogical and nonsensical; even the “US military will be operating the missiles” shite is ridiculous, Russia has a load of US, Canadian, UK military “mercenaries” in their jails.

    The shitty ATACMS PR weapon is all part of the PR plan agreed between Trump’s owners and the Biden owners; ha ha, they talk to themselves. Total nonsense, but for the average American “discerning” brain, it is terrible.

    The USA is hopeless, it will remain hopeless, the idea that Trump and his merry men can fix the US government in 4 years is ludicrous; the best brains in the world – not on Trump’s merry men team – have been shaping the US government to their liking for well over the last 50 years. Will cheers from the crowd help Trump, I think not.

    We will see when the rubber hits the road; will Trump admit that his mRNA vaccine was a disaster? Or will the orange introduce us to more mRNA vaccines? We shall see. Talk is easy, action takes a little more brains.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:21 am #174881
    tboc
    Participant

    i don’t think the daring men with epaulettes on their shoulders and scrambled eggs on their caps understand what it means to be a soldier in a war with a global front

    more than certain the same crop of idiots do not understand electronic information gathering

    the name that can be named is not the eternal name
    and from that source come
    Brave and calm men

    word for the day: incredulous – Skeptical; disbelieving.
    use in a sentence
    The face of the incredulous can be seen on the visage of a broad range of media pundits, the look of one skeptical; disbelieving of the current turn of events.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:24 am #174882
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Ooops, I made a mistake, Trump has to fix over 111 years of history; I believe AIPAC was created in 1913, the US have been bitches for 111 years – that has to mean something to the numerologists. No? Wow, the USA’s knees must be sore, they are going to hurt, having been on the cock for so long.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:28 am #174883
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Caravaggio St. John the Baptist in the wilderness 1604

    His descendents are probably in Gaza being genocided by the Ashke-Nazis.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:30 am #174884
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “About a day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use the long-range US-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System to strike deeper into Russian territory, a new report suggests that the Ukrainian Armed Forces U.S. Military have hit a military installation in the western Bryansk region.”

    “ATACMS flew more than 140 km and hit a target in the Bryansk region, russia. This means that the strike permit applies not only to Kurshchyna, as the Western media wrote about it. This attack also showed that the air defense of the Russian Federation will have big problems with Ukrainian missiles.”

    No they won’t. No problems at all. They’ll nuke NY and London. Problem solved.

    “Millions Of Swedes Receive ‘How To Survive War’ Booklet From Government
    “If Sweden is attacked by another country, we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.”

    Great. Which Sweden? The one made of Swedes, or the one made of immigrants? They are different cultures with different values and outlooks.

    “’Jews & Homosexuals Are No Longer Safe In Berlin’, Warns City’s Police Chief

    ‘Cause muh White Supremacy. Oh wait, no, it’s Muslim Immigrants. All okay then.

    Thankfully that’s only Sweden and Germany.
    “AOC Says Dems Hurt By Yielding To AIPAC’s ‘Wildly Unpopular’ Pro-Israel Agenda

    Nope, population in complete contradiction here too. And it doesn’t take immigrant enclaves to be completely Pro or Anti either. “Three World Wars.”

    “Minnesota Election Judge Faces Felony Charges For Allowing Unregistered People To Vote
    Adding to the complications of the case, it was revealed that Scouton’s son worked as an election judge on Election Night as well, and was responsible for registering applications.”

    Well it’s about time somebody was arrested for a crime nationwide. Can we arrest PA too now, openly on-mic saying they refused to follow any laws or respect any courts? Like the FISA court, the PA court is fine with that.

    “Gallup: Public Support For Gun-Bans Craters

    And 25? States are now open carry? Boy, good thing we all laid down arms and stopped fighting because it was hopeless. See how well that worked? Always always surrender. “ We shall Surrender on the Beaches… and always, always surrender.” Here’s your daily reminder to Brits in Taiwan to get off their -ss and do something.

    Back to Russia and you know – our impeding universal worldwide murder – Ritter describes the details of the process to ATACM’s Russia. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOQKMm6t6s

    It’s all smarmy lies and hidden weasel actions, so you know it’s true. That’s NATO! The idea is to get NATO into …well, anywhere… call Russia’s bluff, then step by step have NATO everywhere, even Kursk, de facto back-add Ukraine as a NATO state. Then any action IN Ukraine is ALSO an attack on the combined West. It’s complicated and because it’s made of transparent lies I can’t communicate it well. Because they’ll LIE about it! Ukraine isn’t in NATO, it’s just everything-exactly-like-NATO only worse.

    Other sides: “Biden” called the strike, because “muh deniability” if anything happens they say he’s a senile old man, while STILL attacking Russia with impunity. Because: of course they did. Happy to remove Biden, a pawn on the other side of the board already, and useless. Also Trump is coming in, causing Russia to hesitate and therefore allow NATO to do whatever they please for months n months.

    If I were Russia, NeoCons are one-dimensional inbred retarded glue sniffers. They can only think of one object at a time, and when you hide it, it no longer exists. Because they’re retards. So “A-symmetrical warfare” they’re not fighting Trump, they’re not fighting the American people, they’re fighting the secret state that – as we saw – as “Biden” letterhead they type things on, and when you tell them to arrest a Director for Forging the Presidential signature, Garland won’t. So I’d blow up every CIA secret office worldwide on the same day. Really send them a message. Because it isn’t that Russia needs to hit back – our ATACMs were completely worthless, like all our weapons and armies – they need the WORLD to know THAT they hit back. …But it’s okay if the American PEOPLE don’t know that. That it’s too complicated to describe to them.

    Where do I get this idea? That’s what Trump did in a jam, they demanded he hit Syria with Tomahawks, so he blew up an Israeli ISIS chemical weapons base. Soooo…we blew up ISIS, why U mad? MSNBC? Why U Mad, Israel? If worldwide CIA black hats start jumping out of windows then bouncing off the mezzinine onto the ground, well, accidents happen.

    …Besides arming Yemen with everything so the U.S. Navy can only survive by hiding inside Chinese fleet. That ALREADY happened. Blowing up two carriers with their help? That ALREADY happened. Russia has to go UP from there, that knocks out the Black Hats, that the Black Hats can’t run to the American people with. …Like the labs in Ukraine: we blew them all up and Burns is going to go before Congress and say how mad he is Russia stopped secret US Bioweapons run by Hunter Biden including covid that were live-testing on the local civilian population? That’ll go over just GREAT. Maybe if you hadn’t been this evil you wouldn’t have to hide it all the time.

    …Aaaaaand, just like the Israel base Trump blew up, when Russia nukes the CIA worldwide on our behalf, you just say, “Shucks, thank you.” Common enemy after all.

    Ritter, being a Marine, had a different notion: Russia would just load their daisy-cutter bomb, a de-facto nuke, and level the entire Political quarter of Kiev. You know, like ¼ of the city gone. Fine by me, but it’s bad PR and what the US/West is looking for.

    You notice that the UNITED STATES just BOMBED RUSSIA, in an open act and declaration of war, and…zero reporting. ‘Cause Musk said something to Scarborough and Swift is wearing different pants bc her follower count. Actually DECLARING WORLD WAR? Meh. “They will sleepwalk into it” like WWI, the Prophets said.

    The POINT is: all media is keeping you sooper busy being a moron so if/when Russia hits back they can say “See????? Unprovoked aggression!!! Daddy! Mooooommmmy! He’s so MEAN to me! Beat him up!” Whaaaaahhhhhhaamulance. Makes. Me. Sick. That’s WHY the media spin is even MORE moronic than usual right now, “oh Suuuuuuuuure Trump is winning and they’re just going to walk in there and fire everybody, change everything, and the 30 Million man, permanent $30 TRILLION dollar Derp de Derp State isn’t going to punch back or nothin’. Right. Keep yer eye on Gaetz n’ stuff, uh-huh.

    And ALL Of Europe, 400 million men, the power and wealth center since 1500, is just going to go down without buying and lighting off a U.S. nuke somewhere, with the 30 Million traitors they’ve installed in our Army, Congress, Business, etc. Suuuuuure they are. They’ve always followed the rules like gentlemen before. Just ask UK and Poland at the months before WWII: We got your back, buddy, TRUST US! “Whatever it takes!” …As Poland is leveled and de facto ceases to exist for 70 years. That’s the kind of Twue Wove that Europe gives to each other’s peoples…ESPECIALLY England, oh perfidious Albion.

    Since they love each other so much, sure they won’t misbehave to America, Middle East, Brazil, Russia, Hong Kong, etc. Nope! No nukes here!

    So how’s the Nazi Plan goin’, let’s look at the Nazi Central Bank:
    “BlackRock, rumored to be the biggest investor in Ukraine, looks like it will peak here in November, with sharply rising volatility into January. We have a Panic Cycle on Black Rock in April. It does not look very good for their investment portfolio.” –Armstrong.

    Also Ukraine flatlines, meaning it ceases to exist in present form.

    Okay Martin, if you’re so darn smart, what would YOU do?

    “Congress would immediately call in the Pentagon and Chief of Staff and threaten to imprison him for contempt of Congress since only Congress can declare war and what they are doing violates the Constitution. They should get off their ass and stand up for the American people just once!

    As for Trump and RFK, now is the time that you need to show the world you are really what you claim to be – anti-war. They both should be out there stating that if this vile puppet of the Neoccons, Zelensky, first even one long-range missile into Russia, not only will ALL funding to Ukraine be stopped, but they will move to cut off all funding to NATO and move to shut it down. Then, impose trade sanctions on every European country that supports war – PERIOD.”

    Oh. Yeah. That’s probably a good idea. Anything else?

    “The European leaders should be dragged out of their offices, for our model warns Europe will NOT survive this one.  We DO NOT NEED WAR to escape from debts. The Eurozone was created to END European war – not promote it.”

    Drag all Eurocommie politicos out in the streets and/or hang them there to prevent war and stop their non-stop democide on their own people? I think they can get behind that. Very popular support.

    “Trump Pledges Peace And To End The War Between Russia and Ukraine and Urges Both Leaders Contact Him To Meet Immediately.”

    Piss off! Stop your OWN country’s war with Russia DIRECTLY. THAT one you’re in control of. That’s YOUR actual job. (or will be) If you can’t do that, stfu about other people’s wars.

    “His picks have been maybe unconventional, but we hired an unconventional president. The American people wanted that.”

    They’re very upset and butt-hurt Trump didn’t hire THE SWAMP to drain out THE SWAMP. Who knew? I mean, that’s just ridiculous: everybody knows you pour in the Swamp to get rid of a Swamp. Swamp creatures promised me! On 60 Minutes and MSNBC.

    “Trump Pledges To Lower The Trade Deficit With Passage Of The Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, Which Will Match Tariff Rates That Are Imposed By All Outside Countries.”

    Doing it, but a good PR way of doing it. I thought tariffs were stupid and hurt people? Yet here all these countries have tariffs simply in order to destroy their own populations. So weird! You’d think they’d be smarter than that. Like China and Taiwan. I guess they’re the biggest retards on the planet! All those tariffs n’ stuff.

    But since due to our LACK of tariffs, we’re now helpless and have no industry, where will the money come from for the painful transition?

    “Kevin O’Leary on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at @DOGE:”

    That and no IRS/Income Tax. There’s your money, and where the money was cut out of the US Budget, while Europe has us so crippled, merely removing the idiotic REGULATION would make us boom. The socialist regulation is Waaaaaaaaaay worse than any taxes they’ve put on. If they can’t force Elon to use 10 years and $10M to see if rockets hit sharks, isn’t it really open-shark season out there?

    “The story of the presence of 10,000 or so North Korean troops in Russia/Ukraine is highly questionable. It does come in handy when used as the reason to let Ukraine fire long range missiles at Russian targets.”

    Still ZERO evidence of this. Probably it’ll be a BILLION Koreans by the end of the week. Yes, for some reason, it’s considered “Justification”? I haven’t the faintest idea what retarded, hell-inspired logic that might be? Got nothin’. But the idea was that Ukr needs HELP (‘coz we haven’t been giving any) because of the North-Koreans-of-which-don’t-exist. This was tied in – because IT IS ALL MADE UP. OUT OF THEIR FEVER DREAMS – to get NATO into Asia, and because NATO/Europe is a complete, worthless, pointless, soulless JOKE, to get SOME Asian manufacturing and weapons involved, as SoKo then Arms Ukraine without limit.

    Asia — also being complete retards, I guess – says, “You’re right! Europe/NATO SHOULD come conquer us, order us around, tell us what to do, and extract all our wealth like we’re a bunch of coolies because they’re the GARDEN people, racially superior, I forgot!!!” Yup. Well, what can I say, apparently Asia IS doing that. I wouldn’t do it, but they’re starting to, all for a dozen North Koreans who don’t exist.

    Again, each one is like the Black Widow! Captain America! They’re super-soldier serums, where every Korean is worth a THOUSAND normal men!!! Yes! Complete logic! Every Korean is more deadly than Novochok!

    Has to be! Everyone knows Europe are such advanced, cultured, peace-loving continent that never had no wars, wouldn’t make any sense otherwise.

    “So he is authorizing U.S. soldiers to operate ATACMS missiles from Ukraine to beat back a 50,000-man Russian force seeking to take back all of that Russian territory.”

    Russia? Taking RUSSIAN territory? Well I say, sir! How DARE they???

    “President Joe Biden has violated the US Constitution and ought to be impeached..”
    Biden is committing an unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all US citizens..”

    And? Tick tock. Time’s ticking. If you want to communicate with Moscow, starting impeachment in 6 hours would have been a nice greeting card.

    Hey does this go what what WE’VE all been screaming for 70 years that you can’t start a war (eg Korea) without an ACT of war? i.e. Congress? Didn’t we hash this out fully in Vietnam? No? You still did nothing month after month for 1,000 months in a row? Now cry me a river? And we’re going to pick on one volunteer councilwoman in PA for saying “Everybody knows there is no law and courts mean you do whatever you want”? ‘Cause, wherever would she get that crazy idea? Maybe from every President since Truman?

    “The moron, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, has threatened China for supporting Russia. What is it with Western politicians that they think they have authority over the foreign policy of sovereign countries and threaten powerful countries that can blow them off the face of the earth? Why do they so cavalierly stir up powerful enemies that can crush them?”

    PCR sounds like me. Why? Because they haven’t been punched in the face enough, that’s why. Help them with that.

    “1/ Russia doesn’t want to annex Ukraine. 2/ There are not nearly one million Russian casualties.

    Yes, indeed two problems there. Europe WANTS Russia to take Ukraine as an endless Vietnam – PCR is totally on this, ordering them to Shock, Awe, and Occupy. However, Russia needs to solve this issue and also get something for whatever men they have lost – 100-200k. I’m sure they have it figured out but aren’t in a hurry.

    “Project Alchemy is composed of veteran military and intelligence operatives united by a desire for all-out war between the West and Russia.”

    You can just say it. Not “The West” because Britain has no army. They couldn’t fill a high-school gym. What they mean is Britain arranged an all-out war between the UNITED STATES and Russia. Only us. While Europe bakes croissants and sips coffee in street cafes. That’s their super-master plan. And they would have got away with it too, if not for those nosy kids! Hillary and every NeoCon was/IS still 100% on this plan of destroying the entire US and even the globe on England’s behalf. We have now even TOLD them and show them the receipts, like here, and they STILL want to go it with all the passion in their shriveled little hearts.

    “• Trump Confirms Plan To Use Military For Deportations (RT)

    They love this. Said this over “Weaponizing” the DoJ too – as they all retain Swamp lawyers by the thousands. For “Retribution.” Couldn’t care less. Re-phrase: CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED. It’s the Executive duty to enforce the Law and punish crimes, or he will be impeached. Would you like to indict and prosecute CRIMES now?

    If NO crimes have been committed, in the public, with immigration, in the FBI, DoJ, just let me know. We can then refer them, find nothing, and save ourselves the court dates.

    Same with the thousands of Court Martials they (Bannon) is requesting. If Milley did NOT promise China he’d defy the President and inform China of all our plans first, well, there’s no problem, he has nothing to worry about. Same with Vindman, “Charlie” and everybody else.

    What’s the alternative? Crimes WERE committed, but we do NOT punish them? How exactly does that work? We’ve been doing that all along Til now. The entire family of a man who-is-not-a-candidate is untouchable by the law. CNN Sez!

    “• Musk Mocks Pandemic Claim From Son of George Soros (RT)

    I didn’t know Alex was a Doctor. Must be the same Alma Matter as Dr. Gates.

    “Presidential Task Force To Look At Decades Long Increase In These Diseases.”

    We are being attacked. Everybody knows it. Our casualty numbers are in the millions. We’re still fighting, what’s your excuse?

    “Powerful interests CENSORED this study TWICE, but now it has been peer-reviewed and published for the world to read.”

    That’s ridiculous, if the Mass Media were corrupt, the Mass Media would have told us.

    People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right — especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong [about Covid]” – Thomas Sowell

    November 20, 2024 at 11:35 am #174885
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “At least six long-range ATACMS missiles were fired into Russia’s Bryansk Region overnight..”

    How else will the Russia-Asia pact work out how these missiles work? Ooops, they were probably made by Chinese engineers in some MIC corporate teat sucking factory. Maybe that is how they were all shot down, or nearly all.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:41 am #174886
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Russian state television showed the countries in Europe that will be hit by nuclear weapons if the war intensifies:

    Yeah, Putin has finally worked out that the western populations are idiots, so he is going to frighten them with bad words. Woke karma.

    Personally, I would much rather he show a map of where all the owners live, the rich bastards making the decisions. Sounds good eh? The only problem is that if he nukes them the rest of us will find that within a month there will be no food, no electricity etc. That is a problem; better to capture them than nuke them.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:48 am #174887
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Why do they so cavalierly stir up powerful enemies that can crush them?

    Wow, I bet he had to look up “cavalierly”. But, for a complete war ignoramus, he didn’t do so badly in this latest rant.

    Annalena Baerbock is clearly a stupid person.

    Hang on, hang on, she came from the same school as Musk and Ramaswammy … https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/03/ygl-wef-young-global-leaders. You can’t insult her, they are on the same team, Charles ‘Anal’ Schwab is their immediate boss, Soros and all the other power mad oligarchs are their paymasters.

    Okay, then PCR got boring.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:52 am #174888
    aspnaz
    Participant

    After Calvin we now have more smart arse Twitter posts? I used to enjoy that section, Umm, could you please put Calvin in a place where we know the bullshit is over? Just a request, it’s your bed.

    November 20, 2024 at 11:56 am #174889
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.unz.com/runz/piers-morgan-dan-bilzerian-and-holocaust-denial/

    31.5 million subscribers, way more that Piers Morgan. Yeah, I know Piers is the “working class man’s” dick on the TV, so this Dan guy really is the star and Piers really is the bitch. Mind you, Dan is clever because he avoided providing real facts, that is clever because his followers will not require facts, they are Americans.

    November 20, 2024 at 12:01 pm #174890
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Remember kids: Holocaust Denial is when they say there were 6,000,001 Jews killed, and you say it’s only 5,999,990. How dare you record history, bigot.

    November 20, 2024 at 12:09 pm #174891
    tboc
    Participant

    aspnaz your line “the idea that Trump and his merry men can fix the US government in 4 years is ludicrous;” puts us on the same page once again.
    The citizens of the US cannot even find out what is already done in four years.
    Where we differ is at the point of what is hopeless.
    The majority of the US population we agree on, hopelessly uniformed and revelling in their ignorance.
    In the hands of informed self governing men The Consititution of The United States is a tool of hope.

    “A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
    “The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

    my bet is only those who will change themselves have a future, the west faces under population

    November 20, 2024 at 12:11 pm #174892
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:17 pm #174893
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Netflix

    Not Using AI Very Well Yet

    “We’re not that smart”

    Holding Up Their End of “The Bargain” for the Ministry of Propaganda

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:18 pm #174894
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:20 pm #174895
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:21 pm #174896
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:25 pm #174897
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “You want fries with that?”

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:28 pm #174898
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Feminism

    “Home is Where the Head Is”

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:31 pm #174899
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Supreme Leader of Canazida Strutting His “stuff”

    “Big Balls” Turdeau

    PeeWee is jealous looking down from Heaven

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:34 pm #174900
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:38 pm #174901
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Cruise line launches four-year trips for Americans looking to skip Trump’s second term.

    Prices start at just under $40,000 per year!

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

    Making Duh’merica Great Yet Again!

    Stop, yer killin’ me…..

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:44 pm #174902
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    The Manson Girls

    I rest my case…..

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:46 pm #174903
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Beware

    they’re everywhere……

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:48 pm #174904
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Woketurd Mind Virus at Work

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    November 20, 2024 at 12:50 pm #174905
    Oroboros
    Participant

    True Dat

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    November 20, 2024 at 1:26 pm #174906
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Gruppenführer Woketurd Mind Virus Head of Berlin Thought Police Barbara Slowik Proclaims:

    “Jews & Homosexuals Are No Longer Safe In Berlin”

    “In a wide-ranging interview with Berliner Zeitung about security risks, anti-Semitic danger zones in Berlin, and the effects of austerity measures on police work, Slowik warned that the German capital has become less tolerant in areas with high Arab populations and the police have insufficient resources to tackle the problem.”

    Thought Police work needs lots of money and we don’t have enough…

    More money to crush “hate thoughts”

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    November 20, 2024 at 1:45 pm #174907
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Can Trump End Ukraine’s ‘Endless War?’

    No because the Russians have made it crystal clear that the Collective West is:

    “Agreement Incapable”

    How much clearer could that be?

    Unconditional surrender meeting ALL of Russia’s states objectives of the SMO is the ONLY solution.

    This is not some degenerate Duh’merican game show “Art of the Deal”

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    November 20, 2024 at 1:55 pm #174908
    Oroboros
    Participant

    China’s Economy Is Larger Than 30 Asian Economies Combined

    But Duh’merica thinks it’s still King of the Hill

    What a pathetic excuse for a country the Empire of Lies has become.

    This is what defines Duh’merica at the moment:

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    November 20, 2024 at 2:10 pm #174909
    tboc
    Participant

    For those not fortunate to have fundamentalist, non-denominational bible readers and adherants to the old testament among their loved ones you are truly without a large piece of the puzzle. There is a tsunami of predeterminist thought washing across the fruited plains. The denominations The Presbyterian Church in America, The United Reformed Churches in America and the fundamentalist Baptists are Calvinist without reservation. The concept that the saved are called to be saved and only those names that have been in the book of life for eternity will reap the blessings of The Gospel is being firmly cemented into place in the thoughts of a growing number of the elect.

    The doctrine of a New Covenant is being quietly ushered into the dustbin of theological history. There is a now a plethora of masters of cognizant dissonance. The once saved always saved who have been eternally among the elect and confess that Jesus died on the cross to redeem those without blemish are in ascendancy. There is the reformed theology that the entire creation fell and remains fallen.
    Difficult as it is to bring into the light of logic it can be thought, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians, 5:21 and simultaneouly state Salvation is predetermined.

    This group of human beings are not going to change. They did not vote for change. They are the righteous calling for The Hand of Justice to smite the wicked. The fallen world is not and will not be redeemed.

    Let your humor and derogatory thoughts be short lived. There is a very strong possiblity perhaps leading to certainty that you too are among the elect. In defense of brevity i offer you manifest destiny and the dogma emmanting from the cathedral of capitalism ‘The American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period.’ (Pope George the Lessor)

    Secular fundamentalist predetermination is the mainstay of thought in The United States at this moment. The only divergence of thought is in deciding who is to be sacrificed on the altar of expediency. The name that can be named, Profit, will bless the righteous and smite the wicked.
    Penury, the proof of the fallen and sinful. Penury, as accurate in determining guilt as the dunking chair.

    Little matter which lapel pin is worn, christian, jew, muslim or hindu, pick one from the cornucopia filled with hypocrisy, a secular predeterminist will not modify themself in any way. The church of secular fundamentalist predeterminism will, in a loud voice from the pews, call for perdition to be rained down upon the unredeemable and peccant. Having made the sign of the dollar with a hand dipped in the holy water of conceit they will call it a day.

    DOGE
    amen

    November 20, 2024 at 2:35 pm #174910
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Accountability is not Revenge

    That’s the ‘go to’ knee jerk projection talking point of the Guilty

    I’m rubber, you’re glue, everything bounces off me and sticks to You(he/she/them/they/it/shit)

    Whether or not DOGE results in Accountability only Time will tell

    But if you don’t try, you can only cry.

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    November 20, 2024 at 2:39 pm #174911
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Stupid is as Stupid Does

    New Motto for the Great Seal of Duh’merica

    Even Santa has some words of Wisdumb this holiday season for the Empire of Lies, Lies, Lies

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    November 20, 2024 at 2:51 pm #174912
    zerosum
    Participant

    Do your own research.

    1. Follow DOGE.

    2. The presence of North Koreans has sent the Biden administration and its allied media into paroxysms of near insanity.

    3. “Russia reserves the right to retaliate with weapons of mass destruction against Kiev and key NATO facilities, wherever they may be located,” Medvedev said. “This would amount to World War III,” he added.
    Kiev is incapable of launching Western weapons without direct help of donor states, so any such attack would put NATO and Russia directly at war with each other, the Russian leader said.
    The updated Russian nuclear posture introduces several changes, one of which states that an attack by a foreign nation that does not have weapons of mass destruction but is backed by a nuclear power should be considered as a joint attack by both.

    4. If you care to understand how utterly stupid tens of millions of Americans are, note that about 45% of Americans who voted in the election voted for Democrats.

    5. • ‘Audit’ By Trump Would Be Nightmare For Zelensky – Moscow (RT)

    6. https://thegrayzone.com/2024/11/16/uk-plot-keep-ukraine-fighting/
    Project Alchemy
    The Grayzone reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war “at all costs.”
    Leaks expose secret British military cell plotting to ‘keep Ukraine fighting’
    Kit Klarenberg November 16, 2024

    7. “Under legislation from 1976, US presidents can declare national emergencies at their discretion..”

    November 20, 2024 at 3:12 pm #174913
    jb-hb
    Participant

    secular fundamentalist predeterminism? – well sure, there’s Marx’s “Historicity” in which “conditions” must lead to other inevitable “conditions” due to “conditions” (this constitutes AFKTT’s understanding of tEh sCiEnCe for example)

    In a variety of areas of life, we now have people professing that there is an invisible 2nd world that is the REAL world superimposed over this world we can sense and experience – the not-real world – playing out in “environment,” race, sex, etc.

    People have been increasingly conditioned to this thinking for decades now, certainly more intensely in the past 8.

    A major objection of mine to Christianity was that you shouldn’t be conditioning yourself via repetition to think illogically or to implicitly accept unconsidered axioms.

    But people having been conditioned, I see the new belief in an invisible “real” reality and a fake real reality we can perceive rear its head everywhere. They insist that the “real” world is the invisible one which only initiates see and have authority to speak on. (wokeism, marxism) I get to see it DAILY.

    I’m not seeing Christians ANYWHERE influencing ANYTHING. They haven’t bugged me for decades now. I haven’t noticed them trying to enact a raft of policies to destroy society and holodomor the world, so they are kind of low on my priority list for now. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind sending Westboro Baptist at the Woke like flying monkeys and grabbing some popcorn.

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