Any Way You Cut it, Any Poll You Read, Any Millennial You Talk to, Woman You Listen to, or Person of Color Who Trusts You — Everyone Already Knows the Historic Shift That Has Taken Place
So why does the Democratic Party keep funding war Mike? If Harris losses good chance the ongoing funding of genocide will be a major factor.Biden just sent another huge amount of money and our bombs just killed 100 people in a shelter. Michigan has a large Muslim and Arab population. What the hell will it take to stop funding genocide. This is my absolute red line.
She's not going to lose and ,despite the level of atrocities, Gaza will not be a factor. I fail to see how not voting for Harris over this issue will help Palestinians by electing Trump. Who, then, are you punishing? And Hamas knew full well the barbarism Israel would unleash after October 7. Why did Hamas start this war?
You are in total denial of the facts, you only see what you want to see. Before Oct. 7, For decades Israel has been using snipers to kill Palestinians, even children, Israel turned Palestine into the largest open air prison in the world, Israel only gives Palestinians 4 hours of electricity per day, Palestinian hospitals are greatly under funded under staffed, and they have very little medical supplies, and equipment. Israel has been committing war crimes against the Palestinians for decades, and no one cared, Israeli citizens beat and kill Palestinians with no consequences, I saw a video of an Israeli going into a Palestinian home and then declaring, it is his home and he now lives there.
Israel destroys whole Palestinian settlements and rebuilds them as Israeli settlements. Israel knows their only chance of expanding their country is to take Palestinians land. So now the prisoners have made an attempt to free themselves and the rest of the world is saying they have no right to freedom and it is all right for Israel to keep them prisoners, and kill them at will. Israelis are total hypocrites, they rightfully condemn what happened to them by the Nazis, but think when they do it to the Palestinians it is okay. The US, EU, UK and other countries, to be a powerhouse in the Middle East and to control the Middle East, built up Israel and anything Israel does to people in these other countries in the Middle East is okay with them.
You and many others refuse to see the actual facts, Israel has made Palestine the largest open air prison in the world, all Palestinians are prisoners, when Israel says we are giving the Palestinians warnings to go somewhere else, before they bomb their homes, just where do you think Palestinians are going to go? Israel is not bombing just Humus, they are wiping out entire Palestinian families, families who had nothing to do with the attack on Israel. There is no justification to kill innocent Israelis either.
I'm not in denial of what you have stated. But I will maintain that Hamas created this monstrosity of a war purposely. My bottom line, as was the intent of Mike's post, is that I want the liberal candidate to win. Trump is a dumpster fire that needs to be extinguished before he takes the country with him. And I can barely imagine how he would handle the Middle East conflict.
you live in your own reality, and psychosis, I gave you the reasons Hamas attacked Israel, all you have to do is look it up for your self. Maybe you are just racist and don't feel Israel murdering over 100,000 Palestinians is a big deal. After Oct. 7, and Hamas is no longer attacking Israel, it was all over, but because Netanyahu wants to expand Israel, they started a genocide against the Palestinian people who had nothing to do with the attack on Oct. 7. Try doing some fact checking.
You must look no further than at our own US history in the 1800’s when Western Expansion deemed Native Americans “vermin” because we pushed back against losing our sacred lands overrun by settlers who never stopped coming in ever increasing numbers. We fought back and our tribe was nearly exterminated in the Sand Creek Massacre. Shall indigenous people simply step aside when the next group with huge power tell you you need to leave? Morally we know in our soul this is not a solution.
You are very delusional and live in your own psychoses, Israel was founded in 1948, so how are they indigenous? They removed thousands of Palestinians. who were indigenous, from their land to create Israel.
Ha, it's you that's delusional. Learn some history of both peoples. Israel was founded under what premise? Something drawn out of a hat? Do your homework.
The people of Gaza do not stand. Most have been displaced more than 10 times. They are being kettled together and moved about. It’s like watching a cat play with a mouse.
Yes, rather complicated. Both Israelis and Palestinians are indigenous to the entire region. Hamas' stated goal is the elimination of Israel, while Israel has wavered between a 2 state solution, and elimination of Gaza along with Hamas (obviously).
Israel is a democracy and so as governments changed so has it's treatment of the issue. At it's best with the urging of it's allies it has tried to bring about a peaceful resolution- at it's worse it is merely a bunker mentality, and/or a mirror of it's enemy. Illegal settlements are called thus for a reason - they are considered illegal by most if not all of Israel's allies.
The world writ large, democracies at least, has stated it's wish and support for a two state solution. Unfortunately, not all of the world, Iran et al don't support it, and elements within Israel don't, along with Hamas, Hezbollah - do not.
It is a quagmire, has been for many decades, despite all attempts to bring about what many regard as the solution.
You have no clue, you are making up your own facts, you do not know the meaning of indigenous, 'Being a member of the original inhabitants of a particular place.'. Israel removed Palestinians to create the Jewish state of Israel, and Israel is not a democracy, try fact checking, Israel is an .apartheid State
The Jewish people had to take land from the Palestinian people, to form Israel in 1948, that is like someone taking control of some rooms in you house, and saying we both have a claim to the house.
Israel is a religious tribal homeland created by force by a people sharing persecutory paranoia resulting from genocidal abuse. It's a shame America got so engaged in this over many years, I presume initially over guilt from the little done to save these people and later gratitude for the returned support in a difficult part of the world, but there we are. Now we're faced by an Israel largely controlled by religious cultists, including a generous assortment of fanatics and a Prime Minister using his office to dodge criminal liability and war to prolong that office. It might seem that it's overdue that we should disentangle from this dangerously unstable situation, but remember: Israel now a nuclear weapon state. If they can't use our weapons and support to suppress their enemies, and they should be pressed, I feel certain they would use their nuclear arsenal. I'm afraid there is not even a difficult solution to this mess.
Thanks for this, I'll definitely share it. The voices on the right are so loud and angry, they drown everyone else out by insisting they're the majority and we live in an elite bubble. This is a great affirmation that "they" do not represent the majority.
I'd add, most people want affordable act medical coverage.
Any conservative politician, or conservative individual who uses the word liberal as a pejorative, should spend time analyzing the definitions available with a simple Google search. For me, to be an American is having the luxury and grace to be Liberal.
These numbers represent a powerful progressive flood surging against and about to burst and sweep away a rotting reactionary barrier. You Americans could well be on the verge of a new New Deal and Harris/Walz could be the FDR of the 21st century ( at least I hope so).
I love the poster. Yes, we Americans are not idiots.
I would love money to not be in politics. Good luck, right? The only thing I would ask for is a resume, a background check by the FBI to grant access to Secret and Top Secret documents (I’m looking at YOU, Donito.👀) Plus, a list of goals and means to achieve those goals.
Good hair, too, not comb-overs and hair dyes. Ahem.
We the People are not idiots. We the People are not Nazis. We the People mostly Liberals.
“Liberal, Liberal, Liberal, “ to quote Bush ( Daddy Bush)
Source: Pew (10.23.2023) — “Most Americans favor spending limits for political campaigns. Roughly seven-in-ten U.S. adults (72%) say that there should be limits on the amount of money individuals and organizations can spend on political campaigns.” Another Pew poll found that 62% of Americans believe that “reducing the influence of money in politics should be a top goal for the president and Congress.” In the last election cycle alone, the 2022 Midterms, outside donors spent a record-breaking $2 billion on federal midterm candidates, according to Open Secrets."
If this is true, then why is this no where near happening? Maybe it is because everyone is waiting around for the 12 hours on the first Tuesday in November this year. And it doesn't come around for another two years.
The electorate is about 250 million. If 72% of the electorate which is about 180 million got on the phone, got on the e-mail, or got on Twitter and told the 535 in DC who decide everything for the 250 million that is what they want , it would happen.
This is all that needs to happen. But everyone must participate.
It only takes a few minutes, and best of all..it doesn't cost any money.
We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
The Corporations, Insurance Companies, Banks, Military Industrial Complex, ETC run the country. If you want a country run by the people for the people, a fund has to be created by the government, for each candidate to use, which is equal, so there are no Corporations or any other parties who want to buy and own political candidates.
Or we can set up a system where anyone who wants to VOLUNTEER can actually vote. Please see my Lord Initiative No. 2 on my website www.nationalfinancialplan.com. I don't want to tell you more because instead of running for office, I am trying to drive people to my website and FB page, and Twitter and You Tube Videos. If I get enough people to do this, I can monetize it and use it for advertising instead of asking people for money. Thanks for your comment.
My name is Ted Martin. I just finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
Another way to get money out of politics: We can set up a system where anyone who wants to VOLUNTEER can actually vote. Please see my Lord Initiative No. 2 on my website www.nationalfinancialplan.com. I don't want to tell you more because instead of running for office, I am trying to drive people to my website and FB page, and Twitter and You Tube Videos. If I get enough people to do this, I can monetize it and use it for advertising instead of asking people for money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. Thanks for your comment.
Those statistics are very informative, the problem is this the government does not listen to the people. I am confused about why we speak about politicians as if they do what the people want them to do. The corporations own and run the country, and when elections happen the corporations spend money on the candidates they sponsor, and just flat out own. We are a fascist, oligarchy, empire building, authoritarian, dictatorship, with no Democracy, with no working Constitution for the poor, and middle class, where people have no say in the running or decisions on how the government is run.
The corporations, Fossil Fuel Industry, the Military Industrial Complex, and the rich are actually running the country, and our politicians just work for them. The people have no say in the running of the country. We do not have a democracy, freedom or a Constitution that works for the poor and middle class. We have a fascist, Hegemony, oligarchy, empire building, authoritarian, dictatorship, with no input on how the country is run, by the people, the people have no say at all. The government uses propaganda, lies, and disinformation to control the people, so they think their vote’s count and they have a Democracy with freedom and a Constitution that work for them. The corporations and the Military Industrial Complex that own the country, pollute the air, land, and water, then they don't use their own money to clean up their mess, if the taxpayer's complain, they use taxpayer's money to clean up the pollution they caused, so it does not effect their profits.
Despite multiple reasons for being confident that the Democratic party has its finger on the pulse of a majority of Americans, I worry about the direction of the party under a Harris administration on financial and regulatory matters. Your “America is a Liberal Nation” list, for example, mentions nothing about the Biden regulatory regime, which has been effective on some many fronts--all the way from challenging monopolists to the fantastic results of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. One of the superstars of the Biden team is Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who, more than anyone, has erased the memories of the Clinton/ Obama neo-liberal policies that contributed mightily to the exodus from the Democratic party of working class Americans. Since then, the Democratic party has been scratching and clawing to get these folks back into the party, with Ms. Khan leading the way.
However, it is as clear as a bell that the Democratic party is in the midst of a civil war, with a sturdy and enlightened regulatory regime at risk of being steamrolled and swallowed by capital, A case in point is LinkedIn founder, Reid Hoffman, a Harris friend and donor, who along with Democratic donors Barry Diller and Barry Sternlicht, publicly demanded that Harris fire Ms. Khan. These folks have raised millions of dollars for the Harris campaign and exert great influence on the party’s decision makers. What are Khan’s chances of surviving intact a Harris administration with friends like Hoffman and Diller and Sternlicht hanging around? Not likely, it would seem.
Another example: the cozy relationship between the law firm of Paul Weiss, a major Harris donor, and Democratic big wigs, which, cut in any possible way, is antithetical to the Biden regulatory scheme. Paul Weiss is a favorite of big tech and Wall Street. It represented big banks that were investigated by Federal and State governments--including then Attorney General Kamala Harris--over mortgage-backed securities and cut sweetheart deals with the government. (On the other side of the table, representing the U.S. Attorney General, was Tony West, the number three man at Eric Holder’s Justice Department, brother-in-law of Harris, and former counsel for Uber.)
Karen Dunn, a partner at Paul Weiss, who co-leads the firm’s litigation group, is a lead counsel for Google at an anti-trust trial scheduled in September in the USDC in Virginia. This lawsuit, initiated by the Justice Department and the States, accuses Google of abusing its dominance in digital advertising. (Ms. Dunn moonlights as a member of Harris’ debate preparation team.) And if you’re keeping score, other actions against Google are lining up, including a 25 March case in USDC in Texas, challenging Google’s ad tech practices, and, perhaps most importantly, closing arguments on the remedies phase of the government’s case in which Judge Mehta found that Google was a monopolist, having dominated--by, among other things, paying Apple $26b a year in exchange for not competing with Google--web searches.
Democratic surrogates also appear to be in full throttle toward advancing the neo-liberal cause. A case in point are recent comments by Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a presumed leading light among liberal and progressive folks. His observations in an interview on CNBC were revealing, foreboding, and right out of the neo-liberal playbook. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/08/07/maryland-governor-wes-moore-harris-antitrust-regulation-would-be-different-than-biden.html. As such, we need to be cautious and careful about a Harris administration turning its back on the people who would vote her into office.
Moore’s message: Harris will not go Left; she will cut “red tape” so that businesses can compete again; she will restore “free markets” so that small and large businesses can grow again; and Harris will abandon the Biden regulatory regime, including either putting the brakes on Lina Khan at the FTC or outright shit-canning her. On this last point, though, Harris needs to be careful, because, as the banker Roger Altman said in another recent interview, (https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/08/08/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-evercore-founder-roger-altman.html) the sidelining of Khan can only be done by those folks who are not billionaires, because otherwise it would energize progressives. Rather than having a billionaire wield the ax, the job would presumably go to Tony West, Harris’ brother in law and a corporate lawyer, who, in an earlier iteration as the number three man in the Obama Attorney General’s office, negotiated sweet heart deals with the likes of JP Morgan Chase following the bank’s corrupt and illegal handling of mortgages and derivatives--crimes for which nobody went to jail-- or to other Obama/Clinton Democrats who are no friends of the 99%. It is apparent to those who have eyes to see that the overthrow of common-sense and effective business regulation by powerful folks close to Harris is being planned and executed, while we satisfy ourselves with tallying up the good cultural ideas represented by the Democratic party.
Governor Moore talks in word salads--"free markets,” “capital and liquidity,” “cutting red tape,”promoting free markets--that are contradictory at a minimum, ignorant at best and totally contrary to what the American people seek from a Democratic administration. His observations come from a list of neo-liberal talking points, with absolutely no substance. We've tried the neo-liberal strategies, and they contributed to an exodus of working-class folks. We now risk more flight, this time from Black women--the backbone of the Democratic party--progressives, and the working-class folks, including unions, who have returned to the Democratic fold because of Joe Biden’s policies. Why go back? Because the 1% are the source of massive donations and feel neglected and need to be coddled and cosseted. And, of course, their need to amass more power through M + A and to extract even more wealth from regular Americans need to be sated.
Progressives and other folks of good will cannot simply stand by and count our cultural bonafides. Unless we start paying attention to financial and regulatory issues, we risk losing everything, including a Democratic base that has, under Joe Biden, worked tirelessly on behalf of working-class Americans.
Americans have long supported many progressive policies, but the Democratic Party is not progressive and "liberal" today is code for right of center because that is where the "tough on crime" imperialist Democratic Party actually stands. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-un-democratic-party-and-their
The vast majority of Americans recognize the need for the federal government to replace our murderous for-profit health care system with universal health care.
This has been the case since before the last election.
Why is the country not governed the way country is represented? I assume that is because how the government is set up. All the red states get over representation.
For the first time in years I feel hope. But as always, then comes another republican plan to undermine democracy. Can we talk about the 70 pro-Trump electors in the swing states who plan to refuse to certify the election if Harris wins so that the decision will go to the Supreme Court? Totally bypassing the will of the American people. Can this happen? What are we planning to do so it doesn’t?
Israel has been acting very badly for several decades. Biden loves Israel, but that doesn't mean he has to love Bibi Netanyahu, who, like Trump, is a felon. Whatever Hamas did was inexcusable, as was Bibi's overkill responses. He has to fight to keep out of jail, it seems. Biden should suspend any help that way as long as Netanyahu is around.
The 'Art" of control demands that ONLY mathematically intractable and politically insoluble* problems should ever be created. We are beaten over the head by the hockey stick graph of X^3 (raised to the 3rd power) of intractability when you have three waring states and raised to 4th and fifth powers by independent waring proxies.
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.The "clever " bit is American Civilians are put very very far away from such out of reach intractable problems other than being invited to join the Military Industrial Taylor Swift Dorito Automobile Football "Complex" to help supply and guarantee further intractability of foreign solutions and MAXIMAL distractions from the very real problems at home.
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That is why we can't have "Nice things" like Health Care and "Education.".
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Never forget the Military sector and associated jobs basically pick the pockets of civilian service sector workers (by at least a factor 2) - while actual military personnel are put into home front situations of food insecurity - destroyed mental health and in many cases physical on going catastrophic injuries and beyond and very little help for veterans that are just marginalized to less than "Garbage".
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It's not a big surprise that large or small numbers of people who are likely to die or commit suicide from being trapped (near endlessly) by suffocating circumstances that are extremely hard to rectify - that such individuals should NOT be imagining a scenario when after all the sadistic and pointless hardships have been endured that somehow their manifest and spectacularly draconian abusers suddenly present the unwitting yet long suffering victim with a "MOVE BACK THE BUS " Moment...
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Where cohorts of people aligned with all your controlling abusers have been tirelessly working in the background (in total secrecy - almost like a parallel inaccessible bubble and plane ) to fulfill your life's works hopes and dreams ...
When there is a very substantial chance one will be killed or at very least in an ill considered moment commit suicide. [In such a contingency one cannot even accurately draw up a will for, as the alleged full set of circumstances is (allegedly) - unknown. ].
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^^^ For some reason Professor Hawkins synthesized electronic voice comes to mind for that last paragraph.
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The previous occupant of the Lucasian (sp) Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University. ~ I used to see him trundling about on his electric chair between various departments from street to street and yet somehow being narrowly avoided by maniacal taxi drivers waging active war against cyclists with a shaking fist out of a rolled down window proclaiming the rhetorical question...
* Just in case someone was wondering - there is not a secret parallel universe where people are doing nice things for you using lots of time - money and conscientious know how (for your benefit) - given that the probability of dying before any such projects reach a viable or consequential conclusion is very HIGH.
^^^ This is NOT a parallel echo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (etc.).
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But consider that the tail can indeed wag the dog and precipitate a conclusion where preservation of $ for more bombs and control is the preferred option.
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The mathematical problem of the Towers of Hanoi come to mind. --> Towards millions if not billions of years to resolve for certain combinations that start out with a relatively small number of initial elements and permutations.
What is theoretically possible - is possible. Had you lived even 100 years ago - you'd be the guy on a soap box shouting at the sky. You're a nihilist my friend.
So why does the Democratic Party keep funding war Mike? If Harris losses good chance the ongoing funding of genocide will be a major factor.Biden just sent another huge amount of money and our bombs just killed 100 people in a shelter. Michigan has a large Muslim and Arab population. What the hell will it take to stop funding genocide. This is my absolute red line.
She's not going to lose and ,despite the level of atrocities, Gaza will not be a factor. I fail to see how not voting for Harris over this issue will help Palestinians by electing Trump. Who, then, are you punishing? And Hamas knew full well the barbarism Israel would unleash after October 7. Why did Hamas start this war?
You are in total denial of the facts, you only see what you want to see. Before Oct. 7, For decades Israel has been using snipers to kill Palestinians, even children, Israel turned Palestine into the largest open air prison in the world, Israel only gives Palestinians 4 hours of electricity per day, Palestinian hospitals are greatly under funded under staffed, and they have very little medical supplies, and equipment. Israel has been committing war crimes against the Palestinians for decades, and no one cared, Israeli citizens beat and kill Palestinians with no consequences, I saw a video of an Israeli going into a Palestinian home and then declaring, it is his home and he now lives there.
Israel destroys whole Palestinian settlements and rebuilds them as Israeli settlements. Israel knows their only chance of expanding their country is to take Palestinians land. So now the prisoners have made an attempt to free themselves and the rest of the world is saying they have no right to freedom and it is all right for Israel to keep them prisoners, and kill them at will. Israelis are total hypocrites, they rightfully condemn what happened to them by the Nazis, but think when they do it to the Palestinians it is okay. The US, EU, UK and other countries, to be a powerhouse in the Middle East and to control the Middle East, built up Israel and anything Israel does to people in these other countries in the Middle East is okay with them.
You and many others refuse to see the actual facts, Israel has made Palestine the largest open air prison in the world, all Palestinians are prisoners, when Israel says we are giving the Palestinians warnings to go somewhere else, before they bomb their homes, just where do you think Palestinians are going to go? Israel is not bombing just Humus, they are wiping out entire Palestinian families, families who had nothing to do with the attack on Israel. There is no justification to kill innocent Israelis either.
I'm not in denial of what you have stated. But I will maintain that Hamas created this monstrosity of a war purposely. My bottom line, as was the intent of Mike's post, is that I want the liberal candidate to win. Trump is a dumpster fire that needs to be extinguished before he takes the country with him. And I can barely imagine how he would handle the Middle East conflict.
you live in your own reality, and psychosis, I gave you the reasons Hamas attacked Israel, all you have to do is look it up for your self. Maybe you are just racist and don't feel Israel murdering over 100,000 Palestinians is a big deal. After Oct. 7, and Hamas is no longer attacking Israel, it was all over, but because Netanyahu wants to expand Israel, they started a genocide against the Palestinian people who had nothing to do with the attack on Oct. 7. Try doing some fact checking.
You must look no further than at our own US history in the 1800’s when Western Expansion deemed Native Americans “vermin” because we pushed back against losing our sacred lands overrun by settlers who never stopped coming in ever increasing numbers. We fought back and our tribe was nearly exterminated in the Sand Creek Massacre. Shall indigenous people simply step aside when the next group with huge power tell you you need to leave? Morally we know in our soul this is not a solution.
What Israel is doing to Hamas and the Palestinians, is the same as what the native peoples experienced in the 1800's.
Israelis are indigenous. A sly sidestep on your part.
They are about as indigenous to Israel as white people are to the Americas.
You are very delusional and live in your own psychoses, Israel was founded in 1948, so how are they indigenous? They removed thousands of Palestinians. who were indigenous, from their land to create Israel.
Ha, it's you that's delusional. Learn some history of both peoples. Israel was founded under what premise? Something drawn out of a hat? Do your homework.
Let's compare apples with goats while we're at it eh?
The mystery to me is where exactly do the people of Gaza stand? Dies Hamas and their stated goal of the elimination of Israel represent Palestinians?
I know Netanyahu isn't representative of the Israeli people - they were ready to throw him out prior to October 7.
Is that what Hamas really feared? I do wonder.
The people of Gaza do not stand. Most have been displaced more than 10 times. They are being kettled together and moved about. It’s like watching a cat play with a mouse.
Hamas, perhaps, was finally pushed to the edge by very bad Israeli policies.
"Hamas was pushed to the edge".
Hamas' stated goal is the elimination of Israel.
Are you on board with that?
Seems you are.
If Israel was a democracy it’s Citizen’s would not fear, as they do today. The hostages are dying.
Yes, rather complicated. Both Israelis and Palestinians are indigenous to the entire region. Hamas' stated goal is the elimination of Israel, while Israel has wavered between a 2 state solution, and elimination of Gaza along with Hamas (obviously).
Israel is a democracy and so as governments changed so has it's treatment of the issue. At it's best with the urging of it's allies it has tried to bring about a peaceful resolution- at it's worse it is merely a bunker mentality, and/or a mirror of it's enemy. Illegal settlements are called thus for a reason - they are considered illegal by most if not all of Israel's allies.
The world writ large, democracies at least, has stated it's wish and support for a two state solution. Unfortunately, not all of the world, Iran et al don't support it, and elements within Israel don't, along with Hamas, Hezbollah - do not.
It is a quagmire, has been for many decades, despite all attempts to bring about what many regard as the solution.
You have no clue, you are making up your own facts, you do not know the meaning of indigenous, 'Being a member of the original inhabitants of a particular place.'. Israel removed Palestinians to create the Jewish state of Israel, and Israel is not a democracy, try fact checking, Israel is an .apartheid State
History informs us, hopefully. Both Arabs and Jews have a legitimate claim to the land. End of.
The Jewish people had to take land from the Palestinian people, to form Israel in 1948, that is like someone taking control of some rooms in you house, and saying we both have a claim to the house.
Israel is a religious tribal homeland created by force by a people sharing persecutory paranoia resulting from genocidal abuse. It's a shame America got so engaged in this over many years, I presume initially over guilt from the little done to save these people and later gratitude for the returned support in a difficult part of the world, but there we are. Now we're faced by an Israel largely controlled by religious cultists, including a generous assortment of fanatics and a Prime Minister using his office to dodge criminal liability and war to prolong that office. It might seem that it's overdue that we should disentangle from this dangerously unstable situation, but remember: Israel now a nuclear weapon state. If they can't use our weapons and support to suppress their enemies, and they should be pressed, I feel certain they would use their nuclear arsenal. I'm afraid there is not even a difficult solution to this mess.
Thanks for this, I'll definitely share it. The voices on the right are so loud and angry, they drown everyone else out by insisting they're the majority and we live in an elite bubble. This is a great affirmation that "they" do not represent the majority.
I'd add, most people want affordable act medical coverage.
Any conservative politician, or conservative individual who uses the word liberal as a pejorative, should spend time analyzing the definitions available with a simple Google search. For me, to be an American is having the luxury and grace to be Liberal.
These numbers represent a powerful progressive flood surging against and about to burst and sweep away a rotting reactionary barrier. You Americans could well be on the verge of a new New Deal and Harris/Walz could be the FDR of the 21st century ( at least I hope so).
I love the poster. Yes, we Americans are not idiots.
I would love money to not be in politics. Good luck, right? The only thing I would ask for is a resume, a background check by the FBI to grant access to Secret and Top Secret documents (I’m looking at YOU, Donito.👀) Plus, a list of goals and means to achieve those goals.
Good hair, too, not comb-overs and hair dyes. Ahem.
We the People are not idiots. We the People are not Nazis. We the People mostly Liberals.
“Liberal, Liberal, Liberal, “ to quote Bush ( Daddy Bush)
Ya know, apropos of everything, I just this minute used my astronomy app and see that at this minute,
the Moon is in the 7th House,
and Jupiter’s aligned with Mars.
No kidding.
Hmmm… whatever could that mean? …
Oh,sorry,
for all you youngsters under 70:
https://genius.com/The-originals-aquarius-let-the-sunshine-in-the-flesh-failures-lyrics
Peace and understanding!!!
[Part 1: Aquarius]
[Verse 1]
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide our planets
And love will steer the stars
[Chorus]
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius
Aquarius
[Verse 2]
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius
Aquarius
Oh… a definition of Liberal:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/liberal-meaning-origin-history
"72% OF US WANT MONEY OUT OF POLITICS”
Source: Pew (10.23.2023) — “Most Americans favor spending limits for political campaigns. Roughly seven-in-ten U.S. adults (72%) say that there should be limits on the amount of money individuals and organizations can spend on political campaigns.” Another Pew poll found that 62% of Americans believe that “reducing the influence of money in politics should be a top goal for the president and Congress.” In the last election cycle alone, the 2022 Midterms, outside donors spent a record-breaking $2 billion on federal midterm candidates, according to Open Secrets."
If this is true, then why is this no where near happening? Maybe it is because everyone is waiting around for the 12 hours on the first Tuesday in November this year. And it doesn't come around for another two years.
The electorate is about 250 million. If 72% of the electorate which is about 180 million got on the phone, got on the e-mail, or got on Twitter and told the 535 in DC who decide everything for the 250 million that is what they want , it would happen.
This is all that needs to happen. But everyone must participate.
It only takes a few minutes, and best of all..it doesn't cost any money.
We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
www.nationalfinancialplan.com
The Corporations, Insurance Companies, Banks, Military Industrial Complex, ETC run the country. If you want a country run by the people for the people, a fund has to be created by the government, for each candidate to use, which is equal, so there are no Corporations or any other parties who want to buy and own political candidates.
Or we can set up a system where anyone who wants to VOLUNTEER can actually vote. Please see my Lord Initiative No. 2 on my website www.nationalfinancialplan.com. I don't want to tell you more because instead of running for office, I am trying to drive people to my website and FB page, and Twitter and You Tube Videos. If I get enough people to do this, I can monetize it and use it for advertising instead of asking people for money. Thanks for your comment.
My name is Ted Martin. I just finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
If you want a government that actually acts in your best interests, I urge you and everyone you know to read my book as soon as possible. You can get a digital copy of my book free of charge at the link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vaMH1riLodzOfQn0kI7ow0RDrPM0NqE/view?usp=sharing
Wow, very nicely said. Thank you.
Another way to get money out of politics: We can set up a system where anyone who wants to VOLUNTEER can actually vote. Please see my Lord Initiative No. 2 on my website www.nationalfinancialplan.com. I don't want to tell you more because instead of running for office, I am trying to drive people to my website and FB page, and Twitter and You Tube Videos. If I get enough people to do this, I can monetize it and use it for advertising instead of asking people for money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. Thanks for your comment.
Those statistics are very informative, the problem is this the government does not listen to the people. I am confused about why we speak about politicians as if they do what the people want them to do. The corporations own and run the country, and when elections happen the corporations spend money on the candidates they sponsor, and just flat out own. We are a fascist, oligarchy, empire building, authoritarian, dictatorship, with no Democracy, with no working Constitution for the poor, and middle class, where people have no say in the running or decisions on how the government is run.
The corporations, Fossil Fuel Industry, the Military Industrial Complex, and the rich are actually running the country, and our politicians just work for them. The people have no say in the running of the country. We do not have a democracy, freedom or a Constitution that works for the poor and middle class. We have a fascist, Hegemony, oligarchy, empire building, authoritarian, dictatorship, with no input on how the country is run, by the people, the people have no say at all. The government uses propaganda, lies, and disinformation to control the people, so they think their vote’s count and they have a Democracy with freedom and a Constitution that work for them. The corporations and the Military Industrial Complex that own the country, pollute the air, land, and water, then they don't use their own money to clean up their mess, if the taxpayer's complain, they use taxpayer's money to clean up the pollution they caused, so it does not effect their profits.
Despite multiple reasons for being confident that the Democratic party has its finger on the pulse of a majority of Americans, I worry about the direction of the party under a Harris administration on financial and regulatory matters. Your “America is a Liberal Nation” list, for example, mentions nothing about the Biden regulatory regime, which has been effective on some many fronts--all the way from challenging monopolists to the fantastic results of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. One of the superstars of the Biden team is Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who, more than anyone, has erased the memories of the Clinton/ Obama neo-liberal policies that contributed mightily to the exodus from the Democratic party of working class Americans. Since then, the Democratic party has been scratching and clawing to get these folks back into the party, with Ms. Khan leading the way.
However, it is as clear as a bell that the Democratic party is in the midst of a civil war, with a sturdy and enlightened regulatory regime at risk of being steamrolled and swallowed by capital, A case in point is LinkedIn founder, Reid Hoffman, a Harris friend and donor, who along with Democratic donors Barry Diller and Barry Sternlicht, publicly demanded that Harris fire Ms. Khan. These folks have raised millions of dollars for the Harris campaign and exert great influence on the party’s decision makers. What are Khan’s chances of surviving intact a Harris administration with friends like Hoffman and Diller and Sternlicht hanging around? Not likely, it would seem.
Another example: the cozy relationship between the law firm of Paul Weiss, a major Harris donor, and Democratic big wigs, which, cut in any possible way, is antithetical to the Biden regulatory scheme. Paul Weiss is a favorite of big tech and Wall Street. It represented big banks that were investigated by Federal and State governments--including then Attorney General Kamala Harris--over mortgage-backed securities and cut sweetheart deals with the government. (On the other side of the table, representing the U.S. Attorney General, was Tony West, the number three man at Eric Holder’s Justice Department, brother-in-law of Harris, and former counsel for Uber.)
Karen Dunn, a partner at Paul Weiss, who co-leads the firm’s litigation group, is a lead counsel for Google at an anti-trust trial scheduled in September in the USDC in Virginia. This lawsuit, initiated by the Justice Department and the States, accuses Google of abusing its dominance in digital advertising. (Ms. Dunn moonlights as a member of Harris’ debate preparation team.) And if you’re keeping score, other actions against Google are lining up, including a 25 March case in USDC in Texas, challenging Google’s ad tech practices, and, perhaps most importantly, closing arguments on the remedies phase of the government’s case in which Judge Mehta found that Google was a monopolist, having dominated--by, among other things, paying Apple $26b a year in exchange for not competing with Google--web searches.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-presidential-campaign-finds-legal-world-booster-paul-weiss-firm-2024-08-12/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily-Docket&utm_term=081224&user_email=fb85cc1d110d6cad546643139f900012e56865170c396577fd4a05d6a18c3b45&lctg=65d7b48739d7cfd1b207fec2. Beyond that, seeded within Paul Weiss are former members of the neo-liberal Obama administration, ready to do the bidding of big tech, big banks, and Wall Street. Paul Weiss can count as former Democratic administration officials former Attorney General Lorita Lynch, former U.S. Attorney Melinda Haas, and former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. With no exaggeration, the very future of big tech and the internet, along with billions of dollars, are at stake here.
Democratic surrogates also appear to be in full throttle toward advancing the neo-liberal cause. A case in point are recent comments by Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a presumed leading light among liberal and progressive folks. His observations in an interview on CNBC were revealing, foreboding, and right out of the neo-liberal playbook. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/08/07/maryland-governor-wes-moore-harris-antitrust-regulation-would-be-different-than-biden.html. As such, we need to be cautious and careful about a Harris administration turning its back on the people who would vote her into office.
Moore’s message: Harris will not go Left; she will cut “red tape” so that businesses can compete again; she will restore “free markets” so that small and large businesses can grow again; and Harris will abandon the Biden regulatory regime, including either putting the brakes on Lina Khan at the FTC or outright shit-canning her. On this last point, though, Harris needs to be careful, because, as the banker Roger Altman said in another recent interview, (https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/08/08/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-evercore-founder-roger-altman.html) the sidelining of Khan can only be done by those folks who are not billionaires, because otherwise it would energize progressives. Rather than having a billionaire wield the ax, the job would presumably go to Tony West, Harris’ brother in law and a corporate lawyer, who, in an earlier iteration as the number three man in the Obama Attorney General’s office, negotiated sweet heart deals with the likes of JP Morgan Chase following the bank’s corrupt and illegal handling of mortgages and derivatives--crimes for which nobody went to jail-- or to other Obama/Clinton Democrats who are no friends of the 99%. It is apparent to those who have eyes to see that the overthrow of common-sense and effective business regulation by powerful folks close to Harris is being planned and executed, while we satisfy ourselves with tallying up the good cultural ideas represented by the Democratic party.
Governor Moore talks in word salads--"free markets,” “capital and liquidity,” “cutting red tape,”promoting free markets--that are contradictory at a minimum, ignorant at best and totally contrary to what the American people seek from a Democratic administration. His observations come from a list of neo-liberal talking points, with absolutely no substance. We've tried the neo-liberal strategies, and they contributed to an exodus of working-class folks. We now risk more flight, this time from Black women--the backbone of the Democratic party--progressives, and the working-class folks, including unions, who have returned to the Democratic fold because of Joe Biden’s policies. Why go back? Because the 1% are the source of massive donations and feel neglected and need to be coddled and cosseted. And, of course, their need to amass more power through M + A and to extract even more wealth from regular Americans need to be sated.
Progressives and other folks of good will cannot simply stand by and count our cultural bonafides. Unless we start paying attention to financial and regulatory issues, we risk losing everything, including a Democratic base that has, under Joe Biden, worked tirelessly on behalf of working-class Americans.
Americans have long supported many progressive policies, but the Democratic Party is not progressive and "liberal" today is code for right of center because that is where the "tough on crime" imperialist Democratic Party actually stands. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-un-democratic-party-and-their
great graphic to spread far and wide,thank you
The vast majority of Americans recognize the need for the federal government to replace our murderous for-profit health care system with universal health care.
This has been the case since before the last election.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-healthcare.aspx
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/09/29/increasing-share-of-americans-favor-a-single-government-program-to-provide-health-care-coverage/
Why can't you just SAY IT, Michael?
Real liberals are unafraid to say it.
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/us-health-care-insurance-universal-coverage
and OUR candidate is unafraid to say it. Why aren't you backing her in that?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1603110403885750
Why is the country not governed the way country is represented? I assume that is because how the government is set up. All the red states get over representation.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
For the first time in years I feel hope. But as always, then comes another republican plan to undermine democracy. Can we talk about the 70 pro-Trump electors in the swing states who plan to refuse to certify the election if Harris wins so that the decision will go to the Supreme Court? Totally bypassing the will of the American people. Can this happen? What are we planning to do so it doesn’t?
Israel has been acting very badly for several decades. Biden loves Israel, but that doesn't mean he has to love Bibi Netanyahu, who, like Trump, is a felon. Whatever Hamas did was inexcusable, as was Bibi's overkill responses. He has to fight to keep out of jail, it seems. Biden should suspend any help that way as long as Netanyahu is around.
Netanyahu has no respect for the people who defend Israel, and Israel like any country, is it's People, not one person.
Israelis were ready to kick him to the curb right up to October 7.
Yes Hamas has to go - but so does Netanyahu.
The Cavalry is NOT coming.
A ceasefire is possible.
THAT should be the focus.
The 'Art" of control demands that ONLY mathematically intractable and politically insoluble* problems should ever be created. We are beaten over the head by the hockey stick graph of X^3 (raised to the 3rd power) of intractability when you have three waring states and raised to 4th and fifth powers by independent waring proxies.
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.The "clever " bit is American Civilians are put very very far away from such out of reach intractable problems other than being invited to join the Military Industrial Taylor Swift Dorito Automobile Football "Complex" to help supply and guarantee further intractability of foreign solutions and MAXIMAL distractions from the very real problems at home.
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That is why we can't have "Nice things" like Health Care and "Education.".
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Allegedly.
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Never forget the Military sector and associated jobs basically pick the pockets of civilian service sector workers (by at least a factor 2) - while actual military personnel are put into home front situations of food insecurity - destroyed mental health and in many cases physical on going catastrophic injuries and beyond and very little help for veterans that are just marginalized to less than "Garbage".
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It's not a big surprise that large or small numbers of people who are likely to die or commit suicide from being trapped (near endlessly) by suffocating circumstances that are extremely hard to rectify - that such individuals should NOT be imagining a scenario when after all the sadistic and pointless hardships have been endured that somehow their manifest and spectacularly draconian abusers suddenly present the unwitting yet long suffering victim with a "MOVE BACK THE BUS " Moment...
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Where cohorts of people aligned with all your controlling abusers have been tirelessly working in the background (in total secrecy - almost like a parallel inaccessible bubble and plane ) to fulfill your life's works hopes and dreams ...
When there is a very substantial chance one will be killed or at very least in an ill considered moment commit suicide. [In such a contingency one cannot even accurately draw up a will for, as the alleged full set of circumstances is (allegedly) - unknown. ].
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^^^ For some reason Professor Hawkins synthesized electronic voice comes to mind for that last paragraph.
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The previous occupant of the Lucasian (sp) Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University. ~ I used to see him trundling about on his electric chair between various departments from street to street and yet somehow being narrowly avoided by maniacal taxi drivers waging active war against cyclists with a shaking fist out of a rolled down window proclaiming the rhetorical question...
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"DO YOU LIKE HOSPITAL FOOD !!!!".
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* Just in case someone was wondering - there is not a secret parallel universe where people are doing nice things for you using lots of time - money and conscientious know how (for your benefit) - given that the probability of dying before any such projects reach a viable or consequential conclusion is very HIGH.
^^^ This is NOT a parallel echo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (etc.).
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But consider that the tail can indeed wag the dog and precipitate a conclusion where preservation of $ for more bombs and control is the preferred option.
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The mathematical problem of the Towers of Hanoi come to mind. --> Towards millions if not billions of years to resolve for certain combinations that start out with a relatively small number of initial elements and permutations.
False dillema- you can have this or that - but not both. Only the gullible believe so.
False dilemma.
Its not a false dilemma if you have skin the game.
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These are very real dilemmas and failure to see the stark reality of what is really build one up for a truly spectacular fall.
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Survival is the only game - and yet THIS IS NOT A GAME.
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Suicide will be made to look like an accident and vice versa.
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The only option is to understand.
What is theoretically possible - is possible. Had you lived even 100 years ago - you'd be the guy on a soap box shouting at the sky. You're a nihilist my friend.
Michael, how can we buy some of the big "Kamala--Coach" buttons you all designed.
They are great and should be sold at every Democratic headquarters in the country.
Please let me know and I will advise my group to buy some. drjudymcc@gmail.com