Impeachment Farce

The impeachment hearings are predicated on the same faulty logic as Russiagate- the assertion that Dems will refuse to vote for a candidate who is corrupt or has a corrupt family member.

This is clearly nonsense. Dems showed us in 2016 that they will vote for a corrupt candidate, even a war mongering corrupt candidate.

Therefore, Joe Biden having a corrupt son, and Joe Biden interfering in another country's judicial system to protect that son, are not a deal breaker for Dems, and it is absurd to pretend otherwise.
So even if the Dems can manage to twist Trump's words enough to convince people that he was trying to dig up proof that Biden is corrupt, it is impossible to get from that to the assertion that Dems would refuse to vote for Biden because of his corruption. We already know they don't care.

Lyndon Johnson had a corrupt associate, Bobby Baker. (Back in those days, it was considered quite a scandal, unlike today. He even went to prison, which no one does anymore). Democrats voted for him anyway.

Jimmy Carter had Billy and Bill Clinton had Roger. Hillary has two corrupt brothers, Hugh and Tony.
None of this makes any difference to Americans. (Reps have their own corrupt candidates, and it also makes no difference to them).

Therefore, the entire premise of the impeachment hearings are laughably ludicrous.
It seems that the actual point of the hearings is to throw out more disinformation about Russia and to beat the war drums more loudly.
Same as Russiagate.

Why Did Hillary Tweet Such Nonsense?

  Americans are furiously posting their opinions on the Hillary vs Tulsi vs Jill Twitter throwdowns.

   Why on Earth would Hillary post such an inflammatory and obviously false tweet?  There seems to be no motive for such a thing to be done.  Or is there?

    Well, could it be that on October 17th, the State Dept. released the results of a three year study which showed that the emails that were the subject of Republican interest in 2016 have been proven to have been improperly handled at least 588 times.

   Well, my, my, isn't that interesting?  And isn't it interesting that the State Dept. weasels out of recommending prosecution because maybe those people (and their boss) didn't actually realize they were doing anything illegal?   This young man was sentenced to prison for taking pictures of the inside of his submarine, so that he could show his future children where he had served.  His lawyers tried to point out that Hillary Clinton was not charged for much worse crimes, but the judge was unmoved by the obvious travesty of two-tier justice.

   But this is not a conversation anyone seems to be having.  Instead, we are treated to WWF-type smackdowns, with much hysteria over the motivations of the wrestlers.

   Well played, Hillary Clinton, well played.

US Propaganda Strikes Again- Russian War Crimes in Syria

   After a week of bipartisan hysteria about Trump's surprise withdrawal of US troops from part of NE Syria,  complete with tears for "we're abandoning our allies, the Kurds'' (the US is in Syria illegally, and has no right to make "allies" with any ethnic group in any country trying to overthrow any government), the Russians brokered a deal between the Kurds and the Syrian Arab Army to work together to fight ISIS and push back the Turks.


   Now what, imperial media, who were united as one in their anti-peace propaganda?   What a major disappointment to the talking heads, who were eagerly awaiting footage of dead Kurds and instead got the Kurds joining the SAA.   Quite a blow.  Ordinary people who hate war celebrated the hopeful stride forward, but the psychopaths who run our country were very, very mad and sad.

   An ABC "news" channel ran footage they claimed was of Turkey blowing up Kurds, but it turned out to be footage from a gun range in Kentucky.  

    And the NY Times decided to run an article claiming that Russia bombed four hospitals last May, which Democracy Now eagerly "reported", also.

     Americans who go bankrupt  from medical bills may envy the Syrians, who apparently have a hospital on every corner in every town.  Such luxury!   Even with  hundreds of them being bombed by either Syria or Russia  (according to US media over the last 7 years), they still manage to take care of their citizens' health needs.  Except for the shortages of medicines caused by the US embargo, of course.

    But how interesting that the hysterical predictions of genocide were thwarted, but instead of following up on the last week's "reporting", the imperial media decides to ignore the follow-up and publish lurid (and no doubt false) reports from last May.  How transparently desperate of them.

    Americans abandoned by their government in Flint, (where the water is still contaminated),  LA (where cholera has reappeared in homeless encampments), as well hungry and homeless Americans all over the country, may be a little jealous of the overwhelming propaganda talking about loyalty and commitment to allies.   If only their government showed loyalty and commitment to providing basic services to our own citizens, the way we are told that we must provide support and  ammo to rebels in other countries.  That would be lovely.

   

Kurds "Homeland" on Syrian Oil Fields?

And just like that, Americans are loudly demanding that the Kurds in Syria be given a piece of Syria for their very own, so that they may have a ''Homeland".

The Kurds, a nomadic group of people who originated from the mountains of Iran and speak a language derived from Persian,  who "have no friends but the mountains", are being offered a piece of flat Syria land by the Americans.  Why?

Says Khaled Bizri:

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The SDF was formed precisely to divide Syria from Iraqi, Turkish and some Syrian Kurds. Their location today is the oil region - which never saw a Kurd in its history. But the US does not care a damn who manages the oil and gas extraction so long as they are delivered free into the hands of its oil and gas monopolies - to which sane observers would remark, "Some hope."

Trump Tweets About Syria

The US ruling class has a habit of issuing unpopular edicts on Friday night or the eve of major holidays, under the assumption that Americans pay no attention to the "weekend news cycle".
Trump issued his withdrawal notice last night, late on Sunday. Was that under the assumption that it would take until Monday morning for Lindsey Graham and the rest of the neocons to sober up from the weekend?

It certainly seems that way to me. Trump's original declaration focused mostly on ISIS troops. He pointed out that Europe didn't want it's ISIS citizens back, so he was leaving them for Turkey to deal with. I took that to mean that Turkey could go ahead and slaughter them, without any outcry from the US/NATO occupiers. I wasn't going to shed any tears over them, either.

But, once Congress and the media woke up and sobered up Monday morning, the attacks started. They ignored ISIS and focused on the Kurds. "Think of the Kurdish children", blah, blah, blah. 

Then Trump backed down, as usual, issuing a bizarre tweet threatening Turkey and throwing in a line about his great and unmatched wisdom.
Say what? What was that about? Was it red meat to distract TDS sufferers, sending them barking off on a red herring path? 

Apparently, the troops have actually started pulling back. Will the Deep State have time to organize a "chemical weapons attack" to stop the withdrawal?

No wonder they're so furious.

Harris/Stephens- Another Step Towards Totalitarism

   9-11 served multiple functions, from enriching a small circle of well-placed wealthy friends, to providing justification for endless wars for oil to setting up a repressive bureaucratic apparatus in the US, (including the TSA, Homeland Security and NORTHCOM.)

   The trans agenda also serves multiple functions, from rolling back the rights and privileges gained by women in the last 50 years in the US, to enriching drug companies and plastic surgeons, to allowing the government to take control of people's perceptions and language.

   The Harris/Stephens case before the Supreme Court is presented by the self proclaimed Legitimate Media as a woman's rights issue, that is, whether women can be forced to wear skirts.
    This is a lie.

   The case is about a man who has no problem with the sex-based dress code at his place of employment.  His issue is that he wants to wear dresses, because he says that he is a woman.  His employer says that he is a man and cannot wear a dress to work.

   The Patriot Act, rolled out the week after 9-11, attacked our First Amendment rights to speak out and say what we believe to be true.

    The Supreme Court will be ruling in the Harris case on whether we can all be forced to say what we know is untrue.

     The trans agenda has been framed as a human rights issue, a liberal expansion of the rights of women to men who believe they are women.   It is mostly liberals who have adopted the cause, who vociferously defend their adoption as pure and true, and who viciously attack those people who prefer to remain Reality Based.

   Therefore, it is assumed that the conservative Supreme Court will not rule in favor of the trans-identified man.

    But this agenda is clearly fully backed and pushed by the ruling class. The media, the government,  schools,  NGOs, the medical industrial complex, sports,  the military, prisons, the police, social workers, libraries....are all onboard.   

   I predict that the Supreme Court will rule that all Americans must alter their language and their perception of reality to suit the demands of others.   And that the official media will spin this as a victory for human rights and a shocking decision for a ''conservative'' court to make.

   For a discussion with feminists who have filed an amicus brief with the Court, see here..

It Is Only Illegal and Corrupt If Trump Does It

My daughter, a good liberal on the Move On mailing list (which started after the failed impeachment of Clinton) told me that they started pushing for impeachment before Trump was even inaugurated, which even she thought was odd.
They haven’t stopped yet. It is disgusting, even if Reps say so.

If I hadn’t stopped voting, due to the unaccountable voting machines, I swear I would think about voting for Trump, just to watch the DNC minions and their Antifa Brownshirt troops lose what is left of their scrambled minds. But I know that voting is a ridiculous exercise in futility, and the talking heads on TV will tell us on Election Night next year who our ruling overlords have decided to put in the White House, so there is no point in playing their ”you get to decide” game.

The Ukrainian coup in 2014 was illegal. Putting Hunter Biden on the board of the fracking corporation was unethical and illegal.

The IMF funds to Ukraine were illegal, since IMF funds are not supposed to go to a country that is killing their own people.

Biden forcing the firing of the Prosecutor investigating his son was illegal, and using the (illegal) IMF funds to force it was unethical and corrupt, as well as illegal.

Trump withholding $10,000,000,000 in IMF from Ecuador to force them to withdraw political asylum from Julian Assange was corrupt and illegal.

The Dems were silent on that, as they were silent about the fate of that whistleblower, Julian Assange,  now being illegally held as a political prisoner in the UK, at the behest of the US, (also unremarked), while the UK leadership blathers on about condemning countries which oppress journalists. Which also goes unremarked.

The military aid which Trump supposedly held up to Ukraine is also illegal, since Ukraine is still killing their own citizens.

Neither the Dems nor the Reps oppose giving military aid to a Nazi-infested government which is shelling, torturing and murdering their own people.

We are ruled by crooks and criminals, who loot the people of the US and the world with impunity, and any talk of the law is a farce.