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Donald Trump: From Reality TV Star to Mass Murderer in One Short Year

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By Darius Shahtahmasebi

U.S. president Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign on a strict platform of anti-interventionism (with the exception of his campaign pledge to bomb the sh*t out of ISIS’ oil fields). In reality, Trump hasn’t just bombed the sh*t out of ISIS – he has bombed the sh*t out of the entire region, making former President Obama’s warmongering legacy pale in comparison.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations’ Micah Zenko’s estimate, Donald Trump dropped 20,650 bombs in his
first six months of office alone — compared to Barack Obama’s 26,171 bombs for all of last year. As commander-in-chief of the U.S. military, Donald Trump relaxed the restrictions in place to inhibit air strikes, giving free reign to military commanders in the field to call in airstrikes with zero oversight. This privilege was also granted to Iraqi commanders, who called in an airstrike that killed well over 200 civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

In Afghanistan, the Obama administration restricted U.S. forces to only carrying out defensive strikes with the sole aim of protecting Afghan forces rather than launching offensive strikes against enemy forces. Whether or not this distinction had any effect on the ground (regardless, during the Obama era NATO forces were documented carrying out brutal raids on innocent families), Donald Trump quietly overturned Obama’s restrictions, a move that led to U.S. forces dropping three times as many bombs and missiles as last year.

In total, American warplanes, including the infamous B-52, dropped more than 3,900 bombs and missiles in Afghanistan this year to the detriment of the Afghan population. Daniel R. Mahany, a program director at the Center for Civilians in Conflict advocacy group, rightfully stated that if “you increase the number of strikes without allocating the time, personnel and resources to preventing, investigating and acknowledging each one, you get more civilian casualties.”

This is true not just in Afghanistan, but throughout the Middle East. Donald Trump’s illegal war in the Syrian city of Raqqa killed over 1,800 civilians, according to the monitoring group Airwars. At the time the offensive to retake Raqqa was launched in June, the U.S. was aware that some 200,000 civilians were trapped in the city. In that first week of operations alone, the U.N. accused the Trump administration of killing 300 civilians in less than seven days’ worth of bombing.

It later emerged that even while this relentless bombing was taking place, the U.S. had granted free passage to around 4,000 ISIS fighters to escape Raqqa under the watchful eye of the coalition. In other words, the Trump administration was knowingly bombing civilians, all the while allowing enemy forces to escape safely. One Syrian resident explained how his neighbors’ bodies lay rotting in Raqqa’s streets with cats eating their bodies. It later emerged that the Trump administration’s policies in Syria were wiping out entire families.

In fact, Airwars opted to put their monitoring of Russian air strikes in Syria on hold under the Trump administration as the U.S. continued to out-kill Russia as the civilian death toll grew at a monumental pace.

The Associated Press reported earlier this month that in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the real civilian death toll was somewhere between 9,000 and 11,000 – almost ten times more than what was previously reported. AP’s investigation alleged that coalition forces accounted for over 3,200 of those deaths, which were caused by airstrikes, artillery fire, or mortar rounds.

This has also been the case in Yemen, where the U.S. continues to back the Saudi-led brutal assault on the Arab world’s most impoverished nation, killing well over 100 civilians over the Christmas period alone. One Saudi airstrike this year, in particular, killed a four-year-old girl’s entire family, making her the sole survivor.

Before any die-hard Trump supporters decide to absolve Trump and blame Saudi Arabia or Barack Obama for the crisis in Yemen, one should bear in mind that current and former U.S. officials already warned the U.S. it could be implicated in Saudi Arabia’s vast list of war crimes as a co-belligerent well before Trump took office. With this knowledge, Trump has merely exacerbated America’s liability rather than mitigate it.

According to Micah Zenko, Trump’s desire to overextend the U.S. military goes further than just airstrikes on the designated battlefields:
“Trump has also escalated U.S. military involvement in non-battlefield settings — namely Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. In the last 193 days of the Obama presidency, there were 21 lethal counterterrorism operations across these three countries. Trump has quintupled that number, conducting at least 92 such operations in Yemen, seven in Somalia, and four in Pakistan.” [emphasis added]

This is precisely why Zenko quite rightly described Donald Trump as the “most hawkish president in modern history,” even after the reality TV-star had pretended to be some sort of non-interventionist who said he believed the Middle East would have been more stable had Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein remained in power (even that was a lie).

By all accounts, Donald Trump is a mass murderer. He may not yet have beaten George W. Bush’s 1-2 million dead Iraqi civilians, but give him time – it’s only his first year in office.

Darius Shahtahmasebi has completed a Double Degree in Law and Japanese from the University of Otago, with an interest in human rights, international law and journalism. He's a fully qualified lawyer in two separate jurisdictions, and writes about foreign policy for Anti-Media. Contact Darius: darius.shahtahmasebi@theantimedia.org. Support Darius' work on Patreon: patreon.com/thetvsleaking.

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You cannot be the Commander In Chief and remain free from the bloodstains of the military that operates beneath you. It's very simple:

Q: Since Trump became president has the US military killed innocent people?
A: Yes, and therefore, he is a murderer and a warmonger, doing what the MIC and bankers want him to do.

I wonder why many Americans will not open their eyes to this reality.

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I don't know what Trump's real political persuasion are. I believe he has been disinformed by his so-called advisers so that he will make terrible blunders. And it should be clear to those who watch closely and are awake to our "awful situation" that he is deliberately being given advice that is calculated to destroy him and his administration as POTUS. I expect the 25th Amendment to the Constitution will be used to remove him from office. I think he is now an underdog in Washington, D.C. Even though I did not vote for Trump (Acting on the counsel of past prophets, I voted for Darrell Castle) I would, if I could, try to prevent his removal, which would be a great victory for the "establishment", including my 2 U.S. Senators.

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Oh boy! Now the Trump Administration is going to give us more war. That's what I was wishing for; I was wishing upon a star that we'd get endless war.

For all you warmongering Trump supporters, please allow me to ask just exactly how much innocent blood do you require before you get your fill? America will deserve its new fashion, that of sackcloth and ashes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01- ... -and-syria

Mattis: "War Is Not Over" In Iraq And Syria
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by Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/01/2018 - 19:30

Authored by Jason Ditz via TheAntiMedia.org,

Declarations of victory over ISIS by both Iraq and Syria, along with Russia, are not having an impact on US military policy in the region, according to Defense Secretary James Mattis, who insisted on Friday that “the war is not over.”

Which isn’t to say that the US is determined to keep fighting a war against ISIS, as such, but rather that there’s definitely going to be a war against somebody in those countries. Mattis in particular has been keen to talk up the idea of an “ISIS 2.0” emerging in areas ISIS has been expelled from.

Mattis’ comments are very interesting in the context of other Pentagon statements, which have insisted that US troops would stay in Iraq and Syria long after the ISIS war has ended. This had long been assumed to be just a quiet, permanent garrisoning of the two countries, particularly controversial in Syria since they don’t welcome a US military presence.

Instead, Mattis seems to be presenting this as not just an open-ended deployment, but an open-ended war against an ever-changing collection of enemies. In Syria in particular, this is likely to mean a shift away from Islamist rebels and toward pro-government militias.

In Iraq, the continuation of the war is likely to be very much like the last US occupation of Iraq, fighting with any and all forces that are aligned in opposition to the Iraqi government, or against the occupation itself.

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A comment from the article above:

Jan 1, 2018 7:42 PM
Upton Sinclair's famous (and oft-repeated) quote.

" It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it".

The higher the salary (Gen. Mattis has "earned" over $5 million whilst in the Army alone), the more difficult the "understanding".

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Reading the following, some of you sick, warmongering Trump supporters will probably gush, "He's so cool; he's my hero."

This is what happens when an elitist and narcissistic man is in charge of a large arsenal.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01- ... tton-yours

Trump Warns Kim: "I've Got A Bigger Nuclear Button Than Yours"

by Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/02/2018 - 20:06

Perhaps we should not be shocked any more by the tone of President Trump's tweets but he has kicked off 2018 with bang and his latest shot across North Korea's bow is quite stunning in both its seriousness and its juvenileness.

Apparently responding to what North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year's Day speech - that he had a nuclear launch button at his desk, and that the international community would have to accept North Korea's status as a nuclear-armed nation as a "reality."

President Trump responded by tweeting "Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

Donald J. Trump
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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

6:49 PM - Jan 2, 2018

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Silver wrote: January 2nd, 2018, 8:04 pm Reading the following, some of you sick, warmongering Trump supporters will probably gush, "He's so cool; he's my hero."

This is what happens when an elitist and narcissistic man is in charge of a large arsenal.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01- ... tton-yours

Trump Warns Kim: "I've Got A Bigger Nuclear Button Than Yours"

by Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/02/2018 - 20:06

Perhaps we should not be shocked any more by the tone of President Trump's tweets but he has kicked off 2018 with bang and his latest shot across North Korea's bow is quite stunning in both its seriousness and its juvenileness.

Apparently responding to what North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year's Day speech - that he had a nuclear launch button at his desk, and that the international community would have to accept North Korea's status as a nuclear-armed nation as a "reality."

President Trump responded by tweeting "Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

6:49 PM - Jan 2, 2018
I hate to bring it up, but the book "Visions of Glory" said our own nukes were detonated in our own silos. That seems like a very likely possibility seeing the high level of treasonous activity going on behind the scenes.

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Calling someone a "warmonger" is, then, a politicized form of the psychological phenomenon known as "projection," whereby one ascribes his own nefarious conduct and motives onto others. By flinging the term at anyone who advocates a muscular response to terrorism and dictatorship, those who lob "warmonger" are faithfully carrying on the tradition of fascists and communists.



Do you believe that economic sanctions are necessary to prevent the Iranian government from obtaining nuclear weapons? That small, Eastern European democracies living in the shadow of an aggressive Russia ought have the choice to join a defensive military alliance? That democracy promotion and the protection of human rights should be at the forefront of American foreign policy?

If so, you have probably been called a “warmonger.” It’s a favorite of the isolationist alt-right and the burgeoning, equally isolationist “dirtbag left.” Of course, the traditional left doesn’t shy away from it, either. “The rest of the world, almost unanimously, looks at America as the No. 1 warmonger,” says Jimmy Carter, who also has used the epithet to describe Sen. John McCain, a man who knows the costs of war better than most.


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As a term of political abuse, "warmonger" is frequently deployed to assail individuals recommending measures far short of war, like the aforementioned Iran sanctions, NATO enlargement or human rights promotion. "Warmonger" belongs to the idiom of political propaganda, and like all propaganda, its purpose is not to clarify but to condemn — which is key to understanding its ignoble 20th century pedigree as a pejorative favored by fascists and communists, sometimes speaking in harmony.

In the years before American entry into World War II, isolationists frequently hurled the "warmonger" charge at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt over his support for arming Great Britain against the growing Nazi threat. FDR, according to the notorious Father Charles Coughlin, was "the world's chief warmonger" and "the warmonger hireling of the Jews."

Today, virtually any measure undertaken to confront terrorist groups, rogue states or authoritarian regimes is routinely decried as “warmongering.”

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Whether they knew it or not, Roosevelt's critics were echoing Nazi propaganda. "Roosevelt main tool of Jewish Freemasonry; Sensational Document Reveals Connection of the Warmonger with the International Clique," declared the Völkische Beobachter, the official newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, in the summer of 1941. That same year, in what was dubbed "The Warmonger Hearings," a bipartisan group of isolationist senators launched an investigation into Hollywood's alleged pro-war messaging, a foretaste of the House Un-American Activities Committee that would target communist influence a decade later.

For the two years that Nazi Germany was allied with the Soviet Union, American communists joined right-wing isolationists in denouncing Roosevelt as a "warmonger," only to jettison that line of attack the minute Hitler turned on Stalin.

But after the war against fascism ended and the Cold War began, "warmonger" became a staple of communist propaganda again. When British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Mo., Stalin referred to his erstwhile wartime ally as a "warmonger" and banned publication of the address in the Soviet Union. In 1950, as it set about occupying Eastern Europe, the Communist Information Bureau published a document titled "The Defense of Peace and the Struggle Against the Warmonger."

The Soviets and their sympathizers in the West applied "warmonger" to everyone from Churchill (picketed at a 1946 speech in Madison Square Garden by members of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) to Henry Wallace, the former Progressive Party presidential candidate who later confessed to being a dupe for Soviet totalitarianism. Like "fascist," Moscow and its fellow travelers used "warmonger" to describe essentially anyone even remotely critical of the Soviet system and its foreign policy.

"Warmonger" was given a new lease on life after 9/11 and the response these attacks engendered from Western democracies. Today, virtually any measure undertaken to confront terrorist groups, rogue states or authoritarian regimes is routinely decried as "warmongering" by an ideologically diverse assortment of pundits and political actors.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, supporters of Donald Trump frequently assailed Hillary Clinton as a “warmonger” for advocating a no-fly zone in Syria intended to defend innocent civilians from Bashar Assad’s barrel bombs. On the left, Germany’s former foreign minister last summer decried NATO exercises as “warmongering” and “saber-rattling” designed to provoke Russia.

In both cases, and in keeping with the term's dishonorable lineage, the behavior of the actual aggressor was conveniently ignored. Indeed, whether employed by communists, fascists, the alt-right or the isolationist left, what's consistent about "warmonger" is how it's applied only to the actions of liberal democracies. Those who complain most often about "warmongering" are conspicuously silent about the behavior of anti-Western regimes and movements, whether Russia (warmongering in Eastern Ukraine), Iran (warmongering in Syria), Hamas (warmongering against Israel) or Venezuela (warmongering against its own people).

Calling someone a "warmonger" is, then, a politicized form of the psychological phenomenon known as "projection," whereby one ascribes his own nefarious conduct and motives onto others. By flinging the term at anyone who advocates a muscular response to terrorism and dictatorship, those who lob "warmonger" are faithfully carrying on the tradition of fascists and communists.

James Kirchick is filling in for Doyle McManus. He is a visiting fellow with the Brookings Institution and author of "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age." Follow him on Twitter @jkirchick.

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Trump hatred only solidifies the Trump base

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... ield-guide

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Most people who do the rah-rah for Trump don't realize that he is merely following in the long and well-established pattern of Gadiantonism.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01- ... ran-part-1

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Trump Isn’t Another Hitler. He’s Another Obama.

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Not a lot of people remember this, but George W Bush actually campaigned in 2000 against the interventionist foreign policy that the United States had been increasingly espousing. Far from advocating the full-scale regime change ground invasions that his administration is now infamous for, Bush frequently used the word “humble” when discussing the type of foreign policy he favored, condemning nation-building, an over-extended military, and the notion that America should be the world’s police force.

Eight years later, after hundreds of thousands of human lives had been snuffed out in Iraq and Afghanistan and an entire region horrifically destabilized, Obama campaigned against Bush’s interventionist foreign policy, edging out Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries partly because she had supported the Iraq invasion while he had condemned it. The Democrats, decrying the warmongering tendencies of the Republicans, elected a President of the United States who would see Bush’s Afghanistan and Iraq and raise him Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, along with a tenfold increase in drone strikes. Libya collapsed into a failed state where a slave trade now runs rampant, and half a million people died in the Syrian war that Obama and US allies exponentially escalated.

Eight years later, a reality TV star and WWE Hall-of-Famer was elected President of the United States by the other half of the crowd who was sick to death of those warmongering Democrats. Trump campaigned on a non-interventionist foreign policy, saying America should fight terrorists but not enter into regime change wars with other governments. He thrashed his primary opponents as the only one willing to unequivocally condemn Bush and his actions, then won the general election partly by attacking the interventionist foreign policy of his predecessor and his opponent, and criticizing Hillary Clinton’s hawkish no-fly zone agenda in Syria.

Now he’s approved the selling of arms to Ukraine to use against Russia, a dangerously hawkish move that even Obama refused to make for fear of increasing tensions with Moscow. His administration has escalated troop presence in Afghanistan and made it abundantly clear that the Pentagon has no intention of leaving Syria anytime soon despite the absence of any reasonable justification for US presence there. The CIA had ratcheted up operations in Iran six months into Trump’s presidency, shortly before the administration began running the exact same script against that country that the Obama administration ran on Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.
Maybe US presidents are limited to eight years because that’s how long it takes the public to forget everything.

In the lead-up to the November elections those of us on the left who backed third parties were promised over and over and over again by Democratic party loyalists that if Hillary Clinton failed to secure the election there’d be goose-stepping stormtroopers patrolling the streets and murdering non-whites with impunity, concentration camps for Muslims, and white supremacist extermination programs. Comparisons to Hitler went on nonstop, and anyone who failed to fall in line with the mainstream liberal narrative can attest that they were accused of aiding actual, literal Nazism on a regular basis.

A year into Trump’s presidency, and not only did the apocalyptic predictions of national genocide fail to come true, he’s not even deporting as many immigrants as Obama. He is, however, out-bombing him.

We were promised another Hitler. Instead, we got another Obama, who was himself another Bush. The march into corporatist Orwellian police state at home and globalist oligarchic hegemony abroad continues unhindered for the United States of America.

And of course that march would have continued had Hillary won as well, it just would have looked a bit different. Fewer environmental deregulations, likely catastrophic escalations against the Syrian government and possibly Russia, the exact same approaches to Iran, just as much hawkishness toward North Korea but minus the tweets about button sizes, no attempts at dismantling Obama’s corporatist healthcare plan. Not much more than that.

Nobody wants to hear this. The Democrats still want to believe that the sitting president is simultaneously a Nazi, a Kremlin secret agent, an idiot, and a lunatic, and Trump supporters want to believe that he’s a populist savior fighting to liberate the nation from the claws of the deep state. Because of their partisan blinders they will both find reasons to believe they’ve got either a savior or a traitor in the White House despite the fact that their country’s actual policy and behavior remains more or less the same.

I still sometimes get Democrats telling me that Trump is about to flip into Hitler 2.0 any minute now and start throwing non-whites into extermination camps. Whenever I point out that they were wrong about their “your choices are Hillary or Hitler” alarmism I get a bunch of them telling me “give him time”. Well he’s had time. They were wrong. They didn’t get a Nazi, they got another shitty neocon. And since the Dems have been paced into alignment with the neocons there’s no one left to oppose their agendas, which is why we’re seeing so little pushback on Trump’s Iran saber rattling.

I get Trump supporters telling me that he’s fighting the deep state, but the only way you can believe that at this point is to redefine “deep state” to mean “Democrats and their supporters,” which would actually just be more partisan bickering, which is all we’re actually seeing at this point. The only people you see pushing the collusion narrative and working for impeachment at this point are Democrats and Never-Trumpers; now that Trump has proven himself a good, compliant little boy the intelligence community has been putting its energy into the anti-detente propaganda effort to manufacture support for its new cold war escalations instead.

The MAGA crowd tells me their guy has de-escalated the Syrian situation in an attempt to paint him as less pro-war than his predecessor, but that’s not even true either. Until US troops actually leave Syria, all this administration has done is kill a bunch of people (many of them civilians), occupy parts of a sovereign nation, and refuse to leave. Why are those troops still there when Syria and its allies are perfectly capable of handling any remaining traces of ISIS as they have been? No good reason, that’s for sure.

This is not the fault of the American people. The American people consistently vote against interventionist wars (as evidenced by the fact that winning presidential candidates have to campaign against them), and while they may be guilted by the tribe into flag-waving once the troops are there, they consistently say no to every request for consent for more empire-building wars. In my recent article about how the CNN/CIA narrative is running the same script for Iran as they did for Libya and Syria, most of the pushback I received was from good people who wanted to make sure I knew that they didn’t consent to military intervention, they were simply offering their support for the people of Iran.

Which is about as naive and sweet as a kid wanting to help the nice old man find his puppy. I understand you wanting to help find the puppy America, but for God’s sake please don’t get in that man’s van.

So the will of the American people has been heard loud and clear. They do not consent to more regime change wars and more military interventions. They do not want that.

Through the trickery of the mainstream media though, they are paced by fear-mongering and guilting into a reluctant, bargaining, “Well okay then…” consent which is quickly turned over into flag-waving enthusiasm because you have to support your troops, don’tchaknow? And I get that! Everyone knows a serviceman or woman; you don’t want to make them feel sad or like their life is being wasted. That’s such a tragedy! Who wants to make that conscious?

Let’s be clear, too: the troops are often from some of the finest of working and middle-class families across the States, families whose strong sense of morality about right and wrong led their young sons and daughters to make the courageous decision to enter the armed forces. These young men and women were born with the most exemplary of desires. They want to make the world a better place and they are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to do so. People love these families and they love their children.

These young people really are our best new humans. They are so committed to the highest interest that they would put aside their self-interest to do so. Do you know how rare that quality is in a human? And these young people are being taken from us young, whether that be by death or by destroying their beautiful minds as they are warped by the war machine into thinking that evil is good. Taken and used to pump up the egos of a selfish few.

In a healthy culture, the highest interest would dictate the desires of these young men and women. Unfortunately, the “highest interest” which should be assessed by the will of the people, is not being heard. It is not being enacted. The will of the people has repeatedly said that it does not want to send these young people off to kill another country’s young people to shore up the share portfolios of a few cancerous beings. The will of the people consistently says no to that, but it has been corralled by a small group of bloodthirsty vampires, parasites who will happily lay any amount of young bodies to waste to win their tiny dick battles until they are finally satisfied with the amount of zeroes on their bank statements.

Spoiler alert: they never will be.

Americans talk about “seeing through the partisan @#!!$#!%” of US politics like it’s some kind of magical superpower, but it’s not. Both parties act in slightly different ways toward the exact same ends, working together like the jab-cross combination of a boxer to advance the same warmongering, corporatist oligarchic agendas, and there’s no reason to believe any of them about anything. America has two corporatist war parties who serve a plutocratic class of elites; one of them wears a cowboy hat, the other has pink hair. That’s it. That’s all you need to see to free yourself from the illusion.

Please stop attacking one another for the evils that have been inflicted on you by this small group of sociopaths, America. Stop buying into the two-party good cop/bad cop schtick that the elites use to turn urban Americans against rural Americans and turn your anger toward your real enemies.

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