I saw a Tik Tok by a guy who grew up in a Christian conservative white family. He has interesting insight into why these people are happy to employ double standards. They operate in a safe, secure universe where everything that happens to them is someone else's fault. If they were to acknowledge the reality, it would completely destroy their world and they wouldn't have that safety and security in the righteousness and veracity of their worldview. And having that security is "addictive" he said. It explains a lot about the behavior and attitudes of the right wing.
The popularity of the Democratic party is at an all time low with voters
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is teaching the Democratic party if they are willing to listen The electorate as measured by the number of protesters and those who support these protests is significant and the electorate is angry where the current Nazi regime is taking the country But it seems that the DNC is unwilling to rock to the boat and piss off big money donors so the status quo remains
But there is another element in the DNC rot There are long term influencers who are “hanging around” who still insist that policy should be the same For example the Jewish old guard like Simon Rosenberg representing the AJPM(American Jewish Propaganda Machine) continue to support the Gaza genocide Mamdami has shown he can appeal to the NY Jewish population and still be opposed to the genocide and Israeli war criminals
The DNC needs a bold new aggressive agenda to win over the electorate Immediate SCOTUS reform, renewal of voting rights eroded by SCOTUS, support for women’s reproductive rights, ending Citizens United and big money in politics, and taxation of fat cat billionaires and corporations All done with an angry attitude of taking no prisoners and no reaching across the aisle Time for an all out political cleansing of the Nazi regime
And van Hollen initially It will take time but the DNC has to get over their problem of socialism phobia How the Nazis portray socialism is their cudgel to spout and propagandize authoritarianism The DNC needs to proudly endorse the label of socialism because if socialism is human kindness and decency, then give me a lot of it Socialism is actually a policy against greed and power WE the People should be all for socialism
How can the murder of one prick, be more important than the torture & extermination of an entire people?
Imagine if it weren't.
Imagine if we were better people.
Imagine if we couldn't be distracted like this, by a sniper, some gore, a series of unconvincing suspects, and no confessed motive.
The likelihood remains, that the people who instantaneously set this distraction-machine into motion, to benefit from his death, are the people who had him killed. The people who hated the fact that Kirk was starting to tug at his leash (regarding Epstein, and calling Oct 7 an "inside job").
The second he started doing that, he was permanently silenced (using Israel's favourite mode of murder), the media was flooded with opportunistic propaganda, and he was replaced by Ben Shapiro.
If anyone wants to honour the prick, then do that by breaking the distraction-machine that they built to exploit his death. Do what we would have done if he hadn't been gruesomely murdered.
Let us also talk about the murder and extermination going on right know in CHINA of their Islamic population which effects more people than anything going on in Israel right now. We support China through our billions and billions of dollars of trade with, this must stop until they stop their genocide of their Islamic population!!!
I'd sure like to see more coverage of the flotilla, though. A patch of hope in a sea of bleakness.
I think coverage of the flotilla, should be plastered everywhere, and it should be relentlessly pointed out that every single one of those people, on board every single one of those boats, is risking his or her life, to try to do as much as they can, of the job that our governments — with all of the power they gained by (ostensibly) representing us — are refusing to do.
In my opinion Zeteo and I have mentioned this to them, and they ignore me, that they focus on the Israel-Palistinian situation and completely ignore what is going on with persecution of people who follow Islam in other parts of the world like China. In other they are hypocrites, I have told them this but they just ignore me.
I have mentioned this to Mr. Ben who I know is the guy in charge, but he ignores me, he only cares about Arabs who follow Islam, and he only condemns Israel, he ignore all the other countries that are doing the same thing as Israel but are not obviously run by Jews.
Erika spoke from a PULPIT, in Kirk's podcast office (strange) TIMES Drumpf ''man of the year" magazine set up facing outward on the white shelves, Erika also wearing 'angelic' white and there are 2 white MAGA hats on the desk.
(As my comments relate to the terrible and tragic assassination recently of Charlie Kirk, please know that I find it stupid, tragic and a terrible waste of a human life for which there can be no justification. Further my heart goes out in tremendous empathy to his grieving young widow and small children.)
As a student of world history and authoritarian movements, the immediate and extremely intense, dramatic, aggressive and hostile reaction - especially by messr's. Trump, Miller, Alex Jones, FOX Media personalities and other MAGA influencers too numerous to list and the degree to which it villainized the "extreme, evil, violent, dangerous, murderous Un-American Left (not my terminology, theirs) to the point that the president "declared war" on them. And this was all before anything whatsoever was known about the alleged assassin including his identity. I know of nothing to support this, but the uncannily similar nature of the previously mentioned reactions and politicization seemed almost coordinated and planned. The massive public outcry among individual supporters could have been expected, given the extremely intense and consistent placement of blame by nationally prominent figures.
In Germany in 1930 a chillingly similar situation occurred when Nazi party and SA (Stürmabteilungen or stormtroopers/"Brown Shirts") member Horst Wessel was murdered by two communists. Joseph Goebbels, Berlin Gauleiter and propaganda chief, had been looking for just such a figure. He had tried this once before with another individual who never caught on with the base. However, Horst Wessel made up for it in spades. Wessel's death could have no more been predicted with any certainty than Charlie Kirk's. Yet because just such a scenario developing at some point had been envisioned that could be manipulated by Goebbels and other key figures, when Horst Wessel the SA member died, Horst Wessel the Nazi party martyr was born. And the rest is history.
(If you've ever watched a documentary or drama about the Third Reich, You may well have heard the "Horst Wessel Song" a very popular and rousing drinking song that became the unofficial anthem of the Nazi party.)
Bloody chum in the water brings sharks. They will bite anything and that is not violence. It brings emotionally soothing food for the soul. There is a need for social services to address these emotionally challenged individuals. Instead some torture them repeatedly with heteronormativity. This is not politics. This is systemic abuse and societal failure that are both fixable. I am disgusted by those making a living by bellowing in this type of torture chamber. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/bloody-chum?r=3m1bs
Great listening thanks. The double standards are glaringly obvious, do we now go and Cannonise Stalin? or Sadam etc etc. Where are your democratic leaders utterly MIA.
Please keep countering the dialogue. Use facts and reason to silence the haters.... never a bullet. That same attitudes based on hate and greed exported to Gaza, Doha etc, is coming now to the USA. I would suggest it is time for a change in thinking less violence and a champioing and celebration of everyone.'s shared humanity. Using different filters when making decisions leads maybe to different yes and maybe better outcomes. This constant cycle of violence needs something to change for it to change. I live along way from the states but most Americans I have met are decent human beings and more like me than different. The words and actions of your politicians and those acting in that space seem more focused on dogma, self interest and the status quo. The gap seems huge.
Thank you for calling out the vile hypocrisy surrounding Charlie Kirk's murder. It doesn't surprise me at all because this kind of lying and misdirection is a key element of MAGA strategy.
The right wing are galactic hypocrites and fascists - the latter includes the most active and passive actors. Kirk was a white nationalist Xian fascist. FULL STOP! It should be frightening to EVERYONE the amount of praise this fascist is garnering in his death - which I believe he’d fully support.
The right are really good at the “shock doctrine” and will no doubt use Kirk’s death to eliminate more civil liberties and institute draconian policies and laws to eliminate dissent of any sort from anyone. White supremacist fascism has ALWAYS been an ugly undercurrent in U.S. politics - foreign and domestic. And it is really the responsibility of white U.S. Americans to lead the way in changing this reality. They created it and have benefited the most from it - the data or facts don’t lie.
Ezra Klein has decided he wants his bag and day in the sun since he’s been rather living in obscurity compared to other progressive sellouts. His book is nothing more than a treatise on how to put lipstick on the pig of neoliberalism. He’s a Zionist as well so he can go fuck himself.
They are also using his killing as a distraction to the EpStein files.
I saw a Tik Tok by a guy who grew up in a Christian conservative white family. He has interesting insight into why these people are happy to employ double standards. They operate in a safe, secure universe where everything that happens to them is someone else's fault. If they were to acknowledge the reality, it would completely destroy their world and they wouldn't have that safety and security in the righteousness and veracity of their worldview. And having that security is "addictive" he said. It explains a lot about the behavior and attitudes of the right wing.
Dealing With The DNC Rot From Within
The popularity of the Democratic party is at an all time low with voters
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is teaching the Democratic party if they are willing to listen The electorate as measured by the number of protesters and those who support these protests is significant and the electorate is angry where the current Nazi regime is taking the country But it seems that the DNC is unwilling to rock to the boat and piss off big money donors so the status quo remains
But there is another element in the DNC rot There are long term influencers who are “hanging around” who still insist that policy should be the same For example the Jewish old guard like Simon Rosenberg representing the AJPM(American Jewish Propaganda Machine) continue to support the Gaza genocide Mamdami has shown he can appeal to the NY Jewish population and still be opposed to the genocide and Israeli war criminals
The DNC needs a bold new aggressive agenda to win over the electorate Immediate SCOTUS reform, renewal of voting rights eroded by SCOTUS, support for women’s reproductive rights, ending Citizens United and big money in politics, and taxation of fat cat billionaires and corporations All done with an angry attitude of taking no prisoners and no reaching across the aisle Time for an all out political cleansing of the Nazi regime
Just read Hochul is now endorsing Mamdani. She took her time.
And van Hollen initially It will take time but the DNC has to get over their problem of socialism phobia How the Nazis portray socialism is their cudgel to spout and propagandize authoritarianism The DNC needs to proudly endorse the label of socialism because if socialism is human kindness and decency, then give me a lot of it Socialism is actually a policy against greed and power WE the People should be all for socialism
How can the murder of one prick, be more important than the torture & extermination of an entire people?
Imagine if it weren't.
Imagine if we were better people.
Imagine if we couldn't be distracted like this, by a sniper, some gore, a series of unconvincing suspects, and no confessed motive.
The likelihood remains, that the people who instantaneously set this distraction-machine into motion, to benefit from his death, are the people who had him killed. The people who hated the fact that Kirk was starting to tug at his leash (regarding Epstein, and calling Oct 7 an "inside job").
The second he started doing that, he was permanently silenced (using Israel's favourite mode of murder), the media was flooded with opportunistic propaganda, and he was replaced by Ben Shapiro.
If anyone wants to honour the prick, then do that by breaking the distraction-machine that they built to exploit his death. Do what we would have done if he hadn't been gruesomely murdered.
Let's talk about Palestine.
Can you update us on the flotilla?
Let us also talk about the murder and extermination going on right know in CHINA of their Islamic population which effects more people than anything going on in Israel right now. We support China through our billions and billions of dollars of trade with, this must stop until they stop their genocide of their Islamic population!!!
Of course.
And Sudan.
I'd sure like to see more coverage of the flotilla, though. A patch of hope in a sea of bleakness.
I think coverage of the flotilla, should be plastered everywhere, and it should be relentlessly pointed out that every single one of those people, on board every single one of those boats, is risking his or her life, to try to do as much as they can, of the job that our governments — with all of the power they gained by (ostensibly) representing us — are refusing to do.
In my opinion Zeteo and I have mentioned this to them, and they ignore me, that they focus on the Israel-Palistinian situation and completely ignore what is going on with persecution of people who follow Islam in other parts of the world like China. In other they are hypocrites, I have told them this but they just ignore me.
I have mentioned this to Mr. Ben who I know is the guy in charge, but he ignores me, he only cares about Arabs who follow Islam, and he only condemns Israel, he ignore all the other countries that are doing the same thing as Israel but are not obviously run by Jews.
The irony. Charlie Kirk was answering a question regarding gun violence when he was murdered. Live by the gun, die by the gun.
Erika spoke from a PULPIT, in Kirk's podcast office (strange) TIMES Drumpf ''man of the year" magazine set up facing outward on the white shelves, Erika also wearing 'angelic' white and there are 2 white MAGA hats on the desk.
This was the eulogy fit her husband???
Not getting it.
(As my comments relate to the terrible and tragic assassination recently of Charlie Kirk, please know that I find it stupid, tragic and a terrible waste of a human life for which there can be no justification. Further my heart goes out in tremendous empathy to his grieving young widow and small children.)
As a student of world history and authoritarian movements, the immediate and extremely intense, dramatic, aggressive and hostile reaction - especially by messr's. Trump, Miller, Alex Jones, FOX Media personalities and other MAGA influencers too numerous to list and the degree to which it villainized the "extreme, evil, violent, dangerous, murderous Un-American Left (not my terminology, theirs) to the point that the president "declared war" on them. And this was all before anything whatsoever was known about the alleged assassin including his identity. I know of nothing to support this, but the uncannily similar nature of the previously mentioned reactions and politicization seemed almost coordinated and planned. The massive public outcry among individual supporters could have been expected, given the extremely intense and consistent placement of blame by nationally prominent figures.
In Germany in 1930 a chillingly similar situation occurred when Nazi party and SA (Stürmabteilungen or stormtroopers/"Brown Shirts") member Horst Wessel was murdered by two communists. Joseph Goebbels, Berlin Gauleiter and propaganda chief, had been looking for just such a figure. He had tried this once before with another individual who never caught on with the base. However, Horst Wessel made up for it in spades. Wessel's death could have no more been predicted with any certainty than Charlie Kirk's. Yet because just such a scenario developing at some point had been envisioned that could be manipulated by Goebbels and other key figures, when Horst Wessel the SA member died, Horst Wessel the Nazi party martyr was born. And the rest is history.
(If you've ever watched a documentary or drama about the Third Reich, You may well have heard the "Horst Wessel Song" a very popular and rousing drinking song that became the unofficial anthem of the Nazi party.)
Bloody chum in the water brings sharks. They will bite anything and that is not violence. It brings emotionally soothing food for the soul. There is a need for social services to address these emotionally challenged individuals. Instead some torture them repeatedly with heteronormativity. This is not politics. This is systemic abuse and societal failure that are both fixable. I am disgusted by those making a living by bellowing in this type of torture chamber. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/bloody-chum?r=3m1bs
This was excellent gentleman ! The way you both frame what’s going on in a “big picture “ perspective is refreshing and thoughtful
Great listening thanks. The double standards are glaringly obvious, do we now go and Cannonise Stalin? or Sadam etc etc. Where are your democratic leaders utterly MIA.
Please keep countering the dialogue. Use facts and reason to silence the haters.... never a bullet. That same attitudes based on hate and greed exported to Gaza, Doha etc, is coming now to the USA. I would suggest it is time for a change in thinking less violence and a champioing and celebration of everyone.'s shared humanity. Using different filters when making decisions leads maybe to different yes and maybe better outcomes. This constant cycle of violence needs something to change for it to change. I live along way from the states but most Americans I have met are decent human beings and more like me than different. The words and actions of your politicians and those acting in that space seem more focused on dogma, self interest and the status quo. The gap seems huge.
Good fortune to you.
Thank you for calling out the vile hypocrisy surrounding Charlie Kirk's murder. It doesn't surprise me at all because this kind of lying and misdirection is a key element of MAGA strategy.
Thanks for continuing to behave as though we have freedom of speech!
Well, I will continue to speak on his hate rhetoric 🙏🇱🇷
The right wing are galactic hypocrites and fascists - the latter includes the most active and passive actors. Kirk was a white nationalist Xian fascist. FULL STOP! It should be frightening to EVERYONE the amount of praise this fascist is garnering in his death - which I believe he’d fully support.
The right are really good at the “shock doctrine” and will no doubt use Kirk’s death to eliminate more civil liberties and institute draconian policies and laws to eliminate dissent of any sort from anyone. White supremacist fascism has ALWAYS been an ugly undercurrent in U.S. politics - foreign and domestic. And it is really the responsibility of white U.S. Americans to lead the way in changing this reality. They created it and have benefited the most from it - the data or facts don’t lie.
Ezra Klein has decided he wants his bag and day in the sun since he’s been rather living in obscurity compared to other progressive sellouts. His book is nothing more than a treatise on how to put lipstick on the pig of neoliberalism. He’s a Zionist as well so he can go fuck himself.
Vive le journaliste indépendant!! Thank-you for your contributions Mehdi and Prem...you have your work cut out for you.
STOP CALLING KIRK A CONSERVATIVE PUNDIT! He was a far-right/fascist provocateur.
At the very least, call him a MAGA activist, he wasn’t conservative in any way. Just like 99.9% of all MAGA and republicans.