"For DEMOCRATS and the Deep State — but I repeat myself — the First Amendment is but one obstacle on their path to subjugation and control." (Capitalization is mine)
In case you had not noticed, both the George Bush the Elder & George Bush the Lesser administrations were all on board with the foreign policy operations which have now blown up in the face of the last of 3 democratic administrations (all on board with the the same operations too), which political/economic failure has now FINALLY allowed to enter the consciousness of Joe Sixpack and Sally Housecoat via our (still oligarch controlled) social media and "pop alternative" sources.
It's not a D & R issue. It's a POWER & MONEY issue, if you DON'T have money and power but want to stick your oar in and threaten the PTB power & profits in any meaningful way, your nominal D/R preferences won't keep your peasant ass out of a wood chipper.
D vs. R being used to point fingers sure makes a nice distraction though.
Bush the Lesser and his cronies all endorsed Kamala and the Democrats. Why, she even thought that Dick Cheney endorsement was something to be really proud of and wave around!
Federal government workers are now something like 80%+ Democrat. And half the supposed "Republicans" are just Dem Lite Beltway RINOs.
The government has a nearly complete and total disconnect from the average working voter.
The average government worker doesn't get laid off during a slow down due to economic down turns.
The average government worker never lost their job because someone in China or Mexico would work for less pay.
The average government worker doesn't lose their job because US regulations made their online/over the phone work too expensive to compete and the job got subcontracted to a call center in India.
Agreed, but there is still a nominal difference between D and R. There is literally nobody fighting for ordinary people on Team Blue. Any of them who even try to help are pilloried and excommunicated over the slightest heresy against party orthodoxy, even if 70% of America supports said "heresy."
There are a *tiny* minority of R's who actually try to help, but they;'re just dwarfed by the cosplaying elite Dems in R skinsuits. Still, from time to time, I might get a table scrap of something that I actually want from Team Red. I never have seen anything I'd ever want, ever, from Team Blue, for 20+ years.
The Conservative Inc, Bushie/Graham/Mitch (the other "Turtle Boy") part of Team Red is utter garbage, though, and as I said, proved themselves to be frauds and backstabbing liars, over and over. From here on out the battle lines are Populism vs Globalism.
How about globalism vs. a synthetic (and ultimately, oligarch controlled) "populism", cynically implemented by faster moving factions among the same ownership class and their tools that we've been run by (and for) in USA over the last century at least. The money has to keep going where it always has, you know. It is all very democratic, money is protected political speech & all.
Having seen the CIA fund and control the largest, most influential leftist 1960s student organizations on USA campuses, then their good friends such as the Kochs taking over the "tea party" and "libertarian" brand names? The agency hire & underwrite the ascension of apparently oppositional "assets" such as Sadam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, the ex baathist officer Iraqi founders of ISIS, the present Emir of Syria and several others?
Tell me that the usual suspects are not front running and copying a trend once again. Look at what is done, not what is said- Heard about any big tax cuts for billionaires coming in the near future?
Enjoy your crumbs, they won't be a well balanced diet or very filling I suspect.
Crumbs still beat the far less appealing full-on raw Demo-globalist ass-fucking the last 4 (actually 40... nah maybe even 100+... , with a couple brief intermissions) years have been.
Libertarian brand name is woke crap now, I prefer Mises Caucus.
Tea Party was just rebranded Conservative Inc who failed to deliver time and again.
And if you think government speech control is any better than your stupid "money = speech" canard, you're a fool. Corporate censorship is bad; the people with guns and cages doing it is even WORSE.
And Citizens United, as a I recall, was about someone who made an independent MOVIE criticizing Hillary Clinton, the ultimate criminal political scum. Not allowing that meant even MORE propaganda for the ruling class and LESS criticism of them. And this was video-on-demand, so only the people who wanted to see it were going to. It's not like it took up the slot of the 6 o'clock news.
Benz points out that these blob dynamics, agencies and cutouts have been in place since the 50 s. The uniparty is a beneficiary but it is not truly in control
The "uniparty" is itself mainly a control mechanism, a TOOL. Tools are built to be USED, the user(s) are our actual rulers and effectively, our owners. Large corporations/finance & holding companies, their controlling (newer) oligarchs + the several old money & power wielding clans (as far as I can tell). Sometimes this disparate bunch will disagree about how to manage their property.
It’s not even just the USA govt that needs these tangled webs to be dismantled, it is literally every Western govt as well, as they’ve also been party to crushing dissent in their own countries.
It is a WWIII of sorts being waged against our very own govts.
I am grateful Trump had the foresight to appoint Musk and his wonder boys to head up up this almost incomprehensible task, as it demands such an intense level of attention and scrutiny, and Musk has such a burning passion and determination to see it through to its highest possible conclusion. And that drive and determination is what it will take to complete the task, as it will be a long, messy, and extraordinarily challenging one into very uncharted waters.
"DHS moves to fire 12 CISA employees who policed ‘misinformation’ and pause ‘all election security activities’"
It's a start, but just those 12? Is a joke. Homeland security needs to be DISBANDED, any personnel actually performing useful work then need to be reassigned to the several pre existing agencies which previously covered their (constitutionally legitimate) work load. Oh, and Homeland Security's very NAME needs to be publicly derided for the Orwellian BS it was.
After that, Total Information Awareness (renamed the Terrorism Information Awareness, then hidden under still further name changes, it is still being pursued) needs to go on a bonfire, along with CAPS II & etc., whatever they've now called it and whoever is allegedly in charge of this all.
(quote)
"For DEMOCRATS and the Deep State — but I repeat myself — the First Amendment is but one obstacle on their path to subjugation and control." (Capitalization is mine)
In case you had not noticed, both the George Bush the Elder & George Bush the Lesser administrations were all on board with the foreign policy operations which have now blown up in the face of the last of 3 democratic administrations (all on board with the the same operations too), which political/economic failure has now FINALLY allowed to enter the consciousness of Joe Sixpack and Sally Housecoat via our (still oligarch controlled) social media and "pop alternative" sources.
It's not a D & R issue. It's a POWER & MONEY issue, if you DON'T have money and power but want to stick your oar in and threaten the PTB power & profits in any meaningful way, your nominal D/R preferences won't keep your peasant ass out of a wood chipper.
D vs. R being used to point fingers sure makes a nice distraction though.
Fair point... I realized that's an omission!
Bush the Lesser and his cronies all endorsed Kamala and the Democrats. Why, she even thought that Dick Cheney endorsement was something to be really proud of and wave around!
Federal government workers are now something like 80%+ Democrat. And half the supposed "Republicans" are just Dem Lite Beltway RINOs.
The government has a nearly complete and total disconnect from the average working voter.
@Steve
The average government worker doesn't get laid off during a slow down due to economic down turns.
The average government worker never lost their job because someone in China or Mexico would work for less pay.
The average government worker doesn't lose their job because US regulations made their online/over the phone work too expensive to compete and the job got subcontracted to a call center in India.
Enough said?
Agreed, but there is still a nominal difference between D and R. There is literally nobody fighting for ordinary people on Team Blue. Any of them who even try to help are pilloried and excommunicated over the slightest heresy against party orthodoxy, even if 70% of America supports said "heresy."
There are a *tiny* minority of R's who actually try to help, but they;'re just dwarfed by the cosplaying elite Dems in R skinsuits. Still, from time to time, I might get a table scrap of something that I actually want from Team Red. I never have seen anything I'd ever want, ever, from Team Blue, for 20+ years.
The Conservative Inc, Bushie/Graham/Mitch (the other "Turtle Boy") part of Team Red is utter garbage, though, and as I said, proved themselves to be frauds and backstabbing liars, over and over. From here on out the battle lines are Populism vs Globalism.
@Steve
Crumbs indeed.
How about globalism vs. a synthetic (and ultimately, oligarch controlled) "populism", cynically implemented by faster moving factions among the same ownership class and their tools that we've been run by (and for) in USA over the last century at least. The money has to keep going where it always has, you know. It is all very democratic, money is protected political speech & all.
Having seen the CIA fund and control the largest, most influential leftist 1960s student organizations on USA campuses, then their good friends such as the Kochs taking over the "tea party" and "libertarian" brand names? The agency hire & underwrite the ascension of apparently oppositional "assets" such as Sadam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, the ex baathist officer Iraqi founders of ISIS, the present Emir of Syria and several others?
Tell me that the usual suspects are not front running and copying a trend once again. Look at what is done, not what is said- Heard about any big tax cuts for billionaires coming in the near future?
Enjoy your crumbs, they won't be a well balanced diet or very filling I suspect.
Crumbs still beat the far less appealing full-on raw Demo-globalist ass-fucking the last 4 (actually 40... nah maybe even 100+... , with a couple brief intermissions) years have been.
Libertarian brand name is woke crap now, I prefer Mises Caucus.
Tea Party was just rebranded Conservative Inc who failed to deliver time and again.
And if you think government speech control is any better than your stupid "money = speech" canard, you're a fool. Corporate censorship is bad; the people with guns and cages doing it is even WORSE.
And Citizens United, as a I recall, was about someone who made an independent MOVIE criticizing Hillary Clinton, the ultimate criminal political scum. Not allowing that meant even MORE propaganda for the ruling class and LESS criticism of them. And this was video-on-demand, so only the people who wanted to see it were going to. It's not like it took up the slot of the 6 o'clock news.
@Steve
Thanks for your response, I learned of two things I had not previously encountered.
Benz points out that these blob dynamics, agencies and cutouts have been in place since the 50 s. The uniparty is a beneficiary but it is not truly in control
@Burnt taco
The "uniparty" is itself mainly a control mechanism, a TOOL. Tools are built to be USED, the user(s) are our actual rulers and effectively, our owners. Large corporations/finance & holding companies, their controlling (newer) oligarchs + the several old money & power wielding clans (as far as I can tell). Sometimes this disparate bunch will disagree about how to manage their property.
It’s not even just the USA govt that needs these tangled webs to be dismantled, it is literally every Western govt as well, as they’ve also been party to crushing dissent in their own countries.
It is a WWIII of sorts being waged against our very own govts.
I am grateful Trump had the foresight to appoint Musk and his wonder boys to head up up this almost incomprehensible task, as it demands such an intense level of attention and scrutiny, and Musk has such a burning passion and determination to see it through to its highest possible conclusion. And that drive and determination is what it will take to complete the task, as it will be a long, messy, and extraordinarily challenging one into very uncharted waters.
Re #6:
"DHS moves to fire 12 CISA employees who policed ‘misinformation’ and pause ‘all election security activities’"
It's a start, but just those 12? Is a joke. Homeland security needs to be DISBANDED, any personnel actually performing useful work then need to be reassigned to the several pre existing agencies which previously covered their (constitutionally legitimate) work load. Oh, and Homeland Security's very NAME needs to be publicly derided for the Orwellian BS it was.
After that, Total Information Awareness (renamed the Terrorism Information Awareness, then hidden under still further name changes, it is still being pursued) needs to go on a bonfire, along with CAPS II & etc., whatever they've now called it and whoever is allegedly in charge of this all.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/qa-pentagons-total-information-awareness-programhttps://www.aclu.org/documents/feature-capps-ii
https://www.aclu.org/documents/feature-capps-ii
https://nypost.com/2025/02/14/us-news/dhs-moves-to-fire-12-cisa-employees-who-policed-misinformation-and-pause-all-election-security-activities/
Good resources. @TruthOverNews
Thanks for the nice summary.
Let’s begin this process by determining who is guilty of treason and send them to GITMO to await trial.
WOW
Well said.