I’m right here with you on telling Obama to kiss your ass. He can kiss mine too while he is down there kissing yours. That so many people are blind to how horrible his tenure was is gonna fill books. He was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime and while every one of them were war criminals at least we got some good things from Nixon such as the EPA and a few other things. What did we get from Clinton or Obama? Did either one pass anything that helped our lives?

Caitlin has such a great way with words doesn’t she?

Here’s another excellent expose from her.

The operators of this globe-spanning empire have always been acutely aware that the weakest point in their machine is the possibility that the hundreds of millions of people who live in this nation may one day decide that the imperial status quo is not serving them, and that they do not want to be ruled anymore. They know that the last line of defense against this happening is their ability to use extreme violence upon the population until they stop revolting, so they have no intention of ever giving up this ability. An entire planetary empire depends on it.

Now, if you’d been hearing the bedtime story your whole life but not the waking up story, you would naturally assume that demanding an end to police brutality was the most reasonable thing in the world. You would naturally expect that if a police officer was caught on video deliberately strangling a man to death and then was not immediately arrested and prosecuted for murder, people would be understandably outraged and drastic systemic changes would be swiftly implemented to appease their anger. You would naturally expect the shining city on the hill to side with the people over a police force’s murderous tendencies.

If you’ve heard the waking up story, you would expect no such thing. You would understand that racial disparities never left the nation in question, and that the establishment which still keeps J Edgar Hoover’s name on the FBI building has no intention of doing anything about the police force’s role in it. You would understand that the role of the police is not to protect and serve the people but to protect and serve the empire, in the exact same way that this is the role of the military. You would understand that the empire is no more likely to voluntarily dispense with the violent tactics of its increasingly militarized police force than it is to dispense with its air force or nuclear warheads.

They’ll supply all the empty words and take-a-knee photo ops you like, but actually voluntarily disarming themselves against their subjects is not something they’re planning on doing.

That so many people have forgotten about Biden’s true history and legacy just baffles me. And how can anyone think that Pelosi was putting Trump down here

That wasn’t her secretly saying that trump is an idiot. It’s her saying, "job well done."

Your kid was lucky to have you as her/her dad.

That’s the real reason the political/media class has been behaving so weird the last four years. It isn’t because Trump’s not a loyal empire lackey (he is), it isn’t because he’s a Russian secret agent (he’s not), and it isn’t because he’s a uniquely depraved president (he’s not). It’s because he allows people to see the perverse mechanics of a globe-sprawling murderous empire for the sick, evil thing that it actually is. That and nothing more.

She nails it.

The more comfortable classes buy into that particular kind of bullshit that Obama is so good at selling but regular working people all over the world seem pretty fed up with the order of things, so I'm not sure trotting out the Nice Dad act is going to be as effective as it has been even in the recent past. Guess we'll see.

on this issue are so powerful, and they've been expressed many times since 2016 by many observers. Harry Truman's assertion, that American Democrats would vote for a real Republican over a fake Democrat, was quoted many times online, and Michael Moore's observation, that a vote for Trump was a Molotov Cocktail thrown at the system, was also published widely.

So I'm not saying Caitlin's late to the party. Nobody says it better than she does. But when people like me can be pushed to the point of even considering voting for Trump for the reasons she so strongly points out -- that he has no clothes, he has no mask, he illustrates exactly what our government stands for-- her point is just stating the obvious, that the hypnotised American public will think slicing children in half with cluster bombs is the right thing to do if a really nice guy tells you it's good, but if an obnoxious boor tells you it's good, the American people will scream with rage and horror.

This is the sad reality of our time.

You just made me feel sane again.

It's pretty hard, even for somebody with my training, to bear up under what seems like almost everyone buying into this blood-soaked wrestling angle.

I keep thinking, "It's like a face and a heel squaring off in pro wrestling--except that what the heel does to prove he's a heel is climb up into the crowd and actually kill people."

It is one of the most demoralizing things I've experienced, to watch the deaths of innocents used to fuel these bullshit narratives, where everyone who *isn't* Trump proves what great guys they are by saying they don't like Trump and that they do like Black Lives Matter, or that they want us all to be nice to each other. Words are cheap. In fact, after the past twenty-five years, words are wooden nickles.

I can't fucking believe I'm supposed to accept people like George W. Bush, John Brennan, and Mad Dog Mattis as my allies (or leaders, even?) I can't fucking believe I'm supposed to accept people like Jamie Dimon, Lachlan Murdoch, and Laurence Fink (what a great name for him, BTW) as my allies (or leaders, even). I'm supposed to believe that these bastards give a shit what happens to black people, when they obviously didn't give a shit when Eric Garner was killed in almost the exact same way. Or when Sandra Bland was killed in almost the exact same way. Or when Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old boy, was shot for being black while owning a BB gun. And, by the way, wasn't George W. Bush the one who only got elected by bringing Jim Crow into the 21st century? Didn't he do that twice? Didn't we have a problem with how he treated black citizens of New Orleans during and after Katrina? Didn't his friends, in fact, make a quick buck by seizing the property of black citizens of New Orleans after Katrina? Speaking of making a quick buck, didn't Jamie Dimon sell "ghetto mortgages" (Wall St's words, not mine) to black people and Latino people especially? Didn't he target them? Didn't Wall St go through the black middle class (and the homeowning black working class) like locusts through wheat? Should I go on to describe how the Clintons did a similar thing in Haiti, or do Haitians still not count as real black people?

All this bad behavior, all this mistreatment of black people, just disappears down the memory hole. Because Trump. Trump bad. People who hate Trump good.

So, if I can get this straight, you can go from being someone who harms black people daily and uses racism to extract wealth from them constantly, to being a civil rights champion, in three minutes or less. However long it takes you to cut your promo on Trump and tell everybody in the crowd they should be nice to each other.

This image is the key to the Trump era: