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Hills has a sad.

In a coincidence for the ages, Hillary Clinton—widely dismissed in 2016 as she tried to warn the country of what a threat Donald Trump posed—was on MSNBC on Monday night as the latest round of indictments around Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election were coming out.

In the interview, Rachel Maddow asked the question everyone wants to ask Clinton: “Do you feel satisfaction in that?”

“I don’t feel any satisfaction,” Clinton responded. “I feel great, just great profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive.”

Clinton went on to note that while we don’t yet know what’s in the Georgia indictments, the publicly available evidence of efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn that state’s election paint a damning picture.

“The only satisfaction,” Clinton added, “may be that the system is working. That all of the efforts by Donald Trump, his allies, and his enablers to try to silence the truth, to try to undermine democracy have been brought into the light, and justice is being pursued.”

We just found out that Trump has been indicted in the Georgia case. But I don’t believe that the Hellabitch isn’t satisfied with what you wrought on Trump. In fact I’m betting that she is smiling ear to ear. But the good thing is that she never got to or will get to be president. 2 good things came out of Trump winning. He canceled the TPP and the other Tp…something trade agreements and he didn’t start the war with Russia. And if the facts are true he stopped the planned war on Iran. Remember he called the plane full of bombs back after they were sent. I wonder who actually gave that order?

What are the chances that Russia comes up?

Hillary has been behind almost every false conspiracy theory of the last 25 years: Iraq/WMD; Iraq/Al-Qaeda alliance; Trump/Russia "collusion": Putin controlling the US through blackmail; Hunter laptop as "Russian disinformation," etc. https://t.co/MoPgAmccpF

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 14, 2023

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...who acted as Mueller's muscle during the Trump/Russia false flag investigation?

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The U.S. Army killed the buffalo during Manifest Destiny for the same reason that the World Economic Forum wants to kill all of the cattle in Holland and Ireland during the Great Reset — they want to starve the people and drive them off their land so that the robber barons can steal everything.

Turley on the Weiss being upgraded to special counsel.

‘Shoeless Joe’ Weiss and the fixing of the Hunter Biden game

This is not a case of history repeating itself. After being confronted by allegations of a fixed investigation, Attorney General Merrick Garland just sent Shoeless Joe back into the game.

The appointment of Delaware David Weiss as the new special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden left many with the same disbelief as that kid in Chicago. This is, after all, the same Weiss who headed an investigation that was trashed by whistleblowers, who alleged that his investigation had been fixed from the outset.

It is the same Weiss who ran an investigation in which agents were allegedly prevented from asking about Joe Biden, obstructed in their efforts to pursue questions and compromised by tip offs to the Biden team on planned searches.

It was also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it.

It was the same Weiss who did not indict on major tax felonies and cut a plea deal that brushed aside a felony gun charge.

It was the same Weiss who inked a widely panned “sweetheart” deal that caused a federal judge to balk and trash a sweeping immunity grant — language that even the prosecutor admitted he had never previously seen in a plea deal.

That is why many asked Garland to “say it ain’t so.”

The Weiss appointment definitively established Garland as a failure as attorney general. As someone who initially praised Garland’s appointment, I now see that he has repeatedly shown he lacks the strength and leadership to rise to these moments.
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Second, there is the failure to expand Weiss’s mandate. Garland described that mandate as focusing again on Hunter Biden, and the Justice Department refused to respond to questions on the possible inclusion of his father in the investigation.

This was another opportunity to recognize the widespread distrust over the department and expressly allow the special counsel to include the corruption allegations involving both Hunter and the president. That would have supported calls for the House to delay further investigations.

As it stands, Garland has virtually ensured that Congress will pursue an impeachment inquiry as the only body seriously investigating the scandal.

It could not be worse for the Justice Department as an institution. “Shoeless Joe” Weiss is back in the game, long after the public has left in disgust.

The corporate media is spinning the republican’s response to this as being upset about it after they actually asked Garland to appoint a SC, but of course they are leaving out the reasons why they are upset. After reading more of how Garland and Weiss have gone out of their way to keep Joe Biden from being investigated it brought to mind how it’s usually the cover up of the crime that is worse than the crime itself.

Biden was asked for a comment on the Hawaii fires and he said, No Comment and got in his car after spending another weekend at his beach front house in Delaware. Hey remember all that time Trump spent golfing? Yeah that was bad, but it wasn’t bad when Obama spent a lot of time golfing himself.

@Pluto's Republic ..in an.online video for about a year or so. Used to follow him regularly. For a second I was hoping that this was a new video. I saw this one at the time. I remember when he went to Xinjiang to document the "suppression" of Uyghur culture. He couldn't find the concentration camps either, or any evidence of "genocide." Go figure. A couple of other expats I used to follow from the west went to Xinjiang, and came to the same conclusions.

Sometimes I found DDs fixation on twitter thread wars a bit too obscure for me to follow. He took his critics very seriously. In any case, I wish him well. I thought his videos were quite informative. Loved his visit to Lhasa, that was another eye opener. It's one thing to read about CIA machinations in China, another to see how the the "enlightened" monks of "independent Tibet" really governed Tibet like a slave state. Where's Richard Gere when you need him?

Thanks for posting his video @Pluto's Republic.

I keep a library of truth bombs and hoax busters like the one posted below. I watch them for clues to try to understand why a huge majority of minds in a large population of ordinary people are instantly and permanently snared and triggered by certain preposterous hoaxes. They are potentially weaponized by their insensible gullibility, which endangers the entire population. What is different about the minds of the small minority of ordinary people, who instantly see the illogical fault lines and the surrealistic distortion of a Big Lie? This minority, consisting of adults and children are often shocked — usually into silence — when they realize that most people actually believe it. (Chinese Spy Balloon, anyone?)

This is an intellectual anomaly that defies functional logic, and it needs to be addressed and resolved. How were so many minds derailed? I hypothesize that at one point, during a specific 14-year period, some 'thing' or 'event' happened, that markedly fractured people's natural instincts for self preservation. On a related note, I also hypothesize that leaders who are close to power (for example, elected members of Congress, media figures, and other spokespersons and representatives) have no mental awareness that they lie repeatedly when they speak. They sound as if they are mentally ill. This phenomenon, which can resemble hypocrisy, is completely bi-partisan.

Anyway, it's a slow Monday night. So here's a hoax-buster you might enjoy:

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As always, thanks for the blues, Joe.

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Being a useful idiot for Israel

The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of U.S. dollars, on the indigenous population of Palestine. It is the all powerful against the all powerless.

Israel uses its modern weaponry against a captive population that has no army, no navy, no air force, no mechanized military units, no command and control and no heavy artillery, while pretending intermittent acts of wholesale slaughter are wars. The crude rockets fired at Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations — a war crime because they target civilians — are not remotely comparable to the 2,000 pound “bunker-buster” Mark-84 bombs with a “kill radius” of over 32 yards and which “create a supersonic wave of pressure when they explode” that have been dropped by Israel on crowded Palestinian neighborhoods, the thousands of Palestinian killed and wounded and the targeted destruction of basic infrastructure, including electrical grids and water purification plants

There is a heavy political price to pay for defying Israel, whose overt interference in our political process makes the most tepid protests about Israeli policy a political death wish. The Palestinians are poor, forgotten and alone. And this is why the defiance of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is the central issue facing any politician who claims to speak on behalf of the vulnerable and the marginalized. To stand up to Israel has a political cost few, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are willing to pay. But if you do stand up, it singles you out as someone who puts principles before expediency, who is willing to fight for the wretched of the earth and, if necessary, sacrifice your political future to retain your integrity. Kennedy fails this crucial test of political and moral courage.

Kennedy, instead, regurgitates every lie, every racist trope, every distortion of history and every demeaning comment about the backwardness of the Palestinian people peddled by the most retrograde and far-right elements of Israeli society. He peddles the myth of what Pappe calls “Fantasy Israel.” This alone discredits him as a progressive candidate. It calls into question his judgment and sincerity. It makes him another Democratic Party hack who dances to the macabre tune the Israeli government plays.

Kennedy has vowed to make “the moral case for Israel,” which is the equivalent of making the moral case for apartheid South Africa. He repeats, almost verbatim, talking points from the Israeli propaganda playbook put together by the Republican pollster and political strategist, Frank Luntz. The 112-page study, marked “not for distribution or publication,” which was leaked to Newsweek, was commissioned by The Israel Project. It was written in the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 and January 2009 — when 1,387 Palestinians and nine Israelis were killed.

The strategy document is the blueprint for how Israeli politicians and lobbyists sell Israel. It exposes the wide gap between what Israeli politicians say and what they know to be the truth. It is tailored to tell the outside world, especially Americans, what they want to hear. The report is required reading for anyone attempting to deal with the Israeli propaganda machine.

Those who support these discriminatory laws and embrace Israeli apartheid are blinded by willful ignorance, racism or cynicism. Their goal is to dehumanize Palestinians, champion an intolerant Jewish chauvinism and entice the naïve and the gullible into justifying the unjustifiable. Kennedy, bereft of a moral compass and a belief system rooted in verifiable fact, has not only failed the Palestinians, he has failed us.

Kennedy is either woefully ignorant of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians or he’s sticking up for a murderous regime. Either way I think this makes him unqualified to be president for anyone who wants peace between the 2 countries. And I don’t believe that he can be that ignorant of what Israel has been doing for decades while the rest of the fcking world stays silent.

quite good.

Ep. 16 RFK Jr. explains Ukraine, bio-labs, and who killed his uncle pic.twitter.com/RMr5VZVqSM

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 14, 2023