The Evening Blues - 6-27-24
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This evening's music features Chicago blues harmonica player Shakey Jake Harris. Enjoy!
Shakey Jake Harris - Roll Your Money Maker
News and Opinion
Stella Assange urges journalists to FOI the US government to get case details
Stella Assange has urged Australian journalists to lodge freedom of information requests with the United States government to extract details on its criminal case against her husband because the now-returned WikiLeaks publisher’s plea deal bans him from doing so. ...
Julian Assange has not spoken publicly since his arrival in Canberra on Wednesday night and his wife said he would need time to recover before he did. She addressed journalists directly at a news conference in Parliament House on Thursday, urging them not to stop investigating the US’ handling of the case against her husband.
“Julian isn’t allowed to request freedom of information, make information requests [to] the US government,” Stella Assange said. “But you can and I encourage you to … so please do.”
Assange’s plea deal contained a separate condition, inserted at the US government’s insistence, that the Australian publisher delete any unpublished US information still in his possession or being held by WikiLeaks or its affiliates.
His US lawyer, Barry Pollack, said the material which WikiLeaks published was now more than a decade old and he did not know whether any more unpublished documents remained in their possession. But he confirmed Assange had done as required.
The Gaza Project: Investigation Details "Unprecedented" Israeli Targeting of Palestinian Journalists
US Congress faces growing calls to withdraw Netanyahu invitation: ‘a terrible mistake’
A group of prominent Israelis – including a former prime minister and an ex-head of Mossad, the foreign intelligence service – have added their voices to the growing domestic calls in the US for Congress to withdraw its invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu to address it next month, calling the move “a terrible mistake”.
The plea, in an op-ed article in the New York Times, argues that the invitation rewards Netanyahu, Israel’s current prime minister, for “scandalous and destructive conduct”, including intelligence failures that led to last October’s deadly Hamas attack and the ensuing bloody war in Gaza which shows no sign of ending.
“Congress has made a terrible mistake. Mr Netanyahu’s appearance in Washington will not represent the State of Israel and its citizens, and it will reward his scandalous and destructive conduct toward our country,” the article’s six authors argue in a blistering critique that also accuses the Israeli prime minister of failing to secure the release of scores of hostages taken in last year’s attack and still held captive.
The article’s authors were Ehud Barak, a former prime minister; Tamir Pardo, an ex-director of Mossad; David Harel, the president of Israel’s academy of sciences and humanities; the novelist David Grossman; Talia Sasson, a former director in the state attorney’s office; and Aaron Ciechanover, a Nobel prize-winning chemist.
Their august status and biting criticism will reinforce the opposition of many Democrats to Netanyahu’s appearance before a joint session on Capitol Hill on 24 July – a sentiment strengthened by his accusation last week that the Biden administration is hampering Israel’s war effort by deliberately withholding weapons, a charge the White House denies.
Amb. Craig Murray : Stop the Genocide!
Israel Warns That It Could Send Lebanon 'Back to the Stone Age'
Despite efforts by the United Nations and others seeking to decrease tensions and prevent a wider war, Israel's defense minister on Wednesday warned that his military could send Lebanon "back to the Stone Age" as tensions continue to escalate between Israel and Hezbollah.
The remarks by Yoav Gallant, Israel's defense minister, followed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration on Sunday that Israeli troops would be transferred from Gaza to the Lebanese border, with some experts predicting an Israeli incursion into Lebanon.
Cross-border strikes between Israel and Hezbollah, a non-state militia and political party in Lebanon, have intensified in recent weeks and have left hundreds dead, mostly on the Lebanese side, over the last nine months.
"Hezbollah understands very well that we can inflict massive damage in Lebanon if a war is launched," Gallant told reporters in Washington, D.C.
Gallant said the Israeli military is capable of taking Lebanon "back to the Stone Age, but we don’t want to do it."
U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths warned Wednesday that a war in Lebanon could be "potentially apocalyptic" and draw in other countries such as Syria. It would be "the flashpoint beyond all flash points," he said.
Israel's defence minister Yoav Gallant has threatened to send Lebanon back to "the Stone Age".
This is itself a direct threat to commit mass war crimes, and indeed to commit genocide.
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 27, 2024
Fresh Israeli Bombings Amid Humanitarian Hellscape in Gaza
Residents of Gaza City's Shujayea neighborhood found themselves on Thursday among the main targets of new Israeli military operations, with thousands of people fleeing as they were "hunted by tanks and planes," as one Palestinian man told Reuters—even as Israel claimed the "intense" phase of the war was over.
Al Jazeera reported that the Israel Defense Forces targeted five residential homes in the Shujayea and Sabra neighborhoods in the early morning hours of Thursday, killing at least five people in the former area and three in the latter.
Evacuation orders from the IDF came about 30 minutes after the shelling began in Shujayea, according to Al Jazeera, with families rushing to move west after receiving text messages and leaflets from the military. The IDF published a map showing that certain blocks of the residential neighborhood were now part of a combat zone where tanks were moving in.
"We were suddenly and intensively bombarded by Israel," one man fleeing the area on foot told Al Jazeera. "We came out and we don't know where to go."
Artillery attacks were also reported in the Zeitoun, Hawa, and Sheikh Ijlin neighborhoods of Gaza City. Shujayea was a key target of the IDF in the first weeks of Israel's bombardment of Gaza last October.
As Israel claims to be drawing down its attacks while rejecting a permanent cease-fire agreement, "the world must not stay silent" about the ongoing assault on Gaza, said researcher and academic Nour Naim.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported Thursday that the people who were killed in Gaza City overnight were among 47 Palestinians killed across the enclave in the past 24 hours. Fifty-two people were reported wounded in the same time period—the latest of dozens each day who are taken to hospitals where doctors struggle to treat people with severely limited supplies due to continued humanitarian aid delays and blockades.
White House brags that it has given Israel $6.5 billion in weapons since October 7
The United States has provided Israel with more than $6.5 billion in weapons since October 7, the White House said Wednesday, underscoring the scale of the Biden administration’s support for the continuing genocide in Gaza.
Doled out over just nine months, this figure is nearly double the US’s typical annual Israel military aid budget of $3.4 billion and will be further supplemented by $14 billion in weapons funding allocated by Congress this year.
The White House admitted the scale of its arms shipments to Israel in a closed briefing to reporters, with neither a video nor transcript made available to the public.
Washington Post reporter John Hudson described the content of the briefing on
“The US has flooded Israel with more than $6.5 billion in security assistance since Oct. 7, said a senior administration official, a massive transfer of equipment and firepower despite recurring disagreements between the two nations over civilian casualties and aid access.”
The US official declared, “This is a massive, massive undertaking, and nothing is paused other than that one shipment” of 2,000-pound bombs.
Aaron Maté: Who Sabotaged the Istanbul Deal?
Le Pen claims far right will win majority and take over some military decisions
Marine Le Pen has said she expects her far-right National Rally (RN) party to win an absolute majority in France’s general election, form a government and take over at least some defence and armed forces decision-making – including on Ukraine.
France’s constitution states that the president is head of the armed forces and chairs France’s national defence committees, but also that the prime minister is “responsible for national defence”, leaving the precise role of the premier open to interpretation.
Emmanuel Macron will remain president after the two-round snap elections on 30 June and 7 July but polls suggest he will face a uniquely hostile parliament dominated by two radical blocs, RN and the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) alliance.
Le Pen’s far-right party is projected to be the largest force in the new parliament, although is far from certain to win an outright majority. The latest polling projects that it and its allies could secure 220 to 260 seats in the 577-seat national assembly.
In an interview with the local newspaper Le Telegramme de Brest, Le Pen said Macron “won’t have much choice” but to appoint her protege, 28-year-old Jordan Bardella, as prime minister because “he will have a mandate from the French people”. ... She suggested that serving as commander-in-chief of France’s armed forces “is an honorary title for the president, since it’s the prime minister who holds the purse strings”, and added: “On Ukraine, the president will not be able to send troops.”
Failed Coup in Bolivia: Army Chief Arrested After Leading Troops in Attack on Government Palace
Former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy arrested over failed coup
The former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy are among a dozen people so far arrested for their alleged roles in a seemingly bungled military coup designed to topple the South American country’s leftwing president, Luis Arce.
Speaking on Thursday morning, just over 12 hours after the fleeting insurrection in La Paz, Bolivia’s minister of government, Eduardo Del Castillo, accused the former army chief Gen Juan José Zúñiga Macías and the former head of the navy R Adm Juan Arnez Salvador of leading a group of putschists who had “conspired to bring down a democratically elected government”.
“They will be charged with crimes that could see them jailed for between 15 and 30 years,” Del Castillo told the local TV channel Unitel, promising to reveal more details of the recent events later in the day.
The minister claimed conspirators had been plotting “this attempt to destroy democracy” for at least three weeks before security forces seized control of the historic Plaza Murillo in La Paz at about 2.30pm on Wednesday and forced their way into the government palace known as the Palacio Quemado.
Before retreating from the scene in a bulletproof vehicle and being taken into custody, Zúñiga told reporters his aim was to establish “a true democracy”.
Justice Alito RIPS Supreme Court For Siding With Censorship!
Supreme court issues three major decisions surrounding Purdue Pharma, the EPA and abortion
The supreme court on Thursday issued three major decisions on cases involving OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, an air pollution rule by the Environmental Protection Agency and abortion access in Idaho.
In a 5-4 decision, the conservative-majority court rejected Purdue Pharma’s multi-billion dollar settlement that would have shielded the wealthy Sackler family from future lawsuits over the country’s deadly opioid epidemic, but would have also provided compensation and rehabilitation funds to victims. ...
In a separate 5-4 decision, the court put on hold an attempt by the EPA to reduce air pollution from power plants in “upwind” states that would affect air quality in “downwind” states. Along with industry allies, Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana have been challenging the EPA’s rule. ...
Meanwhile, in a [6-3] victory for reproductive rights activists, the court dismissed a case over whether emergency room doctors can perform abortions to save a pregnant woman’s life.
Canada’s 2023 wildfires created four times more emissions than planes did last year – report
Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, setting ablaze an area of forest larger than the US state of West Virginia, new research has found.
Scientists at the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland calculated how devastating the impacts of the months-long fires in Canada in 2023 that sullied the air around large parts of the globe. They figured it put 3.28bn tons (2.98 metric tons) of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air, according to a study update published in Thursday’s Global Change Biology. The update is not peer-reviewed, but the original study was.
The fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as airplanes do in a year, study authors said. It’s about the same amount of carbon dioxide that 647m cars put in the air in a year, based on US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Assange: I Broke the Law But the Law Is Wrong
Hell, Maybe ANYTHING Is Possible
Nearly 21,000 children are missing in Gaza. And there’s no end to this nightmare
The Gaza Project Exposes Israel's 'Chilling Pattern' of Killing Journalists
Widely reported Palestinian father-son ‘rape’ confession contradicted by piles of evidence
Ursula von der Leyen: Beyond Redemption
Italian PM criticised by opposition after fascist chants by party’s youth wing
Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech in Murthy v. Missouri Ruling
The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery
Geoengineering Foes Say 'No' to Pouring 60K Gallons of Sodium Hydroxide Into Waters Off Cape Cod
Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study
Debate Moderator’s Husband Is One Of CIA Agents Who LIED About Hunter’s Laptop!
A Little Night Music
Shakey Jake - Worried Blues
Magic Sam & Shakey Jake Harris - Call Me if You Need Me
Shakey Jake Harris - Love my baby
Shakey Jake Harris - Strollin' on the Strip
Shakey Jake Harris - More Bad Luck
Shakey Jake Harris - Respect Me Baby
Shakey Jake Harris - Ragged and Dirty
Shakey Jake Harris - Good Times
Shakey Jake Harris - Ragged and Dirty
Shakey Jake Harris ~ My Blues Advice
Shakey Jake Harris - Do the Boogie with You
Comments
Re: Assange: Thank the gawds
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In order to make it as inconvenient as possible for you to see this brief recap of the truths that Julian Assange made public — our Big Donor and foreign Lobbyist-controlled, Neocon Coup-Government says you must click on a direct Internet link to Youtube. (See below.)
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Direct link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtK3_84FtlE
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
evening pluto...
not to mention that you have to log into a youtube account so that big brother knows that you know that he knows that you know. what a bunch of creeps!
There's a debate tonight,
or so I'm told. Luckily, my sock drawer really is in very sorry shape, and paying attention to that pressing issue is much more important than watching the Incompetent Olympics.
If the sock drawer goes too quickly, then perhaps I can address my underwear drawer. So many challenges...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Lol. Good idea.
My socks and underwear will be flying around my room tonight, as well.
For years I used to cringe and fret during these televised election debates — because I knew that a foreign audience was watching this display of American depravity and public lying. I felt angry, ashamed, and embarrassed by the US.
Much later, I realized that the US Circus of Sociopaths on televised election debates and other political gaslighting events — was a good thing to be spread around the world, far and wide. The world should be exposed to the widespread mental illness that has gripped the US. It has made the world more confident and self-aware. It has prepared the rest of the world for multipolar justice and responsibility. It has raised the level of mindfulness and morality across the geopolitical world.
Thank you, Neocons. You finally did something right.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
evening usefewersyllables...
the worst part is that even though i will be ignoring it studiously tonight, i know that tomorrow the internet will be plastered with people discussing what happened endlessly and showing clips. it will be all over every news site.
Too funny!
I cleaned and mopped the floors last night. You were an inspiration!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
The "debate"
starts in a couple of minutes. I will see how long I can stick with it before I go take a shower.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
it's 9:09 on my desktop. in the shower yet?
Weirdest shit
evah...I remain unclean, will take 2 hours to get clean if I keep watching.
Biden got to say Trump was a convicted felon. I am sure that swung lots of folks his way, amirite?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
heh...
i think that it is a waste of time for biden to use the "convicted felon" line. nobody is going to be persuaded by it and it will only activate trumps base for obvious reasons.
Some Ukrainians are doing quite well during the war thanks
to US taxpayers and those generous NATO leaders.
evening humphrey...
if those are the mansions of the corrupt ukronazi war profiteers, imagine what the mansions of the u.s. war profiteers must look like.
At the very least
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(from the few clips of the debate I happened across) — both of these candidates have made it crystal clear (to People Who Can Think) — that the role of a US President is complete impotency. No President can improve the lives of the people or reform the hopelessly corrupt government.
No President would dare.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
heh...
well, both of their administrations actions have proved that they can only make things slightly less worse - and they expect to be lionized for it.
Or slightly worse.
If I wanted to waste an hour reviewing, am sure I could come up with instances of the last three doing that.
evening marie...
fair enough. none of our recent prezidunces have reversed the downward trend of our trajectory.
Evening joe and bluesters
A few random thoughts about the debate ...
At least one aced it!
The prize of president goes to the best golfer, episode 2 coming soon.
When I watched Biden I was reminded of a marionette convincingly controlled. Visually, his wide opened, unblinking eyes, and his rigidly moving jaw made me uncomfortable in its puppet like look. It was like there was no contactable life force in his face. Sad,sad,sad for all.
It’s obvious who has more cognitive ability. Trump sounds the same as I imagine him sounding as a teenage bully. I never saw the tv series he made, but I imagine he was channelling that in his presentation tonight.
America government wins the Academy Award for … ?
Glad I can shake it off with Jake Harris ; )
Who's the best golfer
as debated by a president and former president for the world to see.
My quick impressions: it seemed very phony. Who or what was Biden looking at/listening to? Trump was the typical right wing charismatic guy. Biden never did tell the truth though out. Trump only exaggerated, no baldfaced lie. Trump didn't answer direct questions, sucked up his time rebutting Biden's answer to a previous question. Biden stammered numerous times.
This debate makes me want to leave the US, since our third party candidates have major flaws.
Kennedy is a Zionist, which could get us into WWIII, and Stein is open borders, which brings us to civil war, then WWIII.
I am impressed that Biden staggered to the podium. Wonder why his jaw would drop for 10 minutes.
The only time Biden sounded vigorous and cogent, was when he was hurling insults.
If I weren't packing for a little weekend in the Texas Hill Country in the morning, I would be depressed. Packing is a distraction, and scoping out the deer, the wild turkeys, listening to cattle lowing...and seeing The Derailers, maybe dancing a bit...I will get past the debate and the debacle for a cool time, thinking it may be the last time.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hi otc
I'll read your comment more closely later when I return. You might though eventually convert me to CW music ; ).
Enjoy your weekend, and safe travels.
My Mom thought CW was so low class,
she just hated it. mom was from a hoity toity family.
My dad was the typical 1920s po boy, so the music fight was on, all my days.
My personal preference is opera. Italian, Verde.
My piano playing preference is the Romantic composers. Rachmaninoff.
My interest academically was history. So...
Irish became mountain music, African became gospel, and country became the pre-curser of r&r, etc...
All blues emanated from the Slave times.
While country music is 3rd on my favorites list, I love the damn feel of it. Sincere, always about how everyday people live. It sings about us, the 99%. It never divides. It joins.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
For you two,
a song at the end of an opinion piece about Assange, from a NZ journalist. I think you'll enjoy the song and the article.
http://werewolf.co.nz/2024/06/8402/
That article is excellent.
George Jones could write a prison song like he had been there, done that!
My first case was an appeal for a guy sentenced to life for murdering his gf. "Life" translates to approx. 38 years in Texas. I have been a lawyer 39 years. I figure he is either awaiting a parole hearing or is already out.
A few years after that case, I was second chair attorney on another murder case. The lead counsel set back, let me do the dirty work. That guy got life, should be out in a couple of years, assuming he is still alive.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hi again
I am also aware of your love and practice of classical music. I have always enjoyed the classical selections you have posted here over the years.
My parents were more aligned with the rhythm of Latin and Caribbean beats. Those rhythms may also be my favourite. My parents grew up in Brooklyn where Latin, Caribbean, and African American music intermingled. There were also many Irish in the neighbourhood, but their music was not a part of my experience growing up. I do though love Van Morrison very much …
I love Latin and Caribbean music!
We made an 8 hour drive to see the Mavericks, who featured many Cuban influenced songs in their wonderful concert.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Haven't had a decent golfer in the White House since Eisenhower
and you ain't gonna change my mind.
(Plenty of stories about ol' Ike tussling with the Augusta, GA golf course - the one they use for the Masters Championship, which says something that he would even venture onto it, as that's one tough course!)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I had forgotten about Ike's golfing.
He always came across as very physically fit. Mentally fit, now that mental fitness in a Prez is not a given!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I used to watch the Masters every year
and the commentators would always bring up the "Eisenhower tree", that Ike had so much trouble with, he lobbied unsuccessfully to have it removed.
Nature finally removed it about ten years ago, when it was catastrophically damaged in an ice storm.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
So,
a tree bested the man Hitler couldn't! Interesting!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The Derailers!
Awesome! Makes up for the debacle, err debate, hopefully
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
We anticipate the crowd
Will be at full capacity. We will get in line at the door an hour early so we don't have to stand for a 3 hour gig. First 50 or so can grab the limited seats.
Hopefully, we can get a good video.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening janis...
heh, it sounds like i haven't missed anything. i guess tomorrow i will see a bunch of clips of our national monument to mediocrity.
have a great evening!
That reminds me....
I was thinking that, cognitively, Trump seems to have the same mental faculties that he had in 2016. He is slightly less impulsive and more guarded in the words he blurts out. Although, he still makes statements that leave him open to attacks from his critics. I'm wondering if these remaining wacky comments are calculated, like deliberate IEDs he hopes will be tossed back to him.
On the other hand, I remain confident that he still has no idea who the implanted Neocons are — and would select several of them for his cabinet, if he won the Presidency again. Of course Biden is already up to his eyeballs in Neocons.
Trump did say something that caught my attention. I don't know whether it was dumb or smart. He said Biden had brought the country to the threshold of World War 3. He claimed he would never do that. He pointed out that the three Presidents before him had taken the country to war and ended up losing land or territory. He said that Russia and Ukraine would not have gone to war if he were President. No one asked him how he would do that. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't live long with an attitude like that.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
I think all applicants for cabinet positions would be neo-cons,
regardless of party.
Trump quickly slid from being questioned about the R/U war to how Biden's exit from Afghanistan was the most incompetent and embarrassing moment in the history of the US which left Putin thinking, "now I can invade Ukraine". Then Trump immediately starts talking about how he managed to avoid the R/U and I/P conflict because he wouldn't do business with Iran, preventing Iran of the money to support Hamas - mission accomplished!
Thanks for posting that clip.
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My gawd, both candidates are fully delusional. I am very serious, here. They both recited lunatic ravings that they actually believe took place. Both of them are exhibiting brain damage. So, what percentage of the American people watching this "debate" are cognizant that both candidates are either mistaken or lying about the things they are describing? People who cannot list the myriad errors of perception shown in this clip have no business voting in any election.
But I am glad they will be voting — thus demonstrating their consent to the human misery barreling down on those who populate this failed state. Future historians need to see and understand what is happening here.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Of course I didn't watch the debate but from what I am seeing
is that Genocide Joe did himself no favors. Here is an example.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4745090-biden-debate-disaster-demo...
Ouch! Even CNN couldn't put a positive spin on Genocide
DementiaJoe's performance.The brief video is worth a watch.
Not sure Trump
lied about abortion rights or Covid. I thought he exaggerated.
Neither of the candidates are what I would call or consider "good men".
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
heh...
looks like van jones has the party line there of suggesting the demented old man gets off the stage and lets somebody just as evil but more lucid take over.
Very much so, joe.
Our "betters" will hand pick our presidential candidate, so don't you worry your little head about it. (you now get this gentle pat on the head.)
I do not believe Biden will be the candidate.
I do not have a crystal ball and can't see into the future, have no real clue who steps in, but it won't be Biden on the ballot.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
'Betters' handpicking the president...
sounds about right. I think your prediction is a good one.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Better handpicking the nominees
isn't new. Surprisingly few glitches since "our betters" conceded to the public demand for competitive primaries. Notable glitches - GOP 1964, Dem 1972, GOP 2016. "Our betters" aren't also wild about the person gaining initial favor with voters, but don't put up much of a fight if they can live with that person. ie GOP 1980, GOP 1996, GOP 2008 (or could be seen as the party throwing in the towel early on.) It's less well defined on the Democratic side. Carter ('76) was neither favored nor accepted, but "our betters" had forgotten how to exercise their position of privilege and only seem to have firmly reacquired it in 2012. Now they're stuck with a dementia addled nominee and no idea how to fix it.
How could they be surprised?
I haven't been able to drag myself to pay any attention to this presidential election. But even I could see that Biden has been in dementia territory for some time. A part of me suspected that Biden wouldn't end up being on the ballot in November, but haven't a clue how the Democratic party could manage a late switcheroo, who they'd put up as the replacement, and how that would change the outcome.
Very strange days in the US. With a near leadership void in opposing US policies in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza/Lebanon, the people are nevertheless moving in that direction. People are furious about inflation and as they get poorer the wealthy get richer. They're more confused than ever, but no answers or solutions are even proposed (other than BS non-solutions that some buy into).
Lol…."The debate from HELL!
What’s the bet that his team forgoed giving him high usual meds that makes him seem coherent?
Joe’s done…pit Kamala in.
Lol…break your habit and look at the wreck list. Joe failed horribly and Trump lied and lied and lied and lied and lied!
That seems to be what the media is going with. Biden had a cold and Trump LIED.
Before the debate happened the talking point was that if Biden didn’t do well there will need to be a replacement. So who gets the nod? Please, please let it be Hillary!
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Trump spent his adult life selling stuff.
He is used to taking the truth and pumping it up, whereas Biden has been a politician for so long, outright lying is his life, with no underlying truth.
Trump says his property for sale is worth $10 million and sooner or later, someone buys it. Actually worth $3 million.
Biden has trashed blacks, then asserted he was their champion. I cold go on, but the stark difference is the salesman and politician who sells himself according to lobbyists.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
……
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Groan is the only word I can some up with…
Oh look….Trump lied.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
It appears as if Russia is about to take the much anticipated
next step!
The rest of the tweet: