For all the US Propaganda describing and demonizing Putin as an ex-KGB Agent, there is never talk about President H.W. Bush, presiding over the collapse of the Soviet Union, was the CIA Director as was Trump's 1st Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Seeing this post by Pompeo on X this morning elicited this response:
Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo
President Macron is doubling down on his absurd proposal to recognize a Palestinian state - accusing Prime Minister Netanyahu of “weaponizing” antisemitism.
He has it exactly backwards.
The only authorities in the Palestinian Territories are either active terrorists (Hamas) or supporters of terrorism (the Palestinian Authority). Recognizing either one at this time would be a victory for antisemites everywhere.
2:30 PM · Aug 27, 2025
Ray Joseph Cormier @RayJC_Com
No Mike, you have it backwards! It's obvious Israel is an IDOL your worship!
The US and the so called International Community knew in 1967 Israel sending it's Citizens to create settlements in the Occupied West Bank violates International Law:
Fourth Geneva Convention (1949), Article 49(6): Prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into occupied territory. Israel’s settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, violate this, as they involve transferring Israeli citizens into Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. This is deemed a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 8(2)(b)(viii)).
UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016): Reaffirms that Israeli settlements have “no legal validity” and constitute a “flagrant violation” of international law, obstructing the two-state solution.
ICJ Advisory Opinion (July 19, 2024): Declares Israel’s occupation and settlements unlawful, violating the Palestinian right to self-determination and constituting de facto annexation
Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (1977), Article 1(4): Recognizes the right of peoples under foreign occupation to engage in armed struggle for self-determination, including against colonial or racist regimes. Palestinians, as an occupied people, have a legal right to resist Israel’s occupation, though this must adhere to international humanitarian law (e.g., avoiding civilian targeting).
UN General Assembly Resolution 37/43 (1982): Affirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for liberation from foreign occupation “by all available means, including armed struggle,” provided it complies with international law principles.
Hamas is legally resisting the Israeli TERRORIST STATE!
You do have a Bible so I strongly urge you to read Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, an know what the resurrected Christ has to say about Israel's current government. Also read Isaiah 1 prophesying about the current State of Israel recreated from the Bible.
God knows all your secret thoughts and motivations, and every Dollar that comes to you from wherever. It seems to me you have not repented from what you think is the GLORY of the American experiment when it's actually GORY!
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment."
Hello Ray... Mike Pompeo is also a Born Again.... He converted after he left the Military... The worst Butchers at the Sand Creek Massacre were the Born-Agains.... What they did to the Indigenous Woman Women, and Children was worse then what HAMAS did on Oct.7, 2023 to the Israelis... I don't Trust Them....
I see Pompeo has slimmed down and looks like he's on the way to a future presidential run; so proclaiming his slavish devotion to Israel must be a necessary step.
Yes, he did lose a lot of weight. I still have this #13 jersey I'd like to fit into, and the big stick the US Secret Service wanted to hold for 'Security reasons" at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City: https://rayjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/beard-in-1978.jpg
What did the Secret Service think you'd do with that stick - throw it at the podium? What about all the sticks convention goers have for their stupid signs? Break one of those the right way and you have a good spear.
This happened in the Lobby of the Crown Centre Hotel earlier in the afternoon, before the SS called me out of the compressed crowd of delirious Republicans for questioning leading me to the President's podium questioning me in view of all those Republicans in the Lobby below.
In the afternoon, before Ford won the nomination over Reagan, since no Republican on the floor would talk with me up to that point, I changed tactics. A woman in California gave me a booklet having white stars in a blue background on the cover. In the Oval red center part of the cover, in old script, it read Constitution of The United States of America. I walked into the Lobby with the booklet covering my heart and the 3 of the #13 jersey. Anyone coming toward me would only see 1 Constitution of The United States of America.
For the 1st Time, what Convention planners call a spontaneous demonstration happened. A crowd of Republicans gathered around me and different people asking at the same time, “Who are you” What are you doing? What is the significance of your actions?”
As I began to answer, Republican Party Security descended on the scene, telling me I had to leave the Hotel.
Asking why? I was told I couldn’t walk around carrying a club. In my mind, it was always a stick, but it gave new significance to the old saying, “walk softly and carry a big stick.” I thought, ‘My God, they have the power in this world, and they are so paranoid in their perceptions in guarding the power?’
I told the Republicans they had no power or authority to expel me from the Hotel. I have a Laissez-passer from the Hotel Manager. This was the first time since meeting 4 days earlier I had to call on him.
Arriving on the scene, the Hotel Manager told the Republican Whips I was allowed to stay. The Whips did their job though, and the growing crowd disappeared within the larger crowd in the Lobby. I continued walking softly, carrying my big stick with the star studded pamphlet covering my heart.
Wonderful display of principled passion, Ray. However, I have one simple, straightforward question and would like a simple, straightforward answer . . .
The US and Israel's strikes on Iran violated the same International Law Russia is demonized for violating.
The Kansas City Times quoting me September 13, 1976: There are 30 months before the fate of the world will be sealed with EITHER Destruction OR the Universal Brotherhood of Man,¨ he said. ¨The 30 month figure concerned a Treaty between Israel and Egypt.¨
NOTE: This does not say Armageddon happens in 30 months from the article.
Exactly 30 months into the Future, in March 1979, history shows a Treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed, The Camp David Accord.
History shows talks broke down on the 12th day and no Treaty was to be signed. Begin and Sadat were leaving. It was on the 13th Day, as in the date of the Article and the picture accompanying it, an unexpected window of opportunity appeared and opened the way for the Treaty to be signed.
This signified the Universal Brotherhood part of the quote.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution getting rid of the Shah, the brutal Dictator the CIA installed in 1953, happened in the 29th month. The US-Israeli attacks on Iran hastened Armageddon, the Battle of the great day of God Almighty in the Revelation of Jesus Christ described in 16:13-16.
The Kansas City Times published the followup on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976 publishing this picture,
Obviously I had no power to orchestrate that SIGN of THE TIMES of the Path this World is on these 49 years later other than being a Messenger. It's a WARNING from Almighty God.
There may be no Station America to arrive at, as the man is dismantling the country piece by piece. He is a MASSIVE disaster of Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Katrina, and Hurricane Irene proportions, and as large and awful as Hurricane Eric that just stormed over the Atlantic. The hair’s-breadth vote that got Donald elected by the Electoral College {and not the popular vote} is being shown to be the SEMINAL event of our era … NOW, we not only have him pretending to “stop wars” around the world while he actually empowers aggressors, spends record dollars on questionable armament, and builds out more nuclear weapons, but he’s ALSO bringing down our domestic life … I wonder if Kamala would have been as destructive, domestically OR internationally…and whether she could have been more abe to be reasoned with … I wonder if a person who had NO chance of being elected president might have better put her efforts toward gaining a voice in Congress or the Senate to offset the crazies THERE who are enabling Trump. I just wonder if a skosh of pragmatism and incremental strategy might have landed us in less horrendous manure than we are in now …
I agree with you on Harris domestically - things would have continued on much as they did under Biden; ongoing economic problems, but there would have been no DOGE, no use of federalized troops on city streets, no attacks on institutions like the Smithsonian, and no ICE queen and her gang of stormtroopers. I read this morning that at a local forest fire ICE showed up to check on who was working the fire. WTF?
Internationally, it might have been marginally worse. Harris couldn't even offer a tepid difference with Biden on either Gaza or Ukraine; so Biden policies would have continued on. Whatever else he's done - Trump did meet with Putin, something I don't believe Harris would have to this point. Biden's administration, in refusing to meet with Putin or have any high-level discussions with Russia, was dangerously irresponsible - nuclear armed states have to talk, even with mutual suspicion.
Your last point I think highlights the ongoing problems the Democrats have - they really have no strategy, except to offer the next 'savior' in a Presidential election. Right now, they're starting the horse race for 2028 - "Mayor Pete"; Newsom, whoever? What is their plan for next year? Except for being against Trump, what else do they stand for? Does anyone know? And if they're relying on Schumer and Jeffries to be leading the charge; I think many voters will just stay home and wait for 2028 - for the next 'savior".
The DNC seems to think Trump-lite (if not Trump-like) candidates are the best. When they criticize Trump on foreign policy, it's for not being war-like enough (on Russia and Iran, for example).
If the DNC keeps selling Trump-lite, too many voters will probably just stick with Trump--or stay home.
DNC candidates are NOT Trump-lite or -like on domestic policy in any way, shape, or form. If you think domestic policy is secondary, you haven’t been paying attention.
And internationally, there are enormous differences between the fence-mending and alliance-building that Biden did in Europe and all around the Pacific, and the great harm now being done in all those places, unless you think negotiating with Putin over the dissolution of the Ukrainian state was a GOOD thing, and suggestions that NATO be disbanded are to your liking.
[On arms to Israel, I don’t see the Donald administration doing anything except mouthing platitudes about not killing people, and fantasizing about ethnically cleansing GAZA and creating a Mara-a-Lago on the Mediterranean there. The genocide has spiraled COMPLETELY out of control, with outright attacks on civilians and the starvation that is being imposed since Trump showed up, even worse than it already was … which is hard to imagine! … and not that the Biden administration was OK on it, but I believe Kamala would have moderated that stand in office {campaigning and governing are not the same, as we see with the Donald who told his people he’d make things better, and then gave us DOGE} — I am in favor of continuing to support Ukraine to resist Russia. That does not make me a war monger. On GAZA, I am totally in the camp of stopping the genocide and creating a Palestinian state and I despise Bibi and the ultra-extreme support in his government with a white-hot antipathy}.
I still believe whole heartedly that this country and the entire world — GAZA included — would be better off if we had not allowed The Demon in Chief to find his way back to our {now gilded} White House. Your mileage may differ.
Why should I vote for a corporate duopoly that supports genocide in Gaza, military lethality around the world, and putting workers last and billionaires first?
I want change. Not more militarism and war. And I won't vote for those who enable genocide. Period.
I'm a lifelong Democrat, but would like to see them get back to their "Working Mans" roots, and really have someone special emerge who will be not just a figurehead to the Owners, be tough on Domestic as well as Foreign affairs of State, modestly cut the Defense budget, no modernization of the Nuclear Triad, better relations with our Adversaries China, Russia, Iran, etc. etc. Go for that Peace Dividend. Build a real new Space Platform in Orbit w/ the cooperation of China a true ISS, have peace and unity in Space not a "Space Force" and Call it "MIR 2" meaning "Peace" Set a Goal to explore the Solar System, Health Care for all-- even Dental...! Then we can have Yusuf Engineer that "Peace Train"
And.., ironically 1971 was when Cat Stevens wrote and released "Peace Train"on his Album that I'm proud to have in my Vinyl Album Collection "Teaser and the Fire Cat", "Peace Train" then Yusuf gave it all up at the height of his Fame and walked away..!
Totally agree, Fireman! One hundred and fifty percent. Two hundred percent! {OH, more than a hundred percent … but in this case, more than a hundred percent is totally possible.}
I believe the statement attributed to Truman has been spot on: give the voters a choice between a Republican and a Democrat acting like a Republican, and they'll vote for the Republican every time.
And nothing after - when there was no contact with Russia at his level or from his administration. One meeting isn't diplomacy given the tone of what Biden said to Putin.
Israel having US jet fighters, US bombers, bombs and bullets, US Apache Attack helicopters , tanks and artillery with Palestinian women and children in Gaza having no defence against such US weaponry and complicity, this article in Tom Dispatch Today captures the reality of the Israeli TERRORIST STATE Genocide: https://tomdispatch.com/from-guernica-to-gaza/
I can't access Soundcloud, but two quick observations: 1.) "SecDef" Hegseth, eh? I think the "Def" must stand for "defecation"; 2.) a hilarious fact: many years ago, a series of concerts called "Peace Train" (nothing to do with the Cat Stevens song) were presented in Connecticut. The sponsor? War Profiteer General Dynamics Corp.!! What've I been saying lately about folks' failure to even recognize, let alone appreciate, IRONY. I-R-O-N-Y.
I tried to establish my own account here and the substack "system" totally malfunctioned! Just another reason I have come to despise all this "hi-tech" foolishness! But at your suggestion, I will try again. But first I have to work to get my new "smartphone" up and running because...wait for it...there are system gremlins aligned against me!! What a world we live in now! :-(
This performance of "Peace Train" never fails to move me to tears . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QpjR6-Uuks
For all the US Propaganda describing and demonizing Putin as an ex-KGB Agent, there is never talk about President H.W. Bush, presiding over the collapse of the Soviet Union, was the CIA Director as was Trump's 1st Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Seeing this post by Pompeo on X this morning elicited this response:
Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo
President Macron is doubling down on his absurd proposal to recognize a Palestinian state - accusing Prime Minister Netanyahu of “weaponizing” antisemitism.
He has it exactly backwards.
The only authorities in the Palestinian Territories are either active terrorists (Hamas) or supporters of terrorism (the Palestinian Authority). Recognizing either one at this time would be a victory for antisemites everywhere.
2:30 PM · Aug 27, 2025
Ray Joseph Cormier @RayJC_Com
No Mike, you have it backwards! It's obvious Israel is an IDOL your worship!
The US and the so called International Community knew in 1967 Israel sending it's Citizens to create settlements in the Occupied West Bank violates International Law:
Fourth Geneva Convention (1949), Article 49(6): Prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into occupied territory. Israel’s settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, violate this, as they involve transferring Israeli citizens into Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. This is deemed a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 8(2)(b)(viii)).
UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016): Reaffirms that Israeli settlements have “no legal validity” and constitute a “flagrant violation” of international law, obstructing the two-state solution.
ICJ Advisory Opinion (July 19, 2024): Declares Israel’s occupation and settlements unlawful, violating the Palestinian right to self-determination and constituting de facto annexation
Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (1977), Article 1(4): Recognizes the right of peoples under foreign occupation to engage in armed struggle for self-determination, including against colonial or racist regimes. Palestinians, as an occupied people, have a legal right to resist Israel’s occupation, though this must adhere to international humanitarian law (e.g., avoiding civilian targeting).
UN General Assembly Resolution 37/43 (1982): Affirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for liberation from foreign occupation “by all available means, including armed struggle,” provided it complies with international law principles.
Hamas is legally resisting the Israeli TERRORIST STATE!
You do have a Bible so I strongly urge you to read Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, an know what the resurrected Christ has to say about Israel's current government. Also read Isaiah 1 prophesying about the current State of Israel recreated from the Bible.
God knows all your secret thoughts and motivations, and every Dollar that comes to you from wherever. It seems to me you have not repented from what you think is the GLORY of the American experiment when it's actually GORY!
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPt-zXn05ac
Pompeo said this at an event at Texas A&M University on April 15, 2019
Hello Ray... Mike Pompeo is also a Born Again.... He converted after he left the Military... The worst Butchers at the Sand Creek Massacre were the Born-Agains.... What they did to the Indigenous Woman Women, and Children was worse then what HAMAS did on Oct.7, 2023 to the Israelis... I don't Trust Them....
I see Pompeo has slimmed down and looks like he's on the way to a future presidential run; so proclaiming his slavish devotion to Israel must be a necessary step.
Yes, he did lose a lot of weight. I still have this #13 jersey I'd like to fit into, and the big stick the US Secret Service wanted to hold for 'Security reasons" at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City: https://rayjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/beard-in-1978.jpg
What did the Secret Service think you'd do with that stick - throw it at the podium? What about all the sticks convention goers have for their stupid signs? Break one of those the right way and you have a good spear.
Or a stake to kill the blood-sucking vampires ...
This happened in the Lobby of the Crown Centre Hotel earlier in the afternoon, before the SS called me out of the compressed crowd of delirious Republicans for questioning leading me to the President's podium questioning me in view of all those Republicans in the Lobby below.
In the afternoon, before Ford won the nomination over Reagan, since no Republican on the floor would talk with me up to that point, I changed tactics. A woman in California gave me a booklet having white stars in a blue background on the cover. In the Oval red center part of the cover, in old script, it read Constitution of The United States of America. I walked into the Lobby with the booklet covering my heart and the 3 of the #13 jersey. Anyone coming toward me would only see 1 Constitution of The United States of America.
For the 1st Time, what Convention planners call a spontaneous demonstration happened. A crowd of Republicans gathered around me and different people asking at the same time, “Who are you” What are you doing? What is the significance of your actions?”
As I began to answer, Republican Party Security descended on the scene, telling me I had to leave the Hotel.
Asking why? I was told I couldn’t walk around carrying a club. In my mind, it was always a stick, but it gave new significance to the old saying, “walk softly and carry a big stick.” I thought, ‘My God, they have the power in this world, and they are so paranoid in their perceptions in guarding the power?’
I told the Republicans they had no power or authority to expel me from the Hotel. I have a Laissez-passer from the Hotel Manager. This was the first time since meeting 4 days earlier I had to call on him.
Arriving on the scene, the Hotel Manager told the Republican Whips I was allowed to stay. The Whips did their job though, and the growing crowd disappeared within the larger crowd in the Lobby. I continued walking softly, carrying my big stick with the star studded pamphlet covering my heart.
Good for you - I probably would have just left after the first bit of harassment because I would have been too angry to stay.
Wonderful display of principled passion, Ray. However, I have one simple, straightforward question and would like a simple, straightforward answer . . .
What do you think you accomplished?
John, living my 82nd year I'm still alive and well, able to point the historical record like this reply to Mike Pompeo just now on X:
Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo
America and Israel’s bold strikes on Iran were a game changer - but we can’t afford to rest on our laurels.
Smart analysis here: https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/opinion/us-allies-can-halt-irans-nuke-rebuilding-scheme-now-but-face-a-ticking-clock/
Ray Joseph Cormier @RayJC_Com
The US and Israel's strikes on Iran violated the same International Law Russia is demonized for violating.
The Kansas City Times quoting me September 13, 1976: There are 30 months before the fate of the world will be sealed with EITHER Destruction OR the Universal Brotherhood of Man,¨ he said. ¨The 30 month figure concerned a Treaty between Israel and Egypt.¨
NOTE: This does not say Armageddon happens in 30 months from the article.
Exactly 30 months into the Future, in March 1979, history shows a Treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed, The Camp David Accord.
History shows talks broke down on the 12th day and no Treaty was to be signed. Begin and Sadat were leaving. It was on the 13th Day, as in the date of the Article and the picture accompanying it, an unexpected window of opportunity appeared and opened the way for the Treaty to be signed.
This signified the Universal Brotherhood part of the quote.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution getting rid of the Shah, the brutal Dictator the CIA installed in 1953, happened in the 29th month. The US-Israeli attacks on Iran hastened Armageddon, the Battle of the great day of God Almighty in the Revelation of Jesus Christ described in 16:13-16.
The Kansas City Times published the followup on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976 publishing this picture,
https://rayjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/kansas-city-times-november-2-1976-all-souls-day-2.jpg
The movie THE DAY AFTER Kansas City was incinerated in a Nuclear Holocaust was shown to the World 7 years to the month later, on November 20, 1983. After the destruction, the movie pauses at the very same picture frame published on ALL SOULS DAY in 1976: https://rayjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/final-frames-1983-movie-the-day-after-kansas-city-was-destroyed.jpg
Obviously I had no power to orchestrate that SIGN of THE TIMES of the Path this World is on these 49 years later other than being a Messenger. It's a WARNING from Almighty God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7J8eMyK1DI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA
There may be no Station America to arrive at, as the man is dismantling the country piece by piece. He is a MASSIVE disaster of Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Katrina, and Hurricane Irene proportions, and as large and awful as Hurricane Eric that just stormed over the Atlantic. The hair’s-breadth vote that got Donald elected by the Electoral College {and not the popular vote} is being shown to be the SEMINAL event of our era … NOW, we not only have him pretending to “stop wars” around the world while he actually empowers aggressors, spends record dollars on questionable armament, and builds out more nuclear weapons, but he’s ALSO bringing down our domestic life … I wonder if Kamala would have been as destructive, domestically OR internationally…and whether she could have been more abe to be reasoned with … I wonder if a person who had NO chance of being elected president might have better put her efforts toward gaining a voice in Congress or the Senate to offset the crazies THERE who are enabling Trump. I just wonder if a skosh of pragmatism and incremental strategy might have landed us in less horrendous manure than we are in now …
I agree with you on Harris domestically - things would have continued on much as they did under Biden; ongoing economic problems, but there would have been no DOGE, no use of federalized troops on city streets, no attacks on institutions like the Smithsonian, and no ICE queen and her gang of stormtroopers. I read this morning that at a local forest fire ICE showed up to check on who was working the fire. WTF?
Internationally, it might have been marginally worse. Harris couldn't even offer a tepid difference with Biden on either Gaza or Ukraine; so Biden policies would have continued on. Whatever else he's done - Trump did meet with Putin, something I don't believe Harris would have to this point. Biden's administration, in refusing to meet with Putin or have any high-level discussions with Russia, was dangerously irresponsible - nuclear armed states have to talk, even with mutual suspicion.
Your last point I think highlights the ongoing problems the Democrats have - they really have no strategy, except to offer the next 'savior' in a Presidential election. Right now, they're starting the horse race for 2028 - "Mayor Pete"; Newsom, whoever? What is their plan for next year? Except for being against Trump, what else do they stand for? Does anyone know? And if they're relying on Schumer and Jeffries to be leading the charge; I think many voters will just stay home and wait for 2028 - for the next 'savior".
The DNC seems to think Trump-lite (if not Trump-like) candidates are the best. When they criticize Trump on foreign policy, it's for not being war-like enough (on Russia and Iran, for example).
If the DNC keeps selling Trump-lite, too many voters will probably just stick with Trump--or stay home.
DNC candidates are NOT Trump-lite or -like on domestic policy in any way, shape, or form. If you think domestic policy is secondary, you haven’t been paying attention.
And internationally, there are enormous differences between the fence-mending and alliance-building that Biden did in Europe and all around the Pacific, and the great harm now being done in all those places, unless you think negotiating with Putin over the dissolution of the Ukrainian state was a GOOD thing, and suggestions that NATO be disbanded are to your liking.
[On arms to Israel, I don’t see the Donald administration doing anything except mouthing platitudes about not killing people, and fantasizing about ethnically cleansing GAZA and creating a Mara-a-Lago on the Mediterranean there. The genocide has spiraled COMPLETELY out of control, with outright attacks on civilians and the starvation that is being imposed since Trump showed up, even worse than it already was … which is hard to imagine! … and not that the Biden administration was OK on it, but I believe Kamala would have moderated that stand in office {campaigning and governing are not the same, as we see with the Donald who told his people he’d make things better, and then gave us DOGE} — I am in favor of continuing to support Ukraine to resist Russia. That does not make me a war monger. On GAZA, I am totally in the camp of stopping the genocide and creating a Palestinian state and I despise Bibi and the ultra-extreme support in his government with a white-hot antipathy}.
I still believe whole heartedly that this country and the entire world — GAZA included — would be better off if we had not allowed The Demon in Chief to find his way back to our {now gilded} White House. Your mileage may differ.
Why should I vote for a corporate duopoly that supports genocide in Gaza, military lethality around the world, and putting workers last and billionaires first?
I want change. Not more militarism and war. And I won't vote for those who enable genocide. Period.
I'm a lifelong Democrat, but would like to see them get back to their "Working Mans" roots, and really have someone special emerge who will be not just a figurehead to the Owners, be tough on Domestic as well as Foreign affairs of State, modestly cut the Defense budget, no modernization of the Nuclear Triad, better relations with our Adversaries China, Russia, Iran, etc. etc. Go for that Peace Dividend. Build a real new Space Platform in Orbit w/ the cooperation of China a true ISS, have peace and unity in Space not a "Space Force" and Call it "MIR 2" meaning "Peace" Set a Goal to explore the Solar System, Health Care for all-- even Dental...! Then we can have Yusuf Engineer that "Peace Train"
Yup. The last Democratic candidate who fit this description was George McGovern in 1972.
The DNC acts to ensure you'll never see his like again.
And.., ironically 1971 was when Cat Stevens wrote and released "Peace Train"on his Album that I'm proud to have in my Vinyl Album Collection "Teaser and the Fire Cat", "Peace Train" then Yusuf gave it all up at the height of his Fame and walked away..!
Totally agree, Fireman! One hundred and fifty percent. Two hundred percent! {OH, more than a hundred percent … but in this case, more than a hundred percent is totally possible.}
I believe the statement attributed to Truman has been spot on: give the voters a choice between a Republican and a Democrat acting like a Republican, and they'll vote for the Republican every time.
Yes, that was a big issue for Kamala, with her blanket support of Israel (no genocide in Gaza!) and her celebration of military lethality.
Hello Bill.... The Heyoka in me says that the US support for Israel was one the Catalysts of its Downfall... It gave us DJT, and Plan-2025....
EXCUSE ME … Biden and Putin met for a two-nation summit in Geneva in 2021 just a few months after Biden took office. Face to face.
And nothing after - when there was no contact with Russia at his level or from his administration. One meeting isn't diplomacy given the tone of what Biden said to Putin.
Biden called for Putin to be overthrown or killed. Some "diplomacy"!
Trump kisses his ass. Some diplomacy.
Ha! I didn't see Trump kiss his ass. I did hear Biden call for Putin's overthrow/removal.
Israel having US jet fighters, US bombers, bombs and bullets, US Apache Attack helicopters , tanks and artillery with Palestinian women and children in Gaza having no defence against such US weaponry and complicity, this article in Tom Dispatch Today captures the reality of the Israeli TERRORIST STATE Genocide: https://tomdispatch.com/from-guernica-to-gaza/
Just watched the video '“A Dark Path”: Ex-State Dept. Official Blasts Trump’s Plans for Postwar Gaza.'
He's an insider witness to the corruption of US policy toward Gaza by the Decision makers.
As an informed whistle blower of conscience, he speaks very well. He Starts at the 19 minute mark in this video from Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/29/gaza_josh_paul?utm_source=Democracy+Now!&utm_campaign=b00e0c8115-Daily_Digest_COPY_03
I can't access Soundcloud, but two quick observations: 1.) "SecDef" Hegseth, eh? I think the "Def" must stand for "defecation"; 2.) a hilarious fact: many years ago, a series of concerts called "Peace Train" (nothing to do with the Cat Stevens song) were presented in Connecticut. The sponsor? War Profiteer General Dynamics Corp.!! What've I been saying lately about folks' failure to even recognize, let alone appreciate, IRONY. I-R-O-N-Y.
Hi Greg: I think you need to create an account. It’s easy if you want one. All you need to give them is your email address.
I tried to establish my own account here and the substack "system" totally malfunctioned! Just another reason I have come to despise all this "hi-tech" foolishness! But at your suggestion, I will try again. But first I have to work to get my new "smartphone" up and running because...wait for it...there are system gremlins aligned against me!! What a world we live in now! :-(