I've asked the same question. But one needs to check out Chris Hedges on this, I think in his "Death of the Liberal Class," also on his videos. He explains it that most of those who voted for Trump not because they found him basically appealing, that they represented their thinking and beliefs, that they had been betrayed by the liberal Democrats, notably Bill Clinton who sold them NAFTA, which resulted in 30 million of them losing their jobs. And then only to have that insult compounded by Hilary calling them "the horribles." It was a very understandable middle finger given to the whole bunch by the people who not only felt but were very much betrayed by the Democrats and the liberal establishment.
Of course this speaks to the larger issue, "the system." Hedges goes on further to say that every once in while, here or abroad, the system "vomits up" an Orban, an Erdogan, a Trump, and others, characters who proclaim they'll make things right - "MAGA"! - because the electorate want to believe that they can get their lives and livelihoods back. At some visceral level that comes out, with the anger being channeled to immigrants, for example, quite tangible examples of "the other" being the cause of the malaise. But otherwise they, and all of us, wind up getting further swindled.
Ah yes, Hillary's "deplorables," whom she said were "irredeemable." What a poor politician she was. She could have learned a lot from her husband, Slick Willie, who knew how to lie and how to win the "Bubba" vote.
Yes, "horribles," "deplorables," the same "obtuseness," to put it mildly. Who was it, H. Ross Perot who characterized NAFTA as "that great sucking sound you hear sending jobs to Mexico"?
I can understood someone of the working class - or middle class - who fell for Trump's lies in 2016. The election was a protest vote against the Iraq War, the financial collapse of 2008, and the destruction of people's lives and savings that resulted. Bernie Sanders spoke of many of the same themes as Trump (if the DNC wasn't so corrupt and in the bag for H. Clinton, the results may have been different.)
That was 2016 - the election of 2024 was not the same. Recall that at the RNC convention, there was a large Israeli flag behind the podium where the speaker proclaimed Israel was the top priority of the party. There was no excuse to vote for Trump, even for the down trodden. (And that doesn't mean anyone should have voted for the reprehensible Kamala Harris).
But Carlson? Give me a break. He has given up his bow tie and preppy clothing for a wool shirt and a rustic environment, but he's been part of the ruling class his whole life. He was at Trump's summit with the oil company executives earlier this year - why would a podcast host be there - unless he was a member or tool of the owners?
If I had to guess, there is a quiet but well conceived plan for Carlson 2028 (or 2032) - particularly now that Charlie Kirk met his unfortunate end.
This 1-1/2 hour testimony by Professor Jeffery Sachs on the Subject: 'IRAN WAR NEWS LIVE | Jeffrey Sachs Warns War Could Spiral Into World War III If Escalation Continues' has more depth in understanding the reason WHY?
His testimony is recent before the European Parliament.
I see Trump as a "useful idiot" to do the will of the oligarchy. Tucker, IMHO, is definitely. an insider, who helps along the oligarchal narrative. I believe the person who describes the US most accurately is Aaron Good https://substack.com/@americanexception
All anyone has to do is look at the sneering faces of both Trump and Tucker to know what they're like inside. Tucker looks as though he's attempting to hide it, but he just can't pull it off (literally and figuratively). Trump is more "honest" with his contempt (I say this with no admiration, of course). I can't stomach looking at either of them.
Iran will not comply with Trump's Dictatorial demand of 'Unconditional Surrender" now that the US with Israel is confronting Iran with a real EXISTENTIAL" threat. Resist and DIE or Surrender and DIE.
Unlike Israel's often claimed Existential Threat as the Justification for it's Military aggression for a Greater Israel.
The opening Chapter in the Book of the last major Old Testament Jewish Prophet Isaiah, is not seen or discussed in Synagogues or Zionist Christian Churches for these obvious reasons;
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken,
I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Isaiah 1:2-4
The God of Israel removed Israel from the Earth some 2800 years ago because of those Bible verses until it was recreated from the Bible in 1948.
Isaiah 1:2, "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth' suggests Isaiah's prophecy still applies to reconstituted Israel Today.
The Pope cited Isaiah's 1:15 on Palm Sunday, "And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTE_I7YLo4g
The Pope did not have the Political or Spiritual courage to put that 1 line 1:15 in Isaiah's 1st Chapter in the context of lines 2 to 4.
Yes! Essential questions that, until now, remain unanswered, unless we acknowledge the poverty of political culture, or even the culture of the majority of the American electorate. Indeed, we must admit that the alternatives offered have always been lamentable. The emergence of a third way is more necessary than ever. The very Renaissance of America is at stake!
Reading this piece, my mind locked onto your line equating trump with lawlessness. these two words found together, trump and lawlessness, have been quite commonly found together for the last 10 years. Almost like he's a good candidate for the "Man of Lawlessness" of 2 Thessalonians 2.
That aside, another favorite quote I keep on my desktop and read occasionally:
"Attorney, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, and former administrative law judge Moe Davis responding to the news, writes: “Trump is the eponymous fraudster. The name Trump is to fraud what Campbell’s is to soup, Kleenex is to tissue, and ping is to pong.”
I gave up on voting after Obama. It was obvious the "hope" bullshit was a scam when he hadn't even been inaugurated and appoints Rham Emanuel ( ex IDF) chief of staff and Citibank to manage his cabinet appointments. To this day I can't decide who was the first CIA groomed president Obama or Clinton. Obama's mother working for the Ford Foundation as a cover for CIA African indoctrination project speaks volumes. With Trump it's different. How could anyone miss that he has a deviant personality problem? Sure I loved the "no more wars" , anti-globalist and end NATO stuff and it was plausible that the pandemic scam was more nails in his coffin. But how could anyone resist a guy the deep state and establishment seemed to hate. I still never even contemplated voting for him but by then I had giving up voting entirely. I decided that there is more integrity in NOT voting than in voting for someone you know is lying his ass off or the "lesser evil". Besides Hillary as an alternate choice would make me want to vomit when I thought of it. And Biden...give me a break.
Let's face it folks. America is just a terrorist police state run by war criminals and billionaires, a significantly large number of them genocidal Zionists. Have you ever heard of oligarchy? Well, we got one great big one and it ain't pretty. The electoral system is captured by the faction with the most money and politicians lie to get elected because if they told the truth they would be killed or not be able to raise a dime to pay the piper. The American experiment began it's decline after the civil war and has been dead since it became a British influenced global predator in the beginning 20th century. It's no wonder that a depraved psycho-religious cult now owns the mortgage.
I didn't give up voting after Obama, but I gave up hope after Obama. I was so naive, I can't believe it. Thought he was wonderful. Even campaigned for him and sent meager check donations out of my Social Security. God! (I should have known when one of my checks didn't get cashed, that he didn't need it, ha!) I had no idea it was Wall Street that helped get him elected. He did everything for them and not much of anything for the people he professed to want to help. You might be right about the not-voting thing. I've only voted for the "seeming lesser of evils" trying not to gag and feeling hopeless. I can't stand to look at Obama's face any more than I can Trump's.
I didn't even mention Bernie. Like you I gave him $700. $25 every time I got an email. Only to understand what Bernie was about when he caved after having the Calif. primary stolen. Bernie was a sheep herder and we were the sheep.
I think *they* got to Bernie by threatening to prosecute his wife, who as a college president made a few shaky/dubious financial decisions. Once Bernie agreed to go quietly, I didn't hear about his wife and her dealings anymore.
I didn't know that. Makes sense...that's how the system works. I can't help thinking he was in partnership with Hillary all the time and didn't really want to be Pres.. Either way it was very suspicious how quickly he folded.
Culmination of the perverse society that AmeriKKKa has always been building, and ya gotta love the mythologies of that great constitution that now (?) is being disabused by a pedophile and rapist in chief?
Oh, that constitution really plays well in Vietnam, Korea, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Iran, Nicaragua, and, hmm, how many more millions killed NOT by Trump's dictatorial duncery?
“The United States has carried out 34 percent of its 392 interventions against countries in Latin America and the Caribbean; 23 percent in East Asia and the Pacific region; 14 percent in the Middle East and North Africa; and just 13 percent in Europe and Central Asia, according to a newly refined version of the Military Intervention Project (MIP) dataset — a venture of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.”
+--+
And now? 319 Jewish Billionaires and millions of millionaires are ruling the roost, and nobody on the lite side of sort of liberal and even a bit on the left side can see that as the new terrorism gone fully full metal (digital, AI, drone, satellite, surveillance) jacket?
Did you vote for Ralph Nader? Jill Stein? ¿Claudia de la Cruz? No?
Oh-Bomber, Barak's name. First House Negro President, Clinton's name. Southern Comfort/Cocaine, Connecticut Texas Yankee, W Bush's name. We could go on and on, with, well, you get the ticket...
But it all comes down to Trump's Jewish conversion, man . . . .
On a really militaristic note:
The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies (ZioKarp) is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealing its full ideological face. Palantir is not an isolated case in the global technological landscape.
It is one of several major technology companies that sell their technologies to systems of repression and human rights violations, and has been condemned by international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, for its role in enabling forced deportations, mass surveillance, and the persecution of dissidents.
Most damning of all, documented reports have revealed a direct partnership between this company, alongside other Western technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, and the Israeli military, providing data and targeting systems that were used in military operations on Gaza, making it an actual partner in documented war crimes against Palestinian civilians. In this regard, it does not differ in substance from other major digital capitalist companies that practice the same thing in different forms and varying degrees of openness.
It is a class declaration of a project for a digital fascist alliance that relies not on traditional violence alone, but on digital surveillance and repression, data analysis, artificial intelligence, the manipulation of public opinion, and the suppression of dissent through imperceptible yet deeply impactful methods. An alliance whose crimes do not remain within elite circles and corporate offices, but extend to battlefields and the bodies of civilians, embodied today in its clearest form in Trumpism, its alliances, its crimes, and its aggressive wars.
"But Trump—seriously?"
I've asked the same question. But one needs to check out Chris Hedges on this, I think in his "Death of the Liberal Class," also on his videos. He explains it that most of those who voted for Trump not because they found him basically appealing, that they represented their thinking and beliefs, that they had been betrayed by the liberal Democrats, notably Bill Clinton who sold them NAFTA, which resulted in 30 million of them losing their jobs. And then only to have that insult compounded by Hilary calling them "the horribles." It was a very understandable middle finger given to the whole bunch by the people who not only felt but were very much betrayed by the Democrats and the liberal establishment.
Of course this speaks to the larger issue, "the system." Hedges goes on further to say that every once in while, here or abroad, the system "vomits up" an Orban, an Erdogan, a Trump, and others, characters who proclaim they'll make things right - "MAGA"! - because the electorate want to believe that they can get their lives and livelihoods back. At some visceral level that comes out, with the anger being channeled to immigrants, for example, quite tangible examples of "the other" being the cause of the malaise. But otherwise they, and all of us, wind up getting further swindled.
Ah yes, Hillary's "deplorables," whom she said were "irredeemable." What a poor politician she was. She could have learned a lot from her husband, Slick Willie, who knew how to lie and how to win the "Bubba" vote.
Yes, "horribles," "deplorables," the same "obtuseness," to put it mildly. Who was it, H. Ross Perot who characterized NAFTA as "that great sucking sound you hear sending jobs to Mexico"?
America: We protect profits over workers.
Again Hedges: "We have two wings of the same party, the corporate party."
Yes. I voted Perot in '92; he was right.
In my more naive days I fell for the NAFTA shtick and the media take down of Perot. Had I known then what I know...
I can understood someone of the working class - or middle class - who fell for Trump's lies in 2016. The election was a protest vote against the Iraq War, the financial collapse of 2008, and the destruction of people's lives and savings that resulted. Bernie Sanders spoke of many of the same themes as Trump (if the DNC wasn't so corrupt and in the bag for H. Clinton, the results may have been different.)
That was 2016 - the election of 2024 was not the same. Recall that at the RNC convention, there was a large Israeli flag behind the podium where the speaker proclaimed Israel was the top priority of the party. There was no excuse to vote for Trump, even for the down trodden. (And that doesn't mean anyone should have voted for the reprehensible Kamala Harris).
But Carlson? Give me a break. He has given up his bow tie and preppy clothing for a wool shirt and a rustic environment, but he's been part of the ruling class his whole life. He was at Trump's summit with the oil company executives earlier this year - why would a podcast host be there - unless he was a member or tool of the owners?
If I had to guess, there is a quiet but well conceived plan for Carlson 2028 (or 2032) - particularly now that Charlie Kirk met his unfortunate end.
Tucker and Buckley -- those are great preppy names.
Tucker Carlson endorsed Trump for the same reason every conservative, right-winger, and Republican did. He was the best meal ticket they ever had.
This 1-1/2 hour testimony by Professor Jeffery Sachs on the Subject: 'IRAN WAR NEWS LIVE | Jeffrey Sachs Warns War Could Spiral Into World War III If Escalation Continues' has more depth in understanding the reason WHY?
His testimony is recent before the European Parliament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CpiHG7UqEg
I see Trump as a "useful idiot" to do the will of the oligarchy. Tucker, IMHO, is definitely. an insider, who helps along the oligarchal narrative. I believe the person who describes the US most accurately is Aaron Good https://substack.com/@americanexception
All anyone has to do is look at the sneering faces of both Trump and Tucker to know what they're like inside. Tucker looks as though he's attempting to hide it, but he just can't pull it off (literally and figuratively). Trump is more "honest" with his contempt (I say this with no admiration, of course). I can't stomach looking at either of them.
Iran will not comply with Trump's Dictatorial demand of 'Unconditional Surrender" now that the US with Israel is confronting Iran with a real EXISTENTIAL" threat. Resist and DIE or Surrender and DIE.
Unlike Israel's often claimed Existential Threat as the Justification for it's Military aggression for a Greater Israel.
The opening Chapter in the Book of the last major Old Testament Jewish Prophet Isaiah, is not seen or discussed in Synagogues or Zionist Christian Churches for these obvious reasons;
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken,
I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Isaiah 1:2-4
The God of Israel removed Israel from the Earth some 2800 years ago because of those Bible verses until it was recreated from the Bible in 1948.
Isaiah 1:2, "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth' suggests Isaiah's prophecy still applies to reconstituted Israel Today.
The Pope cited Isaiah's 1:15 on Palm Sunday, "And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTE_I7YLo4g
The Pope did not have the Political or Spiritual courage to put that 1 line 1:15 in Isaiah's 1st Chapter in the context of lines 2 to 4.
Yes! Essential questions that, until now, remain unanswered, unless we acknowledge the poverty of political culture, or even the culture of the majority of the American electorate. Indeed, we must admit that the alternatives offered have always been lamentable. The emergence of a third way is more necessary than ever. The very Renaissance of America is at stake!
2016: Hillary Clinton or Trump? 2020: Biden or Trump? 2024: Harris or Trump?
What kind of choices were those?
Its a heads I win, tails you lose political game in America.
Reading this piece, my mind locked onto your line equating trump with lawlessness. these two words found together, trump and lawlessness, have been quite commonly found together for the last 10 years. Almost like he's a good candidate for the "Man of Lawlessness" of 2 Thessalonians 2.
That aside, another favorite quote I keep on my desktop and read occasionally:
"Attorney, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, and former administrative law judge Moe Davis responding to the news, writes: “Trump is the eponymous fraudster. The name Trump is to fraud what Campbell’s is to soup, Kleenex is to tissue, and ping is to pong.”
AMERICA...WHO GIVES A SHIT?
https://www.indy99.net/
I gave up on voting after Obama. It was obvious the "hope" bullshit was a scam when he hadn't even been inaugurated and appoints Rham Emanuel ( ex IDF) chief of staff and Citibank to manage his cabinet appointments. To this day I can't decide who was the first CIA groomed president Obama or Clinton. Obama's mother working for the Ford Foundation as a cover for CIA African indoctrination project speaks volumes. With Trump it's different. How could anyone miss that he has a deviant personality problem? Sure I loved the "no more wars" , anti-globalist and end NATO stuff and it was plausible that the pandemic scam was more nails in his coffin. But how could anyone resist a guy the deep state and establishment seemed to hate. I still never even contemplated voting for him but by then I had giving up voting entirely. I decided that there is more integrity in NOT voting than in voting for someone you know is lying his ass off or the "lesser evil". Besides Hillary as an alternate choice would make me want to vomit when I thought of it. And Biden...give me a break.
Let's face it folks. America is just a terrorist police state run by war criminals and billionaires, a significantly large number of them genocidal Zionists. Have you ever heard of oligarchy? Well, we got one great big one and it ain't pretty. The electoral system is captured by the faction with the most money and politicians lie to get elected because if they told the truth they would be killed or not be able to raise a dime to pay the piper. The American experiment began it's decline after the civil war and has been dead since it became a British influenced global predator in the beginning 20th century. It's no wonder that a depraved psycho-religious cult now owns the mortgage.
I didn't give up voting after Obama, but I gave up hope after Obama. I was so naive, I can't believe it. Thought he was wonderful. Even campaigned for him and sent meager check donations out of my Social Security. God! (I should have known when one of my checks didn't get cashed, that he didn't need it, ha!) I had no idea it was Wall Street that helped get him elected. He did everything for them and not much of anything for the people he professed to want to help. You might be right about the not-voting thing. I've only voted for the "seeming lesser of evils" trying not to gag and feeling hopeless. I can't stand to look at Obama's face any more than I can Trump's.
I didn't even mention Bernie. Like you I gave him $700. $25 every time I got an email. Only to understand what Bernie was about when he caved after having the Calif. primary stolen. Bernie was a sheep herder and we were the sheep.
I think *they* got to Bernie by threatening to prosecute his wife, who as a college president made a few shaky/dubious financial decisions. Once Bernie agreed to go quietly, I didn't hear about his wife and her dealings anymore.
I can't prove this, of course: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-and-jane-sanders-under-fbi-investigation-for-bank-fraud-hire-lawyers/
I didn't know that. Makes sense...that's how the system works. I can't help thinking he was in partnership with Hillary all the time and didn't really want to be Pres.. Either way it was very suspicious how quickly he folded.
Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning
Find someone who's turning
And you will come around
Neil Young
https://wilrodx108853.substack.com/p/for-the-many-not-the-few?publication_id=8245392&post_id=192656055&isFreemail=false&r=r6mi&triedRedirect=true
Culmination of the perverse society that AmeriKKKa has always been building, and ya gotta love the mythologies of that great constitution that now (?) is being disabused by a pedophile and rapist in chief?
Oh, that constitution really plays well in Vietnam, Korea, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Iran, Nicaragua, and, hmm, how many more millions killed NOT by Trump's dictatorial duncery?
“The United States has carried out 34 percent of its 392 interventions against countries in Latin America and the Caribbean; 23 percent in East Asia and the Pacific region; 14 percent in the Middle East and North Africa; and just 13 percent in Europe and Central Asia, according to a newly refined version of the Military Intervention Project (MIP) dataset — a venture of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.”
+--+
And now? 319 Jewish Billionaires and millions of millionaires are ruling the roost, and nobody on the lite side of sort of liberal and even a bit on the left side can see that as the new terrorism gone fully full metal (digital, AI, drone, satellite, surveillance) jacket?
Did you vote for Ralph Nader? Jill Stein? ¿Claudia de la Cruz? No?
Ahh, golly Gomer. Clinton? Bush? Obomer? Genocide Joe? Killery?
Trump, the converted Talmudist, not very high-hanging fruit with his room temperature IQ, but boy does he have his Minyan in the White Man's House.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/jews-and-pagers-terminations-at-colleges
Room temperature IQ--I like that.
Do you suppose it will go up with global warming?
How about Bushwacked? (I had another thought for Pres. Clinton's name, but couldn't print it here. Wasn't that clever, anyway.)
Oh-Bomber, Barak's name. First House Negro President, Clinton's name. Southern Comfort/Cocaine, Connecticut Texas Yankee, W Bush's name. We could go on and on, with, well, you get the ticket...
But it all comes down to Trump's Jewish conversion, man . . . .
On a really militaristic note:
The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies (ZioKarp) is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealing its full ideological face. Palantir is not an isolated case in the global technological landscape.
It is one of several major technology companies that sell their technologies to systems of repression and human rights violations, and has been condemned by international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, for its role in enabling forced deportations, mass surveillance, and the persecution of dissidents.
Most damning of all, documented reports have revealed a direct partnership between this company, alongside other Western technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, and the Israeli military, providing data and targeting systems that were used in military operations on Gaza, making it an actual partner in documented war crimes against Palestinian civilians. In this regard, it does not differ in substance from other major digital capitalist companies that practice the same thing in different forms and varying degrees of openness.
It is a class declaration of a project for a digital fascist alliance that relies not on traditional violence alone, but on digital surveillance and repression, data analysis, artificial intelligence, the manipulation of public opinion, and the suppression of dissent through imperceptible yet deeply impactful methods. An alliance whose crimes do not remain within elite circles and corporate offices, but extend to battlefields and the bodies of civilians, embodied today in its clearest form in Trumpism, its alliances, its crimes, and its aggressive wars.
https://savageminds.substack.com/p/the-explicit-manifesto-of-digital