Oh, Mister Fascism Goes to Washington
ya gotta be kidding / / / Reagan and freedom fighters and ketchup as vegetables, and since when did the USA ever respect dissent and/or real universities?
Cunts on all sides of the Jewish Influence Aisle: His parents are Jewish; his mother, who was raised Presbyterian, converted to Judaism. He was named for Jacob Scher. When Tapper was young, he spent summers attending Camp Ramah in the Poconos, a Jewish summer camp.
As for the media, it did its best to normalize Trump’s speech as part of some sort of legitimate political discourse. CNN’s Jake Tapper referred to its “touching moments.” What can one say?
Ralph on point: A Police State — Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Pinochet, you name the fucking 110 IQ dictator
Ralph Nader on Trump’s Address to Congress
God, more of the blow-jobs for Trump:
The Trump Admin has confirmed it halted U.S. intelligence sharing with Kiev, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe describing it as “a pause” until Zelensky shows he is “ready for peace” with Russia. This comes as Washington also moved to cut off U.S. military aid to Ukraine this week.
Patrick Henningsen, a journalist and geopolitical analyst, noted that by cutting off intelligence sharing, the Trump Admin is showing it is serious about bringing the war to an end, and doesn’t want to give Zelensky (or any of the right-wing, neo-Nazis he’s surrounding by) ammunition to try to provoke Russia with a false flag attack.
THese fucking freaks. Hmm, Putin the Puppet.
Do you need to anaylze this fucking IQ 110 Rapist in Chief?
Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night was not so much a speech from a president but the rantings of an aspiring Führer, though with somewhat less decorum than an address by Hitler before the German Reichstag. It was vicious, violent and depraved, plumbing the depths of cultural and political degradation in the United States.
All the tropes that, in an earlier period, would have been identified as belonging to the fascist fringe of American politics have been elevated to its very center. Standing and applauding at every sentence were Trump’s cabinet of billionaires, the personification of government of the oligarchy, along with the Republican senators and representatives, who broke out repeatedly in chants of “USA! USA!”
To attempt to dissect all the lies Trump spewed would be to somehow dignify his comments. This was not a speech worthy of serious analysis. It was a series of pig grunts and dog barks, with the necessary apologies to these intelligent mammals. It was a grotesque marriage of reality TV and political spectacle. Trump crassly exploited personal tragedies, parading victims before the cameras, using them as a bludgeon to demand greater state violence, targeting immigrants and other sections of society.
Beneath it all, one theme was clear: Trump’s speech was a declaration of war—on the world and on the working class. It was a statement of an oligarchy that will stop at nothing to maintain its wealth and power.
Arming and supporting war criminals. Ramping up the war on drugs. Deregulating the government and economy. Slashing union power and unlocking corporate power. Enabling mass suffering towards LGBTQ people. Standing up for apartheid South Africa.
All things Democrats supposedly oppose in Donald Trump. All things Ronald Reagan is famously well known for.
So, why do Democrats keep invoking him?
After a disorganized and neutered-by-leadership attempt to display opposition to Trump (matching outfits, auction paddles, and all), Senator Elissa Slotkin delivered the Democratic response.
The Democratic Party’s choice to elevate Slotkin was eyebrow-raising: her resume includes being the first Democrat ever endorsed by Liz Cheney; voting for the Laken Riley Act, thus empowering Trump to detain and deport undocumented immigrants without due process; and being among the top of the pack of Senate Democrats voting for Trump’s Cabinet picks.
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This fucking fixation with JEWS: Slotkin was born on July 10, 1976 in New York City, the daughter of Curt Slotkin and Judith (née Spitz) Slotkin.[4][5] She is Jewish.[5][6][7] Slotkin spent her early life on a farm in Holly, Michigan. She attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills.[8] Her family farm was part of Hygrade Meat Company, founded by her great-grandfather Samuel Slotkin, who emigrated from Minsk in 1900.[9] Hygrade was the original company behind Ball Park Franks, which is now owned by Tyson Foods.[10]
Jews: BlackRock's Panama Canal deal is latest win for chief Larry Fink in strong start to Trump era
AIPAC Watch, uh?
In his address to Congress yesterday, Trump declared war on immigrants, civil rights reforms, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Panama, social service programs, and more. Meanwhile, the Democrats only put up nominal, performative resistance — in keeping with their “play dead” strategy. Brian is joined by Dr. Nazia Kazi, a professor of Anthropology at Stockton University, and author of the book “Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics.”
And cunts hate my No to UN sign?
Reynaldo Urbina rides his motorbike around the streets of Masaya, Nicaragua, with agility, despite having only one arm. Nearly seven years ago, at the height of a US- supported coup attempt against Nicaragua’s left-wing Sandinista government, Urbina was one of those guarding the city’s municipal warehouse when it was attacked by around 200 armed protestors. Warned of the impending attack, the guards had been ordered to hide their weapons and not resist capture, to minimize casualties.
But Urbina was suspected of knowing the whereabouts of the city’s mayor, whom the hooligans sought to assassinate, so they threw him to the ground and smashed his left arm with a rifle butt until it was practically destroyed. Urbina escaped, but his arm could not be saved, and was later amputated.
When a team was sent by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Nicaragua to collect evidence on human rights abuses a few weeks later, Urbina was among those offered by the government as a witness. But the team refused to meet him.
The UN’s 40-page report, issued in August 2018, devotes just five paragraphs to violence by anti-government factions; the rest blames the government and its supporters for practically every other violent incident, including many (like an arson attack on a pro-Sandinista radio station) that were clearly part of the coup attempt.
‘Biased’ UN Report on Nicaragua Ignores Victims of US-Backed Opposition Violence
Jewish Mother Fucking VALUES:
GAZA—On an afternoon in early February, Sami Abu Amr, a 61-year-old farmer, walked through his roughly three-acre stretch of land that lies east of the Gaza City neighborhood of Shuja’iyya where he once tended olive trees and grew seasonal vegetables, including cucumbers, tomatoes, and potatoes. Before the war, the sale of his produce to local residents provided the sole source of income for his family of 13, including his sons and grandchildren. But these agricultural lands are now a scene of devastation: A barren landscape of uprooted trees, bulldozer tracks and soil riddled with craters left by Israeli airstrikes.
Along with the ruin of his farmland, the Israeli military had also destroyed Abu Amr’s agricultural equipment, greenhouse, irrigation network, and poultry farm, amounting to losses he estimates at $70,000. "This land is not just a source of livelihood,” Abu Amr said. “It is my life, my history. I have nurtured it with my sweat for years.”
Before Israel’s assault began in 2023, agricultural land covered approximately 47% of the Gaza Strip and produced enough food to serve up to a third of local demand, offering a critical source of food for Palestinians living under siege for nearly two decades.
Following the “ceasefire” that went into effect January 19, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza returned to their homes and land after months of forced displacement only to find an apocalyptic landscape. In addition to the destruction of homes, shops, bakeries, hospitals, universities, roads, and other civilian infrastructure, Israel has decimated almost all of Gaza’s agricultural capacity.
According to the UN, 82% of croplands, 55% of on-farm irrigation systems and 78% of greenhouses have been damaged, leaving once-productive fields barren. Nearly 70% of agricultural wells have been damaged while 96% of cattle and 99% of poultry have died.
Oh, Ray-Gun: "At the request of the Berkeley mayor, Governor Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent 2,200 National Guard troops into Berkeley. Some of these guardsmen were even Cal students. At least one young man had participated in the riots, been shot at by police, gotten patched up, and then returned to his dorm to find a notice to report for guard duty. In the following days approximately 1,000 people were arrested: 200 were booked for felonies, and 500 were taken to Santa Rita jail."
From the standpoint of campus administrators attempting to manage the situation, Reagan's actions were counterproductive.
In 1981, in a speech before the California Peace Officers Assn., he called the American Civil Liberties Union a “criminals’ lobby.” At Christmas time in 1983, he said he had seen no “authoritative” evidence of a serious hunger problem in America, and that some people go to soup kitchens “because the food is free, and that’s easier than paying for it.” This year, five days before Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was first celebrated as a federal holiday, Meese invoked the slain civil-rights leader’s name in attacking affirmative action. King, said Meese, would have opposed affirmative action as a violation of his ideal “colorblind” society.
His Justice Department prompted a series of congressional investigations by refusing to seek the indictment of Teamsters Union president and FBI informant Jackie Presser in connection with a payroll-padding scheme that bilked Presser’s union local out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and by negotiating a plea with--rather than prosecuting--executives of E.F. Hutton & Co., the giant brokerage house caught in a huge fraud case that resembled a massive check-kiting operation.
But far more alarming to many lawyers, judges and legal scholars was the attorney general’s frontal assault on decades of established constitutional doctrine. He sparked a profound constitutional debate by arguing that Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Bill of Rights had violated the intent of the Founding Fathers. He attacked the high court’s long-accepted Miranda rulings on the rights of criminal suspects. He sought to roll back the so-called exclusionary rule, which bars the courtroom use of evidence obtained without “reasonable cause.” And, in an unusual move by an attorney general, he publicly called on the Supreme Court to reverse its landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.
The former defendants, now known as the Exonerated Five, initially confessed to the crime but later recanted saying their admissions were the result of police coercion.
They were imprisoned for between five and 13 years - but their convictions were ultimately overturned in 2002 after a serial violent offender named Matias Reyes confessed to the attack and DNA linked him to the crime.
In 2014, a $41m (£32m) settlement was reached between the five men and New York City.
This, 2017: The GOP and the American right consistently position themselves against the universities. This is a commonplace of the culture war. But why? America’s universities regularly rank among the most prestigious worldwide, making undeniable contributions to medicine, science, technology, economy, the arts, athletics, and the humanities. America’s universities also attract some of the world’s brightest minds, spurring innovation and dominating globally by countless measures. Conservatives might be proud of the universities as particularly stunning examples of American pluck and ingenuity. Instead, the tax bill appears to be symptomatic of the GOP’s growing disillusionment with higher education. This is, at least, how a number of college presidents and leaders have interpreted it.
For one, the legislation would for the first time ever require universities to pay taxes on their endowment income. Universities have traditionally received tax exemptions on those assets in part because they are viewed as contributing to the public good. In addition, the House bill includes provisions to end graduate-student tax breaks, leading professors and graduate students at top universities to worry that studying for a Ph.D. will become unaffordable for all but the wealthy.
White feces Nazi’s.
Israel’s annihilation of Gaza marks the death of a global order guided by internationally agreed upon laws and rules, one often violated by the U.S. in its imperial wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, but one that was at least acknowledged as a utopian vision. The U.S. and its Western allies not only supply the weaponry to sustain the genocide, but obstruct the demand by most nations for an adherence to humanitarian law.
The message this sends is clear: You, and the rules that you thought might protect you, do not matter. We have everything. If you try and take it away from us we will kill you.
Jews are natural born Killers:
[The CIA, the MI6, the KGB—these are the most notorious spy agencies in the history of the world. And rightfully so: their work shaped our post World War II order and their tales of intrigue and death are told in pop culture over and over again. But right alongside them in international infamy is tiny Israel's the Mossad—Hebrew for "The Institute." The story of how and why the Mossad gained its notoriety is told in the Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman's new Rise And Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. It's an exhaustive work that aims to relay the saga of the Israeli intelligence community, from its brazen successes to its war crimes.
In Bergman's telling, Israeli intelligence is obsessed with killing anyone, anywhere, who's deemed a threat to the state of Israel, and it's wholly unconcerned with due process. The intelligence community "implemented a strict policy of telling the truth inside the organization and institutionalized lying to the outside world," he writes at one point. "Prisoners complained in court that they'd confessed only after being tortured, but it didn't matter." At another point, he notes, "killing a man no longer required the prime minister's approval." Bergman recently spoke to GQ about the complicated, dangerous, and nearly-decade long process of reporting Rise And Kill First.]
Israel, which as Ronen Bergman notes in “Rise and Kill First” has “assassinated more people than any other country in the Western world,” uses the Nazi Holocaust to sanctify its hereditary victimhood and justify its settler-colonial state, apartheid, campaigns of mass murder and Zionist version of Lebensraum.
Primo Levi, who survived Auschwitz, saw the Shoah, for this reason, as “an inexhaustible source of evil” which “is perpetrated as hatred in the survivors, and springs up in a thousand ways, against the very will of all, as a thirst for revenge, as moral breakdown, as negation, as weariness, as resignation.”