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Brad's avatar

I pledge allegiance to neither party and hate political tribalism. But at this point I can't help but feel like Democrats have really, really fucked shit up over the past 6 years.

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

They had help from a bunch of useless Republicans that would rather fund-raise off their craziness than combat it, but I hear what you're saying, and I used to be far more aligned with Democrats than Republicans.

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Sevender's avatar

I have two questions.

If Russia nuked just Washington, would most Americans be okay with it?

Is the griftocracy leading the US into an actual military defeat, led by strong, independent women diagnosed with anxiety and suffering from infantile sexual and social development who live in a cartoon?

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Sevender's avatar

Oh if anyone objects to my questions, watch all of this. The comments are gold.

https://youtu.be/Kfe6d6MzeLM

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CC's avatar

Thank you - this was well worth it - The USA is toast.

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Brad's avatar

As an Army vet, that shit makes my blood boil. Not one for self-promotion, but I wrote about that commercial in July when the Ted Cruz brouhaha happened:

https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/has-america-gotten-soft

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Sevender's avatar

My, you do go on. 😀 It was good, though!

As it happens, intersectionality is not quite as falsifiable as it presents. It turns out that black women do much better with respect to the criminal justice system compared to all men--including white men!--and better than white women at social mobility.

I keep repressing memories of all those horrible campus autos-da-fe that have appeared in the news. Honestly I think we're going to have to replay the Cultural Revolution for real, but much closer to the original than the wokesters were hoping.

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Brad's avatar

Haha, thank you!

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Mitigated Disaster's avatar

That would solve the matter of DC statehood.

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Jen Koenig's avatar

"led by strong, independent women diagnosed with anxiety and suffering from infantile sexual and social development who live in a cartoon?" I'm stealing this.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Well, if WWIII breaks out, I hope people will remember: "It was the Oligarchy!"

There aren't even 1000 of them in the USA, but they control everything because they can buy everything.

Anyone who disputes this, just isn't paying attention.

I'm not sure if I should fault Tracy (and others like Taibbi) for not bringing this up or should acknowledge that they haven't much choice since the Oligarchy can easily have them assassinated. Happens all the time in Mexico.

If Tracy (et. al.) are being silent because they fear for their lives (and I have no reason to believe they aren't) then who am I to question their desire to remain alive?

Best of luck to you Michael.

Yes, Russiagate, the dumbest plan ever hatched by mediocre minds inhabiting the Democratic Party.

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Sevender's avatar

Are there really only 1,000? Because that opens up a lot of possibilities...🧐

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Mitigated Disaster's avatar

Poking the bear does not seem like a good idea but here we are.

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Douglas Marolla's avatar

I hope the Russian army doesn't misgender our troops. That would be simply awful.

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DSB's avatar

Thank you Mr. Tracey for your perspective. I agree.

I will add one more point of instigation I have yet to see anywhere in the reporting on Ukraine. In August 2020 there was the makings of a color revolution in Belarus. At the time there was much made in the US of support for kicking out Lukashenko. At the time Ben Rhodes said, "Americans have to recognize that the fight against Lukashenko in Belarus is our fight." The US has been an active instigator on Russia's western border. I doubt many US politicians would put up with the same.

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D. Malcolm Carson's avatar

It does seem awfully strange that the leaders of the world's alleged lone "superpower" can launch into hysterics about an imminent attack that could lead to a nuclear confrontation, and yet the rest of the world including the actual direct participants in said attack just rolls their eyes at us. I guess we're really just not a superpower at this point.

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Antiwar7's avatar

They're driven by emotion and stupidity.

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Douglas Marolla's avatar

Look, we shut down 4 or 5 of the bluest cities early in the AM so that the vote counters could "rest". Then, when we turned everything back on, our guy had a lead.

A big war is what we want, as our Creature from Jekyll Island, the FED, is out of options, and the rabble need a distraction. As Saint W showed in 2002, war, for lack of a better word, is good. War works.

We tell the deplorable trucker rabble what we want, and they elect us so we get rid of mean tweets.

Wash, rinse, repeat - no matter what your buddy Taibbi says in his latest column. We always will win. Boobus Americanus will see to it that that's the case.

Love,

NeoLiberal / NeoConservative thought leader.

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Harry Broertjes's avatar

Well, it’s a stretch to compare NATO live-fire exercises in Estonia to the sudden positioning of more than 100,000 Russian troops to the north, east and south of Ukraine. Nothing menacing about that?

Putin has been vocal about believing the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical disaster on the Twentieth Century. It’s hard to imagine that he doesn’t want to do his part to (in his mind) set things right by neutralizing Ukraine either by invasion or by massive intimidation leading to its becoming a puppet state like Belarus.

If the U.S. and NATO (to the extent that it’s still a credible alliance) don’t stand firm against Putin’s apparent designs, what does this tell China about the chances of its getting away with attacking Taiwan after the West barely said “boo” about its subjugation of Hong Kong? There’s the picture on our screens, and then there’s the bigger picture.

Biden, as Matt Taibbi aptly put it today, is a “bumbling ball-scratcher.” It’s clear that he’s in way over his head. But that doesn’t mean that a line in the sand or snow shouldn’t be drawn and that, for once, we should actually mean it.

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Sevender's avatar

You have a future in fact-free tv punditry.

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Mitch Barrie's avatar

Not my problem. NATO should have been disbanded in 1990. We broke every promise we made to post-Soviet Russia, and now a military alliance directed against them and no one else has expanded right up to their very doorstep.

No Russian will ever forget the last time the West invaded their country, and what it cost them (20 million dead). That's context.

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Douglas Marolla's avatar

Maybe Taibbi and Tracey are agents of Putin - ever think of that??? smh......

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TheMule's avatar

I was stupid enough and angry enough after 9/11 to fall for the warmongering propaganda, and look what it all accomplished. Never again. Our country is run by two political parties who are both all in for the MIC forever war money machine. Our debt. Their wealth. The lives and health of grunts sacrificed from the class of Americans they don't give a shit about. Their glory.

Every US war now is a narrative that follows the same arc:

1. Manufactured outrage over some event, that is often a false flag to begin with.

2. The mindless political hacks and arm chair warriors falling into the pro-war camp, usually because it's never gonna be their asses on the line, ever.

3. The overwhelming show of force, usually on brown-skinned civilians who are guilty of nothing but being where the US MIC narrative needs to drop bombs to forward its own image of legitimacy.

4. The inscrutable dragging on for years as no coherent goal nor sunset of the operation is established after the frenzied rush to war that builds both political and TV talking head careers.

5. The inevitable loss of public confidence and global confidence in the occupation that was totally pointless to begin with beyond war profiteering.

6. Slinking away, leaving a bunch of brown people to die after they were naive enough to trust us.

On to the next BS war with a whole new generation of partisan sociopaths and pathetic rubes to buy into the new war fever propaganda. If any of these operations has a legitimate reason, then I'd wager that reason is so crass and so evil that it cannot be spoken of aloud by any of our leaders without the speaker sounding like Satan himself being accidentally too candid.

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Anna's avatar

This was written before the prophecy last week that Putin would invade this Wednesday. Solemnly reported by the Times,,Mail, etc.I i am waiting for apologies and explanations, but it appears that Biden really meant next week. I look forward also for your take on the false flag operations, alleged. As they all took place on the front line between Ukraine west and Donbas, one wonders why no photos of the Russian soldiers allegedly occupying Donbass. Did the western side have their cameras turned off?

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Wazoomann's avatar

Team America, World Police redux.

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

Thank you for this article. I often get the feeling that we're treating reality as if it's a movie, with no real-world consequences, but then again, if our "elite" don't suffer the consequences, they don't really seem to care, so I hope if Russia does drop a bomb, they wait until Congress is voting themselves a raise and all the bureaucrats are in town, and they level DC. They'll do us a favor.

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