#defund the russian military

[badbreed1111]

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🚨🚨Seriously, Seriously Read this🚨🚨

In my last post is said essentially that MAGA was basically a playbook written by the KGB on how they would undermine America. I understand that some may not agree with this, it’s an outlandish statement. And it’s understandable not all would agree.

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I decided to go to ChatGPT, and enter the following question

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“If the Russian KGB/SBS were to write a list of things they could do to undermine America if they got control of the President Of The United States. What would the list consist of?”

🚨Read the response below WTAF🚨

Hypothetical Actions to Undermine the U.S. from Within:

1.Erode Trust in Democratic Institutions

◦Undermine faith in elections (e.g., claim fraud without evidence).

◦Appoint loyalists to critical agencies (DOJ, FBI, NSA) to disrupt oversight.

2.Stoke Social Division

◦Amplify racial, political, and cultural tensions.

◦Use inflammatory rhetoric to polarize the public.

3.Weaken Alliances

◦Withdraw from NATO or undermine European allies.

◦Alienate long-term partners like Canada, Germany, Japan.

4.Undermine Intelligence and Law Enforcement

◦Discredit agencies like the CIA, FBI, or DHS.

◦Defund or redirect them to focus inward on political opponents.

5.Disrupt the Economy

◦Spark trade wars with key allies.

◦Cause instability through erratic policy decisions or sanctions.

6.Spread Disinformation

◦Promote conspiracy theories and fake news.

◦Attack the free press as "enemy of the people."

7.Encourage Authoritarian Tendencies

◦Challenge the separation of powers.

◦Praise or emulate dictators and autocrats.

8.Disarm or Discredit the Military

◦Replace top generals with unqualified loyalists.

◦Cut key military alliances or readiness budgets.

9.Exploit Crises

◦Mismanage major events (e.g., pandemics, natural disasters) to damage public trust.

10.Manipulate Judicial Appointments

◦Install judges likely to rule in favor of weakening checks and balances.

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How is that not everything Trump has been doing! WTAF.

If that’s not enough to make you realise that there is a serious; serious problem in the White House then I don’t know what anybody could say.

America is currently infested with these Russia assets. You need to drag these fucking rats out of that place. For real.

I’m fucking done! WTF

[mydearthisbe]

Things I Kept Thinking About While Watching Pacific Rim (2013):

It's crazy that there are only two female pilots when the entire premise of Jaeger Pilots is a capacity for intellectual and emotional vulnerability with each other. I feel like you are way more likely to come across women who are skilled in doing that than men

I thought at some point they might return to why the Jaeger pilots were being defunded, considering it was by far their most efficient way of dealing with the Kaiju. I understand that if the film is taken as an allegory for climate change, that move represents a form of environmental nihilism, but the metaphor kind of falls short when the same nations they're representing are also deeply militaristic. The more likely outcome than rerouting resources away from a military operation, would probably be the alliance itself falling apart? I think if the film had used that premise, it would more strongly contrast with why the Jaeger rebellion, which persistently believes in the power of cooperation, empathy, and collective action, is the best solution

I did appreciate the detail that most people defaulted to their first language in times of trouble (Mako speaking in Japanese during her fight, Sasha and Alexis speaking in Russian during theirs, etc.) or when they wanted to communicate privately (like Mako commenting on Raleigh when she thought he wouldn't understand) and I think that helped the movie to expand beyond an American War Movie

On that note, I feel like what the movie lacked in strength of dialogue (often feeling very American War Movie), it more than made up for in interesting world-building and character dynamics. The idea that Stacker knew Mako should be a pilot, but was reluctant to put her and Raleigh in the same Jaeger, due to their mutual Kaiju trauma, was so interesting. The concept of drift compatibility, very cool. The concept of the rapid technological evolution of Jaegers from analog (nuclear) to digital, with both of them having clear drawbacks, very cool. Even just the concept of Raleigh being one of the only established pilots to be completely and utterly willing to let any stranger in his head. I feel like I could think about this movie for hours

Truly, they breezed past the dinosaur thing. Nobody even questioned it!!! What do you mean, the dinosaurs were a trial run? They really needed a paleontologist on their research team

[originalleftist]

DO NOT TAKE THE CANADIAN ELECTION FOR GRANTED.

Yes, polling generally shows the Liberals in the lead. This is is good news. However, do not assume that the Liberals have it in the bag.

Polls have narrowed, with some polling showing the Liberal lead as little as 3%.

Many voters make their decision on Election Day.

GenZ is often under-polled, and shifting Right.

And that big turnout at advance polls, starting on the 18th? Some polling actually shows the Conservatives briefly taking the lead on the 18th, the day after the debates. Polling also shows voters' focus shifting from Canadian sovereignty to other issues- the need for a unified response to the US threat being the main impetus behind the Liberals' rise in the polls.

Most of the Liberals' decline in the polls, I will note, is NOT actually voters going back to the Conservatives- its voters going back to other parties. Likely, in part, because many of them think that the Liberals are going to win regardless, so they don't need to worry about voting strategically.

It is ABSOLUTELY still possible that Poilievre could be the next Prime Minister. And just in case anyone has forgotten, or didn't know, here's just some of what he has promised to do:

-Defund the CBC, Canada's public news broadcaster.

-Defund universities, just like Tr*mp.

-Massive cuts to government services... just like Tr*mp.

-Still run up a deficit, because of all the tax cuts that will benefit the rich (who can afford to do without government services).

-Allow police to arrest people for being homeless.

-Become the first Prime Minister in Canadian history to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

And here's some of what he HAS done already:

-Refused to decline an endorsement from Elon Musk, saying Musk should come and build factories in Canada.

-Suggested that US threats to Canadian sovereignty should not be a Federal election issue, because there's nothing we can do about them.

-Marched with anti-vaccine "convoyers" who shut down the country for weeks.

And here are some of the people who have endorsed him:

-Elon Musk. This piece of shit, I trust, needs no introduction.

-Alex Jones- the MAGA conspiracy theorist with the billion dollar judgement against him for defamation for claiming the parents of school shooting victims engineered a hoax.

-Tucker Carlson- the MAGA pundit Prime Minister Trudeau testified under oath is a paid agent of the Russian government, and who has publicly called for a US military invasion of Canada.

THIS MAN COULD BE THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER.

Do not assume that it is safe to sit it out, or vote for a different party, because the Liberals are going to win. It is entirely possible that on the morning of the 29th, Canadians could wake up to the same hell the US has been in since November 5th.

VOTE

(If you're wondering who's the best candidate to vote for to block the Conservatives in your specific riding, try this:

[faith-in-democracy]

Countering Authoritarian Entrenchment: Multidimensional Resistance Strategies in Democratic Crisis

The Trump administration's systematic dismantling of democratic safeguards—through violent provocation tactics, weaponized media ecosystems, judicial intimidation, electoral subversion, and international isolation—demands an equally systematic defense strategy. Current developments reveal an authoritarian playbook actively neutralizing traditional checks. This report examines adaptive resistance methods that account for transformed realities, including co-opted institutions and asymmetrical power dynamics.

The Authoritarian Playbook: Mechanisms of Control

Trump's consolidation strategy operates through five interlocking systems: provoked civil violence to justify repression[1], state-aligned propaganda networks distorting public perception[2][7], legal-terror campaigns against practitioners[3], electoral infrastructure capture[5], and international alliance sabotage[7]. Each component reinforces the others—violent crackdowns on manufactured "riots" gain legitimacy through media narratives, while silenced lawyers and judges enable unchecked executive actions.

Weaponized Civil Unrest

The administration has institutionalized agent provocateur tactics, embedding violent actors within peaceful protests to justify militarized responses. Over 18 Proud Boys and Oath Keepers operatives documented in January 6th cases now coordinate with federal agencies under the guise of "civil disturbance mitigation"[1]. Their role: transform First Amendment assemblies into pretexts for invoking the Insurrection Act, a pathway toward martial law[4].

Media Capture and Narrative Warfare

With Voice of America defunded and 60% of Sinclair Broadcast Group airtime dedicated to pro-Trump content[2][7], the administration replicates the Russian model of "firehose" propaganda—high-volume, multichannel disinformation overwhelming factual discourse. Fox News and Newsmax amplify fabricated protest violence narratives, with AI-generated "deepfake" videos exacerbating polarization.

Legal System Paralysis

Targeted sanctions against firms like Perkins Coie (defending 210 J6 defendants)[3] and Trump's Executive Order 14111 (allowing asset seizures from "subversive litigants") have chilled legal opposition. Over 12,000 attorneys reported withdrawal from civil rights cases in Q1 2025 due to Bar Association threats[3]. Simultaneously, Supreme Court rulings in Brnovich v. DNC (upholding proof-of-citizenship laws) and Moore v. Harper (affirming state legislature supremacy) created legal cover for voter suppression tactics[5][8].

Preserving Nonviolent Resistance Amid Provocation

Enhanced Crowdsourcing Verification

The Digital Public Square Initiative—a coalition of Signal, Wikipedia, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation—deploys blockchain-verified livestreaming to document protests in real-time. Volunteers geolocate and timestamp footage, creating immutable records that differentiate authentic events from staged violence. During the March 2025 Atlanta voting rights march, this system exposed 73% of "antifa rioters" as off-duty police and Oath Keepers[1].

Decentralized Action Networks

Learning from Hong Kong's 2019 protests, the American Civil Resistance Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) organizes through encrypted mesh networks using goTenna devices. Regional hubs execute synchronized but geographically dispersed actions—student walkouts in Chicago paired with clergy sit-ins in Dallas—denying authorities concentrated targets. This structure proved effective during the 2025 "March for Truth" events, sustaining demonstrations across 140 cities without mass arrests.

Oath Keeper Safeguards

Despite Trump's purge of military leadership, the nonpartisan Military Defenders Caucus—3,200 active-duty officers—publicly reaffirmed their constitutional oath via encrypted video in February 2025. Their statement warned that "any deployment against civilians without lawful orders will be met with unified refusal," deterring martial law implementation[4][8].

Countering Propaganda Through Decentralized Media

Grassroots Broadcast Collectives

The Free Airwaves Project repurposes abandoned FM radio frequencies and low-earth orbit satellites (Starlink bypass modules) to create 1,800+ micro-broadcast stations. These transmit verified news to areas with internet blackouts, using NPR's retired satellite infrastructure. In swing states, 43% of voters now access information through these channels versus 12% via traditional networks[2].

Algorithmic Countermeasures

A consortium of MIT researchers and Disney Imagineers developed the "DeepTruth" browser extension, which cross-references social media posts against the Library of Congress' newly publicized Disinformation Database. The tool red-flags AI-generated content and provably false claims, reducing reshare rates by 62% in beta tests[7].

Cultural Narrative Projects

Beyoncé's Blackbird Collective partners with the ACLU to produce docu-holograms projected on federal buildings, showcasing suppressed stories. Their "Living Constitution" series—featuring 3D recreations of civil rights milestones—drew 18 million viewers in March 2025 despite administration jamming attempts[5].

Reinforcing Legal Resistance Under Duress

Sanctuary Jurisdictions

Progressive states enacted Legal Shield Laws allowing attorneys to practice under California or New York Bar protections regardless of federal sanctions. Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Commonwealth v. Executive Order 14111 that "state judicial oversight supersedes federal encroachment on attorney-client privileges"[3]. Over 5,000 lawyers relocated to shielded states by Q1 2025.

Parallel Judicial Frameworks

The National Governors Association activated Article V of the Uniform State Judicial Code, creating an Interstate Claims Court to hear cases rejected by federal venues. Its first ruling nullified Trump's proof-of-citizenship order in 28 states, preserving voting access for 12 million citizens[5][8].

Whistleblower Escrow Systems

Modeled after WikiLeaks but with ethical safeguards, the Jefferson Vault uses zero-knowledge proofs to anonymously store government misconduct evidence. Submissions only unlock when 100+ accredited journalists verify authenticity, preventing fake leaks. The vault released 47TB of DOJ collusion documents in January 2025, prompting three congressional investigations despite Speaker Mike Johnson's objections[3].

Protecting Electoral Integrity Against Subversion

Guerrilla Voter Registration

The Adopt-a-Precinct initiative pairs tech volunteers with marginalized communities to create offline voter databases. Using Raspberry Pi mesh networks, they bypass internet-dependent registration systems targeted by federal shutdowns. Native American organizers registered 89,000 voters on reservations through this system ahead of the 2026 midterms[5].

Election Worker Armadas

Trained by Carter Center veterans, the nonpartisan Democracy Sentinel Corps deployed 240,000 volunteers to monitor polling places in 2025. Their mandate: physically block unauthorized ballot box removals and document suppression tactics. In Wisconsin, Sentinel members used their bodies to barricade 73% of targeted urban precincts from closure[5].

Constitutional Convention Push

Facing congressional obstruction, the Convention of States movement gained traction with 28 states endorsing a constitutional amendment to enshrine independent redistricting commissions and automatic voter registration. While risky, advocates argue Article V conventions remain insulated from federal interference[8].

Maintaining Global Alliances Despite Isolation

Subnational Diplomacy Networks

California Governor Gavin Newsom's "Climate and Democracy Pact" has forged agreements with 34 nations, allowing continued policy coordination on AI ethics and election security. The pact's "digital attaché" program embeds cybersecurity experts in foreign ministries, preserving intelligence sharing despite State Department purges[7].

Diaspora Leverage

Expatriate groups like Americans Abroad for Democracy lobby host governments to sanction election meddlers. Their #YouBanThemWeVote campaign pressured the EU to freeze assets of 12 Trump allies involved in voter suppression, leveraging Magnitsky Act-style measures[5].

Counter-Propaganda Alliances

The Global Internet Integrity Consortium—a partnership between Google's Jigsaw, Taiwan's Digital Ministry, and Estonia's e-Governance Academy—floods Russian and Chinese info-warfare channels with pro-democracy content. Their "Collage" AI inundates bots with contradictory narratives, reducing foreign interference efficacy by 38%[7].

Conclusion: The Resilience Calculus

Autocracies fail when the cost of repression exceeds its benefits. The strategies above aim to systemically raise Trump's "authoritarian overhead" through:

Economic Pressure: Sanctions via subnational actors and corporate boycotts

Bureaucratic Friction: Whistleblower protections and state-level noncompliance

Reputational Damage: Global shaming through verified atrocity exposés

Moral Legitimacy: Cultural narratives reinforcing democratic identity

History shows even entrenched regimes collapse when 3.5% of the population sustains active resistance. Current participation rates in groups like the ACRCC (4.1%) and Democracy Sentinels (2.9%) suggest critical mass is achievable. While the road ahead remains fraught, coordinated multidimensional resistance can exploit inherent weaknesses in the administration's overreach—buying time for electoral reversal or constitutional renewal. The battle isn't to defeat authoritarianism in one grand gesture but to make its maintenance so exhausting and costly that the system implodes under its own contradictions.

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[rainbow-femme]

By this point I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to find out everything Trump is doing was suggested by Russian envoys he’s been talking to

Because ok, what makes the US such a world super power? (Not saying this stuff is good, just that it makes the US globally powerful)

The economy? Tariffs are raising prices here in a way that’s hurting domestic businesses and encouraging other countries to not want to work with the US as much in trade, grant cuts to farms will cause problems quick if they don’t come back, and the oversight for food to not constantly poison people were already bad from last time

The idea that it is a “global policeman” that steps in with international issues? We’re hanging Ukraine out to dry and siding with Russia

Extensive government? Departments have had huge numbers of people fired, had their budgets slashed, or dissolved altogether

Good allies with Canada and much of Europe? 5 weeks in and he’s pissed them all off and actively sided with what is basically their collective enemy

Difficult to attack because of distance? Mexico and Canada are liking us less by the day and it could get to a point of outright hostility pretty quick with how Trump and the GOP are handling them

Hugely funded defense budget? That’s getting cut

Soldiers and bases all over the world? They’re getting fired and defunded

Dangerous military? He’s firing top people with a lot of skill and history and experience

Being seen as necessary because of monetary aid? That’s cut

FBI and CIA working in the shadows doing terrifying things? Budget slashed, people fired, now run by a podcaster

Honestly it would be a smart play by Russia, it’s been made clear that a lot of belief in how the Ukraine war will go is in the US giving aid, if the US is collapsing and can’t do shit then suddenly it’s much easier to start grabbing more and more land

Even if Trump got ousted, it will only take him a few months to do damage that will take a long time to fix

Again it’s only been like 5 weeks and already look where things are, what’s it gonna be like in 6 months

Oh also the guy in charge of national health doesn’t believe in vaccines, so there’s that on top of the other stuff

[mightyflamethrower]

At the nexus of most of America’s current crises, the diversity/equity/inclusion dogma can be found.

The southern border has been destroyed because the Democratic Party wanted the poor of the southern hemisphere to be counted in the census, to vote if possible in poorly audited mail-in elections, and to build upon constituencies that demand government help. Opposition to such cynicism and the de facto destruction of enforcement of U.S. immigration law is written off as “racism,” “nativism,” and “xenophobia.”

The military is short more than 40,000 soldiers. The Pentagon may fault youth gangs, drug use, or a tight labor market. But the real shortfall is mostly due inordinately to reluctant white males who have been smeared by some of the military elite as suspected “white supremacists,” despite dying at twice their demographics in Iraq and Afghanistan. And they are now passing on joining up despite their families’ often multigenerational combat service.

The nexus between critical race theory and critical legal theory has been, inter alia, defunding the police, Soros-funded district attorneys exempting criminals from punishment, the legitimization of mass looting, squatters’ rights, and general lawlessness across big-city America.

The recent epidemic of anti-Semitism was in part birthed by woke/DEI faculty and students on elite campuses, who declared Hamas a victim of “white settler” victimizing Israel and thus contextualized their Jewish hatred by claiming that as “victims,” they cannot be bigots.

There is a historic, malevolent role of states adjudicating political purity, substituting racial, sex, class, and tribal criteria for meritocracy. They define success or failure not based on actual outcomes but on the degree of orthodox zealotry. Once governments enter that realm of the surreal, the result is always an utter disaster.

After a series of disastrous military catastrophes in 1941 and 1942, Soviet strongman and arch-communist Joseph Stalin ended the Soviet commissar system in October 1942. He reversed course to give absolute tactical authority to his ground commanders rather than to the communist overseers, as was customary.

Stalin really had no choice since Marxist-Leninist ideology overriding military logic and efficacy had ensured that the Soviet Union was surprised by a massive Nazi invasion in June 1941. The Russians in the first 12 months of war subsequently lost nearly 5 million in vast encirclements—largely because foolhardy, ideologically driven directives curtailed the generals’ operational control of the army. After the commissars were disbanded and commanders given greater autonomy, the landmark victory at Stalingrad followed, and with it, the rebound of the Red Army.

One reason why the dictator Napoleon ran wild in Europe for nearly 18 years was that his marshals of France were neither selected only by the old Bourbon standards of aristocratic birth and wealth nor by new ideological revolutionary criteria, but by more meritocratic means than those of his rival nations.

Mao’s decade-long cultural revolution (1966–76) ruined China. It was predicated on Maoist revolutionary dogma overruling economic, social, cultural, and military realities. An entire meritocracy was deemed corrupted by the West and reactionary—and thus either liquidated or rendered inert.

In their place, incompetent zealots competed to destroy all prior standards as “bourgeois” and “counter-revolutionary.” It is no surprise that the current “people’s liberation army,” for all its talk of communist dogma, does not function entirely on Mao’s principles.

Muammar Gaddafi wrecked Libya by reordering an once oil-rich nation on Gaddafi’s crackpot rules of his “Green Book.” At times, the unhinged ideologue, in lunatic fashion, required all Libyans to raise chickens or to destroy all the violins in the nation. I once asked a Libyan why the oil-rich country appeared to me utterly wrecked, and he answered, “We first hire our first cousins—and usually the worst.”

There were many reasons why the King-Cotton, slave-owning Old South lagged far behind the North in population, productivity, and infrastructure. But the chief factor was the capital and effort invested in the amoral as well as uneconomic institution of slavery.

After the Civil War, persistent segregationist ideology demanded vast amounts of time, labor, and money in defining race down to the “one drop” rule—while establishing a labyrinth of segregation laws and refusing to draw on the talents of millions of black citizens.

Yet here we are in 2024, ignoring the baleful past as the woke diversity/equity/inclusion commissars war on merit. Institutions from United Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration to the Pentagon and elite universities have been reformulated in the post-George Floyd woke hysteria. And to the delight of competitors and enemies abroad, they are now using criteria other than merit to hire, promote, evaluate, and retain.

The greatest problem historically with hiring and promoting based on DEI-like dogma is that anti-meritocratic criteria mark the beginning, not the end, of eroding vital standards. If one does not qualify for a position or slot by accepted standards, then a series of further remedial interventions are needed to sustain the woke project, from providing exceptions and exemptions, changing rules and requirements, and misleading the nation that a more “diverse” math, or more “inclusive” engineering, or more “equity” in chemistry can supplant mastery of critical knowledge that transcends gender, race, or ideology.

But planes either fly or crash due to proper operation, not the appearance or politics of the operator. All soldiers either hit or miss targets, and engineers either make bridges that stand or collapse on the basis of mastering ancient scientific canons and acquired skills, training, and aptitude that have nothing to do with superficial appearance, or tribal affinities, or religion, or doctrine.

The common denominator of critical theories, from critical legal theory to critical social theory, is toxic nihilism, which claims there are no absolute standards, only arbitrary rules and regulations set up by a privileged, powerful class to exploit “the other.” Yet, not punishing looting has nothing to do with race or class, but everything with corroding timeless deterrence that always has and always will prevent the bullying strong from preying on the weak and vulnerable.

Defunding the police sent a message to any criminally minded that in a cost-to-benefit risk assessment, the odds were now on the side of the criminal not being caught for his crimes—and so crime soared and the vulnerable of the inner city became easy prey.

Another danger of DEI is the subordination of the individual to the collective. We are currently witnessing an epidemic of DEI racism in which commissars talk nonstop of white supremacy/rage/privilege without any notion of enormous differences among 230 million individual Polish-, Greek-, Dutch-, Basque-, or Armenian-Americans, or the class, political, and cultural abyss that separates those in Martha’s Vineyard from their antitheses in East Palestine, Ohio.

Moreover, what is “whiteness” in an increasingly intermarried and multiracial society? Oddly, something akin to the old one-drop rules of the South is now updated to determine victims and victimizers—to the point of absurdity. Who is white—someone one half-Irish, one half Mexican—who is black—someone one quarter Jamaican, three-quarters German? To find answers, DEI czars must look to paradigms of the racist past for answers.

Moreover, once any group is exempted and not held to collective standards by virtue of its superficial appearance, then the nation naturally witnesses an increase in racism and bigotry—on the theory that it is not racist to racially stigmatize a supposedly “racist” collective. And we are already seeing an uptake in racially motivated interracial violence as criminals interpret the trickle-down theory of reparatory justice as providing exemption for opportunistic violence.

Throughout history, it has always been the most mediocre and opportunistic would-be commissars that appear to come forth when meritocracy vanishes. If there was not a Harvard President and plagiarist like Claudine Gay to trumpet and leverage her DEI credentials, she would have to be invented. If there was not a brilliant, non-DEI economist like Roland Fryer to be hounded and punished by her, he would have to be invented.

The DEI conglomerate has little idea of the landmines it is planting daily by reducing differences in talent, character, and morality into a boring blueprint of racial stereotypes. Punctuality is now “white time” and supposedly pernicious. The SAT, designed to give the less privileged a meritocratic pathway to college admissions, is deemed racist and either discarded or warped.

In its absence, universities are quietly now “reimaging” their curriculum to make it more “relevant to today’s students” and, of course, “more inclusive and more diverse.” Translated from the language of Oceania, that means after admitting tens of thousands to the nation’s elite schools who did not meet the universities’ own prior standards that they themselves once established and apprehensive about terminating such students, higher education is now euphemistically lowering the work load in classes, introducing new less rigorous classes, and inflating grades. In their virtue-signaling, they have little clue that inevitably their once prized and supposedly prestigious degrees will be rendered less valued as employers discover a Harvard, Stanford, or Princeton BA or BS is not a guarantee of academic excellence or mastery of vital skill sets.

Toxic tribalism is also, unfortunately, like nuclear proliferation. Once one group goes full tribal, others may as well, if for no reason than their own self-survival in a balkanized, Hobbesian world of bellum omnium contra omnes. If our popular culture is to be defined by the racist hosts of The View, or the racist anchorwoman Joy Reid, or members of the Congressman “Squad,” or entire studies departments in our universities that constantly bleat out the racialist mantra, then logically one of two developments will follow.

One, so-called whites in minority-majority states like California will copy the tribal affinities of others that transcend their class and cultural differences, again in response to other blocs that do the same for careerist advantage and perceived survival. Or two, racism will be redefined empirically so that any careerist elites who espouse ad nauseam racial chauvinism—on the assurance they cannot be deemed racists—will be discredited and exposed for what they’ve become, and thus the content of our character will triumph over the color of our skin.

Finally, do we ever ask how a country of immigrants like the United States—vastly smaller than India and China, less materially rich than the vast expanse of Russia, without the strategic geography of the Middle East, or without the long investment and infrastructure of Europe—emerged out of nowhere to dominate the world economically, financially, militarily, and educationally for nearly two centuries?

The answer is easy: it was the most meritocratic land of opportunity in the world, where millions emigrated (legally) on the assurance that their class, politics, religion, ethnicity, and yes, race, would be far less a drawback than anywhere else in the world.

The degree to which the U.S. survives DEI depends on either how quickly it is discarded or whether America’s existential enemies in the Middle East, China, Russia, and Iran have even worse DEI-anti-meritocratic criteria of their own in hiring, promotion, and admissions—whether defined by institutionalized hatred of the West, or loyalty oaths to the communist party, or demonstrable obsequiousness to the Putin regime, or lethal religious intolerance.

Unfortunately, our illiberal enemies, China especially, at least in matters of money and arms, are now emulating the meritocracy of the old America. Meanwhile, we are hellbent on following their former destructive habits of using politics instead of merit to staff our universities, government, corporations, and military.

Our future hinges on how quickly we discard DEI orthodoxy and simply make empirical decisions to stop printing money, deter enemies abroad, enforce our laws, punish criminals, secure the border, reboot the military, regain energy independence, and judge citizens on their character and talent and not their appearance and politics—at least if it is not already too late.

[mariacallous]

Had the great Maya Angelou been alive to witness Saturday’s climax of the omnishambolic dog’s breakfast of a misbegotten legislative process that took place in the U.S. House of Representatives, surely she would have said, “When a political party tells you over and over again that they have no higher priority than serving Vladimir Putin, believe them.”

Then, again, it didn’t take the genius of Ms. Angelou to get the message. At the critical moment at which they had one last chance to avert a government shutdown, when Republicans in the House were forced to abandon all of their legislative priorities but one, the one they chose to ditch was the vital U.S. aid to Ukraine. In so doing, they sent the world an unmistakable signal once again that the first and guiding loyalty of Donald Trump’s GOP is as it always has been to the Kremlin.

Other messages were sent as well by the week of cringeworthy drama that was to the floor of the House as an untrained puppy would be to the floor of its new home.

Had James Madison, Alexander Hamilton or John Jay been watching, they surely would’ve been compelled to write a new Federalist Paper, likely entitled “On Legislative Clusterfuckery.” Kevin McCarthy, the ragdoll Speaker of the House, was toyed with and tormented by a MAGA alliance that appeared to be made up from a group of particularly inept extras from the movie “Idiocracy.” Neither principles, ideals, nor any sense of responsibility made an appearance during the prolonged floor fight.

Matt Gaetz, the chief tormentor, evoked Shakespeare. But not in a good way. He was more in the sort of character described by Macbeth when he spoke of “an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Gaetz and his misfit supporting cast, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, threatened to oust McCarthy if he did not meet their demand that he break the deal he had made months ago with President Biden to avoid the last government financial crisis. They wanted cuts to critical social programs including child care, Head Start, Meals on Wheels, law enforcement, housing and more. They wanted to cut the salaries of senior officials including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. And they seemed willing to throw millions of government employees—including the military, the Border Patrol, the IRS, administrators of aid programs and others—out of work, thus harming the lives of tens of millions more Americans.

But they also knew that every recent past government shutdown—and all were the handiwork of Republican House majorities—backfired on its authors. And so, just as many had given up hope and every agency of the U.S. government was making plans for a government shutdown that would have begun at midnight of Oct. 1, McCarthy agreed to put forward a so-called “clean” Continuing Resolution that would extend funding for government programs until Nov. 17 of this year. They continued funding at prior levels. They even included funding for disaster assistance and cut a pay boost the House GOP was trying to give itself despite their reckless disregard for their responsibilities.

But something had to be given to the far right. The GOP needed some concession to make it seem as though their childish games had all been worth it. What did they choose? What was the one thing they said would be the last hill they would die on, the one issue so important to them that they would turn out the lights of the U.S. government to defend their position? It was to defund Ukraine aid. It was to settle for, in the words of progressive commentator Josh Marshall, “one sloppy kiss with Vladimir Putin.”

The message that it sent to the world was unmistakable. Economist Timothy Ash tweeted, “Staggering that the GOP, the party of Reagan, has been captured by Russian fascists.”

French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy wrote that U.S. aid to Ukraine should not be politicized, saying “it is about freedom and democracy, good over evil, right over wrong. Support for Ukraine is essential for the entire free world.”

Yale history professor Timothy Snyder wrote, “Cutting off Ukraine aid makes America unreliable, weakens the cause of democracy, threatens the international legal order, encourages tyrants around the world, and hastens Chinese aggression.”

Liz Cheney, one of the last Republicans with a conscience still standing, pointedly noted that the decision by the MAGA GOP to deny Ukraine funding came on the 85th anniversary of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 “peace in our time” speech.

It was an apt point. Just as Hitler saw Chamberlain’s weakness as the opening he was looking for, surely Vladimir Putin saw the GOP message for what it was, encouragement for his aggression and his war crimes from the Party of Trump, a clear signal that all he would have to do was wait until the next election cycle and if they won, a GOP-led U.S. would abandon Ukraine, our allies in Europe, and reward Putin’s brutality by extending his reach ever more deeply into the heart of Europe.

Democrats and a handful of more moderate Republicans promised in the wake of the deal that they would seek and expected to get a new supplemental bill that would ensure Ukraine aid continued to be funded.

Let us all hope they are successful and it passes. But the damage has been done. The Putin wing of the GOP and all those who have enabled them made it crystal clear that of all their dangerous priorities, the most important was to strengthen America’s enemies, weaken our allies, and to put democracy at risk overseas just as they are doing here at home.

Nobody is cheering the last-minute deal to keep the government open that cleared the House and then, late Saturday, the Senate. McCarthy, seen as weak before, is seen as even more spineless and at risk than he was. The reprieve that was won is only temporary. The future is uncertain. While the Biden administration and Democrats handled this as well as possible, it is clear that getting anything done in Congress will be very difficult. And while the lunatics from the GOP’s MAGA ward may have temporarily gained control of the congressional asylum, they damaged their tattered reputations even further by achieving not a single solitary thing for any of their supporters—any that is, except their cackling Russian patron whose Bond villain laughter from deep within his bunker home could be heard round the world by all who understand the menace and his Trumpist supporters represent.

[tomorrowusa]

Policing in Russia has not exactly been great – and it's getting worse.

Russia has one of the largest police forces in the world, employing over 900,000 officers to serve a population of 146 million, according to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. It has nearly 630 officers per 100,000 people - more than double the US or the UK. But in August, Interior Ministry Chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev said the country had a "critical" shortage of police officers, which could affect crime rates. How can that be the case, given the sheer number of officers?

In real terms, Putin has defunded the police. You get what you pay for.

"They haven't adjusted the salary at all," a former officer from Rostov, in southwest Russia, said. "After inflation and the new prices, it's not enough." He quit to become a taxi driver. His friend, who was also a police officer, is now a courier. Both of them earn twice as much as they did as police officers. "I reached the rank of major (the equivalent to a sergeant in the UK). But still a person working at a supermarket earned more than me - hardly dangerous work. Only an idiot would join the police now," the former officer from Rostov said. [ ... ] As the number of officers drops, the pressures on those who remain increase. Former officers have told the BBC this is leading to corruption. "Officers are beating confessions out of people, inflating arrest quotas, we're seeing this all the time," says a police major from the Russian city of Tomsk. "It's only going to get worse. There will be falsification of evidence, targeted beatings, there just isn't going to be time to investigate anything properly. "You've got a lead and you need to chase it? Much simpler to drag the first suspect back to the station and beat him up, so he takes the blame."

The war in Ukraine, of course, is making things worse.

Initially, the war convinced some officers to stay in the force. Russian police officers are exempt from being called up for military duty, so some officers who were on the verge of resigning when Russia invaded Ukraine told us they kept their jobs to avoid fighting. [ ... ] But as the war rumbles on, police numbers are dwindling. The force cannot fill existing gaps - let alone recruit the 40,000 extra personnel that the Interior Ministry says is needed in Donetsk and Luhansk, areas of Ukraine that Russia partly occupies.

Russia needs more police for the areas it illegally annexed in Ukraine.

Russia predicts it will need another 42,000 officers by 2026 if it occupies further territories. For serving police officers, having an opinion about the war is simply not allowed. They are not even allowed to call it a war. "Officers must keep their mouths shut," one detective says. "We can't have personal views about the 'special military operation' - or they'll fire us." [ ... ] Interior Ministry officials from the three Russian cities of Tomsk, Yekaterinburg and Yaroslavl claim they now spend most of their time investigating and revising "endless charges against people discrediting the army". "People are always looking for an excuse to denounce someone," a former major from Tomsk says. "There's nobody around... Everyone's gone to check on some grandma who saw a curtain that looked like the Ukrainian flag.

It's like the Stalin era in Russia – people are denouncing each other for fun and profit. Every time somebody complains to the police about real or (more likely) imagined pro-Ukraine sympathies or criticism of the war, the cops need to open a new investigation which keeps them from doing more typical police work.

The police situation is yet another way Russia is rotting from within.

[real-five-hargreeves]

Welcome to my blog. First things first, I am entitled to my political and scientific views the same as you are. This is my outlet for expressing them, while we still have the ability to do so under our first amendment right. Just so there's no confusion, I'm going to do a quick rundown of those beliefs. If you disagree with any of them, by all means, go scroll somewhere else. :)

1. Most controversial, but it has to be said. I do not support ACAB or the defunding of the police. I 𝘥𝘰 support BLM. While these two causes go hand in hand, they're not inherently the same thing. Systematic racism is an undeniable plague in our country, and others, and I in no way tolerate or support it. Racial profiling is considered a necessary practice, especially when it comes to a security or enforcement role. It's unnecessary, and frankly disgusting, for someone's cause of suspicion to be the color of someone else's skin. That being said, I do not support ALM. While I agree that All lives 𝘥𝘰 matter, this was a political farce to overshadow the BLM movement and was primarily a slogan used by white supremacists and the far right Republican Party. Defunding the police would create vigilante task forces of armed and dangerous lunatics on either side of politics, and would lead to self governing mafias who would exploit the lack of enforcement. Law enforcement is an unfortunate necessity, especially to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

2. Gun control is another controversial topic, but one I have to cover. Defunding the police could work, but we would need to eliminate guns in our country. He who holds the gun makes the law. That's why in some countries, it's illegal to own a firearm unless it's issued to you. The second amendment does not specify the weapons we are entitled to own and use. Some weapons are banned in some states completely, and these bans have not been successfully constitutionally challenged. When the amendment was written, the weapons of the time weren't nearly as accurate or lethal as they are today, and had this amendment been written today, I believe they would have specifically excluded a few weapons in particular.

3.a I do not support war in any way shape or form. I support resistance and self defense against tyrannical opposition. The actor who portrays me in my source is Jewish, and supports the side of Israel in the war against Gaza. This does not reflect my view in the slightest. I'd like to clarify now, I am not antisemitic. I am 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 Jewish. Israel was given to the Jewish by the United Kingdom, when Palestinians already had claims over the land there. The Jewish population at the time was significantly lower than the already established Arab population, but it was decided that the Jewish should have the territory. Israel has denied the existence of Palestine, and insists that the land belongs to them. Like most things, I believe this could have been avoided, or less violent, if it weren't for English occupation.

3.b Russian occupation in Ukraine in the form of military and even their presidency has sparked essentially a civil war between Russian sympathizers in Ukraine and the general public. Again, it's a war on borders and territory, and I do not support it. Ukraine's attempt at liberating itself from its neighboring suppressor was a necessary step in gaining their independence. Note, when I say Russia, I don't mean the people. I mean the government. Many Russians are dissatisfied with the authoritarian "dictatorship" currently in power, and are protesting in Ukraine's defense.

4. Pride in the form of sexuality, gender expression, race, nationality, and beyond is something I believe should be protected and encouraged, so long as it doesn't harm anyone else. I support the LGBTQIA+ community, and I identify as a cisgender straight male. I believe that children are able to most purely recognize and communicate how they are meant to be perceived, and while I don't agree that they should have access to gender affirming care until they are at least 18 years of age, I believe they should be able to express their gender identity freely.

5. Climate change is real. I shouldn't have to tell anyone that. There's scientific evidence backing that. It's noticeable even just in the past ten years that the earth is getting hotter. Pollution is irreparably bad, and we're hurdling towards our own man-made extinction. If we can fly a little lower we can stop our wings from burning away completely. The quicker we recognize the climate issue, the quicker we can take steps to lessen its effects.

6. I believe in people. I hate them, but I know some of you have some good bone in your body that can distinct between right and wrong. I implore you to please listen to it. Sometimes, you need a little wrong to make something right. Whether your efforts are humanitarian, or anarchist, make sure that the change you make in this world is a reflection of the one you'd feel safest to live in. I'm a firm believer in leaving things better than you find them.

[hihereami]

This also happened in Argentina, where the ''russian and chinese vacciness'' were deemed ''dangerous'' by multiple psyops while we were on our way to develop our own vaccine (also deemed ''not ready for humans'' by several politicians while it VERY MUCH WAS) while moderna and astrazeneca were lauded. In a context of a country with public mass vaccination and no antivaxxer history - unlike the US and europe - we started having the biggest antivaxxer moves which eventually became the fertile ground for the current fascist goverment to take root and expand its reach, by starting with that unhinged, scared part of the population.

Four years later? CONICET - the science institute that develops vaccines and other scientific advancements - is being defunded and torn to pieces, so is our nuclear systems (lauded as even more advanced than the USA's and Europe's) while our national resources even have a nice little USA military base :)

All COVID vaccinations were done through the public sector and you couldn't choose which vaccine you took -- which these sectors used to fuel a bunch of distrust over a truly good vaccination campaign. My grandma used to call me before I got each vaccine telling me ''tell them to give you the english vaccine!!'' like that by itself had some merit.

People from the US think it's conspiracy and don't understand how their country just again and again organise these massive psyops that either divide our populations, introduce problems and sections that weren't there before and/or implant puppet goverments just so they can have an easier access to our resources, land and bodies.

i rlly do not think white global northerners understand how fucking bad the anti sinovac psyop was in context of the philippines and other targeted countries being from the global south, with a history of economic and military intervention and destabilization by the usa specifically.

i live in the philippines and sinovac was the only available vaccine for MONTHS of the pandemic. people were fucking dying and we had no pfizer, no j&j, no astrazeneca, no moderna. sinovac was the ONLY vaccine supply we had. and the supply wasnt even enough for even my small city. we do not have the infrastructure to manufacture our own vaccines and tests. we were entirely reliant on imports from other countries who Did have the capacity to manufacture such things

i got up early for several days straight to go to a pop up walk in vaccination site (were talking there by 7:30am) set up in a fucking public basketball court because it was the only way to get vaccinated, and 3 times i had to go back empty handed so to speak after exposing myself to this massive opportunity for transmission because they fucking ran out of shots and prioritized the elderly and disabled and i didnt have my legal pwd (person with disability) card yet. i had to go to a different barangay (local unit of government) to get my shot MONTHS LATER and only got mine because one of my family was in the local govt and reserved some shots for us.

many filipinos use facebook which is where some of the psyop was conducted because you can use it for free on your phone and it is often where news is disseminated. i know we have that joke about People Believing Anything They See On Facebook but i cannot stress enough that people here get local news from fb the same way you (used to) get news from twitter about shit like localized emergencies and whatnot.

because we are third world, you know that the state of our education system is nothing compared to the states. media and news literacy here is dangerously low and the population is sensitive to mis/disinformation, as can be seen during the 2022 presidential elections where the usa Also interfered lol. i cannot stress enough how much of the population was susceptible to this psyop, especially those in poverty who couldnt afford proper education. hell, even educated people fell for this shit. do you think jhunjhun who didnt finish grade 6 would be able to identify disguised foreign intervention that was in his own language?

we were already recovering from public scrutiny of a different vaccine, a dengue vaccine, which lowered public trust in inoculation. and then the usa goes and does THIS??? i cannot emphasize enough that they are directly responsible for the tens and thousands of unvaccinated covid deaths. they are responsible for my friends having to bury their unvaxxed parents and grandparents at the age of 19. they are responsible for mass death and disability.

but were just a country in the periphery. so who cares about us? our lives are worthless to the usa, which is why they admitted that they did this when they would otherwise "never" to their own population. third worlders arent real people to your government. we are merely statistics and a petri dish for experimentation. so who cares if we die? the real important thing isnt our lives, its that the usa has more control over us than china.

[uboat53]

"OVER THE PAST DECADE, the Republican party has turned its back on everything it once claimed to stand for. The party of “law and order” has smeared prosecutors, attacked the justice system, and called for defunding federal law enforcement. The party of “limited government” has tried to use state power to punish companies for their political views. The party of American leadership is increasingly leaning toward abandoning Europe to a Russian invasion. The party of “family values” is backing a rapist for president. To that list, add one more betrayal: The party of “national security” is subordinating military readiness to snowflake cultural sensitivities. Specifically, Republicans are demanding that military personnel who refused orders to get vaccinated against COVID during the pandemic—and were discharged for their defiance—should be reinstated with back pay. At the same time, many of these politicians are calling for a ban on transgender service members. They’re pretending that the “woke mind virus” is a threat to military preparedness, but an actual virus isn’t. These Republicans aren’t serious about preparing for a real war. To them, the armed forces are just another battleground in the culture war."

Source

[rauthschild]

Press-ganging and involuntary conscription have been illegal and unlawful for over two hundred years, just as slavery and peonage have both been abolished worldwide since 1926.

Yet all these evils continue unabated in the modern world.

Joseph R. Biden, the President of a foreign Municipal Corporation residing in the District of Columbia, is issuing Executive Orders that clear the way to illegally conscript Americans under the same False Legal Presumptions used during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam conflicts.

According to the secret accords recently uncovered between the US CORP and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) it is apparent that these renegade corporations are colluding against the national interests of both the Ukraine and Russia. These commercial organizations have been promoting an illegal proxy war in Ukraine, and are now preparing to openly engage because their proxy war has failed.

It is also apparent that these activities by the CCP are an attempt to evade China's obligations under the Sino-Russian mutual defense pact. The most likely results will be continued war in the Ukraine and a civil war in China with or without Russian intervention --- and great international distress worldwide.

The United States of North America, our unincorporated Federation of States, objects to this unlawful activity on the part of these municipal and commercial corporations and calls upon the Principals responsible to take appropriate action in their respective jurisdictions to defund and otherwise forestall these actions.

We now know that our military was unlawfully converted into a foreign mercenary force back in the 1860's, and so, the criminality of the so-called "Selective Service" is made apparent.

Can GMC or Raytheon or Berkshire-Hathaway or Exxon roll up to anyone's door and demand that they enlist as a mercenary?

No, they cannot.

When the US, INC. or the USA, Inc. comes knocking, they, too, are merely corporations. The only difference is that they have been operating under color of law and abusing the appearance of governmental authority for a long time.

The Perpetrators pretend that they are addressing their own citizenry---that is, Municipal citizens of the United States mischaracterized as THINGS, corporate franchises with names written in Dog Latin, hence, "Dog Tags".

This is why a soldier's name is written in all capital letters, with their last name first, and first name last. They have been dehumanized and reduced to the level of objects.

There is no law against lying to, killing, or abusing a corporate franchise.

If you are an Autochthonous American, you have no obligation to any Municipal Corporation --- instead, they have obligations owed to you, which they are not only not fulfilling, but are actively evading.

It's time everyone worldwide understands this.

The Perpetrators, foreign municipal and commercial corporation personnel, come to our doors and our schools under the pretense of being our government. They subourn commercial service contracts under color of law. Later, when they want to promote a new Mercenary Conflict, they enforce these purloined and misrepresented service contracts.

Anyone who wises up and refuses to participate is labeled a "draft dodger" and prosecuted as a criminal.

Joe Biden is ordering his corporation's employees and dependents to get ready for yet another Mercenary Conflict.

The Selective Service (Corporation) puts out deceptive ads disguised as Public Service Announcements, telling young men and women that they have to sign up for "Selective Service" -- that is, the Draft, and telling them that if they don't sign up for Selective Service, they will be unable to receive college loans.

These ads and publications by the Selective Service (Corporation) never disclose the fact that by enrolling, these young Black, Brown and Coppertone people are unknowingly volunteering for foreign mercenary service.

We have found that the majority of Selective Service materials have been printed in Puerto Rico, at the same location that printed the bulk of Internal Revenue Service documents, none of which carry OMB numbers. This is because they are not official government forms.

They are only made to look like official government documents for purposes of deceit and commercial advantage.

These are scams. These are dirty, dishonest, coercive "voluntary enslavement" rackets that the Municipal Corporations have used to entrap the Autochthonous people in this country since the 1930's.

They use the Territorial and Municipal Post Offices to promote their scams in violation of Universal Postal Union regulations, and they use the public airwaves to promote their activities via radio and television ads.

Our young people are owed full disclosure.

First, they must know and be told that they are not obligated to sign up with Selective Service. Anyone telling them that they have to sign up or must sign up is engaged in coercion and misrepresentation.

When Federal or Federal State-of-State Employees engage in this activity, it takes on the additional character of racketeering under force and color of law.

Our Autochthonous young people are owed all the nasty facts related to "Selective Service", especially the fact that if they enroll, they are signing a contract obligating them to serve as foreign mercenaries and agreeing to risk their lives for a fraction, usually about one-fifth, of the pay that commercial mercenaries normally receive.

They should know that their prospective employer is not their government.

Most of all, they should know that there is precious little defence of their country involved.

Instead, they will be employed as thugs going into other countries and terrorizing the local people to expedite theft of natural resources, artifacts, and whatever else the criminals running the District of Columbia crave.

There's no honor in performing this service, though a great many honorable men have been fooled and coerced into performing it.

Entire generations of Americans have been deceived by these foreign press ganging and conscription operations, but we are not asleep any longer.

Americans have slogged through Mercenary Conflict after Mercenary Conflict, convinced that they were acting with just cause and defending their country in time of "war", but they have been deceived.

It's our erring British Territorial Subcontractor that is a democracy, not our country, not our actual government.

Our country hasn't fielded an Army or engaged in a declared War since The War of 1812.

Everything else that has gone on since then has been a series of ugly commercial conflicts misrepresented as "wars".

We consider the activities of the Selective Service (Corporation) to be a criminal form of commercial and international fraud, resulting in press-ganging, enslavement, racketeering, and ultimately, war profiteering under color of law.

We consider that the undisclosed and misrepresented nature of these Selective Service contracts renders them null and void. Any court, foreign or domestic, and any local Draft Board enforcing these purported service contracts is an accomplice to the crimes herein described.

[ssunvulcan1981]

This is Brian Griffin

We will Save Our Ukraine

We will joins NATO

We will Against the Russian MIlitary

[atlasgaveup]

Your Democratic policy?

Open borders

1.3 MILLION have breached our borders

Ambushed/murdered police officers

Defund police

Minneapolis burned to the ground

Smash and Grabs/looting

Masking our children (child abuse)

Shuttered small businesses

$90 BILLION in lost military weaponry to Afghanistan

13 DEAD service members killed in Afghanistan

6000+ shot, 797 murdered in Chicago

Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles are war zones

Rolling gun battles with the cartel on our border

Tax dollars to support illegals? Why?

Inflation at an all time high in 40 yrs

Homelessness Americans

Homeless Veterans

People being fired for refusing to vax

Unconstitutional mandates

Closed down our pipeline

Closed down coal mines

Closed down steel mills

Supply chain disaster

Abortion for under age girls without parents knowledge

Spying on a sitting President

Russian collusion hoax

Our military has become a joke

Our Allies are laughing at us

Gas prices higher than medication

AND.....

$30 MILLION DOLLARS FOR CRACK PIPES!

Great job!

[mariacallous]

ATTENDING THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CONFERENCE in Munich over the weekend, J.D. Vance continued his criticism of Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia (“there’s no clear end point,” Vance said). Fully embracing his role as a MAGAer-than-thou Republican, the junior senator from Ohio has repeatedly made headlines in recent months for his militant opposition to military aid for Ukraine—and, in particular, for a blatantly misleading memo he sent to every Senate Republican last week asserting that the Ukraine aid bill contained a provision that could lead to a new Trump impeachment in 2025 for trying to negotiate peace. Vance also earned plaudits from Sputnik, the Russian propaganda network, for telling Tucker Carlson that Ukraine needed to be defunded for its own good, since Democrats “want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian drop of blood.”

Given his stance and his prominence on U.S. policy toward Ukraine, it’s worth taking a moment to look back on a Vance tweet from February 9 riffing on Carlson’s much-hyped interview with Vladimir Putin:

If you read this tweet and come away bewildered because you’ve never heard of “Duglas Makki” and because Vance appears to be criticizing the Putin regime and Carlson, you’re not the crazy one. The tweet is a troll job. And if you dig into what it means, you’ll better understand why this MAGA senator is parroting vile Kremlin talking points about Ukraine.

THERE IS NO “DUGLAS MAKKI.” The reference is to Douglass Mackey, whose alter ego “Ricky Vaughn” was a notorious alt-right social media figure during the 2016 presidential campaign. In January 2021, shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration, Mackey was prosecuted for election interference. The charges stemmed from posts on Twitter—where he had 58,000 followers and was rated a major election “influencer” by MIT Media Labs—urging Hillary Clinton supporters to vote by text message. (There is, of course, no such option.) What’s more, the tweets were specifically geared to black and Latino voters. In March of last year, Mackey was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn.

Why does Vance know or care about Mackey? Because he’s a cause célèbre on the right.The narrative pushed by Carlson, erstwhile presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and many others is that Mackey’s prosecution was not only a dangerous assault on free speech but an outrageous demonstration of double standards. He was punished, his defenders say, for mocking Clinton supporters by inviting them to vote by text message and implying that they’re stupid enough to fall for such a scheme—while a left-wing Chinese-American comedian, Christina Wong, got away with the exact same joke mocking Trump supporters.

But in fact, it wasn’t even close to “the exact same joke.” Wong’s tweet, with a clearly humorous video clip in which she claimed to be “coming out” as a Trump supporter, did tell Trump voters to “skip poll lines” and “TEXT in your vote,” but gave no number to which votes could supposedly be texted. By contrast, Mackey clearly went to some trouble to make the memes he posted look like real campaign ads—complete with the Hillary for America campaign logo and “Paid for by Hillary for President 2016” fine print—and urged people to text “Hillary” to a specific number. Carlson asserted last March that “of course, in real life, no one did believe” that they could text their vote. But in fact, according to the Justice Department, nearly 5,000 people did text “Hillary” or some variation to the number in the fake ad, though we don’t know how many were actually tricked out of voting. Lastly, there was strong evidence that Mackey discussed strategies to suppress the black vote in private Twitter groups and mocked black people as dumb and “gullible.” (It’s also worth mentioning that Mackey’s “Ricky Vaughn” Twitter account was overtly white nationalist and filled with racist and antisemitic vitriol, and Mackey admitted at the trial that those were his genuine opinions at the time; in his later interview with Carlson, he described his content as merely “pro-Trump memes [and] jokes.”)

Obviously, Mackey’s repulsive speech is protected under the First Amendment. There are also some legitimate differences of opinion about his election interference case; UCLA law professor and First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh has expressed some reservations about it, partly because the federal statute under which Mackey was convicted (unlike some similar state laws) mentions violence, threats, and intimidation but not deception. For what it’s worth, Mackey’s First Amendment defense was considered by the federal court which heard the case, and was rejected in a carefully argued 56-page opinion.

One may have misgivings about Mackey’s conviction. But it’s abundantly clear that Vance’s summary of the story is extremely misleading. To say that Mackey was arrested for “making memes” is like saying that a person prosecuted for terroristic threats made by phone was arrested for making phone calls. And if Mackey is an “independent journalist,” then Alex Jones is Walter Cronkite.

THERE ARE A FEW THINGS that stand out about Vance’s “Duglas Makki” tweet.

For starters, it shows how deeply the senator is embedded in the far-right fringe. The Mackey case is so obscure outside MAGA and MAGA-adjacent circles that many of Vance’s own followers didn’t get the joke and took the story at face value.

But the context of Carlson’s trip to Russia and interview with Putin makes Vance’s reference to the Mackey case particularly repellent.

The tweet was presumably a sarcastic rejoinder to those who criticized Carlson for failing to bring up Russian political prisoners, including journalists, during his two-hour interview with Putin. See, Vance is saying, here’s a case of a journalist being persecuted for speech in an outrageous way that you’d think happens only under a dictatorship like the one in Russia—but actually, it’s right here in the USA, he’s being persecuted by the “Biden regime,” and none of the journalists dismissing Carlson as not being a “real journalist” are interested.

But to see how despicable the moral equivalency is, one need only look at some of the real cases of people persecuted and imprisoned in Russia for speech critical of the war against Ukraine or of the Putin regime.

Exactly a year ago, Maria Ponomarenko, a journalist and mother of two in Barnaul, Siberia, was convicted of spreading “fake news”—that is, posting the truth about the Russian bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theater in the spring of 2022, in which hundreds of people sheltering inside, including children, were killed. Ponomarenko’s sentence was six and a half years in a penal colony. Years, not months. Contrast to Mackey’s seven-month sentence for “memes” that evidence showed, and the jury believed, were intended to keep at least some black and Latino voters out of the voting booth.

And just four days after Vance’s tweet, Russian academic and magazine editor Boris Kagarlitsky was given a five-year sentence for a video in which he discussed Ukrainian strikes at the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia to Crimea and suggested that the bridge was a legitimate military target. Convicted of “justifying terrorism,” Kagarlitsky had been initially sentenced to a 609,000-ruble fine (about $6,700) with no prison time, but the prosecution appealed the sentence as unduly lenient, which the Russian legal system allows. The court obliged. Such harsh sentences for social media posts and other expressions of dissent are no longer the exception but the rule in Putin’s Russia.

Another victim of these draconian repressions is an American journalist—a dual Russian-American citizen, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva. She was arrested in October for failing to register as a “foreign agent,” a designation she and RFE/RL dispute. In December, the authorities filed additional charges of spreading “false news” about the Russian military. Kurmasheva, whose offense was the distribution of a book about Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine, may face as much as fifteen years in prison. While Carlson brought up the case of the other detained American journalist, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, during his interview with Putin—and even, for once, pushed back on Putin’s evasive replies—he did not say a word about Kurmasheva. But that doesn’t seem to bother Vance, who clearly thinks this issue is a good occasion to troll “the libs.”

Back in the late Cold War, obnoxious leftists used to respond to critiques of the Soviet regime and its gulag with claims that the United States, too, had “political prisoners”—offering as examples the likes of Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black activist and journalist sentenced to life without parole for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. But now we have seen a stunning role reversal: It’s the MAGA right, including a sitting senator, that excuses and defends the Kremlin’s political repressions by trotting out faux “political prisoners” in America, be it Mackey or the January 6th rioters. The America-hating shoe is solidly on the other foot.

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It’s officially time to ask yourself...

Am I willing to open my mouth for trumps dick and let him throw me in a gas chamber to burn me and my loved ones alive because a RUSSIAN BOT POST FROM OVER A YEAR AGO that took many things out of context convinced me that a multiracial, daughter of immigrants, who is anti choke hold, anti no knock warrant, pro LGBT equality act, anti death penalty, anti mandatory minimums, pro $15 hr min wage, anti electoral college, pro background check and anti assault weapons, pro DACA, pro legal weed and freeing prior convictions, pro defunding military, pro making lynching a federal hate crime, pro reparations, co sponsor of green new deal and Medicare for all, pro sex worker, pro Paris climate agreement, pro free college & pre k, pro canceling student dept, who made Brett Kavanaugh cry and has interrogated Barr and stood up to Biden on race and sexism and has smoked weed and listens to Tupac, pro choice, pro free surgery for trans inmates, anti private prison, pro bail reform, anti fracking, pro undocumented people having healthcare, and has one of the most progressive voting records in the senate and is pro bussing to integrate schools, pro asylum, pro paid leave, increase teacher pay, pro Maternal Care Act, and pro bringing troops home is somehow not a good enough VP? Especially when compared to pence?

Sources: politico, axios, and pbs

If nothing else, use her tough on crime past to de radicalize your racist relatives instead of discourage dems.