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Trump’s gonna win…

The deep state needs a popular president to recruit red state teenagers to fight a war with Iran…

Harris doesn’t have that kind of appeal

Mike whitney

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I am confused. Is Trump really that dangerous or have the media and news outlets created the division to stop him changing what is really at the heart of all the worlds problems - Big pharma, Oil companies, FBI and CIA, AI and other tech institutes. Is he a fascist or someone who just makes a lot of money and thinks he can change the world with his nutty outbursts or have we all been conned. https://youtu.be/xAdlTlkPoiY?feature=shared

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Harris = identity politics v Trump = fascism. Great choice in US politics but the same in GB.

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TFFG has taken up 10 years of my time. I do not see a light at the end of this tunnel. I intend to take a month off or a year off from this current reality. Maybe until I am dead.

I will find other ways to spend my time. A voluntary solitary confinement. Back to before "this":quality literature, poetry, art. Cancel cable and the NYTImes. Just me and the cat.

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I know exactly how you feel. The trouble is ...literature poetry art

so often turn out to be either tainted by the zeitgeist, or so detached from the horrors of current reality they seem like indulgent candyfloss.

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Ha ha...yes. The "arts" are usually are detached from the horrors of current reality...but, right now, I'll take that. In my younger years, I spent decades immersed in the writings of existential minds from the past. For example, the Bloomsbury groups mentality of freedom from the horrors of their times...the Beat Generation, Shakespeare, one independent brilliant thinker that would lead to another, and so on.

I am FED UP with following the current political mess. It leads to no where.

The best thing now, and I've gathered that others feel the same way. is to: DETACH.

And, given our current reality: buckle up! Let the system do its thing without my having to follow each hideous turn of the screw.

The only current reality I can not detach from is the mess Israel and "friends" is up to. I think it's inevitably changing the power dynamics of the world.

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I predicted Trump's win correctly -- although I did not expect a victory quite as sweeping as it was. In fact, I have a better track record predicting US elections than Nate Silver or Lichtman, having been correct every time since Bush. When people ask me how I do it , I reply--"Just disbelieve the Media".

https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/street-of-dreams

As Jonathan says, however, Trump's election changes nothing. Elsewhere in longer articles that I sent to subscribers who buy me coffee on my substack page., ("Rage rage against the machine" ) I argued that one has to look beyond political personalities to the System as a whole, beyond politics to culture, of which governments, political parties, and the media are just components, cogs in a vast machine. Trump and Harris are products of that machine. But the American machine is obsolete. It is breaking down. And things will get worse before the get better.

Where to find accurate analysis? That's a problem insofar as we have an online punditocracy emerging...a Podcast Plutocracy--koffee klatching analysis. I call the MadM ("Mainstream Additional Media") -- "additional" rather than "alternative" insofar as they use the Mainstream Media as a starting point - rather looking at hte facts.

Jonathan is not like that. Nor is Alastair Crooke. Nor are my friends--the two Davids at Media Lens . Nor is Will Schryver. I look forward to every one of his articles. Thank you Jonathan. You are an inspiration to me.

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Yaye!

Someone, but I hear, if just "in the ether", many now are Speaking "THE HARDCOLD Facts" about not only the U.S., "swamp" of "Swampington D.C.," but of the long-ignored/denied/redacted Facts that the whole "western" econo-politikill systems and structures are PROVEN FAILURES.

And don't it show on streets populated with the drug-f*cked, Homeless, Unemployed, Sick and Encrazed MILLIONS of Citizens, just in big-cRapo America, as well as across the UNREGULATED forprofit "free-market" west!

And Jonathan here says it so well!

Thank You, Sire!

Today, (7th Nov Aust-time), it strikes me that while "colleged liberals" ("liberals" meaning "right-wing idiots party" in Australia), shudder on the POTUS2024 result, that Donald Trump's win is actually a positive, purely in it forcing possibly-cum-probably many millions across all so-called "allied nations of the U.S.A", to be forced off the mainstream politikill dope, and out to Protesting for the biggest corrections to at least, at first, "all western nations' politics"!

Almost laughably, even the middle-upper "college-class" pro-Democrats, the most comfortably-off socio-economic sector/s too, of course (hence "laughably") will have no choice but to bee-atch, not about the big global "system failure/s" issues, but merely, typically-selfishly, about "the TYRANT TRUMP" winning "their rightful" born-to-rule top of the pyramid position.

Managed correctly however, from within all media and spin doctor clubs, the legitimization of Dissent from "the deep state" many saw 2016 Trump trying to tackle, the appeasing of "the U.S., hard-fight" by this result, should open many closed doors to all "factions" in western nations and around the globe, to tge long-overdue REALPolitik Corrections now needed more than ever!

But? Be careful!

As Mad Max advised Furiosa;

"Hope..., is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken......, you'll go insane..."

Nevertheless, (paranoid Feminists aside, but not excluded)...,

VIVA!

Or...;

LONG LIVE THE PROTEST!

JaRD.

Australia.

14;45AEDT, 241107.

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This is what to consider:

Buy lottery tickets: of which I have strongly disapproved: false hopes..Now, it beats NO hopes.

Move to Venezuela. Same crappy leader but, At least the cost of living is low.

Stop paying taxes. Move all funds into Kuegerands.

Woman should stop having sex with men. Masterbation is safe. Female lovers are safe.

Definitely do NOT subscribe to any mass media: all lies

.....anyone have any other ways to deal with the loss?

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There are too many fucked up fluffy fairies out there who buy into the politics and policies of apparent bears. Society, in general, has to stop encouraging and abetting it. Trump is no bear. He is a facilitator of perverted pastors and their gangs of downlow church organists, who give tithes in order to be allowed to hide behind Lord Jesus, - pun intended.

Trump is not a Christian. He is a self absorbed, let me show you how it's done, Trumpian.

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Jonathan, there is a high possibility that Trump was put in the White House to pass a "terrorism act", similar to Britain. Joe Lauria reports in Consortium News: "A second Trump administration could criminalize criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza as support for terrorism, along the lines of the British Terrorism Act, according to a report in Drop Site News.

The report says the plan is to “break the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S.”

“The plan, dubbed ‘Project Esther,‘ casts pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. as members of a global conspiracy aligned with designated terrorist organizations. As part of a so-called ‘Hamas Support Network,’ these protesters receive ‘indispensable support of a vast network of activists and funders with a much more ambitious, insidious goal — the destruction of capitalism and democracy,’ Project Esther’s authors allege.

This conspiratorial framing is part of a legal strategy to suppress speech favorable to Palestinians or critical of the U.S.-Israel relationship, by employing counterterrorism laws to suppress what would otherwise be protected speech, legal experts told Drop Site News.”

The authors of the plan are part of the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Drop Site says. Former President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 but he is a strong supporter of Israel, having moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and accepted Israel’s annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights, considered illegal by the U.N. Security Council.

The Washington Post reported in May that Trump told donors in New York that he would deport foreign students if they demonstrate for Palestine. “One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,” Trump told the donors, the Post reported.

The report in Drop Site News, written by Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain, quotes an attorney at Palestine Legal as saying that

“concepts like the ‘Hamas Support Network’ or ‘Hamas Supporting Organizations,’ another term that the authors use to describe pro-Palestinian activist groups, is intended to construct a narrative justifying the use of counterterrorism and sanctions laws to suppress the First Amendment rights of individuals involved in the pro-Palestine movement …”

‘They need to make a claim that these organizations are being directed and controlled by Hamas, which they’re not,’ attorney Dylan Saba said. ‘So their claim now is that these organizations are effectively serving as a propaganda wing for designated terrorist organizations.’”

This is precisely what the British government has been doing."

Their aim is to crush the anti-genocide movement within 12 to 24 months.

As with most things in the duopoly, the Biden administration has given Trump a head start by designating a Palestinian prisoner support group named Samidoun a terrorist organization, the site says.

Israel has been accusing any critic of being pro-Hamas, such as how they smeared U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Or they accuse you of being part of Hamas. What is even more disturbing is that Western governments have taken up these ludicrous claims to ensure Israel remains above criticism while it openly commits genocide.

It is one of the most transparent tricks going back millennia for a government to smear its legitimate critics as being card-carrying members of its most ardent enemies — and Western governments are willfully falling for it, criminalizing journalists who oppose the slaughter. "

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/04/report-trump-plans-uk-style-attack-on-israel-criticism/

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