Volwassenen zoals wij en domme kinderen

CaitlinJohnstone heeft weer eens een heerlijk sarcastisch stuk geschreven, waarin ze afgeeft op kinderen en volwassenen ophemelt, echter zoals je al begrepen had, ze bedoelt het tegenovergestelde.

Lezen mensen!!

Grown-Ups Like Us

by Caitlin Johnstone

Children arrive in this world unthinking and empty-headed, like idiots. We have to teach them how to be smart and knowledgeable thinkers like us.

A small child can run around and play happily with a stick or a leaf, because children are stupid and they don't yet know how to stare at their phones tensely waiting for a stranger on social media to respond to your clever comment telling them why their opinion is wrong.

Children are too naive to know anything about opinions and ideas. They need us to teach them how to move their interest and attention away from the things that are happening around them and focus instead upon the thoughts in their heads, until the outer world loses its color and they can live without distraction in the inner world of mental noise.

Grown-ups are much better and smarter than children, because we know all the different words for things, and we also know the opposites of those words, and we also know how to make the words and their opposites fight with each other in our heads while we push salty starchfat into our mouths and watch talk shows.

Children don't even know anything about politics. They are too small and simplistic to understand that we live in a country that is run by a Good Party and a Bad Party, and the Bad Party does bad things and the Good Party also does bad things but only because the Bad Party made them do it.

We have to teach children about the Good Party and the Bad Party, and teach them how to hate the Bad Party because they don't yet know that there are different kinds of people and that you're supposed to hate some of them. Children don't even know how to hate until we teach them, that's how stupid they are.

When you try to teach children about war they always cry like little bitches. Like pansies. They act like sending large groups of people in our country to go kill other groups of people in another country is crazy and disordered, when obviously it is they who are crazy and disordered. We need to teach children how to be sane and normal by any means necessary, including hitting them.

One time my child wanted some food and I told him we don't have enough money for food, and he said we should just go to the "money making machine" and get some money. He was talking about an ATM, the imbecile. I laughed in his face. I laughed and laughed and laughed because he didn't understand how money works. I tried to teach him how people don't get to eat unless they have the right kind of numbers in their bank accounts, but he kept looking at me like I was saying something strange. Then we just laid around thinking about how hungry we were until we fell asleep.

It's hard work being a parent. You get this weird little baby critter who doesn't know how to do anything, and then you have to spend years of your life teaching them how to think, how to want, how to hate, how to fight, how to take, and how to stop sitting around all blissed out like a dumbass stoner all the time. You have to teach them and shape them so that they can take part in this wonderful society that we grown-ups built for them, and they don't even understand what a gift you're giving them, they just cry about it like ungrateful little jerks.

In the end though it's just what you've got to do in order to mold children into smart and sensible grown-ups, like us.

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Caitlin Johnstone | July 13, 2020 at 12:00 pm | Tags: caitlin johnstone, capitalism, children, grown-ups, Politics, war | Categories: Article | URL: https://wp.me/p9tj6M-2e0

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Rayshard Brooks: weer een gekleurde VS burger die om niets werd vermoord door de politie

Afgelopen vrijdag werd Rayshard Brooks terwijl hij wegrende van een politieagent, in de rug geschoten, hij zou een direct gevaar vormen voor de 2 agenten die hem aan een ademtest wilden onderwerpen, puur en alleen omdat hij 's morgens vroeg slapend werd aangetroffen op een parkeerterrein van een Wendy's filiaal.....

De agenten beweerden dat hij een direct gevaar vormde daar hij een taser van één van de agenten afnam en die tijdens zijn vlucht 'op hen richtte'. Weet niet hoe het met jou zit, maar als ik wegren en probeer een wapen te richten op degenen die achter me loopt, terwijl ik mijn ogen gericht moet houden op het vluchtpad en eventuele obstakels, is het praktisch onmogelijk iemand te treffen, althans met een pistool.... Een taser is bovendien een korte afstandswapen en anders dan bij een pistool moet je dan dichtbij iemand zijn om deze te kunnen raken, echter uit beelden blijkt dat Brooks te ver van de agenten verwijderd was om van een echte bedreiging te kunnen spreken..... Volgens de politie kon men Brooks niet laten lopen met een wapen (de taser) van de politie, terwijl je in de VS als particulier ook zo'n wapen kan en mag kopen......

Kortom de agent die Brooks vermoordde heeft dat doelbewust gedaan en heeft daarna geprobeerd om de taser als excuus te gebruiken voor het vermoorden van een gekleurde burger....... Kortom alweer een gekleurde burger om niets vermoord door de politie.......

Intussen is ten overvloede gebleken dat tijdens recente verkiezingen in de VS het de gekleurde burgers uitermate moeilijk werd gemaakt om te stemmen en velen daadwerkelijk hun stem niet konden uitbrengen.... 

Het hieronder opgenomen schrijven is een vraag om geld van Voter Suppression Alert, een onderdeel van Demand Progress.org, waarin wordt uitgelegd hoe de laatste verkiezing in Georgia is verlopen. Daarna een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone over de moord op Rayshard Brooks, waarin ook zij wijst op andere staten waar men het gekleurde mensen moeilijk, zo niet onmogelijk maakt om te stemmen (vergeet wat het stemmen betreft niet dat Trump een paar maanden geleden heeft gesteld dat wanneer iedere burger in de VS die mag stemmen en dat zou doen, de Republikeinen nooit weer aan de macht zullen komen....):

This is how Trump wins

Voter Suppression Alert <info@demandprogress.org>

Georgia's primary election on Tuesday was an absolute disaster.
Four-hour-long lines. Malfunctioning voting machines. Tens of thousands of absentee ballots “lost” in the mail.^1,2 It was so bad that there have been calls for United Nations elections monitors to step in.³

And as usual, these problems were worse in majority Black precincts.⁴
Georgia's voting disaster is being called a “giant warning siren” for what could happen in November.⁵ If Congress doesn't act now, millions of voters could be disenfranchised or forced to choose between their health and their civic duty.

Congress must pass national vote-by-mail IMMEDIATELY. Will you donate $5 to help Demand Progress rally grassroots pressure to pass a national vote-by-mail law?

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Once the coronavirus pandemic began, Georgia’s election officials asked voters repeatedly to request absentee ballots in order to alleviate pressure on understaffed polling places. The
voters complied with more than 1.5 million requests for mail-in ballots.⁶

But the state didn't hold up its end of the bargain. More than 60,000 people hadn't received their ballots by the last days before the day of the primary, and those who did were told to return the ballots in envelopes that didn't exist, along with other confusing instructions.^7,8

On the day of the election, the state implemented new voting machines in some districts—machines that experts said were not ready to be deployed—which immediately malfunctioned.⁹ Polling places in the Atlanta metro area—a section of Georgia that is predominantly people of color—were understaffed and unprepared for the people needing to vote in person, while polling places in whiter, richer areas had fewer problems.¹⁰ Social media was flooded with pictures of hours-long lines in the Atlanta area, while other places had no lines at all.¹¹

As former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said, “It is a disaster that was very preventable, emblematic of the deeply systemic issues” Georgia has.¹² But it's clear that Georgia's leadership has no interest in preventing these failures.

It's not just Georgia whose election suffered during the primary. In Pennsylvania, thousands of voters were sent the wrong ballot. Maryland had outdated registration lists. Washington, DC, wasn’t able to fulfill many absentee ballot requests and had fewer than 15% of its polling places open due to the coronavirus.¹³

Experts are predicting a second wave of the coronavirus in the fall, right around the general election.¹⁴ If we want every state to have the mandate and the resources for a successful vote-by-mail program and give everyone a chance to have their voices heard in November, Congress must pass a nationwide vote-by-mail law with the next coronavirus bill. More than 100,000 Demand Progress members have emailed Congress asking for a vote-by-mail law, and now we’re going to step up our campaign.

Will you donate to help pass vote-by-mail legislation and protect our civic rights in November?

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Robert Cruickshank,
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Sources:
1. CNN, "'A giant warning siren': Concerns about November's election grow after Georgia's disastrous primary," June 11, 2020
2. 11 Alive, "What if you never got your absentee ballot? You've got options," June 8, 2020
3. Esquire, "Georgia Is Screaming Out for U.N. Election Monitors," June 9, 2020
4. NBC News, "Georgia election 'catastrophe' in largely minority areas sparks investigation," June 9, 2020
5. CNN, "'A giant warning siren': Concerns about November's election grow after Georgia's disastrous primary," June 11, 2020
6. The New York Times, "Beyond Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand Vote-by-Mail" June 11, 2020
7. Ibid.
8. Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Georgia absentee voting instructions to be corrected," April 28, 2020
9. The New York Times, "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown," June 11, 2020
10. Ibid.
11. Tweet by Brent Peabody, June 9, 2020
12. The New York Times, "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown," June 11, 2020
13. The New York Times, "Beyond Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand Vote-by-Mail" June 11, 2020
14. CNN, "Another wave of coronavirus will likely hit the US in the fall. Here's why and what we can do to stop it," May 2, 2020

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Terug naar de laatste politiemoord op Rayshard Brooks, een gekleurd VS burger (althans de laatste moord voor zover nu bekend is, voor hetzelfde geld heeft er alweer zo'n moord plaatsgevonden): één en ander geeft ook aan dat er opnieuw een reden is om verder over tasergebruik te spreken, blijkbaar vinden een groot aantal agenten in de VS dat de taser een dodelijk wapen is, dit vanwege negatieve ervaringen bij gebruik door de politie van dit martelwerktuig, alleen daarom al zou tasergebruik, ook in Nederland verboden moeten worden!!! (de politietop van New York heeft de taser jaren geleden al verboden!!)

Het volgende artikel werd geschreven door Caitlin Johnstone:

The Killing Of Rayshard Brooks Shows How Police “Reform” Is A Joke

by Caitlin Johnstone

A black man named Rayshard Brooks was recently killed by an Atlanta police officer who shot him in the back while he was attempting to run away.

Video footage from the police bodycam and a nearby witness makes it clear that Brooks resisted arrest after failing a breathalyzer test when police approached him sleeping in his car at a Wendy's parking lot, punching an officer and taking a taser the police had attempted to use on him before trying to flee the scene. Video footage from the parking lot makes it clear that Brooks was running away, and, without ceasing to run, pointed the taser at police behind him, at which point he was shot twice in the back by an officer named Garrett Rolfe.

Courtney Bryant ✔ @CourtneyDBryant

New video released by the GBI shows the moment #Atlanta police shot and killed #RayshardBrooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s. Police say Rayshard Brooks grabbed a taser and pointed it at police before an officer fired shots.

11:19 PM - Jun 13, 2020

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(voor het zien van de video in dit bericht klik hier voor het origineel) 

There is no rational defense of this shooting. If someone is running away from you with a short-range weapon, it is literally impossible for them to pose an imminent threat to you. Just allowing Brooks to run out of the range of the taser, as he was already trying to do, would have nullified any potential threat to either of the two officers on the scene, because it would have been literally impossible for Brooks to tase them while continuing to run in the direction he was running.

This indisputable and self-evident fact hasn't stopped people from bleating moronic police apologia in my social media notifications since the shooting occurred.

• They claim Brooks could have tased an officer and taken his gun (again, let Brooks take himself out of taser range and there's exactly zero risk of this happening).
• They claim they couldn't just let a "dangerous" criminal run around with a police weapon (it's a taser; you can buy them at Walmart. What's he going to do? Go on a mass tasing rampage?).
• They claim the cop had to execute Brooks because he posed a "danger to society" (it is not a cop's job to act as judge, jury and executioner in determining whether someone poses a general threat to society; that's what the courts are for).
• They claim if you punch a cop you deserve whatever you get (believing, because they are authority-worshipping bootlickers, that a cop being punched is worse than a civilian being killed by gunfire).
• They claim if you don't follow police instructions then of course you're at risk of being killed (yes, police doing inexcusably brutal things is the problem that people are trying to address here).

Even leaving aside any debate about policing as it exists in America today, there was absolutely no excuse for Rolfe's behavior. They had all of Brooks' information. They had his car. They knew where he lives. They could have followed him in their car and called for backup. They could have gone in with backup to arrest him later.

But Rolfe decided to kill. After watching all these protests against police brutality raging throughout his country since the murder of George Floyd, after being confronted with with all the public outrage about police killing black men day after day in news headline after news headline, after his society forced him to contemplate police violence and his role in it, Garrett Rolfe still decided to kill. After all that, he watched a black man running away from him, posing no threat to him whatsoever, and he decided to kill.

The fact that cops are so thoroughly inoculated against public demand that they change their behavior makes a complete farce of the decoy police "reform" agenda that establishment narrative managers have been actively trying to corral the current protest movement into to kill their support for police abolishment.

Cenk Uygur ✔ @cenkuygur

Let me pick up on what @staceyabrams just said. #DefundThePolice slogan is being used to divide us. She called for transformation of police, that's much stronger than just reform but not distracting like defunding. #TransformThePolice is appealing to most people & sounds strong.

4,527     9:43 PM - Jun 14, 2020

There's a feud going on in America's new protest movement right now between those who wish to abolish, defund, dismantle, and/or disarm the police, and those who want to "reform" or "transform" the police. The former are actually pushing for a revolutionary change which actually pushes back against abusive power structures and calls for the creation of a radically different social paradigm, while the latter wants to keep policing institutions in their irredeemably corrupt state and add more funding for "de-escalation" training seminars where grown adults are told not to commit gratuitous acts of violence.

Training seminars which, it turns out, Officer Garrett Rolfe had just completed.

"According to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Rolfe had recently received use of force training," reports Atlanta news outlet AJC. "On April 24, he took a nine-hour course on de-escalation options, his record shows. And on Jan. 9, Rolfe was trained on the use of deadly force at the DeKalb County police academy."

And yet you've got fauxgressive establishment narrative managers like Cenk Uygur promoting the reform agenda and calling calls to defund the police "distracting".

I wrote the other day that "if these protests end it won’t be because tyrants in the Republican Party like Donald Trump and Tom Cotton succeeded in making the case for beating them into silence with the US military. It will be because liberal manipulators succeeded in co-opting and stagnating its momentum." This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about.

Spectrum News NY1 ✔ @NY1

.@NYGovCuomo suggests protesters pack it up, in light of new reforms: "People are still out protesting. You don’t need to protest. You won. You won. You accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need systemic reform.”

2,393     6:23 PM - Jun 13, 2020

People who claim these protests are the result of some kind of psyop often cite the fact that they're being supported by establishment liberals, mainstream media, and giant corporations, but this misses a very important distinction in the dynamic that is at play here. While it is true that these institutions have been expressing general support for the demonstrations and the idea that black lives matter, what absolutely none of them have been doing is supporting the defunding or abolishment of America's police force.  None of the empire's ruling elites support this.

The reason you are seeing manipulation and attempts at co-option in this new movement is because that is exactly what's happening. But it isn't what's driving the enthusiasm behind the demonstrations. Rather, you are seeing an attempted hijacking of an actual revolutionary agenda that actually challenges actual power institutions (including increasingly common attempts to manipulate the narrative by claiming demands to defund and abolish are actually just calls for reform).

The widespread call to abolish America's police state, an integral part of the glue which holds the US-centralized empire together, is revolutionary. It is not an exaggeration to say it's as interesting and exciting as seeing a mainstream call to end US imperialism, and it is just as threatening to establishment power structures. The call for "reform", in contrast, is just more milquetoast, Obamaesque fauxgressive verbiage designed to stagnate a real revolutionary change movement. It is as interesting and as threatening to establishment power structures as saying the US should push regime change in Syria rather than Iran.

Police abolishment advocates are pushing for something which would require the complete reconfiguration of power in society to accomplish, where the prison industrial complex and the war on drugs are ended and what we think of as policing can for example be mostly replaced by something more akin to social work. Police "reform" proponents are advancing a decoy agenda which people have been distracted by for generations while the police force has become increasingly militarized behind a veil of meaningless verbiage about community outreach and training programs.

austin walker ✔ @austin_walker

It's not just that Biden doesn't want to defund the police, per his spox, its that he believes cops just don't have enough resources for reform. Would be laughable if it wasn't so dire. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1270041926373462016 …

The Hill ✔ @thehill

JUST IN: Biden campaign opposes calls to "defund the police" http://hill.cm/GwVh39n

4,366      7:48 PM - Jun 8, 2020

This is where the real revolutionary energy is at in America right now, so it's no wonder establishment manipulators are doing everything they can to co-opt it into something innocuous which won't disturb actual power structures in the slightest. Obama made a whole political career out of telling leftwardly inclined Americans that they're getting what they want without actually giving it to them, and now we've got Democratic Party princeling Andrew Cuomo telling New York protesters "You don’t need to protest. You won. You won. 
You accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need systemic reform.”

It's textbook liberal manipulation used to steer the revolutionary zeitgeist into an impotent conceptual tar pit for another few years while the prison bars are reinforced.

As I explained a while back in my article "How To Tell Real News From Useless Narrative Fluff", you can tell what's really going on by watching where the money is going, where the weapons are going, where the resources are going and where the people are going. You can see in these demands for dismantling the police state a bunch of people moving around demanding to drastically change all four of these things, and you can see from the liberal narrative managers an agenda to prevent any of those four things from actually changing. 
And if they win out, you will be able to watch the people, police, weapons and resources continue moving in more or less the exact same way they've been moving.

They're trying to replace a real revolutionary impulse with useless narrative fluff. They have learned that it is much easier to neuter such impulses with empty agreement and a bunch of insubstantial words than to tell them no and stomp them down. Hopefully, the people have learned this too.

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Caitlin Johnstone | June 15, 2020 at 2:57 am | Tags: abolish, defund, police, Rayshard Brooks, reform, revolution | Categories: Article, News | URL: https://wp.me/p9tj6M-2ci

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Zie ook:
'#ADEMBENEMEND: Nederlandse hiphopscene laat zich horen tegen racisme'

'BLM: Politie VS schiet, vermoordt en zet meer mensen gevangen dan andere ontwikkelde landen: 'de cijfers' van CNN, vooral schrikbarend als het om gekleurde mensen gaat'

'Trump en Fox zijn uit op een militaire coup' (o.a. over de bemoeienissen van Trump met de demonstraties tegen racistisch politie geweld)

'Black Lives Matter, maar niet voor BBC First: Midsomer Murders met racist John Nettles wordt gewoon uitgezonden'

'Leopold II en wit geweld in Congo: Geert Jan Hahn (BNR) weer eens uit de bocht: een beeld van 150 jaar geleden is het oudste beeld in België' 

'Vriendschappelijke en handelsrelaties met landen die minderheden vervolgen moeten worden gekapt'

'Militairen op de straten van Washington: VS op weg naar een burgeroorlog' 

'Obama en 'change' n.a.v. de moord op George Floyd: een ongelofelijke hypocriet aan het woord'  

'Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!!' (minder brekend dan het aanvankelijk leek te zijn)

'Donald Trump geeft gekleurde burgers een schop na, mensen die al extra worden getroffen door COVID-19'

'VS politiegeweld tegen demonstranten is illegaal volgens internationale wetten: VN veroordeel dit geweld!!' 

'Black Lives Matter: een cartoon'

'Trump poseert met bijbel, waarvoor hij een vreedzame demonstratie met grof geweld middels traangas en rubberkogels uit elkaar heeft laten jagen'

'Politiemoord op George Floyd: de druppel die de emmer deed overlopen, waar tevens sociale achterstand een motivering is, zoals in Frankrijk, Chili en andere landen' 

'Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef'

'Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners' 

'Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zet aan tot geweld' 

'George Floyd: de voortdurende politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS: de witte overheersing met vervolging van gekleurden.....'

'Trump wil sociale media ontdoen van factcheckers die de Republikeinen de bel aanbinden vanwege nepnieuws en andere bagger'

Het label BLM (direct onder dit bericht) staat voor Black Lives Matter.

Obamagate zal als Russiagate nooit tot een bevredigende conclusie leiden: Washington is één grote stinkende politieke put

Caitlin Johnstone heeft een artikel geschreven over Obamagate* en concludeert dat dit nooit tot iets van enig belang zal leiden. Sinds 2016 beroepen beide partijen, de Democraten zowel als de Republikeinen, die samen met het bedrijfsleven, de financiële sector en de geheime diensten het land besturen, zich erop dat de andere partij ieder moment kan vallen door een enorm schandaal, terwijl beide partijen de beschuldigingen van de ander afdoen als nonsens.....

Volgens de Democraten gebruikt Trump 'Obamagate' om daarmee de aandacht af te leiden van de enorme blunders van de Trump administraite op het Coronadossier...... Johnstone gelooft daar duidelijk niet in, terwijl er wel degelijk een vorm van waarheid inzit. 

Voor de claim van de Democraten dat de Russen de servers van het Democratic National Committee (DNC) zouden hebben gehackt (een onderdeel van Russiagate), is geen schijn aan bewijs geleverd en toch blijft men daar volhouden dat dit wel het geval was, e.e.a. gesteund door de reguliere westerse (massa-) media, die in deze op de hand van de Democraten zijn......(en media van wie de spuugrijke eigenaren Rusland het liefst zoveel mogelijk gedemoniseerd willen zien.....)

Je zou denken dat dit allemaal van weinig of geen belang is, echter het gaat hier wel om de VS, het machtigste land ter wereld, met meer dan 800 militaire bases over de wereld, een land dat desgewenst morgen weer een illegale oorlog kan beginnen op basis van leugens en false flag operaties......** 

Als je ziet hoe smerig men in de VS bezig is om elkaar de loef af te steken en dat geheel in het openbaar, voedt dit de vrees dat de VS tot alles in staat is***, zelfs het voeren van een zogenaamde beperkte kernoorlog (een contradictio in terminis, immers ieder gebruik van kernwapens zal tot een wereldwijde kernoorlog leiden waarbij men elkaar zal proberen te vernietigen en zal men de aarde voor de mens en een enorm aantal diersoorten onbewoonbaar maken, althans als een aantal van deze mensen en dieren zo'n oorlog al kunnen overleven....).... 

De ruzie tussen de Democraten en de Republikeinen toont m.i. nog eens aan dat men zelfs lak heeft aan de eigen bevolking, men liegt er keihard op los en hoopt zo de burgers over te halen om in november op de kandidaat van hun keus te stemmen...... Ofwel men heeft schijt aan de kiezer, liegt die 4 jaar lang voor en doet er nog een schep bovenop als de verkiezingen in aantocht zijn......

En toch doet men alles om nog enigszins aan te tonen dat men ethisch en moreel zuiver handelt, waarden die men ook gebruikt om aan te tonen dat de VS weer een massamoord moet plegen om 'democratie te brengen en corruptie uit te bannen' in het land van keuze (dat ofwel een strategische ligging heeft, dan wel bodemschatten heeft die de VS voor zich wil houden, neem Venezuela dat voor beide zaken opgaat.....)

Why “Obamagate” Will Never Lead To Anything Of Significance

by Caitlin Johnstone

The word "Obamagate" was thrust into mainstream attention by the concerted efforts of Trump and his surrogates after new details on the early days of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation emerged. These details include Obama officials (including Joe Biden) requesting the unmasking of a conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the FBI's then-counterintelligence director discussing trying to get Michael Flynn to lie during his interrogation about the Kislyak call, and the revelation that there was never any concrete evidence that Russia hacked the DNC.

These are important revelations that are worthy of mainstream attention, but like basically everything else in this stupid, stupid timeline this issue has instead been reduced to the stagnation of vapid partisan squabbling. Democrats and their allied media are finger wagging at Trump for using "conspiracy theories" to distract from his coronavirus failures, and "MAGA"**** pundits once again beating the tired old drum that this scandal is going to bring down major Deep State players and drain the swamp once and for all.

Ever since 2016 both of America's mainstream political parties have been taking turns screaming at the top of their lungs that earth-shattering revelations are right around the corner which are about to obliterate the other party any minute now, and if you're still buying into this show I highly recommend you also take up watching WWE*****, because you'll definitely love it.

Consortium News @Consortiumnews

RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/09/ray-mcgovern-new-house-documents-sow-further-doubt-that-russia-hacked-the-dnc/ …

RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC  For two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike didn't have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too. Twin Pillars of Russiagate Crumble By Ray McGovern Special to... consortiumnews.com

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"By any normal standard, former FBI Director Comey would now be in serious legal trouble, as should [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, et al," Ray McGovern wrote for Consortium News the other day. "Additional evidence of FBI misconduct under Comey seems to surface every week — whether the abuses of FISA, misconduct in the case against Gen. Michael Flynn, or misleading everyone about Russian hacking of the DNC. If I were attorney general, I would declare Comey a flight risk and take his passport. And I would do the same with Clapper and Brennan."

Indeed, this would be the "normal standard", yet it hasn't happened. Neither Comey nor Clapper nor Brennan are in any legal trouble at all, nor will they be, nor will any other major player responsible for leading America on a crazy collusion wild goose chase which accomplished nothing but distracting from real issues and manufacturing consent for mountains of cold war escalations against Russia.

You will never see Obama or his administration officials brought down by "Obamagate" for the same reason Trump wasn't brought down by the Mueller investigation: the swamp protects its own. Both Obama and Trump administrations are packed full of crooks and mass murderers who could and should be imprisoned for any number of offenses, but they won't be, because that would require a prosecutorial body that is separate from the swamp of corruption with which both of America's mainstream parties are inexorably interwoven. You cannot use the swamp to drain the swamp.

Do you know why Trump never made good on his campaign platform of locking up Hillary Clinton? Besides the fact that their entire conflict has always been fake, I mean? The Trump administration could easily have found grounds upon which to prosecute Clinton if they wanted to, but going after a loyal establishment swamp monster would have brought the wrath of the entire swamp down upon him. As soon as he had a political opponent in office, if not before, Trump would himself be facing criminal prosecution. By collaborating with the swamp you ensure your own protection, and by attacking it you ensure your destruction.

Aaron Maté ✔ @aaronjmate

A fundamental point that many Russiagate-peddling left pundits -- including fake "adversarial" voices like @mehdirhasan -- cannot process in their minds, because doing so would threaten their club membership. Russiagate helps clarify where priorities really lie. https://twitter.com/MarkSaw43180398/status/1260285597173735424 …

 

Mark Sawyer @MarkSaw43180398

Replying to @aaronjmate and 2 others

Russiagate was obviously the way for the DNC to cosmetically attack Trump without pushing back against Trump policies. Russiagate sidelined pushbacks against the Trump tax cut, and a litany of other substantive issues... issues that DNC elites actually agreed with Trump about...

668   11:53 PM - May 13, 2020

That's why no serious attempt has ever been made to remove Trump from office; he's been playing nice with existing power structures without challenging them in any meaningful way. Everyone who knew anything was aware that the Mueller collusion would never go anywhere, and anyone who could count Senate seats knew impeachment would fizzle. It was all kayfabe conflict so that Trump's "opposition" could present the appearance of opposition without interfering in agendas they themselves support or prosecuting crimes of which they themselves are also guilty.

It's also why Obama never had any intention of prosecuting Bush's heinous war crimes, citing "a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards". In reality Obama always understood that in order to play the "president" role (and enjoy its massive perks for the rest of his life), he'd need to collaborate with establishment power structures rather than upsetting them. He knew that if he were to go after Bush he'd ensure his own destruction; under "normal standards" prosecution is the only sane and normal response to war crimes, but in the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) environment of establishment corruption, there are no normal standards.

I point this out because it's painful to watch people on both sides continually getting their hopes up that the big KABOOM is right around the corner which will finally vindicate their worldview and punish their partisan rivals. It will not happen. Trump will not drain the swamp, and neither will Biden or whatever soulless swamp monster inhabits the White House next. You were lied to. It's good to be aware of surveillance abuses, mass-scale psyops and media malpractice, but definitely abandon hope that any of this will lead to any major changes in the establishment itself.

If we want real change, it cannot and will not come from either of the two mainstream political factions whose primary job is preventing real change. It's going to have to come from the people; we're going to have to find a way to punch through the propaganda brainwashing, wake up to reality, and use the power of our numbers to force the changes which will benefit us past all the oligarchic safeguards that have been placed in front of us to prevent us from doing so.

This is a lot less pleasant than believing some magical hero in a white hat is going to ride in and do all our work for us and all we need to do is relax and "trust the plan". It's a lot less comfortable than expunging the fake two-party worldview from our minds which vast fortunes and years of conditioning have gone into manufacturing. But it is reality.

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Caitlin Johnstone | May 14, 2020 at 1:25 am | Tags: #Trump, caitlin johnstone, Flynn, Mueller, Obamagate, Politics, Russiagate, swamp | Categories: Article | URL: https://wp.me/p9tj6M-28W

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