“This could be tragic or sad but that’s the way life is…” (-Tyla)
“Since 1970, the share of aggregate income going to the middle class has fallen from 62% to 42%. (Middle class defined as income from 2/3 to double the median). Meanwhile, high-income share has increased from 29% to 50%. No wonder so many supposedly middle-class families feel like they’re always on the brink. #Kennedy24” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
“The problem with opposition to dissent-crushing measures is that it mostly only comes from those at whom such measures are directed. Mainstream journalists know they won’t be imprisoned like Assange, because they won’t do work like Assange did. Mainstream liberals know they won’t be censored online, so they’re happy to cheer for online censorship.
Measures designed to control the narrative and suppress dissent are directed at the fringes, not the mainstream, because that’s where dissent of real consequence always first emerges. It won’t be those with mainstream political leanings seeing their speech increasingly marginalized and hidden away by algorithms and AI, it will be those who oppose the political status quo. In the future it won’t be those with a mainstream worldview being oppressed by things like tech surveillance, police robots and CBDCs, it will be those well outside the Overton window of permissible debate. The average person will be unaffected by such measures, because in our current mind-controlled dystopia the average person is compliant and innocuous. This is why attempts to get a large movement of opposition to these totalitarian measures typically fail to gather significant public traction: because only people on the fringes have reason to fear them. By controlling the mainstream consensus, our rulers eliminate any meaningful opposition to their tyranny toward the real dissidents whose politics generally lie well outside that consensus. And since it’s only widespread mainstream opposition that would ever give them reason to fear public backlash, they can keep ratcheting up these dissent-crushing measures. I don’t really have any solution to this problem; I’ve been staring at it for years and don’t see any easy answers. I’m just putting it out there in the hive mind so that awareness of the problem can grow and we can start collectively looking for solutions.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“It’s nuts how people are forced into debt just to survive in America.
Our entire economy is basically a system of indentured servitude. It’s remarkable how many American liberals have the same snarky, snobbish air of condescension — like they are supremely more intelligent & learned — yet any basic questioning of their beliefs exposes how they have zero knowledge of history or even capability to reason logically. Democrats did not accept the outcome of the 2016 election. Dems worked with US intelligence to put out a conspiracy theory about “Russian collusion.”
Dems then interfered in the 2020 election, using intel agencies, media & tech companies to suppress the Hunter Biden story. They then branded any suspicion about the legitimacy of the 2020 election as insane and seditious — censoring nearly any hint of these claims from social media. How is that not overtly criminal behavior?
How is that not the behavior of insecure despots in a banana republic?” (-Primo Radical)
Democrats might as well allow a primary because their odds of beating Trump with Biden are slim. #CNNTownhall” (-Briharana Joy Gray)
TOPSHOT – A protester holding an umbrella attempts to kick back a fuming tear gas pellet during a demonstration in support to victims of police brutality, after events in Sainte-Soline and in pension protests, in Nantes, western France, on March 30, 2023. – French police have been strongly criticized by rights groups for heavy-handed reaction to anti-government protests over the past month. (Photo by Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS/AFP via Getty Images)
DIVIDED SLAVES OF AMNESIA NEVER REMEMBER YESTERDAY
So there’s this local cowboy musician writer who is dying from stage 4 Cancer and he does not want to die and I feel for him. He lives on a real bohemian gypsy kinda ranch in a series of trailers and a cabin and I have to go check in on the property from time to time and it breaks my heart to see all his instruments with actual cobwebs on them and cd’s and screenplays and all his life’s work is just gonna get shitcanned cause he kinda wore out his sister during chemo and his employer and I wish I could go salvage the shit, but it’s just not my stuff to fuck with. God bless him-he had dreamt of going back to his place and having a big 12 step going away partay with all his NA friends, but it’s sadly just not going to happen. I’m missing all my kids-they are all far away doing their own shit but I miss ’em. “Time is precious I know” was a Culture Club lyric still tattooed to my old battered brain. I got all these songs I wanted you to hear, but one of my old guitarists is retired from health problems and the others just kinda joined hipster bands with money people and what can you do? I spent a lovely evening with some elderly folks at a convalescenet home this evening cause my old lady works for a resident there and am stunned by how some people are still fully cognitive at 93 while me, myself, I’m already sortof in decline. I disagree with that rich dude Tucker Carlson about shit tones of stuff but recgonize how he was shitcanned from Fox for telling the truth about how pig-pharma owns the media and politicians, that the propaganda about the Ukraine is mostly lies, and we keep finding out more stuff about how all these solemn toned authority figures have knowingly deceievd us about multiple subjects. I believe in free speech so I have an instinctive solidarity with Carlson, Taibbi, Kennedy, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Naomi Wolf, Mark Crispin Miller, Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan, Julian Assange-everybody who is being shutdown and silenced by the billionaire owned platforms and fake press. It’s a travesty that Macron has declared himself some kinda dictator over in France and whoever’s pulling the Biden admin’s strings is doing the same shit here-ignoring the will of the people to please some crazed despots at the top. Hoping to see a long absent family member this weekend but I worry about him traveling here at night cause it is so remote and hard to find. Always thinking about the same old broken record shit, putting the band back together, my old lady says I’m stuck in the eighties, stuck in the past and she might be right. When I think about rocknroll, I aint talkin’ bout the fucking Foo Fighters or Pink 182. I’m thinking ’bout Peter Wolf and the fabulous J. Geils Band. When we foolishly moved to Boston in the early nineties, we thought that’s where you went to make it big in show business-you know-the home of Aerosmith and Willie Loco, the Real Kids, and Neighborhoods and Lyres and two Saints and Unattached, but we could never keep a drummer or pay rent on a rehearsal space or finance recording ventures with our low wage record store and conveneince store and telemarketing careers, so we kept breaking up every band we ever begun and it remains an abiding source of frustration for this old rocker. I wanna go back to Bunratty’s, back to the Rat. I resented my job at Tower records where they let me drink on the clock all day and gab at length with people like Led Zeppelin, but now I miss all that shit. Even the loss prevention fellas from Cambrighe Tower-Sam, Tim, Big Mike, Dave Monty-I loved all those guys. Plus all my associates, like greenhaired punk Danielle who ran my reg shift so I could go flirt with argyle waitresses at Charlie’s Cheeseburger around the corner, Noah the Psychic TV goth from New Orleans, Michael Hood, Thom Jones, James, Barrie, Mark, and Dermot! Good times, baby, all the time. Girls, girls, girls, playing rocknroll all night, going to the dirty divebars. There mighta been some drinkin’…I wantted to be like Peter Wold ya know, the rapid fire radio patter, the white pimp threads, his whole way of dancin’…
It might surprise you that I like this band cause they are so middle of the road sonic wallpaper but I guess summa their hits were just a ubiquitous part of my bloody youth and I am a sentimental motherfucker, so i’m somehow comforted by ’em, somehow.
I’m still very new wave at heart. Might try to get some music project underway with people from afar. Berlin was another one of those bands that were just perpetually on the radio when we were growing up, I probably thought they were too mainstream as a teenager in all my low fi basement band drunknroll Deadboys glory whoring, but ended up liking all their shit, really.
“The Neocons used 9/11 to ram this bill through congress laying the groundwork for the emerging surveillance state. In a break with all precedent individual Congressmembers we’re not provided copies of the 350 page bill. Only one copy was available at the clerks office and the only member of Congress to actually read the bill was my now campaign manager Dennis Kucinich. Two US Senators, Patrick Leahy, and Tom Daschle, lead the crusade to block the bill. At the height of the debate, both of their offices received letters containing weaponized anthrax. The neocons falsely blamed the Anthrax attacks on Saddam Hussein and rushed the Patriot act to passage during the week that Congress was closed due to the anthrax attacks. After a two-year investigation, the FBI concluded that the highly sophisticated powder in those envelopes was weaponized Aimes Anthrax which could only have come from the joint, CIA/Pentagon Lab at Fort Detrick.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
“The writers guild is a useless cause. Supporting a strike by misfit creatives who push bourgious sensibilities, FBI propaganda and celebrity worship on the masses for a living will do nothing to defeat the Hollywood bosses. The only thing these writers produce is social control” (-Alex Rubenstein)
“As worthy as figures like Clinton & Obama are of contempt, unelected ideologues like Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, & Victoria Nuland are DC’s true power players. They are the neoliberal inheritors of a discredited & overtly belligerent neocon world view once associated w/ GOP. The same people currently rallying behind a bunch of English majors writing corporate TV spent years attacking truckers, teachers, and nurses as fascists for refusing to take an experimental Big Pharma injection that failed on every single one of its stated promises. In all sincerity, I do hope these writers get more money out of their corporate bosses so that they can get back to producing the cultural poison that keeps their corporate bosses in charge of our entire country. Media “folx” & Twitter intelligentsia feel kinship w TV writers bc they come from the same class & may even aspire to be a part of Hollywood or 30 Rock themselves. What we’re left w in a country that killed its manufacturing sector & left workers who produce tangible value behind. At least TV writers used to portray relatable working families. Today, they produce content glorifying the ruling political class & decadent lifestyles of the uberwealthy while promoting mainstream narratives on war & culture. Put your TV in the trash & get a real job. Hollywood writers are the “working class” that liberals get passionate about bc they need their nightly propaganda fix
And bc, unlike workers who actually produced things of value, they weren’t offshored via trade deals & still share the cultural sensibility of the elite. ” (-Anya Parampil)
“This opportunist is an example of the kind of liberal totalitarianism that is being normalized in U.S. society. There used to be a time when liberals championed the free exchange of ideas, even when those ideas were odious. No more. You toll the line or you end up like Assange.” (-Ajamau Baraka on Mehdi Hasan-who is basically like Karl Rove in shitlib clothing)
“Heartbreaking news. Of everyone who had a hand in the 2013 revelations of global mass surveillance, my dear friend David Miranda was perhaps the most righteous—and pure.
I will never forget that when the UK broke its own laws to detain David as a “terrorist” for daring to aid an act of journalism—and threatened to throw him in a dungeon for the rest of his life—he never faltered. Instead, he dared them to do it. It was that courage that set him free. That courage that moved the story forward. That will forever serve as the example of a man at his best. I will miss you, David. Stay free.” (-Edward Snowden)
When people tell me the WEF has no influence & it’s just a mad old man I laugh. Their influence is so great they’ve penetrated corporates, lobbyists, NGO’s & elites globally in the guise of ‘do goodery’ networking. When really it’s simply personal ambition for great wealth.” (-Bernie Spofforth)
WHILE THE TV WHORES OF CONTROLLED MEDIA WANT YOU TO ARGUE OBER CULTURE WAR BULLSHIT, REMEMBER FLINT & PALESTINE & KALAMAZOO! THEY ARE NO JOKE POISONING THE PEOPLE!
“Just as they did during the Iraq War, America’s jingoistic press outlets bear a major responsibility for this unnecessary war that has ravaged Ukraine and killed some 315,000 Ukrainians. Rather than seeking to contextualize events properly for their readers, the U.S. media systematically deceived Americans about the causes and course of the war while faithfully parroting the Neocon propaganda narrative. NATO conducted countless belligerent military exercises (around 40 per year) near Russia’s border, including live-fire rocket exercises simulating attacks on air-defense systems inside Russia. The Russian ambassador warned the United States government: “The situation is extremely dangerous.” Between 2014 and 2022, the U.S. armed (with $4 billion) and trained the Ukrainian military to achieve NATO “interoperability,” amidst a steady barrage of hostile actions toward Russia. In 2016, President Obama placed nuclear-capable antiballistic launch systems in newly joined NATO countries along Russia’s border. In 2017, President Donald J. Trump began selling lethal weapons to Ukraine. The U.S. supported (with $5 billion) public protests that culminated in the 2014 armed, far-right coup against Ukraine’s democratically elected pro-Russian government, replacing it with an unelected pro-Western government handpicked by Neocon leader Victoria Nuland, the United States Under Secretary of State. After Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 landslide victory on a peace platform, White House Neocons like Kurt Volker and Victoria Nuland tag-teamed with Ukrainian ultranationalists to pressure President Zelensky to adopt an uncompromising stance toward Russia and to rebuff Russia’s many attempts at peaceful settlement. Zelensky had campaigned for ratification of the Minsk Accords — a Russian-backed settlement that would have left Donbas as part of Ukraine, but with sufficient autonomy to protect the language, culture, and safety of its ethnic Russian population. In 2002, Bush White House Neocons unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia. In 2002, Bush White House Neocons unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
“As usual, a “win” by Ukraine is left undefined, not only because retaking Crimea or regime change in Moscow are hallucinatory neocon fantasies, but because either would lead to catastrophic destabilization and possible nuclear war. Trump gave the right answer.” (-Max Blumenthal)
SHITLIB CROOKED DNC FRAUDS LIKE AOC WANT MORE WEAPONS, WARS, MILITARY FUNDING, KKKOPS & KKKOP CITY, KENNEDY WANTS THE TRUTH TO COME OUT ABOUT HOW MUCH WE’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT/MEDIA STARTING WITH THE INTEL COUP OF ’63!
“As a Senator, Joe Biden voted for the Assassination Records Act of 1992, requiring that all documents related to the killing of JFK be released by 2017. But President Biden is still keeping thousands of pages heavily redacted, including 44 pages related to a shadowy CIA agent and a covert program that had contact with Lee Harvey Oswald just months before my uncle was killed.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
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