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No honest person could accuse me of being a Trump fan or supporter. I refused to back his candidacy despite my total disdain for Hillary Clinton and pretty much everything she stands for. More importantly, I’ve written a multitude of articles since he was inaugurated severely taking him to task on a wide variety of subjects. I’ve tirelessly discussed how he’s outsourced his economic policy to Goldman Sachs, and condemned his burgeoning neocon foreign policy, evidenced by his disturbing coziness with the autocratic barbarians of Saudi Arabia.
Nevertheless, the most incredible aspect of the past four months is not how much of a fake populist Trump’s proven to be, but how the corporate media’s managed to disgust me even more. I’m happy to become outraged at Trump, because I find many things about Trump outrageous. That said, I find it telling that the stuff about Trump that outrages me, is never the same stuff which outrages the corporate media. Why is that?
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The reason is the corporate media doesn’t mind Goldman Sachs running U.S. economic policy. It also doesn’t mind a close alliance with the terrorist state of Saudi Arabia, or our government’s endless string of disastrous neocon wars abroad. In fact, when it comes to the latter, the corporate media is reliably the primary cheerleader for unprovoked militarism.
Following the election of Trump, an axis of evil in U.S. politics has formed consisting of the corporate media, neoliberal Democrats (Hillary cultists) and neocons. This alliance has one primary objective, which revolves around obsessing incessantly on a conspiracy theory that deflects attention away from the crimes of our very own domestic plutocrats, war mongers and rent-seekers (you know, the forces that are actually wrecking the country). Russia is the perfect outside enemy to rally ignorant rubes around in order to prevent any real progressive or centrist populism from ever gaining a foothold in U.S. politics. Unfortunately, thanks to the gullibility of the average American, their plan seems to be succeeding.
As I noted earlier today on Twitter:
The reason the "elites" are elites is because they know how to corral and manipulate the sheep.
2017 is the perfect manifestation of it— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) May 16, 2017
The current environment is fertile ground for real populist movements to fight for an improvement in the lives of average Americans, but the public is being fooled into focusing all its energy on an unproven Russia collusion theory which hasn’t caused any of our very real national suffering. Our very own homegrown racketeers and thieves are to blame for that, but we’re being told to focus our attention on Russia. This isn’t an accident people, you’re being played, and played quite easily at that.
Ironically, “the resistance” is actually sucking all the air out of what should be real resistance. After spending a few months in the woods, Hillary is now actively moving to co-opt the entire movement. Why’s she doing that? I think she still covets the throne, and I think she’s power hungry and delusional enough to go for it.
Hillary’s positioning to run again, and there’s still no viable new third party. Even worse, there’s the naive and gullible Bernie Sanders still trying to “change Democrats from within,” a laughable and useless exercise. It’s unbelievably pathetic and disempowering, but it could get a lot worse. Brace yourselves for a few years of Hillary running around in leather jackets talking like a “populist” as she desperately attempts to reinvent herself. Our national nightmare is far from over.
Meanwhile, to all of you yapping incessantly about Russia, don’t complain in 2020 when you get a horrible corporate Democratic candidate and Trump wins. Even if you dodge the Hillary bullet, don’t expect for a second to get anyone decent nominated. The “resistance” is clueless and Trump has much better odds of a second term than ever being impeached. The Russia nonsense is all a carefully crafted distraction narrative to keep you stuck on the debt serf plantation and away from organizing genuine resistance. Keep it up, the plutocrats are laughing uncontrollably.
This is precisely why I reserve my most intense contempt for the corporate media. It’s quite intentionally focusing people’s attention on a still unproven theory that marginally affects their lives, compared to very real issues of economic misery and the neo-feudal world being institutionalized all around them. This is straight up evil. The corporate press is deliberately not focusing on things that really matter to people, and diverting mass attention to what is still just a conspiracy theory. If you have proof Trump is a Russian stooge, let’s see it. If not, then focus on the very serious issues that matter and helped elect Trump in the first place. The corporate media, neoliberal Dems and neocons are successfully diverting genuine angst and energy away from pressing economic concerns and toward a imperial geopolitical agenda that benefits the plutocrats and their ambitions. They are manufacturing resistance.
Yesterday’s Washington Post article accusing Trump of divulging classified intel to Russian officials is a perfect example of this. It’s been blown up as the biggest story in decades, yet I read it and basically shrugged. Imagine if the corporate press rallied this strongly against plutocracy, Wall Street and militarism? Imagine that. We might actually be able to help our fellow citizens who are struggling.
But no, the corporate press isn’t interested in doing that. It’s interested in keeping you stuck right where you are. Oppressed under a pile of debt and an absence of opportunity. It’s sad to watch people get manipulated so easily, but until people wake up and say enough, it’s only going to get worse.
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In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
Plano, Texas is becoming a meca for white collar jobs that produce nothing but paper work and run up the price of houses and taxes . One day the field will level but it may not be in our lifetime. John
But we are all heros now ! Dont you see ! We travel thousands of miles piss away billions on blasting the shit out of people who for the most part want Americans and more likely the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT to keep their phony war mongering military dick beaters on our own borders . Please leave them the hell alone !
But no it’s refugees it’s terror it’s drugs it’s …?
It’s a world wide fuckrd up mess , we broke it and we are going to keep on breaking it . That is till somebody pulls another fast one worse than 911 . We won’t see it coming we are to busy twisting in the wind about some gay guy in his mothers panties using the ladies room at Walmart !
Faux and every tv station is talking propaganda about Trump and Russia. Turn the NSA CIA FBI mass fed media stations off.Do they think people are that stupid?
Yes they do think people are stupid, and close to a majority tipping point. I canceled cable two months ago. It is freeing. I can’t go as far as listening to NPR like HSF. The blood pressure goes up so high I just want to break shit.
You were doing good until you tried to hand the queers a pass (as if they aren’t a problem to themselves and society). You tried the same trick you accused the journalist of using: “look, another queer in his mother’s panties in the women’s Walmart bathroom” to imply that we are idiots to care about such perverts. Here is something you do need to care about:
Sorry the jr . Was attempting to wrap it up quick as far as caring about some gay fruit cake I care but as you know the MSM will point the finger at us like we are the problem meanwhile the clinton ilk will push normality of thought and action into their meat grinder and all focus will got to nonsense rather than corporate bailouts jobs exported and 11 to 20 MILLON illegals we are supposed to make nice nice with and refugees were 1 in 5 want to kill us
I will be more complete with my thoughts . I am taking breaks while mowing the lawn lol
Please forgive me for jumping to a wrong conclusion; I’m to critical of others to often. But the video is good, right?
I watched it and thought it was worth the time. This fella was obviously religious; everyone’s NDE is different and much depends on your personal beliefs.
Actually, this is just a rabbit set loose to distract the dogs. The size of the problems we face dwarf where three tenths of one percent go to the bathroom. I know this cultural stuff is offensive, I haven’t shopped at Kmart or eaten Kellogs cereal, but the coming implosion of the stock market as the Fed unwinds its balance sheet; the increasing cost of energy, in Btu out for Btu invested when increasing use of ever cheaper energy is what has driven our advancements since the beginning of the industrial revolution; that one third of America is sitting on the sidelines not working and our country has been hollowed out to serve the interests of the plutocratic oligarchs who rule us; the comming apocalypse in public pensions as contributions are lower than outgoing monies;…
I could go on for a while longer,(North Korea, Russia/NATO, Chinese island building.) are much more important.
Keep turning your friends on to sites and articles like this, talk to people who believe differently than you (compare and contrast the proof offered in each case), educate the sheeple! But don’t forget to stock up on food, ammo, and water.
It feels like we’re getting real close to crunch time. The Deep State – controlled media are whooping out “impeachment” like they have Tourette’s Syndrome. Perfidious traitors like Adam Schiff, John McCain and Ben Sassehole would impeach and convict Trump in the bat of an eye – the complete lack of any crime notwithstanding. It’s good that Krieger sees the danger. When it comes to a head, we should all stand with Trump against the Deep State. Not because we love Trump but because we can’t let the Deep State-media industrial complex run this country. After that, we can all go back to castigating Trump for his many faults and seemingly broken promises.
With enemies like Demons everywhere after his very “soul”, Trump needs to think a lot more and speak a lot less (the White House is haunted since Hussein); let his employees do their jobs and take some of the shots. Jimmy thought he was much smarter and did to much himself, slowing progress; Reagan did less governing himself but accomplished more by focusing on being a great statesman.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H.L. Mencken
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself… Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable”.
H. L. Mencken