Guest Post by Caitlin Johnstone
Everyone has lost their fucking mind. Propaganda has made madness look like sanity and sanity look like madness, has normalized cheerleading for nuclear world war and abnormalized calls for de-escalation and detente. It’s truly as bat shit insane as anything could possibly be.
Over and over again we’re being fed the message from the US and its proxies that this game of nuclear chicken can only escalate and never de-escalate. They are lying. They are playing games with all our lives in service of a dark god named unipolarism, and we gain nothing from it.
The only positive I can see in this mess is that any further movement toward madness will have to be a move into sanity, because we’ve taken madness as far as we can possibly take it and we’ll necessarily have to circle back round again. You can only turn 180 degrees away from the light before you’re turning back toward it again. You can only run halfway into the woods before you’re running out of it.
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“Kids there’ve been some nuclear explosions and everyone on earth is certain to die horribly, but we need to understand that it was very important for our government to help Ukraine recapture the annexed Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia territories from the Russians.”
“What are those places, Daddy?”
“I don’t really know. Let’s go check the globe!”
“Yay! I love learning geography!”
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I started writing because I was worried I wouldn’t leave a healthy world to my kids. I’ve been screaming for years that we’re drawing closer to nuclear war. Now we’re on the brink, and people are saying I’m only protesting because I love Russia and think Putin is great. Assholes.
How fucking brainwashed do you have to be to think the only possible reason someone might object to gratuitous nuclear brinkmanship is because of some weird, arbitrary loyalty to some random foreign government on the other side of the planet? Bunch of mindless fucking automatons.
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It just says so much about where we’re headed as a society that the most surefire way to enrage a liberal in 2022 is to say that reckless nuclear brinkmanship is probably a bad idea.
Opposing armageddon to trigger the libs.
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Mainstream liberals are so fucking stupid that they think the only possible choices with regard to Russia are either (A) handing Putin the entire world on a silver platter or (B) just continually charging toward direct confrontation as though Russia doesn’t have nukes. They don’t know what detente is. At all. They don’t even know it’s a thing, let alone an option here. Like if you ask them they don’t know about the existence of the word or the concept. I’ve been complaining about this since long before the invasion.
Detente used to be a household word. Mainstream politicians campaigned on and debated about it. Now hardly anyone knows it’s even a thing, let alone a real option in dealing with the horrifying escalations between NATO and Russia. This is because the political/media class never tells them.
It’s supposed to be the news media’s job to create an informed populace, but because their real job is propaganda they actually do the opposite. News media never mentioning detente is like a preschool teacher never mentioning sharing or cooperation and just telling kids to fight.
This is the only reason anyone who advocates de-escalation and detente gets met with “SO YOU’RE SAYING WE SHOULD JUST GIVE PUTIN WHATEVER HE WANTS???” instead of a sane adult response. It’s because people haven’t been told that de-escalation and detente are historically viable and successful.
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We will know we are living in a healthy society when people like John Bolton are chased out of every town and driven away wherever they’re seen until they’re forced to live out the rest of their miserable lives alone in a cave eating bats.
John Bolton still trying to start World War III. It's so crazy how there are people whose whole entire job is to try and cause the violent death of as many human beings as possible. pic.twitter.com/9qOcjYpi61
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 5, 2022
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Since 2016 progressive Democrats have been worse than useless on the single most important issue in the world, namely de-escalating tensions between the US and Russia. They’ve been feeding into the Russia hysteria that got us here and backing proxy warfare in Ukraine to the hilt.
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All the human livestock bleating “appeasement!” today would have said the same about Kennedy’s acquiescence to Khrushchev’s demands that he remove US Jupiter missiles from Turkey and Italy, had it been public knowledge at the time. But his doing so was why humanity survived the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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People ask me, “Why don’t you tell Putin to de-escalate?”
I don’t have an audience with Putin. I have an English-speaking audience predominantly in nations under the US power umbrella. If you need to hear one more westerner impotently yelling at Putin, go switch on the nearest television.
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The troll brigades responsible for swarming critics of the US empire always accuse their targets of working for the Kremlin, because if they’re just troll brigading normal people who voice criticisms of the most powerful empire in history it means they’re just bootlicking jerks. Their story about themselves is that their obnoxious behavior is okay because the Kremlin uses trolls and they’re just using trolling to fight those trolls. The fact that we’re actually just people who disagree with the most powerful government on earth means that story is a lie.
Nobody wants to believe they’re pouring all their time and energy into troll-mobbing normal civilians who are simply voicing their opinion about the most powerful people on earth, so the story that we’re all Kremlin operatives is one of supreme egoic importance for them.
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Calling something a “Kremlin talking point” is just saying that because Russia criticizes US foreign policy, westerners should not. They’re literally saying you should never, ever criticize the most dangerous impulses of the most powerful and destructive power structure on earth. Which is obviously a profoundly stupid and crazy thing to say.
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Accusing the US of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines is called a conspiracy theory. Accusing Russia of doing the exact same thing is called The News.
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Stay frightened. Live in fear. Worry about things you have no control over. Postulate on the outcomes of conflicts that have never happened before, only make sure it is in the worst light possible. Dream of Armageddon. Be anxious instead of doing something to improve your life right now.
The End.
I refuse to be a deer in the headlights. I will not be immobilized by fear and anxiety. The future is always uncertain, but I will not be so afraid of death that I forget to live while I may.
Just occurred to me that you maybe are being sarcastic. You don’t really seem the type to let fear cripple him.
Why does it have to be either or? Why can’t you have concern for geopolitics and improve your life?
Odd logic. One impacts the other. The fact that the left has been programed to destroy America and everything it stands for is obvious, and yet you would prefer we ignore that and just go on with our lives….. nothing to see here. The power of the people still exists, but only when they are educated and aware they are being set up.
You and I would almost certainly get along quite well in person.
I look at politics like I do the weather. There is nothing I can do to alter the course of either, but you would have to have a screw loose not to keep your eye on both of them and prepare for every contingency. Both provide all kinds of benefits, but both of them can kill you and destroy everything you have ever worked for in your life if you ignore them.
That said, the weather, while it repeats certain forms, is driven by a set of physical limitations.
Human beings are motivated by a lot of contrived ones. My observations are that virtually every power structure is corrupt and almost every word they utter is a lie. You don’t have to become corrupt and you don’t have to believe lies. Those two things are like seeking shelter from a storm, or bundling up in the cold.
I hope this helps.
Odd analogy… The weather is something you truly cannot do anything to alter, but politics is something as a Citizen, you have a duty to be involved in and alter….. Am I missing something?
Yep. 😂
Yep.
Very often I use Farmer’s analogy when I’m talking to folks around here.
You’d have better luck stopping a hurricane with a soup spoon.
When you dance with the devil…
For someone who reads/comments here often, you’d think he’d know this by now.
I’m of the mind that many regulars here forget a comment as soon as they read it.
Many times I’ve been misunderstood (in my sarcasm) by regulars who should know better!!!
With some folks, it’s like each comment we post is our very first.
Someone was paid to write that.
Ignorance is our strength!
Oh, I am improving my life. I strive to learn 5 new Russian words every day.
I find it frightening that the Western legacy media have proven over the last 6 years that they can get at least half of their audiences to believe literally anything. Trump pissing on hookers, Steele dossier, HRC never guilty of anything, the Hunter laptop is a Russian plant, Jan 6 was an insurrection but 250+ BLM riots were harmless, Wuflu is the new Ebola, masks work, vaccines are safe and effective, to name just a few of their achievements.
This just proves to me that the Operation Mockingbird team has used the past half century to refine and perfect their techniques and now have the most powerful communication mediums (created and funded by the same crew) to brain blast the sheeple into doing their bidding.
Will Hollywood make the movie….LOL
“…Will Hollywood make the movie…”
They already did.
We’re all living in it.
Low budget apocalyptic/horror/comedy flick.
Scary when I stop and think that the people in charge of a nuclear launch are confused about which bathroom to use. This is what we get when we leave the lunatic in charge of the asylum. I’m going hiking today just to ease my mind. The consistency and order of the forest helps me to cope with the insanity of this insane world.
Knock some stranger off their feet today, smile and say hello..
The stranger was pretty mad after I knocked them off their feet, even though I proceeded to smile and say hello.
Keep trying and sharpen your left hook. If you get no response at all you win the prize.
Understatement of the year. Even on this board, I’m surprised to see so much hate towards the aversion of WWIII and using nukes.
Don’t underestimate liberals, they’ll always find a way to get crazier. Especially since now most of the guardrails society puts in place have been destroyed.
10 years ago, if a teacher had toddler-hungry fag come into the classroom so he can grind his crotch into a 4 yr old girls face and scream it’s not going to lick itself. That teacher and pedophile would’ve been arrested and jailed, today the left bark and clap like seals in approval of 4 yr olds having sex with adults, as just one example.
I really would like to see Earth turned into Mars. Not one person on Earth is without sin. Totally failed race. Humans need to be stopped. (In Mcdonalds drive thrus hahaha) Your description of what happens to 4 yo’s is why. Humans the most psychotic being ever. All of our cultures rape and sacrifice the children to death. Maybe that is the “right” thing to do. But I don’t subscribe to that. And most peeps don’t , but here we are again another culture of raping children. Extinct us please. I used to fear seeing a nuclear bomb up close and personal. Now I cheer them on. There is no redemption.
Nihilism is a sucker’s bet, Merkwürdigliebe.
It’s also a copout.
I hear you. But I just don’t particularly think “we” are anything special. We’re not. Put this dog down. Or keep hoping for less kids to be raped. Hope will get you far.
We’re not anything special.
But the worthy bits within decent men DO come to us from something special.
If I were a nihilist or a communist (but I repeat myself) I would tend to agree with your position. However, nihilism only seems like a reasonable proposition to folks who have misunderstood both the nature of this created world and our reason for existing in it.
Again I have to agree with a but. But I also do not think earth is the only one. God couldn’t have hedged his bet by propagating life elsewhere? Maybe we were special so he gave us another chance. He won’t be fooled again.
Kill all the kids to keep them from being raped…smh…the loathsome stupid in this one is exponential.
No kids=no rape=no inbreds=a planet that animals can enjoy and a universe free from trash. Which we’re already filling it up with. smh dummies in cars looking for a planet to self crash into.
God can do better than us.
He can do better than your stupid, filthy ass , for sure.
You husband is calling, bruh…he wants to make more of those environmentally friendly , butt babies. How many have you ‘aborted’ now?
speak for yourself and maybe your fellow haters of humanity. and, anyone who feels that way is free to make an example with himself, and not hurt anyone else.
almost every time someone goes on rubbishing humanity as some kind of plague, he’s actually describing exactly the kind of degenerate piece of crap he himself is. Clearing the dead wood is a very different thing from burning and bulldozing the whole forest!
I will see your we aren’t anything special and raise you one Mozart.
You better fucking believe it. We are special, we are being brain washed to believe that were not.
The people who hurt children, sure they deserve to be wiped out. Personally, I’d rather my daughter and I didn’t get wiped out because of some lunatics desire to destroy all of mankind. Not all humans are lost.
Absolutely . But every time we triumph over evil, boom it pops back up again. So what is the solution to that? I’d personally rather not have everyone die if there was another solution. Social credit score system is going to give pedo’s+200 pts for every child hurt. That’s not a solution. Thoughts????
My thoughts are that when taking your , all over the page, obvious baitfish rhetoric, first claiming you want everyone to die, including kids, then not die, but it’s your duty to vote, but don’t vote , because your fixing to vote with full metal jacket is proof fucking positive that you are a POS gloworm that would ass rape you mother for a nickel. Thoughts?
Can’t wait tell they go full bore bestiality. Honestly thought they would do that before pedophilia, thought poly marriages where after but they went full power on raping kids and mutilating them. Guess balls to the wall on screwing up the world
Yea this is where you can see the acceleration/desperation in the “Plan”. Time table is being moved up.
Is Uncle Schlomo paying you, outside of ass raping Christians , to fuck goats too.?
Don’t forget Don’t under estimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up. That according to the mulatto homosexual odingo.
What this article lays out is the result of the Soros / Obama / Biden agenda to destroy the country!!!
” America has all along been the jewel in the crown—the sought-after prize of the psychopathic elites.
She’s now imprisoned along with the January 6th patriots rotting in that filthy D.C. jail. It isn’t hard to read the writing on the wall to figure out”
What if we put everyone in favor in one place to be the scapegoats when they’re targeted. Without bunkers! Like in Virginia/Maryland.
Not to upset anyone, but there’s plenty more stupid and insanity where all that came from. Seems like every 80-100 years things get so unhinged and unstable that the collective human psyche becomes involved to the point of no return. Fakery and lies must all collapse violently and convincingly before the real and natural re-set can occur. Everyone will suffer loss– the more so to the extent to which we have belonged to that sick collective psyche.
“Seems like every 80-100 years things get so unhinged and unstable that the collective human psyche becomes involved to the point of no return.“
Seems vaguely familiar, but can’t recall where I’ve heard this before. Someone should write a book about this and show the cyclical patterns from the past.
Kondratieff wave theory.
If “everyone” had ever had a mind to lose, it’d never have gone no•one. Remember High Noon? That was Gary Cooper, as someone, & the whole damn town, as everyone.
“I’ve been to a town.”
Those are the places where every bit of the camel, not just the nose, is under détente.
“A nuke is less destructive than “diversity” and faggot worship ” Six Million Suns
I predict this quote will cause TCS to choke on his bag of diversity dicks.
Your fixated on something. hmm I wonder what that could be…. Hope you enjoy your monkeypox. Got any sores in your mouth today?
Choke on a diversity dick, TCS ?
Are you guys really this afraid of non whites? Do you boycott taco bell? Not eat chinese? Never had tandoori? Sad so many close minded people. Damn your missing out on red curry powder. You can stick other things in your mouths you know. “White bread is bland. But I keep eating it cause whole wheat is too brown.” Wow stop being colorists. Colors are colors. People are people. And some are really sad excuses. Who have a very limited insult palette. So fixated, must be small.
Variety is the spice of life.
Is that why you take it up the ass?
If we don’t destroy America wit’ muh diversity , who will make muh jerk chicken ?
Go back to Daily Kos fag.
When you get a break from stabbing people , bruh, make me a taco.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-stabbing-suspect-us-illegally-has-criminal-record-california
Deep Capital doesn’t need to nuke US to destroy our nation.
It’s not a white black brown red yellow purple problem. It’s a human problem.
Moar you say…it’s only been 56 years…have you finished that ‘diversity be our stranght’ bag of dicks so soon?
So, Whites like Hitler, Linton ,Churchill, Epstein, Maxwell, Stalin, Jones, are your heroes? Trump? Biden? Stop choking on your bag o dicks. Here’s a stat you won’t look up… What percentage of crime was committed by white people in 1940? How does that compare to today? Perhaps you need a little color shoved up your….. news Flash more human garbage. Thanks for proving my point. Whites ESPECIALLY not fit for purpose.
The population in America in 1940 was 89.8 percent white. Of course they committed most the crime. Your comparing A’s to O’s. Niggers are the root cause of crime in America today by far with no runner up and their only 14% of the population. There’s your news flash.
haha I know. just pointing out even if everyone was white someones raping still. Thanks for the help.
Go back to Virginia asswipe and quit polluting Georgia with your outrageous stupid.
My last comment to you. Please look up racism in the dictionary. Bye.
I did and a pic of you taking a shit on an American flag came back.
I get it bruh. You hate White people cuz’ life let you down and your a loser, plus Virginia ass raped you after you ignored the obvious and allowed diversity to control your state, until you were no longer welcome.
The part I don’t get is how you became so fucking stupid as to not look in the mirror and put all the blame where it belongs.
I’m going with a low IQ problem. Is it intentional? Oh, you better believe it. Same as the low T count in white males problem. It’s in the air, the water, and the food people consume. Not to mention the dumbing down of our children in public gulags, just for good measure and effect.
Yes I agree all this being done to all colors of humanity.
Men should think real hard about their testosterone levels. They are being attacked from many directions. It is essential to health.
It’s funny our county actually got more white since ’40 and is still on the border to greater niggerdom.
Funny, Regime change. No matter where it’s done, they never get rid of the soiled diaper.
If Dementia Joe or “Joe Biden” were POTUS during the Cuban Missile crises …. there would have been an all-out nuclear war.
But, it was averted. Why? Because JFK was sane. Because Khrushchev was sane. Neither gave in to insanity.
It takes BOTH adversaries to be sane to avert disaster. Just one won’t do it.
Clearly, both Dementia Joe and “Joe Biden” are totally fucken insane. So, how, pray tell, will deescalation be accomplished?
It won’t be !!! Hooray!!!!! Winning !!! Draco Reptilians for the win. This isn’t at you per se, Stucky, just answering the question. I’ve had enough fights for one day.
NOT a conspiracy theory ====> I have inside information that Putin will use the 300,000 newly mobilized troops to bomb Saint Petersburg and then Moscow. Zelenski for the win by Thanksgiving.
I head the former Stalingrad now known as Volgograd was on the list also. The bastards and their dirty pool! It’s military stratagem genius I tell ya!
I remember doing drills in elementary school during the cold war where we faced the cinder block wall on our knees and covered our heads lol. As if that would have helped protect us from the thermonuclear bombs that would have rained down on NYC , Brookhaven national labs ,Grumman ,Fairchild etc on Long Island.
I remember the days of duck and cover drills. We kids didn’t give a rats ass anyway, it was all good clean fun for us, same as fire drills. Looking back it does make me laugh. In elementary school every Monday morning we all assembled in the court yard to say the pledge, sing “it’s a grand old flag” and the American Anthem. That was in addition to the class room morning pledge. My oh my how things have changed
We loved the drills, because anything that got us out of class. We never connected how stupid the leaders that threatened our very lives could be till later on…and we continually keep electing these avarice driven , money lender controlled vermin to lead US…the stupid never ends…
The shitty part of growing up, leaving behind our imaginations and entering the pragmatic world where there really is a boogeyman. I think we both know who that fucker is.
“The edge of the [war mongering Ukraine] narrative [definitively] is crumbling.”
Michael Rectenwald appears to agree with Mr. Paul Roberts who concludes ignorance is the cause of elites driving the world to its demise. This writer suggests the psychopathic globalists are a mental case and ignore any concern they might die in a nuclear conflict. They appear to be totally obsessed with forcing a global economic collapse and foreclosing on the 86 covid relief loans the IMF [read Wall Street] made to nations after the covid pandemic was announced.
Globalist’s source of unlimited funding is analyzed to come from the FRBNY’s exclusive handling of funds skimmed from auctions of Treasury securities. TreasuryDirect Institutional tabulations historically identified ‘new cash’ and implied the funds went to the government. If that money went to the government, it would be the same path as tax revenue [from public funds to government coffers]. Such a flow would eliminate any increase in National Debt and also avoid any increase in circulated market value [inflation]. Money exceeding that which is used to roll over prior debt is generated from the auctions which is NOT transferred to the government. Nobody, including Cato, Mises Institute, and others, has identified where that money goes. The accounts have NEVER been audited.
PCR recently dared to touch the third rail and applied the label of ‘jews’ to a settlement in central Europe that accepted the religion because it was compatible with their goal of national oppression. Ref. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/09/29/are-jews-again-driving-the-western-world-into-a-fatal-war/. Their infiltration of the U.S. government which is briefly identified is the same infiltration of Germany that Bismark allowed after 1880’s. Hitler capitalized on German resentment to the jew exploitation/oppression, which prevented Germans from employment in any controlled profession or business ownership, as his political agenda. It appears the similar oppression PCR identified has been imposed upon the U.S. finances over the past century. Benjamin Ginsberg in FATAL EMBRACE; JEWS AND THE STATE lists numerous European nations that were similarly destroyed by bankers.
The unconstitutional actions of the FBI [including the seizure of $86 million from vaults, ref. https://www.brighteon.com/4825ce10-1d29-4c68-aa76-a502ca468a2d%5D , the IRS, the CIA, the CDC, the NIH, the military, and others are tolerated by Congress. If congress is not motivated to “right the wrongs to which we have become accustomed,” perhaps the state governors, AG’s, or sheriffs authorized to challenge federal actions may become recalcitrant. I don’t believe they could be labeled insurrectionists and jailed without trial as terrorists. LONG LIVE THE MAGNA CARTA !!!
One issue the government does not want discussed is the income tax. The statute that imposed an income tax on Sovereign Citizens was deliberately altered from ‘all income’ in the 1939 IRS Title 26, Section 1, in the rewriting of 1954 to ‘taxable income’–without change. They realized the unconstitutionality of the tax. Without a statute that imposes the tax, an identified violation [which is necessary for valid process] can never be pled. If the responsibility/ statute is not before the court as an issue in the indictment, the court can never rule it unconstitutional. Tricks of the trade. All such indictments appear to be invalid. [NOTE: Income tax indictments suggest violation of statutes ##7201-7215 which have been applied to gambling, horse racing, admission and other taxes. They cannot identify responsibility for an income tax. The Supreme Court has further declared they apply to all taxes.]
The chaos of the USA society, and the government corruption, along with globalist Great Reset oppression, are submitted to be instigated and funded by two U.S. methods of questioned legality.
First: An Income tax on Sovereign Citizens is not consistent with Constitutional authorization nor does statutory authorization for such a tax exist. The middle class is being decimated with this transfer of wealth to financiers. Ref. https://stateofthenation.co… THE INCOME TAX SCAM & 87,000 ARMED IRS AGENTS |
Second: The Federal Reserve system covertly transfers ‘profit’ derived from auctions of Treasury securities to unknown shareholders. All profit of the Rothschild’s Fed legally belongs to the government. The relevant accounts have never been audited. Ref.
THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM. This scheme appears to have historic roots. Ref. Benjamin Ginsberg, FATAL EMBRACE; JEWS AND THE STATE.
Both methods involve financiers – BEYOND GOVERNMENT – who are the chief beneficiaries.
As is being proven every day, if you do not attack the funding of corrupt bureaucrats, their civil disturbances, and their Great Reset/globalism/war mongering, they will create legions of new programs and corrupt bureaucrats which will replace the old exposed ones.
The nefarious unrestricted funding for war mongering by corrupt politicians and the Great Reset must be exposed as you have written. Far-right legislation is an essential step but not the final solution. Civil disturbances are created by globalists to distract attention from the real action.
So. Same as it EVER was?