Like his animal torturing son Barron Trump, Donald Trump continues to shit himself everyday.
Donald Trump's free press coverage continues and despite the lies, incoherence, bigotry, insults, and lack of substance, Traitor Trump, the man who betrayed his Oath of Office and tried to Overthrow the Government and remain in power over the duly elected President Joe Biden in 2021, can still utter something so abhorrent and so shameful as to shock even me,
When we gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom… It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor— it’s actually much better because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. She gets it and she’s a healthy beautiful woman.
Sociopathy runs in families like cowardice
"It's actually much better..." Traitor DonOld Trump needs to immediately resign and check himself into an Insane Asylum. Do you know why he placed the Presidential Medal of Freedom above the Medal of Honor? Because He gave it to her. Everything Trump does is the "greatest" in human history as part of his Take all credit for things you didn't do, Pass the blame for things you did do and Proclaim greatness Policy. "It's actually much better..."
Of course, it's coming from cowardly Draft Dodger Trump, who repeatedly referred to Veterans as suckers and losers. But, while many people recall Trump faking a case of Bone Spurs to get out of Service during Vietnam and all his weird statements afterwards, people forget how he shamelessly lied about helping out at Ground Zero on 9/11,
"Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could.."
Oh My Fvcking God He moved on her like a Bitch
A total lie. Trump did not help anyone on 9/11, Trump did not help out in anyway other than to go on Faux News and brag his Tower was now the second tallest in New York City.
How long will anyone in the Corporate Media ignore this? What mealy mouth excuse with Klancy Mace or some other Republican sycophant going to make to brush over this? There's no going back now apparently. Republicans abandoned any semblance of honor, principles, morals, or ethics and see Trump's election as a chance to undo Progressive achievements in the 20th century and turn the United States into a Fascist Fundamentalist Nation built upon oppression and intolerance with them on top. MAGA voters either simply ignore this or recognize they are so deep into Sunk Costs and have excused this behavior for 9 Fucking Years, that it's too much for them to abandon Traitor Trump at this point.
That's a terrible analogy and one we shouldn't ignore because the horrific assault by Hamas Militants on October 7th is not going to be met by targeted retaliation but by an open-ended War against every Palestinian and multiple Muslim nations while the people invoking the Terrorist attacks of 9/11 are following the invocation with blood-thirsty calls to eradicate every Muslim. "Flatten Gaza"...
I'm afraid the retaliation and violence won't have any defined end other than, "Defeat the Terrorists". The Global War on Terror returns for another open-ended run. The US is already shipping 250lb "precision" bombs and JDAM conversion kits to upgrade older munitions into so-called smart bombs.
Any time anyone states perhaps the aerial bombardments obliterating entire city blocks should stop, on-line trolls and blood-thirsty keyboard killers will declare you are in league with Hamas and support beheading babies. There is a large contingent which apparently believes Israel gets to drown Gaza in blood and Israel also gets to decide when enough blood has been shed.
"Now, instead of standing by Israel, whose citizens were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists... it preaches to Israel. It is better for the UN to focus now on returning the hostages, condemning Hamas, and supporting Israel's right to defend itself,” Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to the UN.
How is this acceptable? Because 40 Beheaded Babies. How can anyone expect the people to grab enough food, water, medicine, clothing in 24 hours? Because 40 Beheaded Babies. What happens to the people who don't leave? Who cares because 40 Beheaded Babies. Israel's Right-to-Defend Itself and the 40 Beheaded Babies is going to be an all-time Trump card to commit open-ended Genocide against the Palestinian people.
The absolute Righteousness of the Israeli cause will justify everything that follows.
#WWG1WGA - it's not just a hashtag it's a Cult Mantra...
"The Greatest foreign policy achievement of the decade, if not our lifetime..." - Kayleigh McEnany on Fox Agitprop Channel.
Right now, a lot of 2003-2004 political strategy manuals are being dusted off. Hopefully, John Kerry's "I was for the war, before I was against it" is not one of them.
In 2003-2004, Democratic politicians tried to thread the needle of a third way between Pro-War and Anti-War. Democrats hoped to be seen supporting the Troops while hedging their bets about the Iraq Invasion and Occupation. Republicans on the other hand went full in on the War and declared anyone who did not support the War was a treasonous Anti-American traitor who sided with the 9/11 attackers. War Criminal Dick Cheney derisively declared, "So?" when the media tepidly pointed out the Iraq War was a massive disaster.
Even as the war dragged on, with deaths, injuries, multiple deployments, torture, war crimes in Abu Ghraib or Fallujah and the WMD lies by W(orst President Ever) were hilariously revealed in a White House comedy skit conservatives were still hammering at the Left and drunkenly claimed Saddam was responsible for 9/11 and Liberals loved Saddam.
As is their nature, conservatives used the troops as a rhetorical cudgel to attack the Left and Democrats fearing they would lose in 2004 were still hesitant to accurately call for Bush's Impeachment as a a War criminal. Well, the wishy-washy Kerry lost in 2004. Republicans fucking gained seats in the House and Senate. So, the Iraq War continued as Bush swaggered around the White House in his phony cowboy attire. Conservatives continued to support Bush and Cheney throughout their Nation Wrecking Maladministration, which went from one disaster to another. Perhaps you recall some of the Bush List of accomplishments: 9/11, protecting the Bin Laden family including Osama, Iraq War Crimes, $5 TRILLION dollars lost in the deserts of Iraq and Wadis of Afghanistan, Katrina, culminating in the Great Republican Recession of 2007.
So, after President Obama won election conservatives quickly declared the Iraq War Won (Victory in Iraq Day is officially 11/22/2008 in conservative #AlternativeFacts Universe). Shamelessly, after years of declaring anyone questioning the Iraq War was a traitor and sided with the terrorists, Trump won (with help from the likes of Zero Hedge) by declaring Hillary Clinton the sole architect responsible for the Iraq War and its failures. And conservatives fell in-line as they always do.
"General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more...but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself."
100% bullshit. Thousands of Americans? Bullshit! Millions of people! Total Horseshit! And before Mike Pompeo could disseminate the Agitprop of 'Iraqis celebrating and dancing in the streets' the 60 million Trump Lovers took to their social media to declare their jingoistic unwavering support for the mission and the upcoming war with Iran.
So, expect Faux News to replay their greatest hits; You can't criticize a President during a War, you can't support the Troops without supporting Trump, anyone who is against the drone strike of Qasem Soleimani is a hypocrite or a terrorist-lover, Actually Obama/Hillary/John Kerry is responsible for Iran, The Democrats are in league with Iran, and so forth.
Conservatives will dust off the Toby Keith CDs, reattach their faded yellow ribbon magnets, criticize anyone against War as a Terrorist Sympathizer. Right-wingers long ago realized conservatives have No Memory and No Concept of Future Time. There is only the Eternal Now. And you say whatever you need to in order to Win Now.
"I rarely get emotional, if ever. I guess you'd call me hyper-rational, stoic. Yet as we drove past the rows of white grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country ... In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we'd already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we'd have to make to help my father succeed — voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were 'profiting off of the office'. Frankly, it was a big sacrifice, costing us millions and millions of dollars annually ... Of course, we didn't get any credit whatsoever from the mainstream media, which now does not surprise me at all."
Fuuuuuuuuuck You. "I rarely get emotional" and I'm "hyper-rational" Traitor Tot sounds like his demented old man. Anyone who has to claim they are 'like really smart' or "hyper-rational" is decidedly not.
And Slimy Shit Junior is on this media book tour to make money. To explicitly profit from the Office of the Presidency. Not from individual sales of the book; that's not how rightwing screeds become "best-sellers". No instead rightwing think tanks buy up huge amounts of these books and give them as gifts from joining.
What a disgusting spectacle. Trump and his shit family have degraded the US, of course, but what is far more disgusting is how conservatives have decided to go along with this. For fucks sake, conservatives are so vested in #OwntheLibs that they will cheer and read Trump's book about how much he and his family have sacrificed?
On the heels of the Court ordering Traitor Trump repay $2,000,000 he stole from Charity and Slimy Shitt Junior declaring he's suffered and sacrificed more than any person buried at Arlington National Cemetery should not only be a death knell for Trump's political future but, immediately make him a pariah in polite company and earn him angry denunciations from Veterans groups and individual Vets. But, no conservative is going to abandon Trump no matter what despicable lies and stolen valor Trump and his spawn engage in.
Trump is yet to be the worst President in History, that still belongs to W(orst POTUS) for his War Crimes in the Middle East, ignoring the warnings about Bin Laden determined to Attack the US, for allowing New Orleans to drown, and for another Republican Recession, but Trump and Family have the revere Midas touch; everything they touch turns to shit. Trump Jr is modeled from the same slimy shit.
Donald Trump looked upon the carnage of 9/11 in the way he leered at underage girls...
"I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it's the tallest. "
But, worse than Traitor Trump celebrating the attack are his absurd claims to heroism,
"Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could.."
Total bullshit. Complete fabrication. A literal trumped-up story.
Donald Trump's lies about his actions on 9/11/01 would seem to be the bridge too far for even mendacious conservatives. But, it isn't... 9/11 supposedly changed everything. In reality, it just made clear the disjunction in The United States. Conservatives true enemy are the American people and they have declared war on the Progressive era and liberal state.
In such a war conservatives side with any other group of rightwingers across the globe, be they the Taliban or Putin's oligarchs.
9/11 was a failure of Republican governorship. But, conservatives weaponized their failure, embraced their fascist heritage, and mobilized for war against the people they truly hate... Americans. The #MAGAt Horde is yearning, aching waiting for Trump to give them the order to round-up and murder millions of people.
Of all the sacred modern conservative shibboleths, September 11, was supreme. Invoked with anger and awe, reverence and rage, 9/11 was too never be forgotten.
So, perhaps it is odd how the Conservative Ubermensch, Donald Trump routinely pisses on the Ashes of 9/11, both back when it happened and currently as President and faces no backlash.
Trump's odious statements and lies about the day that changed everything were once as cheap and tawdry as the man himself. But, now have veered into syphilitic delusions of grandeur and megalomaniacal proclamations of sheer venal mendacity.
Trump praised the Taliban and Al Qaeda for knocking down the Word Trade Center buildings and making Trump Tower the tallest building in New York City.
Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed to have helped first responders at Ground Zero, recently declaring, "I spent a lot of time down there with you." This single disgusting outright lie should be enough to exclude Trump from polite company and ostracize him from America politics and power.
But, lying about 9/11 to #OwntheLibs makes it okay. Always remember conservatives always argue disingenuously.
Now, as the 18th anniversary of the day Republicans utterly failed to defend America approaches, Traitor Trump wants the Taliban to stride triumphantly into the United States so he can prostrate himself before them. If Trump wasn't an enemy asset would you be able to differentiate his actions from someone who was?
"Hold on! You can't blame George Bush for that!" Stephanie Ruhle informed Donald Trump he had violated the 0th Law of the Republican Party for blaming George W. Bush for 9/11.
Everyone knows the First Law, that is Ronald Reagan was a Modern Day Gilgamesh who single-handedly defeated the Soviet Union, balanced the budget, cut taxes and created a budgetary surplus simultaneously.
But, mentioning any of the massive failures of George W. Bush, especially the worst disaster on the CONUS since the War of 1812 is anathema. Bush kept US safe, hosannah, hosannah, hosannah.
9/11 happened over 14 years ago and no I will never forgive W(orst POTUS Ever), Dick Cheney or the Republican Party. I do not believe any of the MIHOP or LIHOP or other 9/11 related Conspiracies, this was sheer incompetence.
But, Bush's incompetence, especially ignoring the August 6th Memo which specifically warnedBin Laden Determined to Strike in US, was massively compounded by Right-Wing failures during the Phony Global War on Terror and the Conservative policies of oppression, intolerance and adulation of the rich, which created the Republican Recession of 2007 after the Guard Dogs of the Plutocracy passed law after law, and ruling after ruling designed to grind the working class into penury and ensure the recreation of a Neo-Feudalist State.
Jeb Bush called the elimination of Saddam Hussein a pretty good deal. Perhaps it was a "pretty good deal", if like all NeoCons you have no skin in the game because Never Forget you can't get any skin from a Bush... But, just as was predicted it completely destabilized the region, empowered Iran, and led to the creation of ISIS.
When Faux News Chris Wallace, of all people, pointed out the Bush/Cheney Cabal left President Obama with a mess, Dick "5 Deferments" Cheney tersely replied, "I don't think of it that way."
Of course, he doesn't in Dick-less Cheney's Universe everything he and Bush did was a resounding success, which the Mainstream Media, who slavishly wish to show they don't have those icky, evil liberal tendencies is only too eager to agree with as Stephanie Buhle demonstrated when she was shocked, SHOCKED! anyone would imply George W. Bush did anything other than keep us safe.
Edward Said accurately described the insane pathos that drove Bush/Cheney to adopt the Right-Wing Reverse-Domino Theory,
My strong opinion, though I don't have any proof, in the classical sense of the word, is that they want to change the entire Middle East, and the Arab world, perhaps terminate some countries, destroy the so-called terrorist groups they dislike, and install régimes friendly to the United States. I think this is a dream that has very little basis in reality. The knowledge they have of the Middle East, to judge from the people who advise them, is, to say the least, out of date and widely speculative.
When 9/11, is combined with Hurricane Katrina, the bungled Phony War on Terror, and the Republican Recession of 2007, no other President has a been such a disaster and hurt America so badly since Jefferson Davis.
Update: George W. Bush and Tony Blair determined to Strike in Iraq April 2002 - the title of another memo.
Despite their claims of working for a Diplomatic Solution Bush and Blair were set on war over a full year before the March 2003 invasion. Not only was W(orst Potus) a Disaster but a War Criminal, too.
After 9/11 and during the 7 long years slogging through the Iraq War and Bush Presidency, Conservatives and Republicans declared anything less than full unequivocal support of George W. Bush was Treason.
9/11 was the key focal point and the reason to re-elect George W. Bush in 2004.
As the attack in Benghazi Libya was happening Republicans and conservatives took to the air and the internet to demagogue, to insinuate about Obama's secret ties to the Muslim brotherhood, to declare his policies are unraveling. A smirking Mitt Romney convened a Press Conference to gleefully announce Americans had been killed.
Before the bodies of the 4 Americans slain in Libya were cold Right-Wing Ghouls were using them and helping Terrorists attack President Obama.
It's sick. It's shameless. It's not going to stop. Even the parents intercession pleading with Republicans to not politicize their children's deaths went unheeded. Mitt Romney will build his Presidency on the bodies of Ambassador Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Tyrone Woods, no matter what their families ask! Now, in their fevered rush to capitalize on Benghazi, Republicans will cast whomever they need to at the mercy of Terrorists and are providing actionable intelligence to Muslim Terrorists. Darrell Issa put a large load of documents into the public record that reveal the names of Libyans working with the US. Those Libyans are going to get killed because Republicans want to take control of America. But, hey what do a few Libyans matter? Heck, even Marty McFly didn't care about a few dead Libyans! It's why Conservatives pretend Hosni Murbarak and Muamar Gahdaffi were staunch American Allies. It's all part of the plan. Mitt Romney stated in the second debate Gas used to be $1.86 here in Nassau County. He's hoping people forget Gas reached $4.94 a gallon here in Chicago under Bush. It's currently $3.59 for 87 Octane here in Chicagoland. It's why Rudy Guilani, the former Mayor of New York City, is brought onto Faux to declare,"We had no Domestic Terrorist Attacks under President Bush..." It's why the dozen attacks on Embassies when George W. Bush was President are never, ever to be mentioned. Any Democrat or Liberal who doesn't understand the Right-Wing plan to use the Attack and the Bodies of the dead hasn't been paying attention. Conservatives have long held President Obama hates America and sides with Muslim Terrorists. In this it doesn't matter how many of the infinite Al Qaeda #3's who are killed in Drone Strikes, it doesn't matter how many "Somali" Pirates are taken out, it doesn't matter how many Trillions Obama gives to the War Machine. Only their leadership can save America. And Conservatives have been wishing for a Terrorist Attacks to use against President Obama. Mitt Romney in his infamous 47% video concluded with a solemn declaration that he would "work to find a way to take advantage of an opportunity".
Audience member: If you get the call as president, and you had hostages…Ronald Reagan was able to make a statement, even before he became, was actually sworn in—
Romney: Yeah—
Audience member: the hostages were released—
Romney: on the day of his inauguration, yeah.
Audience member: So my question is, really, how can you sort of duplicate that scenario?
Romney: Ohhhh. [A few chuckles in audience.] I'm gonna ask you, how do I duplicate that scenario.
Audience member: I think that had to do with the fact that the Iranians perceived Reagan would do something to really get them out. In other words [unintelligible]…and that's why I'm suggesting that something that you say over the next few months gets the Iranians to understand that their pursuit of the bomb is something that you would predict and I think that's something that could possibly resonate very well with American Republican voters.
Romney: I appreciate the idea. I can't—one of the other things that's frustrating to me is that at a typical day like this, when I do three or four events like this, the number of foreign policy questions that I get are between zero and one. And the American people are not concentrated at all on China, on Russia, Iran, Iraq. This president's failure to put in place a status forces agreement allowing 10-20,000 troops to stay in Iraq? Unthinkable!And yet, in that election, in the Jimmy Carter election, the fact that we have hostages in Iran, I mean, that was all we talked about. And we had the two helicopters crash in the desert, I mean that's—that was—that was the focus, and so him solving that made all the difference in the world. I'm afraid today if you said, "We got Iran to agree to stand down a nuclear weapon," they'd go hold on. It's really a, but…by the way, if something of that nature presents itself, I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.
Republican Mitch Daniels, a rumored Romney VP choice, spit in the faces of every service member in the US Military, at home but especially abroad, when he stated we are in "Peacetime".
"Well, you know, he's been the president of this nation for the three years in which we have drifted ever closer to the biggest peacetime crisis we may have ever faced. There's no doubt it. It's a mathematical certainty."
In Mitch Daniels' Zeal to blame Republicans financial failures on President Obama, Mitch conveniently ignored the fact that George W. Bush's Afghanistan War is still going on.
The only "mathematical certainty" Mitch Daniels knows about, is the one in which he aided President George W(orst Ever) Bush in keeping the massive War budget deficits off the Books, so that Republicans could claim Bush didn't spend that much.
What a crock of shit. This is as shameless as Republicans and conservatives claiming George W. Bush inherited 9/11!
Mitch Daniels and every Republican is involved in the biggest shell game in History. Republicans utterly controlled America from 2001-2006, the Trillions of Dollars they siphoned off and transferred to the Plutocracy and the internal destruction they wrought upon the Nation is still choking US. Yet, they've spent 3+ years trying to shift the blame on President Obama.
I guess no one could blame Republicans for not wanting to take Responsibility for their actions! George Bush and Mitch Daniels Legacy is 9/11 and Recession.
So, how do Republicans cover their atrocious record? Spit on the Troops and say it's "Peacetime". Once again Republicans use the Troops to further the evil destruction of the Middle Class and the subjugation of the 99% as Wage Slaves in Corporate Bondage.
It's the first mention of Bush's name during the entire Republican Primary and Vulture Capitalist Mitt Romney made it,
"I keep hearing the president say he's responsible for keeping the country out of a Great Depression. No, no, no, that was President George W. Bush."
Thanks to Green Eagle for altering me to Romney's Declaration.
Now, I think I understand what Romney meant, but in order to understand Mitt you have to see the world through his gold-rimmed monocle. Because to Mitt and his Upper Echelon 1% brethren there hasn't been a Depression let alone a Recession. Romney and the Plutocratic Thieves made out extraordinarily well during Bush's Presidency. It's just that the 99% suffered under Bush and Cheney.
Under Bush and Cheney the top 0.1% got a tax cut of $520,000, 450 times what the middle income taxpayer received. The bottom 20% only got 1% of the tax cut. The tax cuts were sold as a way to bring in middle class jobs and rising middle class wages.
Koch Industries and the Exxon-Mobile funded Heritage Foundation rabidly cheered and promoted the Bush Tax Cuts. The Heritage Foundation's 2001 report proclaimed if the Bush tax cut legislation were to pass, it would:
1) Effectively pay off the federal debt;
2) Reduce the federal surplus by $1.4 trillion;
3) Substantially increase family income;
4) Save the entire Social Security surplus;
5) Increase personal savings;
6) Create more job opportunities.
Everyone of those claims was a deliberate lie to sell the tax cuts to the middle class as a job creator and deficit reducer. None of these claims occurred. But, what did occur was a massive transfer of wealth to the Ultra-Wealthy, which were the true goals of the Bush Tax Cuts and part of the Republican plan all along.
Steal Billions and funnel it to the 1%. George Bush and Dick Cheney ran the United States as if hundreds of millions of Americans didn't exist. Bush couldn't give a shit if your job got sent overseas or if an illegal immigrant got it as long as his 1% buddies got millions of stolen taxpayer dollars. Bush couldn't give a shit if thousands die in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. Bush couldn't give a shit is thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die in his Bullshit War in Iraq, "Bring'em on!"
The drumming. (drums fingers on table) I thought it would stop but it never does. Never ever stops. Inside my head, the drumming, Doctor. The constant drumming. - The Master
I could help you. Please, let me help. - The Doctor
It’s everywhere. Listen, listen, listen. (taps table) Here come the drums. Here come the drums. - The Master The Sound of The Drums, Doctor Who
OWS has the so alarmed the One Percent they've called forth All of their smearing Conservative dogs. These mendacious plutocratic sycophants will spare no effort, will leave no lie unspoken and will use anything to serve their Moneyed Masters.
Chief liar and fabricator Andrew Breitbart is the scummiest piece of conservative trash and filth for proclaiming in a tweet:
Coincidence or Coordinated? #OWS attacked Wall Street to the week after Al Qaeda attacked Wall Street on 9/11.
Breitbart is Loathsome. Just loathsome. But it shows, 1) conservatives will never stop waving the bloody shirt of 9/11 and 2) despite being a serial liar Breitbart will never be shunned or silenced and the bigger his lies and outrageous statements the more support he will receive because he is doing it in service to the Rich and Powerful. His entire operation over at BigGovernment is devoted to undercutting, infiltrating and destroying the 99%. Imagine if he uncovered professionally manufactured memos with these mission statements:
- "Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington.”
– “You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep’s presentation, Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early.”
– "The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down. Look for these opportunities before he even takes questions.”
Of course, those were crafted by the Dick Armey and Koch Brothers for 1% fueled and financed Tea Party. #Occupy and OWS are true grassroots movements.
John Hinderaker posted a video on his Powerline blog, with the headline Rampaging Occupiers Attack 78-year old Woman The evidence? Why strangely (or purposefully) the video fails to capture the moment of the "attack", but does show two elderly ladies at different times and different areas having fallen to the ground and being helped to their feet by police/security personnel.
Glenn Beck's The Blaze, Hotair, FreeRepublic, Erick Erickson's Red State blog and Yahoo news stories are now replete with conservatives calling for fire hoses, clubbing, violence and police brutality. When a peaceful protester was shot by a Oakland Police Officer,
“While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet. [Probably a bean-bag round G_e_G] I was standing well back. There was no violence or confrontations of any kind underway. At 0:31 seconds you can see a tall officer in the front raise his weapon and then fire. This is the full clip of the incident.”
Conservatives cheer.
Conservatism is Terrorism. It's designed to push the majority of Americans into penury and wage slavery. It's Orwellian in it's language and actions.
But, despite the worst efforts of the Breitbart and his ilk, by an overwhelming majority, the American People know Wall Street and their wholly owned Republican Party are responsible for the economic calamity. The Top 3 causes of the Republican Recession are:
1) Investment Firms and Banks making Risky Loans and Investments, 2) American Companies not investing in creating jobs in America, 3) The Economic Policies under former President Bush, including tax cuts for the wealthiest families.
So, while images and video of 50 elderly seniors of the 1500 members of the Jane Addams Senior Caucus being arrested at OccupyChi warms the cockles of Rightwing Terrorists hearts, it strengthens the spines and resolve of The 99% to continue!
"This cross was found in the rubble..." - Faux News Blonde, Martha MacCallum.
And what better Monument to illustrate either god's non-existence or utter lack of ability to avert a monstrous act of evil. Or even worse than god's impotence or non-existence for the christians, is the possibility that god did, in fact, intervene on 911... for the muslims...
And 2300 years later Epicurus' conundrum remains unanswered;
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
"Nothing justifies Terrorism... or murder," Captain America. "Terrorist? That's just what the big army calls the little army," Wolverine. - from the X-Men versus The Avengers 4 part Limited Series
As the terrorist killing spree in Norway was unfolding, blogs and media sites broke with news of another muslim terrorist attack. Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, Free Republic, David Horowitz, Erick Erickson at Red State, Michelle Malkin, R. Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Andrew Breitbart and others were happy. Here was another 911 for them to exploit. Yet again the Rightwing message about islam and muslims would be proven correct. Yet again being a liberal pluralist multicultural nation which allowed freedom of religion to all would be no defense against muslim terrorists. Herman Cain's idea that mosques can be banned in America would gain traction.
It would be nothing less than a quickening for the conservative stance of war and intolerance and a "bloody shirt" to wave against those who would deny their warmongering. It would be a free-for-all Punch a Hippie Fest all across the Rightwing Universe.
And then it all feel apart. Like a house of cards, the foundation for the Right's War on Terror has been built on the idea that there is something especially wrong with islam. That islam unlike anything else breeds terrorists.
As a result of this single Norwegian Terrorist Attack that idea has been shown to the world at large to be nothing more than a bigoted sham. Now, of course, anyone who's the least bit interested could know that across the globe and throughout time people have used faith and beliefs to justify their barbarous treatment of others, but for the past 10 years those who identify themselves as christian or conservative or rightwing have maintained that islamic terrorism is a special problem.
It's a repudiation of the idea that islam has some special unequivocal connection to violence different than any other ideology, It's a repudiation of the 3 Peter King muslim extremist Congressional Hearings, It's a repudiation of all the attacks on antiwar Americans, It's a repudiation of the War in Iraq, It's a repudiation of Rendition, It's a repudiation of waterboarding, it's a repudiation of the idea that Terror must be met with military response,
It's nothing less than a complete repudiation of everything the American Right Wing has claimed over the last 10 years.
Update: Here's video of Anders Breivik decrying "Cultural Marxism" to Sean Hannity... Oh, it's Andrew Breitbart, well, there's no 'real' difference between the two...
Update 2: Here is a story of courage from a man, Marcel Glefe, a Hero, vastly different than Breitbart or Breivik,
Just ask anyone over at Faux News and they will gladly tell you that, George Bush protected US from Terrorists.
"We were certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time." - Eric Bolling at Faux News
This isn't the first time this has happened:
"We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term..." ~ Bush Spokesliar Dana Perino.
"We inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history," ~ Mary Matalin.
"[George Bush] he inherited the negative impact of 9/11," - Sean Hannity
"What he should be doing is following the right things that Bush did, we had no domestic attacks under Bush," ~ Even 9/11 exploiter Rudy Guilani, and the Mayor of New York City, seemed to forget that the worst Terrorist attacks on the Nation happened when Republicans were in charge not only of the White House, but the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court.
Thus it can correctly be concluded that Republicans are utterly incapable of defending or being honest with the American People.
Of course, this always happens when Republicans and conservatives get together and start ramping and revving each other up about how the Terrorist loving, anti-business Kenyan upstart is destroying America. They let their Freak Flags Fly! And when their ignorant groupthink has their ire raised conservatives allow their inner insanity and psychosis to escape their mouths.
"Nobody talked about attacking Pakistan," Obama said after McCain accused the Illinois senator of wanting to announce an invasion. "If the United States has al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out." - Barack Obama 09/28/2008
I wonder how the Right will attack President Obama over this successful Operation. The Most Important Operation since the 9/11 attacks occurred under President Bush.
Sean Hannity, Dana Perino, World Nut Daily, R. Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Free Republic, Ralph Peters, Charles Krauthammer, Mitt Romney, and every ignorant Tea bagger conservative’s blog have proclaimed President Obama is not fully committed to killing America’s Enemies. Again the Right is heavily invested in their tangled tapestry of fabrications and lies about Obama. Again it is a matter of faith amongst the Right. The Divine Word has been revealed, there's a Kenyan born anti-colonial, un-American, sharia lovin' man in the White House! No amount of evidence shall shake their preconceived prejudice.
So, what kind of mental gymnastics and contortions will the Right go through to justify their ignorance and malice? My best estimation is that Faux will make some slurs towards President Clinton not getting Bin Laden, every Wingnut blog will shout Waterboarding and the GOP's potential candidates will credit Bush’s torturous codpiece for laying the groundwork.
Leaving the back door open gave the rat a chance to run. - Kill Bin Laden, pg.294 by Dalton Fury
Also I've been reading Wingnut blogs for over 2 years who've been demanding there be a time limit on blaming Bush for nearly destroying America. Yet, now these same bloggers, in this case Ralph the Malcontent, are giving Bush the credit for this Operation, Inherited It from Bush?!!!
I can't blame them. The conservative strategy has always been to blame their failures on Liberals and take the credit for things Liberals achieve. It works. It keeps conservatives stupid and duped and voting for Republicans.
What Faux and their conservative drones will not do is recognize that President Obama’s policy towards Pakistan is largely responsible for this victory. Do you remember that for 2 and half years conservatives snidely mocked Obama for pronouncing Pakistan correctly. And then Commander Codpiece and ½ Governor Palin had this to say back in 2008;
“The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he’s going to attack Pakistan…” George W. Bush
“Senator Obama has also advocated sending our U.S. military into Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government. Invading the sovereign territory of a troubled partner in the war against terrorism.” – Sarah Palin
This is an important victory. This could be the catalyst that allows Obama to extricate US from the grip of the Warmongers. Hopefully, President Obama will have the moral courage to draw down our military presence and allow the UN to take over nation-building in Afghanistan.
Additionally, I wonder about that supposed “escape” of 500 Taliban in Afghanistan a month ago. It could be that a deep undercover operative was planted in the prison and the escape attempt was allowed to succeed in order that the operative could make an eyes on identification of UBL.
On the day America suffered the worst attack in our History, except for when Republican Heroes were killing Americans during the Civil War, what was the focus for the Republican led Congress and President George W. Bush?
Well, Phil Gramm, along with Republicans Jim Leach and Thomas Bliley had successfully repealed the Glass-Steagall Act removing a check on the rapacious Banking Industry and Republicans were figuring out how to shift even more of the Federal Tax burden to the Middle Class and Poor.
And while George Bush would sign any Legislation that would shelter his Base and Moneyed Masters from supporting the Nation, W was busy trying to figure out a way to invade Iraq. On January 30, 2001 George W. Bush directs Rumsfeld and JCS chairman Hugh Shelton to examine military options for Iraq.
"From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” says O’Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic "A" 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11. "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this,’" says O’Neill.
But Republicans of that Time were using the attacks of 9/11 to call anyone who questioned Bush and Cheney Terrorist Supporters and Traitors.
The Bush administration was well along the path to war before the 9/11 attacks. September 11 was not the motivation for the U.S. invasion of Iraq – it was a distraction from it.
9/11 and the Iraq War are enough to make The Bush/Cheney Regime the Worst in American History. But when you add on Torture, the Republican Recession, the blind eye to millions of EPA violations, the never explained nearly $5-a-gallon gas during Bush's Presidency and the Bush Regime pushed through TARP, a Bankers dream, wherein another Trillion in American taxpayer debt was grotesquely funneled directly to aid the Rich as a last Bushian Fuck You to the people... Well, what you have in George Bush and Dick Cheney are, perhaps, the two people who have done the most damage to America with the exception of Conservative Heroes Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis and Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden.
"I must say, I'm a little envious," President Bush said in March 2008 to soldiers in Afghanistan. "It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger."
Yesterday was not the day to make any post on the futility of war or perhaps it was the exact day... But, I'll not show any disrespect to the memory of those who gave the last full measure overseas for "American Interests". Even though those in power seem to have no problem continuing the Bush Regime's policy of using and discarding Marines and other Troops for Interests.
9/11 is just another day now, thankfully, I'm not one to celebrate defeat. You reflect on it and try to ensure it doesn't happen again but how?
Well the REMFpublican Chicken Hawk Party of Deferments invoked 9/11 time and again to support their policies. Everything was tied to 9/11 including the necessity of keeping them in office. While the Bush Administration was in power, those who profited off of death made Trillions of dollars and anyone who questioned the Iraq War was accused of hurting the Troops and Treason against a sitting President. That second part is of course ignored now that Barack Obama is in office, "questioning" him during wartime and bringing loaded guns to rallies decrying his Presidency is now the height of Patriotism, of course, the money still flows to the architects of fear and death.
Lost in the homeland political squabbles is that average Marine. The Bush Regime and his defenders sought to quash all dissent by hiding behind Marines, Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors they also fought to shield the American people from the sight of any blood. Lest the people knew what their pilfered tax dollars were actually buying them.
The shielding from sight the cost of war was one of the lessons REMFpublicans Bush, Cheney, Tom DeLay and the Pentagon learned from Vietnam; to control the message coming from the battlefield. You can't let the American people see the consequences of the Warfare State. But, merely restricting official media members did not stem the flow of the ugliness and evil of War. Bans on cell phone cameras and soldiers blogs (until the blogs, like through amber lenses were silenced forever) were tried at various times while unceasing war propaganda was spewed by Chicken Hawk REMFers on Fox, CNN and every other news agency in order to ensure you Don't Mention the War!
The other lesson Young and Old REMFpublicans learned from Vietnam was let other people do the actual dangerous fighting abroad because their valuable pasty pampered flabby asses were needed to fight the propaganda battle at home convincing the American people of the costs, necessities, consequences, and benefits of war, while ensuring they would never fear having their balls blown off by an IED...
However, the Bush Administration did only a semi- effective job of hiding the costs of the war from the American people. Anti-war rallies were strong yet marginalized (Two-Thirds of the American people are against the war? So?) and the collapse of the US economy in 2007 was tied directly to the profligate war profiteering and Bush tax cuts for criminals who hid the money they siphoned off using Bush's government power into Swiss bank accounts. Of course, anyone who questioned Bush's competence was attacked as a traitor and faced daily Fox Attacks even while "The Decider" bungled Afghanistan, Iraq, the response to Hurricane Katrina, the economic collapse, the shrinking and battered American middle class, justice and the years from 01/20/01 to 01/20/09...
Now, Afghanistan is on everyones mind... Again. It's a fucked place. The area hasn't been effectively controlled since Tamerlane bestrode the land like a whirlwind of primal destruction. Since then it's been a crossroads of battle as time and again countries have moved into Transoxania in the pursuit of National Interests and the people have used the Panjshir Valley as a center for resistance against whomever the occupiers have been. But, controlling and administering the land should never have been our mission. It should have been Destroying AQ and killing Bin Laden and letting the Multi-Ethnic Peoples of Afghanistan figure out the rest. When it cam e to the kill/capture of Bin Laden the directed incompetence from the Bush Regime in failing the trigger pullers was detailed by the nome de guerred Delta Force Commander Dalton Fury who was given that mission, in his book Kill Bin Laden.
Delta developed an audacious plan to come at bin Laden from the one direction he would never expect.
"We want to come in on the back door," Fury explains. "The original plan that we sent up through our higher headquarters, Delta Force wants to come in over the mountain with oxygen, coming from the Pakistan side, over the mountains and come in and get a drop on bin Laden from behind."
But they didn't take that route, because Fury says they didn't get approval from a higher level. "Whether that was Central Command all the way up to the president of the United States, I'm not sure," he says.
The next option that Delta wanted to employ was to drop hundreds of landmines in the mountain passes that led to Pakistan, which was bin Laden’s escape route.
But they didn't do that either, because Fury says that plan was also disapproved. He says he has "no idea" why.
"How often does Delta come up with a tactical plan that's disapproved by higher headquarters?" Pelley asks.
"In my experience, in my five years at Delta, never before," Fury says.
Getting (Getting In, Getting Bin Laden, Getting Out) would seem to have been a better choice. Sure that plan may have failed and Afghanistan could have turned into another Somalia, or the Taliban could have reclaimed power or Gulbuddin Hekmatyar would have emerged as the next Dictator in the area but those things could happen even with American and ISAF forces in the country and we would be spared cowardly screes from Ralph Peters enticing the Taliban to kill captured US Soldier Bowe Berghdal.
And lest we forget Iraq is still festering threatening to burst forth with renewed violence after having been "won" so many times over the last 5 years just as Afghanistan has...
