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Kenneth's avatar

NATO won't even impose a no-fly zone emanating from Poland, how would they do it in Ukraine? From Romania? XD

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grr's avatar

Yep, I always have a chuckle when anyone in or from the USA mentions the 'left' as if it exists there.

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

Flynn is mostly correct, except for his "far left" delusions.

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Gerrard White's avatar

'True evil' is a great invention and very useful phrase

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Ukraine is busy trying to guess what is happening behind the emerald curtain and spin its guesses as facts that put it, Ukraine in the driving seat.

As in DJ talks to Putin....... yes, but with Ukraine's PRIOR CONSENT. Ha. See, all is cool. Keep fighting brothers.

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The cat example was Schrödinger's intent to show his quantum maths ended in absurdity, he did not believe the cat to be both dead and alive prior to observation.

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Triumphant Ape's avatar

There is definitely a crucial element missing from it.

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Gerrard White's avatar

My quantum is bigger than your quantum

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Jullianne's avatar

He did, but in alternative realities. Observation determines which reality you will experience, and that observation, whether it is of A or not-A, excludes its own opposite- for you, anyway.

But what arbitrates here? Some argue it is pure chance. Others say that how your reality is drawn forth from the realm of quantum probabilities is determined by your karmic estate so each person 'beholds' a reality adapted to his own virtue and vice. The real world is not a world of objective scientific 'verifiable' facts such who is dead or alive. That is an illusion. It is a world of INTENTS. Beholding is an active moral force not a passive perception of what really exists out there.

Just saying.

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There are no alternate realities, Roger Penrose gave a brief and excellent explanation of why multi dimensions and alternate realities are lazy physics.

There is this reality, and the quantum state happens by itself, unless of course you want to consider a Universal mind, then observation might matter.

In any case this is what I've come to believe based on arguments by people who can actually do the math.

1 AI "Schrödinger did not actually believe that a cat could be both dead and alive; rather, he used the thought experiment to illustrate the absurdity of certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, particularly the Copenhagen interpretation. His intention was to critique the idea that quantum particles exist in a superposition of states until observed, which he found to be a flawed concept."

2 AI "Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment, known as Schrödinger's cat, was designed to illustrate a paradox of quantum superposition. In the experiment, a hypothetical cat is placed in a sealed box with a radioactive atom and a poison that would be released if the atom decays. According to quantum mechanics, the atom is in a superposition of decayed and not decayed states until the box is opened and the cat is observed. Therefore, the cat is considered to be both alive and dead simultaneously. However, Schrödinger did not believe that the cat was actually both alive and dead, but rather used the experiment to highlight the absurdity of applying quantum ideas to macroscopic objects."

3 AI "No, Erwin Schrödinger did not believe the cat was both dead and alive. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat was intended to illustrate the absurdity of applying quantum mechanics principles, like superposition, to macroscopic objects.

Schrödinger used this paradox to highlight the apparent conflict between what quantum mechanics predicted and our everyday experience. He found the idea that a cat could be in a simultaneous state of both life and death to be counterintuitive and nonsensical.

The thought experiment was designed to provoke debate and critical thinking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics, not to suggest that a cat could actually exist in such a state."

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I love the way people project their own prejudices onto their authorities..... don't you?

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Kenneth's avatar

Leaking classified information (he is the President-elect)used to be a crime.

I guess, if it's a lie, then technically you didn't leak?

Or are we supposed to believe that Trump let them be on the call, like that other big media guy?

Russia: "that's a lie"

Ukraine: " that's a lie"

Democrats: "where's Robert Mueller?"

this timeline

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You said: Since 1992, if not before, the U.S. has specifically adopted the hegemonic stance of ensuring that no rival power rises anywhere else on earth.

Well before that. Domino theory forms the basis of all activities since....

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Yes, CS

There was the notorious Brit FM or Defence Minister, one those in Africa we would call a "vendu', who sent out very insulting tweets about and to Trump not so long ago

Perhaps Trump would not like to forgive these, perhaps the brits are dead scared he will not

They should be

The Brits are last gasping a RoI on their investments in Ukraine, which are very extensive, and which create significant financial problems should those now, with Trump, implode

Not to mention the brits sent as campaigners out into the the US heartland to canvas for the dems

Not to.......

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For those who believe in Blackrock owning the Ukraine ag- the Brits, like Blackrock, have heavily overinvested in UA bonds, but the Brits went further than Blackrock in actually being so foolish as to guaranteeing them

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A coup d'état no one ever was interested in. Everything was prepared carefully, so to me it is obvious that this was not a gilts problem, to me it is the other way around. Some one prepared a gilts problem, to be used when some "elites" want to remove a political leadership. There must be a lot of people involved, to send the finance minister abroad, to cover up the illegal gilts investments by the pension funds, to get the Bank of England act substantially, without even one director informed. This smells fishy! Does anyone have more information on this?

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On the Ukraine bonds guarantee see Adam Tooze

I can no longer find the link - but he wrote about this in July when the bond holders were refusing to re finance, Blackrock included, without a sovereign guarantee

In steps Starmer

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Gerrard White's avatar

Nothing about Blackrock ag

Wise up - read the Tooze

And do not be so fightened of your puppet MR

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

fuck blackrock. fuck them. They should be destroyed, along with their ukrainian scum.

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Dear Jimmy Blackrock is treated as a fantasy exception by most USEU some sort of terrible exception to the rule which allows you to appear to condemn, while at the same time remaining ignorant

BR is nothing but the same old same old, on a larger scale- it or another will soon be vety much larger again

This is the inevitable end poitn of US capiitalist pracice, not some monster from the deep

To complain and to denigrate them is to avoid looking reality in the face

The Ukraine is merely the pawn of the US, and partly it seems, of the Soviets - check out a recent post from Russians with attitudes

Both liking pawns

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

Pure desperation. Why are UK elites SO desperate to prevent the collapse of ukraine? I understand why some US elites are desperate to prevent it, as they are heavily invested in it. Maybe some UK elites get their little boys and whores from ukraine.

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Jeannie's avatar

Cheeto, when will you write your own substack? I'm serious.

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A big tell for me is when Trump's plans are published in main stream or left wing media. This is absurd. When has Trump ever chosen to reveal his thinking to them?

He uses Truth social or a conservative outlet if he has something to say. Trump has always called the others, "fake news".

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Gerrard White's avatar

Yes....more

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Hands above the sheets Snowwhitey!

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Gerrard White's avatar

That's what fearsome MR said before he....

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

People like Tusk are trying to steer the situation in this way as much as they are trying to bullshit their own electorates.

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

The Poles are almost as stupid as the Baltics and Germans.

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Gerrard White's avatar

Exactly CS - more reports like this

Even relative realists like A Korbykow have turned Trump delusionists

'We' should all follow Lithuania and their newly announced path to peace

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Gerrard White's avatar

Comprehensive and well written, what I and many could not do

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Tim Webb's avatar

Come on Gerrard.

You know that like most empty vessels, you are way better than Simplicius or anybody else.

Have more confidence in your abilities, whether they exist or not.

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Gerrard White's avatar

You should not speak so dispectfully of your host - no one else allows you to speak

Pay attention to saying something for real and not foolishly to ignore where you are

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Tim Webb's avatar

The appreciation of deep irony is obviously not one of your many rhetorical strengths.

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mary-lou's avatar

(perhaps G is giving out some irony there?)

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Tim Webb's avatar

He has no familiarity with the device - like most Americans, as far as I can see.

Irony to them is like the bullet that whizzed past Trump's ear.

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Gerrard White's avatar

Yes he's no light bulb that Webb

Onward Christian Soldiers are not known for their anything but ....yeah well

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Swiss D's avatar

Welll done Simplicious! Am thankful for your strong journalism and accurate reporting.

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HBI's avatar

Assuming every MSM story is a lie would be a good starting point, unless confirmed by non-US state propaganda media.

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HBI's avatar

Is there a stupid attractant in this post?

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frankly's avatar

HBI I'll take it a step further. Every accusation the MSM makes is psychological projection. If Biden accuses Iran of evil, its an open admission of his own intent.

No matter how late the newest Simplicius drops, its a must read (right away) for me.

I would suggest remembering how some of the Saker articles and posting went. It was, not rarely, a very magical place.

Not criticism as you get close, but if you could keep a grasp on whatever that was Saker created, it would be a help on reaching 1 billion.

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Probably because there is no money in reporting otherwise. WAPO is completely corrupted in every way...

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11 Nov 2024 FT Finally Understands the defining aspect of the US

To be contrarian to S’s opinion, this is to argue that the social economic political condition of the US is and will get worse

Evidence Item #1

A very long time after everyone else, except their fellow MSM and the deluded Puritans, the FT has just only now, by the author’s admission, finally understaood that America is a business

Every working class American has known this since forever, every immigrant has known only this, popular culture even Hollywood has long known this

(Spelled out most recently in the middle of Obama worship by Brad Pitt)

De Tocqueville knew this 190 years ago

The China leadership knew this since Mao, and have expressed this precisely, at least since the 1980’s – Wang Huning ‘America against America’ 1988

But The FT MSM Class has chosen only now, with Trump, to admit this, as if this was his doing that finally they should open their eyes to who they are

Although of course their intention is to say that it is his fault that they have to think so

As if there was a difference – by which one might see that the election of Trump is an excuse for the conscious worsening of social chaos

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Gerrard White's avatar

Raise a family is in correct

Not raise a family would make more sense

Immigrants are, on arrival, as if it's the water, deprived of any desire to reproduce

To imagine that any US administration or bureaucracy could understand the political and admin processes by which the who cares attitude of generations could be refomred

Is to hope without any possible hope for success - I guess that sums up the American Dream

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Annexe

https://archive.is/NleA6#selection-2335.0-2335.163

« Years ago, a well-known Silicon Valley billionaire told me something I’ll never forget: “China is an autocracy, Europe is a technocracy and America is a company.” «

« A recent Gallup poll found that money, more than patriotism, religion, family or community, is the defining American value. In Trump, we have a president that represents the full horror of that — and little else. »

« If Trump is our CEO, is America now a distressed asset? One has to wonder. The US economy has done better in recent years than anyone could have hoped, and perhaps better than we deserved. I can’t help but think that our sheer wealth — the per capita GDP of Mississippi is roughly on a par with that of France — and all the consumer distractions that it offers (particularly of the mindless digital variety) are one of the reasons we’ve re-elected a convicted felon to the White House. »

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Myra's avatar

Trumps tariff war will cause inflation to increase rapidly and threatens another global economic depression just like the smoot Hawley yariif act of 1930 did.

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Sodak Fred's avatar

Do you know what number you actually said...? There are only about 30 million illegal immigrants here as of now so either you missed a decimal point (would still be a major undertaking at 1.4 million a month) or you and/or your source(s) are clueless. Better luck next post...

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"Guatemala and Haiti, and these are the immigrants currently doing all the meat packing/processing, home building and farm labor." I dont know about meat packing or farms, but I can tell you that around here, houses are built by mostly American citizens. There are some illegals here and there, but construction is absolutely NOT dominated by illegals. Ask me how I know...

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Gerrard White's avatar

How about re education camps?

Forcible resettlement in Qatar?

Surgeries to covert their minds into matter

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Joe Katzman's avatar

The Projection is strong with this one...

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Gerrard White's avatar

All traditional US policies

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

America is not doing well. It is clearly a company that is losing money and customers. That's fine with me. I'm an America and I no longer care. The elites don't really offer most Americans stability or a decent life, any longer, anyway.

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Gerrard White's avatar

If you think it can not get a very lot worse very quickly you are wrong

Even to the point of obliging you to engage

It's not about the ruling class offering you anything, for they never have

It is about learning to be able to look out for life and limb in an advanced state of chaos

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dornoch altbinhax's avatar

All stick no carrot.

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Billy Masterson's avatar

A real stick or an AI generated IMAGE of a carrot, zero nutritional value.

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Joseph Moffa's avatar

You always vote for the " lesser of the evil." In this election Trump was the lesser than the Obama cabal.

The deficit of Kamala's campaign of 20 million after spending over a billion dollars should give anyone a clue on how her administration would have performed.

Also, GDP is not a good measure of wealth. The movements in GDP cannot provide us with any meaningful information about what is going on in the real economy. If anything, it can actually provide us with a false impression. A strong GDP growth rate, in most cases, is likely to be associated with the intensive squandering of the pool of real savings.

Lastly, the convicted felon part is a joke and really is not taken seriously by anyone, has been shown by the election results. How did the swing states vote?

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I am uncertain as to which or whose comment you are responding to

Let me say only that it would be hard to convert into a joke the accusation of being a convicted felon in an article which every which but realistic did its best to patsy Trump for the realisation that money is what US capitalism is concerned with

Someone that determined to be stupid is unable to make a joke

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America is an imperial corporate oligarchy--masquerading as a bastion of democracy.

And Trump is the latest (controlled opposition) figure to head this American imperial oligarchy, which is comprised of Wall Street, the Military-Industrial Complex, Corporate America, and Zionism.

Trump will advance the same oligarchical agenda as the Biden Regime, which advanced the same oligarchical agenda as the first Trump Regime, which advanced the same oligarchical agenda as the Obama Regime, which advanced the same oligarchal agenda as the Bush Regime, etcetera.

The differences between these successive US regimes are either in 1). the tactics deployed to advance the same ultimate goal or 2). the Madison Avenue-style marketing campaigns deployed to pander to different voting blocs and ideological groups.

Put another away, Trump is the MAGA version of Obama's Hope and Change.

And Obama was the Hope and Change version of Trump's MAGA.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Thank you for this very accurate comment.

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retka's avatar

Agreed with how each oligarchal US faction tries to maintain support of their respective bases--yet their policies do not fundamentally differ.

A classic example of Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss.

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Myra's avatar

Exactly. Trump represents the interests of the billionaires who paid for his election campaign. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Trump is a great con man tricking millions into believing that he will improve their lives. His first term was a complete failure in that respect and I would be willing to put money on his second term being no different.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Good summary of this three ring oligarchic circus. None of these figureheads have any real power. They are deluded, ambitious and inflated performers (chosen for those qualities), each with their own metier. Obama: Hope and "Change;" Unstable Trump MAGA Insanity; "I rule the world" Biden; "I'm speaking" Harris: "Joy?" Really? During a horrific genocide? And now unstable Trump/Musk MAGA Insanity II squared, aiming for control of the world's resources and staggering profits at any cost. Each stoking and building the fear level against "The Other" in Americans in preparation for their acquiescence to a growing police state. All, for the sake of corporate/military industrial profit and control, reeking terrible destruction and suffering abroad.

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trump`s primary role is to forward the mission of the "greater israel project" and where that ultimately leads seems beyond the comprhension of most... despite not one word of it being hidden.

trump submitted to a bondage slave initiation ritual during the "assassination attempt"

am-eri-ca will now more easily fulfill its role in the "great work of ages" with donny t at the helm, its destiny was contrived even before its creation

readers on both sides of the pond may note that collapse seems destined for america and europe, the scripted, highly orchestrated "isreal football fans in Amsterdam" had much to say for themselves, as noted by them as took the time to listen "europe is going to burn" they gleefully chanted as the police "conveniently" went on tea break...

where the Tehran issue now goes seems possibly "nuclear" given all the "kit" is in place and the boy has offered "full spectrum" assistance to the dark ones...

Confusingly trying to fathom the factionality requires upside down backwards thinking, obummer didnt sponsor "leave the world behind" without reason, a collapse before the intended collapse?

Quite annoying if One has spent So long placing all them dominoes "just so" and some fu^*er comes and sets em off early...

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Lew's avatar

Until we get Israel out of our government, we are doomed. Every member of Biden's cabinet was either dual U.S./Israeli citizenship or married to one. Patton was right, "We fought the wrong enemy."

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Gerrard White's avatar

Thanks - this sums it up, was made peak Obama

Thanks also to Brad Pitt for putting his money where his mouth is

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Who know but he ain"t already, as S hinted above

Have you not noticed them already.....percolating through the identity wars, one identity 'we' can whole heartedly welcome

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LOL

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Anthony Dunn's avatar

Will there be pictures?

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

I like to call it a loose confederation of pirates with a very large, somewhat dangerous crew.

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Gerrard White's avatar

Worse than pirates, who are romantic marginalia

This is the full force of the State and the Military

See how the US Military is an invention for domestic policing more than......

Armchair Warlord -https://nitter.poast.org/armchairw?lang=en

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Gerrard White's avatar

Who is talking about Trump's success in business - what does this have to do with the state of the US Military

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Anthony Dunn's avatar

Spot on

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Marko's avatar

This is an amazing post G. You noticed us to see the truth. Trump is ”better” as he is open, not hiding anything. We are going to see a ruthless corporate America that is not going tio pretend that there is anything else like “freedom, “democracy”: “human rights:. Just money, just business.

It is going to attract like-minded people, those with internal urge to “win” and earn money. But can a nation be governed “as a company”. I think not. The process of disintegration in the USA shall continue. There is nothing that can stop it. Trump cannot heal the situation and this is going to be an epic failure. Due to the incompetence and more aggressive people in future Trump’s team the chances for III world war are even higher.

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Yes America is just money - this has been know for a long time

The damp brits who scrambled up the northern beaches in 15 something and 16 something, most especially the Mayflowers, knew nothing but money

The but is that money came hand in hand with being the chosen few, especially of course with the Mayflower brethren, and until today this has been the case

The chosen few have to identify themselves, this now they do in the identity gender trans 4B jargons and slangs

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Marko's avatar

Why do the chosen few love that gender/identity stuff so much?

Is Trump going to follow the chosen few?

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Gerrard White's avatar

The love nothing but money

But they need to have a common pattern and program in order to recognise and to support eachother in their endeavours, and of course to keep the heathen and the infidel at bay, and to oppress one and all with impossible social inventions and rules, to add to all the traditonal laws etc

The identity wars are the modern equivalent of Onward Christian Soldiers, but these guys fight their battles at home by preference

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JennyStokes's avatar

It's a good time to remember De Toqueville.

Read his book on the US years ago.....I need a refresher now.

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Joseph Moffa's avatar

When the Articles of Confederation were overturned by a coup, then it was apparent the new United States was not as portrayed. It became more apparent when President Adams decided to put forth the Sedition Act of 1798. A law passed by Congress and signed into law by President John Adams that made it illegal to criticize the government. Not a good start and destroyed all what Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was saying.

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Eric C Anderson's avatar

Such an awesome blog. Keep up the good work, it's a great service to all.

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Paul Serran's avatar

congratulations!

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TMTO's avatar

Cheers, Simplicius!

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Grasshopper Kaplan's avatar

No one knows who you are . They will have to arrest ScKamala Harris instead

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I was a little surprised when I got my renewal notice by email last week. The year went incredibly fast. Maybe because I am an old grouchy bastard. In any event, the reports have been great and I thank you for your diligence in providing real information and truth. Nosdrovya!!

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Brian G's avatar

Congratulations, comprehensive, regular reporting deserves this reward. Onward and upward. :)

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