in my more that seventy years, much of which has been spent studying history and its subsets, i've never imagined that the crap that masquerades as 'our' government would stoop as low as it has and each day seems to be an attempt to be crazier than the day before. mr kunstler presents some current events bound to entertain because to seem them as real just couldn't pass muster; 

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

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Debuting this week: America’s first genuine show trial, the second impeachment of Donald Trump, an exercise in pure malice designed by a party in power to teach a lesson to the party out of power. The lesson: we’re gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, as in the old song by Blondie. That’s it, and that’s all.

The exercise is so transparently idiotic and unconstitutional that Chief Justice John Roberts declined to preside over it, as the constitution specifies. Say, what…? Do you mean that in a proceeding this grave, he can just… demur? Because… why? Because he doesn’t feel like it? (Or something like that?) His Supreme Honor declined also to furnish a reason — though, if the Chief Justice views the trial as extraconstitutional, perhaps he should say so, for the record. Anyway, Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Senate President Pro Tempore (the oldest member of the majority party), will now act as judge. He must take a pledge to act impartially.

Running the prosecution: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who opined last week in a public statement that the jury (his fellow senators) could “infer” Mr. Trump’s guilt if he declined to testify. Apparently, Mr. Raskin, a former constitutional law professor (American University) never read the Fifth Amendment, which states: …nor shall [any person] be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. But this is how we roll in these fog-bound days of Woke democracy...........read and watch more.......

 one dot head and one woo-woo;

 anyone who stands with the empire in opposition to iran clearly knows nothing of their history in connection with the empire before 1979. we've been attacking iran in various ways since winston churchill first found that iran had oil in 1905, and then there was that cia coup removing their elected government in fifty three, but that's only the tip of the iceberg;

In a new interview with CBS Evening News, President Biden confirmed that his administration will not be lifting sanctions imposed upon Iran in order to bring Tehran to the negotiating table for the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal.

“Will the U.S. lift sanctions first in order to get Iran back to the negotiating table?” Biden was asked by CBS’s Norah O’Donnell.

“No,” the president replied.

“They have to stop enriching uranium first,” asked O’Donnell.

Biden nodded in response.............read and watch more......

 war seems to be a favorite thing here in the empire;

 found the time mag article referenced in a few previous posts this am. now from the horses mouth you can discover how we were 'saved';

A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.

The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster...........read more......

 found on reddit and repost here for what may be obvious reasons, or not;

What if people are so easily brainwashed by the media because they have no internal monologue with which to think for themselves? A true story about a client of mine.

So I don't know if you remember, but a while back on reddit there were a few posts about the discovery that there are people who have zero internal monologue. That means they never, ever think about things on their own.

I was floored when I read this and was recently talking with one of my personal training clients about it. She is very liberal and often over the year I've trained her, conversations about politics look a lot like this:

Me: how's the weather etc

Her: omg I can't believe that xyz happened (quotes headlines nearly word for word)

Like no joke, she sounds like she just regurgitates every headline, no matter how obviously hyperbolic it is.

Anyway, while making small talk I told her I had recently read about people that essentially don't think, at least not consciously.

She said, oh I am like that, I found out I was different that way.

Me: What? Wow. Ok so when you're driving here with no music on, what goes through your head?

Her: Nothing really. Sometimes I'll have flashes of a memory or something.

Me: so how do you work out solutions to problems in your head?

Her: what problems? What do you mean?

I then just changed the subject because it was clear by our little talk she literally never thinks for herself, or thinks abstractly, or works anything out in her head.

A real life NPC. And this explains in a big way why people are so easily brainwashed by the media. They question absolutely nothing, because they are incapable of doing so.

Mind blown........https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/lesho5/what_if_people_are_so_easily_brainwashed_by_the/

 any regular visitors to this site know i have no current political favorites and the last one i supported was murdered by the cia in november of sixty three. this essay goes a long way towards presenting what i believe is coming our way and already here to some extent. the only question becomes what are you gonna do, or not;

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” ― John F. Kennedy

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller

The takeover of the country by an amalgamation of bad characters representing fascist corporatism, collectivism, billionaire oligarchs, social media tyrants, pandemic peddlers, and Deep State snake oil surveillance state salesmen has marked a turning point for the country. Battle lines are being drawn, a propaganda war is already being waged, enemies are preparing for conflict, rage is rising, and the country is headed towards some level of dissolution.........read much more........