Brett Weinstein: "Something is at war with us, “us” being regular citizens who want things to work and to be left alone. We’re slow to react because we think in terms of nations. Our enemies are mafias that wear our governments like a cloak to defeat our eyes, and fly our flags to disarm our minds."
“We will not solve our problem by electing the right people. We will only solve our problem by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.”
— Milton Friedman
"Democracy" for Democrats, confirmed by court filings by attorneys for the DNC. Kamala Harris was appointed to be the Dems' candidate. There was no vote to install her as the nominee. BTW, this is not a clever way for me to suggest that Republicans are any better. They are corrupt too. Many of the Founders correctly warned of the grave dangers of political parties. Almost all national politicians are thoroughly corrupted by a thoroughly corrupt system that specializes in theater, part of a vast system of kayfabe. As George Carlin claimed, politicians don't care about you. At all. It's not a flaw in the system. It's the design of the system itself, to further countless ways to extract wealth from ordinary people so that elites of both parties can live in physical comfort. I wish I didn't see things this way, but I have repeatedly failed to convince myself to believe otherwise.
ON PAUL: “There’s been a coup. We don’t have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic. We don’t have honest money. We don’t have integrity. We don’t even have people in Washington who even pretend… to tell the truth.”“[I believe the coup began on] November 22, 1963.”
IAN CROSSLAND: “What happened on that day?”
RON PAUL: “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government. You know, by the CIA.”
There was no anti-war party on the presidential ballot in 2024.
There is a version of the Democratic Party that exists only in the imagination: the peace party, the anti-war party, the party that marched against the Iraq War and howled at its neocon designers. As Donald Trump (reportedly) accepted Iran’s ceasefire terms this week, some of the most pointed attacks coming his way from Democrats are not about the thousands of civilians killed, the weeks of brutal bombardments against medical centers and universities, or the global economic damage the war has caused. They are about the war ending before the U.S. and Israel finished the job.And this is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a pattern coming from Democratic senators, the Democratic House Foreign Affairs Committee, ranking members of the Armed Services Committee, and some of the party’s most prominent voices. The liberal opposition party wants more war.
This pattern predates the war. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Kamala Harris called Iran America’s “greatest adversary,” vowed that Iran would never obtain a nuclear weapon under her watch, and argued that Iran’s attacks on Israel would not have happened under her presidency. The Democratic nominee for president was running on a promise to be harder on Iran than Donald Trump.