This is Full Orwell, and even during the early years of the Bush/Cheney administration I would have said 'You never go full Orwell."
But here we are. Now that nihilists and anyone who opposes Trump's broader policy platform are officially designated "terrorists" we have reached the final step. Our country is literally the world's pre-eminent state sponsor of terror, but now when you disagree, you're a terrorist.
BTW, the Democrats didn't do the country any favors by labeling most of the Jan 6 rioters "domestic terrorists" - it's just another click to the right on the ratchet with no release mechanism other than a bloody war once it reaches the last notch.
It’s exactly that that suggests to me the two parties are one and the same. They spice it up differently to appear independent, but the end goal - a goal that probably started in earnest since the JFK assassination - has been to take the power from the people. Every administration has inched forward on that agenda. It’s just more obvious these days because us ‘frogs’ are starting to feel the boiling water.
I agree. Interestingly, I watched a new documentary series on HBO Max last night. I never have high expectations for anything I see on corporate media, but this really impressed me at least in as much as it demonstrated how corrupt our system really is. It's called The Dark Money Game by Alex Gibney and it's a 2-part documentary, each half being 2 hours in length. It primarily criticizes the GOP because between the 1970s and 2000 they were the party scheming and moving to corrupt our system. Seriously I do highly recommend it for entertainment value alone, and I'm a 'wakened' former Democrat supporter. It very much does speak to your comment about spicing up the culture wars and maneuvering behind the scenes in taking power from the people. The US is by far more corrupt than other western "democracies" and on par with anything they'll ever say about Mexico or Africa.
Thanks for that recommendation and I’ll definitely check it out. More consequential but no less disappointing, learning that the people with the true levers of power (even the unearthing of where the real power is) are the master minds behind some of the worst human endeavours in human history (while pretending to be otherwise - and there’s the rub), is like the moment we learn there is no Santa Claus.
And I’d have considered myself a conservative democrat/liberal conservative but judging by the push back I get I’m now an alt-right, anti-Semite, racist with a bit of transphobe in for good measure.
Check out Whitney Webb’s latest article on the Diddy thing - it’s long but gets into the weeds - essentially about the capture of black culture using rap music to promote violence and drugs to grow the market of felons to feed the burgeoning of the private prison system - as in all her work, big names feature, including Reagan and Biden - two big proponents of the heavy handed drug laws which help feed the prison system. More to it than that. Usual suspects at the helm. The evil genius is truly stunning. And that’s only Part 1!! https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/04/investigative-series/one-label-under-blackmail-the-early-intersections-of-diddy-and-the-epstein-network/
Edit: Don't know why Vanessa Beely's name came to mind when I first started my reply. I definitely know the difference between her and Whitney Webb.
Interesting. I had just started the first book in One Nation Under Blackmail and got about halfway through before I became a little annoyed with Webb's long form writing style, or rather writing practices. I love her shorter stuff at Mintpress News and other sites, but in her books (and for some reason that P-Diddy piece at unlimitedhangout) she goes back to this practice of naming like 3 or 4 new people in each paragraph and I find myself needing a matrix or spider diagram to keep all their names straight in my mind. Since I haven't got to the end of the first ONUB books, I don't know, but maybe she ties it all together nicely in the final chapters.
It kind of reminds me of Douglas Valentine's writing (Operation Phoenix, Pisces Moon, etc.) except Valentine always starts off his books with a convenient list of the people who are going to be introduced and a short summary that I can print off and refer back to if needed. I wish Webb would do that.
Anyway I've read about half of the Diddy piece and will finish it later. The first half is basically the same stuff I've learned in other articles and documentaries, but with the various pro-Zionists and mobsters called out and named as such. I do find it a little hard to believe that Diddy was as high level and out there as Epstein, but I guess she's going to try to make the case that part of his role was what you said about encouraging young (mostly black) males to misbehave and be "gangstas" thru the hiphop music and consumer scene, so that they could feed the private prison system. Thanks for the rec.
I agree with everything you say about Whitney’s writing - it’s very dense. I read her four part article series on the history leading to Epstein 4 times over the space of several months - not joking. There’s just so much in them. Check out Fall of the Cabal on substack if you don’t know it already. Her conclusions to her series are just being published - short, well done 30 min films with no paywall.
Exactly. That is such a crucial point. If Hollins was accompanied by say, 12, fellow ELECTED Democrats, I get the feeling this shit would end quite quickly. But as always the Corporate DNC is not the "opposition" party - They're the bulwark against the opposition left for the Republicans.
When we opposed the Vietnam War, we were commies. When we opposed the Grenada invasion, we were Castroites (or something). When we opposed the Iraq War, we were jihadists. When…
Technically the mafia is a transnational criminal gang so are they going to start deporting them or just any Italian American? Gorka is a strange person with Neo-Nazi ties which would normally exclude him from any job like the one Trump gave him. Obi-Wan Kenobi would probably describe the Trump administration as a den of scum and villainy.
Thanks Ken. Going from Chris Hedges, a bit earlier, and now to you, we are in deep trouble. Chris hears the concentration camp gates slamming shut, while you have shown us who is doing the slamming.
On the street today with my Palestinian flag and my latest sign: "36 hospitals in Gaza bombed by Israel - the State of Hate". I am not intimidated by Mr. Gorka. I am almost the same age as Trump and have been an American from birth. As a blond, blue eyed, Anglo-Saxon, nobody but American Indians can claim to be more American than I am, nor to love this country more than I do. To all who come against me I respond very simply: liberty and justice for all.
Gorka's a bad one. Basically a pseudo-scholar fascist with pretensions to nobility without the balls to come out and admit what he wants done cf his little medal and his favouring of Hungarian political alignments further to Viktor Orban's right (including fascists).
This guy's gotta be put on Clozapine or something similar, or has Trump restricted the drug formulary of the federal health insurance program to Vitamin A for the treatment of measles, hydroxychloroquine for Covid, and antibiotics for STDs?
This is Full Orwell, and even during the early years of the Bush/Cheney administration I would have said 'You never go full Orwell."
But here we are. Now that nihilists and anyone who opposes Trump's broader policy platform are officially designated "terrorists" we have reached the final step. Our country is literally the world's pre-eminent state sponsor of terror, but now when you disagree, you're a terrorist.
BTW, the Democrats didn't do the country any favors by labeling most of the Jan 6 rioters "domestic terrorists" - it's just another click to the right on the ratchet with no release mechanism other than a bloody war once it reaches the last notch.
It’s exactly that that suggests to me the two parties are one and the same. They spice it up differently to appear independent, but the end goal - a goal that probably started in earnest since the JFK assassination - has been to take the power from the people. Every administration has inched forward on that agenda. It’s just more obvious these days because us ‘frogs’ are starting to feel the boiling water.
I agree. Interestingly, I watched a new documentary series on HBO Max last night. I never have high expectations for anything I see on corporate media, but this really impressed me at least in as much as it demonstrated how corrupt our system really is. It's called The Dark Money Game by Alex Gibney and it's a 2-part documentary, each half being 2 hours in length. It primarily criticizes the GOP because between the 1970s and 2000 they were the party scheming and moving to corrupt our system. Seriously I do highly recommend it for entertainment value alone, and I'm a 'wakened' former Democrat supporter. It very much does speak to your comment about spicing up the culture wars and maneuvering behind the scenes in taking power from the people. The US is by far more corrupt than other western "democracies" and on par with anything they'll ever say about Mexico or Africa.
Thanks for that recommendation and I’ll definitely check it out. More consequential but no less disappointing, learning that the people with the true levers of power (even the unearthing of where the real power is) are the master minds behind some of the worst human endeavours in human history (while pretending to be otherwise - and there’s the rub), is like the moment we learn there is no Santa Claus.
And I’d have considered myself a conservative democrat/liberal conservative but judging by the push back I get I’m now an alt-right, anti-Semite, racist with a bit of transphobe in for good measure.
Check out Whitney Webb’s latest article on the Diddy thing - it’s long but gets into the weeds - essentially about the capture of black culture using rap music to promote violence and drugs to grow the market of felons to feed the burgeoning of the private prison system - as in all her work, big names feature, including Reagan and Biden - two big proponents of the heavy handed drug laws which help feed the prison system. More to it than that. Usual suspects at the helm. The evil genius is truly stunning. And that’s only Part 1!! https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/04/investigative-series/one-label-under-blackmail-the-early-intersections-of-diddy-and-the-epstein-network/
Edit: Don't know why Vanessa Beely's name came to mind when I first started my reply. I definitely know the difference between her and Whitney Webb.
Interesting. I had just started the first book in One Nation Under Blackmail and got about halfway through before I became a little annoyed with Webb's long form writing style, or rather writing practices. I love her shorter stuff at Mintpress News and other sites, but in her books (and for some reason that P-Diddy piece at unlimitedhangout) she goes back to this practice of naming like 3 or 4 new people in each paragraph and I find myself needing a matrix or spider diagram to keep all their names straight in my mind. Since I haven't got to the end of the first ONUB books, I don't know, but maybe she ties it all together nicely in the final chapters.
It kind of reminds me of Douglas Valentine's writing (Operation Phoenix, Pisces Moon, etc.) except Valentine always starts off his books with a convenient list of the people who are going to be introduced and a short summary that I can print off and refer back to if needed. I wish Webb would do that.
Anyway I've read about half of the Diddy piece and will finish it later. The first half is basically the same stuff I've learned in other articles and documentaries, but with the various pro-Zionists and mobsters called out and named as such. I do find it a little hard to believe that Diddy was as high level and out there as Epstein, but I guess she's going to try to make the case that part of his role was what you said about encouraging young (mostly black) males to misbehave and be "gangstas" thru the hiphop music and consumer scene, so that they could feed the private prison system. Thanks for the rec.
I agree with everything you say about Whitney’s writing - it’s very dense. I read her four part article series on the history leading to Epstein 4 times over the space of several months - not joking. There’s just so much in them. Check out Fall of the Cabal on substack if you don’t know it already. Her conclusions to her series are just being published - short, well done 30 min films with no paywall.
Be afraid, very afraid. Where are the fucking opposition electeds? Why is hollins alone in Salvador?
Exactly. That is such a crucial point. If Hollins was accompanied by say, 12, fellow ELECTED Democrats, I get the feeling this shit would end quite quickly. But as always the Corporate DNC is not the "opposition" party - They're the bulwark against the opposition left for the Republicans.
When we opposed the Vietnam War, we were commies. When we opposed the Grenada invasion, we were Castroites (or something). When we opposed the Iraq War, we were jihadists. When…
Technically the mafia is a transnational criminal gang so are they going to start deporting them or just any Italian American? Gorka is a strange person with Neo-Nazi ties which would normally exclude him from any job like the one Trump gave him. Obi-Wan Kenobi would probably describe the Trump administration as a den of scum and villainy.
Thanks Ken. Going from Chris Hedges, a bit earlier, and now to you, we are in deep trouble. Chris hears the concentration camp gates slamming shut, while you have shown us who is doing the slamming.
This is madness.
I call it Trump's cabinuts.
On the street today with my Palestinian flag and my latest sign: "36 hospitals in Gaza bombed by Israel - the State of Hate". I am not intimidated by Mr. Gorka. I am almost the same age as Trump and have been an American from birth. As a blond, blue eyed, Anglo-Saxon, nobody but American Indians can claim to be more American than I am, nor to love this country more than I do. To all who come against me I respond very simply: liberty and justice for all.
Gorka is a well known swindler who fabricated his “expertise”
Great. Now I have to decide who is more loathsome, him or Ho-Man.
oh boy, we are in huge trouble
Ah, nostalgia for the early 2000s after 9/11, where anyone could be a terrorist if you just believed hard enough
Gorka's a bad one. Basically a pseudo-scholar fascist with pretensions to nobility without the balls to come out and admit what he wants done cf his little medal and his favouring of Hungarian political alignments further to Viktor Orban's right (including fascists).
Very much the Felix bit about how it’s against the law not to like them.
Things are becoming more frightening every day
It is worth reading "The Jakarta Method".
Your comment about American internal security forces just waiting for a "Green Light" reminded me of it
This guy's gotta be put on Clozapine or something similar, or has Trump restricted the drug formulary of the federal health insurance program to Vitamin A for the treatment of measles, hydroxychloroquine for Covid, and antibiotics for STDs?