On July 15, 2017, Congressman Mike Quigley — Democrat of Illinois — made a fairly remarkable statement: “When you meet with any Russians,” he declared on CNN, “you’re meeting with Russian intelligence. And therefore Putin.” Just take a moment to appreciate the implications of this logical construction. By dint of a person’s nationality, the mere act of
The two minutes hate is strong now — the fact that people are seriously banning Russian cats from shows and dance companies from performance as if that will affect Putin somehow shows how deep the brainwashing has become.
Why? Because, apparently, many democrats are stupid, hateful psychopaths with the emotional maturity of 6 year olds. If you believe Putin to be a tyrant and anti-democratic, then you should at least be able to infer from that claim that average Russian people have no say in what Putin does.
So, anyone out to punish anybody or anything Russian is just a vile bully and a piece of garbage who found an excuse to act like a total shit with full support from the equally psychotic Western ruling class.
The neoliberal Blob is doing their best to try to remain relevant after failure after failure and overseas embarrassment. Most of the public was getting tired of them and losing faith. This is their last ditch attempt to project strength, set up a geopolitical boogeyman, drum up a bit of patriotism, act like they are defending Western Civilization, and pretend like they care about things like human rights, freedom, and borders. They kicked the Realists out during the Bush era for their pessimism and complaining. You know, the same ones who warned us about Iraq and Afghanistan as well as NATO expansion back in the Clinton era. Now it looks like the Realists might just have the last laugh (along with the Chinese). As for us Americans, I do not see much to laugh about any time soon.
One thing the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles made pretty clear to anyone expressing signs of consciousness: if the Pentagon says something, it's certainly a lie.
If you listen to the talking heads here, we're already at war with Russia, and Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard should be immediate arrested for treason, according to the sows on The View. I have been wondering over the last few days how the US population would feel if the world had treated us when we invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria like they're treating the Russian population now. It's an interesting question I never hear posed.
Thank you for being that "one schmuck." I don't actually have a firm belief in a divine personage that looks out for us all, but whatever is out there, may it look out for you.
Great article Michael, totally reflective of thoughts at this moment. I was at a dinner party this past Saturday night and the discussion centered on the US chemical weapons labs located in Ukraine, and I posed this question to the esteemed salad eating panel......”Who’s lying here, Russia, Ukraine, or the USA, or all 3?”. Then I proposed a situation where maybe some enterprising Ukrainians , desperate for Western intervention, gassed some remote village, and of course what would follow would be the videos of dead children and sobbing mothers, all packaged and Twittered to the world for the extreme outrage, and bingo! Once the salad plates were pushed aside, it was decided that yes, everyone is lying, but nobody would be brazen enough to concoct a plan as evil as I had described.
On Sunday, enter Sen. Lindsey Graham, who crowed on one of the Sunday shows declared “If the Russians use chemical weapons, I will support a No Fly zone......
Everyone at the table texted me Sunday afternoon, their words lacked the confidence from the night before.
But you are our smuck, and we love you. The Russia hoax and its fallout have been very detrimental to America and the world. People should be held accountable. Important people. Obama, Biden, and Clinton for starters. Brennan. Comey Strozk. If you wander into the Capital you are an existential threat. If you participate in a coup not so much.
"The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, quickly proceeded to clarify that the intent of US sanctions was to ensure “the Russian people will suffer the consequences of their leaders’ choices.”
During the cold war the media portrayed Russians standing in bread lines (and we felt sorry for them and their inferior economic system) and occasionally made fun of the hardy tractor-driving Russian women but never taught us to hate the Russian people, despite them pointing nuclear missiles at us for decades. That's probably why it remained a cold-war. I don't remember many average people hankering for a war with the Ruskies with accompanying nuclear apocalypse, though a few stupid politicians did but not many. It's a different strategy now with a different less peaceful ending in mind. The liberals were more practical back then, not so "compassionate" and without such a thirst for blood and vengeance. It doesn't help that politicians encourage hate, in fact it is highly irresponsible.
I refuse to hate who they want me to hate. I refuse to hate the Russians, the Ukranians, the Iranians, the Yemenis, the Iraqis, the Afgans, Libyans, Serbs or ANY other group of people who may require bombing. People are mostly the same everywhere, it's the power monger leaders who are fucked up. The Ukranians and Russians are just pawns to be sacrificed by greedy dictators and oligarchs. Obviously none of the leaders care about their own people, they care about their own power.
I don't hate the warmongering and compassionate liberals even if they hate me, but I am curious what makes them tick. The rage (and insanity) in them is coming out, but why were they so enraged in the first place? I think it's due to years of self-imposed political correctness. They are finally allowed and encouraged to hate someone (the Russians) and so they do. They just needed someone to hate. Get it out stupid liberal, but it would be better and more useful to go and scream at the moon.
I find it really disturbing that we celebrate a sitting Senator for charging that someone is treasonous for expressing a non-government opinion. Which isn't even Russian propaganda, but a disagreement about actual statements made in front of Congress and their import.
We are at another point where the government truth is The One Truth. And all the "defenders" of speech from Mitt Romney, to the MSNBCs, to Mark Levin, to The View, to the proud libertarians are ALL FOR IT!
Remember - your opinion is treason to these people when it doesn't align to theirs.
And I'm a lifelong conservative and overall pretty much a hawk. But I will never be anti-free speech and will never trust the government to decide things for me.
Watch "The Panama Deception". Search for it on youtube or elsewhere. It outlines how the US military-intelligence-media operates in a war zone. It's particularly good at showing how the photographs and videos of the conflict are controlled. These techniques have been honed for decades and they work, so they automatically do it every time. Ukraine is no different.
Great work, thank you. If you want to see the propaganda from the other side of the war, the Russian Ministry of Defense is on Telegram. Today they are, quite ominously, saying that a false flag chemical attack by the Ukrainians/west is imminent. Typically, they are quite restrained and matter of fact, a rather jarring contrast with the propagandists on the other side. And no, I'm not a Russian asset, I'm a Ukrainian-Canadian expat American grandmother who has never fired a weapon in her life, but who is vehemently anti-WWIII.
We truly live in the stupidest timeline.
To think that so much of this comes from the inability of the left to process the fact that HRC lost in '16 is terrifying.
MT, you’re amazing. Thank you so much for going to Poland, it’s nice to have at least one trustworthy journalist over there with a nose to the ground.
The two minutes hate is strong now — the fact that people are seriously banning Russian cats from shows and dance companies from performance as if that will affect Putin somehow shows how deep the brainwashing has become.
Why? Because, apparently, many democrats are stupid, hateful psychopaths with the emotional maturity of 6 year olds. If you believe Putin to be a tyrant and anti-democratic, then you should at least be able to infer from that claim that average Russian people have no say in what Putin does.
So, anyone out to punish anybody or anything Russian is just a vile bully and a piece of garbage who found an excuse to act like a total shit with full support from the equally psychotic Western ruling class.
The neoliberal Blob is doing their best to try to remain relevant after failure after failure and overseas embarrassment. Most of the public was getting tired of them and losing faith. This is their last ditch attempt to project strength, set up a geopolitical boogeyman, drum up a bit of patriotism, act like they are defending Western Civilization, and pretend like they care about things like human rights, freedom, and borders. They kicked the Realists out during the Bush era for their pessimism and complaining. You know, the same ones who warned us about Iraq and Afghanistan as well as NATO expansion back in the Clinton era. Now it looks like the Realists might just have the last laugh (along with the Chinese). As for us Americans, I do not see much to laugh about any time soon.
One thing the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles made pretty clear to anyone expressing signs of consciousness: if the Pentagon says something, it's certainly a lie.
If you listen to the talking heads here, we're already at war with Russia, and Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard should be immediate arrested for treason, according to the sows on The View. I have been wondering over the last few days how the US population would feel if the world had treated us when we invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria like they're treating the Russian population now. It's an interesting question I never hear posed.
Thank you for being that "one schmuck." I don't actually have a firm belief in a divine personage that looks out for us all, but whatever is out there, may it look out for you.
Great article Michael, totally reflective of thoughts at this moment. I was at a dinner party this past Saturday night and the discussion centered on the US chemical weapons labs located in Ukraine, and I posed this question to the esteemed salad eating panel......”Who’s lying here, Russia, Ukraine, or the USA, or all 3?”. Then I proposed a situation where maybe some enterprising Ukrainians , desperate for Western intervention, gassed some remote village, and of course what would follow would be the videos of dead children and sobbing mothers, all packaged and Twittered to the world for the extreme outrage, and bingo! Once the salad plates were pushed aside, it was decided that yes, everyone is lying, but nobody would be brazen enough to concoct a plan as evil as I had described.
On Sunday, enter Sen. Lindsey Graham, who crowed on one of the Sunday shows declared “If the Russians use chemical weapons, I will support a No Fly zone......
Everyone at the table texted me Sunday afternoon, their words lacked the confidence from the night before.
But you are our smuck, and we love you. The Russia hoax and its fallout have been very detrimental to America and the world. People should be held accountable. Important people. Obama, Biden, and Clinton for starters. Brennan. Comey Strozk. If you wander into the Capital you are an existential threat. If you participate in a coup not so much.
I can't express enough thanks for your brave reporting; it is an invaluable perspective. Stay safe!
we are all russians now.
"The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, quickly proceeded to clarify that the intent of US sanctions was to ensure “the Russian people will suffer the consequences of their leaders’ choices.”
During the cold war the media portrayed Russians standing in bread lines (and we felt sorry for them and their inferior economic system) and occasionally made fun of the hardy tractor-driving Russian women but never taught us to hate the Russian people, despite them pointing nuclear missiles at us for decades. That's probably why it remained a cold-war. I don't remember many average people hankering for a war with the Ruskies with accompanying nuclear apocalypse, though a few stupid politicians did but not many. It's a different strategy now with a different less peaceful ending in mind. The liberals were more practical back then, not so "compassionate" and without such a thirst for blood and vengeance. It doesn't help that politicians encourage hate, in fact it is highly irresponsible.
I refuse to hate who they want me to hate. I refuse to hate the Russians, the Ukranians, the Iranians, the Yemenis, the Iraqis, the Afgans, Libyans, Serbs or ANY other group of people who may require bombing. People are mostly the same everywhere, it's the power monger leaders who are fucked up. The Ukranians and Russians are just pawns to be sacrificed by greedy dictators and oligarchs. Obviously none of the leaders care about their own people, they care about their own power.
I don't hate the warmongering and compassionate liberals even if they hate me, but I am curious what makes them tick. The rage (and insanity) in them is coming out, but why were they so enraged in the first place? I think it's due to years of self-imposed political correctness. They are finally allowed and encouraged to hate someone (the Russians) and so they do. They just needed someone to hate. Get it out stupid liberal, but it would be better and more useful to go and scream at the moon.
I find it really disturbing that we celebrate a sitting Senator for charging that someone is treasonous for expressing a non-government opinion. Which isn't even Russian propaganda, but a disagreement about actual statements made in front of Congress and their import.
We are at another point where the government truth is The One Truth. And all the "defenders" of speech from Mitt Romney, to the MSNBCs, to Mark Levin, to The View, to the proud libertarians are ALL FOR IT!
Remember - your opinion is treason to these people when it doesn't align to theirs.
And I'm a lifelong conservative and overall pretty much a hawk. But I will never be anti-free speech and will never trust the government to decide things for me.
Watch "The Panama Deception". Search for it on youtube or elsewhere. It outlines how the US military-intelligence-media operates in a war zone. It's particularly good at showing how the photographs and videos of the conflict are controlled. These techniques have been honed for decades and they work, so they automatically do it every time. Ukraine is no different.
Don't forget, Tchaikovsky is now off-limits too
Great work, thank you. If you want to see the propaganda from the other side of the war, the Russian Ministry of Defense is on Telegram. Today they are, quite ominously, saying that a false flag chemical attack by the Ukrainians/west is imminent. Typically, they are quite restrained and matter of fact, a rather jarring contrast with the propagandists on the other side. And no, I'm not a Russian asset, I'm a Ukrainian-Canadian expat American grandmother who has never fired a weapon in her life, but who is vehemently anti-WWIII.