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It continues to astonish me how "intelligent" family, friends and colleagues have repeatedly fallen for the manufactured lies that push these endless war narratives that don't make a shred of sense, without questioning any of it. I think that mainly, these friends just skim their newspaper of choice in their cushy comfy homes over morning coffee as a leisure activity, and are unaffected by what they are reading. The news is understood as "out there" somewhere on the other side of the planet, read at a very superficial level, picking up on certain key phrases that they hear repeated over and over and over. They have no idea that they are being duped. I really can't get over this phenomenon.

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Someone needs to make a list of some of the worst scums of society who have been embraced as the new heroes of democrat party simply because they hated orange man. Bill Kristol and the other Lincoln project clowns, Bush himself, Michael Avenatti, McCain and his daughter, Rick Snyder and so on

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“defending liberalism and democratic institutions” hahahahahahahaha! Bill Kristol is to “defending liberalism and democratic institutions” what Democratic People's Republic of Korea is to “democracy” and patriot act is to “patriotism”.

Bill Kristol has been thrown out by 95% of the Republican Party and thus since everyone who hates trump automatically becomes the new messiah of the democrat party. Absolute comedy.

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Any article which mentions Bill Kristol but does not tie him to the word Zionist and all that that religious thuggery entails regarding its bipartisan corrupting influence on congress does a disservice, in my opinion, even if mostly the same points are made by other means.

That said, yes, the rehabilitation of the worst sort of people our planet produces into some sort of noble statesmen condemns our entire political structure in a way that any critic could only hope to.

Bill Kristol makes a dandy poster child for this process, but l can also imagine Obama and Bush asking, "Hey, where's mine?"

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Unfortunately I think we are about to see Big Pharma make Kristol et al. into small change.

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Note:

1. How Kristol effortlessly shifted his nominal alliegances from Team R to Team D, whichever was more likely to give him the wars he so craves.

2. Watch how liberals like Khanna will cheer on Biden's wars of aggression, getting all O Say Can You See weepy, because Team D. (Trumpers did the same thing not so long ago.)

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The elites that have been controlling culture for hundreds of years are just fine with these little squabbles. I don't see much hope unless we ban the legal entity 'The Corporation' and get over this nation-state political system that enables said elites. We must rise up...

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Please clarify your usage of the term “psychopath”. I’m a retired, but still absent-minded psychology professor. I’ve never been satisfied with the use of the term in the mental health professions. The term seems to refer to folks who are irreconcilably evil and beyond any understanding of scientific causality or treatment.

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Sigh.

Glad to see the PNAC get the attention it deserves, as it got so buried under the avalanche of conspiracy theories. In addition, we should remember RAWA, they got buried too.

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Holy fuck.

The very first sentence just made my mind explode.

WTAF??

OMG...

[Insert other apoplectic reaction]

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I had never heard of this guy until I read this. I fully agree with you.

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No, they shouldn't. They aren't the same animal. Most warmongers don't actually pull the trigger, or stab the knife, or touch people where they aren't supposed to.

Mainstream media pundits support the war machine, and we should continue examining the root causes of this, as you continue to do, Caitlin. But we're not going to solve this problem, by picking each of them off and sending them to prison.

It would be a much simpler Justice system, if we could equate every crime with every other crime, and inflict exactly the same punishment and/or restitution. As bleak as things are, I'd rather live in this world than that world.

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