The narrative is well and truly lost.

    by diehard404

    16 Comments

    1. Used to think it was hyperbole when the Simpson’s predicted President Trump and a “completely broke” United States.

      The former came true. The latter is looking more and more likely.

      Now if only the third aspect of that episode would come true, sooner than later.

    2. With all due respect Mr. Iyer-Mitra, almost every single person on the planet (including infants) makes more sense the trump. But, your point is well taken.

    3. Econmajorhere on

      Goddamn. Netanyahu holds America by its balls and at this point I’m not sure there’s anything we can do about it.

    4. auricularisposterior on

      And this is why presidents ought to first gain authorization from Congress before they do any major military actions. Because Congress controls the budget.

    5. ClintonFuxas on

      Notice also that he is not blaming the ordinary American. Instead he acknowledges that the war has been imposed on Iranians and Americans alike – by the Israeli lobby.

    6. They want a quarter of a trillion dollars for this war of choice?!?!?!? Holy fuck no.

    7. RepresentativeAge444 on

      There is a reason for all of this

      White supremacy is deranged.

      So at one time there was the rich elite and then indentured servants (poor Europeans), then slaves. However the elite began to worry that they didn’t have the numbers. That is that one day the indentured servants and slaves may overthrow them. So what to do what to do. Ahhh well the indentured servants looked like them! So what you do is you give them separate privileges. You make them feel like they’re more like you than the slaves. Because of this thing called skin color. You can eventually get them to align more with you so much they’ll be willing to die in a Civil War to protect your right to own slaves! As long as you can feel “superior” because you share the same skin color as the elites – even if you’re dirt poor.

      And so it’s been through the history of America. Rich whites make poor whites think they’re on the same side even though they’re being oppressed too. But as long as they’re not n!ggers it’s ok. It’s why all of the red states have the worst outcomes in poverty healthcare etc and are full of dirt poor whites who vote Republican generation after generation. It’s why deaths of despair have skyrocketed in white males.

      https://www.ajmc.com/view/high-rates-of-deaths-of-despair-observed-among-white-americans

      It’s why LBJ said if you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you. And he was from Texas in the early 1900s so I think he knew something about racism.

      See the secret is that white supremacy was never meant to make all whites elite. It was meant to drive a wedge between the white lower class and all others except the white upper class. They’re it’s rabid buffer.

      Kirk was just another in a long line of billionaire backed mouthpieces sent to scapegoat other groups- blacks, Muslims, trans people, the woke, migrants etc etc. Anyone but the actual people stealing from them. And that’s the real reason they want to make a martyr out of an unremarkable person. In fact Charlie hated poor whites because he lied to them about the source of their plight.

      Dumb white people propagandized for generations has lead this country to the precipice. Unless and until decent white people confront their barbaric cousins and stop them this won’t end. From the Confederates to Jim Crow southerners to Nazis to apartheid South Africans to now MAGA there is a recurring theme. One whose embers remain even after the flame is doused awaiting the next spark. Any analysis that avoids this reality is wheel spinning.

      That’s the reason for all of this madness.

    8. Journeys_End71 on

      I was told by the Republicans that we didn’t have any money left to fund programs like Head Start for a few lousy million dollars though…

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