^ 240 years ago, George Washington wearing his Nostradamus cap like a badass. ^

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ... In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave."
-George Washington

So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification."
-George Washington

"John Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served as Donald Trump's second chief of staff, spoke about George Washington's historic accomplishments - his leadership and victory in the Revolutionary War, his vision of what an American president should be. "

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world"
-George Washington

By-and-large, American mass media (and those that watch it) has been thoroughly indoctrinated and manipulated to unquestioningly accept Zionist propaganda.

One of many examples: this "embarrassing moment' at CNN:

"In November, CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson embedded with the Israeli army to visit Gaza's bombed-out al-Rantisi Children's Hospital.
Once inside, military spokesperson Daniel Hagari claimed to have found proof Hamas was using the hospital to hide Israeli captives.
Hagari showed Robertson a document on the wall written in Arabic, which he said was a roster of Hamas members watching over the captives.
"This is a guarding list. Every terrorist has his own shift," Hagari told Robertson.
Adam recalled the broadcast as "an embarrassing moment" for CNN.
"It wasn't a Hamas roster at all," he said. "It was a calendar, and written in Arabic were the days of the week. But the report that came out from Nic Robertson just swallowed up Israel's claim."
To make matters worse, the Israeli claim had already been debunked by Arabic speakers on social media before the CNN footage aired, and, according to multiple CNN journalists and an internal WhatsApp chat seen by Al Jazeera, a Palestinian producer alerted her colleagues, including Robertson, but was ignored. After the report aired on television, they said, another producer tried to get it corrected before it was posted online."

More documentation of psychopathic zionists doing their usual Nazi things (actually worse):

That video was damning. no hyperbole- Israel has successfully out-Nazi'd Nazi Germany, and it has all been exhaustively and bravely documented and will be known and seen by the world as long as the world continues to exist. Good luck with those consequences, Zionists and their indoctrinated-simps.

Never let your government tell you who your enemies are.

Our rulers use all kinds of narratives from all around the world and across the political spectrum to justify their actions. They'll use Zionism, Christian fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, liberalism, conservatism, nationalism or woke identity politics to manufacture consent for their agendas wherever needed. They'll feed you whatever lines you need to hear in order to dupe you into thinking that disobedient populations in the middle east need military explosives dropped on them. That's all they care about.

Our rulers use their propagandists in the mainstream news media and their narrative managers in Silicon Valley to manipulate public perception toward these murderous agendas using half-truths, lies by omission, distortions, misleading headlines, reversing the victim and the aggressor, starting the timeline of events at convenient points, and uncritically repeating unproven allegations from untrustworthy sources. These manipulators are as critical to the operation of the imperial war machine as the actual people who drop the bombs.

What kind of groveling, slobbering boot-licker would play along with this? (obvious answer: the poster above this one) What kind of power-worshipping empire simp would consent to murder and abuse at mass scale against people who pose no threat to them whatsoever, just because the people in charge told them to feel that way? What a pathetic, profoundly undignified way to exist.

My enemies are not dictated by such people, no matter how they frame and present their continuous deceptions and lies. Mine are the western imperialists and their partners in crime (such as Israel) and its who are inflicting a waking nightmare upon the an ever increasing portion of the world.

Mainstream political commentary in the US wildly exaggerates the differences between Democrats and Republicans while greatly downplaying the differences between Democrats and anti-war leftists like Stein. Both sides do this- the Republican political-media class frames Democrats as a bunch of far-left Marxists, while the Democrat political-media class frames the differences between themselves and the antiwar left as so trivial that they should obviously expect the left to vote for them.

In reality, Democrats and Republicans have far, FAR more in common with each other than either of them have with the "authentic" left-even if you include the furthest extremes allowed in the party. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are far closer to each other ideologically than Bernie Sanders is to someone who wants to dismantle the US war machine and military industrial complex that Americans have been indoctrinated to believe as normal and essential to our national security.

The obfuscation of these points by the mainstream political-media class is entirely deliberate, and can be explained by the Noam Chomsky quote "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." Unless you fully understand this quote and make it the lens through which you perceive all mainstream political discourse, you will never see western politics clearly- NEVER.

Israel is the model.
Zionism is the model for this Christian Nationalism.
And the left is completely asleep as it continues to feed money and weaponry into the model.

Although this article is 20 months old and it seems that longtime Drudge poster Danni has gone completely off his or her rocker (like so many Americans and other westerners conditioned to unequivocally support the fascist, supremacist ideology of Zionism and equate it to historic Judaism), the brain-addled presidential meat puppet known as Joe Biden absolutely and unequivocally has the power to stop Israeli warmongering dead in its tracks by threatening to terminate the military support Israel depends on, and past presidents have exercised this power.

An arms embargo or the threat thereof would have stopped this long ago. Israeli warmongering isn't getting worse and worse because the Biden administration can't control Israel, it's getting worse and worse because the Biden administration knowingly refuses to make use of the control that it has.

We saw this illustrated in a recent exchange at a State Department press conference. State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller was asked by reporter Tom Bateman about accusations that "you have simply not used leverage to get what you want," citing Ronald Reagan's well-documented phone call to the Israeli prime minister during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982"which stopped the assault instantly.

"And so it begins"

It began over 80 years ago, just in case you missed it.

Good Americans and westerners don't start off hating Israel. When our hearts are in the right place we start off giving Israel the benefit of the doubt and assuming the situation must be more complicated than it appears, because we're trying our best to be GOOD and not just going to reflexively assume the Jewish state is evil like some kind of neo-Nazi fascist construct. We all grew up learning about the persecution of the Jewish people, watching movies and reading books about it and vowing "never again" like everyone else with conscience.

So for entirely sensible and good-natured reasons we tend to start off viewing anything to do with Israel and, more generally, Jews and Judaism in a sympathetic light.

It's not until we start learning about and paying attention to the history and Israel's recent actions that this view begins to change. We come to understand that Israel is in fact profoundly evil, not because it is full of Jews but because it's a western settler-colonialist project that's inflicting the same kinds of genocide, ethnic cleansing, theft and abuse on the indigenous population of the land that other western settler-colonialist projects like Australia, the US and Canada inflicted in earlier centuries.

And we learn that this evil doesn't just pervade the Israeli government but virtually all of Israeli society: not because of Judaism or Jewishness, but for the same reason hatred and supremacism and racism pervaded the societies of the Jim Crow south and apartheid South Africa.

We suddenly realize that Israelis have been indoctrinated from birth to view the non-Jewish indigenous populations of the region as less than human, because otherwise it would make no moral sense for there to be a state where one ethnic group receives preferential treatment over the others, or for that state to have been dropped on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of the people who live there. This indoctrination is the glue that holds the whole settler-colonialist project together.

We learn that this is what we are seeing when we translate comments Israelis make in Hebrew on social media which look like a page out of Hitler's Mein Kampf, or when we see photos of Israeli soldiers mockingly dressing in the clothing of dead or displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead or displaced Palestinian children, or when we read polls of Jewish Israelis supporting Israel's daily massacres in Gaza and Lebanon. This is just what it looks like when an entire society is indoctrinated from birth into viewing their neighbors as soulless savages.

And we gradually come to understand that just as Jewish Israelis are indoctrinated in a way that warps their perception and their conscience, we ourselves were indoctrinated to see Israel in a sympathetic light. The vast majority of our news media constantly frame Israel as the victim in whatever violence it is involved in, and the vast majority of our politicians constantly frame Israel as a friend and anyone who opposes it as an enemy. This happens for the same reason the American/western political-media class lies to us about EVERY SINGLE western war: because Israel is a crucial component in the western war machine.

And THAT is the premiere reason its 80+ year settler-colonialist project is supported by the western empire.

Screw revamping the electoral college. The fact that all the most important aspects of our civilization's operation are hidden, manipulated and obfuscated by the powerful makes a joke of the very idea of democracy in the first place.

How can people be educated enough to know what government policies to vote for if they can't even clearly discern those policies?

How can people know what to vote for when everything about their understanding of the world is being actively distorted for the benefit of the powerful?

The very nature of our most sacred institutions is hidden from us, and that includes not only our government institutions but the political, media, corporate and financial institutions which control so much of our society. Their nature is hidden not only by a complete lack of transparency but by things like mass media propaganda, internet censorship and algorithm manipulation, and the fact that the most amplified voices in our society just so happen to be those who more or less support the narrow spectrum discourse of the status quo.

A Trump win would quickly lead to civil unrest that could ultimately boil over into guerrilla warfare or a hot "civil war" in certain regions of the country. In turn, the downward spiral and breakdown of internal law and order would soon cause a re-evaluation of how much military assistance America could reliably provide to Israel for the continuation of its terrorization and slaughter of ME civilians.

Such a dire situation in America may be best for the long-term interests of the Muslims of the Middle East, much to the detriment of many clueless Americans and Israelis who have been conditioned over the past 3 generations to cheer on the evils of zionism, but blowback has always been a bitch.

Good Americans and westerners don't start off hating Israel. When our hearts are in the right place we start off giving Israel the benefit of the doubt and assuming the situation must be more complicated than it appears, because we're trying our best to be GOOD and not just going to reflexively assume the Jewish state is evil like some kind of neo-Nazi fascist construct. We all grew up learning about the persecution of the Jewish people, watching movies and reading books about it and vowing "never again" like everyone else with conscience.

So for entirely sensible and good-natured reasons we tend to start off viewing anything to do with Israel and, more generally, Jews and Judaism in a sympathetic light.

It's not until we start learning about and paying attention to the history and Israel's recent actions that this view begins to change. We come to understand that Israel is in fact profoundly evil, not because it is full of Jews but because it's a western settler-colonialist project that's inflicting the same kinds of genocide, ethnic cleansing, theft and abuse on the indigenous population of the land that other western settler-colonialist projects like Australia, the US and Canada inflicted in earlier centuries.

And we learn that this evil doesn't just pervade the Israeli government but virtually all of Israeli society: not because of Judaism or Jewishness, but for the same reason hatred and supremacism and racism pervaded the societies of the Jim Crow south and apartheid South Africa.

We suddenly realize that Israelis have been indoctrinated from birth to view the non-Jewish indigenous populations of the region as less than human, because otherwise it would make no moral sense for there to be a state where one ethnic group receives preferential treatment over the others, or for that state to have been dropped on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of the people who live there. This indoctrination is the glue that holds the whole settler-colonialist project together.

We learn that this is what we are seeing when we translate comments Israelis make in Hebrew on social media which look like a page out of Hitler's Mein Kampf, or when we see photos of Israeli soldiers mockingly dressing in the clothing of dead or displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead or displaced Palestinian children, or when we read polls of Jewish Israelis supporting Israel's daily massacres in Gaza and Lebanon. This is just what it looks like when an entire society is indoctrinated from birth into viewing their neighbors as soulless savages.

And we gradually come to understand that just as Jewish Israelis are indoctrinated in a way that warps their perception and their conscience, we ourselves were indoctrinated to see Israel in a sympathetic light. The vast majority of our news media constantly frame Israel as the victim in whatever violence it is involved in, and the vast majority of our politicians constantly frame Israel as a friend and anyone who opposes it as an enemy. This happens for the same reason the American/western political-media class lies to us about EVERY SINGLE western war: because Israel is a crucial component in the western war machine.

And THAT is the premiere reason its 80+ year settler-colonialist project is supported by the western empire.

15 Rules For Discussing Over 80 Years of Zionist Terrorism and Warmongering

Rule 1: Recorded history began on October 7 2023. Maybe some things happened before that date, but nobody can remember.

Rule 2: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 1. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or Iran.

Rule 3: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does.

Rule 4: Israel never bombs civilians, it bombs terrorists. If shocking numbers of civilians die it's because they were actually terrorists, or because terrorists killed them, or because a terrorist stood too close to them. If none of those reasons apply then it's for some other mysterious reason we are still waiting for the IDF to investigate.

Rule 5: Criticizing anything Israel does means you hate Jewish people. There is no other reason anyone could possibly oppose military explosives being dropped on areas packed full of children besides a seething, obsessive hatred for a small Abrahamic faith.

Rule 6: Nothing Israel does is ever as bad as the hateful criticisms described in Rule 5. Criticism of Israel's actions is always worse than Israel's actions themselves, because those critics hate Jews and wish to commit another Holocaust. Preventing this must consume 100 percent of our political energy and attention.

Rule 7: Israel can never be the victimizer, it can only ever be the victim. If Israel attacks Lebanon, it's because Hezbollah attacked it completely unprovoked while Israel was innocently minding its own business trying to commit a little genocide in peace. If people protest against Israel bombing entire cities into dust, then Israel is the victim because the protests made Israel's supporters feel sad.

Rule 8: The fact that Israel is literally always in a state of war with its neighbors and with displaced indigenous populations must be interpreted as proof that Rule 7 is true instead of proof that Rule 7 is ridiculous nonsense.

Rule 9: Arab lives are much, much less important to us than western lives or Israeli lives. Nobody is allowed to think too hard about why this might be.

Rule 10: The media always tell the truth about Israel and its various conflicts. If you doubt this then you are likely in violation of Rule 5.

Rule 11: Unsubstantiated claims which portray Israel's enemies in a negative light may be reported as factual news stories without any fact checking or qualifications, while extensively evidenced records of Israeli criminality must be reported on with extreme skepticism and doubtful qualifiers like "Lebanon says" or "according to the Hamas-run health ministry". This is important to do because otherwise you might get accused of being a propagandist.

Rule 12: Israel must continue to exist in its current iteration no matter what it costs or how many people need to die. There is no need to present any logically or morally grounded reasons why this is the case. If you dispute this then you are likely in violation of Rule 5.

Rule 13: The US government has never lied about anything ever, and is always on the right side of every conflict.

Rule 14: (Americans only) Nothing that happens in the middle east is as urgent or significant as making sure the correct person wins the US presidential election. Ignore any inconvenient facts which distract you from this mission of unparalleled importance.

Rule 15: Israel must be protected because it is the last bastion of freedom and democracy in the middle east, no matter how many journalists it has to assassinate, no matter how many press institutions it needs to shut down, no matter how many protests its supporters need to dismantle, no matter how much free speech it needs to eliminate, no matter how many civil rights it needs to erase, and no matter how many elections its lobbyists need to buy.

This election will be rigged, no doubt.

But the rigging will not be done by Russia, nor by China, or by Iran, nor by some gun totin' far-right coup plotters, or by some "shadowy leftist cabal" tampering with voting machines. It will happen right out in the open, will be perfectly legal and... it's already happening.

This election is being rigged by the donor class. It's being rigged by lobby groups. It's being rigged by the plutocrat-owned mass media. It's being rigged by super-wealthy people who can afford to extract political favors in exchange for massive campaign donations in ways normal American citizenry never could. It's being rigged by people who've purchased so much narrative control in the form of media ownership that they can set agendas for the entire country in ways the average voter has no chance of ever doing.

It's completely rigged. But go ahead and assert your privilege as a free American and choose between A and B.

Because of Trump, Democrats moved from despising Bush and Cheney for their warmongering to loving Bush and Cheney and warmongering.

Because of Trump, the Democratic Party has been able to move much further toward warmongering corporatism than it could have ever gotten away with before"while still framing itself as the "moderate" alternative.

Because of Trump, mainstream US politics has been shoved so far to the right that in it's now effectively a contest between Donald Trump's Republican Party and George W Bush's Republican Party.

Dick Cheney was a charter signatory to the notorious neocon think tank "Project for the New American Century", and as vp he played a leading role in Chimpy's administration's soaring warmongering, militarism and authoritarianism, including most famously the invasion of Iraq. He has the blood of millions of people on his hands, and he should be living out the rest of his miserable life in a cage.

His daughter Liz is an equally bloodthirsty warmonger who has spent her career pushing for mass military slaughter at every opportunity.

The Cheneys join a growing list of Republican warmongers who are migrating to the Democratic Party platform in droves to support Harris. Last month hundreds of staffers who served under Republicans George W Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney signed a letter endorsing Harris.

Really, it's not that Dick and Liz Cheney is endorsing the Democrats' vision for America, it's the Democrats who are endorsing the Cheneys' vision.

So now we're seeing two warmongering oligarchic parties shoving the Overton window of acceptable opinion as far in the direction of imperialism, militarism and tyranny as possible under the leadership of some of the very worst people alive.

The Democrats have completely failed America.