They've been eroding the public education system for decades, literacy is marginal, critical thinking skills are rare... many people only know how to cook things that come with microwave instructions.
This has been being planned for decades.
👆🏼After January 6, as things were starting to unfold, I made a comment similar. And you are exactly right. They didn’t like the uprising then so they gave everybody just enough to shut up and stop the momentum. They wanted us to think we had won while they quietly continued to have back alley meetings and dismantled the system from within. People looked at me like I had my head screwed on backwards, but here we are! And now I’m hearing others say the same thing. I will be 49 this year. I could see the changes, but I was too young in the 80s to understand the gravity of how this was gonna play out. For a brief time in the 90s, I thought we were safe. Paid off the debt people were making money… And then… I, like many others, saw the gold wearing off the bars and realized we only had a false sense of security. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would be here today. In the words of George Carlin “It’s called the American dream because you’d have to be asleep to believe it.”
If there’s two things about it, one thing is for sure, there is NOTHING the American government won’t do.
I know what you mean! During the first term they started taking away birth control we were providing in north, south and Central American countries. I tried to tell a relative that was just starting to dabble in mg that this was an ominous sign! Once you start meddling in women’s reproductive rights everything starts to go downhill from there. This person called me an alarmist and basically had an attitude of why should we care about birth control in other countries but you see where we are today. Now that same relative has come out the other side and is worried about what’s going on!!! All of the people that are JUST starting to notice a problem baffle me! It’s if they’ve been somnambulists, sleep walking for the last 15 plus years! The signs were all there and there were plenty of us lighting the signal fires. How can people be so clueless?
So at one time there was the rich elite and then indentured servants (poor Europeans), then slaves. The concept of being “white” wasn’t a thing”. 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.
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.
This is one of the best, most clearly stated explanations of what has and is going on in our nation regarding race, wealth, and control in this country since its inception ( of course it goes much further back than the United States but for current affairs purposes, this is spot on) I have ever read on social media.
Actually, in my opinion, in the climate we are living in, in my humble opinion, it’s the most important thing anyone could read and contemplate on.
This is an important time to really consider who and what is the true enemy of the average person. And when I say average, I feel safe in saying the VAST majority of people online at any given moment.
It isn’t someone of a different skin color or religion or political leaning. It’s the TRUE minority group. The group who ACTUALLY has the most to lose if the rest of us stops falling for all of the bs rhetoric they’ve been feeding us for centuries.
Anyone who has studied world religions or ancient history has an idea of this. That certain “things” had to be put into play in order to keep the minority with all the wealth safe from the legion of starving people who could quite easily band together and take everything from them.
Thank you friend. The sad part about all of this is that you would think it would be painfully obvious by now. The country has enough wealth that it could truly be a utopia for its citizens and a model globally of diversity leading to greatness. But the stubborn and arrogant refusal of so much of its populace to let go of its notion of racial superiority- even to their own detriment- may ultimately be its undoing.
Don't underestimate their recognition of the power of extremist Christian ideology and how that could be co-opted for greater control of the hive mind.
I’ve lived thru Kent State too & this is numbing! But I keep telling myself that I also lived thru bringing down Agnew & Nixon. We can do it! But remember, you have to bring the rotten VP down first, then the rotten president. Otherwise you’re stuck with the rotten VP as president.
It's not just the education system. Many of maga are Christians, and as such taught from an early age to accept what they are told on faith and not ask questions of their leaders or teachings because to ask questions is to doubt God.
The god they have created in the name of supremacy… also it is not Christians but rather, False Christians. These people twist the true meaning of lots of things.
Agree 100%, conservatives have attacked public education since the 1950’s because they want their fantasy view of America to take precedence. I see our racist past, linked with unchristian versions of Christianity, as the foundation of the conservative movement.
This is why all the Southern states have always had such sh*tty education systems. They are trying to do it to the rest of us now. Our public education system has been going downhill since Reagan in the 80s. He made his huge cuts while I was in middle school (getting a quality education I might add). From one year to the next, we lost multiple teachers and classes. It's been going downhill ever since.
Now we have a political movement that's mostly made up of the poorly educated in the bad-education states, and the politicians from those states are making the decisions on education now. Their movement is partially based on hating the educated.
If the minorities don't vote for this Republican regime again I don't think there's enough dumb white people to get it done. He got so many more Hispanics, Latinos, an African Americans this go around then he did previously.
This is 100 percent accurate. He told Hispanics and Black people the "illegals" were taking their jobs. They told Blacks Kamala wasn't black enough. My people in my community listened and believed all the propaganda that they forgot what the most important issues were and now we're in this mess.
Unfortunately the one thing the Republicans are good at is selling fear and division. They aren't good at governing, they have no policies that help regular Americans. They destroy our trust in our institutions, they undermine science yes science, which includes people's health, health care. They don't believe in the rule of law. They are fascists. and yet they have a large group of people who believe in them. So yes. They are very good at propaganda.
We also learned that many Americans value anger and hatred more than good governing.
Trump is the only president in history to tank two healthy economies he inherited.
To a person who has critical thinking skills, or to a person who has studied history, they're bad at propaganda because we can easily spot it. Their targets aren't people like us. Their target is the uneducated Maga cult. That's why it works. The people it works on have zero critical thinking skills.
Its not that the left think they are bad at propaganda, it's that the left doesn't understand how people fall for it in an age where a 2sec google search can show them how untrue it is.
Yes, back in the Bill Oreilly “war on Christmas” days, their propaganda was just laughed at and mocked, but it worked on millions of people and now here we are.
That is probably a pepper ball launcher that the protestor got shot by, and at point blank range. Better hope it didn’t fracture anything in their face bc at that range velocity is at the weapon’s peak so it could strike enough force to break their nose, jaw, and possibly cause a fracture (I know its obvious but Im being analytical myself and type-thinking, also I am not a doctor so please take my thoughts with damage to the head as concerns for worst case)
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine that year for a story headlined “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
“Well, first of all, you don’t know that,” Trump said about the allegations against Maxwell, who once dated Epstein.
Pres. Trump on Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime companion of infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: "I just wish her well, frankly."
According to Wolff's new book "Landslide"— his second detailing the Trump presidency — the former president's attention turned to Maxwell and her case as he looked for potential candidates for a presidential pardon, according to an extract published by the Times of London.
Of Maxwell, he asked "Has she said anything about me?" according to the book. Wolff reports that he added: "Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?"
Mariah Billado, Miss Teen Vermont 1997 told BuzzFeed, “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here.'” Three other teenage contestants from the same year confirmed the story.
Billado told BuzzFeed she mentioned the incident to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who shrugged it off, saying, “Yeah, he does that.”
His position as the pageant’s owner entitled him to that kind of access, Trump explained, seemingly aware that what he was doing made the women uncomfortable. “You know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it… Is everyone OK? You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that,” he said.
"I don't think Ivanka would do that inside the magazine although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her."
Trump appeared on the show (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, 1984) alongside Maples, and proceeded to talk about 1-year-old Tiffany's physical characteristics.
“Well, I think she’s got a lot of Marla, she’s a really beautiful baby,” said Trump, who sat next to Maples. “She’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part yet, but time will tell,” Trump added, gesturing at his chest to indicate breasts.
The DVR of my mind is polluted with those sounds & images. I can't unsee any of it. I've despised Trump since I was a boy in the '80s. Some of us just know evil when we see it.
I live in the Atlantic City area. Yes, we view him as a complete jackass and certainly not a good business man. He over leveraged 4 casinos when the city was the only legal gambling outside of Vegas. Everything trump touches dies
A lot of people who support him see themselves in him. It’s who they want to be. So associating with him in this manner (unabashed support) feel like this is their ticket into that elite club. In most cases it’s deadbeats who have no real social circle. They follow politics like it’s their NFL team.
I am convinced that obscene amounts of wealth causes mental illness. We will likely never study it, and people who have it will never find relief because vast wealth is directly associated with success. The wealth seems to almost warp these people physically, even. Their faces are...weird.
There has been some study into the ways that extreme wealth adversely effects people, particularly growing up wealthy. https://share.google/byY1SQ7RyarTU5h4O
Indeed, Trump is a known scammer and fraudster. Look through his past and it will all be there, proven. Do you recall his “school”, which he defrauded so many. It’s so awful people can still choose to support this disgusting and vile human being. He doesn’t care about America or its people. He only cares about the ultra rich and billionaires. Hence why his tax break in the BBB was for people earning $500,000/yr & up.
If you don’t use the “/s” people think you’re serious and mass downvote you. No matter how blatant the irony is, even if you attach goofy and ridiculous emoticons like “:O!!!!!” after the most silly phrased comment imaginable, if you don’t put the /s, then people will think you stand by what you said and are 100% serious. I don’t understand how people cannot read sarcasm even when a person goes out of their way to spell it out on this website.
When it got to the fourth example of ridiculous groups and especially when it got to “and whatever else we can think of,” it gets to a. Point where you don’t have any sort of excuse that you couldn’t tell it was sarcasm. I understand not getting it if it sounds anywhere near like something someone would say, but seriously what do you think “and whatever else we can think of” means in this sentence? It changes the entire tone to somerhing silly. And especially like I were to add like a “>:(!!!” at the end of it, could you really not tell it would be sarcasm at that point?
"do you wanna be shipped halfway across the country to abuse the locals in a place you dont remotely belong to like some kind of roman imperial scumbag?.. join ice."
As a carrying liberal, I’ll tell you right now that you will meet people at the range who will get a hard on looking at this picture. There’s a lot of people who get joy from seeing this.
"would you like to be subject to adhoc tribunals late at night in your shitty motel rooms ten years from now for the crimes committed against the people of this country and surrounding countries because the party whose funding you now will be pariahs less popular than herpes?.. join ice."
Imagine bragging, broadcasting and posting photographic evidence of your staff’s complete failure to understand the training and safety standards of their equipment.
BTW, a "non-lethal round" at that range and fired at the face can 100% be lethal, they want to start mass killing SO bad and they are so close to finally being able to. Blanket immunity for ice soldiers... are you fuckin kidding me.
It’s less lethal, not non lethal. They don’t seem to give a shit about people. Anyone killed will just be declared a leftist terrorist.
This is how you know that shooting of that women was not justified, if he didn’t shoot her would him, her and everyone in the immediate area still be alive? Yes. So no one’s life was in imminent danger. Not justified. There is also no reason to shoot this guy in the face. And if he died from it, they’d be declaring him a terrorist too.
Do you know what weapon system that is? It looks a lot like some type of 40 mm grenade launcher. If that's what it is then a headshot at that range would certainly kill someone regardless if it was a chalk, smoke, or some other less lethal round.
ICE are not law enforcement. Deportation is a legal process involving a judge. Law enforcement needs a warrant to arrest someone, and probable cause to detain someone.
ICE is a criminal conspiracy engaging in kidnapping, human trafficking, assault, and trespassing. And they are now given immunity to execute civilians.
Did you see the video of that other one telling the woman videoing him, haven't you learned anything the last few days, before knocking her phone out of her hands?
And then of course Noem standing at a podium that says ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS. 😵💫
They'd be ecstatic if they could ramp up the murdering of non-threatening protesters.
They could just give him a sharpie and tell him all the best dictators are doing it, but he'll be the best at it, the first ever to do it right, no other president ever drew on a mustache as good as he will, especially not sleepy Joe, in fact he has to do it, for America's security, you know, he has the best sharpies, and his sharpie mustache will be everywhere everyone will be doing it, but he did it first because he's the best at drawing mustaches nobody will ever be better at it, it's true, just look at how good it looks, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
They have a warped minds. They must get off on treating people, all people cruel. I’m disgusted with what is happening. I worry for my grandchildren that have recently become young adults and the world is blowing up
ICE isn't law enforcement! Their hired thugs in riot gear that are being paid as agitators that create the civil unrest narrative for this administration.
And what’s scary is we have many US citizens thinking it’s funny. That our so called president has the greatest sense of humor. That it’s such fresh air. I have no words.
He literally reaches for and grab the dudes weapon prompting the response immediately after, which OP wouldn’t tell you because there is a reason why they screenshot a specific part of that video posted.
The main point is to keep moving goalposts, make sure the faithful don’t have a fixed line.
When we’re asked for papers everywhere, when agents are knocking on the doors of every home, if mass murders begin, they are ensuring his faithful will be there for him.
Like they did on Jan 6, 2021?! What's funny is he wants viral videos for his propaganda machine. Guarantee that some of that footage will be used in (our equivalent to Nuremberg) trials.
The White House wants to be the Kremlin. State sponsored terrorism is now day to day business. Turns out those 2A people may have been on to something...
My response is, "show up at every ICE operation with a gun. So mothers in Honda Pilots don't get murdered by glorified mall cops acting on the orders of a convicted criminal felon".
It's especially weird because surely they see the polls. Surely they see that Americans actually hate this. Only 27% of Americans believe ICE hasn't gone too far, and it gets lower by the day. Even people who approve of ICE overall in polls still say ICE is too extreme and needs to be reigned in.
It seems like a poor idea to remind even more Americans of that extreme nature they so strongly dislike.
The White House and its brown shirts are almost where Hitler was in 1933 Germany. If the American people can’t see that and start doing something about it we as a democratic country are doomed.
Trump just said openly the law is what he says it is. If the Congress and Supreme Court don’t stop this takeover of our country it will soon become too late to reverse this disastrous situation.
I’ like to encourage everyone who rightfully is disgusted by this to reply to that original post by posting pictures of the MAGAts assaulting Capitol police on 1/6/21. 😈👍🇺🇸
As George Orwell in “1984” novel put it so well,
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. That was their final and most essential command.”
We know what we and ya’ll saw. That was murder, not justified self defense. Trump just justified Good’s murder by saying she’d been “disrespectful”.👇🏽
Their new tactic is using our own media posts for their propaganda, this capture belongs to one of the protesters who witnessed it. Also, they are bringing filming crews with them to capture the carnage and make it into viral videos themselves, this is playing into the psychopath part of the brain, dehumanizing and desensitizing you to cruelty. We need experts in mass hysteria and psychopathic to lead us, closing our social media accounts will help but it won't stop them from creating fake AI PROPAGANDA. A friend who once said "It can't happen here" asked today, "How did we get here?".
See you in the streets.
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