What's the difference between organized crime and big business?
What's the difference between big business and the government?
What's the difference between organized crime and the government?
(Key: Nothing.)
Baseball is a game with its own boundaries and time.
People go to games to escape the bullshit and harassment which otherwise engulfs them.
If that shit is imported into the game, the point of the game is lost.
In case you haven't noticed, here is the argument in the propaganda:
human beings cause climate change;
climate change is bad;
therefore, human beings are bad.
The flaw is that "climate change" is a hoax.
As a result, the ongoing operation to reduce the population is a fraud.
Voting doesn't get you any representation.
But if you don't vote, you don't have any chance for representation.
Both have the same result. You have to decide if you prefer the delusion.
George Bush made a mistake.
We can make mistakes, but that one was a beauty.
We should have never been in Iraq.
We have destabilized the Middle East.
They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction.
There were none, and they knew there were none.
-- Trump (2016)
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Trump is in a no win situation in Iran.
His smart move is to leave, say nothing, and refuse all questions, claiming, "national security."
This will create immense uncertainty.
If the Iranians have a 24/7 telephone number, they will call.
If America has its own oil supply, so that the local market does not suffer from supply disruptions in the Persian Gulf, the increased prices for energy which the American consumer is facing is not "capitalism," but war profiteering, which is, or should be, illegal.
The mess Trump has made in the Middle East probably has him feeling like a $3.00 whore.
Which is fitting, because he is a $3.00 whore.
Sadly, the rest of us are left with the clean-up.
Tulsi Gabbard should find a quiet, dignified way to extricate herself from the catastrophe named, "Trump."
It is good to have honor and to serve your country; however, if your job is to give advice, and your advice is ignored, your only real option is to withdraw.
The new writing style in Hollywood is called, "second screen."
This entails dumbing-down content, so that people focused on their phones can follow the dialogue and the story.
The reality we share, our society, is a "second screen" world.
Deception is the enemy.
AI is a garbage in, garbage out machine. AI does not, and cannot, verify truth. AI merely scrapes and spews garbage.
AI is designed to induce reliance. Hence, AI is designed to deceive.
AI is a Satanic enterprise.
Your defense: Distrust AI.
Many of the guys in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame had sex with underage girls.
On some of those occasions, the girls may have been on drugs.
Is a mass expulsion on the horizon?
My concern is as foretold by Star Trek:
War will morph into a computer simulation, and the dead will walk themselves into death chambers, believing it's the morally good thing to do.
We're not far from this already.
Trump and the people around him are acting like it's a surprise that Iran would fight back.
No one is that stupid.
The decision-makers knew they would cause havoc.
The havoc is intended. The people suffering the pain are the real targets; not Iran.
The boasts from Trump's megaphone are reminiscent of an earlier age:
The Third Reich has assembled the most powerful military in history, and will impose its Will with unstoppable Blitzkrieg.
Only the Nazis didn't anticipate the snow; or that some people would disagree with them.
People in jail can't freely buy the things they want, like tooth-paste.
They have to put in an order, and then wait on a delivery.
Also, there is a strict limit on how much they're allowed to spend.
Is this unlike a modern American grocery?
What does this coincidence imply?
The real tripod of government is (1) the projects that get funded, (2) the people who get the contracts for those projects, and (3) the people who get taxed to fund the government contracts.
The only people who don't have a say in the government are in the third group.
The Iraq-Iran War was the United States.
We threw everything we had at Iran, targeting civilians, using chemical weapons, every manner of evil, and Iran neither blinked, nor budged.
Stalemate with a "Super Power."
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.