This post is such a good example of why I subscribe to America's Undoing. It often seems like Corbin is the only one telling the truth about the news we get--whether it be the shutdown over health insurance subsidies or this latest act of imperialist violence. I'm tired of NPR and other "liberal" media asking for money while they collude with criminals, using language to cloak kidnapping, invasion of sovereign countries, genocide, etc. Corbin, thank your for always cutting through the thick fog of propaganda to explain what is actually happening. Just reading your post this morning, I feel un-gaslighted.
The word is oil. The excuse absurdity from Iraq is applicable here.
"People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are. They talk about America's national interest. What the hell do you think they're talking about? We're not there for figs."
~Chuck Hagel
We deserve our extinction. And climate chaos will bring it, if the nuclear winter doesn’t get us first. If we don’t get people in the streets and outside the White House within a week, on a continuous basis, over the corrupt mendaciousness and extensive institutional rot at the heart of our corporate capture, we can kiss the next generation’s future goodbye.
I don’t hope for it, because I cringe at the amount of suffering involved, think Gaza on steroids, but the control of the human species by sociopathic assholes, leading to such an outcome, seems inevitable at this point.
So, we want to hold the President of Venezuela accountable under US law, but we can't even hold our own President accountable under the same laws? Got it.
Corbin is right that this is madness. I heard a panelist on NPR this morning say it will be “interesting” to see how this unfolds. No talk about the legality, no questioning why this happened. Total madness.
"Unfolds"? I teresting word usage. More like an unraveling, like loose spool of thread or ball of yarn. Unfolding is so neat and tidy, that's not what's happening here.
Kidnapping the president of another country? There are no words for this. I am speechless. What is really scary is that our president said it was like watching a TV show!!!
Will our "informed" citizenry even evaluate the discrepancy between this action and the president's pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras that was actually CONVICTED by a court for drug trafficking? Somehow I doubt it. We are an ignorant, unquestioning people.
I worry about the "long game" here. Trump is running scared from Epstein evidence, is scared to death of loosing power, and little more than a puppet for Vought & Miller. Will the US end up running like hell from Trumpican America just like Venezuelans have chosen to run from corruption in Venezuela? We are going to need everything "No Kings" can offer and more in the coming year.
"It’s the United States government deciding, unilaterally, that it has the authority to bomb a country, kill its citizens, and abduct its leader because we say he’s a drug dealer. We say."
We should stop including Trump and the complicit military-industrial-intelligence comples and the corporate oligarchs as being part of "We the People." In other words, don't say "we" when discussing the illegitimate actions of the U.S. government.
Is there some action a single citizen can take to move for the removal this dangerous idiot? Hoping for a blue wave will take too long, and there's no guarantee anything will change even if there is. I'm so ashamed of my country and its passive acceptance of this crap, that I could explode!
Thank you Corbin for connecting the dots when our paper of record refuses to! NYT serves the interests of capital. I didn't know about Machado's comments on privatizing the oil industry! Wtf. Thank you for contributing this fact to the situation. This is so major. When Trump met with oil execs in 2024 to bribe them for campaign donations, I wonder if this was a discussion item on the agenda.
We may be seeing a portion of the "near game" here. Watch for Trump to send in Kushner or some other goon to collect the Trump share. The Qatari jet was small game.
I cross-posted it to my subscribers, with this message from me:
"Once again America has gone beyond where we were before on the road to infamy. A contribution I can make is to pass along the best of the best. Corbin Trent is a light to be guided by! And the situation is so perilous that I'm pushing my latest for getting rid of this administration: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/a-new-way-on-a-new-years-day
Corbin, you are the best. I cross-posted this to my subscribers:
"Well, it's that sort of day, where once again America has gone beyond where we were before on the road to infamy. A contribution I can make is to pass along the best of the best. Corbin Trent is a light to be guided by! And the situation is so perilous that I'm pushing my latest for getting rid of this administration: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/a-new-way-on-a-new-years-day"
" . . . if any other country on earth did this to us, we would call it what it is." Are you referring to the closest thing (9.11) and the horror unleashed by the US on SEVEN countries under the guise of a War on Terrorism?
I like the comparison in terms of importance. BUT 911 was actually an inside job...just another ruthless act to initiate unnecessary/endless war by this rogue govt. we live wirh under the control of monsters....both parties obviously partaking.
Wait. What's the difference (except the date and place) between now and "911 was actually an inside job...just another ruthless act to initiate unnecessary/endless war by this rogue govt. we live wirh under the control of monsters....both parties obviously partaking.
Is this why corporate Dems have never stood up to trump? Was this everyone's plan all along? Just have the insane felony pedo do it, after a long string of crazy, no one will notice another crazy? Who the fuck is telling him to do this? There is a bad actor pulling Trump's puppet strings. Who is it?
"They" do well in keeping themselves concealled. There's a school of belief that there's several in the "party" of global elitists that have much invested in keeping populations (of all countries) as commodities, well controlled, and enslaved (if you will). They incorporate many tools to accomplish this including what we've been fooled into thinking as health care....more like covert genocide....the media, distractions, on and on. It's evil for sure and it's being revealled..especially if we pursue that eventuality.
Yes, what you say has become very apparent. When HRC paid off the dnc debt, she officially ran the party and kept corporate and capital gains far ahead of the interests of the people, somehow even normalizing genocide. We have no say that our tax dollars primarily go to defense, which is actually offense, so that our corrupt government can take what they want anywhere anytime anyhow. There are no elections, no one is protecting the vote to make sure elections are true, and the federalist society has criminally stacked the courts with their chosen, creating a justice system without justice. Dark times. Where do we turn?
Well described Jacqui. Consciousness is a difficult thing to quantify. It's easy to be discouraged seeing the bombardment of brainwashing/miss-leading information... resulting in such ignorance. Do remember not to give up, as this IS a time of great awakening and more of us are "getting it" by observance and/or being in survival circumstances that lead to real understanding. We "turn to persistence. sharing, compassion, optimism and "keeping on" . Thank you.
This post is such a good example of why I subscribe to America's Undoing. It often seems like Corbin is the only one telling the truth about the news we get--whether it be the shutdown over health insurance subsidies or this latest act of imperialist violence. I'm tired of NPR and other "liberal" media asking for money while they collude with criminals, using language to cloak kidnapping, invasion of sovereign countries, genocide, etc. Corbin, thank your for always cutting through the thick fog of propaganda to explain what is actually happening. Just reading your post this morning, I feel un-gaslighted.
Cindy, I hope you don't mind me joining you whole heartedly.
Thank you, Corbin!
The word is unprovoked attack and kidnapping the President and his wife.
The word is oil. The excuse absurdity from Iraq is applicable here.
"People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are. They talk about America's national interest. What the hell do you think they're talking about? We're not there for figs."
~Chuck Hagel
We deserve our extinction. And climate chaos will bring it, if the nuclear winter doesn’t get us first. If we don’t get people in the streets and outside the White House within a week, on a continuous basis, over the corrupt mendaciousness and extensive institutional rot at the heart of our corporate capture, we can kiss the next generation’s future goodbye.
I’ve been hoping for a while now we wipe ourselves out before we’re able to infect other planets or solar systems. The universe doesn’t deserve this.
I don’t hope for it, because I cringe at the amount of suffering involved, think Gaza on steroids, but the control of the human species by sociopathic assholes, leading to such an outcome, seems inevitable at this point.
So, we want to hold the President of Venezuela accountable under US law, but we can't even hold our own President accountable under the same laws? Got it.
So many revel in this "brave" aggression when, in fact, corruption in our own country may be much, much worse. Hypocrisy, if not faced, may sink us.
Probably ly already did Jack.
Corbin is right that this is madness. I heard a panelist on NPR this morning say it will be “interesting” to see how this unfolds. No talk about the legality, no questioning why this happened. Total madness.
"Unfolds"? I teresting word usage. More like an unraveling, like loose spool of thread or ball of yarn. Unfolding is so neat and tidy, that's not what's happening here.
Kidnapping the president of another country? There are no words for this. I am speechless. What is really scary is that our president said it was like watching a TV show!!!
Will our "informed" citizenry even evaluate the discrepancy between this action and the president's pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras that was actually CONVICTED by a court for drug trafficking? Somehow I doubt it. We are an ignorant, unquestioning people.
Nah. Ignorance is forgivable. Willful disregard is not.
For him it probably was /is
I worry about the "long game" here. Trump is running scared from Epstein evidence, is scared to death of loosing power, and little more than a puppet for Vought & Miller. Will the US end up running like hell from Trumpican America just like Venezuelans have chosen to run from corruption in Venezuela? We are going to need everything "No Kings" can offer and more in the coming year.
Sadly I think we're too little too late an army of water pistoleros responding to an inferno. So courageous so impotent.
It’s sickening.
The Nobel Peace Prize has also been degraded. The recipient invited this kidnapping and hostile takeover of her own country.
"It’s the United States government deciding, unilaterally, that it has the authority to bomb a country, kill its citizens, and abduct its leader because we say he’s a drug dealer. We say."
We should stop including Trump and the complicit military-industrial-intelligence comples and the corporate oligarchs as being part of "We the People." In other words, don't say "we" when discussing the illegitimate actions of the U.S. government.
Is there some action a single citizen can take to move for the removal this dangerous idiot? Hoping for a blue wave will take too long, and there's no guarantee anything will change even if there is. I'm so ashamed of my country and its passive acceptance of this crap, that I could explode!
Thank you Corbin for connecting the dots when our paper of record refuses to! NYT serves the interests of capital. I didn't know about Machado's comments on privatizing the oil industry! Wtf. Thank you for contributing this fact to the situation. This is so major. When Trump met with oil execs in 2024 to bribe them for campaign donations, I wonder if this was a discussion item on the agenda.
We may be seeing a portion of the "near game" here. Watch for Trump to send in Kushner or some other goon to collect the Trump share. The Qatari jet was small game.
I cross-posted it to my subscribers, with this message from me:
"Once again America has gone beyond where we were before on the road to infamy. A contribution I can make is to pass along the best of the best. Corbin Trent is a light to be guided by! And the situation is so perilous that I'm pushing my latest for getting rid of this administration: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/a-new-way-on-a-new-years-day
Corbin, you are the best. I cross-posted this to my subscribers:
"Well, it's that sort of day, where once again America has gone beyond where we were before on the road to infamy. A contribution I can make is to pass along the best of the best. Corbin Trent is a light to be guided by! And the situation is so perilous that I'm pushing my latest for getting rid of this administration: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/a-new-way-on-a-new-years-day"
" . . . if any other country on earth did this to us, we would call it what it is." Are you referring to the closest thing (9.11) and the horror unleashed by the US on SEVEN countries under the guise of a War on Terrorism?
I like the comparison in terms of importance. BUT 911 was actually an inside job...just another ruthless act to initiate unnecessary/endless war by this rogue govt. we live wirh under the control of monsters....both parties obviously partaking.
Wait. What's the difference (except the date and place) between now and "911 was actually an inside job...just another ruthless act to initiate unnecessary/endless war by this rogue govt. we live wirh under the control of monsters....both parties obviously partaking.
Is this why corporate Dems have never stood up to trump? Was this everyone's plan all along? Just have the insane felony pedo do it, after a long string of crazy, no one will notice another crazy? Who the fuck is telling him to do this? There is a bad actor pulling Trump's puppet strings. Who is it?
"They" do well in keeping themselves concealled. There's a school of belief that there's several in the "party" of global elitists that have much invested in keeping populations (of all countries) as commodities, well controlled, and enslaved (if you will). They incorporate many tools to accomplish this including what we've been fooled into thinking as health care....more like covert genocide....the media, distractions, on and on. It's evil for sure and it's being revealled..especially if we pursue that eventuality.
Yes, what you say has become very apparent. When HRC paid off the dnc debt, she officially ran the party and kept corporate and capital gains far ahead of the interests of the people, somehow even normalizing genocide. We have no say that our tax dollars primarily go to defense, which is actually offense, so that our corrupt government can take what they want anywhere anytime anyhow. There are no elections, no one is protecting the vote to make sure elections are true, and the federalist society has criminally stacked the courts with their chosen, creating a justice system without justice. Dark times. Where do we turn?
Well described Jacqui. Consciousness is a difficult thing to quantify. It's easy to be discouraged seeing the bombardment of brainwashing/miss-leading information... resulting in such ignorance. Do remember not to give up, as this IS a time of great awakening and more of us are "getting it" by observance and/or being in survival circumstances that lead to real understanding. We "turn to persistence. sharing, compassion, optimism and "keeping on" . Thank you.