More John Wayne Gacy than Ted Bundy.
By Caitlin Johnstone
Waiting for the results of the US presidential election is like waiting to find out if you’re going to get hit by the mugger with the bat or the mugger with the crow bar.
Dave Calhoun, CEO of top war profiteer company Boeing, said back in July that he’ll be quite happy regardless of what happens on November third.
“I think both candidates, at least in my view, appear globally oriented and interested in the defense of our country and I believe they’ll support the industries,” Calhoun said. “I don’t think we’re going to take a position on one being better than the other.”
And of course he didn’t take such a position. Why would he? Arms manufacturers have been pouring money into the campaigns of both candidates, and they know that no matter who wins the presidential election they’re going to reap highly profitable mountains of corpses. Since they know they win no matter who wins, why risk offending a future business partner?
The fact that war plutocrats are happy with either candidate tells you more about the reality of this presidential race than all the billions of dollars worth of mass media reporting and punditry that’s gone into it over the last two years combined. No matter what happens in the election and its aftermath, this is the real headline.
It’s so unspeakably insane that people can become unimaginably wealthy by using campaign donations to help warmongering politicians rise to the top of the political system of the most bloodthirsty government on earth and then selling the weapons used in the wars those politicians start.
Really, just think about that for a second. Imagine if someone said “I’m going to become a billionaire by killing people in the Middle East and Africa and selling their organs on the black market.”
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Once you’ve seen it, you can never see the smiling nice guy again.
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Searching for “Survive The Night GIF by THE PURGE: ANARCHY – Find & Share on GIPHY, I’m not sure exactly what I found nomad. It seems to be a new surreal art form?
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i tried twice to post it. didnt work. ill try once more. if it doesnt work you can find it here. essentially its the tail end of the johnstone article.
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Thanks for persisting, Nomad. A very sad commentary indeed.
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thank you.
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just watched the news w people celebrating Biden/Harris victory. i see no cause. sad to see this once again. in 2008, young black boys aspiring to be mass murder masters with the apotheosis of obama. now its young black girls aspiring after kamala aka obama 2.0. this is very sad. very sad indeed.
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The BBC played the recording of her congratulatory phone call to Biden. It was positively creepy. Talk about psyops. I heard that phone call and started looking at some of the statistical anomalies in the states Biden won in the last few days. Although I’m definitely not a Trump fan, I believe his court challenges have merit. People forget that the Democrats cheated Sanders in numerous state primaries.
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creepy. the news people all use the same words to describe trumps challenge: “falsely claims”. never “claims”. always “falsely”. as if reading from the same script. creepy.
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weaponized PR. aka stratcom
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Great article, nomad. Thanks for posting.
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Ahhhh …… to live in a democracy and be able to vote for whoever the power structure allows to run is a wonderful gift for humanity. Tubularsock voted Green. But more “green” went to Orange Dump and Dead on Arrival and sealed the democracy.
And people are acting like the win of DOA is like something positive.
Well Tubularsock will catch you on the flip side! Cheers.
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I voted Green, as well, Tube. I still vote in Washington State, one of the 20 states where the Democrats didn’t keep the Greens off the ballot.
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