Great Newsletter. I grew up believing that the Palmer Acts and the Palmer Raids (named after Wilson's AG Alexander Palmer) had been a bad thing and a terrible time in U.S. history. I believed the same about Red Scare that Joe McCarthy put the country through. The Cold War was stupid and dangerous too. Now such insanity has become SOP for the Democratic Establishment and insanely, the ACLU has been completely standing down. I burned my ACLU card some time back after it became a Yes-organization for the loonies who have taken over this country. It's really sad.
Ahh, Gencide Joe is just a by-product of the rat-line of people occupying in the offices and in the shadows of Wailing Wall White House .
Please please, every president was a whore to corporations, MIC, banks, and their own inner supremacist real self.
Come on, Cornel called Obama what? The first black misleadership President? Nah, much much more street in West's words than that milquetoast.
Ahh, one man's protest is another pig's/cop's violence: "While most people agree that any violence from protesters, or, law enforcement, was indefensible, there has been controversy over the arrests of the protesters who were present there that day."
Cindy Cindy Cindy, I have been thrown in jail with nuns and priests and students on charges of disordely conduct, terroristic threats to an officer of the peace, aggravated rioting, and on my own, for assault when I was working with Planned Parenthood in El Paso, on Saturdays (no abortions, just STD screening and other services), and I grabbed a picket sign from one of the Jews for Christ peeps who continually jammed it into my face and groin.
Our Democratic and Republican billions of tax dollars to these unhuman Homo Bellum Sapiens Israelites?
From “War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification,” by Jeff Halper (Pluto Press, 2015):
“The Israeli journalist Amira Hass described what happened when IDF troops occupied the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in the center of El Bireh during Operation Defensive Shield: On the evening of Wednesday, May 1 [2002], when the siege on Arafat’s headquarters was lifted and the armored vehicles and the tanks had rumbled out, the executives and officials of the ministry who had rushed to the site did not expect to find the building the way they had left it … But what awaited them was beyond all their fears … In the department for the encouragement of children’s art, the soldiers had dirtied all the walls with gouache paints they found there and destroyed the children’s paintings that hung there in every room of the various departments—literature, film, culture for children and youth books, discs, pamphlets and documents were piled up, soiled with urine and excrement. There are two toilets on every floor, but the soldiers urinated and defecated everywhere else in the building, in several rooms of which they had lived for about a month. They did their business on the floors, in emptied flowerpots, even in drawers they had pulled out of desks. They defecated into plastic bags, and these were scattered in several places. Some of them had burst. Someone even managed to defecate into a photocopier.” So much for the supposed cultural superiority of Israeli society.
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Violence? Look up all the counties and city codes in AmeriKKKa and see how easy it is to get hit with assault charges protesting, but when it comes to Domestic Violence? Fuck, even the female judges and prosecutors fucking fail victims and survivors.
All in the local newspaper, that is, the shortened versions without the, well, VIOLENT language and VIOLENT tone I have been accused of fomenting from people reading your stuff, all the way through Caitlin Johnstone's SubBlogStack!
"From EV Debs’ speech at Canton, OH on 16 June 2018." Hmm, That would make him something like 175 years old. (obviously a typo). I'm good at creating those too!
We have one empire, under surveillance, with deceit and oppressionfor all!
If we are going to compare genocide Joe to someone surely it’s hitler as you say and Andrew Jackson’s Trail Of Tears. There are 20,000 children unaccounted for in the rubble and every day he ships dollars and weapons to increase the carnage. He’s an evil slaughterhouse pinnacle all by himself.
If it’s any consolation, Jackson didn’t win that war. The Seminole tribe fought him and kept fighting him much like Hamas is fighting the IDF.
Today the Seminoles remain on their homeland and own most of Florida. They have prospered while those that signed the treaties with the Pale faces died on the march.
It was far worse again in WWII: Time Magazine and the Washington Post actually promoted a call for the sterilisation of all Germans postbellum. It's said of the Morgenthau Plan that it was conceived in sin, died at birth ... and lived to a ripe old age.
I don't know (I'm Australian), but I wouldn't doubt that given the awful sentiment of the time. The Japanese were considered bonafide subhumans, and the US military quite literally head-hunted its way across the western Pacific!
Well, you saved us (and still guarantee our security today), so I can't complain too much. ;-)
Actually, speaking of WWI, I collected this account from an American woman in 2014:
"My grandfather was an immigrant from Germany during WWI time. His horse acted up around a train and threw him into the train, breaking his leg. The US police arrested him for 'attempted sabotage of a train' and put him in jail for many months. He almost died of infections from his broken leg. They were really prejudiced against Germans here in the US.
I'm sure many stories like mine have been passed down in German families. Apparently the US jails were full of German immigrants at the time. If you looked at someone wrong, you were placed in jail indefinitely, until someone could pay enough to bribe them to let you out."
so during Trump's term many woke schools changed their name from Wilson to the likes of Ida B Wells (as in the case of my kid's alma mater, which isn't a bad thing imo), etc. now during genocidejoe's, the likes of WHY have disappeared🙄
I can't find the words to describe this low-life, lying, skin and bones dreg of a human being. My god he's the worst president ever. Even in Amerika, how could such scum ever rise to this position? Yeah, I only very recently 'discovered' what 'Woody' did, which goes to show what they DON'T teach in history class...at least DIDN'T when I went to public school. Apparently that's what we're made of and how we behave towards ourselves and it's just the best we can do. Go figure. I thought the past was made up of better citizens, in which I have to ask: what happened to the people that gave rise to Henry Wallace and fought in the streets against this kind of shit?
Harding was a true hero of the working class. He tore down most of Wilson's tyrannical agencies, preached non-intervention and disarmament, and strongly favored unions. That's why he had to be scandalized and killed.
If Biden really thought Trump was a threat he'd have him murdered like Harding. (Spoiled seafood my @$$. Heart attack, HA!) It's all part of the sideshow that purports to be American "politics."
What we need is a REAL insurrection, not that kindergarten party gone amuck on Jan 6. Maybe a military coup? But then would Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin become our "leader?" God have mercy on us.
Nope we need avenging angels and the only way to get their help is, yup, here he goes again, Prayer (don't tell me prayer don't work when the Iraqis are kicking our @$$e$ out of their country...and MUCH more to come...throwing blood on Blinken's motorcade for starters...yay!), fasting, (As Jesus said, "That kind takes prayer AND fasting."), and help those in need to show God you're REALLY serious! END OF RANT.
The only good thing about the Sedition Act is that it was repealed after the War was over. A totally barbarous, and fascist infringement on Free Speech, which was effectively outlawed by Princeton man Wilson, a virulent anti-Communist, who of course won the election by promising to keep America out of the European War. Incidentally, the Espionage Act, still on the books, was Barack O'Bushma's favorite piece of WW 1 legislation.
This isn't exactly an earth-shaking insight, but as soon as I started reading about Wilson and Biden, I thought "Don't forget Lincoln!"
So I was gratified to see that you didn't. In recent years, I've become much more aware of Lincoln's dark side-- or perhaps I should say I've learned more about Lincoln's authoritarian abuses of power. Frankly, I had always downplayed or dismissed such critiques of Lincoln on the assumption that they were fomented by a claque of bitter and disgruntled Southerners keeping the faith that "the South shall rise again!"
I preferred to think of Lincoln as more or less saintly-- wise, humane, compassionate, and pragmatically shrewd. I suppose that this benign view arises because of his assassination and martyrdom. BTW, that's a rabbit hole too; see the late Dave McGowan's intriguing, albeit tantalizingly open-ended, challenge to the standard history if you enjoy or can tolerate rabbit-hole tours: https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/lincoln/
I used to excuse, or forgive, Lincoln's running roughshod over Constitutional civil liberties on the grounds that the difficult circumstances and the enormity of the conflict and potential disintegration of the USA justified his extra-legal and ruthless policies.
Ironically, the Ziocaine-frenzied unconditional supporters of rogue-state Israel use this same justification-- not only regarding the Israeli government and military's genocidal oppression of the Palestinians, but also regarding the founding of the State of Israel in the first place.
You can't preserve a Union, or found a Jewish homeland in occupied territory, without breaking a few inconvenient eggs! 🥚
I still want to think the Lincoln was mostly a "mensch", and far more perspicacious than odious creeps like Wilson and Biden. But the older I get, the more I become convinced that putting political leaders on pedestals is a good way to obscure or ignore their feet of clay. 🦶🦶 🤨
I don't think we should be using "Hitler" or "Nazi" offhandedly to represent anything other than what they were. There are plenty of other words, like authoritarian, etc. to describe the shameful men who supposedly represent us. Other than that, thanks for the important essay on the treachery of these guys and the parallels.
Great Newsletter. I grew up believing that the Palmer Acts and the Palmer Raids (named after Wilson's AG Alexander Palmer) had been a bad thing and a terrible time in U.S. history. I believed the same about Red Scare that Joe McCarthy put the country through. The Cold War was stupid and dangerous too. Now such insanity has become SOP for the Democratic Establishment and insanely, the ACLU has been completely standing down. I burned my ACLU card some time back after it became a Yes-organization for the loonies who have taken over this country. It's really sad.
Thanks!
The Democrats have gone full-fascist, for sure.
Ahh, Gencide Joe is just a by-product of the rat-line of people occupying in the offices and in the shadows of Wailing Wall White House .
Please please, every president was a whore to corporations, MIC, banks, and their own inner supremacist real self.
Come on, Cornel called Obama what? The first black misleadership President? Nah, much much more street in West's words than that milquetoast.
Ahh, one man's protest is another pig's/cop's violence: "While most people agree that any violence from protesters, or, law enforcement, was indefensible, there has been controversy over the arrests of the protesters who were present there that day."
Cindy Cindy Cindy, I have been thrown in jail with nuns and priests and students on charges of disordely conduct, terroristic threats to an officer of the peace, aggravated rioting, and on my own, for assault when I was working with Planned Parenthood in El Paso, on Saturdays (no abortions, just STD screening and other services), and I grabbed a picket sign from one of the Jews for Christ peeps who continually jammed it into my face and groin.
Read one comment here on my post:
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/scientism-white-mans-womans-burdern
Our Democratic and Republican billions of tax dollars to these unhuman Homo Bellum Sapiens Israelites?
From “War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification,” by Jeff Halper (Pluto Press, 2015):
“The Israeli journalist Amira Hass described what happened when IDF troops occupied the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in the center of El Bireh during Operation Defensive Shield: On the evening of Wednesday, May 1 [2002], when the siege on Arafat’s headquarters was lifted and the armored vehicles and the tanks had rumbled out, the executives and officials of the ministry who had rushed to the site did not expect to find the building the way they had left it … But what awaited them was beyond all their fears … In the department for the encouragement of children’s art, the soldiers had dirtied all the walls with gouache paints they found there and destroyed the children’s paintings that hung there in every room of the various departments—literature, film, culture for children and youth books, discs, pamphlets and documents were piled up, soiled with urine and excrement. There are two toilets on every floor, but the soldiers urinated and defecated everywhere else in the building, in several rooms of which they had lived for about a month. They did their business on the floors, in emptied flowerpots, even in drawers they had pulled out of desks. They defecated into plastic bags, and these were scattered in several places. Some of them had burst. Someone even managed to defecate into a photocopier.” So much for the supposed cultural superiority of Israeli society.
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Violence? Look up all the counties and city codes in AmeriKKKa and see how easy it is to get hit with assault charges protesting, but when it comes to Domestic Violence? Fuck, even the female judges and prosecutors fucking fail victims and survivors.
Not a dime for these enlightening pieces I wrote:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/04/everyday-is-domestic-violence-awareness-day-not-just-a-week-in-october/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/08/elephants-in-the-room-battered-women-are-our-sisters-mothers-friends-wives/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/09/stages-of-grief-disempowering-the-abuser-healing/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/10/from-victimhood-to-victim-to-survivor-and-the-chains-of-broken-systems-dealing-with-dv/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/black-and-blue-the-many-ways-of-domestic-violence-world/
All in the local newspaper, that is, the shortened versions without the, well, VIOLENT language and VIOLENT tone I have been accused of fomenting from people reading your stuff, all the way through Caitlin Johnstone's SubBlogStack!
Peace,
I thought I'd point this out:
"From EV Debs’ speech at Canton, OH on 16 June 2018." Hmm, That would make him something like 175 years old. (obviously a typo). I'm good at creating those too!
We have one empire, under surveillance, with deceit and oppressionfor all!
Whoops
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll fix it
Lol
So glad you’ve so informed (and sharing), Cindy!
Kat gets it, too:
https://open.substack.com/pub/pat4evr/p/reality-is-going-to-bite-hard-and?r=xaumi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
thanks!
If we are going to compare genocide Joe to someone surely it’s hitler as you say and Andrew Jackson’s Trail Of Tears. There are 20,000 children unaccounted for in the rubble and every day he ships dollars and weapons to increase the carnage. He’s an evil slaughterhouse pinnacle all by himself.
so many scoundrels.....
If it’s any consolation, Jackson didn’t win that war. The Seminole tribe fought him and kept fighting him much like Hamas is fighting the IDF.
Today the Seminoles remain on their homeland and own most of Florida. They have prospered while those that signed the treaties with the Pale faces died on the march.
Fight on Palestine!
the Seminole resistance is indeed very inspiring.
and incidentally the propaganda hasn't changed much (just the method of dissemination). WW1 propaganda included cartoons of "Huns" bayoneting babies.
It was far worse again in WWII: Time Magazine and the Washington Post actually promoted a call for the sterilisation of all Germans postbellum. It's said of the Morgenthau Plan that it was conceived in sin, died at birth ... and lived to a ripe old age.
wow, didn't know that. The anti-Japanese propaganda was off the charts too I think. Also, in WW1, didn't they close down breweries as "too German?"
I don't know (I'm Australian), but I wouldn't doubt that given the awful sentiment of the time. The Japanese were considered bonafide subhumans, and the US military quite literally head-hunted its way across the western Pacific!
ain't the US wonderful?
Well, you saved us (and still guarantee our security today), so I can't complain too much. ;-)
Actually, speaking of WWI, I collected this account from an American woman in 2014:
"My grandfather was an immigrant from Germany during WWI time. His horse acted up around a train and threw him into the train, breaking his leg. The US police arrested him for 'attempted sabotage of a train' and put him in jail for many months. He almost died of infections from his broken leg. They were really prejudiced against Germans here in the US.
I'm sure many stories like mine have been passed down in German families. Apparently the US jails were full of German immigrants at the time. If you looked at someone wrong, you were placed in jail indefinitely, until someone could pay enough to bribe them to let you out."
so during Trump's term many woke schools changed their name from Wilson to the likes of Ida B Wells (as in the case of my kid's alma mater, which isn't a bad thing imo), etc. now during genocidejoe's, the likes of WHY have disappeared🙄
Thank you for your story.
I can't find the words to describe this low-life, lying, skin and bones dreg of a human being. My god he's the worst president ever. Even in Amerika, how could such scum ever rise to this position? Yeah, I only very recently 'discovered' what 'Woody' did, which goes to show what they DON'T teach in history class...at least DIDN'T when I went to public school. Apparently that's what we're made of and how we behave towards ourselves and it's just the best we can do. Go figure. I thought the past was made up of better citizens, in which I have to ask: what happened to the people that gave rise to Henry Wallace and fought in the streets against this kind of shit?
Harding was a true hero of the working class. He tore down most of Wilson's tyrannical agencies, preached non-intervention and disarmament, and strongly favored unions. That's why he had to be scandalized and killed.
If Biden really thought Trump was a threat he'd have him murdered like Harding. (Spoiled seafood my @$$. Heart attack, HA!) It's all part of the sideshow that purports to be American "politics."
What we need is a REAL insurrection, not that kindergarten party gone amuck on Jan 6. Maybe a military coup? But then would Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin become our "leader?" God have mercy on us.
Nope we need avenging angels and the only way to get their help is, yup, here he goes again, Prayer (don't tell me prayer don't work when the Iraqis are kicking our @$$e$ out of their country...and MUCH more to come...throwing blood on Blinken's motorcade for starters...yay!), fasting, (As Jesus said, "That kind takes prayer AND fasting."), and help those in need to show God you're REALLY serious! END OF RANT.
The only good thing about the Sedition Act is that it was repealed after the War was over. A totally barbarous, and fascist infringement on Free Speech, which was effectively outlawed by Princeton man Wilson, a virulent anti-Communist, who of course won the election by promising to keep America out of the European War. Incidentally, the Espionage Act, still on the books, was Barack O'Bushma's favorite piece of WW 1 legislation.
This isn't exactly an earth-shaking insight, but as soon as I started reading about Wilson and Biden, I thought "Don't forget Lincoln!"
So I was gratified to see that you didn't. In recent years, I've become much more aware of Lincoln's dark side-- or perhaps I should say I've learned more about Lincoln's authoritarian abuses of power. Frankly, I had always downplayed or dismissed such critiques of Lincoln on the assumption that they were fomented by a claque of bitter and disgruntled Southerners keeping the faith that "the South shall rise again!"
I preferred to think of Lincoln as more or less saintly-- wise, humane, compassionate, and pragmatically shrewd. I suppose that this benign view arises because of his assassination and martyrdom. BTW, that's a rabbit hole too; see the late Dave McGowan's intriguing, albeit tantalizingly open-ended, challenge to the standard history if you enjoy or can tolerate rabbit-hole tours: https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/lincoln/
I used to excuse, or forgive, Lincoln's running roughshod over Constitutional civil liberties on the grounds that the difficult circumstances and the enormity of the conflict and potential disintegration of the USA justified his extra-legal and ruthless policies.
Ironically, the Ziocaine-frenzied unconditional supporters of rogue-state Israel use this same justification-- not only regarding the Israeli government and military's genocidal oppression of the Palestinians, but also regarding the founding of the State of Israel in the first place.
You can't preserve a Union, or found a Jewish homeland in occupied territory, without breaking a few inconvenient eggs! 🥚
I still want to think the Lincoln was mostly a "mensch", and far more perspicacious than odious creeps like Wilson and Biden. But the older I get, the more I become convinced that putting political leaders on pedestals is a good way to obscure or ignore their feet of clay. 🦶🦶 🤨
Fantastic truth telling, thank you.
Cindy in ‘24! 🇺🇸
I don't think we should be using "Hitler" or "Nazi" offhandedly to represent anything other than what they were. There are plenty of other words, like authoritarian, etc. to describe the shameful men who supposedly represent us. Other than that, thanks for the important essay on the treachery of these guys and the parallels.
There is no other word than GENOCIDE for Joe.