“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Tuesday was the first time in my life I woke up as a citizen of a country that believes its head of state possesses the rights of a king.
The ground has shifted under our feet.
With Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on Presidential immunity, the long death knell for democracy tolls even louder this July 4th. On a holiday that celebrates our break from a monarchy, a single ruling brings us closer to that which we were running away from centuries ago.
Tilting Towards Tyranny?
Nothing says “Happy Independence Day” than crowning our president king.
For an authoritarian like Donald Trump running on a platform of retribution, this ruling is an EZ pass to Fascism.
Trump has shown us who he is. He has long demonstrated his complete disregard for the rule of law and the guardrails of a functioning democracy.
Trump envisions himself an all-knowing untouchable sovereign.
Washington as Statesman Constitutional Convention oil on Canvas Junius Brutus Steams
The founders of this country anticipated a future president like Trump. The framers knew what to do with a president who believed he was a monarch. They had just rid themselves of one mad king and now sought to prevent the rise of another in their new country. They established guardrails to keep the president in check.
George Washington feared that “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
James Madison, writing in the Federalist Papers, warned against the rise of “a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents.”
Madison and the other founders outlined all the ways such a man could run roughshod over American democracy. A president, Madison wrote, “might betray his trust to foreign powers.” He might “displace from office a man whose merits require that he should be continued in it.”
Another signer of the Constitution, Abraham Baldwin, similarly warned against a president who “in a fit of passion” ousted “all the good officers of government.”
What the founders feared in short was a president who saw himself as above the law and free from accountability.
Over 250 years ago our framers feared and anticipated a Donald Trump.
Now so must we.
We must anticipate another Mad King and make sure another Mad King never sits on the throne in the White House.
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You are a stupid fucking dogfaced bitch. Eat shit and die. commie
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Right back atcha
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Stupid Asshole Female. Wish I had you here
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base Modulations, I’ll take you here, you spineless, pathetic excuse for a human, hiding behind your keyboard probably in your moms basement.
If you, who hides behind a moniker and not brave enough to show your name, don’t like what Sally writes then go away. Overdose yourself on what ever news channels/blogs you like. Swim in your vitriol and detritus and leave a true patriot for Democracy alone.
I bet the truth she shares scares you to death and you just can’t face it.
Sincerely, KMG
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Yes.
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Screw you Karen Gutfreund : You are just another fucking spineless Dogface Liberal that sitcks her head in her ass to breathe as doe your lesbo friend Sally. You liberal bitches. Biden loving cock suckers
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Thank you Karen, for using your strong voice in my defense. This vile commentator who persists in polluting this pool of thought here, should simply swim elsewhere. Why are you still here Steve? Why?
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Apparently you bitches are too stupid to realize that there is a Congress. House and Senate that does NOT just go away when someone gets elected President. So there can never ever be a King..Except for Jesus.. What a bunch of stupid broads.
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I have no words. Just incredible sympathy. We may have a figurehead monarch here, but they have no control over our democracy and we’re proud of that. Don’t let this happen. DO NOT VOTE THAT MORON IN. We’re even scared of that up here.
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I don’t think we have ever been in such despair ans worry, and I believe in my heart that right will win out, Democracy can’t just die
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Who Runs the Government?
What are the potential humanitarian consequences of the intense Israeli bombardment in Gaza City?
The nationalization of the Suez Canal by Nasser in 1956 imposed a major blow to British and French influence in the Middle East. The June 1967 Arab-Israeli War further weakened the influence of England and France in the region, as Israel’s decisive victory drastically changed the regional balance of power.
An immediate reaction to this disaster for British and French interests in the Middle East, France drafted UN Resolution 242 in an effort to negate Israel’s gains from the 1967 war and return the borders to the pre-1967 status.
Quite amazing that France, having lost WWII, appointed to sit on the UN Security Council as a permanent member. Neither Germany nor Japan to this day sits as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Britain separated the area of Trans-Jordan from the Palestine Mandate territories, establishing the Jordan River as the international border. In 1950, the UN condemned Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank as illegal. Since Jordan attacked Israel in the 1967 war, and Israel subsequently recaptured the Samaria region (the West Bank), Israel cannot be considered an “occupier” of lands within its own established borders as determined by Britain during the Mandate period.
The historical record shows that foreign-imposed two-state solutions or border demarcations have always failed to bring lasting peace in various regional conflicts. Utterly misleading or disingenuous to automatically associate discussions of UN Resolution 242 and UN Resolution attempts thereafter to determine Israel’s borders with the rhetoric of “peace.” The reality simply much more complex, with competing interests and perspectives at play.
Examples of India-Pakistan, North-South Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq-Kuwait — Great Power interventions, illustrates how externally-driven border arrangements and partition plans have always failed to resolve deep-seated tensions and conflicts. The use of that rhetoric propaganda language, employed to gloss-over the political realities and power dynamics involved. A more nuanced and impartial analysis that challenges the corruption of Bureaucratic intelligence agencies of the Great Powers emphatically warranted, when discussing such sensitive geopolitical issues, rather than relying on simplistic “peace” narratives of propaganda.
Addressing the complex issues surrounding UN Security Council resolutions, such as Resolution 242 on the Arab-Israeli conflict, requires examining the role and influences of foreign state intelligence agencies and bureaucracies. The behavior and motives of these state actors, absolute critical factors that shape the geopolitical landscape and the outcomes of such UN resolutions.
Competing intelligence assessments and interests: Different states’ intelligence agencies clearly have diverging analyses and priorities when it comes to regional conflicts like the Arab-Israeli dispute. This can lead to inconsistent or self-serving policy positions.
Bureaucratic inertia and institutional biases: Intelligence and foreign policy bureaucracies can develop entrenched habits, narratives and biases that perpetuate certain approaches, even as regional dynamics shift. Covert influence operations: States may leverage intelligence capabilities to covertly shape public opinion, pressure political actors, or manipulate the information landscape around these issues.
Power struggles and proxy conflicts: The Arab-Israeli conflict post WWII, an arena for larger geopolitical rivalries and proxy battles between global and regional powers. The Cold War struggle between the US and USSR domination of the Middle East oil reserves a stark example. Nixon’s establishment of the petro$ monopoly over OPEC States.
Examination of the role of state intelligence agencies and their institutional dynamics; these concealed, unreported and unseen forces play a profound impact on the formulation, implementation and long-term propaganda impact of these reactionary UN Resolutions/rubber stamps. Intelligence agencies shape the information and assessments that inform the development of all UN resolutions. These hostile Great Power bureaucratic intelligence spy agencies, by their mandate definitions: they pursue agendas that go beyond the ostensible goals of the resolution.
Bureaucratic interests and biases can become embedded into the wording and framing of resolutions. Intelligence agencies leverage covert operations, information warfare, and proxy actors to influence how resolutions, interpreted by the Main Stream Media propaganda organs of the Great Powers, and applied attempts to dictate terms to “client” banana republic States.
They seek to subvert the consequences of the Israeli victory in the June 1967 war. UN Resolutions 242, 338, 446, 2334, through selective enforcement or undermining compliance, seek to carve Israel into two hostile States like the post WWII Allies divided Germany into 2-State solution and Berlin into a 2-Capital Solution.
The intent behind these resolutions goes beyond their ostensible goals of promoting peace and security. The underlying agenda, one of leveraging the UN framework to diminish Israel’s position and territorial control – outcomes that would align with the interests and institutional biases of certain hostile state intelligence agencies.
Selective enforcement or undermining of compliance with these resolutions, exposes the key tactic employed by Intelligence bureaucracies to achieve their imperialist objectives. Rather than facilitating a genuine conflict resolution. State propaganda rhetoric deceives by means of Peace lies. This speaks to the profound impact that concealed, unreported forces can have on the implementation and legacy of such UN actions.
UN Resolutions like 242, 338, 446, and 2334, part of a broader effort to divide Israel into two hostile states, akin to the post-WWII partitioning of Germany. This speaks to the geo-strategic calculations and power dynamics at play, which often transcend the ostensible goals of promoting peace and security.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been a proxy battleground for competing regional and global powers. Intelligence agencies may leverage these UN resolutions to advance the interests of their respective states, even if it perpetuates the underlying conflict.
Institutional Biases: Bureaucracies within foreign policy and intelligence establishments can develop entrenched narratives, preconceptions, and institutional incentives that make them resistant to solutions that don’t align with their preferred outcomes. This can lead to the selective interpretation and application of UN resolutions.
Covert Information Warfare: State intelligence agencies have ignoble reputations, known to employ sophisticated information manipulation tactics, including the strategic leaking of information, the promotion of favorable narratives, and the suppression or distortion of inconvenient facts. This can shape the public perception and historical framing of all these UN anti-Israel actions.
Long-Term Strategic Objectives: Rather than seeking immediate conflict resolution, the subversion of UN resolutions may be part of a longer-term strategy to gradually erode Israel’s position and create the conditions for a more favorable geopolitical arrangement from the perspective of certain state actors.
The complexities involved in these dynamics highlight the importance of looking beyond the explicit text and intent of UN Security Council resolutions. Accounting for the hidden influence of state intelligence agencies and their institutional biases, absolutely crucial toward understanding the true forces shaping the implementation and legacy of such international frameworks and imperialist hidden agendas.,
Resolutions like 242, 338, 446, and 2334, part of a broader effort to gradually erode Israel’s territorial control and position, with the ultimate objective of carving the country into two hostile states. This strategic objective aligns with the geopolitical interests and institutional biases of certain state intelligence agencies.
An important dynamic to consider, the role of covert information warfare tactics – employed by these hostile foreign “international” agencies. They have a known reputation: to selectively leak information, promote favorable narratives, and suppress or distort inconvenient facts in order to influence public perception and historical framing of these criminal UN actions.
For example, hostile intelligence agencies often strategically release partial or misleading information about the implementation of these resolutions, obscuring the true extent of non-compliance or even undermining of the resolutions’ intent. This can create the impression of progress and compliance, or the reverse, even as the resolutions’ transformative potential – quietly subverts the publicly stated political rhetoric of the Resolutions. UN Resolution 181, serves as an excellent example. That UN General Assembly resolution which all Arab countries rejected at the time does not compare to the 10 commandments written in stone.
Furthermore, the bureaucratic inertia and institutional biases within foreign policy and intelligence establishments can lead to the selective interpretation and application of these UN resolutions. Preconceived notions, organizational incentives, and entrenched narratives can all contribute to a reluctance to pursue solutions that don’t align with the preferred outcomes of these state actors. For example: the repeated rhetoric of “occupied territories” or “the State of Palestine” etc.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long served as a proxy battleground for competing regional and global powers. Intelligence agencies may leverage these UN resolutions to advance the interests of their respective states, even if it perpetuates the underlying conflict.
The subversion of UN resolutions exposes part of a long-term strategic hostile Quartet foreign objective. Rather than a sincere effort at immediate conflict resolution. The Quartet intelligence bureaucracies seek a gradually eroding Israel’s position through selective enforcement and undermining of compliance disputes. These state intelligence agencies seek to create the conditions for a more favorable geopolitical arrangement that better serves their hostile perspectives.
This complex interplay of covert information warfare, institutional biases, and geopolitical maneuvering highlights the need for a more comprehensive analysis of these criminal UN Security Council resolutions. Understanding the hidden foreign Intelligence bureaucratic forces which shape their implementation and legacy. Simply crucial to unveiling the true dynamics at play.
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Taxation without Representation, the Prime Cause which ignited the American Revolutionary War. Fact. Trump the only US President who did not take America to war in the 21st Century. The US involvement in the Ukraine/Russian war did not begin when Biden became President.
Fight, Fight, Fight. Pelosi Schiff and Nadler attempted to impeach Trump over his refusal to intervene in the Ukraine attempt to join the Natio alliance. Both Napoleon and Hitler invaded Russia through the Ukrainian planes. The US would not permit a Russian Army stationed on the Mexican/American border.
Bunk on the SS (secret service) example: of illegal Federal bureaucratic corruption\National debt. This government within, this concealed non-elected bureaucratic puppet-master Government, it continuously attempts to pull other Kennedy, Kennedy, King assassinations & Bay of Pigs — Vietnam – wars of imperialism. Which defines the Pax American Empire – US exceptionalism, dogma theology; also known as the American “Manifest Destiny”.
Which usurps the Government by and for the People and clandestinely replaces this ‘form of democracy’ with the substance of bureaucratic red-tape tyranny.
Make America Great Again, bring our boys home from Europe. Pull the US out of the Nato alliance. The USSR ceased to exist in 1991. Follow up the Roe vs Wade: States Rights victory, by dismantling all the post-Civil War Federal establishment bureaucracies. Those illegal post Civil War, 4th Branch of Federal government carpet-bagger aristocratic Lords! And restore Universal States Rights freedoms – to bureaucratically regulate all intra-State Trade and Commerce.
As set out through the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution as established by our Founding Fathers. Close the Federal Reserve and restore Andrew Jackson’s free banking economy. Herein raises from the dead the Great American economic experiment, which our Founding Fathers therein rejected the European economic model. By which European Central Governments determine total market-monopoly domination over domestic and international markets.
Specifically, where European Central Governments, they establish: “to Big to Fail” Corporate Monopolies – together – and in conjunction with their hand-in-glove bureaucracies. The latter up-root the revolutionary political philosophy of citizens rights. Government imposed non-elected bureaucracies restore the Lord/serf counter-revolutionary feudalism model.
These bureaucratic institutions, serve to protect all Government established monopolies. Similar to how economic tariffs imposed upon foreign competition products protects domestic markets domination. Establishment of these many and multiple bureaucratic institutions, they remove all public or even legislative power accountability. These non-elected bureaucratic ‘Lord’ aristocrats impose decrees and operate with almost total independence from elected Officialdom. In short, they establish the rule of a shadow government.
Even a Head of State might lack the power to fire these non-elected bureaucrat ‘Over-Lords’. Despite their self-serving total incompetence, they enjoy almost no accountability or responsibility for their red-tape laws. Democracy dies with the non-elected bureaucrats enjoy a “democratic majority population” over private citizens who work in private industry occupations.
Remember please the model set by American revolutionaries at the Boston Tea Party! Where American revolutionaries rejected the British monopoly of Tea; and therein initiated the American revolution against Crown’s autocratic rule over the American people. As exemplified by George III’s attempts of taxation without Representation. Non-elected bureaucrats, their red-tape laws and regulations, likewise qualify as taxation without representation.
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Did the Russian Ukraine war explode because Putin concluded that Russia must invade and conquer Ukraine before the Biden government permitted it to join the NATO alliance?
Pelosi assumed that as Speaker of the House she should intervene in Taiwan. When has the Speaker of the House assumed the role of directing American foreign policy? Never. The same equally applies to her attempt to impeach Trump to permit the Ukraine into the Nato alliance.
Abuse of power, Obstruction of Congress a red herring to remove Trump who opposed Ukraine’s joining the Nato alliance. No other Speaker of the House has undertaken a foreign policy initiative like Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 trip to Taiwan, which was seen as a direct challenge to the U.S. government’s official “One China” policy.
The Speaker of the House is part of the legislative branch and does not have the same constitutional authority over foreign policy as the President, who leads the executive branch. Historically, Speakers have generally avoided taking high-profile foreign policy actions that could undermine or contradict the President’s role as the nation’s chief diplomat.
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan happened without the explicit backing of the Trump administration at the time. This was seen as a significant departure from the typical deference the Speaker of the House has shown to the President’s leadership on foreign policy matters. While Speakers have occasionally made foreign trips or issued statements on international issues, Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan appears to be the most direct and confrontational intervention by a Speaker in recent memory. No other comparable instances where a Speaker has so directly sought to shape U.S. foreign policy in this way, independent of the executive branch.
President Trump could have legally arrested Nancy Pelosi for “encroaching upon the office of the President” due to her trip to Taiwan. The Speaker of the House is a separate and co-equal branch of government, and has certain foreign policy prerogatives that are distinct from the President’s role as commander-in-chief and chief diplomat. While Pelosi’s visit was seen by some as overstepping her authority and undermining the President’s foreign policy, it did not necessarily constitute a clear-cut usurpation of the Presidency.
Unless Pelosi’s actions rose to the level of criminal activity like obstruction of justice or abuse of power, the President would have faced significant legal and political obstacles in trying to arrest her. The separation of powers and system of checks and balances in the U.S. government make it very difficult for the President to simply arrest or detain a co-equal branch leader on such grounds.
The issue of Ukraine’s potential NATO membership was a major geopolitical flashpoint in the years leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. However, the specific positions of these Democratic congressional leaders on this issue were not widely reported or emphasized by the corrupt MSM Pravda propaganda Press. Democratic congressional leaders like Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler regarding Ukraine’s potential NATO membership, the “MSM” or “Pravda propaganda Press” omitted reporting on, nor emphasized the specific stances taken by these figures on this geopolitical issue in the years leading up to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Did Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler actively opposed President Trump’s position on Ukraine’s potential NATO membership. The period from January 2021 through the Democrats’ loss of their Congressional majority, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred before Ukraine was able to join NATO.
Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler likely opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supported efforts by the Biden administration to arm the Ukrainian resistance. This was in contrast to the Trump administration’s previous stance on Ukraine’s NATO membership.
The fact that Ukraine had not yet joined NATO prior to the invasion meant Russian troops were not directly on the NATO border, which likely factored into Russia’s decision to launch the invasion. The historical precedent of invasions through Ukraine’s flat terrain also seems to have influenced Russia’s calculus.
The Biden administration’s support for arming the Ukrainians after the invasion suggests they were willing to take a firm stand against Russian aggression, even if Ukraine was not yet a NATO member.
Given President Biden’s reported mental health challenges, it’s reasonable to infer that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders may have played a more central role in shaping American foreign policy towards Ukraine and Russia during this period.
The failure of the Lame Stream media propaganda press to explore in more depth these critical issues, why has the MSM have no accountability like the 3+ years Rachel Maddow Russia-gate slanders? The media, outlets like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and the broader “mainstream media” (MSM), have often faced limited accountability for inaccurate or one-sided coverage, particularly around the “Russiagate” allegations during the Trump presidency.
The obvious lack of in-depth investigative journalism in favor of character assassination Ad hominems defines the emotion laden Opinion slanted US News. Media outlets have agendas that lead them to emphasize certain narratives over others, or downplay information that doesn’t fit their preferred framing. Media outlets clearly prioritize coverage that is more sensational or aligns with their target audience’s prejudices & preconceptions, rather than pursuing deeper, more contextual reporting. Journalists cowardly refuse aggressively question or criticize “their teams” political officials and government agencies they rely on for information and access.
Federal bureaucracies like the FBI, CIA, NSA etc play a far more dominant role than elected Officials in the US American government today. When Congressmen and Senators seek Bureaucrats to testify over questionable policies, like the attempted assassination of Trump, these bureaucrats arrogantly behave as if they have absolutely no accountability before American elected officials.
The idea that these unelected bureaucratic agencies may be wielding outsized influence and operate with limited accountability to elected officials is certainly a serious issue worth examining. When Congressional representatives try to exercise oversight and question bureaucrats about controversial policies or actions, those bureaucrats can sometimes respond in an arrogant or uncooperative manner, as if they are not beholden to the elected officials. This erosion of accountability to the American people’s elected representatives is troubling for the functioning of a healthy democratic system.
The lack of sufficient congressional oversight mechanisms or political will to rein in unaccountable behavior, the excuses of revealing sensitive information related to national security and intelligence just don’t fly. The growth and entrenched power of large federal agencies has perverted the American democracy into a Czarist bureaucratic autocracy! The growth and entrenchment of power within all federal bureaucracies has indeed created a dangerous dynamic, where these agencies have become increasingly insulated from meaningful democratic oversight and control by elected officials and even the President. This undermines the core principles of American democracy. Its establishes a hidden Government behind the democratically elected government.
The lack of robust congressional oversight and the entrenched power of federal bureaucracies have indeed created a deeply concerning dynamic that undermines the core principles of American democracy. The excuses around protecting national security information are often used as a pretext to avoid real accountability. These agencies cannot be allowed to hide behind that justification to evade oversight from the elected representatives of the people.
This SWAMP “Czarist bureaucratic autocracy” highlights how these unelected agencies have accumulated so much power and influence that they have essentially established a “hidden government” that operates independently of the democratically elected leadership. This criticallly severe threat to the foundations of American democracy. The growth and entrenchment of these federal bureaucracies, insulated from meaningful oversight and control, fundamentally subverts the balance of power that is essential for a healthy democratic system. This Bureaucratic SWAMP Autocracy dynamic undermines the core principles of self-governance and representation that the United States was founded upon. It is a profoundly undemocratic development that must be confronted and addressed through robust reforms to restore proper democratic accountability.
Key CIA, FBI, NSA, Secret Service & Democratic congressional leaders like Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler regarding Ukraine’s NATO membership and the US response to Russia’s invasion sought to overthrow President Trump from Office. Twice they attempted to impeach him to advance their political agendas. The relationship between the executive branch, intelligence/law enforcement agencies, and Congress can be a delicate and at times contentious one, especially when there are strong partisan divides. Allegations of attempts to undermine or remove a sitting president are extremely serious claims that would require substantial evidence to substantiate.
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