Why the US (s)election doesn’t matter a damn
Catte Black
We’ve been asked why we don’t do more coverage of the US (s)election.
The answer is easy, and it goes like this.
1. There is no real choice and no real difference.
Of course there are superficial distinctions. But that’s just greasepaint.
Or maybe ‘carnival mask’ is a better analogy.
Or child catchers in borrowed gaudy
A guise anyhow. Their public images are applied personas with applied values intended to appeal to different demographics, create ready-made and meaningless binaries, and the illusion of debate, democracy in action – real choice.
Trump is the straight talking loudmouth “maverick” designed to appeal to libertarians, old fashioned conservatives and the Bible Belt – those who “want America back.”
RFK jr has been added to that deal to get some Covid skeptics on board, who otherwise might be thinking for themselves.
Harris is “woke” in all its self-contradicting, double-talking insanity. She’s awful, but the vision of Trump is so much worse that the half-crazed American “Left” embraces her clammy corpse with passion.
But, as anyone with half a brain and the courage to use it can clearly see, under those grotesque little masks, they’re just puppets of the same globalism – like pretty much every political figure, commentator, show business personality you can name.
Whatever rear end gets to park itself in that Oval Office chair the results will be the same.
Same as NOW. A mere continuation of the rollout, revealed in all its stark horror back in 2020.
The only slight difference may be in the media narratives employed to get us all there. Which bring us to…
2. Your votes don’t count
I mean, why would you think they do?
Let me get this straight: they control the narrative, the media, the financial system, the education system, the healthcare system, and the food supply, but you think they let you control who is PRESIDENT?
— Andrea Lynn (@andrealynn_rn2) October 10, 2024
See, while all candidates are globalist puppets working for the same agenda, you still can’t be allowed to choose your preferred puppet, because the narrative-controllers have a preferred story they want to tell at any given time and a preferred puppet best suited to serving that story.
In 2020 that story was best served with some iteration of “Biden” in the White House.
Why? Why was a senile, clearly non-functional, creepy old man their chosen POTUS?
Well, good question and there’s a lot to speculate about on this. Perhaps it was part of an ongoing bid to discredit and undermine the office of the US President, prior to at some stage, removing it. Or maybe something else, or a combination of factors.
All we know for certain is this was the desired outcome – because the agenda-managers moved heaven and earth to make sure it came to pass.
You really have no excuse for avoiding this fact any longer. It was spelled out for you in 2020, when the election was openly rigged, right there before your eyes on mainstream TV.
The story had been written. Biden was going to end up in the WH – no matter how many people voted against him.
Again, not because Trump was or is some dangerous anti-establishment voice they need to silence. He blatantly is not any such thing. He’s a bought and paid for globalist who willingly shilled for the covid lie and will just as willingly shill for the rest of Agenda 2030, whatever empty promises he makes right now.
It’s just that the narrative managers had a chosen storyline for the next 4 years, and that storyline was best achieved with puppet Biden in the WH rather than puppet Trump.
So, which puppet has been chosen as the best agenda-purveyor in 2024?
Hard to say. It could go either way. Maybe even the producers of this drama haven’t quite made up their minds yet.
Does it matter, other than as a curiosity?
No. Not in the slightest.
It’s just about what faces you see on your TV for the next few years, what flavor of bullshittery they feed you as excuse/provocation.
The road may look a little different, but the destination is the same.
And that destination is what we need to be focusing on – if we are to have any chance of avoiding it.
The (s)election is just another entertainment package to distract you, engage and enrage you. Every oops moment, every gaff, every “shocking reveal”, every “leaked” blah blah, every “unscripted phone call”, every poignant moment, are all contrived in a writers’ room for your delectation.
Like an awful lot of everything else we call “news”.
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To all the red/black pillers (purples?)
Yeah, great, the revolution will be fab. Look forward to it.
In the meantime, choose your government.
Harris/Obama or Trump.
That’s your choice.
When was the revolution again ?
Let’s try again…
You. Don’t. Have. Any. Choice.
Red and Blue are both puppets of same globalists.
And they rig the vote go make sure their preferred puppet wins
No. Choice.
NO CHOICE
Sorry, I missed the bit when you told me when your glorious revolution was going to save the world.
I’ll wait.
here’s my plan – instead of being a voting zombie convincing yourself you’re making a difference when you’re not, find the courage to face reality.
STOP endorsing the lie and instead try to wake up just ONE other person.Just one. And then encourage them to do the same.
Because if we all did that, one person at a time eventually there’d be no more normy zombies – and then what?
Imagine a world where no one believed the lies any more. That really would be a revolution. Because real revolutions happen in the consciousness.
How do we, as ordinary folk, change the way all this crap works?
We don’t.
We have to wait for the crash and burn and hope we come out the other side.
In the meantime, try to enjoy what’s left of the good bits.
That’s it.
Good article.
On Tuesday 5 November in the USA – “The Circus Is In Town” > (1960s folk singer)
but i’ll be distracted by Australia’s annual “Race That Stops The Nation” – The
Melbourne Cup…
Eat yer hearts out, Yanks !
The ‘sport’ of Kings, where, if a horse doesn’t cut the mustard, it is churned into dog food.
Tens of thousands of them slaughtered around the world EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR because they’re not fast enough.
New South Wales has 2.02 million dogs and 1.58 million cats (2022 survey)…
That’s a lot of animals to feed so the horses wont go to waste…
And who would let dogs and cats starve ?
‘Let em eat cake’
RFK jr was endorsed by Mr Curtis and printed by yourselves and RFK jr even wrote a review of Ed Curtis book which he happily shows off.
I am glad OFFG has seen the light with the voting rigged thing and anyone thinking the rigged thing started in 2020 needs to wake up some..
Trump is easily the best choice, despite not being perfect and despite the democratic process being flawed. Trump had a good record as President too – certainly the best President since Clinton.
“The decision to deploy the first moab also revealed the Trump Administration’s revised chain of command. With the approval of U.S. Central Command, Nicholson called in the strike, a reflection of how President Trump has shifted major wartime decisions to the U.S. military brass. Pressed on whether he had ordered the mission, Trump told reporters, on Thursday, “What I do is authorize my military.” President Obama, a lawyer, was deeply involved in decision-making on all major military actions. Trump has deflected decisions to the generals who hold key positions in his inner circle or who are in the field.”
Trump Drops the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-drops-the-mother-of-all-bombs-on-afghanistan
10 of the Biggest Military Airplanes in the World
https://aerocorner.com/blog/biggest-military-airplanes/
“To fully comprehend this risk, a cognitive conservation phenomenon, one must contemplate the Stanislav Petrov incident. In 1983, the satellite-based Soviet Oko nuclear early warning system detected that an intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile had been launched by the United States. The automated system reported, with the “highest” confidence, that a U.S. missile strike was underway. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, on duty, was responsible for alerting his Soviet superiors of the attack.” Cory Morningstar
THE GREAT RESET: THE FINAL ASSAULT ON THE LIVING PLANET [IT’S NOT A SOCIAL DILEMMA – IT’S THE CALCULATED DESTRUCTION OF THE SOCIAL, PART III]
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/11/28/the-great-reset-the-final-assault-on-the-living-planet-its-not-a-social-dilemma-its-the-calculated-destruction-of-the-social-part-iii/
I have no problem with Trump authorizing his military officers to take command. Some of them are very experienced in the field. SOME of them. I hope, SHOULD he become president again🙄 – which I doubt very much, unless he has already struck a deal behind the scenes -, that he has the guts and the sense to throw all those woke, transbeings out since they only care about spreading pedophilia, dirty sex and rape…. Their brains are overtaken by sexviruses and are useless for anything else.Bring back a MALE army, NO WOMEN in combat details, they are useless there. This is what this grandma thinks about all that insane feminism: WOMEN with PENIS ENVY! That’s all they are!
Except that Trump is by far the biggest Zionist in the race today. Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that his whole first term was just meant to butter us up for his second, when he takes us to war against Iran for the sake of ‘Greater Israel’ … hope I’m wrong. But I can’t stop the feeling that Trump has been ‘tapped’ by the Zionist elite, which he has spend his whole life felating. (Full disclosure: I voted twice for Trump myself, so I am definitely no Demon-crat.)
LOL – YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE
and even if you did it would MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.
what does it take to get this through to some people?
So what are you going to do about it ?
This manner of election is above all else the very kind of election the American people by and large want. It’s a sporting event, coming right on the heels of the World Series and just a few months before the Super Bowl. In other words, it fills a gap in people’s entertainment schedule. November is kind of a lull in sporting activity, so a nice election helps relieve the boredom.
Plus it has the inestimable virtue of requiring one and only one kind of thinking: remembering talking points. Elections, as you can see, are not for Dementia patients, who might “recall” Kamala having been nearly assassinated by MAGA; and Trump having chosen one Tim Waltz as his VP. This will not do! Elections are a little more serious than that!
None of that matters to We the People. We fight- some refuse- and we fight anyway. Those who won’t are cowards. Cowards exist on every level of battle. We fight anyway.
https://postimg.cc/cKNSY7hX
There is a HUGE difference between America’s two major political parties in that while the Republicans prefer traditional sex based public toilets – the Democrats much prefer “gender-neutral” public toilets. I mean the “choice” couldn’t be more clear – well, at least for anyone with a “public toilet fetish” I suppose. : )
Re Operation Warp Speed. What is missed is that Trump did not mandate the vaccines. The operation to undertake a massive vaccination campaign was sadly necessary to prove once and for all that no vaccine ever has been of any benefit except to big pharma’s business and profit, creating customers for life.
Those who were wise avoided the shots, those who were not suffered the consequences, playing Russian roulette with their bodies.
Some who were injured woke up and realised their mistake and repented.
Others keep on at it, insisting that being very ill after the jabs proves they are working. I have tried to dissuade some from destroying themselves, but they prefer to inflict pain on their bodies.
Many of such people in the States seem to be die hard Democrat Biden/Harris loving voters and take the shots despite hating Trump. They are not suspicious that if he praises them perhaps they are not a good idea after all.
They are likely therefore to die hard. Stupid is as stupid does.
Trump praising the vaccines is one of the tests of competence. Many fail the tests, so he keeps at it until people wake up or perish.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2023/05/06/silly-saturday-8-out-of-10-cats-and-other-animals/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/the-great-covid-retest/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/long-stupid/
If “they” would have opened up society and not mandated the shots, they might have had a perfect cash cow moving forward, but they overplayed their hand and now, nobody wants the shots.
Wait – so Trump told people to get the vaccine to see if they were stupid enough to believe him?
That is fucking demented even by Q Standards.
He seems to think Trump is God, testing his people to see if they are worthy of the promised land. All our Lord Trump can do is “keep at it” until everyone is saved! Truly demented.
The Zionists are assured of benefitting either way ,and the Maga crowd ,need let go of the once pleasant dream and wake up
The thing is, all the packets of lollies in the supermarket
“confections” aisle are made out of the same ingredients.
Its just the coloured packagings that are different…
Let’s assume that no-one’s coming to save us and the system is so far entrenched that it ain’t changing any time soon.
It then comes down to which flavour of the uniparty you want to live with.
In US, Red for smaller government, Blue for larger government.
In UK vice versa.
Oh please.
So you think government shrank under Trump? And then grew again under Biden?
You actually really think that?
They’re NO DIFFERENT.
NO. DIFFERENT.
They just spout different slogans.
How hard is this to understand?
I know that living in UK is better under blue flavour than red flavour.
In what way?
Biden in US . Starmer in UK.
Any questions ?
But what actual difference is there? Isn’t Starmer just continuing where Sunak left off? Won’t Trump continue where Biden leaves off? If you strip away the posturing and the cosmetic stuff what actually changes?
Harmeet Dhillon: The Shocking Origin Story of Kamala Harris
The only thing that an X on a ballot changes is the amount of ink left in a pen.
You get a pen?!
They only trust us with wee pencils in aUStralia.
(Rhymes with failure).
Big time.
Pencil is easier to erase.
I agree with the main thrust of this article: the U$ election does not matter because all the good candidates were de-selected early in favour of puppets. Nevertheless I shall be disappointed if Trump is once again cheated out of his rightful second term by the murderous Obomber, Killery, Biden gang who destroyed Libya, nearly destroyed Syria, and are desperately trying to destroy Ukraine.
Why would they want to destroy Ukraine? I thought they were using Ukraine to destroy Russia. Isn’t that what you usually say?
US elections never mattered as People in America never governed themselves or had any influence on US policies.
For any thinking foreigner US electoral campaign is a spectacle of ridiculous and embarrassing to watch infantilization of used car salesmen. US electoral process has been disqualified as undemocratic and unfair by US Department of State own guidelines regarding assessment of democratic process in foreign countries as U.S. rejects international observers in contrast to most countries in the world.
America is a Capital democracy where majority of capital rules. Oligarchic rule is not just a fleeting abomination but is embedded in US constitution. And that is true in every election where strongest capital power in America and beyond wins and controls all of US and vassals’ politics and dictates all western policies “democratically” and equally; one dollar one vote.
The people who work for living having no financial capital have no vote and shouldn’t bother to humiliate themselves by becoming useful idiots who only legitimate capital rule by showing up to vote for nothing at all but more exploitation and misery regardless of puppet show.
Asking who to vote for in 2024 is an insult to human intelligence as mere act of vote is legitimizing capital rule and sham of democracy nothing else.
To fully understand Why the US (s)election doesn’t matter a damn, see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
Those people should be added to the permanent “pending” list. I would be happy not to see anything to do with Trump or the US political mud slinging, shit-eating muppet show.
I have my own theory that the illusory “choices” they give us are themselves a ritual of humiliation and mockery.
In 2020 we were given an absurd blustering clown with ridiculous hair and an overtly senile kiddie fiddler.
In 2024 we have the same clown plus an airhead alcoholic.
If the ptb really wanted classier puppets they could easily acquire them. These relics and hollow shells are picked for a reason. We are shamed by our willingness to endorse any and every piece of human detritus picked to represent our supposed, but clearly merely token, ‘values’.
Have no more of it. Catte is correct
Yes, I believe the choice in 2020 was, very much like the c19 spectacle, and more so than at any point in history, a test.
A test to see how cartoonishly bad the candidates could both get and still be taken seriously, the process still be taken seriously, discussed pointlessly and ad nauseum, and creating unalterable division, enmity, and fully closed minds on both teams. To see how close the populace was/is to that depicted in the prophetic movie, ‘Idiocracy’, however funny it is.
Very close, it turns out.
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whilst you can’t choose all things, i think its important, if you get very lucky to have a mum like mine,and a wife like mine, and a son like mine
Who Put Children First – despite everything that happens and it will – marriages split up, and people you love die – That is just the territory of human life. Its OK to be sad and burst into tears, when everything goes wrong beyond your worst nightmare, if you have a cat to come home too. She understand everything and empathises with you as you stroke her…
And her ears prick up – don’t worry Grandad
The kids are Back
It were top bureaucrats like Antony Fauci & co who sold the covid lie to 99.99% of all Americans including Trump, left, right and center. To blame Trump for that is ridiculous; he is one of the few billionaires who is not a globalist. Trump makes his money domestically in real estate, not via China production like the rest. Trump had nothing to do with selling “vaccines”, weapons, spyware mobile phones, cheap Walmart/ Amazon stuff worldwide etc.
On top of it only Trump @ covid was under heavy negative PR & lawfare from a fake Steele dossier so would have a hard time to think straight and be part of the 0.01% of people who managed to see through the covid lie.
Blaming Trump for the covid mess is totally disingenuous.
Not voting is four years of Kamala Harris laughing herself to the bank while the world goes backwards to 1984.
Trump was put there to con you into trusting the system, Antonym. Period.
Who trusts the post 1945 US System? Only those paid by it.
With the Kamala Con you know what you get; with Trump ‘The Show’ might not go on. Worth even the 10% chance.
Trump was put there to make people wake up and think. Many people make idols out of mere mortals though and reject God and his righteousness.
So, God put Trump there?
Trump signed in the mRNA poisoning of the USA and will evidently sign whatever adds to his coffers or helps keep him in power. The guy is the archetypal redneck used car salesman. He also has some prime bridges for sale…
Blaming Trump for the covid mess is totally disingenuous.
1.8 trillion added to the debt for the cost of covid whilst he was in charge.
Trump was mercilessly attacked during his presidency and the Trump hatred continues. It is hard to believe it is all just for show.
Why is that hard to believe? The show certainly worked on you didn’t it. It got you invested. You are now convinced Trump is a bona fide outsider.
I get the cynical take I really do, but I am concerned the cynical view changes nothing in the world but will lead me into bitterness and bleakness. Then what? In the seventies a lot of us choose to opt out, not sure that changed much.
If voting changes nothing and is intended to change nothing then by voting you are already doing nothing beyond deceiving yourself to the contrary.
instead of voting and doing nothing try waking up those around you. The more awake people there are the less easy the powers will find it to achieve their goals. They need the passive acceptance of the masses, and the voting charade helps to achieve that.
Now when people talk party politics to me I simply tell them I don’t vote because both candidates are globalists who intend on the same agenda and 2020 displayed levels of corrupt malfeasance inconsistent with real democracy.
People take this simple truth on board to an extent that at first surprised me.
What is wrong with voting AND try waking up those around you?
The former takes you ~ 1 hour. Globalists love less native ballots and more immigrant votes: hand it to them on a silver platter, plus bragging rights after about US “democrazy”.
Universal suffrage was created as a safety valve against real change. The act of voting gives a person the illusion they have choice and power. It makes a person believe the ruling elites are not a monolith and that some of them speak for him/her. This creates complacency. People who believe their votes count are invested in the status quo and very unlikely to do anything to seriously undermine it.
More people will realize that the present US democrazy is fake if you vote for Trump and let the Swamp stifle his bid even more than last round. Make life hard for them; they will need to expose themselves too much this round.
The UK is a different kettle of fish and chips: no Wild Card present in the London Bog.
Voting or not voting is really just the difference between consent and assent. In the short-term, nothing much will change either way; but it is important for us to begin the process of pulling our heads out of the Matrix.
Pity us poor aUSsies then.
Voting is COMPULSORY! Federal, state and local😖
I just scrawl invective on their toilet paper ballot forms😜
The last time I cared was when they had empty boxes, with the candidates/minor parties I had intended to vote for simply omitted from the ballot papers. This after I had thoroughly studied every candidate and party platform of those registered with the Australian Electoral Commission just a couple of weeks before the election. The whole thing is a fraud. I’ll vote informally this time.
I refused to go to the polling booths about twenty years ago. I had to front court a few months later.
The magistrate gave me a serve of shit salad using the same old spin:
Duty, freedom, choice etc etc.
I almost puked.
I tried to have my say, but courts are very intimidating places so my off the cuff response was pretty lame.
Paid my fine and never crossed a box since.
‘ It’s a private club and we ain’t in it’ (Thanks George).
They are Not having a Bonfire in Our Local Park, Nor Fireworks (which were always Brilliant) Nor even a Laser Show which was crap
But The CURE who had their first Big Live Gig in Our Park, have got a New Album Out (only heard one song on Radio Caroline – but it seems he can still sing)
But can the The Drummer still Do This…Its all about Death, but totally hypnotic
“All Cats are Grey”
Objectivity is undergirded by subjectivity;
there’s no such thing as Truly 0bjective.
Charles Hugh Smith claims ‘Though we see mythology as the dusty
remnant of a bygone era of ignorance, we’ve created a secular
mythology that we dont even recognize, a Progress mythology of
beliefs that are not science, though we cloak them in the raiment
of science.’
‘The core idea is that our view of Technological Progress is not scientific.
Rather it is a secular mythology from the 19th century.’
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/my-new-book-is-unleashed-the-mythology
Very true. The widespread belief in ‘Progress, comrade!’ is nothing other than a modern, Godless religion.
Catte Black
+10
I will get back to watching Netflix – Breeders – it makes me – laugh – cos we are like that.
“The (s)election is just another entertainment package to distract you, engage and enrage you.”
Yes, so what am I supposed to do, witnessing mass Genocide?
I can’t vote these evil people away?
Am I supposed to worry my wife, about the latest top footballer dropped dead, or all the other young people we know dropped dead?
She is lovely and she is happy and a great Granny to our young Grand Kids
Most people our age are like that.
Its hard enough to get the new central heating to work to keep warm, rather than worrying about the psychos trying to freeze and starve us to death.
I do have a reserve of smokeless coal in our shed, and we do have a black cat.
and we can forage
Tony
You’re ill, seek help.
Not sure about Tony Thom.
His little anecdotes/reminiscences can be amusing, but he’s either attended too many loud rock concerts, smoked too much weed or he’s playing with our heads.
-6 to me says Tony’s colleagues are here to make sure their operation of screwing with our heads continues. If he a 60’s stoner then fair enough 😉
He’s a strange entity who has invented a persona for himself. He’s definitely not British, probably from the Midwest, keeps changing details of his autobiography, so we assume it’s all invented. Other than that – who knows. We only publish a fraction of the stuff he posts. We try to strike a balance.
there is the “poisoned chalice” stratagem in election manipulation, whereby candidates in which popular aspirations have been invested are allowed to take control of a state that then suffers catastrophic, often clandestinely orchestrated crises, until dissatisfaction with the performance of this sabotaged government becomes so intense that the ardor for change among people who supported it is safely extinguished
but we shouldn’t overlook the real stakes in these voting exercises, which obviously will not bring about any meaningful improvement for the citizenry as a whole, but absolutely can affect the fortunes of various factions within the oligarchy, otherwise these kingmakers would not feel obliged to throw billions of dollars at their campaigning cronies, though some hedge their bets and fund both sides at once
and the rise or fall of some factions can have local effects, which might lead to huge disadvantages for a particular country or industry, and therefore warrant some attention
in the US technically there is always the option to vote for a third party, at the local level and even on the presidential ballot, with for instance Green Party politicians actually sometimes winding up in control of a municipality here or there
but when alternative parties succeed within the established power structure, they have a way of quickly shedding any differences that might distinguish them from the dominant parties, as the case of the Green Party in Germany sadly demonstrates, so that in the final analysis, abstinence is undoubtedly the most reliable protest vote, and one that truly does seem to preoccupy the rulers, to the point where many regimes make failure to participate a crime
Unfortunately, it’s fake and it’s always been fake. Democracy is an illusion. The governments are private corporations owned by the aristocracy. They transitioned to this model to prevent any chance of real revolutions, which is why all the past “revolutions” were staged events.
The billions spent in electioneering props up the illusion. And because the cryptocracy’s cartel own *all* the media and *all* the publishing sector it’s an opportunity for them, their puppet politicians and the political parties they also own, to scam billions in money, time and energy from the dumb voters and volunteers.
This is how the cryptocracy think: Everything is a racketeering opportunity. And they reenact ancient rituals and revel in their power, using public ceremonies and speeches, cartel signaling in plain sight, whilst mocking the uninitiated and unaware slaves who cluelessly wave the flags (heraldry colors) of their real owners.
It’s one of the greatest cons in history.
In a commodified society where everything has a price there’s no chance the cryptocracy will allow any money making opportunity for any additional profitable scam, grift or con to go to waste.
The voting farce and the private governments serves the cryptocracy on so many levels, whilst allowing them to maintain complete control, continually dividing and conquering. Not just through the two or multi-party system, but also dividing those who unwittingly vote for their own continued enslavement and those who don’t.
Both are candidates for president……of Israel! Huh?
Exactly – DaSynagogue of Satan (DSOS) is in charge – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=DaSynagogue+Satan&updated-max=2024-04-04T11:30:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=0&by-date=false&m=1 – until churchianity is cleansed from its servitude to Old Scratch – then the remnant will rebuild civilization….again!
I’m going to have to disagree with you strongly for two reasons…
1) Although both parties cater to a kleptocracy only one goes out of its way to fully pander to it.
2) Elections in the US are several distinct contests run at the same time. The race for President is just one of a dozen or more separate races that include state, county and local contests. As we’ve seen from repeated electoral college fiascos state races, especially for what used to be rather boring down ticket contests like Secretary of State, the results for local elections can have a huge impact on national races and are far more likely to affect on personally.
(Incidentally, this inability to appreciate the totality of an election event is why the notion of ‘stuffing ballots’ doesn’t make sense. There are just too many types of ballots out there to conveniently predict which ones to stuff, especially if you don’t want a glaring statistical anomaly.)
We could tidy up elections in the US by getting the money out of them. Running for office at the federal level or even for larger counties and states is too expensive so it starts to look like ‘pay to play’ with campaign donors.
If only the US/ U.K. Western satraps had someone who had a bit of backbone!
https://x.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1844377379671585091/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1844377379671585091¤tTweetUser=PM_ViktorOrban&mode=profile
So Viktor Orban has been pushed out of the EU and become the second European country to joined the BRICS. Good show!
That will increase the BRICS reputation for having some leaders who put the interests of their country above being “all in it together” like they are in the EU$A.
Yes, I watched the reactions of Van de Lyen and the other satraps for the City of London/ Wall Street/ controlling families who were indignant with rage because he told them something they are not accustomed to hearing.
The truth !
I stopped voting for criminals in 1976.
Lady president has been introduced to us via TV series / Films and the Simpsons and via the truthers years ago.
Trump like the other populism leader deceivers who believe in Abrakadrahamic lot does a great job of hopium opium and keeping the believes hypnotized.
Most of the shill truthers alt media lot including Ryan LVB and U>k shillum all believe in end times.
From an occult perspective that voting engagement ritual is so important.
The christydoom lot are wearing Maga on the temple in colour orange.
pseudo Hero to the not so wise. bad aroma Musk with his dark maga freemasonic mudra
I’m always reminded of the essay W.E.B. Dubois wrote in 1956, 68 years ago, “Why I Won’t Vote”.
“In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”
Why I Won’t Vote: W.E.B. Du Bois | libcom.org
Or you can go back to 1904, 121 years ago, and Eugene Debs’ speech as a candidate for President with the Socialist Party:
“The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.”
The Socialist Party And The Working Class (marxists.org)
There are many, many other examples just like that, from notable people, since the very beginning of this two party political system.
Of course, hardly anyone ever talks about changing it. Even those who should know better. To do that would ruin the game, upset their apple cart. Just keep people caught up in a fake, long and drawn out process where they think they have a choice in things, and the show will go on. Then start it over again, immediately, before the lems wake up.
It’s still amazing to me how many that, again, should know better, are falling for Trump as a better choice, or even a must choice, even with all the clues he’s given them (“I’m Israel’s best friend!”, “I’ll bomb the hell out of Iran!”, “I saved millions with the fantastic Covid-19 vaccine!”, etc.) I’ve come to look at it as which one might be more fun to watch, in a sick way of course. And that would be Trump. The dude is such an idiot, who knows what could happen. Both candidates are surprisingly stupid, which is kind of like how law enforcement likes their pigs, easier to get them to follow orders. And it makes them even more dangerous.
It privately turned socialist in 1913 w/the formation of the Fed, now pubically it appears to have run out other peoples money, and we know from experience what occurs after that.
Socialism for the wealthiest? Using socialism, communism and fascism inter-changably is deliberate.
What occurs when the US dollar goes is … CBDC.
It’s been here a while. It’s called the USDC on the crypto market.
4 years trying to get Trump out of office, the 2020 election theft, the staged insurrection of Jan 6th, the massive, ongoing rigging of voting procedures across the US, 2 failed assassination attempts and now hurricanes steered to prevent fair voting in red states show how much the deep state or globalist shadow government fears and wants to ensure its puppets keep winning US elections. Democracy may not matter to Catte Black, but preventing it clearly matters greatly to the powers that shouldn’t be.
The article did not say democracy does not matter.
There is no need to “steer hurricanes”. Just divert most of the public funds meant for public services and contingencies to cronies, “very important countries”, etc.
Trump is an actor like every other corrupt puppet in both parties and everything you mentioned and the entire political/electoral charade is nothing more than a scripted Hollywood production to entertain, manipulate, divide, and distract the masses while behind the scenes the the real rulers – the corporate oligarchs, big bankers, and billionaires, who have no loyalty to any party, country, etc. – are hard at work planning and conducting the globally-coordinated class war against humanity in order to usher in the New World Order of depopulation and digital slavery while people like you are hypnotized by the shadows on the wall.
You can’t prevent what doesn’t exist. There is no democracy in the West. The elites will always get the puppet they want, whether by hook or by crook. Even if We The People(TM) should happen, by some remarkable turn of events, to ‘vote wrong,’ the elites will simply fraud their Chosen One into office, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about that … except, of course, to Vote harder! next time. 😂
Whilst this article has its merits, it doesn’t delve very deep into who are actually pulling the strings in the US ‘ presidential ‘ elections.
Here is one, not by any means the sole view, on who are some of the string pullers in around the president of the US !
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/who-is-in-charge-of-us-foreign-policy/
As I’ve been saying for several years now:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/385161
Watch: Former Sec. of State, Mike Pompeo dances with soldiers
Former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was recently received by the soldiers of the Armored Corps’ 73rd Battalion with singing and dancing.
Israel National News
Feb 13, 2024
From your Link to Unz:
< Who Is In Charge of US Foreign Policy?
Is it Israel Lobby or White House Gang or No One at all? >
I think its No One, because No One is as incompetent as U$ Foreign Policy.
That figures, just like the UK with a ventriloquist’s dummy prentending to be a PM.
I tell ya, I can’t do another month, let alone another 4yrs of election interference nonsense.
Yeah it happens. It’s been happening well before computers were used, but it’s become easier.
The Dems moan about it. The Reps moan about. In fact everyone moans about it. Moan, moan, moan, moan….moan!
So when the moaning happens this time, can we all just point out to the whingers and whiners, that they could have all come together as adults and have called in the UN to oversee it.
Can you imagine the meltdowns and ab-dabs……..happy days.
Strap In.
Oh yeah. The UN – that would sort it all out. 🙄
They always have a staged terrorist attack or big orchestrated event before the selections.
No, but they always do stage them before wars: Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11.
The great danger is that th USA will be positioned to fight the war for Israel against Iran – followed by declarations that the USA is the threat to world peace and this cannot be allowed to continue. Do they have a solution for that?…
Which candidate is more likely to prevent this? The answer of course is neither which is why they are the candidates.
If the Democrats win, there’s more of a chance of war with Russia. If the Republicans win (as I suspect), there will be a greater chance of war in the middle east. Some choice!
You’re still hooked on seeing them as different though. You’re talking as if they’re rhetoric means something and will translate to actions. I don’t think so. They shout different slogans but they do all the same things.
Just like in the UK with Starmer taking over from Sunak. Same difference. NO difference. Just new faces and new suits.
Different arse, same shit.
But does Trump defend free speech, the essential foundation of other human rights, truth-seeking and science? If so, then his victory matters hugely, for that reason alone.
You mean the same trump that has threatened journalists with jail and prison rape? Threatened anyone who says bad things about him? The same trump that has never even read the Bill of Rights, let alone the Constitution? This Trump, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen,”?
He pretends to. But aligning ones self with Elon musk should show just how far that pretence goes. I’m just sure DARPA boy is all for unrestricted speech, right?
The two of them are alike. Blabber first, think later. When can we expect Musk to leave for Mars?
Trumpowitz is already threatening to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ (i.e., anti-genocide) ‘radicals,’ so I surmise that freedom of speech must now be … bad for the Jews?
Gore, then Kerry giving the elections to GW, the first true moron president, was the final straw for me. Killing JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm wasn’t enough, even when it should have been. The lies, the wars, now before our eyes WW3, not enough? Somehow human beings extend confidence to their given environment and social situation. But that’s when natural conditions, largely governed by Earthly limits, apply. The “founding fathers”, the rich businessmen class, took over rule from a king and rigged up a system tailored to their needs but including some liberties they wanted for themselves and knew were evolving into an expectation by commoners. Post Civil War, railroad and Robber Barons, the country was shoehorned into a corporate state. Corporate capitalism with WAR as operating system has ruled ever since. Now obsolete like the old kings were, it’s ruling class clings to power thru attempted techo-fascism to keep the plebs in LOCKDOWN. As they take down Humanity in a last desperate gasp, do we become aware to withdraw all confidence, and replace our authoritarian “parent” rule with egalitarian adult self-rule?
Brilliant piece and completely correct. Thanks.
Good to see a succinct article spelling it out so clearly.
This message needs to be repeated over and over again. Lesser evil politics is simply an illusion which changes so little, it may as well be nothing.
It only exists to manipulate the public into thinking the system is working as designed.
Which it is. Just not the way they think.
Should we reject a ‘lesser evil politics’ in which the US Presidency does not threaten free speech?
The globalist owned UK media has now turned on the new Labour government. I 9
Clearly trying to discredit the entire UK system of Parliament readying the ground for the proposal of a one world government..
Or is it because Starmer, and the other acolytes, has been promoted above his competence ?
Look in his eyes.
He’s signed the pact and he’s regretting it.
Big time.
Sometimes it’s nice to watch buyer’s remorse.
Popcorn me.
I watched first hand, in the words of Terry Thomas, a complete shower : scheme, slander and stab in the back ( metaphorically) their way into the leadership of the Labour Party.
Sir Keir Starmer, son of a toolmaker, has made more U turns in the run up in the U.K. G.E than the spaceship in the series Lost in Space.
Since gaining power, in a metaphorical sense, they have proceeded not to disappoint those that have observed them for the last few years. Ie losing both members and voters at unprecedented rate whilst making policies on the back of the proverbial fag packet.
Every day on X they post multiple propaganda tweets which receive hundreds, maybe thousands of negative (to say the least) comments.
You’ve got to ask yourself why they’re doing this.
They, unfortunately, in my first hand dealings with them is they believe in their own propaganda or as our US brethren put it their heads are up their axxholes !
There are lawyers, damn lawyers and then there is Keir Starmer.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/keir-starmer-british-politician-and-barrister-leader-of-the-opposition-and-leader-of-the-labour-party/
Kamala Harris is a lawyer too. There may be a trend here.
Arguably, alternating WEFUK governments of occupation in recent decades (AKA the Uniparty) have done far more to discredit Parliament and ruin democracy than any UK media turn.
“In the US the selection of President Joe Biden in 2020 may, or may not, give way to the selection of President Kamala Harris. But if it does then it will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that racism and sexism really are the preserve of the stupid when she quickly demonstrates that it is possible for a woman and an ethnic minority to screw things up just as well as an old white guy. Yay for diversity! It proves they are all idiots!
The trouble with all these electoral shenanigans, whilst alternately entertaining and frustrating, is that they change nothing fundamental, because in every single case Caesar still wins.
I don’t mean that the whole thing is pointless, because there are certainly people that will do a better job than others, because there are always Good Caesars who build and Bad Caesars who destroy. But none of them – repeat NONE OF THEM – know what the real problems are. In the UK I’ve tried to tell them but I wasn’t successful…
They don’t know what the real problems are because the real problems are not in Caesar’s Domain. Let’s get esoteric for a moment. Human beings are creatures of the ELEMENTS, run by a program whose source code is NUMBERS. This is not to suggest that we aren’t flesh and blood and that we don’t have agency. We are and we do. But changes of government change nothing about human nature, a nature which is flawed and broken.
Election results are the distorted manifestation of human fears and desires, projected upon empty vessels, who are answerable neither to you or I, but to Satan. Specific results are what happens when one group of people are successfully marginalised in favour of another. Historically, in the West, whites and men have secured power because they have successfully marginalised blacks and women, but now the tables have turned. There is nothing inherently good or bad about this, it just is – so long as you know that Satan and Caesar continually divide in order to continually rule. Of course, bad things do occur on the back of division. A matriarchy will be no better than a patriarchy, and Black Supremacy will be just as bad as White Supremacy. And a Labour landslide will be no better than a Tory one. The only difference will be in who rules and who suffers.
Nothing fundamental will change under a Starmer government or a Harris, or Trump, or whoever Presidency. All that is happening, in each case, is the arrival of a New Caesar, one that you may hope will be more interested in what you are interested in. There is no ability, let alone desire, for Caesar to make things better for everyone. Because Caesar deals in division they can only make things better (if they are lucky) for their supporters. Not only can everyone else go to hell, everyone must go to hell, because they are the enemy. You may not think like this, but the powerful do. It’s how they became powerful in the first place.
So let’s not have any of this nonsense about the UK (or US or anywhere else) waking up to a brighter dawn. Labour have gained power, but on such a low turnout with such a disparity between votes and seats to make their rule almost morally illegitimate. Even if you don’t go that far then the election of Keir Starmer is good for you only if your values and priorities align with his, and it is terrible for you if they don’t. The installation of Kamala Harris, or the eventual election of Donald Trump or anyone else, is good for you if your goals are their goals, and it is terrible for you if they aren’t. This is how it works. This is how it has always worked. And this is how it will always work, so long as Caesar rules.
Caesar rules through division. Conflict and argument are not bugs in our political system, they are essential features, part of the code that Caesar needs in order to rule. And when he or she does rule their number one priority, if they want to continue in power, is to destroy the enemy. In the old days this was done through violence, now it is done through gaslighting, discrediting, scandals and propaganda. Some Caesars are better at this than others, but all of them do it.
The voice of the people, in times of elections, is not the Voice of God. It is a fear-cry of a people who Caesar has managed to scare into voting for him. That is all that elections are, and they are nothing more than that.
Caesars come and go. Things get better for some people, then they get worse for those same people when Caesar decides to seek support elsewhere. The wheel turns. We are born, we grow, we age, we die, reborn time and again into the same story, just with new actors and plot lines. It always ends the same way. Meet the New Caesar, same as the Old Caesar, because both are Caesar, not God.
One thing does count though: whatever you can do, selflessly, for others, matters. But voting is rarely a selfless act. It is much more likely to be a plea for protection from the New Caesar, or a blow at the Old Caesar, someone who you believe ‘let you down’.”
Extracts from “Hail Caesar!” by Richard Abbot: https://www.thehermitage.org.uk/blog/hail-caesar
Obomber’s weekly drone kill list is gone. Is US any safer? Does it mean both Trump and Biden are traitors? What does the professor in constitutional law have to say in hindsight?
Why I don’t vote in colonial politics
“Abstaining is both important and inherent to me; here’s why”
Andrea Landry
https://this.org/2019/10/10/why-i-dont-vote-in-colonial-politics/
THIS RECONCILIATION IS FOR THE COLONIZER
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2017/12/01/this-reconciliation-is-for-the-colonizer/
Trudeau says he considered stepping down during marriage difficulties
“If you’re going to be honest about doing a job like this, that has the responsibilities and impact it has, you have to check that — maybe not every day — but you have to check that you’re up for it, that you’re all in,” he said.
Jun 12, 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-considered-stepping-down-1.7233185
$4.7B ‘Grande Alliance’ project in northern Quebec is called Cree vision of development
Feb 17, 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-development-quebec-abel-bosum-françois-legault-grande-alliance-1.5466612
Cree Grand Chief Abel Bosum concedes defeat in Grand Council race
July 15, 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-election-bosum-concedes-grande-alliance-1.6104147
Romeo Saganash reflects on the 37-year journey to bring UNDRIP to Canada
August 3, 2021
https://broadview.org/undrip-canada-romeo-saganash/
NDP MP apologizes after getting kicked off Air Canada flight for being too drunk
Oct 22, 2012
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ndp-mp-apologizes-after-getting-kicked-off-air-canada-flight-for-being-too-drunk#:~:text=Saganash%20says%20he%20needs%20medical%20help%20to%20overcome,crew%20determined%20he%20was%20too%20intoxicated%20to%20fly.
From the Archive: MP recounts pain of residential school
Apr 27, 2013
https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/from-the-archive-mp-recounts-pain-of-residential-school
Congratulations to Romeo Saganash on Receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Université Laval
Nemaska, Eeyou Istchee (November 29, 2021)
https://www.cngov.ca/congratulations-to-romeo-saganash-on-receiving-an-honorary-doctorate/
Woman accusing ex-MP Saganash of sex assault files suit after criminal case diverted
May 1, 2024
https://www.thespec.com/news/canada/woman-accusing-ex-mp-saganash-of-sex-assault-files-suit-after-criminal-case-diverted/article_bd7b5cb4-8b79-5068-a03f-74c77333abd0.html
Sexual assault charge against former MP Romeo Saganash stayed
May 22, 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/romeo-saganash-sex-assault-charge-stayed-manitoba-1.7211314
What we know so far about Wab Kinew’s convictions, stayed charges
Sep 24, 2017
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-wab-kinew-transcripts-1.4302911
Former MLA Kevin Chief, Manitoba NDP leader get COVID-19 vaccinations at new urban Indigenous clinics
Apr 29, 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/kevin-chief-wab-kinew-indigenous-covid-19-vaccine-clinic-1.6008419
Wab Kinew officially sworn in as Manitoba’s 1st First Nations premier
Oct 18, 2023
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ndp-cabinet-swearing-in-kinew-1.6999430
Premier seeks to divide province with incendiary comments on vaccine, First Nations: Sinclair
“This column is an opinion by The Honourable Murray Sinclair, who is retiring as an Independent senator from Manitoba in January 2021. He is also a former justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba and the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ.”
Dec 05, 2020
Sen. Murray Sinclair · for CBC Opinion
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opinion-sinclair-pallister-vaccine-first-nations-1.5828578
Murray Sinclair given Order of Canada for championing Indigenous rights and freedoms
May 27, 2022
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/murray-sinclair-order-of-canada-indigenous-rights-freedoms-1.6467915
Who We Are by Murray Sinclair, with Sara Sinclair and Niigaan Sinclair
Jun 21, 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/books/who-we-are-by-murray-sinclair-with-sara-sinclair-and-niigaan-sinclair-1.7238376
What is your point?
Some people believe that everything that the elite class are doing is a demoralization campaign for the rest of us. If this is true, then I have figured out why Kamala looks, for all intents and purposes, as if she is trying to lose the campaign. In order for both sides to be demoralized, Trump must be installed as the eventual winner. Here is why. If Kamala wins then the right will be demoralized but the left won’t. The only way the left could be demoralized at that point is if Kamala cabal, closed the border, enacted reasonable limits on abortion, started preaching merit instead of equity, and no longer ran to the defense of every person and group who pretends outrage at some petty indiscretion. That will never happen in a million years. With Kamala, we will instead continue on our march to a one world government with wide open borders and elimination of property rights (except for the elites of course), and for dinner each night we will all get a big plate of crispy fried bugs. Since everyone on the left has already been entrained to believe that this is all that they deserve, they will be happy. Now for the other scenario. If Kamala gives away the election and Trump is installed, the Demoncrats will definitely be demoralized but here is the clincher. It will quickly become clear, as Whitney Webb has already predicted, that Trump will reveal himself to be a full blown globalist who has total buy-in to the notion that the rest of will “rent everything and be happy”, in our new world government. We will get forcibly injected with a new experimental eugenically inspired medical product every 6 months and even though we will all be eating bugs, those on left will still be utterly demoralized because they will be eating Donald Trump bugs and not Kamala Harry bugs. This is why Donald Trump will win the election on November 5th. https://open.substack.com/pub/karlskellenger/p/walz-vs-vance-october-1st-in-the?r=fjmlo&utm_medium=ios
Doubtful. If Trump wins, he starts WWIII for Israel, getting us all killed off without need of bugs or bogus injections. Much more efficient that way!
Someone also has to preside over the US dollar collapse. Trump being a supposed outsider would work, but then kamala as a complete dunce would work too in her way. Hard to say who they go with but either way we are screwed. WW3 makes a nice cover for a financial implosion either way.
Also, if Kamala loses, then she will be unable to keep supporting genocide in West Asia – thus preserving her “liberal” bonafides with the millions who have all but deserted the Democrats because of Genocide Joe. It’s a win-win for the Democrats (and yes, I almost succeeded in saying that with a straight face).
Is anyone actually asking why?
We are always asked why we are not covering any subject that hasn’t been on the front page for a week or so. Actually sometimes we get asked why we aren’t covering a subject that is on the front page. But that’s just the way it is.🙂
Fair enough. I just can’t believe there is a single person on the surface of this planet who gives a flying fuck who the president is.
Not even Trump assassins, actual or wannabes?
But the party is the same, donkey see, donkey doo, on the street too.
More disrespect for the centre of the universe. You are lucky Obama is not in charge.
Taking UK and US as examples, we’re all on this runaway train heading towards the NWO and there’s nothing we can do about it ?
Yes, we’ve been boiled up till now but we aren’t yet cooked.
Dare I suggest that New World Orders aren’t what they used to be ?
Are people really going to allow all their toys to be taken away ?
Hmmmm.
America and the UK have long been the ENEMY’s primary targets. The Americans have been psychologically softened up over 70 years to a point where the MAJORITY has difficulty discerning what is up or down (P 39).
As Andrea Lynn’s Twitter above states, the ENEMY controls everything that keeps us confined in our playpens until such time they decide to fulfil their ultimate objective, the destruction of the human species.
There is only one way we can defeat the EVIL consuming us – reorientate the world in a way that enables us to neutralise the power of this ENEMY, i.e. Apply this strategy:https://icedrive.net/s/8A7z58gxD8RTkWfuSN8S513PFNT2
SALVATION OR ANNIHILATION
Your choice.
Just over four years ago OffG was asserting that that covid was hoax to fix the election via mail-in ballots and that the deep state was staging a colour revolution. Consequently, this “they’re both the same” narrative sounds like sour grapes!
It’s called Pax America!
https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/29/donald-trump-is-completely-right-about-mail-in-ballots
Donald Trump is completely right about mail-in ballots
The President’s claim that postal votes are easily rigged is widely supported by historical precedent
Kit Knightly
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/01/the-minneapolis-putsch
The Minneapolis Putsch
CJ Hopkins
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/02/are-we-about-to-see-a-colour-revolution-in-the-united-states
Are we about to see a Colour Revolution in the United States?
The familiar tropes are out in force, Trump may not weather this storm.
Kit Knightly
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Drill, Baby, Drill !!!
D-101
The cyclones (hurricanes) would have stirred up some of the Corexit dumped into the Gulf of Mexico earlier for the petroleum leak. Anyone seeking medical treatment may get another jab.
To take OffG’s side in this (something it pains me to do), I would suggest that to the globalists (if they’re calling all the shots) The Narrative Is The Thing. As Catte Black points out in the above, these king makers have a particular narrative in mind before the first vote is cast. So it DOES matter in that regard to the globalists who becomes President simply because Candidate A best fits Narrative A while Candidate B best fits Narrative B – and Narrative A is the one they’re decided to go with. Nothing messes up a Chosen Narrative like mail-in ballots for Candidate B.
The conflict is between Pax Americana and Globalism. Both are oligarchical systems, but there are radical differences and the former has at least some recognition of liberty. There was an agenda by the Globalists to erase Pax Americana. However, as Kissinger noted shortly before his death, than project has failed.
Google: Kissinger Pax Americana
And check:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/the-end-of-pax-americana-how-western-decline-became-inevitable/256388
The End of Pax Americana: How Western Decline Became Inevitable
The Euro-Atlantic world had a long run of global dominance, but it is coming to an end.
By Christopher Layne
April 26, 2012
The Euro-Atlantic world had a long run of global dominance, but it is coming to an end.
But even during the Cold War’s last two decades, the seeds of American decline had already been sown. In a prescient–but premature–analysis, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believed that the bipolar Cold War system would give way to a pentagonal multipolar system composed of the United States, Soviet Union, Europe, China and Japan.
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/07/kissinger-review-gewen-realism-liberal-internationalism
Welcome Back to Kissinger’s World
Neoconservatism has died, and liberal internationalism is discredited. Perhaps it’s time to return to the ideas of one of the last century’s greatest realists.
June 7, 2020
By Michael Hirsh, a columnist for Foreign Policy.
The answer to the future of U.S.-China relations—and the global peace and stability that largely depend on getting them right—may lie in the past, Gewen suggests. It’s no small coincidence that Kissinger and his philosophy had their moment in the sun at a time of U.S. weakness, during the Vietnam War, civil unrest, Watergate, and the stagflation of the 1970s, when diplomats had to find common ground and a balance among the major powers. Because a weakened and disordered Washington may be in an analogous place today vis-à-vis China, Kissinger’s favorite subject and the focus of his greatest diplomatic triumphs. In particular, Washington needs a reversion to tried and tested realpolitik that will be deft enough to turn great-power rivalry into a stable and peaceable modus vivendi. As former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a scholar of China who has watched Beijing’s rise up close, wrote in a recent essay about the coronavirus pandemic in Foreign Affairs: “The uncomfortable truth is that China and the United States are both likely to emerge from this crisis significantly diminished. Neither a new Pax Sinica nor a renewed Pax Americana will rise from the ruins. Rather, both powers will be weakened, at home and abroad. And the result will be a continued slow but steady drift toward international anarchy.”
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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2022-03-14/return-pax-americana
https://archive.ph/yVcbX
The Return of Pax Americana?
Putin’s War Is Fortifying the Democratic Alliance
By Michael Beckley and Hal Brands
March 14, 2022
Putin has now inadvertently done the United States and its allies a tremendous favor. In shocking them out of their complacency, he has given them a historic opportunity to regroup and reload for an era of intense competition—not just with Russia but also with China—and, ultimately, to rebuild an international order that just recently looked to be headed for collapse.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-great-strategist-henry-kissinger-turns-100-china-ukraine-realpolitik-81b6f3bb
https://archive.ph/0o3iI
Henry Kissinger Surveys the World as He Turns 100
The great strategist sees a globe riven by U.S.-China competition and threatened by fearsome new weapons and explains why he now thinks Ukraine should be in NATO.
By Tunku Varadarajan
May 26, 2023
Mr. Kissinger leaves no doubt that he believes in a Pax Americana and in the need “to defend the areas of the world essential for American and democratic survival.” But the ability to “execute it politically,” he says, “has declined sharply, and that is our overriding problem now.” He ascribes this political weakness to a decline in belief in the U.S. in its own historical ambitions and institutions. “There’s no element of pride and direction and purpose left,” he laments, as American leaders grapple with angst generated by events of “300 years ago.”