Of course not.
And when their sons and daughters die on the battlefield or in another terrorist bombing they’ll do what? Show humility? Shame? Fat chance.
When people are in the throes of ideological possession it doesn’t matter what part of the political spectrum them come from. Justification of the
eradication of The Other is what dominates their thinking.
That was the whole point of RussiaGate. It was to radicalize both the American Left and the American Right to accept a righteous war against whatever their Team Leaders told them was just.
The American people elected Donald Trump to end foreign wars, end the regime change operations and bring peace to the world. Those people who defended him in the face of gross attacks on their character and their livelihoods
are now willing to justify anything he does to justify themselves.
Even when that nagging voice is telling them this is wrong. This is not a spontaneous uprising. It is a manufactured situation brought on by economic and social warfare and paid for with our tax dollars.
It is beyond sad that today we are seeing the same people now
supporting the same war-mongering neoconservatives
they voted against in the form of Hillary Clinton.
Steve Bannon was right. The Trump revolution died when he
capitulated on sending troops to Afghanistan [in June, 2017].
He didn’t have the strength to stand up to them then and
he’s now their biggest used-empire salesman. A job for which he is uniquely suited.”
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Comment: MAGA likely died even earlier in April 2017 when Trump bombed Syria based on nothing but unvetted pictures of children. His April 2017 bombing of Syria over a fake poison gas story so angered hacking group Shadow Brokers which voted for and supported Trump, that in protest they released a confidential NSA password for an arsenal of US digital weapons, authenticity confirmed by Edward Snowden. Shadow Brokers in its 4/8/17 letter to Trump said, “Be considering this our form of protest. The password for the EQGRP-Auction-Files is CrDj”(;Va.*NdlnzB9M?@K2)#>deB7mN” (see end of this post for entire letter to Trump by Shadow Brokers)
4/8/17, After claim by Shadow Brokers that they released NSA password, Edward Snowden confirms authenticity of the release:
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Ten weeks after Trump took office: April 7, 2017, “Heartbroken” Ivanka persuaded Daddy to bomb Syria: “Trump launches attack on Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles,“ CNBC.com… 4/17/17, “Eric Trump Says Syria Strike Was Swayed By ‘Heartbroken’ Ivanka,” NBC.com, Alexander Smith: “Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Syria was influenced by his daughter, Ivanka, being “heartbroken and outraged“ at the country’s alleged chemical weapons attack, one of the president’s sons told a British newspaper….Trump’s 33-year-old son, Eric, told The Daily Telegraph on Monday that the strike was influenced in part by Ivanka, who he said was “heartbroken and outraged” by the chemical attack. “Ivanka is a mother of three kids and she has influence,” Eric Trump said speaking with the newspaper at Trump Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire, Scotland.
“I’m sure she said, ‘Listen, this is horrible stuff.’ My father will act in times like that.” Trump himself was “deeply affected” by the pictures of children [bingo] being “sprayed down by hoses to keep their skin from burning,” according to his son. “It was horrible. These guys are savages and I’m glad he responded the way he responded.””…
At minimum it would take months of careful research on the ground in this jihadist controlled part of Syria to make any claim about the nature of an alleged attack and/or its origin. It’s possible no conclusion could ever be reached or that no attack took place at all, that it was staged. The bottom line is the whole world knows
Trump treated US taxpayers like garbage by forcing us to bomb for no reason. Syria would be completely justified in bombing the US in return.
If there was any “heartbreak” it was that US taxpayers were reminded that the US is a dictatorship, that we’re not allowed to choose US presidents, and are slaves of global war profiteers. Though it wasn’t about children, we were told that since Ivanka was a mother of 3 she effectively was qualified to force US taxpayers to bomb Syria. We agree with Ivanka that harming children is “heartbreaking and outrageous.” That isn’t the point. Using unvetted photos as an excuse for bombing was an attack on US taxpayers. As Shadow Brokers makes clear, it was especially an attack on those of us who voted for Trump.
Syria had not harmed the US, presented no threat, US had no reason to be in Syria at all.
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Added: Hacking group Shadow Brokers April 2017 letter to Trump explaining that their dismay at Trump bombing Syria was so great that they’re releasing an NSA password in protest, confirmed by Snowden. Shadow Brokers voted for Trump and say he betrayed his base by bombing Syria in April 2017 over a fake poison gas story:
4/8/2017, “Be considering this our form of protest. The password for the EQGRP-Auction-Files is CrDj”(;Va.*NdlnzB9M?@K2)#>deB7mN” (at end of post)
4/8/17, After claim by Shadow Brokers that they released NSA password, Edward Snowden confirms authenticity of the release:
Shadow Brokers post to President Trump:
4/8/2017, “Don’t Forget Your Base,” medium.com
“Dear President Trump,
TheShadowBrokers is wanting to see you succeed. TheShadowBrokers is wanting America to be great again. TheShadowBrokers acknowledging, we don’t be having all the inside information you do, things might look different inside the bubble. TheShadowBrokers is having suggestion.
Maybe you be making YouTube video is in order, to be explaining to your voters, your supporters, you didn’t fuck them all over. Because from theshadowbrokers seat is looking really bad.
If you made deal(s) be telling the peoples about them, peoples is appreciating transparency.
But what kind of deal can be resulting in chemical weapons used in Syria, Mr. Bannon’s removal from the NSC, US military strike on Syria, and successful vote for SCOTUS without change rules? Mr. Trump whose war are you fighting? Israeli Nationalists’ (Zionist) and Goldman Sachs’ war? Chinese Globalists’ and Goldman Sachs war?
Is not looking like you fighting the domestic wars,
the movement elected you to be fighting.
You not being in office three months and already you looking like the MIIC’s bitch
with John McCain and Chuck Schumer double dutch ruddering each other in the corner over dead corpses.
Mr Trump, we getting it. You having special empathy for father whose daughter is killed. We know this is root cause for anti-illegal immigrant policy. Illegal immigrant shoot man’s daughter in San Francisco. Now is Syrian man daughter [allegedly] killed by chemical gas. We agree its needless tragedy.
But tragedies happening everyday and wars endangers all the children
not just Syrian.
Mr President theshadowbrokers would like to be making some suggestion regarding
why you were being elected, is just being
friendly reminders.
Your Supporters:
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– Don’t care what is written in the NYT, Washington Post, or any newspaper, so just ignore it.
– Don’t care if you swapped wives with Mr Putin, double down on it, “Putin is not just my friend he is my BFF”.
– Don’t care if the election was hacked or rigged, celebrate it “so what if I did, what are you going to do about it”.
– Don’t care if you’re popular or nice, get er done, Obama’s fail, thinking he could create compromise. No compromise.
–Don’t want foreign wars, Do want domestic wars, “drain the swamp”, “destroy the nanny state”
– Don’t care about your faith, you sound like a smuck when you try to say god things
– DO support the ideologies and policies of Steve Bannon, Anti-Globalism, Anti-Socialism, Nationalism, Isolationism
TheShadowBrokers is having some other suggestions.
Globalism
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If Globalism is being so cool and awesome, why all the peoples come to only one country, American? Isn’t that being opposite of globalism? If globalism shouldn’t all peoples be staying in own countries and America be exporting culture and ideas to them? If cultures, beliefs, and philosophies of Africa, Asia, and India is being so cool and awesome, why isn’t everyone immigrating there? Because its not and they aren’t. European or Western Culture has proven is being best and most dominant, nothing to do with skin colors, white, brown, yellow, but is having to do with being red. No not red communism, red as in blood. European ancestors did the work, the thinking, the rebelling, the fighting, the killing, and the dying. Sometimes they being on rite side of history and sometimes not, but result is being great culture and society. “But, America is nation of immigrants!” Yes, but until 30 years ago most immigrants being Europeans. Jeudeo-Christian Europeans minor cultural differences.
Don’t bring the world to America, bring America to the world. America first. English first. American workers first. American students first. American culture first.
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White Privilege
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Dear Americans, do you seek black privileged, reparation, and free shit? TheShadowBrokers is having program for you, is calling it the “Obama Ticket.” The U.S. government will be setting aside 1 Trillion, made up, borrowed from ourselves, debased Federal Reserve dollars to be sending any American resident, who wishes, regardless of skin color,
on an all expense paid, permanent trip to Africa.
Be telling your friends. Be telling your family. Be taking as many of them (friends and family) with you. Some condition be applying, accepting an Obama Ticket automatically revokes your Unites States citizenship, your are not being allow to return, for one generation, no exceptions. Call 1–800–555–1212
Socialist Collectivism
.Africa not being for you. Do you liking socialism? Collectivism? Are all animals equal, but some animals more equal than others? Do you like wearing black? Then maybe the Socialist Workers Paradise of North Korea is for you. Please call the same number above and select menu option #2.
President Trump, theshadowbrokers is offering our services to you and your administration. Did you know most of theshadowbrokers’ members have taken the oath “…to protect and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic…”. Yes sir! Most of us used to be TheDeepState everyone is talking about. But we realized TheDeepState is being the enemy of the constitution, individualism, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With the right funding we can recruit some of the best hacker intel peoples in United States and world. “Unmasking” is being new buzz word, so we use.
TheShadowBrokers is being happy to unmask anyone we considering to be an enemy of the Constitution of the United States. Enemies like John McCain. Something doesn’t rub theshadowbrokers rite about Vietnam War POW
who at every opportunity seeks to do violence to others via the proxy of young service men and women. If anyone should be being pacifist, slow to pick fight it should be being former POW. TheShadowBrokers is sure if we “unmasking”, Senator McCain, Magog itself might come out, many defense contractors, Saudi Princes, and possibly little Vietnamese boy he shares with Senator Lindsey Graham, not cool! Mr. Trump we know you are having DOJ and FBI, so why you be needing theShadowBrokers? You don’t, but theshadowbrokers is confused.
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Added: Trump basks after bombing Syrian government locations in April 2017 after alleged complaint from Idlib, an Al Qaeda safe haven, 100% controlled by jihadists:
“Nevertheless, Trump decided to fire away before the facts were in
because the enemy he is most worried about is not the one half a world away in Syria,
but the Democratic-neocon alliance in his own back yard.”
4/8/17, “Luring Trump into Mideast Wars,“ Daniel Lazare, Consortium News
“Exclusive: After launching a missile strike on Syria, President Trump is
basking in praise
from his former critics – neocons, Democrats and mainstream media –
who want to lure him into more Mideast wars, reports Daniel Lazare.”
“Donald Trump entered military terra incognita on Thursday by
launching an illegal Tomahawk missile strike on an air base in eastern Syria. Beyond the clear
violation of international law, the practical results
are likely to be disastrous, drawing the U.S. deeper into the Syrian quagmire.
But it would be a mistake to focus all the criticism on Trump. Not only are Democrats also at fault, but a good argument could be made that they bear even greater responsibility.
For years, near-total unanimity has reigned on Capitol Hill concerning America’s latest villains du jour, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.
Congressmen, senators, think-tank strategists, and op-ed analysts all have agreed that Putin and Assad are the prime enemies of
“peace,” by which is meant global American hegemony,
and that therefore the U.S. must stop at nothing to weaken or neutralize them or
force them to exit the world stage.
Until recently, in fact, just about
the only politically significant dissenter was Trump.
Accusing reporters of twisting the news at a tumultuous press conference in late February [2017], he told them,
“Now tomorrow, you’ll say, ‘Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible.’ It’s not terrible. It’s good.”
But since getting along with Russia was terrible for America’s perpetually bellicose [US taxpayer funded] foreign-policy establishment,
Official Washington declared war on Trump, building on Hillary Clinton’s charge during the last presidential debate
that he was Putin’s “puppet.”
It became the conventional wisdom that Trump was a “Siberian candidate” being inserted in the White House by a satanic Kremlin determined to bend freedom-loving Americans to its will.
As Inauguration Day approached, President Obama’s intelligence chiefs pulled out all stops to persuade the public that (a) Russian intelligence had engineered Clinton’s defeat by hacking the Democratic National Committee’s computers and placing thousands of embarrassing emails in the hands of WikiLeaks and that (b) Trump was somehow complicit in the effort.
The campaign was highly effective. The alleged Putin-Trump relationship was a major feature at the anti-Trump protests surrounding his inauguration and the major U.S. news media pounded on the Russia “scandal” daily.
On Feb. 13, barely four weeks after taking office, Trump crumbled
under a mounting barrage of political abuse and gave National Security Adviser Michael Flynn the boot after it was revealed that he had talked with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition, supposedly in violation of the 1799 Logan Act, an absurd piece of ancient legislation that even The New York Times referred to as “a dusty, old law” that should have been repealed generations ago.
Under Media Pressure
A day later, the administration reeled again
when the Times charged in a front-page exposé that “members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates
had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.”
The article provided no evidence and no names and said nothing about whether such contacts were knowing or unknowing, i.e., whether they involved a John le Carré-style midnight rendezvous or merely an exchange of pleasantries with someone who may or may not have been connected to the FSB, as Russia’s version of the CIA is known.
In a March 6 [2017] article entitled “Pause This Presidency,”
Times columnist
Charles M. Blow called for little less than
a coup d’état:
“The American people must immediately demand a cessation of all consequential actions by this ‘president’ until we can be assured that Russian efforts to hack our election…did not also include collusion with or cover-up by anyone involved in the Trump campaign and now administration.”
How “the American people” would demand such a cessation or who would provide such assurances was not specified.
On March 31, CNN quoted an unnamed senior administration official
saying that Trump’s hopes of a rapprochement with Russia were fading
because he “believes in the current atmosphere – with so much media scrutiny and ongoing probes into Trump-Russia ties and election meddling –
that it won’t be possible to ‘make a deal.’”
Thus, Trump found himself increasingly boxed in by hostile forces. But he still tried to fulfill his promise to concentrate on defeating terrorists in Syria and Iraq. On March 30, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced that the U.S. administration “priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out,” but to concentrate on defeating Al Qaeda and ISIS instead.
But the more Trump contemplated his predicament in the following days, the more he realized how untenable it had come.
Tuesday’s [alleged] poison-gas incident in [entirely jihadist controlled] Idlib thus
offered a way out
regardless of who was actually responsible.
The only way for Trump
to make peace with the “deep state” in Washington was
by waging war on Syria.
Finally, on Thursday, hours before Trump sent a volley of cruise missiles wafting towards Syria, Hillary Clinton taunted him by declaring that America “should take out his [Assad’s] airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people.”
The effect was to all but force Trump
to show that he was every bit as macho as the former First Lady.
Frog-Marching Trump
Trump is certainly a fool for going ahead with such an attack
in clear contravention of international law
and entangling the United States more deeply into the complicated Syrian conflict. But the blame also should go to the people who frog-marched him to the precipice and then all but commanded him to step over the edge.
Within hours, all the usual suspects
were congratulating
one of the most scorned U.S. presidents in history
for taking the leap.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said: “Making sure Assad knows that when he [allegedly] commits such despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do.” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi described Trump’s missile barrage as “a proportional response to the regime’s use of chemical weapons.”
Republican super-hawks Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham,
previously as anti-administration as any Democrat, issued a joint statement
declaring that Trump “deserves the support of the American people,”
while liberal heart-throb Sen. Elizabeth Warren also agreed that “the Syrian regime must be held accountable for this horrific act.”
The Guardian, as fiercely anti-Trump as it is anti-Putin and anti-Assad,
conceded that “Donald Trump has made his point” and that
the next step would be up to Russia.
All in all, Trump had never gotten such good press. It’s clear that Official Washington was pleased with Trump’s handiwork and was
eager to encourage him to do more.
But the missile barrage was not just an assault on Syria but on reason and good sense, too. Although the Washington Post’s Adam Taylor tried to make it seem that
the only critics of the missile barrage are members of the alt-right
“known for espousing racist, anti-Semitic and sexist points of view,” the fact is that criticism flowed in from other quarters.
At Alternet, Vijay Prashad pointed out that there were few independent observers
in Khan Shaykhun, [100% jihadist]
the farming town where the April 4 [alleged] incident occurred,
to provide an accurate account. Eyewitnesses “with the densest relationship to the armed opposition,” he wrote, “are the first to claim that this attack was done by the government.”
Consortium News’ Robert Parry pointed out that rather than dropping the gas themselves, Syrian or Russian warplanes could well have triggered an outbreak by bombing a facility containing “chemicals that the [terrorist] rebels were planning to use in some future attack.” Parry also noted that
Al Qaeda, which controls Idlib province,
could have “staged the incident
to elicit precisely the international outrage
directed at Assad as has occurred.”
[Previously, United Nations investigators have received eyewitness testimony from Syrians about [US supported Islamic] rebels staging an alleged chlorine-bomb attack so it would be pinned on the Assad regime. 9/8/2016, “UN Team Heard Claims of ‘Staged’ Chemical Attacks“]
Something similar may well have occurred in August 2013, a sarin-gas missile attack on the outskirts of Damascus that killed hundreds and that appears to have been launched from a rebel-controlled area two kilometers away. The two incidents are curiously parallel.
The August 2013 incident, which horrified the world and brought the Obama administration to the brink of its own attack on the Syrian government, occurred
just days after a U.N. team had arrived in Damascus to investigate an alleged chemical attack by rebels against Syrian government troops
some four months earlier.
It made little sense for the Assad regime to have invited U.N. investigators in and then
launch a more horrific chemical-weapons attack just miles from the investigators’ hotel.
It would be a bit like someone inviting a police inspector to dinner and then committing a murder in full view.
Not Making Sense
As one independent analysis noted in 2013, the Assad regime would have to have decided to carry out a large-scale attack “despite (a) making steady gains against rebel positions, (b) receiving a direct threat from the US that the use of chemical weapons would trigger intervention, (c) having constantly assured their Russian allies that they will not use such weapons, (d) prior to the attack, only using non-lethal chemicals and only against military targets.”
The Assad government would also have had to decide “to (a) send forces into rebel-held area, where they are exposed to sniper fire from multiple directions, (b) use locally manufactured short-range rockets, instead of any of the long-range high quality chemical weapons in their arsenal, and (c) use low quality sarin.”
All of which seems supremely unlikely, but much of the mainstream U.S. media still treats the 2013 sarin-gas attack as the undeniable case of Assad crossing Obama’s “red line” against using chemical weapons.
And the highly dubious 2013 incident is cited as a key reason to believe that Assad has done it again. [Recently, The New York Times has quietly backed off the 2013 claims although not explicitly retracting its earlier reporting blaming the attack on the Assad regime.]
Assad would have possibly even stronger reasons not to deploy sarin gas on April 4, 2017. He would have to make a conscious decision to court world opprobrium at a time when the tide of the war was finally turning in his favor with the liberation of Aleppo last December [2016] and with most world leaders having concluded that the Assad regime was here to stay.
To have produced and deployed a sarin bomb would have meant deliberately risking military intervention more than three years after Syria reached an agreement with the United Nations to destroy its entire chemical-weapons stockpile so as to avoid … military intervention.
All of which seems supremely unlikely as well. It would be an act of suicide – and after holding off a combined U.S., Saudi, Qatari, and Turkish assault for half a decade or more, one thing that Assad does not appear to be is suicidal.
Although [Trump’s] Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, “there is no doubt in our mind that the Syrian regime under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad is responsible for this horrific attack,”
in reality there is plenty of doubt.
Nevertheless, Trump decided to fire away before the facts were in
because the enemy he is most worried about
is not the one half a world away in Syria,
but the Democratic-neocon alliance in his own back yard.
The political warfare in Washington is now generating more agony from real wars
in the Middle East.”
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Added:
In 2002 The America First Party invited Ohio Rep. Jim Traficant to speak at its convention. Traficant was born in and beloved in his home town of Youngstown, Ohio. At one time he was Sheriff of Mahoning County. Sadly, he died in an accident in 2014. Traficant also spoke at a 2009 Tea Party rally in Ohio where he was greeted with cheers of “Traficant for President,” and “We’re with you Jim.” He was a serious advocate of enforcing the US southern border, in mid 1990s then Democrat Traficant proposed a bill in the House to relocate 10,000 US troops from Europe to the US southern border:
May 1996, “America First,“ James Traficant, Chronicles Magazine (subscription)
“Protecting Our Borders
Last year [1995] I introduced legislation that would authorize the Pentagon to redeploy American troops stationed in Europe to assist federal law enforcement officials patrolling America’s Southern border. Every day dangerous criminals pour into our country through our border with Mexico—unchallenged.
My bill authorizes the Secretary of Defense–at the request of the Attorney General–to transfer up to 10,000 American troops stationed in Europe back to the United States to assist the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service in preventing illegal aliens, drug traffickers, and terrorists from entering our country. The bill would also allow American troops to assist the Customs Service in inspecting cargo, vehicles, and aircraft at points of entry into the United States.
Let’s be candid. The Border Patrol has only 3,800 personnel to guard the two longest borders of one of the largest countries of the world. Reports indicate that, at any given time,
only 800 patrolmen are available to protect
our 2,000 mile border with Mexico.
Congress has failed to provide funding to enlarge the Border Patrol, and until Congress can find the money, this military option is the best short-term way to address this shortage of personnel.
We have hundreds of thousands of troops deployed throughout the world
protecting European, Asian, and Latin American nations.
If the Pentagon can send hundreds of thousands of American troops to protect our allies, it should be able to spare 10,000 military personnel to protect America.”…
Obviously, the bill didn’t pass, Jim was unpopular in the Beltway, eventually was sent to prison for financial crimes. When he got out, the Tea Party and America First Party greeted him with open arms.