

Impressum

Copyright © 2019 by

Oliver Markus Malloy

Oliver.M.Malloy@Mail.com

All rights reserved.

Published by

Becker & Malloy

All quotes and images were collected under Fair Use, as defined in Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act:

"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A,  
the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

RULERS AND PEASANTS

THINKING LIKE A PEASANT

WHY AMERICA IS ADDICTED TO WAR

CONSERVATIVES ARE LOYALISTS

THE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY

HOW RELIGION POISONS YOUR MIND

LIBERALS ARE THE REAL AMERICA

YOUR PRESIDENT

DUMB REPUBLICANS

HOW TO TALK TO DUMB PEOPLE

YOU'RE NOT MIDDLE CLASS. YOU'RE POOR.

NAZI GERMANY VS PRESENT-DAY GERMANY

CAPITALISM DOESN'T WORK THE WAY YOU THINK IT DOES

FASCISM IN AMERICA

THE BIGGER PICTURE

OIL WARS

HOW PUTIN AND TRUMP ARE DESTROYING THE WEST

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dear Democrat,

Does a loved one in your family wear a red MAGA dunce cap at the Thanksgiving dinner table?

Have you tried to explain to them how embarrassingly dumb their uninformed opinions are, but their eyes just glaze over, and they have no freakin' clue what you're talking about, because they never heard none-o-that on Fox News?

Is your clueless country cousin impervious to rational arguments, because he has no historic context for anything ever, and he knows absolutely nothing beyond the daily Fox News talking points?

You can now get them the help they need. Get them this book.

This book is an intervention. This book is the snap-out-of-it-you-idiot slap in the face your friend or family member needs to overcome their addiction to stupid.

It's like the truth pill in The Matrix. No, it's a truth bomb! It will blow their minds. It explains important facts they have never heard of in a way that even a god-damn child could understand. With lots of cursing, to keep their attention.

If this short little book doesn't make them see the light, nothing will. Nothing. God help us all. America can't take much more of this dumpster fire.

Oliver

RULERS AND PEASANTS

All through history, there have always been two types of people: rulers and peasants.

The ruling class is much, much smaller than the peasant class. Almost all people on earth are poor peasants, like you and me. We are the worker drones. The little pawns on the chess board of life. The expendables.

Only a select few belong to the ultra rich ruling class. That's why they're called the one percent. The elite. They're a small little club. They all know each other and hang out together at exclusive galas, luxury resorts on private islands, golf tournaments at country clubs, or yacht parties in St. Tropez.

You're not part of that elite club of the ultra rich, and you never will be. You're working class. You work for a living. They don't. That's why they're not working class. In their eyes, you're nothing more than a worker bee. An ant. A servant.

Chances are, you're literally working in the service industry. Which is, let's face it, a polite way of saying you're a servant.

The ultra rich are not servers. They spend their entire lives being served by peasants like you. To them, your only reason to exist is to serve their needs. Your life only has meaning as long as your existence benefits them.

They don't care if you're overworked or underpaid. They don't care if pollution gives you cancer and you have no health insurance. They don't care that you can't afford to pay your bills and your meds. They don't care that you're a homeless vet with PTSD. Your quality of life is meaningless. Because your life is meaningless, once you're no longer useful to them.

Once they have sucked the life out of you, they throw your burned-out leftovers in the trash. You get fired and replaced by the next poor schmuck who will do your shitty job for even less money.

That's what they call "raising productivity." That's when less and less people are employed and work harder and harder for less and less money. Cheap slave labor means higher profits for the ruling class. That's why your life is shit, while they get richer and richer. The gap between the small ruling class and the rest of us is now greater than it has been in a hundred years.

You know those old-timey Charles Dickens novels about poor peasant children begging for food? We're headed right back to those days.

"Income gap between rich and poor is biggest in a century

If you feel you're falling behind in the income race, it's not just your imagination. The wealth gap between the top 1% and the bottom 99% in the U.S. is as wide as it's been in nearly 100 years, a new study finds."

-Los Angeles Times

"This wealth gap that we see today is something that has really skyrocketed since about the 1980s and certainly in the past decade, decade and a half."

-Fortune Magazine

You know what happened in the 1980s? Reagan happened. His policies, particularly "trickle down economics," were all about making the rich richer, and the poor poorer, by taking money away from the poor masses and giving it to the one percent on top. And that's exactly what happened.

"The tsunami of wealth didn't trickle down. It surged upward"

-Warren Buffett

"The Rise of Homelessness in the 1980s

Why, in the early 1980s, did so many Americans find themselves homeless? Why did the accumulation of personal tragedies reach epidemic proportions at the same time across the nation?

Over three-quarters of the new jobs created during the 1980s were at minimum-wage levels. By 1983, over 15 percent of Americans were living below the poverty line, even though half of them lived in households where at least one person worked.

Nationwide, between 1982 and 1985, federal programs targeted to the poor were reduced by $57 billion. Because of adjustments to the eligibility requirements, over half the working families on the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) were removed from the rolls."

-KCET

Where did all that money go that the government saved by not helping poor people? Straight into the pockets of a couple of very rich people. There are countless government programs where rich people get free money. Free money for rich people is called subsidies, or corporate welfare.

"Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?

Three-quarters of all state economic development subsidies went to just 965 corporations since the beginning of the study in 1976. The Fortune 500 corporations alone accounted for more than 16,000 subsidy awards, worth $63 billion – mostly in the form of tax breaks.

Think about that. The largest, wealthiest, most powerful organizations in the world are on the public dole. Where is the outrage? Back when I was young, people went into a frenzy at the thought of some unemployed person using food stamps to buy liquor or cigarettes. Ronald Reagan famously campaigned against welfare queens. The right has always been obsessed with moochers. But Boeing receives $13 billion in government handouts and everyone yawns, when conservatives should be grabbing their pitchforks."

-Forbes Magazine

"Fortune 100 companies received $399 billion in federal funding between the 2014 and 2017 fiscal years, according to a report from transparency organization OpenTheBooks.

The report found that in the four years measured, the top 10 companies on the Fortune 100 list received $338 billion from the federal government. Almost all of the money—$393 billion—was provided in contracts, but $3.2 billion in government grants was also given out. The report noted that the recipients of the federal funds spent significant amounts of money lobbying for their own interests.

Several recipients of the highest amounts of federal funding were in the defense or pharmaceutical industries. Lockheed Martin received almost $138 billion, and Boeing received over $82 billion. McKesson, a pharmaceutical company, received over $30.1 billion, and insurance company Humana received close to $13.8 billion."

-Newsweek

The rich ruling class doesn't like it when you mention that there is a rich ruling class that rules over us. When you even just mention that fact, they immediately accuse you of class warfare, to shut you up and ridicule you. They don't want the truth to get out, so they want to make sure the other peasants won't listen to what you have to say.

The funny thing is, there always has been a class war. It's a war the rich have waged against the poor since the beginning of time. And not knowing anything about this war puts you at a serious disadvantage.

"In a sense, you could say we're involved in the class struggle."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."

-Warren Buffett

"The history of society is the history of class struggles."

-Karl Marx

"The class-struggle is the main source of progress, and therefore the nobleman who robs the peasant and goads him to revolt is playing a necessary part"

-George Orwell

Knowledge is power. When you don't know what the hell is going on around you, or how all the puzzle pieces fit together, it puts you in a very weak position. That's why they like to keep you nice and stupid. The less you know, the better for them.

And that's why the rich ruling class always wins the war they wage against the rest of us. That's why they're our rulers. That's why they have all the money and power.

Ever since peasants worked themselves to death to build a pyramid for the Pharaoh, the rich ruling class has sucked the life out of the poor.

How has a tiny group of ultra rich assholes managed to control the unwashed masses all through history?

With violence and lies.

Have you ever asked yourself why the folks in Britain still defer to a Queen? What the hell makes her so special? What exactly are "royals" anyway?

During the Stone Age, there were many little tribes. (Yes, we're gonna start at the very beginning. Sorry, but this part is important. So pay attention, numbnuts.) So there were small family clans. And when they met other clans, they killed each other, to steal each other's resources. The only rule was, kill or be killed.

Knuckle-dragging cavemen didn't know much, but they knew one thing: "My own tribe are the good guys, simply because I'm one of them. They won't hurt me, because I'm one of them. All the other tribes are the bad guys, because I'm not one of them. They're gonna eat me."

Nothing much has changed in the past couple of thousand years. You don't have to look very far to see tribalism in action:

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

-George Bernard Shaw

If you were a member of the other tribe, the other tribe would be the good guys to you. That's how tribalism works. It always boils down to us versus them. They are the enemy. And "they" means everyone who is not part of your own little tribe or party or race or religion or nationality.

Tribalism is the root of all wars.

"Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will be as one"

-John Lennon

The rich ruling class has used tribalism, a primitive caveman instinct, to their advantage since the beginning of time. They use it to divide and conquer us. They drive wedges between us peasants and make us fight each other, so we won't rise up against our rulers and fight them.

You can observe the same old trick everywhere in America today: Red states and blue states are fighting. Christians and Muslims are fighting. Men and women are fighting. Baby Boomers and Millennials are fighting. Black people and white people are fighting.

That doesn't just happen all by itself. There are always voices instigating these fights.

As long as poor white people and poor black people fight each other, we're too busy to notice how we're all being fucked over by our real enemy: the ruling class.

Poor whites and poor blacks have way more in common than poor whites and rich whites. But many poor whites hate poor blacks, and adore rich whites.

Weird, huh?

That doesn't just happen all by itself.

We're constantly being brainwashed into believing that the rich ruling class are great people, and that we must look up to them. If they're rich, they're special. They're amazing. Their lives are interesting. Their thoughts matter. We're obsessed with celebrity gossip about rich people. We want to dress like them. Be them. Every time a rich royal princess is pregnant, it's big news. As if it's so much more special, when rich people fuck.

This shit is so ingrained in our culture, so normal, we don't even notice it anymore. Or did you ever notice that almost all books, TV shows and movies tell stories from the perspective of rich people?

Books and movies are full of stories of dukes and ladies and princes. Great houses going to war against each other, or falling in love with each other, or overcoming great obstacles. Meanwhile their peasants are just unimportant, nameless, faceless figures in the background, opening doors for rich people, standing guard, quietly serving food, or holding the horse steady, while the lord climbs into the saddle.

Dear poor white people, I have bad news for you: super rich white people are not your friends. They became super rich by exploiting people like you. That's not what friends do.

There was a time, during the Irish potato famine, when the lives of white Irish immigrants were worth even less than the lives of black slaves. The brutal heat and humidity on the cotton fields near New Orleans made the slaves sick. Slaves were valuable property. Losing a slave was expensive.

But Irish immigrants, fresh off the boat, were a dime a dozen. So American robber barons saved their expensive slaves and made the Irish peasants work in the fields. Every time one of them dropped dead, he was replaced by the next worthless Irish peasant. It was much cheaper than losing a slave.

"America's tycoons in the 19th and early 20th centuries, pejoratively nicknamed "robber barons," built massive empires and accumulated unprecedented wealth. Many of these men gained their vast fortunes either at the expense of their factory workers or by methods that were considered unscrupulous even back then"

-Business Insider

"Robber Baron

a ruthlessly powerful U.S. capitalist or industrialist of the late 19th century considered to have become wealthy by exploiting natural resources, corrupting legislators, or other unethical means."

-Dictionary.com

The robber barons didn't just disappear one day. They're still here with us today, still fucking all of us over on a daily basis. But of course they don't call themselves robber barons. They call themselves Republicans.

A lot of us peasants don't even realize how the ruling class brainwashes, manipulates and controls us with lies and propaganda, to distract us and make us hate each other, while they exploit and rob us.

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know."

-Noam Chomsky

"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."

-John Adams

The robber barons are vastly outnumbered by the rest of us. That's why they hate democracy. They could never win a fair, honest election in a democracy.

That's why the robber barons need to cheat.

Have you ever heard of gerrymandering? Silly name, I know. But it's a way to cheat in democratic elections. Corrupt Republican politicians randomly redraw lines on the map and create fake congressional districts, to give themselves more votes in congress.

Basically they change the lines on the map, so that a whole bunch of Democratic voters all live in one big Democratic district, and get one congressman. And then the Republicans draw a bunch of other congressional districts on the map, with hardly anyone in it, and each of the almost empty congressional districts all get one Republican congressman each.

That way the Republican robber barons get more votes in congress, even though they represent far less people in their empty districts.

In order for Democrats to gain control of congress, they need to get an overwhelming majority of votes. They need to win even in those districts that the Republican robber barons specifically created to make sure the Democrats lose.

You might be thinking that's a good thing, since you believe the Democrats are your enemies and the Republican robber barons are your friends, but they're not. The Republican robber barons are the ones fucking you over on a daily basis. They're not just cheating on congressional district maps. They do shady shit like that all day every day. You just don't know anything about it.

"Ohio Congressional Map Is Illegal Gerrymander, Federal Court Rules

A federal court on Friday tossed out Ohio's congressional map, ruling that Republican state lawmakers had carved up the state to give themselves an illegal partisan advantage and to dilute Democrats' votes in a way that predetermined the outcome of elections."

-New York Times

"Federal Court Rules That Michigan's Congressional Map Was Unfairly Gerrymandered

A federal court in Michigan says that the state's Republican-controlled legislature unfairly drew some of Michigan's state legislative and U.S. House district lines and that a divided government will have to come up with new boundaries."

-NPR

"North Carolina's gerrymandered map is unconstitutional, judges rule, and may have to be redrawn before midterms

A panel of three federal judges held Monday that North Carolina's congressional districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans over Democrats and said it may require new districts before the November elections, possibly affecting control of the House."

-Washington Post

"Pennsylvania court orders new congressional map due to gerrymandering

Pennsylvania's top court on Monday threw out the state's congressional map, ruling that Republican legislators unlawfully sought partisan advantage, and gave them three weeks to rework it in a decision that could boost Democratic chances of retaking the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a 5-2 decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the electoral map violated the state's Constitution by manipulating the district boundaries to marginalize Democratic voters, a practice called partisan gerrymandering."

-Reuters

Pretty fucked up, huh?

And you had no idea, because no one ever told you about it. The less you know, the better for the robber barons.

But this shit is not the only way the robber barons cheat, to take our votes away.

You know what Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Delaware, Nevada, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa...

...and California have in common?

Together, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Delaware, Nevada, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa have 40 million residents...

...and California alone also has 40 million residents.

You know what the difference is?

Together, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Delaware, Nevada, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa have a total of 46 senators...

...but California only has 2 senators.

So, on the one hand we have 46 senators representing 40 million people. And on the other hand we have 2 senators representing 40 million people.

Does that sound fair to you?

No, of course not.

It means that the 40 million people in California are totally under-represented. Their votes count a lot less than the votes of someone who lives in North Dakota. One single vote in North Dakota counts thousands of times more than a vote in California.

But it's not just the people in California who're getting fucked. Most of the blue Democratic states have a lot more residents than the empty red Republican states. But the Democrats always get a lot less senators per voter.

4 Republican senators from almost empty states like Wyoming or North Dakota, who represent only a small handful of people, can outvote the 2 senators from California, who represent 40 million people.

The robber barons don't even have to win millions of votes in California. They can win the election with a few thousand votes in North Dakota and a couple of other empty red states.

Obviously there's something seriously wrong with that picture. The senate and the house of congress are both rigged in favor of the rich robber barons.

A country where a tiny minority can rule over tens of millions of people is not a real democracy. It's corrupt.

Remember when they told you before the Iraq war that Saddam's Sunni Muslims were a tiny minority who ruled over an oppressed Shiite majority in Iraq? We were told how corrupt and horrible that is. We were told this is proof that Saddam is a dictator. What we weren't told is that the very same thing is happening in America.

Right now congress and the senate are totally rigged against democracy, and in favor of a small group of Republican robber barons. The system, the way it is right now, makes sure that a small handful of robber barons can control millions of people by simply taking their votes away.

But it gets worse.

I'm sure you've heard of the electoral college before. But do you actually understand what it is?

It's another way the robber barons cheat.

Supposedly we the people get to pick the president, right?

No, we don't. It's just a lie.

In reality, it really doesn't matter who we vote for. It's all just for show. Each state has a couple of rich robber barons, who call themselves the electoral college, and they decide who gets that state's votes for president.

And who exactly are the handful of people in your state's electoral college? The cheating robber baron congressmen and senators. They get to pick the president. Not you.

I'm not kidding. That's really how it works.

"The Constitution and federal law do not require electors to abide by the results of the popular vote in their states, so occasionally "faithless electors" go rogue and cast ballots for candidates other than the one to whom they are pledged. A slight majority of states require electors to cast their votes as pledged, although no "faithless elector" has ever been prosecuted."

-History.com

Let's say 80% of the people in a state vote for a Democrat for president. The 5 or 6 Republican members of that state's electoral college can simply ignore the people's millions of votes and pick someone else as president, if they feel like it.

Even if 20 million people in a state vote for a Democrat, 5 or 6 Republican robber barons in that state's electoral college can simply pick a Republican president instead.

Seriously. Look it up.

Obviously this totally rigged system, with a corrupted congress and senate, has absolutely nothing to do with a real, free democracy.

That's why so many people demand that we get rid of the electoral college, which was put in place by 17th century slave owners, to make sure that we slaves and peasants could never take control.

It's a rigged system that allows the robber barons to decide who gets to be president. It's a rigged system that makes sure the super rich robber barons will always rule over the rest of us.

And that's why Trump became president, with a narrow lead in electoral college votes, even though Hillary had several million more votes.

When Trump brags about his electoral college victory, what he's really saying is that the robber barons elected him. Not the people.

The robber barons have totally rigged the system in their favor, to oppress the rest of us. And they're counting on you being too dumb to know this.

These are actual tweets, written by Trump himself a few years ago:

"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy."

@realDonaldTrump - Nov 6, 2012

"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"

@realDonaldTrump - Nov 6, 2012

So, just a few years ago, even Trump himself admitted that the electoral college is total bullshit. But now he suddenly brags about being president because of the electoral college. Because he's counting on you being too dumb to know what that actually means.

It's much easier to exploit people when you're a dictator and there is no real democracy, and no democratic laws that can stop you. If everyone actually had a fair say in what happens around here, we the people would outvote the robber barons every time.

In a real democracy, where every person gets a vote, and every vote counts equally, the robber barons wouldn't stand a chance.

We'd vote against them and their corruption, and we'd pass laws to stop them from robbing and exploiting us. They wouldn't have any more power over us. We'd throw these greedy motherfuckers in jail.

So the robber barons do everything they can to undermine democracy. They confuse and manipulate us with lies. They drive wedges between us, and turn us against each other, to prevent us peasants from thinking clearly, and uniting as one powerful force.

United we stand, divided we fall, remember?

Through the use of propaganda and blatant lies, the impotent rage that exploited peasants feel about their shitty lives is being redirected, away from the real culprits, and directed against each other. That's why a lot of peasants falsely believe they're not being exploited by robber barons, but by other peasants.

And then suddenly we bicker about "wedge issues" that divide us, when we should really be working together to stop the robber barons from exploiting all of us. We should be passing laws that reign them in.

Instead, we pass laws about who gets to use which toilet.

Some people are up in arms over the little holiday pictures on Starbucks coffee cups. They claim it's an evil conspiracy against Christmas. Yeah, that's not a typo. They seriously believe there's a war on Christmas. Supposedly the other peasants hate Christmas soooo much, they want to ban it!

What a bunch of bullshit.

And there's a national debate over whether the temperature in the office is sexist.

Seriously.

On average, men have a higher body temperature than women. That's why women freeze more easily, and they like the thermostat set at a higher temperature. Men sweat more easily, so they like the thermostat set at a lower temperature. And this cooler temperature in the office results in a "hostile work environment for women," some people say.

Here's an idea: wear a fucking sweater.

Are these really the biggest problems we face right now? No, they're distractions.

While we scream at each other over this bullshit like a bunch of angry clowns, the robber barons fuck all of us over a little more. Maybe we should all focus our attention on that, instead of bickering about trivial first world problems and attacking each other on Twitter over the most ridiculous nonsense.

Choose your battles wisely. Work together, and focus on the important stuff.

Anyway, let's get back to the Stone Age for a minute:

Some Stone Age tribe was a little bigger and stronger than their neighbors, so they raided the neighboring tribes, killed the men, kidnapped and raped their women, and stole their resources.

It was kinda like The Walking Dead, but with more rape and less zombies.

Being good at killing makes your tribe even stronger. Killing your neighbors becomes easier and easier, as you grow stronger and stronger. Your tribe prospers, while the other tribes perish. In a dog-eat-dog world, tribalism is an evolutionary advantage.

American-style predatory capitalism is also a dog-eat-dog world, just like the Stone Age. Big corporations eat small ones. And in the end, there will only be one all-powerful corporation left, and it owns everything.

Have you ever played Monopoly? It's a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner has all the money, and everyone else has nothing. Woohoo! So much fun! That's literally how America works. That's why there are a few super rich people who own almost everything, and tens of millions of dirt poor people who have nothing.

It's happening as we speak:

"The retail apocalypse continues to tear through America.

More than 5,800 store closures have been announced so far in 2019, as Victoria's Secret, JCPenney, and Gap shutter dozens of locations.

1,100 closures were announced in a single day in March. Ten retailers have filed for bankruptcy or liquidation so far this year.

The closures and bankruptcies are leaving their mark on malls and shopping centers around the country."

-Business Insider, April 2, 2019

Most mom-and-pop stores don't stand a chance in today's America. Big corporations put mom-and-pop stores out of business with unfair business practices, and lots of free money from the government.

Just ask a small local store owner how he feels about a new Walmart or Target opening nearby. Or ask the owner of a small local burger joint, how he feels about a McDonald's or Burger King opening across the street. Or ask farmers how they feel about giant farm corporations killing off family farms one by one.

Trust me, they're not happy about it.

"Why are America's farmers killing themselves?

The suicide rate for farmers is more than double that of veterans."

-The Guardian

"Wisconsin, the Dairy State has lost over 1,390 dairy farms since Trump became president due to his continuing trade war."

-John Lycardi

To protect family farms and mom-and-pop shop owners, Democratic politicians in small towns try to pass laws and regulations, to ban giant corporations from opening chain stores downtown.

Democratic laws and regulations are there to protect the little local shops, restaurant owners, and family farms from the giant corporations.

But then the giant corporation accuses the Democratic politicians of being "anti-business" and bribes some of the local "pro-business" Republican politicians, to get rid of the regulation that would have protected the people of the town.

Mom and pop can't compete with the giant corporation, so they end up losing their store or farm or restaurant, and have to work as employees at the giant corporation, for minimum wage.

"Most jobs created since the recession have been low-paying

Three-quarters of U.S. jobs created since the 2008-'09 financial crash pay less than a middle-class income, according to an Axios analysis of U.S. Labor Department data."

-Axios News

"Trump administration is America's No. 1 low-wage job creator

When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised to be a workers' champion who would deliver "better wages" for America's working people.

But 18 months into his first term, President Trump has neither pushed Congress to take legislative action to raise the federal minimum wage - which has been stuck at $7.25 for a decade - nor taken executive action to boost pay for 12.5 million workers who work in private sector jobs.

As a result, Trump is now CEO of America's top creator of poverty jobs: the U.S. government.

A new study from Good Jobs Nation \- Promises Broken #1 - shows that Trump's federal government funds more than 4.5 million jobs in the private sector that pay less than a living wage of $15 per hour. By failing to take action to raise wages, Trump is responsible for more low-wage jobs than our nation's largest 20 employers combined, according to our research.

As a result, more than one in three private sector workers who serve the American people - from aiding seniors with their Medicare benefits to helping our troops prepare for combat - earn so little that they rely on food stamps and other public assistance programs to survive."

-TheHill.com

"Half of fast food workers rely on some form of public assistance to supplement their low wages, costing taxpayers roughly $7 billion annually.

A separate study released Tuesday by the pro-labor National Employment Law Project focuses on the cost of employees' government-funded benefits at the 10 largest fast food restaurants. The study found that employees of McDonald's alone receive a total of $1.2 billion in public assistance benefits annually."

-Business Insider

So, thanks to giant corporations paying their employees shit, many of the employees are so dirt poor, they need food stamps to survive.

And although mom and pop both work full time, they can't pay their bills. They have to sell their house and move into a trailer park.

Meanwhile the super rich who own the giant corporations rake in all the profits and make billions on the backs of their underpaid workers. They make billions, while the rest of the country slowly drowns in debt.

"Americans are way more in debt now than they were after the financial crisis"

-HousingWire.com

"Household debt hit another all-time high."

-AmericanBanker.com

"Red flags emerge as Americans' debt load hits another record"

-Reuters.com

That's why life in Republican-run red states is so shitty, the small towns are all dirt poor and dying, and there are trailer parks everywhere.

Big corporate chain stores suck the money out of those towns, and into the pockets of some robber baron who inherited the giant corporation from daddy and never worked a day in his life. Because robber baron junior is not working class. Working is for worker bees. Working is for suckers.

American capitalism means a giant corporation pays their workers as little as possible, to put as much profit as possible into the pocket of the robber barons.

And while the giant corporation pays its employees next to nothing, it charges its customers as much as possible, to put even more profit into the pockets of the robber barons.

Then the super rich robber barons tell the poor peasants that it's their own fault they're poor, and accuse them of being lazy bastards who shouldn't expect handouts from the government.

Then the super rich bribe some corrupt Republican politicians to give them huge tax cuts and subsidies, so they make even more money.

And to pay for the tax cuts and subsidies for the billionaires, the corrupt Republican politicians cut the food stamps for the poor workers, who work for the robber barons for next to nothing.

This whole scam is known as "small government." It's code for fuck the poor.

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

-Grover Norquist, Republican politician

The whole purpose of government is to protect the weak from the rich, to make sure the rich don't eat the poor, the way they used to in the Stone Age, or medieval Europe, when there was no government and no laws stopping the strong from robbing the weak.

Rich robber barons still don't like it when the government stops them from exploiting the poor. It cuts into their profits.

While the super rich get richer and richer, everyone else gets poorer and poorer. Just like in Monopoly.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that there is something seriously wrong with this system. Capitalism is a system that puts rich people on a pedestal, legalizes greed, and enables the rich to exploit the poor.

It's morally wrong.

What kind of a God would support something so immoral? Would Jesus support the exploitation of the poor by the rich? No, of course not.

If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ's teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated to be against greed. It's your duty as a good person to be against exploitation. It's your moral duty to be against predatory capitalism.

"And one day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.' When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people."

-Richard Branson

"U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few."

-Paul Craig Roberts

"Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism."

-Bill Gates

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."

-Malcolm X

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

-John Maynard Keynes

"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."

-Al Capone

"What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism."

-Steve Bannon

"Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed."

-Michael Moore

"The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

THINKING LIKE A PEASANT

Things didn't get any better after the Stone Age. Europe in the Dark Ages was a living nightmare for peasants. That's why it was called the Dark Ages.

But things were even worse for women.

After each massacre, the tribal chieftain filled his own pockets with the spoils of war and demanded the most fertile women for himself. That's how gold treasures and harems came to be. It was perfectly normal back then for men to force women to have sex. There were no laws stopping it from happening.

To stop other tribes from stealing his harem, the chieftain told his peasants to build fortifications. First the walls were made out of wood, and later out of stone. That's how castles were invented.

Castles are monuments to murderous greed and thousands of years of rape culture. The biggest killer had the biggest castle. Next time you marvel at a castle in Europe, remember that the medieval owner of that castle killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson combined.

Time passed, fashions and weapons changed, but for centuries it was always the same old story: the strong ate the weak. Sometimes quite literally:

"British royalty dined on human flesh (but don't worry it was 300 years ago)

They have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich recipes. But what is less well known is that the British royals also had a taste for human flesh.

A new book on medicinal cannibalism has revealed that possibly as recently as the end of the 18th century British royalty swallowed parts of the human body.

The author adds that this was not a practice reserved for monarchs but was widespread among the well-to-do in Europe.

'In the heyday of medicinal cannibalism bodies or bones were routinely taken from Egyptian tombs and European graveyards. Not only that, but some way into the eighteenth century one of the biggest imports from Ireland into Britain was human skulls.

-Daily Mail

Yumm.

Eventually chieftains declared themselves to be extra special, to legitimize their brutal rule and demand total obedience from their servants. They gave themselves fancy titles and demanded loyalty to the death. They told their peasants that there was no greater honor than to die for your overlord. And the dumb peasants believed it.

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a piece of colored ribbon."

-Napoléon Bonaparte

They were proud to give their lives for their masters. They were brainwashed into believing that their own lives didn't matter. Only the lives of their masters mattered.

Pretty crazy if you think about it, huh?

But that's the thing: we never really think about it. This slavish attitude is so ingrained in the minds of servants, that we don't even recognize it as weird anymore, when we hear someone vow to give his life to serve. We're just so used to hearing stuff like that.

It's like when your room is messy. If it's messy long enough, you get so used to it, you become numb to it. And you don't even see the mess anymore. But when someone else comes to visit you, they see the mess right away.

In Asia, people bow all the time. It's normal there. It's considered polite to bow. A sign of respect. They don't really think about how or why the bowing started.

It's a remnant of the Imperial days, when peasants had to bow in the presence of their Imperial masters.

To us Westerners, all that bowing seems kinda strange. Most Europeans stopped bowing to royalty hundreds of years ago. Ever since we chopped their royal heads off.

Bowing is no longer a part of American or European culture. It seems pretty weird to us now, to bow down to someone else. We consider it a sign of slavish submission. Which is exactly what is was, in Europe as well as Asia.

That's why the royals on Game of Thrones always demand that their bannermen "bend the knee" as a sign of submission. It's their version of bowing.

Game of Thrones is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of what medieval Europe was like, minus the zombies and dragons.

There were a bunch of brutal robber barons who called themselves lords, dukes, kings and queens, and they viciously oppressed their peasants. It was perfectly ok for "noblemen" to murder and brutally torture their peasants, if they felt like it. Peasants were seen as livestock. More like sheep or cattle than actual human beings.

Maybe that's why we still use the word sheep to describe obedient servants who blindly follow a master.

There were royal houses, like the Lannisters or the Targaryens, but in the real world they had names like house Habsburg or house Medici. Today's British royal family started to call themselves house Windsor in 1917. Before that they were called house Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha. A German royal house. I guess it didn't look so good during World War 1, that a German family ruled Britain.

All of Europe's royal houses are related to each other. The royal houses were a bunch of cousin fuckers. It was normal. There was lots and lots of inbreeding going on.

Not uncommon at all, all the way into modern times. Hitler was in a relationship with his niece, Angela (Geli) Raubal. When she cheated on him with his chauffeur, Hitler killed her.

"The unresolved and hastily covered-up death in 1931 of Geli Raubal, Hitler's half-niece and romantic obsession, has long been relegated to the murky footnotes of the Führer's early career in the demimonde of Munich."

-Vanity Fair

Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, was in a relationship with his underage niece, Klara Pölzl. They are Adolf Hitler's parents. Adolf Hitler was the result of incestuous inbreeding. And he himself was in an incestuous relationship with his niece.

Pretty sick.

Oh, that reminds me of something Trump said:

"If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

-Donald J. Trump

Real-life history is full of even crazier shit than Cersei Lannister and her brother Jaime.

King Tut, the famous ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, was the son of incest and had a bunch of birth defects. His mother and father were brother and sister. And King Tut himself married his sister Ankhesenamun.

Cleopatra's parents were also brother and sister. She wasn't actually Egyptian. She was Greek. A Greek royal house ruled Egypt at that time. Cleopatra ruled Egypt together with her father. When her father died, Cleopatra married her 10-year-old brother Ptolemy XIII. She was 18 at the time.

Later she was in a relationship with Caesar, the Roman Emperor. They had a kid together, called Caesarion. Caesar had Cleopatra's brother Ptolemy XIII killed. Eventually Caesar returned to Rome and Cleopatra married her other brother, Ptolemy XIV. Same name, different guy.

Pretty fucked up, huh?

But this shit was totally normal among royalty back then. To keep the royal bloodline "pure," meaning free of peasant scum.

And all kings had harems, full of peasant girls who were sold into sexual slavery, and raped regularly, just like female slaves in Colonial America.

So, history really was full of inbred royals, and bloodthirsty queens like Cersei Lannister, psychos like Ramsay Bolton, who tortured peasants for fun, and mad child-kings like Joffrey, who were cruel, just for shits and giggles, and to stroke their own ego.

Medieval robber baron Europe was not a fun place for peasants. It was hell on earth.

That only changed when the peasants finally had the courage to rise up against the royals and started forming democratic governments for the people by the people.

Democratic governments were invented for one reason, and one reason only: to protect the weak from the strong. The whole purpose of a democratic government is to protect the poor from the rich.

That's why Republican robber barons hate government and always try to weaken, corrupt and destroy it. The Republicans represent only, only the interests of the rich robber barons. Republican politicians are owned by the robber barons who exploit us.

The robber barons hate that democratic governments protect us from them, through laws and regulations that reign in the robber barons' ruthless, soulless money-making-machines, the giant corporations. And they never miss an opportunity to make you think that a democratic government for the people by the people is your enemy.

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

-Republican President Ronald Reagan

"The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country."

-Ed Markey, Democratic US Senator

Trump loyalists on Fox News love to use the term Deep State. They claim it's a sinister conspiracy deep within the government, to overthrow Trump.

It's a lie. The truth is, the so-called Deep State IS the government. The whole purpose of a democratic government is to protect us from people like Trump.

If it wasn't for our democratic government, and its laws and rules and regulations, we'd still be living in a world like medieval Europe, where rich people can do to poor people whatever the fuck they want. A robber baron could kill you, simply for not bowing down far enough in his presence.

In Asia, bowing is still a part of their culture today. They don't recognize it as slavish and submissive, because they're so used to doing it. They don't even think about it anymore. From childhood, they grew up being taught that that's just what you do. The same way we Westerners are taught to shake someone's hand.

But let's get back to Game of Thrones for a minute...

At one point the tall blonde female knight, Brienne of Tarth, swears an oath to give her life for royal Sansa Stark: "I will shield your back, and keep your counsel, and give my life for yours if need be. I swear it by the old gods and the new."

When we watched that scene, none of us thought that was weird, because we're so used to the idea of servants dying for their masters, it seems normal. No, heroic!

That's how brainwashed we all are by centuries of ruling class propaganda. We don't even notice it. Even in 21st century America, we still think that oath is totally legit.

And when servers at a restaurant are being told that the customer is always right, because the customer is king, it's nothing other than a continuation of that century-old slave mentality. Servants only exist to serve a master.

The master is always right. Even when he's wrong.

That's literally how you MAGA minions think about Trump, isn't it? No matter what he says, and no matter how demonstrably false his claims are.

Remember when he claimed the sound of windmills gives you cancer? What a load of crap.

Or that his father Fred Trump was born in Germany, even though there is proof that he was born in New York?

Newspapers keep track of the long list of lies he tells and the evidence that proves those lies wrong:

"Trump's Lies

Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump's lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office."

-New York Times

"Why So Many Trump Supporters Are OK With The President's Lies

Authoritarianism has long been linked to support for Donald Trump. New research finds people with that mindset are less likely to care that a political leader is lying.

As of mid-February, the Washington Post's fact-checking staff had tallied 8,718 false or misleading public statements by President Donald Trump since he assumed office. Yet his popularity, while low overall, remains very high among his base—a demographic dominated by evangelical Christians, who are taught lying is a sin.

The research, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, finds Republicans are more likely than Democrats or independents to consider overt lying on the part of a politician morally acceptable behavior. This difference is largely driven by Trump supporters' endorsement of authoritarianism."

-Pacific Standard

Authoritarianism is a fancy word for dictatorship. You guys actually like the idea of a dictatorship.

You guys act like every word out of Trump's mouth is the gospel truth. Because you believe it's your duty to act that way. You think it's honorable to be blindly obedient to a master, even when he flat out lies so blatantly, that even an idiot can see it's a lie.

"That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

-President Theodore Roosevelt

Blind obedience is the exact opposite of democracy. It betrays the very idea of freedom. It's even worse than bowing.

I bet if Trump asked you guys to bow down to him and swear a loyalty oath, you'd totally do it. Like when he told people at his rallies to raise their hands and swear an oath to vote for him.

"Trump defends loyalty oaths: 'We're having such a great time'

Donald Trump dismissed comparisons of his use of loyalty oaths during recent campaign rallies to Nazi Germany and other dark chapters of history on Tuesday as "ridiculous."

The loyalty pledges began at a rally Saturday in Orlando, Florida, where Trump asked the crowd: "Raise your right hand: 'I do solemnly swear that I — no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there's hurricanes or whatever — will vote, on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for president."

-Politico.com

None of that seems the slightest bit strange to you guys, does it?

Anyway, the inbred ancient robber barons claimed to be chosen to rule over us by this invisible superhero in the clouds, called God. You might have heard of him. He's kinda like the Hulk: "Don't get God angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry. When God angry, God smash!"

To make that absurd story more believable, they even came up with this book, called the bible, that was basically a bunch of horror stories about all the things God smashed when he was angry: "If you piss him off, he'll destroy your whole fucking city! Just ask those fuckers in Sodom and Gomorrah."

Ohhh, scary stuff!

Some of the really cocky robber barons even claimed that they were gods themselves, and infinitely better and more important than their expendable pawns. Sooo much better that they didn't even have the same ordinary red blood. No sir, even their blood was better. Blue blood!

Fancy shmancy!

And that's how robber barons made their uneducated peasants believe that they were extra special, and chosen by God himself to rule over them.

Yupp. Royals became royals by bullshitting their peasants and plundering and pillaging their neighbors. That's all. They became rich by being extra ruthless and brutal. They were better at murdering people than their neighbors. And then they told their peasants that it was all God's will, so you better shut the fuck up or God is gonna fuck you up.

It was pretty easy to fool peasants back then. Most of them couldn't even read. Peasants weren't allowed to go to school. Only the children of noblemen were allowed to receive a proper education. Not unlike America today, where poor peasants can't afford to send their kids to a good school in an expensive neighborhood.

We've all heard British fans of the Queen yell: "God save the Queen!"

You know why?

The purpose of a democratic government is to protect the poor from the rich. The purpose of religion is to protect the rich from the poor.

Of course you can't blame today's Queen for the fact that a couple of centuries ago, her great-great-great-grandpa murdered and robbed his neighbors. But the royal family is no more special or holier-than-thou than any other peasant family. They're just very very rich because they inherited a lot of stolen money from a medieval mob boss like Tony Soprano or a viking Charles Manson.

And so it went, century after century.

Eventually the rich robber baron royals sent their henchmen to kill the Aztec and Mayan tribes and rob their gold. And they enslaved the tribes of Africa, killed the tribes in Australia, plundered the tribes of India and the Middle East, and exterminated the tribes of North America.

Tribalism. Nothing has killed more people on this planet. Not even the black plague.

History is really nothing other than a list of bloodthirsty sociopaths who killed their neighbors. But it's ok. God made them do it. So it's cool.

Next time you feel the need to yell that you're proud to be white, remember that white people have murdered more people than all other races combined. That's not really something to be proud of.

Even the most peaceful people can't live in peace, if their neighbors won't let them.

At some point enough was enough. The peasants got sick and tired of being robbed, murdered, eaten or enslaved by ruthless robber barons. The peasants realized that they far outnumbered their overlords and that there is strength in numbers.

And once they realized that those scary stories, about God smashing stuff if you don't obey your greedy masters, were just a bunch of manipulative bullshit, things got ugly for the robber barons real quick:

In France the peasants rose up against the royals and chopped their heads off. The French revolution made the guillotine famous.

In America the peasants demanded freedom from oppression and rose up against the British royals during the American revolution. Or at least that's what the American peasants were being told by their local slave-owning robber barons.

In South Africa the native black peasants revolted against the white colonists from Europe who stole their land. Nelson Mandela was one of the leaders of the peasant uprising. That's how he got famous. He simply demanded "One man, one vote." Democracy. Because he knew that the black natives far outnumbered their white robber baron masters.

In China the peasants rose up against their robber baron royals, the Imperial family of the Qing dynasty, and adopted something called communism.

This will probably come as a shock to you, if you're a "conservative" (read: obedient) peasant who has been brainwashed by your Republican robber barons to be against peasant uprisings, but communism is simply a government for peasants by peasants. Minus the rich Imperial robber barons.

Well, the word peasant sounds kinda unpleasant, so a lot of peasants prefer the word "worker" or "working class" or simply "people." As in People's Republic of China, which is communist China's official name since the working class people there overthrew the Imperial Qing dynasty in 1949.

And during the Russian revolution in 1917, the peasants rose up against the Czar. That's Russian for emperor. In Russia, the peasants like to refer to themselves as "workers" or "comrades." They're just regular people who work hard for a living, like you and me. Marxism simply condemned the bloodthirsty greed of robber barons:

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. Poor people have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working class men of all countries, unite!"

-Karl Marx

I know, I know, that's not what you've been told about Marxism, is it?

Your robber baron overlords, and the "conservative" media outlets they own, told you that Marxism is something really, really evil. Don't you ever even mention Marxism! Don't think about it and don't ask questions about it!

The robber barons don't like the truth to get out. It's a touchy subject for them, because they don't like it when peasants get all uppity. Even if it's in a different country.

They don't want you to get any ideas and follow the example of your brothers and sisters in other parts of the world. They don't want the anti-robber-baron uprisings to spread and come to America.

On May 1st, 2019, Trump basically told American workers to swear a loyalty oath to him:

"President Trump skipped it last year, but on Monday he caught up with tradition and issued a proclamation recognizing May 1 as Loyalty Day — the same day much of the rest of the world celebrates as May Day."

-Los Angeles Times

May 1st, or May Day, is International Workers' Day. It's the day when working class people all over the world celebrate their freedom from robber barons. May Day celebrates all the peasant revolutions all over the world, against greedy robber barons who oppressed them.

There are parades and celebrations in free countries all over the world, and people carry banners that say things like: "Working class men of all countries, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"

Sound familiar? Yeah, it's a reference to that Karl Marx quote I mentioned earlier.

You have been brainwashed to call this evil communism. The rest of the world simply calls it freedom.

"Holidays celebrated around the world that Americans are totally missing out on

Countries across Europe celebrate spring in full bloom with a day of festivals and dancing on "May Day." May Day is celebrated heavily in Britain, where it's known as a three-day holiday weekend. But the holiday itself has more history than just that: it could be seen as a celebration of the spring season, or a celebration of labor rights, depending on where it's happening. Because of its connection to labor rights, there have been protests on May Day in the past."

-Insider.com

And Trump picked that day, of all days, to demand your loyalty.

While the rest of the world celebrates freedom from the robber barons on May 1st, Trump ordered American workers to celebrate their loyalty to robber barons on May 1st.

Gee, what a funny coincidence, huh?

You have been so brainwashed by the robber barons, you don't even recognize freedom when you see it.

You obediently serve your robber baron masters, and swear loyalty oaths to them, and you think that's freedom. Meanwhile, you think the people in other countries, who are actually free, are socialists and communists.

Can you imagine how the British robber barons felt, when French peasants chopped the heads off of the French robber barons? The British royals were shitting their fancy silk pants! They were afraid they were next: "God save the Queen! God save the Queen! The poor people are coming!"

In Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden was a leading figure in a peasant uprising against the brutal rule of the greedy Saudi royals. You know, our dear allies, the robber barons who like to drive around in golden Ferraris in a desert country where women have no rights. Saudi Arabian royals were the ones who made the word harem popular in the first place.

And they're being kept in power by the US military that acts as bodyguards to protect the Saudi royals from their own oppressed peasants. And that's why Arabs hate us.

"When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Osama joined the Afghan resistance, believing it was his duty as a Muslim to fight the occupation. He relocated to Peshawar, Afghanistan, and using aid from the United States under the CIA program Operation Cyclone, he began training a mujahideen, a group of Islamic jihadists. After the Soviets withdrew from the country in 1989, Osama returned to Saudi Arabia as a hero, and the United States referred to him and his soldiers as "Freedom Fighters."

Yet Osama was quickly disappointed with what he believed was a corrupt Saudi government, and his frustration with the U.S. occupation of Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War led to a growing rift between Osama and his country's leaders. Bin Laden spoke publicly against the Saudi government's reliance on American troops, believing their presence profaned sacred soil. After several attempts to silence Osama, the Saudis banished the former hero. He lived in exile in Sudan beginning in 1992."

-Biography.com

If any of this stuff I'm telling you is news to you, it's because your overlords don't like it when you know stuff. The less you know, the better for them.

All through history, whenever the robber barons had taken everything from the peasants, and there was nothing left to take, and nothing left to lose, the masses finally reached a breaking point and revolted against the small rich ruling class that robbed them.

And American robber barons are worried that the same thing could happen in America, if you figure out what's really going on in the world.

"All the talk about income and wealth inequality over the last couple of years begs the question: Could the wealth gap lead to a revolt?

In some ways, last week's fast food worker strikes and rallies affecting businesses like McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, and Yum Brand's Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC, demonstrate it already has. In 60 cities across the country, they were protesting the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour that keeps them in a chronic state of poverty, and demanding "a living wage" of twice that."

-Forbes Magazine

And that's why an angry mob of peasants voted for Trump. To them, it was a revolution. Because American workers were sick and tired of being fucked over by rich robber barons in Washington. So they voted for... a billionaire!

What the fuck, people?! Use your god-damn heads!

This is what happens, when the people in a democracy don't get a proper education, and they're too dumb to know what the fuck is going on, because they're brainwashed by Republican pro-robber-baron propaganda.

As bizarre and contradictory as it sounds, to these folks it made perfect sense. They didn't even understand that they voted against their own best interests. Dumb people make great Republicans. Without ever realizing it, they voted for the very thing they hated. They voted for the Swamp Monster, because he promised them he'd clean up the swamp!

Seriously.

It would be funny, if it wasn't so sad.

In their MAGA-hat-wearing upside-down world, they think Trump is the leader of their peasant revolution against perceived liberal oppression. Because in their utterly clueless heads, liberals are the true enemy.

There's a picture floating around the web. You might have seen it. It looks almost like a scene from the movie Dumb and Dumber. It's two fat old village idiots at a Trump rally. They're wearing their stupid little MAGA hats and matching t-shirts that read: "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat."

Let that sink in for a minute.

What they were trying to say, in their own special, stupid way, was that they simply don't care whether or not Trump is a Russian asset. They have been brainwashed to hate liberals so much, as long as Trump promises to destroy the liberals, that's all that matters.

And these two halfwits are not alone. All Trump voters think like that. If you can call that "thinking."

They don't even recognize this as treasonous. They have been brainwashed by their robber baron overlords to believe that their lives suck, not because they're being exploited by greedy robber barons, but because their peasant brothers and sisters, who're fighting for better lives for all peasants, are the true enemies. If it was up to them, all liberals would be thrown in prison or executed.

Remember when "conservatives" used to hate Russia? You know when that changed? As soon as Russia was no longer being ruled by a government for peasants by peasants, but by a bunch of oligarchs. That's Russian for robber baron.

Putin used to be a low level clerk. He was a KGB agent. They don't make a lot of money.

Now Putin is suddenly one of the richest men in the world. How the hell did that happen?

When Putin and his buddies took over the Russian government, they suddenly got very very rich, by "privatizing" everything. In other words, Putin gave an oil company, that used to belong to the people of Russia, to one of his buddies. And suddenly his buddy was a billionaire overnight.

"Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined

The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. But according to Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, they're nothing compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose personal fortune Browder "believes" to be $200 billion.

Browder, who made the claim before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, is one of the best authorities on Putin's business dealings. Browder was a major investor in Russia during the chaotic 1990s, when, according to Newsweek, he took stakes in former state-run enterprises such as Gazprom."

-Fortune Magazine

That's how robber barons get rich overnight. Not through hard work. Hard work is for servants.

Robber barons steal stuff from the peasants. And that's what the word "privatizing" actually means. That's why Republicans love to privatize everything.

In several Latin American countries, robber barons have privatized the public water supply. As a result, the price for water skyrocketed, because the robber barons want to make a nice fat profit.

Meanwhile the poor people in those countries can no longer afford to get clean drinking water. There's an excellent documentary about that, called The Corporation 2.0. Check it out. It's a real eye-opener.

"Thousands march against water privatization in Peru

Rather than seeing water as a resource for profit, we need to understand that it is the essential element in all living ecosystems."

-Canadians.org

"Conservative" (obedient) peasants have been brainwashed to believe that every time their peasant brothers and sisters rise up against oppression, they're the bad guys: "How dare these black football players take a knee to peacefully protest against racism and oppression?!"

Just like old times. During the slave days, Confederate Americans believed escaped slaves were the bad guys for escaping: "How dare these slaves?! Bad slaves! Don't they know what an honor it is to serve your white masters? God is so pissed at you guys, now we'll have to lynch you. It's God's will."

That's why even today's racist KKK motherfuckers still think of themselves as good Christians. That's what the burning crosses are all about. They think lynching uppity black people is God's will.

Gee, I wonder who gave them that idea.

The robber barons. That's who. They use religion to protect themselves from us. They use religion to control us and turn us against each other.

Nothing much has changed. Nowadays the Republican robber barons use their propaganda outlets to spread lies and misinformation to demonize any peasant uprising as "just a bunch of crazy radicals" or "liberal traitors."

Remember Occupy Wall Street? It was yet another peasant uprising, against the greedy robber barons on Wall Street who plundered America. And where were the loyal conservative peasants? They stayed home, because they were against the uprising, as always.

They are so utterly clueless, they don't even understand that unions, who fight for the rights of workers, are your friend, not your enemy. The robber barons told them that when working class people work together to stop oppression by robber barons, it's a bad thing. Just like a democratic government.

If you're a MAGA-hat-wearing peasant, this is gonna come as another shock, but "liberal" or "progressive" is what educated American peasants like to call themselves, if they're fed up with being exploited by robber barons.

Liberals have only one goal: to improve the lives of all peasants (including you), and to stop the robber barons from robbing us.

That's it. That is who the liberals really are. That is what liberals believe in. Plain and simple.

Liberals are not your enemy. And liberals are not witches or demons. Liberals are just like you. Except they're educated and see through the robber barons' bullshit. If you'd actually take the time to listen to a liberal, you'd see through the bullshit too. That's why the robber barons don't want you to listen to what liberals have to say.

But that's not what you've been told about liberals, is it? You have been told all kinds of bad stuff about liberals by your robber barons: "Liberals are the latte-sipping 'intellectual coastal elites' with their fancy universities, and liberal arts, and their science and knowledge and stuff. People who know stuff are not real Americans! They're traitors! Smart people are your enemy! Science should be outlawed! It's witchcraft!"

Republicans have been destroying the American school system by slashing funding for decades. Especially in the red states. Who needs smart peasants? They only get in the way of maximum profits. The less government and the less education there is, the better for the robber barons.

"House GOP Budget Retains Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Proposes Deep Program Cuts for Millions of Americans

$231 billion in cuts to education and social service programs, including complete repeal of mandatory funding for Pell Grants — which would cut the maximum Pell Grant to students by $1,060 — and the Social Services Block Grant, as well as deep cuts in student loans.

The cuts would be severe. In total, the plan calls for slashing those entitlement programs that provide basic assistance, health care, college assistance, and other help to low- and moderate-income families by roughly one-third by 2028."

-Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Remember those nationwide teacher strikes? Many teachers earn so little, they work full time, but still can't make ends meet. Just like millions of other working class Americans.

Many teachers have second jobs, or even need food stamps to survive. It's shameful.

That's why they went on strike. To improve the miserable living conditions of teachers. They're literally fighting for their survival. That's why liberals support their struggle.

While Trump Junior called teachers "losers," liberals were out there, shoulder to shoulder with their peasant brothers and sisters, fighting for the little guy. Because that's what liberals are all about.

But that's not what you heard about liberals, is it? "Conservative" propaganda outlets, who are owned by and work for the robber barons, tell you all day, every day, how evil liberals supposedly are: "They're your enemy! Booga booga! The liberals are the other tribe. It's us vs them. Liberals are your greatest enemy! Even worse than Russia!"

It's nothing more than a lie, meant to incite primitive tribalism. They're turning us against each other. Divide and conquer. It's the oldest trick in the robber barons' tool box. Their lies still work like a charm on uneducated people, even after thousands of years.

Every war in history was based on tribalism. Us vs them thinking.

Nationalism, and its extreme form, fascism, are tribalism. And so are religion and racism. They're all different faces of tribalism. Tribalism has killed hundreds of millions of people and destroyed history's greatest civilizations.

And right now we're witnessing how tribalism is destroying America.

Nationalism among nations is like racism among races. Nationalism and racism always, always lead to war. Always.

If you like war, be a nationalist. If you like peace, be a citizen of the world.

Angry MAGA peasants in red states can't figure out why their life is this fucking miserable in "the greatest country on earth."

The "conservative" millionaire talking heads in their expensive suits on Fox News say it's all the liberals' fault. They keep inciting hatred against liberals with propaganda lies: "That other tribe is so evil! They are your enemies! They're witches and demons! They want to ban Christmas! They kill babies! We must destroy them!"

And then suddenly a bunch of you brainwashed idiots send "liberal traitors" letter bombs in the mail. And you shoot up synagogues. Or you threaten to kill liberals who are trying to make your life better.

"Florida man convicted for threatening to behead Sen. Bernie Sanders "ISIS-style"

Court records show that a federal jury in Orlando found 57-year-old Robert Francis Pratersch guilty Tuesday of threatening a federal official and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. He faces up to 15 years in prison at a July 16 sentencing.

Federal prosecutors say Pratersch left three profanity-laced, anti-Semitic voicemail messages last fall at Sanders's office in Burlington, Vermont. Authorities say Pratersch threatened to behead Sanders, "ISIS-style," and videotape the execution. The remark was a reference to the Islamic State militant group."

-ABC News

And while you MAGA minions threaten to kill us, you scream idiotic things like: "Fuck you libtards! If you guys are for giving everyone healthcare, free college, and a decent living wage, we're against it!"

Sound familiar?

Have you ever asked yourself what the word "conservative" actually means? Where does it come from?

Hold on to your panties, because you're about to find out.

WHY AMERICA IS ADDICTED TO WAR

I love to travel. See the world. Learn new things. It broadens your horizon and makes you see the bigger picture.

A couple of years ago, I visited Quebec City. It's the most European-looking city in North America. The historic center looks like a medieval village, with narrow cobblestone streets, surrounded by an old castle wall.

There's a historic military bastion, the Citadelle of Quebec, with thick stone walls and old iron cannons. I joined a tour, and the guide told us that the fortifications were meant to fend off an attack from America.

That made the other American tourists in our group giggle.

They thought the tour guide was joking. They didn't even know that there really was an American-Canadian war in 1812. That's right, America tried to conquer Canada. Didn't know that either, did you? No surprise.

"Since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.

To put this in perspective:

* Pick any year since 1776 and there is about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year.

* No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered "war presidents."

* The U.S. has never gone a decade without war.

* The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1935-40) was during the isolationist period of the Great Depression."

-GlobalResearch.ca, 2011

A lot of people around the world don't see America the way you see America. You have been told that America is the greatest country ever. Number one at everything. The land of the free! Woohoo! Freedommm!

That's not how most people in the rest of the world see it. They see a stupid, greedy, selfish bully. A brutal empire run by robber barons. To them, America is a country that loves to lock up, enslave, bomb and kill innocent people for profit.

As a general rule of thumb, the more you talk about something, the less you actually have it. You never talk about air, because you take it for granted. You only start to talk about air, if you're not getting enough of it.

Really rich people usually don't brag about being rich, because they simply take it for granted.

It's the fakes, the wannabes, the posers who brag about how rich they are, because they wish they had a lot of money.

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

-James Baldwin

Nobody talks about sex more than those guys who aren't getting enough of it. Incels think about sex 24/7.

And you know who talks more about freedom than anyone else? Prisoners. Freedom is all you can think about while you rot in prison.

"These Are the Freest Countries in the World

The United States isn't even close on a list topped by Hong Kong.

The United States prides itself on upholding freedom, but recent research indicates America is not as free as many other countries. In fact, it might be less free now than it was before.

According to the Human Freedom Index, which "presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom," America is the 23rd freest country in the world. The U.S. fell from 16th place in 2008 and 19th place in 2013."

-US News

In other countries, where people really are free, you hardly ever hear anyone talk about freedom. Because they just take it for granted. It's just there. Like air.

Meanwhile, in the so-called "land of the free"...

"About 40% of Americans say they own a gun or live in a household with one, according to a 2017 survey, and the rate of murder or manslaughter by firearm is the highest in the developed world. There were more than 11,000 deaths as a result of murder or manslaughter involving a firearm in 2016."

-BBC News

"Half of the world's prison population of about nine million is held in the US, China or Russia.

Prison rates in the US are the world's highest, at 724 people per 100,000. In Russia the rate is 581."

-BBC News

"The US houses almost a quarter of the world's prison population

This is an often quoted statistic – made more daunting by the fact that the USA only contains roughly five percent of the world's population.

Louisiana is "the prison capital of the world." In Louisiana, one in 86 adults is currently in prison. 53 percent are housed in local, for-profit private prisons, which are usually insufficiently staffed and therefore more dangerous than state-run facilities."

-SBS Australia

That's right, robber barons run private prisons for profit. In other words, they get money from taxpayers to imprison people. There's profit in locking people up! They lock up a bunch of peasants, and then make the other peasants pay for it.

And then they use a tiny part of their obscene profits to lobby (bribe) local politicians, to make laws more and more strict, to lock up more and more peasants for the smallest offenses. Full prisons means big profits.

Brilliant.

And then they lie straight to your face and tell you nobody has more freedom than you do. And you believe it, because you simply don't know any better.

When corrupt Republican politicians say they're tough on crime, what they really mean is, they like to lock up peasants for as long as possible, because then the giant corporations who own the private prisons make a ton of money.

"Black Defendants Get Longer Sentences From Republican-Appointed Judges, Study Finds

Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants to three more months than similar nonblacks and female defendants to two fewer months than similar males compared with Democratic-appointed judges," the study found, adding, "These differences cannot be explained by other judge characteristics and grow substantially larger when judges are granted more discretion."

-New York Times

"African-American men serve longer sentences than white men for the same crime, a new study by the U.S Sentencing Commission shows.

The commission's analysis of demographic prison data from 2012 to 2016 found that black men serve sentences that are on average 19.1 percent longer than those for white men for similar crimes."

-ABC News

"Pa. Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Massive Juvenile Justice Bribery Scandal

A Pennsylvania judge was sentenced to 28 years in prison in connection to a bribery scandal that roiled the state's juvenile justice system. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was convicted of taking $1 million in bribes from developers of juvenile detention centers. The judge then presided over cases that would send juveniles to those same centers. The case came to be known as "kids-for-cash."

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed about 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella between 2003 and 2008, saying he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles, including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea.

Ciavarella, 61, was tried and convicted of racketeering charges earlier this year. "

-NPR

"While the nation's unprecedented rate of imprisonment deprives individuals of freedom, wrests loved ones from their families, and drains the resources of governments, communities, and taxpayers, the private prison industry reaps lucrative rewards. As the public good suffers from mass incarceration, private prison companies obtain more and more government dollars, and private prison executives at the leading companies rake in enormous compensation packages. Private prison companies essentially admit that their business model depends on locking up more and more people. The American economy should not include locking people in cages for profit."

-ACLU

The ACLU are lawyers who work for free for working class people, who otherwise could not afford to fight for their rights in court against the robber barons and their giant corporations. That's why the robber barons brainwash you into hating the ACLU. But the truth is, the ACLU is your friend, just like unions, teachers, scientists, liberals, and democratic government.

"Private Prison Companies Poured Record Cash Into the 2018 Elections

Spending to protect its contracts \- and its Republican allies.

Private prison companies poured record amounts of money into the 2018 elections - more than $1.6 million in federally disclosed contributions as of mid-October, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That's more than three times as much as the industry spent in any other midterm year, and about the same as its spending in the 2016 election, when Hillary Clinton openly called for an end to private prisons. (And these figures don't include any money the industry may have given to dark-money groups that don't have to reveal their donors.)

A large proportion of that money appears to have gone to candidates from the Sunshine State, home of the country's largest private prison company. The Boca Raton-based GEO Group manages 129 prisons, immigration detention centers, and reentry or youth facilities nationwide, including five prisons and one detention center in Florida.

For starters, the company spent heavily to make sure a Republican kept the governor's office.

But unlike most Florida politicians, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum pledged not to take prison industry contributions. He also said private prisons "should not exist" and "ought to be illegal" in Florida."

-Mother Jones Magazine

Gee, I wonder if Trump locking up thousands of immigrant children in cages could have something to do with profit...

"Family detention centers run by the country's two largest for-profit prison operators are set to become some of Texas's biggest child-care providers, following a recent state appeals court decision. Under the ruling, the centers - which have been accused of enabling sexual abuse and allowing children to die in their care - will receive the same type of licenses granted to the state's daycares, potentially enabling them to detain children indefinitely.

It's a decision that benefits both the Trump administration and the corporations that run the facilities, which hold almost all families detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."

-American Prospect

Oh, so that's why there are thousands of immigrant children in cages now.

Ahhh, capitalism! Gotta love it.

Sending people to prison to make a profit.

Does that sound like freedom to you?

Oh, but it gets better: then they force the imprisoned peasants to do slave labor. Yupp. We've come full circle. Right back to slavery.

"The 'Modern Day Slavery' Of Prison Labor Really Does Have A Link To Slavery

A group of inmates in U.S. prisons has called for a strike to protest mistreatment, bad facilities and the lack of fair wages for the work many are forced to do behind bars.

"Forced labor for low or no wages ― we have a term for that," said Angela Hanks, a criminal justice expert with the Center for Law and Social Policy. "We call it slavery."

In 1865, lawmakers amended the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." At that point, Southern states began to lease out convicts to private firms, essentially perpetuating slavery. Many Southern states continued their convict-lease programs into the early 20th century.

-Huffington Post

"U.S. prisoners' strike is a reminder how common inmate labor is

Prisoners in 17 U.S. states went on strike on Aug. 21 by refusing to eat or work to call attention to a number of troubling issues, including dilapidated facilities, harsh sentences and other aspects of mass incarceration in America.

As we approach Labor Day, the strike places a spotlight on the questionable practice of putting prisoners to work for very low or no wages. Examples of what incarcerated people do or have done include answering customer service phone calls, fighting wildfires, packaging Starbucks coffee and producing consumer goods such as lingerie."

-CBS News

Does that sound like the land of the free to you?

Land with the most mass shootings and the largest prison population on the planet would be way more accurate.

And you didn't know any of this, because the robber barons like to keep you nice and dumb. You know nothing about the outside world, except the lies the robber barons feed you, because they don't want you to know that America is the most violent rich country on the planet, because of all the guns.

Think about it... Imagine there are two countries:

One country has no rocket launchers.

The other country has millions of rocket launchers. Every idiot can walk into a rocket launcher store and buy as many rocket launchers as he wants.

In which of these two countries do you think there are more rocket-launcher-related deaths?

I'm gonna give you a hint: It's the country where every braindead halfwit can get his hands on a rocket launcher.

There are literally tens of thousands of deadly shootings in America every year. Most of them don't even make the news anymore, because it's no longer news, unless more than a few people get shot during the same incident.

You only think that's normal, because you don't know any better. Meanwhile there are almost no shootings in countries like Canada, Australia, Japan or in Europe.

The NRA used to be a club of responsible gun owners. It no longer is. A few years ago, it was hijacked by the robber barons who own gun factories. They brainwash you into thinking that guns aren't to blame for gun violence, and that gun control doesn't work. They're lying.

The robber barons lie to you about everything.

They love to point to Chicago, and the gun violence there, despite its gun laws. What they don't mention is that Chicago's gun ban was lifted a few years ago, and since the ban was lifted, gun violence has skyrocketed.

"It's not true that Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country. At one point, it did have much tougher laws — it had banned handguns in the city limits, but a 2008 Supreme Court ruling declared that ban unconstitutional, and a 2010 ruling reaffirmed that. The city also had had a gun registry program since 1968, but ended it in 2013 when the state passed a law allowing the concealed carry of weapons."

-NPR

Gun control does work. It works all over the world.

"Strict gun laws mean Japan sees fewer shooting deaths

The number of gun deaths in Japan totaled six in 2014, compared with 33,599 in the United States, according to GunPolicy.org, a website run by the University of Sydney."

-Japan Times

You know why there are so many shootings in America? Because robber barons make a lot of money producing weapons and ammunition. They make huge profits from death. And they bribe Republican politicians to keep it legal.

The NRA brainwashes you into believing that you need to buy a bunch of guns, to protect yourself from all the people with guns.

Notice anything strange about that circular reasoning?

No? Well, you would, if you were educated. If you had been trained in analytical thinking. If you had been taught to think for yourself, instead of being an obedient little servant who blindly follows the master's orders, and blindly repeats the master's talking points, you would see right through their lies and their scams.

To the small ruling class it doesn't matter how many school shootings there are. It doesn't matter how many peasant children die. All that matters is that the robber barons sell millions of guns and make an insane amount of money. To them, money is far more important than dead peasant children.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

To a lot of people in the rest of the world, America is the most selfish, most aggressive, most war-mongering, most violent country on earth. The greatest threat to world peace.

When they look at America, they see a country where millions of people live in abject poverty or rot in private dungeons, and where children get shot in school, so robber barons can make a ton of money. The only country that used nuclear bombs on civilian cities. The country that never misses an opportunity to go to war, because there's profit in war, for the war-profiteering robber barons who own the weapons factories.

There's an excellent documentary about America's addiction to war for profit. It's called Why We Fight. It was the Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. You should watch it.

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

-George S. McGovern, US Senator

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear."

-General Douglas MacArthur

"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

-General Smedley Butler

"People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars."

-Paul Craig Roberts

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."

-A. J. P. Taylor

"Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible."

-A. Philip Randolph

And that's the real reason why the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all those other countries we bomb have been going on for decades. It's not about winning. It's about making money. While American taxpayers are being bled dry, and we supposedly don't even have money for good schools or universal healthcare, the robber barons who produce weapons are making insane profits.

War is like a vacuum cleaner that sucks tax dollars out of your pocket and funnels the money directly into the pockets of the robber barons who own the weapons factories.

And Trump the liar helps them do it. He takes money away from the poor and gives it to the rich. And when anyone in the democratic government tries to stop him from robbing the poor, he accuses them of being the Deep State.

"Trump wants to give 62 cents of every dollar to the military. That's immoral

Donald Trump recently unleashed his dark vision for our nation and our world, in the form of his budget request to Congress.

One set of moral priorities – a different one – would end our endless wars and use the vast wealth of this nation to end poverty and lead to true security for all of us. It would invest in healthcare, well-paying jobs, affordable higher education, safe drinking water and clean air for all of us.

The proposed Trump budget drops bombs on that vision – almost literally.

With this budget, Trump takes more than $1tn in taxpayer money and disperses fully $750bn to the military. Out of every taxpayer dollar, in other words, 62 cents go to the military and our militarized Department of Homeland Security. (Veterans' benefits take another seven cents.)

That leaves just 31 cents for all the rest: education, job training, community economic development, housing, safe drinking water and clean air, health and science research, and the prevention of war through diplomacy and humanitarian aid."

-The Guardian

The whole point of taxes is to pool our resources and build good things that benefit everyone. That's how a civilized society gives its people access to basic achievements of human civilization: roads, bridges, dams, canalization, indoor plumbing, sewage treatment plants, hospitals, schools, universities, clean water, non-poisonous food, parks, fire departments, healthcare, sanitation, public transportation, etc.

But that's not what Republican robber barons use our tax money for. They give the money, that was meant to make your life better, to their robber baron buddies, who own the factories that produce tanks and bombs and fighter jets. That's why America is always at war. Because robber barons make insane amounts of money from war.

Meanwhile...

"Hungry Heroes: 25 Percent of Military Families Seek Food Aid

Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Yetter, a Navy sailor for 17 years, works a second job as a security guard and donates blood plasma twice a week to help make ends meet for his family. Deployed seven times during his military career, including an extended 19-month tour to Iraq, Yetter squeezes in family time with his three young boys and his wife in-between jobs.

Yetter's family is among the 620,000 households that include at least one soldier, reservist or guardsman – or 25 percent of the nation's total active duty and reserve personnel – that are seeking aid from food pantries and other charitable programs across the country, according to a rare inquiry about the food insecurity of troops and veterans conducted by Feeding America, a hunger relief charity, that will be released Monday."

-NBC News

"Food stamp use among military rises again

Food stamp redemption at military grocers has been rising steadily since the beginning of the recession in 2008. Nearly $104 million worth of food stamps was redeemed at military commissaries in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.

"I'm amazed, but there's a very real need," said Thomas Greer, spokesman for Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that helps soldiers on the financial brink nationwide."

-CNN

"For years, the military has been embarrassed by reports showing that some active-duty service members struggle to feed their families and use government benefits to get by. A recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Defense (DoD) does not fully understand the scope of the problem.

The USDA runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the benefits of which are commonly called food stamps. Neither the military nor the USDA tracks how many active-duty service members receive SNAP benefits, according the report.

The base salary for low-ranking service members can start as low as $18,800 a year. A soldier making that much to support a two-person household would be eligible for food stamps."

-Truthout.org

Yeah, you read that right. While the military-industrial complex is making billions of dollars in record-breaking profits from endless wars, many US military families are so poor, soldiers need second jobs and food stamps to survive. Just like teachers, or the hard-working people in the food service industry.

That. is. fucking. nuts!

There's a pretty popular meme floating around the web. The picture on top says: "This is how you Americans see yourselves." It's a picture of Captain America and the Avengers. A bunch of invincible superheroes who fight for good.

Underneath is another picture. It says: "And this is how the rest of the world sees you." It's a picture of the evil empire from Star Wars. Darth Vader and his stormtroopers.

It's funny because it's true.

"Russian aggression and the rise of China are among the biggest foreign policy concerns Americans face. In many countries, though, the world power seen as most threatening is the United States.

The big picture: Views of the U.S. and its leadership are in sharp decline around the world — particularly among America's closest allies.

According to a 2017 Pew survey, 39% of respondents across 38 countries consider U.S. influence and power a major threat to their countries, compared to 31% for both Russia and China. That's up from 25% in 2013, when the survey was conducted previously.

Approval of U.S. global leadership fell to 30% worldwide, per a January Gallup poll. That's narrowly behind China (31%) and ahead of Russia (27%). It's also the lowest score in the 10 years the survey has been conducted, and down from 48% in Barack Obama's last year."

-Axios News

70% of the world, the vast majority of planet earth, sees America as a threat, not a friend. You had no idea, did you? That's because the robber barons don't want you to know anything about the outside world. And that's why they make sure our schools are shit.

Recent surveys asked what American children fear the most. The #1 answer: getting shot in school.

That is fucking insane! That is not a normal fear to have. Maybe in a third world country war zone, but not in a civilized society.

You know what kids in other rich countries fear most? Bad grades.

How are American kids supposed to learn anything, and keep up with the kids in other countries, if they're afraid for their lives every time they go to school?

If you don't know what life is like in other rich countries, and the only country you know is America, everything in America seems normal to you, because you don't know how much more educated, safer, healthier, better paid, and more peace-loving other civilized countries are.

Most of you right-wing Americans are pretty clueless when it comes to any of this stuff. The robber barons like it that way. Knowledge is power. Ignorance is weakness. They're keeping you weak, by keeping you dumb.

The less you know, and the dumber you are, the easier it is for your overlords to manipulate and control you, just like medieval peasants, who weren't allowed to go to school.

The dumber you are, the easier it is to make you believe lies, and make you vote for what's good for them, even if it's bad for you.

"Only the educated are free."

-Epictetus

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

-Edward Everett

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

-Nelson Mandela

That's why people like Hitler and Trump hate educated people. It's just sooo much easier to lie to dumb people. Especially if you keep mentioning God.

That's why the robber barons, and the "conservative" media outlets they own, keep telling you that educated people aren't real Americans, and that scientists are somehow your enemies.

And it's why the robber barons purposely destroy public schools and underpay teachers. Now American schools lag behind pretty much all other advanced industrialized nations. Our schools are closer to those in third world countries.

"How do U.S. students compare with their peers around the world? Recently released data from international math and science assessments indicate that U.S. students continue to rank around the middle of the pack, and behind many other advanced industrial nations.

One of the biggest cross-national tests is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which every three years measures reading ability, math and science literacy and other key skills among 15-year-olds in dozens of developed and developing countries. The most recent PISA results, from 2015, placed the U.S. an unimpressive 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science. Among the 35 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which sponsors the PISA initiative, the U.S. ranked 30th in math and 19th in science."

-PEW Research Center

That's fucking embarrassing.

America is nowhere near #1. Almost all other developed countries are ahead of us. And they have public schools, not charter schools.

"Charter schools are an example of public asset privatization."

-Wikipedia

Remember what I told you about privatization of stuff that used to belong to all people? Suddenly a robber baron makes a shitload of money, while everyone else gets fucked.

Do you think their number one goal is to give peasant children a good education? No, of course not. Their #1 goal is profit.

"Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business."

-Jesse Ventura

And when a corporation owns a school, the kids grow up thinking that corporation is great. Imagine if a giant corporation produced asbestos salad and owned a school. The kids in that school would hear nothing about asbestos causing cancer. Instead their school books would tell them that asbestos is great. And asbestos salad would be the most popular item on the school lunch menu.

Nutritious and delicious!

You think something so crazy could never happen in real life? Think again. It's been happening for decades already:

"Oil's pipeline to America's schools

Inside the fossil-fuel industry's not-so-subtle push into K-12 education

Jennifer Merritt's first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, the students gathered in late November for story time with two special guests, state Rep. Tom Gann and state Sen. Marty Quinn.

Dressed in suits, the Republican lawmakers read aloud from "Petro Pete's Big Bad Dream,"

Decades of documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity reveal a tightly woven network of organizations that works in concert with the oil and gas industry to paint a rosy picture of fossil fuels in America's classrooms. Led by advertising and public-relations strategists, the groups have long plied the tools of their trade on impressionable children and teachers desperate for resources.

Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, likened industry-sponsored curricula that ignore climate science to advertising. "You're exploiting that trusted relationship between the student and the teacher," he said. Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency.

As early as the 1940s, the industry's largest and most powerful lobby group targeted K-12 schools as a key element of its fledgling marketing strategy. By the 1960s, the American Petroleum Institute was looking to shake its reputation as a "monopoly which reaped excessive profits" and set out to cultivate a network of "thought leaders" that included educators, journalists, politicians and even clergy, according to an organizational history copyrighted by API in 1990."

-The Center for Public Integrity

Pretty fucked up, huh? That's how the robber barons brainwash us peasants. They start early. The earlier the better.

"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything."

-B. F. Skinner

"Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man."

-Ignatius of Loyola

"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."

-Adolf Hitler

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen."

-Albert Einstein

"From the 1920s onwards, the Nazi Party targeted German youth as a special audience for its propaganda messages. These messages emphasized that the Party was a movement of youth: dynamic, resilient, forward-looking, and hopeful. Millions of German young people were won over to Nazism in the classroom and through extracurricular activities. In January 1933, the Hitler Youth had only 50,000 members, but by the end of the year this figure had increased to more than 2 million. By 1936 membership in the Hitler Youth increased to 5.4 million before it became mandatory in 1939.

In the classroom and in the Hitler Youth, instruction aimed to produce race-conscious, obedient, self-sacrificing Germans who would be willing to die for Führer and Fatherland. Devotion to Adolf Hitler was a key component of Hitler Youth training."

-United States Holocaust Museum

CONSERVATIVES ARE LOYALISTS

Have you ever asked yourself why the stormtroopers in Star Wars obey Darth Vader? Who the hell chooses "being evil" as their 9-5 job?

There are two reasons why peasants follow dictators:

1) Self-preservation  
They figure that the dictator is pretty powerful. He controls an army and he kills anyone who opposes him. So they think being a henchman for an evil overlord is still better than getting killed.

"It is often safer to be in chains than to be free."

-Franz Kafka

Living a shitty life on the winning side is still better than being dead on the losing side. If you can't beat'em, join'em. That's why peasants of conquered tribes joined Genghis Khan's army for example.

Same thing in Nazi Germany. The Nazis had foreign legions. Soldiers from many other nations, who fought on the side of the Germans:

"Among the approximately one million foreign volunteers and conscripts who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II were ethnic Germans, Belgians, Czechs, Dutch, Finns, French, Greeks, Hungarians, Norwegians, Poles, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedes and British, along with people from the Baltic states and the Balkans."

-Wikipedia

2) Ignorance  
Some peasants just don't know anything else. They have been peasants their whole lives. They are servants through and through, with every fiber of their being. They were bred and raised to serve. Brainwashed into obedience, since childhood. They just accept the fact that they have a master, and think it's their life's purpose to be loyal to the master.

They have no idea that it's possible to live a life free from oppression. In fact, oppression is so normal to them, they don't even see it as being oppressed. It's just "normal" life. The life of a servant. A shitty life maybe, but still, the only life they've ever known.

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."

-Rosa Luxemburg

If you've never had actual freedom, you don't miss it. You can't miss what you've never had.

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

-Voltaire

Being a peasant is the only life they can imagine. Especially if their master is really good at lying to his peasants and telling them that he's doing them a favor, by letting them live in the slums outside his castle.

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."

-Adolf Hitler

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

-George Orwell

When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, there were no United States yet. And no Canada. There were only the Native American tribes, and a bunch of British, French and Spanish colonies on the American continent.

When the slave-owning British robber barons in colonial America got tired of sharing their newfound riches with the robber barons back home in Britain, they revolted.

In order to convince their peasants that getting themselves killed for their American overlords was a worthwhile endeavor, they told their peasants that this was a fight for "freedom."

Some peasants believed that bullshit and joined the revolution against the British royals. The ragtag band of American peasants was trained into being a real army by Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, a Prussian-German general who served under King Frederick the Great of Prussia. For centuries, the Prussian-Germans were known as the best army in the world. Elite killers.

"The king of Prussia today stands at the head of the most formidable army in the world," wrote Harper's Weekly, the American news magazine of the 19th century.

"The whole male population of his kingdom may be said to be trained for arms, and is always ready to take the field," the magazine reported in the summer of 1870.

The kingdom that had come of age in the reign of Frederick the Great in the 18th century had engaged in some serious expansion under Otto von Bismarck, and stood poised to invade and conquer the once invincible France.

Prussia, by the time of Wilhelm I, was looked upon as the new Sparta. "Every North German is liable to service, and no substitution is allowed," Harper's said.

The German general staff became the gold standard for armies everywhere, and, man for man, the German soldier was the best in the world."

-New York Times

So, general Baron von Steuben from the German warrior kingdom of Prussia trained the American peasants, and they became known as the Continental Army, led by their slave-owning overlord, George Washington.

Woohoo! Freedooommm!

Well, not really. Not for the peasants. Or the slaves. Or the Native Americans. Or the women.

Some other peasants, further north, didn't see any point in getting themselves killed while fighting against the British royals, only to be ruled by local American robber barons afterwards.

"When George Washington was eleven years old, he inherited ten slaves; by the time of his death, 317 slaves lived at Mount Vernon, including 123 owned by Washington, 40 leased from a neighbor, and an additional 153 "dower slaves."

-Wikipedia

The Canadian peasants chose to remain loyal to the British royals. They became known as the Loyalists. The American peasants, led by their robber barons, repeatedly attacked the Loyalists' Canadian territory.

Most of the Loyalists probably figured the British royals were invincible and would kill the American rebels sooner or later, like they had killed so many other people in the past. So the Canadian peasants figured their chances of survival were greater on the British side of the war.

In the eyes of the British robber barons, the American freedom fighters were traitors and terrorists.

So on one side there were the American freedom fighters, and on the other side were the Canadian loyalists who continued to do the bidding of their British overlords. They voluntarily chose to remain loyal servants.

What I'm about to tell you now is gonna sting a little, if you're one of those brainwashed MAGA peasants who think liberals are your enemies and traitors:

Liberals are today's freedom fighters, and conservatives are today's loyalists. Conservatives voluntarily do the bidding of the ruling class.

Everything "conservative" media outlets tell you about liberals is propaganda. Blatant lies, designed to make you an obedient servant for the ruling class, and to hate those uppity peasants who demand actual freedom for all peasants, including you.

Your overlords use the conservative media outlets they own to poison your minds against your liberal brothers and sisters, because they don't want you to listen to what liberals have to say about actual freedom.

Freedom is the absence of fear. Fear of persecution. Fear of violence. Fear of war. Fear of police brutality. Fear of school shootings. Fear of losing your job. Fear of poverty. Fear of hunger. Fear of prison. Fear of homelessness. Fear of disease. Fear of crushing debt. Fear of foreigners. Fear of other religions. Fear of other tribes.

Being afraid of everything makes you an obedient little loyalist, because the robber barons promise to protect you, if you serve them.

Never mind that they were the ones who created all these fears in your head in the first place. They control you through fear-mongering.

Robber barons will blatantly lie straight to your face to scare you into being obedient followers.

"Dozens of National Security Experts Call B.S. on Trump's Border Emergency

Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border" the group wrote, according to The Washington Post, adding elsewhere that there is "no factual basis" for the move."

-Vanity Fair

"There is no national emergency. 2018 saw one of the lowest yearly numbers of jihadist terrorism cases in the United States -- 14 -- since the 9/11 attacks, according to New America, a research institution that tracks terrorism.

In the United States since the 9/11 attacks, 455 jihadist terrorists have been charged or convicted or died before they faced trial. Not one of these terrorists crossed the southern border.

It turns out that terrorists trying to attack the United States would prefer not to travel to Central America or Mexico and then try their chances crossing the southern border. They want to fly directly to the States.

The vast majority of terrorists don't enter the United States at the southern border or anywhere else, because they are already in the country. Of the 455 jihadist terrorism cases since 9/11, 84% involved US citizens or permanent residents, and every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 was carried out by a US citizen or legal resident."

-CNN

"Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."

-FA Hayek

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Even Caesar knew that old trick.

Well, I guess the trick was still kinda new when he used it.

Caesar told the Romans that he would protect them from foreign barbarian hordes, if they made him emperor. That's how the Roman republic became an empire, and Caesar became a dictator.

It's the same shit Hitler did.

In medieval times, Germany called itself the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and ruled most of Europe for about a thousand years. They were kinda like the Targaryens of Europe. That was the first German Empire.

Carl the Great, also known as Charlemagne in French, or Karl der Grosse in German, or Carolus Magnus in Latin, was the most famous Holy Roman Emperor. Under him, France and Germany were one country, and he conquered most of Europe.

Carl the Great is the famous Holy Roman Emperor commonly known as the ruler who united Europe for the first time. But his imperial palace was in Aachen, Germany, not Rome.

Like Carl himself, his home Aachen still has many different names in different languages: Aachen in German, Aken in Dutch, Aix-la-Chapelle in French, and Aquæ Granni in Latin.

Germans were the rulers of most of Europe for thousands of years.

The Celts in Scotland, Ireland, England and western France were actually a German tribe. The Saxons who conquered the Celts a few centuries later were also a German tribe. Anglo-Saxons in England were a German tribe. So were the Normans from France who conquered the Anglo-Saxons in England. The Vikings were also German tribes, who lived in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Yiddish and a bunch of other languages are actually all Germanic languages. They're all very similar and they all have common German roots. That's why they all still share many similar words.

The present-day German word Teufel used to be pronounced Deibel a long time ago, which is very close to the present-day English version, Devil. And the German word Tür or Tor and the English word door used to be one and the same word a long time ago.

It's fairly easy for a German to learn English. It's a lot harder to learn modern Roman languages like French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, because they're derived from ancient Roman Latin, not German.

Anyway, after a thousand years, Carl the Great's first German Empire fell apart.

Remember the Prussians I told you about earlier? They were one of several German kingdoms. Their arch rivals were the Austrians, which was another German kingdom.

Austrians like Mozart thought of themselves as Germans back then.

Like Mozart, Hitler was an Austrian-German.

Prussia and the other German kingdoms united into the second German Empire. But Austria didn't join them. They had their own empire, together with Hungary.

It was only a matter of time, until the egotistical nations of Europe tore themselves to pieces in World War 1, even though they were all brothers and sisters who had far more in common than the minor details that separated them. The biggest difference was simply which side of the imaginary border lines on a map they were born on.

The second German Empire fell apart in World War 1.

Germany went from being an empire to being a democracy, called the Weimar Republic.

Then Hitler came along and told the German people of the Weimar Republic that the rest of Europe was a big anti-German conspiracy, and promised to make Germany great again.

Does that ring a bell?

The Third Reich, or the Third Empire, was Hitler's promise to put Germany back on the Iron Throne.

The Nazi Germans were pretty full of themselves and believed they were exceptional and deserved to rule the world. The same thing MAGA minions believe about themselves and America today.

Hitler told the people of Weimar Germany that he would protect them from the evil anti-German barbarian hordes of Europe. But in reality those "anti-German barbarian hordes" were just other German tribes, who had grown to become other nations. The only thing separating them were random imaginary lines on the map.

All people of Europe are actually brothers and sisters. They're literally all related to each other. All Europeans can trace their ancestry back to the great German Holy Roman Emperor, Carl the Great. Did I mention he was grrreat?

All white people are descendants of German tribes. If you're white, you're German. It doesn't even matter if your grandpa came to America from Germany or Ireland or France or Austria or Scotland or Holland or England or Norway or Sweden. All of them are nations formed by descendants of German tribes.

"So you're related to Charlemagne? You and every other living European...

If you're vaguely of European extraction, you are also the fruits of Charlemagne's prodigious loins. A fecund ruler, he sired at least 18 children by motley wives and concubines, including Charles the Younger, Pippin the Hunchback, Drogo of Metz, Hruodrud, Ruodhaid, and not forgetting Hugh.

In 2013, geneticists Peter Ralph and Graham Coop showed that all Europeans are descended from exactly the same people. Basically, everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, Drogo, Pippin and Hugh.

If you're white, you're a bit Viking. And a bit Celt. And a bit Anglo-Saxon. And a bit Charlemagne."

-The Guardian

Hitler used racist lies to brainwash his followers against their brothers and sisters in other nations. That's how the German republic became a Nazi dictatorship.

Hitler told his minions that only purebred Aryan Germans were real Germans, and all the other German tribes of Europe were inferior. Subhuman barbarians. Savages. Animals.

By telling his followers all sorts of racist bullshit about how Germany is under attack by foreign barbarian hordes, he turned normal, peaceful Weimar-Germans into a frenzied, bloodthirsty Nazi mob. Because they thought they were the victims of foreign invaders.

Nazi Germans did not think of themselves as racists. They thought of themselves as good people. Good Christians. Good Germans. They honestly believed they were being attacked by evil foreigners. Because Hitler manipulated them with racist lies.

"The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies."

-Adolf Hitler

Trump uses the same old trick that Caesar, Hitler and every other dictator in history has used to gain power: racist fear-mongering.

That's why a Trump rally looks just like a Hitler rally: uneducated cheering mobs, swearing loyalty oaths, while he uses racist lies to whip the crowd into a bloodthirsty frenzy against other tribes.

Like Nazi Germans, Trump's MAGA minions also don't think of themselves as racist, because they honestly believe all the crazy, evil, racist bullshit that comes out of Trump's lying mouth.

Hitler called the Jews rats. Trump called immigrants animals. Same shit, different asshole.

I know what you're thinking: "No, he didn't say that! He said MS13 gang members are animals!"

You think that because that's the pre-packaged Fox News talking point you're supposed to repeat, like a loyal brainwashed sheep, whenever someone points out how racist Trump is.

Why do you think white supremacist hate groups like the KKK and the Alt-Right love Trump so much? Because the shit he says aligns perfectly with what white supremacist hate groups believe.

"Hate crimes increased 226% in places Trump held a campaign rally in 2016

US counties where President Donald Trump held a campaign rally saw a 226% increase in reported hate crimes compared to similar counties that did not hold a rally, political scientists at the University of North Texas said in a Washington Post analysis.

The scientists found that Trump's statements during the 2016 campaign "may encourage hate crimes" in the respective counties.

The study measured the correlation between counties that hosted a campaign rally and the crime rates in the months that followed.

Hate crimes in the US reportedly increased 17% in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to an annual FBI report published in November 2018."

-Business Insider

Can you think of a single good thing Trump has ever said about the brown immigrants at the southern border? No, of course not. Because he always talks shit about them.

They're poor families. Mostly women and small children. He locks those children in cages, remember?

"Thousands more migrant children separated under Trump than previously known

Damning government report says 'thousands of separated children' put in care up to a year before policy became public

The Trump administration may have separated thousands of migrant children from their parents at the border for up to a year before family separation was a publicly known practice, according to a stunning government review of the health department's role in family separation."

-The Guardian

Thousands of small children separated from their parents. For over a year. With no plans of returning them to their parents. Because there's profit in locking people up.

"The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart

In the past two months, the government has taken some two thousand immigrant children away from their parents. Under the zero-tolerance policy, border crossers are arrested and charged with a crime before being placed in immigration detention. If they came with their children, the children are turned over to O.R.R. and treated as though they travelled to the U.S. alone. No protocols have been put in place for keeping track of parents and children concurrently, for keeping parents and children in contact with each other while they are separated, or for eventually reuniting them."

-The New Yorker Magazine

That is not just amateur-hour cruelty. That is Nazi-level cruelty.

"The deaths of migrant children in custody should be a wake-up call

The body of Jakelin Caal, the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in U.S. immigration custody this month, arrived in her family's impoverished farming village on Christmas Eve just hours, as it turns out, before Felipe Gomez Alonzo, an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy, died while being detained by federal border agents in New Mexico. The two deaths have drawn significant attention to the medical care available to migrants taken into custody by the U.S. government."

-Los Angeles Times

And you're ok with this unbelievably fucked up bullshit, because you think they deserve it.

Trump calls these poor defenseless refugees a bunch of rapists, MS13 gang members, UFC fighters, terrorists and animals.

And now you seriously believe that bullshit, and you think refugees are bad people who deserve what they got coming.

That's how propaganda works. You say A. Then you say B. And then people think C.

A: Hitler says: "Jews are traitors."

B: Hitler says: "All traitors should be executed."

C: Nazi minions think: "All Jews should be executed."

And they thought it was their own idea!

They didn't even realize that they were brainwashed and the thought was implanted in their heads through racist propaganda.

The same thing is happening in America today:

A: Trumps says: "Liberals are traitors."

B: Trump says: "All traitors should be executed."

C: MAGA minions think: "All liberals should be executed."

And then suddenly liberals get death threats or are the victims of white supremacist domestic terror attacks.

"White American men are a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners

Since Trump took office, more Americans have been killed by white American men with no connection to Islam than by Muslim terrorists or foreigners."

-Vox.com

"Far-right violence now a bigger threat to the US than Daesh and Al Qaeda

According to recent FBI data, white supremacists in the US have committed far more killings than members of groups like Al Qaeda and Daesh. 'Domestic terrorism' is a distinctive phrase to define the act of perpetrators who have been inspired by racist causes to commit violence."

-trtworld.com

A: Trump says: "Refugees are terrorists."

B: Trump says: "Terrorists should be executed."

C: MAGA minions think: "Refugees should be executed."

Or at least thrown in cages. Or concentration camps.

You don't recognize Trump's anti-brown-people slurs as blatant racism, because you honestly believe Trump's verbal diarrhea is actually true. Just like Nazis thought everything Hitler told them about the Jews was true.

You honestly believe the poor helpless refugee families with small children are terrorists, rapists and gang members. Just like the Nazis honestly believed Jews were traitors.

Hitler's Nazi mob didn't think of themselves as the bad guys. They thought of themselves as the victims of evil foreigners. Just like Trump's MAGA mob.

The Nazi Germans did not think of Hitler as a racist dictator. They thought of him as a savior sent by God. The German Messiah. They thought being a Nazi meant being free. To them, Hitler was a hero who saved Germany from evil foreigners and liberal Jewish enemies from within.

Literally the same thing MAGA minions believe about Trump today.

The Nazis were pro-gun, white-supremacist, conservative Christians. Just like you.

The word "conservative" comes from conserve. A conservative is someone who wants to conserve, preserve, maintain the status quo. A conservative is a traditionalist, who likes how things have always been, and doesn't want anything to change.

They hate progress and progressives. They hate it when you rock the boat with new ideas, like changing from fossil fuels to green energy, or treating women, gays, and other races and religions like actual people.

Young people are more open to good new ideas, because the old bad ideas didn't have enough time to get stuck in their heads. Young people can look at a situation and think: "Humm, the old way was a pretty dumb way of doing things. How about we try a new, better way?"

Most conservative traditionalists are old people. They remember the "good old days" and are too old to change their ways. They're creatures of habit. They're comfortable in their routine. They want everything to stay the way it has always been. They want to maintain the status quo, not make uncomfortable changes. Change is scary.

And what's the status quo? How have things always been?

The robber barons have ruled over us peasants since the beginning of time. Loyal conservatives think that's freedom, because they don't know anything else. They can't even see that they're not free, because they've never experienced real freedom. They can't even imagine a life that's different and better than their shitty life now.

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

-Albert Einstein

If you try to tell conservatives about a different, better way of life, they hate you for it, because you're rocking the boat. You're making them uncomfortable. They call you crazy, because your new ideas are scary.

That's why American conservatives accuse people like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of being crazy, radical extremists, just for telling the conservatives that their life could be so much better.

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."

-Albert Einstein

Conservatives have been brainwashed since childhood to be loyal servants to the ruling class and the status quo. And they like it that way. They have no intellectual curiosity for what else is out there.

You don't feel freedom in your heart. You feel freedom in your mind.

Conservatives have been brainwashed, and their ability to recognize real freedom has been taken away from them.

They think they want to be servants for the ruling class. And anyone who says there's real freedom out there, is the enemy: a pinko commie homo liberal traitor!

Conservatives are stuck in a mental cage. But they like their cage. It's home. They think their cage is cozy. And they're so used to their mental chains, they don't even notice them anymore.

But honestly, how free is a country where black people were kept as slaves, and are still treated as dangerous, criminal, subhuman animals hundreds of years later? A country where black lives don't matter. A country were, in the 21st century, even white peasants still have a slave-like mentality and believe "serving" is the greatest achievement their lives will ever amount to. Just like in Nazi Germany.

Have you ever noticed how the robber barons use their "conservative" media outlets to constantly remind you that serving is a great honor? Serving God. Serving the president. Serving your country. Serving in the military.

Is there anything more honorable than giving your life while serving?

That's exactly what Hitler did to brainwash German children.

You think that's just a coincidence? No. You're being trained, since childhood, to think like a servant. Just like Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones.

The robber barons usually don't serve in the military. They send gullible servants like you instead.

"War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been."

-George Carlin

"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."

-Thomas Carlyle

Rich people usually find a way to avoid serving, especially if they can get a doctor's note from a family friend.

"Podiatrist's daughters say bone spur diagnosis that helped Trump avoid Vietnam draft was 'favor'

Two daughters of a New York podiatrist say that 50 years ago their father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs in his heels as a favor to the doctor's landlord, Fred Trump, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Trump received five deferments from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War. He received four education deferments while he was a college student and a fifth deferment in 1968 for a medical exemption after he graduated."

-USA Today

Did Donald Trump Jr. serve in the military? Eric Trump? Ivanka Trump? Jared Kushner? No, of course not. None of them. Serving is for servants.

Rich people never use their own money when they make risky investments, and they never risk their own lives.

That's what the meaningless lives of the expendable underclass are for.

To the robber barons we are just livestock, that only has meaning as long as it feeds someone else: the parasitic ruling class.

The ruling class are parasites who feed on us. On our sweat, our work, our backs, our pain, our lives. They squeeze every last drop of life out of us. And then they throw us away.

Our overlords send military recruiters to the poorest neighborhoods and tell poor, unemployed young men and women that serving in the military is the greatest honor of their lives. Many of these poor kids live in places like Flint, that look like a third world country, not the richest country in the world.

Where the fuck is all that money?

In the pockets of the robber barons.

Meanwhile the people of Flint don't even have clean drinking water. These are literally third world living conditions.

It's a fucking disgrace!

It's your moral duty as a good person to care about the people of Flint. You can't just abandon your brothers and sisters like that.

But we both know why you don't care about the people of Flint. They're black. And they're far away. Just like the brown people in Puerto Rico.

"Donald Trump is Still Screwing Puerto Rico

His baseless prejudice toward the devastated territory reportedly drove one of the few competent people in the administration to quit.

A top Department of Housing and Urban Development official is leaving the agency Thursday following disagreements with other members of the Trump administration over housing policy and the White House's attempt to block disaster-recovery money for Puerto Rico, according to five people with direct knowledge of the situation."

-Vanity Fair

The evil orange clown screws brown people every chance he gets. It's cruelty just for shits and giggles. Like that little blonde asshole Joffrey Baratheon.

And you don't care. You're numb. From worrying and stressing all day every day. You're up to your neck in your own shit that you gotta deal with.

You have no idea how to pay the bills, your truck needs new tires, your kids needs meds, and you have no fucking idea how to pay the rent next month. It's so exhausting to keep on living like this. Because it never seems to be getting any better, only worse. Week after week, shit just keeps getting harder and harder to deal with.

The stress of everyday life is killing you. You don't have time to worry about the people of Flint or Puerto Rico. Let God deal with them. You're busy.

And if the people of Flint or Puerto Rico really want to get out of those shitholes, all they have to do is join the army!

Americans in desolate, dirt-poor towns can't find any other work, so they end up joining the military, because they're desperate and they need to make a little bit of money somehow. And then, overnight, they go from "unemployed loser" to "hero." Or so they're being told.

"Military recruiters target isolated, depressed areas

Pentagon demographic data show that the military is leaning heavily for recruits on economically depressed, rural areas.

More than 44 percent of U.S. military recruits come from rural areas, Pentagon figures show. In contrast, 14 percent come from major cities. Young people living in the most sparsely populated ZIP codes are 22 percent more likely to join the Army, with an opposite trend in cities. Regionally, most enlistees come from the South (40 percent) and West (24 percent).

Many of today's recruits are financially strapped, with nearly half coming from lower-middle-class to poor households, according to new Pentagon data based on ZIP codes and census estimates of mean household income.

-The Seattle Times

Ever notice how cool they make the TV commercials for the military look? You see fighter jets zip through the clouds, like a scene from Top Gun.

Looks awesome!

Other army commercials look like scenes from a video game. There used to be this one commercial, a few years ago, where a knight fights a dragon. And then the knight turns into a US Marine at the end.

Woah! So cool! Well, I'm sold! Sign me up! I wanna fight dragons, too!

This is how you make poor young kids join the military. Brainwash them early.

"The US military is using video games and esports to recruit – it's downright immoral

Recruitment for the military within western countries is generally failing, and its relationship with video games is being strengthened all the time

The US military founded its own FPS as far back as 2002. Entitled America's Army and conceived by Colonel Casey Wardynski, the army's chief economist and professor at the United States Military Academy, the game has been transparent about its intentions from its very inception. The aim was, Wardynski said, to "use computer game technology to provide the public a virtual soldier experience that was engaging, informative and entertaining".

The relationship between games and the military is being strengthened all the time. It's rarely reported that makers of FPS titles have to pay a licence fee to weapons manufacturers in order to use their weaponry within their games. Both US and British armed forces have controlled attack drones with unbranded Xbox controllers in the past, blurring the lines between play and real-life bloodshed further. But surely the skills required on the battlefield are different to those needed to be successful in front of a PC?

"I don't think they're looking for the skill set as much as the receptiveness to the message," Monash University ethicist, Professor Rob Sparrow told news.com.au. "If you're fantasising about this stuff, it might seem plausible that you would be willing to do it in real life. The military is also aware that gaming is one of the main forms of media consumed by young people."

-The Independent

Tell them they're gonna be heroes. Tell them people will no longer look down on them. They will no longer be victims at the bottom of society. No, now they will be put on a pedestal, and everyone will look up to them and refer to them as warriors and heroes from now on. Their existence will finally matter! Their lives will finally have a purpose: to serve!

Did you see that old sci-fi movie Starship Troopers? In the beginning they make fun of military recruitment propaganda videos and how they lure new recruits with false promises. The fake commercials in the movie looked a lot like real military recruitment commercials. Check it out.

War is a big adventure! You'll get to travel to exotic places! Make new friends! Learn valuable skills! Use awesome weapons! Like in a video game!

But whatever you do, don't mention what war really looks like. Don't mention that a lot of these "heroes" literally shit their pants the first time they're under enemy fire. Literally. Kaka in the shorts.

I'm not making fun of them. I feel for them. I would shit my pants too, if I was in their shoes. It's human nature to fear for your life. You'd be crazy not to be afraid.

"A rational army would run away."

-Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."

-Aldous Huxley

And don't ever mention how many soldiers are on food stamps.

Or that, when you come home crippled, or all fucked up in the head, nobody gives a shit about you, because you've outlived your usefulness to your masters. They squeezed the last few drops out of you.

What did all that bullshit talk of being a hero get you? A few colored ribbon maybe.

"Study: Veterans Make Up 1 In 4 Homeless

Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday by the Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit.

And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job.

-CBS News

"Roughly 45% of all homeless veterans are African American or Hispanic, despite only accounting for 10.4% and 3.4% of the U.S. veteran population, respectively.

America's homeless veterans have served in World War II, the Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War, Grenada, Panama, Lebanon, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq (OEF/OIF), and the military's anti-drug cultivation efforts in South America. Nearly half of homeless veterans served during the Vietnam era. Two-thirds served our country for at least three years, and one-third were stationed in a war zone.

About 1.4 million other veterans, meanwhile, are considered at risk of homelessness due to poverty, lack of support networks, and dismal living conditions in overcrowded or substandard housing."

-National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

And don't mention that it's not really all that heroic when you're piloting an unmanned drone from a video screen in the safety of your base, and then that drone shoots missiles at civilian neighborhoods in some oil-rich brown-people-country.

"Trump inherited Obama's drone war and he's significantly expanded it in countries where the US is not technically at war

The increase in strikes in these countries is seemingly linked to Trump's easing of restrictions on drone strikes, which were put in place by Obama in order to reduce civilian casualties.

In former President Barack Obama's first two years in office, the US conducted 186 drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, where the US is engaged in "shadow wars."

Comparatively, in 2017 and 2018 so far, Trump has launched 238 drone strikes in these countries, The Daily Beast reported. The report is based on data provided by US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has tracked US drone strikes for years.

In 2017 alone, Trump oversaw 130 drone strikes in Yemen, more than three times the year prior.

Under the Trump administration, the Air Force is spending more on the Hellfire missiles used by armed drones," according to The Daily Beast report. "Even as the wars in Iraq and Syria wind down, the Trump administration has sought to purchase more drone missiles. Air Force budget documents show a 63 percent increase in Hellfire purchases in Trump's 2017 budget and another 20 percent increase in the most recent budget request."

-Business Insider

Gee, who could have seen that coming? Billions more dollars that go straight from your pocket into the pockets of the robber barons who produce bombs and missiles.

This is why we can't have nice things. This is why we don't have universal healthcare, or decent schools. This is why there is no money for Flint or Puerto Rico.

America spends an obscene amount of money on bombing other countries. And all that money goes directly into the pockets of the robber barons who build weapons.

You have no fucking idea how much money. Absolutely insane amounts of money. While everything else in America turns to shit.

Look at your leg. From your ass to your foot. That's how much money America spends on war every year.

Now look at your pinky finger. That's the amount of money the next 10 countries spend on their militaries, combined!

Yeah, it really is that insanely much more money than anyone else in the world spends on their militaries. We could cut our military spending in half and we'd still spend insanelyyy much more than the next 10 countries combined.

And the worst part is, our military isn't even that good. Not nearly as good as it should be, considering how much money we spend on war.

Our military has been streamlined to attack small defenseless countries. Like a highly specialized predator that eats only one type of small animal.

America's military is like an anteater. It's really really good at eating ants, but not much else.

Most of America's war equipment is painted in desert camouflage, because most of the world's oil is in small desert countries.

America's military is a giant money-making-machine for the war robber barons. It's like a giant corporation with guns.

It's a giant money-making machine that isn't really designed for war with a strong adversary like Russia or China. If we went to war with them, we might actually lose. Because their militaries are way more efficient. Their militaries are not built for robber baron profits, but for effectiveness. That's why they spend far less money, and get a much bigger bang for their buck.

One cheap Russian super torpedo could sink a billion dollar US aircraft carrier.

"The U.S. Navy Has Nothing Like Russia's 200 Knot Torpedo

One of the most innovative underwater weapons developed by the Soviet Union was the VA-111 Shkval ("Squall") supercavitating torpedo. Highly classified, Shkval was virtually unknown before the end of the Cold War and only became common knowledge in the mid-1990s. Powered by a rocket engine, it was capable of astonishing speeds of up to 200 knots an hour. But in a world where physics ensured most ships and underwater weapons topped out at 50 knots, how did Russian engineers accomplish such a breakthrough in speed?"

-NationalInterest.org

"This crazy fast Russian torpedo could spell trouble for US carriers

A new superfast Russian torpedo may tip the scales decisively in underwater warfare.

It is a successor to the 1970's Shkval (Russian for 'Squall'), which has an impressive speed of over 200 knots, far faster than any NATO torpedo, making it difficult to stop.

The Khishchnik ("Predator") is a new supercavitating torpedo at an advanced stage of development."

-Business Insider

"Russia's Nuclear Tsunami Apocalypse Torpedo is Named 'Poseidon'

The nuclear-powered torpedo will cross oceans autonomously, attacking coastal cities and possibly enemy fleets."

-Popular Mechanics

America's war-profiteering robber barons overcharge the US military. They rip off the men and women who serve.

They get shoddy equipment and have to survive on food stamps, while the war-profiteering robber barons make billions, because they charge insanely high prices for junk that doesn't even work right and isn't even as good as the much cheaper stuff other countries have.

Kinda like our for-profit healthcare industry right now.

The war-profiteering robber barons build shitty weapons that don't work right and that nobody even really needs. And super expensive stuff that other countries produce much cheaper.

All in the name of giant profits for the war robber barons.

And nobody gives a shit about the brown peasants who get killed:

"Trump Cancels U.S. Report on Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes

President Donald Trump revoked a requirement that U.S. intelligence officials publicly report the number of civilians killed in drone strikes and other attacks on terrorist targets outside of war zones.

Trump formally ended the requirement with an executive order on Wednesday, months after signaling such a move. The administration last year ignored a May deadline for an annual accounting of civilian and enemy casualties required under an order signed in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama. The order was part of an accountability effort to minimize civilian deaths from drone strikes."

-Fortune Magazine

"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths... I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

-Barbara Bush

THE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY

When black people in America rose up in the 1960s and demanded to be treated like human beings, liberals like Bernie Sanders stood side by side with them, while the robber barons' conservative loyalists, the self-proclaimed good Christians, were totally against it, as usual.

They were also against interracial marriage, just like they're against gay marriage now.

Big surprise, huh?

You know who else hated gays? Hitler.

"Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals

After taking power in 1933, the Nazis persecuted homosexuals as part of their so-called moral crusade to racially and culturally purify Germany. This persecution ranged from dissolution of homosexual organizations to internment of thousands of individuals in concentration camps. Gay men, in particular, were subject to harassment, arrest, incarceration, and even castration. In Nazi eyes, gay men were weak and unfit to be soldiers, as well as unlikely to have children and thereby contribute to the racial struggle for Aryan dominance."

-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

You know who else was against interracial marriage? Hitler.

"The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature."

-Adolf Hitler

You know who else is against interracial marriage? God.

At least that's what the bible claims:

"The Israelis continued to live among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, taking their daughters as wives for themselves, giving their own daughters to their sons, and serving their gods. The Israelis kept on practicing evil in full view of the Lord."

-Judges 3:5

Did you hear that? God says interracial marriage and other religions are evil. Quite the bigot, your lord and master, huh?

"So be very diligent to love the Lord your God, because if you ever turn back and cling to those who remain of these nations by intermarrying with them and associating one with another, know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you."

-Joshua 23:11

This is where racists get their racist ideas. Straight from the bible: "You fuck a white woman, and God is gonna KILL you, boy!"

"and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods."

-Deuteronomy 7:2

See that other tribe over there? God wants you to kill every last one of them. It's the Christian thing to do.

Oh, and God hates interracial marriage. Because apparently he's an asshole.

The quotes above are real bible verses. Go check. I didn't make this shit up.

There are many more racist passages in the bible, where God supposedly tells his tribe that they're better than everyone else, and that they should hate and kill all other tribes and never marry any of them.

It's God's will, you know? If you love him, you'll do what he says. If you don't do it, you're gonna go to hell and be tortured for all eternity. Because he loves you.

According to the bible, if you're not a racist, and you don't hate other races with intense passion, you obviously don't love God. You better not let God see you date some girl with a different skin color. God is gonna be soooo pissed at you and he's gonna start smashing shit again. GOD SMASH!

So mature.

And if you seriously believe that bullshit, you're dumb as a rock.

And because bible-thumping Americans are dumb as a rock, interracial marriage was illegal in America until the 1960s.

What a coincidence! The 60s! The decade when you MAGA folks think America went to hell in a handbasket.

"In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws (also known as miscegenation laws) were state laws passed by individual states to prohibit interracial marriage and interracial sex.

Anti-miscegenation laws were a part of American law in some States since before the United States was established and remained so until ruled unconstitutional in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia. The term miscegenation was first used in 1863, during the American Civil War, by American journalists to discredit the abolitionist movement by stirring up debate over the prospect of interracial marriage after the abolition of slavery. In those of the original Thirteen Colonies that became states and enacted such laws, they were enacted as state law in the early 18th century; a century or more after the complete racialization of slavery.

Typically defining miscegenation as a felony, these laws prohibited the solemnization of weddings between persons of different races and prohibited the officiating of such ceremonies. Sometimes, the individuals attempting to marry would not be held guilty of miscegenation itself, but felony charges of adultery or fornication would be brought against them instead. All anti-miscegenation laws banned the marriage of whites and non-white groups, primarily blacks, but often also Native Americans and Asians.

In many states, anti-miscegenation laws also criminalized cohabitation and sex between whites and non-whites. In addition, the state of Oklahoma in 1908 banned marriage "between a person of African descent" and "any person not of African descent"; Louisiana in 1920 banned marriage between Native Americans and African Americans (and from 1920–1942, concubinage as well); and Maryland in 1935 banned marriages between blacks and Filipinos. While anti-miscegenation laws are often regarded as a Southern phenomenon, most western and plains states also enacted them."

-Wikipedia

In America, interracial marriage was a felony before 1967!

This is what "conservatives" mean when they say they want to make America great again. It's code. What they really mean is that they hate liberals, because liberals ruined America. And they want to undo every bit of progress the liberals have made since the 1960s. Because that's what God wants.

The conservatives are the ones who hate America. They hate everything America has become since the 1960s. They are present-day America's true enemy. Because America is too liberal for them. They want to go back to how things used to be, before we liberals ruined everything. And the robber barons keep promising them that that's what's gonna happen, if the dumb bible-thumpers vote for the robber barons.

Incidentally, this is also why the bible-thumping Puritans came to America in the first place. It's not that they were being persecuted in Europe. During the Age of Enlightenment, Europeans became less and less religious and more and more secular and liberal. The Puritans were hardcore Christian fanatics, and they felt Europe was getting too damn liberal. The Puritans thought they were purer than everyone else, hence the name.

So they came to America to build a super-Christian society, as fanatically Christian as humanly possible, free from hedonistic European liberals. The Puritans thought all earthly joys were temptations sent by the devil. They were so fanatic in their beliefs, they thought God was super racist and totally hates smiling, music, colorful clothes and gay people. You can still see remnants of that mentality among the Amish today.

And on full display in every MAGA minion. MAGA minions are more fanatic in their beliefs than the fucking Amish. People who are mentally stuck in the 18th century because they seriously believe that's what God wants: "Main the status quo! Maintain the status quo! Maintain the status quo at all costs, for the master! For God!"

The Puritans were the Christian version of the Taliban. The Taliban are Muslim fanatics, who also believe smiling, music, colorful clothes, gay people and progress are the devil's work and an insult to God. The Taliban punishes people for singing or listening to music on the radio. And for sticking your williwang in another man's dingeling.

It's no coincidence that the Taliban and the Puritans were so like-minded. You probably don't know this either, but Muslims and Christians worship exactly the same God. Allah is not a different god. Allah is simply the Arab word for God. Like Gott is the German word, and Deus is the Latin word for God.

Muslims and Christians believe in exactly the same God. Just in two different languages. Muslims even believe in Jesus. Jesus and his mom, virgin Mary, are in the Koran. There's a whole chapter about Mary in the Koran. Mary is a big deal in Islam. Only one surah (or chapter) in the entire Koran is named after a woman - Surah 19 - and it is named after Mary.

That's why Jerusalem is equally important to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Because they're all brothers.

When Muslims look at Jews or Christians, they don't see non-believers. They see old-fashioned believers. Muslims see Jews and Christians as earlier, old-fashioned forms of their own faith.

Islam builds on Judaism and Christianity. If religion was a video game, Judaism would be level 1, Christianity would be level 2, and Islam would be level 3.

"The Koran pronounces Christians as the closest of the religious communities to Muslims."

-Najib Saliba, PhD

Another thing war-profiteering American robber barons don't want you to know is that there are many Jews and Christians living peacefully in Muslim countries.

"Iran's Jewish community is the largest in the Mideast outside Israel – and feels safe and respected

In a nation that has called for Israel to be wiped off the face of the Earth, the Iranian government allows thousands of Jews to worship in peace and continue their association with the country founded more than 2,500 years ago."

-USA Today

"How Iranian Jews Shaped Modern Los Angeles

Iranian Jews are the oldest population in the Diaspora. Neither Sephardic nor Ashkenazi, they're correctly referred to as Mizrahi, or easterner. Iranian Jewish history dates back to 587 B.C.E, when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple and brought the Jews as slaves into the area that was then Babylon and that, in time, became the great Persian Empire. When, in 539 B.C.E, Cyrus the Great issued the first declaration of human rights, giving the Jews freedom to return to Palestine and rebuild the temple, about half took his offer. The rest scattered across the empire, to the lands we know today as Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan and many, many more."

-Forward.com

"The Christians of Iraq are considered to be the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. The vast majority are indigenous Eastern Aramaic-speaking ethnic Assyrians. There is also a small community of Armenians and populations of Kurdish, Arab and Iraqi Turkmens.

In Iraq, Christians numbered about 1,500,000 in 2003, representing just over 6% of the population of 26 million.

Christians live primarily in Baghdad, Basra, Erbil, Dohuk, Zakho and Kirkuk and in Assyrian towns and regions such as the Nineveh Plains in the north. Iraqi Christians live primarily in Northern Iraq; and in regions bordering it in northeastern Syria, northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, an area roughly corresponding to the Assyrian homeland."

-Wikipedia

"Iraqi Christians were safer under Saddam

Although Iraq has a democratic government, Iraqi Christians were safer and had more protection under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein"

-Archdiocese of Baltimore

Muslims see Jews and Christians as their brothers and sisters. That's why, throughout history, Jews and Christians living under Muslim rule usually had it pretty good. They weren't persecuted. In fact, Islamic law explicitly protects Jews and Christians from persecution and calls them dhimmi, which is Arabic for protected people.

When Christians persecuted Jews in 15th century Europe, the Jews of Spain found refuge in the Muslim Ottoman Empire. The Muslims had no problem with allowing Jews to worship as they pleased. Jews could build temples and synagogues wherever they wanted in the Ottoman Empire.

It was fanatic Christians who persecuted Jews all through history. Not the Muslims.

"Pope Francis Prays in Mosque in Show of Commitment to Christian-Muslim Relations

Pope Francis further demonstrated his commitment to improving relations between Christians and Muslims on Saturday, as he prayed in Istanbul's historic Blue Mosque and visited the Hagia Sophia—two powerful symbols of the Muslim and Christian faiths."

-Wall Street Journal

"Prophet Muhammad's invitation to Christians to pray in mosques

In Jordan, at the Catholic Muslim forum, reference was made to the "ecumenical" episode, when Muhammad invited the Christians of Najran to pray in his mosque, before engaging in dialogue with them

"Even the prophet Muhammad invited Christians to pray in a mosque before meeting with them." Among the many words spoken during the three days of the second Catholic Muslim Forum – gathered in recent days in Jordan at the Site of the Baptism of Jesus (a Christian holy site re-launched in these years by a Muslim government) – this phrase spoken by the Jordanian prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal, was probably the most surprising. The quote refers to an episode narrated by the Sunna which sees as protagonists the Christians of Najran, an oasis in the Arabian peninsula."

-Acommonworld.com

Weird that no one has ever told you any of this before, huh?

Gee, it's almost like they didn't want you to know any of this stuff.

Because they want you to hate Muslims. So it's easier for you to kill them.

The American founding fathers thought the Puritans were crazy fanatics. That's why they wanted to make sure these bible-thumping lunatics couldn't control the American government and force everyone else to believe the crazy nonsense they believe. Thomas Jefferson thought Christianity was nothing more than silly superstition, no more true than all the other made-up religions:

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. ... But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding..."

-Thomas Jefferson

That's the whole point of the separation between church and state. How do you think they even came up with that? The same way small town judges come up with these weird old laws like: "Don't shoot a gun while you're having sex with your wife." The judge made that law, because some idiot shot his gun while having sex with his wife.

And that's why the founding fathers made laws that banned religious fanatics from imposing their crazy bullshit stories on the rest of us. The founding fathers knew they couldn't trust Christian-Taliban fanatics with government power. So they made a law, just to keep out the crazy super-Christians, because there was no one else that law applied to at that time.

The founding fathers came up with the separation of church and state, for one reason only: to protect the rest of us from you religious fanatics. Not the other way around.

Religious fanatics kill people. The rest of us simply don't care enough about religion to persecute you. We just don't give a fuck. We got bigger shit to worry about, than which God you think is watching you while you masturbate. You can believe whatever the hell you want to believe, but don't bother the rest of us with your crazy shit.

You anti-abortion, anti-science, anti-college, anti-knowledge, anti-evolution, anti-feminism, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, anti-freedom, anti-healthcare, anti-gay, anti-muslim, anti-refugee, anti-immigrant, white-supremacist, fanatic-Christian-Taliban MAGA minions are a crazy fucking cult. Every bit as crazy and extreme as the Taliban.

You MAGA minions take the bible just as literally as the Taliban takes the koran. And both books say the same stupid shit, encouraging you to be racist and to kill other tribes. But you wear cargo shorts instead of turbans. And instead of flipping out over a burning koran, you flip out over a burning flag. Same shit. Your whole identity is wrapped up in stupid tribalism.

The rest of us can't quite figure out why this tribalism bullshit is so important to you.

Leave the rest of us in peace and go hide in the woods. Become white-supremacist doomsday preppers. I hear you're good at that.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

-The Constitution, First Amendment

I didn't make these quotes up to piss you off. The founding fathers really said this. Google it. Despite what Republican robber barons and crazy Christian extremists want you to believe, America was never supposed to be a Christian country:

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

-John Adams

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

-Thomas Jefferson

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."

-John Adams

"The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Priests...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live."

-Thomas Jefferson

"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."

-John Adams

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government."

-Thomas Jefferson

"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country."

-John Adams

"One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests."

-Thomas Paine

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

-Benjamin Franklin

"How has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?"

-John Adams

"The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."

-Thomas Jefferson

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."

-Benjamin Franklin

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."

-Thomas Jefferson

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

-Benjamin Franklin

"There remains [in some parts of the country] a strong bias towards the old error, that without some sort of alliance or coalition between Govt. & Religion neither can be duly supported. Such indeed is the tendency to such a coalition, and such its corrupting influence on both parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded agst."

\- James Madison

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity."

-Thomas Jefferson

"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."

-James Madison

The founding fathers purposely excluded any reference to "God" or "the Almighty" or any other euphemism for a religious higher power in the constitution. Not one time is the word "God" mentioned in the Constitution. Not a single fucking time.

The constitution explicitly bans any attempt by Christian fanatics to make America a Christian-only country:

"No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

-The Constitution, Article VI

America's obsession with God in politics is actually a fairly recent phenomenon. Reagan kicked it into high gear. But it all started when American robber barons realized how easy it is to manipulate peasants, if you tell them everything you do is God's will.

Like in the good old robber baron days back in medieval Europe. When peasants still believed in demons and burned witches at the stake. Just like the Puritans.

"In God We Trust" was first placed on US coins in 1861, during the Civil War. You know, the war between factory-owning robber barons in the north, and slave-owning robber barons in the south.

That propaganda slogan was kinda like America's version of "God save the Queen." The founding fathers were long dead by then. President Roosevelt tried to remove the words from our money in 1907, because he knew it went against the wishes of the founding fathers.

The expression was adopted as a national motto in 1956, during the Vietnam war, when America was in the iron grip of war factory robber barons.

In 1954, the phrase "under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance. To equate allegiance to America and her endless wars with allegiance to God. If you're against war, you're against America and against God! If you're a peace-loving hippie, God hates you.

The phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance by the same folks who kept telling everyone that racism is perfectly ok, because it's God's will. Just like war.

The robber barons tell us that every war America fights is a just war. God is with us.

Nazi soldiers used to have the words God is with us engraved on their belt buckles: "Gott mit uns!"

Nationalism and racism, hand in hand. They always, always lead to war.

Before the 1960s, it was perfectly ok to be racist. Out in public.

Racists could say "nigger" and nobody thought that was wrong. Back then it was normal to be a racist. It was weird not to be racist. In fact it was illegal not to be racist. Interracial marriage was a felony.

Ahh, the 50s. Good times, good times.

And then those damn liberals had to ruin everything in the 1960s with their stupid civil rights movement. Suddenly you had to hide your racism and act like niggers are people. You were still just as racist as before, you just couldn't talk about it in public. You had to be racist in the privacy of your own home. Fucking liberals!

That's how MAGA minions think.

Pretty fucked up, huh?

Whenever the MAGA minions talk about the good old days, this is what they're talking about. MAGA minions are super-Christian fanatics, like the Puritans. They're the American Taliban. Fanatic white supremacists who don't think of themselves as racists, but like to call themselves white separatists.

They think all races should be kept separate and away from each other. And America should be whites only. They think God wants it that way. And they're willing to kill for their insane beliefs.

"Republican lawmaker and ally urged crowd to prepare for civil unrest

Audio obtained by the Guardian shows Matt Shea said 'communists are lying in wait' and associate told audience to collect 'an AR-15' and 'rounds of ammo'

Washington state Republican representative Matt Shea and several associates regaled an audience with conspiracy theories, separatist visions and exhortations for listeners to arm themselves ahead of a looming civil war, at a gathering at a remote religious compound in the north-east of the state last year.

In recordings obtained by the Guardian, Shea and Jack Robertson, also known as radio personality John Jacob Schmidt, invoked their visions and fears of a violent leftist revolt in speeches at the 2018 God and Country event in Marble.

The Guardian last week published leaked chat records in which Shea and Robertson were revealed to have discussed the use of surveillance, "psyops" and violence against liberal and leftist activists.

Robertson – who aired fantasies of extreme violence against liberal activists in the leaked chats – told the audience at the 2018 event that they should be prepared for civil war.

In his speech at God and Country last June, which immediately followed Shea's speech, Robertson said: "Of course, you all know that you should have an AR-15 and a thousand rounds of ammo, right? Because Antifa is kicking up and getting ready to defend, right?"

-The Guardian

Think of all the money the gun lobby robber barons will make, if Americans start killing each other in an epic new civil war. Epic profits! The more American blood spills, the more money the gun lobby robber barons will make.

Is that really what you want?

No, of course not.

No sane, rational person would want a new civil war. Except the greedy robber barons and their crazy white supremacist Christian fanatic henchmen. The MAGA minions. The new Nazis of the 21st century.

White-supremacist Christian fanatics hate liberal America for exactly the same reasons as the Muslim Taliban does. Which explains why virtually all terrorist attacks on US soil are committed by white-supremacist groups.

White-supremacists are the American Taliban, and they hate liberal America. They're super-Christian fanatics. Ideological descendants of the Puritans. And they're a far bigger threat to America than the Muslim Taliban.

"Confronting Domestic Terrorism Means Confronting White Nationalism

As a Muslim American, I was particularly struck by news of Friday's harrowing attacks at New Zealand mosques. With at least 49 worshippers dead and the attack livestreamed on Facebook, this latest massacre epitomizes the surging white supremacist violence that has targeted racial and religious minorities here and abroad. Here in the United States, the October mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque, and the 2015 massacre targeting black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina, church all point to the gravity of the threat. Like other Muslim Americans, I not only grieve the loss of so many lives but fear that white nationalist violence will continue to imperil our own communities at home."

-Slate Magazine

White supremacist Americans are behaving exactly, precisely like Nazi Germans back then. It is precisely the same thing. It's not just similar. It's the very same ideology. MAGA minions are exactly as brainwashed as Nazi Germans were. Back then they lynched Jews. Today they lynch Muslims. For the very same reasons: nationalism and racism.

"US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies'

Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war

Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians."

-The Guardian

"Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early on Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility, Afghan and American officials said.

Residents of three villages in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province described a terrifying string of attacks in which the soldier, who had walked more than a mile from his base, tried door after door, eventually breaking in to kill within three separate houses. The man gathered 11 bodies, including those of 4 girls younger than 6, and set fire to them, villagers said.

Coming after a period of deepening public outrage, spurred by the Koran burning by American personnel last month and an earlier video showing American Marines urinating on dead militants, the possibility of a violent reaction to the killings added to a feeling of siege here among Western personnel."

-New York Times

White supremacists have been brainwashed to believe that it's ok for whites to kill non-whites, because they're the other tribe. And these racist radical extremists will come for liberals next.

Actually they're already trying to kill liberals. And it will continue to get worse. Just like it did in Nazi Germany. People think it can't happen here, but it's happening right in front of our eyes.

White supremacists love the fact that Trump made racism ok again. How bad could racism be, if the greatest president ever is a racist? And God is a racist. And God made Trump president. How could racism be wrong?

"Thank God for Trump! That's why we love him!"

-David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader

Yeah, that's an actual quote.

And every Republican robber baron knows the dumb MAGA-hat-yokels think like that. That's why Trump keeps saying and doing racist shit. It drives his cult members wild! They lick it up, like a dog eating his own shit.

White supremacists absolutely love Trump. They're the same kind of people who loved Hitler, for the very same reason.

The robber barons made conservative loyalist peasants hate liberals through brainwashing since childhood. Obedient loyalists, who think of themselves as good Christians, have been made to hate blacks, Jews, Muslims and liberals by using exactly the same brainwashing trick each time:

God.

"For much of our existence, the United States never included God in its motto, on its currency, or in any document creating the Republic. We were born a secular nation and must remain one to sustain our future, unless we want to go the way of ISIS.

Our founding fathers understood well the extraordinary danger of mixing religion and politics; we forget that lesson at our great peril. If we forget, just glance over to the Middle East. I tremble in fear for my country when the majority of conservatives believe we are a Christian nation; that frightening majority has forgotten our history, ignored our founding principles and abandoned our most cherished ideal of separating church and state. In mixing religion and politics, the religious right subverts both. And the world suffers."

-Huffington Post

Hatred for liberals is the real motivation behind everything MAGA minions think, and everything they do. Visceral hatred. They absolutely despise liberals. More than anything else in the world. More than Russians. Probably even more than Muslims.

Just ask them. They'll be happy to tell you. They're proud of it. They post it on social media every single day.

That's why the MAGA mad hatters get a boner when Trump tells them to beat up liberal journalists. That's why they spew all that racist, homophobic, misogynist, anti-feminist hate-filled bile on social media. All those things represent liberals, and the liberal America they hate so much.

Everything they do is motivated by a boiling hatred for liberals. They hate liberals with the same intensity that Nazis felt for Jews. Because Hitler had filled their heads with so many vicious lies about Jews. Just like the Republican robber barons fill your heads with vicious lies about liberals.

If even half the bullshit they tell you about liberals was true, I'd hate liberals too. Who wouldn't?

That's why you squeal with glee when Trump acts extra spiteful towards liberals. Or when he locks thousands of brown children in cages. You eat that shit up. Watching Trump bash liberals on TV is the highlight of your day. You love it when he makes liberals cry. Because liberals are your biggest enemies. You HAAATE them.

Just like the Nazis hated the Jews.

That's why you cheer, while Trump is trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act, because it's a liberal accomplishment, commonly referred to as Obamacare.

You'll cut your nose to spite your face, and let Trump take your own healthcare away, simply because Obama, a black liberal, gave it to you, and you absolutely hate Obama. Because he's black. And because he's liberal. And you think he's a damn Muslim, too.

You idiots cheer while Trump is robbing you of even the little bit of insurance that you do have now, and giving that tax money straight to robber barons who own the weapons factories that produce weapons for America's eternal war against the world. Because the United Nations is the enemy.

"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."

-Adolf Hitler

And that's exactly what the Republican robber barons did. They made you believe, through brainwashing, that the whole world is in a big fat anti-American conspiracy. The whole world is out to get you, because they're all part of the United Nations.

That's why it was so easy for the fossil fuel robber barons to convince you that global warming is just another one of those worldwide anti-American conspiracies.

The whole world knows global warming is real, except you guys. We've had one extreme weather event after another, and every year it's getting worse. You have to be fucking stupid not to see what's going on.

There is no debate about global warming. Everyone knows it's real. That's why the whole world signed the Paris Agreement. Even Russia. Even Israel. Even North Korea. Everyone. It's not a conspiracy. It's simply true.

But the oil robber barons paid a handful of corrupt shysters to say global warming isn't real. So on the one side, there's every country on earth, and all the world's climate scientists, and on the other side there are the American oil robber barons and their paid bullshit artists, who deny reality, for cash.

The oil and coal robber barons are the guys who're making billions while they're destroying our planet with their pollution. They are the only reason why the Republican robber barons oppose green energy. They haven't quite figured out yet how to rob you, if you're getting free electricity from the sun or the wind.

Wanna know something funny? You know how you pay about $100 a month for your cable or satellite TV? You have no idea how strange that sounds to Europeans. They don't pay $100 a month to watch TV.

Over there, you go to the local equivalent of Best Buy, you pick up a satellite dish for a couple of bucks, you stick it out your window, and you have hundreds of channels of free TV. That's it. No monthly bill. American robber barons are even fucking you over when you watch TV.

Sure, they have premium channels over there, too. But even without paying a few bucks for a pay-per-view channel, you still get hundreds of channels totally for free. You can even watch American TV for free in Europe. The same programming that you pay $100 a month for is available in Europe for free. Suckerrr!

Anyway, there is nothing bad about green energy. There is absolutely nothing radical about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Green New Deal. She's simply suggesting that America should follow the example of all the other countries who are successfully switching to renewable energies.

Of course you don't know this, but green energy is working everywhere else, and there's absolutely no reason why it wouldn't work in America. Except, the coal and oil robber barons don't want it to work here. It would cut into their profits.

The truth is, green energy absolutely works and it's creating more and better jobs than the fossil fuel industry.

Germany and China are the leaders in green energy. They're manufacturing the world's best solar panels and wind turbines, and they're selling billions of them to the rest of the world. The whole world is buying them, because they work. Even America is buying solar panels and wind turbines from them, for fucks sake.

Meanwhile America is falling farther and farther behind. Less and less people want the crap we produce. Like food items that are illegal in other countries because they contain dangerous chemicals and hormones that give you cancer.

But we here in America eat this shit, because the food industry robber barons bribed a couple of Republican politicians, and they killed the regulations that protected us, and made it no longer illegal to poison us with toxic chemicals that are outlawed in other countries.

"The European Union prohibits or severely restricts many food additives that have been linked to cancer that are still used in American-made bread, cookies, soft drinks and other processed foods. Europe also bars the use of several drugs that are used in farm animals in the United States, and many European countries limit the cultivation and import of genetically modified foods.

"In some cases, food-processing companies will reformulate a food product for sale in Europe" but continue to sell the product with the additives in the United States, said Lisa Y. Lefferts, senior scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food safety advocacy organization."

-New York Times

Pretty fucked up, huh? American robber barons poison American consumers with cheap, toxic chemicals that are outlawed in other countries, because they are known to cause cancer. But in America they're not banned, because the robber barons bribed a bunch of Republican politicians, and they threw out the laws and regulations that protect the American people from the robber barons.

That's what Republicans mean when they talk about deregulation. It's code for: we're gonna fuck over some American peasants to maximize our profits.

All that matters is that they're making a shitload of money. They give zero fucks about how many peasants die from cancer, painkillers or guns. Those are the real national emergencies. But robber barons and their corrupt Republican politicians couldn't care less.

Meanwhile you fuckwits worry about vaccinations. The one thing that's actually not hurting you, but helping you. Because the robber barons redirected your attention away from the real culprits.

Being against vaccines is just as ignorant as being against antibiotics. A lot of people used to die from preventable diseases, before vaccines and antibiotics were invented.

"Israeli flight attendant in coma after getting measles

An Israeli flight attendant has slipped into a coma after contracting measles, according to health officials.

The 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, a well-known and potentially deadly complication of the virus. She was otherwise healthy before getting measles.

"She's been in a deep coma for 10 days, and we're now just hoping for the best," said Dr. Itamar Grotto, associate director general of Israel's Ministry of Health.

The flight attendant, who works for El Al, the Israeli national airline, might have contracted the virus in New York, in Israel or on a flight between the two, Grotto said."

-CNN

Vaccines save lives. If you don't get your kids vaccinated, you're a fucking idiot.

And while you dimwit obsess over vaccines, the toxic TV dinner in your freezer is gonna give you cancer, and your kid is gonna shoot his friends at school with your assault rifle.

If you read real news, like The New York Times, you'd actually know all this stuff. That's why the robber barons keep telling you that The New York Times is your enemy: "Don't listen to a thing these damn liberal Jews from New York say! They might infect you with the truth!"

Remember asbestos? It gives you lung cancer. It's a definite, proven fact. The type of cancer you get from asbestos is called mesothelioma. There is an entire industry of lawyers who do nothing other than deal with mesothelioma cases, because it's a guaranteed win against the asbestos makers. That's why you see a thousand mesothelioma lawyer commercials on TV. Everyone knows it gives you cancer. That's why people stopped using it.

But then, of course, Trump:

"Trump is on our side": A Russia-based asbestos maker sees an ally in the White House

Asbestos kills. This well-accepted fact, along with the similarly lethal effects of asbestos litigation on manufacturers' bank accounts, has seen the carcinogenic substance all but vanish from US building sites over the past decades. These days, where the biggest bucks are to be made in taking the stuff out, rather than supplying or putting it in, it's hard to imagine a return to the wild ways of yesteryear, when asbestos was a common feature of drywalling, fireproofing, and a wide variety of other kinds of construction.

But in Asbest, Russia, that's exactly what asbestos producers are hoping for—and they're looking to US president Donald Trump to make it happen."

-Quartz News

"Trump EPA Moves To Shield Info on Asbestos Imports and Use From Public

The Trump administration has denied a petition by a coalition of environmental groups calling for increased reporting of asbestos importation and use by U.S. manufacturers – despite a sharp rise in asbestos imports into U.S. ports.

In its denial of the petition, the EPA claimed it "is aware of all ongoing uses of asbestos."

However, recent federal data documents a huge surge in asbestos imports to the U.S., raising concerns that the EPA does not fully understand where and how much of the notorious carcinogen is being used."

-EWG.com

The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, is not a bunch of leftie tree huggers. They're not trying to save a rare spotted owl. They're the people who are supposed to protect us, and the places where we live, from corrupt robber barons who lace their products with poison.

For no big reason. No alien conspiracy. Just to save money, and maximize profits, even if their toxic shit is gonna kill a bunch of peasants down the road. You know, shit like asbestos.

The head of the EPA is the main guy who is supposed to protect us peasants. He's supposed to regulate dangerous chemicals and make sure the robber barons don't poison us.

Well, guess what? Guess who Trump put in charge of the EPA? Can you guess?

Yupp. A lobbyist for the robber barons who poison us.

Lobbyists are the robber barons' henchmen who bribe corrupt Republican politicians with suitcases full of money, and pass along the orders of the robber barons. Lobbyists are the middlemen between the robber barons and the corrupt politicians.

The robber barons are the polluters the EPA is supposed to protect us from. And now these very people are in charge of the EPA.

It's mind boggling. Trump's America is so fucking corrupt, it makes your head spin.

It's the government's job to protect us from the robber barons. That's the one and only reason why government was invented in the first place.

But the government can't protect you from the Republican robber barons if you vote for Republican robber barons, and they're in charge of the government. They openly, publicly admit that they're anti-government. Are you not listening?

They brag about how anti-government they are. If it was up to them there would be no government. There would be no regulations. There would be no laws reigning in robber barons and their giant corporations. They're proudly anti-regulation and pro-deregulation. They're proudly pro-robber-baron.

Why the fuck would you put robber barons in charge of protecting you from robber barons?

Do you realize how fucking stupid that is?

This is exactly why we liberals call you guys stupid. It's meant more as an astonished observation than an insult.

You guys really need to start paying attention to what's going on. You're making all of us peasants look bad. No wonder the robber barons think we're all stupid.

Anyway, now that these guys are in control of the EPA, here comes the big asbestos comeback!

Yupp. Asbestos is bahaaack!

These motherfuckers are so insanely evil, it's cartoonish. It's like they're the evil Cobra organization from the old G.I. Joe cartoons.

Woohoo! Freedom!

Finally you have that freedom again, to poison yourself with asbestos, without actually knowing which products contain the asbestos. Think of it as Russian Roulette! Exciting! Maybe it'll hit ya, maybe it won't.

I know what you're thinking: "I'll be damned if I'm gonna let some liberal tell me which cancer I can have! It's my God-given right as an American patriot to get mesothelioma cancer from asbestos!"

Woohoo! Freedom!

You can't make this shit up. If this was a movie plot, the audience wouldn't believe anyone could corrupt America so easily, so out in the open.

"Trump nominates acting EPA head, an ex-coal lobbyist, to run agency

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to run the agency permanently, the White House said, placing a former energy lobbyist at the helm of the nation's top environmental regulator.

The widely anticipated nomination provides Trump another avid supporter of his deregulatory and pro-fossil fuels agenda, but without the constant criticism over alleged mismanagement that plagued Wheeler's predecessor, Scott Pruitt.

"The only thing Wheeler is going to protect at the EPA is the profits of polluters," said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Wheeler, 54, has overseen a number of deregulatory efforts since Pruitt's departure, including proposals weakening Obama-era rules limiting carbon and mercury emissions from power plants, and an initiative to lift a summertime ban on higher ethanol blends of gasoline that was enacted to curb smog."

-Reuters

But Trump didn't just do that at the EPA. He replaced all the heads of the agencies that protect us from the robber barons. He put the robber barons in charge of all the agencies that are supposed to protect us from robber barons.

It's like he's auditioning for the role of super villain. I think he'd be good in the role of The Joker: "Make Gotham great again! Muahahaha!"

"Some of President Trump's most cartoonishly evil policy initiatives have come at the expense of the environment. In the past few months alone, his administration has lifted a ban importing big-game hunting trophies, sought to repeal California emissions standards and released a plan to gut the Endangered Species Act. It's all done in the name of unmitigated capitalism, to which the president clearly feels the environment is beholden. So too, apparently, is the health of Americans, as the Environmental Protection Agency is now allowing asbestos to be legally used in construction."

\- Rolling Stone Magazine

He didn't drain the swamp. He created the biggest swamp in American history. Yuge! It's like the Mafia is running America.

Everyone knew that he's a swamp monster. Except you guys. You idiots voted for him. You have no fucking clue what's really happening in Trumpistan, because The Joker brainwashed you into believing that the real news are fake, and he's on a mission from God. It's mindboggingly diabolical. It's like a Jordan Peele horror movie.

It's like real-life Game of Thrones, and Trump is crazy child-king Joffrey Baratheon. Or maybe he's Ramsay Bolton, and he's cutting Theon's dick off, just for shits and giggles. Trump loves casual cruelty, just for the fun of it.

And now he even wants to create a government TV station that will spread his lies 24/7. You know, just like Hitler.

I guess Fox News wasn't enough.

"Trump Wants to Start a State-Run TV Network That Makes Him Look Good

President Trump wants to venture back into the world of television. Trump proposed, via Twitter of course, that the government should launch its own TV network because CNN is failing to depict the U.S. government accurately, he claims."

-TV Guide

The balls on this fucking guy.

Anyway, let's get back to green tech for a second.

So the fossil fuel robber barons are purposely suppressing newer, better technologies, that would replace oil and coal. While we still dig for coal like 19th century peasants from a Charles Dickens novel, the rest of the world is switching to green energy.

Progress!

And we're falling behind.

That's why countries like China buy less from us than we buy from them. America's biggest export is war. Nobody wants America's crappy shit. That's why there's such a huge trade deficit with China. China is building better, cheaper stuff. That's why even we buy so much stuff from China. And that's why there's a trade imbalance.

Oh, yeah, and our robber barons have a lot of American products built in Chinese factories. And then, when these American products that were made in China come back to America, it adds to the trade imbalance. Because on paper it looks like we're buying stuff from China, when we're really just importing our own shit. And then the robber barons convince you numbnuts that this is somehow China's fault.

You know the difference between KKK hoods and MAGA hats?

The KKK hoods were made in America.

Sounds like a joke, but it's true. Well, I guess this whole Trump administration is a big joke. It's like they're playing a prank on America. Like they're purposely trying to see how far they can push it, without you dumbasses catching on.

"Trump's famous 'Make America Great Again' hats could get caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war

For Zhenjiang Kimtex Industrial Company in eastern China's Jiangsu province, the US accounts for 40% of its sales, or about 3 million yuan ($445,000) a year. While it mostly manufactures winter hats and scarves, in 2016, it also produced hundreds of the "Make America Great Again" baseball hats that were de rigueur for Trump fans.

"We are aware of the trade war, and we are following which items will be affected by the tariffs," he said. "If the tariffs are placed on our importers in August, then their costs will rise, and the prices of our products will go up."

US media reported earlier that sellers of the "Make America Great Again" caps - which are available, among other places, via the US president's official website - were stockpiling them while they waited for a decision on the tariffs."

-Business Insider

You just can't make this shit up. The MAGA hats are made in China.

Make America great again!

Made in China.

Hilarious!

I'm waiting for Trump to look into the camera and say: "Hey, America, you've been Punk'd!"

And don't you just love the fact that when Trump puts tariffs on China, the price for MAGA hats goes up? Because tariffs mean American peasants have to pay more when they buy products made in China. Nobody else pays the price when Trump puts tariffs on Chinese products. It simply means Americans will have to pay more money when they go shopping.

Tariffs on China fuck over American peasants.

"Markets plunge as Trump declares 'I'm a tariff man'

President Trump cast more doubt trade talks with China will lead to a breakthrough after a 90-day ceasefire in a series of tweets that helped erase optimism and reignited fears of a global economic slowdown."

-Reuters

Anyway, if it wasn't for the Republican fossil fuel robber barons and Trump, America could have the world's greatest green energy industry, with millions of well-paying jobs. Just like Germany and China. People around the world would want to buy our stuff, and there would be less of a trade imbalance. Maybe we'd even have a giant surplus, like Germany does.

If it wasn't for the Republican pharma and insurance robber barons, we'd already have universal healthcare, like all the other cool countries.

And if it wasn't for the Republican alcohol and tobacco robber barons, we'd already have legal weed nationwide. But they don't want weed to be legal, because it cuts into their alcohol and tobacco profits. If people are gonna spend their money on weed, they're gonna spend less on cigarettes and alcohol.

The flame of American progress is being stamped out by greedy robber barons who don't want anything to change. They want to maintain the status quo. They like the world exactly the way it is, because they're on top of the world, and they're making an insane amount of money. Why would they ever want that to change?

The biggest threat to the status quo are fair democratic elections, where millions of educated people vote for what's best for the people, not for the robber barons.

The robber barons are such a small group, they can't win an election on their own. Not without cheating. They need the help of lots and lots of dumb little minions who will vote for them. And that's where you come in, with your stupid little MAGA hat, made in China.

They lie to you about everything, and you believe it, no questions asked. They tell you to vote for more Republican robber barons, and you do it. And that's why life in your red state is shit. It's not the liberals' fault. We keep trying to warn you guys, but you don't listen.

The fossil fuel robber barons don't care that their greed is hurting America, as long as they're making billions. They don't give a shit that they're destroying the world with their pollution. That's what's causing Global Warming. And that's why they don't want you to know that Global Warming exists.

It's not fake news. It's not some elaborate hoax. There is no worldwide anti-American conspiracy.

Just like there was no worldwide anti-German conspiracy. Hitler lied to his people. It's what robber barons do. They manipulate us with lies and fear-mongering.

We're not getting fucked by a worldwide anti-American conspiracy. We're getting fucked by American robber barons. That's the real conspiracy. And they're hiding in plain sight. You're looking right at them, but you don't see them for what they really are.

"Great liars are also great magicians."

-Adolf Hitler

You guys love conspiracy theories. The New World Order. The Deep State. QAnon. The Illuminati. The Freemasons. The Rothschilds. George Soros. Bilderberg. Chemtrails. 9/11. Kennedy. Vaccines. The Annunaki. Shape-shifting lizard aliens. The United Nations.

Fascinating stuff! But all of these stories are just scary children's stories the American robber barons feed you, to distract you from the real conspiracy:

The Republican Conspiracy.

It's been right in front of your face the whole time.

I know, I know. A couple of rich motherfuckers who fuck us over is pretty boring compared to all those other conspiracy stories. They're way cooler. Illuminati who breed us like farm animals! Witches and demons. Shape-shifting lizard aliens. Chemtrails that sterilize us for population control.

Good stuff. Good stuff.

But all of them highly implausible. They all have gaping holes in their internal logic. Take the New World Order for example. Why would a bunch of shadowy elites who control all world governments overthrow the current world order to create a new world order, when they're already in control? The shadowy elite already controls everything. Why the fuck would they start a revolution to overthrow themselves?

Peasants start revolutions to get rid of corrupt rulers. Corrupt rulers don't start revolutions to overthrow themselves.

I know The Republican Conspiracy isn't nearly as cool as the other ones, but it's the only one that's real:

"Former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey K. Skilling has been resentenced to 168 months in prison on conspiracy, securities fraud, and other charges related to the collapse of Enron Corporation. In addition to the prison sentence, Skilling, 59, was ordered to forfeit approximately $42 million to be applied toward restitution for the victims of the fraud at Enron."

-Justice News, Department of Justice

There really is a giant conspiracy of rich robber barons, the shadowy one percent, who fuck us over every day of our lives. And their only reason is profit. And they're called Republicans. Not Illuminati. The fact that they manage to hide the epic scale of what they're doing in plain sight, that IS the conspiracy.

They control a vast network of right-wing propaganda outlets and corrupt politicians, tainted schools and prosperity-gospel churches, and they all lie to you 24/7, to protect the robber barons from government oversight, and make you vote pro-robber-baron at the next election. And all of it in the name of God.

Fucking epic.

The UN is not your enemy. The United Nations is a peaceful institution without any actual power. It's simply a symbol of friendship among all people of the world. The greatest example of what liberals strive for. World peace. No more poor peasants dying for greedy robber barons in wars for profit.

The whole purpose of the United Nations is to prevent war. And that's why American robber barons hate it. War is big business, and they're not gonna let some stupid United Nations get in the way of profit.

But you don't know any of that. You literally believe that the United Nations is a big conspiracy somehow, and liberals are demons and witches who oppose Trump the Great, the American Messiah, who was sent by God. Because your heads are stuck in the superstitious 18th century. Just like the Taliban. And the Puritans.

I'm sorry, but all you fanatics are pretty fucking stupid.

HOW RELIGION POISONS YOUR MIND

Hey, I have an idea! How about we build a completely pointless two-thousand-mile-long wall along the southern border? I mean, it's not like people could just take a plane, or a ship, or dig a tunnel or use a ladder.

"Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man."

-General George S. Patton

We could give the government contract, and billions of taxpayer dollars that could otherwise be paying for universal healthcare, to some giant construction corporation that's gonna build a shitty wall at insanely inflated prices.

Maybe material is just gonna disappear. Or maybe a couple of billions are suddenly somehow unaccounted for. It happens in the military-industrial complex on a daily basis. Billions go missing all the time. Ain't no big deal...

"$21 trillion in unaccounted government transactions, primarily on defense. The DOD's (Department of Defense) as well as HUD's (Department of Housing and Urban Development) Offices of Inspector General (OIG) reference these transactions as "unsupported journal voucher adjustments." This is polite accounting language for lost, hidden or stolen money. If such "adjustments" were small, it would be one thing. But they totaled some $21 trillion between 1998 and 2015!"

-Forbes Magazine

21 trillion are 21 thousand billions. Or 21 million millions. Lost or stolen. They just disappeared somehow in America's war machine. Nobody knows what happened to all that money. Poof! Gone.

Well, no, not really gone. All that money is in some robber baron's pocket now. With all the other trillions in war profits.

If you had any sense of right and wrong, you would be fucking outraged right now.

If The Sopranos have taught me anything, it's that the Mafia is big in the construction business.

Oh, wait, isn't Trump in the construction business, too? Maybe his own company could build the wall? Or maybe one of his buddies?

Think of all the profit someone could make from building a completely pointless two-thousand-mile wall!

And you'll stand right there and let it happen, like you always do, because you're dumb, obedient loyalists. If your master tells you to jump, you do it. No questions asked. Because you think God wants it that way. The master was chosen by God, and the master is always right.

Trump brags about how blindly obedient you guys are, and that he can do whatever the hell he wants, and you will still blindly follow him, like a crazy cult:

"Trump: I could 'shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters'

Sioux Center, Iowa - Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.

"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said at a campaign rally here."

-CNN

Put down this book for a second and think about how absolutely fucking nuts that is. Seriously, think! For once in your obedient servant life, try to think for yourself!

Don't be a dumb MAGA minion. Be a thinker!

Yeah, yeah, I know. None of this matters to you. As long as Trump destroys the liberals, it's all cool. You hate that the liberal progressives fought for human rights and freedom for black people, women and gays in the 60s.

Making America great again means turning the clock back to the 1950s. It means making America white, straight and male again. "Conservatives" think America was great before the civil rights movement of the 1960s, back when America was segregated and black people had no rights. It was a felony for them to mingle with whites.

You love that idea. That's why you racist motherfuckers keep calling the cops when you see black people in white neighborhoods.

"I used to be a 911 dispatcher. I had to respond to racist calls every day.

The viral police call on a black family barbecuing in Oakland was an everyday occurrence.

Several stories showing racial profiling of black Americans by police and white Americans continue to go viral — in one video, a white woman calls the cops on a black man babysitting two white children in Georgia. In another, a white student calls 911 when she sees a black classmate sleeping in a dormitory common room. In this essay, a former police dispatcher remembers the racist calls she used to take every day and law enforcement's rules that forced her to respond to every caller, regardless of the incident.

Plenty of cops don't really want to respond to these calls — it's a waste of their time

By now, you've probably heard about the white Oakland woman who called the cops because black men were using a charcoal grill at Lake Merritt. She's been memed and mocked, and the department has been criticized for sending officers out."

-Vox.com

"What is behind white women calling police on black people?"

-Fox26 News

Racism. That's what's behind it. Plain and simple.

Official racism in America before the 1960s was called Segregation. In South Africa, racism was called Apartheid. Same thing, just a Dutch word for Segregation.

Why do South Africans speak Dutch? Because Holland used to be a big colonial power a long time ago. And white people from Holland invaded South Africa, took the land away from the native black people who lived there, and then made everyone speak Dutch.

Well, now they call it Afrikaans. Which is Dutch for African.

The white people there were every bit as racist as Americans were before the 1960s. They treated the black people in South Africa like garbage. And Reagan and his obedient little minions didn't think that was a problem.

Trevor Noah is from South Africa. He was born in 1984. He wrote a book about his life, called Born a Crime. Trevor is mixed. His father was white, and his mother was black. In 1984 that was still illegal in South Africa, just like it used to be in America before 1967.

In 1984 South Africa, it was a crime for black and white people to date, marry, or have kids.

That's why Trevor's mixed-race birth was a crime. If you wanna know more about the insanely racist white people of South Africa, read Trevor's biography.

While the whole world condemned the brutal racism in South Africa, and the whole world supported Nelson Mandela's struggle for freedom and democracy, the Republican robber barons and their loyal henchmen were on the wrong side of history again, as always.

"Apartheid Amnesia

How the GOP conveniently forgot about its role in propping up a white supremacist regime.

When Mandela was imprisoned and struggling to end apartheid, the Republican Party — through the policies of the Reagan administration and the work of party activists — opposed U.S. sanctions against the white supremacist regime.

In 1985, Mandela's 22nd year in prison, then South African President P.W. Botha gave a speech affirming apartheid's rejection of "one-man-one-vote" and defending Mandela's imprisonment. The infamous "Rubicon Speech" fueled ongoing rioting in South Africa and prompted the African National Congress (ANC), Mandela's party, to call for the United States to impose sanctions.

President Ronald Reagan and the American right were not sympathetic to that request. "Our relationship with South Africa... has always over the years been a friendly one," Reagan said in a 1985 radio interview, rejecting any change in policy. Televangelist Jerry Falwell went one step further and visited South Africa the week after Botha's speech to insist that sanctions were opposed "in every segment of every [South African] community."

Right-wing ambivalence toward apartheid in the 1980s was a product of South African support for the United States during the Cold War. In 1969 and early 1970, President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, then national security advisor, formulated a policy of increased communication with and relaxed criticism of the white regime. The apartheid system was unlikely to change anytime soon, the Nixon administration thought, so there was little point in pressuring a valuable ally who was working with the United States to contain Soviet influence in Africa."

-ForeignPolicy.com

The birth of Russian communism was the 1917 peasant uprising against the Russian robber baron, the Czar. Reagan didn't want the Russian peasant uprising to spread to South Africa. Because the Russian peasants who overthrew the Czar would be natural allies with the black South African peasants who were fighting against the Apartheid robber barons.

Reagan wanted to make sure South Africa continues to be ruled by white robber barons, just like America. Partners in crime.

And you racist idiots cheered him on.

I guess Trump is right. No matter what the robber barons do, you guys blindly keep voting for them. Because you believe God wants it that way. No matter how evil they act. No matter who gets killed. You will blindly obey. You think if you don't obey your masters, God is gonna be really mad at you. And you think racism is ok, because God said so. It's in the bible.

There's really nothing "conservative" about the way you guys think. It's radical right-wing extremism. Fanatic tribalism in its purest form. This is how Hitler brainwashed Germans into hating Jews. And the Germans thought they were good Christians for doing it. Not racist at all.

This is why the KKK thinks of themselves as good Christians, and not racist at all. They used to lynch uppity black people, because they thought it was God's will. Or at least that's what they told themselves to justify their tribalist hatred.

If it wasn't for liberal progressives and their peasant uprisings, interracial marriage would still be illegal.

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

If it wasn't for liberal progressives, being gay would still be illegal.

"Sodomy laws in the United States, which outlawed a variety of sexual acts, were inherited from colonial laws in the 1600s. While they often targeted sexual acts between persons of the same sex, many statutes employed definitions broad enough to outlaw certain sexual acts between persons of different sexes as well, sometimes also acts between married persons.

Through the 20th century, the gradual liberalization of American sexuality led to the elimination of sodomy laws in most states. During this time, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of sodomy laws in Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986. However, in 2003, the Supreme Court reversed the decision with Lawrence v. Texas, invalidating sodomy laws in the remaining 14 states (Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri (statewide), North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia)."

-Wikipedia

Oh, look at that. The bible-thumping Republican red states on the wrong side of history yet again. As always.

If it wasn't for liberal progressives, women still wouldn't have the right to vote.

If it wasn't for liberal progressives, we'd still have slavery.

I know what you're gonna say now: "Lincoln was a Republican! That means Republicans are anti-slavery and Democrats are for slavery!"

No, numbnuts, that's not what that means. That's just another one of those lies they keep telling you, because you're dumb enough to believe it. Because you simply don't know any better.

Use your head: all the Republicans who lived in the time of Lincoln are dead today. And none of the Republicans alive today were alive during the time of Lincoln. The Republicans back then and the Republicans today are not the same people. Just like the Germans during the Nazi era and the Germans today are not the same people.

And they did not believe in the same things. During the days of Lincoln, the Republicans of that era believed the same things Democrats believe today. The Republican party wasn't always the party of greedy robber barons who fuck us over every chance they get, with the help of ignorant, racist bible-thumpers.

The Republican party was hijacked by robber barons after World War 2, when the American empire replaced the British empire on the world stage.

"To the confusion of some, the political positions of modern-day Republicans tend to reflect those of the Democrats in the mid-1800s, while 21st Century Democrats mainly embody the platforms and values of the Republican Party under Lincoln.

Many historians and analysts point to a gradual shift in political ideology between Lincoln's presidency and the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, with a three-time Democratic presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan largely considered the pivot point.

Circa 1896, Jennings Bryan took a decidedly Republican stance (at the time) in advocating for the expansion of the federal government; however, the reason he aimed to increase the scope of federal influence was to force the government to provide greater social services and protections to the common man.

Republicans, meanwhile, did not begin to champion limited government until the implementation of Roosevelt's New Deal policies, which Republicans criticized as being too invasive despite the program's role in rescuing economically disenfranchised Americans from the fallout of The Great Depression.

Since World War II, the Republican Party has focused on economic prosperity and business development, as well as limiting the size of the federal government and lowering taxes."

-Norwich University

Didn't know any of that, did ya? Of course not. That's what the robber barons are counting on. The dumber you are, the less you know, the easier it is for them to manipulate you with lies.

The Republican party was hijacked by robber barons after World War 2. That's what president Dwight D. Eisenhower was warning the American people about, when he talked about the military-industrial complex that was secretly taking over the country. Here's that quote again:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower, a Republican president, was warning the American people that the Republican party is being taken over by greedy robber barons who start wars for profit.

And America has been at war with small, weak, defenseless countries ever since. And the war-profiteering robber barons who own the weapons factories are making billions, while everything in America is falling apart.

"America's infrastructure is decaying

America's infrastructure is desperately in need of investment, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The ASCE estimates the US needs to spend some $4.5 trillion by 2025 to fix the country's roads, bridges, dams, and other infrastructure."

-Business Insider

4.5 trillion? That's nothing! That's less than the 21 trillion in chump change we lost between the seat cushions of the war industry.

But no, there's no money for fixing bridges or dams. Because America is spending hundreds of trillions on dropping bombs on small oil-rich countries.

And they're doing it in plain sight. You just don't see anything wrong with it, because to you it's normal. America has been dropping bombs on small countries since before you were born. That's just the way it is. Nothing to see here. It's just like when you don't see how messy your room is, if it has been messy for a long time.

While they rob you with one hand, their other hand is pointing at victimized minorities and liberals, who're supposedly to blame for your shitty life in your shitty Republican-run red state.

But Republicans weren't always greedy, lying, treasonous motherfuckers. Before World War 2, many Republican politicians were actually decent people. Let's look at that other Eisenhower quote again:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sounds like something a bleeding heart liberal would say, doesn't it? That could be a Bernie Sanders quote. Or an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quote. Eisenhower talked like the kind of guy who wants to give you universal healthcare. And he was a Republican. Before the Republican party was taken over by ruthless, war-profiteering robber barons.

In the original constitution it was perfectly ok to own slaves, because they're not even considered human. They were considered livestock. The ruling class liked it that way. Just like the rulers of medieval Europe.

And women weren't allowed to vote, until the 19th amendment was added in 1920. Yeah, you read that right. Until 1920, just a hundred years ago, women weren't even allowed to vote in America.

Does that sound like the land of the free to you? If oppressing half the population sounds like freedom to you, you're a typical conservative. An obedient loyalist who is numb and blind to anything corrupt your master does. The king is always right. Even if he shoots someone in the middle of the street. It's the master's God-given right to kill whoever he wants.

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."

-George Orwell

When women fought for their freedom back then, who supported them? Liberals. Who opposed them? Conservative loyalists, the obedient servants of the ruling robber barons.

When gays demanded equal rights, who supported them? Liberals. Who opposed them? The conservative loyalists.

Notice a pattern?

Conservatives are afraid of change. They don't like actual freedom. They're happy to be told what to do. They were bred and raised to serve. That's their only purpose in life. They have no use for critical thinking.

That's also why they love religion. All these rules that tell you what to do! You don't have to think for yourself at all. In fact, in religion, it's frowned upon if you think for yourself and ask questions about why things are the way they are.

"I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions."

-George Carlin

Before the current opioid epidemic, poor Americans were already addicted to a different mind-numbing painkiller: religion.

"Religion is the opium of the peasants."

-Karl Marx

When drug addicts take heroin, it's not really the drug itself that makes the addict feel good. The drug triggers the release of the brain's own feel-good chemical, dopamine. Drugs release a flood of dopamine in the brain. It's a chemical the brain itself makes, to feel good. That's why taking heroin feels so good and is so addicting.

Studies have shown that not only the drug itself can trigger a bunch of dopamine in the brain of an addict. Medical brain scans have shown that even just the memory, the thought of taking heroin, triggers an addict's brain to release a little bit of dopamine.

When you take drugs, the effects of the drug are imprinted on your memory. So when you think about the drug, you remember how good it feels. And that thought itself makes you feel good and releases a little dopamine.

"How Stimulants Affect the Brain and Behavior

By mapping the neural pathways of pleasure and pain through the human brain, investigators are beginning to understand how abused psychoactive substances, including stimulants, interact with various cells and chemicals in the brain.

To date, investigators have identified as many as 72 risk factors for substance use and dependence (Leshner, 1998). Among them are poverty, racism, social dysfunction, weak families, poor education, poor upbringing, and substance-abusing peer groups.

The brain circuit that is considered essential to the neurological reinforcement system is called the limbic reward system (also called the dopamine reward system or the brain reward system).

Every substance of abuse--alcohol, cocaine, MA, heroin, marijuana, nicotine--has some effect on the limbic reward system. Substances of abuse also affect the nucleus accumbens by increasing the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which helps to regulate the feelings of pleasure (euphoria and satisfaction).

Natural activities such as eating, drinking, and sex activate the nucleus accumbens, inducing considerable communication among this structure's neurons. This internal communication leads to the release of dopamine. The released dopamine produces immediate, but ephemeral, feelings of pleasure and elation.

There is an increasing amount of scientific evidence suggesting that the limbic reward system and levels of free dopamine provide the common link in the abuse and addiction of all substances. Dopamine has even been labeled "the master molecule of addiction."

The degree to which learning and memory sustain the addictive process has only recently been addressed. Researchers believe that each time a neurotransmitter like dopamine floods across a synapse, circuits that trigger thoughts and memories and that motivate action become hardwired in the brain. The neurochemistry supporting addiction is so powerful that people, objects, and places associated with substance use are also imprinted on the brain."

-The National Center for Biotechnology Information

The so-called reward center in your brain always releases dopamine, when something good happens or you think happy thoughts. It's like you get a little treat for being a good boy.

Who's a good boy? You are! Yes you are!

That's why bible-thumpers feel good when they think about God. They're addicted to religion. Thinking about God releases dopamine in their brains.

You know what else releases dopamine in the brain? Cursing.

Yeah, really. Medical studies have shown that cursing releases dopamine. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you scream FUCK! Because it releases a little bit of dopamine, which acts as a painkiller.

Maybe that's why God supposedly doesn't want you to curse. He wants to be your only dopamine drug dealer. He doesn't want any competition from some punk-ass motherfucker.

Have you ever cursed at other drivers while you're stuck in traffic? Makes you feel a tiny little bit better, doesn't it? That's the dopamine kick you get from cursing.

And if someone tells you you're pretty, you feel good, because a compliment triggers a little bit of dopamine, too. Dopamine is what makes you feel good, when you think about the people and things you love. Like your mom, your wife, your kids, God, America, your favorite sports team, guns, or Trump.

Loving something actually means you're addicted to it.

"Functional MRI Brain scan studies have shown that the withdrawal of romantic love activates the same mechanisms in the brain as get activated when addicts go through withdrawal from substances like cocaine or opioids...

In other words, love is addictive and heartbreak causes us to go through powerful withdrawal."

-The Independent

Makes sense. The person you love makes you feel good. Just like heroin or cocaine. And when that person breaks up with you, or dies, you go through intense withdrawal. We call that feeling grief.

Heartbreak, grief, your favorite NFL team's Super Bowl loss, and drug withdrawal are all pretty much the same thing: a lack of the thing that fills your head with dopamine.

"Breaking Up is Like Cocaine Withdrawal

"For a study recently published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers scanned the brains of people who had recently been dumped. They found the areas of the brain that were activated were the same as in those who are withdrawing from cocaine.

Breaking up can be painful, we all know. But now researchers are showing that heartbreak produces many of the same physical symptoms as cocaine withdrawal.

The study used MRIs to record the brain activity of 15 college-aged men and women who had recently been dumped by their long-term partners and who described themselves as still being "intensely in love."

Researchers found that looking at photos of former partners stimulated several key areas of participants' brains much more than viewing pictures of neutral people. A similar effect can be observed when images of crack cocaine are shown to crack cocaine addicts. Even just the image or the thought of crack releases dopamine in the addict's brain.

Specifically, the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex (related to intense addiction to cocaine and cigarettes) were activated, as were the ventral tegmental area which is related to feelings of romantic love, and the insular cortex and the anterior cingulate which is related to physical pain.

Study author and clinical professor of neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Dr. Lucy Brown says romantic love can offer the same high as cocaine, and create similar feeling of withdrawal when the reward is withdrawn. But she notes that while romantic love and cocaine can be addictive, it's natural to get addicted to love."

-News Nation

When Trump tells you you are superior to all other countries and races, and God only loves you but nobody else, he's complimenting you. And compliments feel good, because they release dopamine in the brain.

You can get addicted to anything that releases dopamine, like drugs, sex, food, cigarettes, nationalism, or fantasizing about how much God supposedly loves your country and your racist ass.

To a racist, racism actually feels good. Using racial slurs feels good. Racial slurs are curses directed at specific people. And cursing releases dopamine. Being racist is a racist's happy place that makes him feel good. Racism is his drug.

It's the one thought that makes him feel better about his own shitty life: "I may be dirt poor. I may be a loser at the bottom of white society, but at least I'm still better than a black guy or a Jew or Muslim or a Mexican or a refugee. And God loves me. But not them. I'm special. They're garbage. They're beneath me."

It feels even better when you are addicted to God, and people keep telling you that God is proud of you for being a good little racist. To Trump's loyal MAGA minions, it's like crack. They can't get enough of it. Just like Hitler's Nazi minions.

And when someone tries to get between you and the happy thoughts you're addicted to, it's like when someone tries to get between an addict and his crack. If you've ever watched the show Intervention, you know how angry heroin addicts get, when you try to tell them to go to rehab.

If you're going to remember just one thing you learned from this book, let it be this:

Tribalism, disguised as religion, racism, or nationalism, has killed hundreds of millions of people. Religion, racism, and nationalism have done far more harm than good in human history. And they're addictive. Republican robber barons use your addiction to God, racism, and nationalism to manipulate you into being obedient servants.

Karl Marx understood all this 200 years ago. He was one of Germany's most important 19th century philosophers. That's why he called religion the opium of the poor peasants.

It's no coincidence that the bible tells you over and over to obey, obey, obey. The bible is a tool of the ruling class. It is used to make peasants obedient worker drones. It's a manual on how to be a good little servant:

"Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,"

-Exodus 19:5

"But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you."

-Jeremiah 7:23

"If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;"

-Isaiah 1:19

"You are my friends if you do what I command."

-John 15:14

"Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,"

-Titus 3:1

"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed."

-Exodus 21:7

"Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you."

-Hebrews 13:17

"Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive."

-Titus 2:9

"All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered. Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves. These are the things you are to teach and insist on."

-Timothy 6:1

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord."

-Colossians 3:22

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free."

-Ephesians 6:5

"Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."

-Leviticus 25:44

"Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property."

-Exodus 21:20

"Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh."

-Peter 2:18

"The servant who knows the master's will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows."

-Luke 12:47

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that the bible says God is pro-slavery.

What a coincidence! How convenient for the ruling class!

"I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature."

-Jesse Ventura

The bible in a nutshell: Don't ask any questions. Just shut up, obey, and serve, or GOD SMASH YOU!

Does that sound like freedom to you?

To conservative loyalists, the obedient servants of the ruling class, it totally does. They're a little slow. They still haven't figured out yet that being a slave is the opposite of being free.

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers."

-Jesse Ventura

"Religion is nothing but mind control. Religion is just trying to control your mind, control your thoughts"

-George Carlin

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

-Napoléon Bonaparte

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

-Seneca the Younger

"Donald Trump was chosen by God to be president in 2016, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the Christian Broadcasting Network on Wednesday."

-CNBC

"Pat Robertson: Opposition To Trump Is Revolt Against God

Robertson said: I think, somehow, the Lord's plan is being put in place for America and these people are not only revolting against Trump, they're revolting against what God's plan is for America. These other people have been trying to destroy America. These left-wingers and so-called progressives are trying to destroy the country that we love and take away the freedoms they love."

-Patheos.com

Oh, by the way:

"Pat Robertson is an American businessman and Christian preacher who has a net worth of $100 million dollars."

-CelebrityNetWorth.com

If a robber baron tells you it's God's will that the robber barons rule over you, it must be true! They'd never lie to us.

You know who else convinced his loyal minions that he was chosen by God himself? Hitler.

These are real, genuine, authentic Hitler quotes:

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people."

-Adolf Hitler

"My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter.

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross."

-Adolf Hitler

"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice."

-Adolf Hitler

"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."

-Adolf Hitler

"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"

-Adolf Hitler

"How fortunate it is for governments that the people they rule do not think."

-Adolf Hitler

Hitler was a great Christian in the eyes of his brainwashed minions.

And he wasn't the first Christian who wanted to kill the Jews. Hitler didn't invent the Holocaust.

Martin Luther was a vicious anti-semite. No, not the African-American freedom fighter. Different guy. I'm talking about the medieval German preacher who is one of the founding fathers of Protestantism, the Christian branch that now dominates America.

Lutherans are even specifically named after him. He hated the Jews, like most Christians did, and he said Jews should be driven out of Europe, or exterminated in a Holocaust. Hundreds of years before Hitler was even born.

"Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German professor of theology, priest and seminal leader of the Reformation. However, despite his importance as a figure in the development of Protestant theology, his positions on Judaism continue to be controversial. These changed dramatically from his early career, where he showed concern for the plight of European Jews to his later years, when embittered by his failure to convert them to Christianity, he became outspokenly antisemitic in his statements and writings. Recent historical studies have focused on Luther's influence on modern antisemitism, with a particular focus on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis."

-Wikipedia

The Nazis marked the 450th anniversary of Luther's birthday in November 1933 with a nationwide "German Luther Day," in which the main speaker praised Luther's "ethno-nationalist mission" and called for "the completion of the German Reformation in the Third Reich.

The following year, they celebrated the 400th anniversary of his groundbreaking translation of the Bible into German for, as they put it, "a healthy people committed to their own kind."

In 1938, Hitler's propagandists highlighted the fact that the infamous Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) of Nov. 9-10 — when Nazis burned synagogues and smashed the windows of Jewish-owned shops, leaving more than 1,000 synagogues ablaze or smoldering — fell on the reformer's birthday."

-Sojourner

"Set fire to their synagogues or schools."

-Martin Luther, famous German Protestant

"Their rabbies should be forbidden to teach. It should be punishable by death."

-Martin Luther, famous German Protestant

"The Jews and Their Lies, was written by Luther in 1543, three years before his death. It was closely followed by another anti-Semitic treatise: Vom Schem Hamphoras (On the Ineffable Name). Oxford University historian Lyndal Roper summarizes the content of these two works in her recent highly acclaimed biography, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet [review]:

The Jews, he alleges, look for biblical truth "under the sow's tail," that is, their interpretation of the Bible comes from looking in a pig's anus. . . . They defame Christian belief, "impelled by the Devil, to fall into this like filthy pigs fall into the trough." If they see a Jew, Christians should "throw sow dung at him . . . and chase him away."

The Jews' houses should be destroyed and they should be put under one roof, like the gypsies. The Talmud and prayer books should be destroyed and Jewish teachers banned. They should be prevented from using the roads, usury banned, and the Jews forced to undertake physical labor instead. Assets from moneylending should be confiscated and used to support Jews who converted. This was a program of complete cultural eradication. And Luther meant it. . . .

Luther's anti-Semitism then reached a crescendo of physical revulsion. He imagined Jews kissing and praying to the Devil's excrement: "the Devil has emptied . . . his stomach again and again, that is a true relic, which the Jews, and those who want to be a Jew, kiss, eat, drink, and worship." In a kind of inverted baptismal exorcism, the Devil fills the mouth, nose, and ears of the Jews with filth: "He stuffs and squirts them so full, that it overflows and swims out of every place, pure Devil's filth, yes, it tastes so good to their hearts, and they guzzle it like pigs."

This summary provides only a sampling of Luther's hate-filled vitriol. Multiple passages in his 1543 writings against the Jews are just as abhorrent.

I've noticed a pattern when Christians address the subject of Luther's hostility to the Jews. First there's acknowledgement; then comes an attempt to dial down the awfulness and make it less troubling. The desire to defend Luther is understandable—we owe him so much. But the excuses don't stand up to scrutiny."

-The Gospel Coalition

"Trump's Rhetoric Echoes Nazi Germany, Beto O'Rourke Says, Accurately

President Donald Trump's defenders professed outrage on Friday at comments from Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate, who accurately observed that the president's rhetoric on immigrants would not have been out of place in Nazi Germany.

Speaking at two campaign events in Iowa, O'Rourke said that Trump's policy of separating the children of asylum-seekers from their parents as they cross the border, "follows the rhetoric of a president who not only describes immigrants as rapists and criminals, but as animals and an infestation."

-The Intercept

The vicious things self-proclaimed-good-Christian Trump says about Muslims, immigrants and liberals sound very much like the things self-proclaimed-good-Christian Hitler used to say about Jews. That's why you think it's ok to kill Muslims and lock up immigrant children in cages and concentration camps.

"Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty

During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith argues that it's important to define and describe dehumanization, because it's what opens the door for cruelty and genocide.

"We all know, despite what we see in the movies," Smith tells NPR's Neal Conan, "that it's very difficult, psychologically, to kill another human being up close and in cold blood, or to inflict atrocities on them." So, when it does happen, it can be helpful to understand what it is that allows human beings "to overcome the very deep and natural inhibitions they have against treating other people like game animals or vermin or dangerous predators."

Rolling Stone recently published photos online of American troops posing with dead Afghans, connected to ongoing court-martial cases of soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. In addition to posing with the corpses, "these soldiers — called the 'kill team' — also took body parts as trophies," Smith alleges, "which is very often a phenomenon that accompanies the form of dehumanization in which the enemy is seen as game.

But this is just the latest iteration in a pattern that has unfolded time and again over the course of history. In ancient Chinese, Egyptian and Mesopotamian literature, Smith found repeated references to enemies as subhuman creatures.

When the Nazis described Jews as Untermenschen, or subhumans, they didn't mean it metaphorically, says Smith. "They didn't mean they were like subhumans. They meant they were literally subhuman."

In the 18th century, white Europeans — the architects of the theory — "modestly placed themselves at the very pinnacle." The lower edges of the category merged with the apes, according to their thinking.

So "sub-Saharan Africans and Native Americans were denizens of the bottom of the human category," when they were even granted human status. Mostly, they were seen as "soulless animals." And that dramatic dehumanization made it possible for great atrocities to take place.

Hitler and his followers were convinced that the Jewish people posed a deadly threat to all that was noble in humanity. In the apocalyptic Nazi vision, these putative enemies of civilization were represented as parasitic organisms — as leeches, lice, bacteria, or vectors of contagion.

Sometimes the Nazis thought of their enemies as vicious, bloodthirsty predators rather than parasites. When partisans in occupied regions of the Soviet Union began to wage a guerilla war against German forces, Walter von Reichenau, the commander-in-chief of the German army, issued an order to inflict a "severe but just retribution upon the Jewish subhuman elements" (the Nazis considered all of their enemies as part of "international Jewry", and were convinced that Jews controlled the national governments of Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Military historian Mary R. Habeck confirms that, "soldiers and officers thought of the Russians and Jews as 'animals' ... that had to perish. Dehumanizing the enemy allowed German soldiers and officers to agree with the Nazis' new vision of warfare, and to fight without granting the Soviets any mercy or quarter."

-NPR

And that's why right-wing, Christian-extremist, white-supremacist, nationalist "conservatives" today refer to Muslims and immigrants as terrorists and dangerous animals, and describe liberals as witches and demons.

Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro has repeatedly used the slur demoncrat to describe liberals, while foaming at the mouth during her hate-filed tirades, riling up Trump's loyal MAGA minions.

The way she screams at the camera reminds me of the way Hitler used to scream. It's meant to stir up an emotional response: self-righteous outrage and tribal hatred.

When someone screams something at you, it sounds more true, because they sound so sure of it. It's a very simple but effective propaganda trick.

But she's not the only one. If you google "demoncrat" you'll find thousands of "conservative" webpages inciting hatred against liberals. They love that slur, and alternate between highlighting the word demon in it, or the word rat.

It's the same dehumanizing propaganda trick the Nazis used.

And MAGA minions have accused pretty much every female Democratic politician of being an actual, satan-worshipping witch, from Hillary Clinton to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

If you use propaganda to dehumanize your enemies long enough, it makes it easier and easier to convince your gullible minions to kill them.

That's the whole point.

LIBERALS ARE THE REAL AMERICA

There is probably no symbol more famous for the idea of American freedom, than the Statue of Liberty. At the bottom of the statue, there's a very liberal inscription that exemplifies what America is supposed to be all about:

"Give me your tired, your poor,  
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,  
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,  
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

In other words: Welcome to America, dear immigrants. You're finally free.

Every time I visit the Statue of Liberty, that little poem still gives me goosebumps. There is just so much genuine kindness, shared humanity, and brotherly love in those few simple words.

The Statue of Liberty, the most famous symbol of America, is all about welcoming people in need with open arms. Love thy neighbor.

It's the exact opposite of building a wall to keep people out. There is nothing more un-American than building a wall to keep out refugees. It spits in the face of all those people who came before us. America is a nation of slaves and refugees. Refugees from the Irish potato famine. Refugees from Nazi Germany. Refugees from Haiti. Refugees from all over the world.

How the fuck do you think white people got here in the first place?

That's why liberals are for letting desperate refugees in, because it's the right thing, the kind thing, the American thing to do.

Meanwhile selfish "conservatives" are all about keeping everyone out. How very Christian of you.

How is it that you "conservative" bible-thumpers always seem to miss the whole fucking point of Jesus' teachings?

I tell you why: most of you have never actually read the bible. You just believe whatever the conmen preachers tell you, to separate you from your money. In your bizarre upside-down world, you conservative loyalists serve the rich robber barons who rule over you, not Jesus.

A lot of "conservative" Christians love Prosperity Gospel, because they love money. Prosperity Gospel is a Republican invention. It's the idea that if you pray hard enough, and send your money to robber barons, God will make you rich. But that's the exact opposite of what Jesus taught.

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

-Matthew 6:24

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

-Matthew 19:24

How much clearer does the dude have to make this for you imbeciles?

Jesus was an anti-capitalist. He was the opposite of a Republican. He was against greed. He was against worshipping money. He was a liberal socialist. He believed in wealth redistribution, to help the poor. He healed the sick for free. He fed the poor for free. He was the leader of a peaceful peasant uprising against the robber barons of his time: the bankers, the money lenders, the Romans, and the orthodox Jewish establishment. He was like the first Occupy Wall Street protester.

The preachers who tell you that if you give them your money, God will reward you with wealth, are conmen. Coooonmeeeeen. They enrich themselves by conning gullible fools like you.

How do you think Jesus would feel about a TV preacher owning a couple of Rolls Royce, a giant mansion, and a private jet?

Jesus specifically said, more than once, that rich people don't go to heaven.

Use your fucking head. Those TV preachers are conmen.

Just like Republican robber barons today, the pharisees in ancient times used religion and the horror stories of the Old Testament, of a vengeful mass-murdering God, to scare and control childlike peasants, and enrich themselves.

Have you ever noticed that the God in the Old Testament is a completely different character than the God in the New Testament? It's like these two books aren't even about the same character.

The Old Testament is a horror novel, about a bloodthirsty, racist monster from outer space called God, who never misses an opportunity to massacre freedom-loving people who don't obey his every whim.

God asked this guy Abraham to kill his son Isaac, just for shits and giggles. And he once killed all the first-born babies of the Egyptians. You know, to teach them a lesson.

Sounds more like a bloodthirsty demon than a god to me. Talk about a baby killer! I don't know of any other fictional monster who has killed more babies than God. Not even Godzilla.

Would you worship Godzilla? No, of course not. So why the fuck would you worship a baby-killing monster called God?

Even Stephen King couldn't come up with sicker shit than the horror stories in the Old Testament. God was worse than Pet Sematary and It combined.

But the New Testament, about Jesus, is a New Age self-help book. Can you feel the vibe? He loves you, my child. In that book, God isn't a bloodthirsty monster, but a father figure. He loves you sooo much, little buddy. He even watches all your Little League games.

Jesus the man, if he actually existed, was a Jew, not a Christian. Probably a liberal progressive young rabbi, who genuinely cared about his peasant brothers and sisters and didn't want them to be oppressed by robber barons anymore. He was a champion of the weak, the meak, the poor and the lepers. Not the rich robber barons.

He preached about how the robber barons where fucking people over and using religion as a tool to manipulate, intimidate, oppress and exploit people.

Well, it sounded fancier in old-timey Aramaic.

Jesus was a revolutionary. That's why even 2000 years later, we still separate world history by everything that happened before Jesus, and everything that happened after Jesus. Everything before Jesus was called BC, and everything after Jesus is called AD. We live in 2019 AD right now.

The time before Jesus was the Old Testament. The time when religious texts claimed that God is a bloodthirsty monster that will fuck you up if you don't obey your slave masters and robber barons.

The time after Jesus was born is the time of the New Testament. The time when Jesus told peasants not to listen to those crazy Old Testament stories, because we're all brothers and sisters, and God is a loving father, not a brutal monster. And the robber barons should stop oppressing the peasants with scary monster stories, and share their wealth with them.

That's how much of a revolutionary Jesus was. He was the first liberal progressive revolutionary in history. He was all about liberty. Freedom from oppression. An idea so radical at the time, it changed everything. He was definitely not a conservative who wanted to maintain the status quo. Jesus rocked the boat.

Jesus was an anti-establishment flower power hippy. Peace, love and happiness, dude. If Jesus was alive today, he'd be totally on board with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He'd love that anti-capitalist counterculture.

He even used weed!

"Holy smoke: Jesus used cannabis oil to perform 'miracles'

Jesus used cannabis and was an early champion of its medicinal properties, a growing consensus of experts agree.

American Orthodox rabbi and scholar Aryeh Kaplan noted: "On the basis of cognate pronunciation and Septuagint readings, some identify Keneh bosem with the English and Greek cannabis, the hemp plant."

Carl Ruck, professor of classical mythology at Boston University, agrees: "There can be little doubt about a role for cannabis in Judaic religion."

Referring to the existence of cannabis in anointing oils used in ceremonies, he adds: "Obviously the easy availability and long-established tradition of cannabis in early Judaism would inevitably have included it in the [Christian] mixtures."

And there are even passages in the Bible where Jesus' treatment of the sick tallies with modern accounts of cannabis oil treating epilepsy.

Mark 6:13, for example states: "They cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them."

As David Bienenstock points out: "Someone of the religious mindset from that time, not understanding the scientific underpinning of how or why it works, would be likely to view that as a miracle."

Mark 6:13 does appear to mirror the reportedly phenomenal response epileptics have had to the drug in modern trials."

-Daily Star

No wonder Jesus was so chill.

Basically his message was, mean selfish people suck. Jesus was all about stopping the war mongers, the bankers, the money lenders and greedy robber barons from fucking people over.

If he had played the guitar, Jesus would have been the John Lennon of his time.

Jesus was all about helping the downtrodden. The peasants. The expendable worker bees. The meak. The lepers. The huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse.

Sound familiar? Yeah, Jesus would have loved the inscription on the Statue of Liberty.

He was a social activist. A community organizer, like Obama. If Jesus was alive today, he'd be in favor of giving everyone universal healthcare. Jesus would support Obamacare.

Jesus was a liberal progressive, rocking the boat. He was trying to make the world a better place for the little guy, by telling people to simply be nicer to each other. Less selfish and greedy. Less Republican.

Jesus was a liberal revolutionary, like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Jesus was the Bernie Sanders of his time.

Jesus was all about wealth redistribution and sharing everything you have with the poor. Jesus was a liberal socialist. That was the whole fucking point of everything he said. That's what made his teachings so revolutionary. Jesus was the first person to point out that the robber barons were using phony scary stories about God to manipulate people.

"And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

-Mark 10:21

"This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts."

-Saint Mother Teresa

Would Jesus build a wall? Would Mother Teresa? No, of course not. They would welcome the refugees and give them free universal healthcare.

You bible-thumping idiots don't even realize that everything you do is exactly the opposite of what Jesus told you to do. Because you never even read the fucking bible. You just believe whatever the robber barons tell you. Like blindly following Trump, even if he's gonna start shooting people.

You don't even know how much Christianity, especially American Christianity, has been corrupted by the robber barons. Jesus was a good guy. But you're not following his teachings. Republican fanatic white-supremacist Christianity is literally the exact opposite of what Jesus taught.

"If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up."

-Jesse Ventura

"Blame Evangelicals for the Decline in Christian Faith

Polls show that in a classic example of religion gone wrong, evangelicals' slavish devotion to right wingers is the chief cause of the decline of religious belief."

-The Daily Beast

"What is wrong with white Christians?

Christians, the study found, are more than twice as likely to blame a person's poverty on individual failings than Americans who are atheist or have no specific religious affiliation. White evangelical Christians, who voted overwhelmingly for President Trump and continue to be some of his most steadfast supporters, are especially wedded to this worldview.

White Christians are also oblivious or in denial when it comes to the reality of racism and discrimination, according to data from the Public Religion Research Institute. Pernicious stereotypes about race and poverty, of course, are two sides of the same coin."

-ReligionNews.com

"Here's why the white south is still in denial about slavery

When the Civil War ended, there were no truth and reconciliation commissions formed to process memories, no Nuremberg Trials to enable reflection, no Great Emancipator to free the future from the past — only ghosts and the ravenous politics of memory. The need for national reckoning was quickly subordinated to the political imperative of reunification, and on both sides of the Mason Dixon line, forgetting became more valuable than remembering.

Southern apologists earned sudden fortunes in a gold rush of nostalgic forgetting. Within a year of the war's end, a Virginia journalist named Edward Pollard published a novel called "The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates," a breathless, self-pitying fantasy, and the first of many to recast the conflict as a tragedy of fraternal strife and regional repression, to blame the Confederate defeat on the overwhelming resources and underhanded tactics of the North, exalt the Confederacy's most ruthless generals as paragons of honor, revel in stories of freed people run amok, wallow in tearful, postwar family reunions, and pine for the "Golden Age" of hoop- skirts and happy-go-lucky chattel. It depicted slavery as a benign if not beneficial institution, and relegated further discussion on the topic to the offstage realm of "touchy" subjects, where, for perpetual Northern fear of offending delicate Southern sensibilities, it has languished ever since."

-Raw Story

"American evangelicalism and the politics of whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.

The near-absence of black believers in white churches was the condition for the development of a distinctly white evangelicalism. As historian Ed Blum has demonstrated, the popular revivals of Dwight Moody and the growth of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the late 19th century encouraged a solidarity between northern and southern Protestants that was built on a shared whiteness.

When the African American journalist Ida B. Wells railed against WCTU leader Frances Willard for exhibiting racism, Willard responded that she did not see how characterizing whiskey supporters as "dark-faced mobs" or expressing fears of drunken black rapists strengthened a racist stereotype. Like many of her white evangelical compatriots, Willard could not see how her religious views centered on whiteness. Though African American believers largely shared the biblical and theological views of white Protestants, white and black Christians did not worship together or view the world or the faith in the same way.

The racial segregation of American Protestantism facilitated deeper commingling of racist beliefs with evangelical religion."

-The Christian Century

This whole border wall fiasco isn't the first time conservatives tried to keep refugees out. They hated the first Italian immigrants. They hated Chinese immigrants. They hated Irish immigrants. They hated Jewish immigrants. They hate everyone who looks different than their own little tribe.

During World War 2, Jewish refugees from Europe tried to escape certain death by coming to America. Guess what? The conservative loyalists, the self-proclaimed good Christians, were against that, too.

"Desperate to escape Nazi persecution during World War II, Anne Frank's family tried repeatedly to flee to the United States before going into hiding in 1942, according to new research published this week. However, the combination of Nazi rule, World War II bombing and American bias against accepting Jewish refugees ensured they never made it far enough through the application process."

-History.com

"What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II

Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed at the time believed that the United States should raise its immigration quotas or encourage political refugees fleeing fascist states in Europe — the vast majority of whom were Jewish — to voyage across the Atlantic. Two-thirds of the respondents agreed with the proposition that "we should try to keep them out.

Two-thirds of Americans polled by Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion in January 1939 — well after the events of Kristallnacht — said they would not take in 10,000 German Jewish refugee children.

It's worth remembering this mood when thinking about the current moment, in which the United States is once more in the throes of a debate over letting in refugees."

-Washington Post

"World War II prompted the largest displacement of human beings the world has ever seen—although today's refugee crisis is starting to approach its unprecedented scale. But even with millions of European Jews displaced from their homes, the United States had a poor track record offering asylum. Most notoriously, in June 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis and its 937 passengers, almost all Jewish, were turned away from the port of Miami, forcing the ship to return to Europe; more than a quarter died in the Holocaust."

-Smithsonian Magazine

The robber barons and their phony Christian preachers brainwashed you, to make you believe that liberals are un-American traitors, satanic demons, and your biggest enemies. But the truth is, liberals more closely follow Jesus' teachings than you do. Even the atheists among them.

Not because liberals believe some god would get mad at them and send them to hell if they disobey orders. God is Santa Claus for grown-ups. It's a made-up, fictional character, like Spiderman, or the Hulk.

If it makes you happy to believe in God or Santa Claus or Spiderman or the Easter Bunny, go right ahead. Knock yourself out. But it doesn't do anything for the rest of us. We don't get a dopamine kick from believing in some imaginary racist superhero in the clouds.

Progressive liberals believe with every fiber of their being that being kind, and helping those in need, is the right thing to do. It just so happens to be the same thing that Jesus said.

Liberals have their own moral compass. Even the atheists among them. They have the actual freedom to do what they feel is right, without fear of some bloodthirsty supernatural monster that will punish them with eternal hellfire, if the disobey orders.

Bible-thumpers love to bring up Free Will whenever reality obviously contradicts their claim that some loving god is watching over you, and prevents bad things from happening to you, if you're only obient enough, you little servant you.

Every time a little boy or a little girl gets raped by a sexual predator, and every time innocent children get shot in school, it's proof that there is no god protecting you from bad stuff.

Prayer is useless. It doesn't stop bad things from happening. Prayer doesn't fix anything. At best it's mental masturbation that releases some of the feel-good hormone dopamine.

But that's not how fanatic bible-thumpers see it. They believe, if anything bad happens to you, it's not God's fault. It never is. It's always your own fault. It's your free will's fault. Free will gets you into trouble. It's better to be an obedient servant.

That's how conservative loyalists think, because they has been bred and raised by their overlords to be obedient servants. They don't even understand that they're not free.

God: "Either you do exactly what I tell you to do, or I'll make sure you will be tortured in the raging fires of hell for all eternity."

That's kinda like when an abusive husband tells his wife: "Either you suck my dick, or I'm gonna beat the shit out of you."

It's not really freedom of choice, is it? No, it isn't.

"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

-Albert Einstein

Liberals follow the golden rule: treat everyone the way you want to be treated. Pretty simple. Be kind to one another. Sharing is caring. You don't need religion to be a nice person. It just so happens that this way of thinking aligns with Jesus' teachings of compassion. Jesus would agree with the golden rule.

"Conscience is a Jewish invention."

-Adolf Hitler

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things. But for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Think about how many people have been murdered in the name of God. And every time the murderers are convinced they are the good guys, because their robber barons told them that God wants you to murder non-believers for him.

How do you get someone to murder someone, and then make the murderer believe he's the good guy? Religion. That's how.

Robber Baron: "It's not me telling you to kill the people in the castle next door so I can get their gold. No, no. It's God who wants you to attack the castle next door, because they keep pronouncing his name a different way."

Oil Company Executive: "It's not me telling you to invade oil-rich countries. No, no. Muslims hate us Christians for our freedom! God wants you to kill them before they kill us."

The robber barons use religion and patriotism to manipulate you, because they know that if they wrap their racist lies and greedy cons in a flag and dress it up with a cross, you'll fall for it every time.

"But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"James Waterman Wise, Jr. in the Christian Century (Feb.5, 1936) wrote that Hearst and Coughlin were the two chief exponents of fascism in America. If fascism comes, he added, it will not be identified with any "shirt" movement, nor with an "insignia," but it will probably be "wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution" (245).

Halford E. Luccock, in Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938): "When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled 'made in Germany'; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, 'Americanism.'"

Harrison Evans Salisbury in The Many Americas Shall Be One (1971) remarked "Sinclair Lewis aptly predicted in It Can't Happen Here that if fascism came to America it would come wrapped in the flag and whistling 'The Star Spangled Banner'" (29)."

-The Sinclair Lewis Society

Being an obedient servant is so ingrained in you loyalists, that it is almost impossible for you to question someone who says he's acting on God's behalf, no matter what he does or how corrupt he is. You'll believe it anyway.

"It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge."

-Adolf Hitler

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

-Albert Einstein

Liberals are the ones who represent what America is really supposed to be about: Liberty. That's why liberals are called liberals. We fight for freedom. That's what liberal or liberty means: freedom.

When you oppose liberals, you literally oppose freedom.

You Republican loyalists are the ones betraying America, and Jesus, because you're not really serving Jesus or freedom. You're serving rich robber barons who're oppressing all of us.

It's no coincidence that liberty and liberal sound so similar. It's the same word. It comes from the Latin word liber, which means freedom. During the French revolution, the peasants who fought for freedom yelled liberté, which is French for freedom.

The Statue of Liberty is the Statue of Freedom. And liberals are freedom fighters.

Yeah, I know, that's the exact opposite of what you've been told by the robber barons' paid talking heads on Fox News. If you're a MAGA-hat-wearing conservative loyalist, you seriously believe you're being oppressed by liberals, and liberals are just like the Nazis.

Yeah, no, not exactly. In fact it's exactly the other way around. The Nazis hated lefties and liberals. Just like you do.

How do I know this? I grew up in Germany.

YOUR PRESIDENT

In my early 20s, I immigrated to America and became an American citizen. If you're interested, you can read all about my rags-to-riches story in my other book, Bad Choices Make Good Stories.

My grandfather was a philosophy professor. Not a lot of money in that. My other grandfather was a coal miner. Not a lot of money in that either.

I didn't inherit over 413 million dollars from my daddy, like Trump did.

"Between the ages of 3 and 58, president Donald Trump inherited at least $413 million from his father's business empire using some potentially fraudulent tax-dodging methods, a blockbuster New York Times investigation shows."

-Quartz News

"Fred Trump: How the US president's father built the property empire that spawned his son's billions

The Donald's frequent claims to be a self-made man conveniently overlook huge wealth of his ruthless real estate mogul parent

Frederick Christ Trump (yes, you read that right) built up a huge property empire in the mid-20th century, incorporating 27,000 apartments and row houses in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, while the young Donald was raised in a 23-room, nine bathroom mansion in the leafy middle-class suburb of Jamaica Estates, making a nonsense of his claim to have sprung from hardship.

Fred was born in 1905, the son of German immigrant Frederick Drumpf (a family name the satirist John Oliver has delighted in), who had arrived in New York on 19 October 1885 from Kallstadt via Bremen, a 16-year-old seeking to evade military conscription."

-The Independent

Wait, what?! Their real last name wasn't Trump but Drumpf?

And Trump's grandfather Frederick Drumpf was an immigrant? A refugee?

You just can't make this shit up.

"New York Times report says Trump engaged in 'outright fraud' to avoid taxes as he inherited father's wealth

The New York Times on Tuesday released an extensive investigation focused on President Donald Trump's fortune.

The Times reported that the president and his family engaged in "instances of outright fraud" to enhance their wealth.

The story also runs counter to Trump's narrative that he is a self-made billionaire."

-Business Insider

This shit just keeps getting better and better.

The Drumpf family fortune was built on the backs (or pussies?) of sex slaves in a bunch of brothels. Trump's grandfather ran a bunch of brothels, like Littlefinger did on Game of Thrones...

"Trump's Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel

The Trump family's gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase. He headed to New York to work as a barber before venturing west in search of riches. Following stints in Seattle and now-defunct Monte Cristo, the gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.

It was open around the clock with "private boxes for ladies and parties," according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for "services," according to a three-generational biography by Gwenda Blair, who traced the origins of the Trump family's wealth. Of course, in the rough-and-tumble frontier towns of that era, the Arctic's business model built on food, booze and sex was common."

-Bloomberg News

"Drumpf initially settled in the Big Apple before relocating to Seattle and then moving on to the Yukon Territory to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush, where he operated restaurants serving horse meat and a string of brothels catering to itinerant miners venturing in from the cold.

A wealthy man, Frederick married Elizabeth Christ in 1902 and returned to New York where he worked as a hotel keeper and where their son Fred was raised in the Bronx."

-The Independent

Fast forward a few decades...

"The Miami Herald has detailed how a woman who once owned a chain of day spas in Florida allegedly steered Chinese businessmen to a fundraiser for President Trump.

By now, you've probably heard the reports about Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots. He's been charged with soliciting prostitution at a day spa in Florida.

It's led to deeper reporting about how the sex trade actually works and how it's connected to human trafficking.

And now, thanks to reporting by the Miami Herald, yet another story has emerged. This one is about a woman who founded a chain of day spots where prostitution is alleged to have taken place and how she may have steered Chinese business executives to a fundraiser for President Trump."

-NPR

"Trump was profiled for the August 2000 issue of Maximum Golf magazine, and, according to the author of the piece, when Trump saw a young woman enter his Mar-a-Lago club, he told the writer, "there is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy."

There is nothing in the world like a man who doesn't see women as people, but as walking sex-holes."

-Time Magazine

"And when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything... grab them by the pussy."

-Donald Trump, the Second Coming of Christ

What a great family.

"The Trump Family's History With the KKK

Fred Trump, the president's father, was arrested as a young man at a Klan march in New York City."

-The Nation

"Three additional newspaper clips unearthed by VICE contain separate accounts of Fred Trump's arrest at the May 1927 KKK rally in Queens, each of which seems to confirm the Times account of the events that day."

-Vice News

"David Duke, the former KKK grand wizard, is unambiguous about what Saturday's alt-right and neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, means to him: It's the fulfillment of President Donald Trump's vision for America.

"We are determined to take our country back," Duke said from the rally, calling it a "turning point." "We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That's what we believed in. That's why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he's going to take our country back."

-Vox.com

Great. The KKK are Trump's biggest fans. They're also huge Hitler fans. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence. They're just good Christians, you know?

"Racism and Donald Trump: a common thread throughout his career and life

The US president's 'shithole' remarks referring to countries in Africa and elsewhere should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Trump's past

In 1973, Richard Nixon's Department of Justice sued the Trump family business for refusing to rent or negotiate rentals "because of race and color".

It also charged that the company had required prohibitively stringent rental terms and conditions to black applicants and had lied about unit availability to keep black residents out. A then 26-year-old Donald Trump was the president of the company at the time."

-The Guardian

"Trump's Long History of Racism

Donald Trump and his father, Fred, were sued in 1973 for systematically discriminating against black people in housing rentals.

You don't even have to look into Trump's heart to see his racism. You only have to look at all the things he's done and said over the years – from the early Seventies, when he settled with the Justice Department over accusations of housing discrimination, to Monday, when just hours after his speech news broke he is considering pardoning anti-immigrant sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Arpaio was also Trump's partner in crime in pushing the birther conspiracy that promulgated the ugly lie our first black president was born in Kenya. We've conveniently forgotten (if not forgiven) how Trump spent years – years! – pushing a conspiracy based on nothing more than the assumption that a black man with a funny name couldn't possibly be a genuine American, not like we are.

Trump also has a weird obsession with the superiority of his own genes in the face of all evidence to the contrary. That may explain why racism so often seems like his default setting, like the time he took out a full-page ad demanding the execution of five kids of color accused of raping a jogger in Central Park. Even in 2016, years after they were proven innocent, Trump stood by his actions.

Last year was when Trump put his racism on full display for the country to see. From launching his campaign by calling Mexicans rapists, to going to war with the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in battle, to encouraging violence against minority protesters at his rally, to promising to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, he built a presidential campaign on racial resentment and fear. Those were deliberate choices he made. His campaign stoked white entitlement and outrage at every turn, sending out dog whistles and sometimes glaring billboards that this was the campaign for angry white people."

-Rolling Stone Magazine

So, let me see if I got this straight... Trump's grandpa, Frederick Drumpf, ran a couple of brothels and got very rich by pimpin' pussy. Then his son, Fred Trump, who got arrested at a KKK rally, used the vast fortune he inherited from Littlefinger Drumpf, and built a real estate empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and got sued by Nixon for discriminating against black people. And then little Donnie Trump inherited over 413 million dollars, and claims he's a self-made businessman.

Priceless.

You know, let's say you inherit 400 million dollars, and you simply invest it in an index fund, or a passively managed mutual fund that mimics the growth of the Dow Jones index, you would have doubled or tripled your money after just a few years.

Without ever lifting a finger. You could literally be in a coma the entire time, and the money you inherited would grow all by itself and make you a billionaire.

You could be dumb as a rock, an inbred Neo-Nazi with the IQ of an orange, and still have a billion dollar fortune, without ever even touching the money.

But I bet Trump doesn't even have one billion, because he lost so much money bankrupting one failed Trump business after another.

Does that sound like a great businessman to you?

"Donald Trump brags about how well his businesses have fared in bankruptcy. And in fact, no major U.S. company has filed for Chapter 11 more than Trump's casino empire in the last 30 years.

"I have used the laws of this country ... the [bankruptcy] chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family," he said during the first Republican presidential debate on August 6.

Trump claims that successful businesses file for bankruptcy all the time. At the debate he said "virtually every person that you read about on the front page of the business sections, they've used the [bankruptcy] law."

-CNN Business

Great. Hey, here's an idea... If bankruptcy is so great, how about you totally bankrupt the country, by running up trillions of dollars in debt and giving all the money to a couple of super rich robber barons?

Oh, wait, you're way ahead of me already, aren't you?

Trump's Twin Deficits Are Exploding

Candidate Trump campaigned on wiping out the yearly federal deficit, the governments' $19 trillion in total debt and reducing the trade deficit. Reality is harsher than campaigning, especially when President Trump signed a huge corporate tax cut (which contained a minor cut for individuals). This has led to the federal deficit on track to reach $1 trillion per year.

-Forbes Magazine

"President Donald Trump's new federal budget proposal unveiled Monday underscores the conviction of his budget director and acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, that "nobody cares" anymore about chronically large deficits and a steadily growing national debt.

That's what Mulvaney told congressional Republicans last month when they asked why Trump ignored mention of the deficit in his State of the Union address, according to ABC News. And that's why Trump put out a plan that foresees annual deficits of $1 trillion or more through at least 2022.

So much red ink, unprecedented during a time of healthy economic growth will send the current national debt of $22 trillion surging higher — along with the annual interest payments approaching $500 billion.

-USA Today

Trump and his buddies are throwing taxpayer dollars out the window, like there's no tomorrow. They're plundering America. And you have no fucking clue that it's even happening, because you're too busy accusing liberals of being satanic witches and demons.

When, if, Trump ever leaves office, America will be broke as a joke. But the robber barons will all be billions of dollars richer. Mission accomplished.

"As long as he refuses to release his tax returns, we'll never know how much he's worth, or whether his assets even exceed his liabilities. We do know this: His financial disclosures reveal he owes lenders hundreds of millions of dollars, and for years now, it has been nearly impossible for him to get a loan for any of his real estate ventures.

This ought to be a flashing red light for Americans who know what it's like to apply for a bank loan to buy a car or a house or to pay for healthcare or a child's education. Donald Trump is the poster child for "disqualified" and "denied."

Deutsche Bank is an exception. The big German bank became Trump's lifeline after U.S. lenders turned against him following a string of hotel and casino bankruptcies in the 1990s. Yet, the relationship has hardly been a harmonious one. In 2008, Trump sued Deutsche Bank in order to win the right to delay paying back an earlier loan."

-The Hill

"Among the many ironies, some would say falsities, inherent in President Donald Trump's image of a successful real estate tycoon is that management and dealmaking have never been his strong suits.

Trump University, casinos, vodka, steaks, a new football league ... the list of failures is long. And it was his financial debacles of the 1990s that some would say brought him into the circle of suspicious money men, foreign banks and Russian oligarchs to bail him out. His "deal" was declaring bankruptcy, leaving creditors and employees hanging, and having to be put on a monthly allowance by banks."

-Chicago Tribune

"Trump Tax Returns Show Over $1 Billion in Losses: NYT

President Trump's tax returns reveal that he suffered over $1 billion in business losses in a past decade, The New York Times reports. Trump reportedly "lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer" from 1985 to 1994, according to the Times. The numbers show that Trump lost a total of $1.17 billion in the decade. The documents, obtained by The New York Times, have previously been kept from public view."

-Daily Beast

"Trump still owes lenders including Deutsche Bank as much as $480 million

Special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed records regarding Trump's Deutsche Bank loans"

-Market Watch

"Deutsche Bank had major concerns Trump Org would default on $340 million loans while he was president: Report

Deutsche Bank executives were reportedly so worried the Trump Organization would default on hundreds of millions of dollars in loans with Donald Trump as president, they considered restructuring the loans and chose not to do additional business with Trump for the remainder of his presidency."

-Newsweek

"How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business

After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.

Trump was all but finished as a major real-estate developer, in the eyes of many in the business, and that's because the U.S. banking industry was pretty much finished with him. By the early 1990s he had burned through his portion of his father Fred's fortune with a series of reckless business decisions. Two of his businesses had declared bankruptcy, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza Hotel in New York, and the money pit that was the Trump Shuttle went out of business in 1992. Trump companies would ultimately declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy two more times.

As late as 2003, Trump was in such desperate financial trouble that at a meeting with his siblings following his father's death he pressed them to hurriedly sell his father's estate off, against the late Fred Trump's wishes, the New York Times reported in an investigation of Trump family finances in October. And his businesses kept failing: In 2004, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts filed for bankruptcy with $1.8 billion dollars of debt.

But Trump eventually made a comeback, and according to several sources with knowledge of Trump's business, foreign money played a large role in reviving his fortunes, in particular investment by wealthy people from Russia and the former Soviet republics. This conclusion is buttressed by a growing body of evidence amassed by news organizations, as well as what is reportedly being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Southern District of New York. It is a conclusion that even Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has appeared to confirm, saying in 2008—after the Trump Organization was prospering again—that "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets."

-Foreign Policy Magazine

"Deutsche Bank fined $630m over Russia money laundering claims

Authorities in US and UK issue fine after saying bank used offices in Moscow and London to move $10bn out of country"

-The Guardian

Call me crazy, but I have a feeling Trump owes Russian robber barons a shit ton of money, and the Russia-Trump deal was funneled through Deutsche Bank. And it looks like I'm not the only one who thinks that:

"Trump's last remaining bank subpoenaed in money laundering probe

U.S. Congress subpoenaed Deutsche Bank - and other top banks - for information on Trump's finances, business dealings with Russia and other issues related to money laundering."

-MSNBC

"Deutsche Bank, Trump's Sugar Daddy, raided by Police on Suspicion of Money Laundering

After Democrats flipped the House earlier this month, Representative Maxine Waters, who will head the House Financial Services Committee, said Deutsche's ties to Donald Trump will be a focus of scrutiny. In particular, Democrats would like to understand why, at a time when no one on Wall Street would touch the real-estate developer with a 100-foot pole, Deutsche lent him hundreds of millions of dollars, which the president still owes the bank—"We want to know some things about that," Waters told Bloomberg TV earlier this month."

-Vanity Fair

"House Democrats subpoena Deutsche Bank in Trump investigation

House Democrats on Monday issued a subpoena to the German lender Deutsche Bank seeking information on President Donald Trump's finances, a major escalation of their investigation into his business dealings.

In addition to the Deutsche Bank subpoena, House Democrats subpoenaed other banks — including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup — seeking information on Russian money laundering."

-Politico.com

Gee, ya think this might be why Trump won't release his tax returns? I have a feeling he is not nearly as rich as he claims. Maybe he doesn't even have one billion. Maybe even less than 400 million. Maybe he has more debt than assets. Maybe he has nothing except money he borrowed from Russians, through Deutsche Bank, and has to pay back.

"President Donald Trump on Monday sued to block a subpoena issued by the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee that sought information about his personal and business finances.

Elijah Cummings, the House Oversight Committee chairman, issued the subpoena to the president's accountant after Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified to Congress in February that Trump had misrepresented his net worth."

-Reuters

"Trump team sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to keep them from turning over financial records to Congress

President Donald Trump, three of his children -- Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka -- and his business are suing two banks to block them from turning over financial records to congressional committees that have issued subpoenas for the information.

It's the second attempt in court that Trump has made this month to thwart the Democratic-led House of Representatives from investigating his financial history."

-CNN

"Hundreds of former Justice officials assert Trump would be facing felony charges if he were not President

Hundreds of former Justice Department officials said in an open letter released Monday that President Donald Trump would be facing multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice stemming from the Russia investigation if he were not President.

The letter posted online by Justice Department alumni, who served under presidents from both parties, said the report from special counsel Robert Mueller contained repeated instances of Trump committing obstruction of justice, and that he would have been charged with obstruction if he was not protected as President by an opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that Mueller cited."

-CNN

Well, let's hope the Democrats get to the bottom of this.

They have some robber barons in Germany, too. Every country has its share of problems with greedy bastards. Remember the Volkswagen exhaust emission scandal?

But at least in Germany the robber barons don't run the government, the way they do in America and Russia. Germany has strong regulations, to protect its citizens from robber barons. In Germany, nobody is above the law. Not even a president.

I hope if it turns out that Russia funneled money to Trump through Deutsche Bank somehow, all the American, Russian and German motherfuckers who conspired together will end up in jail, and not get away with it.

Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up!

Oh, and remember when Trump claimed to be a genius and a brilliant student?

Funny. He doesn't want anyone to see his school papers either. He's hiding his grades the same way he's hiding his tax returns:

"Donald Trump threatened lawsuits against his former schools and the College Board to prevent his grades and SAT scores from being released during the 2016 presidential campaign, Michael Cohen testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

Testifying before the House Oversight Committee, the president's former attorney produced letters he said he had written at the direction of Mr. Trump to show that the president was "a conman and a crook."

"When I say conman, I'm talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores," Cohen said in his opening statement to the committee."

-The Washington Times

"Fordham confirms Cohen threatened legal action if it released Trump's grades, SAT scores

Fordham University is confirming Michael Cohen's claim that he threatened to take legal action against the New York school if it released then-candidate Donald Trump's academic records during the presidential campaign."

-The Hill

Unfuckingbelievable.

I wouldn't be surprised if the school grades Trump is trying to hide say he's learning disabled.

"The late William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania, said, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."

Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of "The Art of the Deal," says Trump had "a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance."

-Chicago Tribune

"Trump speaks at fourth-grade Level, lowest of last 15 U.S. presidents, analysis finds

President Donald Trump—who boasted over the weekend that his success in life was a result of "being, like, really smart"—communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents, according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover.

The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English-language difficulty levels. Trump clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Harry Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level.

At the top of the list were Hoover and Jimmy Carter, who were basically at an 11th-grade level, and President Barack Obama, in third place with a high ninth-grade level of communicating with the American people."

-Newsweek

"Trump speaks at level of 8-year-old, new analysis finds"

-The Independent

Trump speaks like a small child.

"China respects me for my very, very large brain."

-Donald J. Trump, Fourth Grader

"Don't Brag about Your Large Brain, Pres. Trump

Neanderthals and other extinct hominin species had big brains, too. It's not a sign of intelligence."

-Scientific American Magazine

"The noise from windmills causes cancer."

-Donald J. Trump, Fourth Grader

"Ocasio-Cortez suggests Trump 'can't read full sentences' after he attacks Green New Deal climate change plan"

-The Independent

"President Trump does not read the President's Daily Brief, a document outlining the most important information collected by U.S. intelligence agencies around the world, reports the Washington Post. Unlike his predecessors, Trump instead asks for oral briefings on only certain intel issues."

-Axios News

"Dumbed-Down Security Briefings Still Too Difficult for Trump to Read

When Donald Trump was elected president, it quickly became obvious that the traditional national-security briefing a person in his position receives daily would be well beyond his zone of proximal development. The briefings were slimmed down in length, chopped up into easy-to-digest bullet points, and decorated with lots of graphs and pictures. Alas, the Washington Post reports, even the kiddie version of the presidential brief has proven too challenging. Now, Trump gets his briefing verbally."

-New York Magazine

And you fucking dumbasses voted for this dumb motherfucker.

DUMB REPUBLICANS

There are two types of Republicans: the dumb ones, and the filthy rich ones. If you're not filthy rich, you're one of the dumb ones.

Canadians have a reputation for being very friendly. The Swedish are said to be blonde and beautiful. Germans are known to be punctual and precise. The Japanese are hard working. You know what Republicans are known for around the globe? Being the dumbest people on the planet.

Remember Polish jokes? Nowadays people all over the world tell jokes about how dumb Trump-voting American Republicans are. Congratulations!

"American conservatives are still clueless about the 97% expert climate consensus

Gallup released its annual survey on American perceptions about global warming last week, and the results were a bit discouraging. While 85–90% of Democrats are worried about global warming, realize humans are causing it, and are aware that most scientists agree on this, independents and Republicans are a different story. Only 35% of Republicans and 62% of independents realize humans are causing global warming (down from 40% and 70% last year, respectively)"

-The Guardian

"The theory of evolution is right up there with the theory of gravity in terms of its universal acceptance among scientists. But, as we've learned from the climate change debate, politics has the power to trump science — and, according to a new Pew poll, it seems like political partisanship may be starting to take its toll on evolution. While a comfortable majority of Republicans accepted human evolution as fact in 2009, Pew finds a plurality now reject it — an astonishing 19 point reversal in four years."

-Think Progress

"According to a recent survey, 7 percent of Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

The study found 48 percent of respondents weren't sure where chocolate milk came from. Seven percent thought chocolate milk only comes from brown cows.

That adds up to about 16.4 million people, more than the population of Ohio. The Washington Post linked the study to past studies that consistently show many Americans have no idea where their food comes from. For example, a study in the 1990s found that nearly 20 percent of people did not know hamburgers are made from beef."

-NBC News

"Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round

"Millennials in America sometimes get a bad reputation, this time for good reason. A recent survey found that just 66 percent of young adults aged 18 to 24 years old have "always believed the world is round."

-Forbes Magazine

Millions of dumb Republicans believe the world is flat, there's gonna be a rapture, global warming is a hoax, evolution isn't real, liberals are your demonic enemies, immigrants are terrorists, Trump isn't the most corrupt, most dishonest president in American history, Russia didn't rig the elections, Obama is a muslim from Africa, and Hillary Clinton is a satanic witch who eats babies at a pedophile pizza parlor.

Seriously.

"Bombshell: Hillary Clinton's Satanic Network Exposed

Hillary Clinton's ties to satanic rituals and the occult have been well-documented for decades."

-InfoWars

"Flashback: Occultic Hillary Summons The Dead, Refuses To Speak To Christ

Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton spoke to the dead during seances, but refused to speak to Jesus Christ"

-InfoWars

"Flashback: Hillary Labeled 'High Priest,' 'Goddess of Occult' in Guccifer Letter

Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was dubbed a "high priest" and a "goddess of the occult" in a letter recently sent from Romanian hacker Guccifer to Fox News."

-InfoWars

"Hillary 'regularly' Attended Witch's Church, Clinton Insider Claims

In a mini-documentary shot exclusively by Infowars dubbed "The New Clinton Chronicles," Nichols commented on Hillary's fascination and participation with the Satanic occult."

-InfoWars

This is the flaming hot garbage you Trump voters seriously believe. Seriously. What the fuck is wrong with you guys?

How can you people be so spectacularly stupid?

You have to be dumb as a rock to believe these lies about liberals. And yet, you do. And that's why we call you stupid. Not as an insult, but a warning. Your stupidity is a threat to democracy and freedom.

A democracy depends on an informed citizenry. You can't vote for what's best for you, if you're dumb as a rock and you have no idea you're constantly being lied to. We live in the Information Age. Today, more than ever, it's vital to have correct information.

"Alex Jones says Trump called to thank him

President-elect Donald Trump called Alex Jones, the radio host, provocateur and operator of Infowars.com, to thank him for his support after winning the presidency, according to Jones, who described the call in a 5-minute video posted over the weekend.

"He said, Listen, Alex, I just talked to kings and queens of the world, world leaders, you name it, but he said it doesn't matter, I wanted to talk to you, to thank your audience, and I'll be on the next few weeks to thank them," Jones recounted. "I said is this is a private call? And he said no, I want to thank your viewers, thank your listeners for standing up for this republic, we know what you did early on, throughout this campaign, standing up for what's right."

-Politico.com

"Remember When Donald Trump Appeared on Alex Jones' 'InfoWars'

"Trump and I have talked several times since the election — about freedom and our common goal to destroy our enemies," he told the German paper Der Spiegel.

Jones has repeatedly claimed over the last 20 years that various attacks on the U.S. were staged by the U.S. government. The list of tragedies that Jones and Infowars have claimed were false-flag include: the 9/11 attacks, the Columbine school shooting, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Sandy Hook shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing, among others."

-Haaretz News

"Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars

As questions swirl about his credibility, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone settled a defamation suit seeking $100 million in damages on Monday for publishing false and misleading statements on InfoWars.com, a far-right website known for promoting conspiracy theories."

-Wall Street Journal

By the way, did you ever notice that Roger Stone literally looks like a wannabe 19th century robber baron? When he wears his top hat and monocle, he looks like the guy on the cover of Monopoly.

"Broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said it was a "form of psychosis" that caused him to believe certain events --- like the Sandy Hook massacre -- were staged.

On December 14, 2012, 20 children and six adults were killed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Jones, who founded InfoWars.com and hosted a three-hour news-talk radio program which he said was carried on more than 160 stations, had repeatedly suggested in the past that the Sandy Hook shooting was a "giant hoax" carried out by crisis actors on behalf of people who oppose the Second Amendment."

-CNN

Mass shootings are really just a giant conspiracy by people who want to take your guns away?! Gee, I would who gave MAGA minions that idea.

"NRA official contacted a Sandy Hook truther to spread conspiracy hoax about the Parkland school shooting

One day after 17 students and teachers were murdered at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, an official with the National Rifle Association reached out to a prominent conspiracy theorist to spread a hoax about a possible second shooter.

According to emails and court documents obtained by the Huffington Post, NRA officer Mark Richardson emailed Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist and InfoWars contributor Wolfgang Halbig on Feb. 15, 2018, arguing that Parkland shooter could not have acted alone."

-Orlando Weekly

"Alex Jones says 'form of psychosis' made him believe events like Sandy Hook massacre were staged

"And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I've now learned a lot of times things aren't staged," he said. "So I think as a pundit, someone giving an opinion, that, you know, my opinions have been wrong, but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people."

He said it was the "trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much" that caused him to distrust everything, "kind of like a child whose parents lie to them over and over again."

The broadcaster faces multiple lawsuits from families of students and educators killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. Two lawsuits were filed in April 2018 by three parents whose children were killed, and a month later, he was sued by the families of six victims, who were joined by an FBI agent who responded to the shooting."

-CNN

The people who lied to you admitted in court that they lied to you. But does that even matter to you? No, of course not. You're a brainwashed cult member. Reality is only what Trump says it is.

If Trump says the sound of windmills gives you cancer, you believe that shit. If Trump shoots someone in the middle of the street and tells you it was God's will, you'll believe it.

This kind of epic stupidity is dangerous. Just look at Nazi Germany.

You'll believe absolutely any lie you're being told by your master. Whether it's flaming hot garbage about Obama being a Muslim from Kenya, the refugees are terrorists and MS13 gang members, Hillary is an evil witch who runs a pedophile network out of a pizza parlor, she did something terrible with emails, or that she supposedly killed a bunch of people with her bare hands.

Remember how you guys kept screaming "Lock her up! Lock her up!" because Hillary used a private email server to work from home?

A lot of people do that. People do it all the time. It's perfectly normal. You'd know that, if you understood how email works. Every time you send out an email over Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or any other kind of email service, you're using a private email server. Everyone uses private email servers. Even you.

"Colin Powell told Hillary Clinton, his successor as secretary of state, that he used a personal computer to email foreign leaders "without going through State Department servers", a seven-year-old email exchange reveals."

-The Independent

"Trump Staffers Are Reportedly Using Private Email Accounts

Remember how Donald Trump hammered on Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State? During the election, Trump went as far as wanting to put "Crooked Hillary" behind bars, because having staffers use emails not monitored by the government could be a bad thing. But according to a new report from Newsweek, key Trump staffers are using accounts running on the Republican National Committee's private email server. The staffers named in the report include Jared Kushner, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, and Steve Bannon."

-Gizmodo

"Kushner used private email to conduct White House business

The senior adviser set up the account after the election. Other West Wing officials have also used private email accounts for official business.

Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business."

-Politico.com

"Trump's use of private cellphone raises security concerns

Presidents generally place calls on one of several secure phone lines, including those in the White House Situation Room, the Oval Office or the presidential limousine. Even if Trump uses his government-issued cellphone, his calls are vulnerable to eavesdropping, particularly from foreign governments, national security experts say.

"If you are speaking on an open line, then it's an open line, meaning those who have the ability to monitor those conversations are doing so," said Derek Chollet, a former Pentagon adviser and National Security Council official now at the German Marshall Fund of the United States."

-The Guardian

So Trump and his henchmen are doing exactly what they accused Hillary of.

How come you fuckwits aren't chanting that they should be locked up for it?

Is it because you MAGA minions are so brainwashed, you believe no matter what your master does, it's always right? And you only want to lock up liberals, simply for being liberals?

Now do you see why the Republican robber barons are destroying American schools? The dumber the peasants are, the more easily they are fooled by propaganda lies, and the more loyal they become to their Republican overlords.

Have you ever asked yourself why crazy conspiracy theories are so popular among Republicans?

Because there really is a conspiracy. Even you guys can sense it with every fiber of your being. You may be dumb as a rock, but you can tell when there's something fishy going on and you're getting fucked.

You just can't seem to figure out who's fucking you.

You seriously believe it's your liberal brothers and sisters. The people who are trying to get all of us a better life. You know, a life with less getting fucked, and more getting free college, universal healthcare, paid maternity leave, several weeks of paid vacation, a decent wage, clean drinking water, non-cancer-causing food, good schools, indoor plumbing, and all the other perks of modern civilization.

All the other cool countries have this stuff. Why the hell can't we?

"Sorry America, Norway ranks No. 1 for 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'

The U.S. doesn't rank among the Top 10 on a list of 155 countries

Norway ranked No. 1 for happiness and personal freedom, according to an analysis of three separate studies on life expectancy by the World Bank, on civil liberties from Freedom House, a New York-based nonprofit that conducts research on advocacy and democracy, on happiness from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a group linked to the United Nations, and on rule of law from the World Justice Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit.

The U.S showed less social support, less sense of personal freedom, lower donations, and more perceived corruption of government and business."

-Market Watch

Thanks to the robber barons, America is not number one. Life for an average middle-class family is much better in other countries, where people don't get fucked over on a daily basis. But the robber barons don't want you to know that, or you're gonna ask for a better life, too.

They don't want you to get all uppity and start asking for the cool shit that all the other good countries have. You know, those evil "socialist" countries like Norway or Canada or France. As long as you're dumb as a rock, you don't know how bad you got it compared to the people in other industrialized nations.

Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is strength!

Remember the American Dream? The idea that anyone, no matter how poor, can become rich?

"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it."

-George Carlin

It's next to impossible in America. Especially in the poverty-stricken Republican-run red states in the south.

Sure, every once in a blue moon you hear about someone who successfully launched a small business, and didn't fail. He didn't get crushed by the giant corporations, but actually managed to make some decent money. Good for him.

But it's the exception, not the rule. It's a fluke. Like winning the lottery.

You hear about people winning the lottery all the time.

You never hear about the tens of millions of people who don't win the lottery.

Some people really do win the lottery. Very very few people. Everyone else does not win the lottery.

And for every lucky bastard who manages to escape poverty, there are tens of millions of Americans who never will. Not because they didn't try hard enough, but because the whole fucking system is rigged against them.

"According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. A whopping 80% crash and burn."

-Forbes Magazine

Let that sink in.

80% of American small businesses fail in the first 18 months. And even more after the first 18 months. How is that a system that benefits everyone? It's not. Capitalism is a system that only benefits the very few very rich people on top.

80% of American small businesses fail because they get eaten by the bigger, stronger competition. Small mom-and-pop stores get eaten by supermarkets. Supermarkets get eaten by larger chains. The chains get eaten by big box stores. The big box stores get eaten by conglomerates.

You know where the American Dream, of going from rags-to-riches, is not just a fantasy but reality? In Europe! Where the "socialist" governments work for the people, not against them.

"Today there is more inter-generational social mobility in Europe than in the United States, contrary to the American myth that the United States is still the world's No. 1 land of opportunity. The Economic Mobility Project of Pew Charitable Trusts has shown that children are far less likely to rise above the socio-economic levels of their parents in the U.S. than are those in Britain, Canada and Australia, as well as Germany, France and the Nordic nations. The American South, with the lowest rates of intergenerational social mobility in the U.S., clearly skews the national statistics, creating an embarrassing and depressing version of American exceptionalism."

-Politico.com

I've been talking a lot about the ruling class. The rich robber barons and their giant corporations, who have been fucking all of us over since the beginning of time. It's a genuine, honest-to-goodness conspiracy. A shadowy war the rich have waged against the poor since the beginning of civilization. It's not a conspiracy theory, but a well-documented conspiracy fact. You know it as well as I do. Robber barons conspire against the American people on a daily basis, since before you or I were born.

And they try really hard to make sure you stay asleep and never find out what's going on.

The Mueller investigation wasn't a witch hunt. It wasn't a Deep State conspiracy. It was the government doing its job: protecting ordinary Americans from the robber barons...

Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort was sentenced to 73 months in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to two charges in DC District Court, one of which is particularly eye-popping: "conspiracy against the United States."

It's not the only charge of which Manafort is guilty; a jury convicted him on eight financial crime charges in August, and he's also pleading guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice as part of his deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. Previously, Rick Gates, Manafort's lieutenant who flipped against his boss to cooperate with Mueller, pleaded guilty to "conspiracy against the United States" as well.

-Vox.com

If the government ends up impeaching Trump or puts him in jail, it's not a Deep State conspiracy. It's just the government doing its job, and protecting the people from a robber baron.

"Tower of secrets: the Russian money behind a Donald Trump skyscraper

The Trump Toronto reveals the links between a shadowy world of post-Soviet money and a future president

One October day in 2007, a celebrity real estate developer in a greatcoat and powder-blue tie alighted from a stretch limousine in Toronto's financial district. Before a bank of photographers, he took hold of a golden shovel. To his left, also holding a novelty spade, was his partner in a C$500m (£287m) skyscraper, construction of which was to begin that day: a Russian-Canadian billionaire whose fortune had its origins in the collision of communism, capitalism and the KGB at the fall of the Soviet empire.

The Financial Times has been investigating the money behind Trump Toronto for 10 months. Legal documents, signed statements and two dozen interviews with people with knowledge of the project and the money that flowed through it reveal that the venture connects the US president with a shadowy post-Soviet world where politics and personal enrichment merge.

Some of the money flows that the Financial Times has established raise questions about Trump's vulnerability to undue influence now that he is in the White House. These include evidence that Trump's billionaire partner in the Toronto project authorised a secret $100m payment to a Moscow-based fixer representing Kremlin-backed investors.

An alleged Kazakh money-laundering network channelled millions through apartment sales at the Trump SoHo; a Russian oligarch bought a Palm Beach estate from Trump in 2008 for $95m, more than double what Trump had paid for it four years earlier; in Florida, 63 Russians, some with political connections, spent $100m buying property at seven Trump-branded luxury towers, Reuters established. The money was not exclusively from the former Soviet Union: at the Trump Panama, some of it allegedly belonged to Latin American drug traffickers."

-Financial Times

It's not the Jews or globalists or the Illuminati or the Freemasons or the United Nations who control the world. The biggest threat to American democracy are filthy rich and unbelievably corrupt Republicans. They are the conspiracy. They are the evil men in the shadows, pulling the strings and fucking you over every chance they get with their manipulative lies.

That's how they got so filthy rich in the first place. That's why the old term robber baron is even in the American dictionary at all. And that's why you're so dirt poor in your shitty trailer, in a shitty Republican-run red state, with your shitty schools, shitty roads and shitty hospitals. You're being exploited and manipulated by evil people. In plain sight. The whole world can see it. But you are so brainwashed, you can't see it.

"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."

-Donald J. Trump

Yeahhh! Who're you gonna believe? Your lyin' eyes, or the Trumpmeister? He was sent here by God!

"How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business

Because he can get his family's golf course for free and have most of the other costs donated, virtually all the money contributed will go toward helping kids with cancer. "We get to use our assets 100% free of charge," Trump tells Forbes.

That's not the case. In reviewing filings from the Eric Trump Foundation and other charities, it's clear that the course wasn't free--that the Trump Organization received payments for its use, part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented recipients past the Trump Organization. Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament.

Additionally, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which has come under previous scrutiny for self-dealing and advancing the interests of its namesake rather than those of charity, apparently used the Eric Trump Foundation to funnel $100,000 in donations into revenue for the Trump Organization.

And while donors to the Eric Trump Foundation were told their money was going to help sick kids, more than $500,000 was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses.

All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors."

-Forbes Magazine

Putting charity money for cancer kids in your own pocket. Nice.

"Judge signs off on shutdown of Trump Foundation after 'pattern of illegality'

Charity allegedly used as Trump's 'checkbook'

A New York judge has signed off on a deal to shut down Donald Trump's personal charity after a lawsuit exposed a "shocking pattern of illegality".

Trump had used the charity to pay off legal settlements within his business and even to buy a painting of himself to hang in one of his golf clubs."

-The Guardian

But wait, there's more!

"Trump University: It's Worse Than You Think

Schnackenberg, who worked in Trump's office at 40 Wall Street, testified that "while Trump University claimed it wanted to help consumers make money in real estate, in fact Trump University was only interested in selling every person the most expensive seminars they possibly could." The affidavit concludes, "Based upon my personal experience and employment, I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme, and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money."

Despite Trump University's claim that it offered "graduate programs, post graduate programs, doctorate programs," it wasn't a university at all. It was a company that purported to be selling Trump's secret insights into how to make money in real estate. From the time Trump University began operating, in 2005, the A.G.'s office repeatedly warned the company that it was breaking the law by calling itself a university. "

-The New Yorker Magazine

"Trump agrees to $25 million settlement in Trump University fraud cases

President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bragged that he never settles lawsuits despite a long history of doing so, has agreed to a $25 million settlement to end the fraud cases pending against his defunct real estate seminar program, Trump University."

-Washington Post

Since day one, Trump has been lying to the American people. He claimed his inauguration had the largest crowd ever. He was lying. There are photos of the crowds that prove it. You can see it with your own eyes. Obama's inauguration crowd was much much larger.

"At issue was one of the many basic truths that, in those earliest days of the 45th presidency, had managed to become a matter of controversy: the number of people who had watched the new president speak—about crime, about carnage, about himself—at his inauguration.

The facts were not on Spicer's side. There are myriad methods for determining the size of a crowd, in person and beyond, among them public-transportation ridership data, Nielsen statistics, satellite imagery, terrestrial photography, and common sense; put a photo of President Barack Obama's inauguration next to a photo of Trump's, and the truth of the matter is plain. Spicer, however, opted for a more faith-based approach. Seething and scowling and performing his indignation, condemning members of the media for their "deliberately false reporting," the new messenger in chief seemed to be willing a more politically convenient truth into existence. The largest audience to ever witness an inauguration—period: The whole thing had the air of incantation. Its foolishness might have been funny, had the attempt at weaponized magic not also suggested one of the darkest elements of the Trump presidency: its radiating conviction that truth itself can be remade in the shape of its leader."

-The Atlantic

"Trump has made over 10,000 false or misleading claims, according to report

According to the Washington Post's Fact Checker, President Trump has hit the dubious milestone of 10,000 false or misleading claims since he started his presidency. That comes out to an average of 12.2 claims per day, or 10,111 total claims in the 828 days of the Trump presidency covered by the Fact Checker so far.

"The President continues to say false or misleading statements at an unbelievable pace," said Glenn Kessler, the lead fact checker, on CNN this morning.

According to The Post, the largest issue area of false or misleading claims has been immigration. The most-repeated claim is that the border wall is currently being built, something that Congress has not allocated funding for or authorized construction of. The Post points out that there are portions of the border wall being repaired.

Trump's campaign rallies are the largest venues for false or misleading claims, constituting 22 percent of all of the claims covered by the Fact Checker. Trump's rally in Green Bay, Wis.last Saturday spawned 61 claims. For example, Trump said he had cut the estate tax to "zero," or that he was one vote away from repealing the Affordable Care Act — both claims are untrue."

-USA Today

Even the founding fathers knew that a democracy can't work if the people don't know what's going on around them. They need information to make an informed decision when they vote. The founding fathers understood that in a democracy, the press are the eyes and ears of the people. Without the press, the people are deaf, dumb, and blind.

And that's exactly why dictators always attack the press first. Time after time, throughout history, dictatorships started by attacking the press and accusing them of being traitors for telling the inconvenient truth about the dictator.

Trump isn't the first wannabe dictator who accused the press of being fake news and the enemy of the people.

Hitler called the press Lügenpresse, which is German for fake news. Every time Trump yells the phrase fake news, he sounds just like Hitler used to sound.

I grew up in Germany. I speak German. I had to watch Hitler's speeches in school, to teach us how to spot the warning signs of a fascist dictator.

I understood Hitler's speeches in German. And I'm telling you, Trump's speeches sound the same.

The lies Hitler told his followers about Jews, are the same shit Trump tells you about Muslims, immigrants, Democrats and liberals.

"Anne Frank Centre warns of 'alarming parallels' between Trump's America and Hitler's Germany

The human rights group compared Donald Trump's Presidency to the 'escalating steps of oppression' that led to the Holocaust"

-The Independent

Wannabe dictators manipulate and exploit you, and then point their fingers at someone else and lie to you: "It's them! They're exploiting you! The other tribe! It's all their fault! It's all the Jews' fault! And the blacks! And the Mexicans! And the Muslims! The caravan of starving Guatemalan women and children are terrorists! And the socialists in Europe are evil! And the pinko commie Democrats! The libtards! And George Soros! And the media! The Deep State! The Freemasons! Rothschilds! Bilderberg! The Illuminati! The globalists! The Fake Press! The United Nations! They're all your enemies! But I will protect you from them."

It's the oldest trick in the book. It's misdirection. Putting the blame on someone else. It's the first lie children learn: "It wasn't me!"

Picture this:

Little David and little Robert are home alone. Robert steals some cookies out of the jar in the kitchen.

David tells Robert: "You can't do that! That's wrong! Mom is gonna be mad at you!"

When mom comes home, that thieving, lying little piece of shit Robert runs to her and says: "Mom! Mom! David stole a cookie!"

Now when David tries to explain the truth, that he didn't steal the cookie, Robert did, and Robert is proactively and preemptively lying about what he did, mom doesn't know whom to believe. It's David's word against Robert's. She wasn't there to see what really happened.

But mom thinks Robert must be telling the truth, because she just can't believe he would be such a blatant, ruthless liar. She just can't believe that Robert would be such a sociopathic, deeply immoral criminal mind.

And that's exactly how your Republican overlords operate, and why you believe their endless lies, while they rob you blind.

David is a Democrat. Robert is a Republican. And the mom in this example is the American people.

The reason why government was invented, was to protect the poor from the rich. The purpose of government is to protect ordinary people from robber barons.

The press are the eyes and ears of ordinary people.

How are you supposed to know what the robber barons are doing in Washington? You're not there. You can't afford to attend every hearing and see what they're doing.

That's what the press is for. They go to Washington on your behalf, and they watch what's going on, and then they report back to you and tell you about what the robber barons are doing.

You need a free, critical press. You need them to tell you the truth about the lies and corruption in Washington. Without the press, you're blind.

That's why Trump keeps telling you not to believe the press.

Your evil Republican overlords steal from you, and when someone is trying to tell you that you are being robbed, and they try to protect you from being robbed, your overlords tell you that it's not them robbing you, but someone else.

The robber barons tell you that the people who are warning you about getting robbed, are the people robbing you.

Like when Robert steals a cookie and then tells his mom it was David, but David is really the one who was trying to tell mom that Robert stole a cookie.

The robber barons lie straight to your face and tell you the people who are trying to protect you are the people robbing you! They redirect the blame to someone else. It's brilliantly simple, like all good propaganda.

"Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it."

-Lysander Spooner

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

-George Orwell

And you're dumb enough to fall for it. It would be kinda funny if it wasn't so sad, because your stupidity is what allows your evil overlords to keep raping America.

They're not making America great again. They're plundering and pillaging America. They're taking money from the poor middle class and giving it to a small group of ultra rich sociopathic bastards.

And while they're stealing your cookie, and your health insurance, your retirement, your public schools, your clean drinking water, your labor rights, your consumer protection, your civil rights, your right to affordable housing, your gerrymandered votes, your freedom and your happiness, they're telling you someone else is robbing you: the people who are warning you.

You can see the Republicans fuck you over. They're looking you straight in the eye while they're doing it. In plain sight, in broad daylight. But you simply refuse to believe your own eyes.

"In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility... in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying."

-Adolf Hitler

The reason why your Republican overlords are destroying public schools is because they like to keep their peasants poor and stupid, because that way you're easily manipulated. Dumb people don't know what's true, so any lie could be true to them.

Your Republican overlords have tried for eight years under Obama and two years under Trump to destroy health insurance that covers pre-existing illnesses, which is one of the most important pillars of Obamacare. The Republicans have been against it every step of the way for ten years. You know this.

"Do you have a pre-existing condition, like arthritis, diabetes, asthma, or about a million other problems? About one in four Americans (or over 50 million people) do. Even if you aren't personally in that group, it's highly likely one of your friends or family are — and what's more, such a condition can develop at any time.

That's why it's important for each and every American to know that, contrary to what President Trump claims, the Republican Party has made great efforts to snatch health insurance from people with pre-existing conditions. They have tried multiple times to do it through legislation and are trying to do it right now through legal and regulatory efforts."

-The Week

America's giant private insurance corporations only care about one thing: profit. That's how capitalism works.

They want to collect high monthly payments for insurance premiums, but they don't want to pay money out to sick people who need expensive treatments.

You know this. You know insurance premiums are crazy high in America, and you know that your doctor needs permission from your insurance company to treat you. You know that insurance companies love to reject claims and deny treatment. To save money and maximize their billion dollar profits.

That's why the giant insurance corporations used to hide in their small print, that they won't cover you, if you have a pre-existing condition like diabetes or cancer. If you're sick, you're fucked.

Obama changed that. Obamacare made it illegal for giant insurance corporations to deny you treatment to save money and maximize profits.

And the corrupt Republican politicians, who are owned by the insurance industry robber barons, have been trying to reverse Obama's protection for the sick every single fucking day ever since.

Republican robber barons have opposed Obamacare, and its protection for sick people with pre-existing conditions, for 10 years. Republicans have said hundreds of times, publicly, that they were against covering pre-existing conditions.

But then in the last few days before the 2018 midterm elections, these lying pieces of shit suddenly pretended they had been for covering pre-existing conditions all along, and Democrats had been against it all along. A blatant lie. The exact opposite of the truth.

And you Republican voters were dumb enough to swallow even that blatantly obvious lie. It's unreal. Trump cult members, you are the dumbest fucking people on the planet. You deserve a sticker and a red dunce cap. Makes you morons easily identifiable.

Children can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy, because they don't know enough about the real world yet. And Republican peasants have been dumbed down to a childlike level. They're too dumb to tell the difference between actual facts and the lies their filthy rich Republican overlords tell them.

And, like children, desperately poor people are easily scared. The whole Republican con is based on scaring you halfwits shitless about everything: "Oh no! We're under attack! There's a war against Christmas! The Democrats are trying to ban Christmas! If you don't vote them out of office, they'll slaughter the Easter Bunny next! Oh, and the Democrats, who gave you affordable healthcare, are trying to steal your affordable healthcare! We're not the ones stealing your cookie, the Democrats are!"

You dumb Republican peasants have been fed so many lies by the propaganda outlets of your filthy rich overlords, that you now live in an upside-down world. You believe the opposite of what is actually true about virtually everything around you. You can no longer separate reality from fantasy. You live in an alternate reality. A bubble of lies.

Right-Wing-Make-Believe-Land.

When a robber baron's factory poisons your drinking water and kills your children, your liberal brothers and sisters fight for your health and the health of your children, and demand that the robber baron install filters in his factory, instead of letting the toxic waste run into our drinking water. That's called government regulation.

The robber baron thinks: "Pshh! Fuck you, stupid peasants. Filters are expensive. They'll cut into my profits. Letting my toxic sludge run off into your drinking water is way cheaper for me. I don't give a shit that you worthless peasants get cancer. My profits are way more important to me than your expendable, meaningless lives."

And the next day, all the right-wing propaganda outlets announce: "If our beloved masters have to install filters, it's bad for the economy. And government regulation is stupid. We should get rid of government altogether. It gets in the way of profit."

And the next day after that, all you MAGA minions demand less government oversight. Not clean water: "Who the hell needs clean water? Only stupid tree huggers." Then you call the liberals anti-business: "Evil tree-hugging libtards!"

"Louisiana has the most toxic air in America

Along the Mississippi River is an area some call 'Cancer Alley', where residents face the highest risks

Nestled in the middle is the community of Reserve, where the risk of cancer is the highest in the country, 50 times the national average

Reserve sits in the heart of an industrial corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. For more than 30 years, it has been known to many of its residents as "Cancer Alley". That designation stems from the toxic pollution that is belched out from chemical plants along the serpentine squiggles of the lower Mississippi River."

-The Guardian

"Trump signs resolution to permit dumping mining waste into waterways

The resolution, signed Feb. 16, reversed an Obama-era rule aimed at blocking coal-mining operations from dumping waste into nearby waterways."

-Washington Post

And a few years later your children get cancer, and die. And you wonder why: "Was it the vaccines? Is it a sign from God, that I must be even more obedient to my beloved masters? Nah, must be the liberals' fault. Hillary is poisoning our drinking water! It's a liberal conspiracy! Obama did it!"

A Republican dumbass, who has been driven to the edge of sanity by your overlords' propaganda lies against liberals, sent letter bombs to Democratic politicians...

"An outspoken supporter of President Trump from South Florida was charged on Friday with sending explosive packages to at least a dozen of the president's critics, apparently bringing to a close an attempted bombing spree that has gripped the country just ahead of the midterm elections.

The suspect, Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr., 56, was arrested outside an auto parts store near Fort Lauderdale after a fast-moving investigation in which the authorities said they were able to pull a fingerprint from one of the bomb packages and collect Mr. Sayoc's DNA from two others. At least 14 explosive packages have been discovered since Monday."

-New York Times

...and the other Republican idiots believe what the Republican propaganda outlets tell them: "It's all a liberal conspiracy. The Democrats sent the bombs to themselves!"

"High-profile conservatives claim mail bombs are an attack by the left

Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh have suggested Democrats sent packages to elicit sympathy ahead of midterms

A range of high-profile conservatives have embraced a conspiracy theory that mail bombs sent to liberal public figures are a "false flag" attack by leftwingers. Many have also claimed that the attacks are intended to elicit sympathy for Democrats ahead of the looming midterm elections."

-The Guardian

And to dumb upside-down Republicans in their little bubble of lies that actually makes perfect sense! Don't believe your lyin' eyes: "Everything is the opposite of what liberals say. Everything is the opposite of what I see with my own eyes."

Meanwhile, the guy who sent the letter bombs, a huge fan of Trump, who attended Trump rallies and drove around in a truck covered in pictures of Democrats with targets on their heads, admitted it was him who sent the bombs to Democrats:

"Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Mail Bombs to Democrats, Trump Critics

Cesar Savoc was arrested in Florida in October after mailbombs were sent to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, others

The Florida man who authorities say mailed bombs to prominent critics of President Trump, leading to a five-day nationwide manhunt, pleaded guilty to 65 felonies Thursday before a federal judge in New York."

-Wall Street Journal

If you ever asked yourself how Hitler could fool millions of Germans with his lies, look no further than American Republicans today. You guys are every bit as clueless and brainwashed as Nazi Germans were.

"Holocaust survivor on Trump: 'I've seen this before — in Nazi Germany'

"No matter what kind of outrageous things came out of his mouth, the people waved their hands and loudly cheered 'Hurrah!' " he told me, his eyes growing more serious "I have seen that before — in Nazi Germany in 1933."

-Chicago Tribune

HOW TO TALK TO DUMB PEOPLE

I know nothing about wine. If you gave me two glasses of wine and told me to try them, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between cheap $5 wine out of a box, and a $500 bottle of wine. To me, it would all taste the same.

And I'm tone-deaf. If you press two keys on a piano, I couldn't tell you which notes they are. And if they're fairly close together, I can't even tell you which note is higher than the other.

There are a whole lot of topics I know absolutely nothing about, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

"The ability to say "I don't know" is a common trait of highly intelligent people."

-Business Insider

"The smartest folks are able to admit when they aren't familiar with a particular concept. As Jim Winer writes, intelligent people "are not afraid to say: 'I don't know.' If they don't know it, they can learn it."

Winer's observation is backed up by a classic study by Justin Kruger and David Dunning, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which found that the less intelligent you are, the more you overestimate your cognitive abilities."

-Business Insider

In the 19th century, human knowledge was still fairly limited. It was possible for one scholar to know everything there is to know. About every topic. Medicine, law, science, etc. Like a Grand Maester on Game of Thrones.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a famous 19th century German writer and philosopher. He was the German version of Shakespeare. He is considered to be one of the greatest German writers ever.

He wrote a play, called Faust. About a scholar who is so eager to learn, he makes a pact with the devil. He is willing to trade his soul in exchange for knowing everything about everything.

Since the 19th century, human knowledge has grown exponentially. It's impossible to know everything now. Even a doctor doesn't know everything there is to know about medicine. That's why there are specialists. An eye doctor knows next to nothing about feet.

A criminal defense lawyer knows almost nothing about real estate litigation.

Even the smartest architect knows nothing about brain surgery. A brain surgeon knows nothing about piloting an airplane.

Even the smartest people on the planet know only a tiny fraction of what there is to know.

The more information there is, the smaller the percentage that you can know.

Smart people know that. Dumb people don't.

Smart people know that they can't know everything. Dumb people don't know that they can't know everything.

The dumber you are, the more you believe you're smart. You think you know everything there is to know, because you don't even know how much stuff you don't know.

Like all the evidence for global warming.

You may be a great coal miner, or the best bricklayer in town, but you don't know shit about climate science. The people who do know a lot about climate science, the climate scientists, all know global warming is real. Because they know about the evidence.

That's why every single country on the fucking planet signed the Paris Agreement, to stop global warming. It wasn't a conspiracy. It was smart people making smart decisions about the things they know a lot about.

You may think that nobody understands how evolution works, because you don't understand how evolution works. But that's only because you don't know how much stuff other people know about evolution that you don't know.

And you probably never heard about most of the things I mentioned in this book. You had no idea that all this information was out there, and you didn't even know it.

This is called the Dunning-Kruger effect...

"In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.

In 2011 David Dunning wrote about his observations that people with substantial, measurable deficits in their knowledge or expertise lack the ability to recognize those deficits and therefore, despite potentially making error after error, tend to think they are performing competently when they are not: "In short, those who are incompetent, for lack of a better term, should have little insight into their incompetence—an assertion that has come to be known as the Dunning–Kruger effect". In 2014 Dunning and Helzer described how the Dunning–Kruger effect "suggests that poor performers are not in a position to recognize the shortcomings in their performance".

The psychological phenomenon of illusory superiority was identified as a form of cognitive bias in Kruger and Dunning's 1999 study, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". The identification derived from the cognitive bias evident in the criminal case of McArthur Wheeler, who robbed banks while his face was covered with lemon juice, which he believed would make it invisible to the surveillance cameras. This belief was based on his misunderstanding of the chemical properties of lemon juice as an invisible ink."

-Wikipedia

I know nothing about figure skating. I know that other people know way more about it than I do. I would never pretend to know more than they do about it. To me it all looks the same. I can't tell the difference between a difficult jump and a simple one. And there's nothing wrong with admitting you don't know something. It's the first step to learning something new.

You guys aren't very good with big words. That's why you can't tell the difference between someone like Trump, who talks like he had a lobotomy, and a brilliant orator like Obama.

To you it all sounds the same.

Well, no, that's not quite true. There is a difference. Obama talks like an intelligent grown up. A lot of times you actually have to be smart to understand what he's saying or what he's even talking about. When you're dumb, you don't understand what he's saying, and it all just sounds like gibberish.

I think that is one of the biggest mistakes Democrats make when they try to talk to you guys. They talk to you like adults. On eye level. And then everything they say, whoosh, goes right over your head. And all you hear is incomprehensible gibberish.

They can't reach you with their ideas, because they don't effectively communicate their ideas to you, and you don't understand their ideas. They need to dumb it down for you guys.

"People hear only what they understand."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe·

That's why Democrats are not doing themselves any favors when they ignore the elephant in the room, that you MAGA minions are fucking stupid.

Well, some do acknowledge it. Some Democrats politely refer to you MAGA minions as low-information-voters. They're not trying to be mean. They don't want to hurt your feelings. So they call you low information. Because they figure you're too dumb to understand that it's a nice way of calling you dumb. They really don't mean it as an insult. They're just being factual.

Democrats need to stop worrying about your widdle feelings and be straight with you conservative snowflakes. They need to tell it like it is. They need to talk to you like you're stupid, because you are.

Trump insults people on a daily basis, like a bratty, aggressive, maladjusted child. And you halfwits eat that shit up. It's right up your alley. You fucking love it.

So we need to talk to you like that, too. We need to dumb it down to your level.

We need to talk to the Jerry Springer crowd in a way the Jerry Springer crowd understands. Just like Trump.

There's no point in using big words, if your audience doesn't understand big words.

Hitler knew that. That's why he always kept things nice and simple in his speeches.

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."

-Adolf Hitler

Trump knows it too. That's why he talks to you guys like you're braindead children.

Unlike the Democratic smart-people-gibberish, the simpleton shit Trump says actually makes sense to you.

Those of us who have enjoyed a good education noticed right away that Trump speaks dumb-people-speak.

Either because he's dumb himself, or because he purposely dumbs things down for you guys. He uses short sentences and small words, so that even the dumbest mouthbreathers among you understand what he's saying.

Fox News does the same thing. It's very effective.

No Collusion. No Collusion. No Collusion.

Witch Hunt. Witch Hunt. Witch Hunt.

Fake News. Fake News. Fake News.

They constantly repeat the same talking points over and over again, to brainwash you. In his tweets, Trump even has a habit of capitalizing his propaganda keywords in mid-sentence, even when they shouldn't be, to make them stand out for even the dumbest yokel.

"The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan."

-Adolf Hitler

Hitler was really good at talking to dumb people. He understood how dumb people think.

So does Trump.

Hitler knew that dumb people have small brains and big emotions.

Like the people on Jerry Springer. On that show ignorant trailer trash used to beat each other's heads in for the dumbest reasons. These people weren't great thinkers. But they had strong emotions.

The whole show was based on inciting outrage, hatred, and violence, for your entertainment. Basically Jerry Springer let us gawk at homeless crackheads fighting behind a dumpster. But Jerry put it on stage. And people loved it! It was almost like the gladiator fights in ancient Rome. Or wrestling.

Violence is hypnotic. We can't stop looking at it.

That's why people watch the epic Star Wars battle scenes, or World War 2 documentaries, or wrestling.

When we see that two women at a Black Friday sale are about to punch each other over a cheap blouse, we can't help but stare. And we giggle. We grab our phone to record it, so we can show it to our friends and laugh. Somehow, it makes us happy to watch those two women punch each other in the face.

If two kids fight after school, everyone stands around and watches and cheers. Because watching conflict erupt into violence fills our brain with dopamine.

But not just violence itself. Even just the thought of impending violence fills people's heads with joy.

White-supremacist Christian fanatics fantasize about how good it would feel to punch an immigrant in the face, or kill a Muslim, or start a civil war and shoot all the damn homos and liberals. And that's why they love guns. The thought of shooting liberals makes them feel good. It releases dopamine.

That's why they love it when Trump incites tribalism.

Tribalism always leads to violence.

The thought of hurting liberals releases dopamine in their brains.

And dopamine is addicting.

"Steve King shares meme touting red states in potential modern-day civil war

Rep. Steve King, whose history of making racist remarks has recently come under scrutiny, shared a Facebook post over the weekend that boasts red states would "win" a fight against blue states — and that they have "8 trillion bullets."

"Wonder who would win..." the Iowa Republican wrote in a post Saturday, adding an emoji with a smirk. Attached to the post is a photo depicting Democratic-leaning states engaged in a fight with Republican-leaning states. The photo's caption reads, "Folks keep talking about another civil war... One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use," an apparent reference to Democrats' support of gender-neutral bathrooms.

-CNN

The brainwashed white-supremacist Christian fanatics in the red states are preparing for a civil war against liberals, and the thought of shooting liberals makes them feel giddy with anticipation.

That's pretty fucking scary. That's the same kind of vengeful racism that was brewing before the infamous Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany.

Eventually just posting hateful memes and anti-liberal lies on social media doesn't cut it anymore. And just thinking about violence doesn't get them high enough anymore. That's the point when white-supremacist Christian fanatics start acting out their violent fantasies, and go on shooting rampages, and send death threats to Democratic politicians.

Can you imagine what's gonna happen when Trump loses the 2020 election and claims the election was fake, and he simply refuses to accept that he lost?

Then what?

His MAGA minions are gonna start shooting people.

"MSNBC Guest Says Donald Trump May Start Violent Civil War If Impeached Or Voted Out In 2020

A frequent MSNBC guest and longtime President Donald Trump acquaintance said the president will likely refuse to relinquish his executive power should he lose the 2020 election or get impeached, claiming Trump would gladly start a second "civil war." Matthews and Deutsch suggested the president would rally his most fanatical voter base and demand they "take to the streets."

-Newsweek

Especially if they believe they have God on their side, and they feel righteous anger, vengeance, directed at evil foreigners and liberals, who deserve to be tortured and killed, because they're supposedly the attackers who somehow wronged the white supremacists.

MAGA minions are actively preparing for a civil war against liberals, because they think they're under attack by liberals. They honestly believe liberals are just as fanatically planning to kill ignorant rednecks.

The MAGA minions have no idea that they're the only ones thinking these batshit crazy thoughts, because the robber barons are putting these crazy thoughts in their heads.

The truth is, we liberals don't even want to visit your shitty red states. We'd rather fly over them. We have no intention of attacking you guys. Real estate prices in red states are so cheap, because nobody wants to live there.

If anything, we'd like to help you guys, and show you that your lives don't have to totally suck. Your lives could actually be better if you would stop voting for robber barons who keep exploiting you more and more each day.

But you MAGA minions think you're under attack by liberals and Jews and Muslims and Mexicans, and immigrants, and refugees, and the United Nations, and the Weather Channel, and and and... You're convinced there's a giant conspiracy against you.

The only people you don't suspect of wronging you are the Republican robber barons - the motherfuckers who're actually fucking you over.

That is The Republican Conspiracy.

You think it's your duty to be our sworn enemies, because you think we liberals are your sworn enemies. But we honestly got more important shit to worry about than your crazy fanaticism. While you plan to shoot liberals, we're trying to save the fucking planet.

Global warming doesn't care if you believe in it or not.

It really doesn't matter whether you believe in science or global warming, when a mega-drought kills all your crops, a mega-flood kills all your livestock, a mega-hurricane destroys your house, or a mega-fire burns down your town.

And thoughts and prayers aren't gonna do shit. Just like thoughts and prayers don't stop mass shootings.

But you don't know any of that, because you're too busy hating liberals.

That's why you MAGA minions cheer when Trump tells you that journalists are the enemy and should be beaten.

"Trump encourages violence against reporters, and his supporters cheer

President Donald Trump on Thursday openly praised Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.) for assaulting a reporter in his bid for Congress last year, as the United States faced an unfolding crisis over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who is believed to have been killed by Saudi Arabian agents.

The remarks from Trump at a campaign rally — staged at an airport hangar here with a mountainous backdrop — drew boisterous cheers from the conservative crowd, who applauded as Trump noted of Gianforte: "By the way, never wrestle him."

"Any guy that can do a body slam, he's my kind of — he's my guy," Trump said.

Gianforte pleaded guilty to assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, an altercation that occurred in the final days of Gianforte's special election race in May 2017 when Jacobs tried to interview him about the GOP health-care plan. The then-candidate grabbed Jacobs, threw him to the ground and punched him."

-Washington Post

"If you beat up a protester at Trump's rally, he'll cover your legal fees. After receiving a notice from his security that someone might be planning to throw tomatoes at him (again), Trump told his supporters to "knock the crap out of them... I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees." The crowd vociferously cheered him on.

Trump to Iowa rally supporters: "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them."

This isn't the first time Trump has condoned violence—last year he told Fox News that a Black Lives Matter activist who got attacked at his rally "should have been roughed up."

-New Republic

We humans enjoy watching conflict. We love taking sides. That's why we love watching sports and cheering for "our" team. Team sports cater to our primitive caveman instinct of tribalism. And the more violent the sport is, the more satisfying it is. That's why a bloody UFC cage match is more interesting than golf.

Robber barons use these violent caveman instincts to their advantage.

Did you ever notice that cheering for the Republicans almost feels like cheering for your favorite sports team? They're your team! Your tribe! And Trump is the all-American quarterback! You love everything about him and the team! USA! USA! USA! You stick by your team, come what may. Even if they have a bad season, or get caught cheating. You wear their colors! Their team merchandise. Their red MAGA hats.

All of that is designed to cater to your tribalist caveman instincts.

That's also the whole point of team sports. You cheer for a random jersey color, because you are emotionally invested in it, and you think the team's jersey represents you. You think if the colored jersey wins, you win.

And the liberals are the other team. When their team loses, your team wins. You win.

Or so you think. That's why you love to see liberals cry. You think it means you're winning somehow.

The truth is, we liberals are your brothers and sisters. We're all on the same team. The robber barons are the other team. Every time you stick up for a robber baron and attack a liberal, you're shooting yourself in the foot.

But you've been so brainwashed by anti-liberal propaganda, you can't think straight. You're consumed by rage. You feel nothing but hatred for liberals. And the thought of violence against liberals actually makes you feel good.

Admit it: If Trump announced that the army opened fire on the refugees and killed a couple of hundred of them, you'd cheer.

If Trump announced that the army opened fire on liberal protesters, you'd cheer.

If Trump announced he sentenced Hillary to death, you'd cheer. You'd probably have a party, bigger than your Super Bowl party.

You are every bit as brainwashed as a Nazi minion.

We call shows like Jerry Springer a guilty pleasure, because we enjoy watching ignorant rednecks punch each other on TV. We feel pleasure when we watch that shit. The pleasure violence gives us is called bloodlust.

People love to feel outraged and gang up on other people. Wannabe dictators know that. They know that if they demonize a minority, their loyal henchmen will eagerly run with it and eventually it will turn to violence. It always does. That's why tribalism has killed more people than the black plague. Tribalism leads to bloodlust.

That's why fanatic soccer fans are known for violent street fights:

"The rise of Russia's neo-Nazi football hooligans

For the past two decades the Russian state has encouraged groups of violent far-right fans.

In the summer of 2016, the Russian football hooligan, previously a provincial sort of bogeyman, padded on to the international stage at the European Championship in France. On 10 June, an estimated 150 Russians descended on Marseille's Old Port. They moved in orderly phalanxes, greeting any England supporters they ran into with extravagant violence. One England fan had his Achilles tendons sliced. Two English men were left in a coma, one of whom was left paralysed on the left-hand side of his body (his alleged assailant, wanted for attempted murder, was arrested in Germany in February). Another man reportedly travelled home on the Eurostar with glass from a shattered bottle still lodged in his neck.

"It was like nothing I've ever seen before," Ch Supt Steve Neill, of Northumbria police, one of several officers deployed from England to aid French police that day, told Sky News. "The Russians came with serious intent to carry out barbaric violence. They were highly organised, very effective. We saw football hooliganism on a different level." One Russian hooligan who took part in the fighting later told a French news agency: "The English always say they are the main football hooligans; we went to show that the English are girls."

-The Guardian

Hooligans, fanatic, violent sports fans, are a perfect example of how nationalist tribalism leads to bloodlust.

We Germans are taught in school how Nazi propaganda worked, so that we may never be fooled by it again. You Americans are clueless. Nobody ever explained propaganda techniques to you in school.

Most of us Germans notice the patterns of fascist propaganda right away when we see it.

It probably also helps that I'm a writer. Words are my bread and butter. It's one of the few topics I know anything about. So I tend to pay close attention to the words people use, even when my own writing often doesn't look like it at first glance. But there's a reason why I choose small words and write in short sentences. It's the most effective way to communicate.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

-Albert Einstein

"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

-Albert Einstein

I write the way regular people talk. I don't try to wow anyone with fancy rhetoric. I just want to get a point across in a way that is very easy to understand for everyone. Even for non-native English speakers, because quite a few non-Americans read my books.

There are a lot of similarities between the way Trump talks and the way I write. But he's not doing it for the benefit of non-native English speakers. He's dumbing things down for the all-American audience at his rallies.

Trump talks to you MAGA minions like you're dumb children.

Trump is using the simple, repetitious language of propaganda. Trump is using the propaganda tools the Nazis invented and the Republicans perfected.

And that's why he can communicate with his MAGA minions in a way Democrats can't.

Democrats suck at coming up with catchy propaganda slogans, because they don't think like Nazis.

Democrats try to explain complex issues like global warming and green energy with big fancy words. But nobody is going to listen to your smart ideas, if they think you're a satanic witch.

"Conservative Christians Claim Ocasio-Cortez Is A Witch Leading Attack Against Trump

Frightened by a smart, articulate, attractive young woman, conservative Christians panic, worried that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is really a witch leading a demonic attack against President Trump.

Earlier this month, Dave Kubal, president of the Religious Right group Intercessors for America, explained how Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is connected to "a coven of witches that cast spells on President Trump 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

The fact that gullible conservative Christians believe the notion that Ocasio-Cortez is a witch should not be surprising. Even before Ocasio-Cortez was elected to office in 2018 conservative Christians were claiming that feminists were really witches placing powerful "hexes" on Trump.

Indeed, always superstitious and gullible, many fearful conservative Christians have expressed fears that feminists like Ocasio-Cortez are using black magic to sabotage the Trump administration.

Feeding the gullible Christians, late last year conservative website Breitbart reported on "the rise of feminist witchcraft," noting: Following President Trump's inauguration, witches, covens, and even A-list celebrities started to hex the president with frequent "spells."

-Patheos.com

Here's an actual Trump tweet:

"....are developing a really great HealthCare Plan with far lower premiums (cost) & deductibles than ObamaCare. In other words it will be far less expensive & much more usable than ObamaCare. Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win......"

@realDonaldTrump 7:23 PM - 1 Apr 2019

You see what he did there? He wrote cost in brackets, to explain to you guys what "insurance premiums" are. Because he knows most of you are too fucking stupid to know what insurance premiums are.

So he explains it a second time, with a nice short simple word, cost, so that even the dumbest motherfuckers among you understand what he's trying to tell you.

But he knows how spectacularly stupid you fuckwits are, so he explains the same thing a third time in the next sentence: "In other words it will be far less expensive."

Duuuhhh! Ohhh really?!? So you're saying lower insurance premiums are lower costs and it means they're less expensive? Ohhh! Nowww I get it!

Never mind that it's bullshit.

That's how wannabe dictators use propaganda to brainwash dumb people. They lie to you in short sentences with small words. And then they repeat it over and over.

When Trump makes weird beep-beep-boop-boop sounds on stage, or he hums and pretends he's a windmill, his cult members know exactly what he's trying to say. He's like a cartoon character from a comic book. Or like a puppet character that explains things to children on Sesame Street. He might as well put on a puppet show for his audience: Racist Elmo!

When the Muppet-in-Chief hugs the flag at one of his Hitler-style rallies, liberals roll their eyes. It's just such a pathetically fake and blatantly manipulative gesture, considering how he and his buddies are plundering America. Every intelligent person can see right through it. But his MAGA cult members can't see it.

They don't understand that he's just putting on a puppet show for them. The same way wrestlers put on a cartoonish show of good vs evil for their audiences. A lot of people in the audience honestly don't know that wrestling is fake.

"Donald Trump is a political performance artist whose repertoire is inspired by professional wrestling.

Trump has been involved with professional wrestling for several decades. He is friends with Vince McMahon, the owner of World Wrestling Entertainment. Trump's hotels and casinos have hosted the annual WrestleMania event—the Super Bowl of pro wrestling.

Trump has even appeared at WrestleMania, where in a "hair vs. hair" match, he shaved the head of Vince McMahon. World Wrestling Entertainment acknowledged Trump's many years of association by inducting him into their Hall of Fame in 2013.

And now Trump has taken the lessons he learned from those experiences and deftly applied them to his presidential primary campaign."

-Newsweek

Hugging the flag is cartoonish in its propagandistic simplicity. It's literally how a cartoonist would draw a cartoon of a person who loves America. How do you bring that message across without words? Draw a person hugging the flag! Every idiot will get the point. It's also how the "good" wrestler would show us that he's the good guy, and the other wrestler is the bad guy.

And then the mouth-breathing simpletons in his audience think: "Oh, look, he's hugging the flag! He must really love America! And what did he just say about Obama being a Muslim from Kenya? Yeah, that must totally be true, because a real flag-hugging American patriot like him would never lie!"

When he claims that wind energy doesn't work, and you can't watch TV if the wind doesn't blow, any intelligent person immediately sees what complete and utter bullshit that is. Obviously the electricity is being stored in big batteries and can be sent to you later, even if there is no wind. But there almost always is wind, just like there almost always is sunlight during the day.

Germany is one of the 3 or 4 richest countries in the world. And Germans have been using solar and wind energy for years. Almost every new house has solar panels on the roof, even though it's usually overcast in Germany. Solar panels produce free electricity even when it's overcast. And the electricity is stored in batteries, so you have electricity 24/7. Even when it's dark at night.

My parents, who live in Germany, have not had an electric bill in over 15 years. Their solar panels generate so much electricity, they sell it back to the government, and make money from it. They don't get an electric bill. They get an electric check.

And almost every farm field in Germany has large wind turbines. There are state-of-the art windmills everywhere. Tens of thousands of them. Many German farmers make more money from their energy-generating windmills than their cows.

And Germany isn't the only country that's far ahead of America in green energy technology.

"A 100% goal is not fantasy, especially in Europe. Germany has committed to an electricity supply that is at least 80% renewable, possibly as high as 100%, by mid-century. Denmark already produces around 100% of its own needs at times from renewable sources, as does Norway and Iceland, thanks to hydropower and geothermal heat."

-Quartz News

But of course ignorant Trump followers don't know any of this. That's why they're too dumb to see through Trump's propaganda lie. But it was told in such a simple way that they can remember and repeat it. And that's all that matters. That's how propaganda works.

"Guns don't kill people. People kill people."

That's another one of those simple little propaganda slogans. It sounds true, as long as you just blindly repeat it and don't ever think about it.

But let's see how true that propaganda slogan sounds, when we replace the word guns:

Cancer doesn't kill people. People kill people.

Heroin doesn't kill people. People kill people.

The opioid epidemic doesn't kill people. People kill people.

Nuclear bombs don't kill people. People kill people.

War doesn't kill people. People kill people.

Suddenly that slogan sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it?

Guns kill people. That's what they were invented for.

Trump speaks in short simple sentences with short little words. He repeats his propaganda over and over. And then his followers believe it and repeat it.

And when you try to have an intelligent, grown up conversation with his cult members about gun control, or climate change, or green energy, and the hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs it would create, all they hear is blah blah blah. And all they're thinking is: "You're a witch. Windmills give you cancer. The TV doesn't work when the wind doesn't blow. And Trump loves the flag sooo much! He's a real patriot. Beep-beep-boop-boop."

That's how simple it is to lie to dumb people.

Someone needs to tell you fucknuts that satan, witches and demons aren't real. They're imaginary. Like your entire crazy upside-down 18th century world view. You are like ignorant peasants from the Dark Ages.

Harry Potter is not a documentary. Being too dumb to know that witches and magic and demons aren't real puts you at a huge disadvantage. It's like you have an "I'm stupid" sign stuck to your back. Or like those red MAGA dunce caps you guys love to wear.

Those red MAGA hats are basically a warning sign that lets the rest of the world know you're a fucking idiot. Like the blue handicapped sign, but for dumb people.

YOU'RE NOT MIDDLE CLASS. YOU'RE POOR.

Most Democratic politicians can't figure out why the fuck you folks are behaving so insanely stupid all the time. They have no idea how fanatically anti-liberal you guys really are. They don't understand that you will gladly do things that hurt yourself, if you think it will hurt liberals.

You guys constantly vote for Republican robber baron politicians who make your lives worse and worse every year. Even Bill Maher has asked the guests on his show more than once: "Why is the D for Democrat so toxic in the red states? Why do they hate us so much?"

Democratic politicians believe it's because you guys think we look down on you. They say you feel like we think you're stupid.

I'm gonna be straight with you guys. It's true. We do think you're stupid. Everyone thinks you guys are dumb as fuck. Not just the Democrats. The whole world does.

Even your Republican overlords think you guys are fucking stupid.

The Democratic politicians aren't the ones who talk to you like you're mentally challenged children. The Republicans do that.

And it's obviously working for them. Meanwhile the Democrats unsuccessfully try to talk to you about important grown up stuff, but it goes *woosh* right over your heads.

We liberals don't hate you guys. Most of us don't even understand why you guys have us so much. Your intense hatred for us seems pretty bizarre and unreasonable to most of us.

Why would you hate your fellow Americans so much?

Because the robber barons fill your heads with lies about us. They want to turn us against each other. If you want to hate someone, hate them.

We liberals don't fantasize about black vs white race wars or red vs blue civil wars, like you guys do. We're just trying to make life better for every American, including you. You shouldn't have to live in a shitty trailer in the richest country in the world.

Nobody lives in trailers in Germany. Even the poorest people live in real houses. They have almost no homeless people.

If anyone lived in a trailer, they would be considered homeless in Germany, because trailers aren't houses. They're shacks at best. That's why trailers lose value over time, instead of gaining value, like a real house. Living in a trailer is a really dumb idea. It's economic suicide.

Red-state trailer parks look like shanty towns in Africa. Shanty towns are ghettos for poor people. Nobody should have to live like that in the richest country on earth.

You MAGA minions are about 30% of the country. Every liberal has at least one of you guys in their family. All of us liberals have a dumb bible-thumping cousin, a white-supremacist alt-right social-media-troll brother, or a racist grandpa. You may be poor as dirt, and dumb as fuck, but you're still our family.

We liberals are not your enemies. We're not demons and witches. We're your family. Always remember that. We're your brothers and sisters.

Don't let the robber barons keep driving a wedge between us. They want us to fight each other, so we don't unite against them.

The things I write in this book may sound pretty harsh to you, but I honestly believe Democrats are not doing themselves or you any favors by enabling your addiction to stupid. They have to stop being too polite to point out how fucking stupid your opinions are, and how utterly clueless you are about most topics.

When you repeat one of Trump's stupid propaganda lies you heard on Fox News, Democrats shouldn't act like they respect the bullshit that comes out of your mouth. They need to call a turd a turd.

All the things you don't know could fill a book. And somebody needs to tell you that. For your own good. That's why I wrote this book. And it just scratches the surface. There is sooo much more you don't know. The things you don't know could fill a whole library.

Think of this book as an intervention. Your addiction to being dumb is hurting you and the people around you.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And the truth is, you guys are stupid. Objectively and undeniably. Most of you anyway. Your absolutely idiotic behavior and the incredibly dumb things you say and post online prove it every single day.

But we're not supposed to ever mention that, because it could hurt your widdle feelings.

Think about how crazy that is! You guys call us liberals every insult in the book. You brainwashed idiots were eagerly repeating the propaganda lie that Obama is a Muslim terrorist from Kenya. And you didn't mean that as a compliment.

You guys frequently refer to Michelle Obama as a monkey. And you guys even claimed Michelle is a gay man dressed in drag.

And talking heads on Fox News like to refer to us liberals as Demoncrats.

You've sent us letter bombs and shot up synagogues. You're collecting guns and ammo for the great civil war you're looking forward to, so you can finally kill all of us liberals once and for all.

You guys consume a daily diet of white-supremacist right-wing propaganda that brainwashes you by demonizing liberals in every imaginable way. The same way German Nazis used to demonize Jews: "Jews hate Germany! Jews hate Jesus! Jews eat babies!"

And we're supposed to just take it. We're supposed to take the high road when you guys accuse us of being radical socialist libtards, traitors, satanic witches, baby killers, and literally demons!

But, oh no, heaven beware that we might mention you guys are fucking dumb as a rock and blindly loyal to robber barons and their utterly corrupt politicians, who fuck you over and lie to you every day of your miserable lives.

You guys love to make fun of politically correct millennial snowflakes and their silly trigger warnings and safe spaces. To be honest, so do I.

I think there's something seriously wrong with a society that thinks it's wrong to tell the truth, because it could potentially hurt someone's feelings. You're not doing anyone any favors if you don't allow snowflakes to develop coping skills, by shielding them from uncomfortable thoughts.

The "woke crowd" is a tiny but loud minority of self-righteous online trolls. Their politically correct extremism doesn't represent most Democrats. Most Democrats agree with you, that the PC police is taking political correctness way too far. So I totally understand why you guys think it's stupid.

"Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture

25 percent of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives, and their views are far outside the American mainstream. Some 8 percent of Americans are progressive activists, and their views are even less typical. By contrast, the two-thirds of Americans who don't belong to either extreme constitute an "exhausted majority." Their members "share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints, and a lack of voice in the national conversation."

Most members of the "exhausted majority," and then some, dislike political correctness. Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that "political correctness is a problem in our country." Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24. On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages."

-The Atlantic

Most Democrats agree with Republicans that extreme political correctness is bullshit. It's just another pointless wedge issue, designed to divide and conquer. Someone wants us to fight over political correctness, because it turns us against each other.

But what you Republicans don't realize is that you're the biggest beneficiaries of political correctness. It's political correctness that prevents most Democrats from honestly telling you MAGA minions, how unbelievably ignorant your uninformed opinions are. And how out-of-touch with reality your racist religious beliefs from the Dark Ages are. And how dirt poor you are. And that your red states are so shitty, nobody wants to live there.

The talking heads on Fox News have convinced you that life in red states is paradise. The #1 place to live in the world. Which sounds like it's true, as long as you don't know how much better life is in other countries.

But life is not just better in other countries. It's even better in American blue states.

I know, that's not what they tell you on Fox News, but it's true. Trust me. I travel a lot. I've seen life in red states, and I've seen life in blue states. It's not even a contest.

I didn't grow up in the US. I have no blind tribal allegiance to any one particular state just because I was born there. I can look at all the states objectively and then choose to live wherever I want. And, like most rational people, I'd rather shoot myself in the face than live in a shitty red state.

The small towns in red states are dying, because everyone is moving to the blue states, or the big blue cities in red states. A larger and larger percentage of Americans is living in the big blue cities, because life in the rural red states is fucking garbage.

"More Americans are living in cities now than a decade ago, according to U.S. Census data released on Monday.

The most urban state is California \- one that dominates the popular imagination as a land of empty deserts, open beaches and thick redwood forests - the Census numbers showed.

In 2010, a total of 80.7 percent of Americans lived in urban areas, up from 79 percent in 2000.

Conversely, 19.3 percent of the U.S. population lived in rural areas in 2010, down from 21 percent in 2000.

At the same time, the population of urban areas grew by 12.1 percent, much faster than the country's growth rate of 9.7 percent from 2000 to 2010."

-Reuters

Blue cities are growing, while the rural red areas are falling farther and farther behind.

All the cool kids want to live in the big cool cities, like New York or Los Angeles. Everyone wants to come to the big blue cities, where the liberals live. Even foreigners.

No tourist comes to America to visit a trailer park in Alabama. They come for Time Square and Hollywood. They come here for the cool America, the liberal America.

Nobody likes the lame America where all the crazy racist rednecks live.

You don't have to worry about immigrants coming to your shithole town. Nobody wants to live in your dirty little shit-town. Not even immigrants. Not even you or your kids. That's why your town is dying.

Deep down you know it's true. If you could afford it, you would live in New York or Los Angeles, too. Even Fox News is based in New York. Not Alabama or some other shitty red state where no one wants to live.

The millionaires who work at Fox News want to live in New York. Because life in liberal blue cities is so much better than in shitty backwoods rural red states.

"It's a stark statistic: Each year in the U.S., more than 34,000 people commit suicide. But that's not the whole story. Truth is, suicide rates vary tremendously across the country, with the highest rates tending to be in rural areas and places where depressed people have easy access to firearms."

-CBS News

Suicide rates in red states are skyrocketing. Scientists even have a new term for it: deaths of despair. Deaths by suicide, drug overdose and alcoholism.

Check out the HBO documentary One Nation Under Stress. There is a deaths-of-despair epidemic in red states. It's bringing down the average life expectancy of white men in a way not seen since World War 1. The death of despair epidemic is killing more people than the AIDS epidemic at its worst.

"Trump's Election Map Also Maps "Despair Deaths"

The opioid crisis is rooted in rural America.

In March, commentators began to notice a strong correlation between where now President-Elect Donald Trump was successfully polling and the places where white Americans were increasingly dying.

These "despair deaths" are tied to the opioid crisis plaguing the United States, and on Tuesday night, they proved to be one of the best predictors for how people were actually casting their votes in the Presidential election. If you overlay the map of where mortality rates for white people are rising and where Trump won votes, you'll notice they align.

From 1999 to 2014, the mortality rate for white people between 45 and 50 years old who only had a high school education increased by 134 deaths per 100,0000. With death rates that have risen 50 percent since 1990, rural white women in their late 40s are experiencing the highest spike in death rates.

Heavy drinking, smoking, and opioid addiction — which often results in overdoses — have contributed to these deaths. These factors are believed to have caused rural Americans to distrust the government, fueling fears that a "white genocide" is happening in the United States. "Despair, depression, and disillusionment can often result in drug and alcohol abuse," La Salle University sociologist Charles Gallagher told Inverse in March, "and that is what's playing out."

-Inverse.com

That's how shitty life is in Republican-run red states. Because they're run by Republican robber barons. And you keep voting for them. And your life keeps getting worse. And you're too dumb to see the connection.

Life in Republican red states is shit, because they're run by Republican robber barons.

But that's not what they tell you dumb-dumbs, is it? The millionaires on Fox News keep telling you that the liberal blue cities are disaster areas. Apocalyptic wastelands, mismanaged by insane liberal extremists. They tell you that people are fleeing, FLEEING liberal cities. To convince you to vote for corrupt Republican politicians who work for the robber barons.

Well, according to the Census, that's the exact opposite of the truth. Sure, some people can't afford to live in the expensive blue cities, so they have to move to cheaper rural red areas. But overall the cities are growing, faster and faster. Because they're the cool America. Even Fox News would rather live there than in some red state shithole.

Democratic politicians are never supposed to mention that you guys are dirt poor. It's taboo. It's one of the many touchy subjects we're never supposed to mention, to protect your widdle feelings. You can thank political correctness for that.

They say if we mention how poor you are, it makes us sound arrogant, and then you won't vote for liberal politicians, who are trying to make your lives better.

Ha! Like you idiots would ever vote for a liberal politician! Even just the word liberal has become toxic among you folks. Just like the word Jew was toxic in Nazi Germany.

You guys have been brainwashed by your overlords to see liberals as your biggest enemies on the planet. There is nothing any liberal could say or do to change that. Except maybe hug the flag like a muppet on Sesame Street.

And the idea that that's going to change, if we're just a little nicer and more polite to you guys and act like you're not fucking stupid, while you spew nothing but venom and rabid hatred at us, is just silly.

It's like telling Jews that if they had only been a little more polite to the Nazis, maybe the Nazis wouldn't have killed millions of them.

You brainwashed fools would literally rather vote for an alleged child molester than a Democrat, because you guys seriously believe liberals are even worse than child molesters!

"In 2017, the whole world is watching a different bizarre political spectacle in the American South, as the Republican Party just can't quit Roy Moore, its Senate candidate in a critical special election next month. This even as allegations pile up that, as a 30-something prosecutor, Moore trolled for young and sometimes underage teen girls at the mall, the YMCA and even dance recitals, and did some horrible things the times he caught up to them.

It's too late for Republicans to yank Moore off the December 12 ballot, so any action to undercut Moore — promoting a write-in candidate as an alternative, for example — would surely mean victory for Democrat Doug Jones. And the loss of one Senate vote for Republicans — who currently hold a slim and cantankerous 52-48 majority — would dim any hopes for the party's agenda of tax cuts throwing dollars at big corporations and billionaires and pennies (if that) at the rest of us. So the new GOP mantra is, "Vote for the alleged teen molester, it's important."

Alabana's governor, Kay Ivey, said that while she believes the multiple women making lurid allegations against Moore, she plans to vote for him anyway. She told the Alabama newspapers that "we need to have a Republican in the United States Senate to vote on things like the Supreme Court justices, other appointments the Senate has to confirm and make major decisions. So that's what I plan to do, vote for Republican nominee Roy Moore."

-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"President Donald Trump endorses accused child molester Roy Moore

After weeks of tacit support, President Donald Trump has explicitly called for Alabamans to elect Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has eight allegations of child molestation and assault and inappropriate sexual behavior against him.

"Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama," Trump tweeted Monday morning."

-Vox.com

Yeah, remember those tax cuts Trump promised? How did that work out for you when you filed this year? Did you pay far more taxes than last year, like the rest of the middle class? Gee, who could have seen that coming? Oh yeah, intelligent people with a decent education. That's who.

"Workers barely benefited from Trump's sweeping tax cut, investigation shows

Big companies drove Donald Trump's tax cut law but refused to commit to any specific wage hikes for workers, despite repeated White House promises it would help employees, an investigation shows.

The 2017 Tax and Jobs Act – the Trump administration's one major piece of enacted legislation – did deliver the biggest corporate tax cut in US history, but ultimately workers benefited almost not at all."

-The Guardian

"About 7 of 10 taxpayers told a recent CBS News poll they either saw no change or are paying more in taxes because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the sweeping tax overhaul that was signed into law by Mr. Trump at the end of 2017. With the provisions taking effect last year, taxpayers are now tallying their final accounting and, in many cases, wondering what happened to the tax cuts touted by Mr. Trump and GOP lawmakers."

-CBS News

Trump's tax cuts benefited the super rich, like everything the Republicans do, because the Republicans are the party of the robber barons. They fuck over the peasant class (which is all of us) and give to the rich few.

"The private plane tax loophole is so egregious even millionaires like me want to close it

The wealthiest Americans have an obligation to speak up when the system is unfairly rigged in our favor. Millionaires and billionaires will enjoy their private flights much more this winter season following the GOP's tax reform plan. The recently passed tax bill will provide the biggest wins for America's richest citizens, according to expert analysis. Some of these benefits will happen gradually or in subtle ways. Others, however, are much more obvious.

One of these examples is the way the bill solidifies existing exemptions for owners and leasers of private jets.

This is hardly what middle-class Americans expected when the GOP promised to deliver unprecedented tax relief for working families."

-NBC News

"Teachers spend $1.6 BILLION per year on school supplies. The Republican tax bill ELIMINATES their ability to deduct those expenses."

-Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein

So, let me get this straight, Trump's tax cuts made it so that billionaires can deduct their private jets, but teachers can no longer deduct school supplies?!?

That is fucking insane! Who the fuck would ever vote for that?

Billionaires and their dumb, uneducated, loyal, obedient servants. That's who.

"Trump's Master Class in Tax Deceit

The president repeated in Iowa his oft-touted line that the United States is one of the world's highest taxed nations. In reality, taxes as a proportion of the overall economy is among the lowest in the industrialized world. Out of the 35 developed countries, the United States ranks 31st. Looking just at corporate taxes, we rank 17th, a far cry from the top.

Trump let the crowd in Iowa know that, while he loves poor people, he doesn't think they should be in control of the economy. And by poor here, he really meant nonbillionaires. The statement was in reference to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a billionaire many times over. Trump, a billionaire himself, appointed the wealthiest cabinet in American history, with fellow billionaire Betsy DeVos running the Education Department and centi-millionaire Steve Mnuchin running the Treasury Department.

Trump's professed love for them notwithstanding, poor people, or really the yacht-less masses that make up the vast majority of the country, have no role in the economic policy formation inside the White House. That much should be obvious when you consider who benefits from this tax plan, but it's refreshing to hear the president say it."

-U.S. News

These Republican motherfuckers are like reverse Robin Hoods. They steal from the poor and give to the rich. And it shows. The standard of living in red states is worse than some third world countries. Seriously.

Check out a documentary called Rich Hill. You can probably find it on Netflix. It's about dirt poor Appalachian hillbillies. These people basically live barefoot in mud huts without electricity or running water. In the richest country on earth!

That's fucking nuts!

How could people be this dirt poor in America?!? It just blows my mind! That level of extreme poverty is unimaginable in Germany. It's the kind of shit Germans only see in documentaries about third world countries, and in America.

Well, if you're living in a red state, you're probably used to that shit. You think it's normal. You probably live in some shitty trailer and you think you're middle class.

European TV stations show a lot of documentaries about the insane level of poverty in America.

And Chinese TV actually has their own version of that commercial, where Sally Fields is begging TV viewers for some money for dirt poor kids in Africa. Except the Chinese commercial is asking for money to feed starving American children!

That's fucking embarrassing.

I like driving. I prefer it over flying. I have all the time in the world, so it doesn't matter to me how long it takes me to get somewhere.

You see more when you drive. I like to stop along the way and smell the roses. Take a picture for the Gram. Get off the highway and explore winding back roads. Walk through a new town I've not seen before.

Traveling is about the journey, not the destination.

I travel a lot. It's what I do for fun. I've been on more cross-country road trips than I can remember. I have been to each and every state, and many of them more than once. I wrote a couple of books about some of my road trips. You can find them on Amazon.

I have probably seen more of what the United States actually looks like than most other Americans, except maybe cross-country truck drivers.

And what I've seen while driving from coast to coast was shocking. The red states are so poor, they really do look like third world countries. I'm not exaggerating.

It's hard to believe for someone who lives in New York City or Los Angeles, just how dirt poor most people in the fly-over red states really are, unless you've seen it with your own eyes. It's worse than most of us liberals can imagine.

"Economic Inequality: It's Far Worse Than You Think

In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chris Rock said, "Oh, people don't even know. If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets." The findings of three studies, published over the last several years in Perspectives on Psychological Science, suggest that Rock is right. We have no idea how unequal our society has become.

The average American believes that the richest fifth own 59% of the wealth and that the bottom 40% own 9%. The reality is strikingly different. The top 20% of US households own more than 84% of the wealth, and the bottom 40% combine for a paltry 0.3%. The Walton family, for example, has more wealth than 42% of American families combined."

-Scientific American

Humans are pretty self-centered by nature. We all think that we're the center of the universe, which is only natural, since we perceive the rest of the world literally through our own eyes. You sit right in the front row center seat of the panoramic widescreen that is your life.

We all see ourselves as the baseline for what is normal, to us. We are the center of what is right, to us. Nobody thinks of themselves as a crazy extremist.

You can observe that phenomenon everywhere. In traffic for example. If you're like everyone else, you think you're a good driver. At the very least above average!

Everyone thinks of themselves as an above average driver. Obviously that's statistically impossible. Someone has to be below average. That's what the word average means.

But everyone thinks: "The way I drive is perfect. Everyone should drive like me. Everyone who drives slower than me is a fucking idiot, and everyone who drives faster than me is a god-damn maniac!"

It works the same way for politics. Everyone thinks: "I'm a centrist. I'm normal. And everyone who is to the left or right of me is a radical extremist."

You American conservatives are extremely extreme right-wing extreme extremists. Nobody loves predatory capitalism more than you do. But even you guys think you're the center and everyone else are crazy radical leftist socialist liberals.

Socialist Latin America! And socialist Europe! Socialist Canada! Asia! Russia! You guys think every other country on the planet is socialist, because they're all to the left of you.

And you think they're all a bunch of lefty pinko commie radicals! The whole world is a giant anti-American conspiracy! And the United Nations is the headquarter of the conspiracy! And the Jews are behind it all!

Uhmm, no, the whole rest of the world is not a giant leftist anti-American conspiracy. You guys are just a bunch of radical, crazy right-wing extremists. You just can't see it yourself.

And we're not supposed to mention it. Because it could hurt your widdle feelings.

It's like when you're ugly and everyone else is too polite to mention it. We're not supposed to tell you how stupid you are and how ugly your behavior is. We're supposed to act like your ignorant opinions are valid too, and not at all radical extremist right-wing propaganda garbage you heard on Fox News last night.

If you drew a line to represent the global political spectrum, and placed the name of every country somewhere along that line, America would be on the very far right of that global political spectrum. And virtually every other country on the planet would be to the left of the US.

That doesn't mean everyone else is leftist. They just look like they're to the left of you, from where you're sitting, because you American "conservatives" are extremely right-wing radical extremists.

But you think you're normal, from your point of view. For you, you're the center. But you're not. You're radical right-wing extremists. The American Taliban. You're just too dumb to know it.

But when you look to the right, there is no one sitting on that side of you. Not even right-wing Israel. No matter how extremely right-wing Benjamin Netanyahu's government may be, even Israel has universal healthcare.

Every cool country, and even most third world countries, have universal healthcare. Even Iraq under Saddam Hussein had universal healthcare! Even a so-called monster gave everyone in his country free universal healthcare!

What does that tell you about the robber barons who run America's private insurance corporations?

When America overthrew Saddam, America had to continue to give all Iraqis free universal healthcare, or they'd get pissed that Americans were treating them worse than Saddam did.

Funny, huh?

I'm not kidding you. American taxpayers paid for free universal healthcare in Iraq. But it was hidden in the military budget, so you wouldn't find out about it.

"Iraq's Public Healthcare System in Crisis

The instability across Iraq's once-prestigious healthcare network represents the tragic culmination to a longer trajectory of decline marked by war, sanctions, funding shortfalls, and neglect over nearly three decades. Before the imposition of international sanctions in 1991, Baghdad operated some of the most professional and technologically advanced healthcare and public health institutions in the Arab World."

-Epic-USA.org

In every other civilized society, universal healthcare is as normal and common as indoor plumbing. Even in Saddam's Iraq.

When other countries look at the back-asswards clusterfuck that is the private health insurance industry in America, they see a country that is stuck in the Dark Ages.

Germany has one of the best healthcare systems in the world. And of course it's universal healthcare.

You know how they got it? America gave it to them under the Marshall Plan after World War 2. I'm not kidding. American taxpayers paid for universal healthcare in post-war Germany. Because even the fucking Nazis had universal healthcare before World War 2.

Germans, like most people around the world, have better healthcare than Americans, and live longer than Americans. Americans have one of the worst life expectancies in the civilized world. Because the American private healthcare system is the most expensive and least efficient in the world.

"Who lives longest? Top 20 nations for life expectancy

Wondering where the U.S. is? Not in the top 20. As of 2017, the CIA pegs America at number 43 on its life expectancy list, with an average lifespan of 80 years.

However, in November 2018 the CDC reported U.S. life expectancy was in decline due to higher rates of suicide and drug overdoses, with an average lifespan of 78 years and 7 months."

-CBS News

America also has the highest birth mortality rate in the civilized world. More mothers and babies die during birth in America, than in other rich countries. And you know in which states it's the worst?

Yupp, in red states. Red states are like third world countries.

"The astonishing numbers behind the Republican crusade against pregnant women

America's maternal mortality rate ranks among the highest in the developed world

In 2016, The Lancet published the results of an international study on maternal mortality that found U.S. women were almost three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications as their counterparts in Germany or the U.K., and almost seven times as likely as women in Finland. According to the medical journal, maternal mortality in the U.S. increased from 16.9 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 26.4 per 100,000 live births in 2015."

-Salon.com

"The new report showed that, from 2013 through 2015, the infant mortality rate in the US ranged from 9.08 deaths per 1,000 infants born alive in Mississippi -- which had the highest rate \-- to 4.28 deaths per 1,000 live births in Massachusetts, which had the lowest."

-CNN

"America is a health-care outlier in the developed world

It is also the only large rich country without universal health coverage. And health-care costs can be financially ruinous."

-The Economist

Every other cool country has universal healthcare, and the people there live longer.

Universal healthcare is as normal and common as indoor plumbing in the rest of the world. Even poor countries provide better access to healthcare to their citizens than America does.

The private healthcare system in America is the most expensive and least efficient in the world.

Our private health insurance system is not #1.

It's fucking garbage that the robber barons push on us, so they can exploit us and put billions of profit in their pockets.

Even if it means pregnant women and babies die.

Republicans are baby killers.

And when Obama tried to fix that, you fucking morons were against it. You still are.

Apparently you fucking morons think that having at least the same decent quality of life that every other country takes for granted, is somehow a crazy radical leftist idea.

That's how fucking stupid you guys are.

You guys seriously believe that the idea of universal healthcare, or medicare for all, is somehow crazy and radical. Because you're too dumb and too uneducated to know that it's perfectly normal in the rest of the world, and works better and is cheaper than our shitty private system that's owned by robber barons who only care about maximizing their own profits, at the expense of everyone else.

"Last month, Nostrum Laboratories, a small Missouri-based drugmaker, more than quadrupled the price of a bottle of nitrofurantoin from $474.75 to $2,392, according to Elsevier's Gold Standard drug database.

In an interview, Nirmal Mulye, Nostrum chief executive, said he had priced the product according to market dynamics, adding: "I think it is a moral requirement to make money when you can . . . to sell the product for the highest price."

-Financial Times

"Here's why many prescription drugs in the US cost so much—and it's not innovation or improvement

Americans spend about $1,200 on prescriptions drugs a year, according to the latest figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That's more than people pay in any other developed country in the world.

Other countries have had success holding down drug prices by employing centralized price negotiations, according to the Commonwealth Fund, and minimizing out-of-pocket expenses by offering universal coverage.

For at least a decade, a majority of Americans have been dissatisfied with the country's largely for-profit health-care system, according to Gallup. In one poll, 71 percent of respondents said the system is "in a state of crisis" or "has major problems." That's partly because costs are more expensive in the U.S. than elsewhere: Overall, the country spends twice as much as its peers, yet it gets poorer results."

-CNBC

"The cost of these pharmaceutical drugs is astronomically high in the United States, but what are other countries paying for the same drugs? The United States has some of the highest out-of-pocket payments for medical treatment. In India, the government pays for antiretroviral treatment for HIV patients at a per person cost of between $75 and $450 USD per year. Compare that to the average US HIV treatment cost of between $24,000 and $60,000.

The real question is what is causing such a disparity in price? Why does the US charge more for the same medicine? The reason is not particularly simple, but it can largely be boiled down to an issue of our broken insurance system and capitalism.

The first problem in the drug cost equation is insurance. The American insurance system is convoluted and largely privatized."

-Medium.com

Robber barons love to privatize stuff. Not because it's actually good for us little guys. It's just so that they can milk us peasants and make billions of dollars at our expense, like parasites. That's what robber barons and their propaganda outlets really mean when they use the word "privatize."

Privatizing prisons isn't better. Privatizing schools isn't better. Privatizing healthcare isn't better. It's worse than the universal healthcare they have in every other modern country. But the robber barons don't want you to know that. They want you to be nice and dumb.

The American middle class is dying. And that's the beginning of the end for a country.

But the robber barons don't care. They're greedy motherfuckers. All they care about is getting richer and richer, because nothing is ever enough. And once there is nothing left to steal in America, they hop on their private jets and go exploit the peasants in some other country. Like Britain.

If you're honest with yourself, you know you're being bled dry. You work harder and harder but you just can't catch a fucking break. If you live in a shitty trailer in a shitty red state, you've probably asked yourself on more than one occasion, why life is so fucking hard. It feels like an obstacle race. A constant uphill battle. Nothing ever seems to go right.

You work your ass off and got nothing to show for it. And you're falling farther and farther behind, while the rich robber barons are getting richer and richer.

"The shocking number of Americans who can't cover a $400 expense

About 46 percent of Americans said they did not have enough money to cover a $400 emergency expense. Instead, they would have to put it on a credit card and pay it off over time, borrow from friends or family, or simply not cover it at all."

-Washington Post

Half the country doesn't even have $400 to their name. Restaurant workers, teachers, soldiers, farmers... everyone is dirt poor.

Meanwhile the robber barons in America are the richest robber barons in the world.

And you're rooting for them, you fucking imbecile.

You think you're on the same team as the robber barons. You think if the robber barons win, you win. You're proud when you see more American billionaires than Russian or Chinese or Saudi Arabian billionaires on the Forbes' Richest People in The World list.

I know you don't know this, but your level of stupidity is epic. EPIC.

Remember what I told you earlier about everyone thinking of themselves as the normal center? It works the same when it comes to money. You think that what you earn is what normal people earn. The middle class. Everyone who earns less than you is poor, and everyone who earns more than you is rich. Everyone thinks that way.

That's why you guys think you're middle class and we liberals are the rich coastal elites.

But we liberals think we're middle class and you're dirt poor. We're just too polite to say it.

But I think it's time we stop enabling your stupidity with our political correctness. Look what being polite has gotten us. You think we're your worst enemies. Baby-killing, satan-worshipping demons. To you, we liberals are not even real humans. We're just subhumans. Like the Jews, and the Muslims, and the Mexicans, and the blacks, and the socialists at the United Nations.

I think it's time we stop worrying about your widdle feelings and tell you that you guys are a bunch of fucking idiots and you're destroying this country with your ignorant bullshit.

You claim to love America, and then you keep voting for Republican robber barons who're turning red state after red state into a bankrupt shithole wasteland.

Of course that's not what Fox News tells you. They tell you that the red states are paradise and blue states are apocalyptic disaster zones, overrun by hordes of leprosy-infested, flesh-eating, terrorist, immigrant, MS13 gang rapist, invaders. And you believe that shit, because you're too dumb to know when you're being lied to, and too poor to visit a blue state for yourself to see with your own eyes that you're being lied to.

"How blue states help red states

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress love to demonize government handouts. But their own red-state supporters depend on these handouts. And the handouts are increasingly financed by the inhabitants of blue states.

The term "welfare" is especially unpopular in red states that vote Republican and support Trump. But when you think broadly about all forms of government assistance, these same red states are often the biggest beneficiaries.

If you include price supports for agriculture, subsidies for land management and forestry, and federal money flowing to defense contractors, you'll find that the economies of red states depend heavily on federal dollars.

But that's not even the biggest irony. It turns out residents of blue states send more tax money to Washington than they get back in federal help, while residents of red states send less money to Washington than they get back in federal help.

In 2015, for example, New Jersey got back only 74 cents in federal spending for every tax dollar its inhabitants sent to Washington, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government. New York got back 81 cents on the dollar, Connecticut 82 cents and Massachusetts 83 cents.

But when you turn to the red states, it's the opposite. Mississippi received $2.13 for every tax dollar that its inhabitants sent to Washington. West Virginia received $2.07, Kentucky: $1.90 and South Carolina $1.71."

-San Francisco Chronicle

"Food Stamp Use is Highest in Red States: The Truth Republicans Do Not Want You to Know"

-MIC.com

"U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows that since 2012, SNAP participation is highest among households in rural areas and small towns under 2,500 people."

-Harvest Public Media

"Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Primarily Help the GOP's Base

Republicans want to shrink government. But their core voters benefit from assistance, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the most."

-The Atlantic

"Whites are the biggest beneficiaries when it comes to government safety-net programs like the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, commonly referred to as welfare.

White people without a college degree ages 18 to 64 are the largest class of adults lifted out of poverty by such programs, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The think tank's 2017 report stated that 6.2 million working-age whites were lifted above the poverty line in 2014 compared to 2.8 million blacks and 2.4 million Hispanics.

When it comes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP—the initiative formerly known as food stamps—the numbers look similar.

Just over 40 percent of SNAP recipients are white. Another 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American, according to a 2015 Department of Agriculture report."

-Newsweek

We liberals aren't the ones asking you guys for handouts. We're giving you handouts. Because that's what we liberals believe in. Just like Jesus. Helping each other. Helping those who need it the most. And that's you guys. Because you're dirt-fucking-poor.

Every time you vote for a Republican robber baron, you're voting for someone who is gonna make you even poorer. The 10 poorest states are red states. 97 of the 100 poorest counties are in red states.

I'm not making fun of you. I'm just being real with you. I'm telling you as clearly as possible how poor and misinformed you really are.

When Democratic politicians talk about helping the poor, they don't just mean black people. They mean you. You are the poor people Democrats want to help.

Democrats are trying to help you feed your family. But you're too busy throwing your own feces at Democrats to listen to a word they're saying.

You guys are recipients of "socialist wealth redistribution," and you don't even know it. Because you're fucking dumb as a rock. You have no idea what's going on in the world, or how America actually works, because you're constantly being lied to, and you're too dumb to notice.

Nobody in their right mind would ever vote for a robber baron. That's why robber barons have to make sure you're not in your right mind. The best way to do that is to keep you ignorant and misinformed. That way it's easier to lie to you. You'll be too dumb to know the difference.

One of the many lies they tell you is that you're middle class. You're not poor. No no. Even if you live in your truck, because you got sick and couldn't even afford your $400 rent for your shitty trailer. But yeah, you're totally middle class. And you believe it. Because it sounds right. Because you think you're the normal center.

And that right there is one of the Republicans' most brilliant propaganda tricks. They have figured out how to weaponize the fact that everyone thinks they're middle class.

Even the poorest barefoot hillbillies in the poorest red states. Nobody wants to think of themselves as losers at the very bottom of American society. Racism is like a safety blanket for losers.

No matter how low you are in white society, you think you're still better than liberals, Muslims, Mexicans, African-Americans, immigrants and refugees.

That's why you keep emphasizing that you're white, and tell yourself that being white is better than being non-white.

As long as you think there are richer white people above you and poorer non-white people below you, you think you're in the middle.

And that's why even dirt-poor people in red states think of themselves as middle class.

Whenever the Democrats talk about wanting to help poor people, you think they're not talking about you. Because you think you're middle class.

You're constantly being told by right-wing propaganda outlets that you're middle class, and there is still someone below you: the blacks. And the Mexicans. And the refugees. And the liberals who're too lazy to work and want free stuff and handouts.

Wait a minute, now we liberals are suddenly supposed to be the poor ones asking you guys for money? I thought we're the elitist coastal snobs?

How is it that whenever it's convenient, you accuse us liberals of being rich and out of touch with "real" middle class Americans, and then five minutes later you accuse us of being poor and demanding free handouts from "real" middle class Americans?

It really doesn't matter how obvious the propaganda lies are, does it?

You guys will believe every crazy bad thing the robber barons and their loyalist mouthpieces tell you about liberals. Even the baby-killer bullshit. Meanwhile the real baby killers are the Republican robber barons who deny you decent healthcare, because it would cut into their obscene profits.

On one of my road trips I was in El Paso. When I arrived at the hotel, I went into my room and turned on the TV. It was tuned into Fox News. I despise Fox News. I can feel my IQ drop a few points, every time I watch that shit. But I was too lazy to look for the remote, so I just left it on Fox, while I unpacked.

This was a few years ago, and at that time the Republican robber barons were fear-mongering as usual, to manipulate the dumb loyalist masses to vote for them, so that the robber barons may protect them from the imaginary evil foreigners: "The other tribe is eeevil! Booga booga! Vote for meee! Only I can protect you from the evil invaders who want to rape your women and eat your babies!"

It was the usual right-wing bullshit. They had a guest on the show, who was a self-proclaimed Minuteman.

A couple of years ago, everyone was talking about these redneck idiots, called Minutemen, who drove along the southern border, armed to the teeth, ready to "defend" America from the Mexican "invaders."

This guy on TV looked like a total fucking weirdo. He was dressed like he lived in the civil war era, and even had a Confederate civil war mustache and beard. And he kept rambling on and on about how there was an "invasion of heavily-armed platoon-strength Mexican paramilitary units" who were invading America "to hurt Americans."

He kept repeating phrases like "invasion" and "platoon-strength" and "heavily-armed" and "to hurt Americans" over and over. They were his propaganda talking points. He kept repeating them over and over. You have to repeat propaganda lies over and over. That's how you make dumb people believe them.

That's why Trump repeats his keywords over and over in his tweets, or when he talks on TV, or at one of his Nuremberg rallies among his cult members. Have you ever noticed that? He repeats key phrases over and over. So that you idiots believe it's true.

"How liars create the illusion of truth

Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding this effect can help you avoid falling for propaganda, says psychologist Tom Stafford.

"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth", is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists something like this known as the "illusion of truth" effect."

-BBC News

Anyway, so there I was in El Paso. And this fucking liar on TV kept repeating these propaganda lies over and over, telling the audience of Fox News that El Paso was under attack by heavily-armed platoon-strength Mexican units, who came to hurt Americans. He said it over and over.

He said that the people of El Paso were under siege. He said they were terrified. Women and children were getting killed in the streets. Everyone was barricading themselves in their homes. He described an active war zone. The streets and malls were empty, except for the heavily-armed platoon-strength invaders, roaming the streets, looking to hurt Americans!

And it just so happened that I was in El Paso, while he was talking about El Paso on TV. I was there. I could see with my very own eyes that every word out of his mouth was a blatant lie. It was the opposite of the truth. The exact opposite.

I had been in a busy mall in downtown El Paso right before going up to my hotel room. There were lots and lots of happy families with children, enjoying a shopping trip to the mall. Everything was peaceful. Everyone was having a calm, relaxed, nice time. And I saw the same thing when I looked out of my hotel room window.

I could see with my own eyes that the guy was blatantly lying to the viewers at home, who were not in El Paso right now, and had no way of knowing whether the stuff he was saying was true or not.

But it must be true, because he's on TV, and he keeps repeating it. They wouldn't put him on TV and let him say this stuff over and over if it wasn't true, right?

And that's how propaganda works. You believe the lies, because you don't want to believe that they're lying straight to your face, over and over and over, and telling you the exact opposite of what's actually true.

"It's striking that the Mueller report — in which Spicer and his successor, Sarah Sanders, are peripheral figures at best — still manages to incidentally document at least seven instances of Trump's press secretaries lying, four of them in the 24 hours after Trump summarily fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017.

These aren't all the times that special counsel Robert Mueller's report proves that Trump administration officials were lying, or even all the times it shows Sanders and Spicer were lying. It is limited to the cases in which the lie is noted in the report, as well as the truth it ended up obscuring."

-Vox.com

NAZI GERMANY VS PRESENT-DAY GERMANY

Where I come from, every child knows who the Nazis were, because it's part of our culture, the same way slaughtering the Native Americans and enslaving millions of Africans is part of your culture.

Nobody in America would be dumb enough to believe that it was the Native Americans who invaded Europe and enslaved a bunch of Eskimos from Greenland along the way.

That's how stupid it sounds to German ears, when you ignorant Trumpsters proclaim that the Nazis were liberal lefties.

No, a lot of the Jews were lefties. Lefties were the victims of the Nazis. The Nazis were conservative Christian right-wing nationalists. Just like you.

After World War 2, America helped reconstruct Germany under the Marshall Plan, to ensure that modern Germany would become an American ally.

Part of that plan was to de-nazi-fy German schools. America made sure that German schools taught critical thinking, so that Germany would become a liberal democracy, like America. Never again should gullible Germans blindly follow authority figures who manipulate the masses with propaganda lies the way Hitler did. Or the way Trump does today.

Thanks to America and the Marshall Plan, Germany now has some of the finest schools and free colleges in the world, and Germans are some of the world's most liberal, most educated, most analytical, and most critical thinkers on the planet.

In Germany, even the poorest immigrant can go to medical school for free, and become a rich brain surgeon.

Thank you, America.

Thanks to the very good free education Germans enjoy, we hold the ability to think for yourself in very high regard. America calls itself the land of the free. Germany calls itself the land of writers and thinkers. The land of philosophers.

Nowadays we Germans absolutely hate people who blindly follow orders without thinking. Nothing good ever comes from that. Blind loyalty, disguised as patriotism, is what Nazi Germany was built on.

In present-day Germany, you almost never hear anyone use the word patriotism. It's almost like it has been erased from our vocabulary. It's a word the Nazis loved to use. That's why we don't use it anymore. It's a dirty, tainted word to us.

"One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans."

-Andy Rooney

You know why Trump keeps hugging the flag at his Hitler-style rallies?

"In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."

-Eugene Victor Debs

"Patriotism is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit."

-Emma Goldman

"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."

-Howard Thurman

"Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others."

-Emma Goldman

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

-Bertrand Russell

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

-George Bernard Shaw

"But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile."

-Patrick O'Brian

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."

-George Bernard Shaw

"What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own.

I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children."

-Howard Zinn

"All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born."

-Francois de Salignac de La Mothe-Fenelon

The world-famous liberal, progressive, leftie Jewish-German genius Albert Einstein hated Hitler and his brainwashed nationalist right-wing minions.

Einstein was way ahead of his time. He already felt that way, when most other Germans were still obedient, mindless minions who cheered for Hitler at his Trump-style rallies:

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism on command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

-Albert Einstein

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child.

The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society."

-Albert Einstein

Woah, listen to him go. Einstein was waaay more of a leftie than Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Remember that, the next time some Republican talking head on Fox News calls them crazy or stupid. Albert Einstein agreed with them. The smartest man ever.

"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."

-Albert Einstein

That quote sounds like something I would say. I think Albert Einstein would have liked this book.

Einstein was even more of a leftie than I am:

"I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice. I do not consider his methods practical, but one thing is certain: men of his type are the guardians and restorers of the conscience of humanity."

-Albert Einstein

So, yeah, Einstein was a hardcore leftie who hated capitalist robber barons and believed that peasants all around the world had to rise up together against their evil overlords.

Just like that other world-famous Jewish-German philosopher, Karl Marx.

Suddenly Karl Marx doesn't sound so crazy anymore, does he?

The more you know, the more the world starts to make sense, because you see how all the puzzle pieces fit together.

Albert Einstein and Karl Marx were radical Jewish lefties, like Jesus.

Even though Einstein was Jewish, he was an atheist. A lot of liberal, progressive Jews identify with Jewish culture and heritage, but don't actually believe in a god.

"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

-Albert Einstein

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his own creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

-Albert Einstein

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."

-Albert Einstein

Einstein was a progressive, liberal, socialist, atheist Jew. In other words, he was on our team.

Hitler was a racist, right-wing, Christian, white-supremacist nationalist. He was on your team.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather be on Einstein's team.

Einstein was the smartest man in history. Hitler was the biggest monster in history.

Hitler hated Einstein and the other Jewish intellectuals.

Einstein hated Hitler and his brainwashed loyalist right-wing henchmen.

Einstein would despise today's Republican party. Einstein would loathe Trump.

"I'm a nationalist."

-Donald J. Trump. The J stands for jenius

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

-Albert Einstein, actual genius

Nationalism among nations is like racism among races.

Einstein would immediately see the uncanny similarities between Hitler and Trump, and their brainwashed minions.

"Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

Hitler was one of history's most prolific orators, building a genocidal Nazi regime with speeches that bewitched audiences.

"He learned how to become a charismatic speaker, and people, for whatever reason, became enamored with him," Professor Bruce Loebs, who has taught a class called the Rhetoric of Hitler and Churchill for the past 46 years at Idaho State University, told Business Insider earlier this year.

"People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval."

-Business Insider

"Schmidt: Trump's 'only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand'

GOP strategist Steve Schmidt said Tuesday that President Trump's "only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand" during an appearance on "Morning Joe."

-The Hill

Nowadays most Germans can smell manipulative, nationalist us-vs-them propaganda bullshit from a mile away. It's kinda like our spider-sense.

Germans can't believe that anyone would be dumb enough to follow someone like Trump.

To Germans, the similarities between Hitler's rise to power, and Trump, are unmistakable and clear as day. It's so obvious, Germans can't understand how you guys can't see it. Everyone all over the world can see it. Just not you guys.

"A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany

Usually, comparisons between Donald Trump's America and Nazi Germany come from cranks and internet trolls. But a new essay in the New York Review of Books pointing out "troubling similarities" between the 1930s and today is different: It's written by Christopher Browning, one of America's most eminent and well-respected historians of the Holocaust. In it, he warns that democracy here is under serious threat, in the way that German democracy was prior to Hitler's rise — and really could topple altogether.

Browning, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina, specializes in the origins and operation of Nazi genocide. His 1992 book Ordinary Men, a close examination of how an otherwise unremarkable German police battalion evolved into an instrument of mass slaughter, is widely seen as one of the defining works on how typical Germans became complicit in Nazi atrocities.

So when Browning makes comparisons between the rise of Hitler and our current historical period, this isn't some keyboard warrior spouting off. It is one of the most knowledgeable people on Nazism alive using his expertise to sound the alarm as to what he sees as an existential threat to American democracy.

Browning's essay covers many topics, ranging from Trump's "America First" foreign policy — a phrase most closely associated with a group of prewar American Nazi sympathizers — to the role of Fox News as a kind of privatized state propaganda office. But the most interesting part of his argument is the comparison between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Paul von Hindenburg, the German leader who ultimately handed power over to Hitler."

-Vox.com

One of history's greatest ironies is that, thanks in no small part to America, liberal present-day Germany has become the opposite of what radical right-wing Nazi Germany used to be.

Meanwhile America is becoming more and more like right-wing Nazi Germany with each passing day.

Today America is what Nazi Germany used to be. And Europe today is what America should be. The roles have switched. Just like the roles of Republicans and Democrats switched right around the time of World War 2.

"Angela Merkel is now the leader of the free world, not Donald Trump

The US President isn't motivated by protecting liberal democracy or freedom, his sole ideology is Trumpism: corporate autocracy with a populist facade. And he surrounds himself with white nationalists even more hostile to liberal democracy than he is

When Barack Obama revealed that his last phone call as President was to Angela Merkel, reaffirming their alliance and friendship of the last eight years, he wasn't just saying goodbye. He was handing over his baton. The German Chancellor isn't just the leader of Europe, she is now the de-facto leader of the free world.

The thrice-elected, soft-spoken former scientist from East Germany, armed with a doctorate in quantum chemistry, doesn't just carry the weight of Germany and Europe on her shoulders, but that of defending freedom and liberalism across the world."

-The Independent

"America's brand has taken a major hit in the age of Trump.

The United States lands with an overall No. 6 ranking in the Anholt-GfK Nation Brands Index, which measures 50 nations in multiple categories, including governance, exports, culture, people, tourism and immigration/investment. The United States was the overall No. 1 in 2016, but Germany took the top spot this year.

The source of America's big drop? President Donald Trump, says Simon Anholt, a political consultant who developed the brand survey more than a decade ago."

-CNN

Maybe that's why Trump now likes to pretend his father was born in Germany, although he was really born in New York.

"Donald Trump has wrongly claimed his father was born in Germany, again, during a press conference with the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg.

Trump made the claim while criticizing Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, whose country, the president said, "was not paying their fair share" toward the military alliance.

Trump keeps saying his father was born in Germany – he wasn't

"I have great respect for Angela and I have great respect for the country," said Trump. "My father is German, was German, born in a very wonderful place in Germany so I have a very great feeling for Germany."

Trump's father, Fred Trump, was born in New York."

-The Guardian

Anyway, let's make this perfectly clear once and for all: The Nazis were extreme right-wing nationalists. Not lefties. They hated lefties.

I know that's not what you've been told by Trump and his gang of lying Republican henchmen on Fox News, but it's true. It's common knowledge. All Germans have family members who lived through the Nazi days. We Germans know for a fact, from first hand experience, that the Nazis were not lefties but radical right-wing extremists.

They were patriotic nationalists. They believed Germany was exceptional. The greatest country in the world, and Germans (aka Aryans, or white people) were superior to all other races.

You know, pretty much exactly what you right-wing Americans think about yourselves today.

Most present-day Germans are ashamed of Germany's Nazi past. Every German child who grew up after World War 2 had to learn about how the Nazis exploited the democratic institutions of the Weimar Republic, and then dismantled German democracy piece by piece.

It was similar to what happens in the Star Wars movies. Senator Palpatine slowly manipulated the political system of the Galactic Republic until he was named Supreme Chancellor, and then Emperor. Senator Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious or the evil Emperor, turned the republic into an evil empire.

The Weimar Republic was the name of the democratic government in Germany before the Nazis. Hitler turned a democratic republic into a dictatorship, and nobody saw it coming at the time. Even though it was happening in plain sight, his minions couldn't see the forest for the trees.

It's eerily similar to the way Trump and his henchmen are dismantling American democracy today. Trump is replacing independent judges with loyalists who will do his bidding. That's what Hitler did. It's also what Putin did in Russia, and what Erdogan did in Turkey.

After Hitler replaced all the judges with his loyal henchmen, they changed the laws in his favor, and everything Hitler did became legal under German law. That's what a dictatorship is. As soon as a ruler is above the law, he becomes a dictator. That's the definition of a dictator.

And that's why it's so important for Trump to stack the justice department and the supreme court with his obedient loyalists. He's removing all checks and balances, and dismantling American democracy by controlling the institutions that were supposed to stop America's democratic republic from becoming a dictatorship. He's putting himself above the law. And that's the definition of a dictatorship.

"Trump told border agents to simply not let migrants into the country, no matter what the law says, CNN reported Monday, citing two people who witnessed the events. Tell the migrants and asylum seekers "we don't have the capacity," the sources paraphrased Trump saying. "If judges give you trouble, say, 'Sorry, judge, I can't do it. We don't have the room.'" The border agents got a second opinion, CNN reports:

After the president left the room, agents sought further advice from their leaders, who told them they were not giving them that direction and if they did what the president said they would take on personal liability. You have to follow the law, they were told."

-The Week

Thanks to Hitler's propaganda lies about a so-called worldwide anti-German conspiracy, Germans voluntarily gave up their democracy and allowed Hitler to turn Germany into a dictatorship. Most Germans believe Trump is doing the same thing in America right now. In plain sight.

And Germans know a thing or two about how democratic republics turn into dictatorships. Certainly more than you do.

Trump keeps talking about how much he loves dictators. I think the reason why he keeps saying how great dictators are, and how bad democracies like the European Union are, is because he's gradually changing your perception of what's normal.

That's how brainwashing works. If someone tells you day after day that there's an invisible man in the clouds, you start to believe it. Repetition gives a lie the illusion of truth.

"Words build bridges into unexplored regions."

-Adolf Hitler

The more Trump says dictators are cool, and democracy is lame, the more acceptable these thoughts become in your mind, and the more you believe it's true. And eventually you believe that democrats are your enemies, and Trump should be crowned king of America.

"North Korea's brutal dictator Kim Jong Un is allegedly behind the murders of his uncle, a half-brother and hundreds of other people suspected of disloyalty. A United Nations report details a North Korean citizenry imprisoned, enslaved, starved, raped and tortured. The populace lives in fear.

President Trump came away from meeting Kim—at their historic summit in Singapore earlier this week—an unabashedly adoring fan.

"He's the head of a country and he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different," Trump said during an interview with Fox News's Steve Doocy on the White House lawn Friday. "He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same."

When Baier confronted Trump with the fact that Kim is "clearly executing people," Trump replied nonchalantly, and a bit incoherently: "He's a tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people, and you take it over from your father—if you could do that at 27-years old, I mean, that's 1 in 10,000 that could do that.

Trump has continued to praise and never publicly criticize Putin, the strongman leader of a country where vocal opponents are mysteriously poisoned or die. The U.S. State Department's April human rights report describes a litany of abuses including disappearances, systemic torture, arbitrary arrests and violence against journalists.

"He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great," Trump told Republican donors during a March fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, according to CNN, about Xi's abolishment of term limits. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."

-People Magazine

I think it's only a matter of time before Trump tells his braindead MAGA minions that God wants Trump to be dictator for life. And they'll believe it. They'll cheer, if Trump promises to exterminate the Democrats, because they're liberals, and MAGA minions think all liberals are traitors, witches and demons.

Bill Maher keeps saying that he doesn't think Trump will step down when he loses the 2020 presidential election. I think Bill is right.

I think Trump will pretend that there was voter fraud, and tell his loyal MAGA minions that he'll stay in power, "until we figure out what's going on."

And wouldn't you cheer if he'll make himself dictator for life, while he locks up or executes Democrats as "traitors?"

He'll spend years pretending we can't have elections, because the Democrats are the enemy from within, who make fair elections impossible. As long as the "investigation" into "voter fraud" continues, there can't be any new elections. And the "investigation" will never end. And after a while it'll just be the new normal.

And you braindead idiots will believe it all. Because if Trump says it, it must be true. God made Trump dictator for life. And if you go against God's will, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in a privately-run for-profit concentration camp, or be executed by king Trump.

Well, let's hope I'm wrong. But I don't think I am.

"'Fox and Friends' host accidentally calls Trump a dictator

Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman is apologizing for calling President Trump a dictator."

-USA Today

There's a video clip on YouTube, of a dumb old white lady at a recent pro-Trump rally, and when someone hands her the microphone, she says:

"Never in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if there's gonna be one, I want it to be Trump."

-brainwashed MAGA minion

Sounds absolutely fucking nuts, right?

Not to MAGA minions. The MAGA-hat-wearing idiots in the audience cheered and applauded! Go watch the video yourself.

That's how brainwashed MAGA minions are. They would actually love it if Trump was a dictator. And the more he says dictators are cool, the more they want him to be dictator. Because then he could do whatever he wants to the liberals. They're not even human. They're animals. Witches and demons. God wants Trump to be dictator for life and vanquish the evil liberals! It's God's plan for America!

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

-Voltaire

"Power is usurped from the people, first by implementing fear, then it is maintained by slandering as 'unpatriotic' those who refuse submission."

-Ramman Kenoun

Obedient MAGA minions are every bit as brainwashed and bloodthirsty as Nazi Germans were. If Trump tells them to start killing liberals, they'll do it.

They're already stockpiling weapons and ammo for the coming civil war. Just ask them. They'll be proud to tell you. They love talking about their assault rifles. Big guns make small men feel big.

"Neo-Nazi in coast guard plotted attack on Democrats and journalists, say prosecutors

Lieutenant Christopher Hasson allegedly intended to 'murder civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country'

A neo-Nazi serving as a lieutenant in the US coast guard has been caught plotting to attack Democratic members of Congress, including congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and well-known media personalities, according to prosecutors.

Christopher Hasson intended "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country", according to a filing to federal court in Maryland. Law enforcement officers seized 15 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his home.

Prosecutors said Hasson was a "domestic terrorist" and should be detained. He was arrested last week on drugs and weapons charges.

The filing said Hasson, a fan of the Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, compiled a spreadsheet of apparent targets, including representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, and anchors from CNN and MSNBC.

Then he searched online for "civil war if trump impeached" and "what if trump illegally impeached", according to investigators.

-The Guardian

All Trump has to do is chant "Kill them all! Kill them all! Kill them all!" instead of "Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!"

"I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don't play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."

-Donald J. Trump, wannabe dictator and Hitler fan

That's the kind of crazy shit Hitler used to say...

"Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter—with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It's a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command—and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad—that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness—for the present only in the East—with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

-Adolf Hitler, actual dictator

While right-wing Americans are becoming more and more like old-timey Nazis every day, most present-day Germans on the other hand are very liberal and welcoming to foreigners, the way America used to be at one point in the past. The roles have switched.

For as far back as I can remember, I was taught in school that all humans are equal and part of one large human family. There is no us vs them. There is only us. All of us humans.

"In the wake of Saturday's murder of 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and after the recent wave of explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats, groups that promote tolerance are calling on politicians to tone down hyper-partisan rhetoric and ad hominem attacks they say are contributing to a national atmosphere of division, fear and even hatred.

"The reality is words have consequences," says George Selim, the Anti-Defamation League's senior vice president of programs.

The ADL calls the killings at Tree of Life synagogue the single deadliest attack on American Jewry. The group has been sounding the alarm for months on what it says is a historic 60 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents from 2016 to 2017, the biggest single-year increase in reported anti-Jewish hate since they started tracking such data almost 40 years ago."

-NPR

"Anti-Semitic incidents are surging across the U.S.

The shooting massacre of 11 worshipers at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday was the deadliest attack on Jewish people in U.S. history.

It is difficult not to see the attack — which was carried out by a man whose social media posts made clear he wanted to eradicate Jews — as the extreme tip of a trend. Anti-Semitism has always been present in American society, but in the last two years it has been especially visible.

Jewish community centers around the country received dozens of bomb threats last year. The 2016 presidential campaign included anti-Jewish imagery. White supremacists have marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Va., with torches chanting, "Jews will not replace us!"

The Southern Poverty Law Center's 2017 count of hate groups, released in February, showed that the number of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups rose to 121 — a 22% increase from the 99 a year earlier.

Some of those groups, such as Vanguard America, took part in that summer's Charlottesville rally, which jarred the country with one of the most public demonstrations of anti-Semitism and racism in decades."

-Los Angeles Times

While you folks are shooting up synagogues, harassing Muslims, and putting refugee children in concentration camps, present-day Germany is now so welcoming to Jews, that a lot of young Israeli Jews are moving to Germany. Many of them are gay, artists, musicians, and intellectuals. And Germans are very proud of that fact.

"Thousands Of Israelis Now Call Berlin Home And Make Their Cultural Mark

For decades after the Holocaust, many Jews refused to visit Germany. Some still do. But now it has become common to hear Hebrew spoken in the bakeries and bars of Berlin.

At least 10,000 Israelis are estimated to have moved to the German capital in the past decade, according to Tal Alon, the Berlin-based editor of the Hebrew-language magazine Spitz.

"If somebody would tell me 10 years ago that one day I will live in Germany, I will speak German, and I would think about applying for [a] German passport, I would say they are crazy," said Israeli food designer Itay Novik, sitting at a Berlin café with an Israeli friend.

Many Israelis who have moved to Berlin are like him: gay, or politically liberal, or freelancers in artistic and creative fields, who feel at home in the avant-garde, anything-goes city. In recent years, the Israeli ex-pat community has expanded to include a more diverse demographic including tech workers at startups."

-NPR

Most present-day Germans are still plagued by feelings of guilt for the horrible things an earlier generation of Germans committed, and today's Germans feel a sense of duty to be a force for good in the world, to make up for our dark past.

That's why Angela Merkel felt it was Germany's duty to take in over a million Syrian refugees. During World War 2, millions of Germans were refugees. We all still remember what that was like, because we all have family members who lived through it, and most of us understand what those Syrian refugees today are going through.

When we look at Syrian refugees, we see our human brothers and sisters, not enemies. Not terrorists. They're just ordinary people who desperately need help. What kind of a human being, what kind of a Christian, would turn them away?

We Germans love our homeland every bit as much as you love America. But for very different reasons. Germans love that Germany is a very free, very open, very liberal society that welcomes everyone. The more exotic, the better.

Germans love to travel. We find other countries fascinating. We want to know everything about them. Visit them. See them with our own eyes. Smell them. Absorb them. Understand them. Make them part of our own lives. Learn their customs. Eat their dishes. Bring a part of them home with us to Germany.

Americans brag about their assault rifles. Germans brag about their exotic vacations.

Germans work a lot less than Americans do. You have no idea how much more paid vacation time we get. Going on vacation is Germany's #1 past time. There's nothing we love more. Not even beer.

We're intellectually curious, and our homeland strongly encourages that. It's a matter of national pride. Germans call the urge to explore far away places Wanderlust.

And we call our love for other countries and cultures Weltoffenheit, or world-openess.

While you almost never hear the word patriotism in Germany, you hear the word Weltoffenheit all the time. We use it instead of words like open-mindedness or cosmopolitanism.

Someone who is weltoffen or cosmopolitan is someone who considers the whole world his home and all human beings his brothers and sisters.

The more you learn about the history of the human race, the more you realize that all human beings are related. We're all one big family.

Every white European has German blood and is a descendant of German tribes. So instead of Caucasian-American, you might as well call yourself German-American.

But did you know that white Germans aren't even native to Europe?

The original Europeans weren't white.

The very first Germans were Indo-Germanic tribes who invaded Europe thousands of years ago and killed the native European tribes, until there were almost no native Europeans left.

Except for a few small remnants, like the Basques in a small area in the mountains between France and Spain.

"Are the Basques the Oldest Europeans?

Studies have shown that the genetic patterns and makeup of the Basques is different to that of their neighbours. For example, the Spanish have been shown to have North African DNA, stemming from the Moorish rule of the country for over 700 years, while the Basques do not.

Another example is their language – Euskera. Both French and Spanish (and virtually all other European languages for that matter) are Indo-European languages, which are descendants of a single prehistoric language, spoken sometime in the Neolithic era, sharing certain patterns, words and grammar; however, Basque is not. In fact, Euskera is one of the oldest known languages and is not related to any other language spoken in the world today."

-Culture Trip

Another ancient non-white European tribe are the Sámi people, aka the Laplanders, in the very north of Sweden, Norway and Finland, in the arctic circle.

They're nomadic reindeer herders, many of whom still live in tents that look like Native American teepees.

That's no coincidence. The Laplanders are actually related to the Native Americans and to the Eskimos of Siberia, Canada and Alaska. They wandered around the arctic circle, when America and Russia were still connected by land, a long long time ago.

"Native Americans originated from a small mountainous region in southern Siberia, new genetic research shows. The work is the most targeted study yet to suggest a genetic "homeland" for North America's indigenous peoples, according to the authors.

New DNA analysis of ethnic groups living in the Altay Mountains (see map) revealed a unique genetic mutation that also occurs in modern-day northern Native Americans."

-National Geographic

"Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome.

While the land bridge still formed the gateway to America, the study now portrays Native Americans as a group derived from the meeting of two different populations, one ancestral to East Asians and the other related to western Eurasians, explained Willerslev, whose research was published in the November 20 edition of the journal Nature.

"The meeting of those two groups is what formed Native Americans as we know them."

-National Geographic

The Basques and the Laplanders are some the last few remaining tribes of early Europeans. Their indigenous European languages have no common roots with German or Roman languages.

"Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most of the continent relatively recently. The work, presented here last week at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, offers dramatic evidence of recent evolution in Europe and shows that most modern Europeans don't look much like those of 8000 years ago.

The origins of Europeans have come into sharp focus in the past year as researchers have sequenced the genomes of ancient populations, rather than only a few individuals. By comparing key parts of the DNA across the genomes of 83 ancient individuals from archaeological sites throughout Europe, the international team of researchers reported earlier this year that Europeans today are a mix of the blending of at least three ancient populations of hunter-gatherers and farmers who moved into Europe in separate migrations over the past 8000 years. The study revealed that a massive migration of Yamnaya herders from the steppes north of the Black Sea may have brought Indo-European languages to Europe about 4500 years ago."

-Science Magazine

Present-day Germans celebrate diversity and the shared humanity of all human beings on this little blue planet, no matter what you look like, what language you speak, or what religion you believe or don't believe in.

It's exactly the opposite of what's happening in America right now. America is regressing. While every other country on earth is making at least small steps towards progress, world peace, and improving everyone's life, America is taking two steps back.

When present-day Germans look at right-wing American nationalists, Germans feel like they're time traveling and looking at their own past.

Nationalism seems like such a stupid, old-fashioned idea to most of us Germans. Nationalism is a bit like churning your own butter. It's just not what modern, educated, 21st century people are into these days.

And when present-day Germans look at fanatic American Christians, Germans feel like they're traveling even further back in time, back to the Dark Ages of medieval Europe, when peasants couldn't even read, and believed the dumbest shit, like that the earth is flat, and that a bloodthirsty monster from outer space called God is gonna smash shit if you don't obey your slave masters.

Many Germans honestly can't believe fundamentalist Christian fanatics in America seriously still believe in fairy tales about angels and demons and satanic witches. Most Germans stopped believing in that primitive, superstitious nonsense during the Age of Enlightenment.

Sure, even in present-day Germany there are nationalist right-wing extremist tendencies boiling back up from under the surface of decades-long peace and prosperity in the European Union.

Even though post-war children grew up in new schools, and learned to be tolerant and welcoming towards all people, cultures and religions, some of the older German adults couldn't let go of their right-wing Nazi views. They grew up in Nazi Germany, and Hitler's nationalist right-wing propaganda was just too ingrained in their heads.

The Nazis were just like Trump followers. Trump's most fanatic supporters will never admit that he is anything less than the Second Coming of Christ, because it is much easier to brainwash someone into being a fanatic than it is to make a fanatic realize he has been brainwashed.

Just like turning someone into a drug addict is much easier than getting a drug addict into rehab.

"fanatic:

A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause."

-Oxford Dictionary

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you guys are the dictionary definition of fanatics.

Anyway, since World War 2 there has always been a small, insignificant group of Nazi holdouts in Germany. They adored Hitler's racist ideas of a land for whites only, even after his death, because they liked to think of themselves as superior.

Who wouldn't love to be superior, without actually having to do anything for it, simply by being born?

Throughout the decades, this fanatic right-wing extremist fringe has tried to re-enter German politics again and again, without much success. After World War 2, Germany outlawed Naziism. The new Nazis, or Neo-Nazis, have to pretend not to be Nazis, or they get shut down by the German justice department.

So they formed several new political parties over the years, and tried to continue Nazi policies under a new name. Kinda like the KKK in America. There are all kinds of new white supremacist groups, trying to pretend that they're not the KKK. Like the Alt-Right.

One of the German post-war Neo-Nazi groups called themselves the Republicans.

Seriously.

"Franz Schönhuber, a one-time Bavarian television moderator and former officer in the Nazi Waffen-SS, formed the Republikaner in 1983 from a group of discontented members of the CSU.

The party platform speaks for itself. In it, the Republikaner blame foreigners, who make up about 8 percent of the German population, for the housing shortage, street crime, and pollution. Among other things, the party has proposed banning Islamic community centers from sponsoring political or cultural activities other than prayer, and it has advocated putting asylum-seekers in collection camps "to minimize the native population's existing and growing antipathy toward foreign residents."

-GlobalSecurity.org

"The Republicans (German: Die Republikaner, REP) is a national conservative political party in Germany. The primary plank of the programme is opposition to immigration. ... In the 2013 federal elections, the Republicans received 0.2 percent of the total national vote."

-Wikipedia

Funny coincidence, huh?

In America red is considered the color of the Republicans, and blue the color of the Democrats. That's why we talk about red states and blue states, depending on whether they have Republican or Democratic leadership.

In other countries political parties use identifying colors, too. In Germany, like most real democracies, there are many different parties. Not just two. The biggest center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union or CDU, uses conservative black. The biggest center-left party, called Social Democratic Party or SPD, uses red.

Angela Merkel is a member of the center-right CDU. But even she is far to the left of Hillary Clinton or even Nancy Pelosi. Angela Merkel is just as weltoffen and cosmopolitan as the rest of us Germans. You would never hear Angela Merkel use a tainted word like patriotism. And she's considered a right-wing conservative in Germany!

In Europe, even our right-wing politicians are to the left of most American Democrats. Most Democrats are to the right of most right-wing parties in other countries. That's how extremely right-wing extremist America is right now. Just like Nazi Germany used to be.

Even many of the Democrats, that you MAGA minions accuse of being radical leftists, would be considered right-wing conservatives in most other countries.

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be considered centrists in Europe. There's nothing radical about their ideas. Everything they talk about is tried and true stuff.

But the robber barons don't want you to know that. So they tell you all sorts of lies about how impossible their ideas are: "Crazy radical extremists! Universal healthcare? Pfffhh! Who ever heard of such a crazy thing? It's science fiction!"

Extremist right-wing Neo-Nazi parties in present-day Germany are known as brown parties, in reference to the brown uniforms of Nazi soldiers.

Today's biggest brown party is the so-called Alternative for Germany or AfD. They have managed not to get outlawed yet, even though some high-ranking party members were filmed going on fanatic-Hitler-fanboy vacation, and even using the Hitler salute in public, which is illegal under Germany's post-war denazification laws.

"Far-right German politician resigns after being pictured on Hitler 'pilgrimage'

In the pictures, he poses near swastikas, SS rune-bearing banners and in front of the dictator's birthplace

A far-right German politician has resigned after photographs surfaced of him posing on a "pilgrimage" of sites associated with Adolf Hitler. The politician, who has not been named under German privacy laws, is a member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD).

In photographs obtained by German newspaper Thuringer Allgemeine, he is reportedly pictured with a candle in front of Hitler's birthplace in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn.

The AfD has admitted the existence of the photographs and said the politician had resigned in September."

-The Independent

The right-wing nationalists of Alternative for Germany love Hitler.

"Alternative for Germany politician allowed to stay in party despite posing with Hitler wine bottles

A controversial politician will be allowed to remain in the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) despite posing to be photographed in front of wine bottles decorated with images of Adolf Hitler."

-The Telegraph

Yupp. The Neo-Nazis in Germany, the fanatic Hitler fanboys, also call themselves nationalists. Just like Trump. That's why Einstein hated nationalists. He was referring to Hitler and the Nazis.

"Germany's AfD under attack for supporting far-right protests

Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) came under attack on Wednesday during a heated Bundestag debate, accused of "blaming immigrants for everything".

But AfD joint leader Alexander Gauland defended in the Bundestag the marches of "concerned citizens" and said the "regrettable" Hitler salutes were the work of a few "empty heads".

-Irish Times

Do you believe me yet that the Republican talking heads on Fox News, who tell you that liberals are Nazis, are lying straight to your face? You guys are the Nazis. Not as a figure of speech. Not as hyperbole. Honest to goodness, genuine Nazis. The real deal. Fanatic Hitler fanboys. Except you worship Trump.

Trump and his obedient MAGA minions are in the 21st century, what Hitler and his obedient Nazi minions were in the 20th century. Not the liberals. The liberals are the 21st century Jews. The victims.

"German institutions have committed to fight extremists since World War II. The far-right AfD might be their toughest challenge yet.

When Germany's domestic-intelligence chief announced last month that his agency would begin keeping tabs on parts of the Alternative for Germany, the country's biggest far-right party, and was considering putting the entire grouping under surveillance, he framed it as a matter of merely doing his democratic duty.

On a broader scale, though, the intelligence agency's decision is the latest and most high-profile way the AfD is testing German democracy—and prompting fundamental questions about the benefits and boundaries of the unique protections Germany has put in place to prevent a repeat of its Nazi past."

-The Atlantic

German Nazis are, and have always been, right-wing extremist nationalists. They're white supremacists. They want to close the borders and kick out all foreigners. Germany should only be for pure, white Aryan Germans. You know, pretty much the same thing US Republicans campaign on.

German Nazis have always used primitive Stone Age tribalism and racism against minorities to drum up support among the dumb mouthbreathers. Just like the Republicans in America.

But those dark fringe currents in Germany and the rest of Europe are not nearly as dominant and self-destructive as they are in America. Not even in Britain, despite the right-wing-extremist-driven national suicide commonly known as Brexit.

No country is perfect. We Germans know that better than anyone.

I still refer to myself as German sometimes. Just like John F. Kennedy was Irish. It doesn't mean I don't consider America my home and love it dearly.

You'd never know how much we love Germany by overhearing our private conversations. We bitch about Germany constantly. It's one of our favorite past times, right after traveling, beer, and soccer.

We always find something to complain about. Something that needs to be fixed or improved. Something that isn't perfect yet: "Oh no! The train is 5 minutes late! What will foreign tourists think of our country now? This is a national disgrace!"

Seriously. That's how Germans think.

Criticising problems is the engine of our progress. It's the process by which we make our beloved homeland an even better place to live. Identifying problems and fixing them, instead of ignoring them, is how you make the world a better place.

"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

-James Baldwin

"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."

-Barbara Ehrenreich

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

-Clarence Darrow

"The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously."

-Julian Barnes

"It's not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it's the most patriotic thing we can do."

-E.A. Bucchianeri

If two Germans are bitching about Germany, and one criticizes something that's wrong in Germany, the other person doesn't yell: "If you don't like it here, why don't you leave?!"

He would sound like a fucking idiot to other Germans.

Actually a lot of Germans do leave. Not because they hate Germany, but because they love the rest of the world and want to see as much of it as possible.

There are several very popular German TV shows about it. Each season follows a different German expat family, who moved to some exotic country on the other side of the world. Huge ratings. It's kinda like their version of The Real Housewives.

And then you can watch the German expat family complain that everything was better back home. Except the weather. The weather in Germany is usually garbage.

When I had my first discussion with other Americans about some stuff that's wrong in America, it caught me by surprise that it seemed taboo for them to ever criticize their glorious homeland, aka random birthplace. They seriously believed that everything in America was the best.

USA #1! USA #1! USA #1!

The ones who screamed that the loudest, were usually the ones who had never even been outside of the US. The US was the only country they have ever known. They had never seen another country.

How do you know you live in the best country in the world, if you've never been anywhere else? You have nothing to compare it to. You have no frame of reference.

Most of these dumb loudmouths never even left their home state. And these guys are feverishly "patriotic."

"The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience."

-Leo Tolstoy

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

-Oscar Wilde

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

They take even the slightest criticism or friendly suggestion how something in America could be improved, as a grave personal insult, and they always scream back: "If you don't like it here, why don't you LEAVE?!"

That's a pretty fucking stupid thing to say. And these idiots wonder why their red states are so shitty and why so many people there kill themselves.

Imagine if you complained to me that your mother has cancer. Do you think it would be an intelligent response if I replied: "Well, if you don't like that your mother has cancer, why don't you LEAVE her?"

No, that would be pretty fucking stupid.

Complaining that your mother has cancer doesn't mean you don't love her. You're upset because you love her.

That's why we liberals try to fix all the things that are wrong in America. Not because we hate America, but because we love her. We see America's true potential and know how much better things could be for all of us.

For all of us, not just for the robber barons.

CAPITALISM DOESN'T WORK THE WAY YOU THINK IT DOES

The military is a dictatorship. It always has been.

It makes sense. The most efficient way to kill as many people as quickly as possible, is a dictatorship. One guy gives the order, and everyone else obeys and pulls the trigger on command. If the mad king orders you to launch nukes, you do it. No questions asked.

The least efficient way to run an army? A democracy.

If you ask each and every soldier how he feels about attacking your neighbor, nothing is ever gonna get done. How are you supposed to kill a bunch of people like that? There's always gonna be some debate over whether it's the right thing to do, and whether it's really necessary to kill them.

Bleeding heart pussies and their stupid compassion for others!

A dictatorship is the opposite of a democracy, and the opposite of freedom. We can all agree on that, right?

If soldiers actually had a choice, they simply wouldn't go to war. Who the fuck wants to get himself killed for some stupid bullshit that doesn't really affect you one way or another on the other side of the world? You have a life to live. You don't have time to get yourself killed over bullshit.

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service."

-Albert Einstein

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

-President John F. Kennedy

"Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail."

-Albert Einstein

When Caesar commanded his Roman legions to attack the rest of Europe, he didn't ask each and every foot soldier how he felt about dying on the battlefield for the glory of Rome.

A couple of centuries later, Napoleon didn't ask his soldiers how they felt about attacking the rest of Europe.

Hitler didn't ask his Nazi stormtroopers how they felt about attacking the rest of Europe.

And the US military doesn't ask each soldier how they feel about attacking some small oil-rich country on the other side of the world.

The military demands blind obedience. Don't ask questions. Just do what you're told: pull the trigger. Without taking a vote. Without thinking. Without hesitation.

That's how the whole system works. Your job is to serve and obey.

It's like a pyramid. There's the master on top. Call him Pharaoh or Caesar or Darth Vader or Commander in Chief. Whatever you want.

And the master tells his generals what to do. Their job is to serve the master and obey.

Then the generals tell the guys below them what to do, and they tell the guys below them what to do. Down to the lowest rank, the foot soldier, who's gonna get himself killed or crippled.

He's the one with the most skin in the game, but nobody asks him how he feels about it.

That's a dictatorship. All militaries are dictatorships.

Some American corporations like to hire Army vets.

Why? Because they know how to follow orders. A military background is considered a bonus in corporate America.

Why? Because American corporations work like the military. They're dictatorships. There's a master, and lots of insignificant little peasants. The worker bees. And your job is to serve and obey the master.

You might roll your eyes right now and think: "Well, duh! How else is a company supposed to work? The boss of a giant corporation can't ask each and every one of his 100,000 employees if they agree with his decisions."

Who says a corporation has to have 100,000 employees? Why should a company be the size of an army? Because the bigger the company, the richer the robber baron?

What's wrong with mom and pop stores? What's wrong with family-owned farms?

When I grew up in Germany, there were virtually no large chain stores. Just a handful. But most businesses in Germany are family-owned. Families own the places where they work, instead of being little minimum-wage grunts in a giant corporation.

In Germany, most people work at small to medium-sized family-owned businesses. Not giant faceless corporations.

Every restaurant you go to is family owned. Not part of a giant chain. Not a corporate franchise. When I moved to the States, I thought it was really strange that every city had the same restaurants. The same giant corporate chains dominate the market in every single town.

That was so weird to me. I couldn't wrap my head around the idea that the same restaurant existed in more than one city. Someone had to explain to me what a franchise is. I had never heard of it before.

Germany is one of the richest countries in the world, and the wealth is more evenly distributed among its people, because way more families own their own business there than here in the US.

The economies in Germany and the other European countries work the way you think the economy in the US works.

"Inequality in Europe is generally lower than in many non-European countries, in particular the United States and Israel."

OECD.org

"The fairest of them all: why Europe beats the US on equality

The inequality gap is widening across the globe – but Europe restricts the damage better than anywhere else

Inequality is on the rise across the world, but it's not increasing everywhere at the same pace. In many ways Europe stands out as a positive exception. Despite all the criticism thrown at the EU, it is a global leader in preserving a degree of fairness in the social fabric. This may seem unlikely – Europe is hardly devoid of problems and tensions. Parts of the left depict it as a vehicle for neoliberal economic policies, and parts of the right deride it as an inefficient administrative monster. So how is Europe really doing?

It's hard to exaggerate the difference between western Europe and the USA when it comes to inequality. In 1980, these blocs of similar population and average income were also similar in income inequality: the top 1% captured around 10% of national income, while the poorest 50% took around 20%.

Things have changed dramatically since then. Today, the top 1% in Europe take 12% of income (in the US, 20%) while the bottom 50% have 22% (in the US, 10%)."

-The Guardian

Before the 1980s, the wealth in America was more evenly distributed between all people, like in Europe. Then Reagan happened, and the poor became much poorer, and the rich got much richer. Under Reagan, wealth was redistributed, from the poor to the rich. It was typical rich vs poor class warfare.

America became a country that celebrates the rule of rich corporate robber barons over the poor masses. Like a fascist dictatorship.

"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."

-Fran Lebowitz

In Germany, the small business owners can decide for themselves, what and how much they produce, and how much vacation they wanted to take, or when to work and when to go home.

That's freedom.

As a result, people in Germany work far less than Americans, earn more money than working class Americans, and their quality of life is much better. People live longer, happier lives.

"The U.S. is the Most Overworked Developed Nation in the World

The U.S. is the ONLY country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit. The average is over 12 weeks of paid leave anywhere other than Europe and over 20 weeks in Europe.

Zero industrialized nations are without a mandatory option for new parents to take parental leave. That is, except for the United States.

At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.

In the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week.

According to the ILO, "Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers."

Using data by the U.S. BLS, the average productivity per American worker has increased 400% since 1950.

The U.S. remains the only industrialized country in the world that has no legally mandated annual leave. In every country included except Canada and Japan (and the U.S., which averages 13 days/per year), workers get at least 20 paid vacation days. In France and Finland, they get 30 – an entire month off, paid, every year.

The decline of the union has led to less paid time off and other leave benefits."

-20somethingfinance.com

"The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant

It wasn't supposed to turn out this way: John Maynard Keynes, one of the founders of modern economics, made a famous prediction that by 2030, advanced societies would be wealthy enough that leisure time, rather than work, would characterize national lifestyles. So far, that forecast is not looking good.

Since the 1980s things have gone steadily downhill. With secure long-term employment slipping away, people jump from job to job, so seniority no longer offers the benefits of additional days off. The rising trend of hourly and part-time work, stoked by the Great Recession, means that for many, the idea of a guaranteed vacation is a dim memory."

-Business Insider

"The stress that kills American workers

Poor health care and job insecurity shorten lives

As many as 80% of American workers suffer from high levels of stress in their job, according to a survey entitled "Attitudes in the American Workplace". Nearly half say it is so debilitating that they need help."

-The Economist

"Americans die younger than people in other high-income countries, and drug poisonings, gun injuries and motor vehicle crashes are largely to blame, a study finds.

To see how the United States measures up in terms of life expectancy, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compared its death rates in 2012 with those of a dozen other countries with similar economies, including the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and other European countries. The researchers found that men and women in the United States lived 2.2 fewer years than residents in similar countries."

-CNN

"The United States ranks 26th of 35 OECD countries for life expectancy, with an average life expectancy of 79 years."

\- Americashealthrankings.org

All those evil evil "socialist" countries in Europe that you love to hate so much, because rich Republican talking heads told you to, all have higher life expectancy than America. Life over there is better for middle class families aka the peasants. Because those countries don't have governments controlled by robber barons. They have governments by the people for the people. Exactly what America was supposed to be.

If you're a regular middle class family, you're better off in Europe than in America. You live a longer, better life. You get free college, free and better healthcare, better consumer protection, less crime, less violence, less poverty, less war, less pollution, less poison, less work, less stress, less worries, stronger labor laws, paid maternity leave, free child care, shorter work weeks, and weeks more of paid vacation.

But of course your rich Republican overlords don't want you to know any of that, or you might get all uppity and demand better quality of life, too.

But there's just no money for that. Sorry. Money for war, yes. Money for peasants, no.

If you knew how much better life is for peasants in "socialist" countries in Europe, you might actually demand to have a decent life here in America, too. In the present. Right now. Not in some imaginary paradise in the afterlife.

A while ago, when Trump called Africa a bunch of shithole countries, he said he'd prefer to get white immigrants from Norway.

Norwegians thought that was pretty funny. Why the hell would they want to move to a shithole like America, when life is so much better in Norway?

"Thanks, but no thanks' - Norwegians reject Trump's immigration offer

Many Norwegians rejected on Friday a suggestion by U.S. President Donald Trump that they would be more welcome to move to the United States than immigrants from "shithole countries" such as Haiti or African nations.

The Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet and is known for a cradle-to-grave welfare state funded in part by large reserves of oil and natural gas."

-Reuters

Did you catch that? They have a welfare state that takes care of the needs of its citizens. And they're the happiest people on the planet. And you've been brainwashed to think that this is somehow evil.

All those great perks you get when you live in Norway are paid for by... oil. Oil? Wait, what? You mean over there all those billions of dollars of oil profits don't end up in the pockets of just a few super rich robber barons? How is that possible?

It's because their oil company is owned by the Norwegian government. By the people for the people. Just like in Russia, before Putin decided to "privatize" the oil industry, and he became a billionaire overnight.

The billions of dollars the Norwegian oil company makes benefit everyone. Even the lowest little peasant. Everyone gets a fair share. Nobody is left out.

Gee, who knew that that was even possible?

Europeans. That's who.

That's why you see almost no immigrants from western Europe in America nowadays. Except for a couple of permanent tourists like me, who like living in America because it's exotic and different from Germany.

Not better. Just different.

I've lived here almost my entire adult life. America is my home. I love America. But I know for a fact, from first hand experience, that the quality of life is better in Europe.

If I ever need serious medical attention, like surgery, I'll probably go back to Germany and get it there. A lot of Americans do that.

"People are ditching US healthcare and flying to other countries for medical procedures they can actually afford

Many Americans have saved thousands of dollars by getting dental work, undergoing surgeries, picking up prescription medication, and even giving birth in other countries.

The American healthcare system is known for being notoriously expensive. It doesn't help that, according to data collected in 2017 by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, 11.3% of Americans are not able to afford health insurance.

Even those who do have health insurance often find themselves struggling to pay sky-high medical fees. For example, a Reddit user went viral in 2013 when he posted a photo of the hospital bill he received when he was treated for appendicitis. The total charges came to over $55,000, and even with health insurance, he had to pay over $11,000 out of pocket.

This story is nothing new. Compared to the rest of the world, people in the US pay much higher prices for medical services such as hospitalization, doctors' visits, and prescription medication.

According to a 2015 report by the US International Trade Commission (USITC), between 150,000 and 320,000 Americans travel abroad every year to receive healthcare."

-The Insider

"Kobe Bryant back in Germany for annual knee treatment

Why does Kobe go to Germany for this then, you ask? Because the treatment is not fully approved by the FDA yet stateside. Plus it was invented by these German doctors, why not go to the source if you can? I think Kobe can afford it.

-NBC Sports

"Annually, around 250,000 people from 177 countries receive medical treatment in Germany. Around 100,000 foreign patients are admitted into German hospitals. It is estimated that between 40 to 45% of foreign patients arrive in Germany specifically for medical treatment.

In the Gulf countries, due to dietary habits and little movement, there is a large demand for treatment of metabolic diseases, as well as heart ailments, conditions of the motor apparatus, eye diseases, high blood pressure etc. Moreover, these patients request treatment not offered in their home countries. For example, pediatric neurology or rehabilitation."

-Tourism Review

Yeah, you read that right. Even the royal families from the Middle East, who have endless amounts of oil money, every luxury you can imagine and can afford the very best medical treatment in the world, fly to Germany for medical treatment.

The most famous hospital in my German hometown is frequently visited by Middle Eastern royalty. But in Germany, even the poorest peasant can get the same medical treatment as an oil billionaire or a superstar athlete.

That's what freedom looks like.

Admit it, you'd like to have some of that cool stuff they have in Europe, don't you? Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. It'll be our little secret.

But don't look to Republicans to ever give you any of this stuff. Republican politicians are not about making your life better. They're about making themselves richer. They even tell you so themselves all the time. You just don't understand what they're actually saying, because they speak in code. Republicans say they're all about self-reliance and small government.

Small government is code for fuck the peasants. Why should we share any of our insane profits with the unwashed masses? Why should we earn a little bit less just to give the faceless peasants decent wages and universal healthcare?

And self-reliance is a polite way of saying go fuck yourself. Don't expect any help. It's every man for himself.

That's a glorified way of saying selfishness is good. That was also the guiding principle of medieval Europe. And it didn't work out too well for peasants like you and me.

That's not what America is supposed to be about. We're supposed to be better than that.

United we stand, divided we fall. That slogan perfectly describes what liberals and democratic socialism is about.

Like the people in Europe, we liberals believe in justice and happiness for all, not just for the super rich.

That's the whole point of a government for the people by the people. And people is just another word for peasant. A government for peasants by peasants. Minus the robber barons. What a crazy, radical idea!

And that's exactly the reason why rich Republicans don't like anything that empowers the weak and poor. They don't want to be forced by government regulation to install better filters, because it's cheaper to bribe a politician and just let the toxic sludge run off into the river and kill a bunch of unimportant, meaningless, anonymous peasants.

"The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us."

-Molly Ivins

American-style predatory capitalism is just like medieval robber baron Europe. There are masters, and there are servants who work themselves to death for their masters.

Does that sound like freedom to you?

Americans are so brainwashed, they are proud of the fact that they work more than anyone else in the world.

Europeans work to live. Americans live to work.

Free people work to live. Slaves live to work.

Americans work so much, they practically live at work and only visit their homes at night to sleep.

That's not a life worth living.

No wonder so many Americans are killing themselves with drugs and guns.

You wanna know something funny?

Most of the countries you call "socialist" don't actually think of themselves as socialist. They call themselves liberal democracies. That means free democracies, because liberal means free.

Remember, democratic governments were invented for one reason only: to protect us from the rich robber barons.

The liberal, free democratic people in Europe, the ones you call socialists, think of you guys as crazy right-wing capitalist extremists, just like fascist Nazi Germany used to be. A country full of brainwashed, slavish servants who don't even know that they're being exploited and lied to. A country that goes to war for profit, because it's ruled by giant war-profiteering corporations. Fascism is corporatism.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

-Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini

"The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault."

-Major Ralph Peters, US Military

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

-Upton Sinclair

The reason why you think the free democracies in Europe are different than America, is because they are different. Europe is free. America is not.

America is a fascist corporate dictatorship. The robber barons and their giant corporations are our dictators.

They exploit us and literally squeeze the life out of American workers. Like slaves. They decide what goes, and everyone has to do what the giant corporations say. The robber barons don't care how you feel about it. They don't ask you.

Predatory capitalism is the opposite of freedom. It's a dictatorship.

An American CEO is like Caesar. Or Hitler. And capitalism is war. A constant state of war. Year after year of exhausting, soul-crushing war. There are even hostile takeovers, which are not so different from a medieval robber baron plundering his neighbor's castle.

Capitalism is based on the same principle as medieval Europe. There are a few masters and lots and lots of unimportant, expendable servants. Livestock at best.

The strong eat the weak.

And at the end there's only a handful of giant corporations left.

Until they eat each other and there's only one massive, giant corporation left standing. And all the peasants have to work there, often for minimum wage, while the master makes billions. And if you don't do exactly what the master says, you get terminated.

Does that sound like freedom to you?

It's not. It's the opposite of freedom. It's a dictatorship.

Like I told you earlier, those old-timey robber barons didn't just vanish. They're still here. But they don't call themselves robber barons. They call themselves Republicans, billionaires, tycoons of industry, or simply capitalists.

Whenever Republicans say they're pro-business, what they really mean is they're pro-robber-baron.

Medieval Europe was a great place to be if you were a robber baron. But it fucking sucked if you were a peasant. It was a living nightmare. Hell on earth.

And American-style predatory capitalism is the same thing. It's great if you're a robber baron, but it fucking sucks if you're a little worker ant.

"Capitalism is an ideology of capital - the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit. To me, capitalism is irredeemable."

-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product."

-Martin Shkreli

That's the fundamental problem with America's bizarre for-profit healthcare system. The robber barons who own the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance industry aren't in it to heal the sick, but to make maximum profits. They can deny treatment or make treatment insanely expensive, if they feel like it. Even if it means a bunch of poor American peasants are gonna die, because they can't afford insanely expensive medicines or procedures that cost much less everywhere else in the world.

"Martin Shkreli in solitary confinement after running company from prison, report says

Martin Shkreli, the so-called "Pharma Bro" who became notorious after hiking the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent, is reportedly in solitary confinement after using a contraband mobile phone to continue running his business while in prison."

-CBS News

He's in jail now, because the government did its job and protected us from this piece of shit robber baron. Good. But American robber barons hate that. That's why they hate democracy and "big" government that has the power to stop robber barons from abusing us.

To a robber baron, a free or liberal democratic government is the enemy. And that's why they tell you to hate liberal democratic government and to hate Europe.

Imagine if in America only cold water came out of the shower. And liberal democratic progressives told you that it is possible to have hot running water, simply by installing an inexpensive water heater. And then everyone's lives would be a lot better. Progress!

But the robber barons don't want to spring for a water heater, so they lie and tell you that hot showers are impossible.

No, it's not impossible. These greedy motherfuckers just don't want you to have it. They don't want to change America's broken private system, because the robber barons are making crazy amounts of money while exploiting the rest of us.

While the robber barons and their right-wing "conservative" propaganda outlets tell you that hot showers (or universal healthcare) are a crazy, radical and totally unaffordable idea, the rest of the world already has hot showers. And it's just as normal as indoor plumbing. Or universal healthcare.

But don't pay any attention to that. They're all a bunch of crazy, radical leftist socialists, with their radical socialist ideas of hot running water!

That, in a nutshell, is the healthcare debate. Telling you that universal healthcare is a crazy, unaffordable, radical idea, while everyone else in the world already has had it for years and it's working very well, is just like telling you that hot showers and indoor plumbing are impossible, even though all the other countries have them.

That's capitalism.

Capitalism doesn't work the way you think it does. It's not freedom. It's the opposite of freedom.

"Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody."

-Michael Moore

"Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system."

-Serj Tankians

"While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice."

-Ed Miliband

"Capitalism is war; socialism is peace."

-Karl Liebknecht

The robber barons tell you that you too can be rich someday, if only you work hard enough. Be a good little servant, and then maybe one day you can be one of the robber barons, too. It's the American dream! Going from rags to riches!

The promise that you will eventually be richly rewarded, at some point in the future, is just like the bible's empty promise of paradise in the afterlife. For centuries, slaves and servants have been told that if they're good little slaves and good little servants, they'll be richly rewarded later. After they die. In Heaven.

It's a scam. Just like when TV preachers tell you to send them your money, and then God will reward you and make you rich - at same point in the distant future.

These are all different variations of the same old con. The robber barons fool you into thinking that you will be richly rewarded later, so that you work yourself to death for them right now.

Does that sound like freedom to you?

America is not #1 by a long shot when it comes to things that matter, like happiness and quality of life. America is not even in the top 10.

The Europeans who live in free democracies, or what you refer to as "socialism," are happier, healthier, and wealthier.

They work less and have more expendable income, because they're not suffering from crushing college debt or insane medical bills. Their kids don't get shot in school, and they don't get locked up in private for-profit prisons, like millions of Americans

Most Europeans can afford to travel to America whenever they feel like it. But most Americans can't afford to travel to Europe, because they don't even have $400 to cover unexpected medical expenses.

For American peasants, for the working class, life in America's corporate dictatorship is hell on earth. And you don't even know it.

"America is facing a suicide crisis.

A new survey on mortality and life expectancy in the United States, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that 47,000 Americans took their own lives in 2017—2,000 more than recorded in 2016. The national suicide rate has increased 33 percent between 1999 and 2017, according to the CDC's National Vital Statistics System data. What's worse, a broader Associated Press analysis of government records indicates that American suicides are now at their highest point in 50 years. It's now the second-leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 35.

And the rate of suicides has only accelerated in recent years. According to the CDC, suicide rates among both men and women increased around 1 percent a year between 1999 and 2006; between 2006 and 2017, however, rates jumped to a 2 percent annual increase. The suicide crisis isn't evenly distributed, though: CDC research indicates that the suicide rate jumped more dramatically in rural areas."

-Pacific Standard

Life in "socialist" free democratic Europe is better:

"Comparing Suicide Rates in the U.S. and Europe

A weakening of the social safety nets and widening inequality in the U.S. may explain the contrast between America and Europe.

The number of suicides per 100,000 Americans rose 30.4 percent between 1999 and 2015. The increase has not been uniform across all demographic groups. Those in midlife had the largest uptick in suicide. For example, for those ages 45 to 54, the rate increased from 13.9 persons to 20.3, or 46 percent, during that period.

However, suicide rates in other developed nations have generally fallen. According to the World Health Organization, suicide rates fell in 12 of 13 Western European countries between 2000 and 2012. Generally, this drop was 20 percent or more. For example, in Austria, the suicide rate dropped from 16.3 persons per 100,000 to 11.5, or a decline of 29.7 percent."

-U.S. News

Life in Republican-run red states is so unbearably miserable, people are killing themselves in larger and larger numbers. They'd rather be dead than live one more day in a red state. That's how fucking horrible life is in a Republican-run red state.

Does that sound like freedom to you?

Wouldn't you prefer to live in a place that doesn't make you wanna kill yourself?

Yeah, me too.

That's why I live in a liberal, free blue city in a great blue state: California. Like most people, I would rather kill myself than live in a red state shithole.

I've been on many cross-country road trips. I have seen with my own eyes how horrible all those white ghettos, those dying trailer park shit-towns, are in red states, and how much better life is in blue states, where the liberals, the free people, live.

Life in the blue states is far better. Not perfect. But much much better than life in red states.

There's hope. You don't have to live in a soul-crushing red-state shithole. You can stop voting for Republican robber barons. You can stop being a slave to ruthless, soulless giant war-profiteering corporations.

Wake up and join the free world. Be a freedom fighter. Be a liberal.

Be like Jesus. Fight for the freedom of all oppressed people. Fight for the meak and the downtrodden. Fight for the lepers. Fight for the sick, for the poor, the blacks, the Muslims, the Jews, the immigrants, the refugees, the gays, the transgenders, the women, the farmers, the mom and pop shops, the soldiers, the teachers... and fight for everyone who suffers in a red state.

Be a real hero.

FASCISM IN AMERICA

Weird, how much stuff you didn't know about fascism and the world-famous Nazis, before you read this book, huh? It's almost like someone purposely mislead you about who the Nazis actually were, and doesn't want you to know what fascism is.

The Nazis were right-wing, white-supremacist nationalists. Like you.

The Nazis hated immigrants. Like you.

The Nazis hated liberals. The Jews were liberals. You hate the liberal Jews in Hollywood and New York too.

The Nazis hated gays. So do you.

The Nazis were Christian conservatives. Like you.

The Nazis thought they were the good guys and that God was on their side. Like you.

The Nazis didn't know they were being lied to. Neither do you.

The Nazis didn't know they were being manipulated to hate a minority. Neither do you.

The way Nazis demonized Jews was no different than the way American fascists demonize Muslims and liberals.

The Nazis were fascists. Fascism is an extreme form of capitalism: war for profit.

Republican robber barons who own weapons factories and profit from America's endless wars are fascists.

The first words of the Nazi anthem were "Germany above all else" which was their version of "America first."

The Nazis were so brainwashed, they couldn't see how their republic became a dictatorship. Neither can you.

Nationalism among nations is like racism among races.

Nationalism always, always leads to war, because selfish nations have conflicting interests.

Hitler promised to "make Germany great again."

Hitler denounced the newspapers, which exposed him for the lying psychopath he really was, as Lügenpresse, which is German for Fake News.

Liberals are freedom fighters, who like democracy and freedom, and oppose robber barons and slavery.

If Jesus was alive today, he'd be a liberal. A freedom fighter for the downtrodden.

During World War 2, the Republican party was taken over by fascist war-profiteering robber barons and their giant corporations. Even President Eisenhower was warning people about it.

Jesus would hate what you Republicans have become.

If Hitler's Nazi party still existed today, they would look exactly like the Republican party under Trump.

Hitler's rallies looked no different than Trump's rallies. Lots of racist propaganda lies about foreigners, and angry chanting mobs.

Hitler and Trump use the same simple, repetitive propaganda language.

Hitler would absolutely love a well-oiled propaganda outlet like Fox News.

All the things you didn't know are making your head spin right now, aren't they? Everything is the opposite of what you believed to be true.

You don't want any of the things I wrote to be true, do you? You want to deny everything and just call me a crazy liberal traitor. But I think deep down there's a nagging little voice in your head that tells you it's all true.

Deep down you know it's all true. There really is a Republican Conspiracy, and they have been brainwashing you with lies your entire life, so you wouldn't see what's happening right in front of your face.

It's ok to admit that you didn't know these things. That's how you learn something new. Now you know.

A smart person is like: "Oh, I didn't know that yet. Thank you for telling me. I learned something new today. I was wrong. But now I know better. Thank you."

A dumb person is like: "I know everything. You can't tell me nothing."

"Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you."

-Buddha

I know you think we liberals are all a bunch of crazy America-hating, tree-hugging, devil-worshipping, communist pussies. You think we liberals are wrong about everything: global warming, evolution, guns, taxes, schools, gay rights, equality, social justice, the military, private prisons, toilets, green energy, universal healthcare, and all those other wedge issues where Republicans and Democrats don't see eye to eye.

But it's not us liberals who are wrong about everything. It's you guys.

"There was no Holocaust, Republican candidate says

As of last week, Arthur Jones is the Republican Party's nominee for the House of Representatives in Illinois's third district, near Chicago.

He is a former member of the American Nazi party and a prominent Holocaust denier."

-The Jewish Chronicle

I know for a fact that there was a Holocaust, because I grew up in Germany.

Every German family has old relatives who lived through the Nazi days. Both my grandfathers were Nazi soldiers. They were forced and didn't have a choice.

So I personally knew two actual Nazi soldiers in real life. They were conservative Christians. Not liberals. Not even my philosophy professor grandpa. He was a Christian philosopher, arguing in favor of the existence of a Christian God. My grandmother, a very devout Christian woman, believed until the day she died that Hitler was a great man, no matter what I or anyone else tried to tell her. She would have loved Trump.

The Nazis were big fans of God, religion, Martin Luther and Christianity.

The pope and the Christian church supported Hitler. Just like America's mega-churches and millionaire TV preachers support Trump.

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Hitler's Pope

Pope Pius XII helped Hitler destroy German Catholic political opposition.

Long-buried Vatican files reveal a new and shocking indictment of World War II's Pope Pius XII: that in pursuit of absolute power he helped Adolf Hitler destroy German Catholic political opposition, betrayed the Jews of Europe, and sealed a deeply cynical pact with a 20th-century devil."

-Vanity Fair

Germany is a pretty small country. About the size of New York State. How did a small country like that manage to create one of the most powerful war machines in history? Because Germans are very industrious. The Nazis were big fans of giant privately-owned factories. The Nazis weren't mom and pop shop socialists.

"Nazis are not socialists nor democrats despite what alt-right might say

It was called the National Socialist German Workers' Party—later shortened to Nazi party—and gained power by promising voters to alleviate a German economy mired in depression while also restoring "German cultural values, reverse the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, turn back the perceived threat of a Communist uprising, put the German people back to work, and restore Germany to its 'rightful position' as a world power," according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The party represented an extreme side of German's right wing, and the key word in its title was not necessarily "socialism," but rather "national." During Hitler's ascension, nationalism was preached and took hold, and excluded anyone who wasn't fully German or considered superior."

-Newsweek

The Nazis believed in industry. And profit. They had giant factories.

The German robber barons who owned these factories earned a lot of money from war. Just like the robber barons in America.

Rich German robber barons and rich American robber barons worked hand in hand during World War 2. That's not a conspiracy theory. It's an actual, genuine conspiracy fact. The Republican Conspiracy is real.

"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy."

-The Guardian

Fascism was quite popular before Hitler gave it a bad name.

The British Empire was fascist. All of the British Empire's wars were for profit. They invaded what is now called Canada, and then the British Hudson's Bay Company made billions in profit, stealing Canada's resources and shipping them to England.

After Britain invaded India, the East India Company plundered India and shipped the spoils of war to England. And made billions in profit.

The Nazis weren't the first or only fascists. During the colonial days, all of Europe's empires were fascist. They just didn't use that word yet.

They all attacked other countries and plundered them. All the colonial wars were fascist wars for profit. The British colonized America and killed the natives for profit. They enslaved the Africans for profit. They invaded China for profit. That's how Hong Kong ended up under British rule. The British Empire was every bit as fascist as the Nazis.

And so was America. A lot of fascist American robber barons thought America should side with Nazi Germany, not fight against it.

"American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund

In the years before the outbreak of World War II, people of German ancestry living abroad were encouraged to form citizens groups to both extol "German virtues," around the world, and to lobby for causes helpful to Nazi Party goals. In the United States, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, or German American Bund, was formed in 1936 as "an organization of patriotic Americans of German stock," operating about 20 youth and training camps, and eventually growing to a membership in the tens of thousands among 70 regional divisions across the country. On February 20, 1939, the Bund held an "Americanization" rally in New York's Madison Square Garden, denouncing Jewish conspiracies, President Roosevelt, and others. The rally, attended by 20,000 supporters and members, was protested by huge crowds of anti-Nazis, who were held back by 1,500 NYC police officers. As World War II began in 1939, the German American Bund fell apart, many of its assets were seized, and its leader arrested for embezzlement, and later deported to Germany."

-The Atlantic

"Hitler's American Friends: Henry Ford and Nazism

Over the past century, Ford has become one of the most iconic American brands, from its line of pickup trucks to the Mustang. The company's first car, the Model T, broke ground and helped create the modern automotive industry.

Yet what few people know today is that the company's founder, Henry Ford, not only held deeply prejudiced personal views but also became one of Hitler's key American friends in the years before the war. To its credit, the Ford Motor Company has made some efforts to come to terms with this troubling history, but there is still more work to be done. As we'll see, Ford's views were more than just a private matter—they translated into real-world action that had a major effect on Germany's military preparedness before World War II. Certainly, Ford was far from the only American businessman who was enticed by Nazi Germany. His rival—General Motors—had a German division of its own and manufactured aircraft parts for the Luftwaffe."

-The History Reader

"In the late-1930s and early 1940s, Charles Lindbergh's ironclad reputation took a serious hit for his opposition to World War II and his apparent fascination with Nazi Germany. The aviator had made several trips to Germany in the 1930s to inspect its air force, and returned home convinced that the Luftwaffe was capable of overpowering the rest of Europe.

He became one of the most vocal opponents of American involvement in the conflict, and gave dozens of public speeches and radio addresses criticizing President Franklin Roosevelt and Jewish-run newspapers and arguing in favor of isolationism. As the United States edged closer to war, many began to denounce the former hero as an anti-Semite and a traitor. Lindbergh gave up his crusade and tried to win a commission in the military after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but President Roosevelt—who privately called the aviator a Nazi—barred him from serving."

-History.com

"Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says

The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families.

The book, "Dark Money," by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of rich donors: among them Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, and Harry and Lynde Bradley, brothers who became wealthy in part from military contracts but poured millions into anti-government philanthropy."

-New York Times

"Doing Business with Hitler

Koch Was Not Alone in Aiding the Nazi War Machine

Through its aluminum monopoly, before and during World War II, Alcoa ensured that Germany had an unlimited supply to build its weaponry, while America suffered massive shortages. In June of 1941, Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, said: "If America loses this war, it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America."

Chase Manhattan Bank: Five months after Pearl Harbor, Carlos Niedermann, head of the Paris branch, wrote his New York supervisor that his branch enjoyed the "very special esteem" of top German officials, which caused "a rapid expansion of deposits." Working in close collaboration with the German authorities, the branch seized the assets of at least a hundred Jewish accounts thought by the Gestapo to be particularly worth going after, and handed them over to the Nazi occupiers.

Dow Chemical: They sold huge quantities of magnesium to the Nazis for the making of incendiary bombs and instructed them about technical innovations in refining oil.

Hitler paid tribute to Henry Ford in his biography and kept a portrait of him in his office, and with good reason. In the early 1920s, Ford began publishing in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, a series of articles alleging that a huge Jewish conspiracy was taking over America and causing the world's troubles. He bound the series into four volumes called The International Jew. Hitler saw in Ford a kindred soul, and in 1938 awarded him with the Grand Cross of the German Eagle (shown at left). Ford trucks, assembled in Cologne, were ready just in time for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Ford's Cologne plant used slave laborers between 1941 and 1945.

General Motors: Hitler favored GM's exports director James D. Mooney with an award. In 1934, the company publication, General Motors World, declared: "Hitler is a strong man, well fitted to lead the German people out of their former economic distress.... He is leading them, not by force or fear, but by intelligent planning and execution of fundamentally sound principles of government." In 1935, GM built a factory in Berlin with the intention of creating "Blitz" trucks for the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg, which proved instrumental in the swift conquests of much of Europe.

Albert Speer, Nazi minister of armaments and war production, admitted that the rubber supplied by GM was vital in helping the Nazis to wage war as they did.

Hitler awarded prestigious decorations to Thomas J. Watson, IBM's chief executive officer. Its German subsidiary, with the support of the American company, helped the Nazi government with a punch-card mechanism for identifying Jews, Gypsies, and other 'undesirables,' thus making it possible to destroy that population in Germany and the occupied countries. Each concentration camp kept tabs on inmates using IBM's technology; IBM trained SS personnel in how to use their machines to record the movement, sorting, and mass execution within the death camps.

ITT: During the war, International Telephone & Telegraph provided German armed forces with switchboards, telephones, alarm gongs, buoys, air raid warning devices, radar equipment, fuses for artillery shells, and ingredients for rocket bombs.

Standard Oil of New Jersey: From 1936 to 1939, they joined with Du Pont and GM to fuel the German armies. According to captured German records: "The fact that since the beginning of the war we could produce lead-tetraethyl is entirely due to circumstances that, shortly before, the Americans had presented us with the production plants complete with experimental knowledge. Without lead-tetraethyl the present method of warfare would be unthinkable."

Union Banking Corporation: While Prescott Bush (shown at right), father of the elder President George Bush, was its director, the Union Banking Corporation represented the interests of the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, in the 1930s. Bush was also linked to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company, on the German-Polish border, which used slave labor from the concentration camps.

Nearly 70 percent of the money going to Germany in the 1930s came from America, many of them clients of Sullivan and Cromwell.

William E. Dodd, our ambassador to Germany, said in 1937: "A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime.... Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extend aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."

-Jewish Currents

"When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR

"During the tense months between FDR's election in November and his inauguration in March 1933, democracy hung in the balance.

Though it's hard for us to imagine today, she says fascism, communism, even Naziism seemed like possible solutions to the country's ills.

Some people even called for a dictator to pull America out of the Great Depression.

"There was just this sense that he was upsetting the status quo," Denton says.

Critics on the right worried that Roosevelt was a Communist, a socialist or the tool of a Jewish conspiracy. Critics on the left complained his policies didn't go far enough. Some of Roosevelt's opponents didn't stop at talk. Though it's barely remembered today, there was a genuine conspiracy to overthrow the president.

The Wall Street Putsch, as it's known today, was a plot by a group of right-wing financiers.

"They thought that they could convince Roosevelt, because he was of their, the patrician class, they thought that they could convince Roosevelt to relinquish power to basically a fascist, military-type government," Denton says.

The conspirators had several million dollars, a stockpile of weapons and had even reached out to a retired Marine general, Smedley Darlington Butler, to lead their forces.

"Had he been a different kind of person, it might have gone a lot further," Denton says. "But he saw it as treason and he reported it to Congress."

Denton says that as she was writing the book, she was struck by the parallels between the treatment of Roosevelt and that of Barack Obama. For example, a cottage industry much like the birther movement grew up around proving that the Dutch-descended Roosevelt was actually a secret Jew."

-NPR

"Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend."

-George Carlin

"Krispy Kreme owners admit to family history of Nazi ties

The family that owns well-known consumer brands like Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Keurig, Dr. Pepper and Panera Bread say their Nazi ancestors used slave labor during World War II.

The Reimann family, which owns the controlling stake in JAB Holdings and is reportedly one of the richest families in Germany, will donate €10 million, or $11 million, to a yet-undisclosed charity after a three-year investigation that it commissioned discovered details of their ancestors' behavior.

A family spokesperson said Albert Reimann Sr., who died in 1954, and Albert Reimann Jr., who died in 1984, used Russian civilian prisoners and French prisoners of war as forced labor in their factories during the war, and that they were anti-Semites and avowed supporters of Adolf Hitler.

The investigation also found that Reimann Sr. donated to Hitler's paramilitary SS force as early as 1931."

-CNN

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."

-President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hitler's Nazi stormtroopers thought there was a world-wide anti-German conspiracy and they were fighting for freedom.

American G.I.s thought they were fighting for freedom from the evils of fascism.

To this day, American soldiers still believe they're "fighting for freedom" when they drop bombs on civilian neighborhoods in small, oil-rich countries.

While millions of American and German young men lost their lives in World War 2, the war-profiteering fascist robber barons in America and Germany were making billions. And the victims were the Jews. And everyone else. Millions of people died in a fascist war for profit. While they all thought they were fighting for freedom.

Today's Germans know all that. Today's conservative Americans don't.

And that's why the whole world thinks you MAGA minions are fucking idiots for supporting a fascist wannabe dictator like Trump.

Another thing the Republican propaganda machine always lies about is that the Nazis were supposedly anti-gun.

That's just another lie. The Nazis weren't anti-gun. The Nazis were pro-gun.

You falsely believe that the Nazis oppressed the Christian Germans. No, the Nazis were the Christian Germans. And the whole country was armed, to defend against "anti-German invaders." Every good Christian German had a gun, to shoot foreigners.

"Gun control laws passed by the Nazis in 1938 actually loosened firearms restrictions that had been in force since the end of World War I.

Gun ownership was banned outright for all German citizens in 1919. A 1928 revision of the law lifted the ban, while still requiring individuals to obtain permits to own, sell, carry, or manufacture firearms.

The first gun law actually enacted under Nazi rule, the German Weapons Act of 1938, eased some of the permit requirements (those on rifles and ammunition, though not on handguns), and lowered the legal age for the possession of firearms, but also forbade Jews, specifically, from manufacturing or selling arms."

-Snopes.com

Nazi fascists hated socialists and communists. The Nazis attacked communist Russia, remember? And the Nazis accused liberal Jews of conspiring with communist Russia.

Here's a very famous old World War 2 poem, that all post-war German kids have to learn in school:

"When the Nazis came for the communists,

I remained silent;

I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent;

I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,

I did not speak out;

I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,

I remained silent;

I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,

there was no one left to speak out."

-Martin Niemöller

Fascism is extreme capitalism. It's capitalism with guns. It's killing people for profit. It's capitalism that exploits people until they're dead. Slavery is extreme capitalism. Slavery is fascism.

Ever heard of the hidden Nazi gold in Switzerland? Where do you think that gold came from? The Nazis stole it from the people they killed.

Millions of Jews were killed by conservative Christian capitalists. The same kind of people who exterminated the Native Americans and enslaved Africans. All these mind-boggling, epic, large-scale atrocities were committed by conservative Christian capitalists.

Just like the witch hunts in Puritan America, when conservative Christian fanatics, the American Taliban, killed a bunch of innocent women, aka "witches," and thought of themselves as the good guys. That's why the founding fathers came up with rules, called "separation between church and state" to keep the Christian fanatics out of the government.

I know you find all this almost impossible to believe, after all the upside-down bullshit and opposite-of-truth lies you have been fed by Republican propaganda outlets. But it's true. You might want to crack open an actual history book, instead of liking and sharing alt-right propaganda lies on Facebook.

It makes you look really fucking stupid when you share a meme that says liberals are Nazis, or a meme that accuses Antifa (anti-fascist freedom fighters) of being Nazis. You might as well claim that the Jews were persecuting the Nazis. That would be just as upside-down and opposite-of-the-truth. And just as idiotic.

The word liberty means freedom. Liberal comes from liberty. Liberals are freedom fighters. We fight for the little guy, the downtrodden. Like Jesus did. We feel like it's our moral obligation to be a force for good in the world. You know that about us. You make fun of us for it. You call us bleeding heart liberals.

Well, you used to call us that. Your hatred for us has intensified over the last few years, and now you call us demons. You're literally demonizing us.

Predatory capitalists are fascists. War-profiteering Republican robber barons are fascists. And you are the obedient henchmen of the fascist ruling class. You are not free. You are brainwashed servants. You guys are the Nazis of the 21st century.

The alt-right Neo-Nazi capitalist robber barons blatantly lie to your face: "The Holocaust never even happened! The liberals are the real Nazis! Democratic governments suck! Government regulation is stupid! Unions are bad! It's really the Jews who are behind everything! They killed Jesus and they instigated World War 2! That liberal Jew George Soros is behind everything evil that happens in the world! George Soros stole your cookie!"

Their propaganda playbook hasn't changed. Why should it? It still works as well as ever. Better even.

Thanks to Republican efforts to defund and destroy public schools, each new generation of Americans gets dumber and dumber, and knows less and less about history. And it gets easier and easier to lie to you guys, as long as someone claims it's God's will.

Another one of the many lies the Republican propaganda machine tells you is that America is not supposed to be a democracy, but a republic. Sounds true, if you don't think about it and you know absolutely nothing about democracy.

But the truth is, the word democracy describes who rules: the people.

And the word republic describes how the people rule: by electing representatives.

Virtually every democracy in history has been a republic.

The German democratic republic before Hitler's Nazi Germany was called the Weimar Republic. The democratic republic after Nazi Germany was called Federal Republic of Germany. Germany is actually a federation of several independent states, like the U.S.

France has been a democratic republic ever since they chopped off the heads of their royals. And democratic Ireland is a republic. The list goes on and on.

Some countries also call themselves constitutional monarchies. That means even the king has to obey the democratic laws the people wrote down in their constitution. A democracy doesn't have to be a republic. A democracy can also be a constitutional monarchy. The power rests with the people and their self-made constitution. Nobody is above the law. Not even the king. If the king breaks the law, he goes to jail. Like everybody else.

A democracy and a republic are not two different things. The words describe two different aspects of one and the same thing. Like a red car. Red and car are not mutually exclusive words. Both words describe one and the same thing, but two different aspects of it.

A republic doesn't have to be democratic. It can also be a dictatorship. Then the dictator, not the people, picks representatives. Like in North Korea. And in Nazi Germany. And in Trump's America.

North Korea's official name is Democratic People's Republic of Korea. You know North Korea is a dictatorship. They're just flat-out lying about the democratic part in their name, because it sounds better than dictatorship. It's the same reason why the Nazis lied about being socialists.

Little Kim is a dictator. A robber baron in charge of a republic. That's why Trump loves him. Trump wants to be him.

"Trump says he and North Korea's Kim Jong Un 'fell in love.' Here's how the GOP responded.

Nothing illustrates the hypocrisy of the Republican Party during the era of Donald Trump more than their willingness to give the president a complete pass on his bizarre statements about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

Speaking at a rally on Saturday night in West Virginia, Trump revealed that he had "fell in love" with the very man Republicans labeled a "nut job" and a "lunatic" just a few years ago. "I was really being tough and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love, ok? No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they're great letters. And then we fell in love."

-NBC News

When the robber barons tell you America is not a democracy but a republic, as if those were two different things, it's to brainwash you. To drive a wedge between us. And to make you see democracy as your enemy. To make you a loyal, obedient little servant for the Republican robber barons. They want to be dictators, like they used to be in medieval Europe. They don't want to have to obey democratic laws that were made by the people.

That's why they brainwash you into seeing democracy as the enemy. And every time liberals point out that the robber barons are destroying democracy, you reply: "America isn't even a democracy anyway! It's a republic!"

You think you're winning, when the Republican robber barons are winning. Because you think the Republican robber barons are on your team. But they're not.

The robber barons are not your friends. The only thing stopping them from eating you alive are democratic laws.

But you don't know any of that. And that's how you become a brainwashed, loyal, obedient servant for anti-democratic fascists who are destroying America and fuck all of us on a daily basis.

Nowadays words like "Liberal" and "Muslim" are used by fascist, right-wing, extremist Republicans in the same way as the word "Jew" was used by the fascist, right-wing extremists of Nazi Germany. As a slur. As an inherently negative word. As a name for evil. Demons.

The hatred you feel for "liberal traitors" is no different than the hatred brainwashed Nazi Germans felt for "Jewish traitors." Both are based on hateful propaganda lies by fascist rich Republican robber barons who are pointing their finger at someone else while they're robbing you.

The same way hatred for German Jews eventually led to bloodlust and violence against those Jews by dumb, angry, brainwashed Nazi mobs, violence against liberals, Jews and Muslims is now becoming more and more common in Trump's fascist America.

"Hate crime incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions in the U.S. spiked about 37 percent between 2016 and 2017, according to data released Tuesday by the FBI."

\- CBS News

"FBI: Spike in US hate crimes for third year in a row

Hate crimes in the US rose by 17% in 2017, the third straight year that incidents of bias-motivated attacks have grown, according to the FBI.

Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes last year compared with 6,121 in 2016.

The rise in hate crimes is attributed to an increase of about 1,000 police departments that are now choosing to report these incidents, the FBI says."

-BBC News

"United States of Anti-Muslim Hate

A new non-partisan project finds that the national rhetoric has played a significant role in the rise of hate against Muslims in America."

-CityLab.com

"I am a nationalist': Trump's embrace of controversial label sparks uproar

President Donald Trump has received a lot of negative responses to his outright declaration that he is a nationalist, and on Sunday, the leader of one of America's oldest and closest allies added his voice to the critics' chorus."

-USA Today

If all the blatant lies about liberals you hear out of Trump's mouth, or on Republican propaganda outlets, were actually true, I'd hate liberals too.

One simple propaganda technique is to attack the "enemy's" strong points: morals, honor, integrity, empathy, compassion. That's why Republicans used to call us bleeding heart liberals. They were mocking the fact that we liberals care about other people. Because Republicans don't care about other people. It's each man for himself.

They think caring about others is weak. They think compassion is a weakness. Hitler thought that too. Republicans are all about self-reliance, which is code for: "I only care about myself. Fuck everybody else."

That's why "conservative" right-wing Americans don't give a shit about refugees. Never have. Not even about Jewish refugees during World War 2.

That's the fundamental difference between "socialist" Democrats and your sociopathic Republican overlords. They have two fundamentally different world views. Democrats believe we are all equal, and we all need to work together with love, compassion and understanding. Like Jesus said.

Republican robber barons think they are better than everyone else, and only their wants and needs are important. Fuck everyone else. That's what "America first" really means to them. Me first. Me! Me! Me! It's all about me. Just look at Trump. Everything he says and does is all about me! Me! Me!

Democrats actually want to protect you from being exploited. That's the whole point of government regulation.

Democratic governments were invented to protect the weak from the rich. A democratic government is your friend, not your enemy. The rich robber barons are your enemies, not your friends.

Your fascist Republican overlords want to squeeze as much profit out of you as possible, even if it means killing a bunch of you. They don't want rules and regulations to cut into their absurdly high profits.

And that's why life in Republican-run red states is hell on earth. Nobody should have to live in a trailer park ghetto in the richest country in the world. Nobody should have to live a life that's worse than death and drives people to kill themselves.

That's the real cause of the opioid epidemic. All the desperately poor people in the red states are so fucking miserable, they need drugs to numb the pain of living in a Republican red state hellhole.

"The opioid epidemic is taking its toll on rural America, and it's hitting farm and ranch families especially hard."

-American Farm Bureau Federation

"The CDC analyzed patient opioid prescription data from Athenahealth, a national electronic health record (EHR) vendor, during 2014-2017 and found that the percentage of patients prescribed an opioid was higher in rural areas than in urban settings.

This finding could correlate with the fact that higher rates of opioid-related deaths have been recorded in rural areas than in urban areas. In 2017, 14 rural counties were among the 15 counties with the highest opioid prescribing rates."

-The American Academy of Family Physicians

The opioid epidemic is a red state epidemic. It's bad everywhere, but it's by far the worst in rural areas in red states. It's absolutely destroying the red states. Eating them alive from within, like the black plague. Meanwhile the robber barons are making billions.

Americans are only 5% of the world population. But Americans consume 95% of all the drugs in the world.

Sounds absolutely insane, right? Can't possibly be true, right? But it is true.

No country is as addicted to drugs as America. The opioid epidemic is an American-made black plague. It's typical for America. When other countries think about a drug epidemic, they think about America. And the giant American pharmaceutical corporations are the richest in the world. Connect the dots.

Countries like Germany have a drug problem too. But not nearly as bad as America. No comparison. And you know what they do with addicts in Germany? They treat them for free. Any addict can just go to any free Methadone clinic, and get free Methadone. No appointment necessary. No insurance necessary. Just walk right in and ask for it, and you get it. No ID required. They just help you, because you need help. It's that simple when you care.

And you can get free drug rehab until you are healthy again. No insurance bullshit. That's why they have way way fewer addicts. Plus their lives are much better to begin with, so a lot less of them feel the need to kill themselves or take drugs to numb the pain of living.

Living in Republican red states causes opioid addiction and suicide. The stress, the poverty, the depression... these are prime reasons for addiction and suicide.

One of the robber barons' biggest lies is that the invisible hand of the market knows best. There should be no rules or regulations, the robber barons say. Let the money flow unhindered. Into their pockets. Even if a bunch of people die along the way. Who cares about some anonymous poor peasants anyway?

The invisible hand of the market sounds a lot like a veiled reference to a higher power, or God, doesn't it? God always comes in handy to make people believe bullshit.

Imagine a breakfast cereal made with asbestos chips. Would you eat it? No. Why not? Because you know asbestos will give you cancer. And how do you know that? That has not always been a well-known fact. The asbestos manufacturers certainly didn't tell you about it.

And you don't have a chemical lab in your basement, where you can analyze every product for its health hazards. You have no idea which chemical in your frozen pizza will give you cancer in 3 years, until it's too late.

And you'd still be licking lead paint off the walls in your shitty mobile home, if the government hadn't tested it and told you it's no good for you.

It was government oversight that tested asbestos and found out it causes cancer. That's how you know asbestos will kill you. And it was the government that protected consumers, the little guy, from cancer-causing asbestos. Regulation. Government oversight. It's a good thing when you're a normal person. But the rich Republican robber barons don't like oversight or regulation. They want to sell you more asbestos, not less.

The rich Republican robber barons are always talking about smaller government, and shutting down government departments that are supposed to oversee industries and protect consumers. Their ultimate goal is to get rid of government altogether. So the rich robber barons can do whatever the fuck they want to you. Like it used to be, in medieval Europe.

If the rich and strong are not bound by rules, they will simply devour the poor and weak, like a wolf devours a sheep. That's why rich industrialists exploited slaves until there were rules against it. And that's why rich industrialists used child labor until there were rules against it.

If it was up to the invisible hand of the market, we'd still have child labor and slavery today, because slavery is way more profitable than paying workers a fair wage. That's why American corporations jumped at the chance to use Jewish slave labor through their connections to Nazi Germany during World War 2. And why prisoners in America's prisons are used as slave labor today.

The robber barons use us as slaves, whenever there are no laws stopping them from doing it. That's why American workers work harder than workers in any other modern country. The other countries have laws against exploitation and modern slavery.

Trump isn't draining the swamp. Trump and his henchmen are the swamp. They're getting rid of the laws and regulations that protected us from robber barons.

What the hell can one poor little peasant do about being poisoned by the nearby factory that employs him? What can one poor little shlub do about being exploited at work? Nothing. That's why workers stick together in large groups, called unions. They have each other's backs against the robber barons.

I know you think union is a dirty word, but that's only because you have been brainwashed by Republican robber baron propaganda.

There is strength in numbers and in working together for the common good, as any decent community activist can tell you. Life is much better in Germany, where they have strong unions that protect the working class from robber barons:

"German union IG Metall wins right to 28-hour working week and 4.3% pay rise"

-The Irish Times

Isn't it funny that Irish readers know how good German unions are, but Americans have no idea? It's because fascist American robber barons destroyed most American unions in the 1940s. Ever since then the robber barons have been able to exploit American workers, because the robber barons keep telling you unions are bad for you.

While you slave away in poverty, Germans have a 28-hour work week. They work so much less than you do. And make more money than you. All thanks to their strong unions.

But you don't know any of this. That's exactly how rich Republicans like it. They like when Americans don't know what really goes on in the rest of the world. That way Republican talking heads on TV can tell you all kinds of lies, about how terrible European socialism supposedly is, and you have no clue whether any of the bullshit they tell you is actually true or not.

"How Germany Builds Twice As Many Cars As The U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice As Much

In 2010, Germany produced more than 5.5 million automobiles; the U.S produced 2.7 million. At the same time, the average auto worker in Germany made $67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in the U.S. made $33.77 per hour. Yet Germany's big three car companies—BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen—are very profitable.

There are "two overlapping sets of institutions" in Germany that guarantee high wages and good working conditions for autoworkers. The first is IG Metall, the country's equivalent of the United Automobile Workers. Virtually all Germany's car workers are members, and though they have the right to strike, they "hardly use it, because there is an elaborate system of conflict resolution that regularly is used to come to some sort of compromise that is acceptable to all parties," according to Horst Mund, an IG Metall executive. The second institution is the German constitution, which allows for "works councils" in every factory, where management and employees work together on matters like shop floor conditions and work life."

-Forbes Magazine

In America, the rich robber barons don't ask their little worker ants about their opinions. But the German constitution forces German robber barons to give the workers a seat at the table in the boardroom of every major company. The peasants have a strong voice in Germany's corporations. By law. That's why German working conditions are so much better than American working conditions. And they earn more money and have more vacation.

The American constitution was written by slave owners in the 17th century. That's why it calls black people and Native Americans less than human and doesn't protect workers from exploitation.

The German constitution was written by the people for the people, with the help of America and the Marshall Plan, after World War 2. It's like a modernized, upgraded version of the American constitution. That's why the German constitution protects the little guy from the robber barons. That's why the German constitution is better, and why life in Germany is better.

In Germany, nobody can be forced to work overtime against their will. A boss can't fire you for refusing to work overtime. It's illegal. In Germany, if you agree to work on the weekend, your boss has to pay you double what you normally earn. By law. If you earn $100 per day on a weekday, your boss must pay you $200 per day if you work on the weekend. And if you work on a national holiday, your boss must pay you 3 times your normal salary. So if you work on a holiday, you earn $300 per day, instead of $100. It's the law.

That's freedom. And it's good for the economy, when everyone has money in their pocket, not just the super rich robber barons.

"Germany's budget surplus is set to widen significantly this year, highlighting the country's strong economy and low unemployment level.

The budget surplus will widen to 1.75% of gross domestic product this year, after 1.1% in 2017, projections from the finance ministry show. The surplus will then narrow to 1% in 2019 and gradually fall to a 0.5% surplus by 2022 due to slowing economic growth and extra government spending on social welfare benefits and additional investments."

-Market Watch

Nobody wants the toxic shit America produces, but everyone wants the stuff Germany makes. They make Maibach, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Audi and lots of other great cars you never even heard of. America makes Ford and Chevy. Which car would you prefer? Exactly. Any one of the German cars is better than an American car. And the whole world knows it. That's why the world wants to buy German cars, not American cars.

"Germany is expected to set a €264 billion ($299 billion) trade surplus this year, far more than its closest export rivals Japan and the Netherlands, according to research published Monday by Munich-based economic research institute Ifo."

-DW.com

While America is broke as a joke, with an enormous deficit, Germany has a giant surplus and full pockets. Clearly, the way liberal Germany runs its economy works a lot better for the people than the way Republicans run the American government.

Maybe it's time we update the U.S. constitution a little. Add a few more amendments. Bring it into the 21st century. Make it work for the little guy, too. Like the constitutions in other civilized societies.

"Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world.

More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese.

And Americans take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too.

Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show a very gradually rising trend through the 1990s that has only just recently tapered off, hovering somewhere just north of 40 hours weekly.

Author Juliet Schor, who wrote the best-selling book The Overworked American in 1992, concluded that in 1990 Americans worked an average of nearly one month more per year than in 1970."

-ABC News

You think you live in a free, democratic country. And you think Europe is socialist, because Europe is different from America.

But Europeans don't think of themselves as socialists. They think of themselves as free democracies. And when they look at America, they see a fascist country run by war-profiteering robber barons, who can legally exploit the American people and bomb small, oil-rich countries for profit.

You don't even know you're not free, because you've never actually had real freedom, like they do in Europe.

When German companies build factories in America, and offer their American workers the same rights and freedoms that the German workers enjoy back home, the American workers don't even know what to do with that freedom:

"VW workers get paid $67 an hour in Germany. They make under $20 in the US. GOP lawmakers want to keep it that way

Do American auto workers have an inferiority complex? Do they suffer from such low self esteem that they believe they should be paid significantly less than their counterparts in other countries who build the same cars for the same company? Would they really prefer to have no say whatsoever in how their companies are run, even when their employers are keen to offer them a seat at the table?

Sadly, these are questions that need to be asked in the wake of last week's decision by auto workers at a Volkswagen (VW) plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee to reject an effort by the United Automobile Workers (UAW) to unionize the German owned factory.

Much of the blame for the no vote is being assigned to the right-wing groups and Republican lawmakers in the state, who mounted a relentless, if predictable, anti-union campaign.

Unlike most of the VW facilities worldwide, the Chattanooga plant does not have a works council, which brings workers together with management to establish the company's policies and procedures.

As things stand Chattanooga workers have no say in the company's decision-making process or in any negotiations surrounding pay or work conditions. It should come as no surprise then that workers at this plant get paid considerably less than workers at other VW plants around the world who do have a say.

In Germany, for instance, auto workers at VW plants get paid an average of $67.14 an hour. That's more than double the average hourly rate for an established unionized worker in Detroit, and it's more than three times what the non unionized workers in Chattanooga can hope to earn.

To be fair to the Tennessee auto workers, they have been relentlessly undermined by Republican lawmakers in the state who seem to think that their only route to job security (forget about prosperity) is to shut up, show up and accept whatever pay rate and working conditions their employers see fit to bestow on them."

-The Guardian

"Millions of Germans have won the right to work a 28-hour week for up to two years to spend more time with their families."

-The Telegraph

You didn't know any of this, did you? Of course not. You're not supposed to. Republican propaganda is designed to appeal to dumb people. And the more dumb people there are, the better the lies work. That's why, thanks to Republicans, America now has some of the worst schools in the western world.

It's unheard of in Europe, that teachers are so underpaid, they have to have second jobs. And in Europe you don't hear about teachers having to buy school books with their own money, because the schools are so underfunded. That's the kind of shit you hear about in third world countries, and America.

"In 2017, 40 million people struggled with hunger in the United States.

45 million Americans rely on stipends from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to buy food each month, according to the USDA. 2/3 of these benefits go to households with children.

1 in 6 American children may not know where their next meal is coming from.

22 million children in America rely on the free or reduced-price lunch they receive at school, but as many as 3 million children still aren't getting the breakfast they need.

Children who experience food insecurity are at a higher risk of developing asthma, struggling with anxiety or depression, and performing poorly in school or physical activities.

15% of families living in rural areas experience food insecurity, compared with 11.8% living in suburban and metropolitan areas.

These 8 states have the highest rates of food insecurity in the United States: Mississippi (18.7%), Louisiana (18.3%), Alabama (18.1%), New Mexico (17.6%), Arkansas (17.5%), Kentucky (17.3%), Maine (16.4%), Oklahoma (15.2%)."

-DoSomething.org

People in other countries collect donations for dirt poor Americans in red states.

Of course the rich Republican robber barons don't want you to know any of this. They hate the idea of poor peasants working together and having any power to oppose their greedy whims. So the rich industrialist wolves bribe some talking heads on talk radio or TV, and they tell the sheep: "No no, the wolves aren't eating you. The sheep who are trying to protect you are eating you. And community activists are pinko commies! Bernie Sanders is crazy! Obama is a Muslim terrorist! Hillary is a witch!"

Sound familiar? It's the same old lie: Blaming someone else.

Treating factory waste properly, and installing filters, is expensive. It cuts into profits. The rich robber baron can only buy a 120 foot yacht instead of a 150 foot yacht if he has to spend money on filters to protect your children from cancer.

So he bribes a Republican politician instead. It's a lot cheaper. And the corrupt Republican politician has absolutely no qualms about blatantly lying to the cancer stricken peasants, if it makes him rich. Who cares if a couple of sheep die, as long as the super rich get richer?

"With 521 new cases per 100,000 people, Kentucky has the highest cancer rate in the country. It also has the highest cancer death rate in the country—202."

-Reader's Digest

The rich Republican politicians and the rich Republican talking heads on the radio and TV tell the sheep that the community activist sheep who are trying to protect the flock from dying from cancer are really hurting the flock: "Community activists are socialists! And socialists are your enemy!"

Just like the for-profit-prison robber barons, who tell you that the ACLU is your enemy, for giving you free legal assistance.

And the red-dunce-cap-wearing sheep believe the corrupt Republican lies as usual, while sipping a cold, refreshing glass of cancer juice, and voting for Republican wolves who take their healthcare away, and send their kids to for-profit prisons to perform slave labor.

That's why the whole world is laughing at you fucktards. And no, the people laughing at you are not part of an anti-American globalist conspiracy. You guys are just that spectacularly stupid.

The people who are hurting you are not foreigners. They're fascist American robber barons.

The call is coming from inside the house!

The whole world can see The Republican Conspiracy clear as day. Only you MAGA minions can't see the truth, because you have been brainwashed.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

Game shows on TV sometimes have these segments where contestants have to look at a picture and guess what it is. The picture is zoomed into a small detail. The contestants can only see that tiny detail, but not the rest of the picture. What they can see might look like a deep, dark canyon, for example. But when the camera pulls farther away and reveals the complete, zoomed out picture, you realize that the black canyon was really just one of many small grooves on a car tire.

It's like that with important world events, too. If you are only being told about one tiny little detail, without knowing the bigger picture, you have no fucking clue what you're really looking at. That's where education comes in. Learning stuff and having actual information helps you to connect the dots and see the bigger picture.

Without proper education, Americans have no idea about historical context and they don't know what anything means. That's why the rest of the world thinks right-wing Americans are the dumbest, most misinformed people on the planet.

Take the Israel-Palestine conflict for example. If an Israeli tank kills Palestinian kids, the whole world is in an uproar. Except for right-wing Americans. They think the Palestinian kids deserved it. Damn terrorists! Because right-wing propaganda outlets in America tell you that the Palestinian kids threw rocks at the tanks first. So it's their own damn fault that they got killed, right?

No, not right. If you zoom out and look at the whole picture, you suddenly see that the Israeli tanks were in the process of stealing Palestinian land, and the teenagers were defending their homes any way they knew how. Israel has one of the strongest armies in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. Well, except the land that the Israelis want.

To be fair, it's not all Israelis. There are millions of good, kind, peace-loving Israelis. They're no different than good people anywhere else in the world. But Israel, like every other country, also has a bunch of ruthless robber barons who like to enrich themselves at the expense of weaker people. And, like robber barons in every other country, the Israeli robber barons also have loyal henchmen. But there are also millions of Jews who oppose these robber barons and fight for justice and Palestinian freedom.

"Thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday in Tel Aviv in support of a Palestinian state ahead of the 50th anniversary of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.

Banners bearing the slogan "Two states, One Hope" featured in the demonstration organised by supporters of a Palestinian state, including the Israeli NGO Peace Now.

NGO head Avi Buskila said the rally was a protest against "the lack of hope being offered by a government perpetuating occupation, violence and racism".

-France24.com

"Israel's violent rule increasingly driving liberal American Jews on to the streets

Monday I thought was one of the most disgraceful days in the history of the Israeli relationship to Palestinians, with the celebration of annexation – even as Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are refugees, were being gunned down, just for protesting their basic rights to live in dignity and freedom," Vilkomerson said."

-The Guardian

But it's not just the liberal Jews who oppose Israel's racist occupation of Palestine. Have you ever heard the word Zionism before? You probably think it's a slur that Muslims use to insult Jews. It's not.

Zionism is a sub-group of Jews, who believe that Jews are entitled to a Jewish-only homeland. Zionists are Jewish nationalists. Remember what I told you about nationalism? It always leads to war. Always.

Remember when Yugoslavia fell apart into many smaller nations? The Serbs, the Croats and the Slovaks were all super nationalist, and their new little nations immediately went to war against each other. Nationalism always leads to war. Always.

When Britain announced it was leaving the European Union, Spain and Britain almost went to war over Gibraltar, a British colony (like Hong Kong) on the coast of Spain.

"Gibraltar FURY: Spanish warship orders boats to 'LEAVE OUR WATERS' - Royal Navy deployed

A SPANISH warship ordered commercial ships to leave British Gibraltar waters on Sunday, the territory's government said.

The warship had its guns manned as it sailed in close to the Rock. The Royal Navy responded to this escalation and dispatched a vessel to investigate the incident. The Gibraltar government said: "The Royal Navy deployed a launch and a rigid-hulled inflatable boat to the scene.

"After being challenged by the Royal Navy, the Spanish warship sailed slowly along the Gibraltar coast with its weapons uncovered and manned."

-Express.co.uk

"Spanish warships intercepted by British patrol boats as tension mounts over the rock of Gibraltar

They're partners in the NATO alliance. For the moment, at least, they're European Union partners. But a clash between a Spanish warship and a British patrol boat in waters around Gibraltar has highlighted a centuries-old dispute that appears set to flare amid Brexit uncertainty.

The tiny Royal Navy patrol vessel HMS Sabre has been involved in a second incident involving an incursion by Spanish warships in as many weeks. This time, the 15m long, 24 tonne, Scimitar-class fast patrol boat intercepted an 89m long, 1640 tonne, OPV Infanta Cristina."

-News.com.au

Anyway, not all Jews are Zionist nationalists. In fact, many Jews oppose Zionist nationalism.

Not just the liberal, freedom-loving Jews, but even many orthodox Jews. Orthodox means very traditional, very conservative.

"Groups like Neturei Karta and the Satmar Hasidim bitterly oppose the modern State of Israel.

The anti-Zionist world-view of the ultra-Orthodox groups Neturei Karta and Satmar Hasidism perceives Zionism and the establishment of the State of Israel as an anti-messianic act, conceived and born from sin. These groups vigorously deny the very legitimacy of the collective political return to the Holy Land and to Jewish sovereignty. For them, this is the handiwork of humans, violating the Jewish people's oath of political quietism."

-MyJewishLearning.com

Zionism has only been around for a little over a 100 years.

"For over a century, Jews around the world have maintained a robust critique of Zionism and the state of Israel.

The tradition of Jewish dissent against Zionism has taken many forms. From the moment Theodore Herzl strode upon the world stage, many of us have insisted that leaving the diaspora for a Jewish nation-state is the wrong way to achieve safety, fight antisemitism, actualize Jewish identity, and work for justice in the world. Many have claimed that our peoples' relationship to the land of Israel is far more complicated than a narrow nationalist vision can allow, or that we are religiously forbidden, at this time, from setting up a Jewish state in the holy land. And many have protested Israel's dispossession of the Palestinians indigenous to the land of Israel."

-Jewish Voice for Peace

"Why I am an anti-Zionist Jew

The Israeli government deliberately invokes terrorist attacks, rockets, and scary brown men in headscarfs to stoke the population's fear, but I am scared of the racism Zionists use to justify the occupation.

Today the so-called "Jewish, democratic state" is synonymous with daily brutality, land occupation, militarism, settlements, and dispossession. Though varying forms of Zionist thought exist – each imbues the worthwhile aim of protecting the Jewish people with nationalist imperative. For us to be safe, the thinking goes, we must have our own country. To keep the country safe, we must use force to keep out threats. Because the people living there don't like us pushing them out, they are by definition threatening, and in need of suppression."

-OpenDemocracy.net

This is why Bernie Sanders didn't attend the recent AIPAC conference. AIPAC is a Zionist lobby, in service of a foreign nation, that lobbies (legally bribes) US politicians. The US politicians get money from the Israeli nationalist lobby, and then vote to send billions more to Israel. One hand washes the other.

America sends more money to Israel than to any other country on the planet. More than to the entire continent of Africa. And Israel has universal healthcare. US taxpayers are paying for universal healthcare in Israel.

You've never heard about any of this on Fox News, have you? No surprise.

Here's something else you probably didn't hear about:

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges arising from three separate corruption investigations, pending a hearing, Israel's attorney general announced Thursday evening."

-CNN

"Benjamin Netanyahu's embrace of far-right extremists may seal his fate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proved to be the Houdini of Israeli politics — an expert escape artist who extricates himself from the trickiest of situations to remain in power.

But his latest gambit may prove to be the beginning of the end of his more than a decade on the world stage.

Netanyahu announced this week that he was forging an alliance with a fringe extremist party inspired by an American-born rabbi, Meir Kahane, who advocated a Jewish theocracy and the forced removal of Palestinians."

-NBC News

What do you really know about Israel and the Palestinians?

Probably next to nothing, except that the Israelis are the good guys, and the Palestinians are the bad guys, right? Damn dirty terrorists. They hate freedom!

At least that's what you've been told.

Well, no, actually Palestinians don't hate freedom. Nobody in the Middle East hates freedom. That's just a propaganda lie, designed to make you support decades of wars against oil-rich Muslim countries. There's probably not a single Muslim "terrorist" who hates us for our freedom. They have a completely different reason for hating us.

And you have no idea what it is, because thanks to Republicans cutting the education budget, American schools didn't teach you shit about the real world we live in, or what's been going on in the Middle East for the past 100 years. Republican robber barons like it when their loyal peasants are dumb and clueless, because then they can sell you any propaganda lie as truth, and you're too dumb to know the difference.

You've probably never heard this before either, but Muslims didn't always hate America. In fact Muslims used to adore America.

Yeah, that's right. The people in the Middle East used to love America at one point in time. Americans were welcome in the Middle East, and we built schools over there.

The Arabs looked up to America, because during the Revolutionary War, Americans successfully fought for their freedom from Britain. Americans had enough of the British robber barons and kicked them out. Freedooommm!

The Arabs thought that was fucking awesome! Americans were their heroes! Arabs cheered when America declared its independence. We were their role models. The truth is, Arabs never hated us for our freedom. They simply want to be free from oppression, too.

The British Empire has spilled the blood of millions of innocent people all over the world during the past thousand years or so. They were brutal and ruthless, and ruled over their colonies with an iron fist. Just ask Gandhi.

"Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?"

-Mahatma Gandhi

No, he wasn't an Arab, but India was a British colony, just like America and the Middle East was. Gandhi had first hand experience with British colonialism.

The Middle East used to be a bunch of different tribes. Not unlike Europe at one point in time. The European robber barons killed each other and stole each other's land. Small tribal thiefdoms grew and became kingdoms, and then empires. All the European empires invaded and plundered their neighbors.

The British weren't the only ones. The Spanish, French, Portuguese, Belgian, Dutch and German empires did the same thing.

And so did the Turks. Back then they were called the Ottoman Empire. The Turks conquered the Middle East and made it part of their Ottoman Empire. Then the British Empire conquered the Ottoman Empire, and suddenly the Middle East was under British control.

"5 of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire

At its height in 1922, the British empire governed a fifth of the world's population and a quarter of the world's total land area.

Although the proponents of Empire say it brought various economic developments to parts of the world it controlled, critics point to massacres, famines and the use of concentration camps by the British Empire.

Between 12 and 29 million Indians died of starvation while it was under the control of the British Empire, as millions of tons of wheat were exported to Britain as famine raged in India.

In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal.

Talking about the Bengal famine in 1943, Churchill said: "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits."

-The Independent

Ouch. That Churchill quote sounds like something Hitler would say about the Jews.

Nowadays the story goes that World War 2 was a war of good vs evil. The Nazis were pure evil, and America and Britain were the good guys. Selfless heroes. The saviors of the human race!

Or so we're being told.

History books are written by the winners.

Think about it: if the Native Americans had won, the founding fathers would today be known as mass-murdering invaders. And if Hitler had won World War 2, he would now be known as the founding father of United Europe.

Because he'd make sure that's what the history books say about him.

Nobody ever sees themselves as evil. Everyone thinks they're the good guys, and the other guys, the other tribe, are the bad guys. Because that's what our robber barons tell us, to make us kill the other guys.

No matter how many atrocities "our" side commits, no matter how many people our side murders, our robber barons tell us that it was a glorious act of heroic bravery. It's ok to kill, rape and pillage the others because they're just subhuman garbage.

"The Second World War in Europe ended when Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945. As the Allies gained control over the Western and Eastern Fronts in 1944 and 1945, German soldiers were not the only casualties.

Recent historical research has revealed German women and girls were also targets, subjected en masse to a wide range of sexual violence allegedly committed by American, Canadian, British, French and Soviet soldiers.

The exact number of rapes is unknown, with estimates ranging from tens of thousands to millions."

-National Post

You've never heard anything about American soldiers raping millions of German women during and after World War 2, have you? No surprise. It doesn't fit into the good vs evil narrative.

Here are a few more authentic, genuine Winston Churchill quotes, collected by the British newspaper The Guardian. You rarely hear these quotes nowadays, because they just don't fit today's picture of World War 2 being a war of good vs evil.

Here Churchill admires Hitler for making Germany great again after being destroyed in World War 1:

"One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations."

-Winston Church, from his Great Contemporaries, 1937

"I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes."

-Winston Churchill, writing as president of the Air Council, 1919

"I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place."

-Winston Churchill to Palestine Royal Commission, 1937

So Churchill and Hitler agreed that gassing people and killing "inferior races" is perfectly fine. They were both fascists.

And here's Churchill, bitching about peasant uprisings (aka communism) against robber barons:

"This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."

-Winston Churchill, writing on 'Zionism versus Bolshevism' in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 1920

Here he is complaining that Russia has been overtaken by Jewish communists:

"(We must rally against) a poisoned Russia, an infected Russia of armed hordes not only smiting with bayonet and cannon, but accompanied and preceded by swarms of typhus-bearing vermin."

-Winston Churchill, quoted in the Boston Review, April/May 2001

Churchill sounded just like Hitler.

Sounds a lot like the way Trump and Fox News talk about South American refugees, doesn't it? They love to call them leprosy-infested invading hordes, terrorists, MS13 gang members, rapists, and animals, to incite tribalist hatred among you MAGA-hat-wearing dimwits.

"A guest on Fox News claimed without evidence that migrants traveling in a caravan up through Mexico were carrying diseases such as leprosy, smallpox and tuberculosis and that they were going to "infect our people in the United States."

Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent David Ward appeared on the cable network with host Charles Payne to discuss the caravan which has been a frequent target of attacks by President Donald Trump and Republicans.

Later in the show, Payne clarified that "we have no way of independently confirming" the claims Ward made about migrants carrying diseases."

-Newsweek

Trump and his henchmen always talk about Mexicans having all sorts of diseases.

But the truth is, Mexicans are healthier than Americans. Mexicans live longer.

"Why Do Hispanics Outlive White and Black Americans?

Immigrants who make it to the U.S. are among the hardiest from their home countries, and some 40 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population was born elsewhere. They also may bring with them a healthier diet and lifestyle."

-ABC News

Surprised? Don't be. Just come to terms with the fact that everything the Republicans tell you is the exact opposite of the truth. They're purposely lying to you about everything, because if you knew the truth, you'd never be dumb enough to vote for Republican robber barons.

Anyway, Churchill's claim that there is a worldwide Jewish conspiracy sounds pretty familiar too, doesn't it? Fascists love to use these kinds of conspiratory propaganda lies to rile up their ignorant followers and make them accept and even look forward to violence against those "evil" people on the other side, who in reality are nothing more than innocent victims.

Churchill also agreed with Hitler that while you're exterminating inferior races, why not exterminate the handicapped and mentally challenged as well? Churchill felt that they're ruining the gene pool of the superior white race:

"The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate... I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up before another year has passed."

-Winston Churchill to Asquith, 1910

And here's Churchill telling Poland to stop whining about being invaded by Hitler:

"You are callous people who want to wreck Europe - you do not care about the future of Europe, you have only your own miserable interests in mind."

-Winston Churchill, addressing the London Polish government at a British Embassy meeting, October 1944

Churchill didn't think Nazi-style fascism was all that bad:

"I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and nazism, I would choose communism. "

-Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, autumn 1937

Surprised? Don't be. Like I said, before World War 2, fascism was actually pretty popular among robber barons all over the world, not just in Germany, but even in Britain and America, because Fascism is capitalism on steroids. Capitalism is robber barons ruling over peasants and exploiting them. Fascism is the same thing, plus guns and murder.

What's not to love? Think about how much money your corporation can make when you don't have to pay people and you can just send soldiers to kill them and take their stuff, or turn them into slaves!

The banality of evil. All the horrible things that happened in human history were motivated by something as simple as greed. Not aliens. Not Illuminati. The one thing that connects the robber barons in The Republican Conspiracy is their love for money.

That's why they call themselves capitalists. Capital is another world for money. Capitalism literally means money is the most important thing in the world.

Capitalists are addicted to money and will do literally anything to get more money, just like a crackhead who will do anything for more crack.

Like Churchill, Hitler hated communists and socialists. He only used the word socialism in the title of his Nazi party, because everyone associated good things with socialism: equality and freedom from oppression. Peasant uprisings against evil overlords.

Calling the Nazis socialists was a cynical propaganda ploy. A trick, to fool people. It's the same trick North Korea uses. Officially it's called Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but even you know that North Korea is not actually democratic. They just use that word because it sounds good. Who doesn't love democracy? Well, that's the same trick the Nazis used when they called themselves socialists.

Anyway, what these quotes show you is that Churchill and Hitler were both white-supremacist nationalists, and they both had the same opinions about liberal Jews, handicapped people, Russian communists, gassing people, and killing inferior races to steal their land and valuables.

World War 2 was not a war between good and evil. It was simply a war between competing empires.

And most of those empires were run by super racist white people who were descendants of German tribes.

The world was up for grabs, and nobody wanted to just sit on the sidelines, while the other empires were slicing up the pie.

Here's a quote of Churchill, negotiating with Russia on who gets which slice of the pie:

"So far as Britain and Russia were concerned, how would it do for you to have 90% of Romania, for us to have 90% of the say in Greece, and go 50/50 about Yugoslavia?"

-Winston Churchill, addressing Stalin in Moscow, October 1944

Churchill didn't give a damn about what Hitler did to the Jews. He would have done the same thing. He literally said so himself.

The British Empire killed more people than the Nazis did, simply because they were around longer and had more time to conquer more land than the Nazis did. How was the British Empire the good guys in World War 2?

Meanwhile America is the only country to drop nuclear bombs on innocent civilians.

Is that what good guys do?

And even after the war was over, and Germany stopped treating Jews like shit, America continued to treat black people like shit. 20 years after the end of World War 2, it was still illegal for whites and blacks to marry in America. Until 1967 it was illegal in America not to be racist.

Racism was the law of the land. If you weren't racist, you were breaking the law. If you dated someone from another race, you could go to jail. And before the 1960s, everyone thought of the KKK as good Christians, and lynching black people was just good Christian fun.

How was America the good guys?

Public lynchings of black people continued for years after World War 2, and even today, a certain MAGA-hat-wearing segment of the American population thinks that's how it should be. Those were the good old days, when America was great, in their ignorant minds. Incidentally they're the same people who also hate Jews, Mexicans, Muslims, the United Nations, and liberal Democrats.

The Confederate flag was a symbol of racism and tribalist hatred in the 19th century.

The Nazi swastika was a symbol of racism and tribalist hatred in the 20th century.

And the red MAGA hat is a symbol of racism and tribalist hatred in the 21st century.

Today we're being told that the Nazis were super racist. But the reality is, back then everyone was super racist. Even the so-called good guys. There was no difference between the racism in Nazi Germany, and the racism in Britain or America. They all thought it was ok to kill inferior races.

The only thing people knew since the beginning of time was tribalism. Us vs them. That's how it had always been. And the other guys are always the bad guys. The subhuman garbage that we must kill.

That's how tribalism works. That's why it's such an effective tool that allows the robber barons to control their peasants, by telling them that there is an outside threat, foreign barbarian hordes, and only the robber baron can protect his peasants.

The British Empire told their soldiers that German soldiers were savages who killed babies for fun. British propaganda posters showed German soldiers with a big evil grin as they murdered infants.

It was just a propaganda lie, designed to make British peasants hate German peasants, even though they shared common ancestors and were brothers. The Windsors, the British royal family, were themselves a German family.

During the first Iraq war, American war propaganda claimed Saddam Hussein killed Kuwaiti babies by ripping them out of incubators. That wasn't true either. Just another lie to demonize the enemy.

The truth was, Saddam was put in power by America. And under Saddam, the people of Iraq had universal healthcare and women in Iraq had more freedom and equality than anywhere else in the Middle East. While our dear ally Saudi Arabia stoned women to death for driving a car, women in Saddam's Iraq were doctors and high ranking members of the government.

And today Republicans are being told that Democrats love to kill babies, because they believe in a woman's right to choose. It's just the same old baby-killer lie, designed to make you hate "the other tribe."

Of course you don't know this, but abortion is legal pretty much everywhere in the world. Except in a small handful of countries. Mostly religious fanatics in the Middle East. Like the Taliban.

Abortion is legal almost everywhere, not because people all over the world love to kill babies for fun, but because a fetus is not a baby.

Sure, at some point a fetus will develop into a baby, just like an egg will become a chicken at some point. But an egg is not a chicken. They're two different things.

The brain is made up of different parts. One part is called the cerebral cortex. That's the part of the brain that's in charge of higher thought. The cerebral cortex is what makes us think and dream and feel. Without it, you can't think and you can't feel anything.

Abortion is legal, before that part of the brain develops, because before it develops, a fetus is just a cluster of cells, that has no more brain function than a mole on your back. It's not a baby. It can't think and it can't feel, anymore than a cyst, a mole, or a tumor can think or feel.

"When Does the Fetus's Brain Begin to Work?

Last of all to mature is the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for most of what we think of as mental life–conscious experience, voluntary actions, thinking, remembering, and feeling. It has only begun to function around the time gestation comes to an end. Premature babies show very basic electrical activity in the primary sensory regions of the cerebral cortex–those areas that perceive touch, vision, and hearing–as well as in primary motor regions of the cerebral cortex."

-ZerotoThree.org

"When should society confer moral status on an embryo? When should we call an embryo or a fetus one of us?

Synapses - the points where two neurons, the basic building blocks of the nervous system, come together to interact - form in large numbers during the seventeenth and following weeks, allowing for communication between individual neurons. Synaptic activity underlies all brain functions. Synaptic growth does not skyrocket until around postconception day 200 (week 28).

By the thirty-second week, the fetal brain is in control of breathing and body temperature."

The embryonic stage reveals that the fertilized egg is a clump of cells with no brain; the processes that begin to generate a nervous system do not begin until after the fourteenth day. No sustainable or complex nervous system is in place until approximately six months of gestation."

-New York Times

In modern medicine, the time of death is determined by a lack of brain function. If there is zero brain function, a patient is dead. A fetus with zero brain function is not alive, any more than a mole is alive. And that's why abortion is legal all over the world, before the cerebral cortex develops.

"The majority of abortions in 2015 took place early in gestation: 91.1% of abortions were performed at ≤13 weeks' gestation; a smaller number of abortions (7.6%) were performed at 14–20 weeks' gestation, and even fewer (1.3%) were performed at ≥21 weeks' gestation."

-CDC

Virtually all abortions are performed before the brain develops, when the fetus is still just a cluster of cells that cannot think or feel. It's like removing a mole.

That's the medical reality. Of course that's not what the Republicans tell you. They want to use abortion as a wedge issue, to turn us against each other, so they tell you all kinds of lies, to demonize Democrats, about crying, fully developed babies being aborted one day before they're born and ridiculous nonsense like that:

"Trump spreads false narrative about late term abortions at MAGA rally

President Trump made a false claim that mothers and doctors have the option to "execute" babies after they are born at a MAGA rally in Wisconsin."

-MSNBC

It's just another one of his thousands of propaganda lies, designed to manipulate you.

You know who the real killers are?

Republicans.

You think the death penalty is perfectly normal, right?

Well, you're pretty alone in the world with that thought. The death penalty is considered barbaric by almost all countries on the planet, except for a handful of dictatorships or crazy fundamentalists, like the Taliban.

Republican talking heads on TV always try to scare you about Muslims and their Sharia law. But Sharia law is simply their version of the 10 commandments. If you don't like the idea of living under Sharia law, trust me, you're not gonna like living in a fundamentalist Christian country where the laws are based on the bible.

For starters, polygamy is perfectly ok in the bible, just like in the Koran. And the bible says that a girl who is raped can be sold to her rapist for 50 shekels, or about $580:

"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."

-Deuteronomy 22:28

I don't know about you, but I would absolutely hate to live in a country that is ruled by biblical law. It would be like living under the Taliban.

According to the bible, if a woman had sex before she gets married, she should be stoned to death:

"If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death."

-Deuteronomy 22:20

Yeah, that sounds perfectly reasonable.

Have you ever seen one of those news clips, where a woman gets stoned to death in Saudi Arabia? Savage and barbaric, right?

Well, in other countries they have documentaries like that about the death penalty in America. Other countries look at America as barbaric and savage, for murdering prisoners.

But you think it's totally normal to execute people. Because that's how it has been your whole life, and you have been brainwashed to see executing people as normal.

And you think this is freedom.

Almost every other country on the planet calls executing prisoners the exact opposite of freedom.

The death penalty does absolutely nothing to bring down the crime rate. America's crime rate is higher than pretty much every other civilized society. They all have less crime, strict gun laws, and no death penalty.

Texas kills more prisoners than any other US state. And Texas has one of the highest crime rates. So the death penalty does absolutely nothing to deter crime. If the death penalty actually deterred crime, Texas should have the lowest crime rate in the US, not the highest.

See that? Rational thought, thinking for yourself, would tell you in under a minute that the death penalty is barbaric and stupid. But you've never even spent a single fucking minute actually thinking about it for yourself. You just blindly accept what the robber barons tell you. Especially if they mention God.

You are in favor of executing people, and think of yourself as pro-life.

Do you realize how bizarre that is?

A lot of countries want to join the European Union. It's very hard to get into that exclusive club. It takes years. Turkey has been trying for over a decade to join the EU. But they're not allowed to.

Countries must be free, civilized societies and obey democratic laws to join the EU. And one of those laws is that the death penalty is banned. No country who has the death penalty can join the EU. They welcome refugees from all over the world. But they don't welcome barbaric savages who are fans of the death penalty.

America wouldn't be allowed to join the EU, even if we wanted to. Like Turkey, America is committing way too many human rights violations. Like putting millions of people in cages, concentration camps, and private prisons. And executing prisoners. And threatening the free press with violence.

Countries must be civilized and peace-loving, if they want to join the EU. A country cannot be at war, and cannot be in any nationalistic dispute over borders or land or resources, if they want to join the EU.

That's how membership in the European Union stopped countries from bashing each other's heads in.

That's right, unlike America, in the European Union it's normal not to be at war. In Europe, America is known for being ultra violent. Not only at war all the time, but also super violent domestically.

When European tourists visit America, they buy a travel guide at the airport and read it on the plane. And the travel guide warns them to be extra careful in America, because America is not nearly as safe as Europe. There are similar warnings in European travel guides to third world countries.

In America you could get shot at any moment. Not so in Europe. Your chances of getting shot in Europe are about the same as a meteor falling on your car. It extremely, extremely unlikely. Not something anyone ever worries about. But in America it happens hundreds of times on a daily basis. To Europeans that is absolutely bizarre.

And unlike Europe, America is always at war. America is always attacking some small country somewhere or other. Usually in the oil-rich Middle East.

And no matter what the robber barons tell you, it's always a war of aggression. Regardless of whether they call it a preemptive strike, or a retaliatory strike, or a shadow war, or a freedom campaign to "liberate" someone or other.

It's always American troops in someone else's country. That's an attack, not a defense. It's never foreign troops invading American soil.

Trump is trying to force the European Union to spend more money on the military, and buy weapons from American war factory robber barons.

But the European Union isn't interested.

European armies are defensive armies. Their job is to protect home.

America's army is an attack army. A capitalist, nationalist, attack army. Its job is to attack other countries. That's why America needs a fleet of super expensive aircraft carriers, and other countries don't.

"President Trump Is Spending $20 Billion on an Aircraft Carrier. The Navy Wanted That Money for Cybersecurity

Trump's decision will cost the Navy more than $20 billion over the next two decades, much of which the service had planned to spend on new unmanned vessels and other advanced technologies.

Trump's abrupt April 30 decision to change a section of the Navy budget he had approved earlier this year will please many bipartisan members of Congress, some of whom had vowed to keep the Truman — and a 355-vessel fleet with 12 aircraft carriers — afloat if Trump didn't.

The decision also is consistent with the President's aversion to discussing cybersecurity, such as protecting the 2020 elections from hackers."

-Time Magazine

An attack army is way more expensive than a defensive army. You gotta spend money to make money. Just ask the medieval Crusaders. Plundering Jerusalem was pretty expensive. Armies cost a fortune. And that money could be used for better things.

America blows all its money on weapons and bombs, while Europe invests its money in better roads, excellent free schools, superior universal healthcare and a good social safety net that helps all people.

You rarely see or hear about the military in Europe. You don't see military salutes before football games. That's the kind of blatant military glorification the Nazis were famous for.

In Europe they don't put the military on a pedestal, like America does. Nobody in Germany would ever refer to the military as "heroes" or "warriors." Those are tainted words the Nazis used, to glorify the military. In present-day Germany, members of the military are referred to as career soldiers. It's a job, like any other. Nothing glorious about it.

The founding fathers would hate Trump's America. They were against standing armies and the glorification of militarism:

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people."

-James Madison

"The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

-James Madison

Today's Republican robber barons are doing the exact opposite of what the founding fathers said America should be doing. Just like today's white-supremacist Republican Christians are doing the exact opposite of what Jesus said they should be doing.

Everything you do and everything you believe is the exact opposite of what is right, because you have been brainwashed to see right as wrong, and wrong as right.

"Trump as Nero

Europe Must Defend Itself Against A Dangerous President

The United States president is becoming a danger to the world. It is time for Germany and Europe to prepare their political and economic defenses.

Germany must stand up in opposition to the 45th president of the United States and his government. That's difficult enough already for two reasons: Because it is from the Americans that we obtained our liberal democracy in the first place; and because it is unclear how the brute and choleric man on the other side will react to diplomatic pressure. The fact that opposition to the American government can only succeed when mounted together with Asian and African partners \-- and no doubt with our partners in Europe, with the EU -- doesn't make the situation any easier."

-Der Spiegel

Europe has zero interest in war. And Europeans see Trump's America as a threat, not a friend.

If the founding fathers were alive today, they would like the European Union better than Trump's America.

OIL WARS

Let's get back to what the US has been up to in the Middle East since World War 2:

The Turkish Ottoman Empire was an ally of Nazi Germany. The Ottoman Empire oppressed the Middle East. The British promised the Arabs, if they helped the British to fight against the Ottomans, the British would help the Arabs be free from oppression. The British promised the Arabs, the Middle East would be free from foreign colonial powers.

The British also promised European Jews, if they helped fight against Nazi Germany, Britain would help the Jews create a homeland: present-day Israel.

There was no Israel back then. You probably think Israel has been a country since the time of Jesus. That's not true. Israel is a very young country, that was created after World War 2, on May 14, 1948, by white European colonists.

Not unlike South Africa. That's why Nelson Mandela, the famous South African freedom fighter, called Israel an Apartheid regime, just like South Africa.

The bible talks about the Jews who left their homeland. They went to other countries. But not all Jews left their homeland. Many stayed behind. And many of them eventually became Muslims.

It's not unusual for people to change their religion. Europeans used to be pagan before they became Christian. Even Rome used to worship many different gods, before Rome became the home of the Christian church. And many Muslims used to be Christians or Jews, before they became Muslim. For many people it's a natural progression, because those three religions worship the same God and build on each other.

Muhammad Ali was maybe the greatest boxer of all time. And before he converted to Islam, he used to be called Cassius Clay.

Cat Stevens, the famous folk singer and peace activist, decided to become a Muslim, and now he calls himself Yusuf Islam.

And the Jews who didn't leave their homeland, eventually became Muslims. And they called themselves Palestinians, because the Jewish homeland has been called Palestine for thousands of years.

"The names "Palestine" and "Palestina" occur four times in the Old Testament portion of the King James Bible (1611), the most influential English translation in history.

What have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon,

and all the coasts of Palestine? (Joel 3:4a = 4:4a Heb)

The people shall hear, and be afraid;

sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Palestina. (Exod 15:14)

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina ... (Isa 14:29a)

Howl, O gate; cry, O city,

thou whole Palestina, art dissolved. (Isa 14:31a)"

-Hebrew Streams

"Palestine originally denoted only the sea-coast of the land of Canaan inhabited by the Philistines ( Exodus 15:14 ; Isaiah 14:29 Isaiah 14:31 ; Joel 3:4 ), and in this sense exclusively the Hebrew name Pelesheth (rendered "Philistia" in Psalms 60:8 ; 83:7 ; 87:4 ; 108:9 ) occurs in the Old Testament.

Not till a late period in Jewish history was this name used to denote "the land of the Hebrews" in general ( Genesis 40:15 )."

-BibleStudyTools.com

The Jews who left their homeland went to a bunch of different countries.

Eventually people in other countries, who had never been in the Middle East, became Jewish. The Khazar Empire, a kingdom between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, converted to Judaism in the 8th century.

"A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture.

The general location of the city on the Silk Road was confirmed in medieval chronicles by Arab, Jewish and European authors.

"The discovery of the capital of Eastern Europe's first feudal state is of great significance," he told The Associated Press. "We should view it as part of Russian history."

The Khazars were a Turkic tribe that roamed the steppes from Northern China to the Black Sea. Between the 7th and 10th centuries they conquered huge swaths of what is now southern Russia and Ukraine, the Caucasus Mountains and Central Asia as far as the Aral Sea.

It lay at a major junction of the Silk Road, the trade route between Europe and China, which "helped Khazars amass giant profits," he said."

-NBC News

Jesus was Middle Eastern. All Jews or Palestinians back then were Middle Eastern.

Today there are still many Jews who look Middle Eastern. But there are far more Jews who look white. They're descendents of European Jews, who converted to Judaism, but weren't actually from the Middle East.

Today Jews are separated into two large groups: Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews.

"Who are Ashkenazic Jews?

Ashkenazic Jews are the Jews of France, Germany, and Eastern Europe and their descendants. The adjective "Ashkenazic" and corresponding nouns, Ashkenazi (singular) and Ashkenazim (plural) are derived from the Hebrew word "Ashkenaz," which is used to refer to Germany. Most American Jews today are Ashkenazim, descended from Jews who emigrated from Germany and Eastern Europe from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s.

Who are Sephardic Jews?

Sephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East and their descendants. The adjective "Sephardic" and corresponding nouns Sephardi (singular) and Sephardim (plural) are derived from the Hebrew word "Sepharad," which refers to Spain.

Sephardic Jews are often subdivided into Sephardim, from Spain and Portugal, and Mizrachim, from the Northern Africa and the Middle East. The word "Mizrachi" comes from the Hebrew word for Eastern. There is much overlap between the Sephardim and Mizrachim. Until the 1400s, the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa and the Middle East were all controlled by Muslims, who generally allowed Jews to move freely throughout the region. It was under this relatively benevolent rule that Sephardic Judaism developed. When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, many of them were absorbed into existing Mizrachi communities in Northern Africa and the Middle East."

-Judaism 101

Ashkenazi Jews are white Europeans. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews are Middle Easterners.

"Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews

The majority of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from prehistoric European women, according to study published today (October 8) in Nature Communications. While the Jewish religion began in the Near East, and the Ashkenazi Jews were believed to have origins in the early indigenous tribes of this region, new evidence from mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on exclusively from mother to child, suggests that female ancestors of most modern Ashkenazi Jews converted to Judaism in the north Mediterranean around 2,000 years ago and later in west and central Europe."

-The Scientist Magazine

"Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium.

The traditional diaspora language of Ashkenazi Jews is Yiddish (a Germanic language with elements of Hebrew and Aramaic), developed after they had moved into northern Europe: beginning with Germany and France in the Middle Ages.

It is estimated that in the 11th century Ashkenazi Jews composed three percent of the world's total Jewish population, while an estimate made in 1930 (near the population's peak) had them as 92 percent of the world's Jews.

Sergio Della Pergola, in a rough calculation of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, implies that Ashkenazi Jews make up less than 74% of Jews worldwide. Other estimates place Ashkenazi Jews as making up about 75% of Jews worldwide."

-Wikipedia

So in the 11th century, European Jews were a tiny minority. Only 3% of the world's Jewish population. But by World War 2, descendants of those European Jews were now 92% of the world's Jewish population.

One of these European Jews was Theodor Herzl, an Austrian born in Hungary in 1860. He was the Zionist nationalist who started saying that European Jews should have their own homeland.

"The Jewish Colonization Association was created on September 11, 1891, by Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North America (Canada and the United States), and South America (Argentina and Brazil).

Colonies were founded within the United States in southern New Jersey, Ellington, Connecticut (Congregation Knesseth Israel), and elsewhere. A Canadian Committee of the JCA was established in November 1906 to assist in the settlement of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Russia, and to oversee the development of all JCA settlements in the country.

The JCA also established two agricultural colonies in the first two decades of the 20th century in what now is Turkey. In 1891, JCA bought land near Karataş, Izmir, Turkey, and established an agricultural training centre, or Yehudah, on an area totaling 30 km² by 1902. The center was closed in 1926 owing to numerous difficulties. A group of Romanian Jews in Anatolia were assisted by JCA in the early 20th century to establish an immigration bureau in Istanbul in 1910. The JCA also bought land in the Asian part of Istanbul and founded Mesillah Hadassah agricultural colony for several hundred families. In 1928 the colonies were mostly liquidated, with only the immigration bureau remaining to assist migrants in their migration to Palestine.

In 1896 the JCA started offering support to Jewish farming communities newly established in Ottoman Palestine. In 1899 Baron Edmond James de Rothschild transferred title to his colonies ("moshavot") in Palestine along with fifteen million francs to the JCA. Starting on January 1, 1900 the JCA restructured the way in which the colonies received financial and managerial support, with the effect of making them more profitable and independent.

The Palestine operation was restructured by Baron de Rothschild in 1924 as the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA) and placed under the directorship of his son James Armand de Rothschild. PICA transferred most of its properties to the State of Israel in 1957 and 1958. ICA resumed activities in Palestine in 1933, at first in association with another fund and from 1955 on by itself as "ICA in Israel".

-Wikipedia

So what you call Israel today used to be called Palestine until 1948. And when European Jews started moving there, Palestine wasn't empty.

There were people living there. The Palestinians. The descendants of the Jews from biblical times. And the Jews who moved there from Europe were white European colonists, who happened to be Jewish.

And what the white Jewish Europeans have been doing to the Middle Eastern Palestinians since 1948 has been pretty brutal. Europeans are good at being brutal. Our history books are full of European brutality.

And that's why many Jews oppose Zionist nationalism.

The British Empire promised the Middle Easterners that they could live free from foreign oppression, if they rose up against the Ottomans and helped the British defeat Nazi Germany.

The British Empire also promised Zionist European Jews that they could have a new homeland in the middle of the Middle East, in Palestine, if they helped defeat the Nazis by using their influence in Russia.

Obviously those two promises contradicted each other. The British didn't really plan on keeping either one. They were just bullshitting the Muslims and the Jews to manipulate them.

After World War 2, the bankrupt British Empire collapsed. They figured fuck it, and unloaded the Palestinian problem onto the newly created United Nations. Now the United Nations had the headache.

The UN tried to be fair and somehow find a compromise. So the UN told European Jews they could have half of Palestine. Of course that was a pretty arrogant white people thing to do, since Palestine belonged to the Palestinians, not the UN, and the UN really had to right to give half of Palestine to anyone.

When tons and tons of white European colonists started showing up in Palestine, the Palestinians flipped out. Who wouldn't?

Imagine if suddenly millions of Russians started showing up in Texas, stole the locals' land, and declared Texas their new homeland. You wouldn't like that either, would you?

If you look at a map of Palestine from before 1948, the whole thing is called Palestine. Then, when you look at a map of Palestine after 1948, half of it is called Palestine, and the other half is called Israel. Israel just appeared out of nowhere in 1948.

If you look at newer maps after 1948, you'll notice that the part called Israel got bigger and bigger over the years, and the part called Palestine got smaller and smaller. Today there is almost nothing left of Palestine, except the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

They are giant open air prisons. Like Manhattan in the old John Carpenter sci-fi horror movie, Escape from New York.

The Palestinian people living in the giant open air prisons called Gaza Strip and West Bank are being treated like animals. They can't even move around freely inside their walled prisons, because Israel keeps building Jewish-only settlements inside the Palestinian prison camps, to steal even the last little bit of land the Palestinians have left.

"From 1967 through 2017, over 200 Israeli settlements were established in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem); their current population is almost 620,000. Settlements impinge on Palestinian human rights throughout the West Bank as their influence far exceeds the boundaries of the lands seized to build them: checkpoints that limit Palestinian movement are erected based on where there are settlements; Palestinian are denied access to farmland near settlements; the route of the Separation Barrier was placed inside the West Bank so as to leave as many settlements as possible to the west of it."

-The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

Today Palestinians are the largest refugee population in the world. And they're being brutally oppressed by fascist, nationalist, white-supremacist Israelis.

The Arabs, who had been royally fucked by the British, tried to help their Palestinian brothers. But the white Jewish Europeans had much better military equipment, and they easily defeated the Middle Eastern freedom fighters, who tried to get rid of the white colonists. Just like in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela's grandson is a grown man by now. And he's also a freedom fighter, like his late grandpa.

"Mandela's Grandson on Visit: 'Israel is the worst apartheid regime'

During a joint press conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday, Mandela said: "The settlements I saw here [in the West Bank] reminded me of what we had suffered in South Africa because we also were surrounded by many settlements and were not allowed to move from one place to another freely. Palestinians are being subjected to the worst version of apartheid."

He added: "Israel is the worst apartheid regime" and called for the continued support of BDS and for South Africa to cut all ties with "apartheid Israel."

While meeting with Mandela in Ramallah, Hamdallah highlighted the inspiring legacy of the younger Mandela's late grandfather.

He also stressed the strength of bilateral ties between the Palestinian Authority and South Africa and the historic relationship formed between the late presidents Yasser Arafat and Nelson Mandela. He also praised South Africa's position in supporting the Palestinian people and championing their cause in the international arena."

-The Jerusalem Post

In the 1980s, the whole world supported the black native South Africans' struggle for freedom from oppression by white European colonists.

Except the robber barons in America. Reagan supported the white-supremacist South African robber barons.

Today the whole world supports the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from oppression by white-supremacist European colonists who call themselves Israelis. Even millions of Jews around the world support freedom for the Palestinians. Even many Jews in Israel support freedom for the Palestinians.

Except the robber barons in America.

But you don't know any of that, because the American robber barons work hand in hand with the Israeli robber barons. And they use their propaganda outlets to brainwash you into believing that the Palestinians are the bad guys, not the victims.

It's the exact opposite of the truth.

Anyway, not long after World War 2, the British Empire collapsed under its own weight, and America became the new top dog. The American Empire started to oppress the Middle East the same way the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire used to oppress the Middle East.

And that's when Muslims suddenly no longer loved America. After World War 2, America's brutal rule over the Middle East, in the name of oil profits, is what has turned America's old friends into America's new enemies.

Nazi troops used to call the French resistance "terrorists."

Today American troops call the Muslim resistance "terrorists."

The "terrorists" don't hate us for our freedom. They hate that we invaded their country and took their freedom. In their countries they're called freedom fighters. In Middle Eastern countries, America and Israel are seen as the terrorists. That's why some Muslims refer to America as the big satan, and Israel as little satan.

"Terrorism

The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."

-Oxford Dictionary

No country is in violation of more international laws than Israel. Israel is the world's #1 rogue state.

"Study: Israel Leads in Ignoring Security Council Resolutions

Israel holds the record for ignoring United Nations Security Council resolutions, according to a study by San Francisco University political science professor Steven Zunes.

Israel leads the list. Since 1968, Israel has violated 32 resolutions that included condemnation or criticism of the governments' policies and actions."

-Haaretz News

"A hardline cleric in Pakistan is teaching the ideas of Osama Bin Laden in religious schools for about 5,000 children.

"We teach about the principles of jihad. It's up to students if they want to get military training after they leave here. We don't discourage them."

"Osama Bin Laden is a hero for us all. He stood up to America and he won. He inspired the mission of the school," says Ghazi.

In one of the seminaries, the library is named in honour of Bin Laden, who was killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011."

-BBC News

When you read a news report like that, and you know nothing about America's activities in the Middle East, that cleric sounds like a raging lunatic.

But when you realize that oil-rich Muslim countries have been bombed by America for decades, what he says suddenly sounds like something anyone in his situation would say.

"The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy."

-William Ramsey Clark, US Attorney General

"The United States has a long history of provoking, instigating, or launching wars based on dubious, flimsy, or manufactured threats. In 1986, the Reagan Administration plotted to use U.S. military maneuvers off Libya's coast to provoke Muammar Qaddafi into a showdown. The planning for Operation Prairie Fire, which deployed three aircraft carriers and thirty other warships, was months in the making. Before the Navy's arrival, U.S. warplanes conducted missions skirting Libyan shore and air defenses—"poking them in the ribs" to "keep them on edge," a U.S. military source told the Los Angeles Times that year."

-The New Yorker Magazine

"The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil. "

-Woody Harrelson

"Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here, that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?"

-President Woodrow Wilson

If Russia or Britain had been bombing Texas for the past 70 years, and some guy in Texas named Ozzy Ben Lidden successfully fought against Britain, you'd call him a freedom fighter too, wouldn't you?

Remember Sylvester Stallone? He used to be the biggest action star in the world in the 1980s. One of his iconic roles was Rambo, a Cold War super soldier.

In Rambo 3, he fights alongside Afghan freedom fighters, who fight against Russian invaders. The movie portrayed the Afghan freedom fighters as brave, noble warriors, who fought against a far superior Russian army. And Rambo fought shoulder to shoulder with those brave Afghan heroes. Brothers in arms!

The elite Afghan warriors were called the Mujahideen.

If that name sounds familiar, it's because they were Osama bin Laden's freedom fighters.

The Mujahideen are the Taliban.

The very same people who are now called crazy extremists, were our dear allies in the 1980s. Even super-soldier Rambo was impressed by them.

America has been supporting brutal dictators in the Middle East for decades, as long as they sold cheap oil to America. America has also overthrown beloved governments in the Middle East, and replaced them with dictators who were loyal to America's robber barons.

Saddam Hussein was one of them. Saddam was placed in power in Iraq by the CIA. That's not a conspiracy theory but a well-known fact that you can read about in every history book. For years, Saddam was America's favorite little dictator. He was our guy. He even attacked Iran for us.

A couple of years earlier, Britain and America had overthrown the popular, and democratically elected government of Iran, because of an oil deal that had gone bad.

"The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot") and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax"), and the first United States covert action to overthrow a foreign government during peacetime.

Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of BP) and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves. Upon the refusal of the AIOC to co-operate with the Iranian government, the parliament (Majlis) voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country. After this vote, Britain instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically.

Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a Communist takeover in Iran, UK prime minister Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government.

Following the coup in 1953, a government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Persian for an Iranian king), to rule more firmly as monarch. He relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power.

In August 2013, sixty years afterward, the U.S. government formally acknowledged the U.S. role in the coup by releasing a bulk of previously classified government documents that show it was in charge of both the planning and the execution of the coup, including the bribing of Iranian politicians, security and army high-ranking officials, as well as pro-coup propaganda. The CIA is quoted acknowledging the coup was carried out "under CIA direction" and "as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government"

-Wikipedia

Britain's and America's oil robber barons overthrew Iran's democratic government and replaced it with a dictator, the Shah. Then the Iranian people rose up against the US dictator that ruled over them with the help of US military bodyguards.

The Iranians aren't the bad guys in all this. They're the victims.

To regain control over Iran, the CIA made Saddam the dictator in Iraq, and told him to attack Iran. Saddam obeyed the commands from his American overlords and waged a brutal war against Iran. Over a million people died.

After both Iraq and Iran had bankrupted themselves in that long war, Saddam got pissed that the little robber baron in Kuwait was cross-drilling into Iraqi oil fields. Kuwait used to be part of Iraq, before Britain drew random lines on the map, and sliced and diced the Middle East into many different little countries.

Saddam asked the US if he could make Kuwait part of Iraq again and stop the Kuwaiti robber barons from stealing Iraqi oil and selling it on the international market for less money than Iraq sold its own oil.

The US agreed to let Saddam do his thing. PBS has a great documentary series, called Frontline. They had an episode about the first Iraq war, and they showed news footage and interviews with high-ranking US politicians, who responded to Saddam's request. Several times, US politicians, including the elder President Bush, said the US does not get involved in local affairs in the Middle East. That was diplomacy-speak for "Go ahead. We're not gonna stop you."

So Saddam invaded Kuwait, to make it part of Iraq again, like it used to be, before the British Empire sliced it off by drawing a random line on a map.

But then suddenly something unexpected happened: Dick Cheney, elder Bush's Secretary of Defense, said Saddam was a madman, hellbent on conquering the whole Middle East, and then the whole world.

It was a lie. Saddam had no intention of attacking anyone else after Kuwait. His country had been destroyed by the long war with Iran.

While Saddam, a secular pro-western ruler, installed by America, was giving everyone in Iraq universal healthcare, we were suddenly told he was a monster.

Then America attacked Iraq. That was the first Iraq war.

After that Saddam was no longer America's friend. He called America a bunch of two-faced, lying, corrupt robber barons. He had been at war with Iran on America's behalf for years, but now he agreed with Iran that America was the true enemy.

In America we were told that Saddam brutally oppressed "his own people," the Kurds.

But the Kurds in Iraq weren't Saddam's people. When the British Empire sliced and diced the map of the Middle East and drew random borders, they didn't care how it was going to affect the people who lived in the Middle East.

One of the Middle Eastern tribes was called the Kurds. They used to have their own homeland, Kurdistan. But Britain sliced up Kurdistan, and one chunk became part of Turkey, one chunk became part of Syria, one chunk became part of Iran, and one chunk became part of Iraq.

The Kurds have been oppressed minorities in those four countries ever since. Each of these countries has treated the Kurds horribly. But Americans have no fucking clue. They were told that Saddam, only Saddam, brutally oppressed the Kurds.

What Americans were not told was that Turkey, America's ally against Saddam, abused the Kurds even worse than Saddam did. In Turkey, Kurds were thrown in jail, if they spoke Kurdish or taught Kurdish kids Kurdish history in school.

So, while America supposedly attacked Iraq to "liberate" the Kurds from Saddam, Turkey, America's ally, continued to treat the Kurds like shit, and nobody talked about that. Because it was never really about helping the Kurds. The war was about gaining control over Iraq's oil fields, like all of America's wars in the Middle East.

During World War 2, the war between competing empires, the American people did not want to get involved in that epic clusterfuck. The American people wanted to stay out of it.

But the American robber barons wanted to get involved. Not to rescue the Jews. That was just a lie that the American people were told, so they'd feel like the good guys. American robber barons were afraid they'd lose out, if the other empires divided the planet amongst themselves.

In every heroic Hollywood movie, the hero never punches first. Punching first would make the hero look like the bad guy. So the hero quietly accepts that the bad guy sucker punches him first. And then the hero can unleash his righteous vengeance.

It's an old propaganda trick. Always make it look like the other guy hit you first.

America did the same thing to enter World War 2. America encircled the island of Japan with a bunch of warships. It was a blockade designed to starve Japan. It was a siege, like in medieval Europe.

The whole point was to starve Japan, until Japan was so desperate, they would try to break the American naval blockade, by firing at American ships.

And then the American robber barons could claim that Japan fired the first shot, and America, the righteous hero, was only defending itself. And then America could pretend it was forced to participate in World War 2.

Under Bill Clinton's Freedom of Information Act, many old US government documents, that used to be top secret, were released to the public. And these newly released documents prove that America had already cracked the Japanese code and could intercept Japanese commands to their navy.

We are being told that Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. But the truth is, America's naval blockade of Japan was designed to make Japan attack America. And America knew Japan was about to attack Pearl Harbor:

"On November 25, 1941 Japan's Admiral Yamamoto sent a radio message to the group of Japanese warships that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7. Newly released naval records prove that from November 17 to 25 the United States Navy intercepted eighty-three messages that Yamamoto sent to his carriers. Part of the November 25 message read: "...the task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow..."

Since World War II many people have suspected that Washington knew the attack was coming. When Thomas Dewey was running for president against Roosevelt in 1944 he found out about America's ability to intercept Japan's radio messages, and thought this knowledge would enable him to defeat the popular FDR. In the fall of that year, Dewey planned a series of speeches charging FDR with foreknowledge of the attack. Ultimately, General George Marshall, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, persuaded Dewey not to make the speeches. Japan's naval leaders did not realize America had cracked their codes, and Dewey's speeches could have sacrificed America's code-breaking advantage.

Cable after cable of decryptions, scores of military messages that America was intercepting, clearly showed that Japanese ships were preparing for war and heading straight for Hawaii. Stinnett, an author, journalist, and World War II veteran, spent sixteen years delving into the National Archives. He poured over more than 200,000 documents, and conducted dozens of interviews. This meticulous research led Stinnet to a firmly held conclusion: FDR knew."

-The Independent

PBS's Frontline had a great documentary about the first Afghan war. They interviewed high-ranking American and Russian politicians and soldiers. While Americans helped the Taliban fight against Russia, Americans thought they were fighting for freedom. They thought the Taliban were noble freedom fighters.

But the Russians also thought they were fighting for freedom. They didn't think of themselves as invaders either. Russian soldiers were told that Americans were the ones invading Afghanistan, not the Russians.

Afghanistan was run by a popular communist government. During Afghanistan's communist days, women had equal rights and wore modern western clothes, like mini-skirts.

You can still find photos of Afghan women in western clothes on the website of the human rights group Amnesty International. Google "women in communist Afghanistan" and then click on Image results.

You'll find old photos from the 1970s, of smiling Afghan women in mini-skirts. They were allowed to drive cars, go to college, and become doctors, lawyers or politicians. Just like in any normal country.

Reagan didn't like that. He was worried the communist message of freedom from robber barons would continue to spread around the world like wildfire, so every country that was run by the people for the people needed to be stopped. Like in South Africa, Reagan sided against the people of Afghanistan, and with the Afghan robber barons... the Taliban.

The Taliban have always been a bunch of crazy fanatics. That's not a new thing. Like the Puritans in America, the Taliban have always had very backwards ideas. And, like the Puritans in early America, the Taliban firmly believed in oppressing women.

Reagan started sending the Taliban more and more weapons, to overthrow the popular communist government in Afghanistan.

The Afghan communists believed in helping the poor. They gave public land to the poorest people, so they could have their own farms and grow their own food.

The Taliban hated that idea. They believed that if you're poor, it's God's will you're poor, and helping the poor goes against God's will. Pretty much the same crazy shit the American Taliban of Christian fanatics still believe today.

I remember driving through the Poconos in Pennsylvania a few years ago, and listening to some right-wing preacher, because it was the only radio station I could get while driving through the woods.

This was right after Hurricane Katrina had destroyed New Orleans. And instead of collecting donations to help the poor people of New Orleans, this piece of shit radio preacher told his listeners that Katrina was God's will, to punish the gays in New Orleans.

He said the people in New Orleans had been living in sin, and it was God's will to destroy their city. And if anyone was going to help the people of New Orleans, they were going against God's will.

Can you believe this shit?! But that radio preacher wasn't the only Christian fanatic who said that kind of shit:

"Hurricane Katrina: Wrath of God?

Hurricane Katrina damaged the city of New Orleans in what seems like biblical proportions. Some say the human suffering alone could be a part of God's plan.

Reverend Franklin Graham, son of Reverend Billy Graham, suggests the city was targeted because of the city's sinful reputation.

At a speech in Virginia, he said, "This is one wicked city, OK? It's known for Mardi Gras, for Satan worship. It's known for sex perversion. It's known for every type of drugs and alcohol and the orgies and all of these things that go on down there in New Orleans. Reverend Graham continued, "There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years. They believe God is going to use that storm to bring revival."

-NBC News

That's the same kind of ignorant, crazy bullshit the Taliban believes.

The Taliban hated that the Afghan communist government was giving farm land to poor people, and treating women like real human beings.

Reagan kept giving the Taliban weapons. The Taliban became better equipped than the Afghan army. So finally the communist government of Afghanistan asked the people of Russia for help.

Russia sent soldiers to Afghanistan, to help the Afghan government and to fight off an American invasion. The Russian soldiers were surprised not to see any American soldiers in Afghanistan. All the Russians found was a bunch of crazy religious fanatics with American weapons. Osama bin Laden's Mujahideen, aka the Taliban.

The first Afghan war went on for years, and totally destroyed the country. Eventually the communist government fell, and the crazy fundamentalist Taliban took over the government.

Woohoo! Freedooommm!

The Taliban outlawed western clothes, music, smiling and any other earthly joy, because they consider anything that makes you happy to be a temptation sent by the devil. And they treated women like absolute garbage. Women had to start wearing burkas and were treated like slaves.

And you can thank Reagan for all that. He betrayed the women of Afghanistan. Many years later, after 9/11, Bush junior told us that America was invading Afghanistan to liberate the women there.

Bush conveniently forgot to mention that the only reason why the women in Afghanistan were oppressed in the first place was because Reagan put the crazy Taliban in charge.

Ever since that first Afghan war in the 1980s, the Taliban has been a close US ally. America sent millions of dollars to Afghanistan over the years, supposedly to encourage the Taliban to destroy the local poppy crops. That's where heroin comes from. Afghan poppy fields. Heroin is Afghanistan's #1 export.

In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a high-ranking American politician, wrote a book, called The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.

It's all about what America has to do to rule the globe for the next 100 years.

Basically he argued in his book that everything important in human history happened on the Eurasian continent, the giant land mass that connects Europe, Russia, the Middle East and China. The other continents, America, Africa and Australia, were irrelevant for most of human history.

America's position as "leader of the free world" was a fluke. After World War 2, America suddenly became important for the first time, because the European and Asian Empires had all destroyed each other. The only Empire left standing was America.

All the other countries started trading with each other through America. America became the world's marketplace. And that's how America became important.

To keep it that way, America had to make sure no rival could emerge on the Eurasian continent. In his eyes, the biggest threat to American world dominance was a united Eurasia, because Eurasia has far more natural resources and a lot more people, than little America.

In other words, if the people in Eurasia live together peacefully, and unite as one, it's bad for America. They won't need America for anything, if the people of Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Asia just peacefully live together in harmony and trade with each other.

So it's in America's interest, to make sure there's always conflict and war going on on the Eurasian continent. Divide and conquer. As long as the people in Europe, Russia, the Middle East and China fight with each other, they won't unite against the American robber barons who exploit them.

The Grand Chessboard also features maps of oil fields and proposed pipelines in the Middle East, because whoever controls the oil controls the world. Your armies don't work without fuel. Tanks and planes are useless without oil.

So the most important thing America has to do, in order to remain top dog for the next 100 years, is to take control of the world's oil fields. And most of them are in the Middle East. Right smack in the middle of Eurasia.

You've probably never heard of The Grand Chessboard before. But all the important people in Washington read it.

Have you ever heard of PNAC? It's a political group. A club of high-ranking Republican politicians. PNAC stands for Project for the New American Century. In other words, they're all about America ruling the globe for the next 100 years, just like the book The Grand Chessboard.

They wrote all kinds of books and policy papers, outlining their plans for the future. That's nothing unusual. Politicians write books about their vision for the world all the time. Even Hitler wrote a book, called Mein Kampf \- My Struggle. In Mein Kampf, Hitler spelled out what the Third German Empire must do, to control the globe for the next 1000 years.

Some of the PNAC fans wrote similar policy papers. And in one of these papers, they wrote that America needs to take control of the world's oil fields, because whoever controls the oil, controls the globe for the next 100 years.

But they knew that the American people would never go along with Imperial wars for oil. So, in order to convince the American people that they should support oil wars, the American people had to believe it was a defensive war.

You know, the other guy has to shoot first.

"Project for the New American Century

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was founded in 1997 by the right wing thinkers William Kristol and Robert Kagan.

This group is arguably one of the most influential in Washington and is thought to have a significant influence on - or at least to reflect - much of George Bush's view of the world.

The PNAC believes that America should use its power to shape the world and further American interests across the world - by military means if necessary.

It has some high profile sympathisers including US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, the under-secretary of state for Arms Control and International Security and Richard Perle."

-BBC News

Yeah, that's the same John Bolton who is now Trump's national security adviser.

"If the UN secretary building in New York lost 10 storeys, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

-John Bolton

"If I were redoing the Security Council, I'd have one permanent member: The United States."

-John Bolton

"Who is John Bolton, Trump's new national security adviser?

The former UN ambassador under George W Bush and a notorious hawk, Bolton has called for bombing Iran and North Korea.

A notorious hawk who advocates the unilateral wielding of US might, Bolton is dismissive of international diplomacy, and has called for the bombing of both Iran and North Korea."

-The Guardian

That's the same John Bolton who just sent an aircraft carrier to threaten Iran:

"John Bolton sends Iran a dubious 'message' with carrier strike group

White House National Security Advisor John Bolton announced late yesterday that the United States "is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime." As NBC News' report noted, the strike group is not small."

-MSNBC

Anyway, in one of the policy papers they published, they literally mentioned Pearl Harbor as a good example for this "the other guy hit me first" tactic, and said that in order for the American people to support wars for oil, they need to believe they're under attack by a foreign enemy, and that the oil wars are really defensive wars, to protect American freedom:

"PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership." The organization stated that "American leadership is good both for America and for the world," and sought to build support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."

Of the twenty-five people who signed PNAC's founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz.

During the summer of 1996, Kristol and Kagan co-authored an article in Foreign Affairs titled "Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy" - referring to the foreign policy of President Ronald Reagan. In the article, they argued that American conservatives were "adrift" in the area of foreign policy, advocated a "more elevated vision of America's international role," and suggested that the United States' should adopt a stance of "benevolent global hegemony."

Written before the September 11 attacks, and during political debates of the War in Iraq, a section of Rebuilding America's Defenses entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" became the subject of considerable controversy: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor." Journalist John Pilger pointed to this passage when he argued that Bush administration had used the events of September 11 as an opportunity to capitalize on long-desired plans.

Some critics went further, asserting that Rebuilding America's Defenses should be viewed as a program for global American hegemony. Writing in Der Spiegel in 2003, Jochen Bölsche claimed that Rebuilding America's Defenses "had been developed by PNAC for Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and Libby," and was "devoted to matters of 'maintaining US pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according to US interests.'" British MP Michael Meacher made similar allegations in 2003, stating that Rebuilding America's Defences was "a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana," which had been "drawn up for" key members of the Bush administration.[50] Academic Peter Dale Scott subsequently wrote

"[PNAC's] ideology was summarized in a major position paper, Rebuilding America's Defenses, in 2000. This document advocated a global Pax Americana unrestrained by international law ..."

-Wikipedia

You can sum up PNAC's nationalist ideology with a few simple words: "America first."

Sound familiar?

Shortly after a bunch of PNAC fans gained control of the White House in the W Bush government, 9/11 happened. An event just like Pearl Harbor. And America has been at war with oil-rich countries ever since.

The funny thing is, The Grand Chessboard mentioned Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and a few other countries. All the countries we're at war with now.

Gee, what a coincidence.

The book literally contained a map for a proposed pipeline through Afghanistan.

This is where the story gets even more bizarre:

The Taliban, close US allies, were in Texas to negotiate a pipeline deal with the American oil company Unocal:

"Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline

The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across Afghanistan's harsh terrain

A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.

A spokesman for the company, Unocal, said the Taleban were expected to spend several days at the company's headquarters in Sugarland, Texas.

Unocal says it has agreements both with Turkmenistan to sell its gas and with Pakistan to buy it.

But, despite the civil war in Afghanistan, Unocal has been in competition with an Argentinian firm, Bridas, to actually construct the pipeline.

Last month, the Argentinian firm, Bridas, announced that it was close to signing a two-billion dollar deal to build the pipeline, which would carry gas 1,300 kilometres from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, across Afghanistan.

In May, Taleban-controlled radio in Kabul said a visiting delegation from an Argentinian company had announced that pipeline construction would start "soon".

-BBC News, December 4, 1997

In case you're wondering, British newspapers spell many Arab names differently than American newspapers. That's why the Taliban is spelled with an e in Britain.

"The Associated Press will later report that the Enron corporation bribes Taliban officials as part of a "no-holds-barred bid to strike a deal for an energy pipeline in Afghanistan." Atul Davda, a senior director for Enron's International Division, will later claim, "Enron had intimate contact with Taliban officials." Presumably this effort began around 1996, when a power plant Enron was building in India ran into trouble and Enron began an attempt to supply it with natural gas via a planned pipeline through Afghanistan.

In 1997, Enron executives privately meet with Taliban officials in Texas. They are "given the red-carpet treatment and promised a fortune if the deal [goes] through." It is alleged Enron secretly employs CIA agents to carry out its dealings overseas. According to a CIA source, "Enron proposed to pay the Taliban large sums of money in a 'tax' on every cubic foot of gas and oil shipped through a pipeline they planned to build." This source claims Enron paid more than $400 million for a feasibility study on the pipeline and "a large portion of that cost was pay-offs to the Taliban." Enron continues to encourage the Taliban about the pipeline even after Unocal officially gives up on the pipeline"

-History Commons

"October 11, 1996: Afghan Pipeline Key to 'One of the Great Prizes of the 21st Century'

The Daily Telegraph publishes an interesting article about pipeline politics in Afghanistan. "Behind the tribal clashes that have scarred Afghanistan lies one of the great prizes of the 21st century, the fabulous energy reserves of Central Asia.... 'The deposits are huge,' said a diplomat from the region. 'Kazakhstan alone may have more oil than Saudi Arabia. Turkmenistan is already known to have the fifth largest gas reserves in the world.'"

October 27, 1997: Halliburton Announces Turkmenistan Project; Unocal and Delta Oil Form Consortium

Halliburton, a company headed by future Vice President Dick Cheney, announces a new agreement to provide technical services and drilling for Turkmenistan. The press release mentions, "Halliburton has been providing a variety of services in Turkmenistan for the past five years." On the same day, a consortium to build a pipeline through Afghanistan is formed. It is called CentGas, and the two main partners are Unocal and Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia.

November 1997: Enron and Bin Laden Family Team Up for Project

Industry newsletter reports that Saudi Arabia has abandoned plans for open bids on a $2 billion power plant near Mecca, deciding that the government will build it instead. Interestingly, one of the bids was made by a consortium of Enron, the Saudi Binladin Group (run by Osama's family), and Italy's Ansaldo Energia.

December 1997: Unocal Establishes Pipeline Training Facility Near Bin Laden's Compound

Unocal pays University of Nebraska $900,000 to set up a training facility near Osama bin Laden's Kandahar compound, to train 400 Afghan teachers, electricians, carpenters and pipe fitters in anticipation of using them for their pipeline in Afghanistan. One hundred and fifty students are already attending classes in southern Afghanistan. Unocal is paying University of Nebraska professor Thomas Gouttierre to develop the training program. Gouttierre travels to Afghanistan and meets with Taliban leaders, and also arranges for some Taliban leaders to visit the US around this time.

December 4, 1997: Taliban Representatives Visit Unocal in Texas

Representatives of the Taliban are invited guests to the Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support for the pipeline. Future President George W. Bush is Governor of Texas at the time. A BBC regional correspondent says that "the proposal to build a pipeline across Afghanistan is part of an international scramble to profit from developing the rich energy resources of the Caspian Sea." It has been claimed that the Taliban meet with Enron officials while in Texas. Enron, headquartered in Texas, has a large financial interest in the pipeline at the time. The Taliban also visit Thomas Gouttierre, an academic at the University of Nebraska, who is a consultant for Unocal and also has been paid by the CIA for his work in Afghanistan.

February 12, 1998: Unocal VP Advocates Afghan Pipeline Before Congress

Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca — later to become a Special Ambassador to Afghanistan — testifies before the House of Representatives that until a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, the trans-Afghan pipeline will not be built. He suggests that with a pipeline through Afghanistan, the Caspian basin could produce 20 percent of all the non-OPEC oil in the world by 2010."

-History Commons

Let's recap: the Taliban was in friendly negotiations with an oil company in Texas, called Unocal. But the Argentinian company Bridas made them a better offer, and the Taliban decided to go with the Argentinian company, not the American one.

Next thing you know, Unocal is in front of the US congress, and tells them that in order for the pipeline to be built under American control, the Taliban government in Afghanistan needs to be replaced. You can read a transcript of the Unocal hearing before congress yourself. It's available for free on the website of the US house of congress:

 http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0f.htm

Then 9/11, a Pearl Harbor-like event, happened.

When the planes hit the towers, nobody knew who was behind it.

Then we were told on TV that the authorities found a passport of one of the hijackers in the debris.

That seemed unbelievably improbable to me.

"The passport of one hijacker was found today several blocks from the World Trade Center, prompting an intensive search for evidence in the area, Barry W. Mawn, who heads the F.B.I.'s New York office, said. The hijacker was not identified."

-New York Times

I lived in New York at the time. I could see the smoking wreckage of the World Trade Center from my window. All the streets were covered with debris and a foot of pulverized concrete dust. The area around ground zero looked like the end of the world. It's just seems absurd to me that anyone would have found a paper passport in that mess.

I find it very difficult to believe that a piece of paper would survive the explosion... inside the pocket of one of the hijackers, on board of the plane that crashed into a building, and exploded in a giant fireball.

The FBI released a list of the 19 suicide hijackers.

But then a couple of the people turned up alive and well, and they had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

You obviously can't be a suicide hijacker who exploded in a fireball, if you're still alive and well afterwards.

"Hijack 'suspects' alive and well

Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well.

The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt.

Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September.

His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world.

Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco.

He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks on New York and Washington, and had been in Morocco when they happened. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities, according to Saudi press reports.

He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring.

But, he says, he left the United States in September last year, became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines and is currently on a further training course in Morocco.

Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects, has also been quoted in Arab news reports.

He says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver.

Another man with exactly the same name surfaced on the pages of the English-language Arab News.

The second Abdulaziz Al Omari is a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, the report says.

Meanwhile, Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, a London-based Arabic daily, says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi.

He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive.

FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt."

-BBC News, September 23, 2001

So there's proof that at least 4 of the 19 hijackers were not who we think they were. And yet, the list of those 19 people was never updated or corrected.

Things that make you go hmmmmm.

"Revealed: the men with stolen identities

Their names were flashed around the world as suicide hijackers who carried out the attacks on America. But yesterday four innocent men told how their identities had been stolen by Osama bin Laden's teams to cover their tracks.

The men - all from Saudi Arabia - spoke of their shock at being mistakenly named by the FBI as suicide terrorists. None of the four was in the United States on September 11 and all are alive in their home country.

The Telegraph obtained the first interviews with the men since they learnt that they were on the FBI's list of hijackers who died in the crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

All four said that they were "outraged" to be identified as terrorists. One has never been to America and another is a Saudi Airlines pilot who was on a training course in Tunisia at the time of the attacks.

Saudi Airlines said it was considering legal action against the FBI for seriously damaging its reputation and that of its pilots. The FBI released the list of 19 suicide terrorists three days after the attacks.

The statement said that the 19 "have been identified as hijackers aboard the four airliners". Photographs and personal details were published around the world with an appeal for "information about these individuals, even though they are presumed dead".

The Saudi Airlines pilot, Saeed Al-Ghamdi, 25, and Abdulaziz Al-Omari, an engineer from Riyadh, are furious that the hijackers' "personal details" - including name, place, date of birth and occupation - matched their own.

Mr Al-Ghamdi was named as a terrorist on the United Airlines flight that crashed in Pennsylvania - a plane said by some experts to have been heading for the White House.

He first knew that he was on the FBI's list when he was told by a colleague. Speaking from Tunisia, he said: "I was completely shocked. For the past 10 months I have been based in Tunis with 22 other pilots learning to fly an Airbus 320. The FBI provided no evidence of my presumed involvement in the attacks.

"You cannot imagine what it is like to be described as a terrorist - and a dead man - when you are innocent and alive." The airline was angry too. Officials brought Mr Al-Ghamdi back to Saudi Arabia last week for a 10-day holiday to avoid arrest or interrogation.

An official said: "We are consulting lawyers about what action to take to protect the reputation of our pilots." Mr Al-Ghamdi faced further embarrassment when CNN, the American television network, flashed a photograph of him around the world, naming him as a hijack suspect.

The FBI had published his personal details but with a photograph of somebody else, presumably a hijacker who had "stolen" his identity. CNN, however, showed a picture of the real Mr Al-Ghamdi.

He said that CNN had probably got the picture from the Flight Safety flying school he attended in Florida. CNN has since broadcast a clarification saying that the photograph may not be that of the accused.

Mr Al-Omari, who was accused of hijacking the American Airlines plane that smashed into the the World Trade Centre's north tower, said that he was at his desk at the Saudi telecommunications authority in Riyadh when the attacks took place.

He said: "I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list. They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with this."

Mr Al-Omari said his passport was stolen when his apartment in Denver, Colorado, was burgled in 1995. He had been studying engineering at Denver University since 1993. He was given a new passport in Riyadh on December 31, 1995 and returned to America to resume his studies in January 1996. After graduating last year he returned to Riyadh to join the electricity authority and later moved to the telecommunications authority.

The other two men accused of being terrorists are Salem Al-Hamzi and Ahmed Al-Nami. Mr Al-Hamzi is 26 and had just returned to work at a petrochemical complex in the industrial eastern city of Yanbou after a holiday in Saudi Arabia when the hijackers struck. He was accused of hijacking the American Airlines Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon.

He said: "I have never been to the United States and have not been out of Saudi Arabia in the past two years." The FBI described him as 21 and said that his possible residences were Fort Lee or Wayne, both in New Jersey.

Mr Al-Nami, 33, from Riyadh, an administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian Airlines, said that he was in Riyadh when the terrorists struck.

He said: "I'm still alive, as you can see. I was shocked to see my name mentioned by the American Justice Department. I had never even heard of Pennsylvania where the plane I was supposed to have hijacked."

He had never lost his passport and found it "very worrying" that his identity appeared to have been "stolen" and published by the FBI without any checks. The FBI had said his "possible residence" was Delray Beach in Florida.

Last night the FBI admitted that there was some doubt about the identities of some of the suspects. A spokesman said: "The identification process has been complicated by the fact that many Arabic family names are similar. It is also possible that the hijackers used false identities."

-The Telegraph

If 4 of the 19 hijackers were not who we think they were, there is a pretty good chance that none of the 19 suicide hijackers were who we think they were.

Why would 4 of them use fake IDs, but the rest of them use their real names?

The 19 suicide hijackers could have been anyone, working for anyone, using stolen passports and fake IDs.

But it gets even more bizarre:

After 9/11, the US very quickly started to bomb Afghanistan. Bush demanded that the Taliban hand over Osama bin Laden.

The Taliban demanded to see proof that Osama bin Laden was behind 9/11.

Bush refused, because he didn't have any evidence. The bombing of Afghanistan continued.

The Taliban offered to put Osama bin Laden on trial if there was proof of his guilt.

Bush refused. The bombing continued.

The Taliban offered to hand over Osama to a neutral third party.

Bush refused. The bombing continued.

"Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over

Taliban demand evidence of Bin Laden's guilt

Second week of airstrikes starts

Taliban urges US to halt bombing

President George Bush rejected as "non-negotiable" an offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan.

Returning to the White House after a weekend at Camp David, the president said the bombing would not stop, unless the ruling Taliban "turn [bin Laden] over, turn his cohorts over, turn any hostages they hold over." He added, "There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty".

Afghanistan's deputy prime minister, Haji Abdul Kabir, told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.

"If the Taliban is given evidence that Osama bin Laden is involved" and the bombing campaign stopped, "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country", Mr Kabir added.

Mr Kabir urged America to halt its air campaign, now in its eighth day, and open negotiations. "If America were to step back from the current policy, then we could negotiate," he said. "Then we could discuss which third country."

Before the start of the air campaign, the Taliban had demanded evidence of Bin Laden's involvement in the attack and had offered to try him before an Islamic court inside Afghanistan - proposals that the US promptly rejected."

-The Guardian, October 14, 2001

Finally the Taliban offered to hand over Osama to America without any conditions. They were desperate.

Bush refused. The bombing continued.

Suddenly the official story we were told changed. Suddenly it wasn't even about Osama anymore, and Bush announced that the Taliban government had to be removed.

Gee, what a coincidence. Isn't that what Unocal had asked for in their hearing before congress?

But wait, there's more!

After the Taliban was overthrown, with the help of the warlords (robber barons) of the Northern Alliance, America installed a new ruler in Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai.

"The TAPI pipeline project has a long genesis. In 1996, a memorandum of understanding resulted in the establishment of a consortium led by Unocal, which was later acquired by Chevron. A Taliban delegation subsequently visited Unocal headquarters in Texas.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai worked at the time for Unocal."

-UPI.com

"Hamid Karzai is an Afghan politician who was the President of Afghanistan from 22 December 2001 to 29 September 2014, originally as an interim leader and then as President for almost ten years.

During the December 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Germany, Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six-month term as Chairman of the Interim Administration.

Karzai moved to neighboring Pakistan to work as a fundraiser for the anti-communist mujahideen during the 1980s Soviet–Afghan War. The mujahideen were backed by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.

Karzai decided to work closely with the Northern Alliance, which was led by Ahmad Shah Massoud.

In 2004, he rejected an international proposal to end poppy production in Afghanistan through aerial spraying of chemical herbicides, fearing that it would harm the economic situation of his countrymen."

-Wikipedia

Karzai was not voted president of Afghanistan in a democratic election by the Afghan people. He was "approved" by a group of rich Afghan robber barons, who were hand-selected by American robber barons, to confirm the man America picked as president of Afghanistan, so he would sign the pipeline deal.

Oh, and once the Taliban was gone, and the Northern Alliance took over, Afghan heroin production has been skyrocketing ever since.

"Afghan opium production jumps to record level, up 87 per cent: Survey

Opium production in Afghanistan increased by 87 per cent to a record level of 9,000 metric tons in 2017 compared with 2016 levels, according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released today by the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and UNODC. The area under opium poppy cultivation also increased to a record 328,000 hectares (ha) in 2017, up 63 per cent compared with 201,000 hectares in 2016."

-United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

And America's envoy to Afghanistan was Zalmay Khalilzad, another Unocal guy.

"When Khalilzad entered the U.S. foreign policy domain, discriminatory American policies emerged toward the "Afghan" Mujahidin leaders. Jalaluddin Haqqani became a CIA darling with the nickname of "goodness personified," who did not only receive support but also the prestige of visiting "the White House when Ronald Reagan was president" in the 1980s.

During the next decade, Khalilzad reemerged as the Unocal negotiator with the Taliban over a pipeline project. Subsequently, the "Taliban officials" appeared in the United States."

According to Flaherty et al., "In a late 1997 public relations move, Unocal flew Taliban officials to tour the company's U.S. offices."

-The Globe Post

Fast forward a couple of years...

"Ex-U.S. diplomat in laundering probe

Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations under President George W. Bush, is being investigated by American authorities for suspected money laundering, Austrian officials said Monday.

State prosecutor Thomas Vecsey confirmed a report in the Austrian weekly Profil about the investigation of Khalilzad, who played a key role in the political transition in Afghanistan after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion and the fall of the Taliban."

-Politico.com

Gee, what are the odds, huh?

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan:

"The Afghan Pipeline You Didn't Know About

Who now remembers that delegation of Taliban officials, shepherded by Unocal ("We're an oil and gas company. We go where the oil and gas is..."), back in 1999, that made an all-expenses paid visit to the U.S. There was even that side trip to Mt. Rushmore, while the company (with U.S. encouragement) was negotiating a $1.9 billion pipeline that would bring Central Asian oil and natural gas through Afghanistan to Pakistan? Oh, and who was a special consultant to Unocal on the prospective deal? Zalmay Khalilzad, our present neocon ambassador to the U.N., George W. Bush's former viceroy of Kabul and then Baghdad, and a rumored future "Afghan" presidential candidate.

Those pipeline negotiations only broke down definitively in August 2001, one month before, well, you know... and, as Toronto's Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin put it, "Washington was furious, leading to speculation it might take out the Taliban. After 9/11, the Taliban, with good reason, were removed — and pipeline planning continued with the Karzai government. U.S. forces installed bases near Kandahar, where the pipeline was to run. A key motivation for the pipeline was to block a competing bid involving Iran, a charter member of the 'axis of evil.'"

In April, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India (acronymically TAPI) signed a Gas Pipeline Framework Agreement to build a U.S.-backed $7.6 billion pipeline. It would, of course, bypass Iran and new energy giant Russia, carrying Turkmeni natural gas and oil to Pakistan and India."

-The Nation

"Afghan president signs deal on pipeline project

Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with regional leaders Saturday to sign an agreement for a massive energy project that could eventually net his country billions of dollars in revenue: a 1,000-mile natural gas pipeline whose proposed route cuts through the heartland of the Taliban insurgency.

As if to highlight the complications facing the project, at least 26 people were killed in attacks Friday and Saturday, including a Taliban commander and several people believed to be with a private security firm, Afghan and NATO officials said.

The United States strongly supports the proposed pipeline because it could draw Central Asia's significant energy resources to Pakistan and India and bypass Iran, Washington's top adversary in the region."

-Los Angeles Times

Funny how they suddenly call the Taliban an insurgency in that article. A few weeks earlier the Taliban were the government of Afghanistan. Ever since Reagan installed them in the 1980s.

But then, just a few weeks after the US removed the Taliban from power, we're told the Taliban are just a bunch of insurgents. Rebels. Terrorists. Evil doers opposing the glorious pipeline!

That's how propaganda works. It changes how you think about the people on the receiving end of your guns. It demonizes the enemy.

Oh, and now that the pipeline is being built, the US is in peace talks with the Taliban:

"Negotiations between the Taliban and the United States officials in Qatar entered the fifth day in an attempt to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan.

The talks mark the highest level negotiations between the two sides since the US ramped up peace efforts last year.

Cofounder of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has joined the talks as the new head of the Taliban team. He met the US special representative, Zalmay Khalilzad, for the first time on Monday."

-Al Jazeera

Mind-boggling, huh? How many people died in this bullshit war? And who really fired the first shot? Who had the most to gain from this bullshit?

Here's another example of how propaganda changes our perception:

When the Soviet Union collapsed, a lot of Eastern countries gained their independence from Russia. But in one country, Russia brutally stopped the freedom movement. In Chechnya.

"Chechen separatists have demanded their freedom from Russia since soon after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and have increasingly turned to terrorist tactics to further their cause. Chechnya is important to the Russian economy because of several oil and gas pipelines that run through Chechen territory. It is estimated that at least 200,000 people have been killed in the ongoing Chechen-Russian conflict."

-History.com

America referred to the Chechens as freedom fighters for the longest time, and criticized Russia's brutal onslaught.

But then, after 9/11, America decided to attack Afghanistan, and needed Russia's ok, to make it look like a just war, and not a robber baron attack on a small country that was America's ally until the day before America attacked it.

Putin told Bush that he would be ok with America's attack on Afghanistan, if America stopped referring to Chechen rebels as freedom fighters, and instead started calling them terrorists. And the next day, America started calling Chechen rebels "terrorists."

Funny how that works.

Wanna know some more really weird shit?

9/11 wasn't just a plane attack on the World Trade Center. There was an anthrax attack, too, remember?

A few days after the WTC blew up, a couple of reporters and politicians received envelopes with white powder. It was anthrax. A couple of little envelopes caused mass hysteria. The envelopes and accompanying letters were made to look like Muslims wrote them.

We were told Saddam was behind it.

But he wasn't.

An American weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, had witnessed the destruction of Saddam's WMDs a few years earlier. He was a loud critic of the second Iraq war, because he knew that Bush, Rumsfeld and the other Iraq war fans were lying about Saddam's WMD.

The UN sent another weapons inspector, Hans Blix. He also said Saddam didn't have any more WMD.

But the US attacked Iraq anyway. And, as we all know today, there really were no WMD.

Gee, who coulda seen that coming?! Everyone who paid attention to what the United Nations weapons inspectors were saying.

The US put another US puppet in charge of Iraq, and he signed oil deals with American oil companies and tore up the oil deals Saddam had previously signed with Russia and France.

Gee, what a coinkidink!

So, who was really behind the anthrax attack that was the reason why America attacked Iraq?

Take a wild guess.

"A Newsnight investigation raised the possibility that there was a secret CIA project to investigate methods of sending anthrax through the mail which went madly out of control.

The shocking assertion is that a key member of the covert operation may have removed, refined and eventually posted weapons-grade anthrax which killed five people.

In the wake of Sept 11th, the anthrax attacks caused panic throughout the States and around the world. But has the FBI found the whole case too hot to handle?"

-BBC News 14/3/02

Remember, BBC News is not some crazy conspiracy site. The BBC is about as reputable and respectable as it gets.

But wait, there's more!

Scientists examined the anthrax strain in the envelopes, and they were able to identify exactly which strain of weaponized anthrax it was. And it was not a strain Saddam could have ever gotten his hands on.

The sophisticated strain of weaponized anthrax used in the attacks right after 9/11 were from a high security US Army weapons lab. Only high ranking Americans could get their hands on that particular strain of anthrax:

"Anthrax matches Army spores

For nearly a decade, U.S. Army scientists at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah have made small quantities of weapons-grade anthrax that is virtually identical to the powdery spores used in the mail attacks that have killed five people, government sources say."

-Baltimore Sun 12/12/01

"A senior US government scientist who helped investigate a series of deadly anthrax attacks in 2001 has died from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with carrying out the attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

The newspaper, quoting people familiar with the man, his suspicious death and the FBI investigation, identified him as Bruce Ivins, 62, and said he had worked for the last 18 years at government bio-defense research laboratories near Washington DC, in Maryland."

-New Scientist Magazine

Things that make you go hmmmmm.

In every war, everyone always thinks they're on the right side, and the other side are the bad guys. But it's always just a bunch of robber barons trying to get rich quick, while lying to their gullible loyalists.

The war in Syria is another perfect example.

Syria has a lot of oil. President Bashar al-Assad is a socialist. And a doctor. He studied medicine at the Western Eye Hospital in London, England, specialising in ophthalmology.

His people all have universal healthcare. Really.

He had no interest in ever becoming president. He wanted to be a doctor and help people.

But when his brother died, he was recalled to Syria, to follow in his father's footsteps. That's how an eye doctor became president of Syria.

But we accuse him of being a horrible monster. As always when America is about to attack any country. America wants to replace Assad with a robber baron who is pro-America.

As always.

Meanwhile Russia wants to keep Assad in power, because he's pro-Russia.

Neither America nor Russia are in Syria for the good of the Syrian people. Nobody gives a shit about what the people of Syria want. It's all about whether America or Russia will control Syria's oil.

But then there are also the ISIS fanatics. They hate that Assad is a modern, secular guy. Their minds are stuck in the Stone Age, like Christian fundamentalists in America.

And then there are the Kurds. They have been oppressed in all the countries where they now live as minorities, because their homeland was taken away from them. But probably nowhere worse than in Turkey.

Turkey's dictator Erdogan wants to kill the Kurds in Syria, because Assad allowed them to form an autonomous Kurdish region in Syria.

Erdogan doesn't want his Kurdish peasants to get any ideas about freedom from their brothers in Syria. He doesn't want the Turkish Kurds to be infected by the freedom virus. So Erdogan decided to send his army into Syria, and kill the Syrian Kurds.

Meanwhile the Kurds were America's allies in Iraq, against American-installed dictator Saddam. And in Syria, the Kurds are America's allies while fighting against ISIS, the descendants of the American-trained Mujahideen.

Is your head spinning yet? Don't worry, it's not you. The shit America has been doing in the Middle East is absofuckinglutely insane.

The only thing that stopped Erdogan from killing the Kurds in Syria were the American troops that were intermingling with the Kurds. Then Erdogan and Trump had a phone call, and next thing you know, Trump announced he's gonna pull American troops out of Syria. Leaving Syria's oil to the Russians, and leaving the Kurds, America's brave allies, to be killed by the Turkish army.

I wonder what riches Erdogan offered Trump in exchange for that.

"Mattis resignation triggered by phone call between Trump and Erdoğan

US president complied with Turkish leader's demands and took own advisers by surprise, accounts say

The resignation of US defence secretary James Mattis was triggered by a phone conversation between Donald Trump and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in which Trump abruptly decided to upend previous US policy and withdraw troops from Syria, according to new accounts of the call.

Mattis went to see the president on Thursday afternoon in a last-ditch attempt to change the president's mind, and argue for standing by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which have taken the lead role in ejecting the Islamic State from its Syrian strongholds."

-The Guardian

Mattis resigned because Trump betrayed America's allies, the Kurds, leaving them to certain death.

When Trump announced that America will pull out, the Kurds asked Syrian president Assad to protect them from Erdogan's Turkish troops. Assad did send troops and protected the Syrian Kurds from being killed by Turkey.

And that's why the Kurds are still alive now.

I never met the guy, but that eye doctor from London doesn't sound like such a monster to me.

So America was in Syria for the oil. Then Trump pulled out because of something Erdogan said to him on the phone.

Russia is in Syria for the oil.

Turkey is in Syria for the oil, and to kill the Kurdish freedom fighters.

The Kurds want freedom in their own little homeland.

ISIS are the descendants of the Mujahideen freedom fighters.

So many different factions, all fighting for their own narrow interests.

It's like a mini-version of World War 2. No simple good vs evil. Just a clusterfuck of robber barons each trying to be the top dog, while they're sending millions of young men to die for bullshit.

And every little grunt thinks he's fighting for freedom somehow.

Oh, there's one more player in the Syrian free-for-all: Israel.

Israel took Syria's Golan Heights. Supposedly for strategic reasons. What they don't mention in the official story is that the Golan Heights are an important source of water for Syria. The Middle East is a desert. Water is very valuable. Water is life.

"Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981. The move was not recognised internationally, although the US Trump Administration did so unilaterally in March 2019.

There are more than 30 Jewish settlements on the heights, with an estimated 20,000 settlers. There are some 20,000 Syrians in the area, most of them members of the Druze sect.

The area is also a key source of water for an arid region. Rainwater from the Golan's catchment feeds into the Jordan River. The area provides a third of Israel's water supply.

The land is fertile, and the volcanic soil is used to cultivate vineyards and orchards and raise cattle. The Golan is also home to Israel's only ski resort.

Syria wants to secure the return of the Golan Heights as part of any peace deal. In late 2003, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he was ready to revive peace talks with Israel.

Syria wants a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 border. This would give Damascus control of the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee \- Israel's main source of fresh water."

-BBC News

While Israel is stealing Syria's water, they give almost none of it to the Palestinian open-air prisons:

"In 1967, Israel seized control of all water resources in the newly occupied territories. Israel retains exclusive control over all the water resources between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, except for a small section of the coastal aquifer in the Gaza Strip. Israel uses the water as it sees fit, ignoring the needs of Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, subjecting them to a mostly man-made water shortage. Neither area is supplied enough water. In Gaza, even the water that is supplied is substandard and not potable."

-The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in The Occupied Territories

"Ninety-seven Percent of Gaza Drinking Water Contaminated by Sewage, Salt, Expert Warns

Gazans are forced to buy water at six times the standard rate from private enterprises

Almost all of the drinking water in the Gaza Strip is impotable because of sewage pollution or high salinity levels, according to data presented last week by a hydrologist who advises the Palestinian Water Authority.

Ahmed al-Yaqoubi said most Gazans don't drink the water from their taps because of its poor quality. Instead, they buy expensive water from private enterprises that operate small desalination plants.

Moreover, almost 90 percent of the drinking water in Gaza exceeds the maximum salinity standard of the World Health Organization and is expected to become even more saline in the years to come."

-Haaretz News

"Water crisis may make Gaza Strip uninhabitable by 2020

In the Gaza Strip, 97 percent of freshwater is unsuitable for human consumption, and raw sewage pours into the Mediterranean Sea. Facilities for desalinating and treating water function on only a limited basis, as Israel controls the flow of fuel and supplies into the region.

The water costs nearly a third of the monthly government stipend on which they survive. Khamis lost a leg in a construction accident years ago and is unable to work.

The water is not only costly. It's often polluted. The United Nations says just 10 percent of Gaza's two million people have access to safe drinking water."

-PBS NewsHour

When Ilhan Omar talks about the horrible things Israel does to the Palestinians, she's not being anti-semitic. That's just a propaganda lie the robber barons tell you.

"How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends? The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace."

-Ilhan Omar

It's not anti-semitic to point out that white colonists from Europe have been brutally oppressing the Palestinian people.

Everyone all over the world knows how horrible the white-supremacist Zionist nationalists in Israel treat the Palestinians.

Except you guys. You have no fucking clue. And most Democratic politicians are too scared to tell you any of this, because they think you're too dumb to understand it.

Even Jews protest against this shit. Do you think they're anti-semitic, too?

"As Israel turns 70, many young American Jews turn away

Natalie Portman, the Oscar-winning actress, recently kicked off a massive storm of controversy when she pulled out of a prestigious award ceremony in Israel because, she said, she "did not want to appear as endorsing Benjamin Netanyahu."

The response to Portman's refusal to appear alongside Israel's prime minister was intense. She was denounced by right-wing Israeli politicians. One labeled Portman's decision as borderline anti-Semitic. Another suggested that her Israeli citizenship should be stripped. Born in Israel, Portman is a dual American-Israeli citizen."

-New York Times

Accusing everyone who criticizes Israel of being anti-semitic is a propaganda trick. It turns the accuser into the accused. Republicans use that trick all the time. If you accuse them of anything, they turn it around on you and accuse you of the same thing. There's a name for that propaganda trick: DARVO

"DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistle blower \-- into an alleged offender. This occurs, for instance, when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation."

-Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

If you accuse Republican robber barons of lying, they accuse you of lying. If you accuse Republicans of treason, they accuse you of treason. If you accuse Republicans of corruption, they accuse you of corruption. If you accuse Republicans of racism, they accuse you of racism. It's childlike in its simplicity, but it works like magic on the childlike minds of MAGA minions.

And Israel's white-supremacist nationalist government does the same thing. If you point out that Israel's white-supremacist nationalist government is racist, they accuse you of racism for pointing it out.

But Arabs can't be anti-semitic. They are semitic.

"Semite

Semite, member of a people speaking any of a group of related languages presumably derived from a common language, Semitic (see Semitic languages). The term came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians, and Aramaean tribes. Mesopotamia, the western coast of the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa have all been proposed as possible sites for the prehistoric origins of Semitic-speaking peoples, but no location has been definitively established.

By 2500 BCE Semitic-speaking peoples had become widely dispersed throughout western Asia. In Phoenicia they became seafarers. In Mesopotamia they blended with the civilization of Sumer. The Hebrews settled with other Semitic-speaking peoples in Palestine."

-Encyclopaedia Britannica

Semitic is simply another word for Middle Eastern. Jesus was a semite. Jesus was a semitic Middle Easterner.

If you don't like Arabs or Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews, you're an anti-semite. All Arabs and all Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews are semitic Middle Easterners.

But the white Ashkenazi Jews from Europe, not so much. They're just as white as every other German tribe from Europe. And Yiddish is really just a German dialect.

In Israel, white-supremacist European colonists accuse semitic Middle Easterners of being anti-semitic, for opposing oppression by white-supremacist European colonists.

In Israel, white European anti-semites accuse semites of being anti-semitic.

That's fucking brilliant. If only the white South African robber barons had thought of that.

It's just like when white-supremacist MAGA minions accuse black people of being racist for pointing out that white supremacists are racist.

HOW PUTIN AND TRUMP ARE DESTROYING THE WEST

If you love America, does it matter which state you love most? Does it make you any less of an American if you love North Dakota more than South Dakota?

Of course not. Stupid question.

And yet you think it's your patriotic duty to hate California and New York, because they're liberal states. You hate half of America, and you think that makes you a good Republican "patriot."

That's tribalism at work. You've been brainwashed to hate your brothers, and think of it as the right thing to do. You think God wants you to hate your liberal brothers and sisters.

That's crazy.

That's how the robber barons divide and conquer us peasants, because it weakens us, and makes it easier for them to fuck us over.

I love Germany. I love America just as much. And I love Belgium. And France. And Japan. And Scotland, And England. And Taiwan. And Holland. And Iceland. And Norway. And a bunch of other countries. I can't even name them all right now. I've travelled to a lot of places, and loved almost all of them. I could see myself living happily in any of them.

That's not unusual. We Germans are so weltoffen, so world-open, so embracing of the whole world, we see all of planet earth as our home.

I'm gonna tell you something now, that no one has ever told you before:

You don't have to choose between loving America and the rest of the world. It's ok to love more than one country.

It's true.

Just like you love all your brothers and sisters. And all your children. You can love two, three, or five countries. You can even love them all!

That's totally ok. In fact, it's a good thing. It doesn't make you a bad person. And the people who tell you otherwise are lying to you. They're manipulating you into hating your brothers and sisters.

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

-Socrates

"Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality."

-Wikipedia

Cosmopolitanism is about as liberal as you can get. True freedom. World peace. It's the most left-wing-extremist you can be.

Right-wing means nationalist. Left-wing means cosmopolitan.

Cosmopolitanism, or Weltoffenheit, is the exact opposite of nationalism.

Earth is home for the entire human race. Just ask Captain Picard.

Star Trek shows us what earth would look like, if or when we finally get over our self-destructive nationalist tribalism and we all work together as one planet. One big family.

Imagine if Klingons landed on earth tomorrow.

Suddenly we would all feel like it's us humans against the aliens. Suddenly we would become acutely aware of how much we humans have in common with each other, and that we all live on the same little planet, and we all want the same things: to live in peace and be happy.

Why wait until the Klingons land? Why not start acting like grown ups now? Humankind is already under attack... by evil robber barons.

Think of global warming as an alien invasion. The time to work together is now. That's why the whole world signed the Paris agreement.

Think about what we as a species could accomplish, if we didn't constantly blow shit up in pointless wars, that funnel all our money into the pockets of a couple of super rich war-profiteering robber barons, while everyone else is poor and gets killed for bullshit. Think about how much better the world would be without predatory robber baron capitalism.

Borders are just arbitrary lines that some robber barons drew on a map, to decide which peasants have to slave away for which robber barons. Drawing lines on maps is how robber barons split the spoils of war amongst themselves.

There is absolutely no reason why your love for earth should stop at an imaginary border line. If the line runs through the middle of a forest, do you love one side of the forest but not the other? No. Without a map, you wouldn't even know where the line is. All you'd see is one big forest.

The line is just in your head. It's imaginary. Borders are fictitious constructs. The world would be a much better place without borders. No more tribalism. No more war. Just world peace and cosmopolitanism. Weltoffenheit. Everybody can live wherever the hell they want. That's what John Lennon's song Imagine was all about.

What makes the people on this side of the line any different than the people on the other side of the line? Nothing. The only reason why you think that Mexicans are somehow worse people than Americans, is because you've been brainwashed by malignant patriotism. Tribalism. It's the cancer of civilization.

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

-Guy de Maupassant

I used a lot of quotes in this book. From famous people and great philosophers, from all over the world, and from many different time periods, thousands of years apart.

The things I'm talking about in this book are not crazy, radical ideas. I didn't pull this shit out of my ass. It may seem like that to you, because you've never heard anyone else say these things to you before. But they're commonly accepted facts among the greatest minds in history.

All the great thinkers in human history agree that we are all one big human family, and we need to stop robber barons from fucking the rest of us over. We need to learn to see through the tribalism bullshit and the propaganda they use to turn us against each other.

You see only America as your home, and everyone else as your enemy. That's tribalism. Most Europeans nowadays have outgrown tribalism. We see right through that shit.

We see no need to just love one country. There's no need for that when all countries work together and you can live wherever you want.

I've lived in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and America, so far. And I've spent a lot of time in France, Norway and a few other countries. I loved them all.

If someone asks you who your favorite actor is, does it necessarily have to be an American actor? No, of course not. It's ok to love Australian Chris Hemsworth or British actress Emma Watson.

And if you ask a German about his favorite country, he may not necessarily say Germany. He might say Tunisia. Or New Zealand. Or the Easter Islands. Germans see absolutely nothing wrong with loving other countries besides Germany.

Because Germany is not constantly at war. So it's not like we have to choose sides. We don't think in terms of us-vs-them. We don't think the rest of the world is our enemy. Germany is a very peace-loving country now, and it's ok to love everyone. Very liberal. Very free. Very cosmopolitan.

Most of us love the European Union. Europe has a very bloody history. European countries have been at war with each other for thousands of years like the houses on Game of Thrones. Millions of peasants died in pointless robber baron wars. After World War 2, European peasants decided enough was enough. No more wars for profit for greedy robber barons. No more patriotic bullshit. No more fighting amongst each other like dumb children.

For the first time in history, Europe united. Peacefully. Without bloodshed. We were all very proud of that! We had finally grown up. We were adulting. And we were good at it! Things were looking up.

The European Union showed us that even arch enemies who have killed each other for thousands of years can be brothers. It's almost a miracle that Germany and France are best friends now, considering how much blood has been spilled between these two countries in the last thousand years.

If it wasn't for the European Union, Europe might still look like the Middle East: lots of different warring tribes, and each one only interested in their own narrow self-interest.

Selfishness is a constant cause of conflict. That's why nationalism always leads to war.

Trump tries to pull the European Union apart, to weaken it. He's like Littlefinger, who tried to turn Sansa and Arya Stark against each other.

Makes it easier for American robber barons to plunder Europe, and to force Europeans to buy cancer-causing American garbage. That's one of the many reasons why Europeans no longer see America as a friend, but a threat.

Trump is in favor of Brexit, because it breaks apart the European Union. It will be the worst disaster in British history since World War 2, but Trump doesn't give a shit. It's just another robber baron scheme to fuck over the little guy and maximize profits for the robber barons.

He promised Britain a great trade deal after Brexit. Turns out the trade deal he offers is garbage.

Gee, who could have seen that coming?

It'll force Britain to buy American products that are currently outlawed in Britain, like in the rest of Europe, because they're not safe to eat. It's a totally one-sided deal, and Britain, now alone, without its European brothers, will have to accept it.

"Britain's hopes of a trade deal with America just suffered a big blow

The US administration wants to secure "comprehensive access" for agricultural goods in Britain by reducing or eliminating tariffs. It also wants other barriers to US exports removed.

The United States is giving the United Kingdom a preview of what it can expect from take-no-prisoners trade negotiations after Brexit.

The Trump administration on Thursday outlined its goals for a free trade deal with Britain in a document that takes a tough line on agricultural products and warns the United Kingdom against getting cozy with China.

"This is an uncompromising document from the US point of view, with no mention of mutual benefit," said David Henig, the director of the UK Trade Policy Project and a former UK trade official.

Scrapping those barriers could open Britain's door to genetically modified crops, animal feed with antibiotics and chlorine-washed chicken products that are banned in the European Union but common in the United States."

-CNN

United we stand, divided we fall, remember? And now Britain is falling.

Many companies know that. That's why they're moving their headquarters out of Britain, into the rest of the European Union or other countries. While Britain turns to shit, the giant corporations simply move their operations to a different country. They move on, like a swarm of locusts.

And the British peasants? They're gonna get royally fucked. They get to eat American garbage now. Mission accomplished. The American robber barons will make billions, thanks to Trump and his accomplices.

Woohoo! Freedom!

"Massive anti-Brexit protest march in the UK

On Saturday, more than a million people took to the streets of London to demand a second Brexit referendum — what they're calling a "people's vote."

-Vox.com

"Plan to evacuate queen if Brexit goes bad

The U.K. government has repurposed Cold War emergency evacuation planning to prepare for the chance of violence and mayhem following a no-deal Brexit, and the need to protect the royal family, the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday reported."

-Politico.com

They're preparing for a peasant uprising! And the rich are fleeing the country:

"Nearly a Third of UK Companies Moving for Brexit or Actively Considering it

While the EU and British parliaments are still in limbo over a Brexit deal, UK companies are making up their mind about staying or going. Nearly a third of British companies plan to move at least part of their business abroad because of Brexit or are actively considering it, according to a report by the Institute of Directors."

-Statista.com

Does any of this sound like a good thing for Britain to you? No, of course not. Brexit is the dumbest fucking thing Britain could possibly do. It's national suicide.

"James Dyson moves company out of the UK despite backing Brexit

Vacuum maker Dyson has announced it will no longer be a British registered company and instead make Singapore its main tax base.

The headquarter switch from Malmesbury, Wiltshire, is likely to prove controversial given that Sir James - the company's billionaire chairman, founder and owner Sir James Dyson - is an outspoken proponent of leaving the EU."

-Chronicle Live

Trump is tearing the West apart. He is alienating and weakening America's closest allies. And Putin loves every minute of it.

Putin hates America and the West. He blames America for the fall of the Soviet Union, and sees the other Western states as America's obedient servants, controlled by America's war-profiteering robber barons. It's not that he hates robber barons. He just wants Russia to be in charge, not America.

Putin's policies are based on one simple principle: do anything to weaken the West and turn the alliance against each other, and isolate America from her allies. Anything that weakens the West strengthens Russia.

And that's exactly what's happening, thanks to Trump. Whether Trump knows it or not, he's a Russian asset. He is what Russians call a useful idiot.

Everything Trump is doing is making America and the West weaker, and Russia stronger.

On some level, I can understand Putin. American tanks and missiles are stationed right on Russia's border, presenting a clear and present danger to Russia, given America's history of eternal war for profit.

America's weapons manufacturers, the military-industrial complex, is itching for a war with Russia. Think of how much money they would make!

You can't blame Putin for thinking that it's only a matter of time before America attacks Russia. The American weapons stationed on Russia's border are like the Cuban missile crisis, but the roles have switched.

Instead of Russian missiles stationed on America's doorstep in Cuba, it's American tanks and missiles stationed on Russia's doorstep.

"Nato accused of massing troops on Russian border

The Pentagon's top military commander in Europe told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that more US troops and more warships must be deployed to the continent to counter what he described as Moscow's "malign influence" and Russian threats to "the United States' vital national interests."

The testimony by Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the head of EUROCOM and NATO's supreme allied commander, came just one day after Russia formally withdrew from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), following the Trump administration's unilateral abrogation of the landmark nuclear accord last month."

-WSWS.org

"US leads war games near Russian border with 18,000 troops on eve of World Cup

Drills show 'demonstration of the commitment and solidarity' of Nato forces in face of aggression from Moscow, says American army

More than 18,000 troops from 19 nations, including the UK, have taken part in US-led war games in countries bordering Russia."

-The Independent

If Russia was amassing this many Russian troops, tanks and missiles on America's southern border, World War 3 would already be in full swing. And you can't blame Putin for thinking that the US might attack Russia at any moment.

Trump pulled out of the treaty that prohibited America from stationing medium range nuclear weapons in the countries bordering Russia. Which means America is gonna station nuclear weapons on Russia's border.

Trump asked what the hell nuclear missiles are good for, if we're not gonna use them:

"Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program."

-CNBC

Sure sounds like he's itching to use them, doesn't it?

Then Trump pulled out of the treaty that stops the US from stationing mid-range nukes on Russia's border:

"President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty

A Russian foreign ministry source said the US move was motivated by a "dream of a unipolar world" where it is the only global superpower, state news agency RIA Novosti reported."

-BBC News

Putin may be a dictator, but he's not an idiot. He knows all about America's history of attacking other countries first, and then claiming it was a pre-emptive attack meant to stop an attack on the US before it could happen.

Hitler said the same thing when he invaded his neighbors during the Blitzkrieg surprise attack. Israel said the same thing when it attacked its Muslim neighbors.

"Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won."

-Paul Craig Roberts

Trump ordered to produce more nukes, although even the military said they don't want them, because America already has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet many times over. More nukes are just be a waste of taxpayer dollars and increase the risk of nuclear war. But did that stop Trump? No, of course not. Billions of dollars in profit for the weapons factories...

"US nuclear weapons: first low-yield warheads roll off the production line

New type of weapon, ordered by Trump's nuclear posture review, could make conflict more likely, say experts

The US has begun making a new, low-yield nuclear warhead for its Trident missiles that arms control advocates warn could lower the threshold for a nuclear conflict.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced in an email it had started manufacturing the weapon at its Pantex nuclear weapons plant in Texas, as ordered by Donald Trump's nuclear posture review (NPR) last year."

-The Guardian

"Nobody can stop Trump from launching nukes — and it's freaking senators out

Donald Trump could launch a nuclear weapon, and no one — not Congress, not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not the secretary of defense — could stop him.

That unchecked presidential authority was called into question Tuesday in a Senate hearing led by Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, as tensions over North Korea spurred fears of a knee-jerk reaction from the president."

-Vice News

So, let's recap. According to credible news reports from many different sources...

Trump repeatedly expressed an interest in launching nukes, like a kid who found a firecracker in the basement and wants to blow up a frog.

Trump cancels the treaty that stops the US from stationing mid-range nukes on Russia's border.

Trump builds more nukes.

Trump orders the US military to station thousands of troops and tanks on Russia's border, and to practice war right on Russia's border.

Nobody can stop Trump from launching nukes.

World War 3 would be billions of dollars in profit for the US weapons industry.

According to medical experts, Trump is a malignant narcissist, like an older version of that blonde little asshole, mad king Joffrey, on Game of Thrones:

"If you take President Trump's words literally, you have no choice but to conclude that he is psychotic. A delusion is "a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact." Despite all evidence to the contrary, Trump asserts that his New York office was bugged by President Obama, and that his inauguration had the biggest crowd size in history. Before the election, Right Wing Watch published a list of 58 conspiracies proclaimed by Trump.

Does Trump really believe the insane things he says? It's often hard to know, because as Harvard psychoanalyst Lance Dodes put it, Trump tells two kinds of lies: the ones he tells others to scam them, and those he tells himself. "He lies because of his sociopathic tendencies," Dodes said.

Hundreds of mental health professionals have come together to found Duty To Warn. We believe that just as we are ethically and legally obligated to break confidentiality to warn a potential victim of violence, our duty to warn the public trumps all other considerations.

More than 53,000 people have signed our petition, aimed at mental health professionals, stating Trump should be removed under the 25th Amendment because he is too mentally ill to competently serve. At a conference on the Duty To Warn last month at Yale medical school, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton warned against creeping "malignant normality." Under a malignantly narcissistic leader, alternate facts, conspiracy theories, racism, science denial and delegitimization of the press become not only acceptable but also the new normal. If we do not confront this evil, it will consume us."

-USA Today

Trump's behavior, on public display every single day, displays all the symptoms of malignant narcissism, as defined by The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

You probably didn't know that. But experts in psychology do know. Trump is fucking nuts.

"It is, perhaps, no surprise that widely held impressions about Trump's narcissism are corroborated by the DSM criteria. The key question to ask is whether, having come so far despite his psychiatric disorder, Trump, or any other narcissistic personality can communicate well enough to be an effective leader of the free world."

-Psychology Today

"Renowned Psychologist: Like Hitler, Trump suffers from Sadism, Malignant Narcissism & Paranoia

Dr. Gartner specializes in borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and depression and he believes that President Trump is suffering from a very dangerous form of mental illness, an illness that is identical to that suffered by Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.

Donald Trump truly has the most dangerous form of mental illness that you can find in a leader," Gartner told KrassenCast. "He suffers from a personality disorder called malignant narcissism. Malignant narcissism was actually introduced by Erich Fromm, the famed psychoanalyst, who himself narrowly escaped the Nazis. Malignant narcissism was his attempt to explain the psychology of dictators like Hitler or Stalin or Mussolini."

Gartner told us that Malignant narcissism is a combination of 4 traits, which includes narcissism, paranoia, antisocial personality disorder (the psychology of a criminal and someone who routinely lies) and sadism.

The sadist aspects of Trump's apparent mental illness, according is Gartner, means that "he is driven and gets intense pleasure from harming, humiliating, and degrading other people."

-HillReporter.com

Gee, I wonder if that's why he loves to humiliate and insult people with childish nicknames?

Trump and his minions get a dopamine kick, when he's cruel to liberals. MAGA minions love it when Trump makes liberals cry. It's the next best thing to lynching liberals, while lynching is still illegal. But laws can be changed. Especially when all the judges are loyalists. Like in Nazi Germany, or in Trump's fascist America.

Malignant narcissists don't give a shit about other people, they love to be cruel just for fun, and they feel no empathy, compassion or remorse. What they do feel is a constant need for attention and adoration.

I think that's why Trump is always at his little rallies, inciting a bloodthirsty, cheering mob with lie after lie, like Hitler on crack.

Will Trump start a nuclear war for shits and giggles, and lots of money? I'd say the chances are pretty damn good. I could totally see him starting a nuclear war, because it would make him the most famous person ever.

I think it's pretty obvious that Trump desperately wants to be the most famous person ever. He's the biggest attention whore I've ever seen in my life.

And who is gonna be more famous than the person who started World War 3 and wiped out human civilization? That guy is gonna be even more famous than Hitler! There may not be much left of mankind afterwards, but whoever is left is gonna remember The Orange Donald, the Racist Elmo, forever.

That sick need for fame is what drives most mass-shooters. That's why many people say we should never mention the names of mass-shooters publicly, to deny them the fame they seek through their massacres.

Or maybe threatening Russia with nuclear war is Trump's way of forcing the Russian mob to forgive the millions of dollars he still owes them?

Or maybe he told Putin that if Putin tells the American people what really goes on between Trump and Russia, Trump will press his red button and nuke the Kremlin?

Or maybe he'll simply start a war to distract you from all those reports about how corrupt he is.

"Trump's Corruption: The Definitive List

The many ways that the president, his family and his aides are lining their own pockets.

They don't even try very hard to hide it. President Trump, his family and more than a few of his appointees are using his presidency to enrich themselves. They are spending taxpayer dollars for their own benefit. They are accepting sweetheart deals from foreigners. And they are harnessing the power of the federal government on behalf of their businesses.

There's a word for this: corruption.

Given how widespread Trumpian corruption has become, we thought it was time to make a list. It's meant to be a definitive list of self-dealing by the president, his family, his staff or his friends — since he began running for president."

-New York Times

"Even before special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released, anyone who had a TV knew that President Donald Trump was too corrupt and compromised for his office. Now we know the same is true for his attorney general, William Barr.

For weeks, Barr has been trying to sell us a Mueller report that simply does not exist.

The actual Mueller report, beneath all the redactions, details one of the most successful foreign disruptions of an American election in the history of the republic. It reveals a presidential campaign eager to suck up the benefits of this "sweeping and systematic" interference, and it unmasks a president who attempted to commit multiple crimes to cover the whole thing up."

-USA Today

And the whole Republican military-industrial complex is along for the ride, cheering him on and removing all checks and balances that were designed to stop madmen.

Think of how much money they would make in World War 3! Who cares that it will bankrupt America? America is already bankrupt. Just like all those businesses Trump bankrupted. Trump has been blowing billions of taxpayer dollars on weapons, like there's no tomorrow.

Maybe he knows something we don't. Maybe there really won't be a tomorrow. What does he need all these new nukes for, if not to use them?

Putin despises the West, and America above all, for humiliating the Soviet empire. Putin has been feeding his Russian peasants a steady diet of tribalism, and promised them he will make Russia great again.

He will make Russia a world power again and restore the glory of the Russian empire. The great Russian empire before the communist peasants rose up in 1917 and got rid of the Czar.

Fucking socialist liberals with their Karl Marx and their stupid peasant uprisings!

Putin is a right-wing nationalist, and he sees himself as the new Czar of Russia. And he hates lefties. Just like Trump. No wonder Trump has a man crush on him.

But Putin doesn't like America. It stands in the way of making Russia great again. That's the problem with nationalism. Everyone else is automatically your enemy, because their self-interests conflict with your own.

So he needs to neutralize the West. And how do you do that? By making the West tear itself apart. Russian hackers have been stirring up nationalist tribalism all over Europe and America, using fake news.

Russian propaganda on social media was the original fake news, remember? Journalists were calling it fake news, when it was discovered that Russian government trolls were creating fake news articles and memes full of lies, designed to stir up hatred and tribalism, and turn America and Europe against each other.

To distract us from that, Trump started calling the real news fake news. We accused Republicans and their Russian accomplices of spreading fake news, so the Republicans accused us of spreading fake news. It's so simple. Republicans simply say the opposite of whatever Democrats say. And MAGA minions are too dumb to know who's telling the truth, and who's lying.

So Trump just keeps repeating his propaganda lie: Fake News! Fake News! Fake News!

Day after day after day after day.

Hammering his propaganda lie into our heads.

And it worked. Now nobody remembers that the term fake news originally referred to Russian propaganda designed to divide America and Europe, and get Trump elected.

"The trolls are winning, says Russian troll hunter

Lyudmila Savchuk went undercover at a Russian troll farm in St. Petersburg in 2014. Since then, she's made it her mission to speak out against Kremlin-connected troll farms.

The journalist and 33-year-old mother of two, Savchuk started noticing websites and social media accounts attacking local opposition activists in her hometown of Saint Petersburg with a frequency she hadn't seen before.

The posts were all too similar. The verbal assaults too coordinated. So, when Savchuk later heard that an organization rumored to be behind the campaign — the Internet Research Agency or IRA — was hiring writers, she went for it.

She was hired as a blogger and told to report to Savushkina 55, a nondescript four-story office building on the outskirts of town.

Once on the inside, Savchuk was stunned to see hundreds of mostly younger Russians working as paid trolls in rotating shifts.

Roaming the halls when she could — cameras were everywhere — Savchuk discovered the IRA was full of different "departments." There was the "news division," the "social media seeders", and a group dedicated to producing visual memes known as "demotivators."

Despite the division of labor, the content was remarkably uniform. The US, the EU, Ukraine's pro-European government, and Russia's opposition were regular targets for scorn. And then there was Russian President Vladimir Putin — seemingly no Russian triumph under his rule was too small to warrant a celebratory tweet, meme or post.

Her conclusion: The troll farm was a Kremlin project, run by a shadowy local restaurateur named Evgeny Prigozhin.

While Prigozhin has denied those charges, his name may sound familiar to American audiences. Often called "Putin's Chef" for his close ties to the Russian President, Prigozhin was placed under US sanctions in 2018 for what American officials say was a coordinated attempt to interfere with the US elections."

-PRI.org

She is an undercover journalist who infiltrated a Russian troll farm and saw with her own eyes how Russians used social media to manipulate American voters with lies. To turn Americans against each other. And to get Trump elected. Not for the good of America, but to weaken America.

But it's not just her saying these things. The Mueller Report found evidence that the things she says are true. Mueller found evidence, evidence of Russian interference in America's election:

"As news bulletins reported that Hillary Clinton had called Donald Trump to concede in the presidential race, Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian sovereign-wealth fund CEO and pal of Russian President Vladimir Putin, checked his device. "Putin has won," came the message.

The identity of that note's sender is among the redacted parts of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. While the document chronicles the sweep of Russia's interference in the election and provides specific examples of the Trump team's sometimes-artless interactions with Russian officials, it is silent on a key unanswered question: did those Russian efforts actually swing the outcome of the 2016 contest?

There are plenty of signs that Russia shaped how Americans perceived the election. That's why Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, calls the foreign actors "discourse saboteurs" in her latest book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President. The Russians not only injected divisive rhetoric into the public narrative via troll accounts on social media, Jamieson says, but also by stealing troves of email from the Democratic National Committee and top Democrats like Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and then getting them amplified via mainstream media sources.

Facebook executive Colin Stretch told Congress in October 2017 that about 126 million users on the platform were exposed to Russian propaganda masquerading as real news.

While it's virtually impossible to determine how many votes these efforts swayed, the numbers needn't be huge to be important. In Florida, Trump prevailed by 119,770 votes, or 1.3 percentage points. In North Carolina, Trump's margin was 173,315 votes, or 3.6 percentage points. Trump wrested Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin into the Republican column by a margin of 77,744 combined votes.

Mueller's report illustrates how Russia engaged in an effective campaign to help Trump win the White House."

-Time Magazine

Let me guess, that's not what you heard on Fox News, is it? Of course not. They keep telling you it's all Fake News! Fake News! Fake News!

But there is proof, actual proof, that Russian hackers purposely spread lies, to make Americans hate each other. And then they helped Trump get into power, because Putin figured it would be the worst thing that could possibly happen to America.

He was right.

The Russians did the same thing in Europe, to break apart the European Union. Brexit, and all those other white-supremacist, nationalist-separatist, anti-European movements that suddenly started to pop up in Europe in the last few years, were instigated by an army of Russian social media trolls.

"Brilliant Putin is the leader I most admire, says Nigel Farage

Ukip leader cites former KGB officer Vladimir Putin as the statesman he most admires"

-The Telegraph

Nigel Farage was the driving force behind Brexit. And he's a big fan of Putin. Big surprise. Brexit is national suicide, and it's weakening the West. Exactly what Putin wants.

His Russian trolls simply had to spread some lies, to make some people hate some other people. Then they fanned the flames with some more lies. Divide and conquer. Victory by meme.

Russia is engaging in cyber-warfare by weaponizing old-fashioned propaganda tricks through social media.

Russia is using cyber-terrorism to attack America.

And what is Trump doing about it? Absolutely nothing. Because Russia's cyber-terrorism is what got Trump elected in the first place.

Putin and the Russian robber barons wanted Trump to be American president because they knew it would be bad for America and good for Russia.

And now, thanks to Putin's hackers and social media trolls, the West is weakened by infighting. That's good news for Putin and Russia's billionaire robber barons.

America and Britain aren't the only countries being sabotaged by enemies from within, who have been brainwashed by anti-Western Russian propaganda memes on social media.

Around the same time as the right-wing nationalist Brexit movement, and the right-wing nationalist MAGA movement, another right-wing nationalist Neo-Nazi group popped up in Germany. They call themselves Reichsbürger, which is German for Citizens of The Third German Empire or simply Empire Citizens. They literally think of themselves as citizens of Hitler's Third Reich.

Like the Brexiteers, and the MAGA minions in America, the German Empire Citizens are fanatic nationalists and white supremacists. They hate immigrants and call them foreign invaders. Just like Hitler and Trump did.

Like the Brexiteers and the MAGA minions, the Empire Citizens hate everything the liberal democracies of the West stand for. They believe that the liberal West is the enemy, and Russia's dictator Putin is awesome. They're Putin's useful idiots, destroying Western democracies from the inside.

"Inside The Far-Right Conspiracy Movement That's Preparing For A Showdown With Germany's Government

On the night of February 15, a group of German nationalists marched through the streets of Dresden to commemorate the victims of the devastating Allied bombing of the East German city late in World War II.

Nerling, a 38-year-old former primary school teacher from Berlin, is a prominent figure in the Reichsbuerger movement, an umbrella term for a uniquely German strain of paranoid, gun-hoarding far-right conspiracy theorists who reject the legitimacy of the post-war German republic and believe the German people are oppressed by a shadowy global elite. To Nerling, the aspects of modern German society he detests — liberalism, globalization, and immigration — are all part of a deliberate plot to eradicate the German people.

"They want to exterminate everything that is German. That's the goal," says Nerling, who like many within the movement, rejects the label Reichsbuerger, although he concedes others may call him that.

The underground movement first caught the attention of the German authorities in 2016 after a string of violent crimes that included the fatal shooting of a police officer, prompting the domestic intelligence service to start monitoring it as a potential extremist threat.

Since Germany's intelligence service began surveillance of the Reichsbuergers in 2016, its estimate of the movement's size has doubled to around 19,000 members.

Like so many other conspiracy theories, the Reichsbuerger ideology proliferates predominantly in the swamps of the internet, but there are worrying signs that it is seeping from the lunatic fringe into wider society. The rise of the far-right AfD party has even brought politicians who espouse Reichsbuerger-like conspiracy theories into Germany's parliament. (The AFD denies any affiliation with the movement, but critics from the ruling Christian Democratic Union say Reichsbuergers are vocal supporters of the AfD, actively circulating their content online, and share their goal of destabilizing the state.)

"These are people who believe themselves to be in a permanent state of war," says Tobias Ginsburg, a writer who spent eight months undercover in the scene as research for a book, "The Journey into the Reich," published last year.

"Reichsbuerger," which translates to "citizens of the Reich," is an ideology rooted in the conspiracy theory that the German Reich still exists, and that the post-war German federal republic is an illegitimate puppet state established by foreign occupying powers to oppress the German people.

According to Rathje, the ideology has Nazi roots, and was initially circulated by Nazi Party holdovers in the years following World War II. At its core, he says, it's an anti-Semitic ideology, with adherents forming their worldview through the myth of a global Jewish plot to oppress and eradicate the Germans through immigration. Many in the scene are Holocaust deniers.

As with many conspiracy theorists, Nerling's gateway to the ideology was the internet — YouTube, specifically. It began, he says, with U.S.-focused conspiracy theories regarding Sandy Hook and 9/11. From there, he went down a rabbit hole of material about Germany's war history and the migration crisis. "That's what woke me up," he says.

Reichsbuerger-like beliefs can now be heard in Germany's parliament, says Ginsburg. Peter Boehringer, an MP since 2017 for the far-right AfD and chairman of the Bundestag's Budgets Committee, believes a secretive New World Order is behind the refugee influx, with the goal of bringing about the "Umvolkung" — a Nazi coinage referring to the assimilation of the German people."

-Vice News

The Reichsbürger Nazis in Germany are every bit as brainwashed as the MAGA Nazis in America. They believe exactly the same things about themselves and their countries.

Remember the Nazi rally in Charlottesville? Those idiots with their tiki torches were chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Most liberals just dismissed and ignored that chant as some insane, nonsensical, meaningless, racist gibberish.

People only hear what they understand. And liberals didn't understand what the Nazis in Charlottesville meant when they were chanting that.

Most liberals don't realize that chant refers to the core belief of the MAGA minions' ideology. Like the Reichsbürger Neo-Nazis, the MAGA minions seriously believe they're the victims of a worldwide Jewish anti-American conspiracy. They believe Jews want to replace the white people in America with inferior non-white races. And since they believe this nonsense is true, they don't recognize it as racist propaganda.

MAGA minions honestly believe they're under attack by evil foreigners and liberals. Because that's what they have been brainwashed to believe. Just like the Nazis.

And just like Hitler's original Nazis, and the Reichsbuerger Neo-Nazis, and the Brexiteers, the MAGA minions don't realize that they are their own country's worst, most fanatic enemies.

They all think of themselves as super nationalists and true patriots, while actively sabotaging their own country, because they see liberal democracy as the enemy, and they have been brainwashed to believe that fighting against their own democratic government is somehow patriotic.

Putin must be so proud of himself.

While the Reichsbürger Nazis are only a tiny minority of less than 0.02% of the German population, the MAGA Nazis are about 30% of America. Brainwashed MAGA minions are doing far more damage than the Reichsbürger ever could.

The MAGA minions vote for Republican robber barons, who openly brag about dismantling America's liberal democracy.

People like Nigel Farage and Trump continually do Putin's bidding, by alienating America's closest allies, like democratic Canada and the democratic European Union. They all used to think of America as a friend.

Now every Western country thinks of America as the biggest threat to world peace and to liberal free democracy, because in America democracy is failing, thanks to Trump and his Nazi minions.

Did Putin foresee everything that was going to happen when he manipulated the 2016 US election? Probably not. I don't think Putin ever imagined Trump would be dumb enough to start World War 3, just to stroke his own ego. Not even a brilliant strategist like Putin saw that one coming. He thought Trump would just keep fucking porn stars and post dumb shit on Twitter like a teenage drama queen starved for attention.

I think Putin just wanted Trump to be in the White House, as a useful idiot. A chaos agent. A disruptive force that continues to weaken America. An evil orange clown who destroys America's reputation and relationships with her closest allies.

Putin wanted to throw a wrench into the heart of American power. By putting the dumbest, least qualified, most egotistical, narcissistic ugly American into the White House, who would destroy America's reputation around the world forever.

He succeeded. Most of the world now laughs at the idiocy of Trump's America, while also being terrified by it. America is no longer the respected leader of the free world. Europe is. The vast majority of the world now see America as the greatest threat to world peace.

Most people on earth, by a wide margin, believe that if anyone is dumb enough to start World War 3, it's gonna be Trump.

If you could go back in time and stop Hitler, would you?

Well, now you can.

You have the ability to stop the next Hitler. And then you can brag about it to your grandchildren someday.

Stop bitching about the office thermostat, or memes you don't like, or holiday pictures on coffee cups. Keep your eyes on the fucking ball. Don't get distracted. Don't let them divide us.

The 2020 election is the most important election of your life.

Stop him. Vote for Anyone Else in 2020.

Anyone Else 2020!

Anyone Else 2020!

Anyone Else 2020!

Rolls right off the tongue.

Go out there and spread the word. Tell 5 friends about this book and make them read it. Wake up as many people as you can. Be the change you want to see in the world.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

-Edmund Burke

Join the resistance. Become a liberal freedom fighter. Vote for literally anyone else in 2020. Save the human race from extinction. I know you can do it. You're smart enough, you're brave enough, and gosh darnit, people like you.

We don't need World War 3. Ain't nobody got time for that. We got things to do, places to go, people to see.

vote for

Anyone Else 2020

United we stand, divided we fall.

Tell a friend about this book:

www.Foxhides.info

_

Contact the author at:

Oliver.M.Malloy@Mail.com

_

Social Media:

Malloy.rocks

 Reddit.com/r/Foxhidesinfo

_

Want to get an email when his next book comes out?

Join Oliver's Mailing List

