Trump makes all the right noises.... Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on March 1, 2023, 11:29 pm, in reply to "Trump is the only "possible" off ramp I can see nm"
...before an election but as Caitlin Johnstone points out, it all turns out to be fabrication and fable when he achieved office: Why would it be any different if he got in for another term?: "The way the war in Ukraine allows mainstream liberals to play-act as rebellious anti-imperialists is a good illustration of how the empire gives people the illusion of fighting the power without their ever opposing the empire. We saw this same trend take place in the US throughout the Trump administration, where mainstream liberals branded themselves "The Resistance" like they were socialist revolutionaries or insurgents opposing Hitler in Nazi-occupied France. In reality Trump's presidency had little actual impact on the comforts of their lives, because beneath all the narratives Trump was a fairly normal US president whose most heinous crimes were all of the customary variety we see in all US presidents — including his predecessor and his successor. Democrats just spent four years LARPing as brave revolutionaries, and then he left office and the game ended. In exactly the same way, Trump's presidency allowed right wingers to pretend they were part of a movement against the establishment, despite Trump never actually challenging the establishment in any meaningful way. They believed he was fighting the Deep State even after he imprisoned Assange. They believed he was "ending the wars" even as he ramped up aggressions against Russia which helped bring us to where we are today, killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans with starvation sanctions, vetoed attempts to save Yemen from U.S.-backed genocide, worked to foment civil war in Iran using starvation sanctions and CIA ops with the stated goal of effecting regime change, occupied Syrian oil fields with the goal of preventing Syria’s reconstruction, greatly increased the number of troops in the Middle East and elsewhere, greatly increased the number of bombs dropped per day from the previous administration killing record numbers of civilians, and reduced military accountability for those airstrikes. They believed he was draining the swamp after packing his cabinet with establishment swamp monsters." https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1677443125.html
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