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Trump Crime Family on cover of Doing TIME magazine, Biden Crime Family still free
Trump still has gun despite felony convictions, Jimmy talks to his A.I. clone, and (dis)loyal sports fans
Trump tells gun dealer he wants to buy Glock [so he can go to prison a felon] (nytimes.com).
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(Jimmy Kimmel Live)
June 12, 2024: Tonight was game three of the NBA Finals, Pres. Biden was in Italy today for the annual G7 Summit, Trump is headed to DC to meet with House Republicans, he reportedly admitted to still possessing a gun in Florida which could be a violation of his parole and another potential felony, the news that Hunter Biden was found guilty on all three felony counts has put a dent into the MAGA narrative that Joe Biden
Find Hunter guilty on minor things as time runs out on charging him with
much more serious crimes he committed that tie back to father Joe Biden
is controlling the legal system, researchers have made a remarkable discovery while studying elephants, hot dog eating champ Joey Chestnut has been banned from competition this year, the people at a company called Deep Voodoo were able to create a prototype of Jimmy’s A.I. clone for him to talk to, and we sent a crew to Boston to convince loyal Celtics fans to betray their team and root for Dallas in a new edition of Traitor Schmoes. #Kimmel
June 12, 2024: Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Republicans accusing Joe Biden of rigging the courts and weaponizing the justice system by orchestrating a conspiracy to hide his crimes [tied up with his son Hunter, such as corruption, bribes, drugs, and taxes] to steal the election... by having his own son convicted of multiple low level felonies [then acting like he's going to prison for 25 years for ticking the wrong box while high as a mofo].
Did you just call me trash? - No, I said white. - And? - And I mentioned your lovely trailer.
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America’s firearm culture
Some whites sold us guns, and some shot us.
Unique experiences in our heritage have decisively influenced American culture.
As Europeans encountering Native Americans and wiping them out to make room for our settler colonial project, our enslavement of Natives and Blacks, the civil war, and our ascent as the world’s first hyper-superpower. (Move over, England and Rome).
We played with guns as kids, and now we play with them for real aimed at Palestinians.
We are a Christian nation of gun lovers ready to shoot the Darkies. With Jews.
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We can't wait to buy more guns!
However, even this militarized history is not enough to explain why Americans suffer from the worst gun violence in the industrialized world.
Other settler colonial projects have as many guns per capita (such as our neighbor to the north) with only a fraction of the gun crime.
As of 2014, for every 100 Americans there are a staggering 90 privately owned guns. It's worse now.
The mass proliferation of firearms exercises a tyrannical hold over the American imagination.
It is both a cause and an effect of the many social problems afflicting the nation.
With the country in political and ideological gridlock (and add to the mix the vested interests and lobbies with too much business to lose like the NRA or National Rifle Association), how can there be any resolution to the mass proliferation of firearms and US gun crimes?
Look, I'm just like Jewish Jesus but in a flag bikini!
While wars of self-defense and geopolitical deceit are a reality of samsara, it is basically impossible for Buddhism to defend the arms trade in any form.
Guns loom large in our national imagination.
Dealing in weapons, people, poisons, animal flesh, or alcohol are the five kinds of trade the Buddha specifically warned against, labeling them "wrong livelihood," yet this is how so much ill-gotten gain is accrued by people who could care less about accruing terrible unskillful karma.
Look, everybody, look! I'm an "American" like in the movies! Bam bam, bam bam!
My mom got me this jacket, my stepdad this Uzi.
The proliferation of weapons is antithetical to religions that promote peace. When examined from a critical historical perspective, the frontier mentality and the right's Second Amendment’s narrative of maintaining a civilian militia bearing arms turns out to be an oversimplified framing of American history.
I can't believe they give us guns and tell us to kill Natives. We're teens raised on propaganda.
We join for camaraderie and to become desensitized to the dirty desert rats' suffering.
Our settler colonial project is almost complete. Now destroy West Bank, purge Jerusalem!
To be, uh, masculine in Israel and get girls, must be killer with gun exterminating vermin.
Kids, kill for the Fatherland, a Jewish state we can steal. The Bible says they're Amalek.
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Yet it is upheld as the nation's founding myth. The capabilities and symbolism of guns, from plastic pistols (Glocks) to semi-automatic AR-style rifles to modified fully automatic military guns, continue to exert such an irresistible allure that the more deaths that occur from shootings, the higher gun sales rise. More
Instead, the high school student was on stage at an anti-NRA protest directly across the street from the George R. Brown Convention Center, wondering why kids like her had to live in fear of dying in class.
In the future, as in the past, it's shoot and drive
In photo above, protestors Karen Nguyen and Angel Ly engage in a demonstration at Discovery Green against the presence of the NRA in Houston, Friday, May 27, 2022, days after the school mass murder shooting in Uvalde.
“I have to choose to fight for my life in a classroom rather than learn in one. I’m here today, yet again, because people, children, the young and the old, keep getting stolen from us as a direct result of gun violence,” said Chen, the co-executive director of March For Our Lives Houston. More + PHOTOS
"Enough is enough": US students walk out over gun violence: They bowed their heads in honor of the dead. They carried signs with messages like "Never again" and "Am I next?" They railed against the National Rifle Association and the politicians who support it. More + PHOTOS
Murderer by Proxy: weapons dealer in front of his wares practices wrong livelihood
They're Dick's who want you to like 'em, corporate outlets on the side of police state gov't
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How to start a pseudo-revolution
What does it mean to "manufacture consent," to get people to DEMAND the change you actually want? How do you sway opinion? What is propaganda for, and why is there a mainstream corporate media? Scholar Noam Chomsky wrote all about it. Create a crisis, or exploit one that is already happening. Persuade and get consent for what law or change you want enacted. The mainstream media will over focus on it to the exclusion of more pressing but inconvenient news (like the next CIA chief's history of torture as the deputy chief of the CIA).
David Icke saw this happening so much that he wrote a song about it. (Someone put his words to music: "Problem, Reaction, Solution"). Bill Cooper also explained this manipulation. It's called the "Hegelian Dialectic." What is it?
(David Icke) WHAT are they doing to us and WHY?
Foment a problem with a preset solution, and get what you want every time. Our students are spurred on by their teachers, the DNC, school principals, police departments who hate for anybody else to have guns, and even parents to do what the FBI, DHS, and other US clandestine agencies have not been able to do.
What have they not been able to do? They have not yet been able to outlaw all the types of weapons they want. One day citizens will not be able to oppose a police state or any draconian measures the government wants to deploy. This strategy is part 1984 and part Brave New World.
Students, ware are we not demonstrating for peace or protesting the endless US wars we provoke to fuel our permanent-war economy?
Look, everybody, we're "rebels" like Che with uniform t-shirts and everyone's approval!
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Who will complain about curtailed rights, freedoms, or pursuits when we all DEMANDED the government to take them away from us?
The disastrous Patriotic Act and NDAA (McCain, Lieberman, and Obama's Indefinite Detention or in Newspeak, the "National 'Defense' Authorization Act") following on the heels of 9-11 are great examples.
Bombing your own boat and blaming another country is a great (and legalistic) way of starting a war (e.g., the Spanish-American War, WW II, US War on Iraq, US War on Korea, US Ware on Afghanistan, US War on Yemen, US War on Somalia, and coming soon to a recruiting office near you, the US War on Iran and US War on North Korea) you want. If you were to attack first, that would be very illegal.
Noam Chomsky calls it "manufacturing consent." David Icke calls it a "Hegelian dialectic"
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Decades later when it is revealed to have been a false flag operation, something done "in the fog of war," something known about but allowed to happen (like Pearl Harbor), who really will be paying attention? What remedy will there be? Because of fear, people demand more soldiers, police, surveillance, prisons, laws, convictions, incarcerations...then wonder why we don't have as many civil liberties or other freedoms our forebears took for granted.
We claim it's all for "freedom" -- free trade, freedom freedom of speech but not too free, freedom from rights, "free" things we have to pay a high price for.
Are these the high school radicals at work? Hades no! It's the young adults from the Leadership Club, future politicians, the nerds patting themselves on the back for doing something so courageous that no one's stopping them, so brave as acting in their own self interest.
Self interest? Not just ourselves, we're claiming it's to save the honor of those students already sacrificed in this set up by the people who plan these shooting then set up patsy, brainwashed fall-guys on SSRIs with parents mysteriously linked to a military, university, or other quasi-government agency. Ever hear of "MK-Ultra" Look it up, research it.
The Latest: Walkout hits close to home for Nevada students PARKLAND, Florida - Nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence (all times local): 5:50 p.m. The walkouts protesting gun violence at schools across the country hit close to home for students who were attending a middle school in northern Nevada when tragedy hit their campus more than four years ago. More + PHOTOS
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Let's have more FEAR so we can have more school "safety" rules, regulations, metal detectors, barbwire fencing, random spot checks, pat downs, more cops on campus, and so we can arm the teachers and the coaches. And can we also do more lock down drills? Please! It'll make us feel safe. Together, everyone, let's chant:
"What do we want?"
"Police state!"
"When do we want it?"
"NOW! Or very soon, before Trump gets us killed."
Hey, by the way, has anybody called NPR to make sure they're covering this for my Facebook timeline?
In Parkland, Florida, students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday afternoon for the first time inside their school since [the Valentine's Day Massacre of] February 14, 2018.
That was when a 19-year-old former student [and current fall guy patsy] named Nikolas Cruz allegedly walked into the school and opened fire with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, killing 17 people.
This comes as lawmakers return to Capitol Hill today after a one-week vacation. Congress is facing massive pressure to pass gun control measures amid the rise [orchestrated media panic] of an unprecedented youth movement.
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
It is being led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who survived the mass shooting.
Trump has reiterated his calls to arm teachers with concealed weapons. Democracy Now!speaks with The Intercept’s investigative reporter Lee Fang, whose recent piece is entitled “Even as a Student Movement Rises, Gun Manufacturers Are Targeting Young People.” More
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The mass proliferation of firearms exercises a tyrannical hold over the American imagination.
Yet it is upheld as the nation's founding myth. The capabilities and symbolism of guns, from plastic pistols (Glocks) to semi-automatic AR-style rifles to modified fully automatic military guns, continue to exert such an irresistible allure that the more deaths that occur from shootings, the higher gun sales rise. More
