Eclairé a Pensé

Written October 15, 2023…

Regardless of what people feel about what Hamas did this past week, if they are not looking at the full context of the situation over the past several decades, then they are completely misinformed, willfully ignorant and being manipulated to react solely to what Hamas did, but not to what Israel has been doing with impunity for years. And it does not justify in any way, shape or form the horrific human rights atrocities that this brutal, right-wing apartheid regime is currently committing in response to the attack. Or all the atrocities they have committed that led to this situation in the first place. Israel’s right to defend itself against the killing of 1,200 innocent Israelis does not mean that they have the right to potentially kill or displace 2 million also-innocent people.

Norman Finkelstein recently pointed out that if Americans knew what has truly been going on in Gaza and the West Bank, they would look at this entire situation with a much different perspective. But decades of pro-Israeli propaganda has been designed to make sure most people never know the complex truth.

Also keep in mind that some of the more alarming stories that have come out in recent days, that were attributed to Hamas, turned out to be totally fabricated. And they were splashed across every mainstream media outlet in order to manufacture consent for the atrocities that Israel would be soon committing. And the United States’ head purveyor of “fake news” was spreading these lies, only to have the White House have to walk back his comments. That doesn’t mean you have to support Hamas, but do not make them out to be the sole bad guy in this story. And do not equate the Palestinian people with Hamas. That would be like equating every American with our corrupt, warmongering government. And speaking of which, let’s not forget our own government’s complicity in all of this over the past several decades. We have allowed the Israeli government to act brutally with total impunity. And we are assisting them now in their demented agenda of ethnic cleansing. Our hands are 100% dirty in this horror.

And it doesn’t make you anti-Semitic to simply call out Israel’s blatant war crimes. If this situation was completely reversed all these years, I damn well would be calling out the Palestinians and sticking up for the Israelis. So we need to stop with that ridiculous smear tactic. It is only used to shut down criticism of their brutality. Calling out Saudi Arabia’s war crimes does not make you anti-Muslim. Calling out the CIA’s war crimes does not make you anti-American. It simply makes you anti-atrocity.

I am happy to see protests going on in America, Britain, and even Israel against Netanyahu and his evil, racist henchmen. This warmongering lunatic needs to be tried at The Hague for his many blatant war crimes. If any leader is “another Hitler” it most assuredly is Netanyahu. He is the most dangerous man on this earth, and may very well drag everyone into World War III. He needs to be stopped once and for all. My hope is that he is going to overplay his hand this time, and hopefully be taken down for good. In the meantime, though, many innocent Palestinians are going to suffer in the most brutal of ways. And let us not forget that there are 2 million people living in Gaza, and exactly half of them are children. And they need to stop being demonized. They are not the subhuman “animals” that the racist Israeli government have portrayed them as being. They are human beings like all the rest of us, and need to be treated with dignity, compassion and respect. They also need to stop being slaughtered. The entire world needs to stand up for them, now more than ever.

Written Oct. 1, 2023…

To believe that Canada would honor an evil Nazi war criminal inside the halls of Parliament, and Trudeau, Zelensky, Rota, Freeland, German ambassador Sabine Sparwasser, and probably every member of Parliament, would not know who this guy was that they were applauding and cheering, is an insult to anyone with even the slightest semblance of a working brain. Of course, the guy was fully vetted beforehand. There is absolutely no way he wasn’t.

They knew damn well who this monster was, and they applauded him anyhow, and thought they could get away with it. And if some of them did not know who he was, the fact that he was described as fighting the Russians during WWII should have been a huge tip-off. I mean, let’s see… who were the Russians mostly fighting during WWII? Oh, the Nazis! But of course, it’s okay to now cheer for evil Nazis as long as they were fighting Russia, because the goal these days is to demonize Russians as subhuman monsters from another galaxy. The same thing that the Nazis did with the Jews, by the way. Oh, the irony!

And Nazi Trudeau’s pathetic bullshit “apology” named off all the people that his actions (which he took no blame for, by the way) insulted, but conspicuously left off one huge faction of people that died because of the Nazis: Namely the millions of Russians that were fighting these monsters. But he couldn’t mention them, of course, because that would humanize “subhumans.” And the past several years have shown us that Russia must be blamed for every single horrible thing that goes on in the world at all times. And they must be erased from history. We must believe that the Soviet Union barely accomplished anything during WWII, and it was the United States, in true Hollywood fashion, that saved the world single-handedly.

Funny how it took Nazi Trudeau a couple of days to finally offer his feeble non-apologetic “apology,” and he immediately went into his “blame Russia” flex. Because obviously evil Putin put a spell over everyone at Parliament that day, and got them all to honor someone they would have never honored otherwise. And funny how I haven’t heard a word from dictator Zelensky. Gee, I thought he was Jewish? I thought he would never, ever cheer for or collaborate with Nazis. Isn’t that what we hear every single day on the corporate media? But there was the former comedian and actor raising a fist of undeniable approval for a brutal SS Nazi.

I also haven’t heard outrage from Parliament members for supposedly being “duped” into cheering for a Nazi. Funny how none of them walked out at that very moment like what happened in Greece awhile back.

And by the way, where is the outrage from our own government? Nothing but crickets. We can’t acknowledge this or it would open up a huge can of worms for our complicit government and sycophantic media. Let us not forget that America and Canada and England (among others) are arming and training the pro-Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine. That is what your tax dollars are going for, which is making a hell of a lot of money for Raytheon and the rest of the death merchants, and bringing us closer and closer to World War III, led by a demented warmongering Alzheimer’s patient in the White House.

But if you still think this is about Ukraine fighting the big evil red menace, or that Trudeau and Zelensky just made a simple gaffe in their cheering for an OG Nazi, then the propaganda and brainwashing has done its job. You will literally fall for anything, including to keep falling for this Ukraine War scam. And you will no doubt fall for the next scam war in Taiwan, which is just around the corner.

Meanwhile, Nazi Trudeau needs to resign in disgrace, and nobody should ever forget the shameful spectacle of what happened in the “hallowed” halls of Parliament. An evil man was celebrated. He might be 98 years old now, but that doesn’t take away from what him, and millions of others, did many years ago in the name of a demented devil like Hitler. And also keep in mind that some in the Canadian government wanted this incident stricken from the official record, as if it never happened, but thankfully, their disgraceful display will be remembered. And let us not forget the U.S. and Canada’s long shameful history of dealing with Nazis in general.

If Hitler existed now, and was fighting Russia, there is no doubt that the United States, Canada and England would be on the same side as Hitler, and each of our governments and sycophantic media talking heads would be gaslighting the world about what Hitler is doing to Jews. They would say that he has committed a few sins against them, but don’t you believe for a second all those stories about concentration camps and ovens. It’s all just “Russian disinformation.” They would be trying to put the focus solely on Putin and the Russians. And if they have to “condemn” Hitler at a later date, when it’s more politically convenient to do so, then so be it.

And if you don’t believe that would happen, well, I never thought I would live to see the day that an OG Nazi would be getting honored in the West, right out in the open, but this is the demented world we now live in. Even during a time where literally nothing surprises me anymore, this disgraceful spectacle was truly beyond the pale.

Every single waking second for about four years, Americans were bombarded with a constant stream of anti-Russian propaganda and red-baiting in order to get every one of us fearing and hating Putin and the Russian government with every fiber of our being. It was all because of a ridiculous hoax called Russiagate. They wanted us to believe that Russia was to blame for every single problem that our country faces, and every other problem around the world. If you believed them, you would think Putin was literally everywhere every second. And all of this propaganda was designed to make you think that all Russians are evil subhumans. We hadn’t seen this kind of anti-Russian sentiment in decades.

Then they switched off of that, and spent every single waking second for the past two years designed to make you fear leaving your house, or ever breathing in fresh air or going near another human. Lock yourself in your house and be afraid.

Now, suddenly you can take your mask off and go back to work. So now it’s time to bring back the anti-Russia hysteria and ramp it up to a thousand. There is so much hysteria coming from our government and media, that I don’t see how it is at all possible to ever again have any kind of meaningful dialogue between our two nations. I don’t see how there is any chance of detente. I don’t see how nuclear war will ever be avoided, when our government looks at any kind of dialogue with Putin as something that should be avoided at all costs. We must isolate every single Russian on the planet, and cut them off from ever being a part of society again. This evil site even now allows you to promote violence towards every Russian. This is what the world has descended to. And this campaign is working, because once again Americans are being brainwashed into believing that Putin is worse than Hitler, and is hellbent on destroying the universe.

I have almost no faith that we will avoid World War III, when we have warmongering lunatics running this world, who profit off of war, and thrive on fear-mongering everyone, and silencing all those that refuse to look at Russia as evil subhuman monsters.

I didn’t buy into this nonsense decades ago, and I don’t buy into it now. But I do fear what our own leaders are capable of, and I don’t think there is any chance of calmer heads prevailing. They will just be smeared as “Putin puppets.” How the hell can you achieve peace in an environment this toxic?

I try to hold out hope, but everyday I see the world spinning more and more out of control, and everyone seems hellbent on walking right into the arms of nuclear annihilation. I refuse to be fear-mongered and driven to hating people on the other side of the world, because some warmongering lunatics in this country tell me that I should. I will fight that with every breath I have. Peace is the only way through this. War will surely be the end of civilization as we know it. I choose peace. It is literally the only sane choice in a world of increasing insanity.

Written Oct. 17, 2020…

I will explain this one… more… time. I despise Trump. I despise Biden. I will not vote for one to get rid of the other. That is never going to happen. I already know who I am voting for and it is absolutely not either one of these clowns. It is not my fault that we live in a country with such a screwed-up system that one of these two racist, corrupt pieces of shit has to win. Our vote doesn’t even count anyhow, so my voting is just a completely pointless, symbolic gesture. I had not even planned on voting at all this year because I feel that my vote is only helping to prop up this fraudulent, undemocratic election process that we have. But I am thinking I might vote regardless. And the Electoral College will decide this election. Biden will easily win my state, so it does not matter one bit whether I vote for him or Trump or somebody else. Biden will win the electoral votes for my state. Another vote in his total column won’t change the overall outcome one single bit. That is how our screwed-up system works. People don’t seem to get this. Biden will more than likely get more popular votes than Trump, if everything we hear is even remotely correct. But that is not going to be the thing that decides if he wins. It’s the Electoral College. In theory, Biden could get 10 million more votes and still lose. Or Trump could get 10 million more votes, and still lose. Trump winning in 2016 had absolutely nothing to do with me not voting for Hillary. It had everything to do with the Electoral College. You could blame many other factors, but the technical reason was that, and that alone.

If you want to say that I am “helping” Trump by not voting for Biden, so be it. Since Biden apparently is way ahead in the polls, then actually I am “helping” Biden by not voting for Trump — if you want to use that kind of “logic.” But in actual fact, I am not doing either. I am simply voting for the only candidate in this race whose agenda I can get behind. And I don’t even know if that vote will be considered legitimate. It’s not anybody’s business who I vote for, nor is it my business who you vote for. Vote for whoever you want. Don’t vote at all. That’s your decision and yours only. If people want to blame me for the next 4 years because either one of these assholes got into office, then so be it. My conscience is perfectly clear, just as it was after the 2016 election. I know exactly the kind of president Biden will be (based on his 50 horrible years in office), and I want no part of that. Do not mistake that for one second, though, that that means I want four more years of Trump. I absolutely do not. But if that is how you want to interpret it, then there is nothing else I can say. But you will never change my mind by voter-shaming me. I don’t do “lesser evil” voting. I don’t do fear-based voting. And I refuse to vote “against” something. I only vote “for” something, or I won’t vote at all. That is how I have always been, and that will never change. Many times I have ended up regretting the person I voted for, since they turned out to be the exact opposite of what I had hoped. But my vote for them was done with good intentions. If you want to vote out of a place of fear, then go ahead. I refuse to vote for something I despise just to get rid of something else I despise. I see no worth in that. That is how we ended up in the mess we are in in the first place. And as long as we keep voting this “lesser evil,” the greater evil is going to get worse and worse over time.

Some can’t see beyond Trump and his buffoonish antics. I see an entire system that is evil and corrupt. Trump is not the problem. He is a symptom of that problem. Our horrible system is why a con man like this was able to con his way into office. But returning to the status quo of what led us to Trump in the first place is what is going to lead us to far-worse Trumps in the future. But if people want to keep going for these momentary “fixes” that do not fix a single thing, and only make things worse in the long run, then don’t say I didn’t warn you when things are much worse over the next 5-10 years. This country has been going downhill my entire life. That didn’t start with Trump. He certainly did nothing to make us “great” again, but that downward spiral will continue long after this buffoon is out of office.

I have never been a Republican, and I was only a Democrat for a few short months in my life. I don’t owe my vote to either one of these corrupt, warmongering right-wing parties. They both answer to the same donors. They both want the same things. They just pretend to be different to fool the American people. Some of us are no longer being fooled by that charade. Never again in my life will I vote Democrat, or Republican for that matter.

That is all I am going to say about this. I am getting sick and tired of people accusing me of supporting one over the other. I do not support either, and never will. I am not going to vote for someone who doesn’t represent my values, my beliefs or what I want to see done for this country, in order to make someone else happy. If people still don’t understand, then so be it. None of us should even have to explain why we vote for a particular candidate. It’s my vote, my choice — your vote, your choice.

Written Jan. 30, 2019…

I have never bought into the ridiculous argument that anyone who wants to run for President, must do so within the Democratic or Republican parties. People should be allowed to run as whatever they want. If you think otherwise, then don’t tell me how much you care about democracy, because you clearly want less democracy, not more. And when you say, that person will be “taking votes away” from either party, it just seems incredibly arrogant to think that those two main parties are somehow deserving of those votes. Remember: I don’t owe anyone or any party my vote. It’s up to them to win me over, not for me to blindly give them my vote. The Democrats, especially, believe that it is their God-given right to your vote. And people like Rob Reiner don’t believe that the Democrats should have to do anything to earn that vote. You should just give it to them unquestioningly, because, if not, then it’s all “your fault” if the other side wins. No, that’s not how it works, Rob. That is just classic gaslighting and bullying tactics. There is perhaps maybe one Democrat, if that, that I would even remotely consider voting for. The rest of them could drop off the earth for all I care. I have zero use for them.

So all this screaming and yelling about billionaire CEO Howard Schultz potentially “stealing” votes away from Democrats is utter nonsense. First off, I doubt he will get many votes because he’s just another greedy billionaire novice who arrogantly thinks he can just jump over all the other political offices that he’s never run for and go straight to the biggest job in the world. Secondly, he doesn’t owe anyone a damn thing, as far as how he wants to run, and neither does anyone who votes for him. If you don’t want people to vote for him, then come up with a better platform than his. Simple as that. The same goes if you want to stop the Green Party from “taking away” votes from your party – which I guarantee you would never get anyhow, if the Greens weren’t around.

I think Schultz should run however the hell he wants to run. If he takes away votes from the Democrats, then that is on them – not him. You have obviously not won over those people whose votes he has “stolen.” Just because I think he is as woefully unqualified for the Oval Office as Trump, doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have the right to run if he chooses. However, I think he’s bullshitting people if he wants anyone to think he is some rebel “free thinker” by not running as a Dem, when, in reality, he is a centrist Democrat through and through. The only reason he’s running as an independent is because he knows he doesn’t stand a chance of becoming the Democratic nominee, so he figures he can just skip over all that, and buy his way to the next round. He can pretend that he’s not the same as the Democrats or the Republicans, when he is, in fact, exactly the same. He’s just another out-of-touch billionaire with no charisma and nothing to offer. But if he can jump over the primaries and shoot straight to the general election, then he figures you’ll have no choice but to take him seriously. He’s a centrist Democrat and always has been. He has nothing unique to offer from what other centrist Dems will offer, and so to not run as a Dem is a simply a cowardly, cynical move. But like I said, he has the right to run however he chooses. And we have the right to give him our vote – or not.

Written Jan. 12, 2019…

I would never tell people who to vote or not vote for. Nor would I tell them whether they should vote at all. That’s up to them.

But I do believe that voting has become mostly a waste of time and energy. When I hear people say that we need to vote out all the bad politicians, all I can do is laugh. We vote year in and year out and nothing ever gets better. In fact, it just keeps getting worse and worse. You can’t simply vote out corruption. The establishment has rigged the entire system in order to make sure that you can’t just simply get rid of them. Our system is so thoroughly corrupt to the core that you can’t fix a completely broken system. People keep living under the illusion that we still live in a democracy, where we hold legitimate elections. The 2016 Democratic primary proved that voting doesn’t matter. The DNC staged a coup for Hillary through their constant rigging and cheating. The establishment still pretends that she won legitimately. So does the person whose supporters were cheated. And many of those supporters also think that next time will somehow be different, even though nothing has changed.

Do I believe the same thing will happen again in 2020? There’s not the slightest doubt in my mind. Unless we start seriously calling out election fraud, it will just keep happening in election after election. And our taking part in this charade just gives legitimacy to a system that is completely illegitimate. And it solves nothing. I guarantee the next president of the United States will be another pro-establishment neoliberal disaster.

We also have to take into account that millions of American voters (whether they are conservatives, centrists, progressives, or libertarians) constantly keep voting for the lesser of 2 evils, and then cannot for the life of them figure out why things just keep spiraling further and further downwards. They are perfectly content with accepting crumbs that politicians throw at us, and don’t seem to demand more. They will vote for politicians that take money from special interests, and then wonder why those politicians are not working on their behalf.

We also need to get away from this “cult of personality” obsession we have with politicians. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Trump or Bernie or Hillary or Obama. Once people fall under their spell, they start suffering from cognitive dissonance. These politicians can do no wrong in their eyes, no matter how many things you point out to them that prove they are not really who they claim to be. Just like when people choose a party to vote for, they just vote blindly for that party forevermore. It doesn’t matter if the party no longer stands for anything they claim to stand for themselves, they just keep voting for them without question. It gets to be about nothing more than “we gotta beat the other team.”

I think politics has become a complete joke in this country, and so has voting. Am I saying I’ll never vote again? No, but I seriously have to question the sanity of it, and whether I want to keep engaging in this endless charade.

Written Oct. 24, 2018…

The fact that absolutely nothing will ever come of this Mueller investigation that has been going on for two years now means there was never anything there in the first place. Do you really think that if Russian collusion between Trump and Putin had existed, and they found definitive proof of it, that they wouldn’t reveal it to the American people? Especially after they have been pushing this conspiracy theory 24/7 for the past two years.

There never was anything there, and the Democrats knew that from the beginning, because they are the ones that started this ridiculous conspiracy theory. You have to be completely blind to not see that this was nothing but a humongous smokescreen to:

1. cover for the fact that Hillary cheated Bernie and to keep the focus instead on Trump’s alleged “cheating” (with no actual proof of such),
2. to cover for Hillary losing to the most beatable, despised candidate in the history of mankind,
3. take away more of our rights through social media censorship – they didn’t like us sharing negative facts about Hillary and the Dems and want to make sure they stop us from continuing to do so in the future,
4. justify ramping up aggression against Russia, by using Iraq WMD-style propaganda that they hacked our election (with no actual proof to back it up),
5. justify going after WikiLeaks by smearing them, which in turn will hopefully scare other journalists and whistleblowers from exposing government corruption.
6. cover for the fact that Hillary illegally funneled money that was supposed to be raised for down-ballot races and instead went straight to her own campaign.

The goal of Russiagate was never to actually impeach Trump (though that might have been a bonus for them if it had happened), but to instead impose censorship on all of those that call out both sides of the establishment, as well as to take the blame off the Dems (now they can use “Russian meddling” indefinitely as their go-to excuse for losing), and use this as an excuse to resurrect the Cold War and ramp up aggression worldwide in order to make billions more for war manufacturers. It also got higher ratings for a corporate media that fewer people trust than ever before. Rachel Maddow, the leading McCarthyist in this whole disgusting charade, will surely spin this in some kind of positive light, or else have her followers thinking that justice was simply not served. She, however, can never come out and actually admit to her viewers that she was merely blowing smoke up their ass for two entire years. Maybe now, though, she will have no choice but to actually report on the horrible things Trump actually does, as opposed to reporting things he didn’t do.

Russiagate was the con of the century. And millions fell for it hook, line and sinker – just like they did with the Iraq WMD fiasco narrative. And those of us that didn’t fall for it, we are the ones that will suffer the most from it. I would love to laugh hysterically and scream, “I told you so!” for the next year, but honestly, I am more disgusted, outraged, saddened and fearful than anything else. I fear the repercussions of this will reverberate for years to come. And this sewed division not just between the Hillary and Trump crowd, but even among progressives that didn’t vote for either. It has caused many so-called “progressives” to fall for establishment narratives that they should be too smart to be falling for. Part of that reason is that Bernie keeps pushing this Russiagate nonsense as much as anyone, which makes you have to seriously consider the fact that he may have been in on this whole charade from the beginning – which would explain why he never called out the cheating that took place against his supporters.

And Russiagate got our nation even more divided and angry and blaming each other than it already was – which is exactly what the elites hoped for. They want us all fighting amongst ourselves and lashing out wildly at each other, while they continue to screw us over.

Nicely played, America. You made fools of us all yet again.