Photograph Source: Drug Enforcement Administration – Public Domain
We definitely should not be surprised that this happened. Venezuela is known for that addictive substance, used the world over. The use of this item will most certainly cause the death of untold millions, that much is true. The addiction requires that country to be invaded. Of course, I’m speaking of oil, but the controlled US media will say it’s about Fentanyl. As bizarre as the FIFA Peace Prize: up is down, down is up. If we can’t trust the FIFA Prize, what are we to think of the PEZ Genius Award, the Ramen Noodle New Literature Trophy and the Dr. Pepper Advances in Medicine Medal?
This muddled reality peddling is, of course, nothing new; the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction lie never found anyone to be responsible for the selling of those falsehoods. Colin Powell just became temporarily embarrassed. Hillary Clinton cackled about the death of Libya’s leader by a mob that sodomized him with a knife. A US emboldened knife, of course. Yeah, that guy was weird, as all these leaders are, but Libya was looking to create a pan-African currency and was plotting to remove itself from the petro-dollar stranglehold. That’s what got him killed, not having photos of Condoleezza Rice up on his walls and/or any generalized freakery. The subsequent descent of that nation from one that provided citizens with housing, free college (with stipends), into an open-air slave market was, I guess, funny to Clinton. Break things and plunder. America just looks forward and, like a dog kicking dirt on its last crap, runs to the next adventure, consequences be damned.
I won’t say that this time doesn’t feel a bit different and far more severe, however. Instead of the old method of toppling nations in a more sporadic fashion, this feels like a prelude to something much more massive. All of the American misbehavior we are used to is now on steroids, or if you will, on Pervitin. We have the current regime players putting pictures of Greenland on social media with US flags on top of it and the heading “Soon” by the nation. We have Rubio threatening Cuba that they are in hot water. We have Trump commenting that the leader of Mexico isn’t really in charge of her country, implying we should do something about it. My God, we can’t even keep our people on healthcare in this country, yet we can multi-task and threaten all of these nations and their leaders?
Things are not looking good here in the United States. We have so many homeless students that school districts are having to open up their parking lots for the kids and their parents to sleep in cars. We have a declining life expectancy. Many young people don’t even want to have children because one: They can’t afford them and two: They can’t imagine bringing them into a world so completely fucked up. And this is a nation that thinks it has the green light to move in to take over other countries? It’s as if you move every time your house gets dirty. This is filthy and deranged behavior.
One very bizarre aspect of this oligo-corporate kakistocracy is the fact that nothing is really being offered to the citizens. When we are speaking of the kind of funds it takes to prop up billionaires and to perform international take-overs of nations…you’d think there would be some chump change to toss at the masses to keep them fed, housed, and quiet. It’s not like the resources don’t exist. It’s as if Bezos didn’t have his funds from the month of June. His life wouldn’t change one bit. He would still have more than he could ever spend. The scarcity lie is just that–a lie. At some point, you have to wonder if cruelty isn’t the point. Those who revel in harming children probably low key get off on making vast numbers of people suffer as well. I think those of us with functioning empathy have completely underestimated the evil that simmers in so many of the rich and powerful. We are woefully unprepared for such enemies.
The fact that they are leading the citizens to such suffering might be their Achilles’ heel, however. People can turn a blind eye to many atrocities if they are comfortable, but this new paradigm does not even afford basic necessities. Americans watch ballrooms be built; they see filler-faced nightmare people oozing about, moving around in their private jets while watching loved ones fall deeper into debt and despair. They see international fiascos that they were told would be a thing of the past by Trump. I would say that isn’t sustainable. And all of this in a setting of…pedophilia ring cover-ups. The corruption and filth run deep.
This is a mask-off event, if you will. There isn’t even the slightest bit of subtlety. Those being told the economy is fine know they are broke when they try to purchase their groceries. They know their relative in the armed forces is being forced to be involved in foreign plunder, but barely gets by. Even the dimmest-witted of individuals will know the situation is wrong, even if they have no clue exactly who to blame. This is probably why we see such a rapid push to completely tighten up the news sources to all be a Pravda-style state media. Bari Weiss isn’t there for ratings, that’s for sure. The nation’s leaders are fine with an underfed and angry populace as long as they have no clue who to blame.
But word gets out…and a situation such as this is simply unsustainable, even for a FIFA Peace Award winner.
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