He doesn’t know.

A collosal injustice, even if you don’t think killing two FBI agents was justified.

(Apologies if I over simplify, buts it’s been a long long time since I read about this and am going off memory)

The extradition and a decent chunk of thr trial was a fucking sham, full of false confessions and fake statements that the court pulled nonsensical shit to make stick (eg a ‘witness’ statement was deemed accurate and reliable, but the witness who gave it claimed they were coerced and did not say that, but their claims were not allowed to be heard because thr court said they were ‘mentally unfit’ only when disputing the false confession).

And anyone who’s given the details of the shootout ever a cursory read knows the FBI story is bullshit and it was almost certainly self-defense. The two agents killed lied about the vehicle description, lied about who they were following, lied about who shot first on the radio calling for backup and had pulled up on Peltier and the others in the truck, on private property, in two separate unmarked cars, seemingly because of his position in AIM and because he’d refused to help hand over Jimmy Eagle the previous day. They were out for payback.

And keep in mind they wanted Jimmy Eagle primarily for the high crime of a supposed theft of a pair of cowboy boots from local ranchers who already had issues with the indigenous communities.

Bullshit from top to bottom.

Still, he’s alive and they aren’t, which clearly wasn’t their plan.

Hmm, I wonder why American and European aircraft manufacturers might have gotten so desperate as to use ‘fake titanium’ in the last few years?

his advisers prepping him too hard for the debate

This is the one bit I think is true, and picked up on during thr debate itself as he garbled what we’re probably weirdly specific talking points together in the worst ways.

But that’s not an out.

That means that even with six days worth of practice he can’t learn and recall maybe two dozens facts and responses, with no ability whatsoever to think on his feet, or even the self awareness to realise to just avoid bit and give a generic answer.

Forgetting isn’t the worst part. It happens to people with memory loss and dementia (although it should definitely rule younout of being president). Snippets of memories and ideas firing and being blurted out uncontrollably with no self-awareness or recognition that it’s gibberish the biggest fucking issue.

A 95 year old neighbour with dementia that requires three times a day at home care, plus family every day, and me nost other days, is more together than that because they still know when they’ve lost what they were saying or forgotten who they’re talking to etc.

The fact that advisors etc believed or were hoping they could prep around such a deteriorated mental state means they’re almost as delusional as he is, but the difference is they should know better.

Zionists are almost universally full of shit, so you probably shouldn’t expect a breakthrough but…

Gaza was home to some of oldest churches and gravesites in the world - many from all religions, not just Muslim ones. Israel has destroyed them all in their bombing.

When IDF troops discovered a perfectly taken care of cemetery, with many graves of WW1 deceased including many Jewish graves featuring stars of David and other religious iconography they were shocked. Shocked enough it spawned dozens of articles in Israel and the West which are easily searchable.

Meanwhile, Israel has been systematically desecrating dozens of cemeteries in Gaza, including bulldozing them, removing bodies so their relatives can’t visit them, and allegations of desecrating bodies. Again, all of this has been reported in the Western press uncluding the likes of CNN.

So if you’re really so inclined, ask him who in this conflict seems to be respecting culture, history, and the dead.

After years of stonewalled investigations and evidence hiding/destruction, a public enquiry in the UK into SAS murders and executions of unarmed civilians in Afghanistan has been given a cache of records and evidence.

After years of trying to stop the investigation, the armed forces had a private contract delete the data during ‘data migration’ just days before being forced to hand it over. Now it seems there was a backup system after all.

Better late than never, you could argue, but that ignores the fact that in the last couple of years both Labour and the Tories alike have passed bills specifically designed to provide increased defense and even immunity from prosecution for soldiers committing war crimes abroad. So it may well be tactically timed.

BBC Article here

Not just that. Let’s do mass killings to free up space for more. This is unreservedly, unashamedly exterminationist.

Exactly. It’s not about ‘democracy’. It’s about the right building a fortress within power structure of the country that excludes the bipartisan/democrat lanyard class.

This has been my nagging suspicion about the sudden calling of the UK election too.

Rishi’s always been off for ridiculously paid board job, likely in finance around silicon valley, but the way it was called - the seemingly deliberately terrible optics, barely campaigning, completely fucking over much of the Tory party feels like more than just a fuck you to colleagues who didn’t respect him and the racists in the party.

For the actual deep establishment of the UK (military, intelligence, billionaire class) this has always been a planned handover of power, but I think the urgency came not just from Rishi’s spite but this class’ concern that the Tories were going to complicate it with a vote of no confidence and end up having an election right when overlapping crisis hit - economic spiralling, food and produce shortages, and likely the UK stepping up involvement in at least Ukraine and maybe Israel etc.

It’s been well known that Rishi never wanted to be a wartime PM despite his tough on Russia posturing. He’s been criticised for it by Tory insiders since becoming PM basically. Then you’ve had the recent increase in official visits, defence conference panels, and meetings with Azov, the Ukrainian military, and associated defense industry people not just in the commons, often to a Labour-heavy audience, but even directly with Starmer’s Labour party even instead of the current government. So I do wonder if the establishment basically called time on Rishi because they needed the safe, controlled pair of hands of Starmer high on a Labour victory in place before the escalation happens.

Interestingly, a Tory MP said something very similar on a podcast recently; about the UK planning a much more ‘visible’ role directly in the Ukraine war for the end of the summer/autumn that wouldn’t be able to be half-hidden from the public. But he’s also kind of a crank when it comes to a lot of right-wing conspiracy stuff like ‘Covid totalitarianism’ so who knows what that’s worth.

This is partly why I suspect that this might be a generational factionalism in the Democratic machinery.

The old(est) guard and the functionally apolitical consultant/finance lanyards who honestly do just as well or better when the dems aren’t in power. With the young(er) generation and B-tier of operatives now realising that the damage being done, to the party and the recent supreme court decision etc, might be too much to simply wait for their turn

In a way, it feels like it mirrors some of the divisions within the capital class itself. There’s the bullish types who basically seem to accept that growth and the climate are fucked, and are now trying to rip the copper wiring out of the walls of the global economy while they can since they likely won’t be around when it tips into collapse. And then there’s the equally self-interested ‘activist’ capital class looking to keep the game going with green tech and new models for economic extraction etc because they want their gilded age too but know the old models won’t last long enought for them to get theirs.

Time for some private jets to go missing and never be recovered MH370 style.

Watching my partner play through this in the early days of the first Covid lockdown here was a fucking surreal but kind of hauntingly perfect experience. Kojima is basically this era’s Nostradamus.

I am the deer that doesn’t know what’s happening but is fixated because sparkly.

I was just about to use this example. Not only that, but many politicians (never mind the public) asked at the time didn’t even know that the Governor General and said powers even existed at the time. He had, however, been on the CIA’s payroll for some time.

The British Royal Navy will claim that one of its vessels was hit and almost sunk by the Houthis. It will quickly be revealed that it was crashed into by another British Royal Navy vessel operating in the area. The Houthis will post a barrage of memes about it and the accident will cost the hundreds of millions and it’s ability to continue its support of the mission.

Azov/Right Sector accidentally release definitive proof that they fired on their own citizens during the Maidan after footage of it is included as B-roll for a pro-Ukraine propaganda video shared all over the internet by NAFO accounts.

TikTok gets sold to a US group who immediately destroy it with obvious and smothering propaganda and moderation that makes posting anything difficult. It hemorrhages users for a month or two. And then China relaunches Musical.ly which grows exponentially and absolutely dominates again.

The UK is dragged into the war by hawks and defence industry goons in a newly elected Labour government under Keir Starmer.

Trump then wins the election and begins a withdrawal of support, money, and troops by the US, leaving us in the lurch.

Russia hits some UK military targets abroad and maybe does some cyber attacks here, which will enrage the defense folks but the not the public, just to remind us were a yapping little dog without the US.

Suddenly there will be an embarrassing climb down and U-turn as we pivot to supporting a peace agreement rather than getting our shit kicked in without full US backing.

@Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml We also have an emoji for it from a stage version…