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U.S. elections: A democracy that does not allow opposition

Posted by M. C. on July 23, 2024

The political system of the United States does not allow opposition, even though the majority of citizens want one.

This same apparatus, headed by the U.S. government, usually demands that other countries – especially those that do not accept American interference – hold elections where all candidates have equal opportunities to win. Of course, these demands are just a ruse to force regime change in the countries to be dominated. The American regime itself does not offer any chance for the opposition to win the elections – and does not even accept international observers, just “escorts”.

U.S. elections: A democracy that does not allow opposition

Eduardo Vasco

The U.S. regime considers itself the most democratic in the world. This is what the presidents of the United States have always said from the rooftops, and what their monopolistic communication system has always propagated throughout the world. This has already become common sense, proving one of the most famous Nazi maxims: a lie repeated a thousand times ends up becoming the truth (in the consciousness of the general public).

But how can a system be considered democratic if there are only two parties, which do not differ in any way on the main national and international issues, and which, as many have pointed out for some time, are nothing more than two sides of the same coin?

For the presidential elections in November this year, the script is the same as always: Democratic Party vs. Republican Party. Even though the majority of voters do not agree with the candidacies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as a Reuters/Ipsos survey on January 25 pointed out: “in general, an absolute majority of Americans (52%) are not satisfied with the system of two parties and wants a third choice.”

This feeling is not new today. In 2008, when the presidential elections pitted Barack Obama (D) against John McCain (R), 47% of voters surveyed by Gallup wanted an alternative to Democrats and Republicans. In October 2023, the same institute pointed out that 63% of Americans thought that the two parties do such a “bad job” of popular representation that a third major party is needed.

A third highly prestigious institute in the USA, the Pew Research Center, showed, on April 24, that 49% of voters would replace both Biden and Trump as candidates in these elections, if they had the “ability” to decide who would be the candidate for each party.

Even with such dissatisfaction, which highlights the American people’s opposition to the two-party regime, this opposition does not materialize in a political party with a chance of victory.

Only on eight occasions in U.S. history (the first in 1848 and the last in 1992) has a third candidate won more than 10% of the popular vote. And only in two of them did he manage to be ahead of one of the two main candidates, but never ahead of two, that is, he never managed to get elected. These two third-way exceptions who came in second were John Breckinridge for the Lecompton Democrats in 1860 and Theodore Roosevelt for the Progressive Party in 1912.

For more than a hundred years, Americans have not been given any option other than the Democratic Party candidate or the Republican Party candidate, even though, as polls show, voters demand this third option. But the pulsating U.S. democracy does not respond to the will of its citizens in its most important moment, the presidential election!

In fact, parties and candidates that try to compete with the two-party regime are systematically prevented by the electoral apparatus. Few are able to qualify to appear on electoral ballots, the criteria for which vary by state. Voting intention polls do not mention names other than those of the Democratic candidate and the Republican candidate – very few mention a third or fourth candidate. The press does not report on the activities of the other candidates, nor does it interview them. To participate in the debates promoted by the Presidential Debate Commission, the candidate must have at least 15% of the voting intentions in the polls (how, if his name is even mentioned?) and appear on a sufficient number of ballots to have a chance of winning in the Electoral College.

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Vote For Six-Headed Zombie Hitler To Stop Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler

Posted by M. C. on July 23, 2024

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/vote-for-six-headed-zombie-hitler

Caitlin Johnstone

Jack: So have you given any thought to who you’re going to vote for in November?

Jill: Yeah, I’ve been thinking about it a lot actually. I think I’m gonna sit this one out, or maybe vote third party.

Jack: What?? Don’t you know democracy is on the line this election?? Jill, this is the most important election of our lifetimes!

Jill: Jack they say that every election.

Jack: But this time it’s true, Jill! Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler wants to commit genocide and take over the world!

Jill: So does his opponent, Six-Headed Zombie Hitler.

Jack: Look, I’m not saying Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is perfect, but come on! He’s obviously WAY better than Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler! Sometimes you just have to vote for the lesser evil.

Jill: It’s not even clear to me that Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is meaningfully less evil than Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler, Jack! I mean, Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is really, really evil! What about all that genocide and imperialism he’s been supporting?

Jack: Okay but do you want all that genocide and imperialism to be perpetrated by a Zombie Hitler with even more heads? Just imagine how much worse it could get with that extra Zombie Hitler head added into the mix!

Jill: But Jack, doesn’t it feel kind of silly to even be debating this stuff anymore? At some point don’t we have to stop acting like the election results are the problem, when the real problem is clearly a system that’s so corrupt and undemocratic that it now forces us to choose between being ruled by undead Nazi hydra monsters with six heads or seven heads?

Jack: Jill, now’s not the time. Let’s just focus on getting Six-Headed Zombie Hitler into office, and then we can pressure him from the left to enact the policies we want! We can have our little revolution after we’ve stopped Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler.

Jill: That’s what you say now, but next election cycle they’ll roll out another Zombie Hitler with even more heads and you’ll be saying the same thing.

Jack: There’s a Zombie Hitler with even more than seven heads?? Gosh, Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler doesn’t look so bad anymore!

Jill: See that’s exactly what I’m talking about! This keeps happening! We keep finding ourselves in situations where we have to keep voting for a “lesser evil” who’s more and more evil each election cycle. When I was younger they told us we had to choose the least bad of two corrupt warmongering oligarch puppets who want America to rule the world, then at some point they started telling us we have to choose between two candidates who both literally support genocide, and now we’re seeing presidential races where it’s just a bunch of mad scientists creating Zombie Hitler monsters with more and more heads!

Jack: But Jill—

Jill: Where is the line, Jack?? Where is the line of evil you won’t cross beyond? At what point do you stop supporting evil monsters to defeat other slightly more evil-looking monsters? At what point do you say “Nope, that’s too much evil for me, it’s the system itself that needs to be defeated”?

Jack: I’d definitely never go higher than twelve heads.

Jill: Gah!

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The Size of a 15 minute City and (I’ll Bet) No Cockroaches On The Galley Menu

Posted by M. C. on July 23, 2024

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Chevron will Stop the Catastrophic Failures of the Administrative State

Posted by M. C. on July 23, 2024

The Polite Left Started this Civil War for Personal Gain. The result? The end of Democratic Process, and Impending Economic Collapse

The openness of a society, its willingness to permit creative destruction and the rule of law, appear to be decisive for economic development – Kenneth Arrow, Nobel laureate in economics, 1972, when the Nobel meant something

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/chevron-will-stop-the-catastrophic

elizabeth nickson

Stock market gains shifted Wednesday from Operation Prison Camp to small caps. For the past two years, 90% of the gains have been digital because of the over-arching green-fascist plan to wrench man into an enhanced-human experience in 15 minute cities. The shift is significant because it is a sharp move to the positive. Small caps have massive under-utilized capacity and it is there, and only there that real growth can happen. Since Covid, multinationals, the wedded partners of Agenda 2030, have lost the confidence of the public. No one trusts Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Government any more. The WEF, UN and WHO are hated and rightly distrusted. The digital titans building a digital prison, 15 minute cities and Agenda 2030/50/90, are widely seen as demonic, destructive.

The inexorable repression, the slow squeezing of the human into more a malleable, vegan, bug eating, docile, collectivist robot will not work. We aren’t accepting it. The rage, the anger, the mockery, the ascendance of Trump, of MAGA, of right-wing, anti-government populism all across the world is all down to this. The ideas don’t work. All they do is create anger, rebellion, division, and crime. And depression, drug addiction, women refusing to marry and have children, the direct end of humanity. Why have children when the rest of your life means being squeezed into a smaller and broker version of yourself?

The glitch is here: the polite left, the Ivy educated, the ones who think they know better, have circumvented the constitution, the balance of powers, and created a super-state, an entirely Prussian monster, a throwback to the days of Kings, the Star Chamber and tyranny, an abrogation of all power to themselves. They judge themselves, they never suffer consequences for their failures. Across the board, they have placed themselves above the law.

Their fate will be the same as Charles 1, who tried the same thing, beheaded in public.

Philip Hamburger, America’s acknowledged expert on the Administrative State, and the man who brought down Chevron, points out, “the gain in popular suffrage has been accompanied by disdain for the choices made through a representative system and a corresponding shift of legislative power out of Congress.”

The overturning of Chevron came in the most humble of clothing. In the Atlantic fishery, the government wants to make sure, correctly, that the fishery isn’t being depleted by over-fishing. So the government forced all boats to have a government official on board at all times. This cost $700 a day, paid by the boat owner, and for many it eliminated any profit they might make. The statute was silent as to who paid that bill, and so the government said the fisher paid. No recourse. No other solution.

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State-Media Incest: Karine Jean-Pierre Praises White House Correspondents’ President as ‘Mentor’ and ‘Partner’

Posted by M. C. on July 22, 2024

That role, as KJP inadvertently admitted, has been inverted, as so many others in decaying Western civilization have, so as to turn the WHCA into a sheepdog for the state to heel the compliant journalists under her charge when they stray too far — like when they ask real questions.

By Ben Bartee

The Daily Bell

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

In this, Our Sacred Democracy™, “journalists” tasked with covering the White House work hand-in-glove with the same, functioning as the “mentor” and “partner” of the press secretary, as DEI labradoodle Karine Jean-Pierre recently explained.

Via Whitehouse.gov (emphasis added)

“I want to take a minute to thank Kelly O’Donnell, your outgoing president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.  Kelly, the past year has presented no shortage of news — (laughter) — opportunities, and challenges.  You’ve been a great partner day — day to day here at the White House, and we’ve closely worked together on major events, minor logistics, and travel, both domestic and foreign.

I — I want this room and the many members of the WHCA to know that you have had a trusted ally, friend, and leader in Kelly O.  And you have always — always advocated heartfel- — heart- — heart- — heartedly on behalf of your fellow journalists.  And we are grateful for your service, and we are relieved you will still be on — on the beat here at the White House and in the briefing room.

It has been — it has been a joy.  And — and I have had — I have had the opportunity to know you for some time, even before being at the White House, and I really appreciated, more personally, your guidance, your mentorship in tough times.  And so, thank you so much, Kelly.”

Karine Jean-Pierre, it is well-established fact at this point, is a buffoon. Her predecessors knew better than to let loose such self-incriminating admissions on national television.

The original premise of the White House Correspondents’ Association was, of course, to advocate for journalists in their role of exposing state lies and malfeasance and to ensure full freedom of the same to practice their essential job of checking state power.

That role, as KJP inadvertently admitted, has been inverted,

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The Ascendance of Sociopaths in U.S. Governance

Posted by M. C. on July 22, 2024

What the ascendancy of sociopaths means isn’t an academic question. Throughout history, the question has been a matter of life and death. That’s one reason America grew; every American (or any ex-colonial) has forebears who confronted the issue and decided to uproot themselves to go somewhere with better prospects. The losers were those who delayed thinking about the question until the last minute.

Bush trivialized the concept of evil and made it seem banal because he was such a fool. All the while, real evil, very immediate and powerful, was growing right around him, and he lacked the awareness to see he was fertilizing it by turning the U.S. into a national security state after 9/11.

Originally posted by Doug Casey at International Man:

The Daily Bell

An International Man lives and does business wherever he finds conditions most advantageous, regardless of arbitrary borders. He’s diversified globally, with passports from multiple countries, assets in several jurisdictions, and his residence in yet another. He doesn’t depend absolutely on any country and regards all of them as competitors for his capital and expertise.

Living as an international man has always been an interesting possibility. But few Americans opted for it, since the U.S. used to reward those who settled in and put down roots. In fact, it rewarded them better than any other country in the world, so there was no pressing reason to become an international man.

Things change, however, and being rooted like a plant – at least if you have a choice – is a suboptimal strategy if you wish to not only survive, but prosper. Throughout history, almost every place has at some point become dangerous for those who were stuck there. It may be America’s turn.

For those who can take up the life of an international man, it’s no longer just an interesting lifestyle decision. It has become, at a minimum, an asset saver, and it could be a lifesaver. That said, I understand the hesitation you may feel about taking action; pulling up one’s roots (or at least grafting some of them to a new location) can be almost as traumatic to a man as to a vegetable.

As any intelligent observer surveys the world’s economic and political landscape, he has to be disturbed – even dismayed and a bit frightened – by the gravity and number of problems that mark the horizon. We’re confronted by economic depression, looming financial chaos, serious currency inflation, onerous taxation, crippling regulation, a developing police state, and, worst of all, the prospect of a major war. It seems almost unbelievable that all these things could affect the U.S., which historically has been the land of the free.

How did we get here? An argument can be made that things went bad because of miscalculation, accident, inattention, and the like. Those elements have had a role, but it is minor. Potential catastrophe across the board can’t be the result of happenstance. When things go wrong on a grand scale, it’s not just bad luck or inadvertence. It’s because of serious character flaws in one or many – or even all – of the players.

So is there a root cause of all the problems I’ve cited? If we can find it, it may tell us how we personally can best respond to the problems.

In this article, I’m going to argue that the U.S. government, in particular, has been overrun by the wrong kind of person. It’s a trend that’s been in motion for many years but has now reached a point of no return. In other words, a type of moral rot has become so prevalent that it’s institutional in nature. There is not going to be, therefore, any serious change in the direction in which the U.S. is headed until a genuine crisis topples the existing order. Until then, the trend will accelerate.

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Rare Film of Motorcycle Board Track Racing, Beverly Hills 1921

Posted by M. C. on July 21, 2024

Board Track Racing on the massive wooden super speedways of the 1920s captured on film at the height of motorcycle racing’s Golden Age.

If you never heard of board track racing, now you have. When doing my mowing job as a youth (as opposed to my current mowing job) the carb caught on fire and I didn’t know what to do. A neighbor came out and said “Just rev the engine, it will suck the flame in the carb. When I was board track racing we had to do that all the time.”

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How MotoGP Riders Are Taking Body Position to New EXTREMES

Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2024

Yes! This answers all your questions about lean angle and hard braking!

“Many riders will have some idea of how they can use their bodies for the benefit of performance, particularly when it comes to cornering positions, but in truth, many of those same riders will only be scratching the surface of what the very best are doing. When it comes to using the body to their advantage, modern MotoGP riders are taking things to a whole different level. Not just in how they hang off the bike, but in how they use their bodies through every single section of a given race track. In this video I’m going to highlight 7 key techniques that the very best riders are using, as well as attempting to convey just what it takes to operate at that level.”

Life at Lean

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Don’t Believe the Lies — Trump’s Assassin Is Not Dead

Posted by M. C. on July 19, 2024

By Allan Stevo

The CIA and the US State Department have run dozens of color revolutions all over the world for decades.

We, the American people, did not stop them. We largely looked the other way. In doing so, we enabled them and encouraged them. Sometimes we even cheered them on.

It was only a matter of time before those well-honed skills were turned on us.

Don’t Believe the Lies — Trump’s Assassin Is Not Dead

Media reports suggest that Trump’s would-be assassin is dead.

That is simply not true. Trump’s assassin is not dead.

The name of Trump’s assassin is the CIA. If it is not the CIA proper, it is some similarly vile governmental entity that operates in the shadows to undermine the interests of the American dinner table.

Trump’s assassin is not dead. They are very much alive.

Their patsy is dead. Nothing more.

Yes, their patsy is dead.

They will put tremendous effort into getting us to pay attention to the patsy rather than the real problem.

Don’t be distracted.

They will put tremendous effort into getting us to pay attention to how he was killed and the heroism of it all.

Don’t be distracted.

They will put tremendous effort into getting us to pay attention to anything rather than the real problem.

A comfortable narrative for many right now is this — harsh Democrat talking points caused this assassination attempt. Illegitimate Joe Biden is to blame some will say, or the Squad, or some media lapdog, or sore loser Hillary, or illegitimate Kamala, or some other person that it is easy to dislike. How dare they speak inhumanely about Donald Trump! They led to this assassination attempt.

Don’t be distracted.

Mean talking points didn’t cause this assassination attempt.

The CIA caused this assassination attempt.

And they bungled it.

The CIA and the US State Department have run dozens of color revolutions all over the world for decades.

We, the American people, did not stop them. We largely looked the other way. In doing so, we enabled them and encouraged them. Sometimes we even cheered them on.

It was only a matter of time before those well-honed skills were turned on us.

In 2020, they ran a color revolution on us.

The public is either so clueless or the CIA is so well practiced that at least 90% of the public has no idea that a color revolution was run on them in 2020 by their own government.

You too may have been fooled. You may have never even considered such a thing until this very moment.

Accept it. From December 1, 2019, until January 20, 2021, a color revolution was run on you by your own government that resulted in a successful coup in which the President that the voters preferred and overwhelmingly voted for was removed from power. For four years you have lived under an illegitimate regime put in power by a CIA coup.

Don’t be distracted.

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Off To A Bad Start — J.D. Vance’s Bombastic Threats Against Iran

Posted by M. C. on July 19, 2024

(More) Bad news for Israel.

The Ron Paul Liberty Report

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