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This post also helps explain the fanatical hatred of Trump, and the easy willingness to go after him with lawfare cases based on little more than hot air. It's not just that Trump has views counter to the elites, but he actually IS an elite. And hence, a traitor to their class. This enrages them. That a once iconic New York City billionaire should somehow end up the champion of the proles is basically inconceivable. This is why so much of the rage against Trump is mindless sputtering. And for the love of god he likes his steaks well done and eats them with ketchup!

So yes, our lovely elites will stop at NOTHING to stop Trump and rid him from their sight for good. The only thing that surprises me is that they haven't managed it just yet. But they will, one way or another.

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From reading Plutarch and some other ancient writers, I see that members of the elite who were excluded by their own class have long turned to the proletariat to build a power base. So this is nothing new.

We are fortunate that so much of the elite hates Trump, because that inspires him to speak for the common man when no other members of the elite will.

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Well said, I have always considered it a blessing that they hate him.

In the worst case, we get accountability as God intended.

In the best case a staunch and unrelenting ally to bring us victory after maddening victory if only to humiliate them.

It just seems like the ideal example of the American system working to benefit the people.

In that same line of reasoning my blood went cold thinking of biden.

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I think most of that is correct other than the fact that Trump isn't really interested in helping us proles out in any remotely genuine economic sense when the calculus also includes ways to enrich himself and the 1%. I suppose that's better than Biden and the Democrats, with their turn toward Wall Street and away from Main Street starting (or getting on steroids) with Clinton. About the only things in Trump's platform I can think of that'd help a guy like me out is possibly re-patriating manufacturing, but he's largely responsible for the border crisis in terms of root cause because prior to a couple years ago there were almost zero Venezuelan immigrants at the US Mexico border and now they make up the vast majority due to his economic warfare on that country. No wall is capable of keeping that many people out unless it's equipped with gun turrets and/or electrified. Needless to say Biden is just as bad as he has done little to nothing to lift the sanctions. To put it another way, Trump is also an imperialist and it's imperialist policies abroad that cause illegal immigrants to want to come here in the first place.

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Trump is definitely not interested in helping out the wage slaves, but at least he doesn't prance around acting like he's che Guevara while letting the billionaires have their way with us. The Dems are disgusting fakes!

Meanwhile, Genocide Joe and most Dems just love murdering scores of women and children. That's naked ass imperialism for you right there.

Point is: were on our own. Never trust anyone from either imperial party. Start your own group with folks you know who also hate imperialism. Build a parallel government of the people from the ground up and smash these bastards. You can call it the wage slave party. No rich scum allowed!

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Mar 4·edited Mar 4

See my comment below, blindness is a condition of the mind in a person who is capable of seeing; but is unwilling to see the error of their reasoning through factual proof, fully available if the "seeing blind" people are prepared to forgo their dogma of contempt and do their research.

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Notably in both comments you failed to provide evidence for your name calling ad hominem insult laden assertions that Trump helped the working common man. See my comment below. I have people all over the US including coal and steel country and Trump didn't benefit any of us. I think you're projecting when you call us blind and you must be a day trader or part of the "investor class" if Trump's policies directly benefited you.

And I forgot to mention that Trump set the stage for the Genocide Joe's approach to Israel and Gaza by moving the embassy to Jerusalem and signaling to them through the bogus Abraham Accords that they had a green light to proceed down the path of defacing that mosque which would obviously lead to more strife not less, and assassinating General Soleimani of Iran, which also contributed to the instability and likely war in that region.

Oh yeah, and Trump also indicted Jullian Assange who probably did more to ruin Killary than anyone else, through the Wikileaks published emails that proved the DNC is a corrupt, fraudulent elite-driven corporation, not to mention exposed numerous Bush and Obama war crimes.

Man you're the one with TDS here.

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Liked your comment. I guess I prefer ‘blindness’😀

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Thank you.

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Here's a comment you made at another blog I read (SONAR21) on the Israeli genocide in Gaza:

"My advice would be for Israel to deliver a Dresden on the Gaza Strip. Flatten the place and wipe it off the map. After seeing the videos this morning of the deaths, and degrading of bodies, by Hamas fighters – all women and children, then my “little bit of support” I had for the Palestinians has gone.

Israel – unleash hell!!

-Cliff Henkel (Bishkek)"

You're a Hasbarat or something or you're too dumb to wait for the initial propaganda push to be exposed as lies, such as has always been the case with every false flag in US/Israeli history. Put me on ignore from now on, would you? You bring nothing but typical neocon bullshit to the conversation.

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You call it genocide. I call it war against terrorists. And if those terrorists hide behind civilian population (women & kids) and civilian infrastrucutre in, around and underneath, then there is going to be collateral damage.

Such is war. The Germans killed 60,000 british civilians by bombing in WW II. The Brits & US killed 400,000 German civilians by bombing in WW II. Are the Brits to be accused of genocide becasue they killed the greater number of civilians.

And as for 74% of Palestinians supporting Hamas, then I have little support. They voted Hamas in. Hamas stopped all elections. Hamas delivered October 07. Palestinians shouted and rejoiced at the slaughter of Israelis. Strange that the Israelis are to blame.

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You are probably the most ignorant and obnoxious reader that Simplicius has. Literally everything you say is 100% unmitigated Grade-A Bullshit.

You are a genocidal maniac hiding out in some strange country making commentary on places you've never visited let alone lived in.

Hamas is not "hiding behind civilians" and the Israelis have LONG supported, aided, and facilitated Hamas as a means of keeping Palestine divided.

https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/bibi-netanyahu-israel-must-support-bolstering-hamas-and-transferring-money-to-hamas/

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231012/sy-hersh-how-bibis-opposition-to-two-state-solution-claimed-lives-of-jews-and-arabs-1114146176.html

Try to educate yourself before spreading Hasbara lies in the future.

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I used to support Israel. I saw Israel as a beacon of democracy in an ocean of horribly corrupt, backwards Muslim dictatorships. I thought they were our best ally (ally of the United States) against Muslim extremism.

Then I woke up.

In the last several months, I have discovered several things which have totally changed my mind about Israel and about Judaism:

1) Jews and Gentiles have been at war for millennia. Supremacist Jews (not all Jews!) believe that they are God's Chosen People and that they have a religious mandate to control the world.

https://binkylarue.substack.com/p/is-this-a-jewish-supremacist-war

2) Supremacist Jews created communism, apparently as a mechanism to control the world. The Bolsheviks who took over Russia in 1917 were mostly Jewish. These mostly Jewish Bolsheviks shot, starved and tortured to death 20-30 million Christian Russians and Ukrainians after they captured Russia. Communist regimes slaughtered over 100 million people in the last century.

3) Supremacist Jews hate Whites. All of this institutionally-promoted hatred of Whites seems to be coming from Supremacist Jews, who control our institutions.

4) The official history of WWII appears to false. It seems to me now that WWII was part of this endless war between Jews and Gentiles. The Gentiles lost the war, and that why the world is so screwed up now as average citizens are being attacked by "globalists" (communists).

5) WWI and WWII led to the creation of Israel, and since the founding of the country, the Israelis have continually been abusing and kicking the Palestinians off their land. The Israelis are not the good guys, are not the victims, but are the oppressors and are in the wrong.

6) Israel has a long and sordid history of creating false flag attacks to achieve geo-political goals. 9/11 was a false flag attack done by Israel with the help of parts of the U.S. government:

https://binkylarue.substack.com/p/israel-and-elements-of-the-us-government

Similarly, the October 7th attack was also an Israeli false flag attack, created as a pretext to attack Gaza and push the Palestinians out:

https://binkylarue.substack.com/p/the-october-7-2023-hamas-attack-was

It is clear that we are currently experiencing a full-spectrum, unconventional, unrestricted full scale war on humanity. Based three years of research, I believe that this war on humanity is being waged on us primarily by Supremacist Jews. But of course not all Jews!

https://binkylarue.substack.com/p/the-jewish-supremacist-war-on-the

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Mar 4·edited Mar 4

There is nothing so blind as the seeing man who is blinded by his own judgmental statements for which there is no proof to back his assessments, which are false and unproven.

President 45 - delivered for the common working man. But then being blinded by stupidity or unproven reasoning, such people will never see.

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Name 5 ways and compare them to Obomber or Biden or Bush II. Give me 5 Trump policies that benefited people making less than $100,000/year in the long term....

Oh wait. You can't because you're an Australian citizen living in Kyrgyzstan who's maybe ever been to the USA once in your life for a trip to Disney World or Las Vegas. LOL!

Seriously what motivates someone to make such asinine comments in favor of a politician in a country where they don't even live, work or likely even visit, and to do so in such a strident and condescending way?

You have issues, Cliff.

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Mango M3 Huffy -- real Huffy.

And I do not have issues and no sign of TDS with me, but I appreciate a person who has achieved. As you sat that Trump did nothing for low-income earners, then maybe you are blind.

So, for the achievements of Trump - here we go - and I really do not care if you agree or disagree. You are the one with the chip on the shoulder over America. Why do you live there? You seem not to like your country. What are you doing to save it?

As of January 2021

Trump Administration Accomplishments - and this is a short list - but then you are not likely to read it.

For those under $150,000 and others

America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.

Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.

The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.

Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.

More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.

Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.

The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.

Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.

Delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.

Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows.

Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.

Lifted nearly 7 million people off of food stamps.

Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.

Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.

The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.

Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue-collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.

African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.

Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.

Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.

Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas.

Small business optimism broke a 35-year-old record in 2018.

So, as you live in Texas, I gather from your post, then maybe you missed the opportunities to benefit. Or are you living in Deliverance country.

Keep smiling, as you do not sound very happy, by your writing.

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LOL! These are nearly all pure lies!

The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth. = LIE

Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue-collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase. = LIE

Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA. = LIE

Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs. = less than Obomber, or BIden!

You don't even fucking live here you loser. Go talk up Australia or wherever you actually do live and stop wasting Americans' time with lies and distortions like a childish little rat.

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Mar 5·edited Mar 5

Mango M3 Huffy is throwing a tantrum. Did your baby-sitter or Nanny leave you unattended? Did not get what you want?

You call the details presented as all lies and yet the list is the factual positive returns (actually only part of them as there are far too many) published in many parts of the American press. You need to get out more and read.

And for your interest, I know several Americans, Americans here in Bishkek, Americans in America who I met and worked with, civilians & military, with whom I worked with in Afghanistan under various contracts and who have remained friends.

I also likely know a lot more about US politics than you expect as I am interested in it. Whichever way the US "farts" does impact Western policies and thinking. Currently, I would say for the worse.

A have American friends' who are resident in the US.

I am not wasting Americans' time. I might be wasting your time. But that gives me satisfaction. A person who uses a Mango M3 Huffy and not his real name. By your reactions, I have the image of a "sucked mango head" prancing around Texas. Or prancing around his Mother's basement.

I do not have TDS, further from it. You are the one with TDS. As I said, "it is the seeing person who is the blindest, when the truth is placed before him, he cannot see it and therefore is 'blind with eyes wide open'".

So, I am a loser because I have presented lies and distortions. And yet you said you and your family did not get any benefit from Trump 2017/2021. What about the cheaper fuel? Do you ride a push bike? Okay, so the cheaper fuel was not a benefit to you.

But, if you did not receive assistance under Trump, have you received assistance under Biden? I would like to know what assistance.

And was the reason that you did not receive and assistance under Trump, was it because you forgot to take your dummy out of your mouth and go find it?

So, what I presented is not lies and distortions. Go look in the right publications and not your MSM shows. Oh, I forgot, you are still in your mother's basement, and you cannot afford TV because Trump did not deliver.

So please, have a good day. But with your ranting it will likely be another poor day - better go find your babysitter or Nanny.

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So you're a military contractor suckling off the tit of the MIC. Big surprise. You have no fucking idea what you're talking about re: US politics or policies.

Fuel prices have little to do with who's President.

I don't want 'assistance' - I want a government that serves its people. You're so stupid that you can't read for comprehension. I never said Biden or Obama or Bush or anyone else was BETTER than Trump. They are all the same as far as the average American goes.

Literally every "example" you cited applies to each successive American president. Black unemployment rate, for example, is now LOWER than it was under Trump. Does that mean that Biden is better? Only in the childish calculus of a moron such as yourself.

Send me an email at pacocharte@gmail.com if you want to keep making personal attacks and acting like a tough guy behind your computer far away in some land locked country.

Your "American friends" are almost certainly more MIC tit sucklers and corporate welfare recipients who WOULD be living in their mommy's basement without racketeered taxpayer money being funneled to their phony (and likely illegal) industries. What are Australians and Americans even doing in Kyrgyzstan or Afghanistan? You're there against the will of the local population trying to foment more war and chaos. You are part of the problem and you don't even realize it, you fucking shitstain.

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Every "reason " you gave supporting trump is a total lie, pulling numbers outta your azz.

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Hmm, false and unproven? Maybe give some good examples? Who determines what is true or false? From what point of view or position (meaning likely already biased). Unproven? How? When there is a huge number of classified documents that the population is not allowed to see.

Both Wikileaks and the X files have shown us the many false and ‘unproven’ statements from the ones in power essentially for their own benefit. About the many covert operations, about the Russian collusion.

I don’t trust anybody anymore who uses the word false and unproven in 1 sentence. Show me all the facts and I will judge for myself

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Trump’s energy policies helped workers bigly.

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Which workers? Didn't help me or my family. And I have family in Texas, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, California and Florida. Which energy policies?

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Mar 19·edited Mar 19

The one where gas isn't $5+ a gallon? Or the Big Mac Combo isn't $14+.

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I live in one of the most expensive gasoline markets in the country and I use 93 octane (or 91 if 93 isn't available) and I've never paid more than $3.89/gallon under either Biden or Trump. No difference at all.

The only Big Mac combo you'll ever find over $14 is at an airport or that place in Connecticut which is a truck stop in one of the richest per capita parts of the state. It wasn't more than $2 cheaper pre- or during Trump's tenure.

Granted, energy prices are likely higher due to Biden's war on Russia via Ukraine and blowing up Europe's ability to buy cheap Russian gas. But I've never said I support Biden. All I said is that my family wasn't helped by Trump (compared to Obama or Bush before him) economically.

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Random Data Dump:

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Close. In New York it's $13.49 with medium fries and $14.49 for a large. A bit less in person but not by much. Not sure how taxes factor in or not.

https://www.doordash.com/store/mcdonald's-new-york-837189/?cursor=eyJzZWFyY2hfaXRlbV9jYXJvdXNlbF9jdXJzb3IiOnsicXVlcnkiOiJCdXJnZXIiLCJpdGVtX2lkcyI6W10sInNlYXJjaF90ZXJtIjoiYnVyZ2VyIiwidmVydGljYWxfaWQiOi05OSwidmVydGljYWxfbmFtZSI6IiJ9LCJzdG9yZV9wcmltYXJ5X3ZlcnRpY2FsX2lkcyI6WzEsMTQyLDE5Nl19&pickup=false

More, here's a Big Mac Index. Just the burger by itself about $1 cheaper. Considering drink and fries I imagine it gets to your $2 figure quick.

https://inflationchart.com/bigmac-in-cpi

2018 Article: McDonalds actually had a Dollar menu.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1DY2PO/

2024 Nothing is actually only $1

https://www.reddit.com/r/McDonaldsEmployees/comments/16rfct4/mcdonalds_dollar_menu_has_not_one_item_priced_at/

Nevada is already above $3.89 for gas just today. Average $4.20

https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=NV

Here's an article from 2018, middle of Trump's term, marveling that it got as high as 3$ over there.

https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2018/04/02/nevada-gas-prices-hit-3-mark-first-time-since-sept-2015/479471002/

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Don't pretend things aren't more expensive, especially when places are hitting the benchmarks you are saying don't exist. Especially the part where you claim big mac combos weren't at least $2 cheaper now than even before Trump. The meal was less than $5 in the 90s.

By the way, war policy is energy policy, especially when you're waging war on energy selling nations. Trump didn't start a single war yet Biden's administration pissed off Russia and Saudi Arabia. Not going to war is a helpful thing.

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I don't think you read what I said at the end. Things under Trump were no less expensive, and in many cases more so than they were under Obama.

Door Dash adds a significant amount. Try the McDonald's app. Also, that's basically Times Square, a major tourist/traveler destination, similar to airports and athletics/concert venues. I've been an investor in multiple small restaurants that later expanded to the airport, racetrack, soccer stadium and a pricier area of town. In every case prices went up because "we could" and also because there are surcharges and extra taxes you have to pay to put a location at those places - in some cases you have to bid like on an RFP, so you sign a multi-year contract or lease. And in the case of McDonald's they're all franchises, some owned by group of investors, some by individuals and families. McDonald's probably puts a pretty high cap or ceiling on what they can charge, and many of them exploit it due to location/lack of competition.

Regardless, again, I never said things aren't more expensive now, just that with Trump, they were as much or more than they were with Obama and Bush. That's in part due to natural inflationary trends, and in part due to corporate greed. Trump didn't do anything for my family economically.

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Dave Chapelle said the same thing back in 2016, only in a more humorous and relatable fashion of course :)

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Agree that while Trump is mostly interested in Trump, he's much more useful to us as he provokes intra-elite conflict. That alone makes Trump far superior than Biden, who is a tool of Empire abroad and oppression at home.

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