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Trump says he is considering first rally since leaving office as he floats 2024 run

Donald Trump
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Former President Donald Trump says he is considering holding a rally in the near future as he continues to tease the idea of a 2024 run for the White House.

In an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, he also took a swipe at the media for playing down President Joe Biden's recent trip and fall on the Air Force One steps, dismissed Twitter as "boring" without him, and said that the new administration's green policies were so far to the left that even Sen. Bernie Sanders would not back them.

The 18-minute conversation for his daughter-in-law's new podcast was his first on camera since leaving power in January.

He stopped short of committing to a 2024 campaign, but once again, he suggested that he is open to the idea.

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Bug

Washington's stunning lies

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Today's political landscape is looking more and more like the classic Monty Python 'Dead Parrot' sketch.

You know the one, John Cleese walks into the shop to complain about the parrot he'd just been sold was dead and he wants his money back. The shopkeeper, Michael Palin, insists it isn't.

Hilarity ensues.

The Dead Parrot sketch is one of the high points of Python's particular blend of absurdism and social commentary that transcends its time.

Everywhere I look I see Michael Palins doing their best to convince us of the most absurd lies to hide the rank incompetence at every level of our society's power structure.

And it doesn't matter what issue we're discussing: masks, vaccines, election fraud, racism, Joe Biden's health, climate change, the sovereign bond markets, lockdowns.


Snakes in Suits

Biden's Ukrainian 'Putin Push' may lead to World War III

Biden Poroshenko
Biden was in charge of much of the "Ukraine project" during Obama's time in office.

In recent weeks President Biden has been saying some rather mean-spirited things about Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Now Russian state sources are alleging that Washington under the Biden administration is ramping up military aid to Ukraine. This comes after the media observed the Ocean Glory, a US cargo ship, began delivering 350 tonnes of military equipment, including tactical vehicles, at Ukraine's Odessa port. Ukraine's Dumskaya news agency said the American vessel carried at least 35 US military humvees for Ukrainian national forces.

Adding Ukraine to NATO and the EU is a long-held dream of neocons like Victoria Nuland and neoliberals like Biden. This is also important to those supporting the World Economic Forum's desire to expand the EU and encircle Russia.

They feel such an action would disrupt any dreams of Eurasian integration which could resist their strategy to reshape the way the world is governed. Putin's foreign policy, coupled with efforts to rebuild the Russian military, has been part of an effort by the former KGB officer to boost Russia's standing on the world stage.

This has helped make him popular with his people even as NATO has slowly been expanding in the direction of Russia, but also makes him a thorn in the side of the NWO gang.

Comment: Good analysis, but this won't lead to 'WWIII'. Putin is gearing up for some big announcement. The Empire is probably aware of it, hence its push to 'sabotage' Russia with another breach of the Minsk Peace Accords in eastern Ukraine. Putin only makes moves when he's sure of success, so no 'general war' (which would obviously be a loss) will result from it.


Question

The "Unvaccinated" Question

reserved for vaccinated people
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So, the New Normals are discussing the Unvaccinated Question. What is to be done with us? No, not those who haven't been "vaccinated" yet. Us. The "Covidiots." The "Covid deniers." The "science deniers." The "reality deniers." Those who refuse to get "vaccinated," ever.

There is no place for us in New Normal society. The New Normals know this and so do we. To them, we are a suspicious, alien tribe of people. We do not share their ideological beliefs. We do not perform their loyalty rituals, or we do so only grudgingly, because they force us to do so. We traffic in arcane "conspiracy theories," like "pre-March-2020 science," "natural herd immunity," "population-adjusted death rates," "Sweden," "Florida," and other heresies.

They do not trust us. We are strangers among them. They suspect we feel superior to them. They believe we are conspiring against them, that we want to deceive them, confuse them, cheat them, pervert their culture, abuse their children, contaminate their precious bodily fluids, and perpetrate God knows what other horrors.

So they are discussing the need to segregate us, how to segregate us, when to segregate us, in order to protect society from us. In their eyes, we are no more than criminals, or, worse, a plague, an infestation. In the words of someone (I can't quite recall who), "getting rid of the Unvaccinated is not a question of ideology. It is a question of cleanliness," or something like that. (I'll have to hunt down and fact-check that quote. I might have taken it out of context.)

Dollar

Hypocrisy at its finest: US announces millions in aid for Syria crisis, caused largely by its regime-change policy and sanctions

Douma
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Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken emerging as 'a humanitarian hero' from the UN Security Council's briefing on aid delivery to Syria represents a damning indictment on Western hypocrisy.

"How is it possible that we can't find in our hearts the common humanity to actually take meaningful action?" Blinken said on Monday, calling for the reopening of aid corridors and an increase in aid for war-torn Syria.

Whilst the Biden administration's representative has been praised by Western media as playing the role of a concerned humanitarian, what has been left out of the picture is Blinken's role in starting the war on Syria 10 years ago.

Under the Obama administration, Blinken helped engineer the US plot to aid "Syrian rebels" in order to take down the Assad government. Instead of backing purely "moderate" opposition, the US ended up providing arms and training to armed groups linked with Al-Qaeda. They also backed the claims of extremist groups, helping their war efforts with airstrikes based on reports of chemical weapons attacks - all this supposedly being out of apparent concern for Syrian civilians.

Stop

Organizations urge Biden to halt 'reckless' rhetoric with Putin

Biden's 'Killer'
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US President Joe Biden
Twenty-seven organizations, including a number of left-leaning groups, issued a statement on Tuesday urging President Biden to halt the use of "reckless" rhetoric with Russian President Vladimir Putin and instead conduct "constructive bilateral talks."

The organizations wrote in a statement obtained by The Hill:
"As national organizations that advocate for diplomacy, arms control, disarmament and peace, we are deeply alarmed by the recent negative exchanges between leaders of the two countries with more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear warheads in their arsenals. As Americans, we urge the Biden administration to stop participating in such reckless rhetorical exchanges and to instead vigorously pursue nuclear-arms negotiations with the Russian government."
Among the groups that signed on to the statement are Justice Democrats, Blue America, Demand Progress, Our Revolution and Progressive Democrats of America, all of which are left-leaning organizations.

The groups called on Biden to "make good on his stated commitment" from February that "diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy."

Comment: Biden receives a well-deserved smackdown from Dems across the board.


X

YouTube to remove 'dislike' feature as Biden WH content continues to see 'likes' massively trail 'dislikes'

BidenYouTube
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US President Joe Biden
As President Biden's White House YouTube channel continues to see videos' "dislikes" massively trump "likes," the video platform announced it is testing a new design that obscures a public dislike count.

The move was announced via Twitter on March 30th, with YouTube explaining "in response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we're testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count." As a result, only the accounts publishing videos will be able to see the dislike to like ratio.
Youtube tweet
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YouTube Announcement

Comment: YouTube is in the business of 'perception management' - something they only negatively did for Trump:
Amid the online freakout, some commenters suggested that President Joe Biden might be happy to see dislikes disappear from YouTube. Since Biden took office in January, every single video posted by the White House has gotten more dislikes than likes. Oftentimes, videos of Biden speaking earn more than ten times as many thumbs down as thumbs up.


It is, of course, unclear if Biden's social media team provided the "creator feedback" that YouTube cited as reason for hiding dislikes. A significant number of dislikes on Biden's videos may come from disaffected Trump voters, but Trump himself never saw a like-dislike ratio quite like Biden's, despite the level of public opposition to his presidency.

Checking Trump's videos is now impossible, however. The former president was banned from YouTube in January.



Hiliter

In an open challenge to US, China inks 25-year, $400B deal with Iran

Yi/Zarif
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Wang Yi and Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran 27/3/2021.
On Saturday, IRNA reports, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement. The signatures were affixed in Tehran by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of modern diplomatic relations between Iran and China.

The deal is a slap in the face of the United States, which placed a financial and economic blockade on Iran when Washington abruptly breached the 2015 nuclear deal in May, 2018. The Trump administration threatened third-party sanctions in the billions of dollars on countries that so much as traded with Iran. The Biden administration has kept this invisible blockade in place, though President Biden has at least said he intends to restore the 2015 deal.

It may be that China expects Iran to reenter the world economy during the Biden administration, and has put down a marker on its investment in Iranian resources.

Info

Tweets from Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson raise questions about apartment shared with prostitutes, pal running for Virginia Governor

Rick Wilson, Pete Snyder

Rick Wilson, Pete Snyder
SURPRISE! Never Trumper and Russia Hoaxer Rick Wilson lived with Virginia Governor Candidate Pete Snyder down the hall from "Russian Hookers"

Lincoln Project co-founder, Never Trumper, and pedophile protector Rick Wilson spent years hyping the Russia Hoax nonsense against President Trump, including the now-debunked smear that he spent the night with Russian prostitutes in Moscow.

As it turns out, Wilson is the one familiar with Russian hookers - he's admitted so himself.

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Bad Guys

Facepalm: AOC says calling 'surge' of illegal immigration is 'militaristic,' 'a white supremacist idea'

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez detention center
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY); Immigrant detention center in Tornillo, Texas
Ocasio-Cortez commented on the ongoing crisis at the border Tuesday on Instagram. Ocasio-Cortez came under public pressure in recent days to sound off on the issue under the Biden administration after being an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

The New York Democrat avoided explicitly blaming the Biden administration for the crisis, instead asserting that climate change, imperialism, and trade created it.

"People don't want to have that conversation," she said, referring to the issues she raised. She went on to claim anyone who refers to a "surge" of illegal migrants is trying to distract from other issues and is using white supremacist talking points.

Comment: More AOC virtue-signaling. She has yet to offer any substantial solutions.