Venezuela Invasion, It’s the Oil Stupid! How Much Can We Steal? – MishTalk

Understanding MAGA (and Progressives)

Your President does something that you agree with, but they didn’t have approval to do so. They broke the law, but because you agreed with the action, you don’t stand against it. Your government does this again, and again, you agreed so nothing. After all, they are doing it to benefit you. Now your government emboldened by inaction does something that goes against everything you believe, this time it affects you personally. At that moment, can you be surprised? Can you complain about your President breaking the law and using unchecked power to cause you an injustice?

A question for every American today. Do you want to be ruled by unchecked power, or do you want your rulers to be bound by your constitution, and by your countries law? Do you want a President or a King?

Briktop asked “Do you want to be ruled by unchecked power, or do you want your rulers to be bound by your constitution, and by your countries law? Do you want a President or a King?”

The sad answer is each party wants a king but only when their party is in power.

The Press Is On Board

War Is a Racket

Please consider excerpts from War Is a Racket. It’s a 1933 speech by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. 

I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Massie

Please play that brilliant speech by Massie.

All Lies

Terrorism vs Intervention