Listen to a reading of this article:

I know how to stop Vladimir Putin once and for all. I here offer my strategic wizardry to the western empire free of charge.

Before I reveal my unstoppable plan, we must first understand that the Associated Press has just informed us that it is a “baseless conspiracy theory” that the US is responsible for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines which were set up to carry Russian gas to Germany, and that this baseless conspiracy theory is being promoted solely by Russia and far-right groups.

“The Kremlin and Russian state media are aggressively pushing a baseless conspiracy theory blaming the United States for damage to natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in what analysts said Friday is another effort to split the U.S. and its European allies,” AP tells us. “The Russian position is also reverberating on social media forums popular with American conservatives and far-right groups.”

“The suggestion that the U.S. caused the damage was circulating on online forums popular with American conservatives and followers of QAnon, a conspiracy theory movement which asserts that Trump is fighting a battle against a Satanic child-trafficking sect that controls world events,” AP reports.

This information may come as a surprise to the many people who are unaware that promoting this claim means they are necessarily either Russian or far-right QAnon Satanic pedophile conspiracy theorists, like for example Poland’s former foreign minister and current sitting member of European Parliament Radek Sikorski, who openly thanked the United States for exploding the pipelines.

The news that this conspiracy theory is “baseless” may also come as a surprise to those who’ve noted that both President Biden and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland explicitly said that Nord Stream 2 would be brought to an end if Russia invades Ukraine, that the US sanctioned those who built Nord Stream 2, that DC insiders are on record saying they want Europeans to be more dependent on North American energy than on pipelines from Russia, that Germans had just been angrily demanding an end to US-led sanctions on Russia and a reopening of Nord Stream gas, that US naval forces were recently conducting unmanned underwater vehicle drills right where the pipelines were attacked, that unmanned underwater vehicles have been found carrying explosive charges near Russian pipelines in the past, that Poland literally just inaugurated a gas pipeline that will transport gas from Norway through Denmark and the Baltic Sea, that US military helicopters were recorded traveling between the two blast points and along the Nord Stream 2 pipeline shortly before the explosions, that the US empire has an explicitly stated policy of ensuring that no powers develop that could challenge its global hegemony including in Europe, and that the CIA has a known history of blowing up Russian gas pipelines.

But it’s in the news, so it’s definitely true. They’re not allowed to lie. The US is not guilty.

So if it’s a crazy Russian-Satan-pedophile-QAnon crackpot conspiracy theory to believe the US government or its imperial proxies may have had something to do with the sabotage of Russian pipelines, who did it?

Well, this is going to blow your mind because of how wildly counter-intuitive it is, but here’s the answer: Russia.

This is according to such ever-impartial and totally trustworthy experts as former CIA director John Brennan, who says that “Russia certainly is the most likely suspect,” and NATO think tanker Alexander Vershbow, who says Putin blew up his own pipelines instead of simply closing a valve because he wanted to show the world that he is a “madman”.

“The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines further reinforces the image of Putin as madman, which might persuade some allies to push for a ceasefire and negotiations that would inevitably mean Ukraine giving up significant amounts of territory,” Vershbow told The Atlantic’s Susan B Glaser.

So there you have it. Russia, not the US empire, is responsible for destroying billions of dollars of its own economic and energy infrastructure and releasing hundreds of millions of dollars of its own gas and ending its crucial point of leverage over Europe in direct facilitation of US geostrategic interests and in direct subversion of its own, because Putin is a crazy lunatic. If it wasn’t true, they couldn’t report it in the news.

So are you ready for my brilliant strategy on how to defeat Putin? Here it is: simply stand back and wait for him to explode the rest of Russia.

This is after all the same madman who the New York Times informs us has been ordering his troops to shell a nuclear power plant they already control. If Putin is a gibbering, irrational lunatic who enjoys blowing up his own stuff for no reason other than to act crazy, surely if we just stand back and leave him to his own devices he will soon turn the Russian Federation into a steaming pile of rubble.

Honestly I can’t believe it’s taken me, a humble blogger, to figure this out on behalf of the US empire. You’d think with all the brilliant minds in the US government and the mainstream news media they’d have figured this one out by themselves, but apparently they need a little help sometimes. Any DC think tanks are welcome to call me for any lucrative employment offers they care to extend.

You are welcome in advance. Here’s looking forward to Putin’s self-inflicted downfall.

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87 responses to “How To Defeat Putin”

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  2. Russia wants to repair damaged Nord Stream 1+2. Creators not destroyers? Will they blow it up again?          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhsJt8Hj-o      
    Emil Cosman
    The Germans and Russians were holding secret meetings about opening both pipelines and then they were destroyed. Obviously it was not Russia nor Germany. Russia would not be stating that will rebuild the pipelines if Germany was not part of the deal. The Germans realize both the government and its people that the real enemies are the US and the Brits. By destroying part of the pipelines this actually played right into the hands of both Russia and Germany as now both get what they want and the US and UK proved to the world that they are simply evil. Even if it was Davos the game is up as German industry like Europe’s are realizing they need cheap Russian gas to survive and compete internationally and with out it they must move which knocks Germany and Europe back to the Stone Age and third world country status.
    Escobar: Who Profits From Pipeline Terror? https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-who-profits-pipeline-terror
    Secret talks between Russia and Germany to resolve their Nord Stream 1 and 2 issues had to be averted at any cost…Every crime implies motive. The Russian government wanted – at least up to the sabotage – to sell oil and natural gas to the EU. The notion that Russian intel would destroy Gazprom pipelines is beyond ludicrous. All they had to do was to turn off the valves. NS2 was not even operational, based on a political decision from Berlin. The gas flow in NS was hampered by western sanctions. Moreover, such an act would imply Moscow losing key strategic leverage over the EU.

    Diplomatic sources confirm that Berlin and Moscow were involved in a secret negotiation to solve both the NS and NS2 issues. So they had to be stopped – no holds barred. Geopolitically, the entity that had the motive to halt a deal holds anathema a possible alliance in the horizon between Germany, Russia, and China.
    The whole operation had to be approved by Americans, and deployed under their Divide and Rule trademark. “Americans” in this case means the Neo-conservatives and Neo-liberals running the government machinery in Washington, behind the senile teleprompter reader.

    This is a declaration of war against Germany and against businesses and citizens of the EU – not against the Kafkaesque Eurocrat machine in Brussels. Don’t be mistaken: NATO runs Brussels, not European Commission (EC) head and rabid Russophobe Ursula von der Leyen, who’s just a lowly handmaiden for finance capitalism. Meanwhile, the fog of war gets thicker by the minute. It has already been documented that US helicopters were overflying the sabotage nodes only a few days ago; that a UK “research” vessel was loitering in Danish waters since mid-September; that NATO tweeted about the testing of “new unmanned systems at sea” on the same day of the sabotage. Not to mention that Der Spiegel published a startling report headlined “CIA warned German government against attacks on Baltic Sea pipelines,” possibly a clever play for plausible deniability.

    The Russian Foreign Ministry was sharp as a razor: “The incident took place in an area controlled by American intelligence.” The White House was forced to “clarify” that President Joe Biden – in a February video that has gone viral – did not promise to destroy NS2; he promised to “not allow” it to work. The US State Department declared that the idea the US was involved is “preposterous.” It was up to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to offer a good dose of reality: the damage to the pipelines posed a “big problem” for Russia, essentially losing its gas supply routes to Europe. Both NS2 lines had been pumped full of gas and – crucially – were prepared to deliver it to Europe; this is Peskov cryptically admitting negotiations with Germany were ongoing.

    Peskov added, “this gas is very expensive and now it is all going up in the air.” He stressed again that neither Russia nor Europe had anything to gain from the sabotage, especially Germany. This Friday, there will be a special UN Security Council session on the sabotage, called by Russia.Yet blowback will be inevitable – in unexpected ways – even as Europe becomes increasingly Ukrainized and even Polandized: an intrinsically neo-fascist, unabashed puppet of the US as predator, not partner. Vey few across the EU are not brainwashed enough to understand how Europe is being set up for the ultimate fall.

    The war, by those Straussians ensconced in the Deep State – neocons and neoliberals alike – won’t relent. It is a war against Russia, China, Germany and assorted Eurasian powers. Germany has just been felled. China is currently observing, carefully. And Russia – nuclear and hypersonic – won’t be bullied.

    1. sensible/plausible/corroborating

  3. Logical gems
    Blinken said: Nobody benefits.
    So the answer to whodunit qui bono, is «Nobody did it»

  4. Logical gems
    Putin is a mad man. He just blew up his own pipelines.
    What more proof do you want?

    1. You have no evidence and diminishing credibility.

  5. Utter BULL SHIT written by a sociopath who loves NAZI Homos?
    Ukraine is not even worth anything for the US except as a PEDO stop -off and money-laundering haven

  6. Caitlin wrote:
    “… that Germans had just been angrily demanding an end to US-led sanctions on Russia and a reopening of Nord Stream gas,”

    Why is it that the link imbedded in that quotation takes us to a video on Twitter of a supposed German protest that shows not one German flag, but does show perhaps a hundred people some of whom have flags of Norway? I think it is a bullshit link that does not support the claim.

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  9. The point is not to steal the oil (for instance in Syria, Libya), the point is to prevent smaller countries selling their oil to those who can pay with cash. The point is to limit access to oil in order to force oil dependent countries transition from oil onto electricity. Same goes for natural gas. It is globally coordinated plan concocted behind closed doors of the Big Club by our owners, implemented by international bankster’s and executed by big actors of most powerful countries.
    It is a UN sustainable goal project. And Club of Rome plan from 1970s. And those insiders who oppose the Big plan, get flaying lessons right off of their office buildings.

    There is no Russia, US, UK, China, India, Brazil, Germany, France, Poland, Italy, …
    there are only Big Club members with their Big plan – our owners -,
    then there are owners’ loyal bankstering henchmen families – the spooky hoaxing and faking boot-lickers -,
    then there are executors of owners’ will – the psychopathic political marionettes -,
    and then there are the poor ignoramus rest who pay for it all and who take it all (anally) while on our knees.

    They, the bankers need this “war”, just as they needed the plandemic, as a continuation of permanent crisis. And politicians (role actors like Putin, Zelensky and other European supporting role actors, as Macron or Canadian Trudeau) are tasked to oblige the international banking caste.

    Putin needed this “war” to erase one generation that was pain in his foot, those professional soldiers who were orphaned unwanted children born in 1990s, living on streets and posing potential danger to the order of things in Russia, who were as teenagers fed and clothed while serving in Armed forces. Today those children became wild cards as profession officers and this most auto-destructive “war” is god-send from Paris banking elite, who asked Macron to deliver their business proposal to Putin (remember both Putin and Macron sitting behind that long white table i Kremlin), which transferred crisis creating theater of misdirection from Canada to Ukraine. And the second benefit of this planned “war”, for Putin, is in the fact that he will erase (auto-destruct in battle) the uncontrollable Chechen criminal elite. So two potential regime changing internal enemies gone in one swipe.

    Zelensky’s role (and of his oligarchic overlords) is to play a wounded animal so that the cleansing of villages and small towns can continue uninterrupted until most rural population is eventually displaced (into big cities, that are planned to become smart petri-dish large scale laboratories for chaining people on digital blocks of smart-contracting). Zelensky’s mafia will be heftily rewarded through “surplus” of under the table investment leftovers of post-war digitized, green, smart and sustainably controllable reconstitution of nation, just like in Iraq, this time an fully functional open-air concentration camp called Ukraine will be built).

    So “who done it” is actually misdirection, false conundrum. It is not either the door no.1 or the door no.2 question. Gas pipe was scripted as closed before winter comes.

    They all — the owners from their shadows, the pampered banksters from their towers and their political psychotic puppets down, overseeing the “battlefield” — produce this shock and awe crisis theater continuously and at the same time extort you to pay for the costs. It is all aimed against you and me, their slaves.

    1. I can also observe that this comment space is infested with bot nonsense.

  10. I was an Agency Group Head for an Australian Murdoch rag last century. Journos make great drinking buddies and great bitches. I got a promotion for creating an 8-page liftout on a national tragedy, 65% agency bookings. My bitches had to write 35% of drivel to justify it. Of course they did. They were my bitches. Integrity of an MSM Journo…a rag to wipe one’s cock on.

  11. And for a more serious analysis of the quagmire take a look at Tom Luongo” s site. I reckon he might actually be on to something.

  12. Let’s place the bets on the table. How will unfold the Nord Stream investigation to find the culprit behind the explosion?
    Let’s take a solid reference to place our bets – the infamous 9/11 commission. FBI going after after Greenpeace for questioning, anti-war groups, animals rights activists just for a snack. Who was the first commission’s chair? Henry Kissinger (the man responsible for giving green light to all coupe état on South America in the 60s. The most infamous overthrow of Salvador Allende. His close business relationship with the Bin Laden family in Washington was more relevant at the end.
    While President Bush and Vice President Cheney did ultimately agree to testify, they did so only under several conditions:
    1 – They would be allowed to testify jointly;
    2 – They would not be required to take an oath before testifying;
    3 – The testimony would not be recorded electronically or transcribed, and that the only record would be notes taken by one of the commission staffers;
    4 – These notes would not be made public.
    As we all know Afghanistan and Iraq paid the heavy toll for lies. Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia and others joined later but just for fun for the US military to hunt and to kill civilians.
    The culprit probably will be Russia because they (US empire and allies) are already at war with Russia. Perhaps somehow Iran will be blamed just to make sure they will not lose a “tremendous” opportunity coming from their own plot.

  13. No one knows what Europe will do when they get cold and hungry. They will not just sit quietly freezing as they starve. Especially the new middle eastern and african immigrants. They know hunger but not intense cold. The SHTF but no one knows what form it will take.

  14. With a plethora of information supporting it, it looks as if this is another example of how the United States has blown it.
    Here’s another example: William Astore says the U.S. is a nation being unmade by war, the very opposite of what most Americans are taught. If wars were won with lies, he argues, the U.S. would be undefeated. (The US Military’s Culture of Lies-consortiumnews.com-9/30/22-William Astore):
    Excerpt: As a retired Air Force officer, let me tell you this: honor code or not, you can’t win a war with lies — America proved that in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq — nor can you build an honorable military with them. How could our high command not have reached such a conclusion themselves after all this time?
    Much is gone when a military ceases to tell the truth to itself and especially to the people from whom its forces are drawn. And courage is wasted when in the service of lies.
    It’s time for us to begin seeing it not as our making but our unmaking, potentially even our breaking — as democracy’s undoing as well as the brutal thing it truly is.

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  17. It’s funny, in a typical/Post-Modern/embarrassingly stupid-way, how: the psychopathic U.S. Empire believes it can denounce any criticisms of their Ukraine racketeering adventure by; either SIMULTANEOUSLY calling someone a “Hitler (Putin) lover” or implying they’re, essentially, acting as a reincarnation of Julius Rosenberg…ALL AT THE SAME ‘EFFING TIME(!). Are they THAT DUMB to not understand irony? How is one a “fascist”…WHEN ONE IS QUESTIONING THE VERY ESCALATION OF POSSIBLE WW3 ITSELF(??)!

    American propaganda is so easy to pick-out because, it never advances beyond sounding like a cross-between a 1950s-esque Pilgrim dick-swinging contest meets the automatons who were told to go read “Catcher In the Rye” 500 times. When all the death merchants in charge of Washington resort to the S.O.B. battle cry of “conspiracy theory”: THEIR FINGERPRINTS ARE ALL. OVER. IT. The most “dangerous” thing one can (now) think in America, in the eyes of the gangland running it, is that yes: the systematic corruption and collapse of your society (on multi-generational levels which never seems, oddly?, to ever reverse course) truly *is* a coordinated and deliberate effort by the worst class of humanity. The other 6.7 billion people on Earth should give the U.S. clown show a collective giant middle finger at this stage.

  18. Brilliant, spot-on, and highly entertaining. The trifecta! Thank you for this, Caitlin.

  19. Absolute genius, Cailin. Again.

  20. I do not know how Caitlin passed her course in logic (if she ever did).

    According to AP,
    1. Russia claims that US threatened to do it, has undersea robots capable doing it, spent ungodly amount of time with those robots in the vicinity of explosions (neglecting threats like Chinese and Russian navy spotted “near an Alaskan island).
    2. NATO countries in the area are unanimous in declarations that a. sabotage was done with powerful explosions (only a navy could do it) BUT they do not know who did it “without extensive investigations”
    3. Biden himself resolutely denied on behalf of USA. Himself!

    From that it immediately follows that Russian claim is absurd. You need to be familiar with Kripke models allowing for “ground truth values” to change over time and “place”, so NOW, Russian claims are absurd and all who give them credence, including them “non-absurd” status, including Caitlin, are Russian trolls, whatever the investigations of Denmark, Sweden and Germany will uncover (if you want a wager payable in 5 years, I offer 1000 USDs against a counter-bet of 1000 Russian rubles that the investigation will not uncover anything contradicting Biden).

    [This is satire, ground truth does not change in Kripke models, but they allow for alternative futures when new ground truths emerge, and this alters reasoning about generalizing statements]

    1. “3. Biden himself resolutely denied on behalf of USA. Himself!”

      As if emphasizing a word establishes any relationship to the facts on the ground.

      How does anything you said establish Biden as a truth teller.

      Who certifies the certifier?

      You failed your Kripke examination.

      This is not a response to your implied invitation to debate.

      1. Please excuse my misunderstanding of your post as possibly not intended to be satire.

        So much of American “understanding” can be understood as satire, to the extent that satire itself has come to be an endangered species.

        1. The very fact that “Biden himself denied” should be sufficient evidence in a court of law that he did it! They should pass an amendment to that effect :o)

  21. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/world-war-three-almost-announced
    I was going to write an explanatory essay about this moment in history, but after excerpting Putin’s speech from yesterday, the wind has gone out of my sails.

    Vladimir Putin addressed Russians and the world yesterday, the last day of September, in quite a different setting from Joe Biden’s address to Americans and the world on the first day of September.
    Excerpts:
    ​ “​Kiev threatened millions of people who came to express their will with repression. But the people of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson weren’t broken, and they had their say.
    ​ ​I want the Kiev authorities and their true handlers in the West to hear me now, and I want everyone to remember this: the people living in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens, forever. (Applause.)
    ​ ​We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire and all hostilities; to end the war it unleashed back in 2014 and return to the negotiating table.​” …
    ​..”T​he West continued and continues looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia, which they have always dreamed about, to divide our state and set our peoples against each other, and to condemn them to poverty and extinction. They cannot rest easy knowing that there is such a great country with this huge territory in the world, with its natural wealth, resources and people who cannot and will not do someone else’s bidding.
    ​ ​The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation.​” …
    ..”They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.”​ …
    ..”While we – we are proud that in the 20th century our country led the anti-colonial movement, which opened up opportunities for many peoples around the world to make progress, reduce poverty and inequality, and defeat hunger and disease.”​ [Hi Africans​. Hi Indians​.]​ …
    ..”Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world.
    ​ ​The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons.
    ​ ​It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies.”​ …
    ..”In effect, the American elite is using the tragedy of these people to weaken its rivals, to destroy nation states. This goes for Europe and for the identities of France, Italy, Spain and other countries with centuries-long histories.”​ …
    ..”These European elites understand everything – they do, but they prefer to serve the interests of others. This is no longer servility but direct betrayal of their own peoples. God bless, it is up to them.
    ​ ​But the Anglo-Saxons believe sanctions are no longer enough and now they have turned to subversion. It seems incredible but it is a fact – by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of course.​” …
    ..”Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can’t feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can’t heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.”​ …
    ..” it is important to recall that the West bailed itself​ ​ ​[Bankers] ​out of its early 20th century challenges with World War I. Profits from World War II helped the United States finally overcome the Great Depression and become the largest economy in the world, and to impose on the planet the power of the dollar as a global reserve currency. And the 1980s crisis – things came to a head in the 1980s again – the West emerged from it unscathed largely by appropriating the inheritance and resources of the collapsed and defunct Soviet Union. That’s a fact.
    ​Now, in order to free itself from the latest web of challenges, they need to dismantle Russia as well as other states that choose a sovereign path of development, at all costs, to be able to further plunder other nations’ wealth and use it to patch their own holes.​” …
    ..”The current neocolonial model is ultimately doomed; this much is obvious. But I repeat that its real masters will cling to it to the end.”​ …
    ..”Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism.”​ [Vlad watched Joe’s speech on September 1?]
    “Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.”’​ …
    ..”As I have already said, we have many like-minded people in Europe and the United States, and we feel and see their support. An essentially emancipatory, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is taking shape in the most diverse countries and societies.”​ …
    ..”Friends,
    ​ ​Today, we are fighting for a just and free path, first of all for ourselves, for Russia, in order to leave dictate and despotism in the past. I am convinced that countries and peoples understand that a policy based on the exceptionalism of whoever it may be and the suppression of other cultures and peoples is inherently criminal, and that we must close this shameful chapter. The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible.”
    ​http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69465

    ​The Battle of Evermore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b0OYxdtyM

    1. I understand that the literal translation of any language is never complete but Putin’s speech showed a level of emotion not usually seen by western audiences. The speech came from his heart and did not have the slickness of a western ‘soap-ad’ speech.
      To my eyes, as I read it, it did ramble a bit but no doubt it was more in tune with Russian ears than ‘english’ eyes. Watching Putin deliver the Russian speech I was struck by his sincerity. He also showed a bit of exhaustion and frustration.

  22. Period polls show that trust in media along with trust in Congress is dropping steadily into single digits. It doesn’t make sense that Russia would attack it’s own infrastructure, but media has to report and opine something anti-Russian, they can’t do anything else. Really, how many people actually follow the Ukraine war coverage in the US? It’s more for narrative continuity. Putin, or fill in the blank with the leadership of any US adversary, is a madman. Even though the public is war weary and economically stressed, the specter of a foreign madman filters into the collective unconscious so the oligarchy can continue to be admired. Capitalism can’t be the problem, it’s impossible to even think that. There will be a lot of suffering this winter thanks to a madman, while the weapons corporations continue to rake in profits. The far right will tell us that God, family and nation, and capitalism, will solve our problems, while top liberals will suggest right wing Liz Cheney for president. In the American southwest, our heating bill is expected to increase by fifty percent in December. Thanks, Putin!

  23. Ms Kate, I hate Putin. He is a slow-motion bastard! Wars should be fought like Rambo not like a Maurice Ravel Bolero’s. Nice article. Are you interested in ton be my new White House spokeswoman?

  24. Great column! I like very much how it shows that the craziest thing about the situation is that anyone could actually believe Russia would shell that nuclear power plant and explode its own pipelines! How deranged can they get in DC?

    1. I think make-believe is a good description of this phenomenon. Rich people who grew up always getting their own way aren’t going to see anything wrong with simply insisting that what they want to be true is true. And they own the media.

    2. In DC, I’m quite confident there is no derangement limit. To qualify for a DC position, you must first gain the necessary prerequisite competencies. For this reason, most all DC candidates start off at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Interestingly, successful DC candidates are all from the “Beyond” department.
      This should explain a lot.

  25. Caitlin,
    ***
    Great bit of tongue in cheek here–bravo!
    ***
    Best,
    ***
    S.A. Hogan, author of THE DEATH TAX

  26. Magnificent article. Thumbs up for its author!!

    1. I second the motion.

      1. And the emotion.

  27. Killary had given us the “new Hitler”, now they’re implicitly coming up with the new Nero – who allegedly set fire to Rome and pinned it on the Christians – about Putin.

    Of course, for Killary, everybody is the new Hitler, except for the guy who bayoneted Gaddafi through the ass, allowing her to be the new Caesar: “We came, we saw, he died”.

    I don’t know what’s more obscene, of these guys’ (the Democrats) ruthless cruelty (enter Madeleine Albright’s “worth it” after starving to death one million Iraqis, half of them kids, to allegedly get at Saddam who was not in the least affected by it for good measure) or their bald-faced self-righteousness.

    But the scarier part is the number of supporters they have!

    And all this because, in their long and discreet pandering to Wall Street, they’ve secured the support of the media mafia that has painted them for decades as angels fallen from the sky – while they have the same history of wars, racism and anti-social policies as the Republicans. These guys’ résumé looks like a used roll of toilet paper, with Nobel Peace Prize Obama starting more wars than anybody in modern times, bombing more people than anybody up to his days, inventing the drone assassinations of 90% innocent people, inventing cages for kids at the border, jailing more blacks than anybody in private prisons (aka slavery) with Biden’s 1994 drugs law while the corporate media looked the other way and then pinned it on Trump.

    Spoiler alert: I don’t like Trump. But accusing him exclusively of the sins that are all in a day’s work for Dems is a bit of a stretch! The enemy of the people anywhere at any time has always been the guy who’s in charge of taxes, the police and the army. It seems simple enough… Social progress has only ever come about in the streets through people with pitchforks and barricades.

    However, everywhere, the bankers-selected media-elected globalist libruls try to make people believe they’re different with only one program that reminds me of a café in a Parisian suburb, opposite a prison, called “Mieux ici qu’en face” (better here than across the street).

    The bourgeois-bohemian yuppie left’s program carried by the corporate media is similarly: “Better us than the other fucker”.

    In both cases, what kind of reference is that? What merit is there in taking better care of customers than a prison? What does it tell us about the quality of the food and drinks? Nothing!

    Now these Nazi supporters tell us with the same bald faces that a mother who doesn’t want to be called parent one or two, doesn’t want her kid’s dick chopped off by some Dr Strangelove and asks for immigration control exactly like Obama did…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFAmWKMSlfI

    … is a fascist?

    And they say that Putin fights the war they tailor made for him and bombs his own nuclear plant and pipeline because he’s the new Nero?

    How can a sufficient number of people share in that schizophrenia and how long before a kid shouts out that these motherfuckers have no clothes?

    1. “Social progress has only ever come about in the streets through people with pitchforks and barricades.”
      Then we only need the barricades, as the US should have plenty of available pitchforks with all the Devils in the ruling class!

    2. Nero actually rushed back to Rome when the fire broke out and took personal command of the 7,000-man fire department, which valiantly fought the blaze for a week. It was the followers of the Egyptian goddess Isis who were tried and found guilty of the arson. Many were executed by horrible methods specifically tailored to mock their beliefs. A deliberate alteration of the word in Suetonius’ history for them, “Chrestiani”, into “christiani” fueled the myth centuries later. Nero’s palace was also consumed in the blaze, by the way, so the legend that he started the fire is also as nonsensical as the RF destroying its own pipeline in our time. And in time Isis became one of the favored deities of the Roman world. Our image of the madonna and child is based on the beloved iconic depiction of Isis suckling her infant son Horus. This is but one instance of how fake news can become historical fact and remain so very tenaciously.

  28. In the moment when just media outlets workers are the ones reading CNN and republishing it, CNN is done. That’s their job. Lie, repeat, lie, repeat, lie, repeat, lie, repeat, lie.

  29. And dinosaur fossils were placed deep in the Earth by God, for the simple purpose of testing the faith of his Christian followers. God, of course, is a very forward thinker. Maybe Putin forgot that he has a shutoff valve on the Russian end of the pipeline. Jesus save us!

    1. If he saves us the way he saved himself, bad news…

  30. I have been saying this like forever about Putin. Let him do the job to destroy Russia. Who needs NATO, Europe, US empire and Great Britain to get rid of Russia if our most precious weapon is Putin himself?
    Who needs the US army to massively kill millions of civilians around the world just to make Putin to have a shitstorm to blow up something else in Russia?
    What madmen can use just 200 thousands soldiers to conquer 20% of Ukraine and officially make it part of Russia? What madmen can add more 300 thousands soldiers to conquer….? hãã let’s do the math:
    200K — 20%
    300K — x?
    x = 30%
    Yes, to conquer more 30% of Ukrainian territory which will totalize 50% of Ukraine being added to Russia. Look, it’s about 2 months to full winter in Europe. Putin is crazy! What army can fight in the harsh European winter?

    1. You’ll be surprised to see what bomber planes can do once leaves have fallen off the trees and what artillery can do on frozen ground. Not even speaking of course of the Cossacks’ harassment of Napoleon’s army all the way to the disastrous Berezina crossing or the Russian victory in Stalingrad in January 1943.

  31. If there is anything good coming from the Nord Stream explosion, it is that it seems that outside of a few high-level claims, the vast majority is not buying the spin that Russia blew up its own cash machine and forfeited its main point of leverage. It is looking like another, on top of many others, major USA tactical error that has gone very wrong for the empire.

    The scary thing is that as the dream of USA hegemony slips further from reality, the more and more desperate the West’s neocons/neolibs become. It appears in their desperation they are ready and willing to blow up human existence on this planet and there is no planet B.

  32. NATO was carrying out exercises in the Baltic sea from June to mid September, including a lot of heavy helicopter overflights for days, right over where the (now 4 identified) pipeline sabotages occurred Monday. The sabotage disabled all 4 Nordstream pipelines, not just 3, as initially thought.

    Nordstream gas this winter is impossible for Europe/Germany.

    The US will sell as much liquified natural gas to Europe as is possible, at prices 8-10 times as high as piped Russian gas.

    Poland and Ukraine control remaining Soviet-era gas pipelines to Europe, giving more leverage over Germany, and the ability to extract high transit fees.

    Germany is clearly the loser. German citizens demonstrated Sunday for negotiations with Russia and resumption of gas flows.
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/imperial-convulsions

  33. Some people could witness Biden shooting Putin in the head right in front of them and still would say: “Cleary a false flag attack by Putin to frame the US, so he can get more power!”

    1. Yes. Just as the MAGA crowd are sheeple so are the Clintonistas who became Obamaites, and now Bidenites. As Trump himself stated, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” It’s, like, incredible.”

      The naivety of the USA voter is truthfully, INCREDIBLE!!! It is ironic how the two opposing teams are submissive to the same overlords but either can see the overlord that suppresses them because their hatred for the other team blinds them to their reality.

  34. As I see it and putting your article in a nut shell: It is the US that needs defeating – not Putin.

    1. Could the ironical mode of the article possibly have escaped you?

      1. At least she cannot be thrown in an American jail as a subversive for her truth telling, which seems closer than ever for us few Americans who still have the clarity to see the truth.
        ~
        After four days without power from the hurricane that ripped through Florida and made the Saker homeless, and now with all my fresh food and formerly frozen food spoiled, I can feel very tangible empathy for the poor victims of Ukrainian barbarism in the Donbas. This sucks–especially after their attempts to reconnect my power just made it WORSE! But in the Donbas those poor souls who have been blasted out of their homes by the rampaging Ukies have no reason to expect any semblance of normality any time within reason. I can understand that just “giving peace a chance” never works with the Americans and whatever devils they assert to be allied with. May Putin defeat Biden thoroughly. There is no other way to obtain justice for the true victims in Ukraine.

  35. Let’s start with means, motive, and opportunity.

  36. I have just read PCRs take on WW2, much based on David Irvine’s and other revisionists findings and books.
    I wish I had come across them earlier.
    There really is no boundary to US presidents and UK PMs nihilism, egoism, evilness and capacity to lie it seems.
    Kudos though to their propagandists, they make Goebbels look like a beginner.

    1. Goebbels had all of Edward Bernays’ books. Edward Bernays, among other things, is one of the guys who turned a generally Germanophile population – because about half of it had Germanic roots, including himself being a nephew of Sigmund Freud – into German-haters after he was asked by Woodrow Wilson who’d campaigned the year before on the slogan “He kept us out of war” but was discreetly blackmailed into joining in.

  37. “This baseless conspiracy theory is being promoted solely by Russia and far-right groups.”

    Really? I’m so far left I fart pink and I think Joe did it.

    Cui Bono.

    The Associated Press does what they are told.

    1. It’s generally called AP for American Propaganda.

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    My late uncle from South Africa who at times we thought was crazy, once remarked that some people lie so much to the point where they lie to themselves out of habit. The US fits the pattern.

  39. Could this be a setup for a U.S.A. nuclear first strike on Russia and then blame it on Crazy Putin who blows up his own pipelines instead of turning off a valve?
    If the U.S.A. is now targeting civilian infrastructure what’s to stop them from going one step further and conducting a first strike nuclear bomb on civilians? After all, it’s part of their history.
    The U.S.A. is already guilty of the largest war crime in the history of the world by targeting civilians with nuclear bombs in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And yet they have they call out others to stand trial at the international Criminals Court which they are not a signature to and have even threatened judges with sanctions for suggesting charges be brought against the United States of Hypocrisy.
    Still waiting to see if they will give back the land they stole from the Hawaiians at gunpoint.

    1. I would say no. Simplest answer is a burning of the boats. Now, Europe can’t ask Russia to turn the gas back on when winter sets in. This now puts the US in a one up position with Europe. The leadership in Poland and across Europe will have plenty of heat regardless.

  40. Other writers, including myself, have commented on the silliness of the Western argument that Putin is self-destructive.. https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-new-war-in-ukraine Not just me, also Larry Johnson, Helmotz Smith, and b at Moon of Alabama. But Caitlin does it with her own inimitable style. Wonderful! Still this kind of propaganda indicates that the fish indeed has a rotten head and the smell cannot be ignored. Of course, the pipeline can be repaired, although it might take months. On the other hand, the Russians will have an excuse to put security in place, And it is the Germans who will end up paying for the repairs, if there is still a German nation by that time.and doesn’t break down into independent states. The timing indicates the West is aware that the Russians have won. Russian speaking Ukraine (not just ethnic Russian Ukraine) is theirs. The Western Ukraine has lost about 9 or 10 million people, who will not return and is resource poor, if Russia takes Krivoy Rog, which was originally part of Donetsk. If Odessa falls — as is likely–Western Ukraine will be landlocked., So Russia gets bigger, more populous with skilled workers and resources. In the meantime, the November elections are comin’ in the US and the Republicans are arguing that the Dems “stealing” the election from Trump have led to a.) economic collapse b.) an successful war..

  41. The Kremlin and Russian state media are aggressively pushing … the obvious.
    The lying cheating information war that was legalized by Obama will get us all killed in a nuclear exchange.
    Can we just make it illegal for US government to lie to the public? Is it maybe already somewhere in the Constitution?
    Sick of Biden’s “administration” of lunatics.

      1. An exciting new Star Wars episode is in the making! The episode is called: “Return of the Biden.” In the beginning, Joe is far, far-away, in another universe. He is the featured star and will pilot the gargantuan: Death Cult Star! Interestingly, and due to the Biden Administration’s directed inflation increase, and his flip-flop on Student Loan relief, the cost of tickets is skyrocketing, and demand for them has plummeted faster than the Titanic! Stay tuned for future exiting previews.

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      It would help to stand up for the J6 patriots who saw through the whole elitist faking and the reversal of fundamental American human rights.

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      It was amusing seeing two of Biden’s most recent tweets, though they were undoubtedly written by someone else. The first simply said, “Democracy,” and the second said something like “I’m sick of trickle-down economics. It has never worked. It’s time for something different.” Reading both things, and knowing that he loves the exact opposite of what was being tweeted, in both cases, was a bit of a trip. They are all so comfortable with lies, lies, lies.

      I keep seeing ‘fact checkers’ corroborate that the US electoral system is totally sound and legitimate. It sounds very suspicious for messengers of their hideous, lying type to tell me the “truth” about anything, much less hammer the public with the legitimacy of it. And no, that doesn’t mean I think that the fascist idiot, Trump, won against the other fascist idiot, Biden. However, I do find it suspicious that, with so many soi dissant ‘libertarians’ in the US, their party only ever gets 1% of the vote, alongside the Greens on the ‘Left’ in America, with their 1%. I don’t believe in the legitimacy of the system at all, especially with the “I saw it with my own eyes” talk from the fact checkers, in a world where David Copperfield (illusionist, not Dickens character) can convince crowds of people that he’s disappeared the Statue of Liberty in front of their own lying eyes. How hard would it be to illusion the votes? Not very.

      Apparently, though, this thinking is extremist in the US. ‘Not believing’ in the system, to these whackos, is the same as saying it is definitely a scam. Saying “I don’t (choose to) believe you or your voting system” is the same to them as saying “you’re a liar and the system *is* fraudulent,” where I already know they are fraudulent liars, but the two statements are not the same thing.

  42. It is 46 deg F in Berlin tonite. The cold will drive this war in ways the elites cannot imagine. Europeans will not sit idly by hungry and freeze. It was less than 100 years ago that the Italians dragged Mussolini into the street and hanged him. Dont put it past something similar happening again.

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      Yeah, but in those years since Mussolini and Ms. Petacchi were strung up, their successors managed to addict an entire globe with screen-fed entertainments, messaging, & consumerism, including advertisements aimed at children that parents were all too willing to sit their own kids in front of. I’ll be surprised if it isn’t much more than protests.

      It’s always funny to me, seeing people wonder and wonder how so many activist American & Commonwealth hippies of the 1960s became Reaganites and Thatcherites by the 1980s. It’s not rocket science. It’s no different from any fashion. For most of the hippies, wearing bell bottoms, patchouli oil, and Clint Eastwood ponchos was exactly how to get laid, if one’s own crowd was into those things in 1968. That was the first generation brought up wholly on television, those Boomers, and look at the ‘Boomers’ today through the eyes of their equally screen-addicted grandchildren. The kids hate them, by and large.

      My own parents decided to create me during a time when their brothers were being sent halfway around the world for war to kill or die in Vietnam, after being drafted into the Army. I wouldn’t dare to bring a child into such a cruel world, but they did, the TV-addicted lunatics. And then they sat me in front of the TV, to learn how ‘Greeeat’ Frosted Flakes cereal was, from a friendly animated anthropomorphic tiger.

      Bruce Robinson had it only half right, about what George Orwell got only half wrong. In the movie ‘How to Get Ahead in Advertising,’ the main character says “It’s not Big Brother who watches us. It is we who willingly watch him.” It sure looks a lot like both, to me, but it’s definitely why the centrists are so vapid, no matter how high functioning or valedictory they are.

      All that said, I was surprised to overhear monkeywrenching talk, in the form of a dude threatening to launch a big rock through the front window of a random rich person’s house, for every day that his own goes without heat this winter, but that was an American, and the most ‘rich’ house anywhere near here probably lists for $400K US. I still didn’t take it for anything but an empty boast. I doubt the rich, or moderately rich, will be very uncomfortable this Christmas. Without organization, people just take it, and we are more atomized than ever before.

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        A healthy middle class has the freedom to care about social issues, which is what brought on the whole social revolution of the 1960’s. Suddenly, young people dared to enter the political arena to press their demands for a better quality of life… labor rights, environmental protections, food and consumer safety, healthcare rights, then later women’s and gay rights. And oh yeah, actually ending the Vietnam War. The daily chant outside the White House “LBJ! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?” unnerved him so much, he did not seek a second term. Nixon was the last president to pass environmental laws due to people pressure so the mega-polluters made an example of him.

        The decision was made in the 70’s to carve away at the middle class in order to make people focus more on self-preservation rather than social issues (it didn’t work), which gave rise to the “me” generation of the 80’s. Workers were being squeezed and forced to become more competitive as capital flight and massive layoffs (remember Chainsaw Al?) caused labor breakdown in the US.

        Stop blaming the boomers for the WEF decision to de-industrialize all first world nations as part of the Sustainable Development agenda:

        “What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is ‘no’. The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

        ~ Maurice Strong

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          Who says I blamed them? Stop misinterpreting the blame. We are all victims, including the idiot Boomers and their idiot children and grandchildren, but the Boomers surely suck nothing but ass.

          If you understood a thing I wrote, which you obviously didn’t, you might have noted the “screen-addicted grandchildren” moment of my comment, which you also didn’t. I doubt, as I write this, that you understood the ensuing prediction inside of the comment.

          Your precious Boomers are a bunch of TV-addled morons, and they brought exactly jack shit change of any type, including the end of LBJ-type assholes or the end of the war, you narcissist.

          What followed LBJ, after all the chanting? Yep, your lovely Nixon. Linebacker II. What followed Nixon? Everything else. Your generation sucked, and continues to. So does every other since, including mine and me. It is narcissistic to assume the hippies did anything at all. They did NOTHING but roll over a decade later. You deny that, and I’ll call you a liar endlessly, because that’s what you’ll be to any empirical understanding I’ve ever had. My own Aunt Cathy, hippy to her bones at my birth in 1970, is now a landlord and a hair salon owner. Please guess her politics now, because she chanted the same ‘LBJ’ crap once.

          Trashiest generation ever, and it’s not even their fault.

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            Bah, humbug. Forgive how rude I was, twice. I might also be wrong, but I know there’s some percentage of truth in what I wrote.

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      I strongly believe that by now, if the masses are not guillotining heads, it will never happen. Europeans must have been taking something in their drinking water to make them docile. These are definitely not the same people who colonized and ferociously oppressed us for centuries. All of a sudden they are chickens in a coop.

      1. I’m so fucking tired of this kind of cynical and ignorant comments!
        1/@Join the dark side (indeed): first what’s generally attributed by dunces to Boomers was no less generally inspired by people from the Silent Generation (the previous one, people born before 1946): Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, rock, sexual liberation, Timothy Leary, Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation (Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti and more generally the “beatniks”…). As for the hippies, how much of a fraction of the American people do you think they represented? I’ll help you: there were 400,000 hirsute “hippies” in Woodstock, some of them high on CIA-provided LSD, when the US had about 200 million inhabitants. That’s 0,2%. Multiply by ten to include the so-called “hippies” who didn’t go to Woodstock. That’d be 2%. And you think that’s who elected Reagan? I’m asking you… FYI, the US, like every other country, is politically split in two and it’s the other half who did. It’s like those cynics in France who tell you with a sigh that they’ve seen the Parisians acclaim Petain and then the same Parisians acclaim De Gaulle two weeks later to showcase how fickle people are while it seems clear enough that these were two different crowds of only a few thousand people each anyway, therefore not representative of anything global.
        2/@ David: Do you seriously think Europeans at large oppressed you for centuries? I’ve been European for as far as the eye can see and no one in my family of poor peasants and factory workers has ever oppressed anybody. They were oppressed by exactly the same guys who oppressed you and who have now planned in cold blood to let their populations freeze and starve next winter. And may I remind you that there’s been people in the streets in European countries – which admittedly is not reported by the corporate media – for years starting with the Yellow Vests in France, five of whom have lost a hand and 26 an eye to Macron’s repression during over a year of protests in 2018-2019 until they were locked down by the Covid scam? Of course these guys have been called fascists by the… fascists, which is just one of those lies Western politicians have been faring on since neoconservatism (aka neobarbarism) was born in the 60s, precisely in reaction to the counterculture of peace and love, came of age in the 80s and took over in the 00s with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol etc. (Dubya, like today Biden, being more of a decorative asset). You guys get real!
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

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          I usually admire your comments, but I don’t believe you understood mine. I never said the hippies were a majority. I said the majority of the hippies were fashion kids. Convince me otherwise. Try.

          1. No, I agree with that, even though I think peace and love and putting an end to the Vietnam war was also part of the pitcher. I disagreed with your assertion that they morphed into Reaganites. And also I don’t think all Boomers’ grandchildren hate them. Children usually hate their parents (because they’re the authority) and love their grandparents because they’re cooler. Of course, there are exceptions.
            And there’s also people who don’t like anybody.

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            I hate the skinny comment thing. People should just reply only to the secondary post, maybe, after one is made.
            Anyway, I suppose my life is an example of the decade fashions. It is disgusting to look at.
            Think of it: I was born in January, 1970. That means my whole life has been defined by ‘the decades’ as they rolled by.

            1970s: Post-60s burnout. Best films ever made, before or since. The only ten years of my life that felt natural, and it’s not just nostalgia. Last time I saw fire flies regularly, floating in the night.

            1980s: Not just Reaganism, but shit culture. I hate the 80s. Bicycle frames tell the whole tale, and I won’t say more.

            1990s: ‘Carpe diem!’ On every coffee mug, T-shirt, and bumper sticker.

            2000s in toto: “You’re an idiot if you took carpe diem seriously.”

            I suspect most normalites move like wheat in the wind to such things, and hence, my speculations about fashion hippies, as much as they truly meant all their chanting in the Sixties.

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          I would also point out that the Silent gen I lump in with the Boomers, so forgive me there. My own parents were born in 1944. The children of the so-called ‘Greatest Generation,’ themselves a bunch of war-soaked TV lunatics.

          1. Voltaire, 250 years ago, before any screen was around, said that if there’s life on other planets, then the Earth is the universe’s lunatic asylum :o)

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              When Voltaire existed, people had to find different entertainments, garden-tending types, and I suspect it is yet more insane now. I wish I were in France, so I could have a chat with you, tho my French is in a state of disrepair.

          2. Those silly assignments given to us as members of different “generations” is strictly contrived and of no real relevance. I’m supposed to be of a different generation with distinctly different influences than my cousin born a year or two earlier? This is nonsense. Those of us in the vanguard of the so-called “boomer” were an organic extension of the late so-called “silent” ones. They were not silent, they were our slightly older brothers and sisters leading us every step of the way. Trump (born in 1945) may be a year older than Clinton (born in 1946) and they may have vastly different personal philosophies, but none of that has anything to do with their specific birthdays. Just like Obama (born in 1964) has nothing to do with either of those born anytime in the 40’s. Obama was a catastrophe for reasons far different than his alleged membership in any “boomer” generation–which is a fallacious assertion. So very foolish to think that birth dates explain anything. Might as well go by astronomical signs, which is just as preposterous.

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              Fortunately for me, I think all TV-addled gens are mentally broken, since the thing was invented, including my own. If you think I’m unnecessarily harsh on the ‘Boomers,’ or their silent siblings, you might want to factor in that little tidbit, or re-read what I actually wrote. I’m Gen X. I do not think we are superior at all.

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        1. That’s a lie! Putin did it!

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